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London, England, 1865-04-17 00:00:00

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Brecon
Richmond
Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 26
Walsall
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Curragh l7
Newmarket Ho. 31
Worcester

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Warwickshire and
Leamington Hunt 2l

[ADVERTISEMENTS.]
" TAT TERSALLS' TISSUE."--Commission Agency.
--James Hopkins executes Commissions on all Races
throughout the year. Place-betting and double events.
Cheques to be crossed National Bank, and Post-office orders
payable at the Fleet-street office. Address, 13, Rolls-
buildings, Fetter-lane, London, E.C.

G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace,
Hyde-park, supplies the Latest Edition of " THE Sur; "
round the Royal Oak and Notting-hill by eight o'clock.
Baily's Spring Turf Guide, this day, 2s. 6d. post free.—
Commissions executed.

(SIGNOR GIUGLINI.—We have good authority—
no less than that of his medical attendants—for stating that
this eminent tenor is being rapidly restored to health.
Although his illness has been severe, it has not in an least
injured, or even impaired, his vocal powers, and there is no
reason whatever why Signor Giuglini should not be enabled
to fulfil his engagement at Her Majesty's Theatre, though
it may be advisable that he should not appear early in the
season. Musical World.
PLYMOUTH, Saturday.--The bark Hero of the
Nile, from London for Atgoa Bay, was off the Bolt Head
yesterday. The brig Pelican, Capt. Such, 58 days from
Jamaica for London, and the Hamburg brig Carl, Capt.
Pfeiffer, from Porto Rico for Hamburg, were off the port
this morning. ThA steamship Far East, Capt. Jones, from
London for Calcutta, arrived in the Sound this afternoon.
EARLY ARRIVAL OF DISTINGUISHED SPRING
VISITORS.—A communication from Cuckfield, Sus-
sex, says :—" The note of the cuckoo was heard here on
Sunday morning. Swallows were also seen the day pre..
viously, and the " pee pee" cry of the wryneck or snake
neck bird, often called the cuckoo's mate, was heard in
various places. This bird is usually one of our earliest
spring visitants, and mostly precedes the arrival of the
cuckoo by a week."

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thisanePAINFUL SCENE IN A CHURCH.—On Sunday
afternoon, while the Rev. John Burton, incumbent
of St. Margaret's Episcopal Chapel, Meigle, was engaged
in reading the service, a female, elegantly attired in a blue
silk dress and fashionable. bonnet, entered the church in an
excited state, and, proceeding rapidly towards the reading
desk where the rev. gentleman was officiating, she threw a
small cord over his head, and seizing the prayer-book, shut
it violently, exclaiming in a loud voice as she did so that she
would not allow him to read that book. Mr. Burton imme-
diately descended, and disengaging his head from the cord,
attempted to pass her, when a struggle ensued, and she
again attempted to get hold of the prayer-book. The congre-
gation, paralysed by the suddenness and extraordinary
nature of this sacrilegious interruption of the solemn ser-
vices in which they were engaged, made no attempt at first
to interfere, but at length some of the gentlemen present
left their pews, and succeeded, not without difficulty, in
ejecting from the chapel the unhappy originator of this
painful scene. Mr. Burton then proceeded with the service,
which was frequently interrupted by renewed attempts on
the part of the intruder to re-enter the chapel. When the
service was concluded, the reverend gentleman gave out
the Evening Hymn, and intimated that, in conse-
quence of what had occurred, he trusted to the sym-
pathy of his hearers for dispensing on that occasion
with his usual sermon. After singing the hymn, the
benediction was pronounced, and the congregation dis-
persed to find outside the unhappy woman walking to and
fro, still in a state of great excitement. She proved to be
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fora considerable time past has been in a very unsound
state. On more than one occasion before, by threatening
letters and otherwise, she has annoyed Mr. Burton, and ono
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she labours will doubtless receive every attention.—Dunde4

DETECTION OF FIRE-DAMP IN COLLIERIES.—Ap-
pIying the discoveries of Prof. Graham in connec-
tion with osmose force, Mr. G. F. Ansell, of the Mint, has
invented a simple apparatus, which promises to indicate
the accumulation of fire-damp before it becomes dangerous,
and either to give the miner notice of it, or to convey that
notice to the surface by its connection with some simple
electro-telegraphic arrangement. Mr. Ansell proposes to fill
a vessel (provided with necessary diaphragm) with ordinary
atmospheric air, and place it in the air to be tested, that when
the fire-damp enters by endomose force, a lever shall be
acted upon, and a bell wrung. Mr. Ansell's invention is
practically identical with, though we should think it
would be much less sensativo and open to much greater
objection than Elie de Beoumont's audible barometer, sug-
gested for the same purpose, and described in the Mining
Journal of Jan. 24, 1857, but whether either the one or the
other would be of any great importance for preventing
explosions in mines, although it may slowly prove " an un-
failing indicator of the presence of the collier's deadly
enemy—fire-damp," has yet to be ascertained.

M. Alcala Galiano, the Spanish Minister of Public
Works, who has just died of an attack of apoplexy
at Madrid, was one of the best debaters in Spain,
and had been several times both Minister and Am-
bassador. He entered the last Cabinet at the age
of 70, and with the above-named department held
also that of Public Instruction. It was he who
signed the dismissal of the rector of the University,
and appointed a successor. In consequence the
most violent menaces were uttered against him in
the midst of the scenes of disorder by which Madrid
was agitated, and cries of " Death to Galiano !"
were heard in the riotous assemblage of the students,