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Terrible Perils Undergone by the Crew of ' the Alice Lyne. ST. JOHN‘S, N. F., Jan. 18.-I began send- ing you at a late hour last night the particu- lars of the salvage of the bark Alice Lyne. bound from Leith to Harbor Grace, New- foundland, with a cargo of cod. but I was not able to complete my account. When di 3 covered from the shore the vessel was being . washed by heavy seas, which at times com- pletely hid her from view. Her anchor had been let go and her stern was turned towards the trowning clifis that environ ,5 Shoal Bay. This is one of the most dangerous lee shores on the coast of Newfoundland. The specta- tors from the shore. looking out on the ap- parently doomed vessel and her crew, could render them no assistfiice whatever. Scarce- ly could a lifeboat live among these boiling breakers. Dr. Murray tells this story : “ An old woman came to my orfice sufiering from rheumatism in one knee. The knee was actually swollen and 'she had been complaining for some time, and on this particular morning it happened that some brown corrugated paper was lying on my table which I had removed from some specimens of maltine and pepsin that had been sent to me for trial. She asked me what kind of plasters those were. I told her they were ‘ patent Chinese corrugated rheu- matic plasters ’ that had been sent to me for trial, and if she Wanted to try one of them she might. She concluded to do so. Next day she came back, and «hen I asked her how she was she expressed herself as being a great deal better. She had been able to walk stairs, the swelling was gone and she do- vo ared it drew so hard in the night that she had to take it off.” A good story is told by one of the Southern D. D.’s. He was pastor oi â€"â€" Church in the city of Câ€"â€"-â€"â€" . The organ loft and choir gallery were immediately in the rear of the pulpit, and a little elevated above it. The organist was a German, who, though a fine performer, was not remarkable for great pres- ence of mind, and was easily disconcerted. The hour for afternoon service had arrived, and though the organist was in his place. the choir had not arrived. By some mishap. also, the key of theorgan had been misplaced. The minister, not knowing these facts, slowly and solemnly arose, and after announcing a hymn and reading it through, took his seat. There was no response from the organ or choir. Silence reigned supreme. Time passed on. The minister and congregation were becoming uneasy. All eyes were turned to the organ loft. At length the organist, with a fidgety manner and face as red as s. beet, came to the railing in front of the loft, and in a tone evidently intended as a whisper. but which was distinctly heard by all, made the following startling announcement : “Mis- ter hreecher, mister breecher, ve von't have no singing dis afternoon. De key not coomed. and de la‘dy vat sings de sobrano bees not Doomed, and the rest of the peebles vat sings be not coorned, and de organ bees not' obened and ve von’t have no singing dis afternoon, mister breecher, dst‘s so." The efleot may be readily imagined. The rescued bark and cargo are valued at 820.000, so that the heroic landsmen who boarded and saved her at the extreme peril of their lives have captured a very handsome prize. nxraaoanmaar DANCERS. “ Our escape through the breakers, after reluctantly leaving our ship, was one of those lucky accidents that occur only once in a great while. When the long boat left the vessel I considered that every man would have perished in the boiling surf. It was only the darkness of approaching night and the feeble chance of getting any assistance from the steamtugs of St. John's that compelled me, with the balance of my crew. to tempt fate and try to reach the shore. Why we did not all perish in the fury of the breakers will always be a wonder to me. I had not been more than three hours on shore when the wind changed a few points, andon the change of the tide the bark swung out clear of the breakers and allowed some shore crews to board her. They succeeded, with the aid of the steamer Cabot, in snatching the Alice Lyne from destruction? Your correspondent, who arrived at St. John’s in company with Captain Curtis, gleaned from him the following facts: “ The hark left Leith ou the 17th of December and had an unprecedently boisterous passage. From the Great Banks to the coast of New- foundland we have been hammered by wind and sea, and since yesterday week we have been close upon the rocks and every hour in danger of going on shone. I tried to get to Trepassy on last Tuesday, and only escaped by the length of the ship from losing all hands. I tried next day to make Renews, but with the same results. All along the fifty miles of coast. from Trepassy to Shoal Bay, I have been trying to make a port, but such was the violence of the sea that it was im- possible to efiect an entrance to any of the harbors. Since I landed I have learned that the steamer Vanguard was dispatched to my assistance, my vessel having been signaled from Cape Race, but I got no sight of the steamer, nor was it possible, without grave danger, for a large vessel to make in on those shoal grounds. â€"â€"â€"The dismantlement of two of the forte composing the famous Quadrilateral in Italy has been decided upon. In the new condi- tions which have resulted from the capital being removed to Rome, the Quadrilaterel has lost much of its utility, and has even become an inconvenience. In case of re- verses it is Rome that would have to be covâ€" ered. and the army Would consequently have to draw back behind the Appenmnes. It is feared that the immediate protection afl'orded by the Quadpilateral might make a timid General lose sight of the real object of the defence of Rome. Probably. therefore, um northern face of the Quadrilateral, Verona and Fashion, will be sacrificed. Some three hours after the abandonment of the Alice Lyne by her crew a sudden change of tide, accompanied by a slight vari- ation in the wind, caused the bark to wheel round and swing out of the dangerous creek in which she lay. Her position was now com- paratively safe. Two adventurous crews of landsmen, comprising twenty-one in all, put off in large cod seine skifi’s from Bayball's, and after several unsuccessful efforts at length succeeded in boarding the derelict vessel and appropriating her as a prize. They had scarcely boarded her when the steam tug Cabot appeared on the scene. By means of a cable of enormous length the bark was con- nected with the steam tag. The chains were then slipped and the Alice Lyne was success- fully towed out of her eminently perilous position and brought into St. John’s yesterday morning. Escape or ran caaw. After an hour had passed fromthe time the bark’s anchor touched the reef an attempt was made to lower the long boat. which, be- tween the intervals of the seas, was success- fully effected. The mate and six of the crew succeeded in getting into her. and reached the shore sofely, after several hairvbreadth escapes. As soon as the mate landed he dis~ patched a messenger to St. John’s fora steam tug, which was immediately dispatched to at- tempt the rescue of the bark. In the mean- time it appeared to the captain to be criminally imprudent to remain by his vessel any longer. So with the re- mainder of his crew he prepared to leave her to her fate. The boat was lowered, but scarcely touched the water before a sea broke over her and she swamped. Another and the last boat was then put in taokle, and by tak- ing advantage of a temporary lull was suc- cessfully launched into the water. Captain Purtis and his men then rode through, or rather drove through. the breaking sea. and‘ after rounding Shoal Bay entered sumoth‘ water and safely reached the shore without aocident. CONCEIT CAN KILL OR CURE. THE ORGANIST’S DILEMMA Tm: cunm’s snrnmnm. A SHIP RESCUED. A SALVAGE CREW. â€"Adornments for African potentates are an item of some little importance in the Bir- mingham jewelry trade, which embraces both real and sham jewelry. A firm of what are known as" “ floral jewelers" has just com- pleted a crown for King Eyo of Greek Town, Africa. It is a copy of that of William the Conquerer. The cup is of blue velvet. the binding ermine. and the circle and spikes of semi-dead gold decorated with thirty-two real stones, consisting of amethyst, topaz, ciystal and emerald. Two scepters have also been suppliedâ€"one of gold ond the other of silver ~for Duke Ephraim Eyamba IX.. of Duke Town. 01d Castlebar. These ensigns of royalty are 5 feet 6 inches long. one being surmounted by a Maltese cross and the other by a dove. They are both made to unscrew at the end, for the insertion of a peacoek’s feather. which is used in some portion of the state ceremonies at old Calabar. -â€"John Lewis Ayre, father of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow. and grand- uncle of the Lady Arundel of War- dou‘r, ’ has left no less a sum than £200.000 to his son, and an- other £200,000 to be disposed of by the Arch- bishop and Lord Arundel in trust for such persons as they may appoint. This means, of course, the allocation of four hundred thousand pounds to Roman Catholic 0 tari- table and ecclesiastical purposes. Mr. Eyre was a count of the Holy Roman Empire. Every child, male and female, of the Barons of Arundel of Wardour is born a count or countess by a special patent granted to the first baron in 1595 for services rendered at the siege of Gran in Hungary. â€"â€"The Chicago druggist who killed two child- ren with neatness and dispatch by putting morphine in a prescription which called for quinine, explains that he is sometimes absent- minded, and that he has enemies in the trade. On the other hand, it is alleged that he was drunk when he filled out the prescrip- tion. He has been arrested, and admitted to $5.000 bail. He took a drug bottle to the station marked “muriated quinine,” which was found to contain morphine. This bottle, he said, was as he got it from the wholesale druggist. He thought it possible that some body with intent to injure him, had substi- tuted the morphine for the quinine, but could not explain when, where. or why It was done. â€"'1‘he approaching census ordered in Eng- land by Government, which frightens all the old maids out of their wits, has no terrors for Mr. Pears. the great London soap manufact- urer. who offers to assist gratis in enabling the Government to do its wicked work. The printed form of census to be distributed throughout the kingdom will cost about one hundred thousand pounds, with paper, stumps, delivery and all included. Now Mr. Peers who has not realized his immense for- tune by sitting quietly in his store with his eyes shut. appreciates the vest publicity ac- quired by the census and asks why he should not share it ; and so he proposed to under- take the whole expense of the census docu- ment on the sole condition of being allowed to print his advertisement with the woodcut of “You dirty boy" upon the back of the paper. It is not stated whether the offer has been secepted, but it is generally believed that the Government will be afraid of swrong application by the public of the motto. â€"-The Rev. Dr. Fowler, of the Methodist Missionary Society. has provoked criticism by affirming that 600,000,000 of heathen are doomed to suffer the inconceivable and never- ending torments of hell unless the Christain people of this and other countries hurry mis- sionaries and Bibles to the rescue. The Rev. Dr. Newman rebukes the Ber. Dr. Fowler for such utterances, and cites eminent Methodist authority in support of the theory that not only the little heathen babies, but millions of grown-up heathen, will be saved although they may never see a Bible or hear a mission- ary. Now. which of the two, Fowler or New- man, is the exponent of the orthodox Metho- dist doctrine on this interesting point ? â€"-The annual session at Paris of the Phyl loxera Commission attracts considerable at- tention among winegrowers. So far as the spread of the disease is concerned. the report presented to the Commission is not very favorable. Forty-one departments are now officially reported as infected, again-t thirty- nine last year, and it does not seem to be certain whether the official report covers the whole mischief. As regards the results of remedial measures, the account is more cheer. ing, and the best means of keeping vines free from infection and restoring those already attacked are pretty well known. The autumnal submersion of vineyards, Where it is possible. keeps the disease in check from year to year. Where this is not possible. treatment with sulphur of carbon is, when resorted to before the plants are weakened by the disease, equally efleetive. For the renovation of vine- â€"There is a strange rumbling noise audi- ble upon the Red River, Texas, and as the locality is fifty miles from any railroad it can- not be attributed to the passing trains. The inhabitants are much excited over it. believ- that it presages volcanic action. It resembles the sound of a. railroad train, the roar of a distant waterfall, and at night the moaning of a wind through a pine forest. Its range,. which is not changeable, is from north to northwest, and it recalls the ominous sounds dessribed by Humbolt as preceding the great earthquake of 1759 in Mexico, when the vol- canic mountain of Jorullo was upheuved. Scientific investigation will probably be ordered by the State authorities. â€"An inhabitant of Cabaceiras City, Brazil, named Joaquim Marreiro, and his wife Juanita, aged respectively 103 and 97, con- template ere long celebrating the eightieth anniversary of their junction in the bonds of holy matrimony. Of the twenty three child- ren born in wedlock to this aged pair four- teen still survive, themselves abnormally old men and women. Joaquim Merriero’s family at the present time consists of 233 persons, including his venerable spouse and himself. A hundred and twenty-six grandchildren and ninety-seven greet-grandchildren will attend the ceremony, which, for want of a. better name. might be described as the Compressed Steel Wedding. â€"A London paper says it is probable that the Tenth Hussars, on their return from India. will be made a. household regiment, and quartered permanently in or near Lon- don. The want of a light regiment of house- hold cavalry has been long felt, and can be supplied none too soon. The great social question will, therefore, soon be whether. if stationed in the metropolis, the Tenth will condescend to dance. “The Tenth don’t dance,” superciliouely uttered by a “bowling swell” of the corps. when a. lady at the coun- try ball proposed presenting him to a partner. has passed into a. proverb in England. â€"Since the Prince of Wales entered on the occupation of Marlboro’ House. tens of thou- sands have been expended upon it. It is now replete with conveniences of which old Sarah and the great John never dreamed when they built it,and is exceedinglyicomfort- ..l:le, but can never be splendid. Scarcely any of the rooms have very fine proportions. A Duke of Marlborough who was hard up sur- rendered .his lien to the Crown. and hence its return to royalty. The last royal personage resident there was Queen Adelaide. widow of William IV., who had a dowry of $500,000 a year. of which she gave at least half in charities. VOL. XXIII. AROUND THE WORLD. â€"-Robert Smith. a. North Carolina farmer who had been annoyed with thieves, shot and killed a. man who entered his orchard. The intruder proved to be an honest strangenwith no intent to steal. Smith was convicted of murder in the first degree, and Sentenced to be hang ed. His neighbors sympathized with him, and, failing to get executive clemency, l forcibly released him from jail, and sent him secretly out of the State. â€"Woman’s grit has triumphed in San Francisco. Mrs. Caroline Carpenter, a middle-aged widow of determined disposition, owns a house and lot on Stockton street. 0n the adjoining corner of Butter street, Itobert Ewing. a contractor, has nearly completed a block of stores. In making excavations for a foundation, Ewing compelled Mrs. Carpenter to continue the foundations of her house fourteen feet lower, and, as she declared would not let her prop up her wall while doing the work. The result was that she spent a good deal of money unnecessarily. The same workmen engaged on her premises were stopped by Ewing. who charged that they were trespassing on his property. Mrs. Car- penter wasn’t at home, but her niece was equal to the occasion, and with a revolver in hand sallied out and intimidated the con- tractor. He had the young woman arrested for assault. Upen war was declared by Mrs. Carpenter. Ewing removed a temporary (ence in front of the new building, and workmen began to lay stone walk. Mrs. Carpenter found that they had made arrangements to carry the sidewalk seventeen inches beyond the line of the new building in front of the lot. To al- low them to do this would be to acknowledge that they owned a strip of that width directly through to the rear lot. She ordered the workmen to stop and remove the material. They kept on and hurried to complete the job. Mrs. Carpenter reinforced by her servant girl. again ordered them to desist. The girl placed her foot across the narrow space which had not been paved, when one of the workmen deliberately set a slab of stone on her foot, injuring it severely. Mrs. Carpenter threw herself down on the ground and [defied them to build a sidewalk over her body. At the same time she summoned the police and her attorney. A great crowd gathered, and a squad bf guards was hired to defend her terri- tory from invasion. The guards remained on duty until a truce was entered into. The next day a force of men, under the woman‘s direction, werepulling down asidewalk on the disputed strip of territory. Mrs. Carpenter has found that the rear wall of Ewing's house projects upon her land, and she swears she will make him tear down the wall and rebuild it. He wants to compromise, but she will not listen to him. â€"In a vocabulary of drinking terms. the Retailer remarks regarding the “cocktail”, ' “A word of very uncertain origin. Couj ectu- ral etymologists have trrced it to the Mceso- Gothic the Chinese. the Cherokee, and the Gumbo; one has settled it to his own satis- faction that it is of Sandwich Island origin; another that it is Celtic : and still another that Noah‘left the recipe to his son Shem, giving to the; beverage the name Ko’kdai, written in the old Hebrew character with the Maasoretic points. The probability is that the name and the beverage were inevnted by the mound builders, and the most prominent ph1lologists are inclining more and more to that opinion.” The Retailer also gives the following information: “The cocktail is made of brandy. gin, whiskey, or champagne,mixed with hitters, sugar and a smallâ€"very smallâ€" percentage of water.1tis an early morning drink, and is highly esteemed for its medi- cinal properties. A large proportion of those who use it habitually will never eat solid. food until the flooring of the stomach has been overlaid with cocktails. There is no time in a man’s life when he is more deserving of heartfelt sympathy than when, in a condition of pecuniary collapse, he craves a morning cocktail and craves in vain." -â€"-Except an Irish landlord, says the Lon- don World, no member of the peerage is more tofbe pitied than Lord Airlie. For several years past he has been endeavoring to stop the career of a clever adventurer, who has been pleased to adopt the name of his eldest son, Lord Ogilvy. and, under that designation, to run up debts. forge bills, and swindle people generally in all parts of the world. The number of applications which Lord Airlie has received for “ payment of my account " from tradesmen, who thought they were trusting his son and hair, is simply incredible. These bills come in a perfect shower from all parts of the continent and the United States; and although public notices and warnings of all kinds have been launched at the head of the imposter, and once or twice he has actu- ally been arrested, yet, alter a short time, he is certain to be found at his old tricks again, and poor Lord Airlie is obliged once more to explain to a phalanx of clamorous tradesmen that they have been duped and robbed. No real lord has been trusted half so much as this spurious one. His manners are said to be “distinguished," his personal appearance is at- tractive, and with the fair sex he has always been a great hit. Meanwhile the real Lord Ogilvy is always with his . regiment, the Tenth Hussars, in India,not having half such a good time as his double. ' yards practically destroyed, nothing seems to answer so well as the grafting of the original ' vines on to plants imported from America. 1 â€"Volkmann, a popular Berlin musician, ' was condemned to eighteen months’ impris- ' cnment on a charge of having, in private conversation, used language insulting to his royal Majesty the good Emperor William. The unfortunate musician solemnly denied the truth of the charge, but he was convicted on the testimony of the director of his company, of the director’s wife, and of Fraulein Hart- l hopf, a young harpist. After he had served f seven months of his term of imprisonment. ‘ Fraulein Hartkcpt. unable to bear the pangs of a guilty conscience. confessed that the charge against Volkmann was wholly un- founded, and had been trumped up by the director and his wife, through personal enmity, and that they had forced her to cor- roborate their perjured testimony. Volk- mann was thereupon released, and had the great satisfaction of seeing the charge of “,insulting Majesty" dismissed. The direc- tor was sentenced to three years” ;imp!ison- ment for perjury, but his wife was acquitted as insane. 0f the many brutal and despotic prosecutions for insulting the majesty of the paternal Emperor William, this probably takes_ the palm. â€"The first person or prominence to set the fashion. now so prevalent among wealthy English people, of wintering on the shore of the Mediterranean, was Lord Brougham, who took up his abode at Cannes some thirty years ago, and was the means of bringing its advantages as a winter resort into notice. The Mediterranean shore may now be said to be lined with the villas of rich Britons. and their number has steadily increased. It is probable that Ruifini‘s charming story, “Dr. Antonia," helped to assist the movement. Besides these residences on the Mediterranean, num- bers of other Englishmen have country seats in other lands. Sir Charles Dilke has a bean- tiful retreat near Toulon ; Sir Robert Peel one on the Lake of Geneva ; Lord Salisbury owns the Chalet Cecil. near Dieppe; Lady Holland has a residence near Naples ; and a millionaire Briton owns the lovely place where Queen Victoria last year spent some days on the Lake of Como. In our own country, twenty years hence, a similar movement will probably take place southward, and Florida will be as full of palatial cottages ss Newport. RICHMOND HILL; THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1881, GAME Sour (GLEAn).â€"â€"Take the remnants of any kind of game, not high, put them in a. saucepan with an onion and carrot, two or three cloves, a. small piece of mace, s. bayleaf, some parsley, white pepper and salt to taste. Cover the whole with veal or poultry stock. and set the saucepan to boil gently for a couple of hours. Strain off the soup and set it to boil again, then throw in an ounce of raw beef or liver coarsely chopped; let it give one boil, and strain the soup through a nap- kin. If not quite clear, the clarifying process must be repeated. A very small quantity of gherry may be put in before clarifying. Bomunscorcu.â€"Tske 1 pound of 0. sugar and 3 ounces of butter ; place them in a pre- serving kettle. or 9. clean. bright pan will do ; keep slirring it, and watch closely that it does not burn on the edges ; a trial is neces- sary to know when it is done; drop a little of the mixture in cold water, and if it is brittle it is right ; just at the conclusion of the cook- ing s tesspoonful of grated lemon-rind im- proves the flavor ; a. piece 9. marble well but- tered is the best to pour it out on. or take a tin pan, reverse it, and pour the candy on the bottom, always buttering it ; score with a knife ;to pour it on greased paper ssves much trouble. BxxGNM‘s Sourrnns.â€"Put about a pint of water into a saucepan, with a few grains of salt. a piece of butter the size of an egg. and as much sugar. with plenty of grated lemon- peel. When the water boils, throw gradually into it suflicient flour to form a thick paste ; then take it 011' the fire, let it remain ten minutes, and work into it three or four eggs, reserving the whites of one or two, while you whisk into a froth and mix into the paste. Let it rest a couple of hours. then proceed to fry by dropping into hot lerd pieces of it the size 0! a. walnut. Serve piled on a. dish, with powdered sugar over, and e lemon cut into quarters ; or make an incision in each beignet, and inserts small piece of jam or jelly. Bursar) Bumâ€"Take a. well shaped piece of the round. lard it (with 'little strips of fat pork inserted in the meat with a larding nee- dle . and put it into a stewpan which has a tig t cover. Put beneath the meet some bits of pork. some parsley, carrots and onions,and celery cut in pieces. Sprinkle the meat with salt, and fill the pan half-full with good meet stock. Cover tightly and let the whole sim- mer nearly two hours, putting more hot stock in it it is necessary. Drain it when done, put in the oven a moment , strain the stock, tak- ing ofl the fat. put in some tomato sauce, and let the whole boil a few minutes until thick enough. Serve the bee! on a platter aur- roanded with beans, carrots and beets, cut into nice bits and previously boiled. The beans to be used in winter are the French canned beans. Dnomns AUX Psalmsâ€"Out some round slices 03 some milk rolls, remove the crust, dip in a little milk and sugar, and fry them a pale yellow in fresh butter. Take a tin of preserved peaches, turn out the liquor into a. saucepan, add a little sugar and a glass of white wine; boil it up, put in :he peaches, simmer a few minutes, drain them, and place half a peach, concave side uppermost, en each piece of bread, put a piece of current jelly in the cavity of each peach, pour the syrup round, and serve. , . 019nm Putnamâ€"Take an ounce of butter and a tea-poonlul of flour; put these in a saucepan. heat gently, Ind stir thoroughly so as to get it smooth; add a little salt, a sprig of mace and a little white pepper, by degrees. Last, add 4 tablespoontuls of cream. Then, having strained your oysters, say 2 dozen. not too large ones, add little by little the liquor from them. Lastly, when the saueeis on the boil, put in the oysters, and let them cook for not more than three minutes. Fill your patties. Cocomur Pvnnmo.â€"Heat a pint of milk, stirring it into a small halt-cup of sugar. Dissolve two tablespoontuls of corn starch in a little of the milk taken out before it is heated. Add this to the milk when it begins to boil. Stir until it becomes a firm paste, then stir in the beaten whites of four eggs, and after a moment or two take if off the fire. Then Edd halt a coconut g‘fi'ad and mould it. Serve it cold with; " 'ustard made with the yolks-of the eg . ,i flavored with vanilla or lemon. ‘ Tnn Bear Bios Pannxxe.â€"Thie rice pud- ding is beyond comparison the best ever made in spite of the fact that it is the . cheapest. The secret of its perfection is thelong cooking it gets. For a 5 o’clock dinner the rice and milk should be put on the stove early in the forenoon. The best thing to cook it in is a double kettle. Add to a quart of milk 2 heap- ing tablespoonfuls of rice. Let it ‘ simmer on the back of the stoveâ€"it must never boilâ€"- until a couple of hours before dinner. It will then be a. thick creamy substance. Then salt and EWeeten it to taste, put it into a pudding dish, and bake in a moderate oven until it ii of a jail like thickness and the top is slightly browne . It can be eaten eitherhot or cold. It the latter is preferred. the pudding may be made the day before it that is malt conven- ient. I! desired, e flavoring my be added. SALAD or anxcn Bremenâ€"The canned French string beans which are tender, young and bright green, are very nice for n‘ winter salad. Cook them as much as needful in a little boiling water. drain, ,ggd while still hot pour over them a mixture (hall a cup) of oil, vinegar, pepper and salt. Let them stand and get cold a couple of hours, and this mixture (martinade) will be thoroughly absorbed. On being brought to table the salad will probably need more oil anti vinegar. Cnmnnnn Swen. â€"â€"Wash and pick a quart of ripe cranberries and put them into a sauce- pan with a teacuptsl of water; stew slowly, stirring often until they are as thick as mar- m;alade they require at least one hour and a half to cook; when you take them from the fire sweeten them abundantly with white sugar; if sweetened while cooking the color will be dark , put them into a mould and set asige to get cold. FISH Farrnns.-â€"-Teke the remains of any fish which has been served the previous day, remove all the bones and pound it in a mor- tar; add breadcrumbs and mashed potatoes in equal quantities. Mix together half a teaonpful of cream, with two well beaten eggs, some cayenne pepper and anchovy sauce. Beat it all up to a. proper consistency out it into small cakes, and fry them in boil- ing lard. Bnusaxns Spnou're.â€"1‘rim them neatly and wash them. Put them to boil m plenty of salted water. and when almost done stain them and dry them 1n a cloth. Put them in a saucepan with a large piece of butter, pep- per, salt and grated nutmeg to taste. Toss them gently on the fire until they are quite cooked. Jnmnnns.â€"One cup butter, 2 cups sugar. 1 cup milk 4 eggs. 1 teaspoonfnl soda, 6 cups flour, a little nutmeg. Roll them out, out fihem with n. tumbler and a wineglnsa to form a. ring ; dust over with the white of an egg, and sift on a little sugar before baking. Famn anrns.â€"Four eggs. 1 pint of milk, the rind of one grated lemonmlittla salt, flour to make alight batter Beat the eggs into the milk; addlemon, salt, and flour. Fry in hot lardmnd serve with ROAST Gmusx. â€"To roast grouse clean them carefully, put a large piece of the best but- ter inside each bird and roast in the oven half an hour or more, Easting with butter. THE COOK’S COLUMN. The Post gives the following memoir of the deceased Count: His father, James Stuart, Count d’Albanie, is believed by many persons to have been the legitimate son of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the “ Young Pro. tender”=as he was called,»by the Princess Louise Clementine Sobieski of Stolberg. It is asserted that he was born at Vienna in 1773, and, as the English authorities had offered a reward of £40, 000 for the “ Pre- tender’"s head, his infant son was secretly committed to the care of Admiral John Carter Allan, Admiral of the White, who died on the 2nd of October, 1800. It was not until some years had passed that the Count, known as the “ Iolair Dearg” among the Highland clans, was informed of the true secret of his birth, and that he was none other than the legitimate son and heir of the vanquished hero of Culloden. The Count James who had married Catherine Bruce. had two sons, first. John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart, and second, Charles Edward Stuart, born June 4, 1799, as also a daughter, Katherine Matilda Mary Stuart, who married the Count Ferdinand Lancastre. The elder son married the daughter of Mr. Edward Kendall, of Ostery, and dial without issue in 1872 ; the younger, whose lamentable death we now put on re- cord, married in 1822 Anne, widow of Col. Gardner. daughter of the Hon. John Berea- ford, second son of Marcus Beresford, Earl of Tyrone, and brother of the first Marquis of Waterford. By the lad he had fourq child- renâ€"1. Charles Edwardy major in the Aus- trian cavalry, who married in May, 1874, the Lady Alice Mary Hay, daughter of the 17th Earl of Erroll; 2. The Countess Mary, who died unmarried at Beaumanoir on the Loire, August 22, 1873; 3. The Countess Sobieska Stolberg, who married Colonel Edward de Platt, of the Imperial Austrian Body Guard ; and 4. The Countess Clementina Stuart, a nun. The late Count, who suffered a con- siderable reverse of fortune on the death of his wife, bore his loss manfully, ac- cepted his fate, and lived in comparative retirement in South Belgravia for nearly 20 years. The likeness both of himself and his brother to the Royal House of Stuart was very marked; moreover, their great and varied ac- complishments, their personal bearing. their grace and charm of manner, their innate dig- nity and the right royal manner in thch they patiently accepted poverty and sorrow surely marked them off from the common herd. In Scotland they were always received with that consideration which was thought due to their position, and many of the Scotch nobility have consistently and properly be- friended them. The late Count was a writer of no mean power, both in prose and verse, and a. nobleman of exquisite taste. His read- ing had been extensive, he spoke fluently and perfectly seven or eight languages, he was remarkably welliuformed, owning alarge fund of anecdote, and, though constantly receiving tokens of reverence and honor from kind and devoted friends, was averse to all marked at- tentions. 0f most dignified mien and car- riage. he usually appeared in public in an un- dress dark military coat of a foreign type, with his numerous orders on his breast, hav- ing personally, when a mere youth, received that of the Legion of Honor from the hands of the great Napoleon on the field of Water- loo for marked valor and bravery. It is be- lieved that his numerous Jacobite relics, many of which, of singular interest and value, have been exhibited at the South Kensington Museum, have been left by testamentary disposition to the Marquis of Bute.â€"London Tablet. Death of a Supposed Descendant of Charles Edward. the Pretender. We regret to announce the sudden death, in the 82nd year of his age, of the accom- plished Count d'Albaineâ€"Charles Edward Stuartâ€"which took place on board a steamer from Bordeaux on the night of Ghristmas Eve. His corpse was-taken on shore soon after death, and temporarily interred in a graveyard on the banks of the Garenne, pre- paratory to being taken to Scotland to be placed by the side of his brother, John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart, at the burial ground of Es- kadale, on the estate of Lord Lovat. Under medical advice the Count d’Albanie, date last year, had gone for his health to Biarritz, where several friends had gathered, and had benefltted by his sojourn there very oonsider~ ably. â€"â€"When a child’s body was presented for interment at a cemetery in Sheffield. England, three weeks ago. the sexton demanded seven shillings. The relatives told him that it was an excessive fee and they would not pay it. He closed the churchyard gates, and. after waiting two hours. the mourners took the coffin away with them. It was taken again for interment the next morning, when it was found that the grave had been refilled, and the sexton could not be seen. A number of volunteers reopened the grave, but in the course of their work they were interfered with by the sexton and two of his eons. The former was hustled into the grave, and was subsequently forced away. When the grave was ready for the interment, the body was carried up to it, followed by the relatives and other friend, and the burial service was read by an Indeyendent preacher. RoAs'r BEEF {Possumâ€"It sounds funny to roast a beef tongue, but there are many bet- ter ways of dressing a tongue than boiling a smoked one. I don’t want you to follow ex- actly the sauce they use in Spain, because there is safiron in it ; but safiron, if you know how to use it in moderation, is no bad. Take a tongue-Pa good sized oneâ€"e trim it neat ; don’t leave to much of the root; sprinkle salt on it, a very little black pepper, and rub over it a teaspoonful of ginger. Don’t forget, either, some tour cloves, which push right into the tongue. If you have a roasting jack, put the tongue before the fire, and mind you haste it with butter and save the gravy. If you haven’t got a roasting jack, just bake it ; if you are driven to bake it, cover the tongue with thin layers of break- fast bacon. But the sauce is the thing. Take your gravy, 10 minutes before serving, and put into a wine glass of port wine or sherry, squeeze half a lemon into it, season it to taste with salt and pepper, let all simmer down to 9. third, and serve the sauce separate ; maybe you would make a face if I said a bit of garlic as big as abird shot would help that sauce, with a good shred of saflron ; but garlic and saffron maybe ain’t to your taste. CHARLES EDWARD STUART. MxxurnPunnixa.â€"Put a. pint of milk properly salted into a clean quart stewpan ; have ready a basin of flour ; as soon as the milk boils take some flour in the left hand and let it fall lightly into the milk (which must be kept boiling fast the whole time), stir without ceasing, adding flour until it is about the consistency of porridge. then let it boil a. few minutes longer, still keeping it stirred. Turn it out on a hot dish, stick pieces of butter all over it. sprinkle sugar, and grate some nutmeg, when the butter and sugar will melt and mingle, and running all over and around it, form a. delicious sauce. Do not be too sparing of butter and sugar and the cook need not be discouraged if she does not succeed in he: first attempt, as ex- perience alone can teach her how to sprinkle the flour in properly. It it is not done very lightly, lumps of uncooked flour will be the result. It may_be flavored with vanilla. This is emphatically the perfect pudding of its kind. It is as national as the Boers can make it -â€"-an expression of anger and dislike to the British rulesâ€"and “ the leaders" are driven by the masses behind them. When the an: thorities at Pretoria arrested Mr. Celliers, the editor of the Volkstein, for publishing the re- solutions of the Boer Government at Heidel- berg, and the order not to pay taxes, they must have seen that a conflict was inevitable, unless the Boers gave in, and one is ata less to know here why it should have been taken for granted that a race so dogged, so calm, and so patient should have been judged quite incapable of action, seeing that their records show of what won- derful tenacity of purpose their ancestors were possessed. It is deplorable that if the Government were determined to leap the Transvaal by force and at all hazards, and to govern it by martial law, that they did main- tain such a force there as would have con- vinced the Boers of the hopelessness of armed resistance. It now only remains to be seen what turn the rising will take,, till such time as the British army is strong enough to over- rule the Transvaal in what is, after all, some- thing very like a civil war, with all its hor- rors. It must be remembered that the Dutch in the Cape Colony and the Orange River Free State constitute important factors in Imperial calculations respecting South Africa, and as the Home Government, as well as the local authorities, seem to have been complete~ ly astray in their estimate of the forces at work in the Boer rising, let me express an earnest hope that both will well consider, not only the means to be used in repressing it, and punishing those who! may deserve it, but the measures which are to follow the asser- tion of the Queen’s supremacy over her un- willing subjects. BUFFALO, Jen. 24.â€"An accident occurred at an early hour this morning on the Buffalo & South Western Railway, a branch of the Erie Railway. An eastern bound freight train from Deyon encountered a land slide in the vicinity of Gowande, end before the engineer could stop his train the engine and care run 013 the track. The engine broke loose from its couplings and rolled down the embank- ment. The fireman, George Becker. was in- stantly killed, and engineer Griffin, danger- ously, if not fatally, injured. The eastward bound passenger trains were delayed over two hours in consequence of the accident. Train No. 3, on the western division of the Erie Railway, was moving out of the de- pot at Hornellsville yesterday morning, when it ran off the track, delaying traffic about two hours. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. Train No. 18, which left Buffalo at 9 o'clock last night, struck a man at William street and threw him so high that he came down on the boiler. He escaped. however, with slight injury and got up‘and walked away. A Central official reported this morning that yesterday afternoon train No. 16, east from Niagara Falls, on the Central road, near Syracuse, overtook and ran into an engine running a. show flange, and killed the road- mester. John Schultz, and severely injuring John Hopkins. another employe. An Erie conductor, however, says that instead of one engine there were four, and that they were all smashed, and that an engine standing on a side track was included in the wreck. Tele- grams from Syracuse contradict the letter statement. Dr. W. H. Russel, the well known newspa- per special correspondent, has written aletter to the papers, in which he asks the public to wait a little for exact information before they credit the reports which seem to justify sensa- tional headings about the “treachery of the Boers” and "firing under cover of a flag of truce.” Not that he denies the possibility of the Boers being treacherous, but that he has reason to entertain profund distrust of Durban dispatches cud Natal news: â€"â€"“It may be remembered," continues Dr. Russel, ”that about this time last yearâ€"on December 10th, 1879â€"the Boers met to the number of 6,300 at Wonderfontein, and passeda series of re solutions,{announcing theirunalterable resolve to regain their independence, and duly noti- fying the fact to the authorities. Sir Garnet Wolseley and Colonel Lanyon did not believe that the meeting was so largely attended and so unanimous, and they certainly were im- pressed with the conviction that under no circumstances would the Boers venture to fight for their freedom. Legal proceedings were taken against the Boer leaders, who sent a copy of their resolutions at Wonder- fontein to the Government [at Pretoriaâ€"â€" that is, Pretorius and others were arrested, but, so 1 r as I know. were not brought to la] ; but the Boers never showed any sign of abandoning their resolve to restore their Republic by force, if all their appeals to the Queen and to the Imperial Government were treated with neglect. As time were on their exasperation took the form of legal notices in the newspapers,warningthe “ English,” as such, not to venture on their farms or properties under pain of being prose- cuted for trespass. There was, of course, a corresponding irritation on the part of the British colonists. The troops on the march. or in quarters in the Transvaal, were accused in the Dutch papers of insolence and excess, , and the situation became so strained that to persons like myself, who believed the Boers were in earnest. it seemed inevitable that a collision would take place, for which the , Colonial office ought to make preparation, either by moral or physical measuresâ€"either by coercion or by military prosecutions. Ex- actly a year after the meeting at Wonderfon- tein, the Boers met as before, and proclaimed the Republic at Heidelberg, close at at hand, and ipso factor became in open rebellion, al- though their contention would be that, as they never acknowledged the annexation of the Transvaal by Sir T. Shepstone, and as they were acting under the cover of the forms of their Constitution, with a legally elected President and Volksraad, they were only resisting a lawless in- vasion which all peaceful remonstrauce had failed to abate. Pretorius is aman of no , great force of character, but has an influence over the Boers derived from his name in con- nection with their trouble and unhappy his. tory ; but Kruger is a person of very difierent type, and Joubert,‘ the commandant of the Boers, is a compound of Oliver Cromwell and 1 Balfour of Burley. It is nonsense to talk I about this rising being the work of a “ few agitators.” EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FASTING. A remarkable case of fasting is reported at Ipswich. The wife of a gardener. named Lockwood. is said not to have eaten a pound of solid food throughout the past year, and for the past three months she has partsken of nothing but a. few drops of weak tea, amount- ing to less than a pint per month. She is re- duced to s. mere skeleton, and is unable to move her head or open her eyes or mouth. At the least excitement she iaints, and lies for hours, and even days, in a. state of coma. Once she remained for a fortnight in this con- dition. A surgeon who has visited her says she suffers from pressure on the brain, and at times endures intense pain on the right tem- pleâ€"Glasgow News. â€"-King Humbert gave the poor of Rome 3800. Pope Leo XIII., gave the poor priests in the city $1,200, on New Year’s Day. THE POSITON OF THE BOERS. WHOLE N0. 1,175.â€"â€"-NO, 85. i (From the Burlington.) 5 0f the two branches of the Celtic stock in. habiting the British Islands, the Gaels of Ireland had the more ancient literature. His- ! torians have preserved to us their account 0! the battle of Gabhra, alleged to have been fought an. 284. Cum haill, Chief of Leinster, one of the four Irish clans, was killed in the battle by G011, of the clan of Connaugbt. Finn MacCumhaill, the son of Cumhaill. beâ€" gan life consequently at enmity with Goll.bnt subsequently made peace with him. Finn’s clan now took the lead, and became so power- ful that the other Irish'leaders (with the ex- ception of the King of Munster) confederated against it. The Olanna Baoisgne contended against this dominating power, but was over- whelmed at the battle of Gabhra. Finn, or “ fair-haired.” had a cousin famous in song. named Caeilte MacRoman; and two sons, Fergus Finnbheoil, the eloquent, who was chief bard, and Oisin, the little fawn, who was both bard and warrior. Oisin (Ossun or Ossian, as the Scotch have it) had a warrior son named Oscar, who was killed at tbsbattle of Gabbra by Cairbar, the son of Cormas MacArt, King of Ireland. The king was at- tacked by Oscar in the battle, but defended by his son, just named, who gave Oscar his death wound. The expiring warrior, however, in the moment of death, dealt a mortal blow in turn to his adversary Cairbar. Such are the materials upon which is founded the earliest known fragment of song. In the ages which succeeded, bards continued to chant the deeds of victorious leaders, or to lament the woes of those who were defeated and disgraced. The old Irish bards consisted of three classes, viz. : the Fileas, who celebrated the strains of war and religion ; the Seanachies, who filled the offices of antiquarian and historian ; and the Brenons, who devoted themselves to the study of the law. which they versified and re- cited to the people, after the manner of the Ionian bards. The Beanachies were the most numerous class, for almost every family pos- sessed one of these singers, whose duty is was to sing the exploits and trace the genealogy of his patrons up to Milesius himself. There has always been a crednlous acceptance of tradition amongst the Irish people, yet, while we guard ourselves against taking as history what thousands have always believed to be such, we can, at any rate, bear testimony to the pleasant and innocuous character of these beliefs. With kings as their patrons, the bards were a. privileged and an honored race. They had an epigrammatio style, which gave them a ready mode of access to the hearts of the people. “ The genius of the Celtic lan- guage assisted in the formation of this terse style. Its subtile grace and vigor, as idiom- atic asits soul-touching tenderness, rendered it an appropriate vehicle for the exquisite touches of the poet, 'or the pregnant wisdom of the philosopher. The influence of the bards over the multitude, and the super- stitious veneration attached to their office, soon elevated their dignity next to that of the king.” Nor were the historical productions of the bards by any means to be despised. In many in- stances these were true aud veritable history; and Moore, urging their importance from this point of view, says that a council was speci- ally appointed to investigate the truth of the historical records. and that ” whatever ma- terials for history the provincial annals sup- plied, were here sifted snd epitomised, and the result entered in the great national re- gister, the Psalter of Tara.” The first deadly enemy of the native Irish literature was the Danish Goth. who, at the close of the eighth century, overran the island, destroying the monasteriesâ€"the repositories of learningâ€" and exterminatlng the bards. Several can» turies later literature revived a little, but. there was another invasion in the twelfth century. This, however, did not completely i extinguish the race of bards, and it was not until the reign of Elizabeth that they began to die out under the pressure of English in- fluences. The work proceeded for upward of a century longer, until at length we come to Carolan the Blind, of whom Oliver Gold- smith has written charmingly, and whom he describes as the last and greatest of all the bards of Ireland. Carolan was poet, musiâ€" cian, composer and singer in one. Much of his poetry and music was in vogue at the close of the last century. Swift translated a song of his beginning, “ O’Rourke’s noble fare will ne’er be forgot.” His songs have been compared with those of Pindar ; for in them one man was praised for the excellence of his stable. as in Pindar, another for his hospitality, a third for the beauty of his wife and children, and a fourth for the antiquity of his family. Caro. lan had an astonishing memory and a face- tious turn of thinking, which greatly enters tained his listeners. It is related that be was once at the house of an Irish noblemahmhera there was a musician present, whom the bard immediately challenged to a trial of skill. His lordship persuaded the musician to accept the challenge, and the latter played over on his fiddle the fifth concerto of Vivaldi. Car0« lan, taking up his harp, played over the whole: piece after him, omitting not a single note, although he had never heard it before. The feat created great surprise ; but the astonish- ment increased when he assured the company that he could make a concerto in the same taste himself, which he instantly composed with rare spirit and elegance. His death was not more remarkable than his life, adds Goldm smith. Homer was never more fond of a glass than he ; he would drink whole pints of usquebaugb, and, as he used to think, with out any ill consequence. " His intemperance, however, in this respect at length brought on an incurable disorder ; and when just at the point of death. he called for a cup of his be- loved liquor. Those who were standing round him, surprised at the demmd, endeavored to persuade him to t contrary, but he persisted, and when the bowl was brought him, attempted drink, but could not; wherefore. giving away the bowl, he observed with a smile that it would be hard if two such friends as he and the cup should part at least without kissing; and then expired.” There is another story of Carolan, which has been excellently ren- dered into verse by Samuel Lover. Tradition says that this Irish bard, when deprived of sight, and after the lapse of twenty years, recognized his first love by the touch of her hand. The lady’s name was not a euphori- ions one; but Bridget Cruise could have been no ordinary woman to inspire such a passion. On his return from a pilgrimage which he. made to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, in Lough Dearg, Carolan found several persons on shore waiting the arrival of the boat which had coniâ€" veyed him to the scene of his devotion. 1n assisting one of these devout travelers to get on board, he chanced to take a lady’s hand, and his sense of touch and feeling was so acute that he exclaimed, “By the hand of my Gossip, this is the band of my first love. Bridget Cruise l" Ireland has produced Gaelic poets since the time of Elizabeth; but they were bards rather in a provincial sense, and not in a national sense, like the more ancient ain- gers. Concerning these latter, and also touching a peculiar and interest- ing characteristic of the Irish people generally, Thierry says: “ The wandering poets were prosecuted, banished, delivered up to tortures and death ; but violence served only to irritate indomitable wills ; the art oi poetry and singing had its martyrs llke reli- gion ; and the remembrances, the destruc- tion of which was desired, were increased by the feeling of how much it cost them to pre- serve. The Irish love to make their country into a loving and beloved real being, they love to speak to it without pronouncing its name, and to mingle the love they bear it, an austere and perilous love, with what is sweet- est and happiest among the afiections oi the heart. It seems as if, under the veil or these agreeable illusions, they wished to disg uise to their minds the reality of the dangers to which the patriot exposes himself, and te di- vert themselves with graceful ideas while awaiting the hour of battle. like those Spartans who crowned themselves with flow- ers when on the point of perishing at That- ’ mopyle." IRISH STORY AND SONG.