The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

In the Calcutta lottery for the Derby, 9,644 tickets
were taken making the first prize worth nearly £lO,OOO.

A lord and a commoner are said to have been ruins
by the result of he Derby contest.
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A 11,ston paper whispers that the Great Organ of
that city is unqueattonahly the organ of self•esteem.

sportive seer of a daily paper said the other
day: —" We do not aspire to the glory of joretelltng recent
eventi." _ _ _ _

The corn of £l,OOO was a few days since left at the
bank of Mrso3 Ransom, Bouverie, and Co, In London for
the British Hospital for Diseases of the Skim"

It is ataterl that a marriage im arrangefl between the
Marquis of Downshire and alias Balfour, oldest daughter of
Mr. and Lady Georgian& Balfour.

The child of Mr. Armstrong, Deptford, has been
burnt to death, having been put into bed with Lucifers col..
Cealed about his night-dress.
An American paper states that a clergyman of
Putnam. Connecticut, recently married a couple on the can,
without the other passengers having any knowledge or
suspicion of the transaction.

We are pleased to hear that Mr. Brieht's health
continues steadily to improve, and that the right how gentle-
man is able to take regular walking exercise, the weather
being mild and favourable.

A monument to John Kepler, at Well der Stadt, the
birthplace of the great astronomer, will be uncovered on the
24th ii.st. Subscriptions have been received from all parts of
Germany, France, Rua, and even North,America.

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The passage-money from Madras to Soutlnmpton
by the Yenlnsular and Oriental steamers has just been re-
duced,from Ohl rupees to 600 rupees, and to Marseilles from
850 rupees to 730 rupees.

In some proceedings relative to Lord Courtenay
baokruptcy, It wae stated that the Iht of creditors Includes
the Marquis of Andlesea, &bald £14,000; the Earl of
D3VOI), £lOO,OOO ; and the Duke of Newcastle, £25,000, and
IntereFt_.

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The Ili.hop of Llandaff, an chairman of the 01,1
Testan,nt compsny appointed by Convocation for the re-
vision of the Authorised Versi,m of the ficriptures, has sum-
moned the company over which he presides for a first meet-
ing on the 30th of June and on the lst of July.

A man clad in a coat of mail highly polished is
travelling about on horseback. Ills object in going In this
guise Is neither Quixotic nor warlike. Ile Is travelling to
advertise the ex,eUence of the black lead with whioh his coat
of maul, polished.
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At the Liverpool police.c aurt, on Montliy, Captain
Follsod, of the stearner Roque, 1,, was fined ,210 and costs for
loading gunpowder in the Mersey while there was a fire in
the galley, contrary to the bye.law.

The "silver mines" in Linlittignwshire ass (ssys the
North Britirh Mail) not altogether the hoax they nese at
first pronounced. on Monde), contiguous to the 011 work-
ings, a rich vein of silver awl lead, from 15 to 20 inches
thick, was unexpectedly laid bare, and the ore to raid to be
of good quality.

A terrible storm paesed upwards over the Missigi.ippi
on the 24th of last month. It was accompanied with It dl,
rain, thunder, and lightning. Houses were blown down,
trees were uprooted, cattle and hogs killed. Many people
were killed by lightning.

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The managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Phila-
delphia, have adopted a Van by which female medical
students may receive clinical instruction once a week fr,m
October to March, and surgical instruction at the option of
the surgeons on duty in the female wards.

Advice! from Constantinople state that great de-
pression prevails throughont the city, in consequence of the
terrible fire which occurred on Sunday. The Eschange and
nearly all the shops were closed on Monday. toae despatch
says that although the loss cannot be fully estimated at
present it must amount to several millions sterlisg.

Old John Berry that need to live up Lake Champlain
lired to tell a big story. One evening sitting in the village
store he said he once drove a horse seventy two miles in one
day on the ice, when the ice was so thin that the water
spirted up through it by the horse's corks. One of the by-
standers remarked that seventy-two miles was a pretty good
drive for one day. "Ye,," said Uncle John, "but it was a
long day in June."
A slegiatch of the 25:h ult., from St. Louis says :
" About balf.past 8 o'clock last evening a fb.e broke out in the
bindery department of the Missouri Republican aloe, he
flames spread with amazing rapidity, and In less than ten
'minutes the entire budding was one sheet of fire. and before
midnight there was nothing left of the office but a mass of

The Pun gob of Naples mentions a strange
committed at Gaeta. A sergeant named Comoili wait to the
building where the artillery was kept, and, lighting the
farce of a loaded cannon, placed himmelf in front. lie waa
blown to atoms, his head and feet alone being afterwards
found. The cause assigned was extreme dislike of a military
life.

At Macclesfield, a silk weaver, has committed
suleide by hanging himselt in the garret ol his own house.
Dtceased had been for some time past suffering from asthma,
which cunplaint hat rendered him unfit for work. and it is
supposed that the fact of his being unable to work hwi preyed
upon his mind, as ho had been for some weeks past in a very
aespooding state. _ - _

While come men were engaged a few days ago in
recovering the wink of the bark Bra:,lol, which was lost at
Padstow, in a severe storm in March, IS6O, two sets of
chains, hawse pipes, kc. , were found, leaving no doubt that
anol.er vessel unknown most have been totally wrecked with
all on hoard at the same time and in the some place as the
Bris(ol. From all informltiou that can at present be
gathered it In supposed that she was a French schooner .4.
brig of about 10) tons, and had a crow of six men.
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The Right Rev. Dr. Wilkinson, the newly-con-
secrated Bishop of DaLeland, preached on Sunday at Norwich
Cathedral on behalf of his missionary diecesa, which, he
Elated, was sadly in want of the help of devoted men and
women. Au many as he can obtain he propose. al take out
with him when he leaves Eugland in the autumn. The
whole of the money for the endowment of the diocese has
been subscribed, but stiLl fresh pecuniary help will be
needful.

In a return just published by the Foreign Office.
Mr. Baum, our Secretary of Legation at Turkey, states that
the annual deficiency of illeolllo in the Ottoman E opire, as
compared with expenditure, is £1,400.000, and that this deficit
is increasing rather than diminishing, A report from Mr.
Ford at Washington for the same period Ilast year) states
that the Americans paid fen millions sterling off their public
debt and still had a surplus of nine millions, If they only
pay ten millions this year, their estimated surplus will Le
nineteen millions.

Ikr Majesty having aignified her pleasnre that a
mid it he granted to the offtlers and men of the Royal Navy
11111 i Marines who were employed in the operations in Abyw
einiA, or who were borne in the undermentioned ships when
employed in the it ~,11 Set, between the 4th Ozt ,1067, and 191 h
April, 1663, viz :—ArctPt, Doped, Daphne, Nymphe, Ortaria,
Spite feat Star, Satellile, Vtgdant, notice is given en Tue dAy
nathi's Gazette that all claimants for the Medal, notwlf 't-
rending any previous applications made by them, should
persontlly, at the, Medal Branch, Admirelty,_Somer.set

114 di.4s, or by letter. addressed to the A, countant-General 01
the Navy. and Comptroller c t Navy Pny, Admiralty, ,
with tha words "Medal Breech" on the lefthxnd coroer of
the envcloke.

Miners continue to leave Cornwall in large numbers
for America, Australia, &c. The emigration agents are
weekly receiving scores of applications,

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A young man has been committed for trial, at Black-
burn, on the charge of administering snuff to another in a
glass of beer, and nearly tilling him.
Germany has been visited by a dreadful storm. The
disasters are immense; houses having been carried away, and
a large number of persons have perished.
In the New Alien Act just printed there is a pro-
vision that on and after the passing of this Act an alien shall
be triable in the same manner as a natural-born subject

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John Thomas Graves, of Gloucester, barrister-at-
law, has bequeathed all his mathematical, astronomical, and
philosophical works to University College.

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On Monday, the dead body of a working millwright,
belonging to Alloa, was found floating leftwards in the Forth,
three miles below Stirling. It is not known how the man
got in the. water. Ile leaves a widow and twelve children.

Another pigeon ehooting match took place at Ifni,
lingham Park on Saturday. There were 50 competitors for a
pool of £llO, which was won by Mr. D. /lope Johnstone, who
lulled every bird.
By telegraph from New York we have news of an
earthquake in Mexico. In the town of Daises more than
100 persons are said to have been killed, and a large number
wounded. Damage was also done In other places.

An order of the Privy Council directs that the
standard weights of one-third of an ounce avoirdupois and of
two-thirds of an ounce avoirdupois respectively, shall be
legal secondary standards of weight.
Mr. Augustus Robert Peel, son of the Very Rev.
John Peel, D D , Dean of Worcester Cathedral, has died, very
unexpectedly, from congestion of the lungs. The Dean is a
brother of the late Sir Robert Peel.

Orders have been issued from the War Office that a
prize of £3 for the best swordsman In each troop of cavalry
In which 30 men compete will be substituted for the squadron
prize of the same amount formerly granted.
The New York Tribune credits the United States
Senate with "a just opinion of the women who dare to
work." and says that it has, as far as it could, placed those
who hold clerkships in the Washington deportment on the
same footing as to pay with men clerks. The arrangement
has to be confirmed by the Rouse of Representatives.

"Wanted, by a young widower, who is highly
educated and affectionate, aged 32, and Ina good position, an
amiable wife, with moderate means.—linclose carte, in strict
confidence, to J. H., Postuillce, Blackpotl."—Advertisement
in Manchester Examiner.

The King of Prussia has had his name enrolled upon
the list of • very meritorious society in New lurk city—the
German Association for the Protection of immigrants arriving
at New York—and will make an annual subscription to its
funds of 2.50 dole. In gold.

Her Majesty the QuPen held a Council at Balmoral
on Saturday. at which were present Earl De Grey (Lord
President', Viscount Castlerosse (Vice Chamberlain), and the
Right ion J. Moncrief/ (the Lord Juttice Clerk). Mr. Helps
mu Clerk of the CounclL

The Rev. Robert Moffatt (father-in•law of Dr.
Livingstone, and author of Missionary Scones and Labours
In South Africa ") and Mrs. Moffatt are on their way to Ms
country, and may be expected m England ia July, after a
residence In Kurrachee of half a century.

One of Thompson's patent steam omnibnsses has
begun to run regularly between E tinburgh and Portobello,
distance of about three miles. The omnibus Is constructed
to carry 65 passengers-21 inside and 45 outside. The trips
already made have been very successful.
For some time past a s•range and fatal epidemic
has been prevalent among horses Ii and around Calcutta.
Suddenly the animal is seized with a sort of tottoeurt or
fever, speedily followed with swelling is the limbs, and in
the majority of cases the poor creature, in fire or six days at
most, lies down quietly to die.

From the first of November, 1869, to the 20th of May
this year the Mont Cents Rsibray has carried 18,836
pmsengers, and since the opening of the line, June 15, IE6B,
there has not been an accident in Lisa passenger service, with
the exception of delays caused tram the accumulation of
snow during the severest part of the whiter.

A Commission of Lunacy was granted in Dablin
on Saturday to try the question of the state of mind of Mr.
D'Arey Irvine. The application was made on behalf of his
only child, seven years of age. Mr. Irvine is possessed of
large property.

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An accident, by which a eportaman loot his life in
the Moo Forests of Mandalay, is reported from Burnish. A
Mr. P. Cologreedy, out elephant-shooting, was seized by one,
that took him up in his trunk and dashed him against a
tree, killing him on the spot of course.

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An accident to an excursion train took place on
Tuesday morning three miles from Blackburn. The axle of
one of the carriages snapped, and the result was that three
other carriages were smashed to pieces and two others
tumbled down a low embankment Into a meadow, when
nearly twenty passengers sustained injuries more or less
severe._ . . . .

Rivalry in trade is shown in the case of two sausage
dealers in Paris with shops adjoining, ene of whom has
painted on his glass window, over a pyramid of sausages,
'At 30 centimes a pound—to pay more is to be robbed
while the other puts his sausages into an obelisk, and paints
over it, "At 40 centimes a pound—to pay less is to be
poisoned."

At a conference of working men's repres-ntatives
held at Shields, to consider the Government Education Bill
and Mr. Forger's amendments, resolutions were agreed to
the effect that the conference should do all in its power to
oppose the Government bill, and to further the principles
of free compulsory and misectarian education advocated by
the National Education League.

The Quon has approved of the words "New
Zealand" being borne on the colours of the following regi-
ments for their Beryl:ass in that country dur,ng the years
1815-6 and 1800,61-63 64 65.66 :—The 12:11, 14th, 18%, 401,13,
43rd, 50th, 57th, 58th, Gith, GS.h, 70th, 905 h, and 99th Regi-
ments.
Lc Nord publishes a Board of Trade order at St.
Petersburg, by which vessels carrying petroleum are pro.
hibited entering the Neva under heavy penalties, unless
they hoist a red flag, as it they were laden with powder. The
harbour-master is then to take special charge of these chips.

At Itarnagate' on Tuesday. about 1,100 excursionists
holonOng to the artificial Florists' Benevolent Institution
slatted ll,msgate from London, and several excursions were
made on the water. One party, consisting of seven persons,
went out In charge of a boatman named Penney, in a sailing
boat. The breeze being fresh the boat was caught by a
sudden gust of wind and capsized, and four of the patty were
drowned.

A lady applied to the Vice.Chaneeller last week for
power to distribute the property of her husband, who had
deserted her and gone to California some years ago. She had
no legal evidence of his demise, but had invoked the spirita,
who moored her he was dead. The judge decided that the
distribution was to be subject to the receipt of positive evi-
dence of the huisband's death.

It has been rerolved by the Executive Committee of
the Education League to phas with the utmost vigour the
amendments of the E lucatt n Bill of which notice has been
given on behalf of the League. It is the opinion of the com-
mittee that should the amendments be unsuccessful it will
be desirable to postpone legislation on the subject until neat
session. A special fund of £lO,OOO is to be raised imme-
diately to carry on the agitation.

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A 'discharged soldier, named Parcel], has made an
attempt to commit suicide, in Sheffield, under peculiar cir-
cumstances. Whiht in India he saw a portrait of a girl
named Whitty, fell in love with it, wrote to the girl de-
claring his affection, and received a favourable answer. Ile
came to Sheffield on receiving his discharge and lodged at
the house of the girl'. father. For some reason unknown,
he has recently attempted to poison himself twice, and has
been given into custody.

Mr. Charles Havelock, writing to the lticilgherry
Ex misior, from Meal Koondah, says :—" A tine tigress was
found dead near this; she was killed by getting some of the
quills of a porcupine through her gullet; they must have got
there while the tigress was eating one of these animals. I
believe that both cheetahs anti tigers often lose their lives in
this manner. A tiger near this a day or two ago tried to
drag scow out of a cattle shed by her tall; mach to the dis-
gust of both animals the tail gave way."
A novel race has been before the Edinburgh Small
Debt Court A prize-winner at a competition of the Edinburgh
and Mid-Lothian Rifle Association having won a cup inferen-
tially described as of a certain specified value, successfully
pli stied his right to hold the association to the precise terms
of their announcement The defence of the association
virtually was that, the prize having been presented by a lady,
the punnet, should have been content to abate at least 51 per
cent of his demand.

The annual Whitstm-Monday procession of the
Church of England schools took place in Manchester on
Monday. The weather was brilliant, and there was a very
large influx of visitiirs to the city. The children assembled
in St. Ann's square to the number of 15,242, a larger gather-
ing, the Maneheßter Guarrtum believes, than has ever taken
place at the Whitson anniversary. The children proceeded
along the must mute to the Cathedral, where a sermon was
preached by the Bishop of Manchester.
The rectory of Liverpool, which became vacant a
week or two since by tile death of the Rev. A Campbell, has
been accepted by the Rev. Alexander Stewart, M.A. Mr.
Stewart was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he
toots his BA. degree in ISIS Having been curate of South
Cadbury, Chilton Canteloe, and held other appointments, he
was presented in 1868 by the Provost and Fellows of Eton to
the vicarage of Cogges, near Whitney, which he at present
holds. The rectory of Liverpool is in the gift of Alderman
Stewart, the father of the new incumbent.

A cat fell down a well in Calcutta on Monday night,
May 2nd, and the owner went down to rescue it. As lie did
not come up again his eon followed him down the well, but
staying down himself longer than was thought necessary a
choskeedar went down after the son. A violent polling of
the rope told thoee above that something was wrong. The
oboe keedar was drawn up and gave the fearful Intelligence
that both father and son must be dead, as the well was
choked with foul air. The bodies were recovered after a
long lapse of time.

On Sunday evening the Rev. G. K. Flindt preached
an able sermon at St. Sepulchre's, Snow-hill, London, in con-
nection with the Young Men's Christian Association, from
the tent—" Jo the young man safe!" tie pointed out with
muds force the danger arising out of a perusal of the light
literature of the day, most of which he contended had an
infir,el tendency, and urged many moral considerations of
great Importance. He also spoke approvingly of the society
as affording to young men coming without friends to London,
valuable means of social intercourse.

In consequence of a decision of the Master of the
Rolls, the rectory of Edgeware Is to be sold by auction on the
2nd of July. It is described as having an excellent rectory
house, gardens, pleasure grounds, and pal klike paddock.
The net annual income is about £465, lirespective of the
value of the laud and rectory house, which It a very com-
modious one and fit for the reception of a gentleman's
establishment." The present incumbent Is In his sixty-third
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-The Earl of Shaftesbury, speaking at a meeting of
the Female Medical 1 eciety the other day, said of course he
did not suppose ladies would aspire to tne higher class of
surgical operations, but would be willing to be what one
practitioner contemptuously designated as "nursing doc-
tors." There were, of course, exceptions among women in
this matter. Ile was on one occation putting that view of
the matter to • female medical practitioner, and said that of
comae she—a little woman—did not aspire to that class of
operations. "Oh," was the reply, "don't I though; just
you step into the next room, and if you want your leg taken
off I'll do it for you very quickly.'

Notes and Queries ham given a cmtradiction to
another report that A man lived to the age of more than 100
years. The Ilistoricat lirgiaer states among the deaths in
November, 1735—. Mr. Thomas Dean, of Malden. in Kent,
aged 100. Ile we, 20 years old when Cha•les I. was be-
headed, and formotly Fellow of Urge ill., tenon., bet being.
a Roman Catholic, was deprived at the Revolution, the." It
turns out that Thomas, sou of E lward Dean. of Malden in
Kent, matriculated at University C.llege on Oct 19, 1609,
being then aged H. He was, therefore, not even born until
nearly three years after the execution of Charles 1., and at
the time of his death was only 64 years old.

A serious accident through the incautious use of fire-
arms occurred at Ballycullen House, Askeaton, a few
evenings ago. Two female domestics were in a breakfast
parlour together, and engaged in some frolic. One of the
girls, named X cefe, took from the mantelpiece a revolver,
which happened unfortunately to be loaded, and presentiug
It at the breast of her fellow-servant, a girl named Lynch,
incautiously drew the trigger, and fired. The poor girl,
having received the ball to her side, fell calling for help. She
was immediately placed under surgical treatment. The ball
has not yet been extracted, but hopes are entertained that
the wound will not prove fatal.

Captain Shaw, RR, prof.issor of fortification and
artillery at Sandhorst, In discussing before the Royal United
Service Institution the advantages possessed by the defence
over the attack with the present arms of precision, said that
modern weapons had greatly Increased the difficulty of End-
ing cover for reserves, which even on the retreating slope of
a hill were in danger from artillery ; and in this respect the
defenders would be likely to have the advantage of being
alibi to prepare good cover for their reserves. He referred
to the events of the campaigns of Italy and Prussia against
Ai stria, as showing the valueof the new arms, and said that
with mmiern arifficry it was nest to impoestole to construct
a site I,,te de pone. So far as the defence of linglard was
cemerecd, Me argued, our trust must Liddy belts the umiry.

during thn

winter

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season, gained £150,000.
It is now formally announced that Mr. Shirley
Brooks has been appointed the new editor of Punch, in the
room of Mr. Mark Lemon, deceased.
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A lecture against free trade was recently delivered
at Dijon by a well-known Protectionist, hi, Ponyer-Quertler,
when the sum of seven/ranee was taken at the doors!
A Gallo-Roman cemetery has just been discovered
at Givvres (Lotr-et-Cher). A considerable number of urns
and funereal vases of very curious workmanship have been
found, amounting in all to the number of 1,600 pieces.
The return of the Irish Convict Prisons for last yes'.
shows that there are only 1240 convicts now in prison in all
Ireland ; of these 578 were males, and 352 females. The pro-
portion of sick and proportion of deatlui were very low.
"England in the Nineteenth Century," which has
been advertised of late, is not a book, but a monthly maga-
zine, edited by ?Sr. George Augustus gala. It Is de-
signed to Illustrate social features, and to discuss social
problems,
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" We understand that Sir Charles Mordaunt intends
to appeal from the decision of the Court of DiVoree to the
House of Lords at the earliest opportunity, and SIMI to
endeavour to obtain a hearing of his suit against Lady
diordaunt."—Obarcer. _ _ _

A demonstration was made in Madrid on Saturday
by 5,000 adherents of Marshal Espartero, who Merthed in
procession, with a flag hearing the inscription " Let the WM
of the nation accomplish the triumph of the rights of the
people and of truth." . . .

The Tones of India nays that "Rain. rain," is the
cry from all therdislricts of Lower Bengal, where the sowings
of the indigo crop have not yet been completed. In Tirhoot
there has been great anxiety for some weeks. In Calcutta
there has been the average rainfall of sixteen years.

At a large meeting of the North Stafford-shire Church
Sunday School Union, a petition was adapted against the ex-
clusion of the Bible and religious teaching from day schoolk
Several clergymen and laymen said they would net insist on
the Church C.itechism being taught.
An acrobat was the other day walking on the ceiling
of the Florence Theatre, during the presence of the King of
Italy, when from some deLct in his pneumatic shoes, his feet
lost their hold, and he fell from a great height. Fortunately,
a net was stretched beneath, and broke the force of the fall,
no that the performer, though shaken, wm able to come for-
ward and bow to the audience.

Professor Devideon, of Edinburgh, has recently
Joined the Old Testament Compsny of the Revisers of the
Anthorlzed version of the Scriptures. Dr. Kennedy has also
repeated his acceptance of a place In the New Testament
Company, his former letter of acceptance having miscarried.
There are now only two from whom answers have not been
received—Canon Cook and Archdeacon Harrison.

A gentleman has been sued in the Bail Court in an
action upon a bond for £6OO. One of his pleas was that at
the time of signing the !nett ument he was in such a state of
intoxic ition as to have entirely lost the one of his reason.
The defendant, however, did not appear, and on the fact
being deposed to that he was sober at the time of the execu-
tion of the bond, the j tiry returned a verdict for the plaintiff
In the event of the Universities Teets Bill reaching
the House of Lords, John Bull understands an amendment
will be moved on the motion for a second reading in favour
of a Select Committee, not to consider the Bill, but the whole
question of how any relaxation of tests would work, with
instrurtions to take evidence from those best qualified to
give it at the Universities.

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The following will show the value of Parisian
sympathy:—The Parisian journals announce the death of
M. Salmon, watchinak,r, father of the late Victor Noir.
Scarcely any person attended the funeral, and even the other
son, Louts, was absent. "One could almost suppose," says
the Paris Journal, "that the deceased had no family or
Is lends."

"I neither demand from you courtesy nor justice,"
said the French Prime Minister, in the late debate, to Jules
Fevre, the Republican leader. "And Ido not expect from
YOU a principle that every one recognises—politeness," replied
Fevre. "Arid I demand that no personalities be used.
chimed in the President.

The Journal Ofidel of France publishee a list of
place. from which addresses of congratulations have been
sent up to the Emperor on the result of the plebiscttum.
l'hey have come from almost all parts of Algiers and almost
all the small prefectures of France; bat the great centres,
such as Lyons, Marseilles, Bordeaux, and others, are con-
spicuous by their silence.

Dr. Wianecke, of Carlsrube, on the night of May
29, discovered a coont resembling " a pretty bright nebula of
about 2 minutes in diameter." On the 20th he observed
the cemeta place as subjoined —'At: 140. 13min 329ec.
mean time at Csrlsruhe, right ascension, Oh. 50min. 9.555ec. ;
declination N., 28deg. 52 min 18 sec. -

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The Nay York Tribune says that .-a new church in
Clinton.avenne is being built on the plan of a theatre. It is
to have a pit, pit stalls, boxes, private boxes, and a gallery.
The stage boxes hold twelve chairs, with tables in the centre
for books and hats, "so that the select worshippers can
perform their devotions apart from the commni throng."
The wholesale grocers are again complaining of their
treatment by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. They say
" We bear our portion of the taxation of the country, but
why should we be further taxed with per ton (at the lowest
estimate) on all duty-paid sugars held by us when the duty
is reduced without the slightest iwtice I " There has been
great difficulty experienced in getting their cue considered.

A Welsh Relieving Officer had occwion last week to
examine the effects of a pauper, an old woman named Ann
Lloyd, who had been in receipt of parochial relief for years,
and was considered very poor. At the bottom of an old box
he was surprised to find the sum of 12315 In gold, a cheque-
book, and three good silk dresses. Since this discovery
many persons have come forward and claimed to be her
relatives.
When Queen Anne proposed to confer a dukedom on
Lord Marlborough, his wife, the favourite of the day,
delicately hinted an apprehension that his income and her
own would not supp nit the additional rank; and her
Majesty, of course as expected, removed the scruple by
hector lug a pension of £5,000 a year anon him and his suc-
cessors In perpetuity. As this was hi 170, British taxpayers
have since paid £8:0,000 for the conversion of an Earl Into a
Dake.

The Figaro, commenting upon the great "execu-
tion" of the unfortunate Derby bettors who backed Mac-
gregor, tells its readers that there was something wonderfully
appropriate to the IMMO of the winner, "because kingeraft
In English means Jack Ketch !"—Thls is one of the most
amusing Instances of the many specimens of recklessness
with which French writers who fancythey know English take
upon themselves to interpret English words. The Figaro
mistakes " Kingeraft" for " Calcratt !"

"If you do not close that window, waiter, I shall
die from the draught," said a lady diring at the Crystal
Palace. " And if you do close it I shall die from the heat In
this hot weather !" exclaimed a stouter fair lady. Then there
was a giggle amongst the diners at the dilemma of the
waiter, when a literary gentleman present said, "Mr good
fellow, your duty Is clear: close the window and kill one
lady, and open it again and kill the other lady."

The venerable Bishop of Cashel, replying to a com-
munication forwarded from a meeting of the parishionprs of
eight of the parishes in his diocese asking his sanctien to
their adoption of measures for a public expression of disap-
proval of the ritualist milord, which has given rise to so
much controversy, says he is gratified to find that on this
subject the bishop, clergy, 11.110 laity are of one mind. lb
adds that he had not felt called upon to publish his senti-
ments, considering that his long known character u a
sincere Protestant Bishop, and the character of his dioceses
as untainted by Popish or sembliopish doctrines, rendered
it unnecessary.

boarding the Biblical Revision scheme the John
801 l says We have great pleasure In stating that the
majority of the Non conformists asked by the Committee of
Convocation to assist in the revision of the authorised version
have accepted the invitation in the most cordial terms. Some
few who have at present declined have done so in the most
flattering manner, and as from the tone of those who have
declined it Is hoped that several will reconsider their refusal,
it will not be well to mention their names. Dr. Newman,
whose letter was friendly In the extreme, most, we fear, be
considered to have definitely refused."
In many parts of the metropolis (a correspondent
writes) the plan is adopted of placing a card with the letter
D on it in the windows of homes where the services of the
doorman are required, but it Is little attended to. one of
the great dust contractors wail lately told of the Inattention
of his men, and answered that his foreman strongly Impressed
on the men the necessity for attending to the signal; but, he
added, 'We know how it is; the men don't know one letter
from another." Ile was a,ked, "Why don't you teach them
their letters l " and replied, 'That would never do. If they
could read end write, or even read, they would soon get
Ituations."

The Nonconformists of Birmingham have issued an
urgent " circular on the " grave injustice to which it is
still proposed to subject the Ninconformists of the country
by the unrestricted power given by the Government Educa-
tion Bill to local boards to determine the religious character
of the schools to be aided and supported by the local rates."
They contend that a new form of religious taxation will be
established, and they make an appeal Btr congregational
peations, public meeting. of Noncmformists, district demon-
strations, and private communications to members of the

"Certain letters purplrting to have been written,
the one by the Prince of Wales to the Duke of Edinburgh,
and the other by the Dare of Edinburgh to the Prince of
Wales, which, we believe, appeared originally is an Irish
paper, have obtained circulation in the provincial press, and
have even been translated in the Independence Beige.
Thoug`i written with a certain smartness, they were Co evi-
dently tntentied as a hoax that it was scarcely necessary to
deny their authenticity so long as they were only circulated
at borne; but, as foreign readers cannot be expected to dis-
criminate, it is necessary to declare, as we have authority for
doing, that both letters are forgeries."—Times.