Miscellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 526, 18 November 1857, Page 5

Miscellaneous.

Some doubts respecting the course he would take with regard to the Indian mutiny having been expressed, Mr. Bright has met them with an exphcit statement. Through the medium of the telegraph, he says:— " The success of the Indian revolt would lead to anarchy in India; and I consider it is mercy to India to suppress it. I should not resist the measures considered necessary to suppress it I should insist on an improved government for India for the future."

It is stated that Major-General Windham Member for East Norfolk, has accepted an important command in India.

During a trial in the Court of Queen's Bench Mr. Menzies having been examined by Mr penman, for the plaintiff, Mr. Bovill, who had just come into court, proceeded to cross-examine him, and asked, " What are you?" Mr. Justice Cresswell—" Mr. -Bovill if you had been here betore, you would have heard what he was." Mr. Bovill—"It is really very difficult to know what to do: here are six courts sitting, and it is impossible to be in all of them." Mr Justice Cresswell—" There is neither hardship nor aimculty m the matter; the course to be pursued is- very simple. I have observed a very unsatisfactory state of things since I have sat here, and I regret it." Mr. Bovill—" I really do not know what is to be done ; it is unavoidable. Mr. Juctice Cresswell—" When I was at the bar, I never took a brief which I could not attend to." Mr. Bovill—" Neither do I nay Lord." Mr. Justice—" Well, the course before the counsel is very simple, We won't discuss the matter. Go on."

Common carefulness and liberality do not appear to be cultivated in California. A man who had been amassing'gold in that country for some years, last week left the proceeds—a parcel containing a bar of gold worth £1500—on Greenwich steam-boat pier. The pier-master found it; in an hour or two the owner returned to the pier in search of his precious bar; it was restored to him, and he graciously presented to the pier- in aster— 'one-sovereign! In consequence of the proceedings against betting-7io«ses, those who make a trade of betting with all comers have adopted-a new plan— they have taken to the street, transacting their business in .the highways. The collection of people round them, the chaffering, and the obstruction of the;footways have become a nuisance, which the'police have"been instructed to. suppress. Charles Head was produced before the Marlborough-s'tfeet Magistrate on a charge of causing obstruction by assembling betters round him in Oxendon-street* Head denied that he had been betting, and contested the right of the; police to interfere with, persons assembled in the street. Mr. Beadon informed him that they had a right to interfere ; and he held Head to bail to keep the peace. The Southwark Magistrate on the 25th July liberated Mr. Barrett, a Manchester warehouseman, who has been in custody for some time on a charge of attempting suicide. He went to a bath on the Spa Koad, and after entering the water cut his throat: the gash was not very deep, but he lost so much blood that lie was in a very weakly state when the bath attendant, discovered that there was something amiss. Mr. Barrett had been drinking; his choice of a means of death, it appears, was the result ofc reading in "Little Dorrit" and other books that bleeding in a bath was an easy mode of dying. The culprit expressed contrition, and Mr. Burcham lectured him before dismissal.

The accounts from all parts of England tell of the commencement of harvest-work, and of the excellence and abundance of the grain-crops. In Scotland, it appears that, though the crops as a whole are early and good, they are not heavy.

Mr. George Frederick; Muntz, M.P., who died on the 28th July, at Umberslade, in Warwickshire, was in his 64th year. He was the son of a German merchant who settled in Birmingham 1783. Mr. Muntz was first elected Member for Birmingham in 1840, when Mr. Thomas Attwood retired. He was a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Warwickshire.

Prince Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, eldest son of Prince Lucien brother of the first Napoleon, died on the 29fch July, at his residence in the Rue de Lille in Paris, at the age of fifty-four, having been born in 1803. He was well-known in the scientific world.

The respective partisans of " Orange " and " Green "—-or rather, perhaps, a set of ruffians who would use any symbol for the sake of a fight and an attack upon the police—have been nightly rioting in the streets of Belfast, using fire-arms, and beating and pelting the constables when they interfered; it has been necessary to clear the streets with military. The magistrates, as one means of stopping the rioting, ordered the public-houses to be closed at seven o'clock.

Both the ' lancet' and the ' Medical Times ' favour the view thatEmile L'Angelier, the Jersey adventurer, was his own destroyer. They insist particularly on a point that was not very prominently brought out at the trial—how could so large a quantity of arsenic have been administered to L'Angelier without his knowledge ?—a " cup of chocolate " could not have held it in suspension; if L'Angelier swallowed it unknowingly, two quarts of liquid would probably have been required" to dissolve or hold in suspension the arsenic. His behaviour on the morning of his death, it is argued, was quite consistent with a case of suicide.

Slave-catchers Baffled.—There was a good deal of excitement in Mechahsburg' and vicinity on Tuesday last, caused by the attempt on the part of five Kentuckians, accompanied by a Deputy Marshal from Cincinnati, to arrest a fugitive slave named Addisori. They made a descent upon the cabin, which is about a mile from Mechansburg, early in the morning; but Addison, in the meantime, had taken refuge in the loft through a hole barely sufficient to admit his huge body, he being a remarkably large and stout negro. Soon one of the Kentucky gentlemen mounted the ladder with a double-barrelled gun in his hand, to ascend to the loft. He had scarcely got his head and shoulders through the hole when Addison fired upon him.; the ball striking the gun in front of the Jientuckian's breast, glanced off, which saved his life. This reception caused the chivalrous Kentuckian to descend the ladder a good deal taster than he went up, and he, finding that he was not killed, fired up the hole through the roof, and retreated from the house. By this time the courage of the party had fairly oozed out at the ends of their fingers, and no further attempt was made to ascend the loft. These facts were soon known in the town, when quite a crowd came out, and Kentuckians and Deputy Marshal left the neighbourhood in double quick time, and have not since returned.— Urbana Uitizen.

Genebal Baenaed.—lt will be learnt with great satisfaction that General Barnard has greatly distinguished himself by the military capacity he has displayed before Delhi He arrived there with all possible speed by a longforced night march, and found that the mutineers had taken up a very formidable position about two miles in front of the town. Notwithstanding that his men were suffering he attacked afc once by a bold advance and a skilful flank movement with that hearty will which at once carries soldiers to victory. The 71st sprang from behind two sandhills, where the worn-out men had obtained a brief rest, and immediate success crowned the efforts of the soldiers and their gallant leader—the position was carried and occupied, the rebels bin°- 3driven out with great loss. General Barnard was complimented by those about him on the achievement due to his skill • and in the hasty council of the battle-field was advised to brin°in hi? wounded, rest his men, who were now suffering terribly from over-fatigue, and to retrench himself in the excellent position he had won. But the General turned a deaf ear to every counsel, pointed to a ridge outside the town where the rebels were again assembling, in a few words expressed his will that the ridge should be carried, and the discomfiture °of the enemy be completed.:—"if this.be not done, they, too, will intrench themselves, and it will cost us three times as'much to dislodge them. They are now panic- struck ; but if allowed to hold that place they even might attack us at a disadvantage. No ! I am sorry the poor fellows are tired, but they will take the ridge." Again, animated by their General's will, and guided, by consummate science, the small and wearied force.marched forward with unfailing pluck. Again victory was theirs; they rushed on the g-ins with devoted courage, and captured 26 of the enemy's cannon, alid drove him with great slaughter within the walls of Delhi.— Morning JPost. The Brain in Childhood.—lt is a fact well-attested by experience that the memory may be seriously injured by pressing upon it too hardly and continuously in early life. VVhatever theory we hold as to this great function of our nature, it is certain that its powers are only gradually developed, and that, if forced into premature exercise, they are impaired by the effort. This is a maxim,"indeed, of general import applying to the condition and culture of every faculty of body and mind, but singularly to the one we are now considering, which forms, in one sense, the foundat:on of intellectual life. A regulated exercise, short of fatigue, is improving to it, but we are bound to refrain from goading it by constant and laborious. efforts in early liie, and before the instrument is strengthened to its work, or it decays under our hands. Sir H. Holland's Mental Physiology. The " Spieittjalists" in America.—A searching investigation into the question of' spiritualism and the efficacy of "spiritual mediums" has lately taken place at Boston, where it terminated at the end of last month. It is reported by a very able committee of inquiry that the " mediums" all failed, and that " spiritualism," as. it is falsely and absurdly styled, is proved to be a sheer fallacy. This exposure of the utter insanity of this monstrous delusion is regarded with great satisfaction by all who have at heart the interests of religion, morality, and, it may be added, common sense. Professor Felton, of Cambridge, United States, has taken equal pains to expose the hollowness of the pretensions of " Spiritualists," and to open the eyes of their ignorant dupes. " The exposure of this amazing fraud," writes the learned professor (in a private letter,) "is a matter of vital consequence to morals, religion, and social safety,"—an assertion which all right-minded persons will heartily echo. And this good service to the world has now been achieved by the labours of the Boston Committee of Inquiry.

I cannot record the death of Beranger without a passing word of admiration for his genius, and regret for Ma loss, which robs France of another of her few—her very few—-real poets. It is true he was but a song-writer, but into his songs his genius threw the character and feeling of a nation, and sometimes its wrongs. Essentially the poet of the people, gallant, gay, witty, satirical, and, above all, French, perhaps no writer ever so completely photogi'aphed the character of his countrymen as Beranger, or loved his country better. The deceased had nearly reached his 7 7th year.—Paris Correspondent of the ' Times.'

At the Derby Assizes, an action for slander made a conspicuous figure. The plantiff was the Eeverend F.jN, Highmore, Vicar of Elvaston ; the defendants'were the^Earl and Countess of Harrington, the slander * being imputed to the_ CountesF. Among other things alleged against her in the evidence, she was represented to have said that she never took the sacrament from "that man Highmore, because he is such a wicked man " ; that she. alleged he kept the sacrament-money; that he was always playing at cards; that he and his wife were constanly rolling drunk on the floor; and that he told lies. The defence was partly justification, partly disclaiming of the aspersions ascribed to the Countess by the principal witness, a curate to whom she spoke; but although the Countess herself appeared in the witness-box, and denied some of the precise terms she was alleged to have used, the jury were of opinion that she. had failed to establish her plea of justification, and found for the plantiff— damages £720.

An influential deputation, including many Members of the House of Commons, and leading merchants and manufacturers from the Midland and Northern counties and from Glasgow, have waited upon Lord Palmerston to make statements regarding the present supply of cotton, and to submit to him certain proposals by means of which, in the opinion of the deputation, a largely-increased supply might be obtained from British India. •

Lola Montes.—The renowned Lola Montes is now spending a few days at Niagara Falls. She has appeared at the Buffalo Theatre, as a sort of interlude to her season of pleasure. On ?riday_ morning Lola took the train for Buffalo, and, without advice from any source, she seated herself in the baggage car to quietly pull her cigarette. While thus cosily tiirowing off from her lips the curling smoke, she was discovered by the conductor, and informed that passengers were not permitted to ride in the baggage cars. She paid no attention to the intimation, but continued to smoke as if no one had addressed her. Ast. Supt. Collamer was at the station, and was informed what Lola was doing. He said she must do as other passengers did, and that she could not be permitted to ride in the baggage car. The conductor called upon her, and politely told her that she must take a seat in one of the cars designed for passengers. Lola drew herself up into an attitude of defiance, and told the conductor that she had travelled all over the world, and always rode where she had a mind to, and proposed to do so in this case. The conductor further expostulated with her, and assured her that he was but executing the orders of the superintendent and the rules of the company. Lola replied that she had "horsewhipped bigger men than he." This settled the matter. The conductor withdrew and Lola was not again disturbed. She rode to Buffalo in the baggage car, and had no occasion to use the whip. The railroad men did not care to further disturb the tigress. — Rochester Union.

Dialogue.—About every other person you meet just now has an influenza. The following dialogue between Mr. Smith and Miss Miller, overheard yesterday, illustrates the extent and violence of the epidemic:—'Good bordig, Biss Biller.' 'Good bordig, Bister Sbith.' How's your Ba this bordig ?' ' I dode thig she's buch better this bordig, Bister Sbith.' ' Have you bade up your bides yet what is the .batter with her?' 'Do, dot egsactly; Dr. Buggids, our fabily physiciad, thicks it is the beasels. Bisses Jodes, who has it id her fabily, says it's the sball pox, but I thick it's dothing bore thad ad eruptiod of the skid frob eatidg too buch beat.' ' Has she taked eddy bedicid ?' Dot buch.* ' Have you tried bribstode add bolasses.' Do. Is it considered good?' 'Ad id fallible rebedy— cures everythig. Biss Browd's little dog was quite udwell dight before last—had a ruddig at the dose add subthig like the bubps ; before puttig it to bed she gave it half a wide glass of the bixture, add last dight at tea it was able to seat itself id. the cake-basket, add help itself frob the sugar-bowl. It works like bagic.' ' Astodishig! I shall adbidister the rebedy to Ba ibbediately !' 'Do so, with by cobplibets.' ' I will. Good bordig, Bister Sbith.' Good bordig, Biss Biller,'

The 'Lion Hunter' at the Police Cotjet. —Mr. Gordon Cumming, who is at present exhibiting his trophies in the Clayton Hall in Liverpool, was charged before the borough magistrates with assaulting several persons while in the Grand Junction Hotel in Lime street. The chief complainants were two persons named Griffith and Ellis, who stated that on the evening in question they were sitting in the coffee-room of the hotel, where Mr. Gordon Cumming was taking his supper with two friends, with whom he was discussing the qualifications of the United States' steam frigate Niagara. The complainants, having been on board, were interested in the conversation, and joined Mr. Cumming at his table, when that' gentleman (so they said), without any provocrt-* tion, attacked them in a violent manner, Griffith being severely cut about the face, while Ellis was ako much injured. The barmaid and barman came in, they stated, for some heavy blows.- According to Mr.Cumming's version,and thatof his friends, Griffith -provoked the assault, by first making insulting remarks about the .English, nag, and, when they were resented, challenging Mr. Cumming to fight, saying that if they would get upon the floor " he woulcl take the bounce out of all three of them." In common politeness,-Mr. Cumming said, he accepted the invitation, and as he did not do thoseNkind of things by halves, he gave the man a .sound thrashing for his impertinence. The magistrate considered that the complainants had drawn the chastisement on themselves, and dismissed the summons.

The Paris trial of the Italians charged with =a plot to assassinate the Emperor was finished on Friday, August 7th. ".The Jury returned^. ;yerdiet o£ Guilty,: with extenuating circum--stances in favour of Bartolotti and Grilli. _ The iProcureur General demanded the application of article 89 of the .Penal Code to the three accused, modified by article J460 as regarded the two latter. The Court, after deliberating in the Council-chamber, sentenced Tibaldi to transportation, and Bartolotti and Grilli to fifteen -years' imprisonment. Lord Napier, our Minister at Washington, seems to have excited some attention "by setting a good example as to keeping the Sabbath • —stedfastly refusing to receive visitors on that day." It "is said that a certain Commodore was rather astonished when he could not get an interview on Sunday. The commissioners appointed to -consider ; the -expediency of converting New Caledonia into -a French penal settlement have reported uuarii-; in favour of the project. ; ■ How many patents can"pay"P Last year. no fewer than 2,094 patents were passed, and { '-the stamp-duties amounted to £91,115^ ; \ During the year 1856 the Emigration Com-;; missioners received £244,113, and expended ; *£316,718. They sent out 20,385 emigrants to . Austadia. - : An extensive fire broke out in Edinburgh Old rTown on :the sth August, sweeping away two ~" lands'" of houses which formed part of that remarkable range of buildings whose lofty. gables attract'the notice of strangers, giving to the Old Town, viewed from Prince's street, an appearance peculiarly picturesque. One of the flats had: been inhabited successively by David. Hume, Dr. Blair, and Boswell, and it was there that Dr. Johnson staid when he visited Edin-, burgh. The fire broke out at Mid-day, in an upper story. Engines arrived from all parts of 'the town and neighbourhood; but it unluckily happened that the water supply, brought from • distant hills, was at that moment turned off, and the engines were compelled to wait three--quarters of an hour for a supply. When it -came, the firemen, aided by a body of soldiers, - succeeded in subduing the fire by five o'clock. No ■ estimate of the losses incurred had yet /been published. Nearly all the poor tenants of "sthe flats were uninsured. In two months and a half about 12,000 sheep -were sent from Algiers to Marseilles; and 'greater supplies would arrive in France but :from the scarcity of shipping. The French Government has declined "for ;the present" to extend any encouragement to "the Suez Canal scheme.

The Birmingham election has terminated in "the quiet choice of Mr. Bright without a con- ' test On the 7th of August, Mr. M'Geaehy's friends openly avowed that their only chance of ■success' lay in the rivalry of Mr. Webster and -Mr.-Bright. It was admitted that Mr. Bright rallied theMarger mass of Liberal support, and - that bis friends were the least disposed to compromise. Mr Webster withdrew to prevent the -elec'ttonof Mr. M'Geachy, and that gentleman immediately followed his example. The-extraordinary level which the price of wheat maintains in Madrid; in face of a magnificent harvest, partly gathered in, has led; to a serious suspicion that the members of the Government are enriching themselves by sharing with -capitalists in creating monopoly prices. Wheat in Madrid is sold at the rate of from 102s. to 106s. the English quarter. In the budget for 1857, no less than £600,000 sterling 4s put down for subsidizing bakers that bread ■may be cheapened to the poor. Nearly all over ■Spain the harvest is "thoroughly first-rate." There is a remarkably fine crop of chick-pea, largely used in 'the dinner of nearly every Spaniard. It is estimated that an abundant corn-harvest in Spain will feed the country for three years.

The sugar-crops in the West Indies appear to 'have been bountiful-; and the high prices now i-uling have led to an increased cultivation, so •that still larger crops are looked for next year. The Copenhagen, which sailed from Plymouth for Melbourne on the 13th July, has carried thirteen horses, seventeen head of cattle, and sixty-seven sheep, all of fine breeds, intended to improve the stock in Victoria. One is a iamous race-horse, Indian Warrior, and there are four thorough-bred fillies.

At the Adelphi, there was a performance to the memory of Mr. Douglas Jerrold on the 29th July. The 'Rent Day' and '. Black-Eyed Susan' were the pieces selected for the occasion; and that the latter might be played with iue effect, the veteran Mr. T. P. Cooke resumed: his original character of William, for the one night only. The nerve and spirit with whicbj°he played this truly popular part were most; remarkable. An address in verse, written by Mr. Tom Taylor, and delivered by Mr. Albert Smith, was another feature of the solemnity. The military and naval authorities are busy at the great ports in shipping men for the East. Not a day passes without the embarkation of one or more detachments either of fresh regiments, or of reinforcements sent to supply the gaps that the terrible hot season, rather than the sabre or the bullet, will make in: the ranks of our battalions in India. There will ■thus arrive in India at one time, a large body of troops of all arms; but, alasl not one moment before they are wanted. Twelve second battalions of infantry are to be raised immediately to take the place of troops ordered to India.

The price of flour is rapidly falling in Paris and the other markets of France. The harvest promises to be both early and abundant: bread has already been made in Paris from wheat grown J:hiai year. In Algeria the harvest is nearly finished.

Mr. John Wilson -Croker, whose serious illness was announced only last week, expired on Monday the 10th Aug. at the house, of Judge Wightman, at Hampton. Mr. Croker has lived a long -life, and filled a prominent part both in politics and literature. He was born in 1780, in the county of Gal way; his father being Mr. John Croker, SurveyorGeneral of Ireland. He went to school at Cork uutil he was sixteen; and from the Cork dayschool he went to Trinity College, Dublin. In 1800 he was called to the bar. Mr. Croker had by this time made himself conspicuous at the Historical debating society, and had begun fto try his hand at composition, chiefly in the shape of satirical letters. In 1806 he married Miss Benriel, the daughter of the then British Consul-General at Rio, who survives him. The earliest pamphlet of Mr. Croker that obtained more than local notice was entitled " The state of Ireland Past and Present," and advocated Catholic Emancipation. In 1808 he was returned for Downpatrick. Colonel Wardle's attack on the Duke of York afforded Mr. Croker an opportunity of defending the Duke; and he was shortly after appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, a post which he held until 1830. During this timehe satfor Downpatrick, Bodmin Athlone, Aldborough, Yarmouth, and the University of Dublin. In 1828 he became a Privy Councillor. Mr. Croker did not seek reelection under -the Reform Act of 1832. Mr. Croker was one of the founders of the "Quarterly Review," and of the Athenaeum Club; He contributed to the " Quarterly," edited "Boswell," the " Suffolk Papers," and other works. He passed his retirement at Kensington Palace and Moulsey, in the enjoyment of a pension of £1500 a year. The sit 3of Covent Garden Theatre is now tolerably well cleared of the remains of the late building, and presents a very extensive but forlorn area to the eye. The Piazza Tavern will shortly be removed. It is proposed that the new Opera house shall be completed and opened next season. The Pope is expected to return to Rome at the beginning of September. The Emperor of the French has ordered that Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, a second Lieutenant in the Chasseurs d' Afrique, shall assume the title of Prince de la Moskowa. According to the last wishes expressed by the Prince de Canino, his mortal remains will be conveyed to Corsica, to be deposited in the family vault by the side of those of his mother and of Cardinal Fesch. . ;

Why was the Government so late last week in receiving its Indian June news by telegraph ? —No one seems to know. But' Sir James Carrniehael, Chairman of the Submarine Telegraph Company, has given some interesting information on the order of the messages received. A " private individual" had the first message. This was dated Turin. July 28, I 11.40 a.m. "It arrived at 12, and was sent out of the office to its destination at 2 minutes > past 12." [Apparently this " private individual was in a position to operate on the Stock Exchange at mid-day on Tuesday: just before three o'clock on Wednesday morning Lord Palmerston stated in the House of Commons that Government had not yet received any news from India.] The second despatch came from Trieste, July 28,10.30 a. m.; but it arrived only at 7. 50 p. m ; it was for the " Times." The " Daily News " message came next; the fourth was for Sir Jamss Melvill; the fifth was addressed to a "private individual " ; at length Lord Clarendon got his message—the sixth —delivered at 1. 30 p. m. on the 29th; it had ! been sent from Trieste at 11.5 a.m. on the 28th. i

All the members of the East India Company's Civil Service now on leave in England have been ordered to return to the East forthwith.

United States.—The Columbia arrived at Liverpool on 29th July, with advices from New York to the 18th.

The affairs of Kansas were again attracting attention. Governor Walker had informed (the Federal authorities that on the 16th a serious insurrection broke out at Lawrence, and that he had summoned the United States troops to suppress it. The cause of the outbreak is not alluded to by the Governor, but it is supposed to have originated in an attempt to collect the taxes imposed by the territorial laws, which the Free State settlers had resolved not to pay. The commission of Colonel Cummings as Governor of Utah was made out on the 11th instant, and was immediately forwarded to him in Missouri. The other; appointments for the territory had also been made. Mr. R. D Eckles, of Indiana, has been appointed Chief Justice of Utah. ;

The ' New York Herald 'states that Barclay would be reappointed Consul at New York, and congratulates the city thereupon. Lord Napier has made another speech. ' On this occasion the opportunity was afforded by the triennial festival of Havard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He compared Cambridge in the Old with Cambridge in the New World • and presented to the library of the College a copy of the Life of Napier the inventor of logarithms, "accompanied by a very difficult analysis of his works, which has been published by a relative of mine, Mr. Mark Napier; and which unites- the exactness of'a mathematician with the fervour of a descendant." j At a village near Malmoe in Sweden, a band of armed peasants have attacked a number of Mormons; the saints were armed, and they resisted; several of the combatants were wbun. dea.

The New York sailors refuse 20 dollars a month without an advance, and prefer—for the benefit of land-sharks—l 6 dollars with an advance. The New York Jack is in complete slavery to the lodging-house keepers.

An announcement by the Lord Mayor must have carried-dismay among the'betting-house gentry in the City; to whom the payment of a fine is^ a mere-trifle, j he has stated that in future he will inflict imprisonment in every case of; conviction, without the option of the convenient fine. i ■

A deputation from the corporation of Dublin waited upon the Lord-Lieutenant with an address touching the proposal to abolish the Viceroyalty, which they held would be impolitic. Lord Carlisle expressed his own opinion very frankly:— -. * ' j "I am convinced that the continuance.of the Viceregal Court contributes materially to make our own capital a place of increased resort and importance; and I cannot treat as purely frivolous the influences that act upon the trade and . prosperity of an ancient and populous city, or believe that they do not radiate to a far wider circuit. And while I should be far from seeking to prejudge what alterations of existing establishments the lapse of time or change log circumstances may recommend, I still conceive ! that the precipitate abolition of an office which, under one modification or auother.has now subsisted for nearly seven centuries,which has preceded and. survived a separate legislature,*and has engrained itself into the laws, customs and feelings, of an entire people, cannot be effected without difficulties and complications which veiT great and obvious commensurate benefits should alone persuade us to encounter. There is one point on which I feel yet more strongly assured. We have perceived how small a fraction of the Irish representation have voted in favour of the abolition of the Irish Viceroyalty. I am clearly of opinion it would be neither prudent, genei-ous nor just to change this ancient form of administration without a marked concurrence on the part of the loyal and welldisposed portion of the Irish people." ; It is not surprising that this "reply should have given "the highest satisfaction to the Dublin public." Mr. Samuel Lidgett, son of a shipping merchant in Billiter-square, lias been killed while playing cricket at Tunbridge Wells, where his father resides : a ball struck him on the heart as he stood at the wicket, and- he died in a few moments, —a victim, apparently, of the modern system of "swift bowling." A Coroner's jury sitting at Quebec has returned a verdict of manslaughter against the owner, the master, the pilot and the mate of the Montreal, the steamer which was recently burnt with a fearful loss of life.

Riots are now chronic in New York,, and both mob and authorities fight with fire-arms. The last two sectional insurrections were an attack by the oyster-men on the quarantine station, and a rising of the Germans against a prohibition to vend "their beloved lager-beer on Sundays. In all these rows the insurgents attain at least one common cud—they combat the detested " new police." A Birmingham mob attacked a Mormon congregation one Sunday evening in July, maltreating both women and men, and destroying property in the interior of the chapel. The mob had been excited by a lecture against Mormonism, delivered on the Sunday by Dr. Brindley.

Rioting, with fire-arms in hand, seems now to be _one of the acknowledged institutions of our " free and enlightened" cousins across the Atlantic: the last conflict took place at Baltimore, between two rival fire-companies; one man was shot, and others were more or less seriously hurt. ITltis now said that the United States wheat harvest will he "decidedly good," while Indian corn is rapidly recovering. From Canada ithe accounts are not very encouraging, and only an average yield in cereals is expected at the best; but the supply of hay is very abundant. A very violent thunder-storm, sweeping: up from the north-west, raged over London and the vicinity during the night of August: 13. A had burst over Nottingham at 2 oi clock on the afternoon of the same day. .On the 15th, London was visited by a hail-stormj so violent, accompanied by rain so heavy, that the streets were like shallow, torrents. The Orinoco, West Indian mail-steamer, has had seventy cases of yellow fever, twenty-ei°-ht ot which proved fatal: but not one passenger was attacked, and those of the crew who died were all new hands except the chief engineer, JJ uller accounts of the burning of the steamer Montreal on the St. Lawrence have arrived: but they are still imperfect. It was estimated that at least 300 persons had perished—mostly bcotch emigrants, who had arrived at Quebec 'in the James M'Kenzie. There must have ■been great confusion and mismanagement to have_ ended in so great a loss of life; for! the burning wreck, havinga-un upon a sunken rock, lay - wifcbm 150 yards of the shore, while the steamer Napoleon was ■at hand, and sent boats to rescue the people. When the jolly boat of the Montreal was lowered by the mate with a view to save first the women and children, a herd of people rushed into it, and it ,was swamped It does not appear that any one was saved iirboafo belonging to.the Montreal; the two hundred who escaped having swam ashore or been picked up by the Napoleon's.boats >The fare is reported to have been caused-by the wood-work near the furnaces not having been properly protected. It.is asserted-thfti the JVlontreal was a very dangerous vessel—frequently catching fire; she ran at a reckless speed: no one would #rant an insurance on her. Ihe .master and crew are reported to have behayed badly when the catastrophe. occurred Cnmps_ from Quebec and other, scoundrels put off m boats, not to recover the bodies, but to plunder them and then throw them back nto the water. Many of the unfortunate emigrants had large sums of money on their.persons.

- The police have broken into'a "gaming-house in Coventry-street, and made fifteen prisoner's. There is a shop attached to the house; it purports to be a tobacconist's,,but no tobacco jor cigars were found in the boxes. Charles Levy Goodman, the man who prosecuted Captain Erlam for the abduction of his daughter, is accused as the keeper of the house; Charles Stewart |as doorkeeper; and the other persons as visitors to a gaming-house. After hearing evidence of the finding of dice and dice-bokes and backgammon boards, the Marlborough-street Magistrate postponed his judgment for a "week. ; No fewer than four persons employed out of doors died from the intense heat in different parts of Somersetshire, in one week of July.