The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-18 00:00:00

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SOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

POST-OFFICE Ecotromr.—A correspondent sing-
ing himself "A London hinter" writes to The
Times _ . . . .

I enclose you a circular from • well-known item of coal
merchants, which is dated June!, was printed In Ghent, and
WAS delivered at soy house with a Belgian postage stamp
one half-penny only. Is there not something wrong in this
to our own Post-ortice I And is there not something also
wrong when a flrm getting good prices for its goods in London
sends its prospectuses abroad to he printed that it may save
the difference in cost of production between the two
countries?

of coal merchants explain that " having to
send out nearly,. 30,090 circulars, more in the interest
of our customers than ourselves, we took advantage of
the Belgian rate, and posted our circulars in Belgium
at half the cost of postage in England. In accordance
with the Post Ofßoo regulations we were obliged to
have the circulars printed abroad, though much re.
gretting at the time the consequent offence to London
printers.']
PROVING TOO Munn !—An American paper
tells the following anecdote of a will case which re-
cently.made • sensation in court :

The barrister was eross-examining a witness, who was
called to deport to the authenticity and format execution of
the testament, and extracted from him that he hat witnessed
the teatatoes signature, and hail seen the document sealed.
" With red or black wax I"" With red." "You say you sew
the seal affixed with red wax ?" "I did." "Where was the
tes'ator at the time?" • In bed." "How long was the piece
of sealing-wan I"" Between three and four Inches." 'Who
handed It to the testator?" "1 did." "Where did you take
It from ?" " From a writing.desk on the laid." "What
was it lighted with V' A bit of wax taper, which I took I
from the same place.' "Who lighted the taper?" "1 did
with a match I took from the mantelshelf." Here the lawyer
paused in his croas.questioning, and fixing his eyes on the
witness, with his thumb on the seal of the will In dispute,
recapitulated point by point the evidence just given, and
asked him flit was correct. " Yes, sir." 'Gentlemen of the
jury," said the advocate. " I beg to inform you that the seal
In Question Is • wafer ! 4
THE LOSS ob.' TUE "('ITT OF BOSTON."—Is the
Court of Commons Pleas on Monday morning an ap-
plication was made in the came of Is and others v.
Jenkins. Mr. Raymond said this was an action
arising out of the loss of the City of Bosroa steamer,
and the steement complained of was one which accom-
panied a letter that the defendant had received from
Halifax, and had been published in The Times. At
Chambers Mr. Justice Blackburn had made an order
that the defendant should answer an interrogatory
which inquired whether he had publiahed the alleged
libel. The present application was for a rule to show
cause why the order should not be set aside, and it was
submitted to the Court, upon the authority of E linunds
r. Greenwood, that a defendant ought not to be bound
to answer a question that tended to criminate him. A
rule was granted.
A SUMMING Ur !—The Sheriff of Perth has
awarded £3O damazes to a young woman, named
Elizabeth Forbes, who was the plaintiff in an action
for breach of promise of marriage. Attached to his
interlocutor was a note in which the sheriff said
Tidal. not a case of hasty acquaintance, followed by pro-
mise to marry, heedlessly made and as wantonly violated.
The parties are of equivalent ages and station, and their
courtship season the patriarchal model of seven years. The
amount of damages Is the only question. Here there in a
special damage, as the pursuer Is proved to have made an
exuberant preparation in articles which generally is the
province of the man to provide. These still have their value
and If the difender was to pay their full value, he would of
course be entitled to the equivaltnt, and some of them would
he unsuited for his sex. Bat, doubtless, the loss on the pur-
chases forms an Item of calculation. "Loss of market," Is
the favourite terms in which damages are often awarded.
But the Sheriff Substitute discards so ignoble an epithet,
suitable only to the beasts of the stall. And, indeed, it has
often been said that such actions operate rather to enhance
than to diminish the worth of the rejected one.

AN EXPERIMENT ON Jour; BULL. —There is
every reason to believe that the Fenian invasion of
Canada was concerted by some of the more thoughtful
of the Irish Americans, in the hope that it would in.
duce the British Government to let their associates,
the political convicts, out of gaol. -Punch.

DEATH PROM HYDROPHOBIA.—A boy named
Cowan, eight years old, son of a widow residing in
Berwick, has died of hydrophobia. On the 20th of
May a terrier dog had been fighting with another dog,
and went home in a very excited state. Shortly after-
wards it attacked the boy, and inflicted several very
severe wounds on his face and other parts of his body.
A Miss Young, in endeavouring to screen the boy from
the dog, was also bitten. The boy's wounds healed
well, and he so far recovered that he was able to be
out on Tuesday in last week, but on Wednesday symp-
toms of hydrophobia showed themselves. A medical
gentleman gave it as his opinion that he was suffering
from hydrophobia in a most aggravated form. This
opinion was corroborated. The little fellow got
gradually worse, and became very violent. He foamed
at the mouth, bit and scratched at every person who
approached him, and had to be tied in bed. His suffer-
ings were very great, and in this condition he con.
tinned until his death on Friday morning. A meeting
of the justices was held on Friday morning, when it
was resolved to give notice to the public against allow-
ing dogs to wander at large.
Os Guano !—The Brussels papers relate an
amusing story of a disaster which recently befel a
detachment of soldiers stationed in the Rue du Grand
Hospice. It appears that the sergeant and his seven
men' including the sentry on duty at the door, had
such perfect confidence in the tranquillity and safety
of the city that they considered any vigilence on their
part was wholly unnecessary. Accordingly, the mus-
kets were all piled in the rack and the men calmly
sought slumber within the guardhouse. Their endea-
vour was not unsuccessful, and when at daybreak the
sergeant awoke said summoned his men to relieve a
somewhat distant sentry, he found to his dismay that
some joker or thief had stolen the eight muskets, and
the party was thus di-armed. Information was given
at the barracks, and the unfortunate detachment was
marched off in disgrace, while the sergeant, who is
only 17 years of age, was placed in confinement,

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AwoL SUICIDE.—On Saturday afternoon, about
half-past twelve, a married man, named Abraham
Wilmam, about GO years of age, who has recently resided
at Paper Mill Bridge, near Keighley, committed
suicide. He had for many years been a resident at the
village of Stanbury, near Haworth, and was well
known an a quack doctor, and latterly he had been
addicted to intemperate habits. On Saturday he went
down the foot-road on the Worth Beck side, and when
opposite Craven's damstones. he went out of the foot-
way to the railway, where a luggage train was corning
up the line. He lay down with bin head and shoulders
across the rail, and the trsin completely cut them off.
The body was removed to the Globe" Inn, Park
Lane, and in the afternoon was taken to the residence
of the deceased.

SUICID6 7110.1 Lova.—On the night of Sunday
last a lad named Bird, in the employ of a confectioner
at Spalding, in Lincolnshire, was observed to leave his
master's house and go into an outbuilding. Al he did
not return his mistress went in search of him, and found
him suspended from a beam quite derk,cl. An inquest
was held on Monday evening, when it was stated in
evidence that the boy, who wag only 17 years old, had
told a fellow-servant that a girl he had formerly courted
had spoken to him coldly and had declined to walk
with him or hold any communication with him. He
was of an excitable temperament, and it is supposed
that this led him to commit the rash act. A verdict
was returned in accordance with the facts.
A Naw Tale/C.—A gentleman stepped into a
jeweller's shop in Berlin the other day, and pointing to
his ring, said he wished to choose a stone for it. lie
was fashionably dressed, had an sir of distinction, and
while speaking German fluently, yet gave the impres-
sion that be was a foreigner. The Berlin Mr. Ruby,
therefore, feeling sure that he had found a customer
who was worth attending to, at once freely displayed
his treasures. After long consideration the gentleman
at last selected a stone, and leaving his name—a very
high-sounding one—and address, went away. He had
scarcely left when the most valuable 'Acne in the
jeweller's collection was missed. Filled with alarm,
that worthy at once sent the diAinguiehed-looking
foreigner's purchase to his hotel. Alas ! to such
person was there known. Too late the jeweller re-
membered that his customer, pretending to be very
ahort-sighted, and k.pt hie face is 'Lire immituity to
the v., a Ltaelayad to him, a-d Ite.l at ono wvaausat

been seized by • fit of coughing, when his handkerchief
had been brought into great requisition. It was
evident, therefore, that the point of his nese must have
been previously rubbed with some sticky substance,
and that the missing jewel had been thus abstracted!
Had the jeweller been a student of the annals of Berlin
police.courts, he would have become suspicious in pro.
pori mas his visitor became short-sighted. As it is,
he must be content with so much of consolation as he
can find in the knowledge that his misfortune was a
common occurrence to his fellow.townsmen some years
ago, and that their tormentors wont by the name of
"tippers."

A Win SuooraTtorr.—A department of the
Social Science Association has adopted a series of re-
solutions respecting the employment of able-bodied
paupers. The committee are of opinion that as far as
practicable the work should be useful and profitable,
and, while affording relief to the rate-payers, be such
as the pauper has been accustomed to. As • motive to
exertion, every pauper who earns more than his cost,
or who performs more than a fair day's work his
measured by that of ordinary workmen) should have
the surplus for himself. That the wages to be given,
whether in money or kind, for such work should always
he so moderate as to induce the recipient to obtain, as
soon as possible, work of an orclitary kind. That
workhouses should be placed, not in the heart of towns,
where land is scare and dear, but in the country, with
receiving houses, however, in towns for temporary
purposes. That arrangements should be made for the
ready transfer of paupers likely to remain long charge-
able from one workhouse to another, no that each
pauper may be placed where his work can be rendered
most productive.
Novase ORGAI4I:7III.—In a recent General Assem-
bly of the Free Church of Scotland, Dr. Begg (capital
name for a divine living on the alma of the Free
Faithful) protested against the introduction of the
1 Organ into their public worship. Bather than that,
he would see the Anglican Surplice, or any other inno-
vation. If the reverend gentleman objects to music,
he should have added Anglican 'bands" to the other
ministerial "ornament" But surely Dr. Begg forgets
that if he has an organist in the church, he is sure of
extra " vcluntary " contributions, and notes, too.
Punch.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF HOMAN REMAINS
On Friday evening a party of boys, while playing in a
field at Falsgrave Scarborough, accidentally came
upon a human foot protruding out of the soil. They
went for • police constable, and on the arrival of the
officer the foot was exhumed, and the ground VIM at
once searched, when another foot was found, with por-
tions of the extremities of the body of an apparently
young person, though it was impossible to define either
the age or sex. The remains were carefully put aside
until further search was made, but nothing more was
found. The flesh appeared to be in the peculiar con-
dition observed in mummies, being dry, hard, and tan-
ned; and round part of one leg was wrapped some
folds of coarse cloth ot a tanned colour, and almost
exactly corresponding to the cloth in which mummies
are enveloped. The body had evidently been buried
some years.
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SCPAR6TITION ABOUT LAKE MANITOBAR.—This
lake, which lies north-west of Fort Garry, and has
given a title to the province formed out of the
Red River region, derives its name from a smail
island from which, in the stillness of night. issues
a "mysterious voice." On no account will the
Ojibways approach or land upon this island, supposing
it to be the home of the Manitobah—" the Speaking
God." The cause of this curious sound is the beating
of the waves on the "shingle," or large pebbles lining
the shores. Along the northern coast of the island
there is a long low cliff of fine grained compact lime-
stone, which under the stroke of the hammer clinks
like steel. The waves beating on the shore at the foot
of the cliff cause the fallen fragments to rub against
each other, and to give out a sound resembling the
chimes of distant church bells. This phenomenon oc-
curs when the gales blow from the north, arid then, as
the winds subside, low, wailing sounds, like whispering
voices, are heard in the air. Travellers assert that the
effect is very impressive, and have been awakened at
night under the impression that they were listening to
church bells.

Ax UNMIXED EVlL.—Neat Gin.—Punch.
FEARFUL STORM AT ADEN.—A correspondent,
writing from Aden on the 22nd ult., gives the following
account of a storm which has just occurred there, and
which, we regret to say, has resulted in the death of
two Briti-h soldiers and several natives, besides great
loss of property:—

We have had a terrific storm here for the last two day..
At about 3 p.m. the day before yesterday a sand-squall rushed
over the place, followed by • downpour of rata which lasted
for three boon. At 11p.m. the storm recommenced, ushered
In with loud thunder and vivid lightning, and then the rain
descended again in torrents till six ro'cl,ck the following
morning. No such storm has occurred here since 1810. The
report of the thunder was awful, and the lightning flushes
surmised in brilliancy anythisil.which have ever witnessed.
Two soldiers were struck dbad by-the lightening in camp,
where an immense amount of damage has been done in the
bazaar and the native town. The roads also have been washed
away in several places, and are now quite impatearle to
wheeled vehicles. The tanks are full to overflowing, but
they have suffered considerable damage by the huge rocka
which were carried into them hy the rush of water from the
hill. Many natives and much cattle have been swept into
the sea by the Irresistible current and drowned. The
, number of lives lost has not yet been ascertained.

TELEGRAPHING.—Those who witnessed some ex-
periments on the 15th of May in the office of the
Western Union Company in this city believe that the
limit of the capacity of the telegraph wires is not yet
known (says the New Orleesw Times). A combination
of circuits was formed, varying in length from 3,000 to
5.000 miles. through which Mr. Id C. Duncan, chief
operator of the company in this city, and one of the
most accomplished of the profession, sent messages with
great ease and rapidity. The first circuit formed WSJ
from New Orleans, aid New York, to Plainer Cove,
Nova Scotia. the terminus of the Atlantic Cable, a
distance of 3,000 miles. The operators, thus widely
separated, chatted together with perfect ease, the
signals coming rapidly and with great distinctness.
Altera few momenta conversation, another circuit of still
greater length was made up, and we are informed that
it was the longest land circuit through which in-
telligible signals were ever sent. Nine repeaters were
used, one each at Rome, Georgia, Lynchburg, Virginia,
New York City, l'ittsburg, two at Cincinatti, one
each at St. lsotlia, Chicago, and Memphis. The writing
WRB returned to New Orleans almost al clearly an when
leaving the office, having passed through 18 States and
over 4,800 miles of wire. The electric current traversed
the distance in about three-quarters of a second. The
writing was transmitted as rapidly as on ordinary short
wire.

A REIII7IOI TO PLIA9I7RE-SEEICERS —ln the
University sermon at Cambridge on Sunday, the Rev.
Dr. Butler, the Head Master of Harrow, administered
a revere rebuke to plessure.seektre. He doubted
whether there ever had been a time when the pursuit
of pleasure had been so distiscAly contemplated as a
large and imperious part of human life. It was raised
to the rank of a distinct profession. It had its hier-
archy, its graduate in honours, its wellithown cham.
pion, its recognised privileges. It could not be as-
serted that it was necessary to keep bodies vigorous or
spirits light; but it was a grave question whether the
time it consumed and the aspirations it fostered did
not eadly interfere with duty. This almost idolised
cooperation for pleasure was one of the spiritual
snares of the day.

NON-VacclnerioN.—An inquest bas been held
in London on the body of John Francis Sleep, aged
20 months. His father, in evidence, said his son had
not been vaccinated. He left those things to his wife.
Emma Sleep, motherof the deseased, said he was born
at Tubbs-hill, near Sevenoaka. When she registered
his birth she did not receive any paper. He was not
vaccinated, but her eldest boy, who also had the small-
pox, was, and he had got over it. She had another
child--a little girl—who had not been vaccinated. She
and her husband had travelled about from place to
place in the country, and no one had told them there
AM any penalty for not having the children vacci-
nated. Mr. Fonracre, surgeon, said he had attended
the deceased. He died from smallpox, He refused
to grant a certificate because the parents had broken
the law. Dr. Lankester said there was no advantage
in one parish carrying out „the law if the next did
not. In Ireland and Scotland it was enforced, but not
so in England. In three years, from 1866 to 1869,
23,000 persons died in England and Wales from small.
pox, and it would be as well for the public to know
that there were officers who had power to enforce the
law. It was a question for the Government to take
up. The jury returned the following verdict—' That
the deceased, who had not been vaccinated, died from
smallpox brought on by natural causes."
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MOVING A WINDMILL SIXTEEN MILES. A
novel experiment, not quite no sensational as the mew-
ing of an hotel at Chieago, but yet sometning quite
out of the ordinary way, has been the removal of a
wind flour-mill, with all its fittings, from Westazre to
Clenchwai tan, Norfolk, a distance of about sixteen
miles. The mill was a wooden structure, and, with
its machinery of enormous weight, stood upon wheels,
having been purchased by a man living at Clench.
warton, he determined to endeavour to draw it along
the road by a traction engine, but all efforts to find one
strong enough proved ineffectual; the application,
however, of a powerful steam cultivating engine proved
more successful. In passing along the route various
expedients had to be tried, such as in ascending a bill
the engine proceeded to the summit, and then pulled
the mill op with a chain, and so carefully had the
task to be performed, that it occupied three days to
make the journey. In crossing the Great Eastern
Railway at Walton, the telegraph wires were broken.
In attempting to cross the Ooze it was feared the
celebrated long bridge would not be strong enough to
bear the enormous weight, but the engine having first
passed over, the mill itself was drawn over, the
timbers of the bridge in the meantime creaking, and
ahowing that a very severe test was being put upon
its powers. At first it was feared that the bridge had
been broken, but it was found not to be so. Its ar-
rival at Clenchwatton was meived with quite an
ovation.

Tam FANIAN RAID—A WAR BULLETIN !—The
New York Times of the 27th and 28th of May prefaces
its report of the campaign with the following herd
note
'The Border War-sa 'Change of Bath • lay the Army of
Invasion—Authentic history of ;..perationg on the Nermont
Frontier—The Frofeselonal Army ' Bummar '
Correct List of tawnalties at the rltaleiwisouse 'ilfrgiliPte—a,rTah—e
New eoint of Interest at lituitinado Canada.sthanneatra-
4.
tion of the thnian Strength fey a To-day,-Another
Achievement by the Liberators ot Jr VW nett, and
Live to Fight Another Day—The Ifdentler Again Crossed and Rtecrossed—A Vienne Ando bit which One
Fenian is Wounded—General viinakee• oethe bake he
Go Homo:
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Sue DAT WORKlRll.—tititeyer tt manes (Odom .
may be, he cannot work without aufficiest rest,
and it is to be regretted, it is matter for profoutal re-
gret, that large numbers of the very clast o: roan who
best know how needful is proper ro;,t, and how blessed
periodical opportunities fur menitatiou and for the cul-
tivation of the sor-ial virtues, make it a practice to
work harder on the seventh day than on any other day
of the week. ' Medical men have the best ex c..use, per-
haps, for suffering must to, assuaged on Sunday', and
the Founder of our Frith pronounced it lawful to du
good on the Sabbath dry. But architects, authors,
lawyers, artists, et hoe rOWS crane, are sadly given to ,
the devotion of Sunday to bits of "quiet work." to the 1
, jury of their health and the loss of the /weir! 411,1 1
N.Litua: csarapria thy kt,y vi rust ollavNti Nut; with it, I

aold fore itch it should be by such hopetuay and mix-
t coxis looked for. This is the other Sabbath que Con,
and the one better worth consideration, because it
affects the prime movers of society, and may be said,
therefore, to lie at the root of public manners and
morals. Moreover, the law can afford no remedy in
this Hatter; but persuasion and fair argument may do
wonders. Indeed, the less legislation for Sunday the
better; and we know not but that if every law relating
to Sunday was repealed, the public observance of the
day might undergo in consequence considerable im-
provement. But it is of the utmost importance that
: the men whose strorg wills and capacious minds fit
: them for leadership in life, do not, as a rule, care for
Sufiday as they should, both for their own sakes and
' for the sake of example. Able men do not attain to
such length of days now as in former times, owing, we
cannot doubt, to the overtax of mind and body which
' necessarily accompanies the practice of working instead
of resting on Sundays.—The City Press.

WALES IN IRELAND.—If the Prince of Wales
has any intention of buying Tolly-:nore for an Irish
residence—as we sincerely hope he has —all we can say
is "Tolle mora ;" or in English, "the sooner the
better."— Punch.

MINDING IHKIR P's AND Q's ! —The Tagesprasc,
of Vienna, gives a curious extract from the Court
regulations of the Hofburg for the year 1624, on the
etiquette to be observed by officers when invited to the
royal table. The regulation begins by stating that
usually officers behave under such circumstances
"with great politenees and good breeding, like true
and worthy cavaliers ; "but that the Emperor thinks it
necessary to issue the following directious toe the use
of inexperienced cadets :-1. Officers sffi uld come to
the ',alive handsomely dressed, "sod rot enter the
room in an half-drunken state." 2. When they are
at table " they should not rock about on their chains.
nor sit back mid &retch out their legs." 3. The
should not "drink after each mouthful, as by so doing
they will very soon get drank ; nor drink more than
half a glass at a time; and before drinking they should
Wipe their bps and moustachl4l." They should not
put their hands in the dishes nor throw bones under
the table. 5. They should not "lick tl eir fingers nor
spit on the plate; nor wipe their noses with thi te
napkins; nor drink so brutally as to fall elf their
chairs.

TRAITS OF WOMAN !—The "wisdom of the
ancients" sometimes indicates itself in unexpected
ways. In Aristotle's quaint enumeration of the dif-
ferences between man and woman there is one point
at least in which, thanks to lady novelists and lady
philanthropists, the philosopher appears to have been
right after all. "Woman," he says, "is more pitiful
than man, and more given to tears, and more prone to
envy, and more querulous against fate, and sharper
with her tongue and readier with her hands. The
female also is more easily dispirited and le-s hopeful
than the male, and less sensible of shame and less care.
ful of truth." lie adds an observation in another
domain of facts which Mr. Frank Buckland may pos-
sibly be able to verify. "The male is more ready to
help and more courageous than the female; for even
among the molluscs, when the cuttle-fish is struck
with the spear the male helps the female, but when
the male is struck the female makes off."
THE CRUELTY OF FIELD SPORTS.--To kill a
hare with greyhounds may be a cruel practice yet
most of us regard it as a mere matter of course.—
Punch.

THE ACCIDENT I NSURAN CZ COMPANY. A
special ciwe raising a question upon a policy of in-
surance against accidents was argued on Saturday in
the Court of Exchequer. A client of the Accident In-
surance Company, who had effected a pacy for £l,OOO,
having received • severe cut on one of his feet, erysi-
pelas supervened, and he died. The policy contained
a clause stating that "it did not insure against death
or disability arising from rheumatism, gout, hernia,
erysipelas, or any other disease, or secondary cause or
causes arising within tile system of the insured before
or at the time or following such, accidental injury.
Counsel for the deceased's representatives contended
that as the erysipelas was the natural result of the
accident, the company was liable. In this view the
Lord Chief Baron concurred, but Barons Martin,
Channel, and Cleasby held that although the disease
was due to the wound, the language of the contract
clearly and precisely exempted the defendants from
liability. Judgment was therefore entered for the
company.

PROFESSIONAL DsFOTION.—A mich-tespectecl
physician residing at Berry, near Paris, has recently
fallen a victim to his professional zeal under singular
and painful circumstances. A young woman had
thrown herself into the Seine from the Qnsi de Bercy ;
mote young men plunged in after her and succeeded in
bringing her body to the shore. Dr. Launessau wars
Cent for, and on his arrival found the young woman
apparently dead. Ile, however, Lad recourse to alt
the known methods of restoring animation, and among
others to that of reviving the action of the lungs by
the iappiration of his own breath. After two bonne
asaidffoas efforts he had the satisfaction of obeerting
signs of recovery. The doctor was exhausted, and as
his patient gradually recovered strength so he became
enfeebled, and finally died from exhaustion produced
by his incessant and successful efforts to preserve the
life of one who was a complete stranger to him.

IN Two WORM—Our Police S.Tetetu :did the
Housebreakers' System—Bunglery and Burglary,—
Punch.
111 E RIONE MEN IN THE RIOHT PLACE.
At the bearing last Friday of the charge against a
man accused of firing a revolver at two policemen,
and supposed to be a Fenian, some sensible remarks
were made by Mr. Lushington. He said, in allusion
to a card which had been found upon the prisoner,
that it was not imputed to him that he was one of those
foolish persons called Fenian& " There were several
kinds of patriotic Irishmen—some were good and
sensible persons, others wicked and senseless, and a few
were rrAct idiots." Just so. And this is the reason.,
no doubt, why en many of thtse gentry have sought
asylum in Arnerica.—J,l42/.

CLOSE OF A PROTRACTED LITIOATION.—Lord
Justice Gitfard, on Saturday, gave judgment on a peti-
tion presented on behalf of a lady named Charlotte
Grylls a lunatic, and one of the co-heiresses of Mr.
Humphrey Millet Grills, who died in 1834. lie left
an annuity to his widow, and shietly after she died a
series of litigations commenced between persons who
had been in the banking firm of the deceased, and
claimed tube creditors to a considerable amount. Th‘i
wished his estate applied to the liquidation of their-
claim% The two sisters of the lunatic also instituteell
legal proceedings, and suits in connection with the cwt.
had been pending for several years. They had now
to an arrangement to stay all further proceedings, and
to that course the sanction of the court was gives,
AR It TOCRATIC A SPI RATION. "I 1160111dn't
mind," said Suolison, "Icy name twin' stained hover
so, if it badly 'ad an 'anOl-."—Pooch,

A FAITHFUL CONVERT.—WhiIe aboo Reshnb
Chunder Sen is creating an interest in London which
surprises many who know the !patipatlay of his COM-
to lend out teachers to the zeranaa of India, a relation
'of his a widow, has excited the mosnosity of the whole
class of Bralunos in India by being baptised by the
duty of of while
lenhde
himself
f most Bra
irm°Bincere tl
ov
urging Clarttat bnie tyd,
Church niissionarire. The widow, a lady of 17, sough!.
h baptism after she bad left her mother's holies, and luxe
proved her knowledge and the sincerity of hen-
motives : at one time her mother was about to !Ls the,
eame. She was allowed free intercourse wit', her.
family, who did their best, even to promismg here
marriage with a rich landholder, to shake her con.
Manny.
WILL IT EVER BE DONE 7—The silbjeiit of re-
claiming our waste lands, and especially the Now
Forest, has again been discussed in Hampshire, this
time by the county Chamber of Agriculture: Mr.
Cowper Temple, M.P., Captain Manse, R.N., and
Mr. W. W. B. Beach, M.P., were among the speakere.
and as the result of three hours' discussion resolutiop,a
were passed affirming the desirability of extending illso
cultivation of waste land upon private estates, aid oil
bringing the New Forest gradually into the taark.ot
for sale, after adjusting the righte of cowl:roamers and
reserving portions for recreation ; an asaireumment,
moved by Captain Blame, that it be not permitted to
pasa into the hands of private owners but let on long
Rates in such form of holding as shall 6 most suitable
to large and small cultivators, lowed an seconder.
No VERY FRIENDLY TO HIM !—The Abl6
Loy son (Father Hyacinthe) lam returned to Fernstrom
Munich, where he has been staying for some time.
An Ultramontane paper in that city made the follow-
ing pleasing remarks on Lie personalappearance "At
• distance he resemblaa Herr von Lutz," another
special averaion of this Bavarian journal. "who, how-
ever, wears spectacles and whisker., Near at hand:,
Herr Boynton reminds U 4 of an intelligent but care -
worn brewer of the good old timea. His fi4ure
conical, thickest in the middle, clothed in abort black
garment& A general baldness, reaching nearly to, the.
nape, adorns hie thick, glistening head. Tbe featir,os
are weak and bloated, there is nothing sissthe6o or
spiritual about bum By the side of thin Herr von Lialinger be looks like a fat round spieler taken out for
a walk by an ethereal gnat." Surely the "stioglesi
insults" of them two insects hare affected the Ultra.
moutons temper.
AMERICAN MUSICAL ;:biIITICIEL--The Californio
Advertiser thus dim:mimes :
The darlin'! The sweet face of her Is enough to me&e,
man trek with • tongue.. broad as from here to thee... of
Cork. Not for any par tenter reason, except that w nen OD.
,73414,1 speak of love, ininor, or the ladies, he naturally does,
It in the language of the green old rod. "The SaiurdaW
Matinee—sung with great two,. by bliss Alice Z iOiCOnskj.."
What does the idiot mean? With "iucces." Ohs
sung ft like a martingale, and looked the whila like a sun-
Jeers dancing on the ripirles of our bay, or a hunualag-bird
disporting over a flower-mead or anything else thas is sweet
as a pfach and beautiful as a butte:ll,. lier esru foe, is
pasted upon the outside of it, and that is what set us cif.
A DESIRABLE Ps 10 !—Tha _Rambo?' Gaulle
says the position of the Ammo Sher All at Cebu!
seems, hop; the following summary of the state of
thioge, to be eomewhat critical :—" To the north and
siorth-weat is the dominion of Bokbara, for the time,,
at any rate, a dependency of Russia ;—to the west,,
Khorasen with its borders lined with Persian troops,,
and h predatory Population ready at the beat tit
times to Mvade their Afghan neighbours to the
south and south.west an army in open rebellion. Add
to these the standing quarrel with the Shah, an empty
exchequer, troops in arrears of Pay, and divided.
Saiability, and the picture, asi it stands, it dark enough,
to justify alarmista in prophesying a oriels."
AN OPINION 0N SNOKlNO.—Goethe's natareou highly refmed, utterly abboyred smoking. In hia
" Coneersationa with Eckermorm "he expresses himself
In strong terms against it, and nays that he could not
think a man of real genius could ever be found indulg-
ing in a habit no utterly averse to the ideal beauty of
the sculptor, the painter and the poet. He wondered
whet:net Leasing had ever been given to it. There in
a story extant, that on theseremarks becoming /mown,
some persons rushed e.t once to Wolffenbiittel to in.vea
wtignhar
t' es: tighth:iesedcy:h:wolroverelekrie:egw:.elu:serbtseit:di living,n4ne
wtTwhbe andtu.,4l
ofu
swov hnGt edo nerrtz
uthheayerny:
after many iv troductory phrases, tot the 211.h:evert:int
aid
dialec-, "Ja sitirken tin schriewen kun be good, man.
to num, A where he nob nix to brosiken." (Yes, smoke
tkuig dite.