The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-12-21 00:00:00

FAVICrIS

When is the hest time to read the book of Nature P
--When Autumn turns the leaves.
Why are women extravagant in clothes P—Because
when they buy • new dress they WSW it out On the
first day.
Sydney Smith wrote to • friend, "Unfortunately
ti home is full of cousins. Would they were once
removed!"
LEGAL.—When the lord Chancellor receives the
in hies to breakfast, does he regale them on the "Pre-
visions of the Law ?"
"I don't think, indeal, that you are
very smart."—No ind,vd, wife; but everybody
knows that I am awfully shrewd."
The latest invention is said to be ink made from
India rubber. It has been suggested that writers in-
cline I t 1.1" stretch a story" wid make great use of the
article.
11E1: ONLY FAULT.—Talleyrand said of Madame
de Steel, "She is really insupportable;" which he
after • short pause, by "but that's her
only fault."
When no prognostics of rain can be observed, if we
see • lot of 'ming fellows turn into • tavern, we may
certain there will be • few drops, even in the
dryad SeSSOR.
CRITICAL.—fi critic speaking of Sontag's vocalism,
says, " We hang upon every note."—" This," says a
1 contemporary, " is proof of the la ly's remarkable
power of execution."
Why is the letter R very unfortunate 11—Because it
is always in trouble, wretchedne,s, and misery, is the
besinn.ng of not and ruin, and is never found in
pence, innocence or love.
; NorEa AND GOLD.—If the young lady who recently
! inquired of us how she could best learn to sing will
' go sod give some music-master gold, he will probably
give her nets, in exchange.
CoLoNIE•nON.—A gentleman writing from Mon-
tana says he was introduced to fifty colonels out there
in one day. That being so, the relents/lion of that
territory must be going on rapidly.
WORDS THAT BURN.—" I cannot *OW the old
songs," sap • conscientious musical critic; but I
feel not the slightest compunction in converting ..he
great majority of modern ones into pipe-lights,"
NEAR 810IITED.—" you near-sighted, miss?"
sail an impudent fellow to • young lady who did not
Once choose to notice him,—" Yes; at this distance
I can hardly tell whether you are • pig or a puppy."
SINOULAR.—" Don't you take rather too muck
spirit for • single man r asked a kind man of one
who was indulging pretty freely.—" I beg, pardon,
sir, I have been married these ten years,' was the
answer.

PERFECTION OF FLATTERY. —One cold day 'set
mouth a very pretty girl stopped and bought • pw or
of a ragged little Iriah newsboy.—" Poor fellow, said
she, " ain't,you very cold?"—" I was, ma'am, before
you smiled, ' was the reply.
A LONG TOOTHACRE.—IIn old man, when reeding
the lives of the antediluvian patriarchs, declared "ho
wouldn't have lived in those days for all the world,
as • man stood • chance of haring the toothache for
more'n five hundred years."
FAit-FAlviiltD.—one of the young members of the
French legation, hard pushed for a compliment to •
fair lady whose face was marred by an undeniable
fiat nose, remarked, "Madame, you are an angel fal-
len from heaven, but you fell on your now."
CoMer.—A profound astronomer predicts that in
August next there will be • comet of such brilliancy
in the heavens, and so near the earth, that we shall
have our nights almost as bright as our days. Wel
are afraid that luminary will cows if too strong.
NATTY.—A lawyer being opposed by two counsel,
name I Natt and Campbell, after haring replied to the
arwiiments of the first, turned to the ju Ige, awl said,
"flaying disposed of the Nett without straining, if
the court please, I will now proceed to the deglutition
of the Campbell
ACCIDENT AND MleeOlretnre.—Pomp : "Cuff, can
you tell me the difference between an accident awl •
. _ _ .

inisfortune ?"—C.df: "Give. it up, Pomp. Con you 7"
—Pomp: "If you should full into the ribber, that
wo aid be an sod lent; if somebody should pull you
out, that would be a misfortune."
El rE ED.—The French are a cheerful race, and •
find a juke in things whore no other people would
think of looking for one. A short time since a
steamboat explosion blew a Frenchman's better half
into the bushes and eternity, whereupon the bereaved
husband exclaimed, "Farewell, my much a-sheeted
wife!"
CASTLE SOAP.—A cockney baronet sat near a gen
lleman at a civic dinner, who alluded to the excel.
lenre of the kuivos, ad ling, that "article. manufac.
lured from rust sicrl were of a very superior quality,
such ...razors, fork," Ay," replied the cock-
ney baronet, "and soap too—there's no soap like
"
THE ONLY POINT HE COULD NOT MEET.—A
beaten politician stated, as the reason for his defeat
in a debate, that his opponent had happened to state
just the only thing which he was not prepared to
meet.—" What was that 7" then inquired a friend.—
"The truth," was the reply; nobody over heard of •
politician stating the truth before."
A WRINKLE FOR NOVICES.—The misery of being
called upon suddenly to make a speech was ones got

REDUCI7OII 1 TUE Al4lY.—Tho Army and Nati
Gazette ways that two companies in each battalion
WV to he reduced, and that next raw the 3rd West
lanlia Regiment will not ho provided for in the army
estimates. It La now been finally decided to make
the 22ud Compauy of Royal Engineers into •comrany
to be specially engaged upon the national telegraphs,
when they are taken over by the Post-office authori-
ties,

A polineman has just been fined 40s, at Liverpool
for assaulting a woman. l'he prosecutrix Rim out.
side her own door, waiting for her husband to return
from buying some tobacco, when the officer came it
and dragged her forcibly arrOIS the street and took
hor it charge. The defendant raid he mistook her
for a woman who had just been quarrelling in an ad-
joining street. Ile had, however, after an orphans.
Lion had been made to him, charged her with pros.
titution.

At Hanley on Saturday an inquest was held on the
bodies of John Oliver and Wi'Nam Sheldon, colliers,
who had died in consequence of an explosion in the
Übberley Goliiery. The explosion occurred about a
month aim, and Oliver was no much injured that he
died • day or two afterwards. Sheldon died on the
Wednesday .—The Jury, after bearing the evidence,
found • verdict of accidental death, adding that if the
batty'." orders had been obeyed the accident would
not have happened.

• Lauri Dos uy's trion.ls say hA will not to any loads
lag part in tie political warrant next session.
The appointment of Dr. Charles Merivalo to alas
Deanery of Ely, in succession to Dr. Harvoy Goodwin.
now Bishop of Ca Lisle, is gAzetted.

The Senates of the University at Edinburgh has
decided ageing the proprisal of the University Court
to appoint the Principal to • lectureship on Political
Economy.
William Talbot, a stoker on board the steamship
Seine, front Ostend, has been fine I 1:100, or sit
mouths' imprisonment, by the Mansion House magi&
trite, for smuggling tobacco and cigar..
The splendid collection of old English plate, from
the time ot Qur'an Elisabeth to that of George IIL,
the property of Lord Willoughby De Eresby, remo-
ved from Griimitharpe Castle, was on Monday brought
under the hammer of Mesas. Christie, Manson, and
Wood; at the rooms in Kingatri.et, St, Jame'., and
realised high prices.
Toe Duran Adevrtiarr records the death of the Rev.
Ji.hn Robertson, a benevolent clergyman of the Es-
tablished Curds of Scotland, and gives numerous
anecdotes of the deceaa-d. He was one day accosted
by • poor man in the street for an order to get ad.
minion to the infirmary. Not having writing ma-
terials about him he asked the man for • piece of
chair- The chalk was produced, when Mr. Robert-
sou wrote on the applicant's back "Adout tho
bearer,—J. R."
SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OP LlFE.—lnformation
was received at Lloyds on Wednesday moruingof the
loss of the Leith Packet and all hands, off Holyhead.
The barque Victoria foundered off Hartlepool after
collision with the brig Emily Stewart, ot Shield.;
and the brigantine Talitha, of Hartlepool, and the
schooner Adine, of London, have been lost upon the
Suffolk coast. The crews were saved. It is &leo feared
that the schooner Unity, of Great Yarmouth, has been
lost, with all bands.
THE GOVERNMENT AND IRISH CHURCH COMMIT-
TATION.—At the Cashel and Emly Diocesan Synod,
the Rev. Dr. Foley stated, "upon excellent authority,"
that "Mr. Gladstone is about to propose, early in the
next session of parliament, that the commutation for
Irish clerical incomes shall be calculated at the rate of
ill instead of 3{ ;air cent. This would give (our col,
respondent writes) • largo additional amount to the
church be ly, and proportionately increase the security
yon commutation to the Irish Church clergy.—

THE LIBELS ON SIB J. ILAWLEY.—The proprietor
of tho .spunin- Tants has been found guilty of a libel
on Sir I. Hawley, and sentenced to three months'
imprisonment, and to pay a fine of Z5O. The printer
of the paper pleaded guilty, and was allowed to enter
into his own recognisance' to appear and receive
judgment when called upou.—ln addition to the we.
truces pawed on the proprietor and printer, Gilbert
Robbins surrenuerml and pleaded guilty to a libel
against Sir J. ilswiey, on the same matter, in a pub-
lication called we Man alma Tonal. Tile defendant
was tined .C2S, which was immediately paid, and ho
we discharged.

TILE WINE AND BEER HOUSES ACT.—What
would seem to be an important defect in the Wino
and Beer Houses Act, 1569, was disclose I in a cas •
which came before the Irrods Si ipontliary MagiArato
on %Vodumslay. Tim defendant, who was a brewer,
was charged with having sold beer retail (for out
consumption) under a licence which was null and
void because Ito (the defendant) had not obtained a
Justice? certificate. The tlefon -owes that the hicenee
was granted under the provisions of the 6 Geo. IV.
cap. I, see. 2, whim ° was alleged to authorise the
En the "to grant a licence to any brewer of beer for
sale who shall retail inch beer to be consume.' else-
where than on his premises." Mr. Bruce had been
unable to din-ever that this provision had been re.
pealed—it is certainly not seheduled in the Wine
and Boer Howes Act, 11-69—and the summons was
&emir&

SID /LIKING ACCIDENT NEAR NUNEATON.—An ac•
relent, moulting in the death of two men and serious
njury to • third, happened on 'Nealay afternoon, at
Lie village of Higham-on-the-Ilill, Leicestershire. A
new line of railway from Ashby-de-la-Zonch to Nun-
eaton is in ronne of construction, and some twenty
or ili•rty labourers were employed in ntaking a cutting
and tilling waggons with tire imiL Job Wopples, of
Attleborough, and Leonard Wiston, of Wolve, were
tie hit to complete tire " till," and, whilst they were
working on the bank and pitching in the dirt, the
ground .lipped from beneath them. Weston was in-
.tautly buried in the earth, arri Wopples was preripi.
fated violently ag tinst one of the waggons, wlii-h
broke hi. nticX and kille I him on the spot. Weidon
was immediately dug out, but on examination was
found to be dead. Another man, named Merrick,
smitainod severe injuries.

A Wi WEN'S SUITCAGE EIEETINO.—The annual
meeting of the Wumen'eauffrige Society was held at
Manchester, on Wednesday, in the Town H 11. The
company included Miss Lydia Becker, Miss Lilian
Ashworth, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bright, M.P., Mr.
Charley, M.P., Mr. Ryland', M.P., and Dr. rank-
burst.—The Mayor presided, and stated that in the
prospect of having • bill acteally before Parliament
to remove the electoral disabilit es of women, the
committee had determined to form a guarantee fund
of not less than .E 5,000 and five persons had agreed
to give £lOO each to this fund.-11r. P. Hyland",
M.P., moved that the report should be adopted,
printed, and circulated.—Mr. W. T. Charley, M.P.,
ffecouded the motion, which-was unanimously agreed
Pankhurst moved the secoud re=ointion—
That having regard to the iciest sdvanee in public
oMnion shown in the unanimous aement of both
Houses of Parliament to the proporal of Mr. Jacob
Bright, Sir C. W. Diffie, and Mr. Bylands, for et.
ten ling the municipal franchise to women, this
meeting, while gratefully acknowledging the emi-
nent services rendeied to the same by these gentle-
men, respectfully re !nests that they take steps for
the introduction of • bill into Parliament for secur.
ing the parliamentary franehise to women." The
motion was seconded by Miss Lilian Ashworth, and
agreed to.—Mr. Jacob Bright, )LP., in moving the
appointment of a committee for the ensuing year,
congratulated the society upon the remarkable energy
and ability it ha I displayed in the part it had taken
in conducting the agitation. Ile had freqw ntly been
I connected with various public bodies, but he consul.
sired third, the society, considering its limited means,
had done more in the short time it hal now been in
existence to impress its views upon the tablic than
any association with which lie had ever been con-
nected. He was of opinion that the time was not
very remote when women householders would be ad-
mitted within the political pale.
TILE COLAWL&L QUESTION.—On Wednesday after-
noon • deputation of persons interested in the colo-
nies waited on Earl Granville. Amongst those pro.
sent were tee Duke of Manchester, Lord Bury, Lord
Milton, and the Hon. Arthur Kiunaird. Lord Bury
edd the deputation waited on him in consequence of
the despatch received by him from Lord Granville,
in answer to a circular. That circular was misunder-
stood, as the gentlemen named were very desirous
of working with Iler Majesty's Government. It was
obvious from the tune of the public press that times
were changing with regard to the coiouies, and that
the Colonial-uffice slion.d be alive to that fact.
despatch of Lord Granville hat pet an end to the idea
of a conference from the various colonies, and that
would not be carried out unless with his Lordslep's
sanction. Mauy of the coloniei were represented at
the mewling, and their representatives would like to
speak.—Mr. Edward Wilson said nothing was further
from the thought than that the circular alludol to
should take an antagonistic shape. lliere was fear
In the minds of many of the colonists, as the very
thought of disruption was painful, and they thought
that if such • policy was at all contemplated, they
ought to be informed of it. They now wished bap.
proach the subject with the greatest respect, but
nest emphaticaly said that the colonies hail outgrown ,
.he present system. Colonies moved with a more
rapid stride than old countries like Eugland. lie had
spout the best part of his life to the colonies, and
though only five yaws in England, he felt that he
was dropping out of date.—Lur I Granville would
like to know a case where special local knowledge
was required.—Mr. Wilson, continuing, said that they
thought the colonial empire WM no vast that they
ought to be connoted. Nobody could alter the con-
viction of every colonist that the time Lad come for
some modiftcatoit of the present eye tem,—The Duke
of Manchester said that both political parties con-
Aerate referred to the colonies, and all parties said
that the present tiptoe' was unsatisfactory, and even
Lord Granville's despatches acknowledged as much.
His Lordship had askol for details. Ile would allude
to the fisturbance in the Bed River settlement. The
territory was said to be very fertile, and the whole
empire leis intr rested. There were quostious of coo
tome duty. l'olmiee nino raise • itTentle, and the
customs were easily collected. If the comlles were
represented here, and able to consult with liar Ma-
isetye Government in this country, and with the
nseeeeentatives et other countries, much good would
e therezrom. All they came here to ask was
that some MOWS shoLdd be taken of devising a more
practical and sated...tory vstem.—Earl anieyak,
objected to a standing Colonial Committee in Eng-
'mil, which would, be said, embalm'. this country.
ilie did not bedew, the ooloniste wanted it. All co.Thekollitisbma.but Nbeevirw”ti:laDEagubadd weresadon
tmfriticejeandlissatelatithapena
were leetiO4

The sospeoidon is reported of Maar% Ks oleroy,
Hamilton, and Co., manufacturers, of Gla.gow, with
considerable liabilities, of which it is said £6OOO to
£7OOO fall in Manchester.
Tint MINT.—It ha. been rlecided to make no zeo.
appointment to the office of Master of the Mint. The
present Deputy-master, Mr. Freemantle, will preeide
over the establishment, which will be attached to the
Treasury.

A fire, which at one ttmo threatened to annum an
alarming aspect, °warred in a portion of the locomo-
tive works at Crewe on Sunday morning. The dam-
age is ostimated at about 4:500.

j A fir tree, 139 feet high awl 71 inches in diameter,
has recently been felled in the woods belonging to the
family of Zichy, at Ansa, in Hungary. It has been
taken to llamburgh to be formed into a mast.
A fish hawker at Castle Eden, named Adam Don.
kin, has been sent to gaol for two months, without
the option of • fine, for maiming • horse by Culling
four wounds with a knife on its hind quarters.
The steamer Brussels made the voyage from New
York to the Mersey in seven day, twenty.three hours.
flu the 9th with a south-west wind, she steamed 371
nautical miles, and on the following day she logged
365 miles.

Four men hare died of Asiatic cholera, almost slid.
delay, at the Moscow Stile-ay Station.
It is said that Lord Spencer has no intention to
retire from the Viceroyship of Ireland.
A Scotch clergyman, the Rey. John Thom, M.A.,
Presbyterian, has been drowned in Richmond River,
New South Wales.

The Guardian rates that Dr. Temple has been
eleoted • member of the oewgoverning body at the
Westminster

Four eases of pleurapnemonia were reporte lon
Wednesday m having broken out on different farms
in the neighbourhood of Royton.

It is said that • Russian line of stearners frtm the
Black Sea to Bombay, ria the Suez Canal, is about to
be established, with contracts already made by one
house at Moscow, to ship 4,000 bales of cotton per
week.

It is confidently reported that Lord Courtonay, the
member for East Ttevon, will apply for the Chiltern
Hundreds immediately on the smembling of parlia-
ment. Mr. Wade who fought a severe oontest at
the last election, will again be the Liberal champion.

FATURR IGNATIUS BRINGING AN ACTION POE
LIBEL.—The Chum Nora annonnoes that the Bev
J. L. Lyne has commenced an action for libel ageing,
Colonel Brockman. A letter from Mr. Lytle. father
intimates that the Archbishop of Canterbury approve.
this step.
A man named Jeremiah M'Crawan, who was for-
merly a commissionaire, but left the corps six months
ago, was, fined 8.. and meta at Marlborough-street,
on Wednesday morning fur wearing a oommission.
sire's uniform without being authorised to do to.
Mr. Tyrwhitt laid that in future • fine of 40a would
be inflicted.

'lle late Mr. Thos. Elder, of Edinburgh, has be-
queathed to the home mission scheme of the Fee
Church £l,OOO, a like .ton to the foreign migsion
building fund, £lO,OOO for the endowment of the
national scieuce chair at New College, aud £lO,OOO
f.r that of a territorial church and manse in Fain.
burgh or Leith.

Prince Charles of Roumania (says the Eastern Msg.
go t) officially announced that the diamonds presented
to him and the princess on their marriage will he re-
garded as crown jewel.; and the princess has invested
a bum of 111,000 francs for the benefit of eight poor
girls of the capital, to whom the interest of this sum
is to be paid annually,

Titg Dir)1:1101 CoRTDON.—There is no truth ia
the statement that Corydon has been on a Govern-
meet mission to Cork, lie has boon living at a sea-
port town about 70 miles from Loudon for many
mouths, and only left for • few hours to identify
"Colonel Kelly." Corydon is tiring on • Govern-
ment pension of £250 ayes:.
Two parties of litigants in Pnla,ki County, Ken-
tucky, met in Somerset, and, after a preliminary
fight, opened fire upon each other and kept it up on-
td three were killed, and one mortally 'rounded,
when being out of ammunition a truce was agreed
to. They were abo.,t to renew the fight on °lit iin-
ii.g ammunition, when they wore warned off by
armed citizen,.

Tlie Government is getting erolit for a sincere in-
tention to re Ince the estimates in ipatters where its
designs are not too well appreciated. The Br o
Are believes that the new budget will show a re-
duction of fire millions in the annual expenditure.
It is hardly probable, however, that the estimates are
so far advanced that the actual amount of the reduc-
tion can be correctly quoted.

Mr. Bawlinson, C.E who was appointed by the
Homo Secretary to inquire into the complaints of the
people of Barking with reference to the allotted rollu.
ton of the Thanies by the Main Drainage Works, has
pre.ented his report. He considers that the abseneo
of any system of drainage in the town of Barking is
more prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants than
the proximity of the (unfelt of the London sewage.

•
Accounts from [insane describe the detection of
enormous Custom House frauds through the vigil'
see. of Senor Santos. a newly-appointed intendent,
This will be followed by many reforms, and the inten.
dente, it is said, will almost immediately have ready
for publication "a new tar if and now regulations
giving many facilities to foreign commerce and its
went@ among the fair dealers never before known in
Cuba."

DEATH OF IN. DANIb WILLIAMS, M.P.—On Wed.
nesday afternoon, Mr. David Williams, M.P. for Merl.
onethabire, dioil at Castellilandraeth, in his 77th year.
Dweased unsuecessfully contested the county twice,
but was returned at the last eli3ction as the first Libe-
ral representative of Merionethshire in Parliament.
Owing to continued ill-health, Mr. Williams vote I but
once last year, viz., in favour of the second reading of
the Irish Church Ili%

Another wrions nun &trident ham orrurred in
Devonshire. Dr. Preston, of South Brent, Captain
Kelly, the Rev. W. S. Cole, and Mr. 11. Cole, soliei.
tor, formed a shouting party. The last-named gen-
tleman fired at a snipe, and unhappily shot Dr. Pres-
ton, who was concealed from view in an adjoining
meadow. Some shots lodged in one of his eyes, en-
tirely destroying tho eight; other shots struck the
Bev. Mr. Cole, bat without doing injury.

The Orchestra rays that a German gentleman with a
statistical turn of mind, named Klein, has had the
patience to reckon up what he considers to be the
entire number of operatic scores in existence, and he
declares that no len than 6,000 "have inundated the
musical world during the last century and a half....
Calculating that each opera or operetta contains
twenty melodies--certainly a most liberal supposition
—he conclude that since the year 1720 no les, than
120,004) operatic melcslies have been compose].

. .
A correspondent of the Guardian publishes, anent
the Synodical oondemnation of "Essay. and Re.
views," without Queen's license the following legal
opirron by Lord (thee June, 144) Sir Hugh Cairns,
and Sir (then Mr.) John Rolt :—" We are of opinion
that the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury
is not e-topned by the 25th Henry VIIL, cap. 19, or
by any other statute, from expressing by resolution
or otherwise their condemnation or disapprobation
of • book, although no special Royal license is given
for the purpose."

MAnriLidiE 01 DYEca MAN. The Ncw York
papers received report the death of Mr. Richardson,
of the New York Triblosr, who was wounded by a
jealous husband named M'Farland. When his state
was Each that he was not expected to live many
hours, it was thought desirable that the patient
should be marriod to Mrs. Sage, whom M'Farland
claims as his wife. Mr. Ward Beecher and the Rev.
0. R. Frothingliam were sent for, and the ceremony
ed. The physicians were in waiting (says the
i'Ze:st), and after Mr. Richardson had been made
as presentable and comfortable as circumstances
would permit, the clergymen were admitted to the
sick chamber, and stood by the sufferers bedside,
while Mrs. Sage sat near, clasping the right band
of the patient, &nil the numerous prrvonal friends and
relatlves present stood at the door and around the
bed. The marriage service then followed. The new,
of the MaRilWO was communicated to Mr. M.Farland
in prison the same day. The next day Mr. Richard-
, son died.

A few items from Rome are furnished by the Tat-
The Holy Father sent for the Archbishop of
Westminster and Monsignor Mermillod, bishop co-
adjutor of Geneva, immediately on their arrival in
Rome and, after commending with great cordiality
the zeal with which they have defended apostolic
truth, expressed the peculiar totisfaetion with which
be welcomed the chief pastors of two dioceses which
were not represented in the Council of Trent.—Three
Aviican clergymen of the High Church party, dale-
gs.l by their co-religionists, are expected in Rome
shortly. A Greek schismatical archbishop, accom-
panied by several bishops of his communion, is also
expected.—The Holy Father has appointed a special
commission for the prosecution of highly important
investigations. The members of this commission are
Monsignor Manning, archbishop of Westminster;
Monsignor Dochamps, archbishop a Mechlin; Mon-
signor Pie, bishop of Poitiers; Monsignor Plantier,
bishop of Nistnes; and Monsignor Mermillod, bishop
of Hebron. The meetings are held daily, at the
residence of the last-named prelate."
Tint IMPRInriNED NUN AT ERACOW.—Tho caw
of Barbara Übryk, the nun whose ill-treatment crea-
ted so much sensation throughout Europe not very
long ago, came before one of the courts of knitioe In
Cra• ow On the 25th of last month. The present and
the late superiors of the convent in which she was so
long confined were charged by the public prosecutor
with having illegally and cruelly imprisoned and
otherwise maltreated that unfortunate sister, but
the court derided that it could find nothing criminal
in the conduct of the accused, and so they were sea
at liberty. An appeal, however, has been lodged
against this decision, so the case is not finally dis-
posed of. The number of pamphlets and photographs
which it called forth during the summer was aston-
ishing. Among the publications devoted toll's poor
nun's story was one which bore upon its covers •
picture representing • young man looking with •
face of horror at • half-clothed madwoman the
tenant of • loathsome celL The picture is supposed
to depict some episode is Barbera Uttryk's career,
but readers of Mr. Harrison Ainsworth's reensmose
roogniewl in it an engraving which had already
dots, good service in England under the tithe al
" .lac Slimpard's intscusw with his =Um la tie
madhousa."—Gisk.