The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1866.

lato disturbances, wh'le temporarily inconvenienc-
ing thew, v,PI prove to have really effected lasting
good.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.

The Moniteur gives, on the authority of a letter

from Florence, some interesting facts relative to the
"battle of Custozza. General La Marmora, before
:resigning his post as Chief of the Staff, addressed a
detailed report to the Minister of War, which ex-
plains and completes the documents anterior to that
battle. The report shows that the object of the
attack by the Italian army on the 24th of June was
to penetrate between the fortresses of the Quadri-
lateral, so as to impede the communication and ope-
rations, and facilitate the passage of the Lower Po
by Cialdini. The report lays stress upon the fact
that this Italian movement was frustrated by the
night march of the Austrian army, which suddenly
appeared in battle array on the heights of Custozza
and Somma Campagna at the time when it was
still believed to be on the Adige. The document
proves that the exact loss of the Italians on the
24th of June was 8,175 killei, wounded, or pri-
soners. Among them were 337 officers.
La Liberte describes the following to be the
" position" as regards Prussia :
" All that tends to the substitution of legality for
despotism shocks M. Bismarck. He does not, it is
true, oppose the real and immediate union of the
States, but he wishes his hands to be left free. The
German Parliament, he says, has nothing to do
with the matter. All that he consents to admit is
that the law relative to the annexations shall fix
the Ist of October for the introduction of the
Prussian Constitution into the annexed States. We
do not yet know whether the N:ews of the Com-
mission or those of M. Bismarck will triumph, but
if, as is to b 2 feared, the first Minister should be
successful upon this point, there will hereafter be
three categories of Prussians.

" The first w;1 comprise Prussians, properly so

_ _
;!led.
" The second iv"l include the people annexed,
who govern-A by Prussian agents, I:ving in a tem-
porary cond.;.tion, will furnish contingents, and, with-
out possessing rights, will have duties to perform.
" In the third category must be included Saxony,
wh'ch, although presening its king and a sort of
autonomy, will have a Prussian Military represen-
will act the same part as the tative, who probably
Engl;sh resident in the Indies as regards the Kings
of Qude.
" In these three divisions we seek for the free
Prussians. We have not yet found them."
M. Roger de Beauvois, a literary man of note,
has just died after a painful affection of the spine.
Ile was born in 1809. His first literary produc-
tions appeared in 1232. Ile plunged into the
romantic school, and published a series of romances

of the middle age. The most remarkable was
" L'Ecolier de Chuny, or the Sophisme," which
made much noise at the time. M. de Beauvoin
wrote a great deal, good, bad, or indifferent, and
used his pen laboriously up to his latest hour.
Rossini had a private party on Saturday evening,
at which a composition recently finished was heard.
Madame Alboni sang a " Salutaris," and was ac-
companied on the piano by Rossini himself. Rossini
expressed great satisfaction at the interpretation of
his new composition, which was encored and given
again with great zest by Alboni. Some other
morceaux by Rossini, not known to theipubl'c, were
executed.

Tho weather remains unsettled, with a hot and
heavy atmosphere. Drrk clouds have prevailed all
day, and acre have been occasional very heavy
showers. It appears that the thunderstorm of
Sunday evening did much injury in some of the
provinces.

Th'ffestern Railway Company have just adopted
an arrangement for the security of passengers, and

to enable them to communicate with each other. A.
key is placed in a glass case with which the door
can be unlocked in an emergency, but there is an
announcement that a resort to it frivolously will
render the person liable to punishment. On break-
ing the glass an alarm bell can be sounded. 1 may
remark that this is not a new plan. It was in opera-
tion on the line from Boulogne to Paris before that

line was completed to Amiens. The Dombes Rail-
way from Lyons to Bourg has just been inaugurated.
It will afford an easy and convenient communica-
tion between the departments of the Rhone and the
Ain. The carriages are on the American plan and
are very convenient. There are no doors. The
entrance is by an external platform, back and front.
There is free circulation along the whole train, and
passengers can easily pass from one carriage to
another. A religious ceremony was performed at
Villars on the occasion of the opening of the line.
It was at Viliars that the two trains met, one from
Bourg and the other from Lyons.
The Opinione, an Italian paper, states that the
prisoners of war made by the Italian troops have
been restored to the Austrians at Peschiera. There
were 31 officers and 1,800 Loldiers. There only re-
mained about a dozen prisoners in the hospitals.
they all express gratitude for the kind treatment
they received during their captivity. Three Austrian
officers made a complaint that when they were
taken some Italian soldi.ers took away from them
money and valuables to the amount of 241 florins.
The Minister, Pettinengo, in answer to their com-
plaint, said that though it was impossible during
the combat to prevent such isolated culpable acts,
and although he must rely upon the p-.xsonal alle-
gation of the Austrian officers, yet he accepted their
word as he would that of the Italian officers, and
the amount which had been taken from them should
be compensated.

A Marseilles paper states that an inbabihnt of
that city has discovered a new motive power, much
more advantageous than steam, and quite free from
any danger of explosion.
The Peiite Presse has a mysterious account of an
alleged attempted extortion on the part of a well-
known singer, aided by her mother, of which the
intended victim is a rich banker. It does not give
details, but says they will shortly be brought before
a court of law, and will involve some curious dis-
closures. There was a parallel case about sixty
years ago.

In a document recently discovered in the archives
of Lyons the following is recorded of Rabelais.
Rabelais was surgeon to the hospital at Lyons in

1534, when an epidemic broke out. Rabelais be-
came alarmed, and instead of attending to his duties
suddenly left the town. The &rectors met, and
agreed to a motion that " Maitre Rabelais had ab-
sented himself and abandoned the raid hospital
without notice or taking leave." - Two other bur-
geons, Maitres Conape and du Castel, solicited
permitsion to undertake the duty of Rabelais, but
a councillor of the town proposed that they should
not fill up the appointment till Easter, " as the said
Itabellais was at Grenoble, and might return." As
aartesie ol ny
In .
he d:1(1 not return, however, Pierre de Castel was
appointed surgeon to the hospital in his stead, but
at a reducedn i salary.
themilitarywom
the writer makes mention of the Chevalieren efFrance
Balthazar,
and gives an extract from a certificate
of burial,
which states that on the 26th of October, 1704,
there died in the parish of St. S 1 • 'ow u e, Genevieve
Premorja, called the Chevalier Balthazar, Com-
mander of the Order of St. Louis, and formerly
captain in the Regiment of Turbilly, whose hus-
band, Jean Gou'iie, was lieutenant in the same
company. This " dashing white sergeant" was a
captain, and her husband only a lieutenant, and
therefore she had a right to command in the regi-
ment, if not at home.

The Paris Press contains the intelligence of the
recent death in that capital of Mr. George Henry Francis,
for many years a well-known member of the London and
provincial Press, in the capacity of editor, manager, and
contributor, and also as a writer i❑ Fraser. The Orators
of the Age, The Age of Veneer, and Contemporary Orators,
were from his pen. Mr. Francis died at the age of 50. A
large circle of literary friends iu England will lament his
loss.

FUNERAL OF THE REV. JOHN GROTE.•-•-CAM-
BRIDGE, AUGUBT 28.- -The funeral of the Rev. John Grote,
8.D., Professor of Morel Philosophy in the University of
Cambridge, took place at Trumpiagton, of which place he
was vicar, this morning.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

GERMANY.

MUNICH, Aug. 29.

The troops belonging to Electoral Hesse and
Nassau, which arc still stationed on Bavarian
territory, will shortly return to their homes.
The territory which Bavaria cedes to Prussia
contains 33,900 inhabitants.

PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.

BERLIN, Aug. 29.

The Austro-Prussian treaty of peace is in all the
principal points only a repetition of the peace pre-
liminaries, with a slight variation in the wording.
One of the articles, however, modifies the treaty of
commerce between Austria and the Zollvereiu by
stipulating that six months' notice must be given
before either party can withdraw from the con-
vention.

After the peace treaty has been ratified, the Prus-
sian troops will at once commence the evacuation
of Austrian territory, and the officers and assistants
of the transport commission entrusted with superin-
tending the operation of that movement left this
city on Saturday. Orders have already been given
for the transport of the troops of the Prussian
head-quarters from Prague to Teplitz, and this has
probably been already accomplished.

HUNGARY.
PESTIT, Aug. 28.

Count Andrasey is still at Vienna. Ile enter-
tains hopes that the Liberal party will be victorious,
and that a complete Hungarian Ministry will be
obtained.

PRUSSIA AND WURTEMBERG.

STUTTGART, Aug. 26.
The text of the Treaty of Peace concluded be•
tween Prussia and Wurtemberg is as follows :

" Their Majesties the King of Wurtemberg and
the King of Prussia, actuated by the desire of se-
curing to their subjects the blessings of peace, have
determined to come to an agreement as to the
clauses of a treaty of peace to be concluded between
them. For this purpose their Majesties have ap-
pointed as Plenipotentiaries—The King of Wurtem-
berg his Minister for Foreign Affairs, Baron Karl

von Varnb&er, Grand Cross, &e., and his War

Minister, Lieut.-General Oscar von Hardegg,
Grand Cross, &c. ; and the King of Prussia his
President of the Council and Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Count Otto von Bismark-Sconhausen,
Knight of the Blail Eagle, &c., and his Privy Coun-
cillor, Chamberlain, and Ambassador, Karl Fried-
rich von Satigny, Grand Cross, &c. The3e Pleni-
potentiaries, having exchanged powers and found
them sufficient, have agzecd upon the following
clauses :
" 1. Peace and friendship shall henceforth subsist
for ever between his Majesty the King of Wurtem-
berg and his Majesty the King of Prussia, their heirs
and successors, their States and subjects.
" 2. His Majesty the Ki ng of Wurteml erg engages
to pay his Majesty the K;ng of Prussia the sum of
cight million florins, within two months, towards
covering part of the costs incur: i by Prussia in the
war. By payment of tbis sum the King of Wur-
temberg fulfils the compensation obligations under-
taken by h'm in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Armis-
tice Convention signed August 1, 1866, at Eisingen,
near Wurzburg.
" 3. As pledge for the payment of this sum the
King of Wr-tenaberg mill. deposit 3i and 4 per
cent. Wuttemberg State Bonds to the amount of

the sum to be guaranteed. The bonds to be depo-
sited will. be calcu'ated at the quotation of the day,
and the guarantee sum w'l. be increased by 10 per
mt. accordingly.

"4. WS Maj'sty the li:ng of INV Lemberg retains
the right of paying the above-mentioned compen-
sation, in pare or who"y, at an enrYer date, at a
discount of 5 per cent. per annum.

" 5. Immediately after the guarantee being given
hi accordance with Art. 3, or altar payment of the
war contribution has been made, the King of
Prussia NO withdraw his troops from Wurtcmberg
territory. The provisionment of the troops &ring
their withdrawal sha" be according to the hitherto
exist'ug Federal d'etary scale.

" 6. The apportionment of Federal property be-
longing to the former Germanic Confederation is
reserved for a special agreement.
" 7. The high contracting parties will enter into
negociations for the settlement of the Zollvere;n
relations immediately after the conclusion of peace.
In the meantime the Zoilverein Union Treaty of
May 16, 1865, and the conventions connected

therewith, which have been rendered inoperative by
the outbreak of the war, shall again come into ope-
ration from the date the rat;fications of this pre-
sent treaty are exchanged, with the understanding
that it remains resei ved to either of the high con-
tracting parties to allow them to lapse after a noti-
fication of s'x months.

" Immediately after the restoration of peace in
Germany, the high contracting parties will cause
the assembly of commissioners to agree upon bases
calculated to further passenger and goods traffic
upon the railways as greatly as possible, especially
to regulate the relations of competition in a suitable
manner, and to oppose the efforts of individual com-
panies disadvantageous to the public interests of
traffic. While the high contracting parties are
agrecd that the establishmeat of every new railway
line conducive to the public advantage is to be per-
mitted, and supported as fully as possible, they will
also have the principles demanded in this respect by
the general interests laid down by the aforesaid com-
rnissicLie:.s.

" His :Majesty the King ctf Wurtembergrecognise3
the arrangements made by the preminary treaty
concluded between Prussia and Austria at Nikols-
burg on the 20th July, 1866, and accedes thereto
upon his pact also, so far as they affect the future
of Germany.

" 10. The rat'ication of this present treaty filial'
take place at latest by the 21st August of th's year.
In token whereof the above-named Plenipotentiaries
have executed the same this day in duplicate, and
appended their signatures and seals.
"Done at Ber"n this 13th August, 1866.
(Signed) " VARNBULER.

" li ARDEG G.

" VON • BISY &nu.
" SAIEGNY."

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

N OTTINGHAM, Tuesday.
The theatre was well filled last night by members
assembled to hear Dr. Hooper's lecture upon " In-
sular Floras." The observations of the lecturer
related almost exclusively to the results of his own
explorations in the islands of the Southern Seas,
including Madeira, St. Helena, the Azores, and Kirk

Williams Island. The flora of Madeira was like
that of Europe, except that the plants grew larger,
parsley being there produced on trees. On Desola-
tion Island he found only 150 plants, and he never
thought of that place without unpleasant associa-
tions of cabbage and penguin soup. The lecture
occupied a considerable time, and was well received.
In the afternoon an interesting concert was given
to members of the association by the inmates of the
Midland Institute for the Blind. The pupils are in-
structed in the many branches of educatiofi and
industry happily open to them, and if their attain-
ment in those are equal to their proficiency in vocal
and instrumental music, the promoters must be con-
gratulated on their success. Many of the visitors
to the concert left donations, or purchased some of
the works of the blind.

The geographical section was in immense force
this morning to hear Du Chaillu on the " Physical
Geography and Tribes of Western Equatorial Africa."
Before he commenced, Sir Roderick Murchison took
occasion to express his satisfaction that, after the
doubts that were thrown on M. Du Chaillu's narra-

tive, he had fitted out a ship at his own cost, and
revisited the scene of his former explorations. N. Du
Chaillu, speaking with a strong French accent,
stated that in 30 deg. East longitude from Green-
wich, and in 2 or 3 degs. on each side of the
equator, was an immense jungle, broken here and
there by fertile prairies, thinly inhabited by man
and still more thinly by beasts. There was neither
lion, giraffe, nor rhinoceros. By the side of man
were the ape‘ and the gorilla. There was no horse,
camel, or other beast of burden, the women being
employed in the heavy work. In journeying through
the jungle, he went for miles and miles without hear-
ing the chirp of a bird or the footstep of a gazelle.
The awful solitude was broken only by the falling
of a leaf or the rippling of a brook. The lowest
temperature was 63, the highest rainfall was 7i
inches in 24 hours, but the average was probably
not more than 200 inches in a year. The sky was
almost always hazy, and was seldom more than an
hour without clouds, so that he frequently had to
remain night after night before he could get astro-
nomical observations. The state of man in those
regions was primitive. No trading caravans from
north, east, south, or west, had ever passed through
their country. The fiery water had not reached
them. There were a great many languages or
dialects spoken by the different tribes. Their law
was on the principal of a tooth fora tooth. No
allowance was made for accident, but if one man
killed another the killer was always slain. A man
who broke the arm of another had to submit to the
breaking of his own arm. They had no record of
the past, and knew nothing about it. Fables, super-
stition, and witchcraft were all powerful. Their
doctriLe was that but for witchcraft there would be
no death. The consequence was that when one man
died there was great slaughter in order to find out
who caused his death. When a dispute arose, or an
offender was captured, a palaver was called, and the
defender was fined oz killed. None of the villages
had more than a thousand people. No chief could
take by force anything belonging to his people. In
fact, his people, though they looked upon him as a
father, Would rob him not only of his property, but

of his wives. After simply mentioning the hairy
dwarfs and the Fauns, or cannibals, M. du Chaillu
defended the white man from the accusations made
against him of driving out the natives from barba-
rous countries. For himself he was the only white
man who had visited those regions, and he could
assert that he had done nothing to decrease
the population. Unfortunately on one occa-
sion one of his men fired a gun and killed
a man. The king fled, with all his people,
except one wise man, who was disposed to call a
palaver, but it was discovered that the bullet, after
killing the man, had killed also the wife of the wise
man. M. du Chaillu and his four men then at-
tempted to escape. They were pursued by the whole
tribe. The distinguished traveller himself brought
up the rear, and was wounded in the hand and side
by poisoned arrows. his negroes, however, fought
valiantly, and they stuck to him and conquered.
M. Du Chaillu concluded after relating this anec-
dote, having confined himself strictly to the bounda-
ries of the title of his paper. The discussion was
all iu his favour. Mr. Hind said he would as much
rely upon M. Du Chaillu's observations as he would
upon the best astronomers in Europe. Dr. Murie,
who had travelled in part of Du Chaillu's country,
confirmed the observations of that traveller.

Mr. GROVE, secretary of the Palestine Explora-
tion Fund, read the report of the first expedition
made under direction of the society. The expedi-
tion this year was of a preliminary character, led by
Captain Wilson, of the Royal Engineers, and one
of the officers of the Topographical Expedition.
The object was to examine the sites of cities, to see
what the expedition might advantageously under-
take at a future time, and get a map of the country.
From the details of the scenery given in the report
there is reason to believe that in future work much
interesting knowledge will be gained.
The Rev. H. B. TRISTRAM gave some account of
his own travels in Palestine. He pointed out that
Arab tribes were in the habit of taking tourists to
whatever place they pleased, and telling them that
was the place to which they had asked to be con-
ducted. It was, therefore, highly important that
there should be an exact topographical examination
of the country. All the names of the Israelitish
towns existed in the Arabic, and there were grass-
grown mounds only remaining to be explored.
In the Mathematical and Physical Science section
the President presented the report of the com-
mittee on the transmission of sound through water.
The practical question at issue was that of storm
signals. De la Rue's Syren, which in air gives loud
musical sounds, was found to be a failure in water.
The communication of shocks or impulses by means
of metal bars or plates was found to be the most
available system. Mr. Parley, in stating some of the
phenomena of the Atlantic cable, and explaining a
new method of testing electric resistance, stated that
by Professor Wheatman's bridge they were enabled
to make experiments on faults in 60 seconds, which
had formerly occupied a considerable time, the At-
lantic cable was in such a state of perfection. From
electrical experiments the cable was found to rate at
7,700 of the British Association units of insularity,
and complete insularity being represented by 10,000.
Mr. Glaisher described Mr. Johnson's deep-sea
pressure gauge, in which, by the use of glass instead
of metal, one source of error was avoided.

The chemists heard with great interest a paper by
Dr. Lyon Playfair on the present condition of our
knowledge on the origin of muscular force in animals.
The geologists bad a good programme. Dr. C. Le
Neve Foster stated that he had discovered pebbles
intermixed with tin and copper ore in a curious lode
or mineral vein in New Rosewarne Mine, Gwinear,
Cornwall. Dr. Beke produced geological specimens
and fossils from the barren island of St. John in the
Red Sea. The geological specimens were stated to
be of the igneous rocks. The fossils were those
common to the Indian Ocean.

The anthropologists had a notice, by Mr. J. W.
Flowers, of a Kjokken-modding, in the Island of
Herm. The substantial word of this title, though
formidable at sight, is easily susceptible of a render-
ing by mere pronunciation into the exceedingly vul-
gar English words by which a British Kjokken-
modding would be designated if the plainest Saxon
terms were used. Professor Huxley made some re-
marks on the two extreme forms of human crania.
One skull was that of a Tartar, round, short, and
brcad ; the other that of a New Zealander, long and
narrow. Dr. James Hunt, on cranial measurement
of modern Norwegians, denied they were of the
Scandinavian type.
The biologists had papers from Mr. F. Buck-land
on the scientific cultivation of a salmon river, and
on the exhibition of fisi culture at Boulogne. On
the former topic the renowned icthyologist con-
demned, in an amusing yet indignant manner, the
d;scouragement of salmon by the pollution of rivers;
and he assured the section that the Truit and other
rivers now unproductive could be so far cultivated
as to bring salmon down to 6d. or 7d. a pound. He
hoped that, with the aid of the Government, we
should have an international exhibition of fish cul-
ture in this country, our fishelies being greater than
those of France. Mr. J. K. Lord read an interest-
ing paper on the lnd;ans of Columl,i t. They wor-
sVp the sun, are great believers in witchcraft, and
hold in superstitious reverence the return of the sea-
sons, the ripening of berries and seeds, and the ar-
rival of the geese and cranes. Ther teeth have been
ground down to the gums by the sand which ad-
heres to the dried salmon on which they live during
the winte7 months.

In the Physiological section Dr. Richardson gave
physiological demonstrations of local insensibility.
The demonstrations in question took the practical
turn of thrusting needles into his own arm and that
of the president without producing pain.
Dr. NORRIS read a valuable paper on muscular
:7-ritability, and the relations which exist between
muscle, nerve, and blood.

From statistics given by Colonel Sykes to Eco-
nomic Science and Statistics, it appears that the
Hindoos and Parsees are most munificent in their
support of the charitable, educational, industrial,
and public institutions of India. M^. Wilkinson, in
a paper on intoxicating liquor, showed that the cost
of the consumption in Great Britain in 1865 was
£95,000,000, and that the average of each drinking
person was two gallons of alcohol per head per an-
num. Mr. Felton, speal-'ng o! the hosiery and lace
trades of Nottingham, stated that many women
worked under mistressesinprivate houses not visited
by the inspectors of factories. He recommended
that these should be registered. The Rev. A. S.
Worthington, remarking on the employment of
women working for wages, contended that, even
in an economicvl and profitable point of .Nrew, the
taking of married women away from home was
bad policy, tending to drive the;r husbands to the
public-house for comfort, and tending also to the
great increase of infant mortality. The employment
of women in factories tended to increase illegiti-
macy, the 'legitimate births in Nottingham being
10 per cent. of the whole. Mr. George, sen., gave
a parer on the diminution of accidents in coal mines
since the appointment of Government inspectors.
Mr. Thomas Browne, on the transfer of real pro-
perty, suggested the legal division of the country
into shares of ono acre, and the transference of the
shares when required.
_ .

The papers won Mecha&cal Science were of a
purely te3huical character.

DIOCESE OF SALISBURY.—The Incumbency of
Chi:stchurch, Warminster, in the county of Wits, in the
patronage of the Rev. J. E. Philipps, !s vacant by the pre-
sentation of the R,v. P belt Rossetor Hutton, clerk, M.A.,
by the Crown to the rectory of Chipping BalJet. The living
is represented as worth £3OO per annum. The per-
petual curacy of Lyneham, Wilts, of the annual value of
about £l5O, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. James
O'Brien, who has recently seceded to the Church of Rome,
has been confo;red by the patron, Mr. G. H. W. Heneage,
of Compton Bassett House, Wilts, on tho Rev. Eyre Wil-
liam Hussey, clerk, M.A. The Rev. James John Douglas,
Iloysted, deli+, 8.A., has been licensed by the Bishop of
Salisbrry, on the nomination of Mr. GabCel Goldney,
M.P., to the incumbency of St. Mary-Bradenstoke-with-
Clack, in the county of Wilts. . _

KITE FLYING EXTRAORDINAR7.—A kite contest,
the first in this neighbourhood, took place on the Town-
moor last night, in the presence of an immense number of
spectators, estimated at upwards of 20,000. There were 86
competitors, and tho first prize was won by Master Cross,
a brother of the popular actress at the Theatre Royal. The
contest was so great that it is to be repeated on a larger
settle in. future years.—Newcastle Journal.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Aug. 26.
The Qeeen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
went out yesterday morning.

In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by
Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill,
went out driving.

August 27.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Prince
Consort's birthday. The Prince and Princess of
Wales came to luncheon with the Queen, and the
two young Princes,, Albert Victor and George,
visited her :Majesty in the afternoon.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and
Princess Beatrice, went out in the afternoon.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailcsbury have
arrived in town from Jerveaux Abbey, Yorkshire, on their
way to Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal have
left their residence in Grosvenor-square for Hampstead
Marshall, Newbury, Berks.
The Earl and Countess of Dunmore are enter-
taining a select party of friends at their seat in the lslo of
Harris, N.B.

The Earl and Countess of Fife are entertaining
a select family party at New Mar Lodge, N.B.
Viscount Kirkwall and Baron de Vahl have left
town for a tour on the Continent for several months.

Lady Sandys and Hon. Miss Sandys arrived at
Pitfour a few days back, on a visit to Admiral Ferguson•
Lord Henry Bentinck, since .his arrival at his
shooting quarters in Scotland, has had excellent sport.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons and Lady Charlotte Denison are staying at Long-
well, Caithness.

The Right lion. Sir John Pakington, Bart.,
M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by the
Lords Commissioners, visit Plymouth and Devonport on
Thursday next. After their visit, which will, of •course,
occupy several days, the First Lord and Commissioners of
the Admiralty will proceed to Queenstown on their tour of
inspection.

The Master of the Queen's Horse (the Duke of
Beaufort) has signified his intention to exclude coursing 10
Hampton Court-park during the next season, in co noe-
quence of the scarcity of hounds on this demesne.

A PLEA FOR SWEDEN.