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London, England, 1863-02-18 00:00:00

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Joseph Jeavona, a young man employed at
Padgett 's Croft Colliery, near Widen, was committed
for trial yesterday, oa a charge of murder. The cir-
cumstances connected with the charge will be fresh in
the memory of our readers. On the 30th of January,
three miners were descending Padgett's Croft colliery,
when the rope broke, and the poor fellows were dashed to
pieces. Examination proved that the rope bad been cut, and
suspicion fell so strongly on the prisoner that he has been
mat for trial on the capital charge.
Sneer=s or LOCEILOMOND.—It will be satiafactory
to tourists and others visiting Lochlomond on pleasure or
barium to know that charts of the government survey of
this most interesting of Scottish lakes have now been pre-
pared, wherein all sunken rocks, shoals, and banks are se.
curately delineated. Robert Bunter, Feu., sheriff of the
counties of Dumbarton and Bute, at whose instance the
survey by Captain Otter, IIN., was made, has also since the
on of the charts, with the most praiseworthy
CPrrlittyl subscribed himself, and has induced Sir James
Oolquhoun, of Lam ; Mr. Scoollett, of Bonhill ; Mr. Brows,
of Ballo* • Mr. A. Orr Ewing, of Leventank, the Dumber.
toushire and Edinborough and Glover Railways, and the
Lochlomond Steamboat Companies, likewise to subscribe for
the erection of beacons and buoys on the various sunken
rocks, shoals, and banks dangerous to the navigation. These
beacons and buoys. which were executed and laid down by
Messrs. Bell and Campbell, of Bonhill, under the superin-
tendence ot Mr. Young, the Lochlomond Steamboat Com-
pany's manager, have now stood the severe pies of this
winter in the most satisfactory manner ; and as each of the
captains of the steamers have been furnished with a copy
of the chart showing all their bearings, configurations, and
colours, the public may now consider the navigation of the
lake as quite free from danger.
GREAT ResTERN RAILWAY.—For Rome time
past considerable excitement has prevailed in the Teedring
hundred of Essex, in reference to two rival lines proposed
for establishing communication to Walton-on-the-Naze. A
deputation from the directors went down • few days since
to investigste the merits of the respective schemes, and the
secretary has now officially intimated that upon the two
new companies coming to an agreement to continue their
respective lines as far as Thorpe, and from thence to Walton
by one line, the Great Eastern will be prepared to ar-
range terms for contributing a portion of the capital re-
quired for both hoes, and for working them when
completed, but upon the express understanding that the
plane for the two lines are to be subject to the approval of
the Great Eastern Company's engineer, and that the con-
tract for the works is oleo to be approved by him.
THE HIRMIT BURROW NEAR THE DEAD SEA.—
Far up on the cliff, like a fortress, stand the gloomy,
windowless walls of the convent ; but along the ravine, in
almost inaccessible gorges of the hills, are caves and boles
half-way down the precipice, the dwellings of the hermits.
Here, is • den fit for a fox or • hymns, one poor soul had
died just before our visit, after five.and.forty years of self-
' incarceration. Death had released him, but may more
remained, and we could see some of them from the distant
rood as we passed, sitting in the mouths of their caverns, or
walking on the little ledges of rock they had smoothed for
terraces. Of course their food (such as it is) is conveyed to
them, or let down from the cliffs from the convent at
needful iatervals. °the wise they live absolutely alone—
' alone in this hideous desolation of nature, with the lurid,
blasted desert for their mole share in God's beautiful uni-
verse. We are all, I suppose, accustomed to think of a
hermit as oar poets have painted him, dwelling serene in
A lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless continuity of shade,
undisturbed by all the ugly and jarring sights and sounds
of our grinding civilisation, sleeping mainly on his bed of
fern, feeding on his pulse and cream, and drinking water
from the brook.
He kneels at morn, and noon, and wee,
He bath a cushion plump,
It is the moss that wholly hides
The rotten old oak stump.
Bat the hermits of Mar Saba, how different are they from
him who unsoiledthe Ancient Mariner ! No holy cloisters
of the woods, and sound of chanting brooks, and hymns of
morning birds—only this silent burning waste—this ' dew-
Wien deified." It seemed as if some frightful aberration
of the religious sentiment could alone lead men to
choose, for home, temple, prison, tomb, the one spot of
earth where no flower springs to tell of God's tenderness,
no soft dew, nor sweet sound ever falls to preach faith and
love. Thor are many such hermits dill in the Greek
church. I have seen their eyries perched where only vul-
tures should have their nests, on the cliffs of ell and among the caverns of the Cyclades. Anthonyt
Stylizes have left behind them a track of evil glory, along
which many a poor wretch still " crawls to heaven along
the devil's trall."—Preerr's Nepotist for February.