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FORMED INTO A BARRICADE. With loop-holes for the rifles. Meanwhile, the outlook saw several of the fugitives fall under the Zulu fire, more particularly Lieut. Coghill, while crossing the river, the officer’s intention being to warn Greytown and Helpmakaar of the danger they were in from a Zulu advance. Coghill and some half dozen or more had got away from the camp. charged with the duty of carrying news of the Zulu attack to the rear. The little post at Rorke’s Drift appears to have been alto- gether forgotten, except by the Zulu army. for the natives who had pursued Coghill turned out to be the vanguard of another portion of the victorious force which had captured the Chelmsford convoy. It was sunset on the 22nd, just us his Lordship was beginning to realize What had happened at the camp, and utterly unconscious of the situation of the post at the Drift, that between 3,000 and 4,000 of the enemy appeared before Chard and Brom- head‘s breastwork of meal-bags and biscuit- tins. Waiting calmly for their advance, the little garrison poured into them a volley that ellilaggered them. The fire was repeated, and t e smzme THE mer BABRELS Which flung among them a constant and deadly hail of bullets. Some of them got in- side the impromptu fortress six different times, but they were slaughtered to a man. Assis- tant commissary Byrne was conspicuous for his bravery. He was killed. But few of the others fell, sheltered by the bags and tins thus so admirably engineered by Lieut. Chard. Toward dawn Lord Chelmsford’s continued his retreat and reached Rorke’s Drift shortly after the attacking hosts had withdrawn. The Zulus had evidently Some dozen miles from the camp at Rorke‘s Drift proper, a. small commissariat post had been stationed, near the Tugela River, and not far from the frontier towns of Help- makaar and Grevtown. Here, without any intrenched system of defense, utterly unpre- pared to resist anything like a serious attack. and never dreamed of danger, there were a handful of volunteers, some men of the Twenty-fourth, and some civilians, about 80, all told. They were under the command of a couple of young lieutenants, Broomhead, of the Twenty-fourth, and Chard, of the Royal Engineers. They knew nothing of the bitter business that had been going on at the camp. Their first intimation of trouble arose from seeing fugitives making for the river, and, in the distance, natives in pursuit. Seeing dan- ger, the young lieutenants called their men to arms and commenced to turn their commis- sariat stores to account. They had a vast quantity of meal in bags and a large store of biscuts in tins. These under the young Engineer’s direction, they hastly charged for the most vulnerable part of the barricade, entered it and were hurled back at the point of the bayonet. Again and again they returned to the breach, which was closed up with their dead. The garrison fought like devils. They clubbed their rifles, they used their beyonets. the young lieutenants fought with their swords. After each re- pulse the men returned to their rifle prac- tice, keeping up a. deadly fire. At the rear of the barricade was a small wooden hospital. There were five patients in it and a servant of Col. Harness. The Zulus fired the hospital and the INMATES WERE BURNED TO DEATH, except Harness’s servant, who crept out and escaped into the bush. The light of the flames helped the garrison to see the foe, and en- abled them to avenge over and over again the poor fellows in the hospital. All through the night the unequal contest went on, the Zulu more than once coming up to the breast- work and NOT A LIVING sour. IN IT. There were no wounded to tend and succor. Quarter had neither been asked nor given. Black and white lay together in the death- grip. Both had fought with equal courage and desperation. The sturdy Englishmen had met in the athletic Zulu a foeman worthy of his steel. The underrated savage had shown himself a creature upon whom drill may be as efleetive in the direction of natural courage as on Europeans. Lord Chelmsford encamped among the dead, mak- ing dispositions to meet any renewed attack. Some ten miles away, while the flower of his army is being literally massacred, he is also quietly awaiting morning in the shambles, while further in his rear another desperate fight is going on. In that inquiry which he is instituting touching the above aflair, the British public will expect some explana- tion from him touching the question how it is a British General is found advancing into the heart of an enemy’s territory while that enemy’s army is allowed to congregate on his rear and destroy his base of opera- tions. " TO LOOK FOR THE ENEMY," Who, it afterward turned out, were at the same time 20,000 strong. Lord Chelmsford being well out of the way, they fell upon the. convoy. The British fought hard, and retreated gradually upon the camp and their valuable stores, thus getting the support of all their immediate forces. The Zulus fell fast before the deadly rifle; but they carried out their courageous tactics with a bravery which will not be forgotten when the historian comes to tell their story. To hurry an enâ€" counter to the death-struggle, hand to hand, is the Zulu idea. They advance in a body, the men in the rear rushing into the gaps made in front by the enemy’s fire. Then the men, with short knives and. shields, sling back their rifles and leap upon the foe. Those who are armed with spears break them 05 short and convert them into short swords. This is what happened at Isendula and the camp at Rorke’s Drift. The overwhelming numbers of the Zulus.taking the troops at a moment when there seems to have been no opportun- ity of availing themselves of intrenchments or barricades, enabled them to ovanrowas THE RED-COATS. The British officers and men fought and fell where they stood, each of them, how- ever, slaying his two or three to one in the unequal fight. The colors of the regiment and the stores fell to the victors, who thus came into possession ot valuable weapons and ammunition, which they could show to possible allies as inducements to join them. Not less than fifty-one British officers and 570 men lay dead in the sacked camp before the Zulus carried off the spoils. In the meanwhile Lord Chelmsford was still “ looking for the enemy 1” When it was all over the news reached him and he hastened back, to discover that the force be had left in his rear had been annihilated. The Zulus had not held the camp. but had carried off literally everything that made it a camp. It was an awful scene of slaughter. There was The Desperate Hand-to-Hand Struggle at Rorke’s Drift. A London correspondent gives the following graphic account of the terrible affair at Rorke’s Drift, where a. battallion of the Twentyâ€"fourth British Infantry was anni- hilated: On the 2lst of January the main body of the British advance, under Lord Chelmsford, penetrated a considerable distance into Zulu- land, over twenty miles beyond Rorke’s Drift, near which a camp had been established, with a. convoy, consisting of 102 Wagons, 1,400 oxen, two guns, 400 shot and. shell, 1,200 rifles, 250,000 rounds of ammunition, and a rocket-trough, the whole valued at $300,000. Ten miles beyond Rorke’s Drift Lord Chelms- ford left the convoy guard and advanced with the remainder of his forces, some ten or twelve miles further into Zululand. HEROES OF THE VICTORIA CROSS AT A COMMIS- BABIA'J.‘ POSTâ€"FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS 0F FIFTY TO ONE. LTHE ZULU FIGHTS. ZULUS BWABMING OVER THEIR DEAD HEROES FOR THE VICTORIA GROSS. Au Awlul Scene of Slnughler. It is said that brethren and sisters are not permitted to pass each other on the stairs ; cannot visit each others rooms except on business, and then can never stay more than fifteen minutes at a. time. No brother and sister can converse together alone. Everyone is bound to report to the proper authority the least violation of any of the rules, and this constant watchfulness, the one upon another, iswhat keeps them pure more than anything else. A member cannot even leave the pre- mises on which he belongs without permisâ€" sion of the Elders, and this is done by stat~ ing the business which calls him away. No conversation except the most succinct and Awakening in the morning is accomplished by a signal on the great bell, and takes place at 4.30 o’clock in the summer, and at 5 o’clock in the Winter. Perfect order marks the Shaker life from the moment the devotee is out of bed. He first places two chairs back to back, and doubling the clothes of his bed once, he places them across the chairs. The pillows are neatly placed in the chair seats. The Women then begin the work of putting the rooms in order, and by 6 o’clock all are ready for breakfast,which takes place withâ€" out the least formality, men and women eat~ ing at the separate tables in the same room, but in the utmost silence. All knee] in silence a. moment before the meal begins. Dinner comes at 12111., and supper at 6 p.m. All lights in the various buildings must be out at 9. 30. One of the most peculiar things which I learned was in regard to the special care that is taken to keep the brethren and sisters at their proper distance from each other. Breth- ren are not permitted to visit the sisters under any circumstances, but on Sunday nights, the sisters, six or eight in a body, call upon the brethren in their rooms. 011 these occasions sisters place themselves in a stiff row in chairs along one side of the room, while the brethren are in a similar row at the other side. They then converse in a a stilted manner in regard to the crops, the weather, and the general prospects of the So- ciety. If, on any of these occasions a brother is seen to be taking special interest in the conversation of any sister, or looks at her in such a manner as to particularly attract at tention, she is never permitted to visit that particular room again. The toil of the Shaker is not severe, and there is very little complaint, the Elder told me, in regard to one having a. softer job than another. “ We hold,” he smd, “ that: toil should be a pleasure, and to this end we work together evenly and easily.” Work beginé immediately after the morn- ing meal is finished, and ample “ nooning" is taken in the middle of the day. Regular fore- man, called “ care-takers” have charge of the men and deal out the tasks. “ The entertainments which we have," said the E1der,in answer to a question, “ all come in the evening. We read our evening letters of consolation and comfort from other socie- ties, and read in our Society journals of the progress of the cause elsewhere. Sometimes we spend an evening in social converse, and again we engage in , our social and religious dance or practice on new hymns for our ser- vice.” The community is divided into sections of from thirty to ninety, and each of those is called a family, and all live together in one large building. 011 the first floors are lo. cated the kitchen, pantry, store-rooms, and dining-halls. The upper floors are divided into sleeping-rooms somewhat similar in their character. They Will accommodate about eight persons each. The furniture is of the plainest kind. There is nothing re- semblingaparlor or sitting-room about the whole building, for in the simple rigid life of the Shaker there is no need of these luxuries of the world. The walls are furnished with rows of wooden pegs on which are hung the hats,bonnets. and coats of the occupants when not being worn. The most scrupulous neatness prevails everywhere, and nothing like dust is tolerated. Strips of carpet oia home-made quality are laid loosely upon the floor, so that it may be taken up and swept every day. For two reasons, everything like pictures is ruled out : First, they are in the shape of ornament, and all ornament is wrong; second, the cords and frames by which they would be hung would simply serve as means of gathering dust, and so hinder a chief law of godliness, nentness. The rules of the Society are something which no one can find out, but they are sim- ply knowu to be of a strict and studied churâ€" actér. It is to be supposed that they difier to a. certain extent with different commun- ities. This community is the second in size in the State, and owns some 1,355 acres of land; their productions most famous in the market are brooms and pails. They have a saw-mill, a. blacksmith shop, a, grisu~mill, in fact nearly everything that is necessary in the running of a. simple agricultural community. Their dress is proverbial for its plainness. The men wear a light-blue coat with light felt hat, broad-brimmed. The women wear coarse dresses, much plnited, and their head-gear consists of a plain cap closely drawn around the face and covered with the well-known Shaker bonnet. The most beautiful Woman in the world decked out in full Shaker cos“ tume appears on the same level with the most homely to the casual observer. good information of Lord Chelmsford’s movements, for as he came up they retreated ; and at first the men at the beleagured post thought the fresh force appearing against the gray sky-line was a, new body of the enemy. The British colors however, soon made themselves manifest to the out-look, and the garrison sent up a, ringing cheer, which was answered by their comrades, who, as they advanced, found grim evidence of the contest that had only just been finished. The neighborhood of the Drift was This society came into the unbroken wilder- ness in 1822, and have seen all their present domain reclaimed from its primeval wildness. It now numbers something over 400 persons, less than twenty of whom are under 21 years old. The larger proportion of those members are Americans, and their belief religiously has been various. There was quite a sprinkâ€" ling of Adventists, although some of the “professed” Methodists, Baptists, and other denominations have contributed occasionally 8. member. A considerable proportion of the of the present membership has come from old and friendless people, who had some property left, but no hope and desire to have some society. They easily swallowed the religious portion of the creed and so become full- fledged members of the order. As would be gathered from the conversation of the Elder. there is a. sort of sublime religious cheek preâ€" vailing in the denomination which holds all who once come within its influence. It is asâ€" sumed that everybody else is wicked and 'per- verse, and the only way to be saved is in carrying out the absurd vagaries of Miss Lee, the founder. Three hundred and fifty-one bodies lying thick about the barricade, more particularly at the point where they had been repulsed with the bayonet. The bodies further away were estimated at between 600 and 700, so thatBroomhead and Chard’s company had averaged ten Zulus killed per man. They had not only done something toward wiping out the defeat at the camp, but they had saved Greytown and Helprnakzmr, and, possi- bly Natal itself ; for they had clearly checked the advance of the enemy, who could other- wise have swarmed over the frontier, which he has nevertheless crossed here and there in small parties. It is thought at the Cape that every man at Rorke’s Drift should have the Victoria. Cross, and nobody in Londeu gainsays their title to the distinction. They have covered themselves with glory, and added another imperishablo laurel to the famous but unfortunate Twenty-fourth. A Toledo, 0., correspondent gives the fol- lowing interesting account of the shaker set- tleyjept at -War1'ensvjlle, pear film]: city :â€" Slrange Doings of the “Dancing Chris- tiaus.” An Extraordinary Religious Sect. STBEWN WITH ZULU DEAD THE SHAKERS. The soldier goes to the war and confesses his love for Faust, askil him to watch over. The now Faust is a young man to begin with,aprieat, who, having seen the new Illarglm‘ita reading a book is smitten with ‘her and longs to throw off the bonds of the Church. He invokes the aid of God or devil to relievehim, and the Devil appears. Not thefllcphistophelcs of our former plays; not the Goethe’s devil, but his Satanic Majesty as a private gentleman. The gentleman Devil makes a. legal bargain with the lover, and then introduces him to Marguerite. She has already a lover who has not, how- ever, declared himself. He is a villager anda, soldier, and the friend of the new Faust, whom he leaves in charge of the heroine. Died, in great peace, at Buttonville, on Tuseday, the 18th ult., in his 84th year, John H. Stiver,.who was the first White child bornin the now populous and wealthy town- ship of Markham in the county of York. His parents emigrated from Hanover, and settled iin Markham in 1794, and were amongst the first settlers whose early struggles and priva- 1ti0ns were intense, and not likely to be en- ‘dured again in any portion of Ontario. The subject of this mem01r was born in 1895. He was 16 years old when the American war broke out, and being embued with true Cana- dian patriotism, he enlisted in the York Light Dragoons, and was present and took part in the battles of Stoney Creek, Lundy‘s Lane and Queenston Heights. He was taken prisoner by the Americans and carried away captive to the Dominion of Uncle Sam, but soon made his escape and joined his comrades in arms. and continued in active service until the close of the war, when he returned to his home in Markham and married his present surviving partner in 1817.sixty-two years ago, in the same house (the old homestead)in which he died. He is justly entitled to the appel- lation of a patriarch. He was the father of twelve childrenfiight sons and four daughters; four of the former are still living, the eldest and the last of the daughters was buried on the day two weeks previous to her father’s death, aged 61 years. There are nineteen grand children and eleven great grand child- ren surviving him, and. a large circle of fami- ly connections. ronto was a trading post, consisting of three log houses, located on the Provincial Exhlbi - tion grounds. His bi‘other-in-law was offered 200 acres on which the Burnskill mill He remembered when Tow andprivilege is located at Thornhill for i514“ and thought it too demand his father-in-law, Capt. Sheits, who died in 1837, was ofiered‘ Lot 11, in 3th conz, Markham, 200 acres for a yoke of yearling steers that he considered of little value ;’but it seemed that the journey of sixteen miles to little York, to have the writings drawn, was more than the land was considered worth. The government grant: of 200 acres given to Mr. Stiver for his ser-; vices during,T the war, on which a portion of: the town of Brantford is located, he traded off for twenty bushels of wheat, about $15, 1 and considered he had made a good bargain. For sometime past he seldom left his home,‘ his last journey was to Toronto, some three years ago, to prove his claim to the pension to volunteers of 1812. He continued to en- joy good health until last year. Introducing his F'nlnuic l'lnjrwly on [he Slalgc an it Private Gt3nd( luau. (From the Times.) LONDON, Feb 20.â€"Mr. Gilbert, author of “ H. M. S. Pinafore,” has literally turned Goethe's sublime tragedy inside out. He discards the usual opening scene, with Faust as an old man, the incantation, the vision of Marguerite, and the transformation of the aged philosopher into the ardent and youthful lover. The Galloway (Scotland) Standard tells the following good story :â€"Thc worthy proprietor of ()argen is known to be an enthusiastic curler, and his enthusiasm, which has infect- ed so many, has not suffered the inmates of his own household to escape,for Mr. Dudgeon, jr., is only less ardent on the ice, and, the female domestics of Cargen, inspired by the example of their masters, lately challenged an equal number of the fair sex to a bonspiel. The challenge was accepted, and a meeting took place ; the contending rinks being skip- ped by ladies prompted and directed by gentlemen. It is not usual to find a rink of lady curlers at play. The phenomenon however is not unprecdented. Ladies on skates~at least in Scotland-were never seen, and probably never heard of, till only a few years ago ; and it would rather have astonished our snuff-taking and teddy-drinking great-grandmothers to have seen how fast it was possible for a young lady to be (on skates) without losing her modesty. But though our grandmothers never tried the skates, they have been known on rare occasions and in obscure localities to turn out with their husbands and sweethearts to have a pitch in the roaring game. It is long since we heard anything of the sort having occurred in this neighborhood however ; and in these :days when lissom maidens love to skim the ice on skates, our matrons might do worse than exercise themselves by quietly indulging in the more solid and stationary sport of curling. The result of the match between the Cargen domestics, whom we shall call the insiders, and the ladies residing on the estate ‘ â€"â€"the Wives and daughters of farmers and otherseavhom we shall call the outsiders, was such as to warrant the highest exceptions to be formed of female curling; ladies not untrequently become champion croquet-play- ‘ ers ; they might attain similar distinction on ‘ the ice as curlers. 011 the occasion of which we are speaking, the game was in the fullest sense well contested ; the ladies threw their stones and laid their cows like men, doing the work of sweeping as ladies only can do it. Towards the end of the game, however, an unfortunate accident occurred. The lady who skipped the outside rink, in delivering her stone, skipped, fell, andâ€"broke an arm. An accident like this would have sent some fair ones into swoons and many of a sterner sex to bed ; not so our heroine. however. only served to bring out more fully her resolu- tions and enthusiasm. Her rink was likely to win ; it would not fail by any failure of here. So she got her arm in a sling, and, going at it single handed, had the satisfaction of coming of victorious, amid the cheers of all around who witnessed the exciting game. The lady, we understand, afterwards procured surgical assistance ; but the limb was so swollen that it could not be set and spliced for a day or two. discreet is permitted between the members of the different families. On the premises of their own families brethren,but not sisters are per- mitted to roam at will. No member is per- mitted to play with or particularly fondle any animal. All visiting from people of the world, even from relatives of the members. is forbidden, unless there exists prospects of conversion. The Sabbath is observed very closely. No books, except they be those of the Society, are permitted to be read. N0 unnecessary work can be performed. If crops are likely to incur loss by being left, they may be gathered on the Sabbath, but, under ordiâ€" nnry circumstances, not even a mouthful of fruit which is gathered on the Sabbath must be eaten. The Shaker has a peculiar fond- ness for the right as contradistingutshed from the left. The right foot must be put forward in walking. The right horse must be first harnessed ; the right knee must be first bent in prayer, and the right foot first placed on the floor in rising. All these regulations are provided for in the most careful and accurate manner by strict rules. The Visible head of the church is vested in the ministry, which is composed of men and women. This ministry is an abseiute auto- cmcy, and all appeals in matter of business or otherwise are taken to them. ANOTllEli PA l‘lfiIABCll GONE IE LATEST THING 0N ICE GILBER'H"5 NE‘V PIIA Y- Death 01 a Veteran: of 1812‘ A Resolute Lady Ulll‘ll‘l‘. The Terrible Ordeal Through Which a Lady \Vas Compellcd to Pass. (Hartford Times.) Mrs. Isadore Middleton, a very beautiful woman and one of the acknowledged leaders of fashion in Mobile, can certainly boast of the possession of as much nerve and true moral courage as are often vouchsafed to any of her sex. 011 a recent evening she was in her boudoir putting away some articles of jewelry, when she noticed that the peculiar position of a library lamp that was burning upon a chair in theback part of the room had thrown upon the floor, almost directly at her feet, the shadow of a man who was crouching under a broad-topped ornamental table in the centre of the room. She also remarked that the open hand of the shadow had but two fin-y gers and remembered that several desperate burglaries had recently been committed in the neighborhood, suppositiously by a. negro desperado who was notorious as having lost two fingers of his right hand. Mr. Middleton was absent from the city, and, besides her- self in the house, there was but a single maidservant. Instead of fainting with fear, or shrieking for help, the brave lady seated herself at the very table underneath which the miscreant was concealed, and rang for the servant. “ Hand me writing materials, Bridget,” said she, with perfect calmness ; “ I want you to take a note this instant to Mr. Foriair, the jeweler, and have him send back with you my diamond necklace and ear- drops, which Ileft there for repairs several days ago. Bring them with you, no matter if fully repaired or not. They are by twenty- fold the most valuable articles of jewelry thatI possess, and I do not wish to pass another night without having them in my bureau drawer.” The note was at once written and dispatched, but instead of being ‘ in the tenor she had signified (on purpose ‘ for the concealed robber to overhear, for she had no jewelry under repair), it was a hasty i note to an intimate friend, in which she succinctly stated her terrible position, and urged him to hasten to her relief, with the requisite police assistance, immediately on receipt of the missive. The agonies which that refined and delicate Woman underwent when left alone in the house, with the con- sciousness of the presence of that desperate robber, perhaps assassin as well, crouched under the very table upon which she leaned, and perhaps touched by her skirts, can only be left to the reader’s imagination ; but her iron nerve sustained her through the ordeal. She yawned, hummed an operatic air, turned over the leaves of a novel, and in other ways lulled the lurker into a sense of perfect secu» rity and expectancy, and waited, waited with ‘a wildly beating heart and her eyes fastened upon the hands of her little orniqu clock with a greedy feverished gaze. At last, how- ever, came the prayedvfor relief. There was a ring at the door-bell and she strolled care- lessly into the hall and dawn the stairs to open it. The ruse had been a success. She not only admitted Bridget, but also Mr. Forfair and three stalwart policemen. The latter passed stealthin up stairs and into the boudoir, where they suddenly pounced upon the concealed burglar so unexpectedly as to secure him with hardly a struggle. The prisoner proved to he a negro criminal named [low the Great llislorinu’lioved Chil- (Ir-en. It is one thing to be fond of children, and another never to get tired of them ; and Ma- caulay, Hannah says, was one of t ose who never got tired. He often spent t 0 whole morning at her home playing with the chils dren, and then after luncheon carried one of. them off for a long walk. But the great treats for him, as well as for many, were the excur- sions into the city to see the shows. These did not come often enough to suit him or the childrenâ€"twice a week it is said to have been the average he would have likedmand they used to last till the little ones, to use his own expression, “ could not drag one leg after the other.” The afternoon’s diversions began with a bountiful luncheon in London, to which Macaulay always had some knickknack for which the children had an especial contempt, for the pleasure of seeing them reject it with scorn. The afternoon’s sights were the lions and bears, the panoramas and the wax-work, or even the British Museum. One day he tells their mother in a letter how, all the other exhibitions being exhausted, he took the children to the National Gallery, and how, while Charley and Margaret played the connoisseur. Georgy said, honestly " Let Ins go ; there is nothing here that I care for at all ;” and again, “ I don‘t call this see- ing sights; I have seen no sight to-day.” All of which seems to have amused Macaulay greatly. The elaborate process of sending a valentine to his little niece Alice is recorded at length in his dairy. February 12 he buys a superb sheet of paper and writes the valen- tine. February 13 he sends it off to his sister Fanny at Brighton to be forwarded. February 14 the whole. entry of the day is about the valentine ; how Fanny came at 3 with the children, Alice in perfect raptures, and begging quite pathetically to be told the truth about it. When they were alone together she saidâ€"the little witchâ€"she was going to be very serious, and down she goes on her knees, lifting up her hands in snpplication: “ Dear uncle, do tell the truth to your little girl. Did you send the valentine ‘2” And then he had to own it. Macaulay would do almost anything to please his favorites; he even tried to like their dog, and dogs he was not fond of. In one place in his diary he denounces the animal as “ a beast that is always spoiling conversation.” But when the dog was apet of the children, that was another matter, and he bought things for it at the shops, and made poetry about it to an extent which made the children happy, if it had no particular effect upon the dog. When he was busy upon the second installment of his his history, he would spend some precious time‘nserting agold piece in the seal of a letter to his nephew George, so that it might slip past the postofl‘ice authorities, and would transmit it with the casual remark that while the best part of a lady‘s letter was in the postscript, the best part of an uncle’s was in the seal. One day, coming out from a col- lection of pictures, he saw a more delightful picture, he says, than any there. It was four pretty little sisters, from 11 to 5 years old riding on s donkey-cart in a deep, shady lane and quite beside themselves with a delight at the treat. They were laughing and singing in a way that almost made him cry with a sense of the beautiful and when he asked them to go on they sang like little larks. Wliereupon all the silver he had in his pockets went to buy dollsâ€"Harper‘s Maga- zine for March. Gretchen, the new Marguerite. who parts with him with sisterly affection. Now, while the soldier lover is away, his friend encompasses the ruin of Gretchen, and when the warrior returns, a Captain, he draws a sword, breaks the scsbbard,and swears never to sheath it again except in the body of her betrayer. He meets him at the deathbed of Gretchen. and. to his dismay‘ finds in him his friend Faust. who, in a fit of remorss, bares his breast and invites the warrior to strike. The sword is raised, the arm is about to strike, when Gretchen suddenly raises from her couch and stands between them. “Through my heart, his,” says the dying woman, and thus, instead of murder, is brought about a reconciliation of the two men. Being a. priest, Faust can- not marry. Gretchen dies. and Faust resolves to re- turn to the Church and atone for his sins. On his way thither he is accosted by the Devil. Who reminds him of his bond. Faust retreats to the porch. denouncing Mephisto- pheles in very choice blank verse. His Majes- ty follows Faust to seize him, but the clerical influence is too strong for him, and he is obliged to retreat. “It is always so,” he says‘ “they want money, call on me ; and want‘ I capture a lovely maiden, call on me ; when the time comes for my reward, they cheat me â€"go into the Church.” The play is to be magnificently mounted. THE "TONI." SIDE OF lVlADAUl. AND THIS WAS A W0inAN‘ Messrs. Johnson & Morrow have a new rig upon the Stockes & McAlpine lot, hack of Pithole, for another well. The \Vestern of Canada. Co. are drilling just north of the 0016 ch Ridweil wells, and will be down in a few days. Mr. Englehart has another rig up near the crude oil and tanking; company‘s tanks, and it Will soon be ready for the drill. Mr. Manning has his third rig up on his lot, hack of his butcher’s shop. Mr. McUarran has another going down on his lot near the R. 0. Church. Mr. Brake is drilling his well on the old race course. Thos. Elliott is building a rig on his farm, the east half of let one, in the 11th 0011., to try his luek. The VanCainp Bros. are also putting down another on their ten acres on lot 2, in the 11th con. The Swan well, which was re- ported as a, twenty barrel well last week, has come down to seven or eight barrels. A tank at the wells of Mr. Geo. Palmer, caught fire last week, and a small quantity of oil was destroyed before the flames subaued. Pricve of oil for the current half month end ing March 15th. $1.70 per barrel. -â€"-Mr. John S. Hendrie, of this city, has visiting been his friends in Detroit. A French Canadian has been nearly a year traveling from Quebec to Stockton, California, although he had a through railroad ticket. He walked a good part of the way through the roughest parts of Nevada, Utah and VVyom- ing and went as far north as the Black Hills, where he stopped and worked for a few days. Then he plunged south until he struck the railroad again, took a. train, and rode the rest of his journey. At Omaha he went aboard the Wrong train and became very much ex. cited on hearing the fact, being young and unused to travel and to the language. He he had very vague fears of what would be- come of him. and although the railroad offici- als learning his destination from his ticket, promised to send him through, he attempted several times to leave the train, and finally did so at one of the stations, when he began his circuitous tramp of eight or nine months. He suffered much, being often without food, forced to swim rapid rivers and was fre- quently lost among the rugged mountains up and down which he wearin climbed day after day, week after week, month after month. And yet in face of all obstacles he emerged safe from the vast wilderness and found his brother near Stockton, who had long before given him up as lost. Being young, he had a chance to grow up with the country as he went along, and now knows more English and has a better notion of the advantages of hanging on even on the wrong train, after it has started. (ill; DEVEL‘DPA'IENTS A'l‘ PE TROLIA. GOING \VE ST Wl'l‘ll A VENGEANCE â€"â€"Messrs. Howell and James, lace-men and jewellers, 0f Regent street, have brought an action to recover from Earl Desart £113 143. 5d., balance of an account for goods sup- plied to Lady Desart. The defendant pleaded that his wife had no authority to pledge his credit, and that during the time the articles were supplied she had a suificient allowance to enable her to pay for all articles of attire suitable to her position in life. T-ie jury found for the defendant. Lady Desart owed about £6,000 in all. -â€"l*'mncis Vickers is an old resident of Elora, Ont., his employment first being that of teamster, then tavernkeeper, and latterly the owner of a livery stable. Old (10th and a recent misfortune proved too much for him, and he went into insolvency, showing about $52,000 of liabilities and something over one- third of that amount of assets. A comprom- ise of 25 cents, secured, has been arranged. which will probably enable him to start afresh and continue his business. â€"-.T. D. Balfour & 00., formerly of Mitchell, have bought out Mr. Grabill of W'nlkel'ton, Ontario, carriage maker. Mr. Owsten, of Holderness, has bought out John McCabe. of Walkerton, boots and shoes. at a. discount of about 20 per cent. Prospects favorable. â€"Robert Crawford, jeweler, Guelph, Went into insolvency before last Christmas, but made a composition of 50 cents. payable quar- teily, the'third and fourth notes being en- dorsed by his wife, who has some separate property. The first note will be soon due, and Crawford sold off most of his stock by auction two weeks since, ostensibly to meet his notes, but rumor says he was last heard of in New Yorkâ€"Joumzll of Commerce. â€"The bankrupt stock of Kane Bros., St. Catharines, Ontario, has been disposed of by Messrs. Miller ((5 (Hench, assignees, to Edward Moore, of Toronto, for 64% cents in the dollar. â€"The Otterville people have given upboring for oil in that neighborhood. It has proved a very great “ bore." Mr. Monck’s BillI enacting that coroners‘ fees should be paid by the treasurer of the county when an inquest is held in the county, and by the treasurer of a city when a. death occurs and the inquest held there, was car- ried. -â€"The Gazette notifies that Coleraine and Londonderry are declared new ports in Ire- land. Mr. Hardy introduced a section to be ad- ded to the Municipal Act, by which the Muni- cipal Councils of cities of not; more than 15,000 population may fix the number and settle the remuneration of the men constitut- ing the police force, all such arrangements to be binding upon Boards of Police Commis- sioners. Adopted. The Committee resolved to recommend that no person should be allowed to be nominated for a municipal election unless with his ex- press consent, and that candidates should be permitted to retire at any time between no- mination and election by giving notice in writing to the Clerk. Chapman, but mostly known as “ Two- Fingered Jeff," who was in great request about that time for several robberies comâ€" mitted in the neighborhood a short time before, and he is now serving a. twenty years’ sentence in the Alabama State prison. The Municipal Acts’ Amendment Commltâ€" tee of the Ontario Legislature have held several meetings of late, and amongst the business transacted were the following amendments: The amendments suggested by Mr. Chis- holm at a former meeting, preventing traders from selling goods by auction out of the municipality in which they paid their taxes, was passed. The bill which caused the most discussion was one introduced by Mr. McCraney, pro- viding that, with a. View to break the mo- nopolies now existing, it might be competent_ for the County Council to advertise their by- laws in any paper having a circulation in the municipality, leaving them free to decide. The bill was amended to cover only the papers in the adjoining municipality. Important Alterations in Bt'glll’ll to Police Allah's, lnqw-‘sls. Assenmonls, Etc. On motion of Mr. Wills, an amendment was carried placing the expenditure upon police, so far as clothing and wages are con- cerned, under the control of the Council in cities of not more than 20,000 inhabitants. The Attorney-General introduced a. bill providing for a number of amendments, follows :â€"The County Judge, Sheriff and such persons as the Council shall appoint at their first meeting, shall constitute a Board for the revision of assessments, to whom ap‘ peels shall be made under certain forms ; the Council of any municipality may offer a re- wai'd for the apprehension of criminals ; per- sons interested in any Company shall not vote when a by-law is submitted to grant aid to that Company -, in case of the location or boundary of a lot being uncertain. the town- ship Council on being requested by the In- spector may cause a. new map of the place to be drawn up, the cost to be levied againsttha otrin question. (3‘:le HIE RCIAI. NoTE El Tl! E ['1 UNICIPAL AU'IY â€"In Breslau, a successful attempt has been made to erect a paper chimney about fifty feet high. By a chemical preparation the paper was rendered impervious tq the action of of fire or water. Better import this as a substitute for our defective fines. On the contrary, a man of twenty-five re- presents the fraction one-half as to the proba- bilities of marriage, which is so vulgar a frac~ tion that most; young men of that period strive ardently to annihilate it by finding the other and better half which restores their in- tegrity snbstanoe and show. Indeed, it has most profanely come to pass that, just as the stars are nothing but points: of vast triangles and diagrams to a, cold- bloodod astronomer, so every unmarried wo- man stands as an algebraic symbol to the eye 01" the social mathematician ; if she is twenty years old, representing three-quarto” of a likelihood that “he will change her name; if twenty-five, standing for one quarter of the same possibility ; if thirty, reduced to a fraction of one divided by ten ; and then decreasing in a geometrical ratio which it would hardly be polite to put into figures here. The records of marriage offer some curious columns. Statistics are continually forcing upon our notice a fixed percentage of repent- ant old bachelors ; also of young bachelors that. marry widows ; also of young women that marry old men, and of Widows that re- new their vows ; while the ratio of second third and fouth marriages is very constant. The recent fate of the 24th regiment of the British line in Zululand is peculiarly melanâ€" choly. The regiment is nearly 200 years old, having been originally embodied by William of Orange in 1691, for service in the Flemish war and the Netherlands. Its records show a tour of service unsurpassed by any other regiment of the British army for variety and hard knocks, and it has always been unlucky. Its first experience was a disaster, being al- most annihilated at the battle of Steenkirke when it was hardly two years old. Subse- quently it suffered out of all proportion to its comrades at Blenheim, Ramilies and Malplaquet, and was finally relieved and sent home, in the latter part of Queen Anne’s war, in consequence of the impossibility of keping its ranks recruited. Forty years afterward it had an almost similar experience on the same ground, in the war of succession, and still later, in the 18th century, it suffered immense losses, and was at last captured bodily in the American Revolution. Return» ‘ing to England, it enjoyed only a few years of} ‘rest, when it was sent to Egypt, and partici- pated in Sir Ralph Abercrombie’s operations, where its bad luck did not desert it. Thence the regiment went to the Peninsula, where it campaigned five years, suffering as usual, beyond all proportion. It was foreâ€" most at the storming of Ouidad Rodrigo and St. Sebastan ; in the defiles of the Pyrenees; in the forcing of the passage of the Bidassoa and the Nine. and in the battles of Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse. It escaped Waterloo only by coming to America, after the first abdiction of Napoleon, and participaiing in the ill-starred operations which terminated the war of 1812 in humiliation to the arms of England. Then it was Sent to India,‘ where it had a hard round of service under Com~ bermere, Hardinge and Napier, suffering, as usual, excessively in the first Sikh War. It was no novice at the Cape, either, for it had already home the brunt of two Calfir wars, and had done as much to establish British rule in that quarter as any other regiment that ever stayed there. 111 short, England has had only one great war in nearly 200 years in which the old 24th has not borne a hand. That one was the Crimean ’war. which it escaped chiefly on account of the sympathy at the Horse Guards from its un- lucky traditions, and, though it was on the roster for foreign service when the Crimean expedition was made up, another regiment was detailed to take its place, and it was sent to one of the colonies. Finally, after nearly two hundred years of slaughter in every clime, and in battle against every enemy of England, civilized or barbarous, the'24th has been annihilated by savages inSouth Africa. LOUISVILLE, March 6.~â€"A Courier-Journal special from Lexington, Ky., says a gentle- man arrived there bringing intelligence of a. horrible murder which was committed near Manchester, Ky., about two weeks ago. A little girl, aged 10 years, daughter of a laborer named Deaten, was taken to an out-house by her stepmother, and then dealt a blow on the head which fractured her skull. To finish the deed the female fiend placed one end of a. rope around the girl’s neck and the other she tied to a beam above, and then weighth the body sufficient to break the neck. After finishing her dastardly deed she took the body down and placed it in a field near by, in which a Vicious horse was kept, and Sent word to her husband that his daughter had been killed by the horse. The suspicions of the neighbors were aroused, and a coroner’s jury was em- paneled to hold an inquest on the body of the girl. Numerous scars upon the body showed how badly the girl had been treated during her stay with her stepmother, and the. . broken neck showed plainly that the girl had not been killed by the horse. The murderess ‘ is now in jail awaiting trial. Another Interesling hollerâ€"A Well- kuown Agriculnlrlst on Emigrnliou l’rnsnectu~A Fine Country, if You haven lgillle \Vonllh. The well-known and extensive farmer and stock raiser, Mr. Kenneth McKenzie,of Burn- side, in the western division of Manitoba, gives the following interesting information about the North-west, in reply to a letter sent him by a. Hamiltonian : “ 1 think you could see the country here very well as early as April or the beginning of May, and be able to proceed to work in the best season. The ,woods here do not get “nit” till near the middle of May, and it is from the 24th of May ‘till the end of June we get the most of our rains. If you want a large tract of land for a. colony, I believe the vicinity of Bird Greek is about as good a Selection as could be made. .The land there is not all surveyed yet. but ‘if it is taken up the Government ‘ will doubtless survey it early in the season. l There is as good a supply of timber, water and fair land in the vicinity of Bird Creek as lanywhere in this country. Another recomâ€" ‘menda’cion is that the railroad will likely go lnear that section of the country, and that before long. There are quite a number of ‘ Dumfries and Beverly people here and 50 miles west of this point. Bird Creek is about 150 miles west of this. I believe there will be a large emigration here next season, so the sooner the location is got the better. Plenty of provisions can be got here at all times and at reasonable prices. Some began here with very little, and are very comfortable new. You can build a log house and thatch it without any outlay except your own labor. Seine whip-saw their own lumber, and buy doors and windowa only. Common lumber is very dearâ€" from $25 to 030 per 1,000 feet. Oxen sell at from $100 to $160, according to age and quality ; cows, from $330 to $50 ; flour, from 02 per 100 lbs.; wheat, 450. per bushel. Prairie ploughs, wagons,etc., can be got here to suit. the coun- try. One can begin, with economy, with from $500 to 31,000. Some begin with much less, and some a deal more. We have had a fine winter for sleighing, and no storms of any account. The winter has been very pleasant and good for Working, although much colder than last year. Each male set- tler rover 18 gets 160 acres for $10, and deed when he performs settlement duty and three years’ residence, Another 160 acres he can get redempted, and three years to pay for it. For any more he has to pay $1 an acre. He 1 can only take 640 acres more in his own 3 name.” l flow She l'llll'dfll'l‘d ller Step-Daughter. AN UNLUUK‘I lfiEGlfllEN’ A FEMALE FIEND’. MANITOBA. -â€"Chlorozon is the name given by a. French journal to a new bleaching agent designed as a convenient and advantageous substitute for I-hloride of lime, euu de Juvelle, or Laban mquo’s liquor in the art of bleaching. Its cost is said not to exceed that of chloride of lime, as at present used, and it is claimed to possess a number of advantages over this agent, chief among which may be named greater rapidity of action, saving of the acids required to intensify the action of the present- bleaching both, avoidance of direct contact of the goods with lime, and the utilization of the residues, which, with the chloride of lime, are without value. The composition of this new agent is rather vaguely stated to be ” oxygen combined with chlorine, and with a base which may be soda or potash.” It does not seem so many years since" Dutch George came along here with a barrel of apples and peddled them ofl at 12% cents each that importation being the only one in twelve months. Since then, what a splurge 1 Last fall a large supply of this description of fruit was brought to Winnipeg, and found a, ready market at $3 per bushel. Later on7 in mid-winter, a cargo of one hundred and eighty-five barrels, which were frozen at the Grand Forke, was brought through and This morning a deputation consisting of military oflicers, members of Parliament, the President of the Canadian Rifle Association and several of its members waited upon the Minister of Militia for the purpose of urging the formation of a military camp at Niagara during the summer months. Mr. Massou promised to consider.the suggestion. Election craniumâ€"«(Jump an Niagara. OTTAWA, March G.â€"At the annual meeting yesterday, the following oflicers were elected: President, Go]. Gzowski; Vice p"esioienm, 001. Allan Gillmore, Ontario ; Col. Botsford, New Brunswick; 001. Brydges, Quebec ; Limit-Col. A. K. McKinley, Halifax, N. 8.; 31011. R. W.W'. Czirrall, Vietorin,B.C.; Lieut.- 001. Hon. T. H. Haviland, Prince Edward Island; Auditors, Mr. J. Courtney, Deputy Minister of Finance. Ottawa; Major VVick- steed, Ottawa; Treasurer, Lieut.-Gol. Mac- pherson, Militia Department ; Secretary, Limit-(101. Stuart, Militia Department, Ottawa. it,” Mr. Collier writes to The Athenwum, “ when I was thirty, and now I am ninety I am convinch of it.” The title of the tragedy is “ A Warning for Fair \Vomen.” It was printed in 1599, anonymously, and is a, story of matrimonial infidelity, murder and re- morse. The incident occurred nearly twenty years before Shakespeare became a popular writer for the stage. Until now, Mr, Collier says, the name of Shakespeare hasnever been associated with the play but the strongest internal evidence, in my opinion, shows it to be his." He cites the following passage from the repentance scene as very Shakespearean ; the guilty wife being the speaker in the presâ€" ence of her paramoui‘: “ A I bid we feed on poison and be fat, Orl 0k upon the basilisk and live; 0r surfcit daily and be still in health, Or leap into the sea. and not be drown’d All these are even as possible as this, That I should be reeoxnforted by him Thatis the author of my Whole lament." This passage, says Mr. Collier. could. proâ€" ceed from no other mind and pen than Shakespeare’s. “I stake my reputation on the fact that the above and more was con- tributed by our great dramatist.” He is fur- ther of opinion that Shakespeare had a coed- jutor or eoadjutors in the work. This is ap- parent from the “ inferiority of thought and style,” while “ the discussion between Tragedy and Comedy for superiority is very tame and poor." DOLVIINIDN lfilFlJfi ASSOCIA I‘ION. Mr. J. Payne Collier believes he has found another tragedy by Shakespeare ; indeed he is confident that he has, or at least, that it is one in the authorship of which Shakespeare was importantly concerned. “I suspected One of the most eccentric wills ever offered for probate has been brought to light in Eng- land. Mrs. Lisetta Rist, of Stratford, who (lied on New Year’s Day. left a last testa- ment. which was proved a fortnight afterward by‘her sole executor, her personal estate being sworn under $7,500. There are one or two small legacies, after payment of which the residue is to be invested and transferred to certain carmcn. designated by name, who are to hold the same in trust and to be entitled “ gravelling trustees.” These gravelling trus- tees are to apply the income of the estate, from time to time, in the purchase of gravel and sand, which is to be used in gravelling or sanding, when certain roadways in the city and East End shall be slippery, so that “ horses and other animals” may the better keep their footing. The testatrix further en- joins that her gravelling trustees shall, “ in the case of violent snow storms and heavy frosts, apply such part of the income (when gravel or sand would not be properly availa- ble) in aid of cleansing or otherwise making the said carriage roadways as easy as they reasonably can for horses and other animals to pass up and down; and that they shall cause the gravelling or sanding to b com- mencod at the beginning of ‘Novemb e and terminate at the end of April in each year; and it is to be done either at night or early in the morning, so that the chief dangerous pieces may be always gravelled or sanded by half-past 6 or 7 o’clock, first doing the most dangerous parts when the early traffic begins. that maiden beauty may be unmasked in painting and sculpture for all the world to look upon with unconsciousness, without a blush, without a suspicion that it is wrong ‘2 Of course, it is impossible. Instinct and ed- ucation unite in declaring that if nudity is inadmissible in fact it must be inadmissible in all forms of imitation. Every modest perâ€" son looks nt first, we are convinced, upon nude art with shrinking and inward ques- tioning, and. it is only by a, train of artifical reason, by a supression of instincts and natu- ral impulses, that he teaches himself to think it permissible. Civilization has made a mystery of the person, whether wisely or not, and it is simply impossible for art to uncover this mystery without grave conseqliences. Art, moreover, is never content with depict- ing the female figure simply and severely, but idealizcs it on the side of voluptuous beauty, enriches it with every fascination of line and tint, carst it with every elaboration of skill that it may appeal distinctly to the senses and the emotions. Realistic nude art would often he disenchanting enough, but what nude art is there that is not purposely made seductive, that is not intended to fascinate and allure lâ€"Appleton’s Journal. sold like hot cakes.â€"the entire lot being dis- posed of in ten days. This the first impor- tation of the kind reaching us in winter.â€" Standard. Hawthorn, being much wearied and even disgusted with the excessive nudity in art everywhere in Rome, affirméd'that in our developed civilization we are fairly born with our clothes on. It is certain that the human race, civilized or half-civilized, is now known only in it liabiliments. Everywhere men and women protect and conceal their bodies and limbs, guarding their persons with watchful care as something sacred to them- selves. There are and have been some modifications of this principle, but modesty has always essentially been looked upon as one of the first of the virtues. From the earliest infancy this principle is instilledâ€" from childhood every right-trained person is taught to respect, to hold. apart, to veil this “ crown and glory of creation." How is it. then, that that which is soreverently covered up in actual life may be so fully revealed in art? How is it that, if A NEW TRAGEDY BY SHAKEEI PIE/IRE. " Thachm‘iest maiden is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon,” A ’I‘ISULY ECEEN'I‘KIU ‘Vllxl. APPLES IN \VINNIE‘EG. IE NUDE IN Alt’l"