The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-19 00:00:00

THE STOTJ'RBRIDGE OBSERVER.

SIR MoRTON YET° AND THE NATIONAL BANK.
—An application made
at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, n London, on Monday for leave to prove
against the separate estate of Sir S. Murton eto,
Bart., for £150,000. The claim was made on behalf of
the National Bank, and a question arose as to whether
it ought to be admitted against the joint estate of Peto,
Betts, and Crampton, or against the separate estate of
Sir S. M. Pete, and it was also contended that the
proof was not in proper form. After hearing Mr.
Bagley on behalf of the National Bank, and Mr. May-
nard for the assignees, Mr. Commissioner Winslow
decided that the bank seal entitled to prove against
the separate estate of Sir S. 111.Peto, and admitted the
proof accordingly.
NEW WoßE.—Shortly will be published, Legen-
dary Skittles, a companion volume to "Historic Nine-
pins."—Punch.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A VOLUNTEER.-011 Satur-
day an inauest was held at Crudley on the body of
Aaron Hingley, aged 21 years, who met with his
death under the following orcumstacc, :
On the 31. st alt, deceased attended a battalion drill at Dud-
ley, after which he and six other volunteers rode home in his
trap. (In arriving at hi-bison Bridge, one of the volunteers,
named Eli Forrest, took up the whip and struck the horse,
which made h'm gallop off at a furious rate, and the wheel
coming in contact with a stone turned the trap over and
pitched them all out Deceased was thrown against a wall,
and the ramrod of his rifle stuck in his head. All of them
were more or less seriously hurt. The jury returned a verdict
of Accidental Death.
OUR IRISH SELVES. —lt may have occurred to
some statesmen that the best way to settle the Irish
difficulty would be that of making poor old Ireland
new. To this end emigration from Ireland might be
promoted on the one hand and immigration thereinto
from England stimulated on the other. But the worst
of it is, that all people as soon as they come to be born
in Ireland become Irish, and if Englishmen, more
Irish than the Ir.sh theniselves.—Punch.
A CLEVER SWINDLE.—A banker in Leipsic,
Mende, recently received intelligence from correspond-
A LADY FOUND DROWNED.—The body of Mary
ents in Paris the firm of Hachette and NI asson, that
their cashier' had absconded with bills for 200,000 francs.
Wineford Roper' 29 years of age, only daughter of
They had reason to suppose that the thief would turn
Mr. Roper, cotton spinner, of Wigan and Aekhurst. up at I.eipsic, but as he had a wife and children, and
hall, Orrell, was found in a goit by whil the water of the firm did not wish to bring misfortune upon them,
the River Douglas is diverted for the use of the Leeds
and Liverpool Canal Company. Deceased and her the banker was begged to accept the bills without
father retired to rest about a quarter to eleven o'clock making any objection, and to give the man 20,000 francs
to jay the expenses of a journey to Ameiica. The
on Sunday night, and next morning when Mr. Roper
hanker conducted the matter with great ability. On
arose he knocked at the door of the deceased's rem the arrival of the fugitive cashier at Leipsic he was
but received no reply. On entering, the deceased was recognised from the description which had been pre-
missing, and an examination of the house showed that
viously given of him, and he was compelled to give up
the cellar door was partly open. As no tidings were his bills, receiving 20,000 francs with which again to
heard of the lady during the forenoon grappling irons begin life in the new world. When, however, the
were procured, and an examination WAY made of the
banker wrote an account of what he had done to Messrs.
goit, and at half-past four the body of the deceased was
I I achette and Masson, he received the amazing reply
drawn from the water at the point where the stream
that nothing had been stolen from them, and that the
passes beneath Darlingtomstreen She was clad only
letter he had received was a forgery ! Unhappily,
in a chemise, night-dress, and night-cap. Ackhuret
therefore' Herr Mende has been obliged to insert the
Hall, Omit, near Gathurst station, on the Manchester
iO,OOO francs in the list of his losses.
and Sauthport Railway, was a few months ago the
scene of the murder of a little girl, Annie Houghton, THE FCTURE MONARCH OF SPAIN.—The Gil-
under cireamstances of fiendish atrocity. In COMMON rata, chronicle says:—
with the other residents in the district Miss Roper was we are indebted to our neighbours over the way for the
horrified at the crime, and, being closely Connected latest " sensation " about the future monarch of qtain The
with the family of the victim, she has since the murder Jornatero of Algeciras announces in large type that the aluti.
been much depressed in spirits and has been under cation of Dana Isabel in favour of the Prince of Asturias
medical attendance. It is believed that the excite- Inanetled ing, the
oionacreigsute.nz arcrLea
Gibraltar
ment under which she has been suffering has caused a Spain.uen Victoria.
A.isos al hi wh ghness is only 12 years of age. It is
temporary loss of reason, and has led her to commit presumed that the Princess Beatrice, aged 11, is the bride
suicide. • hinted at by the iornalero, but what Is Spain to do until these
THE EQUESTRIAN ORDER.—If every Rogue royal children grow up I
upon the Turf today were to be sander it to-morrow, A ROYAL EXAMPLE AS TO DAMAGES BY GAME.
how many respectable families would be placed in —Her Majesty the Queen, having recently. learned
mourning I—Punch, that one of the tenants on a
property adjoining the
ae Royal estates on Deeside had been obliged, in self-
AN AMERICAN "ALABAMA."—There appears to o
no doubt that at least one vessel equipped with war- d protect his crops from the ravages of deer
by shooting nine of them, at once expressed surprise
like stores for the insurgents in Cuba was allowed to
escape from New York. The American Government and regret that any farmer should suffer from such a
cause, and gave orders for the immediate erection of
stopped the Quaker City, but only after strong rein- fencing necessary to prevent the deer passing from the
forcements for the rebels had safely departed from the Royal estates to his lands.
port. Of course (says the Pall Mall Gazette) they will
compensate Spain for the consequences of this nigh- ACu RIOSITY.—Our friend, Wentworth Walk-
genre. A correspondent of a New York paper sailed ington, is a great tourist, and brings home relics and
with one expedition "ostensibly for Jamaica." Seeing mementoes from every place he visits. The last aeldi-
that the vessel had on board arms for 3,000 men and 10 tion to his collection as a bit of the Isle of Wight.—
nieces of artillery, the authorities must have wondered Punch,
what was her business at Jamaica. In future, when PLAGUE OF RABBITS.— A letter was recently
the exertions of the Government to stop the Quaker
ad in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, written
City are boasted of, it would be well to explain the
read
Mr. RobeAson, of Colac, stating that between
escape of vessels, loaded with arms, which scarcely
took the trouble to conceal their rea destination.
April, 1868, and the end of that year, he had a hundred
men engaged on his run tiling rabbits, and about
SCOTCH POETRY.—The follow ina epitaphs have 2000,000 were killed, at a cost of £5.000. This year lie
been gleaned from a graveyard in the'Highlands : has sixty men engaged on this work. It is thought
In hope to sine without a sob likely that the impossibility of extirpating the pest on
The anthem ever new, large runs will hasten the division of the laud into
gladly bid the dusty glob small farms, and thus the acclimatized rabbit may
And vain delights adiew. exert an influence as an agrarian reformer.
John Baxter, and lid Davidson his wife, AFFECTING FATALITY.—A shocking occurrence
lived fifty years a conjagal Ills; has taken place near Longtown. An old man named
on one night they both died, and here are filtered, Park and his wife were employed casting peats on the
By relations and neighbours rever'd. Solway Moss. and the old man was in the act of
MARRIAGE OF PRINCE LOUIS FERDINAND DE taking out the under portion of what is termed on the
BoURRON.—The New York Tribune of May 31, says:— Border the "peat pot," when the upper portion of the
The marriage If Louis Ferdinand de Bourbon, of Naples, ' breast gave way with a fearful rush, and buried the
to Amelia Handl, which took place before Justice Dodge,,,n old Man completely. His distracted wife rushed to
the 00th of last it arch, was consecrated by Father Wiseman, the place, and tore the earth from off his face, and also
in the Church of ht. Peter, at Jersey City, on Saturday. At succeeded in releasing one of his hands; but seeing
the early morning mass the pair received the Holy Corn- that death was near, she eat down with calm resigna-
reunion, and at the close of the service the wedding ring was . 'ion, and with hands clasped together the aged couple
blessed by the priest. A telegram was then despatched to `'
tie num ess Efigenie, who is a great fav, urße with the bride. . alms breathed comfort to each other for about ten
Bishop Bayley had previously been applied to for a dispense- minutes, when the end of the old man came Imme-
tion, so that the pastor of the church might perform the chastely after death the poor distracted a onan made
marriage ceremony but none was reeeivei, and as there was to the nearest muse, and told her sorrowful tale, and
no law prohibiting the ceremony he (the Rev. NH. NVis, man, assistance being at band the body was dug out.
the assistant pastor) acted on his own judgment, and made
the Prince mid his bride husband and wife, even in accord- AN EXPECTED TREASURE.—Great expectations
ance with the strict rules of the Catholic Church are entertained at Barrow-in-Furness, the centre of
HARVEST PROSPECTIL—The Mark Lane Express the haematite iron district, that coal will also be found
says :—" We are now entering upon the most critical there—an immense addition, of course, to the mineral
period of the season in regard to the growing crops, riches of the country. Attention has lately been
and the prospect of the result. It is certain that we called to two old pits at S,arik, near Barrow, as old,
shall not have 80 early a harvest as that of 1868, and it some say, as the days of the Furness monks, and in any
is very improbable that this will prove as productive, I case of consi lerable antiquity. They have been re-
although it. may prove a fair average one, even if opened and examined. and, as the water is pumped
everything as farms the future weather be concerned out of them, give good inclinations of carboniferous de-
should prove favourable. The wheat is bursting into posits. A seam of coal half an inch thick has already
ear, and presents to the eye of the traveller a very been penetrated, and the nature of the stone which is
grati'y Mg appearance, but a closer inspection will show raised from a depth of seventy yards confirms the
that the cold weather of May was anything rather than hopes of the explorers. Professor Phillips, of Oxford,
favourable to the healthy progress of that or any other to whom specimens of the minerals obtained at Stank
grain, which will now require an accession of warm i have been forwarded for inspection, has reported that
sunny weather to restore at least to the wheat crop a in substance they are shales arid ironstones of the car-
healthy appearance." boniferoua system. lie advises continued boring to
ascertain this extent of the coal bands.
ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A NURSE GIRL.—At
Hanley, a charge of attempting to murder has been DEATH CIF • MURDERER. -- An inquest was
made against Elizabeth Edwards, aged IL She had held at the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Broadmoor, a
been employed by a family named Salt, as nurse, and few days ago, on the body of William Hayward, aged
on Friday was sent out for an airing with her charge— 61 years. Deceased was received into the establish-
an infant six months old. The child was ill when she moist on the 27th of August last, from the Somerset
returned, and a doctor was sent for. He pronounced Prison, in which county he had been tried for the
that the child had been poisoned, and the prisoner, when murder of his wife, but acquitted on the ground of in-
pressed, confessed that while out she purchased a packet sanity. His health had been very indifferent during
of red precipitate, and had forced two-thirds of it down the time he had been at Broadmoor, and he died on
the infant's throat. When asked why she did so she the 7th inst. from general paralysis. Verdict accord-
said she wanted to kill the child. The child has since ingl.l%
recovered. The bench were averse to sending a girl of A BANKRUPT SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT.—
prisoner's age for trial at the assizeo, and so discharged At the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court, on Friday, a
her, woollen manufactur,r, of Cheadle, came up on his
"last examination, and application for discharge."
The Commissioner sentenced him to six months' im-
prisonment, on the ground that he had contracted
debts without reasonable expectatien of paying, and
had kept no proper accounts. The learned Commis-
sioner added—"l am very sorry to say that the
iniquity of trading haiscorne to such an extent that it is
quite nacessary to give a severe example." This is the
second bankrupt who has been sentenced to imprison-
ment by this court within a short period.
EXTRAORDINARY OBESITY.—The visitors to the
late Horse-Show at Islington included three agricul-
turists, whose united weights amounted to thirty-nine
score.—Punch.
MORE USES FOR PAPEM—(From the New York
Times).—Of late years the part played by paper in the
manufacture of household goods has been amazingly
extended. We have had paper collars and cuff's, paper
waistcoats and wash-bowls, paper pails and pipes—in-
deed, when it comes to paper race-boats, which are suc-
cessfully rowed, and even paper " oil.cloths," as they
are sometimes called, habitually trodden upon—what
limits are there to this industry? But now Mr. Pavy's
new process for paper making promises to carry the uses
of this substance far beyond anything hitherto looked
for. He compounds it of several sorts of animal and
vegetable substances hitherto not employed. and these
being reduced t• a pulp and bleached, the completed
fabric is a sort of felt, or, as it is said, something much
resembling what the Japanese use for handkerchiefs,
and abaolutely as wide in its application 118 the latter.
It has pliancy, flexibility, strength ; it can be sewed
with the needle as easily and as tightly as any of the
the woven fabrics which it is designed to displace. Al-
ready they have made of it table-clothes, quilts, shoes,
petticoats (price 6si.), and hundreds of similar articles
known to domestic economy.
TUE RITUAL DOMMISSION.—The Ritual Com-
missioners, according to the John Bull, have agreed to
a report on the Lectionary, in the consideration of
which they have been engaged for a long time. They
have prepared an extra table of lessons for use at even-
song on Sundays!, have changed many lessons for
Holidays, leaving only four first lessons from the
Apocrypha, and about forty-seven for daily service,
The Books of Chronicles are to be read, the lessons
curtailed, and the divisions of chapters not always
followed. The Gospels and the Acts are to be read
once in the year at Evening Prayer, and the Revela-
tion in Advent.
THE LATEST Tama IN Fssatows.—The latest
thing out is a book of fashions issued by a well-known
London firm of tailors. In order to make it more
interesting, they have put " habits " upon a number
of the leading men of the day. There we hate a
full-length portrait of the Rev. Newman Hall in clerical
frock suit, along with the Bishop of Loudon, Mr.
Swinburne, the poet, keepin,g them company. Tenny-
son, 8.-owning, and Lomffellow are decked out in
spruce walking costumes, Tupper in a yauthing snit,
and Sir Edwin Landseer, Holman, Hun', and Mr.
:Billies, in Chesterfield overcoats. Rosa Bonheur and
Eliza Coek appear in ail the glory of riding habits;
arid there is a perfect gallery of foreign lAinnea all
gorgeonaly attired in the latest fashions, not to speak
of the twenty-two eminent poets and painters.
EJEC rING A PGLIcEMAN PROM 'CHANGE.—An
extraordinary scene occurred on 'Change. Manchester
on Monday, which gave rise to considerable amusement
A policeman in uniform, having entered the building
to obtain the name of a yarn agent, against whom a
complaint hail been made for some rough usage of a
gentleman in the street, was surrounded by some of the
younger members and good humouredly hustled out
of the hall. The policeman was apparently overcome
with surprise at the unexpected movement which was
made against him, but suffered his ejectment in good
humour, though declaring his intention of taking other
means of obtaining information.
AN AMERICAN BISHOP ON TFIE FREE CHURCFI
CAUNE.—A New York letter, just received, alludes to
the visitation of the Bishop of Long lelant, at St.
Luke's pariah church, Brooklyn. This was the second
Sunday that St. Luke's had been opened as a free
church. The bishop, in his address to the coogrega-
thm, after dwelling upon their previous lengthened
history as a parish, declared that the step which they
mad Co recently taken gave them a right to be proud,
in a Christian sense, that after so long an experience
under the old system, when that system had bee -Ins
identified with all the habits and customs of Me pariah,

a railway carriage to a diligence. The manufacture of
velocipedes has become quite a new branch of trade,
and working men who have turned their attention to
" the toy of the hour," as it 'has been called, though it
bids fair to become wimethhig more, earn good wages.
A word as to the terms used. Bicycle may be a very
good word as representative of two circles or two
wheels, but velvei pole (relox peclis, swift of foot) is
very inappropriate, seeing that the traveller does not
go on foot at all, and that the motion of his feet cannot
fairly be said to be swift. A man has just been fined
for driving his bicycle on the pavement. Very proper
too; but why should perambulators be allowed to the
annoyance of pedestrians generally, and nervous old
ladies and gentlemen in pirticular?
The Morning Post still retains its celebrity as being
the organ of the fashionable world and the especial
chronicler of aristocratic movements. Occasionally it
has announcements, however, which puzzle usoutsiders
who have never been received at court, and never
throw open our saloons to a distinguished company.
What, for instance, can be made of this important
statement?---" Mrs. Brown'sdance, which was to have
taken place on Thursday, the 24th of June, is unavoid-
ably postponed. Mrs. Brown will have a musical
party on that day instead." Of course I am but dis-
playing my own shameful ignorance in confessing that
I know not to whom this refers. It cannot be the
Mrs. Brown who paid that famous Visit to " Queen
Victoria's own theayter," and all I can conclude is that
it must be Mrs. Brown of London!

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WASHED OVEBB3ARD.—Captain Robinson, of
the barque Felicity, of West Hartlepool, which arrived
at that port on Sunday evening from Soderhamn,
reports that on Tuesday last they encountered a heavy
gale from the N..N. W., which increased in violence up
to noon on Wednesday, when a heavy sea struck the
ship, washing overboard William White, the cook,
Isaac Coupland and Thomas Sanderson, apprentices.
The two former clung to the rail, and were hauled
safely on board; but the poor lad Sanderson was
swept further to leeward, and although planks were
hove to him, and the ship put about, and boat got
ready to launch to his rescue, he was seen to sink before
they were able to reach him. There being no possi-
bility of recovering him, they put the ship about and
, stood away. _

THE BALLOT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.—A cor-
respondent, writing from Sydney, says :
"

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Considerable interest is here taken in your discussion on
the ballot. We are amazed, looking from our experienced
point of view, at your diffidence in making this step, and the
air of mystery that seems, among people who consider this
subject in England, to hover about it. Here nothing is more ,
simple Ir. operation. Before we had the ballot all was excite-
ment and scuffle and storm, and party parade and treating
and gross bribery • now an election is the quietest, most
orderly process In the world, and unattended by any bribery
whatever of the out sort. The bribery that does exist is from
another quarter and of another form. The candidate who
promises to secure for his electoral district the greatest share
of the public money in bridges, quays, roads, and the like is
the elected member. Ile accepts bills drawn on the Treasury
by the constituency. As to what improvement there may be
in public morals owing to the subditution of one form of
bribery for another I will not say ; I have nothing now to do
sill, the ethical stile of the question. The greater part of
the world that is moral is more moral by habit than by prin-
ciple, and the restraints of society remove the habit of wrong-
doing and gradually introduce a distaste for it.
" CHILDREN NEVER SHOULD SEE ANYTHING,"
&c.—Little One " Oh, roses! red roses, such
beauties! Rub up my cheeks, please ?" Milliner :
"Your cheeks, pet?" Little One : "Yes, same as
Blanche and Milly do when they want to look nice and
pink." (Blanche and Milly fed rather uncomfortable.)—
. ..

• ffiViil-o'-ths- Wisp.
DOM FERNANDO'S MORGANATIC MARRIAGE.—
Some of the accounts given of the morganatic marriage of
the en-K Mg, Dom Fernando of Portugal, with Fanny Eissler,
the dancer, are Incorrect. The name of the lady is Monier.
She came out some years bark in the United States us singer,
aid had. fair share of success. In the course ffher career anon
artiste she visited Lisbon, and there attracted the attention of
her present husband. Her age is shout thirty. A corres-
pondent, writing on the subject says Dom Fernando re-
fused the Crown of Spain, as it would now appear, in order to
have more time at his disposal to appreciate the merits of
Mademoiselle ilienzler, whom he married at Lisbon on the
12th. King Louis gave a dinner, on the occasion of
his father's wedding, to the bride and bridegroom. Spain
was much offended at the peremptory tone in which Dom
Fernando couched his refusal of the vacant throne, telt when
the country ascer being a ladj to have been in the case she will i•
forgive the recdcitraht monarch. Mdlle. liecniler thus be- I
comes firet cousin of Queen Victoria."
STORY or Two PRF.SENTATI VES.—Miss Anna
Dickenson, in an address delivered in New York, on
behalf of woolen's lights, said : --
I would simply ask The Tribune, when it announces that
women hare demonstrated their fitness for taking part in
politics because they are as badly behaved as ?ten, to take
notice of this tiers—unit, mind you, I speak not of a Con-
vention of self-elected repreaentatives, lint of the dignified
men who represent & dignified State by its own suffrages in
the Ohio House of Representatives—two members named
Ball and Wolf got up and spoke upon a certain bill. Mr.
Wolf spoke against it, and said to his fellow representative,
" I silt not be tyrannized over by you." Mr. Ball, it repre-
imitative'. man of Ohio, retorted: " Shut you month, you
dirty scoundrel." At this point they " went for each other,"
laughter and applause', hut when they got within fighting
distance they waited until the Sergeant-ate Anna could
arrive.

BRUTAL MunhEn.—Two women, named Cleton
and Dumont, mother and daughter, have just been
tried at St. Omer, France, for the murder of a little
girl, aged three, step-child of the latter, under circum-
stances of the most revolting cruelty. The two prison.
era almost immediately after the marriage of the
younger with Dumont, a labouring man, and father of
the deceased, commenced a course of ill-treatment
which revolted in the death of the girl. The corpse
presented a fearful spectacle ; the poor child had not
only been literally starved to death, but the bridge of
her nose had been crushed in apparently, and her col.
lar-bone and skull fractured by blows. The court con-
demned the woman Cleton to death, and the other to
hard labour for We.

they had yet the Christian boldness to rise up and
reject it, and &elate that henceforward the space
within their walls should be free to every one of God's
creatures, whether wise or ignorant, rich or poor, a
wayfarer or an inhabitant of the land. Every day
that he grew older he felt more and more that this was
the right system, and his desire became stronger that
1 every temple dedicated to the worship of our common
Father should be free to all his children, as free as his
glorious temple in the heavens, the model for imita-
tion here below, in which there are no spaces reserved
for the exclusive use of a privileged few, but which is
I as free to all as is the blood if (luta, which alone
i purchases admittance there. They had his hearty
I sympathy and his best wishes for a blessing upon their

athwart Us 1.,111. May may mue4 Watt akandruta wa pleasani
for them to think of. But there are not a few good sod wise
men among the Peers, and we will hope their counsels may
prevail. lam sure you will forgive me if I cannot come to
your meeting.
'Believe me always, very truly yours,
"Joliti MINIM

" Mr. H. B. 8. Thompson, Secretary to the
Birmingham Liberal association."
Mr. Thomas Lloyd proposed the following resolu-
tion :
" That this meeting is of opinion that the blab Church
Bill introduced by tier Majesty's Ministirs, being wi,e in
policy and just in principle. and having passed the llou.e of
Commons by large nisjot tiles in accord.. with the national
will as declared at the late general election, ought speedily
to become law.
He urged strongly that respect for the national will
demanded that no obstruction should be placed in the
way of the bill being passed into law. There were
several attempts at interruption during the delivery of
Mr. Lloyd's speech, but the expressions of dissent
were drowned m vociferous and prolonged shouts of
applause.
Mr. Chamberlain seconded the resolution, and in the
course of his speech combated the aaertions made as to
the alleged Conservative reaction.
Mr. S. S. Lbyd rose to propoie an amendment. He
was met with a storm of gr. ,ans, of hisses, and cheers
from the Conservative portion of the audience. Ile
appealed in vain to the meeting to allow him a hearing
and the appeal when seconded by the Mayor was
equally ineffectual. Mr. Lloyd stood in front of the
platform for more than hour, during which a scene of
indesciibable confusion prevailed. The Mayor over
and over again implored the meeting ti hear Mr.
Lloyd, but the meeting only grew more vehement in its
expressions of refusal. Now and again a prominent
disturber of the peace was followed by the poli c and
summarily ejected, but perfect good humour upon the
whole prevailed. A declaration by Mr. Lloyd that he
would not sit down until he had obtained a hearing
served only to evoke a stave of the popular song,
"We won't go home till morning." Mr. Lloyd, how-
ever, did ultimately nit down, but only to start to his
feet again at the instigation of his surrounding sup-
porters. The Mayor put it to the meeting whether
Mr. Lloyd should be heard or not. The noise pre-
vented his worship from being understood, and the
.umult continued without abatement. Ultimately the
resolution was adopted by a large majority, as well as
a petition to the House of Lords in favour of the second
retching of the bill. Neither Mr. Lloyd nor Dr. Evans,
who were to move the amendment, were heard.
A large meeting was held outside, at which resolu-
tions were carried in favour of the bill.

endeavoura.
Tile PREMIER AND UTE IRISH CRIIRCFI BILL.
The following communication bas been received from
Mr. Gladstone, in acknowledgment of resolutions in
favour of the Irish Church Bill adopted at a large
open sir meeting held last Thursday evening at Brad.
ford :
I have had the honour to receive the resolution passed at a
public meeting of the inhabitants of Bradford on the 10th
inst. So for as that resoluth A refers to myself personally, I
accept the c ,minuiticatlon with regpectful gratitude. Sr far
as it expresses the sane of the great community of Bradford
with reference to the Irish Church Bill I regard it as giving
utterance in words to that deep and intelligent conviction
to which the nation gave by its acts, at the time if the
general election, the mast authoritative comtitutlnnal ex-
pression, and xhieh, I believe, it still cherishes with unabated
confidence and resolution —I have the honour to be, Sir, your
faithful servant, W. Si. GLADSTONE.-11r. Councillor Booth-
. ..

royd, Bradford.'
A "RANTING" CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION.
—Mr. Balding, whose name is identified with a "
tern," has projected a scheme for the establishment of
a Middlesex County Convalescent Hospital, to be
governed by a visitor, a president, a vioe-president,
twelve lady patronesses, and a committee of twenty-
four, of whom three are to be medical men, three
lawyers, three men of science, three clergymen and
twelve laymen. Mr. Banting proposes that the build-
ing should have one wing for 200 males, and another
for 200 females, properly separated; and that those
persons only should be eligible for participation in
the benefit of the Institution who have been dis-
charged from the hospitals of Middlesex cured, and
who belong to the artisan and labouring elegises, having
no friends or means to provide those comforts which
are so necessary for the convalescent. He suggests
that the inmates should pay ss. a week, and that eight
weeks should be the limit of residence in the hospital.
Mr. Banting, who brings forward a subscription list of
about £2,000, which he heads with kroo from himself,
is of opinion that ationt fifty acres of land and an in-
come of about £12,000 would he required, and that the
5a payments from the inmates would produce 'O,OOO
of this amount. Until £lOO,OOO is guaranteed, Mr.
Minting does not intend to ask for any promised
donation. The main object he has in view is to pro-
vide an institution for the reception of poor persons, or
at least persons of very moderate means, who, on their
discharge from general hospitals, are still weak, and
need rest, fresh air, and good nourishment before they
resume their ordinary occupation.
EMIGRATION FROM THE MINING DISTRICTS.—
A strong feeling in favour of emigration is once more
bring evinced among the colliers and ironworkers if
South Wales, and at this early period of the year a
large number have left for the United States and the
colonies. Every Monday after a " pay " the principal
railway stations are crowded with emigrants and their
friends, who are assembled to give them a parting
farewell on leaving their native localities. The
slackness in the demand for coal, with the consequent
irregular employmentat the collieries, has given quite
an impetus to the movement, for the great majority
of the colliers have not been aisle to earn one-half the
usual amount if wages for the last two or three months.
The United States is the chief attraction, although a
fair proportion go to the British colonies, the waisted
emigration plan of the Colonial Legislatures being
availed of by a considerable number of those that leave.
Should the Movement continue on the present exten-
sive scale for the next three or four months, some
thousands of good workmen will have left the dis-
trict, and with a favourable turn in trade their places
will not be easily filled.
DFATIIS NT POISON.—In the fire years
1863-67 the number of persons who met with violent
deaths by poison in England and Walt. s was 2097.
In 1,620 cases the description of poison is recorded
thus :—By arsenic, 83; mercury, 58; opium, 114 ;
morphia, 32; laudanum and syrup of poppies, 46;
strychnia, 41 ; prussic acid and cyanide of potassium,
151 ; essential oil of almonds, 31; oxalic acid, G 6;
sulphmic acid, 53; nitric acid. 16 ; ninriatic acid, 5
carbolic acid, 5-, salts of lead. 242; improper medicine,
17 ; overdose of medicine, 52; Goilfrey'a cordial, 56;
improper food, 33 ; aconite, 6: belladonna, 6; alcohol,
35; ammonia, 8; hartshorn, 3; chlorodyne, 4 ; ver-
min tiller, 20; turpentine, 3; phosphorus, 15: sul-
phate of copper, 3; colchicum, 3; disinfecting fluid,
3; nitrate of potash, 3; chloride of zinc, 8 ; spirits of
salt, 3; cantharides, 2; fungi, 6; mussels, 8.
INcarmous Use OF FIREARMS —Charles New-
- by, a carpenter, of Notting-hill, has been charged at
the Hammel smith police-court. with causing the
death of Edward Stone, by shooting him in the face,
at Alperton. Richard Monday, said that on Sunday
morning, himself, the prisoner, and deceased went
out bird-nesting. They were sitting down in a field
having some tea, when deceased sail, "Here's a bird
coming; lock out !" They rose together to fire, when
prisoner's gun went off, and shot deceased in the face.
On finding what had been done, he ran for h police-
man, leaving prisoner hulling up deceased. The
magistrate remanded the accused, but said he would
take bail for his appearance.
A HINT TO THE LORDS.—Second Readings are
beat—Punch.
TWt STY WHITES KILLED BY INDIANS.—A
despatch from Leavenworth says :
About twenty white persons have been killed by Indians In
Kansas laCing the past week. The massacre was the result
of guerilla fighting, rather than a general Indian war. The
Borne of the operadons was extended from the Republicm
and Soloman rivers to the end of the Kansas Pad tic Railroad.
The settlements in that part of the State are scattered very
much and f apneed. General Sehotleld has a small number of
troops at his ditposal, and is making the best use he can of
them. Governor Harney Iris organised two companies of
scouts, to whom General sthotichl furs-shot arms Four
United States serve) ing parties are out without military pro-
tection—two north of Fort Hays, one between Fort Hayes
and Lartled, and nine sixty miles west of Fort Hayes. This
Is
the most exposed part of the State, and fears are felt for the
safety of the surveyors.
VERY SUSPICIOUS !--A very singular affair is
reported from Annadorn, near Seaforde, County Down.
A young farmer there went out a few evenings ago,
was out all night, and returned in the morning all wet
and frightfully cut about the neck. He died shortly
afterwards. Several persons who had seen him on the
evening in question deposed to his being in good health.
One witness spoke of Lis having challenged unman with
a fishing-rod for coming through one of his fields, and
then seeing the man follow him. No direct evidence
of murder was given, and the medical testimony de-
clared that the wounds could not have been self-in-
flicted. The jury returned a verdict that death had
been caused by wounds in the neck, inflicted by some
person or persons at present unknown.
CURIOUS POINT IN A ROAMT CARE.—A singular
point has been raised in a case of bigamy which came
under the notice of the Liverpool magistrates. A
sail, r, named John Miller, was charged with bigamy.
The two marriages were proved, but the defence set up
was that the first woman married by the prisoner was
his father's brother's at if e, and as that marriage was
illegal, ace. rding to the Act of Parliament, 5 and 6
William IV., it was in point of fact no marliage at
all, and that theretore the prisoner could rt .t Ire
charged with bigamy. He was remanded in order that
the case might be argued out.
ASK PROFESSoR OWEN.— Is there any affinity
between "a gone coon" and a dun cow ?—Judy.

The Daily News, in remarking upon Mr. Bright's
letter, says that it leaves little doubt as to the course
which the Government will pursue should the
Lords reject the Irish Church Bill. It clearly
points to an autumnal cession. The Ministry
would thus follow the pre:edent set by Earl Grey
in 1831. Then, as now, the Government had
a majority of more than 100 in the House of
Commons, fresh from a general election. On July
6 in that year the Returns Bill was read a second time
by a majority of 116, and on September 21st was read
a third time by a majority of 113. On October 8 the
Lords rejected it by 109 to 158, whereupon the Corn.
mons carried a vote of confidence in Ministers ly a
majority of 131. On the 20th Parliament was pro-
rogued, and on the 12th December the Reform -Bill
was once snore introduced. On the 22nd of March
following it was again read a second time in the Com-
mons, by a majority of 116; and on April 14 the Lords
read it a second time by 184 to 175. On May 7, in
Committee, the Government was defeated on a motion
of Lord Lyndhurst by a majority of 35. Earl Grey
resigned, but within ten da3s was again in office, armed
with the King's authority to create &sufficient number
of Peers to ensure the passage of the bill.

The Times, in commenting upon Mr. Blight's letter,
says
If anything could prejudice the issue of the pending debate,
It would be the singularly ill-advised letter addressed by Mr.
Bright to the Liberal Association at Birmingham, to which
Lord Cairns is to call the attention of the House of Lords.
As there is a time for all things, even contempt and SWUM
may have their proper season: but how any man of Mr
Bright's experience could select this as a suitable occasion
for rating the Rouse of Lords see must leave him through
Lard Granville, to explain. Either it is desirable to ob-
tain the concurrence of that Rouse hi a great constitutional
measure, or it is not. If it la riot—and there are extreme
Libel ale who profess th's opinion—a dignified reticence on
the part of all who must be responsible for the next step is
surely dictated by common prudence. It it is—and we
claim for this view a vast preponderance of nubile opinion
—how unworthy of a stittestnan lathe petulance which thus
wounds the amour propre of the very body to be won over!
Upon either assumption, what possible use can there be in re-
minding the Mouse of Lords that it is "not very wise,"
hut that its folly and infatuation are sometimes beneficial,
inasmuch as they bring out into strong relief the automatism
between it and the nation? What hut mischief can result
from describing the minority of Peers as for behind the spirit
of their age, and surmising that, unless they are prepared to
act in harmony with the people, "they may meet with acci-
dents not pleasant for them to think of?" What value can
attach to Mr. Bright's own acknowledgment that "not a few
good arid wise men" are to be found among them, moose
counsels he trusts may prevail, when he prefaces it with
a warning little short of menace ? Had language of
this kind been employed by a private member of l'arli truent,
It would have been highly indiscreet and ill.timed, but, as
uttered by a Minister, it deserves the public reprobation it
will &With ss receive. It is well it had been disclainied
beforehand, as it were, by Mr. Gladstons himself in the
Boum of Commons, and that its publication is as simul-
taneous with the report of Lord Granville's speech. The
responsibility if the Rouse of Lords is there put upon its
true ground, and it concerns the country as well as the
Peers to realise distinctly what that responsibility is.