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STATE OF THE CROPS IN THE NORTIL—Orr correspondents' special reports from the agricultural districts, this week, are of a highly satisfactory nature. From all quarters we hear the same gratifying assurances of the important results from the general rainfall over the country. Many of our correspondents concur in using the same expressions of wonder at the astonishing improvement in the crops which has taken place during the past week. Without a single ex- ception, potatoes are reported as presenting a most favourable appearance. This most important crop is everywhere displaying extreme luxuriance, and not a single sympton of disease has been observed.—Northern Whig. THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE DEANERY.—The Bishop of Exeter has intimated his intention of giving the splendid donation of 10,0001. towards the foundation of a Theological College for the West of England, which is to be im- mediately begun. When Professor Ellicott declined the Deanery of Exeter, a week or two back, it is said the bishop communicated with him and with the Premier, stating his intention of giving this sum if Mr. Ellicott would reconsider his determination and accept the deanery, on the understanding that he should be placed at the head of the new college. Lord Palmerston has consented to introduce and carry a brief Act of Parliament, defining the duties, salary, &c., of the Dean of Exeter, and providing that the principalship of the college may be held with that office. Professor Ellicott will most probably now resign the Hulsean Professorship at Cambridge, and the Divinity Professorship in King's College, London, and will take up his permanent residence iu Exeter.
Episcopal. REsrosswEs.—The total cost of the" Bishops' Palaces" which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have bought or improved, is as follows: Sees—Ripon, 14,7241. ; Lincoln, 52,194/. ; Gloucester and Bristol, 23,908/. ; Rochester, 28,1571. ; Oxford, 64691.; Worcester, 70001.; Exeter, 35001.; Hereford, 8001.; Llan- daft, 90541.; Manchester, 19,0371.; Norwich, 50001. Total cost, 169,8431. Of the above sum, 57,7021. has been paid out of the revenues of the commission, the remainder has been obtained from the sale or mortgage of property belonging to the sees, the rents and proceeds of which would otherwise have been applied in the augmentation of small livings, or in the diminution of spiritual destitu- tion.—The Ecclesiastical Commission ; or, the Bishops as Church Reformers. SUBMARINB TELEGRAPH CABLES.—The report of the joint committee of the Board of Trade to inquire into the best form of covering for submarine telegraph cables has just been issued. Up to the present time 11,364 miles have been laid, but only about 3000 are actually working. The lines not working include the Atlantic, 2200 miles ; the Red Sea and India, 3499 miles ; the Sardinia, Malta, and Corfu, 700 miles; and the Singapore and Batavia, 550 miles. The committee give succinct history of these as well as of all the others, and state their concla- sione. The failure of the Atlantic is attributed to " the cable having been faulty, owing to the absence of experimental data, to the manufacture having been con- ducted without proper supervision, and to the cable not having been handled after manufacture with sufficient care ;" and they add that "practical men ought to have known that the cable was defective, and to have been aware of the locality of the defects before it was laid." The committee recommend the construction of a vessel specially for the purpose, which they believe, when not employed in laying cables, would be found extremely useful for the ordinary purposes of commerce. In conclusion, they repeat their belief that the exercise of due care might have prevented all the unsatisfactory results that have thus far attended this branch of enterprise. A PAINFUL CASE was tried at Liverpool on Thursday. The Rev. Llewellyn Powell, a clergyman of the Church of England, and who some time ago was curate of Childwall, under the Rev. Augustus Campbell, rector of Liverpool (who is also vicar of Childwall), was placed before the stipendiary magistrate, on the charge of having obtained two sovereigns from Mr. Barrett, proprietor of the London Hotel, under false pretences, and also with having stolen two silver ladles from the hotel, which he afterwards offered to pawn. The London is a house much resorted to by the local clergy on the occasion of their clerical meetings and dinners, and it appears that the prisoner had recently been staying there. The prisoner, who is a young man, was committed fa trial.
VIENNA, JUNE 23.—The condition of the Empress inspires serious anxiety. Her Majesty left Vienna for Trieste yesterday, and to-day will proceed to Corfu. The Empress will pass the winter in Cairo. Both houses of the Council of State sent deputations to the Emperor yesterday to express their sympathy on the oc- casion. The Emperor replied that these demonstrations of loyalty afforded him great consolation under the melancholy circumstances. On the proposition of
Cardinal Rancher, the following address to his Majesty was passed in the Upper Chamber: "A short time since her Majesty the Empress returned from the distant South, and already she is compelled to separate again from your Ma- jesty and from Vienna. Francis Joseph is called to labour for millions—his grief moves the heart of millions. The Upper House participates in this grief, and the people also participate in it. May God's protecting grace accompany her Majesty, and may she soon return again in complete health. The love of the people will console your Majesty in grief and affliction." THE REPRESENTATION OF WOLVERHAXPTON.—Yesterday the writ was re- ceived for a new member. At the same time the retiring address from Sir Richard. Bethel! was received. In the morning the leading Liberals met and resolved to recommend Mr. Wegnelin to the electors. This was done after Mr. Weguelin had expressed his political views to the meeting. He said he lost Southampton because Mr. Digby Seymour, after some unexplained transaction with the Tory party, obtained six hundred Tory votes. The 'furies expected that they had got a vote for Lord Derby, but on his entering the House Mr. Seymour spoke for Lord Derby, but voted against him, to the great disappointment of the Tory electors of Southampton, and, he was not sorry to say, to their punishment. Mr. T. Lloyd, the ex-mayor for Birmingham, also addressed the electors at the morning's meeting, the choice lying between Mr. Wegaelin and Mr. Lloyd. Mr. Commissioner Kerr, before leaving the town, issued a handbill, in which he stated that, in order to avoid any division in the Liberal ranks, he had abandoned any intentions of offering himself to the electors. The nomination is fixed for Monday, and the poll will be taken on the following day.
THE POET CiosE.—After the literary pension to the Poet-Laureate to the Bing of Grand Bonny bad been withdrawn, the " poet" wrote a long letter to Lord Palmerston and another to the Earl of Carlisle, who have addressed the following replies to his communication " Downing-street, Jane 3, 1861.—Sir, I am desired by Lord Palmerston to inform you, in reply to your letter of the 30th of May, that if you can show that you have incurred liabilities in conse- quence of the announcement that a pension was to be granted to you, Lord Palmerston will take into consideration any claim which you may put forward for a donation from the royal bounty, but ho can see no reason to alter his deci- sion, and he must observe that Lord Carlisle's letter, of which you send a copy, does not prove that Lord Carlisle recommended you for a pension. I am, &.c." "Vice-lb.gal Lodge, Jane 4, 1861.—Sir, I am desired by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ult., and in reply to inform you his Excellency thought this prospectus referred to the publication of your books or to a private subscription. His Excellency never had the least idea that it referred to a pension from the Crown. Of course, his Excellency's letter must speak for itself. I have the honour, &c. &c." Lord Palmerston has since granted Mr. Close a donation of 1001. from the royal bounty. • THE LATE MR. BRATDWOOD.—The melancholy death of Mr. Braidwood has created great sympathy in Edinburgh, of which city he was a native, and where he first distinguished himself in the management of fires. Mr. Braidwood was the son of a respectable tradesman in the Scotch capital, and was born there about the year 1800. In 1824 he joined the police establishment there, and undertook the regular organization of a fire brigade. Before his plans were far advanced, and before he had either his force or his engines in working order, occurred the great conflagration of 1824, the most memorable and extensive fire in the annals of Edinburgh, and in which a great part of the High-street, including the steeple of the Tron Church, was burnt down. At this tire Mr. Braidwood first exhibited those qualities of cool determination, great daring, and skilful manage- ment which he has so often put to good purpose in the fires of the metropolis. A pamphlet which he published in 1832 on the causes and means of extinguishing fires, first gave him more than local celebrity, and led to his removal to Loudon. Many stories are still told of the intrepidity and presence of mind he displayed during the eight years he was fire-master at Edinburgh. On one occasion he carried first one barrel of gunpowder, and then another, through the midst of a fire from a cellar through an ironmonger's shop, thus preventing, at the utmost personal risk, an explosion which might have caused great destruction of life and property. On another occasion, above thirty years ago, he narrowly escaped the sad fate which ultimately befel him, being struck by some of the fragments of a falling roof, in consequence of which he was so mach injured that he had to be removed from the scene. Mr. Braidwood may be said to have left to his native city the legacy of a well-appointed and well-organized brigade, his plans having been fully matured before he left, and since that time well carried oat. LONDON GENERAL OH:emus COMPANY (LIMITED).—Traffic receipts for the week ending June 23, 13,2901. 12s. ld. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Mr. Moon has been appointed chairman of this company, consequent upon the death of Admiral Moorsom, and Mr. Westhead, takes the position of deputy chairman. Mr. Moon has for a considerable period been deputy chairman. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862: Alphabeticaland classified lists of the trades in the United Kingdom have been issued by her Majesty's Commissioners, showing the number of the class or sub-class of the industrial sections in which the exhibitors' productions will be arranged in the forthcoming Exhibition. Al- though various Trade Directories in different parts of the country have been published, the present list is the first which has been produced upon so compre- hensive a scale. As compared with the list in the census of 1851, it is rather more than three times as extensive. Besides its ovious use in suggesting how each trade may represent itself in the International Exhibition of 1862, dull:it has an interest of its own in showing how minutely the industries of the United Kingdom are sub-divided.
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