The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-01-09 00:00:00

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EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FORE:GN.

George Francis Train waft to receive a Fenian ova.
tint, on his arrival in New York
A remarkable trial by court.martial commenced on
-Monday at Portsmiattli, the defendant bong Cantata
Wilnishurst, RN Gi•vernor of Isle of Aacermi ~,, , who, it is
said, saved on his own ace t a large toctutttY of cotton
from a wrecked ship, the Br.vneis. 'lll • proceedings,
which were extremely bingthy, were adjourned.
The Morning Post announces, as the first result of
the "new toss.," at the Admiralty, "the unavoidahle dis-
charge of thirty clerks and writers whose services are found
ti be absolutely supertfitcas."
The Moscow Gazette says in its impression of the
311th ult, that the preservation of peace nfl Ear- 'ye wi'l ne
due to the good understanditht which exists between Fran,
and Russia, those two powers having brought about bin
Conference which is to settle the Turco-Greek difficWty.
A few weeks since, the rectory of Doddington, re-
puted to be the richest living in England, being wi tell up-
wards of ta,taik a year, became vacant by the death of lie
Rev. Algerian Peyton, who held it since kill. It has le en
conferred upon the Rev George Edward Walker. M A., late
incumbent of stoulton, near Worcester. The living will not
Ile so valuable in future as it has been, inasmuch as the town
id March, which woo formerly contained in it, has been
formed inty a separate benefice.
During the past week 104 wrecks have been reported,
making for the past year 2,510.
The last number of the Engineer states, apparently
upon good authority, that Mr. Isherwood, the chief engineer
of the United States Navy, has reported against the Ericaan
monitors.
A Paris paper, called La Veilleuse, has just been
sentenced to 300 francs tine for publishing an article on
aldlle. Schneider, the "Grand Duchess of Gerolstein,"
which that tatty prosecuted as "injurious to her honour and
consideration."
Several papers say that Baron Ricasoli is coming to
bond ,t 1 as Italian minister.
Mr. Fell, the English imtrineer, has offered to the
Swiss Federal council to mole, take the construction of three
railroads over the Alps fir a guarantee of interest of 000,000
francs annually. lie estimates the cost of that over the
Simplon at from eleven to thirteen millions ; of the St.
Gothard, at from thir col to fourteen ; such at fifteen to
eighteen for the Luckthanier.
At the West Riding sessions on Mcniday the neces-
sity of an amendment of the licensing system was discussed,
and a committee was selected from the magistrates presei it
to consider and report upon the subject. The came ttee
met at once, and at a later stage of the prisieeilings pre-
sented their report, declaring that the present divided
authority on the staject of licensing was a serial' evil. and
required amendment, and that the hours of closi»g and the
management of licensed houses should be placed more
directly than at present under the control of the sortie
authority. This resolution will be subndtted for confirma-
tion to the magistrates at Sheffield.
Another case of child murder has just occurred. A
factory girl named Sarah Crawford, who had an illegitimate
child aged about twenty months, was turned out of her
lodgings at Bolton on the 20th of December. and went to
seek others. She returned to her old lodgings afterwards,
but without her child, acd said she had let t it in her i, w
quarters. It was subsequently discovered that she had not
been to the place she rt.:met', and she has not since been
heard of. In the meanwhile the child was found drowned
in a piece of water belonging to some mills At al. inilste4
held on Monday a verdict of wilful minder against the
mother was returned.
A letter from Rome says " The 'Poi Jerome of
the Valery company has just Mailed forty-eight case, of
Remington muskets whieh the !Wel
ordered at larainicitain. There aro in all s,isio stand of
arins, with sixty roumis of anaiiinition for each The f
corps are to lie pr•ivideil with those rifles at mice, entre the
native troops. The distril•ution is to commence with rite
IN edifier:a Zouaves, who will be in possession of the new :av
within three weeks"
A Board of Tric'e inquiry into the loss of the sail. g
ship took pl .ee at t:laagow on Monday. The
I; AS on her way front Sminam to Greenock with a
cargo of sugar and cot • m, when, on the morning of the 1:ali
of December. she was stranded and wrecked on the tri,lt
coast, one of the crew being drowned. It was reported I.
the :-oard offrade that the captain woo drunk when be, night
ash'','•, Eau, the inquiry. 'I he evidence went to siva,-
the captain was in feeble health, and had been much ex-
hausted before the wreck. The court found that he had done
all in las power for the safety of his vessel, and exonerated
hilll from the charge of drunkenness.
Riotous demonstrations against the grist tax have
taken place in various Italian towns, and the list of places
where orderhas been disturbed shows that ill-feeling prevails
avers wide extent of country. At retail, in the province
of Florence, some armed pea-ants attacked the town hall,
which was defended by tile anion:Ll gitard• One Pe.mit was
killed and several were wounded. The Ofiteiai Gazette says
that the disturbances arepromoted by political parties adverse
to the national institutions Seditious placards have been
been posteit in various towns in the province of Verona,
and shouts have been raised of " \lva il'Austria and
"Viva ilTapa

The Great Britain, in the twenty tripe she haa made
frc m Melbourne to Liverpo“l. has brought from the colony
the enormous amount of I,aro otHi oz. of gold.
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A boy, in London, fourteen years of age, has com-
mitted suicide by hanging.

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At the opening of the parliamentary session, Mr.
Charles Gilpin will give notice of a motion for the abolition
of capital punishment, it is understood that many b th of
the old and new members are desirous of having the subject
afresh discussed in the legislature.

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"Charlie.—Return immediately, and all will be
quietly arranged. Your mother is very ill —P.'— Dear
Alfred—l implore you to let me know where you are. My
life and remain depends on it—liessie."—Advertisements in
Daily felegraylt.
The shipwreck of the Jeonie, by which three men
were drowned, took place on Saturday night at the pier-head
of Aberdeen. The mate alone was saved.

A correspondent of the 211rtnehe*r Gtiardian points
out that Mr. Bright is not the first Quaker who in recent
times has been received at Court. Durin, the reign of
William IV. Dr. Dalton NV:I3 presented, in his lobes of
office, when that monarch, f, or want, no doubt, of some-
thing better to say, inquired if all was quiet in Lancashire.
A very worthy lady, well known in Manchester, fearing
that the doctor, in the simplicity of his character, miTit
make some blunder in etiquette, undertook to rthearse for
him the forms he hail to go through. Sh • :issumed the
royal personage, and the nwek form of presentatb•n was
admirably gone through, as was also the subsequent perform-
ance. The occasion is believed to Ii rve been when Dalton
received his honour; as D.C.L. or LLD.

At Copenhagen, on Tuesday night, a Court ball
was given in honour of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The ball was opened at a quarter to ten, the King dancing
with the Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales with the
Queen of Denmark, and the Danish Crown Prince with the
Countess lets lie Frijsenhorg. The English, French,
Russian, and Swedish Ministers were among the guests,
who numbered in all about 1,500.

In the United States Senate a petition has been
presented from 1.500 poor people of Stockholm, Sweden,
asking the American Congress to adopt some means by which
they can be enabled to emigrate to the United States.
An Indian and a she-bear were found lying dead to-
gether in the town of Woodville, Wis. The Indian had shot
the hear six times and then attacked her with a knife. She
squeezed the life out of him in a dying effort.
The deaths registered in London last week were
1.629. This is less by thirty-one than the estimated amount,
bat considerably in excess of the number recorded in the
previous week. I Inc Registrar-General suggests that this
fact may be due tithe Christmas-keeping it the offiAals, and
consequent delay in making up the books.
The short-time movement is making progress
amongst the Lancashire maninacturers, and the suggestion
Gust during January and February a orb should be liniitedto
three days a week seems likely to be generally adopted.
, Three shocks of earthquake are said to have been felt
at Weston-super-Mare early on Monday nrtrning. Mr. J.
Smyth-Pigott, the lord of the manor, "to whom such visita-
tions during his travels have not been moms'," testifies that
the vibrations were distinctly felt at his house,

Economy is the order of the day among the volun-
teers as well as in the regular army. Complaints having in
several instances been made that large expenses Or WC tiltl
of postage and stationery are entailed on volunteer corps,
whilst allowances granted to the adjutants of such corps
for the ,pecial purpose of meeting these expcnws remain I,
a great extent unexpended. Mr. Secretary Cordwell has this
n,•rning issued a circular to commanding officers, direct jug
that the allowance of £4 per company per •dinum shall be
expended under sbc orders of commanding officers, and that
adjutants are to resider an annual account of how the money
has been expended.

A French paper published in the city of Mexico,
describes the present state of affairs as being most
disheartening. It tells as that " all branches of industry
are ruined ; commerce was never in a more languishing
state." The writer also informs us that the nation's resources
are fast disappearing, and that "sadness prevails every-
where." This is the burden of all the news which comes
from Mexico direct, and it will be found a difficult matter in
the face of such facts to inspire public confidence afresh in
the future of the Republic. It has already pointed ,out the
way in which this end is most likely to be attained. Let
Mexico show smile signs of even a desire to deal honestly
with her creditors, and it might be of some use to invite •
English capitalists to embark in new Mexican speculations.
Mr. Cardwell, Secretary of War, has issued an
order, directing that the uttoost caution be observed in the
recourse to the telegraph, which should be adopted only in
eases where the delay involved in a letter by post would
really prove prejudicial to the public service.
The Duke of Hamilton, on the morning of the New
Year, according to usual custom, ordered too lie cibdriboted
the hollowing gifts to the poor on his estate in Scotland :-
2,5fi0 loaves, 5,5001b5. beef, and GOO packages of tea and
sugar, amounting to snmewhere about goollos, of the one,
and 50011 is of the other. The coals distributed in Hamilton
parish alone, through the agency of the clergymen in the
truss, consisted of 209 carts his grace also kindly supplied
serer ii hundred pounds of roast beef for the inmates of the
CoMbinAioll Poorhouse.
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Melancholy accounts of disasters by floods on Iced
and gales by sea continue to reach us front all quarters, ,
Fortunately the loss of life has not been very great, but an
immense quantity of valuable property has been destroyed
and terrible privations inflicted upon mariners at sea and the
poorer dwellers in low lying districts.
The investigation in reference to the murder of John
Morgan at Velindre, near Swansea, on the 7th Id November,
occupied the attention of the county justices at Swansea
three entire days, there being upwards of twenty witness..
The case is one of the most Inlaid that has evvi occurred in
the vicinity, and created a great deal of interest. It will
be remembered that the deceased was dellierately shot in
the head while sitting before his lire labia emta;:e. The
magistrates were mmnimous in committing the prisoner
, charged with the offence for trial at the next assizes.
; The Siamese twins, who have recently artived in
, Europe, with a view to taking the opinion of eminent
germs as to the probable success of any operation whichimild
he performed with a view to their detachment one trout the
littler, have, in the first instance, consulte Pro•eseer Site,
of Edinburgh. Frolesior syme informs us that he finds
Is distinctly a communication between the too trunks. and
is of opinion that separation would he sloioet certainly •anal
to both of the twins. Sir James Simpson has al ri.ed at a
similar opinion.
Daring the recent heavy gales no fewer than ten
vessels, if not more, were loseln the vicinity of the Conflict
Sands a few miles below the Nore. They were mostly coal
laden, from the North, and several were bound to the
Thames. In one instance a crew whose v.sel was loot was
again wrecked on board the collier which had picked them

up.
In London, on Saturday evening, at the Lantl teth
Baths Mr. Reverdy Johnson was presented with an ad rens
by the working men of South bunion expressive of goods ill
towards the people of the Uidtel states, avid of appoihation
of Mr Johnson's public conduct since lie has heen in this
c 11111 l try. His Excellency, in reply, reminded the worlong
classes that they had produced some of the greatest men the
world had ever known; and, in speaking of the relations
between the two countries, reiterated his previously en-
I Dressed conviction that the people .4 America weie de-
sirous of being at peace with all nations, and, above all, with
' Great Britain.
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The Record gave some of its friends a good deal of
untie,essary in nide on Tuesday by urgently calling them to
attend a meeting of the society for Promoting Chriatian
K nowledge, to resist a motion for making a grant to tile
Bishop of Cape Town, when nothing of the sort was con-
templated. An old notice of Mr. West's stmd on the books,
but after the great battle of December 8 it became a dead
letter Country clergymen come from all directions on a
cry unpleasant day merely to hear a discussion upon the
rules of the Society, for there happened to be nothing else
before the meeting.

According to the annual statement juet published
by the vicar and churchwardens of the parish church of
Leedk, the offertories at morning and evening service have
Yielded during the sear £1.150 175. ?A The contributions
included four x 5 notes, 93 sovereigns, 67 half.sovereigns,
four crown picas. 5f9 hall.crowns, 605 florins, s,B24shillings,
16,0. 1 sixpences, 3,475 fourpenny.pieces, 11.816 threepenny.
meres, and ID copper £124 17$. 10d. Of the sum total
lbs. 6d. proved to be bad coin.

The Sikle mentions that so great was the desire in
Paris to learn what the Emperor Napoleon had said during
the New Year's receptions at the ruileriee that the ,fournal
Wine/ of Slit...lay 1110rfling was even where eagerly pur-
chased, hi the hope that It would contain a report of the
speeches delivered by his Majesty, awl a frau, a copy was
charged for it hy the newseculore The new M,,rti,sur was,
however, silent upon the subject, and it woe, Ftrangely
...ugh, in the .td and now non official Moues.* that the
substance of the Imperial remarks first appeared.

One hundred and seventy isitinds have been sub- A serious landslip has occurred at Dartmouth.
scribed for the purp.se et raising floods for 'melting a lee- Several tons of earth and rock have fallen at the Castle, M-
anorial window into a7iiriet Church, Tod woroen, hog up the cove and destroying the footpath Wining to th„t
memory of the Rev. A. .1. Plow, who it will be reniemb `. romantic place. It is feared that a further slip will take
was one of the victims in the "Todmorden murder." place.
ith
liveral
Bears are plentiful in the vicinity of 'Warsaw,
The environs of Rosenau, in Viiiier 11 ungsry. xi-, wise. soup, this winter. Their tracks are seen in the snow
infested at present by e band of briterw.s comel.r; by a
v dm-. One norm hill 'ldled fifteen.
monk, who was recently an inmate a a ~..apw 1,110
tery. Madame de l'aiva, wife of the late Portuguese
~l'aiiittster at Berlin; is SOW f 0 be 111fieelt bY the death of her
HIM:OM ILI CU mmarrassed pecuniary situation, Ito have
Head-cm-0 able Talbot, the well-known Fenian de-
t• •• - • has ro fr..m the Royal Dish Constabulary on a been obliged to apply to the goverunned slit:oer
iuniunl,ei,r,g
I por .lalloot took a very prominent
I. the exam ses of his funeral. -
part in the suppreashm of the Fenian insurrection in the —"
south of Ireland. Captain George Middleton, of the baralue Da
,ii.ipring
The postage for newspapers to the United States •
0.0 board of which vessel about sev. nty Connese paesengers
ded during the voyage from llougkimg to Melloourne has
was, after the Ist of January, reduced to eme
been sentenced to twelve months'
On Monday night the brig Sandringham, labour, for neglecting and refusing to to tie certain prove
general cargo. from London for Bordeaux, was dile.... :isle.... Pions, fuel and water to the pasongerst
on Romney fiats. In making what the crew caled Ittro them --Australian paper.
lilt," as a signal of distress, with turpentine, they set fire to Letters bare been received at Plymouth from Ca.
the vessel, and the men had just time to escape Willi their ensue, ebiela state that sixty dead lo..dies were pickea up,
lives. I washed in firm the sea between ('ape }.'ittisterre 554
The mosque of Foundoukly, at Constantinople, has- ortegal, on December :Nand 29,
loy order of the Sultan, been lit with gas, and the other
Muslialan places of worship are likely t o lie shortly pro Anthony Lispyalard Roliertsrm, Chit ,Tustice of the
m eer.or tort of New York, tic,! in that dry on the lee to of
violed with a similar apparatus. Ii ...miler, aged el. Chief Justice E ...oertsos, in es lie tilts
The first piece of church patronage which has fallen familiar ly known, "the Chancellor," eas one of the tlest aul
to Mr. Gladstone siuee lie became Prime Minister is a easest men of the American judiciary, and lois death ie mil-
canonry residentiary in Worcester Cathedral which leas be- venally lamented.
come vacant by the death of the lion. and Rev. Jose For" 'lle Runs of Prussia is suffering from a COTlfllgion
tescue, NI A.. who w. alsio rector of Pe arid least, the ,ad by amu fro altavaw
of St Oswald's Hospital, Womester. The cermet) is werth u, n°
£eoo a year, with residence. It is officially stated that duriti.; the -ix days of tire
During the year Dale the deaths of n ltiss Than t2tat chi istmas holidays in Loudon. from the .24th to tlie 3 tit,.
persons eh.. were killed toy herses or vehicles in the st, eets se i. 072 passenvers passed along the dues of the Metropolitan,
Lontioniwe, e registered. Siety-five children undertlse age ad 10 Railway tea‘apa".
years, Is young persons from 10 to 15 years of ~ge, awl der I ,
persons' aged dup 20 yeers anwards, boat their lives. Seven rWO San Francisco
pepolicemen tried a to arrest
persons were killed by horses, If by omnibuses, ill by celas, I Chinaman They found it necessary to leave him a moment,
45 by vans or waggons, 7by drays. 53 by carts, and so by and so handcuffed loin wdh his am: eater side of a lame
vehicles not described. post. When they returned their prismer was gone—he had
climbeel up the foist and swung his arias 's or the top!
The London Gazette of Tuesday states that the Qua en
has irolived a conge, d'eliie t 0114135 the Great Seal ilireetina the The other day, at Forgandenny. N. 8., in rouse-
Dean and Chapter of St. l'aul'a to elect Dr. Jackson, Ii- hop gramme of some dispute between the inn. awl the schiml-
of Lincoln, as bishop of tee see of London, vacant I 7 piaster, the latter read the 11.011 IS of a mare ,ge in tieeloureh-
the promotion of Dr. Tait tar the Archbishopric ef C. am- yard by moonlight. No objection was and the parties
bury. were married.
Burns, while out with the Merstham harriets The Florence corrispondent of the Djiats states
last week, load crossed an arable field, bounded on ore smote by that the municipality of Tillie recent!: waited on King
a hedge and aimi, which sep gated it fries a pasture field on :
e ',tor Emmanuel, to congratulate him upon the aloloroeli-
a rather lower level. Mr. Burn did not prepare his bone
trig confinement of the Duchess of Aosta that the Klee.
fir the leap soon enough, and though the aMinal cleared in his reph, which was el a COllVCl,ltiotili kind told them
the hedge, its hind legs canoe in the flitch), while its bore legs the trials i 707 Italy WITO not yet over, that stoormy nays were in
rested on the top of the bank The shock of the riders store for her, but that they Walfid eer stronger than
weight was so great in this position that the horse's back Was i„,b„.e., sail abs,,i„toy complete. „b., ‘, viler mu, in
loroken awl it fell Mr. Burn, has ever, got off without leoe and in twill Victor Emmanuel 11,01 similar Immerge,
injury except a slight scratch. The horse was shot iminedi- awl that little importance was attaelied to it at the time,
ately. though events afterwards slurs el that he hail spoken
- • truly.
The Ring of Portugal opened Iris parliament ore
Monday. his Majesty in his speech 1.6..4 relerred to the
disaster white bad occurren at Womminque, and sail that
the Government IMO taken energetic measures to retrieve it.
The state of the finances. the Hung SAO seas" grave." but
loy went order in the aoloolnistration mod le d' ' of
the expeeniture moil self -merilice his Majesty hoptel the deli
catty might lie overcoonie.
The War Department, an Irish paper states, has
decided on enclosing a burialgromel exclusively for the
soldiers on the Curragh.
" 'The Eight Honourable John Bright had the
honour itf dining with her NI njesty,' so saes the Cenef o'or,e
anon of Friday last. Perhaps the great minister and his
Sovereign were engaged in seeing th. I old Year tint 001 the
New Year in. Bet the event belongs to the lliol Year, nail
we may well wonder what greater plienometion lseJ usU
ering forthT—Toniehaark.
A week of special prayer was cinumenced on Mon-
day at Freenoasona'-hall, iii LOIIOOII All Protestant reli-
gious sects were adequately represeeted. 1.01,1 Benstoek
presided, and iii his °perdue address referred to the circion-
stances which hail powerfully effeete I religion during the
last year, expressing deep thankfulms. tog the means wloich
had been provided in many district-, for extending the
Gospel Prayers were offered up for many persons woo had
made special request.
"We now see Prussia, which in 1856 held such an
'marline position at the Co nogress of Iris, assmuing the direc-
tion if European diplomacy in E.eders Ohms. It ,9199 f
be denied that Pruesia is rising ; ant we record the fact not
only without jealousy, lint Withollf Cert aim Att we
are that, whatever may be its government, France is resolved
not to go diown.”—The Monitunr.
A writer in a clever Paris paper remarks, as one of
the characteristics if his countrymen. their eager awl bit her
impatience of trifling offences on the part of authority,
la !dist they are commit to live for years under a pie-smell
arbitrary, moil practically in mponsilde system of govern-
ment, which they have delibenately chosen iii preference to
public liberty and to the right of nomiaging their own affairs.
Every one knows that, on the Ist of January, the
air i'mint of letters and cards that pass through the Paris post
is something extraordinary. Fashion says tbat the inter-
change of carols no no tomer necessary, lout the postal returns
tell quite a different tale. During the last week of Decem-
ber, four or five tilousanot hags-full were received every- day.
o la Thursday night two million envelopes ciontaitoinz cards
had been reeeived at the General Post, without clowning the
usual amount of letters and newspapers. never less than
500,000 All the Post-ottice clerks were at work from boar
o'clock a.m, until midnight ; and, thanks to this and either
ju.iicions arrengemeets, nearly the whole of this vast quan-
tity was distributed on New Year's-day.
The lifoniteur saysthat, taking one year with anat., er
not less than 30,00n4t001l franca' worth if mree.tmeats ,t 3
annually made in France. As the exports are under 3,0 s 000,
this leaves 27,000,000, I,r nearly £1,100,000 sterling, se air
annual value of home-made sweetmeata consumed by His.
Preach Peelole. Tothuis have to lie added £100,001.0 or efaal,tooo
worth of "cheap sweets," manufactured by steam,amel im-
ported from England into Franc*.
The report of the United States' Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, recently presented to Congress, states
that the nuather eof persons assessed for Income-tax in Pie;
was only 25,1,385', in 1568 it was but 222,77.5 a 221
districts, the number in the other districts drown which the
neuters had not been received' toeing 20,948 in ISO 7. The tax
is c dinned to incomes over 1,090 dots.
Prince Saint-Satin. formerly General of the Mexican
army, and noted for lois devotion to. the cause if the not or-
tunate Emperor of Mexico, has entered the Prussi on anev
Ile is provisionally an ached with the rank of major to the
Queen's Regiment of Grenadiers.
At a reeent r ice meeting held at Noumea. New'
Zealand, the principal feature was ''s ladies' plate, in wli ci
the " pigskin " was occupied by ladies. A Miss Casey won
the race admirably.
Tt is reported, and with some probability, that is
satisfactory proposal will be made to officers on half-pay to
induce them to retire from the service.
A negro named Menard has recently been retuned to
U., cress from Louisiana. Ile presented his credential,.
lout failed to meet with the ergilial revel,. ion mmu winmeli
he appears to have calculated. "lie complains bitterly
writes One 1,1.11.1,0,01 dent, "of the contempt with which he
is treated by the Radical Congressmen."
'there has been great excitement in New York
gr-wing out specul,itions in New York Central llailw,,e
sh• ''-'the Bourn of Direction la tying declared in lid. kn.! 1.
SO pirr cent, in extra Flo, manila per cent. ito mousy. ii hi.'
ran the price from 133 to Inf. con heavy LI -
interest that has told " iiuurhe sto,k
failures. This enema°,is dividend is said to be bwia fiele
anti founded on forOfitS mmie miler Canine Fiore V,ll-
derbilt's wise and economical management of Cie road.
A provincial contemporary, catalogming a series of
disasters which attended the keeping of New Year's day in
various parts od the country, says that on Friday metal,.
in Glasgow, a tailor, excited by drink, threw Ii i iii stif out of a
whitlow three stories in height, awl was killed on the epmi
and a w man racked another's skull in a hip-road known as
"the Ilavannah."

Peace and goodwill form the burden of the speech
delivered by the Emperor of the French on New Year's-day
Ever since the mentondile First of JRllllory, 1050, when
Napoleon 111. seized the OCCUSIOII of the annual reception at
the Tuileries to foreshadow, in his addre,s to th.• Anstiim
Anitiassa.n-lr, the approach of the campaign hi LombArdy, the
world has learnt to look anxiously fir the New Vein'o gilt of
Woloill which the ruler of Fiance may vouchsafe to his
diplomatic audience. I/n the present occasion nothing could
Inc more redolent, an to sp ak, of peace. alike in the present
and in the future, the language employed by his Imperial
Majesty
There has been shot at Berkeley an ordinary English
sparrow, which was almobt white, it having only two or
three dark feathers. . .

The gross amount realised by the sale of the late
Marquis of Hastings's library amounted to £5,280 4s. The
wines realised about i;S:I2 only ...shinfl, prtc"s were
obtained, the highest Mug 44 Bs. per dozen fr ort of
1840 vintage. The total proceeds of the sale were i:6,118.
A correimondent of the Dublin E,eniug Alai/ says
"When walking through Saukville-atreet last night, about
ten o'clock, I heard a newnventior calling out, 'Enaoig
Freeman. Glorious news from Tipperary ! Another land-
lord shot
The Calcutta correspondent of The Times gives us
some information respecting the cost of the Abyssinian ex-
pedition. The Government of India, he says, has advanced
In all £6,589.100, of *lnch no less than E:1,059,11,0 is still disc
Icy England to India. If to this sin hollows awl a half ha
added, the expenditure on the European side of Slice, we
shall have the total cost of the exim,li ion. The Indian Go-
vernment, it appears. were 101,1 that they would have to
supply only three millions, and In 41111. r to obtain the six
millions and a half rispoired, they hail to loorrnw 01 the Bank
of Bengal. AS the money was, however, obtained at very
low rates, the batik is anxious to be repaid. as it can now
emolity its fowls much more profitably.
Mr. George Peabody has sent a cheque for £lOO to
the Mayor of itrighton fir distribution ainongst the poor of
that watering-place, " in such a way as he considers will be
most beneficial to them."
General Sheridan reports that the whole of the
Indian territory is literally covered with game. There are
now more buffalo than will last the Indians for twenty
years. The turkeys are so numerous that thinks of 1,000 to
2,000 have been seen, and the country is full of grouse,
quails, and rabbits. Herds of antelope and deer are every-
where, and even ran through General Costar's train while oil
his march. The reservations laid off for the Cheyenms and
Arapahoes are full of game and the most luxttrioue grouse.
The Duke of Hamilton has decided upan breaking up
his training establishment at Winchester.
On Saturday, at Liverpool, Robert Garbert, a to-
bacco.pipe-maker, was charged with the wilinl murder of
his wife. It appears that the prisoner and his wife had
I lived apart for some tune, anti Garbert suspected his wife
of an improper intimacy with another man. Ott the mum'
lout of New Year's day prisoner went to the house where
deceased lodged, and in the course of a quarrel betwern them
prisooer knocked the deceased down and- cut her across the
abdomen in a frightful manner. She was taken to the hos-
pital, where she died about twelve o'clock the same night.
On Saturday, Thomas Jones, a collier, who had
, been apt,' ehendeil at Halifax on suspicion of beiug concerned
in the murder of the little girl Annie Houghton, at Aekhurst,
I near Wigan, on the 11th ,d De ember, was brousht up on
; remand, when the facts which appeared to inculpate the
I prisoner were explained away, and he was discharged.
' A correspondent advocates the idea that on our
inoors there are scattered on theirhard surfaces innumerable
pellets of lead, which have been liischarizeil trona the sports-
man's gun, and that the birds, picking up and swallowing
tne,..! seedlike Corns, have fallen vh.tims to the paralysis
yell known to be caused to animal life by this metal
Hoot:es., many a plump muireock has been killed by lead,
lout, perhaps, not in this way !
What might have been a most serious accident
happened the other day to Baron Nathaniel It4dlischild in
Park He was thriving in the Avenue de l'lmpkratrice, whim
his brougham was violently run into by another cars'
whirls ,ctudly cut the Bermes vehicle in two, the occupied
r-maining This is almost a miracle, cOnsiderin,
that Baron Nathaniel is blind, and could not, tin refore save
himself in any way. The coachman of the vehicle which
did the ndscliief was violently thrown off Ids seat, and is
scarcely expected to recovcr from the fall.
The magistrates at Machynlleth Montgornem-shire,
have had before them an extraordinary case of burglary owl
, attempted arson. The accused was a " ladylike" person.
. named Mary Jane Grey, who until recently was governess ill
the family id a gentleman resident in that neighbourbisst.
is house had been broken into, a quantity of silver stolen,
. sod an attempt made to fire the place. The evidence th it
. the pi Boner had 'lone it was purely circumstantial. She was,
, however, committed for trial
Mr. Goldwin Smith, writing from An-erica, plainly
, tells the working classes thrt they must look to their trade
, unions for the means of enabling them to compete with
wealth. He is wit Whined with the leyr House of C-tti-
. muse, and el.' ' •ly believes that the artisan- amid have
carried all the . 1.,t,2s who put up in their I..me if they
, lied used their " industrial organization," i.metly. Fie
would not offer himself as a candidate in the recent coil-
teat, because he could not afford to light a rich mast' and I
, could not have brought myself to accept peculiar/ aid even
from the most generous had."