The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-10-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Sultan is said to have promised his eldest
daughter in marriage to the son of Osman Pasha, the defender
of Plevna.
The Spanish Government having sanctioned the
practice of homceopathy, a school is to be opened at Madrid
next month and diplomas awarded at the end of May.
About £75,000 has been promised towards the fund
required for endowing a bishopric for LiverpooL This sum
includes four subscriptions of £lO,OOO each. The total
amount needed for the endowment is £85,000 so that only
£lO,OOO more is required.
Among the collection at St. Andrew's Church
Liverpool, on Sunday, after a sermon on behalf of the Sea-
men's Orphanage, was found a massive gold chain.
According to official information from Russia re-
ceived in Berlin, an order has been issued for the disarma-
ment of the Russian harbours on the Black Sea, and the
removal of the torpedoes sunk there during the late war.

One thousand six hundred and ninety-one persons
emigrated from Switzerland last year for countries beyond
the seas; 1,027 of them went to North, 91 to Central, and 244
to South America, and 117 to Australia. Geneva and four other
cantons, however, have furnished no returns.
Miss Arch, daughter of Mr. Joseph Arch, the
labourers' advocate, preached the anniversary sermons at the
Primitive Methodist Chapel at Wellingborough on Sunday.
A site has, says the British Medical Jcrurnal been
secured for erecting a crematorium near London by the
Cremation Society of Great Britain.

On Saturday morning an accident occurred on the
Caledopian Railway, near Aberdeen. As a train, which con-
tained '2OO passengers, was approaching the station the engine
went off the rails, but got on again. Scarcely had this hap-
pened when all the carriages went Of. The engine was
quickly stopped, but not before a considerable length of the
permanent way had been torn up. The passengers were
much shaken and greatly alarmed, but no one was injured.
The traffic was interrupted for the greater part of the day.
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The coal masters of Fife and Clackmannanshire
have intimated a reduction in the wages of their miners to
the extent of 10 per cent., to take effect within 14 days. The
gloomy state of trade is assigned as the reason.

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A meeting of the London Mansion Hoase Committee
for the relief of the distress caused by the foundering of the
Princess Alice was held on Monday, at wbich it was unani-
mously resolved that, having regard to the large amount
already received and to the other funds in the course of
collection for the same purpose, no further appeal be made to
the public for donations to the fund.

A Daily News telegram states that a Garibaldian de-
monstration took place at Bagnorea on Sundaf, the first store
of a monument in memory of those who fell there in 1867
being laid with much ceremony. A letter from Garibaldi
was read, and speeches were made in which allusions to the
rectification of the Bann frontier elicited loud cheers.

The Sali,,bury, 1,091 tons, Captain G. Case, chartered
by Sir Arthur Blyth, , Agent General for South
Australia, left Plymouth on MS 4th inst. for Port Adelaide,
with 376 emigrants, under the charge of Dr. F. E. Corbet
Singleton, surgeon, amongst whom were 85 single female
domestic servants, under the care of Mrs. Margaret Rogers,
matron.
The supply of American food which arrived at
Liverpool during last week consisted of 971 live cattle, 3 438
sheep, 360 pigs, 2,064 quarters of beef, 276 carcases of mutton,
and 850 tubs of butter, being a decrease in every instance
except as regards sheep when contrasted with the flgures of
the former week.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times (as "Conscience Money") the receipt of
£3 10s. 6d. from "A," and of 10s. 6d.from " Justus "on account
of income-tax, and of ss. 2d. sent anonymously ; all three sums
in postage stamps.
An important announcement was made on Monday
night by Professor Barrett, in delivering a lecture in Biz*.
mingham. He said that Mr. Edison's agent, Mr. Adams,
had just received the following telegram :—" I have just
solved the problem of the subdivision of the electric light
Indefinitely, but it will not be shown until all the patents
are secured, and then I will send a description."

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The microphone is likely to become useful as an ad-
junct to the pulpit. We see it stated that a gentleman has
already, by Its means, heard in his own room a sermon
preached at about a mile distant. Hearing of that, an in-
valid lady is having one fitted up in her room, connected
with a church a mile off, and expects to get the full benefit
of the weekly sermons. This is bringing the Gospel to our
doors in a novel way.—Echo.

A Waterloo veteran, named Richard King, has just
died at Bradfield, near Woodbridge, at the age (if eighty-
two. The old man was a popular character, and was well
looked after in his old age.

At a swimming contest held at the Wellington
Baths, Leeds, Captain Webb said he should like to see a deal
more of breast-swimming instead of a side stroke. When a
man fell into the water he did not swim on his side to save
his life, but on his breast, and the fact was that breast-awim-
ing was really the backbone of the art. Now that frightful
calamity on the Thames has shown the world what a useful
accomplishment swimming was, he should say that the
parents of the rising generation should be held to a great
extent responsible for any accident happening to their
children in a similar manner.
Colonel Drummond Moray, M.P. for Perthshire,
replying for the Houses of Parliament at the annual dinner
of the Perthshire Rifle Volunteers, said he was proud to
think that the Government and the party to which he had
the honour to belong had brought the country through a great
crisis with honour, and without the loss of a single man.
He defended the recent war preparations and the calling out
of the Reservas. He hoped war would not break out, but if
it did, the resources and valour of Great Britain would be
once more demonstrated.

In addressing his constituents at Kinross on Monday
afternoon, Mr. Adam, M.P., quoted the statistics of the
elections which had taken place since January, 1876, and
contended that the results, as affording a test of public
opinion, were largely in favour of the Liberal party.

A handsome monument has just been placed upon
the tomb of the late Charles Mathews in Kemal-green
Cemetery. The work is a line specimen of marble masonry,
and bears the inscription :—Sacred to the memory of Charles
James Mathews, born Dec. 26, 1803, died June 24, 1878,
aged 74. "0. Bliss When all in circle drawn about him,
heart and ear were fed to hear him." "flow good! how
kind! and he is gone." In memoriam.

Some little while ago signalling by mirrors was
recommended to the attention of our War Office authorities.
They might have bought the patent for almost nothing, but
for reasons best known to themselves they didn't. The
Russians did, and used them with good effect daring the
war, signalling easily for many tniles by means of these flash-
ing mirrors We, now on the eve of a campaign are debating
the possibility of keeping np telegraphic communication
with the field, and have nothing but the old-fashioned wire
to work with.—Court Journal,

Professor Robert Harkness, professor of natural
history in Queen's College, Cork, dropped dead while walk-
ing along the landing in the Imperial Hotel, Dublin, on
Saturday. Medical opinion points to disease of the heart as
the cause of death.
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How far modern sport differs from that of twenty
years ago is strikingly shown in the following conversation
we had on Wednesday morning with a veteran of sixty, who
resides in the north of London :—" Have you been out
lately? ' " Yes ; yesterday morning I rose at six, break-
fasted at seven, Paddington at eight, and Slough at nine.
Had a five mile run, killed a fox at 10 30, and another after-
wards, and back to business in the City at 1.30 I"—Court
Journal.

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"Apropos of !winters' errors, the latest is said to have
been, "In the midst of life we are in debt.' I suspect that
printers are often waggish enough to make intentional
errors and enjoy the fun. When a lady writes sentimentally
about a white butterfly drinking large draughts of beauty
on the hillside, and the printer represents those draughts to
have been of brandy, he la's himself open to suspicion.
Soft hands may be pleasant things to surround one's pillow
when one is ill, but when the waggish printer turns them
Into soft heads, no one is surprised that the illness resulted
fatally."—" Argus " in Land and Water.

An announcement is made that it is proposed to
hold a great north of England convention of the friends of
''religious equality" at Leeds in January next to consider
the relation of the Liberal party to certain great politico-
ecclesiastical questions, to urge upon Liberal leaders the
necessity of at OBCB declaring in favour of disestablishment,
and to promote the better organization of Nonconformists.
About 2.000 delegates are expected.

There were 2,429 births and 1,355 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births exceeded by 35, while the deaths were 32 below,
the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last
ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which
had been equal to 182 and 198 per 1,000 in the two pre-
ceding weeks, was again 1913 The deaths included 4 from
small-pox, 19 from measles, 34 from scarlet fever, 20 from
diphtheria, 40 from whooping-cough, 28 from different forms
of fever, and 45 from diarrho.:a.

The Women'o Rights advocates have succeeded in
pulsing a Bill through the Californian Legislature giving
women the right to practice law in that State; and a Mrs
Clara Foltz has just been admitted to the Bar, the first
female barrister under the new law

An adult female of the Sumatran rhinoceros has
just been received "on deposit" by the London Zoological
Society, and placed in a vacsnt stall in the Elephant-house.
The series on view there now consists of five individuals be-
longing to live different species—four from Asia and one
from Africa, the only known rhinoceros required to com-
plete the set being the white rhinoceros of Africa (Rhinoceros
simus). A floe pair of ostriches have also lately arrived as
a present from the Hon. II C Vivian, Her Britannic
Majesty's Consul-General for Egypt, and two secretary birds
from Mr, C. Rivers Wilson, CB. There birds were
formerly at Cairo, in the collection of the Khedive of
Egypt.

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The wild beast whose ravages in the Pas-de-Calais
have already been noticed continues its work of destruction.
A few nights back it attacked a Bock of sheep near the
wood of Equirre. The shepherd in charge hastened to the
farm of the owner to give the alarm, but when assistance
reached the spot sixty sheep had already been killed, and
the animal had disappeared.
The Mark Lane Express states that good progress
has been made in the preparation of agricultural land for
winter-sowing. In the high districts of Scotland farmers
have suffered severe loss from the recent gales. The results
in England of thrashing have not, apart from quality and
condition, resulted in disappointment.
On. Monday the funeral of the late Sir T. M. Bid-
dulph took place at Clewer, the ceremony being, in accord-
ance with the wishes of the deceased, of a quiet and miosten-
ta.tions character.
Adopting the suggestion of the Earl of Carnarvon,
the Grand Master of Diabons in England, the brethren of the
three lodges in Canterbury have determined to shortly dis•
cout iime bolding their meetings at hotels, and have arranged
for the possession of premises in a central situation, to be
coovertsd into a masouio laid; and club, and to be detoted
exclusivellto the use of members-of the Order.- •

Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal Academy,
died on Saturday morning at his residence, The Lodge,
Melton Mowbray. Be was 75 years of age, had been an
Academician since 1851, and President since 1866. For some
time he had been in failing health.
It is said that the amount of money paid to the
Press by ddvertisers in America exceeds three hundred
million dollars annually.
Now is a good time to buy your winter flannels, for
owing to the depression in the trade, it is a fact that Manchester
and London houses have goods in hand that they are sell-
ing at less than manufacturing price.—" The Tatler " in
Pictorial World.

According to a return just published in Berlin the
foreign coal trade of Germauy appean to be making steady
progress. More German coal is exported from year to year.
At the present time Brazil is in this respect one of the best
customers of Germany.

According to intelligence received at Washington,
the Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Sioux Indians have left the
reservations of Dakota and are moving towards the West,
pronably for the purpose of joining the fugitive Cheyenne
Indians who are reported to have crossed the Union Pacific
Railroad near Ogallala, closely pursued by the Federal
troop?.

It is announced that tbe authorities of Gnadaloupe
have offered a premium of 100,000 f. to the inventor of a
Process to obtain a yield of 14 per cent from sugar cane.
The competition is open until June 30, 1880. It is not for an
improvement on sugar-mills, but for the discovery of a
process bearing upon the yield of tarbinated sugar. All the
expenses of transit, putting up of machinery or implements,
are to be borne by the inventor.

The South Wales and Monmouthshire colliery em-
ployers having suggested to their men the formation of a
permanent relief fund for the benefit of sufferers from acci-
dents, a special delegate meeting has been convened for the
purpose of considering the matter. General approval has
been expressed at the several collieries of the analogous
movement in Northumberland and Durham.

There is an anecdote going the rounds about a
French staff officer who paid a visit to the Horse Guards.
He was told how energetically our Government intended
carrying on war against the Ameer of Afghanistan, and how
the Russians would be fought if need be. "Oh," he
exclaimed, with a alight smile of contempt, "but what,
Monsieur, about the preliminary expenses? will your people
like it ? " The answer was "Sir, your country paid 200
millions for a defeat: ours was,
pay 200 to ensure a victory."
This settled him..—" The Tatler" in Pictorial World.
At Huddersfield a little girl has died from eating a
toadstool which she had mistaken for a mushroom.
The Weser Zeitung mentions that 145 different
schemes for raising the Grosser Kurfilrst have been received
at the German Admiralty. The task will, in all probability,
be intrusted to a picked body of men told off from the
German Navy.

Mr. H. E. Samuelson, 11. P., at .the annual soir4e of
the Frome Liberal Association, spoke at some length con-
ceenLug Cyprus, which he had recently visited. From the
inaccessibility of the island, and, above all, from the Un-
healthiness of the climate, he was of opinion that it was not
likely to be a field for British enterprise or a valuable pos.
session of the British Crown. He did not consider either that
it was valuable in a military or strategic point of view, and
he believed Malta quite sufficient for our purpose.

There are now only two ex-Lord Chancellors of
England—Lord Hatherley and Lord Selborne. By the death
of Lord Chelmsford a pension of £5,000 a year ceases.
The first opening of metropolitan bridges free from
toll, under the Metropolitan Toll Bridges Act, 1877, took place
on Saturday the sth. when Waterloo-bridge and Charing-
cross foot-bridge were opened to the public "free from toll
for ever."

Lord Derby has presented to the Manchester Con-
servative Club three elegantly-bound volumes, the two first
being a copy of the Iliad of Homer rendered into English
blank verse, and the third a series of' Translations of Poems
Ancient and Modern," both works being by the late Earl of
Derby.

The annual meeting of the Amalgamated Society
of Railway Servants concluded at Liverpool on Saturday.
A resolution was passed to the effect that the agitation in
favour of compensation to railway servants for injuries sus-
tained when following their employment be continued, and
that every possible means be used to influence the Govern-
ment to pass a bill next session. Leeds was chosen for the
next annual meeting of the society.

The following was heard at a recent school inspec-
tion :—The inspector asked a pupil what a transparent
object was. "A body you can see through," was the reply.
"Very Very well; give me an example." "A pane of glass, sir.
"Right. Now give me another example. A keyhole, sir."

The death is announced of Lieutenant-General John
Liptrap, of the Bengal Infantry, at the age of eighty•two.
He entered the Indian army in 1818, and served in the first
Burmese war in 1824-25. the Afghan campaign of 1839-40, the
Sutlej campaign of 1845-4 d, in the operations against the
Sonthals in 2805, and daring the Indian Mutiny in 18.57. He
brought back the men of the 45th Native Infantry four dif-
ferent times when they mutinied, and was thanked in
brigade orders for his daring bravery.

Banyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" has been translated
Into servian.

The French Government has decided upon despatch-
ing a very strong fleet into the Mediterranean, and with this
view has detached some of the most powerful ironclads of
the Northern Squadron, and has placed them under the
command of the Admiral of the Mediterranean Squadron.
In addition to despatch boats and smaller vessels, the fleet
will comprise ten armour clad broadside ships, carrying
more than on hundred and thirty guns and six thousand
officers and men.—Wednesday's Standard.

Forty-three Brithl and foreign wrecks were
reported during the past week, making the total for the pre-
sent year 1,082, or a decrease of 182 as compared with the
corresponding week of last year. The property lost was
approximately valued at £670,000, including British £300,000.
The aggregate tonnage was about 9,500 tons.

A meeting of the South Staffordshire Iron Trade
Wages Board was held at Birmingham on Monday, Mr. J.
Chamberlain, M.A.. the president, in the chair. The meet-
ing was called at the instance of the masters for the purpose
of asking the president to devise a further reduction of
wages, the proposal being based on the continued depres-
sion of trade. The workmen objected to any farther reduc-
tion, and contended that their present wages, namely 7s. 64.
per ton, were really as little as it was possible to exist upon.
Mr. Chamberlain said the question appeared to be one as to
whether half a loaf was better than no bread. It was not a
question as to the reduction of wages below the lowest
point, it was a question whether the present exigencies of
the trade required that a further reduction should take
place. He promised to give his decision at the end of the
week.

According to advicea from New York the American
barque Columbia. Captain Dickinson, which In reported to
have left Antigua on the 17th of August for New York. with
a cargo of sugar and molasses, had not arrived at the latter
port, and fears were entertained for her safety. The opinion
was that she had been overtaken by a hurricane, and had
foundered with her crew, which consisted of eight men.

"The fashion in ladfrs' coiffures is to brush the hair
more and more from the neck, so that the modern female
head looks like a Pompeian cameo. Powder is coming into
use again. White powder is not without its charm; the
powders of different colours are less easy to accept. For
instance, last Sunday, at the races at Lonchampsl there
were two ladies, formerly blondes, who appeared with
canary yellow hair. They were very pretty, and so no one
said anything.' —Court Aurnat.
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The proprietors of the Wesley College, Sheffield,
have resolved, by a majority of 36, to continue the use of the
Liturgy of the Church of England in their services.

The death, at Leeds, is announced of Mr. George
Thompson, who first became widely known in connection
with the agitation against slavery in the British colonies, and
by his ardent and powerful oratory contributed largely, not
only to the downfall of slavery, but also to the abolition of
the apprenticeship system. Be took an active part in the
Anti-Corn Law movement, and in the formation of the
British India Association, and in recognition of his efforts in
the cause of abolition in the United States he was accorded
on his visit daring the civil war a public reception in the
House of Representatives, in the presence of President
Lincoln and his Cabinet. Mr. Thompson was at one time
M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, and he died in his 75th year.

A sad boat accident occurred in Cawsand Bay. near
Plymouth, last Saturday. Two shipwrights—Joseph 3Darton
and WWiam Brown—employed in the dockyard, went out
fishing after leaving work, and at about half-past seven the
boat was capsized by a sudden squall. Dalton was drowned.
but Brown clung to the beat, which was full of water, and
about half an hour later he was picked up by some coast-
guardsmen stationed at Cawsand, whose attention was called
by hearing the poor fellow's cries for help. Brown was un-
conscious for two hours ; but by the strenous efforts of the
c,oastguardsmen he was restored.
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In reply to a note addressed to him by the editor of
the Agricultural World, asking him whether he had been
In America, Mr. Gladstone writes —"Sir, I regret to reply—
never. Your obedient servant, W. E. GLDSTONE"
At the dinner of the Royal East Berko Association,
held at Maidenhead, Colonel Loyd Lindsay, Mr., respond-
ing for the army, made allusion to the recent Russo_Turkish
war, and said his hearers would share with him in feelings
of astonishment at the moderation of the Emperor of Russia
and his armies in not entering Constantinople when they
had their hereditary enemy at their feet. He felt equally
grateful to the British fleet for the part which it had taken,
and especially that its object had been accomplished with-
out the loss of a single blue-jacket. He rejoiced that by the
advice of England the Balkans had been made the defensive
line of Turkey. It was gratifying also to observe the respect
which had been paid our plenipotentiaries at the Congress,
but this was no doubt in a large measure due to the fact of
our extensive preparations. Be believed that the same suc-
cess which had attended our efforts at the Congress would
follow us in an Afghan war.
The London hospitals are feeling the effects of bad
trade in the curtailment of subscriptions. A fortnight ago
one of the most popular of the metropolitan institutions sent
out 1 500 letters appealing for Resistance, and up to Friday
last the net result had been two annual subscriptions of a
guinea. This would be a 3ad reflection on tbe generosity of
wealthy London in ordinary times, but it must be remem-
bered that, in addition to depressed trade, the hospitals have
had during the last five weeks to suffer from the diversion
of upwards of £60,000 to meet the wants of the sufferers
through the Thames and Abercarne calamltier.—Echo.
The Bishop of Exeter delivered a special address on
temperance on Monday afternoon to the soldiers quartered
in the Royal Artillery Barracks' Exeter, and, in the course of
his observations, remarked that 99 out of every 100 military
offences were due to drunkenness. Ile strongly urged those
who might feel they were beyond the dangers of drunken-
ness to join the temperance society which it was proposed to
form in the barracks, because their example would be of the
greatest help to others who might be leas able to resist temp-
tation.

A conference of the Oxford Diocesan branch of the
Church of England Temperance Society was held in Reading
Town hall on Monday, under the presidency of the High
Sheriff of Berks. Resolutions were passed in favour of esta-
blishing reading. rooms coffee and refreshment houses, to
counteract the temptations offered by publiohouses and beer-
houses; of providing non-intoxicating drinks for agricultural
labourers; of improving the labourers' cottages ; of the entire
or partial closing of publicheuses on Sundays: and of the
repeal of the Grocers Act. The High Sheriff wai of opinion
that only education would do away with intemperance, and
he advocated the teaching of temperance in all elementary
schools.

A curious phenomenon in the South Pacific is re-
ported by the Plinee Edward hland Farmer. The captain
of a German steamer passing by the island of New Britain on
the New Guinea coast found the north east shores of the
island covered with thick smoke, and had considerable diffi-
culty in passing the strait separating it from New Ireland on
account of the fields of pumice which covered the sea to the
depth of four or five feet. Three craters had opened on a
peninsula formed by the island, and were sending forth con-
tinuous streams of lava, while in White Bay a new island
nearly a mile long sprung out of a depth of eighteen
fathoms. For several days the bay was very hot, and large
numbers of fish and turtles were thrown on shore.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday (fith), in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Earl of
Beaconsfield, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Richmond and
Gordon, the Duke of Northumberland, Mr. Secretary Crop,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks.
Beach, the Right Hon. Colonel Stanley, Viscount Cranbrook,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. W. H. Smith,
and Viscount Sandon. They met at twelve o'clock and re-
mained in deliberation nearly three hours Lord John
Manners is suffering from an attack of gout and was unable
to travel up to London to attend the Council.
Speaking at Portsmouth on Monday night, Mr.
Cowper-Temple, -M.P., referring to the Afghanistan Question,
said the affront which had been offered by that blind, wilful,
barbarous chieftain, Shore Ali, must be atoned for and wiped
out ; and he trusted the wisdom, experience and skill of the
Indian Government, the courage of our soldiers, and the re-
sources of our Empire, would soon overcome this Afghan
ruler.--Mr. 1. C. Bruce, M.P., said the Alneer has been i-
pressed, either by Ole Russians or by the reports which hadf
reached him, with the idea that he haa an opportuuity
bearding the English, and it was for them to tees,b §ehner
was
that he was mistaken The public insult. upon
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wm:eynrty
the outcome of a long-cherished feeling n of t
atruh
to ettect
A rnter. who had been hustlle towards_ us for
That feeling sliouldi eease to exist, and h
he thought he did, end it was b d
tbia Wala to show Shen) Ali that he
zotitclantbttovhdos:nestit!i, orapneerr
out now than to allow it to go on 41.1 cause Increased ennl.-
plications.

The Corporation of Berlin is makiug great prepari.
tiou for a teeth, reeption of the Emperor William on his
return to the capital. The civic authorities have applied to
the Town Council for 50,000 marks for this purpose.
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A dead whale, 25 metres in length, has been found
off the coast at Monterosso, near Genoa.
The Berlin correspondent of the Morning Post states
that the Russian Government has now fully paid the money
advanced to it during the recent war by the ImpArial Bank
The Sultan is stated, in a telegram from Comtantl.
nopte, to have written to the Queen declaring it to be hl,.
intention to inaugurate English institutions in ht a de,
minions.

A telegram in The Times states that Scindiah wrtt`
invested with the order of the Empire of India iu
Durbar at Gwalior on the 21st ult. Many guests were
present. The Maharajah, it is stated, was "gracious and
conciliatory."

Never since the cotton famine has the cotton trade
of Balton and district been in such a depressed state as i;
Is at present. A number of milks are closed altogether.
whilst others are working short time.

A general exhibition of Eurasian produce is to tat:6
place in the first garden of the Kremlin at Moscow in 1880.

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Mr. Whalley, M.P., died on Monday at the Tower,
near Llangollen, after an illness which had extended OTn
several months. Be was 65 years of age, and had represented
the city of Peterborough in the Liberal interest nearly
twenty years.

A rich American has left a large sum of money to
be applied to the construction and maintenance of an hos-
pital for horses. When unfit for service, they are to be
placed in the hospital and taken care of there till they die
of old age. The establishment is to contain fifty inmates,
who are to be chosen from old horses recommended ti their
long services, and the testator leaves a special fund from
wbich their owners, receiving full value, are to be com-
pensated.

An unhappy shoemaker in Schlesaig Holstein finds
himself the father of live children at a birth, an affliction
only partly assuaged by the fact that a public relief com-
mittee has been instituted in his behalf. Persons about to
marry may like to know that, according to carefully pre-
pared statistics, out of ten millions of children born, the
proportions of triplets is 4,000, of quartets 118, of quintets
ihree.—Mayfair.

The Aberdeen carpenters' strike is being continued
with great determination on both sides.

A telegram from Jamaica announces that the negro
rising in Banta Cruz has been put down, and that the ring-
leaders have been captured.

A fresh flying machine has been invented by an
Oregon electrician. The machine is egg-shaped, made of
sheet-iron, measures 8 feet by 5 feet at its greatest diameter,
and is to be propelled by electricity produced by a generator
of 200 horse-power. The inventor declares that electricity
will carry the traveller from New York to San Francisco in
ten minutes.

A banquet has been given in Paris to the f)reign
members of the International Peace Congress. Among
those present was M. de Mercers, the Minister of the
Interior, who, speaking aa a private individual, declared
himself an active fellow-labourer with the friends of peace.
The Italian representative invited the members to meet nest
year in Rome.

Miss Jane Rogers, one of the sufferers in the late
railway accident, after an enforced residence in Sitting-
bourne of Pat over five weeks, was able to undertake the
journey from Sittingbourne to London on Tuesday. lila,
Bogen has been suffering from fractured ribs and general
contusions, and for several days her condition was most
critical. She was conveyed from the "Bull " Hotel, where
she has been staying since the accident, to the railway
station in a brougham, and the London, Chatham, and Dover
Hai way Company provided a special invalid coach for her in
the train. She was accompanied by Dr. Fisher, under
whose care she has been all through, and Mrs. Loesby, of the
London Association of Nurses, 62, New Bond-street The only
sufferers by the late accident now left in Sittinghourne are
Mr. Horton, the invalid gentleman of Rugeley, Staffordshire,
his friend, bin. Warden, of Moseley, Birmingham (who is
quite convalescent), and Frederick Middleton, his valet.
They are waiting until Middleton is in a tit condition to be
removed.

The other morning, shortly before dawn, a police
constable, of Attercliffe, met a large buffalo. He managed
to make it move on to the pound, where it was detained.
During the day one of the Earl of Wharncliffe's keepers
called at the Sheffield police office with the information that
one of his lordship's buffaloes had strayed from Wharncliffe
Chase. The animal was then taken back to its grounds.
In London, on Tuesday night, Sir Charles Reed
read a paper More the Society of Arts on Education at the
Paris Exhibition. There was a hope, be said, that under
men like M. Waddington and M. Jules Simon France would
work up her schools to a higher efficiency. The result of his
observations at the Exhibition was that England had no
right to consider herself at the head of the education of
the world.

In Cheam Parish Church-yard a handsome white
marble monument, surmounted by a cross with figures of
faith and hope, has been placed over the grave of the late
Lieut. Frank Tabor, R.N., who was drowned through the
foundering of the Eurydice.

Shortly before twelve o'clock on Saturday night a
fire broke out on the premises of Mrs. Martha Meilen°, who,
with her son, earries on the business of artist and photo-
grapher, at 180, Commerclal-road, London. The flames soon
had firm hold of the lower_portlon of the premises, thus cut-
ting off all chances of escape. Faces were now seen at the
tipper windows, and soon after Mrs. Malian°, her son, and
the servant got out, and crept cautiously atong the parapet
to the adjoining house, which they reached in safety amidst
loud expressions of satisfaction from the large crowd below.
The fire was not subdued before the whole of the place was
gutted, the damage being estimated at over £l,OOO.

On Monday afternoon Mr. Mundella, M.P., laid
the foundation stone of a Primitive Methodist Chapel at
Newhall, one of the districts of Sheffield inhabited by a
working population. He said he was much struck by the
fact that a task of that kind should have been undertaken
in such a district, at a time when there was a great deal of
distress in Sheffield. Fie could not look around him on the
vast numbers of empty houses without emotion and appre-
hension, and he regretted to Bay that he thought the ooming
winter would not be a very cheerful one. He wished that
some of the noble Christians who were in the town attending
the Church Congress last week had been present at the cere-
mony. The hon. gentleman also wished that the Archbishop
of York or the Bishop of Manchester had laid the stone; and
he hoped the day was not far distant when the various de-
nominations would forget the narrow boundary lines which
divided them, and all Christians would feel that they were
but separate armies marching to one goal, to conquer one
common enemy, and to achieve one grand result.
At Luton, Miss Eliza Jordan, whilst in a state of
somnambulism feU from her bedroom window in the third
storey to the street below, and received such injuries that
she died three hours afterwards. She had previously walked
in her sleep.

An inquest has been held in London, at Guy's Hoe.
pital, touching the death of a man named Thomas Riches,
of Lee, Kent, who was admitted into the hospital suffering
from hydrophobia, alleged to have been caused by the bite
of a dog received two years previously. It was stated that
Riches had fallen down a fatnight ago and had injured his
right arm, and also that the dog in question had not been
seen in a rabid state either at the time or since. Dr.
Chittenden, of Lee, was called in after the man had been ill
a day, and he pronounced it to be a case of hydrophobia
beyond medical aid. One of the house physicians also
stated that the symptoms could only be traced to the bite of
some rabid animal. The jury returned a verdict ef "Death
from hydrophobia."