The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

In the court of Common Pleas, before Mr. Justice
Smith and a common jury, ha. been heard the cue of
Proorne v. Smith. The plaintiff Louisa Fio,me,claitned
damages from thu defendant, William Smith, upon the
ground that he had promised to marry her, and had
foiled to perform his promise. The d. fendant, by him
pleas, denied the pronto.; and also asserted that be had
bees released from its perforates'.. Mr. Hnd dleston. Q. C., ,
end Mr. Collins appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. 1).
Keane, Q.C., and Mr. Day forth. defendant. Mr.
kluddleaton said that this was not one of them romantic
asses in which the parties had agreed in hot blood to
marry, and in which the jury would be amused by hear.
lag fond and absurd letters read; bet it was a nub-
stential owe, and one which the plaintiff am fairly
entitled to bring into court She had lost by the breach
of her contract with the defendant what waa fur ter •
very eoneiderable status in society, and probably the
jury would mire consider • substantial lips of this kind
than they would if they had to deal with the injursd
feelings of young people. Tbe plaintiff was a widow,
and had two children, and .he we. a comely person,and
about 40 years of age. It might be borne in mind that '
there was high, nay even royal, authority for saying
that there were few more desirable women than those
who were " fat, fair, and forty"-- (a laugh). The
plaintiff lived at 88, But-street, Mancheater.square, ,
whet, she tarried on a small business, and also let
lodgings ; and in tits way, since the death of her
hu‘band. ale or seven'years bed earned &decent
living for lured( and her children. In 1885 the di fend•
ant, who wag about 55 years of age, went to live in her
boom, and there waf a printed card in court in which
Jae described himself thus—:" William Smithoridower
and genilemen—Banghteri—ef blorth-street,Alanchester.
fliciare, in the borough of Maryiebone, in the county of
Btaddlewx ; no deeeribed in the books of the Bank of
England," and there was added, '' Money lender ;
office. 8. 17nion-plaw, blarrletione.road." The defend-
ant vemainet 10th. plaintiff's house until May, 1087,
and during this period be paid considerable attention
to 'tier. He was of • warm and sonorous nature,and
iihrugh there might he some impediment in his gait
•tbere was none that affected his tongue, which could
.convoy his thoughts in fervid and ready eloquence. In
the early p.rt of the prevent year the defendant
returned is the neighbourhood, sent for the plaintiff,
mid that he would marry her, and gave her £5. He
also procured a marriage licence and a ring. Ile con-
tinued his attention, constantly until July or August,
when he absented himeelf from the plaintiff, and refused
to p rform his promise.
Mr. Georg" Morrell, who was deaf. said : I
live in Woodfad.road, liarrow-ro&d, and am a
retired builder. I have known the defendant 20
or 30 yeses, and have known the plaintiff also for some
time. I used to call upon the defondant once or twice
a week at the plaistiff r. I can't tell you all the defend-
ant said about the plaintiff —(a laugh). He arid many
things ; he said be intended to marry her, and noon.
should prevent Lim. He said be would marry her in
spite of me or anybody else.
Mr. Collins: How came he to lay that?
Witness : I told him I thought he lirla going to
make an old fool of himself - (laughter). He said a
hundred tunes he world marry tier. I have been with
the defendant two or three timeslto draw his dividends at
the Bank of England. lie told me that he had 4:4,630
in the bank Ile said he would vettle £4OO upon the
plaintiff. The defendant put on the plaintiff's door •
plate bearing bin own name, "Smith," and he put a
new knocker on as well—(laughter). In April last I
was with the defendant at the Wallam's Head, in East.
strict. He sent for the plaintiff. She Caine, and he
about his marriage teetteis. He gave her • glee.
car two of wine, and a MA" I can't toll what le.
*aid, for I took little notoe, an I I sat bark towards the
window. Afterwards toe), were together every day,
'Tin di fendent hired • cab for sor. ry day at no much a
day, and we went where we liked, he and she and I and
her little boy and girl.
Cross-examined : I slept uvery night at the defend•
ant's house. I did not par him anything for this. I
breakfasted thereolinitt there,aupped there,smoked there
and grogged there—(a laugh). 1 also frequently drank
with him at public-bousee, and went ebouCtin cake at
bin expense.
Mr. Keane: Did you tear pay him any money for all
thin?
Witness:• I should as. I did not.
Mr. Kane : la the vlaintiff Ia court?
g Witness: Yee.
' The lady, at the requiat of the learned eouneeloralked
Into the body of the cowl. She seemed to be hardly of
the age which her own advocate had attributed to bee.
Tine ilefendent waa in &similar manner placed on view.
He Weil a very old and infirm man. he advanced with
difficulty &step or two, and bad to be assisted in rising
and alto in fitting dowt again.
Mr. Keane : What do you think of him ?
Whnun.: He looks I good deal worse than he did
when I was with him, tie looks hen starved now,
but I gave him plenty b est and drink. 1 should think
the plaintiff is about 40 and my oldlriend there, (mint.
ing to the defendant) 71 or It. Ido not think he
is '•
. . . .

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Mr. Keane : How Ion( has be been paralysed?
Witness : 4:ver since 1 have known him. He got
letter sometime.. Wi drank together. I did not
drink inuch wine. Tim lady drank leennotele. The
defendant gave me mone!. hut I never took £4O away
from him, lie gave me £42 when I went away, and 1
gave hini £2l back. He gave me the money for my
spending my time with Liu. 1 had to assist the defend.
ant to bed, undress him. and take him out of bed in
the morning and dress him. I was a sort of nurse.
He was not fit to live without a nurse. He had not the
use of his hand ; be could not out his own viotuals,and
had to out it for him. lie M strong enough. He was
strong enough to tiro Inc out. Ti. defendant ordered
the card that has hems read to be printed. lie wee not
drunk then ; he might hove hal • glass or two. I
was obliged to it hint go where be liked. I did not go
with him to niniiic.halle. The lady went there with
bini.
. . . .

Mr. Keane: And yet stayed at home enjoying your-
self

itnea : Of coarse I did7-21ansbter).

Reo,amind: the plontiff did nnt take drink.
Ja.eolt l). Pertitt. • r.bEnan. ratid : I was enieged by
the defendant is three :•r fur month. from April last
to 6rive him. The p:aintilT was with him daily. I
norm times drove lam to his solicitor's, and sometimes
to he -tieklanker'. in Copthall:court. Ile spoke about
tho plaintiff in It iacular way. He said she was • very
mice women, •nil he edv gating ti unny her.
Mr. Justice Smith: is tiiat what you call spooking in
▪ joelliar gray ?—i• Isnal).
Witness: I drove the cefendant to Dootorneommone
to 11-1 the miriade license, and I aft-marls maw him
give it to the elaintitd,wisin we had drive, to her boom.
The defendant look. very .I.fferent now from what he
did when be got the linear. Ho used to be particularly
mot and clean, and wore iewellery.
Mr. Huddleston : Than you do not movies him now
in his old attire sod unkempt look..
Witness: Oh, ye., I tecagnise him, and always
shall.
Cross-eizamised : The defendant was not drunk when
be ad the licence. I never sew him the worse for
drink, not even when he was at made Lolls. Ila ard
the defendant order a brass ;lel bearing his own name
to be pet on the plaintiff's dim:, and rig., order a new
knocker.

Mr. Robert William Scott : . em• shirt manufacturer.
I have known the pliontiT flio or 60 years. tihe
worked for ins. and earned o. or IS, a week, and
sometimes EL In April last .11.• gave the work up,
and maid she was going to get I have given
her no work sinoe.
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Hr. B. W. May : I am a sulveyor in Park-atreet,
Grosvenor-square. I have know, the phuntiff 25 years.
Her husband dsed about seven par. ago. In April last I
Inconsequence of a communicatios from the plaintiff,
made errangements in retires», to • lesse a the
plaintiff's. I was to sell it. I afterwards saw lb.
Aphuntiff with the defend•ot, who he introduced as an
old friend ef her father and moth» In the course of
oonverration the defendant wi I th.t he was shortly
going to marry the plaintiff. Firm tte tire» and
appears.» of the defendant I thought Viet o• lied been in
the WWI, and he said," Oh! no ' • I am • do,o y ten ler "
He said he thought it best to be married be wanted
some one to take cue of him. He »it that I» bad
settled MO upon the plaintiff, and Leo upon hie
adopted daughter. I said to him "moo you got
trustees." He said, " Tl.at is all right.' I said that
I thought tlse plaintiff's stepfather shoal be • third
trustee. I asked the plaintiff how much ,he owed, and
she said half • year's rent:. abet» LK
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Mr. David Nnoh : I am ihe plaintiff's griond landlord.
The first week in May the defendant carol ~o my house.
was not at home, and he called a week aft,: and loft
a mireasge that he should like ice to mak( an account of
whit the plaintiff owed me. Fie first 1.11 vord that he
WY married to the plaintiff, and whm I saw him I
asked him jib. was really married, and I. ,aid, "No
but I shall be shortly." lie &eked we lit would sell
the lease of the plaintiff's house, and I sail '• Yem," and
I afterwards had a irommunication from Ir. Flash. the
defendant's solicitor, on the subject. When I spin now
the defendant be would swareely speak to me.
Cron-examined : In all his communicialiens with me
the defendant was • very aensible man.
' This was the plaintiff's cam, and no witnesses were
sailed for the defence. . . . .

Mr. Keane, in addressing the jury for the deft nd!ult,
skid that be perfectly agreed with bui leaqted friend
that the real qiiestion vu what the plaintiff bad loot
by the marriage not baying been selebrated. lint it
wei • marriage with a peralytic old man, who oould not
tree or nndreu hiwaelf, end to erioni the plaintiff,
waessid be "(at, fair, and forty," was to bare been
tiedfor her life under the mockery of holy matrimony.
lie ithmitted that this was on of thaw cases which
tended to maks the very form of salon of breach of
promke of inarriu• an absurdity ; for that form of
action wu intended to reward speculators in the
follies od frailties of old men. Tie jury, however,
must sir what damages ought to be ei,n, &cause 40 in
rage heath had not Married 75, who bad beea for 3)
Joan pievlysed.
Mr. J intim Smith directed the jury that the only ques-
tion for ihrm wee one of u1*,,,,, tbn „abr. al
the °lseult-Woes into eonsoleration, Lout my what
they won't award the plaintiff.
The Jury found for tti• plaintiff, for mgt.
Mr. Kiwi..: Why the damage' were only laid at
. .

Mr. Ileddieston • They were laid at 1200.
Mr. Justice : Yes, £.lOO is right.
Mr. Keane: The amount is stated at COD la ml
brief.

Tau Mumma Clue Rrunr.—Atthe Warwick mar, I
on Tuesday, William Kemp, a bsickmaker, wee tried
for aft murder of his son, a lad If, HI: The no* wee
one of the most besot-rending d Helton. The father
had suffered from sunstroke, an woe labouring under
great mental dr ',motion arising film the ill.suocem of •
contract be had entered into to make • quantity of
drainpipes, and bad determined to run away. He
peeked op • few things, and an leaving the room a
satanic suggestion passid into his mind to kill his son
(to whom be mu greatly attailied, and who slept with
him) and thus save him from all such fettue troubles.
He found a razor and lifhoted • wound on the poor
boy's throat, when, teeing what he had done, he rushed
to the bedroom of another son and told him what 6.4
happened. The decemet begged that Do attempt might
be made to stop the bknding, is he knew he wee going
to heaven; bet, if such an attempt had been made it
most have been fatale. Retries** was given se to the
emte of the prisoner's mind, and the jury eaquiltad bAa
on the ground of inniaity.

AN ITALIAN PRINCE AT HARROW.

That • young twines of the blood oval of liralv--
Hutt one sprang from the line of the Ontholis milers
of the House of Seeog—that the member ef a family
all whose acts, until very recently, were prescribed
in accordance with the traditions of • court etiquette
regulating the whole conrse of life, an I not least the
early training of its princely scions—that a youth
with inch domestic and political antecedents sbould
be sent from Turin to complete hie placation in the
Public school of !farrow is an event which may justly
claim something more than a passing 'intim. The
arrival of the young I'rinco Thomas of Genoa in the
'drool of ,Ayrorr, and Peel, an I Palmerston might
almost mike the bones of the old Piedmontese Court
chamberlains rattle in their coffins, so harshly 'lore
it grate on all the time-honoured conventionalities
rd Italian royal life. The late Count Cavour, who in
many respects was far less of an Italian than •
Swiss or an Englishman, used very frequently to
say that Italy never would produce • race of wise,
bold statesmen, until the sons of her noble awl
wealthy families received some training akin to
that given in the public schools of England; and as
the first indication that Count Cavour's remark has
not wholly been lost sight off, the nephew of the
red:rang sovereign nail brother of the future Queen
of Drily, is removed from the hothouse atmosphere
if chamberlains, and chaplains, and mails of honour,
awl gentlemen in waiting, awl is tent to rough it, as
he best may, with English boys of hill own age in the
mental competition of the schoolroom, or the physi-
cal rivalry of the cricket ground. The social revolw
tion marked by the sobetitution of shoe ties fur shoo
buckles appeared doubtless a most momentons event
to near a:intermit:wary observers, but what, after all,
it in reality compared to the political changes
which have led to the education of a young prince of
the House of Savoy at one of the great Protestant
seminaries of England ? How many preju Ikea had
to Ire overcome—how many contests had to be fought
in the Parliamentary arena as well as on the battle-
field—how man, barriers of state had first to dim.
[wooer, what sirtrittial thunders too first to be braved
and laughed to acorn before this delicate and gentle
Italian boy could road his " liorace" or wield his bet
within sight of Hampstead Heath? So rigid wee, until a
late period, the etiquette regulating the early years
of the princes of the Sardinian Court, that they were
not even allowed to exchange a few worts of cour-
tesy with the foreign ministers accredited at Turin
except hi the presence of the king; nay, they were
not even allowed to enjoy the society of playmates of
their own age, however carefully selected, from
amongst the highest ranks of the Piedmont/so nobi-
lity. It has been, wo believe, but a few years since
King Victor Emmanuel formally abolished the custom
hp which his own cousin the Prince of Carignan° was
forbidden Legit in the royal presence. Of all European
courts there existed probably not one in which half a
century &Rothe startling innovation of Louis Philippe
1 in sending his eldest son to ti' College Henri Quatre,
must have calle I forth so much ridicule and wonder
as the court of Turin. Of all European courts there
, exists I probably not one where the comprehensive
•ird cosmopolitan education weed out by the Prince
Consort for the royal children of England formed
, the object of so very little interest, inquiry, and
emulation. Princely education, and indeed the edu-
cation of all classes in Piedmont, haa for' centuries
been left to the joint direction of the priest and the
drill-sergeant; the priest occupied solely in rearing
oberlientine of Rometthedrill-serjeant in makingdia•
&dined and vigilant janitors of the Alpo. It cannot
be denied that, after their fashion priest and drill-
serjeant ably performed their task—the Waldensiau
annals can testify to the efforts of the first, the Stir.
dinian frontier, now nearly co-extensive with the Iln-
:11ral boundaries of Italy, proclaims how successful
have boon the teachings of tire second. Still they
developed in an extreme air I exaggerated form the
spirit of caste, both military and civil, and would
have regarded with unqualiiied abhorrence, if they
could ever have attempted to realise the idea, so mon-
-trons a proceeding as sending • youthful member of
the family of Emmanuel Philibert and Eugene to the
school which had just lost one of its former head mas-
ters in an Archbishop of Canterbury. We have been
led to snake these remarks by the feelings that the
sojourn of this young Italian Prince amongst on for
the purpose of education is in itself, as a mere his-
torical fact, not • little significant and suggestive.
As regards the individual boy this young Duke Thomas
of Genoa, the beet wish we i, express in his favour
is that he may imbibe at Harrow from all around
him the sound, healthy, manly feelings of a first-rate
English public school, awl that his domestic and in-
,jour esperietrees may implarrt for life a liking—nny,
a love—for the habits and virtues of an English fire-
side, lie is sure to receive, in the degree and the
manner becoming his yews, all the kindness awl
courtesy that can render plertsant his stay from those
personages who have the right to offer them. The
only son of a gallant and accomplished prince pre-
maturely lost to Italy—the only brother of the ac-
:omplished, high-minded, and patriotic princess to
whom all Italians look with so much interest ant hope
as their future nueen—Prince Thomas of Genoa,
troingli a very youthful, will not be an nuregarded
guest of England, and the measure of affection awl
esteem which Ire is likely to win amongst his school
cum; anions will not be lessened by the fact that he
belongs to • family which, from • petty Alpine fief,
haefought its way up to a greet Zuropesn throne.—
.liornirre Peet.

General Pinot.. who entered the British Military
Service, 1793, is just &mi.
New Smithfield Market in London was opened on
Tuesday. A gran I banquet was given by tho Corpora-
tion on the u.:easion.

Mr. Macrorie, the bishon designate for Natal, ham
ohandouo I the hope of being consecrated in England,
110 i will learn early next mouth for the Caro, whore
I. will be consecrated by the Bishop of Capekwru
at (1 his suffraLlsits.

A now drama by Mr. Halliday ia in preparation tor
the New Royalty f {wain).

In She Scotch Court of Session, on Friday, Pala.
moot wns pronounced breaking the entail of thellamil•
ton ostatee.

The Swedimh poet, Bernhard de Nikon, tajust dead.
Hi. opera, "La. Truutuplours," haa been let to music
by Prince Oscar.

Mr. Armitage is painting a pictnre of considerable
tiro, representing hero holding the beaoon.light. for
the swimming Leandor.

The action Day v. Admiral Rons will not come into
court, plaintiff abandoning his cause out of respectfor
the Marquis of Hastings.
Mr. W. E. Lendrick, late prirnte secretary to the
Earl of Mayo, has been appointed to the same ofliwi
by Colonel Wilson Patten.

It is stated that Carlotta Patti has loft the Ulmann
troupe, acd will join that of Mr. Max Strakoach,
tempt. I by an offer of 20,000 francs per month.

A new drama by Dr. liceentbal, with the title of
"'Notre," will be produced at the Haymarket on the
7th of December. Miss Bateman will play the heroine,
Who give' lier Dame to the piece.
Mr. G. W. Child, editor of the rhiladelpl,ies Le,iger,
one of the beet newspapers in the United States, is
It present in London, seeking change of air and
scene for the benefit of his haalth.

T 1E RrSSIAN AILMY.—The MOFfOIC Gazette reverts
to the effective of the Russian army, which is divided
the active, destined to take the field in case of
wnr abroa I, and the interior force, the duty of which
siltS in training conscrint• at home. The force of
o former is fixed at 7782000 infantry, 64,000 cavalry,
t totio artillery, and 16000 engineers altogether
..;!3,1100 men. In time of peace this effective falls to
515.01111. The army for service at home amounts one
..bce footiror to 272,000 soldiers; during war to
xjt,ooo. Resides the effective of irregular Goisack
tro ps 'luring a period of hostilities must amount to
9.9,0011 men. Deducting the majority of the latter
fur service in the interior, the effective of the active
n: in time of Rai is equal to I 300,000 soldiers. Re-
tuning this effective by 200,000 regular troops which
2turioun the Caucasus, Siberia, awl Turkestan, we
may, says the Maernal Gazette, oppose to Western
Europe nearly 900,000 men.

A St. Petersburg letter of the litla aays:--" The
winter has set iu here unusually early. On the 31st
flcteber we had • relatively mill temperature, with-
mit any sign of MOOR, which, however, (ell on the
following Ilay in abundance, while the wind had
changed and the temperature became vary low,—on
2101 November the Nova was floating down ice
from Lake I.adotra, and the cold became intense;
~,oduing commenced at once, and CM the 3rd all the
canals were frozen; • thick layer of frost covered
the streets of the city, and the floes of ice became
thicker and thicker. Since the 210 the pontoons
mries the river had been removed, and communica-
!ions were carried on by the Nicholas Bridge only.
we are now in the mi lit of winter, with the ther-
mometer at 9 deg. Beaumur (12 Fehr.): the sky is
nrey aml the wind sharp. this complete change in
[he temperature and the aspect of the city was so-
coninliolie I in two days--autninn, which had laste I
longer than usual, disappeared almost iustantaue.

THE REIGN 01, TERILoIi IN GEPROIA.—A citizen
of Augusta, Georgia, sends to tho Now York papers
the copy of an affidavit made by • citizen of Lincoln
county, which, he says, represents the state of affairs
lIUL only in that county but in nearly every county in
the state. Multitude* of republicans, both white awl
coloured, hare beau campelled to leave home. Some
white men have not seen their families for nine
months. If they dared to venture home they would
not he alive ten Ilays. Their property hos been le•
stroyed and taken with impunity, and their lives
have been publicly threatened. The murderers go
unmolested. Nu white or coloured Republican in
many sections can enjoy any legal rights. Men are
being murdered as though they were wild animals.
Certain cities have organised murderous companies.
lain coloured men are run uff from their crops, driven
off from employment, and starvation is threatened.
Ihe affidavit is as follows: "State of Georgia,
Ifkl,mund county: Personally came before me, the
undersigned, a notary public and justice of the peace,
,tairo., in said county, Humphrey Costes, of the
county of Lincoln, in said state, who, being duly
sworn, depuseth and saith, that On the night of the
IJLh of October last, at about the hour of twelve
o'clock p.m. James Bossy, Henry Freeman, jun.,
Anderson Lu'vet, James Divines, of fan' county, came
to depoueut's Loan, with two other men, names un-
known to deponent, all armed with pistols, broke
wan deponeut's house, searched everywhere for
Pietele, found none; had in their nossession and con-
, trui,deponeuee father, William Casts; took deponent
rid • man named Abraham lirigsby, who was stay-
ing in deponeot's house, carried and drove by force
and arms deponent and his father, awl Brigsby, to
Tucker's Mill, in said county, tied the feet of William
cane! awl Abraham Briesby, threw them off the
!tam Into the pond, then took them out, carried them
both, with deponent, up the dam, shoved all three
off into the Pond; tn. Water was waist deep. As
WUliam (unto. was standing by the side of deponent,
Henry Freeman shot first, the shut took effect in the
forehead. As he fell over, all the others shut. They
! thee shot denoneut. Ike liret ilia took effect in the
breast, the set'eu'l in the shudder, the third in the
side. One shot has beam removed by the surgeon,
the others are still ic deponent. Denuiteut dived
into the water, and suasected in getting away.—
HUMPIIRSI ClAlTUS.—riworu to and subscribed be-
fore me,tlais 611 day cd November ima-Bum
LYONS. Notary Public, 5. *cp. LE.'

An !Men,Mgr concert n-n. given recently in favour
i German 7 urn ha Ile ill London. Mendelssohn's
" A ',ikon° " thi mem were admitsbly renderml by
the metropolitan Gesarmtiereine, and Hen Baedusnu
recited Schiller's "Song of the Bell."

Mina RYE'S IffiffitonaNTS.--The roman, WHO NMI
thnt immediately after the last arrival, Miss Rye's
" llo•ne" was besieged by ladies in want of servants,
Rad Miss Rye had her bawls fell in suiting each
annlicant. to please everyone is rather a difficult
matter, hot Miss Eve seems to be entirely mistress of
the miluntion, and tiarriages wore driving away from
the doors every few minutes containing the newly-
hired domestics and their mistresses. All the girls,
with the ecception of 24. „r,.,edi Iv obtained situations,
an Miss Rye has applications 'for a few 11101, than
this number already, so that therstrill be no difficulty
in getting them all plactd.
NORItYOROERIF.A OP Rnrltl E NO.—At Lemberff
the police have just arrested 14 persons charged with
forging notes of the Rank of Russia. For a longtime
Prot, ;ambers of these, of the value of 100 roubles
(four francs each) have been in circulation, and two
detectives. Russian and French, here been OCCUHO I
in tracing the source from which they emanated. At
last the persons engaged in I rim prodoction and dis-
tribution hare been flaklaVeri`,l and taken into cus-
tody. Amongst the prisoners are some men holding
positions far above susnici..n hitherto, such as • land-
owner, a watchmaker ins urge way of business, and
several Jewish merchants.

A Toretitrio INCII.ENT.—A touching inelanCe of
childish devotion is told in a New Brunswick paner.
Three children there got astray. One was about sic
years of age, and the others four and three. It was
a wild region, and in wild weather, and at the edge
of bight. From signs it seems that the sit year oil
child soon felt sure that there was no hope of being
found or finding themeelves that night, and so it
took measures at Once for the safe keeping of its
little ones. Putting them in the most sheltered nook
it tool,' find, it then 'tripped away the most of its
own garments to put on them, and sot out to gather
dry seaweed and brush to Lover them up and defend
them. Quite a quantity of this had been gathered
and piled about the babes into • sort of nest, and
there they lay when the peonle found them, still
all alive ; lint the sir.year.ol.l mother end martyr
lay out on the shore dead of the cold—lay beside the
last pile of brush it had been able to gather, but was
not able to bring in.

M•RIII•GE IN AUSTRT•.—If the abolition of the
Concordat Las done nothing else in Austria, it has
rnade marriage cheap. In Gratz a man wanted to
!marry his deceased wife's sister, which, canonically,
is not permitted except on payment of 300 florin., the
dispensation tax. This wee -considered too high a
rum by the young couple, and they 01premeel their
intention, since the church dignitary would not abate
his price, of being married by the registrar. Where-
upon the usual public notice was affixed at the town-
hones. 'This, however, was too much for the bishop
of the diocese. Ile not only sent • mist vehement
letter to to the magistrate, -demanding the instant
removal of this "placard of notification," but, which
was more to the point, declared himself ready to
merry the stubborn couple himself, fine of expense.
The magistrate replied that lie was very glad to hear
it, and that, under those circumstances, he would,
provided the parties consented, order the removal of
the obnoxious document which he had caused to be
written and affixed in obedience to the established
laws of the country. And so they were married free
of expense under the auspices of the Church.

TOE ERUPTION nP MOUNT VESUVILTI.—The erup-
tion of Vesuvius, which commenced in the middle of
last month, seems likely to rival in importance the
most remarkable of thetas which have preceded it. It
had lasted more than a month, with an occasional
ilimunition of intensity, but still without any interval
of complete rent. Then • now cone formed, and
poured forth copious dreams of lava from two months
which opened on the afternoon of Nov. 15th. These
lava streams followed the course of those which hail
been poured forth during the eruption of 1835. They
filled up and overflowed the Fosse Vetrana, flowing
at first at the rateof onwards of 1,100 yards per hour,
hut afterwards more slowly. On the night of theifilh
the upper cone discharged enormous columns of ashes
in the form of gigantio pine trees: and, when the
outbursts of flame from the raging fire beneath illu-
minated the overhanging clouds of ashes, the spec-
tacle was of the most sublime and magnificent cha-
racter. But the eruption had not yet attained its full
intensity. At the foot of the great Cone several new
cones were forme-I, all of which were soon in active
eruption, while from the great cone there were for-
midable ejections of stones and fire. According to
the latest intelligence from Italy these cones are still
vomiting forth large quantities of incandescent mat-
ter. The lava current is now more than 130 yards
broad, and from eleven to thirteen yards deep. A
clieetint forest near the Fosse Vetrana has been seton
fire, and an immense amount of property has been
destroyed by the conflagration and by the. progress of
the raging lava streams. Many buildings have been
overwhelmed, ant the neighbouring farm laud, de-
vastated. There is oven danger that the whole of the
village of San Giorgio will be destroyed by the tarn.
Ilie inhabitants of this and other villages are flying
from their homes, and the misery and want which
i have been brought upon the people n the neighbour-
hood are so great that a subscription has been opened
for their relief. As in some of the former great crop-
tiona, it has been found mammary that the authorities
'Wald call in the aid of the soldiery to protect the
Pronerty of these who have had to fly from their
liousee.-I.lady News.

01.1, PrtntreSn.—A curious motion list has Jost
been issne/1 as a parliamentary paper. 'The arbitra-
tors appointed under the Crown Lands Act of 1e66,
Mr. W. M. James and Mr. Pickering, two of Iler
Majesty's counsel, have awarded £496,000 as corn-
Pm/ration toles pall to the land revenue of the Crown
for the trawler to the Itharl of Trade, for the benefit
of the enblic. of the Crowo's right in the foreehore of
the sea awl of navigable tidal rivers. This sum is to
pail partly by charging upon Use Consolidated
Fund some four or five thousand pensions awl an-
, nities which are payable Out of the revenue.
Most of the passions are very small. The majority
of them were granted h, churchmen by pension deeds
.1 King Charles it. The Archbishop of York has
three Pensions of £2 N.. fl 4s. and £l2 12s. 21.
Ito Dean and Chapter of York have also three—El
10s., 16s. &1., and £l4 17s. 81.; and the Dean has
ope of fl to himself. lhe choristers of York Cathe-
dral have also fl n year among them. The !Hawn
/1 Winchester has lihr for each triennial visitation.
the grants to the Bishops of Carlisle, Chester, Dur-
ham, Lincoln, and Worcester are larger : suil the
Welsh bishops have tomill grants from £3 to fn.
several deans and chapters arc on the list—Sarnm,
Chester, Gloucester, Lincoln, Oxford, Lichfield,
Ilereford—the last for only lfle. 41. A host of vicars
curates have grants of pensions ranging from
lees that, El op to £lOO. The key-bearer ofilerefor I
l'athedral has his grant of 16s. Bd. a year for ever.
Masters of grammar schools come in for their share
..f these grants, Oxford Professors, the poor of various
Parishes, the owner of Chestnut Park, one or two
lords of manors • awl, melor a modern act of Perlin-
wont, the Masa, of the Hawks Las his £1,300 a year.
Ireland geU but one of all the pensions, awl that is
or a conoutblo—tho constable of the fort of Hills.

',rough. The grants to Scotism] aro chiefly for
I7niversity professors, but one or two ministers aro
tho list, the minister of Dankold receiving the
priLe of 43 bushels of meal and • like quantity of
nnrley, under a grant of King George IV. The grow
3mouut of these pension. is £7,946 • year or £7,210
net. They will milterinlly lengthen the already
long annual list of pensions charged on tho Consoli-
dated Fund.

LANDSLIP Ilf Davomenrait.—A landslip took place
on Tuesday on the London and Bonth-Weatern !hallway,
near the east end of the lloniton tunnel, and the rails
were completely blocked up for several hours. Th.
passenger tragic superintendent of the Queen•arect
station, Exeter, proceeded with • body of men by
special train to the spot. The men began immediately
on their arrival to remove the soil, and after three
hours work succeeded in al:Cling a Passage for the
trains. The down sad up espressos were eaeb delayed
about three hours.

RLMARIE ABU Occriarsex iiTHII IitrNTING Fr LLD.
—On • recent occasion John Richards Horn fray, EN.,
of Pwlyrach, Glamorganshire, was out with his barriers
accompanied by many friends, when • here was started
in the neighbourhood of st. Donat's Castle, the residence
of J. W. N. Carne, Esq., which gals the field • good
hour's run. The hare then doubled, and was lost. It
subsequently turned out tint she had returned to the
neighbourhood where she bad been found, anti was
discovered with three of the dogs close to her, all dead,
at the bottom Of POMO rocks about MO feet deep. A
fourth dog was missed, and was discovered squeezed in a
fissure of the same rocks just above them, but quite
laaccesuble, and it oould not be exalt:sited.

REISIONATION OF MA IneaAzu MINISTRT. —After •
duration of a little over nine months, the administration
of Mr. Disraeli is at an end. The right hon. gentleman
received her Majesty's command to form • government
on the 24th of February last, on the resignation of Lord
Derby ; and at • Cabinet Council held on Wednesday
afternoon Ministers decided not to wait for the judgment
of the new Parliament, but at once to rinse their offices
at the disposal of her Majesty. In a circular addressed
, to the Conservative party in both houses of the lees-
'stare, Mr. Disraeli explains why the members of the
Cabinet hase sent in their rsaignations. When placed
In a ruincnity on Mr. Gladstone's propositions, they
advised the Queen ts dissolve Parliament, but feeling
that an appeal to an obsolete constituency would have
been an abeerdity, they exiedit..4 the neceeitary legis-
lation for the purpose of taking therein. of the enlarged
electoral bosly. Feeling velure,' that in the present
aspect of affairs the Conservative party must be in a
nitnority in the new Parliametit, the Cabinet feel it dee
,to their own honour and to the policy they support not
unnecessarily to retain office for a single day. At the
sense time they will continue to offer an uncompromising
resistance to the disestsblishnsent of the Irish church.
Within a few days the Conservatives have been in power
for two years and • hall. Earl Russell's Government
was beaten on the £7 rating motion of Lord Dunkellin
on the 18th of June, 1886, and the third Government
of the Earl of Derby was formal, sworn ie on the Bth
of July following. Only three members of the Cabinet
now hold the offices which 'etre entrusted to them when
Lora Derby came info power. Time are the Rath of
Mahwah:my, as Lord Privy Seel; Lord John Manners,
as First Commissioner of Work.; and Lord Stanley, as
Foreign Secretary. The Frenosr of July, 1886, with.
drew Irons the owes of state early in the present veer;
Mr. Disraeli has exchanged the Chancellor of the
Exchequer for the post of First mister;M Lord Cairns
has succeeded Lord Chelmsford on the woolsack' the
Duke of Marlborough has been promo}, d to the office of
Lord pre.;deet, leaving the position of Lord Steward ;
Mr. Gathorne Hardy has gone from the Poor-law Board
to the Home-office, the Duke of Buckingham front the
poet of Lord President to that of Colonial Secretary ;
Bir John Pakington fnom the Admiralty to the Wars
office; Mr. Ward Hunt from the Financial Secretaryship
of the Treasury to Erobe4Uer. ; Sir Stafford Nolth-
cote from the of Trade to Um India-office; Mr.
Corry from the E location-office to the Adniisalty ; and
(A,loatf Wilson Patio., who had then no place, his
been appointed (Thad Be'eugee7 for Ireland. Five
members of the Wilmot of 18416 have withdrawn from
the Government: Lord Chelensfoej, the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Berl of Carnarvon_ , General Peel, and Mr.
Walpole. The Earl of Mayo Wt the Cabinet for the
ladlaa

Markets.

In the corn markets there has been no appreciable
alteration throughout the week. The meat aarkets
remain in much the same unchangeable stet., inferior
enimals being dull of ssie, end Sae qualities making
high prima.