The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A body of pilgrims, consieting of 58 Spaniards, lay-
men and ecclesiastics, a scientific cmnmission being also con-
nected with the pilgrimage, arrived at Rome on Monday
from Barcelona, bound for the Holy Laud.
On Monday last, wb,le one of the steam tramcars
was passing along the Boulevard Montparnasse, at parts,
the engine suddenly sank in the catacombs, which, at this
point, completely undermine the city. The car, fortu-
nately, did not follow the engine, and nobody was injured.
The Parisians are about to start a tennis court in
the Tuileries Gardens, under the auspices of a club of young
men, who intend to revive this game, which was so popular
in rrance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
when a fashionable young noble would have been looked
down upon unless he were an accomplished tennis-player.
The Prince of Wales has written a letter to the Man.
ston Rouse Committee expressing his williugneas to become
an honorary patron of the Itowland Hill htemOrtal Fund,

The Queen and Princess Beatrioe, attended by
General Sir H. Ponsonby, Lord Sackville, and 'mite arrived
at 'Windsor at ten minutes to nine o'clock on Wednesday
morning from Scotland.

At a fire in the stables belonging to the Horse Car
Line in New York, on Tuesday, over 100 horses were burned
to death, and several firemen were hurt.
Lord Henry Scott and Mr. Beach spoke on Mon-
day at the Botley Farmers' Club. Lord H. Scott defended
the laws of primogeniture and entail. We could, he said,
grow a better quantity and quality per acre than foreign
competitors, and he deprecated hurried demand for legisla-
tion until the report of the Royal Commission on the sub-
ject. Mr. Beach said the agricultural interest of England
was not merely depressed, but in a state of transition, and
if all was true that was put forward, the outlook for arable
farming was poor indeed.

The Hartley Council of Southampton (by a ma-
jority of nine to four) have resolved to throw open their
institution free during limited hours on Sundays.

A school of coral cutting has been opened at Torre
del Greco in an old monastery. Nearly all the coral fishers
belong to Naples and Torre del Greco.

At the Centzal Railway Station Liverpool, the
other day, a cabdriver had placed a bag of corn between the
rails and the wall of the station, and was attempting to
remove it when a train came up, knocked him down, and
decapitated him in the presence of a large number of people.
After a great deal of consideration the authorities
have decided that the new soldier's boot shall be a short
Wellington, with leggings separate.
The gold diggings at Pas Trop Tot, in French
Guiana, situated between the rivers Mena and littroni, pro-
duced in the six months ended August 31 over 300 lb. of pure
gold, or an average of 501 b. per month.

A Renter's telegram from New York, dated No-
vember 24, says :—" The steamer Circassia has towed into
Halifax the steamer City of Richmond, which broke her
shaft three days ago. All on board are well, but Mr. Egnot,
the second officer of the City of Richmond, was lost.

It is proposed to raise a monument in Eton College
Chapel to the memory of the officers educated at Eton who
have fallen in the Afghan and South African campaign,.
Mrs. Charles Dickens, the widow of the novelist,
died early on Saturday morning, at her residence, 70, Glou,
cester-crescent, Regent's-park, London. Mrs. Dickens was
in her 65th year.

A correspondent of the Paris Figaro gives an
amusing account of a paper-chase got up by the young folks
at Mello, whither the Prince de Joinville has taken his
kennel previous to removing to Arc-en-Barrois. The youth-
ful players were the visitors of the Princense de Sagan, at the
head of whom was M. Benson de Perigord, son of the Prince
de Sagan. This truly English and exhilarating game was
enjoyed by the French boys and girls, who fully entered into
the spirit of the fun.

The Tribunal of Brunswick has decided that the
will of the late Duke, who left all his fortune to the town of
Geneva' was null and void, because in 1833 he was legally
deprived of his right to dispose of his fortune. The town
of Geneva has already spent 6,000,000 f of his fortune on a
commemorative monument to the Duke, and perhaps as
much on a magnificent opera-house.

Mr, James Dallas, farmer and cattle dealer, of
Glenrinnes, near Elgin, while attempting to cross the Terri°
with a companion, on Saturday night, was carried off his feet
by the buro, which was much swollen, and was drowned.

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The Dean of Lichfield, preaching on Sunday after.
noon in aid of the Incorporated National Society for the
Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established
Church, said that lad year the accommodation provided in
elementary day schools of every kind was Z 94000, out of
which the Church of England alone provided 2,252,000.
At a meeting of cotton operatives held at Wald,
prestded over by a member of the National Assembly (says
the Geneva correspondent of The Times), it was resolved, in
view of the recent action of other countries and the ever-
increasing competition of English manufacturers who flood
Switzerland with cheap goods to make a strong appeal to
the Legislature to increase ale import duties on foreign
fabrics, so as to save the Swiss cotton industry from ruin.
Some idea of the progress of invention in the
United States may be gathered from the figures of the last
official report. Five thousand applications per annum is
about the average for the British Patent Office, but 20,000 is
about the number annually received in Washington.
The villages of Stainborough and Dodworth were
greatly excited on Saturday by the presence of a mad dog,
which, after biting several persons and some cats and dogs,
was destroyed. The persons bitten were attended to, and
it is hoped that all the cats and dogs bitten have been
killed.

Lord Napier of Magdala, accompanied by his per-
sonal staff, left Gibraltar on Monday morning on board her
Majesty's gunboat Express, for Malaga, whence he will pro-
ceed to Madrid in order to represent her Majesty Queen
Victoria at the marriage of King Alfonso.

At the annual meeting of the Council of the Hospital
Sunday Fund, which was held in London, on Monday, at the
Mansion House, it was reported that the fund had realized
more this year than last, and on the recommendation of the
Committee of Distribution it was resolved to divide the sum
of nearly 03,000 amongst eighty-one hospitals; whilst
£2,000 were set aside for forty-six dispensaries, and a small
sum for the purchase of surgical appliances.

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The ex-Empres% Eng(inie when in Paris (according
to Galignani), did not forget one of her most faithful friends
in adversity, II dme. Lebreton, who is now in the convent of
Auguatine Sisters, where she has just undergone an opera.
tion for cataract. Her Majesty went alone at nightfall to
the Rue Oudinot to pay her a visit, but returned almost im-
mediately to the residence of the Duke de Mouchy.

It is paid that the Marquis of Salisbury, at the
request of the Trades Unions Congress Parliamentary Com-
mitteee, has instructed the English Minister at Washington
to obtain for English Trades Unions some more copies of the
reports of the United States Consuls in Earope on the wages
and 03s1 of living of the working classes on that co stinent.
A work of the same kind, got up by our own Consuls, would
be of great service, both to English w)rkmen and employers.
It might be included in the usual commercial reports of the
ConsiLls.—Echo.

A conference, under the auspices of the Liberation
Society, will be held next month in London for the purpose
of considering the relations of the Liberal leaders to the
disestablishment question, more particularly as regards
Scotland. The presence of a number of members of Parlia-
ment is anticipated, and leading ministers of all Dissenting
bodies from various parts of the country will take part in
the conference.

The San Francisco Courier states that there are at
present 60,000 acres of laud in California occupied with the
growth of vines, and there is every reason to suppose that
that quantity will in twenty years be doubled. The actual
value of the Californian vineyards La estimated at 30,C00,000
dollars, and this amount is expected yearly to be in-
creased.

The Cronstadt Correspondent of the Globe says that
great consternation has been excited among officers of the
Baltic fleet by the receipt of apparently well-founded re-
ports from the St. Petersburg Admiralty of the intention of
the Government, after the new year, to Introduce the re-
serve scheme of Admiral Tchekatcheff, which will have the
effect of placing several hundred officers on half-pay. The
very large saving effected by the adoption of this scheme is
to be applied towards the construction of several fresh men-
of-war for the Rustian navy.
The Berlin correspondent of The Times says :—" An
English tiger tamer named Rice died here this morning
(Nov. 21s1) of wounds received from a fierce female specimen
of the animals with which he has ventured for some time
back to perform in public. A bite he received in the arm
la3t Saturday, it seemed, caused blood poisoning, and though
attended by Professor Virchow and other eminent authori-
ties, he succumbed to-day to a fate which the scars all over
his body previously inflicted by tenants of his menagerie
might have taught him to escare. Rice is a native of
London, and had reached the age of thirty-eight."
The Bristol Times says that the Great- Western
Railway are seeking powers to build hotels at every station
on their line, and that probably a ticket office will be placed
In each hotel.
Under date Balmoral, November 22, the "Court
Circular" gives the following :—" The funeral of John
Grant, formerly the Queen's head keeper, was solemnised
yesterday. The gentlemen-in-waiting, the servants, keepers,
a large number of the tenantry, and come of the neighbour-
ing gentry and clergy assembled at Rebreck, where a short
service was read by the Rev. A. Campbell. The Queen and
Princess Beatrice visited the widow during the last few
days. The Royal party were present at Rebreck during the
ceremony."

In reply to a letter from Mr. George Mitchell, Lord
Derby has written as follows, under date November 22 :
"It is impossible to discuss the question of small as against
large farms in few words or witnin the limits of a reply
such as I have leisure for. The circumstauces of different
counties vary, and every landowner must judge for himself
which system seems likely to pay boat."

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Admiral Lord George Paulet, C. 13., died last Satur-
day at his house at Marlborough-hill, in his 76th year.
Lord George was a son of the late Marquis of Winchester,
and entered the navy in 1,A7. He served off the Portuguese
coast during the civil war in 1832 3, and he was subsequently
appointed to administer the government of the Sandwich
Islands. When hostilities broke out between England and
Russia Lord George hoisted his flag in the Bellerophon and
took part in the attack on Sebastopol. On the restoration
of peace he was appointed an aide- de•camp to the Queen.
" A correspondent gives an interesting item relating
to the Times, which will afford an idea of the scale on which
business is carried on in Printing House-square. The over-
matter—that is, the news and other newspaper material set
up but distributed without being used, from pressure on
space—represents an annual expenditure of from fourteen
to sixteen thousand pounds."—Court Journal.

Mrs. Webb, of tedbury, reached her 101st birth-
day on Tuesday. She is still in good health, and can read
and converse upon the general topics of the day. Mrs.
Webb is widow of Mr. Thomas Webb, banker, and deputy-
lieutenant for the counties of Hereford and Worcester, and
the only surviving sister of the late Sir Joseph Thackwell,
one of the Waterloo heroes, who died in 1859.

The qnestion of the abolition of slavery in Cuba is
likely to lead to a Ministerial crisis, and probably a dissolu-
Mon of the Cones. Marshal Campos has informed the King
that it will be impossible with the present Chambers to
carry the Bill for the immediate abolition of slavery. For
the present the King is consulting other statesmen, and
hopes are entertained that a crisis will be avoided ; but very
probably after the Royal marriage there will be a dissolu-
tion.

The death is announced of Lieutenant Ko.,lemans
Bsynen, of the Dutch Navy, who accompanied Ste Allen
Young in the Pandora in his cwo Arctic voyages. Lieutenant
Beyneu acted in the Pandora's first voyage as fourth lieu-
tenant, and was appointed by the Netherlands Government
to accompany th's ship in her last voyage to instruct himself
in Arctic navigation. No went as second its command in the
first vo) age of the William Barents to the Polar Sea, and
returned in October, 1878, but could not join the second
expedition of tilt year, having received a commission to go
the Dutch possessions in the East, where he has met with
his death by an accident.

A Vien-ua journalist, Herr Wilhelm Luger, gives
an account In the Neues Wiener Tagblatt of a conversation
which he says he recently had run Bing Alphonso at
Madrid. After a discussion on politics, which lasted some
time, he was much moved when the conversation turned on
the late !leen Mercedes. "With the Q teen," he says, "1
buried est. I was deeply attached to her almost from
childhood. I thought of her at my examinations in the
rnie y P
Thereriauum at Vienna, in the military school in England,
in my study, and in the battle-field. I married her against
the wish of my family and my Prime Mloister Caflovas, and
after our marriage we were always together till she died.
And now that lam betrothed to the Archduchess Christine
I feel at it I were waking to a new life, and believe that I
may again be happy.
There were 2,374 births and 1,760 deaths registered
in london last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births were 82 below, whereas the deaths exceeded by 27,
the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last
ten years. Toe annual death-rate from all causes rose to
254, and exceeded the rate prevailing in any week since the
end of April last. The deaths included one from small-pox,
57 from measles, 106 from scarlet fever, 20 from diphtheria,
41 from whooping-cough, and 83 from different forms of
lever.

The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the
Sea Fisheries of England and W ales have presented their
report. They et :ts there is no evidence that the supply of
fish generally is decreasing, and that in those cases in which
the supply is decreasing there is no evidence that the de-
crease is due to wasteful fishirg or over fishing. Consider-
able injury, however, is done by trawlers, both to drift
fishermen and to hook and line fishermen, and it has in-
creased since the introduction of steam trawling, but it is
usually accidental. The Commissioners make a large num-
ber of recommendations on the subject.

" According to German newspapers the Krupp,
Horde, Bochum, and other steel works cif Germany are
understood to have sold to America one million centner
jabout 45 million tons) of steel blocks, in consequence of a
reduction of import duty lately made by the United States.
It seems that the native woiks in America not being equal
to the enortnously increased demand for steel, the Govern-
ment, acting on a decision in the Treasury Department, re-
duced the duty to 45 per cent., which had previously been
cent, per ant. ad talortm on these blocks. Accordingly the
American demand increased largely, not only in English
markets, but also—which is at least a sign of the far greater
contracts with England—in the steel mann&acturing districts
of Getinany."—From "Trade and Flnantfe," in Pall Nall
lifffrfteo.l

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R.w that sufficient time has elapsed to asrs. Alio
the real results of the French cereal harvest, it dorenoli
appear to have been worse than that of 1878.
The polling of Camberwell (London), to determine'
whether there should be free libraries in the parish took.: '
place on Monday, and resulted in a majority of 627 agate"
the proposal. The minority numbered 679.
The directors of the North British Railway Coin
pally have given notice that they intend to reduce the
salaries of all clerks in their employ by 20 per cent.
Northern Italy has had a taste of winter. Nib° '
has been cut off from telegraphic communication, and ht
tween Milan and Como, on the 20th, the train had to ifssw
at every station for the line to be cleared of snow.
Of the Essex county subscription for the presentation
of a sword of honour to Brigadier-General Sir Evelyn Wood
about £l2O still remains in hand. The committee have
therefore resolved to present Sir Evelyn with a piece of plate,
which the gallant officer will be asked to select for himself.
Great Britain is not the only country that has gra"
lered from a depression in trade, for even In 3WitZerlaod
the distress is so great that the Council of Rayne has re- •
quested the Government to prepare a scheme for the execu- •
Lion of public works in order Co find employment for tiMr
willingly idle labourers.
Another great fire occurred at Algier", on FridaY .
evening in last week, and the Theatre La Perle, together ,
with several adjoining houses, was burnt down. Other fires .
broke out at various points, but were speedily extinguished.
Four persons were killed and ten injured by a fire on Thurly .
day.
A Louisville reporter spsaks of his town as "the
pure city before which the Ohio River crouches and plays
its music through the falls, and hurries on."
A London poultry salesman writea to state that 0
consignment of turkeys, geese, ducks, fowls, wild fowl, and
young partridges has just been received in the metropoliir
from Austria-Hungary, together with a "beautiful rung'
bustard," a bird said now to be extinct in England. He le
f
also informed that 2000, partridges were shot by a per.• Y - o
seven guns in three days in Hungary.
The receipts on account of revenul from the let
April, 1879, when there was a balance of £6,915,756 to Nov.
22, 1879, were £16,466,754, against £16,996,495 in the corre-
sponding period of the preceding financial year, whicla
began with a balance of £6,443,389 The net expenditure
was £52,805,849, against £53,260,531 to the same date in the
previous year. The Treasury balances on Nov. 22 amounted
to £1,233,468, and at the same date In 1878 to £1,935,877.
On the occasion of King .Alfonso's marriage, Leo
XIII. is sending as a wedding present two pictures of the
finest mosaic made in the studio of the Vatican, one repre-
sentlng the Piazza of St. Peter's the other an elegant
vase of flowers, to be presented to 'the Royal couple in hit
name.

The Dominion Line steamer Borussia left the
Mersey on Thursday In last week, with 61 farmers and their
families for Texas. These emigrants have all a little capitals
and were mostly from the counties of Lancashire, York-
shire, and Durham, a few being from Scotland and Ireland.
From statistics just published it appears that there
are about seventy•five thousand houses in Paris, exclusive
of public buildings. Their total value is estimated at twenty-
three millions sterling. The superflces of the capital Is pop
dowu at twenty thousand acres. There are six hundred
thousand yards of sewers. The population numbers one
million nine hundred and ninety thousand, or about one
hundred inhabitants per :tore.
M.. Gladstone is so overwhelmed with corre-
spondence in connection with the critical state of polittcs
and with his candidature for Midlothian, that he has been
compelled to state, through the Scotch papers, his inabilitY
even to acknowledge the letters of his numerous corre-
spondents.
The food imports at Liverpool last week from the
United States were remarkable for the smallness of the live.
stock supply, which amounted only to 200 cattle, not A
single head of sheep or pigs having arrived. Fresh meat
arrivals, on the other hand, were much in excess of the
previous week, when, however, the quantity was much
below the weekly average. Five steamers arrived last
week, having on board collectively 4,804 quarters of beef,
568 carcases of mutton, and 50 pigs. All of these vereehi
were from the United States.

A powerful contingent of reporters will accompanr
Mr. Gladstone during his progress in Midlothian. Bosidee
the representatives of the Scotch Press and of the,-London
news agencies, the leading newspapers in Liverpool, Man
-
cheater, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, and Newcastle on-I/De
will send reporters.
It is stated that the occasion of the occupation of
Cabul will be marked by the distribution of a number of
honours among those native Princes of India who have
given evidence of loyalty to the British cause during tbe
present and late campaigns in Afghanistan.
Rudolf Falk, the explorer, has written from San
Francisco to German friends to inform them that a monu-
ment in Bolivia much more ancient than the time of the
Incas has given him a clue to the origin and development
of speech and writing.
The ship Star of India, from New York with 10,000
barrels of oil, for London, put into Halifax on November 9
in distress. The vessel encountered a cyclone on the 29113
of October and was thrown on her beam-ends. In this posi-
tion she remained for 36 hours. Part of the cargo was
thrown overboard to right the vessel, which had Bfl,. of water
In the hold.

An arrangement has been concluded between Eng'
land and France which provides that any distressed mariner
of either country landing In a colony of the other oountrY
or in the territories of a third Power shall be supplied with
board, lodging, clothing, and travelling expenses flail he
finds fresh employment or is able to leave. The arrange'
ment comes into operation on the Ist of January, and ill
terminable at twelve months' notice.

In London, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Stephen
Bourne read a paper at the Royal Colonial Institute on ex-
tended colonization in its relation to the prosperity of the
people. Mr. W. E. Forster, M P., who presided, alluded to
the hostile tariff adopted by the Canadians as tending to
weaken the ties between the two nations, at the same time
expressing his confidence in the maintenance of amicable
relations and his conviction that extended emigration
would be beneficial to both countries.

The shipments of wheat from America to Europe
daring the past week were again moderate, amounting to
283,500 quarters, of which 213 500 quarters were for the
United Kingdom; and of maize to 120.500 quarters, of which
80,500 quarters were for the United Kingdom. There were
also shipped to the latter destination 115,000 barrels flour.
The visible supply of wheat in the United States c,ontinues
to increase, and Is now 29,750,000 bushels, while of maize it
Is 11,250,000 bushels.
Mr. Mark Napier, Sheriff of Dumfriesshire and
Galloway, has just died at the age of eighty-two. He was
the author of many historical works, and was perhaps best
known in connection with the "Memorials and Letters of
the Time of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount
Dundee.'

A telegram from Berne (Switzerland) says :—There
has been a severe snowstorm in the canton of Ticino
causing an interruption in the postal, telegraph, and steam-
boat services, and destroying thousands of vines and tree
A new fashion has appeared, It consists simply 0!
studs, sleeve-buttons and scarf-pin in red and green gold
combined with platinum. They also wear scarf-pins in the
form of all the famous old swords, Joyeusse, Julians, Toledoll,
Yatagans, &c. The ladles are wearing brooches formed of their
initials in diamonds traversed by an arrow. Brooches have
also been made for the year 1880, in which the figures are made
in diamonds instead of the initials. This brooch will probablY
become a favourite for New Year's gifts. Arrows are much
worn in all kinds of Jewellery, for brooches, earrings, hats,
Court Journal.

Mr. Henry Crawshay, tbe well-known ironmiu3ter
of the Forest of Dean, and the only surviving brother of Mt.
Robert Crawshay, Cy farthfa' South Wales, died on Monde'',
at his family residence, Oatlands-park, near Ne wnham•on-
Severn. The deceased gentleman had only been dangerousli
ill for a few day; but had for many years suffered from
diabetes. The immediate cause of death was congestion of
the lungs and heart disease. He had just attained his 67111
year.
The total number of alpine plants (species) is estl..
mated at 693, of which 589 occur in the Eastern, 631 in the
Western, and 395 in the Central Alps. Only 128 species are
peculiar to the Eastern, 86 to the Western, 75 to the Eastern
and Western excluding the Central, while not more than
six species occur in the Central Alps exclusively.

A serious ace :dent occurred at Seaham Harbour
Chemical Works on Tuesday, which resulted fatally to John
Osborne, a bricklayer, and seriously injured two other
It appears they were occupied in taking out the padding of
bricks in a nitric acid condenser, when the bricks curie awal
with a rush, forcing out the outer wall, and thereby burning
the deceased Two hours and a half elapsed before he Was
extricated. Death appears to have been instantaneous.

At a large meeting of ironmastera of Lmarkahire
and Ayrshire, held at Glasgow on Monday, it was resolved
to take off the last advance of Cl. in the men's wages.
Mr. Little, the aseistant-commiesioner appointed to
Inquire into the existing agricultural depression in the
southern counties, visited Canterbury on baturday, and had
interviews wills several of the leading agriculturists of E9so
Kent, from whom he learnt a variety of opinions as to the
causes which led to the present depression, and as to the
means which should be adopted with a view to remedy the
existing state of things. A strong and general feeling Waso
it is stated, expressed in favonr of some amendment of the
land laws.

The towers of Cologne Cathedral are now the
highest buildings in the world, and when completed wilt
measure 524 feet 11 inches from the pavement of the
cathedral cloisters or 515 feet from the floor of the church.
These towers are thus 51 feet higher than that of SG.
Nicholas, Hamburg, which has hitherto had the Pre:
eminence, and 55 feet above the dome of Si. Peter's a.
Rome.

In replying to a deputation of temperance advocates
which waited upon him at Bournemouth, Sir H. D. Nvolif.
M.P , said that he, with others, had been drafting a Btu
providing for the alternate clotdng of hail the publichouses
In towns on Sunday, and that it would be brought before
Parliament in due course. He declined to Wedge himself to
support the, local option resolution of Air Wilfrid Lawson.

Mr. T. B. Potter. M.P., was entertained at a ban-
quet by the New York Free Trade Club on the 12th lust
and, in respondiug to the toast of his health, thanked his
hearers for the assurance of friendship they had given Wail
and for the compliment they bad paid to the late RichaL"
Cobden. He only wished they had Mr. John Bright IN,.
speak to them to answer adequately to the sentiments tbav
had been uttered.

Tuesday was the seventy-third anniversary
f the
birth of the Duke of Buocleuch and Queensbury, K G
visa born at Dalkeith House, near Edinburgh, on Nov. 2.
1806, His Grace is the eldest surviving son of Chit'les
William, the fourth Duke, by his marriage with the Wu;
Harriet Katherine, youngest daughter of Thomas, Br':
Viscount Sydney. He sits in the House of Lords as E' of
Doncaster, created in 1662, the Scotch dukedom of Bucclench
dating from the following year 1663, and that of QueensherrY
from 168 t. lie is Lord-Lteutenant of Midlothian and
burghshire, and High Steward of Westminster.
'['he qiiestion of restricting the coal output in Yurk:
shire and Derbyshire was before a representative miners
meeting st Barnsley, on Monday. There is a divided
opinion at to its adoption, and the question of a slidiag-
scale for the regulation of wages, now before the districts,
and the executive having reported an interview which has
taken place with the owners of the colleries on the adoption
of a scale, it was resolved that no action as to restriction
should be taken for a fortnight, when the question will be
again discussed.
There were 45 British and foreign wrecks reported
during the past week, making total of 1,452 for the present
year, or an increase of 53 as compared with the corresp
pericd of last year The approximate value of property 100
was £520,003, including British £490,000.
A decided improvement in the shipping trade of
L'verpool is shown in the receipts of the Mersey Docks and
Harbour Board, and Monday's Live, terlMarcury notes ills',
that the ships now entering and leaving the port are ouch
more folly laden than they were last year. tnereby giving
greater profits to those most directly interested in the 8111P-
ping interests.
A telegram to The Tines from Adelaide, under &it?
Nov. 24, says :—" The wheat reaping has commenced, an"
the reports show that till shas been a magnificent season.
The land under cultivation is 1,600,000 acres, and the
average is expected to be twelve bushels of wheat
per acre,
&crop which would leave 375,000 tons available for exporta:
tion, the value of which is estimated at between £3,500,C00
and £4,000,000 Heavy rains have fallen in the °titling
pastoral county, and the dams are full."
Mr. Serjeant Edward William Cox, the welt'
known Deputy Asststant Judge of the Middlesex Sessions,
died suddenly on Monday night, at his residence, Mon!
Mount, Highwoud Hid, Elendoa. lie had attended a Penni
Reading at Mill-hill, at which he had read a paper, and on
returning home went into his library. A little time at
_ter"
wards one of his daughters found him dead in his chair'
On Saturday he had spent part of the day shooting, and 00,
Monday he took his seat as usual in the second court.
at the Middlesex Sessions. Mr. Cox was in as
seventieth year. He was culled to the bar at ills
Middle Temple in 1843, and raised to the degree of g!
serjeant-at• law in 1868 He was appointed It-corder of
Portsmouth in the same year, and in 1870 Deputy-Assistant •
Judge of Middlesex, Its was for many years editor of tile
Law times, and was the author of one or two legal treatises.
'qf a 411 "Wt 1,1,z• a popular tutrottllO!
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GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CITIES.

The Registrande of the Prussian Etat-Major has brought
together some interesting statistics as to the growth of
European cities.
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London, of course, comes first with its 958,892 in.
habitants in 1801, grown to about four millions at the
present day.
Paris, in 1817, had 714,000 inhabitants, and in
1876 1,988,000, not counting the numerous faubcurgs.
Berlin has greatly increased since 1810, when it had
163,000 of a population; now it has about a million.
The city which has made the greatest proportional
progress in recent years is Hanover, which between
1867 and 1875 grew from a population of 74,000 to one
of 107,000, or 44 per cent. of increase.

In the same time Stuttgart gained 41i per cent.;
Leipeic, 40 per cent. ; Bremen and Berlin, 38 per cent.;
Odessa, 34 per cent. : Frankfort-on-the-M.ain, 31 per
ent. ; St. Etienne-en-Forez, 30 per cent.; Breslau,
28 per cent. ; Dresden, 26 per cent.; Hull, 25 per
cent.; Antwerp, 24 per cent.; Leeds, 22 per cent. ;
lasgow, 21 per cent. ; Edinburgh and Hamburg, 20
per cent. ; Sheffield, 19 per cent, ; Bristol, 18 per
cent.; Copenhagen, LitSge, and Vienna, 16 per cent.;
Konigsberg, 15 per cent. ; Palermo, 14 per cett. ;
Munich, Rotterdam, and the Hague, 13 per cent.;
London and Brussels, 12 per cent. ; Bordeaux and
Ghent, 11 per cent.; Paris. Nantes, and Stockholm,
9 per cent.; Amsterdam and Cologne, 8 per cent.;
Venice and Birmingham, 7 per cent.; Prague and
Lyons, 6 per cent.
No account is taken of the towns of Russia, Spain,
Portugal, and Turkey, on which anything like
accurate information is wanting.

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