of its greatness in the share of abbey lands obtained at the dissolution of the monasteries by Sir W. Cavendish, who had been gentleman usher to Sir Cardinal Wolsey." So faithful a gentleman usher had he been that after Wolsey's fall Henry the Eighth took a fancy him, and. rirtue wag rewarded by the grant of A great slice of the property other persons. But the large family were Dot blessed with church lands alone. Lady Cavendish built Hardwicke, Chatsworth, and Oldcoteg-the two last are no more, bat the first still survives- -with portion of the money she received from her four husbands -the fourth being Lord Shrewsbury, the keeper of Mary Start. Her second and invourite sou, the first Earl of Devonshire, ultimately came in for all the property his mother had acquired, and the con of the third Earl having been created a Duke in 1694, the titles and revenue descended in regular succession from father to son until the sixth Duke died unmarried, when present Duke of Devonshire, great grandson of the fourth, succeeded his cousin. Besides Chatsworth, a more splendid building than the one already mentioned bas been erected on the same spot, and Hardwicke, the father of the Marquis of Hartington, owns Holkar Hall, in Westmoreland; Bolton Abbey, in Yorkshire; Compton Place, Eastbourne, Sussex ; Lismore Castle, Waterford, Ireland; 0. mansion in Piccadilly, London; and many splendid estates. He tons, three Frederick sons- the Charles Marquis Cavendish, of Harting- late n Junior Lord of the Admiralty, and M.P. for the West Riding, who married 2 daughter of the late Lord Lyttelton, and is thus connected with Mr Gladstone, and Edward Cavendish, at one time M.P. West Sussex, who married a Miss Lascolles. Besides these sous he has a daughter married to the second son of Lord Ellesmere, K.G. man verging upon seventy Fears of and possessing great political influence in more than one counly, it is only natural that his successor should he treated as somebody. Our excuse for dwelling nt such length ou the family history and social position of the Marquis of Hartington is that AS plain John Smith, starting in the world with neither mouey nor infinential friends, he would remained plain John Smith to the end of time. It is the accident of birth which brings him to the front, and if he manages to cut a fair creditable figure in consequence of bis early training and other joberiled advantages, there are many less furtunate men in England today who, under like circumstances, would shine more. He is not described in Dod as having been to any pablie school, but it is assorted that be went to Eton, and was frequently, like many other aristocrats, thrashed by some of his plebeian schoolfellows. And he is also now credited with having said that the worst of going to Eton is that you are obliged to recog. nise fellows afterwards. Whether he went to a public school or not, be certainly proceeded to Cambridge, for we find he graduated as B.A. in 1854 at Trinity College. Having been born in 1833 he would forly-four then fears be of twenty-one age. In as 1856 he is be now Was auached Lord Granville's special missiou to Russia. The following Jear he obtained a seat in Parliament as member for North Lancashire through his father's intluence, which, bowerer, did not prove sufficient to reinstate him for the same county eleren years later. By that time he had been successively a Lord of the Admiralty for a few weeks in March and April, 1863, Under-Secretary for War from the latter date until October, 1806, and Secretary for War till the July following. Having lost his seat an obliging gentleman -Mr Green Grice, the wember for New Radnor-gracefully relired to make room for him, " without hope of reward, and without" £S he Sakes care to declare, ft having any personal knowledge of the Marquis.' The Marquis has had nearly nine Fears out of this borough, which was big enough to find as many as 612 votes for him at the lust election. Whilo thus representing this constituency, which can nt least claim not to be the smallest in England, he has held the positions of PostmasterGeneral, December, 1868, to December. 1870, when the management of Irish attairs WAS entrusted to his charge. Tho most noticeable thing which ho has done in the House was moving A rote of no confidence in the Inte Lord Derby's Administration, which was carried by 328 against 310. That he is destined to play a considerable part io the future, if he sbould live, cannot be doubted, bat would scarcely, seem that we have any right to the part he is called, upon play will be either carefully studied, or performed with great ability. His brother, Lord Frederick, has more go in him, and as in the course of the next | few Fears the present leader of the Liberal party will probably be called to' the Upper House, there to leave active politics alone, it is this brother who will ultimately most likely attract greater attention as an English politician. -ddelaide Observer. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FATHER. The Peel family belong to the class of English yeomen. The grandfather of the statesman was Robert Peel, who inherited a small estate called Peel's Fold, Lancashire. This ancestor married Elizabeth Haworth, the daughler of a gentleman of Lower Darwin, and maintained himself and his family at first by farming. He began at Blackburn the business of 0 calico printer ; and afterwards became a member of the firm of Haworth, Peel and Yates. He is described as a shy and reserved man, with turn for mechanics. When in his garden one day, making some experiments in printing, his only daughter, than a girl, brought him & sprig of parsley, saying she thought it would make pretty, pattern. He took it, looked at it, and he would try. The result was that the parsley pattern became a favourite with the trade, and protured for the inventor the nickname of 4 • Parsley Peel." Mr Peel took advantage of the introduction of the jenny, and became 8 cotton spinner. His first cotton mill was at Brookside, 8 small village near Blackburn, where he bad condacted his printing business. Afterwords removing to Burton-upon-Trent, he continued in 8 course of uninterrapted prosperity. His sons were in- stracted in his trade, and resembled their fatber in character, being reserved, bard working, plain, frugal, and unosteotations. The founder of the fortunes the Peels walked about in his later as a stately old gentleman, with a to headed cane, and dressed in the fushionable in the days of Dr Johnson, of and never tired of repeating his favourite maxion, "A man can always succeed ooly be will put is will into the endeavour. The father of the late Minister, Robert Peel, afterwards Sir Robert & the first baronet, was the third son " Parsley Peel," and this third seems to have most deeply imbibed sentiments of his a9 to worldly success, When eighleen years of he said to his father that he thought they were " too thick upon the ground,' and offered to go elsewhere if he give him 9500. Afterwards he his father's former partners, his maternal uncle, Mr Haworth, and his future fatherin-law, Mr Yates. He was then twentya three. Mr Haworth in time left firm, after which Mr Yates was senior, and young Robert Peel the junior, per. This second Robert Peel was a of untiring energy, and for many his life was devoted to incessant labour. At the age of thirty-six he married Yates, the young daughter of his partner. This lady, besides bringing to bim father's fortune, proved 1.0 excellent wife, affectionate, sweet-tempered, a good understanding, and 2 judgement. Of this union there born-after first one and then another daughter--on the 5th February, a a a a a R SOD Robert Peel, the future | good Alinister authority of England. that when It is tidings related of sOD's birth reached the father, he on his knces in his closet, returned fervent thanks to the Ahnighty, vowed that be € would give his child his conntry." Robert Peel, the farther, was an ardent admirer of Pitt, and desired nothing less than that the born to bim should prove n second Two Fears after his son's birth, in entered the House of Commons member forTam worth, bnt not as a man of wealth, for he had long thought on political matters nod ten years 1 proviously had published a pamphlet, titled, " The National Debt Productire of National Prosperity.' A branch his business establisbed in the borough town of Tamworth had raised it from a state of decline to a state prosperity. He hsd acquired Drayton Park, near Tamworth among olher purchases of land in Stalordshire | Warwickshire. In Parliament be was zealous and enthusiastic supporter Ar Pitt.: When in 1798 that Minister appealed to the country for pecuviary support in the war against Frauce firm of which Mr Peel was the leading partner responded by A subscription £10,000. In 1800 a baronetcy justly conferred upon the patriotic citizen ; and in 1802, when a vote censure was moved against Mr Pitt, And Sir Robert Peel making 2 stout defence on his bebalf. So extensive Sir Robert's busiuess become at time that he bad in his employment less than 16,000 persons, while to Excise Office he paid no less £40,000 annually on printed gooods -Leisure Hour. HIGH HEELS. The uncataral character impressed the gait of women by the prevalent fashion of high and narrow beels to boots is the expression of a perversion the natural relation of the articulations and muscular action such as cannot result in serious and permanent damage. The character of the injury which they produce, and the symptoms by which is expressed, are well described by Onimus in a recent communication the Societe de Medicine of Paris, which has been publisbed in L' Union de Medi| cale. The heel of the boots is not bigh, but narrow and incliued forwards, so that the distance between the beel the point of the foot is lessened, and foot appears smaller than it really This, absurd as it is, appears to be their chief recommendation 111 the eyes their wearers. The effect of the oblique position of the foot is, of course, to remove the weight of the body from its natural support -the prominence the oscalcis-and project it forwards ou to the plantar arch. Hence one the most frequent symptoms of which wearers of the shoes complain is an acute pain in the sole of the foot, in front and below the external maileolus. There is often considerable tenderness as well pain, possibly in consequence of an inflammation of the calcaneo-cuboid articuation. The forced depression of anterior part of the foot determines painful displacement of the articular surfaces. The toes, jostead of heel, first. touch the ground, the walk: is clumsy and heavy, instead of light and undulating. toes become permanently flexed pressed together, partly in consequence of the narrowness of the front part of boot, partly in consequence of the overaction of the flexors of the toes, due the increased pressure on the toes, doubt partly also to the habitual overextonsion of the - metatarso-phalangeal articulations, and to the irritation contraction of the short flexor of the in the sole of the foot. Otber muscles are also involved in the disturbance. Those of the calf are commonly in state of painfal contraction. In consequence of the height of the heel, body has a tendency forwards. muscular pains were the symptoms which first drew attention to the effects of boots. In cases of nervous temperaments the pain and irritation may have produced general nervous symptoms bysterical character. The mode of carriage of the body is influenced by position of the feet. -Lancet. of Australasia directors are negociating for lease of the new building now being erected by Messrs Holden and Dunn in Thomsonstreet. This we know to be a positive fact,Spectator. AN EARTHQUAKE would scarcely be minded by the residents of Fever and Ague localities eD used as they to being shaken up periodically. If people are obliged to live unhealthy regions they should take precaution to defend their systems against the attacks of malaria in advance of the unhealthy season. The surest protection course of UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SCHINDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS, which impart extraordimary vitality to every organ. MORE BANKS IN HAMILTON. -The
