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York, Peel and Ontario. Residence~ t 7, 6th Com, Markham: P. 0 address, Unionville. Sales attended to on the short- shortest notice and on reasonable terms. ‘wordm left at the Herald office for Mr. Car- ter’s service will be promptly attended to. June 27, 1857 Eicensed Auctioneer for the Counties of ’J‘mr, YORK IIHRALD will always be found to contain. the latest and most important Foreign and Local News and Markets. and the greatest care will be taken to render it acceptable to the man of business, and a valuable Family Newspaper. All letter} addressed to the editors must be post-paid. N0 paper discontinued until all alirearages are paid ; and parties refusing papers with out paying up will he held accountable for the subscription. 22 inches to he considered one column Advertisements without written direct-ion inserted till_ forbid, and gharged acpordingly. And dispatched to subscribers by the earliest mail: or other conveyances, when so desxred. 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Sales attended to on the short- esc notice and at reasonable rates. I" 0. address, Buttonville. Plain &Coiored Job Work New method of extracting teeth without ‘1 pain, by the use of Ether Spray,which infects the teeth only. The tooth and gum surrounding becnmes insensible with the external agency, when the tooth can be ex- tracted with no pain and without endanger- ing the life, as in the use of Chloroform. Dr. Robinson will be at the following places prepared to extract teeth with his new ap- paratus. All office operations in Dentistry performed in a workxnanlike manner : Aurora, lst, 3rd, 16th and 22d of ear-h month Newmarket..... .. 2d “ “ Richmond Hill, 9th and 24th “ “ Mt Albert ..................... 15th “ “ Cheap Book and Job I’rintz'ngli’atablidlmenl‘ Corner of Young and Centre streets East, have constantly on hand a good assortment of Drugs, l’uints, Perfumery, Chemicals, 0113, ’l‘oilet Snaps, Medicines, Varnislies, FancyArticlc-s, Dye Stllifs, Patent Medicines md all other articles kept by druggists éenerally. Our stock of medicines warrant- ed genuine, and of the best qualities. Richmond Hill, Jan 25, ’72 705 ‘ ealer in Drugs, Medicines, Groceries, l Wines, and Liquors, Thornhill. By Royal Letters Patent has been appointed ls- suer of Marriage Licenses. RICHMOND qu. DRUG STORE, Thomhill. Maple.. . Burwick . .. Kleinburg Nobleton . {) always on hand the best of Beef, [Mutton lamb, Vea’, Pork, Sausages, &C., and sell at the lowest prices for Cash. Nitrous A urora. Also, Corned and Spiced Beef, Smoked and Dried Hams. The highest market price given for Cattle, Sheep, Lambs, &c. OFFICEâ€"YONG}: ST., RICHMOND qu FARMERS’ BOOT AND SHOE STORE Boots afid shuéa made to measure, of the best matel‘ml and workmanship, 31L the law- estjremunemtiug prices, [ Civil l‘lnginecr and Ih'nuglitsman. Order: by letter should state the Concession, Lot and character of Survey, theisuhscriber having the old Field Notes of the late I). GIBSON and other sur‘ ‘ors, which should be consulted, in many cases as to original mmummls, 551.2, previous in c'ommcncing work. OHN BARRON, manufacturer and dealer" 9 in all kinds of boots and Show, 38 “'est Market Sqqarp, Toronto, Office at WxLLomeE, Yongu Street, in the Township 05 York. I ' Jan'y 8. 1813. 7'55 J ver W’atches, Jewelry, $50., 113 Yonge Street, Toronto. ' Markham, July 24, 1868 UBLISHER AND PROPBIETOR OF Aurora, Richmond Hill, Oct. 24, ’72 (SUCCESSORS TO w. w. cox,) UTCH ERS,‘ RICHMON D EILVL,’ flAVE September 1, £871 PETER s. GIBSON, uROVINUIAL L AN D SURVEYOR mans: 251 mm ANXUM m ADV'ANC [‘oz'ontn, J’ccwif, 1867 J. SEGSWORTH, : ‘EALER 1N FINE GOLD AND SLL- VOL. XV. NO 4-4 ALEX. SCOTT, FRANCIS BUTTON, JR., \V. H. & R. PUGSLEY, A. ROBIESON’S, L. D. S ADVERTISING R ATES H. SANDERSON & SON, I‘ ll 11: ll EI{ALI) AUCTHPNEEIZS. “ THE YORK HERALD." ' i)l{UUUIS'l‘5. THO MAS CARR, April 28, 1870 Oxide Gas always $1 I’BOPRIETORS 01“ THE DE N'I‘IS'XIKY . JOHN CARTER, [3 P1? BLISH ED 24th 15th 23rd 26th ,28 ch 29th 30th on hand at PER INCH 615-tf 497 745-1v VlETERINARY SURGEON, Graduate of Toronm University College, corner of Yonge and Centre Sts. East, Richmond Hill, begs to announce. to the.public that he is now practising with H. Sanderson, of the same place, where they may be consulted erson- a.in or by letter, on all diseases of lorses, cattle, &c. Stands permanently abovaovery other Rem dy now in use. It is invaluable. ISO, the Pain Victor is Infallible for I Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Flox, Colic, Cholera. Morbus, Pain and Cramp in the Stomach and Bowels, Jtc. Directions with cM‘h bottle and box. and Chronic cases of Catarrh, Neural. €25,Headache,Coldsfioughs, Croup, Asthma, ronchitis, ($0., it is alsoa good Snothing Syrup. N, USTARD'S Catarrh Specific Cures Acute i N USTAIHTS Pills are the best pills you * can get for Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Billiousness, Liver, kidney Complaints, 6w. AVE you Rheumatism,“rounds, Bruises, H 01d Sores, Cuts, Burns, Frost Bites, Piles, Painful Swelllngs, \Vhite Swellings, and every conceivable wound upon man or beast '.‘ All'orders from a distance promptly at- tended to, and medicine sent to anypart of the Province. (LATE JAMES & FOWLER,) RCHITECT, CIVIL ENGINELR, AND Surveyor, Trust and Loan Buildings, cor- ner of Adelaide and Toronto streets, To- ronto. 719-tf Sold by Druggists generally. The Dominion “'orm Candy is the medicine 0 expel worms. Try it.- TOO-y Horses examined as to soundness, and also bought and sold on commxssxon. Richmond Hill, Jan. 25, 1872.» 507 D Somcnoa IN CHANCERY, CONVEYANCER, &c., kc. OFXICE;â€"No. 12 York Chambers, South- east Comer of Toronto and Court Streets, Toronto, Ont. ~ \VM. MALLOY, ARRISTER, Attorney, Solicitor-in-Clmn qex‘y, Conveyancer, ch. OFFiCEâ€"N o. 6 Royal Insurance Buildings, Toronto street. Toronto, Dec. 2, 1859. 594 CCOUNTANT, Book-Keeper, Convey- ancer, and Commission Agent for the sale‘or purchase of lands, farm stock, &c., also for the collection” of rents, notes and ac- counts. Charges Moderate. OFFICEâ€"Richmond srrect, Richmond Hill. U old iron, rags, &c.,r&c., Richmond Hill All orders promptly attended to. “Catch me using a profane word in the presence of ladies,” said a talka- tivo stripling, with a shade of down on his upper lip. “There's a time for all things.” No, sir, there isn’t a time for all things. No law, human or divine, ever set apart a time for swearing. A profane expression is a sin and an abomination, utter it when and where you will. As for ladies, yes, I’ll grant you it is well to be and act our best, in their presence. We cannot be too true, too pure, too honorable, if We want to stand upright before a good w‘omnn or a good girl-yes, while I am about it, I’ll add, or before a little mile of a girl-baby, with her soul fresh from heaven. as. yoxl please. But when you’re in His presenceâ€"and, to my thinking, we're all there, or thereubouts pretty much all the timeâ€"have a. carel Don't offend the deepest love, the whitest. purity, the grandest honor of all. ‘ ' I only know of one before Whom we oughtio be just as particular, it' not more so. When He is, nOL around, my boys, you can safely do just about Men and women both wear a garâ€" ment very much resembling the old Roman toga, which is fastened about the waist with a broad girdle. The women wear the hair in a very nice way, something latter the waterfall style, minus the false material. The men (wear theirs pretty much as the Europeans do. It is still the custom for the ladies, as soon as they marry, to blacken their teeth and shave their eyebrows, in order, I suppose, to rove their affection for their hus~ Bands, and I should think it ought for it; renders them horribly ugly. The young misses are usually very good looking, and some of them beau- tiful, but none of them can com )ai-e with our young girls at home. ’lhey arejccepting the modern improve- ments with wonderful celority. and are making long strides on the road ‘ to civilization, and rapidly distancing ‘ their neighbors over on this side. F. \VIIITLOCK, flHIMNEY SWEEP, ANDVDVEALEILIVIVN’ v» Mr. Jenkins playfully, yemarkcd to his wife that; in her he possessed five {11113. “' Name them, my love.” “ Yoii ape, beautiful, dutiful, youthful, faithful Cami an armful.-”- ~“l You have the adv ivnntage of me. my dear.’.? “How so, my precious Z ”, . “ I have but one fool.” ‘Mxfi. Jo‘nkins made no further inquiries. January 15, 1873‘ Manufactured by November 12, 1872‘ (Late of Duggan «j‘ Meyers) ARRISTER, ATTORNEYâ€"ATâ€"LAVV, PATENT M F. IDICI 5’ ES. ADAM II. MEYERS, 33., l'}{()C2I_aA1\1 A'J‘I(HV No Time for Swearing. J. H. EANDER‘SON, I‘HE KING OF OILS Japanese Dress JAMES, O‘BRIEN, Proprietor, Ingersnll H. MUSTARD, 700- 1y 756-ly There, there. shall the rungs)de eternally he, Far, far away, far, far away : And sorrow and sighing forever shall flee, Fart faraway, far away“ 0h, may we be found in that thrice happy band, Who there without fault or confusion shall stand, ’ And bask in the bliss of that heavenly laud, Far, far away, far away. Oh yes, there's a region where all is serene, Far, far away, far, far awny : A country more lovely than eyes e'er had seen, Far, far away, far away ; A city that knows not the shadows of night, \Vith mansions of glory and endless delight, Where the parted by death shall forever unite, Far, far away, far away. Better be fed by a mother's hand, than eat alone at will ; Better ,to trust, in God they say, “ My goods my stuehouse till." Is there fm- pilgrim aregion of rest‘: Far, far away, far, far away. A, happy repose for each pure saluted brcaat, Far, far away, far away? Is there a land where the righteous shall reign, A realm where the weary an more shall (complain, A home free from weeping, from sin and from pain, Far, far away, far away Y Better to smell the violet cnol. than sip the glowing win ; Better to hark a hidden brook, than watch '3 diamond shine. Better the love of a gentle heart, than beauty's favor proud ; 4 Better the rose‘s‘living seed, than roses in a crowd. Better to love in loneliness, than bask in love all day; Better the fountain in the heart, than the fountain by the way. Better to be a little wise than in knowledge abound ; Better to teach a. child, than tail to fill per- fcction‘s round. Better sit at a master's feet, than thrill a listening state ; Better suspect- that thou art proud, than be sure that thou art great. Better to walk the realm unseen, than watch the hour's event ; Better the well~donc at tho last, than the air with shouting rent. Better have a quiet'grief, than a hurrying delight ; Better the twilight of the dawn than the noonday burning bright. Bet-tar a death when work is done, than earth’s most favored birth ; Better a child in God's great house, than the king of all the earth. THE STORY OF JOCK WILLIS- TON. Mabelle was as good as she was? pretty. I used to tell them that all the young men on the coast just stood afar off and worshiped her. The girls dotcd on her, t00,â€"â€"sho seemed too different from all the rest to be the least bit jeal- ous of. Old Mr. Devei‘eux was masterly pleased with the Island, and I heard him talkin’ with Parson Ellet once, at a. clamâ€"bake, about the ‘hoapitality of the inhabitants, and their remarkable sympathy with an invalid’s sufferin's,’ and its bein' ‘1‘eally'raro, my dear air, to find such delicate feelin' among the common people.’ ‘Common people,‘ indeed E I ached to speak up right there, and say 'You fooll so you think it's for you that twenty boats are ready mornin,‘ norm, or night, with two or three Stout young follows to each one to row or sail you where you like ‘1' But 'I hit my lips and held still, which was better for us both. “ All little children and brute beasts loved Mabelle at first sight, and it was no wonder that poor Jock took to her, too. She used to spend ’most all the pleasant davs outâ€"doors with her father, for Mr. Dcvereux, when ho didn’t 0110038 to go out on the water, would have a great chair carried down to the shore, and sit there in the sun. Mabelle would ramble up and down the beach, or climb about among the rocks, coming around (wery little while to see if her father wanted any thing. Jock got by degrees {1. followin' her for all the world as he used to his mother, before she died. Some girls wouldn’t have wanted the great foolish fellow around, or would even have been afraid of him, maybe, but it wasn't so with Mabelle. She used to speak to him in her quiet, gentle way, and he minded her voice like a child. It Was wonderful how many things slm made him do for her that nobody else would 'a.’ thought of trying to make him understand. I used to wonder sometimes if he’d had somc‘ body like her when he was a. little fel- low and first lost- his mind, if he might not partly have got it back again, after till. “ 0m: afternoon I started to go down by the fish house that Tom Porter'd left- fibere dryin’, and I’d g-omised’ him no see to.- 1 :wentfltowar [where Mr. Dwennx was uittin’. in. ink Chair, dud 1‘0 THE TU “ THE HAPPY HOME." {From the Aldino for April.] BETTER THINGS. KY GEORGE MACDONALD [uoNCLUDED ] OKG , 1.0 N G .UHl RICHMOND HiLL, ONTARIO, CANADA. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1874 Mabelle staudin’ by him. There were three or four spruceâ€"lookiu' young mm talkin’ with them, that had mine over that day in the yacht from Portland, and a little ways ofi‘, by the side of a rock, halfâ€"sittin’ and halfâ€"lyin’ in the sun, was Jock. I couldn’t hear what the young men Were sayin’, but I saw they looked at Jock and I laughed, and in a minute one of them stepped up to him and gave his chin a. pull, seyin’ somethin’ that set them all off again. I was close by them, and a. sharp word was on the end of my tongue, when somethin' seemed to stop me, and I look- ed at Mahelle. 0, ina'ma, I’d never seen her like that! 80 tall and so torriâ€" ble! Her whole body trembling, her eyes flashed, and a red spot burned in her cheek, and then went out in an instr ant and left her face like ashes. She didn’t seem to walk toward J ockvshe went as the Wind goes. She put her hand on his shoulder, and he gazed up into her face. I'll never forget that eight. The same pitiful, dazed look that I knew so well, come over my poor boy's face onm moreâ€"his hand went slowly up to his forehead. ‘It's comin’!’ he said. ‘Comin’ '5' she answered, in a low voice that rang like a bell,-â€"-‘ Yes, my poor brother 5 Yes, a ‘ thousand times! Comin’ in God's time 1' ‘Ma- helle l \Vhy, Mabelle 2’ said Mr. Dever- eux, but she did not seem to hear. Turnin’ half about, she saw me. ‘Go now with Mia. Dawson, Jock l’ she said in her old \oice, and he came to me in a moment. “'0 walked on a few steps, and I looked around and saw the young men standin’ still with their eyes on the ground, and Mr. Deverenx leanin’ on Mabelle‘s arm, and walkin, slowly up the hill. Tom Porter and Ben Britten were masterly disappointed that the Portland chaps went home next mornin’ instead 0’ stayin for a week’s fishin’ as they’d given out they would. The boys had allowed to make a good bit out of them for odd jobs, but Mabelle and I kept our own counsel. “ The fall of 1840 was a hard one for folks as got their livin’ by the sea. One gale beat close upon another, and more than one boat- fmm the Island went to pieces. Winter came at last, and it was a comfort to have the mackerel schooners all in, and settle down a little. Comfort, leastwise to some, more than to me, for Zebedee was away somewhere in the north seas, and' many a gusty 4... “ Jock ’(1 been stayin’ with me ever since summer. He didn't seem like himself that night, so restless and unâ€" easy-like, and to see if Icouldn’t pacify him, I got my Bible and began to read just where it opened, which happened to be at the eighteenth Psalm. He threw himself down and listened, but he had such a queer wild look, that I shut the Bible after a lithe, and told him to go upstairs to bed. He started docile enough, but at the chamber door he stopped so long that I spoke tn him agam: - “ Mabelle and her father went home in November, and a little while after, Mix. Deacon Price told me they had gone to France. “ Christ-mas Eve came. All day the Island had been choked in a cold mist. Away to the northeast the gray bank of fog broke a. little as the sun went down, and showed a pile of cloud black as midnight. eyéa till daybreak: “ ‘Go on, now, Jockwthnt’s my good l boy.’ He gave such a. start that I was scared for a minute, then he put up his hand, and said, quite loud. “‘Its comin’ ! Toâ€"night 1' “Then he went up stairs. l “Somehow I couldn’t go to bed. I felt as if something was goin’ to happen. 1 The very air wasn’t natural. Before I i knew it, I’d been sayin’ over to myself,‘ ‘It's comin’»~to~nightl’ ’Twas no use tryin’ to scold myself out of my feelin’s, l and so, at last, I just lopped down on the lounge with my clothes on. As I laid there, I could hear the wind risin’ andvthe surf poundon the rocks out side the bar. I heard the clock strike ten and eleven, and then I must 'a‘ gone into a heavy sleep, for when I woke up all of a sudden, the last spark of tire was out and the room cold as a grave. The candle was burnt down into the stick, till there was hardly a gleam of light left. I got up, for [was shiverin' like an agileâ€"chill, and as I walked herons the floor, 1 felt the old house ‘ tremble in the gale, and the roar of the sea was like one long roll of thunder. Then, all at onceâ€"it’s a dreadful sound, ‘ ma’am, in a. night like thatâ€"I heard a gun, and in a minute more, another, and I fell down on my knees and prayed ‘for the poor wretches perishin’ out i there in the storm. I couldn’t shear l to stay alone, so I put something around Lme and mu over through the dark to y’Bijah Porter’s. They were all up, and E’Bljah and Tom had just come up from l the shore. They couldn't make out any- thing, they said, and the sea ran so that .there was nothin’ to do but wait for l light: “Toward morniu’ the wind went- dowu, and with the first streak of dawn, we all want down to the beach. There was a. great crOWd them a'ready, and aftera good while we could just make out, a big black thing, lyin’ partly out of the water to the lthu'd of Pirate’s Bock, not- more’n a. quarter of a mile away. “ ‘I’oor :creeturgI’ said Bije, “they must ’a.’ been all dead hours ago.’ _ “ So nigh the! Land! and Christmas Day 1' said Martha Price, who was a standin‘ close to me. Then she gripped my arm, and up; she undu- ber breath, “ ‘ He bowed the heavens, also, and cams down, and darkness was under his feat. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. His pavilion round about him were dark Waters and thick clouds of the skies. “ ‘EJockl' 1 called out then, for I didn't know what I was sayin’-â€"‘0 Jack! is it come 2' “He didn’t answer. I doubt if he heard or saw me at all. He stood stal'in' out to sea with such a face an I never saw on mortal man. All to once his voice, that used to be so weak like a child’s, rung out strong and clear as a trumpet : “ ‘ Thou wilt light my candle ; the Lord my God will enlighten my dark- ness. For who is God, save the Lord, and who is a rock save our God '1’ "The fog lifted up in the emit, and the clear light touched his head. A minute more and the wreck was in full View. Jock turned like a flash and wrencth the glass out of Skipper Gib- son’s hand.- He looked for an instant, then he dashed it. down on tlm sand, and ran for tha boat-house. The men looked at each other. Nobody seemed to breathe. Skipper Gibson was the first that spoke. “ It was like breakin' a spell. They; ran, they shouted, they pulled down the ‘ bnat. Jock was the first inside. Six; times the swell beat her back, but thei seventh she passed the breakeiz Up l and down over the white cups we couldl see her spring to the ears. The men; told us after that Jock never spoke, but i pulled with the strength of three, and that if in all those senseless years when he’d been so much upon the sea, .he’d‘ WK“ the haudlin’ of a- boat a. study, he1 couldn’t ’a’ seemed to know better what1 to do. Skipper Gibson declared to his dyin’ day that he believed the spirit of his father came back into J ock’s body that day ; but I think, ma’am, that it was another Spirit that lighted that darkness. “I couldn't, answer her. I felt. like a blasphemer, fur ’twnn my own thought She’d voiced. “ All of a sudden I heard a noise he- hiud me, like some one runnin', and the crowd parted every way. I turned around, and for an instant, ma'am, I thought the sea 'd given up the dead it swallowed two and twenty years agone ! W'asn’t it Cnp’n Williston that stood there, with black eyes flashin' and the salt spray frozen in his hair? A dozen women screamed, and old Mia. Price fell down like dead. “ ‘ He sent from above, he took he drew me out of many waters. “ ‘ Men !’ he said, ‘Gnd calls 118 by a Illiracle 3’ “ ‘ Mia'nm Dawson, [ rjmm to my that it’s a cruel thing 3' “\Ne watched them as they made flat to the wreck, and then we made out two men climbin' up the side and into the riggin‘. W'e saw through the glass one dark thing and then another handed down; then somethin seemed to fall, and nothin‘ was clear for a little. The boat moved round and round the wreck, and headed for shore. As it. came nearer, we made out Skip. per Gibson and ’Bijah and the others, but no Jock. A hundred hands stretch- ed out to pull ’em in. The skipper spmng over the bow. yet “Quickf quick 2' ho « ‘ Lend a hand, and we may “ \Vho was it ma'am, do you think, that lay white and still in that beat- bottomi A woman, and an old man and a young 5 It was Mabelle and her father and poor Jock ! “ I needn’t tell you how we worked. ,VVe that live here know how to snatch life out of the very maw of the hungry sea. Mubelle and Mr. Devereux were nigher frozen to death than drowned. The captain of the ship had 'em lashed to the riggiu’ and wrapped round and round with saiLcloth. Only that had kept them alive, and they two alone, of all on board, saw the sun rise afterthat fearful night. “ But Jockwmy Jock ! We'd 'a’ given our hearts to save him, but it wasn’t to be. Hes climbed up first, the men told us, with the skipper after him, and vent the ropes himself. Mr. Devcreux was handed down first, and then Jock lifted Mabelle in hi5 arms, but just as the men in the boat took her from him, her cloak fell away and showed her face, white and set like death. Jock gave _a great. cry, threw up his arms, and fell over the ship's side. They picked him up in lesa’n a minute, but he must ’a‘ struck his head some how, for them was a great bruise on his temple, and 1m nm'er bmathed nor stir~ red. "’ I. know when I first set my «yes on him that he was dead. I' must 'a’ felt after they’d tried for ham-H to bring him to, and given up at last, something as Eiisha did when the sons of the pm» phet-s came back fmm huntin" event,"â€" where for Elijah, and he told them, ' Said I. unto you, Go not? I thought the Lord had come so near in takin’ poor J ock that- we mi ht ’a’ ma ‘ the chariot- nf Tm-ae! an the borwman thereof.’ “ He looked the image of his father in the‘ oofiin. Mr. Devereux couldn’t leave his bed then, nor for weeks and weeks after, bufi he made Deacon Price go to Purtland and get the best that money could buyâ€"wall rusewood and silver and satin and velvet. And such a. funeral never was seen on the Island. I reckon that I. thousand people stood he called cut. may save them “ ‘It's no use, gentlemen! Beggin’ ' your pardon, you've no cause to meddle with this thin". It’s the Lord‘s doin's, and it’s marvelous in our eyes 1' “ And so they went away. “ Mr. Devereux had the stone set up, but ’twas Mabelle that told them what in put on it. The. old gentleman is dead, now, but Mabelle is married and lives in Boston, and every summer she comes down to the Island and brings her little boy, and when the afternoons are pleasant you cam see them sittin here in the graveyard on this very seat. She tells him over and over what I've been tellin’ you, and he never gets tired of listenin’. “ Always, when she's done he says : “ ‘ SO that's why you named me Jock, mamma ‘?‘ At the State dinner given by the Queen in honor of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the great leature was the service and display of “ gold plate" for which \Vindsor Castle is famous. The buffets and the tables were heaped and laden with salvers, shields cups, and vases oi every descrip- tion. One hundred and thirty-six persons dined, and every piece of plate, displayed or used was of silver richlyl gilt. A service of pure gold plate ial unknown, and there are only one or two pieces even at Windsor Castle en- tirely of the precious metal. A great deal of this magnificent plate is of the time of George IV., who not only bought many splendid pieces, but had much of the old plate reâ€"fashioned to suit modern needs, which have altered very much again since his day, there being no means new of using or disâ€" playing many of the dishes and covers of plate at a diner a la Russo. The The most conspicuous piece on the buffet at the west end of the hall was the eau-de-cologne fountain, designed by the Prince Consort and made by Garrard. .:. ‘ ~ , horses given to the Queen by the Sul-l tan of Muscat and the King of Persia, i drink from a golden fountain of Moor- ish design. On this buffet stood a‘ jeweled George IV” Coronation Cup, two beautiful cups in gold and ivory, one of them an exquisitely carved Rape of the Sabines, a salver bearing the arms of Elizabeth of Bohemia, and many other salvers, plates, vases and cups. On the centre of the lowest shelf of the bufl‘et at the east end of the hall was placed the tiger head taken from Tippoo Sahib's throne at the storming of Seringapatam. Above it stood the jeweled peacock, once an or- nament in Tippo's state umbrella, and above this priceless bird was Flexmau’s shield of Achilles and many other preâ€" cious and beautiful pieces of plate, a number of silver-gilt candelabra were also placed upon the bufl‘ete. On the great table, one hundred and fifty feet long, the dinner service of gold plate was laid out upon snowy damask, and a number of gold cei'itre-picces, many of them vases planted with beautiful flowers, stood upon the glass and gilt plateaus. Innumerahle wax lights ‘were fixed in gilt candelabra all along ithe table, and their lights sparkled , against the gold. “ But. bless me ! there‘s the bell, ma’am. How I've been )runnin‘ on! But you'll excuse an old woman whose life is mostly in the past." in the graveyard and around the church, and SC:er a dry 93*», mnong me all. “ There was no mull of fineâ€"spun talk among the doctors. Three. of '61)) came to talk with me one day, seein' that, Jock had been with mu so much, to find out all they could almut him~â€"-t.he ‘nature of his disease,’ and 80 on. But I just made answer, Fraseati‘s, the Paris ball-room, is described in the height of a masquer- ade as follows: “ A man comes in get up as a flower-pot; his body is curi- oust imitative of a stand, and his hat is a pot with a high flower growing out of it. A few minutes afterward a young woman enters costumed as a gardener’s watering-pot. Presently the watering-pot. and the flowerpot catch sight of each other; instinctive- ly they rush together, theyjoiu hands, they embrace, they laugh effusively, and then, amid cries of ‘Bicn, bicn,’ walk off arm in arm. A, youth is dressed up as a wind-mill, and has 3. Wheel always turning in his hat. Of course there are representations of France as a very decolletce goddess, and of all the peasants in France. Next to the devil, the favorite char. actor for women seemed to be Joan of Are. The new equestrian statue of that heroine just put- up in Paris by Fermentâ€"«a capital figure of the Or- leans maid, but- she seems forlorn at being astrido a heavy omnibus horse --appears'to have given rise to the new Joan d'l‘ire bodice, which was shown forth at Frascati‘s in all its glory; It is simply a garment close fitting'as the skin from shoulder to hip, and, unless cut square in the neck, looking much like a seamless corset. Of course, to my that there was a great deal of extravagance in dress at the Fraseati bull were super- fluous; it was in Paris. No one ever yet attended an evening company in Paris, not in church, where there was not extravaganee of costume, and at the bale masque; the French fondness for eccentricity and for nudity breaks in some cases through all bounds.” A Golden Service. At a. Bal Masque. A writer says, in describing the garden parties given by Queen Vic- toria: “When you are conducted to the garden by one of the scarlet flunkies of majesty, said flunky is about the only visible hint there is of its being a. royal party. You see pretty tents and canvas pavilions dis~ posed here and there under the oaks, on the velvety lawn, or by the side of the )retty miniature lake. . If this is in t e Buckingham Palace Garden, which is in the very centre of fashion- able West End London, the moment A writer in Chamber’s Journal says : “ The great centre of Swiss embroiâ€" dery is at St Gall, and the day on which the work is brought is a festi val ; early in the morning the young women arrive from all parts in their Sunday attire. After attending ser- vice in the church they collect in a large room round a long table, where each receives a glass of white wine. They begin to sing one of their melo- dies in parts, while the master goes round the table, examines the work, and pays for it. If he refuses any, and declines to take it, the dispute is decided by a syndic, who sits in the next room. When the examination is over, the head of the establishment throws a mass of embroidery patterns on the table; each girl chooses the kind she likes best; it is inscribed in her book, with the price agreed on, and the day when it is to be returned. They are very industrious; and, by reason 01 their great frugality, are contented with very poor remunerw tion; and by slightly sewing their pieces of work together, can have them washed at half the cost. In Saxony the wages are so low that. it is wonderful how the women can live upon them; in Scotland, it is said that many of the children receive only a halfpenny a day. A small number in Nancy, who can embroider coats~ofâ€"arms and crests, earn three shillings a day; but from ten to twenty pence is the usual wages. ;;It is a kind of work that endangers the sight; and as fashion reigns supreme, it not {infrequently happens that a style is abandoned before them-tiers are completed; when the merchant profits by the smallest pretext to re- fuse the work from the manufacturer; and in this way the less often falls upon the poor woman, who can scarcely buy bread and clothes." which shhts it out from Sthames‘ Park on one side and Grosvenor place on the other, you would never guess that you were in the midst of the city. The surroundings are more exguisite- ly and mostillusorily rural. lou see a number of gentlemen and ladies, elegantly dressed, standing about in groups, or partaking of the by no means sumptuous fare which is being served without ceremony in the tents. The scene is cheerful, elegant, ban ton, easy. and unrestrained. You catch a glimpse of the Queen, dressed in black, with here and there a relief in rich white lace, but with no suspicion of tinsel or gaudiness about her; a plain lady, of substantial proportions, in the prime oflife, the centre of a respectful but by no means awed or abashed circle, receiving those whom she recognizes with a slight smile and a pleasant word, and the presen~ tation of those whom she does not know with a slight bow. There are Faces here familiar to you in the win. dows of the print shopsâ€"~noblemen, statesmen, ministers, ambassadors, leaders of society and court fashion, â€"â€"but there is little or no pretension of manner or carriage." Concerning diamonds and the value of precious gems that may on occa- sions be seen at parties in New York, it is said that at an entertainment given recently by Mrs. Astor, at her residence on Fifth Avenue, she was radiant with jewels. “ On each of her shoulders were four stars,the size of silver halt" dollars, made of dia- monds. Her hair seemed aflame with them. There was a diamond bandeau upon her brow. She had diamond earrings, and a diamond necklace of magnificent proportions. Upon the two sides of her chest were two circles of diamonds about the size of the palm of the hand. From them depended lines and curves reaching to the waist, round which she wore a diamond girdle. On the skirts of her dress in front were twolarge peacocks wrought of lines of diamonds. There were rosettes of diamonds, large or small, but in every variety of form, all over her dress and person wherever they could be artistically displayed. She presented an extraordinary and daz- zling s wclacle as she moved languidly throng the dance among her friends One of the ladies present, a connoiss- eur in precious stones, who kept cool enough to take practicle observation, says the diamonds she were could not have cost less than a million dollars, and must have represented her husb- and's income for at least a quarter of a year. This same lady, who is fam- ilar with court life in Europe, says that the largest collection ofdlamonds in possession of any European emp ress or queen belongs to the present German empress, but she :adds that even Augusta herself could not make a diamond show which would comp are with that made by Mrs. Astor.” THE YORK HERALD Tamarâ€"«Om Dollar yer Amount in Admin ‘UBLISHED AT THE OFFICE Issued \Veekly on Friday Morning. Mrs. Astor’s Diamonds. Yam}: St, Rxcnxoxn HILL. Embroidery Workers. ALxx. Soon, I‘normn‘rox. Royal Simplicity WHOLE NO. 821.