The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-11-13 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

THE COST OF LONDON IRIDGEB.—Tbe supe-
riority of iron over stone as a material for bridges may
be best explained by a brief reference to the oist of
some of the existing structures in London. For
nstance. both Waterloo and London bridges are of
stone—the former cost 1:10 per square foot, and the
latter £ll Os. ; while the beautiful bridge built by Mr.
Page, at Westminster, cost only I:3 ss. per foot! 'l'lle
following are the total sums which our chief Thames
leri,Lies have cost :—Waterloo, £579,911;
£042,150; Southwark, £384,090; Hungerford, I:98,760;
Old Westminster, £389 590 ; New Westminster,
£280,000; Vauxhall, £300,000; and the cost of the new
bridge at Blackfriars is about £320,000.

"Tug FLYING Scrt4 !'—The latest news of
Karakon lye is good ; he is growing in fame and favour,
and has just been feasting his poor relations (huniout,
ously reinorlus the bud!, News) Karakoritiye. be it
known, is an Indian Chief.
jjo England we call him
Prince Arthur, and think!! him as a aim young
officer of the Rifle Regiment; but with other suns.
other manners and other names. lu British North
America, and among the durky children of the Six
Nations, Queen Victoria's third son is nothing less than
a Chief, and has received the polysyllabic name we
have mentioned, which signifies "the Flying Sun."
Other Chiefs have been named for swiftness : there
have been the Flying Arrow, the Flying Foot, the
Flying Cloud, the Flying Wrath, and so on; but there
is a reason, so Chief John Smoke Thompson tells us,
why Prince Arthur should be called the Flying Situ.
It is because his Royal mother's power, like the great
orh of day, 1,19...,ai the world with warmth and light.
On the OCCAPion of this spesch the Prince had blessed
the tribe with a roasted fat ox, of woich the chiefs and
! braves, with their women and children, were a.sembled
to partake. It is saWsfactory to read that they spent
a happy afternoon, and parted without mishap, after
giving three cheers for their new Chief.

A BRILLIANT METEOR. —A correspondent
writes :

This (Saturday) evening, November S, at about seven
o'clock, two friends and myself were driving along the road
adjoining lien-wood, MaheJere, limits, within a short
distance of Lord Carnravou's park, when we were startled by
the appearance of • most brilliant meteor in the south-west.
It was of a blue colour, arid to our vision teemed to be of
the size of a Male. bead. Unlike many previous meteors,
did net traverse the :leaven., but appeared to desuend im
medlately, leasing behind it a long tall of pale blue light,
serpent-like In shape. Such was its Illuminating power that
for a moment or two we might have seen to have picked lip a
pin in the road. 'Phe meteor speared to descend In the
direction of Farraombe.

RELIGION IN TFIE NAVY.—The Lords of the
Admiralty baying received representations as to
certain inconveniences experienced by ministers of
religion in their spiritual ministrations to men in her
Majesty's naval service who do not belong to the
Church of England, have now decided that the con,
mander-ity chief, or senior officer, at any port, up:in
receiving information from the minister t f any demiuM
nation us to the place and hour of worship of such
denomination, shall cause the same to be notified in
the most convenient manner on board her Majesty's
ships. Their lordships have also intimated their desire,
when the discipline of ships shall not be interfered
with, that as large a proportion of men of good cha-
racter as possible shall, while in the home ports, have
leave from Saturday until Monday, no that there may
be no restriction as to the place of worship they may
wish to attend. Their lordships have at the same time
ordered that every restriction shall be removed whereby
the entry of ministers of religion into naval hospitals
and prisons had been hitherto interfered with, so that
patients and prisoners who may desire to see the
clergyman of the persuasion to which they belong may
have every facility to do Co.
WHAT MAKES A PIECE IN THE HAYMARKET,
AND A WAR IN HIELAND.—" The Neto Men and the
Old Acree."—Punch.

FATIIER HYACINTHE.—Father Hyacinthe has
been attending services at the Protestant churches in
New York. On Sunday, Oct. 24, he proceeded to
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, to hear the Rev. H.
Ward Beecher. After the cervices had come to an
end and the congregation Lad partially dispersed,
Father Hyacinthe was introduced to Mr. Beecher.
He then proceeded to Mr. Beecher's residence, and re-
mained there during the greater part of the afternoon.
Father Hyacinthe had several letters of introduction to
the rev. gertlemen fruit well-known Americans re-
siding in France lane ni; others Mr. Waehburne,
United State Minister) ; and thee- he presented to the
Plymouth Church pastor as soon as the "informalities"
of his visit were over.

THE EMPRESS AND HER SERVANT.—The special
correspondent of the Figaro writes from Constantinople
that when the Empress Eugenie was leaving, one of her
maids was attacked with typhus feet r, aml that a bed
was made np for her in the saloon of the Aigle On the
Sultan coming on tssioi to take leave of the Empress,
Her Majesty apologised for receiving him on th ck,
and said she could not take him to the saloon, because
there was an invalid there. After the Sultan left, the
Empress went to watch by the bedside of her sick ser-
vant, but just as the yacht got undei weigh the
Turkish ships in the port began to fire a salute. She
then rushed upon deck, and entreated that signals
should be made to cease the firing. Finding it im-
possible to make her wishes understood in time by the
Turkish fleet, she gave orders to put on all steam, and
get out of the noise as soon 114 possible. The poor ser-
vant died shortly afterwards, and her body was sent
ashore in the Dardanelles, to be transported to Paris.

THE ARCHDEACON WHO HATES NEWSPAPERS.—
The Archdeacon of Exeter, who recently declared that
he hated newspapers, has explained himself. In a let-
ter to the local press he says he in sorry to add that his
friends have taken umbrage at what he said about
newspapers and magazines. It was far from his inten.
thin to speak slightingly If a laborious and honourable
profession, to which all who occupy any public position
are constantly indebted, and from which he has ever
received most kind and courteously rendered assistance.
What he said was surely capable of a good meaning at
least, and contained, in the judgment of many beside
himself, a counsel not unnecessary in these times. No
one who reflects upon the importance of solid pabulum
for the due growth of the human mind can fail to
lament the increasing degree in which the time which
should be devoted to more solid reading, is devoted to
ephemeral literature. He ventures to assert that the
real dignity and usefulness of newspaper literature is
upheld rather than otherwise when it is contended that
it should supplement moresolid reading, and not usurp
the place of It.

SUICIDE IN HYDE-PARK--On Saturday after-
noon, a man of about thirty-seven years of age was
seen walking about the grass in Hyde-park, near Stam-
ford-gate. He suddenly stopped, and drawing a small
pistol from his pocket, placed the muzzle of it close to
his left breast near his heart, and draa Mg the trigger,
fired the contents of the pistol into his body. The re-
port of the weapon caused several persons in the park
to hasten to the spot where the man was standing;
but befit: e they had time to reach him he fell back-
wards. The pistol is, it is said, only worth about one
shilling and sixpence. The deceased was dressed in/a
grey coat, brown striped trousers, and black waistcoat.
He had a black moustache and hair. An inquest was
held on Tuesday, but all efforts to identify him had
failed, and there was nothing to show the state of mind
he watt in when he shot himself. The jury returned a
verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind."

A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. —Miss Burdett
Coutts, whose philanthropy is always of a practical
kind, has done something td- solve the difficulty of
transporting cattle a long distance by rail without
starving or torturing them. She has employed cattle-
trucks of an improved construction, recently patented
by an Edinburgh inventor, and the first experiment has
proved a complete aucoess. Five heifers bought in the
Edinbargh market were placed in a truck on the after-
noon of Saturday, departed in the train for London
the same evening, arrived in the metropolis on Monday
morning early, and four hours afterwards were driven
to Islington Market, where they were promptly sold.
During this interval of thirty-four hours the animals
had consumed, by means of the appliances for food and
drink arranged in the truck, 61 gallons of water, nearly
ten stones of hay, and three stones of oatmeal. As
the result, it is observed, "the fine appearance of the
beasts was the subject of general comment in the mare
ket,” and they aroused a spirited competition among
the buyers.
SEISING IT IN ANOTHER LIGHT !—Mr. Glad-
ntone's refusal to release the Fenian prisoners finds but
little favour with the American papers. The Nero York
Toner says if the laws are so bad that Parliament is to
be asked to abolish them, why punish tho men who
have done nothing worse than protest against those
laws? It maintains that the Fenians are, after all,
only in the Caine category of offenders as Mr. Glad-
stone himself. "Tie has declaimed against Ireland's
wrongs," it adds, "and given a pledge to redress them,
and 'heal the eorrows of afflicted centuries,' to use Mr.
Disraeli's language. What difference is there on this
point between Mr. Gladstone and Jim Dnolan, the
poor Fenian? • Your complaint is just,' says the
Premier to Jim, 'and I will see the cause of it re-
moved—but, at the same time, you shall be kept in
prison for daring to make the complaint.'"
GAMING AT BALWN-B,DEN A1a,13 WILSBADEN.—
It is stated that the government have offered to renew
the lease of the gaming bank at Baden- baden to M.
Dupressoir for a yearly rent of 600,000. and B,ooofl.
subsidy to the theatre. The rent has hitherto been
300,000f1. and 4,00011. a year to the theatre. Many of
the citizens have petitioned for the entire aborition of
the gaming tables, but of this there is little chance.
The profits are so large that the lank tenant can
well afford to give the increased rent, as in 1863, not-
withstanding an outlay of 2,000,.0001., it made p profit
of clear 3,000,0001. Wiesbaden, according to the last
statement of accounts, made in mix months a profit of
3,200,000 f.

" Tuis is wax OUR owx Housx !"—The fol-
lowing characteristic anecdote is related of the 72nd
Highlanders. When the Duke of York was c.m-
mandeviu.cLief, the regiment was stationed in Belfast
and at that time bigotry ruled supreme at the Horse
Guards. The men being all Presbyterians, desired to
go to their own " Kirk," but an order was received
from the Honk, Guards that they should go to the
parish church. The colonel, of course, complied with
the 'rden; but on the first zitinday the band struck up
on the route, and near the edifice, "This is nee our

own house," for which they were lustily cheered by
the populace, and on the fact being reported to the
Duke of York, Hitt Royal highness reversed the origi-
nal order, and allowed them afterwards to attend
their own place of worship.
EIRTHQUAKIS.—The scene of the late earth-
quake in Germany extends from Gross-Gerau, between
Darmstadt and Mayence, to Henna on the north,
Gelnhausen and Aschatrenburg on the east, lientagen
on the west, and Heilbronn and Stuttgart on the south.
The strongest chocks were felt at Gross-Gerau and at
Stuttgart: At the latter place they were preceded by
intense cold, and followed by a sudden increase of tem-
perature, with thick fo4s. The earthquake WWI also ,
felt at Wiesbaden, at Frankfort, and at Stiarbrucken,
where two very powerful shocks, lasting from eight to
ten seconds eazli, occurred last Monday at 340 a.m.,
and 11 55 p.m. A letter from Giessen, dated the lot
inst., says that on the prevb us eveninz, about six
o'clock, a swaying 'notion was perceived from suit to
went, and the shock was so aevete that people res. from
their chairs said the pen fell ..ut of the writer's hand.
Accounts from Frankfort state that the earthquake
was felt there at 11,15 p.m. on Sunday, and that it
lasted ten minutes. Windows rattled, various articles
of furniture were moved out of their places, the ceiling
of a house fell in, and many of the inhabitants were is
alarmed that they came out into the streets. At
Gross-Gerau, which wile the central point of the earth-
quake, nearly 200 shocks were felt between the
2fith of October and the 2nd of November, during
nearly the whole of which time incessant rumblings
were heard. The first severe shock occurred on
the 30th, at 8 pau„ and was followed by others at 1130
p.m., and at 1 a.tn., 1215 p.m., and 345 p.ra, on the
31st. At 510 on Sunday evening there was so violent
a shock that several chimneys fell, lamps and bottles
rolled over, and horses broke out of their stables. All
these shocks were preceded by a noise like the roll of
distant musketry; they came with a wave-like motion,
going sometimes from north to south, but mostly from
went to east.

FALL OVER A CLIFF. —On Friday evening a
number of youths were celebrating the Fifth id No-
vember upon the Cliff rear Itroadstairs. A lad, about
fifteen years of age, named King, was running about
with a lighted torch, mid the reflection of the torch
ilecidving him as to the position of the edge of the
cliff, he ran over a projecting point and fell headlong
on to the shingle below, a distance of fifty feet. The
alarm was immediately given, and persons at once
went to his assistance. He was picked up in an in-
sensible condition, and conveyed to his lo igings at
Broadstairs. Medical assistance was called in, when
it was found that the poor boy had cut his throat by
falling on a stone. lie was a mass of bruises, and had
sustained severe internal injuries; but singular to
r,-late, no bones were broken. He lies in a very pre-
, carious condition,

AN ENLIGHTENED OFFICIAL—A German paper
tells an odd story of a trick played the other day one
landowner in an agriculture district of Silesia. This
gentleman, a Herr Schrei, had a quarrel with a neigh-
bour, which led to a long correspondence, and in one
of his letters he greatly provoked his antagonist by
speaking ironically of the "Attic salt' with which
he flavoured his epistolary style. A few days after
there appeared in the local paper the following adver-
tisement :—" Attie salt and other salts for cattle, may
always deobtained at my
_form.—Sehrei." This silver tie-
ment immediately attracted the attention of a zealous
efficient who was employed in the district to administer
the salt monopoly of the Government, and he directed
one of his subordinates to go at once to Uerr S ihrei's
farm and search the premises for the salt in question.
The subordinate, after going all over the farm and
looking in every comer for the emuggled eon:mighty,
reported as follows:—" Having learnt from the local
paper that a foreign salt under the name of 'Attic
salt' had been imported into this district, I searched
the house and farm of the farmer Schrei, whit had
been suspected of the fraud; but no trace of Attic
salt was to be found about Min."
A NOVEL MuDE OF RELIEVING TIIE UNEK-
PLOYED.-00 Saturday a meeting was held at Liver.
tool fur the purpose of aiding a movement inaugural ed
by Mr. Johnson, the object of which is to give employ-
ment to the large number of labouring men who at
various times are thrown on of work in Liverpool by
the fluctuations of trade. The design is to engage these
men upon work which will only yield a very moderate
rate of wages, seldom exceeding one shilling per day,
au amount which, it is calculated, will be sufficient to
keep them above starvation point, but not large
enough to attract imposters, or induce men to forsake
their legitimate employment when it presents itself. A
room has been engaged by Mr. Johnson and a few of
his friends, and an average of from 40 to 50 men are
at present being daily employed in making firelighters
at the rate of 61 per 100. The scheme has hitherto
been attended at a sliAt loss ; but Mr. Johnson hopes
that with a capital of it'3oo they will be enabled to take
larger rooms and erect machinery, which will employ
from 200 to 300 men, and that the institution will be-
come self-supporting.
INTERESTING WAITERS ! One of the directors
of the Gagne at Toulon, who has just died, used to
make convicts serve at hie table when he gave grand
parties. The guests, knowing what the men were, felt
is elrange impression, arid that amused him. The
charming waiter who carved fowls at a sideboard had
! committed murder, the one who had traced on the gilt-
' edged cards, placed before each guest, the bill of fare
and the name of the invited, was a forger. The atten-
tive waiter who changed the plates and who put the
fire to the plum-pudding with rum (the French way of
eating the dainty climb), was in other days a mech.
dreaded house burner, and the jolly fellow who served
the wine was condemned for poisening.

Renew CONDOCL—Ou Saturday, at the Brent-
ford Petty Sassines, a man named Edward Hawkins,
of 6, Ware.street, Kingsland-road, Motion, crape-
dresser, was brought up on remand charged with at-
tempting to commit suicide on the Great Western
Railway by throwing himself in front of an express
train. •On Tuesday evening, in last week, at about a
quarter to 7, the prisoner was observed sitting on the
line, with his back against the platform and his legs
across the metals, at Ealing station, and She attention
of the signalman Vl'a, called to him by a boy named
Mor,. an, when a police-constable named Daniel North-
a ay, who was on duty at the signal box, ran to the
spot and saw the prisoner crouchitg between the plat-
form and the metals. He asked him several times to
get up, but he refused. His feet were on the metals,
and if a train had come up witnesa said he must have
been out to pieces. The 620 p.m. Birmingham ex-
press was thee nearly due, and past as it came in fight
prisoner suddenly sprang to his feet and ruahed on to
the down line, and threw himself in front of the ap-
proaching train. Northway followed and seised the
prisoner, and after a struggle just managed to drag him
out of the way of the passing train. The prisoner had
been drinking, but appeared to know what he was
doing. Sergeant Dixid, 21 X, proved taking him into
custody, and told the Bench that it was the greatest
mercy th it loth prisoner and the last witness were not
cut to pieces. A letter was read from the chaplain of
the House of Detention stating that the prisoner had
expressed his deep sou, and said he would not make
the attempt again. The wife of prisoner said they had
four children, of whom the prig:sitter was very fond.
She had had no quarrel, nor could she assign any rear
son beyond drink for the prisoner's conduct. Prisoner,
on promising not to repeat the attempt, WAS allowed to
leave the court with his friends.

THE EX-EMPRESS OF MEXICO.—We (Court
Journal) haNe received some interesting information
as to the state of the health of the Empress of Mexico.
The widow of the unfortunate Maximilian oecaeionally
haw lucid intervals, but they are very rare. She re-
sides habitually at the Chateau de Tervuereid. She
is not permitted to take long walks in toe park now,
as on several occasions she attempted to escape from
the persons who attend upon her. Horse-riding has
always been one of the favourite pleasures of the
Empress, but recently she attempted to escape on the
horse of a soldier who had brought despatches from
Brussels; this recreation has, therefore, been denied
her. She bears the restraint with great impatience,
and occasionally gives way to fits of auger which
border on the fury of madness.

A CLERGYMAIs'S OBJECTIONS TO FREE LIBRA-
RIES.—At a public meeting of the ratepayers of
Lowestoft, it was decided by a large majority not to
adopt the Free Library Act, 18th and 19th i Vic., cap.
70. The Rev. li. Willmott, the rector of Kirkley, in
speaking against the establishment of the library, said
that he had seen errand-bus in the Free Library room
at Oxford reading in the daytime when they should
have been delivering parcels for their n.sters. Ile had
also seen a milkman holding the milkpails and read-
ing the newspapers which were fixed to the stands.
The principal objection to the library was that it
woithl add a levy of one penny in the pound per
year to the already heavy rates in the town. The
local rates, it may be stated, are less than five
shillings in the pound yearly, the improvement rate
never exceeding one shilling half-yearly, and the peor
rate is eightpence in the pound quarterly. Sometimes
it is as low as sixpence. The population of Lowestoft
with Kirkley— formerly one town—is upwards of
14 i ,000, and it s without a literary institution.
A FANCY PORTRAIT !—A correspoedent thus
describes the famous Rochefort :
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Ile is ugly, but so was Al irabeau, the UltrAltadleals say.
A face such as one might meet any tiny on the Cannabikre of
Marseilles, or, to come nearer home, in the purlieus of
llatton-gat den, behind a hurdy-gurdy and ale trued monkey.
A comnlexion sallow, torch g to the green that is fund on
occasion in the countenance of the Emperor he loves to
blackball. A nose pert, audacious, Intrusive, rising promon-
tory-like from the physiognomy—a prominent forehead, and
eyes which sparkle with malice. 'here is a portrait of
Rochefort which represehts him very much with the air of •
Texan editor, wlm is in the act of handing his familiar fiery
answer to the challenge of Colonel Buncimbe at the whiskey
store reand the corner; but to-night he does not look fero-
cious. In fact, he is timid, uneain, oppressed with emotion.
Ile wears a dark moustache, anti nourishes a flourbhing
tuft ti la Yankee nyder his chin. Ann whole the man's ap-
pearance is not prepossessing; candour is wanting, and, for
the moment, firmness.

THE CONSERVATIVE FRANK ENST ElN.—The Radi
cal electors to municipal offices is Exeter are shudder-
ing at the Frankenstein th, ir party has raised up in
female kulfroge. Loyal rive payereases of the Con-
servative pet suasion, regardless dace or inconvenience,
fi eked t the polling places on Monday last; the fe
ef the fair SPX who dared to own themselves Liberals
giving their votes. it is ssid, manifestly with a whole-
some dread of public opinion. And the 'remit of the
elections is that, whereas in November, 1868, Ina Liberal
and six Conservative town councillors were ihoes, the
Proportion this year is times Lffierala to nine Conserva-
tives. We (Pail Mall Gazelle) presume not to decide
that this result is wholly due to the introduction of the
new element, but the circumstances are suspicions,
and we should recommend Mr. Stuart Mill to pause
before he insists on the extension of woman's fraud:nee
to Parliamentary ele,itiona, lest a thoronghly ',an-
ti nary half-century or so of public policy should be the
consequence.

AN AMERICAN WE/MINN.—The Neil York Sun
rlealrities " a beautiful nuptial ceremony in Mr. Ward
Bercher's church." Literature, art, and comm. ree
were, it says. represented, but 'no attempt use mad,
to cause a flutter of silks and laces, or a sffin.mer
diamond*, rubiex, and other genie ' That "the prior
and other arrangements were at I v lima by the pr. inei 01
of the Ledger sod Dexter is aufficient to convince every
reader of the Sun that all was conducted in a quiet an.,
sensible manner." But it appears that itir. John
Zundel, Mr. Beecher's organist, "overflowed th,
great church of the Mar preacher with delightful

nataic from the grand orgae." 14e "gatherieg "
" welch was thoreughly scanned by our reporter,'
began to assemble at two p.m. "The genial, open, and
frank countenance of Robert Bonner, Esq., woo pro-
minent. Mr. Bonner was dressed in tine creting
costume, with white kids. Mrs. Bonner was array, a
in a lavender silk walking dress, with dian on I
jewellery." The officiating clergyman was "sir, seed
, in • thick black brow Icleth frock coat and unthine-
' ables, black velvet waistcoat, turn-down collar, black
I necktie, and gold watch chain." The bride was a
Brooklyn belle "of rare and exquisite beauty." The
bridegroom is not described, but we are told that he
was in full evening dress, "wish white satin waisteeat
and necktie, white kids, and patent leather boots.
As the wetbliug party left the church the organist
played "Am I not foully thine awn."
OrTIONALItiM IN IRELAN D.—A proposal, pub-
halted by a contemporary, of a subecription to doray
the expense of completing the Protestant Cathedral at
Timm is headed "An Appeal for Five Shillings,"
Succens to this idea of maintaining the Caurch in Ire-
' old oil the Voluntary Principle by the support of the
o wn. —Punch.
TilE "RED JACKET."—The ship Red Jacket,,
belonging be Liverpool, bound from Cardiff for Bom-
bay, and for the safety of which speculation has for
some time been running high, has been spoken at sea,
all well. She sailed in the middle of the heavy gales
of S4-ptember, and sundry wreckage awl a Tweet's/P.M
marked " Red Jacket," being picked up off Penzance
pointed, it was thought by some, to the loss of the
vessel. This uncertainty brought the case into the
hands of speculative underwriters, and 80 guineas
premium was at length quoted to effect re-insurances
upon her. Many underwriters were induced to part
with lines at 50 which they had taken at live guineas.
The speaking occurred on the 6th of October, in lat.
IN N., long. 37 \V., off the Cape de Vend Islands, and
will remove a load of anxiety from the friends of the
crew.
TREATMENT OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.
—The following receipt for the cure 44 the foot and
mouth disease in cattle has been forwarded to the
North-German Agriculture Gue,tte from Silesia. Boil
oak bark in water till a strong decoction has been
formed, and then add a handful of blue vitriol to every
two quart.. When this has dissolved and the fluid
cooled, bethe the affected foot with it thoreughly
three times a day. The animal must be kept as clean
as possible on clean straw. For the mouth a weak
solution of alumn is recommended. A feather is used
in applying thin to the mouth and tongue, which are
the freed frern slime and diseased matter. The
process must be repeatel at least three times a day.
The cleaner the iefleined parts are kept the more
rapidily does the cure proceed.
TFIE GOVERNMENT AN D IRE FENIAN PRI-
SONERS.—The members of the Enjish Amnesty Com-
mittee, in the view of the ponsdble deteinduation of Mr.
Gladstone to keep the political prisoners in confine.
meet, have, it is stated, resolved upon advising the
people of Ireland and the Irish resident in the United
Kingdom to a 1 stain from the use of certain excisable
articles, selecting tobacco as the chief article of con-
sumption by the Irish people, whether in their own
country, or in England, Wales, or Scotland. It
appears they include in their munition the English
sympathisers with the sufferings, not with the ca tie,
of the men in prison. The committee hope by this to
effect such a diminution in the revenue as will con-
vince Mr. Lowe, whole they cousider the obeiacle in
the Cabinet to, the release of the Fenian., that the
case ins serious one for Me department. The Amnesty
Committee are about to Issue the following order to
the Ir.sh people of the United Kingdom :—" On and
after the -- day, 1809, no tobacco in soy form is to
be consumed until such date as that on which all the
political prisoners shall be released from custody.
Issued and approved by the Armiesty Committee"
Late on Tuesday night forms of this "order" were
being issued to the Dish residents in London, and wtre
eagerly signed.
A FRENCH CANS RD.-.--Here is another of the
silly tales about English people which the French never
weary of telling :

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The clubs the most frequented at Paris and London have
counted for years an English In er who likes a good dinner,
and to assure himself of the origin of the food served at his
table, has decided to do Ma owe marketing. For this pi,-
pose he had 111}00 a lathe lank in quarto, bound in the
antique style, I allow in the interior, anti lined with silver, in
which to put his pr.ovhions. With this volume on his arm he
looks like a bibliogrephic savant. It is mostly at Landoll
that this nobleman exercise a this tante. the market-women
ot Paris tritium him with their coarse language; and
he never buys exoept from the best merchants, di prima
cathode.
A MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISFMENT FROM Trail
PAR WYST.—Ka-besh•co-da-way, an Indian chief, is
in want of one more wife, having now but three, and
offers the followieg inducement* through the Chicago
Trtbune :—" He said that, in crew we should hear of
any worthy white lady who might be at all dis-
posed to consider the propriety of becoming one
of his better halves, we might say to her that
he has a good, large, warm house, built for him by
his Great Father; that he has al ways been kind
to and has never yet etiuck any of his present wises ;
that he would treat a white wife very kindly and con-
' siderately ; that he would divide with her his property
and that he anti his other wives "would give her the
very nicest and best of everything that could be had to
eat, and that they would all do everything in thCr
power to make her contented and happy in her new
home. In reply to another question of ours as to
whether he considered that his stoic of love waalg lanfee
enaugh to distribute, to a good wicaetage, among so
many wives, he simply eaid, ' Ka-liesh-coola.way's
heart is big."
RetTilaß UNSXPECTED.— Shelley is not a writer
in whose peattical works you ell. f`, .0 find slang. and
yet one of his lines runs tins -" Pity then will cut
away."—Punch.
A B fo DIAMOND S .tt.T. —The Dimiond Company
at Sydney have taunt their fingers smartly. Having
purchased for £4OO what was supposed to be a prize
diamond, shares were negotiated at an advance of OW
each; and the wonderful stone having been conveyed
to the Royal Hotel, its arrival was celebrated in a
champagne libation to the enlivening strains struck up
by a band of "See the conquering boo comes." It
was on view to the public at the Masonic-hall on pay-
ment of 2s. 61. a head. A certain Dr. Th”mpooti did
not hesitate to pronounce the supposed diamond a
quartz pebble. Others who prole-teed to be judges if
precious stones called it a topaz, but the Rev. W. B.
Clarke pronounced it "nothing, but a water-worn long-
ex posed pebble of rock crystal or quartz." Mr. Towne.
end, the finder, "cleated out" of Sydney intim If eit,r
River steamer. A meeting of shaael-olders was held
afterwards at the Royal Hotel. Mr. Butters wae
called to the chair, and reported that the stone, on
being tested by Professor Thumps( n and the Rev. W.
B. Clarke, was declared to be a quartz crystal and
valueless.
ANOTHER Gulf ACCIDENT.—On Friday after-
noon three boys—William Applebee, aged clean;
James Brown, aged twelve or thirteen, and another
boy, about the seam age, named Broadbridge —went to
Meyers. Sodden and Whalley's yard, at Blundell -seeds
near Liverpool, to gather shavings, when the lad Breda
espied a gun lying behind some timbers. He was
reaching it out to look at it when the butt fell to the
floor, lock downwards, and the gun, which was loaded
and capped, exploded, the charge stsiking young Ali.
1 plebee in the right eye, passing completely through his
1 skull, and scattering his brains about the place. Brown
i was taken into custody, but was sulisequently released
1 on bail to await a magisterial inquiry.
TIIM MARQUIS OF WHISTMINSTIIR'S ECONOMY.—
' Like a great many wealthy men, the late Marquis of
Westminster was rather inconsistent its his use of his
' immense fortune, }Or addle occasion ally, he gave
l largelyto particular objects, in many things, especially
1 in matter* of personal expense, he was strangely and
sometimes amusingly penurious. There is a story told
of him, that dining some few years ago, in Loudon, at
' the Mansion Howee, he was noticed, when the banquet
was over, to be standing in front of the building, ap-
parently on the look out for an omnibus. Some lady
noticing his lordship, and being aware of his object,
said, "You are looking for cur omnibus, my lord;
that has passed." "No, no," said the marquis, "that
' was the 4-1. 'bus that passed; I earn haling forth. 2d.
one," One day he let a shilling fall down the window-
sliding of his carriage, and drove at once to a carriage-
maker to have the shilling gat out, the charge tar
which was three shillings. However, his character
must not be altogether interpreted by traits of this
kind, for it was no uncommon oceurretioe for him to do
most generous and munifiteut things when netasken
called for it. Of late yentas we have heard repeated in-
stances related.
DEATH AMONGST THE PEERS.—Durirg the
year 1868 there died 32 peers, of whom three were
bishops. Five of these left their linos extinct. Two
died between the ages of 20 and 30, two la tween 50 and
60, eight between 60 anti 70, 13 between 'Nand 80, and
severe above 80 years of age, two of these, indeed—
Lord Brougham and the Earl of Normantom reaching
the venerable age of 89 years. The average of their
combined age is 71$ ; or, if we omit from this calculi".
tion the two peers who died before attaining their 30th
year--the Marquis of Hastings (26), and Lord Somer-
ville (29), respecting whose deaths we are able to se-
same exceptional causes—we have an average of 74
310 for each life. It is noticeable that out of the
:30 who make up this average 20 paseed the commonly
allotted pen id 170 years) of man's existence.
PARSEE TRAVY.LLEItB.—A native journal pub-
lishes an account of a Parsee lady's voyage round the
world in c 'rummy of her Lusbaiad. Pansee ladies have
visited England, and Mr. Menotti jet Cursetjee's two
daughters have travelled all over Europe as far at
Russia with their father; but the rare distinction, says
our contemporary, of venturing, like the ce'ebrated
Madame Pfeiffer, upon a voyage round the world has
been reserved for Bnikhadjeo, the wife of Mr. Loralejee
Prstonjee Cams, Thin gentleman is the son of Mr.
Pestonjee Hormusjee Cams, a l'arsee merchant of
Bombay, and the lady, lots wife, abaut 36 years of age,
is a sister of Mr. K. R. Cama, the weli.known lecturer
on the Zoroastrian religion, nay left g.inbay on
February 27 last, and the letters received by their
frier& snow that, after travelling over Airs, Euxope,
and America, they were to visit Japan and retnrn by
way of China to Bombay. Toey reached So, zo. March
3, and having se n the city of Cairo, they w. Lt up tic
large pyramid—the lady being the first Deo ive lady to
have gone up this "wander of the world." Having
seen the Suez Canal, the travellers passed on to Joupa.
They reached -Jerusalem on March 18. From Pales-
tine they continued their travels to Turkey, and after
seeing Constantinople, they proceeded to Messina, and
Passing by way of Naples, and thine, readied Florenee
on May 18. On May 29 they reached Vienna. In
every peincipal city on the Continent our travellers
visited no end of palaces, museums, and picture gal-
leries. After sojourning in other cities they went to
Paris. They reached London in the beginning of July
last. Travelling through the orincipa cities of Fn awed,
they proceeded to Amen i a. where they intended to
pass • month. They were to leave Ban Frei', ise---, on
September 1 for Japan, a- d, after vi‘iting Honakong
and otta r plates in Ifl'i:l', t..,,1 y into 10..1 to retUrit to
Bombay by stay ta ltd•a lig and Singapore.
A itti OM Id W. T.. D- The hubbub ralml
ahoct the Earle r (~....;W d'e...re will have a good effect,
if it leaos at an et:teratian in the mole of eleeting:
Bishops. Many persons think it woula be v. ry desir-
able to gimp the-preaast method its magi altogether.—
Prod,