The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

TUE STOTJ'RBRIDGE OBSERVER.

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a diamond welshing 13 3-16
caris
to the same paper. Mr. Flood alms t,O Philip.° and Co ,
that Mr. Mont had a diamond worth ,00
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public auction, at Port Elizabeth, d
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possersion of Bushman, but he
The Meat news from the Transvaal eac
people as diamond mad.
OcTsAGE IN A BANKRUPTCY COURT.—An ex-
traordinary outrage was committed at Roffec,
An inailvent banker named
France, a few days ago.
said slightly wouniied ne
was fired at with a pistol
of his creditore present. The latter, who was
Revillaud, who had come up to the court for •
earl C,
im-
mediately arrested, Was found to have int him two tither
similar firearms. He admitted that his intention Wail
take revenge for the loss he had suffered by the bank-
ruptcy by shooting his debtor. Ile meant afterwards
to have committed suicide.
WINCHESTER TWIOS.—The antiquities of the
City of Winchester may have some interest for the
autumnal excursionist. In the school-room of the
celebrated College there, his eye will be attracted by
the following legend, pictorially illustrated, intended
to admonish the neophyte or freshboy
Aut discs ant diseede : market sum teals
Winchesterwre
William of Wykeharn. But our forefathers his
was founded by
May we not conjecture that the
a ',meter of the above.
named seat of h arning was, when called by his right
iSsteth:a";tli:uvlearrylb4Llytkhnevowssp'elt their names.
name, William of Whack'em?—Panclis
TRADE 111,FORTS.-1 he trade reports of the past
week do not show much change. At Birmingham
trade generally is reported to be letter, but the jewel-
lery branch in depressed, and in the military gun trade
there is complete stagnation. The wool market at
Bradford has continued firm, although the business
shine haa been small; the worsted yarn trade has
been quieter. At Halifax there has been no ma-
terial change at Hudderefield the woollen cloth
trade remains quiet; but at Leeds a fair amount of
business has been done, chiefly in winter goods. The
Dundee market is quieter, but prices are generally
at iiionary. At Glasgow the sugar market is reported
" firm," the pig.iron market " strong," and the cotton
market, quiet. At Manchester busines has been very
quiet. From Newcastle the report is that "the trade
oif the district keeps in • very satisfactory condition.'
The iron trade at Newport and Wolverhampton is
tolerably well employed, but at Barnsley tnere is not
quite so much doing at some of the works as there
was a short time ago. At Nottingham businees •
rather quiet in most departments. At Sheffield there
is little improvement in the lighter departments of
but nearly all the beery branches are "mode-
rately well off for orders."
A FLOATING TOMB--AS the steamship City of
Port-au-Prince, w' He on her way to New York, dis-
covered, on the 15th ult., in lat. 33 deg. 42 miii. N.,
arid long. 74 deg. 5 min. W., a schooner boating about
helplessly, with her helm leaned, arid sent a boat to
her to ascertain what was the matter. The veesel was
found to he the Mary Jane, of Boston, eighteen days
out from Sr. Domingo, arid her entire crew were either
dead or ding from yellow fever. A harroaing sight
presented itself when the party from the steamer went
on board. Only two men were found alive, and they
were both prostrated with the disease. The bodies ot
the captain and two of the crew were lying in • state
of putrefaction, the eurvivors not having strength
enough to throw theirs overbaard. The disease had
broken out after the schooner had left St. timing";
the captain had died on the 4th ult., and the survivore
had been without food or water for five days. The
Port-on-Prince towed the schooner, with the sick men
lin board her, to New Yak. She had a clean Kill of
health from St. Domingo, but no doubt the disease
was contracted there.
A GERMAN WHISPERING GALLI, RT.—Opposite
the Kursall there in or was &semicircular seat of Arnie,
with a low parapet wall and a group of shrubs in the
centre. Its diameter must be fifty feet, and when you
sit at one end you cannot Fee any one who may be at
the other. It was rather a favimrite resort of affection-
ate couples in those days, because, although close to
the road, it had a sort of reclusionof its own. But one
day I made, in regard to it, a discovery which some-
what alarmed me. I was sitting in a solitary state,
nevi° quid miditans—probablv the vanity of human
wishes and Hon meg waters—when I heard a voice, clime
at niy ear, say " Don't be silly, Charles!" Now my name
is Charles, and thinking I was d lug no nii,clinf
I looked round and over the parapet for the airy
whisperer, but in vain. It sounded as if the speaker
was perched on my ehoulder. Being con'. cued, how-
ever, that I was not the &liniment rebuked. I rose and
walked round the ehrubbery in the centre ; and there,
to he sure, I saw a young man who might be Charles,
and a young lady who might have Iveil the airy
whisperer. Of remise I retreated, but next morning
I took a friend down with me to the semi-circular seat ;
I sat down at One end and lie at the other, entirely out
of eight of each other, and then we whispered below
ism breath to the wall and reel y syllable Was distinctly
heard at the opposite extremity. Ftiends, country-
owe, and, above all, lovers, it was a Whispering Gal-
Is ry. -"A Visit to my Discontented Cousin," in Frasee's
Magazine.
TOE HEIGHT OF ASSIIRA,CE.— The Manage-
unit of the "Albert."—Punch.
How DID You Ksow I—Dr. Petets, the emi-
nent astronomer connected with Hamilton College.
w. nt West to olmerve the late eel pee if the run. Ile
r. quested an old negro living ne • his observatory to
watch his big Noel of hens, for at 4 45 they would go t°
roost. After the eclipse was over, lie Came, evidently
much excited. " How was it!" said the iloct r. "Beats
elobery link," RAW the negro ; " Wnen its darkness
come, ehry ehick'n run for de hole in de 'wan. De fust
ones got ii,, and its next ones run ober one anud ler,
arid do last ones cloy just squat right down in de grass
How long you know die Sing was a corning 1" " Oh, I
reckon we knew it more than a year," said the chstor.
"Beats de debbil ! Here you away in New York
know,' a year ago what my chick'ne was vane to do
di. h..ry afternoon, au' you nebbar see de chiklus afore
nudder."
O,E FOR BONIYACE!—This is a time of year
when newspapers are apt to receive complaints of
hotel keepers' extortions and rualpractieen, but it is
not vel y often that the victims are able to obtain
other satisfaction than that of the publicity thus
given to their wrongs ;writes a correapoudent of The
Thnee). It is Fattish dory P. hear of a case in which a
peccant Bonif ace Was made to suffer in purse as well as
in repute. Mr. Hatt izzi, the well-known Italian
statesman, lately went to pass a season at Baden. He
had engaged an apartment at the Hotel d'Angleterre,
but upon arrival he found it occupied by an American,
who would not give it up. Mr. Kitt:last found
quarters of an inferior descriptron elsewhere, arid
forthwith brought an action against the hotel keeper.
He obtained 3,0001. damages, which he gsnerously
gave for distribution among the p sir of the place. It
is expected that the care will herealter rank among
the causes cilebres of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
BadZILIAN LONOEVITY.--in the Mario de San
Paulo the death in reported, in the town of Franc of
Custarlio Jos6 Moreira, aged 135 years. He was lawn
in Portugal, and present there at the funeral of King
D. Joao V. He was in the habit of woiking vteadtly
until within the last eight years; his now ishinent was
scraped cheese, wine, and sugar. The Anylo-Brazdian
rolleB states that D. Sshina Maria its Lemos, umther
of the Baron de Rio Verde, died in May last, in Miner;
Gerees, aged 115 years, leaving over 300 deeeelidanta,
down to the fifth generation. Her son, the Baron de
Rio Verde, was murdered in 1865 at the age of 81, but
the fact was concealed from the mother, and al- hi-ugh
possessing her faculties in a high degree of preserva.
tion, she died in the belief that her son was stall living
in Rio de Janeiro.
HUMAN REMAINS IN GLACIERS.—We (Land
and Water) have recently examined a specimen, lately
depwited by Dr. John W. Ogle in the niusenni Id St.
George's Hospital, of conniderable interest. It con-
sists of the thumb of a man, eupposed to be one of the
guidee lost in the year 1820 in making an ascent
if
Mont Blanc, which was brought to light more than 40
years afterwards. The preparation is the gift of Mr.
J. Snowden, a barrister, of the Temple, who writes
the following description of its discovery. He says
In the year 1a62 I was crossing the Glacier des Boe-
r...us, near Chamounix, and found protruding from the
ice a man's arm ; the flesh WAS einite firm and white,
the thumb in question was ling severed just outside
the hole, and just beneath the surface of the ice I
found several finger nails, hair, part of a leathern knap-
sack, a cork, enc. The arm was pretty confidently
identified as having belonged to } eirraz, one of the
guides who warm wept away forty years bet ire at the
top of the glaciers, whilst making the ascent of Mont
Blanc with Dr. Hemet The appearance it fragments
•if their bodies was not unexpected, as Dr, h orbes, from
his calculations as to the movement of the glacier, had
predicte.l that portions of the remains would probably
be found in that very year."
SAD END OF Two BOTIC—The charred re-
mains of two poor boys were found on Monday after-
noon on the top of slim-kiln near London. From
their appearance, it WOUlli seem that they were about
ten years of age. The workmeu on the estate say
that for several weeks they had noticed the boys
wandering shout, apparently without home or friends,
said in a very destitute condition. It is mat likely
that they laid themselves down on Sunday evening on
the top of the kiln for the sake of the warm, h, and
that while they were marnd asleep they met with this
sad end. The poor little fellows had evidently been
dead mime time when their remains were discovered.
SiNOULAR OVERSIOHT OF BORGLAittl.—The
rectory at Pulford, the residence of the Rev. .1. B.
Lyon, was broken into on Sunday night week, or
very early on Monday morning. The burglars effected
an entrance threiugh a window into the 13411 ; from
thence they went into the study, and ransacked every
cupboard and drawer, and scattered the contents
about the room. Then they went into the drawing and
dining 1,1111118, but only summedesl iii getting pramession
of an old silver watch, with a few seals and trinkets.
Fortunately they overlooked a sum of money in Inc of
the mane, and were unable to find their way to the
butler's pantry, so as to get at the plate. They were
disturbed by the accidental overthrow of a chair in a
room above and scampered off. There was one very
amusing feature in the matter. /hey burnt ca, dle.
in all the Mere, and left the candlesticks, which were
of silver, behind them.
MYSTERIOUti DISAITFARANCF. M. Denial], a
rich wine.gr ,ver stout sixty veal Ft of age, from the
environs 01 Blois, lately came P. Paris on business, and
stayed with his daughter, Mdme. Maylet, at Ln
pil.s
Villette. Having arranged his affairs he went to the
gb.en, a
railway etation, but as the train by which he
oing did imet start for was
elBmom
e perhapsttime
e hisi d e die.pepesite.d. h(
luggage and went out for a walk. Since that ent
lie h. not been
would not have been diecovered as yet but for a singu-
lar circumstance. The night Id the day on which Nt
Denian was to have returned home the poliee found a
uren on the 13 ulevard Saint•Jacepires, having in his
posse-sion some property for wi,i h be could not
account. He Was taken to the station, and anaingst
the articles vase hook with Mdme. MayletO address.
She was immediately communicated with, and she t het
mentioned that her father had left that day for Blois.
A telegram was dispatched to the family, but the
miming gentleman had not been seen or heard of. The

the wilful murder of Corporal Brett, beg to suds that niy
santence is a just one for the horrible deed I committed, and
for which I am very sorry. IL is my earnest wish to seek
forgiveness from the friends of Corporal Brett for the hijory
I have so unwarrantably Inflicted on him, as well as on them,
by my most wicked act. It is too late now for me to expect
any answer to this request, but I hope they may tell my God
they have forgiven toe RIS,), that my neglect of God, and
my wretched love of drink, as well as my evil passions
should have led to such a deed. Surely, if soldiers, and espe-
cially young soldiers, c,itd I know what nilmry aud wretched-
ne•l follow such conduct as Mine, they would never allow their
passions to be their master, and continue such a course of
drink and other vices as have been my ruin and the came of
my taking a fellow-creature's life, and Sc mraile's who de-
served a better fate, and whom" brother was my friend and
companion I now feel I can make no adequate satialactb n
for my iiu and crime. I fear it is almost uatless to hope my
fate will prove a warning to many of my comradea and com-
panions in the regiment I belong to. I only wish they knew
what I have gone through since I committed the crime.
Perhaps, P en, they would not be so likely to imitate my ex-
ample in that or in any other respect. My present anxiety
and sorrow has many causes. I have sinned against God all
my life. I have wickedly and unjustifiably deprived a fellow-
creature of life, and involved his friends as well as my own in
grief and misery. I feel I dare hardly expect any forgiveness
from man or mercy from God hut for his great love in Christ
Jesus, and my hope is solely In that Saviour. Had I learned
to know more of Him years ago t might have escaped this
shameful end, and had a more satisfactory hope iii a dying
hour I hope 00,1 may have niece! on me for Cliiiat's sake,
and I wish that my death may pmve a terror and a warning
to people, and especially to soldleis, who ere going on as I
used to do I should be thankful if this may met the eye of
C aporal Brett's brother and friends, and the eves of the melt
in my retiment. Signed in the presence of the governor,
the chaplain and the schoolmaster, Wu DIXON. Sunday,
Sept. 4, Ignii."
On Sunday night the culprit retired to rest early, and
slept well until half-past two, when he seemed some.
restless, hut soon composed himself again to sleep.
The bell rang at half-past five, and at six the chaplain,
the 'ley. Foster Rogers, visited him, and remained with
him to the last. Shortly before eight Calcraft was
taken to the room where the culprit was, and the process
of pinioning was at once prweeded with. The sad cere-
mony was soon comilete, and the procession to the drop
was formed. The scaffold had been erected in the yard
at the back of the prison, and over the convict burial
ground, the most sickening part of the arrangements
being a large deposit of lime at the side of the scaffold.
The mournful procession was headed by the chaplain,
reading the burial service, and on reaching the drop
the final process of the pinioning was completed. The
noose being adjuKted, the bolt was drawn, and the un-
happy man, who hardly made a struggle, died almost
instantaneously. A black flag was hoisted on the
prison gate Se the drop fell, and remained there for an
hour, but not more than fifty persons were outside the
gaol during thy sad proceedings.
All due arrangements were made for the admission
of the Press, who in this Matauce were the sole repre-
sentatives of the politic.

trade,

HOW THE NEWS OF THE BOAT-RACE
WAS RECEIVED IN AMERICA.
The New York papers of the 28th ult. are tilled with
reports of the Intetnational Boat-ra, the result of
which was known in New York within twenty-three
minutes if the conclusiisn of the contest, including the
time required to transmit the message from the "ship"
at Mortlake to the nearest telegraph-station. Over •
column of matter was telegraphed to the Associated
Press, besides the special dispatches to earls paper,
and all the papers publish illustrative maps of the
river. The whole of The Times' leading article on the
the subject was telegraphed to the New York Hera d.
The sensation headings of the latter journal are worth
quoting: - " Scenes on the streets, in the hotels, and
at the sporting resorts--How the betting went—The
grins of the winners and the grimaces of the losers—
Saunters among the knowing ones and the flats-- The
event in British circles, is. Wall street, and in the
harbour." The New York Times says :
About 1 30 o'clock the result of the race was announced,
and was received with a cheer, bat with less exultation than
~sight have been expected. Tim Englishmen felt, intact, or
at least they profe,seil to feel, that the result of the contest
was a foregone conclusion, and that the Oxfords must win.
But little mosey changed hands here, for opinions were all
one way. The conversation soon turned on the subject of
the rsce. "Why," said an Englishman who was just tilting
down to a beefsteak and pot of ale, how could men expect
to wits that have been living on mush, and rice and such
things? There's nothing like beef and ale; and I con-
sider this race as snowing the superiority of the roast
beef of old England over Yankee food as well as
men. When I heard the Ilarvards were training
on soft food, I knew it WAR all up with 'ens,
there's no muscle in it." "Still, I must my as hey did
pretty well,” said another, "all thing, considered. It's a
mighty hard thing to beat a man on his own ground, but they
gave 'ern a pretty hard pull for it " AMOTIA the boating meth
chiefly A...if:llls, the retult of the contest was very quietly
received. Most of them hat been of the opinion that the
Harvards would make a good light, hilt would be beaten. A
few bets only had been maim on the result As in many
cases if this kind, numbers of persons would not Iselleve that
the Harvards were beaten, even after the Press despatchee
had been puidished, but clung to the fond anticipation that
the despatches were premature, aid that the real acci tint of
the race would show the Harvard' to have been victorious.
Ilse flags were hoisted on the City Hall. and preparations
made to tire 100 guns in the park, should the Harvards have
won. The guns were not tired.
The event excited almost AS much interest in Wall'
street as a rumour which arrived almost at the same
moment, of the death of the Emperor Napoleon. The
sc,ne is thus described :
The Wall-street sharpers were up to their tricks yesterday,
and any number of " flats" were fleeced. Bogus telegrams
enabled certain unscrupulous speculatos s to recover the SIMI.
they had list by heis in favour of the Harvard crew, and to
make considerable hauls to Imot. About half-past three an
excited individual its a white flannel suit resist d into the
gold coons with what purpottrd to be a cable despatch, to
the effect that the Hai-yard crew had W.CI the race,
and after reading it out he deelai eil that tho lite.s
despatch wm In error, the Olfer.l boat htving been
mistaken for the Harvard. This being the consum-
mation which the majority bid no devouily wished
tor. the "sell' was COMpiCiti Bets that the Oxfords hail
lseen defeated were offered oti all spies, awl eaaeri, taken
by
those in the "nog." ililtuttlitt 5 iits of mosey were we in
within the course of half an hour by th s rascal :y operation,
and it is to be hoped the rogues may lose their all gotten
stamps with equal facility. Om of the bogus despatcom
wlititt were drool itch in Wallistreet watt signed "J. W.
S mouton, agent of the ASSOChaell PeceA" ibis, f cornier,
was an impudent forgety. Another spurious telegram was
',alined off as a despatch received by the trench cable, but
Mr Watson, agent 4,f the Frei.ch line, promptly exposed the
swindle, thereby Irmtrathig the knavish tricks of one gang
of sharpers.

prisoner derdee all kuo wieder of M. 11).-1,isu, i Lut , Itiea to pay her minters the name wagee se can he ob-
refugee tn state how he obtained pinew.;on of the I trained in other offitall ; and further, see Ilnep not object
preiwrty found .in him, and which Mdme Maylet has ', to employ nou-sis7iety hands. The latter crime le pro-
d as her father's. , bablv forced on her by the former, an society hatele are
recognise
: ' not likely to take work at her term.; led the di- p.isition
ROBBING A DIPLOMATIST. —M. Asquerino, •
to pay low wages is no chatacterietio of hernia that we
Minister for Spain at Brume., and who is at thie
are pure it can he neither accidental nor unavoidable.
moment staying at Ordend, foiled. on returning to his
In both respecter-he has been a source of itemenee ion-
ap.rtments a few days ago, that hi, trunks and drawers
y fusion to the Labour enla t 'enlaces at Philadelphia,. Even
had been br iken op •n, and all his jewels and Vat,. am. if ehe neither paid berm-if nor induced other women to
a eitm of 5001, ahatraeted, His female servantl whom
take wages under the market tate, Mi. Anthony and
he had brought with him from Brume., had hketvise
her friends would still lied it bard to keep on good
term. with trade unions. Ile main object of tem.,
h e disappeared,t,,ry, ;1
learned
etdi e
that p, slti ,i,ee havings.,u„in ts,e.ez _ tit! fboLl
rut« thl :..,i fi
associatiene is to limit the numbers employed in each
particular trade, anal nothiug coat be, more fatal to
a.rThriev,edant,,nwtehrie,,gtotwhne tdhettc,r,:tarni.ingo.f
thin policy thee a very large influx of female hands.
lover, had left in a cab for Nieup. It. is fair, however, to add that Mies Anthony riffer. an
,:thnedi.b‘oleoteetkbtistilpLeril
alternative. It is the men's negligence in doieg their
cot:neusesimobtlyy
tfholelowceuli.arint,d, oviieirtawkheoiLapt
~F.,i,irLin. t1..1
duty by women that threatens thus to flood the labour
stolen property was found. The two have been corn- market. Women cannot starve, and they have no
mated for trial. other alternative but to say to the men, if you will not
Tile HARTY-ST.—The D N
aily oes remarks that • marry us we nouit undersell you.
the difference between a good aud a I•ad harvest is not
FF.NIAN FrINDS IN THE LAW COURTIL—The
a matter of such social conrequence now as it was
/ft. York Timea of Aug. Si,save :
some years ago. A had harvest once met famine— y he enperlor Court,
noW it does not even ine.an acarcitv, Itan raimes the
w:enteinjuZtiii:."o liTa.l,l•‘,ntey T'll.2.nr.i."tri ebarrt, MO Hugh Sioith
price of corn, but not in proportion to the Madness of
are enjoined from parting with certain funds which hove two
the yield. But we are still just as muce affected in collected for the henellt of the 11'8111101111. The plaintiff lath
other ways by 'ad harvest.. we used to be, and even act! nis Jones W FL zgerald The complont sets forth
the eifference between an average cr. ip aud an ample that there is a large Mod, called the "Fent. Fund," arid
Coop tells 101 our prooperity. The more deficient ilur 11;:ilevTlib;.1.tliitlrimes,d.
rter=ntiiindotrtnitrAem,r:etzpi;
own harvest ie, the
more corn we must boy aliread ; i
tdermeredire 'ts ; that the funds in que.t ion were collected from
the larger the cop is, the mere of the money we spend
A lahourers stet servant girls to a twigs, extent. and that Mr.
on the staff of life geea to our fprmera at home. se I).Stithollry WY appointed a tomes of these funds ; that
harvest is just FO much new wealth thrown into the although a lons time hes elapsed since he entered upon the
nation's lap. Jost. so much added to its puree. A mil- duties of ho office he has failed to apply th:tfuottdtsoto
,tolie
lion or two quarters of corn is several millions of money Tees
pitebn.to;rdelogrzzeibillorts;Thoviati=l.l.hotszo,eo
more or lees in the great spending fund of the coin- th
dohs , and that &portion of this was deposited with the hankers,
niunitv. When the farmers do well, the rest of ocean Messrs. Beltuotit and Co. The complaint concludes with
scarcely do badly. If they are prospering, the home a prayer for an injunction restraining O'Mahoney and Barr
trade will prosper, and Manchester, Lted., and fir- froni pa; mg any of the funds except by miter of the court
mingham %ill be all the busier with orders from home. The inpinction order was granted, and an investigation will
take place at . early day.
INVENTION FOR SUPPLYING A CITY WiTH HOT
ON ens L. swas.—A steamboat captain on one
AIR.—Experiments are being male by a gentleman
7,7
ILll.oohuasr, wa k.eud.ifg" :gen:
eyitearsy
wiitnh thh.e.l.Zudited.i,. ed
prop.Ml to ferce air raphil . y through a coil or seri. of "Schoce as rer without • light." It w a user. escape.Stlttetas IforitteinAtraheerd'aresuk, titheen Tae looreek'.DotitY freadlingCrib ,
demanded, " What are on doing with your infernal
ii...roi,ivhipeo; hpeipa,,tedmiinuniadefurninwiacee,
oainfidretheeilyto, treichateir. and as the steamer paned the schooner the captain
claimed to be about the beat non-conductor that can be nehoonyer here in the dal* without • light?" To his
dem. the skipper, who was • Frenclunan, answered, ;
had. The firiat trial will be a pump rif eight-m. oh
". Va,t.ze diehle Lou do here viz your ole steamboat fir
diameter and ei lit-inch stroke, and the clay pipee, now
hiCt wthwiarh ,fmee,tt!irt Isietiattach
han,c1.,,,1f
hinthrdeedfebeeig,h.f.inwadmiAanb.cl jk.ust then the steamer
Ine
totg-itnneworeY, "rl.ll ie3lru*:
TARTS 0 CARE or TH 6 M !—A Bavarian journa-
Bit is pleased to record one of the well known charac;
teristice of King Louis of Bevan*, the grandfather of
are laid in the streets it will be necessary to have them
which
: l'lr cl'ceehl ttwtoi thei
ltihanetdfcuit:tteh' the iron
gi:lFiPet"ha . t o
littleThethal to
tri.l "
temperatureel t'trbet Pp
e 'i'p en' t•Pal
the preeeut King, in ibis fashion :
enelosed in a brick arca, lined with mortar made of Me• „ When
tils Majerty repaired to the gate of Paradise be
clay. It is contended, if the thing works according to was somewhat provoked by an amount of delay and a hesita
the expectation of the projector, that but a smell per- tion fir St Peter as tot admitting him, and petulently asked
tion of the coal now need will he necessary fer all heat. 'if he did not know who he west' St. Peter, too much '5-
it,,' and cooking I urposes, which will be a great thing moiled with au Interlocutor Inside, made no reply, and the
in these days ad isli prices off, a que...... on., more asked in • tone of greater urgency,
. when the Saint responded, . floe moment's patismce, your
A. SINGULAR THEATRICAL DieeoTE.—The Paris majesty. They are only locking up St Ursula and the eleven
Tribunal tif Commerce has joet been called on to decide thousand virgins, and you shall be admitted in an instant."
a question of breach ,if contract between directere of
THU BRITISH MUSEUM.—A noble addition has
' theatres. MM. Roulet arid CO., of the Cervit, to in•
been made to the entrance hall, at the Britinh Museum
crease the attraction* of that house, hired several t-' in the shape of • vane of great beauty and fine prepor-
tists from MM. Phlnkett and C t, of the Fele. Hord,
tions, which wan discovered in the coureeof excavatimis
for the purpose of giving some of the farces which have made just 100 years ago in the villa of Hadrian at
rendered the latter place of amunement so popular.
Palestrina. It is shout ten feet in height, including
Those representations were to laet from the let to the
20th July, and MM.. Plunkett and Co. were to receive its ha., and probably dates from the early part of the
second century of our era. The vase in the last century
5.000 f. for the Pervices of the members of their emir-
appears to have belonged to a certain Mr. John Boyd,
puny. M. Luguet was one of the actors, but in con-
rohably a St.t.,human, though resident in England. but
sequence of the decease of his daughter he was unable P
it was purchased only s few years mince by the trustees
b(r.
,r,er
jele' i,,,:,
to appear for three nights, and the representationn
from a gentleman mimed Hugh Johnson, and until
thus suspended were not reenmed. MM. Roulet and
recently it was lying in • sadly mutilated state among
• Co. conmequently put forward a claim fur 10 0001.
the Halicarnaegian and other marbles, under the um
damage@ for breach of contract on the mat of MM.
nightly sheds which still disfisure the facade of the
Plunkett and Col who, on their ride, had received
museum. It has been carefully restored under the sum
; only 1.500 f. of the 5,0001., and commenced a Crone
erintendence of the keeper of the Greek and Roman
action to enforce pert:went of the remainder, allegiog
anti nit., the broken parts being rejoined with copper
that the directers of the (.1-kite might have enbntituted fe;l_,_
' other pieces for those in which M lynguet was to ap- '"`""-'14'•
pear, or have given three additional night. at the clops TALKING AND DRINKING.— Mr. Canning was
of the eerie.. The Court nonomitell each of the parties, Once invited to a grand banquet by the London Fish-
but condemned MM. Boulet and Co. to pay ell the monger.' Company ata time of great public excitenient.
costs. When he arrived it 881181 intimated that it would be Ile-
Vrabln that lie shoeld give hie sentiments on the. then
. RITUALISTIC ADVERTISEMENTS.— The following
tate of puhlic affairs, and that a very convenient tinie
, advertisements are not from the Tablet (remarks the
to it would be in acknowledging the health of His
Pell Mall Gositle). They appear in a weekly paper
Majeety'e ministers. Mr. Canning listened to the corn.
purporting to represent the feelings and opinions of
muniestion gravely and politely, but made no answer
members lif the Chnrch of England : whatever to it. When he rose to reply to the teast
everybody was on the tiptoe of eXpectation, waiting
A Masi WINitoW —ST —, --.--The Vicar's
a ""ght"' M'Y. i'
ph.csd in the fish of th,s beautiful church to the honour of
Blessei ll ary. earnestly as. all the Mari. t • !telpher "Gentlemen," Paid Mr. Claming, "we ere invited here
either ny a small or a large doom iCIII —.lddreAs um, to meet the tishn,ongerP. Now the fishmongers have
ALTAR BREAM—Pura Wafer Bre d for altar use, in sheets. dealings with the mend ere of • vet y large conamunity
averaging one large and nine small wafers, price HIM shilliug of fishes. The fish in one of the moat utic minuniciative
for twenty-five heets. by runt, fourteen stamps. The hri'..'s animals in creation ;it says nothirg, and it drinks a
may be had stampod wiih ecclesiastical device., or in plain good deal. let us then, upon the present ece.....ion, as
circles, et. elae in sheets without .y Imprint. 'these
we. are to some extent bronght into their company,
gcpriet, rehal.ydrfen,ir
_ulep,
ing, but drink a good deal ! And ett, rut the reporter
—'s Convent, —.
playretochgritdev', lithoethrearte Sl'if- undate their habits , let tie
,r,lot waste our time in taIk-
;SHAHS It SUICIDs.—Ellen Calver, a young say, he returned his seat amidst roars of laughter.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.— The
womanex-
itb-longing to the sect of the "Shakers," re-
cently committed suicide by drowning herself, at New perience 14 the Bristol am! Exeter Railway Company
Lebanon. A statement of the facts was afterwards in the matter of third-class trains appears to differ
pub,islie,l by the society to which she belonged. The from that of other compel:dee, if the etatement at
Shakers Were, however, at a herin 40 find A eause for their half-yearly meeting on the eubject by one of
"so uet mely and digagremible an exit," utiler, it were their director", Mr. M. Castle, is correct. Mr. Castle
"Inc 'laity on the point of std.lt life in the spirit .id the quention bad often come under the coneibera-
sphere," or, what neeme at any rate to be mere intel- tion of the traffic committee, who thought their first
le./ibis, "the use of cepal vareieh, which she had been duty was to get the greatest amount of revenue they
applying to s bedirtead of bee own, in a confined could for the company. They had tried the expert-
sums two or three hours before her death, ment of third.class passengers on the Bristol and
and which, idle afterwards bait'. Made her hen,' Exewr, the South Devon, and the Cernwall lines,
feel dizzy and very lowly." The report states and it had proved a failure in every inetance ;
that " her spiritual organisation was large, which some- they carried a vast 'ember more passengers, but
tinle. 10l her L, pleas ant illuminatient while in the got a less return. He had no hesitation in pay-
f AMR- worship ; thew conditoins increased nisiii her bug thst diming the twelve menthe they tried the
gr. a,ly to her ple.nreami .tiefaction, but not always experiment they lost nearly i per cent. dividend. If
.... mech no to her surrounding friends; suitable caution the shareholdere desired the directors to make another
was idiot dealt out in counsel at various times, t,o attempt at the third class pweenger scheme they wonld
balance her growing eropen.ity for spirit communion ; ; obey. but he was certain it wouki not increase the
care wee taken that she should not le expired to gr . revenue. They found that by reducing the number of
imianchaily b. ehe W. somewhat inClmed to be), and . third-class trains they increased the amount 'if the
all that mead excite euch a conditieu was carefully ; revenue. If they had thini•clasie carriages attached to
avoided."-- The jury keturned a verdict of " relmPorterY l every train they would make the second more select.
inianity." 1 and pmewngere would be drained from the first to the
MURDER BY A PHYSICIAN.—Dr. Schoeppe, a second clause, becalm irersons might at well travel in
Pennsylvanian physician, was recently convicted of the the second as the fleet if the roughert of the passengers
murder of a Miss Steinecke, by joison. A mot•itin was ' were taken from the second to the third.
maile fir a new trial, but it bee been refused. The To IN FA NTIN E SMOICENB. We Saw the follow-
facts of the case were briefly summarised by the judge, tog advertisement in the Liverpool Mercury
who said : wante i, a Smart Boy, well acquainted with a Tobacco-
Tour victim was an old 1.17 65 years of age, friendless and tin's counter.
unp d, rotecte and at the Hine a hoarder in envoi our hotels, vho . . , .
was pos«esned of an estate of about 40,000 dols. You Wishing, if possible to supply the want, Mr. Punch
gained her cot.ll fence to tarn to correspond with her, and I...ked ronnd at slot ef boya whom he knew, but Lund
obtain from her 1.000 11018. Emboldened by your snore., . that they weul.l not do, for each of them AS are well
acquainted with Tribacconlst'e counters are very far
you determbed to possess her entire estate, and to
effect your purpose you we a I. tter purporting to
from smart, being tumidly stupid, slangy, pert cede.
be the will of Maria Steinecke, and porporthi to be
signel by her, In whi gh
poi are ti.e sole legatee, However, having found one that he tintught might
8101 to this paper your mane and the earn° of your father preasible answer, Me. Punch dispatched him to Liver-
are attached an witnesses That this paper is forged and pool. He was returned by the next train. The boy
false cannot he doubted, for your father, who was examined wanted 8838 for the nther side of the counter, the aide
as a witness by your c 011.., was not eveu asked whether on which brains are required.—Puncla
the paper was germine. But to consummate your purpose
the death of Miss Stelnecke was nrcessary ; this. the jury MILITARY JURISERLIDANCn.—For trying to kill
have mond by their verdict, you soon afterwards effected, by himself a non;comudePioned officer, named Fuller, hate
adudniateriug to her poison limn senteeced by a C.,urt Martial to nearly two years'
Sentence of death was then pronounced in the usual confinement in a military prison, and to forfeitnre of
form. past claims for rewards and pensions for the term of
his natural life. This seems to be a very remarkable
ceuree of proceeding with s view to deter a man from
abrhiging that tetra. Its only conceivable effect can
be that of causing a person stout to con,mit suicide to
take care to kill himself effectually. That is, to kill
liiineelf effectually in the current Pence of the verb to
kith Whether a man can really kill himself is a ques-
tion which occurred, indeed. to Hamlet the Dane, bet
is not likely to occur to a British non-cemmimioned
officer. This the Hon. Guards and the Duke of
Cambridge might have conaidereil before approving of
a sentence., which, by way of encouraging a noidier to
live, makes his life still noire wretched than it was
before, when he found it unbeerable.— Punch.
THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION.—It has fre-
quently been asserted of late, especially in connection
e ith the strikee of certain trades, that the continental
m mufaciurere are running English producers hard in
their own markets. The latest instance we have en-
countered is recorded by the Manchester Guardian, and
we commend it to the notice of the many thousands
engaged in the British iron trade :
Recently come iron girders, rolled and riveted, were re-
quired 111 the construction of a mansion between Leeds and
Bradford. and a eumber if English and Belgian ironfounders
wet e requested to supply tenders, according to specification,
as to the price at which they would furnish the girders re-
quired. The highest render received was from a Kradforil
ironfounder, and was £l2O ; and the lowest, which included
the delivery of the streets on the aite, was from • Belgian
ironfounder, and was £63. The latter was accepted.
Ale 'EVENING WITH THE SPIRITS.—The Now
Tech Times says :
LAM evening Mews Bastian and Bough, of Brooklyn,
gave a notice at Ni'. 62 Bleeckerstreet, after the manner of
the Davenports, layet, Er dye, arid others. The room iii which
the 'ranee took place IVell, of course, it okeram, for the
spit'un love darkness rather than light. and the two young
men tieing bolo.' by a committee chosen from among the
antierme, an placed to ar a table, on which were various
musical instruments, bele, Ac., the Instruments were played
111,011 and the brUs were rung awl thrown from the table,
a osted abut the room, and performed various other eccentric
movements Then the young men were unbound, and were
afterwards hound by spirits, or somebody, or wmtething, end
Iron rings were grimed on thetr arms and then slipped off
again their arms and wrists being Ali this time firmly bound
—at least so it appeared; but as all these performances took
place in the dark. it Is. of course impossible to speak with
any certainty On the subject.
THE TRAINISG FOR THE HUT RAM—While
there can be little douet that the human baiy may lie
fortified by a :peel and judieious eystem If training, Cu
as to render it more capable of austardeg great and
unwonted exertion, it is sell more certain that the
physical powers may he dminiehed and the health Un-
dermined by one of an opposite character (says The
Lance). There were mime who thought that the
system pursued by the Harvard crew Mffirenced the
result of the late international race ; and if their diet
scale had been redly Puch as was laid down by one of
our contemporaries the idea would have had some
foundation. But we have ascertained that the
Harvard men were allowed during their traieing
plenty of meat, with milk, rice, vegetables, and
fruit. Conipared with the dietry of their oppo-
nents, it mainly differed in the matter
the
differ-
ences which the Oxonians were allowed to,:tnhaeumtweo, will: t,hore
Americans used so beer, wine, or spirits. It is asserted
that the Harvard crew had been in training for four
years. We cannot pretend to exprem any opinion as
what might mthieghrotwhinavgeanbedenst,,tehrienieg
et"nc
powers to make the victory theirs.
as to the effect of the want of experience of "or river
on the part of the Harvard men; hut the differeerwa
—A Curious marriage tic-
of diet cle.ly had nething to do with the reolit. '1 in-
,alt..°mlir-i:nuaitethlnitaaytnhityes
y, Newl ::,..
gYot:tr kh
saidi
sp s :the:::
crews were well matched. the race w. unwt eeverely
conteotwd, and it is evident that the (yeomann bad to
ciiihnefr, put
coh,medry,wß forth
litiohuethts.petmErob.:f:bzilnilipnsyl
A etoue-hlind bridelaroim wee led by his bluelting bride
te the altar of a Juntice of the Peace. That honest
ond benevolent fonctiototry felt it to he hie duty ts,
was really lone of the ugliest women in the world, and
that she had already, to his certain knowledge, buried
two husbands. To this the bridegroom responded that
accorling to the beet of his recollections, she was thea
"a thing of beauty" and "a form of life and light."

A SPEAKING M Professor Faber's
ppeaking-machine is to be exhibited at Hamburg during
the continuance of the International Horticultural Ex-
hibition. 11 is said to articulate Yarieus words, and
even to answer questions and simple sentences with
wonderful distinctness. This is by no means the firer,
invention of the kind that has been exhibited. Wolf-
gang 17011 Kempelen, the inventor of a chess automaton,
who was to ru at Presburg in 1734, and died at Vienna,
1804, both constructed a machine of the kind and
wrote on the subject. The machine about to he exhi-
bited at Hamburg is, however, more perfect than any
previous invention of the kind.
RUHALISI k G N VAR Romir..—A communication
from Rome, in the Monde says :
A very regrettable incident took place on August 50, rails-
leg touch trouble and apprehension to those who are ruralis-
ing at Albmo Ihe Duke Grseitill, on borsekat•k, eccom-
panted hy his daughter, was retnrning at about seven in tine
evening from an excursion and was taking, to shorten ha
route, the grand road di (op a, which leads wont tarn cla to
('Mel Gmdolfo, when at a turn of the way. near Chia* park.
he suddenly saw three bandits. armed ieith carbines, start
out of a thicket where thu y had been concealed, bar his pas-
sage, and po nt their pieces at him with an order to deli' er
up at mice all the pmperty he had about. him. The Duke,
seeing the impossib.lity of resistance, wax obliged to comply,
and ahandoned his nurse, cont”ining a INN note of the Rank
of Frame and about 401. in small money, It is wal, ch and
that of his daughter also passed into the hands of the
brie WWI.
SFIGCKING OCCURRENCE IN LONDON.—OII Tues-
day evening the inhabitante of Crown.court. Chancery-
lane, were alarmed by screams and cries of "Murder."
which 'mice...sled from the house numbered 2. A
widow minted Susan Jeffreys, aged eighty•four, resided
in a back loom on the eecond floor If the hou«e referred
; and a yourg man, Thomas Williams, residing in
the same building, hearing the cries, proceeded to
ascertain the cause, and found the unfortunate
creature referred to enveloped in flames, and lying on
the landing outside her d.mr. From the bed in her
room he took some blankets, and rolled her in them,
and she was carried to King's College Hospital by four •
firemen, who by this time had arrived with several
engines and fire escapee. It was found that she had
been burned severely in Neveral pasts of the body, more
especially about the head and chest; and it is feared
that the shock to the system will terminate fatally.
Toe sufferer had been confined to her bed for some
time, and from her statement it seems that she was
getting Out of bed, and set light to her night dress by
the candle in the room. The young man,
was much burnt in his praiseworthy efforts, and he
alre. retuaiLs in the hospital with his hands and arms
injured.
STRANGE OCCURRENCE,— An extraordinary affair
occured near L,Terpaml on Friday evening. About
half .pant seven o'clock a man woo observed on the shore
of the Menu:sr, near the Dingle, Tot teth-park, walking
towards Aigburth. He was lost sight of for two or
three minute., and when again observed was seen to
have taken off his hat, coat, and vest, which he had
placed upon the around, and he was in the river swim.
ming and splashing his artus about in the water,
apparently bathing in his under clothing. Aa he con-
tinued to get further in the river, and as the tide, which
was then running in strong, began to float his clothes,
he was shouted to by persons who were on the shore,
• to whom 'ne ehouted back in reply, but indistinctly, and
still continued to float with the tide towards Gar ston,
tieing finally lost eight of. There can be little doubt
but that he was drowned. His name is unknown.
Wising VS RfOril MEN.—Miss Susan B. Anthony I
representa a die, urhing element in the labour market
which may hereafter give some tmuhle to trade
iini no .remaiks the Pall Mall Gazette). If women
are to make good their claim to be admitted as workera
tee eurest way of effecting it ii. obvionely to undersell
men. Employer. of commonplace minds are not
likely to give them • trial unless they see their way n.
...sing money by the experiment. l'ili«s Anthony
«et ms to ilaVe gauged this weakness on the part if the
...rem so accurately thst she mixed the occasion of a
tinter)e strike in New Y. ok Or make known the merits
• 4 female type•setteix and readers in substitution for
•he men on strike. This is not her only offence. In
spite of her masculine nand, Mil.. Anthony is still a
I woman, and, like ail women, she is something of aserew.
la her capacity of publisher of the Revolution she is.