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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
;Before Mr. Commissioner liolroyd.)

(From the Times.)
Had the case of "The Queen v. Maria Clarke
(In, re Alicia Rae 6)," which wa3 tried on Saturday
at the Queen's Bauch, been what is called a jury
case, we should have abstained fro n all comment
upon it until the delivery of judgment. This,
however, is not so. The facts of the case are told
in half-a-dozen brief sentences, but, the decision
upon the legal argument which was raised upon
them rests with Lord Campbell and Justices
Wightman and Crompton. Now we presume that
even the advocates of the Roman party -will
scarcely venture to assert tha'a any statement or
comment which we offer upon, the case will warp
the minds of the learned parsow.ges whom we have
just named, or influence their judgment. We do
not take up the legal balanraes and affect to deter-
mine nice distinctions between the rights of the
"testamentary guardian" -and the "guardian of
doubt they
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the
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troe es cstooon ddiienteei matters. It is
the nurture,"
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the doctrines of English law. Our only object is to
spare the patience of our readers; not ,many of
whom will have been at , the pains of wading through
four portentous coluna ns of legal report in order to
ascertain the subject of Saturday's argument in the
Queen's Bench. He re is the story :—There was a
certain sergeant of 3 larines, named Lauman Race,
who seems to have been a very fine fellow, who
was killed under fire at Petropaulovski, in Sep-
tember, 1854. He belonged to the Pique. Now,
this sergeant was r aarried, and he had by his wife
two children, abo y and a girl. The boy, John, is
now about 12 yea rs old ; the girl, Alicia, ie about
10. The mother 'is name is Alicia Race, and she
still survives, a widow. Sergeant Race, on the
24th of August, _854, made a will, which concluded
vitla these words :--
"I do hereby n orninate, constitute, and appoint my
vife, Alicia Race, executrix of this my will and testa-
ment, feeling con ideut that she will do justice to my
dear children as a wife and a mother."
The mother is a Roman Catholic, the father was a
Protestant. " 'The father (said Mr. O'Malley)
"Always broul ;ht up his children as Protestants, and
sent them to Prot' ?stant schools. He himself always at-
tended the service sof the Church of England . • It
was found, also, tl iat for eight months after their father's
death the children attended a Protestant school and
Protestant worship, and the mother went with them."
We quote tale very words of the counsel em-
ployed lest we be charged with inaccuracy of any
kind. The elder child, the boy John Race, after his
father's death 'vas sent to the Sailors' Orphan Boys'
School and Ho me at Chardstock, in Dorsetshire,
which is supported from tie Patriotic Fund. In
July, 1855, the little girl Alicia was also sent to
the Sailors' Orphan Girls School and Home at
Hampstead, which is maintained in the same man-
ner. Things appear to have gone on reasonably
well for a time, but at length the Romanists got
hold of the mother and persuaded her to remove
her son from Chard stock. This done, they informed
her that they could do nothing for the boy until
the girl too was taken away from the Prote .ant
school at Hampstead. Hereupon Mrs. Race en-
deavoured to regain possession of the child, but the
girl strongly resisted all endeavours to remove her,
and expressed her determination to remain at
Hampstead and her wish to be brought no in the
tenets of Protestantism. Upon this due applica-
tion was made, and there was issued a writ of
habeas corpus, directed to the matron of the Sai-
lors' Orphan Girls' School and Home at Hampstead
and requiring her to produce Alicia Race in the
Queen's Bench on Saturday last, which was ac-
cordingly done. The effort on one side, of course,
was to reinstate the mother in possession of the
child ; on the other, that the child should be at
liberty to ohoose for herself.
Now, as we before said, it is not our province to
determine nice questions of testamentary guardian-
ship, orguardianship of nurture, but certainly, in
the eye of common sense, nothing would appear
more unreasonable than to compel this child to
adopt against her will that religion which was not
the religion of her father. The way in which the
widow herself interpretc i the will of her late hus-
band may very readily be gathered from the facts,
that she herself conducted the children, for eight
months after the intelligence of his death had been
received in England, to b. Protestant church, and
that she placed them in Protestant schools. Were
this case reversed, and had Sergeant Race been a
Romanist, and had his P. Aestant widow endea-
voured to remove her young daughter from a
Roman convent in order to bring her up as a Pro-
testant, we cannot but think we should hear an
outcry about "proselytism in its most hideous
form," and other amenities of the like kind. The
father was a Protestant, he brought his children up
Protestants, they were taken to Protestant places
of worship during his life and after his death ;
after his death, too, they were placed in Protestant
institutions, and now the mother seeks to take
back this little Protestant girl in order to turn her
into a Romanist. What would Sergeant Race have
done had he been alive ? That is the point. No
violence is used towards the child ; the doors of
the Orphan School at Hampstead are open to her if
she chooses to rejoin her mother, but she anxiously
desires to stay where she is. Under these circum-
stances, will the Court of Queen's Bench do vio-
lence to the child, and actually tear her from the
asylum in which she desires to stay, in open de-
fiance of all that we can conceive to have been the
wishes of her dead father ? We cannot pretend to
argue the question of law, but we trust that in
this case the conclusions of law and of common
sense may be found to coincide with each other.

IN RE THE ROYAL BRITISH RANI.-AUDIT MEETING.
To-day was appointed for an audit meeting under this
bankruptcy, but as no proofs can be tendered at an audit
meeting, the proceedings were pro forma.
It was stated that there is about 35,0001. in the hands
of the official assignee available for the proposed dividend,
which will be declared on Saturday, of ss. 6d. in the
pound to those who proved before the last dividend, and
6d. additional to those who have already been paid the
former dividend of sg. in the pound, but in consequence
of the difficulties which have been thrown in the way of
the official assignee, in collecting the call of 501. per
share, it is feared that it will be some weeks before a
further dividend can be declared. 12s. per pound less
the paid dividend has been offered by an agency office in
the City.

FRAUDULENT BANKRUPT'S.—OUTLAWRY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)

IN RE WOODS.
This bankrupt was described as of Peckham, builder,
and to-day was appointed for his last examination.
Mr. Murrough, M.P., appeared for the assignees, and
stated that the bankrupt had absconded, and although
several witnesses bad been examined very little had been
elicited as to the affairs, but it was said that the debts
were about 1,2001. ; assets uncertain.
The bankrupt not surrendering, was declared out-
lawed in the usual form.

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( From the Daily News.)
The report published in our yesterday's impres-
sion of the proceedings instituted in the Court
of Queen's Bench by a Roman Catholic mother,
in order to remove her child from a Protes-
tant school, will doubtless have been perused with
considerable interest by the great majority of our
readers. The judgment of the Court has not yet
been delivered, and we need not say that we make
no attempt to anticipate on which side that judg-
ment will be pronounced : as little, we trust, can
it be necessary to disclaim any intention to discuss
the matter as a question between Romanist and
Protestant. Our sole object will be to lay before
those who are repelled and confused by a long and
intricate discussion of affidavits and counter-
affidavits a plain narrative of the undisputed facts
of the case, and a few observations on the more
obvious legal principles that seem to be involved

in it.
The facts were these :—Lauman Race, a sergeant
of Marines, had by his wife, Alicia Race, two
children—a boy, now aged about twelve, and a
daughter, whose name was also Alicia, now about
ten and a half. Sergeant Race was a Protestant,
his wife a catholic. Both children were baptised
by a Protestant clergyman, and both, during the
whole period of their father's lifetime, were in the
habit, as soon as their years permitted, of attend-
ing a Protestant school and a Church of England
place of worship. The father, however, did not
interfere with the mother's natural function of
teaching the children to pray, and accordingly,
with his sanction, she appears to have taught them
some of the prayers of the Romish Church. On
the 25th of August, 1864, Sergeant Race—who
seems to have been as noble-hearted and fine a
fellow as ever marched under British colours—one
of those heroes of humblo life of whom the nation
has so much right to be proud—being then in sight
of Petropaulovski, and just about to enter into
action, wrote a letter to his wife, which was not
to be sent to her except in the event of his falling
in the conflict. He also at the same time made
his will. The letter, which was in every way
worthy of the man—the letter, as Lord Campbell
truly characterised it, " of a Christian and a
soldier "—contained this expression with regard
to the children : " I wish you to bring the
ointe up
in the fear of the Lord." By his will he app
the wife guardian, " feeling confident '—these
were his words—" that she will do justice to
my dear children as a wife and a mother." Apart
from these expressions, neither in the will nor in
the letter was there any intimation as to the parti-
cular form of faith in which he wished the children
to be brought up. The poor man was killed before
Petropaulovski, and the widow left destitute with
the two orphan children. The Royal Commis-
sioners of the Patriotic Fund were applied to, and
they, with the full assent of the widow, placed the
boy in the Sailors Orphan School for Boys at
Chardstock, in Dorsetshire—the girl in the corre-
sponding school for girls at Hampstead. Both these
schools are exclusively Protestant. The mother
was perfectly aware of this ; and, as Captain Con-
nolly distinctly swears, remarked, in reference to
this circumstance, " that her great desire was that
they should be brought up as Protestants, accord-
ng to the wish of her deceased husband."
After the children had been some months at
these schools the mother, acting—as the evidence
leaves no room to doubt—under the influence of
the Roman Catholic clergyman of whose congrega-
tion she was a member, removed the boy from the
Protestant school at Chardstock to place him in a
Roman Catholic school. Finding, however, as she
states, " that her clergyman would not proNde a
school for the one child without the other,
she
proceeded to insist upon the removal of the girl
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also, though, as she allowed on one occasions "he
it
went to her heart to do so ; and though, a s
also admitted, " she had no fault to find with the
school at which her daughter was placed, Mrs.
Clarke(the mistress of the school)being very kind to
her." The mother appears to have made several an
plications for the purpose of removing the girl w ithout
success. The girl herself, who iS brialbed—and as it

Wildflower. By the Author of " The House of
Elmore." 3 Vols. Hurst and Blackett.
The motto prefixed to this work aptly represents
and accurately defines the heroine—" For every
one her liked, and every ono her loved." Avice
Hem is a fine character, possessing that innate su-
periority which no lowliness of station can render
mean, and gifted with powers of mind which the
opportunities of the wealthy may develope and
display, but which the chilling gloom of poverty
cannot obscure or conceal. She shows to advantage
beside her adopted sister Rosamond, whose gentle
and timid nature was incapable of anything de-
cided, or requiring any great effort. The one was
appropriately named the Garden Rose ; hence the
other's title of Wildflower. Mr. Stanmore, at an
early period of the tale, received Avice into his
home, and he never had cause to regret it. She
was an unvarying friend, steady, constant, and
true. It would have been well for the welfare of
the family had they all been ruled by her judg-
ment, but as it often occurs with timid and yield-
ing. tempers, Rosamond, once influenced, was im-
pressed for ever. In an evil hour t uncle
of
he n
Avice, with his son, settled at the " Hall,"
an old domain that had been long deserted,
but which the riches of Walter Horn called
again to life and activity. When living with her
grandfather, Avice had learned enough of his son's
character to know he and his were to be shunned.
She could not, however, give her ideas to her
friend, and times had changed with the wanderer
since the days of her childhood. The possessor of ,
an estate which eclipsed by far in splendour and,
importance all the properties of the landed gentry
of the county could not be shut out from notice,
although many of the refineddid not like hisuncouth
demeanour. Arnold was not so iude as his father,
but he was of a worse nature, if more outwardly
polished. Thoroughly selfish, and exceedingly pass
sionate, he did not offer a very favourable chance,
or present a likely promise of happiness to any ones
far less one like Rosamond. Mr. Stanmore's resi
dence was at no great distance from the Hall, and
notwithstanding his efforts to keep the Horns at a
distance he failed, partly owing to their deter-
mined intrusion, not being over scrupulous as to
others' wishes, and partly in consequence of the ab-
surd conduct of Miss Jane Stanmore, his sister,
who imagined Mr. Hem, the elder, was an ad-
mirer of herself. During a brief absence of its
master, Olverton House was constantly invaded
by these parvenus, and the unfortunate
father was robbed of his treasure. He resisted as
firmly as he could, but Rosamond, in an evil hour,
listened to the suggestions of her desperate lover,
and was privately married. Then Mr. Stanmore,
contrary to expectation, was more grieved than
angered—for, as he expressed to Avice afterwards,
he foresaw enough trouble in his daughter's future
without adding his curse. Before these untoward
events Avice had been engaged to a gentleman of
the neighbourhood, a Mr. Clifton, an intimate
friend of the Stanmores, whom every one believed
to be destined for Rosamond, with the exception
of the unfortunate object of his choice. Happily
for her she discovered by a chance the truth, which'
though painful at the time, was the means of pre-
venting much future sorrow. 'Upon the death of
Mr. Stanmore's sister Avice went to London to
reside with some old friends, who are ably de-
scribed, each a character in her way—the solemn
Martha Badge, and the demure little Miss Wricker-
ton. She had passed her earliest years with these,
and was pleased to be with them again, instead
of going among strangers : although it is
truly observed, that nothing can return upon
earth. We do not live the past over again
with the restored friend. When we meet after a
lapse of years something has changed us, or altered
circumstances, so that Time's flight is felt. The
only drawback to peace in the mind of Avice was
the fate of her early friend, her sister Rosamond.
All the worst prognostications of her wretched
father, all the untold fears of her companion, had
been more than verified in the short married life of
the gentle flower. She faded and drooped, still
persisting, however, to the last that she was happy.
It is a touching and mournful passage in which the
young mother and her frail infant are introduced.
Her horror when the first idea of his delicacy is
suggested to her, and her overwhelming grief when
he is at last taken from her, are truthfully de-
picted. It was not long before she followed him, in
her last hour commending every one she loved to
the care of Avico. It had been the care of her
guardian spirit, as the latter might truly have been
called, to be of essential service to her on many oe-
oasions, and . she did not fail her at the
last. It was reserved for Avice to per-
form a harder task in attending to the
necessities of Walter Hern. By wasteful ex-
cess the Hall was ruined, the property sold, and
Arnold went abroad, leaving his father alone. He
would l ave been desolate if it had not been for his
niece, who forgot in his hour of sorrow how he had.
offended in the day of prosperity. Avice Horn was
a real heroine then. She gave way to no fancied
suggestions, and she showed no faint-heartedness ;
where duty summoned she was ever to be found,
and her calm bearing might have deceived many
as to the real nature of her feelings. Yet it was
not that she did not feel, but that she could master
and subdue her spirit. " Wildflower" has not only
talent to recommend it, but the theme chosen for
the exercise of talent is noteworthy. Amid the
numerous admirable sketches therein presented
its heroine shines conspicuous and pre-eminent.
Her lot is cast in the two extremes, as it were, of
the social scale, and in each she attracts and en-
gages. The interest that can only follow in the
career of those we respect, and which is tacitly
withheld from other sentiments—though beauty,
youth, or genius light the way—is concentrated
upon the path of Avice. Her history will, doubt-
less, meet with sympathy and regard, her unexagge-
rated sorrows, her simple joys, be acknowledged
superior to high-flown romance, and her sense, her
courage, and her kindness be recognised as the
noblest and truest adornments of a heroine.

appears truly de3cribed—to be a child of quick intel-
lect, and precociously developed mind, on having
the matter p' a' nly put before her, steadily. declined
to be removed from the school. On an interview
with her mother, she persisted in this refusal; and
in a letter to the governess, which is distinctly
sworn to be of her own unaided composition, gives
reasons for her refusal which certainly go far to
prove that in mind, if not yeare, she is abundantly
capable of exercising a discretion en the point for
herself. The Executive Committee, on this, decline
to permit the removal of the child, and the mother
then applies to the Court of Queen's Bench for a
writ of habeas corpus on Mary Clarke, the mistress
of the school, commanding her to bring the body of
the child into court, with a view of her being deli-
vered over to her mother. It was upon this appli-
cation that the argument arose which was reported
in our columns yesterday.
The main question before the Court is whether,
under these circumstances, it is bound to band the
girl over to the mother, either as such or as " tes-
tamentary guardian of the child ; or whether it
may exercise a discretion in the matter. If the
application of the mother be merely rested on the
ground of her maternal character, it would seem
that the discretion of the Court would not, upon
the current of authority and precedent, be ex-
cluded. This is not the place for a legal argument,
but it would certainly appear difficult to escape from
the authority of fie case of " In re Lloyd" (3 Man.
and Gr. 547), cited during the discussion, in which,
on an application for an habeas corpus by the
mother, Chief Justice Tindal allowed a child be-
tween elevea and twelve years of age to choose
for herself whether she would go with her mother
or not, and on her expressing a strong disinclina-
tion to do so, would permit no step to be taken to
coerce her will, and on the mother's attempting to
take forcible possession of the child, caused an
officer of the court to interfere for its protection.
" Had the child been under seven years of age,"
the Chief Justice said, " the Court would have
held that she could exercise no discretion ; but she
is old enough to choose for herself, and therefore
we do not feel called upon to exercise a discretion
for her." This case, the authority of which is un-
questioned, certainly seems to dispose of the argu-
ment that the Court of Queen's Bench is bound to
decide in favour of the application of Mrs. Race
solely on the ground that it is made by the mother.
But then, it is said, the mother here claims in the
character of a " testamentary guardian." Be it so :
but in order to see how this affects the case, we
must surely look at the nature of the circumstances
under which that character was imposed on her.
The father, a Protestant, appoints the mother
guardian, " feeling confident"—so he expresses it
—" that she will do justice to my dear children as
a wife and a mother." Now, what does he mean
by this expression I Surely his whole previous
conduct with reference to the children must be
looked at in order to ascertain this. The baptism
by a Protestant minister—the constant attendance
by the children, during his lifetime, at Protestant
places of worship and Protestant schools,—all this
shows pretty plainly what he meant when he con-
fided in the mother to do juctice to his children,
those children whom in his last letter—the letter,
be it observed, of an eminently pious and religious
man—he had earnestly prayed her "to bring up in
the fear of the Lord." What do such words as these
mean from a religious man, consciously writing on
the very verge of eternity about the children who
throughout life had been the objects of his pious
solicitude and his most anxious affection ? But it
does not rest even here. The mother herself told
Captain Conolly, as he distinctly swears, that " her
great desire was that her children should be brought
up as Protestants, according to the wishes of her
late husband." Surely under such circumstances as
these, to hand over the reluctant child of his Pro-
testant father, on the application of the mother, to
be trained up in a Roman Catholic school, would be
to give that effect to the wish of a "testamentary
guardian," which is not conceded to the will of the
testator himself. It would be to make the altered
wishes of the mother—in plain words, the desire
of "her clergyman"—paramount over her own
former wish when the influence of her recently
deceased husband was stronger with her,—over the
expressed repugnance of her intelligent child—
over the desire, as she herself understood it of that
pious father who died in the form of faith to which
during life he had trained up his children. It is
not, of course, for us to say what weapons may be
furnished from she armoury of legal erudition
against the simple and common-sense view here ex-
pressed. We shall watch the termination of the
case with great interest, but we own it would cause
us much concern, and not a little surprise, if the
Court of Queen's Bench should either consider
itself so bound by precedents as to have no discretion
in the matter, or having a discretion, should exer-
cise it by delivering up, contrary to her wish, the
helpless daughter of this brave dead soldier to be
educated in a faith against which, as a training for
his children, his whole practice while in life was a
Irotest.

LITERA.TURE.

ANNEXATION OF THE STATES OF
IiAJPQOTANA.

We hear there is not a doubt that the States of
Rajpootana will be annexed the moment Govern-
ment can conveniently do so, as orders are out
from the Court of Directors dated, so we are in-
formed, the 11th of July, 1856, directing that all
the lesser States be annexed to the Government of
India whenever circumstances will admit of such a
course. It is supposed by Sir Henry Lawrence,
K.C.8., and the Hon. Mr. Colvin, Lieutenant-
Governor of the North-Western Provinces, that
those circumstances have arisen, first, from the
remonstrance of the Thacoors in conjunction with
the Commissioner of the King of Nepaul about the
taxing of Sodabut lands ; secondly, from the pre-
valence of infanticide in the Thacoor States ; and
thirdly, !from the prevalence of Thuggee. The
camp of • exercise now forming at Mehidpore is
said to have something to (13 with the contem-
plated annexation, and further, that the State
of Odoypore is to be the first of those that will
be swallowed up. The Government of the North-
Western Provinces think that the States of Raj-
pootana will yield, after the expenses of Govern-
ment and contingents have been defrayed, the sum
of 32,000,000 rupees per annum, and will give
centralisation and uniformity to the seven neigh-
bourinc, districts of the Company's territories, and
place atc the entire disposal of Government the
bravest of the Hindoo warriors, in the same
manner that the annexation of Oude has placed
the nursery for Mahomedan soldiers in the grasp
of Government. The Government, so it is re-
ported, think it contrary to policy to have inde-
pendent States within 200 miles of the seat of
Government, and that, as the railways of the
Jumna Valley were hastening towards progress,
the evil of jurisdiction would be severely felt in
the action of government and the administration
of justice. As a salve to the undoubted right of
the Thacoors, the annexers state that to the Raj-
poot chiefs an honourable competency would be far
preferable to the irksome task of governing, espe-
cially as the rulers were so sunk in debauchery
that it required a thunderclap to rouse them from
their habitual lethargy to the responsibilities of
their situation and the wants of India and their
own peoples. It is stated that three-fifths of
the Ranas, instead of spending their time, as
their ancestors did, in martial exercises, in
the judgment seat, and looking after public
improvements, now delegate them to subor-
dinates and spend their time amid buffoons and
Cyprians ; that the Ministers, instead of being
chosen for birth or probity, are selected for their
knowledge of a new pleasure and the grand art of
extracting money from their impoverished tenantry ;
that both the Thacoor and his instrument are
thoroughly despised by the people ; and, finally,
that improvements in states do not arise from any
preconceived plan or conviction, but from impulse
or outward pressure ; that directly that ceases the
dancing girls, their paramours, and trainers usurp
the sway and treasury, and reduce the country to
abject misery, until the British Governin.ent steps
in—almost by violence steps in—and forces
change, which only lasts as long as the undivided
pressure lasts ; but the instant the pressure of the
Government of India is relaxed the State falls
principal into the slough from which it was dragg
Such are the outlines of the reasons,ed Ste.
we are informed, which have weighed with the
expedient, the an-
Hon. Court in ordering,
nexation of th© States of Rajpootana. The. Supreme
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Government of India forgets the D. a ,
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A Practical Dictionary of French and English
Languages. By Leon Contanseau. Longman
and Co.
This Dictionary presents some very important
alterations to the notice of the professor and the
student. The name of the author is a sufficient
guarantee that knowledge and experience have di-
rected its composition, as he is the professor of
French at Addiscombe College and the examiner
for direct appointments of cadets, Lk c. He states
in his preface that when he first entered on his
duties as professor he was struck with the number
of absurd mistakes made by the students in trans-
lating English into French. At first he attri-
buted this to a want of care in consulting their
dictionaries, but he soon discovered that these
volumes were also to blame, as they did
not afford sufficient assistance to the pupil, who
was obliged to select the right meaning of a word
by guess. Thus, he tells us of instances in which
the following ridiculous mistakes were brought to
him in translations. " That young lady is the
richest match in the town," was rendered " Cette
jeyne demoiselle est la plus riche ALLUILETTE de hs
yille ;" " the army took flight," was transformed
into " l'arme grit le v 01.," and perhaps even more
ludicrous was the translation of " in a desperate
case," daus un, ETVI desespere." All these mis-
takes, though they could scarcely be made by an
advanced scholar, would have been prevented by
the employment of the dictionary before us, where
one of the chief attractions and most decided Im-
provements is the division of the acceptations of
tehheoicwootrodbs
ebmysfidge.ureTs,huwsi,tiho
mdiorsetctiootnhserads
ries the different translations of a word are
ict:onthae-
as in the word match, which as
divhidedsobymaancyomdmiffa
given indiscriminately, only divided
meanings, meche, allumette, partie, jeu,
their meaning. In M.
.eg(aari,tilkeni,„ecezhee.; ST.h(irririt awgiell)
N., &c., are placed one after the other
without any indication asto
Contanseau's work it is as follows :—Match, 1.
must be of great assistance to
a(”t ihtuaeOcrnilifeaceagerr)enbae;eirl4l3,l;amrn(ceedelci: evuf
eoa; dir
2)l'n s one of the most important
improvements in this work. Another of much
prepositionsa
o fi
onu e
wtoof
words,t
veryh e verbs
such
uhr
frequent
unaedsn
photograph,
d mistakes.j e cti ves , which are
advantage to the student is the annexation of the
the
as ecrr screw-ship, hip, gasometer, &c., likely to revolver,Thein
r, be of im-
portance to those employed in business communi-
cations. There are several minor improvements,
which will commend themselves to the student by
the aid they will afford him in the acquisition of
the language. As an ability to translate readily
from one language to the other is so necessary and
advantageous at the present time of friendly inter-
course and commercial transactions, this work
will not be likely to pass unnoticed, but
will, no doubt, receive the encouragement that
the care and labour expended on its compilation
merit.

MEMORIAL OF THE LATE Mn. BRITTON.—At a recent
of the Royal Institute of Architects the Council
submittedintleeng
a proposition to the members present, to the
effect that it woulu be a graceful tribute of respect to
the memory of one who_ e to the profession have
been of an unexampled character, if a memorial tablet
were erected by the Institute, to commemorate those
services, and to re-)rd their regard for Mr. Britton.
And it was further suggested that it would be expedient
to make an application to the Dean and Chapter of
Salisbury, expressing the hope that permission would be
granted for the erection of the memorial in that cathedral
—which is at the same time the mother church of the
diocese, and of the county in which he was born, and
also the first cathedral of which he undertook the graphic
illustratioi. The proposition was received with.accla-
; matron, and will be acted on forthwith.—The

TEE TYNE.—It has been found that the water in the
steamer Tyne, which now lies stranded in the Isle of
Purbeck, has never reached higher than the main
engine floor, and the ladies' saloon and upper cabins
have not been in the slightest degree injured. All the
lightest portions of the steam maohinery have been re-
moved from the steamer. By last night it was expected
that the workmen would have the ship sufficiently
under their control to prevent any damage to her, even
if bad weather were to come on, for they would be able
to get at her side plugs and let the sea into her if
necessary, which would render her so immovable thatn
a
hurricane even could not then knock her to pieces o
the rocks. The distance it will be necessary to drag
her from the rocks into deep water is not above 60 yards.
Everything looks favourable for her rescue
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