The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

A MELANCHOLY CASE-SUICIDE OF A PHY-
SICIAN'S WIFE-JEALOUSY THE CAUSE.

Mrs. Mary Anne Latson, wife of Dr. William B. Latson, of
No. 985 Eighth avenue, committed suicide on Wednesday
evening under somewhat melancholy circumstances. Deceased,
it appeared, was of a jealous disposition, and had frequent quar-
rels with her husband growing out of his attentions to certain
of his female patients. Year after year she implored him to
give up a business which brought him in contact with so many
women, but in vain. Dr. Latson regarded her suspicions as the
result of a weak mind, and would not consent to abandon his
profession to suit the caprice of his jealous wife. On several
occasions deceased threatened to destroy herself if her hus-
band would not gratify her wish, and en one or two occasions
she actually took a quantity of morphine with that intention.
On Wednesday morning deceased quarrelled with herhua 'and
about some matter which transpired at Pat rson, N.J. After
breakfast she suddenly left the house, with a market basket in
her hand, and procuring a quantity of charcoal returned to
her home for the purpose of executing the oft-repeated threat
of suicide. On entering the house she quietly proceeded to
her bed-room, fastened the door, stuffed the key-hole and
windows with cotton, and coolly prepared to take her leave of
this world. Before setting fire to the charcoal she wrote a
harried note to her husband, bidding him farewell, and giving
him her reasons for committing suicide (which will be found
in our annexed report of the coroner's inquest), and then,
throwing herself upon the floor, awaited the approach of death.
deceased was not discovered until several hours after death,
so that all chance of resuscitation was out of the question.
Below will be found a report of the testimony as taken before
Coroner Scheimer, on Thursday evening, together with other
interesting details of the tragedy :
Mrs. C. A. Clayton, of 461, Eighth-avenue, deposed that
while she was in the house of the deceased, waiting to get her
teeth fixed, she observed deceased coming in with a basket on
her arm; deceased passed up stairs without speaking to the
witness, and entered a back room. The basket was covered so
that witness could not see what it contained.

Adeline Howard, of 245, West Thirty-first-street, deposed
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witness immediately hurried to the scene of death, and found
deceased lying on the bed quite dead. Mr. Latson was present
and had evidently been weeping; deceased appeared quite
natural ; tlaere was no protusion of the tongue, and no appear-
ance of convulsions; there r.zs some difficulty between deceased
and het husband that morning; did not Tow what it was
about; deceased was very jealous of her husband, and has
been so for many years, because his business brought him in
contact with so many ladies ; deceased wanted him to abandon
it ; don't remember that deceased ever threatened to commit
suicide in my presence.
Caroline Baker deposed as fellows—l live in the same house
with deceased ; last evening, just after dark, Dr. Latson came
into my room, and, throwing the door open, asked my chil-
dren where I was; when I saw him his first expression was,
"My God, I believe my wife is dead ;" he was crying, and
appeared very much frightened; he ran immediately down
stairs and took me into a small room where deceased lay ; she
was then lying on her back upon the door, perfectly straight ;
her arms were crossed, and there was a pillow under her head;
she did not look like a dead person ; I did not notice anything
peculiar in her appearance ; I think her right hand was closed,
I took hold of it ; it was cold and stiff. I asked the doctor
what was the matter, and he replied "that she had killed
herself." Upon looking round I noticed that there was cotton
stuffed in the door and windows; I saw a furnace in the room,
but I could not say whether there was any fire in it or not.
The doctor picked deceased up and placed her upon the bed ;
he requested me to send for a doctor, and I sent fire Dr. Beck.
We bathed her in brandy and rubbed her, and appid restora-
tives, but all in vain.
Martha Harris, sister of deceased, deposed to hearing the
latter say that she would commit suicide. I knoll which
handwriting, and can identify the following card which was
found in the deceased's room, -as being in her handwriting :
"Farewell, William. Forgive me for all the trouble I have
ganged you ; but recollect your business has drove me crazy,
and neiihtr in pity for my body or my soul would you change
your ways. lam no thi.efp you could not mean that. Give
my things to my dear sister, and pornethiug to Adeline and
children."
Wm. S. Latson deposes and says: I live here ; I am a
dentist ; I am the husband of deceased ; yesterday I was
engaged from noon until six o'clock at my business; the last
customer I had wits Mrs. Clayton; she left about six o'clock;
it appears to me now that not over twenty-minutes elapsed
before I went to the door in the hall leading into the rear
room, and finding it locked I came to the door at the end of the
passage leading from this room and burst it open ; I then went
' into the room where deceased laid, and saw her lying on the floor
apparently asleep ; a little dog went towards her and I said to him
"don't you wake her up ;" I had previously gone down stairs and
got a scuttle of coal; I might have waited five or ten minutes
in the large room before I went in where she laid ; I then took
her by the arm and found it stiff; it made me shafider,
and the thought crossed me that she might be dead ; I ran
up stairs for Mrs. Baker; we came right down; I picked her
up and put her on the bed, and commenced using restora-
tives, and sent for Dr. Wilson end Dr. Beck; all the restora-
tives used were without avail ; she was dead ; as I opened
the door of the room in which she lay, I observed a
suffocative odour of charcoal in the room ; I last saw her
alive ahqut two o'clock yesterday afternoon ; she was
coming in the doorway on the front stoop; I was at the
window of this room ; I spoke with her yesterday morning
about ten o'clock ; it might have been as late as eleven o'clock ;
had a difficulty with her then; she accused me of having a girl
with one wuen I was at Patterson, New Jersey, ting.at her
sister's, which was not the fact; the day previously I went to
the drawer and took a purse of money from it and put it in
my pocket, and it is to this that she probably refers in the
card; for eight years she has been jealous; she has often
threatened to kill herself; has attempted it with morphine and
quicksilver, &c., several times.
Dr. George B. Bouton made a post-mortem examination of
the body of deceased, and gave it as his opinion that death
was caused by the inhalation of carbonic acid gas, generated
by burning charcoal.
The cape vo.e then submitted to the jury, who, after due
deliberation, rendered a verdict of " Suicide." Deceased was
88 years of age, and was a native of Engi4nd.

300 horses have just passed through Paris, purchased
in England for the Piedmontese Government.
A WORD FOH THE WOMEN.—We have instanced the
decoration of watches and of glass as mere instances in
point. The delicate female hand, the most beautiful and
pliant instrument in the world, once thoroughly educated,
the whole world of design is opened to her, and the field
of her labour is almost -boundless. There is scarcely an
article of home manufacture in which we have advanced
much beyond the rade old Saxon style. Every article
of household use, as far as design is concerned, has to be
reformed, and will be, as our tastes advance. Why,
then, should not the trained female artist hasten to share
the work with her brother artist ?—Once a Week.
THE COMPOUND EYE OF A BUTTERFLY.—WonderfuI
as its structure is, it does not greatly differ from that of
many other insects, being like them composed of an im-
mense number of little lenses set together to form a
hemisphere large in comparison with the insect's head.
A portion of one of these eyes forms a pretty and inter-
esting object for the microscope, presenting a honey-
comb appearance, the hexagonal lines that mark the
division of the lenses being most beautifully geometrical
and regular in their arrangement. More than seventeen
hundred of these lenses have been counted in a single
eye, and each of these is considered to possess the quali-
ties of a complete and independent eye. If this he true,
the butterfly may be said to be endowed with at least
thirty-four thousand eyes.—British Butterflies, by W. S.
Coleman.
STRENGTH AND NArinownss.—To minds strongly
w rero to otters--elf-
marked by the positive and negative qualities that
create severity--strength of will, conscious rectitude of
narrowness of imagination and intellect, great
esr
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come dispositionas
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purpose,povoe
tendencies which can get no sustenance out of that
'
complex fragmentary, doubt-provoking knowledge which
we call truth. Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried
in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the
eye—however it may come, these minds will give it a
habitation;
.it is ,
something t
bravely, something to fill
up the assert strongly
void of spontaneous and
ideas, something to impose on others with the
authority
of ,conscious right ; it is at once a staff
and a baton.
Every prejudice that will answer these
evideit—The Atli? on (4,
.Floss,purposes is self-

THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "TIMES."

Sir,---I am desired to state, on the part of Mr. John C.
Heenan, in answer to your report of till.= morning, that neither
he nor any person authorised to act for him requested the
referee at the late encounter between Sayers and himself to stop
the fight when the ring was broken into. On the contrary,
he and his friends, nearly all of whom were grouped in a little
handful at his corner, repeatedly protested against the invasion
of the ropes, and demanded that the fight should not be inter-
rupted. In proof of this, Heenan breasted his way three Clues
through the crowd of persons who poured into the arena from the
side of Sayers to renew the combat after t bat outrage had taken
place, and who refused to leave the ring, and did not do so until
Sayers had been withdrawn. He wishes me to say, moreover,
that he feels sure that, had not that occurrence taken place, he
would soon have made his victory manifest to the most pre-
judiced person on .he ground. As to the suggestion which
has been kindly made by the Editor of Bell's Life, that Sayers
and he should have a Belt apiece be begs to say that, while he
will cheerfully subscribe to a new testimonial for his brave
and honourable adversary, he will have none other than the
one he came 9,000 miles to get, and which he honestly feels be
has already won, He believes, however, he can win it again, if
required to do so, ana, if it be really amenable to conquest by
a stranger, he will not leave your shores until he brings his
late contest to a new and due conclusion.
On the part of many Americans in London, who have called
upon me, we repudiate entirely the idea expressed at the con-
clusion of your hrticle—namely, that Heenan's American
supporters "consent to the contest being considered a drawn
battle." They, on the contrary, insist that the tight, if not
decided to be already won by Heenan, shall be considered as
still pending, and subject to renewal at the earliest possible
day. Through a note from the referee, which now lies
before me, I learn that he has refused a new arbitrement
this week (according to the usual custom), "on the ground
of humanity;" but, while the friends of Mr. Heenan cannot
bject to such a highly creditable motive, they disclaim for
him the requirement of any such consideration, he being quite
capable of responding to the orders of the referee, and will
so respond at an hour's notice. The friends of Keenan, while
they acquit the upright and gallant Sayers and his immediate
backers from any participation in the violent interruption of
the contest, wish to declare the clearness of Heenan's sup-
porters from arty complicity with that outraee ; and in this
connection desire me to say that when a man in our country
who has eneaged to subdue another requires outside help to
aid him, as was given to Sayers in the 39th round, he is consi-
dered to be beaten. In short, whenever "humanity" justifies
such interference, the verdict is given against the man whose
conquered and hopeless condition requires the practical inter-
position .f such a sentiment.
In conclusion. I wish to say for myself that in the haste of
writing my loog report, the battle part of which has been pub-
lished here in an illustrated extra, a few errors crept in which
could not be corrected for that edition, as I had no time
allowed me to either revise my manuscript or read its proof.
One of those errors was the omission of the word "at " in
the last line of one of the closing rounds, when, in speakitig
of the conduct of the persons who broke into the ring,' it
should read "they kicked at and struck at him," instead of
" kicked and struck him." _ _

I send with this a corrected copy of that report, and if you
will lay it before the gentleman who prepared your ably-
Avrittea account of Wednesday, and he will point out any
errors I may have made therein, I will cheerfully correct it for
perusal in America.
Very truly yours,
GEOR £ WlLicEs.
Adelphi Hotel, London, April 19.

THE FINDING OF THE SAVIOUR IN THE

TEMPLE.

This painting is by Mr. Holman Hunt, one of the
leading painters of the pre-Raphaelite school. As a
specimen of that peculiar branch of art we felt inclined
to approach it at first sight with more respect that any
other production of the kind which has challenged our
critical judgment ' • but with the best disposition to
bestow upon it all the praise which it deserves we can-
not admit that it is a picture in the true sense of the
word. It is an extraordinary painting, and that is all.
It is no more a picture than a most elaborate description
of faces, dresses, and furniture, without the slightest
impress of the imagination, is a poem. The fact is, it
is not the finding of the Saviour in the Temple, because
neither sympathy is felt nor sentiment excited when
standing before the canvass. The richness of colouring,
the variety of fancy portraits, the exact imitation of
different stuffs and materials, the skilful rendering of the
marble floor, and the gorgeous tints in the trellis of the
architecture, may be admired or provoke astonishment,
and all culminating in wonder at the patience of the
artist, his manipulation, and his beautiful colours ; but
no interest whatever in the youthful Saviour, and no
perception of the Divine inspiration by which he was
enabled to teach the aged and learned men by whom he
was surrounded. In short, as far as general effect and
religious impression are concerned, the whole scene
might just as well be intended to represent an interior
where a Jewish festival was being held, and, " not to
speak it profanely," the moment chosen when a father
and mother had arrived to fetch away their son as too
juvenile for such an assembly. The irreverence, if any,
is chargeable, not upon us but upon the painter, who
has selected a most sacred subject when many others
would have answered the purpose for a mere display of
much useful drawing, extraordinary finish of details,
and splendid colouring. But no more religious feeling
is manifested on the part of the artist than if he had
been painting and illustrating an ordinary Eastern cere-
mony. Amid all this perfection of labour there are many
very feeble parts—some unreasonable proportions, both
as regard the figures in the foreground and those passing
in the middle distance. The legs of the youthful
Saviour present the most inelegant drawing. in the sub-
ject, and the face is more vacant in expression than any
other head throughout the whole scene, and will not fix
more attention, if so much, as the blind eye-balls of the
old Jew on the left holding the Laws of Moses. While,
however, this painting will rank as a pre-Raphaelite
work the artist has availed himself of many of the
resources belonging the renaissance period. The
general form is naturally semicircular, the separate
groups fall into the pyramidal arrangement, and the
principal figures are relieved by a broad mass of shadow
artistically placed at their back, while a number of
white costumes are brought together, and contrasted by
the intense colours of the minstrels and cup-bearers
behind them, as a balance to the prominent group on
the right. Therefore while this work is made remark-
able by the extreme elaboration of feature, costume, and
accessories, and the violent opposition of clear and flat
surfaces in the background, it is really indebted to the
means afforded by modern rules for intelligible arrage-
ment and effective combinations ; but even with this
union it fails entirely in the highest aims of Christian
art—the power of awakening the religious sentiment in
the beholders—that fervour of the artist which should
so prevade his subject as to excite a sympathy in the
minds of real believers, and at the least bear such an
indication of his own inspiration and sincerity of pur-
pose as to arrest the attention of the most indifferent of
observers. It is, therefore, not a picture, but a mar-
vellous specimen of handiwork in colours and drawing,
character, and matter of fact. It is lamentable that so
much labour should deserve so moderate a degree of
praise.—Herald.

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The sums paid for
"indurating or preserving the external stonework and
the iron roofs of the Houses of Parliament since the
year 1853" were £3,517.
Another Neapolitan decree has been issued, effecting
important reductions in the import duties on many
additional articles. The Gazette says that the new
tariff may be seen at the Board of Trade.
Our Dukinfield correspondent says that the Dunkirk
Colliery Company have during the week given their
miners in the Black Mine an advance of twopence in the
shilling.
CLOSING LETTERS POR THE TROPICS.—Tbe Post-
office has published a notice to the effect that all letters
registered, addressed to China or any country in or
beyond the torrid zone, should be sealed with gum or
wafer, to avoid the inconvenience occasioned by the
melting of the wax.
ROCHDALE TOWN HALL.—An adjourned special
meeting of the Rochdale Town Council was held the
other day, on the subject of purchasing the Wood
estate as a site for a town-ball. The council held
previously instructed the general purposes committee to
make the purchase. The committee had ascertained
that the vicar's price for the fee-simple was £4,730, and
now asked "the council to authorise the purchase at the
price named, which was agreed to.
CHARACTERS TO SERVANTS.—The following obsers
vations have been forwarded to us for publication :
" The giving a character to a servant is one of the
most ordinary communications which a member of
society is called on to make, and, as the learned Mr.
Starkie observes, is a duty of great importance to the
interests of the public ; and in respect of that duty a
person offends grievously against the interests of the
community in giving a good character where it is
not deserved, or against justice and humanity in
either injuriously refusing to give a character or
in designedly misrepresenting one to the detriment
of the individual.' The following rules are suggested
for the consideration of masters and mistresses not
acquainted • with the law in such cases :—Rule
1. No magistrate has any jurisdictien touching the
character of a domestic servant, and the common threat
of a master or mistress being summoned for not
giving a character is absurd. Rule 2. It has been
clearly decided that a character, honestly arid bona
fide given by a master or mistress to any person making
the usual inquiry, is a privileged communication,
and unless inconsistent with truth, or actual malice
can be proved by evidence, no damages can be sus-
tained. But it must be oareltilly borne in mind that,
however truly or honestly the character may be given,
an action at law can be brought against the muter or
mistress, and the ladies of the family put to the anxiety
and trouble of appearing in court, as well as the lady to
whom the character was given. And, although the ser-
vant may be immediately defeated, and the case stopped
by the judge, you will find yourself some £5O or £6O out
of pocket by your victory. Rule 3. The only safe
course, when a master or mistress cannot in sincerity
and truth recommend a servant, is to decline answer-
ing any questions on the subject, and the following
form of written answer may prove useful :—Mrs. A.
presents her compliments to Mrs. 8., and, in reply
to her note requesting the character of Ann C--,
trusts she will kindly excuse Mrs. A. declining
to answer any questions on the subject! Address and
date. A copy should be kept. In the case of Carrol v.
Bird,' the courts of law have decided that neither master
nor mistress is bound to give a character, and that no
action will lie against them for refusing. The cases also
of Taylor v. Hawkins, and Somerville v. Hawkins, are
well worthy of notice. It must, however, be repeated,
that both justice an
that claim from a muter and
mistress their kindest care and consideration for the
character of their servants, more particularly female
servants; but it is confidently believed that if the above
rules were better known, and more generally acted on,
all good and honest servants would be the gainers."
SPRING AT NEW ORLEANS.—This week has been per-
fectly delightful—not hot at all, but the air is soft and
balmy. It has been a delight just to live and breathe
in such an atmosphere. No words can tell the marvels
and beauties and splendours of the flowers here. I can
only stand still in wonder and rapture. The locusts are
white as snow. Oh, the roses! the roses! Away up to
the tops of the houses, the bushes and vines are all pink
and white with them. Put together all you have heard
or read of roses, and the half is not told you. Last
evening, just before sunset, we walked over throueh
Coliseum-street to Second, Third, and Fourth-streets,
and the only thing I could think of to describe some of
the gardens we saw, is the passages of "Lalla Rookh,"
where the poet is describing the " Land of Roses."
Between the two houses is a shell road, seventy or eighty
feet long. The whole road is covered with a trellis, and
that is loaded with jessamine, and pink and white roses,
and another vine, which bears a drooping spike, eight
or ten inches long, of bright purple flowers. I never
saw such a sight in my life. One tenth part of it in
Portland would call all the city out to fee it. You will
think I am bewitched, and? really, I do not know but I
am. The Cherokee rose is in bloom—five great white
petals unfold about a golden centre, in a circle as large
as the palm of the band, and these blossoms are thickly
clustered on branches ten or fifteen feet long, as the case
may be. It looks like a shower of stars, when it runs,
as I saw it, up—or rather, peeping according to the
appearance, down—a large old tree, throwing out these
long feathery sprays.—Extract from a 40(er by a
Zady from Prop Orleans, Nardi 27,1860, --

CHOICE CLIPPINGS FROM OUR SCRAP
BOOK.

O'CONNELL V. THE WIDOW.

In Madden's " Revelations of Ireland " we find
a whimsical account of a scolding match between
the late Dan. O'Connell, then a young man, just
called to the bar, and one Biddy Moriarty, an an-
cient widow, who kept a huxter's stall on one of the
quays nearly opposite the Four Courts, and whose
powers of abuse were notorious from one end of
Dublin to the other. The lingual duella was the
result of a wager, O'Connell backing himself to
outscold and silence the virago. The result is
thus described :
The party adjourned to the huater's stall, and
there was the owner herself, superintending the
sale of her wares—a few loungers and ragged
idlers were hanging, round her stall, for Biddy
was a " character, ' and, in her way, was one of
the sights of Dublin. O'Connell was very confi-
dent of success. He had laid an ingenious plan
for overcoming her, and, with all the anxiety of
an ardent experimentalist, waited to put it into
practice. He resolved to open the attack. At
this time, O'Connell's own party, and the loungers
about the place, formed an audience quite suf-
ficient to rouse Mrs. Moriarty, on public provo-
cation, to an exhibition of her powers. O'Connell
commenced the attack—" What's the price of
this walking-stiA, Mrs—what's-your-name ?"
" Moriarty, sir, is my name, and a good one it
is ; and what hare you to say agin it ? and one
and sixpence is the price of the stick. Troth, it's
chape as dirt ; so it is."
One and sixpence for a walking-stick !
whew ! why, you are no better than au impostor,
to ask eighteenpence for what cost you twopence."
"Twopence, your grandmother," replied Mrs
Biddy; "do you mane to say that it's chating
the people lam ? Impostor, indeed !"
" Ay, impostor ; and it's that I call you to
your teeth," rejoined O'Connell.
" Come, cut your stick, you cantankerous

jackanapes."
" Keep a civil tongue in your head, you old
diagonal," cried O'Connell, calmly.
" Stop your jaw, you pug-nosed lodger, or by
this and that,' cried Mrs Moriarty, " I'll make
you go quicker nor you came."
" Don't be in a passion, my old radius ; anger
will only wrinkle your beauty."
" By the holley, if you say another word of
impudence, I'll tau your dirty hide, you bastely
common scrub, and sorry I'd be to soil my fists
upon your carcase."
" Whew! boys, what a passion old Biddy's
in ; I protest as I am a gentleman—"
" Jintleman ! jintleman ! the like's o' you a
jintleman ! Witha, by Gor, that bangs Banagher.
Why, you potato-faced pippin-sneezer, where did
a Madagascar monkey like you pick enough of
commonj Christian dacency to hide your Kerry
brogue' '
"Easy, now, easy, now," cried O'Connell, with
imperturbable good humour, " don't choke your-
self with fine language, you old whiskey-drinking
parallelogram."
" What's that you call me, you murderin'
villain ?" roared Mrs Moriarty, stung into fury.
" I call you," answered O'Connell, " a paral-
lelogram ; and a Dublin judge and jury will say
that it's no libel to call you so !"
" Oeh, tare-an-ouns ! och, holy Biddy! that an
honest woman like me should be called a parry-
lellygram to her face ! I'm none of your
parrylellygrams, you rascally gallows-bird, you
cowardly, sneaking, plate-licking bliggard!"
" Och, not you indeed!" retorted O'Connell ;
" why, I suppose you'll deny that you keep a
hypotheneuse in your house."
" It's a lie for you, you b—y robber. I never
had such a thing in my house, you swindling
t hafe."
" ‘Vhy, sure all your neighbours know very
well that you keep not only a hypotheireuse, but
that you have two diameters locked up in your
garret, and that you go out to walk with them
every Sunday, you heartless old heptagon."
"Och, hear that, ye saints o' glory! och, sure,
there's bad language from a fellow that wants to
pass for a jintleman. May the divil fly away
with you, you micher from Munster, and make
celery sauce of your rotten limbs, you mealy-
mouthed tub of guts."
" Ah, you can't deny the charge, you miserable
submaltiple of a duplicate ratio.'
" Go rinse your mouth in the Liffey, you nasty
tickle-pitcher ; after all the bad words you spake,
it ought to be filthier than your face, you dirty
chicken of Beelzebub."

" Rinse your own mouth, you wicked-minded
old polygon—to the deuce I pitch you, you blus-
tering intersection of ast g superficies."
" You saucy tinker's apprentice, if you don't
cease your jaw, I'll—," but here she gasped fur
breath, unable to hawk up any worse words, for
the last volley of O'Connell had nearly knocked
the wind out of her.

" While I have a tongue I'll abuse you, you
most inimitable periphery. Look at her, boys!
there she stands—a convicted perpendicular in
petticoats ! There's contamination in her cir-
cuinference, and she trembles with guilt down to
the extremities of her corollaries. Ah ! you're
found out, you rectilineal antecedent and equian-
gular old hag! 'Tis with yourself the divil will
fly away, you porter-swiping similitude of the
bisection of a cortex."
Overwhelmed with this torrent of language,
Mrs Moriarty was silenced. Catching up a
saucepan, she was aiming at O'Connell's head,
when he very prudently made a timely retreat.
" You have won the wager, O'Connell, here's your
bet," cried the gentleman who proposed the con-
test. O'Connell knew well the use of sound in
the vituperation ; and having to deal with an
ignorant scold, determined to overcome her in
volubility by using all the sesquipedalia verba
which occur in Euclid. With these, and a few
significant epithets, and a scoffing, impudent
demeanour, he, for once, imposed silence on Biddy
Moriarty.

THE DISCHARGED INDIAN SOLDIERS IN
THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE.

I think I could have recognised in the dismalest
skeleton there, the ghost of a soldier. Some-
thing of the old air was still latent in the palest
shadow of life that I talked to. One emaciated
creature, in the strictest literality worn to the
bone, lay stretched on his back, looking so like
death that I asked one of the doctors if he were not
dying, or dead? A few kind words from the doctor,
in his ear, and he opened his eyes and smiled—looked
in a moment, as if he would have made a salute, if
he could. "We shall pull him through, please God,"
said the doctor. "Plase God, surr, and thank
ye," said the patient. " You are much better to-
day; are you not ?" said the doctor. " Plase
God, surr, 'tis the slape I want, surr ; 'tis my
breathin' makes the nights so long." "Heis a
careful fellow this, you must know," said the
doctor, cheerfully ; "it was raining hard when
they put him in the open cart to bring him here,
and he had the presence of mind to ask to have a
sovereign taken out of his pocket that he had
there, and a cab engaged. Probably it saved
his life." The patient rattled out the skeleton of
a laugh, and said, proud of the story. "'Deed,
surr, an open cairt was a comical means o' bringin'
a dyin' man here, and a clever way to kill him."
You might have sworn to him for a soldier when
he said it. One thing had perplexed me very
much in going from bed to bed. A very signifi-
cant and cruel thing. I could find no young man,
but one. He had attracted my notice, by having
got up and dressed himself in his soldier's jacket
and trousers, with the intention of sitting by the
fire ; but he had found himself too weak, and
had crept back to his bed and laid himself
down on the outside of it. I could have pro-
nounced him, alone, to be a young man aged by
famine and sickness. As we were standing by
the Irish soldier's bed, I mentioned my perplexity-
to the doctor. He took a board with an inscrip-
tion on it from the head of the Irishman's bed,
and asked me what age I supposed that man to
be? I had observed him with attention while
talking to him, and answered confidently " Fifty."
The doctor, with a pitying glance at the patient,
who had dropped into, a stupor again, but the
board back, and said, " Twenty-tour."—Dickens's
All the Year Bound.

The Vienna students have begun to don coloured
caps, and other academic insignia, after the fashion of
their more independent brethren in Germany. As the
students were the real bone and marrow of the Austrian
revolution of 1848, the dangerous innovation was
immediately put a stop to by the rector of the
University. -
A sword of honour' made by the famous Castellani,
has been prepared to be presented, by the people at'
Rome, to Victor Emmanuel.: The list of subscriptions
contains the names of 14,000 Roman citizens, and the
present,is to cost 2,000 crowns. • This under the very
nose of Pius IX. and Antonelli ! Another sword is to
be presented, we are told, to Louis Napoleon. On the
blade of the former is inscribed the tredication—" To
the first soldier of Italian independence."
THE RIVAL SHOEBLACKS.—At a Court of Aldermen,
at which the Lord Mayor presided, a petition was pre-
sented from a committee of the Ragged School Shoe-
black Society, and the East London Shoeblack Society,
complaining that the boys under the patronage of those
societies suffer serious annoyance while pursuing their
calling from the behaviour of certain other boys, not
belonging to any organised society, and not subject to
any rules or discipline, who crowd around the stations
occupied by the boys,in the employment of the associ-
ation, ' deprive them of their customers, often inflict
injury upon them by violence, sometimes steal their
blacking brushes, and cause annoyance to the public.
The object of the memorialists was to ask that protection
might be given to their boys by the police, so that they
might continue their employment unmolested by the
others. Sir R. Carden, in moving that the memorial
be referred to a committee, dwelt on the benefits which
had arise; from the institution of the ragged-school
shoeblack brigades ; and gave his opinion that the boys
belonging to them were fully entitled to the protection
asked, as to monopoly was sought fur. After a good
deal of discussion the motion was acceded to ; Sir R.
Carden having stated, in answer to some remarks by
Mr. Alderman Hutnphry, that the real reason why the
outsiders did not join the societies was because they
would not submit themselves to the necessary discipline.
It they were willing to do so, he had no doubt they
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