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London, England, 1864-08-01 00:00:00

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THE PREVALENCE OF INFANTICIDE.—Last week,
a meeting was held in this metropolis, undo: the
auspices of the Coroner for Middlesex, to call public atten-
tion to the rapid increase of infanticide. This is an ugly
word, shocking and shaming us so much, that we are un-
willing to allow the truth it declares. "Is it possible," the
well-to-do and comfortably provided reader exclaims, "that
infanticide can be a prevalent crime in this civilized metro-
polis? Talk of it among the Chinese if you will, or among
African savages, and I will believe you, but do not scanda-
lize our Christianity by telling us that it is practised in St.
James's or the City of Landon. We aro afraid that it will
not be found easy to answer the impeachment, however
disgraceful and humiliating. If we argue from what we
do know, we shall see reason to suspect that Dr. Lankester
and have truth ciao. one breeds
another ae fast as flies vivify in hot weather. We have
only to look at the swarms of lost women who parade our
main thoroughfares by gas!ight, and reflect, first upon their
inability and unwillingness to maintain the fruits of their
sin, and secondly, upon the proved fact that the mortality
among infants under one year is excessive in those districts
that are chiefly inhabited by this class of unfortunates, and
we shall feel some difficulty its resisting the conclusion to
which the argnutents clearly point. Diverging, however,
from this special view of infant mortality, there can be no
doubt that, throughout this metropolis, there is a large
preventible sacrifice of life among children under five years
of age. Dr. Letheby informs us that, in our own City of
London, 39 per cent of all the deaths occur among children
under this age, and that there is about one-third more of
these deaths than there should be if the mortality were in
the same ratio as that for all England. In the Holborn
district matters are worse in this respect, for there we find
that the mortality ascends to 44 per cent.—City Press.
LETTER FROM NASSAU.—NASSAU, N. P., July 2,
—ln for it again ; over 120 in the sun, and not a
breath stirring—right in front of my window is a cluster of
beautiful feathery bamboos, but for the last few days not a
leaf has stirred to my knowledge. This is the rainy season
—thunderstorms, including any amount of lightning, either
sheet or forked, provided on the shortest notice. As soon as
the ground is saturated with rain and the clouds roll off, out
comes the sun as fierce as though another Phaeton had
usurped the ribbons and got out of his latitude into outs,
and then everything is enveloped in a most unhealthy va-
pour for an hour or so, and in a little while again the leaves
are cracking with heat—and so it is likely to go on for two
months or so, bad cess to it I Sergeant Yellow Jack arrived
a few weeks ago, and is busy beating up and down the city
for recruits to fill up the ranks,of the noble army of martyrs.
One or two fatal cases occurred among the garrison. Some
English workmen, recently imported for building purposes,
are now tenants of houses which will outlast anything they
could have built had they been spared to exercise their skill.
Many a robust young fellow is seized one day, dies the next,
and buried on the third. Nothing is talked of but this hide'
ous disease—in fact, there seems to be a kind of fascination
about the affair, and people not knowing how soon they
may be hurried off, seem determined to have a good chat
beforehand. For my part, I got pretty well seasoned with
fever last year, but then I exposed myself a gteat deal ; just
at present, however, I crawl carefully along the shady side
with an umbrella overhead—the old song, "Keep always on
the sunny side," doesn't apply here. Several English
sailors have been found dead in the streets from the effects
of drink and exposure to the sun. Poor Jack, at home
he could drink twice as much without even a headache,
but in this climate it is " kingdom come" in no time.
I saw a body the other evening snug under the lee of
some cotton bales—the poor wretch had crawled there
to escape the heat and have a nap in the shade, and, in
consequence, there he was, napping in the very land of
shadows. The fever is also raging among the vessels, and
what with church bells tolling on shore and flags at half-
mast in the harbour, the general tone of the place is any-
thing but cheerful, and it is pretty certain that us strangers
have a hard time before us this summer. I would warn
captains coming here to provide themselves with proper
medicine chests. The other day there were five vessels at
Eluthera, shipping pines ; the captain of one of them (the
, Blue Bell) took fever. There is no regular medical man at
Eluthera, but Dr Kirkwood, of this city, happened to be
there on a visit, and out of the five vessels he could only get
13 grains of quinine; the consequence was the case proved
, fatal.—Liverpool

THE Two GREAT OBJECTS OF THE LATE REBEL
RAID.—The two great objects of the late rebel raid
were—first, the diversion of General Grant's army from
Richmond to the defence of Washington, in which they
have failed; but in the second, which was plunder, they
have doubtless succeeded beyond their most sanguine ex-
pectations. From Sigel's stores, at Martinsburg, from
Wallace's, at Frederick, from the farmers, millers, shop-
keepers, and apothecaries of Maryland, they have carried
off a greater quantity, perhaps, of the very articles of plun-
der they most needed than. could be gathered in the whole
country between Richmond and Georgia. In fact, Jeff.
Davis every summer, so far, has drawn upon Old Abe for
the needful supplies for the army of Lee, and has obtained
them—artillery and ammunition, provisions and clothing,
shoes, greenbacks and medicines, niggers, horses, and wag-
gons, &c.—to the extent of millions of dollars. How much
longer can we stand this sort of war, in which we have to
supply both armies ? How long, I‘lr Fessenden ?—.Yew
York Herald.

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The iron-cased turret ship Royal Sovereign, Cap-
tain Sherrard Osborn, C. 13., arrived in Portsmouth
harbour on Saturday from her short cruise outside
the Isle of Wight, on which she started from off
Osborne immediately after the visit of her Majesty
to the ship on Thursday evening. The return of
the ship to Portsmouth harbour is solely owing to
orders given some time since by the Admiralty to
place her in dock at the earliest opportunity, in
order to remove the band of zinc which is now fixed
round the ship below the water-line and between
the armour-plating and the Muntz metal sheathing
on the ship's bottom, and substitute in lieu of it a
wooden band, on a plan which has been approved
by the Admiralty. It is also understood that a
peculiar kind of cement, simple in application and
not expensive, which has been brought under the
applied experimentally to that portion of the ship's
anromtiocue of
the
rviathtiengAbdemlotrwalty by Captain Coles, will be
water-line. If successful,
the experiment may probably help materially in
the solution of the problem lately referred to by
Lord Clarence Paget in the House of Commons—
how to preserve and keep clean the bottoms of iron
waters. The Royal
ships
Sovereign's on service
necessarily in
trsofoircat tropical waters.
from which she
returned on Saturday, only extended to about 20
miles south of St. Catherine's, in a
parallel line
with the Isle of Wight, quite far enough from the
land to test her rolling properties had the wished-
for breeze been met with; but although a nice sum-
mer Channel breeze, south-westerly, was found, it
was accompanied with no great swell, and a greater
roll could not be got out of the ship then 5 deg.
each way. Enough, however, was seen to give the
officers every confidence in their ship under ordi-
nary circumstances at sea, and it is evidently un-
necessary to wish for any further confidence to be
placed in the sea behaviour of a craft which after
all is only a conversion, and is merely being used as
a floating means of testing Captain Cowper Coles's
principle of working monster ordnance on board
ship by means of revolving platforms protected by
cylindrical armour. The Royal Sovereign, in fact,
must be viewed from three distinct positions, to
which reference will be made after concluding our
notice of the short cruise from which she has just
returned. It was an important point to test the
ship under steam off the land, for it will be remem-
bered that on her first preliminary run outside
Partsmouth harbour the steam pipes of two of her
boilers gave way at their junction in the stop valve
boxes ; and, with this object in view, Capt. Osborn
caused the guns to be fired in every position the
ship assumed under the influence of her engines and
the motion given to her by the wind and sea, and
the communications between the steam pipe and
boilers remained in their normal condition, thus
proving that the expansion joints which had been
applied in Portsmouth dockyard were fully equal to
the service for which they were fitted, and would
prevent any recurrence of a similar accident to the
one referred to. The low angles of 5 deg- to which
the ship only reached in her rolling motion pre-
vented Capt. Osborn and Capt. Coke from testing
the working of the turrets and guns in as severe a
manner as they wished, but no perceptible differ-
ence in the revolving of the turrets or the working
of the guns was noticed by the men employed. In
the firing, two rounds were first used on Friday in
scaling the guns, and afterwards 93 rounds were
fired from them with solid cast iron shot and 35ib.
and 401 b. charges, according to the elevation of the
guns. There was not the slightest hitch throughout.
The tables on which the turrets and guns stand re-
volved as freely, and the guns worked as easily and
controllably as during the two days' practice on
Tuesday and Wednesday last in St. Helen's Roads,
and there was also th. sums absence of concussion
or smoke inside the turrets or on the lower deck.
if the shots fired by the Royal Sovereign on Friday
are compared with the shots fired by the American
monitors in their grand attack upon Charleston in

1863, and if the English monitors two previous
days' tests in firing at anchor be also taken into
consideration, it must be admitted, we think,
by every unprejudiced mind that the Eng-
lish turret principle has been very fairly
tested, and has proved a decided success ;
and this may be asserted without entering any
further into the somewhat foolish controversy of
" central v. broadside ships' batteries" than to ob-
serve that the 12-ton 101-inch gun has been fired
in the Channel from a central battery on board a
ship, whereas it has not from a ship's broadside
battery. In the grand attack upon Charleston the
nine Federal ironclads, mounting 23 guns between
them, only fired 139 shots in all, and the greatest
number of shots fired by any one vessel was only
26. The Royal Sovereign fired on Friday 20 shots
apl
nse per gundegrees,
the highest elevation being
and at different angles
tienlsevation which can be at.
from
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elevation, fi
extentv e
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tamed by the gnus of no other ship in her Majesty's
navy, whether mounted on the broadside or pivoted
on the upper deck.
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Reverting to the three distinct positions from
which we stated the Royal Sovereign must be
viewed by the general public, it is necessary that
this part of the question should be thoroughly un-
derstood in order that no erroneous impressions
may take their hold on the public mind. These
three positions are-1. The hull of the ship ; 2, the
turrets and their motive Power ; 3, the guns. For
the first and third the Admiralty and War Depart-
ment are alone responsible. For the second Capt.
Coles alone is responsible. We have said enough
to prove that Cept. Co les, 8
part in the work has been
well and satisfactorily performed. With regard
to the ship's hull and her guns, a little more
remains to be said. In the first place, what-
ever her behaviour may ;
eventually prove to be
at sea, the Royal Sovereign
.81 after all, but an
adapted means of floating turrets and guns so as to
test the practicability of the system afloat. The hull
undoubtedly draws too much water—that is, swims
too deeply—to be of service in shallow waters; it
has too much breadth, and expose,
an unnecessary
area of upper-deck planking to
a plunging fire ;bat
these and other objections which might be urged
against the hull of the Royal Sovereign are matters
which concern only the Admiralty and the public,
but not Captain Coles.
The ship Was selected by
the Admiralty for a most important experiment, and
it would be rashness, at the very
least, to say that
the selection was injudicious, Whatever faults of
hull the Royal Sovereign may now possess.
The ship's guns are a more serious matter to deal
with. The four turret guns of the Royal Sovereign
each weigh 12 tons, and have each a bore the diame-
ter of which is 101 inches. They are coil built, but
are simply smooth-bore guns, throwing a spherical
castiron shot of 1501 b with 35ib of Powder as " full"
charge, or with 401 b of powder as a " distant"
charge. Now, it is evident that from this 12-ton
gun, with its.lolin. diameter of bore, but a miser-
able return is got with a 1501 b. cast iron shot. The
fact is, the guns of the Royal Sovereign should be
made by some simple mode of rifling to throw
300 lb. oast iron shell for any engagement with
wooden ships, and steel shot and shell of the same
weight for the benefit of ironclade. It is asserted,
however, that the Royal Sovereign's guns will only
stand as smooth bores, and that any attempt to rifle
them can only end in their destruction. This as-
sertion reduces the question of the Royal Sove-
reign's efficiency to a very narrow compass. If the
has to wait for her rifled 300-pounders (or 600 e
pounders, as the case may be) h
to -e manufactured,
then the ship should be at once supplied with steel
shot to some extent, however small, in order to ren-
der her present armament of smooth bore guns of
some use against the iron coat of an adversary. At
the present moment there is not one steel shot or
shell on board the ironclad fleet of her Majesty's
navy, which is therefore thus, however efficient may
be its powers of defence, harmless in powers of
offence against any similarly protected adversary.

From Charlecote the party travelled four miles
further along a well wooded and fertile country to
Stratford, where they arrived about four o'clock.
It was rather a notable coincidence that the excur-
sion of the Archreologists to the birth and burial
place of Shakespeare should have happened on the
last day of the sale of the remnants of the tercen-
tenary celebration. The sale had been going on
nearly all the week, and the auctioneer had just
knocked down his last lot as the archreological pil-
grims from Warwick arrived at the Shakespearean
shrine. Of course the visitors inspected all the
" lions" of the place, beginning with the church,
so pleasantly placed on the banks of the " soft-
flowing Avon," as this river has been not inaptly
described, though its waters were to-day rippled
into tiny waves by a fresh westerly breeze, which
rustled cheerily among the fine elm trees that bor.
der the churchyard, and caused the willows on the
banks of tha classic stream to show the grey lining
of their copious foliage. The church and its
monuments have been too often described to
leave anything new to be said of them.
The Shakespeare bust (which has recently been
painted in colours) stands against the north wall
of the chancel, an enduring monument to the
greatest of England's poets. Thousands upon
thousands, not only of Englishmen and English-
women, but inhabitants of far distant lands, have
gazed upon it and silently acknowledged the great
gifts of him whose memory it perpetuates and
whose lineaments it is believed faithfully to pour-
tray. The church had only just been cleared of an
excursion party of workpeople from the busy mid-
land metropolis, when they were succeeded by the
more learned visitors. The following is an exact
copy of the inscription beneath the bust :

Judicio Pylivm, genio Socratem, arto Maronem
Terra tegit, popylvs mooret, Olympvs habets
Stay passenger, why goest thov so fast ?
Read, if thou canst, whom enviovs death hath plaat
Within this monvment, Shakspere with whome
Qvick natvro dide : whose name doth deck ys tombs
Far more than cost : sith all yt he bath writt
Leaves living art bvt page to serve his Witt.
Obiit ano Doi, 1G1G•
.tatis 53, die 23 Ar."

Mr. BERESFORD HOPE (the party having assem-
bled in the chancel) reminded his audic nen that this
was no common parish church, but a collegiate
church. Its length was 197 feet, being longer than
Coventry r.h,:rch. Mnrpnvpr, it Was a cross ohureh,
and must have been arranged, looking to the chan-
cel, for a large body of clergy. He called upon the
vicar to give some account of its foundation.
The Rev. G. GRANVILLE thereupon said that in
the time of John de Stratford, respecting whom so
interesting a paper had been read that morning by
Dr. Hook, this church had a dean and four priests,
and as at that time the population was not equal to
the number of priests the latter were employed in
visiting the usighbouring parishes. The deanery
was done away with in the time of Henry VIII.,
and the revenues were placed in the hands of the
corporation, who from that time paid certain stipends
to the vicar and chaplain. The living was now only
parochial. About 30 years ago the church was
restored. The galleries, though objectionable in an
archmological point of view, were less so than any
other church galleries that he had ever seen. The
dcor on the north side of the chancel, near Shake
pere's monument, was the entrance to the charnel-
house, which had been pulled down some time ago.
That part of the church in which they were assem-
bled was built in the 15th century, but the tower
and transept were of much earlier date.
Mr SEVERN WALKER, secretary to the Wore
cester Diocesan Architectural Society, said the
diocess of Worcester (in which Stratford is
situate) did not possess many fine parochial churches,
but this was one. As the vicar had told them,
this was a collegiate as well as a parochial church.
There were originally two altars—the parochial
altar, at the east end of the south side, and the col-
legiate altar, in the usual place, the east end of the
chancel. He pointed out the fact that the columns
supporting the nave arcade are not octagonal, but
hexagonal. He also pointed out three panels in
front of the west window as being rather unusual.
The spire was modern, but copied from the old one.
Mr. BERESFORD HOPE having asked for same
information respecting the colouring of the monu-
ment to Shakspere,
The Rev. G. GRANVILLE said the reason he bad,
in conjunction with his fellow-townsmen, for restor.
ing the monument to its original colour was that
they conceived the monument ought to bear as
much as possible the stamp and character of the
time when it was placed there. He did not mean
to say that as it was the monument was better than
in stone colour, but the object was to have it re.
stored to its original appearance. Ho himself saw
the work done. The monument was taken down,
put into a tub of water and chemicals, and the
whitewash washed off it. In this process some of
the paint was slightly rubbed off, and where this
was done it was carefully repainted. They simply
cleaned it of its whitewash. He was aware that
this work had been much canvassed, but he believed
there were now only one or two persons of opinion
that they had done wrong in removing the wash
that covered the old paint.
The next move was to the vestry, where the parish
registers were shown. From the uniform appear.
since of the writing the register appears to be a copy.
The entries of the baptism and death of Shakspere
are entered as follows :

" Births.
" 15G1—Apri1 26.—Guliehnus filius Johannis Shakspear."

"Deaths.
" 1616—April 25.-IVill. Shakspeare, gent."
The name of the bard, it will be seen, is spelt
differently in the two entries.
The Chapel of the Holy Cross in the middle of the
town was next visited, and the ruins of New-place
hard by, which are walled in and preserved. The
foundations, which show the ground plan of the
building where Shakspare breathed his last, are
bared. Shakspere's birthplace in Henley-street
was the last place visited, and some time was spent
in its examination. The walls of the room in which
the poet was born are still covered with autographs,
among which is that of Sir Walter Scott. Lord
Byron's was once there, but cannot now be traced.
The attendant informed the visitors that this prac-
tice of scribbling on the wall was now forbidden,
but, in fact, the veto is unnecessary, for there is no
vacant space for another name. The Maseum is
fast increasing. In it are to bo seen Shakspere's
signet ring, his school desk, and the inden-
ture of bis purchase cif New-place. Here also is the

We must no longer seek for fashion in Paris—the fickle
goddess is to be found in the chateaux or at the watering
places, but her reign there is as despotic as in the capital.
Foulard is still a favourite, and just now baroge hnd cham-
bery gauze are much worn ; also a charming material called
Indian gauze, is used for demi-toilet. Dresses of pique or
batiste, simply ornamented with white or coloured braid,
and with a little vtste to match, are exceedingly useful.
More elegant dresses, but still made with vestes, are of
muslin or batiste trimmed with guipure, Valenciennes, em-
broidery, or ribbon bows. The square fichu is that decidedly
preferred to be worn with low-bodied summer evening dress.
The ceinture is now one of the most important parts of
the toilet. For young girls of slight figure nothing can be
more becoming than the Swiss ceinture, embroidered and
trimmed with lace or ruches of ribbon, worn over a white
chemisette. Bands of thick plain ribbon are quite the order
of the day. Wide square buckles are worn with them.

Muslin shawls and camails, trimmed with insertion and
flounces of lace, are in vogue. The richest are lined with
taffetas; others, more simple, are trimmed with festooned
flounces or ball fringe, an insertion over ribbon being Placed
all round. Some half-fitting casaquos are also made of
muslin with embroidered eeams.
This season white tarlatan is much used for trimming
taffetas. It seems a strange fancy, but when well arranged
it has dgood effect. But the best way of making our readers
acquainted with la mode is to proceed to our description of
dresses.

A straw-coloured lawn dress : at the bottom of the skirt,
a plaited flounce about five inches wide, and upon each plait
a coquille of black lace partly on the skirt. A small veste
of the same material as the dress, trimmed round with black
lace ; opened in front, but attached by pattes, which cross
over a waistcoat of batiste, with insertion and Valenciennes
lace forming a jabot, and also placed round the basques.
A dress of white alpaca ; the bottom of the skirt cut in
very deep festoons, and edged with a wide cerise ribbon.
This trimming is rounded off, and carried up the side as far
as the waist. A narrow flounce is placed over the ribbon
round the festoons. Ceinture corselet, with basques Direc-
toire made of cerise taffetas and embroidered with jet, With
this elegant dress is worn a high body and long sleeves of
muslin bouillonnee, and cross-barred with narrow cerise
velvet.

A spotted muslin dress, over sky-blue tarlatan; a flounce
about six inches wide trimmed with guipure, and headed
with a magnificent insertion, which is carried up each seam
in horse-shoe form to the height of a quarter of a yard. A
postilion vests, trimmed in the same style. Underneath a
Swiss ceinture of blue taffetas, with very long and wide
ends falling behind.
A robe of white foulard : the skirt trimmed round with
a wide band of blue taffetas, edged on each side with a
quilling, and embroidered with white silk. A small collet
to match, and a jockey hat of Leghorn, trimmed with a white
feather and blue bow, complete this toilet.
A white muslin dress, with a plaiting and revers, about
five inches wide, round the bottom of the skirt and up each
side of the seams, gradually diminishing in width. These
revers are embroidered and placed over pink. The vcste
and sleeves trimmed to match. A robe of pointed muslin,
the body full at the waist: ceinture of lilac gauze, with a
satin edge trimmed with black lace. The bottom of the
skirt trimmed with a quilling of the same ribbon, covered
with black lace.

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN SOMERS TOWN.
—The hatchet which was discovered in the water-
butt at the house where this tragedy was enacted has been
sent to Dr. Harley to be examined, in order to see if certain
marks upon it are stains of blood. It was also believed,
from other signs, that it was not thrown into the water-
butt until some time after the murder. Upon Brown's coat
are several spots, believed to be blood, as well as hairs
from the woman's head. The deeds referred to at the
coroner's inquest, which the man Brown was stated to have
handed to his son, George James Brown, and which are
endorsed with the name of "Rosetta Bishop," the mut.•
dered woman, have been handed over to the police. They
relate to property which had been given to her by the
elderly gentleman who visited her, and whom the old
woman Loader said she called her uncle. It has been
ascertained that the deceased woman had declared her
\a
Rs e. o f
L INcoL quarrel.N.—We see that the
in-
tention, as soon as she could get possession of these deeds,
to leave Brown ; and it is believed that their possession
was the immediateCHEEßlNG-UP
u
papers are referring to the fact that Lincoln ordered
a comic song to be sung upon a battle-field. We have known
the facts about the transaction for some time, but have re-
frained from speaking them. As the newspapers are now
stating some of the facts, we will give the whole. Soon after
ono of the most desperate and sanguinary battles Mr Lin-
coln visited the commanding General and the army. While
on his visit the commanding general with his staff took him
over the field in a carriage, and explained to him the plan of
the battle, and the particular places where the fight was most
fierce. At one point the commanding general said " Here
on this side of the road 500 of our brave fellows were killed,
and just on the other side of the road 400 more were slain,
and right on the other side of that wall 500 rebels were de-
stayed. We have buried them where they fell." "I de-
clare," said the President, "this is getting gloomy. Let us
drive away." After driving a few rods the President said
" This makes a feller feel gloomy. Jack" (speaking to a
companion) " can't you give us something to cheer us up ?
Give us a song, and give us a :ively one." Thereupon
Jack struck up, as loud as he could bawl, a comic negro
song, which ho continued to sing while they were riding
off from the battle ground. and till they approached a regi-
ment drawn up, when the commanding general eaid " Mr
President, wouldn't it be well for your friend to cease his
song till wo have passed this regiment ? The
poor fellows have lost more than half of their numbers.
They are feeling very badly, and I should be afraid of the
effect that it may have on them." The President then asked
his companion to stop his singing till they got by that regi-
ment. We are aware that this story is incredible; it is
impossible that a President of the United States could so
conduct himself over the fresh-made graves of the heroic
dead. But, nevertheless, the story is such on such autho-
rity that we know it to be true.—Essex (America) States-
man.

TAKE CABE OF THE CHILDREN.—That children
are so much left to the care of servants in so many
families of the middle classes, is perhaps in many oases un-
avoidable. Nevertheless, it is a great evil. However at-
tentive and conscientious servants may be, and even
allowing them to possess the necessary intelligence, it can..
not be expected that their efforts can ever fulfil the office of
the loving, watchful eye of the mother. It has been ob•
served that children who aro attended to by their mother,
who aro undressed and put to bed by her, who open their
eyes in the morning to behold her cheerful face and loving
looks, who by her are dressed, and kept under her tender
and judicious care throughout the day, are, as a rule, jar
more good-tempered, healthy, and intelligent than such as
are left almost wholly to the care of servants. In addition
to this, it should be borne in mind that the accidents which
so frequently happen to children, and by which they are
often crippled, maimed, or rendered idiotic, mostlyarise
from the negligence of those in whose care they are left by
inconsiderate mothers. Parents who love their children,
and are solicitous for their welfare,
should give these
dse wagdomesticyr se.
con-
siderations their earnest attention, for they are founded
in
upon facts of the utmost itinpeorctslinirces
at relation
aNya t
ooua anuand
happiness and well-being.—Old Jonathan.
SAVED BY CRINOLINE..—A few
maid lost her way on h
went close to the edge of the precipitous cliffs, when she
slipped and fell to the beach below, a distance of 108 feet.
Her crinoline expanding with the air, however, so broke
the fall that she landed without a scratch or bruise, and
although much shaken, was able at once to walk 100 yards
and ininrin her pajama of the occurrence,— Western ..3forn-
_ tng ;Vetch

tho Jewish subjects of our Lord whom God may preserve
With regard to your statement respecting the affairs of
in strength, we have to observe, that Owl/ are his subjects,
and he, may God preserve him and perpetuate his glory
and greatness, does not like that they should be pursued by
acts of injustice and torment in their unfortunate position,
because God, the Most High, forbids injustice towards
people professing our religion, and he likew iso forbids in-
justice towards people professing any other religion.
Our Lord, may God grant him support, has already
commanded the inhabitants of -" the ether provinces of
his empire, that the Jewish suojects should be treated with
kindness and strict justice, so that no wrong 'Whatever be
done to any of them. He also rebuked them he inhabi-
tant of all the other provinces in his empire) by the power
and strength of God, for the injustice they have 4 lone.
We have not forgotten your polite attention, and the
kindness evinced in your letter; we shall never fail to
watch rigorously the proceedings of the officials of the pro-
vinces of our Lord whom God may preserve.

Completed in the month of Moharam, in the
year 1281 of the Hidjrah.

Newspaper Press Fund,

A general meeting of the members and subscribells to
this institution was held on Saturday at the Freem as one'
Tavern, to receive a report and balance-sheet from the c
otu-
mittee of management. Lord Houghton, president of the
society, occupied the chair.
Lard HOUGHTON", in opening the proceedings, said there
was a good deal of misapprehension and unnecessary fears •
as to the society exercising any improper influence, either
politically or socially. The fund was not meant in any de -
gree to apply merely to Parliamentary reporters, or even b
reporters of any kind. Of course those gentlemen woul
be an element in the composition of the society. but the y
only took their due share in it ; therefore it seemed that at iy
fear that through the means of the Parliamentary report, Irs
any partiality or injustice should ensue was a perfet;tly
chimerical supposition.
INIr. H. G. 'WARREN, hon. sec., then road the report and
the balance sheet. They were both of an exceedingly satis-
factory and encouraging character. The balance sheet
showed that the total receipts of subscriptions and don ations
since June of last year amounted to £1,566 13s, the whole
of which has been received without deduction for c el.i.ectors'
commission, and that after paying every expense conse-
quent on the festival and the ordinary office outla.) -, there
remained to the credit of the fund a balance of £1,346 12s
Bd, of which sum £l,OOO is on deposit with the baaliers of
the fund at 5 per cent.

Resolutions thanking the noble president, the vice -pre-
sidents, the committee, and Mr Warren, hon. sec., for their
several good services, were carried with acclamation., and
the meeting separated.

LORD CARLISLE.—It is very:widely rumour; ?d in
London that the Earl of Car)isle is likely to :Field
to the opinion of his medical advisers, by withdrawing fora
time from the fatigues of public life. In that case it is said
that the Duke of Devonshire will probably be his success. )r
in the viceroyalty. In the contingency of his grace declining
the Marquis of Lansdowne and Earl of Besshorough are
talked of as probable aspirants for the ofliec,—.Tholin Even—
ing Mail.

SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday.—The stettru-
bh;vo will o.il her., during the eLibuiug rruc is .
Tho Tasmania, Capt. T. W. Sawyer, on Tuesday, wi' the
West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails ; the Hansa, Capt.
11. J. von Santcn, on Wednesday, with mails for New York
—the Poonab, Captain J. S. Field, on Thursday, witi). the
Calcutta and China mails—and the Cambrian, Caprait i W.
Ladds, on Friday, for Ascension, St. Helena, and the Caps
of Good I-1 ope, calling at Plymouth for the mails. The Ger-
mania, Capt. H. Ehlers, is expected to arrive on Wed nes-
day, with the mails of the 293 July from New York—the
Magdalena, Capt. H. Woodward, on Thursday, with the
Brazil and River Plate Mails—the Delhi, Captain J. R.
Kellock, on Friday evening, with the Calcutta and China
mails—and the MasEilia, Capt. J. C. Almond, on the Bth
inst., with the Bombay 'nails.
How NOT TO Do IT.—We ere told that the troops
just arrived from Madras on board the Hornet—a
wing of the 74th Highlanders, and detachments of invalids
and discharged soldiers—ran short of provisions, and were
actually on half rations for the latter part of the voyage.
We are also told that, although the ship was at Spithead,
and Netley Hospital, for which the invalids were destined,
almost within sight, they were obliged to be sent round to
the Thames, and back again by railway from Gravesend,
owing to the terms upon which the Hornet was chartered.
The voyage was undoubtedly protracted—nearly four,months
and a half from Madras to England, but not to an extent
which can excuse such a short supply of provisions as in-
volves the placing of men on half rations. The blunder re-
specting the poor invalds was cruel in its consequences and
inexcusable tha origin. Parliament is no longer sitting, but
surely it is not too much to expect that some steps will be
taken to punish those who are in fault, and prevent the re-
currence of blunders that may have a fatal, as they in the
present instance have had a cruel, influence upon the health
of her Majesty's troops.—Army and Nary Gazette.
ASSESSED TAXES.—The assessed taxes continue
more or less to increase in productiveness. The
house-tax produced £841,679 in the financial year ending
with March 1863, and 898,274 in the financial year ending
with March, 1864. The tax on servants rose from £203,893
to £208,830; on carriages from £340,106 to £350,833; on
dogs from £199,965 to £205,329 ; on armorial bearings from
£58,359 to £60,182. The tax on hair-powder unfortunately
brings in less and less every year, and has now fallen to
1,000 guineas,
A SKIP'S CREW POISONED.—On Saturday in•
telligenee was received that the officers and crew of
the bark Ouse, cf Sunderland, which lately sailed from the
Tyne, bound to Alexandria, had been maliciously poisoned
by the cook. The particulars which have arrived are very
scanty, but it appears that the vessel had a crew of 10 sea-
men. A west countryman, who acted as cook, from a feel-
ing of revenge for some grievance, conceived the idea of
poisoning the entire crew. He mixed poison among the
men's daily rations, and shortly after partaking of them all
hands became ill. The mate, a seaman named Alder,
Burton Brown, a young man pilot, and another sailor
named James Doyle, died from the effects of the poison.
The remainder of the crew sufficiently recovered to navigate
the vessel to San Roque, near Gibraltar, whence the master
has telegraphed to the owner of the vessel, Mr Thurlbeck,
of Sunderland, informing him of the occurrence. Upon
the vessel arriving in port the cook was given into the eus-
tody of the authorities, and charged with murder. They
are investigating the affair. In the meantime the vessel la
detained.
and advanced at a given signal.
gered some days in horrid agony.
NOVEL DUEL.—Awictohlilcekatsmfoinrewrseaaptonlahe
sir.
Theyso
fought a dud el a
ro recdenstplyart,
were place
One hurled his pick at his antagonist and buried it in his
LIfiIanSCOLICSIIIRE.
Americane
,nT EheF wpEoaNpusne dor
oF ed
—The harvest has
commenced. The wheat crops are generally good ; oafs thin;
beans
turnips
and
failing peas are
from an
the a va
carrots, potatoes, and
continuedg ecrop ;
dry weather, Hay crops
thin, grass keeping
very scarce. There appears to be a
er
great quantity of carrots and potatoes planted this year; no
blight or disease as yet appears.
STORY OF A SNAKE.--The .Lockport Journal
states that there lives in Mercer' Canada West' a woman
who has for tour years past been afflicted with a singular
difficulty in her stomach. The complaint commenced about
four years since with a tickling and uneasy sensation about
the pit of the stomach. The sensation has continued to in-
crease in severity. A few months since it l rearms tie opinion
of the physicians that the increasing difficulty had been the

growth of a snake in the stomach. It has grown so large
now that it distends the stomach as to produce a bunch upon
the outside as 14.476 as a quart bowl. Upcn pressing this
butch with the hand the reptile recoils and produces groat
distiess in the stomach. When fish or meat is being cooked
in the tam. if the snake is not satisfied with food it rises
up in the throat, producing strangulation. When desiring
food, it manifests it by rising up in the throat. Physicians
can see noway in which the snake can bo removed without
cartain death to the woman. She is about 35 years of age.
DOG Firs.—On Thursday night upwards of
16,000 dog fishwere caught by the men belonging to the
Victorii, of Plymouth, not far from the port.