The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-28 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

MR. BRIGHT'S REALTH.--The Dailu Trlegraph
made the following statement on alma.
rerr ly on authority, regarding the health of
Bright

A paragraph having appeared in the robin, a of tome Of
our contemporaries to the effect that Mr. John 'fright had
gone, on the recommendation of his pbyinalan, for change of
Me, tin reillyeeff Chef] lintel, near Colwyn, we are lEfffellle
that the right hon gentleman did not go there on the cream-
metilatinii of his phytician, who, in fact, knew, olhing of
such visit ; that he went there, an other visitors to len do, on
Saturday, to return on ft county ; and that Mr Bright re
turned on Monday lost, ahout tint-day, to tie St. George's
Hotel. Llandudno, wliere he has been at it)ing f tbe lest ten,
ilionths. We rejoice to add that the benefit the liAlt Anti
gentleman has derived from the air of needed/JO.. place in
which he has heen for many yearn atteched, will, it is la pee,
enable him very shortly to resume his seat in the Douse of
Common.

bitOCHING ACCIIWNT AT • WEDDISO PARTY.
—Miss Caroline With, of E iling, died at the renidence
of her father on Friday aft. moon, ft. tie the i finite of
burns received at the wedding of a friend a short time
since. Mire Wills, on the lo if April last., atteml,l
the wedding of a friend at Putney, and whilst there
was the men. of Ravine the life of a little dr), out
ultimately lost her own in no &dug. It appears Ow
while the weddit g festivities were going on a little
girl's clothes accidentally took fire hit coming in too
close contact with the grate. Miss Wills. seeing the
peril iif the child, at once rushed to her assist:ince, arid
succeeded in rencuing her from a painful death. In
doing en, however, her own &ese took fire, anal before
the tinnier could be extinguished she was so severely
burnt that her life WWI then del)airerl of. Mi dim)
assintance wan at once procured, and the linformuate
young lady was no far revived as to he able to be re-
moved to her father's residence at Ealing butnotivith-
standing all that medical skill or k iniiness could suggest
she gradually sank and died. Miss Wills war greatly
beloved by many in Ealing, and her death is much
felt in the village.
A Womsan's ADVICE. —A billet-dancer who
turned the beads of the gentlemen of tbe I tusAian capi-
tal last winter is a native of Cracow, and reputed to he
the intelligent daughterof a l'olish count. She received
presents by the seore from her nitiiirirs, among whom
WAR a very weal, hy nobleman. Hem ide her aiimi aint-
mice, anti was tbarmed with her, ...He otfernd her a
diamond he wain- noon his finger fer a kiss, She c ir-
Feinted, and he gla ly gave her ti:e jeweL Hie suit did
not pronper, however, ache hail buena. At the end of
a month he presented her with another diamond. and
received a second salute, At the end of the year he
had in this way parted with nearly all hie diamonds.
Irritated by her stubbornness, he si light all interview,
and niihraided her. "I have no more diamonds to give
you," he raid. 'Thee," she replied, "I have no more
kisses." "What am Ito do? Yew h-art is made of
ice. Give me some word of hope." "I can't do that,
but I will give you a word of counsel." "'What is it ?"
"Never buy your fleet of a woman; if you do,
though you were the Czar himself, you would be bank-
rupt before you reached her heart."

A FLuoul 0 CIRKLAH —"The whipping ques-
tion" has been dincussed at San Francisco, on the occa-
sion of the trial of a school teacher for fiuggirg a pupil;
and more recently, in Yule country, a teacher has been
fined 10 clols. for punishing a child " in thorough pugi-
listic style" for the crime of bringing in a bucket of
water without permission. These events have brought
forth some records on the subject, and among them the
following reply to a circular issued from a school in
Albany, where it was the practice to procure permis-
sion in writing from the parents to administer corporal
punishment. The specimen permit is as follows:
'— Your flogging cirkiar in dilly received. I hope as
to my John,you will flog hint just as ofin as you kin.
Hew a had boy—is John. Hied° I've been in habit
of teachin nim miself, it seems to inc he never will lamn
anithing. -his spellin is ottragously definhent. Wallop
him well, ser, and you will receive my thanks. P.S.
What accounts 1. r John being such a scholar is that
he is my nun by my wife's lust husband."

_
it SENEATIO,AL PARAGRAPH !—A story is told
of Mr. Disraeli's "Lothair," which "if not true is well
invented, and is quite Dieraelian in its magniloquence
and romance (remaiks the Daily Telegraph). It is Raid
that an American hem had arrescgeti to nave the three
volumes of "Imthair " tele-graphed aences the Atlantic
by cable, so as to outstrip all rival publishers and
secure the first publication! The plan broke down,
it is said, through the refusal of the Cable Company
to allow such a monopoly of its line, to the delay of
other messages. Fancy the feelings of some "hull"
or "bear," wishing to send through news about Five.
Twenties or Erien, and obliged to pause because
Themlora's last kiss was stile trembling along the
wires, or Lothair's vagrant sighs were still wander-
ing beneath the waves I Mr. Disraeli painted, in
"Vivian Grey," the wild and wondrous imaginings of
an ambitious boy; but he never conceived any success
so theatrical and so splendid as the latest novel of the
hero sent from one hemisphere to another by the aid of
lightning, the New World waiting traathlees tip have
chapter after chapter speedily spelt out. To make
the incidelit seßuic as well as sensational, some elocu-
tionist might have been engaged to read out the novel
iu New York tr-sh as it issued, like Aphrodite, from
the ten; and t hue, while the Old World was getting
its " Ledhair" prosaically from Mudie's. the New
World would have been drinking it in charged with
4-lectricity—end the genius of the author could have
been said, like Pope's spider, to 'feel in each pulse and
live along the line."
DEATiI OF A RF.CIAMIS —For some years past
there has been livieg at Uxbridge, in comparative
seclusion, an 4.1,1 lady of peenliarly eoeentrai habits,
always quaint in her dress, and impregnable EG the
coriosity I,f he town folk. Her re•idence was at No.
2, Foundry-te, race. A melancholy incidert has, how-
ever, revealed the identity of the occupant of 2 F, ,undry-
terrace. In the early part of last week the mighbeure
lost sight of the old lady altogether, and more than
the usual solitude seemed to veil Vier abode. Informs.
tion of this having reached Mr. Butt, a solicitor, he
proceeded to the house on Thursday lust, and as
tie received no response to his knock he e ffected a
forciule entrance. On his going upstairs he found the
old lady lying dead in her lied, An inquest on the body
was held Icy Dr. Diplock, Weat Middlesex coroner, on
Saturday last, at which it transpired that deceased
was the daughter of a Spanish nobleman of high dis-
tinction. In early life she contracted a clandestine
marriage with Ii Count de Chantal, of France, who
was a general in the French artny, under the first
Nape Iron, and who fell at Watell co. Exiled from
her native country, EA well as from Fraoce, she took
refuge in Eleg'and soon after the restorse ion of pewee,
and WM hying ml her Leanly income, at Uxbridge. in
the manner detcr.bed. See had reacbei her lamely
third year. The medics( evielsnce having proved that
death was attribetable sieltly to natural causes, the
jury returned their verdict accord,ngly. It is pre-
sumed the deceased had lain dead several days before
discovery.
MEDICAL MONIFICENCE.—A few months since
it as staled in The Times that Mr. Erasmus Wilson,
F.R.S., had presented to the Council of the Royal

College of Surgeons, of which inetitution he is a Fel.
low, the handsome sum of £5,000, with which to
endow • Professormitip of Dermatology. In accepting
the trust the Comet! appoicted Mr. Wilson the Pro-
testor, and that gentleman, avicg delivered a course
of lectures, a cheque for £O4 lOs., the amount of the
honorariunc. was f,rwa,du to him. This, it is stated
hy the Medi, al Timex unarmed. with ar• rime, tint
the ellll2 might be evoted to the f the
debt incurred by the College in hi dm; • coetly
CUPS in the 111119011120 fir the large 86/3.i Vaill,b, collec-
tion of dermatological preparations tie peer. ited by
him. The best thanks of the Conn, il Ms, Leen on.
rayed to Professor Wilson for this additional fibers
donation.

Nor "MAIN. LAW" HERA !—Fr,,m a return
which has just bean issued it appears t .1. in he sear
ended 30th November last th-ae were ii England 2 298
brewers, 69 369 victuallets, 49 130 protrltest to
sell bier to be &tusk on the preat.ews, awl 3 154 licemed
to sell beer not to be drunk on the premixes ; also
18 902 victuallers who brew their own beer, berides
10,250 persons who were licensed to sell beer to be
drunk on the premises brewed by themselves, and 490
who brewed beer which they were liceteeri to sell not
to be drunk on the premixes. The brewers consumed
during the period rebored to 32 636,328 bushels r 4
malt; the viotnallers, 7,219,107 ; the pc...nit I cet serf
'to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, 3 276 576 ; tut,
tee pert.. V, Sell here DOE to 1,11! ;le
pretuises, 330.844. No return is Liven of the DelEele-r
of the persons who sold. cm or off the premixes, um
adulterated beer; and perhaps tire would he some
difficulty in tindingany figures to 6.1 a column set aside
or this purpose.

Mire RYE—At a recent meeting of the Liver-
tool Literary and Philosophical Sod's 7 an interesting
paper was read by Dr. Hayward on the "I:migration
of Public Orphans." Ile pointed out that thewe are
beim; brought up in Liverpool by the parish authorities
2,000 orphans and that they cost fur their mere main-
tenance and orphans,
£l3 a year each, and including
the interest en ho cost of land anti buildings £lB a
year each, which makes a total of 30,000 a year out
: t.f the ratta for the mere bringing up of parish orphans
H., stared that they are kept unt.l they are from
tourteen to sixteen years of age ; and that by
Miss Rye taking away fifty at the aversive age of
• eight years at' saved the ratepayers £5,200, which
these fifty orphans would have cost in their mere
maintenance aid education from eight to sixteen
years, and at the isau,e time provided for them very
much better than would otherwise have been possible.
Hr showed that inducing parish oruhans to emigrate
at the average ace o.f ..ivht sears would be MI immense
advantage to the mother country. to our colonies, and
to the orphans theutseives ; anti that keeping the
orphan girls in these institutions until sixteen years of
age rendered them unfit to take their place in life, and,
in ti,- case tit parish orphans, ct.ntrlb..ted to their ruin ;
while if they emigrated under Miss Rye's auperintend-
once their safety. ',gelidness, and success would be in-
sured. It was he urged, the result of ex; erience that
to is ace. ptable to the colonies, and to be successful
there, persons should emigrate not at much lates than
eight years of age. The 70 taken out by 111i4 Rye
had been gladly accepted, and ahe had already homes
waiting tor 100 wore.
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u
L ova —A sempstress manisd Cat herii e
M'Carthy hae le.en chore. 41 at tie Mansion Rouse, ii
,onion, with ...lie) mi, Mr. 'Pallor, a Imeridr,per in
Beech et, I; obi.vm It apiwars that she h,a foi
the last. two ) ears hi-se in the hahit of coming t • ittr.
Taylor's shop, on pretence of buying thread hut iii
leallty in older to etand in the shop and tlk,, and
A1t...n0-eh he bed refund to serve her she had peril. ted
in cornui g. She has twiCe been sent to the union 'if,
lunatic, but hehavt d so orderly while there that she
050 eon an cured. The other morning she
~ine in the chop live tino-s beforeciebt o'clock, and as
111 r. Tab3l.:r o, Per, he gave her into
e.t.a) i Sir R t Carden raked her whether she
Atat. is love se a the prosecutor and ehe adtnitt4-cl that
n.,.. wilt, But (Sir Robert said) he is not in love with
you? Ni., sir, (the wetnvn replied) he in not. Will
but Live shenlit he on bull sire. - Yen, air, ni should
Had you not li,-ter love v.rnielViiiv eige• 84 he dine no,
lose you?- Al. sir, it I- hard to do that. Well, hot
hedoes not l..se you. and do not think he is worthy
. . .

.•
.4 you. Why 14.:•r :101 in love with sonnelorls vi..?---
Well, vir. be °light to Isve me, But he avoids you
wiqte t avoid bite? F is hard to do that. Mi.
l'ayl..r ssid that in con,quence of her annoyance aLICi
the repots 44 the case vinmh had at.l.esr.sl is 11,
papprn his receipts had copped lIT from £2O to £3a
week. Sir Robert Cards n said be had aet milt:At
signed fly t. v.. (heal men statiog that this poor W..MAII
wan of tdasound mind, and he should send her to the
uni.m in order that elm might be takento an asylum.

DIAIRtShtNO SUICIDE OF A Yo
Ihques, wastield at Sheffield on /dor day upon the
holy otf I is., Theresa Davy, the only daughter of Mr
II t, Dave. of the "Black S van lon. Fatgate,
flield. Deceased was eighteen years of age, and ot

aetia tive appearance. She bad returned from selmad
a ear since, and al, bough mending at her father's bar
occasionally, was nnahls to do so constantly on account,
of being subject to epileptic Ste. She had been in a
low state of mind some time, and on Saturday nie ht.
about eleven p.m., she took some of Barley's vermin
killer, a deadly poison. The evidence was of a dis-
tressing nature, and a verdict of "Died from poison
taken whilst temporarily ir sane" was returned.

13,,Licione To.ocuico Ia SCRouLs.—A petition
tic ,o) j,-crl of teaching religion in schools 118 A been
prel aced, and is already signed by the head.roasters
and assistant-masters erdowed and other public
schools. The petith m shows "that the exclusion of
religions teaching from primary schools would be
highly inexpedient and at variance with the general
seriume ut oi the couotry ; but that it would I e desir-
able, for the sake of justice and harm, ny, that in rat—
aided seho-ls no dist,nctive formulary of any religious
body shall he taught." It is supported by persona of
whiely different views; among others by Me George
Moore, I.ord Shaftesbury, and the Right Rev. the
Biehoo of Exeter. The principal object of the peti-
tion, 1 owever, has teen to elicit an expression of
opinion from endowed and other public schools.
Thou. h it has only as yet been privately circulated, it
has abeady the eignatorts of the licadmsaters and
many of the ItetbiAtalitB of public and grammar schools.
TM AMBLE SUIFI.RI7:OB AT SP:A.—The last mail
from dlotnbay brings nea,. of therleath from starvation
'll of the crew of he ship Maria na. Captain Stuart,
the ship Twee!, which left liornhay on the 2od of
April for England with a number of invalided trisips,
reports on the 7th, when in lat. 9 N., lon. 69 E, he
fell in with the ship Mariana. of Chittagong, which
vessel had signals of distress flying. Captain Stuart
bore his ship to, lowered one of his boats, and boarded
the unfortunate vessel. On going on deck a fearful
wlitttaele presented itself. No fewer than twenty-one
of the crew were dead, many others were sick, and the
vessel was without provisions or water, and had been so
fir name dor, peeve we to being spoken by the Tao d.
Arrangements were at once made for pitting matters in
order on b..anl the Mariana, and during the twelve
hours which the Tweed was hove to, a quantity of pro-
visions. stores, water, and medicines were transferred
to the Mariana; after which the vessels parted com-
pany.

Go TO ROME FOR INSTRUCTION !—I the course
of a sermon which be preached on Sundae afternoon at
St. James's Hall, London, the Rev. Newman Hall
alluded to his recent visit to Rome. Three weeke ago,

Ile attended High Mass at nine o'clock in the morning, and
heard beautiful music. saw large processions of priests, and
corremis arrays of officials. The ceremonies might he intelli-
giLle mid profitable to some, hut to all they were certainly
not to. His impression on being there was that persons
engaged in getting up great spectacles in England would do
well to go to Rome for instruction ; and then if he wanted
Ritualism he would rather go to head-quarters than be
content with poor and miserable imitations.
He also described a lottery which took place on Sunday
afternoon, pubdcly and with the sanction of the Pope,
and then enforced the lemon that it was the duty of
Protestants to stand fast in the faith.
THE. FINEST isrPLICsT lON CHLOROFORM.—
The Doff!, Nom gives the following :
Mr. Waddle, who cave the late Sir James Simpson the hint
about chloroform which he turned to such noble account,
was not, as has been generally stated, a Liverpool chemist,
but was a chemist and bookseller at Linlithgow. lie had
one tiny some of the liquid in a saucer, when a gentleman
entered the shop with a little dog. The chloroform was
placed upon the ground to be out of the way, and presently
the dog was discovered lying by the side of the saucer un-
c mseious, and apparently dead. After a time, however, while
the stranger was mourning over the loss of his pet, the dog
moved his limbs, and gradually regained C 001.10.11063 Mr.
Waldie began to think he had made a discover>, and after
having administered chloroform to a number of cats with
trio Caine result, was confirmed In his belief. He went to
E lininirgh to relate his story to some medical man, and at
the sugge,tion of a ('lend coiled upon Professor Sonpson.
After that Interview Simpson tried a number of esperments,
arid proved beyond all question the virtues of chloroform as
an 111100 Abele In remembering the blessing conferred upon
the world by the great nom who has just departed, It la in-
teresting to remember also the simple manner in whit& the
discovery was made. Had )1 r. Vt &Idle been a person of less
intelligence than he was, it is possible that the triumph of
1847, which made Simpson the greatest henefacenr of his
age, might have been delayed for many years. Chloroform,
It will be remembered, was discovered by Soubeiran in 1831.
so that the composition had been long known to chemists
before its special property was ascertained.
A FIJIAN CONVERT.—The Fiji Times, giving
an account of the recent death of Tui Levuks, states
trait he had been nominally Christian for many years,
but did not show decided torinciples. His early lot
wee among the Wesleyans, then for a short time he
WM a P.Tist, and died among the Wesleyan.. The
captain of a Britiehnisn-of.war once put to him the
question, "What is your religion?" and his reply
was, "My right hand is Wesleyan, and assists Ur.
Calvert ; my left hand is the Pope's religion; and
sesiets the priest ; but the rest of my body is vakate•
vero" (heathen). lie was a fine, manly chief 21) years
ago, and had the address and bearing of a gentleman,
but of late he became a slave to the bottle.

EVEN•HANDED JUSTICE ! —Recently a thief. of
the Mawworin type, said to a judge on circuit, quite
confidingly, "My lord, I really assure you I com-
mitted the theft in a weak moment ; quite, indeed,
ag duet my own will, my lord, quite. ' " Oh! very
wea " said lii lirdsbip ; "it is only right tnat you
should have WI cause for complaint. The offence will
he met in a IC per opirit. As you committed the act
against your own will you will be punished against
your own will."

MAI RIMo;;IAL ADVERTISEMENTS.— ( From the
Manchoter Examiner):—
" A widow, in business, wishes to meet with a person with
means : strteti scoundentisl• "
A respectable widower wishes to correspond with a lady
40 to LO, with metua"

"A ), nog gentleman, In a good position, tall and good.
looking, desires to correspond with a lady of means with
a view to Matelmony.—Address, IL A., Post-office, Edge
Hill, Liverpool."
" Wanted by a widower (honk fide), a well brought-up and
educated young lady or widow, between 24 nod to take
charge of his private establishment and small family of six,
three provi.`ed for, with .view to matrimony: statb. meims
Address A. S. W., Post., flic Cheelham
"Any respectabte sell'ow or spinster, o t wider 50, and
having means of her / wn, and being an minded, may meet
with a respectable and klub partner, by addressing, in con-
dence, and stating a few particulars.'
DiticuED MiLir.— In addition to the pre-
Fen,' provixion trade, a new development of Inch
industry ia stated to have rapidly increaeed. To salted
meats, pork, butter, and bacon, has now to be added
condensed milk, the manufacture of which has hitherto
been confined to America and Switzerland. On the

rich grazing grounds of Mallow, in the county of Cork,
a large factory is in full working order, emp'oving per-
manently sixty hands in condemn og over 200,000 gallons
of milk annually, which is sett away in hermetic-11y
sealed tins to all parts of the world. The fart -ry is
under toe manrcement ..f Mr. J. H. New ileum . rid
the bulk of the intik is taken trr .sport 411 Ii iloWr on.
amp. hy Cro.ae e, 111 me well. cr Ls on.
*Lose .ing of the who,, Nest,t-tit hivs oeen cone,
tyth Pt. sem o. Chemistry at Quieer.'s Colege.
fhr EpuLISH Ana, AD. he Cologne Gazette
dwell.. at tome length, in is issue of Do do' last, on
the woes of an it hote.keeper Id Ft aid fort. On
' the 24th of November. 1809 an Englishman and his
wife entered the Hotel de Ruseie of that town, the
husband lying bin self on' to be a man o' ere .t ii era v
nuts Mauer is the sereifica ot "the far.fnined hou
of Murray. The horel.keeper was quite take in, and
received his guests with unusual distinction. B, and
by, when a lergeacctaint had beim run up, the iit.rary
wan was suudenlv called away on bo.oness. His wife,
however, was left at the hotel. Very soon she re-
ceived a telegram from her distinguished pp Doe, in.
forming her that a sad accideut had happened- broken
bones and other misfortunes. With streaming eyes
she came to 'the ohly too philanthropical hotel.
keeper" and explained her terrible case. Her hus-
band, she said, had omitted to leave money with
-Ouch to pay the bill, and she did not know what
to no. The landlord's heart woe touched ;Ito
open. d his purse, and generously presented the
lit with sixty thaleis. She then weitt to join
her husband. It soon occurred to the landlord alter
her de p .rture that it was time he had heard from his
grand English friends, but no letter came. He
therefore wrote to them to their London ariddress.
Alas! no such flume was thtre known. In vain
it quiriei were made in every direction. No traces of
the charmitig couple were to be found till early in the
present
s ran
,1.
tuari.mitab As t
he hotfr
, when they ies: p
vaepree.,
happened w
din an
be
hotel
in in
London at the time, he confronted the culprits ; but
they only pointed to their empty purses, and be had
to be satisfied with reproaching them for their base-
ness. The Cologne Gazette plainly say, that this is no
exceptional case; that almost every year Englishmen
visit, the German bathe, live expensively at tirst-class
botels, and then decamp without paying their bills.
This is certainly a very pleasant thought for those
travelling Englishmei. who do think iv their duty to
di-charge their debts and show, how our national
character is rising abroad.
BEArET THE ATTEMPTS]) ASSASSIN. —"lt is
thought likely," says the (Thuds, "that the High
Court of Justice will meet at itlois towards the end of
next irs nth. Brsury, who certainly is int a very
danger, us ermine], has written a letter to his colonel
raking his forgiveness for the disgrace arhieh he had
brought on the regiment; be states that he was led
away without knowing what he was about, that he is
not a Mail fond of the knife, as several radical journals
have made out, and that he hopes the colonel will tell
his umnrades how grieved he is to he in his present
position."
A &CHET SITTISO IN THE HoCEE OF COMMONS.
—An event, of most infrequent occurrence marked the
pariismentsty pri ceecioge of buenday rd. ht. The
Home of Commons dietabsed with clieed Mors Mr.
Fowler's bill to repeal the Conte, ious Diseases Acts.
A member ca led the attentioo of the Speaker to the
presence of 15,11111Z1r0, who wire accarcingly ordered
to withdraw, and the It. potters were :deo excluded.
lie la..t ,Pecasion on wh'ch this power hap been exer-
ehmd was in the )ear 1849, when air. John 0' onnell
excluded Reporters on the ground that lie himself had
be,-,. unfelt ly reported. OD the present occasion tne
member appears to have acted on his own caprice;
however, the House had no choice but to arnme-ce,
and for four bouts it was engaged in debating the ques-
tion with as much secrecy as is in asible in a Chamber
which more than err 14114.dre4i people are free to enter.
—ln comermenc.of this secret Pitting, Mr. Gilpin has
given notice I,f the follo,.iog resolution :—" That., in
the opinion of rho] House, it is unoe,irahle that it
should contione in the power of any individual memo-
bee to exclude the public ae:d the press from the
deaates in the H. 1,1811 by Observing that there are
Atranger- present."

A ROW. 1311,1) !—A French gentleman who
was wog with his gantekteper, at the beginning
,d thr re nth, the chances of making a vood Kig with
fri,ds that .ere expected for the fir 4 of the
shooting .esson, aft,-rrotinipa through the lit it gsme
and receiving favourable reports of each, observed,
"And the plebiscite?" " Ah, monsieur," responded
th- gamekeeper, "a very line bird, with yellow
feathery. I saw it the other uniting, and shot at it,
but unfortunntely I shot under it !" This anecdote is
related in aupport of the statement that if every elector
had been required to state the meaning of the word
" plebb cite," the number cd votes would have shrunk
from nine million to line thousand.

bIeCKILIN ATE At niso iviN O.— The committee
of the Newca4le Mehdicity Society, f Lich Mr.
Jaross Morrison, the Mis 3 or, is the president, have
p•iblished a circular in which they u ge on the in-
habitants the propriety of discontinuing the practice
of indtscriutihate almsgivirig, as productive of idle-
ness. imposition, and other evils. They remark that
FO I i g as to means exist for sifting out the possibly
liemtrving case front the mass of impostors the con-
tinut-hce of the practice might he excusable. They,
however, trust that the organization now formed will
afford the inhabitants of Newcastle • safer triode of
dispensing their charity. The authorized collector of
the society will cell at every house to leave a certain
number of tickets and to receive aubscriptions, if such
ot oul,i be forthcornimr. Where the householder is
uttahle to give a subscription the committee trust they
may rely on his using the aociety's tickets, and
refusing any ~titer relief to ht agars, The ticket*,
when delivered to the charity officer, will insure relief
to the applicant, if deserving of assistance.

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THE DEAD ALIVE.—i- Curious Story is told by
the Gaillois of the disappearance from the Paris Morgue
of a body which had been hrouht there. The police
having found a moo lying insensible in the streets
called in the assistance of a doctor, who declared that
the man VMS dead in consevence if congestion of the
brain. The body was conveyed to the Morgue, was
undressed, and placed upon ice of the Blabs, with the
cloth in, suspended above. In the pockets were found
a purse and a letter with an address. The keeper of
the Morons was astonished the next morning to find
the body had disappeared, together with the clothes.
He proceeded to the address upon the letter, and in-
quired for the person mentioned, and was at once in.
trodaced to a man in whom he recognised his missing
charge. This man, a printer employed at the offide of
the Gautois, explained that he was subject to cataleptic
attacks, which sometimes lasted from eight to ten hours.
On the brevious evening he hail been taken with one
of those fits, and remained uric sessions until early in
the morning, when recovering, he found him-elf at the
Morgue, with his clothes hanging over him. He dressed
himself, and, as the doors were only latched, he took
hialeave. intending to return later to reclaim his purse,
and to explain the cause of his sudden disappearance
from legal custody.
A NOTE IN Music.—Tenors who strive aftEr
the high at sic poitrine may properly be nicknamed the
Toiler, of the C.—PUNCH.

SALMON IN New ZEALAND.—The Dit'aulin
likening Star states that Mr. Dawbin hag reported to
the Government that the salmon are in so advanced a
state that they are "shoaling together preparatory to
starting for the sea." He does not think that they
will leave the ponds until there in a fresh in the river,
in which case he will be compelled to let them go. The
Government intend to retain tweuty in the ponds,
experimentally, to learn whether they cannot be bred
as the sea trout have been in Tasmania.

MARRIAGE WIT/S • DECEASED WIER'S SISTER.
—The Dean of Car Hale lue aent the following to The
Tiptoe for publication
Al any name was introduced In last night's debate in the
Holm of Lords on the subject of marriage with a deceased
wife's sister, perhaps I may be allowed to nay that the ex-
perience of some fifteen or twenty years, which have elapsed
since I txpressed that opinion, has consideranly qualified it.
I still conscientiously believe that there is no direct pro-
hibition of such marriages in Holy Writ; but were I called
upon to vote on the question as it now stands, considering all
the facts and arguments bearing on the cue, I should
decidedly negative any alteration of the existing law.—Your
obedient servant, FRANCIS CLOSE, Dean of Carlisle. lion.
church. May 20.

NE6RO EQCALITY.—A case Wa9 recently before
the United States' Cirouit Court at Baltimore in which
a coloured man claimed and obtained damages against
the Baltimore City Passenger Railroad Company for
ejecti. g him from the interior of one of their cars and
compelling him to stand on the platform. Judge Giles
decided that he had • right to as good a place as the
white man; but he ad led that a public carrier, if he
gives equally comfortable accommodation to all, may
separate passengers, not only by the rule of sex, by
providing a ladies' car, but also by the rule of colour,
with a view to secure order and promote the winfort
of both. It is stated that the company will run white
men's care and coloured men's cant

110(A)RSE BlERClati.—Sioting with a Bad Cold
—Pun rh.

COUNTY CLARE FRIEZE."—Notes and Queries
mays that about a mile and a half from the town of
Coran, county Clare, near the bridge of Athnalabba,
is • welled mud of • deep blue-blask colour. There is
no water, or at least only a stratum of it a few inches
deep. This mud is used by the peasantry to dye the
home-made friers and the worsted thread used for
knitting stockings, B:c., and is carried to a consider.
able distance for that purpose. Tbe cloth, is
built(' in this mud mixed with water, and the peculiar
colour of the "county Clare frit," is thus produced
(each county has its own coloured frieze); sometimes a
particular seaweed found on the coast is mixed with
this mud to Produce a different shade of colour. There
is always a considerable bubbling up of gas from tlit.
welL
Ia MEMORIAL—M. Emile de Gieardln pub-
bliehee in La Liberte the following characteristic
notice of a deceaued friend :

Ile who was my lifelongfriend from the day of my birth,
anti with,.ut cc-Batton—Edouard tie 0111311114, moo of Madame
Titthen, born before she became Princes. Joseph de Chimay
—passed away this morning. as be had always lived, with a
smile upon hts lips. It might he sald that death spared him,
as In removing him from among us it concealed its ap-
proach., and left him unaware of its arming. The numerous
patients of Dr. Cabarrus—hit 11111llerous friends—will regret
hint but tome will regret Mtn so t'eeply as myself, for
friends who have renotim,l faithful to each other from the
cradle to the grave become real brothera It Is, therefore,
a brother whom I have lust te-day. lie preceded me in life
by four or Bee yearn. If e was my senior. His death shows
me the road by which I Inuit shortly follow him."

NOT VERY LIKELY ! Notwithstanding the im-
probability of the step there are still rumours of the
intention of the French Government to remove the
barrier which prevents the exiled Princes returning: o
their native Iced. Fiuo 5035 that in granting this
authorization Napoleon 111. would be merely throwing
opt n the doors if France to his cousins. It is well
known that the F rot Napoli-on, aft, r bie marriage
wilh the Arch 'um- ess Maria Louisa, sometimes
ventured to pity the fate of "his poor uncle Louis
XVI. ' One day Napoleon, approachmg Mails
Louisa. niece of Matte Antoinette, said, in presence of
the whole Court, 'Madame, I announce to you that
we have another cousin; the Duchess of Orleans has
just been delivered of a Prince at Palermo." This
Prince, who was afterwards thrown out of his carriage
and killed, VMS the eldest brother of the Duke of
Nemours. the Prince de Joinville, the Duke of Autuale,
and the Duke of Montpeneien