The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-03-11 00:00:00

MR. ODO RUSSELL AND THE TREATY

OF 1856.

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The following despatch from Mr. Odo Russell to
Earl Granville ha e been laid before Parliament :

glisallantous Aintt
HOME, FOREIGN, AND COI ONIAL.
EXITNSITZ SMITS AT NEWCASTLE; The
whole of the men employed at Messrs. Ilawthorne'd
engine works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, numbering over
one thousand, turned out on strike on Tuesday, in con.
sequence of the masters refusing to pay wages every
week instead of every fortnight as at present. The
subject of wages has been agitated amongst all classes
of workmen iu the north for a considerable time past,
and hence this move t make masters yield the desired
point is not unlikely to be followed by some salons
conee met tea.
MARRIAGE WITH A L -CEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
—O-1 Monday night a crowded public meeting, a
lari . number of ladies being present, was held at
WI is s 1 otais, St. James's London, in support of
the 3ill for legaLzing marriage with a deceased wife's
sot r. Dr. Brea/or, M.P., occupied the chair, and
was eupported on the platform by Mr, T. Chambers,
M.l'., and some other members of Parliament. The I
chairman, in opening the proceedings, said he was
pleas ri to see such a large number of ladies present to
give ;heir sanction to the proceedings. Mr. James
Hey, ood, F.S.A. moved a resolution declar:ng
that the law prohibiting a man from marrying the
elated of his deceased wife was repealed by public
opinion, and had become obsolete, and pledging the
meetin r to wipport by all legitimate means the Jill
now b.fore Parliament for legalizing such marriages.
Mr. Carpenter seconded the resolution, whi I was
carried unanimously. Mr. Sapwell moved the next
result lion, declaring that such marriages were not
oppo( sol to Scriptual law. The R v. D:. Ii iberte
seconded the reaolution, which was also carried. Mr.
T. C' ambers, M.P., mul others having addressed the
meet og, the proceedings closed with a vote of thahks
to the chairmar.
A YEAR'S RAILWAY SLAI7GHTER.—It appears
from the returns furnished by the Board of Trade that
the total number of persons killed on railways in the
United Kingdom last year was 29i, and the total
number of injured 1,239. In 1869 the numbers were—
killed, 371 ; injured, 1,237. Sixty-six passengers were
killed, and 1,084 injured from causes beyond their
owoo,atiol; And twenty-tour weee killed and ten
injured by their own misconduct or want of caution.
The number of servants of railway companies or con-
tractors killed and injured from causes beyond their
own control was twenty-five and 118 respectively. Of
the same class of persons, ninety were killed and elit n
injured by their own mieconduci. or recklessness.
Seventeen persons were killed and three it jured at
level crossings. The number of trespassers killed was
fifty-nine, and injured nine. The total number of (8-il-
lusions and other accidents to passenger trains was 121,
and by there seventy-nine persons (sixty-five of them
passengers) were killed and 1,191 (1,081 of whom were
passengers) injured. The number of accidents to goods
and mineral trains Was eight, and by these nine rail-
way servants were killed and six injured. Toe total
number of accidents to all trains was 132 ; the total
number of persons killed by them eighty-eight, and
the total number of injured 1,200.
Tug JEWS AND THE SABI:ATM—The Workshop
Regulation Act Amendment Bill, proposed by Sir
David Salomons, drovides that no penalty shall be in-
curred by any person in respect of any work done in a
workshop or in the tobacco manufacture on Sunday
by any young person r woman professing the
Jewish religion, provided that the workshop or mann.
factory is in the occupa•ion of a- person professing the
Jewish religion, is on Saturday closed until sunset,
and is not open for sales on Sunday; and provided
also that the toial number of hours of labour of such
young person or woman "in any one week at such
woikohop or manufactory does not exceed the total
number allowed by the Workshop Regulation Act.

VERSAILLMR, February 27, 1871.
" My 1.1r4.-1 see by the Parliamentary rep lets in The
Times of the 17th and 35th instant that • question has arisen
In regard to the argument used by me and published in
the c rrespondenCe respecting the Treaty of 1856, page 45,
No. 76, of the 22,14 of November last, to the effect that
the 'question raised by Pelle° Gortschakoff was of a nature
In Its present state to compel us, with or without allies to go
to war with Russia.' As it may ba convenient that I
should place on record for future reference the reasons
which Induced me to use that argument, the re-
sponsibility of which must rest on me and on me
alone, I have the honour to state : let. That we are b.and
by the Tripartite Treaty of the 15 h of April, 1150, to coslstder
an Infraction of the Treaty of the "doth of March, 1000, as a
caets b•-111 2nd. That Prince GortschalcotTe notes of Octouer 19
(31), and of October 21 t November 1 , assuming th 3 right to
renounce the stipulations of that Treaty which direc.ly
touched her interests, appeared to me to Involve the assump-
tion of a right to renounCe the whole of the Treaty. 3rd.
That her Majesty's Government had declared on the 10th of '
November last that it was Impaasible on their part to give
any sanction to the ocsurse announced by Prince Gorts-
cttakoff. 4th. That this renunciation by it 3ssia, which
her Majesty'. (1 svernment could not sanction, of • portion
of the Treaty of Starch 30, 1850, opened a dlEcnedon ebictc
might unsettle the cor Hal uuderstandlrg between the two
Governments, because It was of a nature in Its present state,
that is, In the state It was on the 22:td of November last, to
compel us to go to war In virtue of the Tripartite Treaty of
the 1505 01 April, 1856, by which we had bound ourselves to
conelier any infraction of the Treaty of the 50th of March
Russia was then renouncing, as a ca4us betli. sth. That
France befog then otherwise engaged and Austria unprepared,
we !Light be compelled to go to war with Russia, even without
allies, having bound ourselves on the 15th of April, 1856, to
guarantee, jointly and severally, the stipulations recorded
In the Treaty of the 30th Much, 1050, threatened by the
mourned right of renunciation by Raub, which her Ma-
jesty'. Government declined to sanction. 6111 That not
having been Instructed to state that the question I had been
sent to submit to the Pill3lllAll Government was not, in the
opinion of her Majesty's Government, of a nature to compel
Its ever to go to war, notwithstanding our Treaty engage.
assents, I used the arguments which I believed in nay conscience
to be true.-1 have, ,Re„, arsszu.."

At the funeral of M. Kass. the mayor of Strasburg, which
took place on Friday at /Minoan; M. Gambetts made a
speech tn eulogy of the deceased. M. Gambetth sehl that
though France was separated by force from Alsace It was
only for a time, and she would henceforth hay, DO abet
WNW bid 'be deliverance ol Mat province.

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lug out biingle line before it wae sung by the con-
gregation. This practice gave rise to a 'somewhat un-
lucky introduction of a line from the first Psalm. In
most churches in Scotland the communion tables are
placed in the centre of the church. After sermon and
prayer, the seats round these tables are occupied by
the communicants while a psalm is being sung. One
communion Sunday, the precentor observed the noble
family of Eglantine approaching the table., and likely
to be kept out by those pressed in before them. Being
very zealous for their accommodation, he called out to
an individual whom he considered to be the principal
obstacle in the clearing passage, "Come back, Jack
and let in the noble femily of Eglantine;' and then
turning to his pea`m.book, he took up his duty, and
went on to read the line ' Nor stand in the sinners'
way.'"
GRIEVANCES ! (Ft xm The nous of Tues-
day) :
A REFUGEE'S GiclEvANcE.—" An American Refugee from
.rls," where he has MS house and servants. Say, that having
brought over, pair of hones wito him to save thum, he has
ben compelled to pay nearly £8 for taxes of WU and 1,74
ellen he has been In the country only a few mouths, and ex-
pects In a short time to return to Paris.
A (11ARITABLE 11. P." writes to us to com-
plain that the directors of the Great Western Railway have
refuted permisalon to the guard. to advertise their ball in
aid of the Great Western Railway Superannustion Fund_
As OLD WeerEbwo Maw.— Tne Rev. E. W.
Pears arks no (The Times) to state that in answer to
his appeal for William Cox, the old Waterloo man,
friends have coatributed 4:25, including 1.51 from his
Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, and that a
ension of 78. per week has been granted from Chelsea
p Hospital, so that the old man is now made comfortable
for the rest of his life.
BALANCE-SHEET FOR 1870.—1 n the year 1870
the Customs duties of the United Kingdom pro-
dueed £20,265,000; the Excise, £22,437,000; stamps,
£9,020,000; land and assessed taxes, £2,971,000; pro-
perty tax, 4.7,460,000 • the l'ost Office, £4,650,000;
telegraph service, 600,000 ; Crown lands (net),
£370 000; miscellaneous £3,646,935; making a total
of £7l 268,955. The expenditure comprised £26,458,783
for interest of the national debt ; £13,740,400 for the
army; £9,776,641 for the navy; £11,824,467 civil
government; £6,418,627 cost of collection, including
mail packet service aril telegraph service; making a
total of £6B 218,919. The result loan excess of income
over expenditure to the amount of £3,050,037. There
was also £lOO,OOO expended on fortifications, but that
is not a charge on the year's income, but was provided
for by the creation of annuities, which will appear
year by year as part of the charge for the national
debt.
No SYMPATHY FOR FRANCE I —Some of the
French papers refers monrnfully, and with some bitter
nese, to the passage in the American President's last
Meseage in which he expresses strong sympathy with
German unity, and, by implication, with their recent
successes against France. A Bordeaux journal says :
" Not one word do we find of sympathetic emotion in
favour of poor Fraum, bleeding and mutilated, who for-
merly so generously shed her blood on behalf of the In-
dependence of the Vetted States. In truth, never was our
Isolation more complete and terrible.'
SHOCKING DEATH OF A LADY.--The body of
Mrs. Anne Dicker, the widow of a Church missionary,
who has been missing from Exeter since the 20th
January, has be ea found in a ditch Lear Cowley Bridge
on the Sliver Exe, The deceased was lying on her
back between two elm trees, and was wearing only her
wider clothing and her stockinga The right shoulder
was jammed against the post of some railings which
divide the marehes, and the left shoulder was against
one of the elm trees. There was a rat-hole near the
tree, and parts of a red pett:c At which was found a
few inches from the deceased's heal, and portions of
her body had evidenCy been eaten by the rats. The
unfortunate lady was in the receipt of an annuity of
£5O a year from the Church Missionary Society. After
the death of her husband wh bad been, a missionary

VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.—At the Leices- at Sierra Leone, she beca' me depresiaTin—s—pirri-s—a; CI
ter 'hire stee'ess on Saturday, George Perkins, aged was temporarily a patient at the Woodford Asylum.
twenty-one, was indicted for the wilful murder of On the 26th January, after partaking of breakfast at
Thomas Knight, aged fifty, at Barrow on• Soar, tn Mrs. Mayo Townsend's, where she was staying, she
September last. The deceased had accused prisoner of went out, never returning. Though advertisements
maliciously au' ling up a quantity of p •tatoee, and the were issued no trace could be obtained of her until
latter had threatened vengeance. Oa the day of the her body wan found as described. The deceased wan
murder prisoner had been drinking all day, and at
40 years of age. At the inquest held by Mr. Coroner
about nine in the evening Knight. V. ho was a carrier, Heepee,
there was no evidence to show how she came
and had but just finished his day's work, took his by her death, and an open verdict of "Found dead"
supper in his hand and went into the publichouse to was returned,
eat it. Prisoner again threatened deceased, and when
the latter, at about ten o'el•ek, left the house, followed A THRILLING APPEAL—An enterprising hatter
him and beat and kit ked him with such brutality that in Glasgow makes the following pathetic appeal to the
the poor old man died in a quarter of an hour after ha
Good Tempters in Glasgowwas rescued by the neisheoure. The jury returned a :
"It Is declared In the laws of our Order that no 'Good
verdict of Mamslauslater, and the prisoner was gen. 11.terzesrttr conductooimzt : tooldbrbiart? di,Zriaoc,%"dra
tenced to twenty years' penal servitude. bruised ha 1 Who bath a hat with a band of grease rounO
SERIOUS BANE ESIBEZELEMENT.—Ricbard Hog. it i They that tarry long in the alehouse • They thatsquander
their Incomeme hoen
punch
hg dbroiwnlit lth,Till,eyd.tithga:tfoseTlterlerforeadlye+i
kine, a clerk in the Norwich branch of the National
Provincial Bank of Eugland, has been charge 4 before every brother in the Order show, by his elegant, fashtonable,
the Norwich magistrates upon a charge of enale zz'ing and glossy, rich, Fano, Sr warm, hands, nit, and comfortable
£1,853 3'. 31, the moneys of his employers. Mr. felt hat, that he belongs ton brdtherhood, banded together,
Stanford, travelling 'nepector of the bank, said he not only for the spiritual and imntal Interests of man, but
arrived in Norwich on Thursday evening. March 1, also for his social comfort and respectability."
and on Friday he went to the branch bank at Norwich, Na PJLEOR IC INTEIS TICH. B.—The following state-
and commenced his inspection. Hie first duty was to moat as to the policy and intentions of the French
ce unt the cash of each cashier, and the prisoner's cash- Imperialists has been communicated to us (feescrver)
box was brought to him. The box was licked, but , from a truetwe rthy source. The Emperor Napoleon
witness bad the lock picked, aad found £2,285 10s. in ' will not deviate from the course he has pursued since
the box. Witness examined the erieoner's j Ming cash- the 41 September. lie will not assert his c mstitu
book, and found that the amount in the cash-box ought tional rights Ity an appeal to the pee•p`e, because he
to have been 144,182 3+, 41,, Prisoner was absent from will not at this time provoke any political cot flict.
duty in the country, and a clerk was despa`ched for The Emperor holds Merlotti at the service of the
him. Witness went the same evening to the prisoner's French nation, and whenever he is c ailed upon he
Indeings with Mr. Hitchcock, the chief cashier at will perform the will of the people. His Majesty is
Norwich. It was a painful scene at first, aathe prisoner confident that he will hereafter be fairly judged. 11,
was much affected. The prisoner burst into tears before Emperor does not deny his responsibility ; but he
anything was said to him, and when Mr. Hitchcock declares that it was shared by the nation, and that
said he coul I not believe that he had taken the money the war against Prussia had its origin in the vehement
the prisoner said it was too true. The prisoner afters anti- Pros ion appeals of the enemies of the Empire.
wards said he had taken £1.835, and loot it in horse- There is Do truth in the reports of Imperial intrigue?.
racing and backing horses during the last six months. So far from intriguing the Emperor objects to any
He was remanded. 1 demonstration whatever. His Majesty will await
NEwsman EsExamsr.— One of the greatest without impatience and without doubt the decision of
(perhaps the greatest) feats of newspaper reporting , the French people as to the Empire and his dynasty.
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and special despatch by land and sea was achieved last , But he will take no steps to influence its decision.
week by The Times. Dr. line•ell, the well-known RIILIC OFF:Clara PASSION.—A policemao, fond
War Cone spondent, and Mr. Kelly, of The Times' of reading, told a friend that, for amusement. when off
stuff, were the reporters of the entry of the Germans duty he often took up a book. —Punch.
into Paris. Dr. Bushell rode into Pauses Wednesday aeea--
vu NTRT AIR AND CLEANLINESS.—Dr. Thorne,
morning with the Prussian troops, and he and Mr. a Sanitary Inspector from the Medical Department of
Kelly left Paris by special train of the Northern E ail- the Privy Council, gives a shocking report of the
way at 2.50 p.m. that day, and arrived at Calais: at 9.3 e.
Thence a special steampacket conveyed the dispatches stets of Northam and Appledore, in Devons'are,
where typhoid fever and other preventible diseases
ro acss to D has Dever, and they proceeded by special train been
emaking sad ravages. Dr. Thorne stet a
to London. The courier reached 77 c Times' of and
that air, soil, and water are seriously polluted. Many
delivered his despatches at 1.15 am. Thursday, and of the wells are in lower eituations than some of the
the whole of the report of those special correspondents
I worst nuisances, and the water used for drinking pur-
waseoublished in the regular first edition of The Tina
, poses is largely impregnated with sewage matter. At
on Thursday morning, 1 Appledore he found 100 houses without private accom-
GERMAN DEBTOR AND CREDITOR ACCOUNT.— modationit and the excrement and sewage buried in
The officid lists of the killed and wounded on the Ger. ' yards or thrown en the foreshore ; whole for a mile
man side during the war have now been made up at along the foreshore the contents of privies, accurnula.
Berlin, ea far as relates to the army of the late North lion of sewage and refuse matter, and the filth of the
G: ninon tuna and the Haden Divider. Thu number town were .constantly being deposited. He found
given of killed in action is 13,1160 ;of wounded. ea:se-1; pigsties in populous places and even under the win.
or total casualties, without the messing, 102,184. ' But dews of dwellinghouses. Many places he considered
to these will have to be added at tenet 20,000 more of , to be unfit for habitation. He strongly advised the
Bavarians and Wortembergers, so that the Germans carrying out of the earth closet system, as at Hull, and
altogether may be considered to have lost 120,000—that the appointment of a Medical Officer of Health.
is more than six times as many as Prussia lost in 1866 TERRITORY.—The
when the cewuelties did not quite reach 20.000. The i
e 1 THE FALnCH CigSSIONS OF
, Jou•mal des DCbate thus sums up the territorial losses
expenditure of the war is in still greater proportion to . suetained by France in eonsequence of the recent
that of 1866, owing to the longer duration. The latter :
was returned at 124,0 arrangements for pears
thalern. The prevent war ,
has been rudely estimated at Berlin at amounts varying , "France loses more than three-fourths slits department
i of the Moselle, ore-third of the department of the eieurehe.
from £120,000,000 to £150,000,000 sterling. Bat these 1 a canton and • half of the department of the Vosges, all the
estimates are fs r money laid out, and do not include I department of the Haut Rhin except a canton and a half, and
stoma expended. These it took £4,000,000 to replace in I the entire department of the Bas Rein, these territories con.
"an and furnishingr
e presee tn an
1836. Vastly, there are the I'abilities for the pensions, 1 taidintinualt.r,rielleeiet.n.tredynat
cgooniltesi7,l47,l(ltooo,T,soooes,:lureoleb;eaui
and for compensation to the Germans driven out of
France. The latter claim having been excluded from ' ' Pn"la
the treaty is understood to have been handed over to AMERIC tN ICS Orton —Nottvithstanding fears
the German Government to be met out of the general entertained in the early part of the winter the ice crop
pecuniary penalty imposed on France. of the United States has proved one of the largest and
, best ever cut. A month ago the full harvest moon of
MR. SPURGEON ADARES AN OLD ADAGE. —The 1 the ice season was shining, and the utmost activity
..onCh Pond's Pr-see reports tan eddrese of Mr. Spurgeon Prevailed. The surface is first cleared of snow, elash,
to a party of butchers. It states : and poor ice by en "ice planer," drawn by one or two
Mr. Henry Varley, of Nottine-hill, formerly a butcher.
now preaches in the Tabernacle, Notting-hill He especially
• horses. This instrument, shaped like the letter A, has
a transverse steel knife shaving off the ice to any
devotes his energies In evangelising members of his former desired depth until the transps.rent mass in reached.
trade, and hu been in the habit of annually celebrating his
success by a sort of anulVersary of' lontohere' festival, which A "scraper," which follows, clears away the shavings'consists of an assembing of journeymen butchers to a Went Then comes a "marker. ' plough-shaped, with eh arp
tea, after which addresses are delivered The number of steel teeth, end cuts grooves, an "ice plough"
these muscular Christians has so much increased that it has following and dividing the ice, to within an inch or two
been found necessary this year to take advantage of the
great hall in the Metropolitan Tabernacle. 0.1 the day above of the bottom, into,. ice
mentioned (last Tuesday) upwards of 1,500 journeymen complete e separation, p .
botchers partook of tea, and after that Ras concluded, a acn4dk"ushitihm:cawkietshinitloe.obpar'eu
monatersmeeting was hold, over which Mr. Spurgeon pre- and the
water along
squares
sescuhit
into
eh the ice.
eAn, elevator
sided. Toe rev. gentleman gave a short and from the re- summer's supply is secured. Toe storehouses along
port it would seem a very sensible address, which he thus
concluded :—" Oa Suoday, you kuow, the commandment is,
• You shall not be happy.' It would be a great wrong if a • •
, thelt
9,l,•leund Buds'
Hamburg. we re
afinldk dAlblythteheffctrhoporf a
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or yin.
preacher made you smile. I don't believe it. I make people nine to 14 inches in thickness.
laugh on Nanday. I believe that the risible faculty has u TIM HEALTH OF MR. CHILDERS.—The accom-
much good as the faculty which makes us cry. I don't panying medical opinion, dated Friday, March 3, re-
think It wrong to make peeps laugh on Sunday. There are presents the exact
advice upon which the I: jest Lord
more files caught by honey than vinegar." has acted in relinquiehing the duties of his office : --
NATIVE THEORIES OF EARTHQUAKES.—There ~ We have this day consult), I together as to the advice
are various theories of the cause of earthquake s (says proper to be given to Mr. Childers under the present condi-
the Bombay Gat:ettr). By a Surat paper we are in- then of his health, and although we are satisfied that Mr.
formed that the uneducated Hindooe there "believe Childers Is better, and will continue to improve, and w.ll
that when the world becomes sinful, the ' Shes Nag' !TIT,
rat.lymr.ec:Lriisb!'t:,lureo, frees .i.row,.. Loi:lntutbtlen'7Zge...l:
al
(a kind of serpent) on whom the world stands, tures "' `
its side and hence such shocks of earthquakes are felt." the sale' time entirely to avoid the perusal of official papers
or the discussion of eltigal matters.—WiLmast W. GULL,
A correspondent at Gowhatty, in Assem, Mentions hilt, RoBEBT ELLIS, WIC CS., J. BRF.AKEY, 11. D, It Si."
another powder notion --"At: about 11 p.m., on , v
.s. &TEST FROM " Trig CRETURY."—Mrs. Burns-
Friday, the 27th, we were rudely roused from sleep ,
I botham disputes Sir Cornewall Lewis' theory. Her
by a heavy shock of earthqueles. It seemed as if a I great-grandfather, she says, was undoubtedly a cell.
giant had jumped on my bungalow." Hence the belief t
, tad:mi.—Punch.
among the natives in Assem that earthquakes are ,
canoed by the periodical leaps of mountain gods from I TATLER PRIM—Mr, William Tayler, F S S.,
one mountain to another. 1 F. S A., has placed in the hands of the Council of the
• . Statistical Society the sum of 50 guineas, to be
PATRIOTISM IN EXCELSIII. —An extraordinary I awarded by them as a prize for the beet essay on the
climbing feat has been performed in the enthusiasm of local taxation of the United Kingdom. It is desired
victory. Two Berchtesgaden mountaineers have as- that the essay Ethel exhibit, as farts possible, a rem-
cended the Wateman in this dangerous time of the plan summary. with full etatestical details, of the local
year and planted on its eumnait, 9,000 feet above the taxation sot the United Kingdom since 1850, the objects
sea, a monster specimen of the German flag. In the for which it is levied, the amounts collected and ex-
evening they lit a grand bonfire, for which purpose pendt d for each object, the mnde and coat of collection,
they had carried pit-h and tow with them. One of the the expenditure at d incidence of local taxes, and any
Iwo Alpine adventurers is a man 59 years of age,. special circumstance connected with their nature or
PATENT PRINTING MACHINE AND It telISTllll. operation. The amounts raised by local taxation
M. Bebro has patented a machine for printing tickets for various purposes should be subdivided as be'
in large omantities for railways, steam-boats, Sic. The tween different counties or districts ; and the eon•
machine in capable of printing on both sides, number. section between the general character and °coupe.
ing consecutively, and perforating 1,000 tickets per bees of the population and the amount expended
minute. A roll of paper being placed on the ,e,..er,,,,,, for different local purposes be investigated, BO 514 to
the printing and perforating goon simultaneously, and exhibit in the most lucid and instructive MAUD, r there-
the machine requires no attention until the roll of ell:tired summary of local taxation. The inquiry as to
paper is exhausted. The printing is done by an in. ' the present condition of local taxation should be sup-
genious adaptation of the usual cylinder process. In I plereented byenggdeettreirtsofrortnnedwit„aente,lintromvelszukrecet:
passing from one printing cylinder to the other the I of local revenue,
elgrunnuatiwonateorfsuepxppelyndisteurewag,esafarnibys'.licoceunacolis, &tieOn'• for
strip
mediateof
f papereyl indt ,bwr, ohlthh tmiankt .a e contact ri es wofithperalonraitnit
in the line of division between the respective tickets, different rates, concentration of administrative control,
While the perforation is being executed the cowmen- industrial schools, &c.; and also for promoting the
five number is impressed from beneath. The part of equitable incidence of local taxes' and endeavonrs
the machine by which the numbering is done consists should be made to attain to fixed rules or maxims
of a cylinder between two and three feet in diameter, capable of giving a systematic character to the prin-
and about the same in length, on the periphery of ciplea of local taxation, and to discriminate between the
of which are arranged figures (ordinary moveable proper provinces of local and general taxation.
types) from Ito 3,000• BY placing the numbers in • SUPPLIES MOM Anicalcs TOR TR6 FRE IC 4
coutinuous spiral line round the cylinder, and making Itorr.E.—By the last mail from America we learn
the latter move along its axis at a certain rate, the throughout the whole continent of America every
numbers are presented and printed from in succession 'if At was being made to collect supplies of eve y
with unfailing accuracy, description, and to forward them with all poseffile
AN UNLUCKY C 'men:maim—Dean Ramsay gispatai to Havre for the relief of the suffering
"remembers in the pariah church of Fettercairn, French. The United States Government, in order to
though it must be sixty years ago, a custom still linger, meet the requirements of the case, has placed several
ling In some pane of tin snatch of Um precentor read. war mods at the disposal of the different relief cow

Enittees. and on reiday the United Stake storeship,
bearing the appropriate name Supply, Itft New York
for Ilavre, deeply laden with supplies of all deacrip:
dons —including a large quantity of farm seeds, ko,,
for the destitute French people. The United States
steamer Worcakr, Lieut-Commander Whiting, had
also been commissioned, and sailed from B sston last
Saturday, also for Barre, with suppled for the French,
the gift of the citizens of Boston. Other vessels were
being loaded with provisions, and probably by thie
there are halta-dozen or more large supply ships at sea
en route to Havre.

AVONC MAR AFFIN ITY.—It is quite clear tl
the Marriage Law of Eugland, instead of telng too
restrictive, is too lax. For instance, a Pawnbroker is
at liberty to marry a woman although ehe may be
related to him by a tie so intimate as that of klatibd
pledged her earrings. Ought • girl to be allowed to
marry her Uncle?—Punch.

CURIOSITIES Or CHINESE LIFE.—The following
is the aubltance of a story which is at present cment.ing the friendship of that section of the Chinese known
ea the Tear chop frequenters (says the Shanghai Budget).
Its absurdity will be patent to every one, and we print
it only to illustrate the very credulous and superstitious
character of the people among whom our lost in cast.
A man living at s place called Tssu.liia-Tiuh, ('he
Hamlet of the Tau family) had a very beautiful
daughter who was admired by all in the neighbourhood,
and, no doubt, was sought after by many suitors. The
young girl the other day, in accordance with Chinese
custom, went to • temple hard by, to burn incense.
While there, strangely enough, the t'oo-Te Laou Yay
(Father god of the place) is reported to have smiled
upon her. Who new him to do so, we axe not informed,
but the young girl returned home, and soon after wan
taken suddenly ill and died during the night. The
neighbours, on hearing it, all affirmed, that the Leon
Yay had fallen in love with the girl and took away her
life in this abrupt manner, for the purpose of making
her his own wife. The legends of Citeece and Rome
contais mato parallel came.
LiCENBaD GLIABLINO.—The ()c, don fl China
Mad, Jan. 25, says :

_
The 01:111110101.160 liCetlCell of the colony of Hongkong were
put up to public suction at the G Jvcrom en t ohices on the
12th and sold to the highest bidder. The bidding was pretty
brick, and the privilege was purchased by Ho Ah 01k, of the
BUZ= Hone, for the sum of 15 dollsrs pot month. Thla
rate II 2 500 dollars per month aly,ve that of last year, or
32,000 dollars of a 3 early Noreen. Si that the revenue how
accruing from gambling in the colony of Hongkong amounts
to no idu than 159,000 dollars a year. At this rate the
special fund Will soon become an ellgtble little 'pile."

LAW AND LATITUDE.— Mr. Voysey, now that
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has given
judgment againet him, should ouit the Church for the
Law. Could he not be at once admitted to practice as
an attorney? If he may still be said to be a Clerk in
Orden, he has been pronounced, by the highest Ina
tribunal, a Clerk out of his Articles—Punch.
lIIDLOPHOBIA.—TRE INCREASR OF DOGS.—AR
inquest was held at Bolton, on Saturday, on a child
named Ann 13radbury, aged four years and a half, who
had been bitten by a mad dog and died of hydrophobia.
Toe same dog avacked a man, who had the presence
of mind, however, to seize it by the collar and strangle
it. Toe coroner expressed strong dissatisfaction at
the increased number of dogs, awl said he would de-
e: my all the doge in England rather than Eacritice one
life.
Tag COST OF CORRUPTION.—IIe Bridgewater
Town Council have been officially informed that they
would have to pay £3,146 as the cost of their election
commission. It was stated that the payment would
nectesitate a rate of 2s. 61. in the pound, and the
town clerk was ordered to take counsel's opinion as to
whether the payment could really be enforced by the
Treasury.
AN INTERIETED AUDIENCE.—At 3 recent
meeting of one of our Learned Societiea a paper wasread
on "The Punfield Formation." The attendance of
comic writers was overwhelming. The greatest silence
prevailed. You might have heard a joke drop.—
Punch.
AN IRISH AGRARIAN MORDER.--The Irish Times
publishea the following account of a murder committed
on Monday, at Maghera, Ballymacffil :—" Mr. Alex-
ander Stewart, a farmer, at Tully, near Rameltom
went to .)la4bera, to evict a caretaker, named
M 'Bride, from • grazing farm. On :SR Stewart
reaching the place he was stabbed by AI 'Bride a little
above the knee of the right leg. Toe unfortunate
man bled to death within an hour after receiving the
injury. M'Bride has absconded, and the police are in
search of him." _ .

SMALL-Pox AND VACCINATION.— There is much
more for the law to do than insist on vaccination (says
a London contemporary). The lymph should never be
taken from a subj.:et about whom there may be a sus-
picion of latent disease, and we would riot hesitate to
compel the healthy parents of healthy children to sub-
mit to removal of 13 mph under reasonable regulations,
as on the other baud we would prohibit medical men
from taking it in cases of a doubtful kind. But above
all, there ought to be an appeal period iesslly to head-
quarters ; and to put this part of the case more
definitely, we would venture to say that cow-pox
should be propagated from the midi r of the cow every
ten years at least ; but it would be bitter to obtain the
vaccine lymph at Mat hand on every opportunity, and
. by liberal payment for services bestowed, make it the
interest of dairymen to confess, instead of concealing,
ewes of cow-pox amongst their cattle. It was from
the hand of a milkmaid that Jenner obtained the lymph
for his celebrated experiment in 1796, for which he
was rewarded by a grateful country with gilts amount-
log in all to /:30,000. Yet with all the facts patent on
the page of history, his noble work is half undone;
and there seems to be but one course open to us now,
and that is, in all faithfulness and without prejudice,
co tread the path he prepared for us, but from which
we have strayed far and 'tilde to our serious injury.
REASONS FJR DBARRTION.—The following 8111
a few of the curious reasons assigned for desertion by
men admitted into the military prioin, Dublin, having
been sentenced to be marked with the letter 1) as
being deserters--" Harassed and annoyed in his
company-Married without leave; wife and child. -
Went on the spree and missed the boat.-Went from
Halifax to Boston; women and drink. Returning off
furlough was robbed, and then would not c dire back.
-Tormented by the sergeant-majon-Didn't like the
service.-The vagabond women in Cdurch-street kept
him absent. -Married without leave; refused a pass.
-Because I was not punished fair.-Bothered by the
sergeant-mejor.---Tried for disgraceful conduct, end
got no peace afterwards.-Went to Punchestowa
races. Would rather be a sailor.-Coaxed to go by a
comrade-Inveigled away by a comrade. Teased
and annoyed. -Didn't like soldtriug.-Got married
without leave; spree-Didn't like riding. Got drunk
and went mad. Picked up by a girl and stopped ;
abeent.-Met with a young 'an; was robbed, stripped
naked ; ashamed to come back.-Wits left money by
his uncle ; went on a spree.-Went with friends to the
races. -Ran home to my mother."