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CHARGE OF BIGAMY. A well-dressed man named Charles Louis Pickering, of 14. Albert-terrace, St. John's Wood, was charged, with bigamy. Mr. Louis Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared for the pro- secution, and said this case was somewhat painful and peculiar. Up to the time of his client becoming ac- quainted with the prisoner she had led a good and proper course of life, The prisoner forced his attentions upon her, and used to follow her day after day to her occupa- tion in the City. He assured her that his intentions were honourable and that he was a widower. On one occasion he said he was going to Aldershott, to perform a duty of affection towards his deceased wife. He was going to where she was buried, and place flowers upon her grave. A few days ago his client (the second wife) went into a milliner's shop, and was there asked by the proprietor if she was married to the prisoner. She felt indignant at being asked such a question, and fetched her certificate. The milliner then showed her the por- trait of the first wife, and informed her where she lived. The worst part of the case was that the poor young wo- man was now near her confinement. He then called Mary Fricker, sister of the first wife, who said she was present at their marriage at St. George's Church,' Hanover-square, on June 29, 1848. She last saw her on Monday week, and she is now residing at No. 13, Bcmers-street, Oxford-street. Prisoner said as it was a jury case he would reserve his defence, in the absence of his solicitor. Mr. Lewis said he must request that prisoner be not admitted to bail. He had already sold off his second wife's home twice. Mr. Mansfield inquired if prisoner had not been brought before him. Mr. Lewis said he had for assaulting his second wife. He was committed for trial, and baij refused. "■»»

So KG OE ITALY. By ALGEPJSTON CHARLES S wrx- BXJEXE. London John Camden Hotten. 1867- We would fain hope that Mr. Swinburne's new poem is a proof of his return to a more healthy habit of mind than that in which he wrote his Poems and Ballads," or his Answer to his Reviewers." Some of the passages remind us more of the fire and noble passion of his Atalanta in Calydon" than any- thing he has since written. What can be more thoroughly classic than the commencement of the Apostrophe to Garibaldi ? Thou, too, 0 splendour of the sudden sword, That drove the crews abhorred From Naples and the siren-footed strand, Flash from thy master's hand, Shine from the middle summer of the seas To the old GSolides, Outshine their fiery fumes of burning light, Sword, with thy mid-day light; Flame as a beacon from the Tyrrhene foam To the rent heart of Rome, From the island of her lover and thy lord, Her saviour and her sword." Still, however, in the Song of Italy, all Mr. Swin- burne's old faults, more or less, again appear and we must congratulate ourselves that his graver sins, and those which we feared were growing on him, are, as much as possible, minimised in his present poem. But we very much fear that' it is only his subject which has kept Mr. Swinburne from being just as offensive this year as he was last. When we make this charge we feel we are bound to substantiate it. In the address, then, of Freedom to her Child Italy, we see the germs of that feeling which ripened and rotted in "Les Noyades" or Anactoria." We hold that Mr. Swinburne has not the slightest conception of any pure love, and most certainly not of that which exists between a mother and her child. The passage we refer to con- tains many noble images but there is a warmth of colour, to say the least of it, which mars instead of adorns the subject. Take, for instance, the lines- From whose warm hands and sweet-live lips I feel Upon me for a seal, From whose least looks, whose smiles and little sighs, Whose passionate pure eyes, Whose dear, fair limbs, that neither bonds could bruise Nor hate of men misuse, Whose flower-like breath and bosom," &c. Surely all this reminds us rather of the passion of a Don Juan for a HaJ dee, than of the love of a mother for her offspring. Even where the imagery is thoroughly pure and beautiful, there is the same for- getfulness of the nobility of the subject. Thus the sublimity of the passionate exclamation— I were not Freedom'if thou wert not free, Nor thou wert Italy," is marred by the bad taste of the next line— 0 mystic rose ingrained with blood;" which is in turn almost redeemed by the terse force of the image. Impearled With tears of all the world." If melody be but "fluid form," if painting and poetry are the results of the same divine afflatus, there is nothing beautiful, but, on the contrary, something coarse, in the piling of colour on colour-blood on a rose. Painting a lily would be nothing to it. This want of delicacy of touch spoils everything Mr. Swinburne attempts. It culminates in the atrocities of "Poems and Ballads." They possess no redeem- ing feature; all is impure, essentially coarse. This will be more evident if we compare the works of art, which are themselves, to a certain extent, gems, with the productions of Mr. Swinburne. Take, for instance, Gerome's picture of I I Phryne." Now, curiously enough, it is the central figure, at first sight the most meretricious part of the painting, which, in fact, is its redeeming feature. It is in the faces of the Areopagites where we find the grosses sensuality depicted, and the figure of Phryne bet comes partly, no doubt, from contrast, but partly from the beauty of its pose, full of grace—we might even say of modesty. But in the spirit of Mr. Swinburne's poems and ballads there is nothing of this. What is not gross is dull, what is gross possesses not one feature of pure delicacy, even by contrast. Now, we do not mean to say that this is apparentHn the "Song of Italy, but we do mean to say that only his subject has kept him from in- delicacy, that he has employed in his treatment of that subject as much glaring colour as it would admit of, and that the only symptom of a less prudent imagination lies in his choice of a subject, not in his handling of it. Of Mr. Swinburne's more venial faults, his affec- tation, his extravagant use of Apt Alliteration' Artful Aid," we meet with an abundant supply. Flush and Pondage of the Hills," Rose of Resurrection," Lady Lily like the Snowy Sky," are but examples, taken at hazard, from half-a-dozen lines, which might be multiplied to any extent. Because the Italian colours are red, white and green, no opportunity is lost of introducing them: With girdles of green freedom, and with red Roses, and white snow shed," &c. Again- Red hills of flame, white alps, green apennines." We do not admire the metre Mi, Swinburne lias selected. We would venture to term it choliamboSy and to advise one who is so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Greek poetry, to shun for the future the skazonta met-ra of Hipponax. Our readers will be able to judge for themselves from the extracts we have already given them. We look for Mr. Swinburne's next production with considerable interest. From the book before us we cannot judge whether he really wishes to emerge from the slough into which he has fallen, or whether he will again amuse himself by stirring the mud which we fear still enfolds him.

«. We heartbat the old friends of Mr. Davis have -been struck ■with his changed appearance since he left the Senate. His hair, which was then of a light brown- has become entirely white, and his face is thin and sallow he thinks, however, that now that his troubles are over he will recover his wonted strength. Mr. Davis will it is believed, come to Europe at an early day, though his plans are not yet settled. The numerous presents that were sent to him during his confinement have been placed in his hands. He will be fifty-nine years of age on the third day of next month, and has for twenty-fivo years borse a prominent part in American politics. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says that the commissariat of the International Exhibition has vastly improved. The magnificcntroom on the y 11 ground floor of the club building has been turned into a colossal restaurant, where everything is excellent and well cooked, and the guests have the additional gratifi- cation of good music during their dinner. The club, the Russian restaurant, and the United States bar and dining-rooms are now the regular feeding places of the elite of the visitors. The United States' establishment is thoroughly and honestly national; the Americans in Paris flock to it, and are perfectly satisfied with it. It appears now that ever since the failure of the Russian Fur Company, the Russian Government has been anxious to be rid of its North American pos- sessions, and that during the Presidency of Mr. Polk, Walrussia was offered to the United States, provided it would merely pay the encumbrances on the terri- tory. A controversy has sprung up between Secretary Seward and the Russian Minister at Washington, relative to the payment of the money spent upon the telegraphic despatches relating to the late purchase. The despatches sent from Washington were paid for I in that city, and now a bill for three sent from St. Petersburg has been presented to the State Department, the Czar alleging that it was the understanding that the American Government should pay all expenses inci- dental to the transaction. Mr. Seward objects to the bill, and declares that he has no command of any government fund from which to pay it. It is moured that the Washington Government is sore at the hard bargain which Russia has been driving in the matter of the ironclads, which can be taken back across the Atlantic only at great expense, and for which Russia offers a price much lower than that asked. The public services of that brave and able man, Dr. Thomas Alexander, C.B., Sugeon of the Light Division in the Crimea, and for a short time Director General of the Army Medical Department, who died prema- turely after a very short term of office, will we hear be now appropriately commemorated. He assisted Lord Herbert to carry out those important reforms— bimself suggesting some of the most valuable-hy which our military service has been rendered the most healthy instead of the most unhealthy in the world. Very much at his suggestion the Warrant of 1858 was drawn by which the medical department was re-or- ganised, on terms which, being strictly observed during I Alexander's life, produced an abundant supply of first class medical candidates. They were departed from soon after his death, and have since been restored bit by bit, but with so bad a grace that the service has not yet recovered its popularity in the medical schools-. The executive committee of the Alexander Memorial Fund propose, in accordance with the decision of a general meeting of the subscribers, to offer triennittl!y a medal, with the sum of L50, for the best essay on a iubject to be selected by them relating to military medicine, surgery, and hygiene. The competition is limited to surgeons, including surgeons mnjor and assist- ant surgeons not on permanent half-pay. This will correspond with the Blane medal in the navy. The subject selected for the first competition is: The etiology and prevalence of diseases of the heart among soldiers, as compared with the civil population of those countries in which they are called upon to serve and the means of prevention or mitigation of such diseases, due regard being paid to the conditions in which the s r-ldier is unavoidably placed." The essay, unsigned and tearing a motto, according to the usual conditions, must be forwarded to the Army Medical Department, London, so as to arrive on or before the 1st of Decem- ber, 1869. A county court case, heard before Sir John Eardley Wilmot, bears so directly upon the propriety Of removing the Knightsbridge barracks from the position in which they now stand, that we commend it to the special notice of our contemporary the Army and Nvay Gazette, whose opinion upon tlyit subject differs widely from our own. The plaintiff, a housemaid, sued the defendant, a Life Guardsman, for the sum of £ 5, which she had lent to him. in answer to the judge as to whether he was not ashamed to live upon the hard- earned wages of a domestic servant, defendant said that other Life Guardsmen did it, and that when girls walked out with Life Guardsmen they knew that they would have to pay for the gratification. On one occasion plaintiff asked him to bring another soldier to meet her and a fellow-servant at Hyde Park-corner, and accom- pany them to Hampton Court races. He and a corporal accordingly went down wtth the two girls to the races in a drag, and the girls paid for everything. He admitted the plaintiff had been very generous to him, but he denied having borrowed the £5 for which be had been summoned. The judge in nonsuiting the plaintiff on the ground that she had no corroborative evidence said he was glad the inhabitants of Knightsbridge were making an effort to remove the cavalry barracks from their neighbourhood, on account of the intolerable demoralization they caused. There could be no doubt these soldiers inveigled servants to places of ill repute, and lived in a manner on their earnings. The defend- ant left the court laughing. In the ante-room of the great horse show was a stall at which two buxom damsels distributed gratuitously to everybody disposed to taste it samples of the mili sold by the Dairy Reform Company in Orchard-street, IV., and pamphlets setting forth the objects of that enter- prise, the statistics on which it has been founded. The pamphlet tells us, what everybody already knows, that London milk is habitually, and in a certain sense avowedly, adulterated; the great majority of milk dealers selling milk of various prices-" baby's" or "in- valids" milk, at 6d. a quart; new" milk, at 4d. to 5d., "household" milk, at 3d. to 4d.; and so on. It also points at the all but universal custom of giving short measure in cream, i.e., a person ordering and paying for a pint of cream only gets three-quarters of a pint, exactly as a person purchasing a reputed pint bottle of ale or wine only gets three-quarters of a pint. The Dairy Reform Company pledges itself to sell only one quality of milk, and that the best, and to mete out to its customers but one measure, and that the imperial, in both milk and cream. Its prices are 4d. a quart for pure milk, 2d. a quart for skim milk, 4s. a quart for cream, Is. 7d. a pound for fresh churned butter, and 2s a dozen for fresh eggs, the prices of the two latter articles varying according to the markets and the season of the year. The evil which the managers of this new company have undertaken to abate is so general that we think they well deserve the support of the public. Their chief office is 29, Orchard-street, Portman-square, W., and they have branch establishments at St. Ann's- baildings, 65, New-road, Whitechapel, E., and at St. Ann's-court, Soho, W.C. Dr. Lyon Playfair in a letter to Lord Taunton gives his opinion as to the cause of the inferiority of the British manufacturer of 1867 in many points on which he was unrivalled but a few years back, and attributes the decadence of British industry to two canseg-l, to the educational advantages which the French, Prussian, Austrian, Belgian, and Swiss middle and lower classes poisess over our own and 2nd, to the want of cordiality fthisb exists between English masters and English work- men, engendered by numerous strikes, and more parti- cularly by that rule of many trade unions which insists hat men sh i 11 work upon an average of ability, without giving free scope and reward to individual superiority. Dr. Playfair records the opinion of General Morin, the Director of the French Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, that the best system for the technical education of work- men is to be found in Austria, and for masters and managers in France, Prussia, and Switzerland. The Railway Commission proposes to put an end to the extortion now practised by individuals against rail- ways on which accidents or losses have occurred. As the law is now read, a man earning L300, and a man earning X3,000 a year, may take tickets for the same place, paying, of course, the same sum for their tickets. Should an accident happen, and should the two men each break a limb, the company has to pay an amount of damages calculated, not upon the negligence, or rash- ness, or want of skill proved against their servants not upon the amount of fare paid by the sufferers, but upon the said incomes of L300 and L3,000 a year, of which the company of course knew nothing when they under- took to convey the parties claiming compensation from one point on their line to another. It is now suggested that-" The payment in case of death be a certain fixed multiple of the single mileage fare—say, for instance, in the ratio of Y-ioo for a penny so that the heirs of a passenger killed in travelling at the rate of Id. per mile would receive, independently of insurance, £100, while those ef a fellow passenger killed in travelling at the rate of 3d. a mile would receive X300, minor injuries being paid for in proportion, and, so far as possible, according to some fixed scale. Of course, the multiple may be fixed higher or lower, as may be desired. A similar rule to be extended to luggage. 11

TEE WEATHER AT BIRMINGHAM.—A heavy and in- cessant rain deluged the town of Birmingham on Mon- day. It commenced at two a.m. and continued until five p.m. The storm appears to have been very general, and several accidents from lightning are reported. THE RITUAL COMMISSION.—In reference to the Ritual Commission, the John Bull says: We gave last week, in order to allay agitation, the names of a number of the noblemen and gentlemen to whom the Government had offered seats on the Ritual Commis- sion. Owing to the refusal of certain of those designated to serve, some alterations have been necessitated. We believe that out of the twenty-eight commissioners, the following have accepted office, although even now the arrangements are not definitely concluded. The Arch- bishops of Canterbury, York, and Armagh, the Bishops* of London, Oxford, St. David's, and Gloucester and Bristol, the Deans of Westminster, Ely, and Lincöln (Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge), the Rev. Canon R. Payne Smith (Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford); the Revs. R. Gregory, W. G. Humphrey, T. W. Perry, and H. Venn Earl Beauehamp, the Earl of Harrowby, Lords Ebury and Portman, Mr. A. J. B. Hope, M.P., Mr. J. G. Hubbard, M.P., Sir R. Philli- more, Dr. Travers Twiss, and Sir Joseph Napier." MR. CARLYLE.—The following correspondence has been published Sir,—Will you permit the insertion of a characteristic letter of Mr. Carlyle, touching the remark that that veteran writer's presence is not, by one class of people, hardly tolerated in the London streets. —Yours, &c., S. C." Rochdale, May 20. Sir,—An expression of Mr. Ruskin's, that you cannot go through the streets of London without being insulted, has gone the round of the papers. The thing looks almost in- credible. One explanation given is that your sympathy for Mr. Eyre aroused indignation. But the English people are so notoriously fond of pluck' that I, for one, should have thought that act of yours would have ex- cited their admiration, even though they might disagree with the object of that act. How do you account for the London people's behaviour ?-A reply will favour yours, &c., A WORKING MAN. T. Carlyle, Esq." Sir,—The thing now going the rounds' is untrue, diverges from the fact throughout, and in essentials is curiously the reverse of the fact; an I incredible' (and at once forgettable) thing.' That is the solution of your difficulty.-T. CARLYLE, Chelsea, May 22, 1867." A CROP OF CROWNED HEADS.—It is arranged that His Imperial Majesty the Sultan is to visit this coun- try in the month of July. His Majesty will bring the suite usually attached to crowned heads. The report that an extraordinary number of officials will accom- pany him is incorrect. It is the intention of his Im- perial Highness the Czarewitch, with his bride, to visit London during the month of June. The King of Greece will also be in London at the same time.-The Owl. MR. OTWAY, M.P., AND FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. —The praiseworthy exertions of Mr. Otway, the hon. member for Chatham, to abolish the punishment of the lash in the British army, and the success with which those efforts have been attended in mitigating its severity, have excited the liveliest feelings of gratitude in the army at large, and especially in the troops quartered at Chatham. Wo understand that there is a warm desire on the part of the latter to present to the honourable gentleman some testimonial of their appreciation of his philanthropic labours in their behalf. The regulation that expressly forbids soldiers to express their approval, or to comment in any way upon the bearing of their superior officers, is, however, so well grafted in their minds, that they are under the impression that the mean- ing of the clause might be extended even to such pro- ceedings as the one in contemplation. But whether the sense of discipline is strong enough to check the prompt- ings of gratitude to show itself in a tangible form or not, the honourable gentleman may feel assured that every soldier carries the warmest thanks for himiaiusJafiai't*

THE PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND f AND THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS. A correspondent of the New York Nation, writing from Berlin, gives an interesting account of a fair which was got up by the Crown Princess—somewhat in oppo- sition to the aristocratic sentiment of the city-held at her own palace, and presided over by herself. He says:— "Among the most valuable or remarkable objects were four drinking-cups of the sovereigns Frederick II. and Frederick William III. and IV., a painted glass flagon and glass of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and an inkstand in exact imitation of Frederick the Great's, purchasable oiilv: by a member of the Royal blood. The above articles were contributed by the Crown Prince. From Russia came two fine malachite vases, valued at £90 apiece likewise an album bound in malachite; from the Queen of England two magnifi- cent Indian Shawls, both bought, L am told, by the richest silkmercer here, a Jew. The Grand Duchess of Baden contributed an assortment of cuckoo clocks in richly carved cases, and the Queen of Sweden a fur cloak. Another royal and generous donor was the Prince of Wales, whose gifts of Oriental ornaments and Turkish and Japanese weapons took up a whole compartment, and were sold off the first day. The six tables to the right were devoted exclusively to objects of art-oil pictures from distinguished hands, water-colour drawings and prints, and especially five photographs from originals, were placed about in attractive and rich profusion. As special objects of interest, however, were two life-size heads, one of a vegetable, girl and one of a fruit girl, painted by the Crown Princess from life, and purchased by the King for 4,000 thalers (k600). They are highly creditable productions—I do not mean for a princess, nor yet for a woman, but just for an artist. The different textures are finely given, the firm-fleshed cherries creditably rounded off, and the faces have much and true expres- sion. The same Royal artist and Begas were the sole occupiers of the sculpture table. The living stream has borne me on almost to the arched entrance to the Gedachtnisshalle, when I am stopped by a crowd clus- tering round a bower to the left. A very brisk sale of flowers is going 011 in this Bude.' A small, swarthy- complexioned man steps up and selects the very daintiest of bouqliets-camelias and roses, if I could see them !-and lays down a thousand thalers on the silver plate. He does not wait for the nine hundred and ninety of change, but edges his diminutive person through the crowd till he finds himself opposite the Crown Princess, to whom, with every mark of respect and gallantry, he presents the nosegay from his master the Sultan. 'Well worthy of the golden prime of good Haroun al Raschid At length the rotunda is reached, and the lady who seems most lively and is most simply dressed is the Crown Princess, looking at that moment the sweetest lady of the time.' She is giving change for a shilling to the buyer of some of her wares and calling attention to her other articles. She does not deal in gold and silver and jewels, but in baby-baskets, cradles, staring Highlandmen-dolls,unmistakable little shoes and jackets, penny trumpets, and such like. Rich people might go' to the other splendidly arrayed tables, but at hers the poorest might spend his sixpence. Besides there were scope and opportunity for the rich man to spend his gold. Many paid their sixpence just to gaze and go others trembled to find just two feet of table between them and a real, live princess, and had to be reminded to move on; some bought together the strangest collec- tion of articles—it was too delightful to have a princess serve them. On one of the days a stolid, bulky Pome- ranian, confronting her, addressed her thus, Meine liber Frau Kronprinzessin, I want to buy your eldest son.' She answered, I am very sorry I have sold all my eldest sons and I had so many.' It would have been something for my whole life if I had bought it from you,' returned the man. His address was taken, and the promise given to send the eldest son. He re- ceived a hint he should now move on, but he, turning once again to the Princess, said, Frau Kronprinzessin, since you have promised to send me your son, you may as well send me the whole of you But such incidents are far too numerous for any more to find a place here. Propriety bade me move on, too, but it was with regret I left the Princess's 'shop.' Nor was the touch of humour wanting. The Crown Prince presided over a certain pink bag designed to entrap innocent souls. "Ein kiihner Griff, 10 sgr.' (' one good grab for ten zwanzigers') was printed outside of it, and whoever was bold enough to risk his money came off with a wooden spoon, a sugar mannikin, an empty box, &c., &c. for his reward. The bag was a most popular institution, thanks to the never-failing flow of humour and affability of the Prince."

-mm-— A REMARKABLE CHARGE OF BIGAMY. Henry Caifendish, who is said to be highly connected, j and who has gone under the titles of the lion. Henry Cavendish, Hon. W. Bentinck, Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, Duke of Devonshire, &c., was brought up on remand before Mr. Elliott, charged with feloniously intermarry- ing with one Georgina Mary Knapp, his wife Alethea being then alive. Owing to the publicity given to the case on the firs hearing, a large number of persons came into court who had some knowledge of the career of the prisoner. It appears that in one instance he managed to entice the wife of a very respectable man from her home, and after taking from her all her property left her. By a well- devised plan he was met by the injured husband at a railway station, and an altercation ensued. The husband in the case fully identified the prisoner as the same man. Mr. Daly said that the prosecution had not been enabled to trace the whereabouts of the first wife. Her brother, who resided in Manchester, had seen her a short time ago, and to obtain her attendance a further remand would be required. Sergeant Ham stated that since the last remand he had received several communications from different parts of the country in reference to the prisoner's career. One letter ran thus "If you think it worth your while to make inquiries, you will discover that the Hon.' Henry Cavendish, now under remand on a charge of bigamy, is an old offender in many ways. He some- times passes as the Hon.' W. Seymour, and if he be the person I suspect, he has undergone imprisonment for swindling in France, Naples, &c. He gives out that he is the Duke of Devonshire, and in that capacity bribed an officer of some gaol in Paris to let him escape. He was, however, recaptured in woman's clothes at Havre, and afterwards sent to the galleys. He is a little, old man, with a hooked nose and savage-looking eyes, altogether bearing a strong resemblance to a bird of prey. The Paris police can give you full particulars of him." Another letter, from Folkestone, was as follows F "In the Daily Telegraph and other papers I read ail article concerning II. Cavendish, and seeing he is up to his old tricks again, and as you have him under lock and key, I will give you some details respecting him. He goes, or has done so, under the names of Caven- dish, Bentinck, Ponsonby, &c., and has had wives in each name. In 1851 or 1852 he was condemned, under the name of Cavendish, for long years of swindling and other gentlemanly conduct, to fifteen years' travaux fores. This was in Paris, he having been caught at Calais. Somehow or the other he escaped. He then had an elderly woman for wife, a governess. She was at this trial in Paris. About eighteen months to two years ago, he visited Boulogne, and stayed at the Bath Hotel, thence to a boarding-house, and, after pawning his then second wife's je.vels and clothing, tried to bolt, was caught and sent to prison, where he remained some months. He then went under the name of Ponsonby. He played the same game at Calais under the name of Bentinck, and also tasted some little prison. There also he was fallowed by a woman. I am not certain if he came first to grief before or after the Act passed abolishing the marking of T. F.' on the shoulder. If before, he is marked; if after, of course not. Any in- formation can easily be had, either at the Paris, Calais, Boulogne, or Havre police-offices. Hoping, good sir, you may be able to give it him strong, I shall read the paper with pleasure." The prisoner, who declined to say anything to the charge, was again remanded.

DEATH OF A FACTORY OPERATIVES' FRIEND.—Mr. William Walker, head of the firm of Walkers and Co., Bradford, died on Friday. Mr. Walker had for forty years been the active promoter, the liberal and generous supporter of factory legislation. His house, his money, his time, and energy were all freely given to that cause his constant pride was the improve- ment of the factory population in health, morals, and education and his death has followed rapidly on that of his coadjutor, the late Lord Feversham. Sadler, Fielden, Oastler, Bull, Feversham, and Walker now rank with those who were.—The Press and St. James's Chronicle. Professor Stokes has been re-elected a Fellow of Pembroke College. THE IMPERILLED BOROUGHS.—It is worthy of remark that the boroughs which Mr. Laing's motion will deprive of one member each-namely, those having a popula- tion under 10,000 and above 7,000—return a large pre- ponderance of Liberal members, 19 to 7. Of the 13 boroughs, Stamford alone returns two Conservatives; Buckingham, Bridgenorth, Cockermouth, Guildford, and Newport, send one of each political persuasion, and the remainder Liberal. In the not very improbable event of the success of Serjeant Gazelee's amendment, totally disfranchising all boroughs with a population of not less than 5,000 -Marlborough, Northallerton, Evesham, Wells, Dartmouth, Thetford, Honiton, Lyme, Ashburnham, and Arundel-the House would lose seven Liberal and nine Conservative bers.-Sunday

ACTION BETWEEN A HOUSEMAID AND A LIFE GUARDSMAN. This was an action brought by Eliza Garrad, a house- maid in service at 22, Talbot-square, to recover jE5 from Frederick Basing, now living at 32, Hyde Park-square, Paddington. Mr. Clarke, solicitor. No. 13, St. Mary's-square, ap- peared for the plaint ft, Mr. Rodwell for defendant. Plaintiff, a well-dressed woman, apparently 35 years of age, deposed that she had been in her present situa- tion upwards of 16 years. She first became acquainted with defendant in lSG2. when he was a private in the first Royal Life Guards, which was then stationed at Knightsbridge barracks. The defendant took the in itiative by accosting her and they then became lovers, met together very frequently and took long walks toge- ther, and she found his company was very agreeable to her. On the 11th November, 1863, he sent for herto a public-house kept by Mr. Howard, in Praed-street, Paddington, where he borrowed 5t. from her, and he promised to repay it in a few days. Matters went on very amicably between them for some time, and then, from some unexplained cause, he ceased to visit her. In March last she met him in one of the parks and demanded the money she had lent him, and he then promised to pay her at an early period. Since hen she had seen him several times, and she brought he present action because he had failed to carry out his promise. Cross-examined Had very frequently been with de- fendant to music-halls and other places of amusement, to which she generally paid for their admission, and also for all refreshments. Sfie declined to say whether or not she was the mother of an illegitimate child, neither would she say that defendant and Corporal Brown, of the Blues, had ever lifted her over the area, railings when she was helplessly drunk,, Would posi- tively swear she never went with "Sal," Corporal Brown, and defendant to Hampton Races. Her wages were £ 19 a yc,,ir, and she had just received her quar- ter's money when she lent the money. Elisha Beverley said he had been footman at 22, Talbot-square from 1862 to 1866, and during that period, in consequence of the illness of his mistress, the plaintiff never had a day's holiday. Sarah Instep, now servant at 86, Gloucester-terrace, corroborated the above. In cross-examination she said she was the "Sal "referred to, and that in company with plaintiff and defendant had frequently been to various places of amusement, when she and plaintiff always paid the score. Would not swear whether or not she knew Corporal Brown, but would swear she never went either with him or anyone else to Hampton Races. In opposing the claim, defendant was called and said he first became acquainted with plaintiff in 1858, when he met her at the Sun Music-hall, Knightsbridge, where she was drinking brandy and soda water with Sal and Corporal Brown. He smiled at her and she smiled at him. and after a lapse of a few minutes she beckoned him to join them at their table, which he did, and she then treated him to various glasses of brandy and water. Since then. he had been out dozens of times with plain- tiff at all hours, and she invariably paid for everything they had, and when he told her that, being a private soldier, he must necessarily not have much money to spend, she said that independent of her earning good. wages, she had had an illegitimate child by Earl Percy, who allowed her ll. 10s. per week for its main- tenance, that she had placed the child with her sister at Bromley, to whom she paid 5s. per week, and the re- maining 11. 5s. per week, together with the principal portion of her wages, she devoted to entertaining any man she might take a fancy to, and she further told him, she could get leave of absence whenever she wanted. In 1863, plaintiff asked him to accompany her with Corporal Brown and Sal" to Hampton Court Races, and they went there in a" four-wheeler," which the two women paid for, and also for all the refreshments. He would most positively swear that he never borrowed any money from plaintiff in his life. He had no need of so doing, for he had I ool. of his own in the bank at the tima In case they were in a public-house or music-hall drink- ing together she made it a rule to hand over to him whatever change was given for the money she laid down, for the purpose of spending money when she was not with him. In answer to Mr. Clarke, witness said soldiers were alway spongers" when their women were willing. Was unable to say what the soldiers gave as a quid pro quo. The witness then gave a general denial of having borrowed the money, of having met plaintiff in the park, or of ever having promised to pay the money. His Honour, after referring to the discreditable coR- duct of the defendant in spunging upon the resources of a domestic servant, and casting discredit upon the corps he-had belonged to by saying they did exactly the same, said it was a case which fully illustrated the immense social evil which existed through the continuance of the soldiers' barracks at Knightsbridge, in the neighbour- hood of which a large number of respectable female domestic servants were employed, and their living in such close proximity to the barracks led to a great deal of mischief and to the ruin of many young women. In the case before him the evidence was of a very con- flicting character, but it went to show that some ser- vants enjoyed good characters, which proved that their employers were not cognisant of their nocturnal vagaries. There were many points in the evidence given in sup- port of the plaint which showed weakness, conse- quently he should nonsuit the plaintiff, and thus give her an opportunity of bringing a fresh action if she could strengthen her case by furnishing any additional evidence.

IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS. At the Marylebone County Court, on Wednesday last, the judge (Sir J. E. E. Wilmot, Bart.,) delivered judgment in the action, Spane v. Great Western and Metropolitan Railway Companies the hearing of which case had, on a previous occasion, occupied the attention of the court for a considerable time. His Honour said the plaintiff (an attorney) sent his servant with his portmanteau to Notting-hill, he not being a traveller on the line at the time, and on the arrival of the train there the door of the carriage (second class) was found to be fastened with a piece of leather, and as the servant was, after some little trouble, getting out, the train went on, taking the portmanteau to the next station, where it was lost, and the action was brought by the master for the loss of the portmanteau and its contents. Mr. Maples, who appeared for the railway companies, objected on the ground that the contract was with the traveller, and by Act of Parliament to carry him and his luggage; and that, as in this case the luggage be- longed to the master, and not to the traveller on the railway, there was no liability for its loss. Several cases were referred to in which a traveller's luggage had been held to be his own personal luggage; that was such things as were necessary for his daily use when on a journey. He (the learned judge) had looked fully into the law upon the matter, and after a careful consid- eration of the whole of the facts presented before him, he had come to the conclusion that the objections raised by defendants was a valid one, and that the plaintiff could not recover the value of the articles lost, as they did not constitute the personal luggage of the traveller. Judgment for defendants, with costs.

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LITERATURE. It is settled that the annual Congress of the Royal Archaeological Institute is to be held at Hull, under the presidentship of the Archbishop of York: It will occupy the eek from July 30th to August 6th, inclusive. The new number of the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall" contains an elaborate article by the Rev. J. Carne, on the Ancient Bishopric of Cornwall," showing, inter alia, that the Saxon See was founded in 936, by King Athel- stan; that the see was occupied by ten bishops in succession that the seat of the bishopric was first at Bodmin, and that, after the destruction of Bod min in 981, it was at St. Germans, where it con- tinued until its extinction in 1050, having lasted for a period of 114 years." Mr. Arthur Kinglake, and the other Somersetshire gentlemen who have been busy of late, at Taunton, in paying due honour to John Locke, will, perhaps, pardon us for mentioning that the great philosopher lies buried at High Layer, near Ongar, Essex, where a monument, with a long Latin inscription, against the south wall of the church, records the leading events of his life, and also his death, which took place at Otes, in the above parish, a mansion now demolished, but which then belonged to the Lords Masham.. In the last number of the 11 Gentleman's Maga- zine is given a photographic illustration of the curious coffin-plate of Oliver Cromwell, now in ihe possession of Earl de Grey. When the Protector's body was exhumed in 1661, decapitated, and re- placed in the ground at Tyburn Turnpike, it ap- pears that this coffin-plate was taken possession of by the sergeant who removed the body, and, through his daughter, passed into the hands of the Hobarts, and from them to Lord De Grey. Curiously enough, one of the banners which adorned the Protector's hearse was seized by a Westminster boy named Uvedale: it is now in the possession of the Rev. W. W. West, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Welsh literature, apparently, is looking up; at all events, it is not the fault of the Rev. Messrs. W. Rowlands and D. S. Evans if the memory of those who have helped to enrich it should ever pass away. The latter is about to bring out a large and elaborate "Cambrian Bibliography," to be entitled the" Llyfyryddiaeth Cymry." It will contain an account ot books printed in the Welsh language, and relating to Wales and Welshmen, from the year 1546 to the year 1800 with some biographical notices of their authors, translators, printers, &e. The present editor requests all persons in possession of Welsh books, or books relating to Wales, printed between 1546 and 1800 inclusive, to communicate to him their titles, dates, and sizes, that the work may be rendered as complete as possible. The editor's address is Llanymawddwy Rectory, Meri- onethshire. The Marquise de Boissy (Countess Guiccioli) has finished her Memoirs of Lord Byron, and the work is ready to appear it consists of two thick volumes in large 8vo., and will be publishedlby Amyot. The first is already printed, and the second is in the press. The title is Byron." The Gazette notifies the appointment of Mr. Wil- liam Gifford Palgrave, now Her Majesty's Consul a Soukhoum Kale, to be Consul at Trebizonde. Mr. George Bancroft. the historian, has been ap- pointed United States Minister at Berlin.. The remains of Artemus Ward have been shipped on board the Deutschland for America. The remains of Daniel Manin are, as is well known, about to be restored to.Venice. The body will be received by his son, now General of -the N a- tional Guard of Venice, accompanied by the mem- bers of the municipality.

MONETARY. We learn from Frankh that the 41 per cent. Wur- tembnrg Loan for 15 million thalers, at the price of 92, has been successfully introduced by Messrs. Rothschild. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remittance of 67 21. 3s. 7d. on accaont of the dividends on the debt of Ecuador. The following relates. > the New Grasada debt:— Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have this day received a remittance on account of New Granada dividends, as follows s —From Custom-house of Santa Marta, 2.1861. 17s. 8d. from Custom-house of Carta- gena, 3351.16s. lOd. niftkiii-, a total of 2,5221.14s. 6d." A report on the finances of Brazil by Mr. Paken- ham, Her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Rio, has just been issued, and gives a clear analysis of the public debt of that Empire. Its estimated total on the 31st of December last was 38,118,9951.2 consisting of the following items :— Foreign debt zC14,910,713 Internal funded debt of 4, 5, and 6 per ceiit. stock 10,439,000 Government notes in circulation 3,325,582 Treasury acceptances at two, four, and six moiiths 4,010,000 Debt due to Bank of Brazil," to be paid for in further issue of Go- vernment notes, as authorized by the Chambers, to replace bank issue ot same amount 4,183,700 Debt due to Orphan Fund and deposits 1,250,000 Estimated debt of Brazil in 1866 38,118,995 This shows an increase of zC7,356,706 over 1865, in consequence of the Paraguayan war. The internal funded debt, amounting as above to 10,439,0001. is stated to be held as follows :— 4 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. Brazil £ 530 E60,500 £ 7,458,340 Great Britain.. 4,040 451,640 Sundry nations — 20,020 205,880 Charitable esta- lishments, banks, &c., 11,580.. 37,460 2,176

NAVAL AND MILITARY The Courrier de Bretcirine announces the d eath of Rear Admiral Ls Gourant de Tromelin, born at Gor in, Morbihan, in 1786. He was one of the last relics of the battle of Trafalgar. Being taken prisoner and conveyed to Engl-ind, he succeeded in making his es- cape in a small 'coat, through a thousand dangers, after two years' captivity. The Italian Government has ordered the Malamacco and the arsenal at Venice to be fortified at a cost of 10,000,000 francs. The construction of the steel boat at Chatham Dock- yard which is to be used by the Livingstone exploring party will be finished in a few days, It will be taken to pieces and despatched from the dockyard in readiness for shipment on board the mail steamer leaving on the 9th proximo, which also takes out the exploring party. The designs for the boat furnished by Mr. J. E. Reed, the C lief Constructor of the Navy, contemplated its being made of prepared steel plates, put together in half sec- tions by screws and bolts. Owing, however, to the delay in procuring a supply of the requisite steel plates, the Admiralty decided on having the boat constructed of the best charcoal iron plates but a sufficient quantity of the steel plates having been furnished in the meantime by Mr. E. Deanc, of Arthur-street, East, the patentee, the boat is being built as originally ordered. Its length is 30 feet, and breadth, from gunwale to gunwale, 8 feet, the weight being rather more than one ton. The plan of construction adopted by Mr. Reed will enable the boat to be taken to pieces in a very short time, ana packed for conveyance across the country by the negroelJ who will be engaged for that purpose. Although steel plates for ships and boats have been largely used by other Governments, this is said to be the first instance in which the Admiralty have adopted that material for the construction of a boat. Should, however, the re- sults follow which the patentee claims for the steel plates there is no doubt they will hereafter be frequently used for ship and boat building purposes.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. The gold medals given annually under the will of Sir William Browne, Knight, M.D. (increased in value in 1866, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Powis, High Steward), to undergraduates composing the best exer- cises as under, have been adjudged For Greek Ode, G. H. Hallam, St. John's College, "Petropoli nuper hospitio acceptus." For the Latin Ode, G. H. Hallam,'St. John's College, "Praecipites effilo labi visse." For Greek Epigram, W. R. Kennedy, King's College. For Latin Epigram, W. R. Kennedy, King's College. Degrees on June 15. Mr. J. E. Sandys has been appointed to the office of College Lecturer at St John's College, in the room of Mr. Bailey; Mr. Pryke has been appointed Naden Divinity Student, and Mr. Covington has been elected to Mrs. Ann Fry's Hebrew Scholarship, at the same College. The Registrary requests that the supplicats and certifi- cates of terms of all persons who are proposing to take B.A. or LL.B. degrees on the 15th of June, may be sent to him on or before Monday, June 10. The Registrary begs to remind all candidates for the B.A. and L.L.B. degrees on the 15th of June that the professorial card, for which the fee is 31. 3s., can only be obtained by application at the Registry. He will be in his office to receive these fees and to take the signatures of the candidates (besides other times) OR Thursday, June 6, and Friday, June 14, from 10 o'clock till 1. The whole number of Students matriculated at this University during the present academical year is 572, considerably the largest number on record. The third reading of the Tests Abolition (Oxford and Cambridge) Bill is deferred from Tuesday, June 4th, till Tuesday, 18th June. Two scholarships in Rugby school of 50 guineas each per annum and two of 10 guineas each are now open to all boys under 14. The examination will be held on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of June. Applications for ad- mission to the examination should be made to the Head Master. A statistical report has just appeared on the state of education in the Lowland county districts of Scotland. From this it is shown that the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject visited 17 counties, and give returns for 133 parishes, containing 484 day and 15 even- ing schools. The children in these parishes, between the ages of 3 and 15, amount to 60,124, and when the schools were visited 33,451 children were found on the books, and 26,971 were in actual attendance. There was school accommodation for 35,591 scholars, the staff consisting of 638 teachers and assistants—99 pupil teachers, and 19 monitors. Of the teachers and assistants 212 held Government certificates, and of these 174 were also trained in normal schools 48 thus trained held no certificates, and 378 were otherwise educated, while 23 had University degrees, of whom only eight held certi- ficates. The income of these schools appears to have been S31,160, and the expenditure X31,906, being at the rate of about 19s. per head. This return excludes five Highland counties, half of Sutherland and Ross, and all towns exceeding 5,000 in population.

THE CONVICTED BOROUGHS.—The final determina- tion of the Government, backed up by an overwhelming majority of the House of Commons, to disfranchise Great Yarmouth created a painful feeling in that town on Friday and Saturday. Up to the last it had been hoped that Yarmouth, as a large town of nearly 40,000 inhabitants, would have been spared at least one mem- ber, or that the writs would only have been suspended for twenty years, in which time it was hoped that elec- toral corruption would have been eradicated. The number of voters under the new Reform Bill would have amounted to 6,000, against 1,600 under the pre- sent system, and it would have been hopeless on the part of any candidate to attempt to sway by undue in- fluences so large a body of voters. NEW JEWISH SYNAGOGUE.-On Sunday a new synagogue was solemnly dedicated in New Broad-street, City, for the use of a poor Jewish community, by Dr. Adler, chief rabbi of Great Britain. Circulars have been issued as an appeal to our kind Christian neigh- bours to support our just cause and to vindicate the following:—' Do unto others as you wish to be done by.' As the chosen people of Israel, we sincerely trust to receive your kind patronage; firstly, as regards the establishment of the sacred place secondly, it win prove the advancement of civil and religious hb^'ty, moreover, our wealthier co-religionists have aiw y been ready to contribute their mite when any or subscriptions were asked for any cnuitu chapel."