The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-03-18 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COIONIAL

THROWING THE HAMMEL—DonaId Dinnie, the
champion athlete of Scotland has had a throwing
contest with the sixteempoun,l hammer, against James
Fleming, of Blair Athol, in Barrack Park, Dundee.
The conditions of the match were—Dinnie allowed
Fleming sev-d2. feet start; Fleming stair, d £5O against
Dinnie's £4O; nice throws; Dinnie's largest throw
was 128 ft. lien., fi:rther by eiAht feet thau he ever did
in public before. H 4 won by sft. fin. A great crowd
att Jaded. The return match is to come off at Aber.
deen for £5O a side, Dinah+ allowing Lift. start, on
the 25th instant.

Sin& By Sins !—An odd incident occurred in
the House of Commons the other night. Whilst the
leader of the Opposition was talking, the Marquis of
Lorne CSITIO into the gallery to hear him. Many room.
bera had taken the saute point of advantage, and the
marquis at down without seeing that his next ',nigh-
hour was Mr. Poter Taylor. Tao two looked at each
other, of course with no sign of recoguition ; but
neither seemed very comfortable. Mr. Taylor tried to
edge away, but could not, for the member on the other
tide of him enjoyed the juke, and would not make
room. The marquis could not go away; that would
have looked gauche and absurd. So the two eat side
by ride in unpleasant juxtaposition—the future hut-
band of the Queen's daughter next to the senator who
had tried to prevent the Queen's daughter from having
any dowry.

DEATH AFTER VACCINATION.—The Liverpool
coroner has held an inquest on the body a Alexander
Dingwall, the superintendent of the public baths at
Margaretstreer. Deceaced WAR vaccinated by a
chemist, named Williams, on Saturday week. On the
following day he coil plained of him arm, and Dr.
Graham WAR called in. D-ceamd gradually got worse,
aud died on Sunday morning laet. Mr. Williams de.
pined that he partly vaccinated deceased from bin own
and his wife's arms, but did so reluctantly, and at his
pressing request Dec,wied hirmelf completed the
operation. D.ceased as suffering from diabetes.
Death resulted from blood poieming, and there ap-
peared to be nothing wrong in the mode of vaccination.
The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, returned
the falowing verdict :—Died from pyouma, coneequent
upon being vaccinated whilst suffering from diabetes,
The jury added that they did not attribute blame to
any one.

S CATIRTICS C F THE JESUITS.—It appears, from
a statement lately published in the Unita attluliea,
that at the beginning of the year 1850 the Jesuit body
throughout the world was only a little in excess of
4,000. Ten years afterwards they had Increased to
nearly 7,000, and in the following decade of y ears
nearly 2,000 more were added to their number; and at
the time of the laot returns the members of the
"Society of Jesus" are given as 8,837. Out of these
there are 2551 lay coadjutors, 2 417 students, and
3,869 priests; more than 0,000 of the latter were out
if the kingdom of Italy, scattered up and down the
world, in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Ans.
trolia ; some acting as missionaries and others engaged
in the word of education, spiritual direction, and the
preaking of retreats. In England, their headquarters
are Stonyhurst Collette, near Blackburn, Lancashire,
St. Beunos College, North Wales; Beaumont Lodge;
near Windsor; the College, at Itoehatnpton ; and the
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm-street,
Berkeley-nquare.
RUSSIAN COMPLIMENTS TO PEUESIA. The
Journal de M. Pitersbourg announces that the Emperor
if Germany is appointed Commander of the 13th
Regiment of Dragoons in the Russian Army, and that
the Imp Crown I'rn3ce is appointed second in
command of the regiment of Grenadiers of St. Filters.
bonrg of King Frederic William 111.

MR. BARON MARTIN CN A Cc MPENSATION
CASE —At the South Lancashire Assizes on Saturday,
art action wee brought by Thomas Driver, a michinist,
to recover damages for the loss he had sustained through
his son beinr killed, as it was alleged, owing to the
negligence of the servants of tie Manchester, Sheffield,
and Line Anshire Railway. The deceased had to pass
a dangerous crossing on the di fondants' line, and waited
until a luggage train had gone by, but not seeing the
express coming up in a contrary direction he was
caught by it, and sustained injuries which caused his
death. Mr. Baron Martin thought no case of neg-
ligence had been made out, and that counsel had better
agree on some sum as the amount of damages. It was
agreed that his lordship should fix the sum. Where-
ups... Mr. Baron Martin said: Then I'll fix £2O. The
plaintiff will be non-suited, and Mr. Pope will Lave
leave to move that a vrdiet of £2O be entered.. There

is no evidence of negligence. A Juror: The jury are
Wrongly e ophaion that there WM negligence. Mr.
Baton Martin : And I am et mgly of opinion that there
Wai not. lam judge of that, and not you. It is for
me to say whether there is any evidence to go to jury.
1 say there is no evidence These writ,ers must be

looked at very closely. The plaintiff Wa3 accordingly
m-suitcd.

His FIRST "Go IN."--Tne Correspondait of
the Daily Tilegraph thus discourses on a print he has
seen in the B zrlin print•shop windowi :
I trufge diligently through the broad straight streets of

Berlin for a couple of hours every morning, staring in at all
tee windows, public and private, until I begin to fear lest
the proprietor should appear on the doorstep and order me
to move on ; but as yet I have seen nothing more pheno.
PIE nal than people drinking beer loci smoking pipes There
Is a picture shop in the Lsipx'ger &nate, in the window of
Which I saw a lithograph repretentlng %little urchin swigging
at a pot of beer. It la called the " Erste Seidel r—his first
"go in," so to speak, at malt. In the print the young
bacchanal Is surrounded by admiring relatives and
friends, Waif) and female, who, with intense interest
watch the process of Imbibition. Bat be!ore the win-
dow itself you may always see congrogited, in the
flesh, a group of boys and girls, bath young and grown sip,
who evidently regard the lithograph not only se a trium-
phant achievement of art, but as a delightful 111.trsti.n of
natleial manners cf the exemplary kind What would
Exeter Ball say to the " E-ato Snide: "? W told decorous
British printsellers venture to put such a wicked picture in
their whitlows by the side of the "First risrmnn," or " Baby's
Shorn" or "The Children's Teasparty "I No, no! thank
goodness we are a moral and a virtuous people, and— dear
mu, what is that terrific hubbub I heart It is only six
hundred miles away, et the street corner. It Is only a row
li. a "public." The champion btrman is turning the two
tipsy bricklayers out of the Bag o' Nails. They only had two
pots of " cooper " end a " dron of short" to finish up with,
yet they are both as drunk as Chloe, and five policemen may
find it tough work to get them to the watcht ease. flow much
better it is to be thus than as those foreigners !

EgOLISH DIiPIITATION TO THE POPN.—In accord-

slice with a resolution paved last week by the Catholic
Union to the effect " That an address to the Holy
Father be prepared, and that a deputation from the
Catholics of Great Britain be forthwith arranged to
proceed to Rome to present it," active steps are being
taken to make the deputation as influential and
numerous as possible. The Roman Catholic aristocracy
of Great Britain will be largely represented on the
deputaqon. Tire Duke of Norfolk will head th •
deputation and introduce it to His Holiness ; and
among those mentioned as likely to form part of the
body are the Marquis of Bute, the Earl of Denbigh.
the Earl of Gran red, Lord Howard of Glossop, and
Sir Georee B iwyer. Tae deputation will probably
start for Rome at the end of the ensuing week, thougn
it is not likely that the address will bo presented
until after Easter
A Irsarm MAI4I7AT.—" Mixing in Society."
What does this bock teach? How to mix salad, how
to mix punch, how to mix summer beverages, how not
to mix wines? If 90, we will buy the volume without
any needless delay, and exhaust the edition by pre-
senting copies of it to all our young friends just be.
ginning life.— Punch,
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A TaAPALGAR VETERAN.—Chrißtopher Damon,
of Shadwiek, Somereetahire, died on the 10th jest,
aged 89 years and 10 months, born at Fleet, near Wey-
mouth. He fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in the
ship Thunderer, one of Crlbngweol's line in that action.
Till within a few days of his death he possessed all his
faculties, and had thick black hair, sprinkled a little
with gray, lie has left a widow and family and an
el ter aun by a former wife. His widow has in her
piesessinn his Trafalgar medal, as also that of his late
brother Henry Damon for Navarino, and that of her
own son, Christopher DJmon, for the Baltic-1854-55,
both the latter in_eing served in the Royal Nary.
His youngest son William was born when he was 73.
PituFESSIOPAL FIOUTERS.- -The correspondent
of the Daily News Writes :

lieu don't ken') men in the field for some eight month.,
and win ever eo many battles, without making professional
fighting animals of at least smile of them. Officers for in-
stance, to whom piping times of peace bring monotony,
sluggish promotion, and the routine of garrison duty, lust
for continuous war with somebody, no matter whom. I
venture to say that if England declared war to-morrow with
any State in the known world, a. ichoul the semblance of a
provocation, the officers of the British army would hail the
annoursonent with j, y. Wherefore, when I heard to the
Officsr.Gasiuoin Gonseso only the other day a knot of young
guardsmen prsying for more fighting ; and when one lad
turned to me, and, clinking glasses, bantanantly an-
nouncsd thst the Q teen Els theth re giment would beiore
two yearn were over be hedging Windsor Castle (which
he evidently took to be cur strongest fortress). I
did not write home to you that the Osman truly
was eager for a q larrel with England ; but only asked my
young friend whether he had learned to swim. I had only
to go outside into the road, or up to the halts 1., or on to the
outposts to find out how the men of the army wore sighing
and longing for peace- They would do their duty to the
last; I nllow my fire-eating youngster to the cannon's
m inch; but they were hungry for home with an ex,eeding
great hunger, and candidly owned that they wanted DO more
war in this their generation E.r whereas young von
Fehtirklo was a proftweional soldier, they were cit-eans made
soldiers by force of circumstances and longing to return to
their ci,lzenhood. Datend upon it that so long as Germany
wishes for peace she will never be embarrassed by the
clamours of her army for war.

A JUSIPER.—It is said that a certain female
Gymnast can jump fifty feet at one spring. This seems
to he beyond the bounds of possibility.—Punch.
A CHECKERED CARREL—The Danish journals
announce the nomination of Mgr. Mourad to the
bishopric of Holland-Falster, in that country. The
career of the new nominee has been marked by singular
vicisaitudes. Bishop of the Reformed Church in 1849,
he was removed from his functions in 1854 by the
Oerstod ministry, for political reasons. After that
year he became in succession director of a school,
Minister of Public Worship, of the Interior, of
Finance, and of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister, and
tantly, farmer in New Zealand. As his colonial estab-
lishment did not prosper, he returned ts his own
country, and became a simple rural pastor, from which
station he has been again raised to the episcopate.
THE REV NEWMAN HALL ON PISLCF.—At St.
James's Hall, London, last Sunday night, a large
number of people assembled to hear a sermcn by the
Rev. Newman Hall on peace. The text selected was
"Peace to him that is afar off," and the preacher, in
spening, remarked how welcome to everybody was
the sound of peace after the weary months of continued
strife on the continent. We, who were allied to both
I the conflicting maims, felt as though relieved from an

awful burden. How contrary was the bloodshed
which had been caused to the spirit of the Gospel!
Not that Christianity had failed, but that its nominal
adherents bad returnci to heathenism. How easily
were rulers misled by ambition under the plea of
patriotism, and apt to attribute popular outcry to a
special providence! That was not the place to say
which nation Ives in fault. Let them rather leek at
the peace now concluded as a small modicum of good
tolie obtained in return for no much evil. Germany
had become a united country, France had got rid of a
Government which was opposed to true liberty, and
the temporal power of the Pope had been overthrown.
It was now for us to set the example of a general
disarmament in Europe. With our exceptional safe
position, we could well do this, and thus a sure guar-
antee for a contisual peace would be obtained.

TEM JIYKY SYSTSII.—It may be recollected that
at the Chelmsferd Aii,izes a few days ago a juiwinan
failed to make his appearance on the reassembling of
the Court after luncheon, the consequi me being that
a fresh juryman had to be sworn, and the whole of the
evidence that had been taken in the wise, which was
one of child murder, gone over again. When he came
into court, a considerable time afterwards, he was
severely rsprimandel, and fined £lO. At the clo ee of
the &seizes an application was made to the Lord Chief
Justice to remit the fine, the juryman staling that he
was deaf, and did not understand what wee required
of him, and that he was unaware at the time that he
was doing wrong, lie also said he was 85 years of age.
The Lord Chief Justice expressed Ilia surprise at.ruch
a person being upon the list of jurors, both on account
of his age and infirmity, Under the circumstances he
remitted the fine, and advised the juryman to make
application to the proper quarter to have his name re.
moved from the jury list. _ _

(JoNriteelOs 'OIP-. A MURDER.—EarIy on Sunday
morning Charles Wooley, a painter, about 19 years of
age, whn gave an address at 24, Banelsgh-gueve,
Pinalico,.gave himself up to the police, and confessed
to being Vie rouiderer of Samuel Lee, the potmem at
the Drayton Arms, West Brontipton, whose body was
found at No. 3, Gledham.gardens, Smth Kensinzton
on the 16th August last, under circumstances which
at the time created a great sensation in the neighbour-
hood. It seems that the prisoner gave himself up to
Police-constable Austin, who took him to the police.
station in Lambeth, where he made a statement to the
effect that he killed the man with a hammer, and took
about £.4 from his pockets; that it was not his intem
thin at first to murder him, but that they quarrelled,
and then the feeling came over him to kill him. He
first struck him on the back of the bead, and eeveral
times while he was lying insensible, and caused his
brains to splash upon the walL One part of his state-
ment referred to throwing the hammer into the fire-
place, but that does not agree with the facts which
were elicited at the time of the inquiry, m the instru-
ment with which the murder was committed was not
found. At the time Wooley gave himself up he seemed
to be glide destitute, as no money was found upon
him. Two dire, a braes chain, and a pocket book rim.
pried the property found upon him. By a simmlar
c,ineidence Colonel Henderson, the chief commissi iner
of poice, has taken up his residence next door to the
house where the murder was committed.

A PRECIOUS FREIGHT.—The steamer Wiscon-
sin, Captain Williama which arrived in the Mersey
from New York on Sunday, had on board not less than
65 tons 5c wt. of silver coins, principally Mexican
dollars, a large portion of which are intended for this
countfy, and the remainder for the C, ntinent. The
specie was removed to the London and NortlpW(st on
Railway station, and on Monday morning it was des.
patched in 14 closed railway•wasgons to London for
distribution at the Bank of England among the con-
signers, some of whom reside in Liverpool.

A CUT TOE CONNECTICIIT.—From the will of
Lewis Morris, recorded in the surrogate's office of the
city of New York, November 19th, 1760, is the fol'ow-
ing "Itis my woh that my son, Gouverneur, ,hall
have the best education that can ba furnished him in
England or America; but my express will and dime-
Cons are, that under no circumstances shall he be sent
to the colony of Connecticut for that purpose, lest im
his youth he should imbibe that low craft and cunning
so incident to the people of the country, and which are
so interwoven us their constitution that they cannot
cone ,a 1 it fro.o the world, though many of them, under
the eanctified garb of religion, have attempted to im-
pose themselves upon the world as honest men."

GERMAN RESIDENTS IN PARIS.—The bitter f.i.el-
ing which prevails at preset in Paris against all per.
sons of or snppoied to be of German nationalitN.is
evidencid by some cicumstances reported in the
Gaulo4 of Wednesday. That paper says

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" Germans will not very soon return to their Parisian
habbitions. Woe to those who ttempt to re open their
shops to make money of us, and to apy upon us while our
weapons are still reeking. One ouch person, who kept
the ca'e de l'Etolle du Nord on the Boulevard Dmain,
disappeared at the outbreak of the war. Yesterday morning
the shuttars were optmed and the troorietor took his place
as in the old times. But he had adopted the precaution of
hoitting over his door the American eagle. Ha was lame-
diately reergnised by sonic Mobiles who took him before a
Commissary of Police, to whom he declared that he was •
foreign suhlect, having lived in America for many years. In
the meantime an exasperated crowd had forced ids doors,
breken his mirrors, drawn elf all his Bailors, and, Hinny,
withdrew, leaving an inacription chalked upon the door,
'A Procaine who dared to return atter the conclusion of
peace.' In the evening sentries were poated to prevent any-
thing being removed.' Another it citient is reported of a
welt-d retied person who called at the Grand Hotel du Louvre
to ask for some cigars that he had left there before the Wee.
These were returned to him, but the porter following him
Into the Street called ths attention of a poet of National
Guard!. to the visitor. lie was at once arrested, his aintear-
ance being regarded as auspicious, and upon examination it
turned out that he was a Prussian by birth. " But," ea) a the
Gaulois, "the strangest part of the affair I. that this poeson
has never quittet Paris at all during the siege, and that be
actually was conk to one of our generals commandlog •
division of the Army of the seine."

THE LIQUOR TRADES.—A report by Profe-sor
Leone L-vi to Mr. Bass, M.P., on the capital in-
yeated and the number of persans employed in the
liquor trades, discloses some very imp odant facts.
Toe general result of the inquiry is that the. int, rest
at stake is £117,100,00), and the number of pereons
employed in and d pending thereon 1,500,000. 'he
total revenue for the yearended list March, 1870, was
£73,503,718, of which the liquor trade contribute 34
pr cent., or £24,820,623. Comp wed with onrr
great industries, such as the cotton, woollen, and iron
manufactures, the employment afforded by the liqxor
trades is enormous, and is widely dispersed, en as to
include as much agricultural as manufacturing labour,
the number of the employed being, in either branch,
72,000. These figures are exclusive of the number of
hands engaged in the work of distribution.
THE LEGEND OF MONTROSE REALIZr.D.—The
Elintairgh Courant reports that two prisontri marl a
most (lasing and successful effort to escape from HA.
dington C)unty Gaol on Sunday. The governor, in
the absence of the warder at church, having for some
purpose entered their cell, was instantly seized by
them, deprived of his keys, and 'waked up In their
room. Thay walked coolly through the governor's
house, scaled the prison walls by means of a short
ladder left in the yard, and got off.
A GREAT TRAVELLER.—Dr. Watts was tvi-
dently in the habit of making pedestrian excursions on
the Continent, for in one of his noisiest, hues, he ex-
pressly says—

Whene'er I take my walks Abroad'

—Punch.

THE Mem( OF PARIS. The Ifeileit-a-r-
General in his weekly statement resumes, through the
favour of Dr. Jules Worms, the " lusi.ector of tne
Medical S-irvice,' his returns showing the state of
health in Paris. The death-rate in that city, loitiv rto
so high amorg the civil p uoulation, is hati,ily
declining -, it is still at the annual rate of OS per 1,000.
Very difficult it is in London to imagine bow notch
suffering these stern figures exprea. No city in
Europe has experienced anything like the mortality of
the besieged capital of France during the present
century; yet Paris is naturally a healthy place, nod
will it may be hoped soon recover its serenity and
salubrity, now the storm of war is over. Of the total
(2,993) deaths in Paris during the week ending Friday.
March 10th, 360 were in the army. Small-pox is
subsiding (Kt) ; bronchitis (39), pneumonia (247),
diarrbsea (142), dysentery (50), and enteric fever (258),
are the prevailing mats lies. _ _

P1:1311C FEECI SG IN Atesez.— The De'brds pub-
:hams from a private letter some details respecting the
funeral of M. Kum, who was Moire of S rraeburg during
the siege, and who died suddenly at Bordeaux imme-
diately after the annouucement of the terms of pence.
When the body arrived at the Strasburg railway station
it was received by nearly the entire population all
wearing re me token of mourning. On the day of he
interment an immense body of people acrximpanieo the
bier, and all the scope, breweries, and caf6l ss. re
closed. The Prussian authorities wished to sem: an
escort to pay military honours to the deceived, but the
offer was declined. They, however, insisted that he
funeral service and the hymns should be said and I ung
in the German language. The choral societies firmly
refused to obey this command, which, after much .en-
tention, was ultimately a'tandoned, and the service MIS
performed, not in the Temple Neuf, the walls of wt,leh
were too much damaged be the bombardment, bu in
the Church of St. Thomas,

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A STAr TIAN G DISCOVISEY.—The Ecclesiastical
Ga:ctte say° :
It has been stated that the go-caned " Irish Church Bill"
of the Bawl., 180 never received the Royal Aslant, in at-
horde:ice with the immemorial custom and °staunched prac-
tice of the Home of Lords— which requires that the Lords
Spiritual and Temp mai be actually seated In their places in
the Chamber of Peers whilst such assent, wh.ther personal or
by commission, is given to any public bill; ant that an emoty
Hanle on the 26ch of Jaly,l.Et9, vitiated the whole procedure.

LOAN SOCIETII S —The annual return 'elating
to loan societies in England and Wales gives an ab-
stract of the accounts of 610 of these societies for the
year 1869. At the end of that year they had 41,650
members, and the sum in borrowers' h aids emanated
to £117,435. The number of borrowers to whop' loans
were granted in 1869 were 139,673. The amount paid
for forms of application and inquiry in that year was
£9,332, and for interest, £32,904. The expenses of
management in the year were 218,076 • and the net
profits alter payiog those expenses, £21;153. 11 198
summonses were ieeditd in 1869. and 2,162 distress ',as-
sents ; the amount recovered by proceedings was
£18,345 ; the costs incurred by the societies in proceed-
ings, 22,825 • the costs paid by borrowers or their
sureties, £2 218.
"THIS JOINT HIGH COMMISSION." —A Us, ful
body would be the "High Joint Commission," sid me
duty it should be to visit cheap eating-houses due ng
the sea-on, and if Joints were High, to conch am
them.—Punch.

8°,7E5E1055 AND Ex.SIVEREIGNS. —The Tii.iGB
very truly remarks, in a leading article, that it is fr rn
France, above all countries, that the light of
Sovereigns has been most abundant. Just ; ~nd
now we expect to have one Nap deon ad led to all
those Sovereigns. Let us hope that the loan requ ed
by France for the indemnity she has to pay wil n .t,
on the reverse, draw too many sovereigns out of Eng-
land.—Punch.

UNMANLY MANNEREL—A correspondent of the
Post writee On Sunday, the sth inst., I travelled
from Boulogne to Paris—the train was a long one and
scarcely a seat vacant. On our arrival at Amiens a
party of eight Prussian officers in uniform wanted a
eompartment. Seeing a carriage in which was a
little boy and two ladies, one of the officers insisted on
their getting out. The lady naturally protested, and
then our Pro.edau hero stamped his foot, Uke a spoiled

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child, spluttered and foamiest till he was red in the
face, and actually dragged the lady out of the cem.
partment in the most brutal manner, to the disgust of
the byetanders, many of whom would speedily have
lynched him had there not been above 100 armed men
his heck 11m companions got into the train, and,
to their shame be it spoken, not one of them had the
manliness& to romowtrate with their angry companion
—nor did they even tavolac ashamed of his behavonr—
although they could not hip seeing Low disgusted all
in the train were; so, I suppose, thte is their ordinary
way of behaving when they travel."
A. CIIRIOU6 SdiliCeß ACCIDF!.T.—A. tragical
mistake was committed by a Yana& ma shikary by pro-
fession, about the latter part of December last, in the
district of Nell ire (says the Itairas Mail). It would
aopear that this main while out deer-shooting one
evening, wounded an antelope in a field in the village
of Chionatilay. ehalu, aud returning to the spot on
the following day in owl,r to track the animal, and
descrying some objet in the centre of the field which
! he thought wax the antelope he was in search of, he
tired. The al-et fi,ed at unfortunately turned out to
I be a man roiled op iu a Hanka who was watching the
I field, aud who suialegnently died from the effects of the
wound. The shikary was Apprehended, tried by the
' seeeiote judge, and sentenced to undergo one hour's
simple imprisonment, the judge being of opin:on that
j. the accident won not due to any negligence on the part
of the prisoner.

lw ;-Hic &mums.-- It was the remark of a keen
observer, who knew London thoroughly well, that in
all his long experience he had never seen one of his
fellow-men bareheaded in Hattomgawien.—Punch.
ROYALTY IN RISI:LIN.—The Royal Family are
in Berlin, but make no show (writes the correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph). The Empress-Queen goes
almost daily to visit the sick and wounded in the
hoskitals, and the Crown PrinC.FB and her children may
occasionally he seen driving in the Linden. But
Royalty here—tremendously wide and deep as is the
gulf between it and the middle and lower classes—lives
a most simple, undemonstrative, patriarchal kind of
life. A couple of outriders in very plain liveries, a
quiet coug or barauche, wish a brace of servants in the
rumble—that is all. Royalty passes more unostenta-
tiously than the Minister-President from the smallest
South American Republic. When Emperor William
is here he drives atxest in s little ,ne.horse chaiss
which a water-rate collector in C innberwell might
deem beneath his dignity. Royalty cone in and comes
out by the back-door of its palaces—wh:ch are, in-
deed, but big three-storied houses on the Linden, cer-
tainly not so pnlatiel in outward guise as our clubs in
limo-in- a cry wide street, and her
Majeety living It number four. the Prince of Wales
at Lumber six the Princess of Tack at number eight;
with the Princess Christian round the corner, the
British Moseun ,the Natirnal Gallery, and the Argyll
Rooms over the way, and the Opera House within a
store's-cast. 11 hat, throwing in the Zeughaus, or
Arsenal. a big gaard-home, and Blucher's monument,
is the "Court end" of Berlin. Rayalty goes out shop-
ping, or to the play, or for a drive, or to prayers at the
Dim Kirche, and nobody takes mush notice. Why
shroud they' Has a Prince of the Blood three heads
or five legs, like the calf at the fair, that we should
mob and rttle Lim as we do in England?
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AN " Ef.ABl IC BlND."—__lo amigo le 111
the Divorc. Court).—Pu,ch.

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FOUR HUNDRED MEN &RIOT ALIVE.—A LEE
rible narrative is given in the Intent Burmah papers.
The ship etiouvelle Penelope lately left Macao with a
large cargo of coolies. Son after leaving port the
coolies mutinied, murdered the captain, offigers, and
crew, ran the vessel ashore, made their way back to
Macao, and there re.engaged on board other vowels.
One of these we the flamingo, which soon sailed with
550 coolies on board. When five days ont, these
attempted to mutiny and murder the officers, but after
a erce fight the vidains were driven back to the fore-
castle, where they deliberately ret fire to the ship.
The captain and Akers niamaged to get out the boats
and left the burning vessel. Meanwhile the British
ship Jounpore came in sight, and took off about a
hundred coolies, but to have caved more would have
imperilled their own safety, no some four hundred were
left behind to their terriide fate.

1.116 GOVERNMENT LICEN9ING BILL.—A COL-
respondent of the Manchtstrr G ardian says that the
L'censing Bill is in print, and has been seen by severs'
persons whom it has been thought by Government de.
sirable to consult. It is based on the principle of com-
promise between the opposing parties. Existing public-
bowel having licenses are to remain as now, but no
new houses are to be licensed in places where a given
proportion of the ratepayers shag record their votes in
the negative. Teem e is a cliuse preventing public.
houses being need as committee-rooms during elections;
and an attempt will be made to have them closed alto.
gether dosing the day of poll. Eleven o'clock p.m. is
to be fixed as the latest hour at which any house for
the sale of liquor ehall be allowed to remain open.
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THE Ctosasx SruDY.—Any Study where the
windows haven't been opened for the last Six
Month.—Purch. _

SUICIDE OF AN INDIAN JUDGE AND MB WIFE.
—The Bont,,ay Gazette records the following

Mr, Morrba Camha, lately a edge of the Small Cause
Court, and .111 yesterday (Feh 17) acting as a pleader, whose
eccentricities frequently brought hlm promlnently before the
pub lc, cornmitted suicide last nlght by jumping into a well
o the compound of his bungalow In Gowl.s Tank-road The
young whiow whom he marled scareely a year ago also
sacrill.led her li.e along with Rim. Max badies were dis-
cover, din t.,,e well clinging together. It la well known that
,dr. MoYoba was lately In pecuniary difti,:elties, and it is sup-
posed that It was this which induced him to make away with
himself_

WORKMEN AT THE BRITISH MUSEI7M.—A
large party of workmen visited the Greek and 11 mum
antiquities at the British Museum last S sturday,
under the guidance of the distinguished keeper of the
department, Mr. C. Newton. On the two preceeding
evening.) he had kindly introduced the subject to the
visitors by describing the history and principles of
Greek and il m in art in its reletion to the character
01 the people, their custom., literature, and religion.
The lectures were listened to with the gre sleet in-
terest, and at the conclasion a prize for the beet notes
on the he :tures woe offered by the Working Men's
Club and Institute Union, undi r whom auspices the
lectur.s were delivered. That society had arranged
for simila• visits on Saturday afternoons, with the
view of providing a popular expesition of the cintente
of the national museures, and of making them an
instrument for the diffusion of scientific and artistic
knowlt dge.
FATAL ACCIDEI,T AT SEA.—lntelligence but
reached Glasgow of the arrival at New York on Mon-
day of the Anchor line steamer Enrepl, which left the
Clyde on the Tith ult. 0 r the 4th met. the ship was
boarded by a heavy sea, which carried awe., the bridge
and swept oveiboard Captain Macdonald, Chief Officer
Davies, and Third Offieer Wallace, all of whom
periehed. Captain Macileuald and Davies were each
aged aunt thirty ye:ad, and belong,- ~ the firmer to
, Greenock and the latter to Perth. It will perhaps be
' remembered that Davies, then a second officer, com-
manded one of the lifeboate which left the Hibernia
when that steamer fourelered in the Atlantic in
November 1868. He had two about thirty persons
under his care, but after driving ten days on a stormy
, sea the boat capsized and only he and two other sea-
men were saved by clinging to the keel. These three
, landed on the Donegal coast, after having been thirteen
daye in the lifeboat, a great p.-rt of the time witMtit
' food or water, and aluiost instantly engaged in keep-
ing order amcmg those whose midi-rings had driven
thtm

Waler 3 WORK.—A correepondtut who has been
to St. Cloud, writes :

Word. cannot give the slightest Idea of the destruction of
the place The palace, the barracks, and the larger building
In the Rue 401. tus, where the servants of the palace need
to be quartered, have only the walls lel; standing, lint the
town itself is utterly smashed. The church and five private
houses are alone left stsndiug, but all the rest are levelled
. . . . .

wlth the ground, and the hrU..lde is so covered with the
helps of run'Ashilrit it is diffi mit to trace the sites el some
of the streets. Here and there • blackened wall remains
standing by a miracie of equilibrium; here and there a inert
telplece or a chest of drawers, perched up on the fragment
of what IVO once the floor of a bed-room, gives evidence
that the place was recently Inhabited, and enhances the
picturesque desolation of the scene. The natives, 900 of
whom have returred to the ruins of their homes. will not
believe that all thla damage hag been rinsed by French
shells from Mont Valerie/I, and are thoroughly convinced
that the Frnesians etrewed petroleum about every house
and then set it on fire. On the fragment of one blackened
wall I saw chalked up. Voter oui, e'etaft la pox *don ie
moire, a poigne regardez l'ouvragt !" Not for from this Pl-
natured reference to the plebiscite of thy Iset was written
up, "Francais, convenes vans—Vengeance 1" The square
before the hedge Is entirely deitroyed ; Dirre are four walls
par ly standing, hot, ace town St. Cloud lite ceased to erist.
yhn ruins egee cc Icae.l elur holiday seek.: in their Sunday
attire, and inns. 'ad vaidors of exocrahlv rear were driving
a roaring traie. Uoilk, that bird '.l 111 ~:uen celebrated in
sour, to be met inchisiv amine thins ts eertabily not the
characteristic et the Frenesi. They went to Sr. Cloud just
as they ',oil go to see any other show, and appeared far
ism impressed at the eight than I 'hood have given them
credit for. Indeed I feel X,12131,40.t et. uste I at finding
that the chief ground of Menelaint was the destruction of
the fete noire, and the consequent inipossi' lily of obtaining
anything to eat.
A Do v KILLED BY A ST.:ger.— An inquest has
been held in London on James Rook, aged nine years.
Deceased was playing with some other boys at leg.
top, when a boy named Niel, about the same age,
pawed up the mews, and amused himself by kicking
about the other boys' tope. Niel, after going some
distance up the mew,', Pcked up a atone and threw it
amongst the boys. 'the stone struck the deceased in
the forehead, and he fell against the wall insensible.
He was taken to a cdctor, end afterwards to St.
Mary's' Hospital, where he died from leckejaw pro-
duced by the wound in the forehead. Neil, who was
before the court, and appeared quite unconcerned,
although only nine years of ego, has been three times
in prior-n—once for three months god eight strekes
with a tered-rod, for stealing a watch; and on another
occasion for stealing 3.. 91. in money. He is stated to
be too young for a reformatory, but was described as
an exceedingly wild and bad boy. A verdict of Death
from Mieadvent are was ultimately n turned.
THE GC•ELIAPIS OF ORDLE IN PARIS.—It is
stated in tie G,telte ties Yeibmiaer that for several
days past the j -welters' stops in the vicinity of the
Palate R-iyal have ben i vielted by soldiers and
National Guaeds offering ,4 r sal- at AT. y price all aorta
I of jewelry, comprising rin.p., watChes, chains brooches,
and even brscelete. Many of the jewellers, believing
that the articles were disposed of by their owners out
, of cheer necessity, untied,- purchased them in
the usual neenner. One shopkei-per,_a watchmaker in
the Rne St. Berme, hm,ver, on Tleireilay evening
had offered to eini by a g -Idler a watch which he
recognised as havieg been offered him •in the previous
evening, wcen he declined to pit' these. it. He
questioned the soldier as to the ownership of the
article, and he not beteg inclined to answer the
questione, mutt red semertiing and went away. The
tashiedpeft,ellest,,
Ousry t
atlio.,nl€.7.adsunbrerpowleret!Tidhl leave
thea
ee
fhteurlsdhowopft
the case, and he then found that similar reports had
been made already. The Gazette believes that the ohs
Pets preeented for sale are either the result of
robberies from exposed dwellings during the bombard•
merit, or of the pillage of tarpreetected houses outside
the city during the siege. It may also be, it stated
that the soldiers are Merely acting aS the intermediaries
of receivers of stolen goods, who find themselves in a
difficulty to get rid of them, and have adopted this
method. The authorities are instituting strict search
with a view of finding out the WWI this strange bust.
nem