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This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of the king iom, provides for those afflicted with incurable diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical att, ndance. Patients are admitted, and annuities of Liu obtained by election. No person under 'O ) ears of it,;e, nor of the pauper class, is eligible. Full particulars and the necessary forms may 13 , procured from the Secretary. Donations and annual subscriptions are earnestly solicited. _ _ BANKERS. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, E.C. ; and Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. EDWD. WEAVER, Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheapside. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, is the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron — His Rcyal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance'of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abehurch-lane ; also by Messrs. 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The object of e Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, an practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to lit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 16 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINRSCOTE, Treasurer! W Ef. Wisvrioic, .Secretary. Office, 121, Pall mall S. W 'TOMBLESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS I are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing. 870 children. £l6 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, bud 41, Lothbttry, E.C. • and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Beeretary. Ito. 8, Groat QtQQA-etreet, 7.inoolv ' a inn Nelda, On the Chatham Dockyard Extension Works 250 more convicts will be employed as soon as they can bo selected from the various prisons. TEE WRITING OF " WAVERLEY."—A party of young men, while sitting in a house in George -street on a summer evening, had their attention drawn to a window, where solitary hand apeared, working without stay or wearii.,..s at a desk, and tossing down page after page of MS. upon a rising heap. " I kale same every night," said young Menzies ; " I can't stand the sight of it when I am not at my books. Still it goes on unwearied, and so it will till candles are brought in, and nobody knows how long after that." It was Walter Scott's hand writing the last two volumes of " Waverley," seen as he sat in a back room in No. 30, North Castle-street; long his Edinburgh residence. Some eight years after its commencement it was found among old lumber in an attic, an d com pl e t e d prqk j. 4 Ale.W Weeks. 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B ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, Incorporated by Royal Charter. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Vacancy has occurred in the Direction of this Bank by the death of John Ranking, Esq., which will be filled up at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. By the terms of the Deed of Settlement it is required as follows : " That every Proprietor intending to become a Candidate, or to pro pose some other Proprietor as a Candidate for the office of Direc tor, must, within Ten days from the time when the advertisement shall have been inserted, signify by some writing under his or her hand, to be left within the said Ten days at the Office of the Cor poration, either his intention to become a Candidate, or the name and place of abode of the Candidate intended to bo proposed by him or her." Names of Candidates cannot, therefore, be received after the 30th instant. By order of the Court. R. W. BRADFORD, Secretary. - - 124, Bishopsgate-street within, London, E.C., April 20, 1870. A.D. 1720. R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION. (Established by Charter of his Majesty Georgo the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W. OOTAVIIIS WIGRAM, Esq Governor. JAMES STEWART HIDGSON, Esq Sub--Governor. CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor. DIREOTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Edward James Daniell, Esq. William Davidson, Esq William Tetlow Hibbort, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq. Nevide Lubbock, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson, Esq. Lord Josceline Wm. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. EriC Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. Luel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. Lancelot William bent; Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Charles Hermann Gosehen, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfel], Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Medical Referee, Sam FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms. FIRE DUTY.—This Tax having been abolished, the PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances. FARMING STOCK.—No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding .£15,600 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resourc e s have been tested by the experience of a CENTURY AND A HAL?. ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. C Established 1821. Subscribed Capital Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.O. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN Frederick H. Janson, Esq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Hy. Bonham-Carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq, M.P Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart James Morris, Esq James Goodson, Esq Abraham J. Robarts, Esq Archibald Hamilton, Esq' Henry Vigne, Esq Thomson Hankey, Esq SECRETARY—T hor ACTUARY— SE The Government Duty is Prospectuses and Forms of Assets and Liabilities in the Li the Company's Agents,or to the nas Tallemach, Esq, Lml. Brown, Esq. otally abolished. Proposal, with statement of the Fe Branch, free on application to Secretary. SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women. Subscriptions and donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hat chard, Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, BarL ; Mess's. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITIITION. Presidont—Rev. CANON DALE. ()Mammon for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon (pet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard s t ree t, E. 0 .; Francis Nioholls Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C. E. W. THOMAS, See., 200, Euston-road, N.W. PAINLESS and PRACTICAL DENTISTRY, by Mr. B. L. MOSELY, the Dentist by special appointment, 312, REGENT-STREET, exactly opposite the Royal Polytechnic, and 23, MOORGATE-STREET, CITY. Established 1820. This, the most perfected system of painless dentistry, originated and invented by Mr. B. L. Mosely, is recommended by the Hospitals and adopted by the profession as one of the greatest improvements of the age for the alleviation of pain and restoration of the natural functions, can solely be obtained in such perfected success (the result of forty years' practical experience) at his only residences, as above. The superlative excellence of this system is perfect immunity from pain, no operations, stumps and decayed teeth rendered useful, loose teeth and tender gums protected. Qualities: These teeth never change colour or decay—in fit unerring-ease and comfort unsurpassed -detection impossible—the facial anatomy faithfully studied - and youthful appearance restored—mastication and arti culation guaranteed. The "Times" of March 6 says :—" So good an imitation becomes the` next best thing to the original." Teeth from 55.; sets, sto 30 guineas. Consultation free.—Only addresses, 312, Regent-street, exactly facing the Royal Polytechnic; and 23, Moorgate-street, E. C., opposite the Star Insurance Office. The Longford Nationalists are not disposed to tolerate Mr. Harman King's curious medley of Con serrative and Nationalist principles.. They have asked for explanations. Mr. King may be a Conserva tive if he pleases ; but his Conservatism must be Suf ficiently elastic to admit of a more pronounced Nationalist " platform" than that given in his ad dress. In that document Mr. King stated that if the British Legislature failed to do justice to Ireland, he would pronounce for an Irish Parliament. He has now found reason to change that view. Another address has appeared, which contains this sentence : " From a well-grounded conviction that Irishmen alone are entitled and competent to regulate the alfitirs of their native country, I firmly believe that the time has come when they should claim the restoration or their native Parliament, and upon that platform—Home Rule—l boldly take my stand." There is now no doubt of Mr. Harman's pure Nationalism. The question is what has become of his Conservatism ? THE NATIONAL DEBT. The lingering echoes of the budget discussion almost all play upon the words " national debt." The fine surplus of this year has called forth many noteworthy expressions of opinion that some thing - .ought to be done towards diminishing thb great British burden. Some thinkers are impressed with theyAlnerican example,,, others hold that debt reduction would be a "good spec ;" and between the two classes the reduction party appears to have attained considerable proportions. It seems likely that future years will witness a vigorous agitation on the debt question. One writer calculates that if Mr. Lowe had devoted his four millions and their interest to repayment, in eight years he would have paid off more than £33,000,000, and earned out of interest another million annually fur his reducing fund. In six years more he would have paid off another £33,000,000, and earned a million more for his fund. In twenty years' time from the commencement of his operations (say April, 1890), he would have reduced the debt by more than R 100,000,000; and his reducing fund, without any additional burden on the public, would have stood at £7,000,000. Then the process goes on rapidly. The second £100,000,000 is swept off in twelve years, the third in nine, the fourth in seven, the fifth in five. In a total of 53 years a debt of five hundred millions is extinguished, and the reducing fund at the end of that time stands at nineteen millions. If it be thought needful to keep a National Debt as a form of public investment, the remaining £300,000,000 might be retained for this purpose. This writer, it may be noticed, makes no provision for a war. TAXES IN AMERICA. However striking may ba the efforts made by the people of the United States to clear off their war burden, it is observable that th e y d o no t qu i e tly bear special imposts for the sake of getting this relief. The Income Tax of the United States will expire this year unless it be formally renewed. The leading journals are vigorously opposing all projects of re-imposition. The tax is more obnoxious in America than any other. Debt or no debt, the people desire to get rid of the impost. Senator Sherman has proposed a measure for the indefinite continuation of the tax at a reduced per tentage. But this compro mise gives scant satisfaction: public opinion seems greatly in favour of total abolition. THE GUN-TAX. Two items in Mr. Lowe's Budget—that relating to gun licences and that reducing the sugar duty— have not given the greatest sat sfaction to the agricultural classes. An Essex farmer says the tax on guns would be a reform if provision were made for exempting fire-arms carried for the purpose of scaring away birds. This could easily be done by the farmer, when he gets his licence, obtaining free certificates for persons engaged for the purpose mentioned. The name of each man or boy would be on the certificate, ' and they would be liable to punishment if they were in possession of guns except for the purpose named. The correspondent goes on to say that in his county there is a feeling that the old game licences should in some way be retained as the class of persons who formerly held them need no relief. No doubt the gun tax will bring in more than the game licences; but in many instances it will be from the pockets of the poor man. The Fieldis decidedly oppose(' to Mr. Lowe's new gun tax, and thinksit will fall very heavily on bird keepers and schoolboys; but the latter difficulty could be removed by issuing licences for short periods. A correspondent in the same paper asks, who will benefit by a reduction of the game licence ? Game is a luxury, and the rich can afford to pay for it ; or if it is the property of the holder of the land, it ought to be preserved for any one who chooses to pay a pound. GENERAL CORDON. A little while ago the announcement was received that Major-General the Hon. A. H. Gordon, of the Bombay army, had been suspended. The case is yet involved in much mystery, but the Times of India throws most light upon it. The general was sus pended by order of the governor in council for sending direct to the commander -in - chief. in India certain representations regard ing the acts of the commander-in-chief in Bombay. An " officer .of experience " condemns the suspen sion. He says the Articles of War declare that any officer may forward direct to the highest authority any representation he may . feel himself called upon to make, in the event of his not receiving what he considers redress from his immediate superiors. This was General Gordon's case. General Gordon was, moreover, appointed by the Home Government; and therefore it is not competent on the part of the Bombay Government to suspend him from his duty. Such is the statement of the officer of experience. The Times of India, however, can offer no opinion of its own ; neither th er efore, can the British public, until the other side is heard. HEALTHY PROFESSIONS. Statistics prove that the army and navy are healthy professions. Out of 870 general officers of the British and Indian army, who were alive on the let of January last, eight had seen seventy years of active service. But the army is in this respect far behind the navy. Out of 307 admirals, who were alive at the same date, no fewer than twenty-six, or nearly 9 per cent., had served before the year 1800. IN THE WAKE OF ROILY. The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette still continues in the wake of Rory, and gives some speci mens of Fenian minstrelsy. Ballad-singers, he says, attend most of the cattle fairs in County Meath, and gather round them a considerable crowd of listeners. Mr. Ki c kh ai n, the would-be member for Tipperary, seems to be the poet laureate to King Rory. The following specimen of his poetical powers may be interesting: — And sing us now about the vow They swore for to fulfil, "You'll read it yet in history," Said Rory of the Hill. The Irish constabulary, says the same correspondent, seem determined not to allow the Coercion Bill, as the Peace Preservation Act is universally styled over there, to remain a dead letter, for they are making arrests under it almost every day. RECLAMATION OF IRISH 'WASTE LANDS. Mr. Malley, 9.0., the eminent Irish barrister, has contributed an interesting paper on the re-clamation of Irish waste lands. He thinks that for the Imperial Government to endeavour to impose on privateindividuals the responsibility of taking the initiative in reclaiming lands, would at the present time be a mistake. If the State should decline to undertake the first and most essential step towards permanent reclamation, it could with safety entrust them to the intended occupier on con ditions which would easily ensure their satisfactory completion. If these points are not introduced in any bill that may be brought forward, Mr. Malley thinks it will be a bill for the rich, and not for the , p rof Ireland. Referring to this paper a Dublin contemporary hopes that before the bill is again in committee the Irish members will consider the sug gestions thrown out by Mr. Malley's paper. THE ALBERT INSURANCE COMPANY. The unfortunate Life Office, the downfall of which gave rise last year to a panic for which there was but too good cause, once more claims public atten tion. Its prospects are thought to be a little more hopeful., The _conviktge kopoiiited to Ea;esetiA tire covers mceresrs myeata in trio winning-up of the Albert's affairs have just issued a report, in which they felicitate themselves on having so far succeeded in their efforts that they are able to submit a plan by which, as they believe, the heavy expenses and wearisome delays of liquidation may be saved, and the company once more put in working order. £640,000 must be subscribed to get the busi ness in, a solvent condition. Of thi s sum £106,000. clear will be realised by the assets, the calls on Albert shareholders will bring £160.000 and £34,000 has been subscribed in excess of liabilities as a voluntary penance. Thus a deficit of £260,000 is left. Of this the companies amalgamated with the Albert have raised £183,223, leaving a round sum of £BO,OOO. To meet this an abatement must be made of 15 per cent . from all claims that may arise for a period which has yet to be determined, but which is to last " until the calculations upon which the reconstructed company is founded shall have been tested and confirmed by experience." When this is done deferred payments of ten per cent. are to be made, the. claimants being meanwhile secured by transferable certificates. The remaining five per cent. must, in any event, be written off as the penalty which policy-holders must pay. for putting their trust in the concern which has been the subject of so much mismanagement. EASTER SERVICES. The-ritualist services performed elsewhere in Lon don during Easter " pale their ineffectual fire" be fore the imposing spectacle presented at St. Alban's, Holborn. The ceremony was one of rejoicing over the Resurrection of Christ, in which all the memhers of the various orders of semi-monks and nuns in con nection with this church took part. The procession numbered at least 600 persons, and proceeded from the chapel, set aside as a robing room, down the aisle in the following order :—lncense bearer and boy in white surplices, twenty choristers and precentor in surplices, three priests, followed by about twelve boys in scarlet cassocks and white sur plices, Mr. Mackonochie with two boys holding up his train, banner-bearer with a mag nificent blue and white banner, boys of the Guild about sixty in number, banner-bearer, followed by about fifty members of the brotherhood, with yellow embroidered collarets and capes; banner-bearer, with about forty members of the Order of Jesus of Nazareth in scarlet collarets and embroi dered capes, medals, and crucifixes. Next Came the women one of the sisterhood carrying a large, magnificent silk banner ; sisters of the Order of Mary the Virgin, about eighty in num ber, enveloped so that their faces could not be seen (chiefly young girls from 16 to 25) ; banner-bearer, followed by a large number of Sisters of Mercy in the scapular and veils of their dif ferent orders. Afterwards came the members of the Holy hamily, and those who had been to con fession. Besides other decorations, over the Communion Table was a cross made of wood, surrounded with a wreath of thorns of the same kind as Jesus was crowned with, both brought from the Garden of Gethsemane by the Rev. Mr. Russell, nephew to Earl Russell, ono of the clergy of this church, BLACK OR WHITE GOWNS. The dispute which has been going on for some time between the vicar of St George's, Wolver hampton, and his parishioners, as to the use of the white or black preaching gowns, seems as far off its termination as it did at the commencement. The Bishop of Lichfield has, nolens volens, been dragged into the struggle, and he seems—at all events with some people —to be in rather bad odour. At a vestry meeting the other day it transpired that, owing to this unseemly quarrel, the parishioners are stopping the supplies, and that, from want of money and congregation, the whole work of the parish is coining to a dead-lock. To avert the actual closing of the church, the vicar has agreed to return to the black gown for preaching in; but another person—Dr. Selwyn—had to be consulted, and having once, at the vicar's own desire, sanctioned the change from black to white, he, as might have been anticipated, was not very willing to countenance a vice versd movement. Correspondence with his lordship ensued, but without obtaining the requisite sanction, the Bishop replying that as the change was made after due inquiry before him, the return from white to black—if made at all—must be made after fur ther discussion, and in his (the Bishop's) presence. Thus affairs at present stand, and at the meeting referred to things wore said that one would scarcely expect to find even at a vestry. All this bad feeling and heart burning -is caused by the simple question of whether the Vicar shall preach in black or white ! - FRACTURED RIBS IN ASYLUMS. The two deaths at Hanwell and Carmarthen Asylums a few days ago have caused the Pall Mall Gazette to institute inquiries as to some of the cases where patients have died from frac tured ribs. It gives fourteen which have occurred of late a ears, and in some instances the deaths have been strange ones, not to use a stronger, but perhaps more truthful expression. Here is a specimen of the cases mentioned. At Wake field, in October, 1808 :—" A patient died, according to the jury and medical evidence, from natural causes. Examination showed that two ribs were fractured on each side. At the inquest it was suggested that they had been broken after death, but, as the Commissioners observed, " the facts disclosed were such as to account for them in a far more probable way." No one was punished. Our contemporary is of opinion that the results of the inquiries held by the Commis sioner in Lunacy are of the most unsatisfactory kind. The witnesses who are able to give good evidence are as a rule the persons themselves implicated. The Commissioners themselves say that certain patients who were examined "impressed us with a belief that they had been tutored." It is time to con sider whether these helpless lunatics do not at least deserve as much protection as criminals in our prisons receive as a matter of course. Hanwell Asylum has obtained an unhappy notoriety, and severe as were the remarks of the Commissioners the j ournal quoted thinks they might with advantage have been more so. It is impossible not to come to the conclusion that the evidence of the witnesses, doctors, attendants, patients, indeed all concerned, was so unsatisfactory as to be worthless, while the attitude of the visitors is as contumacious and stubbornly shameless an that of the ex-guardians of St. Pancras. NECKS. Some surgeon has been kind enough to explain that the deformity which has saved Rutterford's neck from the rope can be artificially produced. This disclosure was no doubt quite proper ; it is now, indeed, an established principle that the people cannot prudently be kept from crime through ignorance ; but, really, the idea of men making themselves unfit to be hung is very unpleasant. Of course the information is not needed in Ireland, where abundant safeguards against hanging are already provided. But there is no knowing what might happen in England. The experiment would very likely be unsafe ; yet the chance of its being tried is decidedly awkward to contemplate. The question of substituting some other machinery seems to require consideration. The Spectator recommends shooting. It obviates all pain, and has a most impressive effect. DEPARTURE OF EMIGRANTS, Upwards of three hundred emigrants have left the East-end of London for a free passage toCanada under the auspices of the Family Emigration Society. Almost all classes of skilled and unskilled workmen, with their wives and families, were represented in the batch, and every family had either been reduced to the utmost destitution, was on the parish rates, or in a certain way to come upon them. Of the thou sand sent out last year by this society all, without exception, have succeeded, their settlements for the most part being around Toronto. The society sends unmarried women to Australia only, SAVE ME ritom MY FRIENDS. Even poor Mr. Murphy must have felt the truth of this adage, when he learnt what his friend Mr. Steel said in addressing a Greenwich mob. The lecture hall in that town had been taken, and the money paid for it, but when one of the trustees found that a disturbance was imminent, he offered to return , rcmh:td -fa tio pse sf the room. At the hour appointed for the lecture, a mob assembled ; but the superin tendent of the police, with his men, refused any admittance to the hall. A. deputation was then formed to wait on the trustee who had offered to return the cheque; but soon after a Mr. Steel said that that gentleman could not be seen, and that as 400 policemen and 90 soldiers lined the hall, Murphy would not attend. "He regretted that the police had been called upon to act in such a way as to prevent any of her Majesty's subjects addressing their friends. He thought it was a great mistake, and a course of action which seriously affected the liberties of the sub ject." Was Mr. Steel joking or in earnest? Surely if we feel bound to prevent, even say the commission of suicide, we are also morally bound to prevent an im minent disturbance in which without doubt blood would have been shed. Would Mr. Steel have been better satisfied if the authorities had stood on one side and allowed Mr. Murphy to attempt to lecture and have permitted the fight that would almost to a certainty have ensued ? Mr. Murphy has been very glad on previous occasions to obtain the protection of the police. A SHORT CUT TO HIGH SOCIETY. The Daily News has an article on "High Social. Position," drawn forth by the followinc , advertise ment which appeared i n th e co l umns of ac'fathionable contemporary :—" To ladies desirous of high social position. Any lady having moderate fortune, or money to invest, may hear of a Desirable Oppor tunity by applying to Mrs.—, ladies' confidential agent, street." The Daily News, improbable as it may at first seem that any lady of Mrs. Smith's social calibre should have the power she professes, says a little reflection will show that there is nothing impossible in her undertaking. Mrs. Smith, for her business to be a successful one, must needs know ladies of high social position who are' on the look-out for a " desirable opportunity "of appropriating " a moderate fortune," and who will give the entrée to their houses by way of exchange. The " money to invest " is to be put in a novel kind of scrip, whose interest is to be taken out in garden parties and ball rooms. That rational beings, adds our contemporary, should quit their own sphere in search of a fresh one, where they must ever remain strangers, is one of thoseacts of fatuity which can be explained only by man's proverbial partiality for shadows. The writer observes that it has been said " that is society where none intrudes," and adds, if this be a just definition, we are bound to say Society can scarcely exist in these modern times. We may be allowed, perhaps, to correct our contem porary in this quotation and its application. Byron says, in his "Childe Harold " There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. The great poet hardly meant Margate or Ramsgate, where the society which Mrs. Smith trades on are in the ascendant, or Brighton, where her clients of high social position do sojourn. THE LATE DUCHESS OF. BEnitr. The death of the Duchess of Berri recalls many facts connected with Continental history, in which she herself played no mean part. She was a daughter of Francis 1., the King of the Two Sicilies, and sister of Bomba, and aunt of the ex-Kinc , , Francis 11. At 18 she married the Duke of Berri, the younger son of Charles X. After three years her husband was assassinated, just as she was expecting her confinement with the Duke of Bor deaux, known afterwards to the Legitimists of France as Henry V. Throughout the two subsequent reigns the Duchess took no active part, but after the revo lution of. July she went to Rome, and was there secretly married to the Marquis Lucchesi Pall. In 1832 she headed an abortive insurrection in La Vend6e, with a view of dethroning the Orleanists. The deceased lady was arrested and kept a State prisoner; but what to do with her when they had got posses sion of her was one of the many embarrassments which beset Louis Philippe and his ministers. Fortu nately for her she was enceinte, and in order to save her reputation confessed her marriage with the Marquis Palli. After this fact came to light she was released. Subsequently the Duchess led a quiet life. She lived to see the House of Orleans in exile, the Bourbons driven from Spain, Naples, and Parma, and a Napoleonic dynasty established in France. T. PANCRAS AGAIN. —.Dr. _Edmunds, a member of the rate Board of Guardians for St. Pancras, has applied to the Marylebone Police Court for a summons against a aadesman of Kentish Town for exposing a printed libel in his window. The bill in question had no printer's name, but in a mock strain of solemnity told " The Chronicle of the Good Citycalled Pancras,"and the "fair hospital at Highgate," and how the adversaries pre vailed against it. But the chief were Collins, which is called Job, and Watkins, surnamed the carpet-beater, and Edmunds, the apothecary. And it came to pass that these men, moved thereunto by their mean manners and their little hearts, sought to prove that there was no cause or need for the fair hospital at Highgate, and they took counsel together how they might destroy it. And they said one to another ' Let us clear out the old hospital and let there be many spare and empty beds.'" The sum mons was granted. CHARGE AGAINST A PRISON WARDER.—A labouring man appeared at the Westminster Police Court to make a complaint against a warder at the Westminster House of correction. His wife was in prison for being concerned in a robbery, and hearing of her illness, he went to see her, according to the regulations. When he arrived there the warder refused him admission, on the ground that he had formerly been an inmate of the Clerkenwell House of Correction, which he denied. The magistrate sent for the dtcputy governor wh o a tt en d e d with the ward er who Peisisted in his statement. Mr. Selfo thought it was hard the warder should be allowed to refuse admission to visitors. The deputy-governor said the warder should have referred the matter to the matron. The complainant announced his intention of laying the matter before the visiting justices. A POLICEMAN ABSCONDING.—Martin Daly, late a, police -sergeant of the K division, has been charged at the Thames police court with absconding from the force. He has been for many years in the service, and has only lately been promoted to be sergeant for good conduct and efficiency. A. few days after his pro motion he told the superintendent he wished to leave the next day. This notice could not be received, as a month's notice is required, but the next day he was missing from parade. It was ascertained that he had embarked for New York. The prisoner explained his conduct by his distress at the elopement of his wife, and the magistrate,' in consideration of his domestic misfortune, reduced the penalty to 40s. THE CASE OF CHILD STEALING.—The further examina., tion of Mary Connor on the charge of stealing James Cheney, a child aged one year and nine months has been heard at the Clerkenwell Police Court. Harry. Harding was called, and stated that he re sided opposite the Islington poli c e-st a ti on . O n th e morning of the 6th of April he saw a child on the police-station steps, which he was told had been put there by a woman. He went over and saw the child there, and gave information to the police. The prisoner was not the woman who told him that the child was left. Other wit nesses were called who spoke to seeing the child at the place named, and one was positive that the prisoner was the woman who placed it there. The prisoner denied that she was the person who had placed the infant on the door-step of the police station. On the Thursday she had given a woman the child to take home, and, for aught she knew to the contrary, when she was taken into custody the child was at home. She had not the least intention that the child should be abandoned. Mr. Barker committed the pri soner to the Middlesex Sesssons for trial. PEPPER IN THE EYES.—A basket maker, named Emily Walden, has been charged with throwing pepper in the eyes of a woman with whom she formerly lodged. The woman was nearly blinded, and had to be taken to the hospital before she could recover her sight. The prisoner was remanded. PLEDGING GOODS IN TRUST.—Benjamin Kimberly, an. English agent for a French silk firm, has been com mitted for trial at the Mansion House for pledging a large quantity of the goods entrusted to him for sale. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY BY A BOY OF 13.—A little boy, named Sydney Herring, 13 years of age, residing at Mortlake, has been cha rge d at the Ri c h mon d P e tty Session s with stealing a gold watch, two gold chains (one of which was valued at £l6), two gold earrings, five gold finger-rings, one gold brooch, one silver and agate bracelet, one tortoiseshell and gold brooch, a pincushion, a ring case, two gold pins, and other articles, of the value of £52155. 6d., from the house of the next-door neighbour. Mrs. Lucas, the mistress of the house, missed her property hererty on ne t i h g e hbo a u ft r ,ezoo a n nd of thGeoodnexFtridadya.y Mrs. to Herring, the mother of the prisoner, came in and said it was her little boy who had stolen the property and she had found some of it concealed in the garden. Mrs. Herring said her suspicions were excited by finding her own daughter's dressing case had been broken open, but she was afraid to say anything until her husband came home. When the boy was charged with the robbery he said " If Mrs. Lucas will forgive me, I will shew you I where hid some of the things." He was remanded, ball being refused. It is thought that there must have been an accomplice in the robbery, _which was facilitated by the house on the other side of Mrs. Lucas's being empty. , to-day It the ace of :e has at has evious offer. ained. Lrm in been been lerate about to 4s. pork, firsts, 568. ; L—No )E. L far gone ,ot of I the Le air have how- more been rised soon im egin- and 11S' ning way a our Mr. ungf3, lin than )1310 22s ; LATE cups it 55s sent [er.— , and the of 3 3 of e pb ily). 1.. of iv t'l7, Rol- Jas- cord ;WS 112 y of