The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-10 00:00:00

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Bannarrra. William Sutton, Yeovil, groom ;
George Persona, Alton. bootmeker ; Henry Tomer,
Bath, baker; John Cull, Holt, innkeeper.

Lau anti Crum.

TRADIS OUTIAGEB COMMISSION. - A coommisslon
similar to ttat reeently held at Chefliold is Fitting at
Manoheeter, to inquire into the operation of Trades
Unions in Lancashire. Evidence has been elicited of
strike.. outrages, and coeroive prooeedings, under the
auspices of the bri hauliers' union..

S-I.DING BAD MEAT TO LosDoN.7-Mr. Kennard

Knott, a wealthy farmer, living near Yenvil,.en some
bad meat from his farm to Neweate market, and was
brought up at the Guildhall on Thursday. lie was very
ready to pay a fine, but Mr. Alderman Lusk Ir..ew that
• fine would be a fleabite, and mot the grazier to gaol
for a month. Priamser exclaimed, "Why not transport
me at once r and was removed in costody. The meat
was from the camases of cows which had died by being
" blown" with too much g•een clover; and it is to be
said for Mr. Knott that he ate of the meat himself, sal
wilted some for his own family. Perhaps, says the Daily
Telegraph, Mr. Knott is no epicure in beef; at any rate
he seems to have forwarded to London the condemned
portions of the carcase; and he suffen. accordingly.
KILLING KABPITS IN THE HARVEST FIELD.—HaIf-a-
-dozen reapers were brought before the Cirencester magis-
trates last week, charged with "trespassing in pursuit I
of game," Ace, by Lord Gifford's keeper. The men were
working on their reader's farm, rented from Lord
Gifford. A. the corn was cut hare. and rabbits ran out,
and the men sent their doge after them. Lord Gifford's
gamekeeper, by his lordship's order, watched the men,
crouching under • wall for four hours, his patience being
rewarded by seeing two rabbit, killed. It was strongly
contended by the defendants' counsel that the um did
not come within the statute, and that it was • "misera-
ble prosecution." The farmer who employed the men,
Me. Thayer, deposed that be lewrrilevenhe do
ismfeennda peora-
miudon to kill rabbits;
were convicted and the nominal fine of 61. each and
outs inflicted. Mr. Theyer instantly paid the money.
The Worksop magistrates have fined • man 11.. and
costs, with the alternative of 21 days' imprisonment,
for having three rabbit, in his pocket. The man pleaded
it was snowed to catch rabbits in the harvest field, but
it w•s not listened to.
WHiT IS "FANCT" BREAD The Leicester
magidrates have lately had brought before them oases
of selling "otherwise than by weight," and, of mum",
the question of "fancy" bread has been raised. The
Bench adjourned the canes for a week to ascertain what
kind of loaves odne under the demoninalion of "fancy"
bread, and on Friday the following judgment war
read :—"The magistrates have thought it desirable to
direct enquirie• to be made of general bakers in London.
as to the ref:eve:ad meaning of some of the term. used •
in the Act of Puliament, under which informations
were laid against Mr. Con, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Cross,
for the offence of selling bread otherwise than by weight,
and which were heard before the mandrake on Friday I
last. The 4th uction of the 6 and 7 William IV.. ch.
37, directs that no bread shall be sold in any other I
manner than by weight, except French or fanoy bread,
or roll,. It, therefore, beeomes important to consider
what meaning is attached in the trade to these terms, as
it is evident that they were words well known to the
trade at the time when the steed* was passed • sand
the result of these enquiries is, that fancy or F;eneh
bread is commonly understood to consist of cottage and
tin loaves, bricks, and French rolls • and that the
distinction between fancy and French breed and house-
hold bread does not consist in the mode in which the
dough in kneaded, but in which the dough is made up
Into bread The magistrates would have had some
doubt whether the mere baking of dough in • his, if
mode in the some way as household bread, would have
been conedered as French or fancy bread, from the
mere difference of the one being baked in • tin and the
other on the hearth, and would have been disposed to
think that the proper mode of providing for the extra
lons in weight, arising from the mole of baking, would
have been to charge • small additional pries for a 414
loaf baked in the tin . • but after the evidence given by
Mr. Headley— who has been in the business for more
than twenty years, and who has since retired, and also
the custom of the trade in London, and the result of
the enquiries made there—the mandrake its of
opinion that in the absence of any judicial interpreta-
tion of these terms by any of the Superior Courts, it will
be their duty in prosecutions under • penal statute,
and in a question affecting the general management of
an important trade, to give the defendants the benefit
of any doubt that may exist, and to dismiss the infor-
mation against Mr. Adams for selling • cottage loaf,
and against Mr. Con and Mr Cross for selling broad
baked in • tin. The magistrates think it right, how- •
ever, to state, that all persons entitle breed otherwise I
than by weight, will be liable to the Penalty imposed by
the Act, and that the Court of Queen's Bench has
severely decided that selling by the 'quarter° loaf'
is selling by denomination and not by weight, and
consequently an infringement of the provisions of the
Act."

11-1011111BLZ MIIIIDBI Or A WOMAN BY A FAINCBMAN.
=For some time past • man, named Louis Bordier,
axed 35, • native of Frame, and by trade • currier, has
, resided at No. 3, Millstead-terrace, Church-street, Old
Kent-road, with a young female named Emma Snow
(the niece of the landlady), who had for some years
cohabited with him, and by whom she had three
children. After supper on Monday Bordier and the
young woman end children retired to rest. About
five o'clock on Tuesday morning, the man got of bed,
, and in doing so awoke the woman. She mid, " It's too
soon to get up yet--come to bed again." After a
short time the man again went back to bed, and
the woman dropped off to sleep. About six
o'clock she was awoke by feeling • hand grasp
her tightly by the head, and on looking up saw Bordier
with • knife in his right hand. He pulled back her
head and drew the knife urns' her throat, from which
the blood spurted out. She struggled with him and
mansged to get out of the room into the passage. She
put her handsup to her throat, which she tightly grasped.
She then made her way up mine 20 stens to the room
occupied by hire, Snow, the landlady. She awoke Mrs.
800., who seeing blond oozing through her fingers
asked her what wan the meter, She replied"Oh, see
,
what Bordier hes dams," and got into bed with her aunt.
The latter then perceived that her throat was out in •
dreadful manner. lira. Snow made an alarm, and the
police arrived with Dr. Simpson. In the bed.room where
the aunt had slept Emma Snow was lying with • fright-
ful gash in her throat, quite dead. Hardier afterwards
came upstairs, and, in answer to Mrs. Snow, who ride
"Oh, what did you do this for?" he replied, "I have
i done t. I could not help it, for I could not pert from
her." In the front parlour, where Bordier and the
unfortunate woman had slept, the police found on the
floor, covered with blood, • large sharp knife, such as
would be used by • currier in his trade. The bed clothes
were stained with blood, marks of which wire about the
floor, along the passage, and upstairs
to the aunt's room.
It seems further that owing to some quarrel between
them the woman had threatened to leave him, and went
so far as to give him a week's notice. From the state-
ment made by ones( the children, • girl about ten years
of age, it seems that Bordier. after having tut the
woman's throat, peened into the hack parlour. R.
stooped down on the bed where the child was lying
and seizing her by the throat, pushed her head back,
looked her full in the fees. After remaining in this
Position • few momenta, he suddenly threw her bask
and add, "Lay down again." At that time he held one
hand behind bim, in which she naiad the haadla of a
knife. He did not touch her or say another wad, but

left the room. On being questioned el the palm th
.an, who did not at first seem distressed in mind, es
to feel the dreadful position in whicilt be was phiesd,,
said, Yes, I did it., and the knife is the ens you hoes
that I end it with. Hs then begged to be taken toss.
the women before they took him away. This wee
done, and on the. way upstairs prisoner said be hoped
she would not live. The prisoner was then removed irs
custody. It appears from letters found in the apart-
ments of Hardier, that it ass his intention to kill his
throe children and then commit suicide. He took up.
the little b.bv in his arms for the purpose of cuttint
its throat, but just as he was about to raise the knife
to accomp'ish his object the infant looked at him and
smiled. This seems to have so utterly cverpowered
him that he plated it Iviicir in the bed, and left the
IWO).

THs BRITISH Assocuanos.—The opening meeting of
the British Association for the advancement of scien.,
took place at Dundee, on Wednesday. Sir Roderick
Murchison, in the America by illness of Mr. Groves,
the former president, opened the proceedings. Sr
David Brewster wra wised with • fainting Bt, and was
removed to his hoteL lie is recovering. The Duke of
Buotileuch, the new president, delivered his inaugural
Andreas. He said it had been the custom of former
presidents to deliver on such orseasions an elaborate
address. For such a task he felt himself quite
unqualified. He would rather fail in speaking • few
words from his own head and heart than aeocesd by
borrowing the thoughts of others, and depriving theft
of the fruits of their own toiL He felt that one of the
greatest gifts which Providence had bestowed on mars
was intellectual power. It was one vouchsafed to few,
end happy were they who exercised it aright. In con-
Denims with this remark, the Duke alluded to the death
of Faraday, one who, though of bumble origin, bad
risen to the highest distinction an • man of science. He
went on to say that he was one of those who held that
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seconded, • vote of thanks to his Grace, and the meeting
separated. The work of the sections commenced on
Protester Phillips movedc:,l7.7ensibtjtehyeraPiDdreovslesmnntaocksbaigno:n;lheese:
Thursday. Professor Rankine is the president of the
Mechanical Science section, and in opening the proceed-
ings be gave • summary of the researches made and
reseeded sines 1853 in hydraulic engineering and in 'hip
building and *num navigation. The reports aid
achieves of the British Amociation contained perhaps
the greatest mass of data of experiment and practise
ever brought together for the purpose of the design-
ing and propulsion of vessels, and the report of the
committee appointed to candela., it would be laid
before the meeting.—Mr. A. Geikie, r a.n. r 0 a.. in
Introducing the geology section, referred to that combi-
nation of features which renders the British Islands so
remarkable AD epitome of the geology of the globe.
Not the least important item, as it seemed to him, was
the development of igneous reeks, the investigations arade
into which be sketched, and he observed that they
tarnish no proof, that volcanic action has been slowly
diminishing in intensity in Britain daring past geological
time. Geologists could do bat little in the investigatess
of our volcanic rocks without the aid of chemistry to
tell their composition, but distant or near, the day will
douhtlek arrive when we shall be able to connect into
one story, as far at least, as our fragmentary records
will permit, the narrative of the varied volcanic erup-
tions which from early geologic:el times have taboo
place in the British Islands. and to link that chronicle
with the long history of volcanic action over the globe.
—ln the Economic Siienee section, the president (Mr.
Grant Duff, i.e.). in introducing the business, raid they
dealt with all the phenomena which attended upon, and
the principles which regulate the production and the
di,tribotion and exchange of wealth. There rarely
never was a time when it was more necessary to-
popularise this science. We are told by alarmist' that
one of the results of reform will be that many matters
which were considered settled will be re-opened, that
protection will again raise her head, and the ghosts of
old fallacies will come beck to gibber in the Hulse of
Commons. I am one of those who think such fears
wildly exaggerated; but surely the mere possibility of
our people lapsing into heresies such as theee which
bare seduced men of our race in America and Australia,
should warn in to diffuse far and wide the broad
results of economic science. It is to be feared that even
in circles where we might aspect better things there is
very oonsiuerable misconception about the real teachings
of economists. Who can forget the opposition that
was excited by Mr. Cobden's negociation. in Frazee, as
if, forsooth, he, of all men, was going to be false to the
principles by the advocacy of which he pat himself in
1 the first rank of European statesmen. It is eurpris-
, ing that there should have been so much hesitation in
accepting free trade, beams of some of its conse-
quences? Count up the schools at which an attempt
is made to give even &glimpse at eoonousic science. How
many men are thee who leave the great universities
with any knowledge of it, save what they have picked up
for therm-elves ? Having touched upon the subject of
edocatiocal and vital statistic', and pointed out the
advantages that had arisen from their study, Mr. Grant
' Duff concluded by saying that those who overrated
statistics were almost as mischievous as those whose
reckless abuse gave point to the sneer that nothing vas
so false as figures except facts. The committee
reported in favour of • uniform system of weights acne
measures. It was agreed that the monetary oonvestion
of France, Austria. Belgium, and nwitasrland was a.
great step in the right direetion.—The Geographical
aid Ethnological section was crowded, there being, se
at Nottingham last year, great interest excited to hear
Sir Samuel Baker, of African celebrity, who, after
dwelling on the importance of geography as necessary
to almost every other science, and truing the history of
discovery, showed its intimate connection with the
extension of civilisation and Christianity. It was now
known that the high civilisation attainable in temperate
climates angered • great future for the Anglo-
Saxon race in America and Australia. We must
prepare for their independence. Geography was the
foundation of diplomacy. Having pointed out that
there had been in the post year no great English
discoveries, the president remarked that we were bound
to watch the progress of the Ituarans in lentral Asia,
and if possible to obtain the independent rostra to India
, no the Euphrates. America had advansed Meg. 35m,
the nearest approach to the pole. Referrigg to Living-
stone, of whom for twelve months no tidings bad been
received, Sir Samuel Baker declared hie belief that he
was dead. The natives in the interior of Africa, unlike
Europeans, were scientific liars; they would never tell
such absurd lies as to declare their master dead toothieste
their leaving. They would have feigned sickness ee
some other excuse, for they would know he might
become • witness against them. It would require an
extremity of moral courage they did not possess to say
he was dead if he were not. He was obliged, like Dr.
Kirk, to believe Livingstone had been murdered, and as
his fellow traveller he could only exclaim "Times to his
memory." He Gould not but praise the Government
for sending an expedition to Ascertain the truth.
Livingstone's 'meat qualifications were his patience and
endurance. In the discussion which ensued, Sir
Ithoderick Murchison said he believed Livinptons was
possibly, if not probably, alive, and be would never go
Into mourning for bins upon the testimony of such
convicted liars,- In the mathematical and physical
science section, Mr. Glaisher read • paper on luminous
meteors. Simultaneous observations made at Sidosouth
and Cardiff showed that the phoephoreseent train of one
meteor was 18 miles long ; the meteor seen at Dundee,
from 51 to 57 miles high. One observed at St. Andrews
and Glasgow was about 80 miles above the earth.—
Professor Sbarpey read the address introducing the
business of the Biology section, which, he observed,
related to everything concerning the organisation at
live beings—plants or animals, and bad fully shared in
the advance of human knowledge.—ln consequence of'
the resolution of the wooed not to hold this year • sub-
section of anthrepology, an indignation meeting was held,
on Wednesday by the Anthropological Society.—The
number of members and visitors on Thursday was
2108 as against 2303 at Nottingham last year. The
treasurer's account showed receipta L 2,467 Mk. 7d., and
balance in band Olt 10a, 54. On Thursday evening
there was a fashionable soiree, dewily crowded, at
which there was an excellent exhibition of pictures and
objects of art, natural history, and geology, local
produce, and curiosities. Prof...mar Tyndall also
lectured to the working men at the Kinnaird Hall upon
matter and force, illustrated by many of those accurate
exierirnente for which he was so celebrated. The work
of the sections on Friday was heavy, and many papers
were read. None were of special importance though all
was good. The revolted "Anthropologists," whom it
was found impossible to conciliate formed themselves
into an aseociatioe of their own, and, with Dr. Hunt for
their president, formally opened their erasion. The
freedom of the Borough of Dendee was conferred on the
Duke of Buocleuch, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir
Charles Lye% and Sir W.llrasn Armstrong. The
principal attraction was the resumption of the discussion
on the death of Dr. Livingstone, in the section of
Geography and Ethnology. Miss Livingston was present.
Sir Rhoderick Murchison gave in detail his reasons for
believing that it was possible, it not probable, that the
celebrated African explorer was yet alive. His death, he
said, rested on the testimony of Moose, and • man who
was • liar and • thief. If Livingstone were really dead,
the valuable instruments which he had with him during
his journey, and at the time of his suppored murder,
would cettainly have reached the bands of some
European trader. But reliable news might be expected
in England about chrietia,.. sir serene' Baker ad-
mitted that Moog* was not • man of truth or honesty,
hut his own experience was that the natives, sa • rule,
were trustworthy as to general facts, though they lied
in detail. For himself, he had no hope at all that the
great traveller was alive. One of the questions for con-
sideration in the department of Geology was taken from
• paper communicated by /4r. J. Watt, "O. the a1t,,,r.„
tion of the want line in Norfolk." The changes which
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contour of the toast, and in the fen country the land
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a paper On
the "Antiquity of Man." Mr. Crawfurd attributes • high
of origins, and consider. Champollion's
Egyptian chronology, going back 10,833 years, as the
dawn of reliable history. On Monday in the biology
section several papers were k be read on the Gauges of
the grouse disease, the effect of over-preservation of
Pine. and the destruction of birds of prey, by Rev. H.
B. 'Tristram and others, which were expected to Mete
an animated discussion. The sectional meetings will be
continued to-day (Tuesday), and this leveeing the con-
cluding soiree will take place. On Wednesday the
general meeting of the amociation will be held, and the
Proceedings of this year's meeting be closed with •
banquet. Excursions bare taken place to some of the
most lively places in Sootlaed, a chess sootervace was
held during the week at Perth, • floral fete eornmeeeed
on Thursday at Biuton- rk, and Is to be continued to
the close of the and Wee, with • rattle
show, an netlike sad industrial exhibition, mot concerts
made the oolostainakent provislo4 outside SW circle of
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Anglican [broods.
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DAUS AND ITS ECONNTEICMIR.—Some persons who
watch over the education of young girls, resolutely
set their faoes against that wide field of literature
*blob comes under the designation of novels. We hays
no intention of discussing the wisdom of a wholesale
objection to a kind of reading which undoubtedly hes
its adualtrates, because it is a large question, and there
are certainly msoy books which come under this class
shioh an decidedly objectionable, and which would
lay open to the youthful mind a state of things of
which the leas they know the better. Hut it is a
ren adtable fact that they who are no watchful and
tenacious upon this point are quite indifferent upon a
matter which is at lent equally injurious. When a
young girl "conies out" ir tousciety, the utmost care and
consideration are raid to her appearance, avowedly
for A pardrular object—that she may altraot young
men. In ord rto accomplish this—to insure whnira-
tion, which the chaperons designate, "her sucesse—no
tricks are considered to be out of place. If she is pale, and
Paleness is unbecoming, recourse is added to the rouge.
pot, which is judiciously used by the experienced band .1
an anxious chaperon. If she is thia and spare, and her
figure is not fully developed, the dressmaker is in-
structed to supply what nature has omitted, and by
dint of pads to impart a roundness which does not
ezist. If she is the reverse, then the budding claims
are to he exhibited, and low dressing is adopted. In
.hort, the one idea is to make the most of a young
girls "point,," and to hide her defects. She is
introduced into society very much as horses an taken
to fairs for isle. Her "point..' her "paces," are oars.
fully studied beforehand, and the chaperon takes the
plies and performs the part of the salesmen. Her
daughter's establishment in the world is the
one ail-absorbing idea, and men are valued accord-
ing to their rent-roll. As dress is the means by which
favourable impressions are first made, it plays a very
prominent part in the game, and all the tricks and
entiaements of which dress is capable are adopted with-
out any hesitation. We do not, of course, refer to
those perfectly innocent embellishments which relate
to the preference of one dress for another, or for one
style for another. They are most legitimate and in-
nocent We refer to those impostures in drug by
which things seem to be which are not, and the Mop.
tion of which is in itself a great irdignity to the whole
nice of womankind. No one is bound to dress herself
unbecomingly; hut, on the contrary, is more than
justified in makirg the best use of nature's gifts.
Our protest is against the introduction of novelties by
which women are taught to impose upon the world,
which cannot fell to have a demoralising indrawn°.
over Ulm, and which desecrate that modesty which
Is the best jewel • woman con 'Ger.—London
Society.

INCARCZZATZD PlOO6.—A Dear neighbour, upon
whose veracity I can rely, recently opened a drain, when
he made the following diaeovery. At the mouth of the
drain were placed two large stone% in measurement
nearly two feet square, and three inches thick ; the ODO
at the top rested closely upon the one beneath. Upon
lifting it from the lower stone, the skeletons of five
frogs were discovered; they were in • circle in the
centre of the stones, quite fiat. Upon taking one of
them up, and holding it to the light, there was only a
threadlike appearance of bones between the dry,
Battened, and fleshless skins: three skins were clear, and
beautifully marked. In this state they were seen by
several persons, and by each of them the frogs were con-
sidered to be dead; but when the water commenced to
fi over them, there was a slight gasping perceived in
the throats of each, by degrees the bodice swelled, and
life and motion returned ! Then, to the surprise of the
beholders, the frogs speng up, and ran away into the
drain. How did these frogs get beneath the stone that
covered the lower one so closely? There was no space
for them to enter or devout, and upon the surfaces there
was not the slightest indention made by the frogs. It
is supposed to be thirty years ago since the stones were
placed over the drain.-8. G., Benenden, Kent, in
Flardootekds Science Gossip for September—a very
interesting number.
TB. DiATII or Lunt:a—His closing hours furnished
• most remarkable testimony to the truths he had con-
fessed. He continued to apply himself to hardness till
the 17th February, 1516, on which day he felt indis-
posed, and by the advice of his friends he remained in
his study. He frequently walked about the room, and
sometimes looked out of the eriodow, praying with mach
eartiestnees, as those who were present could perceive.
He seemed cheerful, but said to Jonas and Coaling, "1
was born and baptised here at Risleben, what if I should
die in this place l" At supper time Luther joined the
party that were assembled ; during the meal he quoted
several passages of Scripture. After supper, • pain in
his breast, which he had felt during the day, returned,
and he asked for warm sloths, but would not consent
that the physicians should be culled. About nine liClOCk
he laid down upon • maul, sod slept for an hour, while
Jonas, Crs'iva, his sour, and several friends, watched by
him. At ten o'clock he awoke, and wished hi. friends
to go to rest, which they declined. About half-past
eleven he retired to bed. As they conducted him to his
chamber, he said, "I go to rest with God ;" adding the
words of the Psalmist, "Into Thy hands I commend my
spirit:" then, offering his hands to those around him,
he bade them good-night, desiring them to pray that
God would continue the Gospel to them; "for," added I
he, "the Pope and the Council at Trent devise mighty I
things." He laid down, Jonas and some others sleeting
In the room with him. About one o'clock he awoke '
Jonas, and desired that • fire might be made in his
study, adding that he was very ill, and felt • great op-
pression at his chest, and should die at Bisletien. Jonas
replied, that God, our Heavenly Father, would help
him, through Christ whom he had preached. Luther
then went to his study without assistance, again re-
peating, "Into Thy hands I commend my epirit."
There he again walked about • two physicians were sent
for, who speedily arrived; also Count Albert, tooom-
paeled by hie Counties. Varices remedies were theu I
applied. His attendanta, observing • perspiration com-
mence, told him he would soon be better, bat Luther
said it was the forerunner of death, and prayed, "0 my
Heavenly father, everlasting and merciful God, Thou
bast revealed Thy Bon our Lord Jesus Christ to me; I
have preached in His name. I confer. Him before men,
I love Him, and worship Him as my beloved Saviour
end Redeemer, whom the Pope and other wicked men
persecute, revile, and blaspheme. 0 Lord, receive my
ecouL" He afterwards said. "0 Heavenly Father,
although I am about to leave the body, and am matched
away from this life, yet I certainly know that I am
about to dwell with Thee for ever, and that no one can
pluck me out of Thy hand." He also repeated • verse
of the 68th Psalm, "Our God is the God of whom
*meth salvation, and unto God the Lord belong the
I issues from death." The physicians then proceeded to
adeninister some remedy, which Luther perceiving, said,
I "I am about to depart ;" and thrice rapidly repeated,
I "Into Thy hands I commend my spirit; Thou hut re-
deemed me, 0 God of truth ;" adding, "God so loved
the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish. but have
everlasting life." His soul evidently was now about to
depart, nor did he reply to his friends, although they
I spoke earnestly to him. The Countess, however, having
I administered • cordial, he revived sufficiently to reply
yes or no. Jonas and Colitis kb.% addressed him, say-
ing. "Beloved father, you still confess Jesus Christ the
Son of God, our Saviour and Redeemer?" Luther
lanswered, "Ye.," so that it could be heard distinctly.
Fie did not speak again, bat lay quietly, with his hands
clasped, for • quarter of an hour, during whioh time his
attendants saw Iris features gradually become pale and
tied; at length he breathed a gentle sigh and fell asleep
in Jesus, without evincing any pain or suffering at the
moment of his departure, which took place between
two and three o'clock in the morning of the 18th of
February, 1548. He was in the sisty.third year of his
age.—Our Own Fireside for September—an excellently
conducted family magasine.

Hie BATHING Ott THB Facccit CAIABT.—The baits de
ewe is a positive institution with oar French neighbours,
and is invariably indulged in after • particular fashion.
A bathing-onetime is of course essential, and the fei
se: take especial care that so for es they are concerned
this shall be sufficiently onquettish and elartitieg. It
will be either d fa peplum. eireuerienne, otionse, or
turque, or as cotsofter, debaedeur or asa/efor, with
miniature yachts or anchors figured on the flap' of the
sailors and the cuffs of the netty little sailor-jacket.
Other requisites are canvas clippers with reed soles, to
protect the feet; • Deere the, to lave the hair from
getting wet ; a peirvar, to throw over the shoulders
after ernergsng from the sea ;a tub of hot water, to
remove the !wee ,and from the feet ;and baked linen,
with which to dry yourself. Besides the ordinary bath.
threshing, there me cabana d jgoe.—that is, machines
wheeled right into the sea, after our vulgar Roglish
fashion ; cabana de luxe, which, if their name does not
belie them, ought to combine all the luxuries of the
ancient Ramo, and the modern Turkish bath. The
bathing guarfiere of the two sexes are marked eat with
Raga and divided by rope.; and when bathing is going
on at high water it is difeedu for the individuals of the
male sea even to walk in front of the vaulter de dame.;
and oath is the prudery of the author.ties of Trouville,
that, spite of all these restrictions, there are posted up
al over the hathing-ground no lees the, from • dozen
to fifteen polies ordinances, propounded with, view of
insuring public decently. There is of coarse nothing to
prevent persons of opposite weal interchanging any
amount of courtesies with each other while bathing,
provided they only keep on their respective aides of the
rope. Thus a lady will pass down to her bath with a
gentleman gallantly holding • sunshade over her head,
and which be only relinquishes to throw a peigteoir
aerobe her shoulders when she emerges, Venus-like, from
the me& The ladies, too, come lip to the rope and
converse across it with their male acanaintanees, to
whom they will hand boobons, whi h their servants have
caroled down to them to the water's edge. Delicate
Parisiennes confide themselves to the hands of herculean
guides baigneurs, and are led out to sea and held up
under the head or arms while they essay to float.
Others will stand in water that hardly reaches above
their knees, while the guide &airiestr dashes pail after
pal of water over them or sluices it down upon their
heads. When the sea is Galin, certain male bathers
who do not care to duck their heeds under water, will
fioat about with cigars in their mouths, which they
I manage to keep alight during the whole time they are
taking their bath. While bathing is going on, the non.
amphibious portion of the visitors 101 l over the balcony
of the casino, or lounge about the sands, or seat them-
selves in some of the numerous chairs placed there for
their aotommodation.—From the September number of
Tinskys' Magazine, which promises to become one of
the best of our shilling serials.

TH. RATIONALE Or RICRZATIOIL —There is not only
a profound necessity for holidays, but a reason equally
good why we eon never take our holidays at home. We
Dolt only require rest, but change ; and not only change
of attitude or cheep of work, but change in our eur-
rounding*, and in the impressions we are receiving from
them. • . A man might jest as well sleep in his full
evening dress as seek his amusement in the manse three-
tios as his work. Work and play, like day and night,
are oppadies. and the wit unlikeness between
them is the truest oompletaneee of eaeh.—CornAill
Magazime.
. . .

A "Love Ilaren."—lt's a singular ease all over, for ft
was • love match, an er father—as Is Sir Nisklass
&Adios— eeeee would ' ear on, duo' bele that proud.
the' only a barber's eon' isself over M the Boro', as 'ad
made 'is way in the world tbro' bein' a lawyer's clerk,
as werry nigh got traosported thro' a shooting of
• poor Bailor out of 'is prise money but got off, and
would barn been rained only 'is master's widder—as
via. werry rich eounieller and left 'er every farthin'—
Wok and married 'lm, sea only been a wok 'emelt
with rather • fly-blowed Awarder. Talk or Loafer
bah' proud, he was nothiak to them two as lived up by
Bedford Square, and did ue to go to Si. Gaon Muth

of a Sunday as big as bull beef, with the footman behind
'em amarryin' their books. I don't think as ever I see
a plainer family tho' only three, and ousel them • 'unip-
bat*. Well the youngest, as wes • gal as ugly .n 'et
father and as proud as' Cr mother, she was kep'• mopy
sort of life and if she didn't go and fall in love with her
father's clerk in the name of Wilkins, as is this werry
identioal lunatic. She know'd it wouldn't be no use
amakin' their oonsent, so went and got ntarried on the
quiet, unbeknown to 'Cr father and mother, and it was
worry nigh two year afore they found it out. I never
shall forget the row m there was when it was found
out, and I've no doubt 'Cr little bm heM' • *ripple is
°win' to 'er father's wiolence, as knocked 'er down like
• bullock on the 'arth-rng. She was always • beast of •
temper, and no doubt made that young ram's life a
mimry ; and severs 'appy 'Om", tho' they did give 'er
money for to take • 'outs up Kentish Town Ivey, and
'Cr a-tourist' for to dine with 'er
pinnate of a Sunday;
but 'im never allowed for to moss the door."—CasseU's
MUgaZial.
MODZIPX Nova-I.—There can he no doubt that a
singular change has passed upon our light literature. It
I. not that its power has failed 01 its popularity
diminished—much the reverie; it is because anew im•
pulse has been given and • new current set in the ffood
of contemporary atory-telling. We sill not ask whence
or from whom the influence is derived. It has been
brought into being by society, and it naturally reacts
uncc society. The change perhaps began at the time
when Jane Eyre made what advanced critics call her
"pealed" against the conventionalities in which the
world tlothes itself. We have had many "protests"
sines that time, but it is to be doubted how far they
have been to our advantage. The point to which we
have now arrived is certainly very far from satisfactory.
The English mind is still so far bore" that we do not
discus. the seventh commandment with all that effusion
and fullness of detail which is common on the other side
of the channel, though even in that respect progresa is
daily being made ; hot there are points in which we alto-
etther outdo our French neighbours, To • French girl
Mesh from her convent the novels of her own langeage
are rigorously tabooed; whereas we are all aware that
they are the favourite reading of her contemporary in
this co tatty, and are not unfrequently even the produc-
tions, with all their unseemly references and exhibitions
of forbidden knowledge, of yoong women, moved either
by the wild foolhardiness of inexperience or by ignor-
ance of everything that is natural and becoming to their
condition. It is painful to inquire where it is that all
these stories of bigamy and seduction, those voi-dmaxt
revela,inne of things that lie below the currant of life,
wine from. Such tales might Sow here and there from
one morbid imagination, and present themselves to us
as moral phenomena, without casting any stigma upon
eneiety in general; but this is not how they appear.
They have taken, as it would seem, permanent posse-.
lion of all the lower strata of light literature. Above
there still remains, it is true, • purer atmosphere, for
which we may be thankful ; but all our minor
novelists, almost without exception, are of the school
called sensational. Writers who have no genius and
little talent, make up for it by displaying their acquain-
tance with the accessories and surroundings of vice,
with the means of seduction, and with what they sat
forth as the secret tendencies of the heart—tendeneies
which, moordine to this interpretation, all point GU
way .—Blockvoods Magazine for September.

FLalleltarif INFLUIENCI ON MODIRN TARTS.— Apart
from his position as the author of sculptural orestions
of the highest character, there is no artist of modern
date to whom the civilised world is more indebted than
Flagman, and this by the employment of his geniuses •
designer for the clams of manufacture just mentioned
(Wedgwood•ware) ; and it is only by following
out the refiection this statement suggests, the
extent of his influence becomes apparent. Previous
to his date the character of our ornameotal
pottery was bat of low rank. But, by the adoption
of his designs—founded as they were on the
purest Greek and Hinman forma—the style of the
manufacture became changed, and as the English
supplied a large share of the markets of the world, it is
not difficult to recognise in this application of his
genius the elevation of taste wherever such works
penetrated. Upon them designs he laboured, not only
as a coerce of income, but, conscious of the elements
of refinement he was thus disseminating abroad, with an
earnestness and love of Art no pecuniary considerations
alone could have awakened.—Frorn Memorial. of
Flagman" in the September part of The Art Journal,
amongst the other contents of which is an able paper
on the "Pictures of the German School" in the Paris
International Exhibition, setting forth the varied merits
of the works illustrativa of contemporary art as it
&turban.* in Prussia, Bavaria, Austri. Baden,
Wortemburg. Hesse, and Loxembarg. The selected
pictures this month are—" Th. Fair Correspondent,"
which is beautifully engraved from Sant's charming
painting, and "Christopher Sly," a character better
known to the readers of Shakespeare than to the play-
goer, as he makes his appearance only in the intro-
ductory scenes to the " Taming of the Shrew." The
last-named picture iv by Mr. Orchardson, and is a
clever bit of oompaition. This month'. instalment of
the Paris Exhibition catalogue is unusually nob in
illustrations.