The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford

FitDmt of tfus. M. DE MEISNIER, the Russiaa consul in Paris died last week. A GOLD MEDAL has been awarded, at the Havre International Exhibition, to Mr. George Borwick, for his baking power. THE CALCUTTA ORCHESTRA-five fiddles and a piano-is rivalled by that at Buenos-Ayres-a piano, clarionet, violin, and trumpet. THE FOUNDATION STONE of the Manchester New Town-hall was laid on Monday afternoon on the site in Albert-square, by the mayor (Mr. R. Neill). I A PETITION has been presented to the junta of Barcelona, perhaps the most enlightened and liberal town in Spain, for the abolition of bull-fights. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON has ordered a bust of Coant Walewski to be placed in the Versailles Gallery. Mr. GEORGE JAMIESON has been killed on the Hudson River Railroad. The deceased gentleman was well known &s an actor in New York. A NEW BURLESQUE, on the subject of Lucrezia Borgia, is in rehearsal at the Helborn, Mr. Byron is the author. Miss GLYN has been going through her reading of Macbeth in Edinburgh with remarkable success. The music attributed to Locke accompanied the reading. THE GAIETY will open in December with a new piece by Mr. Sala and Mr. Halliday, and also a burlesque from the pen of Mr. Gilbert. ACCORDING TO General Deligny, the Deputy Governor of Algeria, not less than 500,000 Arabs have died of starvation during the present year. A MILITARY CONTEMPORARY says it has been resolved by the Government to reduce the forces in Canada at once by two battalions. ALL THE HEIGHTS surrounding St. Etienoe are covered with snow. On the side of the mountains towards Switzerland, and those of Saint-Genest-Malifaix, it is said to be two feet deep. MATTHEW KEENAN, a Fenian soldtar of the 90th Light Infantry, has been sentenced to 672 days' imprisonment at Kurrachee, fer using traitorous language respecting the Queen. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON has sent, through the Marquis de Cozaux, Charge d'Affaires of France at Berne, a subscription of 20,000 francs ( £ 800), in aid of the victims of the recent inundations in Switzerland. IT IS STATED on undoubted authority that Dom Ferdinand of Portugal has never been offered the Spanish crown, and that he is resolutely determined to decline it under any circumstances. MR. BARRY SOM-IVAN has been playing a round of Shakesperian characters during the last fortnight at the Amphitheatre, Liverpool, supported by Miss Kate Saville, to very good houses. A MEMORIAL is about to be presented to the Court of Common Council of the City, praying that body to prevent the increase of facilities for the traffic in spirituous liquors in the new meat and poultry market. THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA in Council has signified his approval of the scheme for establishing female normal schools, in the Presidency towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. SIRJOllN LAWRENCE has decided that, when- ever foreign princes take shelter in British India, they are to be supported at the expense of the British Government. IT IS ANNOUNCED that the portion of the Delhi Railway from Umballa to Meerut (about 150 miles, or half the entire line) was completed on the 17th inst. THE OLD CONTENT at Cannington, near Bridgwater, is being fitted up as an industrial school for Catholic orphan children in the counties of Gloucester, Dorset, and Somerset. THERE ARE NOW in the avenue of the Champs Elysees several chestnut trees in bloom for the second time this year, and other trees have shown a disposition ( to come out again. AN ORDER from Baron Haussmann prohibits trout and salmon fishing within the department of the Seine until the 31st of January next. The sale of such fish is also interdicted during that period. A BAYONNE PAPER says that Sister Patrocinio, who, according to public report, exercises such great in- fluence on the mind of Queen Isabella, has left the Car- melite convent of that town for Pau. ALL THE HEIGHTS surrounding St. Etienne, are covered with snow. Oa the side of mountains towards Switzerland, and those of Saint-Genest-Malifaix, it is said to be two feet deep. IT IS -SAID that a Mr. Francis, a native of Cossipore, in the northern suburbs of Calcutta, has discovered a cure for the bite of a cobra, and that it has been tried with the happiest results. HER MAJESTY has sent to Mrs. William Roy, New-street, Dairy, Scotland, the sum of .£3, in con- sideration of her having been recently confined of three children at a birth. AN AMPLE REPORT of the proceedings at the, banquet to Mr. Johnson, at Liverpool, was telegraphed the same night to New York for publication in the next morning's papers. ON MONDAY T WEEK Michaelmas term com- mences, when the' Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, and on that occasion the three new Judges aad the new Solicitor-General will be among the company. THE LARGE IRONCLAD BUILDING by Messrs. Palmer and Co. (Limited), at Jarrow, on the Tyne, for the English Government, is being rapidly finished, and will soon be ready for launching. AT HUNTINGDON, a few days ago a man picked up a parcel containing a X50 note. He restored it to its owner, a stranger, who rewarded, him by the present of one penny! A CHEAP BOOK, designed for rthe people, The Secret Memoirs of Queen Isabel," has met with a pro- digious sale at Madrid, and is one of the most humilia- ting pictures ever held up to public execration. THE SALES of English wheat noted last week, were 70,763 qrs., at 53s. 8d., against 79,292 qrs. in 1867 at 67s. 6d. The London averages were 56s. Id. on 4,845 qra. AT EDINBURGH, tlie men belonging to the 42nd Regiment wore last week, for the first time, after many years' petitioning, the blue Glengary bonnet, as a foraging cap. SIR JAMES FERGUS SON, BART., the newly ap- pointed Governrr of South Australia, will be entertained by colonists and others at a banquet, at Willis's Rooms, on Tuesday, the 3rd of November. A LIVERPOOL morning and EVENING paper, called the Dawn ared Sunset, about the size of Le Petit Journal, and sold for one halfpenny, after the existence oj about six months ceased publication on Saturday last. IT IS REPORTED in Paris that the Princess Royal will spend a week at Compiegne at the end of the autumn season, the Empress Eugenie having made her promise to do so when she was at St. Cloud the other day. AT THE HULL SESSIONS, on Saturday, Mr. S. Warren, Q.C., the recorder, sentenced John Simpson, a seaman, to ten years' penal servitude, for assisting a fellow prisoner to escape from Hull Gael. AT ASTLEY'S THEATRE, LONDON, on Friday night, the band struck because their wages were not paid. The actors played Peculiar People and Oliver Twist without music. VICTOR HUGO has issued an address to the Spanish people in which he recalls to them the past glories of their country, and advises them to establish a. republic instead of a monarchy to fill the place of the Government they have overthrown. A LOCAL PAPER mentions that as an instance of the value of land in Tipperary, that a farmer named Hardy, of Templedredon, some time since purchas6<J the interest of a tenant in a hold Gf 15| acres at £ 2 2s. an acre, and not held on lease, for £ 180 SUB-INSPECTOR MURPHY, who Was fired at a few days ago at Rathkeale, county Limerick, is recover, ing from the effects of the shot. The ball, however has not yet been extracted, and it is supposed to have under the shoulder blade. INCREASE OF PAUPERISM.—Mr. Parday's re- turn relative to pauperism shows that the number 0f paupers in England and Wales (except lunatic paupers in asylums and vagrants) in receipt of relief on the last day of the fifth week of July, 1868, was 913,084, or 36,064 more than at the corresponding period of the previous year. DISINTERESTED DEVOTEDNESS. The Inde- pendance Beige, in circulating a report to the effect that "aul de Cassagnac, of the Pays, has just purchased an estate for £ 20,000, refers to the circumstance as & striking instance of the value of disinterested devote I- A ness. It is said that but a few years since M. de Cas-i sagnae was a clerk at the Hema-aCcs on zC72 a year. I THE. EARL OF STAMFORD has decided to sell the whole of his racing stud, retaining only the brood mares, which are very valuable. His lordship has ex- pended some 9400,000 on the turf since his connection with it. EXTENSIVE REDUCTIONS are making in the dockyards. In the Customs department permanent clerks are no longer engaged. Temporary writers are employed for extra business, who are discharged when no longer required. A MAN, named M(CLillagh, was run over while crossing the Dublin and Kingstown Railway at Sydney Parade. Both his legs were severed from his body. He was conveyed to the City of Dublin Hospital, where his legs were amputated, and he is progressing favourably. THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP of Guiana, rendered vacant by the removal of the late judge, upon the re- commendation of the Privy Council, has been conferred upon Sir William Snagg, chief justice of Antigua. The value of the Guiana judgeship is £2,500 per annum, the Antigua appointment beilig only £ 1,150. ON FRIDAY, Andrew Peskin was charged at the Wellington Police-court with an aggravated assault and attempted rape on Mary Taylor, since deceased, on the 10th inst. The prisoner was found guilty, and the bench passed upon him the very lenient sentence of six months' imprisonment. Two NEW WINGS which, at a cost of about £ '6,000, have been added to the Commercial Travellers' Schools at Pinner, were opened on Saturday by the Earl of Harrowby, in the unavoidable absence of Miss Burdett Coutts. The day's subscriptions, with £11200 previously received, amounted to 25,000. THE REV. HENRY ALCOCK has announced his intention of removing the cross and figure of the Saviour, affixed to his rockery at Sale, and overlooking Hope-road, in deference to the feeling of his friends" The rev. gentleman received the cross and image from abroad as a present. HENCEFORWARD letters addressed to soldiers belonging to regiments which may be stationed at Mauritius and forwarded by private ship, will not be subject to the ship gratuity of one penny, in addition to the usual postage of one penny, but will be chargeable with the postage of one penny only. THE SEX. JUVENILE HIGLIW- AY ROBBERS of Highgate have been examined oa remand, and four 01 them committed for trial, and two discharged. The youth, Daniel Turner, whom they knocked down and robbed of 3d., was in great pain, and had to sit down while giving his evidence. ROBERT CECIL EWEN, manager of a branch in London of Messrs. Stead and Co., manufacturers, Cummersdale, near Carlisle, h&s been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to seven years' penal servitude, for embezzling sums amounting to X3,800, belonging to his employers. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH has entrusted to Mr. Henry Ward, the naturalist and taxidermist, ,the arrangements of his ornithological collection, consisting of specimens from India, Africa, and South America, the completion of which will be executed during the absence of his Royal Highness. CHEST AND THKGAT DISEASES are very prevalent in Paris just now. Among the sufferers is Rossini, who was attacked on the day he intended to leave his suburban residence at Passy, and take up his winter quarters in Paris. His condition causes some anxiety. EUGENE FORCADE'S health has SO greatly improved that he may ere long be expected to resume his pen. The Gaulois having published a sensational article, describing him a-a a raving maniac, he has him- self written to contradict it in a terse and <spirituelle 'letter. A SINGULAR ACCIDENT lately occurred to Lieut.-Colonel Bivar, commanding the light cavalry in Poona. He was at a children's fete, distributing pre- sents from a Christmas tree, when something fell upon his outstretched arm and snapped the bone above the elbow. AT A RECENT MEETING of the Oriental Bank Corporation, an interim dividend of £ 1 10s. per share was declared for the half-year ended June last, free of income tax, being at the rate of 12 per cent, per annum. The net profits for the period named reached £ 102,539. SURGEON-MAJOR CLARKE, 81th regiment, has just presented to 'te Museum of the College of Surgeons, Dublin, the skeleton of Jowaiilah Pursand, j one of the most notorious of the high-class Brahmins connected with the massacre of Cawnpore. THE GREAT FLAX STORE of Gilford Mills, the property of the Ulster spinning firm of Dunbar, M'Master and Co., has been destroyed by fire, and ever X30,000 worth of the fibre, but just placed in the building, and about to be manufactured, consumed. ARRIVAL OF SPANISH JESUITS IN BELGIUM.— A number of the Spanish Jesuits expelled from Spain ,have arrived at Namur. The establishments belonging to the order in Liego ^ill, it is expected, afford hospi- tality to about 300. THE Nouvelliste ode Rouen mentions a case of quadruple birth at Neueville-Coppegueule. A woman there, named Quillent, has just given birth to four female children, three of whom are now alive. The mother is 22 years of age. A COMPANY has lately been formed in France to rent for 60 years the right to plant and cultivate fruit trees on any part of the sides of the railway lines in the east, middle, and south of that country. No rent is to be paid for the first five years. AN ACTION is to be brought against the London and North-Western Railway Company to recover the value of the pretroleum oil which was lost on the occa- sion of the Abergele catastrophe, on the 20th of August. The case will be tried in one of the Irish law courts. JOHN MOORE, aged about 40, a carman, was driving a van along Houndsditch, when he fell from his seat into the roadway, and the wheel of his van passed over his body. He was teked to the hospital, but died soon after admission. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE is reported to have taken place at San Francisco on the evening of the 22nd. The people, in an excited state, thronged the streets during the night. The damage is stated to be small.-Times. MR. ROBERT OLIVERSON, one of the oldest underwriters at Lloyd's, died last week at his resideuce at Reigate, at the age of 79 years, from the effects of a fall over some felled timber on his estate. He was elected a member of the Room in 1817. ON SATURDAY NIGHT four large stacks, of hay, containing about 80 loads each, were discovered to have been fired on the Manor Farm, Highgate, in the occupa- tion of Mr. B. Johnson. T wothirds of the hay were destroyed. THE BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin, having received a patent for the appointment of a Regius Professorship of Surgery, have given that office to Mr. Robert Adams, surgeon in ordinary to her Majesty in Ireland. THE Clowmel Chronicle mentions that the Duke of Devonshire has guaranteed the advance of X60,000 to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland, for the construction of a line of railway from Lismore 'to Permoy. AN ACCIDENT, which caused inconvenience to passengers but no loss of life, took place on Friday at the Haverstock-hill station of the Midland Railway by the running of some carriages off the line. The line was ? blocked for ,80me tim6j nobody was hurt. O METROPOLITAN meat market in Smithfield will in an probability be opened on November 14th. An application has been made to the Prince of Wales to perform the ceremony, and, in reply, his Royal Highness expresses his regret that his engagements will not permit him to do so. ,f\ eiid_ow<;d with a marvellous voice is raid.to have been discovered at Winamplance, near Spa, a r pherd' sixtee* y^rs of age, named Chalseche. An Italian ^tleman, who alighted on this trouvaille, has taken on himself the charseof the new singer's musical education. ° THE Phare de la Loire states that a factory has been established at Ivermerel, in Brittany, for extraction the fertilising properties—azote and phosphate—fE01f the refase of fish, and converting them into a paste or liquid easy of transportation. The results hitherto have been most satisfactory. LATE ON THURSDAY EVENING a fire broke out near Rochester, at Islingham Manor Farm, in the occu- pation of Mr. W. H. Ely, farmer and hop grower, and before the flames could be extinguished a considerable amount of farming produce, together with 14 horses, was entirely consumed. AN INQUEST has been held touching the death of Stephen Brake butler in a gentleman's family at the West-end. A family squabble was in progress, when a young man named Temple, who had married Brake's daughter, struck his father-in-law a blow which resulted fatally. The jury returned a verdiet of I Manslaughterr against Temple. r A TERRIBLE DISASTER HAS OCCURRED at Audin- court, Doubs, France. In the manufactory of MM. Thurot Brothers, the machinery constructed for the fabrication of Chassepots has been consumed by fire. From 250 to 300 workmen are thus thrown out of em. ployment. The loss is estimated at 200,000f. ON WEDNESDAY EVENING some men were en- gaged in warehousing rice, when several bags, drawn up in a looped chain to a great height, suddenly slipped and fell. Five men standing below were stricken to the ground, and one was killed. The others were seriously injured. THE New York Times says: — Miss Lydia Thompson was presented on Friday evening with a pedestal of flowers tuberoses predominating-over four feet high, and two feet in diameter at the broadest part. This little lady with the golden locks dances and dashes over a bed of bouquets every night. Mns. MARY L. HUTCHINSON, the mother of the Hutehinson family of singers, died recently of para- lysis at Milford, N.H., aged 83. She was the mother of 16 children, to whom the musical powers with which she was naturally gifted were generously transmitted. -New York Times. AN ALARMING ACCIDENT happened while the Emperor of the French was out shooting at St. Germain on Thursday. One of the keepers accidentally shot the Duke de Caumont La Force, who was close to his Majesty at the time. Fortunately the wound was not serious. THE DEATH is announced of Dr. Henry Brown (late surgeon to the Queen at Windsor Castle), which took place on Saturday morning. Dr. Brown had at. tended her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Royal children for many years, and was most deservedly esteemed by his illustrious patients. THE EARTHQUAKE IN P.EittT.-At a meeting of the Court of Common Council at Guildhall on Thursday last it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Mr. Henry A. Isaacs, that the sum of £500 be contributed from the City's cash towards the fund now being raised in the City for the reliefef the sufferers by the recent in Peru and Equador. SMUGGLING.—A heavy case of smuggling has been heard at the Southwark Police-court. A water- man's apprentice was convicted of having been unlaw- fully in possession of 295 lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco, the value 0f which, with the single duty, t amounted to X76. A fine of 4100,with the albaraative of ix <Elonths, imprisonment, was inflicted. SALE OF HIAUI. MAYO'S STOCK.—An important sale of thorough-bred bulls, milch cows, thorough-bred heifers, horses, carriages, &c., has taken place at Palmers- town, the palatial residence of the Earl of Mayo, whose appointment to the Governor Generalship of India neces- sitated his leaving this country. The sale as a whole was most remunerative to the noble owner. ABOUT Ferny MEN, who were at work in the pianoforte manufactory of Messrs. Hopkinson, at Cam- den-town, are now out on strike, in consequence of an attempt on the part of Messrs. Lacock and Higgs, the contractors for the second-class instruments sent out by the firm, to 'make a very considerable reduction in the amount paid the men for making and 'finishing the in- struments. THE ABYSSINIAN CASUALTY. Captain Roberts, of the 4th Foot, was the only officer who was seriously wounded in Abyssinia. For the gallantry with which he led the two companies under his command, on the occasion of the first meeting with Theodore's troops, Capt. Roberts is to be appointed to the paymastership of the 51st Foot, after having been permitted to realise the price of his present commission. COMPLAINTS HAVOKJ SEEN MADE 'by the Woolwich Local Board of Health of the injurious effects on the public health d'ùe to the Woolwich Dockyard drainage not being connected with the Southern Outfall Sewer, the Lords Commissioners, of the Admiralty have announced their consent for the work to be done, and have stated that the estemated 'cost will appear in the next >Navy Estimates. THE ROMAN JOITBNAL-S Sray the statement that the Pope is fitting 'up a palace for the reception of the Queen of Spain. "The report," they say, "is a stupid invention, a calumny devised and propagated by human malice." The liberal journals take notice ei this denial, and ask whether the Pope is asherned to afford an asylum to her,on whom Le bestowed a diploma last year. ON SATURDAY NIGHT an old man named Leighton, living at H-vendal with his sou-liK-Iaw, a waller" named Will an, quarrelled with the latter on some matter between them, when Willan deliberately shet Leighton in the side. The wound did net prove fatal, and the victim was removed to the infirmary, but as he is eighty years of age, it is feared it may go hard with him. -JOHN WOOD, li, and IJCJMES TVallase, 13, having no fixed homes, were charged at Greenwich Police-court with stealing a breast of mutton from the she? of Mr. Holloway, butcher, Deptford. Wood took the mutton, which he handed to Wallace. Both were captured. Both prisoners said they were hungry, and wanted some breakfast. Mr. Pattcson committed them for 14 days' imprisonment at Maidstone NEW SPIRITUAL PEER.—Under the arrange- ments which regulate the admission of bishops to the House of Lords, Dr. Atlay, Bishop of Hereford, will succeed to a seat by-rotation, in consequence of the death of the Bishop of Peterborough. Dr. Magee, the new Bishop of Peterborough, will be without a seat until a vacancy arises in any see other than Canterbary,'York, London, Durham, or Winchester. SALVATOR TAGLIONI, the celebrated danseuse, has just died at Naples, aged 78. He com- posed more than 200 ballads, the most remarkable of which are his "Esmeralda," and "Faust." During the disorders in Italy, in 1848, Taglioni, who was a great friend of the King, was taken by the insurgents and shot. Hej however, survived in epite of fourteen wounds which ha had received. GREAT FIRE AT IPENRYN. A tremesKSsus fire took place at Peuryn on Saturday, the scene of the conflagration being the straw yard of Messrs. Mead, at Praze. Thousands of tons of straw intended for the manufacture of paper, and the produce of 60 acres of oats in straw, were enveloped in flamee, the magnitude of the fire setting all efforts to subdue it at defiance. It is stated that the damage will exceed X5,000, but that the property is either partially or wholly ^insured. OUTRAGE ON A PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE.— A telegram, dated Cork, Oct. 22, says that on the previous day Mr. Boyle, while canvassing the county j electors at Liscarrol, accompanied by a body of friends, | was attacked by a mob in the interest of Mr. McCarthy ;i Downing, and had to take refuge in a building, under the care of tie constabulary. He and his friends had sj shortly to flee the town, hotly assailed with stones and bludgeons. A MAN, named ,Charles McMillan, a bootmaker, at Bethnal-green, w&s found deadân his bed- room on Saturday morning, having hanged himself in the night. He had told some of his friends that he intended to kill himself, because a young woman whom he wished to marry, named Alice Chapman, had made up-her mind to go to Australia. He had tried hard, it seems, to induce the young woman to change her mind, but with- out effect A SPANISH CATECIIISM.Revolutionary cate- chisms now abound in Spain. The following .is an extract from one of them Who are the enemies of Spain ? Isabella of Bourbon, Gonzales Bravo, and Father Claret. What evil have they, done to the country ? —The first has robbed it of its 1irties ? the second of its money; and the third of its conscience, covering with the cloak of religion the turpitude of the two others." THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.—The Observer cos- firms the statement that the questions of difference be,tween England and the United States are to be referred to an international commission, composed of an equal number of British and American members, and adds that Lord Stanley is willing to submit to the Emperor of Russia the question whether the sailing of the Alabama from Liverpool was or was not & breach of international law. THE ST. ALBAN'S RITUAL CASIZ.-Notice has been given that the Lord Chancellor has appointed the 16th November to hear the case, Martin v. Mackono- chie," before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, on appeal from the judgment of the Arches Court. His lordship will preside, and in addition to the members generally attending the committee, it is under- stood that one or two of the bench of bishops will assist in the hearing. THE WORKING CLASSES IN WESTMINSTER.— We understand that a new model lodging house is about to be erected in the parish of St. George, Hanover- square, under the auspices of the local Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Working Classes." The Marquis of Westminster, who is the president, has granted a plot of ground in Grosvenor-mews-a large space in the rear of Bond-street—and has also presented a donation of £ 200 to the funds of the association. Mr. R. H. Burden is the architect. The building will shortly be commenced Builder. ESCAPE FROM PRISON.-A young highway- man, named Dewey, arrested on Wednesday last, and imprisoned at the Station-house, at Tremont, charged with robbery, made his escape by passing through an aperture in the door of his prison through which his food had been handed him. The hole was but twelve inches high and six wide, and he had to undress himself that he might squeeze through, dragging his clothes after him, and re-dressing outside. He has not been caught. -New York Times. CRIME.—The first edition of the calendar for the October session of the Central Criminal Court, which opened on Monday morning, contains the names of 103 prisoners, of whom 3 are charged with arson, 1 with bigamy, 13 with burglary, 12 with uttering counterfeit coin, 13 with forgery, 1 with horse-stealing, 23 with larceny, 4 with letter stealing, 7 with manslaughter, 1 with murder, 5 with misdemeanour, 1 with perjury, 1 with rape, 5 with feloniously receiving goods, 5 with robbery with violence, and 6 with feloniously wounding. RUNNING A MOK.-A Malay sailor, having been convicted of being concerned in a robbery of Rs. 2,000 from a vessel lying at Mutlah, near Calcutta, p determined to be revenged on the man whom he supposed had betrayed him. On being released from prison he went back to his lodgings, and watching his opportunity attempted to murder his enemy. He was detected, and then ran a mok threugh one of the principal streets of the native town. He wounded five persons, one of whom has since died. TURNPIKE ABOLITION.—An Act of last session provides for the expiry, on the 1st November next, of seven provincial trusts. The most important abolitions will be those at Hereford, Bury St. Edmunds, and De- vizes, on account of the keen Parliamentary contests which they encountered. The Devizes gates surrounded all the approaches to the town, and the freedom of the road" is to be marked by a banquet and a bonfire, for which latter purpose two of the obnoxious gates were purchased at the sale of the trust property. WRECK OF A GOVERNMENT VESSEL.—A wreck occurred off the Land's End at two o'clock on Friday morning. The unfortunate vessel was bound from Devonport to Milford Haven, and whilst rounding the dangerous part of the Cornish coast she was driven on the rocks, and almost immediately went to pieces. Sixteen persons were drowned, including ten of the crew and six passengers. The mate is among those saved. The ill- fated vessel was called the Devon, and she was employed as a lighter in Devonport dockyard. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA has just granted Herr Leopold Jansa a pension of X100 a year, a tardy yet gratifying acknowledgment of the injustice done that gentleman in 1851, when he was dismissed from his post as capellmeister in the Royal Chapel, and banished from Vienna, because in London he had played with his former pupil, Madame Pulzky, at a cencert for the benefit of the exiled Hungarians then in London. He has resided here ever since, and has supported him- self by teaching music. FIRE IN LIVERPOOL.—A fire of a very disas- trous character occurred in Liverpool on Wednesday morning, by which a large warehouse in Park-lane was completely destroyed. The warehouse formed one of a large block of buildings, facing St. Thomas's Church, and was occupied by Messrs. Stubbs and Co., cotton dealers. There was a large quantity of cotton, coir, yarn, ropes, beans, &c., in the warehouse at the time, all of which have either been destroyed or materially damaged. RAILWAY -COLLISION.—A serious collision took place on Saturday night at the Workenden Junction on the Great Northern Railway. The lines there cross each other, and a passenger train at Ml speed struck a goods train which was going over the cross line at the moment. Several of the goods carriages were shattered to pieces, and others with the engine were toppled over the embankment. A number of passengers were seriously hurt, but no deaths have leen reported. THE PARSON'S GUN.-The 68-pounder, 95 cwt. cast iron gun, lined with a steel tube, and rifled by Mr. Parsons on the plan advocated by him, in opposition to Major Palliser's method of lining with a coiled iron tube, split on Saturday morning while undergoing its endurance test, at the proof butt, Royal Arsenal, Wool- wich. The split took place at the 33rd round of its endurance test—the charge being 301b. of large grained rifle powder, and 1501b. shot. THE Liverpool Mercury of October 26 has the following:—" The Rev. Henry John Pye, rector of Clifton Campville, Staffordshire, and prebendary of Hansacre, in Lichfield Cathedral, has, along with his wife, gone over to the Roman Catholic Church. He married, in 1851, Emily Charlotte, the only daughter of I the Bishepof Oxford, who has been plunged into great grief by the step taken by his daughter and son-in-law. Mr. Pye has held his appointment at Clifton since 1851, and it is of the yearly value of J&950. BOAT EACE IN NEW BRUNSWICK.—The Ward Brothers, celebrated in the United States as oarsmen, and who challenged four Tyne men to a race for £200 and the championship of the world, have had a race with four oarsmen of St. John's, New Brunswick. The New tBrunswick men are well'known from their per- formanees-at the regattas daring the Paris Exhibition. The course taken was six miles, and the Ward Brothers wtr,o beaten by 40 lengths. Tine, thirty-nine minctas aad a half. A DEALER IN DOGS' MEAT who during the hearisg of a summons at Bow-street was asked why he did not make a more liberal provision than 6s. weekly for the support of his wife, pleaded the great falling off in his business returns in consequence of recent legis- latien." If matters went on at the present rate, his solicitor said, there would soon be no available market for horse flesh, unless the sausage makers, or the gentle- men who dined at the Langham Hotel, could create a sufficient demand. FEAeFUL COLLISION AT THE N ORE.-The North Star, steamer, which left, Gravesend on Friday afternoon for Norway, retumedon Saturday morning, having been. in collision with the ship Leichart, with passengers for New Zealand, which also only sailed on Friday on her voyage. The latter is reported to have been at anchor at the time; consequently the collision appears to be most unaccountable. The Leichart went down immediately, but happily the North Star suc- ceeded in saving the whole of the crew and passengers. The ship lies sunk in nine fathomsof water. INCENOIARISM IN RUSSIA.-Agreat panic pre- vails at Smolensko. That ancient town, which required only a railway to have its prosperity revived, has for the last six weeks been devastated by a band of incendiaries who have caused -such damage and .produced such terror that the population have abandoned their houses, and now encamp in the fields like gypsies. In no other country but Russia tre such barbarous acts to be wit- negaed true it issthat the Prinoe of Smolensko is dis- tinguished by his retrograde aidaoinistration and the Tonality of hie functionaries AN EXTENSIVE aRd ingenious system of fraud, hy falsifying Post-office orders, has been brought to light. The accused is a young Frenchman named Richard Hugo <5tto de Foucould, and i3 said to have been an officer of Hussars in the French service. In the case which came before the Bow-street Police-court he obtained an order for 2s. 6d., and having altered the amounts on the face cf the document to <6S 2s. 6d., borrowed, by an artful pretext, X2 10s. on security of the,fictitious order. He was committed for'trial, but it was -stated that many more charges of a like character would be brought against HTO, DEATH OF MR. FREDERICK DICKENB.-On Sunday morning the sod closed over the dust of Frederic William Dickens, latest surviving brother of Mr. Charles Dickers. Mr. Frederic Dickens who has resided in Darlington during the last 12 months had for three weeks before Ms death suffered from an abscess in the lung. On Sunday and Monday last he was considerably better, and no danger was feared. About half-past three o'clock on Tuesday morning, however, he beaame seriously ill, and died shortly tfter four o'clock. SUICIDE.-An inquest has been held on the body of James Howe, a painter, who committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train on the Metropolitan Railway. Evidence was given which left no doubt as to the facts, and yet while in the hospital he stated, and reiterated the statement with his dying breath, that he was pushed under the train by the crowding ef a mob of persons, who rushed to obtain seats as the engine arrived at the station. A post mortem showed that deceased was suffering from softening of the brain and the jury returned a verdict of Suicide from unsoundness of mind." ATTEMPT TO FIRE A vVoRKirousL?.-At the Thurles Petty Sessions two pauper boys named Dwyer and Galivan were charged with having, on the previous day, maliciously set fire to a bed and bedding in the workhouse. At about the hour of three p.m. the master perceived smoke issuing from one of the bedrooms, to which he at once hastened, and there found one of the beds on fire, and the blankets and sheets already de- stroyed. This serious offence the master the next morning succeeded in tracing to the prisoners, who acknowledged they set fire to the bed by means of lucifer matches. The magistrates remanded the prisoners. THE SUEZ CANAL.—The directors of the Mari- I time Canal of Suez have published a table showing the general situation of the werks on the 30th September. 'I In the narrow channel and basin of Port Said, and along the canal to Suez, the total to be extracted was 74,112,130 metres cube between the 15th August and 15th September, 2,081,367 were taken out the total up to the present time being 49,309,522. There remain to be removed 24,802,608. Fifty-eight dredging machines are at work, and two more are in preparation; the number of labourers is 14,853,—Galignini. THE PRIMATE OF IRELAND ON THE IRISH CHUKCET.—The Archbishop of Armagh is now making his triennial visitation and, in dealing with the Irish Church question, his grace expressed his opinion that it was impossible to secure efficiency at a less sum than X530,000, the net revenues of the Church, as stated in the commission. He denied that it was an overgrown establishment, and maintained that no abuse now existed which was chargeable to the conduct of its ministtrg. In any legislation which may follaw the report of the commission, his grace hoped that there would be no reduction in the number of the bishops. RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT LEE-BRIDGE.—A train from Bishopsgate arrived at Lea-bridge in due course, and a young porter, named Francis W. Barber, only re- cently appointed, got on the step of one of the carriage, to speak to his sister, who was travelling down the line When the train moved off the young man continued in conversation with his relative for some little time. He then jumped off the step on to the platform, but missed his footing, and fell under the train on to the metals. The carriages passed over his chest, cutting him nearlv in two, and frightfully mutilating him. He was, of course, killed on the spot. THE ST. JAMES'S AMATEURS.—An action was brought at Newcastle-on-Tyne last week to recover .£73 2s. 3d., the amount due to Mrs. Rhind, a widow, for the board and lodging during their stay in Newcastle of the St. James's amateur performers, represented by Captain Sloane, Lord A. Clinton, Mr. W. L. Maitland, and Mr. R. R. Maitland. The defence to the action was that the amateurs had been engaged to go down by gentlemen in Newcastle, who were to pay all their expenses, and who did actually take the lodgings for them. The jury, however, gave a verdict against Captain Sloane for the full amount sought. CLOSING OF PUBLIC-HOUSES IN RUSSIA.— The St. Petersburg Journal announces that the Minister of the Interior some time ago addressed a circular to the governors of all the provinces of the Russian Empire asking their advice as to the best means of checking the progress of drunkenness among the people. The follow- ing information has since been collected In 1862 there were 460 public-houses at St. Petersburg there are now 2,500. Six years ago there was one public-house for every 1,080 inhabitants now there is one for every 200. Several of these houses are also receptacles for stolen goods. It is now proposed to close 2,162 public- houses in the capital, and a similar proportion in the other Russian towns. MEN AND BRETHREN !—The New York World has a dread vision of the things that are to be under the Republican party :—" When the President gives a State dinner, how can he avoid inviting negro senators and representatives along with their colleagues ? If there be a negro senator and a white senator from the same State; how can he ask one and slight the other ? If a negro cabinet officer find his family excluded from social recognition by the families of his colleagues, he may have no means of directly resenting the insult, but the affront will rankle in his breast, and cause him to use his in- fluence with his race to slaughter every public man whose family has refused him recognition." SHEEP STEALING.—Two labourers, named Ellis and Lockwood, have been charged, at Thorne, with stealing and slaughtering a sheep, the property of Mr. Samuel Spurr, of the Falcon Inn, Doncaster. Traces of blood were found by the police leading to the river side, I and thence to a boat where Ellis was found in possession of the mutton. Ellis's clothes were bloody. He admitted slaughtering the sheep but Lockwood, to whom the boat belonged, said he knew nothing about the matter, save that Ellis brought the sheep into the boat. Both men were committed for trial. CONVICTION OF TRADES UNIONISTS FOR ASSAULT.—Henry Willcock, William Parkinson, and Joseph Welsby, were charged, at Bolton, with having violently assaulted John Leach. The parties had all been in the employ of Messrs. Holden and Sons, cotton spinners, at Little Hulton, but struck work about two months ago, and have been picketing the premises ever since. A few days ago Leach determined to remain idle no longer. The three defendants, on learning that the complainant was about to resume work at Messrs. Holden's, set upon him, and severely assaulted him. Willcock tried to strangle him, by twisting his muffler round his neck, and the other defendants kicked him about the head and breast. Willcock was committed for two months, and Parkinson and Welsby each to one month's imprisonment.