MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 944, 14 March 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

There are 25,000 workmen engaged in the manufacture of matches in France. Government proposed to put a duty on them, but the manufacturers declare that if they do so, 20,000 laborers will be thrown out of work. There are, according to the Board of Trade returns, 434 railway companies in England, 80 in Scotland, and 85 in Ireland, or 599 in all. The lady who presented Mr Spurgeon With £20,000 some time ago, to found an Orphanage for Boys, has offered that gentleman another large sum of money to found a similar institution for girls. In this month's Church of England " Jf essnger" (Melbourne) are several good things. The following from the "5.G.0." of the "Times" is by no means the worst of the good things : *-' There are those who think—and I am not sure that I am not one of the number—that extravagance in dress is doing even more harm than intemperance. The drunkards don't come to church drunk ; the dress-ards do come there, and the intoxication of attire is never more obtrusive than on G-od's day, in God's house. A monument in white marble has been placed over the grave of Cardiual Wiseman in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at ICensal Green. As it might be injured by exposure to the weather it is covered by a frame of wood and glass, and will, it is said, be placed be eafter in the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of the diocese. The work bas been executed from designs by Mr P'lgin. Above the tomb is a recumbent figure of the cardinal in ecclesiastical vestments, and on the Bides are sculptured several scenes in his iife. One represents a meetim; of the Bishops, another the Pope giving the brief of the restoration of the hierarchy

to the Cardinal, another the deathbed of his Eminence. There are many ecclesiastical devices and an inscription, in which, in addition to the dati s of birth and death, the Cardinal is described as " Omnia pro Christo invita ag< ns, omuia per Christum in inorte sperans." The Empress Dowager of Brazil has freed all her personal slaves. A Washington editor is mad because a compositor headed his editorial "The Champagne Opened," when he wrote " The Campaign Opened " lie says that printer is always thinking about something to drink.