The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-09-02 00:00:00

._llisceltancous I(iltelligcnte,

DOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

A FATAL 131 TE.—On Saturday, the Liverpool
coroner held an inquest on the bmly of William
Tickle, aged sixty, a lahourer, who met his death
under somewhat sin,gular circumstance:. About three
weeks ago he and his son I IMUTVIII,I and fought,
during which the son hit his thumb. S## time
afterward:: deceased, who had been intemperate all Ids
life, began to drink heavily, and subsequently he was
taken ill with inflammation of the arm, and died on
Friday front blood poisoning. The jury returned a
verdict accordingly.

POISONED WITH CAIIRoMe inqueat
was held at Blackburn, on Saturday. the body of
Alexi.. Hargreaves, a deaf and lumb lunatic, win It,
,n Thursday afternoon from the effects of pohoni. The
mother f the deceased, with whom he lived, got a
bottle of carbolic acid from the office If the nuisance
inspector to be used as a ilisinfeetatt. It Wil.ti placed in
a tub in the back kitchen, and while left in the house
with a little girl the deceived drank a portion of the
contents, from the effects of which he died four hours
afterwards.

TwiMutii or A Coon TUIN.!-
re:narks : -

__The ,44.t,ectator

The Marquis of Lorne sill tile wife Princess Louise are
paying a visit to the Duke of Argyll's :aside at laverary.
consequently OW on hilt elan Campbell is out to weleome
the ehieftain's heir and his royal unite. That is all very
proper, and so are the feastings, and games, and psrades,
and all th 3 rest Id If Mit WM it be believed that it actually
pays the Daily Sews to telegraph entire columns Of Ileserip-
thms f all Oat 4141 Friday the Daily Neaw actually pub-
liAhed nearly four hundred HIV'S Id telegram about the VC-
ceptbm, the dr,S,S, the guests, the uphohitery, and the way
the Highlanders got drunk. And then we call the Parisians
Ii trie.lout pe rjnie, iinfl wonder how (our forefathers could
relish trig accounts of opurt nuts lines !

TI (I HEE Nbi, Mrs.
Mala-
p take. Oa., of something, at night, she likes
it pretty stitong— she hates, she says, to have her ruin-
and-water too muoh polluted. P
TII ELTITAM Ni DER.—The Committee of
the " Its& Defence Fund " have just issuol large hills,
which they IlftVe ea. 11,01 to be IN.st.l throughout all
parts of thaenwich anti Deptfonl alai the vicinity,
offering, in furtherance f the ends of justice, a re-
wael for the deteetitm and conviction of the
ss li' imusleocd Jane Maria elontam on the
7 .1 the :nth or the morning of the 27,th April
• . i o C•mtmittee state that they are also pie-
II in their p •wer to obtain her Majesty's
7.• Ton acconiplice (not the actual murderee),
e inf.slusttion le,ling to the detection of
1 tootor Id the crime.
V i li: 111,1" Al. HUMANE SWIETY CANNOT
• IN from stir Friends.--

1 I. I' Teite IT, ,llY.—PrObably few 1-ICTSMIS
, of the extent if the encroachment: mad.. by
,wan the ea.t coa.t of Yorkshire. The live,
, 11.1, cakillate.l that there is an average
• : 14 land es cry year, and tnat
' . 31 acres li-appear aminally
• ~ 1 ,11 Head alone.
• • it ne • in a
• tin re
• 0)00 in
only in •1 • , • I :
lost its ulna. 1. 1,, , 1,1:- Is •
fate of its in Morr;,
that a st•a writ !Aid on an an,,•,le
would arrest the progresl of encroachment, but thel: n
one seems to know whose duty it bits protect our sin,.
from this enemy.
THE PRINcE ANI, PRINtEsS tip WALES.--A
eopre9s.mient at Ober Ammergan snakes the following
communication :
" She Prince mot Princess of Wales came last night, and
have put spa itip hundde fare in a cottat.te tel.etgl.iz ta one
of the wooMmt to's. They took thcis• places among tile rest,
and Smile their way through the crowd, walkilm through the
village afterwards. the Prima, lietipig so sweet intl gent:,
The Marquis of lisle also is here, aid. hishop clitford and
Monsignor° Cape] also Mad IMO Lind The
place is thronged, and every one has to put us. 51 iii. cottage
rooms and fare."

A FATAL. A nLrT.--011 Friday night a.
shocking accident happened at Parry 'Bever, near
Bolton, which caused the deaths of three boys named
William Whitley Percy, aged 14, Thomas Southern,
aged 9, am! Thomas Eccle4on, aged 13. The accident
occurred at Smith's ohl colliery, which has long been
in disuse, and is a favourite resort of the boys of the
village when at play. The fly-wheel of the engine,
POMO rift. ill Ilioniaer. with a rim foto- or live inches
in width, WaS rel/i4 f 411 its proper place awl leant
against the wall is Inch formerly sumsirted it. Some
boys were climbing the spokes of the wheel when it
overturned and fell upon the deceawil, who were play-
ing upon a low wall opposite. Southern was struck
upon the head, his brains being dashed out upon the
wall, while Eceleston and Percy were caught by the
necks and pinned in that position to the wall by the
wheel rim. 20 or 30 men had to be obtained from a
neighbouring bleach-works to remove the wheel. Of
course, all the boys were killed on the soot.

A litittiftNo Item ova' - A Californian paper
states that "a large frame building situated on Chan-
nel-street, opposite the Stockton -Bakery Hotel, and
formerly occupied by ('only, Brothers, as a planing
mill, was removed on the 27th of July by Hiram
Fisher to a lot near the intersection of Miner avenue
and Aurora-streets. The house is 20ft by 45ft., and is
constructed of very strong and heavy materials. When
Mr. Fisher's workmen hail the whole structure placed
upon wheels, it was remarked by onlookers that it
would be difficult to get a team of animals al ;le to haul
the house to its destination ; but when all was in
readiness for transportation the fears expressed in re-
lation to difficulty in removing it were son dispelled
by a patent road steamer being hitched to thehuge pile,
and travelling away with it as easily ''as rolling off a
loo." It was hauled alsaft ten blocks in distuice, part
of the way along smoothly gravelled streets, and
a short distance over uneven streets. The road
steamer moved along about as fast as a person could
easily walk. The time occupied in the removal was
exactly three-quarters of an hour. The engineer says
that the engine haul.' the building, which, it is com-
puted, weighs not less than 30 tons, with as little
trouble as if it had been a match box. It was taken
round sharp corners without the slightest difficulty, and
landed in its position with the utmost precision and
without any difficulty whatever. both a speedy
and economical method of house moving."
PRACTICAL—Measures arc icing taken to
promote Swimming in our Army. Very right. But
Pawl, would be almost as glad to observe a habit of
Swimming in our Navy.--rimein
MR, GLADSTcONE ON THE HOUSE OF LoRPS.--
Mr. Gladstone writes from Whitby to acknowledge a
resolution passed last week by a meeting at Leeds,
respecting the conduct of the Lords on the subject of
the ballot The right hon. gentleman says ;
'

it is scarcely needful for me to assure you that I regret
alike the vote, and the grounds id the vote, for the rejection
of the Bill. Nor do I less regret its consequences, for lam
mindful if the signal services which hiAtory shows to have
bean rendered tO this country by its mobles if the high
character, activity in duty, and wide and useful influence of
very many members of that lady, as well as lif the serious
difficulties which other countries have experienced in pro-
viding memta for the discharge of tile funeti.. It's
entrusted to it by the Constitution. The combict 0511.0
iovernment on the m,int (of which the 1011110 of Leeds hare
been pleased to express their approbation) was dictated, In
my opinion, by the plainest principles of duty ; and I may
safely assure you that they are not likely to recede from
course of action deliberately adopted by them, and approved
by the House of Commons and tile country."

- - -
ALWAYS THE SAME !—A gentleman travelling
recently in the South of En„oland says :—" In the
morning I went to church, and the preacher—a tall,
thin man gave forth the text, The words that I
speak unto you I speak not of myself.' He divided
his subjects into four 'hearts,' and concluded with ' an
application to ourselves.' Now, there was nothing at
all remarkable in this, but what happened subse-
quently I thought very extraordinary. The following
Sunday I was located in the North, and again attended
divine service. A short. fat man I recupied the pulpit,
and, to my utter astonishment, Ind only his text, but
every word "f his sermon, was precisely what I had
heard on the preceding Sabbath. The Sunday after
I was at a fashionable watering-place, and could
scarcely credit the evidence of lily semes when l
heard the name discourse over again iron] the lips of a
red-haired, weak-eyed, squeaky-voiced youth. Such
an instance as this of clerical unanimity seemed tome
much to be commended in the ways of the Church."

THE ENot.isn AKISTO(IIA4If.—The
in repeating the statement that Mr. Itieltarti Wallace
is to be titaAle a baronet, makes the following amusing
remarks :
Rut it Is alieve all to his rislies thst Mr. Wallace owes
the favour. It is well kto•wet that Cc
though it recruit:: itself fnun soils Clii' harts-es, 511511
is 1,1:1 'l': locicletot i:til I vvull,
I the 0,1 .11 • . 1: I I.lte
t :at
•:

It :,,a: th.:t altlentql: •
1.4,4,1,4 i without atty ;
Ilt.e, 1,1,1 to tic I. i..• U U,
the e.t s ill ( '0! NiCa. The t•• 0,111 :1 4 .I)ac,ii.
vot..dtLat a ,um I,f I tkO frau, a•honhl .I,tributed
to the )mlor of that slay, awl that a npecial service
should L. celebrate I its the cathedral.

IN EXTREMIS. -Thrt malt i 3 ituluc,l,ltaid up
1,11, eammt get Ciedit even f..r Co .1 Intention,.—

;',, •. r! • •.5I:1, FROM TILE ROM AN
, • •• ,• . • , • •.1 dynasty of England
- • • • . , • , ! •t front the imcient
,2 0 ••,, 1 ,• •ria, as well as many
t!,• • . in \ ,•-tern Europe, being
.. •hum, flw,il the Macedonian, Emperor of
•• • - !tople, mei so, as allege I, front Constantine.
Ithe niiljeet, in-k
tei";6lgu'at.ta' f.r inat 1l "
work printed at Smyrna in Armenian and English in
by the late Stepan Mirza Vanantetrie, entitled,
it Vittorio, vocen of L'oolood, from the
Ars4chl Kitties 9f Arufra
GOVERNMENT Em IGRATII/N OFFICERS.— TIICTO
are in the United Kingdom 15 llovernment emigration
iifficeN, who act under the humeliate directions of her
Majesty's Emigration Commissioners ; in London
there are four, Liverpool seven, and one at each of the
following places Plymouth, taasgow, Cork, and
Londonderry. They procure and give gratuitously
information as to the sailing lif shilis and means of
acconnesiation for emigrants, and whenever applied
hi for that purpose they see that all agreements be-
tween OlipoWners, agents, or masters and intending
emigrants are duly performed. They also see that the
provisions of the Passengers Act an, strictly complied
with viz., that passenger vessels are seaworthy, that
they have on board a sufficient supply of provisions,
water, medicines„ and that they sail with proper
punctuality. They attend personally at their offimi
at, each week-day, and afford grztatitonsly all the
a.-sistance in their power to protect intentlin,,• emigrants
against fraud EMI imposition, and to obtain redress
where oppression or injury has been practised on
them. In the Colonies there are immigration agents
who afford gratuitously to emigrants every assistan,e
in their tiower by way of advice and information as 1,,
the districts where employment can be obtained met
readily and upon the most advantageous terms, aml
aLso as to the best modwi of reaching such districts.

WORTIIY OF HONOURABLE- MENTION.
Amongst the papers read at the Edinburgh Meeting id
the British :tssi wrath in, was one "On Certain
of Surfaces." It would be interesting to know whethiT
the author of the paper noticed the most distinguish,'
id all the Surfaces, those immortalised by Sheridan in
The Selhe,l.fhr SAewhil. If he did not, he can only Is-
considered to have a superficial acquaintance with his
subject.- Pouch.

COMPLETE 14 ncorcE!--The other day it man
was fouthi drunk in the streets of Bolton, and was taken
oat, ClllOO ly. In his p.s,es,ion ,vas di,covercd a loottle
containing a pint tif whisky. The spirit wassulunitte,l
to the exce:e authoritie' s who, after tasting or smelling,
or 1,, ti,, pronounced that duty had not been jail on it.
They accordingly took pilwee,lings against him for the
poss,,sion of the spirit, about which he profta<sed con,
14,- ignorance, and on Saturday tlie magistrates in-
upon him the mitigated penalty of kn.

-
MAnvELLous EscArn.—On Sunday evening
I:v4 a young woman named Ann Pialwroy had a most
marvellous escape from death. The girl is a nursemaid
to a Mrs. Owen, at present on a visit to some friends at
iuil!fio!. She was out with Mrs. Owen's little girl
at a j.icturesque spot called the Echo Pits, about a tulle
distant from the town. Three Echo Pits are disused
chalk pits, awl are in some places feet in depth.
The spot is now exceedingly rich in autumnal will
flowers and berries and •m the little girl whiting to
a timpting cluster of blackberries the nurse tried to
reach them and fell Ovoe the cliff. nu-tun:A.ly her fall
was broken by all elder tree, where ill:. was till1;e:111.1
for a eueond or two. awl then fell to the l It iii. The
little girl attracted the attention of p..,021.: near
the :pot, and Mr. Sells, surgeon, n-as brought out 14
St. Mary's Church. Under his advice the mas at
mice conveyed to the Royal Surrey County I lospind on
a stretcher, where it was found that she had apparently
only received a scalp wound awl ,uive Ii muses liheut
the body ; unless them is internal injury, ir. the
opinion of the howe surgeon the patient will rapidly

THE ONE THING SArE.—M‘ve the L•ondtsa
School thtard any mho,L matly for the reception of
scholars Ace: trding to the Earl of Shaftesbury,
" they have already Itetin to levy a School Hate."
Of coarse. Let the rateitayers hope to get some return
for their money. But, whether as regards the Re-
organisation of the Army, the Education, the Masses,
or any other measure of kgiAative rn.gre.., there is
nothing certain hut Taxation.---Punt.h.

A NEw VEnsiox.—An Oxford student, in
being examined for his degree, was called upon to give
an account of the death of Jezebel. Ile evidently Mt
sure of his ground, for he prefaced his account by a
lentark about the hope:awe of adhering as ci ocly an
”!Oble to Selipttlre 1:111g1lagtl. He then prireeded russ
fitowa : - he intio.rhl through the gate of the
city there is ken oint upon him two PVISWIS Appl anted
br the purllllS(.. Awl he said unto them, " Throw her
siren. " Si they threw her down, Awl he sail •• Ih.
it :1.• seconil time." Awl they hi it a second thee.
'oil hr sail, " lbr it a third time." And they did it a
third time: and they did it unto seven times; yea,
,:nto seventy times seven. Last if all the woman died
it -n.lr al they to ..k up of the fragments that were
• ... eiskets full.

THE FINANCES OF TUE POPE.—It was PC-
.•-ntly reputed that certain Catholics were Omit to
a I•ttery Ii to, foir the purpo,es of providing fon
b.sys.sities of the Papal exchequer. The ()seer-
.' •, Room°, after making enquiries, has published
•-i:i ye denial to the rumour. " We are assured," it
that no authority lad been given by the
Vittitan for the realisation of the said project, and
this will be readily understood, since no one can be
unaware that the Holy See would never consent to lend
its name to any kind of speculation. The wants of
the Holy See are relieved, under present circumstances,
with ci WWII zeal awl generosity be the free and
spont,u.,uss offerings of the faithful, that with these it
leaV.:11114 to provide as lvril as it can for the more
ur4ent wants t 4 the Church, awaiting that better
future whirl, Coil will not fail to vouchsafe to it. This
shows how necesary it is to be on one's guard, and
not be surprised by proposals that, under the pre-
tence of assisting the Holy See may have another ob-
ject."
FASIII::NABLE ARRIVALS. —Thu Liohi, mi nkey,
on a visit to Mr. Ourang Outang, Monkey }loose,
Zoological Gardens, Regent's l'ark. The I:rey-
cheeked Monkey from Africa, for the season. A little
late. An Ant-eater, on a visit to an Uncle. --Pasch.
A3foNlI5l TIIE MORMONS.— An extra-
ordinary meeting of the shareholders ,of the Saturn
Silver Mining Company (Limito nas !old in Monday
in London, Mr. G. W. Crawford in the chair. The
chainnan read a telegraphic message front Mr. Fowler,
C.K, who had been sent gait to the Salt Lake territory,
to itismot and report upon the nun, whirl, hail tot
recently come into the possession of the co onq any. lie
gate a satlsofoctory account of the mine. Which was
within a few miles of timi Solt lake City, and wan
easy of access. It was rieh in ore, and, if fully
develop-4h would be a profitable undertaking, and re
pay the £16,000 which the company had advanced for
It ti, a New York firm. Mr. FI owler reported that the
country about the Mormon city alsoundad with mines
of lead and silver, and the one which this company had
purchased possessed peculiar advantagom of situation
and facility of work. The report was adopted, and a
resolution was agreed to authorising the directors to
complete the contract for the purchase of the mine.

KILLED WHILST CONDECTIND AN EXPERI-
HENT.— On Saturday evening a young Swig.) named
Albert Chatelaine, a native of Neufchatel, in Switzer-
land, died at the Hudglosfield Infirmary from injuries
he had received on the previow) evening while conduct-
ing some experiments in the laboratory at the chymicid
works of Messrs. Read, Holliday awl Sons, where he
was employed as principal ehymist. The deceased was
26 years of age was educated at Wiesbaden College,
and was esteemed to be not only very careful in con-
ducting experiment.. but gave great promise of pro-
fessional ability. All day Friday he had been more or
less engaged in experimenting, and about half-past five
o'clock, as he was engaged on an experiment, the iron
vessel in which he was conducting It burst from some
unexplained cause, and the vessel was shattered int)
many fragments. A young man named Stott was
standing a fsw yards film the place, an-i. on being
startled by the explosion, he said. "Mr. Chatelaine,
where are you?" to which the unfortunate young
gentleman replied, "1 am here." Stott Gain(' him
lying on the tlgsgr, very much injured about gs the fi.,
antl'Mr. Chatelaine was at once taken to the infirmary',
where he remained in a very critical state. When he
rallied slightly the doctors tried to operate on him, but
prolgably through being too weak to bear it from shock
to the system, he gradaally sank and died within
twenty-four hours from the time of the accident.

MYSTERIOUS DEATHS.-011 Monday last a
workman, employes] at one of the chemical works in
Bide, fainted as he was passsing over the Rhine bridge.
He was taken immediately to the hospital, but died a
few minutes after his arrival there. life next morning
two of his fellow workmen were attacked in the same
sudden way, an! also (lied after a few hours' suffering.
ronsidenible mystery is attached to the whole affair,
but (the Swiss Tows alty,l it is believed that all three
were awidentally poisoned by cooking. their fissl in a
copper r•auccpan, which was coated with vert-de-gris.

. .
A LARMIN,f Disc writy.—The 70,4er Guardian
sap( that a letter has been received from the Army
Control-office by the lieutenant-colonel commanding
the 2nd Administrative Battalion 2nd Cheshire Rifle
Volunteer:, stating that a case has been brought to
the notice of the major-general commanding of a vesu-
vian having been found in a quarter barrel of muzzle-
loading email ammunition (is Uwe cart 6 fifes returned
to Chester 'astle by the Bth Lancashire (Bury Volun-
teers). The barrel, says this letter, may have been
rolled too and fro at different railway stations, and
thereby exposed to friction and ignition, and it is easy
to imagine the fearful loss of human life which would
have been the result of an explosion if it had occurred
when being placed within the magazine at Chester
I.'astle. It must have destroyed the barracks and a great
part of the town.
" ALL HOT !"—The crew of the MVO 01 in
their temporary detention on St. Paul's Island (long
since ended, we hope) were well off in one respect—they
could have hail no difficulty in keeping up their spirits,
for there wan plenty of the "crater" always at hand.
7—Punch.

'SETTER KNoWN TIIAN TRUNTER.—A Con temporary, the other day, made the following an.. nouneement :- -" The Right Hon. G. J. (;e4elpm, Fit%
Lord of the Adtniralite left town for bit a.:ak it
Surrey. There is no Mundation for the istatenii.:nt
that the First Lord is about to join the t'hannel
S'lm,irt" ; the Fir.st Lord If the Admiralty
knows at teat enough tif the Navy to deter him from
doiinf that. - A 01,14

Wc,MAN., 8.11E1tE!----Froin time to time we hear
a seal deal al salt Woltiall'e sphere" and " Winn:Lib's
fi 4,1 It li r..,1.1 the Plea from ;• • • " wont,. ,ii,activene4s" (rem
says y
~ • , which t.
, At.• L. ". .to hie that hiS f-hip cvii s.ome
lor it her tour, lie Nen, si.rely r117./.h. Ito
V. flint for the fact. The iie.trumenta were met,
hauled, all I bn:cl to be faultle,s ; the cal.
tint were checked, apt pronounced correct what could it be ? Suddenly k Ito!, 141.,
him. A lady avis sitting near the binnacle read.
ile• a novel in the nea.t innocett way in the world.
'lice lady wore a crinoline, whereof the beeps Were 41
tempered steel. Ant the elder Mr. Weller remarkol,
'A pettieut, sir, a pettieut is h.reaistible."l.le coin.
paSS couldn't stand it. The tickle needle was no longer
true to the pole, and the man at the when followed
the eccentricities of the io.edle. We know the gallantry
of oailors, and can fancy how the hrave commander
call to the fair delinquent, ' Madam your :atm:Alone
are unbounded, fait could pat not find for them same
worthier object than a binnacle?'"

FACTORY INSPEITIoN.—By all Act which has
recently revi•ived the Royal assent, the mbitinistration
of the Workshop Regulation Act, 15%7, is vested ht
the limpectoni of Factories, and we believe that the
provisions of this Act will now be enfooreed. It will be
desirable, therefore, that employers should take care
that all children under 13 years of au: attend seissol
regularly, that no person be onvlo7ye.l beyond the
proper hours, and that the Saturday half holiday be
duly given. The Inspector of Factories of the ois,
trict should be communicated with if information is de-
sired or toomplaints have to be inisole.
•
TIIE RIMINI: COUNTY. Hampshire, Hants ;
Berkshire, Barks; Wiltshire, Wilts; Buckingham,
Bucks; Bedfordshire, Beds; Nottinghamshire, Notts ;
Huntingdonshire, Hunts ; what shall be short for
Yorkshire?
Shally‘'A:lB:NemcTi.gE:ineisk:Ptt:Y;;: 1471,F:wit.
fl33:' OeT niSNI3: Sides inuo)a large waterspout burst over
the village of Onion and the adjacent mountains. Great
havoc has been canted in the vineyanls, :Old in some
places the soil has been entirely washed away, leaving
nothing but the bare rock visible, while in other parts
deep furrows and ditches have been hollowed out, mod
the vine plants with their mops compl,tely destmyed.
' The roads also have been rendered quite impa,s,oide,
owing to the enormous }llll4,unt of water which fell.
The village of Mon, where the streams from the high
mountains - Claivaz and t onfrenucz - - meet, has
suffered severely. The cellars, barns, anil even tiwel-
ling-ht,usre, have been inundated, and large numbers
id cattle have been drowned. It isnot known whether
there has been any loss of life.
THE THAMES AND THE TIBER.--It is expected
that numerous fine statues will be fished filo from the
Tiber by the joropssed dredging .of that clasdcal River.
The Ancient Romans arrow to have had a way of
throwing statues into the fiber. It would effect a real
improvement in the look of the British (*vital if the
Londoners were to contract a similar habit ; for then
' the Metropolitan Statues, lout that they would inussie
navigation, would, most oof them, be loud, better
situated than they are now.-- Pt, lick
' A DREADFUL TRAGEDY !—A barbarous murder
has just been joerpetrateol in the Swiss canton of Aram on.
A clerk in the office of his father, a respectable mer-
chant, at Callingen, had been sent to collect sollte
account!) at Brenlingen, about three miles from
Donaueschingin. AN he did not return when he was
: expected, his family caused inquiries to he made for
him, but could obtain no clue to his wherealsonti, no
llllChavin., seen him since he left Erenlingen. A se-o-rb
resulted in the finding of his mutilated body, buried in
• a dunghills The owner of the plaue where the issly
was tound was innueliately arrested, anol he conhose.l
that the desire to posse,s himself if the money which
the young man had with lohn imam; tot him to commit
the crime."
• THE FLINTS :ME SKINNED.-- Abollt as week
be-lore the prem,gatimi, somebody Kaid to our friend
Bob Lowe, "Why don't you pair oirs:'' "Show me
anything left to pare off," wee the tierce answer of the
great I:cow

I •:lI:ENATIONAL MONEY ORDERS. Unity('
• = !open announce that preliminaT arrangentents
Isam completed for the interthangv of postal
•(ado, between I:Teat Britain and its
• - on awl after the 2gul of October. tif the '2,4:,1
,7,•y oi•der offices of the United States 7.7 d have been
authorized to issue postal cohere 4.11 the Postmaster at
New Yak city for payment in the United Kingdom,
and to l'ay orders d;sucd by him for sum., certified by
the lst4Nike krrarthient of that country fort atyment
in the United States. These offices have been seleetaTl
in all the States and territtnies with a view of acemn-
no plating the localities where the greatest nundkaa of
such foreigners reside BM Will be likely to make serif
them. All exchanges are to be nuule through the two
lovernment exchange ..thecs in New York tusl London.
In the I nited States applications can be mole ..nly
ft o- the equivalent in sterling of a certain of Money
in United States' currency, u hitch latter amount 1.4111
deposited at the local office is transmitted New
York, awl there converted into a postal sterling
draught at the current rate for gold on the day of its
reeeipt. This tit-might is made isivable by the British
anthoritks in any designated locality of the kingdom.
No single order will be issued for more than dols.,
but person!: ilesir:ng to remit 134,,T emits ran obtain
additional money orders. The late-lilt commission on
these money orders will range from O.'S', onlcrs not
exceolimz 10 dols. to 1.2:i 4..14. for 0 I 0 klvls. itt
eXceo ling 50 (101.1.

A STEP IN THE nifillT I: ErTION. —T te
21Prarloc9er Exit in bore says that the directors of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Itailway have approved of a
code of regulatii ins wlicruby the pointsmen in their
rervice will have their isoition touch improre.l At
the principal stations and junctions the attendance ii
duty will in nO Care exceed eight hours per day, awl
the minor stations a reoluction in the hours of duty
also been wade, while in all cases this change isacconi-
palled by an increase of wages.

•
A PLEA FOE TEMPLE BAR. Must Temple
Bar fall? There is something, at least, to say why it
should not. It may be of no we now; cut the Nile
may arrive when it will lee useful, awl serve a:min a use
which it has served before. The ',roam:et of Anarchy
may sooner or later replace the British Constitution
with a democratic republic, found, 4_4n a short trial, im-
practicable, and succeeded by a military despotism.
Then the Tyrant on the Throne of England may want
Temple Bar, to pot the beads of rebels on.—Paock.
PHOTOGRAPHING CRIMINALS.— In the new Act
on the Prevention of Crime (issued on Friday) several
enactments are made with a view to facilitate theiden-
tification of criminals. A register of all persons oat-
victed in the United Kingd 1111 l is tel be kept. 1{4.7.-,nla-
thals may be made 813 to the photographing all per-
.nts convicted of crime in the United K Memo,
anti such regulations may prescribe the times at which
and the manner and dress in which the prim mers aro
to be taken and the numl•er of photographs of each pri-
soner to be printtsl, and the person to whom such Ph.-
tA,graphs (u-e to be sent. Ally prisoner refusing to "hey
any regulation PA to ph44t4ographing to be deemed guilty
of an offence against prison discipline. The expenses
of keeping registers in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin
are to be sanethmed by the Treasury, to be paid out of
moneys provided by Parliament. The ea( smses incured
in photographing the prisoners in any prison are to be
deemed to be part of the ex penses incurred in the mainte-
nance of the prison, alld to be defrayed amwslingly. The
section is not ted aPrIY tee prisons for convicts under
the superintendence of the directors 44 convict prisons,
or to any military, or naval prison. The Act is to take
effect on the 2nd of November.

EDUCATION IN STAFFORDSHIRE.—Some 'filuv
ago the Staffordshire Archidiaconal Board of Education
issued a circular to the clergy of the diocese, asking
how far the managers of schools would consent to pay
for diocesan inspection, on the scale id 10s. per annum
for each school containing a hundred or 6.s than a
hundred children, and 10s. extra for each adilitionai
hundred or fraction of a hundred. A few ilays apt the
Rev. Canon Lonsdale, one of the honorary eecretarieN,
reported hi the Board that the manners of schools
had expressed their willingness to accept inspection MI
the above terma, 20 others agreed ciaslith malty, 22 lle•
dined, while from several no answer had been received.
It being well known by several of the rural deans at-
tending the meeting that many of the managers who
had not replied were willing to accept and pay for in-
spection, but were flf opinion that the extra charge of
10s. for every fraction if a hundred beyond the first
was excessive, awl last that the calculation of the
number gt children necsirding to the numbers on the
lasko was unjust, the Board revolved to charge 10.-. for
any number of children up to one hunch-id, and Is. for
every ten beyond that number. It was rl.4i decided to
calculate on the ''average attendance," and wit, AS
previously proposed, according to the !minim on th
books. The Board of Education believe the revised
terms will be, unanimously accepted by the whole of the
sehools in the diocese, and hope to be able to appoint a
duly qualified inspector, inasmuch as the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge has offered to pay a
porth in of his stipend.

CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION you WOMEN, 'JULY,
IS I. The chum list has just lleu lad dishts 311.1 cleats
that of the 127 candidates who entered 'NI itillolrew
baore the ex ation commenced, and failed to
satisfy the examiners in group A. Forty eight have
Passed gnat', A for the first tinte,2s (.1 t min in ninn.
and three more have passed a se sari time in religiona
knowledge, and two in English language atalliteratm,
F•oty-three have IWOO4I in group n, if whom Et are in
the honour classes ;jive in !..;notp I (mat licinatiesk two
in Fecund class 1,,.,, turn; 11111 group I) (moral sciences).
of whom six are in honours ; four m group E (natural
science), One in second clam honours ; and six in group
F (art). The scholarship of £4O, offered by the Com-
mittee fir the Cambridge Lectures for Women to the
best candidate in moral science (group Di, has been
awarded to a lady who passed, at the Cambridge
centre, in the hint ela,a, with special distinction in
SHIPWRIGHT'S STRIKE ON THE CLYDE.—At a
meeting of shipwrights hell on Saturday it was state)
that the Reof,ew 1:1OO come (tut the day before,
and that the Green,* men had solicited a conference
with their empb.yers, which had been refused. They
therefore dem:auk( an WM MA., 4,f wages from
2:ts. 7.b1. to 30s. for 57 hours' work pi.r week. They
say that trade is remarkably brisk, that if the men
were striking others could be found to fill their
places; that the ehipwrights' wages in England and
Ireland are better than in Glasgow ; and that, for
example, in Belfast tie wages are rte. per day. It was
agreed unanimously that the men had nothing to do
with piece work ; and a motion that 275. tid. be ac-
ceptwl. as a week's wages on condition that the wa.tent
reCoSuiand hour mei§ auk, %la rejected.