The Welshman

I MR. BERNAL OSBORNE AT LISKEARD. Mr Bernal Osborne addressed a meeting of his consti- tuents on Friday evening at Liskeard, the Mayor of Liskeard presiding. Extra Parliamentary Utterances. Tlte Bristol Church Congress.—Mr Osborne's introduction to his remarks was an amalgam of these two subjects :-This is the season sacred, I may say, to peripatetio philosophers, who are now wander. ing about the country. We have already had addresses of various kinds, thick as the leaves which are now falling about us. This is the season for societies, meetings, and congresses of all sorts. You have social science meetings, olitioal meetings, scientific meetings, and ecclesiastical eongresses, all assembling. You have addresses, explain- ings, lecturings, and mystifyings upon all these subjects. Let me hope that my speech will not be of the latter class (a laugh). We have had lately the county M.P.'s. who at this season break loose to their constituents, going through the ceremony of teaching their rural grandmothers to suck eggs, and those poor ill-used farmers, who are supposed to know nothing, not even their own business, how to grow crops (laughter). Then we have the members of what is called the Social Science Congress, which I understand has recently made a great many converts, not so much by the heavy disquisitions which its members are rather in the habit of making in their assemblies, as through the medium of that peculiarly agreeable information which is conveyed by turtle and venison (laughter). These various things have been all going on in the provinces; and very lately, upon my road down here, I understand, and indeed all the daily papers hare given us the information, that there has been a meeting called an Ecclesiastical Congress—a very remarkable meeting. I say we haTe all read how a gent le- man connected with this town, a real live Protestant monk—the only living monk in existence -has been flutter- ing the bishops and electrifying the deans (a laugh). And, moreover, we must all have read, and I think with feelings of equal surprise as at seeing that there was a Protestant monk produced in these days-we must all have read of another kind of character-a man who appears to me to have been a very Saul among the prophets -a Mr Henry Hoare, who there proposed a plan of church extension so extraordinary that I have actually taken an r-xtract or two to bring before you from his remarks. Mr Hoare is the president-he is a man of vast parochial miad evidently- he is the President of the great Churchwardens' Association, who are now endeavouriog not only to extend-and very naturally so for churchwardens—the establishment through- out England, but also are giving out that they intend to bring Parliament to their feet by sending Christian men to that assembly (hear, and a laugh). And what is Mr Hoare's plan for sending Christian men to Parliament ? His plan is nothing more nor less than that of sending Christian men to gaol who will not pay their church rates. You will hardly believe this, because you men of Liskeard are so far fortunate that I believe you are never called upon to pay church rates, for the reason, as I am told, that some time ago some most zealous and laudable individual left property for the repair of the parish, by which means you are never called upon to pay the church rates, and therefore know nothing of the misery which attends them (hear). But what is Mr Hoare's plan ? Mr Hoare, as I told you, is the president of the Churchwardens' Association, and the plan for church extension is, as I have said, the sending of Christian men to gaol who will not pay church rates. He I says-" I have ten men in limbo who will not pay church rates. I have convicted 20 before magistrates at petty sessions; 12 have paid me, and 10 others declare they will not do so' I have no doubt I shall have to enter their houses and take their goods." This is Mr Hoare's plan for extending the influence of the Church of England. One excellent man—Canon Girdlestone—cried shame upon him, and I am happy to say that the plan was treated with the ridicule which it deserved (hear, hear). I have only stepped out of the way to make these remarks because it is most extraordinary, in the present year of grace, 1861, to see a Protestant monk proposing the celii)acy of the clergy, and Churohwarden Hoare proposing to extend the Church by putting men into prison (hear, hear). We have had other meetings of a political bearing. Mr Gladstone has been making a tour in the northern district; and, although I do not think Mr Gladstone has been particularly clear in his statements as to what the Ministry ought to do, still, no doubt, he has been employed in a very laudable effort. He has been making the best of everything, and being agreeable to everybody, being sent forward, I have no doubt, as the pilot balloon before the approaching general election (hear, hear). But, gentlemen, why do I stand before you this evenin-, ? I am here what is called "improving the occa- sion" (a laugh) Still, what is that occasion ? It is nothing more than this-I am here to give, as far as in my power lies, a straightforward account of my Parliamentary career and conduct in the last session-to explain, if I am able, the speeches that I have made, and to defend, if you require it, the votes which I have not given (hear, hear). I think that is a fair issue to place before you. I shall do that if you will give me your attention, and I shall abide, as I said before, by your verdict upon that issue (hear, hear). Now, this is an occasion for what may be called, for what is called by The Times newspaper, "extra Parliamentary utterances" (a laugh), a term which maybe understood to distinguish between what I may call intramural interpola- tions which are made at Westminster, and the extra Par- liamentary addresses which are made to our constituents; in fact, they are nothing more-those extra Parliamentary I utterancesthan political confessions, at which the penitent -I now being one-seeks absolution at the hands of the constituency for sins of omission, and it may he of commis- sion, and further, by taking st ick of his friends, seeks that he may be allowed a renewal of their confidence. The Session. -The hon. gentleman then proceeded to remark on the various political questions rdised during the past session —You will all remember that this last session of Parliament in this year of grace, 1861, opened with most stormy prognostications. The Fitzroy drum, or, as it is now called, the political drum, was hoisted very early in the session, and it was announced by the whips upon both sides-these gentlemen being, as I think, called whips very wrongly, inasmuch as they rather act the part of fishermen in throwing flies over the members (laughter)—it was early announced, in the language of Admiral Fitzroy, that there would be very dangerous words from very oppo- site quarters. To be sure nobody can deny that the climate has been somewhat dull at home but at the same time the tempest at the north of Europe was very violent; and though very many ill-natured people observed that Her Majesty's Government had no domestic policy, it could not be denied that from their great experience it was expected they would have peculiar abilities for managing our foreign affairs. I think they have shown that they have peculiar abilities for entangling us in foreign embroilments (hear, hear). Well, there were many people who consoled them- selves for the Government not undertaking to bring in a Reform bill for home consumption, with the idea that they were about to advise his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and suggest a Reform bill for his subjects in Poland, or rather the Duchy of Warsaw. Well, it was then regarded as a great consolation for not having a Reform bill for England that we should have one for Poland—(hear, hear) and although we had no very great measures brought into Parliament for England, Ireland, or Scotland, there are many people, and I dare say a great many persons in this room, who console themselves for that by the consideration that we have lectured Germany, bomb arde djap an, defied the Ashantees, and bullied the Brazils (laughter). That may be a very great consolation to some people, but confess I am not one of those ardent spirits who look upon those things either with sympathy or approval (hear, hear). The Budget. -The hon. gentleman then maintained at some length, taking as his text the Queen's Speech at the close of the session, that the result had been nil, but by exception praised Mr Gladstoue'a finance The budgets of Mr Gladstone would form the financial backbone of any Administration --(hear) -and Mr Glad- stone deserves the greatest credit and the greatest assist- ance from the people of .his country for devoting his power and his intellect in preparing these budgots, and lightening the taxation of this country (applause). Now, what has been the fact with regard to Mr Gladstone ? Up to the year 1859 the expenditure of this country was increasing at a monstrous rate—(hear, hear.)—but since Mr Glandstone has been the Chancellor of the Exchequer—since the year 1850 -he has out down the taxation from 72 millions in the former year to 67 millions in 1861 (hear hear). That is a beginning, and a very good beginning, I think (hear). Air Gladstone has reduced your income tax; he has in part reduced that monstrous and unjust tax called the duty on fire insurances be has reduced your duty upon sugar he has given you-I am speaking now to the industrial work- ing classes-he has given to you a bill, upjn which I had very great doubts as to its propriety at fir-it-I mean the Government Annuities bill (applause), but which upon further examination I was convinced was a most benefioial measure to the industrial working classes (hear, hear). I was in some doubt about it at first, I tell you candidly, for I have always thought that it was not the part of the Govern- ment to interfere with the business of tl.e private specu- lator. The evils of a paternal Government are that it leads men to look to the Government to do business which is not properly the duty of Government (hear). But the case was so strongly made out as to the way in which the poor men were spoiled and deceived by many companies which were composed of schemers—as I may call them—I could not resist the case which was brought before me, and I gave my entire and hearty support to the bill (applause). That [ think was a good measure, and I must give my meed of approbation to the financial policy which has dis- tinguished her Majesty's Government (hear) —for if I am not always disposed to act with the Government and to support it, at any rate I will never keep back the expression of my approval where I think it is due (applau3c). Pulani and America. frie hon. gentleman insisted that home politics had been neglected because of undue atten- tion to foreign affairs, expressing the opinion that, so long as it was their pride to have what was called a spirited foreign policy, they would have no domestic policy." What is the effect-just look at the effect-of concentrat- ing all the attention and all the energies of this country upon foreign politics ? What is the effect but to blind you to what is going on at home ? (Applause.) I am as good a well-wisher to Italian unity as any man, and 1 am ready to give it my sympathy I have no affection for that respec- table gentleman, the Pope of Rome, but I must say this also, that I have no idea of prejudicing English economy for the sake of Italian unity (hear, hear.) The hon. gentle .nan then applied these, principles to the case of Poland, maintaining that intervention had been pronounced in the highest degree inexpedient by the best authorities, including Earl Russell, and that we had no business to propose six points of a Reform bill to Russia, stimulating the Polish subjects to revolt Then why, he added, did Lord Palmerston hold one language to America and another to Russil ? What so foolish and so wrong as his interference with Polaud what so wise and so right as his conduct with regard to America I want to know why the same rule was not applied to both ? Why have more sympathy for Poland than you have for the slaves of the Southern States ? You know America is a very good customer, and won't stand any nonsense, and that is the reason why you do not interfere with her (hear, hear). So anxious am I not to interfere that I would not express an opinion npon the question for a man may do some mischief who could not do any good. I say, however, that we have pursued a right course towards America, and that we have no business to interfere (hear, hoar), That was to be lamented for the sake of our common humanity but at the Stille time, as Englishmen, we cannot help remembering that those peo- ple upon both sides, who are showing this iudomitable per. severance, and making this stupendous strusglc -that those people are desoended from ourselves (applause). We must feel pride in that. The reason they have to fight is great; for if the Southern States are separated from the North, the greatness of America is set for ever (hear, hear)- There- fore it is a great struggle I can fully understand it; I can fully enter into it; but I can give no opinion as to the result. Looking at it as a sensible man, looking at all the circumstances, I cannot help thinking that, however long the contest may be, it must be like that of two gladiators in the arjna, with whom, science being equal, weight will tell, and I believe the North will eventually make a solitude, and call it peace (hear, hear). It is not for us to vindicate either party is for us to stand by and be as little offensive to either as ve are capable of being. Therefore, if I deary the conduct of the Government for interference in Poland, I give them every credit for the neutral attitude they have assumed with regard to America (hear, hear). The State of Parties.— The hon. gentleman justified his abstinence from the great division of last sessiou, reite- rating his well-known opinions on the question. This led him to remark as follows on the state of Patti as I know it would be said Oh look at Mr Osborne, he is letting in the Tories." Letting in the Tories! Poor inno- cent individuals, I want to know where they are. If that great'Pagan philosopher Diogenes were to descend into the iOlplSre and inflammable atmosphere of the Housa of (" m- Dions, provided with a patent Sir Humphrey Davy's lamp, and were to endeavour to discover a Tory party, after some difficulty he might find three pure Tories—all most excel. lent, honest, energetic men. Diogenes would say, I think that the member for North Warwickshire, Mr Nowdegate, it one." He would say "How are you, Newdegator" (Laughter ) He would also see in the member for West Norfolk, Mr Bentinck, another Tor) and as he was a man of great judgment, he would recognise, I think, as the third Tory the noble lord, the member for Tiverton (laughter). There is no reason why the Tory should not be popular. We kave an idea that he is a horned, winged, and tailed animal, who is out of date. (A hiss by a youth.) That young gen- tleman who is sibilating there does not recollect that for 50 years LofdPaltnerston was a Tory. The first speech made by Lord PaUnerston was in 1809, in defence of seizing the Danish fleet at Copenhagen. He was a violent Tory then, and voted against reforms of all kinds, and it curiously hap- pens that in his last speech he resigned Denmark to her fate (hear, hear). The most efficient support to Lord Palmer- ston is given by the extreme Tory section else why arc church rates still standing ? I believe they are of no use to the Church herself. I am a Churchman, because I think the Church is the most tolerant of all sects, and if it were not for the kind of support which Lord Palmerston receives, church rates would soon go the way of all flesh. But what hai become of the Tory party ? I have my own way of ac- cointing for its disappearance. The sentiments of tho men wto represented it are changed, their notions are altered, and I can only account for it in one way. You have remarked a spteoti recently made in this country to the farmers, and wtich contained hints for them on crossing and sheep- brteding, in which the speaker (Mr Disraeli) reoommended thf-t the Southdown etves should be crossed with the Cots- wod ram, and said the mutton would be improved and the wo'l better. On this it appears to me the loaders and flock- masters of the House of Commons have acted. The Whig wethers, which unfortunately have not been very productive -(or there have been no statesmen come of them—have been mixed with the political Cotswolds, the Peelites, but the Wklg mutton has not been improved and as for the Tories, sinJe I have been in Parliament there has been great cry of measurest but very little legislative wool (great laughter). I hive remarked that the air of Opposition, the being plantjd oul, in fact, in the Opposition beds, results in a crop of economic promises: but the being potted in the parterres of Downing-street results in a stunted growth, and in fact the Liberal measures are like the American aloe, I think it is, wtich flowers once in a hundred years (laughter). We have in truth, very little progress. You have all your telescopes taking abroad nothing ili being done at home here there is universal apathy, and the names of Whigs and Tories ate bscomin^ by-words. I cannot see why some new combina- ton should not be tried (hear, hear). Is there any stites- otan more liberal in voting, speaking, and writing than Lord S anley, who has not only voted and spoken for the abolition of church rates, but has written aa able pamphlet in favour ot it, and pupperts reform Why am I, then, to be deterred fprn voting for Lord Stanley because he sits on the opposite beuches ? Why am I to be bound simply by a ptrty restriction. "Party is the madness of many," as Birke said, "for the gain of the few" (hear, hear). Tie time will come when a change will take place, and the Government chariot of moderate progress and sen siile reform will go on its way (applause). I hesi- ta.e not to declare that the Liberal party has neither a lag nor a leader, and we are in the slough of despond. Who would have ever thought that we should have arrived ata time when repose and thanksgivings are enjoined upon Uf by Lioeral Ministers as the euthanasia of the great Libe- rsl party ? However inclined to be thankful, we are not ilsposed to rest. Ministers exist by the support of friends, pLrties exist by the vivacity of their principles. The other diy Lord Palmerston said that his Ministry was composed of tie ablest men in the world. I don't dispute that, but there a:e many people who hold high offioe, who are only selected because of their high connexions, and who, if they depended on their own abilities, would be reduced to blowing the bel- ltws of their parish organ. If they are able they are rather ildolent, for they don't produce much. They remind me of _L- _IJ f)¡\ ..L- _1_- A P4L&@L, niiu was buiu ou years ago 43 ueiug tue Cleverest parrot in Europe, for he was able, to say The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but tho Bill," which was a very pjpular cry at that time. A most respectable old lady gave X-500 for the bird, but for a whole year after it was bought it uever uttered a cry. It ate its fo Jd, it drank, and was in capital condition, but not a word would it would speak. The old lady remonstrated with the man she bought it of, and he said to her, when told that it would not speak, Oh, no but it's a devil to think." I think that is very much the case with out domestic policy. Before the Government wa, in office we shook our fingers at them we gave them a wtary time we derided them for not being Reformers, and excommunicated them for not retrenching. Well, we gotin, and we're devils to think (laughter). The head of the present Ministry is, I grant, a fine specimen of a fine old English gentleman. I separate him as what he is pri- vately from what he is politically. I know of no measure, (fork 1809 down to the present day, which he has produced or put his impression. lie is an acute, able man, and having beet all his life in office very naturally does not want to get out of it, but he occupies very much the position of the Duke of Wellington in his later years, who, we must oandidly admit, adhered to old systems, and, grateful for victories won by the old Brown Bess, would not hear of the Eafield rifle, So with Lord Palmerston, who naturally look to the weapons with which he has achieved his triumphs, as being those upon which he must still rely. There is no doubt that Lord Palmerston ia a tenant for life where he is, and a convenant would seem to be in the lease, "without improvements" (laughter). I will read you some lines written in 1742 by a famous Whig squibber, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, who addressed an ode to the first Viscount Palmerston, who I believe was the father or grandfather of the present lord, and was appointed Chief Remembrancer of Ireland. A few stanzas of the squib ran thus "One Stanza more and I have done. May Heaven preserve Lord Palmerston And since for life he's in We must like others stay, Till death or his or ours shall pay I The wages of our sin." ^reat laughter.) So say 1. If it is your wish that he should be supported, I shall not gainsay it. but I cannot vote that black is white when I know it to be otherwise, and I cannot be reduced to a mere delegate. What chances have you for any useful and moderate reforms under exist- 109 circumstances ? The infant lisps of the present Pariia- ment were for reform and despised retrenchment; but when the throes that are approaching shall have arrived you will have the old thing stammered out-reform and retrench- rnen (laughter). Well, are you going to be taken in? I You have no chance now the principal people interested are the lawyers, who for a consideration are baked in hot committee rooms. Railways are better represented than Principles, An independent man haung a small fortune has no chance against a great railway contractor who promises to bring a line into the town, and, in fact, the House of Commons is now, as I have before declared it to be, a great rich, commercial man's club, and the nar- row giuge of private interests is made subservient to the great broad gauge of public good (applause). Lately we have had Mr Gladstone making a tour through the country but he has not given any inkling of what the Government are going to do. He said that he looked with shame on our treatment of Ireland. I think he should have remembered that his Government have done nothing to ameliorate in any way the condition of that country. And, if they have not treated Ireland with systeoutic insult, they have, at any rate, treated her with studdied neglect. We all remem- erthe exertiom of my excellent friend, Sir John Trelawny in favour of the abolition of church rates. He has thrown up the question in diigust-and why? Because the Ministry Jo not vote for him, and no private member can be expected to settle such a question as this which none but a Government can settle, and which could not be dis- posed of except by the proposal of measures palatable to both parties engaged in the struggle. Thus too, the Gov- ernment was pledged to the extension of the franchise, and this great question has been left to Mr Baines, the excel- lent member for Leeds. I am not what is termed an out- and-outer. I am for opening the portals of the constitution gradually so that I may admit the educated meohauio, who is as fit to exercise the franchise as myself or any man in this room (applause). In times of agitation the Govern- ment have said, We will not yield to fear." A dead calm comes, and then they tell us that nobody cares about it. Now if there wa3 a time for a respeotable settlement of that question it is now, and that it is due is surely evident when we have seen the millions of Lancashire be laving in a way that would have dono honour to the philosophers of old (applause). I say I am not ons of those who have ever bleated for universal suffrage, which I regard with dread. I look to France and see there the effects of the desposition of one min, and I look to America and stJe the despotism of a mob and I am glad, then, to find that there is a middle course, and I am persuaded that England would be prouder stronger, and safer if a great portion of the mechanic class were admitted to the franchise (cheers).

A man named Charles Eaton De Witt, who is in custody on a charge of having defrauded certain parties out of wine to the extent of nearly £ o000, was brought up on remand before the Lord Mayor on Satirday. Mr Stunner, to whom he had made over the dock warrants for this amount of wine, now produced them all but twelve, on which, he said, he had advanced i-Jo, which he wished to recover before giving them up. He agreed, however, to produce them at the next examination, aud the prisoner was again remanded. A HINT TO THE LADIES.—If you want your L.ces and LINENS dressed in a superior Style (and who does not), you should use only the GLEMFIELD STARCH, and you will be delighted with the elasticity and beautiful finish it gives to those articles. The GLENFIELD STARCH is exclusively used in the Hoyal Laundry, and Her Majesty's Laundress pro- nounces it to be the finest Starch she ever used. It was awarded two Prize Medals for its superiority, and the manufacturers have received numerous testimonials from all classes, all agreeing as to its excellent qualities. We would respectfully caution our fair readers when buying the GLENFIELD STARCH to see that they get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted, The manufacturers have much plea- sure in stating tnat they have been appointed Purveyors to 11. U. II. the Princess of Wales.

THE WEEK AT HOME. The will of the late Mr George Beaufoy, a large vinegarj maker, of Lambeth, has been proved under X2.50,000. Two boats bearing the English flag were recently seized on the Nile with 850 slaves on board. Mr Grantley Berkeley is about to publish his 11 Life and Recollections." The Norfolk News states that the liquidators of the East of England Bank have declared a first dividend of 10s in the pound. An Edinburgh solicitor has been sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for forging tho name of a client to certain legal documents. James Walley, blacksmith, charged at Staffordshire quar. ter session with biting part of a min's nose off, at Kings winford, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment The London police have apprehended a German who had in his possession a number of the counterfeit sovereigns to which we recently directed attention. The late Earl Cadogan, on commencing life, had seven lives between him and the earldom. The present Earl Pnu- lett had six.-Court Journal. A letter has been received from M. du Chaillu, the cele- brated gorilla hunter, stating that he has shipped a lively specimen of that amiable monster, and that he hopes it will reach Lond on in safety. HEALTH OF MR. ROEBUCK. -The hon. member for Shef- field is so seriously indisposed that he has been compelled to forego two engagements to appear in public-one at Sheffield and the other at Iluddersfield. A CANDID Co.rESSIO.Z. It is my misfortune," says Lord Lyttelton in a letter to the Times, that whatever I say in public is always turned into nonsense by the repor- ters. It is my own fault from speaking too rapidly and indistinctly." The newly-discovered statue of young Hercules, found at Rome, has been bought for about 11000, and will be placed in the Museo Volecano. It was feared at first that its feet were gone, but they were discovered between its legs, cut off for preservation. It is stated that Mr William Henry Gladstone, eldest son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will be brought for- ward at the next general election as a candidate for the representation of Blackburn. Mr Gladstone was born in June, 1840, and is consequently in his 24th year. A charming peeress, Lady C-, residing in Oxfordshire, expects, after fifteen years of domestic bliss, an interesting event very shortly which will cause great rejoicing to her noble lord, as well as to the county at large where they are so truly popular.—Court Journal. LORD PALMERSTON'S BIRTH-DAY.—Oa Thursday Lord Palmerston completed his fourscore years. He was born on the 20th of October, 1784, and entered Parliament in 1806, in his 22nd year. He has, therefore, been 58 years in Par- liameot. Of these, 46 have been passed in office, and for aeren of them he has held the post of Prime Minister. The treasurer of the South Staffordshire Infirmary has received from the executors of the late Mr Richard Thomp- son, of Bilston, a cheque for X3000, a legacy, free of duty, bequeathed to the institution by that gentleman, in addi- dition to upwards of 91000 contributed during his life- time. Mr H. Burton, one of the justices at the petty session for the hundred of Condover, states, in reference to the alleged conviction of two farm labourers for not attendance at church on a Sunday, that the charge against Mr Mason's labourers was for absenting themselves from their master's senice before the term of their contract was completed, and it was upon that charge alone the justices adjudioated. The Liverpool people have taken up the idea of erecting a statue to Mr Gladstone, either in the Town-hall or St. George's-hall. A Liverpool contemporary states that the scheme has met with the approval of gentlemen of influence of all politics and that, should it be carried out, it will be with the consent of Mr Gladstone himself. THE GREAT FLOAT AT BIRKENHEAD.—It was agreed at the weekly meeting of the Mersey Docks Board, on Thurs- day, to accept the tender of Sir William Armstrong and Co. for the supply of hydraulic machinery for the northern en- trance to tne Great Float, at a cost of about £ 40,000. It was explained that the expenditure would result in a consi- derable reduction in the employment of manual labour, and a consequent savin g of expenditure. To PRESERVE WOOD.-The following method is used in Germany for the preservation of wood:—Mix 40 parts of chalk, 40 of resin, 4 of linseed oil, melting them togelher in an iron pot; then add 1 part of native oxide of copper, and afterwards, with care, 1 part of sulphuric acid. The mixture is applied while hot to the wood by means of a brash. Wheu ] dry it forms a varnish as hard as stone.-Builder. The incendiary mania is stated to have spread to the eas- tern counties, and stack-burning is now a very ordinary spectacle in Norfolk and the surrounding oounties. A local newspaper states that three fires have oocurred in the dis- trict during the paat week, each of which was unmistakably the result of a deliberate crime. In each case large stoles of grain just harvested, numbers of poor dumb animals, as well as buildings and agricultural implements, were de- stroyed by the flames. A singular accident happened at a fair, held at Pinchbeck, near Spalding, the other day. A man was drinking in one of the booths, when a bullet from an adjoining rifle gallery struck him, passed through his arm and chest, and lodged in his lungs, causing almost instant death. The plate at the far end of the spout through which persons shoot at these rifle galleries, it was stated, had accidentally slipped down. The jury, who sat to inquire into tho circumstances, were unable to agree upon a verdict, and were discharged. KEY-HOLE LAND.—During thejast Somerset registration a party claiming for a cottage at Cheddar, being asked for his doods, stated he had none. He was asked whether he considered the property freehold or leasehold, and replied, Narn on it—'tis keyhole land." Being asked for AYDa- nation, he stated that the owners of these properties never put themselves to the expense of deeds, but on buying and selling, the seller went outside, looked the door, and de- livered the key to the purchaser, who then entered into possession, and held on until a new owner was found. After some discussion, all the names were erased from the register. A NEW ENGLISH TENoR,-The new English Opera Com- pany commenced its first season in Covent Garden Theatre on Saturday, the opera being Masaniello." The hero was personated by a performer hitherto unknown here-Mr Charles Adams, an Englishman, who, having been born at Leeds, left this country in bis infancy for America, where he lived till the present civil war broke out. He has since appeared on the stage in Holland, Germany, and Hungary, and has just finished a suscestful engagement as principal tenor at the Royal Opera, Berlin. He oreated a very favour- able impression on Saturday night. The commission to whom was entrusted some time ago the duty of inquiring into and reporting upon the state of metalliferous mines, which are now under the same regula- tions as coal mines, have just made their report. They say that the health of the workmen in these mines is unsatis- factory, and they make several recommendations, the general effect of which may be described to be the conforming of the metalliferous to the regulations of the coal mines. THE CHAMPION PLOUGHMEN OF ENGLAND.—An exciting match has just come off at the Glamorganshire meeting, near Cowbridge. A Welsh youth of 17, the son of Mr. Cornelius, a farmer in the neighbourhood, carried off the the All England prize with one of Messrs. Howards' ploughs against their own champion ploughman and a crack plough- man sent from Ipswich by Messrs. Ransome. Yesterday two other all England matches came off-one at Chepstow, and the other near Shepton Millett, when Messrs. Howards' men wou both prizes against Messrs. Ransomes' plough- men and several local competitors.—Morning Post, Oct. 20 Mr Beresford Hope has explained his plan for establish- ing Collegiate Churohes. He wants to place in every new parish large enough to yield EI,200 a year, a rector, sup- ported by three senior and two junior fellows, who should work together on system and under the rector's guidance. He does not wish to keep them celibate or force them against their will to live together, but only to avoid the existing waste of power. The only objection we have to offer is that the waste of power created by putting so many clergymen under control would be greater than the waste caused by over-division. Half the energy of the fellows" would be thrown away in resisting the rector, and no law could ever define their respective jurisdiction. Mr Hope says the scheme works in America,which is possible; bucin England, where wehave ahundred sects,not one has ever attempted to divide the ministerial power. It is hard enough for a reotor to "guide" curates whom he can get rid of, bat Heaven help the parish priest who has to make five fellows" pull in one team Mr Hope forgets that obedience is not a virtue lauded by the English Church. The Baby is home again, to the delight, we presume, of all England, and certainly to the immense relief of all news- paper readers. The child landed at Ifull, and itti arrival I produced an outbreak of flunkeyism beyond even English precedent. The Mayor actually went in his robes to visit a baby not twelve months old, the Sheriff's wife gave him a fur rabbit, which say the reporters, he appeared to ap- preciate," a vast crowd assembled to see him pass, and the cow which supplied the infant Prince with milk during his passage from the Elbe to the Hamber was purchased by Mr. Aderman Abbey, of Hull," that dignitary obviously considering the animal likely to be historic. The Queen should put a stop to this kind of folly, which if it con- tinues will lead to a sharp reaction against the worship now paid to the Royal Family. Already a journal which once declared that the winds would blow gently on a tree because the Queen had planted it is indulging in pretty sharp ridioule, and aldermen who now buy oows because they feed Royal babies will soon be ashamed of caring about the babies themselves. It will not do to let the English people raise their princes into idols. They always break thom in the end.-Spectator. Mr Cobden is fighting the Scotsman. That journal re- cently affirmed that Mr Cobden had repeatedly expressed a wish to see a Press which should retrain from discussion and confine itself to reporting events, and Mr Cobden asked the editor to quote any such speech, offering to give X20 to any hospital if he could produce it. The Scotsman in reply produces a speech, at Holm firth in which Mr Cobden said: People would resort to news-rooms not to read the leading articles-for I regard the leaders as of far less importance than the articles of news in the paper. 1 believe these original articles, so far as guidance and direction are concerned, are the least useful and interesting parts of the papers-facts and intelligence being more sought after by readers." The tone of that passage implies that Mr Cobden dislikes original articles, but does not prove that he hoped to see the Press refrain from them, still less does it bear out the assertion that he actually said so. Unless the Scotsnzaii can produce a much clearer utterance than this it has acted hastily in attributing to Mr Cobden an opinion which, whether he holds it or not, he is much too worldly wise to have admitted in public. A IIIT TO HOUSEWIVES.-At this season of the year the important process of bleaching and dressing Laces and Lin- ens for Spring and Summer wear commences, we would particularly call the attention of our fair readers to the Glenfield Patent Starch, an article of primary importance in the getting up of these articles. The Glenfield Patent Starch is specially manufactured for family use, and such is its excelieuoe, that it is now axclusively used in the Royal Laundry, and Her Majesty's Laundress pronounoes it to be the finest Starch she ever had. Her Majesty's Laco Dres ser says it is the best she ever tried, and it was awarded two Prize Medals for its superiority. The manufacturers have much pleasure in stating that they have been ap- pointed Starch Purveyors to H.R.M. the Prinoass of Walec. The Glenfield Patent Starch is sold by all Grocerr, Chandlers, &o., &c. It is said that a Chief Judge in Bankruptcy will be pro- posed next year, to aid the working of the new laws. An engineer, named Cooper, attempted to cut his throat in the public streets in Whitechapel, on Saturday morniag. It seems he had met a young woman whom he had pro- mised to marry walking with another man, and this bad such an effect on him, that he took a razor from his pocket and at once perpetrated the rash act. There is little hope of his recovery. Mr Ducane has addressed his constituents in Essex, and explained to them that the Liberal party were beaten over and over again in effect last session, and only not beaten at last on the principle that invalids survive people of strong health, and that a creaking door hangs the longest." The explanation was a poor one. The reason why the Liberals lasted on was not that they were in ill-health, but that the Conservatives were believed to be in worse. The only alternative was to substitute for a door which creaks fJ in shutting, a door which would not shut at all. ™ Dr. Colenso has had a long correspondence with the Archbishop of York about the meaning of that prelate's per- mission granted to A Layman" to dedicate his work on the Pentateuch to bis Grace. Dr. Colenso thinks that per- mission at least implied that no deadly and fearful errors were continued in A Layman" has admitted the principle, though not the full application of his own method of criticism. The Archbishop of York says he only granted the permission because the Layman" had published a good book once before, that he now regrets be gave that permission, and that he has had no time to read the book so dedicated to him, The Archbishop would find in it nothing much more dangerous than some of the essays he himself edited, where the same principal" was partially admitted. But the Archbishop would probably scarcely wish to own, under the pressure of orthodox tests accumu- lated in 1864, all the critical principles he accepted oheer- fully in 1862. -Spectator. DEATH OF A VESSEL'S CREW AT SEL.-The Marianne, barcantiue, 142 tons, Captain Lamzed, of Dartmouth, from Sierra Leone, with palm oil, for London, put in at Plymouth en Friday, with all her crew dead of African fever. She is about 70 days from Sierre Leone. When she left she had on hoard the captain, crew of six hands, one passenger, a West Indian black, and two distressed British subjects, seamen, sjon after her sailing the crew sickened with the coast fever, and five of them died within a few days, the sixth died about 20 days before she reached Plymouth. The distressed Bri- tiah subjects were sick all the passage, and could not render any assistance. The captain, for the best part of the voyage. had to navigate the vessel with the aid of the passenger and the West Indian black. They also Buffered from hot fever on the passage.— Western Morning News. DEATH OF CAPTAIN HOWARB.—The inquest on the body of Captain Howard, son of the late Hon. and Rev. Mr Howard, rector of Swords, and heir to the earldom of Wick- low. was held on Friday. The evidence showed that he died on Wednesday last at Dolphin's Barn, near Dublin, in the house of a woman named Mary Lloyd. From the Tuesday week previous to the day of his death he seems to have eaten no nourishing food, to have taken nothing by whiskey and water, remained in bed nearly all day, and went to tho theatre in the evening. During the whole woek, though ill and unable to retain food on his stomach, he refused to see a doctor, though the woman, Mary Lloyd, often asked him to let her fetch one. She was alone with him when he died. Mr Porter, a surgeon, said he had made a careful post mortem examination of the body. He found his lungs healthy, his heart soft, his liver much enlarged, and in the condition termed a whiskey liver." The immediate cause of his death was an attack of dissentery occurring in a broken-down constitution, and a verdict to that effect was returned. A CHALLENGE.—Mr Palmer, who still signs himself Manager of the Davenport Brothers," has written us, pledging himself to the following iisue :—" If Mr Tolmaque or any other person will by legerdemain produce precisely the same phenomena as those to which the Brothers Daven- port gave rise, undor precisely the same conditions, to the satisfaction of a majority of the noblemen and gentlemen who were present at the seance held last Friday evening at the Hanover-square Rooms, I will pay Y,100 to any of the dramatic funds that may be selected. The party, of course, attempting, should he fail, to pay a like sum to the same institution." HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT. Disorders of the kidneys, known by the deeply seated pain in the back and scanty secretion of water, can be arrested in their distres- sing I and rapid course by these regulating Pills. Their highly tonic and strengthening properties prevent the impoverishment of the blood, and the derangement of oir- oulation characteristic of kidney disease, and often ending in partial or general dropsy. Experience has proved the almost unvaried success obtained when Holloway's Ointment is well rubbed over the regions of the kidneys. This treatment will relax the hot and parched skin, overcome the attendant costiveness, and induce a copious secretion by the kidneys- symptoms which are the harbingers of disease departing and health returning. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND DISCOVERY OF £ 100.— On Friday, at the Preston sessions, a man named Joshua Bond who for five years has occupied a respectable position at Fleetwood, was charged with stealing two Bank of Eng- land notes belonging to the new Fylde Timber Company. The circumstances of the case was of a very singular charac- ter. It appeared from the evidence that on the 6th of October, 1860. a man named John Walkden, residing at a place called Church, in East Lancashire, paid two £.50 Bank of England notes to a little man named Richard Mayor, in the employ of the new Fylde Timber Company at Fleet- wood. Mayor received the money in the presence of the prisoner Bond, who advised him to put it in his pocket book. In the evening Mayor, whilst making up his accounts, for the purpose of handing bis cash over to the company, missed th? t?.? ?n ?t.M .< — -?..h< c,?e nn Rnnt. "? t^— suspicion naturally fell upon h»o honesty. ? was appro- hended, placed in the lock-up at Kirkham, and afterwards brought before the magistrates at Blackpool. Bond was one of the witnesies who gave evidence against him, but nothing very positive could be elicited, and eventually Mayor was discharged. But he took the matter deeply to heart. The public seemed to point to him as being the guilty party but he was conscious of his innocence, and the fact that others could not feel the same, so preyed upon his mind that his health gradually gave way, and from a strong, stalwart young man he become a paralyzed, bed ridden invalid. About two months ago a new phase in the case transpired. A little boy, whilst playing in a yard connected with the premises of the New Fylde Timber Company at Fleetwood, found a pocket book. On examining it he shouted out" Notes!" Another boy then came up and afterwards an official of the company, who was passing, took charge of the book, opened it, and at once saw that its con- tents were two X.50 Bank of England notes, and several settled bills, &a., which had been made out to Bond who W. that time was officiating as company's salesman. Suspioion then fell upon Bond, and he was apprehended. On being charged with stealing the notes, he made a statement to the effect that he lost his pocket book a few months before that the book which had been found was his; but when he lost it there were no notes in it, and that some one must have put those found in it. Evidence was given showing that the notes found in the pocket book were the same as those paid over to Mayor by Walkden that after they were paid Mayor placed them in a bag that he was then requested by Bond to take some consignment notes to an office in Fleet- wood that both he and Bond went out of the company's offioe at the same time that Mayor was absent about fire minutes and missed the notes, as previously named; that Bond, as well as Mayor, had a key which would open the office door and give access to the apartment where the cash bag containing the notes was placed. For the defence, it was contended by the prisoner's counsel that there was no evidence to show that the robbery had been committed by Bond that he was not seen to take the money, and had never been suspected of doing so, and that be had always borne a good character, The prisoner was acquitted. FLOODS IN SCOTLAND AND GREAT DESTRUCTION OF RAIL- WAY PIIOPEttTY.-The Scotsman and other Scotch papers contain aocounts of floods in various parts of that country, caused by the recent heavy rain. At Selkirk, the heavy rains which fell on Wednesday flooded the Tweed and Ettrick in an unusual manner. Many acres of the low lying lands above and below the junction the two rivers were sub- merged, and on the turnpike road between Ettrick Bridge and Rind Bridge the water stood three feet deep. The, river rose considerably higher for two hours afterwards. The grain crops have fortunately been wholly secured, but considerable damage has been done to turnips and potatoes on the Mill Haugb, belonging to the burgh, has been washed away. From Gala it is reported that the water rose to a great height, and threatened mischief in the neighbour- hood of the town. It broke the embankment at Wilder- haugh, and for some time the dwelling-house of Mr George Lees was in danger. The flood was rapidly washing away the loose gravelly soil, and reached within a few yards of the house, carrying away a portion of the garden and shrubbery in which the house stands. However, the rain- fall closed and the flood subsided. On Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, the river Almond suddenly decended in immense volumes, and gradually rose until nine o'clock. At that hour the waters broke down the wooden supports of the tramway erected to lift the stones for the arches, three in number, of the bridge intended to carry trains over the branch railway from Ratho to South Queensferry. About an hour after the stanchions of the tramway were swept down the river the wooden framework of the middle arch was also carried off. The uncompleted arch remained standing until about nine o'olook on Thursday morning, when it fell with a terrific crash, all the fine hewn stones disappearing in the red and swollen flood. HORNIMAN'S PURE TEA. is CHOICE and STRONG, because it consists of the most valuable growths. It is WHOLESOME because the leaf is not coloured. These ADVANTAGES have secured for this Tea a general preference. Sold in packets, signed by HORNIMAN & Co. Original Importers of the Pure Tea.-Carmarthen, by Jones and Son, Chemists, 16, Lammas-street, J. H. Smith and Co., Queen-street, and J. H. Davies, Chemist, 31, Upper King-street,—in Llanelly, by Rees, and by Brown, Chemist,-in Swansea, by Glover, Chemist, -in Haverfordwest, by Sayce, Bookseller, and by Llewellyn Draper,—in Pembroke, by Nicholas & Rogers,—in Pem- broke-Dock, by Barrett,—in Laugharne, by Tavid, Chemist,—in Kidwelly, by Waters,-in Narberth, by Lewis, Draper,—in Tenbu, by Williams,- in New Milford, by Palmer, —in St. David's, by Owen and Co.,—in Folv.t, by Williams, Printer,—in Fishguard, by Carpenter,-ia Newport, Pem., by Griffiths, Chemist,—in Cardigun%—by Cloughor, Stationer,—in Llandovery, by Morgan,—in Llanidloes, by Jones. COUNTY COURTS. CIRCUIT. SEPTEMBER. OCTOBER. NOVEMBER. Aberavron No Court. I Th. 6,10.0 No Court HandoveryNoCourt. Ta. 4,10.0 No Court Lampeter No Court. IW. 5, 10.0 NoCoart UandUo No Court. IM. 3,10.0 No Court Llanelly W. 14,100 Fr. 14,10.0 Tu. 8,10.0 Neath Th. 1,10.0 M. 17,10.0 Th. 10, 1.0 „ Fr. 2,10.0 Tu. 18,10.0 Fr. 11,10.0 Carmarthen M. 12, .100 M. 10,10.0 M. 7,10.0 Narberth L'u. 6,10.0 Tu. 11,10.0 W. 2,10.0 Pembroke W. 7,10.0 iW. 12,10.0 Th. 3,: 103 H. West .1rh. 8,10.0 ?Th. 13,10.0 Fr. 4,10.0 Cardigan ?o Court. Fr. 7,10.0 No Court NawcMtle No Court. ?Sa. 8, 10.0 No Court J