The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It is rumoured that something like an authorative
notice has ben conveyed to the Conservative election agents
ti:at a new Parliament will not be called for until next year.
Water-creases are very fashionable wear on bonnets
in New York. They are made into wreaths with the large
water forget-me-not.

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The Japanese at the Paris Exhibition have been
highly successful with their diqaay, of which they are said
to have sold the greater part for some 4.80,000.

On the 21st ult., Lloyd's agent at Para reported the
wreck at Salinas, on the coast of Brazil, of the Laura, Portu-
guese vessel. According to a statement by the French
Transatlantic Steamship Company this vessel had on board
300 passengers, who had been forced to quit Ceara In conse-
quence of a drought. and one hundred and seventy of them
perished in the wreck.

"Talking of the army stores," said a Woolwich
official to me yesterday, "we have enough port wine stored
u:i to give the whole British army the gout for a mouth."—
Whitehall Review.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times (as" Conscience Money") the receipt of a £5
note and of El ss. 44. in stamps.

Great rejoicings took place on Sunday at Ghent,
In consequence of the accession to power of a Liberal
Ministry.
An excursionist from Aberdeen has been killed by
failing over the cliffs at Muchalls, Kincardineshire.

Two youths, named Richard Salt and Thomas Davis,
were drowned while bathing in a brook at Selly Oak, on
Tuesday afternoon.
From Calcutta a curious account is reported of
the frenzy of a Belooehe Sepoy, at llyderabad, Seande, who,
after shooting his mistress, whom he believed unfaithful,
quietly left the barracks in the early morning with 100 rounds
of ammunition and deliberately shot every person he met.
Ile was eventually brought to bay by one of his officers, who
shot him with a revolver, but not before he had killed six
persons and dangerously wouuded four others.
The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland has decided an
important point with respect to -six-day litienses. It had
been contended that the holder of a six-day license could,
at its renewal or transfer, exchange it for a general or seven-
day license, the limitation to six days beirg optional. This
contention his lordship overruled, and decided that a license
must be renewed or transferred on the conditions subject to
which it was granted.
Lloyd's agent at Wellington, New Zealand, re.
ports oy telegraph the loss at liorowhenna of the ship
llydrabad, 1,400 tons, belonging to Lontion, owned by
Messrs: T. Stephens mid Sims. She went aphoie at the
place above mentioned, and was expected to become a total
wreck. All the crew and passengers saved, but the clOtsin
remains by the wreck. According to the last advices re-
ceived by the owner, the ship was loading a cargo of railway
materials at Port Lytteltert, New Zealand, for Adelaide
eh trter to the South 2V:sir:titan ltovernment Ur;
ilydrobad was an iron ship dadded AA 1,

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A cordon of ix)lies is placed round the Imperial
printing-office at Berlin, to prevent any tampering with the
printers engaged in preparing the official reports of the Con-
gress proceedings.
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A melancholy accident has occurred in the river
Kelvin, near Glasgow. Several lads went into the river to
bathe, and one of their number, John Peters, got beyond his
depth. A companion, Robert Strutbess, went to his assist-
ance, Peters caught hold of Struthers, and in the struggle
which ensued both rank and were drowned.

It is shown in the return of the RezistrarGeneral
that the number of small-pox patients in the Metropolitan
Asylum Hospitals, which was t. 54 on 20th April last, has since
steadily declined to 483 on Saturday last; The number of
new cafes admitted to these hospitals. which had been 84
and 100 in the two preceding weeks, declined again to 86 last
week. The Highgate Small-pox Hospital contained 35
patients on Saturday last, against 48, 43, and 33 oil the three
preceding Saturdays; 4 new cases were admitted during the
week.

the United States troops fought an engagement on
Sunday last with the Indians in Idaho. The result was Wl-
known, beyond the tact that a Colonel Robins and two sol-
diers were killed.

The bronze statue of Captain Cook, the navigator,
was placed on Tuesday evening on a temporary pedestal in
Waterloo-place, London, opposite the Atheitunum Club. It
has been executed for the New South Wales Government by
Mr. Woolner, and is to remain in its present position for two
months, when it will be taken out to New South Wales. It
Is intended to erect it on a pedestal 221 t. high overlooking
the harbour. It is of great size, with the right hand ex-
tended.

A Russian attache, just arrived at Berlin, remarked
that 13ismarck's illness did not seem to be so dangerous as it
was reported at St. Petersburg. "No," said a Prussian
attaché, "but his recovery may be."

The strike expected to take place in the carpet
trade may, it is thought, be averted. A poll of the opera-
tives in England and Scotland has been taken, and the
result is as follows :—For accepting the reduction, 925: for
striking, 807 Of the latter no fewer than 859 votes were
those ef English operatives.

Some of the delegates from England to the session
of Good Templars held at Massachusetts have now returned
from America by Inman steamer. The others will come
later.

One of the most interesting sights in the Paris
Exhibition is the wonderful collection of jewellery, arms,
&c., brought home by the Prince of Wales on his return from
the country of the rajahs, and now on view in the Indian
section.

Three hundred mechaniea employed in the railway
workshops at Seaham have received notice of a reduction of
wages, with the choice of continuing at the present rate,
working ten hours, instead of nine, per day. The men re•
fuse both propositions.

The following telegram has been received by the
Viceroy of India from the Duke of Cambridge at Malta :
" Having completed the in,pection of the Indian force here
assembled, I beg to congratulate you and the Indian armies
on the admirable appearance and efficiency of all the troops.
Their health is excellent and their conduct admirable."

The Paris Figaro states that a proposition has been
made to continue the Exhibition for a month longer than
originally intended—that Is to say, until the end of Novem-
ber; and the journal adds that in all probability the
proposal will be carried out.

A platelayer was standing in the six-foot way near
a tunnel at Chester, when the fast train from Holyhead was
coming in. Having stepped over the metals he was caught
by the engine, hurled a long distance, and killed.

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The North Wilts Herald understands that the Great
Western Railway Company have decided to close the rail
mills which form a part of their works at Swindon, and in
which department several hundred hands were employed.
This measure, it is said, was rendered necessary by the intro-
duction of steel rails, which, it is also asserted, can be
bought for less money than the iron ones could be manu-
factured at Swindon. It is further stated that the company
may probably erect steel works at Swindon.

Eleven women and many children are reported to
have been killed by the Turkish troops in their recent attack
on the insurgents in the neighbourhood of .Jane, Crete.
The fighting appears to have been without decisive results.

The Dundee Advertiser learns that nearly a million
of capital has already been subscribed for the construction
of the proposed railway bridge across the Forth.

Our Prime Minister has been guilty of another joke
(says "The Tatler "in the Pictorial World). Some one was
talking to him about the country round about Ismid, and
was sal lug what the Turks might do with it if they were so
inclined. "They know nothing about agriculture,' remarked
the gentleman, "yet if they had some good agricultural
machines they could make.the thing pay well enough."
"Their machines, indeed," answered the earl, "poor fellows,
their machines, alas I their necessities are much greater than
their inventions."

American papers say that Edison, the inventor,
has perfected a fog-horn that can be heard ten miles; but,
when it comes to an invention for getting his hired girl up
In the morning, he smiles sadly and falls to musing on the
infinite.

The sale of the Cobden yearlings on Saturday
realised 22,015 guineas, the average being about 361 guineas.
The highest price paid was for a brown colt by Carnival cut
of Curacoa, and which fetched 2,500 guineas.
"How old are you?" a stranger asked a little
fellow who was selling newspapers at the corner of a Paris
boulevard, carefully reckoning up his gains, and giving
chauge with a practised hand. "Six," was the laconic reply.
"And how long have you been carrying on this business 1"
With a roguish look and bending down to fold his news-
papers on the pavement, as if be would show how easy it was
for him to attend to two things at once, he answered, "How
long?" Oh, ever since I was a child."—Court Journal.

Mr. Philips, M.P. for Bury, laid the naemorill stone
of a new Liberal club at Prestwich on Saturday, and in the
C 311120 of an address said we were now told that the whole
system Of non-interference by England in foreign matters
had gone by. He doubted very much whether this was the
true policy, and in the hands of the present advisers of her
Majesty, unless a tight rein was kept upon them, it would
prove very dangerous to the welfare of the nation.

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It is said in Berlin that Prince Bismarck does not
approve the choice of Mehemet AU Pasha as the Turkish
Plenipotentiary. Wnen His Excellency called upon the
Prince on his arrival at Berlin, he met with a very cold re-
ception. "Your Excellency comes somewhat late," said the
Prince. The storms in the Black Sea have delayed us," re-
plied the Turkish Plenipotentiary. " That,' 'said Prince
Bismarck, in his brusque manner, "is nothing new. The
Black Sea minds have of late been persistently against you."
—Mayfair.
An inquiry has been held at Hanworth, near Felt-
ham, as to the death of Benjamin Wells, ten years of age,
the son of a farm labourer. The evidence showed that on
the ev,ning of Whit Sunday, the 9th inst., the boy was play-
ing in the house of a relative at lianworth. A gun was in
one of the rooms, and Wells asked a boy thirteen years of
age, named Sainsbury, to tire it off. Sainsbury put the gun
on the threshold and applied a lighted Inciter to the nipple.
The weapon exploded, and a portion of its contents lodged
in Wells's thigh, from the effect of which death ensued on
the 19th 'net. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death from a gunshot wound."

The Earl of Ashhurnham, after an illness of several
months, died at Ashburnharn-place, his seat, near Battle,
Sussex, shortly after eight o'clock on Saturday morning last.
The deceased nobleman was the second son of George, third
Earl of Ashburnham, and was horn 23rd November, 1797,
consequently be was in his 81st year. He married January 8,
1840, Katherine Charlotte, fourth daughter of the late Mr.
Geo. Bailie of Jerviawood, by whom he had issue Bertram,
Viscount St. Ataph, and five other sons and three daughters.

The Irish Registrar-General's returns far twelve
nyuphs show a slight increase of population, which now
stauds at 6,340,000 There is a slight but steady immigra-
tion, which is a,T.impanied by a declining emigration. The
marriages were five to every thousand of the mean popula-
tion. The deaths were in a ratio of 17 per thousand, a slight
increase on the previous year.

During the thunderstorm on Sunday last the
lightning struck an oak tree at Sutton, aud descending
among a flock of sheep, several got so injured as to necessi-
tate their being killed.

A telegram from Rockhampton, one of the principal
places in Australia for slaughtering and preserving the
tinned meats sold in this country states that owing to the
low prices obtainable on this side the works are stopped.
The cattle dealers require 14s. per 1001 h for the raw
material, but the manager of the works will only pay 12s. or
something less than lid. per lb., but there are few if any
stockowners willing to sell their herds at this rate.

A Calcutta telegram says authentic news is reported
to have reached India that the Russians are endeavouring to
press an Embassy upon the Ameer of Cabul, up to this time,
howftver, unsuccessfully.

The Prince of Wales hag ordered one of the Japanese
rooms that are being imported into England. Every piece
of the strurture.takes out and can be fitted together in a
few hours, without nail, glue, or peg. The price, with aU
sorts of art decorations and fittings is £.230. It is said they
are specimens of the unblemisiled work of a people with
whom a good taste is traditional.
A curious and instructive incident occurred the other
day in Cassel, at a publlc meeting for voting an address to
the Emperor William. The chAirmAn proposed that the
surplus of donations for covering the expenses of the meet-
ing should be devoted to the fund for the families of the
victims of the "Unfortunate Kurftirst " (Elector) This pro-
posal was unanimously adopted, but not until a protest had
been raised by one of those present, who "thought that the
money might be better employed than In being given to the
sons of the late Elector, who had inherited so much money."
Of course the misunderstanding was explained.— Mayfair.
The avidity with which the Parisian populace
volunteered into the Garde Mobile at the beginning of the
war, has only been equalled by their subsequent eagernbbs
to retrace their steps. They have been made the butt of
many jokes. We subjoin the latest: A General inspecting
his battalion, asked a young Mobile whether he had any
complaint to make. " Yes, general." "What is it?" "I
am suffering from palpitation of the heart." "Good," was
the reply, "it beats for its country."

The new ship Largo Bay, 1,200 tons, Capt. T.
Cusin, chartered by Sir Arthur Myth, K.C.M.G., Agent-
General for South Australia, left the Clyde on the 21st inst.
for Port Adelaide with 362 Scotch emigrants, under the charge
of Dr. G. 11. Cartwright, surgeon, among whom were 70
single female domestic servants wider the care of Mrs. Agnes
Osborne, matron,

The .i•Torfollc.Chamber of Agriculture held a meeting
on Saturday for the purpose of discussing the Government
Valuation Bill. Mr. C. S. Head, M.P., said he objected to the
Bill became of its centralising tendency, and because it was a
measure for which the country had in no way asked. After
a brief discussion, the chamber adopted a resolution to the
effect that the only appeals from assessment committees
should be to the High Court of Justice on points of law and to
represent county boards on other questions, and that any
change in the system of assessment should be postponed until
after the establishment of county boards.

The expression "of ours" is of course general in the
army; but only a few days ago I heard a college "gyp"
speak of Mr. So-and-so "of ours," meaning the college
wherein he (the speaker) had the honour of being a servant.
—Pictorial Wind.
The Mark-lane Express of Monday night says that
haymaking has been sadly delayed by the rain, and in many
districts where cutting has taken place it has been impossible
to secure the crop, at any rate until the end cf last week,
when a couple of bright days enabled some cariing to be
done. Barley appears to have suffered severely from the
continuous moisture. The wheat plants looks sickly and
yellow. Despite the somewhat conflicting nature of agricul-
tural ads-ices, the present situation of the cereal crops is
highly critical, and nothing but a continuance of, normal
weather can prevent another addition to the succession of
unproductive and unreniunerative seasoms which have
proved well nigh ruinous to farmers.
Two new kinds of domestic servants appear to have
been invented. Amidst three columns of advertisements in
a daily paper for these necessary evils, I find oi.e for a "pas-
sage-maid, and another fon a vegetable. maid." We had
scullery, kitchen, parlour, and house-maids before; accord-
ing to this arrangement our households will now need a stair-
case-maid, while in the culinary department the possession
of a vegetable-maid will necessitate the addition of a meat-
maid and a awe et-maid .—Court Journal.

At noon, on Monday, a London and South• Western
goods train of about thirty empty wagg.us ran into a Great
Western goods train at the Wt-yinouth station. B,vet
waggons were completely smashed. The driver and stoker
escaped with slight injuries.

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Lord William Graham died on Friday last at Ma
residence in Wilton-etreet, itelgrave-squere, T.,ondon, from
coneestion of•the lungs. Re was the youngest of the eight
children of James, third Duke of Mnntruse, KG., and Lady
Caroline Maria Montagu, eldest daughter of Gebrge, first
Doke of Manchester, .ani was brother of the late anti uncle
of toe present Duke of Montro-e.
Lord John Mannen, M. P., in addressing a gather-
ing of the Conservatives of Maryleinme, said that when the
result of the Berlin Congress was knowe, it the country was
ot-vpinion either that it was unsatisfactory or that the stips
which had led to that result had been unworthy of cond.
fldence, then it would be easy for the country to express
that opinion, to ceneura, tuni to dismiss them. But lf, as he
hoped, quite different results took place, then at the next
election, as at the previous one, the sympathy of the people
of England would be moved to support the Government
which had maintained, through good and thr,ugh erl re.
Port. the houtftir, the Interests, and tte dignit/ of the litas

The Bristol Mercury says that so unfortunate
season for salmon was never before remembered in the
Severn, many of the licensed fishermen not having caught a
single fish.
A very fine porpoise was caught off Caistor on
Monday morninz, in a herring. net. It has been placed iu
a large tank at the Yarmouth Aquarium.
At a meeting of the Burnley magistrates on
nesday morning it was decided to send the Dragoon Guars
away from the town.

The cricket match between the Australiana and a
Middlesex eleven ended on Saturday in the victory of the
former by 08 ram
Miss Barlow, of Leicester, hag presented the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution with the sum of £6OO, the cost
of a new lifeboat, to be named the John Clay Barlow, in
memory of her brother.

An inquest ht‘s been held at Sheffield on the body
of a young man I,amed William Adams. On the 7th inst. he
was engaged making bricks by machinery, when he got the
fingers of his right hand trapped. He was taken to the -
infirmary, where lockjaw supervened, and be did on Sunday.
A verdict of ACcidenta.l Death was returned.

" Sickness is greatly on the increase in the Czar's
army. I have been informefl by a Rani an officer that there
are 20,000 sick at San Stefano waiting removal to Rushdie.
Great difficulty is being txperienced in chartering steaniera,
as the crews desert from fear of Contagion. The present
means of transport is totally inadequate."—Pera Corres-
pondent of Daily Telegraph.
The Persian Monarch sends a telegram in cipher
every day from the Grand Hotel. for which the coet
generally nearly £9O.

The Land Agents' Record learns that, "in view of
the recent fatal accident to Sir Julian Goldsmid and similar
casualties the Railway Companies' Association, which
directly represents the interests of the principal railways
of the country, have under consideration the adoption of
a platform of a uniform height, with continuous foot-
boards to carriages to correspond."
A committee in Edinburgh are taking steps to pro-
vide the means of obtaining a comfortable home and
education for the children of Cliaq,trelle, who was lately
executed in Edinburgh. There are three boys, aged 9 years,
7 yews, and IS months respectively. It is intended to change
their name and to send them elsewhere. A sum of .C. 560 has
already been raised, but it is considered that £l,OOO will be
required,

In consequence of the attempt now being made by
the employers in the carpet trade to reduce wages ten per
cent., a ballot has taken place in the Dewsbury and Heck-
mondwike districts among those who are engaged in the
trade. The Dewsbury and Eleckmondwike districts were by a .
majority of 600, in favour of resisting the proposals of the
masters, but the voting in Scotland hi:o neutralised that of
the West Riding, and there remains a small majority in
favour of accepting the alteration proposed by the employers.
When this rsisult became known in Dewsbury and llerfleld
on Saturday, there was great disappointment as the wages
at those places have been frightfully low for a long period.
The reduction affects those employed on hand-looms only,
and will come into effect on the first of July.
A shock of an earthquake is reported from Ville-
franche, near Lyons, where some damage was eone to fac-
tories and private houses.

Three Bishops were consecrated at St. Paul's Cathe-
dral, on Monday, Dr. Maclagan to the See of Lichfield, Dr.
Cramer-Roberts to the See of Nassau, and Dr. G. R. Stanton
to the New See of North Queensland.
A monumental bust of the late Rev. Jabez Burns,
D.D., for many years pastor of the Edgware-road Chapel,
Church-street, London, and a leading supporter of the
Temperance cause, was unveiled in the Paddington Ceme-
tery, Willesden-lane, Kilburn, on Monday. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. .1. P Chown, President of the
London Baptist Society, in the preseuce of a large gathering
of the friends of the deceased.

The bodies of Reginald and Sidney Spender, who
were drowned at Whitsands, near Plymouth, on Whit-San-
day, together with their father, Mr. Spender, of London,
were recovered on Saturday. They were found floating in
the water about a mile from where the accident occurred.
Mr. CroEs on Monday, received a deputation from
the Convention of the Royal burghs of Scotland, which
presented a petition showing that at a recent meeting of the
convention a resolution, which had been eight days pre-
viously submitted to the representatives of the respective
Royal burghs for their consideration, was passed by a very
large majority, declaring that the prohibition of marriage
with a deceased wife's sister, not being in conformity with
the Divine Word, is an unjust restriction on personal
freedom, and dangerous to the interests of morality; and
the intention of the Convention to vetition Parliament in
support of the Colonial Marriage Bill and the Deceased
Wife's Sister Bill. The deputation was introduced by Dr.
Cameron, M.P., and the petition was spoken to by Professor
Hunter. Mr. Cross thanked the deputation in a formal reply,

The idea of lighting tunnels with the electrical light.
is not at all a bad one.

Mr. George Thompson, an Englishman, left the
Glawbier Hotel, Gendelwald, on the 10th inst., intending of
ascend the Fanthorn without a guide. Taking the path
over the Hol;matzten and becoming giddy, he got into such
a position In the Kniebrecher that he dared neither advance
nor retreat. Here he remained five days and six nights,
subsisting on such roots and herbs as he could gather. At
last, growing desperate, he contrived to slide down tho
mountain on his back, and late on the night of the 15thinst.
crawled to the cottage of ITlrich Gertsch, near the Abusa Alp,
where he received food and shelter, and was next day con-
ducted to Grindelwald.
An Eyglish diplomatist assures me that Lord
Beaconsfield's object in attending the Congress personally was
not only to preventlhe policy laid down in the now famous
Schuvaloff-Salisbury lettioranouin from being carried into
effect, but to oppose all tendency to grant further conces.
alone to Russia.—Mamfair.

The Maidstone Journal reports a decided improve-
ment in the appearance of the growing hops.

On Saturday Cardinal Manning opened a new
Roman Catholic church erected in the Linclon•roud,
Alban's, and dedicated to 8.5 Alban and Stephen. There
was a large cougrt gAtion present at the opening service. It
is intended to erect a seminary in connection with the church,
with a view to the education of the children of Roman
Catholic parents.

A Paris journal announced the death of the late ex-
King of Hanover thus:—" 16 Juin.—M. 6eorge3 V. (rot de
Hanovre), 50 ans, Rue de Preabourg, 7."

An accident, in which several persons were injured,
occurred on the Great Northern line near Bradford on
Sunday. A passenger train ran off the metals at a place
called Quarry Gap, between Shipley and 13-radtord. The
engine and two carriages, which were thrown into some
excavations, were smashed. The driver and stoker were
amongst the most seriously injured.
Daring the storm on Sunday Kirkstall Abbey was
struck by lightning. The pinnacle on the western gable was
a good deal shattered. It is believed that the lightning was
attracted by the iron-work which holds this portion of the
ruin together.

The London Coal Market on Monday was steady at
last prices.
It is said that the Porte, having ascertained that
the Russians are sending Turkish prisoners to Siberia under
the pretext that they do not belong to the regular army,
has protested at St. Petersburg and informed the European
Powers.

Last week the supply of fresh meat at Liverpool
front the United States and Canada amounted to 5,844 qrs.
of beef and 276 carcases of mutton, a quantity slightly in ex-
cess of the previous week. In the arrivals of live cattle there
was also a marked increase, the numbers being 1,825 head of
cattle and 174 pigs, as well as 71 horses.
At the works of the Darlington Iron Company
(Limited) on Saturday morning an upright holler exploded,
an interior tube giving way. Fortunately the hulk of the
workmen were away at breakfast, or the loss of life must
have been serious. One man died soon afterwards, and one
or two others are in a dancerous state. A woman living or
the opposite side of the road, while engaged in kitchen work,
was hit by a flying missile and cut in the head. Her life was
despaired of. The boiler had been regularly inspected. The •
force et the explosion carried the boiler completely through
the roof 50ft, high, and it fell down 50 yards oft through
another roof.

Last week 2,625 births and 1,391 deaths were regis-
tered in London. Allowing for increase of population, the
births exceeded by 340, and the deaths by 20, the average
numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
The annual death-rate from all causes, which in the two
previous weeks had been equal to 21.6 and 19 0 per 1,000,
rose again last week to 20.3. The deaths included 19 from
small-pox, 17 from measles, 17 from scarlet fever, 12 from
diphtheria, 103 from whooping-cough, 19 from different
forms of fever, and 23 from diarrhcei.
A serious accident happened on Monday to Captain
H. L. Dundas, of the 15th Regiment, one of the Staff officers
of the Portsmouth garrison. While the gallant officer was
riding on Southsea-cornmon, his horse fell and rolied over
him, inflicting very serious injuries.

The Harriet G., from Porto Cabello for Maracaibo,
before reported as ashore at Adiera, coast of Paraguana,
Venezuela, remained on the 21st ult, in an upright position
in good condition and undamaged. The tug-boat Rf-mil-
cador was despatched from 3taracaiho to her assistance on
the 15th ult. with some 16 persons on board, including Captain
Avery, of the Harriet G., several other captains and engineers,
but blew up before reaching the spot, and of the persons on
board only three, Captain Avery and two sailors, were saved.
Further arrangements are about being made to salve the
brig with the steamer Maracaibo, and in case they failed it
is snpposed that the Coast Wrecking Company's steamer
Rescue, which left Norfolk on the Bth inst. for the ',cane of
the disaster, with all necessary wrecking appliances, will be
more successful
In an interesting cAlection of manuscripts recently
sold by Messrs. Wilkinaon and Sotheby (London) was
Nelson's codicil to his will, entirely in his own handwriting,
In which he bequeaths to his "very dear friend Emma
Hamilton a gold box set with diamonds, "as a token of
egard and respect for her very eminent virtues," and fifty
guineas to Sir W. Hamilton. This was on one page folio,
dated on board the Vanguard, off Mauritius, May 25, 1799,
and witnessed by Captain Troubridge and Captain Hardy.
With this was sold a will, with two codicils, all in Nelson's
handwriting, dated on board the St Qeorge, March 5, 1801,
and witnessed by Captain Hardy and Vaptain Thesiger, and
enclosed in an envelope with Nelson's seal and signature,
The codicil, and the will with two codicils, had long been in
the possession of Lady Hamilton, and Caine through her to
the late owner, by whom they were now sold. The price
obtained for these interesting relics sold in one lot, was
£5O.

"A Bonapartist paper announces that the Prince
Imperial is about to visit Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, a
trip, it adds, which it is not authorised to connect with a,
rumoured marriage with a Danish Princess."—Paris Corre-
spondent of The Times.
On Tuesday afternoon Prince Fredetick Charles of -„
Germany and his daughter, the Princess Louise Marguerite, .
the intended bride of the Duke of Connaught, who were
accompanied by his Royal Highness, arrived at Windsor
Castle on a visit to Her Majesty. On the train drawing up
opposite the Royal waiting-room, the Duke of Connaught
was the first to alight, and he then assisted the Princess
Louise Marguerite to alight, and her Imperial Highness was
followed by her father. After affectionate greetings had been
exchanged between the Prince Frederick Charles and Prince
and Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice, the whole
party drove to the Castle in carriages that had been we.iting.
Princess Louise Marguerite, Princess Iseatrice, Prince
Frederick Charles, and the Duke of Connaught drove in
the first carriage, the other members of the party following.
The Mayor of Windsor, and some members of the Windsor
Corporation, were on the platform to witness thc arrival of
the Royal party, The intended visit was not generally
known, and consequently there were not many spectators.
Late on Saturday evening, on the arrival of the
Thames Valley train at Fulwell Station, the assistant guard
In chargi was missing. On search being made along the
line the body of the unfortunate man was discovered, his
head being completely smashed in, and other injuries to the
body being apparent. It is supposed that the deceased was
leaning with his head out of the carriage, and then it came
in contact with a pole which had been placed at a part of
the line where some repairs to a wooden bridge were being
made, and that subsequently the body bad fallen from the
carriage. •
A telegram from Constantinople says that Eaker
Pasha has tendered his resignation as Ger.t•rul of Division on
ths ground that the Turkish officers who fought, side by side
w been promoted
to higher ranks, have, despite his .
recommendation, enobatt;e
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inquest
eetYet as
hiat on the iffth inst. her husbarrd returned
home during a heavy thunderstorm. He appeared lunch • -
depressed, and complainen of great pain in his head He
always buffered acutely from this on the appro,,ch of a
storm. While he was sitting In the room the light-fling be-
came more vivid, and he was attacked with a penultsy pain
at the back of his head. The witness did nut send tor a •
medical man. She afterwards went -to bed, her husband -
reutaieieg dowrstaire all night. On thu following morning
he entered her bedroom fatly drettsed, and after remaining
a few minutes returned downstairs. He wee a temperate
man, but for the pawten y.e4rs•basl.. been very peculiar in;. ,• 1..- • •-•
his manner on the approach of a atom. A son of the do-
ceased said that, hearing that his father was missing, hit
taunt In search of him, and found him hanging by a cord
from a beam in a shed which he rented, a short ladder Lying
close to his feet. The jury returned a verdict 44 sttioute
while temporarily insaca

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