The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-01-29 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

EXPLANATION.—A Bai)krupt who had been a
great epicure, said that he could produce receipts from
various people for the last twenty years. On examina-
tion, they all proved to be receipts fur dishes.—Punch.

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AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS.- -Among tie good
returns recorded in the accnintis received from Vic-
toria by this mail is • splendid cake of gold weighing
547 ounces, the produce of 159 tons of quartz from the
Eaglehawk reef at Jnnee. A nugget weighing more
than 34 ounces was also got at Tyler's. A new rill&
has been made at Fiddler's Creek, ahont five mum
from Avoca. About SOO Chinese and 100 Europeans
were on the ground. In one instance a quarter of an
ounce to the dish was obtained. This is supposed to
be an extensive goldfield, but comparatively poor.
The unparalleled yield of a cinching of stone from the
Hawkins' hill reef at Tambaroora, New South Wales,
1,819 ouncea of clean retorted gold from 91 tons
crushed, has been already mentioned in the papers.
Some other extraordinary yields have been obtained
recently from the Tinnbaroora reefs. The Tasmanian
goldfields begin to attract attention in Victoria.
Skilled visitors express surprise at the obvious richness
of the .tone at Fingal and Waterhouse, and say that
the reefs rap .sed, it in Victoria, w. old create ajurore,
The Tasmanians are displaying a good deal of enterprise,
and with a fair prospect of being adequately rewarded.
In New Zealand some very rich finds are reported at the
Coromandel ; 800.. z. of gold were taken from 400th. of
quartz Gold-bearing quartz-reefs are being diecovered
in various parts of the Nelson Province, both on the
east and west coasts. Experienced judges declare that
the Wangapeks country and neighbourhood are the
most promising in all the colony.

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BURNT TO DFATtI.-A sad occurrence has hap-
pened in the family of a Mr. Anderson, of Bradford.
He had two daughters. Mary a young woman of 25,
and Anne, 17 years old, who acted as housekeeper.
On Friday night in last week, about tt o'clock, Mary
Anderson being asleep on the sofa, Anne went into
the cellar to fetch some coals, taking a box of niatchen.
She streick one, anti by some means the whole boxfull
of matches ignited and set the girl's cletbes on tire.
She called out for aseistance, and her sister rushed to
her aid, and in trying to put out the burning garments
was scorched about the arms' hands and neck, her
clothing also igniting. The unfortunate young women
made their way into a small garden in front of the
house, when Acne fell down, but Mary got into the
street, and being laid on the ground her burning
garments were extinguished by seine of the neighbours.
Anne Anderinn was fearfully burnt from her head to
to her ankles, her clothes hung in charred shreds, and
even her stockings were burnt off down to the ankles.
Mary Anderson is sadly burnt on the arms, hands,
neck, face and chest. Anne Anderson died on Satur-
day afternoon. Her sister Mary, who was at first
supposed not to have teens,, badly injurcl, afterwards
became worse, and it was feared that her life would
also he sacrificed.

FRANCE MARCHING ON.- —A Social revolution
in France appeared to be suggested by the practice
newly adopted amongst Frenchmen, of corrying re-
volvers. It was, however, reassuring to hear that the
middle classes in Paris had put down attempted roves
lotion with etick•—Punchs
WILCONR TO TEE RANKS OF AUTHORSHIP !
Mr. C—, a gentleman who had just finished his first
attempt at authorship, which met with • remarkable
success, was shortly after met by a Rowdy-looking in.
oividoil. The latter extended his band, and in a
tragic 1111111111 Er exclaiu,ed, 'Allow me, sir, to welcome
you to our ranks—the racks of authorship." The
peculiar appearance a the individual rather amused

Mr. C--, and he replied, "Thank you, sir, but may
I venture to ask who you are, and what work bears
your mule? ' " Certainly, sir. Have von ever heard
of Tennys in, the part laureate r "Yes," said Mr.
C--, "Well, lam not be. But have you everheard
of Longfellow ? ' "Yes, but I have never seen him.
Surely y,u are not Longfellow r "No, I am not he."
"Then who the dickens are von?" "Ah ! there.
Have you ever heard of Charles Dickens." "Yes, but I
know you are not Charles Dickens." "No, sir, lam
neither Tennyson, Longfellow, nor Dickens; but, sir,
I, the individual who stands prominently before you
in the noble person of a man—l, sir, san—" "Well,
sir, who are you, and of what the deuce are you the
author?" "I, sir, am Jonathan Rawlings Piety
l'igttleton, and I am the celebrated author of an in-
valuable receipt for taking grease spots, tar, oil, and all
stains wit-Vs weer outof 010th, wine!, marble, carpets,
ke., and which I will be most happy to sell you or any
otlor gentleman who now looks upon me." Mr.
C— co'lApsed.
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MR. CARLYLE AND A SOOTCII WORKING MAN.
—Some time ago th. re was publidted at Greenock a
volume of rustic sketches of the men and manners of
the West of Szotland during the past fiicy years. It was
mitten by a self-taught artist, Mr. hunter. whose time
for nearly half a century has been divided between the
making of series and the painting of portraits and
latalscapes. A copy of the book was sent by its
author to Mr. Carlyle, from whom the following
estimate of its worth has been received

"Many weeks ago I should have thanked you for the
pleasant volume you were kind enomat to send me. lip
excuse is, I have been in weak health. am occupied with
many things, and have a growing avertlon and inanility to the
act of writing. Your beak is not a very serious one, but it lan
swift:lml flowing, full of good humour throughout—of canny
sh:miness, too, with a subdued vein of Jett satire, percep-
tible, uk, a suspicion of good cognac In a wholesome tumbler
of new milk. I can say that It throws an authentic straggle
of illumination of actual Scottish life in our generation, and
plea.stit ly remind. rue of what I knew so well long ago, that
the pind,g-aph of that briskly peaceable, contented, and
laden...lent shoemaker, awakens nothing but good w ill in
me, and that I have known many thousands of books which
coat far more trouble and were leas deserving of being writ-
ten."

A 13 [rnao CJICV,CIION CaNFIEMISD.—It may
be remembered that two or three months ago the pro-
prietor of "Wright's Racing Telegrams " was con-
victe3 by Sir Thomas Henry (a London magistrate), of
keeping a hetting•house, and fined £lOO. The convic-
tion was appealed agsint, and was argued on Satur-
day in the. Court of Queen's Bench. The appellant
contended that hia business was that of an agency, aad
that he did not come within the meaning of an act
t‘' at way pa vied expressly for the suppression of betting-
houits ti which persons resorted for the purpose of
but ng. Judges Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush were
on the bench. The former, in pronouncing the judg-
merit, said that the caie came within the section of the
act. and the magistrate would have been weak and
foolish if upon toe evidence he lied not come to that
conclusion. The conviction was therefore affirmed, al
well as two others of a like character.

A SERIONi QUFSTION FOR THE CECOMENTCAL
CoONOIL —We (North German Correspondent) learn
from the Spenersehe Zeitung that the question whether
it is advisable at present to issue the Bull pro fulmine
(against lightning-conductors) which was formerly con-
templated, is now eagerly debated at Rome. The
Archbishop in partdats of Spite-ler-gen, and the pat-
riarch in partibus of the Shetland Islands are zealous
advocates of the Bull. They argue that every effort to
divert the course of lightning is an impious attempt to
frustrate the will of God, and though this was gene-
rally acknowledged at the time of Franklin, the oh-
n ozious instruments arenow to be found even on churches
and the houses of the clergy. The two gentlemen in
rine:lion intend to bring the matter before the Council.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN FRANCE.—A murder,
resembling in some of its details the tragedy at Paulin,
has just been dhcovered at Neuville, in France. A
wool-comber, named Riviere, aged forty-two, married,
and father of two children, killed an old man, Sylvain
Rend, who lived in a cottage close by, and then dug a
grave and buried him in a field. Be then planted a
tree on the spot so that the neighbours should not
remat k that the earth had been moved. Robbery was
the motive for the crime, but the murderer appears to
have only obtained about a shilling. Riviere has been
arrested.

A MURDER IN TI PPERARY.—A mysterious
murder has been discovered in Tipperary. Early in
last week, two children going to school observed the
14 dy of a man lying in a dry gullet near an old mill,
a sl.rt distance from Dund runt, and hastened to apprize
the police. The body, which was in an advanced state
of decomposition, was removed shortly after to the
police•station, where a post-mortem examination was
made by Dr. Webb, and it was discovered that the
deceased had been murdered, the skull being fractured
in two places, and the throat deeply gashed. No
money or valuables of any kind were found on the
body, and from this fact, and the circumstance that
some of the pockets of the deceased's clothes were
turned inside out, it is assumed that the man was
murdered for the purpose of plunder. The state 41
the corpse rendered identification almost impossible,
but from the dress it is believed that the deceased was
a farmer or cattle dealer. No person is miseinz in the
neighbourhood, and it is therefore likely that the un-
fortunate man was a cattle-dealer who came into the
d strict from a distance. An inquest has been held on
the body, and an open verdict returned.

DEATH OF A CELEBRATED REVOLUTIONIST.—
Alexander Hertzen, the celebrated Russian pam-
phleteer, who had been snffering for some days from
diabetes, has just diet Pt the Hotel du Pavilion de
RoLan, Rue de Illy°li, Paris, in his tillnd year. He
was born in Moscow, and horn the days when he
was a student in the university of that city, carried on
a war to the knife against Czari•m. He suffered IEII.
pri.onment, and was exiled to Siberia, and afterwards
establshed in London his newspaper-pamphlet, the
KneuLet, which was smuggled into Russia in large
nucutere, and scattered far and wide. Ile wrote mazy
historical and political works, amongst which were
"The Development of revolutionary ideas in Russia,"
"Baptised Property" (by which term he designated
the RUlt-tell serfs), " Prison and Exile," .tc. It is said
that the Emperor of Russia was one id the most con-
stant and careful readers of the Ketokoi, deriving front
it much profitable information which might net other.
wise reach him.
MODERN DACIAN DARBARIAI4B.—M.
thlipließ to the Journal de Paris a long and painful
account of the cruel treatment of the Jews in Rou-
mania. Some shocking sufferings have been inflicted
on these people in consequence of a recent circular
limed by the Minister of the Interior, ordering the
expulsion of al Jews from the rural districts. The
order was carried out harshly and unrelentingly by
the prejudiced rgents of the government. In the
tillage of Bacan the Jews were plundered, beaten,
and driven out of their homes in mid-winter, and two
children perished from exposure. In the district of
Eakin 94 families, representing about 503 persona,
were ruthlessly expelled from their homes. In spite
of these and other acts of cruelty and injustice, the
Minister of the Interior is obliged to excuse himself
to the Legislative Chamber for not doing more to
satisfy the honourable members. One member aug.
gelded that all Jews should be made incapable of
holding property, and auother deputy went the entire
animal, and boldly suggested that they should be
drowned in the Danube. Not a single voice was
raieed in defence or remonstrance on behalf of the
Jews. The modern Rountaniana have some right to
boast that they are the desieendants of the ancient
Duel, for they inherit at least their barbarity.

THE LATEST STYLL—Host : "Allow me to
get you a partner." Languid Swell: "Thank you,
but I—ar—don't dance." Host "Then let me intro-
duce you to Miss Twaddle—she's s great hand at con-
versation." Languid Swell—" You're very kind but
I—sr— never' converse."

THE HEALTH OF THE CZAR.—A paragraph
which went the round of the English journals a month
or two ago to the effect that the Czar is suffering from
hereditary mental disease, which often utterly incapaci.
tates him from attention to public business, has attracted
much attention in RlMit/. The correspondents .4
several French and German newspapers have been
commissioned to inform their readers that the Em-
peror in in perfect health, and labours under no de-
pression of spirits. A writer in the Al'genuine
Zeitriloy affirms that the occasional retirement of the
Cy.ar from public life arises from quite a different cause.
In 1857 he had Wall from his horse which caused a slight
rupture. It is with great difficulty he can be induced
to take the ordinary precautions in such cases, and
occasionally inconveniences ensue which confine him
for a few days to his room. It may be doubted
whether these contradictions of the original state-
ment will meet with much acceptance in the west of
Europe.

A LABORIOUS OccursTioN.—Shop-Lifting—
Punch.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIPE.—The marriage of
Mr. Lionel Tollemache and the Hon. Miss Beatrix
Egerton took place in London, on Tuesday morning, at
St. James's Church, Piccadilly. The ceremony was
performed by the ltev. J. E. Kempe. The bride was
attended by six bridesmaids, dressed in blue and white,
and Mr. Vernon Ilarcourt, M. P., acted as "heat man"
to the bridegroom. Lord Egerton of Tatton "gave
away" the bride. After the ceremony the wedding
party adjourned to the residence of Lord and Lady
Egerton of Tatton in St. James's-square, where an
elegant dejeuner was served. The newly-wedded pair
left town after luncheon for the Queen's Hotel, Nor-
wood.

RECOVERING S OaKEN TREASURER. —A French
company wee formed come time back for the recovery
of the cargoes of the Spanish galleons sunk in Vigo
Bay in the year 1100. The works commenced a few
days ago, and already three of the veasels have been
buoyed and partially examined. They are found to he
in a perfect tate of preservation, but bearing a thick
coating of shell-fish. The treasure they are known to
have carried amounted, in ingots of gold and coined
silver money, to the enormoua sum of 375,000 000
francs. Of that amount 431 per cent., or 162,000,000
franca, go to the Government of Spain, arid 213,000,000
to the shareholders.

ANOTGER FASTING CASE.—A correspondent of
a Staffordshire paper writes :
Therein residing In Workhouse-street, Leek, at this time, a
man who has not eaten any solid food for nearly six years.
The last time he remembers eating anything was on April 21,
1064, and the edible was a portion of • D.fver bun, which
took him three-quarters of as hour to swallow. At the sight
of potatoes or flesh meat he feels a sensation of sickness;
amt though lie occasionally experiences a ravennus sematitn
of hunger, to attempt to swallow anything solid would bring
on violent palms and vomit!. g. The case has been seen by
it,. medical authorities of Leek, and else by the faculty at
she North Staffordshire Infirmary, and has been proummeed
as Is :capable of cure. The man I. lea sale to go about,
though, as may be expected, he presents a pitiful appear-
ance At seventeen years of age he worked in the manufac-
ture of silk, as a twister, and at that time ate heartily of all
kinds of food. While at this emploment in the summer
time he limed to drink copiously of cold water, which caused
an, core cracking sensation between the throat and the ear ;
gradually getting worse, his powers of and desire foe eating
quite left him. Milk la now his only nutriment, and this is
only suffered to he taken slowly.

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AMUSING DISPUTE OVER A FOUNDLING.—A
male child, between four and five weeks old, wan found
on the stair of a building in Perth, the all, r evening.
It aopears that the woman who firat discovered the
chid ia the wife of a railway guard, who, having no
family of her own, and being alsii much pleased with
the appearance of the "little stranger," had resolve

to adopt the child. Another woman from Burntis'and,
also the wife of a railway guard, appeared shortly after-
wards, however, on the scene, and, after viewing the
fouodling, thought of adopririg it, she being likewiw,
it is said, without family. She did not make her wish
known to the discoverer of the baby, who was nursing
it, but at once caked upon Mr. Young, local in-
spector of poor, and stated elle was desirous of taking
the child away with her— p-orcising to make every
provision for its comfort. Mr. Young, always ready
to lee-en the burden of ratepayers, after making the
necessary inquiries, gave her • note addressed to her
rival guardian, requesting her to give over her charge
to the bearer. the other firmly refused to do,
and not only so, but recognising the applicant as her
former visitor, ordered her to leave the house, telling
her that had the object of her visit been known, she
would never have been allowed to enter it. In her per-
plexity the applicant returned to the inspector's office,
and related what had taken place, and she returned to
the house accompanied by the officer of the Parochial
Board, Mr. Cameron. This second attempt, however,
was leen successful tha.n the first, as neither the officer
nor the woman were, it is said, permitted to enter the
domicile, but got the door shut in their face. The dis-
comfited one had accordingly to return to Burntisland.

NOT BO BAD —OR GOOD !—The following con-
vernation between two Bourse speculators who had
been separated from each other for a few weeks, was
recently overheard :—' What have you been doing
since 1 last saw you?" "I have been married."
That is good! '"Not so good either, for my wife is
a coquette." "That is bad! "No so bad either,
for my wife had a fortune of 300,000 f." "That is
good ! " "Not so good either, for I have risked it all
at play." "That is bad!" "Not so bad either, for I
have gained double." "That is good!' "Not so
good eith.r, for the penon to whom I entrusted it has
decamped." 'That is bad!" "Not no bad either,
for my wife has gone with hin I"
SCOTCH CoSTDMES.—Prottssor Blackie has been
lecturing to the Edinburgh people on beauty. The
Scotch people, he maintained, were not remarkable
for either beauty or grace. They were neither beauti-
ful in their form, nor, perhaps, even in their persons.
A S.iotch lassie was very beautiful, no doubt; but
wh-n she arrived at womanhood she did not represent
the finest specimen of a woman, and she had no trace
in her motions. He wished women could be prevailed
on to dress according to the laws of reason, and not
according to the practice of unreason, which consti-
tuted the monstrous ideal that was called fashion, and
which was worshipped in that very glaring and glit-
tering and vicious place called Paris. If they could
be prevailed upon to dress themselves in spite of
faahion, they would de. as well. Even custom made
cowards of us all. Men wore beards because they
were in fashion; but a man with a small face wearing
a big beard appeared to him a monstrosity. The moat
expressive part of a man's face was his mouth, and in
the name of common sense he ought not to hide it,
unless, indeed, the man had an ugly mouth, or bad
teeth. If they had good months, it was their duty to
themselves and to the ladies to shave off their beards.

EADFSTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY. - Perhaps
the inniit remaidcable instance of .wonsierfill appetite is
to lie ford in the case of those pensons who are said to
devour the ground.—Peseh.

THE RITCAL C ,MMISSION.—A correspondent
says that the Royal Commissioners on Ritual, in the
report on the Lectionary submitted for the approval
of her Majesty, recommend that the lemons from the
Apocrypha, which for saint's days number twenty-six,
shall be reduced to four, but that for ordinary days
forty shall he still retained out of the 106 lessons. A
second series of lessons for evening on Sundays is pro-
vided, so that they may be used either as alternative
lesions at the second service, or at the third service if
thought de,irable. According to these alterations of
the Lectionary the Gospels and the Acts of the
Apostles are to be read once in the yen at evening
prayer, and the Revelation of St. John the Divine in
Advent. The Books of Chronicles are also to be
admitted into the new Lectionary, and the divisions
of chapters which are now in force are not in all cams
to be followed.

Tag LIABILITY OF RAILWAYEL—The following
point, bearing upon the liability of railway companies,
has been decided by the Court of Queen'a Bench :
A passenger on the North Loudon line, on the train arriving
at Highbury, attempted to get out of toe carriage, fell upon
the line, and was killed. Although a porter had called out
Ilighbury," the train had really stopped short of the
station, and the compartt,ent in which deceased was sitting
was in the tunnel. His widow brought an action against
the company, and the jury wished to assess the damages at
£1,200. The Judge, how ever, ordered a nonault to be enter e
and the question whether the company was liable
has torn argued before the full court It was held by
the judges that the mere fact of a porter Inviting passengers
to alight would at justify a man inkleaving a carriage when
danger was to be apprehended. A passenger had &perfect
right to have the tram drawn up to the plattorm before he
alighted. The nonsuit, therefore, would not be disturbed

A POLICI,MeIefi "RATTLE."—Hig goesip with
our female domratielerventa.—Punch.

SOPERASMIAT,D BlSTlOPS.—According to the
" Winchester Diocesan Culender and Clergy Lint" for
the present year, just published, there are now 15
bishops in this country on the retired list. Most of
them are colonial bishops, and some of the resignations
date as far back as 1850.

THE WRECK OF THE "KENILWORTH."—This
noble chip, which was wrecked in Cardigan Bay on the
I4'h mat., had a cargo of 3,863 bales of cottan, which is
valued at between 1270,000 sod £BO,OOO. She was
built at Thomast n, in the State of Maine, in 1855, and
was considered a very nee vessel of her clan A sin-
gular coincidence haB transpired in connection with the
loss of this veset 1. Ahout two years ago the IVopilla,
a vessel belonging to 51,8811‘ Taylor, and Co., was
wrecked on the same rocks, and nearly all the crew
periabed. But the crew of the Kenilworth, consisting
of '2l men, were caved by the determined and gallant
pervices of the Abersoch and Barmouth lifeboats. The
captain id the ship, who is an American, is very loud,
says the Rev. 0. Ll. Williams, in his praises of both
boats, Paying 'that he never thought there were such
baata in the world, and blesses the very name of the
lifeboat inventor." A rather singular but melancholy
circainstance has occurred in connection with this
noble rescue. On the captain arriving the other day at
Pwllheli, he learnt of the death of the wife of his mate,
and male next day that of his own wife. The captain
saved nothing from the wreck but his watch.

RFCEIVING A CHRISTMAS PRESENT !- An appli-
cation has been made to one of the London magistrates
by a lady living in Stanley-street, Pimlico, for the
magistrate's advice under the following peculiar circum-
stances :

She said that at Christmas she received a present of two
turkeys brought from the railway. It occurred very singu-
larly that next door to her was a family of the same name as
herself ,Saville , and it had since been ascertained that the
turkeys had been intended for them One house was "
and the other "113," and the basket containing the birds
had certainly been properly addressed, but had been left at
the wrong house, when the number escaped observation.
The other Savllles now made a demand of £1 15s. for the
birds which applicant considered excessive. She thought
that the railway carman was much to blame, but still was
willing to pay her namesake for the turkeys, only she
thought the demand ought to be reduced, and that an allow.
ance should be made for the money she had paid for
carriage.

The magistrate could not say that she was bound to
pay for the birds under the peculiar circumstances of
the case, but suggested that It would be aa well to offer
her neighbour Ws. compensation for the loss of her
present.

ANECDOTE OF Ilion LIFIL—" I'll rouge, dear,
if you 'II lend me yours," observed the lovely Countess
Doubled:ugh to her friend, the Dowager Lady Pasay.
"Certainly, my dear," replied the amiable Dowager,
"1 keep you in countenance."—Punch.
RESISTANCE TO VACCINATION.— The Board of
Guardians of the Northampton Union have reversed
a decree which they bad given against vaccination,
and in a full board of 26 have directed that the com-
pulsory powers of the Act of 1867 be immediately put
in force. The question was re-opened by a letter from
; the Lords of the Council. requiring to know what the
1 guardians were doing with reference to vaccination,
I and stating that it could not be permitted that, through
the neglect of any board of guardians, the liven of her
Majesty's subjects should be jeopardised. The reso-
lution that the law should be carried out wee affirmed
by sixteen against ten,
PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISH.—We all
know how apt we are to expend large sums of money '
to gain small one*. We think nothing of spendiog
thousands in law expenses to recover a few hun-
dreds, even though the result hi often doubtfuL
We are, perhana, more whimsical in our economies
than in anything else. According to the Manchester
Examiner, some curious results are exhibited in a table
which has recently been prepared showing the coat of
collecting the Customs revenue of the United Kingdom
in 1868. The nation, it is stated, suffers an actual
loss on thirty-four Custom-houses out of 132. This
group incurs a gross expenditure of £90,305, in
collecting revenues amounting to little more
than half that sum—viz., £48,118. Scilly, for
example, collects one sovereign at a cost of £1,143;
Rye collects £.5 at an outlay of £1,236; Stornoway
picks up £ll, at a cost of £1,353; and Aberystwith
collects £73 for the outlay of £1,913. These results,
if correctly given, certainly are curious (remarks the
Pall Mall Gazette), and as they are not calculated to
soothe the nerves of economista, which are at present
in a highly sensitive condition, it might be as well to
hear what the asswer is to this statement—between I
the two we may possibly arrive at the truth. In the
meantime, it is satisfactory to learn that we do gain
something by the Customs revenues for the gross ;
amount raised from these 132 Custom-lousei is stated
to be £22,7119.999; and the aggregate cost of collecting
it. £1,250,556.
DISH FOR DIDDLED SHAREHOLDERS.—BubbIe
and tignealc.—Panda.
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MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An
in-
quest has been held at the Weintnineter Hospital, on
the body of Mrs. Jenkins, aged thirty-five, the wife of I
a poulterer, who met her death under the following I
melancholy circumstances :

On the ay-ening- Oii...l;l—sl-mTie.day last the deceased, with
her family, was about to sit down to tea, when her son George,
a boy of about fifteen years of age, took the chair inually
occupied by ha mother. She aaked him to remove to another
chair, but he ref need, and she was about to box his ears, when
he lifted up his hand to ward off the blow. Ile had an open
knife in his hand at the t me, and In swinging his hand round
the knife struck his mother on the arm, about two inches above
the wrist, Inflicting an incised wound of about one and shalt
inches In length. The wound bled freely, and the deceased
at once went to Westminster Hospital, where her wound
was di eseed After a few days she felt ouch pain In her hand
and arm, that a medical man WAS called in, who, after at.
tending her for Stew days, advised her removal to the hos-
pital. She was admitted there on Wednesday, the 19th inst.,
the hand and arm being at the time highly inflamed. She
became delirious on the following day, and died on Friday,
the Slit net,
A poet mortem examination showed that deceaeed
was suffixing from inflammation of the brain, which
wee the imrnediate cauee of death. The medical evi-
dence left it doubtful whether the wound in the arm,
and the eubeeqqent inflammation, had not contributed
to theluff awed brain. There being POLIIIC doubt ()lithe
subject, a verdict of death from inflamed brain was
returned.

SUICIDE OF AN AMERICAN MERCHANT.—An
inqueat haa been held on the body of Mr. Charles Her-
man Thornton. aged thirty-seven, who committed sui-
cide on Sunday, at Sandford Lodge, Bromley, in the
outskirts of Lteue. He WSW in partnership with sir.
ROOM,am general meraluint, at Bradfmd, inn large

way of business. He resided at Upperwood Honse",
Apperley Bridge, but on Frllay last went on a visit to
Mr. Homan, at Sandford House, who haA returned
f mu America a fortnight since, and be then found Mr.
Thornton very low in spirits. On Friday last he ate
good dinner; there was magic afterwards' and he was
more cheerful. The next in orr ing he said he hail had a
good night. He was persuaded not to go to B. allord.
In the evening, when Mr. Homan returned from Brad-
ford, the deceased reverted to the state of his health,
114) ing that he should never be his own man again, his
liver was very bad. He went to bed about eleven
o'clock. About ten o'clock on Sunday morning Me.
Homan wont to the deceased's room and f. oiled thst he
was dead. Out-ide the bed there were no appearances
of blood, but there was a pool of bhiodunder the clothts.
It was found that the carotid artery had been severed
with a rsz3r, which Mr. Homan did not know his
friend had possession of. The jury returned a verdict
of Temporary Insanity.

OPPOSING A DIVORCS.—A WiSCOOSiII lawyer
recently received the following letter from a resident
of that State, who desired to pre7ent hie wife from
getting a bill of divorce:—

" Mr. Steel,—l heard my wife came to you for a bill of
divot.se you probly herd her story and I will tell you MIMI
and I will tell you the truth I haerd Id did not provide fluff
to eat god noes I ha to null of flower pork potatoes and made
ower one bared bu ter and alway a had honey in the hone I got
her tea thoger dried tout I always thought good deal of her
and i would Rot evrythiug I cold to please h.r I herd she
set I was 'say 11l was I had Duff to eat and diink rho cant
say but what I got close braise had 4 good dec.,s wit,, she
left I got her fort new pare of shoes ahin one year that was
last 3e r the first pare I pade 3 dollars the second 2 25 a
tided 2.5.) and 4 forth 3 dollars this watt all got with In m •
°ear and I was willln to get them for her and I got thing.
Just that way for her and I am willing to do it again for her
I thought my eyea of her she would get evry thing she oak for
ill! lade In my power to got her thut is Just a, trew as god
In heaven and! cant tee she can gat any hill on this. Mr.
Steel I wish you would talk witn her and get her to come
back and live with me and live a happy live to collier I ceao
bees and have lots of homy I wish )ou wou!d advsie her to
cone and live with me I am a Idnesom man you ever saw I
cant sleep or eat much It wares on mealy mind is on her all
the time when I am awake and sleep if you answer this write
plain so I can read for I cant read tell me what she sea
about it."

A COMPLICATIOY —M. Leiru Rollin is, they
say, to be counsel for the Noir family at the trial of
Prince Pierre Bonaparte. Bother! we have
a flood of "Rollins Auc'ent History' For, like the
Bourbons, our friend L. R. has forgotten nothing, end
learned nothing. However, we can forgive him a deal
for having fixed on Rochefort the title of a Gamin de
Paris. Will M. Rollin call him that when mentioning
the Prince's challenge to the raid Rochefort 9—Punch.

HER MeiEsTl'S KINDNrss. —The following
instance of the goodness of heart and kindly feeling so
often manifested by her Majesty to those in her employ
will be read, we are sure, with the greatest interest by
all our numerous readers (says the Court Journal).
For some time past the wife of one of the rep o;res at
Osborne has been ill, and confined to her bed. This
coming at her Majesty's knowledge, she has on two
several occasions curing the past week walked from
Osborne to her residence, nearly a mile each way, ac-
companied by one of her ladies only, and has sat by
her be (side and expressed her syn:pathy with her
during her illness. Such womanly acts, tend, if any-
thing can do so, to endear her Majesty to all her
subjects, more especially to those who know that this
is only one out of hundreds of instances of her Ma-
jesty's thoughtfulness and kindly feeling.
LYTALTY AT THE ANTIPODE& The Brisbane
Courier remarks :—lf Englishmen are not more loyal
the farther they wander from the mother country,
they are certainly more demonstrative in their loyalty.
The consequence is that at this distance from England
the people are exceedingly strict tbservers of loyal
birthdays. Her Majesty's birthday is the greatest
holiday in the year, with the single exception IA Christ-
matt, and the Prince of Wales' birthday ranks next in
importance. This year the latter day was religiously
observed by the colonists generally, accon.ing to their
lights and opportunities. All shops and places of
business, except the drinking-shops, were closed, and
all kinds of work were suspended for the day.
SrLF-HELP FOR THE LABOCRIFG CLAWS.—
" Help yourself" is the pith of the advice now generally
given by speechifying politicians and statesmen to the
working man that would be if be could. but is unem-
ployed for want of employment. " Help myself ?"
may be conceived to be the reply. "You just put a
leg o' mutton and trimming afore me, and see if I
don't."—Punch.

A SAD STORY. - Mr. H. W. Seymour. of
82, Gloucester-crescent. Hyde-Park, London, has sent
the following letter to The Titres for publivation:—

Will you permit me to make known the following din-
tressii g Mite through the medium of your journal. S. A. is
the daughter of a naval paymaster's clerk, who died some
years since, leaving but little to his wife and dauxhter The
latter was shortly after attacked by the fearful skin disease
called lupus, aunt their slender means were soon exhausted
ty the recessities of living and the expense of medical ad-
vice. The mother is deaf and aged, and the seat of the disease
being in the face, the daughter is too dialigured to procure
employment. To smote the words of the physician who
gratuitously prescribes for her, She may be called an out-
cast from society." Tney are absolutely penniless, subsisting
solely on the occasional charity of those to hom the cute
has been made known, and who are endeavouring to procure
sufficient votes to enable the sufferer to obtain a pension from
the Royal llospitel for Incurables. Mr. Seymour concludes
his letter by en mug that proxies or donations so aid will be
thankfully received and aclmowleged by him.

A Wos DES CI. Cat CO LAMM. Jan Alexander,
post-runner between Nairn MA Cawdor, has proved
himself to be one of the moist astonishing mental cal-
culators perhaps in the kingdom. As a specimen of
his powers, he gave the correct answers to the" five fol-
lowing questions in less than a minute, in presence of
Mr. Radt, Free Church Institution, Nairn, the other
day :—"Two chests tea, each 80,h., at 31. 60.; twelve
bars brown soap, each SAII., at 41,d. ; sevente,” bars
white soap. each 4111., at NI : three bags sago, each
271 h., at 44.1. ; and seven nags barley, each 191 b., at
lid." He answered the following question correctly,
without noting down a single figure, and that, too, in
a few seconds --" Find the amount of £5OO, from
March 1 to January 9. both damn inclu.ive, at 4 5-Bth
per cent,? Answer-1:519 19s. lAd.— 66-73." He was
asked by Mr. liaitt how many le, ters there would be
in a year's file of a daily newspaper of eight pages,
each seven columns, each 190 lines, each forty two
letters? The answer, 139,873,440, was given in • few
seconds.

Ai( Eva aITFUL NIIMBER.—Some rabid Re-
publicans in France the other day celebrated with
an uproarious banquet the anniversary of the execu-
tion of Louis XVI. The day was the 21ist of the
present month, and arithmeticiana, who are always
busy about Louis XVI. and his unfortunate life,
tell us that this numbsr 21 was peculiarly fatal to
him. On the 21st April 1770, he was married; on the
21st of June in the same year the wedding feast tiok
place, at which &number of people, gathered together
to watch the proceedings, were crushed by the fall of
a platform. On the 21st January, 1971, there was a
grand ceremonial at the hotel de Ville in honour of
the birth of the Dauphin. On the 21st June, 1791,
occurred the famous flisht to Varennes. On the 21st
January, 1793, the scaffold was erected, and the good,
weak King was beheaded, according to the verdict of
the commission of Twent y-onc members called together
to judge him. It has been said that the first eventful
21—that of his marriage—brought about the last.
MODEL VOLUSTEERS.— A writer in the Pall
Mall describes Ireland as being in con ere of rapid assimi-
lation, in character, manners, and customs, to London.
It would be a pity if Paddy were to lose all his old
picturesque and humorous qualities, but should the
Emerald Isle become thoroughly Londonised, its inhabi-
tants will have undergone at least one blessed change,
in atquiring the loyalty distinctive of the "London
Irish.' —Pa ac/i.

A FOOLISH Ac r. —At the Worship-street Police-
court, in London, William Bennett, a respectable-
] mkieg young man, has been charged with having
stolen swill.

The evidence showed that on Monday, the 17th instant,
Mr. Bennett, lather of the prisoner, died. On Saturday last
he was buried. After the funeral the Wends and relatives
the prisoner being among the latter, together with the
widow of the deceased Mffill, assembled at his house,
for the purpose of hearing the will real. The clerk to
Mr Ware, solicitor, was performing this duty when
suddenly the prisoner snatched the document out of his
hood, crumples it up, aud placed it in his coat-
pocket lie appeared greatly excited because his own name
was not mentioned iii it further than as to a revers', nary
interest to him n the demise of his stepmother, the testator's
second wife. Although requested to restore the will, he
refused to d 80, and before he could be prevented, lett the
room. The brother of the widow thereupon comnmnicatad
with the police, and Set geoid Eogleson, proceeded to the
house. The prisoner had then retort ed to the porn. When
asked for the will he refused to give It up. He was then
Riven Into custody on • charge of stealing it. Sol.setmently
he said that he had taken it from the tampers hand, but
before he left the room some one took it front him.
At the station when searched the will was found upon
him. It was produced in court, —The magistrate faked
the prosecutor, who was the brother of the widow, if,
now that the will was recovered, he desired to press
the charge. The answer was in the negative.—The
magistrate then said that the prisoner had behaved
very foolishly, and committed an act which might
have been construed into a teliiny of a very grave nature.
He would have to be cautious as to his future conduct.
He was then discharged.

AN Angulo uous Morro:—Among the inecrip-
Cone emblazoned at the illumination in Calcutta in
honour of the Duke of Edinburgh's visit, was one
which Appears slightly ambiguous. It was over an
undertaker's door in Dhurrumtollah, and the legend
WAR " Welcome." It is just possible that his Royal
Highness may decline the implied invitation.

•
CORR FOR SCARE BITL—Two fresh instances
have occurred in Victsria of the succisaful applica-
tion of Professor Halford's remedy for snake bite.
In the first case, which occurred at IV:Calmat's Creek,
an hour and a half elapsed before the application of
the remedy— the injection of ammonia; but by perse-
verance and attention the patient was restored to con-
sciousness in about fourteen hours, and in thirty-six
his recovery was complete. The second case was that
of a woman at Tarraville, who was not treated until
thirteen or fourteen hours alter the bite had been
given. All ordinary means of cure had failed, and
the woman appeared to be sinking, but two injections
of the diluted ammonia completely restored her.

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A SCOTCH CORPORATION.- -An animated dis-
cussion took place at the last meeting of the Stirling
Town Council, touching the amount of " refreshment "
taken by certain of the members upon the occasion of
the Provost and Councillors haying officially attended
Church. Mr. Councillor Ttioneson, making himself
the mouthpiece of "strong rumours about the town,"
accused twelve of his colleagues of having drunk
between the services four bottles of whisky, several
bottles of wine, and an unnamed quantity of ale. One
of the accused gentlemen insisted that there were only
three bottles of whisky, but the production of the till
disposed of this objection. One or two other bellies
declared that they had not raeted the drink, whilst
another bailie said Ii wi -!! ' t, !ke a preceding
speaker, aver that he nsd ns i.... el, for no ore would
believe him if he did, but in calculating the amount
consumed by each man it must be remembered that
there were present as partakers of the drink police.
men, town officers, and factors of the different hos-
pital., who would made up another dozen, and reduce
the average by cne.half. After a stormy scene, in
which repeated attempts were made to close the mouth
of Mr. Councillor Thomson, the council ease, and with
one accord hurried from the room, leaving him still
speaking,