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MULTUM IN PARVO. p The Prince and Princess of Teck have left Paris foi Germany. » Elihu Burnt, the" learned blacksmith," has gone 4ck to New Britain, Ct., his native place, to live. Advices from Burmah announce the arrival of the rench expedition from Saigon at Mone, near Man- "alay. ^Colonel Elphinstone, the agent of the Panjaub and r|elhi Railway, has been suspended pending Govern- ment inquiries. Ihe Dublin Express states that Lord Rosse has been indisposed, but that on Monday be was de- adly better." The cities of Boston and Roxbury have been united The population of Boston is now about 180,000. The cotton prospects of Central India are reported o be most favourable. The plants are generally in ex- client condition. announced that Dr. Nelaton has resigned his Professorship at the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, on ac- °°»nt of bad health. Ctirsetjee Manookjee, judge of Bombay, is at present t 6 guest of Mr. Inverarity, at Rosemount House, Mon- ose.-Dundee Advertiser. coThe Florida and Cuba submarine cable is still in- jj^Plete, owing to the connecting link between Punta- Saand Key West not being yet laid. one to laa f the last official acts of General Sickles was P0H> a well-known negro, Beverly Nash, to be a emagistrate in Columbia, South Carolina. fif e have it upon good authority that Mr. Glad- has refused the invitation to the Reform League Ulnner and Mr. Bright has accepted it.—Glowworm. At the annual meeting of the Educational Institute Scotland, held at Edinburgh, on Saturday, it was esolved to petition parliament in favour of a compul- BOry system of education. It is rumoured that Mr. Henry Chaplin, a large land owner in Lincolnshire, will be requested to allow him- self to be put in nomination for the new division of the county as created by the Reform Bill. The Pall Mall Gazette says that some of the Paris papers mention a report that several French officers, belonging or who have belonged to the army of Africa are to be attached to the Abyssinian expedition. THE WELLINGTON STATUE AT HYDE-PARK CORNER.-A scaffold has just been erected around this colossal statue to enable the workmen to make some alterations which have been decided as necessary in the field- marshai's hat. A statement by an evening paper that Parliament will re-assemble in November, to consider the question of supplies for the Abyssinian expedition, is an antici- pation which the Hera Id, ventures to say is as great a surprise to the Government as to the Opposition. A s:atement by an evening paper that Parliament will re-assemblein November, to consider the question of supplies for the Abyssinian expedition, is an an- ticipation which the Herald ventures to say is as great a surprise to the Government as to the Opposition. No less than 33,687 passengers crossed in August from England to France, from Dover to Calais alone. lletweeu "April I, the opening day of the gigantic fair, )}^til August 31, 110,146 passed through tne town of Calais Pariswards, and in this month the flow has in no Wise diminished. The Invergordon Times understands that Mr.Stewarfc Forbes, of Astoun, recently associated with Sir Sam- ?el Bakeriu his discoveries of the sources of the Nile, has arrive 1 at Brahara Castle, on a visit to Leaforth, j*°companied by a favourite lion cub which he brought home with him from Africa. The Government of Bombay has called for an im- mediate report on the general state of the viaduots of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. About 120 feet of the embankment of the southern extremity of the bridge over the Nerbudda river on the Bombay and Baroda Railway has been washed away by a flood. The unarmoured screw steamer Trafalgar, 72, 2,900 tons, 500-horse power (nominal), attached to the steam reserve in the Med way, is undergoing a thorough over- haul and refit, both inboard and also aloft, previously to being again placed in commission. It is under- stood that she is intended to be stationed at one of the Irish ports. Three of the Spanish refugees write to the Siecle to deny that the late meeting of their number which was beld at Paris was intended to impugn the con luot of general Prim. All that took place showed once "more nat General Prim is still the courageous and perse- patriot who shrinks from no sacrifice that can ntrikateto the improvement of his country." sin'1'8 not improbable, says the Cou. t Journal, that a ,necure appointment, with a salary attached, will JJ°rt]y be created in the household of the Princess of a*es> under the hononrary designation of House- 'Nf at keeper to Marlborough House, and that it will be bes- towed on the wife of a brigadier-general for whom her °Jal Highness entertains a deep regard. According to the Arenir National, the settlement of the affairs of the late Emperor Maximilian has led to Unpleasant disputes between the Austrian and Belgian 1'oya1 families, and even a proces between them is re- garded as probable. The point chiefly in litigation is, Whether the Archduchess Charlotte or the Archduke ■Mantis Charles, uncle of the deceased, should be Earned general legatee. CORNISH PUMPING ENGINES.—The number of Cornish engine3 reported for the past month is 23, which con' fined 1,477 tons of coal, and lifted 11 "5 million tons Water ten fathoms high. The following engines ex- «6eded the average duty of 52,600,0001b., lifted one *°ot high by the consumption of 1121b. of coal: — Chi- 'Verton'-Nloor Cook's Kitchen, Providence, South Wheal fences, West Chiverton, West Wheal Seton, and **heal Seaton. The receipts of the Universal Exhibition," says the ~K0rd, "from the 1st of April to the 10th of Sep- tember, are estimated at seven millions and a half of ""anes. Therefore during the seven weeks or nearly ?? which the exhibition has still to remain open, a mil- "on and a half of francs must ba received in order to attain the sum of nine millions required to cover the Expenditure. That this result will be obtained is not ltoprobable." FIU<,HTRUL ACCIDENT ON AN AMERICAN RACECOURSE. ■•■he Nei' York Times gives particulars of a frightful Occident which occurred on the 6th instant, during the races at the Chittenden County Fair Grounds. The seats, all arranged in the form of an amphitheatre, Save way, and 3000 spectators were precipatel to the RroIllld. About fifty persons were more or less injured. e injuries of some will, it is feared, prove fatal. Private John Bryant, 1st King's Dragoon Guards, «as beenfound guilty oi insubordination, accompanied With personal violence, in having, on the 17th July, attacked with a drawn sword Serjeant Penfold, of the same regiment, cutting him on the head and stabbing him in the thigh. He has been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and to be marked with the let- ters B.C." The prisoner will therefore be discharge:I from the service and handed over to the civil power. Garibaldi has addressed a letter to the Italian journals ridiculingthe reportthat hefle 1 from Geneva, had said before going to all his friends that he \tould have to leave at the time he did leave, and that there was no secrecy whatever in the act of his do. parture. As to the Congress, there were differences of °pinion, no doubt, and this is not to be wondered at, Considering the police agents who were there with the Object of causing a disturbance. But it was nofiasco On the contrary, a great good was done to humanity. Colonel Sykes, M.P., addressed his constituents on ■Monday night, at Aberdeen, on the history and scope of tueEaglish Reform Bill, and on the manner inwhich the Sco'ch bill would affect his constituency. He also BPol:e i.i favour of a national and compulsory system education and he concluded by intimating that, Under the new Reform Bill, he would again come for- ward as a candidate for Aberdeen. The meeting then expressed its entire approval of Colonel Sykea's publio conduct. Aletterfrom Carlsruhe says: A new ecclesiastical conflict is seen in the horizon. A recent ministerial decree requires that young Catholic and Protestant theologians shall undergo, before officers appointed by the authorities, an examination respecting their general education. The Archbishop of Friburg pro- tests against this order, and forbids his theologians to submit to it. On the other hand, the Government ml seems to intend to have it strictly carried out. The Advertise)- siys it is reported that amongst the occupations of the Emperor at, Biarritz is the plan to convert the existing 4 per Cents and 4'4 per Cent. R,ente= into 3 per Cents., and M. Fould has gone to Bia rritz to help M. Rouher to execute the plan. The Uneasy feeling at Vienna and Paris continues, and has acted like a panic on all Austrian funds at Berlin, particularly lottery loans, and as a great many orders to sell American securities were on hand, the Bourse Was very flat. At Frankfort the exchange was some- what firmer. THE NEW CniGNON.—It is announced on high autho- rity, says a Paris letter, that a new mode of dressing chignons is to be introduced in the winter. Instead of being smooth, or plaited in broad bands, they are to be ornamented with a lot of tresses, which are to dance With every move of the head. The new chignon, it ap- £ ears, is to be calle 1 a "Bismarck." Moreover, a new ead-dress has been invented to surmount theohiguon. It is a sort of boy's can with a large peak to it, a gold I band round it, and gold knob on tae top. It is also call- Sri a" Bismark." A. business "firm at Junction City, Kansas, advertises itself as "dealers in everything." Two hundred vessels will be employed in the oyster trade at Norfolk, Va., this season. Everything is parched or burned up by drought in the vicinity of Ottawa, Canada West. The young women at Kenosha, Wisconsin, are to compete for prizes at a dancing tournament. Lirge numbers of cattle are dying from the effect of heat and dust on the northern plains of America. Business is reviving at Lowell, Mass., and many cor- porations are arranging to run all their machinery. Mr. Edmund Quincy has completed the memoirs of Josiah Quincy,his father, which will soon be published. Petroleum has been successfully tried as fuel for locomotives on the Warren and Franklin (Pa.), R:1il- road. The New York Times says that skilled labour is now 25 per cent. lower in that city than it was nine months since. Goods were recently delivered in Chicago in just seventy-four hours and forty-five minutes from New York. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, the inmates of the city prison are to be set to breaking stones for paving, as Useful recreation. The ichneumon fly, the great destroyer of the cotton tvorm, has appeared in large numbers on the Texas coast, to the great joy of the planters. The Germans in Nashville are organising an Immi- gration Society. They expect to induce thousands of their countrymen to settle Ul Tennessee. Professor Agassiz's "Journey in Brazil" is comple- ted and in the printer's hands, and its author is en- gaged in superintending its illustration. A strange story is told of a man named S. Shurley, living near New Lisbon, Wis., who was fearfully muti- lated in a quarrel with his wife and children. A hail-storm which lasted five minutes, broke be. tween 6,000 and 7,000 panes of glass in the railroad shops at Susquehanna, on the afternoon of the 18th alt. The Grand Jury at Nashville have indicted over a thousand persons for selling beer on Sunday. It ap- pears that this causes great indignation among the Germans. A six-year-old boy, at Trenton, N.J., who was locked up in a dark closet, reoently, by his teacher, became insane from fright, continued to scream at intervals for two or three days, and finally died. In New Haven, lately, a German engraver who was in debt to a fellow-countryman some sixty dollars for drinks and borrowed money, shot him as a convenient way of settling the matter. He then killed himself. Co-operative associations are multiplying among the working men of New York. Two co operative building societies have been formR ill !f is pro- posed to establish a co-operative savings ja.nk, also a store. Jeremiah Day, D.D., LL.D., ex-Presidei t of Yale College, Unite 1 State? (with which he was connected, with but-slight intervals, for morethasi hilfa oen.'nry), die a few weeks ago at New Haven, in the 94th year of his age. An American paper says that the short dress for walking-wear is now an established instituti"n, nn 1 if it is permanent, as it promises to be, will greatly assist to reorganise the general wretched physique of Ameri- can women. Monatana papers of August 1st state that a party of thirty-one men, whe were working at Yermillion Bar, making fifteen to twenty dollars per day each, were attacked by a party of Blaokfeet Indians, and all maa- saored except one. Near Hernandez, Miss., recently, six wolves made an attack upon a negro man, and a regular battle en- sued. The negro made a heroic defence with a hickory stick, and succeeded in killing one of them aId putting the others to flight. The Scientific American doubts the practicability of using petroleum as a substitute for coal as a fuel. It considers the experiments that have been made with the former article quile unsatisfactory as regards economy of burning. 0 The rumour that a Scotch lady has bequeithed £ 40,000 toRicciotti Garibaldi is a canard. At all events, the fortunate youth received the first intima- tion of his good luck from the newspaper paragraph. -Dundee A dvertiser. The Southampton papers record the death of Mr. Lefeuvre, the leader of the Conservative party in that town. He was a magistrate, a deputy-lieutenant, a trustee of several Southampton charities, an ) tho Bel- gian Consul at that port. It is said that there are in Iowa nearly 200 lodges of a secret, oath bound order, whose uominal object is, liberty aud brotherhoo 1butwhos 3 real an nri- mary design is the abrogation of all laws iuterfjriug with the traffic in intoxicating drinks. The first volume of tho general catalogueof Fro-oh publications during the L'5 years froni ] 340 to lbtio has just appeared in Paris, under the editorship of M. Uvto L irenz. It extends from A to C, which will be comple- ted in four large octavo volumes, at the end of next year. Professor Seeley, of University College, has pro- mised to deliver some lectures on Milton at Newcastle, next Christmas. It is also stated that he will write the essay on Cambridge University Reform in the forth- coming volume of "Essays on Education," to be edited by Mr. Farrer. We speak of Philadelphia as the greatest manu- facturing city on this continent. It is something more than that-it is the second manufacturing city in the world, being only exoeededby London, which is in all industrial respects the most wonderful cityin existence. -Philadelphia Paper. Sir Moses Montefiore, accompanied by Dr. L. Loewe, Dr. Daniels, and Captain Moore, has arrived at the Hotel Meurice on his return from the Danubian Prin- cipalities. We (Galignani) are glad to hear that the hon. baronet is highly gratified with the result of his philanthropic mission. In Mexico, five hundred imperial officers have been butchered since March 1st. Oftentimes the chief men of the nation are despatched with wonderful haste. General Diaz (Liberalist) entered Mexico city at nine o'clock a.m., an at three o'clock p.m., two Ministers of the Empire had been shot. In Mexico there exist 197 different kinds of minerals, among which are gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, zinc, mercury, tin, &c. The following also exist, and are said as yet. only to bo found in this country :—Rho- dium, gold, silenid of mercury, zochillanite, jalapite, iodyrite, cocoinele, pluubic, ochre, silver obsidian, and vanadite. A NEW PLANET.—A new planet has been recently discovered at very nearly the same time by Professor Tietjen, of Berlin, and Mr. Peters, of Hamilton College, United States. It is stated to be about the eleventh magnitude. The discovery of this planet, to which thenameof Undina has been given,is very interesting, as it makes up the number of these bodies that have as it makes up the number of these bodies that have been discovered to 100. The iron mines at Marmora, in Canada, which were recently opened, are yielding large quantities of ore. It is only three weeks since shipment commenced, and already 6,000 tons of ore have been shipped from Co- burg to Cleveland or Erie-mostly to the latter port. The company are now shipping over three hundred tons per day. The ore is of exoellent quality, and the demand for it is active. In concluding a paper on Cotton-spinning Machi. nery, read before the Institution of Mechanical Engi- neers at Birmingham, Mr. Platt stated that the num- ber of spindles now employed in the cotton manufac- ture in Great Britain exceeds iO. Their pro- duce of yarn when in regular work is 64,000,000 miles in a day of ten hours, which gives enough to wind four times round the globe every minute. A new fibre is announced as having been brought into use in the Southern States. Bv a recent patent, a species of nettle, which grows luxuriantly throughout the Mississippi valley, is employed in the manufacture of cord, rope, cloth, bagging, and paper. The stalks, which grow from four to eight feet high, are gathered in the winter, and are ready for the brake without any rotting process. The fibre is said to be exceedingly fine,strongand susceptible of a high finish by dressing. THE COLENSO CONTROVERSY IN NATAL.-At Natal, the charge of singing and rioting in the Cathedral, on the night previous to Bishop Wells preaching there, bad had been solemly denied on the part of the Colenso party. In re the Bishop of Natal against the Rev. Mr. Wills, judgment had been given against the bishop. The Supreme Court held that Dr. Colenso had no au- thority, as a bishop over Mr. Wells. Dr. Colenso was about to attempt to enforce his judgment on Dean Green, and to eject him from his deanery. A letter from Albano gives a frightful account of the ravages of the cholera there. Out of a population of between six and seven thousand the epidemic has carried off 775. There is hardly a house but has lost an occupant, nor a family that has not been bereft of onelor more of its members. In some cases whole families of six and seven have been swept away. Al- bano, like most Italian towns, contains but two or three streets which are kept in anything like decent order, and the rest consists of back-slum. Under no pretence is an inhabitant of Albano permitted to enter a house in of the surrounding Tillages, Sir Robert Napier will no doubt become colonel com- mandant of the Royal Engineers, in sucession to the late Lieutenant General Ward.-Army and Navy Ga- zette. Mr. Philip Francis, legal vice consul, cancellier, and registrar to the Consular Court in Egypt, has been ap- pointed Her Majesty's consul general and judge of tho British Supreme Consular Court at Constantinople. The salary istl,500 a year. The death of Lieutenant General Ward, R.E. pro- motes Major General Montgomery Wi4liams to be lieutenant general, aud Colonel Sir F. E. Chapman, K.C.B. governor of Bermuda, to major gfenezvil. By the same event Major Dillon, late of the 30th Regiment becomes lieutenant colonel, and Captain G. H. 1 raser, Roval Artillery, amaiorinthe armv. A new and very important article of commerce bag been lately introduced into America, called New Grass Sponge." It is found in almost exhaustless quantities among the coral reefs of the Bahamas and coasts of Mexico and Florida. The sponge is washe 1 and freed from grit, passed between india-rubber roll- ers saturated with glycerine, and then seasoned iii ovens. After undergoing this treatment it is fit for use. The purposes to which it can be applied are very various; but it is especially adapted for stuffing bads, sofas, chairs, &o. One pound of this sponge is equal, for these purposes, to one and a half pound of hair. Several ships are now employed in carrying large car- goes of this material to New York. THE REFORM FETE.-At a meeting held in London, on Friday night, of the Committee for promoting the Crystal Palace reform fete, the Chairman, Mr. George Potter, said they must work without the League Coun- cil, and take no further notice of it. The Executive of the National Reform Union had appointed a deputa- tion of eight gentlemen to represent them at the ban- quet. He had expected telegrams from Messrs. Gin. T- stone and Bright that evening, with respect to th^ir attendance, but none had yet arrived.—Mr. Jenkins thought no more time should be wasted in efforts to conciliate the League, and moved "that the Commit- tee proceed to the next business on the paper," a reso- lution which was carried without any further discus- sion.-The secretary read a letter from General Gari- baldi stating that it was impossible for him to be pre- sent at the banquet, but expressing himself deeply sensible of the kind invitation sent him. SHOCKING FATALITY TO A BOLTON TOURIST. M).. JohnRigby, a biscuit manufacturer, of Derby-street Bolton, and Mr. Alexander Jones, bookeeper at the Bolton Chronicle oiffce, left Bolton a few days ago on a tour to the Irish lakes. They left Killarney in a car on Friday morning intending to drive to Muckross. OJ their way they passed through a locality where trees were being cut down, and unfortunately a tree fell just as the vehicle was passing the spot. Both tourists attempted to jump out of the car, but Mr. Rigby was unsuccessful. One of the branches struck him on tho right side ofthe head, rendering him insei siblo an in- flicting injuries which proved fatal in twenty minutes. His companion, Mr. Jones, escape 1 with merely a few slight bruises. An inquest was held on thebody of de- ceased in the afternoon of Friday, and a verdict of manslaughterwas returned against John Callaghav, the man who was employed in felling the tree. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Three men have been tak^n into the South Staffordshire Hospital, Wolverham ■ ton, suffering from fearful burns sustained at the bla^t furnaces of Messrs. Gibbons, at Millfiel Is, about two miles from that town. The accident arose from the burstingof atuyero, one of those instruments by which air is conveyed into the fire of the furnace to increase the combustion. It represents a gigantic bellows pipe and has a double case round which water plays to keep the tuyere cool. Not nnfrequently the moandesceut mass within in settling down, burns through the outer casing, notwithstanding that it is made of thick plate iron. The water thus becoming liberated from the inside casing of the tuyere escapes into the furnace. The three men referred to were employed at a furnace where an explosion from this cause occurred on Friday night. As much as two tons of burning scoria, lava and red-hot cinders were belched out upon them with terrifio foroe. They were frightfully disfigure 1, and very little hope is entertained of their recovery. Their names are Thomas Arnold, teaser, Bilston, Joseph Cox, keeper, Blakenhall, and Edward Ellis, of Gibbet- lane, Bilston. The great tunnel of the Central Pacific Railroad which has just been complete I, is said tohavebien the last, the longest, and by far the most costly or the excavations along the line of the road. It is 1,660 feet in length, and was begun at the east portal on the 16th of September, and on the west portal on the 20th of September last, and the work upon it has therefore occupied about a year. The material which ha 1 to be drilled and blasted was granite of the hardest grain. As but a limited surface could be presented to the workmen, advantage was taken of a depression in the centre, and a working shaft of 159 feet was sunk so as present four working faces. The average rate of pro-' gress with powder was about one foot per day to each face, or from twenty to thirty feet per week in all. In March last the company accepted the services of an experimenter in nitro-glycerine, which article was manufactured on the spot wherever it oould be used with advantage, and the average was increased to nearly fifty feet per week. The workmen, principally Chinamen, laboured in three gangs for eight hours each, and proved very serviceable in this kind of work. At times the consumption of pow !er reached 400 kegs per day. The Pacific Railroad is thus making rapid strides to a successful complet ion. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of the Right Hon. Benjamin Baron Llanover, who died on April 27 last was proved in the Probate Court of London by his Lordship's widow, Augusta, Baroness Llanover; John Johnes, Esq., of Dolaucothy, Carmarthenshire and Mr. Henry Ray Freshtield, of Bank-buildings, Lon- don. The will is dated December 28, in the fewest words leaves all his Lordship's property, real and personal, "to his most dear and devotedly-at- tached wife Augusta, Baroness Llanover." The per- sonalty was sworn under 925,000. — The late Mrs. Sarah Pugh, of Vale Royal, Tunbridge Wells who died in May last, leaving personalty sworn under JE70,000, has bequeathed to the Church Missionary Society, £ 1,000; the British and Foreign Bible So- ciety, £ 400; the Church Pastoral Aid, and the Incorpor- ate 1 Society for Promoting thoEnlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels, each £ 200; tothe Rev. Mr. Pope, of Tunbridge Wells, for the pur- poses of his chapel, £ 200; and to the Kent County Hospital, £ 200.—ihe late Miss Elizabeth Came Slo- man, of Longton, Staffordshire, who died in March last, possessed of £ 9,000 personalty, has left to the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, s- South American Missionary Society, British and Fo- reign Bible Society, Church Missionary Society, Exe- ter Bible and Domestic Mission, Crystal Palace Board- ing House for Young Women at Norwood, Surrey, each EIOI); tothe Rev. P. M. Walker, for the E tensor New Schools, Longton, £ 100; and a like sum for the general purposes connected with the E ionsorCburfh to the Irish Society for Promoting the Script ural E In: i cation and Religious Instruction of Irish Roman Catho- lies through the medium of their own language and to the Exeter Blanket Society, each £ 100.—Illustrated London News. THE CONSTITUTION OP THE COURTS OF LAW. — The Gazette of Friday night contains the terms of a Royal Commission issued on the 18th inst. to Lord Cairns Sir W. Erie, Sir J. P. Wilde, Sir W. P. Woo 1, Mr. Jus- tice Blackburn, Mr. Justice Smith, Sir J. B. Karslake Sir Roundell Palmer, Mr. W. M. James, Mr. J. R: Quain, Mr. II. C. Rothery, Mr. AyrtonM.P., Mr. IIllIlt, M.P., Mr. Childers, M.P., Mr. J. Holloms, and Mr. F. D. Lowndes, directing them to inquire into the opera- tion and effect of the present constitution of the English Court of Chancery, the superior courts of law at West- minster, the Central Court, the Court of Admiralty of England, the Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports, the Courts of Probate and Divorce for England, the Courts of Common Pleas of the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham, and the Courts of Error and Anpealfrom the above-mentioned tribunals, as also into the opera- tion of the present separation an i division of their res- pective jurisdictions, i'he investigation wi II likewise extend to the pr".Jent arrangements for h lri in." the sittings in London and Middlesex and the assizes in England and Wales,together with the present division of the legal yearwith terms and vacations. It will fur- ther embrace generally "the operation and effect of the existing laws and arrangements for distributing and transacting judicial business of the said courts respectively, as well in court as in chambers, with a view to ascertain whether any and what changes and improvements, either by uniting and consolidating tha said courts orany of them, or by extending or altering the severaljuris lictions, or assigning anymatters or causes now within their respective cognizance to any other jurisdiction,or by altering the number of judges in the said courts or any of them or empowering one or morejudges in any of the said courts to transact any kind of business now transacted by a greater num- ber, or by altering the mode in which the business of the said courts, or any of them, or of the sittings and assizes is now distributed or conducted, or otherwise, may be advantageously made so as to provide for the more speedy, economical, and satisfactory dis- patchofthejudicial business now transacted by the said courts, and at the sittings and assizes respect- ively." The Commissioners are also to inquire into the laws relating to juries, especially with reference to the qualifications, summoning, nominating and en- forcing the attendance of jurors, with a view to the better, more regular, and more efficient conduct of trials by jury. They are armed with full powers for calling witnesses and ordering the production of re- cords and papers connected with the courts, and they are required to report toHer Majesty the result of their labours within nine calendar months from the date of the commission, or "as soon as the same can conveni- ently be done, using all diligence." Mr. T. J, Brad- "haw J BARFIAIERJISAPPOINTLFIASIHEIRJEORETFTRJ, ——« The Queen has sent the usual donation of C3 to Mrs. Dlakey, the wife of a bricklayer at Leeds, who recently gave birth to triplets The Pall Mall Gazette has reason to believe that, unless by some happy but improbable circumstance, thewar with Abyssinia shoul 1 cease, parliament will beassembled to vote supplies during the month of No- vember. The Bradford corporation contemplate an applica- tion to parliament in the next session for larger addi- tional powers, including the extension of the area of their water supply, the E'ff'c'iu'! of various public improvements, including the enclosure of Bradford Moor and the formation of apublic recreation ground. MILITARY RIOTS IN LIMERICK. — A correspondent te- legraphs from Limerick as follows: A desperate riot has taken place at Limerick, between soldiers of the 74th Regiment and civilians. Eight persons have been stabbed by bayonets, and one man is sa; 1 to be dead. The greatest excitement m-evaiK and all the constabu- lary are out on duty to preserve order. Tli« wounded have been sent to Birrinorron's Hospital. For the last month a feeling of disaffection had I eon engendered between the soldiers of the 74;h Highlanders and the lower classes of the civilians, and niehtly affrays en- sued. The 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiaiers) also mixed in the quarrel. At Windsor, on Saturday, Joseph Tull, "baker to Her Majesty," Windsor, was charge i with selling bread otherwise than by weight, and a gainst a servant of his named Charles Smith, it was charged that whilst carrying out bread an I selling it from a cart he was not supplied with the requisin weights aud balances. Smith was seen to take two quartern loaves into a house. A policeman asked permission to have them weighed, and the n .mnn of the house consenting he took them to a lIeighboaring shop. One loaf was from twelve to thirteen ounces short weight, and the other about six ounces short. For the defence, the husband of the woman whoha 1 pnrcha-e 1 the loaf n as called tosay that ho was quite satisfied with the weight of the bread, and two others, bakers, described cot- tage loaves" as "fancy bread."—The Bench deter- mined to adjourn the case for a fortnight. DEATH OF MR. H. WICKHnr, M.P. FOR BRADFORD. -On Monday afternoon Mr. Henry Wickham Wick- ham, the senior member f'»r Bra tfor 1, died at his resi- dence, Clarendon Place, Leamington. The deceased was aLiberal Conservative in politics, and was first returned to parliament for Bradford in 1852, after un- successfully contesting the boron eh in lb'47. He was the son of the Rev. Lamplugh llird, ptebendary of York, was born in 1800, an resumed his paternal name of Wickham (his father having assumed the family name of Hird) in 1843. lie married, in 1836, Mary, daughter of Thomas Benyon, Esq,, of New Grange, near Leeds. The decease, [ was a partner in the Low Moor Ironworks, a deputy-lientenant, and magi-trate for the West Riding of Yorkshire quarter sessions, and also chairman of the hoar.1 of directors of the Lanca- shire and Yorkshire Railu-i v, M r. Wu-idiam had for some time been in delicate health, and has for several years resided atLeamingtou during the parliamentary recess. LYNCHING A FENIAN AT BARKSMY.—A ei—n nstance has just taken place in one of the largest M .inifactur- ing firms, in Barnsley, which shows very stravgely the feeling among the working classes on the subject of Fenianism. It appears that a youngman, in tile enlftloy of Messrs. T. T. Taylor and Son, manufacturers by steam power, declared to some of his fellow-workers in the warehouse that his sympathies were with the cause of those who figured so conspicuously a few days ago in the city of Manchester. This declaration had no sooner been made than a jury was empanelled, and the self-declared Fenian was put upon his trial. He was found guilty, and was then sentence i to be hung. A rope was placed round his n^ck, and he was drawn up and suspended in mid-air. After heha 1 b.en hang- ing a short time the actors appeared to become sensi- ble of the awkward position in which they had placed themselves, as they then attempted to loose the knot, but in this their efforts were unavailing, and they were compelled to cut the rope. The culprit had al- ready got black in the face, and when cut down there was the mark of the rope on his neck. The conduct of the young men has been brought under the notice of Mr. J. E. Taylor, one of the partners, and alsoa mag- istrate; they werabroughfc before that gentleman, who severelyreprimander) them, and threato.ie 1 to nave them prosecuted the young man whom they had been attempting to hang i nt erce: te 1 for then a hiexpreasol a desire that the matter should go no fun her. There is, however, an accident futid in Cdonectioll with the operatives, and the men were fiue 110s.each,the money to go to the fund. Loss OF A FISHING BOAT AND FM' OF A CREW.—Among the few herring-fishing boats which remainod at sea over Wednesday night, an I set their in spite of the roughness ofthe weather, was the William Low, of Ca irnbulg, John May skipper, which, as now ascertain- I e l, has been lost with all hands. Although the boat did not arrive in the harbour with the oilier boats on Thursday morning, it was yet hoped that, as one or twe crews had preferred toputinto Peterhead harbour, it would be found that the missing crew ha I accom- panied them thither. Several circumsfan -cs have, however, come to light which, when linked together, only reveal too plainly that the boat had s vamped, and that her crew of five had perished. Ch! f.f (hese circumstances are-First, the story told by a boat's crew of having seen a man struggling in the w uer with the assistance of a mast,but who disappeare i after they had vainly attempted to reach him; and next, the re- port from another crew to the effect that they bad heard cries in the distance, indistinct, and scarcely audible, but recalled now as the cries of drowning men. It has likewise been rumours 1 that one of the bodies had been washed ashore in t he neighbourhoo I of Peter- head, but this requires corroboration. It is conjec tured that the boat had been heavily laden with her- rings, and that, consequently, being unable to rise with the swell on the sea caused by tlie galp, she had snipped a sea and capsized, The names of the un- fortunate crew, besides the master of the boat, were— ("Jackie"), G.May, Alexander Duthie, and W. Emslie. Emslie was a hired man. Three were married, and have left families. George May was the support of a widowed mother, his father having been also drowned while at the fishing three or four years ago. Such has been the effect of this disaster upon the fishermen, who had intended to continue at the fishing a few nights longer, that they have completely aban- doned their purpose, notwithstanding that excellent takes of herring were on Friday landed from about a dozen boats. The season has now, therefore, closed, with an average of 158 crans.—Scotsman. THE ESCAPEOFA FENIAN AT CLONMEL.—The Clonmel Chronicle gives the following account of the recent °/ a Fenian prisoner from Clonmel Gaol :— Theprisoner, when arreste 1 under a warrant from the Lord Lieutenant, gave his name as Charles Aus- borne, but later inquiries discovered his real name to be Laurence O'Brien. He had been in the police force, was three years stationed as a sub-constable in Kildare; he is stated to have been a man of great activity and intelligence. After leaving the force, he emigrated to America, where he remained until the early part of this year. Since his return to Ireland suspicion rested upon him, and there appears to be good reason for believing him to have been deeply implicated in the iian ,™ov'ement- He went through Fethard, Clon- mel, and Cashel, in company with General Burke, of Ballyhurst notoriety. But his proceedings were close- ly watched, and at length he was arrested, discharged for want of sufficient proof, and re-arresfei very soon after undor the Habeas Corpns Suspension Act and committed to the Clonmel Gaol. O'Brien, a most troublesome prisoner all through, wasco fmelinaoell fromwhichit was naturally believe escape woul 1 be impossible. The walls of this cell are some 5ft. or 6ft. thick. Light is admitted by a narrow opening, protec- ted with double bars of iron, set transversely and im- bedded with lead into heavy blocks ot stone. The outer door was of wood, sheet od and cased with iron- ,a^iro" £ ate> 1,ofh "el! fastened outside W1H s a'lci sfcronS :'0,M ;xn'1 1 -rs. I ato this cell the prisoner wa= l(.ked oi Wednogrlav evening last: am. at sr< c oi ,CK t. xt n or li.ig it u as d #covered tliat U ilrien s oeil was uutenantoJ. The prisoner had succeeded in effecting his escape in the prison dress. The lower half of the heavy iron grating of the win. dow had been cut through in part with a file or some other instrument, the remainder being forced by some means from its leaden socket, while one of the side. blocks of limestone had been broken in two, and the loosened part removed. The iron grating and broken masonry werefound in the cell, with the prisoner's hat which was filled with pieces of cement and limestone; also,a stout bar of iron skilfully sharpened at one end and tied round with oloth toproteot the hand,and lessen the sound while working. It was cut offfrom the iron support of the metal stove pipe, which the prisoner had found means to procure or remove from its place at the end of the corridor while passing to his cell. There were found in addition some two or three pieces of rod iron, finely pointed; a rude iron hammer, aknife, and a small ooil of rope unopened. From one of the re- maining window bars a thin rope, doubled, hung loose- fn'nrea^ngf dTn' °n^e>the win^ow itself being lully 30ft. from the walk below leading tothe main entrance. By this means the prisoner is supposed to have lowered himself to a level with the iron gallery or passage from the pressroom to cthe drop,' and hav- mg been drawn across, if he had an accomplice or wnichisjust possible, having swung himself over to the passage gallery-in which one of the sheets of the prisoner's bed waafound-with the ends double stitched together, he scaled the railing, crossed the roof of the gatehouse barefooted, and got upon the parapet of the outer wall of the prison, from which it is believed he descended into the street, some 18ft. or 20ft. by means SSrtsta0 tro» The royal commission appointed to inquire Into the pollution of rivers, under the presidency of Mr. Henry Rawlinson, C.B., will resume its sittings in the next month. It is understood that the commissioners will go in the first instance to Lancaster and Blackburn, to iuquire into the alleged pollution of the rivers in that neighbourhood, which is expected to occupy some con- siderable time and will extend this inquiry into North and South Wales. A NoTED BANK-BREAKER.—From a letterwe have just received from Homburg we learn that the same Mal- tese millionaire who in 1863 broke the bank at Baden has renewed his exploits this year. A few days ago he did the same in that town three times running. The Prince of Wales happened to be there at the time, amusing himself with playing a few napoleons from time to time: the Duke of Hamilton and Mustapha Pasha were also among the visitors. He then started for Berlin, taking Homburg on his way, and at this latter place won 300,000fr., but did not break the bank because the director kept sending bank-notes as long as the play lasted. The coolness with which the Mal- tese matador played struck every one with astonish- ment, so much so that the director of the Homburg bank called upon him the day after, and told him he had never seen a gentleman play with the same impas- sive demeanour, since he was not more moved thanthe bank itself. But what is narrated as most singular is the circumstance that the Maltese keeps the money he wins, and does not, like almost all others, win one day to lose double the next. It also appears that he spends his winnings most freely, giving large sums in charity and presents, and that he has thus become well kLown among the personages who frequent these bathing- places. In 1866,, it appears, he did not pay any visit to Germany.—Galignani. AGES AT DEATH IN ENGLAND.-Intheyear1865, for which the returns have recently been issued, 490,909 persons died in England. No less than HJ9,903-0I 40 per cent.-were under five years of age. Nearly 70 in a thousand of the whole number of children un ler five years of agediedinthecourse of the year—amort ality above the average. Theweaklier children thus weeded out year by year, the mortality of the next quinquen- nial period is enormously less; in 1865 the deaths from five to ten years of age were only 19,733, less than a tenth of the deaths of the first five years of life, and only about eight in 1,000 living. The third quinquen- nial period 10 to 15 years of age, is the least mortal of our lifetime; the deaths in this period in 1865 were only 10,420, less than five in 1,000 of the living boys and girls of that age. In an equal number of children under five and of children between 10 and 15,14 of the former die when only one of the latter dies. From the age of 15 upwards the ratio of mortality never ceases to increase. Between 15 and 20the deaths in 1865 were 13,498 and between 20 and 65, the working time of life they were 155,051, the ratio increasing from less than eight per thousand (of that age living) in the first de- cennial to more than 32 in the last. After 65 the ratio increases very rapidly. Between 65 and 75 the deaths in 1865 were 45,000, and a larger proportion or the men of that age died in the year than the proportion of male children under five who died in the year. In the next decennial period, 75-85, the rate of mortality was doubled in the succeeding decennial doubled again and of the persons who wereabove95 years old nearly half died in the year. The number of persons dying in the year aged 75 and upwards was 47,376, making the whole mortality of the year 490,909, equal to the extinction of the entire population of Liverpool, or of such a county as Norfolk or Hampshire. WORKING O-F THE NEW ARMY MARRIAGE RULES.—The recent warrant, which was believed to seoure nume- rous advantages to the married soldier, is working in just the contrary direction at Aldershot. One clause of the warrant lays down that married soldiers shall be entitled to two sets of bed ding, that is, to two bed- ticks, two bolsters, two blankets, and two rugs; and as these articles are of the same size as those issued for single beds, the two sets are only sufficient to make one double bed. Prior to the promulgation of the new warrant it has been customary both at Alnershot and other stations to issue as many sets of bedding as each family required, but no sooner had the warrant been published than the barrack authorities at Aldershot called in with questionable promptitude all bed ding in exoess of the quantity sanctioned. The consequence is that throughout the camp each family, often con- sisting of five or six children, and some of these not unfrequently over 14 years of age, must sleep in one bed, which is large enough to containtwo persons only, that is, unless the husband wraps himself In his great- coat and sleeps on the fioor,to make room for his child- ren. This decision of the War-office authorities can- not but lower the moral tone of the soldiers' families, and will do anything but foster their ideas of decency. The efforts of the sanitary boards to secure cleanliness will doubtless also be ably seconded by this arrange- ment. It is difficult to conceive the amount of misery that must result from the want of bedding when the winter has once set in. At that season the single men are allowed what is termed a bad weather blanket," but unless some provision is made for the married people they will have to huddle together on their one bed without undressing, or there will be no possibility of sleeping warm. The local authorities are not to blame in the matter. We have learnt that the lieute- nant-general commanding submitted the matter to the War-office, but his request was not favourably enter- iained.-United Service Gazette. PRINCE ALFRED AT THE CAPE.—The Duke of Edin- burgh arrived in Simon's Bay, on board the Galatea on the 15th of August. The duke's reception there, as also along the whole line of route from Simon's Bay to the Government House, Table Bay, and Cape Town, was one continued ovation. On the day of his roval highness's arrival he was received with royal salutes fired from the fortifications and Her Majesty's ship Racoon. On landing, his royal highness reported himself at the commodore's office. On the 16th, a ball was given by Commodore Pnrvis, at which the duke at. tended. The company numbered about 150 persons, and convivialities were kept up until the following morning. The Prince's affability added to the gratifi- cation of those present. On the 17th Commo lore Purvis was entertained at dinner by his royal highness on board the Galatea. At noon his royal highness landed officially, when loyal addresses of welcome were pre- sented to him by the European and Mahomedan in- habitants of Simon's Town. His royal highness then rode from Simon's Town to Cape Town, accompanied by the Governor and a brilliant staff of government officials, and a large party of colonists. Triumphal arches spanned the road at numerous available points. On his arrival at Cape Town the municipality presen- ted loyal addresses of welcome, thanking his royal highness for the visit, and also expressing gratitude to her Majesty for this distinguished mark of favour. In the evening his royal highness dined with a large party of theheads of departments andleading colonists. Simon's Town and Cape Town were brilliantly illumi- nated with numerous graceful devices. On the 20th there was to be a full dress levee at the Government- house, on the following evening a grand ball, and on the 22nd a fete at the Botanic-gardens and Museum. On the evening of the 23rd a great fete was to be given to his royal highness by the citizens of Cape Town in the new market and on the 27th a militarv ball. Many other public movements were to come åff, the exact times for which had not been determined. It was expected that in the following week his royal high- ness would proceed in the Petrel to Kingsona, to enjoy some elephant and buffalo shooting in the adjacent forests, after which he would revisit Cape Town before taking his final departure. THE SERVANT GIRL AND THE FENIANS.—A despatch from Troy, of Sept. 8th, to the New York Herald gives an account of the meeting of servant girls. It savs Amonstermeetingof the servant girls of this city was held here last night for the explicit purpose of protes- ting against making any further contributions to the Fenian Exchequer in the present dilapidated state of that cause. The meeting was suggested by a private announcement, received here on Friday, and since made public at Cleveland, that an official appeal was to be made to this class in particular,and the women of America in general, by the Cleveland congress of Fe- nians, to come at once, and liberally, to the financial aid of the organisation. The chambermaids resolved. First.—That they had not the slightest interest in the capture of Canada, and that they could not discern the propriety or fitness of the policy that would free Ireland through the reduction of the "new dominion." Second.—They had now for several years poured out most freely of their small means -thp scanty results of hard and honest toil—to sincerely aid in the liberation of Erin from the shackles of British domination, and had seen those earnings thrown away and wasted by officials on the merest frivolities in the city of New York and on so-called military campaigns, which had no foundation either in sense, or even well grouudel. success. 3rd. Up to this time all the money and muni- tions so lavishly furnished by friends of the Fenian cause, in the United States and throughout this and other countries, had been criminally diverted from their original purposes and wasted without stint. 4th. That they would, under no possible circumstan- ces, contribute any further aid to the cause until they were assured, beyond the perad venture of a Joubt, that such aid would be used only in the maintenance of any army whose objective point should be Ireland, and Ireland alone. It was also recommended that similar meetings should be everywhere held. The above embraces the spirit of the resolutions. The gathering was of course a novel one, but the proceed- ings were conducted in a very orderly and proper man- lIer, the organisation being similar to that of all public meetings. To be sure, made up as the singular con- clave almost wholly was of thefemale broguish servant element, there were many amusing informalities, both of action and of speech, but the intent of the meeting, as above set forth, was firmly adhered to and earnestly and conspicuously evident. The convention was the result of a common understanding among theeervam girle, and the iesnance of a private circular,