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- 8 LITERATURE IN ENGLAN The Byron Memorial Controversy—Disracli’s | Tribute to the Poet-Peer. What the Authors Are Now Doing—The | Gist of the Latest Books. Lonpow, July 17, 1875. | Apropos of literary matters, I mention the | gontroversy to which the #yron‘@stmoriai move- | ment has given rise. A letter appeared in the | Times some ten days ago from a lady who claimed to speak as the representative of the poe j ‘amuy, strongly provesiing against the removi of the slab placed by bis friends and relatives soon after nis death over Ms grave in Hucknell | forkard churebyard. * Whea Byron aied,” the | letter continued, “he was not deemed worthy ot | \aterment in Westminster Abbey, and now that | some national recognition of his genius was forth. | soming It Was too late.” The episile, which bore the signature of * Isabella Noe! Bluot,” was, 1 venture to think, in the worst taste conceivable. had been originally addressed to Mr. Disraell, and the lady herseli communicated tt to the lead- ing journal. Simce then it has transpired that Lady Noe! Blunt is Byron’s granadaugiter. | The protesc which she has chosen to enter @gainst the memorial is considereu by others who are directly descended from the poet as singularly Bncalied ior, and even impertinent. Yesterday a Meeting was held at Willis’ Rooms, for tne pur- pose of considering what should be done with tne surplus funds subscribed afer the decoration of tbe temp of the anthor of “Childe Harold.” MR. DISKAELI DELIVEKED A SPEECH, which was in his very best style, and the meeting was « complete success. Among others who Were there was Lord Lovelace, Byron’s son-in- law, and His Lordship, speaking on bebalt of the descendants of the poet, most emphatically nega- t¥ed the views put forth in Lady Noel Blunt's il- med letter. There isa special appropriateness im the selection of Mr, Disraeli to the post ot presi- Jent of the tund. Certainly no English writer has veeu more powerfully infuenced by the genius of Byron, while iu **Venetia’’—perhaps the poorest of bis novels—the attempt is made to “sbadow forth” Byron himself under the Bame of Cadurcts, It is just worth men- tioning that this is not the first or the only instance in whicu an author of English fiction has endeavored to fulfli a like design, While Byron was yet living Lady Caroline Lamb pub- shed a novel, “Gienarvon,” the nero of which, Bnd the namesake of her work, was none other than the Illustrious Englishman with whose fame all Europe was then ringing. MR. TENNYSON’S DRAMA. To come from the poet of the past to the poetry | the present, Mr. Tennyson’s drama bus fallen meredibly fat. At this | am surprised; pot be- yause I consider the work a really great poem, yut because its intensely Piotestant tone is thoroughly calculated to suit the inteusely Prot- yetant ‘rame of mind in which the English public just now are. Its subject, as you are aware, 13 Mary Tudor, and the failure of her attempt to re- Store the ascendancy of the Roman Church in the kingdom of which she was Queen. The laureate bas taken his usuai pains wita bis work, and some of the historical portraits which it contains are | admirable for fidelity and fnish. But the subject 1s not one suited for framatic or poetic treatment. ‘There is no variety: there is a sort of plot, bnt there is no toupter plot; there 1s gloom, but there is no Yght; there is, in fact, nothing to relleve the mo- aotony of that hopeless despair which was the Bimosphere of Mary ludor’s , and which en- veloped her death. It may be that wito Mr. Henry Irving as Poillp of Spain, or more likely I hear, as Gardner, the arama willsucceed upon the stage, | and if that is the case, then the copies which are bow rapidly accumulating will be sula off. Butl fail to see where the element of dramatic success im the play lies, and that is certatnly the opinion pf most competent critics here, though Mr, Tenny- | son is sala to be of opinion that ite Protestant moral will take the Englion public by storm. Butif Mr. Tennyson has (sited, We have just had issued a volume of poetry which bids fair to bea success. Itis a collection of transiations trom Teelandic, by Kirikr Magnusson and William Morris, called “THREE NORTHERN LOVE STORIES,” | and is an admirable specimen of conscientiously | executed work, It is really refreshing aiter the sropical heats of the erotic poetry, so fashionable with our modern pagan bards, to /eel the bracing | tir of the northern climes so which Mr, Morris and | Ms colleague introduce us, There ts not a stanza— | | baa almost said not a line—whicn isnot fresh and | spirited and redolent ot that acventurous life woich the old hero of their poems led. NEW NOVELS. ‘The list of new novels contain little enough of faterest or of value. “The Boudoir Cabal’ 1s, per- baps, the most taking fiction we have lately had. {tis aromance of politics and sectety, in whose pages Air. Disric}i and Mr. Gladstone figure as Mr. | Paramount and Mr, Paradise. The novel derives its mame irom the unscrupuious organization, formed by a uuinber of great ladies—wno are ine | dignant that the hero of the story, Lora Mayrose, 61d not marry one of themse!ves instead of a preity parvenu, the daurhter and sole heiress of a city | kKnight—fur the purpose of ruiming him and his wife. The political portion of the novel may be briefly indiested. Mr. Paradyse (Gladstone) brings in a scheme for home rule applied to Ireland, Scotiand and Wales. Mr. Paramount (Disrael!) moves as a counter resojution ty this that 80 momentous a change caunot be sanetioned by Parliament before every man and woman in the Empire has the opportumity of pronouncing Bis or her opinion, so he obtains leave to intro- duce # measure for absolute Qniversal manhood | and womanhood sucrage, ‘The idea ts better con- ceived than executed, fr the author displays a certain unfamiliarity with the nature of English | politics. Still the novel ia bright and lively emough. As another tilustration of | REALISM IN FICTION I may draw attention to a noveicalled the “Wheel of Fortune,” by Mr. BE. A. Ryder. {t introduces the reader to muca the same life as that depictea ia MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE’S NEW NOVEL, “The Way We Live Now,” th fh the characters, as might be expected, are much less skiitnily janned, Still there is evident siga tnat they are awn irom life, and that is @ step im the rigat @irection. Nowwithstanding thatin Mr. ‘lrollope’s “The Way We Live Now’ there is & good deal that is Vigorous and pointed, the novel, as a whole, is Rot satisfactory. ‘The style is difugs; the dramatis persone, with the exception of Laly Cadbury ana | the Lougstattes, are vagucly delineated and van- | Ish from our memory as soon as they have been | admitied to it, It is not octen Lhat we have A DULL IRisit NOVEL {wficted on us. Lever’s romances were so nnt- | formly brilliant that he seems almost to have warned off all latter day novelisis from tne soil of she Bmeraid Isic. but in “Castic paly” we pave Bvery dull novel indced. The pictures of ine Irigm peasantry are stagy and conventional; the irish squires nave done duty again and again as the jeading geutiemen of melodrama. Pelham Day, the nero, 1s Engitsh by etucation, and com. qmencing by being a prig ends as a nome ruler. fhe hook is apparently intended to tins. wate the dilMeuities and the perpiexities ow the Irish land system, even alter Mr. Giadstone'’s Land bill, The best parts of the book wre those in whieh the mery of Oo mara is deacripea, Sut one looks in vain jor any of those qualifica- dons—Compactness of plot, consistency of charac- er, swiltness of incident, sprighitiness of dia- ogue—which make a good novel. WORKS OF TRAVEL AND ADYRYTURE. AS a set-off against bad or meat ve novels we pany at Jeast boast of three good works of travel and adventure. First on the list I place Mra. Burton’s “Unexplored Syria,” a vivid narrative of aetual experience, picturesqueiy and powerlully | the woods themse’ves, The price is thirty france | pe written, Mrs, Burton, a8 you are aware, is the | ha he | temptation. | hunter, | with a NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEXT, AL ieant et pL SRL cea So aro ania: a a Re A RE al ata oe SO een ee into wife of the famous traveller Captain Burton, and has seen the Manners of almost as many men and as many cities ag her intrepid nusbaad himself. She tells us, 1m this most charming book, which every one should read, not so much of perils by land and water and bairbreadth escapes of every kind, 4s of the domestic life of a people whom she has studied as no other English woman has, One KuOWS not which most to praise and admire, ber unwearied faculty of minute observetion or the Brace, Vigor and flexibility of her style, Mr. Drummona’s book on the GAME OF SOUTH AND SOUTHRAST AFRICA belongs to a diferent category. Tais 1s essentially & volume of adventure, and will delight every one who has ever fired a ride or stuck a pig. It May be interesting to some of your readers to Know that there exists an etiquette of the sport- ing field quite as rigid in Soutn Africa as that observed ip an English peasant covert. The tail of the beast Kilied is claimed by the banter who inflicted the first wouna, even should that wound be a mere prick, and tt is he who receives pay for killing the animal just as much as if he Lad given it the coup de grace. A YACHT CRUISING IN THE SOUTH SEA 18 not quite as lively as was Lord Pemoroke’s “South Sea subbles,” but it is still very readable, and the autotype photograpis which the book contains are admiraple. The author, Mr. F. Ward, does not think Javoraply of the work of mission- aries in these parts, Thus he tells us that the amoains, who are Christians, are “the most arrant thieves,” and that “their morality 1s atthe lowest ebb,” and it ts in these words that be sums up the whole question:—“I'ne Cnristian ‘religion as introduced py our missionaries in the South Seas appears to pass over 'he country like a tidal wave that presently recedes and leaves it worse than ever.” Iam not enough of en etymological authority to say whether the spelling of “coco- nut’ is gsecidental or inaccurate, or is scientif- leally correct, It looks odd. Of LITERARY GOSSIP 3 tnere is little or none. I may, perhaps, mention that the August number of the Cornhill Magazine will contain the opening chapters of a novel by Mrs, Lynn Liaton, “The Atonement of Leam Dun- das,” of which great things are expected, and that among the articles in the first number of a new mid-montrly periodical called the London Magazine—a time-honored title—will be a paper by Mr. John H. Ingraham (the rehabilitator of Poe, the poet), on Edgar Allen Poe's “Polttician,” the manuscript of which he has recently come in pos- session of. Unless the manuscript reveals bean- ties not yet published, I tall to see how Mr, Ingra- ham will have enough material for his paper. A NEW POET. THE MIRROR OF THE MIND : A Poam. By Algernon Sydney Logan. New York: G. P, Putnam's Sons. ‘This is a bright, mcdest little volume, compris ing two cantos of a poem written in the measure of “Chiide Harold.” The first canto is composed of fi'ty-two stanzas, the second of sixty-six. The author is unknown to us, but we believe he isa young man of culture and ambition, resident in Pennsylvania. He now makes his début in | the world of literature. Tne form of this pubitcation—the two cantos—the Spenserian measure and the general tone that pervades it, remind us of Lord Byron’s publication of “Childe Harold.” The influence o! Byron pervades the style of Mr. Logan. There is scarcely a page in which we are not reminded of the wide and sweeping intellect of the great master. The tone, however, 1s hizher than that of *Cntide Harold.’” There 1s more manliness in the author’s sentl- ments, We miss that painful egotism which marred even the poblest of Byron’s conceptions. it is patural fora young poet to fall under the influence of some one of the great masters, and it has been the fortune of Byron to impress kim- self more largely upon this generation than that of any other poet. Swinburne and Ten- nyson ana Wordsworth have to @ certain ex- tent disputed his dominion, but in read- mg the poems of young writers like Mr. Logan the influence of Byron is constantly seen. Where tais influence is departed from we have frequently a straining tor peculiar effects, which result some:imes in impurity and in- decency, and ine publication of unatteravle poems, uke some of Mr. Swinburne’s works. It is a credtt to Mr. Logan that he has not yielded to this Mr. Logan's style 1s clear, sweet and express- sive, sometimes uneven, with occasionally an am- bitious effort at effect, which weakens the har- mony, strength and poise of his verse. For ine stance:— Winter, the azed hantsman. now appears, h hened, not declined; gor wear red ch he tin! He seeks for spoil with hard and bitter mind; With berking winds betore him and behina, Which beat se and thicket with keen breath— Thev bite at ali tinugs im their fary blind And chase the clonds, the chilly sy beacath— All that is lett exposed they doom to speedy death A stanza like this contains an idea of the faults of Mr. Logan’s style, but they are the faults of immaturity. The picture of Winter, an aged to whom years have given increased strength, driven by the barking winds, ts poetic; but the effect is lost by such lines as * He seeks for spoil with bard and bitter mind,” and “They bite at all things im tnetr fury blind.” We cannot but feel that these lines are put In to oblige the stanza and not to give strength to what other. wise is a quaint and proper poetteal iliustration. | The influence of Byron we find im such lines as ed In childhood. and stiil love to climb vdizzy rocks and air-surfounded towers, And again:— Ob, memory | oh, memory ! away t S nS a3 6 i] Wi'h all tay thousand torms and colorings; | Pale evening siar of our declining day t | Thine unsee rfl lings A mantle o'er th a Past, and wrings Dew trou iite’s grauite, and trom seas of woe. Ana again :— L've loved to gaze upon the Alps, where, sweeping, The winds their glittering grain torever sow; A thousund winters past ttere still are sleeping Upon each other's breas's in ters of snow. And again:— What I have felt shall others ever feel? What I have sown with toil shall Te’er reap? Shall my voice ring aiar with echoing peal, Or shall [ be as (hose who in their slee ried aioud, while ther tips keep Ines? And again ;— Dark ocean’s tides that chisel her bleak cliffs To sculptured forms of wild sublimity. These quotations show a manly quality, how- ever, and are not to be wondered atin a young writer. Mr. Logan has all the evements of a poet. His English is clear and sweet andpure. There is agenuine Saxon whic) noone knewso well to use as his great master. We have seen no book for aloug time marking the adventof a new writer in our literature which we have read with £0 TUCK loterest and pleasure as tois of Mr. Lo- gan. Its faulis are tno-e of a youog man; its merits are those of a writer of genius and power. We see no reason why, with study ana observa- ton and a belief tuat America has matertais tor poetry as vivid and profuse as the older countries, he should not make iis mark in Engiich literature, “LITERARY CHAT, There are 800 paper mills inthe United Staten, capital of $49,000,000, and producing | $70,000,000 worth per annum. 1875 18 @ hard yoar on newspapers, Since the 1st of January, 865 journals have suspended publication. The French author, Laveleye, has written a littie work on the comparative prosperity of Prot- estant and Roman Vatiolic countries, to which Mr, Gladstone wili contripare the introduction, Yne Dean of Miy 18 writing a book entitied “The Fail of tne Repuolic,” bur which republic the Dean of Ely andertases has not beem made kuown. The Literary Mart an@ Book Exchange \s the title of a London journal devoted to the interests of publishers and book collectors. Anew universal “Dictionary of Political Econ- omy,” by siguer Boccaro, is just published a Milan. the last three-volamed nonentity ont in London is Mr. Mortimer Collins’ “sweet and Twenty.” Mr. d. W. Haiey has published an examination | of the alieged diserepancies of the Bible, which he | has compressed tuto 436 pages. | ‘Toe latest noveRy in scientific bookmaking 1s @ treatise on ail the woods or forest trees of Europe, iliustrated by 150 specimens sawed in sections of 4 greatly enlarged edition of Kapy’s “Collection | of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of Ger- man, Swiss, Dutch, French and ether Immigrants in Pennsylvaaia,” with an appendix containing more than 1,000 German and French names in New York prior to 1712, will be published by I. Konler, Philadeipma, Mr, Aloert Rhodes’ new book, “The french at Tome,” is just ready at Dodd & Meads’, Mr. T. F, Meagher, of No, 34 Park row, will pab- Msh & book entitled “Tue Mercantile Agency in America: Is ita curse or a benefit?” We are to have a “History of Transcen: jalism in New England,” with biegraphical studies of its leacers, trom the pen of Rey, O. B. Frothingham. “The Peru Paradise,”’ by Francis G, Heath, is & very charming volume just out in London. ‘The late Micnael Levy le(t 17,000,000 francs, all made in publisting French literature, An unpublished letter of Bossuet, the eloquent bishop, brought 1,225 frances at a recent Paris auction. ‘ The stolen sermom question has again broken outin Englana, Among the remedies it 1s pro- posed tbat young preachers should be trained to speak extempore; also that all preachers should not bs required to preach every Sunday. Sitka,in Alaska Territory, has 502 people one newspaper. In Great Britain only three printers are author- ized to publish the English Bible. LONDON GOSSIP. ad ALL OUTDOOR PLEASURES INTERRUPTED BY THE RAINS—SUMMEB MILITARY MANGUVRES DURING A DOWNPOUR—ETON AND HARROW CRICKET MATCH—ROYALTY AND CHURCH EVANGELISM. LONDON, July 16, 1875. In a letter I sent you last week I was very dolorous about the state of our weather, and now, { regret to say, we are in greater grief; indeed, the unceasing downpour has ceased to be a subject for satirical mirth and is beginning to be looked upon with appre- hension. For the last forty-elgnt hours the rain has fallen throughout England without the slight- est intermission, and this morning telegrams, haye been received to the effect that the floods are out in Monmouthsnire, thousands of acres being submerged, many roads rendered impassa- ble anda boats performing tne ordinary duties of carts, The destruction to property 1s, of course, considerable, and several lives have been lost, ‘The whole of the West of England 1s threatened with submersion, and the damage done to the crops is immense. Here tn London we cannot complain of anything so serious, as it is only the RUIN OF OUR PLEASURES that we have to bemoan. Friday and Saturday last were fixed for the great cricket gala of the year, the match between the boys of Eton and Harrow schools, which invariably takes place at Lord’s Ground, and which not merely brings to- gether the friends of the players, but has gradually grown to be looked upon asa kind of enormous aristocratic picnic, at which the fashionable world assembles, To give you some idea of the manner in which this 1s carried oat 1 must tell you that it nas become the custom for fashionable people to send up their carriages and breaks to the ground on the night previous to the play. There they are all ranged in treble and quadruple lines, and to them the company resorts fur the double pur- pose of witnessing the sport and eating luxurious luncheons; in fact, on the Eton and Harrow day Lord’s Ground, which 1s situate at St. John’s Wood, within three miles of Charing Cross, more nearly resembles the space behind the grand stand at Ascot, or the lawn at Goodwood, thana place devoted to manly exercise, This year the first day of the match, Friday, was a completely blank day, The rain came down with such perse- verance that the whole ground was A SWAMP, and the space in the immediate vicinity of the wickets had to be covered ankle deep in sawdust in order vo afford the bowlers a foothold. Out of the mine hours usually devoted to piay only two were avatiable, and In these the qaalities of the antagonists could not pe judged, playing as they were under such exceptional circumstances, A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. Saturday promised better, inasmuch as there was no actual rain falling, but the clouds were heavy and Jowering and the peneral aspect inaus- picious, The weather, however, held up suf- | fictently to afford a fairish day’s sport, and, wbat was even more grateful to the company, to allow the ladies to throw off their outer wrappings of waterproof and to appear in their garments of many colors, THE FOUR-IN-HAND AND THE COACHING CLUBS were well represented—Lord Londesborough, with the Duchess of Manchester on the box seat by his side; Lord Abinger, Lord Seyton, Lord Aylesford, Lord and Lady Westmorland, Mr. Eaton (who sits as member jor Coventry, and consequently, a8 tae Wags say, Daturaliy nana: the “ribands’? well), rd Macclesticid and Lord Aveland, all weil known whips are there. There, 100, are innumerable baroucnes, langaus and britskas, all fled witn fair occupants, perpetually appealed to by their male friends, Who climb the wheels or hang on to any available perch Jor conversation purposes. They cast by occasienal giances at the piay and are mainly in- terested in flirtation and luncheon. Lime was, and not so long ago either, wnen LUNCHEON AT LORD'S meant asandwich aud a bottle of Bass; now the “proper thing? todo is to bring up your butler and foouman to erect an imprompiu table on tres- Seis under the trees, to cover it with a fair cloth, to give every gues; a finger napkin, and to make 4s wreat @ dispiay Of plate as lies in your power. There mast ve ire pails, too, for the champagne, and fruit and Ouger giasses to finish up with, ‘this is updoubtediy luxurious, but, somehow, horribly out of place, and nothing could be moré absurd than to see these little schoolvoys whose areatest pride onght to be in roughing 11, waited upon by powdered footmen and giving themselves the airs Of accomplished gourmets, HOW VERY UNFORTUNATE! Certainly tue unceasing Gownpour could not have come ata more unpleasant time. The Rifle Assoctation meeting at Wimbledon Common 18 now 1 !ull swing, and the camp 1s pronounced one Vast lake of mud and water, The autumn manceuyres whieh have been curried on jor the last two or three years have given way to a mucn c | smaller series of summer manceuyres, now bein, arried out with much success at Aidershot. | hear from competent authority that the result of two or three sham iignts, which took place during ihe past week, snowed a VAST IMPROVEMENT inthe way in which the troops were handled; showed further, thdt the lessons of the Franco- Prossian war are pot forgotten, and that our om- cers are beginuing to unuerstand that their pro- lession 18 NOt @ mere pastime, Yesterday the | Duke of Cambridge, as Commanuder-in-Chief, Went down to Witness what it had been imtended should be oue of (he Most brilliant of these ma- noeuvres, but the fearful rain has prevented any chance of carrying out tue evolutions, and tue troops must remain in their quarters for the present. THE PRINCE?S MONEY GRANT, The questivu of the mouey graut to the Prince to defray tue exp Of bis Visit to India is still c.eauing @ certam amount of commotion, and | there have been several public meetings bela py the workingmen in varlous towns vo protest against it. Inese meetings cannot be said to have | amounted to wuch, 48 they Were but sparsely ot | tended, and no one of any note tovk part im the | dings. Inaeed, 1 think th cepiion of (he profesred economis: the English peuple seem to icel that the amount | has been placed at a8 low a figure a8 was pos- sivie—su low that ia tae minds of those who know what the ourlay must necessarily be there 1s not the least doubt that next year Mr. Disraett will have to come to Parliament with a supplementary estimate, Lhe point urged by the objectors 19 that the Prince’s visit to india is pot undertaken for motives Of state policy, but merely as a pleas- ure trip, and li tuis argument were brougnt fore ward by any one Of Welgnt the discussion Would be pretiy hot aad strong, as tuere is, undouptedly. much to be said on both sides, In the debate last tight Mr. John Bright spose with more earne: ness and vigor than fe has shown jor some tim ahd it Was noticeable that is allusions to ta frankness, genialty and remarkable courtesy ot the Primes were received with enthusiastic ieeling. Last week those dlessed angels, MESSI. MOODY AND SANKRY, took farewell of their London irien great deal of hugging and howltog. ey nave assiduousiy Set AbOUL reports that their mission i sfti and thatthe namuer of througn their instrumental- Y has been enormous, if so, the r with @ 8 it probably be seen in tie diminution of inal ctlendar at ihe Various assizes throagudat | the country. But this time will prove, One | thing 1s certain, that they have recerved an enormous sum of money and that up to the present ume no clear account has been given as Vo LOW It Was disposed 0: A LION PROM ARICA, Yesterday our voter jivn, tue suattan of Zanzl bar, took his departure, Me is said by ali wno met hit to wave exhibited a considerable amount of inteiligence, anu has been very popular. THE TURF. | grass, and damaged more almost beyond recovery, | fMlisd with water to (he depth o1 two teet. In another ten days the iastionable world will desurh. starting lor Goodwood, and London will be a } THE FLOODS IN ENGLAND, SEVERE THUNDER AND CONTINUATION OF THE BAIN DELUGE—GREAT DAMAGE TO THE OROPS—ACRES OF LAND UNDER WATER AND IMPROMPTU LAKES COVERING THE FIELDS— THE SECOND SWEEP OF THE STORM. {from the Lonaon News, July 22.) A very general thunderstorm appears to nave passed over Leicestershire on Tuesday afternoon, and the repores which come to hand from various | parts are of a most disastrous character, The rain | descended ior a time like sheets of water, and al- | though it abated considerably toward evening, it never ceased falling tor the rest of the day until | past midnight. As a consequence, the floods which bad subsided considerably are again out | and worse than before, aud it is feared that much damage has been sustained, AT LEICESTER ‘ the town sewers were quite insuMecient to carry off the waterfall, and the basements of many houses in various parts of the town were Blied with water to the depth of irom five feet | factories the | boiler fires were extinguished by the wet. | to six feet, while at some la some of the strects the water was two feet deep and up to the floor of the tram cars as they passed through the flood. Tne lowlunds in the neighborhood of the Soar and canal are again flooded to a considerable depth, and muco dain- | age has been done ta hay and corn, In the neigh- bornood of Loughborough a great deal of water is out, and during ihe storm the market place of that town was flooded, Cattle nad to be removed from the meadows to prevent them irom being drowned, and one farmer is stated to have sus- tamed £500 damage. So great was the quantity of water outtnat it was tought jora time that the reservoir had burst, A iater communication saysi—“Since morning the floods in Leicerter- sbire have considerably increased, and most alarming lears are entertained as to the result, Around Leicester tie waters have been rapily rising {rom an early hour, and by ten o'clock the low lylbg part on the western side of the town, in the vicimity of the canal and Sour, was inua- dated to a considerable depth, tne waters coming in like a sea. ina short ume cellars were fillea and the lower rooms of houses flooded to the depta of several feet, and factories had to be stopped; while streets Were rendered Impassavie, eXcepticg in mga colveyunces, and many persons Wao had come into the town irom the Western Side to Work In te morning by dinner time found themselves unable +o return to taeir homes, ex cepting by ridiug through the waters. Many of the mhabltants Ol those parts have veen obliged | to take reluge 1m their upstairs Tvoms. Look ng through the windows at tae vack of the Castle, where Mr. Baron Bramwell and ir. Justice Melior are oolding the agsizes, and whica abuts the canal, the country, as far as one Can see. presents the appearance oi a perfect sea, rolling with tue velocity O1 a mountain torrent in the direction of SILSBY, BARROW AND LOUGIBOROUGH, whence reports come ol the Waters rising rap- ldly and considerable damage being done, the country for miles around being deluged. Be- tween Blaby, Aylestone, Whetstone aud Narbo- rough the country 18 ‘0 described as like w sea, the water in et ese roliing over the neuge tops, While Ray and grass imay be seen foanng abyut in all.directuons. ‘he whole of the mead- ows and part o: the road between Waulip and Belgrave are entirely submerged, while be- tween Melton Mowbray and Asicrdby, on the Mel- ton ana Peterborough branch of the Midland line, tne ballast was been washed from under the sieepers of Ube railway by the rising ol the Wreake, causing @ stoppage of traille for some time; while jn the neighvorhood » number of catile and sbecp have been drowned and ochers been carried away by the current. Near te Das- ford station, on the Leicester and Burton branch, part ol tne line has been washed away and the trafic stopped for some vime. AT GLENVISLD, about five miles from Leicester, a brook which runs about fifty yards irom the Gienflela station over the Leicester and Swanntington brancues (one of the eariest Jormed railways in the king- dom) in the course Of the night rose so rapidly und WIL suck force a8 to wash away tne railway | the buliast veing gone and the water coursing | beaten down by the rain. bridge under waich It passes, and which will take some time to repiace, Throughout this valley the | flooa has marked a Clear course, carrying all be- fore it, and Learing up the fences 1n sowe pla jor # distance v! from thirty to lorty fee! a | number of sheep are also reported drowned and | wasued away in this locality, Several heavy | suowers bave Jallen during the day, and at | Leicester, at the time of the despatcn of this, the | Waters showed no apparent sign of subsidence, but rather indications of rising, and tne flooded parts are being Visited by thousands living in more elevated localities. IN BIRMINGHAM, Very heavy rain feil in Jsirmingham and neigh- borhood again yesteraay. ‘Lhe flooas in the Aston | district Were more severe tuan were known | during the last nine years, the ammunition factory of Messrs, Kynocks & ©o, tne people had to form bridges and Walk over stepping stunes to ev to the worxsheds. In the evening, when they feft, veliicies nad 10 be brought Into use to carry them over the great pools of water which nad accuinulated im one parc of the town. Tne luh- Way Was completely covered witu water and por- tons of the road Were swept away by the storm, The traMe Was entirely suspended, Cabmen reiusea to pass througn the locailty, and in some funeral processions tae horses Were courpelied 0 swin before tuey reached Witton, which 1s the principai cemetery o1 the town, AT THE CEMETERY the cross of the Roman Catholic chapel was strack by lightning, and the Coping sioue Was damaged, The camage to property aud houseaodld goods | in this district Is so great thal even an approxi- mate estimate of its extent caunot bs given. IN WEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE | great uneasiness Is ielc by the larmers at the pro- | | | longed wet which has prevatie. here, aad which threatens to destroy the cora crops as tt nas ale | ready destroyed a great part o: the hay, The Hoods of jast Week cairied away a yood deai of cut andon juesuay night rain fell for many hours, hor vad It ceased yesterday, The consequence is that tue Wye, the Suzy, aud swaller streams are agatu in flood, and threaten jurther destruction, de corn 18 said, and 148 feared that the bariey crop, ll it should recover, wil be a very inlerior | one. Milcew is alsO suowing In the wheat, avd altogetner the prospect 1s most discouraging. CENTRAL WARWICKSIIRE was yesterday visited by # flood unparalleled dur- ing the last ten years, Tae rivers Leam and Avon during their tortuous courses everywhere uver- flowed the adjoining flelds and couverted them mmto eXpansive jukex. sor mules Crops are sib. merged and have been swept away or seriousiy damaged. At Leamington a wooden bridge was dewviisiied, and the fovd rose sv rapidly tiat tue principal bildge over the Leam was in peril and had tu be sedulously Watched, Strengthened ana protected, The Jephson Gardens ana Pump Tovms, With the ornamental ground tn the centre of the town, are partiaily submerged. The rain- faii still continued Jast evening, but te Mood was sivWiy suosiding. Between four and ilve o’ciock yesterday morn- pob-eud and other parts of the overfiow of the Slieroo.ue, a simalt river taking @ winding course turougk tue ceutre of the town, Au incessant rain had jalien during | the past two days, aud it was noticed thas the river ud greatly swollen, although no damage | Was anticipated. During the previous nigut, | however, it aad risen as much as five or six ieet, | aud, rasiing over its banks, entered the dwelling | houses, the lower parts of which were quickly ‘The whole of the gardens, of which there are a great number mm the neguborhood, were compietely suomerged, great damage being done to the ci ops. Several articies of furniture were washed down the ,river, and ail owtouliding=, such as pigsties, fuwi pens, &c., were carried away by the lorce of the flood, aud’ it Was with great difticnity that any portion of the stock was saved, in some in- stances SNEEP AND PIGS were wasned down the river und a horse had a narrow escape. Several factories were stopped ih consequence of the water gecting nto the fires, and it was soine time before they could be started again, The rain subsided during the early part of the moruing, and the river gradually lowered and the water went into its proper course, bat not beiore great damage had beep done both to | property and crops. 10 the neiguvorhuod of Voy. | entry the rains have done great damage to stand- ig held Lg od aud the farmers fear the conse- quences wil be very serious. Large quantities of | Nay have been washed away, it naving been cut bul not gathered, it hud again commenced to rain, and should it continue w recurrence of the floods Wiil take piace. A CANAL BURSTS ITS BANKS. | At three v’siock yesterday morning the banks of the Birmingham ana Coventry Canal burst at Pasley, near Tamworth. The rivers Tame and Apker alsy overflowed d covered th iand for mies around with water, The water entered Tamworth at three points; 120 yards of one of ine principal streets ave four teetdeep in Water, aud | the imhapitants have oad to take them-elves to | their bedrooms. Two paper mills, a four mil aad several of the collieries are fuvded. Seores of peo- ple are thrown out of Work. Buating i carried | on over the fleids and hed: It 18 impossible to | leave the town on fvot except by one road, | The Water WAS still risiug jate yesterday after- noon. A SAD SCENE AT RUGBY, | A Rugby correspondent writes: | Alltie low-lying and adjacent land and roads | by the river Avon are flooded to the depta of sev- | eral feet, so much that navigation is imposs:ble by rosa, At the Avoa Mtil tt ts impossivie tor horses OF carriages Lu pass on the roads, th rent isso siron#. Dead cattic large quan- | tities of ay continually float down, A boy and two horses were stated to be drowned chs morne | ing agalust the Kagby tollgate, on the roud lead. jun tug to Latterworth, and & vaiuaoie horse ing to the Vietoria Works Company 50 drowned, The driver tad & harrow escape, bub he Was saved by clinging to a hedge whiie assist- auce Was rendered him. The occupants of the Avon M Il and oonse adjoiming “are obliged to live up stairs, abd necessary provisions nave veen cvaveyed Im cCaris Ab WOO, WiluM ® horse aad 18 | right hand vird managed to get away scot Iree, gart were feturning, the bridge leading to the house tell if, and horse, cart and driver Were sub- inerged. Fortunately they were got out, little the worse for tuetr acciaent, AT NEWBOLD, ON AVON, the canal and river have botn overfowed, and the roads are inundated, Grave fears are entertained that the canal there not far from Lady Prescoty’s residence may burst. At Lilbourne, near Rugby, about a quarter of @ mile from Liibourne station, on the road toward Yelvertoft, on the Stamford and Kuby line, the water has washed the railway embankment away Jor & aistance of 150 Yards, nothing being lest but the sleepers, which are attached to the ralis, all through with great velocity, The trains have iad to run peur to the piace and then go back, passeL- gets being conveyed irom one train to another. THE VENS 1N NORTHAMUTONSHIRE present the appearance of w vast lake, miles of sand being votally submerged, Tue damage to the cropping Will be disastrous, many acres of wheat, oats aud barley On the low lying Jands being uncer water, apd the crops on the higner lands are For more than a week we have had an tncessans downpour, and the rain still continues to tail With no appearance of clea ing up. The river Nene, which overflowed its banks two or three days ago, still continues to rise rapidly, IEAVY LOSSES AT NOTTINGHAM, After a couple of days of comparatively fine weather at Nottingham, rain again began to all heavily early ou Sionday moramg, and continued with very litthe intermission until yesterday morning, occasionally coming down in torrents, ‘the consequence 13 that the Trentand other Streams, wuich during the interval of fine weather had receded considerably, have again riseu to Ayreat nelgnt, and have in many places overfiowed their banks. In (he neighborhood of Notungtem a large breadth of jow-iving land is under Water, and tn the adjacent connties of Derby and Leicester vast tracts sre submerged, and @ great quantity of nay bas been spoiled, Wall the damage sustained by the corn crops 1s very serious, Much ot the grain ts beaten down beyond hope of recovery, ‘This 18 particularly the case with barley, witch was a heavy crop, and even Should the weather become fine, the yiela and goon wiil be very materially atlected. Yester- ay atternoon a slight thunderstorm passed over Nottingham, but the rainfall was not very heavy. A WEEK'S RAINFALL, {From the Liverpool Mercury, July 22.) The Registrar General states that at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, no less than 3.27 1nches of rain were measured last week, of which 2.39 inches fell during the lorty-fur hours ending at seven A. M. on Friday, So large an amount of rain has not fallen in London during any week Since the last seven days of September, 1871, when 3.34 inches were measured. in other kug- lish towns the rain measured during the week ranged from .32 and .55 of an inch In Bradiord and Leeds, to 304 inches in Bristol, whlch was the nearest approach to the rainfall in London. SOMETHING MORE ABOUT ST. SWITHIN, [from the Manchester Guardian, July 21.) St. Swithin has not been propitious, so we hear on every hand. If ts, in fact, asserted that the 16th was the wettest Cay on record at most of the stations. We are, therefore, it seems, to have forty days’ wet weather, and need not make any excursion or plcme engagements tll aiter te 26th of August. This pleasant prospect will, however, be brightened by a consideration of tne following statement, which appeared in the Times some fourteen years agu:—‘It appears that St Switain’s Day was wet in 1841, and there were 23 rainy days up to the 24th August; 1845, 26 rainy days; 18 rainy Gays; 1803, 18 rainy days; i854, 16 tainy days; aud In 1856, 14 rainy days. in 1842 and Joliowing years, St. Swithin’s Day was dry, and the result ‘Was:—lp 1842, 12 ratny days; 1843, 22 ramy days; 1844, 20 rainy days; 1846, 21 rainy days; 1847, 17 rainy days; 1848, 31 rainy days; 1849, 20 rainy Gays; 1850, 17 rainy days; 1852, 19 rainy days; 1855, 18 rainy days; 1957, 14 rainy days; 1858, 14 rainy days; 1859, 13 rainy days; and in 1860, 29 ramy days. e figures show the superstition to be founded on faliacy, a8 tue average of twenty years proves rain to have fallen upon the largest Lumber ot days when St, Swithin’s Day was ary.”” ST, SWITHIN’S DAY, by the way, is not July 15, bus 2, the former date being that of bis translation, It was on tne feass of the transiauon, however, that the great deluge took place which hus connected the name of Kine Allred’s tator with the weather ever since. The Superstition is very Widespread. It nas been nouced in Arcnbisnop Laud’s giary. Pepys’ new ceilings Were ruined by the rain on the 15th of July, 1662; but he Goes not attribute the misfor- tune Lo the malign influence of St Swithin. A refutation of the popular idea occurs tn “Hone’s Everyday Boox,” from which we learn that dry weather followed a web St Swithin in 1807 and 1898. He also points out what is of more impor- tance—tnat the 15th of July, in the old style, cor- responds with the 20tn in the new. ‘the relics of St, Swithin were translated first in 971, and afterward in 1004, and are now said to rest beneath @ plain stone near the east end or the Outhedral at Winchester, His bead was said to have been carried to Canterbury. THE VISITATION IN FRANCE, THANES OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE HUMANE FRIENDS IN ENGLAND. [Toulouse (July 21) correspondence of London Times.} The Minister of Public Works gave a banquet yesterday evening, at which Captain Rennick and Mr. John Farley, the delegates sent by the Lord Mayor to Toulouse to distribute the twoney sub- ribed to the Mansion House Puna, were present, | Tne Prefect thanked the Engusa delegaies, and begged them to express to their countrymeu the gratitude of the sufferers wnom their generous subscriptions had relieved. [fe conciuded by pro- posing toasts in honor of Her Majesty the Queen, the Lord Mayor, the delegates and the Eugiish people. Mr. Purley expressed his thanks for the cordial reception he had met with. General Fenelon thanked the delegates in name of the army, and requested them to co to the Briush Officers the assurance tnat | French officers preserved the best recollection of | their brotherbood ip arms in the Crimea. Cap- | tai Rennick, in reply, said that the British offi- cers juily reciprocated toward tne French army the friendly feeling expressed by General Fenelon, PIGEON SHOOTING FEIES AT BROMPTON—WHAT THE AMERICAN MARKSMAN ACCOMPLISHED IN ENGLAND SUBSEQUENT TO HIS FINST VIC- ‘TORY. Lonpon, July 19, 1875, The attendance at the Lille Bridge Grounds, Brompton, to-day was a good deal influenced vy the weather, which is ever the déle noir of Eng- | lish sport. The weather being bad the attendance a4 | at the Bogardus shooting /é'e was only tolerable, IN COVENTRY. i | but there were & good muny crack shots congre- gated to witness the Captain do his feats with the shotgun. Instead of the brilliant sunshine that was the order of the day at Liverpool we had nothing but moisture all round. The air w moist, the trees were moist, the spectators were moist and the very biras in some instances seem to have become affected with the prevalling contagion, for they did pot fly very well occasion- ally. However, the proceedings went off with some éclat notwithstaudiug the depressing state of matters, Captain Bogardus backed himself to periorm the same feats he accomplished so well av Liverpool on Saturday last; and he accom- lushed them, lt not quite so easily, because the irds were a good deal swifter than the Liverpool pigeons, being Hanimond’s, at all events within the limits of the time he promised todo thei in. TMX KASH WITH WHICH THE CAPTAIN DISPOSED OF THE BIRDS was a theme of general comment among the spec- | tators, Inthe frstvessay ne killed no less than | 38 birds out of dz At Liverpool, 1t will be remem. | bered, he Killed his 33 owt of 40 pigeons; but the | four ne missed to-Cay did not escape unharmed, some of them only getting out of the boundary. CAPTAIN HOGALDUS OPENED with @ miss in tne first couple, The next twenty birds he kliled right oif the reel 1m a series of capital shots. Th mM Was as deadiy as conid be, and altogether the manner in which they wero grassed Was generaily aamired, ‘The tweifth couple botn escaped before the Cap- tain could get properly at them, the birds being | very wild and s*roug on tae Wing. Four more kul’ succeeded to this, Dut of the next couple the ‘gue remaining twelve great precision. EXHIGITION MATCH, ExHtprrion Matcit, to kili 38 pizeons of ont 50 at 25 double rises, rom two spriug traps, 40 yards apart, tho shooter to stand in che centre of a straigne line between the traps; woth traps to be pulled at tne same time, Captain Bogaraus—10,11, 11, 11, 11,1 1,11, 11,141,114, 11,00, 11, 11, 20, 14,11, 14, 11, 11,11. Killed, 38 out of 42, IN THE NEXT MATOT the superiority of the pigeous aiso told slightly to-day compared with tae same competition a’ Liverpool, There the Captain grassed 26 birds out of 28 in three Minutes, At London he Kiligd 25 out of 31 birds, His score was—11, 11 11, 14, 10 11, 11, 11, 11,10, 11,00, 00, 1, 11—26 killed out of 31 birds, Lost BY A HATS BREADTH. There were two handicap sweenstakes shot, both of which the Captuin narrowly lost. There was very !ittie vetting on the conteste, SHOOTING AT WIMBLEDON. birds were killed with THE AMERICANS CONTEST FOR THE CHALLENGE CUP OF THR NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF ENGLAND, (Wimbledon (July 21, night) correspondence of | this. meeting. the London News.) The contest between the members of the Ameri- can team for a challenge cup presented by the National Rifle Association to the Kindred seclety in New York was one of the items on the pro gramme, and necessarily not the least interest ing. Indeed, 80 much importance has been ate tached to this by the Council that they had poste Poned it from last Saturday, when the weather was so bad that very few people would have cared to come to Wimbledon, and the consequent loss te the association was a thing to be avolaed if pos sivle. Any further delay, however, was out of the question, The match must be got through either to-day or to-morrow, and as there seemed Ustle chance of the weather improving suMciently to induce large numbers to be present, 1t was deemed best to proceed with tae competition as early ag possible. THE MUSTER. As soon as the mist iliied and the targets could be seen clearly Colonel Gildersieeve assembled histeam at the firing point, Gradualiy the tew visitors who happened to be present in camp bes gan to collect around this as the place of the chief attraction, avd during the whole afternoon th American marksmen Were watched with tne greatest interest. Almost sige by side with thea the compeiitions for the second singe, f the Ale bert, the Any Rifle Wimbledon Cup and the y Cup were being contested, and a@ {u one of at least, many of the British volunteers who ba won the highest houors in previous years were engaged, a ready means was Jurnished of compans ing the periormances of our best marksmen wit taose of the Americans, A CONTRAST. It will probably be interesting 1fI give here am analysis of the Bhooting of the six British voluns teersin the Any Rifle Wimbledon competition and that of Colonel Gudersieeve’s team in their irst ten shots, as the men were all firing at the same time side by side :— AMERICANS, 43 338 24555 Soe 43 3 45 0 43 4-23 208 @ Ward, sixth Che-hire. . 535555553 546 J. Rigby. Irish Rite ‘Association.. 543 56355 6 645 i, Wintichead, Eighth surrey 534455445 5-44 W. Clark, Queen's #dinbarg! 45954552440 F, Whitelaw, Third Lanarkshire... 554453443 4-41 W.-H. Gilder, kishth Middlesex... 045525555 5—41 or THE RIFLE IN CANADA, PROGRAMME OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL PRIZN MEETING OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC RIFLE ASSOCIATION—AMERICANS INVITED TO COMPETE. Aletter to the New York Heratp from Major Frazer, treasurer of the Province of Quebec Rifle Assoctation, in speaking of the annual rifle meet. ing that 1s te be neld in Montreal on the 10th inst. Bays:— i “Most of the American team at present in Eng land attended the matches last year and reported very favorably of them in your paper (the HerALp). Our riflszmen will be glad to see some American competitors again in the field. Most of the matches, you will observe, are open.’? ‘The jollowing 18 & synopsis of the programme of snooting and value of the prizes offered for com- petition:— A FIRST COMPETITION—THE BRDYGES CHALLENGE OUP, AND SNIDER CHAMPION MATCH. Toe first stage is open to all volunteers in the Province of Quevec, Weapon, long Snider rifle, Ranges, 200, 600, and 600 yards. Five rounds at each range. Entrance, iiity cents. In tag stage there are twenty-five prizes to be awarded, in sums of Jrom $160 to $4; making a total of $395 in money. The second stage ts limited to forty of the high est scores in the first stage. Distance, 600 yards. Seven rounds per man. Lhe best score takes th cup and $385, The second prize 1s $25, and the third $15, SECOND COMPETITION—THE FRONTIER STAKES. This 18 open vo all memvers of the Province of Quebec Rife Association, whetner by direct con. tribution or through afliliated associations, 11 comprises twenty prizes 10 ali, distributed tn sams of trom $26 to $4. Weapon, any military rife with open sights; calibre, not under 50; pail of trigger, six pounds; weight, notoverten pounds. Range, 600 yards, sntrance fee, fifty conts. THIRD COMPETITION—CITY 81 AKEB. Open to all members, as in the second competi- tion. Twenty prizes, in sums of irom $30 to $4. Rifles, the same as in the second competition, Range, 600 yaras, Number of rounds, seven. Eue trance, filty cents. FOURTH COMPETITION—THE BATTALION MATCH. ‘Tois Competition 18 open to five officers and men of avy volunteer regiment in the Province of Quebec having aMliseted with the Province of Quevec Rifle Association. The first prize is a ail- ver cup and $30, and there are jour money prizes of fiom $30 to $10, Weapon, Snider rife. Dis- tances, 500 and 600 yards; seven rounds at each range, Entrance, $2 50 per battalion, FIFEH COMPETITION—THE STADAVONA STAKES, Opeu to all members, as in the second competi- tion, Tere are twenty prizes tn all, ranging from #25 to $4. Weapons, the same as match No. 2 Range, 400 yards; seven rounds. Entrance, fity cents. SIXTH COMPETITION—THE ASSOCIATION MATCH. This contest 18 open to members on the same conditions as the second ma.co. There are twenty individual prizes im all, ranging trom $25 to $4. In agdition to the prizes above named there are four association prizes for the aggregate scores of five previously named members of any affiliated battaiion or rifle club, The amounss are respect. ively $50, $380, $20 and $15, Wespons, the same as in the second match. Ranges, 500 and 600 yards; five rounds. Envrance. fifty cents. SEVENTH COMPRTITION—THE STANDING MATOH, Open to all members, the same asin matcn No, 2. There are twenty prizes, in sums of,from $25 to $4. Rifles, the same as in the second “Bompoti- tion, Range, 200 yards;seven rounds. Entrance, fifty cents. FIGHTH COMPETITION—STRANGERS’ STAKES. The prizes are twenty in number, distributed in sums Of from $25 to $4, Weapon, any rifle within the rules. Small bores to fire at 500 and reguiation military guas at 600 yards. Seven rounds, fn- trance, $l for small bore pieces and seventy-five cents for multary weapons. NINTH COMPETITION—THE LADIES? CUP. This is open to all comers. There are twenty prizes. The first is the cup and $30. The others are distributed into sums of from $25 to $4, Weapon, any rifle within the rules, small bores or any military rifle with open sights. Distance: 600 and 600 yards Jor military pieces and 800 an 900 yards forsmail bore guns. Number of rounds, seven at each range. Entrance, seventy-five cents for military rifles and $1 for small bores, TENTH COMPRTITION—TAE SMALL BORE CHAMPION+ SHIP. Open to alicomers. There are fifteen prizes, dt vided into sums of from $40 to $5. Weapon, any rifle. Range, 1,000 yards. Number of rounds, fi teen, Kntrance, $1. . ELEVENTH COMPETITION—CONSOLATION MATCH Open to ali unsuccessiul Sniuer competitors av The nuinber of prizes 18 twenty- eight, jn sums of trom $20 to $2 50. Weapon, Jong Snider rife, Distances, 200 and 5CO yards, Five rounes at each range. Position, any, En- trance, filty cents, THE COURTS. pe iis asl, WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE OOURT, Betore Judge Wandeil, THE BXCISE RAID CONTINUED. Inspector Jackson, of the Excise Board, on Sat urday night, about twelve o'clock, arrested Jalla Williams, the proprietress of the honse No, 3% Bleecker street, on a charge of selling liquor with out alicense, This woman was arrested the week previous on a similar charge, but was bailed out, and reopened her establishment. Her place 1s notoriously bad one. the resort of the most disso« lute characters of the Eighth and Filteenth wards, Mrs. Williams was tuily committed yesterday by Jude Wandell in $100 baii to answer at General Sessions, ‘ LARCENY OF A WATCH. Patrick Horry ana Eugene Brown were arrested by OMicer Murphy, of the Twentieth precinct, oa Saturday night, on a charge of robbing William B, Putnam, of No, 204 Seventh avenue, of a wated and cliain. The watch and chain were /ound in possession of the prisoners, Who were held ip $1,000 ball each to auswer. A BAGGAGE THIER, an employé of the Erie Ratlway Jonn © | Company, was committed by Judge Wandell yeas terday on acharge of stealing a carpet bag ana its contents, valued at $37 25, the property of Delos EB. Franklin, of No. 321 Kast Forty-nintn street, Mr. Franklin lost tae property on iast Monday, and 1t was found by an officer of the Ywenty-ninth preemest in the possession of Clark on Friday. ESSEX MARKEL POLICKR COURT, Betore Judge Wandell, MORE DISORDERLY HOUSES BROKEN UP. Judge Wandell, who disposed of the watch ree turns at the above named Court and at the Wash jugton Piace Court yesterday, was on hand at seven o'clock im the morning, and concluded hig Work at fssex Market a little ater nine. On Saturday night Capsain Ulman, of the Tenth precinct, made a raid on three dens, at No, 42 Canal strect, No. 140 Division street and No. 1934 Bayard strect, Wherein ne and nis oflice Tested ten women, The proprietors of the places, Mina Krause, Mary Sinith ang Pauline J were lieja in $500 bail each to answer, women were discharged.