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Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
G u lAD COURT.
By GEORGE MAC DONALD, M.A.
"A very entertaining story, abounding with wholesome into
rest and wise counsel."—Athetueum.

TO-N IGII T, THE FIFTH BALLAD
CONCERT, AT ST. JAMES'S HALL.

rand uttered, his exclamation would have appeared
perfectly natural.
For the present we are without information as
to whether the marquis, who lost twenty-two rela-
tions in the Reign of Terror ; who served in the
Grand Army ; who afterwards tied the cross of the
Legion of Honour to his horse's tail, and put a rope
round the neck of Napoleon's statue ; who robbed
Napoleon's sister-in-law and assaulted Talleyrand ;
and who at this moment, oddly enough, enjoys a
pension granted to him by the Napoleon now
on the throne of France—will or will not be called
upon to support the infirm parents of his rich
wife. The case for the defence is said to be that
the father-in-law had some 40,000 francs, but
that he gambled it away on the Bourse—a pro-
ceeding which shocks the delicate morality of the
Marquis d'Orvault.—Pall Mall Gazette.

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Times, says :

An official report has just been made of the cir-
cumstances attending the collision of the fishing
lugger James and Ellen with the Gorleston lifeboat
Rescuer, an inquiry into which was held in the
Town-hall, Great Yarmouth, towards the end of
last month, before Mr. Henry Harris and Mr. James
O'Dowd. The accident occurred on the 3d of De-
cember last, when the Gorleston lifeboat Rescuer
put to sea, with a crew of 12 hands, with the object
of rendering assistance to any vessel that might be
in distress from the effects of the violent gale of the
previous day. While cruising they observed a small
vessel in the offing, which proved to be the longboat
of an abandoned ship, the George Kendal, and con-
tained the crew of that ship, consisting of 21 per-
sons. The lifeboat took all on board except one
man, who refused to leave the boat, and who was
ultimately saved. They then placed two of the
lifeboat's crew on board the longboat, took her in
tow, and proceeded towards the harbour, on enter-
ing which a collision occurred, whereby no fewer
than 23 lives were sacrificed.
It appears that the navigable channel of the har-
bour is a little over 170 ft., and that shortly before
the collision the lugger and the Rescuer were seen
approaching the harbour nearly at right angles, the
one from the N.E., the other from the S.E. At the
same time the steam-tug Andrew Wodehouse, hav-
ing a dismasted brig in tow, was approaching the
harbour from the southward. The lugger was run-
ning in with the wind free at N.N.E. on the star-
board quarter. The lifeboat was close hauled upon
a wind on the starboard tack, and had just succeeded
in weathering the steam-tug, but so closely that the
longboat she had in tow struck her sponson boom.
In fact, the steam-tuggstopped her engines, momen-
tarily fearing an accident. The lifeboat having
cleared the steamer shot out across the harbour, and
in the short space of one minute and a half came
under the bows of the lugger, then running in
before the wind and sea. The lugger, on the other
hand, was under the direction of a pilot stationed
on the South Pier, whose duty it is in bad weather
to signal to an approaching vessel by waving his
hand the course she is to steer.
By the evidence of the pilot and also of the
master of the lugger it would appear that she was
as close over to the north shore as she could be
steered with safety. Both vessels had the harbour
open, and had a good look out been kept and the
relative position of the lugger to the lifeboat ascer-
tained, it would have been the duty of the lifeboat
to bear up. It is clear from the evidence that
neither the helmsman of the lifeboat nor of the
lugger saw each other's vessel, the attention of the
former having been probably occupied by the boat
he had in tow (the tow-rope of which he had just
ordered to be slacked off, fearing danger to her from
contact with the paddles of the steamer), and that
of the latter by the pilot, whose signals he was
watching, with a view to the safe conduct of his
vessel into the harbour. When the collision oc-
curred the lifeboat turned over, bottom up, throw-
ing all the persons on board into the water, and the
lugger shot rapidly up the harbour, passing be-
tween the stern of the lifeboat and the boat in tow.
The lugger could, under the circumstances, render
no assistance, so sudden was the casualty. Besides,
the consternation on the part of those on board was
so great that they appear to have been bewildered.
The sea was so heavy that their Small boat would
have been of no avail. The steam-tug, with laud-
able zeal, cast off the disabled vessel, and pro-
ceeded to the assistance of the people in the water.
Several men clutched the ropes thrown over, but
before they could be hauled on board let go their
hold through exhaustion and sank, only one man
being saved by these means.
The inquiry at Yarmouth was also ex%ended to
the circumstances attending a somewhat similar
accident which occurred to the same lifeboat, the
Rescuer, in January, 1866, when 12 lives were lost
out of a crew of 16. On that occasion the boat put
to sea in a gale of wind to render assistance to some
vessel in distress. It was low water at the time. In
crossing the bar, upon which a high sea was run-
ning, the boat took the ground, and, being under a
heavy press of sail at the time, she capsized. This
accident, like the more recent one, is not to be
attributed to any defect in the construction of the
boat, which might have happened to any other life-
boat under similar circumstances. The Rescuer
appears to be a powerful boat, 42 feet in length,
five feet nine inches in breadth, and four feet in
depth, provided with air tanks all round, both above
and below the thwarts, and her buoyancy is further
increased by a cork fender of large dimensions that
entirely surrounds the boat. Water is used for
ballast, which, having free ingress, is increased in
bulk and weight in proportion to the im-
mersion. From her large size sails are chiefly
used, oars being resorted to only when she is drop-
ping down the river, or for her guidance when ap-
proaching a wrecked vessel. Her crew in bad
weather is usually 20 or 22 hands when proceeding
to sea on salvage services. There appears to be no
want of efficiency on the part of the crew by whom
the boat has hitherto been manned, and though the
service is entirely voluntary the report recommends
no change, inasmuch as it would be impossible to
rely on any permanent crew, many of whom might
be at work as fishermen at the moment when the
aid of the lifeboat was reluired. The inquiry fully
bears out the following conclusions at which Mr.
Harris has arrived :
Firstly.—That the Rescuer is in all respects an
efficient lifeboat, and adapted for the purposes for
which she is intended, viz., for saving life and ren-
dering a,,sistance to vessels in distress, especially on
this dangerous coast.
Secondly.—That the accidents that have occurred
to her on both occasions, in January, 1866, and in
December, 1867, may be regarded as casualties
which might have happened to any lifeboet of what-
ever construction.
Thirdly.—lt is imperative, in order to prevent
the sad loss of life consequent on the recent and for-
mer disaster, that the crew should wear lifebelts
when engaged on this dangerous service. With
these they have been to a certaia extent provided,
but hitherto the crews of beachmen have evinced a
strong prejudice against wearing them, asserting
that they are too cumbersome, and also that they
impede their motions in rowing. The latter objec-
tion is scarcely valid, seeing that rowing is seldom
resorted to in boats of this description and size.
Captain Ward, R.N., in his evidence, furnished
some interesting statistics showing the value of life-
belts in case of accident. From 1849 to 1867, 200
persons wearing lifebelts have been either upset or
washed overboard from lifeboats, and of these only
12 lost their lives ; while out of 127 who failed to
take this prec,eintion no less than 100 perished. It
is gratifying, therefore, to find that the fatal
accidents to the Rescuer have awakened a great
many to the necessity of wearing the belts, and that
the witnesses who were examined at the inquiry
declared their intention of never putting to sea

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on similar service for the future without using
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KING 771E0DORF,'S PEDIGREE.

Mr. Charles Beke, in a letter to the editor of the

"In your review of Dr. Bianc's

work, "The Story of the Captives,' you make Form

very pertinent remarks on the imprudence and im-
policy of questioning King Theodore's pretensions
to Royal descent. Still, as what you say does not
fully account for that monarch's pertinacity in
claiming to be the descendant of Alenilek, sou of
Solomon, King of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba,
I would tvik you to allow me to explain that this
is in fact the title by which Theodore wears the
crown of Ethiopia. Dispute it, and he becomes
Kassa, the kosso-seller's son, as formerly.

" The proclamation made by him several years
ago places this in the clearest light. I have already
published it, but perhaps you may deem it worthy
of reproduction in your columns, both for the pur-
pose of proving what I have stated above, and
also of showing the great importance of a proper
understanding of these recondite matters, known to
so few.

" The claim of the Sovereign of Ethiopia to be a
descendant of Menilek is not at all a certain weak-
ness to glory in his supposed ancestors,' as Dr.
Blanc imagines. it is a necessity, as the following

examples will demonstrate.
" Aikuna Amlak, in the beginning of the 14th
century, made out his pedigree, by which he showed
his descent from Delnaod, the last reigning Sove-
reign of the Imperial dynasty in the tenth century,
which had been displaced by an intrusive line of
Kings of the house of Zagye, whose lineal descen-
dant \Yaagshum Gobazye is at the present day, as
I explained in the Times of July 5, 1867. Aikuna
Amlak's accession to the throne was thus alleged to
be the Restoration of the House of Solomon,' and
this is accordingly accepted as an historical fact,
notwithstanding that it has connected with it a
gross anachronism, which was pointed out to me
many years ago by Monsignor de Jacobis, otherwise
Abuna Yakob.

" In like manner, when Sahela Selasye, King of
Shoa, was taken up by the English in 1841, and
hoped with their assistance to acquire the sove-
reignty of the whole empire, he had a pedigree
drawn up, showing his progenitor Negusye to have
been a fugitive Prince of the Imperial house, like
the ancestor of Aikuna Amlak. This I know, be-
cause I was in Shoa at the time. _ .

" The latest pretender to the throne of Ethiopia,
as a descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of
Sheba, is Signor Alessandro de' Marchesi Marzara-
Bridgtower, whose mother's claim was countenanced
by Monsignor dc Jacobis, and who has himself ad-
dressed Lord Stanley on the subject, in a letter
dated September 13, 1867, which is printed on page
178 of the Abyssinian Blue-book of the past session
of Parliament. Signor Marzara's pedigree was com -
municated to me several years ago by a Quaker
friend of mine, when I found it to contain an-
achronisms not grosser or more absurd, perhaps,
than that in the pedigree of Aikuna Amlak, but
more patent, inasmuch as they relate to the 19th
instead of the 14th century.

" With these precedents before us, it will be per-
ceived that Theodore is not at all mad, as he is sup,
posed to be, in insisting on his claim, and punish-
ing those who dare to call it in question. In doing
so they are guilty of the crinzen kesx majestatis of
the Roman law, which is the groundwork of the
law of Abyssinia.
" The explanation now given will at the same
time serve to corroborate the opinion expressed in
my letter in the Times of the 4th inst., that the
death of Abba Salama, the late Coptic Abuna, was
not a natural one, but one caused by Theodore's
determination to prevent a David from being
anointed in the place of the Abyssinian Saul. He is
now safe in this respect until the consecration of
a new Abuna, who, in order to gain the confidence
and veneration of the Abyssinians, should not be
brought in by a foreign invading army, but must be
properly accredited by means of a native balderaba,
or introducer.

" PROCLAMATION.

" In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost, one God.
"The King of Kings, Theodore, created by the
Trinity its servant, installed by it and made Prince,
to his children given to him by God and to all the
Franks (Europeans).
"By your God and the God of your friend
Theodore, who appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai
and in the Red Sea, who appeared to Joshua at
Jericho, who through his servant Samuel anointed
Saul when he was seeking the asses that were lost,
who, when Saul turned from his Creator, com-
manded Samuel to anoint David.

" Solomon was King after David, according to
the word of the prophet and of his father; notwith-
standing that Adonias (Adonijah), against the will
of God, was proclaimed King by the people and
obtained favour in their sight. Solomon, by the
Queen of Azyeb (the south-east), begat Menilek,
who became King of Ethiopia. From Menilek down
to the dynasty of the Gallas, all the Kings were
stageplayers (azniciri), who sought from God neither
wisdom nor strength, but, with His help, the means
of raising up the empire were found, when God
chose me, His servant, to be King.
" My countrymen said, 4 The river is dried up,
its bed is empty,' and they insulted me because my
mother was poor, and called me the son of a beggar.
But the Turks knew the greatness of my father,
who made them his tributaries as far as the frontiers
of Egypt and to the gates of their cities. My father
and my mother descended from David and from
Solomon, and they are also of the seed of Abraham,
I the servant of God. _

" Now, those who insulted me with the name of a
beggar's son are themselves beggars, and beg for
their daily bread. Without God's will neither wis-
dom nor power can save from ruin. Nevertheless,
as God said unto Adam, In the sweat of thy face
thou shalt eat bread,' it is necessary not to fall into
slothfulness. But it is needless for me to give you
this advice ; for, as the proverb says, speak not of
wisdom to the sage, neither cut the food of a lion.'
" There is nothing powerful in the world. Many
have had mortars and cannons in abundance, and
nevertheless have succumbed. Napoleon had
myriads of them, yet he died conquered, after hav-
ing subjugated the Franks. Nicholas, Emperor of
the Muscovites, possessed them in abundance, and
he was vanquished by the French, the English, and
the Turks, and died without having accomplished

the desire of his heart.
"If in your countries you meet with any parti-
sans of the brigand Negusye, who shall say, like
the traitors of this country, that Ethiopia is
governed by the son of a beggar, wager with them
a field covered with gold that I, the present Em-
peror, am on the throne of my fathers, Abraham
and David, and bring them here to be confronted
with me.
44 It is God that bath put down the mighty
from their seats, and bath exalted them of low
degree.' "

FALMOUTH, Monday.—The steamship Kaffraria
Starks, commander, arrived at this port from London ou'
Sunday night, and, after embarking six passengers and 2G
bags of mails, proceeded at about noon this day for the
Cape of Good Hope. Among the passengers are the
Bishop of Capetown and wife.
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