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M IJLTUM IN P ARVO editors and one newspaper publisher have returned to the Canadian Parliament. The ha'f yearly dividends of the Massachusetts aukg recently declard, average 5 per cent. Th° Slnyping Gazette reports that Spain has resolved wabolish ihe differential duties on flags (? flax). > The theatre Comique, of Chicago, has been closed ? the authorities. It had become a den of thieves. In 1856 the product of the Like Superior iron mines 788 only 11 594 tons of ore. Last year it was 306,252 tons. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial ^ce to the Governors of the North American Pro- duces, The United States war steamer Tickonderoga, nine RtinsarriveJ at Southampton, on Monday, from Havre, 07a a cruise. Speaker Colfax, in a recent speech at Worcester Jj^Mecla-ed himself in favour of making the Presi- Qt da: ce on air." » A veteran of the Peninsula and Waterloo, Captain 7?bruah) ageci 102, was lately present at a breakfast of e ^»ew ^ork Athenaeum Clnb. p According to a Parliamentary return the Royal mail T^npany are t0 receive £ 2,000 a year for landing the es' Iudia mails at Plymouth. A.n individual in Petersburg, Ya, whois above work as devote 1 his faculties to training four chickens to raw a carriage in which a rooster is perched. wV ,ceDsns the S ate of Iowa has been taken lately, of lC l reports the population to be 898,195 an increase ce,^0re than 145,000 in two years, or fully twenty per afternoon, a labourer, named James fonn1 f11'46 years of age, and his wife, aged 47, were E"iinbur»h iU their °Wn houS6' 8' DalrymPle-flace' Fflll Riverj Massachusetts, manufactures eighty ve thousand two hundred miles of printing cloths ? earJJ, consuming fortv-eight thousand one hundred bales of cotton. vm"fear'}' all the available screw colliers, which were under contract, have been despatched from the yne and neighbouring ports to the Black Sea and Sea -^zoffto load grain for Great Britain. The De Norman monument has been erected in the Rrounjs of the British Consulate at Shanghai, It bears the names of William De Norman, T. W. Bowlby, JWes correspondent; Captain Brabazon, R.A.; and •Private Phipps. A part of the church of Santa Croce at Padula, pro- vince of Salerno, in Italy, has j ust fallen to the ground burying eleven persons in the ruins. Seven were got Out ulive, one was dead, and the three others had not yet been found. At Worship-street police court, on Monday morn- ing, a lady named Guy, the wife of an engineer and railway contractor, was fined £10, with the alterna- tive of three months' imprisonment, forbeatinga work- house girl whom she had taken as a servant. The fine was paid. MFI.CHARLESDICKENS.—On Saturday last Mr Charles Dicken's cll.ant courier, Mr. George Dalby, sailed from Liverpool for Halifax and Boston in the Cunard stea- Oier China, and on the 2nd of March next, we under- Dickens will leave Liverpool for the United States. v. At the meeting of the Bristol Board of Guardians on 'fiday, a committee was formed to consider and report *°the Board as to the desirableness and feasibility of partially feeding at St. Peter's Hospi- tal a portion of the children in receipt of outdoor re- lief. l his resolution was come to after a considerable discussion. At Lymington, in Hants, the constitutency only Ambers at present 200. When the new Reform Bill Comes iuto operation the number will be 800. The ^Jmington supporters ofMr. Norton, a strong; Liberal, ?"d who has hitherto unsuccessfully contestel the borough, are confident of his election under the new Reform Bill. SUICIDE IN GAOL.—On Saturday morning, a man, Earned William Sigley, who was undergoing a term of imprisonment in the Liverpool borough gaol, com- tnitted suicide in his cell. He was employed in pick- ing oakum, and twisted some of that material into a rope, with which he hung himself. When found by a Warder life had been extinct for some time. In a private letter to a gentleman in Belfast, Lo'd Eu-se l thua expresses himself with regard to the na- tional system of Education in Ireland :—"I am happy to hexr that the national Schools have been so exten- yeiydigused in Ireland; and I should be much re- joiced if I could see a prospect of establishing the same 8Jstem. in England which you have in Ireland." THe suspension is announced of Messrs. Theodore • ,a John Kalli, of London, having branches at Liver- P"°'> New York, and New Orleans, with liabilities of 0Qt £ '150,000. The fall in cot ton and a heavy loss t i^gh a failed house by their New York firm are sta- to have been the causes. The books have been Placed in the hands of Messrs. Qailter, Ball, and Co. The Lancet speaks of an old man who has brought Qp five children on 15s. a week as one of the gardeners °theQueen, dying as an "old worker," in other words of \P.auPer servant (o other paupers, in a drearyward Windsor workhouse; and of another, in the same r?ouse who had been thirty years in the employ of the hames Commissioners, and brought up nine children cUsImllar wages k A LADY ATTACKED BY A RAM.—Miss Thompson, of Bristol, who is 011 a visit, for the benefit of her health, ?t Olctbury-upon-Severn, was a day or two sincerwalk- |ngina held where sheep were depastured, when a ram knocked her down, and afterwards "butted" j er- Her cries brought some men from a neighbour- D8 field, in which they were working, to her assistance her assailant was driven off. Her injuries were ^Qfined to a fright and some bruises. A clergyman in a vi llage in the neighbourhood of 111- klnster,Somerset, wishes his congregation to continue heeling in church, after the service is concluded, ntjl he leaves the sanctuary. This practice the oongre- Nation resists and a young man leaving the church, ^lth others,before the clergyman had left, was delibe- ^ately struck by the latter for doing so. The yonng has taken out a summons against the clergyman 0p an assault.—Yovil Flying Post. DESTRUCTION OF HANTS REFORMATORY BY FlRE.- he Hants Reformatory at Netley March, near South- ampton, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday even- 1119, with the exception of the farm and the new portion j the reformatory. All the boys were safely house 1 n the varions residences in the neighbourhood, the clergyman of the parish taking charge of 20 of them. •the tire is supposed to have originated accidentally, a>jd not maliciously by some of the boys, as at first bought.. Admiral and Mrs. Farragut, Captain and Mr. Pen- *}Ock, Captain Le Rey, Lieut.-Commander J. Critten- den Watson, Dr. Foltz, Messrs. M'Kinley, M'Kee, Prailey, Collins, Gill, officers of the United States —a,vy, left the Clarendon Hotel on Saturday morning tor Gravesend, where the distinguished party embark- ed on board the Frolic, which conveyed them to the Admiral's ship theFranktin.at.Sheerness. Daringthe Admiral and Mrs. Farragut's sojourn at the Clarendon Hotel they received visits from their Royal Highnes- ses the Count de Paris, the Prince de Joinville, the Lord Mayor of London, and a great number of the Eng- lish mobility. THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. THORNTON.—The statement that Mr. Thornton has been appointed to replace Sir Frederick Bruce at Washington is somewhat prema- ture. He has been offered the post, but, inasmuch as "e is at Rio Janeiro, between which and this country communication is slow, it will be some weeks before We can know whether he will accept it or not. Pre- piously to the death of SirFrederick Bruce, Mr. Thorn- ton ha i been appointed our Minister at Lisbon. He is j* count ot Portugal, and has hereditary ties with that kingdom, audit is by 110 means certain that he will relinquish his newappoiutinentfor that atWashington, which, for its rank and position, is perhaps the least attractive in the diplomatic service.-Sunday Gazette. A FORTUNATE Sor.DIER.-The story is current that a private in the Scots Fusilier Guards has suddenly Come into a very immense fortune. The intelligence reached a lawyer that a gentleman of vast wealth had died in India, without leaving awill behind him. Upon inquiries the solicitor saw reason to believe that a shepherd at Dunrobin was the next heir. On the in- telligence being communicated to him, the canny Scot declined having anything to do with the business; but, he said, "I have a son in the Scot FusilieiGuards; Jou may go to him and see what he will do." The lawyer went, and receiving an order from the son, Bailed for India, where he found that the private in the Guards had come into a property estimated at from £ïOO,OOO to £l,OOO,OOO.-Glasgow Citizen. THE RETURN OF HER MAJESTY.—As we before an- nounced, it is expected that the Queen will leave Bal- moral for Windsor the first week in November. Her llajesty will, immediately after the arrival of the Court at the castle, hold a Council relative to the as- sembling uf Parliament. The Queen's journey to or from Scorland costs upwards of £2,000. The distance from Windsor Castle to Balmoral is 602 miles, which is usually performed in 19 hours-no such tremendous speed—and it is to be hoped the railway companies will be more careful in their arrangements. On the journey of the Court north the Royal train had a nar- row escape. There has been a fall of snow four inches deep in the vicinity of Balmoral, but it has not preven- ted the Queen from taking her regular outdoor exer- cise, as the snow soon disappeared in the valleys, al- hough it remains onthemonntaiMt—CoMrt Circular, The Irish representative Prelates for next session are the Archbishop of Armagh, with the Bishops of Meath, Killaloe, and Kilmore. Two new horse butcheries have been opened in Paris. There are now eighteen shops entirely devoted to the sale of this new aliment. Mr. Du Cane, M.P. speaking atan agricultural meet- ing in Essex, strongly opposed compulsory education for the labourers in rural districts. The memorial to Cardinal Wiseman which was sup- posed to have been abandoned, has been resuscitated A site has been secured for a cathedral. The Church Review says that the new bishop for the diocese of Natal will be consecrated in less than three weeks. Mr. Butler is introduced for the post. On Saturday, the American bishops, who came to England to attend the Pan-Anglican Conference re- ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. at Cambridge. Captain Surtees, one of the members for South DlJr- ham, is about to be raised to the peerage, as a reward for his "eminent services to the Conservative party. The Dublin Mail states that the Chancellor of the University of Dublin has appointed Sir Joseph Napier vice chancellor, intheroomof thelateMr. Blackburne. Duringthe absence of the French Court at Biarritz, the Palace of the Tuileries has been thrown open to the public, and has been an object of extraordinary in- terest. A Free Trade League has been formelin Boston, Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of that city says The new movement has men of power and means be- hind it." Two visitors at Baden have been winning enormous sums at the roulette table. M. Pourtales gained £ 2 400 in five minutes; a Rusaian; named Niepkoskine, has won a total of £ 12,000. Mr. Elias Howe, jun., the president of the Howe Ma- chine Company, died on the 3rd instant. His funeral took place on the 5th, at Cambridgeporfc, Mass., U.S.A., from the residence of his father. It is said that a proposition will be submitted by Prussia to the Federal Parliament to obtain for two years an extraordinary credit of 10 million thalers in order to increase the effective of the fleet. The Democratio party in America have been as suc- cessful at the elections in Pennsylvania as they wpre in California, and they have greatly reduced the Re- publican majority in Iowa and Massachusetts. The night guard which has been on duty at the Honourable Artillery Company's headquarters during the past week will be continued until further notice. Duty commences at seven o'clock p.m., and ends at six p.m. An indignation meeting of Roman Catholics has been held in Queenstown, to denounce the remark made by the Protestant Bishop of Cork, in his recent charge, to the effect that the Host is only baker's bread." There are now 60,000 Irish Catholics in Boston, Massachusetts. The corner-stone of a catheiral For them was laid on the 15th of Sent., which momigrs to he the largest and finest religious structure in New England. The Era states that Mr. T. W. Ranertson has received from Baltimore the payment of fees for the perform- ance of his comedy "Caste" in that city. Such an acknowledgment of an author's claims deserves to be recorded. The Queen has summoned Mr. Wm. Brolie, R.S. A., of Edinburgh, to Balmoral, for the purpose of honour- ing him with asitting for a marble bust of her Majesty, begun by hia brother, the late Mr. Alex. Broilie, of Aberdeen. The Poet-office hns given notice that extra mails wHY be made on the 16th inst. for St. Vincent (Cape de Vprles), Monte Video, and Valparaiso, to be conveyed by the steamship Peru, which is to leave Liverpool on the 17th inst. A part of the Church of Santa Crofe at Padula, pro- vince of Salerno, in Italy, has just fallen to the ground, burying eleven persons in the ruins. S"ven were got out alive, one was dead, and the three others had not yet been found. Mr-J. Ross Browne's report to the American Gov- ernment on the mineral and metallio resources of the Pacific States and territories gives the product of gold this year at seventy millions of dollars, and Nevada silver at ninety millions. The Times Paris correspondent says General Prim's manifesto does not apnear to have had the success in Spain which he doubtless anticipated. His partisans are not satisfiefl with it: and his enemies exult over this involuntary avowal of disappointment and defeat. A violent fire has completely destroyed the exten. sive sugar refinery of M. Gone, Rue de Moulin, at, Bor. deaux. The damage done to the machinery is esti- mated at GOO,OOOf., and that to the building at 300 OOOf., bot h being covered by insurance. The cause of the disaster is not known. THE TOBACCO TRAPF.—Theoonsul-general for Spain has notified that by Royal order, all public sales of tobacco leaf at Manilla are suspended, and that no shipments from that source can until further orders, he expected, excepting those of 3,000 bales per ships Neptune and Napoleon. The Journal des Travaux Pullics amoanoes that the administration having studied the question of tele- graph tariffs has decided on a new one, which willsoon come into operation. The rates are to be lowere 1 a fourth—that is to say, If. 50c. throughout France, and 75c. within the same department. Low DF.ATH-RATE.-The infreauonoy of deaths at West Cramlington Colliery, in Northumberland, led lately to a scrutiny of the sanitary condition of the place, and the result has been that, in a population of 826 souls the deaths from all causes in two years have been 17, making the death-rate only 10.29. The opening of the Brenner Railway a counle of months ago gave direct communication from Paris to Venice, and from Venice to Vie ina. According to the account given by Mr. Cooke of a tripjust made by a party of English excursionists, this line is likely to b9 for tho next few seasons a favourite highway for tourists. The Roman Catholic Bishop ofBosra, a Datchman, who has been fifteen years at Bombay, but who is now at Amsterdam, is endeavouring to convert British India tothe Romish faith. He has issue I an appeal to Dutch Roman Catholics asking for money to enable him to send out ten missionaries to aid him in his proselytis- ing enterprise. A young woman of nineteen, of remarkable personal attractions, named Juhe S., has just drowned herself at Champigny (Maine-et-Loire.) She left a letter for a young man who was paying his addresses to her, saying that she was much attached to him, but that being subject to epileptic fits, she could not marry him, and therefore she preferred death. Mr. Dickens writes to a friend in Boston :—"I notice that about once in every seven years I become a viotim of a paragraph disease. It breaks out in India, tra- vels to England by the overland route, gets toAmerioa per Cunard line, strikes the base of the Rocky Moun- tains, and, rebounding back to Europe, mostly perishes on the steppes of Russia from inanition and extreme cold." Themonument over the grave of the late Lord Pan- mure in Brechin churchyard is nearlv completed. The following is the inscription intended to be out on the granite:—"Erected by the people to the memory of the Right Honourable William, Baron Panmure of Beechin and Navre, born 27th October, 1771, died 13th April, 1852; whose motto and action was, Live and let Live/" ACCIDENT TO A GOODS GUARD.—At, Bacu^, on Friday a goods guard, in the service of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, named Laurence Ingham was ullcoupling some waggons when the train stru tod and knocked him down, and one of his legs wis taken off.-The poorfellow was taken to the Royal Manches- ter Infirmary, where he died, at six o'cluck on Sunday evening. THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY DEGREES.—At the animal conferring of degrees at the Queen's University, in Dublin Castle, on Friday, the Lord Lieutenant ad- dressed the students. In concluding his speech he said he hoped that their next meeting for a similar purpose would be held in a new building of the Uni- versity so long in perspective, adapted for occasions like that, and that they would see the progress of the works so long in contemplation. TheBishop of Oxford has addressed a letter to the clergy of his diocese enclosing the Lambeth encycli- cal. He says I have to request of you to publish the document to the faithful of your parish on the first convenient Lord's Day. I recommend you to read it from the holy table at the time appointed for such notices as the Ordinary may direct for your doing which this will be your warrant. But if, from any pe- culiarity in your church, you should prefer to read the address from the pulpit at the time of sermon, you are at liberty to do so. MR. CHARLES DICKENS.-A correspondent of the Boston Commonwealth, writingfromEngland, says that in the register at Portsmouth, the birthplace of Mr. Charles Dickens, under date of May 8, 1814, is found the baptism of Francis Pickwick, and almost immedia- ately after it that of Eliza Dickens and next a child by the name of Shakesneare. This shows the origin of the name of Mr. Dickens' famous character. Mr. Dickens' own name is Charles John Hoffman Dickens; and his father Mr. Thomas Dickens, is entered in the Portamguth register aa a comedM-a. It is stated that in the event of Mr. Thornton accept- ing the post of Her Majesty's Minister at Washington, he will be succeeded at Lisbon by Sir Charles Wyke.— Globe. THE REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. Notice is given in the Gazette that the sum of 2672,581 will be applied during the current quarter towards the reduc- tion of the national debt. Mr. Chas Darwin, authorof the "Origin of Species" has a new work in the press-" The Variation of Ani- mals and Plants under Domestication; or the Prin- ciples of Inheritance, Reversion, Crossing, Inter- breeding and Election." Loss OF A LIVERPOOL SHIP.—The well-known Afri- can trader Benin has been lost on the French coast, at a small village called Perros, lying about two degrees east from Brest. She was homeward-bound from the coast at the time, and had on board a full cargo of palm oil, most, if not all, of which is expected to be saved. The Church Nevjs says :—"The scheme of Dr. New- man for going to Oxford has collapsed, and he has of- fered to return the money contributed towards the same to all the donors. Mauy of the local 'Liberals' hoped to have played off Dr. Newman against Dr. Pusey in the political disputes of the University. For the present, therefore, this game is spoiled." CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION.-The Manchester Edu- cation Bill Committee intend to hold, early in January next, a conference of the friends of national education, to be supported by local rates under local administra- tion, to discuss the principles of the Education Bill in- troduced into parliament last session; and the Right Hon. H. Austin Bruce, M.P., has promised to attend. Mr. Gladstone attended the consecration of the Church of St. Bartholomew, Sealand. Flintshire, on Tuesday. The Bishop of St. Asaph performed the con- secration service, and in company of the Dean of Ches- ter, Sir Stephen Glynne, Mr. Gladstone, and other gentlemen attended the luncheon held afterwards. The church has been erected mainly through the liberality of the River Deq Comvanv. MARCH OF AN ARMY OF RATS. — A few nights ago, a party belonging to Haddington, who had occasion to travel between Tranent and the burgh, found him- self suddenly in the midst of a legion of rats, which were leisurely crossing the high road from one side to the other. The rats were too much occupied with their own concerns to pay any attention to the pas- ser-by, who, though every moment expecting to be attacked, was allowed to move on unmolested. The rats seemed to be in thousands,and,from the direction they were taking, appeared bound for a neighbouring stackyard, the owner of which is not likely to be bene- fited by their company during the winter months.- Haddington Courier. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—OU Monday morning an accident occurred on the North British Railway, near to Fountainhall station. It ap- pears that when the express train which leaves Edin- burgh at 9.45 a.m., and due at Carlisle at 12.48, Was neari ng the above station, one of the axles of the engi no broke. The axle seems to have been supported in some way after the breakage, as it did not fall down; but one of the wheels immediately left the rails, and thus de- tached ran aconsiderable way. The driver discoverol that something was wrong, and imediately pul!ei up. A messenger was despatched to the nearest station, whence a telegram was forwarded for another engine. Two hours elapsed before it arrived, DESTRUCTION OF STEAMERS BY FIRE,-The steamship Tioga, from New Orleans and Havana for Philadel- phia, was burned at sea on the 271 h ult., and three of her crew perished in the flames. The survivors were taken off by the steamer Rapidan, and conveyed to New York. The vessel is a total loss. She had ;>ni)ug hercar;jo 2S9 bales of cotton, which were also destroy- ed. A telegram from Copenhagen aunonrc's the total loss by fire of the steamship Danish Queen, of Hull, off Faro Islands, whilst on the voyage from Hull to St. Petersburg. The crew took to the boats, one of which had arrived at Copenhagen. Tha others had not been heard of. The vessel belonged to Messrs. Priest Brothers, Hull. THE BISHOP OF CAPETOWN. — Miss Burdett Coutta who furnished money for the endowment of the bishop' rics in the South African Church, has taken a (loci led step in reference to the action of the Bishop of Cape- town. The bishop had resolve in conjunction with the other prelates, to appoint a Bishop of M u'itzburo' and with the intention of virtually superseding Dr. Coleuso. Miss Coutts strongly objects to this procee- ding, as perhaps illegal, but as certainly departing from the understanding on which she was induced to provide an endowment to the see of Cal etown. Her position is that the judgment of the Privy Council has settled the matter. The solicitor of Miss C. utts, in a letter, says that since the Bishop had assume J the posit 10 1 of a bishop of a voluntary church, he will per- haps" relinquish an endowment which the founder provided with a totally different intention." FEARFUL TRAGEDY ATOLD CALABAR.-From Old Cal- abar we learn that the river was healthy and trade good. A tragedy of a most fiightful character was enacted there on the 12th of September. It appears that a chief, named Elfium Adam, died rather sudden- ly at that place, and as his friends surmised that he had been the victim of foul play, the late chief's wives six in number, and the entire household were assem- bled, and required to go through the most savage of ordeals, which was that each of them was compelled to swallow a large doseof the "esere," a Calabar bean the poisonous properties of which are well known, to test their innocence of being parties to the supposed murder. Eight of the unfortunate victims had suo- cumbed to the effects of the dreadful poison when the Athenian left, and the others were not expected to sur- vive. A WONDERFUL WOMAN. About half-past nine o'clock onWednesday evening last a la ly named Mary Arnod died at her residence in Brooklyn, at the age of 110 years. Her death was occasioned from injuries of 110 years. Her death was occasioned from injuries sustained by a fall some three years since. She was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, in 1757. Her parents died when she was about two years of age, and she lived to see the close of the revolutionary war of which she often spoke; also, of the war of 1812 'the Mexican war, and the war of the rebellion. She was one of that band of women who, during the war of 1812, assisted in throwing up the fortifications on Fort Greene. Her habits were very regular throughout life she was always active, and seldom in ill-health. She has five children living, the oldest being 70 years' of age, and the youngest fifty-five. Her descen iants number 160, reaching to the fifth geueratiou.-New York Herald. INCOME OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—A London cor- respondent of the Western Morning News says: The announcement made by the Court Jou,nal that the Prince of Wales will next year apply for an increase of income is less welcome than startling. For some time past it has been a matter of common report that his royal highness had found his revenues unequal to his requirements, and that parliament would be asked to be more bountiful tothe heir apparent, as aformerpar- liament was to a former Prince of Wales. The Prince has probably had some additional expenses in conse- quence of the withdrawal of the Queen from that por- tion of the sovereign's duties which consists in sh'ow- ing hospitality to royal guests. Nevertheless his in- come was by nomeans small, even for his positio 1 Tae net revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall are £ 60 (too a year, and on maintaining his majority the Prince came into possession of half a million sterling which had been saved during his minority. In ad dition to this he receives a parliamentary grant of jE40 000 a year. It may be advisable that the Prince should in- habit Buckingham Palace, but it is questionable if the country would approve of paying twice over the allow. ance which was granted to the Sovereign for (among other purposes) showing hospitality at the chief royal residence in the metropolis. If tho duty of proposing such a vote as the Court Journal hinted atshould de- volve upou Mr. Disraeli, his position will hardly bean enviable one. To make snch a proposal at the time when it will De necessary to levy fresh taxation lor de- fraying the Abyssinian ox;,edition, at a time, ton when trade is bad and provisions are dear, will require a good deal of assurance. Loss OF A NORWEGIAN BRIG NEAR ST. ANDREWS.- Oil Monday morning about one o'clock, a Norwegian Brig went on shore at Tentsmuir, close tothe muuth of the Eden, not far from :t. Andrews. It was flood tide at the time, and there was a strong gale blowing from the south east, accompanied by a heavy sea. It is said the master lost his reckoning, and ran the vessel ashore to save the crew and cargo. Intelligence of the occurrence reached Dundee in the course of the after- noon and caused a deal of excitement. The telegram from Broughty Ferry by the Buddonness Tele^aph stated that a vessel bad been lost, and that thocrdw had been saved. Other reports, to the effect that a number of the crew had been lost, and that the ship had been totally wrecked, were rife. As soon as the vessel went on the sauds, both her masts went by the board. This doubtless had a beneficial effeot, and must have done much to prevent the brig breaking up. She, however, held together, and when the tide went back thehuli was left high and dry, so much so that the crew put their ladder over the bow and landed with the utmost ease. The crew consisted of eight hands, and therewas alsoaboy passenger. In t he course of the day the captain and mate left for Leith, whither the ship was bound with a cargo of bones. The sea. men were very kindly treated by Mrs. Thornton, a woman who has done much for the comfort of unfortu- nate marineri who have been wrecked on this danger- ous coast. One of the seamen was rather badly hurt on the legs. He had been thrown down on the deck of the vessel by a heavy sea. The brig, the English name of which would, we are informed, be The Two Brothers in not likely to break up, but she has been driven so far up on the beach that the is not expected to be Kot Qf.- nwtutev There are already In the field nine candidates for the Secretaryship of State in Illinois. Lord Kimberley attended a public meeting, on Saturday, at Northwich and deolaredhimself in favour of an education rate. The lessees of the Public Rooms in Leamington bav. ingrefused to lend them to Mr. Murphy, the contro- versial lecturer, he has determined to erect a wooden building in which to lecture in that town. THE "BISHOP OF CAPETOWN AT 7)\TIT,I\*R,TON\— On Mon- day afternoon, the Lord Bishop of CaRtown visited Darlington, and spoke at a public meeting on behalf of the missions in South Africa. The meeting was held in the Mechanics'-hall, and the >v. J. G, Pearson, the vicarof St. Cuthb^ri.'s, occupied the chair. There was a highly respectable company present. The Bishop detailerl at some length his experience in the colony during the last twenty years, and the progress in the missions which had been made. The country had for seven years been sul ject to a great drought, which had greatly impoveristie 1 the people, so that they were unable to maintain the ministrations of the church as they otherwise would have done. He remarked on the progress of education through the means of the schools which had been established, and gave some interest- ing details of the college which had been established at Capetown for the edncation cbieily of so's of chiefs. In concluding, the Bishop referred to Dr. Colenso as a brother beloved, who had fallen away from the faith in Christ, and bad declared that the Holy Seriptnres were not the unerring wor 1 of the Living Go 1, who hai asserted that our blessed Lord ousrht not to be adored, and who had denied the very existence of the evil one. This has been a great stumbling block to them nil but there was in Africa a bo tyof determine 1, devoted men, who had determined that they would not yield to this false teacher for a moment. A collect ion was taken at the place. BREACH OF PROMISE CASE AIMXI THE RFVIVALISTS AT KILMARNOCK.—At the Smrtll Dobts Court, before Sheriff Anderson, Marion Craig. daughter of William Craig, weaver, Riccarton, brought an action against Robert Johnstone. of Hurlford, for damages, on the grounds stated in the account, as follows July, 1867. Defender having long conrted the rnrsuer, Marion Craig, with a view to marriage, rmd having promised to marry her on or before the Kilmarnock 'Grosset Fair,' 1847,-a^d having faile 1 to implement said promise To loss and damage sustained by rur- suer in providing suitable outfit, for said marri: pp, and as a solatinm to her wounded feelings, &c., f20. Restricted to £ 12." The pursuer alsn gave evidence as foHows :-Johnstouecou.tod me fora longtime—about twelve mont hs. He visited at my fat iter's house almost every night. I walked out with him once, but he very often walked up the garden with me. He promised to marry me about the Grosset Fair." H" has told me this more than a dozen times. My father and mother both heard him say so. He said to marry in May we would rue for aye," and lie would take me after. wards about the "GroasetFair." (Laughter.) I had bought a silk dress at £ 3 10s., a pair of blankets, and a chaffbed. He afterwards refused to take me. I said if he had taken the rue he would have to pay me the expenses I had been at. He said he was qnite willing to do this, and I agreed to take the money by in. stalments, but he has never paid anything. Cross-ex- amined :—I am about 18 years of age. The defender was in the habit of coming to my father's house for about two years before he began to court me. He be- cameintimate with my father and mother through re- ligion; they were revivalists. I considered that he was conrting me because he tookme ont to the back door, and because he spoke about marriage. He first spoke to me about marriage in January last. He did so in the house, in the hearing of my father and mother. He visited me about religions matters about two years ago. Wm. Craig, father of the pursuerJohnstone has been in the habit of visiting regularly for the last three years—for the last twelve months two or three times a week. I knew he was courting her, because he was told it in the house. He said she was the very woman he wanted for a wife. He sai 1 this about May last. They were in the habit of being out almost every night from eleven to one o'clock, and on Sun lay right also.—Did he not come on Sundays to tn k about reli- gion?-Witness: I do not know they walked in the garden with their arms rounrl each other's necb. (Liughtor.) He ceased coming to the house abou; the middle of July, the only reason he gave being thit he thought he would not live happily wirh her. I hear 1 him say so. He said that if he had money he would pay the expenses on the spot, and promised to paythemoney in instalments, but be failed to do so. Did he not visit you regularly for a number of years fo., the purpose of reading religions books to yon ? Witness But he was not doing t hat when he was walking up and down about the garden with my daughter. (Laughter.) The pursuer's mother gave evidence ro similar effect. The defender, in evidence, stated that having been con- verted some years ago, he had visited Craig's house for religious purposes only and he never made any promise of marriage to the- daughter. A number of witnesses were heard for the defence to show f hit they had heard nothing of such a proposal.—The Sheriff said it was an extraordinary result of this excessive religion if the defender asked him to believo that the girl's parents (whom he claimed to havo been the means of converting) had deliberately perjnre 1 them- selves in court. He decerned from the nursuer, and gavodecreetforjEj, with expenses.—G'a-\joiv Herald. EXTRAORDINARY INFATUATION.—About h ilf-pastnine o clock last eveuing, au affair occurred in a house of i II fame, kept by a woman known as Frank Howar1, in Alden street, which was rather singular in its circum- stances and nearly tragic in its results. It appears that a young man of means, about 30 years of age, named Fre lerick A. Babcock, and hailing from the city of Cincinnati, came to this city about, threeweeks ago. A little more than a week since he fell in with a young woman named Florence A. Blake, otherwise Florence A. George, who for some I i me pas t has been an inmate of Mrs. Howard's, and became so ena- moured with her that, forsaking business and regard- less of the disgrace his course would bring upou hia connections in the West, he left the hotel iu which he had been stopping, and took up his abode entirely with her. During their short termof intimacy, Babcock re- peatedly ur^ed the girl to bre.ak off her shameful life ana marry him, promising to take her with him to Cincinnati, where she would find all the comforts and luxuries which wealth could oonfer, besides living with him a life of outward blamelessness and purity. The girl, however, was deaf to his entreaties, and used every endeavour to dissuade the infatuated man from BO foolish a course. She told him that not only her position in life, when found out, woul 1 bring lasting ,7 disgrace upon himself and family, should he marry her, but having a husband already living it would be impossible for her to comply. Not.withstan ling all this the young man persistodas much as ever, and finally threatened her with death if she 'id uotcomply with his wishes. In spite of his threats, Florence con- tinued to keep his company little thinking he would attempt to carry into effect his rash design. Babcock, at last worked up to a pitch of frenzy, procured a pistol and meeting the girl alonein the drawing room of the house on Monday evening told her once for all that she must either consent to marry him or die. Florence tt<.ea then did not think that Babcock really meant to kill her, and refused, as she had done the former solici- tations. Babcock thereupon drew his weapon, which during the conversation be had conceale 1 from her right, and presented it at the girl's head and fired. The latter dodged in time to avoid the ball, which lodged in one of the walls of the room. The shot pro. ving unsuccessful, Babcock fired again; but this time the girl dodged behind a sofa in season to escape the contents of the barrel, which passed into the furniture. Unsuccessful again, the young man sprang towards the girl, or between her and the door, to prevent her getting out of the room, and prepare 1 to shoot a third time. Therebeingapair of folding iloors in the apart- ment separating it from an adjoining room, the girl ran for them, and succeeded, providentially, for athird time in escapingfrom herinfuriated lover. After these unsuccessful attempts nt homicide, Babcock next at- tempted to kill himself, lie then presented the pistol which had one charge left, to hi-; tempi- anr1 fired the ball passing inf o < ha \igh t file of his face neat. the V? bone, and lodging near the same spot on the left side. -Ihe wound was too low to injure either the brain or to cause the loss of sight. Not content with this, Babcock took a penknife from his pee'eet and stabbed himself a number of times in the recrioa of the heart, and once the blade. penetrated a short way into one of his lungs. By the time this scene had been en- acted the inmates of the house had reached the apart- ment, and found the young man sinking, nearly in- sensible to the floor. During the frightful attempt at self murder, the walls, furniture, and carpets of the room were considerably bespa'terel with b'oo 1. A physician was sumjnotied immediately after the oc- currence, who examined the wounded man and pro- nouuced his injuries of a very dangerous ifmt. alto- gether fatal character. Officers Leavitt and Sleeper of the Third police, were also called, and who, at the suggestion of the doctor, procure I a hack, in which the man was taken to the Massachusetts General Hos- pital. A singular part of this affair was that after the occurmnce the girl, notwithstanding the attempts made upon her life, volunteerel to discharge all bills of hack fare, board at the hospital, &c., a., d even went so far as to call at the latter place, after Babcock had been taken there, to obtain permission to visit and to nurse him. Babcock retained his senses through the whole, and at a late hour last nigh t was getting a'ong as comfortably as possible under the circumstances Florence A. Blake, to whom he appears to have become so ardently attached, is a woman about his own age and of remarkable beauty, of the full, rich brunnette type, with well moulded features and very fascinating manners. At the time of the affray she was dressed in a costly suit of black velvet. On one of her fingers she wore a diamond ring valued at 200 dols. a present from Babcockt—Boston fost, Sect, 10. Ouf- of a list of 110 persons summone! as jurors for < he approaching October term of the District Court in the parish of East Feliciana, 81 are set down as co- loured. We are glad to hear that Her Mijesty, of her own proper motion, has written to Lord Derby, suggesting that a fitting provision should be ma je for the widow of Prof. Faraday. Nothing has yet been done in thii way of fhing the sum to be secured to the bereaved lady; bnt oiir readers may be sure it will be such as England should propose to the relict of her foremost man of scienoe.—Athenaeum. ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LADIES.-By the Charlei Edward to-day five "aboriginal ladies" return to the mission station at Lake Wellington, Gipps Sand, aftet completing their erlucation in the metropolis. They are very prepossessing, lady-like persons, and seem qualified to do much good among their less educate 1 friends assembled at that station, under the indefati' gable care of Rev. Mr. Haganauer.—Melbourne Argus. THE STANDING ORDERs.-The Standing Orders of tha House of Commons have just been issued from the Queen's Printing-office, and consist of a Parliamen. tary paper occupying 89 pages, the majority of which refer to Standing Orders relative to private bills. As heretofore, these contemplate the appointment of one or more officers of the House to be called the exami. ners of petitions for private bills;" and of the commit- tees, one to consist of 11 Members and to be called the Select Committee on the Standing Orders the second to consist of the chairman of the above com- mittee and five other Members, and to be called the Committee of Selection and the third to be desig- nated the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills," of which three shall be a quorum. Private bills are divided into two classes, the first of which in- cludes all matters relating to burial-grounds, charters and corporations, churches and chapels, cities and towns, companies,oounty rates, courthouses, Crown, Church, or corporation property, ferries, fisheries, gaols, the enclosing and draining of land, letters patent, local courts, market-places, police, poor-rates, powers to sue and be sued. and the payment of all stipendiary magistrates. The second class relates, all matters connected with the aqueducts to archways, bridges, canals, cuts, docks, drainage embankments for reclaiming land from the sea, harbours, navigation, piers, ports, railways, reservoirs, sewers, streets,street tramways, tunnels, turnpike or other public oarriage roads, and waterworks. The standing orders, com- pliance with which is to be proved before the examiners of petitions for private bills, are divided into five sec- tions, viz., notices by advertisement, notice and appli* cations to owners, lessees and occupiers of land and houses, documents required to be deposited, and the times and places of deposit, forms in which plans, books of reference, sections, and cross seotions shall be prepared, aud estimates and deposit of money, and declirations in certain cases. The proceedings of ex. aminers, of the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and of committees are explained in detail as well as the order regulating the practice of the House with regard to private bills, and also the orders regulating the practice in the Private Bill-Office. There are three appendices, consisting of a form of applica- tion to owners, lessees, and occupiers, an act to compel olerks of the peace and others to receive documents re- quired to be deposited with them, and an act provid- ing for the custody of moneys paid in pursuance of the standing orders. FEMALE CONVICT PRISONS.—There are three prisnos in England specially appropriated to female convicts, and situated respectively at Parkhurst, Fulham, and Brixton. During the year 1856, 504 prisoners were received or disposed of, 121 of whom were transferred to Millbank, Fulham, or Brixton, 101 discharged, and 59 removed to the Eagle House and Carlisle Memorial Refuges. Seven deaths occurred, and there were 216 inmates at the end of the year. The women are employed in needlework of various kinds, knitting, laundry work, coir picking, cooking, and baking, and the snm which was realised from the performance of these duties amounted to £ 1,691. The total annual cost of this prison is £12,508, and the net expenditure £ 11,835. Of the seven deaths all were from natural causes, and the establishment was, during the autumn epidemicof last year, perfectly freefrom cholera. The superintendent of the Brixton prison reports that there were482 convicts in that establishment at the end of last year, that 140 were transferred to other prisons, two were removed to lunatic asylums, 9 died, and 155 were discharge I making a total of 788 treated during 1866. The inmates of the prison manufacture a very larsre quantity of clothing, &c,, nearly 27,000 shirts, 6,207 War Department socks, 10,000 handkerchiefs, and 2,400 towels being among the articles enumerated. The net expenditure at this establishment was £14,300. A total of 296 prisoners were treated at the Fulham Refuge during 1866, and 140 remained at the end of the year. The mark system and some change of diet was applied to this prison in June of last year, which placed it, as to diet and discipline, on a par with the establishments at Parkhurst and Brixton. These women now spend the last six months of their senten- ces at the Carlisle Memorial or Eagle Refuges. The for- mer of these institutions was opened in August, 1865, has accommodation for 50 inmates and arranged with the Government to receive one hundred women during the year. Since the opening of this useful establish- ment 153 female convicts have been received, and of 115 already liberated, 49 have obtained situations, and 66 have returned to their friends and families. The Eagle House Refuge was established through the exertions of the Marchioness Dowiger Lothian and Sir Walter Croftan, was opened in March of last year, and had received during the first year 84 prisoners. The Directors of Prisons, in the course of their last annual report say :—"We have much pleasure in bear- ing testimony to the good results already aparent from the work undertaken by these two refuges, which have been admirably conducted with the best influ- ence on the convicts." WILLS AND BIQUESTS.—The will of the Right Hon. Baroness Churston, Baroness Georgiana Solardi, and the Hon. Henrietta Jones, have been recently proved in the London Court.—The will of Thomas Bulkeley Bulkeley-Owen, Esq., of Tedsmore Hall, West Felton, Salop, was proved, at Shrewsbury, by the testator's eldest son, Bulkeley Hatcbett Bulkeley-Owen, Esq., the sole executor. The trustees are Salusbury Kynas- ton Mainwaring.Esq., of Octley park, and Robert Bur- ton,Esq., of Longnor. The personal property was sworn under £ 10,000. The will is dated April 4,1866; and the testator died April 27,1867,at the age of 77. He leaves to his eldest son his estate of TedsmoreHall, and other freeholds, together with the residue of the personalty. He has apportioned liberal provision for his younger son, Thomas Mainwaring B. Bulkeley-Owen his (tes. tator's) daughter Margaret, wife of Rev. E. Jackson and his eldest grandson, Shalcross B. Jackson. To his agent, George Cottle, he leaves JE300. He bequeiths certain portions of his paintings and pictures as heir- looms with the inheritance of TedsmoreHall; and he leaves the other portion of his pictures, books, and furniture to his eldest son absolutely.—The will of William Swan Dixon, Esq., of Hilcot Hall, at Cheb- sey, Stafford, was proved in the London Court on the 27th ult., and the personalty sworn under j6180,000, theexecutors appointed being his sons Wm. Henry, Chas. Edward, and Alfred Dixon, and Edward Wright; the two first named are the only acting executors. The will is date 1 1860, and the testator died August 19, 1867, at Douglas, Isle of Man. It is entirely a family will. There is a legacy of £1,000 to his grand- son, William Dixon M'Coukey. To his daughter Helen he leaves the interest of £5,QOO for life. The residue of his property he divides equally amongst all his other children.—The will of George Smith, Esq., of Stone- buildings, Lincoln's-inn, and 27, Norfo -crescent, Hyde-park-gardens, was proved iu London on the 26th nit., by the executors—namely, his brother, the Rev. Harry Smith, and the testator's nephews, the Rev! Harry Barber and Harry Smith Styan, Esq. The personalty was sworn under £ S0,000. The testator died July 3,1867, aged eighty, having executed his will in 1864, to which he has added six codicils, the last dated July 19,1866. He has le't numerous lega- cies, pecuniary and specific. To his niece, Elizabeth Styan, he leaves his bond of the Royal Botanical So- ciety and the almission tickets belonging thereto. To each of his executors zC200 for their trouble. His books, pictures, and furniture, not specifically disposed of he leaves to be divided between the children of his late sister Ann and the children of his sister Elizabeth Styan. To his nephew Harry Smith Styan, he leaves his interest in two sets of chambers in Stone-buildings and his estate at Pilling, Lancaster. Also liberal annuities andlegacies to servants and others, free of duty. The residue of his property, both real and personal, is to be divided into two parts, one moiety amongst the children of his deceased sister, Ann Barber, and the other moiety in certain specified portions amongst his nephews and neices, the children of his sister, Eliza- beth Styan.-The late Miss S. S. Farmer, of Guners- bury House, Acton, has bequeathed to the ladies branch of the Wesleyan Methodist Society, of whioh she was secretary, £ 500; the Home Mission and Contingent Fund, and the Wesleyan Theological Institution, each £ 200; to the Aged Wesleyan Ministers and their Widows Auxiliary Fund, £ 100; to the board of the Hammersmith Circuit, £100: to the Missions of the United Brethren the Moravians, £50; andjB25 to St. Giles's and St. George's, Bloomsbury, Girl's refuse, a branch of which is now carried on at Bank Housef Ac- ton.—The late Henry Hayne, Esq., of Torquay,'who died possessed of jE45,000 personalty, has left to the Church Missionary Society for the Fox Memorial Fund £100; and, should his son, William Amherst Hayne, not attain 25, he leaves to the London City Mission £ 200. Church Missionary Society £500, and to the Pastoral Aid Society £ 200,—Thelate William Holling- worth Driffill, Esq., of Winterton Hall, Lincolnshire, whose personalty was estimated at £50,000, has be- queathed jE500 to the Church Missionary Soaietl.- Illustrated Low, on News,,