The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01 00:00:00

SATURDAY, NOV. I, 1819.

On Sunday evening last the railway offio.f_sLdle
Utrecht gave a concert to commemorate the 50ter annlvf'-e
of the invention of the first practical railway
vented by George Stephenson, whose portrait Wm
placed in the centre of a map of the Dutch railwaes. ete
A folding umbrella which can be carried Iv '-
pocket has been patented in America. •ci
Fraseuelo, the favourite bull-fighter of Al-11ba' cie
died from wounds received in an encounter with
the 17th erat. es reeceree.
Mr. Thothal Bayley Potter, M.P., who
a warm welcome in the United States, was given 3 _reeeeeti°s
by the Penn Club in Philadelphia on Saturday, the
being attended by the leading people of the town.
The Chancellor of the l'Archequer, acknovvl,r,is
In Tiz-,d Times (under the head of "Conscience bl_reisote;
receipt of She second halves of two £5O n 0:4-y,",
"J. S. W."-eths first half of a £5-note Iron)
account of armorial bearings has also been receive'
_„001
Storms and rains hatie committed great danoil:
nab°
Martinique At St. Pierre five persons were ce
fall of rocks and several houses were destroyed.
Two gods trains came into collision at
Belgium, on Friday in last week, and one of them, One,
of VO trneks of inflammable materials, was cetirell "
There was no Wary to person.
From the ofcial returns published by the V°''
Government of Canstea, it appears that the Ole ."
cheese exported from the Dominion rose from 4,503,
e.e
in 1869 to 39,371,1391 b. in 1878, being an jecre -
34,857,7691 b., or not lees than 774 per cent. in nine .
The Glasgow Herald states that two large shiP
log contracts have fallen to shipbuilders on the
Messrs. John Elder and Co., Govan, have received
from the Measageries Maritimes Steamship Corn Pele
large steamers for the company's Mediterranean tr
Messrs. Napier, Shanke, and Bell, Yoker, have he 1.95.
missioned to build two screw steamers of considera De!, ,
The French steamers, which, it is understood, are te,e:
ceeded with at (Mete are estimated to cost about
lion sterling. 10:
The armour-plated Tassel Sultan ig refittin'
the latest improvements, at a saost of £50,000, at Fortreeee
and is to be completed with all despatch, the genertr;
pation in naval circles being that she is 10 '-
British fleet on the China station. . $O,l
It is sald that the pattern cats for the BoYAI
are being made at Lewes Prison, and the Admiral.llol,
Intimated to the various commanders and dockysredell°,
intendents that one cat will be supplied to each Y 1:."
commission, not for use on board, but as a pattern 0?
they are to be carefully preserre.d and returned 10te
store on the paying off of each ship.
03
The Austrian Budget for 1880 shows a
A6Ol
17,700,000 florins. Of
A Mr. Soule, of Elgin, 111., is in his .third
frog farming, and his first crop is now being market''
has an acre and a quarter devoted to the frog industi3Z
kind grown is the Gosling frog, much larger than the
sort Mr. Soule will next semen famish St. Louts, ne
and Cincinnati with frogs, and is confident of Buccal° -
business.
German astronomers report their recent okseiriv;
tions for the first time of a vermilion-coloured 0111 ett!
the planet Jupiter, covering about one-fiftieth of ert
an area equal to the continent of Europe. The We' ,
the northern half of the planet, and is of elliptics,4oA
It appears attached to the planet itself, not to 100e;fser
phere. The phenomenon is attributed to greet
changes supposed to be in process on the planet.
At a meeting of delegates and representat_n,
working men held in Edinburgh on Saturday eve7e-s,
was agreed to present Mr. Gladstone with an addre,eele •
recommend the working classes in Edinburgh and &woe,
give him a cordial welcome when he visits Midlothise
end of next month.
The shipments of wheat from America for 5 '
during the past week amounted to 628,000 quarters, °le
348,000 were for the United Kingdom, as corePereere
592,600 and 442,500 in the previous week. There w
shipped 87,500 barrels and sacks of flour and 109,0001 ,
of maize. The visible supply of wheat was e
bushels and of maize 10,625,000 bushels-an /her"
2,500,000 bushels.
Mr. Gladstone has written stating' that ben 11.
luctantly compelled to decline the invitation of the u
Liberal Association to deliver an address In Glasge!
occasion of his visit to Midlothian. The right 1260.',.
man says that he has undertaken in Midlothian
work as his strength will enable him to perform.
At the banquet given by the King of Dentoeoir%
Christianburg Castle the other day, the guests were
with old hock from Anno 1698. In the cellars of ;
Royal Castle of Rosenberg there still remain some Dre •
very old fine hock which is only used by the King
tinnily high festivities. .
f
At a recent Connecticut fair several bottles o nir
wines were set before the committee for pretnitlns;,4h
was a great diversity of opinion and a warm discusslyee
lowed by intense disgust, when it was found that ,ese
not understanding his instructions had filled all the "
from the same cask. 10/'
In April next there will be apened, in 13er'd '
International Exhibition of all kinds of apparatus
ducts connected with fishing. It will be the first dieP
this line an so comprehensive a scale. Accordine,,g
promises already received, with the exception of Au's'
no quarter of the globe will fail to be represented.
The er•Queen of the Two Sicilies is reported...ov 0!:
dangerously ill at Vienna. The Comte and Conlw-
Chambord have gone to see her. •
An inquest has been held at Priestfield, neii,iyei-
verhampton, on the body of Robert Dyke, engine r.e
the Great Western Railway. On Saturday he Ivlw
neath his engine oiling it as it stood on a siding'is
whistle of his engine was blowing, and he did not
approaching goods train which came up the sidli
shunted his engine a few yards. The driving vibee
own engine passed over his body and killed hiO3
taneousiy. A verdict of "Accidental death" wee er.
and a recommendation was passed for the coroPele
press upon all their engine drivers not to go De eeeee
their engines daring shunting operations without 0
to watch to give warning of approaching trains.
The Mansion House Committee formed to cot°
in the holding of the recent International Exhibition,
Reyal Agricultural Society in London, held their.ee'
meeting on Tuesday. The fund was reported
Zie
amounted to £8,580, of which £7,990 bad been exil
votes to the Agricultural Society towards the cost o
el
hibition, in prizes to exhibitors, and in expenses ,
to the show. There was still a balance of £590 30- „net 41
of it being due as prizes for sewage farms and onset:rote r
It was resolved to remit the balance to the AP'
Society. Led 4vo,
It is understood that the authorities connecznrerti
the War Office are giving careful consideration at in eeeee,
time to the question of breechloading guns, and theeeeel°4
for heavy guns on this principle are in course of preVet'eteie
to be submitted to the Committee on Ordnance' ~0111 et
appears to be a growirg demand for breechloadlng tee4A
the navy, and for use in coast fortifications the sdolee r
100 F
breechloading being consistent with the use o
therefore powerful guns In confined situations. • 14
A cable message from Lloyd's agent at
the •,`..„e
pe; 041 1
stated that e Nuevo Fajen() del Oceano, twee e
Havana for Nuevitas, was burnt on the 18th 11151
Bahama Channel.-The Philadelphia CorrespondeD oe
the SP 0
Times says :-" The details of the burning Of
steamer Nuevo Pajero show that 33 lives were
.I,e ote,
vessel caught fire from petroleum in the cargo wkiPa 06T.-0
between Havannah and St Jago on the 18th lost.
reocei
daybreak 17 survivors, including Captain Diaz, we" 010'X
from a raft and brought by the British steamer I'°eoll
into New Orleans, where seven are in the hospitsl,oo6,
been seriously burnt. The Spanish Consul at NO
will send a commendatory report of the servW'
rescuing steamer to his Government."
Speaking at Gainsborough at the inaugo, to'
the Conservative Association, on Monday nielle eool6/00
Winn, M.P., contrasted the foreign policy of e"ete
before the Crimean war and before the late Tuve4 fold
'conflict. Ile stated that what Liberals did at 115 of
period at a cost of ninety millions and a hundrea:„ catiop
lives the present Government had accomplished ele:eol
six millions and without war. He justified the
of Cyprus as an important military and naval depo7
finances, he argued that the Liberal surpluses were,
by over-estimating expenditure and under.ratiDEe
and justified the Conservative Government on Duw
that they were simply carrying out Liberal messurel'
On Monday night Mr. Archibald Forbes
Dundee on the Zulu war. The Earl of Camperdolve
and there was a very large audience. The e.
opening the proceedings, extolled the person
Mr. Forbes, and expressed the obligation the
under to him for his admirable narratives of a
of recent wars. Mr. Forbes, who was ready
slum, was listened to with close attention,
hearty vote of thanks.
A violent storm has occurred near
two persons were drowned and considerable
done to property. Fresh floods have
and Almeria.
Prince William of Prussia, the eldest
Crown Prince, is about to pass his first legal
qualifying him for the judicial and administr,
which it is said that he proposes to enter, with
coming thoroughly acquainted with all its
The present examination, if paned, will
rank and tide of "referendarins." The Prim
pected back from Pegli in order to serve his '
with the Ist Regiment of Foot Guards. ted
A Renter's telegram from New York, "A,reate
26, says :-The women and childreu who were e"been'
the White River Agency by the lite Indians
rendered, unharmed, to the Unitea States jil
European civilisation is spreading rar''._
East. The Chinese according to the Straits
coming adepts at bllliards. A Mr. Stanley is
private lessons in the game at the hot,'
Celestials.
At the different masses in several of
Catholic churches and cheoels of the archdi(
minster, on Sunday, the officiating priests naa
appeal to their congregations for help to relieve
at present existing in =toy parts of the south
Ireland,
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The Emperor of Germany is stated to
instructions to be sent to German military
European Courts to furnish reports as to the
izmies belonging to the Powers to which they
Zute,resting relic of the first Eridr
?vase ha L;een found by the workmen laying
in the western „clam on the present works--a ,
weights, in all pktie,ability belonging to the
stanley'ssoda, de;troyed in the dorm 0
weights were fornd on the side of the /eery,
which faces the old tower.
Funeral reform hart beed thoroughly
across the Atlantic by the Roman Catholics.
Bishops has issued a series of regulations, and A
the use of more than twelve carriages, so tba
whetsa procession of forty carriages appeare etat''
cathedral in Jersey City, the doors were cloaea ft
number had bean reduced to the prescribed liiridS* ts ef
One of the innt remarkable pedestrian fe°
0 0
cord was performed few days ago by Fritz Du9EO Vi
Thun, a noted Alpine climber. Leaving Than ',ire; 0;1 t", 3
he walked over the Rebloch and the Eggewyler eicr,
Scbiinenwaid to Rambigummen. After breakfastgo:of
latter p!ace, he returned by Schufbach and ICaPft e P
at Thnn at 11.45 pm. The ground covered in the
cof
is estimated at about 90 miles.
t Mei3llo:
Mr. C. P. Edison nephew of the gran- of $l/
inventor, has just died in Paris at the early egl,
four Lie was his uncle's principal assistant ~„0611,051‘.
auction of the loud-speaking telephone, and orDefoilo;
to London by him to exhibit that instrurnen"loci°ol4
Pence of Wales, the Royal Society, dm 11!,itnidf
been el)gaged in applying his uncle's oyster ei ' diet,
telegraphy between Paris and Brussels.
The Crown Prince of Germany and the
his daughters, take sea baths at Peel every
the family make excursions in the plain or melll3
lieges or on loot. Ilia Imperial Ilighnois (Amato
t% of
alone, and takes great pleasure in stopping
children he meets, to whom he gives small plee'e
Reports of the Prince's generosity have Or'
amoeg the urchin, of the country, and the other
surrounded by quite a band; the smallest am
not hesitate to attract the attention of the
by tugging at the tall of his coat.
Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., speaking at a
tub e soiree at West Vale, said he believed LS3
the structure of the national elementary instra
country would undergo revision. The report surea
to the Committee of Council on Education stz',..dy
annual average cost of each scholar in elect:lo7lle ;, A
was 15s. 9d. He took that to be a warning from
_go
.tion D.partment to the country at large ,t",
edti-,.,iir
.*bout to ask Parliament to reeonstruct tae 040''
machinery of this cc,untty. He thought t1:10 tbe •000
and code should be made more elastic.
Of all the members of the Royal ferniele°3olo:
Leopold ia the one who bids fair to follow niesT
,e$
the •footsteps of his father, ice Consort. reoeee/.0-0
lively interest in the progr Ale arts cod o"eteilr,ore,
are ojerehl, 91
his speeches, which are ;
practical and suggestive. it Is not improbah. f0,_%„1
that he may yet live to fulfil the promise sho(l!tlu:e'ts
the addiele preeented to him by the --,°17/00001
Sbettleld, by taking a prominent place '
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the railway officials
norate the 50th anniverS
•actical railway engin?
whose portrait bad
he Dutch railwayo.
can be carried irr
I-fighter of AfadriclA,P;,,
6n encounter with sbm'

M.P., who is reed,
ates, was given a rear
on Satarday, the ME
,pie of thy town.
'chequer, Acknowit;,,
"Conscience ZdoneY„ir
of two £5O notet,,r";
£5-note Irom "
also been received.
imitted grest
persons were
awe destroyed.
to collision at
ind one of them, con.
erials, was ErAtirely b•

blished by the
ears that the 0- ,
don rose from 4,50
rs, being an
per cent. in nine
hat two large Ail);
dpbuilders on the '
ran, have received Al
Steamship CornpaDY.'°
Mediterranean tritoe,
1, Yoker, have been
lamers of considerable
understood, are to b 8
d to cost about hat

atm: it; refitting
of £50.000, at Poet
,patch, the gene,,r;roe
int she is te

its for the 1037E1
, and the Adrotra
,nders and dockyard r
supplied to each
but as a pattern ow',
ed and returned 10°

1880 shows a

is in his _third
now being marketed'
to the frog industri•
Lel larger than the '
furnish St. Louis,
confident of

t their recent o!..
ninon-coloured On/
Lt one-fiftieth of ti;)
urope. The spot
and is of elliptical
Itself, not to its
ributed to great
on the planet.
and representataefi
h on Saturday Ir.
tone with an ad'
L Erlinburgh and -
Se visits Midlothian

nn America for 0
o 528,000 quarters, °ld'
agdom, as cordParere
Is week. There ive r
r flour and 109,000 cit,t
a wheat was a
) bushels—an

t stating that he
e invitation of the awn
iddress In Gle.egoW
I. The right h 011•
in midiothian

Im to perform.
le King of De,- ;el
ay, the guests vivre rle
In the cellars of tPY.
till remain some Dottloor
ised by the in
tifs
several bottles of liAits
,tee for premiums. ""fsP
rid a warm discuesiory
It was found that 0600
is had filled all the b°
• 0'
8 Ppened, in 13er111,00,
[lids of apptiratus $124i10
will be the first cliseao; el
scale. According tv
the exception of Ads
be represented.
3icilies is repOrted 1°,4,0
Comte and Coratetir
; Priestfield. near
rt Dyke engine drive,
Saturday he wag tli)08
stood on a sliding.
and he did not DeO,e,
'came up the sidirrni
The driving vrbee,„-e,
• and killed bill 2
itat death" was rel'te
1 for the companY
rra not to go unde oss
rations withoUt scene
aching trains. etOt°.
tee formed to 004 P
national Exhibition
,ndon, held their Pi',
was reported 10410
90 bad been expegieli
owards the cost os ,Aipt
nd in expenses inicluoe
ance of £590 38.
) farms and other se:00-
ance to the Agri' h
A Alti
horitiee connected
insideration at the P,'„,
long guns, and thrk...,;00,
sin course of prerVerB
tee on OrdnancB.
for breecbloading F 1,4 A
Ifications, the adopt ,ee
rith the UBO of 100 g
I situations .do#
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d's agent at New, ea
let Oceano, hew', "i00„,,,`"
on the 18th 10,1 of
hie Corresponclen.l.:.
a burning of the ,
t 33 lives were 104400
lo the cargo wbile °are;
in the 18th inst.
sptain Diaz, were
British steamer
in the hoseitsl,,,e,so6
ii Consul at /OW voi
I of the serviees
Lt." of
at the inaugura,,,
Monday night,
Ign policy of the Soil
me the late Turcolo,s
berals did at the
and a hundred t"coli
accomplished It t'oollll,o
justified the scq
and naval delss,;bt,,slllo,
I surpluses were
nd under.rating rv-olair
overnment on the r
Liberal messUres"
re3lo
bald Forbee lec
L of CamperdoWn
'nce• The ebstra:"
the personal brs 00,
ligation the pub1:ie06.13,,,
ratives of the grer„Ki,
was received vritP,,iee,
ttention, and rec"
bl rOj
near Malaga,
onsiderable 310'
Lave occurred 10
nf
the eldes% son in-040;'
s first legal izasul'"erffr;
I administrative
0,.•
enter, with a Vie for e
its all its practics
will secure
The Prince Is,‘l3:d
servo his preset"- ,
de.isv Ol I
te. A
York, A
,greer
who were ceP',4o'
) Indians have
hates anthoritleo• tbet
ending raplll
ie Straits Tillte" f
Stanley is delirviesiO
the houses
leveret of the °live,bl;
he archdiocese 0 ace
priests made $0(110*
1p to relieve the „of
of the south and "
eSt/F0
'tater] to hev,:,,,,V301
n military 1,,;.; ()0 1,-
'
cid,
ts as to the solv-,
.hich they are se' , 14
rst Eddystone ,
:en laying the dre'ol fp;
works—a Psit vi'oe
g to the 6101703, ec);
se storm ofe
the NeW ••"*""'s
a °Poe
roughly entl:6,,
Catholics. wr,4l)/"All,
'Mons, Itod bse',."ooefes
[ages, so ths., t„,;feri
es appeared ,'„,01
were closed ,- e-
scribed Jjflhlio ef
?edemtrian fo3/I,ogehof,
by Fritz 101915,0 Vi
,ving Twin s, it 0 efrtbe,
Eggewyler eeP
fter breakfastincfoli,
.1). and apf afl 13'
Covered in the e
01' •
01
of the great s 1t6
oey
file early sge,„° thyst
at tosistans noel oe
hone, and weteiclist!
t instrument i 0,44.
ty, &O. Lie
rs syston. of
00,-1
els.
y and the •";;sg, or
)gli every 10°,,r,
110 orit
damn or men0",75110 tee
ghness often,_,k ts„ei.
stopping i 0 00;01
5 email pieces °A rof,;(00
Y have sprea,,`4 es del
ud the other .15000
finest amougst toi'
of the Ilustriou
I Ott;
1..10 lea,
' at a niec..7ol,e.ipio
selieved that ",-, ,3 0 0 lea
itary instructrprelyes
he report Med Wools
dncation sts.
.r in elecdeb
uts,'e P:ere
rarning frotri 740,1
st large that Auest,l,lo
istruct the e.oefse-
)ught that (be
to.
Royal fan3ll9,
to follow niost4 tel Tod
ice ConsorP• ;nos, oty
Le arts slid tope
T himself, are etbereit'ie
t improbable, d forth
omise shadowe„gion„c,
)3, the Corr' -woes.
lace among tbe;ol,
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.44 ;

THE TOW,N,Ti4A4- 131130 M. •
On Saturday morning (25th)at the Central Criminal
Court, in London, before Mr. Justice Hawkins,
Adolphus Rosenberg, 27, described as a publisher,
was charged with having on the 4th and Bth of
October last, in a weekly publication called Tmert
Talk, published false, malicious, and defamatory libels
,of and. concerning Mr. William Cornwallis West, of
:Ruthin Castle Lord Lieutenant of Denbighthire, and
Mrs. Mary West, his wife, knowing them to be false.
He was also charged with having, on the 30th of
August and five subsequent days, issued libels con.
corning Mr. Edward Langtry, of Norfolk street, Pick-
lane, and Mrs. Lily Langtry, his wife, knowing them
to be false. He wa further indicted for publishing
libels concerning Lord Londesbwougb.
Mr. William Wilfrid Htlid and Mr. Henry R ‘bsrt
Mark, printers, in FleAt-lane, surrendered to their
recognizances upon a charge of printing the libels in
question.
The prisoner Tiosenberg pleaded " Guilty " to pub.
Ishing
the IThiels, but not to knowing them to be
false.
The dVendant Mr. Head pleaded " Guilty " to
Printir,g tire papers in question, but not to knowing
!..I.le Statements were false. Mr. Mark pleaded "Not
tkolity " at first, but afterwards withdrew that plea.
Serjeant Parry, Mr. Montagu Williams, and
-Mr. dames Fox, were counsel for the prosecution in
the case of Mr. and Mrs. Langtry; Mr. Watkin
Q.C., Mr. Poland, and Mr. A. M. Sal-
were counsel in the case of Mr, and Mrs. Corn.
Wallis West; and Mr: F. H. Lewis and Mr. Francis,
appeared for;Lord Londesborough. Mr. Willis, Q.C.,
and Mr. Grain defended the prisoner Rosenberg • and
Mr. Besley and Mr. Avory were counsel for Messrs.
Read and Mark.
The proceedings excited much interest, and the
Court throughout the investigation, which lasted some
hours, was inconveniently crowded. Upon the bench
were the Lord Mayor, and the Sheriffs and'Under.
Sheriffs many of the Aldermen, Lord Londes-
borough, Mr. Serjeant Ballarstine. and Limy others.
Mr. Langtry and Mr: Cornwallis W'est occupied seats
With their counsel, but neither ittra. West nor Mrs.
Langtry was present.
Mr. Willis, at the ontdet, urged that the admission
of his client, Rosenb
libels and that ".arg, that he could not justify the
they. were fals,•,,he, published them without knowing
Would satisfy all purposes and meet
the Jaetke 'of the case.
,lar• derjeant Parry thought otherwise, and Mr.
t'A' dee Hawkins directed the case to proceed.
:The trial of Rosenberg for the libels on Mr. and
Mrs. Langtry was first taken.
Mr. Serjeant Parry then addr,seed the jury at consider-
able length—the following hei,•„ a condensed report of his
speech :—He said that the oaence of the defendant Rosen-
berg was one against public law and against an Act of
Parliament which cught to be well known to the public.
Mr. and Mrs. Langtry had lived in the highest society, and
had the friendship of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
Who had visited them at their residence at No. 17, Norfolk-
street, Park-lane. For the purposes of profit Mr. and Mrs.
Langtry, who had always lived together happily. had been
Made the subject of obloquy by the defendant in Town Talk.
Xi he knew nothing of what he had published, he had
exhibited a want of caution and entire recklessness' and
Wali as guilty as if he did know the statements to be false.
There were eleven or twelve counts in the indictment, and
they extended in date from the 30th of August down
to the 4th of October. There were six several and
continuous libels on Mr. and Mrs. Langtry. After
teading the first libel Mr. Serjeant Parry said
that it had been published wantonly and recklessly
and without the slightest caution, and with the hope of sell-
tng a newspaper. if the jury were of this opinion, he should
ask them to say that it had been done, knowing that it was
false. And there were persons who were ready to sell the
Paper in their shops. On the 7th of September the libel
• Which was published referred to the alleged divorce case
being beard in camera. It was only ca,es of the most dis-
gusting character that were heard in camera. In an ordinary
ease for divorce application for trial had to be made in open
court, and if such application had been made it would have
been published in all the newspapers. No such application
•5 stated was made. The statement was so scandalously and
recklessly published that it was as bad as if the defendant
knew it to be untrue. The third paragraph was published on
the 13th of September in which the writer said he was in-
formed of something with regard to the invented divorce case;
but that was alie, for the defendant was informed by no one.
That was a strong term, but he (Mr. Serjeant Parry)
appealed to the court if he were not justified in using that
expression. That statement was a reproduction of a former
libel simply reproduced to induce people to buy the paper.
Re then said, "that scandal-mongers would be deprived of
a line opportunity." Why it was simply for the scandal-
Mongers that he published his libels. What he had published
he must have known to be false. On the 20th of September
the defendant published a fourth paragraph, and for the
Purpose of exciting the public an eminent name was intro-
duced. The name was that of the Home Secretary, who
Was stated to have publicly prohibited the use of the name
el Mrs. Langtry in music-halls. There was not the
slightest truth in that, for the Home Secretary never
Prohibited the managers of music•halls from allowing their
lingers to introduce names of persons in the songs
they sung. Proceeding to the publication of the E7th of
September, Mr. Serjeant Parry said that that number con-
tained the following :—"Labby says in 2'ruth that he read
fit a French paper that Mr. Laugtry is petitioning for a
divorce from his wife. Why doesn't Labby tell the truth,
and say he read it in Town Talk" The defendant appeared
to be proud of the disgraceful stuff he had made public.
Then again, "It Lebby will take the trouble to go to
Somerset House he will be able no douln, to too the peti-
tion." Why, there was not a word of truth in that.
"Libby," as he was called, was then referred to Lord
Londesborough and Lord Lonsdale ; but the fact was that
the prosecutor did not know either of those peers. Sub-
sequently the defendant said that the petition for divorce
had been withdrawn • but how could it be withdrawn lilt
had not been flied. 'The publications relating to the Prince
of Wales, Lord Londesborough, Lord Lonsdale, and others
Were all as false as they could be. Upon the 4th of October
the defendant published the following statement:—" The
ease of Langtry v. Langtry and others is finally disposed of,
and we have probably heard the last of it." But the defend-
ant had not heard the last of it. Mr. Serjeant Parry then
called attention to a statement made by the defendant at the
Guildhall Police-court, to the effect that he apologized to
Mr. and Mrs Langtry for the statement which had been
' Published. The apology of the defendant was absolutely
'worthless. It was not a frank apology openly made, or per-
haPa it would go to mitigate the offence. To apologize for
an offence when detected and clearly proved was no answer
to the offence. The object of the prosecutor was to
Vindicate his own and his wife's characters. Crimes
Of the kind committed by the defendant should not be
allowed to be committed with impunity. The defendant said
that he had given the name of the writer to Mr. Cornwallis
West, but he (Mr. Serjeant Parry) had never seen that name,
so far as he was aware, that the defendant was the
'Writer of the libel. Rosenberg said he thought the so-called
information he published was valuable; but any respectable
Inember of the press would suppress such "valuable" infer.
illation. In all probality the defendant had a proprietary
lead pecuniary interest in Town Talk. He said that his In.
formation as to the alleged petition had been given him by
,a Private detective; but that was false. The defendant
'new what he was publishing was false, and whether he pub-
Rahed the statements well knowing them to be false was the
question which the jury had to decide. It required the
greatest courage on the part of Mr. Langtry to bring the
_ll:Latter befoie the public, and he deserved their thanks for
tae courage he had exhibited.
The certificate of registration of Town Talk on April 4,
1878. was put in and proved. The proprietor was described
as Adolphus Rosenberg. of 107, Brixton-road, London. It
was first published on November 16 last.
Mr. George Drewitt, managing clerk to Mr. E. D. Law's,
solicitor, of 52, Old Broad-street, proved purchasing a copy
ef Town Talk at the publishing office on October 8. lie
there saw the defendant. Witness asked him if he was Mr.
Rosenberg, and he said he was and that he was the publisher
of the, paper, adding, "What is it? Is it an action for
Libel? ' Witness told him he could not say, upon :which the
defendant laughed and appeared particularly pleased, and
Mid. "I don't care if it is five or six." Witness replied,
"Very well."
~... Mr. Edward Langtry was then called and examined by
*dr
Montagu Williams. He said,—l am a private gentle-
lean, and live at 17, Norfolk-street, Park-lane. I am a
married man.
You have heard the libels which have been read. Is
there a single word of truth in them I—Not one single
'word.
Mr. Justice Hawkins : That is, so far as the matter is
Within his knowledge.
Idr. : Is it true that you ever pretented a petition
is the Divorce Cee-' -I ir did.

_ ..e Court 2—l nevei
xfor ever thought of it 2—l never thought of it.
Have you always lived on terms of affection with your
Wire 7-1 have; and am living with her still in Norfolk.
atreet.
Is it the fact that you have the honour of knowing his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 2—l have.
And Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales 2—l
aaave.
DO YOU know Lord Londeaborough yourself personally ?
I
do not remember ever having seen him; and so far as I
cali answer for my wife, she has not. • I have met Lord
rusdale at dinner, but he is not known to my wife. From
ginning to end the statements contained in the libels are
falsehooth.
I* there any truth about you having been offered a
Matte Bppointment2—No, not a word.
Mr. Williams • I am very glad to hear it.
The libels and offensive placard read by Mr. Serjeant
2117 were then formally put in, and that was the case for
the Prosecution.
Ur. W
terse' illis intimated that he would not call any wit-

Mr. Serjeant Parry having summed up his case,
Mr. Willis addressed the court on behalf of the de.
fendant Rosenberg. After which Mr. Justice
Hawkins bummed up the case at some length, when
the jury, after a few minutes' deliberation in their
box, found the defendant Guilty.
The next case in the list was that in which Lord
Londeaborough was the prosecutor.
Mr. F. H. Lewis said, in regard to that, the libel
Langtry
exactly the same as in the case of Mr. and Mrs.
"Liacgtry, and as by the verdict just given the honour
of all parties, including Lord Londesboiough, was
vindicated, his lordship would not take up the
time of the Court by proceeding further in the
taatter.
Ur. Montagu Williams, in the Langtry case, said
the case of the printers, Messrs. Head and Mark, was
obviously different from that of Rosenberg, and he
would like to take time to consider whether it was
!necessary to proceed upon the indictment against
them.

Mr. Justice Hawkins assented to the suggestions of
the learned counsel.

The case against Rosenberg on the prosecution of
Mr. and Mrs. Cornwailis West, was next taken.
Mr. watkin Williams, Q.C. then opened the case for the
11!osecution—the following being a condensed report of
Els speech, He said that the defendant Roseoberg having
been convicted public justice would be satisfied with a
verdict of guilty in the Langtry case without going into
•
the evidence to substantiate the other charges against him
In the case of the printers he was willing to believe that
tlley, although criminally responsible for what they had
done, Might have the excuse of possibly having been guilty
of no more than a want of that thorough care which would
have prevented them being the instruments ot publishing
the libels. So far as the prosecutors were concerned, it
!Tax no part of their business to pursue the case vindic-
""lY• Mr. Williams spoke of the social position of Mr.
and Mrs. Cornwallia West, and said that it was
to their great annoyance they found that the photographs
of the latter were being exhibited about London. Any one
ordering or purchasing a photograph from a photographer
had no power under the present law to prevent the multi-
Plication of such photographs. A year ago Mr. West en-
deavoured to put a stop to the sale of the photographs, but
the law unfortunately was such that the attempt was un-
successful. Mr. West took every step within his power to
Prevent the photograph of his wife being published and sold
in the streets. Not only, continued lib'. 'Williams, was the
article in Town Talk entitled "Mrs. Cornwallis West at
Rome " untrue, but it was false from beginning to end.
Rad Mr. West permitted hie wife, as stilted, "to display hr
• charms side by side with the porttaitures of half-naked ac-
. treaties and entirely naked Zulu women," he would deserve
the
rebuke which followed that "he can hs.vo I itW respect
for himself, for her, or for his position;" Ilitt that
and what followed wqs absolutely false, for be had
tb7
endeavoured to stop the sale, but the law afforded bun 'no remedy. Neither was there the slightest truth in the 1
. allegations as to photographic studios at the back of the
• • • • house of theAktosecator. •-air. West was -bately cerilatto
' •-• tvith permitting the sale of his wife's photographs for the
,• sake of a few pounds commission yearly. That and other
• , n4101491* WWI wretighed borrig luplanations. Mr.'

Williams read the whole of the articles, and denied the
statements therein made, saying that the article was a
' wicked lie, there being no coloar nor pretence for them.
The article was an absolute invention on the part of the
writer. Some parts of it were obscure, but it was conse-
quentiy the More wicked. It was a cruel, wicked, and
cowardly libel, published without any excuse or grounds
whatever. Parts of it had operated harshly against Mr.
West, for it was stated that he had made no attempts to
suppress the sale of the photographs, whereas the contrary
was the fact; but he could not do so, as Mr. Williams pro-
ceeded to show, by A reference to Lord Westbary's Copyright
Act of 1862.

Mr. Sustice itawkins said that no observation could be
made against Mr. West as to not stopping the publication
of the photographs, because he had been advised that he
co,sid not do so.

Mr. Williams observed that tho only way to stop the
publication ot photogiaphs was to purchase the negative
ittelf.

Mr Bexley, on behalf of the printers, asked that they
might be permitted to say that they were simply trade
printers, and ha l not printed the paper for any other 'vont
than from ordinary trade. It was only due to them to say
that it they had seen the articles before publication they
would not have permitted the printing of the paper in their
office. They had offered the greatest atonement in their
power, and that was to pay Mr. West's costs, whatever
they might be, and protect him against any extra costs.
Mr. Willis, for the defendant Rosenberg, did not dispute
that the statements in the article were defamatory, blit
what had struck him was that no person who read it could
believe that it was an actual description of any part of the
proceedings of Mrs. Cornwallis West. If the article had
caused any pain to either that lady or her husband, the
defendant most sincerely regretted it. That he had said
when before the magistrate in the case of Mr. and Mrs.
Langtry, and he Would have said it in this case also. In-
deed, his solicitor did so on his behalf. The paper would
not, however, bear the construction put upon it by Mr.
Williams; for to any person of ordinary mind it was a
mere burlesque. Still, if Mr. Cornvoillis West required a
retractation, he (Mr. Willis) was prepared to give it in the
most ample form, and he hoped that this would be the last
time that anything would appear in print respecting it.
With regard to Mr. and Mrs. Cornwallis West, then, he now
made the full retractation that they desired In respect to
those photographs, Mr. Willis asked his Lordship tosay that
no wife should be photographed without the consent of her
husband.

Mr. Justice Hawkins : That is rather hard for me to
say.

Mr. Willis said he did not require the Jury to be
sworn in this case. Those concerned pleaded guilty.
Before sentence was pronounced he trusted his Lord-
ship would beam in mind that the defendant was a
young man of 27 years of age, and hitherto he had borne
himself in a respectable manner. He was married and had
two young children, and his wife was expecting shortly to
be a mother again. Upon him also a father depended for
support, and he (Mr. Willis) earnestly hoped that his Lord-
ship would take these matters into consideration. He hoped
his Lordship woild recollect that the defendant, in respect to
Mr. Langtry's matter, expressed his regret, as far as be could,
for the libel by withdrawing it and endeavouring to get rid of
the imputation which his paper had conveyed. He likewise
hoped his Lordship would have regard to the nature of the
libel itself. He did not know that this was one of the worst
cases after all, for the very accusation which the paper had
published refuted itself. Was it so bad as the case of the
personal satirist who engrafted falsehood upon truth—who
dragged out some circumstances—who coloured them, and
who thus prevented what might be a possibility of an
answer?

Mr. Justice Hawkins: I shall postpone Judgment until
Monday morning at ten o'clock. The printers may go out
on bail in the same recognizances as before.

Rosenberg was then removed in custody, and Messrs.
Mark and Head left the court.

On Monday morning, Adolphus Rosenberg was
brought up from the gaol of Newgate for sentence.
As during the hearing on Saturday, the Old Court was
densely crowded while sentence was being pronounced.
On the prisoner being placed in the dock, Mr.
Montague Williams stated to the Court, in correction
of a misapprehension of what had been said on Satur.
day, that so far from the publication called Town
Talk haying stopped since the prisoner was in custody,
it had been and still was in circulation.
Mr. Justice Hawkins proceeded to pass sentence.
He said :
Adolphus Rosenberg, you were convicted before me on
Saturday, partly on your own confession and partly by the
verdict of the jury, of having published a series of very
atrocious libels in a scandalous, mischievous, and menda-
cious production—l will not insult the respectable portion
of the Press of this country by calling it a newspaper
—published by you under the name of Town Talk. It
was so published by you with the professed object of
holding up to scorn and to suppress vice and immorality,
but its zeal object was to pander to the depraved and
prurient tastes of those who could be found weak enough
and debased enough to buy and read your publication. For
six consecutive weeks, with an• audacity, to my mind, un-
paralleled, you alleged that Mr. Langtry, a gentleman
who was and is living upon happy and affectionate
terms with his wife, and moving in society, beloved and
respected by his friends, had been obliged, in consequence
of the infidelity of his wife, Mrs. Langtry, with an exalted
personage and two other gentlemen, to seek for a divorce
In the Divorce Court, and in more than one of the numbers
In which you made these false and wicked announcements
you alleged that the details of the adultery which was
charged in that petition were of such a character as to he a
national disgrace, sled of so prurient a kind as to be unfit
even tb be discussed in a public Court of Justice in the
ordinary way. You alleged, further, that such was the
opinion of the learned president of the Divorce Court( Sir
James flannen), and that acting upon that belief and that
impression he had ordered, contrary to the usual and
ordinary custom, this particular case to be heard in camera
or in private. You were warned, and emphatically
warned, in a number of Truth that your statement as
to a petition for divorce having been presented had
been reproduced in sonic French newspaper, and in the
same paragraph in Truth it was pointed out that there was
not one single syllable of foundation for the charge you had
made. You, however, in the very next number of Town
Talk which you issued—in language which it is not neces-
sary that I should here repeat—stated, glorying in the
circumstance that you were the person who had announced
that a petition had been presented, that it was nos the
French newspaper at all that ought to have the credit of it,
and that the man who wrote the article in Truth was himself
telling an untruth when he said there was no foundation for
the charge which you had made againat Mrs Langtry. You
persisted in these libels, alleging that the case was about to
be heard early in the month of November—the moment,
that was to say, the Courts re-assembled—until the first
week ln October. Probably in that first week of October
you knew perfectly well that when November came you
would be inevitably detected in having falsely stated that
there was such a petition on the file at all; and thinking
how you could best escape from the exposure which then,
of necessity, awaited you, you invented this statement,—
that Mr. Langtry had withdrawn his petition. Moreover,
you insinuated that it was not unlikely that he would obtain
a diplomatic appointment abroad; and that it was very un-
certain, or unlikely, whether his wife would accompany him.
No man who read that, which was the final paragraph re-
lating to this scandal, could for a single moment hesitate
to come to the conclusion that yon intended to insinuate
that there was truth in the petition ; that it was filed by
Mr. Langtry because be felt conscious of his wife's adultery
with persons of high standing- and that he had been in-
duced dishonourably, shamefully, disgracefully to forgo
his petition in consideration of an appointment being
given to him abroad, leaving his wife behind him
to continue her adulterous intercourse with those
who had been named as co-respondents. For six
consecutive weeks did this series of libels appear in that
production of yours. It was said by your learned and able
counsel on Saturday—and I was glad to hear him state it—
that he had received from your own lips authority, even
your authority, for saying there was not one single syllable
of truth in all this. Your learned counsel also said, how-
ever, that persons in the position of Mr. and Mrs. Langtry
might have rested quiet because of the undoubtedly high
character they possess, and because of the good feeling of
those who are acquainted with them and who know that this
scandal must of necessity be untrue. I agree with the
learned counsel that they might have rested on their own
character and position. But I think they were not only
not bound to do so, but that their net doing so and their
insisting upon bringing you to ludic° reflects credit upon
them. I think it was their bounden auty to take the
steps they have taken—namely, to bring to justice a person
whom they found a wilful and scandalous libeller, and
that they deserve the thanks of the country for the cent's°
they have pursued. Indicted for those libles, you have
through the mouth of our learned counsel, admitted that
there is not a single syllable of foundation for them.
You have admitted them to be false, but you denied that
you knew them to be false. That issue had, therefore, to be
submitted to the jury, and the jury who tried you, on evi-
dence that, to my mind, could leave no shadow of doubt 1
in the mind of any man of common sense, came to the con-
elusion that when you published those libels you published I
them knowing them to be false. If you had ever believed
them to be true, you were guilty of a cruel and wicked act
for the purpose of gratifying your own scrdid purposes and
putting money into your pccket by adding to the distress of
the husband and the degradation of his wife. But you have
now been found guilty of publishing them with the knowledge
that they were untrue. I repeat that you have been found guilty
of publishing as atrocious a series of libels as ever were brought
before my notice with the knowledge that they were untrue,
your sole purpose being that s f putting money in your
pocket by pandering to the filthy appetites of those who
take pleasure in reading productions of yours. I have
thought what sentence I ought to pass upon you. I
have reflected calmly upon it, and I have come to this
conclusion, that the time has arrived when such libels as
those of which you have been found guilty must be sup-
pressed with the strong hand of the law. Therefore, for
the offence of which you have been found guilty, in
publishing, knowing them to be false' those libels on
Mr. and Mrs. Langtry, I sentence you to be imprisoned
for 18 calendar months, and I further direct that at
the expiration of that time you enter into your own
recognizances in the sum of £l.OOO to keep the peace and
be of good behaviour towards Her Majesty and all her
liege subjects for the farther term of 18 calendar months.
So much for the indictment which is preferred at the suit
of Mrs. Langtry. As regards the indictment preferred at the
Instance of Lord Londesborough, the libel upon him is in-
volved in the libel to which I have already made observa-
tions to you; but, nevertheless, bearing in mind that 1 can-
not pass that over without expressing my opinion of the
character of the lioel, evenuts affecting Lord Londesborough
alone, I do so by sentencing you for that to be imprisoned
for six calendar months. That will run concurrently. I
come now to the case of Mr. and Mrs. Cornwallis West.
Their case stands upon a very different footing. You do
not charge in the libel to which you have pleaded guilty that
they were guilty of actual immorality. You did not make
that charge, for you thought probably that having had six
consecutive weeks of the divorce of Mr Langtry you must
vary the food you offered to your readers; therefore you
thought fit to hold Mrs. Cornwallis West up to ridicule,
and make her appear a wanton, foolish, and immodest
woman, who thought proper to have her photographs
taken and placed along with half-naked persons in
shop windows. And this statement you thought
proper to accompany with a description of her
inner life with such detailed circumstances that it would
not he surprising 1.1 some persona were to say, "Can all this
be untrue? Can any man have the impudence and the
audacity to publish such libels as these?" Let me tell you,
and in telling you let me tell all those who may be interested
to know it, that it is just as much a libel to hold a man up
to ridicule as to make imputations against the moral cha-
racter of the individual. No man has a right to hold
another up to scorn, anti if he does publish that which tends
to bring another into ridicule he is amenable to the criminal
law of the country. For this I pass upon you the sentence
of six months' imprisonment, to run concurrently with the
other sentence. The effect of my judgment is that for the
libels of which you have been convicted you will be impri-
soned for 18 calendar months and I only regret that 1 have
not the power to add hard labour.
Messrs. William Wilfrid Head and Henry Robert
Mark, printers, in Fleet-lane, then .surrendered for
sentence upon the charge to which they had pleaded
"Guilty," of printing the numbers of Town Talk in
which the libels in question appeared.
Mr. Besley and Mr. Avery were counsel for the de-
fendants.
Mr. Justice Hawkins said :

I have considered the matter which was mentioned to me
on Saturday (alluding to a suggestion that the defendants
should be discharged on the payment of the costs incurred
by Mr. Cornwallis West). Of course I make no bargain with
regard to these defendants, nor do I Bay anything as to that.
I find that the libel upon Mr. and Mrs. Cornwallis West, to
the printing of which the present defendants Ifave pleaded
"Guilty," is contained in the same number-of Town Talk as
that in which the last libel upon Mr. and Mrs. Langtry ap-
peared. I cannot help feeling, therefore, thitt the printers are
just as much responsible for this latter libel npon Mr. and Mrs.
Lanittr), although they are not indicted .for 4, as They are
for the libel upon Mr. and Mrs. Colaitrillis Wed; and I
would take this opportunity of raying, while I am Ifot now
going to pronounce judgment, that it would be well for
those occupying a position such as that—of the present de-
4sendsido,,sa printersl toLtaiselireatcrW&(atid-1 hope that in
the future this may be a warning to all to take great care)
I as to the mode in which journals of this sort are conaucted.
nue we two Aix !hole week' of the moat sourrilous, um.

true, and libellous matter printed against the piosecutors ;
and as regards the printers, unquestionably it seems to me,
looking at all the facts and at the existence of their in-
difference and negligence—l do not say wilful indifference
or negligence, as to what may have been in the paper—they
might have been convicted of having published the libel
upon Mr. and Mrs. Langtry in the same way as Rosenberg
has been. Therefore, I repeat, it behoves persons in the
position of the defendants to take great care with respect to
the manner in which they conduct their business. I have
no hesitation in saying that in the case of a journal of this
character, which is published week after week and which
contains such a mass of wicked and scurrilous matter, no
printer can shelter himself behind the mere suggestion that
he entrusted his business to another man, leaving it to him
to say what should go in and be printed and what should
not. It ought to be well known that the printer himself is
responsible for the issue which emanates from his establish-
ment ‘• and seeing, as I do, that the same paper which con-
tained the libel en Mrs. West contained also the libel on
Mrs. Langtry, I myself might have been prepared to take Et
course which I will not mention now. It has been sug-
gelled that I should liberate the present defendants upon
their paying the costs of the prosecutions on the part of
Mr. and Mrs. West. lam not disposed to say that I think
that would be sufficient. I will say no more on thP.t point;
hut in order that the defendants may have an opportunity
of doing that which possibly may induce me to take a dif-
ferent view of their case than I might otherwise take in any
sentence which I might think it right to pronounce, I shall
postpone passing sentence upon them to•day upon their
entering into their own recognizances to come up for judg-
ment when called upon; and I shall require a report to be
made to me as to the costs of these prosecutions, which, un-
happily, by law, I have not the power to order to be paid,
otherwise I would have taken my own course about it. I
say I shall require a report to be made to me before the
December Sessions as to what has been done:

Mr. Besley observed that it was a prevalent notion
among the printing trade that where a paper was not
edited, sub-edited, read, or corrected in the office of
the printers whose name it bore they were not per-
sonally responsible, but that their responsibility drifted
to the proprietor.
Mr. Justice Hawkins said it was a very erroneous
notion and impression, and the sooner it was corrected
the better. As for the defendants Messrs. Head and
Mark, he had not a shadow of doubt that they had
not the slightest notion of the sort of production they
were printing week by week. If he had thought other-
wise, he should not have been content to let them go,
but should have punished them in another way. As
it was, he should simply call upon them to enter into
their own recognizances in £l,OOO each to appear for
judgment if called upon, which, of course, depended
on circumstances.

Mr. Watkin Williams stated that the trade custom
to which Mr. Besley alluded was in direct violation
of the Act of Parliament (32 and 33 Vic., cap. 24,
sec. 2).
Mr. Justice Hawkins said they could not establish a
custom to override an Act of Parliament or to absolve
them from the consequences of printing a libel; at
least he should require very strong authority from the
House of Lords before assenting to such a doctrine.
The defendants then formally entered into their re.
cognizances, and the case ended.

On Tuesday morning Adolphus Rosenberg was again placed
at the bar at the Old Bailey, and Mr. Justice Hawkins, address-
ing him, said :—" I find there has been some misapprehension
with regard to the character of the sentence which I in-
tended to pass upon you, and that it is supposed that you
would be entitled to be treated as a first-class misdemean-
ant, and that you would as such be entitled to see your
friends, and to maintain yourself as you desired. This was
not my intention, and the sentence you will really have to
undergo will be that of 'eighteen months' imprisonment,
short only of hard labour, and in all other respects ou will
be treated as though you were convicted of felony."

AN ABSURD CUSTOM.—It Was the fashion during
the reign of Queen Anne for no woman of very high
rank to own herself perfectly in health, a silly custom
well ridiculed by Colley Cibber in his oomedy of The
Sick Lady's Cure. The Duchess of Marlborough gave
in to this folly with great extravagance, and para.
cularly in travelling, when loads of straw were gene-
rally strewed before the door of her hotel to prevent
the least noise of passengers or carriages. In garrison
towns, too, she frequently sent to the commanding
officer to have the drums muffled while she remained
in the place,
AVERAGE PRICES or BRITISH Conn,—The follow-
ing are the average prices of British corn for the week
ending October 25, as receive 4 from the inspectors and
officers of Excise :—Wheat, 495. 10d. ; barley, 40s. 10d. ;
oats, 225. 3d, per imperial qr. Corresponding week
last year :—Wheat, 395.; barley, 401, 5d.; oats,
21s. M.

AGRICULTURE IN PENNSYLVANIL.—If the following
account of Pennsylvanian resources be anything like
true, that State will not want for food (says Land and
Water). The population is over 4,000,000, with an
area embracing 30,000,000 acres, with hardly a sixth
under cultivation. The returns indicate that last year
were produced in this State 1,400,000 acres of wh at,
with an average acreable yield, however, of only 13.8
bushels; 1,246,C60 acres Indian corn, yielding 33
bushels per acre; 1,177,778 acres oats, bulking 36
bushels; 342,857 acres of rye, casting only 14 in hela ;
26,042 acres barley, giving 21 bushels; 130,000 are de-
voted to potatoes, producing nearly 100 bushels per
acre, grown at much less cost than in Great Britaic,
and usually selling at is. 6d. per bushel; and nrwards
of 2,000,300 acres are mown for hay. Of ml k cows
there are 836,800, the number of oxen and o' he cattle
being the same. The average price of ea ttl it £7 ;
sheep exceed a million and a-half, and are valued at
14s. each; there are nearly a million hogs, worth 325.
each.

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THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS.—Colonel (sternly, pointing
to large cobweb in a corner of the stables). "What
d'ye call that, Sir?" Young Subaltern (fresh from the
Academy). "That, Sir, is the web of the Arachnid-a
Sedentaria Damestica, or common house•spider. We
conquer him during the day, Sir, but he gets the
better of us at night. He is considered a model of
perseverance! Of course, Sir, you remember the story
of Bruce and--" [Exit Colonel, hastily, muttering
something about the "Service going "—somewhere.—
Punch.

THE ADVANTAGES OF NicKEL.—A few years ago
nickel was a metal comparatively unknown, but
latterly, thanks to the development of the electro-
depositing process, its value is beginning to be ap-
preciated (remarks the Echo). In a few more years
it will be regarded as the indispeesable handmaid of
iron and steel, for by its aid we can have the strength
of those metals with perfect freedom from rust. The
bicycle mania heti helped not a little to encourage its
Introduction, and before long it will be the custom to
have all the bright ironwork in the house protected by
nickel, much te the delight of the housemaids.
SERPA PINTO, THE AFRICAN EXPLORER. —The Tinos
of Tuesday says :—" We regret to bear that this sue-
cessful African explorer is seriously ill. He attended,
as representative of the Portuguese Government, the
recent International Geographical Congress at Brussels,
where he caught a severe cold which settled on his
lungs. In the case of a man who has so successfully
faced the hardships of a journey across Africa, and
who might, therefore, be expected to have a robust
constitution, this might not seem serious; but when it
is remembered that Major Pinto has had his lungs
pierced by a rifle ball, the thing assumes a different
aspect. He has been ordered to return at once to
Portugal, where, we trust, he will be able to make a
speedy and complete recovery. Meantime, the pre-
paration of his narrative of his journey across Africa
is suspended, and its publication, we fear, will have
to be considerably postponed."
DISASTERS Al SEA.—There were 31 British and
foreign wrecks reported during the past week
making a total of 1,299 for the present year, or an in-
crease of 122 as compared with the corresponding
period of last year. The approximate value of pro-
perty lost was £620,000, including British £510,000.
THE PHYLLOXERA IN AUSTRALIA.—This dreadful
scourge is not content with devastating the European
vineyards, but has appeared in those of Victoria, in the
district of Geelong. The Bendigo vignerons have sent
a recommendation to the Government that the Gee-
long vineyards should be at once purchased by the
State and destroyed, and in this movement the New
South Wales and South Australian Governments have
been asked to co-operate. The sum estimated for the
purchase is about £30,000.
THE COMING DISSOLUTION.--The Times remarks in
a leader:—" The evidence of a coming dissolution is
everywhere about us. No doubt many gentlemen
who have been spending time and money over the new
register would be terribly disappointed if an election
happened this side of Christmas; but whether the
great eve'at is to be next month or next year it will
now be always close at hand till it comes, It is so
near that it is the perpetual subject of thought of
politicians. Invited and dreaded, sought for yet
feared, and demanded the more vehemently the
greater appears the probability that it will be
postponed, this tremendous process of dissolution
and of new birth overshadows all our political life,
As long as the coming Session lasts, if it does
come, attention will be paid to nothing else. The
Ministry will prepare their work with a view to it.
The tactics of Opposition leaders will be directed to it.
The rank and file on both sides, except those blessed
men, and they are not a few, who have made up their
minds not to become candidates again, will divide
their time between the House and their constituencies.
Restless and perturbed, they will move here and there
seeking peace and finding none, And to make up for
those who are going out with no intention to try to re-
turn, there is at least an equal number now out who
will try to get in. For them the delay is unredeemed
weariness. They will cry with one accord to Lord
Beaconsfield—Let the dissolution come, and Come
quickly; and as they openly make this petition, the
word 'Amen' will rise to the lips of all others in-
terested although they may not have the courage to
utter it." . . .

STORM WARNING.—The following cable message has
been received at the London office of the New York
Herald, from the Herald Weather Bureau, New
York :—"A depression, developing energy as it crosses,
will arrive on the British and Norwegian, affecting the
French coasts, between the 28th and 30th, preceded
and attended by rains and south-east, veering to north,
gales, or strong winds; possibly electrical phenomena.
Atlantic, north of 40, stormy."

NEW USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.—One of the silk.
manufacturing farms of Lyons, France, is introducing
the production of photographic impressions on stuffs.
They sent to a recent meeting of the Photographic
Society several pieces of silk with a variety of photo.
graphic pictures printed thereon, including, among
others, a number of large medallions representing
pictures of the old masters.— Woo/ Trade Review.

"GET Our."—Why is a man who cannot learn by
experience like a laurel bush ?—Because he is an ever
green.—Judy.
UTILISING THE WASTE OF SMALL COAL—The
system of utilisation of small coal which has been so
long known in France is about to be introduced into
the Durham coal trade on a large scale. At one of
the large collieries of the Marquis of Londonderry
briquette machines are being erected by a Leeds firm
for the manufacture of briquettes, or compressed fuel
of small coal. It is stated that, at a cost for pre-
paring, mixing, and making of about is. per ton, an
excellent fuel can be made from the waste or small
coal. In France the use of briquettes so made is on a
large scale—one company alone producing 300,000 tons
yearly; but the system has not up to the present been
largely adopted in England. It is probable, however,
that if the attempt now being made at the London-
derry collieries proves successful it will soon be followed
extensively in the north. _ _ _

REMEMBERING HER OLD MASTER,—We have heard
a great deal from Eastern travellers of the wonderful
attachment which exists between the horse and his
master in Oriental lands, but we doubt if anything
more interesting has ever been told than the following
story of "Goldsmith Maid," Recently, Charley
Cochrane, wile was for many years her faithful groom,
arrived from California, and wishing to see the grand
old trotting mare and her colt, Failed on Mr. Smith,
her owner, to ohtain his permission to visit Fashion
Stud Farm, in New Jersey. Mr. Smith accompanied
Cochrane to the farm, and on !arriving there re-
marked: "Charley, the ' Maid ' is very jealous of
her colt, is very cross, and will permit ne one to
approach her." Cochrane arranged that "Goldsmith
Maid" should hear his voice before she saw him,
and, although they had not seen each other for two
years, a loud whinny presently assured the visitors
that the mare bad recognized the man's voice. Coch-
rane next showed himself, when a touching scene
occurred. The old queen of the turf, who for months
would not allow any one to approach her, making use
of both heels and teeth if it was attempted, rushed with
a bound to her old friend, forgetting even her colt,
and rubbed her head upon his shoulder, her nose in
his face, played with his whiskers, and showed by her
every action that her heart was full of joy to see him.
Directly the colt came up to them, and tho old mare
was delighted when Charley placed his hand on the
little fellow. When Cochrane left the place the mare
followed him to the gate, whinnling for him even after
he had passed out of her sight.
GETTING VEL- vErrED.—" Velvet flowers are the
great novelty for trimming autumn sr d winterbonnets,"
writes a Paris fashion journal, "and can be had in any
shade." Well, then, we should advise ladies who go
in for these velvet flowers of any shade to get a sun-
.' shade," for that would prove useful in keeping them
from the rain.—Fun.

FARMING ON A LARGE SCALE.—Dr. Glenn, named
by the party of the new Constitution as their candidate
for the post of Governor of California, is a farmer On
a very large scale, to judge by the account given by
the Sian Francisco Chronicle of his agricultural opera.
tions. He tills his broad acres himself, and acquired
every rood by money which came from his own pro.
vident exertion. His 'quiche lies on the Sacramento
river. Its length on a meridian is not far from sixteen
miles; following the winding of the river, it extends
nearly thirty miles. The soil is a black loam, never
supposed to be of any use except for grazing till Dr.
Glynn proved its adaptability to wheat culture. The
harvest time is ;Tread over the whole summer and part
of the fall. It begins in the middle of June and lasts
till October. The Beading begins about the middle
of September, and lasts till April. The haying season
prevents a few months' idleness between seeding
an harvest. Dr. Glynn has this year 45,000 acres.
This can be placed on the river bank at 90 cents. per
bushel. During harvest there are employed 500 men.
Dr. Glenn is general-in.ehief. His ranche is subdivided
into nine smaller ranches. In charge are seven fore.
men. Under the foremen are eleven blacksmiths,
fourteen carpenters, six engineers, six machinists, five
commissaries, and numerous cooks and servants. Toe
common workmen are divided into gangs, and detailed
where they are needed. There are 130 "gang ploughs,"
fifty "headers," to which belong 180 waggons, six
cleaners, 100 harrows, eighteen seeders; six threshers,
six engines, besides a countless number of smaller
implements, and many vehicles; 1,000 work lauses
I and mules, with 1,000 brood mares and younger stock.
I There are thirty•two dwellings, fourteen blacksniitisi'
' shops. barns, and enough structures, large and si,
U,
make a total of 100. The village of Jacinto, os, cud
part k.f the ranche, includes a hotel, store, ferry, shops,
warehouses, and several dwelliugs.

THE HEIGHT OF cESTHETIC EXCLUSIVENESS.—
Mamma, "Who are those extraordlnary•looking chil-
dren ? "—Effie. " The Cimabue Browns, mamma.
They're (esthetic, you know! "—Mamma. "So I should
imagine. Do you know them to speak to? "—Effie.
"Oh dear no, mamma—they're most exclusive. Why,
they put out their tongues at us if we only look at
them! "—Punch.

WHEAT IN MEXICO.-It was not untills3o that wheat
found its way into Mexico, and then only by chance.
A slave of Cortez found a few grains of wheat in a
parcel of rice and showed them to his master, who
ordered them to be planted. The result showed that
wheat would thrive well on Mexican soil; and now
one of the finest wheat-valleys in the world is near the
Mexican capital. _ . _ _

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GUN LICENCES.—In the year ended the 31st of
March the licence duty on guns was £80,705 gross,
and £79,236 net.
MuNiricENT BEQUESTS.—The late Mrs. Charlton, of
Dudley, sister to the founder of the Dudley Guest
Hospital, and who was buried on Friday, has leli. the
fallowing munificent bequests :—£19,000 to the Dudley
Guest Hospital, £l,OOO each to the Dudley Dispensary
and Wolverhampt n Orphanage, £3OO each to the
Deaf and Dumb Institution, Blind Asylum, Eye and
Ear Infirmary, and Asylum for Idiots, all in Birming-
ham; and £5OO to the vicar and wardens of St.
Thomas's Church, Dudley, for the benefit of the poor
of Dudley.
bIIDDEN DEATH IN THE FOOTBALL FIRLD.-4 pain*
ful incident occurred at the annual football match
between the Reading and Pilgrims' Football Clubs,
played at Reading last Saturday afternoon. After the
rival teams had been playing about fifteen minutes the
Reading captain (Hr. H. F. Rogers), who had pre-
viously complained of being unwell, was suddenly
taken ill. The game was instantly stopped, and two
medical men, who happened to be on the ground, were
quickly in attendance. Their efforts, however, were
of no avail, for life was extinct in two or three
minutes. It is generally believed that death was
caused by an affection of the heart. Very general
regret was felt, not only by the members of his club, of
which for some years deceased had been captain, but
also in the town, where he was well known and de-
servedly popular,
PurzirAN DINING Cene.—On Monday, a special
train, consisting of a Pullman dining and drawing-room
car and one or two luggage vans, left the Great Northern
Central Station in Leeds at 10.30 a,m. for London for
the purpose of again testing the practicability on long
journeys of the Pullman car dining system, which the
directors of the Great Northern Railway have decided
to adopt. The up journey was performed in 3h.
50min , which is 10 minutes quicker than the fast ex-
press which leaves daily at 10 a.m. Luncheon WWI
served on the way. On the return journey a hot
dinner was served, and Leeds was reached at 9.20
p.m. precisely. The company will begin on Saturday
to attach a dining car to every fast morning train from
Leeds and from London.

WOMAN'S HAND.—The female thumb is said to be
an important index of the female character. Women
with large thumbs are held to be more than ordinarily
intelligent, while women with small thumbs are re-
garded as romantic. According to certain authors,
who profess to be observers, a woman's hand is more
indicative of a woman's character than her face, as
the latter is to a certain extent under the control of
temporary emotions, or of the will, whereas the former
is a fact which exists for any one who understands it
to profit by.
THE DINGO NUISANCE IN AUSTRALLl.—Shapherds
and farmers in West Australia are complaining of a
nuisance similar to that from which their brethren in
the eastern side of the continent have been suffering,
only that in their case their wrath is vented on din-
goes, or native dogs, instead of on wallabies and
kangaroos. The Colonies and India states that the
marsupials of Queensland devour the sustenance of the
sheep and cattle, destroying the pasturage of the
country, and leaving the flocks of sheep to die of
starvation; the dingoes, on the other hand, attack tbe
flocks themselves, and besides worrying and killing
individual sheep, often scare and break up the flocks,
suddenly bursting upon them at dusk or in the early
morning, and entailing much loss and more labour on
the sheep-owners and their shepherds. A tax of one
or two pounds on every thousand sheep is proposed,
in order to defray the cost of a general crusade against
the howling depredators, whose ravages are, in certain
districts, almost as much feared as the attacks of pack
of wolves in Russia and certain parts of Europe.—
Land and Water.

THE END OF ALL THlNGS.—Mistress (to her late
servant). Well, Mary, how have you been since you
left me, and where are you living now 7—Ye Servant.
Please, mam, I don't live anywhere, mam ; I'm
married, mam.—Judy.
FISH KILLED BY ELECTRICITY, A correspondent
of Land and Water says :—A curious Incident of the
whole of the occupants of a small fish-pond being de-
stroled by a flash of lightning, is reported from Seek,
Grand Duchy of Nassau. The Nassauer Bate states
that during a very heavy thunder and hail storm at
night time, a flash of lightning struck a small pond,
well•stocked with various kinds of fish, the property
of the pastor of the parish. The following morning
the whole number of the fish were discovered dead
upon the surface of the water. They had all the ap-
pearance of having been half boiled, and crumbled to
pieces at the least touch, just as is the case with fish
after being boiled. Neither any external nor internal
injury could be observed, the scales being intact and
the swimming bladder filled and well preserved. The
water in the pond was still muddy and dull the morn-
ing after the storm, as if the lightning had only then
struck it.

ROUNDING ON SKIL— CiS. "Now mind, Bob, it's
square envelopes you're to get. Don't forget—square
ones."—Bob. "All right. But (innocently) they
don't sell round ones, do they, Cis ?"—Fun.
NEW USE FOR IRON RAILS.—The engineer of the
San Paulo Railway in Brazil bite hit upon a novel
way ot utilising the old iron rails which have been
superseded by steel, by making them into telegraph
posts, and thus overcoming the trouble and annoy-
ance occasioned in all tropical countries through the
destruction of the wooden poste by ante. These rails,
when originally laid down cost Ell per ton, and the
steel rails which have displaced them have only cost
£4los. _

AN AMERICAN INVENTION.—Here is a specimen of
how they manage things in the United States, the
land of freedom and well.patented inventions (says the
Daily Telegraph). A new hog-scraping machine has
just been tested at Chicago with most satisfactory
results. A hog was killed, placed in the machine, and
almost in an instant came out again with only a few
odd hairs left upon his head and legs. Seven animals
were passed through the apparatus in less than a
minute, and each emerged from the ordeal as hairless
as could be desired. With a few improvements, it is
added, the machine is expected to 'finish off" six
thousand hogs in ten hours. Of course the improve-
ments will be made; for who ever beard of a Yankee
inventor stopping one small degree short of working
perfection in any machine he meant to patent? It
will go hard with the poor hog when all the mechanical
agencies devised to improve him out of existence as a
walking quadruped and to facilitate his speedy trans-
formation into pork and its derivatives are completed
to the satisfaction of the carnivorous biped man. The
creature is killed, scraped, scalded, quartered, and cut
up by machinery, which moves almost as regularly as
the stars in their courses, and still the cry is for more
machines. To all appearance, the inventing will go
on to the ultimate bourne marked by pork-pies and
ham sandwiches, which will be cut, shaped, filled.
spread. and flavoured by some huge mechanical
Briareus provioing these comestibles by the ton with
its hundred hands.

'THE. MARKETS.
M ARK.L AN E.-MONDAY.
At Mark.lane business was quieter. There was a fair at-
tendance. English produce again came to I.a.nd sparingly.
Of foreign there were fair arrivals. English wheat met a
quiet sale, at about la. per quarter leas money. For foreign
there was a fair inquiry, at a decline of is. per quarter.
Barley was in moderate request. Fine samples were about
the same, but other sorts fell is. to 2s. per quarter. Malt
was quiet, but steady. The demand for oats somewhat fell
off, and prices ruled about 6d. lower. Maize was quieter,
and 6d. easier. Beans and peas were steady, at the late ad-
vance. The flour market was quiet, and drooping.
METROPOLITAN C A.TTLE MARKE r.-MONDAY.
The cattle trade is very dull, but supplies were tolerably
good, and were ample for all requirements. Fair arrivals of
beasts were reported from our own grazing districts, and the
Irish receipts were again heavy, bat Scotland was poorly
represented. As usual, quality and qpndition left plenty of
room for improvement. Throughout the demand was very
flat, the tendency of prices being decidedly in favour of
buyers. The best Scots and crosses did not make more than
ss. to Si. 23. per 81.14. From the Midland and Home
counties we received about 1,950; from Sootland, 23;
and from Ireland about 1,600 head. On the foreign
side of the market there were some 200 Canadian,
with a few Danish and Spanish beasts. With a dull trade,
quotations were weak. The sheep pens were well supplied.
A very dragging inquiry was experienced, and prices con-
tinued to droop. For the best Mims and halt-beads, 6s. 4d.
to 6s 65 per Bth. was accepted. Calves and pigs were dull
and weak. At Deptford there were about 2,400 beats and
11,000 sheep. Coarse and inferior beasts, 4s. to 4s. lid.;
second quality, 4s. 64. to 4s. Bd.; prime large oxen, 4s. 105.
to Is.; prime Scots, &c., 51. to Is 261. ; eoarse and interior
sheep. 4a. 65. to Is. 65.; second quality ditto, bs. 6d. to
Is. 101 ; prime coarse %mated, ss. 105. to 6s. 2d.,; prime
Southdowns, 6s. 45. to 6s. 6d. ; large coarse calves, Lc to
bs. 65.; prime small ditto, Is. 6d. to li. 105. ; large pork,
4.. to 4s. ed. ; small ditto, 45. Bd. to Is. 2d. per Sib. sinking
the offal.
METROPOLITAN MEAT M-ARKET.-MONDAY.
There was only a moderate supply of meat on sale this
morning, but traae was very slow, and there was no prospect
of a clearance even at lower prices :-Inferior beet, 26. 4d.
to 3s ; middling ditto, 3s. 4d. to 4.; prime ditto, 4s. to
4s. Bd.; interior mutton, 2s. 85. to 3s. hd. ; middling ditto,
3s. 65. to 4s. ; prime ditto, 4.. 4d. to be.; veal, 4s. 4d. to
45. 84.; large pork, 3s. to 36. 4d.; ditto small, is. 6d. to 41.
per Sib. by the carcase.

GASIE AND POULTRY.
Irish fowls, is. Sd. to 2*.; Essex dttto, Is. to 26. 61 : Boston
ditto, 2i. to 3s. 31. ; Sussex ditto, 25. 6d. toss. ; Sarrey ditto,
2s. 9d. to 35.; sive hens, Is to 26, ; pigeons, 6d. to 10d. ;
roedeer, 18s. to 2 .1. ; grouse, 2s. 64. to 46.; pheasants, 45. to
75. ; partridges, is. to 3s. Pd.; black game, 25. 91. to 36. 3d.;
snipe, 101. to Is. 24. : bares, 45. to Is. ; Hungarian ditto, 28.
to is, : rabbits, le. to is. each.
FISH.
Cod, £5 to per score; crimped ditto. 10$. t° 181- each ;
pickled ditto, 295. to 406 per barrel: native oysters, 186. to
20s. per hundred; common ditto, Ll to £2 per bushel;
whiting, 61. 6d. to 15s. per basket; bloaters, Ss. to 4s. 9d.
per box; kippers, 41. to 6s. 64. per pad; eels, 81. to 10d. per
lb.; turbot, 61. to 12s. each ; lobsters, 10a. 6d. to 401. per
dozen; crabs, 30s. to 705. per kit; red mullet, 31. to gs. per
dozen; smelts, is. to 35. per basket ; brill, is. 6d. to 4s.
each.

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