[From the Round Table.] WILLL&M 'SHAKESPEARE (APRIL 23, 1564.) the sat in Her Eternal House, The Sovereign Mother of Mankind; 'Before Her was the peopled World, The hollow Night behind! 'Below my feet the thunders break, Above my head tile stars rejoice; But Man, although he babbles much, Ida.s never found a Voice! ""Ten thousand years have come and gone, And not an hour of any day But he has dumbly looked co me The things he could not say! It shall be so no more," She said. And then..revolving in Her mind, ShethoShught: 4. will create a child all speak for all his kind." It was the spring-time of the year, And lo! where Avon's waters flow, The Child. Her darling, came on earth, Three hundred years ago. There was no portent in the sky, No cry. like Pan's, along the seas; Nor hovered round his classic bees! What other children were, be was, If more, 'twas not to mortal ken; The bei M gn likest to mankind ade him the Man of Men! They gossiped, after he was dead, An idle tale of stealing deer; One thinks he studied Law, and one Taught school, —but naught is clear, Save that he married, in his youth,- A. maid, his elder; went to Town; Wrote plays; made money; and at last Came back, and settled down, A prosperous man among his kin, In Stratford, where his bones repose, And this—what can be less? is all The world of Shakespeare knows! It irks us that we know no. more, For where we love, we would know all; 'what would be small in common men, In great is never small. Their daily habits—how they looked— The color of their eyes and hair— Their prayers, their oaths—the wine they drank The clothes they used to wear. Trifles like these declare the men, And should survive them—nay, they must `We' 11 find them somewhere—if it needs, We'll rake among their dust! Not Shakespeare's! He hath left his curse On him disturbs it: let it rest— The sacredest that ever Death Laid in the earth's dark breast! Not to himself did he belong, Nor does his life belong to us; Enough, he was: give o'er the search If he were thus, or thus. Before be came, his like was not, Nor left he heirs to share his powers; The Itlichty Mother sent him here, To be Her "Voice—and ours! To be Her Oracle to Man; To be what Man may be to Her; Between the Maker and the Made - The best Interpreter. The hearts of all men beat in his, Alike in pleasure, and in pain; And he contained their myriad minds— Mankind in Heart and Brain! Shakespeare! What shapes are conjured nn By that one word! They come and go, more real, shadows though they be, Than many a man we know. Hamlet, the Dane—unhappy Prince, Who most enjoys when suffering most His soul is haunted by itself— There needs no other Ghost! The Thane whose murderous fancy sees The dagger painted in the air; The guilty King who stands appalled, When Banquo fills his chair! Lear in the tempest, old and crazed— ,Btaw winds! Spit fire, singe sty white head!" Or, sadder, watching tor the breath Of dear Cordelis—dead! The much-abused, relentless Jew; Grave Pruspero, in his magic Isle And She who captived Antoony— The Serpent of old Nile! Imperial Forms, heroic Souls, Greek, Roman—masters of the world; Rings, queens,—the soldier, scholar, priest, The courtier, sleek and curled;_ He knew and drew all ranks of men, And did sneh life to them impart, They grew not old,—lmmortal Types, The Lords of Life ana Art! Their Sovereign, he, as She was his, The Awful Mother of the Race, Who, had from all Her children' s eyes, Unveiled to him Her face: Spake to him till Her Speech was known, Through him till Man had learned it—then Enthroned Bun in Her Heavenly House, The Most Supreme of Men! XXXVIIITH CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION; CLOSE OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. SENATE.-31r. Foot (Vt.) presented a me morial of wool growers of Addison county, Vermont, representing that the tariff on wool is a double failure, raising neither revenue nor affording protecting, most foreign wool, by means of dirt, grease and fraud, coming in at less than the foreign valuation, eighteen -cents, and producing less than one cent 'per pound. They ask a division into coarse, medium and fine classes, at a home valuation under eighteen cents; three cents specific and twenty per cent. ad valorem ; between eighteen and twenty-five cents, six cents specific and twenty per cent. ad valorem; over twenty-five cents, ten cents spe cific and twenty per cent. ad valorem. The Army Appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1865, then came up. All the amendments of the Finance Committee were agreed to. Mr. Wilson offered the following amend ments That all enlistments hereafter made in the regular army during the continuance of the pre sent rebellion may be for three years ; that all persons of color, who have been or may be muttered into the military service, shall re ceive the same uniform, clothing, arms, emolu ments, &c., other than bounty, as other soldiers of the regular or volunteer forces of like arm of the service, from and after the first of January, 1864; and that every person of color who shall thereafter be mustered into the ser vice shall receive Such bounty as the President shall order in the different States and parts of the United States, not exceeding $100; that all persons enlisted and mustered into service as - volunteers, under the call of October 17, 1863, who were at the time of enlistment actually en rolled and subject to draft in the State in which they volunteered, shall receive the same bounty without regard to color. That all Persons of color who have been en listed and mustered into the service shall be entitled to receive the pay and clothing allowed to other volunteers from the date.of their mus ter into the service, provided that the same shall have been pledged or promised to them by any officer or person, who in making such pledge or promise acted by authority of the War Department, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to determine any question of fact arising under this provision. That the same premium shall be allowed for each colored recruit now mustered or hereafter to be mus tered into the service as is or shall be allowed by law for white recruits; provided that the Secretary of War shall previously give his as sent to the same. These amendments were adopted by h vote of 31 yeas to 5 nays—Messrs. Buckalew, Hen dricks, Davis, Powell and Saulsbury. Mr. Davis offered an amendment providing for the payment of property taken in the mili tary service during the war. He said the States enriched by the war were in a happy condition. The border States have been, to a great extent, the theatre of war, and have ex. perienced its devastations in a direct form. Great portions of our territory have been made utterly desolate and devastated. The whole object of the Government was to THE DAILY 'EVENING BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA; SATURDAY. APRIL . 23, 1864.=-TRIPLE-SHEET protect, the people in peace and security, and in the enjoyment of their liberties, and when the question was put = to him whether 'these ends should'be sacrificed and the country cut np to bring this war to a successful issue, he, for one, rose up in revolution against any such fruits of war as that. Our military leaders, instead of acting justly and protecting us in our persOns and property in the border States, were waging a most' extraordinary and devas tating war upon us. Gentlemen had a word on this floor who were bent more on the de struction of slavery than the restoration of the Union. Mr. Davis's amendment was rejected, by a vote of 26 to 10. Great difficulty was experienced in securing a quorum during this and the previous vote, and the Sergeant-at-Arms was directed to re quest the attendance of Senators. Mr. Hendricks (Ind.) moved an amendment, increasing the pay of non-commissioned offi cers and privates fifty per cent. the pay of the former not to exceed twenty-two dollars. After a colloquy between Messrs. Hendricks, Conness, Fessenden and others, the amend ment was rejected. The bill as reported to the Senate was passed —yeas 36; nays 1. On motion of Mr. Powell, the Senate re solved to adjourn till Monday. The Senate agreed to appoint a committee of conference on the bill relating to the ap pointment of naval officers, and a bill relating to naval courts martial. The Senate then went into executive session, and subsequently adjourned. ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The House in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, resumed the considera tion of the Tax bill. Mr. Morrill offered an amendment, which was adopted, that wholesale dealers in liquors who annual sales do not exceed fifty thousand dol lars shall pay a license of fifty dollars, and one dollar on every thousand dollars over fifty thousand dollars; every person who shall sell or offer for sale any distilled spirits or fer mented liquors,in quantities of more than three gallons at any time, or whose annual sales amount to twenty-five thousand dollars per annum,shall be regarded as a wholesale dealer. The license of retail liquor dealers was in creased to twenty-five dollars. Mr. Morrill offered an amendment that com mercial brokers whose annual sales do not ex ceed twenty-five thousand dollars, shall pay a license of twenty dollars, and exceeding twenty five thousand, one dollar for each additional thousand dollars. Mr. Fernando Wood (N. Y.) enumerated various classes of brokers in clothing, tobacco, coffee, &c., - and moved that all other brokers, in addition to commercial, pay the same li cense. The amendment thus modified was adopted. The bill was further modified so that all steamers and vessels upon the waters of the United States; on board of which passengers or travellers are provided with food or lodging, shall pay twenty-five dollars license. Mr. Thayer (Pa.) offered an amendment re quiring liotel and tavern keepers, etc , to take out a special license at a charge of twenty-five dollars, for selling liquor to be drank on the premises. Mr. Stevens (Pa.) said the present law did not require the taking out of two licenses. Tavern keepers are heavily taxed by this bill, but the license being increased according to the yearly rental, and scarcely a respectable hotel could escape with less than a thousand dollars tax. Mr. Frank (N. Y.) said this question of hotel licenses had repeatedly been before the House, but it had been so mystified and twisted up that there was no clear understanding of the sub ject. He trusted the defect would now be remedied, and that the amendment of the gen tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thayer), requi ring an additional license at twenty-five dol lars, would prevail. A large amount of revenue would thus be received by the governtuent, which realized about a million of dollars from that class of license last year. Mr. Thayer replied to Mr. Stevens, and showed that the drinking houses, where the greatest crimes are committed, should not es cape with the paltry sum of ten dollars. Mr. Boutwell (Ky.) called attention to the ruling of the Internal Revenue Bureau, and quoted from the law to show that where persons carry on different branches of business in the same place, a license- must be takes out for each. Mr. Stevens replied, saying the House did not put such a construction upon the law, and that a tavern keeper did not carry on two branches of business by selling liquor. This privilege was included in the one license. Mr. Thayer's amendment was adopted ; yeas 77, nays not counted. The license for bowling alleys and billiard rooms was increased from five to ten dollars, and the same amount for each additional alley or table. Mr. Masson (Iowa) moved that two of the licence clauses be transposed, giving as a reason; that lawyers and doctors should take precedence of stallions and jackasses. Mr. James C. Allen objected, saying the two clauses were pioperly placed. Amid excessive laughter the amendment was rejected. Builders and contractors are to pay a license of twenty-five dollars when the contract is over twenty-five thousand dollars, and one dollar ad ditional on every thousand dollars. Mr. Mallory called attention to the clause re - - quiring every person doing a general business to pay a license of ten dollars, for which no other license is required by law. He did not understand the clause. Mr. Hooper said he himself did not under stand the clause, and moved to make it read " any person doing nothing shall pay a license often dollars. This was adopted. [Laughter.] Mr. Mallory moved further to amend the clause, making such a person's license apply to his disbursements, instead of receipts. Finally the entire clause was stricken out. Mr. Morris (Ohio) offered an amendment that _loafers- shall pay, each, a license of ten dollars; every person loitering at street corners or Standing on hotel or door steps, shall be deemed a loafer:` Provided, that members of Congress waiting. at the crossings for the street cars shall not be required to take out a license therefor. [Excessive laughter.] The amend ment was rejected. The Committee have thus far acted upon all the sections relating to the general provisions and licenses, seventy-nine in number, and lave commenced upon those under the head of manufactures, articles and products.. An amendment was made, by which stemmed tobacco, with manufactured tobacco, snuff or cigars, may be transferred, without payment of duty, directly from the place of manufacture to a bonded warehouse for exportation. The Committee took a recess till seven o'clock. Evening. Session.—The tax bill was taken up and an amendment made so as to read, cc On all mineral coals except such as are known in the trade as pea coal and dust coal, a duty of five cents per ton ; Provided that in case the con tract for the lease of coal lands be made prior to the passage of this act, the lessee shall pay the tax if not otherwise agreed upon, and all duties or taxes on coal mines delivered by coal on contracts heretofore made shall be paid by the purchasers thereof, if not otherwise agreed by the parties." The Committee struck out the following; "All gas companies are authorized to add the duty or tax imposed by law to the price per thousand cubic feet of gas sold." :Mr. Morrill offered an amendment increasing the duty front 20 to 25 cents on coal illuminat ing oils per gallon. Mr. Holman, (Ind) unsuccessfully moved to tax them 80 cents. Mr: Scofield said there was no comparison between whiskey and coal oil. Whiskey was a demoralizing luxury, while the illuminating oils were the poor man's light. It costs 20 cents to produce a gallon of oil, and the tax proposed was 100 per cent. Mr. Kasson (Iowa) exFlained that the revenue from such oils would not be as large as was an ticipated, for the reason that the bill provides for drawbacks on the large quantities imported. Mr. Amos Myers (Pa.) contended that'such a heavy tax would have the effect to stop the consumption, and to cut off the poor man's light. Mr. Morrill said the consumption would not be reduced. It was the cheapest article of light in the world. We have taxed gas and lard oil nearly double, and yet there is no complaint. Mr. Morrill's amendment was adopted, and also one that oil produced by the distillation of coal, asphaltum or shale, shall pay 15 cents per gallon. Mr. Kasson offered an amendment taxing crude petroleum $1 per barrel, which was adopted by a vote of 55 yeas to 43 nays. The duty on screws, commonly called wood -screws, was increased to 10 per cent., ad valo rem. An amendment was made laying a tax of $2 on gold foil per Troy ounce. The duty on artificial mineral water, soda waters, sarsa parilla water, and all other beverages used for the like purpose, sold in bottles or from, foun tains, was reduced from 10 to 5 per cent. ad valorem. Mr. James C. Allen (Ill.) moved to increase the tax on pig iron from $1 to $2 a ton. He said the tax proposed was entirely too small. Mr. Moorhead (Pa.) remarked that manufac turers are perfectly willing to bear their pro portion of the burdens. They ask no exemp tion, but ask an assurance that the duty on the foreign article will be increased in the Tariff bill. Mr. Stevens (Pa.) said the duty on iron is double what it was, and on some of the smaller kinds three or four times as much. Iron was taxed higher than any other article.. Mr. Cox (Ohio) said, all things considered, the iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania have protection to the extent of one hundred and fifty per centum. He reminded the gentleman from Pennsylvania that whiskey had been taxed four times its worth. Mr. Scofield said his colleague (Mr. Stevens) had voted to tax illuminating oil 150 per cent., an article consumed by the poor, while iron, which was used by the wealthy, was to be taxed to the small extent of a dollar a ton. It ought to be taxed $5 a ton. Mr. Kellogg (N. Y.) mentioned facts to show that iron could bear a higher. tax. The manufacturers in his district wish to bear their just proportion of the expenses of the govern ment. Mr:Morrill (Vt.) opposed the proposed in crease. Mr. Griswold (N. Y.) also spoke against the amendment to increase the duty on pig iron two dollars a ton, which was carried. An amendment was adopted, fixing a duty ;I' four dollars a ton on blooms, slabs or loops, wken made in forgeties or bloomeries directly from the ore, thus doubling the duty as origi nally reported in the bill. • Mr. James C. Allen unsuccessfully moved a duty of six instead of three dollars per ton on railroad iron. Mr. Scofield (Pa.) proposed a tax of tour dollars per ton. Mr. Woodbridge (Vt.) opposed this amend ment. Pending its consideration, the com mittee rose, and at ten o'clock the House adjourned. PERNSYLVARLt LEGISLATITRE CLOSE OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDEIGS SENATE .Ifternoon Session.—On motion of 31r. Lowry, the Senate resumed the consideration of the supplement to the Anthracite Coal and Iron Company. The bill was passed. The Senate proceeded to consider the Ap propriation bill, on motion of 3ir. Connell. An act incorporating the Lawrence Railroad and Transportation Company. An act to pro tect creditors from bank frauds. An act relative to the sale of graduated lands was. discussed and passed. A d journed. llot - sE.—Tire House met at 10 o'clock. Mr. S midi; of Chester, from the special com mittee appointed to inquire what measure should be adopted in reference to enlarging the - public buildings or erecting new ones, pre senteYt•. a report as follows: The committee appointed to inquire into what measures, if any, should be adopted in reference to enlarging the public buildings of the commonwealth, or erecting new buildings, report that, having met in pursuance to their appointment and agonized, they proceeded to inquire of the matter submitted to them. In' lookingto the increase of public business, not only by reason of the war in which the na tion-is involved, but also by the great augmen tation of business from the great prosperity of the State, and from natural causes and indus trial progress, the committee came at once to the conclusion that, to accommodate the State and military departments and the Legislature, there would be required a great enlargement of the buildings now erected, and also the erection of new buildings. -The Committee did not deem it within the scope of the duty assigned them to procure plans and estimates for the buildings spoken of, but from the expression.of some of their number, and the opinion of other gentlemen of experience in building, the Committee believe that such improvements would incur an ex pense much greater than should be imposed upon the commonwealth in the present condi tion of her finances. Whilst the subject was under consideration, a committee of the Councils of the city of Philadelphia had a conference with the com mittee of the House, and informed them that the Councils of that city were about, to adopt measures looking to the removal of the seat of government there. After some delay there was, on the 12th inst., laid before the com mittee a certified copy of an ordinance pledg ing the faith of said city to the extent of one million of dollars for the erection of suitable buildings for the Legislature, the several De partments, and for the residence of the Go vernor; provided that the Legislature shall, at this session, pass a law declaring the city of Philadelphia the seat of government of the commonwealth, and also pledging the said city to provide suitable buildings for the aforesaid purposes until such buildings shall be perma nently erected. In view of the great saving to expense which would be effected, and the many advantages not necessary here to detail, which it is alleged would result from the change of the sear of government, the committee have deemed it proper to report for the consideration of the Legislature ajoint resolution in relation to the removal of the seat of government, but do not commit themselves to the same. Signed, P. Frazer Smith, Ed , S. Lee, J. B. Beck, R. R. Reed, W. F. Smith, Jos. Rex, G. D. Jackson. The joint resolutions offered by the commit tee is the bill presented by Mr. Smith (Ches ter) some time ago, providing for the removal of the capital to Philadelphia, and published at the time. • Agreeably to order, the House resumed the consideration of the Apportionment bill on its final passage. Mr. Hazlet moved to go into Committee of the Whole for special amendment,and an effort was Made to take one member from Lancaster and give it to Butler, which proved ineffectual. In the senatorial districts Cambria was joined in the same distriat with Clearfield, one Sena tor; Armstrong with Indiana, one Senator; Butler and Lawrence one Senator. All the amendments made in Committee of the Whole House on first reading were ratified. Messrs. Barger Hopkins, Purdy, Sharpe and Pershing made speeches against the bill; and Messrs. Olmstead, Cochran , (Philadelphia), in defence of it, when the bill passed finally. Yeas 48, nays 45. Mr. Glass called up a settlement to the act of 1862, for the adjudication and payment of mili tary clairns, allowing the validity of certain claims heretofore sworn to by notaries public. Passed finally by a vote of 48 to 25. An act to authorize the appointment of cer tain notaries public by the Governor. Passed. Mr. Josephs, on leave, read in place an act to incorporate the Delaware avenue Passenger Railroad, of. Philadelphia. The House refused to suspend the orders for its consideration. Supplement to the law of limited partner ship. Pending consideration the House ad journed until 3 o'clock-P. M. ✓lflernoon Session.—An act relative to limi ted partnerships was passed finally. An act directing the entry of liens for prin cipal and interest due the State for lands was passed. FOREIGN ITEMS The productive capital in British railways is estimated at two thousand million of dollars. The honor of an elective trusteeship of the British Museum is regarded as the Blue Ribbon o terature. The French government has maintained,since _'6th December, an electric light at La Here lighthouse near Havre. Seventy thousand persons are annually ar rested by the police of London. Of these 450 are burglars and housebreakers. The "Illystrated London News" has passed into the editorial hands of Mr. Roger Acton, a very competent person. It costs sixty dollars to go through an English court of bankruptcy. If the debts ex ceed $1,500 the expenses is about $125. The standard In height of recruits in the British army has been reduced one inch, so that in regiments of the line the men need only be five feet five inches. M. Godard,the aeronaut, has started in Paris a newspaper devoted to aeronautic subjects,and called Le Montgoljier. He is building a new monster balloon called L'..digle. The Sultan has appointed two Christians members of the Grand Council, and others have been promoted to high official positions. This liberal tendency on his part is a mark of pro gress in Turkey. - Eight millions of acres of land belonging to the insurgent New Zealanders have been con fiscated by the British Government, which shows no mercy to rebels against itself, but is very tolerant of rebels in other countries than its own. It has been thought, both in Spain and Eng land; that Shakspeare and Cervantes died on the same day. But as the former died 23d April, Itll6, and England did not adopt the Gregorian calendar till 1754, there were twelve days' difference between the time of their deaths. A submarine boat propelled by compressed air, has been built at Rochelle, France. It is intended to pierce an enemy's vessel under water, leave a combustible shell on her side, and then to discharge it by means of electricity as the boat retires to a safe distance. There is a rumor from Egypt that the Dutch ladies who fitted out a Nile expedition to re lieve Captain Speke, and passed him on their upward voyage, have met with great mislor tune. The old lady, it is rumored, is killed, and her daughter and lady's maid taken to wife by black chieftains. Captain Spoke, how ever, does not believe the rumor. .11e tniaks that the negro tribes would respect the women, though they might kill the men. A grievous famine prevails throughout a large part of Hungary. The harvest is a tliil ure. and the valley of the Theiss,noted for its abundant production, has become a desert. Thousands of the inhabitants, sick and foot worn, are wandering about iu search of food. A committee has been formed in Paris to af ford immediate relief,and we hope the generous northern heart of this country will be inspired to follow the example. The work of restoring the great Cathedral of Notre Dame, at Paris, has resulted in some interesting historical discoveries. In lowerint the soil around it, remains of Roman houses were found, and the outline of the foundations of an old church which centuries ago stood here, dedicated to St.-Christopher, as well as the plan of another church near bv, dedicated to St. Stephen. Several marble columns, with tine Corinthian capitals have also been unearthed. The.lsle of Man is governed by a petty par liament consisting of twenty-four persons, til ling up all vacancies for themselves. This body, called the House of Keys, has recently been quarreling with the people of the island capital, Douglas. Those worthy persons, some nine thousand in number, being enterprising and prosperous, with a notion that they could manage a municipality, petitioned the House of • Keys, and were sharply snubbed for wishing to transfer "royal authority" to mere tradesmen. The general classification of the population enumerated in England and Wales at the cen sus of 1861 is as follows : Professional class, 451,957; domestic class, 11,426,720; commer cial class, 623,710; agricultural class, 2,010,- 434; industrial class, 4,828,399; indefinite class, 604,984—t0ta1, 20,066,224. The enumeration of Scotland is as follows : Professional class, 52,515; domestic class, 1,- 734,295; commercial class, 54,338; agricultural classs, 378,609, industrial class, 694,074; inde finite classs 118,463—t0ta1, 3,062,294. The Irish census distributes the people of Ireland into ten classes :—Landed proprietors, '8,412 ; agriculturists, 960,636 ; engaged in commerce, manufactures, and mechanical trades, 816,356 ; learned professions, 11,695 ; other liberal professions, 1,066; engaged in teaching, 19,046 ; civil service, 20,564 ; military and naval services, 30,328 ; miscellaneous, 8 0 9,138 ; without specified occupation, 3,092,- 630—total, 5,798,967. Or again thus:—Minis tering to feed, 1,053,031 ; to clothing, 490,450 ; to lodging, furniture and machinery, 463,547 ; to conveyance and traveling, 68,793 ; to bank ing and agency, 4,555 ; to literature and educa tion, 40,840 ; to religion, 10,625 ; to charity and benevolence, 982 ; to health, 6,733 ; to justice and government, 55,083; to amusement, 2,840; to science and art, 757 ; residue unclassified, 3,600,338. The public will learn with regret that Mr. T. P. Cooke, one of the last representatives of the old school of British actors, died on the sth, in London.. Mr. T. P. Cooke was born in Maryle bone, on the 23d of April, 1786; was educated at the School of the 31arine Society; and, sub sequently entering the navy,served under Nel son at the bombardment of Copenhagen, for which he received a medal. His first appear ance on the .stage took place at the Royalty Theatre, in January, 'lBO4, and for many years he was.recognized as the best theatrical type of the British seaman. Only a few months ago his wife died; the shock was too great for him, and it may be said that he never recovered the blow. A child died in London recently from having swallowed a balf-penny a year previously. The first instance of a vvoman passing a re gular and formal examination for the medical profession took place at Apothecaries' Hall, London, on. the 31st tilt. On that day Eliza beth Garrett duly passed her first examination at this hall, having complied with the regula tion of the Apothecaries' Act. About 4,000 miners in the South. Yorkshire coal district have been ‘, locked out," the coal-owners haying adopted this course in con sequence of the movement among the men for an advance of wages. A man named Abraham Alather, residing at Droyisden, had eaten twenty-four boiled eggs on Tuesday, and on Wednesday he made a wager that he would eat ten more at one sit ting. The wager was accepted, and Mather ap peared at a public house to carry out his en gagement. When be bad swallowed four, he was unable to eat any more. He seemed un well and refused to go home. In consequence of being well-known he was allowed to sleep all night on a form. On Thursday he was found to be so ill that it was deemed necessary to call in a surgeon, but Mather gradually sank and died at noon. At Oxford Assizes on the 2d inst., Hester Jordan (aged 24), servant, was charged under a recent act with unlawfully abandoning and exposing her child, under the age of two years, whereby the child's life was endangered, at Haddington, near Cheltenham, on the sth of October. The evidence revealed a sad case. The prisoner, a modest looking young woman, had been many years living as a servant at Chel tenham. Her child was born in a work-house. One day she went out into the country to visit a friend. From thence she went away with the.child in the evening and next morning re turned without it. She stopped at her friend's house during the day, and in the evening about eight o,clock went out for a walk with another young girl. She had gone away but a short time before her friend went out into his garden. Presently he heard a faint cry like the mew of a cat. He searched among the kidney beans, but could see nothing. The cry was re peated, and he got a lantern. In one spot he saw that the, earth had been freshly turned. He scratched the mould aside with his hand. An inch or two beneath the surface he saw a piece of flannel. Suspecting the truth he ran from the spot and made an alarm. He met the prisoner in the garden and told her that he had found buried beneath the mould a child, which he believed to be hers. She denied t. Together they then went to the spot and here, cold, and stiff, and buried in the mould, hey found the child. it was taken into the house, and the mother, though in words she still denied her maternity, yet moved by the mother's love which yearned towards her off spring, nursed the babe and warmed it before the fire until it revived. Then she admitted that she was the mother, and told the police man who came for her that she had done the act because she was destitute. It died at ten o'clock on the morning after the night on which it had been exposed. The surgeon did not think that death was the result of the exposure, though it might have been hastened by it. Death seemed to have been chiefly caused by convulsions to which the child had been subject. The jury found the prisoner guilty of a.misdemeanor, and she was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. THE TWEIsD lIARD/ACTURE AND TRADE. The following interesting account of the rise, progress and present condition of this highly important branch of Scotch manufacture and commerce is extracted from the Trade Circular of Messrs. George Harrison 6a. Co., 31 North Bridge, Edinburgh : The Shepherd's Plaid, made from home grown 'wool, has been worn from time imme morial upon the Scottish Border. In the early part of this century the material was made in the web for ladies' cloaks, and about the year l 826 tt was first adopted for the use of gentle men. A few years afterwards it was intro duced into - the London market, and a great im pulse was thereby given to its production. Since that period the manufacture has spread throughout Scotland; it has originated and perfected a system of weaving entirely its own, and has diffused wealth and comfort through out a wide circle. Scotch Tweeds owe their popularity, in a great measure, to their being specially adapted to the habits of modern life. When an exqui site and a gentlemen were believed to be syn onymous terms, superfine cloth was the proper material for costume, as its speckless appear ance furnished proof that the wearer never con ' descended to labor. A different spirit per vades modern society; work is more and more honoured, and active life is common to all classes. The Tweed manufacturer has aided this reform by providing a material adapted for a simple, elegant, and unconstrained morning costume. The able paper read before the late meeting of the Social Science Association in Edin burgh, by Mr. Adam Cochrane, Jr., of Gala shiels, furnishes a trustworthy view of the state of the trade at the close of last autumn. There were then b 2 factories in Scotland em ployed in the production of Tweeds, the greater number of which are in the valley of the Tweed and its tributaries, in the towns of Galashiels, Hawick, Selkirk, Jcdburgh, lunerleithen, and Peebles. ' Large Tweed mills are also situated in Dumfries, Langholm and Bannockburn, and a considerable portion of the trade is scattered throughout Scotland. These 82 factories have among them above 320 sets of carding engines. Each set of engines of modern construction re presents an annual production of manufactured._ goods of fully iff,affio value, and each of the older ones of nearly £5,000, a considerable part of the yarn used in Tweed making being, however, brought from other parts of Scotland and from England. Mr. Cochrane calculated the total annual value of the manufactured goods to be about £2,000,000 sterling, an esti mate which, we are confident, was not above the mark. Each set of carding engines, with the accompanying machinery, furnishes ein- Flo N talent to about forty persons, which gives as the number of operatives engaged in the manufacture. Onphalf of those employed are women and young people above thirteen years of age, and the total amount of wages paid annually is close upon £.300,000. The wool for the finer class of goods is im ported chiefly from Australia and the Cape Colony ; and, fortunately, the productive power of these extensive countries is practically un limited. From Australia the importations in 1868 show an increase of nearly six million pounds above those of the previous year; and the quantity derived from the British posses sions in South Africa is also rapidly increasing, being now about three times greater than it was ten years since." • RETURN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN' SQUADION. —The United States naval forces now iu the Mediterranean are expected to return in the month of June, vessels being now named to relieve most of those now stationed there. The steam screw-sloops Kearsarge and Tusea rora have been in commission since the war began, and are the worse for the wear. One of them is now in an English dock-yard, being repaired, and it is supposed that she will sail for New York when finished. The entire squadron is as follows : St. Louis, sailing cor vette; Constellation, sailing corvette; Kear sine, steamer; Tuscarora, steamer; Chippewa, steamer. 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