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northern manufacturer (Mr. Addison), has the legal
right. Woman's fascination is to prove more power-

Accounts, from Marseilles state that wine has
advanced in price in that city, owing to the intelligence
from Languedoc that some injury had been done in the vine-
yards by frost.
COLLIERY STRIKE AT HUNWICK, NEAR BISHOP
AtiCKLAND.—The whole of the pitmen, employed at the
Newfield and Binchester collieries, Hunwick, near Bishop
Auckland, the property of Mr. R. W. Jackson, of West
Hartlepool, to the number of about 300, struck work on
Wednesday last, in consequence of an alleged breach of
contract on the part of the owner. They state that the
measure tub by which their coals had previously been mea-
sured had been removed and a larger one substituted, there-
by entailing upon them a greater amount of labour than was
anticipated when they entered upon their engagement.
Summonses for desertion were immediately taken out against
magistratesin and
around Thursday. day.
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bench
three of tne number, John Hardy, Thomas Hardy, and
George Boothwright, and the charge was heard before the
Bishop
pmAenut prevailedcklantl
committed them for seven days. An open air meeting was
subsequently held in the town, at which strong dissatisfac-
tion was manifested.—Manchester Examiner.
SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—The
friends and supporters of this association for the relief of
poor and necessitous attorneys, solicitors, and proctors in
England and Wales, and their wives, widows, and families,
last evening celebrated their first anniversary by a dinner
at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. The Lord Mayor
presided on the occasion, and was supported by upwards of
100 members of the legal profession. Although the society
had been but recently formed, many benefits had been
already conferred by it upon men who had become reduced
from a state of affluence to that of abject destitution. The
Lord Mayor, in the course of his address to the meeting,
expressed a hope that the society would be hereafter as pro-
minent for its bevevolence as its members were acknow-
ledged to be useful by their services to the general well-
being of the community. The subscriptions amounted to
upwards of £9OO. Messrs. Ransford and Young were pro-
fessionally
i spent engaged,b
y and gave great enjoyment to an even-
ing t h
doable
pleasure of a good dinner
and the consciousness of contributing to the aid of a good
cause.
DARING THEFT OF £175 FROM A BANK
COUNTER.—On Friday afternoon Mr. Forrester, baker,
Gordon-street, proceeded to the Royal Bank, shortly before
the time of closing, to lodge a sum of money. Having
counted out £175 in large notes he placed them in a bundle
on the telling-table, and was about to count out some small
notes to make up the sum he wished to lodge, when a party
asked him if he could give him a £5 note for five £1 notes.
This he was about to do, when, on turning round, he
saw, or thought he saw, a hand hastily drawn from the
counter, and when he looked more particularly, found to
his surprise that his bundle of £175 had disappeared. He
then observed a smart little fellow hastily leave the bank,
whom ho at once suspected of the theft, and
whom he immediately followed. On getting to the street,
however, the fellow had turned the corner before Mr. For-
rester could give the alarm, The daring thief consequently
escaped, but we hope only to be captured. Informa-
tion was at once given to the police, but as yet we have not
heard of any traces of the rascal having been found.—
Glasgow Journal.
EXPLORATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN RIVERS.—
According to the last advices from Australia, Capt. Cadell
by whom the river Murray to Albury, and the river Mur-
rumbidgee to Gundagi (from 1,800 to 2,000 miles from the
mouth of the Murray) was opened up, had successfully
availed himself of a favourable opportunity for exploring
the Darling. On the 24th of January last, in his
steamer Albury, accompanied by Richard M'Don-
nell, Governor of South Australia, and party, he
' left Morundee, on the Murray, and a short dis•
tance above Lake Victoria the Darling was entered. With
but little difficulty the steamer reached a point above
Mount Murchison, that being the verge of the country that
is stocked. As the water in the river was falling rapidly,
it would not have been safe to ascend further ; but at a
future period Captain Cadell hopes to take his st
to me
ourke.r up
to the junction with the river Barwan, above Fo B
When Captain Sturt and Sir Thomas Mll
itche visited the
Darling near Mount Murchison, they found it almost
ee
a
chain of water-holes. The Albury got back to Moorund
on the 15th of February, all well.
THE COST OF A Kiss.—The case of Dawson v.
Cooper, which was tried at the Liverpool Court of Passage,
on Saturday, excited considerable interest. It was an action
to recover damages for a kiss, given under the following cir-
cumstances :—lt appeared that some lawsuits were pending
at the time, and that the defendant, who is an attorney, was
engaged against the plaintiff. On the 24th December last
he called at the public -house then kept by the plaintiffl about
and
whilst there kissed the daughter, a nice-looking gir
15 years old. She immediately told her mother what had
occurred, who rebuked the defendant for what ho had done
upon which he asked where the mistletoe was, and kissed
her, too, remarking that it was the sweetest kiss he ever had,
to which she answered that it might be the dearest. The
daughter was called, and stated that she told her mother
" a dirty old Jew had kissed her." She slapped his face
several times for taking the liberty. Mr. Brett made a
humourous speech for the defence, in extenuation of his
client's conduct. Mrs. Cooper's curls, he said, tickled the
defendant's cheeks, and, poor man, the temptation was too
strong for him, _especially as.it was Christmas-eve. The
learned Assessor summed up, and the jury returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff, damages £s.—Lirerpool Albion.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—An inquest was
held at Wolverhampton on Friday afternoon last, before Mr.
Coroner Phillips, on the body of Thomas Price, a labourer
at the Swan Garden Works in that town, who had died a
few days previously in terrible agonies. During the
paroxysms he repeatedly charged his wife with having ad •
ministered poison to him, and this, notwithstanding the
marked character of the symptoms exhibited by the unfor-
tunate man, was considered to render an inquest necessary.
The post mortem examination, however, fullly cleared the
poor woman of participation in her husband's death. Price
was a great dog fancier, and had doubtless been inoculated
with the fatal virus by some one of his canine pets, but
neither he nor any of his friends seemed to have any recol-
lection of his having been bitten, or of any of his dogs hav-
ing become rabid. The jury found that the deceased had
died of hydrophobia.—Manchester Examiner.
MADAGASCAR SNAKES.—There are also serpents
in the island of various kinds; but the largest are not
olsonous, though they will bite severely if assailed or
irritated. M. Provint told ism e that on one occasion, when
he was travelling in the country, having risen from the
mat on which ho had slept during the night; he went a
short distance, and having. directed his servant to prepare
the mats for resuming the journey, was called back by the
man, who on rolling. up the mats, discovered an immense
in a ci rc
it
e
serpent, seven or eight feet long and as thick in the body
as an ordinary wine-bottle. It was coiled up
exactly in the spot where he had been lying, to which
had pi obably been attracted by the warmth. He said he
was startled at the sight of such a monster, and called to
the natives to destroy it, but, instead of this, the people
took a piece of stick, and just guided its head towards the
long grass and bushes, saying, "Go you away, go." They
seemed to regard with a sort of superstition, almost
amounting to dread, all serpents, crocodiles, and other
dangerous replies, which they scrupulously avoid injuring,
under an apprehension of experiencing retaliation, either
from that identical reptile or from some other of its species,
at a future time. The only serpent which I saw was a
small one, between three and four feet long, of a light yel-
low or straw-colour, and beautifully mared with trans-
verse stripes of brown ; but I was told the reptile was not
venomous. The gentleman under whose mats the
immense serpent had coiled itself while ho was sleeping
also told rue that, when passing through the dense unfre-
quented parts of the forest in the interior, he met with large
serpents which, when he has come suddenly upon them,
had appeared irritated, and had raised themselves up
several feet as if to resist his progress, till he attacked
them with a spear.-'Elba's Madagascar.
THE AMENDED OATHS ACT.-0110 of the acts
which received the Royal assent on Friday was to settle the
form of affirmation to be made in certain cases by Quakers
and other persons by law permitted to make an affirmation
instead of taking an oath. Instead of taking the oath pre-
scribed in the Act of last session (21st and 22d of Victoria,
cap. 48), the persons alluded to are .to make a solemn
affirmation in the following words :—"I, A 13, do solemnly,
sincerely, and truly declare and affirm that I will bear true
allegiance to Queen Victoria and to her will be faithful
against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall
be made against her person, crown, or dignity, and I will
do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to
Queen Victoria, her heirs, and successors all treasons and
traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be formed
against her or them, and I will be true and faithful to the
succession of the Crown, which succession, by an Act en-
titled, ' An Act for the further limitation of the Crown and
better securing the rights and liberties of the subject,' is
and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, .Eleetress of
Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants,
hereby utterly renouncing and refusing any obedience or
allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending. a
right to the Crown of this realm ; and I do declare that no
foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate bath, or
ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-
eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within
this realm."
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF POISONING.—On
Saturday morning, at the Liverpool police-court, before
Mr. Mansfield, two youths, named Thomas Hayes, 15, and
Henry Peel, 15, were brought par' detective-officer Car-
lyle, on a charge of having put a lge quantity of chromate
of potash, a. dadly poison, into the holy water font at the
Catholic church in Blackstock-street. The case excited a
great deal of interest, and the court was crowded by persons
from the locality, as it had caused an unusual amount of ex-
citement in the neighbourhood. Both prisoners were in the
employment of Mr. Tyson, an extensive soap manufacturer,
in Blackstock-street, and it would seem that chromate of
potash was used in the manufacture of soap, and that the
prisoners had taken a quantity of that poison and put it
into the holy-water font. When they were arrested on the
charge, Hayes confessed that lie had done it. Mr. Mans-
field said he understood that holy-water was merely used
for making the sign of the cross on the forehead, in reference
to the baptismal vows. Mr. Russell said it was used for that
purpose, but many also put it to their lips. He would show
that by mixing the poison with the water it would burn the
forehead and lips, as it was a corrosive poison of a deadly
nature. The charge having been proved by the evidence of
several witnesses, Mr. Russell said he understood that the
boys were respectable in their sphere of life, and bore a good
character. l'N either he nor those who instructed him had
any wish to have them punished severely, but only desired
t
hat others might bo warned against doing similar acts.
Mr. Mansfeld said it appeared to him to be a confederacy
fur the purpose of annoying
and insulting the congregation
who went to the chapel. Peel said llayes told flint to do
it. Hayes said he only did it to daub the hands and fore-
heads of the people, not knowing that it was poisonous.
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Mr. Mansfield said the prisoners had done a very improper
and wicked act. Their conduct had boon very gross in-
deed. In order that it might be a caution to others, as he
congregations, he ordered both the prisoners to find bail, in
pa
enane annoying
nn
athned
be of good behaviour, or else • -for six
to be imprisoned esoh
months.
A DANDY.---Touching dandies, let us consider,
with some scientific strictness, what a dandy specially is.
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man—a man whose trade,
office, and existence consist in wearing clothes. Every
faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically
consecrated to this one object—the wearing of clothes
wisely and well ; so that, as others dress to live, he lives
to dress,--Carlyle,;

111. than the law, and when Mr. Ironside arrives,

swelling with his sense of right, and expecting a
shrewd disputant,- he finds such a perfectly unre-
sisting creature that he don't know what to make
of his position. He came for a verbal fight, but
there is nothing to hit, and when Mrs. Smylie asks
for a week to settle her affairs he grants the delay
without hesitation, and in trusts further negotiations
to his lawyer, Mr. Cunninghame (Mr. H. Wigan).
With the " professional gentleman" Mrs. Smylie
becomes the type of a strong-minded woman, and
by the blaze of her charms and the depth of her
legal knowledge so utterly overwhelms the doomed
pettifogger that he loses not only his heart but his
sense of rectitude, and betrays certain weak points
of his client's case. The end of the contest, as
might be expeeted, is brought about by a mar-
riage between Ironside and the. widow, this
catastrophe being preceded by a skirmish
of generosity, in which Mrs. Smylie refuses
to take advantage of the weak points revealed
by the treacherous lawyer, while Ironside resigns
his pretensions to the estate by means of a dQed of
gift. A filibustering gentleman of Central Ameri-
can experiences, who aspires to the hand of the
,widow, and is played by Mr. G. Vining, is intro-
duced as a contrast to the more disinterested manu-
facturer, but he rather adds to the length than
increases the strength of the piece.
Mrs. Stirling has long been renowned as an

admirable representative of those fascinating ladies
who, when the charm of girlhood has passed, rule
the world, partly by the force of developed beauty,
partly by tact ; and she did herself full justice as
the lady exulting in the "nine points of the law."
Mr. Addison, whose worth has been known in a
much shorter time, probably surprised many of
the audience by the perfect manner in which he
played Ironside. Nothing could be better done.
There was the downright blunt man, sound at heart,
uncouth in manner, forced, in spite of himself, to
bring his best side outwards, and fidgetting not a
little with hands, legs, and fingers while the pro-
gress of conversation was going on. The little
grotesque lawyer, by Mr. H. Wigan, was an excel-
lent "bit" of character.
For a very pretty drawing-room, garnished with
pictures, and backed by an extensive country view,
the audience are indebted to the pencil of Mr.
Telbin. In this elegant apartment the dramatis
persona fought their battles, and a complete suc-
cess was attained.
During Passion-week the theatre will become the
site of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Reed's popular enter-
! tainment.

11E.RR OTTO GOLDSCHMIDT'S

CONCE.R7I

Herr Otto Goldschmidt, a pianist of remarkable
talent, and an excellent musician—husband, more-
over, of the famous Jenny Lind.—gave the first of
an announced series of matinees musicales, atWillis's
rooms, yesterday afternoon. Herr Goldschmidt
played Mendlessohn's " Variations Serieuses " as a
solo piece, and took part with Messrs. Sainton,
Schreurs, and Piatti in Mozart's pianoforte quartet
in E flat ; with Signor Piatti in Beethoven's sonata
in G minor, op. 5 ; and with Messrs. S. Pratten,
Crozier, C. Harper, Schreurs, Piatti, and Ho well
in Hummell's septuor in D minor, op. 74. In each
and every one of these Herr Goldschmidt displayed
executive talent of a high order, informed by such
pure and classic musical sentiments as can only be
acquired through careful study, and a sympathetic
appreciation of the best models. -Herr Goldschmidt
was warmly applauded in all his efforts by a nume-
rous and fashionable audience, amongst whom, our
readers will not be at all surprised to hear, was tho
great Swedish Nightingale herself.

LATE

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THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA
• MAILS.

MARSEILLES, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Nepaul, with the mails from Calcutta and
China, arrived at Marseilles yesterday at 8 p.m.
The mails left for London at 10.30 p.m.,

Passengers are to remain in quarantine 15

hours.
The Indus left Malta for Southampton at 4 p.m.
on the Bth inst.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

BERLIN, MONDAY.

The official Prussian Gazette (Preussische Zei-
!any) publishes a leading article, of which the

following is a summary :

During the last few days uneasiness has taken
possession of the public mind at the news that the
assembling of the Congress has again become doubt-
ful. The anticipation of a near and dangerous
crisis, which that news arouses, has increased public
fears. Without wishing to maintain the ground-
lessness of the intelligence, we nevertheless believe
ourselves permitted to assume that in spite of the
serious turn affairs have taken, the efforts of the
mediating Powers are not yet to be regarded as
terminated ; and, indeed, a step of a meaiatorial
nature has just been taken by the Prussian Govern-
ment. Keeping in view the repeated declarations
of France, of a peaceful tendency, the hope still
remains, that mediation in the impending diffi-
cult questions may possibly .be proceeded with.
In the meantime the country, with provident
regard for coming emergencies, may be strong in
the consciousness that, above all things, its Govern-
ment has, during the negotiations for mediation,
neglected no steps which could enable Prussia to
fulfil the duties imposed upon her by her position
towards Germany and Europe. Government may
hope to meet with the confidence of the coun-
try, and may entertain the expectation of find-
ing, on the part, of her Ferman federal allies, a
similar confidence, animated by similar endeavours.

PARIS, MONDAY

The Pays of this evening states that, if the in-
formation it has received be correct, the difficulties
which obstructed the assembling of the Congress
are definitively removed. The Powers are said to
have agreed upon the conditions under which they
will disarm simultaneously, and thereupon Austria
had given in her adhesion to the Congress, which
would meet in a few days.

The Pays publishes this news under reservation
but believes it correct.

VIENNA, APRIL 12

The official Austrian Correspondence ( Oestreich-
ische Correspondenz) publishes an article, of which
the following is a summary .

Austria has given undeniable proof of her love of
peace by the manner in which she met Lord Cow-
ley's mission, and afterwards by accepting the pro-
posals for a Congress. Willingly would Austria
make sacrifices in order to preserve peace, but she
cannot do so merely to grant others delay before
the commencement of war. The disarming of Pied-
mont has been stated as a preliminary condition,
which condition was supported by England ; whilst
Austria, on the other hand, proposed a general dis-
arming as the first act of the Congress, thereby adding
a fifth preliminary point to those already proposed.
France did not think it possible to make Piedmont
disarm alone, and Austria, therefore, proposed a
general disarming before the Congress began, in
order to ensure essential guarantees for the main-

tenance of peace.
The article concludes thus :—" How could it be
thought possible that Austria would join the Con-
gress unless substantial proofs were given that the
spirit which actuates her prevails also in all the
other Cabinets."

BERLIN, TUESDAY, April 12.

The Archduke Albrecht, of Austria, arrived
here this morning, at a quarter-past past five
o'clock, from Vienna. His suite is composed of
four superior officers. He was received at the
railway terminus by the civil authorities and the
Commander-in-Chief of the army of Berlin.

The Archduke afterwards repaired to the royal
palace, one wing of which was put in readiness for
his Imperial Highness.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Ak,hbar of Algiers publishes the following
letter addressed by the new Minister of Algeria and
the Colonies to the prefects and the generals com-
manding divisions in Algeria :

"Paris, March 26.
"The Emperor, in calling me to the honour of
directing the Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies,
has given me the mission of continuing the work
so auspiciously commenced by his Imperial High-
ness Prince Napoleon. To that difficult but honour-
able task we must devote our exclusive attention ;
and it is in order to accomplish it that I now claim
your co-operation, and appeal to all men of sound
purpose. Algeria, conquered by our glorious
army, pacified by its intelligent perseverance, now
offers to colonisation and civilisation an opening
which is too vast and attractive to permit that
France should do otherwise than introduce there
her activity, and transform it into one of the
elements of her power. The Emperor was of opi-
nion that the moment had arrived to extend to
Algeria a portion of the benefits of our home organi-
sation, and that the most powerful encouragement
that could be offered to Frenchmen desirous of
transporting there their fortune and industry would
be to show them that they and their families would,
to a certain degree, find there an entire image of
their native country. Such was the generous and
fruitful idea which dictated the decree of the 24th
June last. That idea will animate us all, for lam
aware of the desire of the civil and military autho-
rities to co-operate with devotedness in the grand
work in which France is engaged in Algeria. ' For
my part, I shall labour without cessation, and shall
be happy to submit to the Emperor the progress
that may be made, and the names of the men to
whom it will be due.
• " Count DE CHASSELOUP-LAUBAT."
BOURSE, April 11.—A rally has taken place to-
day, especially in Threes and the Austrian shares,
owing to the report that the Austrian Cabinet
has agreed to disarm and take part in the Congress,
on condieion that the disarmament shall be general.
Threes have been done at 67f. 25c. to 67f. 75c. ;
Mobilier 667 f. 50c. to 700 f. ; Austrian, 510 f. to
526 f. 25c. ; Lombardo-Venetian, 485 f. to 510 f. ;
Orleans, 1,240 f. to 1,255 f; Lyons, 825 f. to 830 f. ;
Eastern, 620 f. to 630 f. The following were the
closing quotations : .

41 per Cents. .... N 75 I Credit Foncier 640
Do. end month .. 95 ! Belgian 41 •. ~ _
3 per. Cents. ...... 67 451Piedmontese (5) • • 75 75
Do. end month.... 67 25 Roman B6
Bank Shares...... 2800 Austrian —
Credit Mobilier .. 690 Spanish Threes .44 75
Do. Account ..... 677 50 Home Debt —

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account
Orleans
Northern 905 .. 905
New ditto. 785 .. 780 -
Lyons and. Mediterranean B3O .. 822 50
New ditto
Geneva'
Midi — • •
Southern
Western 537 50 .. 632 50
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian 390 .. —[—
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. ; money
251.2±c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 90c.; money, 24f. 90c.

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