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

=- ■EPITOME OF NEWS. -+-- THE CITADEL OF ANTWERP is being 'REPLACED by railway stations, docks, and warehouses. THE VICEROY OF INDIA, will return-to Calcutta from Simla on the 9th November. LOSING, THE STROKE OF THE QELAUVARIIS, has gone into a law office at Boston. ONE OF THE FIRST LETTERS tf,,conclolence re- reived by Lord Stanley was from Mr. Gladstone. THE STATUE OF COBDEN bad a, placard put [upon it the other night, We've got no work to do!" MR. BERNAL OSBORNE is in the field as a candidate for the representation of the city of ^Vatcrford. No INTIMATION has as yet been made to the Lord Mayor that he is to be made a baronet con- sequent on the ceremonyef next Saturday. MRS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is still at Frankfort, Germany, living in great retirement, and in very unpretending quarters. She sees but few parsons. THE DELAWARE INDIAN WORD for tovo is schimelendaraqwitokwagan. This will account for the remarkable prevalence of lockjaw in that tribe. Mn. SHAW LEFEVRE, M.P., has been during the week a. frequent visitor at the Custom-house, in which department retrenchment is contemplated. THERE HAVE BEEN only ten colonels promoted to the rank of major-general during the last nine months. The case of Colonels is hopeless. AT THE MORNING SERVICE in the parish church of St. George's-in-the-East, last Sunday week, there Were not 30 adults. The church will hold 2,000. ENGLAND LAST YEAR PRODUCED 10,169,231 tons of iron, a quantity exceeding that of 1867 by 148,173 toas. THE PRINCESS ROYAL OF PRUSSIA (Princess Victoria of England), with her five children, and her sister, the Princess Alice of Hesse, have arrived at Cannes to pass the winter. DR. FORBES, Bishop of Brechin, has commenced a movement for the election of a successor to the Earl of Derby in the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford. THE Illustrated London News is to have a formidable rival. A new high-class illustrated Paper is to be brought out very soon, probably in time to publish engravings of the Royal visit to the City. T THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLES recently pub- lished in "Temple Bar upon Lady Byron, as well as the able and eloquent vindication of the poet which appeard in the Standard, is Mr. Alfred Austin. AN ENTHUSIASTIC POULTRY-KEEPER writes to Suggest that the Great Eastern should be now called the Great Hen, because it has laid so many cables, and brought some of them up, too! THE EIGHT RON. HUGH C. E. CHILDERS has recommenced his official duties at Whitehall, where toany other changes are likely to be made before the end of the year. THE conge cTelire to the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, empowering them to elect a bishop of that see, in the place of the late Dr. Waldegrave, is Published in the Gazette. THE RIGHT HON. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE has left England on board Sir George Stanley's steam yacht the Deerhound, in order to be present at the opening of the Suez Canal. MR JOHN BRETT, the county surveyor of Rathkeale, county Limerick, has been fired at through the parlour window of his own house, and seriously wounded. A man named Bourke has been arrested. MR. BERNARD SHAW, stamp distributor, Cork, has admitted to the commissioners appointed to in- quire into the matter that he is a defaulter to the extent of £ 15,000. AT CASHEL Mr. Munster has obtained a summons from the magistrates against O'Beirne for alleged perjury at the inquiry on the election petition in February last. IT IS STATED that Mr. Richard Bagwell will C, hot prosecute his candidature for the county of Tipperary; so that it is very likely Mr. Denis Catdfield Heron will be returned unopposed. THE CARRIAGE which conducted Maximilian I., Emperor of Mexico, to his execution at Queretaro ill June, 1867, arrived in Paris last week. A vis aum curiosity hunters I THE Quarterly Review says that the papers of the great Dr. Isaac Barrow reveal the great care and pains he bestowed on his works. Two, three, and even four drafts of the same sermon are found. even four drafts of the same sermon are found. "WILLIAM WHYTE, who was injured at Hay's Mill, Water of Leith, by a fellow-servant throwing a í flack of mill-dust upon him "in fun," has died in the I Edinburgh Infirmary. A BILL WILL BE INTRODUCED next Session to Prohibit all horse races within twenty miles of London. It will be backed by the Government, and will have the support of some powerful patrons of the turf itself. THERE IS NO OTHER SPOKEN LANGUAGE so cheap and expressive by telegraph as the English: The same amount of information can be transmitted by telegraph in fewer English words than French, Ger- man, Italian, or any other European language. IT IS CONTEMPLATED to connect the Admiralty Whitehall with the department at Spring-gardens, by a light bridge to be thrown across the Admiralty- gardens, Colonel Clarke's estimate for which is XI,800. AN INQUEST has been held at St. Bartholo- mew's- Hospital on the body of Henry Pawiey. Whilst at play he fell down some steps upon the flag 9 stones, and he received injuries from which he died. Verdict," Accidental death." AN INQUEST has been held at the Mihories on the body of a male child, unknown, which was discovered tied up in a parcel in a dust-hole in Petti- coat-lane. The child had been born alive. An open verdict was returned. IT IS RUMOURED IN LEGAL CIRCLES that the Government have not made up their minds as to whether a judge shall be appointed to the Court of Chancery in. the room of the late Lord Justice Selwyn. THE BANNS OF MARRIAGE have been published in Paris between M. Ferdinand do Lesseps, of Isthmus of Suez fame, and Mdlle. Louise Helene Autard de Brayard, daughter of M. Gustave de Brayard, de- scribed as a propridicire. GARIBALDI, IN A DECENT LETTER, says that he is delighted to hear .of the anti-council proposed by Deputy Ricciardi, and which is to meet in Naples on the 8th December. He calls the Pope's (Ecumenical Council a meeting -of wolves." LAST SUNDAY WEEK the soldiers in London Were ordered to keep in their barracks till five o'clock. If wanted they were to have marched out with* blank and ball cartridge, the first to be fired, as, a .warning, the second in earnest. THE COMMITTEE of the Supplementary Exhi bition of Pictures, held this year at the Old Bond- street Gallery, have announced their intention of holding a similar exhibition .next year in the .■seme Place. AN AMERICAN EDITOR is in quest of special attractions for his paper. He says, what we .waat for this column is personalities as mean as possible. Expenses of libel suits to be defrayed by the writer, funeral expenses by us." IT IS STA= that the Saitan has determined tO reduce all.the salaries of prablio functionaries in order to provide a fund to defray the expanses at- tendant on the reception of the Empress of the Fre&ch.. THE RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS amaounce that ex- periiaents will shortly be made on the Neva with a new invention for fpropelling ships without uaing either paddles or screws. The author of this men- tion is M. Liwczak, an Austrian by birth. AT A BALL IN CINCINNATI, given by the Italiaug in that city, ia commemoration of the discovery of America by Columbus, l\$r.s. Ang-eline Podista, 101 years old, led off in the (festivities, and (Lwced in £ en sets. SINCE PitiNcF, ALFRED tended at Ha]^ j; he &aa received and rliedto 159 addresses, attended 10.5 public dinners and 39 balls,, danced with 34 past- ers, receivld 1,700 bouquets, shaken 15,000 haadg, skot 150 head of game, given 69 presents, travelled been elected an IndiMl chief, and has heaj$3,000,ft<}0 God mm him." BEEN DETERMINED to admit women to the classes of the Edinburgh School of Acts. THE LIST OF CAslÐS in the Divorce Cornet wambor 126-19 special juries, ten ommon.ju-sias, and 97 without juries. A "VACANCY HAS 'OCCURRED in the 'representa- tion-of Hastings by the death, at the age of 69, of Mr. Preferick North. & politics he was a Liberal. ON SUNDAY EVENING and early -on Monday morning severe shocks of an earthquake were felt at .Frankfort, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Mayence^and in the neighbouring localities. THE REMAIKS OF SIX MEN and 46 horses, sup- POSed to be those of a missing portion ct- i Genera-I Fremont's exploring expedition, 20 years ago, were found recently in the Opal Fork of the Rio Grande. THE ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS announce the death of Guglielmo Libri. This distinguished mathematician and bibliographer was no less known (for his abilities than for his misfortunes. A MONUMENT to the Prussian statesman and i patriot, Baron Yon Stein, has been opened at Her- deck. It consists of a watch-tower, 90 feet high, on the summit of the Kaisersberg. THERE ARE 39 cases in the list of the Probate Court for the present term, of which 12 are for special juries, three for common juries, and 24 without juries. Ttaa SQUADRON of the 'Cent Gardes, which is composed of 13 officers and 218 men, costs the French War Department IRl2,000 a year. Half the squadron is attached to the Empress and half to the Emperor. AN APPLICATION will be made in the Court of Queen's Bench during the present term for a new trial in the celebrated case of Saurin v. Starr and Kennedy. THE RUMOUR that the Archbishop of Paris would be prevented by ill-health from attending the (Ecumenical Council is contradicted. He certainly means to go to Rome. IT is DEFINITELY SETTLED that a medical man will be stationed at Balmoral for the benefit of the Crathie district. According to the British Medical Journal, Dr. Marshall, practitioner at Braemar, is spoken of for the position. MONOGRAM VEILS are the latest wrinkle among New York fashionable young ladies. Those of fawn colour and grey are most in vogue-the monogram. being embroidered in colours in the centre. ON SATURDAY William Simms, a gas-fitter, was ascending am omnibus on London-bridge when he got nearly to the top his foot slipped. He was picked up in a dying state, and was conveyed to the hospital. THE SOUTH-EASTERN and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Companies have decided not to renew in the forthcoming Session of Parliament the application which they made unsuccessfully last year for an amalgamation of the two companies. THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS has recently held its first meeting for the present session, the opening address being delivered by the president, Sir W. Tite, M.P., who criticised the buildings now in course of erection in the metropolis. SOME OUTRAGEOUS PROCEEDINGS took place at Limerick on Monday, a tenant-right meeting having been prevented taking place by a mob said to repre- sent the amnesty party, who broke the platform, and somewhat roughly handled those who had assembled. ON MONDAY a destructive fire broke out at the Baltic Jute Company's Works, Bridgeton, Glasgow. The buildings are surrounded by cotton and other mills, and great fears were entertained for the adjoining property. THE OTHER EVENING Senor Izquierdo, Cap- tain-General of Madrid, placed his resignation provisionally in the hands of Marshal Serrano, in order to fight a duel with General Lapa. The en. counter took place with swords, and Senor Izquierdo was slightly wounded in the left arm. THE MONTHLY STATEMENT of the public debt of the United States is expected to show a reduction of seven million and a half dollars effected during October. Mr. Boutwell has announced that the Government will continue the purchase of bonds and sale of gold during November. ON SATURDAY MORNING the screw steamer Tern, bound from Antwerp for Glasgow, and the William Connal, bound from Glasgow for Havre, eame in collision off the port of Greenock, the latter vessel sinking within about ten minutes of the occur- rence. A NEW RELIGIOUS SOCIETY, calling itself The I Church of Progress," has just been inaugurated at St. George's Hall, London, by Mr. J. Baxter Langlev, Its chief leaders or approvers appear to be Sir John Bowering, Lord Amberley, awd Mr. John Stuart Mill. AN ADDRESS HAS BEEN ISSUED to the electors of Southwark by Mr. Henry Labouchere, who sat in the last Parliament as one of the members for Middlesex. He states that his political opinions have undergone no change,, except that he has an in- creased belief in the security of the ballot. Mr. Odger is also in the field. THE OFFICIAL NORWEGIAN PAPER just received contains the announcement that his Majesty the King of Norway and Sweden has been pleased to appoint Sir William Mitchell a Knight Commander of the Royal Order of St. Olaf, in recognition of the services he has rendered to merchant shipping generally. ° THE CANADIAN CABINET has been re-organised as followsPrime Minister, Sir J. Macdonald; Minister of War, Sir Geo. Cartier; Minister of Finance, Sir Francis Hincks. The Governor of British Colombia has received instructions from home to co-operate with Sir Jno. Young in promoting the interests of the Confederation. JOHN SULLIVAN AND JOHN DAVIS have been brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being found on the premises of the South-Eastern Railway, tearing down the hoarding and burning it. The prisoners, in defence, said they saw other lads go under the arch. Mr. Partridge committed them to prison for seven days. ,^APEE 'Was read before the Farmers' Club the other evening, by Mr. James Howard, M.P., on continental farming and peasantry. The con- clusions which he had arrived at after personal visits to various parts of the Continent were that the small farm system is favourable to neither the cause of agriculture nor the elevation of the labouring classes. AT A MEETING of the Salford town council held on Saturday it was stated that Mr Charles Reade had offered, in his own behalf, the sum of £100 for the arrest and conviction of the men who killed James Burns in Salford on the 4th of October A reward of X50 had previously been offered by the Government. A SAD CASE OF POISONING has occurred at Leeds. A young man named James Chadwick, an apprentice to Messrs. Reinhardt and Sons, chemists and druggists, Briggate, having been suffering for two or three days from tic doloreux, took a large dose of "Battle's solution of opium" to allay the pain. The result was that he (fell into a deep sleep, which terminated in his,death. Dubious DECISION. Ellen Sullivan, 23, an "unfortunate," was charged before Mr. Ellison with having stolen 42 7s. 6d. from John Grant, a horse- keeper, who had accompanied her to a lodging-house. The charge was fully proved, and the woman had been previously convicted, but Mr. Ellison said there was no case to a j a]1d discharged the prisoner. J THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the Ordnance and dike Committee of Inventions at Woolwich have under trial a now cartridge, designed by Colonel Boxer, Su- pesintendentof the Royal Laboratories, and called the "fettle cartridge." The cartridge is in the shape of a I. bottle, the apex or neck containing the bullet, while the,bcae consists of the powder, which, being concen- trated more than in the elongated' cartridge, is theoretically supposed to possess the property of more.IS#id ignition and consequent increase of force. WE le^sn FROM AMEMGA ¡thftt SPostmaster- ,& T, General Creswell has opened negotiations with our Post- office department for a further reduction of letter, postage, from oOd., the single raite to which it was re- i dueed tin January, 1868, to 3d. While this is going on we would submit to the negotiators whether it may mot be feasible that the international,book-post,.which for over a year has fc-een working with, happy results, should be .made to asiclude Dla'eUlQrIpt copy. The privilege kinot more likely to be ab&s&d tlian ihe. cor- W.ted proofs mewAUQwed. A TELEGRAM: FROM NEW YORK conveys the disastrous news of the destruction 'by 1&8 of the steamer Stonewall, bound from St. Lonif3 to New Orleans, with the loss, by fire or drownsig, of 200 persons, including many women ani ichilgren. THE MAYOR OF BRADFORD has issued a public notice requiring all owners of dogs, -on the suspicion of canine madness prevailing, to confine their animals from the 25th of October to the 25th of November. UNE OF TEE MOST CURIOUS EFFITRAITA ever written by a diplomatist has just been published in a news- paper at Pau. It is signed by Senor Olozaga, the bpanish Ambassadtr at the French Court, and is addressed to a culprit named Murillo, who had been condemned to death by a French tribunal. THE DEVASTATION, which has recently been laid dgwn at Portsmouth, is to be built with two turrots, on the breastwork monitor system." She will be propelled by double screws wit'h separate engines, and her armament will consist of four 30- ton guns, two on each turret. MR. GRANTLEY BERKELEY has in the press another book of narrative and anecdote, entitled, Tales of Life and Death." The tales are said to be true, and intended to show that the wildest imaginer of sensational incident cannot rival the strange events which actually happen. On dit that the Empress Eugenie, when in Constantinople, was very anxious to taste the national dish of the country. The Sultan at once communicated with his chef, and at dinner, next day, the dish of honour was a gigantic turkey stuffed with rhubarb. AT A MEETING of the General Council of the University of Edinburgh, the Chancellor presiding, it was agreed by a large majority, on the motion of Professor Masson, to approve of a resolution of the University Council admitting ladies to study medi- cine in the Universities of Edinburgh. THE SPINNING-MILL of Messrs. Laidlaw and Sons, of Hawick, has been destroyed by fire. A girl who had lighted the gas threw the match into a basket of waste; the fire spread, and the mill was soon burnt. The damage amounts to fseveral thou- sand pounds. A GltEU FEAT was accomplished last week by Mr. M'Calmont, an officer of the 9th Lancers, who backed himself to ride from Newbridge Barracks to Island Bridge Barracks, Dublin, a distance of twenty- five English miles, in one hour twenty-five minutes. The start took place at 6.15 a.m., and at 7.32 the arrival was recorded. A LIQUID CHEMICAL COMPOUND for street; sprinkling has been tried in Philadelphia. It is said to form a union with the dust, solidifying it, and rendering all pavements, especially wooden, more durable. It is also claimed that it purifies the air, preventing contagion. The cost is but little, and it need be used but once a day. AN INQUEST has been held at Kensington on the body of George Rivers, formerly a master tailor in Westminster, but through the failure of Overend. 1 Gurney, and Co., was obliged to become an inmate of the workhouse. Recently as he was going up the steps of a house he slipped and broke his leg, and died soon after. A CASE OF CONSIDERABLE INTEREST TO SEAMEN has been tried at the Liverpool County Court. The question raised was as to what constitutes desertion, and the judge ruled that men who had gone ashore by leave to lay their complaints as to the condition of the ship before a magistrate had not forfeited the right to recover wages. THE STATEMENT received by telegraph and published that a German emigrant ship called the Weser had foundered with 346 persons on board, is unfounded. The officials at Lloyd's have made a minute search among its shipping advices, and can trace no such vessel, nor is there any German emi- grant ship missing. AMONG THE VARIOUS PREPARATIONS made for the due reception of her Majesty at the opening of the new Blackfriars-bridge, none are of more importance than the restoration, re-decoration, and embellishment of the civic state coach, which has not until lately been discovered to be executed with great artistic skill, and profusely decorated. A CORRESPONDENT, speaking of the Thames Embankment, says that the flagging of the footway is one of the most unworkmanlike specimens of paving he has met with for some time. The writer complains that the flags are badly laid and worse jointed, and that there is hardly any attempt to ob- tain uniformity of level. THE CAPERCAILZIE.—A large importation of the capercailzie, or cock of the wood, has arrived in London for sale from Germany. These birds, which are classed as game in this country, are very rare, and can only be found in the mountainous parts of Scotland. They were sold by the poulterers at from 10s. to 15s. per brace. MR. G. SHOLTO DOUGLAS MURRAY, M.A., a senior student of Christ Church, Oxford, and son of the vicar of Bromsgrove, has been appointed tutor and governor to his Highness Prince Hassan, sou of the Viceroy of Egypt, who has just commenced his residence at the University of Oxford. THE VERDICT OF THE JURY on the inquest upon the body of Mrs. Fowler, who was found dead at Penge, is as follows:—" That Emily Fowler did die from the effects of the poison called strychnine, but how or by whom administered we have not sufficient or satis- factory evidence to prove." THE POPE, believing there is a disposition among the Ritualistic clery of England to go over to Rome, has commissioned Father Frappel to treat with the lost sheep. Father Frappel is to give a liberal interpretation to the Pope's letter to Dr. Manning in the Cumming affair. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MILITARY POLICE, and the practice of allowing no articles of soldiers' clothing to be sold without being first stamped with the condemned n.ark, has completely checked the practice once common at Woolwich of soldiers selling their necessaries for drink. GRA.PE SHOT puret simple, grape as the sailors of Nelson s day and the soldiers of Wellington knew it, is no more; a sort of hybrid projectile-a little more than a case and less than grape—a projectile of superior destruotiveness and of more enduring powers will heneeforth take its plaee, and satisfy the ue- quirements of a more critical age. MR. ASHER WERTHEIMER, son of Mr.Werthei- mer, of New Bond-street, while recently walking along the sands of Ramsgate, heard the cries of a drowning person, and immediately rushed into the water and swam a considerable distance to the as- sistance of an unfortunate lady out of her depth and drowning; he successfully rescued her from a watery grave at the imminent risk of his own life. SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE.—The Rev. Weat- man, curate of Stoke Rochford, Giantham, rose from his tea on Sunday night week, and left his house. He was last seen on Thursday evening wandering about the neighbourhood of Sproxton. The ponds sur- rounding have been dragged, and the plantations searched for the missing gentleman, but, as yet, without success. AT THE WESTMINSTER POLICE-COURT a woman was lately charged with being drunk and disorderly in the porter's lodge at St. Margaret's Workhouse, where she had applied for admission as a casual pauper. Mr. Arnold said that if the offence had been committed in the street he could have punished the prisoner, but he was not aware that there was any penalty for being drunk and disorderly in a workhouse when the person charged with theoffenee was not an inmate. The prisoner was discharged. THE HEALTH OF THE CZARINA is happily re- established, and her Majesty will return to the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. The restoration of the Empress to health has transformed the aspect of the court of the Hereditary Grand Duke, who .now lives in the palace of Tsarskoe-Celo. Two balls have taken place, and the presence of the Czarevna has given much animation to the re-unions, which have been very >gay. POLICE-COURT Nathaniel Gardener has been charged with maliciously wound. ing a. horse ibelonging to George Standage, his Luext- door neighbour. The defendant one Aay accused Mrs. Standage of getting him discharged fmom his situation, and threatened to jaake her pay (dearly for it. On the following morning a horse in the prosecutor's stable was tfound to havs a wound fmm its jaw to the thomt, seven inches in length, aad near the jugular vein. The prmuer w,%B,-CQMmitted for lziei- THE CHAIRMEN of the various railways have been <lccd in their oomplamts of the vindictive treat- ment to which their companies are subjected when- evertfchey appear before a jury in a case of oompensa- tiom for accidents, and have also expressed much ingenious astonishment that enterprises productive of such vast public benefits should be the object of so much hostile feeling. A COMPANY which has chartered an excursion ship to the Suez Canal ingeniously promises an acces- sory very taking to Frenchmen. A captive balloon is to be tethered at the foot of the Great Pyramid; SI9 that the excursionists may have an opportunity of looking down upon those peaks from the heights of which, according to Napoleon's famous order of the day, forty centuries took a view of his army THE FOLLOWING was the circulation of the daily papers of Paris during the month of September :— Siecle, 35,000; Libert6, 15,000; Figaro, 57,000; Moniteur, 13,300; National, 40,000; Peuple, 47,000,: Retppel, 31,000; Paris, 2,000. The circulation of the French papers last month was considerably above the average, on account of the excitement attendant upon the Pantin tragedy. SIR K. PHILLIMORE has given judgment relative to the admission of articles in the case of the prosecution of the Rev. Mr. Bennett, of Frome. He is of opinion that the articles must be reframed so as to exclude the charge of heresy in the count on the Eucharist. An appeal to the Privy Council against this decision was allowed, but on the understanding that there should be no delay. SNOW STORM.-The Sootsman says: "Braemar is now comparatively isolated from the rest of the kingdom, all communication, except one horseback, being out of the question, owing to the snow storm. The ordinary coach from Ballater could not run on Thursday, huge snow wreaths crossing the road at short distances. The mails were brought up on horseback, including those for Balmoral. The snow drift has been almost blinding during several days." THE TEMPLE GARDENS are gay with chrysan- themums. The show this year is above the average. It is earlier in time, and very superior in the colour and number of flowers exhibited. Amongst the novelties are some specimens from Japan, not round, full, and symmetrical like our own plants, but wild looking, and bristling with sharp points. A fine crimson flower, labelled Lord Derby," is greatly admired. < AT A DINNER OF THE MIDLAND FARMERS' CLUB, held in Birmingham, were several joints of beef and mutton preserved with sulphurous acid and carbonic oxide, according to a process patented by Professor John Gamgee. Several practical agriculturists said that the beef was of very fine quality. The mutton was not considered so good. Professor Gamgee said that the beef might be sold at 4d. or 5d. per lb. with bone. A NEW DIFFERENCE has arisen among the Spanish Ministry upon the choice of a sovereign, and Silvela and Ardanaz have given in their resignations. It is reported that at a meeting of the Progressistas, 110 deputies agreed to vote for the Duke of Genoa; but the Unionists are still hostile to his election. As the Unionists number only from 60 to 70 members of the Cortes, the result must, if the previous figures are correct, be the choice of the Duke of Genoa as king. MURDER OF A MISSIONARY.—An English mis- sionary has been murdered near Tientsin. The Rev. Mr. J. Williamson, late of the Missionary Society, in company with Mr. Hodge, were in a boat, anchored in the Grand Canal, and during the night of the 25th August the boat was attacked by armed robbers, and Mr. Williamson was killed, whether from personal violence or from falling into the water in the melee is not kno'.u. A YOUTH ABOUT 16, the youngest son of Mr. George Johnson, solicitor, of Menai-bridge was amusing himself the other day in a small boat on the Menai Straits, near the Suspension Bridge, when he fell overboard and was drowned. The deceased lad was endeavouring to push off from one of the steamers lying in the Straits with his foot, and the boat shooting away, he overbalanced himself and fell into the water. THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS throughout France last year was, in round numbers, 900,000, of which 80,000 were illegitimate. The mortality amongst legitimate children under twelve months was 16 per cent., amongst illegitimate children 354 per cent. But for this excessive mortality amongst bastard children every twelfth person in France would be illegitimate! A NOVEL FEAT.—The other morning a medical student undertook for a wager of X5 to ride a bicycle from the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge to the foot of the clock tower during the time Big Ben" chimed the quarters and struck the hour of seven o'clock. At the first chime the performer started, rode over the bridge, and descended at a rapid speed, accomplishing his feat at the sixth stroke of the hammer, thus winning the stakes A NOVELTY has just occurred at Baden. Madame Viardot set to music an operetta by Tourge- nieff, entitled Le Dernier des Borders. The author of the words took the solo role himself; but, possess- ing no voice, got the baritone Milde to sing the music behind the scenes, Tourgenieff opening and closing his mouth in accordance with the music. The scheme was successful, and this innovation may be recom- mended to managers in a dilemma. — Musical Standard. A BANQUET WAS GIVEN AT ACCRINGTON last Week, in the Market-hall, to about 1,300 poor persons, chiefly above 50 years of age. They were the guests of the gentlemen and tradesmen of the neighbourhood. Mr. Francis Hargreaves was the originator of the feast. He asked for subscriptions, and about X150 were sent in, and the butchers and grocers of the town also charitably filled the tables with contribu- tions. DURING the cross-examination of a false witaess the other day, the attorney asked him where his father was to which the witness, with a melan- choly air, responded, Dead, sir; dropped off very suddenly, sir." "How came he to drop off sud- denly ? was the next question. Foul play, sir; the sheriff imposed on his unsuspicious nature, sir, and getting him to go up on a platform to take a look at a select audience, suddenly knocked a trap-door out from under him, sir." A MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS of the Im- perial Land Company of Marseilles, in reference to the transactions connected with the promotion of which company some unpleasant rumours have been circulated within the last few days, has been held. The proceedings were of a very tumultuous character, and a resolution was passed to the effect that a petition, praying for the removal of the present liquidators and the substitution of others, be pre- sented to the Vice-Chancellor. AT BIRMINGHAM LAST WEEK Edwin Page, painter, was charged with committing a violent assault with intent to murder, on Mrs. Allenson, now residing at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and at the time of the occurrence living at Winsor-green, near Birmingham. The outrage was committed in December, 18G6, and till within a few days ago no trace of the accused could be obtained. Page has confessed that the out- rage was committed by him. He was committed to the assizes. THE BRITISH OFFICERS who were present at the manoeuvres of the Prussian army last autumn have resolved to present a testimonial to Major the Baron Korff, who was selected by the King of Prussia to conduct the magnificent hospitality with which his Majesty entertained his military visitors. The Duke of Manchester and General Sir W. Codring- ton have been selected as a working committee to carry out the desire of all the officers. A MAN WAS RECENTLY OBSERVED Walking over Southwark-bridge towards Cannon-street, with a glass medicine bottle in his hand. He met a woman who was selling chestnuts, and asked her which was his right way to St. Paul's-churchyard. Before she had time to say a word he jumped up on the stone parapet of the bridge, cried out, This is the way," and then leaped into the Thames and was drowned. This is the third suicide from this bridge within the past month. THE FOUR-RAYHD IRON VESSEL of very light drllit which had been proposed by Captain Moody for actable platform for floating forts and for floating telegraph and store stations, is to be further tried; and determined to show the practical value of his system, ithe inventor has commenced building at hie own coat;& vessel 39 feet -from ray to ray; and he in- tends to test in every way its asserted qualifications, as,well; as tthe capabilities,of -aaeh craft under canvas and,under,atem. ACCORDING to the Patrie, the three great mili- tary commands of Toulouse, Tours, and Lille are to be suppressed, and that of Nancy is to be removed to Metz. At the Ministerial Council which was held at the Tuileries before the Emperor left Paris for Compiegne, it was -decided that the press of France shall continue to enjoy the liberty which it is at present per- mitted. A SOLDIER STUDENT.—An exhibition to the Royal College of Science, Dublin, of .£50 per annum, for three years, with gratuitous instruction at the college, has been gained, after competition, by Ser- geant John Snaden, of the Royal Engineers, now attached to the School of Military Engineering at Chatham garrison. Sergeant Snaden, at the recent examination, gained the gold medals, and obtained honours in applied mechanics, inorganic chemistry, practical, plane, and solid geometry, and other sub. jects. THE Irish Times tells the following strange story :—Archbishop Trench gave a visitation dinner to about 50 of the clergy of Kildare the other day, and there was, of course, the usual toast-drinking. The Queen," we are told, was received in solemn silence, and not more than one third of the clergy present drank it." The Prince of Wales found quite as little favour, while Lord Spencer, in his capacity of Lord-Lieutenant, was absolutely hooted from his accustomed place in -the list of "loyal and patriotic toasts." THE SESSION OF THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT was brought to a close on Friday. Arthur By-nO was found guilty of threatening to murder ldr- Arnold, of the Westminster Police-court, but sentence was deferred. The man Smith, who was on the previous day convicted of the manslaughter of his wife at Hounslow, was sentenced to nine months' im- prisonment. A Frenchman, named Louis Saumaie, was convicted of sending threatening letters to a Mr. Charles Osche, under rather peculiar circumstances but the sentence was postponed till next session. THE DISPUTE between the residents and others at Wimbledon, who have common rights, &c., and the Earl of Spencer who has leased 140 acres of the com- mon to be enclosed and cultivated in farming pur- poses, is likely to be the subject of very expensive li- tigation. Mr. Henry Peek, M.P., has filed a bill in Chancery disputing the authority of the earl to dedi- cate any portion of the common to himself, and Earl Spencer claims his legal right to enclose as the lord of the manor. The question will come on for argu- ment during the Michaelmas term. IT IS CURIOUS that while public attention has of late been much directed to the crowded state of London-bridge, and to the necessity of improved communication between the City and the southern side of the Thames, no notice has been taken of the fact that at the present moment there is a bridge available for foot-passengers within 200 or 300 yards of London-bridge, which is absolutely useless—the Cannon street Railway bridge, belonging to the South-Eastern Company, which, like its companion structure at Charing-cross, has an excellent footpath on each side of the portion devoted to the railway traffic. IN MARCH, 1868, William Deering, a boy of sixteen, in the employ of Mr. Cartwright, law sta- tioner, Brownlow-street, London, was sent out with a cheque for X10 to get cashed at a bank in South- ampton-street. He got the cash and absconded. Since then he has wandered all over England and Wales in search of employment without success. On Friday evening he gave himself up to the Liverpool police, and stated what he had done. He is son of a law clerk of Red Lion-square, Holborn. He was brought up on Saturday at the Liverpool Police-court and remanded. DEATH IN A QUID.-An inquest has been held at Middlesex Hospital on the body of William Adlam, a gun-maker, who died suddenly in the street. It appeared that on Wednesdayy while the deceased was passing through Bond-street, he was observed to fall and roll into the gutter of the road. The post-mortem examination showed that some shreds of tobacco bad been drawn into the chink of the glottis, producing spasm and sudden death. A quid of tobacco was found in the mouth of the deceased, behind the epi- glottis. It was believed that while deceased was taking an inspiration he had drawn up the tobacco involuntarily. Verdict, Accidental death."