The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-03 00:00:00

ERITISII AND FOREIGN.

EPITOME OF NEWS,

The London Scotanvin is informed that the Govern-
ment are inclined to make a highly favourable response to
the memorial of the Scotch members for a Secretary for Scot-
land.
A young lady in Maine poisoned herself recently,
and the coroner's Jury found a verdict that she came to her
death •' by having taken a dose of arsenic for the purpose of
beautifying her comp union."
A nautical velocipede was launched a few days ago
on the Seine, at Pett-Andely (Eure .M Lentaire, director
of a sugar factory In that place, constructed the apparatus.
which appears to anywer admirably, and only weighs 55
kilogrammes. On it that gentleman ascended the river mole
von, a league, and Lu returning attained a speed. of 71 mile@
au hour.
A potent has been obtained in America for the
manufacture of water'', of paler. It will lie no uncommon
thing, by and by, to carry a quart of milk home In a paper
!hag

Another of those strikes among the opera.ive nailers
which ore if such frequent occurrence in Woorce.renthire and
South Staffordshire is now rife in the locality of Bronuirrove,
MA it is computt d that there are a couple of thownind unit if
wink, that number Including men, women, and children The
strike has arisen out of a resolution adopted by the masters a
few weeks shwa to reduce the asked of their maim ten per
cent.

Eight hundred men, under the command of Colonel
Ili an. chilling the vigilance tif the Potted States authorities,
sailed last Saturday night from New York for Cunt The
Spanish Minimer at Washington ha* informed General
Grant that he sha:l demand his passports if an official
Interview he granted to the Cuban insurgent envoy.
AM inches' er j, mai states that the marriage of the
Marquis of liuntley and Miss Bra he of that city, will be
soleinni.eil, at Westminster Abbey, with full choral service.
The nil., and Princess of Wales will be present at the
ceremony.
"There were united in the bonds of holy matrimony
at Malew paint church, by the Rev. \V Gill, on Thursday,
the 101 h of June, Mr. Henry Wrrison and Mr.. Mylchree at,
relict of the late Solomon Mylchreest, of Maltw. The bride-
groom was a sprightly old boy of seventyithree years,
while the bloshing liride numbered about seventy-flee
summers."—Manz Sun.

The American I Adiem have reached such a degree of
luxury in their toilettes, that recently in :ie.' York eighteen
drrsf.makers were engaged for two Moil merely on the trim-
ming of a ball dress.
111 the Chicago Councils an ordnance is pending to
robe a revenue from advertising, by offering to the highest
hi der the privilege of pineal ding the back of the city police-
melt.

There are now over 2000 minors out in the Barnsley
distsict alto claim the support of the Miners' Union.
A freA strike ha taken place in Lyons, namely that
of the tent to silk-winders, who demand an werease of
wages from If. 400. to 2f. per day. There are about 8,000 in
number.
On the night of Ssturilay and Sonday 208 persons
were booked at the various I,rialewells in Liverpool on dowses
of drunkenness. Of these 67 were f Ito be in possession
of various sums of money varying from 44. to 13 11.1 s , whilst
no fewer than 151 were aloodutely pommel,. The question
is had this large number of persins spent their last penny in
drink, or, if nut, how had they obtained the drink?
The American papers report the occurrence of a duel
at Lundy.lane. Cmada, liet ween ati editor of El Cronista. a
. Spanish newspaper in New York city, and a Cuban gentle.
man whore name is suppteased. The Cohan wa+ shot through
iit,;:tahodrea.LlndwhirroeuTihtinfievoe.r,
fitnoedtthie,
b!,iutternational Hotel,
! The existence if a doubt as to whether the Duke of
Newcastle, an a peer of the realm, was antenattle to the law
of bankluptcy, caused the proceedings appointed to he taken
on %lionley on the petition for aojuilnation of b !mkt uptcy
against that tioltlemm to be awaited with some interest.
Certain necessary witness., however, were not in attendance,
and the cave, therefore, stood over.
Mr. Edmond Realm has come out as a preacher. He
preached .41 Sunday night at the Burdett Hall, Linnhouse to
a crowded audience from the text, "Blessed are the pure in
heart, for they shall see God."
The Tones states that the Prime Minister has in very
nattering terms cottomnicateal to Mr. Heron, the town clerk
of Stanch ster, her Nisje-t).B of of his recomnientla.
tion that the honour of ktoghtliitod should be conterred upon
Mr Heron, in recognition of hie high character and posaion,
not his long services to the couinunity with which be has
been Immediately concerned.
A New Yerk paintcr announces tinsit, among oth-r
portraits, helms a representation of " Death. large as lite."
The French Journal Offieirl, of Monday, gives an
account of the visit of the immeror sapoleon to Beauvais,
and refera to his !peeches there, nut does not report them in
extenso. In reply to the congratulations if the SW or, his
Majesty said he was happy t • observe the progress of agri-
culture and industry, thtt that progress was in great part
tine to the order which had heen maintained during the last
seventeen yearn, and that that order they might be assored
would never be serionaly disturbed." tits Majesty afterward.
replied to an address ..f the clergy, but none of his remarks
appear to have had ally political sigoiticence.
On Tuesday three co!onial bishops were consecrated
at Westminster Abbey, ant the cetemony was ittveste•l with
unusual interest from the fact that one of the consecrating
hishops was Dr Selwyn. eighteen years Bishop of New Z.-
land, and now Bishop of Lichfield. The new prelates were,
Dr Cowie
.Auckland,, Or, Marsden (Bathurst. New South
Wales), Juin Dr. Chambers ." Lishuan;. The archbishop of
CanOrlturj and several other leading members of the English
episcopal body were present.
A hotel to contain 000 bedrooms, and accornmolation
for 1,20 guests, is ,eing liuitlt on Broadway, New York. 'its,
in a bed throuOtont he 11-use is the scale, PO that only
married people are expected, and this hotel had better be
called "'the Merriest "
The end2ration from Liverpool last week wan not so
great as that of the preen RIB one.
The Prussian Aasociation for the Relief of Wounded

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and dick Soldiers in Time of War has offered a prize id £B5
fir the best essay upon the means of extending the opera.lollll
lif the society to maritime combatants. The authors are to
bite their conelnsinw upon the experience of hornier wars,
eye billy those of !sesta date. No restrictions are placed
011 the arrangement or extent of the essay, and the 'aii_nage
employed may be German, French, or English. The prise
will he awarded on the 30111 September, 1870, the birthday of
the Queen of Prussia.
in the London Court of Bankruptcy art application
has been made to expunge as iti.sf for £5,000 made by
Snick ey's Banking Company against the joint estate of Pete
and Betts, upon a promissory note, signed ity Sir 8. M Fetus and
Messrs. Betts and Cramptou The signataries proniised to
pay the amount named "jointly end several y, and any two
of at jointly." The Committal .... er held that •' any" must he
con•true-1 as to-inc BJIOOOIIIOIIS with "every," and therefore
declined to expunge the proof made against the Pdttt r tate.
At Liverpool. on Saturday notroirg. Mrs. Jonea.
the cite of a printer, found her husnand with his head and
part of his holly embedded in the reface of the midden at the
rear of the house quite dead, lie was in the habit, when
tracing out late at night, of getting thromdi the ashpit door,
so an not to arouse the inmates or the house, and it is sup-
posed thht he was Ilohla ttio Nome thing on Saturday, and,
being under the Influence of Mink, had fallen and not been
able to recover himself.
The Sheriffs of London entertained the Lord Chan-
cellor and her Majesty's Judges, at a grand banquet, on
Saturday. In responding to the toast of his health the Lord
Chancellor sketched the political events of the last tlfty years,
and also indulged in some curl -us personal reminiscences.
lie remarked, for example, that lie remembered seeing on
one occasion a scaffold prepared for the execution of six
person., every One of whom wail under twenty-four years or
age. ills lordship says that he AUTO pates all Itia own noccess
I in life to the two qualities of industry lino perseverance.
! At the Notts quarter sessions, Samuel Nlarson. 13,
! and Joseph Burn, 9, were charged with placing two Bon
railway chairs upon the rails ef the Midland Railway, at Nor-
niantiv.sueSoar, on the 7th May last, then by endangering
.! the liven of the passengers They both pleaded guilty, anti
! were sentenced to tme niouth'a imprisonment, with hard
' lahour, his lordship remarking that if they had been of m.
tnrer years the sentence would have been much more
severe.

We (Habfax Morning Chronicle) have been shown
by the manager of the Montreal Gold Mitring Company
°wrath g at Cutacke, a brick of geld weighing upwares if
fifty ouricee. It warn the product of the cumpauy's mine at
that place for May.
The Londtn correspondent of the Levis Mercury
says another great nobleman has conic to grief. Ile was one
of the principal speakers I. the derrates of last week. At
the very time that he was speaking in the House of Lord.
the bailiff. were making themselves at home in his town
home.
The Patrie states, although under a certain reserve,
that three Prmsian emrr, who had put up at the Hotel de
TEurope at Mournielon. near the Ca tip of Chabios, anti who
were present in plain clothes oil Tuesday at the nuorterivres
executed in presence of the Emperor, metl such offensive
language teat Marshal Niel, Minister of War, sent an 'tiler
of gendarmery to enjoin them to quit the camp within the
space of an hour, which lujuuction they were obliged to com-
ply with
The Historical Commissioners have got so far into
their good WOI k as to have aprerieted how travelling depu-
ties—rine each for England, It eland, Scotland, and Wales—
who alit have to visat country houses, and report on the
literary treasures which may be found its them.
Should the Channel Ralway be carried out, the
bridge will be from Dover to cape Blanc Nez which is lets
than 19 miles. The estimated exinnse is eight millions
sterlieg for 19 miles The estimated time required far ha
construction is three years. Tee bulk of the material em-
ployed would consist of wire cables.
On Saturday afternoon a whale, mea.uring abont
fifteen feet long, went ashore, alive, at Tynemouth, near the
base of the Lighthouse Cliff,. Being observed dodging air rut
the rocks, It WAS captured by some fishermen, and killed by
moldier sticking his hayonet throught it.
Ths Lancet states that the following notice has been
put op at the entrance for out-patients at St. George'. UoS-
p!tn.l, Loudon toe benefits of this institution being
Intended fir the realty pour only, persons not in that condi-
tion will be rejecteri."
A great festival has lately been held at the Poutilof
rail factory sit. Eetersburith), on the occasion of the com-
pletion of 2,t 00,000 poude (about 800,000 cwt.; of rails. The
rise of this factory re mainly owing to the privileges granted
by the itu-sian Government to companies purchaetirg their
railway mstrrlul In Russia, and to large orders for the
governmental lines.
At the meeting to advocate the release of the
pris noes, h-id on Monday in the Rotunda, Dublin, 4,000
persons were present. Mr Britt, QC , said the motto of
true Irishmen should be "Bele your time, pint your trmt in
God, and keep oratir powder dry." If Government persisted
in retattring the prisoners, any profession of conciliation was
useless. 01r. Williams, of Dungarvan, said tile prisoners
moat not accept mercy, they demanded justice of the Brig-
-11-h Government, and if it was refused, let the blood be on them
own heads. He did not advocate a resort to the sword—that
douttiue was out of time.
The Mid Wales Railway Company have been sued
by the coutractors for the I:01141,c LI.. ..1 the line, who
sought to re .over the amount of four bonds for
£ooor each. On the part of the defendants it was submitted
that there was no debt due to warrant the tune of the bonds
to which the company's seal had been affixed w ithout the
authority of the hoard. A. verdict WAS taken for the
plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the full court upon the
transaction.

The Archbishop of Dublin has written a letter in
which he says that the deputations from Ireland on behalf of
the Irish Church most favourably impressed the Peen whom
they waited upon with the good settee, ability, firmness, and
moderation which one and all displayed.
An ineinest WM held in London, on the body of a
man who had been a great c runkard. the medical evidence
showed that the cause of death was seri..., apoplexy,
accelerated by habit a of Ilrinki,g It was stated at the
inquest that a publican in the neighboul hood, on hearing of
t he death, said , "1 have lost another if my best customers ;
that is the third, and initueets were held on the oilier two !"
A trial for tinellin4 took pkWe at l'aris on Saturday.
rhe accused, all at oi-ates, were PIPE Maurice Jwy and
Lefty.. tete, principale, and SIM. Coulon, Ferry (since elected
deputy for Paris , Fontaine. and Rey, chario-d an accessories.
rite two first-named were writete tin a journal of law and
police news, called the P 0,14, and during a dispute between
ihein In the editorial office M Plastics Joiy attuck M.
Laferriere in the face. A tattle meeting envied, and the
agressor was slightly wounded in the arm Theconiliata
wore sentenced each to pay a line of 201., and the rel.:orals to
a penalty of Oof. each.
The A theamant says that a discovery of" lost letters"
has Just been made witch is of singular interest—nothlog
Use curious than the auppb-med con-tsp. riciest if iltarles
tne First with I.i* friend* tin the eve of the battle of Nara b..
rho Hours Of COLIMA.tis printed at the time a ,oriecrion of
Royal letters under the name of The King's Cabinet
Opened." These letters were thirtidilne in number; but it has
been always known that, for reasons of State, a good many
or the Kuues letters were kept back. These suppressed
letters are the papers receaUy found.

Saks, says an American paper, is becoming a.ll sod
It has taverns, gambling houses, robberies. murders
"caucuses," sad political tiahts at delegate elections.
The It n. Slingaby Bothell }MS been sued upon a
bill of exchange for L 4,00. orawn upon hint by his elder
brother, and payable at three niouths. Thd olelence was that
the acceptance was a forgery, Mr beihell *tiding that he had
taken up four previous bills of a similar char act, no order to
save his brother, and upon the assurance mat there would
Be no more. The Jur, found for the defendant.
The f. ollowing inscription is actual:y to be found in
an ancient cemetery tnt Rae, boater. Nlassaolni‘e•to
In memory Of Jabe Beat, tmbo baked up Ii r heo Is and awn,
she sent, "

A correspondent of a London contemporary data
that he arid a friend tin Silirate tout, 1.61.1.00 w on
6iudiaw to make • pleutiiul supply of snowballs.

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'l'be annual rate of mortality last week was 20 per
1 000 in Loudon, 40 in Eiliiiburah, and 20 Si Dulibu; IS in
Bristol, 18 hi Birmingham, 25 in Llverp•ml. 25 in Main:nes-
ter, 2410 aialford, 23 in Suettield. 24 in Bradford, if in Lew 's,
28 in 1101, 25 to Newcastle,pou-Tyne, and 34 in Glasgow.
On Saturday afternoon a fight took place between a
party of excursionists from Wigan and the donkey drivers
on toe shore at lien Brighton. The conflict, although it of
long duration, wan fierce and sharp, resulting to one of the
donkey drivers being reltd.ed insensible, and many persons
being wounded on both shies.
An announcement in the Ra4way News would seem
to allow that Mr Lowe was by no means hitting at random in
his recent remarks on the Bank of E iouut. It know stared
th,t he has resolved to propose the quarterly instead of half
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yearly payment of t;,erritnent di. idt•tl.l,,, and bas utitler
oli-re from two Hut-stock banks to undertake
the duty at half the sum now paid to the Bank.

The Duke Arid Duchess of Saxony were recently
captured by Fungi's band of brigands. When the chief
arrived on the scene he took ti his hat, politely haled
then, to their carri.ge split, giv ng a five-franc piece to the
coachman, said, o i.h a final 110 M W ) our Highness deign
to excuse the audacity HMI insolence of my men, and carry
away with you a favourable lecollection cf the poor N.V..
'HAM Fare,." The duke I, said to have !Wilt Ills captor a
magnincent gold watch and chain, valued at 4 OW francs.

Prince A 611331,00, PI In of the late Kinr Theodore,
left England on Saturday afternoon in the Peninsul, and
Oriental steamer en route to India Ile was accomponsd hy
Captain Speedy and his faintly. The Prince vete I the Isle
of Wight previous to his departure Ile now speaks E •glish
tolerably well It is stated that he is to be edmasted at one
of the 111,1 i. Colleges.
A brother of Lord Fanilirtues valet, who was killed
In the A bereele railway .eident, has obtained £3lO damages,
/1 which £225 is for the de.eased's mother, and the balance
for art:cles destroyed.

It is stated by the Austrian Correspopadente that rite
Viceroy of Kai t, in consequence of the r loimit article.
act list him winch have appeared in a Turkish newspaper,
has addreseril a letter to the Sultan In wirch he describer as
Want:lona ineinuations the reports of his desire to separate
fro •o the Porte, and expresses the hope that he may soon be
able to give proofs in person of his fidelity.
A traveller in Arkansas found the following notice
0!1 the ins ryinan's door at Cache River Noathys--Ef tinny
1111dy emus hear, aster ticker or to Kit akross thst River, they
Can gee blow this hear horn, and ef I don't coin when toy
Betsy 1111 at the noose dears the horn blowhi, *hide ruin
down and sell thein the licker, or set them akross the river,
nue a-ny from hewn joint wilson. NII them that can't
mile will have to go to the nous arter Betsy taint but Miff •
mile Ow "

" Lord Derby is very ill. The day after the debate
on the second reading he took to his hl, from which he has
since then hareUy risen. Ile I. suffering greatly from his old
enemy the gout, sod is said to be very lux, and dispirited."
Naocherter Guardian, June 26.

"Desth on the rafter" is the way they announce
bango.g ,uicitleo to Looloville.

At it secret Coin'st,wy, held on Friday, in last week,
the hipe delivered aii address, 1., wri,ila be e implaitied It
the new law abolishing the privilege former y reid el by the
pries hood in Italy, of exemption from time conscript ion Ha
latnente also the pokitiuu tithe Church in Austria, Hungary,
Spain, and Poland.

Alias Sneciden in person appeared in the Divorce
Court, in London, on Tuesday, in supput of a motion for a
re hearing of her case against the Attortie) -General. Lord
Pe.,z dice, however, said tat he cou,tl lint entertain the rim-
[hot, and that the only cow.se open to the petitioner was to
appeal t • the full court.

At Leeds, fire ngn have been charged with having,
on the , et itchy treate a six gain-cocks, lie causing
them to ilhhi together, ligiog annul with metal spurs. The
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defendants all hie near Bradford, and are well known in
heir own neighbourhood for their lee of this Inirleirolua and
line 01.1.4 olniolete sport. the sentence on each was lin-
priodinient for two months.

The Italian papere gat, that, the earthquake wMeh
recriEly to Is place at Bolmola was tl.e most severe th.,t has
heeo (At there for the last hundred years. %II the clocks in
the town stopped, including those or the Observatory. The
snuck caused great alarm, but did Do damage. It was also
felt at Florence, but was very alight there.

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The Quren went to London on Monday morning,
and In the fifterno,n gave a grand hreakf ist ii. the ground
of Buckingham Palace, in honour of the Viceroy of Egypt.
About sin nundred invitations were issued. It was a very
grand idiair.

At. adilltliCatiOn of bankruptcy haaheen made in the
Bristol District Court, against Mr *Limb, junior partner in
the firtn if Morel, and Lamb, wh tlesale to, dealers, Bristol,
4.11 a petition presented on behalf of credit°, s. The osnk-
rupt has aft minded, and it was di4covered on the previous
day that he had made away with money to tile extent of up-
wet di of £15,000, raised by mean, of tea warrants, Sc It
is btlieved that he has left the kingdom. the B. iatul magis-
trates have granted a warrant for hi, apprehension. Great
sympathy felt for Mr. Morris, the senior and moneyed
partner la the firm, whose co. fl Imice has thus bean abused.
'lle Viceroy of Ego ph, who seems to understand the
arts if popularity most •UCCePSTIII 11,10,-(6 tars, went ti the
Crystal Pelee, ott 'I mailay, idol was "tile ohserved of all
observers " in a itoe it of visitors far exceeding any which
hove !leen re.tordeil this gesso.. It is trifle tlott beside the
Viceroy the attractions rompriae I a grand orchestral per.
formance, ut.der the direction of Sir Si. Costa, the gteat
fountains playing, anti nreworks and illuminations id the most
auterh character, The Prince and PilaCeS3 of Wales were
imsaeot, anti the c moo, was vart and enthuslastio. The
Viceroy would find it difficult to find anything in the famous
stories of the Arabian poets to match the enchantment of
this scene.
cane was lately submitted to the Solicitor-General,

Sir 1 yaliner„ and Dr
.Deane., asking th.im to t ive on

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on this miestion —"Aoo big that the present 1311170 p of
Natal has been guilty of an ecclesiastical offence, what steps
cao be t aken to bring him to trial, and before what tri-
bunal I'7 The reply is to the effect that it. eteps can be
taken for bringing Dr. Colons° for trial before any tribunal
competent to decide the matter.
The v.locipede mania in Paris his increased so
much that it has bec•aile a public street nuisance.

" Mr. John Bright and- Mr. W. E. Foniter hilve re-
signed their inemb,mhip ot the itefotin t tun. The two right
honourable gentlemen had joined Mr Wentworth Beaumont
in a req.usitiou to the conamttee, prop dig in accord:thee
with the roles of the institution, no American imitleman as
a meatier for one month ; but when the ballot watt .Iten the
emendate was blackballed, whet•eupon Mr. Bri,ltt and Me.
F.triter marked their seine of the refusal by their retirement
man the Club It is not improbable that the whole billt-
ject, may be brought before a general meeting of the
membirs.”—Doily elejraph.

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The Court of Bankruptcy is becoming quite a place
of fashionable resort !

In lately dia.ributing the prizes to the lads on board
the Conway school frigate, Mr Childers expressed his
oar-
Vi,-tjrri,, from the results of the recent criti.e, that the lama
reserve was a great success. The right hon gentleman also
briefly touched npon the administrstive reforms WhiCh are
bow icing ciirrirti bet at the Addivralky, and aside I that the
changes, while embodying ajo bet. in economy, w.nild pro-
mote in the best possible way the efficiency of the navy.
A French paper pie. a new versi, on of a very raci
anecdote It sass that during the recent visit of the Prince
of Wales to Berlin a review rkf Prikiai•n grenadier guards
took place, wheo Ills Royal Ilishness W.fl asked by Coital
Bisminck if he thought that a Ihonsand French soldiers
coal heat a thousand of the mod: before trim, "I do not
know," replied the hluce, "but tam sure that flvt hundred
wall try.''
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A immier lunatic, named Ann Cook, who i now in
the i3.rlands As)ltini, near Carlisle, has become entitled to
E. 15 000 under the will of a relative.

A fiahrtionger of B. rim, on the occasion of the birth
of his twelfth son, according to custom, asi.eii the King avid
the Royal I'm hoes to be its welt/ethers The Khg re sienoled
by making the happy Hiss a present of Gm e °neat. One of
the Princes also sent a present of rive goachen (eispence) In
postage stamps ! ffot.leess
Baron Jerome David, Vice-President of the French
Chamber, having reoently been made Grand Officer"? the
Legion 41 Honour, M. schneider, the Prenidebt, has resi2ned.
e has since withdrawn his resignation on receiving satisfac-
tory explailivions from the Emperor. Ilia Majesty, to the
letter where the,e explanations are given, prote•ta against
the fa.our conferred on Baron Ovid beige Norm d ass
reactionary sign, and states that his policy will continue t)
be. sol before, to rec-ticile " tlLe esistence of a strong power
with tha, of sincerely Theral institutions."

S'e undo rs' News gives currency to a rumour that the
Lord Chief Boron will soon be made a peer, and adds that
the judicial tribunal of the lleuite of lends, at present so
limited, and who a decisi .... a are final, would he materially
streng, betted by the occasional assistance of a judge enimeut
for his learning and attainments.
Several ,ontlemnations if French Journalists have
been announced hl. Roche'ort (in his absence, haa been
sentenced tic three years' imprisonment, three years' Pr.
future of civil rights, and a line tif 10,000 frai es, for corn-
pitchy in the illegal introducti.m of the banter. into
France, and a willowy of gentlemen connected with the
Soc.'s. the Elect,ur Libre, or the Opinion Natianale, have
also been sentenced to tines and impri•ounient.

The American papers just come to hand describe the
National Peace Jubilee at Boston as a magnificent success.
It was et lebrated by the greatest musical concert of too .ern
times. The concert took place In the Colosstuto, a building
which covers four acres. 6..000 persons were present she
first day, amongst whom were 13,000 musicians—via, 1,000
instrumental performers, and 12,000 singers.

"The near.,, JesAe Edwards, who was charged with
outraging and murdering a Miss Sarah Kite, was taken from
the gaol in Lexington, Va., on Saturday night, by a disguised
party .4 13 cchers and hauged to a tee Wne I the rope was
round his nm k he was made to climb the tree to a low limb.
An he was being pii4ied .4 he caught desperate It .11.1 of the
limb aith his lumd% and wIS finally swung off (surly after a
hard struggle with the 13 nchers."-4 nwrican paper.

A ,ingular story is told by a corn-opulent of the
Weekly Register In a cathedral town in Frisbee, wane time
8,1), a,. Englisnman dressed In the earl, if a pr cit. was
noticed to be particulaily uttentive ill City big his ra)ers at
Vitliolll altars in the catnedr..l. By and by he infra:laced
himself to idle ,if The ecclesiastics as "an English caudal°
priest," RIIII remarked that lee would like to say unve riczt
day. To make a long story short, at was di-coverer, aft, a
great deal td beating aligns the bash on the vie, of the de.
linquet.t, that the so-called '•
lihegitsit Catholic miest " was
nothing more than an Anglican warm, "and thus,' It ia
added, "a great sacrilege was prevented."

A few days since the papers announced the midden
disappearance of the cashier of a firm of high standing in
Liverpool. The amount of the deficiency VI ail stated to be
about £0 000 bun it now appeals lb it, in as Idi Lon ti titi
misappropriation of his empiiiyers. ir...ney, there are Coot 1,1
very heavy tialemen's bills left unpubt—jlwellera, toilers,
hosiers, Ise tinakers, wine ni.rch:dits. ct. The runaway
has lel no fewer than three wives and three fathers in law
behind him, and, if rumour incorrect, he is acconipinied in
his flight by a widow, of about thirty years of age. It is rail,
also, that while he held his confidential situation the cashier
was really it returned convict, in poseession of a ti,ket-of-
leave.

A ease bag been heard, at one of the London police-
courts, in which the conduct 41 two witnesses was commended
to the notice of the Royal Runtime Or iety. A torteg woman
had thrown herself into the Regent's C dial, at Upper Clairton,
whets reiident in one of the adjacent nooses left liii lied,
plunged into the water, and rescued her as she wos shout to
sink for the thivil time. Al other rears, who had previously
expostulated with tier in vain whilgt upon the hits, also
rendered assistance. The niavistnite earmly livibcd this
join, action, and ;twat dill to escn of them a small now of
money in reciigliftion on sleek. service.

The new marriage law oli.Oltio, jut printe I. pro-
hibits map lege between flr-t rondo, arid of girls under six-
teen years of age. and of girt or" young ladies," under
twenty-one 3 ears of age without the consent of their parents.
Under the old law girls, over fourteen year. of Air, were
allowed to msrry with entoeut of their parents, aud thee
over thtliteeo to marry Witiltl.lt CollllClit.

The Lords of the Admiralty are reeolved not to be
left behind in g, ner.oi y by the Uetroi .0 itait Commissioner
by hove l.s.ied a -ire Oar, a,lll •1111.111. thot
benceiorwrd, cerann re.truubo.s, oth,re ani sea-
men are free to 111-pe? se with the r:.z .r. The restrictions
enter with precision into the minutest. details. Vict lance iS
to be ek.rcised hr those in authority lest "iiiiimsteal" cuts
are adopted by those who take to the beard, which must be
kept well trimmed, and not too long for cleanliness. It is
decreed, however, that "the beard is not to be were withone
moustaehes, nor the While without the former."