The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-05 00:00:00

"Miscellaneous aintrifignice,

HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL,

STR IKI ; EXCEPTION. —.III3IiPO in this CI wintry
is always said to be brought home to the very doors of
all, whether poor or rich ; yet in one most important
class f cases, those in the Divorce I 'ourt, the sufferers
are obliged to go to the Land's End—to Penzance.—
Pouch.

A CASE OF SUTTEE.— The BalitbEty Gazette
says :

We learn from the Pi..., that a suttee took place some
days ago at Rama, hi the Gleizeepore litlttitt. It is said
that the victim, a w °man of the Ranee ca.te, was strongly
lient oil performing suttee at the errimition of her husband,
but was with /5,11111, difficulty dissuaded from her purpose for
the moment. Some hours later, however, the impulse re-
turn.' on her Irresistibly. She made the necessary prepara-
tions far her own sacrifice, almost unassisted, and about
midnight effected her dreadful purpose. It was done almost
secretly, only a very few witnesses being present. Those
few. however, have been arrested.

THE PARIS PANTHEON.— The Pantheon, lately
evacuated by the troops which were quartered there,
haS been thrown open to the public. Ihe building has
suffered ninth MOTT than was SIIITOSed. The Com-
munists destroyed the shrine of Saint-Genevieve,
broke down the altar, injured with balls the paintings
on the dome, executed by Baron Gros; pierced and
tore the fine copies of Raphael, by the brothers
Bake, violated the tombs, A:c. The bronze-gates, the
colonnade of the portico, the pediment by David, and
the batereliefs over the door are all seriously daunaged
by bullets. The white marble group by Mamdron, re-
presenting the "Baptism of ' and that of
" Saint Genevieve stopping Attila," by the some
master, have been mutilated in several places. In ad-
dition, as is known, the dome was pierced by the
shells both of the Prussians and of the Commune.
HEAVY DAMAO Es. --At the Manchester Assizes
the executrix of the late Mr. Rowley, solicitor, Man-
chester, sued the London and North Westeni Company
for damages, sustained by the loss of Mr. Rowlev, who
was killetrin the railway collision at Harrow, in Novem-
ber last. The defendants admitted the carelessness, and
the only question was one of damages. Mr. Rowley
I was only 12 years of age, and carrying on a highly re-
munerative prietiee at the time of his oheath, and left a
widow 10 years old, awl six children, of whom the
votinge4 was five And the eldest fifteen years of age.
lie also left a mother, aged 61, whom he covenanted
whew his father died to allow VW) per arniuni. Mr.
Rowley made on an average, during the last ten years
of his life, t 1,480 a year, and would, it is said, probably
have made the same profit for 20 or 30 years more but
for this unhappy accident. A verdict was returned
for £6,200 damages, apportioned as follows :—To the
neither, £1,200; the widow, £1,400; and the children,
£6OO each.
A CAB DIFFICULTY.—At the Westminster
police-court, in London, Lord William Lennox has
been summoned for a cab fare of 2d. under the follow-
ing circumstances :
Isaac Davis, a cab-driver, nail on the 22nil of July he took
tip aaarvant, some packages, two outside, Mai with 811,1tIlLT
cab went to Victoria iqat. , from 31, Hans-place, his hart-
ship's reshleece. Ile Was raid Is. :M., lAA lie 24.
'Ware. mat WWI refused pavnicnt, her lailyship statinit be had
carried 4.i11y ore tescLa.,;sjii•stesll et two. yeling gentle-
man, who was with the party, gave Wm hts lardskip's card.
—l.ord.lawitox add he was softy ta ar dile...Lied liefore the
.•

WINK: toia jaltry 2.1. BO was at s..othseaabthe time, ~n
his way tt inwahmod, and had I,rne ammty voiles on pur-
pose to Ittletel the K11111111.1:1, howyvcr, to
nave any b.dhcr, he scot the caliniall six stamps. elinh were
returned and the seima4ms talon oat ; and besides tine the
cabman made a great not-e in the station, and did nut give
him a ticket till compelled.
The Magistrate said he should then allow the cabman
bo co-ts; the Secretary of State hail expressly pro-
vided that a ticket should be given on entering the
caniage, in :inter that the fare might know what he
had to I.y ; he wished the cabmen would understand
that, and he should make it a rule that if they did not
he would not allow them their costa. -The cabman
denied hieing insolent, a.s was stated ; kit said her
ladyship contradicted him three distinct times. lie
wi-hed there was a better understanding between the
loubli, and the cabmen, for in ninety-nine eases ont of
a 1;111141,1 the fare refused to take the ticket when
offered. I.enl Lennox maid he had offere4.i to limy the
man for his bias of time out of ciairt, but he had de-
clined to accept it. --The Magistrate made an order 011
Mg lord•hir tO pay the 2.1. and 2. only, the cost of the

Kllllllll.uS

Tiir CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM.-
111R11 " writes in the Skuubmi: -
ilvery tcolesman in the kim,lom cli thank yen for your
article in your impression of to-day's dat, lean
ic.sure you that the cooperative stores of the Civil Stcviee
are sowing .1 031.011011 t 1111,1 poverty—nay. min—broadrait.
It is impossible for any honest trader (lacing rood and taxes
to In.y) to compete with them, and pay 2115. in the !mond.
The civil servants 1111: selling their goods at a 10110 thilt
yields a profit insunivient to pay the ordinary working ex-
penses of a tradesman's slur. To show you h..w the system
is spreading I leg to Nodose an estraet from the report of
the Civil Service societies. Wiltll the associations were
starlet they were intended to supply poor clerks with
grocery at a cheap rat, No one would object•to this. Now,
however, they lire kept open for the rich and economical.
The result is ruin to thousands of honest tnidesmen. Really
this Is unfair. Live and let live" is an eseellent motto,
and 0110 that the wealthy classes seem to have abandoned.
RATH ER A DRAWDACK.—Crieket is generally
considered 15 fine manly sport, with nothing trickish
about it; yet those who watch the game closely, cannot
help seeing a great deal of " underhand" work going
011.—Poorch.

" Ah English-

ELECTIONEERING BRIBERY. An attorney
remarks that nothing is easier to carry out than
bribery, if common prudence be only observed, lie
tells o a ease in which he was professionally employed
to supply out rosd £2,000 to an important electioneer-
ing agent. Ile was desired to be looking in at a print-
shop window in the Strand, London, precisely at twelve
o'clock, when a party behind would tap him on the
shoulder, and repeat a line of Shakspeare ; that at five
minutes last twelve he would receive another top, and
have a second line from the same illustrious author re-
peated in his ear; that a further interval of live
minutes would ensue - his watch to be consulted--
when the immortal Shakespeare, already nnole a par-
ticrps erimini.s, was again to be a subsidialy - " to what
vile uses do we come at last "—and a third line
from his divine page administered with the indispen-
sable tap on the shoulder. "Then to some foul cor-
rupting hand, their craving lusts with fatal bounty
fed, they fall a willing, undefended prize." After this,
the learned gentleman handed from his pocket to his
poetical but mythical friend behind, a packet contain-
ing the bank-notes. When the disputed election came
to be investigated before a Parliamentant committee,
he was able to swear that the person produced was one
whom he had never seen in his life.

USE FOR GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—Gertaill in-

fluential penions have set on foot a movement with a
view of getting smile use made of Greenwich Hospital,
which 66 noble structure," says a newspaper paxagraph,
has since the " Exodus," a few years ago,i4 its then

inmates'' most of it " remaim:d teten-aless." They
intend soliciting g‘u'ernment ti utilise it for national
purposes. There is one national purimse for which
tlreenwich Hospital ought be well utilised ; that
of affording a foreign King or Emperor, whilst the
guest of the nation, a decent residence, which,
because, unless sane nobleman can be got to lent
him a mansion, we have not to offer, the Royal or
Imperial stranger has to be billeted at a publiehouse. --
Punch.

_
PREeAUTIoN AGAINST CIIOLERA.—The Privy
Council have ii-sued an older, published in the Go:, fie
of Saturday, that ships coming from districts in which
cholera prevails may. be inspectol by the nuisance
anthority of the district. On the arrival of such a
ship the nuisance authority shall cause all persons on
board to be examined by a doctor, and, while those
free from the disease will be allowed to laud, those in
fected shall lie remove 4 to an hospital or otherwise
dealt with. If any death from cholera take place on
board, the body 101 l be taken out to sea and them
committed to the deep, and the clothing, bedding, &c.
on board with which the patient has COMC in contaci
must be disinfected or destroyed.
A MURDERER "Cur INTO TEN TIIGUNAND
PIECES !"- -The murderer of the Viceroy Ma Wahi•
executed a few weeks no, at Nankin by being cut into
pieee.," hieh ineatm cut ta pieces io 5.10,14
Ih. liel. Ile imie the punbhmeid as stoi. ally as
ho had .;upp:a led the horrible tortures to which hi-had ,
been siibjected in the course of the judicial inrciti:a-
tka. The assa,,in declared his enmity against Ma to
have hem cairc•d bs;- his rejection of a petition for
ju dice against a man who I,od earvied off Ili; wife and
some money. He had got his wife bark, lint not the
snowy, and when he appeal,' to Ma for hell the latter !
refused to entertain his request.

GEOIUIE THE F01711.T11 IN IRELAND—George
the Fourth visited Ireland in 1821. A day or two be-
fore tbn termination f the visit, a 1111,SPI”Tr from the
'mtle waited on all the traders who had been favoured
with orders for to Li for the King's personal use, and
informed them that His Majekty was so well pleased
with his reception and with the country, that he had
ex Pre- el re. ',lotion to repeat his 'P it the following
V,- in 'lii. • il'!!•1111tor-14 Wa recei redo! course, with
re it ;iti faatien. , the ring had beer libeml in his
urd-r . and uumually prempt in hi. rayment.,. The
mes. en;er then nrez..cded to inquire whether the trader
wuuld iaohlivh.neut to he agaLl reltecl by
ccmphaller to :apply uch arthice., ba re-
quired on the occasion. Of course the answer was in
thu afrirraatie. "Well, thun,” Ira replis "t obviatu
all :laic take, we will appoint you His Majcity's
hattec, eaddler, r tbe CUL)
might be, and if yuu c latnythecsutlreCa..tls to-
morrow you will get your patent formally completed.
Hy-the-bye, there is a trifling fee to pay on it- • inanely,
1:103 7e. 6d." Of COM.,e the money was in all cases
paid, and the parchments faithfully delivered. The
King, however, we need hardly say, never did return
to Irelmel, and the parchments ore the only return
ever made fcr the money.

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FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT F, O:TSMOCTH. --A
melancholy accident occurred in I',ll..,nemth Harbour
on Sunday morning. A watermao named Henry
Varndell, who lives at Hardway, near Gosport, left
that side of the harbour in &small punt, amsompanied by
his wife, his child, only ten 11101Ithti I.ld, and his brother,
about eight in the morning, for Postbridge, near Ports-
mouth, for the purpeee if attemlieg the funeral of
M. Vormidehi a sister, at a villsge
!nod. The morning was squally, and on the party ar-
riving near Tipsier the punt in which, it is said, not
wore than two persons should at any time hare been
nailing upset, and the occupants were thrown into
the sea. The brother was able to maim, and he wa:,
rosined by a shipwright named 5W111,4014 thollih in
an exhausted condition. At low water the bodies of
the husband unit the chill were picked upon the 1111/41 ;
and later in the day the hOdy of the wife was found.
At the inquest a verdict of "Accidental death" was
returned.

A HINT run Er m)llB.—Some gentlemen, in
proposing the toast f "The Press," seem to be rather
diffident and at a loss to express their ideas on the sub-
ject Here is a quotation from " Astro'," which
might serve them
The Cress is nationally, morally, and socially a necessary
of every-day life. It ushers in our births ; it takes up the
thread of our lives ; and faithfully records the time, place,
and manner of our deaths. It is a foe to the criminal and a
friend to the just. It fearlessly assails the enemies of pro-
gress, aml applauds like good acts of all men. The l'ress a
loved and despised history of a nation. The good love it
the loot w,,uhtf stamp out its existence, because it publishes
to the world the vices which they have la-va guilty of. The
Press is a mirror to all people, in which they view the wis-
dom and follies of mankind. It is a glorious description of
Clue times—past anti present. It is a beacon to show the pit-
falls of humanity, a clear light illustrative of man s duty to
himself, his country, and his fellow-men."

WHAT MAY BE DONE !—The Forederi Monthly
Joernal says
The Foresters of Margate have set a good example to work-
ing men of what I'lln in, done by perseverance. Years ago they
quietly began subscribing funds to build a ban of their own,
anti recently purchased a site and are about W C 10111110.3
Wilding operations. There are at the present time 1,146
Widows and 1,040 orphans receiving permanant relief from
the funds of the London United Instriet of the Ancient
Order of Foresters. There are now twelve peers belonging
to the Order, via., the Duke of 'level:kw', fluke of Rutland,
Marquis 44 Camden, Marquis of Normanby, Marquis
Townshend, Earl he Grey and Ripon, Earl of Fever:Mani,
Earl of Harewood, Lord Hawke, Lord Leigh, Lord Londea.
borough, and lord Monson. The names of 124 members of
of the House of Commons are on the roll of the Ot6er.

THE FITNESS OF THINGS. There IS Some-
thing very amusing in the idea of what may be called
the "fitness of things" in 'wan' to snuff-taking, which
occurred to an honest Highhuoler, a genuine lover of
" sneeshin." At the door of the Blair Advil Hotel he
observed standing a magnificent man in full tartans,
and noticed with much admiration the wide dimensions
of his nostrils in a fine turned-up nose. He accosted
him, and, as his most complimentary act, offered him
his mull for a pinch. The stranger drew up, and
rather haughtily said, " I never take snuff." "Oh,"
said the idler, "that's a peety, for there's grand ac-
commodation!"

CAUTION TO BATHERS.—Tbd following notice
hal; just been issued by the secretary of the Humane
Society
AVOM bathing within two hours after a meal. Avoid
bathing when exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause.
Avoid bathing when the body is coohng after perspiration :
but bathe when the body is warm, provided no time in lost
in getting into the water. Avoid chilling the body by sitting
or standing naked on the banks or in Nadi after having been
in the water. Avoid remaining too long in the water leave
the water immediately there is the sliglite4 feeling of chilli-
ness. Avoid bathing altogether in the open air if, after
having been a short time in the water, there is a sense of
chilliness, with numbness of the hands and feet. The
vigorous awl strong may bathe early in the morning on an
empty stoma,-h: the pining, and those who are weak, had
better bathe three hours after a meal, the bent time for such
being from two to three hours after breakfast. Those who
are subject to attacks of giddiness and faintness, and those
who suffer from palpitation and other sense of discomfort at
the heart, should not bathe without first consulting their
adviser."

medical

A Vt-LeAn Etutott.--Misplachig the Has-
pirate. -Puna.

A POLITE COMPLIMENT !—A good example of
the innate love of courtly etiquette which distinguishes
the French people has been related by a gentleman
who was present at one of the receptions given by
Thiers, at Versailles. A lady, after relating the death I
of tild Taglioui, at the rive age of 102, turned to the
vhf dek.drutif, and bowing low and pressing her fan
to her 14,. exactly in the style ,Rticiire, whispered
.04
sweetly, May the example be followed by our be-
loved president." To which every person present,
lowing, likewise echoed a soft approval. Little Thient,
meanwhile, standing by the chimney, turning to look
at himself in the glass, smiled with approbation at
what he beheld there ; then acknowledged the senti-
ment, F. loyally expressed, by a bow worthy of the
Grand Mouarque himself, and resumed the conversa-
tit n, which hail been interrupted by the incident.
PAINFULLY CONSCIOUS !—The London corre-
spondent of the Sin York Herald thus describes a
Winder Garden Party
VOll !MAW some striking, remarks to be iatrodurcii in
conversation with Queen Victoria. Y,iuthjukviiu vein. perhaps,
make quite an impression on the of that angast lady.
The Queen approaches you. glances at pal. kn,,ws at mire
yin are a stranger. Your heart heats. She sa)s a few words,
sufficient to slew that she known who her guest is. You
are painfully CoIISCiOUeI if intense awkwardness on your own
part You never felt so embarrasoal before by your own
anon and legs. The vishm has vanished. You feel there is
an end if the connection you have had with the history of
England. A prince comes up, and begins good-naturedly
conversing with you. Yon have to stand still. YOU caul
drink your coffee. Yon wish the prince would drop it-- that
Is, the subject. Yon feel a fool. At last, then, you feel
the sitmition altogether too much for you. The prillcs fives
,iu,u. Viii swallow your ode, It has become cold. Yolk
soon after retire, and are thankful to do so."
No Pam- FOR BuNG.---Never, in the presence
of a Publifan, iptak of the Licensing Bill 11.4 having
perished in the Nimsacre of the Innocents. "Do you
call that an Innis:cut " Bung will cry. Von will
have hurt his feelings.- Po to,b.
PLAIN SPEAKINO. A Hessian paper, the
meotiateivie /tete, writo3 as follows relmting the
tenusind fusser:—

. .
"TICc i•ot ,,f Enrope :jeln.
TWo ways are open to them. If thy r solve to restore the
tenneoat sovereignty of the Pope, they will Mei the I atholies
tie- most obedient Id their subjects, who will be easily satis-
fied in all lonely imilitical questions. If, on the otker hand,
they recognise the robbery of the Church, let them expect a
war to the knife against the newly-est:Mildest order of
things, a fierce and decide° war, without treaty or, com-
promise. Let the Governments know our patience was
great, but it has now come to an end. We Catholics have a
tight to dennuel the liberty of our Church, and it is the duty
of the Governments to satisfy our demands ; We pay them
the blood tax, but we are tired of being cheated by vain pro-
raises. The lady assurance we demand is the withdrawal of
Victor Emmanuel 011,11 the complete restoration of the Papal
States. We do not ask for this guarantee humbly as an net
of grace ; ii., we dennnel it imperatively as .sir right. near
It, ye mighty t,f the Earth; hear it, ye ilovernim•nts, what-
ever yOUr Harnett may tie; bear it, Bismarek, Gladstone,
lteust, and Andrassy. The Catholics t,i,i you satisfy their
just utetnotets, and interfere in favour of the lily Chair ;
believe us; do fed neglect our wanting. If you do not re-
store the Catholic Church to all her rights. not one of the
existing Governments sill tsintitme to exist."
ANTI-SANITARY Of'!'. iSITION.—We are ad-
monished to take precantiomi against approaching
Cholera. Suppose a set if string-minded women an)
we-ask-minded turn were to get up an agitation for the
repeal if the Sanitary Acto which legalise such
precautions, they would have some reason beau doing.
What would it be ? That the enforcement of those
Acts affected themselves.— Poach.
THE BRITISH BORN IN NEW YORK. —The
Census returns of New York (1870) show that, in
round numlwrs, One ill four of the inhabitants of that
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. , ...
city is a native of the United Kingdom, Twenty-four
thousand three hundred and ninety-eight of the popm
lation were born in England, tel in \Vales, 2014195 in
Ireland, 7,551 in Scotland, ten in the Isle of Man.
One hundred and one of the colonnsi people in New
York are also set down as born in the United
Kingdom.

THE CROWN LANDS FOR THE CADS.—A Con-
temporary notes, as a very significant circumstance,
that, in the People's Parks throughout the country,
with which the Crown and the Government have
nothing to do, is olitical meetings are strictly forbidden.
This circumstance is, indeed, very significant The
People's Parks throughout the country are no special
resort of the richer and more refined elasses. Seditious
howls aud menaces would annoy all their frequenters.
- He h.

_ .
A NEW MOTIVE POWER.—A citizen of If ew
Orleans has recently been so successful in experiment-
ing with fluid gas oi ammonia as a motive power, that
he claims thatthere is a probability that it may super-
sede horse power on street railroads. Liquified am-
monia, when rilliPjl-Tted to a heat of 00 deg. Fahrenheit,
turns to a vapour, which pmduces a pressure of 601135.
to the square inch. This pressure is applied like steam,
and is subject tothe same controlling influences. When
intended to be used for the puris.se .4 propulsion, the
ammonia is poured into a Fiy F tem of tubes, deposited in
a tank 14 water in such a way that the gas which
passes through the cylind i er, nstead of escaping
into the open air, may be carried through the
exhaust pipe, and be absorbed by the water. In
this manner the annuoniated water is preserved, and
boing reinstilled, is capable of being tiss:d over again
several thousand times, wearing out
.only at the rate of

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twenty-five per cent, per annum. The gaNi F. readily
absorho I by the water that it prevents any lisw,Teeable
smell or noise of concussion with the air. At the end
of each trip the tubes are rotilled from a stati.mary
reservoir of liquid ammonia, and during the jouney
the heat lot by the tubes i.. acquired by the water in
tile tank, which reimports it, mei prevents the amllll,lli a
from falling below the boiling temperature. The report
the ex:mei/slug e. a undue°, headed by General
Vennrenrd, approve: 0f1.4c inventi .. . ill Ii inwhirls
are 1,0 indefinite to be conk (.ay the Nt 1.4 A
l'Aent., of Silly 3, ff.,ni which to e :EU .71. the

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Dr-Axit or " TAD " LiNcOLIT.—Th
of July 16 rec.rdv the fdlov.inu;,--
Thorm3 1-nov-n 3,1 Tad Linceift the
youn.;eFt son of the late ere,ident rineotir, liof atVe
thit...n,hou7e, ;:t Chicaol, at ECVi'a o'clogg this nimning,'lo
liturgy of the heart, aged Is years, lie was taken 111 a few
days after returning from Europe. Purim( his ilium his
Nether has been hif almost constant attendant. There His
always existed the WaTilleST affection between the two. yrs.
Lin,•,,hn is at t osopletely prostiated by her nfltictii.p.
TII V. 11. /USE ,AND ITS 'nu. Opposition
in the Lerrde ehamfed ita cent ore IA the (toeern-
ment from a rider to an independent, motion. How
*laid the Lords approve of a rider, when they corn-
pLin of being over-naden-..-Pu,,,./,,
.% (41u-1-EFTA,. Pt ENILIINIAN - -The following
petiaimanh i frem the ea. --
" Ihe I rem.h are in,-" tai .pate the dreadful
lee:on given to them thy learnt L'aativ:ly nothing
Every ds,. we hear 2::11 !relit thL. One example
which playf onite a tattchthg CA:Vett ha, juet come aithie
the experienta of a medical man wholtveie a town not very
tar from Cologne. He had attended a French °lacer, one of
I! e praa-mcre. mad cn dep.ertam r 51v Vae promiee that
he would be kept informed of hia patient's movements aad
state of to,alth. iLhin the net two
year. Lad Leen the iiriain wlieh hot conwled the k reneh-
man during Ina re,evcry, and We idea he sccnis to have
taken with him to his home. He had made no seernt of it, and
when the expected letter came from France it enclosed a
photograph of the sender, on the back id which was written
a certificate for the use of the doctor. giving an ...mut of
the good treatment the original had received, and request-
ing his companions ill aims, who perhaps in the campaign of
revenge might return to that Ivry town, to treat the ilecto
with every attention.'

ThE The ACT ON D6oit —The Act to pro.
vide id/thee 14roieftbm against dogs has just been
printed. gtray doas may be detaine,l and sold, or des.
troyed. Dangerous dogs may. he dertroyed.
n 611 as. The
local authority may, if a mad do? or a dog alispficted of
hying mad is found within their jurisdiction,
and, when made, vary teto,„.. !AI! mder j:lacing such
rextridi,ns es they tlink lugx-die.t
belie.l.lo v•lithd, ryof
not
perils! as stint l'e tiveserilied ineit'di
the who', of their jt rlineirt, spas Part fl7umest
may be prsicrilicd iu such are to FS
iimposed, and the provisions emit:tined In ths h tarta Pi
the detention and sale or destruction of dg,
straying oti the highway shall apply to dogs found
large in mintraventh.n of an order made. 'llse statute
is to be cited a.s "The Thig, Act, 1671."
PNltlfr.ln.r!—The foliovviog reply was given
a waiter in answer to the ques,tion, ''llistr 'be;
dead fly in toy soup 1" :--
"lii fact, or, I have no positive idea how the poor thing
, came bylra. drat It. Perhaps it hail not taken any food for a
bong time, (ladled spot the soup, ate too intro It of it, eon.
tract.' art inlianiniallon of the stomach, that brought on
I death. The F nitivt Late r. ivcck c“iiatitidion, for
when I served the maw it was dancing rce•riir
face. l'erbaps- awl the idea presents itself isde at this
moment it endeavoured to swallow too lanie a pis's.
vegetable : this remaining fast in Iris throat, caused a Vilois'
ing in the windpipe. This is the only reason ICOIIIIII give
for the death of this insect."

EXTREME POLITENESS. —Yon have your pocket
picket Your purse is taken. It contains gold, silver,
stamps, Car.is with your name and address, and memo-
'audit useless, klt to yourself. The Meiwiranila are
returned M you in an euvelopa -" With MK. W. srreo
FACIN's complitneuts."- Pandi.
"' "

WAR VP;rt.\--ts--.--"The- Fiiii•lnaf,apeakingof the
number of sick fuel wounded in the German army
ditijig the late war, says that apart altogether fern
&sills, the Central Bureau of lamination in
reports that within 12 months it haul authenticated
5:i0,000 German ca.ses of wounds and sickness, and
78,000 French eases

PROMOTION IN THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. —lt
may not be generally known that there are now in
Austria two systdias of promotion by seniority and
by selection. A fixed quota of vacancies in each regi-
ment are filled by seleeti, at and the rest land m.sit
numerous) by seniority. In the artillery aml engineers
it has been found most effivtual to vest the power of
selection in the Akers themselves, who in such CAMI 4
usually elect the best man to the vacancy, as they are
mostly far better acquainted with each other's quali-
ties than the commanding officer.

A HERO IN Ht-S1 tux bra.—ln consequence t.,
the heavy rains on Sunday week, the River Ayr in the
evening ro,e, to a considerable height. Nine children
belongiw," to the mining village of Annbank, about six
miles above Ayr, were, between six and seven o'clock
amusbig themselves by wading in the water a little
below Annbank, when the river became suddenly
swollen, awl the children were at once lifted off their
feet. A miner who was walking by the river at the
time saw the perlious position of the children, awl at
once ran into the water to rescue them. He got Wit
11i two ~f them, whom he conveyed to the bank .4 the
river, and returned for the others but by. this time the
water had risen so rapidly that it was nms.ssible he
could convey them by twos to the land, and the children
all clung to him, while he stood in the water almost up
to the neck. The cries brought a number of people to
the spot, and three or four men swain to the rescue, halt
the current was so strong that several attempts had to
be made before any of the children could he taken to
land. At length they were all taken off one by line
from the body of the miner, to wls lii they had clung
for about an hour and a half, and who himself had a
narrow escape from being drowned.
RIVAL Purrs. —The following is fr. on a visitors'
book "in a well-known locality in the Highlands":
" men 'vomit:tit is a glorious glen
Where deer and grUUSC have Hot supplanted men."
John Brijht.
And immediately below—

" Glen Urquhart is a glorious glen
Where mules and shoddy have not stunted men."
Shirley Br nob?.

"LOVES OF THE STARS."—Poets *re very
fond of es patiating on the Os we elevated theme but
we can only say, as regards the only Stars we are
personally acquainted with - theatrical Stars—that far
from their cherishing any immortal loves, they mortally
hate each other.— Pasch.

THE Barrbn OF THE Bets. —A gentleman in
Canada gives an account of a battle which has just
occurred betwixt two swarms of bees, which shows that
humanity has its bumble rivals. One swann, he says,
took forcible possession of the neighbours' barracks,
and, as the attacked defended their rights, a furious
light commenced, and the battle raged from 1.30 to il
p.m. The next morning, as the sun ameared, the
battle was resumed, the marauders appearing not in
gm.' condition, yet showing great pluck. The carnage
continued without intermission till 10 am., when hun-
dred:4 of dead bodies lay on the plain. At 11 the battle
ended when there wax not one of the attacking party
left to tell the tale. This is Gravelotte, Woerth, and
Sedan c4ombined.

To THE PURPOSE !—When the Hon. Mrs.
Norton was applied to, on Ili siirs death, for a coati
but-ion to the fund then raised for his destitute widow,
and headed by Sir Robert Peel with the munificent
donation of fifty pounds, he promptly sent a liberal
subscription, with the following lanes (never before
published) :

To cheer the widow's heart In her 1114reSS,
TII make provision for the fatherless.
Is but a chrigtian's duts. 11111 i none Ahontl
Resist the heart-appeal of Widow Hood."
Poetry' punning, and piety, all of the genuine sort,
are not often thus happily United.
THE POPPY TRADE.—The cultivation of the
poppy in China, which has been more than once pro-
hibitol by Imperial edicts, appears to be increasing
era-where, awl becoming a profitable trade. In
Szechnen, where the climate is warns and the season
early, rIVII CrllpS, Says ..I",,torr, at least are prodneed on
the same ground annually. The seed of the poppy is
SINVII in February, the plants flower in April, and the
fruit, are is far matured by the middle of May that the
juice is collected, and the stalks rimmred and lairnt
llirectly after ; lea revb its to this the .iceonil mg),
whirl, may be either helian corn, cotton, or re01,a,,14
is Sowll, KO that aim, it by the time the poppy is cleared
from the field the new crop makes it appearance. The
profit derived (non the cultivation of the is ppy is not
only the ressilt of a fair market value and a ready sale,
but aim, from the fact that nmehof the work in the plan-
tation, especially the gathering of the juice, can be
done by the children of the family. The seratchings or
incisions being made in the capsules in the morning,
the juice which has oozed out in the course of the slay is
collected in the evening, and after simply exposing it
to the sun for a few days it is ready for packing. The
seed not required for sowing is used for_food.

A Itt:GuLAn SET-M.-811MM there be
m between the Lords and Commons on the Ballot
as there WM m the Army Bill, the proper dm.
miption ,1 it will be a Boxing

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IMMIGRATION INTO CANADA.—It appears from
the thiity.first general report of the Emigration ('om-
missioners that the number of emigrants who arrived
in Canada in 1874) was 68,988. The reports sent to the
Commisioners by the immigration agent at Quebec
show that the number who landed at that port in 1870
was 41,653, of whom there emigratml fmm the United
Kingdom:l2,2Bs ; from Bremen and Hamburg, 412; and
from Norwegian ports, 8,956. Of those from the United
Kingdom 341,440, or 94 28 per cent., went in steamers,
and only 1,849, or 512 per cent., in sailing vessels.
The deaths aniong the f+ miler were 14, or 046 per cent.,
which, as the average of the v++yage was 14 +lays, would
be equel to 1116 per 1,000 per annum. The deaths
among those by sailing ships were 5' or '27 per cent.,
which, as the average voyage was 31. days, would be
equal to nearly 32 per 1,000 per annum. The emigra-
tion fimm foreign ports, which is conducted exclusively
in sailing Ship:, has in former years been Imus healthy
than the emigration in sailing ships from the United
Kingdom ; in 1870, however, the contrary was the
case, the number of deaths in fomign sailing ships
having been only 34 out of 9,3614 emigroffs, or 36 per
cent., which, as the voyages averaged 52 days, is equal
to 251 per 1,000 per annum. With regard to the de-
mand for labour, the Commissioner of Agriculture for
Ontario states that the immigration of 1870 WAS de-
cidedly successful ; all who were willing to accept such
employment as inimediatly offered were movided for,
and are long well. He adds that there is a constant
demand for farm labourers, carpenters, stonemasons,
bricklayers, shoemakers, and tailors, and for good
female servants. It is estimated that in the province
of Ontario at least 25,000 immigrants can be profitably
absorbed and employed during the year.
MARRIAGE THROUGH DIVORUE.—About a year
and a half ago a New York man ran off with another
man's wife she leaving a better man and he a prettier
wife Ishia The bereaved ;maks not while hunting
for the fugitives, and, the search 'wile.: unsuccessful, they
returned home determined to umke the best of it. '11,.'
deserted wife obtained a divorce. The deserted huslxind
applied for one, and almut the same time became rich by
the death of • relative. His good fortune brought back
his wife, who succeeded in having the ease postpone'.
hoping by compromise to get some of his 1111 l ; lint
he WM oltstinate, and the case was decided *in his
favour. The most by there was a wedding in New
York la-tween the two contracting parties so strangely
brought together.

IN VAR.—The animal general meet-
ing ..f the National Society for Aid to the SMIr and
Wounded in War was held on Tuesday, at Willis's
Rooms, London, Colonel Lloyd Lin.L.ay in the chair.
It WaS shown by the report that the ane oust of sub.
seriptions reached nearly Utilli,ooo, mid were sent as
follows : SS9 auxiliary 1,1111111ittet•S, .11; banker', M
At,. 1 olio I.ai,:oq„ 129 e0ue4417,. h tor,. 109 lino.'
t.sii. 14 • vant • 1,111 !!".; VT!!
Air, of •..-sr, ore!. ieLatisms oral
p.n. ~ 11,83? ma of the
cnitrit.utioro '.':ere made in .•in..11 rr
Vick; con d'Aing of :111 I .... fi...ts xf food cr
crothing 77Cle daily hi on into tic office, and it had
been ertimatcd that upward; .1 .$50,000 people sent in
their eifts in money or in kind through the society to
the sufferimt soldiers of France and Germany. The
surplus of the society was L 73,212, and it was propoced
that this sum AOlll,l be inve,ted in the nano, of Prince
Arthur, the Karl sf Shaftesbury, and I •obmel Lloyd
Lindsay. The chairman stwge,ted that her Majesty
should be solicited to lassalle the pausal..os of the
society, and that a chatter of incorporation for inrept-
ing the SUMS should be imtituted. On the motion of
Sir H. Vinomt Eyre, seconded by the Marquis, of
Hertford, ti', report wa, atiopt.eti.
CI, !NG WAN "p, Pr r, r O, It! E.— A
,•• front Mi: '•1 • th,t
I. r d-• , ' • • in Italy, re.
• • • 1 t. lend him a
' • 41...L..tin intcrip-
ttsr. 7,1.; .• : 1.. only extant copy.
-:• : ' ' • .-suL,dGsrn,ori
L. . 1.. • forbade
him to S.Anc clay. lila:a
Court Ttivulzio reedved an autograph lettxr from
Prince Irdmarck, in which he renewed the applinition
of Professor Monunsen, and ple.l,••ed himself- that the
nuuniscript would he retunieth The count could not
oppose the request of the Imperial Chancellor, and
the book is now in the hands of ('omit Brassier de
St. Simon, who has undtatakui to stud ii. to Count
Bhduarck.

irriPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
In the House of tords Assent wasgiven
ikmbt
itiand) Act (1867)
ty,l-it ,_.zio on,if,urie &boom Act (leiOs) Amendment
, s-c
_Nicola Estimates Rill, the Oliarters
*.78)11".;., ESSI TIMM (Bishops' heave
North Metropolitan Tramways 1111, the Wandsworth
Colannon Bill, the iireat Western Railway Bill, and a number
ririt!it,et lir. Atte Lori's the Lord
tte float'!Lir. riot Lan Voirper.
(hill. lordship. to concur nit!, the
uipsuel f .11011 S in Making a competent and not ''tract-
r.r no ision another member of the Royil Family. Ile
Inatise4l the eh:treater of Prince Arthur mot his conduct
both at home and abroad.
The Duke of Richmond coneinnvil with pit 'lo't hail been
nsid lw (lie noble cael„ nod lie Mai sloe there
1014! r. ul satisfaction at the proposal
Stoit,
l•. motion for the floral reply to her 'Majesty's whiten;
Wax then agreed to neat dig.
Lord Granville having proposed to postpone the second I
mailing id the Army Regulation Bill until after the vote of
censure hail been ilispiwed of,
The Duke of Richmond expreterit his concurrence In this
firenogclinelit,e. 4.OMt: 10 prepOSe Lila substantive Resolution
tied "ii ii i hail originally proposed as a " rider" to the
see:n:l readinet lie said that the abolition of Purchase by
Wanmit. when their lordships had not refused to piss
the second reading of the Anny Bill, lint had only asked for
further information, was an event which, for impintance,
could seairely be paralleled in our Parliamentary history
and ii hich impesed upon their lordships a corresponding
responsibility to maintain the honour and dignity of
that Rouse. Declining altogether to miter upon the
merits if the Alloy Bill, he recapitulated the Parliamentary
Proceedings ha regard to that niessure. and briefly sketched
the joint action of the Executive mat the Legialature in
regard to Army Purchase from its commencennent, Under
sorb eiceinnistances the Crowe ought not to have been ad-
vised to eNeri no the Royal Prerogative without reference
to soy Act id Parliament. If the Pniwin were advised that
It was acting miller statute, as hail been asserted by Lord
Granville on the evening the Warrant was sigined, it had
bees improperly advised, Mot lier Xl.ijc,ty's signature
hail been improperly obtained. Although it WAS in the
Power if the Crown to net up the network of vested interests
created by Anny Purchase, he maintalued that the Crown
could not alone, eX ono» w.f.', get rid of them, and that it
was a distinct interference with the legislative functions of
their lordships to take the matter out of their hands while
the bill It as nun before. Was that House a deliberate
Assembly or /11. t. or Was ft,/ opinion Oiliy tO In taken when it !
roilleided snhtti that of the Government ? Ile asked their I
lordships to enter a protest an strong and as dreorolla a.
Parliamentary usage allowed against a course which
threatened to render all diSellaanal liable to be arrested by
"Sic tolo sit jtehro" of an imperious Minister.
Lord Granville, otters pleasant reference to the brightest
genii of the Duke's speech, which he declared to be his quo-
tations from three of the speeches if his colleagues at the
ManSion-honae. exandned tht alternatives before the Govern-
ment, and declined that the only course open to them Was to
deal with Array Perchaae by the Royal Prerogative. The
Government were asked why, if they hail this power, they did
not exercise it its ng Italia ago, hut would it have been wise to
abolish Purehase before obtaining the assent of the House
if Corn reeling that the effect of the Besolut.
agreed to upon the second reading was to paralyze Purchase
Ins the Army, to disorganize its discipline, and prevent the
nowaires necessary for the anialganiatiog of the Line and
the Reserved Forces, the Governnient did not shrink from
11,, responsibility if a comae which was, after all, strictly
legal unit constitntional. After criticizing the changes
made ii, the form and substance if the tteSollltion non bytore
the Douse, he various preemlents to show that Pur-
chase hail been regulated and almilsheil by the authority
the Crown. Again reminding their lordships if the course
taken by the late Duke of Wellington In abstaining from
lainging the differences between the two 'louses into pro-
minence, hot speaking against all hope that similar wisdom
would be shown that night, lie impressively pointed out the
consequences of the Resolution anti its effect upon the public
cut of doora.

Toni Salisbury accused the Government of having eorll-
mitted a grave breach of constitut• at usage in having
brought Army Purchase within Parliamentary jurisdiction,
and in having afterward. snapped their fingers in their lord-
ships faces when they wereoutvotcd. Examining and declaring
tithe insufficient the pretests by which the conduct of the
Uo-
verurnrnt had been justified in calling up a dormant Royai Pre-
rogative, he espruseed a belief that up to the rejection of the
Army Bill the tiover 1111 l ent had not determined to issue
the Royal Wan-ant, but that in no doing they were actuated
by passion and resentment. After a scathing analysis of the
majority of the Government in the Lox Cr House, which he
asserted was led by its extreme seethe, he argued that under
such circumstances the functions It their lordships rose into
peculiar prominence, and that it was their duty to remit to
the decish on of the constituencies measures passed
touter presure of this kind. When their lordships were
Mil that it was their ditty always to agree with the
other House, he asked whether it was worth while to
retain their mwer by uniformly acting against their co nine-
finite. They complained of a great constitational wrong and
a misuse by an imperious 3linistry of the Prerogative 4d the
Its. n. The Res.dation was no unpractical proceeding
because it might not be followed by the resignation of the
Ministry, anti he described the imd ion as an invitation to the
public to mm them in voila • lug au act which was a
menace to the independence of Parliament and an insult to
the acknowledged and never misused authority of the Muse
of Lords.

After remarks from the Duke of Argyll, lurd Carnarvon,
and Lord !Paidlly,
Lord Penzance said 'he believed that if the proper Law
Officers had been ronsulted, and that if the opinion of
Westminster.hall were taken it would lie found that the net
of the Government was perfectly legal and a proper exercise
of legal powers.
Lonl Derby, as his speech on the Army rill hail been
quoted in justification of the abolition of Purchase by the
Royal Warrant, said there was a wide difference between
liointing out that a certain course was possible, and IVO rill•
mending that it should be taken. After eriticising unfavour-
ably the course taken by the Government, he finally con-
demned it as bad in a constitutional point of view, and worse
as a precedent ; and regretting that the Government, by
adopting it, hail injured a good cause, he heartily joined in
the Vote of Censure. The resolution might not produce a
political change, lint it would place on record their opinion
that astuteness was 1.4 statesmanship, and that smart prac-
tice did not pay In the long run.

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The debate was continued by the Duke of Somerset, Lord
Longfont, Lord Russell, and Lida Northbrook, and
Lord taints insisted on the unprecedented nature of the
comae taken by the Government, and entered msai a legal
argument to show that the lloyal Wan-ant was tout issued in
the exercise of a statutory right. Describing Prorogative as a
n.W, not oinferred by Statute, lie reminded their lordships
that both the Premier and lord Granville assured Parliament
that the Warrant aas nit an act of the Prerogative, lint a
statutory right, and it was clear that the ails ire given Pi the
Ssvereign was tint she was lad making list' if herPreni.gative
in Mining the Warrant. The i;I uvernment theref.we shunt con.
Sided on their own confession if having through ignor-
Alive misrepresented to the Sovereign the character of the
t she was ream niing. iastead it luring a statutory
act, was, in fact, tut net id tle• highest met must stringent
liotugustivo. line thus was past for Prerogative,
as such, tin overtlipov the net of vested interests
a... Atoned by Statute. Admitting that he disliked the
theory of Purchase, and that lie should be very glad
to get rid of it, he nevertheless tirst a anted to know
hat irtui tin .1.• its particular stud k: If the abolition
if l'idchase bad lwen referred' laderchanit to the
Liberal party of the House if Commons they would
sot have consented to Aee it acconiplislueil by an act of the
Prerogative, but wonlil have preferred that it should lie de-
cided by our Parliamentary system. His lordship concluded
a powerful peniration by saying that the Government would
get their hill, but would take with it then-ensure and condem-
nation of the House, deliberately approved by the country, for
having, at a crisis that demanded the wtsitont and forbear-
ance if statesmen, acted with the
petulance and reckless-
liras nit children. They had ebb an unreal triumph,
Ind they hail strained and discredited the Constitution of the
C' untry.

The 'Lord Chancellor denied that the Government hail
been convicted, either on their is, it roll,SSig In or otherwise,
ft having given advice to the sovereign which had been un-
warranted by the facts, lie esplained that which was really
conveyed to the Royal ear, awl, replying in some detail to
the legal arguments urged by Lord taints, came to the Vito
of Censure, which, he said, NUS as little justified as any rota
to be found in their Journals. Quoting words useih by the
bake if Richmond in n different sense, he said that defeat
was more glorious to the vanquished in such a Callan than
triumph to the victors could possibly be.
-

The lordships olivided, when there appeared :—Onntents,
Inn 2 ; awl Non.contents, $2. The Vote of reinsure was, there-
Ire, carried by a majority of M.
The Army IPigution Bill was then read a second time,
and the Committee was fixed for this lay.
Their lonlbliips adjourned at twenty minutes to one.

In the lions.. of 'ommotis, 111 accordance with a 1T1033370
conveyed by the Usher of the funk Itml. the Speaker pro-
ceeded to the Upper [louse to witness the Royal assent given
by commission to bills agreed upon by both 1101111e3.

-Mr. P. Eylauds gave notice that in Committee of Supply
on the Army Estimates he would T ,the reduction of
Vote 1i by 0100, the amount of pay of the military attache
at St. Petersburg.
colonel Anson asked whether there was any truth in the
report that the intended military operations in Rerkshire
next September had been abandoned ill consequence of
the expense and errat difficulty experienced in providing
transports awl supplies fir so large a body Of men in the
Held for swill a length of time ; asit if so, whether the
responsibility attached to the Home Gnarls Or the War
IlliCe—to the officers of the army or the Control Depart-
ment.

Mr. F. Stanley PA ked whether It wax true that the trans
pOrt reqUiftti for the tenore to be engaucd in the September
mann:acres had been contracted for with a private tirm :
and, if so, whether cin h an anFement has occurred from in.
sniticieney eithcr of the matenel or personnel of the Military
Train.

Mr. Cantwell said that the harvest wan unusually late,
unit it had been reportod to him that it was not likely that
the troops could en. atop upon arable ground, or that the
fai niers would lit aide to spare their horses for tniusport.
;eh r these eireimmtances it bad been determined that the
orcrations should take place upon pen comitry.
The 4iltenthon implied that blame rested vitt. somebody. Ile
14.,11ht lay upon the table the ref.ortS of the Imaitertuaqter.
iiimural, thc In,pector-Gclitral of i'ortilications. alit the Mer-
v. yi.r Genial of I Irdliallee, in order that tiny might firm It
ophd9ll.
Lord G. Hamilton asked whether It was true that the
• olours of thee 1,111 Regiment, recently ordered! by the War
lube to be sent tr,ll Ireland to London, to be inscribed
with a record of the NeW Zealanel campaign, leave Leen
bat ; and whether tide lois hail Ind been tieeasi ttttt by the
refusal of the War err,s t,, &HOW the usual escort for
colours.

Sir 11. St..k that rot ,urt Wollili net
11,1.4 he so St t he nira tor—lor whool
U , tP Pm, 1.. I it iy Pimlico.
'II .a t,,,111.1 I I -.ls, I t rmit not hy the

r Brice (re plyinft to Sir .1. I flay and Mr. Bairn")
t eNi hug In Mit lane., it ttoilltl be illit.atible to
a.stAlrja•ct %bleb had heen forced
the ',Mary I. the appointment of a Royal 1111 l lash.
the pliblivitti,,lt ~11t, rel,ort tuul evi.limee. If the eon-
_u were conducted in a fair apirit there WM no law to
t.'. ••1.1 it, ind if it wire conducted in a lipirit it wonhi
I .1 CI • 1.1,1411. 1., i,,01e when, r olleilditt tvislo.l
' Act.
ut ',l i I il,
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.t inferta-tian had r,er-17cd
f• • ,j r frc.ra
1, and a din,
• t .-isted in certain thatri, ts I rrnia,
- • " -1. : t that A man hail Leen apprehended
• • :It. •I ing eaten two children lait althno2h
tl.e .nitants Mire reduced to a state of Kreat
wire not in snch a horrible strait no that. lie
SVAA lit :222 ate whetilvr.tht, thovcr 1111 l Olt 4 1nt1.% Lel 'et
:dt"'l'd any relief, hut the latest accounts gave pod hopes
that the pr. Alit yint's harveNt in hi rill nolild he a rood
611 e.

Ilr. timer hi reply to Mr Mimilniel-Pairke, aahl that he
if 1/04,i1•11., to go on with the Vetting Rill.

Mr. limice, answcr to Mr. Wha'lcy, sit *hit aftnr
rvading the shiiiihand mitt, of the trial of E. W. Pook.
It 311,carc.1 I. him that ncilly of the chargea which had
liceo .i,eitt.t the yolk.; omht have been made
ft. Cnve rrimnnt othriat. ichni ...inducted the pre,e-
-,,1t1h cn iL. p.j f r!,e ernwn. The Lord Chict JuLthe
;,...,.mtt,l and he (Mr. Lricn)
fLd n3t think th..t icnrc ^•:-.11.,to.Liythe t'ol-
- ct I,,nce in preteeding LuthLt Pan thur
ve‘tigationa.

Tb7u Home then went into Committee to consider the
Liucctia l.4Mu 1.1a11n4 .at c:
Arthur, and 31r. ,/141L:n. a 1 : • ; -•
antatity ot tc ckttl.:lc.a
hfo. In buppott ‘,l ct L; dwelt, on th,./totytenCi thnntrancl-
- onbeintattfla. lcottl4, outb pa. lbe
nteeabity for comint tcc Yar:inacc.nttc;c:a.Acicta. for tlic: issue of
the :Sovereign, he maintained, vote most favourable to the
lilcertic cci the f 0,;.:.• and the control of the House of Corn.
nv.ns, besides pruverving ti...sniolinteminsgnower,f tha
rein. over the junior branches of the Royal Fancily. That
thero was no written obligation between the Crown anal the
wont to ororide for tiler, lior branches of the Royal Family
he bay admitted, but he a LiOci tL,,,t there cm a.i a mural

engagement. r-frecinfr in evidence or it to the terms of the
Act, to the invariable practice of previous
aruaments, and to the utter absence of any intimation
that the Queen was expected so save enough from
the Mil List to establish her younger children. fle
pointed out, too, that the Queen Mid never touched
the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall from the birth of the
Prince of Wales, that she had spent large sums on the educa-
tion of her younger children, and that hitherto there had
been Ho &MAO Made on Parliament, AA had MTH VM
eMIMI!.111 PreO:MS !Ogle'. As it, the 'mount it the grant,
Mr. tiladsione mued that it was less titan the average income
of the Peers and of thousands of Commoners, and it was the
sum which had been granted to the Duke of Edinburgh.
Mr. Disraeli seconded thy

Mr. Taylor, who, pur.u-nnt-ii-i-11-1.1- notte!, met the Resolu-
tion aith a ;tweet negative, ireomilled his IT/10W MI an
•.hjection tn fin) lug for services which neither MO heels
nor were to be rendered, awl asserted that if there were
any necessity for this establishment the people Inul already
furnished the hunts for it. Al t the amount of the grant, he
characterised it as nicked, 3TOTt,ITI, alai extravagant.

Mr. Dixon, who was satisfied by the explanations of the
Prime Minister that there aas as hionoUrnble umierstanding
ant a lii,. rat claim for this provision, thought it too large,
AM moved its reduction to I:10,000. Ile enlarged 011 the
Mdnimisof the working classes oil these 'stints, urging that
If there were a growing feeling in favour of Republican in-
stitutions it was because they acre thought less costly than
Monarchy.

Mr. Disraeli, of the two amendments, infinitely preferred
Mr. Taylor's to Mr. Dixon's, w hich admitted the claim and
tattered a conmosition. As to his laa argument, Mr. Disraeli
protested against regarding the working classes as so many
paupers, and remarked that, If they were well-infonned, they
would tint that a Reptildie was dearer than our Monarchy.
Remembering that the net revenue of thp beemlitary estates
of the Crown was now cnO,OoO, and that the Queen had re-
served the right, possessed by every tdher landowner in the
country, of charging her life interest in favour of younger
children, that charge would uow amount to £09,000. Mr.
Disraeli maintained that the proposed arrangement was not
only generous but just.

DCA Division, Mr. Dixon's amendment was rejected by 280
to rot ; and in a second Division, the Resolution was carried
by 276 to 11.
The House then went Into Committee on the Ballot BM,
and the first if the Expenses chillers, IS, was opposed by Mr.
11. James, who argued that the practical result 44 throwing
all the expenses on the constituencies would be to exclude
all members from Parliament lint men of great wealth or
great daring. It would encourage sham candidates,
would lead to frequent changes In the compositien of the
House, and would multiply contests. Replying to the argu-
ments offered in its favour, he iminted out that these expenses
were a very small part of the cost of an election, not would
be no obstacle to working men's candidates ; and lie showed
that the requirement of a deposit, as proposed by the Go-
vernment, would not work, and would be a direct premium
to bribery.
Alter remarks from several hon. members,
Mr. Gladstone argued at length In favour of the clause as
a link connecting the u irking classes with other classes 44
the community. Sooner or later something of the ...rt
Wolll.l be devised, though he admitted that the public ruiind
might not be sufficiently prepared for it. The Government,
however, thought it their duty to make the proposal and
press it on the Il.atse.

Mr. Hardy, though agreeing hi the advantage of making
the House a perfect reflex of the country, ',Muted 011 t that
there were working Merl In the House already, though they
might have passed beyond the stage of working with their
hands. Ile was of opinion that the clause w•aild produce an
irritation utterly disproportionate tn the malt
Mr. Fawcett spoke for the clause, runt on a Division Mr.
Jairiesiimendment, which proposed the alteration of a
Single word, changing ••
all expenses '' into expemies,"
was earriod try 256 to 1,',1/. Upon this Mr. W. E. Forster, ac-
cepting the derision as fatal to the clause, withdrew it, and
the three followiag clauses which are dependent on It. Ou
reaching clause 22 the Committee again adjourned.
The other milers were disposed of, and the House ad-
journed at three o'clock.

In the Rouse of Lords, August I. Lord Colchester gave
notice that On Monday next he should call attention to the
notice that had loon issued by the Metropolitan pike nith
respect to the Trafalgar-square fleeting last night, and he
should ask thellovernment why they permitted that meet-
ing.to take place.

The Tramways Provisional Orders eonfirmath in Bill passed
through committee. The Nletropolitan Tramways Provisional
Orders suspension Bill passed thniugh e,mmttee. The or.
with Voters Disfranchisement Bill am! the Muniripal Cor-
poration Act Amendment Bill were read a second tune.

Their lordships then went into committee on the Army
Regulation Bill.

The Duke 1,1 Richmond moved an addition to Om pre.,
amble, satin forth that by Royal Warrant all Purchase re-
gulations haxlven cancelled and determined. The niotion
was agreed to, together with certain amendments in the
clauses ruidered necessary by the recital if the R4al War-
rant.

Lord Keine adverted to the compensation to Indian
officers. and Lord Salisbury, after the liberality shown by
the British Parliament to English officers, recommended the
Secretary of State for India to take the case of the (when
officers int.. consideration.

ViViall, WithMit obleCting to the clause revestina In
Iler Ntajcsty the jurisdiction In respect id the Auxiliary
Forces • exercised by Lords Lieutenant, •ed an
amendment to prevent its exercise by the Secretary of
State.

A brief dismission followed, which was terminated by the
Duke 14 Richmond, mho thought the Militia and Volunteer
talkers hail no cause of mimplaint when tilt y were placed on
an equal footing with officers 4 the Army, and expressed
himself satisfied with the assurance given by the Govern.
moot that the appointments to the Auxiliary Forces would
be made by the Commander-lit Chief, subject to the respon-
sibility of the Secretary I of State.
Lord Vivian thereupon withdrew Ms amendment.
Flom an amendment moved by Lord Melville, the Duke of
Richmond suggested that recommendation for the first 0.111-
missions in the Auxiliary [trees should be made by Lords
Lientenants, and t,rd Northbrook stated that it was the in-
tent of the Government to consult tilts functionaries
upon all first commissions.

The bill as amended then went through Committee.
Lord Hertford brought before the House the rumoured
abandonment of the military manoeuvres and Camp of
stmetion on Berkshire Downs. Mr. Cantwell had given the
lateness of the harvest as the reason, but there was much
noire cause to attribute the abandonment to the collapse of
the Control Department.
Lord Nortlibris.k entered at great length into the details
connected with the Berkshire Camp audits abandonment,
stating that the unusually late harvest hail been fatal to the
scheme. It would be unadvisable to carry out the numocu-
viva while the crops were standing in the fields, while, if
the manoeuvres were postponed until after the harvest, the
Militia lentil la. unable to take part in them. Mr. Cardwell
hail accordingly selected a district containing less amble
land, ranging front Peterstiehl to the banks of the Thames,
and here the same description of manoeuvres would be
catriegl oat by 30,000 Inert Upon a lamer area.
ford Maaloe regretted that the promised reorganliratlon
of the Army had at, signally collapsed. Ile described the
nobles cd operation which the proposal to f am the Berk-
shire Camp had received from the hunted proprietors and
burners. WO the trouble they hail taken in formion, a con,
mit tee tilt to.tkin the necessary arcrnc'entents. As the War
I Mies bad abandoned the Camp without consnlting any of
the large landowners and farmers concerned, he was striven
to the belief that the pretext of a late harvest was only an
attempt to thr ire dust in the eyes of the public, and that
there was Kane undiscovertsi sesret for which the Govern-
ment mast search through the departments. Rumour
pointed to the I 'wand Department and the dencieney of
transport, and the suspicion was enc,nrarred by the fact that
the spot chosen was certainly nearer to Aldershott.

Lord Granville made every allowance for the annoyance
and dbuippointment felt by those who had taken no much
trouble when the Camp was abandoned. lf, however, Lord
ilverstone believed that the reason given by the War Mee
was a mere pretest, he ought to lute for a select com-
mittee, aunt have before it Mr. Cardwell find the officers who
had made the returns,

Lord Vivian, the Marquis of Exeter, 111111 ford Strathnairn
critichord the deficiency 14 Army Transport : 210 lord
Melville declared that every general and l'ommaildilig idlker
known to hint agreed in saying that the Vontrel Department
was the greatest possible failure.
Lord Northbrook again entered into copious details 3111111
exchanged explanations with Lord Overstone, and their
ku•dithips adjourned.
In the House of Commons, Lord Elcho gave notice that
on Thursday he wl/1114 ask the Secretary of State for War
whether he eon state upon any reliable authority, and if no
upon what authority, that the harvest in Berkshire will not
Ito gathered in by the 20th September, and whether in the
opinion of the head of the medical department and of the
military authorities, the 20th of September is too late a
period for taking out the troops.
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lir. L. Ilayfair asked whether the caws of Asiatic cholera
reported as existing at Hull loot not taken place in ships
several days before they reached that port ; and, whether any
case of Asiatic cholera had been as yet reported within this
kingdom?

Mr. Forster said that no ease td cholera had been imported
Into Ilan, but that the cases tof death frolll cholera which
had been reported had orcorred on boani ship—the one five
days and the other thirteen days before the vessels reached
The Medical Department had not received informa.
lion if any case of Asiatic cholera having taken place in the
United Kingdom.

Colonel 6-11 pin asked the Home Secretary by whose sanc-
tion the meeting in Trafalgar-square took place, after it had
been (m 1.1.1.1011 by the Chief Commissioner .11...1ice and it
he considered it in accordance with law that a public meet-
ing should be held within half a mile of the liouse of Com-
mona for the purpose of dimming a question that was then
occupying the attention of that House.
. . _

Mr. Bruce said that all meetings were either teal or
illegal, awl if the former, no sanction was required, whilst
in the latter ease no sanction could be given. tin Sunday
evening he received notice of the Intention of the meeting
held in Hyde Park to adjourn. for the purpose of preparing&
petition to Parliament, to Trafalgar sonar, It became his
duty to communicate with the promoters of that meeting
anti to inform them that a meeting held for latch a purpose,
when consisting of more than fifty persona, and within Is
mile of where Parliament was sitting, would be an unlawful
assembly, and could 11. It be Remitted. The communication
was made and he was assured that their object was I lot to
meet for the purpose of petitioning Parliament, and that the
notice caned the meeting for the purpose of considering
questions count' f led with the proposed grant to Prince
Arthur. It as-as cleat% therefore, that it was not an Illegal
meeting. The only illegality that could arise was OM which
would justify the interference of the Government, awl that
its that obstruction might be caused to the public traffic.
If any obstruction were caused the person who caused it
might be summoned. .

jolonel llin aske.l by whose orders it was that the
liiie hove had to he Werra:led, and that the troops were
ordercd to remain within barracks in order to he ready at a
aiedt

'I r. Palo, saki it waR impoßsilile to know the preeise
li-
I tor olijip the niveting would to hula, and if it were
111 for Ow pairpow of petitioning llFli4il4inilt it would he
A,I 1,111,r Wan i,rreil that the troopci shoniti remain
within liarrarks in order that none of the solilierf might
attrial the meeting.

In answer to Mr. B. Coebrane. Mr. Brnee Bahl that there
Wll4llO power by whit-It lh,voriirnte,it could prevent a piddle
meeting, 11111e$8 it were held for the Irla- t petitioning
Parham, vit or an information was sworn that disturbance
a :et 3f . _
• • •

Mt t,Loi bion,ht op the report on the re,olotion
B,Ln:eel to In :mil., er to ti, t Alitjelty s 0,1 ~,mge, to the elieet
that nn annuity ct t be :;ranted to l't Ince Arther.

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Mr. flokflehi thought the WWI' 011.211 t t 2 know ,n bother
annuity -,-.'nul.l 1., make Inalienable in orger flint it might
not Le mortzogml or otherw inn ,Iniposed of by wiy not of
th, u.,,htlesonels.

.......
Mr (la.lAt“neratl that the grant was given for the pima Ise
Of if,' a 0,03111 dignity • f a royal charretcr, and he
tlnnLlit that the perlr..... no a the annuity ought to he
€ll5ll it.). Feline i.e the example net In the ease of the grant
to the Duke of Edintairgh, a clause making the annuity
inalienable would In: introduced Into tins hill.

The rcport Was tlioi anrceil to, filld given to bring ln
n bill.

The House again went Into committee on the Ballot Bill,
resuming at clause 22.

80ine al took place upon an amendment proposed
hy Sir M. H. tic:oh. the effect of ivhieh ...UM he to rtl Ito oil
ally vote zieen by mean', of per..onation for any candidate.

Or. a rhytton ionnhei, urn —For the amendment. 13:
aial.ort, . majonty. la. the NUMl4ffuent waa m.cordin‘ly
n,gativoi

!d.nin then pn an ar.tendment my-ed
by 31r Lowther t^. emit that porti,n et the tlati-e which
provolcd that a vote should be struck off the number of votes
.1. 1.4 evut-I whiqc auy tbr
be guilty et the ettence of treat
The 'intend:went wit. et:pith-Ed 4n a divLi.Ju Lye xuajtaity
of 14. thk. 'lumbers I,lng—Tor the amtptlynent: 35 : atraltust,
lett
• • '

rir MU. Death moved an cuondnicnt, providinj :hat. a
vote should not be struck MT as proposed by the clause,
except ulit le it should be provi II that the voter :in bribed ,
treated, or the individual guilty 44 penation, had voted
for the candidate on behalf I .1 whom the bribery, treating,
or personation is alleged to have been committed.
Mx. I'vr.itta: rant that It wuuld be inipe,sible under a

secret ballot to give positive proof of bow any voter gave
his vote.

The amendment was rejected.

Mr. Gordon moved the omission of the words which es-
tended the action of the clause too parliamentary election,
for a university or combination of universities.
The amendment was agreml to.
Sir. 0. Jenkinson moved the rejection of the entire clause.
'the committee qlivided—For the clause. 150 ; against, 91:
majority: 07. The clause was therefore added to the NW
Colonel Beresfonl moved as au amendment to clause 23,
which provides that the pniehrlng of permitration liy a .111111•
h
date or any other person acting on hit behalf shall vitiate
his election, that the words "or any other Orson"p
person
.o.f the insertion of " oris agent or
p
Mr. Fonder, Mr. James, and the Attorney-General opposed
the amendment.

The Committee divided the amendment, ; against,
int majority against, W 2. The amendment was therefore
negatived._ _
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waa then ordered to stand part of the hill.
Clause 24 with a slight amendment, was also agreed to.

,
Clause 26, which prescribes how the petsonator shall be
criminally dealt with, was struck out ; but the proposal to
omit clause 26, which declares that payments not made
through an agent, or included in the return, shall he deemed
conupt, provoked some lively comments from Mr. Fawcett
and otter hon. membera : and on a division it was decided to
expunge the clause by 181 to 84.
_

On clause 27, which prohibits the hiring of rooms at pule
lie-houses, an amendment of Sir M. Beach, to confine it to
boroughs, was discussed for a couple of hours, but in the end
Sir M. Beach liii not press his amendment ; and Mr. Collins
then moved the omission of the first part if the clause,
which prohibits under penalties the meeting of election
co 'nee. in publielo Rises, pointing out—as 11111 tttiine who
supported him—the difficulty of defining a " coffin] it tee-ma n."
Mr. VV. E. Foister consented to this, but the Ministerialists
below the gangway wonid not agree, awl forced a Division,
Which ended in Mr. Collins's amendment being carried by
IC4 to 83.

The point, however, was immmliately revived by Mr.
Samuelson, who proposed I. insert words prohibiting not only
the hire but the —use 'ifs p.m in a pubhchouse for any pur-
pose co iiiii ea.! with an election. There was a good oteal of
cheering 1111 his remarking that if Mr. Forster had meant to
11111111.1011 this part of the clause he at lit have itaid BO a
couple of hours before. Tile vagueness of the word " use "
was objected to by Mr. Locke, Mr. Clay, Mr. Collins, Mr.
Cawley, anol others Mr. Forster agreed to mood the clause
so. that 110 num, shall be used by the candidate or any person
1111 his behalf for election purposes. After a long Mal el/11-
fused discussion this ntooliticat ion of the clause was carded
by in 3 to ; anol Mr. Harcourt nest moved to strike out
the exception in favour of !midis, meetings (at which
a candidate is present), which the clause allows tO
be held at publiehouses. It was accepted by Mr. W. E.
Forster, on the strength of Mr. Harcourt's chief argument,
that the exception would cause the candidates to be pestered
by solicitations front the publicans. mid though strongly
opposed by Mr. Beresford Hope, Mr. Locke, sad others, IVIIII
11186441 that it would deprive constituents of all opportuni•
tics if meeting their candidates, the amendment was carried
on a Division by 128 to tol Mr. Lowther, Mr. Raikes, and
Mr. W. It. Smith complained that this last amendment re-
duced the clause to an alltaltllity, alit called for a Division
on the questio on that the clause stand part if the bill. Clti-
middy, after more than four hours' discussion, the clause
was carried by 114 toils!.
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The Local Goveniment Board Bill was read a third time
imftpassed

Mr. Cantwell brought in a bill to facilitate Oa autumn
mameuvres, and the House adjourned at 25 minutes to three
o'clock.

in the House of Commons, August 2, Mr. Fawcett, in
moving the second reading of the University Tests Dublin)
22i11 that it designed to effect three objects, viz.—first,
to abolish all religious and clerical tests in the University
of Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin ; and secondly, to
establish it representative board which would have under
Its charge all the academical and educational affairs,
both of the university and of the college. The board
would consist of a due proportion of the corporate
body, and it would contain a due share of the teaching
body of the University and of the College, and a due re-
presentation 14 the graduates at the University. In the
third place, the bill proposed to invest all the management
of the college in a body composed of the senior fellows and
a certain proportion of the junior fellows of the college,
21111 it would make the future government ~f the University
of Dublin exactly analogous to the presentsgovernment td
the rniver,ity of cambridge with the execiAlen at present
existing that residence was not required at Dublin,
whilst it was absolutely necessary at 11sf,n1 ;old Cam-
bridge. It would bring univerwity education w {thin reach
if every Irish home, and the linthorities 11i the ruiverbity iii
Dublin, in supporting it, were acting in perfect good faith.
It would do complete justice to the Catholics of Ireland,
and within a few weeks if the passing of the measure more
than one distinguished Roman Cathodic student would be
elected to a fellowship. There would be the greatest possible
advantage in passing the bill this session, and if it were not
passed. it would be incumbent upon the Government to take
It up next year.

Viscount Crichton seconded the motion, and said that he
expressed the .minioon old vast numbers of Protestants in Ire-
hint when he gave his approval 1.4 oily to the provisions
of this measure, lout also to the principals which it laid down
of united and unsectarian edueath on. lie asked the linvern-
went by assenting ho the second reading to, give an assurance
of the manner in which they Intended to deal with the ques.
tin of Education in Ireland.

Mr Pint moved the previous question, on the ground that
to pass the bill would increase the difficulty of a complete
settlement of the whole question of University Educa-
tion in Ireland when it should he considered hereafter. It
would secularise Trinity College, and would not satisfy the
Irish Homan Catholics, for they justly demanded that they
should have a college connected with religion, RIO under tile
management of their own Chnrch. The effect of the bill
111.11 the college would be ill render it necessary either tint
there should be clerical fellowships and divinity schmA for
both R0111:111 Catholic and Protestant denominations, or that
thrY should he altogether removed and it would be 1111-
poggible to teach together students of different religions
in many subjects, such, for instance, as modern and ec-
clesiastical history.

Sir R. llomerhassett thought it most undesirable to read
the IdII a second thine, awl thus fetter the bands if the
House inn the next session, it being impossible that the Inca.
sure could lw ',assent during the present year.
Mr. Gladstone said that the bill was one of an-at Musa,
taunt 111101111 very complicated subject. The hon. member bit
Brighton antieipated the support if the (love 011 WI the
ground that he was
equality upon which they had I led their mennstires. If the
bill were 8111 111 l Med to the House early inn the session the
Ginvernment would have the option either of supporting the
bill, or to introduce a bill Id their own ; but at the present
time there was not the slightest prospect Id proceeding with
this measure tO practical legislation. It w-as not in accord-
ance with the so lor onlinary Parliamentary usage thus to
vote the second reading of important bills, except with a view
to practical legislation upon the particular subject. The
twin anoinnent for assenting to the Berolol reading of the bill
was that it would be virtually an abstract resolution, but such
111:0111,1e was contrary to the practice of the House. 'lite
principle of One bill WWI 10 :dudish religions tests inn
the Univia,ity of Dublin, and to establbdi religious
equality; anal inn that the Govennment enttrely ;named
with 11l anal were willing to welcome him as ikfelt nv
labonrer hint it was another matter wpctlier it was their
duty 10 :1,011 Mkt 111.111011/le 111111101 e Whell they 11111,10 that
assertion apart front all real restaansibility as to the meansof
giving it effect, and when they would beenonne mere
11/1. general favour by giving a public pledge witlin,ut having
considered the means of carrying it Into effect.

Dr. Playfair defmniml the bill as cakulatml to remove reli-
ghats difficulties in Ireland, and to promote the spread (.1
science and education. lie protested against the idea of en-
dowing sectarian universities.

After remarks from Mr. Plunket and Mr. B. Hope,
The Solicitor-General for Ireland said he should support
the PreViollB question, on the aroma' that the bill was intro-
duced at an ' pportune period, anil that it was an im-
perfect. inromplete, unhit.elligible, and contused measure.

.....
' . IV. Jlarconr_ nail nit 11 11 gin., AI, coll Sid, the
question whether there shmild be a Roman Catholic Juicer.
city for Ireland. He accused the Government of putting up
the Solicitor-General for Ireland to talk out a debate on
which they knew they were going to meet a decided defeat.
Their I ;Ned wag to theiroplutiioio upon the subject,
but it might lie remembered that sonic members of the
Government had AVOWeli themselves in favour of subsidising
Roman Catholic colleges. Did the Government mean to
stand by the principle of mixed education in Ireland, or did
they not
That explanation the Goveniment declined to give.
Sir D. Corrigan was vainly ern cavouring to make himsel
heard amidst clies of "Divide," when, at a quart,: etc six, the
bill was talked tad.

Mr. Forster suinomired that the Govenunent intended to
take up the Ballot lull again to- Tow night, and, after
carefully looking over the list of amendment,, they won e
sanguine that eousideimille pregoesi oral I.e utile with it
mill they in ere not even withont hope that It could he passed
through the stage of einumittee.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the House
adjounted.