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

THE MEETING OF LORD MAYO AND

SHERE ALI, AT lIMBALLA.

The overland mail has arrived with advices from
Calcutta to the 30th of March, and from Bombay to
the 3rd of ApriL The Indian papers are filled with
details of the reception of the Ameer Sheere AU in
British India, and the meeting of the Afghan ruler and
Lord Mayo at 'lsbell& The Bombay Gazette says :
At Lahore the celebrations appear to have been oils grand
scale, and there, as at every halting place, the Ameer made a
thorough monopoly of public attention. A Durhar was held
on the 18111 of March by Sir Donald McLeod, the Lieutenant-
Governor ; at other times there were gorgeous illuminations;
and the Ameer'a time was improved by visits to the railway
workshops and slut other places, where he and his suite saw
much to wonder at. lie left Lahore on the fie th, and after
one or two halts reached l'reballa on the afternoon of the
24th. Sir William Mansfield was already there, and received
him on his arrival at the station. Next day there was a grand
review, at which Sir Williirm himself manreuvred the troops.
It seems to have been watched with intense interest by the
Ameer, who has a marked taste for whatever relates to war,
and showed it by his discriminating remarks on this occa-
sion. Ile doed not seem to have thought very much of the na-
tive troops, though he admitted they were well drilled. lie ad-
mired the European regiments, however; the llighlanders
seemed particularly to please him ; but over the Artillery he
fell into unmistakable raptures. " Subhan Allah !" he is
said to have exclaimed, "there's nothing like fighting ! Look
at the scene spread out like a beautiful garden the flowers of
which are those splendid guns."
in Saturday morning, the nth of March, the Viceroy and
Lady Mayo arrived, and in the afternoon the chief event in
the programme—the Viceroy's Durbar—came off. The Our-
bar is described as having been truly splendid; and Lord
Mayo Is said to have looked "every inch a king." In receiv
ing the Ameer the Viceroy said—" Ameer Shore All Khan !
—in the name of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of
Great liritain and Ireland, and Sovereign of India, I hid you
a hearty welcome, and express to you the sincere gratifica-
tion it gives me to receive you as the guest of the Queen. I
trust that this visit may be the commencement of many years
of amity between her Majesty and your Highness, and of
mutual confidence between the nations which her Majesty
rules in India, and the subjects of your Highness." The
Ameer in reply expressed his delight at the glorious reception
which had been accorded him. A long conversation then
passed between the Viceroy and the Ameer, after which the
presents, nearly a iakh in value, were presented to the latter.
On Monday morning the Viceroy paid a return visit to the
Ameer; in the afternoon a private interview between them
took place; and on the following morning there was another
review.

The anecdotes that are told about the Ameer's visit
would, the Bombay Gazette says, fill a volume. One
is given as a specimen. On his entering Peshowur, a
large number of ladies accompanied Major Pollock to
witness the reception. Very soon after the intro-
duction the Ameer carefully surveyed the Commis-
sioner's fair retinue, and remarked, "I suppose that
you, just as we do in our country, lock up all your
pretty women at home? During the Ameer's stay in
British territory he was allowed £l,OOO per day for his
expenses, and he is said to have been so delighted with
his reception that he thinks of visiting England after
he has secured peace throughout his territories.

The Correspondent of Ile Times furnishes the follow-
ing additional interesting particulars :
Before he opens his mouth let us try to read Shere Al's
face in the light of his career. Whatever be the descent of
the Afghans, that is a Jewish face--the nose and lips would
be grossly Jevi ish but for the peculiar facial angle which
refines them. The feature of the face is the eyes, cold and
cruel as ever poet described or painter reproduced. Re-
membering the only time when their possessor grieved
till he lost his reason, when his favourite son and the
heir apparent was slain in single combat under the walls
of Bandahar by his own uncle, we fancy we can
see incipient insanity lurking there. But of the
cruelty there can be no doutt. That is the man who
never forgave an enemy, who bouts that his work has been
fighting since he left the cradle, who betrayed his own brother
in spite of an oath on the Koran, and lost his kingdom rather
than give him up. He has the look of the hunted animal,
and no wonder, for three-fourths of his life has been spent
p• • ' •-sir in warfare. lie is eviJortly nervous as
he takes ma seat before this imposing assembly of the rulers
and defenders of more than • hundred millions of
people. Captain Grey stands before him to interpret the
, conversation, and as I overheard almost every word I
I am enabled to reproduce the outline though not in the
Oriental form. The Governor-General heartily wel-
comed his Highness in the name 01 her Majesty of Mag.

land and al India, aof expressed a hope that Ms ...Pt.. Whilst Thomas Chippendale, of Utley, itawyets was
since entering Her Majesty's territories had been nedsfactory, engaged in the saw mill attending tt the grindstowt, tie stool
and the arrangentems made for his comfort not displeasing. suddenly broke into several pieces, one of which striking
Tee Ar,eer replied with evident emotion, Or nervowines-, tom on the chest, inflicted each Lonnie. alto cause his death
that he had been overpowered by the warmth slid magnitl- in half an hour.
duce of his reception, anti would never cease to love the
It is again rumoured that the Duke of Norfolk is to
B As, British Government Lord o asked what he thought of
erects Roman Catholic chapel at Arundel at crest cost.
the railway which had just conic • I tbe Government of India
to Uenbalia In 44 hours. The Ameer expressedas,tlir cshLenetd, intendedf h e
goytoe
merect a. I s
the
am
t urteae in a
t of onu,,d.lett Grenobleo.Xa i
but he said little on this subject, because he h.s ,
to comment on the wonder to others. "Fancy," he said to are legion, so that it will be difficult to discover the person
his chiefs, "oa far as from Cabal to Meshed said hack again for whom the statute is intended.
in 44 hours." lie marvels at the power of one engine in The following advertisement appeared the other
drawing so many waggons, which no number of ele- day A living wonder. —A ewe lamb, aged twelve mouths,
phants could move, and at the fact that
'' 801 b. with five legs and three shoulders, in tirst-rate condition and
of goods can be sent 1,130 miles for 15s. The quite healthy, to be sold." This luau natunt ought to be
most wmtlerful thing of all," he said to Lord Mayo, "is brought to be propagated, as legs of mutton would then
your arms." •' Since so renowned a .o:Adler as yourself ap- become cheap.
predates the army, I have asked renowned soldiers to meet
yoU , and the Commanderimadef ehow you all you want Forty years ago a blooming young girl of sixteen
to know," said Lord Mayo. The Ameer then expressed his married an old man of sixty for his money, expecting that he
delight with the " terrific " dress of the Highlanders, but would soon die and leave her a wealthy young widow. Last
remarked on its indecency, lie has been charmed, like a Week the lady died at the respectable age of fifty-six, leaving
true mountaineer, with the bagpipes of the " Skach "as he a husband, aged one hundred, and four children to mourn
calls the Scotch, and considers them the finest of soldiers, her loss."—New York Herald.
Bat the Irish seem even more to his taste for, when told A double elevator is to be constructed at the
that that people are so fond of fightmg they will fight with " whLipool," below the suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls,
each other when they can get rio other enemy, he shouted, to enable visitors to gets view of the falls from that point.
One of the latest novelties is a "Hard times" party,
" That is cmiital •, that is like my people : that is after my
own heart." Ile then entered into a disquisition on
the Scotch clans and the Affghan clans, remarking that, as which is annonnced at Slantorville, Wisconsin. The invite-
the former were known by the colour the latter are dis- tiom and programmes for the dance are issued upon the
tit:totalled by the cut of their clothes. For a man who does commonest kind of brown paper. " Ladies are expected to
not or cannot read he has got a wonderful amount of int,- dress in calico and its surroundings, and gentlemen in their
matins. Be believes all the Irish to be Roman Catholics, everyday clothing. Each one must bring a cracker in his
and that France assists Ireland to rebdi. He is familiar with pocket. Fun to commence at eight pm. At eleven p.m.
bean soup, crackers, and dried herring will be served, if there
"
iesv
feonntds in tile
referring. "Ass
Sl,a,pAtstlesosulii adni
ri,tis.,said
generals,nid to
:,iaywoh. which h y
one
is enough to go round.
are interested in guns." "i ih," he said, "I know the Snider The Dundee and Peterhead whaling fleets have this
and Enfield. We could make them in our country quite as year proved as successful as those of last year were unfortu-
well as you, but not the cartridge." All Captain Grey's ante, On Monday the Arette arrived at Innetee, bringing a
knowledge of l'ersian weather' put to the test to explain the total catch of 4,000 seals, which are expected to yield about
details of the manufacture of the latest novelties. "Are fifty tons of oil. Other vessels are reported to have caught
you Nail of hunting 1"" lam a soldier and have been all much larger numbers.
rely life, and rulers at Cebu" have no time for that. lint The total amount of the gifts presented to the Pope
Khan, my eldest son, likes hunting.'' 1 italicise these on the ecaudon of the 50th anniversary of his entering the
words became of the emphasis lie laid on them. Yakoob priesthood ia estimated at £BOO,OOO.
Mum is not his eldest, but his third son, and it is Euppmsed
that he meant that he would make him " Wullat Ahab." or A terrible calamity is reported by the Philadelphia
heir apparent. It will be well if he does so. Lord Mayo correspondent of The Times. The steamer Uselda was
then complimented him tin his boy, ass pretty boy. Captain wrecked on Saturday on the Missouri River. She ran over a
Grey, knowing such a compliment would not be pleasing to "snag," and her boilers afterwards burst. The passengers on
an Afghan, gracefully tuned it thus ,—" Ile has the eyes of board were troops. Fifty lives were lot,
April 10, made another speech
a mall." "Von," replied the delighted father; "be is the Andrew Johnson, on A
true stamp of a man (sikka murdana), he comes of a manly ton large crowd at Nashville, and he says he intends to
stock!' Fr in this the conversation glided pleasantly to deliver addresses in all the Southern States 'rho Nets Fork
horses. Lord Mayo said he was. breeder of horses, but re- Evening Post bluntly expresses the opinion that the ex-
gretted he had been able to get so few good ones for his High. President is insane, and quotes from Ids recent speeches to
ness's acceptance. The Ameer, in reply, doubted if a really prove it.
good horse could now lie produced, said that the price of
Turkomans ranged front £4OO to £l,OOO, anti asked why our The South American papers contain accounts of an
officers did not use Arabs as of old. It was explained that insurrection which broke out in Guayaquil on March 19, and
for some time the export of Arabs from the Gulf was for. was suppreesed with a loss of 300 lives. The authorities were,
bidden. Some of the replies, in the Ameer's deep lass but however, lt is added, still "uneasy," and business was at a
carefully subdued voice, caused the Governor-General to laugh, standstill
~,hrliatenssgpuzued the preliminary examinatioa in arts at
hut they were not heard more than a few yards from toe Itlrs. Appleton, a student of the Ladies' Medical
throne. All agree that Captain Grey's Persian was as good as CAuplietEe,oe
his fluency was undeniable.
the London corresponlent of the
On this the attendants brought in 51 trays of presents,
Leeds Mercury the fate of Sheward was su nileey balanced.
valued at upwards of £5,000, besides gifts for the boy and the
six
that R had been. actually resolved to reprieve him, when his Sirdars. Taking a splendid swmd from the fhst tray,
Lord Mayo presented it to the Ameer with Ms own hand, re-
marking, "with this may you be victorious over all your ene- second confession reached the Home Secretary, and rendered
h
mies defend all your just rights." The /tim any sue step impossible.
/timer arty
"I will me it not only against my eneniies, but against T e question of reduced rates of postage, especially
those of the English Giver-forma "—a broad and significant for newspape rssoranfords.peher:iflmitetepsdlibsmuhraiggtepirtr,slerwirasedde,beucietni:ttn.kert up by the
hint. On the return visit by the Viceroy, the Arueer took Society of Arta. They have appointed a committee to pro-
his own mord from his side and presented it to Lord Mayo, mote measures
saying that it was a pledge of Ids perpetual friendship with
the British Government. sitting of the conference of the managers and friends of re-
formatory amid industrial schools, held in Loudon on Friday
last. The noble chairman noticed, with satisfaction, the
great extension of the reformatory movement during the hat
twelve years, and expressed his conviction that great good
would result from the mutual interchange of experience
afforded by the conference.
There were no fewer than 230 prisoners entered in
the books at the Liverpool police-court on Monday morning,
nearly 180 of whom were drunk when apprehended.
A most impudent robbery has been committed at
Thornton, near Fleetwood-in.the-Tylde. On Sunday after-
noon the house of Mr. Dickson, fanner, Fom-lane-ends. was
entered, and upwards of £lBl stolen. Mrs. Isekson and
family went to rinernton Church, leaving Mr Dickssu, who
is very deaf, in charse td the house and fann premises.
Soon after they had left, Mr Dickson fell asleep on licheir in
the kitchen, and whilst he was in that slate some tale entered
the house and contrived to gain access to one of the bed-
rooms and extract the Mal named from a clothes Ws.
The great "penknife question" in the Civil Service
haa been set at rest by the cancelling of the order that no
more penknives should be issued.
The Independance .Bel ye reports that the Emperor of
the French lias been bitten in the calf of the leg by a small
dog. The wound was trilling.
A woman, 85 years of age, has been arrested in
Gardiner .17.5.; on suspicion oh having murdered four hus-
bands. A post-mortem examination of her last victim revealed
traces of poison, which led to her arrest ; and rumour now
says that his three predecessors were murdered.
With the sanction of the Secretary of State for
India, government have authorised a grant-in-aid of 15,000
reis towards the construction of a Roman Catholic Male
Orphaliage at SI ussoorie, provided a similar amowit be raised
from private sources.
Messrs. Whitworth Brothers, brewers, Heckmond-
wike, have been fined £5O by the Dewsbury magistrates "for
having brewed nine quarters of malt without having pre-
viously made an entry in the excise brewing-book of their
intention to do so."
There is every prof Ability now of a lock•out in the
building trade at Bralford. At a meeting of the master
builders on Monday evening it was reported that the opera-
tive stonemasons had refused to confirm the agreement
which their deputation had come to with the deputatioa of
the masters in so far as that agreement relates to payment
by the hour and the employment of machine-worked stone;
and the meeting if masters resolved to publish the whole of
their correspondence and to fall back upon their original
notice, expiring on the 3rd of May, though still willing to
refer the dispute to an arbitrator, and to abide by his de-
cision.
At Jarrettsville' Harford county, Maryland, Miss
Cairns has shot and killed Nicholas SlSComes. The eveut
occurred on a Saturday evebing, when about 20 persons were
seated on the porch of the village hitch, when Miss Cairns
suddenly appeared, and drew a pistol and fired three shots
at M'Cornas. The alleged cause of the murder was seduc-
tion. Miss Cairns had previously sued ld'Comas for breach
of promise 411 marriage
Queen Pia of Portugal has just been ordered to Nice,
for the benent of her health.
The steamer G. A. Thompson struck a snag on Ar-
kansas river, in Arkansas, on the night of April if, and be-
came a tstal wreck. She had on board eighteen passengers,
and was laden with a cargo containing nine, which slacked
on getting in contact with the water, set fire to the boat, and
severely burnt several of the crew and passengers. Seven-
teen lives were lost by burring and drowning.
A terrible rumour comes from Shanghai. It is said
that some Catholic missionaries and several hundred con-
verts have recently been niur toned in the pronto-. of He-
churn. The despatch in which this is stated brings news
that sir Rutherford Alcock lias entirely repudiated the asser-
tion of Mr. Burlinghame, to the effect that the Chinese de-
sire progress.
It is said that a proposal, intended to be made to the
proprietors of the North Eastern Railway that they should
grant an annuity of £2OO for life to Mr. George Hudson, has
been abandoned.
An inquest has been held at Maidstone, respecting the
death of a young man named Patrick Larking, a draper'.
hawker. On the 20th of March last he went ont from the
inn at Maidstone where he was staying, and was teen known
to have a quantity of gold in his possession. Nothing was
heard of Mal from that time till his body was found on
Sunday morning in the river near Allington Castle. He had
then a silver watei, with the guard carefully rolled round
it, in the breast pocket of his coat, but only a florin and five-
pence in money. The jury returned a verdict of "Found
drowned."

A case likely to occupy the Irish Vice-Chancellor's
Court for at least a fortnight was opened on Monday. The
bill is presented on behalf of John Monk Croker, an
infant, by Mrs. Harriet Croker, his mother and next
friend, against the late Captain Edward Croker, J.P.,
of Ballinigarde, county Limerick; Lady Georgina Ellen
Mouck Croker, his wife; and other defendants, numbering
in all ninety-five, for the purpose of obtaining a declara-Aon
that certain deeds dealing with extensive estates were
fraudulent and void, and should be delivered up to be can-
celled.
It may be interesting to the public, and to railway
travellers by the Great M esters line especially, to learn that
as regards the midland districts of England, the broad mirage
Is now a thing of the past. Since the fat instant the Great
Western Railway Company have ceased to run any broad
guage paseenger trains between London and Birmingham or
Wolverhampton.
William Scott, the nephew of Sir Walter Scott, who
Inns been for some time hack a sick inmate of the St. Andrew's
Home in Montreal, died in that institution on Tuesday even-
ing, April 8, from cancer in the stomach, lie was sixty-four
years of age.

The last monthly statement issued by the Bureau
Veritas of Paris shows that during the month of March last
209 vessels, including 16 steamers, were reported as total
losses. The casualties were distributed among different
nationalties as under i-124 English. 54 French, 32 North
German, 15 American, 13 Italian, 9 Greek, 9 Norwegian, C
Austrian, and 33 bearing various other flags.
The death of the Rev. Patrick 841, the inventor of
the reaping-machine, took place on Thursday in last week,
at the manse of Carmyllie, in the Presbytery of Arbroath.
He was nearly seventy years of age.
Handbills, offering a reward of £lO, have been circu-
lated by the North Eastern Railway Company, at Hartlepool,
for the detection of some person or persons who, about two
pm. on Friday last, placed a large stone on the connect-
ing line between the towns, by which a passenger train
narrowly escaped being thrown off the rails into 3liddletun
Slake.
The Archdeacon of Cheater, in his visitation charge,
said religious equality was a dogma which meant nothing
else than the equality of truth and falsehood, of light and
darkness, of Christ and lieliaL
William Clasper, a famous Tyne waterman, lost his
life on Saturday night, nailer melancholy circumstances. Ile
proceeded up the river in his boat about half-past nine, and
on his way borne, by some unexplained accident, he fell into
the water and was drowned. Clasper was one of the Tyne
crew who gaitied the hundred pounds prize on the Thames.
Noticing the concessions made by private members
in order to expedite the progress of the Irish Church Bill, the
Daily News observes that all parties in the House of Com-
mons are now anxious to get rid of the bill as soon as pos-
sible. The ministry have so powerful a majority that oppo-
sition has become hopeless, and there can be neither profit
nor pleasure in prolonging an unavailing contest. A London
correspondent says the gentlemen who have the hardest
work at present are unquestionably the whips. No one but
themselves can know the difficulty they have in keeping to-
gether a crowded house in this sultry and oppressive weather
The Bishop of Salisbury appends to a circuitr which
he has issued to his clergy asking them to make collections
for the Diocesan Church Building Society, the following
oh-
nations —" I cannot allow this request, which I hove
much reason to think may be the last public one I may be
allowed to make to my clergy, to go forth, without reminding
them that I am seeking their assistance in behalf of an object
which must be amongst those dearest to a Christian's heart,
the worship of God in His Church on earth. 1 would also at
the same time thank them for the prayers, which I have the
great comfort of believing are being offered up forms by
them and their congregations, to the end that I may bear niy
sickness patiently, and that the sufferings of my body may
by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be made to minister to
nay sours rest and peace.'
The number of gallons of proof spirits distilled in the
United K ingdorn was 26,790,684 in 18415, 25,567,962 in 1866,
23,323,613 in 1,67, 24,924,155 in 1863. The quantity retained
for consumption in the United Kingdom as beverage was
20,011,155 gallons in 1865 ; in 1866, 22,216,390 gallons; in 1867,
21,199,376 gallons ; in 1868, 21,008,634 gallons. All this
time the population was increasing by, at all events, 1 per
cent, per annum.
The Exeter people were hoaxed on Saturday even-
ing. Somebody had been to the expense of announcing by
posters that there was to be a velocipede race for £5O in the
city, and crowds assembled at the place indicated to see it.
There was no race, but the crier informed the expectant
sightseers that the mayor and magistrates had forbidden the
race in the city, and that it wculd consequently take place at
a later hour in a village a mile or two distant. Some
hundreds of persons accordingly started for the village
named, but on arriving there found they had been duped
An announcement is made which will cause immense
sensation in certain betting circles. An order, it is stated,
has been privately issued to the police to prosecute all per
sons found dealing in" specs." or showing "spec." bills. The
detectives are hard at work getting up information, and
when they have got the names and addresses of persons who
have sinned against ike law, the pence intend to institute a
whole series of prosecutions. It in added that none of those
concerned in the traffic of spec, tickets are to be allowed to
escaPe, and several hundred persona will be prosecuted.

Tht.Bdariaat opt:ration has ju.t heri performed vrit h
compl..te ewe gi at the civi. t. ,gpit a of .ntwerp, by M.
Begnerns, ehief w—oneher hl the fellowing mor-ing both
mother and chil.l were doing well.
'

The gold product of Nova S'eotia (es sppettrs by the
statistics collected in the Canadian Monetary 741m5,, fedul
1560.8 Inc'once 1‘..4 short 101,000ez.. N.-tit 8,200,000 .h.ta
The product forleAS was .20,54101 Ildwt lour., or an &verve
to each man of Wart. leg?. ,1 dol. 71c.) per day.
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_
A veritable reuaation is about to be produced at the
Slutii..h Theatre. A new work by
,Wagrer, entitled

" Rheingold," is in course of preparation. One of tim
scenes represents the Rhine 'real water flowing through
luxurious country. Suddenly • nymph plunges into the
water and swims across the river to a rock. li'ddle
Mellinger, who is to perform this arduous feat, is now
taking lessons in swimming, and Wagner stipulates for a
real river on the stage.
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The Government have given orders that the whole
of the worn. confined In the Parkhurst Prison, Isle of
Wight, shall be removed to the new convict establishment
just finished at Woking. The first batch—GO in number -
left the Isle of Wight on Friday.
Poring the first battle of Bull Bon a brigadier.
general discovered a soldier c meealed In a hole In tie
ground, and ordered him to pin his eminent. The 111111
looking him full in the face, placei his thumb upon his nose,
and replied "No you don't, old fellow ; you want this hole
yourself !"
At Liverpool. the other night, an actor Avis nearly
blinded by real lightning introduced into a storm scene.
There will be nothing left for the sensation dramatists be-
and-by but to kill an actor every night. What a line ior the
blll—Another actor will be killed tomight !"

It is stated that the rescue ol_the_prt miners at

Lock's Lane DM at Drierley MIL cost the Earl of Dudley the
owner of the mine not less than £25,000.
It has been wirted and also contradicted—that

theLo—Jen—and-North Western Railway Company have made
compensation to the extent of £52,000 to the family of Major
Edwards, of yixby. Park, Yorkshire, wto, ssit.h his eon, was

killed in lamentable catastropheat Allergen.
A man named William Hurlonrt, of Cornwall,.Ver-
.. .

mont, reputed to be worth S,OO dole recently starve'd him-
self to de3th because somebody rob'vd hiss of 130 dole. lie
feared he would come to want, an I so refused food until he

A large meeting has been held in Brooklyn by the
" Free-traders," over which the Rev. lienry Ward Beecher
presided, and made an address in favour of free trade, sadbig
that he was a convert Lem "Protectionist" principles.
"To Adolph Bitchier, of Stuttgard.—Dear Brother.
—Our beloved Father, von Bitchier. Architect to the Court,
Died on the 25th January, 1069. Give notice of OW unfor-
tunate event to your Otto Buehler, Preceptor in Ohringen,
Wartemburg."—Advertirement in The Timeh
"C. 8., who left his home on the 20th, can save his
children from utter ruin and himself front disgrace by Com-
municating with his brothers. Business matters can be
arranged. Write or go to London at once. Will be too late
after the 29th."—Advertisetneut in The Times.
On Saturday Joseph Cawthorn, a native of Newark,
died at Sanderlund, at the age of 79. The deceased, uho
had volunteered into the Rifle Brigade, fought in nearly all
of the hotly-contested engagements in the Peninsula, as well
as at Waterloo, where he was wounded. Be received his dis-
charge in 1019 without a pension. In 1066 he was to the
TeceTpt of a pension of only Is. per day, and this was obtained
by the mod st:enuous efforte on Me behalf.
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Lord Somerville, who unexpectedly Bucceeded to the
titles last Nevemher, in consequence of the death .if his
cousin from an accident in the hunting field, hoe just
arrived in England from Australia, in which colony he haa
resided for several years.

An oyster was recently fished up at Stamford, Con-
necticut, which contained 107 pearls; and one at New Haven
which had 093, varying In siza from that of a buckshot to a

mustard seed.

Durk g the execution if Dowey, who was convicted
of murder at Charlottetown, Prince Edward's Ista,d, the
rope broke twice. The third time he wa: hauled up by the
sheriff and his assistants. Ile had previously spokea for
three-quarters of an boar with cre,it feeling and conmosure.
The horrible scene was witnessed by about 2,000 people.
Josh Billings has written an amusing essay upon
"roosters," in which he remarks that they 'are the husbands
of many wives. In Utah it is konsidered a di-grace tow speak
disrespectful of a rooster. BriAmin Younz's coat-of-arms is
a rooster."

,
The New York Tim's ridicules the rumour that
Canada is likely to be surrendered by the Bel ish Government
to the United States in satisfaction of the Alabama elaltit, a
rumour which has been industriously eirculatet throuchout
the American press, and says that it has not the slightest
foundation.
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The Lfrant Herald mentions that a shock of earth-
quake was felt in Constantinople on the 19th inst. No
damage was done, but stone houses of the most solid con-
struction were shaken. The vibration was from north to
south, and it was felt on both sides of the Bosphorus.
Some discontent has been aroused in the Channel
squadron by the unnecessary employment of the crews, i
hoisting out boats, guns, ammunition, and heavy stiwes, on
a Sunday afternoon, to test their efficiency in manning and
arming boats with rapidity.
The claim of Valentine, fourth Baron Cloncurry, to
the right of voting at the election of Irish representative
peers, has been admitted by the Lind Chancellor, and his
lordship will take his seat in the Upper House, on Monday,
as a peer of the United Kingdom.
Its the "Life of Kelite," by Sir John Coleridge,
regret is expressed that the important letters which loul
tassel between the feet and his friend, Richard Iltur.ll
Fronde, had disappeared and could not he found, Mimeo a
rigid search had been Instituted. John Bull states that they
have unexpectedly been discovered.
4,11 American contemporary says fish may be kept
attire for ten days or more without water by 11:ling their
mouths with crumbs of bread saturated with brandy, sod
pouring a little brandy in their stomachs, after which, in this
torpid state, they may be packed in straw They become
alive in a few hours when again placed in fresh water.
The misunderstanding I:etween the West Riding
operative masons and their employers, with reference to pay-
ment by the hour and the use of machinery, promises to be
amicably arranged. For several months back a general
urii-out on the 3rd of May was threatened, but at the
eleventh Miur better counsels prevailed, and mutual con-
cessions are likely to be made, which will prevent cork being
suspended for a single day.

On Sunday evening, at the Victoria Theatre, in Lon-
don, the well-knoa n Richard Weaver was engaged to deliver
a farewell sermon, and an enormous concourse of persons
attended. Unfortunately the crush was so great that,
amonget other accidents, a child of about three months' old
was dragged out of its mother's arms and trampled under
foot, and it was quite dead when picked up. There were, as
usual at these meetings, a large proportion of women, and
the screaming and fainting that ensued upon the crush to ob.
tam admittance crested considerable Mario.
The subject of religion was introduced in the Spanish
Constituent Assembly on Monday, and the Introducti.in was
! the occasion of a scene. A member of the minority (name
! not given' is said to have made an attack upon the Roman
! Catholic Church. For this he was called to order by the
! President, and his friends resented the rebuke by leaving tho
house in a body. Subsequently they thought better of it,
and returned.

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A Baltimore paper says the Grand Jury of Caroline
County, Maryland, has just indicted a woman for witchcraft.
The witch Is a negress.
We (Broad Arrow) have reason to believe that the
present Government so far anticipate the result of the pass-
ing of the Irish Church Bill that they contemplate being
enabled to call out the Web Militia for training early next
year.
A return relating to Post Office Savings Banks was
published on Saturday. It shone that the total amount re-
ceived from depositors, including interest, to the 31st
December, MS, was 3:27,153,571 Ss. Id., and the total amount
repaid to depositors was £15,486,915 les. 81, leaving a balance
due to depositors of £11,666,652 93. sd.
£2BO per annum is paid by Government for the work-
ing of the telegraph to Balmoral, during the visits of the
Queen.

The high Court of Appeal at Florence, which has
been engaged in examining the penal code, Lis unanimously
declared in favour of the abolition of capital punishment.
The body of a handsome young woman was recently
found in the Seine, at Paris. In the pocket was found a
portemonnale, containing a piece of paper, on which was
written—. I seek death of my own free will. How wretched
life is. I carry to the tomb the secret of my destiny." The
corpse was taken to the Morgue.
A Rocky Mountain paper publishes an obituary of
"Sim," chief of the Washoe Indians. It says th it he w:is ft
good, though very dirty, red man. Ile povsessed a well-
balanced head of hair, and atoimich enough for all he could
get to eat. Ilia regard for the truth was notable—he never
meddled with it. lie left no sill, and his estate consisted of
a pair of boots."
A Nashville druggist has invented a ratspaint misle
of a preparation of phosphorus. Von first catch a rat and
paint him. After dark he looks liken bal of tire, and, goant
among his fellow rats, they became frightened and vacate the
premises, the phosphorescent rat following, of course, and
hurrying up the rear.
Immediate steps are about being taken to test the
validity of the rival claims to the Wicklow peerage rod
property.

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The celebrated engineers of Kramer-Klett, at Nam-
berg, from 1850 up to the end of last year, hive mad." 110 less
than 18,133 railway carriages, whereof 700 are entirely of iron.
The number of workmen employed is about 2,400. English
manufacturers may sigh for the lost trade of the Continent
when they hear this.
An anti-tobacco lecturer in Georgia is of opinion that
tobacco was the "forbidden fruit," that Adam and Ere
knew so much of to their sorrow.
In the autumn of last year, a party of twenty-three
emigrants was sent out to Canada from the parish and neigh.
bourhood of Tingrith, Beds., attire sole expense of the Slis-es
Trevor, of Tingrith-hotum. A second party, twenty-seven in
number, followed these by tlor Nedforion, fn. Liverpool,
on the 15th of April. In both cases, and from the semi
source, fare and pa.sage money Were paid, outfit, was pro-
vided. and a small !um furnished to each emigrant for pre-

A very good portrait of Mr. Benjamin Higgs, late of
Teddington, whose name will live in the memory of share.
holders of the Central Gas Consumer's Company, has MA
been published by the Stereoscopic Company, and it has hem
supplied in large numbers to the police.
Eugene L. Oatman, proprietor of a "pretty waiter
girl" saloon in Chicago, on Sunday the 18th April, died by
inhaling Common gas from the gas fixtures in bin saloon. Ile
lay down en a tulle beneath the burner, to which he attached
a flexihle tube. Through this he inhaled the gat until death
resulted.
Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is at Brussels, on a journey
through the poor districts and poor-law systems of Europe,
to examine the results of their various modes of sinsinis-
tration.
The line of Count Tilly, the celebrated opponent of
Gustavus Adolphus, in the Thirty Years' War, has just be-
come extinct, by the decease of Coast Charles Gustavus
Edward Augustus von Tserelas Tilly, at the ripe old age of
eighty-five. lie had been chamberlain to the Ring of Rol-
land, and a member of the Equestrian Order of Braban.,
was the last direct descendant of Everard von Tserclas Tilly,
the liberator of Brussels in 1388, and of his descendant !Moto
alluded to, WIIO was generalissimo of the Catholic League in
the seventeenth century.
The arrival of infected cargoes, both at Loudon and
Remit:ll,llas led the Privy Council to order a " didafecti n"
of the wharves. Nevertheless ,say s the Chamber of Agr;-
cultural Journal, wholesale destruction among our borne
flocks will be inevitable if the Pdvy Council continue to ri.dy
upon inspection, which cannot di: cover the hightful malady
pa Its incubatory stage.
Mr. Edgar Quinet, the eminent French writer, who
has lived for seventeen years in exile, has refused to stand as
a candidate for Paris, though invind to do so by an {Millen-
I Dal body of the electors. Ms primary objection is an un-
willingness to take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor.
The Moniteur announces that. on Sunday last the
Emperor Napoleon gave a
.private audienee to Lord Richard
Grosvenor as the promoter of a proposed submarine tunnel
between Calais and Dover. The Monittur does not pretend
to state what passed at this interview, built believes that
hls Majesty considers the tunnel scheme to be beset by diffi-
culties while, on the other hand, he thinks hi.aily of the
bridge over the Channel projected by M. Boutet Ile even
suggested, on seeing the model of the bridge, that the num-
ber of piles on which it is to besupported should be doubled .
and this can be done, it is understood, without interfering
with the navigation.
The .'eati, lt unounced of Captain J.
said to ta M.; tart surviving officer who was present at the
battle of the Nile. The decea,d, who was In his 05th
entered the navy in May, 1796, as a volunteer, and served in
the Minotaur as midshipman at the battle of the Nile
August 1, 1798. Ile was afterwards present on shore at lit
capture of Naples, Civita Vecchia, Rome, dm., co-operated in
the seige of Genoa, and took part In the operations of 180/
in Egypt. Ile also served in one of eight boats cutting out
this Emerald and Pat, Spanish corvettes, in Barcelona roads,
to 1801

;MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
In the House of Lords, April 28, I ord Llsmore bad given
iotice of a motion to ask win titer, having regard to the facts
ta,f,t within the last few months five pat air assassinations
oit“lrorimagprawliiftlyn
lonuttrgeo)nehiamvreol:eyenotprlpaue:
wfulara, in the county of Tipperary, it was the intvution of
cwv,runieby to alopt any measures for the protection of
banan He in that district f
Esti dranville appealed to the noble lord to defer putting
his questions.
Lad LiBIDOre assented to this course.
The Marquis of Bath expreetett a hone that novernment
would take an early opportunity of stating what measures
they mewl to take for the pacification of Ireland. Matters
mai uow arrived at that condition that law wea set at de-
. _,

Aseea
The Marquis of Westmeath said it behoved the Govern-
od—if it were not an abuse of the word—to at once grapple
th the question. They ought immediately to state what was
the maximum amount of assassination to he permitted be-
they interfered. The Government had given it out that
their bill for the disestablishment of the Irish Church was
intended to prove the panacea of Ireland. Although he had
not the slightest faith in that measure as calculated in any
eth3,to pacify Ireland, he did not see why the Government
should have the forbearance of Parliament while these mur-
ders were being perpetrated with impunity.
Gird Bath doubted whether the postponement would lie as
much for the coovenience of the persons who were being
marred as for that of the Government. Remarks in the
same tenour were made by lair& Westmeath, Cairns, and
liseuesbury. Lord ('.ranville, in reply, energetically re-
pudiated the insinuation that the postponement was for
the personal couvesience of the Lord-Lieutenant. It was
amply bersause in the ends of justice reticence was de-
manded.
Ou the motion of the Duke of Northumberland, the Sea-
birds preservation Dill was read a sciond time.
On the subject of the propesed Select Committee on the
clergy Discipline bill, which had been reduced to 15, Lord
Nelson maintained that a disproportionate number of lay
peers had been omitted as compared with the spiritual peers.
The original proportion was more for the advantage of the
parochial clergy.
tent Granville, previous lathe house going into Committee
on the Tenure Treland) Bill, explained the reasons of the
mutest position assumed last week by the Government on
the motion fer the second reading. Ile complained
that the Government had been attacked for not taking
the pill and amending it according to their views • but that
would have been tantamount to introducing a Bill of their
ee.e. lie appealed to Lord Chumicade not to persist in a
course which could produce no result, and would only excite
inereued agitation in Irelaral.
Lord Grey argued that if the Government were sincere in
their representations, that they agreed generally with the
bill it was their duty to adopt it as the basis for legislation.
They might easily have added in committee the few clauses
they thought necessary.
lord monck, as an Irishman, protested against is great
part of Lord Grey's speech. Agrarian outrages were
maned to a very small part of Ireland ; tint what
Lord Grey stated to be the causes of them applied to the
whole country.
/nee remarks from Lord Westbury, the Duke of Argyll,
and laird Cairns,
The Lord Chancellor mid the debate, like all an Irish land
tenure, Wowed how difficult it west° deal with the question.
It eould not, be treated in the perfunctory manner recom-
mended to the Government by Lord Grey. When the frisn
Church question was settled they would take up this other
great question of the land.
Lod Athlumney, after the pledge given by the Govern-
ment that they wotild devote attention to the question, ap-
pealed to Lord Clanricarile to postpone his Bill.
After a lengthened discussion, it was agreed that the bill
should be committed till the 25th of May,
The Noifolk Island Bishopric 11111 was read a second time,
sad their lordships adjourned.
In the haute of Commons, out of more than a score of
questions put to the Ministers, only two related to subjects
of general interest. Mr. Cardwell, in answer to 11r. Shaw,
uidthut, though there was no truth in the rumour that the
Governne sit had purchased Dover house, measures were
under consideration for the concentration of the War De-
partment mill the lione Guards under one roof. Mr. Glad-
stone, replying to a question from Mr. W. O. Gore, stated
that the Governmeet had not determined on ally policy in
regard to the Irish rail, ays ; but lie promised that they
would, at the earliest period in their power, give the subject
the attention it deserved.
Soon after five o'clock the noise got into Committee on
the Irish Church Dili, resuming with clause 24, which pro-
vides that the hnilding charges for dilipldations, dec., to
which each incumbent may be liable, shall be a charge on his
annuity. It was agreed to without amendment. Clause 25,
con' aining in seven suesections the enactments with respect
to the shurches vested in the Commimioaere, was under
discussion for some hours.
Mr. Disraeli, in moving the first of a series of amendments
on this part of the bill, took the opportunity of making a
sharp attack en the harshness of these provisions anti on
their failure to carry out the pledges of the Liberal party
when in Opposition. Last year ••graciousand generous" was
the treatment which Mr. Bright proposed to apply to the
Irish Church, and Mr. Gladstone joined in that pledge and
repeated it an the heelers ; but now Mr. C. Fortescue had
thrown that declaration over, and had officially recommended
the bill as "sweeping and severe," while Ntr. Lose repu-
diated with a sneer the notion of " being generous with
other folks' money " Fixing ass a charge of the Attorney-
General for Ireland en Friday night—that all the amend-
ments of the opposition were made with the sinister design
of perpetuating establishment and endowment—Mr. Disraeli
declared that their sole object was to carry out the pledges
which the Government hail broken, and to protect the vested
rights of the laity.
Mr. Gladstone, however, declined to be led into a con-
troversy, but contented himself with replying that the mea-
sure fulfilled all the conditions mentioned by Mr. Disraeli,
contradictory though they might seem. Its supporters be-
lieved it to be "gracious and generous ;" but, nevertheless,
they did not deny that from its opponents' point of view it
was "sweeping and severe." He offered no opposition to
Mr. Disraeli's first amendment, which only made it clearer
that the ruins to be handed over to the Commissioners of
Mlle Works were to be preserved as national monuments.
In sub-section 2 of the clause, which hands over to the
Representative Body all churches they may require for public
worship, the proviso that it should undertake to keep them
iii good repair was omitted at the suggestion of Mr. Pint,
Mr. (Foss endeavoured without success to extend to two
years the Urea of six months allowed to the Church Body
to make up its mind what churches it would ask for
Mr. Gladstone—again at Mr. Pim's suggestion—moved to
emit sub-section 3 of the clause, which provides that the
Commissioners may hand over a certain sum for the main-
tenance, as national monuments, of not more than 12
churches which may be too large to be kept in repair by the
congregations. The proposal was stoutly resisted by the
Oppeeitlon, and gave rise to an animated discnision.
.in a division the sub-section was struck out by a majority
of 100-232 to 132.
After this division Mr. Disraeli did not press his amend-
ment, enabling the Commissioners to hand over to the
Mach Body for church repairs a sum equal to fourteen
times the average annual amount spent for this purpose by
the Ecelerdastical Commissioners, and the clause was agreed

to.
On Clause 20, which contains the enactments relating to
burial grounds, Colonel Greville-Nugent took exception to
that part cf it which hands aver to the Church Body all
burial grounds annexed or adjacent to churches. Ile sug-
gested that they should be handed over to the Guardians
of the Poor, and only by this means he expected could
the many scandalous scenes son.ui of which lie described)
be prevented where incumbents has! refused to per-
mit she burial with religious rites of persons differing
from their own forms of belied. The Attorney-General for
Ireland pointed out that these scenes could no longer occur
under the Act of laat year, but he offered to modify the
clause so far that hunial-grounds separates! from the church
by a public highway shall not pan with it. Ultimately, after
a protracted conversation, the clone passed in this amended
form.
Clause 27, which contains the conditions with respect to
the transfer of ecclesiastical residences, consumed the rest
of the sitting.
Mr. Disraeli moved the omission of the latter part of the
clause, the effect of which Is that the glebe-houses will be
handed over to the Church Body free of the building and
other charges which the clause imposes. This, Mr. Disraeli
said, he proposed to carry out the promise Mr. Gladstone and
Mr. Bright gave last year that these houses should be given
to the present occupants, and in support of it he dwelt on
the importance of carrying the measure in a spirit of con-
Sir Roundell Palmer supported Mr. Disraeli, and Dr. Ball
also earnestly urged the Government to reconsider the
clause.
On the other side, in opposition to the amendment, it was
urged by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. C. Fortescue, and Mr. Sullivan
that to hand over the glebe-houses without payment would
only half settle this question, and would still leave behind a
pereeptibletemnant of ascendancy. In answer to the nume-
rous taunts of broken pledges—and he reminded the House
Butt they were necessardy more opinions than pledges—Mr.
Gladstone declared that his promise was that the Church
should he dealt with as !generously as was consistent with
the leading principle of religious equality, and he contended
that virtually the glebe-houses were given to the Church, for
the State in the end would he a loser by the transaction.
Mr. P. W. Martin, as a strong supporter of the bill, ap-
pealed to the Premier to have some mercy on those of his
followers who, like himself, tnistitig in his and Mr. Bright's
declarations, had pledged themselves on the hustings to
hand over the glebe-Mouea without charging for the
ntes. The conversation was continued for some time,
and occasionally grew warm. Sir G. Jenkinson, not
being able to get a hearing, moved to report pro-
gress, and Mr. Gladstone, in resisting the motion, intimated
that between this and Thursday the point raised by Mr.
Martin %mild he considered. This, it was urged by Mr.
Diaraell and Mr. Hardy, afforded an additional reason for
reporting progress. In the end Mr. Gladstone gave way, and
the further progress of the Committee was adjourned until
Thursday.
The Bankruptcy Bills were recommitted pro forma for the
purpose of tieing reprinted with amendments, and the House
adjourned.
In the House of Lords, April 27, Earl Russell moved, with-
out any comment, the second reading of the Life Peerages
Bill.
The Earl of Derby rose to state how far he coincided, and
how far he differed from this bill. The noble earl re-
ferred to the discussion which formerly took place in that
Rinse, on tile point whether the crown had er had not
the p iwer to create an indefinite number of life peers.
the matter was referred to a Committee, and the decision
woe advene to the prerogative of the Crown as regards the
right to eft and vote in Parliament. There was no doubt
that the Crown had the right to confer peerages upon
whom it was thought advisable, but that did not in-
volve the right to sit and vote in Parliament. Ile asked
the HOW• to bear In mind that in dealing with
this bill, that In permitting life peers to be created
they would be adding to the prerogatives of the Crown,
which meant additional power to the Ministry, which,
in fact, implied greater power to the House of Commons.
It was, therefore, for their lordships to consider whether, of
their own act and motion, they would entrust larger
power with the Howie of Commons than that now pos-
sessed in the Constitution. The noble earl imprened
ins. the House to consider that they were establishing a
new power and influence which was entirely new to the
Constitution. The bill would give the power to any Ministry
at any time to increase their strength in the House. It
would virtually in the course of seven years add twenty-
eight to the permanent number of the House. He quoted
the opinion o . Ear IGranville ,given in 1856, stating that the
admission of even 20 new peers into the House would have a
serious effect upon the Constitution. Dealing with the rea-
sons assigned for the introduction of this bill, he said that
this House was composed principally of men of settles!
property, and be thought it would be a wrong course to alter
the charact ref that House. Ile suggested that, at all events,
diach an order were to he created, all the classifications in
the bill should be struck out, and that the patent should in-
stead simply specify the services for which the Peerage was to
he granted. The appearance, too, of inferiority to the other
inn might lie avoided by inserting in the patent a recital
that the limitation of the Peerage for life was at the par-
hailer instance of the Peer himself, on the ground of his
private circumstances. He should riot oppose the second
leading, but should reserve to himself liberty in Committee
to 'stenose amendments.
lord Granville regretted the defeat of the original plan for
creating lila Peers by the prerogative of the Crown. Ile
neught the categorise in the tall might cause embarrass-
ment. But he disputed altogether Lord Derby's argument
that Life roers so selected would he in an inferior position
to the rat id the House. In any case they would hardly be
in a better position for having to make the declaration ad-
vised ity lord Derby. Ile also Was unable to follow the
argument that the prerogative would be dangerously in-
ert:Abell hy this power.
Lord Malmesbury said he would not oppose the second
readied. Ile feared, however, the House had not quite per-
ceived what such a measure implied. A Life Peerage was a
contradiction in terms; for Life Peers would not be pares,
and they would not be noble.
Lord Itsissell disclaimed any wish to alter the hereditary
character of the House Cr to interfere with the House as a
Court of Appeal. Slut lord Derby had hinisell admitted
that there might be circumstances which would render it
proper to grant a man a life instead of an hereditary Peer-
an. his ailmiuvios conceded the whole principle of the
bill, and he could not see the propriety of obliging the
recipient of such a distinction to make first a confession of
poverty. He concluded by remarking on the triviality of the
argument that the prerogative would be perilously increased
by autherizing the Crown to create Life Peers.
Lord Cairns deferred any observations on the bill, and
Lords Imnman and Feversham opposed the bill.
The Duke of Duodena, on the motion fog the second