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OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Solo Lessee and Manager. Mr. Vining /21: Tilts EVENING, TWICE KILLED. After whicli. Dion Boueicault's Great Drama. entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson ; Mire EMma Earnett, and Miss hose Leclereq. Concludin7 with THE SECRET. N.B.—Shortly will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Bon cicault. %ors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. daily from 10 till 5. Box-office open a MOSES and EON. XCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. LIVERY ARTICLE of cLonIING , U/ R EADY-MADE or MADE to MEASURE, FOR ALL CLASSES• PRICES BASEDSYSTEM ON READY -MONEY N "UNEQUALLED in EVERY DEPARTMENT. STOCK A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY S LYLE AND MATEPIAL. OVERCOATS from 19s. to B OOTS and SHOES. HOSIERY and DRAVERY. AND HATS and CAPS, IN GREAT VARIETY. BUCKSKIN OVAL. CRICKETING BOOTS, 9s. Gti. COMPLETE OUTFIT'S for ALL CLIMATES. ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES ARTICLES NOT APPROVED EX CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. AN easy and accurate System of Self-measure, introduced by E. MOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom, ORDERS by POST promptly and carefully attended to. T. IST of PEICES. with Rules of Self-measure, J Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. fril MOSES and SON'S ESTABLP-lIIIENTS It:,,j• are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. EMOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers. Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES anti CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, miNomr.s 156, 111NORIES 157, 11.11NORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 56, ALDGATE 7, ALDGATE 8.3, ALDGAT SO, ALDGATE OXFORD—STREET BRANCH. 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Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, APELPHI. Sole Prorrictor and Manager. Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. VHS EVENTNO. nt 7.- DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL: Mr G. Belmore. kt 11 to 8. time, 9BLACK AND WHITE. Mr reehter, Miss Carlotta Leclerery. Mr Arthur t•:tirlinc. Mr R. Phillips, Mr Atkins, Mr Stuart. Mrs. L Murray. 'Tii4s Lenroa• fry. &e. To conelode WITITE.B..; IT AT GREENWICH. Mr A tkius and 3lrs Leigh Murray rip HEATRE -R YA L, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manarr, BARRY SULLIVAN THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 3 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (in five acts) of MONEY. Tarry Sullivan, .1. C. Cowper, George Ponev, W. H. Stephens, e_harles coglan. Lin Bayne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E. "Yaq•. Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Louisa Thorne, and Mrs Charles Horsmaii. p OYAL STRAND THEATRE. sn Sole T.essee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVE)IING. at 7, A V - IDOW HUNT. Messrs. '2l trke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bufton and Maitland. 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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in accordance with the Railways (Extension of Time) Act, 1868, an Extraordidary Meeting of the Shareholders of this Com pany will be held at their Offices, as above, on 3/ON - DAY, the 10th day of May next, at Three o'Clock in the after noon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving of an application being made to the Board of Trade, parsuant to the said Act, for an extension of time granted by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junc tion Railway Act, 1864 (which expires on the 28th of July next), for the completion of the Railway therein de cribed as follows, viz. A Railway commencing iu the parish of Cilybebill, in the County of Glamorgan, by a junction with the Swan sea Vale Railway. at tho north end of the platform of the Ynys-y-Geinon Station of that Railway, and terminating in the hamlet of Colbren, in the pariah of Ystrad,cynlais, in the county of Brecon, by a junction with the authorised line of the Neath and Brecon Rail way, at a point in the field numbered 42, on the plan of the last• mentioned Railway; and also for an Extension of the time granted by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway Act, 1865 (which expires on the sth of July,lB7o), for the completion of the Railway therein described, as follows, viz : . . _ _ Railway, commencing in the parish of Ystradgynlais, by a jnr ction with the authorized line of the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway, at a po'nt in an enclosure, numbered 165 on the plan deposited in respect of that Railway with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Brecon in the month of November, 1863, and terminating in the same parish, at or near to the bridge carrying the tramway or tramroad belonging to the Aberciare Colliery and works river the river • Tawe. D. ROWELL MORG.AN, Secretary. THE EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAIL WAY COMPANY. Incorporated by 27th and 28th Vict., cap. 285, 29th July, 1861. NOTICE IS ItEREI3Y GIVEN, that an EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors will be held on FRIDAY, the 14th day of May next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, at N 0.4, Old Palace-yard, West minster, pursuant to the "Railway (Extension of Time) Act, 1868," for the purpose of obtaining their assent to, or dissent from, an application to the Board of Trade for the following purposes, that is to say:— To extend the time for the purchase of land, and the construction of works for the railways. authorised by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1861, and "The East Gloucestershire Pail wny Act, 1866," except the whole of railway N 0.4, and that portion of railway No. 1, which lies between a certain turnpike road ii the parish of Fair ford, in Gloucestershire, leading from Fairford to Lech lado, and numbered 102 on the deposited plans for the said railway No. 1, and referred to by the East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 186-1, and the proposed junction of railway No. 1, with the said railway No. 4 at its commencement, in the parish of Lechlade, for two years from the time limited by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1867," for those purposes. 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It is now offered to the public in a more courelitrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 78.6 d., and 159. each. includinz brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames strcet London. E.C. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. PT:ers Gordon, White; 11118-t Fanny Wright. &o. A fier HOME: .llcssr,a. iothern. Chippendale. &c. ; Mesdames CBcendish, Bill &c Followed by THE CAP TAIN OF THE wAT, Ir. ,r' Fothern. Concluding with •MMAiiE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Commence at. 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mansger, Mr. Vining. TIITS EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Walter Lacy, Mr D. LccEon, Miss Itcse Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATR E - ROYAL, ADELPHL THIS EN - HsTNG, at 7. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO C A MBERWELL: Mr. G. Belmure, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to 8, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Pechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips. Stuart: Caylotta Leclereq, Miss Lennox Grey, &c, A.nd WIIITI..BAIT AT GR E r NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. 'bus EVENING. at 7.30, THE `VIM )IV HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke Miss Burton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton: •• esda.mes Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TTI)S FVENING, at 7. MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, A BREACH OF PROMISE. After which. BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews. Hurl stone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia. Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain. and Stephens. ROYALTY TFIEATRE. Limier the Management of Miss M Oliver. This ErENTNG. at IN FORA lIDLID Followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar. Mr. Danvers. Miss M. Oliver. Re. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of !Iliss Marie Wilton Tnrs EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss .Nlarie Wilton. Afterwhich, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CBRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. TUN EVENING, at S, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRIST - TS MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagmza., THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-offic( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pak, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Ilrntlays, 6d. Children under twelve, (141. 1:21 4, - - „ , r ONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1869. Mr. GLADSTONE'S avowed Lope was, fortnight since, that the Irish Church Bill would have passed through Committee in the House of Commons before Whitsuntide. That confident expectation of the Prime Minister's appears in a fair way of being realized. Last' night, or rather this morning—for the clock was, at the moment, just past midnight—clause thirty-eight was disposed of immediately prior to the Committee's ad journment. Nice clauses—from 30 to 38, each in clusive---were dealt with during yesterday's sitting. The tug of war, Lcwevcr, so far as any serious con t::rition went, was upon clause 32, to wit,. that relat ing to the eii:gularly F roblematic.d Tithe Commuta tion Relit-charge—a mattei called by Mr. G LA DSTONE himself a financial puzzle, Ly Mr. GATIIORNE Il AIIDY a financial hocus-pocu, by Sr MICHAEL BEACII blending of bribery and sacrilege, and upon all side 3 looked upon with more or less bewilderment. As originally expressed, this thir;y.second clause of the bill empowers the landowner to purcha e the rent earge, by an immediate transact ion, at 22.4 years'i ur cLass, cr by au annual instalment for 45 ytara of 4i per cent. of the purchase mon,-..v. Oa Mr. GLAD STONE'S mction„ k•wever, the time was lengthened to 52 yea's, and the instalment fixe.i at £4 9.3 per cent., with a dcducdou for poor rates. Now, many regard the proposed 22} years' purchase as .an over valua- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1E69. .—___ Ition. Eighteen years, they maintain, would be amply sufficient. Some objectors go the length of asserting t that the result of the whole transaction must be a loss to the State and a gain to the Landlords. The aggregate amount of the rent-charge, at pre sent, is estimated at as many thousand pounds a yearas there are days in the twelvemonth—otherwise, and the exact total can hardly now be forgotten, at £365,000 per annum. Mr. FAWCETT'S amendment, upon which the Committee divided last night, was based upon the notion that the whole of this com plicated financial transaction amounted to this—that it aimed at the conversion of an obligation to pay for ever, or; as Mr. Sergeant DOWSE might say, in sascula sxculorum, into an obligation to pay for 45 years—no, for 52 years—the State, at the end of that time, making a present to the Irish landlords, out of a reserve sum or sinking fund, of £8,500,000. Lobby gossip spoke of all this as nothing more than just " greasing the wheels" to enable the bill to run glibly through Com mittee. Mr. MORRISON, who seconded the amend ment of the member for Brighton, insisted strongly upon it that the surplus, instead of being applied in the manner proposed, ought to have 'men set apart for the purposes, not of Godless, but of Un-sectarian education. Mr. WALTER, who spoke on the same side, while pronouncing the whole transaction from first to last indefensible and unaccountable, put a poser to the Government financiers—placed before them a tolerably hard nut to crack—in the form of his inquiry as to how it was that the National Debt could not be commuted on precisely the same principles? Others, however, including among their number the Mai Attorney-General, not only ex pressed their concurrence in the advisability or expe diency of thus extinguishing the tithe rent-charge, but went so far as to vindicate the equity of the means provided. Eventually, the Prime Minister did very much indeed towards the removal of objec tions to the disputed clause by realizing to the Committee the undeniable fact that, under that clause, each of the three parties who were affec ted by it, meaning the State, the Commissioners, and the Landlord, were directly benefited by it, and l i that not one of the three could be shown in any way ' to suffer from the transaction. For example, the Exchequer lent money at 31 per cent., the Commis sioners got 221 years' purchase instead of 17 (the present market value), while the landlord would pay for fifty-two years only, instead of doing so in perpetuity. No doubt, as the Premier ad mitted, there might be an apparent mystery in the extinction of a perpetual charge in fifty-two years, but, as he went on to show, this was done by converting the 1 one per cent. difference between the rate at which the landowner borrowed and Paid into a sicking fund. The upshot of the whole of this entangled discussion was, that after the dame bad been slightly modified with the assent of the Leader of the Government, it was carried upon a division by the very largest majority that has yet been obtained. Clause 32 could only challenge into oppo sition to it 33 supporters of Mr. FiwcErr's amend ment ! As many as 181 being toll off in support of the clause, the Government were only two short of a clear majority of 150. The result was na turally welcomed by mingled cheers and laughter. It is idle to talk, as some do, of party subservience. The meaning of it all is clear. The nation announced its opinion at the General Election. The representatives of the nation are true to the principles expressed by them to their respec tive constituencies. The Irish Church Bill is made to pass, and will pass, whatever the arguments of the Opposition, or whatever the number of divisions that may be taken. WHATEVER may be thought of the comparative merits of .the two great House of Commons rivals as Parliamentary speakers, there can be no doubt as to who is the better speaker on festal occasions. Mr. GLADSTONE is too serious to jest even when a jest is most becoming. lie cannot assume the light, airy eloquence of Mr. DISRAELI at the dinner table. This difference between the two men was very apparent at the Royal Academy dinner on Saturday. The PREMIER, with his head full of permanent curates and glebe lands and curtilages, may be pardoned, perhaps, for not being particularly lively. At all events, he was not lively; and Mr. DISRAELI, fully recovered from his one day's gout, was. The dinner was eaten under circumstances of special interest. This year is the commencement of the second century of the Academy's existence. This year sees the Academy for the first time in a house of its own, after having lived for a hundred years in lodgings. Mr. DISRAELI drew a parallel between the Academy and the House of Commons, a com parison in some respects happy, but not so appro priateNol:d . S is and notAcademiciansus ed in thesime as cou ld b e d es i re d . It is quite true that b oth 31. house;m s.e e t e he v have se a neww ns n e e in both The House of Commons is reformed as regards its inmates ; the Royal Academy only as regards its dwelling. The first wants what the second has just obtained ; the second no less wants what the first has _undergone. In truth, the complaints against the Forty were never so numerous or loud as they are to-day. The opening of the new and larger premises, which was anticipated by artists as a millennium, has turned out for them a day of rebuke and lamentation. Nearly 1,100 pictures have been rejected. That is bad enough ; it is still worse that some of these are as good as, if not better than, many of those which have been accepted. It is a source of bitter com plaint that while so many of the younger men who have their reputations to make should be altogether excluded, any of the R.A.'s should have exercised his right of exhibiting eight pictures. There is the President himself, who is the worst offender. Everyone knows the square yards of wall that one of his portraits covers, and he has sent eight of them, excluding probably six pictures of moderate size, for every one that he exhibits. Mr. KNIGHT, the Secretary, and Mr. RICHMOND, both portrait painters, have been equally vora cious of wall room. Mr. ELMORE has sent seven pictures, and Mr. ANSDELL and others , have sent six. One cannot but contrast this conduct with that of the leading French artists, who, so far from exhibiting a selfishness un worthy of the profession, leave to the younger men the yearly exhibition answering to that of our Royal Academy, knowing that their own reputation is well established. We are not surprised to learn that the wholesale exclusion of works from this year's Academy has already led to the starting of a rival institution. This, however, cannot be established in the present year. It would be well, therefore, if the artists who have suffered rejection would repeat the experiment which was made several years ago, and appeal from the Hanging Committee to the public by an exhibi tion of " The Rejected Pictures." THE Governments of France and Belgium have at last come to terms respecting the railway difficulty. We have not, indeed, quite heard the last of this dispute; but the settlement which has been agreed upon takes it out of the arena of politics, and the details which remain to be arranged ought to give rise to no serious difficulty. The dispute is a novel, and not uninstructive, episode in European diplo macy. Some time ago the company owning the Great Luxemburg Railway in Belgium agreed to lease their line to the East of France Company, with which it is connected. The terms were settled, the treaty signed, and the bargain was about to be concluded, when an unforeseen incident occurred. The Belgian Ministry, taking alarm at this transfer, presented to the Brussels Legislature a bill for the purpose of forbidding the lease of any Ilelgirtn railway to a foreign company unless the sanction of the Government were first obtained. This measure would probably have excited no great attention had not the Belgian Government invested it with an ex poste facto character, inorder that it might apply to the treaty just concluded, as well as to all future contracts of the kind. The French press set up a vehement outcry. The Belgian Ministry was loaded with semi-official abuse, and annexation was freely talked of by journals supposed to be the exponents of Imperial policy. But the Brussels Parliament met the wishes of its Government, the bill was hurried through both Houses and speedily became law. The EMPEROR was not, however, to be baffled in this way. Negotiations were opened, and King LEOPOLD'S Ministers were plainly informed that, though Belgium might make her own laws, the bargain between..- the Luxemburg and the East of France Companies had already been concluded, and must be ratitied. But the Belgian Government had introduced the law for the express purpose of forbidding this lease, and it accordingly refused to ratify it, The EMPEROR in sisted, and the fire of diplomatic notes grew so sharp at this point that M. FRERE-OItBAN, the Belgian Minister of Finance, found it necessary to go to Paris, and try to appease the French Govern ment in person. He offered the East of France Com pany ample running powers over the Luxemburg line; the fares should be reduced to the same figure as those of the French line. Anything, in short, would be granted, save the actual transfer of the railway to French hands. For weeks the French Government refused to accept this proposal. Europe became uneasy. It was not unreasonably feared that the larger' country was bullying the smaller one, and the ' Belgian journals betrayed their dread by imploring the intervent:on of England. It is not improbable that British mediation was offered. It is even said that Queen VICTORIA wrote a letter to the French EMPEROR strongly urging a moderate course. However this may be, the EMPEROR to the surprise of Europe suddenly gave way, and accepted M. FRERE ORBAN'S terms. ' A protocol h - s been signed laying down that the treaties—for there is a second, involving the Liege and Limburg line—are to be abandoned, and in their place an extensive system of internati ona l t ra ffic, very favourable to France, is to be arranged by a commission of six, three from each country. The firmness of Belgium has thus triumphed over very severe pressure from her formidable neighbour. The victory is creditable, and it is all the more satis factory because Belgium is decidedly in the right. Certainly the ex post facto application of the law might reasonably give annoyance to the French Government. The whole measure was aimed at the Luxemburg Treaty with the view of preventing the Belgian line from passing into French hands. But it is not unnatural that King LEOPOLD'S Ministry should take alarm at these pur chases of Belgian railways by foreign companies. Rail ways are especially indispensable to a country which, like Belgium, depends largely upon its coal-fields and manufactures. It is hardly likely that the interests of the State would be so well cared for by foreign as by native proprietors. In time of need the Govern ment could exert no authority over the French com pany. In short, it is altogether undesirable that the railways of a continental State should be owned by foreign capitalists ; and it is hardly necessary to add that neither France nor any other European nation would permit it on their own soil. To insist upon the ratification of these treaties was, therefore, an unwarrantable interference in i the domestic affairs of Belgium, and a clear attempt on the part of a strong Power to oppress a weak one. The result is matter for congratulation To us, who have much interest in the independence of Belgium, it is of con siderable importance. For it is idle to assert, as the Parisian journals did, that the independence of the prosperous little country would be in no way compromised by the wholesale transfer of its railways to France. It is difficult to divine the motive which led the EMPEROR suddenly to give way and close w ith the Belgian offer; but the essential security for peace has been given. The French Government renounces th e ratification of these treaties, and it can hardly, after this public settlement, reopen the question. Ml?. CAELYLE ON Nit.r_'LEO.Y. M. Pierat, a French author, having just written a book entitled, "Le Drame de Waterloo," has sent a copy of it to Mr. Carlyle. The Chelsea philosopher, in reply, says:-- _ _ "I recognise your love of accuracy and certainty, your great outlay of research and studious examination, laborious reading of documents, otherwise repulsive rather than interesting—and in result I .report to you my clear conviction. 1. That Napoleon's campaign ended in four days so tragically for him, by Napoleon's own mis management, by the fact, which you have rendered evident, that he was hebete, sunk in somnolence, negli gence, and not himself any more. 2. That in subsequent times he, with unconscious, and now and then with con scious mendacity, endeavoured to lay the blame on others—Grouchy, Ney, &c., and has now, as his fate was, been convicted of that sad offence, and will have to pay the penalty before the whole world. In young years, especially in the Hudson-Lowe time, I was greatly an admirer .of the Great Napoleon ; but I confev; for a long while back, the essential men dacity, egoism, charlatanism, of his procedure and relation to the world, have been more and more apparent to me, and the greatness of him, even as a soldier, being steadily diminishing. `A great general?' as Kleber said; yes ! a very great general—a general of 10,000 a month ! Cc petit coquin, no bigger than my boot !' " ANOTHER EVENING WITH .TILE SPIRIT TAPPERS. Another meeting of the committee on spiritualism ap• pointed by the London Dialectical Society has just been held, Dr. Edmunds presiding. Several gentlemen, not media, gave evidence. Mr. C- 7 , a gentleman on the Stock Exchange, saw that some years ago, soon after he had arrived in New York, he called upon Miss Kate Fox, the celebrated American medium, and expressed his curiosity to learn something of spiritualism. While seated by her side on the sofa three loud raps were heard on the table (which was in the centre of the room), apparently in answer to some jocular remark he had made. In the spiritualistic sys tem of telegraphy three raps are generally understcod . to imply an affirmative. " Shall we come to the table?" Three raps. "Is there any spirit here waiting to communicate with me P Three raps again. " Will you tell me your name?" he asked. The answer was spelt out by means of au alphabet. " Your stepson Harry." (The medium could scarcely have known the fact of his having a step son of that name, for he was an entire stranger in the city.) "Is there another spirit present who wishes to communicate with me?" asked Mr. "Yes." "Are you a relative of mine ?" " Yes." " Your name p " Annie." Mr. assured. the committee that he had been unable at the moment to recollect any one in his family of that name, and that ho had accordingly denied stoutly that he had any such relative. The words were then spelt out. " 0 how your voice recalls the memory of the past. How rejoiced lam to be able to thank you for your kindness to my daughter Eliza." It was his wife's mother who had "passed away" twenty-five years ago. Mr. also mentioned a "rather remarkable " fact that had occurred while he was staying at Malvern. He had been conversing upon the subject of spiritualism with the family at whose house he was lodging, and Lad afterwards gone out to visit a friend in the neighbourhood. On his return he was proceeding straightway to heel, when the master of the house came and asked him, for heaven's sake, to come down stairs immediately. He accordingly went, and in the drawing room Miss —, a young lady who, was staying in the house, was lying on the sofa in violent hysterics, and a small tripod table was dancing frantically up and down the room. On Mr. —'s entrance the table ambled towards the door, made a low bow to him, and then preceeded to execute a series of Terpsichorean extravagances. Mr. strove to calm the young lady; she was just beginning to recover when the table came bobbing towards her and sent her off again. Mr. then went to the table, and, placing his hand upon it, said, "We have had enough of this nonsense. In God's name, go;" when the movements instantly ceased. It appeared that during his absence they thought they would try for themselves whether there was any any truth in spiritualism or not. A circle was formed, consisting of the father, mother, and daughter, her friend Miss —, and a bluff, incredulous Yorkshireman. Th e most surprising results were obtained. "It was the most extraordinary thing I ever saw," said the Yorkshireman afterwards to me, " that table talked to me and told me of my father and mother for all the world like a human" (sic). Mr. C— said that - biology might explain some of the phenomena, but there were others that it could not possibly account for— such, for instance as spirit drawings. Such drawings were still in his possession, and he would ' be glad to exhibit them to the committee. 'the nzochts olcrandi for the production of these spirit drawings was very remarkable. Clean pieces of paper, with crayons, etc., were placed in a covered Lox ; a rapid scratching of the paper was then heard, and in a few seconds the crayons were heard to fall, and the drawing was ready fur inspection. Mr. J. Jones, Enmore Park, South Norwood, thcu related what he had witnessed last autumn at Stockt , n House, Fleet pond, where he was on a visit, with three of his family. The night was dark, as the moon had not risen ; but as there was a conservatory at the side of the drawing\room ; in which some eight persons sat round the 100 table, and a window in front, lie could see all in the room indistinctly. As it was unusual for Mr. Ileme to sit in a • dark room for physical phenomena, he (Mr. Junes) mentally determined to play the sceptic. sofa behind him mov e d a w a y f ro m the wall, passed the A rear of his and Mr. Home's chair, no one being near it. By the sounds and raps it was said, " Mrs. - rest on the sofa." She got up and did so. He (Mr. Jones) then saw the vacant chair rise in the air, float over the lady, pass in front of Mr. Home, whose bands were on the table, ascend till vertically over his (Dlr. Jones's) head ; then the chair descended, and the under portion of the seat rested on his Lead. On mentally declaring himself satisfied the chair rose again, floated in the air, and de scended on to the 100 PRESENTATION TO AN UNSUCCESSFUL CANDI DATE. —Mr. P. W. Clayden, one of the Liberal candidates for Nottingham at the last election, was last week pre sented with a very handsome ormolu clock by 03 working men of Nottingham, as a testimonial of their gratitude for the manner in which he fought their battle at the election. THE DANGER OF SAVING A LADY.—The Phila delphia Star reports :—" Our readers will recollect the attempted assassination of Samuel Temple, of Yardley vale, Bucks County, he having been shot at three diffe rent times while working in a mill. The cause has just transpired. A few mornings since Mr. John Bitting, of Newtown, found a letter under his door addressed to Temple. It was dated New York, March 20, and signed `Viola,' in a neat hand. The writer stated that some two years ago she was riding near Fairmount Park, this city, when she was thrown from the saddle, and Temple came to her rescue. She fell in love with him at once, and afterwards wrote him two letters, telling him so. As he paid no attention to them, she resolved that no other woman should wed him, and employed four Spanish assassins at $l,OOO apiece to kill him. She afterwards con cluded to make no more attempts at his life, but she had not an opportunity to get word to her hired accomplice before the last attempt was made. She says she is wealthy,- and highly educated ; that she is now going to Europe, and that he is in no more danger, as she has now lost her love for him, and would not marry him. Temple says he remembers the circumstance of rescuing the lady ; that he asked her if she was hurt ; she answered in the negative and they parted." MR. HOUSMAN'S ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF LISKEARD. — In the address posted by Mr. Ilorsman at Liskeard occurs the following passage :—" I do nut in this address presume to announce myself a candidate. The days are gone by when elections are to be influenced by mere personal pretensions. We are living in an active and earnest age, and power has been given to enlarged con stituencies that they may inaugurate a new state of things, and elect men to Parliament who make the business of Parliament their study and accept its duties as a trust, and not as a mere personal distinction. And as the choice of a representative no longer rests with a section of the community, but is the privilege of the electors at large, so it is acknowledged to be the duty of that great body to see and hear and judge for themselves—to insist that no preference shall Le expressed until they have had every candidate publicly before them, and shall have brought their own intelligence and indepen dence to bear in judging of the qualifications of candi dates that are offered to their choice. It is because I feel that to be the constitutional course, the most respeCt ful and satisfactory to you, and the most honourable to ! me, that I shall request you to give me an opportunity of meeting you in public as soon as the last sorrowful rites have been paid to your late lamented representative. I shall invite from -you then the most searching c •a tien of my public principl es , an d my opiiiiims 0 a:r all i m the great questions of the day, with the fullest explanations of my past votes and speeches, and of my views as to the future. If it be found that my views accord with those of the .majority of the constituency, and that you choose me as your representative, I shall endeavour to justify that choice by honest and faithful service, and to uphold the character of a constituency that has ever been foremost in the cause of liberty and progress. If it should be found that my opinions are not in unison with those of the constituency, and that I could not fitly represent its views, I shall at once bow to that decision. I presume to ask for no more than an impartial hearing and a fair and deliberate judgment." • t THE 7.111A12 OP PROME OY SEPARATION OF CHURCH AM) STATE. Tho fey. W. J. E. Bennett, in a sermon at Bristol cn Sun day night, rebuked his clerical trethren who dread the separa tion of Church and State, which Mr. Bennett believes to be coming. If free from the State, which was composed of all sorts of creeds and no creeds, the Church might, Mr Bennett said, go and preach the Gospel to the poor from the old doctrines of the Catholic faith, as handed down to them. They would have no more bishops to sit in the House of Lords and bring in discipline laws. Even the slightest symptom of a return to such a golden era was no cause of grief or fear—they ought rather to rejoice and be ex ceeding glad. Within the last thirty years there was no sign of any deliverance, and the idea of Church and State was so deeply imbedded in the people and priesthood, and, of course, in the bishops, that even to rise up from their chair in their prison and look through the bars would have been thought an intolerable piece of audacity. Those were the days when the matin and the vesper bell sounded in their churches once a week, when the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist was remotely announced once a quarter, when preachers fed their people with essays out of heathen moralist=, and the name of Jesus never re ceived the adoration which they had just now given to it in that place; when the clergy rude in the hunting-field in scarlet coats along with their squires, and to be called "priests" would have been an insult rather than honour. Those were the palmy days of Church and State, and the consequence was the people fell away by thousands, and there was every conceivable schism. There was—he was going to use a strong expression, but he was warranted by it in the Word of God—" an adulterous" love between the kingdom of the world and the kingdom of God; so close it seemed that no purification would ever be at band to save it. There were not very many of them who remembered Perhaps those days, but ho had passed through them all. Might be not say now they had passed through the dark ness, and there was the light shining ? Let them go free, and they would be a Church such as had not boon for 300 years. LITERATURE. New America. By W. Hepworth Dixon. Eighth Edition. One Vol., pp. 418. Hurst and Blackett. As the Sixty-Sevent l i Volume of the famous Standard Library of the Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, there ha, just now been republished, in a cheap and popular form, Hepworth Dixon's brilliant work on New America." Although merely two years have sped by since that book made its first appear ance, it has already—within those two years— passed, in various languages through FORTY Edi tions ! The present is the Eighth Edition in Eng land alone : but, translated into different tongues, it has, within twenty-four months appeared in as many as Forty separate editions altogether. A success like this is almost, if it be not, indeed, absolutely, without precedent. The simple record of the fact is beyond any eulogium. it in licates, to say the least of it, that the author au ler stands his own epoch so thoroughly well that he can, readily an 1 with e ase , eimmand the attention of his contempo:aries. Mr. Dixon—it will be remembered by all those who have already any knowledge of the particula r wo r k under notice—paid a flying visit to the U n it e d St a tes, penetrated as far west as the Salt L tke City, made the acquaintance of Brigham Y oung , and scanned the astonishingly strange polygamous system of Mormonism, viewing everything as it seemed with the most fugitive, superficial glance: and yet, coming homewards again within a few weeks,contriel to pass through the press a couple of volumes full of new and carefully authenticated facts—facts that, when they come to be grouped together symmetrically in the sixty-six chapters, making up the sum total of his work called " New America," presented that New America to the gaze first of all of Old England and afterwards of Old Europe, with the clearness, dis tinctness, andininuteness of- a aerie; of photographs. Bleeding Kansas, the Prairies, Bitter Creek, New Jerusalem, Polygamy, and Pantagamy, the Shaker House and the Bible Family, Fetntle Seers and Spiritual Cycles ; Manners, Liberties, Politica, Colour, Union, Reconstruction —all passed before U 3, as we turned his pages, like the unroll ing of some curious and wonderful panot arna. Re membering the vivacity with which the book is written throughout, the boldness and precision of its author's opinions upon everything and every body coming in turn there under his observation, the vivid picturesqueness of his descriptions, and the animation of the work, as a whole, from the first page almost uninterruptedly to the last—for there is certainly not one dull chapter that could he named—we cannot wonder that it has been read with avidity, though we cannot but marvel at the same time at the rapidity with which so many edi tions have been exhausted within so brief an interval The author did the like two or three years previously by the Holy Land—and, it should be said, with co irreverent footstep— as he tro l swiftly across the sicred ground of Pales tine. Through New Atnetin, ho.vever, he sped at a more rattling pac traversing it in a manner helter-skelter from en 3 to end—going " there and back agliu" as though lie ha I been shod with the shoes of swiftness. Possessing this graphic result of Mr. Dixon's travels through "New Ametica," the veriest stay-at-home among us, the most un travelled of EngliAimen, may—thanks to our author's shrewd ob ervation, and h s singularly realtet:c powers of description, view by proxy throtigh these pages, while seated ,lippered ease, in his arm chair at home, the free fre6ii nt! , v life of Young America, in all it - s manifold ::rid multiform phases. The lnok is worth storing up to:t the book-shelf for after r,fere,nce, anti it I; s never ap peared iu a more preservabl e or a more presentable form than in the Eighth Edition, in which it is here republished. LAW AND POLICE. RIVAL PARASOLS.—In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Nionday, an ex parte injunction was applied for in the ::ase of "Lloyd v. Engel," to restrain the sale of some new fashioned parasols, on the ground of an infringement of a registered design. Some amusement was created in the lourt by the exhibition of the rival parasols, which were Tade square. Vice. Chancellor James made the desired ,rder. OVEREND AND GURNEY.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, an application was made on behalf of Mr. Gordon, one of the defendants in the case of Overend and Gurney, to have the indictment set clown for trial at le sittings after Trinity Term in July, instead of being 'eft until after Michaelmas Term, as Mr. Gordon and the )ther defendants had no wish to prolong their anxiety. The application was postponed. A THEATRICAL COMMISSION. —ln the Court of riommon Pleas, on Monday, Mr. Corby n, a theatrical agent, sued Mr. Bandmann, the actor, to recover between £4O and 250, to which he considered he was entitled is commission on an engagement with Mr. Smith, wocured through his instrumentality. He had ',heady recovered £5l 15s. for a previous engagement. Mr. Justice Byles, after hearing counsel, held that the :.onsideration in the plaintiff's agreement was exhausted 3y the first agreement with Mr. Smith, and directed a lonsuit, with leave to the plaintiff to move for a verdict 'or himself with £35. His lordship, however, strongly advised the parties to come to some settlement cut of :ourt, and the matter is likely to be referred to Mr. RAILWAY BTE LAWS.—At Norton, East Riding, a day nr two since, the cases of the North-Eastern Railway company v. Mr. Speck, of Boythorpe, farmer, and George Braithwaite, labourer, of aciburn, were again heard. charge was one. of being intoxicated at the Sherburn Railway Station, contrary to the 7th bye-law of the :ompany, and the defence was that the plaintiff gave no ;roof of the bye-laws. The station-master said that the ioard of the bye-laws stood up in the booking-office, and ill who got tickets must see it. The counsel for the defence said that the Act required the publication of the bye-laws n a conspicuous place. A difficulty arose from the dis :overy that two of the threemagistrates were shareholders n the company, and could not sit, After some ;onsultation, however, this difficulty was set aside, tnd the bench decided in favour of the cona pany. Mr. Richardson, the counsel for the defence, asked for a case for a superior court, which was granted, ;he bench saying that the point, in the interests of the ?üblic, should be decided. A post messenger who sorted pis letters every day in the booking office admitted that 'Pie had never seen the bye-laws. The defendants were Pined 40s. each. It is thought in well-informed circles that befc,re the Alabama question can be settled it will be - necessary to .despatch to Washington a special envoy, such as Mr. Bright or the Duke of Argyll. Mr. Thornton is scarcely up to this very difficult task. The following letter from Mr. Charley, M.P., was read at a meeting of the biandester Conservative 'Working ?Zen's Association on Saturday evening: —"I rfjoico to see that you aro sating :coutEcives in array against tho enemies of our Church and corstitution, cad trust that should Mr. Birloy utiortunatcly be unseated, a good blnst of the constitutional temp:: t will bring the walls of the Liberal Jet icho to the ground, and that you will march on to victory." A CONSCIENTIOUS " ARTIST."—It is stated of M. Mazurier, a French actor of the part of an ape, that he would not appear in his new character till his competency had passed the most rigid ordeal. According to this tradition he attired himself in his ape dress, and placed himself before the monkey-cage in the Jardin des Plantes. For some time the monkeys treated him as a stranger, but at last a veteran ape snatched an apple from his hand with a look which proved that he regarded him as a brother. " Enfin je suis singe! " was the exclamation of the delighted artist, who, thus severely tested, now ventured to become an ape on the stage. The Services at Sefton Church on Sunday fussed off with less disorder than has been the case for two or three Sundays past. The bulk of the congre gation, as on preceding Sundays, left the church at tho conclusion of the sermon. There was not such a rabble as en acme previous occasions, but the majority of the congregation stationed them selves in the churchyard and awaited the curate leaving the church. After he had got out of the churchyard a few hissess were heard, but they were uttered in a sub dued tone. During the celebration of the holy communion the porch gates of the church were locked, the object being to prevent persons returning into the church and disturbing the proceedings. At Judges' Chambers, on Monday, Mr. Lumley Smith appeared for Mr. Hurst, M.P., and Mr. Goldney for Ms jor Aldridge, in reference to the double return for Horsham. There had been two petitions, and both were withdrawn, and Mr. Hurst was admitted to be the member. On the last occasion sufficient notice had not boon given, and it had now been supplied, and Mr. Hurst could take his seat. A question was raised on the present occasion as to costs. Mr. Lumley Smith claimed the costa for Mr. Hurst. Mr. Goldney submitted that each party should bear his own costs. When a petitioner withdrew ho was bound to pay costs to the respondent, but the Act mentions nothing as to the respondent paying costs. His lordship considered the point of seine importance, and would consult the other election judges. Further particulars are rublished of the robbery of arms at Cork. The house of John Pant, t utti r mer chant, Dean-street, was entered by three men, and a seven chambered revolver and a double- harrelled pistol takenaway. The family was at church, and the servant, an old woman, was on her way from mass, when she was met by a man, who told her that three men had just gone into her master's house. She hastened back, and on going upstairs met three men, ono of whom presented a revolver at her, and asked her where Mr. Keating., Mr. Paul's nephew, left his pistol. She said, "I do not know," but pointed out his bed-room. They went in, searched it, found the seven-chambered re volver and double-barrelled pistol, took them, and, bidding the woman " Gcod morning," left the house. They had entered it by means of a latch key. They have not been arrested. An important decision, and one which will doubt less have great influence on the large industries of the country, was arrived at at Darlington, cn Saturday, in con nection with the iron manufac:uro in the north of Eng !and. Another wages difficulty having again cropped up, which threatened to disturb the relations between masters and men, a Board of at bitration and conciliation was formed. The beard fai!ed to sumo to an uncles stas ding, the votes on etch side being equal. Mr. Robert Kettle was then called in as a:litrater. That ~ : ;entleman met the boas d on Friday and Saturday, at Darlington, sad received evldenco from Loth sides, nastess' contraits and prices since it.:63 being submitted to bins. Frew these facts Mr. Kettle con cluded that, though if called niers to decide Le must give judgment against the men at present, yet if the whole year were taken with the prcspective improvement in prices, tho men would probably with reason soon make another den and. He, therefore, suggested a compromise, and ultinn.tely it was agreed mutually that an advance equal to 5 per cent. on wages in the manufactured bon trz.di sLc uld rule to the end of tho year. It was also agreed that an attempt should be made to form a sliding scale fcr wages, based on the selling prices of iron. The termination of the conft tween masters and men in so sat'sfactory a manner is highly gratifying to the general pul of the northern districts n o chin; of the melt Sr t a rise o: 10 per coat, THE PEN.LIN CONSUL FOR LEEDS. • A curious tale is told of Mr. Edward Stephens, the sejected American Consul for Leeds. kfe is the son 01 Nirs. A. Stephens, the authoress, who it was said pos sessed :onsiderable influence in the distribution of the Wa de ander President Johnson. Binckley, Solicitor of the Treasury, went to New York to discover the "whisky sings " there, and got into difficulties with Rollins, then Internal Revenue Commissioner, and Courtney, Un ited 3tatcs District Attorney. After his return to IVashington, Lsourtney had a person of the name of Fitch arrested and mprisoned for certain charges on the whisky business h e . sad made against him, and when in gaol Fitch conf essed shat he had been induced to make these charge's Binehley and Mrs. Stephens, the object being to g" Courtney and Rollins out of office, and General Burbidge Ippointed as Internal Revenue Commissioner. I ‘ ll-9 : Stephens declared that the story of Fitch was untrue, but some doubts were entertained respecting her feelings to; wards Rollins. Meantime Mr. E. Stephens was nominal" by Mr. Johnson as consul to Manchester, but the nosnina• ;ion fell through. Rollins contrived to procure front President President Grant the dismissal of Binekley as Solicitor of the Treasury, and the latter has given an account Of t he strong measures to which he resorted in consequence' It seemed surprising that after all this Mr. E. StePil ees should have secured from General Grant the nomination of Consul to Leeds. It is said that it was through th e signing of papers by half a dozen senators who could lo t refuse the request of a lady in so trivial a matt er ' Rumour attributes the rejection by the Senate of tlsis nomination to the curious stories that were afloat con' cerning the several individuals mentioned. Besides this, General Burbidge has lately been arrested in Washington, and bound over to answer a charge of bribery in receivinl money from distilleries engaged in defrauding Govern: ment. The conclusion to be drawn from all this is that the lady has been deceived by her friends, and that sh e has now a fair opportunity of producing a more OO P tional romance than any she has yet written, if she rePr e. cents faithfully the proceedings in the lobby at Washing' ton, and the influences which the wirepullers bring t° bear upon diplomatic appointments. THE MAYOR OF CORK. The scene in the Cork Police-court on SaturdaY , itl which the Mayor was the prominent figure, is descril' e l is unprecedented. The ayor, it appears, complained of the conduct of a brother magistrate, Mr. Starkie, in reflecting on his worship's conduct in discharging soma prisoners on his own responsibility. The Mayor now o l d he would bring the matter .before the Corporation an apply to have all the magistrates superseded. Upon t the following dialogue ensued : Mr. Pollock : Ah ! go on with the business ; 03 11 the first case. The Mayor : The magistrates of this bench, I OW ; are— Mr. Pollock : Silence, Sir ! Silence, Sir ! Call t he case. The Mayor : I will express my opinion, Sir. Mr. Pollock : Silence, Sir ; conduct yourself. Mr, 11I'Leod: This is very unseemly. Go oa with the business. Mr. Pollock : Silence, Mr. Mayor. The Mayor: I will try this with you. I will seek to nave an impartial barrister placed on the bench. Mr. Pollock : Gail the case of Daniel O'Leary. The Mayor (laying his hand on the sheet, which iv° . .n the possession of Mr. Pollock): I am entitled to that sheet. Mr. Pollock (also laying his hand on it) : I won't giv° to you. . The Mayor: I am entitled to the list., I say, as cha ir. ' man of the court. (Cries of "Order, order !") Mr. Pollock : I won't acknowledge you as such. This exchange of civiliti es con ti nue d f or smile Lime, iTt eventually the busin ess was p rocee d e d w ith. l' u° magistrates—exclusive of the May o r—m e t subsequently to consider the Mayor's speech at the recent banquet. meeting was strictly private. As we have stated, the Mayor attended the police-co oo at half-past nine o'clock on Monday.morning, eleven l e:l3`': the usual hour, and, i n th e a b sence of the police, who the prosecutors, discharged the prisoners who were 1 " custody for drunkenness. A charge of robbery and one of assault were held over, and a fine imposed on a woroi lli for using obscene language, though the offence was Dot proved. Subsequently at a meeting of the Council, the gili or presiding, it was proposed to ask the Lord Chancellor to hold an inquiry relative to the conduct of the W t. magistrates. A few Conservative members were pres ellv. A suggestion for the postponement of the motion s “: (1 5 agreed to. The Mayor denounced the Orangemen, ", said the magistrates were serfs and slaves of the 1 3131.* ; He sug g ested a v o te o f censure on th e mag i s t ra tes, b - the matter dropped. Alderman Thomas Lyons, who brought the INDAV r' : conduct under the n o ti ce c f th e mun i c ip a l received a letter through the post, informing him that e 6 Opposition to the Mayor has brought upon him a decrll ee that he will be shot in the public streets before the ° this month. He is warned in it of the fate of bradshi` l ' 6 who disregarled the notice sent him. WHEAT FROM RUSSIA.—Yearly the quantity wheat brought into this country from l! uzsia i n creasl For instance, in February 1869, wheat to the val ue ° 469,09) was imp3rted. against 368,960 in the correspa ciiils period in 1867. Of course it is well known that our suv . plies of wheat from Dus.sia is much in excees of ot her countries, even the Untied States.—Chamber of Atg icit: ture Journal. TELEGRAPHIC STAmrs. —The North Ger ll2- f Correspondent says that the bill for the introducti c ' n telegraphic stamps is:considered a good practical meas ll ,, r i; and there is no doubt that it will pass. It will en sw , the public to deliver their despatches without de l %' and thus greatly facilitate the use of the telegra" ; Besides this, much time and labour will be saved a t the great stations ; thus it is hoped that the profits "P increase. A stabbing affray is reported from Prcstou. night or two ago, about half-past 11 o'clock a soldier an d militiaman began to quarrel about some tripe, and o fe , 0 tually the soldier took the tripe out of the m ilitiam o % hand. The militiaman then gave him a push , 1 ‘, 11 b6 the soldier drew his bayonet and stabbed• hint io hand. Ile attempted to stab him in different parts of tm e body, but tho militiaman secured hire, so as to prevent % further injury being done to him. The soldier has bee d taken 1-efore the magistrates, who ordered him to be hai lde over to the military authorities to be de:tit with. D 0 THE MOUNTED CURATE.—A correspondent io writes to the . Church Review on matters before the bl now, which, though not apparently connected with eee' siastical affairs, still may have some effect on the Chu r l says: " Absurd though it may seem at first sigh t, e . should not wonde r if th e ve l oc ip e d e man i a ma y have b e,, " - j ficial effects in process of time by saving the countrY mission clergy the cost of k ee pi ng h orses — now a v ery h e tax on small incomes. If a m i ss i on pr i est or a e°ll/110 curate is forced to keep a p on y on hi s sma ll incolne - 10 some £lOO a year, anything that saves this ex p e nditur e- a important. What now seems a folly for the vain f t frivolous may become a use f u l means o f ra pid commune'-' tion." STRIKE OF THE MASONS IN WOLVERHAXx - " - —On Monday most of the masons in WolverhanWt°46 joined the agitation of their brethren elsewhere who Po turned out against payment by the hour, the settleta of disputes by arbitration, and the using up of w°,r,4,0 e stone. Two or three men, however, refuse to s' f ':o although they belong to the union. As a result they I' e i been fined by the union. In return they have exPrlbe their willingness to work overtime for their masters. re labourers in the building trades in the same town ll' es given notice of a demand for a rise in wages to 4id• Pe r , hour. Their present rate is 4d. per hour. The ra i t c l) refuse to grant their request, but offer arbitration, ' iv the labourers have accepted. its A NEW VELOCIPEDE.—The velocipedoma rua th l still spreading. Last winter an ice velocipede, run't;jr. on steel slides, and propelled by means of a wheel nished with sharp poi n t s , was b roug h t out a t StuttP•i t ; but it was much objected to by skaters on account ci e s spoiling the ice. We now hear that a party Of Fr' - t o Napoleon's aide-de-camp have made a trip from N ice i 9 s Villafranca on wat er ve l oc i pe d es. Th ese mac hines c° ll- f rt of two miniatur e p ara ll e l canoes, w hi c h suppor t a s ° ' chair ; the paddle-wheel, placed between the ca noe , i c , propelled by the f ee t on ly, an d i s covere d like the 1 01 it wheel of a stea mer t o p ro t ec t th e d r i ver f rom the lO te- os 9 throws up. Their speed is said to be very great. I t ; l oc i. remains for the Aeronauti c al S oc i e ty t o adopt the pede to travelling through the fir. - LOST ON ' IE MOUNTAINS NEAR DOW LAIB.---- ,io. THE MOUNTAINS NEAIt powLAJ S , few days ago a strange occurrence took place at fl o Of From one of the isolated neighbourhoods at th e Dowlais et a boy, 6 years of age, strayed, and, wandering otot r de the mountain, finally lost his way. Every search Nvas°3,,i!j, for him as the night came on, but without success. -); next day the searchers tried the mountain, but still ni'7 o , came and found them without the boy. On the no t c' t y amore vigorous search was made, an d this time a rith of men came on the little wanderer lying in a hollow , 1 , 11 his head resting on a heap of rushes. He was lac °f conveyed home, and medical aid sent for ; b ut the ' io his having been two days exposed on the bl ack mounit:te, left little hope of his recovery. Yet, singular to.,J,De remedies proved effectual, and he is now do in g we self s elf little adventurer states that he pulled the r ushes to place under his head.—Star of Gwent. t erda La Etna, Raid; Coast It i for tt large] Slime( Conti jn;tp there A t roy 11 per c, The oa Iv, eouso Cents, for ter trat,sf t of JUI IndL t open 0 Pro, of M a been Castro tine na then ;"Y Rio. 3 all 1111 p The copy of of the tionai year of eXCepti only 2 taper( Mr. Bra The Piny h: with re ; Ca!eloi Cotnpai with COMpa i Clreums declare( declini; Pri ,ted director, holder s Steps Caledo n Joint tr 0 '° ll lpar 1869. ,, petition v►will seol of train, Iro Argentine Do., Sc Au itnan 13r izilian Do. 4} I Do. Do. n 0 S tot , r rri Ati• ‘'dva ..sh int (Ie ow Grana D o 3 U 0• 0 yt2.l* U • Ilufez A--trtiri4r, Oo iter:o t 0 4 i pel Q ° 0 0 A - jr ecou t mzuok. D o . Do. .u an 5 Do 4} per coin Nevi Xl,( ditto Ceti 4 Pe rcdt p r Lion tive: Itali 82 firm In Lowe 'East ar e n