The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-10-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Electrician learns from St. Petersburg that
preparations are in progress for illuminating the streets of
the Russian capital by means of jablochkoff's electric light.
A Reuter's telegram from New Orleans says that
there were twenty-nine deaths from yellow fever in that city
on Sunday, and ten at Memphis.
Old fans are to be the fashion next season. People
are already selling off their blue and white china, and
making early purchases in the new craze.
The latest feat in burglary, reported from the
United States, is the theft ot an organ and gas fixtures from
Burlington College, New Jersey.
The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, in addressing the
Baptist Union at Leeds the other day, spoke of the Chris-
tian Church as being divided into three sects, which he had
heard termed platitudinarianism, latitudinarianism, and
attitudinarianism ; but the author of this classification was
the late George Dawson, of Birmingham.
It is stated in a Constantinople telegram that,
Hobart Pasha having informed the Sultan that he was sus-
pected in England of inclining towards a Russian alliance,
his Majesty nas declared to Sir Henry Layard that he would
never conclude such an alliance.
Saturday, the 30th November, has been decided on
by Mr. Gladstone as the day upon which he will visit his
constituents.
Farmers in this section of Surrey are employing
steam ploughs in breaking Up the corn stnbbles and clover
leys, for sowing with wheat. The want of rain to moisten
the land precludes the use of horse ploughs in many districts,
and steam is resorted to for getting wheat Into the ground.
The standard for recruitn for the corps of Royal
Marines has been raised half an inch—vit , for the Royal
Marine Artillery, from Mt. Sin, to sfl. Biin., and for the
Royal Marine Light Infantry from sfl. Sin. to Sit. qtn. and
•rom Sit. 7in. to 51t. Thin, according to age. _ _

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Steeplechasing is carried on briskly at Montreal.
"One rider killed and two others severely injured," are the
recorded casualties of a recent gathering.

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At a meeting of railway servants held at Manchester
resolutions were passed condemning the working of the
trip system now enforced on the London and North-
Western Railway, and stating that no system would be just
which which did not provide for payment, at the rate of
sight hours per day, for all time worked by drivers and
brakesmen beyond the time allowed in the working time
table.
In the international exhibition of articles made of.
paper on view at Berlin, a stove composed almost entirely
of that combustible material atbracta much notioe. The
paper used for the purpose has been rendered fire-proof
by a coating of asbestos. it is heated with charcoal, and is
reported to be answering its purpose very well.
A gentleman connected with the United Kingdom
Alliance recently wrote from Bradford to Mr. Gladstone,
asking him to use his influence for the abolition of grocers'
licenses for intoxicating liquors. Mr. Gladstone writes in
reply: "You are aware that the subject has recently been
under public examinntion' and for one I shall attach very
great weight to the result of independent and authoritative
inquiry. The object of the measure undoubtedly was to
promote temperance, by relieving persons from the necessity
of going to the public-houses when in want of alsoholic
liquors for domestic usu."
At the Exeter Diocesan Conference it was announced
that in that diocese alone £lOO,OOO had this year been raised
for Church purposes and it was urged that other dioceses
should publish similar annual returns, so as to show the
extent of the voluntary work the Church was doing.
A very ingenious go-cart attracts much attention in
Paris (says the Court Journal). It coats only 25fr., weighs
but nibs., and suits babies from two years upwards. A
velvet covered metal hoop clasps the waist, and works on a
simple spring, which lets down a seat, and tarns it up when
baby rises. There is a shelf for holding goody-goodies, toys,
&c. The cart makes no noise, the wheels are covered with
india-rubber, and thus saves carpets. The whole thing is an
ambulatory creche, and ought to constitute a tranquility for
parents and a joy for nurse..
In the German Parliament on Saturday the Socialist
, Bill was read a third time and passed, by a majority of 72.
Prince Bismarck, in closing the session, expressed his satis-
faction at the passing of the Bill. The Federal Governments,
he said, were determined to make a sincere effort to cure
the prevailing disease, but they could scarcely do so in
two years and a half. They hoped for farther concessions
from the Reichstag. The Berlin Correspondent of the Daily
Netts says that the scene was solemn and impressive, and
that the announcement of the result was received in pro-
found silence, quite in harmony with the unusual nature of
the occasion.
Tuesday was the 81st anniversary of the birth of
Lord Camoys, who was born in London on October 22, 1797.
This venerable peer is the eldest son of Thomas Stonor,
Esq., of Stonor, In Oxfordshire, by Catherine, sister and co-
heir of Charles Robert Blundell, Esq., of Ince Blundell, in
Lancashire. This title remained in abeyance from the
reign of Henry VI., when the second baron died a minor;
It was called out of abeyance on September 14, 1839, in
favour of the present peer, who claimed as great-grand-
son, maternally, of the eldest of the co-heirs of the second
baron.
It is said that an English Bishop was recently on a
visit to a reverend doctor who is a prominent Episcopal
clergyman in New York, and the doctor instructed a
eolorired boy in his service to knock at the bedroom door of
the Lord Bishop early in the morning and say, "My Lord,
the boy." Accordingly, the next morning the boy, some-
what dazed at so much grandeur, knocked at the Bishop's
door, who called out, "Who's there?" The boy responded,
The Lord, my boy."—Sche.
A word of caution just at the present time as to the
discharge of fireworks may be useful. Young children are
too often allowed to discharge these dangerous toys them-
selves. We know of a case where only a day or two ago a
little girl was severely burnt by a lighted catherine wheel
which had been insecurely fixed, and which flew down her
back between her clothes and her akin.—Echo.
The discovery has just been made in the cellars of
the Artistic Museum of Berlin of some cases containing some
valuable mosaics from Ravenna. They had been lying
there sioce the 17th March, 1848, where they had been
forgotten, having arrived in the midst of the confusion of
the revolution.
Dan Newman, of Sierra Valley, Cal., killed 205
blackbirds by emptying only two barrels from a shot-gun
Into a flock of them the other day. This may appear a rather
improbable story, but it is vouched for by a half-dozen or
so reliable witnesses. The birds were huddled together in a
grain field where a threshing machine had shortly before
been in operation, when Newman fired at them, and each
shot seemed to have brought down a separate victim.
The first all-steel bridge to be made in America will
be erected over the Missouri River, on the line of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad. It will be of five spans of 350
feet each, and it will contain 1,500 tons of steel.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times (as "Conscience Money ") the receipt of 10s. in
postage stamps from "A. B."
The income of the United Kingdom Alliance in
subscriptions and donations during the past year is £14,561.
On Monday Bessarabia was definitely delivered to
the Russian authorities. The Governor, in a telegram an-
nouncing the event to the Czar, says that the surrender
took place amidst the unbounded enthusiasm of the inha-
bitants. "All classes of the population (he adds) join
in expressing the most loyal sentiments towards your
Majesty."
Whatever may be the price of bread in different
parts of London or in the provinces, the price of wheat is
still down. According to the returns of statistical and corn
departments lost received, we learn that the average price
of wheat last week was 39e. 3d. This compares most
favourably with the average price during the corresponding
week last year which was 525. 9d.—Echo.
A rather curious sight is just now to be witnessed in
London, at the Northern end of Waterleo-bridge, (says the
Court Journal). Down in the cellars of Somerset mouse
close by, the clerks are engaged in counting postage stamps,
of which there would seem to be an almost interminable
quantity, for they keep steadily at it, and to watch their
proceedings a select company of curious persons lean and
gape over the stone parapet hour after hour, apparently
gaining a great deal of satisfaction from what would appear
to be a somewhat monotonous form of amusement.
Share Ali, bearing that the Russians had laid a line
of telegraph from Samarkand to Badakshan, has requested
the Czar to continue it to Afghanistan, promising the free
delivery of the poles and of provisions for the workmen.
There were 37' British and foreign wrecks reported
during the past week, making a total of 1,148 for the present
year. Vessels and cargoes were approximately valued at
£310,000, including British £20e,000.
flt appears from a Parliamentary return just issued,
that 252 persons are now in penal servitude or undergoing
Imprisonment by sentence of naval courts martial.
"The enormous mass of the ballots captif in its
quiescent state looming over the ruins of the Tuileries has
given a new aspect so the ill-fated palace, as seen from the
Rue de Itivoll. It seems as though a gigantic cupola, vast,
shiny, and out of all drawing and proportion had been
added to the building."—The World.
Relics of the ill-fated Eurydice have been forwarded
from Portsmouth Dockyard to the Princess of Wales and to
Mrs. Hare, the widow of the captain of the ill-fated ship.
The Cambridge Improvement Board have resolved
that immediate steps be taken for diverting the sewage of
the town from the River Cam, and that Sir Joseph Bazalgette
be requested to advise the board as to the best mode of doing
so.
Mr. Ira D. Sankey arrived in London on Monday
from Liverpool, where he had landed a few days since from
New York, and will shortly recommence his musieo-re-
ligious services in the metropolis. Mr. Moody, who is at
present in America preparing a set or series of new sermons,
will leave for England after he has completed this work, and
after his arrival a revival tour, similar to that made some
four years since,- will be made by him in conjunction with
Mr. Sankey.
There were 2,558 births and 1,369 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births exceeded by 96, whereas the deaths were 90 below
the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last
ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which
had been equal to 198 and 201 per 1,000 in the two pre-
ceding weeks, was 200. The deaths included 5 from small-
pox, 10 from measles, 45 from scarlet fever, 12 from diph-
theria, 23 from whooping-cough, 30 from different forma of
fever, and 36 from diarrhoea.
As Mr. Heins, bailiff at the Mtrquis of Ely's estate
of K ernsey, was in a meadow mushrooming the other
morning, he was attacked by a bull belonging to his lord-
ship, and received very severe injuries, one arm being torn
from the wrist to the elbow. Be was conveyed home and
attended by a doctor, and was found to be in a very pre-
carious condition.
"AU over the country the holders of gas shares
seem to be occupying themselves in performing that super-
fluous operation known as ' shutting the stable-door after
the horse has been stolen.' Those who were wise realised
directly the elect:ic light began to be exhibited in the public
thoroughfares, and whilst yet their property was worth
double its nominal value, that the shares should decline in
value as the prospect of partially utilising the electric light
increased was to be expected; but the late sudden fall is
wholly unjustified by facts, and a substantial rise is almost
certain to take place at no distant date."—The Wor/d.
There has:j da.t died at Creech, near Bridgwater, 'an
old Peninsular veteran, named Joseph Graves. rho deceased
inflated in the 40th Foot in April, 1809, and served in the Penin-
sular campaigns of 1811, 1812, and 1813, and was present at
the privcipal engagements fought during those memorable
years. He was wounded at Badajoz and at Salamanca. He
was, however, still fit for service, and accompanied his regi-
ment to the South of France in 1814. He afterwards served
in America, New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, and
subsequently in the East Indies. After twenty-five ye
service he received his discharge at Bombay on December 11,
1834, and he enjoyed a pension up till his death.
Mr. Starkie, M.P. for North-East Lancashire, in
opening a bazaar in aid of Baxenden Church, said the re-
ligions body to which he belonged—the Church of England--
had done a great work in the direction of education. He
referred to the introduction of Board schools in 1870, when
it was said it would be the death-blow of sgctarian schools.
At the present day, or, rather, about two years ago, there
were 15,000 public schools, of which only 2,084 were Board
schools—that was, one in six or seven. The expenses of the
Board schools ran about £2 Is. per child, and the coat at
the voluntary schools was about ,C 1 13s. per head. He
trusted that education and religion would go together.
There was no public man, whether he sat on the Bench or
as a FOOT Law Guardian, or in any other capacity of public
life, hut must wish that in no way should education and re-
ligion be separated.

The last company of Mormons for the present
season took their departure from the Mersey on Saturday, in
the Onion steamer Wyoming. They numbered 159 persons,
and were accompanied by 12 returning elders. They are on
their way to New York, en route to Salt Lake City, Utah.
They comprised natives of England, Ireland, Sootland,
Wales, and several Danes. During the present year over
2,000 Mormons have left Liverpool for Utah.
'Arry was recently in Paris, and when he came home)
he boasted how well he got on with the very small know-
ledge of French which he possessed. Ile was asked how he
managed at the restaurants. "Oh, first-rate " was his reply,
pulling out a dinner bill, "I had some of that," pointing to
an item in the bill, "and it was up to the knocker." "Why,
you didn't eat a whole one? " asked his friend. "Yes, I did;
and I liked it so well that I had another. What are you
laughing at?" "Oh, nothing ! Only the English for
serviette 'is a napkin I '"—Echo.
The Bristol Histrionic Club have contributed a sum
of £3O 135. 66.., as the net proceeds of a performance given
at the Old Theatre, Bristol, in aid of the fund for the relief
of the sufferers by the Abercarne Colliery Explosion.
The reduction of 7i per cent, on the wages of the
workmen employed in the Clyde shipbuilding yards took
• effect from Monday last. The men, although they complain
of the short notice and the extent of the reduction, have all
gone in, but the trade's delegates have asked the masters to
confer with them on the wages question generally.
Information which has reached Lahore tells. of a
fearful state of famine in Cashmere. One story is to the
effect that in the Valley "One-third of the populatleit is
dead; one-third fled, and a third remaining ta die..'
The Nile appears to be causing a good deal of
anxiety this season. It has again overflowed its banks near
Semenout, and serious damage is expected. Bands of
fellaheen, numbering altogether 10,000 men, are engaged in
constructing a new dyke. Many villages are under water.
All the projects for raising the ironclad Vanguard,
which sank some three or four years ago through a collision
with the Iron Duke, having failed, it is stated that the
Admiralty have now decided to blow the vessel up. An
attempt will be made to save the iron masts, <to' and with
this view the Lords of the Admiralty have called upon
Staff Captain Batt, master attendant and Queen's harbour-
master at Chatham Dockyard, to report how this can best be
done.
I see that the report of the United States Agri-
cultural Department shows the condition of the wheat crop
to be "the same as in September "—whatever that may
mean—and it is estimated that the yield will be upwards of
4,000,000 bushels. Of maize the estimated yield is
1,300,000,000 bushels, and the average condition is denoted
by the figures 90. Oats, it is expected, will exceed last year's
crop —Mark Lane Express.
The Daily News' Correspondent at Pesth says That
aecording to a telegram from Belgrade Itussian•agents are
swarming all over Servia, with the view of fomenting
• 'libeling against Austria.
." Apropos of the awful panic at the Liverpool
' Theatre, you may not perhaps know that during the last cen-
tury there .have been over 130 fires at different theatres.
The old Paris Opera House was burnt down on five separate
occasions; but those attended with the greatest loss of life
, were the Saragossa theatre fire, when COO were lost' the
.Quebec, when 500 were lost, and the lire at Carlsruhe thirty
years ago."—" The Tatler "in Pictorial World.
The Vienna Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
says :—" According to intelligence from Bombay published
by the Treindenblatt Shere Ali gave orders early last month
that the manufactory of arms he has established should
double its staff of workmen, so that an army of 200,000 men
might be got ready as soon as possible. He further instructed
the frontier officials to keep a sharp look-out upon all
foreigners, and to execute those suspected of being spies."
' A lawsuit has been brought to restrain the use of
any language except English in the public schools of St.
Louts. If successful, the suit will save the city an expense
of 25,000 dollars annually.
Feminine betting at the various Transatlantic plea-
sure resorts is said to have been unusually prevalent this
summer. During the racing season at Saratoga one lady
won twenty boxes of gloves, ten boxes of irenbems, and £4O
in money. Not all visitors to Saratoga Springs, however, go
there for mere pleasure, for one old lady made it her daily
task to go the rounds of the Springs, and consume twenty-
one glasses of water per diem.

It was stated at the recent Church Congress that Mr. Chamberlain at a meeting on Monday night in
the Dean of Carlisle was under statutable obligation, which no Birmingham condemned the policy of the Government, and
means had been found of voiding, to pray for the soul of expressed a hope that no encouragement would be given to
Henry VIII. that policy. Never in this generation had the political
The best shot in the Army and in the Navy too in horizon looked darker both abroad and at home.
the year 1877 was Serjeant John Collins, Royal Marine The Local Government Board have, it is stated,
Artillery, who scored the large number of 203 points, against decided that the fee for searching for a child's registration
200 points gained by the best shot in the Army for that of birth for the purposes of the Education Act is payable only
year. For having achieved this distinction the Lords of the when the certificate is actually given.
Admiralty have just awarded Serjeant Collins a special prize Our national expenditure in intoxicants in the three
of £2O, together with a handsome silver medal, to be warn years from 1874 to 1877 amounted to £573,515,653. At the
on his right breast during the whole of his service. present time many mills, factories, shops, and mines are
It is reported that an ingenious London mechanic working short and half time: but the public-house goes on
has discovered a simple method of generating the electric at full time, namely 17 hours every weekday.—Echo.
current without the machine power required for the Gramme, The largest farm in the world is probablythat which
Siemens, and other methods, and by his system, after an has just been purchased by a New York Joint Stock Corn-
outlay of about £2O, a house can be lighted by electricity at pany in Northern New Mexico. It covers 250,000 acres, and
the cost of only a few pence per month. This improvement will be used for cattle and sheep raising. A good start has
has met the approval of an ininential engineer, who is sup- already been made with 5,000 improved American cattle and
plying the means for perfecting it, and it is expected that 15,000 Merino sheep.
before long it will be brought before the public.
The Times' Constantinople correspendent says that
There is an on dit that some one has discovered a "the Sultan lias began to show, in words at have leas that he
means of giving us an electric light which will not ve so has a will of his own. During the last few days he re-
ghastly a colour as it has at present. peatedly said that he is determineed to carry out the neces-
Several wocidcocks were flushed last week on Hayes miry reforms, and neither his Ministers nor any one else can
Common, Kent. 'These German visitors migrate to this .offer serious opposition. When he heard the rumours about
country by moonlight, and their appearance this season is his having formed a secret alliance with Russia he indig-
earlier than usual. nantly denied them. He litteus patiently to unpleasant
A clever writer suggests the possible adaptations of truths, and thanks those who have the courage to tell them
"
Mr. Edison' electric power to timekeepers. When we get to him.
light, heat, and motorrpower- "laid on" to our houses, the
L-,nd in London frequently realises very heavy
question of chronometers certainly ought to present no diftl-
prices ; indeed, in the heart of the city £lO per square foot
has been obtained. Those who wish to purchase cueap land
A hunlred pounds for a pigeon 1 Such was the shouldmalty. go to the golden West, the land of the free, and buy
price paid for one the other day at the Islington Show.
for as many p a
pence per ere what they have to pay pounds
Ire was a winning carrier, and the price was set upon him per foot for here. In New York, not long since, 360,000
by his owner, who was greatly annoyed at having to part acres of white oak timber and mineral land in Western
with the bird. Virginia were sold in large lots for about one cent per acre.
ial
A compendious Vesuvian library has been formed Wr World.
by Signor Palmieri in his famous observatory en the slopes Monday's Magnet says :—Field werk has been
of the volcano, every work relating in any degree to the rapidly proceeded with, and the weather being favourable,
history of the mountain and written in any tongue having operations have been concluded wider encouraging auspices.
been collected by the energetic Italian. The observatory A Berlin correspondent states that Prince Bismarck
has occupied its present perilous position for over thirty proposes to conclude conventions for the mutual surrender
years. of runaway seamen of the merchant marine, similar to the
The Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, London, one which he has just obtained aathority to conclude with
have lately received a fresh rhinooeros, a full-grown female, ngland, with other maritime Powers.
from Sumatra- The gardens now contain five rhinoceroses A paper was read at the last meeting of the French
belonging to five different species—four from Asia and one Academy of Sciences from M. Delafontaine, announcing
frem Africa—and the only known specimen required to corn- that he had discovered a new metal in his researches on
plete the set is the white African rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Siberian samarskite—a mineral earth composed of the
:Jews). oxydes of yttrium, uranium, iron, and various other sub-
The Russian presents to the Ameer of Cabul, stances. He has given the name of Philippium to the new
taken by the Muscovite Mission. are said to have been metal, in honour of M. Phillippe Plantamour, of Geneva,
magnificent. The " Khillut " included, according to the the friend and pupil of Berzelius.
Times of India, a splendid suite of Parisian jewels, a sabre It is stated in some of the London papers that on
set with brilliants—the Czar's personal gift to Shere Ali,—
Friday night in last week The Times otice was lighted by
some war material, and several unique articles of Circassian
the electric light, the invention adopted being that of Mr.
art for the Seraglio. Rapieff. Six lights were kept burning in one circuit, and,

in itie presence of Lord Richard Grosienor and a large party
of gentlemen, they were blown out and instantly reignited
automatically. The lights were lowered just the same as in
the case of ordinary gas. They were put out altogether, and
each ens separately, at the desire of the spectators. It is
stated that The Times office is to be -ompletely lightest up
with the electric light.
It is stated that German cutlery, well finished and
serviceable, is being offered in the Sheffield market at quo-
tations from fifteen to forty per cent, below the prices of
local manufacturers.
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
has received a donation of £l,OOO, given anonymously
through the Rev. Brownlow Maitland.
"Nearly all the regiments returning from Turkey
to Russia have brought with them a donkey or two as pets,
asses being unknown in Russia. It is rather comical, an
Odessa friend tells me, to see the soldiers with these pets, as
the latter are far from wanting in their natural liveliness,
and more than once the march of a regiment of veterans
has been checked by the obstreperous conduct of its
favourites. The music of the military bands has also been
pleasantly varied during the march through the town by an
oceasional loud and dissonant bray, the novel sound of
of which provokes paroxysms of laughter among the
astonished and delighted populace."—Mayfair.
A very practical proposal, it is stated, has been
made by Mr. "Yates, electrician, of Liverpool, to illuminate
the whole of Cork Town and Harbour by four electric lights,
the position of each lamp being as follows—one on Carlisle
Fort, one on Spike Island, the third on Wilinount Castle,
and the fourth on Spy-hill—for considerably under £5,000,
including engine and every other requisite.
During the night of the 6th inst. the German Church
of Si. Gertrude at Stockholm was completely destroyed by
fire. The fire was observed at 2.15 a.m., and at 4 the high,
slender bell-tower fell in on the main building, fortunately
without doing any injury to the neighbouring housa By
this accident a celebrated peal of 28 bells cast at Hamburg
In the 16th century has been destroyed. There had not been
a church fire at Stockholm since 1835.
A meeting of millers, corn factors, and farmers was
held at Sheffield on Tuesday for the purpose of considering
the new Weights and Measures Act, and especially of enaea-
veuring to agree upon a uniform weight for the sale of
corn After some discussion a resolution was almost unani-
mously passed in favour of corn being bought and sold at a
standard of 1001bs.
The New York Elevated Track is a success. Its
gross earnings in 1877 were 30,320,861 dollars, and the ex-
penses 28,954,829 dollars. This year its earnings will un-
doubtedly be much larger, in consequence of the street.' car
drivers strike, and the fact that the public confidence is
being established regarding the safety of this mode of travel.
A telegram from America says that there have been
immense prairie fires in North-Eastern Nebraska. They
have caused great less of property. Seven persons were
burnt to death.
The St. Petersburg Vedomosti speaks of private
telegrams asserting that the British Government are en-
deavouring to induce the signatory Powers to make a
common representation at St. Petersburg respecting the
return of the Russian troops to the neighbourhood of Con-
stantinople. The Vedamosti expects that these and all
similar remonstrances preferred under cover of the Berlin
Treaty will be simply ignored by Russia and her resolute
diplomacy.
The Princess Alice Mansion House Relief Fund on
Monday amounted to 436,300. and the Abercarne Colliery
Explosion Fund to £29 SOO.
The Executive Committee of the EurYdice Relief
Fund has prepared, for presentation to the General Com-
mittee, a scheme, based upon a report of Mr. Finlaison, the
actuary, for the distribution of the fund among the widows,
children, and other relatives of the officers and seamen lost
in that ill-fated vessel. The fund someixhat exceeds twenty-
two thousand pounds and the scheme, and the expenses of
carr3 Lug it out, will absorb all but three thousand. It is pro-
posed that any balance remaining should be handel to the
Royal Naval Relief Fund.
This was Robert Stephenson's remark to the mat..
who used to bother him about perpetual motion—" If
you will take yourself up by the band of your breeches
and carry yourself round the room. I will consider the
matter.'
A large number of persons visited the Hanley
Skating Rink on Monday night, the principal feature of in-
terest being the electric light that had been refitted for the
winter moutts. The force of the light is equal to 500
candles, and the cost is only threepence an hour. The
machinery is in one corner of the building, and only occupies
a small space.
A letter from Chantilly states that at one of the
recent shooting parties there the Prince de Joinville, when
pursuing a wild boar, escaped a serious accident. The
ferocious animal turned to bay, and the Prince's horse re-
ceived two wounds on its right shoulder. Fortunately the
rider was unhurt. The boar, after maiming eight dogs, was
at last killed.
The Conservators of the River Thames, acting upon
a memorial of the Committee of the Thames Angling
Preservation Society, have determined to issue bye-laws
prohibiting the taking of fish with unbolted hooks, and
abolishing the practice of laying night-lines.
Dr. Beaney, of Melbourne, who, it is understood, is
commissioned by the Government of Australia to visit this
country for the purpose of inspecting public hospitals, arrived
at Canterbury, his native city, a few days ago, and was on
Tuesday evening entertained at a banquet promoted by his
numerous friends and old acquaintances. Dr. Beaney, in
commemoration of his return to Canterbury, has caused coal,
of the value of £.300, to be distributed amongst the poor. Re
had previously subscribed about £7OO to the Canterbury
Hospital and other local institutions.