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still they came again, Brave Melville and poor Coghill were the last among the slain, But they bore away their colors, as they pressed _ them to their breast, x’l‘hex} dieq‘, 3.9 should a. soldierâ€"~having dared and [Al The following verses hmve reference to the battle of Isandula, in Zululand, on January 22nd. when two young subalterns Lieut. Coghill and Melville, oflicers of the British military, cut their way through the ranks of the Zulu, hearâ€" ing the colors of their regiment. Both were found by their comrades dead, Melville with the colors wrapped round his body : ’Twas the time of misty mornings, at the open- > Whig of the year. We crossed into the Zn Inland, and gave a British cheer, We deemed the savage hordes could not our dis- ” cipline withstand its we boldly Went to meet them in their own barbaric land; We talked of what we’d done before and what again we’d do, ’ Although th_ey were so many, and although we - fieri‘zflso fe’w, For fill}? glqry of our colors filled each gallant to date anaabfiéur best. We marched. into the Zululand, it might be miles a. score. We pitcl‘leqlgur tenrtsr, and ready stood to fight H V 3116 battle more ;' One battle more to most of us, the last we were _ "sélfiief’h bieast, And the one tbqught tput.we all thought was» to fight, For they came down in their thousands, each a giant in his might; ; In thousands, too, we mowed them downâ€"but u _ rbifiii was sfient, And evgry ball had told its tale until the last was We did not tum,bu_t there we stood till every W Eifikéd the gun ; At eve, at Wild Ismndula,upon that fatal day, Nine hundred British heroes stark beneath the “ sent, ' And then to right, to left of us they closed- ten to one: An bravest mid the beyon’diihe rest, Was the saving of the colors, found upon a hero's breast. â€"A London newspaper furnishes the curi- ous and surprismg statement that 1,885 out of 5,241 shares in a new brewery company in Sheffield are held by English clergyman. â€"-“The congregation of Israel,” says Rabbi Wise, of Cincinnati, “ cannot relinquish her conviction, cannot forget her history, and cannot repudiate her religion ; hence. she cannot sanction the interâ€"marriage of Jews and Christians unless the latter embrace the faith and cause of Israel.” â€"-Mr. Sankey has been permitted to sing and to hold services in the parish church of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. England, where a platform was erected under the chan- cel arch, and an American organ was placed on it for his use. At this the Ritualâ€" istic papers are thoroughly displeased, and fl. . rT:L,L£»‘IJ ;. ""x'nBSiuight lay, And the OpeAdeed pf the battle that will shine have éafled interfere. â€"Two new Protestant sects have made theii appearance in two countries Widely sep- arated from each otherâ€"Westphalia and Texas. The Westphalian sect is largely com- posed of women, and resembles the Shakers in some of its ceremonies. It is said to have made considerable progress. That in Texas consists thus far of five ex-Presbyterian min- isters and has assumed the name “ The Temple of the, Coming Lord.” THE SAVING OF THE (70];085. â€"-The church of the Madonna del Miracoli at Venice, dating from 1487, is in a sad state of decay. The walls are soaked with water, and some of the stones have crumbled away, while many flocks of pigeons now make their nests in its campanile and whatever else they can find a convenient corner. Many years ago steps were taken to preserve it from ruin, and a. large sum of money was appropriated for the purpose. but so many difliculties were met with that the plan ten years since was abandoned altogether. â€"Dr. Newton has sent a reply to the ad- ‘ dress of the Roman Catholic Provost and Canons of Westminister, congratulating him on the honors which the Pope is about to bestow upon him. He had delayed his reply “simply because I have been confused at re- ceivxng words so kind and so very earnest.” Their words are, however, signs of their affectionate good will, and no misgiving about himself should, he thinks, deprive him of a right to them. “As such," he continues, “ I thank you for them with all my heart, and shall treasure them. It is indeed aheppiness as it is rare, that those special feelings which are eommonly elicted in a man’s friends only after his death should in my one case find expression in my behalf while I am yet â€"Since the Turkish authorities removed ten years ago the restrictions which limited the Jewish population in Jerusalem. the Jews have bought up all the land they could in the ancient city and have built outside the walls in some cases entire streets of houses. Syna- gogues and Jewish hospitals have multiplied and the German Jews have no fewer than sixteen charity associations and twentyeight “ congregations religieuses." Two newspapers have been started. In the Rothschild and other hospital, 6,000 patients are cared for annually. Baron Rothschild holds a mort- gage on the whole of Palestine as security for his loan of 200,000,000 francs to the Turkish Government. It is said that the value of the land at the gates of the city has increased more than tenfold, while building and con- struction work of all kinds is carried on night and day. It is further reported that the immigrants who to a large extent are from Russia, “ gre animated by a religious enthusi- asm of a very pronounced type." alive.” 71-036 filéfi best It is strange that nobody has yet been in- spired to write a book on the Philosophy of Rages. Why should society he invaded at one season by an unconquerable desire to go on wheeled skates, at another to smite the croquet ball ; now to flock to lectures on literature, now to give its mind to concerted cookery ? Like most other social phenomena, it is probable that rages are the result of very complex causes acting with different degrees of force on different people. There must always be a kernel of real enthusiasm out of which the movement begins to grow, and it must be supposed that even rinking and wrestle-guessing were first invented by people who thoroughly believed in them. This enthusiasm is the fever which infects others predisposed in a hundred different waysâ€"by idleness, by the “immense ennui" of modern life. by the passion of emulation, or by that exceptionally modern invention, the desire of simultaneously improving one- self and other people. The cookery rage was a very genuine one ; it met all these needs, and even for the moment held up before the British matron and her cook a prospect of real progress. It became evident that some- thing might be done with the cold mutton, and that other rules might be admitted into the kitchen than the rule of the thumb. But in due time the fashion faded away, and its place has been taken by a more serious oc- cupation altogether. The present excitement is the Ambulance Class, and for the moment the aim of feminine ambition is to dress the leg, not of slaughered mutton but of wounded man. In six lectures you are guaranteed a knowledge. if not complete and scientific, at least enough for practical purposes, of veins and arteries, of muscles and membranes, of shin-bones and collar-bones and shoulder Dulu’vuuvu w-.. blades, and are put in a position to deal at a moment’s notice with any of these that may accidently go wrong in your presence. More- over. there is nothing disagreeable in the experience which the unhappy medical stu- dent has to purchase at the price of many unpleasant sights and sounds. The whole thing is done in such a manner as to spare the feelings while it sharpens the faculties. The corpus vile of the experimental boy who breaks his arm at the bidding of the lecturer is not really racked with pain, and the flow from his severed veins is purely imaginary. Some Faustinas among the class might per- haps wish that it were not so ; but the maâ€" jority are no doubt happy to be spared the exquisite pleasure of fainting at the sight of AflloNG I‘IIE CllUBCl-IES. 1310â€"011. THE LATEST LONDGJN RAGE. J. C. CARPENTER, London Graphia (From the Saturday Review.) afibnvifie BTisHop of-Litchfield to brave our gallant Colonel .â€"still LITERARY. M. D. Conway, an American in England, who corresponds with at least one American journal and has made himself notorious through his advocacy of non-reli- gious doctrines, has been writing a book on Demonology. .... ‘ .. ml rr,,,,,1,,,J yumuuVAVDJ . The new work entitled “ The Hundred Greatest Men" will extend to eight book, which are to contain portraits in fine and rare steel engravings. .-. .. - -.‘ , A ____.1_ A“ vu um... U 5 . Mr. T.bH. S. Escott is writing a work on “ England, its people, polity and pursuits.” It will appqar in. fiwoflvolumes: . u 1,, A.AL._A.. “"fie‘égfuvlgéfâ€"tfierSaxon Saints” by Aubrey Devere, is to appeagthij mouth. (‘1 ,, n The author of “ The Book and its Story,” “ L. N. R."â€"Mrs. Raynard. is dead. She wrote many other religious books, and or- iginaned the Bible Womens’ Mission to the p091; of_L011@o§. .1 ,, ,AII_J u o:~nn:n1 EN ............ Mr. Joseph Hutton, the so-called “ Special Commissioner” of the New York Times, is to contribute a seriefl of papers to Tinslcy’s Magazine on “ England’s Commercial De- Cline." “ Lautrec," a poem, by John Payne, is the story of a. fair young vamplre. who smgs :â€" “I am the daughter of a. King ; And he a simple knight that bent His knee before my site, and Went About the world adventuring In battle and in tournament." The poem is not likely to create a sen- sation notwithstanding its wild and some- what weird character. There are two literary Olivers, the one a Roman Catholic pn'est and author, and the other Dr. Oliver 9. Church of England minis- ter, and well known Masonic writer. Dr. Dindorf has been under the necessity of selling his wonderful library, containing 4,700 volumes. The sale takes place in Leipmg. The Greek dramatists occupy an important place in the library of the great scholar. Sophocles is represented by 116 works, 101 dissertations, and Eschylns by 124 works and 165 tracts. unnuw w...‘ -m. V.“ No names have been more familiar to readers of the English readers than William and Mary Howitt, the Quaker authors. They had resided for several years in Italy of late, and on the 2rd of last month the husband died in Rome. Mrs. Howitt, who has not only written much of her own for the benefit of the young but also translated the works of Miss Fredrika Bremer, the Swedish fiction writer, survives. Mr. William Howitt was born in 1795, and Mrs. Mary Howitt nine years later. The works of the former are numerous and interesting. -â€" . .. 1, The death of Mr. James Macdonnel leader writer on the London Times, is announced. He was remarkable as a journalist Commenc- ing his career on theEdinburgh Daily Review. he was for a time engaged on the Daily Telegraph, and contributed to the Spectator and Saturday Review, as well as some of the monthly magazines. A new book on the Arctic regions, shortly to appear, is entitled “ Northward, Ho !” It is by Capt. Markham, and with the aid of illustra- tions will describe the many attempts made to reach the North Pole. .. . 1 “saw” any .‘V.... - v.-. “Miss Dilettant”is the title of a serial novel from the pen of Mrs. Lathrop, which is soon to appgay in the Boston Courier. .1 ‘11‘,_L‘ \KA‘I wvuu .N -rr- The last tfilhgw'ritten by Mr. Whyte Mel- ville, the novelist, who was killed some time gince by a fall from his house, was the follow- ing : “Falling leaf and fading tree, Lines of White in a sullen sen, Sb aflows rising on you and meâ€" '1‘he swallows are making them ready to fly. Good-bye, Summer 1 Good-bye ! Goodâ€"bye I VOL. XXI. Hush ! A voice from the fur-away 1â€" “Listen and learn," it seems to say, "All the to-monows shall be as to-dmy." The cord is frayed and the Cruse is dry, The link must break and the lamp must die. Good-bye, Hope ! Goodâ€"bye ! Good-bye ! What are we waiting for ? Oh I my heart Kiss me straight, on the brows and part ! Again! Again! My heart! my heart! What are we waiting for, you and I ‘2 A pleading look aâ€"stifled cry. Goodbye, forever I Good-bye I Good-bye ! Both the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his wife are publishing books; the latter’s are “Letters from Floricig.”_ _. . . . .1. uvuuuAv “y... _ The name of Amelia. B. Edwards is familiar to most readers, as the author of many valu- able works for the young. She has just an- nounced “ The Development of English Literature,” an exhaustive work on a subject of great interest to all. 1 11,. 1w-_l;ln L. L.. u; u... “nu- __ “ Grant’s Travels Around the World” is to describe the wandering; of the ex-President of the neighboring republic. The first part is to appear next month. The author is Mr. Russell Young, an oldjourglalisfi. LiuuUVA. .. V _.__ It is rather late in the day to attempt a vindication of the man whom Burke held up in his famous impeachment of Warren Hast- ings as the greatest of human monsters. He impeached him in the name of human nature itself, and now Captain Trotter comes for- ward with a book in vindication of the great criminal of a hundred years ago. 0 A collection of letters from Miss Martineau will shortly be published. Now that the boldest thinker of her sex has gone, whatever she wrote is in request. She was not afraid to express her opinions, and they were strange enough sometimes. I A A ~~..L.JL.~£A an. quay vuv “0.4 H 4* , Professor Goldwin Smith is to contribute the volume on Cowper the poet, for John Marley‘s series of “ Englishmen of Letters,” now appegring jn England. 1- 1 nud_A -1 n“... nu rum“ __ 7 " “‘r ‘0 u A member of the English House of Com- ment. has entered the list of sceptics and commences at book in defence of “ Philoso- phic scepticism.“ Professor Clifford, a brilliant writer and contributor to the English magazines, is dead. He was said to be the ablest living mathematician. Mr. Joel Cook is the Philadelphia corres» pendent of the London Times. He is also a member of the Ledger stgmfi. Mr. Francis Parkman has written a num- ber of valuable Works on the early history of Canada, which have naturally attracted a good deal of attention. The author appears to have made a close study of Canadian history, and is still writing on the subject. His latest work, now in press, is “Montcalm and the Conquest of New France.” The Earl of Carnarvon has written a trans- lation of “Agamemnon,” which is soon to be published by Murray the famous London Mr. Charles J. Wells, author of ” Joseph and His Brethren,” a poem, died recently in England, at the age of seventy-eight, he was ‘ the friend of Keats, but his fame was circum- scribed by the production of the poem in question, which, however, was destroyed. A book on South Africa is apropos, “ My Command in Africa,” by Gen. Cunyngham, Lieut.-Governor of South Africa, will be read with interest at this time. It is considered an excellent work. A life of Thiers, by Le Goff is exciting at- tention, as it is generally considered to be fair and impartial. It has appeared simul- taneously in France and Americaâ€"oi course ‘ the American edition is in English. l Among English essayists of the present time none have equalled Mathew Arnold. bukljslgep Thelatest novel is “A Mere Adventure." by Miss Hay, an American Lady, who has taken to writing in the hope of being able to retrieve her lost fortune ; or at any rate to regain the Southern homestead from which ehe was driven by the war. u- -â€" - . .. 1» ,,_‘_ 0U“ SPECIAL COIAUNIN. Mel- His recent volume of “ Mixed Essays” will find many readers. They have all appeared during the past twenty years in the British magazines. In the one on “ Irish Catholic- ism and British Liberalism,” he says : “I have never affected to be either surprised or indig- want at the antipathy of the Irish to us. What they have had to suffer from us in past times all the world knows. And now when we profess to practice “ a great and genial policy of conciliation” toward them, they are really governed by us in deference to the opinion and sentiment of the British middle class and the strongest part of this classâ€"the Puritan community. That policy does not represent the real mind of our leading states- men. The ability of our popular journalists and successful statesmen goes to putting the best color they can upon actlon so controlled.” n“; V. J ., , In another essay he tells his readers that “The great failure in our actual national life is the imperfect civilization of our middle class. The great need in our time is the transforma- tion of the English Puritan. Our Puritan middle class presents a. defective type of re- ligion, a narrow range of intellect and know- ledge. a studded sense of beauty, a low stan- dard of manners.” One of the most valuable books issued of late, is Mrs. Pattison’s “Renaissance of Art in France.” It is beautifully illustrated with steel plate engravings. Mrs. Pattison, who is the wife of Dr. Pattison, Master of Lincoln College, Oxford, is one of the best informed art writers in England. Her book will take a high place. ‘ .1 :,,, .1 u ..-..,.. 1..---. “ Florence Marryat" lacks the genius of her father, and her fiction writing is not likely ever to become popular. Her latest production is “ Out of His reckoning,” a book that has been severely criticised as dull and listless. The lady has apparently made a mistake in supposing that her writings please the reader, or she would not write so fast as she does. Here is one of the latest imitations of Horace: “Helvellyn’s height with snows is white. The forest branches bow and splinter ; No 11 1e breaks the frozen lakes, Theii shut my door on Cold and W'inter. On my hearth-dogs pile up the logsâ€" Pile high my boy ; and down your throttle Right freely pour my “thirty-four," And never spare the old man‘s bottle. Leave all the rest t9 Him who he‘st “land featl'yitrreacil the Christmas measure. Let blood run cold when life grows old. Stick now to skate and tezlnis-rackat, Till westward-ho the surnvheels go, Then join the sports of frock and jacket. When bright eyes smile, laugh back the While, And find the nook where Beauty lingers ; Steal golden charm from rounded emu, Halt-given, half-held, by fairy fingers." “ Imperial India," is the title of a. remark- able book recently published from the pen of Mr. Val. C. Prinsep. It is deeply interesting with reference to the native princes, and gives vivid descriptions of them. His visit to the Maharajeh of»Rewah is thus described: “ This curious- individual arrived in a palki with the oddest get-up, his head being bound in a handkerchief to keep the whiskers up in the fashionable manner. . . . .He then pro- ceeded to dress. . . .He has more clothes than any other maharajah. and no end of jewels. His crown, a most eccentric kind of hat, is worth 40,000l. . . .In fact, he is a kind of mixture of childishness and cleverness, and is moreover a very good fellow. Talking of Jallawar, he said, ‘He little child,and stupid.’ â€"‘Silly fr” said the agentâ€"No; stupid. He a ass.’â€"â€"‘Why ?’â€"-‘Be come to me and say, ‘Meharajah well?’ I say, ‘I quite well.’ Then he say again, ‘Maharajah well?’ I say, Quite well.’ He say again, ‘Maharajah quite well?’ I say, ‘No; Maharujah ill.’ ‘Oh, he ,u 44.. a ass!’â€"Théyp¢;é} iigtie Rajhh was probably frightened at Maharajah Rewah’s appearance, as well he might be.” _ __ 1-,, new poem of “Legends of the Morrow " : “So seemed the hours while trolling by To make a. sudden stay, And Death within eternity, To move another way.” The word“ trolling" sounds strange in such aconnection, yet it is not altogether inap- propriate, as any poor Wight who has trolled for fish will admit. But death moving another way, isa. license Wholly inadmiss- able. Dr. Hake evidently claims privileges not conceded to the rest of poets. Knows how to M111 the roar of Ocean ; To calm the Wind in Wildest mind, And hush the leaflet’s lightest motion Fear not to stay upon the day, And count for gain each happy pleasure ; Be not abqve the game}?! que. V wIt’l\i}’.:I-;1§;1;i11 McCarthy, who has been ac- cepted as a Home Rule candidate. speaks in his new book, “ A Historx of 01_1r _an'Ti}nes" “A life of Bishop Selwyn {a soon to appear. The work will be accompanied by a photo- graph, also a conspectus of the creeds drawn up? 13y t_he Pishop. -- A .‘ 1 1,,,. L-A« -- um xmw uuun, n umqu w v... v V... _.__4_ of Thomas Cnrlyle’s “ French Revolution,” as “ History read by Lightning” Whatâ€" ever that may mean. “ The “ Old man Elo- quent” will scarcely thank him for so vague a. compliment. fl. . 1 , 1, A __._:LL.‘.A Mr. Arthur O‘Shaughnessy, who has written much good poetry, and aspires to rank among the leading poets of the day. recently lost his wife. She was the daughter of Westland Marston, and herself a writer of verses, hav- ing joined her husband in the production of “Toy-Land." Mr. O’Shaughnessy has written some admirable verses on the occas- ion of his bereavement, commencing : “I carry in my soul the loss of her, A grief past words and tears ; when these are o'er, Speechless I can but send you to some shore Lone, desolate, to sit. there and‘rconfer With the imlxieuse sea. weeping evermore, To know the inward Weeping of my soul, A flood no calms can soothe, no tides control." Mr. Coll1er, the Shakespearean writer, has awakened a. controversy by his alleged dis- covery of the only copy of a play which he attributes to Shakespeare. TWO other copies have been known to exist for several years. Mr. Collier is an indefatigable hunter after ancient books and manuscript, although now in his ninetieth year, but he has evidently not been in advance this time. “ A Warn- ing to Faire Women" was known to be in ex- istence in 1865. Duuuvv 1... -vv... The Duke of Argyle has written a book on the “ Eastern Question,” which is remark able for its size. The Athaneum says : “ As an immense pamphlet the Work is being con- sidered by the political press. but it can no more come under our review than do the annual volume of Hansard’s Debates.” â€"Great distress exists in Bavaria. â€"-Ten thousand English were proposing, at last accounts, to emigrate to the Sandwich Islands. _ Lcluuuoo â€"â€"-Great excavations are going on among the ruins of the ancient capital of Bulgariaâ€" Trinova. â€"Working hours are being rapidly extended from 51 to 54 hours a. week in Scotland. â€"There are said to be 2,000,000 or 3,- 000,000 of people in France who eat no bread, subsisting on chestnuts and vegetables. â€"The population of the United States is about thirteen to the square mile, while the population of China. is 123 to the square mile. -â€"Iu Bombay when you pay your fare in a street car you receive a ticket that entitles you to a. chance in a lottery which is drawn every month. WORLD WIDE ITEMS. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1879. *rr 1.4 hlAuvv» “Ha..-” Willingdon. in England,flin consequence of eating branches of yew trees, probably through scarcity of ordinary green food. â€"Several military surgeons in Belgium have combined to write an article on the best way to combat the mania for drinking which has become very prevalent in the army. â€"A factory in Hanover, Germany, makes glass in close imitation of marble, and the tables, floor tiles, &c which it turns out are preferable to marble on account of superior hardness â€"The furniture in the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, recently levied upon for unpaid taxes, was bid in by ex-Jndge Lester, agent of the Stewart estate, who subsequently paid the amount on the levy â€"Coal, with other American products, has been benefitted by the late Pans Exposition, and its shipment to Europe steadily increases. At last accounts one man in Rome was nego- tating for 100,000 tons. â€"’l‘he Scotch have a reputation for gravity, yet Punch receives more jokes from Scotland than from any part of the United Kingdom. The Scotch also do more laughing at theatres than either the English or the Irish. â€"The hard times in Germany have given a strong impulse to emigration. some families are settling in southern Russia, and in all parts of the country large parties are reported to be forming for removal to this continent. â€"The Very Rev. Monsignor Manning. of the Order of St. Charles, nephew of Cardinal Manning. is to be Bishop of the new Roman Catholic see of Middleboro created in York- shire. He is barely 40 years of age, but very popular. â€"A military authority in India aays:â€"“ I learn from more than one trustworthy source that it is the full intention of the new ruler of Afghanistan to strenuously oppose the ad- vance of the British forces on Cabul in the spring.” â€"â€"Marlborough House has proved an ex- pensive place to the Prince of Wales, who has spent more than £50,000 from his private purse on Sir Christopher Wren‘s unsatisfactory building, besides the cost of decorations. â€"â€"A Roscommon (Ireland) farmer, return- ing last month from the Assizes, where he had obtained. compensation for malicious 1n- jury to two horses, was selzed by two men and flung out of the train. Both his legs were broken. â€"A grand international Catholic bank has been established, with its headquarters in London. There is already a. temporary branch in Paris. It was always a favorite idea with Cardinal Pecci, and now that he has become Leo XIII. he has carried it out. â€"â€"Eighteeqva1_uab_19 Pea-sts have died at ,A. -1- â€"The Queen of the Belgians admires small dogs and while in England she visited the Home for Lost Dogs at Battersea. She used always to carry a small dog in her arms, changing the colors of its wrappings so that they harmonized with her dresses. â€"It is generally supposed that Chinese “ rice paper” is made from rice. It is really made from the pith of a tree, which grows to the height of twenty feet, and which is also used for the manufacture of artificial flowers and certain toys and fancy articles. â€"â€"Dr. Virchow, the eminent German an- thropologist, is to start next week on big contemplated journey to ancient Troy. He will be at Hissarlik the guest My. Schlie- mann, who has visited him {01 \scien'tfic in- spection of his excavated treasures. â€"-Men are capable of taking a peculiar kind of revenge against the women who are weak enough to believe them perfect. For a. few months before marriage they sue for the lady’s hand, but for all the years after marâ€" riage she is compelled to sew for them. â€"The bestowel of a Cardinal’s hat on Dr. Newman was due to the influence of the Duke of Norfolk, the premier Duke of England, who was a. pupil of his at Edgebaston. and who has a great reverence for him. He had an interview with the Pope some few months ago. â€"The cost of the army in British India, even in the time of peage, is $85,000,000 a year, or 45 per cent, of the mute revenue. The building and furnishing of a. country house for the Governor of Bombay cost $875,- 000. No wonder there’s a deficit in the revenue. â€"Londan Truth; â€"â€"-in an article in Tinslcy’s Magazine, entitled ‘England’s Commercial Decline, ’ Mr. Joseph Hatton calls attention to the pregnant fact that the last return of exports from the United States is the largest in her history, While the return of imports is the largest in ours. â€"Mr. Marlatt, a member of the Methodist Church in Avoca. N. Y., stood up at the close of the meeting, and asked permission to adâ€" dress the congregation from the pulpit. The pastor redin assented, and the brother read a m n"eesion that he had for years been stealing f on his employers. â€"â€"Liverpool has suffered. and still suffers, from a. terribly high rate of mortality. During the past nine years 222 of every 1,000 infants born within the borough have died under 1 year of age. This proportion declined from 239 per 1,000 in the five years 18704 to 200 in the more recent years, 1875-8. â€"The Russian governmentis stated to have under consideration a. proposal f Jr the organ- ization of a wholesale trade between Western Siberia. and China, in pursuance of which trading depots would be established in the southeastern portion of the district of Semi- palatinsk. near the Chinese frontier. â€"The late Lord Wenslydale, an eminent English Judge, better known as Baron Parke, states in aletter just published that the Lan- cashire juries were the best in England, that those in Westminster always acted with a pre- vuvuu u. . -u.~___â€" judice, am'i that in guy nicue and doubtful Ease juries nine times out of ten decide wrong. â€"Lord Lytton has given great offence to the upper ten of India by presenting to Miss Croc ke, a. pretty circus rider, whose preform- ances he nightly attended, a large gold medal. incribed, “ Presented to Miss Victoria Crooke, the Empress of the Arena, by Lord Lvtton, Gr. M. S. I., Viceroy and Governor of Lytton, Gr. India. ” â€"Mr. Lowe, M. P. for London University, who, in the debate on the Reform bill in 1876-77, was chief of ’the Adullamites and regarded as the orator par excellence of the House of Commons, broke down in the Zulu debate and had to sit down from sheer inabil- 1ty to collect his thoughts or decipher his notes. â€"Lord Maidstone, son of the Earl of Win- chelsea. recently carried away, while a guest at his house, the daughter of the Earl of Den- bigh. Lord Denbigh is one of the recent con- verts to the Roman Catholic Church, and made himself conspicuous by declaring that he was a. Catholic first and an Englishman afterward. â€"â€"When the news of the sudden death of the Duke of Newcastle reached his wife. who was an illegitimate daughter of Adrian Hope, at Paris, where she resided, she hastened to London, drove to the hotel, and asked if it was true. Then she drove away. Mean- time he lay cold and stiff in a darkened room up stairs. â€"â€"It is remarkedâ€"and this is a. curious commentary on the alleged prosperity of France, upsetting the hit cepted viewsâ€"that at hex-to generally acâ€" no period did the ' â€"London Worldzâ€"Some journalists sp- BPTIOUS pear to take umbrage at the fact that Sir my 0‘ Robert Pee] does not wear his hat straight 11? 30‘ across his brow. The fact is that in the ter- d1d the rible shipwreck in the Mediterranean of the French marry so little as they did last year. The average for the half century was 0.82 per 100 inhabitants, while in 1877 it was only 0.75. â€"One of the small seeds of in grape has caused the death of a resident of San Fran- cisco by lodging in the intestines and form- ing an abscess. Fatal results,more especially in children. are known frequently to have fol- lowed the swallowing of grape seeds, which pass out of the stomach indigested, irritating the small intestines, and producing inflame- tion. uvu. â€"Lieutenant Zubowitz, the Hungarian of- ficer who last year made and won aheavy bet, that he would ride to Paris from Vienna in a. given time, has once more distinguished him- self-this time by his bravery in saving life at Szegedin. He has rescued at least adozen people with his own hands from the floods an?I falling houses, a work of great personal ris . Allan. â€"At a fancy ball of the Austrian Embassy at St. Petersburg the daughter of the French Ambassador the other day appeared in the costume of an Alsatian peasant girl. The Russian guest applauded. Insignificant as the incident is it is interpreted as another symptom of the attemps being made to bring abouta rapprochement between Russia and France. â€"The Russian soldiers are said to live and fight almost wholly upon tea. The Cossacks often carry it in the shape of bricks, or, rather, tiles, which, before hardening, are soaked in sheep’s blood and boiled in milk, with the addition of flour, batter and salt, so as to constitute a kind of soup. The pas- sion of the Russians for this beverage is simply astonishing. ~â€"T‘ruth :â€"â€"Lord Chelmsford is said to be the saddest man in Africa. The rout at Isan- dula. was so sudden and complete that Lord Chelmsford lost the whole of his baggage, including his stars and orders-a. misfortune which seems to be viewed in the colony with ill-disguised satisfaction. It is evident that his unlucky general and Sir Battle Frere are two of the most detested men in Africa. â€"-“From epileptic Caesar down to the ‘hunchbacked dwarf,’ who, according to Macaulay, commanded the French, and the ‘asthmatic skeleton’ who commanded the English, and down to Napoleon and still more moderate generals, we see,” says the Daily News, “that the battle is not in this sense always to the strong. But the govern- ment now must perceive that Lord Chelms- ford is wanting in robustness of a far more important kind.” â€"The House of Lords was crowded on the night that Lord Lansdowne moved avote of censure on the Government’s South African policy. Royalty mustered in great force. A chair was placed for the King of the Belgians in the centre of the space at the foot of the throne. The ladies’ gallery was crowded,and with one remarkable excptionâ€"a lady clad from bonnet to shoes in brilliant scarletâ€"all were in mourning. â€"-The suppression by the French of the recent revolt in New Caledonia was attended by terrible hardships and suffering on the part of the rebellious savages. Many of the insurgents are said to have been driven by famine to eat their own children, and the native allies of the French cut ofi the noses of all the prisoners they captured. The insur- rection has been completely subdued, and the French convicts are no longer in danger of becoming a. feast for cannibals. â€"I have good reason to believe,” says the Berlin correspondent of the Globe, “that General Chanzy has been ordered to enter into intimate relations with Lord Dufierin, whose instructions were confidentially sub- mitted for the information of the French Foreign Office. He will, above all, have to insist on a faithful execution of the Treaty of Berlin. Count Schouvalofi, during his recent passage through Berlin, was assured by Prince Bismarck that he would not brook any contempt for or disregard of its stipulations” â€"â€"London (England) Echo :â€"“Onr Ameri- can cousin is not by any means popular with the canny people of Edinburgh. He goes to the hotels, dines at the table d’hote, but is so cute as to take his wine at the bar. He goes to the ‘ stores,Y turns over all the goods and invariably comes to the conclusion that he can buy them cheaper in New York. He has made himself so unprofitable, and, there- fore. so unpopular, that several shopkeepers in the modern Athens have displayed cards in their windows bearing the inscription, ‘No Americans served here.’ " â€"Mme. Grevy lately took a Velvet dress, which had seen some service, to a very grand Parisian milliner and said she wished certain alterations made. The grand modistc inti- mated with a superbly affable air that they were “ not in the habit of doing that sort of work for ladies with whom they were not acquainted.” Mme. Grevy expressed her regret, remarking that she was the wife of the President, and wanted the dress to wear at an Elysee entertainment. A transformation scene instantaneously followed. â€"â€"A disgusting spectacle, according to the Birmingham Post, is stated to have taken place at Willenhall. A bricklayers laborer in the neighborhood undertook to kill three rats with his mouth within a quarter of an hour, himself being blindfolded. The rats were secured with string to a table, sur- rounded with spectators, in the yard of a public house, and the man killed them in the manner and time specified. A lady who was passing by looked over the wall and saw the man who was drunk. engaged in the “ sport.” â€"The boat being built for Lewis G. Gold- smith, the latest aspirant to cross the ocean and ultimately _to go around the world, is al- 1_AL Au] 1‘ uuu unmmuuw.’ m. by ..-V most completed. It is eighteen feet and a half in length, six feet beam, and three feet depth of hold, built of oak and hard pine planking. It is so constructed as to be a. boat within a boat, having nine air-tight compart- Wliulu u uuuu, uav1u5 an“, ...- "D... V", I ments. It is sharp at both ends and it can bail itself. Goldsmith and his Wife expect to circumnavigate the globe and terminate their voyage at San Francisco, returning to Boston by rail. â€"The “ Angel Guardians” is achartered society of Paris. Its object is to aid and protect drunken people, and take them home. Only men of approved temperance habits are admitted to membership. On holidays and Sundays these guardian angels may be seen around the drinking places and elsewhere. They carefully guide any drunkard they may encounter, take care of his money. if he has any, and turn it over to his family. Not one of these angels have ever been accused of taking even a centime found upon any slave of Bacchus. â€"â€"Mr. Goldie,the naturalist,who has passed eighteen months in Guinea, has among other ‘ matters informed the Brisbane Courier that ‘ his party came in contact with a tribe of na- tives in the interior whose custom suggested to him the probable origin of the rumors that have been always current of a race of_ tailed men in some remote corners of the globe. These natives wear artificial tails of such cun- ning construction as to entirely mislead a casual observer. They are entirely naked, except for the caudal ornament. which is a plait of grass fastened round their loins by a fine string, and depending behind to about half way down their legs. steamer Ercolano, full of passengers, 0 nrig_11‘tin March, 1854, w_hen the vessel .,__AJ - ~...m.... Lin night in March, 1854, when the vessel was sinking, Sir Robert received a. severe blow on the forehead from some spar or heavy piece of wreck which nearly killed him. The blow inflicted produced an enlargement of the bone on the forehead, which renders in impossible for him to wear his hat in the usual way,end indeed at times with great difficulty at all. --The omission to invite Mr. Gladstone to the marriage of the Duke of Connaught is made a subject of much comment in English society. He is personally disliked by the ‘ Queen. and both the Prince and Princess of Wales share her antipathy; but something was due to his eminent position. He has been forty-seven years in the Home of Commens. and it is fortyâ€"five years sifioe he first served the Crown, having filled the high- est offices of State under four Premiersâ€"Sir Robert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmer- ston and Earl Russell. He is, moreover, the only living man who has been Premier save Lord Benconsfield. â€"It is rather a pity that the symbolism of rings is dying out, or dead. When I was a, boy it was the fashion of men on the look- out for wives to wear a ring on the first finger of the left hand ; if they were engaged to be married they wore the ring on the second finger ; if married, on the third ; and on the fourth if they resolved upon bachelor- hood. Thus the most sensitive and modest young lady might always with ease detect the matrimonial disposition of a man by a glance. But this fashion being gone, a girl has to make love to man before she can ascertain his views. This is hard upon the girl and often very hard upon the man. The fashion, in my opinion, should be revivedâ€"Mayfair. â€"Much has been said of the possibilities of turning flat or gently sloping city roofs market gardens ; but their resources as poultry yards have not been fully developed. A recent missionary contribution of $25, acknowledged in the Presbyterian Monthly Record, professes to be “the proceeds of sales of eggs of poultry raised on the roof of a. dwelling house on Fourth avenue,New York.” This indicates what one dwelling-house root can do. If it be a. year‘s results, statisticians can calculate what proportion the roofs, fully used, could furnish to the annual egg supply of New York. At any rate, the item is sug- ‘ gestive at the easter season. Literalists may object that missionary contributions raised in this Way proclaim charity from the house- tops; but there is no denying that the ex- ample opens new vistas in city household farming. -â€"â€"By draining Lake Fucino. the ApennineSs about fifty miles southeast of Rome, and some 2.200 feet above the sea, Prince Torlonia. has added 35,000 acres to his rent roll. An ex- penditure of $10,000,000 and a, labor which has extended over twentyâ€"four years have sufficed for the making of a. tunnel and the erection of other works, and the lake is now only a small catchment basin, which effectu- ally drains the surrounding district, leaving about 35,000 acres of the finest arable land, on which the husbandman can exercise his without fear of an inundation sweeping his skill homestead and his farm into irretrievable ruin. The drainage of Lake Fucino will henceforth take its place as one of the won- ders of the world, and it is to be hoped that Prince Torlonia may long live to enjoy the fruits of his enterprise and perseverance. â€"A great opportunity presents itself to the British Empire by the annexation of native Burmah. The Daily News correspondent at Mandalay remarks :â€""I would adduce one argument which ought to have especial weight with himâ€"namely, that the frontier of Bri- tish Burmah is at present eminently a ‘hap- hazard‘ one, and that annexation would be an eminently ‘seientifie’ one. There is no meat on the bones of Afghanistan, but Bu - mah is as fat as butter. British Burma now yields to the Indian exchequer a clear annual revenue of nearly a million ; were native Burmah absorbed, the produce in one year would go far to pay the expenses of the annexation. The defence of the Burmahs would be feeble, and there would result the eclat of a fine, successful war. It is true that the people are fairly happy and content as they are and that the government is inofien- sive; but these are matters of trival conse- quence. A casus bclli might be or found made.” [low a Young Englishman Killed lllm- self. Mr. Rogerson, the son of a gentleman of large fortune in England, after receiving an excellent education, was sent abroad to make the grand tour. In this journey young Roger- son attended to nothing but the various modes of cookery, and the methods of eating and drinking luxuriously. Before his return his father died, when he entered into the possession of a very large fortune. He was now able to look over his notes of epicurism, and to discover where the most exquisite dished and best cooks were to be procured. He had no servants, but men cooks. Foot- man, butler, housekeeper, coachman and grooms were all cooks. Among those more professionally so were one from Florence, another from Vienna, and another from Viterbo, who was employed for the special purpose of dressing one particular dish only, the “docce picante,” of Florence. He had also a German cook for dressing the livers of ‘ turkeys, and the rest were all French. Mr. Rogerson had a messenger constantly travel- ling between Brittany and London, to bring him the eggs of a certain sort of plover near St. Malo ; and a single dinner, consisting of two dishes only, sometimes cost him upward of fifty guineas. He counted the minutes be- tween his meals, and was wholly absorbed in devising means to indulge his appetite. In the course. of nine years he found his table dreadfully abridged by the ruin of his fortune, and he was verging fast to poverty. When he had spent a fortune of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and was totally ruined, a friend gave him a guinea to keep him from starving ; but a short time after he was found dressing an ortolan for himself. A few days later he died by his own hands. DEAN S“’IFT‘S,NE WSPAPEB IlflAX. A Joke That did Good Service in Dxmln- ishing Crime in London. One of the cleverest hoaxes ever perpe- trated, was one invented by Swift, andintend- ed for public good. He caused to be printed and circulated some “ last words” of a street- robber, named Elliston, purporting to be written shortly before his execution, in which the condemned thief. was made to say: “ Now, as I am a. dying man, I have done something which may be of good use to the public. I have left with an honest manâ€"the only honest man I was ever acquainted with ‘ â€"the names of all my wicked brethren, the places of their abode, with a short account of the chief crimes they have committed, in many of which, I have been their accomplice, and heard the rest from their own months. I have likewise set down the names of those we call our setters, of the wicked houses we frequent, and all of those who receive and buy our stolen goods. I have solemnly charged this honest man, and have received his promise upon oath, that whenever he hears of any rogue to be tried for robbery or house-breaking, he will look into his list, and WHOLE NO. 1,087â€"NO, 47. T00 11 U0“ FORTUNE. if he finds the name there of the thief con- cerned, to send the whole paper to the Government. Of this I here give my com- panions fair and public warning, and hope that they will take it.” We are told the Dean’s ruse succeeded so well that street- robberies were prmany years after few and far between. On Friday night last, the regular meeting of the Hagersville Temperance and Literary Association was held in the basement of the Methodist church. The room was crowded to its fullest capacity. and the entertainment was of the most pleasing character. --- . . The Preabyterians of Wallacehxmz have secured the services of Mr. (‘1 I) McKay, a student in divinity, as pastor 101' the ensuing six months. u“. “nun...” Mr. Hector M cUnig. of Puslinch, on Satur- day last sold to Wm. Henry Sotham, of Chicago, a. splendid span of heavy draught horses, for the nice round sum of $450. He also sold to A. S. Rife, of Montana, U. S., a. thoroughbred Durham bull, one year old, for a good figure. _. -- -. 1 1r,,,.,1AJ w t;qu MbuAv The recruits for the Manitoba Mounted Pollce will leave for the scene of their labors on the let of May. Ottawa. furnishes 35 of the whole number, and Montreal about 37. The remainder of the force is from the West. The men are all said to be of fine physique and yogtlg. M . .1 1r ad -__J n:,.1,.,...:m. Juana. The officers of the Marine and Fisheries Department have been busy during the past week in seizing the skins of deer killed out of season. Half a. dozen were secured up the Gatineau, and a. dozen along the line of the Canada Central Railway. The names of ‘the parties who violated the law have also been secured, and these will be brought to trial at the earliest moment. - M 1 um- wv uuv v“... . _._-_ The Napanee town council have oflered a bonus of $4,000 to a woollen manufacturer who proposes removing there from Guelph. The proposed brush factory scheme in Napa- nee is proceeding satisfactorily, all the $20,- 000 of stock having been subscribed. |-, A: va u. nun“. a"..- 7‘-.. , , Wm. Gage, farmer, of the township of Oneida. and living near Hagersville, had 55 bushels of grain stolen from his granary on Thursday night. The scoundrels left but five bushels in the granary. At present there apuears to he no clue by which the thief or thieves can be traced. Friglnlul Raulch ofFumine and Typhus in Mnrocco~§tarving Arabs Eat Their Dead. WASHINGTON, D. 0., April 17.â€"Nothing more horrible has ever been recorded than the ravages of the plague now raging in Morocco. A letter to a gentleman in this city from the United States Council at Tan- gier, dated. March 19, 1879 gives the following terrible account of the sufiering from the famine and from starvation. Living human beings eating the dead is almost an unheardâ€"of horror. The Council Writes as \follows : “ All who can are now running away from this most unfortunate country,where famine, cholera and typhus has and is more than deciminating its population. At Tangier alone we have from thirty to forty cases of Typhus per day, and at the city of Morocco the daily mortality by typhus is from 200 to 250 persons. The ordeal of death is com- lplete. Parents eat their children, and at ‘Mayador, Sufi and Uasseblanca the starving Arabs eat their dead. The atmosphere is impregnated with deadly poisons emanating from the thousands that are half buried and rain. The European residents take every precaution ; nevertheless nearly one-half have already succumbed to the dreadful dis- ease. The fatalist Moslems ridicule all such expedients to avoid contagion, believing that all is written by God, and they must die if so decreed. The garments of the dead by dis- ease are sold at auction for a trifle, put on by the wretched buyer, who soon after is gener- ally taken sick and follows in the wake of the fofmer wearer.” “ God bless the man who first invented sleep.” So said Sancho Panza, and so say we. But there are those who will not feel like blessing the man who has discovered that there is danger as well as health and happiness in slumber. The Golden Rule rises up to warn us that there is such a thing as too much ‘sleep. It says : “ The effects of too much sleep are not less signal than those arising from its privation. The whole nervous sys- tem becomes blunted, so that the muscular energy is enieebled, and the sensations and moral and 1ntellectual manifestations are obtunded. All the bad efieets of inaction become developed. The memory is impaired, the powers of imagination are dormant, and the mind falls into a kind of hebetude, chiefly because the functions of the intellect are not sufliciently exerted, when sleep is too pro- longed or too often repeated. To sleep much is not necessarily to be a good sleeper. Gener- ally they are the poorest sleepers who remain the longest in bed: i. e., they awaken less refreshed than if the time of rising were ear- lier by an hour or two. We commend this to those who cry “ a little more sleep and a little more slumber.” It does not afiect newspaper men who go to bed late and get up early, WESTERN CANADA ITEMS. Races and games for the 24th May are al ready being talked of. Two brick yards will likely be in operation this summer at Morris. It is reported that a party of French Can- adians, from the New England States, are en route for Manitoba. w. “I‘M/u -v- -__..--VW,_ The first sturgeon (if the season was caught on Wednesday last at the rapids of Saint An- drew, weighing forty; _poun'(.1_s. 1 The roads are rapidly getting into good con- dition and a. few days more of sunshine will properly harden them. Farmers are busy getting the ground ready for seeding. A much larger ayea of land will be put under crop this season than last. , LL- ~L»»‘- My In-.. ...4..v_ .._- There is consifiembléractivity in the stock market. Much live stock, especially horses and oxen, have changed hands inthe last few dayg. _ . .... .. . 1- , ,,,:n -L m. w, N. Mr. Joseph Whitehead’s saw-mill at St. Boniface has got fully under way, and some million and a. half feet‘of logs will be cut dur- the summer. Many young men have arrived in Winni- peg already thls spring, most of them used to the work of farming, who intend taking up land and going into the stock raising business. I._L IIORKORS OF THE PLAGUE wwwwwww Den“, a". Prairie fires have been raging for the last few days in every direction, lighting up the heavens at midnight in magnificent style, but as far as we have learned no serious damage has been done in this vicinity. “Where‘s mamma?” cried blue-eyed Bessie, running breathlessly into the room the other morning. “ Never mind, you’ll do, aunty, I only want to know something; is my pa rich ?” “ Not very. Why ?” “ Oh 1 ’cause Benny Bend and May Monk and Kate Binsley are out here telling about their page End dién’t know about mine? ,U _A “AA. errell, Begsiie,fll’ll tell you. Your pais not too rich, and not too poor ; he is just com- forjably W91! 05-”. n "7",; 1.AL;.... Lu. «.1... The Iagéod for a moment, looking thoughtfully, then repeated, over and over to herself, “not weddy rich, not Weddy poor, jest comferrble,” and went out. ~ -- ‘ n Hm» :_- Dnn~:n In] JV ............ , "7,, , Presently her mother came in, Bessie fol- lowing her. “ Well Bessie,” said she, “ Have you been a good girl to-day 1’" “ No mamma.” Why, Bessie, I hope you have not been a ‘bad girl ?” “ No, mamma,” said the little thing. “Not w y bad, not weddy good, jest a comferble lit le girl.” â€"â€"Milwauk&a7; rolling mill men report heavy orders. T00 NIIJCII SLEEP. MANITOBA ITEMS. A HAPPY LVIEDI Ul‘l.