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Masrkham, or the Trhiaigar, the flagship of the rear-ad- miral in the Mediterranean,has telegraphed oficially to the Admiralty from Tripoli, Syria. under date of to-day as follows: “ I regret to report that while manoeuvering ofl‘ Tripoli, this afternoon, the Victoria and Camperdown collided. The Victoria sank in fifteen minutes in 18 fathoms of water. She lies bottom uppermost. The Camper- down’s ram struck the Victoria forward of qu'u-r â€"_ _v_ the turret on the starboard side. Twenty- one officers were drowned. Two hundred and fifty-five men were saved. The injury to the Camperdown has not yet been fully ascertained but it is serious and will neces- sitate her going on dock for repairs. I pro- gose to send the survivors to Malta.” A PREVIOUS DISASTER. In January of last year the Victoria was aground off the Greek coast near Plateau and she was oniy floated off after anim- mense amount of labor and large expense. It was said the accident was due to careless- Hon. Maurice Bourke, captain of the Victoria, and ason of the late Earl of Mayo, who is the youngest post captain in the British Navy, was held responsible for the accident and was severely reprimanded by a court martial. Capt. Bourke was in com- mand of the Victoria when she sank. THE OFFICERS. According to the navy list the principal oficers of the Victoria. were : Vice-admiralâ€"Sir George Tryon. Captain â€"Maurice A. Bourke. Commanderâ€"Chas. L. Ottley. Chaplainâ€"Rev. Samuel S. 0. Morris. Fleet surgeonâ€"Thomas Bolster. Fleet paymasterâ€"Valentine D. J. Rick- ‘ cord. Fleet engineerâ€" Felix Foreman. The complement of officers and crew of the Victoria comprised 600 men. The list of officers drowned includes, besides Vice- admiral Tryon, Chaplain Morris, Lieut. Munroe, Fleet Paymaster Rickcord, Fleet Engineer Foreman, Engineer Harding, As- sistant Engineers Deadman, Hatherly and Seaton, Gunner Howell, Boatswain Bar- nard, Carpenter Beall, Midshipmen Inglis, Grieve, Fawkes, Lanyon, Henly, Gambier and Scarlett, Cadet Stooks and Clerks Allen and Savage. _ - i. a ,3- 1.. LL- As soon as the officers of the Victoria saw that there was danger of their ship founder. ing orders were given to close the collision bulkheads, in order to keep the water in the compartment into which the Camper- down had shoved her ram. I'he sailors tried to obey the orders, but the ship was making water too fast to allow of closing the bulkheads, and while the men were still trying to shut them the ship, with her im- mense guns and heavy tophamper, turned over and carried them down. THE NEWS 15' LONDON. As soon as the news of the disaster became known in London, the Duke of Edinburgh, who was lately promoted to the position of admiral of the fleet, cited the admiralty and conferred with the officials there. A con- ference of the Admiralty Board was held, and a telegram of instructions was sent to Rear Admiral Markham.‘ A change had recently been made in the commander attached to the Victoria, Charles L. Ottley having been detached and succeed- ed by Commander Fellicome, who was saved, as were also Capt. Maurice A. Bourke and 15 other oficers. The first despatches concerning the acci- dent led to the belief that the disaster had occurred off the coast of Tripoli, in northern Africa. Later advices show that the scene of the calamity was near Tripoli, 3 seaport town on the eastern Mediterranean, 50 miles north-east of Beyront, Syria, and a compar- atively short distance from the island of Cyprus. .- m 0.1 1"?- a.vv--. .anâ€"..---~_ _7._, The news of the calamity has caused the most intense excitement, not only among those who had friends aboard the ill-fated ship, but among all classes of the popula- tion. The admiralty ofiice in W'hitehall is besieged by relatives and friends of the officers and crew, reporters seeking further details of the disaster and throngs of peo- ple attracted by curiosity. So dense was , -‘L_L LL_ _ J“:_ r-v â€",-_ ,, the throng in {he vicinit} that the admir- alty officials were compelled to summon the y_po_lic_e to restrain the crowd. -,,-_1 ,L AL- Nto information has been received at the admiralty, since the receipt of Rear-Adé miral Markham’s first official telegram. The Victoria was carrying two 110-ton guns, mounted in a. forward turret coated with 18 inches of compound armor, one 10-inch 294,011 gun firing aft and a. broadside auxiliary arma- ment of 126 inch 5-ton guns. Of artil- lery of smaller nature she carried 21 (puck-firing and eight machine guns. Her maximum speed was 16.75 knots. She cou1d stow 1,200 tons of coal in her bunk- ers, and her radius of action at 10 knots d with her full complement of coal was estimated at 7,000 knot-s. Her armored belt and bulk-heads consisted of compound armor from 16 to 18 inches in thickness. She was built at Elswick. IN THE HOUSE OF COMMOXS. Mr. Gladstone was greatly shocked when he received the news of the disaster. He informed the House of Commons of the ac- cident and paid a most glowing tribute to the worth of Vice-Admiral Tryon, who he said was one of the ablest and most esteem- ed oficers in the service. Mr. Gladstone said there were 611 oficers, seamen and boys, and 107 marines on board the ship. Ity was feared of this total of 718 souls 430 hadbeen lost. Hewassnrethedeepe st sympathy of the _House would 'befelt for Excitement in Landonâ€"41m Queen and Mr. G!adstone Greatly Shocked. tile Bravé men wha had found an early grave in the service of their country, uni that it would be extended to their relatives and friends. SCE‘SE OF THE DISASTER. A SINGLE TURRET SHIP, . Markham, of Lord George Hamilton, formerly First Lord of the Admiralty, endorsed every- thing Mr. Gladstone had said, and express- ed the deepest regret for the calamity that had befallen the country in the loss of so many brave officers and men. LATEST FRO! THE SCENE. A despatch received at ‘2. o’clock Friday rimming fI‘Om Beyront-says that the col- llSlon occurred at 5 o‘c.ock in the afternoon, about seven miles from Tripoli. , The vesâ€" 3615 were almost atright angles when the Victoria was struck. Those on the Vic- toria’s deck at the moment of the collision scrambled away and were rescued by boats from the Campcrdown and several other ‘ vessels. The men below had no time to i reach the deck. The Sudden heeling - of i the Victoria caused her to begin to fill 1m- : mediately and no escape was possible. She i went down in SO fathoms of “rater. It is i difficult to obtain the names or the rescued, as they are aboard several vessels, and so far all efforts have been devoted to recov- ering bodies. Shortly after the colhsxon fiVe bodies were taken from the water, one of them the body of the chief paymaster. They were buried next evening With mili- tary honors at Tripoli. The accident to the Victoria. has never been equalled in the fatal results in naval annals of recent times. The foundering of this newest type of warship calls to mind a. similar accident, as far as great loss of life is concerned, that befell the English line-of- battle ship Royal George in 1782. In that year the Royal George, carrying 108 guns, was lying ofi‘ Spith'ead. She had been keeled over for repairs when asudden gust of wind caused her to keel over until the sea. enter- ed her open ports. She filled and went down with all on board, including Rear Admiral Kempenfelt. A number of women were on board at the time. and they, too, were drowned. Altogether about 600 persons lost their lives in that disaster. THE QUEEN T0 LADY TRYON. The Queen has sent Col. Carrington to express her sorrow and sympathy to Lady Tryon._ . n. o .u p. On the evening following the afternoon of the disaster Lady Tryon. who arrived from Malta. three weeks ago, was holding her first reception of the season. Two hundred guests were present. When the news of her husband’s death reached her she fell in a. faint. "The state concert and other royal func- tions on the programme for next week have been pgs_tpone_d. . c...- c ”WTfle‘ Leta Mayor has opened a. relief fund for the benefit to the needy families who lost members in the disaster. The Parts Played by Admiral Tryon and the Victoria In Naval History. The names of Admiral Sir George Tryon and the great vessel Victoria are connected closely with the most important events of British naval history in recent years. In 1885 there was adopted under Mr. Glad- stone’s Government what is called the North- brook programme of naval construction. Under this plan the Victoria, launched in . April, 1887, was one of the finest additions to the navy. Upon her were tried many . experiments with some of the heavier guns i then coming into vogue. In the summer of l 1888 naval manoeuvres on an unprecedented scale were resolved upon, and a supposedly hostile fleet consisting of 9 armored and 12 unarmored vessels and 12 torpedo boats, under Admiral Tryon’s command, was blocaded in the two Irish ports of Bere- haVen and Lough Swilly by a fleet of 13 armored and 13 unarmored vessels and 12 torpedo boats, under Admiral Baird. Ad- miral Tryon managed his fleet successfully. First a cruiser escaped from Lough Swilly, and then two big ships ran the blocade at Berehaven in spite of electric lights and rockets. The escaped vessels, Sir George Tryon on board of one of them, went north; carried the mimic warfare into the northern coasts ; attacked Aberdeen, Leith and Edinburgh ; preyed on the commercial ship. ping; and when pursued Sir George made for Liverpool, took possession of the harbor and the iron-clad left to defend it, while another squadron “levied tribute” on the ports on the east coast of England. Thesa experiments demonstrated the weakness of the navy. It showed that the navv, for instanca, in time of war could carry the entire coast of England and all the shipping except that in the mouth of ‘ the Thames. A great agitation for additions lto the navy sprang up. Admiral Tryon’s l achievements had roused all England. The iGovernment were forced to satisfy public ifeeling with a shipbuilding programme of €70 new vessels. to be built in five or six years, casting £21,500.000. This programme Iis now pretty nearly concluded. In 1860 lAdmiral Tryon was again a central figure in naval manoeuvres. The object was to illustrate. by two fleets, a slower one with 24 hours’ start of a faster one, how long the pursued fleet could maintain itself on one of the principal trade routes, intercept traffic, and yet avoid a general engage- ment. Admiral Trvon commanded the pur- suing fleet, and demonstrated in a 10-day cruise that it was impossible to overtake the ‘ marauders. In 1891 Sir George replaced Sir Anthony Hoskin as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, having previous to that been attached to the Royal Naval Re- serve. In 1892 Admiral Tryon issued a re- port on the trustworthiness of this force, making. a number of suggestions which were carried out by the Government. ‘The great ship Victoria had meanwhile been sent to i the Mediterranean, and in February, 1802, { she ran ashore while exercising in shallow waters with torpedoes. After great exer- tions by. officers and men she was got safely off and reached Malta without serious dam- MW Fectumâ€"“ You’d hardly think that such a. dumb thing as a hen would be influenced by the example of man, but it’s so.” Rawlinsâ€"“ That seems strange.” Factumâ€"“ I know it does, but it’s so.” Rawlinsâ€"“ How do you know 2” .Factumâ€"“ From observation, You re- member the other evening when the crowd of sports came up from the village and had a set-to in my barn.” ‘ ‘Rawlinsâ€"“ Yes.” ‘ ‘ Factumâ€"“ Well, it was only a day or two after that I found two of my hens cluclging around looking for a. place to set I. w_.- ‘ age. A. géfirt martial follnwed, but it re- sulted in acquitting the officers of culpable negligence. THE MAN AND THE VESSEL. ” Influence of Example. FORMER DISASTER. Be Patient! Easy words to speak VV hile plenty fills the cup of life. While health brmgs roses to the chqek. And far removed are care and stnxe.‘ Falling so glibly from the tongue fthose â€"I often think of thisâ€" Whom suffering in 5 never wrung, Who scarcely know what patience is. Be patient! when the sui’f’rer lies Prostratc beneath some fell disease. And longs, through to1 our: ng agonies. Only for one short houpof c ase. Be patient. ' when the weary brain Isp racked with thought and anxious care And troubles m an endless train Seem almost more than it can bear. To feel the torture of delay, The agony of hope deferred: The labor still from day to day. The prize unwon the prayer unheard. And still to hope and Strive and wait The due rc ward of fortunc's kiss; ThiASVisrto almost conquer fate. _ Despair not! though the clouds are dark, And storm and danger veil the sky; Let fate and coura as guide thy barque, The storm will pass, the port is nigh Be patient, and the tide will turn, Shadows will flee before the sun; These are the hopes that live and burn To light us till our work is done. Buttercup days are the best my dear, 0f the beautiful, wonderful. changing yearâ€" Skies of. opal and sapphire blue, Boughs with sunlight woven through, Fiel s alight with golden blazeâ€" How we all revel in buttercup days! Yonder. where fields were sodden and gray When snows melted slowly and trickled away Acres of velvety verdure are seen, With buttercup scattered like gold in the reen, April rings out with her mellowing rays, Peach~bloom and pansies in buttercup days. Buttercup days are the best my dear, 0f life’s long. varying. changeful yearâ€"â€" Bits of clouds in the sanghire skyâ€" (Gossamer cloudf that floataang‘. fly, $53311}; 35? byline sim’s clear: 'rayslâ€" How we remember our buttercup days! Innocent brows by the zephyrs fanned Straight from the groves of the heavenly land, Spirits sunny. and hearts as light As wind-swayed plumes of the elder white, Souls unblemished by worldly ways! Blessed remembrance of buttercup days! Where have they gone toâ€"the little girls. With natural manners and natural curls? Who love their dollies and like their toys, And talk of something besides the boys 3 Little old women in plenty I find. Mature in manners and old of mind. Little old flirts who talkof their “ beaus ” And vie with each other in stylish clothes. Little old belles, who. at nine and ten, Are sickpf pleqsure and tired of men, Once in the beautiful long ago. Some dear little children I used to know; Girls who were merry as lambs at play. And laughed and rollicked the livelong day. They thopght not at all of the “ style ” of their Weary of tmvel of balls of funâ€" And find no new thing under the sun. 7' clothes. They never imagined that boys were “beans :" "0mg; girls’ brothers ” and “mates ” were cy : Splendid fellows to help them play. Where have they gone to? If you see One of them anywhere pend her tome. T would give a. medal of pug-est gold To one of these dear little zlrls of old, With an innocent heart and an open smile, Who knows not the meaning of “flirt'” or “ style.” â€"[Ella. ‘Wheelcr Wilcox. Sleep. my babv. sleep. With folded dimnled hands that know no toil, And little feet that. know no journeyings. And sweet semnhic soul that. knows no soil; Thou fairest thing of all created things! Sleep. my baby. sleep. All tender infant things are slumbering! The lambkins in the fold all safely lie, The birdling hath its head beneath its wing, Hushed by the mother bird’s last lullaby. Sleep, my baby. sleep. A sense of soft repose broods on the air, The daffodils are nodding on the lea With petals folded like small hands in prayer, The breezes rock the lily-cradled bee. Sleep, my baby. sleep. The violet bends its sweet head. wet with dew The 1wind lisps low, the leaves make soft re- p 3'. An d themthOfi fairest blossom. slnnlber, too, This query is made by a writer in the Magazine of Natural History, and he then goes on to say: 1 one day saw a drove of the small black ants moving, perhaps to better quarters. The distance was some 150 yards. Almost all which came from the old home carried some of the house- hold go‘ods. Some had eggs, some had what may have answered for their bacon or meat, some had one thing and some another. I sat and watched them closely for over an hour. I noticed that every time two met in the way they would hold their heads close together as if greeting one another, and no matter how often the meeting took place this same thing occurred, as though a short chat was necessary. Sleep. my baby sleep, Thv flaxcn. flossy hair a. nimbus seems, Like folded blue forgot-mc-nots thine eyes. 011, all sweet things conspire to make thy dreams Idyllic echoings from Paradise, Sleep, my darling, sleep. To prove more about it, 1 killed one who was on his way. Others being eye Witnesses to the murder went with speed, and with every ant they met this talking took place as before. But instead of a. pleasant greeting, it was sad news they had to communicate. I know it was sad news, for every ant that these parties met hastily turned back and fled on another course, as much as to say “ For the king‘s sake and for your safety do not go there, for I have seen a monster, just behind, that is able to destroy us all at one blow. I saw him kill one of our family, I do not know how many more are killed. ” So the news spread and it was true. How was the news com- municated, if not- by speech 2 Postmanâ€"“I can’t make out the ad- dress on this letter very well, but I fancy it belongs to Mueller, the young student who boards in your house.” Landladyâ€"“ Is it a letter from the city ‘2” Postmanâ€"“No, the postmark shows that it has come from the country.” Landladyâ€"“Then it doesn’t belong to young Mr. Mueller. All his creditors are ‘city folks. ” And in thy dreamland hear my lullaby. Buttercup Day 8- She Knows Elm- Little Girls. Do Ants Talk? Patience- A Lullaby. â€"[Rosaline E. Jones. Thc Cases in Canadaâ€"The Disease not In. creasing Anywhere in the World. Leprosy is far from being unknown in Canada there being a leprosy hospital in Nova. Scotia where Acadians stricken with that dreadful disease have for years been interred. Occ asional cases have occurred on the Pacific coast, but these have been confined to the Chinese and to associates of theirs and are imported cases rather than indigenous ones. There have also been cases discovered in some of our Ontario and Quebec cities, but these have been very rare indeed, and merely of strangers pass- ing through. It is doubtless owing to the publicity given to such cases by the ubi- quitous press that the impression has gained ground that leprosy as a disease has become very much more prevalent of late years. So firm is this impressxon that the anti-vacci- nationists ascribed the spread of the disease to the practice of vaccination. These charges had such an effect upon public opinion that the Imperial Government three years ago appointed a Leprosy Commission to investigate the whole subject and report thereupon. The Commission visited India, where the disease is perhaps most prevalent within the Empire and, therefore, afforded the best field for a British official , investigation. Their report, which has just been made public, is calculated to reassure the world with regard to the increase of leprosy. It denies that the disease has become at all more prevalent during recent years and de- clares that at the very worst it is only sta- tionary. It was charged that the last census had underestimated the number of cases in India, but the commission, aiter a thorough investigation, deny this charge, and declare that so far from this being true, of nine hundred and eighty-seven cases referred to in the census, over ten per cent. had been found under examination to have been free f from disease. It states that there has been . no increase whatever in the number of cases during the last thirty years, and that inves- tigation clearly shows that the use of vac- cine matter has had no effect whatever. An- alyses of vaccine matter fail to show in any cases the presence of the bacillus of leprosy, nor could a trace of these germsbe found even in the blood of the lepers. Another striking fact has been brought to light by the com- missioners, namely, that not a single case of congenital leprosy could be discovered and that, of over two thousand cases ex- amined, in not more than a half a dozen could any family taint be traced. In all but a couple of score of cases the disease had only made its appearance after the full age of manhood had been reached. The commission is still disposed to class leprosy among the contagious diseases, but it re- ports that it has tailed to prove clearly in a single case that the disease was acquired by contact. A theory which seems to pre. vail among the lepers themselves that mos- quitoes are the chic: agents in the spread of the disease, seems to have been disproved by the evidence secured by the commission, and the general belief that a fish diet must be a. secondary cause of it, because lepers are always fish eaters, is set aside, as a colony of lepers was discovered, not one of whom had eaten of fish. "4.4â€"4.4- mm- Prof. V. Dvorak, of Agram, Nature says, “uses a very simple apparatus for demon- strating the oscillation of the air in sound phenomena. In an ordinary resonating sphere the short neck is replaced by a small metal plate with a conical hole open- ing inward. its shortest diameter being about 2 mm. When the resonator sounds, ‘ the passage of air through the hole is strong j enough to extinguish a. lighted match. If a small paper wheel resembling a water wheel is placed a little below the opening, and the resonator stands ' about 3 cm. in front of a wall, the blowmg of a born, or the singing of the proper note, is capable of setting the wheel in rapid rotation. A very serviceable lecture apparatus for measuring the intensity of sound is illustrated in the Zeitschrift fur Physikalischen Unterricht. A narrow glass tube bent at a very obtuse angle is half filled with alcohol. One end of the tube has a conical opening, and this is placed at a distance of 0.5 cm. from the opening of the resonator described. The ‘ whole is mounted on a board capable of ad- justment to any angle. The puffs emitted from the resonator when respondlng to a. sound affect the level of the alcohol, and UV“-- "â€"v- the displacements are read off on a. scale at- tached to the tube, projected if necessary. unvonV\. .u. -u -...-V, ‘ on to a screen. Another afl‘ect of sound easily observed is that of repulsion. A light resonator of the ordinary construction is floated on wateryits axis being kept hori- zontal by means of an attached piece of wire. On blowmg the horn, the sphere will float in the direction opposite to that which the neck is pointed. To produce continuous rotation, four resonators are at- tached to a light cross of wood turning on a. needle point, or one resonator with four bent necks is suspended by 33. thread. If uvuv ‘avvu... -- -wwr __-, this acoustical reaction Wheel is placed in one corner of the lecture theater, it can be set rotating from the opposite corner by a strong tuning fork, or even by singing through a. conical tube.” Victims of Superstition. If one will take the trouble to go through the names of most of the bravest people in history, he will find that they nearly all suffered from some superstition or other. Napoleon Bonaparte was simply eaten by superstitions, and so was the Duke of Marl- borough. Literary men have always been notoriously superstitious, from the days of Dr. Johnson, who would go back half a mile if he remembered that he had 0 mit- ted to touch any one of the lamposts on his daily walk, to Dean Swift, who would never change a. garment if he found that he had to put it on inside out, and Lord Byron, who would get up and leave a din- ner party instantly if anybody spilt the salt. Statesman have not been exempt from superstition either. Lord Beaconsfield would always take especial care to enter the house with his right foot foremost when he was going to make a speech. William Pitt would return home at once, however important his business, if he met a. cross- eyed man on the street, while Sir Robert Peel would always make the sign a ainst the evil eye with his fingers and umb under similar circumstances. Putting a. horse upon the market un- broken and trying to get a good price for it would be a. parallel case to putting green lumber on sale and expecting the value of the seasoned and finished Product. Demonstration of Sound Waves- LBPROSY. 1 Farmer Who Went Easy on an Amateur- Attempt at Plowing. A certain eminent clergyman, who is greatly loved for his gentleness and forbear- ance with offenders, recently said that H! experience of his own in years longby taught him the grace of ready excusing. When he was a boy he was a very poor boy, but he had already a strong theological bent and was studying hard during the winter and working even harder duringthe summertry in g_to get a preparation for college. ' He wanted to be a. preacher, and the fact that he didn’t seem to be good for anything else tended to convince him that he had not mistaken his calling. One spring he was en- tirely out of money and had to get out of school, and go to work. Not being able to find anything to do in the small college town where he had been studying, the youth â€"ca.ll him Richard Vernonâ€"went out among the farmers to see if he could get work from them. He found a. man who was very busy with his spring’s work and in a hurry to get the furrows plowed in a. big field for potato planting. ‘ The whether was favorable for planting; the farmer’s boys would be home from school the next day , which was Saturday, to do the dropping and covering. He told Rich- ard that he mi'ght mark out the field with the plow for the planting, and if he suited he might be hired for two or three months. Meantime the farmer saw that the boy was very anxious to stay and that he had evxdently a good disposition. So the young theologian went to work with tremendous vigor. He did not stop to Lake breath until he had 'marked off a large tract of ground with deep furrows. Then came his employer from his work in another part of the farm and looked at the boy’s work, and leaned up against the ‘ fence and laughed until he shock. The po- ltato field had been scraped and scalloped all over with the ridiculously irregular and wabbly little ditches which Richard had turned. There was not a clean. straight furrow in the lot; the ground looked as if an insane elephant had tossed up the earth; the fur- rows were of all depths and at all distances from one another, for Richard had driven the horse most of the time at a smart- walk, and he had been too much occupied in keep- ing up and maintaining a precarious grasp upon the plow handles to be able to pay any attention to the regularity or evenness of his work. Richard Vernon laughed too, as he stood and looked over the field. He wiped the sweat from his brow and looked very anxiously at his employer. There was no chance for regular flork there, that was evident. His laughter faded away and there was a. certain faint tmtch in the corners of his mouth as the boy said: “ I guessy you don’t want any more of my work, sir?” .. v‘-‘â€"01h;__yésâ€"5es, I do,” said the farmer. “ Maybe ’tan’t your fault that the furrows are crooked. You see, the sun’s pretty hot to-day,and I reckon the heat warped them.” An Indian Experience- Dr. Russel, who was in India. during the Mutiny, was present ant-he siege of Lucknow, and also served in the campaign of Oude, Rohilcund, c. Whilst on one of the many night marches Sir Colin Campbell made in India, he received a. kick which nearly led to the loss at his life. - 1 . “ A horse broke lose and commenced to attack my little stallion,” he said. “ I went to its assistance when the brute, which be- longed to Donald Stewart, an oflicer on the staff, let fly at me, catching me on my right thigh. The kick bent the scabboard of a sword I was wearing, and fairly drove it into my right thigh. We were just on the move, hoping to come into action with some Oude rebels and I was in agonyâ€"un- able to move a stepâ€"â€"so I was placed in a litter and carried alon with the sick of the headquarters stafi into ohilcund. Smallpox broke out at Lucknow, and clung to us on the march, and among the sick were Sir W. Peel (he died at Cawnporel, Sir David Baird and Major Alison. On March ‘25, 1858, the battle of Bareilly was fought. Our coolie bearers had carried the sick litters into a shady tape or grove of treesâ€"the sun was fierce. There I lay, helpless, listening to the sound of battle close at hand. Sud- } denly a cry burst from the camp-followersâ€" f'I‘L A tun-wani- “V“‘J .- vul “The sowars are coming !7 The sowars are coming !’ ‘ Our syce ran up with the chargers. How I did it I do nqt know: .Bpt Lhoppgd V" a. \‘.u _,, _ _- V, out of my litter and scrambled up inté the saddleâ€"the flaps felt like molten iron, and the blister on my leg rolled up against the leather roasted by the sun outside the tope â€"on my horse. My servantâ€"a very brave fellowâ€" held on by the stirrupleather, flog- ging the horse, for I had only bare feet and bare legs. Suddenly he let go. He saw a sowar making for us, and he released his hold so as not to impede my flight. He was cut dowu, I presume, for I never saw him againâ€"and his wages were due. I struggled on, but the sun was more power- ful than I. I had only proceeded a few yards when I fell off my horse insensibleâ€" with sunstroke. “Then I heard a voice. “ ‘Lookâ€"a white man !’ “ It was some of our people, thank God Y They thought I had been killed, and that the sowars had stripped off my clothing, for I was naked, all save my shirt, and it was bloody. They bent over me. 'L “ ‘ He’sdwarm,’ cried one of the menâ€"it was Tombs’ battery that had come up. I got back to camp, but I was very near the point of death ; and, indeed, I had the unique and unpleasant trial of listening to my good friends and physicians, Tice and Mackinnon, discussing the question of my burial at the foot of the charpoy on which I was stretched apparently dead.” Such is one of the experiences of Dr. Russel during the Indian Mutiny.â€"[Stmnc’ Magazine. Audiences are not permitted to applaud in Russian theatres. The British Museum contains many rare and beautiful snutf-boxes of the last ceno tury, plain and enamelled, made of papiev mache, horn, silver and gold, simple and complicated, small and large. Curious mo- terials were sometimes used in the manufacr ture of these boxes. Some sixty years aga. potato snuff-boxes were in common use. They were made of potato pulp, which,:nix- ed with some glutinous material, was press- ed into moulds, dried, varnished, and slightly fired. The best quality of potato boxes was‘wmade at Brunswick, and hence they were sometimes known as Brunswick .boxes. BE MADE ALLOWAROES.