The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-04-10 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

LRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A young woman in Chicago haa invented a new
branch of female usefulness She advertises that she will
"give lessons in etiquette, Slid the way of conversing with
ladies, to any young gentleman who does not feel at ea,e In
the society of the opposite sex. Tuition to lovers extra" She
makes a specialty of proposals in various forms.
Miss Lisiie Boynton, of erawfordville' Indiana,
having lectured on the subject " After Suffrage, What? " re-
ceived answer the other day in the shape of an old pair of
trousers, a jacket, and a dull razor.

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In a general order just issued from the Horse Guards
attention is called to the necessity of exercising great discre-
tion in rejecting forage, on its issue to the troops, under the
system in force at large cavalry stations of obtaining it in
bulk from contractors and making the distibution through
the commissaries of supply. The forage having been passed
into the stores by military and commissariat officers the loss
will have to be borne by the public in the event of capriciotui
rejection.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is described, by one who
had the best opportunity of judging, as a clever and well-
informed man, with considerable knowledge of European
politics. But his first experience of Anglo-Indian drawing.
rooms Is said to have greatly surprised him. 'The English,"
he remarked, "are a curious people; they can fight, work,
and bear hardships as well as any of us: but when they are
in quartsrs just look is what good order and how clean they
have everything." And he went on to contrast this cleanliness
with the needless dirt he had left behind him at Cabul.

There are 66 vessels now en route to Great Britain
from San Francisco, with cargoes aggregating 1,700,000 sacks
of whest, besides eight vessels for domestic Atlantic ports,
with 146,000 sada of wheat, and 10 vessels for Rio de Janeiro
with 51,000 barrels of flour. The Californian flour and wheat
now afloat for China and other countriea aggregates 2,300,000
sacks of wheat. valued at 4,000,000 dole.

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It is again reported that Mr. John Lothrop Motley,
the distinguished historian, is to be the successor of Mr.
Reverdy Johnson as American Minister in this country.

There is a widow in Nashville, Tennessee, 114 years
who enjoys the pensions of three husbands, all of whom
served in the Revolutionary War. Her name is Dinah Vies.
She has 400 descendants.

"As some comment on the present state of Ireland
—that country for the benefit of which the Government is
spending all its energy and nearly all its time—we may note
the fact that there have been five brutal organised (18113.118i1111-
tions committed within the tact year, and that in no single
case has the murderer or any of Ws accomplices hoes brought
to justice."—Toinnhatrk.

Two men, named Grace and Sturges% have been
killed at Brighton under most painful circumstances. They
were engaged in painting a hon-e, and were at work on a
ladder, which swldenlyhioko asunder, viten the two unfor-
tunate seen fell to the ground from a great height. They
were both dreadfully injured, one dying on the way to the
hospital and the other a few hours afterwards.

The emigration of Prest..n operatives to the United
States in consequence of the strike is perhaps the wisest
movement they could have adopted. The workmen are
merely following the course of the trade. For some years
past America has required less manufactured cotton of us
simply becalm she has manufactured more for herself.
The figures given in Mr. Welles's report show that whereas
in letio there were rather less than live and a quarter millions
of cotton spindles at work, in lots there were seven millions.
The increase seems destined to he permanent, and operatives
who can find no work in England are likely to be in demand
In the United States.

On Saturday four men belonging to Aberileenah:re
left Lossiernoeth in a boat for the salmon fishing off that
coast. The weather was rather stormy, and the sea a little
heavy Nothing more was seen or hem of the boat or men
until the boat was found to have drifted ashore, bottom
upwards, about a mile east from Lossiemouth. No tidings of
the ill-fated men have yet been receive-I.

At the conclusion of one of the trials in the Central
Ct iminal Court, in London, ajury matt, addressing the recorder,
said that he had served upon a jury who had tried Palmer, and
that Lord Campbell then promised that that jury should never
be c Ailed upon again to serve as Jurymen at the Central Crind
nal Court. tie had that day served, but he hoped that
henceforward he might claim exemption The clerk of
arraigns, wild it was thirteen years since Palmer was tried,
and during all that time the gentleman seemed to have been
exempt. It was now very probable that he would not agent
be summoned for another thirteen years, so that virtually he
might now claim total exemption.

It is quite curious to observe the dreadful fatality
which seems to hover over official life in France, remark..
correspondent.! Poor Madame de La Valette is very recently
dead. Now the President of the Corps Legislatif M.
Schneider) has lost, at the age of twenty-two, his daughter-tn-
law and his grandchild. 'I he child was buried on Wednesday.
the mother died on Thursday night. Dr. Ricord was with her
for several days, never leaving her, and was, it is said, com-
pletely exhausted. M. schnaider I. so popular that he
will receive the barren compliment of universal sympathy.
The Daily correspondent in Florence says that
considerable amazement has been caused there by a very
singular leading article, three columns long, in the official
Gazzetta Delia. It seems that cousin obscure Italian
journals are fond of throwing out something more than al-
lusions to the ptivate life of Icing Victor Emmanuel, an
offence for which they frequently incur the penalties of the
law. One of their favourite charges against him is undue
suscepti bitty to female charms. The Geneva rl Italia actu-
ally ho1(14 op this alleged weal.ness of royalty A, ao.ule oi
!el z 11( stet g,.ey. iu.,llllre of popii(a, tones
awl a elanai to popular VlSlNtlittiol/

An interesting marriage Is aum.unced as shortly ti
take place in Paris—that 14 the M.i: gals de chastilleur, Duc
de Rana., who is de.if and ilum'.., stilt Matille. de Vivien,
wild beings to one of the best families of Bourgogne.
An American young lady td Springfield, at a woman
suffrage meeting, remarked, •. Mr. Ester said there wasn't a
woman in the hall who hadn't as much right to be called •
man as he had ; and 1 think so too "

"There is a rumour current—a highly irnpmhable
rumour, we should say—that at the close of the present
session Mr. Disraeli will be raised to the Peerage, Mr. Hardy
taking his place as leader of the Conservative party in the
House of Commona."—Court Journal.

The coroner for West Cumberland held an inque-t
at tt °taloa ton. on Tuesday, touching the death of a man,
name unknown. It appears from the evidence of the dock-
master that the body was found on the dock-all on Monday
morning. In the deceased's pockets were found some money
and • paper bearing the moue " MiQueen." The jury re-
turned a verdict of Found Drowned.

At the Bristol AFfliZ, on Saturday, Henry Jenkins,
a respectably-dressed young shipwright, was found guilty ut
the murder of Fanny Reevei on the 10th of October it.
The deceased hail borne an illegitimate child to the prisoner,
and in the course of a quarrel touching non-pa)ments under
an affiliation order, the convict pushed her into the river, and
from the effects of the immersion she died. Mr. Justice
Byles passed sentence of death.

About twelve o'clock on Friday eveninii• a pit in one
of Lady Caruarvon's collieries, near Mansfield, but which is
now worked by Messrs Eastwood and , of Derby, was
riddenly inundated with water, whereby four men lost their
lives.

A persecution of Christians is taking place in Gotto,
Japan. Some 300 have been arrested and placed in confine-
ment. The consuls have communicated with the governor,
but he pleads ignorance, and says he has no Jurisdiction over
the islands.

Some of the Paris jouniala announce that the Em-
press Eugenie is about to pay a visit to Belgium. The visit
I. believed to have a religions object. Iler Majesty is to be
accompanied, it is said, by the Prince Imperial.

A communication from Berlin atat es that emigration
to America Is likely t, assume extraordinary proportions
this year. During the last three months 4,000 persons bare
passed through that capital on their way to Hamburgh and
Bremen. They come principally from Pomerania and
Kastern !Rossi&

John Martin, a saw-handle maker, who wait charged
with having thrown a bottle full of gunpowder against the
house 1.1 his cousin, • non-unionist workman, at Sheffield, In
%larch last, was toned guilty of the offence at Leeds, and
sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude.

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The Liverpool Workhouse committee bee decided
to entertain a proposal from Miss Rye, to take all their
orphan girls tor her emigration pchenie, each girl being sup.
plied with ,ES by the parochisi authorities.

"A. H. A.—l ehould very much like to have • long
letter from you when you can write. Do not forget me. for
the asks of those happy days spent together. Will there
ever be such days again P l'ou alone can decide this. Be-
lieve me ever yours, It "—Advertisement in The Times.

New Lexington, Ohio, has a postmaster who is said
to be "a druggist and a dentist. lie 10110 keeps a grocery,
dry goods, boot and shoe store ; is a silversmith, jeweller,
painter, cabinet-maker, and, when times get a hale dull,
gets out • patent for some inventlon."
In the year 1867 the number of iron-smelting works
in Prussia was 1,211, employing 57,056 workers. The steel
industry has made enormous progress in the last few years.
The celetirated establblhment of Krupp, in Kasen, has a
worldwide reputation.

The regimental education of the French Army—and
a most superior one it Is—costs, everything included, under
£10,000; the English. so interior, costs over 430,000.

A singular occurrence has taken place at Presburg,
in Hungary. The prior of the Convent of the Brothers of
Mercy, whilst celebra, ing mass, drank a quantity of sul-
phuric acid Instead of water, which the attendant, a member
of the choir, poured into the chalme Instead of water. The
prior fell at once on the steps of the altar, and was buried •
few days after.
The Wed Lancashire colliery proprietors, members
of the Coal Association, have resolved to reduce the wages
of their men ten per cent. The reduction is to take effect in
a fortnight or three weeks hence.

The King of Pravda has presented General Nfoltke
with a superb sword, upon the blade of which is engraved
Fe coneilium proebente, rex victor.
Twenty of Brigham Young's wives have arrived at
Council Bluffs, lowa, to visit friends at that City and Omaha,
and will continue their journey to Washington.

Great preparations are being made a-t
Sebastopol for
the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Odessa
is likely to be disappointed of the visit which their Royal
Highnesses at one time contemplated making to that city.

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A duel was fought near Paris, last Friday, between
a Hanoverian Baron and an English ex officer it originated,
Uit were, in another recent encounter. The principals
were both seconded by Englishmen, and fought with satires.
The Englishman was wounded, but riot grievously ; certainly,
it is added, his antagonist was not, for lie was calmly smok-
ing his cigar in the .• hots" before six o'clock p.m.
"Somebody ham for the hundredth time hit upon a
plan of effecting railway communication bet ween this MlD-
try and France. This time the matter Is to be m.o, itel by a
vast iron pipe. If this is not suggestive of a termination in
smoke, we should like to know e hat is."—Toinehewk.

Captain M'llonald, who was one of the candidates
at the last election for the Queen's County, but tint not go to
the poll, committed suicide on Monday afternoon, at his resi-
dence in Kingstown, by cutting his throat.

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On Saturday a grand race on velocipedes from
Chester to Rock Ferry, the distance being about eighteen
miles, came off. There were twenty-one entries, and the
gentlemen who rode the different bicycles were dressed in
racing colours. However, 0 ly twenty competitors came to
the scratch, and at about three O'clock a fair start was made
from Chester. The first bicycle to come to the winning post
was that of Mr. W. Eatoh, the second that of Mr. Notara,
the third Mr Potter, sad the fourth Mr. Taylor. The prize
was a silver model of a bicycle.

The select committee on the proccdore at parlia-
mentary and municipal elections commenced its sittings on
Tuesday. Tile Mayor of Nottingham, who was examined as
a wiliness, made the somewhat startling statement that his
opinion 'lax that one-third of the Nottingham municipal,
constituency was corrupt, awl that money would carry any
election.

Prince Arthur held a Lev& on Saturday last, by
command, and on behalf, of her Majesty. Ills Royal
Iliglr-
ne's was attended by all the Great Officers of the Household,
and was accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, Prince
Tack, and Prince E lward of Saxe-Weimar. The youthful
Prince, who is not yet twenty years of age, performed his
part in the courtly ceremonial with grace and self.possesslon.
Presentation, to his It.iyal Highness on tide occasion are,
by the Qui en's pleaoire, considered as equivalent to presenta-
tions to her Majesty.

Mr. Toulsom a chemist, of Leeds, has been prose-
cuted by the board of suardians, before the Leeds magis-
trates, for refusing to have his child vaccinated, he beinsr
opposed to the practice. The de'endant per-i,ting iii his
lehpod way third 204. and costs, under the Condmisary Act,
mid the tine was paid by the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination
League.

A writer in the Birtningham Dai7tl Past says that
Mr. Lowe has put on the screw at the Treasury as it has never
been applied before, tn order to get the figures and return.
necessary for the Budget. The accounts are made up to the
lit of April, and former Ctiancellors of the schequer have
thought they used sufficient promptitude in being ready with
their Budget in the third week In April. Mr. Lowe, how-
ever, will make his fltmncial statement within a week from
the termination of the financial year.

The steps to procure economy in the government
offices are being taken one by one The clerks in the civil
service are, by an order Just Issued, required to provide their
own pencils, knives, and other office materials, excepting
stationery. It is said that the recent order about pen mend-
ing and waste paper, which caused some amusement when
it was published, has resulted in a revenue of about £lO,OOO,
paid by contracters who purchase the " waste " material.
Sir James Wilde's peerage has been gazetted. Hint
lordship has chosen the title of Baron Penzance, of Penzance
n the county of Cornwall.
The latest duel in New Orleans was between an
Englishman and a Frenchman, about a rromissory note ; the
weapons were rifles ; the result a pair of torn pantaloons.
An ingenious gentleman in Cincinnati is constructing
a velocipede, which is to be propelled by a spring. After
winding it up he calculates that it will go two miles before it
will again require winding. Query: Can the thing be
stopped before it runs down I—A steam velocipede has been
invented recently, with which great speed is attained. It
has one or two faults, however. The driver is half roasted
by the boiler, and is liable to be blown off at a tangent with-
out a moment's warning.

A bill has been prepared by Mr. Whalley and Mr.
Blake to enable parishes in England and Wales to provide
for the maintenance of turnpike roads within their respec-
tive districts as public highways, and to discharge the debts
due thereon by parochial arkessinent or voluntary commuta-
tion.

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At the Central I riminal Court in London, a man
named Benjamin was prosecuted for having stolen various
sums of money the property of a firm in which he was one of
the partners. The proceedings were taken under an act of
last session, introduced by Ilr. Russell Gurney, the Recorder
of London, who presided at the trial. The prisoner's coun-
sel raised the point whether the act was intended to apply to
commercial partnerships, or simply to friendly societies and
Joint stock companies. The Recorder was of opinion that it
applied to all partnerships. The prisoner was found guilty,
and sentence was postponed.

The commanding officer of the volunteer who threw
his ritle at a hare at the Dover review states in The Times
that the gentleman in question has retired into private life I

A Florence letter, dated the 28th of March, in the
Independanct Beige, mentions a singular rumour which pre-
vailed in the Italian capital on the previous day. It was
said that between eleven aiid twelve o'clock at night the last
ti newel would sound. the earth and the seas be swallowed
up, and all human kind perish. The correspondent of the
I.lrlwmic.re Beige cites of his isvia knowledge the case of
a person who, after passing a troubled night, at length fell
asleep from fatigue, auil was astonished to awake alive in the
morning !
At a meeting held near Newry, the Rev. Mr. Stokes
Is reported to have observed that "it had been oddly pro-
posed that sonw of the Protestant cathedrals should be handed
over to the Roman Catholics; but he believed it was the
feeling of 200,000 Orangemen of Ulster that if a single Pro-
testant cathedral, Protestant church, or Protestant par-
sonage-house in the most remote or distant parts of Con-
naught or Munster was handed over to the apostate Church
of Rome they would know where to find cathedrals that were
just as good as the cathedrals handed over. They knew
where to Mut the Roman Catholic cathedral of Armagh, and
they felt that their 200.000 stout arms would be site to hold
it. They would say to the pastors of every Protestant church
that, before they gave it up to any apostate s}sisen, a barrel
of gunpowder and a box of matches would send it to the
winds of heaven."

The Queen haa consented to depute a member of the
Royal family to lay the foundation stone of a second pair I.f
buildings for the National Cottage Hospital for Diseases of
the Chest at Ventnor. The entire design of the institution
comprises eight pain of houses, capable of accommodating
too consumptive patients, and nearly £4,000 has been already
raised towards advancement of this benevolent object.

A Staffordshire farmer and one of his maid-servants
quarrelled the other day and it vras decided that their differ-
ences were to be settled by a Stafford bench of magistrates.
The good-natured fellow drove his litigious domestic to the
court—a distance of nine miles—and then, having been
worsted by the decision of the juatices, drove her back
again !

The day fixed for the celebration of the Queen's
birthday has, by Her Majesty's command, been changed from
Saturday, May 28.11, to Wednesday, J une 2nd.
The trustees of the Southampton grammar school
have passed a vote of censure on the head master for re-
commending the C.mncil of the Hartley Institution to add
Donaldson's "Book of 'tastier" to their library.

The board of Arbitration of the North of England
Iron Trade met at Darlington on Monday. The standing
committee reported on the prices of the toasters contract as
verified by documents. A long discussion ensued, when, on
the question of increased wages, the votes were equal. Mr
Kettle, the county court Judge at Worcestershire, vs. then
' • ' •bitrator.

seievd"

Sir Edward Cunard, Bart, died suddenly, frcm
heart disease, in New York, on the 6th instant. lie was
fifty.three years of age, and a principal partner in the
hoiise of Messrs. Cunard, Burns, and Maclver, the stennahip
owners. . _ .

" An Important meeting of pickpockets is about to
to take place, loonier to protest avast the introduction of
guinea watches. We can well understand their disappoint-
ment, when they think they have secured a large gold re-
peater, to find that 'Hope told a flattering tale,' and that it
In only aluminium, price 215." Tomahawk.
On the 22nd March a woman named Mabb WIN mur-
dered at Tialihome village, Saratoga county, U.S., by a
mulatto wills whom she had formerly lived as paramour.
The mulatto entered her house and allied her if ahe was
~,,ted I, Mahn, and upon receiving an affirmative answer.
bled Ii vi 141.ite :it her. tune ii who h el:t.•r-d her head All.,
i.eltell., 'l)i gate himself op
5114 sauce ta iahlakois

Saturday, at the Gloucester izo,thades
Wiltshire, a uti oer, tweitty-six 3e ow of age, fait sentouced to
,lath for the murder, on to dist of J:otuary, of liarriA
Nurse, at St ilettrues. It will be re it tem o'red that he ste-
fortunate deceased was booed lying In a Gunn, V hu:e dritak
by the prisoner, who first violated and then mirdered bar.

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A labourer, named Panier, about iifty years a age,
living at Amatze. France, a few days ago, suddenly seized a
hatchet and killed two of his children, a boy of five and a
girl of three. He then turned upon another son about nine,
awl, after a struggle, struck tarn on the temple with the
same weapon, inflicting • mortal wound. A neighbour who
heard the cries of the victims hastened to their assistamat,
but he also was felled to the ground, and died sh•,rtly after.
The gendarmes in the evening arrested Pallier, who, without
any doubt, is Insane.

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An account was given recently of a !Al Wry on the
Lyons Railway of an :went of the company, who pretended
that he had been thrown from a carriage on the line by ionic
strangers wlr le conveying a sum of SO,Ot Of. from Dion to
Besanern. The money had, of comae, disappeared. This
man has now been arrested, a minute investigation having
shown that his story was, a iabticat ion.

Rossiini's master-piece, the Guillaume Tell, has been
definitively excludcd fi..ni the list of operas to be given this
spring in Rome, as the the.itt ical censor has decided that the
entire work is of too revolution my Is character, while the
mutilations required to wake it less Co would spoil the com-
position.

Singapore has a boa confitriothr that has swalldwei
a young 6dy, who wore at the time a 15.000 dollar .ono'
necklace. The young lady to of PO value now, but the neck-
lace is—so &win 30,000 natives are diligently Searching for
the snake.

The following ativertiaetnent appears in a Lon.lott
paper A young lady, who has received a good edne,tdoo.
Can read and write, and Is versed in geography, hisar y,
music, dancing, and elementary mathematics, wishes a situa-
tion in a respectable family as washer and letter."
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The two sons of Count Bismarck, having complete I
their studies at a public grammar school in nerliu tao
entered the Prussian army. The elder becomes an Hussar,
the younger a Thlan. They may, however, adopt diplomacy
hereafter, as the passing from the one service to the othtr
with noblemen of high rank, not rare in Prussia.

A decrease of 25,000,000 dollars in the American &lot
isotheially announced in the monthly statement of the Sec,.
tary of the United States Treasury
The ex-Elector of Neese, Prince William, consider-
ing that the annexation of hi. State to the Prussian Monarchy
does not permit him to retain the Grand t'ordon of the R.
Eagle which the King of Prussia had presented to him lief“,
the event. of 1866, has returned it to Berlin through his
relative Count to Ilesae-Philipstadt.

A Menindie letter, of January 18, published in the
Adelaide Observer, sa)s It Is rumoured that Khan o
14 18,100 sheep of Mr. Valentines have perished from want
of water, on their way to the Darling, from his run back
from Wileannia. Another Janusry rain is required to make
the hack runs worth hurl, g. We hear ot sheep dying in
hundreds in those hank runs, and in a few weeks it is thought
many squatters will be forced to abandon their runs alto-
gether."

The death of the Right Rev. Dr. Ilynes. Bishop of
Demerara, is announced. The venerable prelate expired at
Paris on Tuesday in Mat wei,k, while on his way lii Ireland
from Cannes, where he had been apendine the winter.

According to the North German l'OrrYl.lll,llnt,
Germany Is now the second on the Est of the coal-producing
countries of Europe.

At the Leecle assizea /dm Vrookeet a meld of all-
te,rk, at Sheffield, brought an action against the Manche.9.r.
cml LinColll.lllre Railway company for damages t
compeniate her fur injuries sustained by anellite.9l.ol. that
men the 9th October. The defendants pahriks into court,
but the jury gave her S:2ott.

Mr. Hepworth Dixon has written to the papers to
point out that his delineation of the free-lovers and NI, 41.1,.1/54
in his book, " New America," were never interdict, as wont I
appear from the remarks in the last dehate on tie Irish
Church Bill in the Howe ot Commone, as pictures of ordinary
American religious life. The exceptional character of these
rel Lions maniacs was indeed Insisted upon by Mr. Dixou all
through his work.

The Edinburgh Town have resolved to peti-
tition Parlisment In favour 4,f the Permissive Bill.

The following advertisement shown how some poor
girls of the period have to rovigh it Governess in a farm-
house, to instruA sir children in thorough English, French,
vocal singing. plain and fancy needlework, with entire
charge of children and their wardrobe. slug be amiable
and polite. Salary .1.;1.

A teleuram from talcutta reports the wrotic of tho
British ship Indian Empire, homeward bound to England,
on the 3rd Mot., in the river iloohly. hhe was an iron
ship, 1,515 tons.

During the pet week 53 wrecks have been reported,
maklog for the present year a total of 810.

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"Only 5,006 seeker after office" are now in Wash-
ington, according to a correspondent.

According to the Phare de la Loire, orders have het it
received at Cherbourg to arm all the French ironclad, beton,
the lst of May, and the work is to be carried on night and
day.—[ What for? I

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The amount atemsseil for income-tax in 18643-7 in the
city f London was 23,601,000, as compared with W 24,653,00
in 1005-6. In the other metropolitan districts there was an
increase.

A general order has been homed which authorisea
officers. non.cominniioned officers, at soldiers w.. 0 have
received medals from the Royal Humane Society for acts of
bravery In saving life, to wear them on all occasions when in
Uniform.

TheThongredation of the Index, at Rome, ha. con-
demned Count Mimiami's works on National Law ".11,1 the
" Theory of Religion and of the State," the recent " Letter
of M. Foulke3 to Archbishop Manning," and the journal
Emancipatore Cattolico.

"Should this meet the eye of John Malloch, son of the
late Alexander Malloeh, tailor, Dunblane, N. 8., who was
last heard of in Glasgow, in 1654, he is requested to COMMO-
nicate with Mes•rs. littriing and McLean, solicitorA,
Dunbione."--A•tvertisentent in The Times.

Cod-fish skin, hetetofore considered quite worth-
ten, and given sway to guy one who would take it away, is
now, after having K en grOilivl fine, to be used st. a feriiliser.
This new kind of gltare is said to he fine from the disagree-
able odour of the ordinary nth manure.

Mr. Martini, son-in-law of Mr. Janon White,
M.P., was staying at an hotel in London, last week. the
Friday evening he went to bed artairently id good health,
and on Saturday morning, when the chambermaid went to
call him, lie was found dead. Death is suposed to have
resulte I from heart dasease. Mr. Mazzini.hail made arrange-
ments to leave London on Saturday for Helene°, ta "retc:a
home Ida wife and family.

The son of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt is in
Luii,loii, aud on Sat urd ay night. 551111 a u umerous suite, visited
the Royal Amphitheatre, Holborn.
There is good news for newspaper editors and pro-
prietors. The security system Is likely ere long to he done
assay with. It is the intention of Mr. Ayrtou to bring in a
sweeping measure for the abolition of this system, which
secures nothing except annoyance tl the press. • •

ltr. Manning be consented to become chairman of
the committee formed to collect subscriptions for the pur-
l:see of defray leg the costs of the late trial, Saurin V. Starr.
In a letter to the present superior of the Hull convent
announcing his willingness to act, Dr. Manning says Do
not be cast down at this trial. It Si 11l turn not to the
hindrance, but to the furtherance of the faith, and to this
vindication of our convents from the false accusers who, in
your case, have been signally disappointed."

The reports of a special mann ottee on breech-loading
rifles, Ac., have been issued, 'After a careful comparison of
the merits of the Ego systems, the committee have decided
r,connidieling the Martini s) stem of breech ine:hanism
Inpreference to the Snider system.
An application has been made in the Court of Arches
on behalf of the Bishop of Lincoln, to fin Sunday, the I nth of
April, as the date from which the sentence of suspeneion for
five years passed on the Rev. J. U. Edwards, rector of
Ingoldmells, for immoral conduct, is to data. The Dean
Arches granted the application, and said the bishop would
appoint a seguestrator ; with that he had nothing to do. On
Semday, the 18th, the notice of suspension will be placed on
the doors of the parish church of Ingoldnaells, and the Dean
of Arches said that at the end of the period of suspension,
Mr. Edwards would have to bring a certificate of pent
behaviour during the last three years of that time, signed by
three beneficed clergymen.

The Viceroy of Egypt has just narrowly escaped
from the hands of the assassin. His Highness was expected
to witness the performances at the Theatre at Cairo, and
underneath the Viceregal Issx an explosive machine with a
powder train leading to the door was tail, which was to
have been tired when the Viceroy had taken his seat Having
however, received some intimation of the plot, his II igitnees
stayed away. Several persons have been arrested on
suspicion, but as yet the perpetrators are unknown.

. • - -
Mr. Andrew Johnson, the ex-President of the
United States, reached his home at Greenville, Tennessee; on
the 20th ult., and met with a warm reception from.his neigh-
bours. In reply to some addresses that were presented to
him, he said his administration had been stormy; because he
had been battling for a violated constitution congress he
described as a body of usurpers. While passing through
Charlottesville on his way home, Mr. Johnson addressed the
students ,d the University, and recommended them to study
Addison's Cate, for, he nail, although it was • dry play, there
wan a stem virtue and patriotism pervading it, which every
student and patriot should ponder over.