The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-05 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

history given in the Book of Genesis from the time of
Abraham from the original documents, and it was not
too much to expect that almost the same-facts and the
same descriptions would be found in the Babylonian
documents as in the Bible. He hoped very shortly to
have ready a paper on the Garden of Eden in which
he should show that that was the natural' name of
Babylon. The rivers bore the very same names, and
it would be seen that the Babylonian documents gave
an exact geographical account of the Garden of Eden.
He was, of course, speaking merely of the geography,
and not of the facto connected with it. The same
remarks would apply to the accounts of the Flood and
of the building of the Tower of Babel, which it would
be found were most amply illustrated in the Babylonian
documents.

dog. It appears that a dog followed Mr. Wheeler,
who was on horseback, to Camberwell station, and, as
Mr. Wheeler says, frightened his horse. He asked a
person who stood by what he should do wtih it. The
person interrogated replied that the animal WAS not his
and Mr. Wheeler might do what he liked with t at his
periL Mr. Wheeler then took it up and dashed its
braius out against a wall Notice of appeal against
the magistrate's decision was given, and Mr. Wheeler
was, in the meantime, admitted to ball, himself in
£3OO and two sureties in £l3O each.
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WHAT WILL THE LORDS Do ?—Reverting to
the question, What will the Lords do? The Times re-
marks that they may, and perhaps must, protest
against the Irish Church Bill; but the responsibility
of passing it rests, not on them, but on the nation, and,
throwing it on the nation they must allow the bill to
pass. Their dignity and their honour require a frank
recognition of the situation. The leaders of the Oppo-
sition in the House of Lords will choose the best course
for themselves, their party, and the country if, after
doing what they can so well do, delivering themselves
in eloquent language upon the great issue before them,
they retire from further contest, and suffer the Mini-
sterial measure to become law almost exactly in the
shape in which it reaches them.
A HORRID OLD PlO.-0/(/ Bristles (inspecting
through cue-olass Portrait of a Young Bride at the
Royal Aceuiemy Exhibition.) Lovely Being! Nice
picture! Suppose it cost a good deal of money.
Hrumnk ! Wonder how much anybody would give
for the likeness if he thought it would fade as soon as
the original ?—Punch.
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A CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—A fearful
calamity occurred on the sth of May at Ojo Caliente,
Mexico, by which many lives were lost. An immense
body of fire descended upon the church at a time when
a large number of worshippers were in the building.
A loud report resew iing the explosion of a powder
magazine followed, and the roof of the church was
forced in, burying beneath its ruins a large number of
victims. The last accounts state that forty bodies and
eighteen injured persons had been dug out, hut the
total number of sufferers had not been ascertained.
The misfortune was caused by electrmatmospheric dis-
turbance. Many of the telegraphic instruments were
destroyed in an instant.

SUICIDE OF A FAMILY.—. The shop of an um-
brella maker, named Antignac, at Beauvais, France,
was noticed a few mornings back to be unopened. As
on knocking no reply could be obtained the door was
broken open, and the family were found dead, Huff°.
cated by the fumes of charcoal. The husband was sit-
ting on a sofa, his wife by his side reclining her head
on his shoulder, and their daughter, a widow, aged 30,
lying on the bed. The cause of this triple suicide
appears to be connected with the following circum-
stance :

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN.-011 Saturday
an inquest was held at Kenilworth on the body of
Emma Varnam, 19 years of age. The deceased was a
servant at the Globe Inn, and had conducted herself
well, but had, unfortunately, formed an acquaintance
with a man of dissipated habits, and this connection is
supposed to have led to the unhappy result. It ap-
pears that on Thursday evening she was missed, and,
suspicion being excited, her friends dragged the river,
and after several hours search found the body about
50 yards from the bridge on the Leek Wootton side.
Her pocket, which was sewed up, contained a letter,
addressed to her mother, written in affectionate terms,
and stating that "'liar," the name of her lover, was
the cause of the act. She informed her mother in the
letter that she meant to drown herself, which she
feared would cause her parants much grief. The jury
returned a verdict in accordance with the circum-
stances.

Six months ago a railway-guard entered the shop to make
a purchase, and dropped there two coupons of 251. each. A
fortnight back Mme. Antignac presented these two securities
at their bank, but payment was refused, as notice of the loss
had been given. Alt immediate inquiry ensued, and Antignac,
who is considered to be worth 200,04 M., paid the 50f., but as
the public prosecutor had intervened, the case was about to
be carried before the Correctional Tribunal. The affair '
seemed to have preyed upon the mind of the deceased and the
other members of the family, and in order to avoid the scan-
dal of a trial the committed suicide.
THE WHIPPING POST IN AMERICA.—An Ameri-
can paper says the new whipping Tiost and pillory,
recently erected in the jail-yard at Newcastle, Dela-
ware, to take the place of the ancient and dilapidated
one, was inaugurated on Saturday by the pilloring of
three men convicted of petty offences, and the Hogging
of ten convicted of like misdemeanors. A crowd of
gaping men, women, and children, witnessed the dis-
gusting spectacle. The heaviest whipping was received
by a coloured man, whose offence was assaulting a
white girl. He got :10 lashes on the bare back. Two
other coloured men for petty larceny received 20
, lashes each.
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THE PRIVATE BILLS OF THE SESSION.—At
the commencement of the Session petitions were pre-
sented for 212 privateßills ; of which 26 were dropped
before the time came for a first reading, 10 were with-
drawn or rejected on the second reading, and 12 more
on or before, the third reading. Seventy-three private
Bills have been read a third time in the House of
Commons, and 82 wait third reading, which have
passed through the Common's Committees. In ad-
dition to these, the Lower House has to dispose of the
Bills the prweediugs in which have been commenced
in the House of Lords, and which shall pass through
the committees and third reading in the Upper House.
The Commons' Committees have now got through all
the Bills except one, the Neath and Brecon Railway
Bill, which were assigned to the Commons' House to
commence proceedings with. The Lords' Committees
have still to deal with 11 of their own Bills, and all
the Bills that have passed, or shall pass, third reading
in the House of Commons. Eighteen of the private
Bills of the Session have received the Royal Assent.

WILD SPORT AT WORMHOLT-SCRLIBBS.—Is there
any sport corresponding to tame pigeon shooting?
Yes; and the Gun Club might as well, now and then,
SA a substitute for deer-stalking, diversify their accus-
tomed sport with sheep-shooting.—Punch.

ISSIJE OF THE NOMENCLATURE OF DISEASES
Within the next few days, the authorities at ifer
Majesty's Stationery Office will commence to issue,
free of charge, a copy of the College of Physicians'
Nomenclature of Diseases to every registered practi-
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tioner in the kingdom whose addr,ess appears in the
"Medical Directory." They will be despatched by
post, at the rate of 1,000 copies a day, first to the
metropolis, and afterwards to e provinces of Nngland
and Wales, then to Scotland, and lastly to Ireland.
The government copy is somewhat smaller in size than
that issued by the College of Physicians, and is lightly
bound, but in every other respect the same as the

HIPPOLOGICAL REA SONING. —Why is horse-
racing a necessity? Because it is a matter of Course.
—Punch.

A SitanT DIFFERENCe.—The Earl of Harrowby
writes to The Times.—

My attention has been called to the fact that in a
report of a speech of mine at Birmingham last week, which
appeared ill your paper, I appear to have charged the Secre-
tary of State with havieg prigged "an old Act of Parlia-
ment. Will you allow me nom to disclaim such an imputa-
tion, which would have been fitter for a police report than for
such an occasion ? My expression, easily mistaken, was
this, " The Secretary of State ' digs up ' an old Act of
Parliament." This is not quite so bad, either on his part
or mine.

original.
THE LAST Rio, &c.— The provision of the
Budget abolishing the last remaining shilling duty on
foreign corn, and which took effect from Monday,
sweeps away a relic which has existed as a reminder of
the great struggle between Free Trade and Protection
a quarter of a century ago. The Act retaining the one
shilling duty has been in operation rather over 20
years. From the passing of the Corn Importation Bill
of Sir R. Peel in 1846, abolishing the sliding scale which
bad kept up the price of wheat to over 70s. a quarter,
it was enacted that a greatly reduced duty should be
levied until February 1, 1849, when a uniform rate of
one shilling should be imposed upon the importation of
all kinds of grain. This enactment is now repealed.
NOVEL APPLICATION FOR DAMAGES.—A Shrews-
bury paper says
Not a hundred miles from Llandyssil, Cardiganshire, a
young man, disappomted ins love aff Air, sent a bill contain-
ing following items to his "deceitful love" after she had
been wedded to another :—Ll—' Nov. 4, 1005.—Mrs.
late Miss—, to Mr. —. To 53 glasses of wine at different
fairs and markets, tas. 34. ; to 1 pair of shoes, and heeling
another pair that I wore out in going and coming from
4s. 61.; for Dr's bill for curing a cough, caught by waiting
under your window on a wet night, £995. 94. ; to postage,
Ac. is lid.; to deceiving me and throwing me out of a
partner for life, £lOO ; to enticing use to come to-- 09
times, at is. 6d. each time, £42; to 12 days lost in your corn.
pony, £4 7s. 6d.—£128 145. 94.
FIRE INSURANCES .--The farming stock in the
year 1867 in the United Kingdom was insured against
fire to the amount of £79,043,401; in the year 1868 to
the amount of £83,768,784. There was, and is, no duty

INCOMES IN THE U.NITED STATES.—Apropos of
wealthy people, lists of the incomes returned under the
International Revenue Law, for the City of New
i York, have just been printed n the daily journals, and
everybody may see to a fraction what his neighbour is
worth, (writes a correspondent). Mr. A. T. Stewart
distances all the rest, his income for 1868 having been
more than three millions of dollars, or, making allow-
ance for a depreciated currency, about £300,000. Next
to him longs intermit°, comes Mr. W. B. Astor, who
returns a little over one million of dollars. This is a
.surprising result, as it is beyond all question that W.
B. Astor is richer than Stewart, but the explanation
may probably be found in the fact that much of Astor's
wealth is less productive than Stewart's, and much
more not subject to the ircome tax. Delmonico, the
elder, of restaurant fame, is set down for 126,000 dole.,
against August Belmont's ninety odd thousand. James
Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, enjoyed an
income for 1868 of 186,500 dole. and James Gordon
Bennett, jun., owner of the yacht Henrietta, of 45,000
dole., which is barely more than enough to keep that
pleasure craft afloat. Robert Bonner, well known as
the proprietor of the New York Ledger, and owner of
the famous trotting horse Dexter, figures at 183,841
dole., while Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, paid a
tax on the very modest little income of 31,520 dole.
about £4.500. . . .

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or tax on these insurances. Other property as hitherto
been liable to duty on insurance against tire, but in
1865 the duty was reduced from 3s. to 7s. Gd. per £lOO
insured. The amount insured was at that time in-
creasing by about 40 millions sterling a year; in the
year ending the 31st of March, 1866, it increased to
£1,259,893,000, and the next year it was £1,133,484,000,
an increase of 73 millions, or nearly 6 per cent. But
this rate of increase did not continue ; in the year
ending the 31st of March, 1868, the increase was but
about 43 millions, or very little more than had become
usual under the higher duty. The Inland Revenue
Board stated in their last report that, so far as they
could then judge, there would not be a larger amount
insured in the year ending the 31st March, 1869, which
by the present Budget, will be the last complete year
of fire insurance duty.

A GOOD RIDDANCE.—There was joyful news in
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the papers last week for wearied and disgusted readers.
One line brought them great relief, after months of
bribery corruption, intimidation, guzzling, treating,
tippling, fencing, and various other old English sports
and pastimes. It was simply thus—" The Last of the
Election Petitions." Blackburn, Willes, and Martin,
who ought to be the best judges of their own feelings,
are understood to share in the general joy at this most
welcome announcement—Punch.

A USEFUL MAN GONE.—Mr. James Hall, the
senior partner of the famous firm of Hall and Sons,
shipbuilders, Aberdeen died suddenly on Saturday
morning while aiding at the extinction of a fire in a
neighbour's wood-yard. The deceased gentleman was
the author of the now celebrated " clipper " model for
ships, and his firm have long held a proud supremacy
for the beauty of build and sailing powers of their
vessels. Orders came to the firm from the most distant
parts of the globe, and it has been said there is not a
port in the civilised world where "Halls clippers" are
not known. By this death Aberdeen loses one of the
worthiest and most eminent of her sons, while in the
wide circle of British commerce Mr. Hall was esteemed
. .

A VESSEL CAPSIZED, WITH ALL HANDS.—News
was brought by the steamship George Pyman, Captain
Hanby, to West Hartlepool, on Saturday morning, of
the total loss of a large North German brig and all
hands, about 125 miles from the Scotch coast. It ap-
pears that on Thursday afternoon last, a heavy gale of
wind from the N.N.E. blowing at the time, the George
Pyman, when off Buchanness, bearing W.P., seeing a
brig with Prussian colours flying lying over on her
beam-ends to leeward, at once bore down to her
assistance, and on nearing her the lifeboat, manned by
John Pinner, chief mate, and four others, was launched
at great peril. When almost close to her she heeled
over and sunk, her entire crew, which were plainly
seen on deck, going with her, except one man who
kept himself afloat by an oar, and a life-buoy being
thrown him he essayed to grasp it, but failing to do so,
he went down instantly. The lifeboat still stood by
for at least an hour, when she was taken on board the
steamer, much damaged in the process; and finding it
useless to remain longer, the steamer bore away at six
o'clock. The ill-fated ship had a white hull and
figure.head, and on her head-boards was the word
" Ostreus," as nearly as the mate could make it out
from his boat. The gallant efforts of the crew of the
George Pyman to render assistance, although unavailing,
is in the highest degree praiseworthy. A large dog
belonging to the brig was saved.
DISASTROUS FALL.— On Friday last ft fatal
accident occurred at the Cart Forge, near Glasgow,
while an old chimney stalk was in process of demoli-
tion. The stalk had long been regarded as so dan-
gerous that bricklayers refused to undertake the
hazardous task of pulling it down. The son of the
proprietor, Mr. Minhard, a young man about twenty-
four years of age, assisted by one of the workmen,
attempted the task on Friday. They had succeeded
in taking down about a dozen feet from the top of the
stalk, when the whole erection gave way near the
ground, falling right outwards, and carrying the two
unfortunate men along with it. Mr. Minhead was
frightfully hurt and died shortly after. His companion
yet lies in a precarious state.
POPULAR PROTESTANT SONG.—" Charley is my
darling.—Punch.
A DREADFUL DEATH.—A most extraordinary
accident is reported by the Dundee Advertiaer. A
chimney-sweeper in that town, named Mitchell, was on
the roof of a house, one of the chimneys of which be,
with his brother, who was inside the house, was to
cleanse. It seems that there was a communication
between the chimney to be swept, and another in the
fireplace of which there was a fire burning, and while
Mitchell wee at the top a flame burst forth and set his
clothes on fire. The ladder by which he had ascended
having been removed, no one for some time could get
to his assistance; he could not put out the fire himself,
and before help could be rendered lie was so frightfully
burnt that he died a short time afterwards.
THE FOREIGN WHEAT AND FLOUR TRADE.—
The appearance of the growing crops. in France con.
timing favourable on the whole, but in some localities
there begin to be complaints about too much rain.
The French wheat markets have been well supplied,
but in consequence of the heavy rains the feeling as to
the apploaching French harvest is less sanguine, and
on most of the markets quotations have risen. With
a return of fine weather the firmer tone displayed
would probably soon be lost. The Belgian markets,
influenced by those of France, have also displayed
somewhat more firmness, but quotations have not varied
in Germany or in the Danubian Principalities, from
which quarters the most re-assuring advices have come
to hand with reference to the state of the crops. The
last official return as to the price of wheat in France
chews an average of 24. 90c, per quintal, being an
advance of 16c. per quintal as compared with the
preceding statement.
IRISH STEEPLECEIASING.—The present horsey
season suggests an idea which may reconcile Irish
Protestants to clisestablishment and disendowment.
Hitherto their Church, as against Popery, has been
heavily handicapped. When it carries less weight, it
will have mere.—Punch.
A MAN CUT TO PIECES BY A TRAIN.—On
Saturday an inquest was held at Newton Heath, an
the remains of a man who had been found lying on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire line, on the previous evening,
frightfully mutilated. Margaret Masters, the wife of
the deceased, said he was about 40 years of age, he was
of a very hasty temper, and a native of Germany. He
left Blackburn on Wednesday morning, as she thought
to go to his work in Manchester, but he had not
been to his work, nor had she been able to ascertain
what he had done with himself after he left Blackburn,
till he was found as above described. He had no re-
lations in England. They had three children, who
were left totally unprovided for. The following letter
was found on the body :
Dear wife—l write these few lines to you, hoping to find
you in good health, and my children. God bless you all
leave this world to—" [the remainder was evidently written
In such a state of excitement that it could not be made mit,
but appeared to he] " do not fret for me—Your husband
truly, CHARLES MASTERS."
Inside a pocket book, also found upon him, were the
following words :—"Dear father and mother,—God
bless you all." An open verdict was returned.
KILLING A Doo.—Mr. Wheeler, a gentleman,
residing at Stockwell, has been sentenced to three
months' hard labour by Mr. Woolrych for cruelty to a

for his business qualifications, and for being a thorough
man of his word. He had reached his I)sth year. The
vessels in Aberdeen harbour showed their colours half-
mast high.
Mn. GLADSTONE'S GOOD lIKALTH.—A Wine for
twelve bottles of which you give 605., not including the
bottles, is often really worth no more than the price of
a liquor modestly advertised at "ifs, per dozen (bottles
included), as supplied to the leading London Clubs,
&c.," under the somewhat aspiring name of "Univer-
sity Claret." This claret ought to be good. Your
University Claret, surely, is the proper wine where-
withal to wash down your College Pudding.—Punch.
FORTUNE-TELLING AT BIRMINGHAM.—At the
Birmingham Police-court, on Saturday, a young mar-
ried woman, named Margaret Parks, WWI charged with
obtaining money by fortune-telling. Several young
women had paid the prisoner small sums of money to
be told their future 'husbands' names and for similar
pretended revelations. Emily Benton and Louisa
Rawlins stated that Parks told their fortunes by cards.
She induced Rawlins to pawn a jacket and with the
I proceeds to buy a mixture of herbs, which was burned,
in order, as Parka said, to "raise the spirit." Benton
was told that her "young man" was paying his ad-
dresses to other girls. The witnesses gave their evidence
reluctantly, and seemed ashamed of their transactions
with the prisoner. The latter was convicted and sent
to gaol for one month, with hard labour.
THE Srealaw Cnows. —The Paris correspondent
of a contemporary telegraphs as follows
The talk about elections has unexpectedly given way to a
new subject of interest. The decision of the Conies on Art.
33 has led to renewed discussion on the chances of Mont-
pensier or the Prince of the Asturias. Those who know best
strongly incline to think the l'rince's prospects the best. I
can inform you that the Spanish Royal family as conhdently
anticipate changes in their favour that all improvements,
buildings, and purchases in this city have been for the time
suspended. Personages high among the exiled fussily have
said that the elevation of the Prince to the vacant throne is a
certainty. The Grand Chamberlain of Isabella IL has started
for Madrid.
TO A CORRESPONDENT.—You cannot be serious
in supposing that the question of additional Bishops
could have any connection with "The Reserved Lawn
Stakes" at the Epsom Meeting. We shall send a
Rural Dean after you.—Punch.
ANOTHER MURDER !—A brutal murder has
taken place at Rathcormack, county Waterford. The
victim was a farmer, named Patrick Power, who held
a farm of fifty acres. It MA not an agrarian murder,
but is supposed to have originated in an old faction
feud, the father ot the deceased having been the leader
of a faction called the "Pollens" and the " Gows,"
and his murderer is supposed to have belonged to
another. He had been drinking in company with a
young man, and left Carrick-on-Suir in the evening on
his way home. In the morning he was found lying in ,
a ditch, with his head smashed in. He was an in- '
offensive man, who took no part himself in any of the
traditional feuds. All the money which he had ob-
tained by the sale of some butter was found in his
possession, which strengthens the impression that a
vindictive feeling alone led to his murder. His com-
panion has been arrested.
MR. SPURGEON'S REPLY TO A PUBLISHER.—
Underneath his grotesque humour and somewhat
rampant animal spirits, Mr. Spurgeon carries about
with him a strong element of common sense, of
which the following instance has been very recently
afforded :
Mr. Henry Ward Beecher not long since announced his in-
tention of writing a life of the Saviour. Instantly every
minister in the union who thought himself celebrated, or
wished to become so, undertook a life Of the Saviour. The
competition among publishers for clergymen who could
wilt° lives of the Saviour became fierce and furious. One
firm, mere enterprising than the rest, wrote to Mr. Spurgeon,
and made him a very liberal offer for a life of the Saviour.
We confess that we like Mr. Spurgeon's reply. He said,
'Sacs a work is beyond my ability; I have also no time at
my disposal; and, thirdly, it would not be to my taste. The
only life of Christ worth scent, is the New Testament.
AN EXTRAORDINARY PLIENOMENON.—A pheno-
menon of a most extraordinary nature has lately been
witnessed by the inhabitants of the borders of the
Caspian Sea. This huge salt lake is dotted with
n,imeroua islands which produce yearly a large quantity
of naptha, and it is no uncommon occurrence for fires
ti break out in the works and burn for many days
before they can be extinguished. Early last month,
owing to some subterraneous disturbances, enormous
quantitiesof this inflammable substance were projected
from the naphtha wells, and spread over the entire sur-
face of the water, and becoming ignited, notwithstand-
ing every precaution, converted the whole sea into the
semblance of a gigantic flaming punch bowl, many
thousands of square miles in extent. The fire burnt
itself out in al nut forty-eight hours, leaving the surface
strewed with the dead bodies of innumeral.ie fishes.
H rodoteis mentions a n that the sac Ib. n",
menon was once before observed by the tribes inhabit-
ing the shores of the Caspian Sea.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT 111 SCHOOLS. The
. teachers of the male departments of the New York

public schools have signed a circular, getting forth that The Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath has sent
they are of the decided op cu, after full discussion and £.620 'contributions of his diocese) for the flail num. The
conscientious deliberation, and as the results also of g,ft is guarded against being expended in lawsuits
long experience in the practical work of education, that "The pleasing old ditty, 'Sally in our Alley, was,
the abolition of corporal punishment in such depart- as everybody knows, written by Henry Carey, In the time of
ments would be injurious to the discipline, and seriotudy Queen Arnie; it is not so generally known that the author,
In order to certify the origin of the ballad, stated that he one
detrimental to the welfare of the pupils. day tracked a shoemaker's apprentice and his sweetheart
DURING TIER MAJESTT'S PLEASURE.—A prose- through a day's pleasure, and that, charmed with the sim-
cution, at the instance of the Excise, loan been con.
tpu.ll c ituyt
little
their
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ducted before the West Riding magistrates at Leeds,
the prisoner being John Wright, who was convicted of The Duke of Norfolk says he is " not able "to grant
having trespassed in pursuit of game at Seacroft, in the request conveyed in a pefition from the Methodists of a
Surrey village, who recently asked lor a piece of laial upon
January last, and for that offence waa fined El and
costs, with the alternative of one month's imprison- which to erect a chapeL
There have been .00 patents issued at tlis Patent
meat. For the same offence he was again brought be-
Office, Wa,hington, for velocipedes during the past twelve
fore the court, by the Excise in this case, and it being ...the.
shown that he had killed a hare without a li the
~ ci between "Protection" and
bench in the mitigated penalty of £5, ancence,d as
The
onteat in Amer
Free Trade ca
" grows. The advocates of the former, be.
the prisoner was unable to meet the tine, he was ordered coming alarmed, are beginning to print long defensive
to be iniprisoned during her Majesty's pleasure. The articles in the journals devoted to their interests, and Mr.
full penalty is £2O. Horses I:reeley, editor of the New York Tribune, announces
A FORGIVING HUSBAND !—The Court Journal tpnuttii,Lixtv
,t,,,,u:: tweet:l:4Y %ha:riff lor ti7rienath stil,cuticreld'i'ttohre
says that the following curious history is given as on political Economy, designed more especially to elucidate
, authentic : and defend the policy of l'rotection to Home Industry.
: A lady, feeling that she was about to die, hastened to obtain It has been officially denied that any coolness has
her husband's pardon for a grant injury she had done him, arisen between the Viceroy's Government and the Porte. A
and which she would reveal upon his promise of pardon. She similar denial has also been given to the statement that
thereupon revealed a galanterie. Her husband assured her France and Italy have come to an agreement for the evacua-
that he felt no resentment: and in his turn asked her pardon tion of Pontifical territory by the former Power.
, for tte harm he Lad done her, which the invalid was only too
At the recent French elections a young candidate
a° l I
I hapenient, upon which he revealed to her that having di.- foe fly to accept, while she was sunrise,' to find her husband
the district& was at one time verypular as he
covered er galanterie, he had, in consequence, poisoned mwne o
csf popular,
rried in his hand • dozen bank-notes of 1,004 franca
heachYduring his daily circuit. The enthusiasm of the
her. electors, however, greatly diminished when it was found
SAD END OF A GAMBLER.—An inquest has been that the notes he held in his hand were the same every day !
held at Rochdale touching the death of George Kay, Even French electors are susceptible to bank-notes.
aged forty-seven years, who was found in the canal on On Saturday morning a constable saw a man come
Monday: Mary Buckley stated that the deceased was from the rear of Moues Cottage, Camden Town, London, and
her cousin, and some years ago he had property left to suspecting mischief, gave chase. The man, to avoid him,
him worth £lO,OOO or £12,000, and he had run through lumped into the canal, struggled ax:ewm!,mergs, Tired_ then ,
it all. Of late years he had been a betting man. 'lll=lo:2=t=iL2t;'.:" d. the
Samuel Grindrod gave evidence to finding the deceased
dead in the canal, on Monday morning, with all his On Mondayhence twenty-two operatives left Blackburn
for Liverpool, w tey will emigrate at once for
clothes on, excepting his hat. Ellen Hopkins said that They passed through Prheston in the forenoon, and America. all Kay had had lodged at her father's house the last ten or peered to be in good spirits.
eleven months. Ile began to drink on the evening The following novel intimation appears at the end
after the Derby race, and continued throughout the of a recent invitation to a London wedding —"No; cards !
week to do so. He had lost money on the races. On No cake I No wine' No kissing the bride!"
Monday morning last he got up and left about seven On Saturday, the so-called Countess of Derwent-
o'clock, smoking his pipe as he went away. He had water appealed to the Court of Queens Bench against adc
no breakfast. She did not know how he got a living cision of the liexham magistrates, by which alie was convicted
except by betting. The jury returned a verdict of of having obstructed a highway during her autumnal encamp-
Found Drowned. °lent near the seat of the former Earls of Derwentwater.
, The lady's counsel was unable to contend against the facts,
A SHORT-SIGHTED PRINCE.—A very pretty little and the Court affirmed the conviction.
misunderstanding in high quarters is affording occasion Mr. T. Roebuck explains in The Times that he thinks
for gossip at Vienna and Berlin. The Archduke the Irish Church Bill impolitic and dishonest; at the none
Ludwig Victor, youngest son of the Emperor of time he is opposed to all establishments.
Austria, was recently travelling incognito, and when at The Moniteur de l'Arntje gives a strange episode in
Nitta learned that the Prince and Princess Charles of the destruction
.of the General Abbertrieei. There were
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Prussia were staying at the same hoteL He instantly
went to inquire when the Prince and Princess would
receive a visit from him. As he was standing in the
corridor making these inquiries, Prince Charles hap.
pened to pass; but as the Archduke is short-sighted, he
did not recognize his Royal Highness Prince Charles,
on dit, was deeply offended, and returned to Berlin,
stating that he had been wilfully slighted by the Arch-
duke. If the story is true, the Prince must be more
easily offended than can be good for his own peace of
mind.
WANTS PUTTING DOWN.—IS it not sad in these
enlightened days of Women's Rights, Women's Lec-
tures, Women's Colleges, Women's Examinations, kc.,
still to see " Mauds " openly offered for sale at Rail-
way Stations ?—Punch.
A GIRL MURDERED BY HER FATHER.—A
shocking murder has been committed at Levalleis-
Perret: near Paris, by a lunatic, on his own daughter,
aged eighteen. The man, a dyer, named Derbois, re-
siding at Clichy, had only a few days ago come out of
an asylum where he had been for three months under
treatment. Having expressed a desire to take a walk,
he started with the young woman in the direction of
the Seine, and while crossing a field of wheat bordering
the river he took a knife from his pocket and cut her
throat. The cries of the daughter were heard by two
workmen at a factory close by, and they hastened to
the spit, but,arrived too late to save the victim, as the
father had almost severed the head from her body. The
murderer then ran to the Seine and threw himself into
the water, but on seeing a boat approach he swam
ashore, and was secured. When in custody the gend-
armes had some difficulty in preserving him from the
anger of the crowd.

some officers and their wives on board, and when it became
evident there was no hope, the poor ladies and gentlemen
took off all their jewels and placed them, with their money,
watches, challis, and rings, on the deck. "We must not
appear before God with things like them." It would seem
ais if they believed their physical presence would be carried .
beyond the grave.
Senator Sumner called at the White-House to see
the President the other day, but the chief usher, having
carried up his card, returned with the remark that he
would have to wait fifteen minutes. Mr. Sumner said he
would not wait fifteen minutes for Napoleon, Victoria, or
any one else, and that when Mr. Grant wanted to see him
he could send for him. With that he withdrew in a rage,
and told a friend that the White House was nothing but a
military camp.
The Longford Board of Guardians having petitioned
Parliament in favour of the Irish Church Bill, the Earl of
Granard has written to that body, congratulating them on
their having taken up the support of " alma and salutary
meaaure."
The action of Colonel Dawkins against Lord F.
Paulet came before the Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday.
The plaintiff, formerly a lieutenant-colonel in the Cold-
streams, had sued the defendant, who was filajor.General of
the Brigade of Foot Guards, for having written a letter for
, the information of the Commander-in-Chief, which resulted
' in the plaintiff being deprived of his commission. The de-
fendant'. plea was that the official report thus furnished by
him was sent in accordance with the discipline and regula-
tions enforced in the army. The question for the court was
whether this plea of privilege was a good one, and upon this
point judgment was reserved.
The Queen has presented a handsome silver cup to
the Aberdeenshire Volunteer Artillery arid Rifle Association
to be competed for at the next annual meeting or " wapin-
schaw," of the corps. The competition is to be open to the
counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine.
The Massachusetts Legislature have passed a bill to
authorise any married woman to bean executrix, Aiministra-
trix, guardian, or trustee, to which offices they have been
Ineligible heretofore under the laws of that state, though un-
married woman are allowed to fill them.
A provision dealer at Barnsley has been fined £5
and costs for exposing for sale bacon unfit for human food.
The Prince of Wales held a levee on Tuesday, at St.
James's Palace, on behalf of the Queen.
There is a probability of the Prince and Princess of
Wales visiting the forthcoming Agricultural show at Man-
chester.
"It is a pity that our Volunteer soldiers cannot be
taken out on an expedition analagoos to the cruise of the
Reserve. A fortnight's march would perhaps teach them
and their critics a great deal which both are now in need of
learning, awl we have no doubt that the broad result would
be as creditable to the civilian soldiers as the recent cruise has
been to civilian sailors. "—Saturday Review.
Here is a pretty little bit of French philosophy. It
to set down to the credit of Alexander Dumas, filet—" Walk
two hours every day. Sleep seven hours every night. Get
spas soon as you wake. Speak onlywhen necessary, and say
only half what you think. Don't write anything lint what
you can sign Think neither too much nor too little of
money; it is a good servant, but a bad master. Beenris of
women before you are twenty. Avoid them after you are
forty."
Joyce, a national schoolmaster, who was arrested in
Westport on a charge of Fenianiam and having a copy of the
Fenian oath in his possession, has been committed for trial
at the anises.
In a sermon, preached at the Brotnpton Oratory,
Archbishop Manning stated the t there are more Catholics in
London than there are inhabitants in Rome.
Fresh "finds" are reported from the Emporium
, Rornanium, and great admiration has been excited by two
' blocks of antique yellow mend° of exquisite beauty, and two
blocks of the rare marble called ports rants.
The following Advertisement appeared in the Daily
News of Saturday. It is such a strange hash of good and
evil tidhigs Says the Pall Mall Gazette, that it is difficult to
understand whether grief or joy is expected to predominate
in the boson, of the gentleman to whom it is addressed
"If Samuel Bib° will call or write to Mr. Samuel Stern,
Paradise-street Liverpool, he will Lear of something to his
advantage. His wife is no more."
A gentleman, who has made a rock-work, planted
with ferns, in the front of Ids house, near Winchester, has
placed up the following notice, and found it efficient :
" Beggar. beware! Srolopentiriunu and Polypodiunw are
set here."
Twenty-five tons of strawberries were brought into
San Francisco last month, and retailed at 12 to 15 cents a
pound Cherries sold at a dollar and a half per pound.
The village of Oldbury-on-Severn is proverbially
noted for Ore size and excellence of its salmon, but for this .
season at present, and for a half a century past, the palm
must certainly be awarded to Mr. George Highnam, who
caught on Friday last a monster salmon of the following ex-
traordinary dimensions :—Length, 4 feet 8 inches; girth, 2
feet incises; weight, 4311,. The fish was very bright in ap-
pearance, and capitally grown.
On Saturday a crowded meeting was held in Leeds
to protest against the bill for "the spoliation of the Irish
Church." Mr. Spencer Stanhope presided, and the usual
arguments were urged in the usual style by Mr. Cayley, M.P.,
tire Rev. Dr. Foley, of Cashel, and other gentlemen.
A man in Boston, U.S., the other day, rode a
velocipede (with grooved wheels upon a tight-rope, twenty
feet above the heads of hie audience.
A physician in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates
that the people of that city pay 43,000 dollars a year for the
water in their milk.
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has now ten young
falcons in training at his seat at Elvedon, near Thetford.
Ills Highness has in his aviaries some Greenland, Iceland,
and Egyptian birds of rare species, as well as a great variety
el other foreign birds.
The number of paupers in receipt of relief at the end
of March, 1869, in England and Wales, was 1,012,741, being
au increase of 16,005 on the corresponding period of ISM.
In the settling for the Derby on Monday at Tatter-
sall's, Sir Joseph Hawley lodged an objection against the
winner, on the ground that the nominator of Pretender Mr.
W. Sadler) was reported to have died before the race was
run. The settling was suspended for a short time, when
telegrams were received from Dancaster to the effect that Mr.
Sadler was alive. Ths objection, therefore, failed, and all
beta were ordered to be paid.
The l'aris papers draw attention to a significant
occurrence which has just taken place in the department of
the Gironde. The Mayor of one of the communes has
resigned, although he had held his post for twelve years, and
hail just been decorated by the Government. The reason he
alleges for taking this step ii, that the instructions sent to
him loom the Prefect for the porpoise of ensuring the return
of the official candidate were of such a nature that to carry
them out would have been incompatible with his dignity as
"a man, a citizen, and a public f unctionary."
The hearing of the appeal in the Mellen legitimacy
case was resumed on Monday in the House of Lords;
Shedden, who had previously argued her own case, making
an appeal that counsel might he heard to argue the legal
points. Lord Chelmsford objected, on the ground that the
greatest possible indulgence had Men shown throughout the
proceedings to Mies Shedden, which she had not failed to
take advantage of, and as she had already occupied eight
days, it would he trifling with the time of their lordships 11
counsel were now to be heard. Miss Sheolden then proceeded
with her address.
A mother was murdered by her daughter in Glasgow,
on Friday night. The daughter, who is thirty-seven years of
age, had been drinking for several weeks, and appears to
. have drank herself into delirium tremene. In this state she
heard voices in the clouds ordering her to murder her mu-
thee, and she obeyed them. She half-choked the old
woman, and then beat her on the head with a smoothing-
iron. Thereafter the murderess went to her brother's, and
told what she had done.
A parliamentary return, obtained 011 the motion of
Mr. Gathorne Hardy, gives norm statistics of crime in Ire-
land, officially reported from the date of the last aasizes up
to the 12th of April. Six murders one of them a ease of in-
fanticide have been reported, five attempted murders,
thirty-seven crimea of personal violence two of which re-
sulted in death , and torty-rove lustances of threatening
notices having been sent. Sixteen of these were in West-
meath, and five hi Donegal.
Several very numerous deputations from Ireland
went to Chesterfield House on Saturday, to express to the
Duke of Abercorn and other peers their hostility to the Irish
Church measure. The deputation from the Irish Church
Conference was composed of 230 clergymen and an equal
number of laymeix, elected by the clergy and parish delegate s
In each diocese. The Presbyterians of Ireland, the Church
Institution, and the National Protestant Union were also
represented. The Duke of Aliereoni, after listening to what
the deputations had to say, informed them that it would be
premature for him to declare the course that would be pur-
sued in the Home of Lords, but he undertook to lay the
opinions he had heard expressed before the meeting of peers
which would be hell in the course of the week.
A labourer was decoyed into a disreputable house
in Glasgow the other day and robbed. The wretches then
tarried him to the staircase window, two storeys from the
ground. and pitched him, head foremost, over. Luckily, the
ini*.it innate Mall came jim contact w h some projecting
in his dosecot, and his fall was In consequence broken
it WA., be fell heavily on the street, and was reele-ei ouite
inseioTle. The detectives have apprehend...l two men and a
tem Jo on suspicion of having committed tlze assault 4.41.1
rithhery.

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right Voce. iireUy, ib.re w.ts P.O thee c erudite ,
ee2ldly, therg ui-re dia men u. r.: el, q i and certainly
there was no ruse whim 'he Conserectives thought tn.
rlangerOUß in debris. Ills em err leg.tls It. on I Lb.. •
noun! lieu which taught people who got woo, at hon
,it r-judices Sc ILlitu Unit was new, Cal litieli ti .L
aniabie. He WAS, en fat, a Pita • f nit e e-periell and
•sm. etly a man I, „es e Uols to :rat at.de all prejudice la
L • der to do whet he heliev..l I he wet fig tee eatton,rnsierd-
less •:t. the Opini••l.‘ or ally Man armllei WM. Ile Loped air.
Lou shad 1,61.c0 fluaDcb.lcalett.

New varieties; of potatoes seem to be causing some
excitement in America. The. Taukees have gate into the
matter with their usual fervour.

About 200 Lutheran Ministers waited upon Preab
dent Grant on the rdh inst., and after a short speech from
the Rev. Dr. Pohlman, of New York, the entire 200 imitated
upon shaking hands with him personally, and declined to to
It by proxy as the reverend doctor suggested.
The President of the United States has awarded a
gold watch to Captain James Brown, of the brig A ',rote, of
Brixham, in acknowledgment of the services rendered by him
Hi rescuing the master and crew of the American ship Yar-
mouth, of Maine, wrecked in the Bay of Biscay, in the month
of March last.

An association of clergy and laity has been long at
work in Paris to discourage Sunday shopping. Another
association Of persons employed in shops has been crowned
with marked success. Almost all the large shops were closed
on enmity last, and a notice affixed that they would remain
so 1, the future on Sundays and festivals. This happy resets
has been obtained by a steady persevering negotiation with
the employers.
The number of persons arrested by the Sheriff of
Loudon under writs of capioa ad satiafatioladlan during the
year 1867-68 was 551 ; ditto by the Sheriff of Middlesex, I.nt.
The number of persons transmitted to the custody of the
Governor of Whitecross-street Prison limier the writs of
caplet ad saiisfacieminio during 101385555 03L
The sixth annual Horse Show opened on Saturday,
at the Agricultural Hall, in London. The number of entries
Is the same as last year, 360. The character of the display
and the general arrangements were in every way satis-
factory. The galleries were appropriated to velocipede com-
petition.
We learn from the Congitutionnelle Zeitung of Dreg.
den that the Franciscan monk Jager, form. fly private secre-
tary to the Archbishop of Prague, and confessor to his Ssson
Majesty while in the Bohemian capital in 1866. has become
a convert to Protestantism, and after undergoing the email.
nation required hi such cases, preJched for the first time on
Sunday, May 8, in the Dresden Evangelical Court Chapel, to
the great satisfaction of his auditory.

It is announced from St. Petersburg that the Ems
peror Alexander will send a special envoy to Gentral Grant,
to congratulate him on his election to the Presidency, ant to
express the friendly sentiments of Russia towards the United
States. From the same quarter comes an official denial
of the advance of the Russians in Kok, and reported at
Bombay.
A most extraordinary event is reported to have
occurred to a trooper of the sth Royal Irish L tuners at lan:k-
-now. The man was in the aA of mounting a restive animal,
having his lance slung over his left arm, when the horse
plunged, and eventually succeeded in unse ding the rider,
who, in falling, was impaled on his own lance, which passed
through the right side of his ribs and came out near the
spine. In order to extract the lance without endangering
the man's life, it had to be sawn off near the head. There is
every hope of the man's ultimate recovery.
A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gx--etle says that
If cropping the ears of terriers is cruelty, much more no is
the process by which pugs come to have no ears at all: -
"The ears of the dog are absolutely twisted out of his head."
General Tom Thumb is building a fine residence at
Middleborough, Connecticut.
By the Insolvent Debtors and Bankruptcy Repeal
Bill, the text of which was published on Monday, provisicn is
made for the winding-up of the business of the late Court for
the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England, and for the re-
peal of enactments relating to bankruptcy. The Attorney-
General and the Solicitor-General endorse the bill.
Monday night's division on the Irish Church Bill list
presented no point of interest, the course which hon. mem-
bers who took part in it intended to take having l'en I or-
tectly well-known beforehand. Sir Bounden Palmer voted
against the third reading.
A Missouri paper says it knows of a girl who, "one
night last summer, attended a ball, danced all eight, went
home in the morning, gut breakfast, dinner, and supper for
ten harvest hands, did a two weeks' washing an I the
milking, made a calico dress, practised her music lesson,
went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town iu
the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again
" bedtime."

A tolerably smart ,not is attributed to our present
Foreign Minister. Mr. Sumner after living
.into advanced

age as a bachelor, married, three years -since, a young
widow of great personal attractions. Recently the man anti
wife have, on the ground of incompatibility of temper,
separated. Lord Clarendon being asked what impression Mr.
Sumner's late speech had made upon him, answered, "1 have
read it, sir, with much interest, and have formed from it a
very high opinion of—Mrs. Sumner."
The victory gained by Pretender on Epsom Downs
was celebrated at Annan in a singular and unprecedented
manner. The church bell was net a-ringing, anti was rung
for some time, with the effect at first of putting • large
section of the community into a considerable state of alarm.
When the bell was being rung a second time, the operators
were requested to desist, which they did.
It is stated, apparently on good authority, that
' Russia is now importing corn largely into her northern
vinces, which she did not in before emancipation.
The Put rig denies that the Government intends to
withdraw the troops from Rome.

It seems that the Prohibitory Liquor Bill which was
referred to by Sir Wilfrid Lawson as having been enacted by
the Massachusetts Legislature has not passed after all. After
passing the House of Representatives, it was rejected in the
Senate by a Vote of 14 to 21. A motion to reconsider the
measure has been entered on the notice paper, but the
general belief is that the defeat of the prohibitionists in the
present Legislature is final.
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"Mr. John Keaat Lord,.after a very successful ex-
ploration, extending nearly three thousand miles, sting the
shores of the Red Sea, is flow on his way home, lie mid his
companion, Sir Bauerrnan, have suffered greatly Irons the
Intense heat, and are anxious for a little rest, in order to re-
cruit their energies. We anticipate with much pleasure the
account of their adventures."—Land and Water.
By order of the Pope, a circular has been sent to the
physicians of Rome, who are forbidden, under pain of ex-
communication, to continue visiting such of their patients all
may be dangerously ill, unless such patients shall have con-
fessed their bins within three days after the doctors have been
called in, and sinless they shall have declared their readiness
to receive the extreme unction.

A parcel was recently received at one of the Parcels
Delivery Company's receiving houses in London, addressed •
to a holy at Plaistow. The lady could not be found, and on
the parcel being opened it was found to contain the body of
a full-grown female child.
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A large room has been discovered at Herculaneum
which mu=t have served for a kitchen. I u it was a wooden
clothes-press, entirely carbonised; also fourteen vase., a
candelabrum and a lamp, all in bronze, several vessels in
glass and terra-cotta; a small marble statue of a faun, and
two broken tables, one in marble and the other in slate.
These excavations are carried on by means of the grant of
£1,200 by King Victor Emmanuel, made for that object.
Wednesday being the day appointed by her Majesty
for the celebration ea her Royal birth-day, the official holiday
took place at all the public offices in London where the cus-
tomary signs of rejoicing were exhibited.
A boy was teasing a horse in Sheffield on Sunday,
when the animal suddenly flung out one of its hind legs,
striking him a terrible blow on the head and ciusirg instant
death.

A grocer in St. Louis, Missouri, has received an in-
voice of Japan tea, via the Union Pacific Railroad, only 30
days from Yokohama.
A man named Cunningham has been committed for
trial on a charge of having arms and ammunition iii a pro-
claimed district of Cork. The arrest was effected Is conse-
quence of the prisoner dischargiug a revolver in the street on
Sunday night.
Four constables have been tioned, as a protective
force, at the residence of Mr. Pierce, of liallivor, county
Meath, who was fired at in January last.
The Armonk has suggested that Catholics should
agree in future to designate the reigning Pontiff when
speaking or writing of him as "Pius the Great."
The Monkweannouth colliery has stopped working,
owing to a strike for an advance of wages. It is the deepest
colliery in the North, and nearly 1,000 men and boys wore
employed.
All the clerks at the Cale& inian Railway Company's
goods offices, Dundee, have been reconimended to begin the
study of phonetic shurthand. A teacher is to be appointed
and paid by the Railway company, the classes to be formed
La the beginning of September.
An American paper hopes those patriota who are
just now so anxious to get that country into another war,
on account of Cuba or the Alabama idioms, will not attempt
to dodge the conscription when it breaks out, or cry salt
against the taxes, er deal in shoddy and try to get contracts.
" Mr. Steel, the Sheffield leviathan, wins between
£15,000 and £20,000 on the Derby: Mr. Whittaker, of Man-
chester, £12.000; Mr. Fay, R.5,e00. The owner of the horse
and Iris friends win about £lO.OOO amongst them. Mr.
Graham, the owner of The Drummer, was so satisfied with
the naming of his horse that he has decided to run him for
the Grand Prix de Paris. The . cream ' have won a heap of
ruoney on the Derby, surd the Prince of Wales is reported to
have netted a clear five thousand tpon the day's business.
The Prince's good luck is highly gratifying."—Court Journal.
A statist has made the calculation that the sum
' lost and won in the clubs of Paris narcosis to one million
francs 'f40,000; per day. It is the custom to levy a small sum
on each game, for what the French called the cognolic—
' "the good of the house," which in clubs 111,11.118 a contrib.
Mon towards the expenses, the sums thus produced are
considerable. in dab A—, for example, it is 85.0 franca
£32, per slay; club It—, 1,200 franca; club C---, 700
francs, and so on.
No tidings have reached Lloyd's of the steamer
rnited Kingdom, which left New York for Glasgow on the
19111 of April last. The number of her passengers is nut
correctly known. Iler cargo was considered a light...rig
Fifty guineas premium percent. have been refused to effect
insurances on the vessel.
The members of the Reform Club propose to enter.
tam Mr. Gladstone and Earl Granville at a magnificent
banquet, "in recognition of the eminent and statesmanlike
services winch they have rendered to the cause of advanced
Liberalism."
A New York paper states that at a Methodist prayer.
meeting in Hartford, they prayed that Grant might give up
tobacco.
The Duke of Genoa is now settled at Harrow a; a
boarder at Mr. Matthew Arnold's.
The New York compositors are at variance just now
on the question of whether a coloured printer, named Douglas,
should be admitted into their union.
At a council summoned by the ex-Queen of Spain
her Majesty was advised, and has consented, not to abdicate
The Vice-President of the United States, in the
course of a recent speech at Chicago, during the Pacific rail-
way celebrations, took occasion to admonish the Americans
that they were absorhing people of other countries quite as
fast as was good for therm Baying expressed .he opinion
that Canada was gradually coming over tire horsier, he added :
" I believe in the power of gravitation among nations, ash do
In natural philosophy • but I do not believe it can be hastened
by threatening the ch:ilised nations of the earth, anti daring
them to war with an fer their possessions."
The Record announces that the "Bishop of Carlisle
(who has been ill lately, greatly values the prayers of the
Lord's pe .le, and trusts they may he continued."
It is reported that the Methodist Church in America
has substituted the word " fidelity " tier" obedience" in the
woman's pant of their form of marriage.
The richest thing yet met with in the American
papers is the following advertiserneut of a tradesman i—
" Ministers of the Gospel supplied with goods at cost if they
will agree to mention the fact to their congregations."
An opthalmia of a contagious character is at the pre-
sent time prevailing at Reran, which medical men believe to
be of the same nature as the terrible Egyptian disease.
Measures of precaution have been taken in consequence.
The "Inset spike" of the Pacific Railroad, of which
so much has leon said, was maxteelf gold, weighed eighteen
ounces, and Was valoed at 330 dollars. It may be assumed
that it was only driven as a matter of form.
Another dispute in the building trade has been
eettiol by ;relit' ation. The Wigan joiners claimed an ad-
vance is their wages of two shillings a week, and were aide
Or, show or early that the rate of paymmt in that town was
the amount re i iced in netAbouring places. The
i ' xe 1 point was hit to the arbitration of Mr. Alderman
Cress, as well as a question as to overtbne, and another as to
~,,, limitation in the number of apprentices. The arbitrator's
le eisne. Las just been given. Ile allows the men an advance
equal to Is. 911. per week, and abolishes the rule as to the
ii ,itadl m in the number of apprentices The decision is
le iii..rin
once h
x,onan d btyietrse may be
seen e
sasn in o
t rike wi:erat
!beaiovon a tded.strike
wYI ii employers and work-people have combined to arrange.
Thu masters have even offered to contribute to the support
of the workmen if they will only keep out on strike. The
—erre r,f t' 1. experiment Is the principal coal region of
' , e i the object, of course, is to "starve" the
1 ,r 01. rip rmns. TI. 4'; I.: tire now about 20,000
~. . . , but they make no demand for increase of
Wages I,or base they assigned any CAUSC for dissatisfaction.
The trick promised to be successful, for coal at once advanced
from fifty cents to a duller per tore It was thought that
better results still might be achieved if tire colliery
owners anti oilmen could continue to agree so pleaeantlY.