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Poetry.
Strangers yet ! Strange and bitter thought to scan All the loneliness of man . Nature by magnetic laws Circle unto circle draws ; Circles only touch when mot , Never mingle—strangers yet .
Strangers yet ! "Will it evermore be thus—Spirits still impervious ? Shall we ever fairly stand Soul to soul , as hand to hand ? Are the bounds eternal set To retain us strangers yet ?
Strangers yet ! Tell not love it must aspire Unto something other—higher : God Himself were loved the best , AVere man's sympathies at rest ; Rest above the strain anel fret Of the world of strangers yet ! Strangers yet 1
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COUBT . —Her Majesty the Queen , accompanied by the younger members of the Royal family , and the Prince anel Princess of Hesse , and attended by a numerous suite , left Osborne , Isle of Wight , afc the close of last week , and . returned to Windsor . On Saturday , Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse took leave of her Majesty , and proceeded from Windsor to
Gravesend , where they embarked on board the Victoria anel Albert , on their return to Germany . In the course of the afternoon , the Duke and Duchess of Coburg , who had come over from Germany on a visit to her Majesty , landed at Dover , and proceeded to Windsor by the Soufch-Wesfcern Railway . Her Majesty , accompanied by the younger members of her family ,
by the Duke and Duchess of Coburg , and a numerous suite , left Windsor Castle at seven o ' clock on Monday night , for Scotland . The route lay over the Great Western to the Bushbury junction , where it was transferred to the Loudon anel North-Western , and so by -way of Carlisle into Scotland . Her Majesty arrived afc her highland residence afc Balmoral about half-past four on Tuesday afternoon . A stay of some time was made afc Perth , where fche Queen , between nine and ten o ' clock n the forenoon , honoured with her presence the unveiling of
the statue erected to the late Prince Consort ; and in token of her appreciation of this mark of respect for the memory of her deceased husband , she conferred on Provost Ross the honour of knighthood . The Prince and Princess of AVales remain in Scotland . A Paris letter asserts with some confidence that their Royal Highnesses are to extend his proposed northern trip from Copenhagen to Stockholm and St .
Petersburgh , and that on their way home they will drop in upon our Imperial neighbour across the Channel . GENERAL HOME NEIVS . —The mortality of London still continues above fche average , principally owing to the summer diseases . The number of deaths reported last week amounted to 1 , 413 , which is 56 above the corrected average . The births
were 1 , 915 , the average number 1844 . Friday , the 26 th ulfc ., was the anniversary of the birthday of fche late Prince Consort , and the day was observed in accordance with a suggestion made by her Majesty , by opening the Royal Horticultural Gardens to the public without charge . The privilege was gladly accepted by a large concourse of persons and especially by the children from the metropolitan schools , who were conveyed to the gardens in vans , and were soon spread over the grounds . The weather
was favourable , and several bands having volunteered their services on the occasion the day proved to be one of thorough enjoyment . Tire first Manchester Athletic Festival was held afc Old Trafford on Saturday . The Committee presented a very good programme , there were competitors from almost all parts of the north of England , and there was a large attendance of The onldrawback out of the
spectators . y arose very unsatisfactory manner in which the ground was kept . ——The Archbishop of York has taken advantage of a visit to Aberdeen to explain the object of his recent speech in Parliament on the Scottish Episcopal Disabilities Bill . He says that while he now considers that the guarantees which the bill imposes
are so stringent that he should not like to have proposed them , he is , considering fche comparative positions of the Church of England aud the Church of Scotland , prepared to justify the course he took in Parliament . That course was adopted with a view not to oppose the bill , but to place ifc before a committee . Mr . Sfcansfeld has lately been presented , with an address
at Aberdovey . It spoke ir . terms of high approval of his course in Parliament , and expressed strong regret that he had felt it his duty to resign office . Mr . Sfcansfeld , in reply , entered at some length into questions connected with the maintenance and management of the Royal Navy , and briefiy sketched the circumstances under which he felt
himself compelled to resign the post he had lieltl . Miles Ellison , the man who was charged a few days ago with inducing fche soldiers of the Royal Engineers to desert her Majesty ' s service , and to go into the Federal army , was again brought before the magistrates at Woolwich on Saturday . The evidence of some more soldiers was taken , but the charge of inciting to actual desertion was not made out . The magistrate in discharging the prisoner remarked on the bad state of
discipline observed in the barracks , which admitted of a civilian passing the night there . Tire prisoner was again taken into custody on another charge . In consequence of a suspicion that all was not right in a house occupied by a Mr . Backinghau ) , at Mile End , the place was entered on Friday night , the 26 th ulfc ., by some of fche neighbours . Mrs . Buckingham and her
sister , Mary Gribbin , were found dead , and Mr . Backingham , who is said to have shown signs of insanity for some time past , was discovered , partly naked , lying on the floor . He greeted those who entered with an idiotic stare , and could give no exp lanation as to the cause of the women ' s deaths . The front parlour , where the bodies were found , was in a very disordered
state , as though a severe struggle hael taken rjlace , anel according to the opinion of a medical man there is reason to believe that the women have been poisoned . An inquest has been opened on the bodies of Mrs . Gribbin anel Mrs . Backingham , bufc nothing transpired to show the cause of death ; and the proceedings were adjourned till an analysis has been made of
the stomachs and intestines . A man named AVilkinson was apprehended on Monday morning on the charge of murdering his wife . It seems the unhappy couple had some friends visiting them on Sunday evening , and on separating one of them kissed Mrs . AVilkinson , which so enraged the husband that he attacked her in the street . He appears afterwards to have
become inflamed with liquor , and again fell upon his wife , striking and kicking her to death . An old man named Butler , a lockkeeper on the river Severn , near Worcester , has been committed for trial for tho murder of his housekeeper , Catherine Gulliver . On the nig ht of the 13 th ult . Butler and fche deceased quarrelled . The next day the deceased was missed by her neighbours , and Butler gave a very confused and unsatisfactory account of her absence . Her body was subsequently discovered in the river , and bore evident marks of violence .
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Poetry.
Strangers yet ! Strange and bitter thought to scan All the loneliness of man . Nature by magnetic laws Circle unto circle draws ; Circles only touch when mot , Never mingle—strangers yet .
Strangers yet ! "Will it evermore be thus—Spirits still impervious ? Shall we ever fairly stand Soul to soul , as hand to hand ? Are the bounds eternal set To retain us strangers yet ?
Strangers yet ! Tell not love it must aspire Unto something other—higher : God Himself were loved the best , AVere man's sympathies at rest ; Rest above the strain anel fret Of the world of strangers yet ! Strangers yet 1
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COUBT . —Her Majesty the Queen , accompanied by the younger members of the Royal family , and the Prince anel Princess of Hesse , and attended by a numerous suite , left Osborne , Isle of Wight , afc the close of last week , and . returned to Windsor . On Saturday , Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse took leave of her Majesty , and proceeded from Windsor to
Gravesend , where they embarked on board the Victoria anel Albert , on their return to Germany . In the course of the afternoon , the Duke and Duchess of Coburg , who had come over from Germany on a visit to her Majesty , landed at Dover , and proceeded to Windsor by the Soufch-Wesfcern Railway . Her Majesty , accompanied by the younger members of her family ,
by the Duke and Duchess of Coburg , and a numerous suite , left Windsor Castle at seven o ' clock on Monday night , for Scotland . The route lay over the Great Western to the Bushbury junction , where it was transferred to the Loudon anel North-Western , and so by -way of Carlisle into Scotland . Her Majesty arrived afc her highland residence afc Balmoral about half-past four on Tuesday afternoon . A stay of some time was made afc Perth , where fche Queen , between nine and ten o ' clock n the forenoon , honoured with her presence the unveiling of
the statue erected to the late Prince Consort ; and in token of her appreciation of this mark of respect for the memory of her deceased husband , she conferred on Provost Ross the honour of knighthood . The Prince and Princess of AVales remain in Scotland . A Paris letter asserts with some confidence that their Royal Highnesses are to extend his proposed northern trip from Copenhagen to Stockholm and St .
Petersburgh , and that on their way home they will drop in upon our Imperial neighbour across the Channel . GENERAL HOME NEIVS . —The mortality of London still continues above fche average , principally owing to the summer diseases . The number of deaths reported last week amounted to 1 , 413 , which is 56 above the corrected average . The births
were 1 , 915 , the average number 1844 . Friday , the 26 th ulfc ., was the anniversary of the birthday of fche late Prince Consort , and the day was observed in accordance with a suggestion made by her Majesty , by opening the Royal Horticultural Gardens to the public without charge . The privilege was gladly accepted by a large concourse of persons and especially by the children from the metropolitan schools , who were conveyed to the gardens in vans , and were soon spread over the grounds . The weather
was favourable , and several bands having volunteered their services on the occasion the day proved to be one of thorough enjoyment . Tire first Manchester Athletic Festival was held afc Old Trafford on Saturday . The Committee presented a very good programme , there were competitors from almost all parts of the north of England , and there was a large attendance of The onldrawback out of the
spectators . y arose very unsatisfactory manner in which the ground was kept . ——The Archbishop of York has taken advantage of a visit to Aberdeen to explain the object of his recent speech in Parliament on the Scottish Episcopal Disabilities Bill . He says that while he now considers that the guarantees which the bill imposes
are so stringent that he should not like to have proposed them , he is , considering fche comparative positions of the Church of England aud the Church of Scotland , prepared to justify the course he took in Parliament . That course was adopted with a view not to oppose the bill , but to place ifc before a committee . Mr . Sfcansfeld has lately been presented , with an address
at Aberdovey . It spoke ir . terms of high approval of his course in Parliament , and expressed strong regret that he had felt it his duty to resign office . Mr . Sfcansfeld , in reply , entered at some length into questions connected with the maintenance and management of the Royal Navy , and briefiy sketched the circumstances under which he felt
himself compelled to resign the post he had lieltl . Miles Ellison , the man who was charged a few days ago with inducing fche soldiers of the Royal Engineers to desert her Majesty ' s service , and to go into the Federal army , was again brought before the magistrates at Woolwich on Saturday . The evidence of some more soldiers was taken , but the charge of inciting to actual desertion was not made out . The magistrate in discharging the prisoner remarked on the bad state of
discipline observed in the barracks , which admitted of a civilian passing the night there . Tire prisoner was again taken into custody on another charge . In consequence of a suspicion that all was not right in a house occupied by a Mr . Backinghau ) , at Mile End , the place was entered on Friday night , the 26 th ulfc ., by some of fche neighbours . Mrs . Buckingham and her
sister , Mary Gribbin , were found dead , and Mr . Backingham , who is said to have shown signs of insanity for some time past , was discovered , partly naked , lying on the floor . He greeted those who entered with an idiotic stare , and could give no exp lanation as to the cause of the women ' s deaths . The front parlour , where the bodies were found , was in a very disordered
state , as though a severe struggle hael taken rjlace , anel according to the opinion of a medical man there is reason to believe that the women have been poisoned . An inquest has been opened on the bodies of Mrs . Gribbin anel Mrs . Backingham , bufc nothing transpired to show the cause of death ; and the proceedings were adjourned till an analysis has been made of
the stomachs and intestines . A man named AVilkinson was apprehended on Monday morning on the charge of murdering his wife . It seems the unhappy couple had some friends visiting them on Sunday evening , and on separating one of them kissed Mrs . AVilkinson , which so enraged the husband that he attacked her in the street . He appears afterwards to have
become inflamed with liquor , and again fell upon his wife , striking and kicking her to death . An old man named Butler , a lockkeeper on the river Severn , near Worcester , has been committed for trial for tho murder of his housekeeper , Catherine Gulliver . On the nig ht of the 13 th ult . Butler and fche deceased quarrelled . The next day the deceased was missed by her neighbours , and Butler gave a very confused and unsatisfactory account of her absence . Her body was subsequently discovered in the river , and bore evident marks of violence .