The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-05-01 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

TFIE PLAGUES 07 PANAMA.—The following is
an extract from a letter dated Panama, April 2 :
Panama has been visited by a strange phenomenon In the
shape of a large blue-bottle fly, which stings anti kills every-
body it conies in contact with. it has created quite a small
panic In Panama. Six persons were bitten by this precious
Insect, one of them an American doctor, Three of the six
have died. Two of the remaining three cut out the place
where they were bitten, and the third burnt the place with •
red-hot iron. On killing used examining one of these flies,
the dart of the sting was found to be half an inch long.
This will be a matter for the learned men to think about.
Smallpox reigns unchecked, for the authorities have taken
no steps to stem the tide of this terrible scourge to eiin-
versing with the '' old nigger " who keeps the burying ground,
he very coolly said that he put sixteen smallpox cases into
the ground • day !
THE REPuRTED DISCOVERY OF TIMOTIR's
Li-
inauity.—lt appears that Timour's Library has not,
after all, been discovered in the India House. The
officials themselves were deceived by statements made,
as they believed, in good faith, by a competent Arabic
scholar, who reported that at least twenty of the
volumes bore the seal of the great conqueror, and must
have belonged to his library, a statement which was
in some sense bcrne out by a large offer from a Mahom-
median gentlemen for a few of the manuscripts. The
manuscripts, however, hove now been submitted to the
learned Professor Ameuney, whose report settles the
question. They were part of the library at Beejapoor,
and fell to no on the lapse of the Sattara State. They
consist of 490 volumes, ml which 25 are in Persian, and
the rest in Arabic, 20 being poetry, 70 history, and
most of the rest theology. Several of them are author's
copies of old Mohammedan works, the oldest bearing
date 1133, and one, the " Talwih of Tuftazani," dated
1356, is believed to he the author's manuscript. They
are a valuable addition to the great India Office library,
but of far less interest than was believed. Such is, we
understand, the result of the researches hitherto made.
A SCENE IN A PARIS Law-CUVRT.— OD
February 15, 1067, a lad, aged thirteen, named Au-
villain, a pupil at the seminary of Saint Nicolas du-
Chardonnet, while in the playground during recreation
was unfortunately struck on the head by an angle of
the wooden seat of a awing, and so severely injured that
he died the next day. The parents brought an action
against the schoolmaster, claiming 30,0001. damages.
The Civil Tribunal dismissed the case on the ground
that young Anvillain came in contact with the swing
while he was running after another boy with whom he
was playing, and that the accident was one of a kind
which no reasonable precautions on the part of the
ushers of the school could have prevented- As Boon as
judgment was delivered the mother of the deceased
boy, dressed in deep mourning, flung herself on her
knees on the floor of the court, and besought the
judges who had fathers' hearts to do justice to a dim-
consolate parent. The President kindly told her the
case was over, and that she had now no recourse but
to a court of appeaL And perhaps he could not well
see how the sorrow of a mother for the loss of a child
by whose death she suffered no pecuniary lose could be
a proper subject for compensation by money.
TEA Tairrzas.—An agitation bas been com-
menced by a section of the tea trade against profes-
sional tea tasters. The Produce Markets Review Hays :
" Tea is no longer a fancy article, but a necessary,
and the ridiculous names and distinctions, still kept up
in Mincing Lane as essential to tasting, are quite out
of date, and can only tend to confuse and mislead. It
may be sad that so much science should be thrown
away, but it is, nevertheless, true that the ultimate
appeal must not be so carefully-diatinguished shades of
flavour, only to be judged by a trained palate, but
to the very rough-and-ready test of the tea the public

will buy.
RELIGIONS Or GRANT'S CABlNET.—President
Grant's Cabinet presents remarkable religious diversi-
ties. Attorney-General Hoar and Secretary of the
Treasury Boutwell are Unitarians; Secretary of State
Fish is an Episcopalian (his immediate predecessor,
Mr. Washburn°, ía a le niversalist ); Secretary of the
Interior Cox is a Swedenborgian ; Secretary f the
Navy Boric is a Roman Catholic; Secretary of War
Rawlins is associated with no particular faith, and
Postmaster-General Creswell eschews churches alto-
gether. General Grant's family are Methodists, and,
though not himself a member of that denomination, he
usually attends its ministrations.
WIGS FOR LADlES.—Amongst the eccentricities
of female adornment which will shortly startle the fre-
quenters of the fashionable promenades of Paris (says
a continental paper) is a head-dress destined to eclipse
the false hair monstrosities of the present day, although
we know many ladies who pile maases of other people's
hair on their heads with incomparable effrontery. -The
coming head-dress is a wig—an out and outer—and not
a diluted attempt at hypocrisy like the chignon, to
make the uninitiated believe that the efforts of the
hairdresser are natural. A real perruque, disdaining
all attempts at deception, is about to make its appear-
ance on the brain of woman ; the curls of which falling
on the shoulders are retained by ribbons. On the
summit of this work of art reposes a small three-
cornered hat, similar to that worn by the petits abqs
in the 18th century, and the whole of this marvellous
wig is lightly powdered with poudre a kt marecha'e.
ENCOUNTER WITH A TIGER.—The menageries
in Belgium have been the scene of two or three fright-
ful accidents. A week or two ago a lion tamer was
torn to pieces. Last week the folks of Roubaix wit-
nessed a frightful struggle with a tiger. The tamer
had failed, at first, to command obedience from the
animal but after some difficulty, the tiger went
through some of his exercises. The people then cried
out to the man to be satisfied and come out. But he
was not satisfied, and attempted to go through a
further performance an attempt which ended in the
tiger lying down before the door of the cage. The
tamer struck the animal, and a struggle ensued, the
tiger lacerating the flesh of the man in all directions,
and the latter furiously beating the animal with his
loaded whip. At last the beast succumbed, and the
keeper, braver than wise, came out covered with blood.
CHANGE OF COlFFURE.—According to Galig-
nani, the ball given last week by the Empress Eugenie
was more than usually brilliant Theists was marked
by a complete revolution in the style of coiffure worn
for some time past by the leaders of the beau monde.
In place of the lofty arrangement rising to a great
height above the head, flowers and feathers were ethane
cloned and the hair worn without much ornament.
The Empress, in accordance with the new mode, had
merely two thick plaits wound round the head and held
in place by four diamond pins ; and on the forehead a
circlet of brilliants, in the centre of which beamed
forth the famous "Regent." Her Majesty also wore
the magnificent diamond necklace given her as a mar-
riage-present by the Emperor, the earrings being two
splendid solitaires to match, of extraordinary fire and
beauty. For toilette, the Empress wore a dress of
green satin, with a jupe of silver-gauze trimmed with
roses, the edge having all round a garland of the same
flower. The Princess of Prussia was in white silk em-
broidered with iris and nenuphar, and on the head bad
a diadem of a precious stone, not much known in
France, and known by the name of prid.d. The
Princess Mathilde was in white, and the three
daughters of Prince Charles Bonaparte in rose, white,
and blue.
No TRIBUNAL FOR THE BISHOP legal
opinion was published on Monday morning upon the
question whether the Bishop of IN atal can be brought
to trial for his alleged heretical doctrines. The counsel
appealed to were the Solicitor-General, Sir Roundell
Palmer, and Dr. Deane, and the question submitted to
them was the following Assuming that the present
Bishop of Natal has been guilty of an ecclesiastical
offence, what steps can be taken to bring him to trial,
and before what tribunal ?" After citing various
authorities, counsel arrive at the opinion that no means
at present exist for trying before any tribunal com-
petent to decide the question whether or no Dr. Colenso
has advocated doctrinal opinions not in accordance
with the doctrines held by the Church of England;
and, assuming the present Bishop of Natal to have
been guilty of an ecclesiastical offence, no steps can
be taken to bring him, as such bishop, before any tri-
bunaL "We donut, however " the opinion concludes,
'think that, upon the present materials' it would be
satisfactory or proper focus to enter intothe question
whether, it Dr. Colenso were present within the juris-
diction of an English ecclesiastical court, and were in
this country to commit any offence against the laws
ecclesiaatical, he could, or not, be proceeded against,
under the Church Discipline Act, as a clerk in holy
orders of the Church of England."
PSYCHOLOGICAL—The state of mind that man
is in who risks largely in a lottery, and dots not draw a
prize, may be described as Blank Despair. —Punch.
SAD CASE OF POISONING.—An inquest has been
held at Manchester, on the body of Richard Hilary
Augustin Tipping, a child two years old, who had come
by his death through swallowing some liquid kept in a
ginger-beer bottle for "silvering" brasses. The father
of the child said he had received the liquid from a
hawker, who, however, did not caution him as to its
poisonous property. On Sunday lad, on going into the
parlour, he found the deceased and another of the
children holding the bottle between them, the other
child saying, "You'll be drinking it all—give me some."
Presently the deceased was seized with convulsions,
and died. Mr. Pratt, surgeon said he had examined
the liquid, and found it disguised with camphor. On
further examination he found it composed of corrosive
sublimate, and afterwards he found that the child had
died through the action of that poison. The jury re-
turned a verdict of "Death by accidental poisoning,"
and passed a censure upon the hawker for the reckless
manner in which he had dealt the mixture.
SOMETIIING WRONG.—The Seasons, we are often
told, are changing and interfering with each other, but
now the months also are getting into confusion, "May
Meetings" being openly held in Aptil.—Punch.
MURDER OF A FAMILY.—A short time ago, at
Oakdale Township, near St. Paul, Minnesota, a farmer
named James B. Grey, in a fit of insanity killed his
wife and four children—two boys, aged eighteen and
eight, and two girls, aged five and three years. The
murderer was about forty years old, and has lately been
suffering from deafness, and grew insane over it. The
deed was committed about daylight. The neighbours
heard Mrs. Grey scream, and going to the house, found
the wife and four childen cut to pieces with an axe, and
the murderer endeavouring to hang himself. He was
arrested and lodged in St. Paul gaol, where it required
three or four men to hold him. In answer to inquiries
he would only reply, "I killed them all with an axe.
Oh, hang me !" The wife was murdered first, being
cut in the head and stabbed several times. The chil-
dren were then murdered and placed in a row on the
floor, their throats so badly cut as to nearly sever the
head from the body. The murderer had evidently
chopped their heads with an axe, mutilating them so
as to render recognition almost impossible. The pri-
soner, at intervals of the paroxysms of maniacal fury,
made a statement detailing the particulars of the
murder. He Rays his motive was that he feared he
was coming to poverty and the family would be left
destitute', and so thought it would be better to send
them to heaven at once.
SPIRITUALISTIC PHOTOGRAPnY. For some
weeks past two men, giving their names as Mumler
and Silver, have been in possession of a photographic
gallery in Broadway, New York, where they have
been in the habit of producing pictures of persons ap-
plying to them with the shadowy outlines of a human
face in the background, which they pretended had been

prodiced by spiritual or supernatural means, the faint
portrait being, as they always alleged, the features if
some deceased person then unknown, and who was in
some way onnected or related to the person sitting
before the camera. These photographic curiosities
soon attracted the attention of experts in the photo.
graphic art, and Mr. Hickey, who became so interested
in the matter, ascertained that the phenomena exhibited
by Mulmer and Silver, were the result of merely
natural means, such as are known to nearly every
praedcal phi.tographer. He visited the wonderful
gallery and obtained a dozen of very inferior photo-
graphic likenesses of himself, with the shadowy outline
of another man's face therein, for which he was made
to pay the exorbitant sum of 10 dole. This led to an
application to the Mayor, who referred Mr. Hickey to
Mr. Tooker, his manilla'. An investigation was then
made by the marshal in the matter, and he also obtained
a similar set of pictures. Mr. Hickey sat a second
time and his pictures bore the marshal's face as that
of the supposed apirit, thus at once exposing the cheat.
Both Mumler and Silver, alias Gray, were arrested,
and arraigned before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs,
when they were sent for trial.
DOWN WITH EVERYTHING —The following is
the text of an appeal addressed by the committee of the
International Working Men's Society to the Belgian

millers:—
Friends. Companions, Brothers—For a long time you have
suffered a grinding slavery. Now take yt.ur revenge; kill
and massacre if entire liberty in everything Is not given to
you. Down with the capitalists ! Death to the nobility and
clergy ! The Republic for ever ! Courage ! If your knives
and staves are not sufficient we will give you arms Take
Revenge '—THE KEVoLUTIONARY COMMITTER OF BRUSSELS.
A VELOCIPEDE FKAT.—The New York Times
says a wonderful feat has been accomplidted in the
way of velocipede running, in a Boston hall. Walter
Brown, a celebrated oarsman, propelled himself on
the velocipede a distance of 50rni1es in five hours and 42
minutes. It VMS necessary that Brown should ride
around the school 573 times to measure the required I
distance; and deducting the time lost in stoppages for
refreshments, two or three falls, &c., this extraor-
dinaty run against time was made in four hours and
seventeen minutes.
VERY ROMANTIC !—The Moniteur relates the
following romantic incident in explanation of the
do ible name of M. Erbre-Orban--the Belgian minister
who has been negotiating with the Emperor Napoleon
on the subject of the Belgian railways :
M. Fn)re was about to pass his examination for the bar
when lie met the heiress of one of the most important com-
mercial houses of Brussels, with whom he fell in love. M.
&than rejected his proposal of marriage in a somewhat per-
emptory manner. The young lady, however, was not to be
so easily disposed of "Veil are to pass your examination to-
day; if you succeed, come to our box at the Opera to-night,
and in a month we shall be married." "lint your fattier! •
"Leave him to me." That evening a favourite singer at.
tracted all the bout9eoisie of Brussels to the Opera—the
house was crammed. The door of M. Orban'a box opened •,
N. tepee appeared on the threshold; Mademoiselle rose, and
before the whole house kissed the newly-fledged bat rister.
That day month he married the heiress, and hencefmth took
her nettle and thus became M. FrCre-Orban.
_ . .

THE BALANCE SHEET.—The National Balance
Sheet for the financial year ending the 31st of March,
1569, has been laid before the House of Commons.
The income consisted of .222,424,000 from Customs
duties, £20,462,000 from Excise duties, 2'9,218,000
from stamps, 42,494,000 from taxes (land and assessed),
£8,618,000 from property and Income-tax, £4,660,000
from the Post.office, £360,000 from the Crown lands,
and £3,355,992 from miscellaneous sources ; making the
total income £72,591,992. The expenditure was as
follows :—lnterest of the Debt, £26,618,326; army,
£15,000,000 ; navy, £11,366,515; Abyssinian expedi.
tion (the cause of the year's deficiency) £5,000,099;
civil government (charges on the Consolidated Fund
and votes in Supply), £10,870,305; cost of collection of
revenue : viz., Customs and Inland Revenue,
£2,576,164; Post.otfice. £2,445,138 ; and packet
service, £1,096,338 making a total expenditure of
£74,972,816. This leaves a deficiency of £2,350,524,
which becomes £2.905,524 if we add the £525,000 ex-
pended on fortifications; but this last sum is not pay-
able out of the year's income.
Too FAST.—What is "an Imprcved Driving
Clock?" Is it a companion to a Hunting Watch?—
Fund).
CHEAP MUTTON.—The difficulty to which pro-
prietcrs of stock in Australia have been reduced by
the want of water and grass, consequent on the drought
of the early summer, is strongly shown by the follow-
ing advertisement found in a country paper : —"To be
given away, 1,000 ewes, from four-tooth to aged, with
95 per cent, increase of lambs. The lambs will be sold
cheap—ewes given in; or flour, wheat, oats, potatoes,
m exchange. Apply to," Sze.
ETIQUETTE OF THE FRENCH COURT.—The
dames d'honneur at the French Court receive each a
salary of about £4BO per annum. They are not lodged
in the palace, but apartments are assigned to them in
Paris. The gentlemen of the Court and the demoi-
selles d'honneur, however, have rooms in the Tuileries.
The day's service of the dame d'honneur, or, as we
should say, lady-in-waiting, does not commence until
half-past twelve, when a Court carriage is sent to the
one on duty to convey her to the palace. The Emperor
and Empress breakfast quietly together at eleven a.m.,
and at one the Empress requires the attendance of her
suite. The lady-to-waiting repairs to the drawing.
room, and is present at the audiences given there by
the Empress; a drive follows' and she then returns
home to dress for dinner ; the Court carriage is abso-
lutely at her service and orders for the whole term of
the week's duty. Dinner over, if there are no
theatrical entertainments, childish games are allowed
for the amusement of the Prince Imperial. Tea is in-
troduced at ten. There was very lately a violent dis-
cussion between the dames and the demoiselles
d'honneur as to which of the two had the right of hand-
ing to the Empress her cup of tea. But as the dames
d'honneur urged that they presided over the tea-table
they triumphed, and to them the privilege was con-
ceded. At 11.30 p.m. the Court carriage ones mere
&dive) Ft the lady back to her apartment.. It Is tke
custom while in Paris for two always to be on duty at
the same time.
"THE FORTUNATE INLANDS."—In aiinper read
at a recent meeting of the Society of Arts, Mr. 1-n-
-derdown thus refers to the Canary Islands :

They were and may be still called the Fortunate Islands
Even Spanish administration has not marred them. There
are no poor; crime is very rare. One suicide took place
while I was in the Grand Canary, of a youth, the first for fifty
years. They are a quiet, gentle people--they take no note of
time, having, so to speak, no seasons. Out of twenty wit-
nesses, labourers, not two knew their ages ; men of twenty-
flee said they were forty, men of sixty that they were thirty,
and so on.
THE Berrisr Usiotr.—The annual session a
the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland com-
menced on Monday in John-street Chapel, Bedford-
row, London. The Rev. Dr. Brock, of Bloomsbury,
the chairman of the year, presided. The report, read
by the secretary, the Rev. J. 11. Millard, 8.A., stated
that the Union represented 2,447 churches, containing
231,506 members, and congregations numbering, at
least, 1,000,000. The chairman delivered his inaugural
address, which dwelt with the restlessnesa which at the
present time pervades both the world and the Church,
and condemned, in no measured terms, the tendency
to rationalize the doctrines of Christianity and to
assimilate the Church to the world. On the motion of
the Rev. C'. Williams, seconded by the Rev. Dr.
Landels, a Board was appointed to originate a
Sustentation Fund for the better support of the
ministry.
THE PROPOSED FUTURE KING OF SPAIN.—
There is a report that the Hereditary Prince of Hohen-
zollern him the best chance of the vacant Spanish
throne. His wife, it will be remembered, is the
young, beautiful, and gifted Princess Antoria, sister of
Ring Pedro and of King Luiz of Portugal, and
daughter of Maria du Gloria. The Prince and
Princess spent a winter in Paris some two or three
seasons ago, when they were the guests of the Em-
peror and Empress. The Princess was immensely ad.
mired in society, and her intellectual conversation
much appreciated by those who were admitted to her
circle of friends. The Prince is thirty-four ; his eldest
sister was the beautiful Stephanie, for a few months
the beloved queen of Pedro of Portugal, but carried
off by diphtheria some weeks before her husband.
His second sister is Countess of Flanders, and his
brother Charles Prince of Roumania.
A NOVEL IDEA.—A remarkable discovery has
just been made by amen at Grenoble, by which it is
calculated that cemeteries and graveyards will become
superfluous. At the decease of an individual the body
is plunged into a liquid invented by the man of
Grenoble, and in about five years the individual is
turned into stone. The secret of the petrifaction is
known only to the discoverer. But he goes further.
He says that in a thousand years time, if persons will
only preserve their relatives and friends, they will be
able to build houses with them, and thus live in resi-
dences surrounded by their ancestors.
Lours XIV. AND MILTON.—The following
letter, written by Louis XIV. to Milton, was read on
the sth April at a meeting of the French Academy of
Science, and has a sort of historical interest :
Monsieur Milton—Deign to believe that the letter which
you sent me, wherein were described your tom in Italy, and
especially your interviews with the illustrious Galileo, has
given me the greatest pleasure. Will you accept my grati-
tude, for I assure you that the letter is tomes most valuable
possession. Von tell me also in the same letter that you
kept up till the time of his death a correspondence with the
Illestrious Florentine. Should I be indiscreet it I asked, if
not for the originals, at least for true copies? If you will
allow it, one of nip faithful servants now in England will
undertake the management of this affair. Will you favour
me with your reply on this point? tor, as I have already
communicated to you, I have so great an esteem and con-
aideratiou for Galileo, who was the beacon of the world, that
I desire to possess all that he has ever written. With this,
Monsieur Milton, may God keep you in His Holy and worthy
custody.—Loma. September 2, 1635.
AN EXTRA OPERA KR IGHT.—Sir Michael
Costa.—Panch.
THE STRAWBERRY MARE !—ln. Paris, the other
day, a French gentleman, M. de —, was being
married to a young lady when they were interrupted
17 a stout country girl with a baby in her arms. The
girl presented the child to the young lady, saying,
"You have the father; take also the child." M. de
indignantly denied the accusation. The girl
immediately began to strip the child, and showed a
strawberry mark on its left aide. Then suddenly
seizing M. de --, she tore off some of his clothes and
pointed out a strawberry mark on his skin. Here was
confirmation strong, but the most remarkable part of
this remarkable story is that the young lady insisted
on marrying M. de --.
A MONEYED MAN.—From an account of the
Yeoman of the Guard we learn that one of the officers
is called "The Clerk of the Cheque." Of course he
acts as Paymaster 7—Punch.
BIRTH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—A rather
startling incident occurred a few evenings since, on the
Great Northern Railway. A lady whose husband
possesses a considerable estate in a northern county,
feeling herself in an interesting condition, summoned
to a consultation at the family seat a celebrated London
accouchenr. The doctor made the required visit, but
the pressing appointments to which he WRS bound ren-
dered it imp aisible for him to accede to the husband's
urgent request that he would remain with his wife
through her confinement. Ultin:atelv. in order to havi
the advantage of this gentleman's skill, it was arranged
that the lady should come to London and take up her
residence at the Great Northern Hotel. Accordingly
the parties left home on Sunday last with a local sur-
geon in attendance. All went well until the train
I reached Liitchin, when appearances presented them.

selves which made the medical ma= anxious to remove
his patient from the railway carriage. The exigencies
of idilm ay travelling, however, afforded no time for
mire than a moment's consultation with the guard, and
before any decided step beyond the removal of the hus-
band to the next carnage could be resolved upon, the
train was again in motion towards London. Between
Ilitchin and King's-cross a " little stranger" was born,
and for lack of other swaddling clothes the new comer
was carried to the Great Northern Hotel in a copy of
The Timm newspaper. The mother was placed on a
s retcher and carried across to the same hotel, where
the most efficient attentions were immediately be-
stowed upon her by Madame Schumann, wife of the
manager of the Great Northern Hotel, under whose
care both mother and child are progressing favourably.
CAUGHT NAITING.—The sleepy habits of some
of the Members make it certain that there is one kind
of hat seldom seen in the House—the Wide-awake.
Punch.

LUCKY NUMDERE.—A great prize woo recently
won by a tradesman in a lottery at Bari Out of five
numbers drawn, form on which he had staked his t
money came, and he thereby won 830,000 francs. '
The lottery ticket having been found in order, the
amount was paid to him by the Treasury at Bari on
the day following the Ilrawing, much to the surprise of
the lower orders, which till then firmly believed that
the Government paid winnings of small amount orly.
'The winner attributes his success to the intervention
of San Nicol°, who, he says, appeared to him in a dream
and told him to play those particular numbers !
His FIRST AND LAST SPEECH IN PUBLIC.—At
a banquet given in honour of an Australian magnate,
his health was proposed, but he declined to make a
speech in return. "Gentlemen," raid, "what you
have done is doubtless true, and certainly agreeable;
but I never made but one speech in my life before any
large number of people, and short as it was, the result
was so unfortunate that I made up ivy mind never to
make another." On further inquiry it was frond that
the speech in question was male at the Old Bailey. It
consisted of "Not guilty, my Lord," aruLthe result had
been transportation for life.
COUNTY CORONERS.—A bill has been prepared
and brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Gold-
mu', Mr. T. Chambers, and Mr. Pease, to amend the
law relating to the office of county coroner, and for
other purposes relating thereto. It proposes to deprive
the free-holders of the right of selection in these cases
and to vest the appointment in the Lord Chancellor or
principal Secretary of State. The payment by fees is
to be abolished, and the salary is to be equivalent to
the average receipts from fees during the five years
ended on the 31st December last. If, upon the guts-
tion of remuneration, the Coroners and Justices of the
Peace cannot agree, the matter is to be referred to the
Herne Secretary. The bill also proposes that County
Justices and Municipal Corporationsshallbeempowered
to grant superannuation allowances to Coroners who
have become incapacitated for the performance of
their duties by reason of age or infirmity.
FOLLOW MY LEADER.—The clerks in Mr.
Lowe's department have sent the right hon. gentleman
a memorial, to the effect that they may, for the future,
be paid in advance !--Judy.
A PERILOUS POSITION.—A yoni3g man named
Young was out in a pleasure boat on Monday, which
was carried by the tide right under one of the mooring
chains at the en lof the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The
occupant of the boat, scarcely knowing what he did,
took hold of the chain, and the boot was, of course,
immediately carried from ander hits, leaving him
hanging on by the chain. Fortunately, three or four
of the men employed in constructing the pier saw the
empty boat carried away by the tide, and, heating
a faint cry for help, perceived a man in the water
holding on by the chain. One of the labourers, named
Easton, at once procured a rope, and giving one end of
it to a fellow workman, put the other end in his mouth
and climbed down the chain, a distan^e of sixty feet,
to where Young was banging. With considerable
; difficulty, and at great personal risk, he fastened the
rope round Young's body, and he was pulled up to the
t top, greatly exhausted. Easton VIM much fatigued,
and had to return hand over hand up the chain, which
was inclined at an angle of forty-five degrees.