pair of draining boots," and hammering her with a poker. The lodger seized Brice and tried to stop the attack, but Brice told him with an oath to leave the house, as nobody should stay there that night but himself. He threatened the lodger with the poker, and then turning to his wife again dragged her by the hair and kicked her till she was in another corner. The lodger was then turned out, and when outside he heard the victim "screeching" for mercy. Nevertheless he went and quietly slept under a haystack all night, without giving any alarm. Two poachers also passed, and heard the woman begging her husband for God's sake not to murder her, but they did not interfere. The next night Brice would not sleep alone he got the lodger to go to his old bed, and the men slept together. Two days after the murder Brice was seen, at four o'clock in the afternoon, carrying his wife's body, with one leg under each arm and her head thrown over his shoulder. He tried to throw her down an old coal-pit, but it was arched in. He then hid her under some bushes, and was beginning to dig a grave, when he was discovered and arrested. The body was fearfully

bruised.

29. THE DERBY STAKES of 50 Sovs. each, three-year-olds; colts 8 st. 10 lbs., and fillies 8 st. 5 lbs. ; about a mile and a half, starting at the new high-level starting-post. 191 subs.

Mr. H. Savile's b. c. Cremorne, by Parmesan (Maid-
ment).

Mr. J. Astley's br. c. Brother to Flurry (Chaloner)
Lord Falmouth's br. c. Queen's Messenger (T. French)

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Betting:-5 to 2 agst. Prince Charlie, 3 to 1 agst. Cremorne, 6 to 1 agst. Queen's Messenger, 8 to 1 agst. Wenlock, 25 to 1 each agst. Drummond and Marshal Bazaine, 33 to 1 agst. Almoner, 40 to 1 each agst. The Druid and Laburnum, 50 to 1 agst. the Makeshift colt, 66 to 1 agst. Helmet, 100 to 1 each agst. Vanderdecken, Statesman, and Condor.

The issue hung in the balance to the last stride, the verdict of the judge being recorded in favour of the popular favourite by a head. The time by Dent's chronometer was 2 min. 45 sec.

On the return home, about seven o'clock, the occupants of a fourhorse drag, who had been amusing themselves on the return journey by pelting the pedestrians with bags of flour, peas, and other missiles, pulled up in the Clapham-road for refreshments, leaving three of their number in charge of their vehicle. These, left to themselves, recommenced the flour-throwing game, and one of the bags happened to strike the wife of a railway porter, whose husband (unfortunately for the trio) was standing by her side. He thereupon called upon the crowd for assistance, which was readily given; the drag was stormed, and after a short resistance carried, the offenders dragged from their seats and carried to a horse-trough, which was conveniently handy, where they were soundly ducked. They were then rolled in the mud, and afterwards the contents of some twenty

bags of flour, which had been discovered in the drag, were liberally sprinkled over them. The whole affair did not occupy more than four minutes, and on the return of their friends the whole party drove rapidly away, evidently glad to escape further attentions from the mob.

31. THE OAKS STAKES of 50 sovs. each, for three-year-old fillies, 8 st. 10 lb. each; the owner of the second filly to receive 300 sovs., and the third 150 sovs. out of the stakes. About a mile and a half. 170 subs.

M. Lefevre's Reine, by Monarque-Fille de l'Air
(Fordham).

Mr. Cartwright's Louise Victoria (Custance)
Sir R. Bulkeley's Guadaloupe (J. Snowdon)

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Betting:-5 to 2 agst. Reine (t.), 3 to 1 agst. Louise Victoria (t.), 6 to 1 agst. Catherine (t.), 9 to 1 agst. Georgie (t.), 11 to 1 agst. Chance (t.), 20 to 1 agst. Violetta (t.), 25 to 1 agst. Beehive (t.), 25 to 1 agst. Landlady (t.), 30 to 1 against Merry and Wise (t.), 33 to 1 agst. Milliner (t.), 35 to 1 agst. Guadaloupe (t.), 40 to 1 agst. Madge Wildfire (t.), 50 to 1 agst. Arethusa (t.), 100 to 1 agst. Smoke (t.).

Reine won easily by half a length. Time, as taken by Benson's chronograph, 2 min. and 52 sec.

Two PICTURE SALES.-At very nearly the same time there died, in England and America, two men who left to be disposed of at their deaths two of the largest private collections of pictures ever sold at public auction. Mr. Le Grand Lockwood and Mr. Joseph Gillott were both architects of their own fortunes, and each achieved the means of stocking his picture-gallery with many of the bestknown works of the foremost modern masters. In Mr. Lockwood's collection such names as Verbeckhoeven, Kraus, Schenbach, Van Schendel, Schrader, with the best of the American artists, were well represented. In Mr. Gillott's the bewildered connoisseur had to choose between masterpieces of Turner, Etty, Muller, Webster, and David Cox by the score. But the fates of the two collections were curiously unequal. While Mr. Lockwood's collection of the two, perhaps, originally the more expensive-brought under the hammer prices in the aggregate far below the original cost, Mr. Gillott's was sold at an enormous advance, amounting, it is said, in many cases to ten or twenty times the sums he paid. Bierstadt's "Domes of the Yosemite," the pride of the Lockwood gallery, bought for $25,000, was bid off for the comparatively paltry sum of $5100to the minds of some harsh critics a much closer approximation to its true value. On the other hand, Webster's "Roast Pig," a picture painted on commission for the great penmaker for 700 guineas, was sold for 3550 guineas-more than five times its original cost, or nearly $20,000. Mr. Lockwood's pictures were said to have cost originally some $300,000; they brought a trifle over $70,000. Two days' sale of the Gillott collection brought more than as many

pounds, or nearly $365,000. On the first day, for eighty-nine pictures, 30,000l. was bid, an average of over $1600 a picture. Nor was the Webster spoken of exceptional in its price. A little watercolour by David Cox fetched close on 40007., nearly as much as Mr. Lockwood paid for the acre or so of painted canvass in the "Domes of the Yosemite."

JUNE.

1. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES have returned to London from a Continental tour of some length undertaken for the re-establishment of the Prince's health. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess drove out into Hyde-park, where their appearance was welcomed by one of the largest assemblages ever remembered. The Prince, who was everywhere received by respectful demonstrations of loyalty, looked the picture of health, his continental tour having apparently thoroughly reinvigorated his Royal Highness. The Princess of Wales exhibited equally gratifying indications of health; and their Royal Highnesses returned the hearty salutations of the spectators with genial frankness.

Their Royal Highnesses were present at the Royal Italian Opera in the evening, and met with a reception every whit as cordial as that which had greeted them in the park. On their entrance the entire house, band and all, rose, and cheered most enthusiastically.

4. THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION.-The Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Dublin to open the Exhibition of Arts, Industries, and Manufactures. As far as the people were concerned, his reception may be described as respectful rather than warm. The Exhibition itself is an unquestionable and unique success. Such a gathering of interesting objects has seldom or never been seen in one building.

-THE BURMESE EMBASSY, sixteen in number, arrived off Dover this evening, in the King of Burmah's steam-yacht, "Tyeska Yeen Byan." The yacht is a shapely, though not remarkably handsome craft, of about 400 tons burden, and she is to take half a dozen guns on board in London before she leaves England. She carries at her main the Burmese flag--a crimson peacock on a white groundand a British ensign at the stern. She is commanded by an Englishman (Captain Brown), and her officers are English, but the crew, numbering about eighty, are Hindoos and Burmese.

On being introduced to the Queen at Windsor, the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary delivered to the Queen a letter from the King of Burmah, which was translated as follows:

"From his Great, Glorious, and Most Excellent Majesty King of the Rising Sun, who reigns over Burmah, to her Most Glorious

and Most Excellent Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.-Madam, my Royal Sister,-Prompted by a desire to act in accordance with the duties incumbent on independent Sovereigns who rule over great countries, which leads them to establish friendly relations with each other if they do not already exist, and to cement, strengthen, and confirm royal friendships which have already been established, I have taken into my most earnest, careful, and deliberate consideration the best means to cause the great friendship that exists between Burmah and England to be placed on a secure, lasting, and firm basis; and having also an earnest desire for the confidential intercourse which independent Sovereigns should have with each other, I have appointed an Embassy, consisting of Wongyee King Wongyee Maha Saythoo as Envoy Extraordinary, Woondouk Paden Won Maha Menhla Kyaw-den, and Woondouk Pangyet Won Maha Mongyau Raza as Envoys of the Second Rank (Attachés), and Saraydawgyee Menhla Zayathoo, as Secretary to the Embassy, and have entrusted them with a royal letter to your Most Gracious Majesty. On arriving in England the Envoys will have an opportunity of bearing personal testimony to the feelings by which I am actuated in regard to the friendly relations which I am anxious to promote between the two countries. I pray to Almighty God that He will ward from you all that is evil, and that He will vouchsafe to shed His benign influence over your Gracious Majesty, the Princes and Princesses (your Majesty's sons and daughters), and other members of the Royal Family, as well as over your Majesty's nobles and officers of Government.

"Given at the Royal Palace of Ratnabon (Mandalay), in Burmah, this 8th day of the Waxing Moon Taboung, 1233, Burmese Era; corresponding with the 5th of February, 1872, of the Christian Era.-I am, Madam, my Royal Sister, your Great and Most Glorious Majesty's Good and Royal Brother, THEEREE PAWARA WEEZAYA NUNTA YATHA PUNDEOTA MAHA DUMMA YAZADE YAZA, his Great, Glorious, and Most Excellent Majesty, King of the Rising Sun, who reigns over Burmah."

The Envoy also laid at her Majesty's feet a casket containing presents from the King of Burmah.

8. DOG SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-During four days of the present week the Crystal Palace has been the scene of an exhibition of sporting and other dogs, which, both for quality and quantity, far surpasses any such exhibition ever seen in England. The entries numbered over twelve hundred, and the prizes amounted in value to 1000. Every conceivable breed of dog is represented, from the stately bloodhound, true and tender as Gelert, of Welsh story, to the British beagle; dogs, giant or dwarf; dogs of every hue, whole coloured or curiously marked and spotted, with hair long or short, and ears cocked or drooping; dogs of the parlour, of the kitchen, of the stable, of the moor, and of the farmyard. The toy class particularly attracted a vast amount of attention, while the magnificent specimens of the mastiffs elicited warm and universal admiration.

Punch, the winner of Class II., is one of the finest specimens ever exhibited.

10. THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT-RACE.-There was an enormous crowd of spectators both afloat and along the banks of the river to witness the race between the London Rowing Club and the Atalanta Club from the United States.

In consequence of the wind it was determined to row down with the ebb from Mortlake to Putney, instead of from Putney to Mortlake, as originally intended.

In accordance with previous arrangement the crews were started by report of pistol, instead of word of mouth; and directly the competitors had taken up their allotted positions, Mr. Lesley, the referee, gave the signal to go. Both crews caught the water at the same moment; but the London four led out at the second stroke and, rowing at the rate of forty-one tremendous strokes per minute, shot clean away from the Atalanta crew like an arrow from a bow, drawing clear of them in less than a dozen strokes. Indeed, the roar of the crowd that " They're off!" had scarcely subsided before the English crew were out of sight of their opponents. London crews are proverbial for rapid starting, as the records of Henley will prove; but with smooth water and a fair wind abaft them, all in favour of the lighter four, it was an unexpected sight to behold the American crew completely out of the race from the very first dip, notwithstanding they were rowing forty-four strokes a minute. Going right away from their opponents, the London crew led by three lengths at Barnes Bridge-reached in 3 min. 17 sec., rather more than half a mile having been rowed; by six at least at the bathing-place in the Duke of Devonshire's meadows above Chiswick, by eight at the foot of Chiswick Eyot, and ten at Hammersmith Suspension Bridge, through which the leaders passed 30 sec. ahead of the stranger, in 12 min. 28 sec. from the moment of starting. When the first half-mile had been traversed the London crew slowed the stroke down to thirty-seven and thirty-six to the minute, rowing a long steady drag, evidently without effort, while the Americans were floundering away after them in a hopeless stern-chase, at a rate of stroke never below forty to the minute. After shooting the centre arch of Hammersmith Bridge the London four drew farther and farther away, but the number of row-boats which were here scattered all over the river was so great that both crews were over and over again in the most imminent danger of being rowed into. Off the Soap Works, while the London crew were opposite the Crab Tree, a skiff-the occupants of which were mostly women—was pulled out towards the centre of the course, evidently to get a close view of the Americans, and came into collision with the Atalanta four, by which the latter lost at least a dozen strokes before they could get their oars clear and row away again. That the collision was entirely unintentional was evident. Indeed, to some extent the American four helped to bring it about, for they were steered much too wide all down the reach below Hammersmith Bridge.