SHIPPING.

*ORT OF LYTTELTON. Arrived- Yesterday. Wild Wave, schooner, from Hokitika. To-day. Anne Main, barque, from Liverpool, 109-days out. Agnes Donald, from Auckland. Taiaroa, s.a., from Wellington. Te Anau, s. s., from Port Chalmers. Sailed. Yesterday. Restless, brig, for Kaipara. Wairoa. ship, for London. Fawn, brig, for Rockhampton, via Havelock. Waitaki, s.s., for Timaru. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. J Auckland, Yesterday. Sailed—Manapouri for Melbourne via Southern ports. Wellington, Yesterday. Arrived —Kennedy from Greymouth. Sailed—Kennedy for Nelson and the West Coast. Dunedin, Yesterday. Arrived —Tarmow, from Manukau; Moa, from Kaipara. Sailed —Sorrento, steamer, for London ; Nareus, barque, for Newcastle.

COMMERCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian Office, Friday afternoon. Business in the grain market has been practically at a standstill during the past fortnight. Prices remain about the same as when last quoted by us, but the market may be add to be weakening, and for the new crop it will open, it is expected, at lower prices than last season. The heauti fui weather has been all that could be do aired for the farmers* an d we may safely say that a more favorable season has never been experienced in this part of Canterbury. All kinds of crops are look ing splendid and heavy yields are pro mised, where, last year, nothing grew worth mentioning. The hay crops are extremely heavy, and the weather has allowed a large quantity to be made in firit-’Class order for stacking. The shear ing Mas been somewhat retarded, and on the whole will be rather later than last year, owing to the heavy dews and sundry showsws- .during the past month or so. The wool clip is very good, and with the reported favorable percentage of lambs, sheepowners ought to be sati. fied with re sults this season.

Com Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the Bth inst. :—Tire market remains,, in the same quiescent state. The weather continues to he most favorable. No accidents, the yield will be the heaviest known for years. Wheat ; Good milling samples may still be quoted at from 4s 4d to 4s 6d per bushel, f.o.b. ; second quality, 3s lod to 4s ; chick wheat, 3s 3d to 3s yd per bushel. Oats : Peed quality is moving into consumption at from 3s 3d to 3s 4d per bushel; good short milling samples are rather scarcer, and will command 3s gd to 33 6d per bushel. Barley : Little or no inquiry is manifested for this cereal. Fair to medium malting quality may he quoted at from 4s It) 6d per bushel. The demand is almost nil. Feed samples, 3s 4d to 3s 6d per bushel. Potatoes ; Derwents are still being inquired for. There is, however, no standard value ; the prices asked and given are of a capricious character. Grass Seed : A sale now and again takes place. Prices asked vary from 3s gd to ss, according to quality. The new crop will shortly be in the market. It is anticipated that low prices will rule.. Cheefe and Butter ; The former 6d, latter 8d per lb.

DAILY MEMORANDA.

r< AUCTION SALES To-mokrow, Saturday, December 9. Matson, Cox, and Co., at Tattersall’s, Burnett street—Produce ; 11.30 a. m. , Mr 'jX Bullock, at the Bazaar —Horses ; 1 p.m. Mr Alfred Harrison, at the yards— Horses, Pigs, Produce, &c.; 12 noon. Mr W, F. Allen, at his rooms, Burnett gtreet—Horses, Pigs, Poult) General Produce, «frc.; 11.30 a.m. Tuesday, December 12. Matson, Cox and Co., at the Ashburton Yards: —Stock. Saturday, December 16. Mr. T. -Bullock, at the Bazaar, Burnett £•> Landed Property ; 1 o’clock. , T - Tuesday, December 19. R. ,Wakin and Co., at the New Zealand Wool Stores, Christchurch —Wool ; 11 a,m. , Wednesday. December 20. N.Z; Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., at Hie Christchurch Wool and Grain Ware house —W 001. 'meltings, AMUSEMENTS, &c To-moerow, A li! Saturday, December 9. Wajkanui Sparrow Club —Mail office, 4 p.m. Monday, December 11. Lecture, by the Rev. J. S. Smadey Wesleyan Church. Borough Council, at Borough Council Chambers, at 7 o'clock. Saturday, December 16. Grand Temperance Demonstration —Ath- letic Sports, Tea Meeting, and Concert. Wednesday, December 20. Fancy Fair and Tea Meeting, in aid of St Stephen’s Church—Dr Trevor’s grounds ■:-il Thursday, December 21. Entertainment —Tinwald School. ’>■' - 1 Friday, December 29. Sbfndtset Lodge, Monthly Meeting, n the BThsonic Hall, Tancred street, 7.30. « • Monday, January 1. Winslow Races and - ports. Tuesday, January 2. wshburton Permanent Building and In vestment Society, Monthly Meeting, from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. Wednesday, January 3.

County Council, at the County Council 'Chambers, at 11 o'clock, Thursday, January 4. li.O;L.—Monthly Meeting, Templar Hall. ' Saturday, January 6. Wakanui Road Board —Monthly Meeting, ■’ R<ted Board Office, Moore street

TRAVELLERS’ GUIDE.

Trains Leave Ashburton for Christ ,■ church and intermediate stations at 7.10 I’a.m., 10.55 a.m., and (Express) 5.39 p,m. Trains Leave Ashburton for Timaru . and South, at 6.50 a.m., 10.25 a.m. (Express), and 4.45 p.m.—the latter pro ceeding no farther than Timaru. Trains Arrive at Ashburton from .Christchurch at 10 20 a.m. (Express), ,'^.’36 1 p.'xn. f and 7.20 p.m. TilApsrs Arrive at Ashburton from . Timaru and South at 10.45 a.m., 5.28 . p;m. (Express), and 8 p.m.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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BIRTH.

Vaughan. —On December Bth, 1882, at the East Belt, Ashburton, the wife of Mr F. A. Vaughan, of a son.

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas, et Prevalebit. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1882.

Proposed Cheese and Butter Fac tory at Wakanui. —A meeting of persons interested in the establishment of a cheese and Butter Factory at Wakanui is called for Tuesday evening next at 8, at the Wakanui school. Memoranda. —Messrs J. G. Green and Co., of Dunedin, notify they will open a branch establishment in liuruett street, Ashburton for the sale of English, foreign, and colonial boots and shoes to-morrow.— Mr J. McConnell notifies he has opened a blacksmithy at Flemington,

Forbes at Oamaru. —Archibald Forbes lectured at Oamaru last night on the ‘‘ Inner Life of a War Correspondent.” There was a crowded house, and h-; met with an enthusiastic reception. On ar rival ho was met by a number of the members of the Caledonian Society.

Ashburton Rifles. —A squad of eight visited the rifle range this morning, but the shooting was indifferent, Private Irvine being first with 33 points. On Thursday morning Corporal Andrews was highest with 44 points, the ranges in each case bein" three, four, and five hundred yards. R.M, Court. —The delay which has be come only too common at this Court of late occurred again this morning, there bong no magistrate at the usual hour to hear the cases. After a weary interval two J. P. 's were captured, and the business proceeded. Mr Beswick’s absence is much felt. Like Mr Bvetham, Mr Bes wick is absent on sick leave, having doubt less been knocked up by overwork.

Sickness at South Rakaia. Our South Rakaia correspondent writes:—The public school h re was not long ago closed for some weeks, on account of sickness among the children. At a special meeting of the school committee, held to-day— members present being Messrs Hardy (in the chair), Gaarder, Kemble, and the Rev. Mr Chambers the master (Mr Dixon) reported that forty per cent, of the children were absent through illness, and he requested the committee’s advice and instructions. The chairman stated that ho had called on Dr Partrige, who informed him that scarlet fever was pre valent in and about the township, and that steps should be at once taken to stop the spread of the disease. It was moved by Mr Clnmbe's, and seconded by Mr Komher, and carried —“ That in c mse i|iience of the reports received the school bo closed until further notice.” Surely there is some clause in the Public Health Act (adds our correspondent.) prohibiting parents from allowing their children to attend public schools when some members of their families are suffering from conta gious disease.

Wrll Paid —When the news of Sko beloff’s sudden death was cibled to Mel bourne the proprietors of the Argus and the ‘"'ydney Morning Herald almost simul taneously asked Mr Archibald Forbes to write a memoir of his deceased friend, who is one of the most prominent fi ures in the lecture “ Warriors I have known.” Mr Forbes hesitated for a few moments as to which paper he should give the prefer ence, when a happy thought struck him. He was then staying at the Melbourne Club. Locking himself in his bedroom, he dashed off % brilliant five-column me moir in as many hours, sent the manus cript to the Argus office, with instructions to have it put in type as quickly as pos sible, as he wanted to see a proof. When he received the proof he wired the entire memoir to the Herald at Sydney, so that the article appeared in the two capitals on the same morning. As an acknow ledgment of the alertness of the celebrated military critic, the Argus and the Herald proprietary each sent him a cheque for 100 guineas. But oven this handsome remuneration was not equal to what was once received by Tennyson, who not long since, for a poem in “ Macmillan’s Maga zine” was paid a guinea a line. i

Mrs Holder. —Mrs Holder, of Christ church, will preach In the Primitive Methodist Church, Wills street, bn Sun day next. Gone to Greymouth —Willmott’s Com bination Company" opened at Greymouth last night with “ Lost in London ” and “ Cinderella,” to a capital house, and created a very favorable impression.

A Vicious Cow. —As a married woman named Pago was milking a cow, at Oamaru last evening, the animat kicked her in the chest, which caused the bursting of a blood vessel. The cow then gored the unfortunate woman. The sufferer is still alive.

Magisterial. —Mr Seth Smith, an English barrister, not long resident at Auckland, a nephew of Bishop Cowie, is stated to have received the appointmont of Resident Magistrate at Auckland, rice Mr M'Donald, promoted to be Chief Judge of the new Land Court. A Turf Yarn. —A man in England had a wealthy aunt (says an English paper) who he expected would leave him all her money. At last she died, and he was be queathed LIOO. In disgust, he deter mined to “ blue” it on the turf, so ho wrote to a bookmaker, and commissioned him to put the money on the horse that stood at the longest odds for the Cam bridge Stakes. The bookmaker took LIO.OOO to LIOO about See Saw. As the world is aware, See Saw won. Sustroke. —The intensity of the sun’s rays the other morning, says the Wan ganui Chronicle, the first real day of sum mer, seems to have produced a few cases of sunstroke. Wo have heard of several, including Mr Brooke, one of the J. L. flail company, who was stricken so sud denly and severely that he has been un able to ap; ear on the boards since. There were two cases, also, up the No. 3 Line. The necessity of protecting the back part of the head, especially in these days when it is customary to clip the hair as close as possible, cannot be too seriously incul cated, and .should be specially attended to at the beginning of a summer which pro mises to be sultry. “ The Prince of Humbugs.” —Barnum once succeeded in emptying his big show at a time when it was densely crowded, and thousands were waiting outside to obtain admission. Painting up in large letters on a piece of calico—“ This way for the Egress,” he hung it at a con venient angle of his show. Some of the simple country people thinking “ Egress” was some strange new animal just added to the collection, passed through the slit in the curtain, and, to their amazement, found themselves outside the show. The thing was done. Everybody saw every other body making for the corner where the new animal was on exhibition, and in a few minutes the show was emptied, the out-going stream being so'great that it was quite impossible to turn when once caught in the eddy.

A Pious Boatbuxldeu. A North- Country laird had entered his yao v t to sail in a regatta at a Scotch seapcn.. On the Saturday previous to the Monday for which the regatta was fixed she touched ground and strained her rudder. Her owner went to the builder and stated the case, when the following conversation en aued :—Owner: “The boat must be ready to sail on Monday ; so see what you can do.” Builder: “It’s nae use—it canna be dune. The morn’s the Sawbath, and there’ll be nae time in the mornin’. ” Owner : “I don’t care ; it must be dona. She must be ready to sail on Monday. ” Builder, scratching his head, and debating between offending a good customer and breaking the “Sawbath”: “ Aweel, I’ll tell ye what T 1 do. I’ll just patch it wi’ screws, but a de’il a hammer shall ony man o’ mine pit to a nail for a’ the lairds in the kingdom. ” An Excellent System. —The system which is in force at the Burnham Indus trial Home of hiring out children to ser vice after they have been some time in the institution and shown sufficiently good behaviour, is an excellent one, and has been found to work admirably. The chil dren are hired out to employers of labor, and the wages earned by them are paid to the master and banked by him. When the boys attain the age of eighteen or nineteen years and the nivls are married, their earnings, with the interest accruing, is paid over to them. Mr Maddiaon in forms us that a few days ago he paid a youth of nineteen L2OO which he had earned in this way. He had been a very steady lad, an i had given tho highest sa tisfaction to everyone who had employed him. The money was expended in part pavment for a nice little farm, and now this young fellow has, by his own indus try, ot a start in life which falls to the lot of few. How many youths of nine teen are there amongst the Christchuivh working classes who can show a credit balance of L2OO ?—Christchurch Tele graph.

Mixed Family Relations. Charles Matthews’ famous story of the man who was his own grandfather would appear to have found something like a parallel in real life. “ The Duke of Westminster’s now family relations arc a little mixed. He has married Lady Catherine Caven dish The bride’s eldest brother, Captain Cavendish, married the Duke’s daughter, Lady Beatrice Grosvenor, upwards of four years ago, and has a son, Charles William Hugh, by her, now three years and a half old. Captain Cavendish will therefore become the brothev-in-law of his father in-law ; his son, Charles William Hugh, will become the nephew of his own grand father, and any son born of the Duke’s second marriage will be at once the brother and the nephew of Lady Beatrice Cavendish. The Duke will become the undo of his grandson and the brocher-in law of his own daughter, and thus in a sense he will be his otviujon. Mias Caven dish is a very charming and pretty young lady, who is just over twenty-four years of age. The Duke, on the other hand, is thirty-two years and two months older than his bride.” Holloway’s Pills. —Health or Wealth.— No sane person would hesitate an instant in the choice between these two conditions. Now is the season to secure the former either by restoring or confirming it. These Pills ex pel all impurities from the system which fogs, foul vapours, and variable temperatures en gender during winter ; this medicine also acts most wholesomely upon the skin by disgorging the liver of its accumulated bile, and by ex citing the kidneys to more energetic action ; it increases the appetite for food and strengthens the digestive process. The stomach and liver, which most disorders originate, are fully under the control of these regenerative Pills, which act very kindly yet most efficiently on the tenderest bowels.—[Advt.]

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

ASHBU RTON. -To-day. ■ (Before Mr R. Alcorn, J.P., and Dr Leahy, J. P.) A Juvenile Delinquent —A small boy, about seven years old, was charged• with malicious injury to a tree in the Domain. —Mr Charlton, caretaker at the Domain, having given evidence in support of the ebarg-, the Bench told the youngster he could go that time, but must be careful not to offend again. CIVIL CASES. R. Lancaster v. T. Quill. —Claim, L 8 18s 01. Mr Purnell for plaintiff, Mr Branson for defendant. —Plaintiff deposed that he had entered into a contract with the defondant-to supply him with moat at 4d per lb all round, no discount to be al lowed.— Mr Branson asked for a nonsuit, on the ground that the plaintiff had no rigkt to sue, having recently assigned his estate, and therefore had no locus standi. —After some discussion the summons was amended, and the name of Frederick Ferriman, the trustee, inserted as well as

that of Richard Lancaster.—Mr Lancas ter deposed that he had been authorised to get in the money due to his estate, and Mr Wilkie had been acting as a sort of sub-collector for him. While collecting he had called upon Mr Quill, and allowed the amount now sued for off the account. He was not authorised to do so. Mr Branson commented on the fact of the “other side’s” not calling Mr Wilkie to give evidence. Judgment was given for LI 7s, without costs. Lancaster v. Gale, claim L 3 4s 3d. —Mr Branson for defendant. The plaintiff having deposed to his claim was cross examined by Mr Branson. He had never told Gale that if he brought down his ferrets to the slaughterhouse he would pay him LI a day. Had said that if he would take down the ferrets to the slaughterhouse he would pay Halo a day’s wages. Had never offered to compromise the case by giving Gale L 3, and had never said that had it not been for Mr Gale’s rats the slaughterhouse would have tumbled to pieces. Could not have said it for the place was all of concrete, or at least there was no wood the rats could touch. Robert Hill, barman, Quill’s Hotel, had heard Lancaster offer Gale LI a day for clearing his place of rats. Would swear to this. Gale had gone down several times to the slaughterhouse. It appeared that the defendant had on one occasion killed 370 rats.—Mr Lancaster, addressing the Bench, said that he had stipulated with Gale for one day’s work, and he would have paid him 12s for that dav, but ho lost a ferret and so he paid him Ll.—Mr Branson said that Gale had lost two ferrets in Lancaster’s yards, and had been considerab'y out of pocket in consequence. The case was dismissed, without costs.

Parham v. Lowe, claim L 4 4s. —Judg' ment for L 3 Bs. Longbeach Road Board v. Watson claim 13s 2d. —Judgment for amount. The Court then rose.

MOUNT SOMERS RAILWAY.

A meeting of the Mount Somers Railway Extension Committee was held, in the Li brary room, Mount Somers, on Thursday evening, to make arrangements for the re ception of the Minister of Public Works on Saturday. Present—Messrs A. E. Peache (in the chair), J. Hood, A. MacParlane, A. Harvey, B. Ede, J. Price, W. H. Puddicombe, I. E. Taylor, and others. The chairman stated that he had received letters from the Ashburton Borough and County Councils, accepting the invitation of the Committee to accompany the Minister of Public Works upon his visit to the dis trict on Saturday next; also a copy of the resolution passed by the County Council appointing a committee of the Council to report on the best route in connection with the proposed extension of the present railway line. There was also enclosed a copy of a resolution passed at the last meeting of the County Council, recommending that the line be extended to Bowyer’s stream by way of the present traffic Bridge, this being the line of route the Extension Committee considered would best serve the interests of the dis trict generally, and tend more to the developement of the resources of Alford Forest and Mount Somers than an exten sion of the line on the south bank of the river. The chairman also stated that he had received a letter from the County Council, stating that the Hon. W. John ston would be in Ashburton on Saturday, and would proceed thence to Mount Somers.

After some discussion it was proposed by Mr W. Harvey, seconded by Mr I. E. Taylor, and carried —“ That the chairman and Messrs A. McFarlano and W, H. Puddicombe be a committee to draft an address of welcome to the Hon. Minister of Public Works on the occasion of his visit to the district.

Messrs A. E. Peache, I. E. Taylor, J. Hood, A. McFarlano, B. Ede, W. H. Puddicombe, and S. McClimont volun teered to provide conveyances to bring the Hon W. John-ton and other visitors from Ashburton over to the township on the arrival of the train at the railway terminus, and it was resolved that those gentlemen who had so kindly offered to provide conveyan es be requested to meet at Mount Somers at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday, prior to proceeding to the rail way terminus. A vote of thanks to the chair terminated the proceedings.

ALFORD FOREST.

[from our own correspondent.] “ All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ” is an old and true saying ; yet years had rolled round and Alford Forest had known nothing but hard work—sawing and splitting, splitting and sawing, with carting on a lonely road forachange was the style of *he days gone by. A change took place —as changes will, as surely as the earth revolves—and with the influx of population a few paddocks were fenced ; a a few single ploughs were seen in the dis trict, and the stanza lengthened—sawing and splitting, splitting and sawing, ploughing and sowing, reaping and carting —but no longer only posts and rails. Yet times were such that healthy, honest, world-approved old games were unknown, 1882, with its comets, its brilliant meteors, with all its prognostics of evil and the ending of all things, however, is to be for Alford Forest the opening of a new era. At last we are going to have our local sports ; at lait we feel ourselves strong enough to try our wings, and fly on our own merits. Boxing Day, dear to all Englishmen as a day of rest and enjoy ment, looked forward to by many as the schoolboy looks for his holidays: New Year’s Day, dea !- to the Scotchmen from old associations- all had passed away as publicly celebrated holidays. All will now be revived amongst ns I hope, and the first sports day to be held at Alford Forest on the 26th inst is, I trust, only the precunor of a scries of many such days. Society can u t and does not re quire incessant work from its members, for society is only a body ; like mine, like yours, if ove'taxed it will pine for rest. And why should wo try to lire.ak all the threads that link us to the M >thur Coun try ! v ' hy not on the contrarj’ exert our-, selves to instil in!o t he minds of those who have never visited Old England that there is on the British shores a time in the yeir when rest is granted to all ; when doors are opened and festivities the prominent feature. Let all of us who j'ears ago left the old country and are now growing old, band together and teach the younger generation that “ all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy.” Happy I was to find that many in our district thought the same as myself, as the meeting held at the A'ford Forest Hotel on the 28th Novem ber last, showed. The object of the meet ing was to consider if local sports should be held, either on Boxing or New Year’s Day, and electa general committee. That the opinion of those present was in favor of the sports, and that wo are strong enough now to stand on our own merits, will In seen by the names of the gentle men elected as members of the general committee, viz.—Messrs A. M'Farlane, B. Ede, L. M'Grogor, J. Anderson, John Carney, A. Ede, B. Solan, C. Grieves, W. Cook, W. T. Smith, J. Bowick, \V. Fer gus, T. E. MMlao, J. Boas, P. hi‘Neal, A. Graham, from amongst whom a working committee was appointed. On Saturday, the 2nd instant, . an other meeting was held, and Host Bowick’s hotel was the centre of attrac tion, and a better place for the ■'meeting could not have been selected, for few men in the district take a keener interest in what is going on than Mr Bowick. He has worked hard all his days, and believes in a day of rest—not the rest of the idler, ;

but the rsal for the healthjr,. and indus trious mechanic. : At * that /(Meeting the working committee reported that they had selected Mr W. Smith’# paddock as the most central, and it was decided to abide by thrir-decision —Mr| H. Knight was elected secretary and Mr 0. Grieve ’’'a *urar.-■ It rests now with the Alford Forest people to endorse the opinion of the gentlemen who have so kindly volun teered to act on the committee,*and sub scribe freely to the fund. The programme, although not yet settled, will, I under stand, include hurdle and flat, yaping.. tor horses belonging to the district or other wise—as will be decided at the meeting to be held on the 9ch inst.—trotting match, and the other usual sports. My next will furnish you with further particulars. In the meantime 1 cannot let the opportunity pass to advise some of the Ashburton people to come and pay us a visit. Com munication is easy, accommodation plen tiful, and I am sure a look at our green trees and.flowing streams will send many who take my advice home rejoicing.

OBITUARY.

Our cablegrams this evening contain intelligence of the death of two gentlemen well-known in the world of letters. The following sketches are from “ Men of the Time

Trollope, Anthony, second son of the late Mr T. A. Trollope, barrister-at-law, and of Mrs Trollope, the well-known authoress, born April 24, 1815, was edu cated at Winchester and Harrow. For many years he held an appointment in the Post-office, and he has been sent on several important missions to establish postal conventions with other countries. He has Written “ The Macdermots of Bal lycloran,” 1847 ; “ The Kellys and the O’Kallys,” 1848 ; “ La Vendee,” an his torical romance, 1850 ; “ The Warden,” a novel, 1855 ; “ Barchester Towers,” a novel, 1857; “The Three Clerks,” a novel, 1857 ; “Dr Thorne,” 1857 ; “ The West Indies and the Spanish Main,” 1859; “The Bertrams,” a novel, 1859 ; “ Castle Richmond,” a novel, 1860 ; “ Framley Parsonage,” 1861; “ Tales of all Coun tries, two Series,” 1861; “ North- America,” 1862 ; “ Orley Farm,” 1862; “Rachel Ray,” 1863; “Can You For give Her,” 1804 ; “ The Small House at Allington,” 1864; “Miss Mackenzie,” 1865 ; three volumes of reprints from the Fall Mall Gazette, entitled re spectively, “ Hunting Sketches,” 1865 ; “Travailing Sketches,” 1866; and “ Clergymen of the Church of England,” 1866; “ The Belton Estate,” 1866; “ The Last Chronicle of Barset,” 1867; “The Olaverings,” 1867; “ Lotta Schmidt and other Stories,” 1867, being a volume of reprints from Good Words and other maga zines; “ British Sports and Pastimes, 1863, reprinted from the St. Paul’s Metga zine, of which Mr Trollope was for some time the editor'; “Phinias Phinn, the Irish Member,” 1863; ‘'He Knew He was Right,” 1869; “An Editor’s Tale,” 1870; “The Vioarofßullhampton,” 1870; “ The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson,” 1870; “ The Commentaries of Ctesar,” 1870,- contributed to a series en titled “ Ancient Classics for English Readers ;” “ Ralph the Heir,” 1871; “Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite,” 1871; “ The Golden Lion of Grandpdre,” 1872; “The Eustace Diamonds,” 1873 ; “ Aus tralia and New Zealand,” 2 vols , 1873; “ Fhineas Redux,” 1873; “Harry Heath cote of Gangoil,” a tale of Australian bush life,” 1874; “Lady Anna,” 1874; “The Way We Live Now,” 1875; “ The Prime Minister,” 1876; “The American Sena tor.” 1877; and “ South Africa,” 2 vols., 1878.

Bit* no, Jean-Joseph-Louis, born at Madrid, Oct. 2i, 1813, is of Corsican ex traction, his mother nee Estelle Pozzo di Borgo, belonging to the same family as the celebrated diplomatist of that name. When nineteen years old he went to Paris and wrote in several daily journals. After wards, at Arras, he contributed to one of trie moat important Republics papers— the Progres de Pas-de-Onlxis. In 1838 he founded the Revue du Progres, in which he first published “The Organisation of Labour.” As he was returning home one evening in October 1839, he was suddenly assailed from behind by some ruffian, who inllicte I a violent blow with a stick on his right eye. The author of this cowardly attempt, which was made the day after M. Louis Blanc had published a review of Louis Bonaparte’s work “ Les Ide'es Na poldonicnnes,” was never discovered. M. Louis Blanc had a brother one year younger than himself, who was at that time at Rodez, in the department of I‘Aveyron, who entertained so strong a conviction that his brother was being assault ,d at the precise moment when it really oc curred that he was induced to write at once for information to Paris. This in cident was the origin of M. Dumas’s “ Corsican Brothers,” the main subject of which is the preternatural sympathy be tween two brothers. M. Louis Blanc having become a clerk in a notary’s office, soon, found more congenial occupation as tutor in a private family, and shortly after wards made his way to eminence among the journalists of Paris. Ihe important part that M. Louis Blanc played in the stormy days of 1848 has become matter of history. He was elected a member of the Provisional Government, ard it has been erroneously asserted that, while serving his country in that capacity, he created and organised the famous “ Nationa Workshops,” a scheme that he strenuously deprecated and opposed, and which, tc use the words of M. Lamartine, “ was th< device of his adversaries.” This calumny was so ingeniously and industriously dis seminated, to serve the purpose of politi cal intrigues, that it was long credited, in spite of many unquestionable proofs of its fallacy. M. Louis Blanc, when t member of the Provisional Government, prevailed upon his colleagues to abolisli capital punishment for political offences : and on being returned one of the representatives of Paris by 120,00 C votes, after the Provisional Government had surrendered its power to the hands of the National Assembly, he brought for ward and carried the motion for a repeal of the law by which the family of the Bonapartes was doomed to perpetual exile. To the abrogation of this law Louis Napoleon was indebted for permis sion to return to France, and consequently for his subsequent wonderful good for tune. The circumstances that led to M. Louis Blanc’s quitting France and faking up his abode in this country may be briefly stated. A violent demonstration was made May 15, 1848, in favor of Poland, by numbers of people, who in vaded the hall of the Rational Assembly. M. Louis Blanc exerted himself to check this unwarrantable attempt at popular dictation. Although the working men who took part in the demonstration did not follow his advice, they showed him sympathy and respect, which his enemies turned against him, making them the pretext for an attempt to proscribe him. This unfounded charge fell to the groun I, and it was not until amid the excitement that prevailed after the sanguinary insur rection of June in the same year, when the minds of many were under the in fiuenoj of a frantic reactionary movement, that the charge already disproved was re vived, and his proscription resolved upon and voted by the very men, indeed, who had but a short time before pmc'aimed his innocence. One of the most promi nent of M, Louis Blanc’s literary under-

takings was his “ Histoire des Dix Ans : 1830-1840,” which passed through several editions and exercised groat influence on political events in France during the latter portion of the reign of Louis Philippe. His larger and more important production, the “ History of the French Revolution,” written during his residence in England, consists of twelve volumes.

“ Historical Revelations,” intended to expose the misrepresentations in Lord Normanby’s narrative of certain events that occurred in Paris after the over throw of Louis Philippe’s government, was published in 1859. M. Louis Blaiio —who during his residence in England acted as correspondent to several French journals published “Letters on. En gland,’’ of which a translation appeared in London in 1866. On the fall of the Empire in 1870, M. Louis Blanc returned to his native country. Ho has represented ..the fifth arrondissement of the depart ment of the Seine in the National As sembly since February, 1871.

FRENCH EXECUTIONS.

Prisoners sentenced to death in ; France stand in quite a different posi tion to that of English convicts in the same case. They receive no intimation of the date when their execution will take place. The Court of Cessation to . which they have appealed may perhaps not call up their case for a couple of months; and after that some more days , will be occupied in forwarding a petj-.f tion for mercy, to the President of thV Republic. M. Grevy is opposed to capital punishment; but not so de? terminedly opposed to it as never to have signed a death warrant. He has allowed three men to be guillotined out of about 6o who have been sen tenced to death since his accession, and this proportion, small as it is, is suffi cient to prevent murderers from feeling absolutely reassured as to the fate awaiting them. They hear nothing of what is being done for or against them outside the prison walls. The avocats who defended them draw up the petition, but the convicts are not supposed to know what chances there are of these supplicatidns fori mercy being entertained or rejected. If a convict is to be executed the first certain intimation which he receives of the painful fact comes about a quarter of an hour before his head drops into the sawdust basket of the guillotine. Some morning—it may be two or three , months after his trial—he is aroused at break of day by the governor of the... prison entering his cell and saying kindly, “ A , your appeal has been / rejected, and your petition dismissed; the moment has arrived, . . .”

The unhappy man, rolling out of bed and staggering to his feet, sees the gaol chaplain, who has walked in behind the governor, and two or three war ders, who assist him hastily to dress. From this moment everything is done with the utmost celerity. The * prisoner has wine given him ; three, minutes are allowed him to make his shrift, then he is led out and pinioned. Next moment he is half conducted, ' half pushed, into the open air, ;where the guillotine stands surrounded by dense squares of mounted troops and police, behind whom are massed large crowds, straining their eyes, with not much effect, to see what is about id take place. The modern guillotine is " not erected on a platform, but is placed? on the ground. The convict makes half a dozen steps ; the executioner’s J; assistants seize him, push him roughly against an upright board, which falls forward, pivoting under his weight, and brings him in a horizontal position with his neck between the groves, above which the knife is suspended. The executioner touches a spring; the knife flashes as it falls; and all is over. Watch in hand it has been . reckoned that when all the pre liminaries of execution are smartly ' conducted, no more than fourteen minutes ought to elapse from the time when the convict is startled out of his sleep to the instant when his head and body part company. From the Chris tian point of view it is certainly deplor able that a convict having a sure know- ' ledge of his impending death should never be able seriously to prepare , his mind for it. But the French act upon the principle of making things as easy as possible for the doomed man. Even the prison chaplain thinks it his duty to hold out hopes of commutation, though , he may have no good reason for feeling that the sentence will not be carried out. The convict then passes his last week of existence in a fool’s paradise, ’ He is encouraged to smoke, he is allowed enough wine to make him, if not drunk, at least merry—that is a quart a day—and the warders in his cell play cards with him as much as he likes—it being their chief care to keep the men from moping and giving them trouble.

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[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT.] Death of a French Politician. Paris, Dec. 6. The death is announced of M. Louis Blanc, politician and author, aged sixty nine. Money and the Markets. London, Deo. 5. The market rate of discount has been reduced by $4 to per cent New Zealand securities remain at the fol lowing quotations : Five per cent. 10-40 Loan, Five percent. 1889 Loan, 104, ex div. ; Four and a half per cent 1879-1904 Loan, Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, is quoted at 495, a decline of 6d ; New Zealand wheat, ex warehouse, remains at 43s 6d to 46s 6d; and Adelaide flour at 345. Australian tallow is un changed, at 42s for best beef and 44s 6d for best mutton. At the wool auc tion to-day a firm and active demand was experienced. The catalogue con sisted of 11,000 bales. London, D«c. 6. Consols nave advanced to ex div. The markets for colonial securi ties and produce are unchanged. At' to-day’s wool sale 10,100 bales were offered, and an active demand for all descriptions was experienced. Can’t Come to an Understanding. It is stated that the parleying which for some time past has been proceed ing between the English and French Governments, has failed to bring about an understanding regarding the settle ment of affairs in Egypt, and that the French Government have declined to accept the proposals made by the English Cabinet. The rumour has not, however, received any reliable con firmation. Fire. The Alhambra Theatre, Leicester square, was destroyed by fire to-day. Death of Anthony Trollope. Anthony Trollope, novelist, who has been seriously ill for some time past, died to-day, aged 67. , The Liguria. t The Orient steamship Liguria arrived

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