The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-02-13 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

ERITISH AND FOREIGN.

" Holidays of the Church!" exclaimed an elderly
gentleman, who was perpetually being worried into "early
services' and "high celebrations," by his Ritualistic
daughter, " Don't tell me of such holidays—my festival
and real day of rest is Wet-Sunday. "—Pooch.
The Swindon magistrates have Rent for trial Mr.
George Horse'', of Whitehill Farm, Wootton Bassett, a
wealthy farmer, for inthnidating a workman in his employ
at the late Cricklade election. Mr. Horsell was admitted to
bail
The Pontifical Custom-house has seized a case Rent
from. Naples, ostensibly containing figs, and underneath
Orsini bombe.

The number of shooting licensee delivered in France

last year was greater than In any preceding year. Before
May, 1844, the price was only IM. since that date It has
been 25f. ; via., 15f. for the state, and 10f, for the commune;
and the average number of licenses being about 155,000, the
produce is .£03,000 for the former, anti £02,000 for the
latter The number of poachers is estimated at 445,000
or nearly three times as great as that of the regular sports-
men.

The report of the directors of the Hull and Selby
railway states that there had been an accumulation of un-
claimed dividends, arnouuting to E.sitii : and as the efforts of
the directors had failed to find who were entitled to thou,
02 of that sum, in accordance with the resolution lif a
previous meeting, bad been invested in shares on behalf of the

company.
The -village of Buzau (Aridge) has just been almost
entirely destroyed by tire. The church, priests' residence,
anti nearly one hundred houses or farm buildings were burnt
down in a low houre. rhe disaster commenced in a chimney,
and as a high wind blew at the time the flames spread with
great rapidity. Six or seven houses alone were insured.
An official return, showing the amount of gold
obtained last year from the mines of Siberia, has just been
published at St. fieteisburg. In Eastern Siberia, where the
mines are worked by private companies, the weight of the
gold in dust was 1 034 cwt. 1111, or 31 cat. 411 i. mare than
in 1867. This includes 50 cwt. filth, obtained in some newly
discovered gold districts on the Amour river. Jib produc-
tion of gold in the government of Yeniseisk has diminished
since 1887, bat has considerably increased in other districts.
18,879 workmen were employed in the mines in 1888 This is
7,232 less than in 1867, and the diminution is accounted fur
by the bail harvest and the consequent dearness of provi-
sions. The government mines of Nertchinsk have produced
irr! cwt. 37 lb. of gold, which is 10 cwt. 31 lb. more than in
1867.
A tradesman well known in Windsor, Mr. Cowes',
who kept an outfitting shop in Deascod.street, banged him-
self on Ids premises on Wednesday morning. A doctor ,
was sent for when he was found, but he had then been dead
two hours.
On the 28th of November last a dog in a rabid state
was running through the village of Wath, near Ripon, and
after biting a dog ran into the lodge at the entrance to Norton
Conyers, kept by Wm. Smith, seized a little boy, about
five and a holt years old, and bit the little fellow on his right
eye and temples. The child apparently got better, but on
Saturday last showed signs of hydrophobia, and lingered in
great agony till Sunday evening, when death put an end to
his sufferings. An inquest was held on Tuesday, when the
jury returned a verdict of "Died from Hydrophobia."
The Horse Guards have raised the standard for
recruits for infantry regiments to 5 ft. 8 in.
A writer estimates the sum lost and won at cards in
the Paris clubs at 1,000,0001. a day. The cards alone cost
8,0001. per night.
On Tuesday evening, an engraver at Birmingham,
named Cooper, hung his son, a boy six years of age, in a
workshop. The father then went into a pulific-house, and
confessed what he had done. Search a-as made, and the lad
Silt down before life was extinct, and taken to the hospital.
Me father was arrested ins public-house.
The Spanish Government is wisely doing its best to
economilie on a great sonic: it is intended to suppress the
Ministry of the colonies in the next budget, and td make
reductions by which it is hoped to iessen the public expendb
titre by some 250,000,000 reels.
Bishop Ullathorne, of Birmingham, has again
warned Ids people against having anything to do with the
Fenians.
George Francis Train is making up for his enforced
silence in the Marshalsea by a vast amount of talk. lie
propos ato speak a whole week at Cooper's Institute, but the
first meeting he held was rather a damper, as there were
but 1.5 i persons present, the tickets being half a dollar
• each.
I It appears, from the quarterly report of the Regis-
trar-General, that the natural increase of the people of the
United Kingdom, the births in excess of deaths, was at the
rate of 1,177 daily, or 410,000 a year. Emigration, however,
carried off 391 daily, or 142.000 a year, leaviim 268,060 as
the final addition to tne population. At this rate the king-
dom increases by a Lancashire every ten years, or. soy a
Savoy and Nice, and sends in the same time the popula•
tion of a state like Massachusets to America and the
colonies.
On the lot January, 1860. the Italian army con-
sisted of 11,668 officers and 227,250 nice, or all, 238,927. iv,
the 31st December of the same year, the numbers aloud as
follow :—Olficers, 11,319; dien, 159,931; total, 170,820, the de.
crease being 68,037.
" Vomit, Ladies.— A tradesman, aged 29, wilier
to correspond with a y. ding lady, with the direct view to
matrimony; to a lady wishing to leave hoine, with herparent's
consent, this is a rare chance; accomplished and with an
income, prrsent or expected; age go to 25; carte and parti-
culars —Address," &c.—Advertisement in Mancheder
Or-
sresinee.

A middle-aged gentleman, believed to be a German
committed suicide early on Sunday morning, in the Mall,
St. James's Park, London. On hearing a report of firearms,
a policeman went to the spot, and found a man lying on the
gravel, with a revolver in his hand, mid the mark of a bullet
on the right side of the head. Nothing is known of the de-
ceseed further than that his name was Christian Swimmer.
Ile was about forty years of age, and fashionably dressed
' One at least of the persons implicated in the 88816891-
nation at Burgoa whether a cleric or a layman we are sot
told) has been sentenced to death, but his execution is post,
posed, ant there is no probabili.y that either he or any of
the other prisoners will really suffer capital punishment.
Application has heels made this week to the (:,sort
of Chancery to enforce an agreement entered into some
months ago between the Rev. George usury and the Rev. J.
L. Tyne " Father Ignatius'), in which certain matters in
dispute between them were referred to arbitration. The
agreement had been made, but not under seal, mid Mr. Lyne
afterwards repudiated it. The Vice-Chancellor held that,
under the chrunistances, he had no authority to interfere,
and refused the motion, with costs.
A young man, named Blythe, who was only married
a month ago, rolled upon a friend at Ashton on Friday, who,
on meeting hie. exhibited a revolver I crew ly won in a raffle.
lie was calling the attention of his friend to the tveason,
when it went .0, the contents entering Blythe's head, cau,ng
death in sit. 'at two hours.
The Joornol de Paris says that the Duke of Saxe-
Weil, ar It ts j had a narr4tw escape of hbalife. As he was,
after the Moto,. of Germanic princee, walking home fool.
the play, one of his Menet subjects, much bemused in ocer,
tried to run him throne]i with a sword stick.
The telegraph, says an American paper, is a failure
1,, Mexico. The people steal the wires . fast as they are
put up.
The coroner of Liverpool held 851 inquests last year.
In twenty-nine eases a verdict of wilful murder was returned
The total cost ot the inquests was £1,675.
Her Royal Highness the Countess de Paris was
safely delivered of a sou at York-house, Twickenham, on
Saturday, the 6th ult., at ten minutes to two o'clock p.m.
Dr. Priestly and Dr. Gueueau de Mussy were in attend-
ance The mother and child are doing very well. The !
Infant Prince was baptised on Sunday afternoon, at York-
house, bv the Rev. Monsignor Weld, of Isletvorth, and
received the names of Louis Philippe Robert. lie Ragtime,
the historical title of Duke of Orleans, which was last borne
by the Lamented father of the Count de Paris.
Mane. Christine Nilsson has pronounced in favour
of lowerivg the English musical pitch. The proposetl change,
says aldlle. Nilsson, is of the "highest vocal neccesity," and
is judged most indispensable by all vocalists,
An American paper fin Wisconsin) sari S " During
a fierce thunderstorm near Mount Desert, the lightning carne
down through the roof of a house and bed, spit which lay a
husband and wife, throwing tile man out of [eel, thence into
the cellar and out through the drain, and then ploughed up
the ground to the barn-yard, where it killed scow."
Sir Walter Scott was born on the 15th August, 1771
and it is proposed to celebrate the event by a v rand Cents.
ary Festival, to be held next August two years
The time gun at Newcastle, very much to the Kir.
prise of the town, went off at live minutes to twelve on
Saturday morning. The attendant had loaded the gun an
hour before his usual time—namely, at haltpast eleven,
inetead of half-past twelve, and the electric telegraph officials
had happened shortly afterwards to test the wire ; hence the
unusual report. The guu was fired again, as usual, at one
o'clock.
A joint-stock company is "getting up" in Edinburgh
for the settlement of commercial matters by a process of
reference to the directors of the proposed institution
Instead of the courts of law.
A telegram from Civita Vecchia says that French
transports continue to arrive there and disembark large
quantities of rifles, powder and cannon.
A new gold-field has been found in the Strath Bora,
Sutherlamishire, and several diggers have gonetisth:te re
t place.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who have
viously contributed to the expenditure incurred in the
restoration of Ripon Cathedral, have made a further grant
of £5,000 towards the same object,
A short time ago a trunk was received at one of the I
express offices in Buffalo, 5.,; marked "to be called for."
Owing to the fact that a very disagreeable si.ll was ernittetc
Irons the box, and noose having called for it, it wan opened
on Monday, and found to contain the body of a woman,
nutty mutilated. Just above the heart a stab was is-
covered.
The Tablet states that Mrs. De Burgh, the wife of
the vicar of West Drayton, hau joined the church of Rome.
I The thirteenth banquet of the Dramatic, Egli,-
Winn, 111111 Musical Sick Fund Li fixed for M eduesday next
—Lieutenant Colonel Addison in the chair.
IThe Archbishop of York, on Friday, opened two
new churches at Sheffield. Otte of them hae been erected as
I a cost of £12,000 by Sir John Brown, mei the other is the gift
of Mr. 11. Wilson, a snuff merchant.
John Casey, the " Galtee Boy" of the Irialt People I
newspaper, which was seined in Devlin, by the Earl Of K it.- (
berley, when lord-lieutenant, hsa been released on ticket-
ot-leave. lie was sentenced in 1885 to five years' Vella
servitude, and was, with others, sent to Wester!. Australia
to finish Ills term. Jeremiah Donovan has also been re-
leased on ticket-of-leave in Australia. Dim half of their
sentences had expired.
The Admiralty has issued the following circular :
" My Lords ramintissite,ers of the Admiralty are pleased to
direct that, for the future, no flag officer appoieted to a
command shall be permitted to nominate his son as his
flag captain. A flag officer may nominate his 64111 as his ;
flag lieutenant but only one member of the admiral's 1
lousily can be allowed to serve on board the flagship—W. c
Romaine.
"The Marquis of Bute seems only half converted,
after all, for he still announces himself a Conservative. No
C'ditulobsmot hail
c a,
w Roman
wehis
iti ‘ rt
s ace how beenib
he net Lscathiberesere'ashi'iblhyeasi7eipuclo'belm:Eßrilto.hian:
advocate of the policy that would concede the utmted fulness I
of religi•tini liberty to the marquis's co-religidnists in Ire-
land. We imagine at all events, that many Roman Catholics
will feel suspicious of that conversiou which, whilst
adopting • faith, persists in sanctioning its persecution."... I
Assay

Typhus fever is very prevalent just now in Ernimeic
and the Mom:tette says that many lamillea have left the City
in consequence. Young girls are the j al al rietims ci ()„.
disease.
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A vel..cipede maker says that there are more than
• , • theie locomotives now in use h,
:•:,rs. V.uriwl cot them in all directions, and
daily on Sundays.
It is statiol that the Mn•;ialen H 144 in the
Illackfriars-rond, Loudon. is to be converted ...to a circus.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has anm•rneed, in the
Town Council, his intention to come to I.OIM. :1 to present to
her Mojesty a memorial tlltii en her to grant
u.
prayer of a pclitioll for the eisindowment 01, dIMMItAhI4I,.
tine, t of the Church, at the Battle tune Mu be prewnts
petition front the amnesty committee in far,•,., of the release
of Fenian prisoners.

Arthur Allen and James Kemp, f:0...1 labourers
have been committed to Winchester gvol. b, trial at the
ensuing assizes charged with havit., p 1: 1 two heavy
sleepers and a ladder across the dolvii rail, of the soul,
Western Railway at Worting, near Rasingsto!,

A large reduction in rumen wages in the Glum,
district it; tieing made. Minty of the miners eubtaittwi
the 'drop," while others ate organising to rotestagabst
the reduction.

The seamen of New York are on strit, for llizher
wages. About 1,100 of them recently wallo.: iu process,.
through the city.

The performance of the pantonrme
crustal" has terminated as disastrously In ,lie theatre a'
1 11111 as it did at Plymouth sin years ago. I;eCh ease tie'
entertnininent had closed SA ith the panionath
was at of the building by half-past eleven, 1 the ti
discovered shortly after. aids in the pnmt root
seems to have been particularly unfortunat
its theatres, a former structure bath,
tire lees than ten years ago.

Sir Charles Fox says he is of opiriou
under the Mersey can be constructed for ta

Lb
regpect T
daltro)ed

at a tunnel

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"Not guilty,' said an Omaha jary. "but if the
prisoner is smart he mill leave the terra.] :wfore night."
He left.

The Marchioness of Qneensberry ha, contributed
further sum of allU for the relief of tin lics of it
Fenian prisoner. in Ireland.

"The difference between Eugenie at the depose
Queen of Spain is that one is a belle on a throne and the
other Isabelle off. ."—Court Journal.

According to a return recently issne,l by tle. Irih
Registrar-General it appears that a paint h..a at List hei,t
reached where emigration has ceased to drain Ilk, 1101.121 j. II
of Ireland.

At Rome, New York, recently, a toan was halm, I
for murder. A new thing in executions was 011 I! •
0,7005i0n. Chloroform was ailed ll istered to the priso,
and as soon as he was insensible the drop fell There wel
Ito evidences of pain, and in twelve niimilcs the pulse cea,
to beat.

A young lady appeared at a Louinville (Kentuek,
masquerade, the other night, as the Abaighty
Her costume was of white and silver tin-a •, nordered Sc
bank notes, gold coin on her neck and arms and in h.
hair.

The question of civil marriages in tip:tin is exeitio
much attention. At Rens, the alcahle had s.demitised to
thirty. At Arenas 1111.1 other places they are lila. c. ;mute,
ins. The Madrid Ayuotamicuto are urged to :idol.: Ilk ;.
hut they pcmistently refuse.

"If 'Your girl' will write (a 1 -os rin;rtor.
square, NW., as before not appoint One allti pine, 1,.
thorn , he will gladly meet her soon ' Distraotv.i
—Why this ruin W. S. H. WifikleS matters to go ou s
usual. Return :mil be not rash. Think of those at bon,.
It will all be rectithid. lleply."—Advertisements in It

The Mikado of Japan has issued an edict ord,Ting
the decapitation I oh the hiniatus of a dwelling in
which a conflagration originates accidentally or other-
wise.

The Army and Navy Gazette heat+ that the effect
the reductions in the Army Median] ~taff will he so he ve
that no fresh admissions to the service are likely to take
place for a year, if not a longer time.

A. young lady from "the States" arrived in I hull-
ton, Canada, the other day, and was SCUD to be
from an aggravated development of the •• Grecian he;,;
At the custom-house she was subjected to the usual tr.' .1-
meet. and religved of twelve yards of black cilk velvet. si%
patrol French kid gloves, forty yards of rich lace, four oh I.
ostrich feathers, and a bottle of magic hair restorer. ,ii..
was convaleacent at last accounts.
It is confidently stated that the Lords of the Atini.
rally have decided that the sum of money devoted to the lA-
perimente shall be reduced this year from £l2,thar to
mt. Is a sensible reduction from £30,000, which sum 0a:
annually taken during the Infancy of armour-plates.
Sir John Kat-slake has become a life mend., of the
Exeter Working Men's Conservative Union.
It is stated that at a meeting if Irish Protest:oil,
loishops just hell at Dublin a resolution was come
expressive of confidence in the devotion of the ia•i ti...
church, and declaring an intention to convene
rneeting of prelates, clergy, and laity, ti take coeusel a•P,
the best means of dealing with the present crisis ii th.•
history of the state establishment in irdand.
Mr. Findlater, a wealthy merchant of Ilnl,iie, ant
Presbyterian, has sul oscri I led £l,OOO to assist in the re-eree,
of a Church of England parish church hi that city, thor,i.
he took an active part at. the last election in filVI/11r 4sl
Pins and Sir Dominic Corrigan, being favourable to
lishment.
A number of the Jesuits expelled from Spin are
expected at innspruck in the Tyrol. The news ..f

conning appears to have caused much emotion 00012 ii
inhaldtantem whom the Voikabteitt, the organ of the cm,
copacy, endeavours to reassure. That journal irc
alleged that the Jesuits are notch liked in England, a 11,, s
print asks why in that case the disciples of Loyola 1.1,,
to Great Britain ?
An engine-driver, named Connor, while driving
goods train from Galway to Dublin, on Saturday 1.0 7.
near the Athenry Station, stooped to oil the el
cident ally tell ott owl was killed .in the ,pot.
According to a correspondent of the Mai!, •, :
the Roman Catholic Arelilashop of Westminster ,
have the dignity of cardinal conferred upon him m
Pope.
The will of tine late eminent astronomer, Sic
south, eOIIIIIi,IA an eccentric bequest. "The tuft tor.-
real, " has lett a pocket elir. dna, each to
Shafteabory and Rome, in the fullest c,ii,lioenic. I
will carry them In the place where be ,tbe rice..., • ~.
!lie habit of carryirig namely, in the 1,00.41.0. p ;
Properly so called."
In London, on Monday night, at
• irs.,eral meeting of the Instant. of Olin'...'
Bailey Denton, a member of the boa i a. in, I .
01, 1.10 Future Extemion of the Psy •
sia,,,i,l refertnoe to the case of acrim ,/ ,
Vicki' with rail, ays. A conaiderab c port, iof cli.,
was occupied witli the consideration of the exce,ir. . ,•
unre monable sums paid for agricultural land as an,.
to railway railway extension.
In the Court of Common Pleas, in ..1
Monday, an action for libel was bronghtby a thin of •• -
against a local pal er published in, Hackney. The co .
complained of had reference to the quality of soon •
ny the plaintiffs as contractors to the board ill Vll/11,1:311,
The Chief Justice directed the jury that if the articles wen.
fair comments upon a matter 11 public interest, an I ern.
published without malice, the action could sc.t. iii•
The jury found for the defendant.
The following appears among the regular marria2c
notices tn the Omaha 11,7,1161144ga Cox—Harrington-4 on
the east half of the north-west quarter of section tweidy-two
22, township twenty-one .21 ilorth, of range eleven (.1
east, in an open sleigh and under an open and anchugha
canopy, by the Rev. J. F. Mason, James it, only son of 3.011
COX, of Colorado, and Ellen C., eldest daughter of AIM, it
Barrington, of Burt County, Nebraska."
A clause in the draft of the new Constitution Pie
Spain prohibits slavery in the Spanish possession.
"A. 11. A.—l should much like to hear front, pen
when you can nail time to send me a letter. I hale ciii
to tell you when you can arrange to receive a letter—lio 1,01
that is of great importance to p.u. Should you Inc 1,10,
tioneol On any enhject, tin not reveal ani thing, as you v.. lue
all your future happiness. Nothing can be known vita...,
through pat I depend on you, and believe me true till
death. —H."— A deerWeinenf in The Timex.

The Board of Trade have recently awarded to the
widow and children of the late David Johns, a commissioned
boatman at Appledore Coast-guard Station, a sum of
a mark of their appreciation of the gallantry diiplayed hy
him in attempting to save the lives id the crew of the h don,
Leopard, of London, which was wrecked at Appledore •ni the
28th Decemher last.

A Spanish paper announces that the municipality
of Madrid has sold a plot of land in one of the promenarlei
of the oapital, as a site for the erection of a Pmtestaid
church. The sale was concluded on the "rd inst., and the
works are to be commenced before the eipening of the I rule:.
Tlie municipality and the members fir Madrid have been
specially invited to be present at the ceremony.
Bishop Selwyn, who has just returned from New
delivered an address at Stoke on Saturday, in winch
he gave some assurances that the churches in New Aedand,
notwithstanding the recent troubles, are in a prosperolls
condition and maintained that there was on need for church-
men to despair at home because compulsory churOh rates
have been at, dished Ile felt, he said, that they were in
the same position as our foref .titers sore, and had nothing
to do lilt to app,-ad to 1110 consciences of their folios.
Chribtians.

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An angry correspondence has taken place between
Mr. Sullivan, of the Nation, and Mr. Pigott, of the Iri.shino
relative to sortie stattments published iri the latter journal,
stigmatising Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan denounces the state-
ments as falsehoods, and offers Mr. Pigott the alternative ,d
an investigation in a court of law, or before a tribunal of lies
Irish gentlemen. Mr. Pigott replies that the allegations in
question were copied from the Irish People and Irish
leadiag IriapAnierlcria journals. In two sobs,
quent letters some veTV strong expressions of npinienare ex-
changed, and Mr. Sullivan closes with an intimation that ha
will "now proceed to claim the vindication to with* he is
entitled."

Is lunacy increasing? Statistics show that the
number of known lunatics in this country now is, rvlativ,ly
to the population, nearly double what it was to 1,44.
Similar results appear on the face of registration stati.ties in
France. Dr. Lockhart Robertson, however, a competent
authority has, tu an elaborate paper read before the kledic,
Psychological Association, endeavoured to prove that air
apparent increase is only the result of more accurate reet:•
tration &Mt the opening of county asylums.

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Since the committal of the prisoner Sheward f
trial—and, indeed, since his removal to Norwich—he I.
become very taciturn, and has not given the slightest- afbl
tional clue to the murder so strangely confessed by him
the Lambeth Police-court early in January. In fact, b, i•
eviiimitly determined now to struggle for existence. JI
will be brought to trial at Norwich about the 26th or 27C1
of Much.

The appeal on behalf of the widow and eight father.
lees children if the late guard IA ihiam hiniith, who al
Willed by the sad etilainityat Abet-wok. on the Dub Awn,'
lani, has been responded to most lilierally,and the comma:.
have panelled a list of contributors and statement of in
conic. The purchases .4 Victoria Rix perfect. lit foster,
and Pend Railway Wick, guaranteed 5 per cent., have Xcen
completid, so as to offold ti.:s a piar less in,' Me tax), let
the tint monthly payment of dividend hanil-d to M.
Smith. , ,

Reports continue to reach &miters and acid.
dews from the frequent gales and floods. A
cattle and sheep have been drowned in the north ~f Euglawi.
A collision betweeli two vessels has taken place in the Hay of
}decay, one of thein„p Prie:sisn barque, sinking inditediii
with three of her his 0.1 leant ; and the otter, the
Caieutta, being an much injured that her crew had to take
the boats, and, as the sea was running very high, .1 A. fear,i
that many lives are lost, two boats only having r•mited
fthipwi ticks have been nunierens Ihe services of the life-
boats all along the coast have been in constant requisition.
The late Baron Jtothshild, dining once nt his club in
Pariii, heard some one soy :—. Horrible bore—lent X. ter.
thoucand frthes—have not even got an acknow lee/gement :
and he's gone to Constantinople." " Write to him,. said the
Baron. " Have done 110, arid it don't answer—l,c does 11• PI
answer." "Then, too,, cher, write to him thus .-IS-1,
M. when the Turks and Turkesses love )ou a lute.
leisure time, send me the twenty thousand francs I er,•
you " •• Hut he only owes me ten thousand." Precise!)
he will write and say no, and then there's your acknowledge-

"You will have seen a ikwagraph stating that Lb.-
Marquis of Bute would have been merriest to the delight,
of a 41uke only for his change of religion. The 41.1 kt hO re-
ferred to is the Duke of Abereorn. flit grace, it is said,
broke off the match as soon aa the marquis announced his
intention of becoming a ICOI,IIIII Catholic. It is bebeccl,
however. in well-informed circles,' that the nietrirconill
negotiations will he resumed, and that his grace will ulti-
mately consent to awcept a liolnaa Catholic son-to-law
There di ~ot the least truth in the rumour that the marquis
in to become a priest"—Londoo cornopondent of fhe
Liverpool Albion.