The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

WORCESTERSHIRE.

This county continues to be comparatively free
from the pest which is ravaging some of the neigh-
bouring districts. The authorities of the county
are showing their determination to enforce with
strictness the orders recently issued by the Court
of Quarter Sessions. The magistrates in two dis-
tinct parts of the county pronounced three convic-
tions on Thursday on parties who have infringed
these orders. At Kidderminster, Mr. S. Ford, a
wholesale butcher, was fined £2l on two charges of
removing fat stock from the neighbourhood of the
town to his establishment without a licence. The
defence was ignorance of the new orders. At Upton-
on-severe, on the same day, Mr. Jones, farmer, of
Eastnor, was £slos. and costs, for removing 11
beasts from the parish of Eastnor to Castlemorton,
an adjoining parish. There was a second case at the
same petty sessions, in which a nominal fine only
was imposed, the defendant having been deceived
by an illegal certificate.

The recent appeals made to the charitable for
aid to General Loo have had a good effect. The ladies of
Baltimore recently purchased a suite of furniture for
General Leo's residence at Lexington, Virginia, and sent
it to him.

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yet most effective aperients, and therefore better calculated
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set the stomach right, rouse the liver, stimulate the kid-
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pills are most useful in chronic weakness of the stomach,
induced by luxurious living, sedentary habits, or other
causes. They have restored the emaciated to health after
every other means had failed. While they are purifying
they are strengthening ; while regulating they are increas-
ing nervous and muscular power. These pills do not ex-
cite any violent action in the body, hence they aro spe-
cially suited to the young and feeble whose constitutions
may be irretrievably injured by more powerful medicines.

Mr. Cobden Abroad.

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After a brief stay at Bordeaux, where likewise he
was entertained in public by the leading merchants
and bankers of the City of the Vine, he crossed into
Spain. At Madrid another festival in his honour
awaited him, at which several of the leading politi-
cians of the Chamber of Representatives took part.
While in the Spanish capital he witnessed a bull
fight for the first time. The spectacle pained him
deeply. "So long," he wrote, "as this continues
to be the popular sport of high and low, so long will
the people be indifferent to human life, and have
their civil contests marked with displays of cruelty
which make other nations shudder." Narvaez struck
him as the man of "most practical sense and know-
ledge'.' of the politicians he met with at Madrid ;
for he admitted many of the evils of the prohibitive
system, and owned that one-fourth of the popula-
tion of Andalusia were more or less engaged in con-
traband trade ; but he argued that none but a very
strong Government could reform the tariff in Spain,
and that, if one Administration fell in the attempt,
no other could be formed for many years that
would touch it. The aspect of the. Peninsula
and its people, in the eyes of the Manchester manu-
facturer, was not encouraging :—" The Spaniards of
the last two centuries seem literally to have done
nothing but glorify themselves for the deeds of their
ancestors, or 101 l in the shades of their olives and
vines, and leave to nature the task of feeding and
clothing them." Entertainments awaited him at
Cadiz and Malaga, and by the end of the year he
had completed his, tour in Southern Spain. * * At
Turin he spent many pleasant and instructive days.
Among the first who called on him were Scialoja
and Charles Cavour, " a young man," as he ob-
served, "with a sound, practical head." The inci-
pient statesman clutched eagerly at the opportunity
of learning all he could from lips so ready to impart
information. He had recently visited England, and
studied her industrial and political institutions ; and
although as yet he did not pretend any more than
the rest of his class to see his way to national inde-
pendence, he already believed in the possibility of
working up to constitutionalism, and to agricultural
and commercial freedom in Piedmont. The Admi-
nistration was still indeed in the hands of the ultra
partisans of resistance; and the King, who had never
recovered his early disenchantment with popular
efforts, was too weak and wavering to originate
any measure of importance in the direction of pro-
gress. Cavour spent most of his time with Mr. Cob-
den or his family during their stay, and frequently
accompanied them in their walks and drives into
the country ; and with his uncle, the Marquis
Cavour, with whom he then lived, and MM. Balho,
Colloliano, Polloni, Battista, Bignon, the future
minister attended the banquet on the 24th May, to
do honour to the Apostle of Free Trade. A like
celebration followed in the ensuing week at Milan,
and also at Venice. At Venice he was treated with
every mark of distinction by Prince Metternich, as
at St. Petersburg, by Count Nesselrode. At Berlin,
Humboldt, Ranke, Eichhorn, Bodelschwing, and
most of the eminent men engaged in the Adminis-
tration, were prompt in paying their respects ; and
he was entertained at dinner by the King. His long
tour ended with a visit to Hamburg ; and by the
middle of October, 1847, he found himself once more
at home.—British Quarterly Review.