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At Liverpool a publican has been fined MO for hay-
ing illicitly distilled spirits upon his premises.
President Grant has refused to remove the postmas-
ter at mac in, who is allegro.
Recently a farmer near West Union, lowa, ploughed
up a nest at snakes, 239 in number.
A baby show will take place in London next week.
Intending exhibitors must guarantee that their offspring is
not more than twelve moutha old.
Mademideelle X—, a very slight young lady
residing in Paris, in engaged to a gentleman who is exce#
sively corpulent. A fried recently met her anti said. " I
saw ) ou this morning, nq dear, with your captive balloon!'
A writer in the Tablet gives Ys opinion of Mr. MU
thus :—" 01; re reconciled to the Church. and a good Ca:lndic,
Mr. Mill would, under her guidance, become a truly great
man."
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At a :irons, which was exhibiting at Litchtensteig
(St. Galli, the wind caught the canvas covering a few nighta
ago and blew the whole structure down, covering spectators,
performers, and horses. The lights were extinguished, and
as the eight was intensely dark and rain tallies, the con-
tusion was excessive. Happily no serious injuries have to be
deplored.
At a London police-court, one Peter Connell, in rags
anti tatters, who once was in a respectable position, but has
fallen from it by a long career of dissipation and drunken-
so that he is now reduced to work in the workhouse
labour yard, was charged for the seventy-ninth time with
being drunk and riotous. Lie was sentenced to seven days'
hard labour without the option of a fine.
The images in the Armenian Church at Bethlehem
have bees carried off by sortie sacrilegious thief.
On Monday morning the cotton mills at Oldham
were throw° open, with a wiew of giving the hands an oppor-
tunity of returning to their employment at Vie reduction of
5 per cent. )here was a very general return to work, and
everything win quiet.
It appears f tom statistics that between the lot of
January and the 310 t of May last, 71 persons were converted
at Vienna to the Jewish Church, 34 to the Protestant Church
of Augsburg, 9 to the Swiss Protestant Church, 11 to the
Roman Catholic Church, and one to the Greek Catholic
Church.
A new means of getting a livelihood has arisen in
Paris During the recent elections • number of persons
were employed at ten francs a day to tear down the bills of
adverse candidates.
Mr. Henry Berkely, (the brother of Earl Fitz-
hardinge, and so widely known as the advocate of the ballot,
is so ill that it is said but faint hopes are entertained of his
recovery.
General Grant is credited with the epigrammatic
remark that "office-seekieg was fast becoming one of the
industries of America."
It is said that the Viceroy of Egypt was entirely
duinirfoundered tem day when, solemnly proceeding through
Cairo, in his chant of state, he met the heir to the British
throne riding on a donkey.
The Bishop of theory (Dr. O'Brien) has published a
pamphlet in defence of the Irish Church, as the sequel to a
former treatise from his pen on the subject. As etre.,
stances lirook no delay, he lksA mit it forth without an ap-
pendix, which was nut ready, aud to which repeated reference
is made in the text.
The gallant French lawyers have compelled a
director of a theatre to pay the salary of a singer who has
been away from her duties for two menthe on account of
having increased the number is the world during that
period.
Here is an idea for impecunii us lovers. It is re.
ported that two young people in Rockland, Maine, recently
made a +tart in life, though not an easy one; and this is how
they did it. While courting they walked out together arm
in arm, auil fell through a hole iii the sidewalk, each break-
ing a leg. The jury gave a verdict against the town corpora-
tion of 12.000 dollars damages. 01 this sum they were able
to get married and Mart life in good style.
Mr. Johnson, barrister, has been charged before the
Hampstead magistrates with cruellv ill-treating a cat Mr.
Reuel said that on Sunday melting last he saw Ida cat
sitting on a lumber shed. While his back was turned he
heard a shot fired, and saw the cat running towards his house
bleeding. Oil examinieg the animal he found that a bullet.
had gone in at the side of the mouth and out at the end ef
the jaw. Another witness said that the shot was flied across
a public foot-path, and that some children were going to
Sunday school at the time. The defendant admitted the
effence, but said he was overrun with cats. The bench fined
him 105. Including costs.
It is not the centenary of the birth of Napoleon 1.,
but that of the annexation of the Island of Corsica to France,
which is to be shortly feted, in consequertee, the Emperor
purposes proceeding to Ajaccio in September next, and not
in August, as has been stated.
The case of J. W. Mackenna, doctor of medicine. of
31, Great Math orough-street, London, has been before the
Court of Bankruptcy. The bankrupt ensigns the I ollowit g
remarkable ',mon for his inability to meet his engagements
—namely, the fraudulent concealment by his partner of a
mortal disease, of which he died nine months afterwards.
Mr. Commissioner Winslow said he should require the bank-
rupt to state distinctly in writies the ground upon which he
made the charge against his partner. The bankrupt said he
was prepared to do so. A lady who was in court here ex-
claimed, "it is a most cruel asaertion." His honour said
the pith of the charge was the fraud, and to that he wished
the bankrupt to direct bin attention, so that it might be seen
whether there was any ground for the assertion. The sitting
was then adjourned.
Professor Morey lately gave a concert in San Fran-
cisco, and offered a premium of fifty dollars to that lady who
should bring the greatest numlwr of gentlemen in attendance
on her A fair hung male her appearance, accompanied by
about a di teen cavaliers, but, exactly at eight o'clock, a young
lady entered triumphantly with a retinue of seventy gentle-
men. Her nanie is Miss Lindsey, and the fifty dollars were
at once awarded her. Another young lady, Miss Emma
Howe, was attended by sixty-one gentlemen, and obtained
the second prize. We commend this to English managers.
The standard of recruits for infantry regiments has
been lowered toy it. gin.
Extensive defaDations in the Queensland Govern-
ment department have been discovered.
From Australia we learn that the drought was at an
end.
A negro surgeon fell asleep in the lower hold of a
New York steamer at Aspinwall, and when he awoke next
morning the vessel was under weigh. Ile was unable to
make himself heard, and had no eustenance. It was nine
days before he was foetal, anti lie ivrti still alive. By the
judicious administi alien of fond he recovered.
The Portland (Maine) Advertiser was recently
printed on paper made of a kind of material said to have
been sinner before used n the manufacture of paper—Ziranin
arguatiea, or water rice. It grows in great abundance in
many places in the north-west of America.
One of the missing boats of the B7uc Jacket, the ves-
sel that was burned at sea, has been picked up. It contained
only seven people, and no mention is made of the tour
thousand sovereigns put in the boat when she left the ship.
The emigration movement still continues among the
operative weavers at Preston, and it is expected that another
hatch of emigrants will be sent off this week. It is stated
that the sphiners and minders ate not so anxious to emigrate
as the weavers.
Prince Arthur arrived at Ohan in the Vivid, on
Saturday, from a cruise in the liebrtdes. He was loudly
cheered by the crowd, anti the town council presented Mtn
with an address. It is stated that the Prince wlll proceed to
Canada in the autumn, where he will be attached to the
Ittfla Brigade. Ha lute return in the following spring he will
probahly join a battalion of the same regiment, which will
be stationed at Woolwich.
The two persons who were recently arrested on Min-
i picion of being concernel in the murder of Mr. Anketell,
I have been again rernmeted by the mamstrates. It is stated
that additioual evidence has been obtained, and that the
authorities entertain some hope that they may ultimately be
enabled to bring the murderer to justice.
A terrible cyclone has been raging at Calcutta and
has caused great destruction of life and property.
Baron Rothschild, of Frankfort, is said to have pur-
chased a piece of land in II rlin on which lie intends to erect
a rplendid mansion. It is a part of Prince Rtdriwill's park
which lies opposite the Thiergarten.
A number of French ladies are coming to London for
the purpose of exhibiting their skill on the bicycle !
A mother at LC riding, Austria, wishing to get rid
of her child, scarcely five mouths old, placed it close kits
beehive. Toe poor infant had already been stung severely,
when a gendsrtne, who was passing, perceived it and carried
it away. The woman was soon after arrested.
At Devonport, on Monday, the court-martial on
Captain Gibson and the Navigating Lieutenatit Phillips, for
running the Cadmus on shore off saleombe, was brought to a
couclusion. The court decided that the charge had Weft
partially proved, as the defendants committed a grave error
of judgment in statelhig in shore in a thick fog at a con-
siderable speed, without taking extraordinary precautions
for the safety of the ship. Both defendants received an
admonition.
"The pic-nic proper is going to the wall, and th
prophets tell us that this season lawn-parties will be all the
rage Is this in consequence of the probable influx of the
Irish Bleeps Tomahawk.
The Doke of Alontpensier, in a letter to the Spanish
Government, lias acknowledged anti promised to respect the
Democratic Constitution as voted by the Conies.
A boy named Hutton, ten years of age, died the
other day from drinking a quantity of whisky. which he
stole from a ca,,k at a publiehouse door, in Bailieborough,
County Cavan, Ireland.
'dr. George Stuart Forbes, youngest son of Sir
Charles Forbes, Bart., of Some, was mat ried on Monday to
Miss Henrietta Mans, youngest daughter of the
Humble Dudley until Mrs. Ward. The ceremony, which took
place at St Paul's, Knightahridge, was performed by the
Bishop of Rochester, uncle of the bride, who wars given
away by another uncle, the Earl of Dud ey. The wedding
breakfast took place at Dudley House, Park-lane, and early
in the afternoon the newly-weibled roof do left town for
Witley Court, the Earl of Dudley's seat in Worcestershire, to
spend the honeymoon.
A great Protestant demonstration took place, on
Moeilay night, at the Exhibition Palace, Dublin. About
25,0e0 persons were preseut. There were two platforms,
(rem which exciting speeches were uelivered by Our Edward
Grogan. the Rev. Mr. Foley, the lion. David Plunkett, Arch-
deacon Gould, the Rev Nash Griffin, and others. The meet-
ing was very enthusiastic.
A supposed attempt at assassination was made at
Cork, on Monday. A shot was fired into the Constitution
office. The bullet passed through a space where a member
ef the staff had just been standing, breaking the windows, and
striking opposite the door. A similar thing occurred a few
days ago. The Coniditution is supposed to be obnoxious to
he Feutans, hence the outrage.
An extraordinary attempt to commit suicide in the
Her. ford city prison was made by a man named Fla:truest, a
watchmaker, on Saturday morning. Ile had been sent to
pHs'ni for breaktuis a par. 4,1 glass ins drunken tic, anti was
supposed to be suffering from delirium tremens. A woman
named Fuller seut him a quart jug of tea for his breakfast
After drieking the tea he threw the cop through tbe cell
window. The she brought an officer to the cell, and the
pris 'nor attempted to prevent his entering, threateriitig hire
with violence If he eame mi. The officer went in however,
anal the prisoner. sizing the jug with his teeth, lilt a large
piece out of it. With thia lie out his throat, anti subseqtreedY
tore open the wound with his fingers. Assist.oe was ob-
tained, but it teolt five mee before the prisoner could be
overpowered He exi.ressed great regret that he had failed
in his purpose. isle doubtful whether he will recover.
" The House of Lords has seldom been the scene of
so much enthuaiasm as woo elicited on Tuesday night, by the
speech it the Bishop of Peterborough. Calm, staid, and de-
caroua as the peers are ordinarily, the eloquence of Bishop
Magee fairly carried them away ; cheer after cheer followed
each point that t..e orator static; nor was it easy to discover
at all times whether the applause was more marked on the
Ministerial or Hip' sition benches, l'eers of long-standing
say that to rival Elsie's) Magee's mister) they most go back
to the days of Plunket ; and the genetal impression was, that
for keen hummir, suatained logic, and earnest and diguitled
power it wow.' hardly be possible to find an equal in either
house "—The Standard.
The bankruptcy of Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton,
formerly M. P. for Newark, has been again before the Court.
The case had been adjourned in order that the bankrupt
might file f amber accounts, and amend those steady filed,
by haserting the dates when his debts were contracted. Wrth
this order he had since complied, but not within the period
limited by the Act of Parliament. The preseet statement
showed debts and liabilities amounting to e 34 134, of which
Salsa were liabilities on acciimmedati in 10 ils, and £2 350 on
ilisconided, against asset . a revers on estimated at
4.5..K.0, and property in the heeds of creditors £BO. Upon
the cage b; lug opetted it was objected by the counsel who re-
presented the creditors that the bankrupt had not, comet tat
with t•a, rules of the ceut 5 in regard to th- Imre of ilium his
accounts, and as it also appeared that the basskesssat was set-
tering from illness, • further adjournmoul WKS

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The 143-carat diamond. 'rained at £al4J,OO, has
landed at Plymonth from the Cape.
h is asserted that the award for the purchase of
Reuter's Telegraphic Company by the G.overnmeut, has bean
lined at £726,mM ; had beau claimed.
A London theatre states in its hills WI an imlncee
I meet to its patrons, that it has a -talented company of
goblins !
The American Government, irritated it would seem
by the recent atrocities of the Indians, has datermined on
vigorous prosecution of the war against them, at d has
appaiuted General Sheridan to the conanand of the troops.
A telegram from Hong Kong, date] May 27, states
that the difficulty° which has arisen at Pekin on account
of the ivault offered to the French Margo, (tapir. by Prince
Kong hns been settled by the eldnese author tee apologising.
The occurrence it now referred to as • mere fracas
In Falkirk, and in some of the districts east from it,
there was snow on Sunday last In Polmont the Lill oat ao
considerable in the nalahnouring gelds that it could be

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gathered into little balls.
The New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western
Railroad has been sold by auction at New Orleans, by order
of the United States Circuit Court, and pinclidsod for
2,050,900 dollars by the representative of Mr. Charles Nlors an.
A telegiana from Cork says that a mob, in attempts
• ing to rescue a prisoner, on Sunday night, violently slatted
the police with stones and bludgeons, seriously idjuring
three constables. Tue p dice retiented to tie atation with
their prisoner. The mob attacked the station. demotaling
the window.. The police, having been strongly reinforced,
charged the mob and dispersed them.
Nearly 1,100 military officers and civil offio:als of all
rank swore to the new Spanish Constitution on Sunday
morning, at the Prado, before General Milan% ; lint the grand
ceremonial of twenty thousand soldiers taking the oath be-
fore General Prim was postponed, in consequence ef the
heavy rain.
Five gentlemen, resident at Ealing. have resolved to
make, early in ,eptember next, a complete tour of the coast
if England, Scotland, and Wales, on bicycles ; mid cue of
them has undertaken to perform on one day of the journey
one hundred miles upon his velocipede, for a wager of •
many sovereigns.
On Saturday an Irish faction fight ce...urred at
Jarrow, in which an Irish labourer. named Patrick lirotning
was so brutally kicked that it is not expected he will recover,
, A subscription bas been opened at Lyons to present
' to the Pope, on the occasion of the tEcurneuical Council, •
chasuble and cope of extraordinary richness, no as to be real
k masterpieces of the workmanship of that city.
,1 The anniversary of the 'Danish Constitution of 18411
' has lust been celebrated with great enthusiasm at Copen-
hagen. Upwards of 20,000 persons assembled it, the royal
- park on the shore of the Sound, and the King and Queen an.
slated at the fete which was given there in honour of the

occasion.
'From what Mr, Consul Barrow says, it would
appear that Kertch is rather a pleasant place. It is a
wretched little hole, abounding with murderers and suicides,
just the spot fur our 'roughs.' who would be richly sorved
if they went there. In fact they would realise the wish of
many -they would .Kertch ' it."- 7'inniahoick.
The cuckoo, ". full song," westward in Brunswick.
square, London, on Monday morning.
The National Reform Union is organiaing a great
demonstration, to take place in the event of the Lords reject-
ing the Church Bill. It will he held in the Free Trade Ilall,
Mmchester, under the presidency of Mr. George Wihon.
The Lerant Tinits says that the Staml.ll, a native
illustrated paper, has been suppressed for publishing carica-
tures of certain political personages after being warned to
discontinue that partictil.r species of pictorial effect. The
" political personages" referred to, we learn from another
source, were the Sultan and the Prince of Wales
Some grave di,isentions are said to have broken out
between the Austrian Minister id War and the Archdukes
Albert, Leopold, and William, which have decided the latter
to abandon the posts they resnectively occup ell as in-
spectors of the army, of engineers, and of artillery In the

The tide of emigration still continues to flow steadily
westward from the Mersey, and the exodus from Liverpool
last week shows hut a slight diminution on that of previous
weeks Up to Saturday last no has than ten vessels sailed
from Liverpool for the United States and Canada; of this
number eight were steamers and two sailing vessels.
It is stated that the Warwickshire scandal case has
been removed from the list for trial in the Divorce Court, on
the ground of the lady's insanity.
The quantity of foreign hops imported into the
United Kingdom in the year ending 30th September, ledi,
was 301 960 cwts ; and the quuttby exported eas 13,357.
The quantity of British hops exported in the same period
was 15,492 cwta
"A novelty has appeared in the album way, namely,
a space to introduce reghtered certificates of births, mar-
riages, and deaths, in contiguity to the likeness. Pleasaid to
know, when you present your earls to a lady friend, that she
is reserving a space for the assurance of your demise !"--•
Court Journal.
A Boston spinster, at a recent Woman's Rights Con.
ventiou, said she did net care about fenneie suffraire unless it
carried with it the right to make proposals of marriage.
Miss Rye has left England, in charge of another
party, bowel for Canada. Tee emigrants were chiefly young
women of the domestic servant class.
A testimonial, consisting of a valuable servica of
plate, has been presented to the Bishep of London by a de-
-1 putation of his friends in Linco•nshire, headed by L ird
Brownlow, lord-lieutemuit of the county, as a token of their
esteem and regard for his lordship.
The Lowlonderry Journal states that ae some
labourers were cutting turf In a bog about three miles to the
north-west of Milford, called " S3reen," they came on the
corpse of a man, lying under the surface some twin or three
feet The body seemed to have been catef ally sewed in a
rough blanket or rug, and when first found was in a pretty
good state of preservation, owing to the well-known antisep-
tic quality of bog, but was quite tanned however, the
remains whets exposed to the atmosphere, Boon began to
decay,
ear+sidy, a clerk in the employ of the Great Northern
Railway at London, having a crazy notion about diet, fed
himself upon less than a pint of gruel per diem ; he became
emaciated and died. Verdict "Death from congestion of
the brain from the want of sufficient nourishment."
The death of the oldest clergyman of the Exeter
diocese is reported, the Rev. Samuel Trial, Vicar of Very an,
Cornwall, which living he held for forty years. Tine de-
ceased took consideratole interest in geologigal pursuits, con-
tributing several articles in the transactions of the loyal
Cornwall Geological S ociety. The living, which is in the
rift of the dean and chapter of the diocese, is of the value of
£367, with sixty-seven acres of glebe.
Upwards of 200 tons of new potatoes were sent to
London from Wept Cornwall during the pest week. The
disease has, unfortunately, made int eppeerance in several
localities, and many of the large crowers in Cornwall are con-
sequently hastening supplies to nuerket.
Among the curiosities of the Boston Peace Festival
is a huge brass drum S feet in diameter, and proportion itely
long. Its" heads" are the skins if two prize oxen, and an
American jourpal emphatically inset ts that the drum" whips
creation" in the absence of elephant hides. The maker of
this mobster endue of uprear seenis to be swag in his way,
for on each "head" he has inscribed the motto, "Let us
have peace."
At Hull, on Tuesday, William Lidster, 53 years of
are, was brought up charged with murdering his mother in a
plantation at Elton, hear Stockton-on-Tee., 23 years ago,
under circumstances which have already been published.
Ile was discharged, the Stoakton police authorities having
been commenicated with by telegraph. Ile admitted he was
deceased's son, but deeded being her murderer.
The Elections Committee sat again on Tuesday and
took evidence from the Rev. Mr. all'Derruott, a Bullets
Catholic plied living to Sligo. The witness's principal state-
ments were that at the last election fur Sligo the Isnaiordis
on both sides proctised intimidation ; that tile priests addri as
their flocks in the churches before an election, but do not
dictate to them which way they shall vote, and do not as a
rule like to nave to interfere at all; that the voting paper
system is often abused at municipal elections ; and that at
the last general election the officials sought to intimidate
voters by a military display. Colonel Torrens, M.P., was
afterwards examined as to the working of the ballot inn Aus-
tralia, which he declared to be in moat respects extremely
a 'Olfactory.
The death is announced, on the 10th inst.. at
Victoria, British Columbia, of Governor Seymour. De died
of exhaestion aupervening upon diarrlima after returning in
Iler Majesty's ship Sparrow Muck from the North Coast,
11, was the brother of Major-General Francis Si yinour, C 11,
and hail been indefatigable in his exertions to restore order
and to promote the prosperity of the colony.
The New Yin k Times says that Mr. Motley has been
instructed in the first place to mate no overturi 8 for the re-
opening, at present, of the negotiations for the +ettlement of
the Alabama difficulty. Should, however, the question again
conie on foot, he is authorisal to inform the &lush Govern-
ment that the United States prefer no claim, as a Govern-
meat, for damages in respect of the reco3nition nit the
South's belligerency. The Times adds that the administra-
tion has reaiilved upon a policy of non-action.
Father Stanislaus, a French monk, who, with the
usual cowl, amt a cincifix stuck in a girdle of rope, 11.6 been
preaching to hash. on able audience+ in Pads, Iris re'erred at
great length to the Irish Church Bill, and attributed it alt o
gather to the influence of the Virgin Mary upon Mr. Glad-
stone.
Two spirited Frenchmen, Messieurs Tissandier and
de Fouvielle, have undertaken the daring enti rprise of
reaching the north pole in a balloon. The machine in which
the bold adventurers are about to embark on their perilous
journey, acid which inappropriately named "La Pale Nord,"
is low being completed in the Champs de Mars, which the
Government have placed at their disposal for the purpose.
The car, a marvel, it is said of strength said lightness, is
constructed to carry ten passengers, 4,ooelbs. of ballast, and
provisions furs month.
On Saturday, the joiners of Blackburn ceased work
for the purpose of enforcing the mune hour regulations as are
observed by the meson s, bricksattera and flaggera and
slaters. viz., forty.nine hours per week. The maiden have
offered to submit the whole question in dispute to arbitra-
tion, but this offer the men have refused.
The account given in the Swiss journals relative to
the death eta young Englbliman, named Wallace, by drown-
Mg in the Rhine is contradicted.
It is said that the introduction of the waters of the
Mediterranean tt the lakes by the Isthmus of Suez has
sensibly increased the hygrometric humidity of the &mop
phere. and that fogs, as dense as those of Paris, have lanes
observed in this rainless district.
The Pall Mall Gazette remarks:—" The Irish Cherch
has nt last found its Tyr teas, but it has found a is cepieg one.
' A Field-thershal ' sends the followitig appeal to the John
Bull Pass this bill, or attempt to pass it with 'shy amend-
metals that would fail to lenve It other than still fa• ally de-
structive, and we must listen for the angels keeping watch
over the ark of the Constitution of the country beard nigh-
'ugly murmuring each to other, aticl, with wings droopingly
unfolding, sobbing out, 'Let us depart.' Mr. Disraeli has
evidently only to adapt one of his old bens-mots, and to go
to the country with a new, 't am on the side of the angels."
The nuisance caused by boys gambling in the streets
of London on Sundays seems to be on the hicrease. Al
many as twenty lads, of ages ranging from ten to sixteen,
were charged with that offence last Monday, before one of
the Magistrate., and tined, and cautioned that if they were
brought up again they would lie sent to prison.
The °Biwa James Grimshaw, the well.known jockey,
has been before the Bankruptcy Court. The detes were
mated to be £1,7:31. end it wax added that the Boikrupt Fail
been In receipt of .:600 a year wider as agreement with the
late Marquis of Hastings. The case was adjourned, us order
that Grimshew might tile a cash acamtit
There are said to be nne hundred cases of small-pox
at the hospii al sin Bla kwell's Inland, New Vink, mainly
among dm German and Irish ems grants who have been
lauded by the steamers from Europe.
. The Plymouth magistrates; have remanded on the
charge of attempted murder, John hickell, a leason's
labewer. The other evening his child was found in • water
tank at his house, whigh was full of water. The head was
under water, and the body floatiig at the top. When taken
out, the child was perfectly insensible, nut with mei, ical asci
was restored to consciousness. It appears that the accused
came home drank, and, hearing the child cry, tamer it in the
tank in order to stop "the little row."
Tim General Post Office is prosecuting the inquiry
which we are assured will lead to the issue of the halfpenny
stamp for newspapers and circulars. Mr. Edmund Yates,
after cempleting his iuvestigation in the provinces, has been
lately engaged tor the Poet (Mice in a metropolitan umuiry.
Vice-Chancellor Stuart made an order on Saturday,
on the application of the claimant of the Tichborne h.ironetey
and estates, that the time for ietaining the bills relating to
this matter on the Me of the court should be extended to the
lait day of Easter term, 1070. It was stated that the evidence
which is being taken under the commission issued by the
Court of Probate cuidd not he c .tntioleteti sooner, the time
fixed for the return el the COMM imb ion to the ...let twine the
12th of Ortober, 1069. Tin miestion of Go- nof
the estate of the late Dowager Lady Tichtorrie vas also
to ought before the court, and the Viee-Chaticellor made an
icier that mt it li,tatoling the appointment of a receiver,
the creditors should have bberty to apply to the 001111 .4
Probate for letters or adesinitlireawn.