Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-23
FOREIGN CHIT.CHAr AND GOSSIP

TRAN GaZette) q number of families are sbso-
lutely without shelter. More than 500 in three
faubourgs, are in this condition. and some have
obtained temporary lOdgment in the prisons
ana unoccuPied public buildings. 1t was ru-
nOred that barracks were to be constructed in
the city moats
The Marshal CASTELAR, took fancy not long
since, on a very hot day. to have a representa-.
ton Of q battle on a plain near the city of Ly-
Ons. While the firing was its height he chanced
TO perceive couple Of grenadiers who, tired
ont with exercise and the heat, had betaken
themselves 10 a shady spot, and were comforts
bly, stretched on the grass. The Marshal put
his horse to his speed, and galloped straight to
the delinquents
Rascals," he exclaimed, "what are YOU
doing here? While your comrades are fighting,
you are lying here asleep, What means this
neglect Of duty,"
Pardon, Marshall replied one of the SOL
diers, :. we are personating the dead bodies.'
The Marshal laughed, and turning his horse,
gallOped away.
LIE Steele publishes the following advertise
ment; A notary, aged 80, without property,
WISHES to marry, and is desirOus of finding a
lady suitable in every respect. of good family
and worth not less than 100000 francs in her
own right Such a one may address (post paid)
-ChateaurOux Qndre) to the initials j. B. A,
A. (.
PRINCE ALBERT is to preside in an educa-
tlonal conference, to be held for three days in
London, commencing June % to consider the
reasons why the working classes withdraw their
children prematurely from school, and the ex
Pedlents oy which that great obstruction to edu-
cation can be overcome. An educational
museum is to be opened at the same time, and
an exhibition Of maps, globes books, paint
boxes, and other Instruments of study The
debate will throw light on the subject Of educa-
ton among the very poorest
CONVICTION OF THE INSOcENT.-A petition
has been presented to the House of Lords for
some remedy for the evil that arises when a
prisoner Is convicted and afterwards proved to
be altogether innocent. All that at present
can De done is to grant pardon; but tribu-
nal should be established, by which the matter
might be Investigated and the Judgment re-
Versed, while the injured party should receive
compensation.
The GREAT HANDEL FEsTIvAL-The pre-
liminary arrangements for this musical solem-
nifty have been progressing in a satisfactory
manner. The London department of the cbo-
rus has long been in a state of completeness as
the trials at Exeter Hall, with loo singers
under Mr. Costas direction, of the choruses in
the Messiah, Israel in Egypt, and Judas Mac
cabaus, have proved.
LADY BULwER-whOse silly and unreadable
novel has been puffed into notoriety by the eff
iorts made by her enemies to suppress it-has
managed 10 catch the public ear upon another
matter connected with her wrongs She sent a
packet Of manuscript to Lord Lyndhurst which
being written in too small character for that
gallant champion Of distressed ladies to read
was laid by. She requested its return after a
time but 1t was somehow lost. The lady then
writes letter, limiting at some dark fraud or
conspiracy by which the papers have got into
the wrong hands; and Lyndhurst has had 10
e1Tlsln At the House Of Lords that he has made
no improper use Of them. She has also accused
the press OF eonspiring TO abuse her book
NEAL Dow has been welcomed In q temper
ance meeting at Exeter Hall, and addressed the
assemolage. He said the suppression of the
liquor traffic would effect saving of rs, 900 600
pounds, In addition to an equal saving in time.
The destruction Of the national habit of drink
ing would preserve 90 900 lives a wear, now
slain by the grOg shops; would rescue COG, 900
women from starvation. and a million children
from vice and crime. The speech was greeted
with enthusiasm.
CHARLOTTE BRoSrE AND Mr.. Wusoy-Mr
H. Shephesrd. late Fellow and Tutor Of Orial
College, Oxford Incumbent Of CastertOn and
Chaplain and Secretary of the Clergy Daugh-
ters School, writes a long letter to the London
Times, to repel the charges of cruelty and
spiritual pride. brought by the late Charlotte
Bronte in Jane Eyre, and repeated by Mrs.
Gaskell in her life of the novelist, against Mr.
Carus Wilson IN connection with the COwen
Bridge or Casterton School.
MRS GAskELL seems To have got into sew
ersl scrapes oy her life Of Charlotte Bronte
The aged father feels deeply her remarks con-
eerning his treatment of his children and she
has been cOmpelledt 20 send an apology, through
solicitor, TO lady who has been grievously
injured by the imputation cast upon her by the
reference to alleged private fact in the un-
happy career Of Bramweil Bronte.
Ii is RUSoRgD that Prince Albert's speeches
are about TO be collected and published under
the auspices Of the Society of Arts Gossip
Of Dir fair H. Il
iting Of these splendid exercitations
The MEMORIALS OF ANDREW CEossE-the
ElectncIan-have just been published in one
volume lie stood among the foremost Of the
natural philosophers Of the present century
and Is held in respectful admirng remem-
orance oy that inner circle Of science which
gives laws to the outer world. that can but re-
ceive the acquisitions Of higher and more gifted
minds.
Andrew Crosse was one Of Sydney Smiths
friends and used to relate how the Dean of ST.
Pauls once commenced a charity sermon as
follows; " A never B in distress without
wishing to relieve him. Crosse discovered
simple means Of purifying sea-water and
making il it to drink through the agency of
electricity. This discovery has since been pat
ented by company.
A CURIOUS WORK just published, is "The
Constitution Of the Animal Creation, as ex-
pressed in Structural Appendagest" byG Gull
u,
the hair is not bestowed for ornament or protec-
ton from atmospheric influences alone, but is
the result Of the escape Of the different super
fuous elements Of the system which are used
up in the production Of hair in man, and hair,
tushes, horns, &c, DO, in the lower animals
TIE POZNs of T. B. Read, r. H. Stoddard,
and H. L. Tuckerman, are praised in the Crit
ic, while the laudation bestowed by American
critics ON Walt Whitmsn's - Leaves of Grass ="
is justly repudiated. The first place is given to
Mr.. Read.
A GERMAN AUTHOREss-named Julie Bu-
ow-Pfannen-Schmidt-ha been called the Ger
man Predriks Bremen. She has written seve-
raj works which have obtained deserved pOpu-
larity. Her last tale is q The Woes and Veal
of Poverty" and it is connected with the war
In Crimsa
THE LIFE OF ASDRB CHESIER-one Of the
gulilotine's most illustriOus victims, has Just
appeared in Paris. 1t is a romance of over