The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

THE SERRISTORI CONSPIRACY.

The _Times, after considering Mr. tiosehen's exposilloi
of his new Assessment Bill, arrives at the conclusion that
the growth of the nation has been much slower in politica
intelligence than in material wealth. The " muddled'
condition of our local government appears in frightfu'
contrast with the simplicity and perfection of the adminie
tration of our forefathers. The framers of the parochia,.
system were in reality persons of great politica:
capacity, and the best testimony to the value
of their work is, that our legislators, when
they try reform, are constantly working on the
same basis. As far as the new measure is concerned, we
may certainly congratulate Mr. Goschen on the attain-
ment of a high degree of simplicity, though his plans
would be still more simple if the Central Board were
dropped out of them altogether. For all the good they
promise to do they might be spared the trouble of coming
into existence. If the scale of deductions is to be inserted
in the bill, why not the common basis also? The assessor
is the dominant person of the scheme, and, indeed, we
already feel some little awe of him. What power is
great enough to delegate such vast authority to
him The Lord Mayor, according to the most
exaggerated conception of foreign fancy, is nothing
by his aide. He will be able to say with command
to this union, " You are too low," or to that, " You are
too unreasonable," and they must obey him. We do not
find that Mr. Goschen explained how this omnipotent
creature is to be created. Perhaps he will be named in
the bill, and provision made that on any future vacancy
Parliament shall be called together to name his successor.
It might be just possible to give the sovereign a right of
making a provisional nomination. Or perhaps Parlia-
ment, in its wisdom, may hesitate to call such a
Frankenstein into existence ; and the President of the
Poor-law Board may be asked to devise some other mode
of appeal of one Union Assessment Committee against
another.

ELECTION PETITIONS,

The Post thinks that the discussion raised in the House
of Commons by Lord Elcho on the subject of the viaduct
from Hungerford Bridge to Wellington-street was oppor-
tune in several respects. Mr. Layard described, almost
pathetically, how he had contemplated the erection of a
public building on part of the very site of this objection-
able viaduct, which could not be carried out if the road-
way were made. The particular part of the Embankment
he alluded to is that on the west side of Waterloo
Bridge corresponding to Somerset House on the
east, and there can be no question about such
a building being esthetically desirable, balanc-
ing Somerset House, as it would if rightly
designed, and combining with it and with 'Waterloo
Bridge to form an ensemble not easily to be matched. But
this need in no way interfere with laying out the Embank-
ment between Waterloo and Hungerford Bridges with a
sufficiency of gardens and open spaces. Some people
seem to desire to occupy the newly-formed site with con-
tinuous, or nearly continuous, rows of stately buildings
along its whole length. Others appear to wish for
nothing but gardens and promenades. But the juste
milieu, the combination of detached buildings with
intermediate gardens, while probably satisfying both
parties sufficiently, and ensuring a good artistic
effect, would prevent the Strand site from being
deprived to a considerable extent of light and air. There
can be little doubt that Parliament, now that its attention
has been drawn to the matter, will take care that the - -
viaduct is not constructed. It should, however, also make THE AIERCHANT'S COMPANY.—The nearing of the first
arrangements calculated to prevent the occurrence of charge against some of the directors of the Merchants'
similar muddles to those already created in respect of the Company
was resumed on Monday at the Mansion House,
Thames Embankment. Divided authority, and anomalous when Mr. Richard Stuart Lane, Mr. Horace Edward
arrangements, are at the bottom of contretemps of the Chapman, and Mr. Frederick Helbert Helbert were
kind in question ; and happily the tendency of public feel- accused of conspiring to defraud the shareholders by
lag is at present entirely favourable to the abolition of issuing a prospectus well knowing it to be false in certain
these sources of infinite mischief, material particulars. The case is quite distinct from that
The Standard says that the Government intends to let heard on Friday, and in which Mr. Lane and Mr. Childs
the bulk of the Fenian prisoners loose. Of eighty-one were committed for trial. Mr. Cape, the official liqu:s
persons at present under sentence of penal servitude for lator, was recalled and examined, and the case was again
treason-felony or kindred crimes, forty-nine are to be at adjourned until Saturday next.
once and unconditionally discharged. We need not say DARING HOTEL ROBBERY.—A French medical student,
that we should have nothing to urge against the exercise lamed Henry Antoine Lavalley, was charged with
of the Royal clemency in favour of any particular Fenian robbing a Russian merchant of napoleons and roubles to
prisoner for whose release any fair grounds could be shewn. the value of about 8124. The prisoner, who had
But it is quite evident from Mr. Fortescue's own statement card printed " Marquis Henri de la Vallette, Paris,"
that the Government did not look at the question from net the prosecutor at Ostend, and traveled with
this standpoint. The primd facie case in its judgment was him to London. They stayed together at Salter's
in favour of a remission of sentence which might serve hotel, when the Frenchman took an opportunity of steal-
its party interests, and only those convicts have been ng the money from his fellow-traveller's portmanteau.
refused pardon, as Mr. Fortescue, with much sim- When detected, he declared that it was all a bad joke.
plicity, explained, whom it would have been absolutely The prosecutor strongly recommended the prisoner to
suicidal to let loose. Everybody for whom any mercy, because he belonged to a good family, and was
possible excuse could be found, no matter the character of I.sighly educated. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was
his crime, has been released. It is an ungracious task to sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard
suggest doubts as to the expediency of exercising the 'abour.
power of pardon which the Constitution vests in the BELL-RINGING AT CAMBRIDGE.—A good deal of interest
Crown, but we must frankly say that we cannot conceive has been excited in Cambridge by an undergraduate of
a stronger encouragement to treason—and this treason 'it. John's College being brought up at the Guildhall,
includes murder and half a score of other crimes—than 'barged with mischievously ringing the door-bell of Dr.
the release en masse, after a few months' imprisonment, of Ransom. It seems that for several terms a mania for
men whom juries of their countrymen, anxious!, if pos..iiLle, bell ringing has prcyailed ninong the undergraduates, and
to acquit them, have been compelled to find guihy of the De. Ransom's hell is the special object of the crusade.
charges brought against them, and to whom the judges of When the first offender was apprehended Pr. Ransom, in
the land have awarded the sentences which such offences the opinion of his coll( a ;ues in mischief, was unduly
called for. If the prerogative of mercy is to remain, as anxious for his punishment, so that they have
heretofore, one of the brightest and most beneficent attri- revenged themselves by ringing his night-bell at
butes of the Crown, it must not be prostituted by the all sorts of Lours, without any reason. The
advisers of the sovereign for the promotion of their own ntlprits have not always escaped detection, for some
party purposes. half-a-dozen of them have been fined at different
The Telegraph is surprised that such systematic and times for ringing this particular bell, and the bench
flagrant unfairness is tolerated in these days as is shewn 'ntimated on the last occasion that they would send the
in our present system of rating. We are quite in the next offender to prison. Those who had crowded the
utehe
dark as to the exact weight of local burthens. :ourt in the expectation of seeing an
At present, to a great extent, we are forced to graduate snatched off to prison, were,however,
go by guess work. That the East is scandalously loaded iisappointed. The defendant, who is a Creole, declared
in comparison with the West, is only too manifest ; but that being a freshman, he did not know that it was Dr.
how much the burden of the one district exceeds that of Ransom's bell which he was ringing, and he called in evi-
the other, we cannot tell. As Mr. Locke pointed out the dence the dean of his college and his tutor, who both gave
other evening, no measure can be complete so long as the him an excellent character for steadiness. Under these
rating of the metropolis is not equalised. On Saturday circumstances the bench contented themselves with
we exposed the extraordinary difference between the rates inflicting a fine of 405., which was at once paid.
per pound paid in various parts of London ; and the sub-
ject is so fertile that on Monday it seemed about to provoke
a long and animated debate. As a member for the City,
Mr. Lawrence complained that the Temple, which is a
parish by itself, pays no poor rates at all. No doubt it
supports its own poor; but that is an easy task, since the
laundresses and other servants who wait upon the inmates
live beyond the sacred boundaries of the legal sanctuary,
and hence, even if they become destitute, they impose
no charge on the Temple. The same blessed freedom
from -poor rates seems to he enjoyed by Gray's Inn and
Lincoln's Inn. Had London a Government worthy of the
'the name, such an anomaly would not be allowed to exist
for a day. Even Mr. Chambers—who, as the member
for lightly-rated Marylebone, might be expected to
champion the present system of inequality—did not argue
that, in itself, such a system was defensible. He was con-
tent to plead that, before reforming it, we must ascertain,
by means of Mr. Goschen's bill, the real incidence of rating.
No doubt we must. But as the President of the Poor-law
Board frankly admitted, the present measure is only a
step towards that larger reform which, making East and
'West contribute in equal proportions, shall destroy a
'system that, while light to the rich, is oppressive to the
poor.

ther your wishes regarding him.
" I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
" D. Kilcullin, Esq., Sligo." " L. E. KNox.

The Herald declares that modern society has a certain
degree of impatience, which forbids that anybody or any-
thing should have more than a tolerable degree, of atten-
tion. The public have heard more than enough of the
'Gulf Stream. Not a breeze could flow, not a shower
Could fall, it could not be hot, and it could net be cold,
but there followed the inevitable explanation that the
Gulf Stream did it all. We are tired of the Gulf Stream,
and we are deeply indebted to Mr. Findlay, of the Royal
Geographical Society, for trying to get rid of this trouble-
some creature. Mr. Findlay undertakes to shew that
it is physically impossible for the Gulf Stream to do all
that is said of it. The mouth of the Gulf of Mexico is
altogether too steal' for the exit of such a monster current
as would cover the ocean from Portugal to Greenland.
The Florida Channel has a minimum breadth of 45 miles,
and at that spot is only 325 fathoms deep, of which depth
c,saYB Mr. Findlay, on the authority of the United States
'3urvey—the Gulf Stream occupies little More than half,
with icy cold water beneath it. The velocity and magni-
tude of the stream, as shewn at the outset of its career,
are considered by Mr. Findlay utterly incommensurate
with the notion that it is the great modifier of climate in
the north-east Atlantic. So far from travelling an inde-
pendent course of 3,500 or 4,000 miles, the stream, accord-
ing to Mr. Findlay's conclusions, gets into, trouble off
Cape Cod and is soon afterwards so knocked about by the
Arctic currents that it becomes utterly demolished off the
banks of Newfoundland.

•
The Daily News refers to Henrich Christian's maxims
on the use of money, and quotes his conclusion after all his
experience:----" In clothing live up to your means ; in
food below your means • in dwelling above your mean-."
The first recommendation reminds one of Polonius and
his "costly thy habit as thy purse can buy "—in which,
of course, the modern system of tailors' • bills and
" unlimited credit " was not taken into account.
With regard to the second dogma of the economical creed
we are considering, " In food live below Your means," we
have no doubt whatever. It is as sounda piece of advice
as could be given, and is terribly needed, we are bound to
add, by Englishmen, and particularly Englishmen of the
present generation. We presume, however, that in this
particular Bunsen would have absolved theirs. " In dwelling
live above your means." And on the whole'we arrive
at this conclusion, that whatever is calculated to preserve
s man's own self-respect, and likewise to uphold his esti-
mation amongst, his neighbours, should be appreached and
treated with liberality. Thus, his home and his attire
Should never wounn his dignity or invite malicious
compassion. Thit in nll that . servvs 3,,,,,,
' "
1_ be to

.)
him

,7eit and
; nothing
far as the individual IS concerned, as a
rooftree, and ecru clothes last a considerable time. Whilst
thes4 two du last ye a man a solid .vantage-grour.,l
from which to encounter the stings and arrows of out-
rageous fortune ; but the costly banquet-excites only to
depress, and too often lards him in what Mr. Disraeli has
so admirably described as "the ignoble melancholy which
springs from pecuniary eulbaraosuient."

transit(Tl,

I vigilant watch

-

The Irish election petitions are still occupying a large (Front a Correspondent.)
share of public attention. In English news we have the ROME, FEB. 15.
abandonment of the Hull petition, and the commencement The recent controversy respecting the execution of
of the Bodn..in inquiry. Monti and Tognetti will have revived in the memories of
your readers that memorable. incident of the Garibaldian
rpn emnfb etrheed '3l)
At Youghal oral and documentary evidence was offered
to skew profuse expenditure on the part of the respondent. invasion,erir stor the
It wilivlisnegren oanttiifinctlelrarrttearckdayast
Captain Weguelin, who acted as expense agent, deposed of October 1867 Monti was hired by some of the Roman
that he disbursed in all £2,198. Mr. Weguelin paid £7O conspirators in league with the Garibaldians to blow up
tashseistSaenrereisotcria
man
nancakins
eldsyTa mine,
hand that, svith tiliiies
for four months' rent of the house in which he stopped.
The accounts which were given in evidence shewed that task. Several Zouaves were accomplishedisfilleectital'ndewou Monti
the respondent's friends took great care of the wants of and Tognetti were tried, and, after twelve months'
pifnauetietsArivcaaaltr,ieonwnoeorithhpeefutretompedeatha for the crime. The
the poor, and at the same time did not forget what
legalproceedings
lleocfteleflimin,
abnyctohne.
as " Please give Ellen and Margaret Moloney two nice sulta, and they are too remarkable not to merit a brief
dresses, and charge to C. W.'s account." Poor persons recapitulation. In presenting your readers with an
ritaiteesdfrnoainrrawlivieefiltitlehifnaktit betterd to giver: them thete
received petticoats, boots, and bonnets. On the Bth of
August the hungry populace were fed with bread to the swornaabutbllco' depositions of the varinoussarsevitrnaewssnes calleeyd areon the
amount of £l2. John O'Shea, an elector, who was a trial. Several other details are furnished by the docu-
ments published by the Italian Government itself after
woollen and fancy merchant, had a bill for £9B 18s.
, Mentana, in justification of its zeal in the national
At the Devonshire Arms Hotel the expenses from the
cause.
24th of July to the 17th of August were £l5O 2s. 6d., ' The revolutionary party at Florence having waived its
and from the 17th of August to the 12th of Sep- differences with the Italian Government, came in the
tember, £256 11s. 3d. The items consisted chiefly iplaotnttazhz?fasAtuogutilte, 1867,. to a full understanding with
was settled to be madmeaninVestattienmn'berThleB6iP
of dinners, bottles of champagne—which one wit- , ai.l,4aarttersiit
ness, whose credit was not impeached in this respect, taking the field, in the first instance, with his volunteers
pronounced very bad—bottles of brandy and sherry, and, and a considerable number of troops of the Royal army,
travestied ac Gharib ere ald, aushg as far a s
s theiwall
as a natural consequence, dozens of sodawater. Mr. Butt rfav
renewed the application made on the first day to have the , rection should break
t 'out
nd p
onnarreg ined22ntr'etof anOctnorierr.-
petition dismissed, on the ground that the petitioner had The choice of Garibaldi and Rattazzi fell on Francesco
given and received bribes. The court declined to do so, Cucchi, of Bergamo, then and now a deputy of the Italian
Parliament, and a major of the Garibaldian Volunteers.
but reserved the point. The supreme direction of the internal insurrection was
At Sligo the chief witness to sustain the allegation of confided to him, while Luigi Castelazzo, of Pavia, Tito
bribery was a man named Neilan, who swore that he went Navona, Giuseppe Castagnola, Giuseppe Ansiglioni, a
royal
cn
RomanaelTingrant, and Giulio Silvestri, an officer of the
Cucchi immediatelyaartlyw
to Major Knox to ask the respondent to do something for
him, as he was heavily pressed, and that he received twomstaarpgr appointed
It)hmise suabnadlteernntse.red
it
letters, one of which directed him to call on a Mr. Pollock. by means of a false passport. The communications with
He did so, and was offered £lO, but he said it would not Florence were maintained through the Royal Delegate
do, and finally got £2O in £5 notes. That was in February toifle a3iT•ibaldistea
PolicemaatCarrese, Signor Buglielli, who acted as
rn,
sandaaz
commissioner,ttz and go-between
1868. He admitted that it was not in any way suggested the a,
i. Hiddeinhe of
most
that he was to vote for the respondent. He voted out-of-the-way quarters of Rome, living under a false
for Captain Flanagan, alai he told " certain persons " name, and known only to a few of his most trusted
that he wished to have the £2O repaid. He was pressed to part of
Septembere uhi remainedln
Octoberin organising
mdurttginthsnerfereettenr
tell the names of the persons, and at first declined to do so, Cucchi's plan was simply this : In order to create confu-
but Judge Keogh having insisted upon his telling, he sion, spread disorder and consternation among the Papal
stated that it was Father Hanly and Bishop Gillooly. No troops, andaoyfoutEean internal rising, he gave orders to
one, however, on the Liberal side ever protnised to pay 1 minepa 1 tseveralroop s, and especiallyprnipa by atrireacLstiaovceceu.piedfiliae theof
any part of the money. Mrs. Dunleavy, the wife of a Serristori and Cimmorra were decided on, as the other
straw-plaiter, and voter, swore that Major Knox came .
: barracks were occupied by Italian Pontifical troops, whom
into her shop in, company with Mr. Pollock and another mo s t
e erroneously)hl iils
also
succeededcalculated on ag
enfriendsetrat rather
h in
Suacnchi
enemies.(
gentleman, and handed her a £lO note, which he took disguise into Fort St. Angelo, and had corruptedp several
sut of his pocket. She promised to use her influence 'of the non-commissioned officers and privates of artillery
with her husband to get him to vote for the respondent. on guard, and induced them to promise to blow up the
Her husband gave corroborative evidence. Dominic iiPowderer
theirmagazineLa r
o.
eat s
et
igiven t
the same
anti nttaspike
the
ee
officers,cn on
Kilcullin, an elector, swore that Brenner, who had been and scattering Orsini bombs, introduced for that purpose
acting for the respondent, offered to get him money for his into Rome, among the Zouaves and Legionaires.
vote The f
and that the respondent would procure employment explosion of Serristori was fully decided on,
and it
_
,
, became necessary to find a man capable of executing the
'or his son. He received the following letter : coup. Such a one was Monti, the mason, born of respect-
" 53, Fitzwilliarrasquare, Dublin, Jan. 25, 1868. / able parents, who had come to seek work at Rome, but
who fell into the society of the Garibaldians. The plot
"Dear Sir,—Would you kindly let me know what ap-
pointment your son would wish to have, and I will do my 'vlajopeed to Monti, who states that he at first recoiled
in horror,n but by threats of death and promises was ulti-
best to obtain it for him? It will afford me pleasure to fur- mately persuaded. He was taken in a carriage to Serristori
through the Borgo St. Spirito, and getting down at the
adjacent Palazzo Marone, part of which was occupied as
a stable, the master of which it would be necessary to
take into their confidence. This was the more safely
accomplished, as he was an old Garibaldian, and an agree-
ment was made by which Monti was to lay a train and two
barrels of powder in the vaults under the barrack, by
means of the stable adjoining it, and a grate which had
been left to go to decay.
Monti was therefore lowered by a rope into the vault,
and reported the matter as practicable, a side door in the
cellar conducting to that beneath the barrack. Two days
passed, and he took measures with a locksmith, named
• Gaetano Tognetti, a young man of 23 years of age, but
high in the confidence of Bassi and Cucchi, to obtain the
' keys necessary for opening the door without giving rise to
suspicion.
On the 20th of October the stableman suddenly disap-
peared, writing froiat Turin that he had been sent for by
his mother, who was ill. It appears certain, however,
that he had given information to the police, for the next
• day a number of arrests vaas made, and deposits of
' hatchets and Orsini bombs seizeSl, and the alarm having
having been given at Castle St. Arlatelo, the officers con-
trived to separate the men they suspetsted from the rest,
and to empty the powder-magazine, seaaout, however,
giving any reason or communicating their f'ars to the
regiment at large. Bossi Anziglioni, Cucchi, anci Perfetti
changed their residence first to the Tor Dei Specchi and
afterwards to the Via Lei Crescenzi, No. 50, where the
meetings were then held.
Monti was summoned to their presence on Tuesday,
the 22nd, and found them in arivate conversation
with four unknown persons, ' whom by their
accent be knew to be Genoese. On leaving the
house he met Barzelli, who asked him where he was going,
and on Monti replying that he was going to dine, said,
" Have not the gentlemen received any orders yet ?" Monti
replied that be did not know, and Barzelli said, "'There
is no time to waste. We are to rise to-day ; the order has
come." "By day ?" said Monti. "By day or by night,
as it may happen," replied Barzelli. " Towards three or
four o'clock probably. Go back at once and warn them.
You will see they have received the order." He wrung
Monti's hand and left him. Monti went back immediately
to find Ansiglioni and the rest, and found them dining,
and discovered that they were perfectly ignorant that the
revolution was to break out that day, and when he told
them what he had heard from Barzelli, they broke
into a howl, saying that it could not be, for nothing was
prepared. In the midst of this conversation Cucchi
eutiited, and calling Ansiglioni, Silvestro. and Per-
fettii o the inner room, remained in consultation with
them. Ammanniti was called in, and despatched on some
errand, and then Angelo Tognetti, after which Cucchi
left the house. Monti was told to get into
in a . carriage
and go with AmmannTwhom l
1 he would find it, to the
Via Sellegrini, and therei ask for a uniform, which he was
to carry to 2, Piazza della Rotondo. and • • was
to to four indi-
viduals who were waiting for it which'l
,t he accordingly did,
taking the carriage back to le house. Perfetti and
Ansiglioni and Silvestigot in, telling Monti to wait for
them. After an hour's absennc'e Pe • Ansiglioni
Perfetti and
returned, the latter in a great state of agitation, saying,
"Angelo Angelo Tognetti is notyetEveryone' will' fulfil this duty to-night arrived.
save myself ! No end of money
has been spent, and nothing done. What will Nicotera
say ? and what a figure I shall make." At length, out of
patience, he turned to Monti, saying, " Go at once to the
Borgo. Find Angelo. 'Tell' him t get 1 •people ready.
o his
Get the key from Serristori and bring it hack
to
me directly." Having met and
Tognetti, he
assured 'Monti that all was ready, and that Gaetano
Tognetti had the keys and the' address of the
fouyoung man
aetano Tognetti, he gave who was to
nd G accompany him. Having
They had been made to open the magazine of the Papall
engineers, adjoining Terristori, and whose vaults ran
Mr. Ralph Barnes, Secretary to the B'shop of
ruensoivrectl ieonbairek itself—a measure which had been
toile
.flight of the stable-man closed
,:xeter, died suddenly on Monday afternoon, in his 00th the other meansw
rear. He was in practice as a solicitor in Exeter for sixty- Ansiglioni and progress,reporteirress.Halviing . returned to
e said to Monti,
"Listen, Pepp
what seven years.e, exactly to
the
must do. Go
directly to the Bargo, and brin
. Several assaults were committed in Sheffield on know of, and the boy, as I wisligtmo
instrentewtotisieomldier?rrenu
zaiturday night. An Irishman was half murdered, three take a cab and go to Bauchi Nuovi to the little tinman's
Englishmen were injured, and a man, in the employment ssiannp." Send on thte cis2aalrifccsifkaeefip
ve-franc note as a counter-
oitubehjnd the Nicolo della
,f a tobacconist, was knocked down in his van, and an Campanella. They will open
attempt made to rib him of his monster's money. Sheffield and will give you two barrels ofYpowadeor.or i.inuttiltiaitnzotrettt4
has become notorious for its disturbances of late, and the
wii carriage,oen andtiie
dgooorstarnaidgtt ttowoSseorrdsitori. The locksmith
sentences which have been passed on the offenders do not in and stand sentry while you do wells:n.1111 the barrels
appear to have produced any salutary effect. will take the two barrels and place theme ezoi. You
that the
h and connect them THE New T
iNFANTRY SllAKO.—Although the ;lniopue.thsontotucis,
h you will sprea dal ittle withod this tin
eattern for the new shako for infantry officers Las not yet they will give you, loose, and you will firep wtheeriZihnicaht
been sealed, it is so far decided on as to enable us to say twenty n.iinutes tioc_seven by means of the tow attached
that it wilt be a great improvement upon the one now in staovtehyeoptgeelf. h
wAt hsetwenill
the
eivine i Louwitlw twenty minutes to
wear. It will have a smarter appearance, being somewhat explosion is to be the signal for the revolut?ownlT'baegn'l the
taller, and will be hound ronn•l at top and bottom with Monti listened without offering a word of reply till
two or three rows ofAnsiglioni had finished, when he flatly refused to accept
gold gimp chain or braid,and the
p
such a task, and said that those who had planned it
peak will be similarly ornamented.— United Service ought to carry it out themselves. On this Perfetti flew
Gazette.
into a violent rage, and taking up a revolver, held it to
A meeting of the Gloucestershire Chamber of his head,a,t threatening t
oe nrilifghetorebleoawtesciutishisfbrains if he did
Agriculture was held at Gloucester on Saturday, when the , itilniattgtohe present evening was not onerefuosrahoklle addeda
sanitary regulations of the home cattle trade,and the be was perfectly serious, and that Monti, if he joking,
establishment of safety markets for • d
animals,
/ would be massacred first of all, whereas if he consented,
were discussed. Resolutions were passed recommending
edin
he
advantageouswoulgebirewtiaierdniedost iextdayby Garib'ffaldi. Ansiglioni
further legislation respecting the foreignintroduction of ' oaulstntmo made
drat when he had ne
hiso eworkrs,a and flooinnet eodf
cattle, and Government inspection, to secure animals all of them would be exempt from fighting, and would go
veyed by rail or steamboats from needless suffering.
Itc
quietly home. Between threats and promises Monti
said that in former days, when cattle were driven 'slowly ne:stedn' alinAdff;4„mbrillit'ajoua7fgu)'irVe*pdp*Jami;'i ciZ's
along the roads, and well supplied with water,many soldiers' of the line in red trousers and arey capotes
diseases now decimating our herds were(corporal andprivate) waiting. They got into the cab and
.
scarcely known.
drove back to Via Crescenzi, where Ansiglioni and Per-
SCIENTIFIC FARMING AMUSEMENTS. F them their final instructions, Ansiglioni asked
or catch- fetti gave
ing rats in a cheap and effective manner Monti if he had a watch, and on his replying in the nega-
the following :—Cover a common barre withwe stiff stout tive gave him his own, and thirty ecudi to divide between
recommend
epe and the two soldiers, Perfetti warning Monti as he
paper, tying the edge around the barrel;
that the rats may have easy access to place
board so
1 a eftt that his steps were watched, and that woe be to him if
the top •
cheese parings or other "feed" for the rats on the '
several days, until they begin to believe that sprinkle ,
paper for he failed the cause.
The four companions then mounted the cab, and drove
to Nicola Campanella, where Monti left the cab,
right to their daily rations from this source ; then place
the bottom of the barrel a piece of rock, abouthavel a
fin. high, filling with water until only enough of it pro- the soldiers, and Peppoe,
thed
shoptinturni indtofoutnhl
Gin,pace in Ranodpuen,Niinotvi,darsiicrenata
no one
there saaven a little
boy, who told him his master had gone out, but
jects above the water for one rat to lodge upon, would be back directly. He therefore lighted a cigar and
.isw waited a few minutes,when four unknown individuals,
replace
,
replace the paper, first cutting a cross in the middle, aad all wrapped in cloaks and hoods, passed by, and one,
the first rat that comes on the barrel-top goes through ,
detaching himself from the group,' called Monti by his
into the water, and climbs on the rock. The paper comes ; naanee
aa, and asked him what he ,
seei was doing
he, and why
isahe
nt had
to Serristori? Monting of
back to the place, and the second rat follows the first. ; Itt affair answered that the master shopfrom wh
om
Then r of the
Then begins a fight for the possession of the dry place on ' he was to'et ::1-ie powder was absent.s The stranger turned to
the stone, the noise of which attracts the rest, who share the little boy ant, ',seised him where was so-and-so, and, as
could
the same fate.—Scientific Farmer. lie not answer' he sent him away to buy a light
and a halfpennyworth .4 Jucifers. The boy went and
A CURIOUS STORY.— A serval. t girl, lately in ii;ertounr the unknown lighted the waxlig,ht, toolc
the ems- loy of Miss Hopkies, an old maiden lady,
residing through
ntaonotltileiesrhop, and into a taiss,k
`""t for
which opened
in Stout-bridge, was last week charged with a very eaten. lime, mortar, asc. ITFetneailietA) alouta,"`rigie j: T,?,Tsmonacis,oaonlsd
sive robbery from the house of her late mistress. The
tern,
victioicineaanzwiered from out the darkness '' I ate here ! " in
valeaed robbery , was singular in respect cf the iniscel- tern, he 71 o accent, and, turning the slide os .7- duals lan.
PPeared before them.
mucous character of the articles said to have been stolen. On being asked for thebarrels,he shewed them all ready,
For instance, amongst them was a bed, an article (B)!).serailrliegntitt one was full and the other only a ,;narter
entirely out of the category of those which are open a side door,'°xvilivhtliicellilleirtielnroeudoitihe old man, made 11:"1
generally found to tempt the cupidity of domestics unto the Nicol° della Campanella, exactly ceoxuareVyndAceorrerictlior
afflicted with kleptomania. But a matter cropped up,
the
eb
barrels
standing. The soldiers were called at once, ant}
almost incidentally, in the course of the case, which is suffi• the gyreeris tieplacedrwori.
jeelinstaillee then i cab and the other beside
cent to make the most credulous stare. The prosecutrix pounds of loose powder in a lianmarer%Megeatvoe spread Aion iori threetiie
stated that she had been locked up by the prisoner in her sheet of tin Ansiglioni had given him, and.left.
bedroom for five days and five nights, and that during the .
stoTsin'einf,otniric, ccoailni poannfTun, spt.then drove towards Serristori,
whole of that time she was without food. The girl alleged a,aidias7i, from' !lie earr'imaezzaanl`
'o.7a: ati'mae"(iirsis,vleierreaMentii
that the prosecutrix looked herself Imp, and refused to in piyint.rif, tellioc him to drive the Oilers as close asseploiCal
iconse out. It would tans appear that she had been in the sii)la to the barrack door. which lie dal' vary unwillingly,
a s he appears. to have suspected mischief. Peppe,
edrooni for that length of time, whether with her own
key -
the locksmith. opened time doer, with the
will or against it
;but was she without food, the whole ' fur-
nished by Gaetano Tognetti, false
with great
time? Would it be possible for an Id e erly woman to sun and dexterity, and the pretended soldiers carried the
viva that length of time without eatin and dri k" , Ii barrels in at once, without exciting the slightest ,suspicion,
n ing .
she'lid, won]. I I le not come out a r g.
and the carriage drove off. They then called MO-iti, who
avmg na,piac!—Bir• , waswaitin,g on the Piazza Scossacavalli, and toldli im all
triihfighant GazeVe.
I was ready,and that the rest remained for him to do. lie