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TN FUN, This Week, One Penny, Our Prize Essays—Name of the Winner ; Sir Matthew & White itidley, 31. P. ; The Frankfort Diet—all Smoke, &c., c. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. George Vining Under the Management of Mr. Walter Aiontgomery. T HIS EVENING, KING JOHN. King John, Mr. Walter lon tgomery. To be followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Commence at 7. NENV- THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI, -31:‘ Proprietor and Manager. M;.. B. WebstPr. Tuts EVENING, at 7, a new comic drama, entitled THE TIEN AND CH icK ENS ; or, A Sign of Affe ,tion. Messrs. Killington, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss 11 aimms. Atter which, at a quarter-past 8, the new drama of THE HALKSTED MAN; a,FI, T. E GIiOSI"S .•:Aiti;AlN, in which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptat!on of the Great :- , pectrai Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Philips, efton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, ent fled ILL-T RE AT ED IL TRU v.A_TORE , . M€ ssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, .Ebrirne, C.. 1. Smith, Roraer ; the Sisters .Nelson, Carry and Sari, and Miss K. Kelly. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Manager, 3/r. W. 11. Swanborough. Tigns EVENING, HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr. Leigh Murray. Followed by (34th time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. 111 FIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 12h. 15m.—Afternoon, 12h. 45m. To-moßßow.-Morning, lh. 12m.—Afternoon, lh. 40m. The Weather--Sun Office, Aug. 27, 1863. -- THEYLISOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 72 Barometer -29.60. Wind—S. ; moderate, and fine, with rain in the morn jag and during the night. 44: 4405111. O,ID nit A LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1863, A quarter of a century having elapsed since the British Association was last assembled at New castle-upon-Tyne—that one suggestive circumstance alone furnished this year's President, Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, with a noble theme for the inaugural address delivered by him last evening, a remark• able harangue, which will be found fully reported in another part of this day's impression of our journal. Within these five-and-twenty years last past, how much in truth has there not been accom plished. Science, to take simply one solitary illus tration of the marvels it has effected within that interval—Science has, Pnosreßo-like, within this narrow space of the world's history, summoned, in Electricity, its ARIEL, virtually, to put a girdle round:theEarth in forty seconds. Since 1838, when the town of Newcastle was last selected as the chosen rendezvous for the members of the British Association, the whole wonderful systems of railways and of steam navigation, have covered th© solid earth with a magic network of iron, and have enabled Man to traverse the ocean indepen • dently of wind and tide. It is true that long before 1838 the marvellous contrivance of the steam engine had already endowed modern civilisation with a power, that might be regarded as not inaptly symbolized by the Geni rising vapour-like from the brazen casket dragged up from the deep in his net, by the Arabian Fisherman. But it has been since 1838, it may here be confidently asserted, that the chief application of that astonishing power, that the principle evidence of its extraordinary capacity to perform according to pleasure the labours of a Fairy or of a Giant, has been manifested. Within this quar ter of a century, the round of which has but just been completed, not only has the whole Railway System grown up, and„parallel with it, the whole system of the Electric Telegraph, but how many other won drous miracles of science have we not seen per formed with a nicety and a precision and a frequency that have long since rendered them familiar even to the uneducated multitude. If we have spoken, as we have, of the invention of the steam-engine as not inaptly symbolized by the Geni of the Brazen Casket, dragged up in his net upon the seashore, by the:Arabian Fisherman—and the resemblance hinted at need hardly appear so extra vagant to the philcsophical dreamer, remembering, for example, Sir ISAAC NEWTON'S humble reference to himself, as one picking up shells and pebbles upon the shore of the Great Ocean of Truth—we might no less aptly recognise a symbolism of the magic power of the Electric Telegraph in the obe dient Geni of the Ring of ALLADIN. The rubbing of the ring in that wonderful old eastern romance, being, almost one might say, mysteriously typical of the completion of the metallic round, or the electric circuit, by the opera tion of the galvanic battery—evoking nowadays momentarily at every telegraph station, at the behest of anyone, a Geni far more more marvellous as a messenger, than that old Geni of the Ring in the story of " Madill." Again, have we not pure chaseable now, any day, at any railway station, for a few coins, a little scrap of a card-board ticket, that, for carrying us to and fro, whithersoever .we wish, may vie with the few feet ' , Mare of the Turkish Carpet, told of also in the Arabian Night's Entertainments ? Another °f t h e „ old poetic fabulists, it may be remembered, amused his own fancy for the marvellous, and that of his r eaders, by describing the little pool of water upon t he surface ue of which the reflection of the gazer's fa ce' 8 gazer's fsz ttufixed and preserved, and— w ith th e lanescap e ! Au shadow also of the su rroun di ng that of th e _ at exact and literal f ore - s h a d ow i ng effected bym the Photographer. now a d ays b e i ng perpetually the liter y ears photog ra ph er . S evera l of a t this last q uar t er o f a century have elapsed since WARNER died, al most no poor Captain buried away in some ob:cou te ticed, and w as qu i e tl y visionary—the " long ran g r ave as a mere idle projectiles, about which he was wont in hi s t! rethee to talk amid s t almost universal ridicule, being th e fa then, of the jester and the caricaturist Write subject, then, since the death of that poor, Yet--since des pised WARNER, who only talked of thos e '' long Cap eang „tain , e —have not the day-dreams of th e • ticable theorist , been , n o t only actu 'itpraeally realised, but absolutely surpassed by the astounding specimens of ordnance fabricated, among others, by the icry man who was last evening, at Newcastle, delivering the inaugural address f or V. 153 of the proceedings at thi3 annual meeting o f the members of the British Association. If only for thus bringing vividly within the general survey this last wonderful interval of five-and•twenty years,since the Association was once before gathered together down at Newcastle, we have reason to be grateful to Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG for the en thrilling interest, the instructive scope, and the singular suggestiveness of his really masterly re•• tro3pect. It is difficult for the denizens in the busy centres of civilisation to realise the wild free life, the reckless adventure of the new colony of the Western Hemisphere. It is equally difficult for the weary seeker for employment, heartsick with 1 ope deferred, amid the throng of equally eager cora ' etitors, to believe that at this very moment there () xists a spot where the English tongue is spoken, al There honest labour brings in the rich reward of 10 or 12 dollars a day, and even the humble toil of c arrying provisions brings in a similar sum. Yet t his El Dorado has its drawbacks, as may be seen f corn the full and comprehensive account given of i is lights and shadows by the correspondent of our e hief morning contemporary. The one great quali f tcation for the colony is a willingness and a capa city for work, not mental work, not gentlemanly eaiployment, not busy idleness, but real hard :physical labour; labour that covers you with mud and makes a dry shoe a thing unknown. The :member of a mining company who has been some ;years on the spot, declares that there is abundance .and variety of work for labourers in Cariboo, and that those who can work and will work, get work, except when the labour of mining is suspended by flooding. Those who will not work are beneath criticism, and those who cannot have mistaken their vocation in going to the mines. The golden fortunes of British Columbia retain all their brightness. liams's Creek, the chief mining fie produced an immense quantity o gold,fl dat present, a nd continues to supply the lucky miner wit t h he ric l la vi s l t l o o r w es. Ri T ve h r e , creek is supposed to run into and is separated from Antler Creek, which was the scene of the earliest operations, by a group of moun tains. Richfield, a small town on Williams's Creek, is the capital of Cariboo, and boasts " 25 houses, besides tents." These houses, alo ng w i t h which must be reckoned the Government office, are all occupied, and the new, or lower town, has 16 houses finished, so that buildings are rapidly in creasing, not before they are needed, we should imagine, by a population of 2,500 miners alone! The last 50 miles of the road to this creek are in such a condition as to be impassable to beasts of burden ; the only trail being blocked up with trees thrown down by the storms and horses dead from fatigue. This state of things is favourable to the carriers on the principle of the ill wind that blows some good with it, for provisions have to be carried on men's backs for several miles, and as we may guess, under such circumstances, at heavy charges. The rate of provisions is high, and makes a large demand on the miner's wages; the weekly board being 35 dollars; a single meal 21 dollars, and these sums being often paid in ad vance. The work is plentiful and the wages high, 10 or 12 dollars daily being ready for all who are willing to work hard and able to " drift." Some of the claims are very profitable; others, with the variable fortune inseparable from goldfields, worth less and unremunerative. The work of some of the companies at the time the narrative was written was hindered by the freshets having inundated the shafts. This disaster is common at this season, and interferes seriously with the profits of the miner. "The daily yield of the American Company ave raged," we are told, " 150 oz. The Black Jack Company was doing well; but the Barker, at frst the richest of all, was not yielding so much as usual owing to the impediment of underground water." This is one of those casualties that interfere with the best calculations, and which render a miner's life, in spite of its hard work, akin to that of the gambler. Other companies, like the owner of a run of luck at the gaming table, are making fabu.- lone sums. One company, in their final operation, the " washing up," gained in six hours 250 oz. A nice afternoon's work, since the value is about £B7O. This is no partial or exaggerated statement, but is taken from the Commissioner's report, in which we find also mention made of three companies, whose claims were all situated within half-a-mile, which had " washed up" respectively 170cz., 1600 z., and 120 oz. in a day's labour. At the same time these amounts must not, of course, be taken as samples of the average success attending the miner's exertions. Two other creeks have been discovered in the vicinity of Williams's which had disturbed the ordinary state of affairs there by occa sioning one of those "rushes" unfavourable to the miner. " They deprive the capitalist of labour at a juncture when he most needs it, and the labourer of time which, had he employed it in steady work at high wages, he would have turned to good ac count instead of wasting it, as too often happens, in pursuing a shadow." The whole labour of gold digging sometimes produces but shadowy results, and notwithstanding the sudden gleams of success and fortune which occasionally make a poor man rich and crown a life of labour with the wealth of an Arabian fable, there can be no question that it is a hard, laborious, and uncertain existence. One of its great annoyances in Cariboo is the system of " jumping " claims, or unjustly usurping claims belonging to other miners during their casual absence. This produces appeals to the Gold Commissioner, pending whose decision one hundred " jumped" claims were lying idle when the news left. It can hardly add much to the wealth or comfort of the young fraternity that it numbers six lawyers among its members ! The American war is producing unwelcome effects in the North, the collector of Washington Terri tory having at the close of June forbidden the ex port of any live stock. As Victoria. and British Columbia had before that date drawn the greater part of their supplies of beef, this occasion e d con . siderablo inconvenience. However, the 'cuteness of Americans and the gold of th e m i ners have so the difficulty in some degree, as they now kill the animals in American territories, and export the carcases, as the high-sounding order for the "pre. vention of the withdrawal of military resources from the country" does not include dead meat, Meanwhile the Governor of Washington Territory has taken up the cause, and we shall learn by the next mail the result of his friendly remonstrances. Altogether the accounts from this new colony, though showing that it will be long before the rough edges will be smoothed down into conven tional shape, and that comfort and civilisation must not be too quickly looked for, are full of hope and pro mise. Gold will people the north as it has the south, and the vast fields of British Columbia will long serve as a safety-valve for the superfluous energies and unemployed labour of our older life, though we must even retain the drones in the old hive, since there is no place for them in the busy, striving thriving, and laborious young community. The Frankfort Congress seems to be progressing sa tisfactorily, notwithstanding the very difficult Itutiltely succeeddelicat in delicat e tasks imposed upon its members. Ii coming to definite arrangements, without any vexatious disputes, or awkward mis : it u nderstandi ngs project of will be very f or t una t e . Th e Austri a with regard to the Di rec t ora t e , has been adopted withsome mo difi cat i ons, T he six memb ers who compose the b o d y are ta k en from several quarters. One v o v t a e li e a tto o hwill appertain t o Austria, Prussi a , and Ba e vote inturnis B to belong to Saxony,ny. Wertemb ono The fifth member will be named l andlec Hanover.byHesse Electoral will be s.eitie ment of the presidency of the Directorate v a nd the seven Grand Duchi es ; the sixth selected by the other German States. The settle. left to the decis ion of Austria and Prussia , so f be ar this seems to promise fairly enough, and to bespeak some chance of a fortuitous termination of the dis cussions. The Congress of Princes appear to work THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1863. Tory hard, and not to allow their time to be wasted. The Emperor of AUSTRIA has come to a very wise decision concerning the plan to be adopted in set tling the vexed question of alterations and modifi cations in the original proposal made, Tnis is, that attention is to be paid to no representations and propositions that are not collective. This is very prudent, for in so mixed an assembly, animated by such diverse interests, it is probable that there would be an infinitude of suggestions made, and thus al chance of coming to an arrange.. ment anything like that at first proposed would be thrown away. By the several members of the Con gress objections have been raised to nearly all the suggestions, but, by the adoption of the rule re ferred to, these strictures have not subverted the first proposals. It is said that the EMPEROR has promised that strict attentionmmsphalaadlielni.bneulnptiaissiodcnetcotaanailndl so tdemandsthere a and b desires en o reason to o a e r o e that little can be gained if these innovations are nadn.d a T gr h e o e se to w th h e o ir d u o til n it o y t , w re o c u og ld ni i s n turn suggest e a s t w r r n e n d g e c e t s o s i t s y t a , thebeostthmeresa, means s n o d f thus refo th rmw e o d u i l ffi d bcueltyof prolongedcon - indefinitely. The President of the Assembly of the Congress of Deputies concluded his speech by the following impressive passage:—" The National party does not wish for a revolution, but if its efforts to bring about a reform should be frustrated by the Governments, it may be succeeded by a party which will not only be less moderate in its preten sions, but will indulge in dangerous aspirations." The truth is, that if an understanding is come to of a satisfactory nature at this Congress, affairs will doubtless be carried on more auspiciously in Ger many than they have been for some time past ; but if it should unhappily occur that any contretemps arise in these arrangements which prevents their final and satisfactory adjustment, things will be in a worse state than ever. Expectations will have been aroused that disappointment will render most bitter, and the excited feelings that are now en gaged in watching the progress of events will be come irritated beyond endurance. This undertak ing is one of those precarious ventures that must be fully carried out. No half measures will do, and no promises without performance will satisfy or deceive with their specious semblances the ardent aspirations and longing expectations of a nation that might have waited some time longer in quiescence without changes being introduced, but which cannot patiently brook any alterations that are not improvements. It behoves, then, those who are taking on themselves the responsibility of these reforms to take heed that they are so in nature as well as in name, that they may be readily recognised as such by those for whose benefit they are said to be desired, and not, as too often occurs, only im part satisfaction to their originators. It is said that the Schleswig Holstein question has not been engaging much attention at the Congress. It so, the Assembly may find that they have made a mistake. The latest intelligence from Denmark states that there have been great military prepara tions in order to resist any aggressions made, in case the Germans carried out their threats. This portends that there will be resistance made if any force is intended, and it would be well if due atten tion was paid to this matter, now that an oppor tunity has occurred for re-organising . and remodel ling the affairs of the Confederation. The refusal of the King of PRUSSIA to the second invitation to join the Congress, which was conveyed to him in person by the King of SAXONY, has doubtless sur prised no one. The reasons given before for non participation have been reiterated, and of course every one knows that it is not because these reasons are valid that they are persisted in, but because they suit the purpose that the crafty advisers of King WILLIAM have in view. Herr VON BIS MARK still persists in dancing perpetual attendance upon his royal master. He is the shadow behind the throne, indeed, and it will be well for his Sove reign if the darkness does not eventually pervade the whole region in which he so pertinaciously officiates, to the exclusion of all better advisers and the hindrance of all good works. The Emperor of AUSTRIA has behaved in the most courteous style and in the most liberal spirit in this affair, but un fortunately he has not been met on equal terms. The blame, however, does not rest with him, neither oceadnur. N any e disc o r t ed t i o t attach bacheiltosnelgfs the tohisodmiuodme of f f p t r he o- Kingdom of Prussia being ignored at an assembly where she ought to have been pre-eminent in authority and all powerful in influence. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) POLAND. BERLIN, AUG. 27. Private letters, received from Warsaw, state that the Grand Duke Constantine left the Polish capi tal on the 25th. The Grand Duchess remained. It is reported that the Grand Duke has been sum moned by the Emperor to deliberate upon the affairs of Poland, SPAIN, MADRID, AUG. 26. M. Barret leave here to-morrow for Paris. The King is much better. The court will return to Madrid upon the is September. AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SOUTISAMPTON, August 26. A refugee had arrived in 1% ashington from Lex. ington, Virginia; he reports great demoralisation in Lee's army. Some Mississippian and Texan regi ments had left the army to go home, and were driven back by Stuart's cavalry at the point of the sword. Lee's army is almost in open mutiny. It was currently rumoured that Lee had tendered his resignation, and thac he and Davis were at enmity. Horses were exceedingly scarce in the rebel army. The North German Lloyd's steam-ship America, Captain Wessels, from New York on the afternoon of the 15th inst., has arrived here. She brings 155 passengers for Southampton, Havre, and Bremen; 188,500 dollars in specie for England, and 1,603 dollars for Bremen; a cargo of 1,200 tons, and GO bags of mails. The America experienced head winds during the first four days of her passage. NEW YORK, August 15, Morning, General Meade is visiting Washington. The Confederate cavalry have captured a Federal signal station near Warrentown. Admiral Dahlgren's official despatches represent that there is little doubt of a triumphant result of the Federal operations before Charleston. It is rumoured that the 300-pounder Parrot gun, sent to Charleston to be used against Fort Sumter, was lost overboard at Morris Island. Commander Bell has superseded Admiral Farra gut in the Gulf department. Numerous guerilla bands are marauding through out the interior counties of Missouri. The British, French, Russian, Spanish, Prussian, Italian, and Swedish ministers have left Washing ton, accompanied by Mr. Seward, upon an excursion to the Northern lakes. Mr. D'Arcy 111‘Gee has addressed a letter to the Montreal Gazette, stating that the Federal govern ment has erected a new fort at Rouse's Point, 45 miles from Montreal, with magazines capable of containing supplies for a hundred thousand men, also barrack accommodation for a permanent gar rison of five thousand men. The plan contemplated at Washington for an invasion of Canada is to march a hundred thousand men up the district of Montreal, to cut the connection between Upper and Lower Canada, to abstain from meddling in local affairs, but to force the separation of the upper and lower provinces by the mere force of the army of occupation interposing its military barrier to their intercourse. What would follow such a separation has not escaped the calculation of the Federal government. Mr. Al‘Gee urges the appointment of a Crown Prince for Canada, adopting other means for her closer connection with England; otherwise i❑ the day of need England will only give nominal assist ance. The Canadian parliament assembled on the 13th. The Governor-General directed the special attention of the legislature to the militia law, which required extensive amendment to make it eactive. He asked parliament to sanction the outlay incurred in consequence of the last parliament ending without voting supplies, and also for a pledge for the neces sary expenses for the current year. He recom mended the establishment of telegraphic and postal communication between Lake Superior and the Pacific. The following is a summary of the late intelli gence received from Charleston : CHARLESTON BAR, Aug. 10, P.M. Gen. Gillmore has notified Admiral Dahlgren that he will be in readiness to open the grand as sault on Thursday, the 13th inst. The navy is all ready, waiting for the army, so that the fight, it is believed, will commence on that day. The greatest confidence is felt as to the result. The fall of Fort Sumter, Wagner, and Cummings' Point i 3 regarded as certain to take place in from two to six hours after the ball opens. A deserter from Fort Wagner says that two-- thirds of the guns have been remov,d from Fort Sumter, and mounted on James Island, and that the fall of Sumter is regarded by the rebels as a certainty —the damage done by the Monitors in April last rendering the possibility of the rebels holding it not to be thought of. The deserters say that Sumter was on the point of surrendering at that time, when fortunately for the rebels the Monitors withdrew. We have shelling night and day. Fort Johnson keeps up a brisk fire, and our wooden gunboats go in every day and amuse themselves by shelling it. At night the rebels shell our land batteries, and we shell them in return. Two more mortar schooners, making five in all, and the wooden gunboats are stripping for the fight. The weather continues delightful, though there is great suffering for want of ice, lemon, and sugar. Cannot Boston, New York, or Philadelphia send some cargoes here for the use of the gallant sailors end soldiers. As the Arago leaves, the Ottowa, Marblehead, Seneca, and Ironsides are engaged shelling the Cumming's Point Battery. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Aug. 14, Evening. Money abundant. Gold, 251 per cent. prem. Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 1381. Stocks improving. New York Centrals, 1268 f Illinois, 1191 ; Erie, 1048 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 104 Z. Cotton heavy; Middling Upland, 67c. Flour declining; wheat steady; corn declin ing ; provisions dull ; coffee quiet ; sugar improv ing; molasses quiet; crude petroleum, 35e. A BILL OF HEALTH. Mr. Leigh Murray is one of the very best of our few good actors, and the stage is a loser by the unfrequency of hia appearance. His health has not been good, and we are doubly glad, for his own sake and that of his art, to see that he has resumed his engagements. He dresses, walks, and speaks like a gentleman, and acts with a full compre hension of his author, and an earnest intention of making his author comprehend. And in the more elevated drama, Mr. Leigh Murray shows that he has loftier gifts. .dri . Punch is happy to have an opportunity of saying this. Having said it, he begs to remark upon a novelty which Mr. Murray's manager has introduced into the play-bills. These interesting documents announce that Mr. Leigh Murray will appear, " having recovered from an attack of Rheumatic Gout." It is all matter of taste, and some persons may enjoy a comedy the more from knowing ex actly what has bean the matter with a leading performer, bat on the whole we almost think that " indisposition," or "illness," would nave been enough, without such very de cided realism. Suppose this fashion of letting the audience into the entire confidence of the performers were to prevail. what a cheerful play-bill we might have, especially in a n influensa season. We should read that— THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED OTHELLO, OR THE STRAWBERRY SPOTTED HANDKERCHIEF. BY W. SHAKSPEARE, OTHELLO (who has obligingly re covered from the chicken-pox) . , Mr, BELLOWMOIIE, CASSIO lA.oro (being his first appearance since he was operated upon for his B a v A ac u c j in ri a T t i f e on ( ) h is corns) Roptui :::av o in ec g ou b d e en time curedsine since of i s a bleeding nose) 0 (co nva les cent Mn, WOPSHOTT, neu ralgia in the Calves M O t N T A Ng re- ap pearanceot.haifs after er 2. a l fte r t a h e e p e p x a cis e io n of his uvala and the of h (a is w gr i e s a d t o m d e t a o l o N th b Be. better MR.. BONASSU . S. DESDEBIONA. EmßthihniyA.cpo(euwrlhfdeoebthle expected. '''''''''''''''''''''''' y as w k e i l n i) d kindly .. m M n it s. 0 wLEft to appear, though a RABBITS, s g t e r w i c o s ul d certainly give the audience a ........ Miss QUICKEIDGT. s c o a rt a o n f d th h i y n Personal interest in the performer, and the latter l wou dbe curiously watched to see whether any signst a of the l a t e in disposition could be detected. S o far, that sympathy would be created which aids the electric effect o f rt • b whole, we think that the affections of our favour u it t e , artiste the had better continue to be Tested in the graceful indefinite ness ness of a doctor's certificate, and we be g t o add that should not have taken any notice of the little wu eccentricity on the part of the Strand management, if it had not enabled Alr. Punch to apprise Leigh Murray that he, P., is exceed.. ingly glad to see him, L. M., again at his work. G ood actors are not so plentiful In these days that we can spare a very good one.—Punch. M. TIIIERS' new pamphlet, which is to be called " L'Autriche et ses Reformes," wo would commend to Mr. Roebuck for translation. FEARFUL STATE OF CRIME IN LANCASHIRE. —In delivering his charge to the grand jury, at the opening of the late Liverpool assizes, Mr, Justice Black burn said the calendar exhibited a more fearful state of crime, particularly with r,gard to the grave offences of murder and natuslaughtcr, than he had ever before noticed, ?:p , :_rh a p 6 b a d ever come within the experience of the 't 3 5410 h a d pres i ded in that court. There were in all s l ‘ t i Perlalr Pere co mm i ttals fig illUrd4r. era; and of these 24 were c h arge d w ith homicide, THE CONGRESS AT MALINES The Times gives the following abstract of the last day's proceedings, the fifth a —ay of meeting :—A despatch from the Pope was received, thanking the assembly for the address which it had voted to him, and giving his Apostolical benediction in return. A letter from M, Malou, Bishop of Bruges, was read, in which he regretted that the state of his health had not permitted him to be present at Malines, and offered the spacious building which he has at his disposal for the next meeting of the con gress. Father Mislin, representative of the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, solicited and obtained a pro test against the rebuilding of the cupola of the Holy Sepulchre by others than the Catholics of Palestine. The Count de Villemont said that the battalion of Pontifical Zouaves was diminishing, and ought to be kept up, inviting the cures present to send young men to the agent, giving his address, who would forward them to Rome free of expense. Addresses were delivered by Father Vaughan, an English priest, on the missions undertaken by his country men ; by the Abbe Soubiranne, on the necessity of establishing schools in the East. M. Faure spoke on the moral state of the French Catholics in Lon don, and M. Maiseau on the position of Catholics in St. Petersburg. The assembly then decided that the central bureau of the Congress should be trans formed into a perm a nent committee, and should exercise its fun c ti ons un d er t h a t t itle in the interval during the present session and the next. The pro ceedings came to a close by an address and bene diction from the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, the whole terminating by a banquet in the evening. PRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 26.—The market has been very heavy. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f. 40c,, and little business transacted. The Railway Share Market also quiet, with but trifling varia tions from yesterday's quotations. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent 5....... 96 70 Italian Loan 72 60 Do. end month.... Do. end month — 3 per Cent s ...... 67 40 [slew d i tto Do. end m on th .... 67 45 Do. end month — Credit Mobili er.... 1077 50 Russian— Do. end m 0nt h ....1077 50 Austria!! Bank Shares ...... 3390 S Credit 1 aniehihrees — oncter ....1245 Home Debt BAIL rAYS. Cash. Aceotuit. Orleans lO2O ~ 1020 Northern . ... 9BB 75 .. 987 50 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1022 60 .. 1023 75 Geneva 493 75 .. 493 75 Southern Western ... 530 .. 530 Eastern Sardinian Austrian L°wb of Lombard d Sp a i n North 547 50 ..: .. 547 50 Saragossa . . - .. 680 Ditto to 13aredona .• • • .. SKETCHES FROM FRANKFORT. (By an Anglo-German Correspondent of the Spectator. The Kaiser i s a t a ll , THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. h an dsome man, of imposing figure, and som e thi ng truly imperial is his bear jog. lie has the characteristic high and narrow head of the Hapsburgs, as well as the historical under-lip which the family got by alliance with the Jagellon race; but his features am f ar more re fi ned more intellectual th an th ose o f many a n d d ancestors ecid w e dhliyc which figure in the famo u s Vi enna gallery. Francis Joseph has the eyes of his shrewd and a ac is c o om of p h li e s rhedmother, and probably n o t a li ttle i n tellect. After the many photographs and pictures which I have seen of the Emperor, I was astonished to find him so old and ripe in look and bearing. THE RING OF SAXONY. A striking contrast to the tall Emperor, in hi s glittering field - ma r shal's uniform, was th e spare figure ro of the King of Saxony, dr esse d i n black fromhead to foot. King John lo o k s every inch the savant, able lawyer , and naturalist that h e i s; but the high forehead and expressive eye sp ea k of heardsomething higher than all thi s . F rom what I have of the ruler of Saxony I am inclined to place him in an elevated position among the German Sovereigns. THE FIRST MEETING OP THE CONGRESS. The Princes, on entering the Palace of the Diet, were received by the Emperor in person, who led them into the asembly room and to their seats at the table, the places marked by large escutcheons in gold. The table, covered by a gold embroidered green cloth, was oval, and around it the Princes eat in alphabetical order, after th e names of the i r countries, thellmperor p res idi ng at the top. At a side-table Herr v on Bi egeleben was seated. small Before each Prince lay a portfolio o f ti n t e d paper , embossed with the Imperi a l arms, and aside of it were gold pens and a porc e l a i n i n k stan d . At ten minutes after eleven the Emperor opened the pro ceedings in quite a parliamentary manner. Taking up a small bell at his side, he rang it twice, and then, bowing to the august assembly around, began voice :—" Illustrious broth ers in a andclear letlr cousins, sonorous vryd ear allies !" THE EXPEROR'S SPEECH. The delivery of the oration occupied more than half an hour, during which time the deepest silence reigned in the roam ---a silence so deep, indeed, as to become almost oppressive. Bewildered astonish ment that an Emperor, head of the House of Haps burg, could express himself in these terms, declaring his intention to make Germany "an undivided whole"—ein unzertrennliches Ganze—was visibly expressed in the countenance of a large number of Princes. For a few minutes after the delivery of the address undisturbed quiet continued to reign among the assembly, after which the King of Ba varia arose, thanking, in a few simple words, the Emperor for his gracious kindness in having under taken the initiative of "a movement so important as well as so urgent." The Grand Dukes of Baden and of Saxe-Weimar followed, expressing like gra tification ; but all the other Sovereigns kept silence. Then the Emperor broke up the assembly by re treating a step and bowing to his august brethren. Si brought ARMOilTH ou ßL s O h A or T e Eß t s h . e — y A ares soon a t theotheherri ngs are offices, where they are saltod and laid in heaps on the floors, s about two feet deep ; a ft e r they have continued in this situation about 50 hours, the salt is washed from them by carried fish putting them into baskets and plunging them in water; thence they arc carried to an adjoining apartment, where, after being pierced through the gills by small wooden spits, about four feet long, they are handed to the men in the upper part of the house, who place them at proper dis tances, beginning nearly as high as the top of the roof, and proceeding downwards, where they are cured or made red. The house being thus filled with herrings, many small wood fires are kindled underneath upon the floor, wi:ose number is in proportion to the size of the room, and the smoke which ascends from these fires dries or cures the herrings. After the fish have hung in this manner about seven days, the fires are extinguished, that the oil and fat may drip down. About two days after, the fires are rekindled, and after two more such drippings, the fires are kept continually burning until the herrings are perfectly cured ; but this requires a longer or shorter time, according as they are designed for foreign or home con sumption. After the herrings have hung a proper time, they are taken down (or struck), and packed away in bar rels, containing 800 or 1,000 each, and then shipped off for market. The ships receive the barrels on board in the har bour, and sail direct for the Mediterranean ports. This g s biihs , termiiWes i 2,\TQyealbcc,...o;lo a Trfa, STATUE OF MARSHAL SERURIER, The statue of Marshal Serurier, erected to his memory, and in honour of his services and exploits, at his native town of Laon, was inaugurated on Sunday in prese nce of M. Drouyn d e Lh uys, delegated by the Emperor, of Count Nieuwerkerke, Generals Wimpffen, Mongin, and Prin ce t eau, the authorities of the department, and a large concourse of persons. Serurier, born in 1742, was the oldest of the distinguished soldiers whom Napoleon I. raised to the dignity of Marshal of France. He entered the service in 1755, and at 17 years of age made his first campaign in Hanover. In the fol lowing year, at the battle of Warburg, his jaw was broken by a musket-ball. He saw active service in Portugal, and formed part of the expedition of 1769 to Corsica. His sole patrimony was his sword and his gentle birth, and he advanced but slowly under the Bourbons. In 1789 he was only a major. He did not emigrate, and in 1792 he was colonel in the army of the Var. As an officer of the old regime he was obnoxious to suspicion ; he was arrested, deprived of his rank, and then released, and he immediately enlisted as a private soldier in the regiment he had commanded. He was soon restored to his former grade, and he was so for tunate as to be the first to meet the enemy in the first campaign of the Alps. He triumphed, and was made General of Brigade. From that time up to 1797 his life was a busy one, and his ex ploits were many. He commanded at the siege of Mantua, where Geu. Warmer and his garri son surrendered. During the brilliant campaign in Italy his name was constantly cited with dis tinction up to the Treaty of Campo Formio, after which Bonaparte sent him to Paris with the flags conquered from the enemy. He was Governor of Venetia and of the principality of Lucca sue .;essively, commanded the left wing of the army when war again broke out, was cut off with only 2,500 men, and surrendered to Suwaroff in April, 1797. He was prisoner on parole in Paris when Bonaparte returned from Egypt, and was one of the Generals who actively assisted him in esta blishing the new order of things. lie was made Senator, Count, Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, and Marshal of France ; also Governor of the Invalides, in which capacity, when the Allies entered Paris in 1814, he ordered the captured flags which hung from the interior of the roof to be burnt. Louis XVIII ; "'ade h.i_T, peer of Franca ; in Decemlrr, 1615, he resigned his post at "the I. Y- 11 1i 1 es, and lived in retirement until hie death, Dec, 21, 1821, at the no °f 77. BOILER EXPLOSION. SOUTHAMPTON', Thursday Morning.—A serious boiler explosion occurred this morning at the steam sawmills of Messrs. Driver, in Three-field-lane, but fortunately unac companied by any personal injury. One or two men were on the premises preparing for the workmen, who com menced operations at 6 o'olock. From some as yet unknown cause the huge boiler exploded about half-past 5 with a report that was heard all over the town, blowing a large ex tent of sheds, engine house, &c., to pieces. The boiler itself was driven along some 30 feet, where it now lies in a heap of debris. The man in attendance was in the engine-house oiling some portion of the works, but miraculously escaped unharmed. The flue of the boiler is collapsed, and the thick plates of iron rent and folded up like so much paper. A high chimney shaft, not 20 feet from the spot, to which the boiler was forced, is untouched ; had it fallen, the pro• babilities are that the result wculd have been very lament able, as it nearly adjoins a closely populated neighbourhood. Happily, the damage caused by the accident, which is ex tensive, is a money one only. ELEGANT SLANG. " Elicit" is a pet word just now, especially in re ports of trials, says a Saturday Reviewer. Counsel "elicit" things from witnesses, and the judge some times "elicits" things from counsel. The word is unknown to Bailey, though he has "elicitation." Johnson writes it " elicite," and gives its meaning as, "to strike out ; to fetch out by labour or art." " Elicit" is with him an adjective, with the mean ing "brought into act." It would seem then that, if the word " elicit" is to be allowed at all, it should mean to draw forth anything with difficulty and by the employment of some skill. This may often be the case with the dealings of a barrister with a witness. Probably some one, after hearing a clever cross-examination, said, as a sort of metaphor, that the barrister had" elicited" the truth. But a word used in this way at once charms those who are on the look-out for new ways of saying old thinge. It soon gets to be used on all occasions, whether appropriate or not, and it gradually becomes a sort of formula. Thus " elicit" is fast losing its meaning of getting an answer with difficulty, and is beginning to mean simply to get an answer at all. When a judge " elicits" from counsel that such a day will be con venient for such a trial, we hardly suppose that there was any sort of cross-examination, any ingenious twisting on the part of the counsel met by any equally ingenious pressure on the part of the judge. Most likely the judge put a plain question and got a plain answer; but to "get" or even to "receive" an answer does not come up to the standard of the high polite style. We must have "elicit" to balance " transpire." That which " transpires" is commonly" elicited," and he who "elicits" makes something to " transpire." In this last—as now used —most foolish word,the original meaning is quitelost. No one would now talk of a tea-kettle " transpiring" its steam. Yet in Johnson we find " transpire" as a verb active, meaning "to emit in vapour." As for " endorse," Johnson and Bailey know it only in its commercial sense of writing on the back of a bill. Its absnrd metaphorical use, meaning simply to approve or agree with, is very new. About twenty years ago a Fellow of a College in Oxford told his brethren in the common-room what was then thought a very good story how an American clergyman differed from his Bishop on some theological points, and thus set forth his perplexity :—" I had a respect for his office, but I did not like to endorse all that he said." The story was heard amid loud laughter ;it was taken:as a sign of the innate commercial ten dencies of the 4merican mind ; among no other people, it was thought, would such a metaphor have been possible as that of " endorsing" a theological opinion. We doubt whether anybody would laugh at the story now. To " endorse" has changed, within twenty years, from an incidental metaphor into an established vulgarism. A Scientific Plea for Vivisection ! The most useful of all human actions are open to abuse, and we do not deny that vivisection has been abused; at the same time we ignore altogether the statement that in this country it is greatly abused. Discarding the butcheries of the farriers of Alfort—discarding these in the name of science, and protesting against them as warmly as any of our humane countrymen, we would guard the public ear nestly from believing the insinuated, if not the outspoken, falsehood, that in any English school, medical or veterinary, any such barbarities are ever dreamed of, much less perpe trated. An intimate acquaintance with the schools in this country enables us to speak positively on this point. We can state that in an experience of 15 years we have never seen a vivisection performed by a student, not fifty performed before a class of students, and not fifteen in which some method for producing anrothesia was not used. Moreover, in every experiment a professed teacher of physiological science was the experimentalist, and the experiment, when it was exhibited, was considered to be essential as demonstrating certain facts which no were theoretical or abstract teaching could make evident to the mind of the learner. Apart from the lecture-theatre, the practice of vivisection is very limited in this country. The men who resort to it are few; they are men of the highest integrity and humanity; they make no secret of their labours, and they undertake no experimental research without having in view some useful, and, in the end, bene ficent intention,—some object which, if achieved, shall render good service, not to man alone, but to the inferior animals themselves. If confirmation were required of the zeal, the earnestness, of these men, we have it in the fact that they do not hesitate to subject even themselves to risk, if the object to be attained is worthy of the danger. "When chloroform was under experiment, after a few poor rabbits had been put to sleep by it and had come again to life,"who, amongst the human race, first ventured on the same danger ? A sick man, waiting for an operation ? No I Dr. Simpson, the experimentalist, was the volunteer to taste the distilled liquid, and, in calm doubt as to the result, to let his eyes' windows fall, and to borrow the likeness of shrunk death. Following Dr. Simpson, the late Dr. Snow, in his search for another substance that should supplant chloroform,sub jected himself to at least 40 different gases and vapours ; and if we were inclined, we could illustrate the same facts over and over again from other physiologists ; but our purpose is answered in showing that the scholars of this country who perform experiments on animals are anxious for the good of their race, and that they cannot be men who would do either a wanton, a thoughtless, or a cruel deed. The attempts:at the present moment to bring to a final close experiments on living animals, and with gross inhu manity to hoot down and punish to the quick those earnest scholars who reluctantly resort to such inquiries, is the shallowest and most contemptible of pretences. It is desti tute alike of heart and of sense. So long as there are terrible maladies afflicting the human family which ordinary obser vation will not reach ; so long as there are profound secrets to be discovered, leading to a perfect understanding of the whole of the animal organisation, aye, and of life itself, we may rest assured that such a positive field of research as is opened by experiment, even at the sacrifice of animal life, will never be left uncultivated until the truth lights up the whole. When all is known, experiment will cease, and not till then. The extreme man of so-called humanity, may, by his jibes, his sneers, and his sharply cutting sophistries suppress the external manifestation of an experimental pur suit, but he will not save thereby a single animal a year. If he is serious he will take advice in time, and holding himself ready to expose any such evidences of experimental research as may be unmeaning and cruel, he will allow the truly philosophic inquirer to go on his way, feeling that he may ask nature any reasonable question, and publish the answer he has received without offence and without fear. — Social 'Science Review. HOPS.—The first bale of Bavarian hops arrived in our market to-day, and was sold by Messrs. R. and T. Collis to Mr. Robert Walker, hop merchant, of Stratford on-Avon; quality very choice. The price, as in the case of the first new English pockets, will of course form no guide to the ultimate run of prices. THE MURDER IN DERBYSHIRE.—A Manchester correspondent says that young Townley, wh o i s charged with assassinating Miss Goodwin, of Wigwell-hall, Derbyshire, is well known in that city. His father is a shipping, or commission agent, a man of culture, who stands high in all the relations of life, an accomplished musician, and was for may years connected with the Liverpool Gentle men's Glee Club as lion. secretary. His maternal grand father is an eminent cotton-spinner at Manchester—a spinner of cotton sewing-thread. It would give unneces sary pain to mention names, but this one will be familiar enough to most ladies whose workboxes contain a choice assortment of material for needlework. Whilst the young lady's paternal grandfather is a captain in the army, the young man's paternal grandfather was a post captain in the naval service, and was many years connected with the mail packet service between Liverpool and Dublin. Though no longer living, the name of Capt. Townley will no doubt he familiar to the memory of many persons who have been accustomed to cross the Irish Channel. Young Townley has been brought up in the mill of his maternal grand father as a cotton-spinner. Those acquainted with him say there was nothing impulsive o: passionate in his character, but, on the contrary, he was of rather a calm and g e ntl e bearing. He is well educated. He had been kindly a n d gently nurtured, and, with the other members of the family, had always been encouraged by the father to an inter change of confidence in all matters of difficulty or trouble. How it is that he has so strangely neglected such encou ragement in an affair so deeply affecting his welfare as that which has led to such scal results is a matter to be regretted rather than accounted for. There is no pretence for ex cusing his conduct on the ground of any previous tendency to insanity. There is no doubt that he was fondly attached to the young lady whose life he has so barbarously sacri ficed, and it is said that for a fortnight previously to their wink of sleep, ~atal mee ting he had scarcely enjoyed a though the cause of his resttmiltss Wag 7 .20 t m' known to his twally. t„ E HER MAJESTY. The Queen in Germany. COBURG, Aug. 28. The Queen and Royal family attended Divine service yesterday at the Kilenberg P a lace. Dr. Meier, the rev. general superintendent, preached the sermon. The whole of the guests of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, with the exception of the Queen and the younger members of the Royal family, dined with the duke and duchess yesterday at the Coburg Palace. The Duke of Saxe- Coburg arrived yesterday from Frankfort, for the purpose of welcoming his royal guests, and left again by the evening train; The Hereditary Grand Duke Joseph of Austria came with the duke on a visit to Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg. The Crown Prince of Prussia arrived at Coburg at noon yesterday. The Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Mar Lodge. From the time that it was known that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales were to honour Mar Lodge with a visit, the Earl and Countess of Fife have been untiring in their exertions to provide for their re ception. Braemar is, of course, merely a shooting lodge, but every endeavour has been made, in fitting up the suite of rooms appropriated to the prince and princess, to render them as simple and elegant as time and space will permit. On Thursday their royal highnesses will drive direct to Old Mar Lodge, which they will reach a few minutes after three, after which the games will immediately commence. The Earl of Fife is erecting a triumphal arch under which their royal highnesses will pass, immedi ately before arriving at the raised dais which is being constructed in front of the Old Lodge. Th. triumphal arch is to be covered with heather, the centre on one side to have the Prince of Wales' feathers, and on the other the crown, with the flags of England and Denmark on either side. The royal standard is to be hoisted from the top of Old Mar Lodge as soon as the carriage containing the royal visitors comes in sight. There will be a grand torchlight ball on Friday evening, which must be a novelty to their royal highnesses, the only one of the kind ever given in Scotland being one given by the earl and countess at Mar Lodge in 1851, on the occasion of the visit of the Queen and Prince Con sort. The following have received invitations to have the honour of meeting the prince and princess —the Duke and Duchess of Roxburg he, Mr. and Lady Susan Grant Suttie, Sir Thomas, Lady Louisa, and the Misses Moncrieffe, Lady Annaly, Hon. Miss White, and Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Charles 'White (Scots Fusilier Guards), Mr. and Mrs. Erskine Wemyss, the Earl of Brecknock, Viscount Powerscourt, Viscount Barrington, the Master of Lovat, Hon. Maurice and Lewis Wingfield, Lieu tenant-Colonel F. Fraser (Castle Fraser), Mr. W. Kennedy Erskine, Mr. Duff, of Fetteresso, M.P.; Mr. Charles Forbes, of Nowe ; and Mr. Charles Wood. There will also be a number of invitations to the luncheon on the 27th, and to the ball on the 28th,—Ban f fshire Journal. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland will entertain a succession of guests at Alnwick Castle during the ensuing month. The health of his grace has improved since his return to the north. The Duke of Atholl is, we are informed, in a very dangerous condition, and but faint hopes are held out that he can recover. Most of his intimate friends Lava visited him at Dunkeld, Perthshire. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough arrived in town yesterday from their seat in Lincolnshire. The Earl Beauchamp, according to recent ac counts, remains in an unsatisfactory condition. An eminent physician, who attended on his lordship from London, holds out expectations of a favourable turn. The noble earl had been in impaired health some time before he sought addi tional medical aid. The Marquis of Ormonde has arrived at Kil kenny Castle from London. His lordship's brother and family are staying at the Castle. 2t. marriage will shortly take place between the Earl of Wilton and Miss Elton Smith, only child and heiress of the late Major Elton Smith, Madras army The marriage of Lord Londesborough and LadY hdith Somerset, youngest daughter of the late Duke o f Beaufort, is appointed to take place on the 14th proximo• Lady Jane Knox and family have arrived at the Portland Hotel, Southsea. Major-General Bloomfield, Inspector-General of the Royal Artillery, returned to town last evening from a tour of inspection in Scotland and the northern district. Mr. G. F. WATTS has undertaken to paint a fresco on the north wall of one of the new south-courts at the South Kensington Museum, in the gallery whence We look down into the. space occupied by the Loan Collection• A CRICKET MATCH OF OLD BOYS.—A few days since a match was played at Aylesford between 11 inhabitants under 60 and 11 over that age. The latter, among whom were one octogenarian and six who had seen more than 70 years, obtained 41 and 22—total 63; while their more juvenile opponents gained 30 and 44—total 74. The match created a good deal of interest and amusement. COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA.—There are at present two distinct telegraph lines being laid down to the extreme south-western coast of Ireland—one to Crookhaven by Mr. .Reuter, and the other to Cape Clear by the Magnetio Company. As this part of Ireland is the nearest to America, intelligence from the other side of the Atlantic will be received in Europe earlier than would other wise have been the case. Both lines are completed to within eight miles of Skibbereen. MAKING A PRODIGY.—Herz, a prince in his art, came out in the musical world at a very early age. He has related through what a series of exercises, or rather of torments, he passed, in order to acquire the hot-house talent of which his father was so proud. When he was only three years and a half old, Henri Herz's father (who had settled in his plans that his child should be a pro digy) got made for him a little piano of the height of a chair, and with a compass of about four octaves. Henri sat himself upon a stool: his father did the same; and the two amused themselves several hours daily, trying which should move his fingers the quickest over the narrow keys of the toy instrument. As the child grew bigger, they gave him a larger piano, always in proportion to his stature. At six years he was promoted to the honour of playing on a piano of natural dimensions, and his father made him a present of a pair of boots with yellow UV* " You see," he said, " I consider you henceforward as a 'man, and treat you as such. Endeavour to deserve my kindness. as you can," At eight years old Henry Herz'ha !slug him her gave a by purc by wearing out your boots as little and your piano as muc h him a new proof of his consideration, silver watch, which was hung 11P ove r the instrum en t. to the boy, who was condemne d, besides the studies of the from eight the en- The object of the watch was to ind icate the hours of labour day to practice exercises and st ales from ev ing until eleven, At eleve n a marservant entered, with a singular apparatus inven ted by Herzs father. It cons i s ted of a pulley fastened to the ceiling, through w hi c h pu ll e y To each end of the sti c k were f as t e ned ran a long rope, one end of which was ti e d t o a stick a b o ut The little prodi gy passed the medium an d th e a nnular fingers of both his hand s th roug h th e rings, through couplet h w a o l f b a i bits r o r d f i n l g o s n s t . rgi • .12 at the end s o f which dangle d a and the servan t set t he apparatus in motion by making the p t H ile erz p , u s li e e n y i i . or, Tnissurmedociethoof train ing, in,according pendent action of thos e re b e ll ious members, the seco nd an d third fingers. Wh en t h e silver watch marked miduight' roe run to oumgh. that is, after an hour of these strange gymnastics, the labours of the day concluded, and everybody went to bed. Half dead with exhaustion, the poor child fell asleep a1n20 14 before he could get into bed. But at six in the morning? his father, who slept in the adjoining chamber, knocked a t the wall, shouting, " Come, Henri ; it is six o'clock, my h° s ",'' Quick, to th e p i ano I" The wretc h e d l a d h a d to get up , stumbling with sleepiness, dipped his face in cold water, t° awaken himself completely, and then returned to row h l9 galley--that is, to resume his piano practice. If Henr i Hetz could support this existence, and if his musical edu cation were advanced by it, it was only because he was g ifted with unusual physical and moral strength. Any other child would have died under the task, or become an idi' t * —All the Year Round. A BLACK LITIGANT.—The natives often figur e in court as criminals or defendants, but our Guicheti Bay correspondent records the first instance we remember of an aboriginal South Australian becoming plaintiff' in a civil suit. It seems that one cf these poor fellows had been employed by a European, who neglected to pay him for hi° work. The dingy labourer, instead of venting his indigna tion in vain complaints, or appealing to the pity of Ilia debtor, went straight to the local court and took out a sum mons, upon which the civilised being, feeling that the sA vLi gl a ~ had unquestionably the right end of the stick, thought 1" best to settle the matter by paying the money into court'—' ,50tar: 41,fs:rrafqn paper, tor: inc: Sot Yoi wic on and Grc of pan to E tele 67f, in t no ( ket, per Con 16 do., sian Con beer vaili Sou cash has two imp Huc Fini Ban] 3 per 3,pez New New 5 pe: Ellin Di Indil Di Ban: Cow I adil Excl Di Di Aasi Bra Di Buer Di Itali, Mex. Di ti oc , New Di Pert Di Port tlaus Sari Spas D l'ur Ven Belg Aiut( Fret Itali C o , as 124 of a; rabl