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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

FAIR WHITE HANDS.:
BRIGHT CLEAR COMPLEXION
SOFT HEALTHFUL SICIN!_;

PEARS' SOAP, for Toilet :It'd Nursery, specially prepared
for the delicate skin of ladies and children min ot iers
sensitive to the weather, winter or summer. Prevents
redness, roughness, and chapping. Sold everywhe e, in
Tablets, Is each. Larger sizes, Is 6d and 2s 6d.
The medical profession are now ordering Clusuav's
0000 i ESSENCB in thousaucls of cases, because it contain
more nutritious and tlesh-forming elements than any other
beverage, and it is preferable to the thick starchy Cocoa
ordinarily sold. When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa
Essence be sure that you get it, as shopkeepers often push
imitations for the sake of extra profits. Makers to the
Queen. Paris Depot, 90, Fauborough St. Honore.

KEEP YOUR TBETH I Better pay half-a-nrown to a
Druggist for a bottle of TIKUREL and keep your teeth than
bail-a-crown to a dentist and lose them. Tisheel cures the
Tic, Faceache, Neuralgia and nearly every case of Tooth
ache, safely and sp-edily. itedef is fitinit in
fifteen minutes. Sold by ad Chemists and Patent M.sl-cine
Vendors at 28 6d. Parcels Post, free 2s 91, in stamps or
P,0.0., from the Manutacturers, Clarke, Bleasdalo, hell and
Co, York.

For a sustaining. comforting, and nouri,hing beverage
dank ladbury's Pure Cocoa, aud do zpc b.::: persuaded
co accept a substitute.

LAWYERS.—Whose Professional labours necessitate
long intervals between meals—nothing wiil be (mind so
exhilarating, comfJrting, and capable of suitaining ex-
nausted nature, as Caduury's Cocoa, guaranteed abso-
lutely pre.

ADVICE TO MOTIIIIIIS —Ara you broken in your rest
by a sick child soffering with the pain of cattuag teeth
Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Win-
slow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor
sufferer icomediAtely. It is perfoctiy harmless and
pleass.nt to taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep by
relieving the child from pain, and the little cuerub
awakes "as bright as a button." It soothes the child
it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind'
regulates the bowels, and is the best know remedy for
dysentery and diarrhcea, whether arising from teeth-
ing or other cantles. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is lid pa r
bottle.

VALUABLE DISCOVERY FOR THE HAIR.—If your hair
is turning grey or white, or failing off, use ". H
:,X ILAN HAIR RK N MLR," for it will podia? cey
res-ore in every case Grey or Trbite Isui to its origium
coLur, without leaving the disagreeable smell of most,
"liestorers." It makes the hair charmingly beautilu
as wull as promo Hug the growth of the hair or. bald
sp whet e the glanus are flat decayed. Price 38 6d
r an Oil to make the Hair suit, gloasy, and .uxuri.
ant, ask for "UARTER'6 COLOUNL OIL." Price Is
of all aealers, Wholesale depot, 33, Farringdon goad
London.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

THE PREMIER'S REBUKE TO IRISH

SEDITION.
A gentleman in Hanley having drawn Mr. Glad-
stone's attention to the fact that at a recent meeting,
after the fall of Khartoum, Mr. Redmond, M.P.,
called for "three cheers for the 3dandi," the
Premier has caused the following reply to be for-
warded: "10, Downing-street, Whitehall, Feb. 24,
1885.—Sir,---I am desired by Mr. Gladstone to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th,
calling attention to a statement in the Times of the
17th to the effect that at a meeting in county Kildare
Mr. Redmond, M.P., had called for 'three cheers for
the Mandi,' and inquiring whether Government in-
tended to take any action in the matter, and I am to
say that if the statement is true the incident is deeply
to be regretted, but the Government does not pro-
pose to notice it farther, believing that disloyal and
unpatriotic behaviour is usually best left to the con-
demnation of public opinion.—I am, Sir, your
obedient servant, H. W. PRIMROSE."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

ACCIDENT TO THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

An accident occurred on Monday afternoon to a
carriage in which the Empress Eugenie was taking a
drive in the neighbourhood of Farnborough, Hants.
The Empress, who was accompanied by Madame
Le Breton' Mdlle. Courvoisier, and the Due de Bas-
sano,was returning to her residence in an open carriage
drawn by a pair of horses, and when near the Frinaley
Station of the London and South-Western Railway,
the horses shied at some object in the road, and
bolted. On coming into contact with a rough fence
on a low bank, the pole was snapped, the traces
broken, and the carriage nearly overturned. The
horses, however, continued their flight, and after
galloping for about a mile they came into collision
with a cart, which was being driven in an opposite
direction. A shaft of the cart entered the body of
one of the horses, killing it instantly. The Empress
and suite escaped unhurt, 'and her Majesty, having
given instructions for medical aid to the coachman,
who was severely shaken, proceeded on foot to Farn-
borough-hill.

Give a tramp the cold shoulder one day, and he
will come back the next for gravy and potatoes to gia
with it.

A young lady, who had been married a short time,
lately told "a bosom friend" that there was only owl
thing more astonishing than the readiness with whit 4
Ned gave up smoking when they became engaged,
that was the rapidity with which he took to It, atAt
they were marrie.d. •
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

THE SCOTCH BENCH.

Friday night's Gazette contains the subjoined: The
Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one of
the Lords of Session in Scotland to John Trayner,
Esq., Advocate, in the room of Sir George Peas, Knt.
(Lord Deas), resigned. Her Majesty has also been
pleased to nominate and appoint John M‘Laren, Esq.,
one of the Lords in Session, to be one of the Lords of
Justiciary in Scotland, in the room of Sir George
Dens, lint. (Lord Dees), resigned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

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sfftrded by th ; use of "i3rowit't Itc mial Tr relies."
Chese f tmous • 'lozenges" are now slid by most respect.
able chemists in this country at Is lid per box. People
troubled with a"h inking cough." a I.slizht c ild," or
bronchical aifcctions, cannot try them too soon, as
similar troa Aes, if silow‘4l to progress, causult in
serious Puiinolary and Astlinittiz aflectious. See that
ihe words Btown's Bronchial Troches" are on the
Government Stamp .round etco. box. —PrepA,cl by
JOHN I. BROWN & Sass, B iston, US. European iijJOt
33, Farringdon Road, London.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

EXTRAORDINARY MILITARY PREPA

RATIONS.

It is stated that pressing instructions have been
sent to all military stations in the British Isles, or-
dering immediate medical inspections of regiments of
Cavalry, battalions of Infantry, Artillery, Engineers,
aid all Departmental Corps, with a view to ascertain-
ing exactly what number of officers, noncommissioned
officers, and men are fit for immediate service in the
field. Returns are to be forwarded to head-quarters
with the least possible delay. The inspection is to be
of the most stringent kind, and will be made by
thoroughly competent medical officers, and in the
presence of the Commanding Officer. All the as.
tablishments of the Army are to be at once perma•
nently increased.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

POTATOES.

- - -
A fair supply of potatoes was on offer. There was a.
moderate demand, as follows: Scotch regents, 90s to 100.
per ton; Bent ditto, 70s to 80s; Victories, 70a to 80s ;
magnum bonums. 60s to 80s; Champions, 50s to 60s. Th.
arrivals of potatoes in London. last week comprise sss
bags from Boulogne, 1293 Harlingen, 6 Rotterdam, 10%
hamburg, and 62 boxes from Cadiz.


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THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.

Letters ' received from Gibraltar announce the
arrival there of the Channel Squadron after a very
rough passage from Madeira. So strong a gale was
experienced that it becalhe, aLsecpssity to reduce the.
'speed considlerably, but *Tien about sixty miles off
Gibraltar the Admiral, anxious to get in as soon as
possible, ordered a speed of eight knots to be kept
up. This, however, fell through owing to the supply
of coals running short on board the Neptune, and the
squadron had to seek shelter in Jeremiah's Bay,
about five miles south of Spartel. It was not until
the weather moderated that the squadron proceeded
to GiL-sliar
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court
of Justice on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins
and a special jury, the case of" Barrick v. Murray"
was heard. The plaintiff, Eleanor Jane Barrick, sued
Oscar Murray to recover damages, her case being that
in or about June, 1883, the defendant verbally agreed
to marry her; and that it was afterwards arranged
that the marriage should take place at Christmas;
bat the defendant refused to marry her either then or
at all. The defendant pleaded denying the promise.
Mr. Murphy, Q.C., and Mr. IL Brown were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Lockwood, Q.C., and Mr. M. Thompson
for the defendant.

-Mr. Murphy, in opening the case, said that the
Plaintiff was a 'young lady 20 years of age, the
daughter of a gentleman who recently lived at Stam-
ford-hill, and now at Maidstone. He had been in
the ship-building trade at London, and also at Whitby.
The defendant, who was of independent means, and
was connected with the shipping trade at Whitby, was
in the habit of frequently coming to London, and
staying at the house of Mrs. Harrison, through whom
he was introduced to the plaintiff's family; and on a
trip to France in July, 1883, upon which the defen-
dant had taken Mrs. Harrison and the plaintiff, he
took the opportunity to describe to the young lady
what sort of wife would suit him. She said, "Where
shall any one see this model creature?" and he re-
plied, "Go home, and just look in the looking-glass."
it was quite obvious what was meant, and a formal
engagement was soon after entered into. The plain-
tiff also broke out into poetry, as he (Mr. Murphy)
believed was usual. •

Mr. Lockwood: No. (Laughter.)
Mr. Murphy thought that he had only said whit
was almost obvious; but at all events the defeadiant
presented the plaintiff with the picture of a very
pretty young lady; and on the picture was printed—
"Oh, what wou'd the sunshine or flower be to me,
Or moan of the streamlet, without love for thee?"
But what was more important was that on the other
side there was some original poetry of the defendant's
own composition. It was addressed "To Nelly," awl
said—
" The maiden's face is fair to se.
The maiden's form is slight,
Her pretty se'f is made to be
Her lover's dear delight."
(Laughter.) The defendant wrote a number of
letters to the plaintiff, but most of them were some-
what of a business character. As time went on the
defendant bought some property at Waltlaamstow,
and plaintiff's brother was concerned in the trans-
action. This led to a quarrel and a law suit, and
thereupon the defendant broke off his engagement
with the plaintiff, and when she remonstrated he
wrote to her denying that there had been any engage-
ment, at all, and his taking that line necessitated the
bringing of the present action.
Miss Barrick, the plaintiffs was called, but she had
hardly begun her evidence when a consultation took
place between counsel, and this led to a settlement of
the action.

Judgment was given by consent for the plaintiff for
£2OO damages, and for costs also.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

[CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.]
CAIRO, Thursday Morning.

According to reports from native sources,
which are believed to be reliable, the Mandi,
with a large force, has left Khartoum, and
is advancing northwards along the Nile. No
confirmation of the report has yet reached
the British authorities here.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

ARRIVAL OF THE INDIAN
CONTINGENT.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

SUAKIDI, Thursea3r.

Major-General Sir G. Greaves, chief of
General Graham's staff, landed here from
her Majesty's troopship Humber to-day.
Measures have been taken to prevent the
nightly wrecking of the advanced redoubts
by the rebels. - . -

Tharsday Afternoon.
Brigadier- General Hudson, Commander
of the Indian Contingent, together with his
staff and a portion of the 17th Bengal
Native Infantry, arrived here to-day on
board the Indian Government steamship
Olive.

GIBRALTAR, Thursday.

The 2.1 d Battalion Oxfordshire Light In-
fantry has received orders for Egypt, and
will be replaced here by the East Yorkshire
Regiment.
PARIS, Thursday.

M. Rochefor::i journal, L'lntransigeant,
publishes a letter from Cairo declaring that,
contrary to previous reports. M. Olivier Pain
took no part in the recent military events in
the Soudan.. The Mandi entrusted no com-
mand to Europeans. M. Pain occupied him-
self solely in ameliorating the lot of the
prisoners, whether missionaries, soldiers, or
civilians, who have fallen into the Mandi's
hands. The letter adds that the French;
colony in Cairo have subscribed 5000,000 f
for the ranson of these prisoners. M. Pain
has been entrusted with the conduct of nego-
tiations to that end.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

OUR ARMY.

As the Pall Mall Gazette has been pointing
out the deficiences of the navy (says the
Graphic), so the Sc. James's Gazette has recently
devoted itself to the shortcomings of the
army. In the issue of the latter journal a tabular
statement is given, in the form of a commerc:_al
balance-sheet showing the numerical profit and loss
(in men, not in money) during the last three years.
The result is decidedly disheartening, for the number
of men annually
'quitting the army is so great, owing
to their six years term of service having expired, to
say nothing of some 4000 deserters annually, that
the War Office authorities have had the
greatest difficulty in providing the required
quota of effective soldiers for the new
Soudan Expedition which is now starting, because so
many of the men were physically unfit for active
service. Yet some 35,000 recruits (the largest num-
ber on record) were induced to join the colours last
year, the standard of age, height, and chest measure-
ment having lately been reduced. Taking the
strength of the Home Army at Kl,OOO, the compiler
reckons that of these 22,000 are, or shortly will
be, in Egypt and the Soudan, and that of the
remaining 68,000 available for defensive purposes at
home, under 30,000 have under two years' service,
while 30,000 are practically recruits, having
not more than eight months service, and that
therefore in case of any sudden emergency
arising, we are in possession, for home pur-
poses, of only 8000 seasoned soldiers. "An Ex-
Dragoon " writina to the same journal on this subject,
LA....A.1,1e that f
that goon men will not be induced by the bait of
deferred pay to give up six years of their early man-
hood to the army, followed by six years in the lieserve,
and that if we desire to have soldiers possessed of the
physique and military qualities of those who won our
victories in days gone by, we must revert to the plan
of long-service followed by a sufficient pension. We
offer 0 opinion on this difficult subject, which can
only be adequately treated by experts' but the un-
pleasant fact remains that the Soudan Expedition—
though reckoned as a little war—has strained our
military resources to the utmost.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

TEE MARKET&

,
ItARIC-LANE.
At Mark•lane there is no special feature- ISTCHierett.
supplies of foreign produce are offering, but supplies of,
home-grown grain are short. English wheat moved off
slowly, and was weak in *value, but not actually lower.
Foreign wheat was dull, at barely late rates. Flour met IP,
slow sale, country qualities being 6d. per 2801 b. lower, In
barley not much was done. Both malting•and griticlirt
samples were weak, being about 3d. per quarter lower. In
oats a fair business was done at Sd to 6d per quart::
• slue but fitx
advance. Round maize was fairly ate adY in T ~, .t, 27e;
was dull and weak. Beams quiet; Italian, Al'eit .--Whil;
Egyptian, 26s 6d to 20s 6d per 4801 b. Pest quiet;
lentils Is
Canadia.n, 31s 6d to 32s per 5041 b. EgYP uie . t
cheaper, at 25s to 26s per 5041 b. Linseea cake q r,, a
thin bag cake fro= late rates. Best qualities: Broad
: pri e broad thin
Calcutta seed, held at £8 lOs ex
P 11171)
.6clan-dtc'hmileld per
th£:pce '.
Western seed bag cake sell at £7
Ship. London made pure cake scare ,
moderate
i• use lindeco ica cotton
m.ll,
andindg.mithdi:
ton ex mill. Decorticated cotton cake in
rttedrequezt,
aclk26e Ilm7site6ddPderemanteponderii4wairEz°l;Thisl:lll3dAßClKET.
METRO
beTlitteer
i From Scotland . offer
wait
-
2660, of which 520 were f e we received
caweatttlehetrr.adTehhostasotalob:seunnffuomiqkbui:eatno,df nbeEostawsseitxth7sotano,
150, Ireland 170, Norfo ,
land and Home Counties 1120. The demand was quiet, ant .
the beht Scots and crosses sold at 5s 2d to 55 4d per 81b.
The total number of sheep in the pens was 11,010, only 10.
being foreign. The trade was dull, and prices were weak.
offered £l5
The best Downs and half-breeds reached 5s Cd to 55 Sd per
81b. Calves were steady. Pigs dull. Sixty Engliish
received 16,487 ; instolBB3ck, i1n2th,t°4114540;
to 6793 head. In the corresponding period last year we. •
8,333 in
imports;l were
neorfelBflrff,ee
in 1877, 26,598 head. At Liv . I were received ao beasts ,
from Boston. in 1879, 16,009 ;in 18781°94, 12,9;n9 ;18111( ,
26nidnoP1r8lnitah,tewadee. k
amounted.
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METROPOLITAN MCAT ILABJENT4
There was a moderate supply on sale. 'rho trade Ina
very slow. The receipts of meat in Undon during the,
week consiA of 4 packages from ifarlingeu. 2543 Syduey„,
2490 Melbourne, '425 Boston, 25 Hamburg, 251 New York.
and 12 packages from Ostend.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

SALES BY AUCTION

HAGLEY STOCK SALE.
EVERY MONDAY.

TRE usual Supply of CATTLE, SHEEP,
PIGS, Bco.
°ATM, PE AMENS, & WO OLDRID GE

SEASON 1885.
(keLAIRNTINE, HARDAWAY & SOPPING
trit7era of Tattersall's, Boulogne-Euu-Mer, France)
.h..rf Oldest Established Firm in existence. Entries
9.1.1 the FPitINO HANDICAPS 2000 GUINEAS,
.11 44c.. forv.-ardea free upon receipt of address.
DOUBLE AND TREBLE EVENTS.
secret of STICCOss is lthowing what
‘tclott,-,:,'"u when to sell," Mining ghares when ju-
Ibok -"I dealt in, make the largest profits and in the
144 test time. Mr. T. G. DixoN, Shartbroker, Hap,
141.141108 placed in his hands for sale good Mining and
i
111614,4re5, that make from 50 to 100 per cent n a
tamt_. Seed for particulars
.tiit°h°4 Lliwwitg "Hew to make a £lOO per year by
r
:',Pi
b•"itt 1,„7.,,,P one acre of ground; and another £lOO pe
'rks: 'Le' ping Poultry. Bees, Rabbits and Pigs—
a• 6d. from the Pub.isher. Sun Office, Hull.
I
ri at 3s ;e 3 r dozen.
L4ltt D
IIkLiADLE T L'ItF.ADVICE, sent by an old estab-
r. kr*. tlrt Corrts. 01,6-1 t, %hose practical experience
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

MUNICIPAL COMPARISONS.

A comparison between Liverpool and Glasgow has
been instituted by the Liverpool Post, from which it
appears that, so far as Municipal Government is con-
cerned, Liverpool is a long way behind the great
Scottish city. Both have an area of eight square
miles, and a rateable value of over £3,000,000, but
the amount raised in rates is 17s. 2d. per head in
Liverpool and 13s. 1013 d. per head in Glasgow, and
this notwithstanding the magnificent corporate estate
of Liverpool, which brings it in £135,800 a year,
while the property of the Glasgow Corporation is
worth only £51,171 per annum. The expenditure per
head is £1 is. 3d. in Liverpool, and 15s. 101 d. in
Glasgow, and the total debt £lO 4s. *.sd. per head in
the English, and .E 8 17s. in the Scottish port.
A surgeon defines pain as "the prayer of a nerve
for healthy blood."
The number of plant specimens known to botanists
has been placed at 100,000, but it seems there are
many still unknown. Last summer an English
botanist made an excursion of but fifty miles into the
mountains from Canton, China, and of the 320 speci-
mens he procured, fifteen proved wholly new to
science.

At a Christmas dinner a short distance from
Boston there were seated around the table seventeen
persons, each related to the other, whose ancestors
all arrived in America between the years 1620 and
1630, and landed within twenty-five miles of the place
where the family gathering occurred.
Tliere is a charming absence of circumlocution,
says an American paper, about the following verdict,
recently rendered by an Arkansas coroner's jury over
the remains of a well-known drunkard: "The feller
come ter his death by 'switchin' off from one kind o'
-whisky ter another. The moral o' this hear verdict
is, don't switch."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

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NEAPOLITAN GRATITUDE,

The late Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Fowler,
M.P.) has received a letter from the Syndic of Naples,
acknowledging the last remittance from the Mansion
House fund for the sufferers by the cholera in that
city. The Syndic states that the help thus afforded
had produced an impression which words failed him
to convey adequately. They had known of old how
generously sympathetic the English people had been
towards them, yet the extent of their cordial demon-
stration on the occasion of their recent misfortunes
had so far exceeded their expectations that the in-
habitants of Naples would never forget the benefits
received.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

TDB MILITIA AND RESERVE.

In the HOUSE OF LORDS, March 2, Lord Gran,ille
moved their lordships to take into consideration the
Queen's Messages with reference to the Reserves and
the Militia.
Lord Longford did not think that what was proposed
to be done would be adequate to the necessities of
the case. Lord Ilardinge agreed with Lord Longford.
Lord Morley, in reply, stated that recruiting was
going on very rapidly. Last autumn a circular inviting,
under certain conditions, men of the Reserve to come
back under the colours was issued by the War Office, and
towards the close of last month another circular was
promulgated which extended the invitation to classes
of men not included in the first document. The extent
to which the War Office had determined to embody the
Militia was thought by the Secretary for War sufficient
to meet the existing requirements in respect of that
branch of the service. _ _ _ _ . 0
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Lord Granville, in reply to Lord Dorchester, stated
that the question of the employment of Indian troops
had not been overlooked; and Lord Derby, answering
Lord Bury, stated that the offers of military assistance
made by one colony had been accepted at once because
the troops offered could be sent to the scene of opera-
tions within a short time. The colonies which made
the other offers had been told that their troops would
be accepted if the war continued.
Lord Bury thought that all the offers ought to have
been accepted at once, with intimations that the troops
would not ite called for until required.
The D•d' e of Cambridge understood that all the
offers had been accepted in case the troops offered were
required. Speaking from a purely military point of
view, he gave it as his opinion that the question of
keeping up our Reserves would require the anxious con-
sideration of the Government. He approved trying
the plan of getting volunteers from the Reserves before
calling out any class of those forces.
After some further cony ersation, two addresses in
answer to her Majesty's Messages were agreed to on
the motion of Lord Granville.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

THE AFRICAN INLAND SEA.

A party of French engineers and hydrographaa
has left for Tunis, charged with making the necessary
studies on the spot, for the construction of the
harbour in the Bay of Gabes, at the mouth of the
Oued Meßah, in connection with the canal which is to
establish navigable communication between the Medi-
terranean and the Chotts. It will be remembered
that, in the early spring of 1883, M. de Lesseps made
a trip to those great marsh lakes in Southern Tunis.
which it is the intention to convert into a vast inland
sea, with a view of testing the results of the late
Colonel Roudaire's survey, and that he came back
convinced that the scheme was practicable. The ex-
pedition which has now started will also make inves-
tigations as to the feasibility of sinking artesian
wells along the route, and a survey for a rail-
way which it might hereafter be thought neces-
sary to construct. The head of the expedition is
Commandant La.ndas, professor of topography at the
school of Saint Cyr. He is accompanied by M.
Baronet, who assisted Colonel Roudaire in making the
preliminary surveys, and several other engineers, it
may be advisable to recall t 3 mind the chief features
of the report on the undertaking which M. de Lesseps
published after his return from Tunis in 1883. It
states that the estuary of the Oued Mellah, which is
to be the beginning of the canal leading to the Chotts
to be inundated, offers a part, covered at high water,
of sufficient breadth which might easily be excavated,
and would form a port sheltered by nature from all
the winds from north-east W south passing by
the west. The winds from north-east tosouth passing by
the east would not be dangerous to the break-waters.
The roads in front of the entrance are, more-
over, in exactly the same situation as those of Gabes.
The navigation in the canal, according to the report,
would offer no difficulty, as the canal would form
almost a straight line. The calcareous rocks found
by Colonel Roudaire's soundings in 1879 at the base
of the Gabes bar, but of comparatively unimportant
extent, are an advantage rather than an inconvenience
at the mouth of the canal. They will furnish the re-
quisite material for the construction of the pier and
port buildings. M. de Lesseps thinks that, consider-
ing the nature of the soil traversed, it will b 6
sufficient to cut, in the alluvial part a canal, on the
average 80 to 100 feet wide, which will be further
widened by the action of the current. This cutting
could be executed in the maximum period of five
years, at an estimated cost of £6,000,000. The
proposed inland sea would be fifteen times as large as
the Lake of Geneva. It has an elevation much
lower than the level of the Mediterranean, the
depression being in some places as low as 165 feet
below that level.—lrom.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND
GENERAL GORDON.

The Lord Mayor of London has received the ferieW.
ing letter from his Excellency the Chinese Minister:
"Chinese Legation, 3rd March. The Marquis Tseng
presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor, and
begs to state that having brought to the notice of the
Imperial Government, and of that of certain of the
Chinese Viceroys, the fact that a eommittee, under
the auspices of the Lord Mayor, had been formed
with the view of erecting some kind of memorial of
the lamented General Gordon, he has been requested
to forward to his lordship the following subscriptions
towards the accomplishment of that object, viz.:
From the Chinese Government, £l2O, and from his
Excellency Li-Hung-Chang, Viceroy of Chihli, £200."

Crocodile farms are becoming common. The
largest animals are killed and skinned, their flesh
being used to feed their hungry descendants. That
these breeding-places are of no mean dimensions is
shown by the fact that the owners of one of them
supplied a tanner at St. Louis during the current year
with no less than 5000 alligator skins.
Policemen who serve on the New York force for
twenty years are retired on a pension of 600do1s. a
year.
Turkeys were first introduced into England in the
time of Sebastian Cabot.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

SALE OF KEATS'S LOVE LETTERS.

The love letters of Keats to Fanny Brawn° were sold
on Monday by Messrs. Sotheby. They number thirty-
eve, and fetched high prices. The first letter was
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flocked down for £lB (C. Wilde) ; another of three
4to pages, £lB 10s.; another four pages 4to, £27 (C.
Wilde); a long closely-written letter of four pages
tto, .£2O; another, £2O; one of l page 4to, £l3
(Thibadeau) ; a letter of one 4to page, commencing
"My sweet girl," £ll 10s. (lot 8) ; a letter ,of 1 4to
page, £2O; another, .£9 15s. (Wailer); another
letter, undated, but written from Wentworth-place,
.E 8 10e,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

THE EASTER MANEUVRES.

The preliminary arrangements for the forthcoming
Easter manceuvres, temporarily suspended in con-
sequence of the whole time of the authorities
being engaged upon the despatch of the new
Expeditionary Force, have been resumed,
and in the course of a week or so it is antici-
pated that the returns relative to the attendance at
the Brighton and Dover field-days will have been
received and the distribution of the forces arranged.
The applications for the marching columns on, and
the review at, Brighton are already so numerous as
to lead to the impression that both events will be
largely attended. Among the corps which have
already applied to take part in the march are the Berk-
shire Battalion commanded by Colonel Loyd Lindsay,
V.C., about 800 officers and men; the London Scottish,
Queen's Westminsters, Artists, South Middlesex,
Victorias, West London, and many others. As pre-
viously indicated, two columns are to be formed for
the march on Brighton, but it is at present difficult
to say what the strength will be. As soon as all the
returns are received and an estimate of the force is
formed, the arrangements for the plan of the march
and for billets and rationsvill be at once proceeded
with. The distribution of the forces, when all the
returns are received, will be arranged at the War
Office by General Sir Archibald Alison, Adjutant-
General, who will be in command at the Field-day.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

MDIAN HOME ARMY CHARGES.

The appropriation account of the sum granted to
meet the charges incured for the effective and non-
effective services of the regular forces serving in India
for the year ended the 31st of March last has been
issued as a Parliamentary paper. The amount of the
vote for Indian home charges was £1,230,000. Of
this £500,000 was appropriated in aid of the vote for
the effective services, and the balance, £730,000 re-
presents the vote for the non-effective. The latter is
made up as follows: rewards, £3000; half-pay,
£13,500; retired pay, &c., £180,000; widows' pen-
sions, £25,000 ; pensions for wbunds, £500; and out-
pensions, £508,000. From the report of the Comp-
troller and Auditor-General, it appears that of the
effective charge only £445,000, and of the non-effective
charge only £600,000, received from the Government
of India, has been paid into the Exchequer. The
amount for the effective services, therefore, falls short by
£55,000, and for non-effective services by £130,000 of
the votes taken in aid of those services. As regards
the effective services, the Comptroller and Auditor-
General explains that, according to a letter from the
War Office, the basis on which future contributions
are to be calculated has not yet been settled. Under
the head of non-effective services, a table is given
setting forth the arrears due from India, so far as the
receipts in the Exchequer show. Covering the period
from 1876-77 to 1881-82, it brings out a deficiency in
each financial year the total sum remaining unpaid by
India in respect of these six financial years being
£1,708,981 us. 7d. Of the arrears for the years
1882-83 and 1883-84 the amount has not yet been
determined. The balance due from India for mis-
cellaneous services, which in the report for 1882-83
was stated to be £33,055 12s. 9d., appear by the
Army Balance-sheet to be decreased, as at the 30th
of September last, to £11,715 is. Bd.

A workman the other day remarked that he had
often heard of the "mighty power of steam," but he
never realised the full force of the expression till he
had stayed at home one washing day.
While digging a well at Rome, Georgia, a work-
,man fowl, at the depth of 60 feet down in the
sOt, a petrified oyster. A legend exists to the effect
a church supper, held in Rome 25 years ago, was
t a failure, on account of its oyster escaping
firm a back window and taking to the woods. It is
Wippesed that this petrified bivalve is the missing
oyster. We suspect it was recognised by a mole
between its shoulder blades. The oyster must have
been terribly frightened to barrow so deep in the
earth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

ROWLEY REGIS.

THE APPOINTMENT OF VICAR OF ROWLEY REOI 3.
—The Lord Chancellor has offered the living of
Rowley Regis Parish Church to the Rev, U. W.
Bernard, M.A., curate of Beverly, Yorkshire. and
there is every probability that he will accept it.
The rev. gentleman has visited the parish, and he
will forward his decision to the Lord Chancellor.
The living is worth about 4,51:1i per annum.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-07

TEE NATIONAL GALLERY.

A Parliamentary return has been issued showing the
sums expended by the trustees of the National Gallery,
in each year from 1860 to 1334 inclusive in the pur-
chase of pictures from moneys provided by ParEa-
- anent. The total sum so expended during that period
Las been £250,100. Apart from the years 1871-2 and
1872-3, the returns for which are nil, the smallest
amount expended in any one year was £350 (1877-8),
and the largest £76,500 (1870-1). This is by a long
way the largest sum spent in any year embraced
in the return, the nearest approach to it being
£25,299 in 1882-3. The figures for other years vary
•,-from £2,819 to £16,678, ,During the period mentioned
no single picture was purchased for a sum of or
exceeding £lO,OOO, but the following prices above that
amounthave been paid for groups of pictures purchased
at the same time out of one collection: £75,000 for
77 pictures and 18 drawings purchased from Sir
Robert Peers collection in 1870-1, £10,395 for 13
pictures from the Barker collection in 1874-5, and
£21,042 for ten pictures from the Duke of Hamilton's
collection in 1882-3.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

THE CONDITION OF BURMAH.
(Reuter's Telegrams.)

MANDALAY, Dee. 14.
The Buddhist Archbishop yesterday informed
Colonel Sladen that he would assist in every way in
pacifying the country. He had notified all the
district priests that the English would respect their
religion, and had ungently iinplored Ulna to promote
peace.
King Theebaw's Sacred White Elephant died on
the 6th int. Kin Woon Mengyee requested that
the animars remains might be allowed to lie in
state for throe clays' acapordin g to custom, but
General White replied that this could not be
permitted for Sanitary reasons, although he
was willing thit any other mark of respect should be
raid. Tits Wriest took place in the cemetery on the
following day in presence of a large concourse of
natives. Many Burmese dignitaries also attended the
ceremony in State.
The re-opening of river navigation for steamers
bringing produce tends largely to quiet the country.
The Olympia to-day steamed towards Bhamo under
sealed orders.

MADRAS, Dec. 14.
King Theebaw arrived here this afternoon on board
the Canning. It is believed that he will remain hero
permanently.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

WORDSLEY AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB.

On Monday evening last a performance was
given in the Drill Hall, Wordsley, by the members
of the above Club. There was a good and enthusi-
astic audience, and the proceeds will be devoted to
the Glynne Schools, Wordsley. The pieces chosen
ere a; Christmas drama, by Alfred Coates, Esq.,
entitled "Bitter cold ; or, the secret of the Holly
Bough," and "Hunting a Turtle," a farce, written
by Charles Selby, Esq. The following is the caste
of the drama: Harry Manvers (a young farmer
and proprietor of Holly Bough farm), Mr. C. H.
Aston; Ralph Waters (squire of Bamberry Manor),
Mr. G. Simpson; Ben Dicke (an old soldier), Mr.
J. Aston ; Toby Topple g (the village tinker), Mr. J.
Ince ; Bob Wright (an aged rustic), Mr. W.
1Vorra1l; Sam Slap (a peasant). Mr. I'. Holmes;
Mary Manvers (the farmers wife), Miss Aston;
Sukey (servant at the farm, afterwards Mrs. Sukey
Topples), Mrs. G. Sampson.—Mr. C. H. Aston made
a capital farmer, and sustained his part very credit-
ably, and Miss Aston, as his wife, gave very good
effect to her part, and gained the sympathy of the
audience by the expression of her part when she is
leaving the farm; and by the manner in which she
reprovesißalph Waters, when he is asking for her
hand in marriage, her husband being in prison on
the charge of.murder, but in the last act the (sup-
posed) murdered man turns up, and her husband's
innocence is proved.—Mr. J. Aston a impersonation
of the old soldier was very good, and satisfied the
audience.—Mr. G. Simpson's part was rather a
heavy one, but he gave a very good rendering of it,
which reflected great credit upon him. Mr. J. Ince
and Mrs. G. Simpson caused considerable merri -
sweat by the way they enacted their respective parts
parts. The other characters were well rendered. The
drama was followed by a farce which kept the
audience in roars of laughter from beginning to
end.—On the whole we think that the members of
the Club are deserving of the highest praise; for, I
to judge from the manner in which they pet formed
on Monday night they must have devoted a con-
siderable amount of time, and spared no pains in
giving the public so rich a treat, and we hope it
will not be long before we have the pleasure
of seeing them again.—Messrs. Heathcock's orches-
tral band, under the leadership of Mr. G. H. Heath.
cock, enlivened the performance by playing a
choice sel6ction of music. Mr. J. Ifeathceck gave
a good display of his capabilities a. i clarionet
player by playing a tants ,sia on Scotch airs in a
very masterly style, and with much sweetness and
accuracy. The playing of the National Anthem
brought a very enjoyable evening's entertainment
to a slew.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Amongst the members elected to form the new
House, an ingenious writer has discovered the follow-
ing curious features. Only one Cross is left; but
there are two Crossleys and one Crossman. There
is one Will, three Williamses, one Thomas, one Henry,
one Richard, one Johns, two Roberts, three Jameses,
and three Davies; while there is one Green, one
Brown, two Greys, and one White. There is a Long,
and a Round, and a Biggar. While there are four
Smiths there is only one Jones and one Robinson.
Again, there is a Fox, an Otter, a Peacock, a Roe,
and a Finch. There are two Beaches, a Grove, a
Pyne, a Flower, a Reed, and a Leake ; and, in addi-
tion to two Hills, there is a Dyke, a Lane, a Field,
and a Temple, but only one instead of three Akers.
The new House, like the last, would not be safe with-
out a Tyler or genuine without a Brand, or able to
proceed to business without its two Clarks; and, as
it is to be short lived, it is proper that there should be
a Sexton. The new House will contain three Cooks
and two Frys, two Taylors, one Tanner, two Gard-
ners, one Trotter, two Hunters, and two Fowlers*,
and, finallv, it supplies a King.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

TREASURE TROVE.

At the Leighton Buzzard County Court a case of
some interest has been tried. It appears that some
time ago the surplus furniture of Hockliffe Granger
the residence of the late Sir Richard Gilpin, for
many years member for Bedfordshire, was sold by
auction, and at the sale a dealer living at Newport
Pagnell purchased an old iron-bound chest, the key
of which was lost, and all efforts to open the lid
thereby rendered unsuccessful. The chest was
bought for 255., and when the purchaser got it home
and had it opened by a blacksmith, he found in it a
quantity of old silver plate and a large number of
ancient deeds. The auctioneer, on learning this,
claimed the contents of the box; but the purchaser
resisted the demand. Hence the action. The judge
decided that the property belonged to the auctioneer
on behalf of the seller, and gave a verdict for £5O,
less 10s., the value of the chest.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

A BABY RHINOCEROS:

Land and Water announces the arrival, by the
City of Edinburgh, at the Royal Albert Docks, of a
female two-horned rhinoceros, accompanied by a
young one. They are of the Sumatran specks (N.
onatrensis). The mother was one of four rhino-
ceroses which were sent from Singapore to Mr. Hagen-
beck, the well-known animal dealer of Hamburg, so
that it is not unreasonable to surmise that she came
from the Malaccan Peninsula, whence so many of this
species of rhinoceros come. When in Calcutta under
the charge of Mr. Ruttledge, the animal agent, she
was clisco-rercd to be in young, and the birth took
place between nine and ten months ago. The "baby"
is now a well-conditioned little animal, standing
fully Sft. Gin, high, and has one horn well advanced.
The mother is without the large born, haying knocked
it to pieces in Calcutta, against a tree and other
Objects. Our contemporary says that "the tameness
of the animals is surprising, as they allowed them-
?elves to be freely handled, the young one quite
enjoying a tug of war through the medium of its
ears."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

SAD DEA.CH OF A LAW WRITER.

Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquiry on Friday
evening at the Ifolborn Town Hall into the circum-
stances attending the death of John Willis, aged GO,
described as a law writer, of no home. -Daniel
O'Connor, deputy of a common lodging-house, No.
15, Portpool-lane, Gray's-inn-road, said the deceased
came there the first time on Sunday, and witness,
seeing that he looked very ill, offered to give him a
recommendation to the relieving-officer. He, how-
ever, refused, and said he had been in St. Giles's
Workhouse, and had had enough of doctors. Some
of the other lodgers gave him some tea and half a
mackerel on Monday, and, as he seemed very ill,
witness let him stop, and paid half his lodging for
him. When he came downstairs on Tuesday morn-
ing he showed them his leg, which was very much
swollen, and witness then got a barrow and wheeled
him round to the workhouse. Dr. John Norton
medical officer to the Holborn Union, stated that he
had known the deceased. for about thirty years, and
knew his father, who was a sheriff's officer in Castle-
street, Holborn. Deceased had been a most intem-
perate man for years, and was an inmate of the work-
house about ten years ago, suffering from dropsy. On
Tuesday morning be admitted him in a shocking ccn-
dition, and almost without clothes—ragged woollen
shirt, a pair of trousers so torn that his nakedness wal
not covered, a pair of boots with the uppers and soles
divided, no socks, and the coat thin and ragged; he
was one mass of vermin. He was unconscious, and
witness had him put to bed. Beef tea and brandy
were administered, but deceased never recovered, and
died in about a quarter of an hour after admission.
A post-mortem examination showed that the heart,
kidneys, and liver were very much diseased, and
there was inflammatiten of both lungs. Mr. Birch,
relieving officer, said he wished the lodging-house
keepers, or their deputies,
.would send to him for a
doctor when their lodgers 13 corned ill. On the same
day as deceased was admitted a woman was also
carried on a barrow from a lodging-house to the
Workhouse and shot out at the door. (Sensation.)
The Coroner said of pourse this sort of thing did not
look well. It Might reflect upon the officers of the
Union, as the public might say it was their doing if
they saw in the papers, "Death on a barrow." The
jury returned their verdict, "That deceased died
from exhaustion and debility following pneumonia
and exposure to the cold, be having died 20 minutes
after his removal to the Workhouse on a barrow."