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university, or the latter with the coexistence of a large
niontier of clergymen. Such • figard is exceedingly I
familiar, and has, I make DO doubt, ban used by the
Bishop of Oxford, hoth in censure and in commenda-
tion, a dozen times over."
A "BLIND CONDRD.T.i'—A Will case, in which
Cardinal Cullen, appestat as defrntant. Tax sottlat
in the Dubin Court of Probate on Sattadarby a oymv
promise, which Jndge Keatings,,,termed • "Mind oon-,A
sent," inasmuch a the terms el.*, anlaigement did
not transpire. A maiden -Iw* sane fifty years of
sae when she died, named Reily, who had lived in
the neighbourhood of a convent of Trappist monks at
Mount Menem'', in the county of Waterford, made a
will, leaving all her pmlwrty to the cardinaL Thin
will the next of kin had dispntea, alleging 51eticien..y
of testamentary capacity and widne ii,fluence I.v the
monks, to whose benefit, they retied,- Cardinft.Collen
was b oind to apply the gtoneysiinder • ''oeseft trust,"
the object beiug to (Weal; the Relief Act of 1A29.

a day, both being irreepectflve of any pecuniary advan-
tsssQ Is* ff""d elevi'"es Along /414
t attractions ao additional 'lift of clilibiniVelkh
1$ liana inxi•greasad meat ration;per day, ate be
enjoyed enjoyed by alt&ldiern We are &boogied to ka t
Sr Alde ot rsh other similar canine are in future
exiiit'.only mer m 'ln onths, d
that raisin ' men will be in 'Winter 'quarters in
garcieon tovroL_ Some other improvements agetlikely
to he carrie4:3oot which-kwill ungueitionabljv tandito
make the service-peon*. -
A Faelax APPRAL —The following appeal
was recently heeled at Buffalo :—" Irishmen! the
English Government is about to reenact on American
soil its deeds of blood. Trish patriots are about to be
sacrificed on the altar of Engii.ll despotism. Can yon,
wrn liar iti ? Or will you rise in your might and
11 tr de ,yinir • iv/ to kW (Mat? Americans! a
4 In hae!bee oxideMpsed -to death tr *ream' to a
fernika governs t. Are Mr naturietzbion laws null
and void ? Has the war of 1812 been fought in vain?
I, America to be republican or despotic.? Come and
answer!" .
How TO Paoroas.-- -A party of ladies and
gentlememwerelairching over the euppeedil awkward-
ness attett4jig a dealaratton of love, whillgallhintleman
remarked that if ever he i ffered biioself he would do
it in a collected and busineesdike manner. " For in-
stance." be continued, addressing a lady privent,
" Alias Smith, I have been two years Linking for •
wife. lam in receipt of about three hundred a year,
which is on the increase. Of all the ladies of my ac-
quaintance, I admire you the most; indeed, I love
you, and would gladly make you my wife." "You
flutter me by your pref erenee," good bumouredly replied
Miss Smith, to the surprise of all present; • I refer
you to my father," " Bravo 1" exclaimed the gentle-
men. " Well. I declare !" said the ladies, in a chorus.
The lady and gent,ernan, good reader, were married
moon after. Waso't that a updest way of "cloning to
the point,"..and a ladylike metho.hof taking ilium at
his word?

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AFRTCiN Mirrnornssr, It is staled, in non-
nexion with the celebration of the connpletson of the
first century of American lVfetliodiortn. that at the
time of the first Conference, July 14. 1773, the Metho-
dist Church numbered. only 1.160 no-tabors the .
• timber at the time of the general Conference. May 2,
1864, was 928 340. At the first Conference there were
10 oreachers, at the last onr 6,821 At the clone ,/f
1865 the entire membership was 936 434. The
number of Sunday,schoola in 1865 was 1348; offi-
cers and teachers, 153,699; scholars, 931,724—t0ta1,
1.085,423 : and the numb-r of conversions was 18 897.
The number of Methodiat churehem at the latest
return was 19,883, accommodating t 239.790 P,,°°".
'THE Emesnoa NAntairog's FISALTII.-1 he
Pane Corrvapondent of the Indrptidance Beige has the
following :
on nuns's, lad a sliet oneration WaR p•rformed on the
E 'Term, It Was vile surceoaful, his Mile•ty not a...Mg
under the mmes.ity of remaining In hedeir a single moment,
*hd b-tag in fact ante to walk 'letter Immediately after. Dr.
G on, who was surgeon to Lords PI-alive was the operator.
Tan Emperor desired to show him irrwhiude for the service
done hmi hut IW Onto, with an hpnourahle feeling which
does him credit, wonid accepCnothipg. !Overeats.. .deep
attaehment fhr the fallen -dynasty. He &Amassed a wish,
however, that the kindnesa which the Emperor ',tended for
himself mlcht be bestowed on his son, who was also a mem-
ber of the medical profession and on the same day, Si
Govon, Jun, was appointi4 physician Lithe quarter of the
Tuilerite.

A Fossil. SKYLETON OF A WHALE.—The fol-
lowing, from the Nelson Colonist, will greatly interest
geological readers:—
We have been Informed by • good anthority that some
we,-Irs ago • party of miners engaged in BMW/ for gold up
the Ranieri, flokltika, made the very interewing discovery
of the fossil skeleton of a whale, perfectly entire, and
measuring as much us 15017. In length It was covered by
allovial soli. and only • few feet nelow the surface The
fact that the locality is ten or twelve mlhs from the pre-
sent seashore, and about 100 feet .above pretent
render, the fact • very remarkalhe one, and goes to prove
Ike assertion of geologists thag past part, 01 Ngsr Zealand
has been raised from the bed of the se,

TIM DENII•MONDR 01! TM. IR TRCITRI S.—Within
the last few days there have arrived in Liverpool a
number of elegantly.dressed and beautiful girls, who
excited much curiosity and intereston l, r 4 the
steamer which bronght them from New York& It ap-
pears that these girls were some time pr4viouuly
shipped for America by a celebrated, or rather in'
famous. procures., stud that, on their arrival at New
York, they were engaged to go to some of the cities
of the South. In fact. passages were engaged for many
of them in the Ereniny Star, the .enesel whose fearful
destruction was so recently told in the English papers,
but from some circumstance. which transpired their
herbs were not takerhim. and their thus escaped the
melancholy fate whichfbefel al many of the frail sisters
hood to which they had allied themselves. Theeevents
cooneeted with the loss of ths Evening Star miede so
powerful an impression upon the minds of thew, girls,
that they decided to return to England, and, paving
met with SOllle friendly and well-disposed I,ersens in
New York, they were enabled to carry thy) design into
execution, and are now to route to Frane.r, Belgium,
and other places, whence they were originally ab-
ducted.

CANADIAN RAILROADS AND THLKORAPIIIL—The
Government return for the year 1865 shows that there
were in that year 2 148 miles of railroad in Canada
open for tri.lfic. Their cost has been 121,543 189 dots.
The receipts for 1865 amounted to 10,910 678 dol..
The total wor,king esoenditure wax 5778,343 dol..
Renewals cost 1,355,759 dole. The Grand Trunk line,
1,377 miles in length, had 38 deaths by accident in the
sear; the Great Western, with 345 miles, 15; the
Northern, with 97 miles, 5. There are three telegraph
companies at Ittrlv,:in Cantle --the MontreaL the
Provincial, mid an' American company, the Vermont
end Roston. which has 43 miles of telegraph line in
Cicada. The total length of the lines in 1865 was
4,978 miles; the number of messages cent, 479 331,
A RDNAWAY Wire FOUND.— A Melbourne
paper states that, in 1841, an English couple lived in
comfortable quarters near Ballarat, the matl .being
possessed of several good mining sharee. On an evil
day, however, a brother shareholder was introduced,
and one fine evening the lady and the friend left the
house and the district together. The mines in which
the husband was interested having lately been worked
out he realised tie little property, and hearing • great
deal about the Gippe Land gold•M•lde determined to
seek he newi Eldorado, and landed a few wlielse baCk
or Side. Here he heard that he could buy a large
hotel from a widow, at a ridiculously small sum, lie
started to view the investment, when he was surprised
to find that the widow was no other than hie loog•Iost
wife. The husband used recriminations, the wife
tears, and at length she was forgiven, more especially
as she had endured a long list of sufferings at the
hands cd. her paramour, who bad been removed by
death. The hotel has not changed hands, but the
husband has asserted his rights by placing his name
over the door.

A RARX C FIANCE FOR A CrOVE R:11.98 —The
following bona fide reply to an application for a situa-
tion warn lately received by a governess in Liverpool.
We give the " lady's" letter verbatim et Itteratim an,l
leave our readers to make their own comments upon
It :

Was W-- I received your letter I want. a Governess
that can make her own bed sweep bee room:prepare the
Children for hretskfast & school to heip to wow to he
Inda.trions and rarely, to be as one of the family willing to
do anything cut bread and hurter if rtquired I 1.1•• • hearty
cheerful person. 11.1 pony If you can teach young heginers
good english with a little music & singing, pity your own
expenses In coming and going for twelve pounds per annum
—I should like to hear from you —Yours truly C. W

EMIORATION FROM AMERICA TO PAL, ST,NE
A correspondent of the Lerant Herald writes from
Jaffa :—" The American. barque IVellie Glaplin has
arrived here with 156 American emigranti, members
of an association which ham been formed to colonise
Palestine. Preparaiinos had been made for.them, and
plots of and nutaideJaffa--one about half aimile north
and the other a coriple of miles east of the town—
have already been secured and occupied by them.
Both of these locations are in the close neighbourhood
of our famous orange gardens, which perfume the
Valley of Sharon almost away to Rernieh. The local
authorities have afforded every facility to the
new•comers, their baggage and a large cargo
of budding wood which they brought with them
bring been allowed to pass the crueom.house duty
free. They are likely to do well, and if so, the ex-
periment will be one of unusual interest and im-
portance.

SENSATION SIMS FROM CANADA.— The" Weekly
Leader " newspaper, published st Toronto on October
19 CoMeained the following statement :

lAtest News fr. m Europe. Destruction nf Woolwich
Arstnal. —N% oolwich arsenal nas been lev,lled to the ground
tl an explosion of gun cotton No lives Vat

This announwmant is no doubt based upon the maize
sion of ii gurpcotton magazine which recently took
Owe. canning no damage beyond the destruction ol
the store.
OnURCII DIFFICCLTIES.—Churck difficulties in
the colonies do not appear to be confined to the
Betabliehment. The Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council are now engaged in hearing an aposid from
the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope as to
important questione of doctrine and discipline in the
Dutch Reformed Church. Mr. Burgett., a clergyman
of the colony of Hanover, holds heterodox viewer on
certain articles of belief, and bee been suspended by
the eyntel ..f his church. The care seems to be similar
to that of Dr. Colons°, although the parties are in a
different position as regards eai•lt other. Mr. Burgess
brought WI action in the local Supreme Court, which
decided that the Rodente of the synod was null and
void. From that decision the eynod appeals to the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, alleging
that the Supreme Court had no legal jutudiction over
a sentence pegged for a gpiritual offence. The case is
expected to last some days.
CONVIAIEVTLY Dicer ! in olden time, before
Maine laws were invented ...Wing kept the hotel at
: ran vil it., and furnished accommodation to
man and beset." He was • good landlonl but terribly
Ile‘f. 1... h, the village painter, was afflicted in the
same way. One day they were sitting by themselves
in the liar room. Wing wail behind the counter wait-
ing for the next customer, while nib was lounging
before the fire with a thirsty look, casting eheep's eye.
occasionally at Wing's decanters, and wishing moot
devoutly that some one would come in and treat. •
traveller from the South, on his way to Brandon,
steppsd in to inquire the distance. "Can you tell
me, sir, how far it is to Brandon ?" " Brandy'' aye
the ready landlord, jumping up; "ye., sir, I have
some," at the same time handing down a decanter of
the precious liquid. "Yon noimunderstancl me," says
the stranger; "I asked how for it was to Brandon."
"They call it pretty good lirandy," says Wing • "will
you take soar with it 2- reaching, aa he spoke, for
the bowl and todtly.stisk. The despairing traveller
turned to Fieh. "'l'm,. landlord," said he, "appears
to he deaf. Will y.ai tell me how far it is to Branckn?"
"Thank you, I don't care if I .lo take a drink with
you." The stranger treated and Lied.

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SCIDDISN WFALTII.—The "Newlettryport (Mu.
eschnsetts) Herald" pays that a hard working young
man of this place had received a letterfrom New 'York,
announcing the death of an aunt who left a large
eetate, a full half million of which will come to him.
He appears to be a very tensible. as he is an industrious
and temperate man, and on Yireiving intelligence com-
pleted hi, day's work an if nothing had happened, and
after haring been to New York to contirm the fartm in
the case, has returned to his daily labours, which he
will continue till the administration of the estate
is completed.

" NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND !"—The "Court
Journal ' is responsible for the following

A gallant Beat. colonel. well known for Ma admiration of
the fa rix In tener..l, made tome y•ars ago actors! bets
amounting to tome hundred pounds, that he would not he
married by a nertaln year That year ha. snore... •' Lo
gLeant I. anytning in • elate of cohhacy, and IS
adman* himself c,ll,cting the fruit. of his caution and self
dental.

A MAN DEC IPITATFD ow A RAILWAY.-011
Sunday morning an engineidriver on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, was running an engine along
the line, near the Sandhills station, when be noticed
the body f a man lying scroies the rails. The head
was only connected with the body by a small ligament.
An engine had palmed the place some time previously,
but it was no dark that the driver could not have seen
any one in front, and it was at firit thought that
the man was thus knocked down and killed. The de-
ceased was drewied like a labouring man, and appeared
to he about thirty years of age. An inquest ham been
held, and from the evidence adduced it appeared not
unlikely the man had deliberately laid his head upon
the rail, with the intention that his life should he de-
stroyed. The jury, however, returned an open verdict.

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SUNDAY BA,D9 IN TIIE LONDON PABICS.—On
Saturday a nrimerone deputation From a working
men's aseociation, called the "Lord's Day Rest
Sythisty,” waited upon the Chief Commissioner of
Works to place before hun their objections to the
Sunday hands now allowed in the parks. It VIM put
before him lordship as a working men'n question, for
after their hard six days' toil they were naturally
jealous of their Sunday rest, and looked upon this and
the cry for opening the museums, dtc., on Sundays as
the thin end of the wedge by which their present pri-
vilege of one day's cessation from toil in lieven would
be rent amunder. These and other cogent arguments
were eubmitted to his lordship by various speakers.
His lordship said the subject should have hie careful
consideration. They could not, of course. expect him
to give an anewer that day, for a great deal of diffi-
culty surrounded the proposition to chan,th a eystem
which had exinted for yearn. With respect to eaten.
,ion of the system he had already received a
deputation from the Sunday League, and he would
consider the arguments of the two deputations con-
currently.
IMPORTANT DECISION AGAINST A RAILWAY
CON-PANT.— The Tribunal of Commerce of the
Seine harn juet given judgment on a question of im-
mense importance to all railway travellers (say.
Othignani a French paper.) Four gentlemen wishing
to go to Chatillon-sur-Seine on the sth May last, took
ticket.s by the !siren o'clock morning train, which
ahould reach Nuits-eur-Riviere at two, ,In tithe for the
commending train to Chatillon, twelve minute. later.
The engine, however, broke down on the way, and the
travellers only reached Nuits at ten minutes past
three, and then, finding that they would have to wait
several hours before another train left for their desti-
nation* took a special one for which they paid f..70c.
They now sued the Lyons Railway Com' y to
recover that sum, with 1001. additional, wh they
had claimed for the inconvenienced° which they had
been put. The defendante alleged in their defence
that the accident was one over which they had
no control, and that they were consequently not
responsible for the delay; but the court decided that
the stoppage had been caused by the breaking of a
photon rod, which would not have occurred had the
company bad its engines properly examined, and con-
demned it to pay an indemnity of 200 f. with 'Warm
from the date of the occurrence, and costs of the
action

SWALLOWING Puss—The danger of making a
pin repository of the mouth has just been exemplified
at Penzance. Mrs. Reading was engaged in a glirden
hanging out some clothes, and with ,• ,view4o.aave
time she placed a number of pins In her month.
Being startled by an urgent request to go into the
hones to her child, she turned round very suddenly,
and while no doing seventeen pins slipped down her
throat, mist of them lodging in her gullet. The poor
woman suffered fearful pain. A neighbour reeprted to
the old-fashioned, and in this case efficacious, method
of persistently slapping the patients back. In the
noun's, of a couple of hours fourteen pies were slapped
up an/ three down, and beyohd the pain and irritation
of the throat no harm has been done.
MR. DISRAELI QUALIFYING.-At the kiting
of the Court of Exchequer on Monday morniWg, the
Right-Hon. Benjamin Disraeli came upon the bench
in the robes of Ins office, and took the oaths prescribed
by the State for the judges of the different dilute of
justice. The oath war administered to the right hon.
gentleman hy Mr. Walton, the Queen's Remeruntancer,
in the presence of • very full bar, who rose on his
entering the court, and remained standing until he
retired.—The Chancellor of the 3o:sober:ear having
taken the oath and signed the roll, said: Mr. Themiger,
have you anything to move? [Mr. Thesigerlis the
" Tubman" of the court, and by virtue of tlts4 noel-
tion takes precedence in revenue matterizi—Mr.
Thesiger : I move, sir, that the fact of your having
taken the oath be recorded.—The Chancellor of the
Exchequer: Let it be recorded, —The hon.
, gentleman then bowed thtlie bar arictifin &nil; and
left the court.
Recamalien roe THE Aemy.—The Report of
the Royal Commission upon the recruiting of the army
—the most important d iecn 'nen t us regards the interests
of the service, awl the efficisnoy of our military elitati.
lishments is now placed Wore her Majesty': The
changes proposed are likely to be eminently satis-
factory to ttiose soldiers who are now deliberating ILA
ti whether they will prolong their term, and toe those
who may oi tutor.- seccpt service. We believe tlrat the
periisls ii service recommended by the commission, rs
are twelve years for the first and nine fir toe second
term for all branches of the army. Those who re-enlist
, are to have as insrlase of pay of 2d. per dAy fur the
Mudd term, and stenf sompliton a puiden de

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