The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-25 00:00:00

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THE STOMBRIDGE OBSERVER.

latilk llr I,,Rmtfmr lion,r,—io the foil confidence lesp•ltd 1.7
the heeeeeee iii erow,la it iii. fellow-uitmen, and the pre
intuiptive hew rest if the µdice Tire) drive rapidly tip
ne-ni" lii.. en" if t, ends, ulna. ni,n Oner, try
a mit irt ti I h.. rye., om ham; pO.-pert him pi...film-1y at
the lame term-fl. flings hi. ion: lit,. thecirt, a it if t.l,rygn

at the rate of a ruff to llil,e nioddes and ;le out of sight
befere the In shot, is have fairly helot. to comprehend the
nature .•1 the trati.ction lids baa led ad course to extra
preemotione, a. d ime .41 clerk hr porter gees to sod fro In
the streets etree with a box hi hie band; he bait canupahion,
and the two are apt to be armed
But the Mem. were hot found. They followed the bonds
luto the "Dines h•times, and some of their neost
tee meneous strokes leave cc • omit, toe.go pert in the
offi.s of bankers and brokers ltt the noodle ef the day,
dueling bustiores hours, a ii le the preoence of the clerks.
they eto ni in couples, er tin., having to course previtemly
ree•ltill_itered the er,•und ; onto or two to ditto 'let attention
toy- a preteti cc of business, chile aeother calcify walks up to.
tne safe, draits the securities level it, alit atieS slut eith
them, the enoplioyes not nothing t int This may seem ii.-
credible, but it has beets doue over Bed over It, the
(mete. it case, two years ego, leanly, 2.0,000 olt Pars
wortn of Governm. nt hoods seta taken 11141. f an ottlogo in this
wan ; and heavy a similar amount 10 the itooyel lieuronce
I omit any's ca.e lii neither. I ts liens was there the
slightest proof or selectee of compl only on tine port of the
coml. E.cli was tined, en Must.% 10.1 of the art of ois
tract ing am-who), to fa ieCil the 1144ee48• if so nomoy pla.lers'
tl.'ki m dee, canoed uo tote hetet t Job. 'line, inolnlsos
.1t Ite.P) were well ilmstrhieti ui It C.iße Netell came
'litter ley, own ci wledge a year ego. A filen I who had
'tete ',among tore years in Europe, In re/undue went to his
'milkers, and tot k tout the tin box containieg his whole fortune
DWI it was a tolerably large one, In Government Jetfoils, some
of which lie hail determined to convert into some
thing else. Ile walked down to his brokofe, a few doors off,
for the purpose, carrying the box in his ham', went down to
the lower end of the office, put the hoe on the coma, at his
side, mod leaning forward on his ebmws, entered into COll-
- with the breker. Ile was followed in, leowevo-r, by
a bond robber, a }toting renpectaele loekitig man, who went
boldly up, removed the box, aiod wtek al slowly out with It,
notholy noticing him, except a clerk inear the do e, mho Wilkeit
if that was his employer's hoe, and was cooirt mialy onf•rmeo
•• that it was the other gentleman's " When the htte and cry war
raise.l he was out o' sight, Yeti lon lieettolls yi aing
1111111 recently 111.1hititi-1 mill the first teu mPtutes after. aro*
nun poeshly be intagi.d. Happily the hands were nearly
all reaie:urhtl, stint acre eolll.lllleliLly DCA treusferable, soi
that the actual loss was, after all, very small, Some of theme
raids on the bat ks have been soint•what aetountlittg, both
for thel. magnitioie sill success, though in two of the worst
cases they undo tuntedly owed their success to greats c metes.-
nese ttn the part of the hanks, 11, havt g to watch during the
lime I. terve] between Betted oy night and Monday [nor 1111 l g.
Ito one of these—thet of the t weal, Bank, ill this city—about
three months ago, they eetered the bat k turn-ugh a hole cut
11l the floor below, 11cm the safe open with, powder, and toe k
everything. They eutereti a savings bank In Philadelphia
;Molit the stone time, in the lame way, and with a etoinewhai
similar result
The genera alarm and anxiety caused by this state of
things called into ex•stence what we oil "Safe Deposit
nmaiii. to," of wlfcli nearly every large cloy has 110 W two or
three There are two at least in New Volk. they are con
',meanie, chartered by the State Legielature for the matt
keeping of valuable., aid offering 05 a gaarstitee to dt•
posine a unbmittel y on the part of the it colors Will
stockh Piers, of course it is a prime rt emelt° that the
tin eters should be men cif high staittlieg, both as regard'
eealth and character, and they are l may tithe 4,11 e, if -
the woo-M1.1,i te I am po.norially >wooi;n teeol, as *Mir p
1-I all oh thent. its premlses nee 01 tile I,lSe lien, tit a fig.
prom( titanium in limeade uy, the oth..e. to• mitiyhor the hood
111,11 its vaults, all lined with iron eximpaug 'none distant,
'meek, ankh tee usual defetics in the Winne otf doultle
glee. pateut hocks, and eo f•ot th These vaelta Cr-' pieloe.
toy three or tour long passages, lighted e ith gas, and each of
them passages are Ifeed, from the floor up a- logh a, 0 nine
can reach, with stuall if. nfl safes or closets of ills BiDeS,
obioh till 110005 g valuables Cell he placed. I Mot
les ere rented only by tit company, at pieces I aryleg freti,
£2 to £8 a year, according too glee; the hirer ken.,, nine
of which there is 110 duplicate, and ow, the key-hole lie.
another lock, tor stopper, tof which the company keepS lilt
key. At night the gas is kept brilliantly lighted, remPrin.
every part of the prentisee, Ire whim the passel,ra in the
v oults—for they are closet' by gat-e, anti not solid doors—
visible 11,1011 the Street; two win chm-n keep watch and wan:
within, and two without, anol to obtain access to the vaelte,
the coinideation otf three ciffermit perste.— the Prestdent,
decretary, Silieheeper—, necessary.
Suppose I wish to hire a safe I go there, and in the first
place am riquired to have myself hit-Milled by sem, perste
of respectalelioy known to the company, in order to mak:
sure that I am the person whose mune I gi e, etd that I ate
a person if good character and likely to want the sac foe
proper purposes. This dote, a page in a great hook is given
op le me litre i- i.sorthed III) Pale , ley liif, Ille nes
LlOll, el) address, my he ght end wei.h.' and It inli M he: If.
!the, of Inc ; the charager ml ey li, the colour ot my eye •
anti hair, the ine 1,01041 produced lii nin tune, and any po u
ilethe len. alleh as Toone .•r soirs, hat mom he appareld If I
to 'veto such mark- visible, I am aek oi to mention and Ohio
any there may lie on ail easil acceesible portion oi el) pet
eon, shil of these a .tefichi is aso put doles, I then cf 0"'
pa-s-wont, for which I nay lie en-led moron if thoegh•
iteeetttlarli, When l seek 11l all i Cl,- I.e tee. Ned It
St iloWll lOn n seiec: sae hr m dimmest thoiae ii,,
aoe tail it, :anti ion turn-lied with a small flat
If, a tionib, on it, Witiell 1., however, toot the min.
her od the wee, in hat 110,1100 y s le, f I p could
melte 110 Use id it, 1 pen:ha-oh s tin I,' 'u frotm
C.llllpal.y, wltich exactly 0, it the ,a'e, ann,ll,
lt I deposit my valusales I may e••Ille lOW lamp,. it .0
..liel.lol I please; if the t Mart otemide knows Inn hy siaht
lit,) he
CO accompsides me ou fe the Vann : if he tett-31101 kn.o
ele he looks Toe up itt the htleD and tests me, moot tine,. rr.
to. we 5 the cap iiraillt my ke. hole with lye little k •y. I 0,-ei•
the se'e with miloe, and t• 'out leY hex, It eke It the We
after me. But as the vault is not a roper plhce to elan. lit
my p opera 111, Spas, tilt Insole 80] -iniog tone ni de 14110,
where I fled savor ii large E.ws t•t emote sth stalls en temp
niatked oaf 1,5 hits par In One oof these I Post rt nay
dent slid any head, and produce my securitoes. If I wish 1.
ea OH cot:pans I tied a pair of sc•esors hat mug by noy undo;
If I want to kno•w where and at what dates the otiviolendo
itttermt oof the priucipal •totcks and bonds are payable ion
New 1" rk, I tied a 1101 k 110,e by lu oh cmi it is all set
°own ; aid if I *WI LO Make Illelleirliette, I Deli
pelt 11110 ihk on my desk. Dan bid titillated my
examitiation, I replace my papers, root set telt Inc
my way heck to the vatilt, but go al ma a pase.e fenced in
from the touter offihe toy atoll awl el. ten iron railing or wire
wt., k, so that 11041041 y fleet the out-l-ie can -grab" um
panes. one. But I find tee comp any ha- mislaid. .115 of the
ewe I nuty have told,. ml sonnu of buy comt anions 1,, the
essnl'lting f 0•411, ann it alt tior do to ;et Me na•ii en I.lenle
• 115 ,1 ,t; 00l find thin h,nhlabe,slirretem too a ty de, ,sll
only be ef,e eti from th- 1111.111.1 e, abtul throligleenol oyes iihja
a full view oof me ie ohtaitied by Ills teeter o charge of it I
agatn et ter thee nit, sevOinitmied by the the p r, ueeoatc
at bee In, the site bin his leSesence eliti match off
Noiw the ,0 nee o y does not mite y..nl :soy 1. 1;11 enerantee
:or the aster) of Whet 51.1111101.1 in 11144,e WV,. Ai e) 11101
no I.ltoWleolne of what yen lore in them, to o ffer e tecoune
nallie foe he cOlilentel nolibi of c hine eximse them to
it 1111 l teerab'e Cle,.S. .11 a C 1111 l 11111 NI.IOI,SA
the 51 Iffelpal 11illeers 111111.1111likm ly m.ght ho tog alow a
noehery foe advantages ot luring a safe are ilia: ynnii h
one too your-elf, • f which yen holf the key, anti tI tt extra-
oroPtiet y etecriithotis ere taken loy men of utioloodoted cha-
racter t po eve. t snybooly hilt you op Ping ntecess 0. it, 01.11
that the %hole colneerio is 01 Cllgird w.llt ni.t.kilig lent keeping
watch mat ward, too ellen, the security is 1.5 00.0010 10 IS
1.011.41.-11 i gioitig yen unrestricted stool to, in lee' ell
111,esel to your pr .perty. The vomit tit ainhnihl tie no safes
are eow tmed by prodesel anal men, lathe., and annilif ant s
all kinds slay have no offices or means of lam:why of their
owl., 115 ve great.
Should aryellh wever not wish to litre a safe, anti desire to
have the comp my bade tor Meade keeping of pnllf proper y
you have simply t u t ace yoge loom's, or atomic, or n tier
property down and present them, and take arh (lei et In m,
red pay one Moller a th .111011.11 per 8111111,11 On their nominal
value, atol the eonotemy will charge itself with their sate
ciptooly, will deliver them to you on demand. Anti will, if
yon desire it, calif et the noterest or diviolim 0 on Mem, mid
forward to yen It yoou o,sh to ileposit plate tor jewelgry
with them, you can put it Ili a le Of, eel it with pour see', and
they sill receive it, c targing yen tone p-r emit, per annum
on the deel irest vanes 01 the o onteets—the vele:ohm they
leave to y outsell—and undertake to return It to you with
amp untorehett Ito pere. .0, leavotg town I•r the Weenier, or
gnu g ahro.aol, this runtish,. an tivatitalole le °Mee ili fact,
th• re I. eo seeeies .4 valuable prhpetty tot ema I hulk of
as hi, h they NISI m •de the cut hod WIS. Tile ledniefes is
groowitig 41•11 notileitg has as yet 0 curled to shake
prooyeels moonoteoa no it. I have fie,crtheil, as 1 have said the
office tot Imhoff, I hive personal 'teem/ledge, and which w .
the first Malted ; • here are them site better ac ulnae) tali ...I.
litairee, 110WeVer, there is no Die ID trying L., StieL .-11 Ch all
miterprise wile-s men of the ttiehmt commercial statielleg
can he swatted fgr the b•and of de ection.

o nenhe, Or.a bentbd IL new so.d thilisiereil the hese eery
.lenton. Twice its motile' ins weight was driven ag Mist the
fugitive, AS if inidinct with a tempos, to drive it front the
trauk. It XS 4 to the her oicengumer and ti,illllll
err 3. ehiiii33o 4i. ler I The speed of the
*wine was such that it ceased to pump; then again the
• oi a vs, as a 4411111 41, Me pls.:, 3i at tilt, lime
' sip-ter the 1811.111111 Wl.lBllOll epa BWi•en,' and
shalt ng haunts with the (Iranian, they b..de each other fare
• knowing that their ve,ilepeteled 1,11 Vie Opehill of the
Into shore awl: oh by their triende tel ov, anti this WAR 14
imperil the • spree train corrrilry down fr •nt the west with its
human freight. The engineer wink was on this train 83w the
Are Whet! tie- t hroke iiut at and Wipproei ghe
cool cle a the ju cam b4ore ih, fl mt, g leer..? r. RI 1n...1 it
lie, too, mit tile engine to the utmost speed on a level,
Ii tile. A utile short i.t the jonell... he Saw the the ,floi
was a vain one, for the flying coi negro; ion had 1841nd 11111
WWII the Lake Shiite trick, and was roaring OnWaril in toe
ilireetTei of Dunkirk. He checked the headlovg ru-h of his
own train and brought it to a litsntifitill. It did not proceed
until three o'clo, it or the morning. The case balk in another
den,er, 81111 11 wis imminent. A heavy freight train was
coming up the Like Slue erred. All Iv id say .4 the escape
.4 this 14 that it did escape to the tide truck, and oniy
lee 'Peri by the last minute if possibility.
•. R4lllllllB rot t,i a safe Mammas from the depot, the
engioeer ot the oil train detach., his mentie and 'tilt Ou-
sts os to eon-time He Says the sltiuratirnit van folly realised
hm. Ile enacted to hose his line. At every in
rue .x,.ecteii the engine to leave the track, lie maw
tlhit to was going at a p.a. eis rare of speed ;
not there Was lin help for It The (lonian WAS he-
thud thin, ,itt.l lie declares th it it Iskeit like a demon
With that fondness, or real affection fee his engine which
these tutu uhlulmi ry, he said, '1 thought everything of my
engine, and was determined to stay by it to the last.' The
Ili-titian made one attempt to escape by jumping from the
tender, lint the engineer restrained him.
" Altogether the occurrence was a ternarkahle one, and in
part remarkable tor this, that no lives were lost. Th.s brake-
men tin the oil cars hail gone back to the passengerears, when
the oil cais started. It was well they till Unless those rear
ed.s had been detatched and sioiiped, their initiated Would
Imre beau burned to death inevitably."

enould nave the full benefit ot the privileges tandem-
olved in the second resolution, and that all I ,conpiers
should have power to sell their interests to the best
advantage, pre-emption being reserved for the landlord.
The mid tit resolutnei declares that the law of distrees
sh, odd ahnlished, and the lift' appoints a committee
with Mr. Butt as chairman, to frame a more detailed
plan of settlement based on the resolutions, and to
',eke eneral arrangements for the formation and
conduct of a "nathnal tenant league."
lie .peakers at the meeting expressed strong die.
satisf Lion with the present state of the law, and Mr.
Gulmitis, of the L tionick Club, declared, with the
:ipplimse .1 the meeting, that if the farmers did not get
j istice from the present G. wernment they wou'd look
sh•ewhere for it. He repudiated, as a Tipperary man,
the statemmit II Lord l'ortarlington that the tenant-
righters dare not venture into Tipperary, and said that
if Me. Butt., who was, perhaps, the leader of the aita-
tiou, chose to stand for Tipierary to-morrow the far-
hors wduld return hint. Mr. Gublins mentioned
several strong cases illustrative of the things done
under the loud law in Limerick. On L. rd ash-
downe'a property, be said, no man dare get mar-
ried until he had the permission of the agent,
Mr. John Uniacke Townsend ; and for a violation
this rule a man who had himself treated his farm
upon a barn n mountain side was evicted and corm
[idled to emigrate. On another property in the c tunty
us gentleman who had the reputation of being able to
screw more out of a tenantry than any other man in
the south of Ireland., had been recently employed for
the purpose of revising - which, of course, means
raising— the rents, and this gentleman lately went
clandestinely into the houses of several of the tenants
while they were absent at harvest work, and made a
minute examination of their dwellings, looking at the
very hells and bed clothing, to see how much could be
got out of them. Great indignation was expressed at
these statements.
Mr. Maguire and Mr. Shaw spoke at the conclusion
of the meeting in response to the unanimous call, and
both gentlemen declared their readiness to co-operate
heartily in the movement to acquire perfect security
for the tenant. Mr. Shaw said that if they did not
get a sufficiently large bill next year there was no
hurry with the question, and it would be better for
them to wait another session than take an insufficient
rues-rue. Neither gentleman specifically accepted the
Isrogramme adoptedby the club. It was observed that
the want of se.urity was just as keenly felt in the
North as in the South, notwithstanding the custom of
Ulster, as the landlords were steadily breaking down
the tenant right. Mr. Murphy also promised his co-
operation.

DEATH-BED SCFNE OF THE UNITED !
STATES SECRETARY OF WAR.
The Saw York cribune gives the following particulars of •
the death of Grll3.al
His death "a. lieemitivly a painless one. Last night '
nis rest was htful, anti his audition feeble and ex•
Mame e•i. Eli. et tudition VI.; morning gave no poaible
hope to his friends, anti his death was looked for long
,iefore it occurred. His mind and will were strong to
he end, and he seemed determined to check the heavy
;rand of death that was upon him. Hie mind was
peaceful, and he again and again rap-eased no fear of
teeth nor of the tuture. Shortly before he died he
said, " I know I am to die, and my only regret is that
I leave niy family paupers. He asked repeatedly
inn the day lithe President had returned, anti seemed
to try to keep baok the tinal moment until his friend
ind companion could arrive. Tue President's delay
was a subject of great anxiety, and he evidently had
souiething of importance to say to him. His rompira-
thin began to grow more frequent and feeble, and
stimulants were freely administered. He recognised
his friends up to the very hour of his death, and was
elle to speak until site four o'clock. His last audible
words were "Raise me up." Afterward belay very
atilt and tranquil for nearly ten minutes, his pulse
feebly heating, when suddenly he raise I his head,
opened his eyes, and fell back upon the pillow. He
had breathed his last. The President arrived at the
depot MA five o'el wlr and was driven to the residence
of General Smith by Geheral Sherman, with all poasible
speed. H« arkved a.: five o'clock and two minutes,
just one Ii air after his friend and companion had
tireathed his last, He ;anxiously inquired how long the
Secretary had been dead, and strewed the deepest
.1110illal. He asked a few cpwations of Dr. Bliss,
in I expressed, a i h tears in his eyes, the deepest
attriow at his delay. His first are wax to write a
message to Mrs. Rawlins at Danbury, Conn.,
telling her of the mournf.:l event. He also pre-
pared other &spa, elms to at.tnt fiiends. He a.ked
if he could remain wlth the body to-night, but
some if his Cabioet urged him to seek rest. "No," he
amid, "I must be nesr his remains." A few hours
h-ire the Secretary'a death, in speaking of his beloved
family, he said it wars terrible thing to see' and know
that Ins family was unprovided for, and that his only
jt•yr in life was the educition of his boys. A high
officer of the rid army of Tennessee, who stood beside
he bed, took his bawl, and gait!, "General will you
alit iw the out army to adopt your boys, and educate and
provide fir them ?" The dying officer, his eyes filled
with tears, I,oked up into the face of his 14d comrade,
and smiled, and a faint " Yes," escaped his lips.

In hie re-cent tour through Belgium Prince Napoleon
visited the battlefield of Waterloo.
Mr. Punch knows a Young Man who in so Lazy that
he will not even Labour under an Impresslou.—Punch.

At the Wandsworth police-court, a porter in the
service oi the South-Western Railway Company was fined fa.
for stealing an apple from a tub in the shed at the Niue Elms
stall 01, the nia.Ustrate remarking that it every porter at the
station helped himself to an apple there would soon be very
few left in the tub.
Salford occupies this week the place of honour
amouga the fourteen large towns of the tested Kingdom on
the list of the Registrar-General. Its death-rate was 21 per
1,.;00, whilst that of Manchester was 20. bradforti exceeded
Liverpool to unhealthiness, their respective rates being 31
MIA SO. The rate far Loudon was 2.3, and the average for
the loorteen towns 25.
A baronetcy has been offered to Mr. Thomas
Baz ey, M.P. for Manchester, but it appears to be uncertain
whether he will accept the distinction as he is on a tour.
A large number of the clergy of the rural deanery of
Ipplepen (sa)s the Exeter Gazette have met at Torquay, slid
unanimously agreed to a petition to Mr. Gladstone to take
into consideration the unwieldy size of the Diocese of Exeter,
and the desirability of its division.
The pensioners who have hitherto remained in Green.
wich Hospital are gradually leaning that institution. prefer-
ring to accept the allowance granted by a recent Act of Per-
il .merit. Many lett the Hospital on Monday, mid there are
110 W only ah‘tut fifty or sisiy of the aged and helpless left in
the infirmary tif the Minding. Should those who have de-
parted wish to avail themselves of the accommodation in the
infirmary, in case of their health failum, they will be at
'reedy to do so.
The Archduke Albrecht of Austria has hit upon a
plan which he seems to think will afford relief to military
officers in needy circumstances. As Field Marshal of the
Austrian army, he has submitted a proposal to the Emperor
fir the formation of a fund from which loans may be granted
to officers requiring such assistance, and he has giver an
earn, St of his sincerity in the movement by contributing
116,000 florins RS a first donation. The statutes of the fund
have already been sanctioned by an Imperial decree
A telegram from Madrid states that a treaty of com-
merce ',tweet. England and Spain is likely to be shortly
concluded. It is believed in political elides that on the
re-assembling of the Cortes the question of a candidate for
the Throne will be immediately taken up, and that the King
of Portugal would he elected.
Mr. ltuthven, an octogenarian, attempted to
commit suicide at Cape Town on August 7. lie was still
Ave on the 13th, but his recovery was considered impos-
sible. He was one of the witnesses in the f anoun Coto-
street conspiracy during the reign of George IV., and his
brother was one of the Bow-street runners who assisted in
taking the conspirators. 31r. Ruthven had acquired large
property at the Cape.
Last Friday Flag Captain Seccombe, of her Majesty's
ship Nowt', went on board the Scorpion, at Queenstown,
with or. ers for her to proceed to Bermuda. The ship's com-
pany came on deck and protested firmly 117,101 A, going, as
alter the recent cruise they did not think her seaworthy.
The Matter has been referred to the Admiralty.
A valuable discovery of bismuth ore has been made
on a section belonging to Mr. Cantle, near Bainannan, South
Australia. Mr. Ey, whilst ovellooking some workmen
engaged in opening up the Lill Aldeni search it a copper lode,
bedeved from surface indicationa to exikt there, had his
attention directed to the we ght of the stud dug up. A
number of specimens were brought to town, and further ex-
amination has proved them to be bismuth ore of a very rich
description. and only impregnated with copper to a very
slight extent.
One hundred and ten thousand pilgrims are esti-
mated to have assembled at alount Ararat in the late Mecca
pilgrimage, or about twenty five thouaand more than in
1008. The public health is reported to have been perfectly
good, both amongst the pilgrims and in the neighbourhood of
Mecca.
A premium of 50 guineas was paid in London, on
Tuesday, on the ship Moloaka, Captain Stevens, 130 days
from Port Lyttleton, New Zealand. she has on board fifty
passengers, and £50,000 in specie.
Mr. Gladstone has declined the freedom of the city
of Aberdeen, and the public banquet to which he was invited
in connection therewith. The Premier say s, in a letter to
the Lord Provost, that, after a session which was arduous
beyond his strength, he already finds himself engaged in the
labour of preparation for another likely to be ma leas
arduous ; so that where a choice can properly he given him
lie must not charge himself with any engagements of a public
nature.

attire.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Albert Life
Assurance Company was held in Landon, on Tuesday. at
their offices on adjustment from a meeting held on the 75th
of last month, which was intended to bring the company
under the operation of the Joint-stock Ciampanys• Act. But
this has been rendered impracticable by the proceedings
recently taken in Chancery, and the meeting ended in the
appoint meta of a committee to confer with the committee of
maim holders.
A woman named Godzielska hen just died at Posen,
aged 99 years. She formerly served as vivandiere in the
armies of Napoleon 1., and went through the campaigns of
Spain, Russia, and Germany.
Mr. Thomas John Penn, the last descendant of the
celenrated Penn family, was burled in the churchyard of
Stoke Pogis a few days ago. It is just a century since the
Penns commenced their residence at Stoke, the estate on the
death of Lady Coliham in 1769, having been i urchased front
her executors by the lion. Thomas Penn, Lord Proprietary
of Pennsylvania. The late Mr. Penn was sixty-four years if
age. He s,dil the original painting by West of " Penn's treaty
wlth the Indians." Tim picture was bonght by Mr. Catlin,
and is now laths Town Hall of Philadelphia.
At the marriage of the son of a rich native lately, in
Calcutta, a modern carriage and four was used as the convey-
ance of the bridegroom, instead of the usual native car.
On Friday the Duke of Portland bought another
estate in Caithness. 'the estate of Strath was put up for
sale at £8,50J. and after competition was knocked down to
the Duke sit, £9.40. Less than twenty years ago it was pur-
chased for £2,425.
At Huddersfield a boy, aged five yearn, has died
from hydrophobia, arising from the bite of a sheepdog in July

last.
An annual "conference of Christians" has recently
been held in Perth. It was well and respectably attended,
and prayers were o:fered in special and individual cases at the
request of any member. For example, " the players of the
Lard's dear people were asked for the converzi in of three
y• mug officers ii her Majesty's service who have been lately
entreated to give up the world and trust in Ch. ist. One of
them was stationed at Edinburgh."
An inquest has been held at Liverpool on the body of
Charles Worthington, a man who formerly carried on an ex-
ten-ive cnach.loillinghuamcss in Liverpool. Oa ing to a con-
tinued course of intemperance his true gradually declined,
and from a life of ease and opulence he was latterly compelled
to earn a livelihood by doing odd jobs at minim-houses. On
Friday last he was found suff mated in a yard, with a large
piece of moat sticking in his throat. During the day he had
been draiking very ntuch, and it was b -limed that he
attempted to swallow the meat whilst iu a state of
intexication. The jury returned a verdict Of accidental
death by suffocation.
A Western senator wrote home a short time ago
that he was only able to get "four hours for sleep out of
twentydour," and that during that "period a candidate for
office sat by the bedside and watched him as he slept."
Canterbury, New Zealand, has been startled by
several severe shocks of earthquake, and some damage has
been done to churches and other buildings. The piaster fell
from the roof of the Provincial Council chamber, whilst the
house was sitting. The chamber was soon cleared.
The New York Herald understands there is a new
and remarkable in veleta], an antomatic system of self-tele-
graphing power, which will multiply eight or ten times the
facilities if telearathic communication over the present
system. There is reason to believe this to one of the most
tot dashing Inventions of the age, and destined to produce •
great revolution in the commerce, financial share, inter-
course, 9.1111 social condition of the world. We learn, also,
that the United States government will he asked to teat this
Invention, and to take the control of and use it for the public
good
The operative stonemasons of Sheffield, now on
strike, have declined to submit the matters in dispute to
arbitration.
The Earl of Chesterfield's letters are usually con-
sidered to be models of political morality. In a petition to
George 111, to raise his pension to 43.000, however, this sante
Earl declares himself "ready to support the worst measures
proposed by his Majesty's miehters," and, if refused, to use
"the utmost acrimony " against the best measures his
Majesty himself 'call ever propose or promote."
The Puke of Marlborough has just presented to the
Oxford Radcliffe Infirmary the sum of one hundred and
twenty guineas, being a portion of the proceeds of fees paid
by visitors to Blenheim Palace and Gardens.
A temperance conference was opened on Monday,
In Birmingham. The principal speakers were medical men.
Several of them strongly denounced the common use of
alcolt die stimulants as medical agents; and expressed their
readiness to support any measure that would have the effect
of suppressing the trade in intoxicating liquors.
The Times, a short time ago, declared that "the
working classes, as represeuted by their trades' unions, are
protectionist to a man" Mr. Otter, who will probably be
accepted as an authority on the question, refers to this and
other statements of the same kind, in a letter which he has
sent to the papers. Mr. Odger Is positive in his assertiors
that if the thousands of trades' uniotis in England were gone
through, sot one of them would be found, as a society, to be
is ravour of protection, and that trades' unionists, ass body,
are, pm haps, less in favour of protection than soy other class
of the community.
At the Lyons University last week a Millie.
Caroline Sibert, of Vienne on the Rhone, took a Bachelor of
Arts degree. Out of a list of twenty-two candidates this
young lady came out first in French and Latin composition,
and second in Latin translation.
First cousins are forbidden to marry in New Ramp
shire after December 24.
Mr. Wilkie Collin's is writing a new story, which
will be published in Caasell's Magazine.
Tuesday war speech day at Christ's Hospital (Bine-
coat School) The occasion was rendered more then usually
interesting by the references in the English oration to the
recent changes male in the teachiest of the hospital. Feel
that "a s word was suspended over their heads" in the
Endowed Schools Act, the managers have ordered increased
attention to aruhnietic, English, and French, and reduced to
the same extra'. the tittle elven to Greek.
Fb.wer-selling is apparently a profitable calling in
Paris, for it is stated that a young woman, named Anna Bose,
hommetfare at the Atheilie theatre, on retuniing tram Baden
races, which she had attended profe-sioeally, found that
during her abreuce her apartments had been broken into sad
robbed of a sum of £4OO.
Mr. Sheridan, in the course of a letter contradicting
the report that his constituents are about to call upon him
to resign, incidmitally makes a statement which, for the
sake of the unfortunate sufferers by the Albert Life ASSUaIICEI,
it into be hi pea, rests up n good foundation. Ile says that
every policy.hobler will receive fifteen shillings in the pound,
and " possibly the remaining five shillings."
Mr. Thomas Cooke Trench, a magistrate of the
county of Kildare, has written to the Ev,king Mail to "dedi-
cate a surn of 43,000 to the f uture service of Inc Irish Church."
" We have too much just now," he says, "at the laity on the
one hand withholding their subscriptions till they see
whether the cli rgy are going to commute, and the clergy, on
the other hand, hesitating t commute lest there should be
a failure in those gifts on the part of the Churchmen at
large which alotie eon render commutation of profit to the
Church. I would humaly suggest to huh whether that
object would not Ic better attained by striving to excite one
another to emulation than by each endeavourng to push
the other into the forefront by hanging back till they see
what the other will do."
A singular proposal was submitted to the Warwick
Board of Guardians at their last meeting. The lion, and
Rev. J. W. Leigh brought forward a motion for boarding out
pauper children with cottagers in the various villages of the
union, indeed of maintaining and educating them at the
vete knouse. The motion WAS supported by Lord Leigh, the
lord-lieutenant of the county, built is scarcely surprising
that so radical a change in the mode of dealing with the
pauper population net with conaiderable resistance. Event-
ually a committee was appointed to make inquiriet as to the
probable cost, and other matters counected with the pro-
posed change.
The camp at Chalons has been broken up. The
troops, they say, have attained to such perfection in the use
of the Chassepot that they hardly ever miss the target, even
at 11,0 metres A new sort of practice intriduced is against
an imaginary enemy brhind entrenchments, in rear of which
targets are placed, one ortwo metres lower than Vie parapet.
The targe.s are supposed to represent groups of infantry,
which the French soldiers succeed in hitting, at a distance of
600 metres, by means eta plunging fire.
Good taste proverbially resides in France, decidedly
In Paris, and, pleasantest retreat of all, in female Parisian
hosonis ireinarks the Court Journal. A correspondent of a
French paper gives an example thereof in a cetiverution he
heard betweeti two rabettea "Oh, I do love the Morgue
so !" " And I, too. I ale aye visit It when Igo courting with
Edward." " Yes, dear, the dead ones seem spread out so
etty—like fish at the ftsh-dealer's—and the hies, of that
retutods me that I should Like to buy some soles for
Theodore's supper."

At Sligo, last week, a man, aged ninety, married
woman aged eighty.
According to the PaTl Mall Gazette there are persons
in London who drive about the West End in the gay season,
and whenever they see is house lighted up for a ball a 1.,"
carriages at the door, enter with the crowd, and in the con-
tusion escape detection.
The mortality among the children in Utah is reported
to be very great. Of sixty deaths in Salt Lake in a month,
forty-tour were children. Helier Kimball is reported to have
buried forty-eight chit tree out of sixty-three in las collec-
tion • one bishop had lust twenty chd Iron, another twenty-
another seventeen. Joseph Smith had six wives, but
loft only twp sox..
The American speculator, Tiarnmn, made an offer
of £5OO to the late owner of Newstead Abbey Ira tree in the
grounds of that mansion on which Lord B}ron cot his own
name and that of hie sister Augusta. The offer wastleclined;
and the tree is still standing.
A new Nova Scotia railroad traverses the scene of
Evangeline, and the locomotives are to he named "Gabriel,"
" Maspareau," "Evangeline," "Hiawatha," and "Minus-
halts."
Ode of the spectators privileged to be present at the
burial of Lady Palmerston left his seat, and while gazing
about at the roof fell headlong backwards into the open
grave. Considerable excitement ensued, but the individual
was rescued with no worse hurt than a cut on the head.
A correspondent at St. Petersburg writes :—" A
curious new press regulation has just been issued here. The
Minister of the Interior stficMy forbid, newspapers to pu‘t-
lish any extracts from literary periodicals, on the tr tuna that
the latter often contain matter which though it may be homil-
ies, when read by educate,' persona, is very prejudicial to the
masses."
The Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin, and the
Dukes of Leinster and Abercorn have Issued a circularstating
their readiness to receive subscriptions towards the Irish
Church Sustentatiou Fund.
A deplorable event ocertrred a few days back at the
cattle far of Moche- Poesy (Vienne). The oxen, to the num-
ber uf lid, irritabci by the stings Of Insects, broke loose and
rushed in all directions. More than 130 persons were
knocked down and trampled on, and although no lives
Were lost, in some eases the injuries received were of a
serious

The 12th inst.. the fifteenth anniversary of the death
of Blucher, was celenratee with some solemnity at Kriel,
wile, where his body lies buried. During the day the tomb
was visited by large numbers of people, and a; six o'clock in
the evening, the riflemen marched with music to the spot
A poem in honour of the warrior was then recited, a cheer
for his elejeety the King of Prussia heartily responded o$
and the crewd dispersee singing patriotic songs, which were
frequently interrupted by salutes.
The Charivari (the French Punch) has a caricature
representing Universal Suffrage, in the snape of a grew
pole, with Liberty at the top for a prim. A mail wh., has
reached the summit grasps the goes don, amulet the applause
of a crowd below. The letter-press commentary is ;—"Tins
is all right; but it must be confessed that the pole was ter-
ribly greased!"
A new 'thief hat" is the invention of i Yankee.
The butte of " chimney-pot " shape, firmed of indiarubber,
very elastic. The thief wearing this hat enters the shop of
some jeweller, or any place where there are articles of value,
seizes a favourable moment to thrust the hat on the sliopman,
and force it tiown to Ids shoulders. It is added that the
victim can neither cry nut nog, quickly remove she hat, and
that the thief has ample time to pursue his theft at leisure.
The contempt of danger which familial ity with it
breeds was fully exemplifier] by some proceediags which took
place at Hounslow, on eedlay monde's. The workmen
employed at the powder mills of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey
eere examined as they came on the premises, am! no leas
than fifiveight of them were suspended for having pipes
and lueders in their possession.
A Newhaven oyster fisher brought up in his dredge
the other day au old sauce, supposed to be of French mauu-
fecture. The sabre is sightly curved at the point, and has a
bra.ss hilt. It is now in the possession of Mr. Dempster, of
Newhaven.
"A telegram received in town on Tuesday, from
Port Elizabeth, reports that, on the 10th, six Cape diamonds
were offered for sale. Five were ilisposed of for £200; hut
the sixth, a larger one, was held back ,at £125 offered."—
Cape Argos, August 12.
A miner named James Bolt,on was so much hurt by
stall of earth when working at Switzer& near Tuapeka, New
Zealand, recently, that he died two days later. Deceased was
a native of Yorkshire, and is believed to have a sister rend-
log in liverpooL
The New York Figaro says that Miss Elise Holt,
late of one of the London theatres, finding the criticism in
the San Francisco News Lelleeunvatisfaotory. armed herself
with a cow-hide and called four Vmes at the office for the
purpose of administerieg a thrashing to the editor. Hitherto
the editor haa avoided an encounter.
Grain has reached famine prices in several parts of
the North-western Provinces of Delia, aml large relief works
have been commeeced at 13areilly, giving employment to
9,000 persons daily.
Water runs over Niagara Falls at the rate of
1,500,000,000,000 cube feet every termite, giving a water
power force enough to perform all the manual labour M New
York State.
A letter from Rome atates that the Archbishop of
New York, who is to attend the Council, hae already hired a
carriage mid pair at the rate of 1,20 e francs per month. The
poorer bishops will be entertained at the expense of the
Pope. Those prelates who provide accommodation for
themselves will, it is added, hire their rooms for seven er
eight mouths, but It is probable that the deliberations will
not last beyond April next.
A truly Catholic scheme has been projected in the
holy city of Bemires. A "Church of Truism" is proposed
to ba opened, one portion of which is to be set apart for
Christian worship, another for klahomedans, and a third for
iiindoos !
Under the terms of the act of Parliament of last
session there will he 153 female municipal voters at Stamford
In 1869-70. At Wisbeach, out of 1,820 voters, 200 will be
women. At Ccichester, out of 3,30) voters 324 will be
women.
Mr. James Young, whose name is known chiefly as
proprleior of certain paraffin oil works in Scotland, has pre-
sented 10,000 guineas for the permanent endowment of a
chair of technical chemistry In the Andersonlan University,
Glasgow, with liberty to found scholarshies and bursaries in
connexion therewith.
The Alton» police have ordered that no female
singer sander 21 shall appear on the stage. It has been
suggested that a decree probiltitilog their appearance above
40 would work far more usefully.
The subscription for the six orphan children of
Policeman Parker, who shied from hydrophobia about three
weeks ago at Preston, has now reached the sem of £340 Tha
mother of the children, whose ages range troika three to
thirteen years, died six months ago, having sank under the
depressing effect of the lumeledge that her has land had
been bitten by a mail dog. It is proposed to place the chit-
Urea luau orphanage, at a cost of about £4OO.
By the death of Mr. Behan, a new editor is required
for the London Gazette.. The editorship of a newspaper
where there are no leading articles to be written, no pester-
log questions from corresp. ndents to be answered, auti
Where politscs do not Intrude, most be a most desirable
situation. The Athrneetsm says of it, e There is nothing to
do, and every possible assistance."
A French journal states that the grandfather of
Victor Hugo was the son of a carpenter at Nancy.
In the opinion of the Spectator the Government
would make a very fatal mistake in granting at the present
moment an amnesty Cu the Fenian prisoners—the fatal mis-
teke f leading the Irish to suppose that they are conceding
the great Irish reforms already effected or proposed, net be-
cause they are determined to be just, but because they have
alwajs been timid.
The claimant to an estate in London, valued at three
millions and a half, has lately turned rip with a strongly
manifested intention of possessing himself sif that which lie
deems his own. Mount the suit be successf at nearly the
whole of one of the largest parishes in London will change
hands.
At Montreal, recently, a groom, named Guy, to
play off a joke on a man named Poulin, who lodged with
him, drank heartily of a bottle of whisky, which Poulto bad
a rongly impregnated with morphia, which he took largely.
Guy was only able to walk to the stable, and was there
found dead.
It is on the tetpis to light up all the street lamps in
Edinburgh by one coup from an electric battery. Mr. Hart,
an experienced electrician, lisa indicated the practicability
of such a scheme ; the saving of gas alone, without taking this
other savings on ladders and lamplightere Into account, is
said to show a figure beyond the expense ef the simple light-
ing power.
Three female doctors—one French, one Russian, and
the other Arnerican—heve just passed successful examine-
Mons before the Faculty it Medicine, in l'aris. The Ameri-
can lady was the iii' st brilliant. of all, and astonisbed her
judges by her profound kimwledge of anatomy, dissection,
pathology, and hospital practice.