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To conclude with WHITE.B IT AT GREENWICH. Mr Atkins and Mrs Leigh Murray ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining THIS EVENING, TWICE KILLED. After which, Dion Foucicaults Great Drama. entitled AFTER DARK: a Tale of London Life Mr Walter Lacy, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr D. Leeson ; 3liss Emma Barnett, and Miss hose Lecier, q. concludinz with THE SECRET. N.B.—:portly will be produced, a New Drama, by Dion Bon eicault. )oors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. T ii EA TRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (in five acts) of MONET, Parry Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George 'Roney, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, Li n Payne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E. Dvas: Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Louisa. Thorne, and Mrs Charles Horsman. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborongb. THIS EVENING. at 7, A V'ID(tW HUNT. 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PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make POLICIES PAYABLE in LIFETI %!E. BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street -place, Southwark Bridge, E.G.] NEW POLICIES ISSUED. New Policies In Weeks. issued. le6B ... 3 86 —C14,250 1869 ... 3 108 18,481 Exeesa • • •• In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 1869 22 Z 4,211 3,105 -£539,442 ttONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND J RAILWAY.—SOUTII END and BACK for 2s. 6d., from Fenehurch-street and Stepney Stations, on Sundays, at 8.7 and 10.40 a.m.; on Mondays. at 7.40 and 10 52 a.m. Fares-Ist Class, Is. 601.; 2d Class, 2s. 6d. The Tickets are available only on the day of issue, to return from Southend. on Sundays, at G. 40, and on Mondays at 6.15 p.m., and not by any other Train. J. LOUTEI, Manager. Fenchnrch-street Station, April 28, 1869. THE RAILWAYS (EXTENSION OF TIME) ACT 1868. HE SWANSEA VALE AND NEATII AND 1 BRECON JUNO PION RAILWAY COMPANY. 1, Westminster Chambers, Victoria-street, London, S.W.. April 23, 1869. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, 11 at in accordance with the Railways (Extension of Time) Act, 1868, an Extraordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this Com pany will be held at their Offices, as above, on MONDAY, 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, plrsuant 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 in the parish of Cilybebill, in the County of Glamorgan, by a junction with the Swan sea Vale Railway, at the north end of the platform of the Yny - s-y-Geinon Station of that Railway, and terminating in the hamlet of Colbren, in the parish of Ystrad,zynlais, in the county of Brecon, by a junction with the authorised line of the Neath and Brecon Railway, 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, 1870), for the completion of the Railway therein described, as follows, viz : .A Railway, commencing in the parish of Ystradg►ynlais, by a jurction with the authorizPd 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 over the river Tawe. D. HOWELL MORGAN, Secretary. T HE EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAIL WAY COMPANY. Incorporated by 27th and 28th Viet., cap. 285, 29th July, 1864. NOTICE IS HEREBY 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. 01.1 Palate-yard, West minster. purstant t...) the "Railway (Extension of Time) Act, 1868," for the purpose of obtaining their assant 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 cor.truetion of works for the railways, authorised by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1864, and "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1866," except the whole of railway N 0.4, and that portion of railway No. 1, which lies between a certain turnpike road ia the parish of Fair ford, in Gloucestershire, Icadinv, from Fairford to Lech lade, and numbered 102 on the deposited plans for the said railway No. 1, and referred to by the East Gloucestershire Railway Act. 1861. 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 nfTered to the public in a n•ore concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. iv-hiding brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. F.C. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET TUTS EVENING, EASY SHAVING: Messrs. Rogers Cla-k, Gordon. White; Nis. Fanny Wright. &c. Afier which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern. Chippendale. Re.; Mesdames Cavendi,h, Bill &c Followed by THE CAP OF THE WATT H. •r . othern. Concluding with 3IAJAE YOUR WILLS: Mr Buck stone. Connene.., at 7. PP.INCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, ➢lr. Vining. TIM EVENING, at 7, TWICE KILLED. At 8, AFTER DARK: Mr Walter Lacy, Mr L. Leeson, Miss Rose Leclercq, &c. And THE SECRET. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL Tnis EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER `END YOUR WIFE TO C A MBER WELL : Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray At 15 to S, BLACK AND WHITE: Messrs. Pechter, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart: Csqlotta Leclercq, Miss Lennox Grey, &e. And WHITEBAIT AT GRE r NWICH : Mr Atkins. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. lers EVENING. at 7.30, THE WIDoW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Burton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tnis F,VENING, at 7, MINNIE, or, Leonard's Love. At 9, 4 BREACH OF PROMISE. After which, BROWN AND THE BRAHMLNS. Messrs. Marshall, David Fisher, Andrews. Hurl stone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Fountain, and Stephens. ROYALTY TnEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EvENING, at 7.n0, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Dewar. Mr. Danvers. Miss M. Oliver. ttc. To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tuts EvENisG, SCHOOL: Messrs. liare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING ILUARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. SL James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. Tuts EVENINO, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravagnaza, THE VERY GRAND DUTCH—S ROYAL ALIT ANIBR A PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-offie( open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's -pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, Ca. Children under twelve, 61. ~ i te, i 0 H'2A. ,: .- ..--.4 '4,114 . _At; is, .",61.3% -if-r.,• , . ._ , SUM • _ --, , -ri ti. - -- , _...... _ ..„--,.....,_. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1869. Mr. GLADSTONE'S avowed hope was,:a 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 M Lister's appears in a fair way of being realized. Last night, or rather this morniog—for the c!ock was, at the mcment, just past midnight—clause thirty-eight was disl osed of immediately prior to the Committee's ad journment. Nine clauses—from 30 to 38, each in chsive—wcrc dealt with during yesterday's sitting. Tie tug of war, however, so far as any serious con tention went, was upon clause 32, to wit, that relat ing to the singularly problematical Tithe Commuta tion Lt-charge—a matter called by Mr. G LADSTONE himself a financial puzzle, l y Mr. GATHORSE HARDY a financial hocus-pocus, by Sir MICHAEL BEACH a blending of bribery and sacrilege, and upon all side 3 looked upon with more or lea bewilderment. As originally expressed, this thiel. second clause of the bill empowers the landowner to plirchae the re:lt- c:large, by an immediate transul ion, at 22i years' pur clase, or by an annual instalment for 45 year; of 4i per cent. of the purchase money. On Mr. GLAD STONE'S motion, however, the tune was lengthened to 5 Sears, and the inatahnent . fixed at £4 9s per cent.,. with a deduction for poor ra' es. Now, many regard the proposed 222 years' purchase as an over valua- THE SUN, ti lion. Eighteen years, they maintain, would be amply sufficient. Some objectors go the length of asserting that the result of the whole transaction must be a loss to the State and a gain to tha Lindlords. The aggregate amount of the rent-charge, at pre sent, is estimated at as many thousand pounds a year as there are days in the twelveanionth —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 stecula 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- Mr. Mortuisom, 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 Wen 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 Irish 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 that not one of the three could be shown in any way to suffer from the transaction. Fur example, the Exchequer lent money at 3f per cent., the Commis sioners got 22f 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 sinking fund. The upshot of the whole of this entangled discussion was, that after the clause hid 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. FAwcures amend ment ! As many as 181 being told 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 announces its opinion at the General Election. The representatives of the natio❑ are true to the principles expressed by them to their respec tive constituencies. The Itish 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. mitt(e. 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. He 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 th e H ouse o f C ommons , a com parison in some respects happy, but not so appro priate as could be desired. It is quite true that both M.P.'s and Academicians have a new house; but the word is not used in the same sense in both instances. 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 a moderate size, for every one that he exhibits. Mr. KNIGHT, the Secretary, and Mr. RICUMOND, both portrait painters, have been equally vora cious of wall room. Mr. ELMORE has sent seven pictures, and. Mr. ANSD-ELL 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 havewhich hic h s u w ff a e s r e m d a rejection a w l o y l e t l a d r s r a ep g e o a , t an th d e ap ex p year. It wou ld b e well, therefore, if the artists who the Hanging Committ( eto the experiment l rim fro en n t i 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 INDON, TUESDAY- .EVgNIN.O,. NAY 4, P 69. Belgian 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 fact; 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 ratified. 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-ORBAN, the Belgian Minister of Finance, found it necessary to go to Pans, 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 - .7 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 intervention 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 has 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 international traffic, 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 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 litEl4 errantry 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 with the Belgian offer; but the essential security for peace has been given. The French Government renounces the ratification of these treaties, and it can hardly, after this public settlement, reopen the question. MR. CARLYLE ON NAPOLEON. 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, LITERATURE. New America. By W. Hepworth axon. Eighth Edition. One Vol., Pr. 418. Hurst and Blackett. As the Sixty-Seventh Volume of the famous Standard Library of the Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, tht re hal 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, in iced, absolutely, without precedent. The simple record of the fact is beyond any eulogiutn. It indic rtes, to say the least of it, that the author under stands his own epoch so thoroughly well . that he can, readily and with ease, c3mmand the attention of his contemporaries. Mr. Dixon—it will be remembered by all those who have already any knowledge of the particular work under notice—paid a flying visit to the United States, penetrated as far west as the Salt L tke City, made the acquaintance of Brigham Yourg, and scanned the astonishingly strange polygamous system of Mormonism, viewiilg everything as it seemed with the most fugitive, saperficial glance: and yet, cowing homewards again within a few weeks, contrived to pass through the press a couple of volumes full of new and carefully authenticated facts—facts that, when they cume 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, and minuteness of a series of photographs. Bleeding Kansas, the Prairies, Bitter Creek, New Jerusalem, Polygamy, and Pantagamy, the Shaker House and the Bible Fathily, Female Seers and Spiritual Cycles, Alanners, Liberties, Politics, Colour, Union, Reconstruction--all passed before U 3, as we turned his pages, like the unroll ing of some curious and wonderful panorama. Re membering the vivacity with which the book is written throughout, the boldness and precision of its author's opinions upon every thing 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 &onetime at the rapidity with which so many edi tions have been exhausted withia so brief au interval The author did the like two or three years previously by the Holy Land—and, it should be said, with no irreverent footstep— as he trod swiftly across the sacred ground of Pales tine. Through New America, , however, he sped at a more rattling pace, traversing it in a manner helter-skelter from cal to end—going " there and back again" as though he had been shod with the shoes of swiftness. Possessing this graphic result of Mr. Dixon's travels through " New America," the veriest stay-at-home among its, the most uu travelled of Englishmen, may—thanks to our author's shrewd ob ervation, and h s singularly re:II:Ale powers of description, i voe .v by Fr ocy through these pages, hile seated. t•lipp rea ea-e, in his arm chair at Lome, the free fresh new lite of Young America, in all its manifold e. nd multiform phases. The book is worth storing up on the book-shelf for after reference, and it has never ap peared in a more preservable or a more presentable form than in the Eighth Edition, in which it is here republished. 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 hebcte, 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 confess, for a long while tack, 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 ; Ah, yes very great general—a general of 10,000 a month 1 Ce petit coquin, no bigger than my boot !' " ANOTHER EVENING WITH THE SPIRIT RAPPERS. 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—, a gentleman on the Stock Exchange, said 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 bad made. In thespiritualistic sys tem of telegraphy three raps are generally understood to imply an affirmative. " Shall we come to the table?" Three raps. "Is there any spirit here waiting to communicate with me T"llree raps again. " Will ycu tell me your name?" he asked. The answer was spelt out by means of an 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 ?" " Annie." Mr. assured the committee that he bad been unable at the moment to recollect any one in his family of that name, and that he 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 had afterwards gone out to visit a friend in the neighbourhood. On his return he was proceeding stiaigbtway to Led, 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 Louse, was lying on the sofa in violent hysterics, and a small tripod table was dancing frantically up and clown the room. On Mr. ---'s entrance the table ambled towards the door, made a low Low to him, and then proceeded to execute a scr:es of Terpsichorean extravagances. Mr. strove to calm the young lady; she was just beginning to recover when the table came lol.bing towards her and sent her off again. Mr. then went to the table, and, placing his hand upon it, said, "We have bad 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 Yorkehireman. The most surprising results were obtained. "It was the most extraordinary thing I ever saw," said the Yolkshireman afterwards to roe, " 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 Lis possession, and he would be glad to exhibit them to the committee. The modus operandi for the production of these spirit drawings was very remarkable. Clean pieces of paper, with crayons, itc., were placed in a covered Lox ; a rapid scratching of the paper was then la area, and in a few seconds the crayons were heard to fall, and the drawing was reaily for inspection. Mr. J. Jones, Dimon Park, South Norwood, the sr related what he had witnessed last autumn at Stockto n House, Fleclpontl, where he was on a visit, with three of his family. The night was dark, as the moon bad not risen ; but a: there was a cons,natory at the side of the drawinC i ree,n, in which some eight persons sat round the 100 table, and a window in front, be could see all in the room inclistim tly. As it was unueual for Mr. Dome to sit in a dark room for physical phenomena, he (Mr. Jones) mentally determined to fay the sceptic. A sofa behind him moved away from the wall, passed the 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." Sh e go t u p an d 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 hands were on the table, ascend till vertically over his (Mr. 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 table. 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 the working men of Nottingham, as a testimonial of their gratitude for the manner in which be 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 when years a s g h o e s II was was e rd thrown i g nearfrom the Fairmount saddle,P a and k , this c e m i p t y, l e 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. HORSMAN'S ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF LIBREARD. — In the address posted by Mr. Iforsman at Liskeard occurs the following passage :—" I do not in this address presume to announce myself a candidate. The days are gone by when elections are to be infleeneed 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 he expressed until they have had every candidate publicly before theirs, 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 searehine. examina tion of my public principles, and my opinions on all the great questions of the day, with the fullest explanations of my past votes and sp eec h es, and of my views a s t o th e future. If it be found that my views accord with those of the majority cf 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 iu 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." TILE VICAR OP Fl?OlVIE ON SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, The Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, in a sermon at Bristol on Sun day night, rebuked his clerical 1 rethren 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 so 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 tho 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 here 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 wl.ich they had just now given to it in that place ; when the clergy lode in the hunting-field in scarlet coats along with their squires, and to be called "priests" world have be en 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 ho 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 hand to save it. There were not very many of them who remembered perhaps those days, but he had passed through them all. Might he 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 been for 800 years. LAW AND POLICE. RIVAL PARASOLS.—In the Vice• Chancellor's Court, on Monday, an ex parte injunction was applied for in the case 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 loud by the exhibition of the rival parasols, which were made 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 tlr. Gordon, one of the defendants in the case of Overend And Gurney, to have the indictment set down for trial at he 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. Corbyn, a theatrical %gent, sued Mr. Bandmann, the actor, to recover between C4O and £5O, to which he considered he was entitled Ls commission on an engagement with Mr. Smith, 'rocured through his instrumentality. Ile had already recovered £5l 15s. for a previous engagement. Nlr. Justice Byles, after hearing counsel, held that the :.onsideration in the plaintiff's agreement was exhausted )3 , the first agreement with Mr. Smith, and directed a lonsuit, with leave to the plaintiff to move for a verdict 'or himself with £33. His lordship, however, strongly advised the parties to come to some settlement out of ,ourt, and the matter is likely to be referred to Mr. Smith. RAILWAY BYE-LAWS.—At Norton, East Riding., a day r two since, the cases of the North-Eastern ltiilway company v. Mr. Speck, of Boythorpe, farmer, and George Braithwaite, labourer, of Sherburn, were again heard. The charge was one of being intoxicated at the Sherburn Railway Station, contrary to the 7th bye-law of the lompany, and the defence was that the plaintiff gave no ?roof of the bye-laws. The station-master said that the board of the bye-laws stood up in the booking-office, and tll who got tickets must see it. The counsel for the defence laid 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, %nd the bench decided in favour of the com pany. Mr. Richardson, the counsel for the defence, tsked 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 lie letters every day in the booking office admitted that tie had never seen the bye-laws. The defendants were ‘lnecl 40s. each. It is thought in well-informed dicks that before 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 ! ead at a meeting cf the Manchester Conservative 'Worhing Men's Association on Saturday evening :—"I rejoice to see that you are setting yourselves in array against the enemies of our Church and constitution, and trust that should Mr. Birley m.fortunately be unseated, a good blast of the constitutional tempest will bring the walls of the Liberal Jericho 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 ntis 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 passed 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 the conclusion of the sermon. There was not such a rabble as en same 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 proceeding& At Judges' Chambers, on Monday ? Mr. Lumley Smith appeared for Mr. Hurst, M.P., and Mr. Goldney for Major Aldridge, in reference to the double return for Horsham. There Lad been two petitions, and both were withdrawn, and Mr. Hurst was admitted to be the member. On the last occasion sufficient notice Lad not been 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 he 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 some importance, and would consult the other election judges. Further particulars are published of the robbery of arms at Cork. The house of John Pant, butter mer chant, Dean-street, was entered by three men, and a sewn chambered revolver and a double.larrelled pistol taken away. The family was at church, and the servant, an old woman, was on her way from mass, when sho was met by a man, who told her that tLreeintn had just gone into her master's house. She hastened back, end on going upstairs met three men, ono cf 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, foand the seven-chamfered re volver and double-barrelled pistol, took them, and, bidding the woman "Good morning," hft the Louse. 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, on Saturday, in con nection with the iron manufacture in the north of Eng land. Another wages diflicul . y having again cropped up, which threatened to disturb thd 'relations between masters and men, a board of arbitration and conciliation *as formed. The board failed to come to an underltaadlng, the votes on each side being equal. Mr. Ile bert Kettle was then called in as arbitrator. That genth man met the hoard on Friday and Saturday, at Darlington, end received evidence from both sides, masters' contracts and prices since 1E63 being submitted to him. From three facts Mr. Bettie con cluded that, though if called uicn to deride ho must give judgment against the men at present, yet if the whole year were taken with the prospective improvement in prices, the men would probably with reason soon make another den and. Ile, therefore, suggested a compromise, and ultimately it was agreed mutually that an advance equal to 5 per cent. on wages in the manufactured iron tn.& should rule to the and of the year. It was also agreed that an attempt should be made to form a. sliding scale for wages , b ase d on the Selling prices of iron. The termination of the conference tween masters and men in so satisfactory a manner is highly gratifying to the general pul I . c of the northern districts. Tin claim 91019 men wat a rice 9: 10 nu . cent. THE FENIAN CONSUL F 01? LEEDS. A curious tale is told of Mr. Edward Stephens, ti le s selected American Consul f o r L ee d s . ire is the WO' Mrs. A. Stephens, the authoress, who it was said posses sed :onsiderable influence in the distribution of the spoils ander President Johnson. Binckley, Solicitor of the Treasury, went to New York to discover the " w hisky sings " there, and got into difficulties with Rollins, then Internal Revenue Commissioner, and Courtney, United States District Attorney. After his return to Washington, Courtney had a person of the name of Fitch arrested and mprisoned for certain charges on the whisky business 1. 1 lad made against him, and when in gaol Fitch confessed ,hat he had been induced to make these charges by Binckley and Mrs. Stephens, the object being to g 6 Courtney and Rollins out of office, and General Burbidg° appointed as Internal Revenue Commissioner. M r '`' Stephens declared that the story of Fitch was untrue, bu t some doubts were entertained respecting her feelings t ° : i wards Rollins. Meantime Mr. E. Stephens was nomina ted by Mr. Johnson as consul to Manchester, but the noisily° . ;ion fell through. Rollins contrived to procure fro m President Grant the dismissal of Binckley as Solicitor of the Treasury, and the latter has given an account o f the strong measures to which he resorted in consequence' It seemed surprising that after all this Mr. E. Stelbe n° should have secured from General Grant the nominat ie° of Consul to Leeds. It is said that it was through t he signing of papers by half a dozen senators who could ac t refuse the request of a lady in so trivial a matter. Rumour attributes the rejection by the Senate of ti nomination to the curious stories that were afloat con cerning the several individuals mentioned. Besides tb4 General Burbidge has lately been arrested in Washington, and bound over to answer a charge of bribery in receiving 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 sense' tional romance than any she has yet written, if sho roPr e ' seats faithfully the proceedings in the lobby at Wasbiog. ton, and the influences which the wire pullers bring t ° bear upon diplomatic appointments. . - _ MI COI cous count, ! 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Dc Do. 130 Do. un krzentin Do., S Aannau lir Do. 4} Do. 110. Do. Do. 5 t io ACI .enos DO 2 tdu.ba, 6 P o..thau ti 0 0. 41 Do. 3 1 o . g 1 Do. 7 C lo obii Da tustks Dan ‘ni a , Do g p Equa ciYiptiax b e s e Do. £5 Do. :E1 THE MAYOR OF CORK. The scene in the Cork Police-court on Saturday, iu which the Mayor was the prominent figure, is described %s unprecedented. The Mayor, it appears, complained the conduct of a brother magistrate, Mr. Starkie, reflecting on his worship's conduct in discharging soul.; 01 prisoners on his own responsibility. Th e Mayor no" , 3 he would bring the matter before the C or p o ration apply to have all the magistrates superseded. Upon Oil the following dialogue ensued : Mr. Pollock : Ah ! go on with the business ; call th e first case. The Mayor : The magistrates of this bench, I thing are— Mr. Pollock : Silence, Sir ! Silence, Sir ! Call th e case. The Mayor : I will express my op:u'on, Sir. Mr. Pollock : Silence, Sir ; conduct yourself. _ 'Mr. M'Leod : This is very unseemly. Go on with O le business. Mr. Pollock : Silence, Mr. Mayor. 'I he Arayor : I will try thi s w ith y ou . I w ill seek to nave an impartial barrister placed on the bench. Mr. Pollock : Call the case of Daniel O'Leary. The Mayor (laying hi s h an d on th e s h ee t, w hich W 1 1: the possession of Mr. P o ll oc k) : I am en titl e d to that sheet. Mr. Pollock (also laying his hand on it) : I won't gil e lt to you. The Mayor : I am entitled to the list, I say, fl chA il' " man of the court. (Cries of " Order, order !") Mr. Pollock : I won't acknowledge you as such. , t This exchange of civilities continued for some time, 01 eventually the business was proceeded with. 5 1 1 :: magistrates—exclusive of the Mayor—met subsecins li Z to consider the Mayor's speech at the recent banquet. '-i• P meeting was strictly private. As we have stated, the Mayor attended the police-O -r ff at half-past nine o' c l oc k on M on d a y morn i ng , e l e ven 1 e l "; the usual hour, and, in the absercc of the police, wh° wer the prosecutors, di sc h arge d th e p r i soners w h o were ; custody for drunkenness. A charge of robbery and % d assault were held over, and a fine imposed on a w° lD 's for using obscene language, though the offence was rj° proved. Subsequently at a meeting of the Council, the A-rd' s9 !, presiding, it was proposed to ask the Lord Chancellor 7, hold an inquiry relative to the conduct of the C °l. t. magistrates. A few Conservative members were prese n o A suggestion for the postponement of the motion slr agreed to. The Mayor denounced the Orangemen , f ` t li f said the magistrates we r e ser f s an d s l aves o f th e 1 ,31 ;:,,"; He suggested a vote of censu re on th e mag i s t ra tes, "" the matter dropped. Alderman Thomas Ly ons , w h o b roug ht the galt s l conduct - under the notice cf the municipal council , P' o received a letter through the post, informing him that bele opposition to the Mayor has brought upon him a d ec ?. that he will be shot in the public streets before the 1 3 ' 1 , t this month. lle is warned in it of the fate of Brads" who disregarled the notice sent him. OT WHEAT FROM RUSSIA.—Yearly the quanblv.7 wheat brought into this country from Lussia inere a ' ce o f For instance, in February 1869, wheat to the v 316e .,4 469,099 was imported against 368,060 in the correspouu'cl, period in 1867. Of course it is w e ll k nown that our 6 , 11 t plies of wheat from Russia is mu c h i n ex cess of of `-a , countrieF, even the United States. —Chamber of Ag ri° Lure Journal. TELEGRAPHIC STAMPS.—The North W illa 0 1 Correspondent says that the bill for the i n troducti °ll re telegraphic stamps is:considered a goodpractical meal and there is no doubt that it will pass. It will O a t y, the public to deliver their despatches withouty. and thus greatly facilitate the use of the teleg r i. l4 o6 Besides this, much time and laboar will be saved great stations ; thus it is hoped that the profits increase. A stabbing affray is reported from Preston• night or two ago, about half-past 11 o'clock a soldier a ll eir militiaman began to quarrel about some tripe, and el o 'i tually the soldier tcok the tripe out of the militi ao o4 band. The militiaman then gave Lim a Flis h ;,:tle the soldier drew his bayonet and stabbed -bin' ';tye band. Be attempted to stab him in different parts 0 ' p i body, but tho militiaman secured Lim, so a s to vowe l:It :0o further injury being done to him. The soldier h B5 i cdol taken tame the magistrates , who ordered him to he P" over to the military authorities to be dealt with. 0 1° THE MOUNTED CURATE.—A corresponde nt oio writes to the Church Review on matters before the O c ie , now, which, though not apparently conn ec ted with, 7i.: e,,crellf siastical affairs, still may have some eff ec t o n the 011 , says : " Absurd th oug h it ma y seem a t fi r st siP h ; l) should not wonde r if th e ve l oc i pe d e man i a ma y have; 04 ficial effects in p rocess o f t i me b y sav i ng t h e co untry mission clergy the co s t o f k ee pi ng h orses — now a very ttf tax on small incomes. If a mission priest or a & II of curate is forced to keep a p on y on hi s sma ll inc°lll- • some £lOO a year, anythi n g th a t saves t hi s expenditureod important. What now seems a folly for the vil itt n ictY frivolous may be come a use f u l means o f rap id comirlu tion." os l STRIKE OF THE MASONS IN WOLVERII OIrT toI - -On Monday most of the masons in Wolver ll3 l o o joined the agitation of their brethren elsewhere wh ° turned out against payment by the hour, the se ttle old of disputes by arbitration, awl the using up of arc °f i ice, 1 stone. Two or three men, howeve r , refuse to t t r t , i fs although they belong to the u n i on . A s a resu lt theY ' 0 e l been fined by the union. In r etu rn th e y have eN.P re Tll° their willingness to work overtime for their masters- h ate labourers in the building t ra d es i n th e sam e toivil,ver given notice of a dem an d f or a r i se i n wages to 4 - I ` . , 4 " t erd hour. Their present rate is 4d. per hour. The refuse to grant their request, but offer arbitratio n ) the labourers have accepted. 111 A NEW VELOCIPEDE.—The velocipcdoM alli` v ia still spreading. Last winter an ice velocipede , 13 1 ' If on steel slides, and p rope ll e d b y means of a vvhe' , ir t; nished with sharp points, was brought out at St ut !i i t° but it was much objected to by skaters on accowit P rieto spoiling the ice. W e now h ear t h at a par ty of ": 0 Napoleon's aid e -d e - camp h ave made a tr i p f ro m S ic Villafranca on wa t er ve l oc i pe d es. These mac hines c l rt of two miniat ure p ara ll e l canoes, w hi ch suppor t $O B , chair ; the paddle-wheel, placed b e tween the c 3ll° , t e ddle: propelled by th e f ee t on ly, an d i s covere d like the 13.- te t wheel of a st eamer t o pro t ect t h e d r i ver f rom the s s.° l .. - 0 0 1 throws up. Th e i r spee d i s sa id to b e very g reat. . r remains for the Aeronautical Society to adopt the pede to travelling through the air. s LOST ON THE MOUNTAINS NEAR DOwl' Aj- : t oi . i few days ago a strange occurrence took place at tel'3.)° 0) From one of the isolated neighbourhoods at the . , o , cf Dowlais a boy, G years of age, strayed, and, wander' g;Ade the mountain, finally lost his way. Every search WO ij- TIO for him as the night came on, but without success', next day the searchers tried the mountain, bu t still ;isY came and found them without the boy. On the ri e , ar ti a more vigorous search was made, and this thre of men came on the little wanderer lying in his head resting on a heap of rushes. for; w 55 _ g f a ct ° conveyed home, and medical aid sent but theoutoio his having been two days exposed on the black rn o re i A te! left little hope of his recovery. Yet, s ingular t I've remedies proved effectual, and he is now doing vre,lioseP little adventurer states that he pulled the rusheo to place under his head.—Soar of Gwent. a hellos oici;.lf