SHIPPING.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVAL^

East Lothain, barque, 349 tons, Davis, from Sydney. . Leonidas, schooner, 69 tons, Norris, from Russell.

DEPARTURES.

Eucalyptus, barque, Riddle, for Hobart Town via Wangaroa.

The s.s. City of Melbourne has been further detained till this evening. She will probably leave about four o'clock. The s.s. Auckland may be expected here from Sydney and Melbourne about Sunday next. The schooner Leonidas'arrived from Russell this morning with 80 tons coals, 20 sheep skins, 4 hides, and 5_ tons flax. The schooner Sea Chill, -which has been chartered by the Fiji and Auckland Cotton Company, sails to-morrow for Nandy Bay, with a full cargo of general merchandise, several horses, and some steerage passengers, for the company.

ARRIVAL OP THE EAST LOTHIAN.

The barque East Lothian, Capt. Riddle, arrived in harbour this morning from Sydney, after a passage of ten days. The vessell is in ballast, having been chartered by Mr. Walker to load gum at this port for New York. She will probably sail in about a month.

CLEARANCE OF THE HERO.

The fine s.s. Hero, Captain J. Logan, will leave for Sydney at three o'clock, this after noon. She has a large cargo (as per exports), and the following passengers: For Sydney — Saloon; Mrs. James Muir, Mr. John Sec combe, Miss Mary Seccombe, Mrs. Thomas L. White, Mrs. William White, Mr. Alexander Kennedy, Mr. Barton Ireland, Mrs. Ireland servant and child, Mr. Edward J iardet; Steerage-W. D. Blanney, Andrew Corn and five children, Mrs. Ellen Sparks, Thomas O'Kine, John Restall, W. Lannigan, Andrew Gardiner, Thomas Faull, William Fau'l, John Weavev, Henry Adams, Joseph Dun can, William Tregonett, William Martiner, Henry Gardiner, William Legget, Fredrick Wilson, Mrs. Edmonds, Andrew Hutchin son, Mrs. Hutchinson and family. For Melbourne : Saloon —Mr. Nathaniel Meyers ; Steerage—W. Douglas Kewington, William Sawyer, James Duncan, J. Robinson, W. Calough.

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Stab Office,

Thursday afternoon

Mr. G. Sibbin sold by auction at his mart to-day a consignment of trees and shrubs, from the garden of J. Baptist and Son, Sydney. There was a good attendance, and about 400 trees of various kinds were sold at fair prices.

POLICE COURT.

The following is the rota for attendance of Magistrates at the Polioe Court for the week ending August 20,1870 ■:—

Friday, August 19.— G. B. Owen and G. P. Pierce.' Saturday, August 20.— R. F. Porter and T. Ritchie.

BIRTH.

Eastwood. —On August 17, 1870, at her residence, Nelson-street, the wife of Mr. Henry Eastwood, of a daughter, still-born.

DEATH.

Bagnaxt-.—At Grahamstown, of typhoid fever, on August 17, George, third son of Mr. J. Bagnall, formerly of Prince Edward's Island.

THE MAILS.

For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and to-

morrow at 3 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Wangarei, &c, per s.s. Go-Ahead, this day at 4.30 p.m.; and on Saturday, 20th inst., per p.s. Samson, at 3.30 p.m. For Russell and Kawakawa, per s.s. Go-Ahead, on Monday, 22nd inst., at 1.30 p.m. j and on Tuesday, 23rd inst., per p.s. Samson, at 4.30 p.m. S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.

The Evening Star. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1870.

A very painful sensation has been expe rienced in the city last night and to-day, in consequence of a rumour regarding alleged de falcations in the accounts of a public officer, who has fpr a long time stood high in the respect and esteem of the people of this city. As the affair has only reached a preliminary

stage, and, after all, may not bear such a serious aspect as at first may be supposed, it is only simple justice to suspend judgment until it is more cnrefully examined. No im putation of extravagance or recklessness in living has ever been laid on the gentleman im plicated, nor has there been any stain hitherto on the honor and uprightness of his princi ples ; and it is not to be wondered at that those who have known him best are astounded, and cannot understand the possibility of the truth of the rumour ; and wo have heard it very generally remarked that, in taking over the total accounts of a complicated depart ment, in which many hands have taken part, he may have unwittingly found himself bur tliened with the irregularities which other hands, and in the course of years, have perpe trated. We sincerely hope that this convic tion, which is held by many, will prove to be ■well-founded. And it is only reasonable, in the meantime, to refrain from passing judg ment, with only rumours, grossly exaggerated^ as a basis for opinion.

In the Police Court, to-day, the case of Bacon v. Bacon, for assault, which resulted in defendant being ordered to give security on his own bond to keep the peace, was one of those exhibiting the peculiar phases of Chancci"y-strect life. It was sufficiently pain ful and disgusting in its revelations of the social state in our lowest purlieus. But it was impossible to suppress the ludicrous fea tures in the details, and those strenuous up holders of woman's rights who hold that legal practice would be improved by the bar being open to " lovely woman," would have had some delusions dispelled by the displays of for ensic ability of which she is capable, as mani fested to-day, in the Police Court. Just as the Bench was rising, the plaintiff came rushing into Court in a state of intense excitement, her mouth ard neck bearing marks of blood, and complained thut her husband had left the Court, and rushed up into her bedroom, knocked her down, pulled her hair, and grossly abused her. She was in the midst of her recital when her husband rushed into Court and complained that she had beaten him with a stick across the shoulders, and threatened the lives of his daughters. The two informa tions were duly laid, and will be heard to morrow. The cruel a.t of giving drink to a drunken man when in a state of deli turn tremens came incidentally under the notice of the authori ties to-day, arising from a Police Court case. We can hardly conceive anything more diabolical, if such really occurred, and we trust tho police will lake the hint thrown out by the Bench, and search the matter to the bottom. The unhappy wife had followed her husband to the tap, having an order for his removal to the hospital. There she found him drinking that which had caused all her sorrow, and was hurrying her husband to the grave. With the natural indignation of an injured wife, she called it poison, and received abuse and insult from the cowardly publican. Protected as he was by the shelter of his own house, he was beyond the jurisdiction of the Bench. But if, as it appears, he served drink to a man maddened by drink, we trust the Bench, in the interests of morality, will give him the heaviest penalty which the utmost stretching of the statute will allow.

We are requested by Messrs. Samuel Coch rane and Son to direct attention to the valu able freehold and other property, at Grahams town and Tararu, which they will offer for unreserved sale on Monday next. —f.Aovr.]

We are glad to learn that the hatching of the trout ova at the Acclimatisation Society's gardens has so far been successful. Already a number of the young fish have appeared.

The transfer books of the All Nations Gold Mining Company will be closed until twelve o'clock to-morrow, when a dividend of three shillings per share will be payable.

A meeting of No. 3 Company A.R.V. will be held at the Drill-shed this evening.

A meeting of the meinbor*. of the Poly technic Institution will be held this evening.

Dorm Piatt says of the Senate, that " when ever a Solon rises to his feet and says solemnly, 'In the name of God —amen,' you may bet your inner greenback that ho has hid under his coat-tail some infernal swindle."

A materialist surgeon of Paris lately showed to one of his friends one of his instruments, the handle of which was carved in bone. *' Do you know," he asked, " of what this han dle is 'made ?" "Of ivory, I suppose." "No," said the doctor, while tears almost chocked his voice, " it is the thigh-bone of my

poor aunt."

A merchant, being unable to live as com fortably as he desired, and at the same time pay his debts, failed several times in business and made assignments of his property. Finally he died. Among those who had cause to remember him was Mr. B , who, meeting one of his neighbours, was informed that Uncle C was dead —had paid the debt of nature. "Is that so ?" replied B ;" why didn't he make an assignment ?"

Love in France is a comedy; in England, a tragedy; in Italy, an opera-seria j and in Germany, a melodrama.—American paper.

Pleasant Travelling.—A man who was following his wife's hearse, and was somewhat corpulent, called out to tho coachman, " Drive a little slower, John j you need not be n such a hurry. Why should we make a toil of a pleasure ? "

POLICE COURT.—Thursday.

[Before J. Naughton and J. O'Neill, Esqs., Justices.] • - DRUNKENNESS.

W. Marshall, not appearing to the charge of drunkenness, forfeited bail.

LARCENY,

M. Burns and R. Leary were charged with having ■on the 12th' August, stolen out of a wash tub various articles of underclothing value 365. 6d.

Catherine Sheridan deposed: lam a washer woman in Pitt-street. The articles produced I identify as having been stolen from my pos session.

John Newbury deposed : I identify two shirts produced as having been given by me to Mrs. Sheridan to wash.

Detective Ternahan deposed to having arrested prisoners, and found the articles pro duced in possession of Burns. M. Burke deposed : I am a general dealer residing in Chancery-street, I received the articles produced from 17eary. The same prisoners were charged with having stolen towels and socks from the clothes line of Mr. Parrel.

Mr. Farrel deposed : I am a clerk residing in Karangahaj c Road. Missed the towels and socks produced from my clothes-line. The socks are similar to those I lost.

Detective Ternahan deposed to having arrested prisoners, found the socks on Burns, and got the towels with the next witness, Burke.

M. Burke deposed to having bought the t'jwels from Leary, gave him 4s. for the shirts and towels.

Al. Burns was further charged with having stolen from Mrs. J. Cobine various articles of clothing, value 12s. 6d. J. Cobine deposed : On the the 9th inst had the skirt and other articles produced stolen from our gardeu. Detective Ternahan deposed to having found the articles produced in the b;xg with prisoner on arresting him in Chancery street. On the first charge, both prisoners were sentenced each to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. On the second charge, Burns was acquitted, and Leary sentenced to one month's imprison ment with hard labor.

On the third charge, Burns was sen tenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor.

Mr. Broham stated that Leary had been convicted eight times of various serious of fences, and Burns had got eighteen months for

larceny,

ASSAULT.

W. Bacon was charged with assaulting Catherine Bacon, his wife, on the 16th August.

Mr. Wynn for the defence. C. Bacon deposed : I am the wife of W. Bacon, residing in Chancery-street. On the 16th August on coming out of my room to make coJf'ee, some words occurred, and Sarah Drummond used an insulting gesture, and I called her a drunken hussy. Prisoner then seized me by the throat and forced me into the kitchen till I fell on the floor ; he then knelt upon me and jammed me against the floor several times till Betsy Jane, his eldest daughter, took him off. I am afraid he will do me some grevious bodily harm. To Mr. Wynn : I had said to Sarah Drum mond that if she said anything to me I would shove her down stairs.

Ellen Drummond deposed: Mrs. Bacon threatened to throw me downstairs, and Mary Anne Bacon came to take my part, and Mrs. Bacon said she would split Mary Ann's head open with a jug of hot coffee, and called her a drunken beast. Bacon then came out, and I turned my head to the back window.

The witness was examined by Mrs. Bacon at great length, resulting in scenes ludicrous in the extreme, and convulsing the Court with laughter.

Defendant was ordered to give his own bond in £25 to keep the peace for three months.

ABUSIVE LANGUAGE,

Edward Shepherd, of the Star Hotel, was charged with using abusive language to Ellen Dowd, on the 15th August.

Mr. Wynn for prosecution, Mr. Reosfor the defence.

Ellen Dowd deposed : I went to the Star public-house to bring home my husband, and asked prisoner not to give my husband drink ; I had frequently so asked him. He said 1 deserved to be kicked, and he called me a

To Mr. Rees : It was my duty to go and look after my husband.

To the Bench : My husband was intoxicated at the time, and I saw him drinking beer in the bar.

Mr. Naughton drew the attontion of the police to this statement.

For the defence, Mr. Rees called E. Shep herd, who deposed: Dowd was not drunk; he had a pint of beer. She told me I was poisoning her husband, and I called her a liar.

To Mr. Wynn: I told her she was a lying . She had previously come to my house, and asked me to not give her husband drink. She had this time come with a carriage and policeman to take her husband to hospital.

C. Spratt deposed: On this occasion Dowd was not drunk, nor yet sober ; he had three sheets in the wind. He had a glass of beer.

To Mr. Wynn : Ho was about half over,

Constable L. Green deposed : I had gone to take Dowd to tho hospital. Heard warm words between Mrs. Dowd and Shepherd, and he called her a . Dowd was in delirium tremens, as certified by Dr. Kennedy. He was drunk, and knocked me about a good deal.

The Bench considered that they could not in the circumstances ask for security from defendant, though they strongly censured his conduct towards a woman going after, her husband to save him from destruction. NO APPEARANCE. The charge against Bridget Gardiner of using abusive language to Eliza Price, and that against W. Ayles of assaulting H. Wil liams, were dismissed, the parties not ap pearing. The Court then rose.

Creditors in the Land's End and Missis sippi G. M. Company are requested to prove their claims before the 31st instant.

Isaac O'Donnell has become insolvent.— Henry Moss Jacobs and Henry Davison give notice that they intend to apply to pass their last examination qu the Ist September.— Richard Oliver, of Grahamsto ,vn, gives notice that hes has filed, in the Supreme Court, a declaration of his inability to meet h s engage ments with his creditors.

ONEHUNGA.

At the Resident Magistrate's' Court on Wed nesday, before Captain Symonds, R.M., and Major Gordon, J.P., the following cases were heard; —

Drunkenness. — Joanna Smith, charged with this offence, was fined in the usual amount.

Citron v. Hutchison. —Claim, 18s., balance of account. Plaintiff was a travelling hawker. Defendant's wife bought a watch and chain, and paid a part of the purchase-money, leav ing the balance now claimed.—Defendant said he knew nothing of the transaction till he re ceived a summons, and never sanctioned the purchase of the watch by his Svife. —The Court gave judgment for defendant on the ground that a watch was not a necessary article.

Bradley and another v. Cleave. — Claim £1, for freight and passage money from Mauku. —Plaintiffs proved bringing tho de fendant, with his family and furniture, in the boat from the Mauku, for which they charged £1. —Defendant objected to pay, on the ground that all his goods were not brought down.—Judgment for plaintiffs.

Stewart v. Parker.—This was a sum mons after judgment.—Defendant did not appear, and a warrant for his apprehension was issued.

Wallace v. Scott. —Claim £15, for dam ages to a flax machine. —Mr. Wilson appeared for defendant.—John Wallace, of Flat Bush, deposed : Defendant was employed by me as a mechanic and engineer, and to have general charge of the flax machinery. On the 30th June he ruined two ilax machines. It would require £15 to repair the damage ; it was done during my absence. I was obliged to discharge all the hands. Defendant did not tell me the machine wanted repair ; but I warned him he was not careful enough.—J. Mclntyre deposed : He was an engineer, and made the flax-machines for plaintiff. The drum damaged, which was produced in Court, could not have been injured to such an extent by fair usa^e ; a new drum must be cast which would cost £6. A piece of iron, produced, which Avas the guiding screw, if it got loose and got into the machine it would cause the damage. The screw would not get loose with proper care. It will cost £8 each to put both machines in proper order. If the screws worked loose it was the engineer's°duty at once to have thrown off tho belts or stopped the engine.—James Cane, a man , employed, heard plaintiff warn defendant before he went away. He often told defendant the flax was not coming through the machine properly. For the de fence, Mr. Wilson claimed that the plaintiff be non-suited, on the ground that defendant was charged with gross and wilful negligence. The evidence went to prove that defendant had done all he could, and the mischief caused was purely accidental, and for which defendant was not responsible.—The Court allowed the case to proceed.—James Scott deposed to calling plaintiff's attention to the screw work ing loose, when plaintiff told him he could go to no more expense. He was obliged to fetch water for the engine as plaintiff did not appoint any person to fetch water. On coming back he heard something was the matter, and immediately stopped the engine. The feeder at the machine ran away and left it. He ought to have thrown the belt on to the slack pulley, which would have prevented the mischief. — Judgment for plaintiff for the damage to one machine—£6 and costs.

THE WIFE'S COMMANDMENTS.

1. Thou shalt have no other wife but me. 2. Thou shalt not take into thy house any beautiful brazen image of a servant girl, to bow down to her and serve her; for I am a jealous wife, visiting, etc. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of thy wife in vain.

4. Kemember thy wife to keep her respect able.

5. Honor thy wife's father and mother 6. Thou shalt not fret.

7. Thou shalt not find fault with thy dinner.

8. Thou shalt not chew tobacco

fl. Thou shalt not be behind thy neighbors. 10. Thou shalt not visit the rum tavern ; thou shalt not covet the tavern keeper's rum, nor his brandy, nor his gin, nor his wine, nor anything that his behind the bar of the rum seller.

11. Thou shalt not visit tho billiard hall, neither for worshipping in the dance, nor heaps of money that is on tho table.

And the 12th commandment is : That thou shalt not stay out later than nine o'clock at night.

CENSUS.

TnE consus-takcr may soon be looked for. In order to facilitate his work it is suggested that the following interrogatories be pub lished in advance:— How old are you ?

Where were you born and when, and were you present on the occasion of your birth ? Were you ever elected inspector of elec tions ? What was your majority, and what did it cost you ?

Are you a married person, and how do you like tho institution ?

Have you any children, how many, and what is a certain remedy for snufile3 ?

Do you grow any corn, if so, how much do you waste in making bread ?

What's your opinion of lager beer ? How many glasses can you drink, and with what effect ?

What is your opiuion of oats—a very popu lar provender for men and beasts ?

What is the cash value of a one dollar bill ?

Can you stand on your head, and how long ? If a good while, how much longer if neces sary ?

If an acre of ground will yield one hundred bushels of rutabagas, how many glasses of lager will it take to require a man to draw a bee line ?

If your family eats a ham in three days, how long will it take them to eat a couple of hammers ?

Can you lend me five dollars ?

A photograph, by Mr. Crombie, has been forwarded to our office of the only survivor of the Tauranga. The picture, which is carte de visite size, is a portrait of the dos picked up by the schooner Renilworth, and recognised as belongiug to the missing vessel. Wo un derstand that these cartes will be sold at a shilling each, the entire proceeds to be devoted to the Tauranga Fund. Numbers of persons will doubtless be happy to secure such an in teresting memento of the late sad accident.

AMERICAN NEWS.

AND LYNCH LAW.

WIFE-MURDER We learn the particulars of a savage and brutal affair, which occurred at Medoc, a small town in Jasper county, Missouri, from a correspondent of the Kanzas City Journal. The man's name who perpetrated the foul deed is A. D- Taylor. He was taken from the custody of the constable by the citizens ot Medoc and hung about 10 o'clock on the evening of the 29th of May. The following are the facts as stated by this correspondent: " For some months past Taylor has been almost daily in the habit of whipping and other wise abusing his wife (who is said to be a most estimable lady). His abuse of his wife has been growing more and more aggravated and severe, until Friday night last, when it seems he turned a fiend, and began to abuse her in a most brutal and outrageous manner—first by kicking and cuffing ; then he struck her to the floor, and stamped her with his heels. " After punishing her in this way until he was tired, he took a butcher-knife an i cut her hair short. Still growing more and more devilish, he broke a gridiron to shivers over her head. Then with a knife, he began to torture her by hacking her in the face and breast, until ho had literally cut her breast and face into slices, and, to make the tortures more severe, stabbed her in different parts of the body with an old pair of scissoi*3. He seemed to kill her by degrees. During all this time he kept up his kicking, cuffing, and stamping, and by the time his fury was abated he had inflicted such horrible wounds that life was almost extinct. " Several of the citizens, hearing the cries of the woman, were attracted to the place. On finding that they had discovered what ho had been doing, and fearing that they would take measures to punish him, he fled to the woods near by, where lie kept himself concealed until Sunday morning, when he called at Mr. Robert Wallace's farm house, and asked for some breakfast. Mr. Wallace, having beard what hadjoccurred on Friday night, in I knowing that there was a writ in the hands of the constable for his arrest, took it upon himself to arrest him, took him to town and delivered biin into the hands of the constable.

"The citizens, in the meantime hearing of the outrage and of the critical condition of his wife, became more and more enraged, arid by evening begau to show signs of violence, Several citizens were summoned to assist to guard him from violence. About half-past nine, the constable decided to move the prisoner to Justice Anderson's house, some two miles distant, for safe keeping, and for trial on the morrow. After having gone about a mile with the prisoner, a 2)oSse ot about thirty armed men came up, took Taylor and hanged him to a tree, where he remained until this forenoon. He wa3 then taken down and brought to town. When I saw his body, it was lying in his own office. " His wife, all cut and bruised from head to foot, was still alive on Monday. It is nrobable that she will not recover."

ALMOST INCREDIBLE.—A NEW CRIME.

The following statement is from tho Port land (Maine) Argus, of Monday : —There would seem to be but little doubt but that a most shocking crime was committed in con nection with the sail-boat disaster in our harbor last Monday, by which three men lost their lives. One of the victims, Mr. Rogers of Boston, was known to have on his person quite a large sum of money, a gold watch, valuable pin, &c. He was found floating on the surface soon after the accident by a boy in a wherry. Of course the lad could not raise him into his frail craft, but he attached a rope to the body and towed it to the shore. None of the property was found upon the person. It is said that when the boy found him there were signs of life ; that though the head was under the water the hands were still paddling convulsively, and this is strengthened from the fact that the man was at the surface. But it appears that just after the accident one of the victims, supposed to be Rogers, as he was a good swimmer, was seen to be sustaining him self; a schooner in the vicinity hove-to, and a boat containing two men put off. It reached the man in the water, and after for some little space of time, the boat returned to the schooner, which sailed away. This latter part of it was witnessed by t**e boy in the wherry, who got the body to the shore, and the whole thing was seen by parties in a boat not far away. From those premises the unavoidable deduction is that Mr. Rogers was picked up in a half-drowned condition, robbed, and thrust back into the water again. It semis too horrible for belief, but such terrible crimes arc almost daily recorded that there appears to be almost no limit to the depravity of humanity. Wc further learn that tho affair is to be thoroughly investigated, and that officers are upon the track of the vessel, which is known. If such a terrible crime was enacted, all good men will pray that the fiends may bo brought to speedy and condign punishment.

A PASSION FOR PARASOLS—REMARK ABLE INSTANCE OF KLEPTOMANIA.

There is in New York a rich lady who, if tho New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Record may be believed, has a mania for stealing parasols. This remarkable lady, it appears, has been married for some four or five years, but her husband, till the present, has never had the least suspicions of her singular failings. Mrs. Smith —to call her, for convenience sake, by a wholly impersonal name—had iv her large and elogar.t house a little boudoir which she always kept closely locked. It was one of those apartments which in New York houses are alwa;. s called " hall bed-rooms." When examined the other day by some detectives the walls of this apar men were found decorated with nearly a hundred parasols of all sizes aud varieties, from the cheapest to the most expensive. There were several richly decorated with lace, valued at fifty dollars a piece. The kleptomaniac has been several years forming this unique collec'ion ; and on one or two occasions, when detected in the act by storekeepers managed io hush up the matter by restitution to purchase of the stolen property. She had an odd manner of giving names to her favourite parasols, selecting them from poems, novels, and plays. The latest addition to ihe stDck —an elegant white parasol with heavy fringe — was called "Prou-Frou;" others bore labels with such names as "Pickwick," "Little Don-it," " Lady of the Lake," " Ophelia," " Rosalind," and the like ; and one large specimen, bordering on the umbrella species, bore the gloomy name of " Lady Macbeth.' The husband of the lady in question is unde cided what cource to pursue in this curious

emergency. As to the fair kleptomaniac herself, she professes to be overwhelmed with contrition and remorse. The family *^m certainly remunerate the spoliated parasol dealers for their losses, and the matter will probably be hushed Up.

EYRE AND THE LONDON BOARD OF TRADE.

Washington, June 4, 18*70,

Minister Thornton has received and for. warded to the Secretary of State copies of communications submitted on the 23rd of April last by Capt. Eyre, of the Bombay, which ran down the United States steamer Oneida last winter, and by the Board of Directors of th e Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company of London to the Board of Trade, for them to forward to the Lords, etc., praying that the slight punishment ordered by the Court of Inquiry in the case of Capt. Eyre be removed, and the Board's reply thereto. The Board of Directors of the Steamship Company state that they have had the report of the proceed ings in the enquiry under their serious consideration, and they cannot but feel the decision arrived at by the Court on the conduct of Capt. Eyre after the collision was not warranted by the evidence laid before it. It appears to the Board that Capt. Eyre, either before and after the collision, did all that a prudent aud experienced seaman could do, and under these circumstances the Board request that the Lords of the Committee review the evidence taken at the Court of In quiry, and give consideration to any statement which Capt. Eyre may make, and express tho hope that they will sco fit to return to him his certificate. The Board submit a letter from Capt. Eyre, and in that commu nication state that he has been in their employ eleven years, three years of which as a commander, and has always borne the highest character. They state that they are quite unable to express in adequate terms I heir deep sorrow that an accident, ia which one of their Company's steamer* was conierned, should have been attended by a lamentable loss of life. The most profouud sympathy is felt by them for all the citizens of the United States who have unhappily lost, relatives or frieuds by the foundering of the Oneida, but they cannot help entertaining a confident hope that a careful revision of the circumstances of the case will result hi the rcmov.il of the unfavourable impression which now exists there and here as to the conduct of Capt. Eyre after the collision. In Capt. Eyre's memorial to the Board he states that he would have rendered assistance to the Oneida if he had thought she needed it, as he had seven boats, capable of carrying from one hundred aud ninety to two hundred men, and even if his own vessel had been seriously injured he could have spared several of them. In the reply of the Board of Trade the latter state that they are of the opinion, after carefully revising the record of the Court, that he was guilty of a gross breach of the thirty-third section of the Merchant 'Shipping Act, which clearly states that all assistance possiblo in case of collision must be rendered ; and further of opinion that the sentence of the Court in sus pending his certificate, !for six months only, so far from being too severe, is more lenient than the gravity of the offence required, as well as the enactment to which they referred that simply embodies the dictates of humanity and that in disobeying it he has been guilty, not only of an offence created by statute, but of a disregard of the natural duties which circumstances of danger such as that of the Oneida imposes upon those who have been the unwilling cause of the danger; and they are especially anxious to express emphatically then* sense of the importance of those duties at a time wiien the increase of rapid steam navigation augments the danger of collisions, and renders the performance of those duties more imperative. — Philadpelhia Telegraph.

THE CHAMPION SNAKE STORY.

Some of the papei s in the south and west are trying which can tell the toughest snake story. The Virginia State Journal, recount* one which we think fairly entitles its editor to the champion belt. A negro woman living near Chesterfield, Va., according to the Journal, has a nursing child, which occupies the entire night usually in imbibing its regu lar nourishment. The woman has frequently, during the period, imagined, while in a semi somnolent state, that both the maternal founts were being used at the same time, and mentioned the circumstance to the hus band and sever d friend.-, who puzzled their brains to account for it. She was afflicted -with asthma, and frequently sat during the warm evenings with her dress loosened, to allow of greater ease in breathing. One evening she was siting thus, half-asleep and half-awake, when she felt something creep over her j shoulder and down upon her bosom. She immediately roused her torpid faculties, and glancing clown saw a monstrous black-snake in the act of sucking, its basilisk eyes gleaming into hers. Of course she was frightened almost out of her senses, and screamed and threw up her hands in the wildest terror, which alarmed his snakeship into loosening his hold and executing a prompt disappear ance. 'The alarm also awoke her husband, who was asleep in tho same room, and who was at once informed of the astonishing cir cumstance, lie thinking that the reptile would return and attempt to finish its meal, took a favourable position and waited for luin. In a short time the snake, which was of enor mous size, camo out, and after a short battle was dispatched. This is certainly a remark able jslory, but it is vouched for as strictly . true by our Richmond cotemporary.

If the proverbial effect of "all work and no play " extended to bishops, the mental smftrtr ness of the Bishop of Winchester would bm little short of miraculous. As a sample of *W bishop's day, it m.y be interesting to notolus lordship's proceedings on May 17, as explained by himself at the Church Sunday School Association in the evening. He had, he sa,w> been hard at work ever since seven o'clock that morning, and was ready to drop. H-9 had been presiding over the Ritual Commission » great part of tho day, and fighting in Vie House of Lords for the Sequestration Bill, which, he was happy to say, he had now gob read a second time. As soon as he had done there he trotted off to Camberwell as fast a* his little nag would carry him, and ho wished now to go home, have a little rest, some food, write a number of letters, and go to bed abou one or two o'clock in the morning.

All clamis against tho Golden Hill G.M.& must be lodged before the 22nd instaut.

THE EVENING STAB, AUGUST 18,1870.



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