The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-15 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

A TIMONIUM Kiso.—The Coinmerctio, an
Italian journal contains the following curious story
relative to an individual styling hinosidi Francis 11.,
who arrived a few days ago at Barn. His person, his
manners, hie suite, gave him a striking resemblance to
the ex-king of the Two Sicilies, of happy memory.
He received official and confidential visits from priests,
monks, women, and numerous supporters of his
cause. He promised, flattered, and granted nominal
Pensions, and predicted his elevation very shortly to
the throne of Naples. His pretensions reached to
such a degree that on the third day he issued 40
invitations to a grand banquet, at which the most
extravagant toasts were drunk, and viras shouted for
the shortly-to-be.reinstalled king and all belonging to
him. The jubilation was at its height, when it was
suddenly interrupted by the unexpected entrance of a
body of carabineers and guards, who, in the name of
the law, invited the king, his suite, and his guests to
accompany them to the castle, where they would be
better able to carry on the farce. There being no use
in resisting, the " king " and his company submitted
with the best possible grave, and were speedily placed
in safe keeping. Tho soi disant king is a native of
Barletta. The police are said to have seized several
documents compromising numerous in tluential persons
in Rome.

SIMPLE Foam OF DECEPTION.—Enter a crowded
room, and at once take cur?, oric in with your eye.—

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MURDER AND SCrl, iDE.—A dreadful murder,
followed by the suicide of the murderer, was committed
at Liege, on Thursday evening in last week, the victim
being a widow and the criminal a police-otficer. It
appears that the murderer and suicide lived in part of
the house of Madame Ley, with whom heAvas on terms
of intimate friendship, and, it was reported, was about
to be married to her. in the evening in question be went
Into the dining-room of the widow, who was at the
time engaged in needlework, her daughter, about six-
teen years old, being in an adjoining room practising
on the piano. A short time after the murderer entered
the daughter was alarmed by hearing two reports of
firearms in quick suc,ession in the room where her
mother was. liurhing in to see what was the matter,
a horrible sight presented itself to her gaze. Seated in
her chair, quite dead, she beheld her mother, who had
been instantly killed by the assassin's ball, and near the
door of the room lay the corpse of the murderer and
suicide, who, after taking the life of his victim, had
blown out his own brains. The cries of the daughter
brought in some of the neighbours, who sent at once
for medical assistance, but both the victims were
beyond the reach of surgical skill. A revolver pistol,
quite new, was lying by the suicide, who, is is expected,
was actuated by jealousy to the commission ot the
fatal deeds.

EXPERIENCES OF AN ANGLER,. —An Arigier
writes .

1 have observed there is one peculiarity which attaches
Itself to both branches of the art In all parts of the world.
In whatever day you seek the river side it is certain to be the
one you ought to have avoided. The water Is too high or too
low, too thick or too tine; the sky too bright or too cloudy ;
she wind is in the east and iii, no use trying; the east wind
Is alwaye the beet: or you should have been here last
Wednesday, when, my eye, didn't the cap en give them a
turn ; or it you could only stay over to-morrow there be a
nice little inn, better nor a mile from here, where my mints
will make you very comfortable ; or, I never knew 'em take
when there was a full moon, or when It was In apogee or
perigee, whatever that may be; or the glass Is rising and
they'd take the minnow freely—when, of course, you haven't
got one with yen: or, its falling, and 'Pace red worm on the
great Shutt; Eight would be deadly—you can get them at his
place, n Men is only three mi!es off. and there's-been no rain
for els necks; or, you've got a white wide-a-wake on which
trighte:te the nah, or a black one, and they can see yeti more
plainly. All these and many more ridiculous reasons I have
heard given for want of success My idea Is that fish are
pretty much like human being., and will take a dainty bait
when put before them properly wine they are not hungry, a.
flebby worm or badly-dressed fly will not tempt them when
they are.
RECITATION FOR THE PARIS PARTY OF ORDER.
—" Red liolfian, Retire! "—Pucch.
MURDER OF A POLE BY A RUSSIAN.—The
Milanese newspapers are full of a horrible 'murder
committed in an hotel of that city by a Russian of
a Pole. They arrived at the Hitel della Valle
together, and the next day the Russian bit, saying
that he had been called away by urgent affairs, and
informing the waiters that his companion was to wait
his return. He added, no if by an afttr-thought, "
not wake him; we were up all night, and he is now
asleep. He will ring when he wants anything." The
hotel was full, and nothing was thought about the
role till the evening, when the waiter knocked at his
door with a letter which had arrived for him. Not
receiving an answer' and finding the doce locked, they
forced it open and found him strangled on hie bed.
He had been dead for several hours, and must have
been strangled in his deep, das there was an empty
bottle, which had contained a narcotic, on the table
beside him.

LIFE AND DEATH IN PARIS —A correspondent
Writts

Shells, bwrlcades, funerals, and the ginger-bread fair—
which is in full swing—have been our sinusementa (luting the
day (Raster Sunday). The horrible struggle continue, with-
out intermission. Daring the past week, by night and by
day have the cannon roared. Some of the National Guarde
have been on duty without relief. Dining all that time they
have not had their clothe. a ; thoroughly exhausted, they
sleep within a few yards of the thundering cannon. Had the
same energy been displayed during the siege. Pule might
hove been saved from the horrible state Into which ahe hais
now deicended. The 'Melia were falling thickly this alter-
noon; hundreds of men were throwing up barricades
• :rou the Rue Royale, the Rue Rivoll, and the quay.
near the Place de is Concorde, on which thousands
of spectators had congregated, with eyes turned to-
wards the Barriere de l'Etolle, which had been repeatedly
struck by shells. A tremendous military funeral swept down
front the Petals de l'industrie, route for the Cemetery of
Pilre is Chaise. i.,onid it be possible that, while Paris was
steeped In bloodshed And mourning, the celebrated Foire aux
Pants d'Kp which annually opens on Easter Sunday,
would take place this year Prompted by curiosity, I made
the best of my way to the Place du TrOne. So thick was the
crowd In the Faubourg Saint Antoine, that we were obligtd
to drive at a foot's-pace. The Place du Triove was reached
There wan tile fair In full awing—theatre., wrestlers
vdyant Ise les, peep show., the towittli none rt bar6e, Ancing
dogs, merry go rounds, organs, hands, to ith-drawrrs, clown.
and conjurors roaring, shouting, and yelling—the Place
crowded with ginger-bread vendors and children winching
their wares.

DEATH Or A PENI2I2I7LATI VETZTLAN.—The
hhn o' aroat Journal records the death, M an ad.

c:ed age, of an filirrentlin-ul- ae—liero, II) zl
Nicol. He enlisted In the 42ud Royal Hight/ma, re in
1807, and went thr_gtigh the whole of the Peninsular
campaign. He na wounded through the thigh at
Orthes on the 27th February, 1814, and was again
wounded in the right hand at 'Toulouse on the 10th of
April in the same year. He held the Peninsular medal
%van eix clasps, viz., for otthes, Nive, Nivelle,
Pyrenees, Salamanca, and Fuentes d'Ouor. It seems
that a sister if Nicol, who married a man of the 93rd
Highlanders, was on these occasions so carried away by
excitement that, donning the uniform of the regiment
she joined in the fray. The officers of the regiment
made her a handsome present.

THE PENALTIES OF GRFATNESS.—The Emperor
Napoleon, it Is said, has suffered severely from the
curiosity of our holiday public. On Good Friday
several vans full uf excursionists discharged their
freights over the district of Chiselhurst, and the In..
period exile was oinked to secrete himself from a horde
of worthy Britons who had comedown with sandwiches
and beer to have a look at him. Remarking on this
the Daily Are 1,14 says :

loss secretaries of a few ambitious, if not eistingubhad,
dui,n have sila, bliCitiliVtAUltki to secure the uamo of it.ma-
parte Cu their books an a bait for a little celebrity and
patronage: nihile the burden of the postman to Camden
House, with begging letters rind tracts, Is reported to be
souiething emulous. No doubt the rage on the sui.ject will
subside; but While It lasts it must be peculiarly dieagreeable
and harassing to the unfortunate victim of circumstances
Who ha. been no suddenly etrended upon what we are in the
habit of calling our hospitable shores He can be seen in
full regimentals for a shilling in taker-street as large as life,
and probably in a suit of his own real clothes, or those of his
uncle, of which there is an extensive assortment In the Wax
Valhalla, Pictures of his discraweed Majesty are to be had
exceedingly cheep, and are surpridngly abundant and within
the reach of all. here Is, thin, no excuse for mr,bbing
Chiselimrst, hunting the Empress to the church .he frequents,
end making a spectacle of little Louis and hie father am an
incident of a bean-feast or a
DifiTitiffliiiNG ACCIDENT Ile INDIA.—The last
mail from India brings the following sad particulars of
the ieath by drowning of Lieut. Lambert Loveday
SPAtiewoode, of the 107th Regiment, at Cum-1 lum,
near Calcutta. The deceased was bathing with a
brother ollicer in a large swimming tank in the mess
compound. He was an expert and powerful swimmer.
When but a few vanilla from the bank he svas seized
with sudden cramp, and sank. Though every effort
was made to save him, all assistance was unavailing,
and it was two hours before the body was recovered.
Lieut. Spottiswoode was twenty-four yeara of age, the
son of Major-General Sioottiswoode. lie had only just
rejoined his regiment from England. His amiability
and kindly nature had made him a general favourite,
and thin sad,occurrence has cast a gloom over the whole
station.

A GOLDEN POTATO —A few days ago, a little
girl, living with her mother at Clog-y-berth, Port-
made wao peeling potatoes for dinner. Her mother,
seeing her rather slow about the process, took the
matter into her own hands, and slicing a potato d!s-
covered two sovereigns in it! It appeared the family
had got the potatoes from a vessel then in the port,
and a short time previously the captain had lost ten
sovereigns. Suspicion had fallen on one of the bands,
who was observed to spend money very freely, but
nothing was found either on his person or amongst his
effect" It is believed that, in order to make himself
safe, the sailor had secreted the money in the potatoes.

REPUBLICAN AUETERITY.—The following notice
has been issued by General ( luseret, the Minieter of
War in Paris under the Commune
'To the National Guard, Citizens—it Is with pain I have
observed that, forgetful of our modest origin, the ridiculous
mania for gold lace, embroidery, and egos/lc/les Is beginning
to spread among us. Working men, you have for the first
time accomplished the revolution of labour by and for
labour. Let us not Ignore our origin, and, above all, do not
let us be ashamed of It. Working men we were, working
men we are and will remain. It Is in the name of virtue as
opposed to vice, of duty against abuse, of austerity against
the corruption over which we have triumphed, that I lust e
you to bear this in mind. Let us remain virtuous and
upright men, and we shall then found an austere Republic,
the only one that can and ought to exist. Before punishing
I would recall my fellowscitizens to thenvelves. No more
tassels, no more tawdry gear, no more of that gold lace
which It Is so cheap to display, but which Is so costly to our
responsibility In future every °ill:or who cannot prove hie
right to display the Insignia of his rank, who shall add to the
regulation uniform of the National Guard aiguill Wes or
other vain marks of distinction, will be liable to military
peoalties. I avail myself of this opportunity to remind every
one of the duty of obedience to superiors in the service. By
rendering obedience to your elected officers you obey your-
selves.—Paris, April 7. E. CLUSERE7."

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AN EYE TO Bcrainzes. Oar doctor's front
dour has not been properly painted, and ought, as his
friends and patients tell him, to be done over again;
but he declines to let it be touched, assigning as his
reason that it bokti professional, being "blistered."—
Punch.
MADELEINE Ssura.—The name of Madeleine
Smith (-ays the London correspondent of the Dundee
Advertiser) will still be fr.sh in the memory of the
public, although many years have elapsed Billet her
celebrated triaL It seems that she has ben living in
London for several years. She is married to a designer
of great skill, who is employed by a gentleman wnose
name has lately made no little stir in the world of
letters. I understand that Madeleine made the ac.
quaintance of the artist who is now her husband while
she was residing with a clergyman in a small town on
the south coast of England, the young man being then
a teacher of drawing in a school in the vicinity. It is
stated that when the clergyman discovered the close
intimacy that the couple ware forming he disclosed
the girl's antecedents to her lover. But this had not
the effee., of deterring him, and shortly after he in.rri.d
I her, andPthey have lived together ever since, and have
' now three children. She is described to me as a good-
looking matronly lady, with very bright piercing eyes.
Her conduct is said to be most unexceptionable, and
chefs wholly absorbed in her family affairs.

SPLITTING THE DlFFERENCZ.—bpeaking of the
attendance of the company of Divines and Scholars,
now engaged on a very important work of Revision, at
the meetings they have lately been holding, the news.
papers inform no that "the number of those present
varied between 20 and 21." There is but one inference
to be drawn from this statement, namely, that the
exact number of those present must have been
Punch.

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THE CLIMATE OF CALIFORNIA.— A "digger"
from California, eulogising the climate of the country,
says : "There's a mountain there—the Sawyer Nava.
day they call it—with a valley on each side of it—the
one hot, and t'other cold. Well! Git on the top of
that mountain with a double•harrelled gun, and you
can, without moving, kill either summer or winter
game, jeet as you will." " What ! have you ever tried
it?" "Tried it' often—and should have done pretty
well but for one thing." Well, what was that?" "I
wanted a dog that would stand both climate. The last
dog I had from off his tail while pintin' on the summer
side. He didn't get entirely out of the winter side,
you see."—Anicrican Paper.
A Sze OF TRODBLE.—A Telegram from Paris,
the other day, stated that :—" The exodus of families
continues on a grand scale." We wish the people of
the Parisian Exodus well out of their lied Sea.—
Pu rich.
AMERICA ON HERSELF.—The term/unto Record,
In a Lit of plain speaking, writes as follows :
" Americans are • money-loving and a money-making
people. Does it ever strike any of them how much it custa to
make money For example: Fhe lust of wealth to overrides
every other consideration in this country that fraud in trade
tithe rule Instead of the exception We potion all our pro-
visions with adulterations e poison even our drocs with
cheaper material. We sell shoddy for wool. Wa sell
veneering for solid wood. We make abominable messes and
call it whisky. We make horrible rale of nastiness alio call
them cigars. We build wretched shells of bad brick and had
mortar and green wood and call them houses. We rob and
cheat each other all round and In every trade and business,
and we are all so bent on making money that we have Dot
time or Wettest:on to protest against even the molt palpable
(randy, but console ourselves when we discover that we
have been Imposed upon by going forth and swindling
somebody else. We pay a very heavy price for our
1 national idiosyncracy. We kill each other quicker than
Is at all necessary. We pay two or three prices for
r very inferior articles, as a rule We spend much limey
and get very little to return, and•we are rapidly destroying
our maternal sense of honesty and integrity. In those be-
nighted and slavish countries which are ruled by monarchs
they contrive to live a great deal cheaper and a good deal
better than we can. There, fraud is regarded as criminal,
and the Imposer when detected Ii punished severely. There,
tricks of trade are looked upon as swindles, and are treated
as such. There, honest weights and measures are used.
There, woe betide to contractor or architect who shall put
up • house In American fashion. There commercial trans-
actions are based upon fair dealing, and the merchant and
trader who should be caught In an openly dishonest scheme
wonld be ostracized, if not proceeded against legally. But
those are old fogy countries, the people of which know
nothing about liberty; who have no Fourth ef July, or
Wall-street or codfish or shoddy aristocracies, and who do
not recognise the fact that the right of Ilfe, liberty, and the
penult of happiness (which means money) entitles every
man to cheat his neighbours and bars redress."
NATCR&L SELECTION. " DEVELOPMENT of
Species !" said an old bill-discounter, "don't talk to
me about development of epecies. The only thing
worth studying is development of specie !"—Punch.
DY.CDLIARIGOOD FRIDAY EV21118713 In LONDON.—

t'onsistent with a custom about 300 years old (says the
ray Prtss), sixty of the younger scholars at Christ's
lospital attended the service on Good Friday& at All
Hallows Church, and afterwards they each r4ceived a
new penny and a small packet of almonds and raisins,
Amongst the boys were fourteen who were present last

year M the same.aingular ceremony. The custom was
inaugurated by the will of Peter Symonds, which also
provides for the payment of a guinea to the rector for
preaching the sermon. The rector (the Ittlr. C.
Mackenzle), who preached the sermon, was assisted
in the service by the Rev. If. C. Hardingham,
and the Rev. M. W. Lusignan. Other small
beluests undrr the same will were distributed to the
poor. They consisted of shillings and loaves, and used
to be given away over Symonds' grave, in Liverp ,01-
street, now covered by a railway terminus. The books of
St. Peter, Cornhill, record a more curious gift, in the
shape of a rent chsrge on certain property, to be ap-
plied to the destruction of lady-birds in the parish,
which appears at one time to have been infested with
those insects. In the parish of St. Bartholomew the
Great &donor left a small sum of money to be distri-
buted over her tomb on Good Friday. This was also
observed on Friday, the Rev. A. Squibb (curate), who
preached the sermon, laying after the service about
twenty sixpences upon a stone in the chnrchyard, near,
as is thought, to the grave of the testatrix. The money
was taken by a number of old females, who had been
selected to receive the gift. The ceremony is said to
be almost as old as the church, and the will providing
for it ii lost.

COIN&OE OF 1870.—The annual coinage account
prepared at the Royal Mint shows for 1870 only
1,822,680 sovereigns and 981,408 half•sovereigns, of the
value together of £2313,384, which is but half the
annual average coinage of gold. An unusually large
coinage of gold, however, had been completed in
August, 1869, and there has been a large coinage of
gold in the present year. The silver coinage of the
year 1870 was of the value of £336 798, and exceeded
the average. It comprised 1,976,040 florins, 1,908,720
shillings, 1,054,440 sixpences, 4,158 fourpences (M aundy
money), 1,398,408 threepences, 4,752 twopences, and
7.920 pence, the laat two being Maundy money. The
brooz.- coinage of the year consisted of 5,698,50 pence
and 4,300,000 halfpence. The total value is V 2 1182887.

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AIALEA PROPIANA.—M. l'lLilaprop presents her
compliments to ?I r. Bruce, and begs to be reformed if
he considers that her giving just a thimbleful of vpivits
to a cabman, for purveying her six boxes up above
three pairs of stairs, would be permitted by the claws of
the Excnesablo Liquor; Bill.—Punch,

GUST, FTI, ACkaOWLELOSZtoIa ! 0
- irh
never had any briefs of my own on circadt,' says a
writer for Muntenia Journal', "I once 'held' a de.
conc. brief for old Jawkins. LTivin that occasion I de.
fended, with all the eloquence of which I WM master,
an oil woman who was charged with pxket.picking.
Facto, however, were too strong for me; the jury
found a verdict of guilty, and as it was the harridan('
seventeenth conviction, the judge--very properly, as I
thought—ordered her to be transported for seven years.
The wicked old wretch, however, instead of acquieecing
in her just punishment, stooped down, RS she was
leaving the dock, pulled off both her shoes, sent one of
them whizzing at the judge's head, and the other (C
presume in grateful acknowledgment of my services
on her behalf) at mine. The shoe aimed at his lord.
ship's head missed its mark; but the heel if the one
which she threw at my head struck me just below the
ril,ht eye ; and the mark of that blow I shall carry
with me to my grave. From that day to this I never
received another brief on circuit"

&CUL CONDITION OF PARIN—Tha P.djt Jour.
not has • picture of the peouniary embarrassment
CAlliocd all through the social scale at Paris by a refuaal
to pay the just claimi of those at the top of the ladder.
The unpaid house-owner cannot pay the contractor.
The contractor cannot pay the master mason, nor the
master mason the men. The same thing happens in
the case of the locksmith, the carpenter, the painter,
the glider, &c. ; but this is not all. The locksmith,
for instance, has • baker, a grocer, a butcher. • tailor
to pay. The butcher and the grocer are supplied by
persons whom they pay in worthless money. It passe.]
from hand to band, every one trying to get rid of it as
fast as possible, till at length it reaches a person who
will not take It or a place where it is not current.
In the meantime it circulatev and one can just get
on, thanks to previous Ravings and to the thirty
sous of the National Guard. But the public
treasury is not inexhaustible. It requires continual
supply, and that supply is out off. The end of the
chain of impecuniosity is stated to be that the treasury
will close its doors to the applicants for relief, and stop
the payment of the thirty sous on the ground of a
similar want of cash. There is money In Paris, cons
tinues the article; hut money is but a fraction of the
wealth of a country. It cannot renew itself. All the
bullion in France %valid hardly keep the whole popu-
lation one day. A constant process of renewal, how-
ever, takes place in objects of comumption andluxury.
They must he created each day to take the place of
those we daily destroy by using them. To this end
we must work. And in order to work we must, one
after the other, set free the springs of labour and
industry.

LITERARY ACKNOWLEDOMENT.--" The best.
thumbed book in my library," said a writer remark-
able for his orthography, •' JAnsurt's
Punch.

THE INTENTIONS OF A WILL FRUSTRATED.—
It has been found an impolitic thing for a dying man
to bequeath money to the United States for the pay.
ment of the National Debt. A Mr. Fox, of New
York, some time ago left all his estate to the Govern.
merit for this purpose. There was 120,000 dole. real
estate and 30,000 dole. personal estate, and his rels.
tires disputed the wilL After a long trial, the Sur.
rogate has decided that the bequest was valid so far as
the pereorial estate was concerned, but that the United
Stars cannot lawfully take the real estate, either in
trust or otherwise, and consequently it will go to the
legal heirs. The personal estate is just about enough
to pay costs, counsel's fees, and other expenses ; as
that the amount for paying off the National Debt is
next to nothing.

DAIO;Y.RuUB LEAP AT A FIRE. -A fire broke
out at about sir o'tlook on Saturday morning at a
house in Voion.road, Nottingham, occupied by a
man osnied NV:ll:am Roberta. it appears that Roberts,
on riling, made a tire in the grate, and went out. On
his return in a few minutes he found the kitchen in
themes, the family being in bed in the upper rooms.
An alarm was raised, and the tire brigade were com.
inuotcated with. The children were rescued by
means of ladders placed against the windows at the
front of the house, while a young woman jumped out
of the third storey window at the back, and marvel.
lowly escaped without injury, although there was only
a coat held by three men to break the fall. The room
in which the tire originated was completely destroyed,
but the remainder of the house was saved.

CNSEASONABLE Irill!OHATlOn.—ln the face of
events going on in Paris, to hold an Indignation Meet.
lag at S. James's Hail, denouncing the House of
Lords, for their refusal to legalise Marriage with •
Deceased Wife's Sister, was at any rate most inoppor-
tune. This is not the time for assailing an Institution
of our Country. In withholding compliance with the
demand embodied in Mr. T. Chambers's Bill, the
House of Lords must be admitted, on all sides, to have
pursued its traditional policy. N,Alesse oUigc, and
noble Lords feel hound to refuse every demand for the
redress of any grievance, real or unreal, that they dare,
until they dare no longer. The persons aggrieved by
not being permitted to marry their deceased wives'
sisters, are a small minority, and therefore the merits
of their case do not signify. We many of us delight to
maintain, and even to impose, upon other people,
restrictions which do not annoy or injure ourselves.—
Punch.

A SCENE IN Pents.—A correspondent in Paris
writes :

Several shells had already fallen within the ramparts,
wounding many persons. From time to time could be heard
that peculiarly disagreeable whistling, screeching, inde-
scribable e.,und which shells have the hahlt of making when
in search of some one to destroy. But the people talked and
chatted gaily; acrobats tumbled; strong men lifted heavy
weights ; women sold pink drinks in decanters, with lemons
on the tops; little girls plied skipping-ropes cheerily in the
aide streets. We were out of the range of fire. Suddenly
came a terrific crash—• shell had struck the roof of • house
between the Avenue de in Grande Are; e and the Avenue de
ratrice. It burst, and the whole of the upper wins
dows were shivered. Everybody fell flat on his face, and
rose to see smoke issuing from the roof of the unfortus
nate house. Tee neighbours hastily closed their shutters.
The crowd on the Avenue de Is nirande ArnVU had meantime
beaten a hasty retreat towards the Arc de Triomphe. Anxious
still to witness the shelling, I directed my cocher to drive up
the Avenue towards the Arch, Instead of taking another
route. We had proceeded tel two hundred yards—about
had way to where the first line of spectators was stationed
—when tho well-known sound again was heard. The crowd
In front fell flat. I heard a tremendous crash, then came the
rush of splinters passing through the air and falling around
us, and I felt the shock of something striking the carriage.
At the same moment I saw an apparently well-dressed man,
"blotted agates' a house door, sink down, wounded or dead.
My coachmen 11 saged his horse, which dashed forward arras
to opeu space. Then another crash, and /creams from • group
in a side street, as we dashed past. They will be killed 1
they are lost '—they are lost ! It was a race for life. The
shells tell each time further up the Avenue. A few seem&
more—they appeared like hourt—we turned the corner and
were to safety.

PARIS AND VERSAILLSS.—A petition has been
sent to M. Thiers from a number of the loyal inha-
bitants of Paris, praying that the Assembly should,
when the Commune is overthniwit, be transferred to
the capital. They represent the many dangers which
must arise should this advice be not adopted; and
pint to recent events as a proof of the imprudence of
leaving Paris—a fortified city—without the Assembly.
They endeavour to show that there are many places m
the capital in which the Deputies could meet, without
the smallest chance of interruption or danger from the
riotous or the ill-disposed. The Tuileries is such a place;
the gardens and the Place du Carrousel would afford ex •
cellent positions to troops and cannon destined for Its
defence. The like observations apply to the 11 tel
des Invalldes. Nothing, they say in conclusion, but
the prompt return to Paris of the Assembly can Nave,
France from disor anisation and ruin.