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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

SOLDIERS AND CIGARS.

Friend Punch,—Peradventure thou hart seen that
the Army Re-organisation Commissioners propose that
soldiers, after twelve years' service, should lw tempted
to reenlist for nine years more by an addition of 2d, a
dav to their pay, and a retiring pension of Is. a day.
I think the pay at present actually received, after
all deductions, by a private soldier, amounts to about
daily. At that rate the pay, per diem, of the
re-enlisted soldier, would be 3ad.
Thou didst, peradventure, also see that when the
liing of Pretoria quartered his army on certain
provinces which he had seized, he exacted from their
inhabitants a tribute which included, for each soldier,
• large allowance of cigars:.

How many cigars dost thou think a British soldier
could buy for 311.? I suppose them wilt answer,
Two nenny Pickwick& and a Cuba. IMeit thou think
the King of Prussia would have been satisfied with the
supply of such cigars to his soldiers? Wouldst thou
smoke them thyself?
How many men, thinkest thou, besides the few who
love fighting for its own sake, are likely to enlist for
the price of one Cuba, and re-enlist for the equivalent
of one Cuba and three penny Pickwicks a day? How
many, in thine opinion, will the prospect of is. a week
for their sustenance in old age allure to resume the
occupation of exposing their viscera and their limbo
to be lacerated and crushed by lumps of lead and
masses 11 iron? Imagine the effect of an Armstrong
bolt on thine own shins.

-- -
Methinks, friend Punch, that if the British Army
is to be recruited with a sufficiency of volunteers,
they must be encouraged to take their chance of
death or mutilation by advantages considerably higher
than the wages as above recommended.
Which, it the country cannot afford, it will of
neceesity have to submit to a general conscription
irrespec, ively of rank and riches, which is what the
principal nations of the Continent have brought
upon themselves by their glorious victories. Truly
that wsuld be a great calamity, especially for Members
of the Society of Friends, even if they were allowed to
buy substitutes; which would be as contrary to their
principles as serving themselves. For a consistent
Friend would refuse to do either ; and then, friend
Pouch, I fear that grievous persecution would be the
lot of thy friend,—OßADlAH. Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

WON AND LOST.

An extraordinary case has just come before the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine in France. Some months ago
an old woman Widow Tamizler, died in Paris leaving
as it was supposed, no other fortune than Hie poor
furniture of a small lodging. Her effects were sold
by auction, and among them was a little box contain-
ing skeins of thread, which, with several things classed
under the bead "sundries," was knocked down to a
dealer in marine stores, named Audebere, for 4f.
Autlebert made a present of the box to Mdlle. Fricot-
teals, a dressmaker, who was his mistress. She
making use of the skeins of thread, found con-
cealed in them twenty Bank of France not.. for I,oliof.
each. She, being unaccustomed to the handling of large
sums of money, doubted whether the discovery was of
any value. Nevertheless, she sent a friend to the
Bank of France with one of the notes, and, receiving
in return for it fifty golden napoleons, could no longer
doubt about the "treasure trove." Separate enjoy-
ment of the find never occurred to her innocent soul,
and she at once took the notes and gold to her para.
moue, Audebert, who had given her the box. He
proposed a tour in Auvergne, his native department.
Had he gone anywhere else in France he had been
secure from any inquiry about the contents, of the
lam of thread. But in Auvergne his expensive way
of living, 10 far beyond the station of himself and
family, led to the belief that he and Miss Fricotteau
most have come by money unlawfully in Paris. A
judge of instruction thought himself justified inarrest-
ing Audebert and Miss Fricutteau. They at once
confessed the whole story of the box of thread, and
produced seventeen notes yet unspent out of the
origtnal twenty.
Tim Tribunal of Correctional Police acquitted them
on the criminal charge of misappropriation ; neverthe-
less the seventeen thousand franc notes were ions
pounded in court to await the claim of the presumed
I lawful owner. A nephew of widow Tamizier, one
I Louis Cochuis, appeared the other day by his
counsel, M. F. Thomas, in this character. Neither
Ausiebert nor Miss Fricotteau made any opposition to
his claim, and it was adjudged that the 17,0001. in
court should be paid over to him.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

1101%4.

The hop trao has ruled firm, and a general advance of 5,
per cwt has taken place in tunes. 'Tne few samples '
American produce on the Aaiun, havebees is s, easy rrosod,
and lu secondary qualities 01 home-grows amodera, business
has beau concluded. The country markets are firma. at full
onotatiosa. Last week's Imports amousto Ito 75 bales from
12,2 from Rotterdam, 264 from Dunkirk, 242 front
Antwerp, tarl from Ilamburgh, 5. from Bremen. 17 from
Boulogne, 10 from 0-Load, and 495 bales from Si. Potrero-
burgh. Mid and East Rents, 166. to 2255. ; Weald of Kenn.
1455. to 180 s, ; Susses, 145. to 173. ; and Yearlings, 950. to
1461 per cwt.
WOOL.
there

s.
At the public noin of colonial wool held this week
Was fair attendance of loup-ra. The quantity of wool eh.
posed of was 17 no means extensive. Nevertheless no fur-
ther reduction took plata. Oa the quotations The trr
thous hi haittioh wool, either for hoot, use or tor
were very ...alei ate, at about late rates. Last week's In.
comprised 6,426 hale, from the Cal. of (loud Hop,. and 1.
halm from Sydney 010000.: SO.lOll N/I hokgets, Is 7i ,
is aid : hail hr ditto to In ; Kent fleeces, ton..
to Is tot; southdown own find 1001.1016. 1. 74 to Is ad:
leimeter ditto, ls 74 to Is 91: Sorts Clothing, ls t
7s 100; oComMtg, 11146 to 11 :hi per 11...

tr.usse.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

DISTRTCT CHRONICLE.

MRER 1. 1866.

Oh! have you hem, the almions news
Of OAKES'S famous Boots mid Shoes?
Which me all over the country used,
So famed are the Boots of Oakes's.

Short Boats. 7s 6d.
They're good and cheap and very strong,
And suitable for old and young ;
Besides they'll last near twice as long,
Will the Boots that're bought at Oakes's.
Lace-ups, is 6d.
They are the best that von can bey,
They cannot rip. and 11l tell you wny—
They are screwed together. so you may rely
On the ritetted Boots of Oakes's.
Elastics, 7s 6d.
They have one %alt. end that jo true,
But that's 'gainst him. and not 'pinst you,
Thew Isst too long. imleed thry do,
Do these famous Boots of Oakes's.
Bluchers,
One thousand's worth he has on hand
To meet the s cry great &gourd ;
For the soy best Bouts its the land

Ladies awl Groat mrtt,s Pools Made to OJ der.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

PUBLIC NOTICE.

lIAGLEV•ISTREET, ITALESOWEN, WORCESTERSIIII:E.
4, AMUEL SALT and SONS, the duly ap-
t./ toirtrd Town and Country CRIERS. BILL-
POSTERS, AUCTIONEERS, POlttEltS, Ac, •ke.,
All Crying sod Bill-Posting, or my °Dor busincas
done, either by the Piece, by the Day, or by the Week,
and also done on the moat reasonable tennis.
N.ll.—S. SALT and SONS will go atuya here they are
required to go, either in Toun or Couutry.
DISCOUNT OFFICES, VlCAbst. Ducy:—
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

GEORGE YARDLEY

T) RCS to return thanks to the Gentry end
Public in gi hr.]. tile the favours he has received
from them in his CAI:1111\W BUSINESS during the
last he years. and hi es io inform them that he has
add. d art ACM/4113MT lON CMEIBUS to his Waive.*
1,, N.,11 from liirmanghom tinily, ihronat. (yordee. Beech
Lanes, and Edgbat.ton. Li ayes the tit..orgt lie. Hales-
°wen, at 10 a.m., mud lime Ploenix Inn, Park-street, at
half-past three, and the Crown Inn, Broaddd.reet, at four
precisely.

DUN N AND HEWETT'S
CHOCOLATE POWDER,
ICELAND NOSS COCOA,
HOIVEOPATHIC COCOA, AND
RAIZENA COCOA,
Are all guaranteed to be Genuine, under a realty of
Fifty Guineas, and atilt stand unrivalled for Flamm and
cluft•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

shame

tlis Monday evening an inquest was held at St George's
repecting the death of the above unfortunate
you/ g woman, whose name was Sylvia Bennett, aged 15
years. The evidence showed that the deceived was a servant
at a family lodging house In Sloane-street, Chelsea, and that
on Thursday last, at noon, she was occupied in cleaning the
bed roost on the third door. In one of the rooms there was
• lire, and whilst she was dusting the mantelpiece her
dress, being distended by crinoline, took tire. She seems
to have run from one room to another, the flames scorch-
ing the oovers on the heal; she then ran screaming down,
stairs and into the kitchen where her mistress was. Her
Mistrtse, paralysed by fright, could do totbing towards
extinguieleing the garnet, and so the girl ran to the front
door, still screaming. Jost as she open.' the door 11.
Jules Wofilea, a t4acher of language., chanced to be yaw
lug. and with greet promptitu Is he threw his overcoat
round the girt Mr. Ellie the writer of the above letter,.
also approached aS the time, and joined the French
gen,lernen in his efforts to wive the girl. A woman
named Sarah Fitch drew a (usenet or rug from her
greengrrery cart, which stood near, and also helped
to extinguish the flame. Ewen alter the flames
appeared to be put out, there mutt have been a
great deal of sm.mldering fire in the girl's clothes The
carpet was scorched considerably, and water had to he
dashed on the breast and under the arms of the girl. A
was obtained, which had to be used stretcherlike.
The girl was placed in it, and the surgeon, the Frenchman,
and others conveyed her to a four wheeled cab. Tnedriver
refused to take the girl, and persisted in his refusal, notwith-
standing the entreaties and the threats of the bystanders At
last Mr. Ellis bed her taken to his own carnage, and in that
the was conveyed to the hospital. The heat I rom the body was
such as to 1111 the carriage with steam In two or three minute..
The girl dedUce acme evening Her mistress stated that she
found the hoops which had distended the girl', dress on the
Steps at the street door, they having evidently dropped
there, as the lire destroyed the underclothing.
Several remarks were made respecting the conduct of the
cabman, and, in answer to the coroner, an inspectde of
police said he believed a cabman was not bound to take a
fare whereby Ms vehicle might be injured. If a complaint
were made to the Commissioners, the man might be found,
and the matt, Investigated
A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

A COI4TR/LBT.

Whoever has been lucky enough to spend a
week of his life in Italian air will, I dare
saV, admit that half the time would have been
sufficient to acquaint himself with the manners
and habits of the people ( writes the St. Petersburgh
correspondent of Toe Totes). The genial climate
causes all the business of life to be transacted in the
streets. The sky is so blue and the air so warm that
no one wishes to be cooped up within four walls
Love letters are penned in the garden, and skirt's sewed
on the doorsteps. The cook washes cabbages in the
gateway, a bevy of children standing by, some watch-
ing the operation, andothers learning their lessons for
the morrow. In Russia everything is different. No
one goes out unless absolutely compelled to leave the
protection ,d the house. The street is not an extension of
the drawing-room, the workroom, or even the bedroom,
as in Italy, but only a means of communication. No one
stands still on the pavement. All rash and hurry past
each other. Except the ~roue cabmen, and a few
newspaper boys languidty' standing about in the
Nemesia Prospect, I have hardly noticed a single
creature in this immense capital earning its daily
bread in the streets. No more than half-a-dozen
organ-grinders have intruded themselves upon my
gratified senses within the space of a fortnight. I
remember one whose heroism in exposing himself to
the cold was the greater as he had no legs, and could
not even attempt to warm himself by walking about.
Perhaps he has a comrade who, finding himself in the
same predicament, occasionally meets his companion
in misery that they may brat each other's arms and
chests. Such, at least, is the expedient adopted by
cabmen, who, with four extra legs at their disposal,
suffer as much as the legless.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

AN AMERICAN WILL CASE.

Advices from America inform us that what is known
as the " Jumel Will Cage " has finally been brought to
an end. Madame Jumel was best known in the
United States as the widow of Aaron Burr—Jumel
being the name of her first husband. She died leaving
property valued at 800,000 dollars. In her old age she
lost her reason, and was induced to bequeath all her
property to an up-town church and clergyman, entirely
disinheriting her own relatives. The will has now
been set aside, and the property will probably be
handed over to the descendants of the widow. In her
old age Madame Jutuel indulged in some very extra-
ordinary freaks. She was impressed with a belief that
the Prince of Wales intended to visit her house, and
she caused extensive preparations to be made for his
Royal Highness's reception, among other things pre-
paring a costly dinner. The dishes, complete in their
way, were placed upon a table in the principal room
of the widow's house—this room she never permitted
any one to enter—and it was not until after her death
that the mouldy remnants of the feast were removed.
She lived in constant fear of robbers, and equipped
and established a guard of thirty men, who watched
her houde, relieving each other in military style. She
caused the grounds about her house to be mined for
hidden treasure.. She believed that her nephew in.
tended to poison her, and that her grandnephew
intended to kill her by some other means; she drank
enormous quantities of sweet oil to neutralise the pos-
sible effects of poison. On one occasion she ate
twenty-four pint boxes of strawberries, and imme-
diately afterwards drank a tumblerful of sweet oil.
She affirmed that she could cure all diseases by the
imposition of hands. These things bring shown on
the trial, the jury decided for the partied contesting
the will.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

PLEASE BE CHEERFUL.

After LONGFELLoW.,
Tell um not, in mournful "number.,"
Life is all a ghastly dream '
Sorb as those we have In slumbers,
When the night-msre makers us scream.
Life is dark emir), In earnest,
Without bringing in the gaol ;
Only reader. of the sternest
Like their heroines out on ball.
Not to swindle, or to borrow,
Is the reputable WO'
Not to marry, and to-morrow
Kill your bride, and run away.
Arson's wrong. and poisoning dreary,
And our hearta, Mooch pretty brave,
Now laud then get rather weary
(lithe gallows Allli the grave.
In the great domestic battle,
In the matrimonial atille,
Be not like those Mormon "cattle
(live your hero r ut one wire.
il'i'.iii,ii Datiyht, r shoal remind you
there are woolen wilt-out crime ;
Draw them, and you'd leave behind you
Fictions that may weather time ;
Fictions free from that Inspector
Who la sent by Richard Mayne,
And finds footmarks that affect a
Solemn butler ins the lane.
Let us, then, have no more trialy
No more tampering with IS ills ;
Leave the poisons in the phisle—
And the money in the tills—Pc
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

"regulations.

The following lettere appeared in The Times of
Wednesday:—
SW—As an Irish loyalist, and no alarmist, though fully
alive to the momentous nature of the Impending calamity,
permit me to e it, a few suggestions through you to the
authorities, both in Limning street and Dublin Castle
Every one to wham I speak feel. persuaded that we are
drifting t••wards some trouble, of the nature of which we
have an idea, hut the extent of which we cannot even guess.
Happily the authorities in ern fully alive to the danger, and
elergot lc measure. are being taken to guard Against an out,-
tweak, both by jealously watching the importation of arms
and munitions of war. and by arming the police throughout
the country In as efficient • manner as possible. And they
may do more, and ;et additienal precautionary measures
ought to be adop are, I respectfully suggest as fol-
low.:
- - - - - •

- •
Troop. ought to be draughted from England and Scot-
land for tic garrisoning of provincial tonna without weak-
ening the force more immediately under command of Lord
Strathnairit.
2 To new Snider-Enfleld rifles ought to he rupplied to
the twiny in In-land first, toid Mat without delay.
3. Every county in Ireland without exception ought to be
privet ineil
4 Toe enrolled pensioners (many of whom are young and
active flirt) ought to be with idled and placed in charge of
all militia harraii.. They are, .1 .11 moldiers are, loyal men
ami i.uititsiamUc in maintaining the good name of the lintbh
army. Your., Ac., A LOYALIST.

"Observer" also writes :-
B.y—Are our rulers aware that at every street corner of
this city may be obdrved deuhtful, unemployed, mllitary
men of the l'aukee.lrish stamp, They have been blocking
he, hi steamers front all parts Outing the pest week.
%Maiden)ln, our Commander in-Cnief is In England, and
our garrisonl are extremely sin aIL
Allow me to recommend the immediate sending to Ireland
of at lent three battalions of the bards and one regiment
of Household Cavalry and In another mouth a dozen fur.
ther regiments of Erullah or ticottiM soldiers should follow
otherwise we may be involved in a civil war helore we expect
it,—l am, Sir, yours very obediently, OB,ERVEM

" We are in a position to state that at the Cabinet
Council held on Tuesday night it was decided that
three regiments should he at once despatAied to Ire-
land. The regiments are the 39th, which has already
left Manchester for Dublin, via Liverpool, and the
23th and 52nd, which will leave Aldershot as POOll as
the Tamar and Orontes are ready to embark them at
Portsmouth—one of which, it in hoped, will soon be
fit to sail."—Glowworm.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

Are those that come from Oaks.

ItEMEMBEI 0! KES,
63. 1011-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

Women's, 21110.
RIP summer stoek's bla usual make.
They will not sole from upper break!
Snell pains at home his men they take
To preserve the good name of Oakes's.

Women's, Si 64.
The workmen, too, in figures plain,
On the bmtme of each Em.t marks his mane,
'that the faulty man may bear the blame.
And no longer troik for Oakes's

Woroeu's, 4.• 6d.
Rat tli e say, in troth awl pride,
Oar workmen ere all ow wrll tried.
F f• ar.J. cm! '-ocean Fr ~n'iert,
Or uot be etnp.o), d by Onke-'‘.

. .
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IA °Wen vrr) beat, 5s &I.
With much 'MYR, tag, none eau deny
That ,Alpetition we ran defy;
$" pray ••ol 'loots 1.1111 Sixes route boy
At We tAleapeat shoe Mart, Oakes'a.
Childrces, 60.

rinirs g. all?, r.rectoled f.n the xitto,teld
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

SPEAKING AGAINST TIME!

A British legislator has just performed an exploit
that eclipses fin one sense) the famous triumph of
Edmund Burke. Ile has spoken is continuous speech
of seventeen hours' duration. The circumstances
under which this extraordmay oratorical feat was ac-
complished are briefly these: In September, 1865, the
government of Vancouver's Island seized, for
non-payment of taxes, a large quantity of land lying
in the neighbourhood of Victoria. It was announced
at the time that the land could he reclaimed by the
payment of the arrears due within twelve months
from the date of seizure. Before the expiration of
the allotted term, however, a bill was prepared I
authorising the governor to repudiate this contract.
The bill was presented on the last day but one of the
year. Two members only of the House of Assembly
opposed the measure. There was but one way to de-
feat it—to put off its passage until after the expiration ,
of the allotted year. Accordingly one of these men— '
' Leonard M'Clure by name—arose in the house at noon
of the last day hut one, or just twenty•four hours be-
fore the close of the year, and began speaking. He
spoke continuously until five o'clock the next morning.
The majority did all in their power to compel him to
sit down-6110nel, groaned, coughed, forbade him to
rest his hand on a desk or his foot on a chair, keeping
him constantly erect. At five o'clock on the morning
of the last day he sat down, and his associate—one
Amos de Comes—arose and talked steadily on despite
all attempts at interruption until noon. As the clock
struck twelve he sat down. The bill and the majority
were defeated.

AN AMUSING ENTERTAINMENT.
The correspondent of the Daily Telejraph, writing from
Moscow, voids the following interesting incident, in con-
nection with the recent festivities at Russia

In a saloon at the end of the suite oi moon we
found, seated, a company of some forty gipsii e. The
faces were the same as those which Londoners know
so well at Ascot and Epsom; but instead of being
dressed in rage and tatters, three gipey men and
women were clad in rich silks and gorgeous colours,
which contrasted strangely with their dark olive skin
and tawny hands. Here, as much as in Hungary,
England, France, or Italy, or in any cduritry where I
have seen them, they looked id ever "a strange
people in a strange land." Tawdry, and yet not vulgar;
brazen-looking, and yet not immodest in aspect;
without breeding of any kind, sad vet not affected,
they sat as unconcerned before the `Royal party they
were summoned to amuse as if they had been encamped
on Waadawortlaootamon or steelnig thou way be.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

A REMARKABLE BURIAL-GROUND
BEING BROKEN UP.

Among the graves swept away by the passage of the
Midland Railway through Old St. Pancras church,
yard, in London, is one which has much interest Id
Englishmen—the grave of William Godwin, author of
" Caleb Williams," in its time. In the same resting.
place were laid the remains of his first wife, the well-
known Mary Woolstonecraft ; and it was while stand-
ing on the spot that Shelley first declared his love to
their daughter Mary, whom ha afterwards married.
But this is far from being the only literary association
about that remarkable burial-ground now in the hands
of "navvies." It was there that Chatterton, not long
before his death, stumbled into an open grave as he
was wandering through it; and one of the last recorded
observations of Dr. Johnson was suggested by passing
it in a carriage. His physician Brocklesby asked him
why the Catholics liked to be interred there, and he
explained it by saying that some of their religion had
suffered on the epot in Elizabeth's reign. Another
known name, whose bearer rests or did rest there, is
that of Polidori, Byron'a physician, whose father,
Allieri's secretary, was laid on the same spot.
But the foreigners of interesting names buried in Old
St. Pancras were very numerous, and representing
some of the best families of more than one emigration.
The Pall Mall Gazette, in remarking upon the above,
says that it is curious to see, apropos of this question
of the St. Pancras railway cutting, how gradually
men's interest in their dead " tapera off" as the rela-
tionship becomes remoter. A father's or mother's
grave is a sacred object; that of the grandfather or
grandmother interesting, but not so impressive; the
great grandfather's is only respectable; the great.
great'a is curious and tant suit pea antiquarian while
tho.e of the mere mat/ores beyond them may be violated
with very little shock to the nervoce C,stern. No
doubt this explaiva the comparative indifference with
which much that is going on in Old St. Pancras is
viewed. But it does not explain the fact that nobody
, tried to protect the remains of a writer so compara-
tively late in date as God em. We seem to be gradually
acc.-pting in England the terrible maxim of the Ameri-
can Jeaffreson that "the dead have no rights." "The
I earth," aided that very able man, "belongs to those
who are alive." This is indubitable ; but what aort
lof people a living people who did not care for their
dead would be is another question, and one on which
Iwe hope it is not yet necessary to speculate in this good
old-fashioned country.

In noticing the above, a correspondent of the Pall
Mall Gazette writes to say that the bouies of William
and Mary Godwin in Old St. Pancras churchyard were
removed several years since by Sir Percy Shelley, and
interred with thoae of Mrs. Shelley in the beautiful
churchyard of Bournemouth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

DISASTROUS WRECK, AND LOSS OF

LIFE.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday
A sad piece of news has arrived to-day. Last night
a very severe storm prevailed in the Channel, the wind
at Holyhead blowing a terrific gala from the north-
west. About ten p.m., while the steam-tug Rataer
Wee returning to port, she obeerved a brig beating
down to the Great Burbo Bank, and immediately
afterwards saw the vessel strike with great force on
one of the elbows of the bank. Oving to the heaviness
of the sea, the Rattler, notwithstanding every
effort made by the captain, was unable to
approach the vessel. She, however, remained
lying by for tome time, and in thie interval the
. foremast of the brig fell overboard, while loud cries for
assistance were heard issuing from the vessel. The
captain of the tug then resolved to run to Liverpool and
obtain assistance, which he did, and at 12.30 this morn-
ing he left Liverpool for the 'scene of the wreck with one
of the Liverpool lifeboata in tow. On reaching Burbo
the boat was cant loose, and after searching about the
bank for several hours, returned to the Rattler without
being able to discover any trace of the crew, although
the wreck of the brig was floating. Two other tags, the
2's Ibot "lid the Warrior, which arrived at Liverpool

today from Preston, passed through large quantities
of Boating wreck on their way up the Formby Channel.
Nothing for some time could he heard as to the name
and character of the lost vessel, but during the day it
was ascertained that she was the Elizabeth Buckhani,
commanded by Captain Wylie, and consigned to Messrs
Brooke and Co., of LiverpooL She left Queenstown,
where she put in for provisions and water two days Ago.
Her tonnage was 242 and she was bound from Demerara
with a cargo of rum, sugar, and 1,100 cocoa nuts.
Fr several miles along the Welsh coast we learn that
hundreds of cocoa nuts, cases of sugar, and other
articles which formed part of the cargo, are strewn
upon the beach. Some puncheons have also been
washed ashore, and one of the brig's boats has been
stranded at Hoylake. A curious circumstance
(for which, however, we cannot at this moment
positively vouch) is mentioned in connection with
the disaster to the Elizabeth Buekham, that
two years ago a barque called the Favourite,
belonging to the same owners, and bound from the
same quarter, was also wrecked on the Burbo Bank,
The Elizabeth Ilwkham was an old vessel, having been
built at Whitehav en in 1037. It is almost c..rtain
that the whole crew perished, including the captain.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

THE FENIANB IN AMERICA.

Advice. from America inform us that President
R. 'berth has loaned a circular for the formation of a
Fenian army to invade Canada after its organization,
but whether the Republicann will carry their sympa-
thies Bo far SS to support this contemplated foray in
1114 BO certain. For their effective tactics against him
in the recent elections President Johnson certainly owes
the Fenian brotherhood no favours now. A grand col-
lapse if the ''llonds id the Irish 8.-public," 100, COOdola
of which were issued in Boston, is reported from that
city, and the unfortunate bondholden. are making Sr.
rangements for tne prosecution if the Fenian "Centres"
who eV/11.16-1i them. James Stephens left New York
secretly last week to return to Ireland. It is ruin ktu*il
that he embarked on a Bremen steamer, but of this
nothing is certainly known. He has, however, left
New Y,,rk, and his friends say he will appear in Ire-
land by the beginning of December.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

MARRIAGE WITH A NEW ZEALAND
NATIVE.

A curious point was raised before Vlce•Chancellor Wood
on Saturday, In the case of ArmliAge c Armitage, which
arose under the will of Joseph Armitage, of Birkby Lodge,
fludderalleld, who made • bequest in favour of the lawlni
children of Ids son James, " provided he should marry an
English lady."
James Armitage married liannah Tahi Tahi, a na-
tive of New Zealand, and dam,hter of Saicuel Randall
and Tahi, an aboriginal native of New Zealand.
The • meation was, whether there was a lawful marriage
between Samuel Randall and 'raid Tahi, and of this
there wag no evidence, except the atti lavit of Samuel
Randall himself, who described himself as of Rangoon
Waikato, in the province of Auckland, in New Zea-
land, and deposed that he was sixty-live years of age,
a British subject, born in Massachusetts, in 1801, of
parents who were British subjrctii ; that he tirst came
to New Zealand in 1828, and in 1829 intermarried with
Tahi Tahi "according to the laws, customs, and usages
then in force in New Zealand ,• that New Zealand wasnot then a British Colony, and that there was no Chris-
tian clergyman in the island at that time. Mr. G. M.
Gifford, QC.. submitted that this evidence was suffi•
cient. Mr. Yool referred to the recent decision of the
Divorce Court, in which it was held that a marriage
according to the rites of the Mormon religion was not
valid, and submitted that the court would not recog-
nise a marriage according to the laws, customs, and
usages of New Zealand before it was a British colony.
Mr. Giffard replied. The Vice• Chancellor reserved
hie judgment.

cient.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

THE CLASSICS IN THE BUSH.

An old overlander has given us a curious account of
a rencontre some time since in Queensland (remarks
an Australian paper) He had been out ex-
ploring, and returning came upon three tracks, and
not knowing which to take for the moment, he sat
down and lighted his pipe. Presently up walked
jauntily &smart-looking black fellow, whose only cloth-
ing was an oppoesuna rug, so the overlander addressed
him in broken English, as we usually talk to the
blacks. He asked the aboriginal which of three tracks
before him he ought to take on his route. The black
man drew himself op, looked down on the white man,
and in a dramatic manner said. "inedui tutissimus ibis."
The white man, who had not forgotten his Latin, was
astounded, and to satisfy his senses he repeated the
question, when he met with the same reply, delivered
more emphatically—" medio tutisei,nsu ibis." "That
is (said the black man), take the middle road, it is the
best," White and black then sat down together; the
latter turned out to he an aboriginal sent to a school
in Sydney at the expense if a squatter who had dis-
covered the black fellow's capacity for knowledge; but,
faithful to his instincts, after being educated, he bolted
into the wild bush, preferring a state of nature with
all its disadvantages to the restricted freedom of civi-
lization, returning periodically to go shearing, and
then laying out his money in tobacco, cheap prints,
and tomahawks, and rejoining his countrymen.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN THE
UNITED STATES.

At Coldwater, Michigan, on the 3rd instant, Mr. S.
K. Leach shot his wife and a man named Brown in
the street. The murdered woman was Leach's second
wife. They were married about twelve years since,
and had two children. For a time they lived happily
together, but about six years ago an estrangement
began between therm Bitter family quarrels emoted,
in which Leach sometimes used violence and made
dark threats. His wife received the company of
gentlemen against his wishes, while the tongues of idle
gossips were busy. She lived with her father, and
Leach was engaged in business that led him much
away from the city. On the husband's part, he had
wateheli her every motion with a jealous eye, following
her footsteps, going into her store quarrelling with her,
and ordering other men away when he chanced to find
tbem there, all the time throwing out dark hints
of the terrible tragedy which has since transpired. Of
late, young Brown had been frequently with her, and
had been watched by Leach; who warned him todesist,
threatening the lives of both unless the intimacy
stopped. During the Iset week Leach had been turned
away from his room at the Michigan Southern Hotel,
at the instance of Mrs. Leach, and on Saturday after-
noon she had him arrested for assault and battery.
On his promising to appear for trial, the officer per-
mitted him to go at large, and within a few hours the
terrible deed was committed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

A SINGULAR CASE AT STOCKTON.

On Saturday evening, a case of alleged murder,
attended with some curious circumstances, was re-
vested at Stockton. On the 18th inst. the body of an
old woman was found in the river Tees, opposite
Finkle-street. On the following day an inquest was
held, when the body was identified by husband and
son as that of Mary Ann Smith, sixty years of age,
/AO had been missing from her home since the night
of the 13th October, eix weeks ago, and a verdict of
" Found dead" was returned. On Thuraday last the
body of another woman was found in the Tees oppo-
site Middlesborough, and on Friday and inquest was
held, and an open verdict returned. After the in-
quest, a Mrs. Dighton called at the Middlesborough
police-station, and in consequence of what abe had
heard, asked to be allowed to look at the clothing of
the deceased woman. Several articles of clothing
were shown her, and she at once swore to them as
those of her mother, Mary Ann Smith, of Stockton.
Mrs. Dighton was then taken to see the body, and
iudentified it as that of her mother. A man
named John Herbaria, a rivetter, 26 years of age, went
to the Stockton police-station, on Saturday night, and
stated that on the night of the 13th of October
he was standing on a wharf at the bottom of Finkle.
Street, when he saw a man take hold of a woman, and,
having forced a basket from her, pushed her over the
quay into the river. He (Harbun) saw that the woman
was Mary Ann Smith, and that the man was Daniel
Dowling, a pipe maker, of South Stockton. Harbiarn
then ran up to Dowling. and said, "Now, you have
done it; you have thrown that woman into the river!"
Dowling was irritated at this, and he and Harburn
had a fight. Having heard this statement, Superin-
tendent Booth locked llarburn up, and immediately
proceeded to South Stockton and apprehended Dow-
ling, whom he charged with the murder of Mary Ann
Smith. The prisoner, in reply, said, "I know nothing
at all about it." Harburn was charged with being an
accessory. On Monday, both prisoners were before
the Stockton magistrates. On the application of the
superintendent of police, Harburn was discharged, and
made the statement on oath which he had previously
made at the police-office. The body of the deceased
having been interred, the prisoner was remanded to
give the authorities time to communicate with the
Home Secretary for an order to have the body ex-
humed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

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THE SPIRITED YOUNG MEN MARKET.

Those people who have read over the Report on
the Recruiting of the Army returned by the Crum
mirsioners appointed to consider that pressing matter,
will perhaps be of opinion that the most valuable part of
it consists in the following postscript or appendix :

-
DISSENt
Feeling most strongly that a sufficient pension is what
soldiers look to more than any other boon or advantage that
may be offered to them, and ale, bring of opinion that the
recruiting for the Army may be much injured by the un-
favourable account that a dissatisfied pensioner may give of
the service, and vice rer., in the c tse of satisfied pensioner,
I reluctantly dissent from the recommendation of the Corn.
mission as to the amount proposed to be added to the pen-
sion, and think that 4d, instead of 21. should be added to
the present rate of all pensions to non.commissioned officers
and soldier.. .

B. RAINILIFFE, Colonel,
Royal Artifice).
. .

There is no object that more tends to counteract the
eloquence of the recruiting sergeant than the sight of
a ragged and famishing old soldier, or of a veteran in
the workhouse. If the superannuated hero has the
cuff of an empty sleeve pinned to his breast, or is
hobbling on a wooden leg, he is a spectacle all the
rather operating to the discouragement of martial
impulse. He is, as it were, a scarecrow, deterring all
reasonable spectators from adventuring to tread the
path of glory in which he got mutilated, so that he is
sows for the town's end to beg during life in order that
he may be enahled to eke out a starvation allowance.
If the soldier's retiring pension is even raised by four-
pence instead of twopence, making it twelvepence a
day, will what a grateful country thinks of its brave
defender,' he very much more than adequately retire.
meted even by the munificent sum of one shilling?—
Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.

Asektraordinacy and protracted inquiry has mem
pied -the attention of the county magistrates at Derby
for the past roi'; ; ' ' which was brought to a
eloswon :* !ast. The details are too
lengthy for our columns, but we may state that John
Custa, solicitor, and town clerk of Chesterfield
George Edward Gee, solicitor, Chesterfield; and
Robert Pocklington, contractor, were summoned as
follows
r ,r that Toe, on the 15th day of July last, at the shire-
hall, in Der,y, In the said county, unlawfully and wilfully
did e nsplre and agree together, with two others, by fraud,
p.ilure, and pretending that certain goods and chattels
t, nor theretofore belonging to the said Samuel I'dlotson,
been traneerred Ivy him to the said Robert Pocklington
fur goo roust.' erntion, to defraud E I ward Peat and ether,,
contrary to the form of the statute In such cases made and
provliltd.
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The defendant, Robert Pocklington, was also
brought up in custody, charged with perjury, which
was alleged to have been committed in the above case.
The evidence for the prosecution was to the effect
• that Mr. Cutta is a solicitor practising in Chesterfield;
Mr, Gee was a partner of Mr. Cutte, also at Cheaterfied;
and Mr. Pocklington MIX a publican and anb•contrac-
tor, residing at Sheepbridge„ near Chesterfield. where
all the circumstances of the cage occurred. The
leading personage in the inquiry was Mr. Samuel
Inhotaon, the informant in the cage, who was formerly
a farmer at Sionewall. occupying land to the extent
of abut 150 acres. Mr. Cutts had been an intimate
friend and acquaintance of Mr. Ibbotmon, inasmuch
as he had the right of shooting over the land for INALIe
considerable time past. Shooting on that land
was of considerable value, from the fact of it
being surrounded by the preserves of the
Duke of Rutland and of the Duke of Devon-
shire. An action was brought—lbbotson, against
Peat and others, at the March Assizes at Derby,
and &tided in favour of tLe defendant* (Lord
Ritilandli keepers). Expenses to the amotint of
1441, lb. were entailed, which fell upon the plaintiff
(who in reality was Mr. Cutts, it WWI alleged), and
to avoid the payment of this slim, a compiracy was
got up, and the defendant* were deprived of the costa.
The conspiracy was that a friendly turn-over wee made
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

LOSING A RELIC WITHOUT REGRET!

one of the continental papers observes that while the
Vet,etians are loudly complaining that the Austrians have
taken away with them some of the treasures of art and
antiquity which the city contained, the Veronese not only
see their monks depart without regret, but permit them to
carry off also their most precious relic, the Holy Ass of
Verona. The tradition about the ass is said to be as
follows:

•
The ass on which our Saviour eat when he entered
Jerusalem refused, after the Jews had accomplished
their will of him any longer to dwell in the city. It
therefore crossed the seas (which were miraculously
made solid beneath its hoofs), went by Cyprus, Candia,
Malta, Sicily, and after various wanderings, at length
took up its abode at Verona, where it lived for many
years. From it is descended a race of remarkably fine
asses, said still to abound in that city. When the
holy animal died a pompous .funeral was accorded to
it, but it was not buried. Its mortal remains were
preserved and placed in the interior of an artificial ass
made expressly for the purpose, and which was con-
fided to the care of forty monks of the Convent of
N..tre Dame des Orgues. On certain ocsasions at
Verona the Ms wag carried in procession round the
city. A young girl represented the Holy Virgin
sitting on an gas and with a child in her arms, followed
by the monks with suitable banners. It is further
profanely asserted that formerly, after the mass was
said, the priest, instead of uttering the usual Pe nista
rot, wan wont to bray with all his strength, and that
the brethren responded in chorus. Though the monks
have departed and taken their ass with them, it does
not appear that they were in any way compelled to do
so by the new Government. They have set out for
Austria, where it is understood they are promised re-
coinpenne for their loon in earthly goods by the faithful
in that country. This verifies the saying attributed to
St. Francois (le Sales :—" The worldly prosperity of
the Churoh in like the beard—the closer they shave it
the faster it grows."

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to prevent the keepers from getting their coats.
On the c"nclu,•ion of the inquiry, on Saturday, the
Bench said it was their painful duty to commit all
three defendants for trial at the Derby March Assizes,
on the charge of conspiracy, but they would accept bail
as follows, each defendant in the nun of 10001., and
each defendant to find sureties of 500/. each. The bail
was immediately forthcoming. The Bench also com-
mitted the defendant Pocklington for having com-
mitted wilful and corrupt perjury on the 18th of July
Wit. Bail was accepted' and the defendants left the
Court with their friends. The case excited intense
interest.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

A FRENCH MARSHALS ACCOUNT OF

HIMSELF.
The following letter, said to have hoes addressed by
Marshal Valliant toe workinc f trrier, of the Cote d'Or, of
the same name, who desired to know whether they were
',hated, has appeared to some of the papers. It is curious
and characteristic, and, as it has not been contradicted
try the Personage most lutert.sted, may be considered sa
genuine:—
Sir, —You have written me an excellent letter. The
writer must be an honest man, and I should feel very
proud to be related to him, though I don't know
whether we shall be able to clear up that point.
My father, whom I was so nnfortn p ate as to lose in 1823,
hail been district secretary at Dijon, and afters Ards
Secretary• General of Prefecture of the Cote d'Or in 1815.
He was named representativeduring the Hundred Days,
then dismissed Irons his post at the prefecture and impri•
soiled for being a Bonet 'artist. I was at that time with
the army behind the Loire. My father died poor, but
esteemed by every one. I don't think he had a single
enemy. Ido not resemble him instil), way. Hewes slight
if frame, and I an, big and burly. Its was gentle in
manner. and I pass for being surly and boorish. (4
fact.) In a word, he had as many fine and excellent
qualities as people say I have defects, and I believe
those who say so are not mistaken. My father brought
up a large family—now rodnowl in camber. I have an
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01

FASHIONABLE BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
According to the Laerte ladies in Paris have begun
to come out in dresses trimmed all over with feathers,
so copiously that:—

Sportsmen cannot supply them in efficient quantity.
Feathers of the peacock, partridge, Oviedo, pheuant, fay,
blackbird, and togeon are all seized with eagerness. and even
the ducks of the poultry.)ard are plucked to satisfy tts
caprice cf our fashionable ladies.

An occasion whereon ladies might appear suitably
decorated with feathers would be a musical assembly.
If they took part in it as vocalists, they might, being
feathered all over, be considered as appearing in the
character of Pinging birds. Ducks, indeed, do not
Ping; but swans are said to, and a dress covered with
swan's plumage would be suggeetive of a song with
the burden of Down. (lorry down. But, to satisfy the
caprice of a fashionable lady, the ducks of the poultry-
yard would yield feathers less appropriate than those
which mlght be derived from the geese. —Punch.