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MISCELLANEOUS. DR. THOM has applied to the Court of Queen's Bench for an opportunity of addressing the judges relative to the alleged impossibility of has appearing in person in that eourt as the prosecutor of the Over- end and Gurney directors. He considered that his jposition had been aggravated by the removal of the indictment from the Central Criminal Court into the teen's Bench, as at the former place counsel would iin all probability have been assigned to him by the judge. The Lord Chief Justice informed the appli- cant that he must address the court on some specific .motifflzs, and on Dr. Thorn suggesting that their lord- ships should put him in the way of proceeding regu- larly, the Chief Justice replied that the judges were not boraad to assist suitors in bringing their cases i forward, but to dispose of them when brought before cthe:oonrtt in the usual way.. VERY QUESTIONABLE. The following is a •parody upon the high-flown tone of the French irre- concilable press, and is scarcely exaggerated On the 2nd of December the night was pitch dark. The moon would not show herself. The streets were crowded with drunken soldiers, and occasionally the darkness was relieved shy the shimmer of a bayonet. A candle was' burning on a seventh floor. What business have they with a light ?" asks private 1,109. "I'll fire on them;" and he does so. When I have said that, it follows naturally that he fired-fired and hit. In that seventh floor was a family-grandfather, grand- mother, uncle, aunt, father, mother, and six children. "The six children could have done no harm to you M. Bonaparte < (so pays Our contemporary). The one bullet killed them all. It pierced the brain of the grandmother (I never knew they had any at their gr= n time of life), the head of the family, the breast of the uncle, riddled the rest of the family (a boy of eleven); sand who is the officer now who gave the order Fire P Heia Marshal of France. DEAR GOLD.-Hayti appears to be suffering i from the same gold-speculating troubles that embar- rass trade in the United States, but Hayti has them in greater degree. Gold is at so high a premium in the island that it has gone almost out of sight. It is ,quoted at 180,000 per cent. premium, or 1,800 dollars sin Haytian paper money for one dollar in gold. President Salnave determined to put a stop to this great depreciation of his currency, and, in order to accomplish his purpose, sent some of the gold brokers and speculators to prison, and pressed others into the army. It did no good, however, and the premium keeps on rising. When the last mail left, pork was < quoted at 50,000 dollars a barrel. THE CHANNEL PASSAGE.—An interesting dis- cussion took place at the Society of Engineers, at which the position given to the bridge project of M. Boutet at the previous meeting was fully maintained —that it is undoubtedly the best of the numerous projects for establishing a continuous railway across the Channel. It was clearly explained that there is to be seen at Paris, and had been seen by some present, a model 66 feet long, made to scale, which bore ten times the weight which would be required to •• be borne by the Channel bridge, constructed with less than one ton of metal, and that this rested on two abutments of rough timber which were incapable of sustaining any great strain, and it was urged that the English engineers should make themselves acquainted with the theory by which such extraordinary results have been obtained, and study it as a novelty, instead of judging it by existing examples of bridges.— Mining Journal. IN THE COURSE OF PROCEDURE, routine of practice, and extent of jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster, a fundamental change has just taken place. All proceedings connected, with the court were formerly transacted at the Prothonotary's office in Preston, wherever the cause of action arose within the county. By a recent Act of Parliament, however, which came into operation a j few days ago, proceedings may be taken in branch offices at Liverpool and Manchester, and the Post-office is made largely available in carrying out the pro- ceedings in an action. Writs may now also be issued out of this court to any shire in the kingdom, wherever a. defendant may happen to reside, WE (Standard) DEEPLY REGRET TO ANNOUNCE that the new Holborn Viaduct, which was only opened on Monday morning for general traffic, already ex- hibits signs of the immense weight which has to be sustained by the beautiful granite pillars. Some of the massive pillars on the east side of Farringdon- street have shown signs of a slight crushing. The' secondhand third pillars from the south side have fissures of from nine inches to a foot in length in the base stones, and the fourth is chipped at its bedding. The impression which a first examination of the pillars produces is that the lower stones have not (been truly set, and that the weight of the viaduct has "crushed out those portions which were not exactly level. We trust there is nothing worse than this the "matter with the costly structure, which is the occa- sion of so much pride to the citizens of London. MARRIED TO ORDER.—The Progres Egyptien of the 20th. ult. makes the following humorous reo marks on the Viceroy's efforts to gratify the Empress of the French during her lour in Egypt. Anxious tc show every attention to the august visitor whom it is about to receive, the Egyptian Government is ( engaged in preparing feasts and pageants designed tc make her Majesty the Empress better 'acquainted with Egypt and its people. Thus his highness has ,ordered that a marriage ceremony shall be devised foi her. But as weddings at Cairo, as elsewhere, do not take place every day, the difficulty has been promptly r provided against. An officer of the viceregal couri has been ordered to wed on the day whenever it may please her Majesty to witness the spectacle; and I • directions have been given to find him a wife, a dowry, and every other requisite, including a violent attach- meat to his future spouse, of whom as yet he knows nothing. Having taken up this line, the Egyptian -Government might also favour the Empress with the f. apectacle of a divorce, by order, before the Kadhi. Why not, moreover, the ceremonial of a burial ? A FATAL DUEL with sharpened foils was fought a few days back in the cavalry riding school at Castres (Tarn) between Captains Clémençon and Baignol, both officers of the 6th Hussars. The combat lasted. about 20 minutes, both adversaries being of about equal force. Clémençon had then received two slight wounds, and Baignol three, when the seconds, who were also captains, interposed and wished the affair to terminate, but Olomen^on positively refused, declaring that it should only end with the death of himself or his antagonist; the encounter was resumed, and a few seconds later Baignol ran the other through the heart, killing him instantly. The cause of the quarrel is not stated. IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS OF FRIENDLY SOCIE- TIES.—At Birmingham, Mrs. Isabella Aston, widow, summoned Mr. Edwards, secretary to the Indepen- dent Lodge of Foresters, Court Little John, for £ 15,1 alleged to be due on the decease of her husband, a member of the lodge. The society was a duly regis- tered one, and certified by Mr. Tidd Pratt. Rule 16 provides that "any member neglecting to pay ila arrears on or before the second meeting night after •quarterly night shall be suspended from all the bene- ifits of the society until three months after the date of i paying up such arrears, and if more than twelve imonths in arrears to be excluded." Mrs. Aston's .husband had failed to make the payment for the March quarter till the month of June. He died on -the 5th of September. The society contended that his widow was not entitled to recover, on account of nthis default in payment, urging another rule, which sanctions payment to relatives only in case of free" members. In the rules there is no definition of what a free member is. The society held it only ap- lplied where all arrears were paid. Mr. Fitter, for Mrs. Aston, held that it meant one who had been qualified, and had not since been disqualified. The .magistrates took the latter view, and held that Astoa had not been a defaulter for 12 months, and was not, therefore, excluded. Order made to pay X15 ;and costs. (XUY FAWKES' DAY IN THE METROPOLIS.— Friday being the anniversary of the gunpowder plot, ,the metropolis and suburbs were paraded by groups of boys carrying masked efimes, with lanterns and .matches. At Kennington a hu»re figure, in clerical .costume, with long candles, was exhibited, with a placard of No Puseyism." in Lambeth an effigy, seated on a stage, drawn by a pony, and representing the Pope, was drawn about by some men, and on snaking their way towards Westminster a party of Irish labourers took umbrage at the exhibition, and a regular meles ensued. The figure was demolished, and the exhibitors got roughly handled by the defenders of his Holiness. At night the usual bon- fires and pyrotechnic displays were indulged in. A STRANGE INCIDENT.—Last week, in a little country church, near Cincinnati, aa a humble vjljagei paxson was preaching the funeral sermoir of an "old man, two young men passed the doer of the- church: one, a youth, proposed to go in, and "see whom they were about to plant (to use his- own words). The youths paused a moment at the bier, when, thejone who had proposed to enter the church and seewjiom they were about to plant," bent down over- the cojffin, and gave signs of the most poignant grief. Heivtept bitterly, and refused to leave the coffin. Some, lone suggested to him to pass on, when he said: This is my father-how came he here? The sequel is n told. At the beginning of the war the youth had en- listed in an Indiana regiment,; and had remained in jthe service till the last battle. He had been mustered out, had taken employment in Maryland, and; re- mained in that State until a few days since, whenj he started home to see'his aged parent. The father had moved to Ohio during the last few years of his son's absence, and had, after a lingering illness, died. A HUNDRED OR A THOUS,&ND?-A very curious charge of fraud came before Sir Robert Garden on Saturday at Guildhall. The accused, whose name is Friedman, is said to have become possessed of a bill drawn in Berlin for XIOO, and that by a mistake the words one thousand" were written for one hundred." On presenting it to Mr. Haarbleicher for acceptance, that gentleman looking only at the figures at the corner (XIOO), wrote his acceptance upon it and returned it to the prisoner, the requi- site stamp was then put upon it so as partially to cover the figures XIOG," and so leave it to, be inferred that they represented the same amount as the words written. The bill was presented at the bank and cashed. It was submitted for the defence that the bill had passed through six hands before it came to the prisoner's, and as he had received it on behalf of another, he could not tell whether X106 or £ 1,000 was the correct sum. He was remanded. THE UNEMPLOYED.—The geehive stat-e* s that a petition to the Queen is in course of signature, praying her Majesty to see that measures are taken without delay to enable the large number of persons at present out of employ and willing to work to go to those p portions of her Majesty's dominions where their labour is required, and where they may prosper and increase the prosperity of the whole empire. The petitioners also declare that they have heard ",with alarm and indignation that her Majesty has been advised to consent to give up the colonies, "containing millions of unoccupied land, which might be employed profitably, both to the colonies and ourselves, as a field for emigration;" and, in order to discourage and defeat all such projects for disunion, they humbly pray that England and her colonies, and dependencies may be incorporated by name into one British Empire, and that proclamation be made that tier Majesty is sovereign thereof, in like manner as she has been proclaimed Queen of India. The petitioners also ask her Majesty to assemble her Parliament without delay, that they may inquire into the causes af the present distress and seek a remedy. j STARTLING ADVENTURE.—One of the >- divers employed at the Landing Pier Works, Douglas, while engaged a day or two since in laying the concrete blocks under, water, met with a startling adventure. An immense fish, probably as much astonished as the diver himself, presented itself with extended jaws in the attitude of attack, and but for the presence of mind of the diver would probably have seized one of the limbs.of the submarine workman;. The diver, as usual, when engaged below, water, was, armed. with the customary offensive weapons, one of which he promptly thrust into the. reptile's mouth, but, retain- ing his presence of mind while disabling it, firmly kept his hold, and instantly signalling to the man in charge of the pump, was rapidly drawn to the surface, bringing at the, saw,e time the-vanquished fish. On examination it proved, to be what is commonly called a gilliperne, or gilliperkin,, but, properly defined, according to Mr. Brown, the enginøf the works, is the Toad,fish or" fishing-frog." Its measure- axe-from the tip of the snout to the point of the tail, 4ft. Gin.; across the shoulder from fin to fin, 3ft.; and across the mouth, extending vertically and horizontally, 10 to 12 inches. AT THE LIVERPOOL POLICE- COURT last week Abraham Armstrong- and Thomas Sixsmith were charged on remand with conspiring to defraud the London and North-Western Railway Company. On the 20th ult. Armstrong,; who "was a booking clerk at' the Edge-hill Station, issued three first-class tickets to Manchester, which were shortly after- wards collected by Sixsmith at the same station. The tickets were afterwards found in the ticket tube having been placed there by Sixsmith, in order that Armstrong might re-issue them. On the cash in the bowl used by the latter being counted i b was found to be16s. 6d.the price of the three tickets-short and when the prisoners were apprehended they ad- mitted having divided the money between them. They were committed for trial. AT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, William" Bright, coachman to Dr. Horsloy, of Wardour-street, ap- peared to answer a summons for cruelly Hogging, a horse. Mr. Robert Coleman Hall, grocer, said that he had his attention palled to the defendant, who was driving a brougham, by hearing a, person cry "Shame." The defendant was, flogging the horse about the head in a violent manner. He called out to the defendant, and, as he would 'not stop, he ran after him. He followed the defendant to his stable. Evidence in confirmation having been given, Mr. Knox fined the defendant the full penalty, £ 5, or a menth.. A,RoNAll; CATII,OLIC P, ILIEST An nis Brsuop._— An application was lately heard at Dublin, which revealed, a curious state of things in the dioceae of the Roman Catholic bishop, Dr. Nulty. The plaintiff, the Rev. Patrick Dunne, parish priest of Grangleth, had been on confidential terms with the late bishop, but he had some difference with his successor, Dr. Nulty. Being unwell he went to Buxton, and was sus- pended from his office. On an appeal to Rome, an inquiry was granted, that turned out unsatisfactory to-him, so that he could not get even a copy of the saspension,orany information. He made a further appeal, and in the meantime his servant was induced to leave the private house of Mr. Dunne for a short time by means of a forged. letter. On his return, every article belonging to Mr. Dunne had been carried out on the high road. The action was brought against a number of persona who took part in that outrage. The affidavit also stated that Dr. Nulty held his-visitation in the diocese a few days before the occurrence, which was in August last that his lordship slept in the house of the parties against whom the actibn -is brought. The court granted the application. THE. BEST. MEANS of diffusin,, technical educa- tion amongst the working, classes of the metropolis has been discussed at a meeting of the livery com- panies' representatives. The Lord Mayor, who1 presided, reminded the livery that their status would in all probability soon occupy the attention of Parliament, and urged that their position would be materially strengthened if in the -meantime they took active measures to promote the object of technical education. A resolution was adopted declaring it expedient that the livery companies should forward and prosecute this object, and a com- mittee was appointed to carry it into effect. A DARING THEFT was committed in Glasgow on Friday. An American gentleman, who had been residing in one of the most fashionable hotels of the city, had indulged too freely in liquor on Thursday evening and had been induced to enter a notorious shebeen in the High-street, kept by Richard Dillon. There he remained all night, and on attempting to leave the house on Friday morning he was met by Dillon; his wife, and his housekeeper, Helen Brown, who forced him. into a room on the flat above the house, and robbed him of his watch and chain and £ 68 in gold, contained in a belt he wore round his waist. Mrs. Dillon was captured, and with her capture was recovered the sum of 458 in. gold and the stolen watch and chain. The prisoners admitted their guilt, and were each sentenced-to be imprisoned sixty days, with hard labour. M. LOUIS BLANC has written a long letter to the Rappel, in which he says that if the election of candidates who refuse to take the oath is likely to lead to disorders, and to serve as a pretext to the Imperial Government for acts of violent repression, he is unhesitatingly of opinion that the, dangers of this course would outweigh its advantages. It would be better to wait until the oath ia abolished by a pacific agitation, such as is frequently carried on in England without interference from the Government or the police. M. Louis Blanc concludes his letter with a vigorous protest against the oath, which he describes as an artifice of despotism, and a snare laid for the good mea. GARIBALDI HAS WRITTEN A LETTER in reply to the ^mri^ationj he has received jto aitfndjthe tsqneeii I which i» to bS held -at Naples in December, in oppe* sition to- that which is to be held at the same time- in Rome. He says that if the present century couldi only point to this congress of liberty and reason, it would be worthy of ranking amongst the best in the history of human progress. In Naples he once told the people that the most implacable enemy of Italy was the Pope, and the people had had many oppor- tunities during the nine years which had since elapsed of convincing themselves, that he had not deceived them. By healing the wounds of fanaticism and superstition from which Italywas suffering, other ills, worse in appearance but not in reality, would also be got rid of. AN AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER SHIP AslionE.- On Wednesday night the emigrant ship S wif tsure, from Melbourne to London; Captain Sacpole, ran on to the Margate Sands. A tug went to her assistance, but her hawsers broke. Another tug, and two life-boats, proceeded to the sands, but could not succeed; in getting the ship off. At a quarter-past ten about 20 passengers were taken into Margate in a lugger, and they shortly afterwards proceeded to London by train. As the tide rose the ship bumped heavily against the sand, and it was feared that she would have a hole knocked in her bottom. The steam-tugs, ¡ fourin number, were next day so far successful in their efforts that they had shifted the vessel considerably from her first position, and were apparently safely dragging her across the sands; and at one o'clock in the afternoon she was safely got off, and taken under tow far the Thames. SHOT WHILE AT C-HAPF.L.-At the Lambeth Police-court, Frank Johnson, 26, a respectable-look- } ing man, described as a cabinet maker, of Gilbert- street, Oxford-street, has been charged on a warrant with assaulting and wounding Jane Withers, by firing a pistol. The complainant, an elderly woman, who seemed to be suffering much from ill health, stated that on the afternoon of the 26th ult. she was with others seated in the temporary iron chapel in Man- chester-buildings, East-street, Walworth-road. Sud- denly she was violently struck on the right shoulder just below the neck. On being taken to St. Thomas's Hospital a wound was found on her shoulder, which bled very much, and she had since been an out-patient at that institution. The bullet produced passed through her shawl and dress, and was found under her stays. The defendant had since been to her, and expressed regret for what had happened. Allway, 219 P, said he ascertained that defendant had been firing a pistol at a mark in a garden close by, and one of the bullets had passed through the iron wall of the chapel, which is 20 yards from the spot, and then struck the complainant as described. Mr. Woolryoh said it was a case he should send for trial. The defendant was admitted to bail. THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN DIAMOND.- When the August mail left Australia there was some excitement as to the supposed discovery of a monster diamond in the New England district, New South Wales, by a Mr. Townsend. The weight of the stone was given as over 7oz. It had been safely deposited in the Sydney Mint. The excitement about the discovery was prolonged for some days in consequence of certain difficulties which prevented the stone from being examined and tested after its arrival at the '• Mint. When these difficulties were removed, how- ever, and the stone handed over for examination, it turned out to be merely a piece of' rock crystal. The "monster diamond" was much talked of from the time its discovery was made known at Tamworth, New England district, until all doubts respecting its quality were set at rest. It was bought for.XbOO on behalf of ten persons. Two or three days after the purchase of the stone the shareholders got delivery of it from the Mint, and the next stage was the ap- plication of tests, which proved the diamond to be a piece of crystal. The stone is now in Melbourne. PIT EX-PLOSION.-A-n explosion of gas took place the other day at one of the pits of the tJbberley Colliery Company, at Bucknall, near Hanley, Stafford- shire, by which four men have been very seriously burnt. The Ubberley Colliery was formerly noted for the great number of accidents happening therein; but under the present management, which has extended over- several years, no accident has occurred there until the present, when an explosion took place from some cause as yet unaccountable, and the lives of the workpeople were placed in great peril. The four injured men, on being drawn from the pit, ap- peared unable to realise their position for some time, and one of them, who afterwards found that he was seriously burnt, persisted in walking home unaided, from fear of alarming his wife and family. MISTAKING A GENTLEMAN FOR A BURGLAR.— Recently, at the Bu-oiicgbam Police-court, William Lancaster, barman at tho Leopard Tavern, Dale End, Birmingham, was charged with committing a. murderous assault on Mr. Charles Woodman, of London; a professional vocalist, who had been ful- filling an engagement in a local concert hall. On Saturday, September the ISth, Woodman missed a late train for London, and was rcturnirg through Dale End to his lodgings. He came up to a knot of. people opposite Mr. Fordrougli's shop, which had just been broken into. A woman erieddif, that that was one of the burglars, and Lancaster fell on him and so severely injured him with a life preserver that he had to be taken to the hospital, and was confined six weeks. His skull was fractured, and he had been unable to continue his professional, engagements. Prisoner had been incited to the attack by his master's wife, and the bench agreed to liberate him if he made compensation. Woodman agreed to accept of X152 and the prisoner was liberated. SINGULAR 'ACTION. -A suit was recently. brought by Mdlle. Kaduan artist, (painter), to recover 12,950f. damages for. injuries received by the fall of an iron chimney-pot from the house, 7, Rue de Bruxelles, Paris. The proprietor, M. Nodet, pleaded, first, that the object did not come from his roof, and secondly, that the long illness which the plaintiff alleged she had suffered from the accident was due to a constitutional nervousness. The evidence of an expert, however, showed that the missile had un- questionably fallen from M. :Nodet's prenusea,, and that the chimney-pot was not only corroded by rust, but had not been properly secured. The court con- sequently decided that the owner of the house was responsible, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff, but reduced the damages to 8,000f., which sum M. Nodet was condemned to pay with costs. Against that sentence he appealed to the Imperial Court, but the judgment was confirmed. A FIRE BROKE OUT the other morning in Hop" kin Mill, Lees, near Oldham, and resulted almost in the complete destruction of the place. The mill is said to have contained 40,000 spindles, and was worked by Messrs. T. Taylor and Company. It was 19 windows in length and four in width, and four storeys high, exclusive of the attic. The fire broke out in the attic, and is supposed to have arisen either from friction about the headstooks or the over-heating of some tin covers about the machinery. Every exertion was made, to check the fire, but it was not till the roof and the whole of the floors fell in, ex- cepting that over the lower room, which was fire- proof, that the flames were got under. The damage is estimated at upwards of X30,000, and it is said the place was insured. THE IMPORTANT TOWN OF VICTORIA, in "Van- couyer's Island, has a mixed population of English and Americans, and the spirit of emulation is such that it possesses two fire brigades, which work in unison on the occasion of a fire. The American brigade already has a steam fire-engine of American make,, and the English brigade, to keep up its reputa- tion, resolved also to procure a steam fire-engine; and, after having the designs of various English and American builders of fire-engines submitted, selected a London engine of Messrs. Merryweather and Sons' make. Previous to its shipment it was thoroughly tested, and found to raise steam from cold water to 1001b. pressure in seven minutes from the time of lighting the fire; when in full work its delivery of water being at the rate of 300 gallons per minute, projecting a stream to the height of 160 feet. proi AT MARLBOROUGH-STREET the other day an application was made on behalf of the War-offica for a search warrant against Mr. James Bertrand Payne of Dover-street, Piccadilly, who was formerly com- manding officer of the 4th Middlesex Artillery but was dismissed from the command for insubordina- tion. Mr. Payne refused to deliver up sixty carbines and three swords belonging to the corps, and was naw, it was stated, in Paris. The- asms, it was be- lieved, were at Mr. Payne's residence in Dover-street, unpacked, as they came from. the Tower. Notices had been served at two of Payne's residences to deliver up the arms. Mr., Tjrahiit granted the i waært. ITHE LATE LORB D-ERBY.—The_criticism of,t!|\e wholejife bfjthe late- of 4!)ert>y belongs ratherte a national tnan to a> uadversity journalist, nor haw the proper organs of public opinion been wanting to their duties in this respect. Let it be sufficient^ for m to note that his occasional acts as Chancellor iUns-tratedtwo of- the most attractive qualities of, the late earl; the first, his modesty about the measure of his-own personal attainments, the second, his chivjalry in 1 shielding to the utmost of his ability the conduct of his official- subordinates.^—Oxford Undergraduates' Journal. ALIVE, OH!'—One or the French papers last week gave two admirable receipts for cooking lobsters, but they appear to us calculated to give more satis- faction to the epicure than the lobster, to the ton- sumer than the consumed. We are told in the first place that it is indispensable to the success of tiese receipts that the lobsters should be alive; theii we are directed in one case to. cut the lobster across in presentable pieces and to break the claws without disfiguring them, and in the. other to fix the lobster on the spit and to put it before a very quick fire, the to baste it with butter seasoned with salt and pepper. When the shell drops off in small pieces, then, andlnot till then, is the unhappy lobster cooked, Beading such directions as these makes us almost regret that the Marquis of Townshend is not a mer-man. A BRACE OF DISASTERS,—A remarkable apci- dent recently occurred in the hunting-field. The hounds had just come to a check, and Mr. a jail, heavy rider-a. capital horseman he was, n.s urging his horse at full speed down a lane to come, up with them. Just as he turned into the highway there came along an immense drove of pigs, on tnfeir way to the nearest market town. Headlona in among them blundered the horse and his rider. jibe former plunged over with a tremendous crash, &.nd broke his neck on the spot. The rider was pitched head foremost, and to a good distance, along the backs of the pigs, which broke his fall, and he got lout of the scrape with a few slight bruises. Another accident has happened to a Mr. Waller, a near- sighted man, who was continually making dangerous blunders with hounds, which he persisted, howefer, in following. One day, having come to a fence tjhat he did not like, he "rode a little way along it to lpok for an easy place. Presently he came to what I he probably supposed to be a low wall built across a gateway or gap. This he charged with his hoise, which rolled over with him far away to the other side. The wall preved to be an old grey cow that was lying across the gap, and that threw the horse over by rising under him just as he jumped. In this case the rider was severely injured, but the horse escaped unhurt.
ST. PETERSBURG AT SEA.
ST. PETERSBURG AT SEA. St. Petersburg is being threatened at this moment with total inundation. At the last advices the Neva had already overflowed its banks, and guns were being fired to warn the tenants of ground floors to remove themselves and their families to higher storeys, or else to abandon the city. In the lower quarters the inhabitants were rapidly deserting. This is the first flood that has taken place at St. Peters- burg for five-and-forty-years. The last was in 1824, when 462 houses were destroyed, and 3,600 seriously damaged; 20,000 people were then left without shelter, and 600 were drowned. It is impossible to over-estimate the misery produced by catastrophes of this kind. In 1824 it was as though the whole city had gone into mourning. Festivities were everywhere suspended, and the money destined for the usual round of winter amuse- ments all went to relieve the thousands of unhappy people whom the imundation had either thrown out of work or turned out of doors. To make matters worse, the cessation of balls and parties caused a stagnation in trade, and innumerable bankruptcies, so that to all classes the trial was a long and a cruel one. The municipal administration of the city is, however, better now than it was then; one may, therefore, hope that even if the present inundation prove as complete as that of 1824 there will be much less suffering..
BEVERLEY ELECTION COMMISSION'
BEVERLEY ELECTION COMMISSION' Despite the ingenious arguments of Sir John Karslake and Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, the Court of Queen's Bench has decided that the Beverley Election Commissioners were legally justified in committing Mr. Flint and Mr. Fitzgerald to prison for contempt of court. On the 25th of September the three com- missioners, Serjeant O'Brien, Mr. Barston, and Mr. Homersham Cox, adjourned the inquiry until the 27th on that day Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Cox only were present, and the inquiry was further adjourned until the igth of October. Sir John Karalake oontended that two commissioners could not constitute a court; that the second adjourn- mentwas illegal; that, after the 27th of September, the functions of the commissioners were at an end, and hence that the imprison- ment of the two witnesses was unlawful. When pressed by the Lord Chief Justice, Sir John had the boldness to say that, even if a commissioner were accidentally prevented from attending a meeting by the breaking down of atrain, the proceedings of 50 meetings would be vitiated. The Attorney-General gave a conclusive reply. He handed in an affidavit from Mr. Cox, stating that, under the authority of leave from the Secretary of State, the three commissioners, at their meeting on the 25th of September, had agreed that their court should be adjourned from the 25th to the 27th, and then to the 19th of October. The At- torney-General also successfully urged that the legal authority of the court had not been destroyed by the fact of its having been adjourned at a sitting of two commissioners; and that view was unanimously shared by the Lord Chief Justice and the other judges. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine that Par- liament so left the existence of the commissioners' eourts at the mercy of accidents. At any rate, the two prisoners mast go back to gaol
A DRUNKEN MINISTER.
A DRUNKEN MINISTER. According to the Melbourne Argus, there seems ta be considerable excitement in the colony arising from the intemperate habits of Mr. Grant, the Minister of in Lands. It is not that gentleman's unfortunate weakness for strong liquors which has given offence; howewer much it is to be deplored, the colony does not seem to have been inconvenienced thereby; but we learn that the excitement was occasioned by the discovery of "a dastardly plot" against the erring Minister. The Attorney-General, Mr. G. P. Smith, was supposed to have taken s-tepsto secure his temporary retirement in order that he might undergo a regular course of treatment for dipsomania," not so much with a view to the acquisition by Mr. Grant of habits of sobriety, but because he (Mr. Smith) aspired to command the Lands Office. The latest accounts, however, state that probably there has been some mistake. Attempts are to be made to reform the Minister of Lands, but it is the family physician, and not the Attorney-General, who is to be responsible for the courae of treatment recom- mended. It is stated that Mr. Grant's intemperance, which has been habitual for some years, has now reached" an alarming height," and that he is scarcely in a fit condition to perform the duties of his office." If so, then it may be as well for himself and everybody else if he is relieved from the duties of the desk until he has learned to moderate the nleasares of the table.
THE USB 0,F DRESS.
THE USB 0,F DRESS. The doctrine which has so long, so earnestly yet so ineffectually, been preached to women, that they should not care about their dress and outward ap- pearance, writes a contemporary, has received a severe shook by the influence for good which the Empress of the Freneh is said to have exercised as regards the Turkish women at Constantinople. What is it which gives the Empress such influence, and has made her for years a power in Europe, more especially among the female population ? Solely and entirely the art she possesses of dressing well. If, to use an expression familiar to those who have studied the Byron controversy, she presented the appearance of a goody dowdy she would have no influence at all. Had she gone to Constantinople in a poke bonnet she would have done more harm than good. It is her graceful magnificence which is the- secret of her sw.a¡y; and, if she liked, she could effect reforms in half-an-hour which would occupy Mrs. Beecher Stowe I for half a century. Not only in Europe, but also in America,, women think about, and talk about and follow the Empress's example in a manner which must dfive their severer mentors, to despair; but it is something to Wltns the agftfi&acle of W1œ;an, retiring bofoCQ miU-i&gry.
, A STARTLING RE-APPEARANCE.
A STARTLING RE-APPEARANCE. List Week a sad accident happened near Lewes to a gentleman who had been at the hunt, and was returning home. The deceased, whose name is Edward Martin, must have been thrown, and fating with great force on the hard road was so much injured about the head that when found he was in- sensible. It is supposed that he was riding fastj and that hia horse stumbled and fell. He was conveyed to Barcombe,where he expired, never having regained consciousness. The history of Edward Martin is a remarkable one. In his younger days he was a famous cricketer, and played in most of the first-elass matches of his time at Lord's and elsewhere as one of the All-England Eleven. He held for many years the Christohurch cricket ground, Oxford; and being always sober and steady in his habits and re- spectful and modest in his demeanour, was a$*reat favourite. A wealthy collegian, who became rauch attached to him, put him into a farm near Leominster, which he held for some years, until at length finding the inconvenience of attending to his farm on the borders of Wales and to his cricket ground at Oxford insurmountable, he determined to give up the former. His stock was accordingly sold off, but a considerable amount of property was reserved and sent on t° Worcester. Martin himself went to Leominster, jvith the proceeds of the sale (several hundred pounds) in his pocket, and remained there two or three days. At length he left early one morning, mounted On a favourite horse of great power. This was in the year 1849, and from that day until now, when they re- ceived the news of his death, his relatives have nfever had the least tidings of him, and it was generally believed that he had been robbed and murdered, t It is doubtful whether any clue to the now almostifor- gotten riddle will be discovered in his papers.
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WHO PAYS? The < good folks of Tamworth are suffering from the refusal of the Treasury to pay all the expenses in- curred in the trial of an election petition in that tewn. After the refusal of the Treasury a rate was! im- posed to pay the balance, and the Tamworth. Rate- payers are protesting. It would seem from the pub- lished items that an election judge is one of those. persons whom, as the saying is, one would rather keep for a week than a fortnight." Within a few shillings of X100 was charged for the police to receive the judge, but the Treasury thought 433 was enough, and refused to pay more. Carriage horses for the week are charged at .237 16s., at which price one would think they might soon eat their heads off. We agree with the Treasury in thinking that a post-boy might be engaged for less than X9 a week, and that-seeing how much trumpeting is done for nothing it is dis- agreeable to be charged X6 for two trumpeters. But the last item is astonishing. What could an election judge want with X6 4s. lid. worth of saucepans ? Where any of these costly saucepans used in making a hash of the accounts ? If so, it is a pity that the items have not, like the meat at me's lodgings, shrunk in the cooking."
BLACKPOOL UNDER WATER.:
BLACKPOOL UNDER WATER. The following account of the recent high tides at Blackpool appeared in a contemporary:—A great storm has been 'raging here. The wind has been blowing at a hurricane pitch for many hours, ind between eleven and one on Thursday the water rose to a greater height than has ever been remembered. On Tuesday night the water rose to a considerable height, and rushed against the houses at South Shore —a continuation of Blackpool—with terrific violence. On Wednesday the storm abated, but at night there was a renewal of it. On Thursday morning it was apprehended that at tide-time there would be a great flood, and additional preparations to keep the water out of the houses were taken. The windows and doorways of many houses and hotels were closed up with boards and clay, and some tenants made pre- parations for escaping. At ten o'clock the tide came up fiercely, and at high-water time-a quarter-past eleven-the waves dashed up terrifically. The pro- menade was washed over, portions of its surface were washed up, and between this time and twelve o'clock the water ran in a vast swell entirely over portions of the adjoining land. Between Fox Hail's Hotel and Manchester Hotel the water rushed on- wards in one complete torrent. The field ahead was inundated; then the embankment of the Blackpool and Lytliam Railway was covered; and for nearly three-quarters of a mile forward the water rushed with great impetuosity. Fifteen or twenty yards of the railway were washed down, and the trains were completely stopped. The water ran fairly moun- tains high at twelve o'clock, and some feared that the whole of South Shore was going to be washed away. Never did the waves rush up with such fury. Into some of the dwelling houses the water rose two or three feet high, causing much inconvenience and damage; into nearly all the flood made ingress, whilst into the back yards, etc., the tide created great havoc, being in some places five or six feet deep. The wind at tide time was blowing N.N.W. This kept the water considerably off Blackpool. If a S.W. wind had been blowing the general impression was that the whole of South Shore would have been washed down.
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« IT WAS DISCOVERED LATELY that Holy Trinity Church School, Darwen, was on fire. Every attempt was made to overcome the fire, but the building was burnt to the ground. BISHOP SUMNER has formally placed his resig- nation of the See of Winchester in the hands of the primate, and it will be declared vacant by Order in Council. A congS d'elire to supply the vacancy will be issued to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, and Dr. Samuel Wilberforce, now Bishop of Oxford, will be recommended for election. Bishop Wilber- force will retire from the See of Oxford about the 20th inst. IN THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, counsel on behalf of William Smith, who was convicted of the manslaughter of his wife at Hounslow, lately moved for a criminal information against the publisher of the Times, on account of an article which appeared in that journal shortly after the fatal occurrence. The court refused the motion, on the ground of want of personal malice on the part of the writer of the article in question. IT IS SAID that the North-Eastern Railway Company have determined to introduce at once a new improvement in the working of the points on their lines, viz., the wedge process, by which the pointsman, on closing his points with the ordinary handle from his cabin, will introduce a wedge into the points, and thus effectually lock them, and prevent them from jumping as the trains pass, and thus probably pre- vent accidents such as have more than once oc- curred THREE MONTHS AFTER MARRIAGE.—The other morning a young man applied to the magistrates at Hampstead for their advice under the following cir- cumstances :—Applicant stated that he had been married three months. His wife never got his meals ready, and on Monday she got some meat in, which she left on the shelf till it spoiled. She had accused him of attempting to take her life. One day he had to go to work without his breakfast. Mr. Marshall told applicant they could not interfere between man and wife except in cases of breach of the peace, where violence was threatened or used. THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH AT CONSTANTI- NOPLE.—In the Standard of Nov. 1st are described some of the arrangements made by the Sultan for the entertainment recently of his fascinating and illus- trious guest as follows:—The palace of Beylerbey, where the Empress was lodged, is furnished with all the luxury of the East, combined with the good taste of Europe. The Empress expressed her admira- tion of this magnificent residence. The Imperial bedroom is superb. The livery of the servants attached to the Imperial service cost £ 2,000. These magnificent liveries were exhibited to the public by the manufacturers, the well-known firm of D Nicoll and Co., the extensive wholesale clothiers of Fell street Wood -street, Cheapside, in Sep- tember last, invitation to inspect them having been given by advertisement in the London papers. These gorgeous liveries were prepared and manufactured, by Messrs. Nicoll, the wholesale manufacturers, as is their custom, for one of their agents, the old established firm of Laurie," of Constantinople, by whom the Sultan was directly sngpliedi Messrs. Nicajl also are the patentees of I rug paletot, an airticle which appears to supply I at public want,, as- m great and general demand has | arisen, for- it, giving welcome, employment to ,| numbers who.ha.TO; been suffering in th/j p-reat geaecal ? depression. r d1, A
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AMERICAN ITE. THE United States Economist and Dry Goods Re- porter is leavening its great broadside of oomaercial news and trading notices by the re-publication, in ez. tenso, of Mr. Spurgeon's sermons. JACKSON and Washington counties, Florida, are reported to be under control of an armed mob, orga- nised to prevent the execution of the revenue laws. In the latter county seven murders have taken place since the 3rd ult., and in the former the tax collector and his wife have been brutally killed. MASSACHUSETTS has had a fair, at which a trial of COGkstovestook the place of a trial of horses, but betting was not lively. STRAWBERRIES are grown the whole year round at San Francisco, and the grapes, figs, pears, melons, limes, and peaches might make the mouth of a statue water. Melons are mostly eaten before breakfast. The waiter brings you one, say a foot and a half round to begin with, as soon as you take your seat at the table. The other day I saw A gentleman break his fast with half a sphere which would have served for a dinner party of a dozen in London. I laid down my knife and fork to look at him, and he ate it up with &- spoon.-San Francisco Letter. THE Treasurer of Erie County, United States, Mr. C. W. Keller, is reported at the point of death from the effects of eating a portion of an apple poisoned with strychnine, given to him by a stranger, who remarked, "When you eat it you'll never want any other kind." FORTY-SEVEN, illicit stills, calculated to produce over 3,000 gallons per day, have been destroyed in Virginia. The officers visited seven- counties in 23 days, and travelled 2,000 miles. Eight hundred gallons of apple brandy were confiscated. CINCINNATI has a young lady lecturer only 17 years old, who, opposes female suffrage. JOHN SWANSON, proprietor of an extensive cotton factory near Stockholm, Sweden, has .(says an American paper) just purchased 12,000 acres of land in Dunklin and Stoddard counties, Missouri, where he will establish colonies, build factories, mills, &c., and carry on the cultivation and manufacture of cotton. The land selected is well adapted to cottons raising. Dunklin county will export this season 7,000 to 8,000 bales of cotton, and Stoddard county about 5.000. The enterprise will give employment td 1,300 families, part of whom are on their way from Sweden, and the rest will soon follow. I I I THERE is a man in Chicago who possesses'so re- markable a memory that he is employed by the various benevolent societies to remember the poor." A FORTUNATE COUNTY.—Barnstable county, Mass., is a happy county indeed. It has a gaol, because all counties must have gaols, but its dungeon is a superfluity, an ornament, and an evidence*-of its high moral character; for, with the exception -of the keeper, there has been nobody in that dreary abode for the last three months. Just to keep up appear- ances, they hired a vagrant" to go to the gaol and live at free quarters, but even he eloped after a residence of ten days. He couldn't stand the dreadful solitude, and felt that he couldn't make a Robinson Crusoe of himself even for free victual and lodging, so he left, and at the latest dates h -hadn't been caught, the place of incarceration remaining void of the incarcerated.—New York Tribune. AN AMERICAN K.C.B.—An American paper says they have an order of K.C.B. in the United States but it has no reference to the Bath, as it iaeans Knight of the Carpet Bag.. IT is related as an amusing incident that a darkey lad fell from a window, a distance of fifteen feet, alighting with his head on the flagstone of a, sidewalk, in the town of Linchburg, Va. One cf the flags was shivered, and it was supposed the boy was killed. Several persons who heard the concussion repaired at once to the spot. The darkey was on his feet before they fairly reached him, with a broad grin overspread- ing his countenance. "Dem stones," he said, "if dey don't want to get hurt, must keep out of dis nigger's way." ONE of the physicians of Burlington, Vermont, driving into town on an election morning, was met by a friend, who bailed him with the question, Have you voted ? Not yet," replied the doctor; but I have been out all night after a voter. I got him safe, too." "When will he vote?" "Oh, 4bout twenty-one years from now." A MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.—Ka-besh-co- da-way, an Indian chief, is in want of one more wife, having now but three, and offers the following induce- ments through the Chicago Tribune :—" He said that, in case we should bear of any worthy white lady who might be at all disposed to consider the propriety of becoming one of his better halves, we might say to her that he has a good, large, warm house, .built for him by his Great Father; that he has always "been kind to and has never yet struck any of his present wives that he would treat a white wife very kindly and considerately: that he would divide with her his pro- perty; and that he and his other wives would give her the very nicest and best of everything that could be had to eat, and that they would all do everything in their power to make her contented and happy in her new home. In reply to another question of ours as to whether he considered that his stock of love was large enough to distribute, to a good advantage, among so many wives, he simply said, Ka-besh-co- da-wav's heart is big.' | AFTER the recent flood in Hartford, Connecticut, a large pumpkin field in the city presented a singular appearance. The freshet covered the field with six feet of water, and the pumpkins were anchored by their stems and bobbling cosily up and down. The surface of two acres of water was completely covered with them. YANKEE JOURNALISM. — Mississippi JOURNALISM appears to be dashed with a mingled simplicity and unction which is quite refreshing to the jaded spirits of the dwellers in an old country. A copy of the Inha Gazette has reached us. and we can hardly do better than furnish our readers with two or three extracts selected almost at random. As a 'specimen of the simplicity to which we have referred what can surpass this We thank our friend, Thomas A. Blair, Esq., for the nice mess of squirrels he sent us. We ate them with great pleasure, and profit to our inner man. We like squirrels." A single sample of the unction which characterises the journal may suffice. We are afraid it will make the moutbg of advertisers in this country positively water When we were in Memphis last week, we were in the house of Francisco and Wiggins, hatters and furriers, 307, Main-street, under the Peabody Hotel. This is a magnificent establishment. They have the finest hats, fars, walking canes, umbrellas, and travelling bags we have ever seen in this country. Everybody who wishes a fashionable hat goes to this store; in fact, a man would be laughed at in Memphis if he were to buy a hat anywhere else. We know Mr. Wiggins, he is one of the very cleverest men we ever saw. Our readers will all go there to get their hats." A FINE statue of Mr. Lincoln, erected by a dollar subscription fund, contributed by citizens without respect to party, has just been inaugurated in Pros- pect-park, Brooklyn. It is of bronze, and represents the figure of the late president standing, with the folds of a cloak draped about him. A PAINFUL story of Ku Klux atrocity has just been reported from North Carolina. The Raleigh Standard states that a gentleman of that city, riding in Orange county, was attracted by cries of grief and distress issuing from some woods, and that, proceeding to the spot from whence they came, he found crouched upon the ground, with the drea-rv rain chilling their thinly-clad forms, three women and several children, rocking to and fro in an agony of grief, while above them hung the bodies of two men murdered by the ferocious banditti called the Ku Klux Klan.
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SCALDED TO DEATH.—An inquest has been held at the London Hospital respecting the death of James Taylor. William Stelletto, a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Forbes, chemical manufacturers of Old Ford, said that on Tuesday last while the de- ceased was standing on a stage erected over a vat filled with a boiling liquid, called sulphate of am- monia, he fell off the stage, was thrown head first into the vat, and died on Friday. AT THE BRIGHTON MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS the question before the burgesses is whether the sewage shall be carried out to sea by prolonged pipes, or whether it shall be carried in an intercepting sewer, seven miles long, to the east, and discharged at a place called Portobello. The latter opinion prevails in a majority of the wards. The result will pro- bably be the adoption by the Town Council, if not of the intercepting sewer, of some plan for preventing the further pollution of the sea.