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some authority to appeal to for the settlement of
their disputes, sod the preservation of tranquillity.

. . . .
The pest Wag is to let the' new •• • - . its
own aim gad shape its own • •
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and to sir it as little as possible . ' . ;0-
interlimanse or Downing -a • • ~.
sided woe by a man of .. and' .. :_. ' •
lays sae an arta and 1.. . •
maims and rigidity, who identifies himse with
die it limas of the settlers, and who sways their
at winning authority over them,
~es will in all probability attend Bir
BOLWIR LYTTON'S experiment. Bat where find the
man IP. And it is by a nun and not on 41et of Par-
liament the thing is to be done. That is the first
difficulty the Colonial Minister has to overcome:
and how limited is the field of his choice ! For the
truth is we have not bred the kind of Clove:ram here
wanted. What is required. is a FREMONT, a Hoes.
TON, a Commix° ; and such men are only to be
found in the United States, where there is a career
and an education for them, where a fondness for the
work in hand ia acquired, and where official forms
do not obstruct a determination to succeed.
rteed

It is a great enterprise we are going to commence;
but bow to emery it out is the practical question.
What are the means P Where the men ? Red tape,
paper schemes, didactic instructions, regularly am•
bared despatches, papers to be presented by the
Qrsres command, are of no value in such a work.
A chief is seeded as rough, and hard, sad enduring,.
and resolved, as the settlers, and cooler and more
sagacious by far. Send an advertisement to the
journals of St. Louis for the man. There Sir
Strywitz LITTON may find him—here it is doubtful;
in Vancouver's Island and in Mr. DOOOLAB he will
certainly be sought in vain.

Leer year We called atteotion to the suppression
of the Beard of Examiners of the Society of Arta :
we would now advert to the result of the system of
examination which bag been since carried out--the
system of Mr. MISTER, substituted for the system
so aseemsfolly worked by Dr. Boom. It may be
ea well to recall a few facts.

The Society of Arts, some years since, invited the
Mechanics' Institutes and similar societies to join its
body. Each institution was to subscribe a certain
sem to the Society, which was to become a centre
of action for all the Mechanics' Institutes throughout
the country. It was promised that the money
so subscribed to the Society of Arts should
be spent on the Institutions in each a
manner as to render them more effective for the
education and improvement of their members. At
first the Society of Arts attempted to work out ite
lendable purpose by organising a body of efficient
lecturers. This proved a failure. It next endea-
vowed to give an impulse to class teaching by inau-
gurating a system of examinations, so as to give cer-
tificates of coal; etency to those who should display
a sufficient degree of knowledge. Mr. CILESTER pro-
. . _

posed that maMiners in Lomb; should send examine-
tion papers to any Local Board who would take such
steps sa might be neeemery to secure the fair working
of them by their candidates. The papers so worked
were to be sent to London, and there submitted to the
inspestion of a Baird of Examiners. This scheme
when first tried failed most completely, only one
candidate oat of all England having been found
willing to avail himself of its provisions. The weak'
point of Mr. CHESTER'S scheme was not difficult to
hit. To have eneceseful examinations it is necessary
to bring the examiner and pupil together, even
though the examination be written, and not oral. A
stag of examiners was accordingly collected, men
whose eminence in their respective subjects was suffi-
cient to secure the highest degree of confidence. Lon. I
don was chosen as a centre. Candidates were invited,
to present themselves from every institution in con-
nexion with the Society of Arts, and, instead of one,
fifty-two presented themselves for examination.
This was in 1846. An impulse was thus given
the successful mode of proceeding was discovered.
Yorkshire, where the Mechanic.' laatitutions are
most actively in operation, took up the matter. Dr.
BOOTH was invited to go down there and pleali
the cause of education. The Yorkshiremen we*
tensed, and it was determ'ned next year to make
Huddersfield a centre as well se London. Accord-
ingly, the next year eighty candidate, presented
themselves in London, and one hundred and forty at
Huddersfield—two hundred and twenty in all-
Thus in the second year the oandidateehad incresami
nearly fivefold. Surely the success of this experi-
ment was sufficiently encouraging.
The effect was visible in every Mechanics' Institute
which had furnished a successful candidate. The
hesitations, instead of being mere places of desul-
tory amusement, were becoming what they really
were intended to be, places of education. The Uni-
versity of Oxford adopted a similar scheme, as a
means of improving and stimulating the middle
class schools of the country. The Middle Clam
Examinations of the University of Oxford,
following the successful plan of the Society
of Arts, of sending properly qualified repre-
sentatives to various centres, to examine the
candidates In their neighbourhood, has just been
moat eminently successful. Only last week we
called attention to the gratifying feet, that some
twelve hundred candidates availed themselves of
the first experiment of the University of Oxford.
Already we have received most /satisfactory aceounts
of the beneficial effects this Oxford movement has
produced on some of our largest middle clam schools.

Row has the Satiety of Arts succeeded this year P
Ham her candidates increased in anything like the
ratio of Last year P By so means. It is only the
candidates who have presented themselves for final
examination to the examiners of the Society who
an be fairly compared with those of last year, not
the members who swell the preliminary meant' e
tions of the Local Boards. This year the candi-
dates who passed the final examination have only
reached the number of 288, as against 220 last
year. Leg year the institutions of Loudon seat 18
eseesestal candidates; this year they only furnish 38.
The healthy impalas of the Society of Arts has bees
eheaked and skilled. Mr. Castries influence has
bean 'laciest ta bring back his old and iseffielest
plan. The large institutions have protested in vain.
They are powerless. The Conseil of the Society of
Arts are dictatorial. They say, in effect, —Yon nem
know the value of examinations, you must adopt Mr-
Casinos's plan or have sone at all. The experi-
ment has been tried ; and we hesitate not to say that
had it not bees foe the successful impales gives by
the late scheme it would have been as abortive as
at first.

Complaints reach as from the provinces. Yerishfre
hes uttered ha protest again and agaia. But the
growing Goverment influence of the Council is deaf
to every remonstrance. Institution complain of
t►e diMealty et getting a Board to seperintend the
papers of perhaps a single candidate. London has
had to provide no less than five Board.. The Demean
Minion In Cripplegate bad its Board for one candi-
date, while Lonna: Board wee sitting at Crosby-
hall. No wonder that several London institutions
which previously sent candidates have afforded
sass this year.

The working of the new scheme is snitialently in,
dieted by the fact that last year 47 distinct centres

east up nuoisetal candidates, while this y.
have done so. If the Council of th. Socirty

bad determined he cheek the . •••• ~ t
tirtl it ..,, ,
plai
effect, .. 'its
he in ' on '• . . l•
• ' -/ ,a rar
L aide* tut Amer •• " • '
Society than Mat, while ita . • .
last four year had been
- - -

.this year diminliliatt
It may be said tieallse appdatment of Load
Boards for preliminary examination has been a step
in program I 1,107 candidates wee exarolned by the
Load Beards, and 601 of these were passed es
eligible fbr the final examination. But them pre-
liminary examinations have been lees successful in
ruttish* well qualified candidates than the whole-
some desk of a journey to a centre, or the actual
we* t• Ireentaat with an exudes,. Of the 501
ssiilsi asekred eligible, only 288 were ex-
uded, and only 89 per cent. of these were ono-
Malik obtaining certificates, while last year 72
pie mei of the whole came up to the standard of
eerapeteney.

Last November we stated that "we had heard
" that the real controversy has been this--an
" attempt hat been made to hand Oyer to Govern-
" meat well-paid officials a scheme whisk has been
" found to be eminently anoeuesfuL" This is not the
first time the Society of Arts hat been made a nurse
for Kensington. We were not, therefore, unpre-
pared for the announoement of the Council that they
had come " to the eonclusios that it would be wise
" to remove from the hat (of subject.; for anemias-
" tics) the dramas', both free-hand and NsocAaskii,
" inasmuch a* Government now aprcled every
" facility for testing the progress and propieney of
" student, in that branch in everypartqf thecountry,

as systetnalically as could be done under eke
auspices of the Society." This is the first step:
the examinations in other branches will in like
manner be handed over in succession to paid Go-
vernment functionsries, and become mere formalities
in which the public plane no confidence.
Had the Umbra:linty of Oxford, instead of irefullng
reepanaible and influential members of the University
to every entre of examination, sent paper. by poet
to be worked under the superintendence of any
bodies or Boards who could be found to act as sen-
tinels on the persons examin. ed—a sort of police-
men of papers—we should not have had to chronicle
her decided enema That-sum= and the healthy
impulse it has given is due to the personal influence
of her examiners, who everywhere met the same
welcome which the examiners of the School of Arts
received last year at Huddersfield. If the Council
of the Society of Arts wish to act on the Mechanics'
Institutes as Oxford is acting on the Middle-Class
Schools, they most resort to the same measures.
They must not be content with sending down exa-
mination papereonly; they must send down examiners
as well.

'mac Court.

OSBORNE, rent 9.

•
The Queen and Prinoe, with the Royal Family,
welted sod drove In Iliestoutia yerantley.
Plisse Alfred enultist at ilhimene elatehis=l"allit'
her Ma,lestre ship Bleak Ilegle
Lieutenant Cowell.
The Prime left 'literati:6 tor Alverheak.

A seesting of the Masses Committee of the Royal Com-
'siestas for the Bahibitioa of 1861 wee bald yeaesrdsy at
the Palace of WeerseinMar. There ware t—Esrl
Granville (cludrmin),_Lord Overeaten% the Blgtih Hon. C.D.
Adderiey, M.P., Mr William Cubit, end Mr. Edger Bow-
*l
(4=l.
he Committee el the Prhy Ossaeli sat yester-
day. An a at has the Adalniir Owe, " 'TbAd ead4(
tone," was sad Judgment was ChM by dee t
Hon. T. Pemberton Dub. At
how the ty
Com% " The Robinson," was
The Lads present were—the Chancellor of the Cathy of
Caswell, Sir C. Cnerweil, Bir J. Coleridge, and Bir B.
It:patches were noshed yesterday at the Colonial-48os
ban the Ooveraor of Melte. Despatches ware seat from
the Celenial-elka yesterday mthe Ooternors of Canada,
Gibraltar, MGM, dyke,
Mow Kew, and the Mauritius.

PRINCI ALlZMlD..—QtrizeirefOWN, JULY 6.—The
Bin Regis, biester-sentesedur J. R. Psttey, arrived hers
this orerning with l. Royal Rinses Prince AlAn, Lin,
tenet Cowell, R. 1., the Rev. W. Jolly, and Dr. Miner,
an titer ening and valorize proceeded at 6 p mo. to
YeeshaL Dana his sheet eery his nye! highness visited
the navel antennae's et Firselbewins, one which he was
tanatted by Dr. Stott, 'argue of the Royal Naval Boni-
lla 1111 that Wen

MAIIRIAOII IN Hrow Lrn.--(Tate DAT.)—Thie
nteteng the rou Asp of Lord Moneys, elder Ka of the
Earl of Abengdon with Mho Townley, daughter of Lady
Coronae end CharLe Townley. Req., F.A.S., was soierontecd
at the Damien Catholic) Chapel, Warwick-street, Gorden-
num

The mariage of Captain Walsh, eldest eon of Sir
I. Walsh, Bart., M.P., with Lady B. &menet, daughter of
the Duke of Beaufort, will be solemnised on Wednesday
next.

The successful suitor for the hand of the lion.
KW Jones Loyd, ouly daughter of Lord and Lady Ow-
etoDA is Major Lindsay, of the Boots Pun* Goads, bro-
ther of Sir Coutte Lindsay, But. It sal be rusembered
(says the PO4) that Major Lisclasy woe oas of the °Mews
who A, genially &feuded the colours of We miasma at
Alms, escaping dedroodom almost by a mired & Per Ude
achlaremeet the gallant odloer received the Victoria Cross.

We (Plyonoe;tA Moil) believe we may announce
that Sir John Teed* Boller bee eoweested to owes a prov-
e^ ead will Cabe the Ude of Bari of Chariton Films. The
smowl IW. will probably be Vieweeot Laptca.
Mr. Albert Smith left on Thursday for China,
rid the Overload routs. Ho weds to Main early he
iloweestor.

Mr. Charles Diakent MAIIIMIONO his Mgr of pre-
whielal renew is the hat auk etAegnie at Exeter.
The Shahspent anlsgeellit h enshrined In the
British MOSOOM. It lies la velvet. la • slop'ng mahogany
care, with • piste-glass hallie it, and curtains of bine sOk to
protsot It from too strong • light " What a change," says
the Illustrated London New. "from lying in • dirty dust,
la a three-pair-back attic, otiChiscary-lsas 1"
Arrangementi have been made with publishing
Arms la Landau for bringing oat • tram/hake at the " Cor-
rosposalases of Napoleon 1.," of which the Preael pewee-
meat his omaammil the publioation at the asthma expose.
This correspondence will weepy a past away hese velem&
A torrespontlont of the Library Gautta lays :—" I We
haw landed aa opportunity of caukabilas may of the
tars of Napoleon which are to agars in the collsolies • owl
I cam assure yea that Use cosniniaalca which is eharpierkli
the duty of style( what shall and what shall not be pub-
lished had a wet arduous teak to peslostn. For of all the
' numpod pieties of psemanship ' that was over seas, his we
the mast cramped end vaiatalligiblo. The =saw It trkke
the Wen ere hand would Worm a initiagasamter tato
afS mil the l'ass mew nut straight, whilst not elfin.
quatly Nay mem tato collision. And what le singular le,
Nat • gnat gray weds are grossly sals-spelt, and that
Wows an only Italf•in Atm. 0 singly of human gamine 1
0 falsiollt SWIM little seltoolboie! The man who eon-
"mad Mose Mirka@ Ihma Alexandre know lot ortito-
'WA!

- ifi:. George Webster hes signified his intention
of opening the Lyss Theatre for a short Nears on !War-
ds, seat, with a few play, end as Menai tedry ex-
trimmest.

Loan EGUrrouv'snurArrs.--.We unileratind that
the Lad Llseismat sI Irsisad Ps en Pi his lossatry sod
dispopipm ca as gelatins metes to py b s vile is
DANK; AM Mat srs shag ark Ise Mess/
taialre to mass pity el per to Its Gess
isis it Ps sows* of a wok or mro.—Ayr Aissressr.

Csovrw-omes, AMY 7.—Mneber returned to
save to the prom& forikaosat—Joba WM lOn. QIN°.
6; OtroMod-pios Loodes, Rig., tor Um wefts Whim d
the misty et Oenstrell, the room et MIMI Wialliett
Baq , deosseed.—Gatetto.

. .
of the peeress need isiroameas gam mei a- peel-
Maori stamp of ihollkin to the arrangunsats that
every one was maxim M be punt, sad, ea a emu
queue, all the Oak* War diffldfwl of two days bee" }he
lets But the rain apelled ell. It was to no purpose that
Mr. ShoPotot attliked Meadows platform into thirty-goo
canketreneste* Mil'eiabashimia iiith the heraldic achieve-
ment of aphelian misses, and lad- exhimated the Wont-
native art la Steithallisatoy to the sown The ram washed
INS, the Calk of .enem the rata pat oat the variegated
lamps, the gain gem rare Mahal • bitter hems cm the
variability of our olimeta rook of water *espied the Our
over which the ramp pheisla have whirled. end WWI
armsd chit mbeedpi ushrelim stood aroma at keg
latievals, and mediketed mea amiability of all sublimer,
affairs. Zighlesa lumberd users Ards of diming merfece
was a desert, sad thresh Mum with which the elk-
km waspafaelydotothtotle reffothea aothieg but a moist
and vapoury mikado, The provider had eatkipatsa far
diadem& mats, sad there is no doubt that had the weather
been at all favoarabkhe would sot have bees disappointed.
As it was, upwards d Sham hemdrei ambers of the Aoki
km mastered in gay dolma of 4he rile, sad groups of fair
ladies, in opera cloaks sad satin SIMS, might be MKS
trudging valiantly, and wholly regordhas of tong*
and colds, from ono indoor smummeat to another.
And here we would runtime a dektiocy in the
arrangements which may mealy be mmetikd in
case a second fits shor'd take place wader happier
&mires. The company, the =Motley of 'WWII were
evidently new to the locality, bad the greatest dffiloalty in
hadiag their way, and groups of ladise might be semi stead-
fast balpissely ender the rain, while their cavaliers ran
hither sad thither anxiously inquiring whore was the circus,
or the or Abe hotel, as the one might be. A few
&headsets placed at the corners, or even an illuminated
toga-post ban sad Were, would have remedied ell this in-
soamedestoo, end we trust it will not be forgotten next time.
A coneklarahls umber of the company came early, saddined
at the hotel, when onsagenetate had been made
an a stale of the greatest abandosese, sad these of cause
ware la WY for the bellow, be whisk lambsoant Chambers
mode his solitary most 1 they would have tun also is time
for the Morris and Maypole drama, only that It would have
bean adding Moult to Wary to bars 'streamed sack sae
weather amanisesetta on ea mantes when there was aotblsg
but " mem, ear, everywhere." later in the .aveainge the
carriages of the Maw 1110111,11 thronged the Lug's-red en-
trance, said the ocapeate soft Lied the WU theatre with
anandienes whisk looked mere sited 10 the impsW theatre
at Vermallea, than so dommotaseio a place of amusement as
Cremona. The dancing, which wolf have probably
km faiallomly criticised at Her Mikhety's Theatre, was
vociferously applandad, and the omapasy, unented, at sore
rushed off to the Marianna. near% maim sale-deep
all the way In the saw yard whisk lad Ism mod sulkily
laid down to amides*. of mesalight sea dry weather. Mr.
Hugo Vamp ma la great strength, wed mmomassi baskets
with as coesslenel addromin whiobthe same of thepatents
sad patronesses Win posticelly intrethond,and Utica, bang
delivered with that Uprenelve although digltly maimeollo
gesdcalalloa for which this well-known Map ousepr is re-

ntattudsla,elicited several distinct roan& of aiploaat. thomere-
blue et hie ooropany were then enrcalsively introdueed, and
amok pees specimen of hie orbs/. quality. Lady tore&
. . _

peseirs t, tatter' with a rareshitg amoast of vabersuice;
ds hear sang a eersg, •ad the dement pisowatied with
aproaveraztoe which perdonsera at • bights order et

vileMy would have dm= & dillitedi to Imitate.
TIM last portion of the istradoetory performance wee
badly cheered, but the claseip burlesque which followed
drupe of therms affairs at Pariesmd Helen was not arise-
ire enough *imp the aompany. Juno:oat with an an-
tots= raids= in berg smidsely druna up to the roof in
the =did of an relemmatbag =drams to the Judge of Beauty,
and ccompleßgy impel tit* pain of 11814110b11 apple given
to her tivaL Them wee this • rash to the thou, with
plenty of mix mairliore the whole of the Cern= sad even
I when the corm thought themselves seated eel at harm's
way, a stuxerks airmen drops from the roof Tamed them
that their harbour d refuge bad not been oonatnaotedir that
special rearm But they had mans to)* ward, erlithq7
wen resolved to be so. Thep chewed with satonielthig
ass-
solutioa, threw bouquet* to the tightrope denser, end waled
patiently until the lest cavalier had retired from the sawdust,
sad the last serer of the ring had made lie last bow d Is
Widdioomb to his distinguished-. admirer The dancing
came next, for fireworks would have bees an tapardbility,
and es the Chinese platform was entre water, the ballet
Mare was cleared for the dance, and was moon tilled with
dancers who whirled about with a vigour which rood not
have been =rums= by the regular Utile& of Crowe*.
The gentlemen ware their hate and the ladies their bonnets,
and altogether it was do .cult to real= that this we a select
the to wt ich only the oleo de la crime we. admitted
on production of voucher and payment of belt-
s guinea, and not the ordinery gathering of
Smith, Brown, Jones, and Robinson, which makes
Crowns the jolliest place in town on the regular
nights. It is turner that, however the weather ma
have lutettered with the enjoyment% of the gnu= it did
not prevent the receipt of a large sum of mosey sppliaable to
the charities= whams behalf thefltm was originated. Neither,
It Is to be hoped, will Mr. Simpson be lamb the lore. We
were %rimed that after all expenses than would be upwards
of 1,0001. applicable to charitable =muse.
Amongst the visitors were the Duch= of Cambridge and
the Princess Mazy, and the following distinguished per-
sonages, who however include but a very =all portion of the
company :—Bari sad Counter Hardwick*, lady Elisabeth
York, Lady Agnes York, Viscount Ingest= ViIIOXIIIWIS
Ingest= Verona Canterbury, Lord Charles Bruce, the
BM Strathmore, Lord Ravennroeth, Viscount Renslagh,
Lady Charlotte Imre, Lard Harvey, Earl di. Henna= Wr
Ralph and Lady Howard, Bad an 4 Coaxers of Shrewsbury,
Marquis and Marchionees at Lothian, Hoe. William and
Mrs. North, Lord Rae= Bruce, Lord Brougham, He=
Arthur Rummell, Right Hoes W. Bereslord, Count
Pally, Mr. Tubb*, Mr. Byug, M.P., Lord and Lady Vil-
liers, Colossi and Mts. Darner, Capt. Bathurst, Hoandward
Leigh, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, theta's= of Lovett,

11. le almost mediae to add that admirable ceder waipra-
served throughout, sal that the police did their day with
their usual tact sod dkiermy.

Lieutenant Chambers, on his return to Cremorne
Imt siabt, brought bask with histito Mowing dot
" it to coat* that Ilwataiout Chambers arrived at the
Rev. blind Broberg opts% Batebbre Hoaas Whabledos,
July 9, • Teuton lo eight p.m." It almond abated ono'.
humniaity (ow a coutresporary) to ibik of mediae
• mao up to explore the saystariso of Noah • firm-
mot ; hut Cbratorta wa old tar who fought lode.
Collis/wood, old who, altor spending lib youth to
navigating amid the Wows, has tam in hie obi
op to the yob ware perilous avocados of aoliktg amid the
dodo, weo not to be dstanod from his parpoot by a meow-
lig sky. B. bad oft up 115 times " without hurting a
boar el his hod," sod, auto what would, be would go sip*,
Ma de► Nup he wag r slookat oulltubt—tho More

*4 ses—esi lie kepi Twig b !Sib Ski is the air till
It was feel is the lks mil mkt The assat sea mot sli-
mmed by owe Use sow Sky eesersaiy perm&

TizOarrraL PALACE Pwrtraz OIeLLIFIT.—The
Ninth Gang et the Orystel Palma, theteed ef befog
pleestie theelthiarn mope d the whim mai otneetthaal ly
well .bat of kola the Meth beilding, linen will be
found ane d the =Olt thatral, met readily therible, and
p=opelete positlann his now being arranged In the
pithy ellehdeg the send inampt, end es the
ease aide yak the great eathethe end wpm. the hewn
cerebalig anendand both the the sad the pasta arrange-
meats fordo new gentry, and we anticipate Iran theta the
most eedshcemy tenaltu—Beading

SHIPWRICIDID FISIIIRALEN /MD MARINERS'
ROYAL Saaairoiatrr BocinT3.—At the weakly committee
"meth* at =dill at the eocisly's °Masa HVirtda
=lna (la the ekairj. = Ran. Itewadmbeilir llesOd7,
RN., WWism fitturt. Ng, SW Chaise &sway, Ben.,
Captelas Lesa sad llreek, R.N.. R.
the committee
awarded MU 16s. to 233 widows of merinos, sad 16 ship-
wrecked mw, to help to Verilloll do* claims. This relief to
the widows sad as. Is to Wake to that afforded to ship.
wreaked penes* sa seat pert of the mast by clothing and
ssadleg than to their booms. It was %sported at the mat-
hs/ thee the bray sells em the belltuarm made ea ewe' to
the*** rammemp. We bops IS will be liberally moulded
a to, Go by ads sooletja ante country is dared el bla-
me sailer the*, of beg
wrecked, sad our Nam=
presteveff tram being pea by befog obliged to beg
their we, hi., whoa art em ear owe.

F°l"4
FROM PARIS

(1,1011 01:111 01111

4.gF.0

tAsul: FawAi Evismi•.

The Queen's intention to visit Cherbourg is now
receded as beyond doubt, and Elmo announcement
as to the exact date is expected to appear_in an early
number of the Monitour..
- ;hi i
A circular adireesed by M. de Here, ;he Min;ster.
of Justice, to the Prooureare.Gassial of Imperial
Courts, directs them not to insanieany prosecution
under the " Files Titles Bill," without applying for
and receiving his special instructions. "I shell
thus," he says, " be able to regularise the execution
of the law throughout the country." There could
not be a clever prOof than this of the Youraey of
what was said by the opposition in the Corps Legis-
latif when the mason was under discussion—
that it has no duirasteria* of a *solar law about
it, and can only sieve se en excuse for purely arbi-
trary
prom:dings.
All the plenipotentiaries composing the Paris
Conference have received imitations for the Cher-
bourg fetes. It is said that the Emperor CB give
a grand dinner to his gnats on board the 140-gun
ship Bretagne.
It is reported that Ahmed Packs, who so unfor-
tunately met his death by the accident on the Noe
Railway, has leR a legacy of 1,000,000 fr., and (1:a-
-wn& to the value of 500,000 fr., to Barone Vigier
(late Mdllo. Craven* He had never spoken to her
in his life, but made his will when in a state of
enthusiasm produced by seeing her on the stage of
the Opera.

The Bourse was firm in the morning but closed
rather heavily. The Rente rose 10c. for cash end
fell 6c. for aooount, closing at 68fr. 40c. to sash
cone. Mobilier fell 2fr. 60c. Railways left off a
trifle lower. The receipts for the week are good.
M. Mon is now expected to be the new Spin:lh
Ambassador in Paris. Marshal Serrano, who was
at first spoken of, refused the poet, and was there-
upon appointed Director of Artillery.
M. Francois Pietri, prefect of the Cher, eldest
son of M. Pietri, late Prefect of Police at Pp*,
expired the day before yesterday at Bourges.
The Monitetsr Vinicole says:—" Our accounts
from the vine-growing districts are rather less as-
directory, and they justify our previous recommenda-
tions not to give way too much to premature hopep,
and imagine that no danger still exists of attacks
from the oidium. We learn that the malady has sod-
denly appeared in certain localities, particularly in
i the south. It most not be, however, concluded that
the crop has been sensibly injured."

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