The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-01-23 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FORE:GN.

In London alone, scarlet fever has destroyed fifteen
fives ;of children chiefly) every day for the la 4 thirteen
weeka

TZPV. F. 0. Morri+ writ again to The Tithes to
Corn!': f the 111.1-S:Wi of Lords which goes on all round

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A gad accident has occurred at BristoL Mrs.
Moaner was crossing a plank on Tuesday night to reach the
Cardiff schooner Marti Nixon, from Palermo, which was
lying in Bristol Harbour, when she fell into the water. II er
husband, the captain of the vessel, plunged in to rescue her,
and both were drowned.

Motto for the Wiseacres who Paralyse themselves by
Rubbing Sugar of Lead into their Scalps to Darken their
Hair —" We never say' but we do it"— P unch.

The Cornish Dist; ess Reheil Committee held
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final meeting on Monday evening. It was stated that the
relief fund had hem drawn on to the extent of £2,300, of
which £1.3.10 w.ta in aid of emigration. The sum of ii2oo

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was eidrusted to a sub-committee to meet further require-
nienta, and it s%ui also agreed to invest taiti in the Three

Per Cent. Consols.

The trial of the co-called
,Edmunds scandal ease is

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fixed to take place in the Court of Common Fleas at W.t.
mincer on the 2nd of February.

Mr. Dodds, M.P., the first member for the newly-
created Parliamentary borough of Stockton-on-Tees, was on
Tuesday Light entertained at a banquet in that town by his
supporters, who presented to him a sum of money widen
womd fully reimburse him for the expense to which he had
been put in contesting the borough. Half-a.doren members
of Parthilllelli were present

The Rev. George R. Prynne, a well-known Tracla-
rian clergyman of Plymouth, has written to the local papers
stating that he can no longer support the Irish herds Eats-
bli,hment. I3,fore the recent election he, in conjunction with

the other clergy, signed a memorial in avour of the esta-
blishment. But subsequent consideration has induced him
to see that it hoe felled in every way use Slissionery Church
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and as a state Church, and that it lias no nue.° right' to State
supp.rt than the Episcopal Church in Scotland lie feels
hound, as an honest man, to make known his change of con-
viction.

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Recent private letters direct from Salt Lake City, I
Utah, say that the order prohibiting the Mormons from
trailing with " Gentile' merchants and shopkeepers Is now
rigidly enforced, and has occasioned great dissatisfaction.
Brigham Young is in admiral de spirits, dances with youth-
ful ease and grace "at private parties, and declares that there
are only three great 11101 in the wwrld—himself, Bismarck,
and Napoleon. The Pacific Railway is rapidly approach-
ing Salt Lake City, and the Mormons are still firm in their
determination ti destroy the road. As no orders have been
sent to the United States troops to gnard the railway, the
Mormons flatter themselves that the American Government
is afraid of them, and Mr. Young and his elders encourage
them in this belief by numerous warlike speeches.
Edmund Barker, who is charged with having at-
tempted t.• Polfloll his father, mother, and other members of
his family at &afield, has been committed tor trial.
At lthewlan,near Machynlleth, Mr. Davies, a resi-
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Lout, went out shooting with one of his keepers. In getting
throulh a fence his gun was discharged, and the contents
entered the keeper's hods. and he poor fellow died almost
immediately.

Three Spanish noblewomen recently presented to
Marsha' Serrano a protest, signed by 15,000 of their . sintrv-
Women, against religious freedom and toleration.

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A man is fregnently to be seen in Regent's-park
Loudon, amongst the flower-beds, surrounded by several
hundred sparrows and other birds, who come up to his feet
to receive the crumbs or whatever It is that he attracts them
with.

The Record states that both the curates of St.
Mat 's Soho, London, have loceu received into the boeoin of
the church (of Rome. The junior curate was oidained only
on hot Irinity Sunday.

The Pope has attacked chignons in a letter which he
has written to a well known Catholic writer, and in which
he invites all "Christian mothers and daughters of Mary'
to form a league against the doing up of chignons. and the
arranging of tresses several times a day, which occupies the
time that shotod he devoted to religious duties, pious works,
and family affairs.
The Wiener Zeitung, the Austrian officiaii ournal,
announces that the mayor of Ssegedin, in Hungary, has
promised a reward ..f 2JaHlfr to any one that shall cause to
be discovered and taken a numerous band of brigands which
infests that neighbeurhood, and I,ooofr. to any one that,
shall deliver into the hands of justice two of the miscreants,
dead or alive.

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The Empress of the French is in mourning for
a few days In consequence of the death of a German
prince.
The Roman correspondent of the Post saga that the
Americans are becoming more and more liberal patrons of
art in Rome .d in other art-producing cities if the Con-
tinent and although they do not limit their pair 'nags to
their own countr)men in the way of sculpture and painting,
then ine sufficiently patriotic to give them a decided
preference.
" January 22. N.—May each succeeding anniversary bring
increasing happiness to you. A warbler tells me lam not
forgot this day. I live in hope. Letters await your inquiry.
directed as formerly—Yours ever true, A. 11."—Advertise-
meat in The Times.
The demolition of the ft trtifications of Ostend has
been commenced, workmen being engaged in Riling up the
moat in the northern part. The whole is to be terminated
by the Ist July.
During the past week 47 wrecks have been reported,
making for the present year 135.
The Saturday Review says it is not creditable to the
rulers of Europe that a petty and ill-governed State should
be able to produce universal alarm by a violation of the rules
of good neighbourhood.
A Virginian paper pnblishes the following marriage
notice:—, On December Gill, in front of the panionage In
Crab Bottom, Highland county, on horseback in the big road,
by the Rev. Stephen Smith, Mr. George A. Halteman, aged
15, and Miss Barbara J. Wagoner, aged '2O, all of Highland
county.
An action fer libel arising out of the late election
contest at Exeter Is pending. The Liberal working men
formed a protection society against masters who, as alleged,
had been guilty of coercion. A list of these masters was
read at a public meeting by the secretary of the association,
and the masters den)ing the charges have served a writ for
libel upon the secretary, who refuses to apologise. The hear-
Ingot the case is expected to excite some interest.
The Paris Figaro announces that Victor
Emmanuel has written to the Pope, wishing "to return 1..
iii.sheep-fold from which the Papal bull of excommunica-
ti, has driven lam.'
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he unfortunate Empress Charlotte is much better
in health, and frequently perfectly reasonable.
The police have again been on the wrong track in
their wirch for the Wigan murderer. On Monday the man
Scarishrick, who was apprehended a few days ago charged
with the crime, was liberated, in consequence of no evidence
having been forthcoming against him.
Within the lust 27 years there have been erected in
Liverpool the enormous number of 43,644 houses.
The dispute which has risen between the stone-
masons and their employers In various parts of the country
Is now agitating the men belonging to the trade in the me-
tropolis. 'Hie men wish to give up the rough dressing which
some time ago they succeeded in retaining in their hands,
when the introduction of machinery was threatened ; hut
the masters are firm n in keeping the men to their agreement.
Hence the dispute, which threatens to end in a dismtrous
strike. It is said that delegates are about to leave London
for the provinces, in the hope of being able to adjust the
difficulty.
The Court of Queen's Bench has been occupied with
an appeal from a decision of • magistrate for the county of
Durham, which raised a question as to the construction of
the Act for limiting the hours of labour of children under
twelve years cf ago in factories. The appellants, " The
Palmer's Ship-building Company," were charged with
employing a child named Kennedy for six and a half hours
per day, and the magistrate inflicted a fine o: 20s with coats,
The appellants contended that the Act was only intended to
apply to the manafacture of small articles—made or
manufactured within a narrow confined place. In toil case
the child was employed in a large yard, which was I pen at
' one end. The court thought that the conviction should be
upheld and gave judgment forthe respondent.
The Registrar-General's returns show that no less
than 2,483 deaths were registered in London last year from
typhus fever, being ail increase of 309 as compared with the
number Tecarded in 1867.
Tile Boston (U.S.) Advertiser nays:—" A noted
democ atie politician of this vianity was once asserting als
entire indifference to the opinions of his opponents and to
their personal abuse. Why,' said he. 'a man likened me
the other day to Judas Iscariot, but I don't cure.' 'Yes,' said
a bystander, ' but how ihses Judas feel about it!'
The Prince of the Asturias (son of the ex-Queen of
Spain at present follows, as an out-of-door pupil, the mime
of instruction given at the College Stanislan, in Paris. A
preceptor accompanies him ea,ffi day going and returning.
On Monday a heavy fog hung over London for the ,
greater part if the day, causing several accidents in the
streets, almost entirely stopping the traffic on the river,
and causing considerable inconvenience to trade, places of
business having to be lit up all day,
The bankruptcy of Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton
came before Mr. Commissioner Winslow again on Tuesday.
The preliminary statement disclosed debts aid liabilities to
the extent of about £35,000, and there were no available
asi-ets. Mr. Barley, who represented Mrs. Jones, a coeditor,
said that the bankrupt had occupied apartments ill the
Alhanv belonging to his client, and had insisted on retaining
procession, although he paid no rent. Proceedings in eject-
ment had at length to Ise taken, and Mrs Jones had only
recovered p•mession within the last few days at a cost of
£237, including the rent. The necessary accounts not having
been flied, the case was adjourned to the 9th of March.
Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner, held an inquest
MI Wednesday morning, in St. Luke's, L011(1011, respecting
the death of a wonian thu ty years of age, who was found on
a doorstep on Monday night dying of starvation. She was
taken to the police station, where she stated that she had
walked up to LOllllOll from Lincolnshire, because she did
riot nioli to be a burden to her family, sleeping in the
casual wards at night, hut had not been able to procure
employment in London or to get anything to eat. She was
taken from the police station to the workhouse, where she
tell' one of the nurses that she had not applied for admis-
sion to • casual ward in London because ef the ragged con-
dition of her clothing. The medical evidence showed that
the woman had died from fatigue and want of food, and a
verdict to that effect was returned.
A Paris correspondent writes :—" In his way the
Prince Napoleon is a clever man ; and if his Imperial
Highness had as much tact and common sense as he has
ability, be would lie with a vengence what he affects, the
Orleans branch of a Bonapartist dynasty. While the
Emperor Is the most bland, agreeable-mannered man possible
to conceive of, the Prince, his cousin, affects a resemblance
to his meat_ uncle in brusque rudeness, as well as in

A census of Chicago, taken on the let of October,
1668, shows its population to be 252,054, an increase of 51,036
Ance the census taken two years before. Chicago hair not
the t putation of being the most rucral city In the Union.
In the year Isea the police made 25.000 arrests, but report
only 27,5 .o dollars worth of property stolen.
In the course of a discussion at a !fleeting held in
Dmilon, it wee stated that pauperism and crime cost the
country about £17,000,000 per annum.
"io a long review of the ' Memoirs of the Earls of
Gramm d,' which appeared In IlleTimee of Thursday, we read
that one extremely able member of the Forfar. family ' after
this made frequent journess to and from Ireland, and for a
loi g rinse he performed these journeya on horseback.' The
1 i ,nee may well say he was a rxnrarkable man. So IVY his
bone a remarkable horse."—Free Lance.
The Dublin Town Council presented an address to
the Lord-Lieutenant, expressing shop. that his excellene)
term of office would mark a new era In the history of Ire-
land. The claims of that country to share in the Imperial
expenditure was pointed inut, and it was suggested that aq
amnesty to the P.-nian prisoners would tend to secure the
b,yalty of the Irish people. Earl Spencer pledged himself to
study well the questions pressing on the attenkon of the
government and assured his hearers that the question of
the amnesty should receive his anxious consideration.
On Sunday morning a French schooner and the brig
Thom., Poole, were driven by a heavy gale of wind on the
Pailstow Bar, Cornwall, where they went to pieces. The
crews were rescued by the lifeboat.
Two other members of the Ministry have been
troubled • Ith bottled-nosed whales—the Duke of Argyll and
Mr. Dew. The Duke of Argyll, in reply to a letter from
Mr. Dew, writes:—" I believe there's no doubt whatever
tint the bottle-nosed whale feeds upon fish. Ills the finest
Greenland whale whose gullet is so small. The food of this
animal consists of minute and gelatinous orgards,,i, but tilt
bottle-.•osed whale is armed with formidable teeth, which
most be intended and kept tor the capture of fish_ I must
add that I believe the capture of bottle-nosed what's to be
CM...Mt, and quit* nureozonenlive.

At Newton•lane End, near Wakefield, a child was
sitt,ng at the fireside in his nightdress, watching his grand-
father toast some bread, when a stone slab, forming one
side of the mantelpiece, suddenly fell opon him and he was
I so severely crushed that he died a few hours afterwards.
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Among the 368 carriages which are catalogued for
Pale Nladrid, awl have belonged to the ez-Queen of Spain,
to one ornamented with panels painted by Murillo.

Accidents caused by velocipedes have become go
frequent in France that in ninny towns —Lyons, Grenoble,
Monti eLlier among others —they are foraidden Lithe public
promenades a don the footways At It releana, in addition,
they are not allowed at night without a lantern.
Mr. N. de Fleurimont. the editor and proprietor
of the Sindian, (an Indian paper, has been found
dead in his chair, having shot himzell In the night with a
double-barrelled gun.
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On Tuesday morning George Whittington, a plate
layer, aged eighteen, was at seven o'clock mt.: to screw up
some of the rails on the Metropolitan Rallw..y, and ro, his
way to the Praedatreet junction he met on, of the work-
men. from whom he borrowed a hammer. The ganger,
finding that lie did not return to breakfast, booting, anxious,
and w•ni in search of him. liii arriving at thi• junctio., he
saw the body of the young man tying across the metals of the
down line, the head entirety severed. At the crossing one of
his boots was found, giving rise to the ,uppos;tion that the
deceased, in endeavouring to escape a train, hit caught his
foot against one of the rails.
The intereet evinced hy the gentler sex the affairs
of the sterner was strikingly illustrated in C alder. Church
Peckham, on Sunday last, when the Rev Fle ing preached
"sermon to youag men' on their dull. lances.
Strange to say, the church was crowded will. sag women.
The tent chosen was "The glory of a y 0,.../ man is has
strength."

The Poor-law Board ha a ieatted a ciren : r to sone of

the;:roc.‘ ‘l4.l4;utitr;rl-It e— in the metr.polis, a , It the view .4
re,ul.ting the administration if out-do r I chef. Amongst
other orders, it is laid down that able-bodied outedoor nude
paupers shall receive half of their relief in trio es of rit.gutg
necessity, that no relief shall be given while •uch p opens
employed for wages or for hire, and that evr Iv such pauper
shall be set to work and kept employed whP t he is in re-
ceipt 14 relief. Any departure front the regul.,tions must be
reported to the Poor-law Board a Rhin twenty -me days.
When Finial Paeha was Aufbawador st Lisbon, he
presented the Queen of Portugal, Donna garia, with a
splendid necklace of oliainottals, of which Ile two nowt
beautiful were converted into earrings " I hope his Royal
Ilidhness twill not be old tided!" asked the Qeeen. Nly
toaster will be hut too happy that your Majesty should
lend her ear to anything coming front him," was the reply.
, On the shutters id a shop in the Boulevandllauss-
mann the other day was to be read •' Dea . for to-day only."
Happy proprietor ! No doubt gone out for a holiday !
An Englishman had the pretty idea of appearing Si
aGarde Narinnal with an umbrella at a recent teal masque.
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For his reward he was taken to the lock-no, and told tint no
one was permitted to make game of a military costume.

The Record, referring to the rumour that Mr. Mac-
konoehie, unable to pay the enormous costa with which he
has been saddled, inay possibly go through the Bankrupter
court, atya that, if •• the Vicarage of St. Albans were seques-
trated for the costa 111111 a Protestant clergyman d the
Church of Huglaud substituted for the Anglo-Catholics, such
a conclusive result would probably gratify the promoter,
Mr John Martin ,evea more than his re.ent victory.

Ilorse-flesh in rising in estimation in Berlin as an
article of feed. In MOS the number of horses killed for
this purpose was no less than 4,044. The blood is purchased
by a manufacturer of the city, who employs it as a dye A
Berlin restaurant intends rhoitly to open an establi,liment
In which only valions preparatiens of horse-flesh will be
served to the guesta. Mere curiosity will perhaps snake the
speculation a good one, at least for a time.
Earl Granville presided at the annual dinner of the
Shropshire Chamber if Agriculture, which was held at
Shrewsbury on Saturday evening. In proposing success to
the chamber of which he is the president, the noble earl
indicated the more important questions to which such insti-
tutions might well devote their attention. Amongst these
were elementary education, the relations between landlord
and tenant, the drainage of land, the utilisation of sewage,
and the adjustment of the game laws.
The number of political newspapers publisLed in
' Switzerland is at present 201. Of these 103 are iii Germ
31 in French, 4 lv ltal an, and 3 ill Romany. Six are
published seven times a week, 32 six times, 35 three times,
72 twice, and 540005 a-week.
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The I,perativeß employed in the ee`tn trasle in tire
Blackburn district have commenced an a,itation against the
reduction of ten per cent. in their waires, and to favour of
short time as an alternative.
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An attempt, it is said, is abont to be made to cross
the Atlantic in a balloon. The bold adventurer is M.
Alexander Chevalier, a well-known aeronaut, and he expects
to make the journey in three days and nights. tie will start
from New York.
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"We are informed that the highly-objectimialde
black strap' hitherto in vogue to distinguish medical from
combatant officers of the army is at last, after many solicita-
tions, to be rendered of a more ornamental character, by the
addition of a border of gold lace on the pouch and sword-
belt. Medical officers, we are sure, will be glad to hear of
the improvement."—Medienl Times and Gazette.
"A schooner load of lepers left this port on Tuesday
last for Molokai.- As they panned through he greets they
presented a sad, and pitiable spectacle the leper colony on
Moloaai is increasing rapidly in numbers.' Honolulu
Advedizer.
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The Pall Mall Gazette puts forth a plea for a public
subscription on behalf of Colonel Cameron, ex.c wind of
Aby.inia, whose health has been shattered toy the pi ivations
he h. endured.
A Massachusetts physiologist asserts that there are
no fine singers who use tobacco. It is proved in the dissect-
, ins-room, he claims, that tobacco injures the voice.
' The canton of ITri is about to erect a statue to
William Tell in the town of Altorf. It is to be executed by
M. Imhori, a sculptor of Berne.
The Moniteur &Algeria states that en the morning
of the 4th of January. A ii-ben-K ouider, condemned to death
In October last, for having murdered and eaten six persons in
less than a mouth, ass put to drain by shooting, in the plain
near iiiidah.
In the Irish Landed Estates Court last year Ito
number of sales of land was 309, and the purchase-mmey
amounted to £1,518,307, as against £1,258,585 during the pre-
viouS
The pantomime at one of the East-End theatres of
London is entitled Bhlutzherranbhollirurnh
A surplus RUM of £6:10 which remained after pay-
ment of all expenses in connection with the Dublin PAM-
I.tion Ball of last ear 14 the Prince and Princess of Wales,
no heen appropriated by the committee, on the motion of
OW Duke of Leinster, to found an Alexandra Ward in the
Hospital for Incurables, a charity in great local esteem.
In the case of Mr. Dodd, a we slthy fanner of Great
Ityliorch, in Norfolk, who was sentenced by S!r. Alderman
Finnan, to inine Motith's imprisonment tor sendinr bad meat
to the London market for sale as human food, a petition wan
presented by the friends of the prisoner to the Home Secre-
tary, and at Lei seeing a copy of the depositions he dialled
interfering in the matter, and has sent a letter to Mr. Alder-
man Finn% notifying to him the determination at which he
had arrived.

By direction of the Admiralty, the turret armour-
Mated ship Monarch, 1,100 horsepower nominal . now fitting
for sea, is tint, ed to It ore an apparatus fitted in board for
the manufacture of gas. fir lighting every portion of the
vessel.
The accounts of the agent for Messrs Bright, Dixon,
and Manta, in the late Birmingham election. Mow a total
cost of X. 5,600. As usual, Mr. Bright was returned free of
cost to him. The two other candidates contributed to the
fund; and of the guarantee fund raised by the electors
generally, only one-half has been called up.
Messrs Turquand and Harding, the liquidators of
Overend, Gurney, and Company tl.tmitett, have issued a
circular announcing the necessity of a further call of S'.s per
share, which is proposed to be payable in the middle of
February next. Unfortunately, also, the liquidators add as
the liquidation draws to a close .he realisation of the re-
maining assets becomes mom difficult, and it is possible that
in August next a further call of sonte amount may be neces-
sary to meet the promissory notes which fall due in Septem-
ber. Filially, the liquidators state that tinder the advice of
eminent counsel they have "filed a bill against the directors
of the company, with a view of making them responsible
for the losses sustained by the shareholders arising out of the
purchase of the business of the old firm,' and the mode in
which the arrangements for effecting that purchase were
carried out."
It is certain (says the Economist) that the late
Government did not leave the Exchequer rich, lAild it is
, certain also that the cost of the Abyssinian expedition Mil
, far exceed the £5,000,000, which Parliament voted. We
should be glad to be quits of It for £7,000,000. At this time
I of ease, it does not matter in Lombard-street whether we
have a poor or a rich Government, hut a )ear or two ago,
when money was 7 per cent. it would have mattered much.
At any rate we shall have a poor Government.
A widow residing in Lafayette. (U.S.) fell a victim
to consumption. Being a member of the Methodist Church,
she sent for some of her fellow-members to attend her in her
dOng hour, and stated to them that about seven years sgo
she poisoned her child, and It tied from the effects of the
poison. A year or so after she administered poison to her
husband's father, and he Med too. Later still on the return
of her husband from the army, she dealt to him also a fatal
potion, and he too passed into the spirit land. The miser-
able woman has borne a good character as do al o all her
relattvee.
Mr. Grieve, M.P. for Greenock, who is petitioned
against on the ground of corrupt practices, having first un-
successfully endeavoured to get the petition dim by
Lord Cowan, the election judge, appointed to try it, d hav-
ing since failed in as appeal from Lord Cowan's In siou to
the Court of Session, and been condemned in coats, lies
petitbned the Conti of Session for leave to appeal from its
judgment to the House of Lords.
The man William Shewarel, who is charged on his
own confession with the murder of his wife at Norwich in
1851, was again brought up for examination on Tuesday. The
proceedings hinted several hours,
The clergy of the rural deanery of Kilmacrenan, in
the county of Donegal. have passed a resolution approving
of the principles of re-construction of the Irish Church
when tlisestablished which have been propounded in Arth-
dea.,on Stopford's pamphlet, and calling on the Bishop of
Derry "to take early action with a view to convening a
synod representative of the clergy and laity ot the diocese"
on those principles.
Sir Henry S'tracey, the conservative member for
Norwich, is the first who has beet: unmated molar the pro-
VISIOI.B if the new act. The hon. baronet ~ins examined at
some length, and denied Chat he hail supplied arty funds lor
illegal purposes, and stated that he knew of no illegal en.
pentfiture on the cense, Native side eluting the election, lie
knew nothing of either of the two pr-im uent lo Men who bad
absentml themselves from the inquiry. Recriminatory evi-
dence was then brought forward against Mr. Tillett, tile
petitioner. Mr. Baron Martin, in delivering judgment,
stated that he should report to the Speaker that Sir Henry
Stracey wax not duly elected. The question as to costs and
the general report as to corrupt practices in Norwich he
should reserve. Sir Henry strarey was not personally
intraicated, but bribery was proved to have been commuted
by agents.
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A point of some importance to Friendly Societi g
was argued in the Court of (Memo's Bench on Sattirday. Ike
secretary of the Amalganiated Society o Carl enters and
Joiners at Bradford had been summoned for entlwatlement,
but the magistrates dismiased the numinous for want of Juris-
diction, i 0 the ground that as one et the objects or the
society nits to encourage strikes arid restrain irate it wits
not, strictly speaking, a benevolent soinety. ainst this
decision the present appeal WAS now argued. .111.1.4111e1iS WM
postponed.
Rogelet, an advocate of Metz, who Lad not
attained his 300 year. has just fallen a victim tin 0 deplorable
accident while boar hunting in the forest .d Bentlaltiv.i e.
One of his companions, in the gloom of 2 wet • veniu,,
taking the unfortunate gentleman for the animal punnet,
fired, and shot him full in the breast, tiling 1.05
instantaneously.
The United State's Congress does not seen. disposed
to tine Mr. Johnson much credit for his amnesty proclama-
tion. The Senate has resolved Mask the President by what
authority he issued the proclamation, and will. It is thoi
declare the document Mega', ito . tending to netalmitaie
tedious process of individual pardoui..as, entailing mush
complication and expense"
A man who belonged to the baggage train of the
Atueri.,an army during the war of independente recently
died at Richmond attire age of 121 years.
The Leeds df,rniry 'gays that Mr. Ripley had no.
timated to his workpeople his intention, in the future, to
give a share of the profits of his mull at Bowlin.n to al en,
pmyed there. The plan upon which the hon. gentleman will
proceed is somewhat different from that in existence at the
works of Messrs. Crossley and Messrs. Brows All shore
employed will be entitled to a certain amount of profit in
proportion to the wages earned, without being ospected to
Invest any capital in the winks The profits nit laq ).'or; is
to be divided upon this principle, and its value may be
lodged from the statement that a man who earned but LI
per week will be entitled, tunkw this divlMOisto Mu ea