The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-04-24 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISII AND FOREIGN.

£1,100,000.

Mr. Thom, the prosecutor of the directors of
Overend, Gurney, and C .., will, it la ail, conduct his case in
person against some of the ablest lawyers living.

In a suit avainst the insurance companies who held
liens on his mu turn Barnum has recovered 200,000 dole.

In the French Legi,anture, the otiler day, it was
stated ihst Fiance's naval position is better now than at any
former p-rind.

In Iti6B the number of emigrants leaving Irish ports
was 62,198—a decrease of 19,534 compared with 1867.

A pamphlet is announced in Paris under the title,
Influence of the Velocipede upon the elections of 1009.

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A bill hag been brought into the House of Commons
by Mr. Dixon, Mr. kinnaird, and Mr. Goldney, to amend the
.• Adulteration of Food or Drink Act ,1860;," by extending its
provisions to drugs.

The principle of the bill introflueed by the Italian
Ministry, putting an end to the exemption from the conserip-
tian hitherto granted to young men in training for the priest-
hood, has been approved by the Chamber, the votes being
223 against 25.

BY the death of Judge Dobbs a vacancy occurs on
the bench of the Irish Landed Estates Court. The deceased
judge We. sixty-three years of age. He was called to the
bar in 1833, and became a Queen's counsel in 18U. He sat
as member for Carrickfergus from 1857 to 1859.

Mr. Edmund Yates, who it is well known holds
high posidon in the General Post Office, has been visiting
those towns In which newspapers wills the largest circulation
are issued, with the view of ascertaining the opinions of the
newspaper in, .prietors and others interested in the subject of
cheaper postage for printed matter.

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The best bicycle velocipede journey at present per-
formed was made one day hpt week, by Mr. Booth, the cham-
pion of skating. wh, did the whole distance from London to
Brighton ,fifty-two miles in seven and a half hours. Mr.
Booth arrived at Brighton in time to get a bath, have Ms
dinner, and catch the last train to town. This beats any
similar journey on the same road by two hours, some of the
down-lull being done at the rate of a mMe in three minutes.
It is stated that at a recent iyarliamentary inquiry,
coui.sel asked a question, •• You ailed upon Mr. Roberts—
w hit did he say V Opposite counsel objected. Point argued
half an hour; the oommittee cleared the room to consult,
gave permission for She question to be put, and witness then
aaid Mr. Roberts wasn't at home.
A simple, vet very useful suggestion has been put
forth by a gentleman, and fits to be hoped the railways alit
adopt the suggestion. It consists in printing at the back of
railway return tickets the hours of departure of the return
trains from the station to which the tickets are issued
Every had ler of a return ticket would thus carry in his
pocket information which in munerous instances would save
him the trouble of inquiry or reference.
The Government Bill for amending the law re-
lating to the Militia enacts that the militia, when in training,
may Ile placed under the corninand of general officers of the
regular forces. It gives power to attach such officers to the
militia regiments. It abolishes the property qualification for
militia officers, and decides that no militia volunteer who has
been on a regiment for one whole period of training shall
claim discharge on the ground of defective enrolment.
A resolution proposed by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer in his budget, by which the shilling duty on
foreign corn is to be remitted, will not take effect until three
weeks have passed.
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The Earl of March, eldest son of the Duke of
Richmond, was on Saturday elected for West Susses, in
place of the Hon. H. Wyndham, who has succeeded by the
death of his father, Lord Lecontield, to the peerage.
An English swell-mobsman, in Paris, who has been
passing himself off as an Indian officer, has been arrested at
the Grand hotel on the Boulevards. Several jewellers of the
Palais Royal are among the victims of the prisoner, who had
been throwing diamonds in the laps of certain actresses at
the minor theatres. One shopkeeper let him have goods to
the amount of £2,000.

What enormoMs profits do eminent literary men
make M. Victor Hugo Is to receive no less than 200,000
francs, or £O,OOO, for his four volumes entitled L'Llouun4 qui
liit.

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The Regulation of Mines Bill, just publiimeu, con-
tains useful provisions for increasing the safety of those
employed in mining, but it will do nothing to prevent the
immoral employment of women, who may be seen in canvas
trousers and jackets, shovelling coals and grimy with coal
dust, at Wigan and other places.
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The Figure states that the celebrated Sister Patro.
elute, dressed in black, with a black velvet curare, a hat
with a black feather, and wearing white gloves, was present,
the other day, in the diplomatic tribune at the Corps Legi.
latif. and that her features are strongly marked and by no
means stamped with the devotional expression usually ac-
quired in convents.

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Her Majesty's screw troopship Crocodile, sailed from
Portsmouth, on Tuesday, for Canada, with the first portion of
the discharged workmen from Government establishments
who have accepted the Admiralty offer of a free pas=age for
themselves out to Cadaila. Three hundred and ninety-one
souls have thus sailed in the ship as Government free pas-
eengel it. this total number being composed of 175 men,
seventy-five married women, nineteen girls over twelve years
of age, 113 children, under twelve, and eleven infants.
Father Ignatius has been holding a series of services
during the past week at his monastery at Norwlch, assisted
by two monks of the English order of St. Benedict. The
services have been of the usual ultra-Ritualistic character.
Toe general public, have been admitted to witness them on
payment of Is. each.
A frightful boiler explosion occurred on Monday
afternoon at the Barking gasworks. A barge Was being un-
laden at the back of the gasworks by the aid of a " coffee-
pot " steam engine turning a wank, when the boiler of the
engine exploded is ith a noise like a heavy piece of artillery.
Four men were killed, and several were seriously injured.
The mutilation of all was fearful ; bet a singular fact is
stated, from which it appears that the men nearest the boiler
received the least amount of Nary, while the force of the
blast appears to have fallen on those at a little distance.
In the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, Mr.
M'Cullagh Torrens gave notice ehat on a future day he would
ask the President of the Poor Law Board whether his atten-
tion had been called to the proceedings which had occurred
on Saturday last at laying the foundation atone of a lunatic
asylum at Caterhara ; whether those proceedings had the
sanction of the Government ; and whether what The Times
newspaper represented as a sumptuous banquet partaken of
by 200 greste on that OCCBPICO was to be defrayed out of the
metropolitan rates, the civil contingencies, or otherwise. (A
laugh.,
A number of persons (six in all) connected with a
sporting lottery known as the "Deptford Spec." have been
charged at the Bow-street police-court in London, with orga-
nising and conducting that and • series of other lotteries of •
similar character The Government prosecuted. Evidence
was given at great length by the police as to their having pur-
chased tickets on several occaslidis from one or other of the
prisoners, and as to the manner in which the numbers were
drawn. The defendants wished to have the case dealt with
summarily, but the magistrate declined to accede to this, and ,
remanded them on bail.
A robbery committed in Hungary has caused a great
sensation. Some unknown burglars broke into the glass
manufactory of Duboka, near Parega, and carried off a
chest containing arsenic. The object if the thieves appears
to have been to get possession only of the poison. The
Minister of the Interior promises a reward to any person
who can give a clue to the discovery of the perpetrators.
On Sunday night the series of "Sunday Evenings
fur the People, arranged by the National Sunday League, was
brought to a close at the Freemasons' Hall, London, which was
crowded almost to suffocation. A paper on the "Sink Poor
of Paris," written by Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, was read, and
afterwards a selection from Rossint's "Stabat Mater" was
given with full orchestral accompaniments, the band and
choir consisting of 100 soloists, and the principal parts being
' snug by Miss Palmer, Miss Coles, Mr. Mason, and Mr.
Jennings. Mr. Jerrold's paper showed that last year the
number of sick persons in Paris •ho were relieved at their
, own homes was Mine, that the sick poor comprised 3 per
, cent. of the population of the city, and that the averige cost
of relieving each patient nsa only its. Bd. per annum. I
, was mentioned in the paper that the municipal antairr ties
Pails, headed by lire Prefect of the Seine, orsimise arid
anoei intend the charitic., IA the city hi co:Juin:Mon with the

There is a great disturbance at one of the London
clubs. owing to the black-balling, a few days ago, of a very
pomilax and unexceptionable candidate.
The North China Daily News says it is rumoured
that an edict has been issued by the chine's Government
prohibiting the cultivation of the poppy in Chins, and that
the edict is likely to be strictly enforced. The news will, it
is thought, send up the price of opium.

Mr:lli.maeli hau been suffering from an attack of
gout. mid was absent from tlw Rouse of Commons on Monday
night.

Front a few words which passed in the Court of
Queen's Bench on Monday it would appear that there is a
pouibility of the action .• Saurin r. Starr " being re-opened.
The junior counsel for the defendants in the late hearing
stated that his leader. Mr. Mellish, had been instructed to
move," but wag unable to attend the court in consequence of
illness. The motion was allowed to stand over for • week.

An attempt is to be made to settle the dispute
In the Manchester building trade by arbitration, and Mr.
Rupert Kettle has consented to act, with the endeavour to
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bring about an arrangement. All agitation on either side is
to come pending the inquiry. At Preston the strike ot
weavers continues without any apparent change._

The aid given from the public purse to 11f aynooth
College since its foundation, in 1795, has amounted to about
„.„

The King of Bavaria'a marriage is again announced,
and this time quasi-officially, with the Emperor of Russia's
beautiful and youthful daughter, the Grand Duchess Marie.

The example of Mr. Geo. Peabody has been followed
by Mr. Al. Stewart of New York, who has given no less
than six mfrilon dollars for charitable purposes. The bulk
of the money is to be expended in building two large hotels,
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one for single working young -I;VW.-1;.iii1;7ti;;;1;";
single working young men. The New Volk papers describe
the plan of the new institutions at great length.

The Post-office estimate for the year emling, the 31st
of March, 1070, provides for the conveyance by post of
official correspondence, inland and colonial, expected from
the Government departments, amounting in the year to
17,959 90000., on which the postage, if paid, would exceed
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X 200,000. Ilat year the estimate was for-onti 14,121,3000 z.

"With a proper teacher of their own sex, and with
suitable dresses for the preliminary practice, ladies can ob-
tain such a command over the velocipedes in one week's prac-
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tice, of an hour daily, that they can ride side-saddle-wiseivith
the utmost ease--New York Sun.

Over 200 licenses have now been issued for the
Sutherland goldfields, and new diggers continue to arrive.
Experienced diggers are making about £2 a week. and
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green" hond. frorn 15, to 20.

According to the Antwerp papers, Belgium is likely
to be the scene of more strikes, the carpenters and cigar
makers being about to follow the example of the colliers of
the horlusge.

A new Baptist chapel is now in course of erection in
Everton-road, Liverpool. on Saturday morning some of the
workmen, in removing a blo,k of stone weighing between
3 cwt. awl 4 cwt., placed it upon a newly-built arch. The
latter at once gave way, precipitating the whole of them into
a vault bemath. The block of stone fell upon a man of the
name of Elliott, and he was immediately killed.

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"It is in the interesc of everybody connected with
Ireland, and, therefore, of every British subject, that no time
should be lost in the settlement of the Church question. The
two years it has already occupied have done much to aggra-
vate the land difficulty, and to delay its solution."—Times.
The Gaulois announces that the cashier of one of the
largest insurance companiea in Paris has embezzled a sum of
1.480,000 francs. Less clever than Mr. Higgs, he allowed
himself to be caught, and is now at Mazas. Ile had been
thirty-nine years in the company's employ. The chairman
proposed to hush the matte' and offered to put down
£2O, ot/0 towards niaking up the defalcations, but, the Gaulcis
adds, the other directors refused.

The number of deaths registered in London last
week was 1,595, being 75 above the estimated number, and
45 more than were reported in the previous week. The
mean temperature of the week was 55 2, or more than ten
degrees above the average of the last fifty year..

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Mr. Ward Hunt lraa given notioe of the following
amendments to the excise resolutions To exempt male
servants under eighteen years of age from the duty of 155.
To raise the statolord of weight below which carriages are
to be taxed at the lower rate of duty from 3 cwt. to 5 cwt.
To impose a uniform charge for armorial bearings of al is.,
whether borne on a carriage or otherwise.

Advices from India inform on that Miss Carpenter
is compelled, by continued ill-health, to return to Europe,
which she does by the mail of the 10th April. Her interest,
however, in the special work she was desirous of inaugurat-
ing seenis unabated, as she purposes returning to India in
November next.

The Gazette of Saxony relates an incident which
took place at an aucth n sale, at Camel, of the horses of the
Elector of Hesse, confiscated with the rest of his fortune by
the King of Prussia. A superior officer, a Hessian bought
two of the finest at a very high price, and paid down
the money at once to the Prussian commissioner. Be then
drew out a revolver from his pocket and shotthem both dead.
On Sunday morning the schooner Elizabeth, laden
with coal, on her voyage from Sunderland to Dundee was
struck by a heavy sea off Newblggen, on the Northumber-
land coast, and foundered. The crew Jumped into the
sea, and held on to portions of the wreck. The captain, the
mate, and a seaman died from exhaustion, after being seve-
ral hours on the wreck. The captain fell into the sea while
being rescued, and was drowned.
"Another bit of clerical gossip is, that Bishop Colenso
has concluded anew volume in continuation of his previous
di,sertations on the Pentateuch, and at the last date was con-
sidering whether he would come to England to publish it, or
entrust it to his friends here, and remain in the colony.'

Court Journal.
Scarcely had Prince Arthur left the borders of Tip-
perary when another murder was committed. On Saturday
morning, as some people were driving into Limerick, they
discovered in a ditch by the roadside at Phillipstown, near
Cappawhite, the body of a respectable farmer with his head
beaten in. Be is about forty years of age, and apparently
In good circumstances. It in reported the murder was
agrarian.
A Greenock telegram states that the Ne//u, smack,
of 11.1 f oat, had foundered, and the master's wile and five
children, were drowned.
Two very serious cotton-mill fires took place on Satur-
day bight last. At Livesey, near Blackburn, Mr. Swain's
mill, contahling nineteen hundred spindles, a building six
storeys filch, WA9 utterly destroyed, the damage being esti-
mated at £19,000. The other fire was at Rayton, near Old-
ham, and the damage is there calculated to be nearer
£15,000 than E. 10,000.
A Naval Court Martial has been held on board her
Majesty's ship Duke of Welling,on, in Portsmouth Harbour,
for the trial of Navigating Midshipman G. Filiner, serving on
board her Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington, lest doing duty
on board her Majesty's ship Victory, on a charge of drunken-
ness while on boat d the latter ship. The Court found the
charge proved, and sentenced the prisoner to he dismissed
from her Majesty's service.
A German paper, the Hamburger Bonen Hulk, has
some remarks upon the English Budget, which it considers a
subject of European significance. That after an expedition
costing nine millions sterling, England should be able,
without a loan, to repeal taxes to the amount of some mil-
lions, must, the Bor,,en Halle thinks, excite the envy and ad-
miration of all other nations.
"J. F.—Received all right. I find this advertise-
ment comes very expensive to me each time, and wish you
could Out out a cheaper way and let me know in answer to
this. Why not call to see me as an old friend? I should be
happy to see you."—Advertisement In The Times.
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The bronze medallion of the Royal Humane Society
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was given, on 'I uesday, to W. J. West, a bandsman in the
15th Middlesex Volunteers, for saving the life of Mr. Fair-
bourne, a private in the 4th Middlesex, at the Dover review.
Fairbourne was close to the water edge watching the brig
Ferret as she broke up, when he was overtaken by a wave
and drawn into the water. West rushed in after him and
saved him at the risk of his own life.
The permission to the London "Bobbies" to wear
beards and moustaches has already had its effect. All the
men on the lobby of the House of Commons are culVvating
both and the very rapid growth of hair on the faces suggests
to the observer that the extraordinary vegetating weather
must be as favourable to the sprouting forth of human hair
as it is to that of folMge.
In the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, a rule for a
new trial was moved for in the case of Sutton v. Borradaile,
which was heard at the late Kingston Assizes. The plaintiff
It will be remembered, sued Mrs. Borradaile for £lO on ac-
count of services rendered in connection with the prosecu-
tion of Madame Rachel, but the jury gave her only £5.
The Judges of the Court of Exchequer have refused to disturb
the verdict.

" One monster shot,' has issue,' circulars asserting
that no machine-stiehing is done for the establishment. The
base in question gets all its work done in 150 convents, by
hand. We are to have a r.,union, to consider this competi-
tion with the ordinary workers."—Court Journal.
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A melancholy accident has taken place in the road
over the Simplon. Thirty workmen from Domo d'Ossola
were crossing the Mroplon. The road was in a very bad
state, a heavy tall of snow having occurred. In order to
cross the gorge of Eaux Froidos they procured two road-
makers as guides. They took but a few steps when an
avalanche fell, and buried the whole thirty-two. Twenty of
the workmen managed to extricate themselves, but the re-
maining ten and the two road-makers were borne away and
perished.
Another application to Archbishop Manning by the
English Amnesty Committee, to allow a petition in favour
of the release of Fenian prisoners to lie in the Roman Ca-
tholic churches has been ref userL

The set of Russian sables presented by the Emperor
of Russia tc Patti, dosing her recent visit to St. Petersburg,
Is valued at 3,000 guineas.

A severe earthquake shock was felt in California, on
April 1. It was the severest felt since the great earthquake
of Octoberlast at San Franctsco, but did scarcely any danntge,
although the people, anticipating a return of the disasters,
were much frightened.

A meeting of the principal merchants of Paris has
be• c held to consider the subject of closing their establish-
ments on Sundays. A resolution to that effect was carried
almost unanimously, and a committee appointed to receive
adhesions.

The safe of the Safety Fund Building, Philaoeipnia
was broken open on the 4th inst.. and upwards of 1,000.100
dollars in available funds were stolen.

A seriou outbreak of cholera has occurred at Herat
and Farah, in Central Asia.

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The chief trophies o the Abyssinian expedition, pre-
sented by the army to the Queen, and by the naval brigade
to the Admiralty, are to be sent to Wolverhampton, for dis-
play at the South Staffordshire Exhibition.
A lgazzinian conspiracy has been discovered at
Milan. The police have seized a number of Orsini bombs,
arms, and cipher documents. The six principal conspirators
have been arrested, including Giuseppe Nathan, of London.
Milan . it is added; Is perfectly tranquil.
In the Court of Exchequer the judges have refused
an application for a new trial in the care of Lowse Lord
Brougham. This was an action by a dentist at Carlisle to
recover a sum of £156 17s. 65. for artificial teeth supplied to
the late Lord Brougham, and also for repairing sets of teeth,
visits, Ac. The defendant who was the brother and executor
of the deceased, paid £6l into court, and pleaded never in-
debted as to the rest of the plaintiff's claim. At the trial
during the last sittings at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief
Baron, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with £lO5
damages, including the money paid into court.
In a well-written leader, the Morning Herald main-
' tains that there is 110 section of the community more tho-
roughly at its ella ends to know how to provide for its rising
generation than that which consists of gentlemen or of
: those who aspire to be gentlemen. The bar is crowded ; the
medical profession is overstocked ; and there are far more
lawyers than there is litigation or prospect of it. Architects
jostle one another on the pavements for which they would
fain design handsome frontages ; and builders are rapidly
learning to dispense with their services, just as railway con-
rectors endeavour to do without those of engineers.
In the train which conveyed the Queen and Royal
family to Portsmouth on Tuesday, en route for the Isle of
Wight, a saloon carriace was attached specially for the use
of Prince Leopold. This was furnished with an indiarubber
air red, which was laid upon one of the seats of the carriage.
The Prince had so far recovered as to be able to walk without '
assistance to his carriage. Sir William Jenner was in at- •
tendance.
There was very near being a catastrophe at Nice last
week. An alarm of fire was given at the Theatre Francais.
The audience began to rush out en mew. Luckily some few
people had sufficient presence of mkild to see that it was a
false alarm, and they did their best to calm the panic, and
were so far successful that no lives were lost. The boy who
kindles the lightning put In too much sulphur, and the result
was a flash so vivid that the audience thought he had been
borrowing fire from Prometheus or some other incendiary.
There is now an impression among careful observers
says the Man terser Guardian, that the struggle at Preston
Is slowly rhino. The nmvement for a reduction of wages in
Bast Lancashire has materially darkered the operatives'
prospect. The books of the spinners and minders indicate a
craririal diminution in the number of hands in the receipt of
strike pay. Returns read on Monday at the meeting of the
gionlians showed that this week 3,09 i Persons, 152 more
than last week, have bees relieved. As compared with
correspondiog re-nod of last )ear there is an lnure,es

The Globe at some length shews that at common
aw the Prince of Wales is only a life-peer. .
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A Welsh colony is about to be started in LONA
A tract of 100,000 acres of land has been aecureA.

Mrs. Ann Smith, of Riley.street, Chelsea, went to
sleep while sitting near the lire the other morning, and fell
against the grate. Her clothes caught lire, and she was so
severely burnt that she died shortly after her arrival in the
hospital, whither she was conveyed.
The O'Donoghoe writes to an Trish piper to any that
he did not attend the Dublin mas. mic ball as had been re-
ported. "1 dld not," he says, "receive an invitation, and
even if I had been imited it would have been impossible for
me, as a Catholic, to have been present."
The Mailman states that the collection for the
families of the Fenian prisoners has already produced the
large sum of g 2,192.

he Queen of England was ainonv the sovereigns
who congratulated the rope npon the fiftieth anniversary of
his ordination. _ _

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Only fourteen Popes have livef, as Pius. IX. hail
done, to celebrate his 50th anniversary of priesthood.
Belgium sent him on Sunday last a present of a golden
desk, enriched with precious stones; and Germany, besides
an address bearing a million of signatures, of which thir-
teen were those of Princes, offerel presents valued at
4200,000.

111d11e. Nilsson tells her friends that there is no
foundation for the stories of her being about to be married
to the Duke In Massa, the Marquis tie Seepeaux, a Russian
prince, or anybody else. She has before her a long list of
professional engagements in England, America, and else-
where, and contemplates the fulfilment of all of them.

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Two Americans. on their way to the Rio Gramle,
were shot by the military on the road, robbed of their money,
and hung up to the trees as robbers; but it appears they
were innocent travellers, who were returning with their
gains to Texas, having sold their stock at Saltillo, so it 1410.3
been proven by the letters and note-hooks that were found
upon their persons. They must have had scone
.2,000 dots...

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On Monday, Mr. Finney, managrr if the English
Joint-stock Bank Limited', was charged before the Lord
Mayor of London with having made false entries in the books
with intent to defraud. Defendant was apprehended at his
residence, Queensberry Lodge, Elstree, Herta, on Saturday
evening, and there being no public conveyances in tile
neighbourhocd he had a horse put to his carriage anti drove
the officer to London, his groom taking the vehicle hack and
he remaining in custody until Monday. The offence being
a bailable one the police cannot be said to have sln.wed him
touch courtesy by making the arrest on Saturday night.
After a lengthened hearing he Was remanded.
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According to a report in Berlin, the Prowl=
Liberals are about to bring in a bill for the purpose of grant-
ing pensions to the German volunteers of 1813. The Paris
Temps thinks that if such a project is really entertained, it
must be regarded as a reply to the recent measure of the
Emperor Napoleon in favour of the old soldiers of the
Empire.

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Mr. J. S. rle Vagconcellos, a Liverpool merchant,
has been created Boron de Vasconeellos, by the King of
Portugal.

There has been a stormy scene in the French
Chamber. In a discussion on the budget of the Minister m.
Agriculture, M 'niers declared that the commercial liberty
of the Government, like its political liberty, was 'a mere
farce." At this there was a tremendoui uproar, and the
Prestient threatened to call the veteran orator to order. M.
Tillers replied that he submitted to the authority of the Pre-
sident, but appealed to another and still higher authority,
that of public opinion.

The example set at Stockholm by Prince Oscar of
Sweden of giving lectures on popular subjects to working
men is about to be followed at brussels by the Count of
Flanders. The subject, of the first lecture—or conference, as
is is called—will be "The Co-operative Societiea of
Germany:. . .

A gentleman of Madras has obtained the sanction of
the Board of Revenue for sixty odd acres of land, called the
diamond mines, in the village of K tumpmthy in the Cud-
dapah tahm, on a lease for five years. Au annual assessment
of /00 rupees is to be paid to Government.
Intelligence from Terranova Pansania, a small port
of Sardinia, states that yl. Tampani, consular agent of
France in that place, was lately shot dead in his own resi-
dence by some one firing.from the street. lhe bibtive of this
act is not stated.

Neither Lord Stanley nor Sir IL Palmer voted on
Monday night in the division on the ilisenduwinent chtuse of
the Irish Church Bill.

A most extraordinary and rapid increase in the
emigration from Liverpool has just commenced, and from
the number of applicants for berths there is every likelihood
of the exodus continuing for some months.

A man, respectably dressed, and believed to be a
foreign sailor, was found dead, with his skull terribly frac-
tured, on the railway, between Cork and Mallow, on Tuesday
morning. The circumstances give rise to a suspicion that
he has been robbed and murdered while travelling over the
line.

The Emperor Napoleon is said to have decided that
a colossal bronze group shall be placed on the summit of the
triumphal arch at the top of the Champs-Elyki,cs, as intended
by Napoleon I.
The cotton manufacturers of the Blackburn district
have decided to reduce the wages of their operatives rive per
cent, and notices to that effect have been posted in nearly all
the nulls.

The New York Revolution newspaper deelarei its
mission to be to turn everything inside out, upside down,
wrong hide before."

An autograph letter of Daniel Defoe was sold last
week in London for £4O ; one by John Dryden realised £3O.
A short time ago the body of a man was found
floating in the Hudson, at New York, with a knife in his
breast. It has now been identified as thatof Frederick Weser,
an Austrian nobleman, who went to America in 1806. No
light has been thrown on the tragedy.
An inquest has been held at Ibiaton, London,
respecting the death of Mary Ants Hodgett, aged al• years.
Charles Hodgett, said that the deceased was his wife. On
Friday, while in bed, she was seized with screanting convul-
sions, and she said, "I am dying. I have taken the poison
that they give to rats." A doctor was sent for, but she dieti
in an hour. She had previously attempted to commit
suicide. The Jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst in a
state of unsound mind.
It appears that the English translator of Victor
lingo's new novel, " L'homme qui Rit," has found each diffi-
culty in translating this title that it has beets deemed advis-
able to fall back upon the title which M. Hugo otiginally
intended for his tale, "Par Ordre do Rni." The hero of the
story is a man who has been defaced is childhood, so that his
countenance is a kind of mask, and wears an eternal hare.
To call the story after him, however, "The Laughing Mon"
would in English sound flat enough, and the translator,
therefore, has fallen back on the original tiSe, " BY order of
the K ing," which refers to the fact that the child was dis-
figured by royal command.
A rich American lady, Mm. Hill, well known in
Nice, has been drowned whilst bathing in the Bea. Notwith
standing very active researches, the body had not been
found.
Mr. Andrew Johnson, ex• President of the United
States, has completely recovered from his recent serious ill-
ness, atsd has been making speeches in Tennessee. In one of
these he announced that he should, as a private citizen,
continue the warfare he had began against usurpation, and
that he was bent, not broken, by cares of State.
Mr. John Orrell Lever, formerly M.P. for Galway,
who has been in the Bankruptcy Court since October, ISA
received his orler of discharge ad Saturday. The amount in
the
_hands of the assignees available for dividend is about

£1,300.
At the Birmingham sessions, the other day, two
thieves escaped punishment because the recorder ruled that
articles described in the indictment es •• deal boards fixed ta
a " should have been descrilnd as "woodwork be-
longing to a building."

rag-grinder, named Wilson, 24 years old, hasbeen
killed at Portland Mill, Lindley. lie hal commenced work
in the morning, and was found by two workmen dead on the
mill floor. Both of the man's arms had been torn off, one of
them being found on the floor and the other in a shafting.
"The bill of costs in the ease 'Martin v. Mackono-
chie ' having been carried in for taxation, an offer was made
by Messrs Brooks and Co., the proctors to Mr. Mackanochie,
to pay, without the expense of taxation, £1,500, which under
the advice of the proctor and solicitor of the association, the
council decided to accept, and their supporters in the
country will be glad to near that the rum of £1,500 has been
paiii.'—Church Association Monthly Intelligencer.
Mr. Joseph Ilbery, who retired from the office of
station-master at the Lime-street station in Liverpool, six-
teen years ago, Ins just died at the age of a hundred, having
been born in 1769. it is stated that he was able to take lila
usual walk—at least two miles a day—until four week. ago.
At the Bicetre Hospital, Paris, a man who has been
asleep there seven mouths and three days has just died. On
the morning of his death he woke up arid swallowed a pint
of chocolate, also the same quantity of broth and some
wine.

"To Clergymen and Pariah Clerks—Ten Pounds
Reward.—Wanted, certificates of the baptism of the folk w-
ing persons :—Richard Cox, about 1766; Ann Cox, about
1770-1; Mary Cox, date unknown, but between 1760 and 1770;
and Marriage Certificate of the parents of these persons.
The father's name was Richard, and the mother's name is
believed to have been Mary. The father is said to have been
a farmer or a farm labourer in Berkshire, somewhere in the
neighbourhood of Wautage, Wallingford, or Abingdon. Me
above reward will be given for the above certificates by
Messrs. Desborough and Son, solicitors, of 3a, Finsbury-place
south, London."—Advertisement in The Times.