The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09 00:00:00

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THE EMPRESS EUGENIE'S LIFE ASSURANCE.— It
is well known that the lady who shares the Imperial
throne is as cele'rated for her devotion and her charity
as she is for her beauty. Anxious to benefit &religious
establishment in which sbe takes an int, rest, she a
we ir or two am insured her life to the amount of
£200.000, the premium on which was £.8,C00 a year.
At the close of the first year her Majesty, in spite of
her wardrobe economies, found herself unable to con.
hone her policy to its full amount. The result is, the
god sis:ers will only benefit hereafter to the extent of
half the original bounty, and the insurance companies
are gainers of a good round sum from the first year's
EXPULSION OF ENGLISH LATHES FROM ROME.—
A letter from a correspondent in Romegivea an ace mot
of the expulsion from that city of dm e English ladies,
under ciicurnstances which are said to have excited a
good deal of indignation against the Papal Govern-
ment. On the 24rh ult., the ladies in question re-
ceived a vitit from three gendarmes and a police agent
in private clothes, who made a thorough search of their
lodgings. Two days afterwards they received orders
to quit Rome in 24 hours. Mr. WO R issell anti our
Consul, Mr. S-vern, exerted themselves in the matter,
and Cardinal Anton-11l was communicated with. Toe
Pope himself was appealed to, but all in vain. At the
xpiration of 48 hours, a respite of 24 hours having
been obtained. two of the ladies left Items and went
to Naples. The other has resolved not to leave until
actually compelled. A rumour that the ladies had
been engaged in distributing unauthorised Italian
Bibles is emphatically contradicted. No reason
whatever for the expulsion appears to have been given.
It is thought that the order proceeded from the Pope
hhreelf.

A TdREATZNISIO Lt TT:tit CAPE.—Great indig-
nation has been excited at Ashton-under-Lyne, by a
threatening letter which has been received by Mr.
Whittaker, cotton manufacturer, of that town. The
letter informs Mr. Whittaker that the writer is
irresistibly forced, "by the devil or some other infernal
creature from the dark regions," to murder him. Mr.
Whittaker is very popular with his workpeople, of
whom he employs several thousands, and no cause for
the threat is known. The managers and workpeople
in his service have offered a reward of £5O for the
discovery of the writer of the letter.
Emtoll tTION OF DcstiT E LADll.—The follow-
ing letter will be read with interest: --
"Upwards of 100 respectable farmers In Canada have
applied to hire one boy each for a year, at the usual rate of
wages, with board and lodging in the loudly. This is a great
opening for procuring employment for our destitute lads,
but funds are required to pay for their p utsage and outfit to
enable us to avail ourselves of this opportunity of giving
them A start in life. The cost will be about klo for each
boy. We have now upwards of 1.0) noys in this refuge and at
our farm school at Insley, and I am most anxious to send
from 80 to 100 of then. to Canada this sprii,g, where their
labour is so much needed; and If this can be done it will
give us the means of rescuing a sitoilar number from the
streets of this gre 4 els, by receiving them into the refuge.
TAUS a twofold good will be done. Will you kindly permit
nie to appeal for help to send these lads to Cawida, where
employers are waiting most eagerly to employ them.-1 am,
sir, v our obedient servant, WSt WILLIAMS —BOya' Refuge,
8, Great Queen-street, Lincolu's-inmnelda."

•
BROWN° AB,Coti tile 0 Mat.UFACTURERS B ,Clt
—A very extraordinary scene was witnessed at
Batley, near Dewsbury, last Saturday night, the occao
sionbeing the bringing back in custodyof two brothers,
E lward and Joseph Gale, who, having defrauded their
creditors to a very large amount fled to the United
States. The brothers carried on business as woollen
manufacturers at Batley up to February last, their
operations being on &tolerably extensive scale. Having
resolved upon flight they got in all the accounts they
coul I, made excuses to pressing creditors, and got large
advances upon bills of sale executed upon the
maohinery in the mill they rented and their house-
hold furniture. On the 10th of February they gave
checks in payment of some of the largest accounts they
owed, but dated thou two days torward, and them,
having drawn out their balance at the hank, they
levanted together, and were not missed for a couple of
days, when, on the checks being presented at the hank
thee tehiee answered that there were "no effects." On
inquiry being made at the various ports it WN. ascer-
tained that the brothere bad embarked at Liverpool
in the Palmyra, for Boston, under aseumed names.
Warrants were obtained for their apprehension,
which, by sending a message through the Atlantic

Cable, was effected on the arrival of the vesseL A
West Tiding inspector of police was aLso despatched
after them, and on Saturday he brought them back to
Batley. An immense crowd awaited the arrival of the
culprits at the railway station, and hooted and yelled
at them vigorously. & large sum of money, estimated
by the brothers at £759, and by the creditors at more
than twice that amount, is missing. The prisoners
say it wan taken out of a carpet bag when on board the
Palmyra.
Mn. BRIGHT AND THE GOVERNMENT. The
Birmingham Post of last Saturlay says :

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Various rumours have been set afloat that it Is the Inten-
tion of air. Bright to resign the Presidency of the B nOt of
rrade, and to retire from the Government. We have the
he reason for sa)ing that no decision on the suiiject has
been come to. It off,idi ua sincere pleasure to state that,
since his tesideLce at Brighton, the right hon gentleman's
health has conahierably improved; and though an early re.
turn to parliamentary 'alumni is not to be looked for, yet
Mr. Blight Is again able to take an interest in the progress of
public affairs.

A Q BEE. CAPVIRE.—WhiIe fishing off Kinsale
Harbour one night last week. the nets belonging to
one of the boats were Budded:ly found burdened by
sonie huge weight, awl on hauling them in the fisher-
men discovered that a fish of gigantic size had entangled
himselt in the meshes, and was dragging and splashing
within until he had suffocated himself in the folds or
the net. When dead the brute was towed into harbour
with infinite difficulty end hauled up upon the beach
at Silly, where the carcase now lies. It was found to
be a species of shark with much id the nature of the
sun-fish, which the sailors call a basking ebark. The
monster is ta rue 20 feet in len4th, of immense girth
round the body, and weighing several tone. The
capture was an unwelcome one inasmuch as though the
oil to be obtained from the liver will probably be with
£2, the shark in his struggles to escape from the nets
did them considerably more damage than would be
compensated for by this sum.
M A.TRIMoNIAL CHANCES. •••••• (From the Man-
ehreer Examiner):—

" A gentleman, middle.seed, wishes to meet with a lady,
about the same, who desires a comfortable atartner.—
Addteat D G., Post °Mee, Paudleton."

A gentleman, of good family and connections, wishes
to corresivmd with a lady with a view to matrimony ; some
means indispensable ; sceptionable references given and
required —Address, enclosing carte, in strict contliit Ac.

" A gentleman (widower), Iln children. 28, alth .e. 25,1 $3 ear,
independent, swishes to correspond with a lady, not over 23,
single or widow, with a view to marria,e ; some accomplish
meat and respeciabdey indispensable; money no , bj,ct ;
enclose carte, returned if requested; this is strictly honour-
able. —A. :dress."

FINE WrilTlNG!—The following is the latest
fashion of reporting a fire :—" The sky was clear and
unclouded, and the stars shone quietly down, but their
pearly light grew faint and feeble in the wild glare
that shot and palpitated in and about the burning pile.
The tall old lime; stripped of their garniture of leaves,
stood nakedly iiut in the fitful glare like the grizzly
terror of the Norland Scalds. The building itself—it
seemed in very truth
A ,burgeon horrible on aq aides round,
Al one great furnace flamed.'
Hungry tongues of tire burst through the windows and
roof, dancing along in mad delight, charring the wood
and stone with their hot and cruel breath, and spitting
forth showers of sparks into the air, and out upon the
ancient lime-trees, clothing their limbs and branc‘ies
with a coruscation of fiery powder, and, like the
voluptuous lips of pleasure, as the fable tells us,
breathing destruction in their burning kiss !"
SoMEWHAT ECCENTRIC !—At the Central Crimi-
nal Court, in London, Samuel Balcomb, aged twenty,
recently a clerk in the Admiralty, pleaded Guilty
to an indictment charging him with stealing a number
of books, a reading-lamp, and a chamelion top, belong-
ing to Messrs. Smith and Son, newsmen and books
seders.— Mr. Poland, who appeared for the prosecution,
maid the prisoner had ceased to be a clerk in the Ad-
miralty, having been called upon to resign at the time
the offences in question were committed, and it was a
feature in the case that several boys —he believed no
lens titan five—had been discharged from the employ-
ment of Messrs. Smith on suspiei in of being concerned
in the thefts in respect of which the prisoner had now
pleaded guilty. Mr. Poland added that, on the pri-
soner being appreuentled, up garde of 100 books were
tiveu up by hiin or found at his residence, which
Messre. Smith had missed from their book-stall at
o.4ring-cross Railway-station at different times. Mr.
Smith (the counsel for the defence) addressed the Court
in mitigation of punishment, and called witnesses to
bhow that up to this aff air the prisoner, though peculiar
ai,d somewhat eccentric, had borne an irreproachable
character, and that his friends were pereous of the
highest reepectalary. The Recorder sentenced the
prisoner to six months' inapriAontneut.

A Tll:hir'ti POLTRY.—A young female had her
rsticule stolen from her arm the other day, in London.
The baz contained only a c,mple of keys and a letter,
which being deemed of n use to any but the owner,
were, a few days afterwasdi (without the reticule),
returned by the "London Parcels Delivery Company,"
and safely reache 1 their destination, accompanied by
the following lines:—

" Dear madam I send
ity the kid of a trend,
Aid the cart oi the L. P. D. C.,
A couple of keys,
For thin, such 149 these
Are of httle or no use to me.
"1 trust you'll excuse
The p or rhy me which I use,
But believe me, my deed. Mrs. W—n,
'Twos to save you the bore
Of Bursting the door,
So hope you'll forgive me—ELrEsgrs.'

&WOKING OCCIIRRIINCE.—A child named Alice
ttes, azed six years, died on Sanday at the Sheffield
General Infirmary, from the rffsets of injuries received
under peculiarly distressing circumstances. It appears
that deceased and her little brother, a child only one
year and nine months old, were left together on Satur-
day earring whilst their mother went out on business.
The little girl was lying on the hearth-rug, when the
boy, who was barely tall enough to reach to the
table, took a lighted candle from it and set fire to his
sister's clothing. The poor child, on finding her clothes
on fire got up and rushed into the street, where a man
wrapped her up in his great coat and extingniehed the
flames. She was at once conveyed to the Infirmary,
bue, as stated above, she died horn the effect cf her in-
juries on Sunday evening.
ECCENTRIC FUNRRAL.—On Saturday afternoon
a rood funeral was pert, rim d at the rime ntic village
of Eutwisd-, near Bolton. It was that of a gentle-
man named John Rarlow, a large landed proptietos,
whose place of abode was Lower Crow Trees. In
obedience to his express wish, the deceased gentleman
was int. reed in a newly-constructed vault in a field on
the Entwistle-hall estate- The body was carried to
the grave, a distance of a quarter of a mile from the
house. by eight villagers, and several hundred persons
assembled to witness the ceremony. At the grave.
trite a temporary pulpit and platform, draped in black
cloth, had been constructed. Full choral service was
performed by the choir of the Independent chapel, in
the neighbouring village of }Acworth, and the minister
who t fficiatxd was the Rev. George Dunn, pastor of
that chapel. The deceased gentleman was 52 years of
age. and was remarkable for his eccentricity. Though
posietssed of immense wealth, he worked on his farm
like an ordinary labourer, and disdained not to wear
the fustaiu cord common among the operative classes.
The field in which he was interred he has given as the
mite If a tionconformi-t ,ichool chapel, and he has also
male a bequest of £3OO towards the buildinr fund, as
well as the stone requisite for the chapel, lie has left
a widow and three cnildren.

NOT A NaW I nne.—lt is interesting to learn,
from the preface written by M. Alexandre Dumas Ms
to accompany " L'Ami des Femmes" in the new and
complete edition of his dramatic works, the precise
part in society which the woman M. Dumas Ms loves
to paint is destined to !lay (remarks the Poll-Mall
Gazette.) M. Dumas file looks upon her as the natural
foe of large fortmars, as the providential destroyer of
the idle man. The idea is not new, knee, like every
id...sof importance in the contemporary social literature
of France, it is to be found in Baln.c. There is muchi
that is new, however, in M. Dunadepresentation of the
idea.
She does what she has to do (he says) without knowing
what she does. She has her misdon to fulfil, for nothing
happens in human affairs hut in virtue of a law. her
mission is to destroy in existing society the being who has
destroyed all past societies—the idle man. Look atten-
tively, and you will see that she marks him out among all
with that animal Instinct which chooses in nature the one
suitable aliment. Let her be thin; I could almost say,
Let us edbourage her.' She helps a class of men Who
have no right to live to perish gaily. She spares the mail of
labour and action the last task which he had to ac-
complish, the execution of the useless man. She
devours inheritances, so that afterwards new inheritances
have to be built up through lahmr. he makes of
her victims and of herself the manure of which the social
sod has need for its mysterious germs. When there to
,nothing more for her to devour she wit die of inanition
and will disappear, to be reproduced again in soother form.
lier woik will be at an end. She will have destroyed our
antbroviourohs—that is to say, beinga who, having only
the form aid outward setnlilaisce of man, must dwsppear
(rim a world in which the true man, the divine man, is m.on
to arise sod to reign. she Is like the crows of Normandy,
who hover in black crowds at the hack of the plough as it
traces its furrow, and who eat up the little worms that, left
to themselves, would eat up the corn, bet who no more
attack the hibmrer than the lab auer kills them.

Tux "CITY OF BoaroN."—A telegram headed
"Supposed View of the City of Bost,n" was published
on Saturday, dated the Ist of April, and purporting to
be sent to the Secretary of Lloyd's by a Mr. Hartney,
of Kilkee, to the effect that on the previous evening
Mr. Hartney and two ether gentlemen saw a long,
large steamer passing the Bay of Kilkee, towards the
Shannon, from the mirth, without main or nrizen mast
standing, but having a foremast with all sails set, and
a funnel, wit'sout smoke, at a great distance from the
foremast. We are authorised to state that no steamer
has been seen off Ktikee answering to the description
of the City of Bomton. The steamer seen was probably
the gunboat Imogene, which has been off Kilkee, and
the commander of which reports that he saw nothing
when passing Kilkee.
THE EXECUTION OF A WRIT IN A ROYAL PALACF.
—lnthe Housed Lord rr,on Monday, judgment was given
in the case of her Bajer-tv's Attorney-General, plaintiff
in error, and Thomas Bakis, Robert Begley and others,
defendant,' in error. Dd, was an appeal iu which the
qusstiou to he decided was whether Hampton Court
Palace is a Royal Palace or not, said whether a writ
could be executed within its precincts. The Lord
Chancellor contended that the judgment of the Court
below, which decided this question in the negative,
should be reversed. There was no reason, he urged,
that Hampton Court should Oct be made available for
the residence of Her Majesty. There was a Royal
chapel is it, in which service was regularly performed,
and a guard of honour was always in attendance.
Lord Chelmsford differed from the Lord Chancellor,
aod Lord Colonsay concurred with Lord Cheluist rd
The judgment of the Court below wai accordingly
affirmed.

A. SAD SCENE IN A COIIIIT OF JCSSICE.—The
melancholy spectacle was presented the other day in
the Court-house of Fullamore, of a brother and sister—
Laurence and Margaret Lynch—standing at the bar
to receive sentence of death. They had been convicted,
on very convincing evidence, of the murder of a man
earned Dunne, near Philipstown, on the 26. h of
February. Dunne had been instrumental in procuring
the conviction of a brother of theirs, whodied in prison,
some years ago, and in reveoge they waylaid an !
Hoot Lion afror beating him i•evorrly etonea—
female apparently taking as active a part in the deed

AR the male prisoner. The jury recommended them to
mercy, for no better reason than "that they were
aggravated by the death of their brother." They were
sentenced to be executed on the 26th of May. that
distant date being tixed to allow time for the conat-
deration by the Court of Cr Inlaid appeal of a legal
poiift raised by the prisoner's counseL When the Lord
Chief Justice put on the black cap, the scene in court
1
was mcbt affec:ing, several women shrieking wildly.
As the judges were returning to town a stone was
thrown at the railway carriage in which they eat, which
broke the window, but fortunately did no injury.
ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST THE " PORC
PINE."—On Friday. at the Liverpool ANdii,A, the CIVIP
Regina v. Hugh Shinimin," in which a criminal in-
formati in had is-en tiled a..ainst, the defendant, the pr.
prietor and publisher of the Porcnpine, and had been
sent down by the Court of Queen's Bench, was heard
before Mr. Justice Brett and a special jury. The case
has excited considerable interest in mercantile circles
in Liverpool, the complainant upon whom the alleged
libel was published being a merchant and shipowner in
that town. Sir John Karewre, for the prosecul ion,
,tated tla the libel was published in the For-spice
after an inventigstion, which was held in Liverpioi, by
din ction f the Board of Trade, into the loss of the
Golden Pace, which had resalied from some of her
coal bunkers being left open. The article which ap-
peared in the Porcupine was headed, 'Marine Coal
Scuttling, ' and gave sarcastic instructions how to
scuttle over insured ship.; amongst other plans teens
Coned, the one which resulted in the loss if tne Golden
Fleece. The vessel was not mentioned by name, but
the prosecutor held that the allusion was obvious and
notorious. This was denied on the part of the defence,
and after the examination of a number of witnesses
and a very long trial altogether, the jury at once re-
turned a verdict of guilty. Sir John Kerslake asked
his lordship if he would grant a certificate if it was
found necessary. His Lordship replied that he would
grant whatever certificate might be found necessary.

THE "PANNIER" STSTEM.—According to the
Builder. there is every prospect of our shortly being
conveyed from one place to another in a novel and
pleasing fashion. A new arrangement for railways, it
is etatrd, will shortly come before the public under I he
title of the Pannier ev4tuul. A single row of piles
carries a continuous girder 011 which the train rune, the
carriazes hanging down in each silts to within a short
distance of the ground. The carriages are so arrauged
that ild-quallty of weight on one side to the extent of a
ton will not silent the action. The small quantity of
land riquired, doeapness of construction, and speed are
advantages claimed for it.
_

Sin FRANCIS AND MR. JOHN CROSSLF.T.—SIT
Francis Co ashy, M.P., has not only liberally offered
to wive £lO,OOO towaids the erection of a newinfirmary
at Halifax, to which town he a few years ago pre-
Mented a public park, but be has offered a gift of
VOOOO towards a loan fund to assiA men and
women of good character in that town, of which he is
a native. Mr. John Crossley, the brother of Sir
Francis, has come forward in all of convalescent
patients from the present Halifax Infirmary, by ider-
ing to pay the entire exit of the sojourn of twenty of
such patients at Southport, Buxton, or other places
recommended by the medical staff of the institution
THE FEILTiLITY OF JAMAICA.—Through the
Botanic Gardens, Sir I'. Grant has been introducing
various plants and trees with a view to their sebum,
t zation in Jamaica. The last number of the Official
Gazette contains an interesting report -en the result of
the various attemota which have been made during the
past few years. Tie most important success achieved
is undoubtedly that in the cultivation of cinchona
(quinine). Only fifteen months have elapsed since the
twit permanent planting out of this valuable drug.
The plants, which, on being taken from their pots ave-
raged from six to eight itches high, in five months at-
tained a height of from four to six feet. Forty acres are
already under cultivation • and in spite of a long
custinued drought and high winds, the condition of
the whole plantation more than fulfils the best hopes
of the botanic superintendent. Next in order of suc-
cess have been the results obtained from the introduc-
tion of nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, and black pepper
plants ,• some of which are beginning to be extensively
cultivated by private individuals. Neither the coffee
plants, Assam tea plants, nor madder seeds have as yet
answered the expectations of the Government ; but,
on tie other hand, an attempt to grow Latakia
tobacco and China grass, the latter one of the most
vallable fibrous plants as yet known, has been re
warded with so much success that an organized effort
to introduce its cultivation on a large scale is about to
be wade.
SOMNAMBULISM EXTRAORDINARY.—The Arch-
bishop of Bordeaux thus describes a case of somnam-
bulism in a young priest, and says "Ile was in the
habit of writing sermons when asleep." We are
sure, from the somnific style, many English clergymen
do the same.

A CLMIOTHLE SUPPOSED TO HAVE lEEE
POISONED.—An inquest has been held at Upper
Holloway, Lot.dori. respecting the death of the Rev.
James Rnthetford Dickinson. aged 59. Mrs. Dickinson
said she was the widow of the deceased. He was a
clsrgyman and curate to Mr. Cadman, of sfarylebone,
and was doing duty. On Wednesday in last week,
he brought home some medicine with him, and about
half pant two in the afternoon took a dose and &second
about kis o'clock in the evening. It was a cough
mixture of which he had taken. He became insensible
and died before medical assistance could arrive. The
c corer inform, d the jury that the deceased gentleman
Sad been attended by two medical gentlemen, from
whom he had rec dyed a notice of ih.ir suspicion that
the deceased had taken an overdose of an opiate
medicine, and on caused his death. A certificate was
refused. Dr. George Outhwaite Spencer was called
to the dt ceased, and found him dead. A subsequent
examination nf the body showed that the brain was
congested, that the deceased suffered from bronchitis
and that the cause of death was a feeble and fatty
degenerated heart. By the Coroner.—The death was
not dun to an overdose of opium, neither was it from
apoplexy. Witness did not analyse the medicine
which deceased had been taking, ss the cause of death
was very apparent. Verdict— Death from natural
causes.

"lion FALUTIN."—The Madras A themrum
gives the following specimens of Madrassee English:—

ex-school-master. petitioning for a clerkship, promises
that '• 1 and my family will ever cease to pray to toe humble
Almighty to shower his blessings on you la. ever and ever."
Another, begging for an Increase of salary on account of the
rise In prices, says :—" my pain and sufferings are impeach-
able, and lie only in the Comprehension of gentlemen of your
honourable disposition, rew y to even your bowels of com-
passion to sympathise with the afflicted, and by extending
your gracious hand to shoulder them from the civil darts of
this near city." A third makes the following excuse for
absence Please excuse attending ottice to-day, as my
grandmother despatched lice life and want to go to tiring
place to see b .dy tired and ashes put in the hole" A clerk,
complaining of "lever and grapes," requests a day's leave,
as he is "unit rtunately ill by blessing ot God."

GiCEAT PeOTFSTANT CONFERENCF..—A great pro-
testant Conference will be held at New York in the
ensuing autumn, mid a meeting will shortly be held in
London for the purpose of makiog the arrangements
for the Conference more widely known. An English
committee has been organised, of which Lord Alfred
Churchill is the chairman, and General Alexander the
vice chairman. Several members of the House lif
Commons have accepted invitations to attend the Con-
ference, and the list of clergymen and ministers who
are alai likely to cross the Atlantic iiiciudes Dr Lind-
say Alexander, Pr ,fepnor Bluokie, Professor Dounla,
Canon Freemautle, 1.), an Weetc.ftt, the Rev. Samuel
Martin, Dr. Jolson, President of the Wesleyan Con-
ference ; the R. W. Dale. the Rev. E. Hoare, Vicar
of Tunbridge Wello, and Dr. Cairns. The Deans of
Canterbury and Chester will contribute papers to be
read at the meetings.

TITS IitSITLT OF GAMBLING.—PIay has this
last week been producing its fruit at Monaco. One
player has shown the world that he has brains—by the
means of a pistol. He was an ex artist of the Italian
Opera. Another did the like, and the third put the
fruit in the right place—namely, on the I ra luh of a
tree. This is the style in which the matter is iecorded
—a mere pleasantry! All the world went to see the
place from which the last man went on his way, and
toga prices Were given by players who believe in charms
as lucky for a bit of the curd with which the man
hanged. A pity they could not some of them have
been obliged with the whole length ; they might then
have cleared the moral atmosphere a little.
THE EMPRESS EUGENIF.'B DIAmoNDE4.—TIIe
Empress has never danced since the death of her vi•tter,
the Duchess of Alba; but she appears in the ballroom,
on a dais prepared for her, where she remains. sur-
rounded by her ladies ' • and it is at such times that a
few foreigners of rank and other distinguished persons
are presented to her by the Lord Dhaniberlain. The
dresses which appear on this dais are really the al plus
ultra of elegance and costliness. Who could count the
number of millions f diamonds and other precious
stones collected in that small apace? Tne toilette oi
the Empress herself is, it not always the most costly,
(the Baroness Rothschild, for instance, often has the
whole body of her dress studded with diamond.,) yet
always the most elegant there. At one court ball she
wore a white sattu dress embroidered with gold, the
blonde flounces looped up with ainehysts, a diadem of
amethysts on her ht ad, and her necklace and bracelets
of the same stones. Nothing more lovely or more
charming had ever been seen, and an "rah" of astontsh-
ment escaped from a thousand lips.—Sketcho of Modern
Paris.

WOMEN Docroas IN RCISSIA.—It is stated that
the Ruesian Government has announced that women
will hereafter be admitted to medical schools and to
medical practice. The origin of this concession is
remarkable. Formerly it was found that the Co:sacks
objected to being attended by male physicians. On in-
vestigation it was discovered that they held a super-
stition concerning all diseases, and that their only
ideas of remedial agents related to the incantations,
charms, and holy herbs administered by witches. For
ages the with had been their physician, and the
tradition Was ao erring that a few years ago, when
some ladies applied to the Government for admi eion
to the chief medical school of S. Petersburg, a few of
them were admitted on cond.tam that they would
pursue their practice among the Cossacks.
Dean! OF A WATLRLOO VnTERAN.—James
Joy, of Haddingtonsterrace, Acton, a pensioner of the
Ist Life Guard:, died on Thursday in last week. He
was born about the year 1790, and at the age of seven-
teen was balloted into one of the militiaregiments then
existing in Yorkshire, and was very soon afterwards
drafted into the let Life Guards, in which regiment he
served with a first-class character for twenty-eight
years. Besides being in the battle of Waterloo, where
he fought at the right hand of the celebrated Shaw, he
was engaged in the battle of Toulouse and also in th,
Peninsular war, for which medals were awarded him.
fttr leaving the army he obtained an appointment as
park keeper at 11-gent's Park, which he retained for
26 years. Ile has einCe lived at Acton. It is said he
WALK the last of the troopers of the Ist Life Guards woo
fought at Waterloo. He leaves a wife and son to
mourn his loss. The son, like the father, has seen a
great deal of servics. He Was one of few of the
gallant six hundred (immortalised by Tennyson) who
escaped with life out of the unfortunate charge of
Balaclava.

SHOOTING A BURGLAR—The man Frederic
Soliey. who, it will be remembered, was shot at by
Mr. Francis Philips. of Lee Priory Mansion, near
Comte. bury, a magi,t, ate for the county of Kent, wilen
endeavouring to make Rid escape after committing a

burglary, underwent an examination at St. Ansuatine
Sesstuirhouse on Saturday, upon the charge of bus
glary. Tee primner, who flille9 the own ranee ha
been an inmate of the Kent and Canterbury Respite I
appeared to be still in a weak state of health, and we
allowed to sit during the hearing. Some formal evi-
d, nee having been a 'duct d, Mr. Phillips stated that
when artprised by his servants of thieves bring in the
house he took a doublemarrelled gun, which he kept
loaded in his bed.room, into the court yard, and din.
charged its contents at a man whom he believed he
saw running away after having come through the
indow of a larder, which be was previously informed
had been broken into. 0, her ,e-tiuniny was adduced,
,howiug ih it prop. rty tit Mr. lhill.le. sva,,
found near the spit where the prisoner was found
tuaim-d, and the magiatrates committed him for trial
on the charge of burglary. Mr. Montagu Williams
conducted the prosecution.

LIGHT SOVICRi(IG.sS.—As the Government may
soon have to direct its attention to the question of
the liAt gold coin in circ.ilation, it may he noted
that, anvortling to the London Gct:ctte of the 31st of
July. 1773, the Bank of Eigiand gave notice, at the
apt.'si of the Lords of the rreasury, that any quan-
tity of guineaa (cut and defaced agreeably to an Act
then just passed), not lewi than fifty in a paicel, would
he received there, until further notice, at the rate .4
£3 178. 141. per ounce. At the present time the
Bank rsceives any amount of light sovereigns, but
pays for the same at the rate of £3 17s. 6.1. an ounce
only, which must obviously discourage binkers and
railway companies from cutting their light. coin and
selling it for bullion. Hence the Act for cutting and
defacing coin under the current weight is rendered
almost inoperative. By the above arrangement, it is
c...lonlated, the Bank makes a clear profit of from 33.
to 43. an ounce—Pall Mal Gazette.

AN AMEMCAN ELuPENENT. —A young grocer
named Rose, carrying on business in Newark, in New
Jer,ey, has accomplished what is probably the most
remarkable elopement on record. The other day he
shut up his shop rather earlier than usual, and hiring
a cab, drove to the nvst street and bore away Eve ,tne
young and pretty wife of Adam Oese. He then drove
on one street further and from one of the houses came
another young and pretty woman, Mrs. John Llnyd.
The three, with an immerse array of baggage, went
immediately to the railway station, and started for
the West. Mrs. Lloyds husband was keeping out o
the way on account of one or two forgerbs. but Adam
started in baste after his Eve, and captured the guilty
trio at Pittsburg. That a man should run away with
the wife of another is, unfortunatkly,k. very intelligible
proceeding; but that this Rose shoult care to•place
nim,wif between two thorns is only to be excedi.d iu
marvel by the fact that the two women had no objec-
tions to the arrangement.

Tex Sfikl2l. U.'CL —The following ease is re-
lated of military severity :

A colonel of a regiment -asked his nephew to dinner, the
latter having just j dtied the regiment. When dinner wee
over and the young man was leaving, he conducted him to
the door very politely, closed it upon his nephew. and then
called him back with a ekve, tone, saying, "Where have you
been to, sir?" " Why, uncle "Don't call me uncle, ray
colonel"' Well, colonel, dining with you" " And who
cave you leave—your captain, sir?" "No, colonel." "Wei
then, consider yourself under arrest for the day.'

A CAME NOT PauVIDNO FOR.—The Bankruptcy
Act of 1869 provides that when a body of creoitors
meets to decide whether an estate shall be liquhlated
by arrangement, or pass through the BAniiruotey
Court, any binding resolution must he come to by a
majtrity in numbers representing three-fourths of the
amount owing by the debtor. In a came which came
betore the court on Saturday, however, it was reported
that while the majority in number were in favour of
liquidation, a few cred.tors, representing the larger
portion of the amount owing, wished the matter to go
into bankruptcy. As the Act had not provided for
such a contingency, no resolution could be come to.
Arm' PATHETiC ! —The Court Journal is res-
ponsible for the following:—

The Rev. E. L—t, who resided some years at Hampton
Court, hail an old parishioner and communicant whom be
had been stinting duriog a alert illness. At last the ioedizal
attendant called and informed Mr. L—t that the old man
was dying, whereupon he immediately went to him to ad-
mii.lqer the sacrament, after which he to'd the old Melee
wife that her husband would not live long, and that If theta
was anythieg she wished to say to him she had better do it
whilst be was able to understand her. She iiumediate4 went
to his bedside and said, "John, Mr. L-'--t says y.. 11 are
going to die. I wish when poi go to heaven you'd look out
fir say first hushatid, and tell him I've been doing pretty
well eta' he left me, an' I often wish I might tee him again."
The old man turned his eyes upon his wife with a oepre-
caring expression, and raising Mtn. If a little, he replied,
" Ltd he p thee, Me,ry, how clout thee think that. 'tired
and Warn as I be, I can go raunging all over heaven to find
thy first husband t"

BABE LS RUMOURS.— A report which appeared
recently in the columns of an evening costempura-y,
and in which the name a an illustrious personage was
introchici d, has, we are happy to say, been cuntrauic Led
and apologised for."--1 he 2'imea

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SUICIDE OF A COMMERCIAL GENTLEMAN.—On
Monday morning a case of cuisine, which caused
nomli excitement in the neighbourhood of Great
Ducienstreet, Strangeways, Manchester, was die.
covered to have taken Mane in Bebbington'e Com-
mercial Hotel. Fir some days past a middle-aged
gentleman, named Schofield, who resided at Bury, had
been staying at the hotel, and as he failed to stlapear
at his usual time on Monday morning a waiter wout up
to his bed-room, the door of which wan loe'red, and
knocked several times, but got no answer. The waiter
rept a'ed his visits during the morning up to eleven
o'clock, and having failed to get any answer to his
Immling, and susnectiog that there NV.. SO Wed] ill g
wrong he obtained the services of a police conetahle,
who forced open the door of the bed-room, on entering
which they found the unfortunate gentleman lying
near the bed, quite dead. Medical gentletne n were
coiled in, and it was found that tee deceineal bitt
111,wn out his brains by at plying a small pistol to his
right eye, the bones of the orbit of which were cam-
pletely shattered.
THE FFNIAIS BROTHERHOOD IN AMERICA.—
(From the New York Trtintne, March 22).—The Council
of the Fenian Brotherhood of which Mr. John Savage
is Chief Executive, ham prep aced an address, which nays
in substance that financially the Brotherhood is grow-
ing stronger, and the Council is confident that the
grand object of Fenianism will be attained finally;
that the policy in regard to the supiort of the I. It.
B. and their operations Call never be changed ; nor can
the Brotheriao. id or any of itd4 members ever j in any
organizttion or man in an attack on Canada, or on
auy other territory on this side of the Atlantic, except
with the consent of tie United States ' • that the
organization as now constituted shall never be dissolved
until tire object of Fenianisre shall have been fully
attained ; that every concession made by the British
Ministry to Ireland proves that England has been in
the wrong and Ireland in the right. The supreme
desire of every Binh nationalist, the addrens slitting, is
to restore peace. prosperity, and happiness to his
country, that national BA: Vatioll can never be achieved
except through self -government, and that this cannot
be attained until Ireland shall be no longer subject to
Great Britain.

BINGULAR TRESPASS BY A RAILWAY COMPANY.
—Msjor Robinson, who resides at Osmondthorpe
Hall, near Leeds, brought an action, wmch was tried
at the Leeds Ass zes no Monday, against the Nor,h
Eastern Railway Company, for invitee. Tne L-tds
and Selhy branch of the Company de cribes a curve
along the plaiutifi's park wall, and is Novetuber la-t it
appeared that the view f the signals on the line
there was interfered with by ems timber in the
psrk. Msj ir Robinson intimated his readiness to enter
into negotiations ninni the matter, but next day was
astonished to learn that the trees had been cut down,
including five—which did not come near either the iine
or the signals—destroyed. The defence was that the
men who cut down the trees had misunderstood their
Instructions. The jury found for the plaintiff, &wages
E3OO.

THE SIN OF DANCING A REEL—A correspou
deut vouches for the folhoviug

An elder, who is also precentor, in a Free Church not fifty
miles from Inverness, lately attended the martheie of his
eldest son, and in the evening Hued the young couple mid
others in datcing in a reel by way of leading off the dniice.
This coming to the ears ii the other riders of the chard,
trey held a concleve, to which David wee summoned Ile
made a full confession, and has been mnpeuiled from his
office of precenter for thrte calendar mouth. David has
ben elder and precentor for twenty end 11. So much the
more rea,on, argued the kink session, why he ought to kaow
better than to make merry at his son's marriage!

A HoMIS THRUar.—The Congressional animus
in regard to the army was well seen and well rebuked
in a conversation between au officer and a Congre«a-
man touching the relative value of the errs ices of each
to the country. In answer to re..sons why the pay
should not be reduced the Congressman said, " Why,
we can get plenty of men to ttke your place for 30
dollars a month.' " Yes," replied the officer,
we can get plenty to take your place for the stealinge."
I s DIAN COURTS AND POLYGAMY. A very
curios case has recently come bef re the Civil Court at
Lucknow, in India (rays the Solicitors' Jouroal). A
Mahomedi-n husband instituted a suit for the restitu-
tion of conjugal rights. The wife pleaded that ale
had renounced the Mahnmedan religion and become a
Christian, and that thereby the Mahomedan tuarziage
was cancelled and the husband's riAts ceased. The
Judge decided in favour of the plaintiff. The ewe,
which is exciting great interest in India, will doubt«
less be appealed, and may not improbably come before
the Privy Conned. It is noticeable that although
the English Probate Court does not recognise a
polygamous union ("Hyde v. Hyde and Woodman.
see." 14 W. It. 517), the Privy Council, as the Court
of Aviieal from India, does. Hindoo as well as Ma-
hornedau marriages may be polygamous, and it is some.
what curious that a Ilindoo man c scoot be prosecut«d
for bigamy although a Hindoo woman eau, and that a
ltdahouiedan can only be prosecuted for bigamy if,
having four wives living, he marries a fifth.
A BRITInII SEA CAPTAIN SE NI ENDED TO
DISATEL—The Shanghai Courier, of Fe". 15, saya

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lite chief legal event of the foitnight has been the trial
of A Blanch, ca.,tain of the Brithlt sh p Newcastle and 1).
M'Alister, chief officer of the same ve=ae;, charged with the
1111.1141er of A. Harvey, carpenter. Sir Eountud liornny illd
si r Goodwin, assiatsn, jilege, were on the bei ch, sad a jury
of Ilse in the box. lhe jet .1 looted ab ng tim., Mil exc:ied
much Interest The chief Biog., delivere ia ih *rye of con-
siderable length, and the pliy, of :er relring for anout half
an hour, returned with a veroict of GUI ty. Ilis for !stop
Chest sentenced both the prisoners to dea,h, but intimated
that this was done formally in accordance with the statute.
Ile would recommend that Captain Blanch be imprisoned
fir a term of not more than one year, and pay the expense of
the prosecutimi ; M'Alister, as having acted under a mis-
taken sense of duty, be diacharged on his own recognisance to
answer when called on.

A LICHT YOUTH !—Quite a romantic icciclent
recently occurred at the court of the ex. Queen Isabella.
One f the maids of honour, a young girl of great
beauty, lost her portemonnaie, containing 800 franc's,
which was brought to the Queen a few (lei afterwards
by a young and handsome peasant. No.hing was
missing, and the Queen asked the lad what reward he
anted for I:s honesty-. The young fellow bad
obserted the fair owner of the portmonnaie, and her
great joy at its recovery, and made bold to say, "I
want no reward but one kiss from that young lady."
Her Majesty smiled, and, turning to the young lady,
said, 'Will you grant his request Carmen?" Carmen
heaitated for a moment, but finally she resolUt,ly
went up to the young lad, and throwing her arms
round big neck, kia-ed bins three times, amidst tl e
general laughter and arplauee of the assembled cone.