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of tpt gag. (By an Occasional London Correspondent.) pression remarks under this head are to be regarded the exof indendent from en of a In whom we have pe the greatestopinion confidenc th ut for whien tlemanuh we nevertheless do not hold ourselves Ministers may have reason to deplore the hot and partially successful opposition of their political foes in Parliament, but certainly they have nothing to complain of with regard to their reception at the grand municipal banquet at the Mansion House. And doth not a meeting like this make amends far our want ui success at Westminster, I can imagine Mr. Lowe saying to Mr. Gladstone.

Whether this be so or not, the ministerial speeches at the Lord Mayor's banquet have produced a good effect out of doors, with what ultimate result remains to be seen. Meanwhile there is a good deal of discussion as to what the Premier meant when, after referring to the action of the Government in respect to the Royal Warrant, he said, However, happen what may, this is an appeal which we are perfectly content to take to the enlightened judgment of our country." It may be very natural to infer that Mr. Gladstone here uses a threat of dissolution, but on the other hand it must be remembered that it was of the attitude of the Souse of Lords, not of that of the House of Commons, that he was complaining, and a general election is scarcely the step to take on that account. An infusion of new blood into the House of we all know what that be a more likely course for the Premier to advise her Majesty to take. But to turn from the vortex of home politics, we must most of us feel gratified at the way in which Ministers have been able to refer to their foreign policy, and especially to the Washington Treaty.

To whomsoever the credit may toe both great political parties deserve some of treaty is a glorious episode in modern history, and bids fair to strengthen still more the good feeling that has happily been of late gaining ground between America and ourselves. I am happy to learn from the authorities of the South Eastern and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railways othat the relaxation which the French Government has in the passport regulations, so far as Calais and Boulogne are concerned, is having a decidedly beneficial effect, and that numbers of people are going there for their holidays. English excursionists who wish to spend their vacation at either of these places must make a declaration before a magistrate in the form prescribed the 6 George IV. (abolition of oaths), giving name age, birthplace, and occupation. This of course is a nuisance and a bore, but it is bearable, and, provided with this declaration, you obtain, on landing either at Calais or Boulogne a permis de sejour, or holiday permit.

It may be well to mention that at the head offices of either of the railway companies mentioned, or at thosd of the General Steam Navigation Company, blank forms to be filled up, can readily be obtained. Unfortunately this permit will not enable you to travel beyond these the very fact of your not being allowed to go will make you want to unfortunately, too, Calais is not a particularly charming, place to stop at I but then Boulogne is delightful, and a week or two there may be most pleasantly spent. It is to be hoped 'that these permits being granted is the first step towards the re-abolition of the odious passport system. Depend upon it that it may be so regarded. France having once tasted the sweetness of free visits from her English friends and having proved the pecuniary benefits of this freedom, will not long be able to maintain her exclusiveness.

note, without ion mooting on Abe fact, a most important statement made by the Pope. His Holiness says, "it is insinuated that among the rights which spring from infallibility is that of deposing.sovereigns and releasing the people from I the oath of fidelity." This the Pope repudiates, and to times when the Popes were considered as supreme judges of Christianity, and exercised a jurisdiction over Princes and States," he adds, that "the conditions of the times are now and that he has no intention of exercising the alleged right. There will be plenty of comment on this declaration, without my own, but the importance of the manifesto suggests reference to it. There has'been a great deal said and.written about the death of a telegraph clerk in the head office, his 'death being alleged to have taken place as the result of overwork in the department. But the sensational leaders that have been penned on the subject turn out to be without foundation.

Possibly could the poor young man have been entirely freed from work, and could he have had a few weeks' holiday, his life might have been saved but of how many others can this be said every day? Be this as it may, Mr. Scudamore's letter and the statement of the Postmaster-General in the House of Commons happily disposed of the strong remarks that were very naturally made on the case, founded on erroneous information. Incidentally, Mr. Scndamore's letter is highly interesting and satisfactory on public grounds. fE the treatment of the deceased is a fair specimen of that of others in the service, which seems feasible, neither the public nor the employEs have reason to complain of overwork in the Telegraph Department.

Apropos of this department, the report recently issued, showing how greatly the telegraphic servioe has been developed, leads us to expect that ere long the Government will give us, what they long since promised, cheaper telegrams. The public revenue and the public accommodation would be alike benefited by such a movement If a number of gentlemen choose to have a grand dinner for which they pay, no one else has a right to complain but this can scarcely be said to be a very appropriate way of the memory of one of "the mighty dead." The oentenary of Walter Scott's birthday is to be celebrated by two in the cannon-street Hotel, and the other in St. James's the 15th, and probably enough those who assist at the banquets will highly enjoy them but the fame of the Wizard of the North, the Great Unknown, will not be raised by a few well'to-do gentlemen eating and drinking together. By the way, this date used to be a memorable one in another respect. It was the first Napoleon's birthday, beskies a great religious ansivereary in the.

Boman Catholic Church, and was kept as the Fete Napoleon in honour of an illustrious exile sewansongst a. How will it be honoured this year, I wonder? At present the Napoleonic star, which once blazed so transcendently on the political horizon, seems than ever in the descendant The late Mr. Charles Dielcens laboured hard to break through the custom of excluding ladies from public dinners, and several of the banquets at which he presided were remarkable for the presence of the fair sex in fact, if my memory serves me, he would take the chair at no dinner from which ladies were banished. But the force of custom is very strong, besides which, it is well-known that the presence of ladies at the dinners of benevolent institutions is disoouraged by committees and secretaries. Hence it comes to pass that the old exclusiveness still prevails as an almost invariable rule.

There has just been one notable exception, however, in the presence of ladies at the annual dinner of the Benevolent fund of the Mark Freemasons of England, held at that agreeable place for dinners, the Crystal Palace. Not being of the Craft, I cannot speak with confidence, but I believe this is the first occasion in the history of Freemasonry on which ladies have been admitted on the principle of equality and shall I call it, to coin a word, sorority a mabonic banquet. What next Tennyson speaks of Prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl graduates with their golden hair. Are we to have sisters as well as brothers of the craft, and is the chair at some future meeting to be taken by some Past Grand Mistress? A large gathering of "the Spiritualists of England" is a notable event, and one which, in my humble opinion, is much to be regretted. The occasion was the bidding farewell to Mrs.

Emma Hardinge previous to her departure for America. I venture to express the opinion that we can well spare the lady, and that she will find a more congenial sphere for her lecturings and seances in the New World than in the Old, especially if it be true, as the Rev. J. M. Peebles says, that in America there are "eleven millions of people who believe with Judge Edmonds that the spirits of our fathers, our mothers, and our friends hold converse and communion with us." I do not wish to obtrude my own opinion in the matter, but having read a good deal about Spiritualism, and having assisted at several seances, I have failed to discover any good that these Spiritualists have effected, or even any genuine practical purpose, good or bad, that they have accomplished.

Mrs. Hardinge says that Spiritualism has produced and is carrying out scientific 'reforms which the professors of science have not even dreamed of but ask, where is one, even one, of these reforms? From the Lifc-Boat for August, I see that the Royal National Life Boat Institution has during the first six months of the present year been instrumental in saving the lives of no less than 537 persons, and that since the formation of this society it has saved 20,401 fives. The institution has now 230 life-boats on the shores of the United Kingdom. With such facts as these, lam sure you will permit me to reader my modicum of aid towards the appeal for funds which the committee is now making. The mere statement of these facts, coupled with the assurance that funds are needed to carry on the good work, ought to speak more loudly than any advocacy.

Visaiiantous 3nitiligena, HONE, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. I HINT ron gentlemen, in proposing the toast of The Press," seem to be rather diffident and at aloes to express their ideas on the subject. Here is a quotation from Astrop which might serve them The Press is nationally, morally, and socially a necessary of every-day life. It ushers in our births it takes up the thread of our lives and faithfully records the time, place, and manner of our deaths. It is a foe to the criminal and a friend to the Just.

It fearlessly assails the enemies of progress, and applauds the good acts of all men. The Press is a loved and despised history of a nation. The good love it the bad would stamp out its existence because it publishes to the world the vices which they have been guilty of. The Press is a mirror to all people, in which they view the wisdom and follies of mankind. It is a glorious description of the and present.

It is a beacon to show the pitfalls of humanity, a clear light illustrative of man's duty to himself, his country, and his fellow-men." A CAB At the Westminster police-court, in London, Lord William Lennox has been summoned for a cab fare of 2d. under the following circumstances Isaac Davis, a cab-driver, said on the 22nd of July be took up aservant, some packages, two outside, and with another cab went to Victoria Station. from 34. llstis- Place. his lords.

1.4 rd but he demanded 241. more, and was refused payment, her ladyship stating he had carried only one package instead of two. A young gentleman, who was with the party, gave him his lordship's card. Lennox said he was sorry to be before the public for a paltry 24. lie was at Southsea at the time, on his way to Goodwood, and had come seventy miles ou pnrpe to attend the summons.

Not wishing, however, to have any bother, he sent the cabman six shunpe, wldcb were returned and the summons taken out and besides als the cabman made a great noise in the station, and did not give him a ticket till compelled. The Magistrate said hi should then allow the cabman no costs the Secretary of State had expressly provided that a ticket should be given on entering the carriage, in order that the fare might know what he had to pay he wished the cabmen would understand that, and he should make it a rule that if they did not he would not allow them their cabman denied being insolent, as was stated but said her ladyship contradicted him three distinct times. He wished there was a better understanding between the public and the cabmen, for in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the fare refused to take the ticket when Lennox said he had offered to pay the man for his loss of time ant of court, but he had declined to accept Magistrate made an order on his lordship to pay the 2d. and 21. only, the cost of the THE Naw Acr ox Act to provkle further protection against dogs has just been printed.

Stray dogs may be dttained and sold, or destroyed. Dangerous dogs may be destmyed. The teal authority may, if a mad dog or a dog suspected of being mad is found within their jurisdiction, make, and, when made, vary or revoke an order placing such restrictions as they think expedient on all dogs not being under the control of any person during such period as may be prescribed in ouch order, throughout the whole of their jurisdiction, or such part thereof as may be prescribed in such order. Penalties are to be imposed, and the provisions contained in the Act as to the detention and sale or destruction of dogs found straying on the highway shall apply to does found at large in contravention of an order made. The statute is to be cited as The Dog Act, 1371." PERHAPS following reply was given by a waiter in answer to the que4tiou, "How cisme this dead fly in my soup "In fact, sir, I have no positive idea how the poor thing came by his death.

Terhaps it hathnot taken any food for a long time, dashed upon the soup, ato too much of it, contracted an inflammation of the stomach, that brought en death. The fly must have a very weak constitution, for when I served the soup it was dancing merrily upon the surface. tho idea presents itself only at this moment--it endeavoured to swallow too large a piece of vegetable this remaining fast In his throat, caused a slinking in the windpipe. This is the only reason I could give for the death of this Insect." THE CROWN LANDS FOR THE Contemporary notes, as a very significant circumstance, that, in the People's Parks throughout the country, with which the Crown and the Government have not ing to do, political meetings are strictly forbidden. This circumstance is indeed, very significant.

The People's Parks throughout the country are no special resort of the richer and more refined classes. Seditious howls and menaces wank( annoy all their frequenters. A GRATEFUL FR ENCTIMAN following paragraph is from the Klikaische Zeitv ng "The French are ineorriedifie. In spite of the dreadful lesson given to them they have learnt positively nothing. Every day we hear some freshpapof of this.

One example which displays quite a touching naivete has just once within the experience of a medical wan who lives in a town not very far from Cologne. Ile had attended a French officer, one of the prisoners. and on his departure received the promise that he would he kept informed et his inoveinentA and state of health. A splendid revenge within the next two years had been the dream consoled the Frenchman during his recovery, and he seems to have taken with him to his home. Ile hadsquido no secret of it, and wlym the expected letter came trout it enclosed a photograph of the sender, on the beelt.of which was written a certificate for the use of the doctor, Oviug an account of the grsod treatment the original had reoiNivial, and requesting htiocompanions in arms, who the campaign of revenge might return to that very town, to the docto with every attention." ANOTHER COMPETITOR.

Cities contended for the honnur of being the birthplace of the author of those standard work-, the Iliad and 04... hwy. Had it existed at that yearly period, Cromer would, no doubt, have also put in its claim, for this overpowerbg and that there is no other spot osx earth which rhymer so wed te THE NORWOOD NEWS AND CRYSTAL PALACE CHRONICLE. MEETING OF SPIRITUALISTS. Friday night a converearione was held by the Spiritualists in St, George's Hall, Langham-place, London, for the pose of bidding farewell to Mrs.

Emma Hardinge. This lady is of English birth, but has for several years lived in America. Since her return to England she has devoted herself to lecturing on Spiritualism, and has achieved considerable success. There were about 300 persons, the greater number of whom were ladies, present at the meeting, Mr. Gerald Massey, presiding, supported by several well-known spiritualists.

After a speech had been delivered by the Rev. John Peebles, an illuminated address was presented to Mrs. Hardinge, Who, in the course of her reply, remarked that she considered the human body to be but the casket of the soul, and that the latter, on leaving the former, retained its mental individuality, and had the power of association with other spirits. The manifestations of these facts were to be found in the table-rapping they had witnessed but such signs were only the germs of the full enlightenment which might some day be expected. During the evening music was introduced, and on the tables were laid flowers and paintings which were said to be the production of spirits.

GIVING WAY TO PRINCE recent letter from Milan in the Cologne Gazette says that Professor Mommsen, during his late stay in Italy requested the Trivulzio family at Milan to lend him a valuable manuscript collection of all the Latin inscriptions in Italy, of which they have the only extant copy. Count Trivulzio's reply to the distinguished German scholar was that the work was entirely at his diposal, but only in the library. Family traditions forbade him to permit its removal elsewhere. Some days since Count Trivulzio received an autograph letter from Prince Bismarck, in which he renewed the application of Professor Monunsen, and pledged himself that the manuscript would be returned. The count could not oppose the request of the Imperial Chancellor, and the book is now in the hands of Count Brassier de St.

Simon, who has undeitAken to send it to Count Bismarck. ELECTIONEERING BRIBEE.Y. An attorney remarks that nothing is easier to carry out than bribery, if common prudence be only observed. He tells of a case in which he was professionally employed to supply sub mil 12,000 to an important electioneering agent. He was desired to be looking in at a printshop window in the Strand.

London, precisely at twelve o'clock, when a party behind would tap him on the shoulder, and repeat a line of Shakspeare that at five minutes past twelve he would receive another tap, and have a second line from the same illustrious author repeated in his ear that a further interval of five minutes would watch to be consultedwhen the immortal Shakespeare, already made a partireps crimiais, was again to be a to what vile uses do we come at last a third line from his divine page administered with the indispensable tap on the shoulder. "Then to some foul corrupting hand, their craving Nate with fatal bounty fed, they fall a willing, undefended prize." After this, the learned gentleman handed from his pocket to his poetical but mythical friend behind, a packet containing the bank-notes. When the disputed election came to be investigated before a Parliamentary committee, he was able to swear that the person produced was one whom he had never seen in his life. HEAVY the Manchester Assizes the executrix of the late Mr. Rowle solicitor, Manchester, sued the London and North 'Western Company for damages, sustained by the loss of Air.

Rowley, who was killed in the railway collision at Hsrrow, in November last. The defendants admitted the carelessness, and the only question was one of damages. Mr. Rowley was only 42 years of age, and tarrying on a highly remunerative practice at the time of his death, and left a widow 40 years old, and six children, of whom the youngest was five and the eldest fifteen years of age. He also left a mother, aged 61, whom he covenanted when his father died to allow £2OO per annum.

Mr. Rowley made on an average, during the last ten years of his life, 13,650 a year, and would, it is said, probably have made the same profit for 20 or" 30 years more but for this unhappy accident. A verdict was returned for £6,200 damages, apportioned as follows the the widow, and the children, £6OO ea ch. UFA FOR GRZENWICII influential persons have set on foot a movement with a view of getting some use made of Greenwich Hospital, which noble structure," says a newspaper paragraph, has since the Exodus," a few years ago, of its then inmates most of it remained tenantless." They intend soliciting government to utilise it for national purposes. There is one national purpose for which Greenwich Hospital I might be well utilised that of affording a foreign King or Emperor, whilst the guest of the nation, a decent residence, which, because, unless some nobleman can be got to lend him a mansion, we have not to offer, the Royal or Imperial stranger has to be billeted at a Punch.

PREOAIITION AGAINST Privy Council have issued as order, published in the Gazette of Saturday, that ships coming from districts in which cholera prevails may be inspected by the nuisance authority of the district. On the arrival of such a ship the nuisance authority shall cause all persons on board to be examined by a doctor, and, while those free from the disease will be allowed to land, those in fected shall be removed to an hospital or otherwise dealt with. If any death from cholera take place on board, the body shall be taken out to sea and there committed to the deep, and the clothing, bedding, on board with which the patient has come in contact must be disinfected or destroyed. A Casa of Bombay Gazette nye We learn from the Pioneer that a settee took place some days ago at Russ, in the Ghazeepore district. It is said that the victim, a woman of the Ilanee caste, was strongly bent on performing suttee at the cremation of her husband, but was with some difficulty dissuaded frean her purpose for the moment.

Some hours later, however, the impulse returned on her irresistibly. She made the necessary preparations for her own sacrifice, almost unassisted, and about midnight effected her dreadful purpose. It was done almost secretly, only a very few witnesses being present. Those few, however, have been arrested. GEORGE THE FOERTH IN IRELA.ND.--6EOTge the Fourth visited Ireland in 1821.

A day or two before the termination of the visit, a messenger from the Castle waited on all the traders who had been favoured with orders for goods for the King's personal use, and informed them that His Majesty was so well pleased with his reception and the country, that he had expressed his resolution to repeat his vi it the following year. The announcement was received of course, with great satisfaction, as the King had been liberal in his orders and unusually pt in his payments. The messenger then proceeded dt to inquire whether the trader would wish his establishment to be again selected by the comptroller to supply such articles as might be required on the occasion. Of course the answer was in the affirmative. Well, then," he replied, "to obviate all risk of mistake, we will appoint you His Majesty's hatter, saddler, ironmonger, or so forth, as the case might be, and if you call at my office in the Castle tomorrow you will get your patent formally completed.

By-the-bye, there i a trifling fee to pay on £lO 7a. 6d." Of course the money was in all cases paid, and the parchments faithfully delivered. The King, however, we need hardly say, never did return to Ireland, and the parchments were the only return ever made for the money. THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM. 00 An Englishman writes in the Every tradesman in the kingdom will thank you for your article in your Impression of to-day's (July 29) date.

I can assure you that the co-operative stores of the Civil Service are sowing discontent and It is impossible for any honest trader (having rent and taxes to ray) to compete with them, and pay 20s. In the pound. The civil servants are selling their goods at a price that yields a profit insutlicient to pay the ordinary working expenses of a tradesman's shop. To show you how the system is spreading I beg to enclose an extract from the report of the Civil Service societies. When the associations were started they were intended to supply poor clerks with grocery at a cheap rate.

No one would object to this. Now, however, they are kept open for the rich and economical. The result is ruin to thousands of honest tradesmen. Really this is unfair. "Live and let live" is an excellent motto, and one that the wealthy classes seem to have abandoned.

A MURDERER CUT LNTO TEN THOUSAND Pacts murderer of the Viceroy Ma was executed a few weeks ago at Nankin by being cut into 10,000 pieces," which beans cut to pieces gradually until he died. He bore the punishment as stoically as he had supported the horrible tortures to which he had been subjected in thespoarse of the judicial investigation. The assassin deed hie emnity against Ma to have been caused by his rejection of a petition for justice against a man whoqsad carried off his wife and some money. He had gee hie wife back, but not the money, and when he appealeuip Ma for help the latter refuied to entertain his requeeC DEATH OF "TAD New York Times of July 16 records the following Thomas Lincoln, universally known as Tad Lincoln, the youngest son of the late President Lincoln, died at the Clifton-house, at Chicago, at seven o'clock this morning, of dropsy of the heart, aged 18 years. He was taken 11l a few days after returning from Europe.

During his illness his mother has been his almost constant attendant. There has always existed the warmest affection between the two. Mrs. Lincoln is almost completely prostrated by her affliction. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT PORTSMOUTH.

melancholy accident occurred in Portsmouth Harbour on Sunday morning. A waterman named Henry Varndell, who lives at Hardway, near Gosport left that side of the harbour in a small punt, accorapamed by his wife, his child, only ten months old, and his brother, about eight in the morning, for Poetbridge, near Portsmouth, for the purpose of attending the funeral of Mrs. Varndell's sister, at a village in tho neighbourhood. The morning was squally, and on the party arriving near Tipner the which, it is said, not more than two persons should at any time have been and the occupants were thrown into the sea. The brother was able to swim, and he was rescued by a shipwright named Sampson, though in an exhausted condition.

At low water the bodies of tho husband and the child were picked up on the mud and later in the day the body of the wife was found. At the inquest a verdict of Accidental death was returned. STRIKING in this country is always said to be bmught home to the very doors of all, whether poor or rich yet in one most important class of cases, those in the Divorce Court, the sufferers are obliged to go to the Land's Punch. WHAT MAY BE DONE Foresters' Monthly Journal The Foresters of Margate have set a good example to workmen of what can be dene by perseverance. Years ago they quietly began subscribing funds to build a hell of their own, and recently purchased a site and are about to commence building operations.

There.are at the preseas time Lira widows and 1,040 orphans receiving permanent relief from the funds of the London United District of the Ancient Order of Foresters. There are now twelve peers belonging to the Order, the Duke of Cleveland, Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Camden, Marquis of Nonnanhy, Marquis Townshend, Earl de Urey and Ripon, Hari of Feversham, Earl of Halewood, Lord Hawke, Lord Leigh, Lord Londesborough, and Lord Munson. The names of 124 members of of the House of Commons are on the roll of the Order. THE FITNESS OF THINGS. There is something very amusing in the idea of what may be called the fitness of things in regard to snuff-taking, which occurred to an honest Highlander, a genuine lover of imeeshin." At the dour of the Blair Athol Hotel he observed standing a magnificent man in full tartans, and noticed with much admiration the wide dimensions of his nostrils in a fine turmoil-up nose.

He accosted him, and, as his most complimentary act, offered him his mull for a pinch. The stranger drew up, and rather haughtily maid, I never take snu ff Oh," said the other, that's a petty, for there's grand accommodation I CAUTION TO following notice has just been issued by the secretary of the Humane Society "Avoid bathing within two hours atter a meal. Avoid bathing when ell awited by fatigue or from any other cause. Avoid bathing when the body is cooling atter perspiration but bathe when the hotly is warni, provided no time is lost in getting into the water. Avoid chilling the body by sitting or standing naked on the banks or in boats after having been in the water.

Avoid, remaining too long in the water leave the water immediately there is the slightest feeling of chilliness. Avoid bathing altogether in the open air if, after having been a abort time in the water, there is a sense of chilliness, with numbness of the hands and feet. Ths vigorous and strong may bathe early in the morning on an empty stomach the young, and those who are weak, had better bathe three hours after a meal, the best time for such being from two to three hours after breakfast. Those who are subject to attacks of giddiness and faintness, and those who suffer from palpitation and other sense of discomfort at the heart, should not bathe without first consulting their medical adviser." A VULGAR the A Pours ComPu3tEsr good example of the innate love of courtly etiquette which distinguishes the French people has been related by a gentleman who was present at one of the receptions given by Thies, at Versailles. A lady, after relating the death of old Taglieni, at the ripe age of 102, turned to the chef de'lexectaif, and bowing low, and pressing her fan to her exactly in the style whispered sweetly, May the example be followed by our beloved president." To which every person present, bowing, likewise echoed a soft approval.

Little Thiere, meanwhile, standing by the chimney, turning to look at himself i the glass, smiled with approbation at what he beheld there then acknowledged the sentiment, so loyally expressed, by a bow worthy of the Grand Monarque himself, and resumed tke conversation, which had been interrupted by the incident. PALNFULLY CONSCIOUS London correspondent of the New York. Herald thus describes a Windsor Garden Party You arrange some striking remarks to be introduced in conversation with Queen Victoria. You think you will, perhaps, make quite an impression on the mind of that august lady. The Queen approaches you, glances at you, knows at once you are a stranger.

Your heart beats. She says a few words, sufficient toshow that she knows who her guest is. You are painfully conscious.of intense awkwardness on your own part. You never felt so embarrassed before by your own arms and legs. The vision has vanished.

You feel there is an end of the connection you have had with the history. of England. A prince conies up, and begins good-naturedly conversing with you. You have to stand still. You can't drink your coffee.

You wish the prince would drop Is, the subject. You feel a fool. At last, then, you feel the situation altogether too much for you. The prince moves on. You swallow your coffee.

It has become cold. You soon after retire, and are thankful to do so." No BABY FOR Bum in the presence of a Publican, speak of the Licensing Bill as having perished in the Massacre of the Innocents. "Do you call that an Innocent?" Bung will cry. You will have hurt his feelings. PLAIN SPEAKING.

A Hessian paper, the Starkenburger Bote, writes as follows respecting the temporal power The Governments of Europe most now come to a decision. Two ways are open to them. If they resolve to restore the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, they will find the Catholics the most obedient of their subjects, who will be easily satisfied in all purely political questions. If, on the hand, they recognise the robbery of the Church, let them expect a war to the knife against the newly-established order of things, a fierce and fitwisive war, without treaty or coinproedse. Let the Governments know our patience was great, but It has now come to an end.

We Catholics have a light to demand the liberty of our Church. and it is the duty of the Governments to satisfy our demands we pay them the blood tax, but we are tired of being cheated by vain promises. The only assurance we demand is the withdrawal of Victor Emmanuel and the complete restoration of the Papal States. We do not ask for this guarantee humbly as an act of grace no, we demand it imperatively as our right. Hear it, ye mighty of the Earth; hoar it, ye Governments, whatever your names may be hear it, Bismarck, Gladstone, and Andrasay.

The Catholics bid you satisfy their just demands, and interfere in favour of the Holy Chair; believe us not neglect our warning. If yon do not restore the Catholic Church to all her rights, not one of the existing Governments will continue to exist." A NEW MOTIVE citizen of New Orleans has recently been so successful in experimenting with fluid gas of ammonia as a motive power, that he claims that there is a probability that it may supersede horse power on street railroads. Liquified ammonia, when subjected to a heat of 60 deg. Fahrenheit, turns to a vapour, which produces a pressure of 60 lbs. to the square inch.

This pressure is applied like steam, and is subject totbe same controlling influences. When intended to be used for the purpose of propulsion, the ammonia is poured into a system of tubes, deposited in a tank of water in such a way that the gas which passes through the cylinder, i nstead of escaping into the open air be may carried through the exhaust pipe, and be absorbed by the water. In this manner the ammoniated water is preserved, and being reinstilled, is capable of being used over again several thousand times, wearing out only at the rate of twenty-five per cent. per annum. The gas is so readily absorbed by the water that it prevents any disagreeable smell or noise of concussion with the air.

At the end of each trip the tubes are refilled from a reservoir of liquid ammonia, and during the journey the heft lost by the tubes is acquired by the water in the tank, which reimparts it, and prevents the ammonia from falling below the boiling temperature. The report of the examining committee, headed by General Beauregard, approves of the invention in terms which are too indefinite to be conclu.ive (says the New Tillie, of July 8, from which we quote the above). RATHER. A is generally considered a fine manly sport, with nothing trickish about it yet those who watch the game closely, cannot help seeing a great deal of underhand" work going SATURDAY, AUG. 5, 1871 ZITREME have your pocket picked.

Your purse is taken. It contains gold, silver, stamps, car hi with your name and address, and memoranda useless, but to yourself. The memoranda are returned to you in an With Ms. W. Sm.

Waft Vic-rim s. Volkstaat, speaking of the number of sick and wounded in the German army thuing the late war, says that apart altogether from deaths, the Central Bureau of Information in Berlin reports that within 12 months it had authenticated 5,50,000 German cases of wounds and sickness, and 78,000 French cases PROMOTION IN THE ArSTRIAN ARMY. may not be generally known that there are now in Austria two systems of seniority aid by selection. A fixed quota of vacancies in each regiment arc tilled by selection and the rest (and most numerous) by seniority. In the artillery and engineers it has been found most effectual to vest the power of selection in the officers themselves, who in such cases usually elect the best man to the vacancy, as they are mostly far better acquainted with each other's qualities than the commanding officer.

following is from a visitors' book "in a well-known locality in the Glen Urquhart is a glorious glen Where deer and grouse have not supplanted men." Juki. Bright. And immediately "Glen Urquhart I. a glorious glen Where mules sad shoddy have net stunted men." Shirley Brooks. Awl-SANITARY are admonished to take precautions against approaching Cholera.

Suppose a net of strong-minded women and weak-minded men were to get up an for the repeal of the Sanitary Acts which legalise ouch precautions, they would have some reason for so doing. What would it he That the enforcement of those Acts affected themselves 1116 BRITISII BORN IN NEW YORK Census returns of New York (1370) show that, in round munbers, one in four of the inhabitants of that city is a native of the United Kingdom. Twenty-four thousand three hundred and ninety-eight of the population were born in England, 537 in Wales, 201,999 in Ireland, 7,551 in Scotland, ten in the Isle of Man. One hundred and one of the coloured people in New York are also net down as born in the United Kingdom. A Hsno is FlumBLE consequence of the heavy rains on Sunday week, the River Ayr in the evening rose to a considerable height.

Nine childres belonging to the mining village of Annbank, about air miles above were, between nix and seven o'clock amusing thensselves by wading in the water a little below Auld onk, when the river became suddenly swollen, and the children were at once lifted off their feet. A miner who was walking by the river at the time saw the perlions position of the children, and at once ran into the water to rescue them. He got bold of two of them, whom he conveyed to the bank of the river, and re turned for the others but by this time the water had so rapidly that it was impossible he could convey them by twos to the land, and the children all clung to him while he stood in the water almost up to the neck. im cries brought a number of people to the spot, and three or four men swam to the rescue, but the current was so strong that several attempts had to be made before any of the children could be taken to land. At length they were all taken off one by one from the body of the miner, to whom they had clung for about an hour and a half, and who himself had a narrow escape from being drowned.

LOVES OF THE are very. fond of expatiating on the above elevated theme, but we can only say, as regards the only Stars we are personally acquainted far from their cherishing any immortal loves, they mortally hate each other. THE BarrLE OF ma BEES. gentleman in Canada gives an account of battle which has just occurred betwixt two swarms of been, which shows that humanity has its humble rivals. One swarm, be says, took forcible possittsion of the neighbours' barracks, and, as the attacked defended their rights, a furious fight oommenced, and the battle raged from 4.30 to 9 p.m.

The next morning, as the sun appeared, the battle was sinned, the marauders appearing not in good condition. yet showing great pluck. The carnage continued without intermission till 10 when hundreds of dead bodies lay on the plain. At 11 the battle ended when there was not one of the attacking party left to tell the tale. This is Gravelotte, Woerth, and sedan combined.

To THE the Hon. Mrs. Norton was applied to, on Hood's death, for a contribution to the fund then raised for his destitute widow, and headed by Sir Robert Peel with the munificent donation of fifty pounds, she priunptly sent a liberal subscription, with the following lines (never before published) To cheer the willow's heart in her distress, To pnwisioti for the fatherless, Is but a Christian's duty, and none should Resist the heart-appeal ofWidow iluod." Poetry, punning, and piety, all of tha genuine sort, are not often thus happily united. Tin Porn' cnltiration of the poppy in China, which has been more than once prohibited by Imperial edicts, appears to be increasing everywhere, and becoming a profitable trade. In Szecimen, where the climate is warm and the season early, two mil's, anys Nature, ut least roduced on the same ground annually.

The reed of time poppy is sown in February, the plants flower in April, and the fruits are so far matured by the mi Idle of May that the juice is collected, and the stalks removed and burnt directly after but previous to this the second crop, which may be either Indian corn, cotton, or tobacco, is sown, so that almost by the time the poppy is cleared from the field the new crop makes it appearance. The profit derived from the cultivation of the poppy is not only the result of a fair market value and a ready sale, but also from the fact that muchof the work in the plantation, especially the gathering of the juice, can be done by the children of the family. The scratchings or incisions bekg made in the cap pules in the morning, the juice whiel! has oozed out in the course of the day, collected in the evening, and after simply ex moswg it to the sun for a few days it is ready for packing. The seed not required for sowing is use! for food. A REGIILiIt there be a collision between the Lords and Commons on the Ballot Bill, as there wa4 on the Army Bill, the proper dee.

cription of it will be a Boxing Match. --Paach. How WAS IT eye-witnesa of the shooting of Private Warwick, of the 18th Ilirkshire, at Wimbledon, with the Soper rifle, says The Soper in his hands is au arm which out shoots the needle-gun, Chasaepot, Snider. or any other rifle yet invented. To gee Private Warwick shoot was a treat.

The way in which he held his Soper was that of all others which I in my ignorance though to be the most awkward in which to hold a gun. I can comprehend the advantage of standing or kneeling to fire at your toe, but it does seem a little inglorious to throw yourself on your back, cross your legs, and rest the.barrel of your rifle on your calves Yet that is precisely what private Warwick did, and so doing he blazed away with marvellous rapidity so fast indeed, that I could not see how the charges got into the gun. It was like piano -playing by a brilliant performer, whose notes you hear distinctly, but whose fingers you cannot follow. Mr. Warwick fired sixty eight rounds in two minutes, and made 124 points, one of which was a bull's-eye.

The distance was two hundred yards. If you have any doubt about the shooting wonder' meriting this title, pray try the experiment I tried after seeing flint Place yourself near a heap of stones, select a post for a mark, take aim at it each time you throw, and see how many stones yon can fling in a minute. It is a rough method of arriving at the merits of the Soper rifle, and will help von to understand what constitute i a 'shooting MARRIAGE THROUGH a year and a half ago a New York man ran off with another van's wife, she leaving a better man and he a prettier wife behind. The bereaved parties met while hunting for the fugitives, and, the search being unsuccessful, they returned home determined to make the best of it. The deserted wife obtained a divorce.

The deserted husband applied for one, and about the same timebecame rich by tie death of a relative. His good fortune brought boa wife, who succeeded in having the case.postponed, hoping by compromise to get some of his money; but lie was obstinate, and the ease was decided uz hie favour. The next day there was a wedding in New York between the two contracting parties so brought together..