Miscellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 552, 17 February 1858, Page 3

Miscellaneous.

Earl Fitzhardinge, so long a sufferer tinder very painful illness, died on Oct. 10th, at Berkeley Castle, in his, seventyfirst year. He was the son of the fifth Earl of Berkeley and Miss Mary Cole, of Gloucester, and was born in 1786. The equivocal relations existing between his father and mother led, on ,the death of the former, to the "great Berkeley case," which came before the House of Lords on the petition of the late Earl Fitzhardinge, then known as Lord Dursley, laying claim to his father's title. The circumstances out of which this famous case arose are recalled by. the "Times."

The-late Earl [of-Berkeley] in the autumn of 1784, or the commencement of 1785, on a visit to Gloucester from his castle at Berkeleywas struck with the charms of Miss Mary Cole, the daughter of a. butcher in' that city, arid took her to live with him at Berkeley as his wife. As time went on, the lady bore himfour sons; and common reputation affirmed that up to that date no'leg^l marriage had been solemnized between the parties, although the lady styled herself•Countessof Berkeley. The lady wliose character, was thus impugned always asserted on behalf of her eldest son and his three next brothers, that ..although the public solemnization of the union between herself and the Earl did not take place until May 16, 1796, she had been privately' married more than ten years previously; and the same fact was affirmed under oath in his Lordship's last will and testament. To establish this statement, an entry in the parish-register ; of Berkeley was produced, which, entry, it was alleged, had been made, for certain reasons of pleasure and convenience on the part of the late Earl of Berkeley, on a leaf;that had. been pasted down in a volume for many .years, .until it should be wanted. The; question as to the genuine or spurious character of this document came before the House of Ijords only after the death of the late Earl. The clergyman who was said to have made the entry was then dead, and his widow declared that she did not believe it to be in her deceased husband's handwriting. A brother of the, Countess of Berkeley,- however, deposed- thatlie was present as a witness at the marriage of 1785.' "The evidence of Lady Berkeley, it is stated, was contradicted by that of her mother, who \ afterwards married Mr. Glosspp, of Osbournby,: in Lincolnshire, and who, though born in, a, humble sphere of life, lived to see one of her daughters a Countess, one married to a general officer, and the third the _ wife of a nephew of the late Sir Francis Baring, Bart. Such-, being the case, on the death of the fifth; Earl.hjs eldest son, who then bore the courtesy title of Lord Dursley, and was member for. Gloucestershire, presented a petition claiming to be called to the House of Lords as sixth Earl of Berkeley. The subject of his legitimacy had been mooted.'during his father's lifetime, and an enquiry had been, actually ; commenced; but it was abandoned on finding that no legal question could arise until the old Earl's death, when, as we have already stated, tho evidence brought forward in favour of the legitimacy of the eldest son was not judged by the House of Lords to be sufficient

to establish the.claim. In consequence of this decision, Lord Dursley waa obliged to drop that title; and he retired from j>ublic life for many years, and was knowji only as Colonel Berkeley of the South Gloucestei'shire Militia. The estates at Berkeley, at Canford, in Middlesex, and elsewhere, were not entailed upon the title; and lience he remained iii undisputed possession of TBerkeley, Castle, which was bequeathed to him by his f'ather,'and which gave him very extensive influence as a landed proprietor in the country of Gloucester; in which, as also at Bristol, and in the city of Gloucester, he ably supported the Liberal interest against the powerful influence of the Beaufort family. He maintained his ground in this position extremely well, and was one of the gentlemen chpseii by Earl Grey for elevation to the peerage at the coronation of King William TV, I'when he was created Baron Segrave. The , operation of the Reform Act, instead of limitling, his territorial influence, went Far towards ■ doubling it, as he was in general able to secure one 'seat at least for the Liberal party in East as .well aY in West Gloucestershire. In 1841 he was 'elevated to the earldom of Fitzliardinge, justjprevious to the departure of the Melbourne Ministry from office."

The fiftK' .son, bom after the public marriage, never assumed his father's title, because by doing so he would have cast a slur upon the memory of his mother. As Lord Fitzhardinge never married, his earldom and barony died with him.

France has lost the Dictator who, loyal to his. word, laid down his power when the service for which it had been given him was performed. , Louis Eugene Cavaignac died, on Oct. 29th, of aneurism of the heart,, while snipe' shooting on the estate of his friend, M. Beaumont of the Sarthe. General Cavaignac. was torn in 1802. He was the son of a well-known member of the Convention. He entered the army through the Polytechnic School. His first campaign was made in Greece ; his next in Algeria, whither he'was sent, it is supposed, on account of his professed Republican ; opinions. In Algeria Cavaignac earned great distinction; and when the Republic was proclaimed in 1848 he was appointed Governor-General of the colony. Being* elected to the National Assembly, he returned to France, and was appointed Minister of War. When the insurrection of June Broke out, the Provisional Government resigned, and Cavaignac was appointed Dictator by a vote of the National Assembly. By his skilful arrangements he suppressed the insurrection, arid having done 'go' resigned the Dictatorship. He was forthwith appointed President of the Council. At the close of 1848 Cavaignac was a candidate for the office of President j but he was defeated by the present Emperor, who polled 5,534,520 votes to 1,448,302 polled for Cavaignac. In December 1851 Cavaig'nac was arrested with the other members of the Legislature, but released after a brief detention. He did not quit France, but married, settled in Paris, and kept aloof from a reigning power which he never recognized. His death occasions a vacancy in the representation of Paris.

DivHenryWeritwortli Acland, F.R.S., son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, has received the appointment of the Regius Professorship of Medicine at Oxford, in room of the late Dr. Ogle. The Queen of Oude is dangerously ill, at her temporary residence at Richmond. An embassy from the King: of Siam to Queen Victoria embarked on the 11th Oct. from Malta for England in the Caradoc. " The Prince, a relation of the King of Siam, is charged to offer to Queen Victoria several, superb presents, and among others a throne in massive gold set with diamonds. Letters from California to the 20th ' September state, that although the official returns have not been made, there is no doubt., that the. r majority of the people have voted for the payment of the debt which the Supreme Court had pronounced to have been illegally contracted. There still remains a doubt .whether the vote of the people is itself valid in point of law. At length something is known of the resolves of the magnates of the Irish Orange Society. The Grand Masters sat three days. They intend to petition Parliament and issue a manifesto to the public ; and they have "unanimously" passed , the following resolutions: — ."That this Grand Lodge feel it to be most bounden npon them (when a greater meeting of the members of the Grand Lodge has taken ' place than at any time since the reorganization of tho institution) to record the unabated and i decided attachment of the members of the Grand Lodge to the Orange institution. " They believe that at no former period of its history was it so clearly their duty to uphold its principles, to defend its rights, and to employ it for the legitimate, loyal, and benevolent purposes of its organization. "'And they desire to glorify God for many marked tokens of His divine favour in the

great increase of members, in the judgment pronounced upon recent proceedings by a discerning public.and in the evident influence exercised by the institution in every part of the British empire."

A Derbyite Journal of Dublin, the .Daily Express," having approved of the '< Lord Chancellor's letter, "a cry of trea- ! chery has been raised from Dublin to Enniskillen, not merely ag-ainst the offending journal, but against parties sitting in the upper seats, who have more or less fallen under the suspicion of tacit acquiescence in the newly-promulgated views of the Protestant position in Ireland." Two of the "parties" alluded to are Mr. Whiteside and Mr. Napier;

The <Times' "comes down" upon In-' dm'with, a demand which will be popular enough in England. It is the anticipate demand that India should pay the bill of costs for the expense and damage occasioned by the military mutiny and its suppression. India is i-ich in hoarded wealth; she has been absorbing- silver in enormous quantities, for money, for ornament; her Baboos are making- vast fortunes; and she can pay for what is after all an Indian affair. Let, then, the Indian Government look at once to its financial affairs, and let the rebel districts at least pay for their own pacification. This is doctrine that will be hailed with delight in the City,— though nowhere should there be such sensitiveness to the fact that the proposed method of raising benevolences not only makes the loyal pay for the rebellious, but trenches very closely on the good old easy plan of screwing the rich.

*■ /An' inquest was held on Saturday, Oct. 24th, at the Abergavenny Arms, near Frant, Sussex, on the body of Major Warburton, Member for Harwich, author of "Hockelaga" and fhe " Conquest of Canada," and brother of the late Elliot Warburton, who perished in the burning- of the Amazon in 1851. Major Warburton had shot himself on Friday morning-. It appears from the evidence of the Reverend Thomas Warburton, his brother, that Major Warburton had. been suddenly seized with illness on Thursday. Mrs. Warburton found him lying on the floor of his dressing-room before "daybreak on Friday morning: she; called his brother, who lifted him up ,y and, finding1 that he could notspeak = and that - he began to vomit, sent instantly for a sure-eon from Tunbridge Wells., The" surgeon came," prescribed for him, and suggested that he should be watched as 'his mind was disturbed. He was. watchecl; but on his intimating- a desire to retire, his brother left him JN ro sooner hacLke gone than he heard a pistol fired; and rushing back found Major Warburton dead. One if not two bullets had passed throngh his head. The deceased was comfortable in life, pleased with his short Parliamentary career and happy in his home. But he was"subject to violent pains in the head, to attacks of indigestion and bile. The Jury returned a verdict that he had killed himself in a fit of temporary insanity.

Mr. Justice Cresswell will be the Judge of tlie Court of Probate and Divorce; but inasmuch as the acts bj which the new Court is created do not come into operation before the commencement of the nest year, no actual appointment can take place immediately. As yet, theref<3re, there is no vacancy among the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.— Globe. Before Sir William Gore Ousely sailed ' for Central America he was entertained at dinner by Mr. William Brown, the chairman of the Honduras Interoceanic Railway and the Atlantic Telegraph Companies. It is stated that Sir William has full powers to settle "the Central American question." While the disaffected Greeks are fomenting* the turbulence of the lonians under our rule, thinking the Indian troubles a fair occasion, King Otho has sent £400 to the Indian Relief Fund, " moved not only by a spirit of philanthropy and Christian charity, but also by that feeling* of profound" gratitude which the Greeks entertain towards England for the noble aid she gave them during the war of independence." Subscriptions are also to be opened in the Greek towns. i The American monetary crisis is now 1 telling upon employment in our manufacturing* districts, very seriously in some places. The g*reatest sufferers are the workers in cotton. At Manchester great numbers of operatives are idle, or only partially employed by the adoption of " short time"; and many salesmen, clerks, and warehousemen, are also thrown out of employment for a time. At Ashton, Stalybridge, Stockpovt, Bury, Bolton, Blackburn, Preston, and other towns, dis-

tress already prevails to a wide extent. At Preston, more than a dozen mills are stopped, and thirty are working- only part of the week. The silk-trade of Macclesneld is in a very bad state. The iron trade of South Staffordshire is ''somewhat dull," but there is a fair demand for manufactured iron for home consumption. As yet, the American disasters and the tightness of v the money-market have not seriously affected the trade- of Birmingham and the district. At Nottingham, there has been dulness in the lace trade for some weeks :

Mr. Caporn, a lace-dealer, has stopped for £20,000. The hosiery trade of Leicester is in a healthy state, but employment is becoming scarce. There are a considerable number of weavers unemployed at Norwich, but an improvement is "looked for from orders for the spring- trade. At Leeds, only a "flatness" is complained of in the woollen-cloth trade. Short-time working is becoming more prevalent in the worsted-mills of Halifax; while business at Bradford is "paralyzed," with shorttime for the operatives, and gloomy prospects for the winter.

The merchants and shipowners of Liverpool, with their miles of docks and quays, still call for v more !" A number of memorials have been sent to the Dock Committee urging an extension of accommodation for shipping; the memorialists seem to think that more docks and quays should be made at Liverpool ..itself, rather than at Birkeriliead, as required by the recently •enacted Mersey Conservancy Act; and the Dock' Committee, appear to have every disposition to" favour Liverpool and shirk the Birkenhead work. A sub-committee is now considering the matter. In the mean time, the^Birkenhead Commissioners and -tLe -Railway Companies running to Birkenhead are on the alert to take measures, to compel the Liverpool authorities to carry out the act of Parliament with good faith, by completing the Birkenhead docks. .

A tiprer has almost killed a hoy in the streets of London! In the course of conveyance, in a cattle-van, from the London Docks to the establishment of Mr. JamTs.ch x a dealer in animals, the door of the van "got" Unfastened, the tiger bounded into the road j and proceeded along the carnage-way till it encountered a little boy, whom. it. sprang upon, tearing his neck and head in a frightful manner. ■One of Mr. Jamrach's men overpowered the-tiger with repeated blows on the head with a crowbar. The boy is recovering. The celebration of the independence of Chili at' Santiago, on the 18th September, was to be marked by two notable events, —the streets of the city were to be lighted with gas for the first time- and a splendid new theatre, which has cost £80,000., was to be opened. Very extraordinary news has arrived

from Buenos Ayres—the government is actually in the hands of men who are honest! Mr. John Inglis, Dean of Faculty, was j installed in October as Lord Rector of i King's College, Aberdeen. He delivered | an excellent speech on classical education. At tlie dinner of the Tring Agricultural Association on Oct. 21, Sir^Edward Lyt- | ton made a manly English speech on > India, and expressed most emphatically ! his opinion that the duty of all is to sup- j port tlie Executive Government, no matter in whose hands it is placed. " We must be careful not to utter a single word to weaken then* authority." "If at this moment a mad bull were let loose amongst us, I don't think the best grazier in Yorkshire TTOuld induce us to listen to a lecture on the management of horned cattle in general. . I think the wisest man would be, not he who could instruct you in the best method of dealing with dangerous cattle generally, but the man who made the shortest work of the bull. Gentlemen, this is now our object, we must make short work of the bull," A correspondent of the 'Times' tells of " a railway carriage on fire" between Carlisle and Lancaster. A large quantity of luggage on the roof of a carriage caught fire; neither guard nor driverUbl3ce3 thlT smoke; the passeng*ers shouted in vain. A passeuger of great nerve got out, walked along the foot-boards, and gained access to the guard; that functionary had no means of communicating' with the driver; so the gentleman began his perilous journey forward towards the engine. But men working on the line had noticed the fire, and put fog-sig-nals on the rails; the explosion of which caused the driver to pull up. The Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester closed on the 17th Oct., with very simple ceremonies. Upwards of 20,000 persons- were present, 9000 of whom paid at the doors for admission. Little show

was made; nothing-unusual was set up, but a trophy of banners over the orchestra. There was music of course, and at halfpast four the bands united and performed the national anthem; whereupon all the males in the audience uncovered. When the music ceased, Mr. Thomas Fairburn, the chairman of the executive committee, took post in an. open space in front of the i orchestra, and amid deep silence said, —' " Ladies and gentlemen—The time has come. when it is my duty to pronounce the last few words of farewell, and to inform you that whea you have all retired from this building the Exhibition of Art Treasures will be at an end for ever. I sincerely hope that you will never forget .the liberality which has enabled that Exhibition to be formed; and that the recollection of this building and the unrivalled art treasures it contained will assert among you the truth of the poet's line, " ' A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.' " Rounds of cheering followed; then a repetition of " God save the Queen," and renewed bursts of cheering. It was with difficulty, however, that the crowd could be got to quit a building containing a collection of art treasures such as they could not hope ever to see again.

There had been a suggestion to retain the building* in existence until next year, and then to use it for an Industrial Exhibition. As the ground was rented of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, and as the tenancy expired at the end of this month, the proposal was submitted to him ; and he submitted it to his tenants in Old Trafford, the suburb where the Exhibition building stands. The tenants and inhabitants met, thirty-three in number, and decided, by seventeen to thirteen, " that the continuance of an exhibition in the building occupied by the Art Treasures Exhibition would be objectionable to the inhabitants of Old Trafford" at that meeting assembled. So the project was abandoned. It is recorded to the credit of the visitors at the Exhibition, that during its continuance there was. not one dase of wanton damage; and only one accident, the fracture of .a vase belonging to. the Duke of Manchester, since successfully repaired.

The Esmeralda,'a Chilian-war steamer, has captured an' American ship found loading copper ores at Santa 'Maria, within boundaries claimed as : Chilian territory. The American captain, had a license from %he Bolivian authorities who also claim "the territory. The master of the American ship' was subsequently directed to take his ship-to any Bolivian port north of Messillones, but he declined to do so and entered a protest against the proceedings. What sort of thing's, are "private audiences" between Emperors and Foreign Ministers? The' Emperor of the French grants a private audience to Lord Howden; and only a few days after, the c Times' correspondent tells us distinctly, though briefly, what took place. " The principal topic of conversation was the present state of Spain. I .am happy to say that the most complete accordance on that subject between England' and France was the result."

The advertisement of the subscriptions to the Indian Relief Fund occupied nearly two pages of-the f Times/ while the subscriptions "already advertised" amounted to £131,135. An immense number of Past-day collections in churches and chapels nave already come to hand. The 'Times' has made over £3,647 out of the balance of £10,000 remaining- from its Crimean Fund. The stir in the money market lias produced one useful improvement, announced by the ' Times ' in its Cit}* department for October 31:— The weekly returns of the Bank of England will .henceforth, be published promptly. The Treasury yesterday made arrangements to that effect with the Bank and the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes. The day of their appearauce. in. the Gazette will be Friday as usual, but they will be made up to the preceeding Wednesday night; so that the interval before their appearance will be only two days instead of a week.. The first day of publication under the new method.will be in the Gazette of Friday next the 6th November, which will contain the accounts up to tire 4tli, and also on that occasion the ■ ordinary return up to the preceeding Saturday, the 31st October. Though small in aspect, this change is really important —it carries further the principle of ■ publicity, which completes our matter-of-fact and solid currency system. It not only continues .but strengthens those principles which give ,so much comparative . security in the midst of almost universal derangement—suspension in the West, and " favourable aspects " imparted to the accounts of the national Bank in France !

It is said that the Forbes Mackenzie Act has led to much perjury on the partcf

dealers in alcoholic liquors to avoid punishment for infringing its stringent provisions j and it has now been that in ono case at least perjury has been committed to obtain a, conviction, Niven and Stewart, two Edinburgh constables, were employed in plain clothes to watch dealers in spirits. They got Per.gusori, a green-grocer, ■convicted of the illegal sale of spirits-: their witnesses were a girl, "Mary Harrison," ■whojw&s^sent for whisky by " Mrs. Harri■son." The wife of the innocent greengrocer discovered that Mrs. Harrison was -really Mrs. Niven, and Mary Harrison was Rose Ann Niven, the policeman's sister. The constables were charged with subornation of perjury, the women with perjury. Niven and his wife absconded. •Stewart and Rose Ann Niven were convicted before Bailie Blackadder, but the Jury recommended the girl to mercy. Stewart was sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months, and Rose Ann for six months.

A statue to Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, has been set up on College Green. On October 10 it was unveiled, and inaugurated by the Earl of Charlemont, in the presence of Lord Carlisle and a host of Irish notables.

Unlike other places, Belfast issued no newspapers on the fast day: " but," explains the ' Northern WhigI,' "we are so riotous and religious ! " English capitalists are taking advantage of the panic manufactured in America with a view to their loss, really to gain by it, making large purchases of securities in America at the present marvellous prices. The Relief Fund.—The following extract of a letter from H. B. E. Frere, Esq. the commissioner in Scinde, explaining the objects more immediately had in contemplation by the Scinde Special Fund Committee, will be read with interest:—" As to the sort of cases which it was proposed to relieve, we believed that within the limits of the N.W. provinces very few Christian families would be found who are not more or less in want of aid. A very large proportion have lost house and property, and ?ossess nothing bat the clothes on their backs, 'here are many, widows and orphans, who, by the death of husband or father, have lost the means of livelihood. Planters and tradesmen iiave lost their estates and shops, and all out of Government employ are left for the time destitute. Even those in the Government service, though secure from starvation, are in great distress. Treasuries have been plundered, and $»ay and remittances are now, and must continue for some time, not so regular as in ordinary times. Banks are closed, or powerless to ■effect remittances while the country is disturbed, and families separated from the husband -who draws pay are badly off for the money to meet daily expenses. The distressed seem ■divisible into two classes—those whose wants sxb merely temporary, and those who are permanently destitute. To many of the former, loans will be very acceptable. You can easily picture sach cases where, so far from home or friendsj the temporary want will be nearly as severe a 'trial while it lasts, as the prospect of permanent destitution. Bat the number who will suffer from afcter loss of all means of subsistence, and who cannot be expected to repay will be veiy large. Appended you will find an extract from a letter from Mr. Craeroft Wilson, judge of Jloradabad, a man well known in the N.W. for his extensive charities and hospitality to travellers. It will give you an idea of the ■kind and extent of the distress to be relieved; and^ probably every station in the N.W. would' justify a similar description. To ascertain the wants to be relieved, and to decide how an d what relief is to be given, are points which we anust, in the first instance, leave to people on the spot. Committees seem to have been appointed at Lahore, and all other stations where there are competent persons permanently resident, and our committee proposes to send them ■small sums, to be applied at their discretion, to .relieve the most pressing and urgent wants of ■■ the destitute, by loan or gift as they may think beat, and to get from such local'committees statements of cases requiring further relief, with which our committee will then deal to the beet of their ability. At present, all we can be sure of is, that there is a vast amount of misery which can only be relieved by such means as we contemplate, but of which we as yet can learn few details. I advocate the immediate collection of funds, because we all know how much mischief may be done, especially among the poorer classes of our fellow*ChnstiaJis in this country, by delay in affording relief, and how long it takes to afford sur>h re" lief, even when it is at hand, and nothing remains to be done but to apply it." The letter from Mr. Craeroft Wilson, alluded to by Mr. Frere, is dated Meerut, July 13, and is as follows •. —

" Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the Ist instant. The civilians of Morad:»bad retreated.to this place, and not to Nainee Tal, aa supposed by you. The officers of the 29th regiment N,I. retreated to Nainee Tal, and hence the misconception. At the same time, the' amount of distress which the mutiny and rebellion have occasioned in Rohilcund may be guessed at from the following circumstances. At Shahjehanpore it is believed that not one Christian male has escaped. At Barally most of the clerks were murdered. At Moradabad they were murdered, and 19 women ami chil-

dren are at this moment being taken care of by a Mahommedan gentleman of rank ; 25 drummers and musicians were shot by the mutinous Rbhilcund regiments while marching to Delhi, at -a place called Goojeooluh in the Moradabad district. Judge, then, what an amount of misery and distress we shall find when we return with an avenging force into Rohilcund. I shudder when I think of it. If you will lay by whatever sum you can spare us for the distressed Christians of Rohilcuud, I shall be happy, when daks are open and confidence is restored, to take charge of the same and distribute it to the most deserving." The Appeal to the Mex-Miilineks. — We see by the statement of ' The Times' that not a little indignation has been kindled behind the counters of Oxford-street and Regent-street at the proposal to exalt the shopboy intothe soldier, and metamorphose the haberdasher into the hero. Everybody perhaps knows best what he is fitted for, and it is nonsense to talk of fighting and glory to a youth, whose ambition is apprenticeship, and who feels that within him which prompts him to measure gingham as distinctly as young Norval felt the inspirations of valour.

" But I had heard of ribands, and I longed " To follow to her coach some shopping fair." We must be content to take things as they are, and among other things, those mannikins who feel themselves most in there element at feeble and almost degrading occupations, from which girls of any pluck are wont to revolt. Potently do we believe that there are many thousand young women in England at this moment with a spirit above soft goods, and more ] mettle than to tie themselves for life to the I counter of a tape-shop. Maidens take to these weak callings of necessity; it is only young men who embrace them of choice, and aspire to the yard as if it was a rifle or a sword. In this terrible Indian struggle who would be surprised were a Boadicea to start out of the outraged womanhood of England, and, with Cawnpore for the war-whoop, call upon all brave girls in the land to follow her to the Granges ? We should much sooner undertake to raise a battalion of our countrywomen at this moment than a single company worth their salt out of the man-millin-ery population of London- A man-milliner! Was there ever a more absurd combination of ideas ? If it takes nine tailors to compose a man, it must surely take 99 men-milliners. Consequently, by the rule of three,' l!he Times' must be wrong in supposing it possible to raise such a corps. It would take exactly 99,000 of them to make a regiment, and then how should we ever manage to transport them and their band-boxes to India ? We know what it is to have the transport of one woman with her baggage to provide for. Besides, you must unsex such recruits before you can make soldiers of them. Men are much more unsexed by following feminine pursuits than women are by occasionally taking manly duties upon them. Lavinia might have reaped as well as gleaned, yet have remained the fair Lavinia. An Amazon is a woman still. Your man-milliner! is a man only in name, the addition of the milliner being sufficient of itself to cancel the manhood. If we do the millinery host a wrong in what we have said, they have a very simple way to defend themselves. If the measuring of tape and mmsHn has left any pith in their arms, if their hearts are anything more than balls of cotton, there is nothing easier than to show it: ' The Times' has sounded the trumpet Let Regent-street revolt. Let Oxford-street rise in general rebellion against a system that reduces men to something which it is a libel on women to compare them with. Let them turn their yards into ramrods, and make flags and banners of their scarfs and handkefchiefs. Let them for once not mind their business. The proper business for the youth and strength of England at this hour is in the fields of Hindostan. We pledge ourselves that out of mere good-nature the same number of young women, now out of work, and some of them out of bread, will be found to take the vacated posts behind the counters; and however attractive in the eyes of their fair customers each tall haberdasher and bold draper may now deem himself, we promise him that he will attract still more female admiration, not to say respect, as a man and a soldier, than ever he did or ever will as milliner and shopboy.— Examiner.

Sic James Bos-well.—The last male de- ! scendant of Boswell, the friend and biographer of Johnson, has just departed this life, and the name and title of Boswell has become extinct through the death of Sir James Boswell, of Auchinlech House, county of Argyle, which happened on the 4th Nov., in his 51st year. It is currently rumoured at the Clubs that prior to the meeting of Parliament, two, if not three or more gentlemen, will be called to the Upper House. First on the list stands Sir Benjamin Hall, who, it is said, is to be Baron Llanover. The second is Sir John Hanmer, M.P. for Flintshire. His title will probably be Baron Flint. The name of Mr. John Abel Smith has also been mentioned for a peerage. I His title would in all probability be Baron I Pet worth.

In the anticipation of the vacancy in the representation of the borough of Reading, by the elevation of Sir Henry Keating to the judicial bench, the Nonconformist body are considering the expediency of inviting Mr. Edw. Miall to come forward as a candidate. The Dissenters are very strong in Heading, and, if they combine, it is stated that they can return Mr. Miali without much difficulty- No other person has yet been named as a probable candidate. It was some time ago intimated that her Majesty's Government were about to send a special minister to Washington, with a view to an understanding with Mr. Buchanan and his

cabinet as to a basis of policy to be pursued by the United States and Great Britain towards Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, &c, so as finally to dispose of those diplomatic entanglements known as the Central American Question. On the 23rd Oct., at Windsor, audience was given by the Queen to Sir W. G. Ouseley, X.C.8., who received his credentials as Special Minister to Central America. News of Lady Franklin's Arctic Expedition has been made public by Sir John Barrow, who has forwarded to the 'Times' a letter from Captain M'Clintock. The letter is dated, 'Yacht Fox, lat. 71 deg., off Cape Cranstoun. Captain M'Clintock, who writes in excellent spirits, says, that, as he has now proved his crew, he can answer for their soundness and willing cheerfulness. " The Fox sails well, but steams slowly, in consequence of the screw being too small. As she gets lighter she will go better. I have tried her among the ice, and find that her ■ sharp bow readily opens apassage where a bluff one would knock in vain." " Big Ben" is cracked, and will have to be recast before the Londoners can hear his musical boom from the Parliament Palace clock-tower. On Saturday the 24th of October, the third stroke on thY lip gave forth a confused sound; a narrow search was made for the cause, and it was found that the last blow had split the bell —a crack rises from the rim to about half-way up the side. The services for the working classes, in Exeter Hall, under the sanction of the Bishop of London, have been interdicted by the incumbent of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Edouart. A notice, forbidding the services, has been served by the reverend gentleman, and the course remains suspended until the judgment of the courts of law shall have been pronounced. Mr. Edouart has addressed a letter to the Bishop of London, with a view to vindicate his prohibition. The rev. gentleman declares that in protesting against " public preaching" within his parish by " strange clergymen," and in "an unconsecrated building," he is only upholding the parochial system and discipline of the Church. He asserts that the Act of Victoria 18 and 19, c. 86, does not render his sanction unnecessary; and supports his opinion by reference to many learned authorities and law i cases.

The Indian Relief Fund has been recently augmented by two royal donations. The King of Sardinia and the King of Greece have each contributed the sum of 10,000 fr.

At the Quakers' Meeting House, St. Martin's 2ane, a public meeting was recently held under the auspices of the Aborigines Protection Society, and presided over by Mr.Lewin, formerly a judge in the Madras Presidency. The meeting was unanimous in advocating a reversal of what the speakers styled our perfidious policy towards the natives of India, and in condemning all severe measures of vengeance. Baron Renfrew, better known as H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, has come back more delighted with his tour than the stewards of his income probably are with one item of the expenses. For the hire and accommodation of the hotel at the Drachenfels, which was engaged exclusively for the Prince and his suite (sis gentlemen and four servants), the charge was £60 per day. The party had the place entirely to themselves during all the cream of the season.

Two dashing-looking Irish girls recently made their appearance before the LiverpooL magistrates under the following somewhat curious charge:-—The "ancle of one of them, a. Limerick farmer, stated that his niece was of rather a romantic temperament, and had often expressed her determination to visit other countries. Daring the farmer's absence from home his niece and her companion eloped, takingwith them their best cloth e3 and £M) from the farmer's strong box. The police were soon informed of the escape, and, from inquiries made, it was found that the two girls had gone to Liverpool, where they had engaged passages on board the White Star clipper Chancellor, bound for Australia. The farmer's £40 had been used for the payment of the expenses, and each of the girls had. taken unto herself a young Irish emigrant for a companion; but as the union in neither case had been sanctioned by church or state, the uncle was allowed to capture girls and take them back again. The magistrate, who said it would be a pity to subject girls of such respectability, who had evidently been induced to act thus rather from a romantic feeling than from any dishonest intentions, to confinement in a gaol, dismissed them on their promising to behave better in future. They then left the court in charge of the farmer, to whom it is expected the passage money will i be restored.

The Duke of Wellington has again granted the public access to the art-treasures in ApsleyKou.se. Under admirable arrangements, a limited issue of tickets, and attending favourable circumstances, an hour of rare interest may be spent among the pictures and statuary of this noble mansion. The Prince of Wales, during his recent excursion on the Rhine, met with a mild sort of shipwreck. The steamer in which he was struck on a rock in a fog near a small village, and the heir apparent to the British crown was obliged to clamber up a bank and walk some miles to a railway station, where he took the train to Bonn. Professor Agassiz, of Harvard University^ Cambridge, Mass., has been offered by Louia Napoleon the Professorship of Paleontology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, made vacant by the death of M. d'Orbignv. He hae declined the flattering offer, being unwilling, it is said, "to sever the ties which bind him to the United states." It is understood in Roman Catholic circles that a summons has been received from Rome

by Cardinal Wiseman, which, if complied with, will elevate the Most Itev. Dr. Errington, archbishop of Trebizond, and coadjutor to his eminence, to the purple. The cardinal need not comply witli the command j he is, as a prince of the Church, perfectly independent of the Holy See, so far as its territorial jurisdiction extends. But in well-informed Catholic circles it is stated that the Pope is anxious to abdicate his sovereignty, and looks to Cardinal Wiseman as the only worthy to succeed him.