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HUMAN PAVING STONES THE MOOLED EL NEBBEH. At last, from behind the mosque, we heard the dull beating of drums, and the crowd on either side the street squeezed closed up to the houses; and in the space thus left vacant these lads threw them- selves face downwfrds upon the ground. First they lay as they fell-some one way, some another, but with each minute the rows got squeezed together closer and closer. A number of amateur packers volunteered their services, and began the work of paving the street with these human paving stones. From time to time, when the layer seemed to be so close that it was impossible to wedge another in, a man, raggeder even and more wretched-looking than his fellows, would fling himself upon this living carpet, and kick and push and struggle to get himself a place. Then, as the roadway disappeared beneath this carpet of bodies, barefooted fellows jumped and leaped upon the long line of backs, yelling Allah-el-Allah I stood so close to the procession that with a stick I could have poked the men lying down without leaving my chair. They were packed so close that it must have been hard for them to breathe with their faces half buried in the dust. Then the sound of music came nearer, and the procession began. As a sort of advance guard, there came a mob of half-naked men shouting, yelling, howling. There were men with skewers stuck through their cheeks, men with iron spikes headed with heavy iron balls, who kept spinning the point of the spike upon their palms till the pieces of sharp jagged steel, attached by chains to the ball, began to fly round and round, and then they made a feint to bring the whirling ball so near their cheeks as to slash and gash nose, mouth, and eyes with the revolving blades. And then the shrieks, yells, and cries were drowned for a moment as the colleges of dervishes came marching past, each with its sacred banner and its band of music. The music, however, had little resemblance to any melody. I suppose that there was some attempt, but it seemed to me as if the musicians themselves were carried away by the frenzy of the moment, and played upon their instruments as their fingers chanced to fall, while they joined in the yelling shriek of Allah-el-Allah! On they came, troop after troop; over the bodies in the street, dervishes, flag-bearers, players, and their followers tramped forward with unshod feet. Then, at the end of the street, appeared the Sheikh himself, mounted on a white Arab steed. Except in a bur- lesque, I never saw so huge a turban as that he wore. He looked like a man helplessly drunk, or drugged with the fumes of tobacco till he had lost all con- sciousness of where he was, all power of using his limbs. His head, surmounted by its huge turban, hung down helplessly over his left shoulder, his frame kept lolling to and fro, so that he would have fallen off the saddle if there had not been men propping him up on either side his mouth was open, the saliva was running down from the corners of his lips. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the hoofs came down over the prostrate figures and even amidst the uproar of the crowd you could hear the dull scrunch as the horse trod on his -way. As the Sheikh moved onwards, the men sprang up from the ground on which they lay. Pale as death, half fainting, gasping for breath, writhing as if in mortal pain, they looked one and all as if they were in various stages of epileptic convulsions. Their eye- balls glared out of their sockets; their features were contorted witn hideous spasms they threw them- selves about as if they would dash their heads against the stone walls, and struggled fiercely with the friends whose arms were passed round their shoulders te prevent them from falling to the ground. I saw men biting the ears, wrenching open the clenched teeth, pulling at the cramp-knotted arms of these epileptic wretches. The whole scene was ghastly, horrible. Meanwhile the Sheikh had ridden along the street, through the court- yard of the mosque, right up to the en- trance of the temple, treading all the way over rows of bodies. After the ride was over, he dis- mounted, and was supported into the mosque, where he was apparently brought round to his senses with pipes and coffee. And then, after a few minutes' lull, the howling and the shrieking began again. The snakes were twisted aloft, the swords brandished, the spiked balls set a-spinning the cry of "Allah-el- Allah! "—beginning low, slow, and faint-rose, swelled; and a second edition of the scene in the street was commenced, though without the main inci- dent of the riding over the bodies. Our police guards hinted to us that our presence in the mosque during the ceremony gave umbrage to the crowd; and, for my part, I was glad enough of the excuse to leave the Mussulman fanatics to themselves and get out into the open air.—Cairo Correspondent. t n. j ■
REAL HAVANNAR-S.
REAL HAVANNAR-S. There are few convictions or injunctions which the smoking public should regard with more interest and satisfaction than those that fall upon tradesmen who use false brands and boxes for cigars. One case oc- curred last week but for one that is brought to light, hundreds, of course, escape detection. There is, we believe, a protective association in London to keep a watch upon these roguish dealers yet it does not seem to work altogether effectively. Cigars, like other things, are subject to changes of fashion. From time to time there is a heavy run on those with a special name and flavour. In the height of this popu- larity, unscrupulous merchants will show boxes with the name and other accredited marks of the favourite, and endeavour to force the sale of a coarse British cigar for a delicate aromatic Havannah weed. Now, the truth is, that in most cases the boxes are genuine. They are collected by a species of gentry who have keen, perceptions as to the value of unconsidered trifles, and who are ready to give something more than the price of firewood to the charwoman or soullery-maid who seizes on the empty cases of the smoking-room. It would tend to render the impos- ture both more difficult and deliberate if people made it a practice to break up or burn their old cigar boxes. Empty champagne bottles are also in high request by the merchants who contract for a box inscribed by the "Partagas" or Henry Clay." The conjunction of business in old cigar boxes with good brands, and of champagne bottles with good labels, appears ominously suggestive.
A SUSPICIOUS CASE.
A SUSPICIOUS CASE. The case of Richards v. Richards and Cook has come before the Divorce Court. The petitioner was Mr. Goddard Sterry Richards, gentleman, of Park House, Frampton Cotterill, Gloucester. He prayed for a divorce against his wife, formerly called Thomp- son, for having committed adultery with the co-re- spondent. The parties were married, in 1859, at Greenville, Illinois, America, and removed subse- quently to the above address, where it was alleged the adulterous intercourse took place with Cook, who was described to be a private gentleman. Mr. Bichards was examined and swore that he had wit- nessed improper familiarities on the part of his wife and Cook, but had afterwards visited his wife when she left him. He had studied for the medical pro- fession, but had not practised. Jeseph Ponsford, lodging-house keeper,'S wansea, proved that the respon- dent and Cook had lodged in his house, for a fort- night as man and wife. They took. the lodgings in the name of Bichards. Mr. Gould; of the American bar, proved that the marriage between the parties was perfectly legal in the United States. His lord- ship said he should not grant aidecree nisi, a<& present, 1 but shanM ask the Queen's. JEtQfitar to maha inquiries. nu
VERY MUOH LIKE PERJURY.
VERY MUOH LIKE PERJURY. John Lyons, a respectable-looking man, residing at Bermondsey, has been charged at Southwark with assaulting Edward Taylor, a constable, while in the execution of his duty. The constable said that on Sunday night he was passing down Bombay-street, Bermondsey, when he saw the prisoner and a female standing in a corner. He went up to them and ordered them away. The prisoner turned round and abused him, and conducted himself in such a dis- orderly manner that he was compelled to take him into custody, when he struck witness in a violent manner. The defendant here denied that most strenuously. He was a respectable man, and at the time was bidding a respectable ycung woman, whom he had been out with," Good night," when the con stable came up to them and used insulting language towards her. He solemnly denied striking the officer or acting in a disorderly manner. Sarah Elizabeth Lufton, a young woman of respectable appearance, said she was a wool worker, and resided with her parents in Bombay street, Bermondsey. She had been out with the prisoner on Sunday after- noon, and they returned home in an omnibus. Shortly after they alighted, and were bidding each other Good night," the constable came up to them, and putting his bull's eye in their faces, called them disgusting names, and said if they did not go away he should take them into custody. Witness told him she was a respectable young woman. She also told him that he was the constable who insulted her ion the previous Sunday. As she was in the act of knocking at her father's door the constable rushed up to the prisoner and struck him, when he fell on his back. Witness did not see whether the latter struck the constable, as another officer came up, and removed him like a felon to the station-house. The constable was recalled, and, in answer to his Worship, said that the prisoner was sober when he took him into custody. He persisted, in saying that the prisoner struck him first. Mr. Burcham then told him that his evidence did not command belief, especially when compared with the testimony given by that respectable young woman. The prisoner must be discharged.
; HOT WATER.
HOT WATER. Mx. Bernal Osborne seems by a process of natural seleotion to fall into very hot water in his electioneer- ing ambitions. At Nottingham he had the lambs on his side, but in Waterford he was left to fight on the defensive; his adherence especially to the temperance cause has destroyed all his chances of popularity with the "jolly boys of the city. A meeting where Mr. Osborne was announced to speak the other day was disturbed with shouts, "Send Osborne home!" Send out the teetotallers for beer." Though his friends urged him not to appear, the old favourite of the Nottingham lambs insisted, I won't run away but when he appeared he found that a hearing was hopeless, and the candidate's head was endangered by a missile—some say a bottle and some a paving-stone —which was flung at him by a ruffian in the crowd. Strange to say, while Mr. Osborne is unpopular partly because he is an Englishman and partly be- cause he advocates control of the liquor traffic, the popular favourite and his probably successful rival is a Quaker. Mr. Osborne, however, is not losing his gallantry; when hooted from the window by the crowd one of his suporters, with a rather rudimentary notion of sarcasm, put out his head and shouted, "Ba!" at the throng below, "who returned the compliment with interest." "Don't," said the silenced candidate. Don't let us forget we are gen- tlemen; a reminder which is often required during the excitement of electioneering, and which -seems m this case to have been the extreme of courtesy-
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THE DuciiEss OF GENOA has written to the Opinione, stating that she is strongly opposed to the acceptance by her son of the crown of Spain. THE INVESTIGATION into the Edmunds scandal case has terminated, and the arbitrators have taken time to consider their award. THE RENT OF A GAMINS- TABLE.—It is stated that the Government have offered to renew the lease of the gaming bank at Baden-Baden to M. Dupressoir for a yearly rent of 609,00011. and 8,000fl. subsidy to the theatre. The rent has hitherto been 300,0003. and 4,000fl. a year to the theatre. Many of the citizens have petitioned for the entire abolitiorlof the gaming tables, but of this there is but l-ittlechance. The profits are so large that the bank tenant can well afford to give the increased rent; as, in 1868, not- withstanding an outlay of 2,000,000fr., it made a profit of clear 3,@#0,000fr. Wieabadea, according to the last statement of accounts, made,, in, six months, a profit of 3,^00^000fr. M. Dupressoir starts shortly tor Egypt^ where he has already obtained a con- cession ion a little bank at Cairo. It is. said that M. Du^rsessoio intends to establish a bank also for the benefit of' visitors spending, the. opening o,f .ft ..N ►V
.. A BRUTAL PARENT.
A BRUTAL PARENT. Emma Brown, a married woman, living at Hackney- wick, was lately charged at Worship-street with having assaulted her son, a boy of 11 years old, by beating him with a poker, &c. William Hall, land- lord of the house in which the prisoner with her husband and family resided, deposed that on Sunday afternoon, on his returning from church, he heard loud screams proceeding from the rooms occupied by the prisoner. Knowing that she was in the constant habit of violently beating the young members of her family, he rushed up-stairs, and through the half-open door saw her in the act of beating the boy George with a poker. On seeing him she slammed the door in his face, and he descended the stairs. A second time the boy's cries were raised, and again witness went up to the prisoner's room, opened the door, and saw that she was still beating the boy with the poker. Afterwards the prisoner was taken into custody. Mrs. Hall, wife of the last witness, corroborated the above evidence, and stated that the prisoner was in the habit of getting very drunk, and leaving her children from morning to night without food. Her husband had no control over her; he now remained from home until late at night, so that he might uot be tempted to ill-treat her. The boy said he was beaten by his mother because he was not clearing up the room quickly enough. Mr. ■Knox, in passing sentence, said that he did not believe that he had ever heard a worse case. He gave her six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
THE COW WITH THE IRON TAIL.
THE COW WITH THE IRON TAIL. While so many complaints are being made about diluted milk in London, it is interesting to know what our Hindoo fellow-subjects do to defend them- selves when served with bad milk. A Brahmin at Lahore the other day detected a Mussulman in the act of watering milk previous to its sale. It was not only the water which horrified the pious Hindoo, but also the fact that it was poured into his intended food by one of the accursed disciples of Islam. Accordingly he assembled all his fellow Brahmins in Lahore, and they arrived at the unanimous resolution to drink no more milk, nor anything in which milk formed an ingredient, henceforward. It was a "self-denying ordinance," seeing that, as Indian Public Opinion alleges, Brahmins are sometimes known to drink ten quarts, of milk in a day. But they have adhered to it, even during the late season of Bradh, a Hindoo festival, when the devout are wont to supply them with that and other good things gratis, in memory of their departed friends. The Halwais and Dojas (functionaries who appear to correspond with the familiar keepers of milk-shops and milkmen of London) are accordingly in despair, seeing they cannot sell a drop at a time when the demand usually far exceeds the supply.
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DR. the new Bishop of Exeter*.witl? read hinasaHc in at the cathedral on Holy Innocents' Day, tje-2-Sth of December,. .A =BT,;NG of the shareholders in the North, BritTsh,Bail way Company, has been held in ijdinburgh, ofewhiebiti16 chairman proposed the Tayb&dg? schema, .f'Jya1. Its eaim" 00,3t is X 3 C' 4' 'i .1t:lfi
* FACTS AND FACE TIM.
FACTS AND FACE TIM. --+-- IT is maintained that the most inspiring natural sight which a glazier can contemplate is the gleam of early day breaking through the windows. A YOUNG lady was seen to go into a pawn- broker's the other day to pledge her troth. N.B.— She was engaged to the assistant. A CITY missionary was asked the cause of his poverty. "Principally," said he, with a twinkle of the eye, because I have preached so much without notes. SIR "WALTER ScoTT, in one of his novels, gives 'expression to the height of a Highlander's happiness Twenty-four bag pipe players assembled together in a small room, all playing at the same time different tunes." AN old lady gave this as her iclei of a great One who is keerfnl of* his clothes, don't drink spirits, kin read the Bible without speliin* the words, and eat a cold dinner on a wash-day without grumbling." A COUPLE of' fellows who were pretty ihoroughly soaked with bad whisky got. into the gutter. After flocmdcring about for a few minutes, one of them said, "Jim, lets go to another z.c--ise- this hotel leaks' MDME. LUCY H—— told us that the sublime ■coiffeurs are giving themselves terrible rs just now, and dictating to the milliners, because, they possess nearly all authority over the female head. One of the great artists told us, I will not attempt to dress a lady's head for a ball unless I have 1,000f. worth of hair on the fioflet table to answer to my conceptions." A SHORT At t given in honour of an Australian magnate, his health, was pro- posed, but he deciinod to jnako a speech in return. Gentlemen," said he, what you bwo dene is dou.bt. leas truq, and certainly agreeable.; but I never made nt one speech in my life before any large number of -v pie, apd, short, as it was, the result was so unfortu- he that I made up clyUlinclnever to make another." On further inquiry it Was found t „ speech in question was made at the Old Bailv consisted- of "Not guilty, my lordand the result nad been trarisportzition for life.. AN amusing story is told of an old village .pump, which by reason of faithful service, at last became decayed. Some mischievous urchins discover- ing that the neighbours came no more to draw water, stole the handle, and for several weeks made it a business to poke a miscellaneous assortment of rubbish through the alit. After a Season, the con- cluded to repair the pump; and on setting to work, mot less than forty letters were found inside, which had been dropped into the opening by the simple, minded farmers, who, seeing the boys depositing various artiolog at regular. intervals, mistook the old Dump for a letter-box. ♦
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THE BOSTON TERMINUS of the London and North Western Railway, at Euston-square, is to be enlarged and considerably improved. The works will commence about the latter end of this month. I h
AGRICULTURE.
AGRICULTURE. ALL female insects, with the single exception of a few social species, such as honey-bees and perhaps ants and white ants {Termites), perish in the course of the same season, after laying their first and only batch of eggs. Their race is then run-the goal is then reached—and they retire from the course, to give place to that new generation of the same species. THE CATTLE PLAGUE.-Accord,"n,- to the latest intelligence the cattle plague was still prevailing in several parts of Galicia, Buckowina, and Roumania. In Hungary the disease had not yielded to the means employed for its eradication in the district of Pesth, not did it appear likely to do so for some time to come. The plague had also broken out in some villages on the Bosphorus, and assumed alarming proportions. It is officially reported that the disease has been stamped out both in East and West Prussia; but down to the time of our last information the Netherlands Government had not relaxed their pre- cautionary measures against its introduction. From Asia Minor the intelligence is distressing. Two diseases of cattle-one of which is doubtless the plague-are said to be raging over an extent of country fully 200 miles in length, and destroying the animals by hundreds. Fully a fourth part of the If cittle had already been swept away by these peats. It is reported that every animal affected with one of them dies, but that several survive the attack of the other. The latter-named malady would appear to be allied to diphtheria, as the animals are said to die from suffocation produced by fibrinous effusions into the fauces and larynx. PREVENTION BETTER THAN CUSS.—Any one who will consider the important functions which the skin performs, will see at once the importance of attending to keeping the animal in a condition of personal cleanliness—if we may be allowed the expression. This is greatly aided by the care which is taken to have the stall kept perfectly clean-if stall-fed. It is indeed surprising how indifferent some are to the way in which the animals are housed. Dairy cows of great value will be allowed to live in a condition of what maybe called" perennial filth." Brushing or curry-combing the coat of the animal is a process of great value. Many animals are seriously injured by being allowed to lick off with the tongue the loose hairs which adhere to the coat; these being taken into the stomach, where they are frequently arrested—not passing off with the manure and form hard indigestible lumps of matted or felted hair. As to the mode of brushing or currycombing stock, when the operation is performed roughly it is no wonder that the animal becomes restive; but let the "spiriting be done gently;" then see how pleasantly and gratefully the animal receives the combing or brushing. It is in every way worthy of the work to be done with the eye of the master" to see that his animals are kindly treated. Those "put off" their food by cruel treatment will soon show whether or not they are paying for the process. AG RICULTURAL PROSPECT? -The week opened fine, sunny, and breezy. Afterwards it was somewhat un- favourable for the progress of autumnal tillage but this is now in a forward state, a great deal of wheat having been planted up to the present period in the primest order possible. In the later districts farmers are careless to get it in early, and prefer now, up to the end of the month, to plant all their wheats. The old sorts have had the run: White Chidham, Earl of Ducie's, Hunter's white, red straw, and rough chaff; in the reds—Browick, golden drop, nursery, and Spalding; whilst any with grander names seem not liked, at least by the old- fashioned farmers. Rivetts are only sown for a yielding crop, not to suit the millers in the manufac- ture of strong flour. This last sort stood the past season better than any other, yielding more also, as well as of a fair, useful quality. W es t-Riding of Yorkshire "The weather has been variable slight frosts and strong winds at times and as the rain has not yet been so much as to stop the work of the plough, farmers are now in a good position. Open weather will serve to help them to save the hay and straw stacks materially, so that farmers thrash or not, as best suits them." Lancashire: "The weather has been for the most part boisterous and winterly, preventing more or less the sowing of wheat and the progress of other out-door farming operations. The disease in the potatoes is more complained of." Suffolk We have had cold weather throughout the past week." East-Riding of Yorkshire: "The weather continues stormy but mild, but on the whole favourable for farmers proceeding with their wheat- sowing." Warwickshire: "The weather during the week has been colder and more seasonabl 4!- Uark- hme Express..ritr. W L-. ¡¥.
HINTS UPON GARDENING.
HINTS UPON GARDENING. KITCHEN GARDEN.—Asparagus and seakale may be forced by the roughest of methods when there are plenty of leaves and large deep pits. Any one can make up a forcing bed, on a plot of spare ground, by means of a few boards to form the boundary of the pit, or tnrf-walls where turf is plentiful. Five or six feet of leaves, without dung, will do very well, and when the roots are planted, rough boards put aslope to carry off rain and snow may be used to cover in lieu of glass-frames. During hard weather any amount of dry litter may be heaped over, and a supply of either of these delicious vegetables be had for the mere cost of the roots in the first instance. We need not here go into detail; but we mention this rough-and-ready method as a hint to amateurs who want a little work for the winter, and who have no conveniences for forcing by hot water and other expensive methods. Seakale should be completely blanched; but asparagus should have air and light when the shoots appear, as it is valueless unless the tops have two or three inches of green growth. Make plantations of rhubarb, sea- kale, asparagus, and horseradish. Roots of dande- lion, packed together in leaf-mould and put into gentle heat, will furnish a delicate salad in five or six weeks. Paskall's seakale pots are best for the purpose. This is a good time to make new drains, improve watercourses, and plant hedges. Sow early peail and beans on warm dry slopes; broccoli to be heeled over with their heads to the north. FRUIT GARDEN.—The sooner all bushes and trees to be planted are got into their places the better. In forming new fruit gardens, select first the most noted of the established varieties before seeking after novelties. Perfect drainage of the soil is a matter of the utmost importance in districts where heavy loams and clays prevail; but on hot, chalky, and sandy soils drainage is seldom needed. All kinds of fruits require a substantial nourishing soil; apples, currants, and gooseberries will grow well almost any- where, but better on a good loam in a warm climate f than on a bleak sand. All stone-fruits require a good loam, and on well-worked clay generally prosper. Soils containing calcareous matter are, if of good texture and substance, well adapted for the produc- tion of fruit; and in preparing old worn-out soils for frwit-trees it would be well to add a liberal dressing of chalk or old mortar. FLOWER GARDEN.—Bulbs ought to be all planted by this time; but if any remain out of the ground, get them in without delay. Take up tea roses that are in exposed situations, and lay them in by the heels in a shed out of reach of frost. Cut down fuchsias that are to remain out all the winter, and cover their roots with litter or coal-ashes. Pansies, pinks, and other choice things in open beds should have a little light litter sprinkled over them in frosty weather, or be protected with canvas on hoop. Look over plants in frames, and take off dead leaves, and keep the plants moderately dry. Roses may be planted now during dry weather; the ground to be in good heart, deeply trenched, and well manured. On loamy land broken up from grass roses do better than in ordinary garden soil, and those who grow for show should either use turf liberally, or break up meadow ground for their best plants. Get in briers quickly before the best are gone. Manettis layered during summer may now be divided and planted out in rows for budding next season.-Gardeners' Magazine.
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AT SHEFFIELD an engine-tenter who refused to have his child vaccinated, and said he would rather go to prison than comply with the law, has been com- mitted for 14 dasa in default of paying a fine of 20s. and costs. Two LADS named Johnson and O'Brien, the former of whom had beea twice convicted, and the latter was known to the police as the companion of thieves, hare been charged at Marlborongh-street with loitering about outside the Argyll Rooms for felonious purposes. O'Brien was sentenced to one month, and Johnson to two months' hard labour. The latter, OIl leaving the dock, exclaimed, 11 And It's, Lord May oar's day, too!"
" ' WAKING UP.
WAKING UP. The New York Herald comments rather unfairly upon the Women's Rights Convention, which has just been held at Hartford, and gathers into an article only such matter from its reports as will make fun. Mrs. Livermore began a tremendous speech as follows:— Prior to the war Jeff Davis was consulted in reference to a change of the State seal. It was proposed to make it a bale of cotton with a negro on top asleep; but Davis said it wouldn't do; the nigger might wake up. With the same cry of freedom you have wakened up the women, and for all time." Mrs. Julia Ward Howe sounded the trumpet in a poem, commencing- So we'll have a new flag, my brothers Our stripes—we have felt them all; Our stars, in the dusk of battle, Did mournfully pale and fall." And on the second day it appears that the following chorus was sung;— Fear not, we'll darn the stocking, And keep the cradle rocking— Clear the way!"
TALLY HO!
TALLY HO! The racing year is on its last legs, silk will be changed for scarlet, and cap and jacket give place to horn and hunting-whip. On all sides inquiries are rife as to the prospects of the hunting season. The winter of 1867-8 will long be remembered as one of the worst seasons for scent in the memory of the oldest votaries of the chase; last winter showed no great improvement, and even thus early grave doubts are expressed for the future. Cub-hunting in the woodlands is now over, but the reports from the majority of countries are far from encouraging, the dry, hot weather of the autumn having been adverse to the working of the young, and the scent in few in- stances otherwise than indifferent. The supply of foxes, however, is generally plentiful, though in Lei- cestershire the Quorn country is very poorly stocked, owing, it is said, to the increase of game-preserving. That this may be carried to such an extent as to prove highly prejudicial to the interests of fox- hunters is quite possible, but at the same time facts have again and again proved tha.t pheasants and foxes may be brought up in the same cover. However, if the Quom are badly off, the neighbouring packs re- port favourably, and the hunting-boxes at Melton and Market Harborough will doubtless furnish as large a contingent as ever to High Leicestershire.-Echo. ..ft;; 1 j :—' °
THE CORN TRADE.
THE CORN TRADE. Again we have had a sharp, winterly week, with the usual amount of fog. Wheat is hardy, or the young plants now up might be in danger from these fluctuations; but it is clear they prevent an equal course of growth, and Christmas may reach us with- out much of a show of plant. The grass is more likely to suffer, and leave a shorter bite for cattle, and there are quite enough hints given to have all the roots in pits well secured. We have all along held to the opinion that the season would be one of singular changes, and without any profession of weather wisdom, it has so turned out—the power of habit, in our notion, which Nature herself seems to have felt. Ample foreign supplies, larger ex- poctations, and dull accounts once more from London have taken off another shilling from the value of wheat, notwithstanding the admitted deficiency of this year's crop; and France, herself territorially so 1 near, has at last given way to a similar extent. The Black Sea fleet, the yet open Baltic, and the large shipments from America seem to forbid any hope of amendment before the close of the year. Still, low prices have so often found an unexpected turn of the tide, that holding now seems to incur but little risk and, should the enormous mass of British capital, which still increases, in spite of the outlay in rail- roads and innumerable schemes, be onoe directed to the corn trade, the difficulty of holding will be gone, and the diminished stores of home produce in the country lead to more active business, at improved rates. Last year's great crop gave to the farmer at this time 5s, per qr. more for his wheat than he is receiving now with a small yield, and there is no other crop for him to fall back upon as an indemnity for his loss. Potatoes were boasted of, but that boast was a mistake, as their low prices and rapii decay testify and we all know there has been sufficient disease among sheep and cattle to make the high price of meat no source of compensation. Free trade has hitherto been certainly more in favour of the public and the foreigner than growers at home, and our witnesses to this truth are the falling off of English supplies, and the large increase from abroad. In fact, we have turned the broad acres of Europe and America into English soil, only barring the freights. The sales of English wheat noted last week were 54,956 qrs. at 47s. Id., against 71,828 qrs. at 52s. 3d. in 1868. The London averages were 48s. on 4,117 qrs.—Mark-lane Express.
:A DEATH-BLOW.
A DEATH-BLOW. For a long time it has been doubtful whether the keepers and managers of mock auctions could fee effectually restrained by law, and several prosecutions against them have failed on technical grounds. A recent decision of the Court for Crown Cases Reserved, however, will probably dew);; a death-blow to the system of fraud and extortion practised by means of fictitious biddings for trumpery wares. In the case to which we refer, the prosecutrix had been enticed into a mock auction-room^-at Liverpool, where the prisoner acted as seller. Ho and his confederates pre- tended that she had made a bidding of 26s. for a piece of cloth. She denied that she had bid for it, but the men refused to let her go until she had paid. Terrified by their threats, she accepted the cloth, and gave the 26s. The prisoner was subsequently ap- prehended, indicted, and convicted of stealing this sum of money. The question for the superior court was whether the conviction was right; whether the payment of the 26s., under the duress and influence of threats, amounted to larceny. On behalf of the prisoner, it was urged that the prosecutrix actually accepted the goods in exchange for the money. Certainly such a transaction does n@t, in popular parlance, come under the designation of larceny, but rather of fraud or extortion. The judges, however, held that the indictment was technically correct, and that the act of the prisoner amounted to stealing. The decision will probably prove fatal to mock auctions.
SUICIDE OF A REGISTRAR.
SUICIDE OF A REGISTRAR. Mr. Frank Tibbits, the registrar of the Warwick County Court and clerk to the Warwick bench of county magistrates, committed suicide shortly before mid-day on Saturday, by shooting himself through the head with a revolver in his office, Church-street, Warwick. He was found by his brother, Dr. Tibbits, who called upon him on business, laid on the floor in a pool of blood, with the revolver by his side, quite dead. Mr. Briscoe, one of his clerks, had seen him a few minutes before, when he appeared in his usual health and spirits, and made arrangements for some business that was to come. before the county magistrates at twelve o'clock. He had also attended to his official duties at a sitting of the county court the previous day, in the Shire-hall, where, in the morning, he disposed of a number of un- defended cases, under the new act, until the judge, Mr. F. Dinsdale, took his seat on the bench. He remained in the court until the conclusion of the business, shortly before seven o'clock, when he 'appeared in his customary good health. Mr. Hesp, a solicitor at Warwick, saw him on business about half an hour before he was found dead, and did not notice any difference in his manner or demeanour. A piece of paper was discovered on the table in his office, on which was written, in the deceased's hand. writing, My head reels, I cannnot dictate with pen a word. May God have mercy on my soul." Mr. Tibbits, who was about 45 years of age, and a bachelor, had been in practice as a solicitor for nearly 20 years, had for many years been clerk to th magistrates and registrar of the county, was in affluent circumstances, and very highly respected. No cause is assigned for the rash act, but it is con- fidently stated that it is in no way connected with hia official appointments.
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ON SUNDAY, while the officers and other men in charge were at dinngr, ten of the boys on board the Mars training ship got into a boat moored alongside the vessel, and at once put off to the shore. They succeeded in landing near the Woodhaven Pier, and,: as the boat in which they were pursued had to be lowered from the deck, they were out of sight before the officers who had put off af ser them reached the* land* A diligent search was made, and all but two were caught. TriF, boCIFTy Foit TRE, -FDETECTION OP CHIL- DREN calls attention to an abuse in certain glass factories of the Seine-Inferieure. In one establish- ment, SO boys and girls, many from six to ten years of age, were found employed near a vat of boiling liquid, from four in the morning till three in the afternoon, with only two intervals of half an hour each, and without repose on Sundays or holidays. They -earn lOd. a day, and receive no instruction. Many of these children are said to be placed out by the administration of the hospices. AN INQUEST HAS BEEN HELD in Camberwoll upon the body of a man, 66 years of age, and a resi- dent in the Walworth-road. In a recent attack mad-0 upon him by garotters, he received such fearful injuries that death was the result. It appears that a gang of desperadoes has lately kept the neighbour- hoods of Newington and Camberwell in terror through ciie daring nature of their nocturnal attaoks. A verdict of wilful murder against some person vjumown was returned. THE NEW YORK PAPEIIS of the 29th ult. give an account of a terrible accident on the Mississippi, which took place on the 27th ult. The steamer Stonewall, from St. Louis to New. Orleans, when about 120 miles from the former city, took fire, and .out of 250 persons on board about 50 only were saved. A number of horses, cattle, andi mules also perished. There was a quantity of hay on board, and this is supposed to have caught fire from the lighted candles bf some passengers who were playing cards on deck, and thus caused the calamity. Among the victims were many women and children. "MAKEYOUR GAME) GENTLEMEN I,An Eng- lishman, just. cleaned out at Homburg, was passing through the Place de la,Concorde on the terrible 26th. The only sign of revolution he saw was Mi. Gagne, the mad advocate vWQ, had: sworn to proclaim from the foot of the Obelisk the abolition, of the Corpa Legis- latif, that he blushed, for Paris and Le Peuple Fa»»9a^3- The Britain with his- miad still on the ta, was heard to, mutter, Couteir gagne, Rouge gerd A few, rawutes after, be, said to his companion "What's, the Emperor's state in his. Wle i gaffla.?'
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GLEANINGS. DANG-BSOUS SYMPTOMS.—Shiverings and sub. sequent heat, or alternate shiverings and heat, accom- panied with, general aching and soreness, are the symptoms by which we may generally judge of the onset of some acute attack. Other preliminary symptoms occur, according to the particular nature of the disease setting in. For example, sickness generally accompanies the preliminary shiverings and heats of scarlet fever; sneezing and red eyes, those of measles; s,evere acute pain in the-back, those of small-pox. But these will come in for more particular notice under the head of the special disease, which they characterise. The grand thing to remember here is that shiverings and subsequent heat of the body are generally the indications of a smart attack of some kind. Let us now mention a few symptoms which may not be the forerunners of any acute attack but which must, never. theless, be seriously regarded; amongst these we may notice-sickness, loss of flesh, loss of colour, loss of strength.-Cassell's Household Guide. AN INDIAN BIASSACP.F,Of all the military outrages upon the Indians I ever heard of, the. achieve- ments of one "Colonel Chevington," of Colorado territory, surpass all. There need be no delicacy about publishing Ids name and deeds, for he was notorious enough for a season, and the records of his exploits I take from an officially published document. When the last "Indian war" was in force in Colorado a. large number of friendly Cheyennes, by permission of the general commanding, were allowed, in order to be out of harm's way, to camp at a place called Sand- creek. There, in fancied security, they remained until the arrival of the gallant colonel, who fell upon them with the utmost barbarity. Men, women, and 1 c children were indiscriminately massacred. In a few minutes all the Indians were flying over the plain in terror and confusion. A few, who endeavoured to conceal themselves under the bank of the creek, were shot down in cold blood, offering but a feeble resist- ance. From the sucking babe to the old warrior, all who were overtaken were deliberately mutdered.- CornhilZ Magazine. A TRACT DISTRIBUTOR'S MISTAKE.—I would not have you travel as a group of ascetics, or as frigid, formal icicles, incapable of being thawed into any genial emotion of joy, or pleasurable apprecia- tion of what you see and hear, like a monk with whom I travelled from Rome to Loretto forty years ago, whose monastic habit, rigid silence, constant perusal of a missal, sanctimonious air in presenting tawdry prints of St. Francis to the postillions, in lieu of a more material fee, rendered his companionship neither agreeable nor edifying to anybody throughout the route. Not much wiser was the act of a fellow- countryman of my own, in whose company I once oun travelled from Leghorn to Florence, who threw from the carriage window at every station we passed numbers of English tracts, wholly unintelligible to their Italian recipients. A single tract in their own language, enough to excite curiosity, and perhaps 11 4. secure perusal, might have been useful. My friend never spoke, nor noticed in any way the inmates of the carriage, but I pitied and forgave him when, in attempting to open conversation with him, I found he was deaf and dumb The poor man meant the tracts to speak for him, but his mistake was the unknown ,.ongue."—The Quiver. ELLISTON.rhe following anecdote conveys a perfect impression of Elliston's managerial manner,, and of the daring tact of his suddenly improvised statements. One night during the run of Black-eyed Susan, a tipsy sailor was very noisy and troublesome in the gallery nothing would pacify him, so Elliston at last appeared on the stage. May I know the cause of this unseemly clamour?" "Sit down, woman! Again I demand the reason of this dis- turbance Voice from the gallery It's this here sailor vot makes all the row!" Elliston, touched to the very soul: A British sailor the glory of our country's annals, the safeguard of our homes and families what is it he asks P" Rule Britannia roared the tar. You shall have it," emphatically pronounced the manager. Of what ship, comrade P" The Haggermemnon roared loud Boreas. Voice from the gallery: "Bottled stout! ginger beer!" "Woman, I say, sit down! "Just paid off, your honour!" interpolated the tar, touching his hat. Bring all your shipmates on Monday," continued the manager, stepping forward regally. Ladies and gentlemen, on Monday next a nautical, national, alle- gorical sketch will lie represented at this theatre, entitled The British Flag, in which the whole strength of the company will be employed. The musio expressly composed by Mr. Blewitt." (Aside to, the orchestra: "Give 'em' Rule Britannia." ) "Bring'em all on Monday!" cried Elliston once more, with a wink to the sailor a3 he strode off the stage. Bule Britannia was then sung by the whole company, and the play resumed. The nautical sketch of Monday was, we need scarcely say, a momentary inspiration of Elliston's. Nothing could daunt the impudence or abash the vanity of the man. THE GOLD FIELDS OF THE ORINOCO.—The next day was devoted to an excursion to Panama, which is the name given to a little clearing about two miles to the west of the town. It is reached by a path through the forest, which brings one suddenly upon a few miserable hovels, the abode of a few miners, who have been getting gold from loose quartz blocks that strew the hill-side, as well as by quarrying away the outcrop of lodes. To lessen the labour of breaking the rock, the miners have called in the aid of fire, for burn- ing renders the quartz far more friable. The miners never work upon any quartz which does not contain visible gold. All quartz which shows small particles of gold is pounded up by hand in iron mortars or, if the miner is poor, he simply buys an iron pestle, and burning out a hole in the stump of a tree, uses that as a mortar, and rigs up a stamping apparatus by the side. of his hut. The gold is easily got from the powdered auriferous quartz by amalgamating it in a batea. The batea is a wooden pan, which is partly filled with, the powdered ore; water and a little quick-, silver being added, and the whole kneaded up care- fully, the gold unites with the quicksilver, which i& thus re-united into one mass by washing. Squeezed through a cloth, the quicksilver leaves a solid mass of amalgam behind, and, on heating this- on a shovel, the quicksilver is driven off, MJ,di a cake of gold left behind. It is in this manner that all the gold quartz is. worked. Cassell's Illustrated.Travels. AMERICAN LEGISLATION. — In 1§64; American spool-thread makers discovered tha.t some of their English rivals were evading the duty by sending over fine thread in skein and hanks instead of winding it on spools as usual. A spool-thread lobby appeared in Washington, the result of which was that the tariff was amended with an eye single to the interests of American spool-thread Illanufacturers. A duty was placed upon unwound fine thread that was equivalent to prohibition. All was joyous in the circles interested, until, on enforcing, the new rates of duty, two dis- agreeable facts came to light. One, was, that very fine unwound thread is an essential article in some branches of manufacture; the other was, that the article could not be procured on the continsnt of America. Here was a coil. Another lobby went to Washington, on behalf of the manufacturers of sus- penders, gaiters, Listings, coburgs, and other similar products, many of whom absolutely could not con-, tinue business if the new duties were collected. One establishment did actually close; others were sus- pended others ran at a loss for a while; and mueh unwound thread, ordered before the spool-thread lobby had performed its work, was sent back to Europe. When the new lobby arrived in Washington, congress had adjourned, and nothing could save the em. barrassed industries but aninterpretatiou, of the-tariff that would admit unwound thread at lower rates for the purposes, to which it is essential. The sceretary of the treasury took the responsibility of sanction- ing a violation of the law. He decided that fine thread designed for sewing must pay the new rate, but fino thread to b0 used in certain maHufactnres should come in on the .old. By this decision only, says Mr. Wells, "several branches African industry, involving probably more of, capital and labour than was represented. hi the' :it,tide' which it was originally intended: to protect, were saved from absolute destruction." This was extremely comic, except to the few hundred families whose means of living were suddenly threatened or suspended, with- out warning, and without act of their own.—■" Log-- rolling at Washington," in fhe Atlantic Monthly.
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LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. Siit HENRY Buii WEB'S "Characters" are being pre- pared in a popular edition. There is even better news than this Sir Henry is preparing a new series of these Characters. They will consist of Lord Brougham, Sir Robert Peel, and M. Lafayette. By the dearth of John Brace, the Life of Prynne," on which he was engaged, remains unfinished. The man and the subject were admirably suited to each other. ME. ROBERT BUCHANAN, the poet, is so unwell with cerebral symptoms that literary labour has had to be entirely suspended, and is not likely to be soon resumed. He has been more or less unfit for active work for some years pist-a grievous misfortune to a professional man of letters, SIB JOHN LUBBOCK'S celebrated work Pre- historic Times, as illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modem Savages has attained the well-deserved honour of a second edition. It exceeds the first edition in bulk by about a hundred pages. It also contains many new facts, and many of the old chapters have been almost re- written. The book ranks among the noblest works of the interesting and important class to which it belongs. No less than four Parisian theatres have produced, or are about to produce, compositions bearing the title of Les Brigands. THE English play-going public, by whom Mr. Falconer, of Drury-lane Theatre, was much esteemed, will be glad to hear that his Charles O'Malley, in which he plays the principal character, at the Grand Opera House, New York, is as successful as his Peep o' Day was in London. THE Homewo/rd Mail announces the destruction by fire of a wing of the Emperor of China's palace which contained stores of books and of blocks for book- printing. The loss is serious. From its connection with literature, it was one of the best-known build- ings in the palace. Its name occurs on all books printed at the Emperor's charge for two centuries. A COLLECTION of Mr. Disraeli's speeches is in preparation. It will be published in a popular form. MB. HAF,RY PALMER, of Niblo's Garden, New York, has arrived in England, to effect engagements with Messrs, Sothem, Fechter, Buckstone, Byron, J. L. Toole, and other actors, actresses, and dramatists. THB now illustrated paper, which is to be entitled The Graphic, will appear on December 4. It will be edited by Mr. Sutherland Edwards, and its artistic staff numbers Mr. Armitage, A.R.A., Mr. Faed, R.A., Sir F. Grant, P.B.A., Mr. W. P. Frith, R.A., &-c. &c. The engraving is intrusted to Mr. W. L. Thomas. The Graphic is to be notable both for its literary and artistic excellence, CHARLES DICKS NS is engaged on a new work of fiction. Instead of Christmas, the work is not to appear till March. It will be broughs out in the old serial form. The postponement arises, we believe, from the slow progress of the work, for Mr. Dickens, although one of the most proline writers of our time, is also one of the slowest. Sir Bulwer Lytton, writing only three or four hours a day, has thrown off most of his novels at the rate of two or three a year. But Charles Dickens, like Tennyson, takes his leisure THEATRICAL SUMMARY.—With one single excep- tion-The Lady of Lyons at the Holbcrn Theatre, which is a great success, with Barry Sullivan as Claude Melnotte "—we have no novelty to record at any of the London theatres. Formosa, at Drury-lane,. is rapidly drawing to a close, the pantomime hands having been hired last week, and the rehearsals for the Beauty and the Beast, the "old Drory," panto- mime, will soon commence. The Turn of tiw Title, at the Queen's Theatre, is also about to be withdrawn, and visitors who wish to see the marvellous effects of the grotto soene with the rising tide, represented with wonderful fidelity to nature, must do so at onco. The Turn of the Tide may fairly be said to be the success of the season, since it has run over 140 nights t61 crowded houses. Indeed, with the com- pany now at the Queen's, it would ba strange were the piece other than successful. The coming novelty is a irama by Mr. Burnand, the author of the Turn of the Tide, and will be played in preference to a pantomime. Mr. Allerton at the>Iiyc3"!lill xias un- fortunately not been 80 successful as lie deserved with Forbidden Fruit. Perhaps the subject is one to which English minds are not yet accustomed, for the acting of Miss Shirley, Mr. Allerton, and Mr. Cognlan was all that could be desired. Romeo and Jul lei is now the piece de resistance, ai'.d is well put on the stage. Opera ùlntffé, we hear, is to be the next novelty at this theatre. Covent garden Opera House—which by rights should have taken pre- cedence—is well attended; the fact that Mdlle. Titiens, Mdlle. Ilma de Murska, and Mdlle. Sinico all take part in the performances being sufficient to attraot critical and at the- same time fashionable audiences. The Adolphi continues Lost at SCèÕ; the Olympic, Little Em'Ly; St. James's, She' Stoops to Conquer; Princess's, The Willow Copse; Globe, Not SuM a Fool as he Looks; which, by the way, is said to be a success, Byron, as "Sir Simon Simple," being especially good so.much so that the Prince of Wales personally congratulated him cn his per- formance. The Surrey gives vis The Great City; and Astley's, which has just been opened for the winter season by Mr. E, T, Smith, Lord Byron's Maeeppa, introducing "real horses," as of yore. The character of Mazeppa is admirably sustained by Mdlle. Lilian, a clever, graceful actress, and well supported by the other members of the company. The piece is put upon the stage in the true old Astley style.