The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times says that Mr. Disraeli's speech on Wednesday night at the Mansion House was another illustration of that passion for strong and vivid, not to say crude, colour ing, which is one of the few constant characteristics of his nature. Mr. Disraeli painted the world before the Mansion House audience in reds and yellows and blues. The sky was cloudless. The future is golden with promise. The past is almost without a spot to sully its perfection. Such drawbacks as may be discoverable in the retrospect are due entirely to the fact that the Conservative Administration have not been allowed to have entirely their own way. It was natural that Mr. Disraeli should allude with satisfaction to foreign affairs, but that he should find in Ireland a subject of the " utmost congratulation" astonishes the Times. - - The Herald states that considering how largely the majority in the House of Lords against the Suspen sory Bill was reinforced by the Liberal party, it becomes rather a serious matter when every in divdual peer who ventures to declare before the world that he dissents from the new policy of the Opposition is to be subjected to the pelting of Mr. Gladstone's mud larks. On Monday it was the Duke of Portland who was singled out for abuse. On Wednesday it was the turn of the Marquis of Bute, the crime of each being his hateful and unnatural antipathy to Mr. Gladstone's policy. It is really melancholy to find the most earnest of the literary exponents of the new Liberal creed supplying day after day fresh illustrations of its narrowness and its bigotry. It is a despotism, a mean, cowardly, grinding tyranny, which they seek to erect in the place of those well understood principles and those honourable understand ings which once served to give unity and consen taneousness to the great Liberal party. It might have been thought that as a mere matter of prudence silence would have been the wiser policy, but the mot d'ordre appears to have gone forth that the dirty linen of the Liberal party is to be washed in public, and in deference thereto, we presume, certain of its newspaper organs hold themselves in readiness to load with obloquy every indi vidual member who shall dare to assert his own judgment, or to hint a doubt as to the infallibility of Mr. Gladstone. Alluding to the vituperation of the peers by the Liberal press, and the threats dealt out, the Herald says that the peers will not be deterred from exercising their legitimate influence by the threat that they may be hastening the discussion of the question, "how far the laws which favour the accumulation of vast pro perties in a few hands are compatible with the free and honest working of the representative system." No questions of this sort were raised while the Duke of Port land and the Marquis of Bute took a right view of the political situation, and exercised their influence in favour of the Liberal party ; and, as our contemporaries know perfectly well, such magnates of the Whig party as the Dukes of Somerset, Devonshire, and Sutherland, and Lords Zetland, Aveland, Fitzwilliam, Carlisle, De Grey, Lansdowne, and others, could give very excellent reasons why Mr. Gladstone should be very slow to raise a finger to cripple the legitimate influence of themselves and their brother peers. The Star remarks that the representatives of the people have loyally and assiduously perfected a bill for the repres sion of bribery, but an evil greater than bribery has been allowed to pass unchecked. The representation is to be made independent of plutocrats, but it is still to be depen dent on aristocrats. Railway and sugar and cotton magnates may not buy boroughs ; but dukes, marquises, and earls are froe to dispose of them as they list. Alluding to the case of Cardiff, our contemporary con siders that there is a circumstance, indeed in the case which renders the candidature of Mr. Giffard, which ,Lord Bute favours substantially, as official a candidature as ever scandalised a French constituency. The minor marquis has a guardian, and that guardian, Sir James Fergusson, is a junior but ambitious member of the present Government. And it is Sir James Fergusson who has settled this question about the borough. Ile is openly described by Mr. Boyle, a trustee of the marquis, as practically the holder of the marquis's conscience. So that we come at this state of things : If the people of Cardiff think the right to return a member is theirs they are very much mistaken, for Lord Bute has a prior claim ; and if Lord Bute thinks he has the right of returning the member he too is mistaken, for Sir James Fergussun holds his lord ship's conscience—sacred charge !—and Mr. Disraeli holds Sir James Fergusson's conscience, as was evident when he turned right round and voted for Reform, of which he had been a most hot-headed antagonist. The Standard says that as the Times has been the most unswerving advocate of the disestablishment and disen- t dowment of the Irish Church, a peculiar value, derived ,1 from its obvious sincerity, attaches to its estimate of the motives of Mr. Gladstone in adopting that line of policy. Speaking of the rivalry between the right hon. gentleman and the Premier, our contemporary says in its lea.ling columns of Wednesday that Mr. Gladstone " immolates a Church Establishment because in no other way can he get the wind of his daring and unscrupulous antagonist." So I frank an avowal might have been uncommonly damaging to Mr. Gladstone at an earlier period of the session ; but as we have always held a similar belief as to Mr. Glad stone's object in pressing forward his " convictions of a life" at this particular period, we have much pleasure in placing on record this tardy acknowledgment of the fair. ness and accuracy of our judgment. In commenting upon the approaching close of the session of 1868, the Telegraph sums up the departmental merits of the present Government, and on this score returns a verdict in their favour. Meanwhile, the " British Constitution " which nobody can deny, because nobody has ever read it— has of late been understood to exact that the Ministry of the day must not only manage our State affairs, but must successfully lead Parliament, especially in directing any new legislation that may be under taken. In that branch of Ministerial work Mr. Disraeli has broken down ; he has left undone one half of the usual work of the Prime Minister of the time. He is now in the attitude of a man employed to be " conductor and composer " in an opera-house, who continues to conduct the band, but is obliged to confess himself unable to compose. The Telegraph condemns the conduct of the Opposition in the matter of the Anti-Bribery Bill and the Electric Telegraphs Bill, while on the Foreign Cattle Market Bill the question in dispute was complicated, and the blame of the failure must be divided between the Ministry and the Opposition—with this difference, that the Liberals made the best of a bad cause, and the Tories the very worst of a good one. Mr. Ayrton exhibited audacity, tact, resolution, cunning in opposing a measure, good, at all events, in the object which it sought to attain ; and the Ministry blundered and broke down, with the very best intentions. A minor crime—if minor it is—was the disgraceful opposition of the Irish Liberals to Lord Mayo's proposal to increase polling-places in Ireland ; an opposition that had not the courage to avow the real motive—a desire to continue the use of violence in deterring landlord-driven tenants from reaching the poll. Against these mere acts of antagonism we are happy to record three notable acts of real progress achieved by the Opposition : compulsory church rates, with all the local discord they so often roused, are gone for ever ; public hanging is abolished ; and flogging in the army, which had found so vigorous an oppo nent in Mr. Arthur Otway, is a brutality- of the past. The Telegraph prophesies a large majority for Mr. Gladstone in the Parliament of 1869, and says that no Minister since Peel, in 1841, will have had anything like his House of Commons power. But Peel was then avowedly the leader of a well-organised faction : Mr. Gladstone will be the choice of the people at large. Peel was made Minister to keep bread dear, and to represent Protestant ascendancy : Mr. Gladstone is made Prime Minister that our union with Ireland may be not a treaty on parchment, but a bond uniting hearts, and that reli gious discord may at length be driven out of that fair sister island where it has so long maintained demoniac posses sion. No session is fruitless that gives us the pledge and Promise of so great a work. The Herald does not think it surprising that a Minister should shrink from dealing in sculpture. Still, ought such a life as Lord Brougham's be closed with a tale of national neglect? True, as the Greek orator exclaimed, " the whole earth is the monument of illustrious men." Yet we ought to cherish their likenesses, to place their counterfeits among those of others whom we have hononred, and to render our gallery of glory complete. Think ft 3 we may of Lord Brougham, of his partisanship, of his advocacy, of his earlier or his later years, still he was a countryman of whom we should all be proud ; and, although we may not wish to disturb his ashes where they lie, near his chosen home at Cannes, we may, nevertheless, regret to miss, from among the effigies of the men who were acclaimed as illustrious while they lived, that of the men who filled so large a space in his time, and was in turns feared, hated, and venerated by his contemporaries—Henry Lord Brougham. How TO UTILISE LEECHES. -- The German (lectors have lately been playing their leeches a droll trick, making one worm do the work of many. When the little blood-sucker has taken his fill and is about to release his bite, he is tapped ; a small incision is made in his side that serves as an outlet for the blood, and he goes on wicking, in happy ignorance of the cause of his abnormal appetite, as long as the doctor pleases. Bdellatomy is the name given to the practice, and it is urged that it is not cruel, but contrariwise ; since it does the leech a good turn by enabling him to enjoy his rich feast indefinitely. He does not die under the operation, but with proper treat. m.3 - at is soon hcaleJ, and ma,y b 9 0ci,5944 OW *4 9TCX PgefiN&itSf infoki THE CASE OF JOHN FREELING WILKINSON The Master of the Rolls had before him on Wednesday the rse of the Joint Stock Discount Company, in which an pplication was made on behalf of the official liquidator f that company for leave to continue the action brought gainst Messrs. Capper, Escombe, and Lawson for the re ovary of money advanced to them by Mr. James Freeling Vilkinson, late manager of the company. The action was rought by Mr. Wilkinson's solicitor in the name of the official quidator to recover nearly £4,000 on the strength of Sr. Wilkinson's affidavit that he banded the money. to hem, not on his own account—the charge which formed he basis of his conviction for embezzlement—but as a loan rom the Joint Stock Discount Company. A compromise was iitered into by which Capper and Co. agreed to pay to the Point Stock Discount Company about £l,OOO. The compro mise being shown to the Home Secretary as a proof that Mr. iVilkinson had not affected to lend the money in hisown name tir. Wilkinson was released from prison. Thelegal advisers of he official liquidator, however, were taken by surprise by the tompromise which they said the solicitor of Mr. Wilkinson n his anxiety to procure tke release of Sir. Wilkinson entered nto, for they insisted that in such a case under the Companies Oct, no compromise could be entered into without the leave if the Court of Chancery. Mr. Jessel, Mr. Roxburghe, Mr. aawkios, Mr. Locock Webb, Mr. Bristowe, Mr. Clarke, Mr. lomersham Cox, and Mr. Blaine were counsel in the case. Lord Romilly decided that the action against Capper and 30. must go on, the compromise being of no effect. LAW AND POLICE. THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY MUSIC HALLS.—In Vice-Chancellor Giffard's Chambers an application was nade for leave to sanction certain payments in connection with the abovenamed comr.ny. The payments were Mowed, and the chief clerk asked what was going to be lone with the property. The liquidator replied that it was intended to sell the property. The new Oxford Hall lad been rebuilt since the fire, and it would be better to .ell it by tender than auction. In a short time a call will be made on the shareholders. HEAVY COMPENSATION CASE.—A case which is likely -- _ :0 last over two or three days is being heard at the West ninster Compensation Court. The Metropolitan District Railway ask for land for the purpose of making the ' inner circle," and the Corporation of London claim as :ompensation £24,000. The charity was founded by Lady Ducie in the rein of Queen Elizabeth, and one of the features was the education of children. IMPORTANT DECISION. — In the Lord Chancellor's Court ;he case of Wyatt v. Cook has been heard. The plaintiff, ;wo months after he attained his majority, applied to the lefendant Cook for a loan. The defendant advanced £50., taking by way of security a charge on some leaseholds to vhich the plaintiff was entitled on the death of his father, `or £lOO, with interest thereon at 5 per cent. per month. Vice• Chancellor Stuart having made a decree setting 'side the transaction, the defendant Cook appealed. rhe Lord Chancellor held that the decision of the court selow was right. ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST A NEWSPAPER.—At the Shropshire Assizes, before Baron Pigott, an action was )rought by Mr. C. H. Corbett, manager of the Shrews )ury branch of the Midland Banking Company, against the ?roprietors of the Liverpool Mercury, for libel. It seemed :hat the plaintiff, prior to accepting his present situation, held a similar position in the Leeds Bank, at which place le resided on the premises. For his protection Mr. 7orbett always kept a loaded pistol by his bedside, and on he 3rd of March last, when he arose in the morning, the pistol went off accidentally, and some of the shot entered ais leg. The next day there appeared in the Liverpool itercury the following paragraph :—" Attempted Suicide sf a Banker's Clerk.—A clerk in the Midland Banking company's establishment at Leeds shot himself with s pistol yesterday afternoon. His injuries are serious. The muse of the act is not known." The paragraph appeared ender a heading printed in sensational large type, and )ccupied a position just over a paragraph with another arge heading, " The Arrest of Mr. G. F. Train ;" whilst n the next column, and close to it, was a very large heading .ndeed, about " The Awful Murder at Todmorden Par sonage." The paragraph was copied in several London slid provincial papers, and there were numerous inquiries c)r the plaintiff, so that it was evident the report attracted attention. For the defence it was urged that the plaintiff's ::haracter had sustained no injury as he had lately been promoted. The jury thought otherwise, and awardedt £l5O damages. SHOOTING AT AND WOUNDING THREE PERSONS.—At the Liverpool Police-court, John Cloclier, a bookseller, living in Barnes-court, was charged with unlawfully wounding Daniel Forbes and his wife and an old woman named Cavanagh. About ten o'clock on Tuesday night the prisoner and his neighbours quarrelled, and he delibe rately loaded a gun with shot and fired at Cavanagh. He charged the gun again, and fired at Forbes and his wife. lie was taken into custody immediately afterwards, and it was then found that he had loaded the gun a third time. He was remanded, the magistrate expressing his intention of committing him for trial at the assizes. IMPORTANT CONVICTION UNDER THE BRITISH MUSEUM AcT.—At Guildhall, Mr. Elliott Stock, publisher, of 62, Paternoster-row, was summoned before Alderman Finnis, by Thomas Watts, Esq., the keeper of the printed books In the library of the British Museum, for not delivering a printed copy of a work called " Conder's Words of Wisdom for the Sons of Toil," within one month after the publica tion, at the British Museum, according to the sth and 6th of Vict. The provisions of the Act, from the explanation given by the complainant, seem to be that every publisher 'a bound to deliver to the British Museum a copy of every edition of every boot within one month of its publication. The defendant admitted this to he the case, but the book in question was published three years ago, and he had only reissued the same with a zew title-page, hearing his own name as publisher. It was pointed out that a case had been decided in which a person was fined for not delivering a map when the only additional words to the second issue were " new edition." The magistrate decided that Mr. Stock had infringed the Act, and ordered him to pay ls. 6d., the value of the book, 10s. fine, and 20s. costs. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.— At the Thames Police-court, Millicent Walls, a woman about 33 years of age, who was in a very bad state of health, was charged with killing Richard Blakie, a lighterman. It seemed from a statement made by the accused that the deceased was sitting by the bedside calling her foul names, when she told him to desist, and on his neglecting to comply with her request, she jumped out of bed and kicked him in the abdomen. The surgeon said : " The cause of death was peritonitis, the result of violence. I did not at the time think it probable that such injury could be produced by a forward kick by a woman's naked foot. It might have been produced by a plunging kick with the fiat of the heel. The deceased appeared to be a strong.bealthy man." The accused was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The title by which the present Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is to be raised to the highest rank of the peerage is now finally determined. He is to be " Duke of Aber corn." CHAMELEONS.—A pair of chameleons, in the pos session of the Hon. Lady Cust, of 14easowe Castle, Cheshire, have produced nine active young ones, like little alligators, less than an inch long. Such a birth has been, it is believed, very rare in this country. THE HARVEST.—The weather was somewhat cooler on Wednesday in the eastern district, a few showers having fallen here and there. A Newmarket letter says : " Up to the present no check to the progress of the harvest has been experienced. Wheat cutting may now be said to be finished, and a considerable portion of the crop has been gathered in. Where threshing has been done the return is certainly beyond an ordinary average, and the quality is unusually fine and heavy." MORE CASES OF SUNSTROKE.—It appears that several serious cases of sunstroke, arising from the uncom mon heat of the weather, have occurred at Sudbury. One has terminated fatally, that of a commercial traveller, who was taken ill at the Four Swans Hotel about a week since, and, notwithstanding constant medical attention and the most careful nursing, he died there last Saturday. There have also been several other cases, including that of a car man, who was prostrated by the unusual heat.—Bury and .Norwich Post. BUST OF PRINCE ALFRED.—Accorcling to the Sydney tliorniny Herald, Mr. B. Braie, a sculptor residing in Sydney—obviously possessed of a great natural talent which deserves to be appreciated and patronised—has modelled a bust of " Our Sailor Prince," the Duke of Edin burgh, which is not only a faithful likeness, but valuable as a work of art. The bust is what is called three-quarter face, and cabiLet size, and the expression of the features extremely plea.,ing. His Royal Hie:linen% fondness for flowers is recalled to the memory of the spectator by the well-known rose in the button-hole of the surtout. THE FORTHCO3IING ROY AL VISIT TO MIDDLES BOR)UGH.—The authorities of the iron metropolis of the north are all activity in anticipation of the visit, on the 10th August, of Prince Arthur. Attempts had been made to get her Majesty to pay a visit to the borough, which, Inwever, failed. His Royal Highness will open a new public park. His Royal Highness will proceed to Scot land for the grouse shooting on the 12th. The large ball in the Exchange, which is a magnificent room, is said to le tLe third largest in the kingdom, and 11cr9 rrirce Arthur Will ntqt44cd At A kA.M,110,1 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1868. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOS MEETING. WEDNESDAY. However welcome the change in the weather may have been to all classes in the community, there can be no ques tion but that the rain detracted from the eclat of the Good wood Stakes Day. The company was more numerous than that of yester iay, and the rain having laid the dust and cooled the atmosphere, rendered the journey from Drayton and Chichester more enjoyable, but the fleeting showers made sad havoc with the ladies' toilettes on the lawn, the stately trees affording but slight shelter, and pic-nic parties were suspended for the day. The Prince of Wales was again present, and the company was if anything more aristocratic than that of the opening day. Rain fell at intervals during the afternoon, and imparted a freshness to the course and surrounding country. Fortunately for sight-seers the weather cleared up just before the decision of the Stakes, leaving the air pure, but Lad the race been run an hour earlier it would have been almost an impossibility to have distingtlished the colours. Excepting the race for the Stakes the day's card did not contain any very interesting feature. St. Renate made short work of Herald, Banditto, and Harvester for the Sweepstakes for Colts, and Tenedos had no difficulty in placing the Findon Stakes to the credit of the Duke of Newcastle, the Lady Melbourne filly, to whom Tenedos was conceding 51b, running him closest. Mr. Padwick brought Border Knight out for this race, but, like his stable companion Standard Bearer, who made his debut the previous day, be succumbed to the public performers. The Tupgill stable won the Handicap Plate with Courtier, but it was only the initiatory one of the successes with Tabouret and Mandrake. Seventeen runners were telegraphed for the Stakes—a fair average field - the absentees including none who had been recently backed. Mr. Lincoln started both Kidderminster and Ilium, Kenyon carrying the proper colours on the former, with whom Mr. Lincoln declared to win, Hammond being distinguishable on Ilium with a coloured cap. Mr. John stone made no declaration with his pair, of whom Tabouret was ridden in Mr. Mackenzie's colours to distinguish him from Tynedale. Tabouret, as the time approached for the decision of the race, became a greater favourite, and started at 6to 4. Cannon Ball was not in such demand this morn ing, and it being reported that Gomera had " a leg" she receded to 100 to 6, leaving off an equal favourite with Stradbroke; and being very fractious on the course, and running in bandages, caused her to be in less demand than Ecarte, whom almost every one characterised as a mean, narrow-looking horse. The Middleham people were very sanguine and nothing loth to take the short price about Tabouret. The race will be found described below in all its varying details, and it is sufficient here to state that a quarter of a mile from home at least half a dozen looked in it, and until reaching the distance nothing seemed more formidable than Glongarnock, but ho died away at the point indicated, leaving Tabouret and the outsider of the Ilednesford stable, Ilium, to fight out a most determined struggle. The jockeys of both rode with an amount of patience wonderful for light weights, and had Hudson not waited as well as his horse stayed the outsider would have won. A better display of horsemanship was-impos sible, and Tabouret won through staying the longest. Butler ran The Spy into the third place, Glengarnock finishing fourth, and Choral fifth. Bad as Ecarte looked he managed to defeat a lot of the favourites, Kiddermins ter passing the post ninth, and Fidelia tenth. Our Mary Ann made the running for a long way, but was dead settled within the straight. Gomera broke down very badly, and Daley having dismounted some distance from home walked in at the head of the whilom favourite. Venom, when going remarkably well, fell on her side, and both Cannon Ball and Stradbroke were compelled to jump over her, and had the others who were lying in their track not been diverged, the consequences might have been seri ous, but as it was both filly and jockey escaped unhurt. Of course the bookmakers lose by Tabouret's success, but had either Ilium, The Spy, Glengarnock, or Choral, who finished in order next to the favourite, been successful, they would have won largely, and at the distance Glen garnock looked so dangerous that many in the ring antici pated with cheering the success of the outsider. After the race 4 to 1 with a start was taken about Tabouret for the Cup, and 9 to 2 without the proviso. Particulars of the day's sport are appended : Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, h ft, for three year old colts; Bst 101 b each ; the winner of the Derby 101 b, of the Two Thousand Guineas 51b extra. Craven Course. Each subscriber to name two colts, one to the post. 10 subscribers. Mr Chaplin's St. Ronan, by St. Albans —Elspeth, Bst 101 b (Custance) 1 Sir F. Johnstone's Banditto, Bst 101 b (Cannon) 2 Mr C. V. Turner's Herald, Bst 101 b (Forthaen) 3 Duke of Newcastle's Harvester, Bst 101 b (Daley) 4 Betting—Even on St. Ronan, 2 to 1 agst Herald, 4 to 1 each agst Banditto and Harvester. Herald made the running, attended by Banditto next the rails, the favourite lying in their immediate wake, Harvester bringing up the rear, till a quarter of a mile from home, when Herald dropped away, and Banditto came on with a slight lead to the distance. Here St. Ronan challenged resolutely, and getting in front at the commencement of the stand enclosure, won cleverly by a length, which distance separated the second and third. Harvester was last. The Findon Stakes of 10 sous each, for two year olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b, winners of 100 sovs previous to starting 31b, of 500 Sib extra. T.Y.C. 50 subs. Duke of Newcastle's Tenedos, by Knight of St. Patrick —Besika, Bst 121 b (inc. 51b extra) (J. Daley) 1 Mr. Johnstone's Lady Melbourne f, Bst 71b (in. 31b ex.) (J. Osborne) 2 Mr Merry's Crocus, Bst 91b (inc. 51b extra) (Morris) 3 Mr Padwick's Border Knight, Bst 71b (Fordham) 4 Mr Ruff's Walmer, Bst 71b (J. Goater) 5 Lord Howth's Indigestion's dam f, Bst 71b (inc. 31h ex.) (Kenyon) 0 Betting-6 to 4on Tenedos, 7to 2 agst the Lady Mel bourne f, and 6 to 1 bar two. Border Knight and Crocus on the left hold a slight lead of Tenedos and Walmer on the right, tho Lady Mel bourne f in the centre of the course for half the distance, when Tenedos and the Lady Melbourne f drew away, Tenedos, who had always an advantage over Mr. John stone's f, drawing away at the distance and winning easily by three quarters of a length ; a length divided second and third ; Border Knight was fourth and Weimer last. The Lady Melbourne f was rather fractious at th est, and in one of her vagaries kicked the Indigestion's dam f on the shoulder, and she was unable to start. A Plate of 50 soya (Handicap), for two year olds and up wards. T.Y.C. Mr Mackenzie's Courtier, by King of Trumps—Last Love, 3 yrs, Est 91b (Hudson) 1 Mr Angell 's Pearlfather, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Parry) 2 Lord Westmorland's Ulphus, 5 yrs, 7st 71b ...(Kenyon) 3 Mr J. Wood's Ettrick, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Huxtable) 4 Sir J. Hawley's Adosinda, 3 yrs, Est (Armstrong) 5 Betting-6 to 4on Ulphus, sto 1 each agst Ettrick and Adosinda, 6 to 1 agst Courtier, and 20 to 1 agst Pearl feather. Courtier led all the way, and won cleverly by a head from Pearlfeather, who took second place at the distance on the retirement of Adosinda and Ettrick. The favourite was a bad third, and Adosinda last. Tho Goodwood stakes (handicap) of 25 sovs each sub scription, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared to Messrs. Weatherby, at their office in London, on or before the second Tuesday after Ascot, 1868 (Juno 23), with 100 sovs added. Two miles and a half. Mr Johnson's Tabouret, by Rataplan—Mulligrubs, 3 yrs, sst 10. b (inc. 31b ex.) (car. Get) (Hudson) 1 Mr Lincoln's Ilium, 3 yrs, sst 131 b (car. Est 11b) (Hammond) 2 Mr Bowes's The Spy, 3 yrs, Est 21b (car Est 31b) (Butler) 8 Mr Johnstone's Tynedale, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (J. Osborne) 0 Duke of Newcastle's Gomera, 6 yrs, Bst 61b ...(J. Daley) 0 Mr J. B. Day's Salpinctes, 6 yrs, 7 st 7 1b (T. Sadler) 0 Lord St. Vincent's Cannon Ball, 4 yrs, 7st 71h (Maidment) 0 Mr Lincoln's Kidderminster, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (car. 31h ex.) (Kenyon) 0 Mr Temple's Fitzivan, 4 yrs , ist 2 lb (II Covey) 0 Mr Stephensun's Stradbroke, 4 yrs, 6st 61b (car. Est 81b) (Mordau) 0 Mr Don's Glengarnock, 4 yrs, Est (car. Est llb (Killick) 0 Mr E. Green's Venom , 4 yrs, Est (car. Est 21b) (Wyatt) 0 Mr T. Parr's Ecarte, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (Vinell) 0 Capt. Barron's Fidelia, 3 yrs, Est (inc. 71b ex.) (car. Est 21b) Mr H. Smile's Wellow, 3 yrs, sst 7lb (Wilson) 0 Mr Drewitt's Choral, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Barnard) 0 Mr W. Day's Our Mary Ann, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Deakin) 0 Betting-6 to 4 agst Tabouret, sto 1 agst Kidderminster, 9 to 1 agst Fidelia, 10 to 1 agst Cannon Ball, 1,000 to 70 agst Ecarte, 100 to 6 each agst Stradbroke and Gomera, 1,000 to 40 agst Ilium, 30 to 1 each agst Tynedale and The Spy, 1,000 to 30 each agst Welling and Our Mary Ann, 50 to 1 each agst Fitz Ivan, Venom, and Choral. With as little delay as possible the seventeen competi tors were weighed out, and the numbers were telegraphed a few minutes before the appointed time (three o'clock.) Gomera wee the first to appear on the coutse, and her fractiousness gave Daley some trouble, the Duke of NE w castle's mare rearing up several times before she could bo induced to canter down. Fidelia, Cannon Ball, Wellow, The Spy, and the others followed in rapid succession, and having reached the distance, the preliminary canter was taken, Kidderminster showing the way for Stradbroke, Ecarte, and Wellow, Mr. Joh nstone's p air, with Ilium and Fidelie, bringing up the rear. After cantering up the hill a short distance the lot were taken in charge by Mr. M'George, Gomera leading them in parade till nearing the winning post, when she became restive, andCustance, who happened to be on the course, had to go to her head to pacify her. Kidderminster then became the marshal, and after walking past the Stand they were conducted to the post, from which they were despatched at the first attempt. The Spy iu the centre of the course was the first away, Cannon Ball and Venom on either side jumping off almost simultaneously, but ,before reaching the Stand, indeed, when they had fairly settled down to their work, the com mand was assumed by Venom, The Spy, Cannon Ball, Tabouret, Choral, Our Mary Ann, and Fidelia in a cluster, attending upon Mr Green's filly, Kidderminster and Strad broke, who held positions ou the inside, heading the others, at the tail of affairs, as they streamed past the enclosure, being Glengarnock, Ecarte, and Gomera. Before a quar ter of a mile had been covered Our Mary Ann parted com pany with Choral and Fidelia, and took her place at the quarters of Venom, whom she headed going out of the straight, at the came time haapreTin the pace. The Spy, Cannon Ball, Wellow, Venom, Fidelia, and Tab= ret, wht were in close company, now forming the leading crivisioslie the remainder being beaded by Kidderminster, Moral, Glengarnock, and Ilium, the colours of Stradbroke 1, Sal pinctes, Goulette, Fitz Ivan, and Tynedale being disco ramble in the rear. Approaching "the clump" Our Mary At 50 in creased her advantage, drawing at least three lengths :clear of the horses as they rounded the loop, where Venom, who had been attending on Tho Spy and lying just in frc ,nt of Cannon Ball, fell ou her side, Lord St. Vincent's ge Wing and Stradbroke jumping over t h e p rostrate fill y , tuna t ely a repetition of the accident which occurred -in 1866 (Pretty Boy's year) was prevented by the other con 1- petitors taking a wide berth. Cannon Ball was imm 3- diately afterwards in difficulties, and his retirement w' as taken advantage of by Glengarnock, who emerged fa am the ruck and drew up alongside The Spy and Wello w. Before reaching the mile post Salpinctes dropped into • the rear, and on passing the post was hopelessly beaten. .off. The field at this point presented a scattered appearance, and Butler indulging The Spy with a "feeler " he, ale creased Our Mary Ann's lead considerably, Kiddermi aster at the same moment taking fourth place, just in re ar of Glengarnock, Ilium a few strides further on joining, his stable companion. Fidelia, Tabouret, Wellow, and Ecarte lay close together in the wake of the Hedne )ford pair. Approaching the top turn Glengarnock raced past The Spy and joined Our Mary Ann, the pair entering:: the line for hems head and head, with 'rho Spy at their t meets; Stradbroke, Ilium, Kidderminster, and Tabouret coming next, and to these the issue was confined, the others: being tailed off. Stradbroke was in difficulties when fairly in the straight, and Mr. Lincoln's pair parted company, Kid derminster joining Tabouret on the lower ground„ choosing a line for himself on the Stand side. Our Mary Ann beat a retreat as they descended the hill, and Glen garnock was left with a lead of Tha Spy, whom Butler was compelled to call upon two distances from home. At the distance Kidderminster compounded, a loud shout from the stand proclaiming his defeat. Glengarnock had enough of it soon after passing the distance, and the struggle was left to Tabouret and Ilium, who closed with each other at the commencement of the Stand enclosure. Both Hudson and Hammond rode with with wonderful patience, and half up the enclosure, so well were both horses going, that it was impossible to say which would win, but about 50 yards from the chair Tabouret drew slightly ahead, and won, after a fine race, by three quar ters of a length. The Spy, who passed Glengarnock within the distance, was a bad third, Glengarnock fourth, Choral fifth, Ecarte sixth, Stradbroke seventh, Our Mary Ann eighth, Kidderminster ninth, Fidelia tenth, and Tynedalo eleventh. Then at wide intervals came Fitz Ivan, Wellow, Cannon Ball, and Salpinctes. Gomera, who never at any moment of the race ahowed prominently, walked in, having broken down so badly that Daley dismounted. Venom also walked in. Mr. Lincoln declared to win wiith Kidderminster. After the race 4 to 1 was taken about the winner for the Goodwood Cup, a run being given, but without the proviso 9 to 2 was laid. The Drawing Room Stakes of 25 sous each, 10 ft, with 100 added, for three year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b ; the winner of either Derby or Oaks 101 b extra, all other winners of the value of 600 sous 51b extra. Craven Course. 33 subs. Mr Crauford's Moslem, by Knig ht of St. Patrick— Besika, 9st 11b (inc. Mb ex.) ............... ( Challoner ) w.o. A Plate of 100 soya (Handicap), for three year olds as upwards. Craven Course. Mr Johnstone's Mandrake, by Weatherbit—Mandragora, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (J. Osborne) 1 Duke of Newcastle's Clairon, 3 yrs, Est 121b...(Kevyou) 2 Sir J. Hawley's Cotytto, 3 yrs, Est (Armstrong) 3 Mr Stortford's Chippenham, 5 yrs, Est 101 b ...(Milne) 4 Mr. Angell's Van Amburgh, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Parry) 5 Betting—Even on Clairon, 5 to 2 agst Mandrake, 5 to 1 agst Cotytto. Chippenham made play, followed by Cotytto and Man drake, Van Amburgh bringing up the rear till making the bend into the straight, when Clairon improved her posi tion, and Chippenham dropping back within the straight, the lead was taken by Cotytto. At the distance, however, Mandrake drew out, and stalling off Clairon's challenge, won very cleverly by a neck ; three lengths separated the second and third, Chippenham was fourth, and Van Am burgh last. The Goodwood Derby of 25 sous each, 15 ft, for three year olds ; colts Bst bib, fillies Bst 71b ; the winner of the Epsom Derby 101 b, the winner of the Oaks 61b, the win ner of the Two Thousand Guineas, One Thousand Guineas, Newmarket Stakes, or the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot 51b extra, up to 101 b extra ; maidens allowed 31b. Gratwicke Stakes Course. One mile and four furlongs. 16 subs. Mr Padwick's Naivete, by St oc kwell—Artless, Bst 71b (Fordham) w.o. The Cowdray Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft, with 50 added; two year olds 7st, three Bst 131 b, four and upwards 9st 71b; mares allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 150 soya, if demanded, Ste. T.Y.C. Mr Hughes's Professor Anderson, by Colsterdale—dam by Sleight of Hand, 5 yrs, 9st 71b (D. Hughes) 1 Capt. Machell's Sir Oliver, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Fordham) 2 Lord Vivian's Yanina, 2 yrs, 7st (Butler) 3 Mr Clayton's Slanderer, 3 yra, Bst 131 b (Daley) 0 Mr Brityley's Redivivus, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b .........(Cannon) 0 Mr Wright's Bouquetiero, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b (Clement) 0 Mr \V. Jackson's A rkadi , 3 yrs , Bst 101 b . ..( R. Jackson) 0 Lord Westmorland's Louise, 2 yrs, Est 1110 (Kenyon) 0 Betting-2 to 1 apt Sir Oliver, 4to 1 agst Redivivus, 5 0 1 each agst Bouquetiere and Yanina, 6 to 1 agst Pros. Anderson. Tho latter led all the way, and won easily by a length from the favourite ; bad third, Slanderer was fourth Redivivus fifth, Bouquetiere sixth, Louise seventh, and Arkadi last. A Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, h ft, for three year old fillies ; Bst 101 b each ; the winner of the Derby 101 b, of the Oaks, Two Thousand Guineas, or One Thousand Guineas 71b extra. Craven Course. Etch subscriber to name two fillies, one to the pest. 10 subs. Mr Padwick's Athena, by Stockwell—Heroine, Bst 101 b (Fordham) w. o. The Duke of Hamilton's Leonia saved stake and received £lOO. SIVIJIMIN G. A large assemblage of spectators congregated on the banks of the Serpentine (Wednesday), to witness the race of 500 yards for two valuable cups presented by the mem bers of the West London Swimming Club, and for which none but amateurs were eligible to start; 21 entries were obtained, and of these no less than 19 competed. A very even start was effected by T. Morris. After numerous changes A. T. Melbourne (North London Swimming Club), D. Jackson (Hyde-park Swimming Club), and S. Bentall (National Swimming Cl u b), were the first three to get anything like in advance ; the race between the trio, however, proved to be a very exciting one, until when opposite the green boat-housa, when Jackson went in front of Melbourne, and although the latter struggled most gamely to regain his old position, he was defeated by about three yards, Dental' being third, four yards behind Mel bourne. Time, 9 min- 28 sees. SHOO 7 LVG PROSPECTS OF THE TIVELFTII. The long-continued drought has had a damaging effect on the moors and hill ranges of Lanarkshire. With few exceptions no trace of last year's dis temper has been seen among the grouse, but a good number of birds have recently been picked up dead in dried-up drains and ditches, to which no doubt the young broods resorted in search of water. The young coveys, which at the beginning of the season generally averaged from five to nine birds, have suf fered much ; while those that are left must be weak on the wing, and will, therefore, even with the most favourable weather prove but poor sport by the 12th. The ante hatched broods, of course, have suffered most. The heather bloom is fully a fortnight earlier than the average of seasons, but in many places it is sadly burnt up. Oa the extensive shooting ground belonging to the Earl of Hopetoun, in the Elvan foot and Leadhill districts, although prospects are on the other side of promising, there is said to be a fair supply of both old and young birds. The keepers on the estates of Abington, Crawfordjohn, Laming ton, Coulter, Douglas, and other quarters, are in defatigable in looking after the game, but very few grouse will be killed this year in order to allow the grounds to stock. On the Carmichael shootings light bags are inevitable. On the shootings of Sir Norman Lockhart, at Carnwathand Walston,nte Abington, thereisno great prospect of average sport. oh and on Mr.Aitken's shooting at Chapel, the drought has killed some fine birds, but still fair sport is ex pected. Further north grouse are reported healthy and strong ; poachers from the Shotts and Forth are now and again on the ground. On some of the ranges in the neighbourhood of Strathaven a covey of birds is rare. On the Muirsland, Cleughead, Auchtool, Brokencrop, and Todlaw ranges, in the Lesmahagow district, the birds suffered consider ably from disease last year, and consequently there will be little or no shooting this season. To renew the stock on the Logan and Dunside moors it is intended to impart a few brace of grouse from the highlands. On the Auchlochan, C umberhead, Avondale, Birkwood, and other grounds that were shot over last year, it is likely the birds will receive another year of grace to recruit. On the Drain pellier, and other estates far west, game in the pre serves is generally plentiful. Pheasants in some localities are suffering badly from the drought. The stock of partridges, generally speaking, is large ; and the coveys, which number from eight to ten birds each, are improving rapidly with the warm weather. Snipe are plentiful. Liam are aim. dant, but in many instances they are in very poor condition. Rabbits are very plentiful, and this fact, with a poor corn crop, forms a cause of great complaint among the farmers.—North British Daily SALEM WITCHCRAFT. (From the Anylo-American Tines.) In the number just issued of the Edinburgh Re view there is a painfully interesting article grounded on Charles W. Upham's researches into Salem Witch craft, which, in two volumes, he has lately given to the world. In 1831 C. W. Upham, then minister at Salem, delivered a course of lectures on Witchcraft. The interest they excited was so great that they were printed, and an edition almost immediately sold. Being thus encouraged he devoted himself earnestly to mastering the strange history, and soon dis covered how erroneous were the general impressions, and how imperfect his own lectures, which he with drew from circulation. After years of labour, aided by his sons, he brought out the present work, which the reviewer asserts to be a piece of history as accurate as has ever been written of the New Eng- land or any other States. To attain his point he reproduced this Massachusetts township as it ac tually stood at the period of his tale. His was no fancy sketch, for through old records of depositions taken by the courts before the trial, " to be kept in perpetual remembrance," the fullest statement of crime was at hand ; he traced back the old families and the estates they occupied ; he marked out the old boundaries, he laid down the roads, the forest, the clearing, till not only had he a perfect picture of the people, but a perfect chart of the district. The settlement had its birth in 1620, the date of the charter granted by James 1., and the efforts of the company which had undertaken to colonize Massa chusetts was to people the distant land with a goodly sectionof society. The title of landlord distinguished the most dignified, and the eldest of the family of the old planters, and goodman or goodwife, abbreviated to goody, were titles of honour, signifying the heads of households. In a religious community like that of Puritan Massachusetts the minister was a per son of no ordinary weight, and from the difficulty experienced by Salem Village in securing an inde pendent pastor for itself, we may judge how jeal ously such authority was bestowed. In 1670 twenty farmers of the township petitioned for a minister, but it was not granted till two years afterwards, as a concession to avoid greater privilege, but with the restriction that no minister was to be permanently settled without permission of the old church at Sa lem to proceed to his ordination. Out of this re striction grew the trouble ; for the community who had left England for the purpose of living their ewn religious life in America could ill endure the con- ,roc. In 1679 the authorities at Salem endeavoured ;o force ➢lr. Bayley on Salem Village, but eventu- ally they were defeated after a struggle which left behind it the seeds of bitterness. These Mr. Bur- roughs, who succeeded, found growing like thorns and briars around him. Mr. Bayley's friends re garded Mr. Burroughs with an evil eye, and, though an excellent pastor, and one well adapted to the early days of a settlement, when men lived in the momentary expectation of a raid from the Indians, the times on which he had fallen may be judged from his career. Being suffered to sink into want, and unable to supply his household with common necessaries, he retired, but was afterwards arrested for a debt which proved to be his wife's funeral ex penses. When released he retired to Maine,.but in the days of the approaching tragedy he was re called, charged with sorcery on the most childish evidence, and executed in 1692. One witness, a girl, poured out her remorse to him the day before he died. This noble-minded man freely forgave and prayed with her, and he ended his career beloved and respected by all not under the curse of bigotry. The third minister was Mr. Deodat Lawson, notable for his sermon on the Devil, extensively circulated in England, where he died, de scribed as " the unhappy," not long after the cir cumstances we are about to relate. Mr. Parris followed in 1669, and he was the prime mover in the events which have given so mournful an inte rest to Salem. He was quarrelsome, greedy, and unscrupulous—one of those who took whatever means were open to attain their selfish ends. No sooner had he been installed than he commenced to turn things to his own advantage, at the same time that he bitterly complained of the provision made for him. however hateful may be the cha racter of Mr. Parris, both the historian and the re viewer appear to have overlooked the fact that, judging from the instance of Mr. Burroughs, the maintenance at Salem Village was wholly inade quate even for a self-denying minister of the Gos pel. A greedy man with such a source of trouble working on a community with the religious impres sions of the day might cause much mischief, and this may be estimated by our tale. Throughout Massachusetts, indeed in the Puritan world, the Devil was a potent power, who worked through human agency. The air was peopled with spirits, the forest filled, and the settlements invaded by his emissaries. The Red Indian embodied his likeness ; but what the godly had most to fear were those he had pressed into his own service from their midst. A murrain was the work of a witch, and any misfor tune, however traceable to the plainest causes, was as easily ascribed to her, while the phenomena of nature, droughts, torrents, thunderstorms, and tornadoes were of course her work. Satan, foiled in his malice in Puritan England, had pursued them to America, where they were all in great danger from , his wiles. Notwithstanding the proved injustice of many exe cutions for witchcraft the age believed in it as we believe in murders. William Penn presided at the trial of two Swedish women in Philadelphia, whose escape by a legal informality was indignantly hailed by the public, as was that of Charlotte Windsor by us. The case of Mrs. Higgins, the wife of a pro- nsinent citizen of Boston and the sister of the deputy governor of Massachusetts, a woman of superior talent and of excellent character, was hanged as a witch in 1656—a fearful case of iniquity, and known to be so by the better class of the inhabitants. A Roman Catholic Irishwoman had been hanged at Boston in 1684 for bewitching four children named Goodwin, but notwithstanding such executions the people were often compelled to resort to prayer, fasting, and humiliation under an edict of the civil authorities " in consideration of the extent to which Satan prevails amongst us with respect to witchcraft." Mr. Parris had lived in the West Indies, whence he had brought some slaves, of whom two were Indians, named John, and Tituba, his wife. The evil commenced by the formation of a class of young girls, from eight to eighteen years of age, who were instructed in his house, and there imbibed a morbid influ ence which Mr. Upham finds it difficult to account for. They developed an extraordi nary knowledge of the reported workings of witches in all countries, and they so acted their part as to confound the elders and dignitaries of the land, to terrify the congregations, and to startle from their propriety the judges on the bench. The elders were assembled to see the troupe go through their exercises, and groaned in spirit over the chil dren, who grew bold on the interest excited, and in church openly interrupted the service and blas phemed aloud. Passionate intercession was made, but in vain, for the afflicted. The first step was to learn who had stricken them down, but then no names were given, and when this stage was reached, Sarah Good, a poor, ignorant woman, was selected. She was examined on the Ist March, 1692, among others, and carried to gaol, though the evidence against her was to the last degree puerile. A phe nomenon was early seen which more than anything amazed Mr. Upham, the belief by the victims in the reality of the crime, and even in many instances the confession of guilt. But Sarah Good, although she believed in the truth of the affliction and even accused a fellow-prisoner, felt the injustice in her own case. Conscious of innocence, sensible of oppression and outrage, with indignation roused, when accused by Mr. Noyes and urged to confes sion, she replied to his declaration that " she knew she was a witch," " You are a liar. lam no more a witch than you are a wizard ; and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink." Hutchinson states that in his day there was a tradition among the people of Salem, whiohhaa descended to tho present time, that the manner of Mr. Noyes' death strongly veri fied the .prediction. He was corpulent, and of a plethoric habit, and died of an internal hemor rhage, bleeding profusely at the mouth. Her little daughter Dorcas, four years old, was shortly after accused of pinchings, bitings, seratchings, &c., and carried to prison, where she was chained with her mother, but, as there is no account of her execution, she is believed to have escaped. Twenty years after Sarah Good had been hanged on Witch's Hill, the Crown granted £3O to her representatives as com pensation for her execution by mistake, and against evidence. About the time of the execution of Charles 1., a devout family, named Towne, emigrated to Salem, from Norfolk, England. There were three daugh ters; Rebecca, who was much the elder, Sarah, and Mary. At the period of which we write, Rebecca, then the wife of Francis Nurse, was between 70 and 80, a great-grandmother, and landlord Nurse had divided his estate between his four sons and three sons-in-law. She was a woman of the very highest character, who had walked till her old age in the paths of rectitude, and was greatly esteemed among the community. Her sister Mary, then 58 years of age, was the wife of Goody Easty, who owned a large farm, and by whom she had seven children. Sarah, the younger, had married twice, and was then the wife of Peter Cloyse. Land lord Nurse was among those who desired to see Mr. Parris out of the place, and, as the "afflicted'' throve by lying, as Titus Oats had thriven, like him in success they flew at higher game, and their flight was directed against Rebecca. Incredibly absurd stories were told of her, and the children wound up with the assertion that if she was examined the devil's marks would be found on her, and she was examined by a committee of women, which was followed on the 22d March by her being accused before the magistrates, in the crowded Meeting House. Wearied out after long cross-questioning, confused, and utterly perplexed, the head of the old lady fell on her shoulder ; instantly all the "afflicted" bad twisted necks, and rude hands seized the gentlewoman's head to set it right. She was carried to gaol and put in irons, and Mr. Parris 44 :improved the occasion" by accus ing her of murder, employing for this purpose the case of Mrs. Ann Putnam. Mr. Upham gives the evidence at length to shoW its quality, and all efforts ended only in a charge that she had so railed at a neighbour for allowing his pigs to get into her field that some short time after he fell down in a fit, and never recovered, " dispatched by a cruel death—murdered by Goody Nurse." The story, which we must delay to our next issue, is calculated to bring tears into the eyes of stern men, and deep and lasting sorrow into the heart of humanity, for never had a community so singularly favoured, so deeply imbued with religion, exempt in no ordinary degree from the chief temptations of the world, fallen into crime more hideous, indeed, rivalling in the degree in which a small colony could the horrors of the French Revolution. CRAY EAU D'ASIVIERES. (From the Paris Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times: Where to go in Paris ? Paris is empty, the golden grain is smiling on every side, and the rich bloom of the grape gradually deepening to perfection. If vague conspecta livorem ducit ab uva ; but Paris is empty, and at the Bains de Mer among the mountains of Helvetia, in the salons of the Ger mon spas, and even toiling along under the burning sun of Spain, must one look for the mercurial Pari sian. " That," said an American friend, "is not, however, my affair, and Ishould like to know what to do with myself in this modern Babylon, with a temperature more than thirty degrees above freezing point, and the asphalte furnaces stand ing in the street, giving one the vertigo ?" " Do," said I ; " nothing more easy. Take the train for Asnieres, which you will reach in ten minutes ; and take at the same time my word for it, that were you to travel the wide world over, as the song says, in search of the pic turesque, you will scarcely find a More enchanting little nook than that which, cradled amidst the wooded islets of the Seine, induced the royalty of France to place there a chateau and gardens which the enchantress Armida might have envied, and the perfect restoration of which is due to English enter prize and energy. It is more than probable that a regatta is on foot, for the locality is a favourite one with the rowing clubs of the Seine, and the river will be studded with the vessels and still more brilliant costumes of the Cabo tiers, male and female. Visit en suite the gardens and chateau, which the courtesy of the direction will enable you fully to appreciate, and as the evening draws on, and myriads of coloured fires, gleaming from Kiosk and pavilion illumine the glades of the park, you will begin to realize some of the fantastic conceptions of the thousand and one nights, and think of the friend of your boyhood the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid. The chateau itself is also brilliantly illuminated, and a very peculiar effect produced by encircling, as it were, with a frame work of fire, the statuary which, in the shape of panels, adorns its front. But I have said enough to enable the reader to judge for himself of one of the most beautiful localities of France. The Gardens of Asnieres have been opened by the spirited lessee of Cremorne, in England, W. E. T. Smith, and the direction of the amusements is placed under the capable superintendence of Mr. William Abel, well known as a dramatic author of considerable merit. I must not forget 'or mention, howeveT, that whilst the refreshment saloons of the chateau are fitted up in a manner that leaves nothing to be desired, a splendidly got up American restaurant attests the provision of Uncle Sam for those of his children as goes " forren." The heat has increased to-day to over 32 degrees, and we feel iu our office, at No. 31, very much like a scalloped oyster. (N.B.— Our friends are beginning to find out that the Anglo-American General Agency at No. 10, Place de la Madeleine, conducted by Captain Red mune, refers to the sale of wines, spirits, and to the affording of general accommodation to Ame ricans, but represents no journal, providing only the Franco and other American journals, fur the perusal of their clients). It is said that the wines made in France this year will be of the most superior quality, and the wine harvest will take place much earlier than ordinary, pro bably about the latter end of August. As a proof of the early period of the corn harvest, a sack of new wheat was brought to the Hallos Cen trales on the 25th of June last, and bought by the Emperor's baker. By the way, there has been an extensive fire lately at the aforesaid Halle, which resulted in considerable loss to the town and the merchants, and also been attended with loss of life in the instance of a poor fellow named Hartmann, corporal in the corps of Tompins, for whose widow people are making an active subscrip tion. The Exhibition at Havre is gradually in creasing in importance, and Alexander Dumas is placed there as the correspondent of the Petit Jour nal, which, published at the cost of a halfpenny, pays far better than any other publication in France. Monsignor Antonio Pellegrini has been appointed by the Pope to the presidency of the archives, and Monsignor Luigi Period is named Clerk of the Chamber. [An vkaTisEmENT.]—Henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful .medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21,1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness do Brehau, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lord Stuart dc Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46,270: Mr James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafness. Im portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebeg's name is most audaciously attached. LL In tins, at Is. 10.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 61 ; 5 lbs., I ls.; 12 lbs, 22s ; 241bs ,40s —Also DITBA.IIItY'S REVALENTA. ARABICA 311000 LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups at 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 61, for 48 cups at Gs., for 283 cups at 303., For 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. the 30s Ind 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Oftlee Order.—BA.RßY nu BA.llllll' and CO. I NO. 77, ilegoln-ktreot, Lynda and all grocers and Ghunigto! THE “ NO-POPERY " CRY. The Guardian publishes the following letter send you an account of an occurrence whi,l I witnessed a few days since, and which appeared to me sadly suggestive of the revival of a spirit that every charitable person must hope had for ever ceased. I was walking through one of the principal streets of the city, when I heard the cry, 'No Popery, no Popery,' and saw two Roman priests walking, in ordinary attire, along the pave ment. They had just been met by two very well dressed young men, apparently superior clerks, of about the ages of twenty-eight and twenty-three , who were about turning back to follow the ecclesi astics, when I stepped across and told them their conduct was disgraceful. They immediately said , " Why, they're Popish priests !" I replied, " I ar il no Papist, but I tell you that your behaviour is scandalous: Those gentlemen have as much right to walk in the public streets as you have ;" to which I was answered, " A'o, they haven't. They're Popish priests." Having succeeded in arresting their intention of repeating the insult, and know ing that all remonstrance with such fanatic 3 would be useless, I walked away, and, as I left them, they honoured me by again shouting out, " .No Popery." They were not intoxicated. THOS. CHARRINGTON. Chislehurst, July 27, 1868. M. Drouyn de Lhuys addressed the following letter to the Duke of Richmond previous to the Leicester agricultural meeting :—" Monsieur l e Duc,— The Society of Agriculturists of France/ which has just been founded at Paris, has chosen me for its president. It is in this capacity that 1 have the honour to address myself to you to -day' desiring, as we do at the outset of our operations, to enter upon friendly relations with the eminen t Royal Agricultural Society of England. W 0 shall be happy, Monsieur le Duc, to follow in your steps, and all communications which you may b e good enough to address to us will be to us of gree t value. Our object is the same ; we consecrate our common efforts to the prosperity of agricultur e. It is, then, with eagerness that we shall seize the approaching occasion to strengthen that invisible bond which already unites us by sending our dole: gates to the exhibition of July 12 to 21 preparea by the Royal Agricultural Society of Engl aucl• The Secretary-General of the Society of Agricultu rists of France will have the honour to send to the secretary-general of your society the names °f our delegates ; and we are assured beforehand e' the sympathetic welcome which they will receive at your great meeting. —I have, &c., DRotrYll P S LIIUYS." • Mr. A. W. Young, the comedian of Wallack's, is a t the Montreal Theatre, where he is the stage manager. A Mr. Vining Bowers plays an engagement in MontreP this summer, and probably will then go to Europe. Mlle. Hedwwig Raabe, the German actress, who ig co w ing to America, is a baautiful • blonde, with large blue sYf e and long golden ringlets. She is the pet actress of ta Russian Court, and the Czar's second son was at one ti nie so desperately in love with her that he insisted upon n3ar rying her, which of course he didn't.—New York, Citiz e t e The Spirit of the Times says : —San Francisco is t ,""., only city in the Union which supports a decent d rauis-, t newspaper, and the Dramatic Chronicle, although distt i l bated free, is at once spicy, instructive, and criticel• has a daily circulation of eight thousand, and that, rerun', bar, in a town of only about a hundred and twenty thotl _ sand inhabitants. There is also a smaller, but very cleirnriee little theatrical sheet called the Critic. No extray s g sl : be which California might commit would surprise us i ll "01 least. Schneider, Nilsson, Patti, Titiens, and Parcel eh singing on one stage, with Strauss leading and Offea ba ir o directing a specially arranged opera, would be no Ittar in that country of dramatic and operatic surprises. Mr. lieffeuegger, of San Francisco, has ree ell e ,„; invented a new explosive compound, which differs IL" 0 , gunpowder, in being more powerful and rapid in its sri, tion, yet applicable as rifle or gunpowder. In ono es Wog meat a block of iron, with a bore in its upper surface, /Ina charged with six grains of Hefenegger's powder a o fired, with a small anvil weighing six P°,11,1100 placed over the bore ; the anvil was thrown t its scat, while two ounces of gunpowder did 1111-a move the anvil. Sixty grains of the new cooleito (one -eighth of an ounce) threw the anvil forty feet the air. A 4-inch shell, with a chamber only o ne inch, : diameter, was charged with half an ounce of the prePt'': tion, and burst into numerous fragments. Common Oin powder could not have burst such a shell. This C°.: pound is perfectly safe to handle and transport, an d , dergoes ch3mical change or deterioration by the is'r of time. It is made from dry compounds, and can be Pr"„ ; pared of any strength desired, so as to be used as a det° to iug powder or for common gunnery. The inventor " t' also a self-igniting match which is made upo n the leo by simply placing a few drops of a liquid preparationl4 any combustible substance, su2h as paper, linen, 09twi; &c. The liquid can be so prepared as to ignite s P °nt3 t; ously in from five to fifteen minutes, or longer if desi o . l ,6 All the experiments were made with this self-he:to liquid, no ordinary match being used in firing anY c).` charges. p ° üb' Messrs. Rives and Bailey (reporters alai' ushers of the debates in Congress) have issued the (700 report of the Impeachment trial. They say—" of t biS official and only authorized and authentic report 8 of unprecedented trial." It forms an octavo Vnb ltn :oo% 1,168 pages, bouni in law-sheep, and is furnished '.,"d ft) dollars. It is printed on the same kind of paper a' the same style as the Congressional speeches. t he At a meeting of the Executive Commit tee 0 00, American Social Science Association, held W A , ton on Thursday, July the 9th, the Iron. y o rl4 Walker presiding, Doctor E. C. Wines, of New -030' offered a resolution in favour of employing 3 th e nent secretary, with a sufficient salary, to a ct at:ti ts agent and representative of the association, "050' members, secure subscriptions, organise brarle b ,,, eft' ciations, and do all in his power to promote 0000 ciency of the association. Remarks in favour of tbeol' were made by Dr. Jarvis, Mrs Dall, Mr. S. Eliot, g r 4 ' 0 111 ker, Mr. Sanborn, and others present, and it was Ells{ referred to a committee consisting of Me-srs. Bfeas rti ;o B4 ' and Sanborn. Arrangements were made for the annua l- , ,0 os' ing in Boston on the 11th October, when addresses SibricY' petted from Prof. W. B. Rogers, Mr. J. 1 3 '• P i `' ori ' Judge Washburn, and Dr. Jarvis. The pr oposeu f Ra nization of a western association, under the letd °, 0 04 F. H. Wines, Mr. P. C. Gillett, Mr. Z. H. Broo100." other active men, was mentioned and approved. 0 the The following notice has been received °,05 re frlioP Anglo-American Company relative to a further " .fo# in the tariff of messages between London and l'sfatfool4, on and after the Ist of September neat:— ".A- 11 g 1° ,stre eti can Telegraph Company (Limited), 26, Old Broad ,if London, E.C., July 22, 1868.—The joint committee ; Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Lo ntiornPa r ` l c i° f resolved to reduce the tariff for messages betwee n t Ol/ 9 0 and New York on and after the Ist day a so: g e,.,' next, from the present minimum of £5 5s perm e s° o tl £3, plus the land companies charges to Valentin iul on fif yond Plaister Cove, which will make the yi.,iotl4 b• charge for a message between London and N ntl „bo V II 7s. 6d. Full particulars of the reduction will „. a 'f ; vill lished as early as possible." lf AnvEnnsEmENT. J.—Holloway'S Ointment - o li o i fti m are unfeignedly . the remedies upon which all sa s s who are suffering from diseases of the " ta„ e 6 o scurvy, ulcerations, and bad legs. When the . all if the weather determines unduly blood to the sll e ir 59 e e complaints assume a worse appearance and t r 0 10 - t°l toms become more harassing unless Hollow a y Sto P".oe; be applied to check increasing i n flammation a u 0) 0- 10° the excited nerves. No knowle,fge beyond tha t bio cEr'ilf in the directions for use is required for using t oa f Wolf; and healing unguent, which always acts l i e o wlf 9 03C P Thousands afflicted with bad legs, who we re O r ing under their sufferings, have been rescue" e a p° perilous pfisition (after all curative means see° I less) by persevering with Holloway's medicare' ---------- Births. 13 1 ' c il of 4 KgEvrrr—On the 26th inst., at 19, Granville-P3ot, heath, the wife of Commader Herbert P. 1 : Ie.1 forti l of a daughter. t,.- 1° i MOLLONY —Oa the 28th inst , at 2, Gloucester-s-gtree/09 ma n-square, the wife of . Captain Charles Of R.A., of a son. A 0 0 ' ' IL. ll'•• FULTENEY—On the 26th inst., at 19, Eutla"" Pulteney, of a daughter. At Marriages. Oe I r oe, ,o a ll a . u D gh o t u egr la o s f , DOUGLAS—BELL—On the 28th inst atßisbolegt.,64°,, Yan p e, m e n lde li st . 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