The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

THE STOIMITRIDGE OBSF,RVE'R-

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW. hore e tat any oue might d
be the, he ought to
at have looked
bef b fired, an then iret might be th Im wt. 11
Ihave seen the plaintiff. But, then, if the defend:l'd
The following account of this annual exhibite had no reason to suppose any one to be these and was
which commend (1 on Monday, and which at all then"
lookiug at the hied SS it changed its course, he would
creates so great an interest amougst agriculturists, ie
not be watching the hut and would not see the plaintiff.
condensed from the Daily News : The case, however, turned upon thin, whether there
" Foot and Month" fought hard agru,nst the Smithfield was negligence on the part of the defendant in firing an
Club this winter, but still there was not a nook or corner of
hh:ddid, and this appeared to turn upon we ether he
the Agriculturahhall which lacked flank, flee u or flitch
Iler Majesty made a dom. entries, and his .` .' ' .
satrasTg. Vol b u any reason to suppose any one to be in the
The much to be deplored events which have recently the hilLll.lo of M ales eine; Mr. John Ovenn ideovter, if there was any negligence in
totve, and by way 4,1 a "frightful example," the concuession- the'. defendant
arty one to be iltin trierinhgu
taken place in Ireland have led to two rutzeowt, as he did, not supisaing
neither of which appear. to be well fouuded. It has a leatil from
itsibeArgew= ladckedukv;T:rieovernmeuts sent
tif the plaintiff himselft'inwhtin" ttineerenVitiogenr
fteoneed round with hurdle.. The DevorpiruYesaeldh4l.teinTd
bemi said that the Government hes had the intenti. di
eteee,etitreeLtiToir.. messes. Farthing that the firing was going ring? And if withge
o suspending the Habeaa Conine Act in that country, anrdnOxeres7irrr t force, sire :a'it, ltionituf:as aceeeceideeent arse from his own negligence he could not
cow lady and Me eaethro's steer etts n oonclusion the Lord Chief Justice put
but it ie Mat possible that the mere murmur and the these rs'peciti«juestions to the jury i— I. 'Was the
mtleettierteeeit male and female in the yard The retry
ndignant remarke of several of our motet in-the very glory of the show, seas must • •
plarnbff a tr. smuttier —i e., wtta he in the but without
fluential journals have had a good effect in Ire. sidsertsble• '4
often
2. Did the defendant know, or bad he
land. Be this as it may it is to he hoped that The sin ,rthorn steers herein badly with the young class, leave?
iwas,eeihe ten leiy..epplreeryielmo‘deeitte die from tile Rosa' to supetwe, that any one was there?, 3. Was he guilty
we phall be epared ti' painful iteceseity of sus- ;It'll!: as we got hasher rip, of negagence in firing as he did? 4. Was there tiegliy.
gence on the part of the plaintiff in being in the hut as
pending an Act which ia !I, intimately a...Sabel with Soil leached the Earl of AylPerslovreirs steer, with its .E. 120
helw,haes
jrummdefr,
found that
Bann:nth= honours on Its head. Ile has four pure cr.". s,
the liberties of the Britieh empire. The other rumour
mei
th. tih 4n the plaintiff was a trespaeser,
is that a wan intended to cell Parliament togetherun - Sir l'ets3:ll.ntsilW.Valirtg'admThugeh'emht3;ce' IKe."Vtxt'se'lctilidgYtV't, a e efendant had no reason to tor pose that
, in fact we hare seldinn 'Pell 81101 a teantifuledivy top, hut ,
usually early, speeially to consider the plate of Indent., ties di i not suffice to rub off the ',omit. against him for his
tha:gvitiasa,tl!ierri: ;fitt
eethehededraen4wthasetntit grulieltisriftf
and this rumorr happily them tont to be unfountled. extra eine months.
The streugth otthe show lay in thetnext class, whia cone wa. guilty of negli muce in being in the shed &ming
There does not, indeed, seem to be any neceseity for the time the fie lag go'
tained four leanly commend d I
the ,horthoerns."rg'rerw.estn,Vi fr' on. In short, they found
either of thete ex.renie mewl-lees. Several rimming, saved the credit of that it was the plaintiff a nfri fault.
Mr. o.lthwaltes, the Martinis of Exeter's, Linlolu'inel icrtrti
too, are tiff at 141 another matter—the leadership of theforth
Lord Odd Jut is upon this directed a verdict
fifei;ed,-epytii; e ir.
eteelethwite,i,r2ebired tleave %led told ees the week
Conservative port), in the Ileum t llorde, consequent e defendant.
drawn by three hot:es:mid 1.41 the (111.ter:bgpl'imatal1Is”cllies T e other action WSR withdrawn.
on the retiremer tof Lord Cain.. The names of the
+ill, he sadly wanted three er four months' mitre un4king up;
Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis of Selisbury, the as be w..a bought as a stole stunk cot of a drove, and ty, -
Earl aDe rt.y, and Lord 1.-unary,. c, a,e me,,core I, not arca treel.tly that his owner determineuttc'• genie ni'l'ii
ata;
before Ter wantli.g In girth, and is not well
and the claims, merits, and demerits of each vigor-ne ;thelletiin
walled
tltiints di ititaer,tleyristzgh be
may canvaesed. This is a matter, however, which is • tritte longer. '
yellow roan, which might have been deseended fro.rat'l'llti;
scarcely likely to prevent either the reader or your
itcolonel Towneley's Thistle-
correspondent from enjoying otherwise refreshing soVe'lrtoocTtlwe 'i'raTe price, despite p
she colt ZlOloe,rb.r:wwgo'rrinlo'i litTeeeeti".
slumbers. We can safely levee the Ctomervative m the hatter clam
apnrodnatsateass letrises, she is nut such an
party and and the dietinguiehed noblemen whose names
have been mentioned to Fie ttle this little difficulty first prize speculation.
in ercess of YeittratnTr,' juiYa.l.tue iwuarnsiohrlugteo
the nue shorthorn mark. She had a nice but half prepared
among themselves. Another rumour of far more hell's Blue Bell, and in fad the whole
general interest is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer loefcgeistr'Stirrmufesmite dames could only furnish an it. C
is likely to have a eurplue. That is a matt, r which le"' c•
wielsre..
eisrliztio,entremkalay well, but the Norfolk polls
touches us in the tenderest place—the pockets It iei
early yet to speculate on a financial surplus, hut the The t)p.e of the longhorns
4:4ldbyeas"Tagweerr'ed 21:4 enlar d
West Highland, but the judges went boldly 01/t for a Ittgaecit
mere idea is pleasant, especially in such dull times as front the liallowgate Aberdeen, which was "a Scotch
these. horned,'' and )et looked more like a very compact Welsh.
Mr. M'Coble did not con n tribute one of his heavy
It appears that the Admiralty will shortly promul- look', m
ke, and hence the Poll class did not assume its wonted
gate a new ochre.° "by which greater inducements brietattiece
etiehe Welsh were but middling specimens, suit Lord Pen-
than those at present given, will be offered to the ielmwthiturvis mended
officials of the various dockyards to induce superfluous cors'itregsraZlyTitctuteogcsron:e:riesdacillneese.
poll came out with a great beauty, principally 'shortho'rl'i,P.=
clerks and heads of departments' to retire." Oh, reeked!
,elpeetoLnixen cribs,"
h" a remote cross," and we know not
Mow very tender of the feelings of officials are other
,heitit:ht,iene:l.a.:T.epretty well
and mightier officials ! But is it so with the urea, the to themselv'es. onecUieti:V.
cc;
and its
=lime° sold for ,t9J at istratinghant,Tieretl:::
ordinary "hewer. of wood and drawers of water " inghraenilemhbestlwid'erukat shorthorn
our Governtnent establishments? "Inducements to and a Welsh cow eweiagsblOyr'll
forte caravan, rho tir.t, prigs crossbred heiter ewerissuatereyt
induce "(as the Pall Mall says) them to retire were leeifftteecr,:aftefethetewreteen
eaellerefog aidjie a shorthorn, but it was
not held forth. They were simply told they were not a
wanted. True, some of the men were enabled to erne Ile had broken his knees astmhoMe, auliiirtilTey° Iterfeswllteerier
hat.23t hlti:
tub' hardly h.ditile. Before starting he hiLl.'
grate ; and in this no doubt a difference will be made na
':1 1:I;tth:
between the rank and file and " impel titious clerks allll Cherry Blossom, tecortorw I t'l 'refithl'lg ii"";
jw""
won first honours last year died a few dayl's s I nncre: , atti atbies
heads of departments." Inducements to induee the white heifer behind her. '
latter to emigrate, we may depend, will not be offered. The final examination of the winners for the cutqcirse,7,etitli
great excitement, as the judges did not begin w
But then, as the old song says, "the poor make no new
al..attia. of
publicliZf had entered the yard. Two
friends," ami their old ones are not very ieflorential. of the
twotelieir gc
evet.. .ii,:d .
The redactions in the Government establithreents °aria' ; and most of the theet: lwies7re'net,l'a l Trys
''
1.1. ::.7 rpg before they had marching meters." A t 11"ts‘t" L' ot:d
have no doubt been to some extent beneficial to British r;,
rermereairetee'so shorthorn bullock's, Mr.
taxpayers, or will be no, but we do not now hear for tiYeathig lierVodrd'?
iota etosatired, were the onlyevernuiesenettanMdringh,l P Telf -
the first time that these reductions were made in the l!earcfaonrill a was soon drafted by common consent as
e
the cross-bend. After
ustial style, the working bees being the first sent awe '
that the rsin:r'etg;;nseewd erethepelaced side by side, and
and the "superfluous clerks and heada of deport): when age was taken Into consideration, Mr. outhwait .
relents" being retained. ' eould not stand the te-t For some tinie the' had . ea,
tr.owing feeling for the Devon—a perfect Ittl:..:especir'nee'neo'f
Tne good citizens of London proper—the City and Lirtahlizetf::lpls,2lex,eptiou of a slight deticien of
county of the City of London, which, lake similar thigh, t ahGrthorn
aegedollieerne
Mtll were not slow to indl'cle. bock,
wtilliett et!'
phrases applied to other towns, reads marvellously
ft.,ti jusilikr would not desert hint, and, as
like a middle-age absurdity--are in surge trepidation
eteeoutetegeualyeedstencllyfe for Lord rkylestord's,
at the notice of an intention to bring in a bill next matters° •eareierdstohmendernyitiueetetste
iihriet
eventually the shorthorn steer
session to obtain municipal government for the metro- Ile ,eOl7 Olio, this grand breed has certancly
polis, one step towards which will be the annihilation time
tins
the Ilerefords had an eri.hrleyti'latsaTatrieSPrellLell r i 'el' -'
of some of the eorporate powers of "the City." Not sitterffietiere, Sir Welter Trevelyan's cow, and er.elle;ii-
to dwell on a subject which would have little interest ri'Ll'irg''' eras-bred seemed
Tv.:
.sotmooodtlnd:
i bbyu:iadtel'astrthil
perhaps for your readere, I may say that it has much the favoarite feneettore
ham° prevailed, and the breed scored its ferrule
interest for us. It is universally admitted that the tryteTehrextlesetrepelratehesttrulgiale lay between this cow :I%
metropolis as a whole, with its three million of people, itaei rc.el
brought on as of right fixim the :Stt'a"igamssbees'!antlie' was
is very badly governed, and that its many conflicting
!i,letnilett him so limg while he stood almost curve'd'iLeeas
authorities rend re- e;
render it very difficult to procure any , that acme thought "the gouty gentleman" was to have
form. Municipal government is older than paella. It.
stock,
cup sheep, See, anti the single sheep in the extra
mentary institutions, and we owe many of the country's liolbei
ht,he centre avenue, to be
liberties to the former, but as far as the major part Pole' e'd TeerrthealsPolatebrs°,nitth netzd
Wal.iiigham--one for his Soutlido.wehn v7:tl:sw,earndcidtil:
of the metropolie in concerned, cur sham relics of thdown. ilis lordship's pen of old shee'yor
municipal institutions are practically 'of more harm (La
P enritagapiles:rigl7ost perfect we have ever seen from
Merton. we do not know how they
than good. They ought to be harmonised with thewere
he imrtroved in style, feeding, or general et u Sito
spirit of the times. Woods, John Day, and Crane roust ' lig share
i )'
'Or.
Lord Walsitigham has now won the smhtiele
It is hard to avoid, and unpleasant to deal with gerY' the sixth time iti seven years. Petting asid'et
the ever-recurring poverty and misery which exist fir logr:lrhrr
,peenesa ted those of Sir Willem
Throcknierla
around us. Just now the existence of terrible &streets
11 WAS I.ot it very strong year liu'ir .SoililtheuM,!ies:'korib2,7ll;
cannot bus ignored. It makes itself felt in our streets
,feelLeitftie,veoeZleleype.
showed on
thea
by the Poor Law returns, by the appeals of charitable verTggrn:l:3
Oxford Downs were rather down on theirnlu'el:C!'a'ne'd'Mlr".4J2ne
institutions, by the open.air exhibition of a petition to ifireevemrnitallewowni.ttacoeL.l:ziis.heer,...e.taiitile:itel eenuihsonouns very easily
the Queen in favour of a national scheme of emigre yr. ecels entries
thin, anl in many other ways. The mendicity in the a' a; lavajaa
ret!:l,,ceinkens of Dorsets and Byelaw's. ' and
th'ra
were
streets is frightful'. It is the most natural thing in teuetinwertthdidlen,txleirinici, so many pig entries es
the world to relieve Oils demonstrative diatreea, was expects I,
t,,it:Steti were sent to match with blPick,ntii"tereenwearn%;ehaT
though we are continually being told that
,trqbeso.vriotieuii,, if
„I,andini:ez ahmezgs,tfn au. For the eighth year sir. co ,te, if
we boater imposture and increase poverty. Ve best pen with his
Improved 'rebel's, wit:. trP ltrl
of ticket relief and inquiry is being advocated, and ;:rere perhaps not quite so' fir'lnile InaVantriare
probably will ere long be adopted, but at present there We''
!Ara
aexcnteattdotL find them. Mr. Chaim
is nothing km for us but to do as eur tethers dil be.
herl:4;:
14;innariii we. Coate took a seer:UM:At ifirtlerr'Ntish;
fore us—relieve distress when it presents itself, OR lath" older Mack class,
allow poor wretches to starve, for to believe that Poor in which otrillirflrealwi itltihneutibirp 'telltale Mr. M'sliven took
Law triael . worry eon cope with our enormous mass of 1 the sliver medal with a thirteen months pig in- the e
sleuth chi.; and. Mr. Samuel Price, who retina x"
on"barley
poverty and misery is to shut one's eyes to patent and • and tics meal, skim milk, and peon" and not on "T'' '
potent facts.. Medicated Mystery," like another 'Perkshire PPe"
breeder, was
, fil,:Wigth a gx,dhpen of Perkihlres.
It is said that the authorities connected with a cer-
I n a e,
One secon'erd thing the vorZittetsaveLettlantoar ttc,ito!litt litltaftll
tam n railway recently ordered a sudden raid of ticket. Is had heads and hair raw° like yoraig
inspection on their line co
, the inspection mbining the well lalaitig. 'nlin7 aggt'lliert :.ilt itropiarnber has been very
much improved,ndle gr e
veriticetion of the class by which each ass letthhiel
ee wy !,e,ietp, whieh
furill-h a vivid contrast to the hurdlelol
travelled, and tiat in the after-part of one dal; nrlgeeare '
i pill': jt,rlaluf totrlgirriltilf'grpeoll r`Vii!itst': hi., wiry7',ls
than ks was captured from second-class ticket holders
who rode first-clam, and from third-class passengers l,:ritetrze
whims in order to catch the Great NorttneerieiteraM'l',`itr
oti.iroaall'iduanntngtvitsa
sills Grace, the
who rode second.clase. I can well believe it. Look at Duke; of eligrhoausgraes
a Voy;oym,lftlightlege to tee the most pnrocingitYlienatcpca'griTs
the rush there is for places, for example, on the F,;n: were
not
lfinew hands among the
1.. C. D. R. and the Metropolitan line, and the rush Beiges, and the awards
members
until past four
in the afternoon, when se- rat mee i! the Club and
tof the train on arriving at a station' and when two their friends dined in the t..- users Chamber
or three hundred people make a sudden descent on one
man whose duty it is to take tickets (there is frequently
but one) it stands to reason that he hats no time to dis-
pute whether the ticket presented to him represents
the class of carriage by which the holders actually
travelled. Railway companies must 10/111 large sums
of money in this way, and as some of them find it very
difficult to pay any dividends, the directors should see
to this matter.
I see that in Baltimore they are going to erect a
statue to Mr. Peabody, at the cost of 150,000 dollars.
The more's the ptty. Everybody knows that the de-
ceased philanthropist objected to any fuss being made
with him, and that he did not half like the ftelish
statue erected to him in London, where he sits in the
open air without any hat on, he that gave shelter to so
many others not having any for himself. Have they
no poor at Baltimore? ilow much better would it be
to devote this money to some practical scheme for
benefiting the living—a memento much more in keel'
ing with the benevolent life of the mai 1, than any
monument can be.
We do comic things in London, and one of them has
been. the morning penny omnibuses from the Waterloo
e beton to the Strand, the only place where a toll has
to be 'mid. Whether they pay I do not know, but
penny omnibuses would certainly pay elsewhere, and
meanwhile the 'Waterloo Bridge Companyfinds
they have taken WOO lens durieg the last
six months
than during the corresponding period last year, a result
which they mainly attribute to these said
omnibuses.
The existence of penny omnibuses in this peculiarly
unfortunate place, and their non-exiatence where they
iffil certainly pay, are curious wait.
facts. We must
suppose, for the tramways before We have
I t
e cheaper
omnibus rides,
'there are some glorious prizes in the law, as there
are i n the Church, and one of the former, Mr, Fitz
james Stephen, Q.C., has obtained—the poeition of
legal adviser to the Indian Government. The salary
of y this berth, it seems, is EIO,OOO a year. Why tli is
just what the Lonl High Chancellor of Greatßritsain
gette.an as dis much as the Premier and the Chancellor
. Exchequer get between them lint of be F no doubt
it is all right, and the abando t nmen '
of a large
private
practice must be taken into account.
I see that the Liverpool magistrates have fined a
number of men for " k ' eeping abetting club." Why
are not prosecutions
instituted against the London
betting clubs?
There are plenty of them. The
reasonitie perhaps is ohvious—that if this were done,
mt aaii I'm retest in juatice be attacked ; and to have
dukes,
marquises, earls, viscounts, and honourable/I
prose cut ed 1, •r '• keeping a betting club" would be
something horrible. No one, I think, who knows any-
thing 11 the evils of betting can reasonably object in
themselves, to the eresecutions we have had in
n the
me tropolie ; but considering that a nundrer of betting
clubs have been
left 111111901[8ted, the
operation of the
new Act does stem very unequal and
partial'
A new generation has sprung up since Mr. Charles
Dickens firet rn appeed as a writer of serial aton' es for
im was
adei r 033 1S that his immortal "PPapers" ickwick it
their appearance, and it reminds many of on of
old times to learn that our celebrated novelist will
commence a story next March to appear, I suppose, in
the old familiar green covers, and to be continued for
twelve months' The book, too, is to he published by
the same firm
that produced his earlier serial
tales—
the fir i m in fact who invited him—to he writs tr letter
press to the late Mr. Seymour'd etchings '
mour dibeedaiby his own hand not long afterwarl S
s,but
, other artist could have had Dickens
e to thren"Y
engravings;
the illustrations very soon
be drawn to ti the wilting,
~ _ . hie, which in the nature]
. things. I only hope that the readers of the
will derive as much healthy pleasure from it
erived from "Pi
wck" when we long a-0
, for the first time. ' i
Three

neither

write

bad to
order
new et
MB We ,
read it

story

burglars were captured the other day in Lon
of them hod over 600 gold lockets in his pocket,.

it ion,

Ilen Gibson, his wife, said that she heard a great commo-
Mon, as if the furniture was lasing thrown about, and as if '
the prisoner was beating his wife, and when she went upstairs
to bed she heard the deceased scree., several times between
half-past tell aid twelve o'clock, whets some one cline to the
house, and the noise ceased Two or three days afterwards
the prisoner came to this witness and complained of his wife
having left him. He said File had gone away for nothing this
time. Witness said. "Now, Sumer, you need not tell me that
tale. I heard you ill-tudng yourwife till past twelve o'clock."
Ile said, "1 did hit her, and I hit her hard. lam sorry lor
'hat I have done. and if she c,mes back again I will be-
have better." The prisoner had been married bef..re and
hail four daughters Ile said, .1 blame my eldest daughter
for a good deal of the disturbwe between use and my wits."
Mrs. Warshaw, who lives in Leeds, said that on the
morning of the 7th of iivten-o.er the deceased came to her
house she was wearing a nightgown aud two dresses ...nor
a pair of stays She seemed fatigued and careworn, and
c,mnlained. She showed her left arm, which was very
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Roman Catholic population. Gradually enraged, the
Roman Catholics have resistei several tittles —some-
times causing bloodshed, sometimes not ; but at
length they have roused themselves to a formai&
a'ale armed organisation. They have bought 1,800
revolvers and antmunition, and intend in future to
stop all and every Orange procession by force of
arms. A serious riot La expected nuleas the Govern-
ment interfere to out a stop to the processional cele-
bration of shutting the gates. Those who have re-
cently visited the town and have inquired into the
origin and character of the 1 dil riots report that all
respectable men—Catholic sad Protestant—would wel-
come the suppres4,n of public displays; but that
nothing would give satisfaction excepting a general
law applicable to every part of Leland and to every
kind of political, sectarian, or party displays.
DANISH WAY OF SFIOWING PATRIOTISM
Danish friends seem odmiaionally to have a queer way
of showing their patriotism. At a public dinner
given the other day at Nitjiihing to celebrate the
the anniversary of the death of Frederick VII there
were ab art fifty people present. some of the highest
State elignitat ins among them, and when the gentleman
fixed upon to prop.e a toast to the Illetll,,TV of
defunct Royalty, one of the guests. a " notability,
suddenly shouted "No, no !" and by vociferously
repeating this expression of dissent brought the pro-
ceedings to an uncomfortable and embarrassing
standstill At last be was asked to explain himself,
to "motivige " his (pinion, which he finally did
in these words—" lie was a beast." Great confusion
followed, until another guest rose to parted against
this dictum, and further to declare that if any-
body did not agree with the ',reposed toast he hni
better leave the room, "in good old Danish feshion."
This brought up a partisan on the other side, who
suggested that "the gentleman who had jut sat down"
had better begin by doing so himself. Finally, the
Stan( Councillor Petersen brought order into the
tumultuous proceedings by telling the assembly that,
as every body had the liberty of his opinion, so had the
dissenting gentleman the right to disapprove of the
late monarch. The Danish papers are very angry,
chiefly with those many State officers who were pre-
sent, decorated with the orders of him whom they so
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black.
Mrs. Coates also said that the deceased came to her house
and showed bruises on her arm and breast, and a mark on
the left temple. She complained of pain in the arms and
head, and could not bear the noise of the street or the lisht
of the gas Uer huig,and came to look for her on Saturday,
the 18th, but she was gone. she had been to visit the wit-
ness about twelve days before that, and then her husband
Owl been to see her, and bad sat I 1.11 looked taforly. and
fetched her some brae dy. They then talked piessautly to-
gether, gala she went home with him. The first time she
came she complained of her head. On the 10th of Septem-
ber she want to the houses of Mrs. Ilsyes and others, and
comthathed of being very poorly, and at 10 o'clock she went
to Mrs. Cat ter's, her sister, and died there on the following
morning.
alrf. Carter saw the prifnuer on the morning of the 7th
of Septeniber. He asked where his wife mat. The witness
said, 'Surely you haven't been thrashing a our wife again 1"
He )ald, "Yes I have. Do you think there is any sense in
Dr Kaiak sending ins bill for 275. ft. for nothing—for only
two blank eyes." Witness told him he ought to be ashamed
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of 'muself.
Harriet Fall said the prisoner csn, to her on the Bth at
September and iimuired for his wife The witness svketi
• ' have you been 111-ming h. r 1" and he BAH, "I have; letter
be where she will, she is black from head to foot." Witness
said, "Go away 1 rote me and sign teetotaller, and tion'tcome
here any more ;" and he replied, "I wisl, Harriet."
Ami Pinder also saw the prisoner on the bal. day. He
said, "She has not gone away for nothing this time ; I have
given it V. licr severely." She afterwards saw him the
Saturday, when he told her to go Alla ask if she would forgive
him and come home.
It appeared that the deceased had complained of
pains in her head for some two years past, and that
i.he had had a fall downstairs, and had hurt her head
in July 1863.
Mr. Thomas Scattergood, a welLknown surgeon, who
gave his evidence with remarkable clearness, made the
post-mortem examination. In his opinion death was
caused by infl einmat'on of the twain produced by some
external injury, such as a blow or a fall. The in.
(lamination was sit the back of the head, but it might
be caused by a blow on the be-elk...ad.
His Lordship summed up clearly and shortly, and
the Jury almost immediately returned a verdict of
Guilty.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, said that the
evidence in this ease had been thoroughly inveittigated,
and the prisoner hail the advantage of being defended
with very gre.tt talent and earnestness. He had not
the slightest doubt that the prisoner was the cause of
his wife's death. The crime was committed under cir-
cumatanzes which were most revolting, and without
the least cause of provocation. It was only the result
of the prisoner's brutal nature, and he dared say it
wan brought on by drink. He was morally ghilty of
the murder of his wife, and if he had been legally
guilty Lia life would be forfeited. Ile canal lered the
prisoner's crime to be next in atrocity to murder, and
ho should give him the mixt greatest punishment to
that for murder. His Lordship sentenced him to penal
servitude for life.

ill defended.
LIFE A BSDRANCE.—A correspondent of the
Record, adverting to the fact that the late Dr. Walden
rmit left £20,000, although his private patrimony
was very small, and his charities very large, says :
"The £O,OOO referred to is proving the win consists
entirely of en s to be received fn m the bishops prudent
habits of limning his Lie in well-establishsd life msurance
.dices. When he first settled in life he insured his life ; and
WaS secures that he WS, in the habit of givi-ing his clerey
to pursue, as a matter of jistice to their waves ai..l
and that they might thus be comparatively free from
anxiety, and so be better able 'to care for the things of the
Lord."

FURTHER PARTICULARS ABOUT TRATIPMANN.—
M. Korman, the chemist expert appointed to examine
she viscera of Jean Kassa, has discovered two mil-
hgrammes of prussic acid, and draws the inference
that a very large quantity of that prison, which
ymearvfaepseoireaatiessA
is therefore hufinneel. Searches in the house of
tveerreyel."ltiel "Trent iheranvaen nbeoenn thisa dmpi uniinat-
Traripmann, see., have led to the discovery of two
phials and some earthen pots, which it is believed
were used by the prisoner when manufacturing the
prosaic acid, as he says he did, himself. Traumnaun
now makes almost daily revelations about three
accomplices, and says the proof that he speaks the
truth will be found in
elder Kinck, which he buri a pocket-book of the
ed in a spot which he
could find hinseelf, but cannot indicate by description.
The judge of instruction attaches no importance what-
ever to these declarations which he believes are made
only in the wild hope which the prisoner entertains
that he may be taken into the country, and then
effect his escape. It continues to be thought by the
judicial authorities that Traupmann had no accom-
plices. In all probability the trial will not come on
till the nsi,ldle of January. A rumour that Traup-
mann had attempted to poison Irmself with a ruety
sou which he Lad secretly dipped in the vinegar of his
salad is contradicted.
THE VALUE UF AUTOGRAPHS IN NLW YORK.—
The sale of autographs in New York seems to show
that the spirit of "hero worship," as Carlyle would
term it, is subsiding somewhat. A letter of Daniel
'Webster went for 50 cents. A letter or two of Dickens
brought but 2 dohs. each ; Lady Bleseington's, I dol.
15 cents; Longfellow's, 75 cents, and the last translator
of Homer (1, rd Derby), 2 cents. Remarkable enough,
the autograph of Edgar Poe brought 5 dole., just as
much as wag paid for one of Sir Walter Scott's
SHOCKIEG OCCURRENCE.—A. frightful suicide
' took place on the Neath and Bream line on Monday.
It appears that the train leaving Brecon at 1155 a.m.
proceeded at its usual speed towards Neath, calling at
the intermediate stations, when after rounding the
curve near Peliwylt a man dressed in a white smock
and the ordinary attire of a labourer eneerged from
behind the buttress of the road bridge, and unseen by
the driver, placed himself at full length sin the near
rail. The whole of the train passed over his body,
cutting it completely into fragmerts, part of the flesh
adhering to the erg ne wheels. The frigliful mutila.
tion was witnessed by the guard, who also saw parts
of the body on the line move, by muscular contraction
into the channel by the rails after the train had gone
over thew. The driver was not aware of the terrible
disaster rill after the train had arriveel at the station.
The fragments of the b de were subsequently gathered
up to await the coroner's inquest.
A Duo's FATAL FIDELITY !—An extraordinary
death by drowning occurred in the River Mersey early
on Tuesday morning,. Thonsaa Bellies a young man
residing at Trannuere, near Birkenhead, was hi a small
boat, in company with a friend, Samuel Jon«' the
mate of the Anna Copyork schooner, which wan lying
in the river. They intended to row to the schooner
and pass the night there, hut in eroseiug Tranmere
slip, where the current is very strong, the boat captive-I
Jones, who is a good swimmer, would have been able
to save his frien.l, but Bellia's dog, which had accom-
panied them in the boat, got on his master's back, aael
every time Jones stretched nut his hand to eupp ert
Belles the dog flew at him savagely and bit him. The
result was that Wills was drowsed. His body was
iecovered some hours afterwards when the tide had
receded.
BEGINNING EARLY !—Baron Pigott had before
him a difficult case at the Essex Ace zee. A little boy,
only eight years of age, was charged with placing ob-
structions on the Great Eastern Railway. While
employed watching birds in a field the lad amused
ninaself by putting a number of iron chairs and large
sternest on the rails, and when remonstrated with by a
boy about his own age, threatened to break his head
with a stone. Daring, the three months the little
culprit has been in prison awaiting hie trial he has been
guilty of several rcischevious acts, such as turning off
the gas in the chapel, pulling down bell handles, tearing
us his blankets), and similar acts of wautonnesa.
Baron Pigott confessed he did not know what to do
with the chill, and at length decided to restore him to
his friends, with an intimation that he ought lobe well
flogged.
FEARFUL GALE ON TFIE AMERICAN LAKES.—
By the arrival at Liverpool bat week of the Inman
steamer City of London, we have details of the disas-
trous gates which occurred a fortnight ago on the
American lakes. Among the many casualties reported
are the following :
A Chicago despatch states that the schooner Arrow, which
was driven ashore at Grass Point, about 15 miles north of
Chicago, on the 16th ult., during a fierce storm, is a total
wrepk. On the :Bth. the tug G. W. Wood, with a lifeboat,
was enabled to reach the schooner, and the lifeboat was
launched and the crew of the Arrow placed in her, with four
of the crew of the tug. The Bleb at was almost immediately
stove to pieces, and the officers and crew of the Arrow and
eme man from the tug perishe.l. The three other men
from the tug were rescued, bid were almost frozen to
death. An Oswego dispatch slates that the bark e;eorge
Thurston, with 19,000 bushels of wheat on board,
went ashore on the night ,1 the 18th, one mile east
of Nicholson's Island, on the Canada shore of Lake Ontario,
and would become ft totai loss. Front Port Stanley we learn
that the I.teamer Bruno arrived there on the 18th, and
reported hissing seen the brig Detroit sunk three miles from
shore Id Point Bruce. The Bruno rescued three men from
the mast head who had been clinging-there for forty-eight
hours, Two of the melt had their feet badly frozen. The
rest of the crew, five in number, together with the captain,
the chief officer, a deck hand, and Mrs. English and lier
daughter, were drowned. The gale on the 17th is reported
to have been the severest ever witnessed at Chicago. The
Thom.. A. Scott was carried ashore on a reef in the Straits
of Mackinac, and became a total wreck on the night of the
16th. Nothing had been heard of the passengers or crew.
THE (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL.—The second of the
day prayer meetings regarding the (Ecumenical
Council was held in Freeesassna' Hall, in London, on
Monday, sunder the preeidency of Mr. Macleod Wylie,
lately a magistrate at Calcutta. The chairman said
they were met specially to pray for the progress of the
gospel in Italy, in Span& and in Portugal, and for the
opening of Rouse itself tes the Word of God. He recom-
mended them all to join in ;darer for Rome itself
which he believed was the only city in the world from
which the gospel was excluded. They might go to
rends, to Bokhara, into the lowest depths of
Mahomedan fanaticism, and find a freer course for the
gospel than in the city of Rome. Dr. Davis gave an
account of the progress of Protestantiern in Italy and
Spain. In the latter country, he said, encouraging
progress had been made in many of the large towns,
but still it was impossible to say what might take place
in Spain any day. The Republican party was mainly
infidel; the Carlist party was more Papal than the
Pope himself; and the intermediate parties could not
ha relied upon.
A POPULAR EaßOW—There is just at present
a prevalent popular idea that imprisonment for debt
is to be abolished at the commencement of the new year.
It is true that the old practice of arresting debtors in
execution on judgments for sums above £2O will then
terminate, bat such debtors will nevertheless be liable
to imprisonment in default of payment, by order of a
Judge at Chambers, which order, unless good cause be
shown to the contrary, will he easily obtainalsle. The
sheriffs and their officers will in such cane be entitled to
the came fees es at present, but the imprisonment will
be for a certain specified term in each case, and its en-
durance will net satisfy the debt. A debtor about to
abscond from England will only be liable to immediate
arrest upon evidence of a debt above £5O instead of
£2O as heretofore.
A FRIEL 13 IN NEED.—The case of Sir Henry
Wyat, of Allington Castle, Kent, father of the wit
and reset, takes us back to the latter days s f the lied
and White Roses. Wyat, in Lancastrian in polities,
spent not little of hie time tinder watch and ward.
The Wyat papers say He was imprisoned often;
once in a cold and narrow tower, where he had neither
bed to lie on, nor clothes sufficient to warm him, nor
, meat for his mouth. He had starved there had not
God who sent a crow to feed his prssphet, sent this,
His and his country's martyr, a cat both to feed and
warm him. It was his own relation unto them from
himv
better
e.t .
whom I had it. A cat came one day down into the dune
f ies .sh e w:
d:art:
geon unto him, and, as it were, offered herself unto him
He was glad of her, Lill her in his bosom to we.
him, an& by making much of her, won her love
After thr.
times, and, when she could get one, bring him a
pigeon. Ho complained to his keeper of his cold and
it." B aat.' Theie ul
ad„. come
e was,ever y ,
Li day u
said Sr Henry, 'if I ean provide any, will
you promise to dress it for me ?' ij may, well enough,'
said the keeper ; you are safe for that matter d
being urged again, promised him d k • ‘'n
, an. kept his promme,
and dressed for hi
m,from time to Urea such piaeona
as him accator the cat provided for him S' H . enry

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