The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-04 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

A BISEIOP RF.BUICHIth—The Rev. John Ingle,
one of the leading High Churchmen of Exeter, has
d,clined to sign the memorial to the Archbishop of
Canterbury against Dr. Temple's consecration. In a
caustic letter addressed to Bishop Trower he says :
"

You speak ot Dr. Temple's continued countenance of the
"Essays and Reviews," forget( ul of tire fact thtt such coun-
tenance is certainly a matter purely of your own inference
and surmise, and may for all you know exist only in your
own imagination. Your only ground for the charge is that
he did not adopt that particular mode of purgation which
you (and I too) think he should have adopted. Your other
unfounded assumption is an uncharitable one. You speak
and write and act as tins one hut those who Join your pro-
tests and inemorials can care for the purity and integrity of
the Catholic faith. On this head I wish only to say that I
would point simply to my own past life and to that of your
lordship. There is about the memorial before me only one
thing on which I can look with satisfaction. It is the absence
of those fearful accusations which made my blood run cold
mil read your lordship'eletter to the Lord Primus of the Church
of Scotlami. How can you or anybody else know that even
"Essays and Reviews" have ruined souls ! Does your lord-
ship still dare thus to [Atm the Throne of the Eternal Judge?
I trust that the absence from the memorial of this fearful
element of the letter may be taken as proof that your
lordship's eyes have been opened to its terribly profane
character.

THE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISICARY, IN RETINA.—
The foot-and-mouth riisease is now very prevalent in
all parts of the Russian empire. At the agricultural
exhibition which has just been held at St. Petersburg,
257 cattle died of this disease. The cattle plague (rio-
derpest) has also broken out at St. Petersburg and in
Eastern Russia. In the Southern provinces it has
entirely disappeared, owing, it is said, to the system of
inoculation which is largely practised in those coun-
tries.

RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN SWEDEN.—We SO
rarely get interesting news from Sweden that it is
much to be recretted that the most salient point in
recent advices should be the petty persecution carried
on against a harmless religious sect. The Stockholm
papers of the 20th instant show that Sts eden is still
sadly behind the world in the matter of toleration ;
and an industrious man named Erwin has been made
to know the truth of the proverb that "he that in-
creaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." The following
is the paragraph :
Levying execution on goods for an offence against religion.
—We stated not long ago that the Baptist, Aron Amhrm.lus
&non, to Mora, decarlis, had been fined 75 ddllars for ex-
pressing his conviction about infant baptism, and that he
had been threatened with execution on his small winter sup-
ply of corn for the mom tof the fine. In a letter to a local
newspaper, tilted gist October, he writes, '• The constable
was here yesterday and seized goods for 75 dollars. Ile took
away four kettles fur 12 dole., a cart for 20 dole., a sledge for
20 dole. and a clock for 25 dolt, together 77 dole." With
respect to the stipulation in the renal code that in execution
for fines there shall not be taken "Implements necessary
for the cultivation of the soil or what the person fined other-
wise requires for the carrying on of his trade or occupation,"
he mentions, "that being under the oblige, ion to do reserve
posting at Garberg's posting station every sixth week for his
holding, he has been deprived of the means of doing so by
having his cart and sledge taken away.
--••••• • • • •- •

Erwin will probably survive this calamity, and if he
is a prudent father of a family will keep his opinions
to himself in future. But surely it is sad that in any
part it Christendom, and especially of Protestant ,
Christendom, such miserable treatment of an indus-
trious peaceable citizen should be permitted.
A GAOL-BIRD M.P.—The Electors of Tipperary
have chosen as their M.P. • convict Fenian, now in
gaol, and likely to remain there. He is a very
proper representative of his Constituents, and we re-
commend Government to give deputations from them
every opportunity of making his better acquaintstncx,
which can only he wade by somewhat protracted
sojourn with the Honourable Gentleman.—Punch.
WANTED AN EAST PLACk.—The Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher some time since received a letter from a
young man, who recommended himself very highly as
being honest, awl closed with the request "Get me an
eow situation, that honesty may be rewarded." To
which Mr. Beecher replied—
Don't be an author, if you would be "easy" Do not try
the law Avoid school-keeping. Keep out of the pulpit.
Let alone all ships, stores, shops, and merchandise. Abhor
polities. Keep sway from lawyers. Don't practise medi-
, else. Be not a armor, not a mechanic; neither a soldier nor
a sailor. Dint sin In. Don't think. Don't work. Nroie of
them are eisy. Oh, my honest friend, you are in a v.,ry
hard world. I know of but one really easy" place tat;. That
Is the grave.

HuRRID AIIIISZ OF HANDIL.--To commemorate
the execution of the traitors, Larkin, Allen, and
O'Brien, hanged at Manchester for the murder of
brave Policeman Brett, a gang of Fenians, 4000
strong, marched through Cork the other night, led by
a band playing the "Deed March in Saul.' How this
would have dbgusted Handel ! If that grest master
could have foreseen those fellows' seditious' demonstra-
tion, he might, however, have adapted a Mardi to it,
namely, not the "Dead March in Sated," but the
Rogues March in custody.—Punch.

THE Lots OF THE " CARNATIC.”—A very pain-
ful inquiry has ended in • painful manner. It is de•
cided that Captain Jones, of the Peninsular awl
Oriental Company's reamer Carnatm was guilty of
grave default when that splendid vessel was loot, to-
gether with thirty-one human lives, about three weeks
ago, in the Gulf of Suez. His certificate is suspended
for nine months, and he has the additional punishment
of bearing some part in the responsibility of a great
disaster. It must be stated, however, in fairness, that
this was not an unanimous judgment ; and, indeed,
only on one ;stint was a majority of the Court abso-
lute in its opinion. They found that he had neglected
to take in time the hearing of the revolving light
which would have indicated his true course, and that
thus he brought his ship among the breakers and on
I the fatal reef. His plea was that he had been carried
out of his way by an extraordinary current ; and, in-
deed, there seems reason to believe that the steamer
was under every possible rare. This was no case of
ignorance, of recklessness, of indolence, or of an inade-
quate equipment.
EAM DE Cot' WM—A singular trial has just
taken place at Cologne to clear up the point as to
whether a Mall may sell false eau tie Cologne with im-
punity. A French traveller who had been allured by
the cheapnese of some of the vaunted perfume bought
a bottle, but found that it was both scentless and
dangerous, for en rubbing his hand with it he burned
linage-1f as though with vitriol. The tribunal judged,
hoe ever, that it could give him no relief, for the label,
although so closely resembling that of the genuine
water, had been candid enough to state in microscopic
cbarecters that "the contents were an imitation of
which the purity was not guaranteed !"
Pooh SHAREHOLDER/3.—AL the Rolls' Chambers
in L radon, on Tuesday, in the winding-up ca wof
liarned's Bank, application was main for two balance
• dew for nonpayment of calls. In one case the cell
was £24,001, and in the other £l,OOO. In the second
case it was represented, on the part of the contribu-
tory, and that he could not pay, and if forced mu-t
apply to the Court of Bankruptcy; he would, by his
friends, raise £lOO in January, if that amount would
be accepted in full. The Chief Clerk said he had no
doubt that the official liquidators would give their
favourable consideration to the applicatiom Ile
might ray that in public companies being wound up
nil matters were investigated, and if parties would
fairly meet the claims they would be fairly dealt
with, and there could be no desire to proceed
to extreme rnerures. He would make the orders
as required, awl all parties could meet the liqui-
dators, and he hail no doubt every c misideration would

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yliAaeis ii',l ll i t SHOT.—Between twelve and
one o'clock on Monday morning, a gamekeeper,
named Jarnee Leyland, in the service of Lord Skel-
mersdale, wan shot by poachers. Leyland was
passing over }linear Moss, Lathorn, near Ormskirk,
when he heard a shot fired. He at once told his
father, who in also a keeper, of the circurnetatce, and
the latter sent for the /MOW &tee of the game watchers.
Before the watchers arrived young Leyland rushed
into the cover, where he saw three men amid with
guns. He was in the act of seizing one of these men,
when the fellow turned n und and fired at Leyland,
shooting him in the left hand and arm, and also in the
breast. The poachers then made off, and, as the night
wee dark, they escaped. Le)lancl'e injuries, although
severe, are not likely to.prove fatal.
WORTH SEEING, NO DOUBT —Our American
cousins ere a little jealous of the success of the Khedive
in assembling so many royal and princely personages
in Egypt. They are anxious to show how much better
, they would entertain them if these distinguished lions
would only cross the Atlantic and inspect their insti-
tutions. A civil reply of the Empress Eugenie to Mr.
' Morris, the United States 51imister, to the effect that
she should hire to visit America if she could find a pre.
text for doing so. has roused the gallantry of the in-
habitants of New York, who pnipose that General
Grant, in the name of Mrs. Grant and the ladies of the
United Slates, ehould invite her Imperial Majesty to
cruse the Atlantic and show her the spectacle of C en-
grow in session. The Hew York Herald suggests that
a similar invitation might be rent to Queen Victoria,
"which might result in bringing both those exalted
and excellent women over, and in the Frame ship, pro-
vided that meantime some satisfactory understanding
is reached touching those Alabama claims."
THE JUGGLER VAIN. A Conceited Con-
juror—Penn.
TRADE lIETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED
STATE6.—The New York correspondent of the &mt.,-
man writes: "A despatch from Washington gives
some interesting information concerning the subject of
a re-arrangement of trade between Canada and the
United States. It appears that the value of breadstuffs
exported from the United States into Canada during
the last twelve monthsha.s been 12,282 561 dole., and that
Western Canada is supplied with coal to a great extent
from the mines of Ohie and Pennsylvania. The
Canadian government has notified to the authorities at
Washington that unless the trade between the two
countries in so arranged as to be somewhat reciprocal,
they fear they will be unable to withstand the pressure
from all parts of the Dominion, urging them to do away
with the system of fishery licences, and compelling
American fisherman to remain outeide of the three.
mile limits of the shores of Canada; to establish a duty
on foreign coal, PO as to give the merket of Western
Canada to Novia Scotia coal, instead of having it sup-
plied, al at present, from Pennsylvania and Ohio; Pi
piece an export duty on pine timber, and an import
duty on Auserican breadetuffs, a large market for which
is now found in Canada under their free admiasion by
the present Canadian tariff. At the last session of
Carigress the House of representatives requested the
executive to re-open negotiation.; with Great Britain
for the adjustment of these matters, am:, dnring the
summer, Mr. Thornnim was invited to a conference on
the subject, which, , wever resulted innothing definite.
The affair will form one of the many themes upon
which much tall talk may be expected during the
coming session.
FRIGHTFUL FALL OVER A PRECIPICE.— The river
Eden thieads its circuitous course beneath the 1 li on
which the village of Stanwix (Carlisle), etanils, a d
about half a mile distant from the city the river r in
underneath a very high unprotected scene. The heig h
of this scam. is from 50 to 70 feet, and is very steep.
On Friday afternoon Mr. Irving, a retired gentlemen,
had occasion to go along this scour to the village of
Cargo, some two miles diatant. Thenight wasintenrely
dark and stormy, and it was difficult for anyone out of
the city to see more than a yard in advance. About
two o'clock on Saturday morning Mr. Irving's dog
arrived at home without its master, and this fact
alarmed deceased's family. A search was at once
instituted, hut no trace of the oldgentleman was found
until shortly afttr mirl-clay on Saturday, when his
dead body was found lying in the river Eden at the
foot of a steep precipice. It is supposed that Mr.
Irving in the darkness of the night had walked over the
precipice, which is 60 feet high at the place where his
body was found.
Civic Wert —A City friend of ours, who takes
considerable interest in the fattening of his fowls,
alleges, RS a reason, that he is an advocate for widening
the Poultry.—Punch.
CoUttieriternua CONDUCT OF A LADY.—TRe Royal
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son, a lady residing in Henry-street, Derby, for saving
the life of a child, named Sarah Ann Sharratt, under
the following circumstances:—
lire Thompson, In company with another lady, was walk-
ing on the Nottingham-road, Derby, and when opposite the
racecourse it commenced raining fast They sought shelter
In a cottage close by, and while there a scream end splash
were heard, indicative of a fall into the water. Running to
the bank of the canal, Mrs. Thompson, with great presence
of mind, sprang Into a small boat, and by (lint of great
exertion reached within a few feet of the spot where the
child had fallen in, just in time to seize it as it rose to the
surface of the water a second time. While thus employed
In the stern of the boat, no one being in it to render her any
assistance, it was capsized, and Mrs. Thompson was sub-
merged. She retained her hull of (he child, however, and
after a lengthened Mengel° succeeded in placing her In the
boat, and ultimately t. ads her safely to shore. Sloth the
child and her deliverer were much exhausted, and Mrs.
Thompson received several bruises, one on her leg of a
serious description, but the child, under proper treatment,
soon recovered A year or two since the husband of the
above lady was instrumental in saving the life of a boy,
whom be discovered drowning in the same canal.
THE ROYAL FAMILY.—The Prince and Princess
of Wales have now five children, two sons and three
daughters—viz., Prince Albert Victor, born January
8, 1864 ; Prince George Frederick, born June 3, 1865 ;
Princess Louise Victoria, born Februnry 20, 1867 ;
Princess Victoria Olga, born July 6, 1868; and the
Princess born November 26, 1869. Their Royal High-
nesses were married on March 10, 1863. Her Majesty
has now sixteen grandchildren. The Crown Princess
of Prussia has three sons and two daughters; the
Princess Alice one son and three daughters; the
Princess of Wales two sons and three daughters; and
the Princess Helena two sons. One of the Queen's
grandchildren. a son of the Crown Princess of Prussia,
died in July, 1866.
APROPoiI OF THE SUEZ CANAL. —(l3y the
Ghost of Palmerston.)---If the Shareholders no' r.er see
the distribution of a dividend, the Canal may stilllead
tea considerable division of sovereigns—Punch.
MR. GLADSTONE ON THE TAXATION OF
CHARITIES. —The controversy respecting the adminis-
tration of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in London,
recalls a passage in a speech delivered by Mr. Glad-
stone, whilst Chancellor of the Exchequer, in with-
drawing his scheme for the taxation of charities, May
4, 1863. The right hon. gentleman on that occasion
said :
One of the great evils of the present system is that while
you bestow public money 011 these establishments you dis-
pense with all public control over them, and thus annul all
effective motives for economy Endowed institutions laugh
at public opinion The press knows frothing of their expendi-
ture ; Parliament knows nothipg of it. It is too much to
say that hospitals are managed by angels and archangels, and
do not, like the rest of humanity, stand in need of super-
vision, Cliiiolllol, sad reMille. Therefore, even in the case of
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proceeded to the spot, and fund the dead body of a
man, having two wounds, evidently caused by shots,
in his head. He at once raised an alarm and the body
with assistance, wasoonveyed to the White Hatt Inn.

The body is apparently that of • man of about forty-
tee years of age, and respectably attired. Three pawn-
brokers' tic'tets were found on the person of the
deceased, and four penny pieces. The ticket. are all
dated the 24th of N•veinlier, at different maitre:sea, all
in Lou ion, ant the name given on each by tbej erson
yawning was John Williams. The body was not then
identified, and no weapon has been found near the spot.
The place where the unfortunate man was h mud is
about 300 yards from Cuckfield Church, and 100 from
the footpath which runs by the pond.
A RE.PRISSENTATIVE IN TAN RIGHT PLACE.—The
Electors of Tipperary, in returning O'Donovan Tdiasa
their Member of Parliament, have done a fine thing
for that convicted Fenian. No doubt her Majesty's
Government will now be in a hurry to remit It Issit's
sentence of penal servitude, and release him from con-
finement, in ord-r that he may repre,ent his local con-
stituents in the House of Commons instead of repre-
. .

eenting them in gasol.—Punch.
ATTEMPT TO UPSET A TRAIN —A dastardly
attempt to upset a passenger train was made on S stur-
day evening. On th arrival of the test train at Rich-
mond from Darlington it was found that the frame•
work at the front part of the engine to which th. guard
bars are attached was fractured, showing that the bars
which pass close down iii front of the whee's hid en-
countered some obstruction. The dtiver had remarked
a jerk at a point between the Moulton and Scorton
: stations, and on this place being examined it was dis-
covered that is sleeper had been placed across the rails,
lut the guard bars hod happily thrown it off. From
the fracture of the framework of the engine it was
clear that the train hal hen placed in imminent danger.
At the point where the astraction wvs encountered
there is a eharp curve and an embankment on the line.
Had ill, tram left the rails it must have gone over the

Wipbankment.
GOOD ROUND GAME.—A Plump Partridge.
—Punch. _

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As UNFORTUNATE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.—
All is not confaer de rose in the life of a newepaper
correspondent in Dalmatia. Herr Louis Hautur,
artist aml arrecial cot rempondent for a Leipsic illustrated
journal (Garterlaubi), was surprised, on 28th October,
while sketching the rules of a village burned by the
Austrians the day before, bye numerous band of in-
surgent Bucchesh These semi-barbarians, not content
with robbing their unfortunate victim, cut off his ears,
and, according to the Turkish custom in such cases,
thrust them iuto his pockets. Herr Hantur has re-
turned to Vienna, and intends to claim an indemnity
from the Austrian Government.
THE FALL or A RAILWAY BRIDGE.—The fol-
lowing details of this catastrophe are given by the
North German Correspondont :
As accident of a melancholy and fatal character occurred
at the railway bridge now in the course of construction over
the Rhine between Hamm and Neuss on the 20th inst. At
about ten o'clock a vessel I aden with 4,500 centners of iron ore
approached the bridge. the steamer Dolphin, which Is em.
pioyed to tow vessels past the place were the works are Tieing
constructed, was at the moment engaged with some rafts,
and this was notified to the skipper, who was requested to
cast anchor where he was, i.e , about 1,000 paces abeve the
building. Ile paid lio attention to these warnings, but nice'
turned hie course. The result was that the vessel struck
agatiirt one of the eupports of the bridge, and literally crushed
It, thus bringing down into the river the immense mass of
it on resting upon it. The craft was of course destroyed, and
, those on board, the man, with his wife and three children
, perished. About 40 men were working on the part of the
1 bridge which fell, at the time of the accident; 15 having
I observed the danger they were in, escaped to the neighbouring
arches, the rest fell into the river with the ironwork. At
the date of the last accounts three corpses had been re-
covered, six men had bee,i brought to land severely wounded
and eleven were still sensing. Many of the labourers, strange
to say, bad suffered.° little from the fall that they were soon
able to resume their work. The loss in a pecuniary point of
view is severe. Five vessels belonging to the railway con-
tractor, Mr Ilaikort, of liaspe, were lying near the bridge at
Ike time of the accident, and these were all sunk. Their
crews escaped to the small boats and the bank In all 19
lives seem to have been lost, and 14 men severely wounded,
three of whom are not expected to reeve,
Or Couitsz —lf the Viceroy owed you any-
thing would you distrain on his goods? Certainly
not. What would you do, then? Sue his Canal.—
Punch.
A PaosirT PROOF' !—ln one of the Paris police.
courts, M. du Pinson charged M. Scholl, the editor of
the Lorgnon. with having astuvulted him be strikirg
him on the head with a loaded stick. M. Schol
brought a countercharge, accusing M. du Bisson of
having grossly insulted him and drawn a knife,
whereupon he struck him in self-defence. The affair
occurred in the public street, and seems to have been
creditable to neither party. The dagger-knife which
M. du 'Sisson had bared, whether for defence or offence
was not positively proved, was produced in court and
lay on the clerk's desk. H. du Bisson's adversaries
having asserted that the blade was poieoned, he reached
auroras and seized the weapon, and laying his hand on
out copiously. 'lt in very easy," he said, "to anc-r-
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coolly drew it oat of the wonnd, and wrapped a handker-
chief round his hand, apparently quite unmoved by the
pain. The bench and the audieuce were much agitated
by this strange scene. M. Serholl was condem tiled to a
fine ands few days' imprisonment.
CJNVICTION OF A LADY FOR STEALING.—A
painful case has just been tried before the Tribunal of
Correctional Pollee, Parke, a respectable married lady
named Meille, aged 32, being charged with attempting
to steal a pair of woollen stockings from the Magnetos
du Louvre. The lady declared that being for the
moment unoccupied ahe had taken up the stockings to
examine them, hut before she could lay them down
the asnistant rushed forward, cc her hand and
called out, "We have caught the band !" Ssveral
persons, and swing them a member cf the French
Academy, who had long known the family of the
prison.-r, declared that she was incapable if such an
act. The Court, hi-met er, condemned her to a month's
imprisonment. Milme. Maine burst into tears on
hearing the sentence, and a lady in the court, said to
be her mother, exclaimed several times in the midst of
sobs, "She is innocent! she is innocent !"
POPULATION IN AMERICA.—It has been calcu-
latod that were the whole Union peopled as densely as
Massachusetts, it would have a population of
612.000 000, a number far outstripping the teeming
multitudes of China, and conetituting it the greatest
empire of ancient or modern times. This computa-
tion supposes an average of 173 persons to the square
mile, a proportion vsry largely exceeded in many
countries of the Old World. The State of New York
shows an average of ninety-four persons to the square
mile. It Was lately estimated that our population in
the year 1920 would amount to 100,000 OCO, an in.
or, are which would give an average of twenty-eight
persons to each square mile in the Union. The
Philadelphia North American quotes these figures to
support the statement that Pennsylvania can and will
sustain with ewe a population of 30 000 ow. Her vast
mineral resources are still in the infancy of their de-
velopment, and yet they at present yield sixty per
cent, of all the iron made in the United States. In
t addition to this the Keystone State yields a steadily
increasing annual total of 17,000,000 tons of coal.
Ma. BRIGHT AND Tillt FARMERS. —Our readers
may be aware (says the Birmingham Gazette) that the
Board of Trade requires annual returns from agricul-
thralists of the statistics of their ground crops, acreage,
Ac. A Warwickshire farmer, the other day, returned
the printed form to Somerset House, fille i in with the
following remark, in lieu of the etatietics required:—
Jobs Bright's instruction to farmers in one a his
speeches was "not to meddle with figures, hut to watch the
sunshine and showers at home, and hot bother the Govern-
ment with their affairs.'? I will take his advice in this
matter. T. MANN,
Medway, 1869.
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declaration gauged considerable mirth among the ern-
ploy6s of the department to which it was addressed.
PERSECUTION A, D PUFFERY.—LongmanE Green
and Co. are advertising the Twelfth Edition of
Essays and Reviews. That is what Pusey and Cis, have
got by their agitation against Dr. Temple.—Panch,
A TELLING ARGUMENT ! —Mr. C S. Read, M.P.,
the Norfolk tenant farmer member, at a dinner in
honour of Mr. J. Clayden, an Essex agriculturist,
complained bitterly of the policy of the Privy Council
in regard to agricultural matters. "I believe," said
the hon. member, "that if a body of roughs were to go
down to the Privy Council Office at Westminster,
smash the windows there, break the furniture, and
chase the officials so that they had to take refuge in
the Abbey, it would have more effect than all thefacts
and arguments which we have for so many years put
calmly and temperately before them. And why do I
say so ° Because we are told that nothing can be done
in this our time except it is urged with &little physical
persuasifin as well as moral force. We are told that
it was the mob whieh pulled down the park palings
which panned the Deform Bill ; that it was the Fenian
rebellion which pulled down the Irish Church' and I
suppose it is the agrarian murderers who will help to
get rid of the Irish landlord."
A New DAINTY ! —The Paris papers say that
since tha price of oysters has become fabulous, a new
shell-fish has been produced at the Halle whch has
attained great popularity, and not only answers the
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saine purpose es an oyster, but is in Rome respects an
thus within the reach of modest purses. It
vantage over our old friend, that it can be dressed
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Everybody wilt be glad to give the paleurde a fair trial,
fond of suhotituting one animal for another, and try.
imngakte
cows into harness, hut they have done their best to
and beef.
writerfewkt' TRUISM:t:II-1 sae
thus :
" i assert that the neg Toes of Jamaica generally ere retro-
grading, instead of advancing, and unless something is done
to encourage them to mend their ways, their 1 uture so.
dark one" emigrationinho oyster,
rsamtetesr ntoi sthi:erbati liti,hueFebtedsitiejr
satisfactory

Are not the last half-dozen words, applying as they do
to nwoes, somewhat superfluous.—Punch.
LITEPARY COPTRIGHT.—The Court of Chancery
has given a final decision in an important literary maw,
that of "Pike v. Nicholas." Not long since Dr.
Nicholas published a work entitled "The Pedigree of
the EnglPh People." Mr. Pike alleged that the
author had infringed the copyright of a book he had
written on &similar subject, and accordingly instituted
an action. Vice-Chancellor James, who, it now seems,
had overlooked the contents of the defendant's manu-
script produced and the comp.-ion sourc4 sot tht,
daued an injunction. Against this an appeal was
lodged, which has just been tried before the Lord
Chancellor and Lord Justice Giffard. Dr. Nicholas
Lad elected to conduct his cwn pleadings, which c
cu-
ll several days. 'I he decision of the judges declared
that the work complained of contained no materials
against which an injunction could issue, and the Vice-
ChaneBlloeB judgment was dismissed. "Some authors
win breathe more freely after this," remarks th
Athena um.
A CLERGYMAN KILLED ON THE RIILWAY.
The Rev. J. E. Law, M.A., a clergy man of the
Church of England, met hie death in • very ehosinag

meaner at the new Beckenham i•tation of the South
Easter Beltway on ThurOay afteruom in la.t week.
It appeared in evidence a. the i, qui at that he went to
the hookinimffice and- asked. the. fate to. Lon on.

When told that it was Is. 3d., be said it was too much.
as the fare trim Catford was only 91 lie then asked
how far it was to the Crystal Palace, and on being
told two and a half miles he said he would walk. A
train had been signalled just before, soda porter had
closed the gates to stop carriages, but had not closed
the little wicket gate for foot passengers. He told Mr.
Law to wait till the train bad passed, and another
porter whose duty it was to stand by the gate when
the train is corning. having heard Mr. Law cautioned
and no other person being there, did nut think it
necessary to stand by the gates, but went into the
booking.office. Mr. Law, it appears, then attempted
to cross the line, but was cangiu, by the buffer of the
engine of the approaching tram, knocked down, and
so severely injured that he died in a few hours. These
facts were related at an inquest held before Mr. Payne
on Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death," accompanying it with a recommendation
that a porter should always he at the gates at a level
crossing on a railroad bet re the arrival and until aftn•
the departure of trains.
A DCMOOB ExraKesiow.—The new iesne
Peers now takes rank in conversation, but only fe'* a
short time. Society will soon vas this a barren
topic. Besides. is it right, is it seemly, to circulate
the damaging statement, that wealthy bankers, men
of the highest credit, and large landed proprietors,
gentlemen of the greatest imp eance in their re.pee.
tive counties are '• elevated ?'—Punch.

TRE LATE MR, PEAHODY.—The Hants bac.
pendent says that in 1825 the late lamented Mr. Pea-
body was the senior partner in the firm of Peabo iy,
Riggs, and Co., ot Baltimore, and resided in that
city. Soon after that he came to England to ship
merchandise to his film. Gradually as he became
Wealthy man he dealt largely in American stocks ant)
securities, but his grand coup was in the purchase
of cotton at the breaking out of the civil war;
investing to the extent of some millions of
dollars at is., be afterwards sold at about Is. a
and thus amassed a large sum. At the time of. the
, Trent difficulty Mr. Peabody, being most fitmlv im-
pressed with the belief that peace would be maintaited
between the two countries, invested very largely irt
American Government Securities, and buying at.
about 40, and selling again at atmething like 70,
he was reputed to have gained some millions of dollars.
From these fortunate speculations his princely gifts,
both on this and the other aide of the Atlantic, ars
now of world-wide reputation.

A PiCTURE OF ARAB LIFE —4 curious picture
of Arab lire has just been exhibited before the Court
of Aasizes at Constantine, in Algiers. A native, named
Ben-Kenanari, was accused of mutilating his wire by
cutting off hi r nose and upper lip in a fit of jealousy.
The mother of the victim said that to cure her sou-in-
law of his jealousy she had consulted a much venerated
Marabout, who had given her as a charm for her
daughter a serpent's head wrapped up in hemp leaves,
which was to be placed in the folds of the husband's
turban. The woman appealed to the public present to
prove that by this method she would have cured the
man of his suspicious, and reveral Arabs at once took
off their head-gear and triumphantly showed the same
talisman, while a native officer of the court, w.thout
being consulted, called out to the judge, "Yes, I have
also a serpent's bead; it gives strength to the man and
fidelity to the woman." The prisoner was sentenced
to eight years' hard labour.
NOTE AND QUERY— (lrith A nswer.)—Druc-
ROBIN CASTLE. A disoopsi in is being carried on in
Noir: and Queries, and the Scottish papers, as to the
derivation of the name of this famous castle. If Punch
had been applied to, be would have settled the point
at once. ..-Eneas, fourth Earl of Sutherland (a D.
1473), was married to Helena Robina Jessie (second
daughter of the Master of Stair), a beautiful lady;
hut like some beautiful ladies, of the present age, im-
moderately fond of dress. She spent, daily, many
hours nt her toilette, to the annoyance of her Lord,
who, when he wanted her to go out with him, would
stand at the foot of the turret stairs, and call, "In the
mockle dell 's name. woman, wull ye ne'er ha' done
robing l" that is, "Will you never be dressed?" The
cry was so often repeated that it became a household,
or rather a stronghold word, and so got fixed as a name
to the caatle. —Punch.
AIcuTEHM ATTEMPT AT MURDER. Another
abominable attempted assassination took !dace at Ed.
dare on Friday. A farm-r, named Doran, was
ploughing in his field when he NVEIS fired at and hit on
the right side. He fell, and a second shot took effect
in his left arm. Twoother shots which missed, fol
lowed, and the asrassin then ran away. Doran
managed to reach home, and was conveyed at once to
Dublin, where the bullets were extracted and found
to have been fired from a revolver. It is believed that
Doran was taken for his brother, a deputy agent, who
was obnoxious in coneequence of having i jected a
tenant. This is the more probable as the Ribbon con-
spiracy usually, when a murder is to be committed,
sends an awassin from another district, and who,
therefore, as in this case, is not always acquainted
with the person of his victim.
INDY-PENDANTS. A Rajah's Ear-Rings.—
Punch.
DISH)NEST RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—It is no-
torious that the utmost vigilance is necessary in the
conduct of the metropolitan suburban traffic to pre-
vent multitudes from travelling without tickets, or
from travelling in a better claeor of carrisi,e than that
for which they have paid. The impatience of the tra-
vellers by suburban trains, at certain hours of the day,
and the rapidity with which tne traffic has tube con-
ducted, afford facilities to the unscrupulous persons
who would thus defraud the companies. Time would
not willingly be allowed by travellers for the ran.
uninathm of the tickets at stations. Besides, one train
has to pass on and make room for the others that follow
in rapid succe-sion. Toe South Eastern Company
have applie lan effectual check upon the evil and inn.
posture referred to, in having the tickets examined
while the train is in motion, and the defaulters have
not the chance of rectifying their " inistak«s" of
having started without tickets, or in having taken a
first-class carriage instead of a third, although the third-
class carrisgee were not full. It is sahl that as much as
Ed unpaid and underpaid fares was taken in this way
last week in a single afternoon upon a metropolitan
, suburban line.
CURIOUS DISCOVERY AT TENBY.—The Rev. G.
N. Smith, rector of Gumfreston, near Tenby, in
writing to a local paper, states
No longer back than the last low tides, the head and
horns of the great extinct ox, or bog primigPitiers, have been
dug out of the sand and mud in which the roots of the old
forest are so frequent and visible, and which forms a part,
In a large sense of the word, of the Contravev Gwaelnd, of
Lowland Hundred, once attached to the shores, opposite
amroth Castle, about five miles from Tenhy. A stag's horn
was also found. Remains of the rhinoceros. the hippo-
potamus, the bear, the tiger, the 113 rens, and the stag have
been found in our coves in the mountain limestone at
dill orent periods, and all that we want la the next link that
shall connect this boa with the cave remains. Could but one
toots Sr bone of either of the wild beasts named above,
which are not indigenous, be picked up where the horns of
the extinct ox were found, and in the same circumstances,
the evidence of contemporaneousness would be very strong
indeed.

1793 OVER AGAIN.—No wor.der Rochefort'a
eke ion is cited by alarmis's as a RevcCutionary
symptom. It is clearly a case of hoisting a Represen-
tative "it is Lanterne!"—Puneh.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.— An inquiry has been
held at the village of Aldworth, Berke, Teepee nag the
death of a married woman named Sims, who met with
a dreadful accident, on Sa!nrday, on the farm of
Mr. Bowles. The poor woman went to the farm to
assist in thrashing tarley, her husband being in Mr.
Rowles's service. The machine was charted slowly,
and Sims assisted his wife in getting upon the machine.
He then turned to help up another wi man, and imme-
diately heard his wife shriek. She hscl accidentally
stepped upon the feeder, and her leg and foot had be-
come entangled in the machinery. The engineer shut
off the steam without a moment's delay, and all pet-
sihle assi4ance was given to extricate the poor woman,
whose sufferings were most acute, as her limb was torn
and smashed in a shocking manner. The machinery,
however, was stiff, and as it was necessary to remove
certain portions of it, the poor creature could not be
I extricated until about half an hour had elapsed. Two
medical men attended, and she was carefully removed to
her cottage, where she received proper attention ; am-
putation was performed whir the sufferer was under the
influence of chloroform, and one of the medical gentle-
men remained with her for several lames afterwards,
but she expired at night. A verdict of " Accllental
death" was returned. The deceased, who was about
forty years of age, leaves a large family of young
children.

EMIGRATION AND THIS COLONIKAL—On Monday,
an influentially attended meeting of gentlemen inte-
restsrl in the colonies and emigration, conveaed by the
council ef the Workmen'a Emigration Sottiety, watt
held at the offices of Mr. David Child:wry, 22, Worm-
wood-street, London, Sir George Grey in the chair, for
the purpose of considering the best means of inaugura-
ting a national emigration movement, and the main-
tenance of the connexion between this country and the
colonies. On the motion of the Rev. Dr. Hugh Allen,
it wag resolved that a public meeting should be held at
Exeter-hall, for the purpose of inaugurating a move-
ment for national emigration, aid the maintenance of
the connection between England and the colonies, and
a sub-committee was appointed to carry out the
details.
A " RiBBON " WARNING.—The Ribboomen of
Ulster have posted a " proclamation " on chapel
doom and walls in the c utnty of Cavan which has
caused some alarm in the district. It runs thus :
'Whereas, it has come to our knowledge that several
Catholics arc in the custom of having work done by Pro-
testant millers, artificers, awl others; we no hereby give
notice to such parties, and all others concerned, that we
have cognizance of the abuse; and, as it is punishable in no
other court but ours, we do distinctly charge our officers to
report the names of all Catholics who go to William
Matchell's mill, of Killyconnell, near Stradone, to have their
work done then, or any other artificer or tradesman, m
order that we may define the amount of punishment ; and
we have given orders to disperse this our proclamation, in
order that no Catholic may plead ignorant of our will and
command. We further give notice to all hereticks of every
denomination, and damned Orangemen, that we have given
ordeis, should they transgress our laws, that we will iTn-
sums them by night in their houses. Remember Mild
Goose Lodge and Scullabogue Barn, and tremble. Done at
our Council Chamber, 20th Nov., '69."
IRISH FENIAN Ft/N.—The Irish treason-mon-
gers, or Fenian journalists, it seems, are telling their
,ushemerfi, in case of a rebellion in Ireland, to count on
co-operation by the strong Republican party which
they pretend exiats in England, together with the
Irish population of our large towns. This extra-
vat t'ance, 44 course, is merely rampant Irish
on—for sale, however. Might we be allowed to
deal in the same article What objection would
there be to the counterpart of such humorous
writing in English newspapers ? Suppose a Lumber of
London journals, affeoting to believe the Ectian ft dge
of a dangerous Irish population in our chief torts,
were to keep on, day by day, exhorting the Brgish
public to re-enact the Sicilian Vespers. and AIWA TO
every Irishman in Great hint 'in. What effect would
such rant produce on our quick-witted frii nth ?
Thy would scream with laughter at the ridculdus
ravings of scribes, who exercise their one talent fir
unbounded vituperation, instead of stickiLg to their
lasts, or earning • clasent living as tailora,—Pwwk

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