The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1879, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, “LONDON TALK. The Metropolis “Frozen Out” and Suffering from the “ Blues.” BUSY BURGLARS. England’s Stage Discussed —A Policeman in Love, Lospon, Jan, 23, 1879, “All froze out! All froze out! We are all frozen out!” This is the refrain sung in half piteous, half monotonous tones, whieh I have heard the past few mornings from my bedroom windows long before breakfast, and again at night, when it is nearly twelve and the air is nipping cold. For some days it has been a frequent sight to see squads of stalwart men, with shovels and picks over their shoul- ders, wandering about the streets with the cry of “All froze out!” upon their lips, and in these times of suffering and starvation the appeal has doubtless met with success. The pity is, however, that the majority of those who have adopted this highly effective method of begging are not entirely worthy of thesympathy bestowed on them. Some of these men were arrested in Hammersmith yesterday, and in a party of five nearly fifteen shillings were found upon them, Among another party of six the Same amount was found. Mr. Paget, who presides in the Hammersmith Police Court, committed the whole number to prison with hard labor for seven days, the money found on them to be applied to their maintenance in prison. But even this severity has had little effect, for the same Cries have been heard to-day, and only a few moments since I saw a body of “nayvies” in Chancery lane singing this now familiar song, and with great profit to themselves, for the pennies were showering about their feet. “COME OUT, MY BOY, COME OUT!” Starvation and poverty are now the excuses for many crimes. Burglars and petty thieves alike ex- pect the sympathy accorded to the hungry and home- less, Avery remarkable case occurred near Wood- stock last Thursday—the capture in a clergyman's house of @ burglar who claimed to bean American named Alfred Tuckey. ‘The Rev. L. A, Sharpe was informed by his footman abont nine o’clock in the evening that there wasa ladder in the garden against a window in tne house. Going to his bedroom to make an examination, he saw the legs of a man under the bed. The clergyman’s good wife saw these sus- picious legs at the same time, and she cried to the owner of them. “Come out, come out, my boy!” and the thief replied, ‘I’m coming.” He did come, and the moment he showed his head the clergyman seized him, threw him on the bed and stuffed a handkerchief in his mouth. He sent his daughter down for the servants, who immediately came up, and one of them, seeing the burglar had a pistol, threw half a jugful of water over it. The pistol was fired in the struggle, and the footman, named Rose, was slightly injured, the bul- let striking a button, glancing upward and causing a rent in the coat. After much struggling the pistol was wrested from him, and from that time he offered little resistance, Thoy tied his legs and hands be- hind him, and witness had him conveyed in his car- riage to Woodstock station. A bag was found under the bed containing # jimmy anda bottle labelled “Pure chloroform—poison.” The prisoner begged for mercy, saying it was his first attempt and that he was a starving man, but he was committed for trial. A LEAP FOR LIFE. To add another clement of interest to the remark- able history of Charles Peace, burglar and alleged murderer, about whom I wrote you a few days ago, he made a daring attempt to escape while being con- veyed from London to Sheffield yesterday. The convict was in « railway ~ carriage, in charge of two keepers, and when near Shef- field he asked to have one of the windows opened, The request was complied with, when, without a second’s notice, he took ying leap through the window. "He was handcufted. The train was going at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, and certain death- would have been his fate had not one of the warders caught him A the foot, The convict struggled and kicked til the warder’s hands bled, and, graspin; the footboard, he secured a purchase an strove like a madman to free himself. Presently his boot came off and Peace fell on the up track. The train had slackened some by this time, but it went on a mile further before it could be stopped. The warders went back and found the convict senseless and bleeding. The doctors tound that concussion of the brain had been produced, and his trial has, there- fore, been postponed for eight da; VICTORY OF THE UNCO’ GUID. The opposition of the government officials has proved too much for the promoters of tho great nk lottery, and at a meeting held to-day the scheme was formally and definitely abandoned. Great regret is felt in many quarters, especially | among the shareholders, at this collapse of & plan which promised to bring with it some relief for the hundreds who see nothing but ruin starin; them in the face. But all chance of success had departed with the Re noMition of the Lord Advo- cate and the Home we; and so with the best grace possibie the promoters have thrown their scheme overboard. They psptees themselves ready to assist any other plan which may be brought forward for the bouefit of the shareholders; but as yet nothing of the kind has been submitted to the public, A DULL LONDON SEASON PREDICTED. According to a paragraphist inthe Pall Mal Gazette the coming season in London will be the reverse of gay. The great city has the blues; tradesmen are complaining loudly that they are being ruined by the co-operative stores; house agents have interminable lists of houses to let; servants are out of place and cannot get situations even if they approve of their masters and iistresses; families generally to be found in town the moment the House begins to sit (and squabble) are to be conspicuous by their ab- sence; general stagnation is the moan. Why is this? Ask a tory, and he will say it is be- se of the unsettled condition of affairs brought liberal factiousnes: or, if he is too cautious to venture upon politics, he will say it is one of those cycles or waves of depression which vertake peoples and which “no fellah can under- * ask @ liberal and he will reply, without a moment's hesitation, ‘because we have & tory gov ernment.” Society of late years, says the writer in the ull Mall, has become unwieldy in its propor- tions, artificial in its habits. London lite during the season hus become a tever from beginning jto end, and many péople have annually succumbed ‘to the toil of their relaxation and the misery of their yeties. ‘The misery of their yayeties! Then the iglish cynic agrees with the French critic who described the English as a race which takes its pleasures badly. + NEXT SPRING. And indeed the outlook for the spring, although not so black as some would paint it, is sufiiciently doubtful in color; itis “an arrangement in gray,” and there is @ prospect of a blood colored streak or two. This is not the blood letting season, but in the spring, when @ young man’s funcy lightly t' — . its of—war, pee knows wo ara the an ve @ it possible to tight? Can- dahar is taken, Cabool is closely threatened and it is more than likely that General Lomakin will receive orders—they may be aiready in his pocket—to move on Merv and occupy Herat. And Herat is the “key of India,” what is General Stewart go- ing to do about it when he is ready to make o fresh advance? But there are to be some pleasant things in store for for I am informed to-day that the Shakespeare M morial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon is to be opened April 23, the birthday of the poet, and under tue di- rection of F, B. Chatterton, of Drury Lane The- atre, and Barry Sullivan. A PARSON ACCUSED OF DRUNKENNESS, A year or two ago Marquis Townshend started a little publication called Social Notes, about which lit- tle was ever heard, probably because its mission was the reform of social evils and not the circulation of so-called “society news,” which its name would im. ply. He as its editor the yencrable Samuel Carter Hall, tor nes A years the editor of The Art Journal, This gentleman engaged as his axsiatant a ‘an minister, the Key. William Pepperell, who ; wnat | Blacos of correspondence. Wesley: last week brought a suit against Lord Townshend for wrongful dismissal, The defence was that the rever- end gentleman was a drunkard, and the testimony in Proof was very funny and at times convulsed the Court, The Lord Chief Justice, before whom the case was tried, added not @ little to the amusement by his comments, which were not always witty, per- haps, but then everybody in court always laughs at the presiding judge's attempts at wit. STUDYING MANNKRS IN PUBLIC HOUSES, Pepperell denied that he had ever been drunk at the oltice or in @ maudlin condition, He admitted he bad oceasionally gone to public houses in Hammer: smith aud Notting Hill, but he went to them, he said, to study men and manners; they were a very ood school. Of course, a man going to them for purpose did not make himsecit pe jar, but nat- urally did there as others did. He suid that Mr. 8. ©. Hall took a great interest in temperance mutters, 7 had talked about them together. He knew that Mr. Hall was the author of two temperance poems, He had told him 40, aud also that two-thirds of the entire clergy of the Established Church were habitual drunkards. Mr. Hall, on the other hand, said Mr, Pepperell was known in Notting Hill as the “drunken: Wesleyan parson,” and said the statement that ho had said that two-thirds of the entire clergy were drunkards was a lie. Mr. Popperell was accused of coming into the office one day yory drunk and of th un lonable affront of cutting out of Social Noi the following article on breach of promise of mal riage, which Mr. Hall had passed:— CUPID'S CAPRICTOURNESS, 1s a woman A loser or is whe nut by the retractation of even je! q 2 a man, bearing in mind that age dimin’ or el ees of Mmatring and that, through the vacitlation of ber tower, she’ miay within have tit or ‘Neclined tmany: stver is otters t any ancl m would nut and more advant fanko bad husband have been wow , though the defendant mi, a sympathy, oF even suimewlat inuide ent to her charms, she would have heen better off in & Worldly sense with sugh « partner for life than if she re. Inined single, People sem. ramotines to forget, with what abhorrence women sink i of old maids, the snoors and jeers to which they are subjected by the er of their sex as well as by t ant and by ‘Their very vagaries ibles, like wel fiction those of old bachelors, recall the ap! “Man was hot meant .o Li Nor woman either. Tn theory, no doubt, love matrimony, hut Cupid practical to conform to figures weil In pootry, bi And then the following occurred :— Mr. Matthews, Q. C.—Do you say, sir, that on that occa- were not the Worse for anything you had taken! ntifl—-No, indeed! On the contrary, very much the better, (Much langhter: ) Mr. Matthews, Q. C-—Did you ever tell Mr. Hall that you wer: Hert a tevtotal tthe reverse. (Laught © an, I tuke a man totally abstains from tea, (Much laughter.) WHAT HALL SAW A LADY DO. In the course of Mr, Hali’s examination he was asked :— article in which you said that you followed take six different gla sherry in so many contection ¢ [sit your habit to follow ladies in that wayt Laughter.) follow this lady? (Laughter.) to introduce u reform int ly those who are sorely tempted by con- fect hops. ‘To institute a sort of literary detective office? Laughter.) Yen, if you like'so to phrase it, All the employés of Social Notes testified to hay- ing seen the plaintiff in all the stages of intoxication, but the jury gave him £154 damages, the full amount claimed, Juryman John Bull dearly loves a lord, but he is also partial to a parson. A TERRIBLE FIGHT. ‘The most interesting, if not the most important, events of a small war, hke the one in Afghanistan, are the stories of personal adventure and heroism. We read the brief telegram announcing a skirmish in the Khurum Pass with little attention efter we know the English have been, as usual, victorious. But who can read without a thrill of admiration the story of Captain Goad's fatal hand-to-hand encounter in the Kotal roadearly in December? ‘The telegraph did little justice to it, but the last mail advices to the Standard tell the following :— Ateleven the Mongols began to troop together in hun- dreds on the hillside and to approach the bed of the dele ‘They had seen the ditfieuitios of the Kotal road for our camels; they had sedn the greater portion of the troops pass on, and now, they thought, was their opportunity for plun- a wis Marching along at the hod of long string of camels, which were attended by five soldiers of the Sevonty-second, besidos their own drivers, Suddenly there came round # rock, close to tho ro band of 100 Mongols, ‘The Highlanders mistrusted th ted to fire, but they put up their hands aud siz- at they were friendly, whoreupon Captain Goad told the suldiers to lower their rifles. The Monzols came within thirty yards, Thoy saw an immense number. of camels and @ quantity of baggage defouded by only half a dozen men, in the defilo, FIVE AGAINST ONE HUNDRED, The temptation was too great for them, With extraordi- nary rapidity they unslung their guns from their bucks and commenced to fire, Captain Goad was the first to fall. Ho was hit by a ball delivered from a long bell-mouthed gun, such as You might dud in antiquarian muse ‘The bail went through his sword and penetrated bi 8 a little below the knee, ‘The charge in the blunderbuss must have been enormous. Four Highlanders stood round him where he lay; the fifth ran buck to tell the Fifth Ghoorkas— the rear guard—to come on. Theso four stood shoulder to shoulder, and again and again repulsed the shrick- ing Mongols, who could not’ stand the terrible fire of the breech-loaders, Even poor Goad, on the ground with his legs shattered, gave the’ Mongols three shots from his revolver. At last the Ghoorkas came up, but not before the four brave fellows had shot avi evory round of their seventy cartridges! They were ¢ tinuully being reinforced after carrying away’ their Only one was wounded. Even on his death Goad re- membered with gratitude the generous bravéry of those fone suldlers who stood round him and defied a Mongol to touch him, ‘THE ENGLISH STAGE. A review of the condition of the English stage during the past year, which appeared in the Tunes, has called forth some interesting Ictters from drama- tists and actors. The main question raised was whether native dramatic authors have been neglected by the London managers and adaptations of French pieces unduly favo: The latest contributor to the discussion is Mr. Bancroft, who ought to know some- He thinks that native tal- thing about the matter. ent has not been neglect at his own (highly succes: Wales’—-there have been tw nty-two pieces produced, ‘uglish authors, Play,” “School” . P.,”” bs ‘How She Loves Him,” by Mr. Boucicault; ‘War to the Knife,” “A Hundred Thousand Pounds” and “Wrinkles,” Byron; ‘Man and Wife,” by Mr. Wilkie Col “Sweethearts,"’ by Mr, Gilbert, and ‘‘Tume Cats,” by Mr. Edmund Yates. Rivivals of the following six plays, all English, have been given:—“The Merchant of Venice,” “The School for Scandal,” ‘‘Money,” “London Assurance,” ‘‘Masks and Faces” and “An Mr. Lins Unequal Match,” while two plays only—"Nos In- times” (“Poril”) (“Diplomacy””)—and a one- act comedy—‘Le Village” (The Vicarage”)—have been adapted from the Franch stage. ‘THE COURT THEATRE, At this house, during the management of Mr. Harg, there have been six original plays produced: “The House of Darnley,” by sc oy rd Lytton; “Olivia,” ye. Wills; “Broken Hearis,” by Mr. Gilbert; ly Flora” and “Brothers,” by Mr. Coghlan, and Wonder,”’ by Mr. Aidé. ‘‘New Men by Mr. Tom Taylor and Mr, Dubourg, was revived, ‘‘A Scrap of Paper” and “A Quiet Rul ber” only heaving been borrowed from the vast dramatic stores of France. THE VAUDEVILLE. At the Vaudeville Theatre Messrs, James & Thorne have produced at least five original English plays— “Love and Mone; by Mr. Halliday; “t'wo Roses,” “Applo* Blossoms” and “Twedie's Rights,” by Mr. Albery, and “Our Boys,” by Mr. Byron—while they have revived several standard English comedies, and have acted nothing at all taken from the French. Mr. Bancroft continues:—“I could write in the same strain about other theatres, and in several cases could prove that where successful French plays were rapidly ee and acted it was simply to the floods of failure that had set in on the production of original English works, but I do not think the argument would be at ail interesting to the London playgoer, who, I take it, cares but little about the source whence his entertainment is derived; I think, rather, that managers would be indeed to blame were they to deny the English public the fg oepeond of witnessing adaptations to our stage of the many great dramatic works which are written by eminent Frenchmen, and I wonder if German dramatists are vlamed because “Caste” has achieved a great cess asa translated play in Berlin, or whether the Italians upbraid Signor Salvini because he finds the reatest means for the display of his geninsin a Translation of “Othello.” THE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, ‘The opening performance will be “Much Ado About Nothing,” in which Mrs, Theodore Martin (Helen Faucit) has been requested and has consented to act Beatrice. On the next day Irving will take his company to Stratford and give “Hamlet.” It must not be supposed that because the Memorial Theatre is to be finished on April 23 it is paid for. Far from it. Much money is still needed, and there i some talk among those interested of a possible per- formance in New York in aid of the 4 man is not a8 @ general thing o Personaye with | whom anything approaching to romance can be associated. He is altogether admir- able for his breadth of back and imperturbability of temper. He will stand any amount of kicks on the shins from straggling rowdies, with a very small responsive squeeze of the collar, and — refrain till the last moment from calling his trun- cheon into play. But, to judge from a recent divorce case, the “peeler” has his tender spot and is not absolutely callous to the softer phases of the human heart. Such @ one is Mr. Policeman Monk, co-respondent in Clements against Clements. Mr. and Mrs. Clements did not live happily together, and the co-respondent, who was a man of apparently superior education and tastes, having been brought into contact with them, observed this and sympa- thized with the respondent. Numbers of letters, at first of an ordinary character, but gradually becom- ing amatory in their tone, written by the co-respond- ent and the respondent to one another, were read during the conduct of the case, with here and there @romantic passage or & quotation from Spenser's ‘Faerie Queene,” the termination boing oveasionally “Dieu vous garde.” The lady denied any miscon- duct, but admitted having been once kissed against her will by the co-respondent; the expressions in her letters meant nothing but the ordinary common- The co-respondent also lenied that he had ever misconducted himself with her, He admitted that he had frequently stood be- neath her window at night; that he had once kissed her, and that if it had not been for him she would He admitted also that his radi tly written, but all in e had gone by separate roads lehurst to be alone, have committed suicid letters were rather exti nocont: that he and to a place of meoting near but no familiarity ever took place. He claimed also to have induced her to treat her husband with more affection and respect. ‘The President having pointed out passages in the letters which proved several op- portunities to have occurred when the gratification of their illicit affections could have taken place had they existed, the jury found that the respondent and co-respondent had n guilty of infidelity. The President thereupon pronounced a decree wisi for @ divorce, condemning the co-respondent in costs. IRISH UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. Duntiy, Jan, 22, 1879, Afew days ago the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, sent for Mr. Butt, and upon the arrival of the Home leader conversed with him for over an hour upon the question of university education in Ireland. The Duke | told Mr. Butt that the government had in course of elaboration @ measure on this very subject, and that Badoubtediy before the ses- sion was far advanced it would be submitted to Par- liament, and an endeavor made to settle finally a subject which has been outstanding for over thirty years. The object of the Lord Lieutenant was to got some information from a source upon which he could rely, both as to what would content the laity and would not displease the bishops and clergy. Naturally Lord Beaconstiell’s adininistration desires to avoid the rocks i wrecked in 1873, and the ‘takes also which led to the failure of Lord Mayo’s plan in 1868, Whether the conversation between the Lord Lieutenant and Mr. Butt took a more general turn and touched on the other great questions of Lrish politics the veteran politician has been too wary to disclose, In the resent distracted state of Irish politics it would not Be easy to procure united action among the repre: Still @ fair settlement of the Irish w: id yo very far toward secur: aq easton, 00 f8%, Bt loaate 0a sentatives. THE BAGOT SCANDAL Isaac Butt Sums Up in Be- half of Mrs. Bagot. ACCUSATIONS AGAINST MISS VERNOR. A Profligate | Character --- Arguments Against a New Trial. Dusty, Jan, 24, 1879. For the past two days Mr. Isane Butt, Q. C., has occupied the time of the High Court of Appeal in the Bagot case. The Lord Chancellor, Muster of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Baron and Lord Justice Deasy | hotel were on the bench, In opening his argument Mr. Butt said it now at last became his duty to say a few words to the Court for Mrs. Bagot. There could be no difficulty in understanding what he had to argue; it was whether he could sustain the verdict on the question of the sanity of the testator or whether itcould be impeached. He was not called upon to argue the question of undue influence, and the only question to be determined was one of sanity. He would endeavor to confine himself strictly to the question their lordships had to deter- mine, He did not think sufficient attention had been drawn to one episode in the case, and he should refer to that first, as he did not.think the learned Judge had treated the matter with sufficient gravity. He meant the suppression—for he should charac- terize it wilful and designed suppression—of some of the most important documents in the case just until the close of the plaintiff's case. He was the last person living to press hardly upon the way in which a case had been conducted, but he must say that what took place in this case démanded alittle more comment than had been given to it. He believed that the suppression of the documents, five in number, the most important in the case, must have influenced very greatly the jury. They gave to these documents a meaning and a significance deeper than they would have had without that suppression, and he intended to show that that suppression ought to have the same effect on their lordships’ minds, and also that it was impossible to discuss fully the evi- dence in the case without bringing in the aid of the suppression of those documents. The Lord Chancellor—To what will do those in- structions to which you are now alluding refer? Mr. Butt—To the very last will. The one we are now disputing—the original one that formally and technically is at issue here. ‘The Lord Chancellor—There can be no question at all as to the nature of that document. It has on the very fuce of it the statement of its character—that it is instructions for a will. Mr. Butt—Quite so. ‘The counsel proceeded to say that he did uot wish to make this a question of law. It had on the face of it the very terms in which Mr. Bagot was swearing. Why, a man might just as well come up in this court and say that he did not see their lordships sitting on the Bench—that man might just as woll say that, and as an excuse for so speaking say, ‘Oh, counsel advised me; 1 ought to swear it. (Alaugh.) That would be no excuse. ihe hord Chancellor—is Mr. Bernard Bagot a bar- ster’ > Mr. Butt—Yes, my lord. Oh, he has walked the “Hall” for many aday, I don’t know whether he ever practised. Iam informed that in one case at least he was counsel—for a Mr, Bowler. (Laughter.) Idon’t know whether it is the same Mr, Bowler whose name has figured in this case. (Loud laughter. Ibelieve it is the same. I did not think the world coul have produced a second Bowler. (Renewed laughter.) The learned counsel then read the list of the docu- ments that he contended had been to some extent kept back in the conduct of the defendants’ case. Why did they suppress them? Because they knew their terrible effect, and that nothing could explain the reason for their suppression. ‘That suppression showed the consciousness of Bernard William Bagot and the other parties that those documents appeared damning in their.minds, because they knew the cir- cumstances under which they had been framed, and this will was founded on fraud. BAGOT AND MISS VERNER. He would next come to the general outline of the case, and ask their lordships to look to the cireum- stances and character of the parties, and of Bernard Bagot, of Miss Verner and her brother, who, to a certain extent, were involved. Mr. Bagot met his wife in 1873. Mr. Bagot was aman who indulged in the most odious profligacy. He was a profligate of the decpest a: with immense sup- plies of money, and he met Miss Ver- ner at dinner when she was not twenty-one years of age. He believed that then Mr. Bayot formed the deliberate design of seducing her. There was no evidence of profligacy on her part except the | ravings of this man. He submitted that he carried | out his design by @ sham marriage, and he would show by evidence that it was impossible to deal | with the case on any other supposition than that. | Who was Miss Verner? It would be idle for him, as | her counsel, to say that she had the advantage of a careful and thoughtful mother, or the inestimable advantage of Mees 7g to awell regulated house- hold or well brought up. She was left to herself— greatly under the control of a brother of seventeen, | and those were the two that were brought in con- | tact. Mr. Bagot commenced by making presents | to the young girl—he became intimate with the family, and she and her brother and sister went’ to him repeatedly at the Alexandra Hotel. It the mother’s vigilance had awakened @ little before the Frankfort business a great deal of the skeleton of the house would never have been unveiled, These were the two the Court had to deal with—a girl evidently wild (he did not mean it in an improper sense), but, if they chose, fast—and it was not all fast girls that were theeasiest | prey of a seducer—a man double her age and evi- dently having designs against her. What made him give her valuable presents immediately after becom- ing acquainted with her? She should not have ac- cepted them. HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE CHILD. , Her mother was certainly not a careful guardian. She stated positively that he possessed an affection for her and that she at first refused to marry him, and that she would when he got better. Her mother and she went to the Continent, and he followed | them there. What made him go there if he had not some design? He took the young lady to Frank- fort, where they remained till late at night, and’ that caused a quarrel between him and her mother, who remonstrated strongly with him. After ‘referring to the evidence of the 8th August, counsel contended, first, that the child was Neville Bagot's; second, that up to the i3tu of March the evidence was overwhelming, with one or two ex- ceptions, that he acknowledged it as his and that he jeved it to be his; that he left London on the 14th under the beliet that the child was his, and that on the 16th, when he had gone to Chester, when there was an opportunity of his mind | being poisoned by Bernard Bagot by lies, he | told Mr. Fry, whom he had never seen before, that the child was the son of the German doctor at Nice. He (Mr. Butt) perfectly agreed with the Judye that the testator’s mind was disposed to delusions. ‘The first evidence as to the acknowledgment of the child was that of Dr. ck, and then that of Miss Verner and Hannah Goulding, aud from their evidence no father could have manifested his rejoicing at the birth of an heir more than he did when the birth of | the child was reported to him. He wrote down to his wife after the event, “My darling, I hope you slept well,” and so on. ‘That was the letter of a ian rejoicing at the birth of an heir. IMPORTANT POINTS. Lord Chancellor—I think you are right in dwelling | on this point of the case, because this question of paternity is a question of enormous importance whether there i# 4 new trial or not. ‘There may be a | new trial on totally different grounds from this, and | therefore it is right that this particular questton, | which lies at the root of the whole case, not on this issue only, but on every issue, should be achurately examined by you, and that whatever evidence there is upon it should be bronght before us, Mr. Butt then referred to the evidence of Mr. Bagot, after he went to Aughrane, crying out while tn bed, and attended by a nurse, “Oh, my child! my child!’ my boy! my boy! what have I done?” The | defendants wanted to hold that on these occasions the testator wax under the influence of drink, or drunk. He thought it was stronger evidence than that of public acknowledgment. In the. species of delusion which they thought seized Mr, Bagot's mind in the journey between Dublin and Holyhead, it was not in the least inconsistent that when he went down to Aughrane and quietly began to reflect on the whole thing, the delusion was ing from his mind, and he began to think of what he had done. ‘There was some trace of that turning in his mind when he sent the case to counsel to Know could his will be set aside on the ground of delusion, It he was perfectly settled in his mind that the ebild was not his, even when he drank champagne, it was ex- ceedingly improbable that his first impulse would be to revese all his thoughts. There was a | time for the delusion of March to pass away —for at the time he was at Aughrane it was eight months after the will was made. In another part ot the case as to the paternity thoy had the registration of the birth of the child by leville Bagot as the fathe If he had had any seruple about the child, or if b had been anxious to avoid recognising the child, he could have sent some other perso: 10 register the child, because im the document he signed he was leaving under his hand @ sowmn recognition that that was his child, In the month of March there was unquestionably a sudden change in his mind, and in medical books they would find thet @ sudden change of mind or sudden change of conduct was Sooke ee of insanity, witbout there being new materials for the change. Counsel contended at considerable length taat there had been an unbroken and continuous recognition of the child, and afterward proceeded to refer to the | was quaiutly and tersely evidence as to the alleged mar ‘of the dd August, dois, which Mrs, Layot stated had ovcurred berore FEBRUARY 3, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET the Registrar, which he contended was not denied by the testator, WHAT CAUSED THE SUDDEN CHANGE? To illustrate the working of the delusion on the testator’s mind, couuscl said that on the 13th March his purpose certainly was to leave the estate to that child, and on that day he exeented a very solemn in- strunent with that object, Yet within three days, beyond all question, he had altered his most solemn purpose, and settled his will in # totally different way. Theretore, between the 13th and 17th, they had this total change of purpose, the only thing that happened inthe nicantime being that his wite had vexed him by uot coming to Chester. He contended that the whole transaction was not the transaction of arational man. Ina statement submitted to Mr. Pureell, Q. C. for the police office case, the testator stated that he had found out a week after he was married that the child was not his, Where did that statement come? The persons who were about him and who were constantly consulting with him were responsible for this’ case. How did that statement, that a week after his marriage he discovered that he was not the father of the child— how did that statement get into the case unless there was Some new statement abont that, and it was certain that the testator took an active part inal! these things? He relied upon these facts and upon the constant yacillation he showed. ‘There was an instance which he founded as sonte ‘nee in support of his ideas, She went out and waiked in the lawn opposite the with an officer who was married to a near relxtive of hers, He saw that trom the window, aud obviously his mind was fast- ened on that act as an impropriety. ‘The, mnost important part of this aspect of the case wes that he thought it showed one of the most decided proofs of insane delusion, because he had all through argued and confessed that «delusion woutd not be tenable unless it proceeded from a diseased mind. He not only deluded himself into facts, but he also deluded himself into a totally false impression of the motives under which he had acted at a former time, because he thought they might assume that he believed the child to be his with which she was pregnant when he married her. a ACCUSATIONS AGAINST MISS VERNER. In reference to the evidence given as to (he meet- ing of Mrs. Bagot and Miss Verner with the officers in Chester, he said that the accusation against the ladies was so incredible end abominable that he would not take up time with it, more than by saying that such w transaction never occurred, and he’ was certain that their Lordships could not believe it ever could have occurred with two gentlemen having Her Majesty’s cominission and wearing Her “Majesty's uniform. A point had been raised in regard to the letter of Mrs. Bagot as a condition of her marriage, that she was to give up her lovers, and so on, but what was there that sho would not have written to have had the marriage made public at the time, tor they should remember that he had said that the former marriage was void ? He hesitated ubout doing justice to her by marrying again, but by long eatreaty he yielded. Never was there a case opened with a more malignant attempt to destroy and blacken the character of this lad: than there was in this case by statements which vanished into directly the coutrary when inquired into, What could they think of the statement that she, having £1,000 interest in this case, was seeking the husband’s immense fortune to spend it in profligacy in Loudon? Was the Judge wrong in iell- ing the jury that the boy was the person really in- terested? ‘The Master of the Rolls was of opinion, speaking tor himself, that the question of insane delusion should have been explained in some way by the Judge. STRONG ARGUMENT AGAINST A NEW TRIAL, Counsel, in conclusion, said that he ouce more essed on their lordships what he would submit to Bethe truth as to the facts of the case. ‘Take that trial with all its incidents—take it with everything that had been proved. take it even with the objections of the counsel on behalf of the defendants to the Judge's charge—and he would haye gone through more of them, but really most of them referred to undue influence, and there was none of them of any moment except the one to which he had called attention, and he took it with all that— and he did look at the evidence as he had intended to present it to their lordships—and he asked them was the case to be sent to a new trial, or were they so sat- | isfled, except as it might arise from the default of the defendants themselves, that she trial had been to & conclusion that would gatinty, their own minds as to its justice? Ho did not leave out of that the suppressicn of the evidence, which was aclog around their necks, and which ought to bes clog around their necks. Let them just look at the expense of the trial. He thought if ever there was a case for their lordships to exercise the discretion vested in them as to a new trial this was one. The public mind had been oisoned by investigations that it would be far etter had never come into a court of justice. Those considerations were, to 4 certain ‘extent, within their lordships’ ken pon a case of this kind, He would especially say that, unless the Court had reason to believe that there was a mistake made in the verdict, and that another verdict was required, they ought’ not to send the case to # new trial, but shouid take upon themselves the responsibility of saying, “We think that substantial justice has been done, and therefore we will not disturb this verdict." ‘The honorable and learned gentleman then resumed his seat, the Lord Chancelior remarking thut the Court had listened to an able and powerful arg mont. Mr. Walker, Q. C., follows Mr. Butts on the same side, TEMPERANCE LABORS, JUBILEE SINGERS AT THE COOPER UNION MEET- ING—THE STORY OF ADAM'S FALL. The principal feature of the Cooper Union temper- ance meeting yesterday afteruoon was the perform. | ance of a number of solos, choruses aud “plantation hymns” by a troupe of jubilee singers. Of the solos perhaps the least suid the better, but the choruses were marked with the usual attractive characteristics of negro minstrelsy. The ordinary announcements on the part of the performers of their determination to undertake a journey to Jeriasalem at the earliest pos. sible moment drew more than a smile from their hearers, but when the story of the fall of man ted by one “brudder” dience could stand it in the following terms, th no longer and burst into a roar of laughter, while | the darkies fairly shone with delight and shouted with redoubled vigor. +The wor of the hymn were:— Devil tempted woman, An’ woman tempted man: Aw’ if twere not for grace of God, We ull be dead an Oh, Zion, &e. ‘The other exercises consisted of singing by the choir, acornet solo by Mr. Mitthauer, readings } Cullen Bryant. ‘That entleman said that he had been a heretitary drunkard, and became aware during his boyhood that the demon of liquor slum- bered in his bosom. He was converted on a bed of sickness, he said, but even now he was conscious that the vice was not entirely eradicated. He was therefore as weak a vessel as any one present, and it was to those weak ones that he wanted to speak. The speuker narrated how he was converted) on a Led of sickness and how he resolved not only to be temperate, but also to do something to forward the work. He thought it would be easy to reform all sinners and pr Way themselves would labor a little more. In ad- dition to the collection for the singers a collection was taken up for the expenses of the mecting. EVENING MEETING, The regular Sunday evening meeting of the Ameri- can Temperance Union was held iu the hall of the Cooper Institute in the evening, An audien that gbout half filled the hall had been at- tracted chiefly by the announcement that Cool Burgess, the negro minstrel, would deliver an address. ‘The meeting was opened with song and prayer. Mr. William Mason Evans occupied some forty-five minutes with a sermon on charity to all men, after which those in the audience who had not declared themselves on the side of temperance were invited to come forward and sign the pledge. About twenty boys and one man, who was slightly under the in- fluence of liquor, went to the platform and signed, while the choir sang “Only an Armor Bearer.” Then Mr. Evans stepped down among the people and tulked personally with the men aud women. “Siny ‘Hold the Fort’ he shouted, and Mr. Charles Petit biew that popular hymn tune from his cornet, while the choir and some of the audience joined in. ‘Three or four men were won over to the cause and were led up to the billiard table that oceupies the centre of the hall, where pledges awaited their signatures. “MIGN THE PLEDGE, While Mr. Evans was busy bringing in recruits the tali orm of Mr, Cool Burgess was seen moving dow: a side aisle. wank the Lord,’ shouted Mr. Evans. “Bless the Lord,” echoed a voice near the door. At the sight of Mr. Burgess the small boys in the audience were wild with delight, and followed his progress down the aisie with loud applause and cheers, which were kept up antil he “One week ago to-night Mr. Burgess, “1 signed the temperance pledge in this hall. me since that time fs marked, My cyes then were red; now they are bright. Though never a drankard, for fifteen years my brain has boen muddled by drink. thank God, it is clear. if you want to save and to make your family and fricnds happy, sign tue pledge, have done it, and now I can turn iy back upon the temptations which beset a man in my profession.” Loud applause and more cheers fol- lowed Mr, Burgess’ short address, Mr. Evans arose and apologized for the non-appearance of Mr, Simcoe The change in Ive, of Niblo’s Garden, who was expected. He said that he had known Mr. Lee for mar ars. They used to act in the same theatre in © land, he as “leading man,” Mr, Lee aa “juven’ “There is always @ warm spot in my heart,” said he, ‘for members of the tueatrical profession, who, if they would leave whiskey alone, would be the grandest mon on God's green earth. Mr, John Cuilen Bryant, who had spoken at the afternoon meeting, was introduced, He said that after he had signed the temperance pledge the spark from the communion service had rekindled the flame, aud that churches had no business to have a bar re- presented there, , “God canuot bless,” der the Gospel what he has cursed Mr. Bryant did not believe in brandy in mince pies either, His speech, which was rather long, was in- terrupted by the audience beating the floor with their he ” was brought to a close with the ee he pirat, singiny of the Dusology aud prayer. Miss | Carrie Perkins, prayer, and an address by Mr. John | ine to the front of the platform, | | ont backsliding if those who are already in the | y \ | pel and of the preacher. COLLECTING THE TITHRS, How the Money Is Taken in Churches and Synagogues, CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF CHRISTIANS. | And the Still More Curious Cus- toms of the Jews. The recent discussion in the columns of the Henaxp, of the practice of compelling worshippers to pay for the privilege of entering certain churches, | has directed attention to the almost universal custom of taking collections at divine service, and not a few curious and interesting facts in regard to the custom have been learued by inquiry. The propriety of asking for money from @ person who goes into God's temple to listen to God’s word, has been too widely discussed to need consideration in thiscolumn, ‘The profier of “glad tidings of great joy,” “without mouey and without price,” is com- monly held by the churches to be fairly offset by the text “the Lord loveth a cheerful giver,’’ and by the obvious necessity devolving on the church to pay its expenses. As in the old Jewish religion, ali were compelled to pay tithes of all they possessed, so now in the Christian sects every man is expected to give according to his ability for the support of the Gos- And as fashions vary even in ecclesiastical matters the personal payments for- merly in vogue have been partly superseded by the fashion of passing around among the congregation certain plates, boxes or baskets, into which each drops the sum he may choose to give. ‘The advantages of the plan are many. A little girl who lately went with her mother to an uptown church for the first time was especially interested in the passiug of the plates, and seemed, during the re- mainder of the service, to be full of some mighty secret, which she longed to impart to her mother, but dared not on account of the solemn stillness of the place. After they had reached the sidewalk on their way home she said:—‘O mamma, what did you get when they passed the money around? I got twenty- five cents,” While there are probably very few who take advantage of the custom in the same way that the child did, there are some who believe in not let- ting their left hands know what their right hands do who slip large sums into the plates unobserved, and there are still more whose pennies jingle as loudly as other contributors’ silver. ‘I always put something in so as to be in the fashion,” said a worthy and lib- eral church member once, as he was arguing against taking collections in God’s house, “but I always put in the smallest piece of money I have with me,” he continued, “and when I can give to the Church I do it in another way, as I think Christians ought.” BOXES, BASKETS AND PLATES. The careful student of trifles, if he should go into astrange church, not knowing its denomination, would often be able to make a shrewd guess at it by looking carefully at the receptacle which he would seo handed around for the contributions. ‘The old New England fashion, which is still followed in many Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches, and is greatly favored in village churches throughout the eastern part of the United States, was to have boxes with long handles. These boxes are commonly made of mahogany or some other dark colored hard wood, and are lined with green baize to deaden the chink of the falling coin. The handles are three or four feet in length, while the box is about the size of a cigar box. Grasping the end of the handle, the collector, who in such churches is com- monly a silver haired deacon or elder, goes to the head of each pew, and reaches the box to each occupant in turn, In the Episcopal and Catholic churches silver plates, or plates that seem to be silver, are most commonly used, and are passed by the collector to the person sitting at the head of the pew. It is then passed from hand to hand until cach person in the pew has had the opportunity to put something in, when it is handed back from one to another and taken by the collector to the next pew. Many of the Episcopal churches, again, use lates of deif ware, or of turned or carved wood. ‘he baize lining, however, is to be found in all. A still greater departure from the old-fashioned box, is the basket, of about the same diameter as the plates dexeribed, but with sides turned up two or three inches. These baskets were first introduced (unless the writer errs) in Mr, Beecher’s church, in Brooklyn, a dozen years ago or more. Now they’ are very gencrally used in churches of “liberal” tenden- cies, as well “orthodox” Catholic and ‘‘orthodox”” Protestant churches when the congregation is large. A LUCKY BACKWOODS PREACHER. Of course, in camp meetings and in many of the poorer churches in thecountry, where church turni- ture is scarce, the hat of some obliging person is nod and convenient substitute, It is recorded that on one occasion an itinerant preacher who paused | over Sunday to preach in a backwoods town, handed his hat to the most responsible looking man in the congregation, asking him to take up a collection for | the payment of his simple expenses. The hat was | accordingly handed around and returned to the preacher, who saw by a glance that it was empty. Lifting his eyes to heaven, he said:—*Lord, I thank | Thee that I haye got back ‘my hat.”” In many places of worship the collection seems al- most a part of the service, so that it was probably the result of unthinking observation that led the lumberman of the Mississippi to suppose it was wor- led ship. His raft was going to pieces and he his only companion, ‘Jim, cay you pray?” “No, said Jim, “then hymn.” ” “Can’t,”” said Jim, pass me your hat, dam’ quick, and sullenly. “Then We're going to sink’ and we'll take up a collection, we must do somethin, A QUESTION OF BUTTONS. It would be easy to multiply anecdotes of comical incidents that have occurred when the taking of a collection has been really incorporated in the re- ligious service, and not, as with the lumberman, a hiere suggestion, but a few of these stories are s cient to illustrate the humorous side of the question. It is related of one clergyman, a pastor in a small town, when habits of liberality were not | considered indispensable prerequisites to the right | of citizenship, that he was mucn troubled by « cus- | tom which obtained of putting buttons ‘in the plate insteal of coin. He studied for a long time on the problem of how best to cure so shitty vice, and at last hit on an expedient. An annual collection was to be taken up for the heathen and as the deacons were | about to pass the plate the clergyman spoke. “My joved hearers,” said be, “I wish to caution you | . against one thing which is often done by you more through inadvertence than aught else, 1 believe. Do | T pra, e eyes of the buttons | you so generously give to the heathen. It docs not impose on the poor savage recipient of your bounty. He does not take them for money and they are ren- dered useless as buttons.” It is needless to say that uo more buttons were put in the plate in that ehureh, you, flatten down NOT BLIND TO COUNTERFEITS. Ata camp meeting in New Jersey some years ago | there were several rather cloquent colored preachers | who held torth to the great satisfaction of their col- | ored hearers and the infinite amusement of certain godless young white men, who had come to see the tun, Among the clergymen was one of unusually persuasive eloquence, Whose power over the sym- ithies of his Lrearers was W goed increased by his being known &@s “the blind preacher, His closed eyes and venerable appearance never failed to touch them, and he, natu was the one who usually appealed for the collection. One night the congreya- tion was excited to fervor, and amid shouting and | ade that a collection be | singing the suggestion wus taken up. No special object was named, but the | “blind preacher’ exhorted the people to “give boun- | teously to de Lawd.” ‘They were ready, aud th rx passed through the crowd, receiving som thing trom almost every individual. “I'se got a | haif adollar, brudder,” shouted one of them as a | “scrip” of that denomination was dropped into his | hat. “Glory,” shouted the blind preacher, “fifty couts fo" de’ Lawd, Who am de next one?” “L'se got a doilar bill,” called out another elder | “Hallelujah,” said’ the blind preacher again, “a dol- | lar mo’ fo'ale Lawd."” ‘The excitement yrew intense aud presently a third elder shouted, $5. “Amen! hallelujah! glory to God!” shouted the blind preacher, “Five dollars fo’ de Lawd, brethren, | de Spirit & movin’ over de ive ob de deep . Keep on, Who am de next? “That's a counterfeit bill,” called out one of the godless young men already mentioned. “Wha', wha’ dat you say,” screamed the blind preacher. “Dat ain't no counterfeit,” And he feapea from the platform with his eyes wide open, ran to the elder and snatched the bill from his hat. Holding it up to the light and looking carefully at it he satisiied himself of the gentineness of the me ys althougi at the expense of his fame i preacher. WHAT THE CLERGYMEN DO. In some churebes the clergyman can commonly be noticed to sit with bis hand over his ashamed to look on the collection of mon temple, but in more instances the collection is taken in a matter-of-fact way, all present acquiescing in the kupposed necessity of attending to the temporal af- fairs of the church, even if worship has to be inter- rupted. ‘The organ is commonly played, and, in cake there is a fine choir, ® chant or some solo is sung. The custom’ in many churches is to alternate the verses of a chant with the realing of appropriate texts from the Scriptures. iu other places, again, there is au air about the cere: 5 : mony tnat might almost be called jovial without dis- respect. In Flymouth Church, whieh has already been once mentioned, it is no uncommon thing for the famous pastor to explain the object of some eol- lection and then, while tue baskets are passing from oue to another, to make a short address, in wlach, by his eloquence, his pathos, and trequentiy by his wit, to induce larger coutributions than usual. More frequently, however, he simply says, “Pass the bus- kets,” and relapses into meditation while babi. 9 ments ure gathered up, and always, in Plymou' Chureh, there are “more than ‘twelve baskets full.” In former years, both before and after the war, when Plymouth Church was the great anti-slavery power of the country, it was mot au Une common thing for some runaway slaye—or, m laet, any colored person who had suttered in any way front slavery—to appeal to Mr. Beecher. He always lis- tened, and generally yave permission to the spetionst to stand in the vestibule of the church wi the congregation passed out. A few words from the pulpit in such cases insured the lucky unfortunate iterally a “hat full ot money. Dr. Talmage has the tempore! affairs of his church, the Tabernacle, differently ordered from those o Plymouth Church. In the Tabernacle no pew rents are charged to any one, and the entire ex penses b out of the at the rontrivution levied each sunday norning, “We will now make au offering to the Lord, ‘he collection will now be taken,”’ is the un- Varying announcement from che pulpit, and then Mr, Arbuckle plays a solo on the cornet, with Mr, Morgan accompanying him on the great organ, while the ushers pass around the long-handled boxes in # busi- ness like manner, conscientiously presenting them to each individual in the congregation, but passing indifferently by any who do not choose to give. In the Musonic Temple, in New York, where the m preaches every Sunday orning, there is a collection taken at every service ‘ove the sermon, but no reference is ever made to it from the pulpit, and so quietly aud unobtrus- y are the long-bandled boxes passed from one pew to the other that the business aspect of the per- formance is lost sight of in the decorous, almost sole emn quietude, In the Church of the Holy Trinity, as, indeed, in nearly all the Protestant churches in this part of the RL Lean atta teeta thing for a collection to be taken up for some special charitable object. In such cases Dr. Tyny usually makes a° short ad- dress commending ihe object, Whatever it may be, and expressing a hope that liberal coutributions will be made. Af ds the texts directed by the prayer boo! ollection is duly taken up. bo! COLLECTIONS. ‘The specification of different instances among the Protestant deuominations, however, becomes mo- notonous, as in the most of them the collections are quietly taken and the contrivutions ure entircly voluntary. In many of them collections have of late years been entirely or partially done away with, and envelopes are provided and placed in each pew, ia which those who choose enclose such sums as they see fit to give, One advantage to the Church of this ‘system is that it obe viates the necessity "of making — change, which, odd as it sounds, occasionally arises, A wealthy man and a prominent member of St. John’s Chureh, in Yonkers, was not loug ago noticed to put into the contribution plate a two dollar bill and keep the usher waiting while he sclected one dollar in change from the money uiready given. This he put in his pocket in the most matier of fact way, greatly to the amusement of those who were looking at him. Few persons, probably, would care to take change, even although they should make the same mistake as a thrifty Scot who dropped a crown into the box instead of a penny, as he had intended, He attempted to take it back, but the sexton would not allow it. “Once in, always in,” said he. ‘Weel, I'L get credit for't in heaven,” said the unwitting con- tributor. a!’ said the sexton, “Ye’ll on’y get credit for a penny.” IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES. In the Catholic churches of Ireland and this country there is 4 general custom of charging for seats, Which has laiely provoked some bitter con- trovers, At the French Catholic Church in Twenty- third street no admission fee is charged, though a charge of teu cents is made for a seat at the nine o'clock mass and fifteen at the ten o'clock services, In addition to this—as is the case in all Catholic churches—@ collection is taken up during the ser- vice. Contributions to this are purely voluntary, though few refuse to give something, as the affable and dignified uncoucera with which the sexton hands the plate is almost as winning as is the manner of the well known society lady who frequently relieves him of this portion of his duty at the nine o'clock mass. When this occurs it is fairly enlivening to no- tice the alacrity with which the gentlemen contribute, It is curious, by the way, considering the success of the expedient, that it is ‘not more generally adopted. The customs of the Catholic churches generally in regard to collections were told to the writer by Father Preston, pastor of St. Aun’s Church in Twelfth street. It would be easy to multiply exam- ples by specitying different churches, but it is be- lieved that there is so little difference between churches of this denomination that to specify differ. ent ones would be useless repetition, Father Preston said that in his church, as in every other in the diocese of which he had any knowledge, a trifling charge was made at the door, not for ad- mission, but for seats. All who chose to stand, or kueel in the aisles, were admitted free. At the seven o'clock morning mass, however, there was no charge, all seats being tree at that service. “Ateach service in the church,” he continued, “there is a collection taken up, but contributions are entirely voluntary. It is the usual custom, I believe, in Protestant churches of all denominations. The attendants pass around the boxes among the people and those who choose todo so coutribute whatever they like. We use boxes now, and have ever since paper currency came into use. Formerly we plates. That is all there is to it.” “To what purpose is the money that is collected devoted ?’ asked the writer. “To the support of the church, We have four or five collections during the year for special objects, such as the Orphan Asylum, but the usual collections are for the benefit of the church directly.” THE HEBREW WAY OF DOING It. ‘The customs of the Jews, it is said, do not differ in any part of the world from those in vogue in New York in regard to the support of their synagogues and their chariti No collections are ever taken during their services and no tee is ever charged for adinission to them. Free seats are to be found in magogue, whether “orthodox” or “re+ and strangers and those who feel | too poor to contribute money are always welcome to occupy these seits. Of course the expenses of the synagogue must be and are inet, and it is seldom that one hears of the financial trouble of a congregation of Israelites. The pecuniary affairs are managed by the trustees, and they raise the nevessary money from three different sources. In the first place, pews are rented and the rents are collected quarterly, half yearly or yearjy, as in Christian churches; secondly, at the ¢ of the early service every Saturday and holidays certain members of the congregation are “called before the law.” This ceremony is us follows:—At the close of the regular morning service or Shacha- rith, and before the beginning of the additional sere vice or Musaph, the minister (uot the rabbi) and his assistants take from the ark one or more of the scrolls of the law and a portion of the silver and jewelled priestly np heenel These are borne to the raised platform “Theba,” and the minister calls out the Hebrew name of some member of the congregation, who steps forward and receives the blessing of the con- gregation, pronounced in Hebrew by the minister. A potion of the iaw is read by the minister, and the person called then whispers to him the amount he wishes to give for this blessing, the amount he wishes to give for prayers for the repose of the soula of his ancestors, and it may be for prayers for other objects, These’ sums are then anuounced aloud by the minister, and another member is called upon bj name. Five persons are thus solicited on each holt. day and seven on each Saturday. ‘The list for each day is made‘up by the paruass (or president of the board of trustees) of the congregation, who generally includes in it the names of auy well-to-do persons im whose families there Las been a death or a birth or a marriage or any special sign of the grace of God, ‘The third source of revenue is from the burial grounds. At the entrance to each Jewish cemetery is placed a box, in which every Jew who visits the graves of his dead places money, The total of contributions gencrally defrays the expenses of the maintenance of the place, and affor which goes to the trustees of the congr ing the cemetery. The purely charitable expenses of the Jews are maintained by societies from the organization of the congr Societies are similar to the Dorcas societies of New England or the guilds of the Episcopalians. “FORTY ACRES AND A MULE,” (From the Vicksburg Herald.) We print a piece from the New Orleans Times about scheme to induce the colored people of Louisiang to emigrate to Kansas and other Western States and Territories. Some similar scheme is at work im Hinds county, iu this State, Numbers of negroes have left for Kansas, and more declare they intend to leave as soon as navigation is open up th and Missouri rivers. Secret agents have worked w the schemo, by declaring that they are employed by the government, and that all the colored will be given i jowed to establish 4 ernment tor themselves free from white molestation, &c, An intelligent planter informs us that his plan: tations have been nearly depopulated by these misrepresentations. It is the same old story of tory acres and a mule. The fraud is ay ‘The gov- ernment has uo such agents, and there are te vate partics out West so generous as to carry out To Promises so freely made to delade the ignorant po ored people. When the negroes discover the real state of tacts they will bitterly curse the day they trusted the promises of those designing, selfish mets TROUT JUMPING FOR OXYGEN, (From the Truckeo (Nev.) Republican.) The recent cold weather destroyed the trout fishery of I. C. Frazier, between Truckee and Lake Tahoe. The trout require fresh running water, and when the supply is cut off it is impossible for them, to survive more than two or three days, On Tues day night the temperature was twenty-four deurees below zero, Solid ice filled all the ditches the reservoir to the fish ponds. lve covered ponds to a great depth, and all the choked with massive cakes of lee, fresh water could reach the { holes were cut in the surface of the Pree trout would leap clear thei efforts to get the hich The faery wes thee ‘aud ous om ‘the 1 ‘ '