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For the Banner of the South. A Woman's Heart. A woman’s trusting hoart is hut a gentle thing Os tender chords. It breaks in every breeze. Yet changeless as the stars, no grief can ever bring Enough of wintry woe, for its fountains pure, to freeze. A woman’s trusting heart is but a trembling flower. Yet will not die, when winter snows enfold Its tender leaves. It does but bless the hour, And humbly thanks the Giver, that it grows not cold. A woman’s constant heart! The tear that softly steals, When tales of woe are pour’d into her list’ning ear ; But tells how nndefiled, the bosom that conceals, The sympathy and faithfulness, the love, that meets us here. A >man’s (rusting heart! pure in its guileless love, Was given to man to soothe, his rugged heart to bless, Yc t dares aspire beyond, and looks to One above, The “Father of the fatherless,” the “Soother of distress.” E, B. c******. MdCon, March 18<7>, 1868. FOREIGN SUMMARY, ENGLAND. Choked by an Oyster.—-On March 2S, Mr. Richard Marshall, farmer, of Wyall, near Nottingham, met with his death by an extraordinary misadventure. 110 wont to an oyster stall in the Market Nottingham, and ordered some oysters to bo opened. The first handed to him was a very large one and stuck in his throat. He was unable to dislodge it, fell to the ground gasping for breath, and was carried to the hospital, but died on the way thither. r l he deceased was a married man, had a large family, and owned an extensive farm. The last number of Punch , April 4th, has a two-pa,ere cartoon called the “Battle of the Spurs.” Two fighting cocks, one with the face of BTsraeli and the other with Gladstone’s. These cocks are fight ing with each other in mid-air, and be neath them is a lien-coop called the Irish Church. The old hen is calling her brood of chickens home, each one of which wears a college hat and the full robes of a bishop. The dung heap in front is labelled “office.” ?cven thousand seven hundred and eighty-two policemen are employed in London to protect property extending over seven hundred square miles, and embracing a population of 3.410,654, beings, with deductions from the force from sickness and special service, one man to 72 acres and to six hundred citizens, whereas in the city, the proportion is one man to 2-10 acres, and one hundred and eighty-four persons. In England, says the Pall Mall Gazette , the rights of women are fully recognized in parochial if not in parliamentary affairs. Mrs. Sarah Wootter has just been appointed by tiie Aylesbury magis trates to the offices of overseer to the poor and surveyor of highway* for the parish Illmirc ; and last year four wo men filled similar offices in the Aylesbury district. The success of the Liberal party in the House of Commons in connection with the Irish Church Establishment, has bccu the signal for a series of popular meetings in various parts of England. The great gathering in St. James’ Hall, London, is being followed by numerous demonstra tions elsowhere. A London paper recently announced, with an air of mystery, that a human foot had been found in one of the basins of the Trafalgar Square fountains. It might have added that the foot had a very animated body attached to it, and was lugged out by a policeman. In England, on a railway leading out of the city of Carlisle, a free passage is given for seven years to any one who will erect a residence of the value of <£2so in gold, near the line of the road I his is done to increase the population of the district through which it passes. The agricultural accounts from York shire and other districts in the North of Eng'and, represent the season and the crop prospects as one month in advance of the actual date. The Prince of Wales will pay the Sul tan of Turkey a visit in August. L is proposed to free all the London bridges from toll. Letters have been received in town by Sir Roderick Murchison, which place be* yond a doubt the fact that the reported assassination of I)r. Livingstone is a fable without foundation. Dr. Kirk the con sul at Zanzibar, has received voluminous dispatches from Dr. Livinsgtone, dated from the “Sources of the Nile,” Bco miles beyond the spot at which Dr. Livingstone was reported to have been murdered. The advices received from another source make mention also of his successful pro gress in his further journey, and it is be lieved that Dr. Livingstone is now on his voyage home. SCOTLAND. Hero-M orship has seldom assumed a more curious form than a story which comes from Rais ley. The other dav a monument was placed over the grave of Robert Turinihill, the song writer ; and a | glass bottle deposited in the foundation I contains the following, among other arti cles : A small leather hag containing fifteen teeth of the poet, which had been abstracted from the remains a few years ,Oiler the interment on the occasion of the contiguous ground being opened for the burial of a relative.” iue Scottish National Constitutional Association have resolved to petition against Mr. Gladstone’s res dution. T here is at present in Greenock, about to sail for China, the gun vessel Kwang l ung, the first of a fleet of war vessels t > be built in Europe for the service of the Chinese Government. She mounts u.rec pivot and four broadside guns, and is to the Clyde forthwith. The Kwang Tung is under command of Cap tain lhomas 0 Sullivan, who succeeds Captain Slierard Osborne, R. N., as Com modore of the fleet. The Marquis of Bute has paid $1,500,- 000 for a furnished house in London FRANCE. and he Price of a Mirror. —At a recent auction sale of curious objects of art at the Hotel Druof, in Paris, there, was offered a small mirror, encased in wood, which was carved in the time of the six teenth century. It was not much larger than the breadth of a man’s hand, and had been bought six years before by a cele brated amateur for sixty francs. The auctioneer put it up at two thousand francs. The Nieuwkerke, superintendent of fine arts, who wished to purchase the curiosity for the Louvre Museum, at once bid ten thousand francs. “Twelve thousand,” said M. de Narishkine, a well known Rus sian collector. Both these gentlemen rose to their feet, and, in a few seconds, the bidding rose to the sum of twenty thousand francs. “Twenty-one thousand,’' said the young Russian. “Twenty-two!” replied the superintendent. By this time there was intense excitement amoug the auditors “ I wenty-four thousand,” called the Count in response to his opponent’s rise of another thousand. “Twenty-five,” said Narishkine, “and I shall stop there.” “And I will give twenty-five thousand five hundred,’’ said a third speaker ; “and I am to purchase if this thing costs one hundred thousand francs.” The bidding ceased, the stranger counted put the money, rolled the mirror in a half sheet of writing paper, put it in his pocket, and marched out of Hie room. Some few weeks since it was reported ihat M. de Moustier would probably re tire from the Foreign Office, and be suc ceeded by M. Drouyn de Lhuys. The rumor is pretty rife, but nothing is known for certain, as the Emperor is not in the habit of disclosing bis intentions prema turely. IfM. D. do Lhuys’ new ideas on the all airs of the East be correctly described, bis ieturu to office would, of course, be considered as indicative of a change of policy in that part of the world. X A singular will case has come before the Roannes courts. A. M. Pitre, died last year, and left his properU’ to his heirs on condition of their spending T 1,500 sterling in erecting a bronze mon ument on bis tomb representing Death, under pain of forfeiting the property, in which case it would go to the sick poor ot the town. The heirs wish to evade this somewhat insane clause. There are to be, rumor says, two camps at Chalons this year. The first, com mencing on the first of May and termi nating on the first of July, will be under the command of General de Failly ; the second, contisting of four divisions of in fant i\ and two i i cavalry, is to begin on the 15th July and conclude on the loth October, and will probably be under the command of Marshall Bazaine. One million three hundred and fifty thousand men, or nearly the whole of the able-bodied male population of the coun try, may now be said to be under arms in France. Ibis force, according to Mar shall Nidi’s report to the Emperor, is made up of 800,000 regulars and 655,- 000 of the National Garde Mobile. The London Star says that eight hun dred women, employed in the Govern ment cigar factory at Marseilles, recently sang the Marseillaise while engaged in their work. The ominous chaunt threat ens soon to be heard all over France. La France gives us the following item about Holy Thursday in Rome. Ac cording to a special dispatch, remarks that paper, Holy Thursday, this year, ap pears to have surpassed the splendors ot this religious lestival. There were more than 50,000 people grouped a round tue facade ot St. Peters when the Pope gave his benediction to the crotfd from the platform of the portico. It was re marked that the voice of the Holy Father was very strong and very distinct. The Holy Father was received with shouts of applause, which were repeated for a long time, e\ on after he had left the platform. Telegrams from Rome announce that Cardinal Andrea is seriously ill, and that Cardinal Bonaparte is also quite unwell. BELGIUM. In the Belgian Chamber of Represen tatives, M. Delhouyne, asked the Govern ment for explanations respecting the par ticipation ut the military in the suppresion of the disturbances m the district of Cherleori. M. Permez, replied that the interference of the military had been rendered necessary by the apprehen sions, fora moment entertained, of a<*en eral rising. The conduct of the troops had been admirable; and the strike had been stopped. Ten lives altogether had been lost. The disturbances in the Charleroi mining district hare come to an end. 1n,090 workmen have resumed work, and 2,500 others are expected to do so shortly. Spain and Portugal —An accident happened recently to Tamberlik at .Mad rid. At the end of the fourth act in “ E i Muette,” at the moment when Tam beriik jumps on a horse, the animal was Lightened by the report of a gun, and threw the celebrated tenor into one of the Mdo seats. Tamberlik immediately dis engaged himself unhurt, and the audience rapturously applauded him for this addi tion to the evening’s entertainment, A Lisbon paper, the L)carlo deNoticias, announces the death, at the age of i 18, of a Portuguese citizen named Jose Santa reno. Rome. —From a statement of the Ro man Minister of Commerce and the Fine Arts, it appears that the value of oil paintings exported in 1867, was 50,541f, and of modern pictures, 778,2105; of an cient sculptures, l'.foobt, and of modern sculptures, 1,778,1025 ; in all, 2,623,- 0105, exceeding the exportations of 1806 by 00,7155 ; a proof that in Rome, no matter how the times may be, the fine arty always flourish, because they are pa tronised by the Popes, who persistently favor the true and shining glory of Italy. V. e have had another letter from Rome, dated 31st March, in which not a word is said of any illness of Ilis Ilolin“SS. All our Cincinnati students are well. The Archbishop of St. Louis was at the Aiuei lean College*, but bo inteudtd to leave for 1 1 is See immediately after Eas ter. The Bishop of Chicago had gone to the Holy Land. The Lenten sermons preached in Rome, by Rev Mr. Ryan, of St. Louis, had been well attended. Rev. Mr. O Connor, ot Philadelphia, remains in Rome as Vice-Rector of the American College. — Cath. Telegraph. TELEGRAMS, SANDWICH ISLANDS. San Francisco, May 7.— The bark Come t, from the Sandwich Islands, brings accounts of a terrible volcanic eruption at Mauna Lao. It began March 27th. On the 28th. over 100 earthquake shocks were felt at ISilina. During the two weeks follow ing to April 13th, 2,000 shocks occurred at Wuischina. The earth opened in many places. A tidal wave rose sixty feet high, overtopping cocoa trees a quarter of a mile inland and sweeping human beings, houses and everything moveable before it. A ter rible shock prostrated churches and homes, killing many. One hundred lives were loL, besides thousands of horses and cattle. The craters vomited lire, and lava. A river of red hot lava, live or six miles long, flowed to the sea, at a rate ot tea miles an hour, destroying everything before it and forming an island in the sea. Anew crater, two miles wide, opened, which throws rocks and streams of lire a thousand feet high. Streams of lava rolled to the sea. At one time the illumination extended fifty miles at night. The lava has pushed out from shore one mile at Waischina. Three miles from the shore a coral island rose suddenly, emitting a column of steam and smoke, while the Kono packet was passing, spattering mud on the vessel. The greatest shock occurred April 2d. Prior to the eruption there was a great shower of ashes and pumice. During the great shock the swaying motion of the earth was dreadful. No person could stand. In the midst of this a tremendous eruption of red earth poured down the mountain, rushing across the plain three miles in three minutes, and then ceased Then came the great tidal wave, and then the streams of lava. The villages on the shore were all destroyed by this wave. The earth opened under the sea arid red dened the water. The earth eruption swallowed thirty persons, and the sea many more. Great suffering and terror prevailed in the whole region affected. A sloop. “ Live Yankee, had been dispatch ed with provisions, t&e., to rescue and re lieve the sufferers. B an Francisco, May 7.—Honolulu correspondence to the Bulletin gives the details of the volcanic disturbances, show ing that earthquake shocks extended to ail the Islands of the Hawaiian group but no damage is known except around Mauna Lao. Numerous and extensive land sades, a- rapan.cd by other phenomena occurred estroying life and property! flie summit and side of a hill fifteen hundred feet high were thrown a thousand met over the tops of trees and landed in tue valley below. Gasses that issued after ward destroyed vegetable and animal life. Bottomless fissures opened in the mountain sides A lava stream flows underground, breaking out in four jets six miles from the sua, ana Girowing lava and stones ten or fiiteeri hundred feet high. The new island thrown up is four hundred feet hi m and ,s now jumed to the mainland by a stream or ava a mi.e wide. A large stream of R ater bum from the mountain where eruption occurred. Ino base oi the volcano, about three nuntired nines in dreuinference, is ed. At least half a million of property is dtmroyed. .he Kmg of the Sandwich 1-cir.d hail issued a proclamation for the relief ot the sufferers. Many visitor had BQnc from Honolulu and wilfgo tVom San rrancisco. Die worst is thought to be over, hut the. :ava fbw continues, present ing a grand speciinTi. Earthquake shock at Hcarldsburg last ingot awoke ml the inhabitants ; several shocks were felt in California about the penod of the outbreak in Hawaii. ABYSSINIA. Queen’s Hotel, London, May B,IBOS. —I he authorities at the War Oiiicc and Lidia House have received official advices irom Major General Sir Robert Napier, commanding the army in Abyssirra, dated at laianta, on the 21st of April, in which lie reports the operations and movements oi his troops undertaken subsequent to the capture of Magdala and the death of King 1 heodorus. . ben the Queen’s forces took posses sion ot the fortress ami works at Magda!a >.licy immediately destroyed over thirty large guns, with some few mortars, which Sidd been used in defence of the place or to impede the English advance. .1 hh gates and loopholed bastions were mined and blown up with gunpowder. j he town proper, and the more inteiior thru lied points were fired, and every bulining used as a dwelling in the place, including the royal palace, burned. The church was spared. The work cl the razzia was completed on the 17th of April. I he widow of the late King Theodoras ana her son, heretofore heir apparent of the Abyssinian throne, were protected by General Napier and escorted from his camp to the Tigre country. Having discharged his duty and accom plished lus errand of liberation for the cap tives in the most complete manner, Gen. 2sn.piei mummed his army as if on parade, the command “Bout face ; march !” was given, and the British troops 1 .Mt; Mag daia 0(1 I lie J6th of April on I'uuir rournbn return to the Red Sea coast Napier hoped to reach Zoulla by the last days of May, from which point the road is comparatively easy to Senate and Amifsiey bay. The wounded men were doing well — most of them convalescent—and the army trains kept well up. Queen’s Hotel, London, May 8, noon. —The special correspondent of the Herald , attached to General Napier's expedition in Abyssinia, furnishes interesting dis patches. dated at Magdala, 16th April. Ihe deceased King Theodorus was buried in the Church at Magdala, official resocet being shown to hisremai is. I iie young Prince Theouoru°, his son, wii! be conveyed to England and educated there, i Gobbazze, the friendly chief, who aided tne Queen s army in its inarch through and igre, will be duiy crowned king of Abyssinia, thus introducing anew dynasty. Napier’s army was to be marched for India and home within two days from the date oi the Herald s special report. Queen’s Hotel, London, May B—p. .M. —Three other dispatches from the Herald's correspondent with Napier s army have just come to hand. They are dated tiie 10th, 11th and 12th of April, but nave been delayed two weeks in the transmission, owing, it is to be presumed to the confusion incident to the fact of the sudden termination of the war which pre vailed at the different points of reception and repetition along the route. The reports convey a very graphic picture of the great battle which took place between the British and Abyssinia ns on the 10th oi April—Good Friday—pre vious to the storn ing of Magdala. As soon as the English advance came in view the Abyssinian enemy stood forth in grand array, as if in response to the sight. Theodorus opened at once with all his mortars on Napier. The British replied with the same description of gun. The fire from tne defences having endured for a short time three thousand five hundred warriors, setting up loud shouts of joy and revenge and chanting national songs of triumph, dashed with great ardor down the steep hill from the palace fortress and charged the British light batteries gallantly. < Napier’s men stood firm and the Abys siniaos were repulsed, having seven hun dred warriors, including two prominent chiefs, killed during the engagement. The tactics of Theodorus’ officers were judicious and the courage displayed by his soldiers excellent. Aware of his heavy loss Theodorus forwarded a flag of truce to General Na pier’s headquarters, inquiring on what terms the English would negotiate a peace. General Napier replied that, speaking in the name of the Queen, his terms were merely and strictly an unconditional surren der. Theodorus, through his envoy, immedi ately said he would never accept such arbitrary terras as that, seeing even his present, defeat he would prefer to fight to the end. In conclusion the King requested Gen. Napier to take the British captives, whom he would hand over to him, and “go away hence when they had been all released. 1 he King refused positively a surrender lor himself, and tht conference was broken oil. Nagdala was, consequently, “stormed” by the English a tew days afterward. During the latest moments of the fight ing alter the British assault, and v. tv n driven to his last stand point, Theodorus attempted suicide on three separate inva sions. He was rendered perfectly furious by bis defeats. The released captives say that they saw three hundred native prisoners killed by the King’s order on the 'Eh of April. GREAT BRITAIN. London, May 7, evening,—The House of Commons assembled in session at an early hour this evening. The attendance ot members and in the strangers’ gallery was very large. Great interest was evinced in the proceedings, as it was known that the second and third of the Gladstone resoives on the Irish Church would Le moved in Committee of the Whole, and that another division would take place should their acceptance be resisted by the Cabinet. The opposition members mus tered in full, and the ministerial benches were crowded in consequence. Immediately after the speaker had taken the chair Mr. Gladstone rose and moved his second and third resolves in the following terms: Resolved, That subject to the foregoing considerations (set forth in the first reso lution), it isexpedient to prevent the crea tion of new personal interests by the ex ercise of any public patronage, and to con fine the operations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Ireland to objects of im mediate necessity or involving in dividual rights pending the filial decision of Parlia ment. Resolved, That a humble address be presented to Her Majesty, humbly to pray that, with a view to the purposes afore said, Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to place at the disposal of Parlia - ment her interest in the temporalities of the archbishoprics, bishoprics and other ecclesiastical dignities and benefices in Ireland and in the custody thereof. Mr. Gladstone said that, more imme diately in view of the carrying into effect the principle involved in the third resolve, he would propose, after the House had acted upon the two resolutions now sub mitiifu, Ci j ieff 1 ir ii eu^ponfory oiit in rolntioii to ecclesiastical patronage and Church revenues in Ireland, which should, if passed, remain in force until the Ist c f August, 1868. Mr. Gladstone then, in a few words, proceeded to make an explana tion of the purport and intent of the sec ond of the series of resolves, and moved its adoption by the committee. Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Home Secretary, replied briefly in behalf of the Cabinet. Like D’lsraeli, he argued that the opposi tion intended to destroy the Irish Church. The Ministry wished to alter it for the bet ter; but after the recent vote upon the first resolve they would make no re-Dcmoe to the succeeding one or a.-,k for a division upon its passage. The second resolve was then adapted, and thus virtually the third also. Immediately after the adoption of the Gladstone resolve with respect to the di - endowment of the Irish Protestant Church, Mr. Whit bred, member for Bedford, moved resolutions to withdraw the annual Parliamentary grant of £BO,OOO voted in a;d of the support of ti e Reman Catholic Ecclesiastical College of Maynootii, and also the whole amount of the Belgium Donum, or Royal State Aid Grant, voted yearly in support of the cleigymen of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland since the period of the legislative union with Eng land, and that the resolution should take the form of la w immediately on the dis establishment of the Protestant Kj i- vOpal Church in Ireland. lhe motion was agreed to. The Reform Bill for Ireland was read a second time. London, May 7, ISGB.—John Blight and other members of tlie Liberal j ary in England have united in a petition to lion. Gal home Hardy for the commutation of the punishment of the Fenian prisoner Birrett. who was recently convicted at the Old Bail y for complicity in the Cltekmi well ex losion. The ] eritioners urg point that an aWi in the case of B urett was conclusively proved. Dublin, May 8, 1868.—The case of George Francis Train was before the Bankruptcy Court here to-day. re|) j y to questions put to him Mr. Train said he had no property himself and no control over that pertaining to his wife. He was recommitted for further examination. General Nagle and the other Fenian prisoners who were captured on board the Jacroel packet ( Brin’s IFpe) some time since and imprisoned have been released from confinement, having previously given the authorities the pledges required. They celebrated their freedom yester day afternoou by calling on George Francis Train, who is in jail in tins city. 3