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-»"T"» '•• 3Iit ult., tier, > wife of M r I the wife of |l a daughter. of James [Militia Ar- >of Mr M. B4th uut., , th. wife ult, the K Mr i. • ton. Mr Jno. rWhe»tfey, Mr John Qiam Wan- C.d., jrres Quay I workmen. lmf.nl eon ,«ged 56 at da ugh* [comprised >00. Figs, to 8s 3d; » 8* Od to Od, to >6d.k> 7& Sheep • fat, *i<\ THE TEESDALE MERCURY—WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1864. THE COUHT. - T P Court doping the past week remained at Os- borne. Her Majesty took hex accustomed walk* and drives in the vicinity. TH» Earl and Countess of Derby had the honour of dining mth her Majesty and the Royal family on Saturday. On the same evening Professor Tyndall had the honour of deUveringtwo lectures on electricity before her Majesty and the Royal family. Dtmnfo the past week the progress of her Royal Highness the Pnnoess of Wales towards recovery has been uninterrupted— thanks to a good constitution and the care and attention of her medical attendants and those around her. Should the health of the Princess continue as good as it is at present, and the weather admit of it, i t is not unlikely that her Royal Highness will be enabled to take some little out-door exercise, in the shape of a carriage drive or so, in the course of the ensuing week. The young Prince is also quite well, and is making as good progress as can be expected, and the inhabitants of the metropolis will probably have a Royal christening soon, as it is expected that the youthful Prince will very likely be baptised at Buckingham Palace on or about the 10th of March, just twelve months from the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The infant Prince is ex- tremely like the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales has, during the week, been shooting and hunting with the harriers in the company of his friends and visi- tors, including among them his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, the commander of the Royal yacht Fairy, and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the colonel of the 3rd battalion Grenadier Guards, now quartered in the Sheet-street Barracks, Windsor. In return for the generous hospitality which the Prince of Wales has always shown to the officers of the garrison of this town, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was invited by Lientenantr-Colonel Baillie and the officers of the Royal Horse Guards (Bine) to a grand banquet, which took place with much eclat in the mess-room of the cavalry barracks, at Spital, a short distance from the town. A distinguished company were present, covers being laid for between twenty and tbirtygueets, among whom were Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, lieutenant-Colonel H . S. Baillie, Captain Grey, Captain R. W. Bulkeley, the officers of the Royal Horse Guards, Ac, who had assembled to do honour to their illustrious guest. The Prince was much pleased with his courteous reception. Their Royal Highnesses will shortly proceed to Marlborough- hoose, probably about February 15. ON Saturday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales went out pheasant shooting, being the last day of the season. The Prince enjoyed some excellent sport, and returned to Frogmore-house to lunch. ON Sunday afternoon his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by Earl Granville, Lieut.-General Knollys, and the ladvAn waiting on the Princess, and attended by Captain "GVH. Grey, visited the Chapel Royal of St. George, Windsor, and attended the half-past four o'clock service. The service was conducted by the Dean of Windsor, the Rev. Seymour Neville, and minor canons. " When Israel came out of Egypt" was admirably sung; Dr. Elvey presided at the organ. WE learn that Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg- Gctha and his family will visit England about the middle of February, and that on his return he will fix the date of the marriage between the Archduke Joseph of Austria and the Pru^cess Adelaide of Saxe-Cobnrg- Gotha, the prince's eldest daughter. IT is with regret that we hear that the Princess of Prussia was unwell at I Berlin on the 23rd ult., and the reception her Royal Highness was to hold on that night had to be postponed. Berlin suffers from the ''wave of cold" that leaves bronchitis behind, in the same way that London has done. THE Prince of Prussia has gone to Denmark with the Prussian army, though he will not take any active command during the war. WE understand, says the Court Journal, that it is the intention of her Majesty to hold all Levees and Drawing-rooms herself during the ensuing season, out to reside at Windsor Castle, merely coming up to London when necessary for State occasions. IT is reported that the honour of knighthood is in store for Mr. Maguire, M.P., on the occasion of Ins Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant's coming visit to Cork, to inaugurate the statue to the late Father Mat hew. I t is the general opinion that no public man in the country is more deserving of being so honoured. WE are assured that Sir Henry Buiwer, during his sojourn in Paris, declared that England was deter- mined to send 25,000 men and a fleet to Denmark in the spr'ng. A CHAM as is about to take place in the representa- tion of Beverley. Mr. Walker, who was elected about four years ago on the unseating of Mr. Walters, has announced his intention of resigning his Beat, and it is said that Mr. Christopher Sykes, of Sledmere, son of the late Sir Tatton Sykes, and brother of the present baronet, has consented to take Mr. Walters' place and contest the borough in the Conservative interest in conjunction with Colonel Edwards, the present member. Should a third candidate appear, a contest of great interest and excitement may be expected. ; LITERATURE A N D T H E ARTS. A BILL will be introduced by Mr, Black early next session for the consolidation of the Acts relating to literary copyright. * THE Geographical Society of Berlin has declared its belief in Captain Speke, and that he has found the source of the Nile. Vienna denies it, and Paris is doubtful. London knows that he has written a truthful book, and has become the lion of a season. THE Horticultural Society of South Kensington offers prizes of gold, silver, and bronze medals for the best collections of dried specimens of British wild flowers; the collections to be delivered to the society before the 31st Dec., 1864, each marked with a number or cypher, and accompanied with a sealed letter con- taining cypher and name and address of sender. THE first wife of M. Ingres (says the Court Journal) was terribly afraid of being boned alive, and begged her husband to make an incision in her throat after death. In his grief he forgot all about the request, but horrified the persons around him at the Exhibi- tion, some months after, by exclaiming aloud, "Oh, I have forgotten to cut my wife's throat I Fool that I am ! " He was reminded of the duty by the picture by Gerdme which he was attentively inspecting. SIB J. EMERSON TENNANT has turned out an inte- resting volume, with a droll title, "The Story of the Guns." It is not a story at all, strictly speaking, but a detailed account of fire-arms since they superseded Robin Hood's implements—the bow and arrow—down to the rifled arms of Whit worth, Armstrong, and Co. CONSIDERABLE amusement in some quarters, and alarm in others, has been created by the publication of a map of the proposed railways for the metropolis. Just take a plan of London, and draw through it as many red lines as you can in all directions, and in every fantastic variety of shape and form, and behold the phantom which threatens to become a reality. When a new railway is propesed in a country district every one knows about it, local interests immediately set to work to aid or oppose it, it becomes a subject of general conversation for a year or two, and even children can triumphantly point to the site, and say, "There ia where the railway is to run." London, on the contrary, seems to be regarded by rival railway companies as a" subject," speaking anatomically, upon which they have a right to try their theories of vivisection. They go to work with an insulting disregard for what people will say, knowing well that they will do little or nothing in the way of opposition. The London public is so divided, partly by rival interests, partly by the natural retire- ment of Englishmen within the four walls of their own house, that they seldom, if ever, combine for any purpose save a charitable one. Trusting to this want of coherence, the companies break man after man, like the divided sticks in the fable, until they come to some one who is rich enough or obstinate enough to offer effective resistance. Otherwise, away they go, through churches, graveyards, public buildings, every- where, in short, where they ought not to go, regardless of the convenience of the public, or the real interests of their own shareholders. Perhaps the publication of this map may draw the attention of Parliament to the question, and some restraint may be put on these theories of ingenious speculators. THE Illustrated London Ne ws. speaking of the " Pilgrim's Progress," by John Banyan, published by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, says:—"When, as occasionally happens in the streets, you are offered * a half-crown article for sixpence,' your mind is filled with vague suspicions and surmises. Either, you think, the vendor cannot have come honestly by the ' article;' or he carefully conceals from your know- ledge some depreciatory facts connected with the ' articleor he is out of his mind; or (which is, in the opinion of some persons, equivalent) a philanthropist; or he has made a wager that he will ruin himself within a given time; or, to take the simplest solution, he lies. But when a well-known publishing firm, i n a spirit of enterprise, oonsider it consistent with their interest to offer the public, at what appears to be a losing price, a favourite book, excellently printed, handsomely bound, elegantly appointed, and profusely illustrated, the first impulse is to give way to wonder- ment, and the second to congratulate the public upon their opportunity. This is the case with the new edi- tion of Bunyan s famous allegory, to the illustration of which Mr. H . C. Salons and M . Paolo Priolo have lent their fancy and their skill." PERMISSION has been given by the Herefordshire magistrates for the erection of a statue of the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis, by Baron Marochetti, in front of the Shire-hall, at Hereford. MR. MACLISE is painting a picture representing the scene described by Sir Walter Soott, in " Ivanhoe," of the meeting of King Richard the First with Robin Hood and the outlaws. This will probably appear at the forthcoming Royal Academy Exhibition. MB. ADAMS, sculptor, has had the honour of placing a marble bust of the late Field-Marshal Lord Seaton in the grand hall of the Senior United Service Club, Pall-mall, It stands upon a pedestal of Belgian red variegated marble, and bears an inscription in gold letters. I t was presented to the club by Colonel the Hon. Francis Colbome, C.B., the lamented here's second son, and it gives great satisfaction to the family and friends. THE Macaulay memorial Btatue for Trinity College, Cambridge, is nearly finished by Mr. Woolner. The his- torian is seated in his college gown, with a book in his hand, the fingers inserted between the leaves, as i f he had been collecting points for an argument. The atti- tude is graceful, and the face noble. I t has not, we believe, been settled where this statue shall stand; some would prefer to see it in Trinity Chapel, others in the Library, the floor of which would have to be strengthened by supports, in order to bear the great weight of marble. A SUBSCRIPTION, with a view to the erection of a Welsh memorial to the late Prince Consort in Pem- brokeshire, has been oommeneed by the Mayor of Tenby, to show that Wales is not behind other parts of Great Britain in solicitude for the Queen in her be- reavement, and affectionate remembrance of the departed Prince. No sooner was the project made public than a considerable Bum was collected. AN interesting discovery of ancient human remains, contained in a leaden cist, has just been made near Bishopstoke, by some workmen engaged in procuring gravel for the repair of the South Western Railway. The men came upon the coffin at the depth of five feet, on some land a mile this side of the Junction, belonging to Mr. T. Chamberlayne. The skeleton was that of a small and delicate female, and, except certain parts destroyed in excavation, was perfect. I n one corner of the coffin were found some small glass ves- sels, termed " lachrymatories,'' bat no coins, medal, or any inscription, could be discovered. The remains are supposed to be Roman, and the date of interment up- wards of 1,400 years ago. IMMEDIATELY after the installation of Lord Dufferin as a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick last week in Dublin Castle, his Excellency conferred the honour of knighthood upon Mr. William Wilde. In addition to his fame as a professional man, Sir W. Wilde had gained mnch reputation in literature; and Lord Macaulay, in his " History of England," acknowledges the aid which he derived from Sir W. Wilde's historical research. Sir W. Wilde's fame had- become indeed European, as his Excellency remarked, inasmuch as he had previously obtained the order of the Polar Star from the King of Sweden. "MESSES. CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN announce that they have again availed themselves of the services bf Mr. J. F. Smith, and will commence a new tale written by him, called "False Steps," in No. 326 recovery of the rates, and Mr. Newdegate has a bill I of " CasselVs Illustrated Family Paper," to be ready on for the commutation of church-rates. I the 12th cf February. With this number they will also POLITICAL GOSSIP. IT appears from inquiries made by the Swiss autho- rities that Mazzini left Lugano in the beginning of October hut, and that the men who have been arrested on the charge of a conspiracy against the life of the ' Emperor Napoleon did not arrive at that place till the month of November. THE Poles lament the loss of a friend in Mr. Grant Duff, and believe that he has been treated to a sight of Russian matters got up dramatically for his especial eye, and thai that eye has not been sharp enough to look through the false into the real—through the "pretty" prisons and rural:ties into harsh imprison- ment and heart-breaking home desolation. Mr. Grant Duff will be able to speak his mind in the House, and hear the mind of others as plainly spoken. MR. BAILLIE COCHRANE, M.P. (whose admiration of King Bombs, will be remembered), has been allowed to visit the principal prisons of Rome in company with Mr. Wreford, who recently went to Rome from Naples. These two gentlemen, with Monsignore Talbot, went over the Carceri Nuove (criminal prisons with a separate political ward), the Termini, or female prisons, and the San Michele, or political prisons, in which they saw 101 political offenders undergoing their sentence, amongst whom they saw and conversed with the celebrated Chevalier Fausti, and heard from him the oft-repeated assertion of his innocence. Ha JOHN HENDERSON, carpet manufacturer, who has been nominated to succeed the late Sir William Atherton in the representation of the city of Durham, has issued an address to the electors. After referring to certain matters of a local character he says:— " Nearly all points of serious difference in home and commercial politics being removed by the passing of the great and glorious measures connected with free- trade, which have been the cause of enabling the country to pass unscathed through the unprecedented trial of an almost entire suspension of the greatest arm of its trade, the attention of the nation is at present chiefly directed te our foreign policy. Hie great princi- ples of neutrality and non-intervention, adopted and wisely acted on by the present Government, have my entire approval; and if honoured by being returned as your representative, I will give to Lord Palmers ton's Government all the support in my power, in carrying out the only policy by which the peace and dignity of our country can be preserved." He then goes on to remark that the taxation of our country has reached a point which requires the strictest supervision, and he believes " a wholesome economy may be safely insisted upon, without in any way affecting the practical effici- ency of oar establishments, which, for reasons patent to all, ought to be preserved in the most effective con- dition." The local papers state that no opposition will be offered by the Conservative party to Mr.Henderson's return. THE HOUSE OP COMMONS. —Several new faces will be seen in the House of Commons when it meets on Thursday, and several which have long been familiar will be missed. Amongst the deaths to be recorded are those of Mr. F. M. Callcutt, member for Clare; Captain Willes Johnson, member for the Montgomery- shire Burghs; Mr. Beriah Botfield, member for Lud- low; Mr. EUioe, member for Coventry; Mr. Potts, member for Barnstaple; Mr. Hope, member for Windsor; Mr. Langs ton, member for the city of Oxford; Mr. Cubitt, member for Andover; and Sir William Atherton, member for Durham. Others have left the House under different circumstances. Mr. Monckton Milnes has been raised to the peerage, Mr. Cavendish has become Lord Che*ham, Lord Raynham has become Marquis Townshend, Viscount Elmley has become the Earl Beanchamp, and Mr. Sergeant Pigott has been raised to the office of Baron of the Exche- quer. Mr. Coningham, member for Brighton, and Sir J. B. East, member for Winchester, will retire from Parliament. The following new members will be entitled to take their seats on the first night of the session if— M r . R. B. Harvey for Buckinghamshire, the Hon. F. Lygon for West Worcestershire, Major Water- house for Pontefract, Sir Colman O'Loghlen for Clare, the Hon. Charles Richard Douglas Hanbury Tracy for the Montgomeryshire Burghs, Sir 'William Fraser, Bart., for Ludlow, Mr. J. Peel for Tamworth, Mr. Morgan Treherae for Coventry, Mr. Lloyd for Barn- staple, Mr. George Shaw Lefevre for Reading, Colonel Vyse for Windsor, Mr. Neate for the city of Oxford, and Mr. Humphery for Andover. Sir Roundell Palmer (Attorney-General) and Sir R. P. Collier (SohctoT-Geaeral), who have been re-elected during the recess, will also be entitled to take their seats. SEVERAL notices of motions on the question of church-rates appear in the order book of the House of Commons for the forthcoming session. Lord Alfred Churchill has a bill to amend the law relating to the present to every subscriber, gratis, a "Shakespeare Tercentenary Pocket Keepsake," a very attrac- tive little book. Under the head of each month are found quotations from Shakespeare, side by side with events in history, Ac., which figure prominently in the English calendar. The adaptation of Shakespeare's sayings to things that are passing around us, is very interesting, and peculiarly f elicitous at this particular season. SPORTS AND PASTIMES. CREAM-COLOURED WOODCOCK. — Some of your readers, says a correspondent of the Field, may be in- terested to know that on Friday last, while shooting with Mr. Hudson Heavers, the son of the proprietor of Lundy Island, I shot a woodcock of a dun or rather cream colour. The same day we bagged eight couple of the common woodcock. I find that Latham mentions three varieties of the British woodcock, one of which answers in description to that which I have now the pleasure of calling to your attention. Believing that their visits to our snores are very rare indeed, I send you this communication for the information of the curious. A similar specimen was also sent for inspection by another correspondent, which, the editor asserts, 1B one of the most beautiful varieties of the woodcock he ever saw. RECEIPT £OB WATEBPROOFTNG SHOOTING BOOTS. -^-Saturate the boots with solution of caoutchouc (india-rubber), till they will absorb no more, art in- tervals of a week, without needing to leave a coating on the surface. With this I have walked through the bogs of Dartmoor for hours together, and days in suc- cession, without the least leakage. But it is water tight in both ways; the perspiration does not escape when it is thoroughly done. The solution was made with an ounce of india-rubber in a pint of spirits of turpentine, or cold naphtha, kept warm, and occasion- ally stirred till dissolved, which takes three or four days. I n a boiling water bath it can be done in a few hours; but it can now be purchased in large towns ready prepared. SHOOTING AND FISHING IN NORTH WALES.— " Attracted by an advertisement in the Field," says a correspondent, " 1 Good woodcock-shooting for parties staying at the Peniarth Arms, Mallwyd,' I started for that locality, abons a fortnight ago, by the 11.20 a.m. train from Boston-square. They declined to book further on the way to Cemmee-road station (pro- nounced Kemmess) than Welchpool. On reaching Welchpool, I had to re-book myself and dog. The train we were to proceed by was just coming up from Oswestry; it was pitch dark, the luggage and every- thing had to be changed and the line to be crossed in front of hissing engines. If these things were im- proved, the approach to Montgomeryshire would be much facilitated. A t Cemmearroad I found a trap from the hotel, which soon conveyed me the six miles to Mallwyd, passing, wonderful to say, through only one turnpike. The Peniarth Arms is a large house, and, as I Boon found, the interior is very comfortable. The country is thinly inhabited, and is composed of stately mountains, their bottoms dotted with pretty* looking coverts, and their tops consisting mostly of boggy moor, but with little covert. Mine host, who is an intelligent and obliging person, owns a brace of good setters. We Bellied out together, and found four woodcocks and a few snipe; another day a few snipe, a covey of partridges, a hare,-and the droppings of a pack of grouse. There are five or six beats, and this is the sort of thing. The coverts are very pretty for cocks, and any one who happened to go at the right time would, no doubt, have very good sport. Some gentlemen from Worcestershire, who had just preceded me, killed eleven woodcocks in two days, but expressed themselves in the visiting-book as disappointed; they killed also other game. I think eleven cocks i n two days would be considered good in most parts of Eng- land. The great family likeness that exists amongst the people in this part of Wales is remarkable. They have clear complexions, dark eyes', rather Roman noses, and altogether have a clean and intelligent look. The living at the Peniarth Arms is good, the draught ale, port, and champagne are commendable, as also the Welsh mutton. The river Dovey flows in front of the Peniarth Arms. Out of this an Australian gentleman took by permission, whilst I was there, fifty-nine salmon, in order to. obtain some spawn, but none of them had the required ova, and they were all returned to the stream. The salmon-fishing corn- men oes on the 1st of February, but I know not what sort of flies are necessary to capture in the Dovey that excellent fish." TOPIC3 OP T H E WEEK. RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF EABL RUSSELL.— Although the rumour in circulation on Thursday, to the effect that Earl Russell had resigned was prema- ture, grave dissensions exist in the Cabinet, one sec- tion of which desires to stand by the treaty of 1852, and to support the Danes in this emergency, whilst another section, inclining more to the German view, is unwilling that any material aid should be given to Denmark. The controversy has been carried on with considerable vehemence at several Cabinet Councils, and has not, if our information be correct, been settled, unless that desirable result was secured at the Council held on Friday afternoon. We regret extremely [that "divided councils" should prevail at this juncture, as it is only by the energetic and unanimous action of our Government that peace can be preserved. If Austria and Prussia believe that they have supporters in the English Cabinet, they wjll not hesitate to carry out that menacing policy the announcement of which has caused so muoh alarm.—Pr«9fe THE ANGLO-GEBMAN QUARREL. —The quarrel be- tween Denmark and Germany.has all this week been hurrying on to war. The Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin seem to find in the novel accord between them relief from their habitual indecision, and have been pushing their preparations with a vigour which suggests anything rather than a secret hope of settle- ment by diplomacy. Hplstein has already been occu- pied by the Prussians under the command of Field- Marshal von Wrangel, Duke Frederick has been re- duced to a private individual, the volunteer guard of Kiel has been disbanded under menace, and the Austrian half of the army is pouring in at the rate of four thousand men a day to the support of its ally. There is still need of artillery, of pontoons, and of the collection of a reserve; but there is nothing whatever apparent to prevent an attempt to cross the Eider in the first week of February. That attempt, more- over, would seem to have been resolved on. The King of Denmark—who, be it remembered, is German by blood, residence, and education—aware of the extreme danger of the contest against forty millions of men, and pressed by the non - German Governments to leave the Germans no legal foothold, offered to assemble bis Parliament and submit to them a proposal for abolishing the common constitution. The allied Cabinets, however, either afraid of a cry of treachery among their own subjects, or suspecting that the offer was intended only to gain - time till a thaw made the Dannewerke impassable, or aware that the Danish Parliament would at once reject the proposal, refused to allow of delay, and hurried on preparations more rapidly than before. Finally, the Emperor of the French, while asserting his desire to ms-infr"™ the treaty of 1852, has signified that as yet he sees no reason for active interference. The quarrel, therefore, 6till remains one between Denmark and Germany, and, to all appearance, must be fought out by arms. Some writers, usually well informed, affect indeed to believe that Germany may give way; but all German acts are directly in contradiction to that theory, and while the two Courts are united they may with some reason conceive themselves beyond external menace. From within they have nothing to fear. Both their Parlia- ments have remonstrated, and both have been effectively snubbed, and while the Reichsrath has only reduced the vote from ten to five millions sterling, the Prussian minister declares that he can get money sufficient without any vote at all. The petty Govern- ments have shrunk back into their natural insigni- ficance, and that of Bavaria in particular is so cowed that it has not even ventured to call together its Diet, lest it should, perchance, pass dangerous resolutions. Under these circumstances the temptation of the German Powers will be to fulfil the wish of the great German people, at least so far as the entrance into Schleswig is concerned. On the other hand, it seems certain that King Christian, in giving way, would, probably endanger his throne, the Danes, in their wrath at his treachery, declaring for Charles XV. of Sweden; and as to the people, their view has for months been clear. Whatever soldier may cross the Eider is to be driven back with the bayonet—a resolve which alone among all decisions connected with Schleswig- Holatein has the merit of simplicity. The Austro-Prussians can scarcely avoid advancing, the Danes if they advance must fight—that seems to us, in spite of hopeful rumours, the drift of the situation. —Spectator. PRUSSIA. —Once again has Parliamentary action come to a dead lock in Berlin. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 22nd, the loan asked by the Government was rejected by 275 against 51 votes, and a resolution was adopted by a considerable ma- jority, declaring that the House would resist the present policy of the Government with respect to Denmark by all legal means in its power; the Cham- ber being of opinion " that the course of the Anstro- Prussian policy can have no other result than that of surrendering the duchies a second time to Denmark;" and, "that the threatened execution by force of the purpose of Prussia and Austria challenges the well- justified resistance of the other German States, and may thus produce civil war in Germany." The next complication was a quarrel between Lords and Com- mons on the old familiar subject, money. The budget, considerably curtailed by the Lower House, having at length reached the Upper, it' was there adopted on Saturday as originally presented by the Government. On Monday the Chamber of Deputies ordered their budget committee to immediately report upon the vote given by the Upper House; and the committee made a report, proposing that the vote of the Upper House should be declared null and void. This proposition was adopted by the House. Count Eulenburg then read a Royal message, stating that the Diet would be closed that same day, at three p.m., by the President of the Council. Accordingly at the appointed time Herr von Bismarck appeared and closed the Chambers. In the Royal speech read on the occasion are given the reasons for adopting this summary course. It says:— " The Chamber of Deputies has maintained the ground which led to the dissolution of the previous Chamber. The House has rejected the bill referring to article 99 of the Constitution, and has not discussed the badget of 1863. In the budget of the current year it has struck out items which are indispensable for the public service. The House has also renewed the resolution of the previous Chamber upon the military budget, without having discussed the preliminary bill estab- lishing the obligation to military service. For that reason the Upper House, in the exercise of its con- stitutional rights, has rejected the budget of 1864, as amended by the Chamber of Deputies. The Govern- ment has carried out the vote of the Chamber with regard to the Polish members arrested for high treason, but does not consider it conformable to the respect due to public justice and to the dignity of the House. The House has also refused the required loan proposed by the Government to afford the means of carrying out federal execution in Holstein, as well as for the maintenance of Prussia's position as a great Power and her honour in the further development of the conflict, and likewise for covering the portion of the expenses of the execution falling to Prussia, as a member of the German Confederation. The House has rejected this vote, although the King had pledged his word, in his reply of the 27th December, that the money should only be employed for the protection of the right and honour of the country. The House has passed resolutions by which the majority, in the event of warlike complications, takes part beforehand against the Prussian fatherland. Renouncing, there- fore, for the present the hope of bringing about an understanding with the Chamber, the Government considers it its duty to act for the maintenance of the State, and relies herein upon the growing support of the country."—Daily News. THE MINOR STATES OF GERMANY .—In this season of peril, both the princes and the people of the minor States appear to be Looking to France. The princes think that a confederation under a French protectorate is their only way ef escaping the fate with which Prussia openly threatens them; and the more feeble and reactionary among them hope that if the minor States were finally cut off from the larger ones there would be less danger of a great national revolution, which would be sure to swamp all the smaller houses. There are many, too, among those who are most anxious for the national cause, and who yet would rather accept the help of France than become subjects of Prussia, if Prussia were to appear as a conquering, dominant, reactionary Power in Germany. Whether they are right or wrong in this it is difficult to say. It seems unnatural that Germans should look to Frenchmen to help them to fight against other Ger- mans. But it must be remembered that those Germans against whom the contest would really be waged, are Germans who have been living in willing subjection for forty years to the supremacy of a foreign Power. I f Russia is no longer powerful enough to dictate in pre- cise terms what Austria and Prussia shall do, she can still exercise a Btrong influence; and the party that seeks to tyrannise over the minor States is the party that has been brought up to imitate and grovel before Russia. Germany has suffered terrible things at the hands of the Holy Alliance, and the memory of this is more green and fresh than that of the more terrible things she suffered at the hands of the first Napoleon. But the Germans also comfort themselves with think- ing that the present Emperor is not so bad as his uncle, and that it is his glory to have given life and scope to the great nationality of Italy. They compare themselves with the Italians, and say that they, too, are not opposed to the people of the great German States, but only to the Courts, and to the party that goes with the Courts. The overwhelming majority by which the ministerial proposals have bees rejected in the Prussian Chamber is alleged as a proof that the Prussian nation is as much on the side of the minor States as the people of Tuscany were on the side of the Piedmontese. It is true that the minor States remem- ber Savoy and Nice, but they are not staggered, for they have a Savoy and Nice to offer which it will cost them little to lose. They are prepared, if the worst comes to the worst, to sacrifice the possessions of Prussia on the left bank of the Rhine. There is pro- bably much that is erroneous in the calculations of the minor States, and in the passion of the moment they may underrate the dangers of accepting French aid. But the moment is one of passion, and these are the calculations which they are making, and this is the course into which they are drifting.—Saturday Review OUR MISCELLANY. founded, but the rule was abolished some seventy years later. Hamilton could not take his seat as Duke ef Brandon, but the Queen named him ambassador extra- ordinary to the Court of France. The Whigs were thereby exasperated, and Lord Mohun, the very Hector of that party, adding public to private hatred (the families of the two noblemen being at law respecting the succession of an estate), fastened a quarrel on the duke, and the two hacked one another to death before complete daybreak, in Hyde-park, on a November morning in 1712. Both antagonists died in the park, and Hamilton's death is ascribed, not to the wounds inflicted by Mohun, but to a coup de grdce administered to him by Mohnn's second, General Macartney, who gave colour to the report by taking to flight.—Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne. By the Duke of 'Manchester. Sunday in Paris— Our first Sabbath in Paris was a bewilderment. It was not so much a variation in the mode of keeping Sunday, as a total destruction of all our ideas of Sabbath-keeping. Business goes on; the streets are thronged with people bent on pleasure; and the very air is filled, not with peace, but with social exhilaration, with pleasure and bustle, in short, not with any suggestion of another world, but with every phase of the enjoyment of this world. In our land, it may be that the cheerful and social ele- ments are too much excluded from religion; but here it is religion that seems to be shut out from the Sab- bath and all its worldly enjoyments! Beneath my room I count a hundred labourers at work upon the new opera-house. In the street teams trail their usual loads. The shops display their wares, and nothing in the exterior aspect of the city would have revealed to me the day if my calendar had not indicated it. Yet, I am assured that a great change has taken place, and that, at the wish of the Government, there is far less secular business transacted than formerly, and that even those stores that keep open in the morning are closed at noon, that their occupants may mingle with the universal amusements of the day.—Rev. B. W. Beecher. Hoby's Boots.—The late Sir John Shelley came into Hoby's shop to complain that his top-boots had split in several places. Hoby quietly said, " How did that happen, Sir John ?" " Why, m walking to my stable." "Walking to your' stable!"' saicT Hoby, with a sneer. "I make my boots for riding, not for walking." Hoby was bootmaker to the Duke of Kent; and as he was calling on H.R.H. to try on some boots, the news arrived that Lord Wellington had gained a great victory over the French army at Vittoria. The duke was kind enough to mention the glorious news to Hoby, who coolly said, *' If my Lord Wellington had had any other bootmaker than myself, he never would have had his great and constant successes, for my boots and prayers bring his lordship out of all his difficulties."' One may well say there is nothing like leather ; for Hoby died worth a hundred and twenty thousand pounds. — Recollections and AnecdoteSyby Captain R. H. Qtonoxo. A Ducal Banker.— In the evening I went to a ball, given by Torlonia. the banker, transformed into II Duca di Bracciano. He was a porter, and his father a lacquais de place; his wife, a vulgar, old, red-faeed saddler's daughter, acted duchess ridiculously. He had got some King of Naples, or some other petty sovereign, to make him chambellan.- and he went about with a huge gold key to his pocket-hole, which I told everybody was the key of the till. Heaps of English there. He invites everybody, hoping to get their custom, of which he is as jealous as if he still had his fortune to make. The old man is, however, sometimes good-natured. One of my young friends was playing at some foolish game at Torlonia's, and was as foolishly losing his money; the old man tapped him on the shoulder, and said to him, in English, which he speaks a little, " Young man, it was not at that table I got my money."—Duke of Buckingham's Private Diary. Newfoundland Housewives.—While cutting bread and butter for me, my hostess complained of the difficulty of keeping the bread thawed, *' and yet," she said, " I put the loaf in the bed, and wrap it up close as soon as ever the boys turn out." Alas for a weak stomach ! However, it was that food or none for me then, and I had to overcome all qualms. little did' I expect that In my own house any such mode was used. One night, however, near the same time, my brother, who had lately come to me from England, wanted supper in my absence. The two servant-girls wove gone to bed, and upon searching the pantry for him- self, he found no bread. In the morning plenty was on the table, and he asked how it was that none was to be found on the night before. The girl 's reply was, " Oh, sir, we always wrap up the bread and place it in the foot of our bed at night."—Moreton'e '* Life and Work in Newfoundland." What I have Noticed.—I have noticed that all men speak well of all men's virtues when they are dead; and that tombstones are marked epitaphs of good and virtuous.'' Is there any particular ceme- tery where the bad men are buriedr I have noticed that the prayer of every selfish man, " forgive us our debts," means that he makes everybody pay who owes him to the utmost farthing. I have noticed that Death is a merciless judge, t hough not partial. 1! very man owes a debt. Death summons the debtor, and be lays down his dust in the currency of mortality. I have noticed that he who thinks every man a rogue is very certain to see one when he shaves himself, and he ought, in mercy to his neighbour, to surrender the rascal to justice. I have noticed that money is the fool's wisdom, the knave's reputation, the wise man's jewel, the rich man's trouble, the poor man's desire, the covetous man's ambition, and the idol of all. I have noticed that merit Is always measured in the world by its success. I have noticed that in order to be a reasonable creature it is necessary to be down- right mad. I have noticed that we are always wishing instead of working for fortunes; we are disappointed, and call Dame Fortune " blind;" but it is the very best evidence that the old lady has most capital eye- sight, and is no "granny" with spectacles. I have noticed that purses will hold pennies as well as pounds. I have noticed that tombstones say, "Here he lies," which no'doubt is often the truth; and if men could see the epitaphs their friends sometimes write, they would surely believe they had got into the wrong graves. A Hard Hit at the Profession. —A country doctor being out for a day's shooting, took his errand- boy to carry his game bag. Entering a field of tur- nips, the dog pointed, and the boy, overjoyed at the prospect of his master's success, exclaimed, " Lor, master, there's a covey; if you get near 'em, won't you physic 'em! " " Physio them, you young rascal, whatdoyou mean?" said the doctor. "Why/kill 'em. to be sure," replied the boy. The Struggling Widow. — The grocer's shop as the only one of which the village could boast; and it was kept by Widow Davis, a woman of strong cha- racter and unbending rectitude. Her husband had fought all his life with adverse circumstances, and at last died a broken-hearted bankrupt. His widow struggled hard, and fared plainly, that she might be able to pay the creditors " plack and bawbee," as she termed i t ; and she succeeded in this her dearest wish, so that when her youngest son, a lad of fifteen, was on his dying bed, with a voice in which were mingled tones of pride and sorrow, she whispered in his fast deafen- ing ear, " Oh, Jamie, my laddie, when ye meet your father in heaven, be sure and tell him that I've paid a' his debts."—Bygone Days in owr Village. By J. L. W. A Sketch from Denmark.—The lower order of Danes will bear comparison with that of any other country for strength of body and brightness of mind. A Somersetshire peasant would not generally have much chance of success in a village, such as we have all over Denmark, where every one can read and write, and owns a house and a plot of land. I t is M r . Cobden's Paradise realised. Some of the peasant girls are very pretty, with pale-yellow hair, and rather long noses. We noticed several faces not at all unlike the Princess of Wales. The country girls set themselves off with silk hoods and bright gowns, without much regard to colour. I have seen a yellow dress worn with a magenta Garibaldi. This last is the most favourite colour of all. But the costume of the fish- woman is far more interesting than these modern mixtures, being the genuine old Friesland costume.— Once a Week. The Duke of Hamilton's Duel with Lord Mohun. —The Duke of Hamilton was a courtier of the old " Rowley " period, and was as much esteemed by the second JameB as the second Charles. He was extensively employed by both. Under King William he had already been in durance vile. Of his bravery no one entertained a doubt. He was, in Queen Anne's reign, created Duke of Brandon, in the peerage of England. Thence arose a difficulty. The House of Lords declared that the Crown could not convert a peer of Scotland, of before the union, into a peer of England. The declaration was supposed to be well AGRICULTURE. How THEY CUBE BACON IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. —After i t has been killed one day, put a light coat of salt on the sides, and when that is dissolved, about £lb. of saltpetre is used to every 501b. of bacon, and covered with salt as it is lying single on the floor. After three or four days, put four or five sides together, and turn them every three days; after ten days, twenty Sides may be put together and turned once a week; in three weeks from the first salting they will be ready for the stoves unless they are very heavy, in which case this should be delayed another week. RABBITS AND RYE. — I have heard it stated (says a correspondent of an agricultural paper), that rabbits will not injure a crop of rye, and therefore that it was the safest crop to plant by the side of a covert fre- quented by rabbits. Now I have often thought whether there was any truth in this assertion or not. It has lately occurred to me that the spurred rye— whether a disease or fungus (referred to the genes Sclerotium)—has anything to do with this peculiarity of the rabbit, if such exists. It is well known that spurred rye exerts a very powerful and specific action upon the uterus, and that all animals have an instinc- tive knowledge in avoiding what is hurtful to them. If rabbits avoid eating rye, why is it so ? Are they afraid of injuring their fecundity P Trample tycrop down and injure it they must, if numerous, although they may not bite it off after—at least, it com. a into flower or ear. I want information from some obser- vant person who lives in a district where rye is grown. A rabbit abstinent in food or mischief never yet came across my path. How TO MAKE GOOD CIDER.—Gather the fruit when thoroughly ripe and dry, and store it in some cool room in heaps. Grind in November in cold weather. Add sugar or malt wort to bring the juice to specific gravity 1.070 or 80; ferment in a vat untH the specific gravity is reduced to 1.060. Transfer it to casks, until at length it may be transferred to a clean barrel, previously filled with sulphur vapour, and placed in a cool cellar. How TO PRESERVE EGGS. —Take eggs when newly laid, and place them, with the small end downwards, exactly perpendiolar in a board perforated with boles for the purpose. I t should be, say two feet by one foot six inches, and have legs at the four corners about three inches long. This will enable them to be piled one upon another to any extent, as they are filled. Eggs put in thus fresh from the nests in August and September will keep till winter as good as fresh ones cot only for cooking but eating.
