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Poetry.
He passed again , and lo ! the well , By summers never dried , Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues , And saved a life beside . 0 , germ ! 0 , font ! 0 , word of love 1 O , thought at random cast ! Ye were but little at the first , But mighty at the last .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —The Queen opened the Aberdeen Waterworks on the 16 th instant , at Invercanuie . Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian , Princess Louise , and Prince Arthur . The Royal party drove to Ballater , where a special train was in readiness , which conveyed them to a temporary station at Inchmarle , where her Majesty was received
by Sir James Burnett , Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire , and Mr . Davidson of I . uchmarlo , through whose grounds the Royal family proceeded to Invcrcannie . On arriving at the Reservoir the Queen was received by Sir Alexander Anderson , Lord Provost of Aberdeen , and the Police Commissioners ( by whom tho works were undertaken ) , the Earl of Kintore , Lord
Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire , the members for the counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire , and many of tho gentry of tbe neighbourhood . A detachment of the volunteers of the district mounted as a guard of honour . After the delivery of a prayer by the Rev . Mr . Hutchinson , minister of the parish , the Lord Provost of Aberdeen presented an address to the Queen , whe was graciously pleased to read an answer . Her Majesty then
turned a watercock ( which admitted the water into the reservoir ) , ancl declared the woiks to be open . At the conclusion of the ceremony the Royal party returned by the same route to Balmoral . The Queen drove in the afternoon with Prince and Princess Christian . —Tbe Queen went out on the 17 th inst . accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Louise , and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe . —The Queen went
out on the ISth instant , accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice , and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe . —The Queen and Princess Christian drove to Abergoldio and visited the Duchess of Aumale on the 10 th instant . In the afternoon her Majesty went out , accompanied by the Duchess of Aumale and Princess Louise . —The Queen , accompanied by
Prince and Princess Christian , ancl attended by . the Duchess of Roxburghe , went to the Lynn of Qcioich on the 20 th inst . —Tho Queen , Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Louise attended divine service on the 21 st inst . in the parish church of Crathie , accompanied hy the Duchess of Roxburghe and Colonel Ponsonby . The Rev . John M'ilurlric , of St . Bernard's , officiated . —The Queen went out , accompanied by Princess Louise ancl attended by the Hon . Emily Cathcart , on the 22 nd instant .
GENEEAE HO-MB NEWS . —The Registrar-General's weekly return gives to cholera lit deaths , and to diarrhoea 55 , being on the two 55 less than the previous return . This is very satisfactory . But , on the other hand , we have to lament an increase iu the total number of deaths , chiefly due to bronchitis , caused by the approach of winter . ' The return gives some interesting facts about the water supply and the
discharge of sewage . ID show ? , also , that the filtration of water through animal charcoal can bo performed without the least difficulty . Tho medical officers of several districts have reported the sanilaiy measures adopted under their nuthoritr .
The rumoured acceptance hy Sir Hugh Cairns of the vacant Lord Justiceship is confirmed . The announcement has occasioned some surprise in legal circles ; but the learned gentleman's decision has probably been influenced by the delicate state of his health . Mr . Bolt , Q . C ., will be the new Solicitor-General . The Duke of Edinburgh was made a citizen of Glasgow on tho ISth inst . His Royal Highness
made a speech on the occasion , which was something more than the formal acknowledgment usually made hy members of the Royal family ou such occasions . Subsequently the Duke inaugurated tl ' . e statue of the late Prince Consort which has been erected in Glasgow . The cattle-plague returns show that the disease lias almost ceased out of England .
During last week only eleven cases were reported . The inquest on the body of Edward AVihnott , the pugilist , who was killed in a light at Westminster , was resumed on the ISth inst ., and , after a good deal of evidence had been taken , was adjourned . Whilst a poor labouring man named Pnttytoot wns iVigging in a pit on Wandsworth Common , a
seam of gr . ivel gave way , and lie was buried beneath several tons of superincumbent earth ; yet he lived for three days afterwards . At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental death . James AAludell , a painter , was charged at tho Marlborougli-street Police-court with
injuring a picture belonging to Miss Burdett Gout's . The prisoner was one of a number of workmen in the employment of Messrs . Banting , who were engaged in redecorating tiie interior of Jiiss Burdett Coutts' town house . A picture in the ball room of " Christ blessing little children . " ' was cut iu several places with a knife while the work was going , on , and suspicion fell on tho prisoner , against whom testimony
was given by his fellow-workmen . He declared that the whole afiair was a conspiracy to injure him . He was remanded . A singular charge of breaking the sabbath was preferred against a miller , at Longton , a few days since , by the Rev . Mr . AA alker , the incumbent of Edensor . The revci-eud gentleman stated his case in person . lie contended Lh . it as they had so much that
was unpleasant to encounter both in the way of sight and sound on six days of the wee '; , it was their duty to enforce the cessation of labour on the Sabbath . The mill , he asserted , was actually grinding flint , and not working off tlle superabundant water . His witnesses wero subjected to a rather lively cross-examination , and it did not appear by any means
clear that the mill was kept going for the ordinary purposes of labour . The magistrates stopped short the defendant ' s indignant disclaimer by dismissing the summons . For a long lime back there have been serious robberies on the Great Eastern llaiiwav . Goods have been lost in transit ancl no clue
to them could be discovered . It was suspected that they were thrown off the trucks at unguarded parts of the line , where they weie picked up by confederates of the railway servants . This conjecture seems to have been well founded ; for the police have taken into custody a man named Henry Buckle , who kept a shop at Stratford . Ou his premises there was found an
immense quantity of goods which had heen stolen from the railway . The prisoner was brought up at the Stratford Policecourt on the 19 th inst ., ancl remanded . Another theatre lias been destroyed by tire . On the 20 th inst . a new burlesque of " Dor Preischuts-. " was produced at the National Standard Theatre in Shoreditcb , and was
witnessed by a crowded houso . All went well , and after the performances were over the usual examination of the buildingwas made , and all apparently was right . However , at six o ' clock next morning it was found that the building was on fire , and though great efforts were made to check the flames they were
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Poetry.
He passed again , and lo ! the well , By summers never dried , Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues , And saved a life beside . 0 , germ ! 0 , font ! 0 , word of love 1 O , thought at random cast ! Ye were but little at the first , But mighty at the last .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —The Queen opened the Aberdeen Waterworks on the 16 th instant , at Invercanuie . Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian , Princess Louise , and Prince Arthur . The Royal party drove to Ballater , where a special train was in readiness , which conveyed them to a temporary station at Inchmarle , where her Majesty was received
by Sir James Burnett , Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire , and Mr . Davidson of I . uchmarlo , through whose grounds the Royal family proceeded to Invcrcannie . On arriving at the Reservoir the Queen was received by Sir Alexander Anderson , Lord Provost of Aberdeen , and the Police Commissioners ( by whom tho works were undertaken ) , the Earl of Kintore , Lord
Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire , the members for the counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire , and many of tho gentry of tbe neighbourhood . A detachment of the volunteers of the district mounted as a guard of honour . After the delivery of a prayer by the Rev . Mr . Hutchinson , minister of the parish , the Lord Provost of Aberdeen presented an address to the Queen , whe was graciously pleased to read an answer . Her Majesty then
turned a watercock ( which admitted the water into the reservoir ) , ancl declared the woiks to be open . At the conclusion of the ceremony the Royal party returned by the same route to Balmoral . The Queen drove in the afternoon with Prince and Princess Christian . —Tbe Queen went out on the 17 th inst . accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Louise , and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe . —The Queen went
out on the ISth instant , accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice , and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe . —The Queen and Princess Christian drove to Abergoldio and visited the Duchess of Aumale on the 10 th instant . In the afternoon her Majesty went out , accompanied by the Duchess of Aumale and Princess Louise . —The Queen , accompanied by
Prince and Princess Christian , ancl attended by . the Duchess of Roxburghe , went to the Lynn of Qcioich on the 20 th inst . —Tho Queen , Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Louise attended divine service on the 21 st inst . in the parish church of Crathie , accompanied hy the Duchess of Roxburghe and Colonel Ponsonby . The Rev . John M'ilurlric , of St . Bernard's , officiated . —The Queen went out , accompanied by Princess Louise ancl attended by the Hon . Emily Cathcart , on the 22 nd instant .
GENEEAE HO-MB NEWS . —The Registrar-General's weekly return gives to cholera lit deaths , and to diarrhoea 55 , being on the two 55 less than the previous return . This is very satisfactory . But , on the other hand , we have to lament an increase iu the total number of deaths , chiefly due to bronchitis , caused by the approach of winter . ' The return gives some interesting facts about the water supply and the
discharge of sewage . ID show ? , also , that the filtration of water through animal charcoal can bo performed without the least difficulty . Tho medical officers of several districts have reported the sanilaiy measures adopted under their nuthoritr .
The rumoured acceptance hy Sir Hugh Cairns of the vacant Lord Justiceship is confirmed . The announcement has occasioned some surprise in legal circles ; but the learned gentleman's decision has probably been influenced by the delicate state of his health . Mr . Bolt , Q . C ., will be the new Solicitor-General . The Duke of Edinburgh was made a citizen of Glasgow on tho ISth inst . His Royal Highness
made a speech on the occasion , which was something more than the formal acknowledgment usually made hy members of the Royal family ou such occasions . Subsequently the Duke inaugurated tl ' . e statue of the late Prince Consort which has been erected in Glasgow . The cattle-plague returns show that the disease lias almost ceased out of England .
During last week only eleven cases were reported . The inquest on the body of Edward AVihnott , the pugilist , who was killed in a light at Westminster , was resumed on the ISth inst ., and , after a good deal of evidence had been taken , was adjourned . Whilst a poor labouring man named Pnttytoot wns iVigging in a pit on Wandsworth Common , a
seam of gr . ivel gave way , and lie was buried beneath several tons of superincumbent earth ; yet he lived for three days afterwards . At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental death . James AAludell , a painter , was charged at tho Marlborougli-street Police-court with
injuring a picture belonging to Miss Burdett Gout's . The prisoner was one of a number of workmen in the employment of Messrs . Banting , who were engaged in redecorating tiie interior of Jiiss Burdett Coutts' town house . A picture in the ball room of " Christ blessing little children . " ' was cut iu several places with a knife while the work was going , on , and suspicion fell on tho prisoner , against whom testimony
was given by his fellow-workmen . He declared that the whole afiair was a conspiracy to injure him . He was remanded . A singular charge of breaking the sabbath was preferred against a miller , at Longton , a few days since , by the Rev . Mr . AA alker , the incumbent of Edensor . The revci-eud gentleman stated his case in person . lie contended Lh . it as they had so much that
was unpleasant to encounter both in the way of sight and sound on six days of the wee '; , it was their duty to enforce the cessation of labour on the Sabbath . The mill , he asserted , was actually grinding flint , and not working off tlle superabundant water . His witnesses wero subjected to a rather lively cross-examination , and it did not appear by any means
clear that the mill was kept going for the ordinary purposes of labour . The magistrates stopped short the defendant ' s indignant disclaimer by dismissing the summons . For a long lime back there have been serious robberies on the Great Eastern llaiiwav . Goods have been lost in transit ancl no clue
to them could be discovered . It was suspected that they were thrown off the trucks at unguarded parts of the line , where they weie picked up by confederates of the railway servants . This conjecture seems to have been well founded ; for the police have taken into custody a man named Henry Buckle , who kept a shop at Stratford . Ou his premises there was found an
immense quantity of goods which had heen stolen from the railway . The prisoner was brought up at the Stratford Policecourt on the 19 th inst ., ancl remanded . Another theatre lias been destroyed by tire . On the 20 th inst . a new burlesque of " Dor Preischuts-. " was produced at the National Standard Theatre in Shoreditcb , and was
witnessed by a crowded houso . All went well , and after the performances were over the usual examination of the buildingwas made , and all apparently was right . However , at six o ' clock next morning it was found that the building was on fire , and though great efforts were made to check the flames they were