The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1867.

arida would haws enabled eropluyern to take rinsig•
eimatreets for shipbuilding. A Clyde shipbuilder soya
that the London ehipungbte are paid forty per nest,
Lieber than Clyde shipwtights, or 7s. per day against
Si., and he antiliiatee that shipbuilding mast 1.01.
cease on the Th.imes. In the east isiAl of London ther
are, it Is sold, 20,000 dock labourers who hare not
earned a shilling for two months past.

TIII 11TH FIIIIVAIT DaIsonsTILATION.—A. meeting
e the Reform League was held on Wedneraday evening
for tbe t.orpose of completing the arrangements for the
proposed demonstration on the Ilth Febraary. Prom •
stetament node by Mr. Reales, the chairman, it appsare
that the League haa abandoned the ides of meeting in
Hyde Park, but, without prejerlies to the right of the
plopla, to meet there if they think t. It is prorowed
that London shall be divided into ten districts, and that
• procession 'ball assemble in each district, and march
In Trafalgarmtuare. From thence the united bodies
will mar. h in one procession through the leading
thoronglifares of the metropolis to the Agrieultural Hall
at lalingtoo, where. monster Mining meting is to
be held.

AN EIGHT HOURA' BILL.—The factory workers,
through their representatives or &legatos, in the mord
of the cotton manufacturing towns In lADO•Sitif!,
Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, have resolved
that an agitation should be commenced with tbe view
to petirioning Parliament for the adoption of an Eight
Dour.' Bill to supersede the Ten Douro' Bill, as rimier
the present system fsctory operative. were complied
to work longer than other working men, and that., too,
in an at urrepliere anything at times kit conductive to
health. Touching the queation of instituting courts of
arbitration for the settlement of a.I diaputea br tween
enaployer and employed, at harrbeen nnanimously agreed
I . petition Parliament to make such courts compulsory
I. all mien of disp•ate between capital and labour.

A PowDIA SHIP OM FIRZ in THIICHANNIL.—TheJohn
()oilier eusiekj, Cope master awl pert owner, caught
fit• on Tu...lay evening, about eix miles east off the
Holmes. She bad accompanied the Victory. for Africa,
from Kingroed, petting powder on board, and was pro-
ceeding to Newport with about 23 cwt. on board, not
tekeet by tb• Victory. On the discovery of the Are,
Captain Cope, with great presence of mind and cool
doing. did ell in his power to subdue the flames, but
his exertions wet. of no avail, and it was not until the
Ate got near the smirtder that be jumped into the small
boa •, which WWI half full of water, with the crew of two
men, and • clerk in the envie., of the owner of the
powder, and rowed from the yowl, which shortly
afterwards Llew np with a loud exPin-ioe. The peaks
are uninsured. The to.. is about £lOO.

W•8111D Thro,sien-4-Hsi.l MILU TILOOOII •
SIWEIL-11 most singular oecurence, which well-nigh
proved fatal to two men, took place at Birkenhead on
Monday afternoon, Junea Cbri•itian, • mason, ani
Patrick Thornton, a labourer, were working on a raft in
• large sewer which drams Bidston Marsh, and which is
eonnected with the great docks of Birkenhead.
Suddenly the water from ono of the graving docks was
let into the newer, and the raft was swept away by the
tremendous eurient. Christian managed to get off the
raft and stay himself near the Duke-street bridge,
where he was got out, alter an interval of some five
hours, in • very exhausted state. Thornton was, bow•
ever swept &wily on the raft through two miles and &-
half of sewer, and at length reached the Morpeth Dock
Basin, where the raft was fortunately donned by an
half-open flood-gat., otherwise, it would have Boated
into the river. His grit. soon brought help, and
was rescued by means of • rope, and conveyed to the
hmpital, where be in gradually recovering from his cold
bath and perilous voyage.

FOOD RIOTS AT DEFITORD.—The distr.*s whisk has
prevailed now for so long • time in Deptford has been
made the exemee for, if it ham not been the cause of,
riotous doings in the town. On Wednesday afternoon
the relieving officer was giving out tickets for bread.
hut found the applicants touch more numerous tun the
supply of bread would serve. He was therefore obliged
to Stop the issue of tickets. The excited crowd forth-
with went into the streets and looked one baker's shop
at least, and did other mieeldef. On Thursday the alarm
was very great. Crowds of men were in the streets,
and a majority of the shops were shut. A strong blue
of police was tent down from London. It is asserted
by th se who Sr. beet able to judge that the rioters were
by no means the working men of the place, but rosette
who had gathered from the adjoining parte. They
were many of them guilty of frauds upon the relieving.
officer. Having got a ticket, they went and got the
bread, and then, presuming on there being unknown,
went back again and got another ticket, and so on. In
some case+ the trick was played three or four times over.
There was no mimetic,n of the riot on Friday. Arli..l
wet dispensed as usual at the relieving offices, and there
was no appearance of any inclination to disturbance.
An Insect DINI'ROTSIL-111Goli the largest number of
lieu are brought into our family circles by pet doge and
cots, and the pigsty is generally filled with them at this
a•-ason of the year, where numbers will hop on you when
visiting it for the purpose of feeding or inspection. The
oil of pennyroyal will drive these inaecte off ; but a
steeper method, where the herb flourishes, is to throw
your dogs and *eta into a decoction of it once • week.
Now the herb and scatter it in the beds of the pigs ono,
a month. I have seen this done for many years in Boo-
cession. Where the herb cannot be got the oil may be
proceed. In this ease, saturate strings with it and tie
them round the neck. of doge and eat, ; pour • little on
the back and about the ears of hog., which you can do
while they are fowling without touching them. By
repenting these applications every twelve or fifteen days
the fleas will See from your quadrupeds, to their relief
sod improvement, and to your relief and comfort in the
house. String saturated with the oil of pennyroyal and
tied around the Deck and tail of hones will drive off
lion; the strings should be maturated ono, a day. Hint.
freshly cut, and hung round a bedstead, or on the bed
furniture, will prevent annoyance from bed iusecta.
DEATH OF • CINTINAILIAN.—The pippin: cold bas
taken off poor old Granny Naieh, of Twickenham
Common, at the ripe old age of 101 years, who, alehough
tied.ridden for the last three yeas., was cheerful and
hearty to the last. Her birthday was not known, but
her relatives have procured • certificate of her obels,eo-
, ing, which took plus at Funhain Church, Surrey, 100!
I years ago hart February. For nearly seventy years she I
I has occupied the cottage eituated in the Back-road,
Twickenham Common, In which she died. The old Indy
! has been well taken care of by the resident gentry, ucl
was an object of special interest. Dr. Litchfield at-
tended her during her brief Motu The old lady has I
been • very bard-working woman in her time as a
laundress. Granny Walsh, at the time of her death,
had no less than 98 deeerndants living—via. 8 'Andrea
(the eldest of which was Ti years), 301randchi1dren, 141
greet grandchildren, and 2 greet-guat.grandebildren.
The dammed was followed to the grave on the 14th
instant by tea couples of her large family.
Flu-CALL' POE MAKING Fill:lL—The following
letter suggests &method of rendering coal dust (of which
in this neighbourhood the coal mentbante supply us
plentifully) • valuable oninbustive material: Near
Illi.ford, in Wales, • small gritty coal called "mime"
is got I think from Llanshipping, and mixed in the
clayey mud (called slime) from the bed of klifford
Haven, in about equal part.. The misters is still
salted eultne. The culme costa about 8.. a ton, the
slime and mixing about 4a., so that you have the mixed
calms at Rs, a ton delivered at the water's edge. The
calms is heaped up until wanted; sufficient for nes is
then taken, damped, and kneaded into lumps the size of
• large potato with the hands. Thus lamps are piled
op in the fire place, leaving a vent in the centre or top
for &draught. This makes a capital fire, especially for
cooking. When the fire is made up for the night •
lump of out Is plued over the vent, and the fire goes
on smouldering; in the morning uncover the vent, and
in • few moments you have • cheerful blase, and the
the night) boiling. le
kettle (haft on the bob during
some of the Welsh cottages the eras have not been out
for 31.) years sal more. I used to utilise the dust from
the ordinary house coal in • simile: manner. Any
olayey mad or clay, not too 'tiff, mined with coal dust,
will make excellent calms. I know it from expert/nos.
lodeed, I think it would he a great saving to reduce
boon coal to dust on purpose to make (mime."
Tan FENIAN HIAD Cutul KICKED MIT Or OTC&
—James Stephens, who solemnly pledged himself that
he wouli land on the coast of Ireland before New Year..
Dsy, haa retired from the oftios of Head Centre amid a
/bout of execration, and with the brand of cowardice
upon him. During his period of masterly inactivity he
has never left New York at all. but has been quietly
reposing on his laurels. His Fenian brethren scenes him
of Imbecility, and some even brand him "traitor.* He
has been kicked out of office, and General Gleeson, who
held • command in the Irish Brigade dieing the mar, has
been elevated to the supreme direction of Fenian affairs.
Stephens' appeal, it appears, only remitted in the col.
lestion of 12,01.10 dollars, and he would probably plead
that his failure woo occasioned by a bankrupt exchequer.
In an address boned, General Gleeson says :—" The
duties of my present position (Chiof Deputy Siceeetive
of the Fenian Brotherhood of America), in which I was
duly installed this day by Colonel Kelly. are arduous
enough without being reported as controlling affairs In
Ireland also. To the men there lam pledged to the
most active co-operation, and knowing that the probable
defection of James Stephens was well koowo to some
men there, I confidently appeal to my countrymen for
their continued confidence that the fight will soon come
off; but this time we will not giva the exact date to the
enemy.*

THE WIATBIg 111 LONDOII.—The rain which fell on
Tuesday night during the continuance of the host, sod
er cared the whole surface of the ground in London
with • smooth sheet of lee, has exalted moat attention, '
as the most remsrkable iooident of the recent storm.
It r. impossible to describe the surprise of persons
esught in the shower when a few minutiae afterwards
they found themselves sliding and stumbling over •
, sheet of the smoothest and most treseherous ioe. Foot
paaeengera deserted thi pavement, end in vain sought
safer footing in the middle of the road, or Jiang to the
railings to save themselves from fillies. As might
have been expected, the number of amides* short se
the time was during which Na. streets remained in this
state, was unprecedented. Many of thaw, Worts-
palely, out dating this date of things were to be wen
walking without their boots, or, in many iodation, the
letter bound round with pieties of sloth or handkerchiefs,
In order to obtain • firmer tontine. Daring the night •
large number of persons were to be mien making for
their destinstions on skates, and the dress of moat ell
these person. looked as though it was spangled with
(trysts's, for almost as feet es the drops of rale fell they
frogs. W. H.R. writes to the Times that on Wednes-
day morning. while persons were walking in the road
with their umbrellas up to shelter them from tbe rain,
he skated on the pavarotiot. with little let or bindranoe,
from his residence in the Bromptoa-road as tutu the
Rath Hotel, in Picosdilly, and heck again.
SHOCKING FATI.LITT AT WEST RIOISIVICH.—A sail
ecourrenoe has taken place at West Brotawieb, resulting
in the death ef • man named John lihisauttre, better
known by the sobriquet al " Oyster Jack," and his two
ebildree, James, aged eleven, and Jams, cued five.
Ifiseentire was about lit, years of age, sad occupied •
small shop in Site -street, in vitiate he retailed
oysters. On Saturday night be wee in his shop as anal
and went home between eleven and twelve o'clock. He
I was seen by • agiabboar shortly after midnight, and he
then expressed his intention of going to be& Another
neighbour heard the little girl shout, "Daddy, are you
wining to bed?" and Maaantire replied, " Yet, and
bring mom* Ire to swarm you." This was the lea that
ass leen ow hoard al them, sad about live *Week oe
Mnitd.7 rooming the polies were informed that "Oyster
ask" and his children had not aloe oat of the house

dace Sakirday alabh The oilers found tie door
locked. end the shutter, of the roma dows-dairs aimed.
They procured a ladder, placed it againet the house, axd
g. 4 through the front bedroom window. The door of
•.he back room we, cl.ved, nod no OPflling it the , dicers
bet. Id • ghastly spectacle. Macs:Aim and the two
diadem% lay side by side in one bed, their mouths
*evened with foam, dead, and partly ili-ooloarerl. The
window was clawed. the dimensions of the room were
only about 9fl. by 81t., and there was no fine or venal&
tins whatever. On the door, by the side of the bed,
waa an iron bucket, with hole. In it, au,h is In
nionly coed to I,eild Are. This was about one-third lilted
with natio.. There wee no appearance of any enamel.,
the el this not beefing to haws been moved line, they
got into bet; and the only Inference In, that the night
being very cold, and the bed clothes scanty —for all
their wearing apparel eat put on the bed to add to the
warmth-1148.litre had earned the bucket of ire from
the chop to bid bed room, and the smoke anti fume.
!brow the burning coke or charcoal had @mothered them '
all whilst asleep.

THE RATING OF &Monts AID CHARITABLI INIFFITII-
TIOMO.—On Tuesday, a deputation, op the subject of
rating of schools and charities, headed by the Ven.
Archdeacon Sinclair (it saaurer of the National Society),
waited on the President of the Poor-law Board, the
Bight Hon. Gathorne Hardy, to represent the
difficulties entailed by the recent practice of rating
I schools and charitable institutions, •Ithough there is
not in thsm a beneficial occupancy, to the relief of •he
I poor. It was arced by the deputation that.. churches
and chapels are exempt front rating, there is no resson
' why schools for the poor should not be equally exempt,
and that the law on the subject was uncertain aa to
what buildings were rateable. Shire-balk. prisons andpolicesofilcier, it was stated, were exempted. and ;here.
fore that schools for the poor, equidly as useful as lb.-se
' establishmenta, should be exemplal. likewise. A mem-
ber of the deputation submitted • ease in which the
Rom of 00 had bee. paid as ratesfor • Natiemal school,
• sum which in • largo number of instances would make
plat the difference between the solvency of a charitsble
inetitetion and its bankruptcy. Is reply, Mr. Hardy
mild his ilid not admit that the law was uncertain ; the
decision in the case iif the Shaffron.hill National school
had deeliled it: and he quoted an opinion given by Lord
Westbury, and • recommendation in farrier of ra jog
charitable institutions made by a committee of the
Hones of Conoooo. over 'shish the late 81r George
'Cornwall Lewis presided. At the saute time certain
, esess, he said, would be submitted for legal daetrioc,
and until then it would be premature to say anything
very decidedly on the subject. The rating, he aid,
would always be low, because charitable institutions
would always he saessiied at slow rental.

I, LORD STAXLIT 011 MI FitoOoliiit—Lord Stanley
has written the following letter in reference to an
Invitation to attend a meeting of the Huddersfield
I Working Men's (Conaervative) Aeeneistion, which was
I held on Wedni slay night:—" Foreign-once, Jano•ry
4, 1067.-Bir,—l have taken • d.y to think over your
letter, which reached me yesterday, and it is with real
regret that I And myself unable to accept an invitation
no flattering in Itself and conveyed in language no
expressive of such cordial good feeling. Bet the
',remora of business here has compelled me to decline,
for the present, all request+ to attend public meetings
lin the province., and I cannot well break through the
I rule which I have laid down for my.rlf In one case with-
' outdoing go in otters. lee, with great pleasure the
growth of Consery dine associations among working
men. The more of them we have the better. Every-
lsdy, m far as I know, desires that the bee of the
working elms should be admitted to the franchise ; and
it is the interest of these, quite as much as it is that of
capitalists or I•ndowners, that the right of voting should
not be rendered practically yeloelem In their hands by
being extended to others who, from (perhaps) inevitable
Ignorance, are unfitted for so grave and responsible a
trost.—Bineerely reciprocraring your good +babe., I
remoin your obedient servant, groin-eV. —W. Garner,
Poq."—At the meeting referred to, the Earl of Dart-
mouth mid he era. certain that wh.tever measures Lord I
Derby might decide upon bringing forward for the
amendment of the representation, they would be based
upon well matured counsel.. Memo, Waterhouse, M.P.,
said he hoped the Government would shortly introduce
• measure which would command the •pprebetion of
the country at large, and he should be deeply disap-
pointed if the Governmert were inmitive in the matter.
At the same dinner Mr. W. B. Fernand proposed "Her
Majerty's Ministers." and he was "warmly received."
Referring to Mr. Bright, he said that that member had
°barged Lord Grosvenor, Lord /Nebo, and Mr. Lowe
I with being dirty conspirators; there were not three
I mote honour•ble men in England—(applause). He had
charged Mr. Garth with going "through dirt to
dignities." He (Mr. Fernand) held In his hands state-
manta which substantiated almost entirely every word
uttered by Mr. Garth, bat it was impoieible to take up
their time by reading them on that mouton. The
other day Mr. Bright deliberately wrote that he (Mr.
Fernand) was the greatest ruffian that had appears, 1 in
the Hone. of Common, during the last 50 ysare—(ioud
I laughter). He made that charge on the pretended
statement of a man who bad been dead 20 years; and
he said that gentlemmi had made the remark to Mr.
Cobden, who had also being dead some time. Thin wee
• libel oo the dead. Not • man in England believed it,
and the men who believed it least was Mr. Bright
himself. The toast was acknowledged by Mr. F. B.
Powell, M.P.
' Lovett CAPZICE 1/1 Tl•Beastaa.—An event (says
the Hampakire Felegeop.4) has jest occurred in the
eouthern part of Hampshire which hes somewhat
astounded the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and
forniehesi them fool for rock, for name time to aim.
lii, nothing lees than • comedy played not with un-
usual vigour from beginning to end, the characters I
Icomprising a baronet, • young gentleman, and, of
warm. • lady : and the scenes being laid In the locality I
referred to, at Parbrook, and London. The first acene
Is at the place where the young lady has just left the
establishment of the baronet, in whioh she filled the
onerous position of housekeeper, for the purpose of
marroing • young man to whom aloe had been for some ,
time engaged, and who holds • very respectable position, I
being well able to take upon himself the cares of
matrimony. The next amine discloses the cottage of the
mother of the young lady at Purbrook, to which she
very properly repaired previous to her marriage. The
intended husbacd is, of cioune, there also, and all are
engaged diseusaing the future prospects of the young
*maple, when the barocet makes his appearance at the
cottage, and tells the astonished pair that he has come
to mk the young lady to become kis wife. The Intended
bridegroom explelos that the young Isdy is engaged to
he married to kiln, and that he has no intention of
giving her up. he., be. The baronet then desired that
the lady might choose between them, when she loyally
gave her hand to her betrothed, and refused the baronet.
The latter raved at Ant, but on second thought wrote
out • cheque for £2,000, which he offered lis rival, to
transfer the lady to him. The answer was fully as
loyal as that given by the IsAy. "Not for ten,"
exelaimed the indignant lover, and the baronet at ones
returned to hi. residence. On the following day the
socepted lover and the baronet met, when the latter
offered his rival a large sum of money and all the Tiro-
perty he possessed in the neighbourhood of his eelab•
lishment. it he would "site Caroline up." The reply
was *gain loyal, the lady being preferred to the pro.
perty. The third and last scene is held In London, to
which the pair of lovers had lied, to baffle any further
attempts at interference OA the part of the pereetent
baronet, and there to await the day of their marriage.
The mother of the young lady now joined the pair in
London, hot she apparently had been won over to the
baronet, a. she was the bearer to her daughter of a
written proposal from him. What were the induce-
ments held out in this paper, or what line of argument
the mother took with her daughter can only be 'ite-
mised, but it is enough that they entirely changed the
lady's views on the subject, for immediately afterward.,
during the temporary absence of her betrothed, the
übiquitous baronet drove up to the door of the ledy's
temporary residence in • isah, in which the lady quickly
joined him, and they were driven Mr together, nor have
they been recognised since by any of their friends or
sixtuaintaaiees in the great city or at home. It is
believed that the baronet and his lady are now on their
way to the south of France to spend their boseyeacion,
and are not expected to return for eome months. The
gentleman who has been defeated in this exciting love
cheep is mid to have placed his ease in the hands of a
solicitor in this borough, and the second part of the
comedy will, therefore, most probably be played out
within the chilling precincts of a law mart.

by dislmation of the apiaal column. Time DOAN of ON
we,. there,. dieser:od by Drs.
Williams and Cutrek, and It was sati.faatordy proved
that death has resulted io saell 01111.0 from stranauleti, n
lb. too& 001a.kn being fund to his wird io
thus setting this mach vestal Trillion at pat..'

_
A UNITIALIAM BUR& —A white nativo bear I. •
estrioeity that we newer ease or even heard of until the
gg insungs. S.ih an anima!, boweeer, we. brought
into town on tl.at day from the li animal, Forest, where
It was obtained by Mr. Eagletliar, a fumer, residing at
Jan Joe. Native bears of a dark brown and oleo of •
slate colour are mit at nil uncommon. but perfeetly
white ones have been, we believe, hitherto wlimvit un-
known. Thew animaln are usually very aluggialt, and
cenvrally sleep all day; thit one, however, is lively, and
site up looking at the upectstots out of eyes of a pretty
light blue colour. An enthusiastic edulirer of native
Products', pulehmard the aninisl, and pre-- nted it to lyr.
Bunt* for exhibition, et the Botanical Gardens, where
It in likely to be au attraction for sons* tiess.—Geeloug
Register.

A POLITICAL AellAlletWATToll IL HOWL—The Afosade
Inass an a account of a mauler by a revolutiolwry sym,t
Rome. A Pontifical Leave, • Fressehman, mauled
Other, was grassing the Square Beath Maria, in
Trastevere, on his way to the Benedictine monastery.
where snme of t',e companies of that corps are
quattered, saber. • man came behind stealthily, and
'sizing him •ronnil the boy plunged a poignerd into
hit throat. The carotid artery em several, and h..
expired immediately after. The crime we; however,
wi ticased by • patrol of soldier.. and the mu,!".,
: arrested. He wag • mast of herculean 'wreath and still
covered with the blind of the victim. He showed no
fortitude whatever after the murder, falling on his
knees when arrested and bewailing his fate. Re nsl
removed, half dead with fear, by the troops, and a
ierquisitioo made at hie residence showed that he was
an instrument of the party of action. A certain
emotion reigns in the corps of Zottavve, not of thrpidee
at the cowardice of their eoemira, but at their inability
to avenge their comrade. The name of the asthaein is
Aquila, • native of Naples. Thia murder ie the firat
thing that ban dis'itibal the pates which Route lies
enjoyed since the departure of the French troop..

A LICIIPICILLER MO 88888 P ST NEGIOAN. —The
Preach cornier agent et Sierra Leone bac learnt that
Jan Oersted, the famous wens* death gime
announced abut two year. ago, aa occurring when
loring centred Atria., fell a victim to the cupidity
and ferocity of the nepotist whom he bed engaged as
guide. and protectors. His baps,' and provisions
were at first pales d repeatedly during his journey from
Seraboo to Marna by the chief of the former village.
tlerard sent back his interpreter to Siena Leone for •
fresh supply. On his way back to re-join bin =NUT,
the interpreter learnt at the of Nio-Jupan that
be had been drownsd by the Hoses, who had conducted
him free Woola to Makelay. and his body wee found in
the river Jong, which down on the territory of
Sholtore. The body when found was quite naked—the
arms tied behind Ids hack, and a piece of wood with a
large ston attached was fastened to his want. The
provisions the iuterpreter Ind were taken from him by
the Degrees, and be himself beaten, bound, and kept as%
el.ve. Gerard bad formed the project of trevening
Orlin from Sierra Leone to Algiers, passing through
Tintbuctoo.

Tug Pante Emussnow.—The prices of admission to
the forthcoming Paris Exhibition are announced to be
sa follows the opening eeremooy, on the lit of
April 20(r.. during the wish imetedithely following, fir.
Thew pithwents will Admit to all the divisions nf the
Exhibition from April St. the stone—to the park, Ur.
At the oidinary opening hour. 21 r. for the reserved hours
in the morning; to the garden Ifr. 50e. ; to thee from one
of three divithons to the other thy time, 50c. ; the charge
for admission to the Mien Court is tube yet settled.
Sulwoription tickets will be jawed for the whole period.
They will be—for this.. non•tranaferehle : Gentlemen,
1001 r. ; ladle., 801 r. These tickets confer the right of
admission to the opening ithreinooy, and to all the
divisions at sny time. Weekly tickets will also he lathed
at Sfr. each, bet in theee oaths the:depneit of the holder's
photographic curie it vieite will be imperative. Ex-
hibitors and their recognithi agents will have free
admission under eei-tain eonilitinns, as will &leo the
Cominledogiers and all perianth employed &Islet
the Exhibition." The titheta will not be transferable,
and must be signed by the holder, who, except his ticket
be • weekly on., mat use his option aa to the carte de
theith regulation, which is rsther impleasatiCy suggestive
of the "ticket-of-leave" system.
ADVENTURE WITH A BSAIL—The Avoca Mail has
the following "A weue•hat remarkable case of
presence of mind in a femslethearred near the township
on tlooday last. A young lady, desirous of • walk
after the heat of • day, took • egret!, book in hand,
along Vie we.tern bank of the Avoca. Fleing deeply
interested in the book the was reading. she heeded not
that her step. had left the heath track, and that,
instead of the winding pathway, she was wading through
the lung grass. Our heroine was proceeding st • very
leisurely p.m, when she was startled by treading on
thomethiog which gave abundant signs of life by • tooth
extraordinary pewee. of wrigelir.g, wiling, and uncoil-
ing, ell of which movements were performed simul-
taneously, and in so dexterous • manner as to be highly
amusing to any 1,011011 .ut no actor in the same.
Observing at the flint glance that she had trodden upon
• toi.ki?e neck, about an inch or an inch and • half
below Se head, and that from the position in which
it was then plinked it could not torn it. head sufficiently
to bite her, ehe bravely made up her mind to detain the
reptile a prisoner until thaistance •rrived, and with
*erten-like inuirege carried mit her ex...lotion. In
about twenty minutes' time she wag relieved from•her
arduous teak, mid the snake, which was nearly four
feet in length, was speedily dLmatehed with the thith
end of • fishing-rod. The danger pissed, the fair
stiller expressed herself none the worse for her
ad.th.in.L.lthough she declined to pursue her walk any
further that evening."
THE INPRACHNEXT OF PRERIDDIT JOHNsOL—Tt
appears that at the Republican caucus which wea held
before Mr. Ashley enbnitted his resolutions to the
House of Representative., considerable difference of
opinion se to the •thediency of impeaching the President
prevailed. This, however, is econinted for by the fact
that two-thirds of the Republican party were absent,
while the malcontent, tnade a point of being present.
During the brief discussion—chiefly on question, of
order—which preoeded the vote, the greatest anxiety
was manifeated by both the members on the floor and
the pehlie who crowded the galleries. The division in
the caucus scarcely papered them for the page of
I the impesehing resolution by no large a majority. Of
' course • bare majority was sufflaient, bet it is curionn
that the resolution was 'Jolted by a two-thirds vote.
These were the charges. as Kr. Ashley preferred them
against the Prmident charge him with Itherpation
of pawn-, and violation of law. In that he has abused
his aopointing power. In that he has corruptly wail
pardoning wththr. In that he Iths eorroptly disposed of
the public property of the Unitet States. In that he
has corruptly interfered In elections, and annsinitted
eat., and conspired with others to commit acts, which
in contemplation of the Constitution, are high crimes
and miadenthumere.

A &Mrs 111 THE A Witte LS SZNATIL —lf the
American people are not entirely blinded by parti•an
paesion, not entirely lost to. mom of the decent they
will hang their heads in shame when they fully
appreciate the monstrous conduct of 001130 if th.ir
representatives in Congress. A cc so took place in the
home on Saturday, that is entirely without parallel in
the history of rep...tentative government A debate
bed •risen between Thadden. Ste it Mr. Spalding,
the letterer, Ohio member. Stevens had aceneed Spalding
of "Conservatism." and attempted to explain the word
of "Radical." " Radical." be Raid, "meant • root."
Then followed remarks which cannot even he alluded
to. The Raditsl leader Stevens, aged 79, and his
opponent Spalding, aged 68, handled obscene jests con •
seining the malarial minks of old age—vile and filthy
jests Ruch so sometimes fall (coin the lip, of prostitutes
Is police courts and "rough." at prise fights, hut which
never see the light even in the columns of the Sisiteloy I
Pea. These foul quips produced, we are told, in the
House, "roar, of laughter, which the Speaker vainly
endeavoured to suppress." The official report allades
to the Speaker as "hammering continuously, but vainly,
with hit gavel." to drown the shouta of the honourable
gentlemen. Saab doable catewalre wee received with
screams 01 delight. Tbe galleries, duels, 'he whole of
the performanee, were crowed with 6ai., who amid
hardly have been ignorant of the meaning of the foul
language used by the rival disciples of Tomas' ; and
them ladies were the wives, sisters, daughters, or friends
of the honourable gentlemen below. If the worship of
Priapus is to be istabliehed, and the Boum chamber
made Its temple, the people should know it in order to
avoid stumbling upon reports of the prooeodinga —New
York Correepowdeet.
Evict/rum or Two Faxrcu SOLDIIIII. —The two
soldier.. Cie.' end Agoetlol, voltigeurs of the Id and
3d regiments of the Imperial Guard who were sentenced
to death for the murder*. atteek Is the eineehop of •
men named Vitt., at Champeret amnia weeks since,
on the morning of the 21st at Vincennes. After heating
mem in the chapel, Clod asked fore morsel of breed and
• glass of brandy, land both culprits were 'applied; the
former also smoked a cigar un his way to the oleos ef
execution. On the prhion.ran reaching the ground, and
the prisonere attended by their chaplains, quitting it,
the drums beat, and trumpets sounded, along the whole
line of troops amembled to witness the ereeltdoo, Oen.
darnies approaehed aosi and Agostini to bandage their
eyes. Cimi refused this ernes, Agoatini accepted. The
.rtia., a 11,. maw., c.as iy which they were
sentenced was read aloud, at the termination of which
the chaplains requested to be allowed to pray once
more with them. Agestini at this moment fainted.
"Poor Agoetinl r exclaimed Cioel. Two privates
inunediats4 lifted the feinting man and bound him to
the poet. Ciosi, in • firm vice then took leave of hi.
comrades in a few touching words: "Comrades, I ask
pardon ef God and man. On my cense:loom I ani
putty of the crime. I led Agestini into it ;but I
I never bad the Intention of robbing. Adien my
iffieers ! adieu. my comrades r When hemmed speak-
ing two adjutants raised their swords in ciente.
Firing was beard. Both men fell at once. Two
physieinns walked up to ascertain their death. Agoatini,
still bound to the stake, yet lived: he was instantly
shot through the head. Clad bed fallen on his fem.
The ten thousand men with their bands playing and
minors lying, were then marched put the Weeding
b dim, the regiments to which Ciotti and Agoetini had
belonged marching at the head of the line.

THS 8011111Wo Of • • LOSS or Thee.
HORDISD LAIL t most appalling digester hes
om-arred on the 11limimippi river. Tim steamer Fashion
waa burnt, and of 400 pertains on board more than MO
lives were lost, the safety of 4001 the pameopre only
having thee far brief amounted for. The accident
oecurred when the vessel was about seven miles above
Bowe Rowe, the Its being ceased by sparks from the
chimney. It spread with mob rapidity !beg the
toebook it were°, no avail, end the oast sod pewee.
had to be abandoned to their We. The Fashion bcd
on board 4700 balm of ootton, which add.d to the Inry '
of the Mimes Th• cotton continued to barn efts, the'
steamer had been ran upas a bank. The boat iterlf
floated off soon dial and burned to the watm's ed.. The
cabin pamangere on board numbered onwr sae hundred.
Tbe dr.sit -prarrogers were nearly all ewe.. Their
leaped wil•fly into the water, and very few, if any of
the., ThePSSPS. to •ftepe the Samos
beekvads and forwerik warmly knowing whif,h,
mclii drhign foto • more 0.P0.$ mem, mbee ti„.;
would leap overboard sad prick. The pilot,
' Itabbigne, remained it his mad until driven off by the

Buses, Asia be walked Ii the stern and was sot NMI I
afterward& Mr. Fairfield, the engineer, stuck to the ;
engine until it was too late to escape, and perished in ;
; the Oxalis. The steward and wooed mate were also
lost. Cwt. Pratt saved several ladies by wading waist
deep into the river, putting them Into a yawl, and pad-
it with a portion a the etste-room blinds. The I
ladies were frem Mississippi. Captain Pratt was almost
dead eitit esbanstion, bat linidly succeeded in reaching
flat-n Rouge. Mr. Hastings, the mate, leaped iato the
water, sod relished the shore by swimming. k lady
passenger threw ber three children Into the river, and
then b&ped stem them. In,ei mother and one of the
ebil,ren were afterwards rescued but the two other
ehillren were seen no more. The panic on board the
steamer was fearful.

RE MARKA B LE RELIGIOUS OONFERENCE.
A conference of an extraordinary character was held
at the London coffee-house, on Monday. January 21st,
under the presidency of Mr. Edward MialL The object
of the meeting was to ascertain the extent and muss of
an alleged alienation of • large majority of Allied
arthans in England from our existing religious institu-
tions, and their indiffereece to public worehip in the
churches. The Attendance wag large. No resolutions
were noel, but the discussion was marled by the
freut exprinsion of opinion by various meeker.. Mr.
Thomas Paterson, • eabinetanaker, complained that
minieters of religion declined to interest theemelves, in
those greet questions of the dew. Working men felt
that the Established Church had usurped a plan to
which she had no exclusive right-(bear, hear)-and
that it used he vast bakeries for the benefit of one
particular clan to the inclusion of others-(one bear).
Then, as to the dissenting Owes of worship, those were
for the most part "religions shops•-(bear, bear) In
these places religion was served, is it were, "ecrom the
counter."-Mr. John Snag, in engineer, said an objec-
tion the working men had to going to plans of worship
was, that they believed tree Christianity was not, for
the moat pert, taught in them. They kept away from
chetah and chimel just for the =me reason as they hut
away from a shop where they got an adulteisted artiele,
or short weights end gumenre-(laughter, and bear.
hear). He, for one, believed that ministers did give
short weight and measure In relleoue matters. They
adulterated Christianity. -The Rey. Newman Hall
thought publie-houne and the degnoling %muniments
of the dm had much to do with keeping working men
uray from plane of worship.-Mr. Whitehead, an
engineer, considered that working men were made too
much the victims of religious institutions, and that
instead of ministers looking up to ',Caking men, they
diedainfully looked down upon them.-Mr. Swindle,
, mho an engineer, considered that the Church was rotten
to irs core. Bishops received their £16,000 • year,
I while the curates were starring. The Lord Chancellor
hal the power of tieing away livinp for the purposes
of political corruption. Noblemen who were gamblers
and supporters of the turf had sin the power of giving
away Church preferment.-Mr. M'Oregor advocated
open-air preaehing. Mr. Green, • tailor, thought the
root of the eeil was that many of the clergy were so
highly educated that their pari.hionere weld not
understand them-Mr. Wynn, • plasterer, said
ministers instead of making religion • pleasure to the
working men made it JIM the reveres. Then be
thought the press indulged se mush fain teaching on
the subjeet.-Mr. Bebbington, lately • oestermuger,
and now • bookseller's porter, looked upon the drinking
customs of the country as one of the greateet enemies to
religion. He complained that churches and chapel.
were not route comfortable for sushi,.' people. -The
Key. Dr. Miller, vicar of Greenwich, said although they
were not going to pus any reeolutions at this confer-
ence, yet he thought the verdict which they mart al
come to at the nese would be that there were faulte on
both sides. He nrimittel that there were gnat abuses
I. the Church, but he thought there were not now so
many as there were • few years ago. H. did not
hesitate to my the isle of livings was an amused
system-(hear, hear). He could not stand up in the
pulpit and preach to a tiongregatlon if be knew he had
bought them-(hear, hear). He thought the working
men asked too much-they waned • clergymen to be
perfect -(hear, hear, and no, no). Well, it had pretty
nearly some to that -Mr. George Potter suggested
that on some Sunday evening next month in all the
churches •nd 'hauls of the metropolis • sermon for the
working nun of London should he preened, and from
this he antieipsted the most beneficial results-(hear,
!intl).-Dr. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, said he
should offer no remarks upon the various criticisms
which bed been passed upon their profession-(lauthier)
-bet he most not be understood to acquiesce in all ,
those oritielems-(hear, hear). He bad come to this
meeting simply to learn, and to hear what were the
emu which alienated the working men from oar
religions institutions. The difficulty in the post Lad
been that the clergy very rarely had the opportunity of
exactly auerteining what it erne that the working
classes wanted, and in what rupee" religions ministra-
tions might be made more acceptable than they were at
present. He thought much good might result from
this merengue, as many remarks bad hue made which
would be of great benefit to the clergy. He had only
one questioe to ask, end that was, could any of the
working mes emut point out to him the mapper in
which the service. at Westminster Abbey could be made
more available and useful to the working classes than
they merest mann I If they could explain to him
how those services could be mad* more utractlve, be
should be greatly gratified to do what he could in the
emitter -(oheers). At the evening conference, Mr.
Samlens, who described himself as an ez-seavenger, said
the "drowsier's" of seine of the preachers was one
pried's' reason why the working cluses kept away
from places of worship-(lughter, end bear, hear).-
Mr. Beale@ said whether it was the system of pews, or
whether it was any other system, or whether it waa due
to the class distinction, drawn between them, there was
the faet that one of the greet reasons for the working
mem not attending our churches is they would other'
wise do win bemuse they did not feel themselves at
.me and comfort there -(hear, hear). Ho. was this
to be tut? Probably they were •ware that there mu
at thli moment a movement going on in the Church of
England for the ups ss porpoise of freeing churches,
and doing away with pews altogether. This was one
method of dealing with the matter, and is fat as be
knew the only way of dealing with it-(hear, bur).-
Mr. M•othweeney, a homed hawker, said never in the
history of this country had such • seene oecurred as
that which had been witnessed at Ibis conference to-
day. Tbe lion hid been aeon laying down with the
laseh--(langhter). The prints bad made the people
what they were, and the people had made the priests
what they MU% asd they were both met in solemn
"confab" to decide what they wore to do in the future,
lie expected great reunite from this oonferenee.-The
Rev. F. D. Maurice (St. Peter's Chapel, Vere-street)
did not anticipate any good result would come out of
this roweling, unless each minister would take home to
hirneelf the wrong" which were most •pplieable to his
own particular ease, and determine to amend those
wrongs in the fetus (bear, heir).- Mr. Lee (Man.
Chester) said many working men etayed away from
churches and chapels beaters they thought that if they
went it we. • profesaion of religion. They bad been
talking all day abut the working moo. He would ask
• question a' out the working wonien-(cheers). Did
they often get to pluses of worebip Certainly not.
One of the weak points of their Christian organisation
was not altogether in the men, but to • greet degree in
the women. Women madded the charecters of their
offspring, and if they wished the next generation to be
better in relation to religious matters, let thou look
well after their working women -(hear, hear). -The
Rey. Henry Sony (Working Men's Club and Institute
Union) said of the material difficulties of this question
the greaten were, first, want of free ettings ; secondly,
want a( more street preaching; thirdly, not seperatieg
oftener than was done the presehist from the worship;
and fourthly, the want of more places to which persons
could go in their working and dirty clothes.

PLAN OF THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

Mr. Fyfe gives the followiog description of the
Paris exhibition building In "The Globe Paris
Guide" • volume join fortbooming for • London and
Edinburgh bones:—

"The general arrangement of the Exposition is in
elliptical lines inscribed within the oblong space of the
Champ de Mars—the corner pieces being appropriated
an ornamental grounds on the Eastern half to the
Kmpire of Francis, with small portions at the top to
Holland and Belgium ; whilst the remainder on the
west are grounds appropriated to Great Britain, the
United BMWs, Austria, and Prussia. In the French
grounds, at the northeast angle. are an ornamental
lake and a waterfalL Advancinc a little distance
through those grounds, the visitor amves at the principel
entrance, where the first or outer elude of the elliptical
Tine. In which the promenades of the ezpositiou are
arranged commences. This is the covered promenade
exterior to the mein handing, and open to the orna-
mental grounds all round. Inadvertently we have
deeigriated the curvilinear figure of this building atone.
as • circle and mi an ellipse; and this as almost
mathematically c-irrooL The srrangemeuta of Its
detrains ends are seinicircular ; for the circles which
these two would compote have been cut asunder and
pushed aside by the interposition of an oblong rectangle,
which therefore crompiec the centre of the building, and
extends the general fienre nearly into the form Man
attires. The outer ring of the building, or mewed
Almon already spoken of. is •Iroost Entirely open to the
anterior garden, and presents a covered verandah. or
cloisters all round the building, formic, a promeouie
in whisk there are placed stalls for r4resharents, and
for the wale of neeemariee. These exterior space., are
not, however, the oely garde., spaces included in tbe
arransente is, We have alluded to the central garden
grounds bordering the A venue that traceries the longer
axis of the ground filen ; and in point of fact, the
Interior of the elongated circular space already dmeribed
is likewise laid out as a garden for the reception of
verities erections, which it would be Impossible advan•
Impiously to display in the covered galleries of the
Reposition, to which we are next about to refer. In
the four quarters of this garden there are four central
fountains.
. . .

Half the mmeentric sine or curvilinear galleries
within the area of the building being dedicated as
already Mated, to Ermine, with exception of one corner
appropriated to Helloed and Belgium —end them com•
prising all to the left of the longest dierneter—one•
quarter of the opposite half is next smigned to England
end her colonies. Then follows a small unappropri•
awl section, extending, se sll Ussae divisions do, from
the emirs to the circumference, for • reason that
will isnumediately be perceived ; and next comes a thin
wedge elicited to North America- We are now arrived
at the oblong intense:dice ; lbs first half of
the epees lueluded in which, upon this aids, is marked
off into eight smaller spares, belonging sucerseively to
Brasil, Northern America, Minion, with Central
Anieries, Milos sad its Wands, Chins, Japan and
Northern Asia group, I together, Persia and Petrel
Asia similarly united. Turkey, and, with ample vim
faciny the transept, Rase& On the other side of the
grand PuLir, • Vsce equivalent to the last ia riven to
Italy; so that the extremes of barbarism and
meat will be found confronted in the leading thorough-
fare of the Exposition. Then follow the Papal Mates,
Danubian °mem. Perinea, illsnin and
her colonies oomnleting the accupency of the oblong.
The wedge-like slimes, ettsading from centre to eiraum-
faience. thereupon resume with Sweden, and Norway.
next Denmark, thou Switzerland. Austria, and, of
considerably enlarged ditnenaions. the German Oonfede-
ration. and finally, Prude, which abuts upon the
austral avenue, with Belem on the onPwite kilos&

ISSW the arrangement into nationalities by mamas
; Sue &dims radiating from eentre to circumference,
; the curvilinear galleries running round the Expoeition
building In the concentrie rings, already qxiken of, are
, calculated to offord to the visitor also a continuous study,
In close ruesemion, of all the similar product. of
I differ ot (-cabbies. On mitering the main gateway of
the building, therefore, the visitor may, airoording to
his ohject or inclination, peruse the exhibition of
machinery, (nbireilled "se inatrinnente and operation@ of
art,") of raw materiala for manufactures, of article@ of
I clothing, of moveable artistes, of raw material. required
; for art, of moths of line arta, and of history of set,—
the.. being the microwave ring. comnieecing with the
I distended circuit of m.obinery immediately within the
; eater well, and ending with the more contracted rounds
siljoiring the fountain gardens in the centre. The
circuit in which the exhibition of maehinery le pissed
fnrms the treat gallery or principal hall of the 'Exposi-
tion. Within that, the raw materials winces tie

manufmtured products of the world are fabricated will
be found arranged in regular sequence. Within,
again, like the carvings is • Chinese pude ball, the
manufactured goods themselvta disposed coonfonnahly
to 'trial and rystematio arrangements. Within, maim,
around the open interior garden-ground, the paintings,
'agreeing., atatuary, and architecture 'mutilating ths
exhibition of specimens of the floe arta. Bo then the
clatter, in traveraing each particular gallery, may com-
pare. as In proceeds, the locomotives of England with
those of France and Belvieu ; the oillu of Ifmow, with
the*. of Italy and China ; the lice of Italy with that of
India and America; the cotton of America with that of
India and the Cape; and no with every department of
human Indust:l7 or skill, Mete or ability.
Conversely, if be would narrow down his observation
to the advancement in arts and sciences, in productive
skill and rmourors, nf any one country by itaelf, the
v4itor to lb. Expoeition has hot to radiate from centre
to circumference of that perticolar motion on whion his
attention may be fixed, when he will peas in aumeedon
into each extioa of the surrounding rings that repro.
sent it and it. producta. _ . . .

Th,s isaltoirether • eleembeatiew, no doubt, derived
from experience and observation Pf these great "world'e
fairs," which, it laud be admitted, is ennead, prfeet
as It is possible in each an enormous amembthge of
objects of interest and value. Thus, although France
was not tha first to orgsatiott and realise this grist
conception of our English Priam Consort, she may
probably b. entitled to the clam of having plowed math
an Espodtion on the best and moot szetematie footing
of arrangement, whether for Illustration or for useful-
ness, whether for sentsement or instruction.

EE. HOULE'S METHOD OF DEODORIZING
AND UTILIZING TOWN SEWAGE.

The following lettat by Mr. J. James, of
Halton, Tring, to Mr. Edward Boardman, architect,
Norwich, will be read with interest :
I am sorry that my other engagementa bane
prevented me from answering your letter of in-
quire before. I sui not surprised to Ind that Boards of
Health hesitate to adopt Mr. Motile's method of deodor-
ising and utilising town sewage, for the promise which
I. hell out to them, of easy application, at small wet,
dime the prospect of moans, wich is in reality ascertain
as the application ; hut I amt mamishad to Ind that
some of your neighbours have tried this method and found
It a failure. Tam, must have been a want of common
precaution, which has never bad plane here; for, as I
tell the Congrew: at Leamington. of all the foul smell.
which once afilictod this village, none remain at this
moment.

Some gentleman, you say, complain of the dust—tor
myself. I have been incommoded by it; but it is
as certain that dry earth will be doety as it 1. that
water must be damp, and I fancy as littleinconvenienat
will arise from the one se from the other. The
commode, with its attendant pail, is only adapted
for • sick room. For that purpnee it is one
of the pretest luxuries ever invented, and
no omticinan's house should be without one.
My experience confirms my first impression, that the nee
of the pail, as advocated by Dr. Hawkesley, and. I nor,
by you also, is a very great mistake—the greatest
mistake, in fact, which anyone advocating the earth
method win fall into. The nuisance and trouble of the
daily removal of deposits would be quite intolerable to
• household—insupportable in expense. and perfectly
unneaweary as • sanitary mamma. With rare ex-
ception., present arrangements may be adopted to the
- the •

new system, and the periods far idieLisiag esespits
would depend entirely upon their sins and the require-
ment. of the household they ar• intended to serve. The
deposit may be allowed to remain for any number of
years without the smalled annoyance to anyone—tbe
only presaution necessary being the exclusion of all
liquid steep' that which comes from the human body.
I have had no opportunity as yet of getting any per-
sonal experience of the value of the earth manure but
In the spring Ira dressings will be made on different
Drops with earth passed onto. twice, thrice, and four
limns through the emote- When the result has been
ascertained, I shall be pleased to communicate it to you.
What your engineer tells you about Manchester is
psi hotly true—it does cost them some thousands to get
rid of the Senses, which they very sensibly decline to
oast into the river; bet the eystem adopted there is as
such like Mottle's method as Greek is like Oolitic.
Heventyoween tbountnd privies are cleansed annually,
and the only dry stuff applied to the deposits is the fire
ash, in quantities wholly insufficient to absorb the urine
or to deodorise the soil. Taken in thin condition from
the wapiti iii, onfit for immediate applicotion to the
bind, cod so it is transported by railway to distant soils,
where the farmer has to do for it at great cost and
trouble, what might be done more profitably on'theepolo
by the continuous emanation of dry earth. The situa-
tion of your city, in the midst of • turnip growing
country. differs materially from that of Manchester,
where the land is cropped with tall chimney instead of
grain. In Ilanehetter, the condition in which the de-
posit. are when taken from the onapita, renders its in,
rippliate transport from the neighbourhood • matter of
necessity, but towns using the dry earth method may I
(pending • sale) store their manure in the very centre of
the population without any inconvenience.
_ . _ . . _ . . _

It is perfectly tree that the feelings of the real Con-
gress at Leamington was decidedly in favour of the dry
earth method, and it is equally true that the resolution
which WAS carried was in favour of tbe wet one.. I will
explain what I mean. The town of Leamington haa
singet, by means of sewers, to cleenee itself, and pO-
- the health of the inhabitants, at the expense of the
health and comfort of the Earl el Warwick. Litigation
followed, and the town's people were beaten and ex-
asperated. A local surgeon, a strong advocate of the
dry method, summoned • Contrives to consider the
question of sewage generally, and at the close of the
discussion the rose was crowded by those who had taken
no part :,nalt, and. had.sotElleuer me
ow..ordeori...adlythtlnagt
although engineers and their friends interested in costly
irrigation or filtration of works, edam finished or in
course of construction, atsembled in great force, it was
vtry manifest that the largest proportion of those who
took • real part in the Congress were in favour of the
dry earth method.
I Personally, I know nothing of what was done at
Alderehott, but from what I have beard I am induced
I to believe that the loss sustained by the Government
I must be regarded as another instance of War Offiee

If you gentlemen at Norwich do make up your minds
to give Noule's method • fair trial, I should reoctommend
you to have nothi, g to do with any professional man.
A emumittee of gentlemen interested in the •xperiment
with the aid of • journeyman carpenter to fit the closet
and a labourer of ordinary intellieenee, will constitute
all the seientiec foros required. You most observe that
the cost of an experiment in irrigation is told by thou-
sands, whilst the earth method may be fairly tried, at •
very small mat, in any chosen .pot.
The River Polluron Commision has given the poblie
the result of their investigations, and they strongly
recommend that the irrigation system, as practiced at
Croydon. should he the plan generally adopted through•
out the country, for preserving the health regardless of
the pockets of the people. The prospects held out be
this Complaint, (of which an engineer, be it observed, 1
i. at the bead) Cr. at very cheerful, that every one
liable to pay • rate to • Board of Health ought to read
It. They wholly condemn the many experiments whieh
have been made to disinfect or filter—both, they say,
have been costly failures. They report that there I. no
reason to summer, that irrigation by sewage I. prejudicial
to health; although one doctor at Norwood had In'
timated to them that a new form of ague which had
recently made it. appearsnoe there, might be attributed
to the vicinity of these works. The works., they admit,
may depreciate the value of property in the neiebbour•
hood. They say that experience hats shown it to be
necessary that the land to be irrigated should be ths
property of the town, and they recommend that Boards
should V. allowed to purchase on acre for every 50
people (1,51 X acree only for Norwich I). When this has
been purchased, and the sewers eonidruated in the
(vastly method intlieted by science, you bane the source
of .11 disease still festering and stinking in the midst
of your population. It is the dweller down stream only
who has been benefitted. The principle which the "dry
earth people" meek to establish is, that everyone should
be compelled himself to abate the nuisance he create.;
and th••re is no res•on why the Said should be treated
In a different manner to the smoke ultimo's.

The cams of cropping,is rye gran, produced in vest
qaanti ties, and then follows the el haustion of the ground
by means of root crop., to pi epare for further daft of
sewage. What effect the oinetsio repetition of thii
system may have, either on the productive qualities of
Um bud, or Use health of the neighbourhood, it Is not
poesiWe to nay; but there are eminent tastiest men
who tell us that cattle fed on the grass thus prodosse
are liable to filthy omiditions of the body, which they.
In their turn, will contribute to there who eat their
flesh. Th. Commiesienen obeerve upon certain neglect
of
precaution which will entail "unpleasant, if not mit'
•bievons, oonsequenees," and that the "model works of
Croydon" occasionally send of the water either turbid or
No
imperfectly eleaneed from sewage that it poil
both the river Wandle sod the atmosphere in the
'vicinity ;" but ell thin, they my. admit. 01 vvnisastictn•
" Einwtito irrigation," they tell as, " requires to he non-
dueled with street attentioe ; the .It. must not be too
near to dwelling.: adjoining wells mast be watehed."
Sxneros, of course, is no object anywhere ! "Bowser
I cep he pqmppd any height sad carried to any dishiest.
Its isonvano. therefore, to any point is snottily a
matter of cost." The irrigation system requirea, it
seems, anientiffe application, the costly services of an
r able professional, and a vast expenditure of money'
and for theft reasons it is rising (oh. one of the gr..'
I Institutions and monster nuisances of this engineer-
riddea country.

Fortified by thee* strong recommendations, the vivo-
Oa.. of irrigation assembled at Le reington in foil
force; the proems thee recommended wax simple •rid not
so very wetly alter all. Talk of smells I whoever heard
of each things at Croydon? No one—for the Croydon
people, with a regard for their nen health nod comfort
which they don't exercise towardn their neighbours, have
(the Covernimioners tell as) established 'heir irrigation
three miles froin their town. It was hinted that the
sewage gelds might he made into pleasant promenade.;
mid it was broadly stated that the principal drains were
the favourite haunta for trout. Here is an opportunity
for. peopl.'.parkll Bet, strange to say, the Com-
miaeirio which had heard all this recommende—Whist/
That the land to be irrigated shall he one u.ilu from the
town, and should Ile to the north or east of it. Why
because each spot. are, and always will be, destrusitive
I to the value of adjoining property, prejudinal to health.
and 'nuisance to everyone in the neighbourhood.

Court ant; jasbiatutiols Istrllignsts.

Paraca A Brain has paged a MOO asklufsaiory
examination before the Council of Military 741101ifoo•
aad will join tho }loyal Military Academy La February.

Tits Manchester Prioee Consort statue was unirsilod
on Wednesday. The etatne ores presented to the eitY
by Mrs. Geed.by, the widow el the gentleman who
Ethe einaroterdao tor it, end the ameneriel bend*
r. Paubeirn, c.s., on behalf of the sehowdlora.
Wpm', is the some of the sits, eemPtood b°ll'l4l/8•
and the proceedings, Irbieb were of • easy sin*
chareator, same to se mei.

NFL GLADSTONE AT Ploasiros.-11 Is ssidl that at •
dinner given in kr. Gladstenes honour by some
members of the Italian Parliament, the t boa
gentleman delivered a sposeh that imaibed the
of his entertainers. so intimate was tho sonasimianeo
displayed by the Faelish statesman with the
&ad literature of Italy. Unfortunately, It g117e.•
..t,lsJly roquoted on the pert of Yr. Gladstone that
DO writer should be present cm the oesesion.