The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-02-10 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Six locomotives were wrecked while trying to force
a snow blockade in New Mexio?.
The Prussian Government estimates the sum re..
quired for extending the network of state railways
and other purposes connected therewith at 78,125,200
marks.

According to the Washington Directory for 1883 there
are thirty.five George Washington, one Thomas
Jefferson, and forty•seven John Brovnis in the capital
of the United States.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 169,000 bales; since let September, 1882,
4.283.000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain,
79,000 bales; week's exports to the Continent, 24,000
bales. Total since Ist September, 1882, 2,814,000
bales. Stock at all ports, 923,000 bales.
According to the report of the honorary auditors of
the London llospitil Saturday fund, just isgued, the
entire collection for last year was £8,650, or £516 more
than the total of 1881. There was an available balance
In hand of £7,sl7—an increase of £336 over the avail-
able balance of 1881.

A costly wardrobe is owned by the Chinese Minister
at Washington, whose magnificent and varied toilettes
have driven the society belles wild with envy. The
celestial dignitary, never appears at publio entertain-
ments twice in the same oosturae, and his silk and
satin garments are valued at £30,000.

The opposition to hunting in the Limerick district,
which threatened some time since to be rather serious,
is dying out, and the farmers generally are showing a
very friendiy spirit towards the huntsmen. Several
meets of hounds took place on Monday, and there
was pot the slightest opposition, Indeeci, it wila the
reverse.

As the Red Indian formerly displayed the scalps of
his enemies as proofs of valour, 80 the modern Trans-
atlantic belle now collects the hair of her adorers to
witness to her powers of fasoination, and sticks the
captured tresses in a " haic album." Here is a lock
from each admirer's head carefully tied with blue
ribbon; while all necessary details are further pro-
vided respecting the gentleman's age, colour of eyes,
name, and general appearance and characteristics.
The Governor of the province of Caceres having, in
pursuance of orders from the Spanish Government,
Instituted a strict inquiry respecting the supposed find-
ing of the balloon Saladin in the Sierra del Pedroao,
reports that the statement is wholly devoid of founda.
tion, no remnants whatever having beep disoovereti.
An international exhibition of railway safety
appliances is to take place this year at Paris. This
exposition is to contain all the various apparatus and
plant tending to increase the safe working of railways.
Mr. Wilson, M.P. for Hull, in answer to a deputa-
tion which waited upon him, has promised to intro-
duce a Yorkshire Sunday Closing Bill, if po.sible
next session,

The recent floods in Southern Germany seem to have
revealed the rather unexpected presence of wild cats in
those regions, of which rare game two fine specimens
of the size of a well-grown fox were shot a few days
ago by one and the same hunter in less than one hour.
The lucky Nimrod pocketed the Government prize of
twenty marks apiece,
Mr. Fawcett writes to the secretary of the London
and Counties Liberal Union: "I am glad to be able
to tell you that I am getting on most satisfactorily,
and I quite hope to be able to go back to work soon
after the opening of Parliament.'
A terrible catastrophe has occurred at Bombay. An
alarm of fire which was wholly groundless was given at
a wool-cleaning factory, and the workpeople made a
rush to the doors. Twenty-three women engaged on
the premises were crushed to death in the throng of
people who were struggling to escape.
No little apprehension is felt at San Francisco lest the
cholera, which recently made its appearance at Chiappa,
in Mexico and has since extended northwards, should
reach California.

The annual Conference of the Central Association
for stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sun-
days was held at Manchester on Tuesday. Resolutions
were passed recognising the rapid spread of the move-
ment by the adoption of the principle in various parts
of the country, and calling upon the Government to
pass a comprehensive measure during the coming
session.

In London, on Tuesday evening, the members of the
Royal Naval Club of 1765 dined together at Willis's
Rooms, to commemorate the " rounder's-day " and
the action of Sir John Duckworth off Domingo in
1816. Admiral of the Fleet the Hon, Sir Henry
Keppel, G.C.13., filled the chair. Colonel Sir Gustavus
Hume, K.C.13., was the guest,

A public meeting convened by the mayor was held
at Dover on Tuesday, to obtain the sanction of the
ratepayers to the action which the town council pro-
poses to adopt in relation to the ChannEl Tunnel
Bills in Parliament, The action of the council was
approved.

Ten thousand copies of General Butler's inaugural
address as Governor of Massachusetts have been
ordered to be printed by the States Legislature for
distribution as an electioneering document.
. The enterprising notion has seized the American
mind of cultivating the prodoction of silk—and for
this purpose a silk exchange ha, been established in
Yoik. It furnishes silk-worms' eggs' cuttings of
andthe trees upon which the worms feed, and purchases
the cocoons. It also gives full directions foe the
beginning of eilk culture,
Mr. Henry Peter Delmd, of Cams Park, Hants, a
Peninsular veteran, died at his seat on the 29th of
January, having nearly attained the great age of 90
years. He entered the army as an ensign in the 88th
Fook(Connaught Rangers) in 1811, and served with
his regiment in the later stages of the Peninsular War,
Lieutenant Delm6 was decorated with the Peninsular
War Medal and six clasps, and was placed on the
Retired List soon after the conclusion of the great
war in 1816. He had thus been in receipt of a lieu.
tenant's half-pay for nearly 67 years.
A man named Frederick Hurst, of Hanley, who
had been a passenger by the Midland night train from
Liverpool, was found on Sunday on the line near
Hartford in a dreadfully mangled condition and un-
conscious. He was moved to Crewe Station where he
recovered consciousness, and stated that he had been
trevelling in a railway carriage, but how he got on
the line he was uuable to explain.
A circular letter signed by the Earl of Shaftesbury,
Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., and other gentlemen, is
being sent to labour organizations, friendly societies,
working men's clubs, and other bodies, asking them to
support the opinion of Mr, Broadhurst, M.P., that it
is undesirable that Parliament should promote the
employment of Snnday labour by authorizing the
opening of national museums and galleries.
A Madrid telegram says that a deapatch from
Hava.nnah reports that a great fire broke out on Mon-
day at a timber warehouse in that town. The build-
ing was destroyed, and a hundred people were injured.
The loss of property is estimated at upwards of a mil-
lion of pesetas. The cause of the fire is unknown.
In London on Saturday, Mr. William Carter,
Coroner for iait Surrey, held an inquiry in the Com-
mittee-room at the new Lambeth Workhouse, on the
body of Eliza Frances Southby, aged 62 years, a
spinster, who was burnt to death on Monday night in
last week. It appeared on the night in question the
deceased was found lying on the floor of her room with
all her clothes burnt off and her body' being also fear-
fully charred. She gradually sank and died on
Tuesday morning from the effect of the burns, 13efore
she died the deceased said that, while passing the
table, her dress caught the handle of the drawer which
was in it, causing the table and the paraffin lamp
which was upon it to upset and set fire to her clothes.
A verdict of "Accidental death " was returned.
Considerable sensation has been caused,at Mortimer,
a village about seven miles from Reading, owing to
the burial of a woman named Gregory having been
delayed at the last moment, on the supposition of the
family that she was in a trance, and not dead. The
undertaker was ordered not to screw the body down,
and Dr. Davis was sent for, and though he did all in
his power to persuade the daughters that life was
extinct, they were not to be convinced, but avowed
that they had seen their mother move when in the
coffin. The Vioar of the parish was also unable to
dispel the hallucination from the minds of the family,
and two days elapsed before they were convinced
that the body was lifeless, and then the funeral took
place.
The Marquis of Stafford, eldest son of the Duke of
Sutherland, and master of the Staffordshire hounds,
met with a serious accident whilst following the hunt
at The Kennels, Trentham, on Saturday. In taking
a gate his Lordship's horse came in contact with the
topmost bar and came to grief, pitched its rider. His
Lordship, whose shoulder was dislocated by the fall,
was immediately conveyed into Newcastle-under-Lyme,
where his injuries were attended to. Later the same
afternoon his Lordship drove to Trentham in a hansom,
his injuries not having proved eo serious as at first
anticipated.

The Thames between Staines and Reading con-
tinued to rise up to Sunday, and a large area of low-
lying land was inundated on both sides of the swollen
stream. At Eton College the playing fields were
partly submerged, and the same was the-case with
much of the land in the western suburbs of the school
and town. Portions of the Home Park opposite
Windsor Castle was flooded. It is estimated that over
£lOO,OOO damage has been done by the floods in
Swaledale. The dales are a perfect wreck. Five
hundred sheep besides cattle and horses, have been
washed away. Thousands of acres have been rendered
a perfect waste. All the bridges in Upper Swaledale
have been wholly or partially destroyed,
Lord Robartes presided at Bodmin on Saturday over
the last of a series of meetings in connection with the
Farmers' Alliance. His lordship said both political
parties were agreed that there were points in which
the land laws needed reform, more eepecially that re-
lating to compensation for the tenant's capital, and if
that were so, could there be any doubt that those
reforms should be taken in hand at once I It was not
sufficient that there should be a good underetanding
between landlord and tenant, or that they ehoull be
told about identity of interest ; these were very good
things in their way, but they scarcely met the circum-
stances of the case in the present day, for what they
required wau that some more effectual change should
be brought about.
CarAinal Manning has issued a Pastoral Letter to
the clergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Westmin-
ster with regard to the observance of Lent. He
says :—" A life without the spirit and practicw• of
penance will find it hard ta keep Lent as it ought to
be kept. Hence come the pleas aud petitions for
relaxation and indulgence beyond the large indult
already given by the Church. These things ought not
so to be. The world softens us all the year round,
&IA when the Church calls us in Lent to try ourselves
with its benign austerity we are found wanting.!'
then pleads for contributions to the Westminster
Diocesan Education Fund. Collections for this 'nets-
tution were made Du Bunckey,

Twenty-two persons committed suicide in the
United Kingdom during the month of January.
The Irish Land League of America will hold a con-
vention in March next at Philadelphia.
The Chinese American, a weekly newspaper pub-
lished in Chinese characters, and conducted by China-
men, began its career at New Y.,rk on Saturday, being
photo-lithographed. Eight thousand copies were cir-
culated among the Chinese population.
The Address in answet to the Speech from the
Throne, on the meeting of Parliament, will be moved
by the Earl of Durham and seconded by Lord Reay,
in the House of Lords; and it will be moved by Mr.
Chas. T. Dyke Adana, M.P.' and seconded by Mr.
Thos. R. Buchanan, M.P., in the House of Commons.
Alderman Wilson, of Cheltenham, a former Austra-
lian colonist, has offered a donation of £5OO to the
Dean Close Fund, provided a portion of the money
subscribed is applied to the establishment of a free
library and a school of art,
Last Saturday the Marquis of Salisbury attained
his 53rd birthday, having been born on February 3,
1830. In 1853 he was elected M.P. for Stamford,
and represented the borough until the death of his
father in 1868, when he succeeded to the marquisate.
The agitation in favour of extending the Irish
Sunday Closing Act to the exempted cities is ex-
tending. Four years' experience of Sunday closing has,
it is said, reduced the drink bill of Ireland by two
millions sterling, and the arrests for drunkenness by
32,000.
The United States fire underwriters estimate that
property worth 9,600,000 dole, was burnt in the
United States in January last, which was covered by
insurance to the extent of about 5,000,000 dole.
A bill has been introduced into the State Legisla-
ture of Connecticut which provides that when pre-
senting their ballots at the polls voters shall remove
their hate.
On Tuesday evening the Rev. J. Peill read a paper
at the Society of Arts on the social condition and
prospects of Madagascar. In the discussion which
followed reference was made to the difficulty with
France, Mr. Peill expressing his opinion that if there
were a war it would, be of a guerilla character, and
that the subjugation of the people would be neither an
easy nor a profitable task.
The watchmen at the Wolf Lighthouse were relieved
on Sunday, after having been detained in the light-
house, on account of the stormy weather, for nearly
three months. Their supplies had run very short, and
for some time they had been living upon only two
meals per day.
Tuesday (6th) was the anniversary of the burning of
Coomassie, which took place in 1874. The King of
Ashant e refusing to accede to the proposals of Sir
Garnet Vhlseley, his city and palace were burnt. The
British troops embarked for England on Feb. 20.
Up to Thursday last Christine Nilsson has given 33
concerts in the course of her American tour, which
will extend to 50 concerts. The gross receipts amount
to 147,857 dole,
On Sunday, the Queen, Princeas Beatrice, and the
Princess Marie and Victoria of Edinburgh and the
members of the Royal Household attended Divine
service at Osborne. The Rev. Canon Barry, D.D.,
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, officiated.
The late Miss Mary Baird, of Camelon, and of
Circus-place, Edinburgh, who died on the 2nd of
January last, by her trust disposition and settlement,
has left bequests, chiefly to charitable institutions in
Edinburgh, to the amount of £10,700. The Royal
Infirmary is to receive £l,OOO.
Thirteen woocien buildings in Newark-avenue. the
chief business street of Jersey City, opposite N lew
*Yolk, wele burnt down on Saturday night, the oss
Wiry 125,000. Two lives were lost.
On drawing a kiln at the works of the London Port-
land Cement Company, at Northfieet, on Monday
morning, some human remains were found, which are
believed to be those of a lad, who has been missing
for about a week. He is supposed to have gone to
warm himself at the kiln, and being overcome by the
fumes arising therefrom to have fallen in and been
consumed.
Seventy-nine British and foreign actual shipwrecks
were reported during last week, making a total of 277
for the present year, or an increase of 96 as compared
with the corresponding period of last year, the in-
crease for the week being 52. British-owned vessels
numbered 42, six were steamers, with an aggregate
tonnage of 1,944 tons, three being British steamers,
with a tonnage of 876 tons. Total tonnage lost for the
week, 16,114 tons. Total number of lives lost and
missing, 109.
The Committee of the Civil Service Lifeboat Fund
have forwarded the sum of £l,OOO to the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution for the endowment of
the lifeboat "Civil Service, No. 3," presented by the
fund to the National Institution in 1877, this being
the third boat similarly presented and endowed by the
Civil Service.
On Saturday Her Majesty invested the Duke of
Grafton with the Order of the Garter, Princess
Beatrice being present. The Duke of Grafton, pre-
ceded by Sir Albert Woods bearing the insignia, en-
tered the drawing-room, when the Queen conferred
the honour of knighthood upon his Grace, and invested
him with the Riband and Badge of the Order.
The London and South-Western Railway Company
(the Surrey Gazette says), having obtained from Parlia-
ment special powers for the purpose, having estab-
lished a savings bank for the use of their employes, in
whi h sums of not less than a shilling at a time may be
dei to bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent per
annum. It is stated that one or two other railway
companies have adopted the same plen.
1 The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liver-
pool during last week from New York and Boston,
amounted to 905 cattle, 916 sheep, 2,902 quarters of
beef, and 1,003 carcases of mutton, and when com-
pared with the totals of the previous week they show
an increase in cattle, a somewhat large decrease in
sheep, and the quantity of fresh beef was unusually
small, being the smallest shipments landed since the
beginning of the year.
The January return of the Cleveland Ironmasters'
Association shows the following as the month's makes
of pig iron, namely-156,000 tons of Cleveland iron,
and 76,000 tons of other kinds, a total of 232,000
tons, or 2,000 tons more than in December. There
are 121 furnaces blowing, 85 of which are making
Cleveland pig iron; stocks increased 26,800 tons in
January.
A meeting of delegates representing the six thou-
sand North Wales coal miners, who are out on strike,
was held at Wrexham, on Monday, when it was
resolved to attempt to compromise the matter with
the masters by offering to work the same hours per
day as at present, but only five days par weak.
The subscriptions at Philadelphia to the fund for
the relief of sufferers by the floods in Germany amount
to 20,000 dols.—Prince Bismarck has conveyed, through
the Imperial Consuls of the -United States, the thanks
of the Emperor to all those Germans in America who
have together subscribed large sums in aid of the
victims of the late inundations. "It Is highly grati-
fying to His Majesty," says the Chancellor, "to see
that the attachment thus shown by American citizens
of German origin to their distressed countrymen in
the old home corresponds with the friendly relations
existing between Germany and America."
At the Liverpool Assizes, on Monday, Mr. Justice
Williams requested the governor of the gaol to furnish
him with a list of all untried prisoners in his charge.
His lordship remarked that for the last thirty years an
unconstitutional practice h&cl prevailed of delivering
gaols of all prisoners except such as had been com-
mitted for trial at any future quarter sessions. The
judges had unanimously condemned the practice, and
the Commission had been restored to its old form, so
that the Commission commanded him to deliver the
prison of all persons under detention.
A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on February 2 was 21,900,00 Q bushel, as
against 26,800.000 bushels the previous week. Visible
supply of Italian corn, 9,600,000 bushels, as against
9,600,000 bushels the previous week. The export
clearances of wheat for Europe during last week
amounted to 1,540,000 bushels; the export clearances
of Indian corn for Europe during last week amounted
to 1,100,000 bushels,
A I4iberal demonstration was held in Lancaster on
Saturday, under the presidency of Lord Edward
Cavendish, M.P. Resolutions were carried expressing
confidence in the Government; in favour of the eaten-
sion of the Franchise, improved County Government,
and a redistribution of seats; and urging the claims
of Lancaster to renewed direct representation.
By the opening of the St. G-othard Railway Eng-
letei seems to be benefitting hardly less than those
more immediately affected. Early fruit and vege-
tables are now conveyed witheest trantibipment from
all parts of Itely to Ostend, Antwerp, and Rotterdam,
whence they are brought by fast steamers to London
and other British ports. It is said the Great Eastern
Railway alone has within a few menthe brought over
6,000 tons of such prcduoe.
The number of packets posted in Italy in 1882 was
2,600,000. The number posted daring Christmae
week atone was 412,000. The telephone has obtained
great success in Italy. In Rome, where the popula-
tion is 300,467, there have been applied in the course
of a few months 651 telephone apparatus; in Naples,
413; in Milan, 390; in Turin, 4,54.
The revenue qf the Australian Colonies proper for
the lest year was seventeep and a-half millions; the
expenditure was sixteen and a-half millions. The
imports were fifty-one millions' and the exports forty-
four millions. The revenue of New South Wales was
seven millions four hundred and twenty thousand
pounds; the expenditure was six millions three hun-
dred and sixty thousand.
The Rev. H. Sandford, her Majesty's Inspector of
Schools for Sheffield and a portion of the West Riding,
died somewhat suddenly on Saturday. A week ago the
rev, gentleman inspected a school in the neighbour-
hood of Sheffield; soon after his return he had an
attack of apoplexy, and though from this he somewhat
recovered, he was not again able to leao his house,
and a second attack on Saturday proved ratal, The
rev, gentleman was cousin of Sir Francis Saneford,
secretary of the Education Department, and brother
of the Bishop of Gibralter.
The other night an avalanche fell near Crested
Butte, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains, burying 30
men, employed in a neighbouring coal mine, who were
asleep in a boarding-house. A party of rescuers
worked all night, and uncovered the victims next day.
Seven were dead, and eighteen severely, some fatally,
injured. All the mining and pumping machinery was
destroyed. The avalanche also bleoked the railway
running nebr, throwing a locomotive from the track.
The passenger coaches could not be moved, and aid
was sent, with food for the starving passengers.
In an article on the Channel Tunnel the Dover
Standard states that it understands, "on the best
authority, that pressure of a very unusual kind has
been brought to bear upon the English Channel by
the French Government with regerd to the Channel
tunnel, and, although the eeoret has been well kept in
official crjralea, that diplomatic courtesy has been
strained to the utmost. The argument is that the
English Government several years ago gave their
sanction to the scheme and that it is a breach of inter,
national engagement to withdraw it now,"

Frequent shocks of earthquake coniinue to be felt at
Archena, in the province of Murcia, Spain, catmint
great alarm among the inhabitants.

The polling in East Lothian to supply the vacancy
caused by the succession of Llrd Eicho to the earldom
of Wemyss took place on Monday, when the new
Lord Elcho, eldest son of the late member, received
492 votes as against 400 given to Mr. Finlay, the
Liberal candidate.

Mr. R. W. Dale, of Birmingham, gives it as tia•
result of eight years' experience that fully 70 per ~at.
of the converts of Moody and Sankey continue to
stand firm in their new faith.

A. 'Renter's telegram from Berlin states that the
appointment of the Prince of Walss as Honor/4/
Colonel of the Pomeranian Hussar Regiment No. ler
also known under the name of Blucher Hussars has
been gazetted.

The Queen will hold two Drawing Rooms at
Buckingham Palace before Easter, of which the first,
will take place at the end of February or the begin-
ning of March, and the second in the middle of
March.

Saturday (3rd) was the anniversary of the greet
frost in London, which took place in 1814. The
Thames was frozen over, and booths were erected. A.
fair was also held on the river, and a bullock wee
roasted wholes
The Beal Aeronautical Society now numbers 20
German and 30 foreign members, and its journal has
entered upon its second year of existence.

Paris advices state that the supplies of wheat
brought forward from the French markets wail
scarcely so large during last week. Prices exhibited',
tolerahle amount of firmness. No improvement has,
taken place In the wheat trade at Marseilles.

Foot-and-mouth disease continues to spread in several
parts of Kent and Sussex. Nearly all the local
markets are now closed for the sale of store cattle,
and the sales of fat cattle are held subject to strin•
gent conditions.

The Wesleyan Methodist body has expended nearly
five millions upon chapel building during the last
twenty.five years. An additional quarter of a million
will shortly be expended.

The Spanish Senate, by one hundred and twelve
votes to twenty•two, has adopted a new formula of
Parliamentary oath, allowing members on taking
their seats either to promise or swear fidelity to the
King.

In London, on Wednesday, a meeting of persona
interested as producers in the milk trade was held at
the "Salisbury" Hotel, to devise means to bring dairt
farmers amd milk consumers into direct relations, aca
thus obviate the loss occasioned by the operations of
middle-men. Resolutions were passed in accordance
with the purpose of the meeting.
The Edison incandescent lamp is to be introduced
in the corridors and passages of the House of Cow
moos. The Edison lamp will not, however, be used
for lighting the House itself, as the gas has been found
to answer all requirements.

In 1882 at the eighty horse butchers' shops open in
Paris there was sold the flesh of 10,891 horses, 340
asses, and 34 mules.

A singular accident occurred on Monday evening at
Tynynucha Parra, Penylan, Denbighshire. Mr.
Nathan Hutchinson, tenant of the farm, and his Koh
aged twelve, were cutting straw, when the stack fell
bodily upon them. The son was killed on the spot,
but Mr. Hutchinson was rescued in an insensible colr
dition, but was expected to recover.
The Ward Union Hunt at Ashbourne has received
the portrait of the Zropress of Austria, painted for the
members of the hunt by order of the Empress, who
thus shows that she has pleasant souvenirs of her hunt'
ing days in Ireland.
A painful case of sudden death has occurred in the
Isle of Man. Louisa Killip, aged 23, daughter of
John Killip, a farmer, who so hospitably treated the
crew of the vessel wrecked last week, was so shocked
at the sight of the bodies of the drowned men that she
was seized with a series of epileptic fits, and died on
Monday.
Shrove Tuesday revels were celebrated at Mho'
stone as usual. Football was played by inunens!
gangs of people in the public streets. Thousands of
spectators were assembled, many Coming long distance/
to witness the proceedings. Between two and three
o'clock in the afternoon the tradesmen put up their
shutters, and for the remainder of the day businese
was well nigh suspended. Football playing, though
on a smaller Beale, also took place in the public streets
at Nuneaton.

The Court Journa2 says that, in addition to his
estates, Prince Charles of Prussia leaves twenty-seven
million marks twelve to his only son, Prince
Frederick Charles, and six to each of his daughters.
He leaves a million to the Order of St. John Se found
a convalesce.tt home, and a million to other charitable
societies. The, remaining million he places at the
disposal of the Emperor, to be divided into other
legacies. '
In the coarse of shunting a train at Euston Station,
London, on Sunday, several carriages went off the
rails and were brought violently in contact with one
of the iron pillars supporting the roof of the station.
The pillar broke and the result was that a number a
heavy girders slid about twenty or thirty yards of the.
glass roof fell With a crash on the train, injuring a mall
van, which formed part of it.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardener
Regent's Park, London, during last week included Jo
Mona monkey from West Africa, presented by Mr. J.
N Flatau ; a crested porcupine from West Africa,
presented by Mr. Joseph J. Doke; two pileated jars
from La Plata, presented by Captain Gamble; twe
grey-breaded parrakeets from the Argentine Republic!,
presented by Mr. Thomas Peacock; a European tree
frog, presented by Mrs. M. B. Manuel; a Malbrona
monkey from East Africa, a Macaque monkey hot*
India, deposited; a water chavrotain, born in the
Gardens.

At Cork, on Saturday, a dealer in marine store.
named Myers met with a curious accident, by which
he was near losing his life. The cartridge of a Gaging
gun had in some unaccountable way got into his pal'
session. The case was full of rust, and Myer./
ignorant of the nature of the article, proceeded t°
examine it. Placing the cartridge in a vice, be at'
tempted to open it with a chisel and hammer, whoa
it exploded. The bullet was held firmly in the vice'
but the metallic case burst, and the pieces, striltl4
Myers in the left arm, inflicted a deep wound anc
severed the artery, from which he was near bleeding
to death.

The Standard Oilworks at Cleveland, Ohio, w_ser•
burnt last Saturday. Eight tanks, containing 65,0oe,
barrels of petroleum, were ignited in succession, 9ever'
exploding. The railway bridge over the creek where
the works ore situated, with several buildings, were
also destroyorl, and some ten acres in the valley of the
stream wero covered with the flaming oil. The PO
amounts to 250,000 dole.
"Seeing in a recent number of your paper that •
' Water-drinker ' desires some distinguishing mole
and objects to that of hydropet,' on account of ite
proximity to waterpot,' it occurs to me" (says •
correspondent of Pall Mall Gazette) "that a Lee
prettier appellation might be formed from the Latil
' aqua ' and ' bibo' (instead of from the Greek), gay'
that our worthy friend might be known henceforth Pe
an aquabibist,' or, if he prefers three syllablees
aquabib."

Cambridge is in a ferment. The Viee•ChancelW
and heads of colleges have prohibited the production
of "stage plays" during term; and the inhabitant'
have therefore divided into two sections, pro andsow
dramatic. Memorials are being signed on both sidelf
and the subject will probably be brought before O.
town council.

Sir William Harcourt, who since Saturday last bø
been on a visit to his sister at Richmond, is the stw'
ject of extraordinary precautions on the part of O.
police. Although as a fact it was not within his Prr.„
vince to advise any exercise of the Royal clemency
the case of the convicts recently executed in Irelanuf
it is popularly supposed that it was, whereas any ill"
terference with capital sentences in Ireland emanate
from the Lord Lieutenant. News appears, however,
to have reached the ,puthorities that the Home Beare'
tary has incurred the resentment of the Irish C oe•
spirators, and detectives have been appointed, who Of
watching his residence night and day.
The Queen's buckhouncls met at Ascot on Tuesdel
fot a run in the forest district, the hunting on the
lowlands of the Thames Valley being unadvisable,
owing to the heavy condition of the ground after tbe
recent rains. The Earl of Cork, the master, and a.
large field joined the hunt at the rendezvous, tb_,"
London contingent having travelled from Paddingtuf.
by the Great Western special to Windsor, whenu'
they trotted to the fixture. The deer, on being 1,
leased from the van, piloted the hounds and
about in the forest, and then over a fair line of counsu
by Ilrcadmocxr to the vicinity of Wellington Collegt
when it was taken in a cottage garden after an averor
run at a tolerably fast pace.