New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-17

Government which Will proOapV occur' Ao'u"y
papers publish letter on the subject written oy Ar
thur Helps clerk of the council to the Royal Agrieui
tural Society, to Lord Tredegar its President making
suggestions for the benefit Of farmers and stockkeepe
and giving at length description Of the disease by
Prof. Simonds have preferred, however, condens'
ing my particulars from Prof Gamgee's remarks at
meeting Of metropolitan car.keepers.
With this state Of things, the papers improving 1t by
unpleasant sensational editorials and beef at 10 pence
pound you may imagine the dsmay of materfamilias
She can only fall back In helpless confidence upon the
exceptional and purely hypothetical integrity OF the
family butcher. Mr.. Aitchbone wouldn't sell me such
stuff, I'm sure u must have been her exclamation, in
thousands of households in London during the past
week. He is a touching superstition. that family
butcher 1t reminds one of the. belief OF Mater
familas that her boys never do wrong or have
any secrets from her. Other youths and butch.
ers may be peaceble. hers are immaculate.
After the cable and the cattleplague we are obliged
to fall back on promscuous and second rate topics for
conversation. have alluded to Abd.elKader and the
ex. Queen of the Sandwich Islands-let me devote
brief paragraph to these distinguished foreigners CIV
ing the lady the precedence:
Queen Emma just got here In time to be lionized at
the last etes of the season-the Wimbledon Volunteer
meeting and the Royal Academy soiTee. Her Otahei'
tian Majesty dt does good to recur to the old.
fashioned name of the island is rather "A pleasant
looking spec of Poynesan, not much browner than
a gipscy, and possessing decidedly nice figure. She
has English blood in ler veins as her grandfather was
an English sailor. They say that her grandmother
dned of Capt. Cook some time previous to her
nuptials, which. of course. makes Queen Emma adj
dtionally interesting. As for AbdelKader every
body knows all about him. An Arab Of Arabs, the
most deyout of Mussulmen short, stout and old. with
only two or three wives (soournng at his hoeD there
is nothing particularly impressive about his appear
ance but his white burnans decorated with the French
Legion Of Honor Whether fighting BedonD, cx-
enemy of France. twice prgrm to Mecca, or preserv
err from massacre Of the Christian population of Leba-
non, he has however some claims TO public attention.
As vet We have let him alone. He nmuses himself at
the Crystal Palace and goes to the Turkish Bath insti
tuted by Mr. Urquahart thinks London rather dingy
place after Paris and is not much excited by the spec
tacle of the factories which he is being taken to
see. It is suggested that il b. wishes to give
the Emir Eve call him an Emir. but don't
know what it moans) an idea Of his
power and importance, he shoud insure his presence
at Cherbourg. where English iron feet in all its
glory, will assemble on the lsth hear that iron.
at the great review and that the sight is to be
prccedcntedly magnificent So much so that think
Of going hther myself for the benefit Of TIE TRIBUNE
We have had mild about poisoning. supple.
mentary of the aniable Pritchard hanged at Glasgow
last week. A young Exeter surgeon has been charged
with an attempt to make away with his father-inlaw
mother in law. wife and lseryant by means Of
atropine in rabbit pie, which, according to the evil
dence needed suchseasonng 10 render il desteiousto
human life. foolish cook has fanciei poisoned
because her master, London surgeon, thought fit TO
turn her away; and the sudden death, from purely
natural causes Of another servant Of another Glasgow
doctor has excited any amount Of idiotic cacke.
Wherefore IL ochooyos medical men 10 be especially
careful what they prescribe for their patients until Dr.
Pritchard be forgotten.
need hardly call yonr attention TO the assumed dis
coyery Of means Of rendering gunpowder unexplo-
sve invented and patented by Mr. Gale, who has ox.
hbed experiments certainly conclusive far they
90 before the Duke of Cambridge and other military
authorities lie mixed the smutty grain with glass,
pulyerzed 20 powder, when you may stir up cask full
Of it with redhot poker without creating an explo-
sion. When needed for active service" the gnnpow
der is to be relieved Of its noncombustble alloy by the
use Of sieve The advantage Of the device in storing
gunpowder seems palpabe. And we who remember
the explosion of the magazines at Purfeet,
and the risk TO all London there.rom are Interested
| There is also a new patent Incubator on view, which
decidedly ecpses the poor old Eccaleobion once OF
Leicester square 1t matches all kinds Of eggs-goose
duck guineahen pheasant, and partridge - into
young OF the respective kinds very successfully The
apparatus is neither complicated expensive, and
the proprietor guarantees to hatch and produce
a fowl ready for the table. price one shilling II
So bravo Upham or rather, bravo Carlo MinaSi,
Inventor
| Mr. Pcabody's Trust Fund Of el50000. Of which We
heard so much three years ago. has resulted in four
blocks Of buildings, five stories high, at Islington
which are to be let out in tenements Of two three
rooms, at an estimated rental of two three and five
shings week respectively. People are dissatisfied,
think that il is either smart business transaction I'M
der the disguise of charity or that the trust has been
bunged.
This day last week-a long time ago to write about in
newspaper. but must not let the fact pass without
lcommemoration - Sir Edward Bglwer Lyton enter
tanned sundry men Of letters in sort Of fete champetre
NJ Knebworth aproDos Of the completion of three aims
houses for tecayed authorsnot yet tenanted-the not
result Of the grand guild of literature and art which
we talked about ever SO loug ago. twas. Think
% rcgenerate the craft only it didn't do it,
IpIwer (be was Buwer then not Lyton) wrote drama
modestly entitled mot so Bad as We SEEM and
number Of authors and literary celebrities acted In the
niece. both in London and in the country Ihen' OF
course. there was dispute as to whether this mode
of raising money was consistent with the dignity Of
literature. followed by quarrels and newspaper
controversies, and then the public got bored
and We heard no more about IT, until the
o,hor dav II cropped I'D In the shape of these aims