The Era from London, Greater London, England • 5

March 17, 1867. THE fi A. 5 LITERATURE. Soosek os Later. London Bradbury, Evans, ana Co.

The March number of Mr. Shirley Brooks's vigorously written story is, as nsaal, charmingly illustrated by G. Du Maurier. The subject is the young rars. ciuei jouiuug -g6a somen eggs, as tney tor- tunately happen to prove.

In the chapter devoted to the heroine's honeymoon there is a careful and elaborate description of some OITY and MONETARY INTELLIGENCE. Friday Evening. 1 he English Market showed firmness in the early part of the week, and the Government broker coming into the Market as a purchaser on account of the sinking fund, Consols advanced to 91J Money, and 91 Account, being an improvement from the previous Friday of per cent. They have, however, since receded i per owing to disquieting rumours relative to foreign affairs and the wretched state of the weather, which affects the attendance in the Stock Exchange. Consols closed this evening at 91 Money, and 911 Account.

The amount taken by the Government broker during the week has been 136,000 in New Three per at prices ranging from to 89f ex div. India Stocks are in good demand, and the Five per Cents, have improved 1 per cent, on the week. The settlement in the Foreign Market has taken place, and has passed off satisfactorily, notwithstanding two or three failures. Turkish Five per Cents, are about per cent, better, but the Loans of 1854 and 1858 are lower. Egyptian are in good demand, and the Loan of 1854 and the Eailway Loan have improved percent, owing to reductions of expenditure which have been made by the Viceroy to prevent the necessity of further loans, an example which if-, wnilld hA well fur- nlliai.

i.ll r-, i ettiuisite Jiigiuana scenery, oy a meiancnoiy coincidence, this description, which we understand to have been sketched from a domain in the occupation of Mr. John Phillip, E.A. (the author's intimate friend), appears simultaneously with the announcement of the lamented death of the great artist. A Tbavers Champs Par Le Chevalier De. Chatelaine.

Londres: Kolandi, 20, Bernersstreet. Many of our readers have doubtless found cause to admire the Chevalier De Chatelaine's masterly rendering of Shakespeare's plays into French. The volume headed as above is a charming collection of poetical ems and it will be conceded, upon perusal, that the author is fndowed with a most graceful fancy and refined taste. The Chevalier's book commences with a succession of short and miscellaneous ooems and terminates with a series of legends. Translations by fpDoold Wrayand E.

C. Moggridge of the Chevalier's "Naples et CHESS. NEW SERIES. To Correspondents. All communications to be directed to The Eea, 9, Catherine-street, Strand, Loudon.

Satirist. Your comments on the game are very entertaining a true "pill to purge melancholy," though a trifle" too drastic for this squeamish age. The note on the Jinate calls to mind the saying of a well-known lialiitue of the Cigar Divan in its palmy days, when asked who won a certain pdftie played the night before. "Oh! Black won it! Black won it said the inquirer, Why, when I left, he had a miserable position how did he win it Well, he won it, but the details are not fit for publication." M. D.

There is no rule that we know of which compels a player to move his King first in Castling, though it would be a good thing if there were. G. Originally published, many years ago, in a Chess periodical, called the Plulidorian, which was edited by George Walker, a fine player, and a most fertile and amusing writer on the game. Siiico. H.

B. T. We look to have the programme of the "International Chess Congress at Paris next week. You shall then know all about it. T- M.

Truly an "Orient pearl;" but the following, also from the far East," is a rarer gem Place White's men thus King at R's 5K' at KB's 5th, and Pawn at K's 4th; then place Black's King at his Rook's square. In this situation, supposed to have been the end ot a capped Pawn game between two famous Shagirds," White declared he would give mate Kith Ms Pawn in four moves. How did he effect it? Nestor. The Match byTelegraph, projected between Paris aud London tms spring is to be played, dame Rumour says, between three English and three French players, for a stake of 100 guineas. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

OE statute law to lonf npon the taMe B1B the force of in England and WiSta a tors in city and borough ago by the Chancellor )tl Kmed statement made some nights the Art of 1832 had had the eSH 1U HTe of Commons, that the franchise. ct of dePr'ving the working classes of the returns moved subject of hPs motion' 3 JPTh was with the chise; but this was conSalraeefl 1 hi the fran-roll of the 57,000 soot aTd lot vote "'i1 reraoval tlle abolish the variety franchises which lt a8 a t0 the whole down haViag bee" rd-d' adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONSMonday The Hon. Percy Herbert took his seat for South Shropshire mm beins re elected on his appointment to the Treasureship of the HotsB The Valuation Property Bill was read a second 1 and orlered to be referred to a Select Committee. orowea to The Metropolitan Poor Bill was further considered in Committee The House soon after went into Committee of Supply. HOUSE OF Lord Rbdesdalk introduced a Bill, which was read a first time granting protection to insolvent railway companies against actions hv individual creditors.

It is proposed that the measure shall be of a merelv temporary character extending until the 1st of August by which time Lord Eedesdale hopes permanent legislation will have been effected Their Lordships adjourned at twenty minutes past five o'clock. HOUSE OF OOMMONSTueaday. Mr. Ewaut moved for leave to bring in a Bill to open the benefits of education in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to students without obliging them to be members of a' college or hall iu those Universities Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. On the motion of Mr.

M'Lagan a Select Committee was ordered to be appointed to inquire into the existing legislative provisions for the protection of life and property against fire in the United Kinirflnm nn.l nQ rt Problem No. 6 (New Series), Iby Mr. T. lu lonow. ttreeK are uown i Per Mexican are i per cent, better, Messrs.

Baring being about to divide the money in hand on account of last July's dividend. Italian have improved per cent. Spanish Passives have declined per cent. whilst Certificates are firm. Eussian are steady, the New Loan being 2i per cent.

prem. Chilian and JUanubian Scrip have improved i per cent. United States Five-Iwenties are per cent, better, though the highest prices of the week have not been maintained. The Foreign Market has been generally depressed throughout the week, and to-day it opened with a very general fall, owing to a statement in The Times this morning that the Great Western had nt0 the Bank of EnSiand for assistance to the extent of 1,000,000, which had been refused. Towards the close of the day, however, prices rallied, and manv of the lines left off better than yesterday.

There has been a fall on the week, however, on London and Brighton of 3 per North British, 2i; Great Western, Midland, and Caledonian, 1 Great Northern, South Western, and North-Eastern, London and North-Western, Great Eastern, aud Metropolitan, and London, Chatham and Dover, per cent. Bank Shares are somewhat depressed. London Joint Stock and Alliance are down 1, and London and Westminster 10s. per share. London and County have improved 10s.

Financial and Joint Stock Shares, as a rule, show little alteration but Atlantic Telegraph are 5 per 100 Of the 250,000 6 per cent. Ceylon Debentures offered to the public at 108, only 90,000 have been subscribed for. The Bank rate of discount continues at 3 per and in Lombard-street money is plentiful at 2 percent. The bullion arrivals of the week have only amounted to about 80,000, and the exports, 30,000. The amount of gold known to be at sea from Australia is 626,500, of which upwards ot 160,000 are considered due.

The Corn Market has been firm at an advance of Is. per quarter. Saturday Evening. The English Market opened rather firm, hut subsequently declined to the closing price of yesterday. The Foreign Market has been firm.

Turkish Five per Cents, have impro'ed per and the Loan of 1858 A per cent. United States Bonds are per cent. The Bailway Market showed some improvement at the opening, but it was not maintained. Great Western have declined per and Brighton and South Western are depressed, The other markets are unchanged. hwwie (Outre Monde, and La Partie d'JSehecs du Diable liqende Arlesienne, are both given in French and English.

This issue of poems is got up in the best style, and is worthy the notice of all who value literature of a high class. Night aSd Mobsing. By Lord Lyttos. London George Bontledge and Sons. The Messrs.

Eoutledge's cheap editions of this great English novelist's works meets with constantly increasing recognition from the general public. It is in reality a boon that works of such sterling excellence and high tone are now within the reach of the million, and to the enterprising publishers of the day every credit is due for putting the best examples of English literature before the public who cannot afford to give large sums for their books. With the merits of "Night and Morning," as a novel written in the great author's most vigorous style, the world is tolerably familiar; and the opportunity of purchasing it complete for such a small sum as the Messrs. Eontledge demand, will surely be eierly taken by a large section of the reading public. A Book of the Law op London Cabs and Omnibuses.

By William Thomas Chaeluy, B.A., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. The useful little book thus named is published by the same firm. In its pages are supplied evervkind of information respecting the mutual obligations of those who keep vehicles for hire and those who use them. The system of licensing, under which cab and omnibuses ply in our streets; is fully explained. Numerous cases of summons before Police Magistrates are quoted at length; and the law, as it stands in this branch of public traffic, is thus made clear and understandable.

Much is often justly advanced in condemnation of the extortion some cabmen attempt, but much is alway to be urged in favour of the honest men of that tailing, who are constantly called upon to suffer unmerited vexation from the meanness and arrogance of those who employ them. To all in the daily habit of using public carriages this book" will recommend itself as'a valuable reference. Aumt Judy's Magazine. London: Bell and Daldy, 18G, Fleet-street. The March number of this magazine, so ably edited by Mrs.

Alfred Gatty, is composed of the usual sound and healthy kind of literature. A paper on Whales and the Whale Fishery, by C. H. Gatty, will deeply interest the students of natural history. Blind Thgrm, a new story by the author of Venise, is commenced in this part, and is illustrated by Miss Edwards.

The Prince of Sleona progresses on his way, and the Editor's "Emblem" for the month is called Ever Upwards. Many other interesting contributions will be found at the command of the reader. The St. Stephen's Ciieoniole. London Kichard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street.

We have already directed our reader's attention to the excellencies of this political record, and the most complete scale upon which the debates are given. A Summary of the Ecents of the Week is inserted in the present number In lap dfdfdf-f WHITE. White to play, and mate in four moves. Solution, of Problem No. 5.

Black. 4. BtoQB5th(cM KtoQ'ith KtoQ4til 5. Kt mates to 5th White. 1.

tD sq 2. to Cth 3. to 8th The Tournament in the New York Chess Club. Since our report of this Tournay last week, intelligence has reached us that Mr. Mackenzie has carried off the first prize triumphantly, havine scoresl nearly every game he played.

The second prize, ns was foretold has fallen deservedly to Mr. Richardson, of Brooklyn. We resume om record of the contest with a good, steady game between these two "eutle-men (Philidor's defence.) Black (Mr. White (Mr. 1.

to 4th 2. Kt to 3d 3. PtoQ4th 4. Kt takes 5. Kt to 3d 6.

to KB 4th 7. to 2d S. takes l' to 4th to 3d takes Kt to 3d to 2d to 1C Kt5th takes Castles (UlacK last two moves appear at first blush a case ot kiizteroii or proteron. In reality, however, there would have been uo advantage gained by playing the B's Pawn before moving the Kt Pawn, for White might still have played his Bishop to Kt 4tb, if he had been so minded.) White (Mr. Black (Mr.

20. takes Kt takes 21. Kt to 4th Kt to Kt 4th 22. to sq to 4tll (Q to 2d would have been less injurious to him, than this move, y. uasties Kt to 2d wmcn ne never gets over.) 23.

Kt to 3d tn the best means to be adopted for ascertaining the causes aud preventing the frequency of fires. There were four orders of the day only on the paper. The lirst of these was the Transub3tnutiation Declaration Bill of Sir C. O'Loghlen, which stood for Committee but the Hon. Member not answering when the Bill was called upon, it became a dropped order.

For a similar reason Mr. Leeman's Sale and Purchase of Shares Bill also became a dropped order. The Dublin University and Professorships Bill, as amended, was considered, and the amendments agreed to; and the Cjnaoliduted Fund (309,118 5s. 6d.) Bill having been read a third time and passed, the house somewhat prematurely aud unexpectedly closed its sitting! at twenty-five minutes to six o'clock. HOUSE OF The second reading of the Libel Bill was moved by Sir C.

O'Loghlen, who explained that the object of the measure was to effect aa amendment in the Law of Libel, which has been called for very extensively by the newspaper press. This he proposed to do, in the first place, by making the speaker at legally constituted assemblies, and not the publisher of the report the proceedings, responsible for any libel uttered at such meetings. Iq addition to making the speaker liahle for all actionable matter, he also proposed that the journal publishing the libel should, if required to do so, be bound to publish an answer to it. The second part of the Bill dealt with the subject of costs. In this part of the United Kingdom unless a person recovered 40s.

damages, he could not get costs hut in Ireland, if a farthing damages were obtained, the verdict carried costs That was an anomaly which ought to be corrected he therefore, proposed to assimilate the law in the two countries, by providing that a plaintiff should not be entitled to recover costs unless where he had been awarded damages. A further provision was to the effect that in every action for libel, the defendant should be at liberty to pay money into court. It was not intended to include Scotland in the operation of the bill. After some discussion, Mr. Secretary Walpole acceded to the second reading, but was of opinioD, with Mr.

Newdegate, that the provisions of tiie Bill could be best considered in a Select Committee, to which he would suggest that it should be referred. Sir C. O'Loghlen intimated his assent to the suggestion, and the Bill was thereupon read a second time, and ordered to be referred to a Select Committee accordingly. The other business on the paper was disposed of, and the House adjourned shortly before six o'clock. HOUSE OF LOKDS.

Tirarsaay. Lord Redesdale's temporary Bill, protecting the property of railway companies against seizure by individual creditors, was read a second time, but upon the understanding that it would not lie committed unlil a measure promised by the Duke of Richmond, on behalf of the Government, should be before the House. Lord Dalhousie referred at some length to the Report of the Recruitin" Commission, and expressed his regret that so few of their recommendations had been adopted by the Government. Ho criticised General Peel's reorganisation scheme, and submitted that it fell short of the necessities of the case. A discussion followed, in which the Duke of Cambridge, Earl De Geet, Earl Losgfoud, and Lord Grev took part.

The House'adjourned shortly after eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thursday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, in answer to Colonel Sykes, that Ministers intended to bring in a Reform Bill for Scotland, though it was not in his power at that moment to say when. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr.

Gladstone drew attention to the circumstance that it was proposed to go on with the Estimates for the Navy that evening in the absence of both the present and the late First Lord of the Admiralty, without whose assistance he thought it would be impossible for the House to discuss several important questions which were involved iu them. He suggested, therefore, that the most convenient course would be to postpone the Estimates until some day in the middle of next week, when the responsible Ministers would be in their places. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the suggestion of Mr. Gladstone was unreasonable, and reminded the right hon. gentleman of the fact that during seven yeaTs he had been a member of the Liberal Administration, and that duriug all that time the Naval Estimates had beeu moved year by year by the Secretary to the Admiralty, and not the First Lord.

Considering, too, that the First Lord could not be present until the 25th instant, and that, owing to the non-return to the writ for Droitwich, Sir John Pakington, the late First Lord, was unable to take his seat that evening, he could not understand the ground of the objection for not proceeding at once, expecially as the exposition would be made by one who was perfectly competent to the task, and every Minister was responsible for the preparation of the estimates. After some farther discussion the House wentinto Committee, and Lord H. Lennox made his statement, and concluded by saying that he proposed that 67,500 men and boys including the coast-guard. 16,200 Royal Marines, be voted for the service of tlle Navy tor the year 1867-8. Mr.

Gladstone suggested that, as the vote for the number of men regulated the whole of the establishments connected with the Navy, the House should not be asked to pass it that evening. Inaayingthis, however, he did not wish to preventdiscussion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted that it would not be advisable to press the vote then, and if it were the wish of the Committee, he had no objection to report progress, and resume on Thurday, when he expected the First Lord of the Admiralty to be in his place. Some discussion of an uninteresting character succeeded, and ultimately the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. HOUSE OF LORDS.

Friday. Earl Gret, ill rising to present a petition on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, observed that he entirely concurred with its contents. It seemed to him that one of the first conditions of a Reform Bill was that it should settle the question at least for a time. At the same time, when the redistribution of seats are dealt with in a bolder manner than hitherto attempted, it would be impossible to effect that object. The Noble Earl in a long speech went over the so oft trodden ground.

The petition was received, aud ordered to Ue on the table. The Traffic Regulation Bill (after some discussion, in which the Earl of Belmore, Lord Redesdale, the Enrl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Houghton took part) passed throngh Committee. The Consolidated Fund (369,118 5s. 6d.) Bill and the Shipping Local Dues Bill were read a second time, aud the House adjourned at twenty-five minutes to eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Friday. Mr. Otwat moved a resolution to the effect that, reserving the question of a state of war, the House is of opinion that in time of peace it is inexpedient to flog soldiers or marines. He said that the practice of flogging had increased of late years, and the number of offences, which were'seven, had been increased to seventeen, for which the punishment of flogging was awarded. Major Anson seconded the motion, and quoted the opinions of some military authorities against the punishment.

A long discussion followed, in which the Judge Advocate Genernl, Captain Vivian, Colonel P. Herbert, Mr. B. Osborne, Sir C. Russell, Captain Grosvenor, Sir John Pakington, and others took part, when the House divided, and the motion was carried by 103 to 107.

The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates, when several votes were taken. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned. The Princess oe Wales. We are very glad to be able to set at rest the alarmiug rumours respecting the health ot her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The trutli is that the constitutional disturbance and pain consequent upon rheumatism have tended to increase the natural debility, and caused considerable depression.

But there was at no time cause for anxiety, or anything unusual in the progress of her ease. We understand that it is expected her Eoyal Highness will be able to leave her rcum in a few days. The Annual Meeting of the National Eifle Association was held on Wednesday at Willis's Eooms, under the presidency of his Eoyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who gave an interesting resume of the proceedings of the past year. The arrangements for the next Wimbledon Meeting will not differ materially from those of the last. The remarks of his Eoyal Highness on the subject of the Snider breech-loader were reassuring.

Lord Robert Montagu has been appointee Vice-President of the Committee of Council cn Education, in the room of the Eight Hon. Henry Corry. Paris Exhibition, 1867. It has been definitely decided by the Imperial Commission to open the Paris Exhibition on the 1st of April without any state ceremonial. General Cosmo Gordon.

The death of General Cosmo Gordon, in his ninetieth year, is announced as having taken place on the 7th at his residence in Hampshire. He was the youngest son of the late Hon. Alexander Gordon Lord Eockville and Anne Countess of Dumfries. The late General was one of the oldest officers in the Army, being senior to General Richard Pigott, Field-Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney, and General Sir Alexander Woodford, having entered the Army as far back as 1792. Freedom op Churches a Working Class Question.

The National Association for Freedom of Worship are arranging a series of Conferences of Workmen, in London and other great towns, upon the reasons of their alleged absence from public worship, it being considered that the large body of Churchmen who attribute that absence to their being excluded by the appropriation'' of the seats in places of worship to a comparative few have not been duly represented at the Conferences hitherto held. Eemovax of Middle-row, Holborn. We find that the tenants of this property have been settled with, and the Architect to the Board ot Works pledges himself to have this great obstruction removed in July at the latest. We also find that accommodation will be given to the public by the erecting of a house at the corner of the Gray's Inn-road, called the Holborn Viaduct Hotel and Eestaurant. A singular case of homicide has just occurred at Gravesend On Sunday afternoon last two youths, named Holmes and Elgar.

in the employ of a grocer, were upstairs in their bed-room. One Kt takes 6 to 4th 24. takes 25. to sq 20. takes men is already strikingly apparent, and this goes far to prove that those who insist upon the radical insufficiency of Philidor's defence have truth on their side.) 10.

to 2d to 3d 11. to sq. (We fail to follow Mr. Mackenzie's reasons for this move. It looks to us like losing time.) 11.

Kt to 4th 12. Kt to 5th to 2d 13. Kt takes (ch) (Here to Kt 4th followed if Black played WsQ'b RtoK's sq, byP to Kt 4th, seems decidedly preferable to exchanging a Kt superbly posted for an officer almost hors de passant) takes 27. to Kt sq to 4th 28. Kt to 2d Kt to 7th (Ingenious truly! The prettiest move in the game, though unliaiipily of no avail to save it.) 29.

to Kt 3d Kt to 5th takes Kt. oj. jm. takes Kt 31. lt to nth to 6th 32.

takes RtoKB7th takes Cchl ia 33. takes 34. takes it takes takes Kt to sq takes Kt to 2d to 2d to Kt 3d to 3d 14. to sq 15. to 5th 16.

takes 17. Kt to 5th 18. to 4th 19. to Kt 4th 35. takes to 7th (ch) 36.

to Kt 3d takes OEf 37. takes and White wins. We add another game of the Tournay, which was contested by Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Zerega, a player of considerable repute in America Black fMr.

7. tw else for the game, is pretty Bure to A HEAL BLESSING TO A5HMALS. Of all the philanthropic Institutions of this country that of the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" is one of the moat truly humane and meritorious, being designed to befriend those who have no power to protect themselves. It is a sad and melancholy fact to" know that, in these highly-civilised days, and among a people naturally compassionate and generous, such an Institution as the above should be a necessary want to protect the lower animals, and man's best and most faithful of servants, from the unfeeling tyranny and, too often, wanton cruelty of their masters masters for whose pleasure or profit they toil uncomplainingly through allweatliers, badly fed, worse housed, and, as a general rule, shamefully treated. No institution, however noble or comprehensive in its plan and can change cruel and brutal natures, or implant feeling and humanity in hearts naturally insensible and depraved.

With such persons all moral teaching and example is utterly thrown away, and the only method of reform, indeed the only logic, that can touch their callous dispositions and convince them, not that they may not, but that they must not, torture their defenceless animals and outrage public humanity, is the logic of the pocket. A fine of five shillings will do more, and last longer as a warning against cruelty to animals than the pleadings of an apostle in the cause of suffering dumb nature. While, then, so many thousands of the general public aw only to be restrained in their brutal passions by the fear ot a pecuniary fine in every instance of their display, all honour and support ought to be given to that Institution that has come forward so nobly, and with such scanty means has done so much as the champions and defenders of our shamefully ill-used quadrupeds and animals generally and the meeting that was held on Wednesdays the Society's Eooms will do more to advance this institution in its field of useiulness, make the cause more universally popular, and, as we hope, humanise the class who have hitherto been the special offenders, than all the previous meetings or efforts of the Society put together. In the first place, the Society's funds have been increased by an addition in one month of 70, while a worthy benefactor has given a sum of .5,000 repurchase a freehold building, with -fitting offices, for the transaction of the business of the Society, and thus save its funds from the present heavy item of rent. But that which made the meeting specially memorable, and has given the Institution a higher and more elevating character, and will go far to make the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals everywhere popular and appreciated was the address of Dr.

Richardson, and his practical illustration of the manner in which that greatest boon of modern science, the practices of anesthesia, might be applied with equal efficacy to the lower animals as to man rendering henceforth those cruel, we might justly say, savage operations of cutting, burning, fireing, and transfixing with setons horses and cattle, and which are attended with such frightful suflenng to the animal, perfectly painless. Though chloroform has been for many years in use in public and private practice in cases ot surgical operations, the difficulty, and often danger, of employing at all times has long been a great drawback to ta general useiulness on man while with regard to the lower animals it was found by those humane veterinary surgeons who felt inclined to use it totally inadmissible, Coming back, however, to the first tnxsthetic ever used, etter, and employing it as a topical, instead or a constitutional remedy that is by ejecting a small stream of ether on the part to be operated on it was in the course of a minute, or as soon as the ether had evaporated from the spot, as completely dead to feeling as if the animal had in the regular way seen rendered bodily insensible by inhalation. This fact has so repeatedly been illustrated of late in hospital practice in operating tor cancer in the breast, and many other cases, where the administration of chloroform was either dangerous or inoperative, that f.j vas hardly necessary for Dr. Eichap.dson to give a pratical 1' ri'a''on etner's benumbing power on his own person or 'r Ul'3- Sedgwick and Feasek, and several enthusiastic gentlemen among the meeting, to freeze portions of their body, and make pincushions of their arms, to show how a tumour could be cut from the eye of a horse, or the actual cautery applied, at a "tiite heat, to the thigh of a mare, without causing the slightest gree of pain, or, even inconvenience. But, though this great ooon.

to the lower animals can be. now placed in the hands of the b() erat.e farrier in the country, and may be used with success tbe most ignorant clodhopper in the land, and at a cost hardly Mounting to twopence for an important operation, such is the gijorance or prejudice of thousands of our rural population, and so A their disregard of animal suffering, that, unless compelled the fear of a fine and penalty, few will take even the minute's wouble necessary to eject the stream of ether on the part, before lmencing their usual brutal operation. The Society will hence-a reguire to be doubly vigilant in looking up their prosecutions, rem laws alrea(lv in existence are not sufficient to meet the to of tlle cnse' they should petition Parliament for power on i vetel'inary surgeons or farriers who henceforth operate animals without the employment of ether. Staffb "1lfallt.was in the ladies' first-class waiting-room at the 1. to 3d (An unpromising beginning but one with worshipful sanction, for, if we remember rightly, the greatest of German players, Anderssen, adopted it successfully against the greatest of American players, Morphy.) give it.

ummution.j Black (Mr. (White (Mr. M. 12. Castles takes 13.

takes to 5th 14. to Kt 4th to 4th 15. to Kt 2d to Kt 3d 16. to 5th to sq. 17.

to 2d tr. oj to KB 4th IS. to sq to 2d rs. to iv jvt 4ttt to Kt so 20. to 3d RtoKKt2d 21.

BtoKKt4th to Kt sq. 22. takes takes (This move wins 2. PtoQB4th 3. Kt to 3d 4.

to 3d 5. PtoQ4th 6. Kt to 3d 7. KttoKSth 8. to 4th 9.

takes Kt 10. Kt takes Kt 11. to 2d Kt to 3d to 3d to 2d Castles to 4th Kt to 3d Kt takes Kt Kt to 5th KB takes Kt PtoKKt4th win, the game.) 23. taltps takes (ch) to 6th takes it. to sq.

25. to 5th zo. tanes is to K7ttt (This break, if it does nothing and Black resigns. naa Deen sent up to call tue otner down to tea, wnen tney oegan to spar with each other in play. Suddenly Holmes took up a pistol an shot Elgar through the head.

The pistol belonged to Holmes, and is said to have been kept loaded as he had been by ghost stories. He has shown much distress at the result of his rash action, but has made no statement as to his motive for it. The Coroner's Jury, on Thursday, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against him, Henry Parker, who killed his boy in Salford, in January last, was tried at the Assizes on Thursday, and acquitted on the ground of insanity. He will, of course, be detained in an a ylnm. Wight v.

Wight and Field. This case came on again yesterday (Friday) in the Divorce Court. Major-Gee eral Wight, the petitioner, charges his wife with having committed lualtery, during his absence in India, with the co-respondent, who is a surgeon practising in Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park. Much contradictory evidence was given throughout the trial, but the Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the co-respondent. Great Snow Storm.

The heavy fall of snow on Wednesday night was general throughout the country, especially in the western districts. Accounts from various parts state that snow fell all day on Thursday, and that drifts to a great height have accumulated. On some of the railways trains have been delayed, but as passengers were exceedingly few, the luconvenience resulting was less than would otherwise have been the case. Wreck and Loss op Life off Eamsgate. On Wednesday morning, at high water, shortly after four o'clock, a fishing smack was observed making for the harbour, a strong gale blowing from the south-east at the time, and 'a tremendous sea breaking over the outer walls of the pier.

The vessel came with fearful velocity agamst the East Head part of the harbour, and, rebounding a few feet behind the Eastern Head, sank like a stone. Within four or five minutes the whole of the crew had perished. Later in the morning a quantity of broken planking and fish trunks, marked Dearsley, Billingsgate," together with a clock, binnacle case and thret i portions i of planlang with parts of the letters and figures "E.E.'; and "293" inscribed, were picked up, by which it. was ascertained that the ill-fated craft was the Daring, a Plymouth smack, bailingfrom Eamsgate during the last twelvemonths- John Board, master. Three out of the five bodies have been wash'ed on shore on the rocks under the West Cliff.

The master leaves a widow and six children to mourn his loss. Died, on the 8th Mary Mason, aged seventy-nine, mother of Mr. Harry Boleno Mason, of the Theatre Koyal, Drury-Iane. 0n Monday corning, in the neighbourhood of Old Quebec-street, Oxford-street, a fire occurred, by which six persons lost their lives and three others sustained serious injury, lt broke out a sort of double huuse situate at the comer ot Bryanston-street and Old Quebec-street. On the ground floor there were two shops, occupied by Mr.

S. Mundin, bootmaker, and Miss Caley, milliner. The upper portion of the house contains about thirteen rooms let out to different families on the first floor, and one room was occupied by an elderly man named Slater and his wife, the remaining rooms by Mr. Chanticler, his wife and daughter. On the second floor lived aman named Garter, his wife, and three children and in another room Elizabeth Cornelius, formerly in the service of the Marquis of Londonderry.

On the third floor lived Mr. and Mrs. Marcombe and a Mrs. Searel and an adopted daughter. The firemen, hearing screams proceeding from the grating in the pavement over the kitchen, immediately tore up the iron bars, and succeeded in extricating two elderly women named Harcome and Seacome, who it appears slept in "the lower part of the house.

The brigade made a search for the persons missing, and before daylight the remains of six bodies were found Eaiu. RnssEi.i. and the Reform Leaiue. The late Premier, upon whom has been showered the laudations of numberless Reform meetings, has at length got into disgrace in the opinion of the Reform League, for at their meeting, held last Wednesday evening, Mr. Beales characterised Earl Russell's speech on Monday last, as a gross insult to the people, and proved what he had often said, that the people had more to fear from the false and aristocratic Whigs than from the Tories.

The meeting endorsed these views by passing the following resolution "That this meeting, having heard the statement of Earl Russell in the House of Peers on Monday last, deeply regrets that his Lordship should, by that speech, have separated himself from the great Liberal party of England and also deplores that it is necessary to regard that speech as an ajt of political suicide on the part of his Lordship." Mr. W. H. Smith, of the Strand, the Conservative candidate for Westminster at the last general election, has been elected treasurer of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in the room of the late Mr. William Cottop.

aupussiDie. iiu-ir names were Mrs. Searel, aged forty, and her adopted child Janif -s Weeks, ten years of age; Elizabeth Cornelius, aged forty a hid-'s maid out of a situation and three children belonein to Mr Mrs Carter, namely William Carter, aged five yeaS Carter aged two years and H. Carter, aged five months The mother was saved by the fire escape; she had her clothes on fire and was much burnt. She was removed to St.

Marv's HmniMl i still remains. The father is untarhaWLtSS the AnlZSt hTsaPblXtred-, the famiirSsnred Stoma aad a verdict of "Accidental Death" andni i uuosn to rne otanora union, dress for 'm was discovered affixed to a portion of its.