The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-02-28 00:00:00

SOMERSET AND DORSET RAILWAY.

The report of the directors of this undertaking
states that the anticipations expressed in the
previous half-year of a large increase of traffic have
been fudy realised. The revenue account shows a
clear balance, after providing for working expenses,
of £7,462, against £3,221 at the corresponding period
last year. The increase in the trade at Highbridge
during the half-year has been very great, the total
imports and exports being 35,716 tons, against
16,509 in the last six months of 1863. The report
proceeds :—" This result, which shows an increase
over 100 per cent, during the nix month', affords the
most satisfactory evidence of the value to this com-
pany of the harbour of Highbridge ; and your
directors have every reason to believe that when the
additional facilities now being provided there are
completed, a still larger increase may he looked for
in the trade at that terminus of your line. It will
be in 'the recollection of the proprietors that this
company, under an arrangement with the Bristol
and North Somerset Company, introduced a Bill in
the last session of Parliament for • short line of three
miles, between a point on this line near the Ever-
creech station and Shepton Mallet, there to meet
an extension of that company's authorised railway
from Farringdon Gurney, for which powers were 1
being simultaneously applied for, and by means of
which it was intended to complete a direct COMlDUlll-
cation with the city of Bristol on an unbroken gauge.
In consequence of the failure of the Bill for the latter
line, however, on a technical point, before the
Standing Orders Committee of the House of Lords,
your directors deemed it prudent to withdraw for
that session the Bill of this company, with a view to
a renewed application to Parliament in the present
session. The negotiations which ensued have re-
sulted in the agreement between the two eons-
panics, which received the sanction of the share-
holders at the special meeting held on the Ist
February, and under which the Bristol and North
Somerset Company undertake to apply (and they
are now applying) for a Bill to extend their line from
Farringdon Gurney to the point of junction with this
line, and to lay the narrow gauge throughout; and
this company undertakes to work the whole of that
company's railway, for a period of 21 years from its
completion, between Bristol and Evercreech, at •
per centage of the receipts, varying between 60 and
40 per mit, of their gross amount. This agreement
will be scheduled to the Bill. Your directors are
fully justified in hoping that Parliament will grant
powers for this short line of twelve miles, which will
not only afford an outlet on an unbroken gauge for
the vast mineral products of North Somerset to the
South-East, South, and South-West of England, but
will afford an alternative route between those dis-
tricts and Bristol and the North, also on an un-
broken gauge, and between Bristol and London.
The great public utility of the proposed line does
not, however, protect it from the determined oppo-
sition of the broad gauge companies, who have
hitherto succeeded in maintaining an entire monopoly
of much of the traffic to be accommodated by it, and
who seek to continue that monopoly by obtaining
the rejection of this Bill in favour of a Bill for a
broad gauge line through the same district. The
latter, however, although it is an admission of the
necessity for railway accommodation, hitherto denied
by its promoters, would effect none of the important
public objects secured by the Bill of the Bristol and
North Somerset Company. A Bill has been intro-
clued by the Burnham Tidal Harbour Com-
pany, which if carried into effect, cannot fail
to benefit the traffic of this line. The atten-
tion of your directors has been turned to the
importance of establishing steam communication
between Poole and Cherbourg, by means of which
it is hoped that a considerable traffic between
South Wales, Bristol, and the North-Western
districts of England, on the one hand, and the West
and South of France, on the other, might be secured,
and arrangements are now pending for the running
of s steamer between the two ports in connection
with this line."

SNOWBALL RIOT ITY STODENTS.—On Thursday
Glasgow was the scene of disgraceful disturbances,
caused by students of the University. During the
forenoon groups of students assembled from time to
time at the entrance of the University, pelting
pedestrians with snow-balls, and one little girl received
such a blow with a snow-ball that she was felled to the
ground as if she had been struck by a bullet. One
constable received a most violent blow from a snow-ball.
Serjeant Sinclair detected the assailant and collared
him. The students immediately surrounded the two
unlucky officers, and by sheer force drove them into
the College-square, and then closed the gate. The con-
stables were then subjected to the most cowardly treat-
ment, the serjeant having been seised by the collar of
his Goat, his body repeatedly kicked, and his face
pounded with snow-balls till hi, cheeks were swollen
and partially discoloured. Ultimately one of the pro-
fessors came to the rescue, and the officers were let out
of the College-square by a side door. A large body of
students then proceeded to the College-green, and
commeee,ed throwing snow-balls at three churches and
a schoolhouse, and before the police could put a stop to
their riotous procedure nearly 100 panes of glass were
smashed. After a severe struggle 10 of the ringleaders
were captured and locked up.
THE NAVY ESTIMATES Fort 1865-6.—The navy
estimates for the financial year 1865-6 have been
presented to Parliament. The total for the effective
service is £8,658,205, which, addeZ to the charges for
non-effective service and the conveyance of troops,
makes the grand total for the navy £10,392,124. The
last vote for the current financial year was £10,708,651,
and the net decrease is therefore £316,427, The esti-
mated amount of extra receipts and repayments in
1865-6 is £239,319, and this will reduce the total of
the vote to be asked for to £10,152,905. With regard
to numbers the number of officers, petty officers, and
seamen to be voted for the coming year is 38,000,
against 38,500 last year. There are also 7,000 boys;
and 7,000 men in the Coastguard service, against 7,500
last year, making the total 52,000 again,t 53,000. The
Marines are in all 17,000—namely, 8,000 for service
afloat, and 9,000 for service on shore, being 1,000 less
than in 1864-5. The civilians for the Coast-guard
service are 750 against 950, leaving the total force in
the fleet and Coast-guard service 69,750, against 71,950
last year.

THE ENGLISH Navy.—A return of the number of
steam ships afloat and building, together with the
number of effective sailing ships, on the first of the
present month has been issued. The total of steam
ships afloat is 445, being 357 screw and 88 paddle ;
26 screw ships are building; 69 effective sailing ships
are afloat ; making the total of steam and sailing ships
540. The building of 3 line-of-battle ships, 1 corvette,
4 gun vessels, and 4 gun boats is suspended. The
classes into which these vessels are divided, deducting
those which are suspended, are as follows :—Screws
Armour-plated ships, iron, third rates, afloat, 6, build-
ing, 3; ditto, iron, fourth rates, afloat, 2; ditto, wood,
third rates, afloat, 6, building 1 ; ditto, wood, fourth
rates, afloat, 1 ; armour-plated cupola ships, fourth
rates, 4 ; ditto corvette; wood, sixth rates, afloat, 1,
building, 1 ; ditto sloops, wood, afloat, 2 ; ditto gun
boats, iron, building, 3; ditto floating batteries, iron
afloat, 3; ditto, ditto, wood, afloat, 2 ; ships of the
line, afloat, 55 ; frigates, afloat, 37; building, 1; block
ships, afloat, 8; corvettes, afloat, 26; sloops afloat, 35,
building, 3; gun vessels, afloat, 37; gun bOata, afloat,
105, building, 2 ; tenders, tugs, Ito., afloat, 7; mortar
ships, afloat, 4 ; troop and _store ship., afloat, 15;
yachts, afloat, L Paddle : Frigates, afloat, 6; sloops,
Afloat, 19; small vessels, afloat, 13 ; dispatch vessel.,
aflolt, 4; tender, tugs' dm., afloat, 40; troop and store
ships, afloat, 1; yachts, afloat, 5.
THE PUNISHMENT Or DEATH.—The Wurtemburg
Chamber of Deputies has just pronounced in favour
of the abolition of the punishmentof death by a majority
of 56 to 27. Of 290 petitions addressed to the Chamber
on this subject,26o were for and 30 against the abolition.
We (Ore) have much pleasure in announcing that
Her Majesty the Queen, in accordance with her ex-
pressed desire to fulfil the duties necessarily appertain-
ing to her high position, has issued a notification,
through the Lord Chamberlain, to the corps diploma-
tique, that on Tuesday, the 28th, ahe will hold a Court
at Buckingham Palace, when will be received the
ambassadors and ministers of the variouii foreign courts,
accompanied by the whole of the staffs respectively
attached to them.
FLOGGING IN THE ROYAL NATT.—Mr. Cox's return
of the number of persons flogged in the navy In the
year 1863 supplies the following items :—Total
number of corporal punishments, 752; total number of
lashes inflicted, 25,513; total number liable to corporal
punishments, 55,234; number of men and boys flogged
pursuant to sentences of courts martial, 73; number of
lashes inflicted by sentence of court martial, 3,210;
highest number of lashes inflicted, 48; lowest number
of lashes inflicted, 6..
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A case of some social interest has very recently been
decided by the Master of the Rolls. A widow lady was
left with three daughters, who were entitled under
their father's will to certain property as they came of
age. She married a second time; and when her eldest
daughter came of age, and accepted an eligible proposal
of marriage, the mother persuaded her to aaaign her
share of the property to her—the mother; and as it was
alleged—though this was disputed—to conceal the
assignment from her accepted husband. The marriage
took place soon after this arrangement, and when the
daughter's husband did come to know of the deed, he
sought to have it cancelled on the ground that it de-
frauded him of his marital rights. The Master of the
Rolls said the equity of the case was clear, and ordered
the deed to be cancelled.

The public hate to thank the Legislature for the
pains taken to prevent an extension of the loss and
disappointment occasioned by the " Chinese custom" of
coloring tea with mineral powders, for by 4th Geo. IL
a. 14. s. 11. it is enacted that tea shall not be colored
in England. The Chinese never use colored tea them-
selves, and English Merchants, if they please, could
always have it pure; but as a coat of color aids profit by
disguising brown worthless growths, they prefer to have
most sorts colored. Horniman & Co. knowing that the
practice is distasteful to consumers, import none but
pure tea, and always have many thousand chests in the
London Docks for trade buyers to sample and for
general inspection ; the green is an olive hue, being
without mineral facing, and .the black is not intensely
dark. Authorized srents—nunibering 2,2Bo—esclu-
sively supply this tea in packets; all are signed
Hornirsan & Co., Original Importers of the Pare Tea.
HOLLOWAY'S Ptcui.—Let the sick take beed.—The
stomach is the commissariat of the phyi.ioal system. It
furnishes the material sustenance of every organ. If
disordered, the whole body languishes ; but however
severely it may be effected, its tone and vigour may
always be restored by a coarse of these irresistible pills.
Bilionsness, indigestion, liver complaints, and other
disorders of the stomach, can easily be cured by the use
of Holloway's pills. Thousands attest this assertion,
and no sufferer that has ever tried them will deny their
supreme efficacy. In every case of stomach disease,
from the mildest ease of dyspepsia to the disorder of
both liver and stomach, from the nausea of the free
liver to the vomiting accompanying ulcerated stomach,
these pills immediately relieve, and, by perseverance,
effectually care.

RAILWAY INTILLIONNCH. —The direGtorli Of the
Salisbury and Yeovil company have agreed to recommend
a dividend on the ordinary ahares at the rate of ti per
cent, per annum for the peat half-year,
Rear-Admiral Yolverton, C. 8., at present second in
command in the Mediterranean, is to be the new Junior
Lord of the Admiralty.
The Right Hon. Sir William Gibson Craig, late M.P.
for E linturgb, and a Lord of the Treasury, has been
appointed by the Speaker to act as a paid referee on
private bah., at a salary of El,too.
SHOCKING DZATII OF A TRAVELLEIL—V Dane of
Turin brings us news from Naples, 16th February,
about an English tourist (name not given) killed on the
cone of Vesuviun, in his effort to avoid an enormous rock
ahot up from the crater. He rolled down the steep
declivity, and was picked up, ribs fractured, and back-
bone broken.—Paris Letter.
THE ROUI.ELL FORGKHIZS.—The extraordinary piestions in which the convict Roupell has been mixed up
will agate be bronght before the public at the ensuing
Essex assize. The convict has been detained in England
to enable him to be examined as a witness.

NORRIGN GOSSIP. -The Ow/ says:—' As we under.
stand the negotiations with respect to our quarrel with
the Brazils which a short time ago were broken off,
have now been resumed, acceptable propcoritions have
been made, and there is a probability, amounting
almost to a certainty, that we shall shortly resume
friendly relations with that empire. We believe that
there is still some question of restoring to Denmark a
portion of Schleswig, but that, as this codld only be
a3complished on the conditions of the incorporation
of the remainder with the Prussian kingdom, it does
not meet the views of certain Continental powers."
CURIOUS ATINNIPIIIIRICAL PEINNOMINON IN RUSSIA.
—A rare phenomenon was witnessed at Cronatadt a few
days ago, shin two parlaelia, or false suns, were seen
flanking the real sun right and left, on a line parallel
to the horizon. Between the sun and the two parhelia
the light assumed all the shades between a yellowish
green and • bright red, while streaks of white light, not
unlike the tails of comets, seemed to issue from the
parlielia. This phenomenon occurred on a remarkably
fine day, the sky was perfectly clear, there was no wind,
and the thermometer stood at about 5 degrees Fah., and
the barometer at 30 inches.

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INTRODUCTION OF NEW FURI.—In Ireland Lord
Fowerimourt is introducing, at his own expense, the
drawn of the aaakewit and white fish from the great
lakes of America. The Europese lakes and rivers will
thus be stocked by this resident nobleman's liberality.
The new fish-ponds at Enniskerry are worth visiting.—
Irish Paper.
EDUCATION IN DENMARIL—Dennlark is stated to be,
of all other oonntries in Europe, the one in which
primary instruction is most extensively afforded. As
far back as 1857, 2,520 schools received (in Denmark
proper) 161,495 chldren, 7,826 were taught in their
families ; so that out of 173,000 children, from 7 to 14
years of age, 169,321 enjoyed the benefit of instruction.
By the budget of public, instruction about El English
currency was allowed to each pupil.
TVS DAVENPORT BROTUERB.—ANOTHER SCEI4E.-00
Tuesday night the Davenport Brothers were announced
to give a :dance at Huddersfi Id, at the Philosophical
Hall. The hall soon became filled with an audience
comprising some of the moat respectable inhabitants of
the town. Dr. Ferguson having gone through his
usual introductory speech, in which he specially
impressed upon the audience the neosesity of scrupulously
observing the conditions laid down, two gentlemen were
nominated by the audience to conduct the rope-tying
operations and the examination of the cabinet. The
gentlemen arlecteel were Mr. Dow, surgeon, of Lock-
wood, and presi lent of the Huddersfield Athletic
Society, and Mr. Alexander Walker, manufacturer,
of Mirfield. Messrs. Hulley and Cummins, of Liver-
pool, who had complied with an invitation from some
gentlemen in Hudderdfield to be present, had privately
' initiated the two gentlemen into the mysteries of the
" tom-fool" knot to which the brothers had objected at
Liverpool. Having carefully examined the cabinet,
which they pronounced to be in their opinion free from
any mystery, the committee proceeded to test the rope
and to tie the hands of the Davenport Brothers. The ,
next moment Dr. Ferguson was called to the cabinet,
and Mr. Dow announced that Mr. Davenport objected ,
to his proceeding with his tying on the ground that he '
was hurting his wrists. This caused a loud burst of dis-
satisfaction from the spectators, who were watching
every movement with the keenest interest. At the
request of the audience Mr. Bottomley, surgeon,
asowaded the platform to ascertain if there was any
foundation for the complaint. Before he had completed
his examination the other brother, who was being tied
by Mr. Walker, cried out, and a great clamour ensued.
The one who bad been the firrt to complain called Dr.
Ferguson, and requested him to cut the rope, which
request the doctor promptly complied with. Some
persons in the front seats rushed forward to the foot
of the platform. Mr. Davenport held down his wrists
in order that they might examine them ; but beyond a
slight indication of pressure nothing was apparent, and
Mr. Bottomley confirmed Mr. Dow's statement that
there was no impediment to circulation. The other
brother instantly followed the example of Mr. Dow's
subject, and protested against the tying being proceeded
with. The rope was cut instantaneously, and the
brothers and Dr. Ferguson disappeared after Messrs.
Halley and Cummins were introduced, and loudly
cheered by the audience. In a brief address to the
meeting those gentlemen explained the reason of their
presenes,and counselled the audience to be content with
the deserved exposure of what they called the Daven-
port humbug, without proceeding to violent measures.
They suggested that they should demand the return of
their money. Superintendent Hannan bore stepped
forward, and, amid ringing cheers, informed the
audience that he had sent a detective after the Brothers
for the purpose of securing the return of the money.
Mr. John Wood, through whose agency the Davenports
had visited Huddersfield, promised that all who had
paid for entrance should receive back their money, the
whole of which was in his possession. This called
forth loud expressions of satisfaction. Three cheers
were then given for the Liverpool gentlemen, and for
Messrs. Dow and Walker.—Monehestee Guard sass.

There will be four eclipses in the present year—two
of the mm and two of the mogn—the first being a
partial eclipse of the moon, which will take place on the
morning of the 11th of April. It will commence at
3.45 am., the middle of the eclipse being at 4.38 a.m.,
and ending at 5.31, thoush the moon will set at London
at 5.11, or 20 min. before the eclipse ends. The
second, • total eclipse of the sun, invisible in England,
will take place on April 25. It will he visible from the
Great Southern Ocean, from part of South America,
the Atlantic Ocean, and part of Atria& As a partial
eclipse it will be also visible at the Cape of Good Hope.
The third will be • partial eclip,e of the moon, on the
4th of October. This will be visible from England. On
this day the moon rises at a quarter-past 5, and is due
south 10 minutes before midnight, The eclipse will
begin at 21 minutes to 10 p.m., and will end at 19
minutes before midnight; but the whole extent
covered will be only • third part of the moon's
diameter. The fourth is an eclipse of the sun, on the
19th of October. This will be an annular at some
places, hut will be visible as a partial eclipse only from
England. At London the eclipse will begin at 12
minutes past 4 p.m., while the middle of the eclipse
will be at 9 minutes past 5; but on this day the sun
will set at 4.57,50 that the greatest phase, less than one-
third of the sun, will not be seen.

FOURTH OF MARCIL—It is perhaps not generally
known to our readers that the reason whioh the
founders of the American Republic hid for selecting the
4th of March for the inauguration of their President was
to avoid the occurrence of a "dies non" by the incidence
of that date on a Sunday. By calculation it was
ascertained that for many hundreds of years the
quadrennial recurrence of that day in the year of elec-
tion invariably falls on a week day.—The Ltd.
NEws FROM THE PALAOL—The Royal servants are
now using RECILITTS' DIAMOND BLACK LIAD. This
fact must prove to all that it is better than any other
kind, for, of course, they use the best of everything.
The following is an extract from the Second Edition
(page 188) of the Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. O.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the
Pharmacopceia) that we have no purgative mass but
what oontains aloes; yet we know that hcernorrhoidal
persona cannot bear aloes except it be in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes
scanimony, and oolooyntb, widoh I think are forrneci
into a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which
is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaline process, and by a
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic
nature. I think no better and no worse of it for its
being • patent medicine. I look at it as an article of
commerce and domestic oonvenienoe, and do not hesi-
tate to say it is the best made pill in the kingdom ;
muscular purge, a mucous purge, and • hydrogogue
purge combined, and their effects properly controlled by
• dirigent and oortigent. That it does not commonly
produce hcemorrhoids, like most aloetio pills, I attribute
to its being thoroughly soluble, so that no undissolved
particles adhere to the ',moons membrane.

A BENEFICENT DISCOVERY. THE Noßuser
ACHIEVEMENT OF SCIENCE—The iron horse, with its
tireless strength, its pulses of vapour and its heart of
flame, is a glorious exponent of the creative capacity of
the human mind ; and the metallic nerves through
which intelligence courses over a oontinent, prove by
every flash of thought which traverses them that man
possesses one attribute essentially grand, the power to
annihilate space and time. But vast and important as
have been the results of making steam and lightning
the common carrier and messenger of the world, the
discovery by which weak or impure blood can be
vitalised or restored to new vigour and purity, by
means of internal and external remedies, is of infinite
value. The resources of vegetable chemistry as
developed and applied by Thomas Holloway have proved
equal to this mighty task. His famous remedies
impart to the stream of life a disinfecting principle
which frees the system from all impure and poisonous
elements. The powers of chemistry are almost beyond
calculation, and as he has brought them to bear upon
all the varieties of disease, in those invaluable vegetable
compounds known as Holloway's Pills and Ointment,
they have compassed their highest and holiest object.
Steam; as the great motor, is a subsidiary agent. Its
usefulness consists, mainly, in conveying substantial
benefits with speed and certainty, to the fields in which
they are to operate. It is simply the bearer of
blessings not their originator. Of all the freight
which it carries over land and sea there is perhaps
none so precious ai Holloway's remedies. It is
scarcely a figure of speech to say that whither-
soever. it conveys them it flies " with healing on
it, wings." Under the influence of the Ointment, the
skin, however disfigured by erections or excrescences,
becomes a tabula rasa, pure, op Alen, and transparent;
and this erasure of blemishes is not accomplished by
driving back disease into the vital reowses of the
system but by nentralidng the morbid material which
feeds it. The Pills act upon the internal and the
, organs which secrete them upon the sanitary principle.
They destroy the acrid particles subjected to their
chemical action, as infallibly as an alkali neutralises an
acid ; and at the same time impart • mild and constant
electric action to the secretive and excretive machinery.
1 The sanction of governmenta, the patronage of princes,
the approval of all Christian nations, the gratitude of
pagan millions attest the worth of those twin curatives.
In fact there is no region with which England or any
country has any commercial interwurte where Hollo-
way would not find himself at home. Some estimate
may be formed of the extent and variety of his foreign
correspondence, from the feet that sixty corresponding
clerks, of which number sixteen are accomplished
linguists, are employed in conducting it. He is the
centre of a sanitary ekrele that belts the world.—,Spring-
field Daily Republic.

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WHAT IR • CHAIRXAN OF COMMITTERS ?—The dna..
of this office are now most onerous. The chairman se
committees is the hardest-worked °facet of the house.
He can scarcely ever leave the house safely whilst it is
in session. When the house site in the morning he Is
sure to be wanted; and often he may be seen sitting hail
I chair far into the small hours, We have more than
: once or twice known him in the chair soon after twelve
at noon,oontinne in till (Our; again take it soon after sin,
stop there till peat twelve ; resume it again before esis,
end not finally leave it till daylight peeped threads
the windows. Moreover, he has other and
more difficult duties to perform behind the scenes.lM
those 595 private bills of which we have heard an nnesle.
must be examined by him. He is also Chairman of the
Referees, a new tribunal, the duties of which we nest
not stop to describe. And lastly,if Mr. Speaker's Deal*
should fail, the Chairman of Committees must set am
Deputy-Speaker. Verily, then, Mr. Dodson has IRO
sinecure. Let us hope that bin constitution rind pewee
to work may prove sufscitut to meet these weigher
labonra—raustrated Times.

THE GRANT -TO-I;;;VOLUNTIERS PON 1865.—The
capitation grant of 30a. to artillery volunteers, witieis
last year took £29,223, will n quire £33,000 this year.
For the light horse, engineers, and rifle volunteers the
vote for the capitation grant of 90a. wu £101,039 lest
year, and is now to be £101,700. In the disembodied
militia the number of the permanent ataff stands, as It
did last year, at 5,070, and the numbers to be celled
op for 27 days' training are also as before—naeulyt
128,969; the number to be called up for seven dart
preliminary drill prior to the annual training is reeled
from 9,537 to 18790. The vote to be proposed for Use
yeomanry cavalry provides for pay for 15,1113 °Meets
and men for eight days' duty. The votes proposed this
wasion for the auxiliary forces are as follow t
Volunteers, £334,900; militia, £786,400; yeoman%
£91,000; enrolled pensioners, £30,000 ; army reserve
force, £lO,OOO. The charge for clothing for the lose
two forces linngs the whole amount up to £1,258,300,
which is £9,591 'sore than was voted last year. To title
must be added £29,000 for retired allowances to the
militia and yeomanry, and the expense of arms, arameeb.
tion, and artillery and engineer stores for the voleateses.
EDUCATION Or THE E 0881•11
Russian Government, as a coruieque,,cie of the entangler
tion of the peasants, has just taken measures for Me
diffusion of Instruction among the agricultural manias
tion. An additional budget of 450,000 roubles for the
year 1865 has just been deoreol, so that the badgel
of public instruction now amounts to about
1,300,000 roubles. This supplementary budget provides
for the founding of village schools of eleven mem
gymnasia (colleges), for the purchase of books, paper,
&a, for the poorer peasanti, for supplementary pep
went to schoolmasters and professors for the percher"
of scientific instruments, for the establishment of
laboratories and museums for the re-organisation of the
University of Warsaw, for the foundation of a polytech.
nio sohool, and for other schools for teaching agriculture
and horticulture.

I Tee Dux or ATHOLE.—It seem, to be generally
understood, writes the oorrespondeot of Saisteder's Norm
leiter, that the Duke of Northumberland, jut deceased,
had long announced his intention to bequeath a large
portion of his landed estate to his nephew, the Duke el
Athol.. It is to be presumed that this devise will set
include any of the ancient possession of the Percys (to
which his grace succeeded only as becoming head of the
Perm), but will embrace merely some of theft
properties which by marriage and collateral suocesaieme
have eventually centred in the dukedom. His pale
Is believed, despite his truly princely liberality, to hams
died possessed of immense personal property, to which,
it is expected, the &tellies will succeed as resideary
legatee.
RIOT AT LZEDS.-41. month ago the Gook of liki
Chorley, • Leeds magistrate, was convicted of stealing
two pounds of dripping from her eMpleyer, sad
was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The
sentenced expired on Wednesday, on which
thousands of persona assembled in the neighb=
of Armley gaol to give her an ovation. They weer
however, disappointed, for Mrs. Strafford, the cook to
question had been released, early in the morni
end had left Leeds to join her friends in Wakefield.
The mob being disappointed, got up a little riot, and
during the afternoon Mr. Chorley's windows wine
smashed. The police endeavoured th presetee
ni order, bet without alerial effect. e mayor
and magistrates then determinml to telegraph for
add Eons' force from Bradford, and for It troop of
lim sus ftom York. Before these contingehful savli ri ,
however, Mr. Bell (chief constable) fell and broke
arm, two politietliell werb seriously wounded, le
Hodgson, a porter, Who had been overrun by Mid
orowd, was so severely injured thet he now has in I
dangerous state at Leeds Infirmatys Fottr then are ill
custody for riotous conduct. The town (s no* quiet.
FUNERAL, Or CARDINAL, WLSZII•N.—The beet ofleredi
offices which the Roman Catholic Church prescei ee en
the death of it. more distinguished dignitaries, wereoii
Thursday morning performed on the body of Nicholas,
Cerdinal Wiseman. The religious services were held In
the Roman Catholic Chapel at Moorfields, vilittLX
the body bed been removed, and where the imposing
services appointed by his Church were performed with
great pomp and solemnity. A sermon, which partook
in large measure of the nature of a review of the
Cardinal's life and character, was preached by Dr.
Manning. The church, without being overcrowded,
was completely filled in every part, and among the
congregation were several members of the aristoeraey,
and Protestant, as well,as Roman Catholic. The religiods
services being over, a procession was fortned of (reel
extent—some say covering as inneh es tiro miles (emit
end to end—end proceeded from the chtirdh in Moor,
field' to the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Keesal-green4
where more prayers were offered up, end the reatathul
of this dignified ecclesiastic were deposited in their last
earthly resting-plane.
Experiments were made on Wednesday on the South-
Western Railway with an invention for permitting com-
munication between paesengers and guard and guard
and driver in any train. Electricity is the chief agent
In the invention. The result of the experiments appears
to have been satisfactory.
HETRENCHNENT AT THZ Weli-orrier..,a-The London
correspondent of the bilk Times says: Hui de Grey
and Ripon, the Secretary at War, has set abottt re,
trenching the War-office with a vengeance. HE hell
Mint dtiwn iirden to reduce the mad of Civil servants lil
that department by dnd hundred, and to indute the most
with large salaries to retire. Liberal otters are madei
They who have credit fdr terentY yestri serve!e will bil
allowed to retire on the pentliOn w eil is given for
thirty yearn; those who have served dr .fiftheii
,yeetri
will have seven yearn added; and those whci havq„.ileeti
ten years' service will be allowed to retire on flftekil
years. It is *bought that the movement is in anticipa-
tion of the general election, to pave the way for
vacancies which will be filled up from the electors who
are faithful to the Liberal party.
COUKUNIOATION WITH GUARDS ON RAILWAYS.—
The following letter has been addressed to the &attained
by Captain Claxton, R.N. :—"Ser,—Your notice of the
pneumatic tube for commuuLating with guards by
railway travellers, induces we to think you will not
refuse to notice other plans having in view public
security and railway interests. Many patents have
been taken out since the murder of Mr. Briggs, and
among others, I think the first one by my humble self,
descriptions of whieh, similar to that I enclose, have
been sent to secretaries of all railways for the
information of all directors. My idea is, that upon
hearing extra noises, such as blows, groans, or screams,
facilities for looking (when possible) into one compart-
ment from another, are the things to be arrived at.
Attention being aroused, viva vote exclamations as the
traits approach stations, to all railway officials, guard
included, would do the rest. The London and South-
Western are making experiments on the principle I
advocate by trying openings between oompartmente,
and so far, according to my views, the move is in the
right direction, the carrying out somewhat different i
for while I gave facilities for hearing noises; they, *h
the glass is fixed or cloud, preterit It. The Board
Trade, in a report last session, alluded to fixed paned 3
glass with curtains on each side for prieally. A 4
sasassin would take care the curtain on his skit slio
exclude sight before commencing operations. Thd
talented committee of managers of railways still 'Mind
I believe, at the clearing-home. it is to be hoped will
agree upon what their experience and inquiries ioduoe
them to think best, and that the different boards they
represent will adopt their suggestions. There have, I
hear, been several patentees in communication with the
authorities; their report will be as important SI no
doubt it will he advantageous to the interests they
represent, and to the public."
A DISPUTE WITH A CALIZAN.—Admiral Cochrane
drove to the Westminster pollee-court in • cab, on
Wednesday morning, to have a dispute settled between
him and the driver of it. He and Lady Cochrane had
been driven that morning from Waterloo-station to
Belgrave-square, and the cabman had demanded 2s. 8.1.
—2s. being for just above two miles of ground, includ-
ing 6.1. extra for the conveyance of the footman, with
Bd. for panels at the rate of 2d. each. The admiral
told him that he was not entitled to charge for the
parcels. —Mr. Arnold observed that the Act was plain
enough in its wording, and could not be mistaken. It
was only when more than two persons were carried
inside that the driver was justified in charging for the
luggage. Ile had been guilty of an overcharge, and
should be fined 3s.

THE SAFFRON-RILL MORDER.—There seems to be
strong personal feeling mixed up with the prosecutioa
of Gregorio for his alleged share in the Saffron-hill
murder. The sister of the landlady of the public-house
where the murder was committed appears to have
become enlisted on the side of Polioni, and he attended
at the last examination of Gregorio to discredit, if need
be, the evideoce of her sister and brother-in-law, who
charged Polioni with the murder. On Wednesday she
appeared at the polioe-court, and charged her brother.
in-law with having struck her when they met that day
in the isourt, and several Italians confirmed her state-
ment. The police-offioers in attendance denied the
assault, which they said they most have witnessed if it
had been committed; but the magistrate found the
charge proved, and fined the defendant.
FIRAPT PRZIOURI.—LittIe Tom Spriggles (returning
to the wile of his bosom at 3 a.m.) : —'Let'. see half-
a-crown, ain't it, Cabby T' Cabby :—" Half-a-orown
no, it ain't, its height-ate-six. Look alive, for I'm
subject to convulsions, and lets out straight from the
shoulder; so if yer don't want me to be had up for
manslaughter, fork out !"—Fan.
A SKATING 'Tous..—Professor Quinn, of Now York,
who is out west on a lecturing tour, has reached that
place direct from St. l'aul on i..kates. The distance is
, nearly 850 miles, which he skated in just two weeks,
stopping, meantime, to lecture at many points on the
way.
VICTOR HUGO On CAPITAL PCRIRRAISNT. The
Guernsey Star publishes a letter from Victor Hugo, in
which that eminent writer says :—" In France Polizzioni
would have been condemned for murder without
premeditation to a temporary punishment. The English
sentence is wanting in this great corrective--extenuat-
ing circumstances. Let England in her pride reflect on
this. At present her criminal legislation is inferior to
that of France—imperfect as this may be. In this
matter England is behind France. Would England
regain in an instant all the /wand she has lost, and
leave France in the rear? She can do so. She has
only to take this one step—abolish the punishment of
death. This great act is worthy of a great nation. I
invite her te it. The punishment of death has lately
been abolished in several of the republics of North and
South America. It is about being abolished—if it have
not already been—in Italy, in Portugal, in Roumania.,
and in Greece. Belgium will not be long before she
follows these noble examples. It would be admirable
for England to take the same initiative, and show by
the suppression of the scaffold that the land of liberty
is also the land of humanity.'