The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-02 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

LIE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCL—A conference ,
of ministers of religion of all denominations was held •
on Tuesday, at the Cannon-street Hotel, London, to !
consider what steps can be taken for more effectually '
checking the evils of intemperance. About 150 1
ministers and a few laymen were present, and various !
opinions were expressed on the subject before the !
meeting. The Rev, W. Pennefather, occupied the
chair, and was supported by Mr. Smithies, Mt. Baxter, 1
Mr. Bowly (President of the National Temperance '
League), the Revs. H. J. Ellison (vicar of Windsor),
S. Hansard, Dr. Burns, S. Eardley, G. W. M'Cree, '
and others. The following resolution was moved, :
seconded, and carried unanimously :
" That this meeting, in view of the proposed Licensing Bill.
desires respectfully to urge upon the Home Secretary the ,
desirability of including iu his measure the prohibition of the
sale of intoxicating liquors during the whole of the Lord's
Day, together with increased restrictions on the liquor
traffic."
DIVORCE CASE.—The case of "Watkins v.
Watkins," has been heard in the Divorce Court, and
was a petition by a wife for a dissolution of marriage,
on the ground of adultery, coupled with cruelty. The
petitioner was a widow with considerable fortune, and
in 1867 she made the acquaintance of the respondent,
a young roan with no profession or occupation, at
Brighton. They were married in January, 1868, and
she settled £3OO a year on him. They lived together
at her house in Hill street, Berkeley-square, London,
and she complained that he habitually neglected her
and treated her with the greatest indifference. She
stated that he had thrown a glass of wine over her,
and kicked her out of bed, and had been guilty of
other acts of personal violence. She also accused him
of having formed an improper intimacy with an actress.
She added that she went to the theatre where the
actress was performing and saw that some articles of
jewellery belonging to her were being worn by that
lady on the stage. It afterwards came to the know-
ledge of the actress that the jewellery was the property
of Mrs. Watkins, and she immediately returned it to
her with a letter. It was stated by Sergeant Ballan-
tine that Mr. Watkins had intended to accompany the
actress to America, where she had an engagement, and
that he paid the passage money for her and for himself
, across the Atlantic, but before they started they had a
I quarrel, and she went without him. After her
departure he was guilty of adultery with a woman
named Douglas. There was no defence. His lordship
was of opinion that the evidence did not establish the
charge of adultery with the actress, but there was a
clear case of adultery with Douglas and of cruelty.
Decree nisi with costs.
MR. NEWDEGATE'S VICTORY.—Mr. Newde-
gate can boast of many labours but of few triumphs.
But last night he achieved such a victory as will
rejoice him greatly, and probably encourage him be-
yond measure (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette). He
moved for a select committee to inquire into the exist-
ence, character, and increase of conventual and
monastic societies in Great Britain, and especially
(for this was the gist of the motion) into the terms
upon which the property and income of these societies
are held. Mr. Newolegate showed that the number of
the religious communities he abhors has increased very
remarkably of late, and insisted that it had become
necessary to ascertain their character and discipline
(which he believes to be atrocious), and particularly
how far the property which supports them is held in
conformity with the law. He was opposed by the
Solicitor-General on behalf of the Government, but he
found enough sympathy in the House to carry his
motion by a majority of 2—the numbers being 131 to
129.
THE THIRST FOR ENOWLEDGE.—On Monday,
at the Liven poel Police.court, a newsagent, named
George Connell, summoned William Roan, for "that
he did, on the sth inst., permit to be comm lard
offence forbidden by the 149th and 275th sections of a
certain act of parliament, intituled 'An Act for the
Improvement, Good Government, and Police Regula-
tions of the Borough of Liverpool,' by permitting to
be turned loose a bull in Burlington-street, thereby
causing damage to pipes, paper, sealing-wax, and other
articles, the property of the complainant, the value of
which was £1 6s.' Complainant stated that the bull,
a huge animal, walked into his shop with great
deliberation, as if he was an ordinary customer.
If aving gazed about for a moment he proceeded to the
kitchen, from which he was extracted with some diffi-
culty, and only after doing the amount of damage
mentioned. Ultimately the summons was dismissed,
on the ground that it was taken out under a wrong
section of the act.
A SINGULAR WEDDING.—On Monday morn-
ing a wedding of a novel description took place at St.
Nicholas Church, Newbury. The bridegroom, whose
name is James Farr, living in Back.street, had seen 62
summers, and was in such an infirm state of health that
he bad to be conveyed to church in a bath chair,
drawn by his intended wife, a buxom woman about
forty years of age, named Bailey. The Bath chair was
drawn into the church, as far as the font, when the
bridegroom was assisted out of the chair, and with the
help of the bride and sexton he managed to reach the
chanceL The Rev. Charles Boyd performed the cere-
mony. It appears that in former years the parties had
cohabited together. At the conclusion of the service
the bridegroom was again placed in the Bath chair,
and drawn home by his wife, another woman pushing
behind. Neither of the pair were able to sign the
parish register.
THE Doicriatmes PONT.—A Dutchman in the
"States" was recently heard to describe the physical
and moral defects of his "bony" in a fashion which
would not discredit the orthographical talents of "Herr
Breitmann " himself :—"You see in the vust place he
is plint mit both legs, and fery lame with von eye.
Den ven you gets on him to rite he races up behint and
kichs up before so vurser as a chaekmule. I stinks I
dake him a little ride yesterday, out no sooner I
straddle his pack on a poatstreatn, and yen he gam tone,
I vas so mixed up mid efery disks, I finds myself
zittin around packwards, mit his (fail in my hands vor
the bridle. But I vises him petter as sham up. I
hitch in te cart mid his head where his flail ought to be,
den I gif him about a dozen cuts mit a hidecow, he
starts to go, but soon he sees the cart before him, he
makes backward,. Den I takes him out, hitch him the
rite yap, nut he goes rite off, so good as anybody's
bony."
TFIE NATURAL RESULT.—Lawyers are some-
times accused of being wanting in feeling, but is there
anything surprising in men of their profession becoming
casehardened f Punch.
"UNCLE DICK'S Dercurso."—An application
has been made to the Master of the Rolls on behalf of '
Mr. Toole, the actor, to restrain Mr. Knowles, the '
manager of a Manchester theatre, from producing the
play called "Uncle Dick's Darling." The play was
written by Mr. Byron, and was gold to Mr. Toole for
£5OO, who was also to pay the author £5O additional on
the fiftieth night of performance, and a like sum on I
the hundredth night. The payments were for the right
of acting the piece in the United Kingdom; but a
further arrangement was made with reference to ,
America and the colonies, by which Mr. Byron was to
have half the profits arising from the representation of
the play. Mr. Knowles claims the right to perform
this play and certain others written by the Caine author,
and he had advertised a series of performances. The
Master of the Rolls granted an interim injunction. 1
Tux LICENSING SYSTEM.—A public meeting to '
discuss this question was held in the Town-hall at
Bundem on Tuesday. Among the resolutions passed
was one stating that the meeting rejoiced to learn that
the Home Secretary was about to bring forward a
measure dealing with the whole licensing system, but
expressing its conviction that no bill will meet the
claims of the community, and grapple with the great
evils of drunkenness and the drinking system which
does not include provisions enabling the inhabitanta
of any district, when so determined, to prevent the
establishment or continuation of the liquor traffic in
their midst. This and other resolutions were carried
unanimously and with great applause. The speakers
included Sir Robert Briscoe and General Carey, of the
army of the United States.
REMEMBERING GARlBAlDL—Garibaldi is likely
to inherits large fortune. A young lady residing at
Binningen, near Bale, died a few days since, aged
twenty-five years. She has bequeathed a large fortune
in the following manner : Seventeen thousand francs
to poor painters; 5,000 francs to M. G.. residing at
Bale ; 40,000 francs to the towns of Neuf-13risach, and
Lauterbourg, in Alethe ; and 500,000 francs to a
' Garibaldian officer named Luigi Franzoja. The testa-
trix states in her will that she does not know whether
Franzoja is alive, and directs her executors to make
inquiries at the HOtel de Geneve, at Florence, where
he resided during 1862 and 1863. The testatrix also
states his mother lived in the Pouts Provolo, at Venice
in 1868. If Franzoja is dead, his wife and children are
to receive one-half of the bequest, and Garibaldi the
other half; and if Franzoja left neither wife nor
children, Garibaldi is to receive the 500,000 franca.
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exploded and
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, with your dust."—Pouch.
, AUSTRIAN " INTERVIEWING."—SOFFIe Austrian
journals seem about to adopt the system of " inter-
viewing." Thus the Vienna Prate of the 20th ult.
contains an article purporting to be the account of a
conversation with Count Darn. We (North German
; Corrapondent), are there informed that, in reply to
the question what policy France would pursue should
. the Northern and Southern States of Germany come
: to an understanding with each other, the French
statesmen replied :—" Even if an understanding of an
' entirely voluntary character were arrived at, certain
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whole story has been invented in order to excite the
apprehensions which the state of Europe is so well
' calculated to allay.
MR. JUSTICE WILLES ON THE BANKRUPTCY
. ACTS.—A conviction was obtained at the Liverpool
I Assizes, for the commission of fraudulent bankruptcy,
an offence of which the detections bear small propon
, tion to its frequency; and Mr. Justice Wines, in sen-
tencing the pngoners, on Monday, took occasion to
express his opinion of the inadequacy of former punish-
ments to meet the gravity of the criminality. Two
=rs were indicted under the 221st clause of the
ptcy Act, 1861, for concealment of several

Prince. I would risk the trial, the -terrors of
Cour, the growling sof the " irreconcilables " and the
reet of the miseries with which the Prince is threatened

for those two tokens of friendship. The lady is one of
these whose mission in this world appears to bring sun-
shine with their presence into the most dreary
dungeon."
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AQUATIC SPORTS.—A Mill-Race.—Punch.
ETERNALLY LEAP YEAR !—A gentleman who
has paesed some time among the Cossacks of the
Ukraine tells of some strange customs still prevalent
there, one of which may perhaps interest our fair
readers. When a young woman in the Ukraine feels
a tender passion for a young man, she goes at once to
the house of his parents, and says to him, " Pomagai-
bog," which means, "be you blessed of God." The
young woman then sits down and talks to the object
of her choice as follows The goodness I see written
in your countenance is a sufficient assurance to me
that you are capable of ruling and loving a wife, and
your excellent qualities encourage me to hope that you
will make a good husband. It is in this belief that I
have taken the resolution to come, and beg you, with
all due humility, to accept me for your spouse." She
then addresses the father and mother, and solicits their
approval of, and consent to, the marriage. If she meets
with a refusal, she ref uses to leave the house, and
i such conduct s usually crowned with success. The
parents of the young man never put the young maidens
away if they still persist in their stay, believing by
doing so they would bring down the vengeance of
heaven upon their heads.
RATHER DOUBTFUL !—The following anecdote,
which is of dubious origin, is now credited to Mdlle.
Christine Nilsson. The fair cantatrice had sung at
the Theatre de Madrid for the last time previous to
her return to Paris. On arriving at her residence she
at once retired to her bedroom, but had not long been
there when four men wearing masks burst into the
room. The frightened artiste gave a scream, and
hurriedly exclaimed, "I beseech yon, gentlemen, be
content with my diamond; my bijoux, my—"
" Reassure yourself, madam," interrupted one of the
visitors; "the programme to-day announced that you
would sing for the last time, and we have sworn that
we will hear you sing once more." Mdlle Nilsson then
executed several morceaux, and her singular admirers,
having thanked her, took their departure.
NOT AN UNREASONABLE PREJUDICE.—Who
can wonder at criminals disliking to have their photo-
graphs taken, when the cartes of so many most re-
spectable persons are said not to do them justice ?
Pena.
ABSENT-MINDED.—The following is another in-
stance of the late Dr. Duncan's (of Edinburgh) strange
forgetfulness. Ile was engaged to officiate one Sunday
for the minister of Culter, near Aberdeen, and left the
latter place in good time, mounted on a "shellac."
Being a great snuff-taker, he frequently had recourse
, to his " mull" on the journey ; and arriving at a turn
of the road where the wind blew right ahead, he turned
his nag about to enable him to take a pinch more easily;
having done so he forgot to turn his ' sheltie" again,
and rode into Aberdeen discovering only when too
late that the people of Cutter had had no service on that
day.
SHOULDERS !—M. 011ivier is a brave man. In
the midst of his own work for liberty he encourages
his wife to discourage the low.necked dresses worn by
ladies. We are afraid that it will be found easier to
reform than to redress.—Purich.
NOTIFICATION.—H.E.R. THE DUKE OF EIGN-
BURGH'S VISIT TO BOMBAY.—The Municipal Corn.
misaioner trusts that all houseowners will exert them-
selves to make their properties clean and respectable
in appearance before his Royal Highness's vie,t—
ARThUR Citswroup, Municipal Commissioner."—
Bombay Gazette.
SCIIILING IT ur !—The .31arscil1ai.le has the
following, on Prince Bonaparte's acquittal :
"PIEOIIII 130NAPAETs IS ACQUITTED.
•• Victor Noir is to his grave.
Ulric de Fonvielle is in prison.
"Paschal Grousset Is In pr,sen.
"heedi Rochefort Is in prison.
"Millitre, Rigsult, hatire, Goreure, are in prison.
"PIIKRB Bog-train's is •C4ITITED."
BITTEN BY A BOA CONSTRICTOR.—A member
of the University of Oxford. who had lodgings in the
High-street, kept a good-sized specimen of the boa
constrictor in a box in his rooms, and Miss Seager, the
daughter .f the landlady, attracted by a movement of
the lid, opened it, when her hand was seized by the
reptile with • firm grasp, which became tightened as it
coiled around her arm. Although nearly frightened to
death, she screamed for help, and on the arrival of
assistance was found in a swooning state, with her
hand and arm firmly held by the capacious jeWe and
folds of the serpent. The occurrence created a panic
amongst those who were called to her assistance, but
on recovering their presence of mind they succeeded,
by jumping on the tail of the reptile, and other means,
in making it release its hold. Mies Seeger is now pro-
gressing favourably, although she has a very Tbad
wound in her hand. The boa constrictor, which be-
longed to the Hon. Mr. Fitzpatrick, has been sent away
from Oxford.
THINGS NOT GENERALLY Kwoww.—The Putt-
macestica/ Journal publiehes a remarkable instance of
unforeseen danger arising from the facility with which
oxide of silver is reduced by contact with vegetable
extracts in common use. A medical man prescribed
twenty•tour pills, each containing two grains of the
oxide of silver, a twenty-fourth of a grain of muriate of
morphia, and a sufficiency of extract of gentian; the
pills being coated with silver in the usual manner. The
pills were delivered to the patient in an ordinary pill-
box, but the lady, being in the nursery and having no
pocket in her dress, placed the box in her bosom,
babl-

pro-
..fy next the skin. In three-quarters of an hour a
severe explosion occurred; her under-clothes were
reduced to tinder, and her right breast was seriously
burnt. The patient fortunately had presence of mind
enough to seize the part with both hands, and thus
extinguish the flame.
TELEGRAMS TO IRY LAND.— The interchange of
Telegraphic messages between England and Ireland
has broken down. Let us hope that the message of
peace contained in the Irish Land Bill is not one of
those which have miscarried. Mr. Scudamore points
out, in a public notice, that "as each menage handed
in blocks the messages following it, it is extremely
desirable that none but messages on urgent business,
or on life or death, should be sent." Mr. Gladstone is
within this rule. His Land Bill is a message on urgent
business; and his Peace Preservation Bill, matter of
life and death.—Puncli.
ENGLISH BEAUTY.—Reduced to the plain ex-
pression of what it is really worth, the average English
ides of beauty in women may be summed up in three
words—youth, health, plumpness. The more spiritual
charm of intelligence and vivacity, the subtler attrac-
tion of delicacy of line, and fineness of detail, are little
looked for, and seldom appreciated, by the mass of
men in this island. It is impossible otherwise to
account for the extraordinary blindness of perception
which (to give one instance only) makes nine English.
men out of ten who visit France come back declaring
that they have not seen • pretty Frenchwoman, in or
out of Paris, in the whole country. Our popular type
of beauty proclaims itself, in its fullest material de-
velopment. at every shop in which an illustrated
periodical is sold. The same fleshy-faced girl, with the
same inane smile., and with no other expression what-
ever, appears under every form of illustration, week
after week, and month after month, all the year round.
Those who wish to know what Mrs. Glenarm was like,
have only to go out, and stop at any bookseller's or
newsvendor's shop, and there they will see her, in the
first illustration, with • young woman in it, which they
discover in the window.—" Man and Wife." By Wilkie
Collins, in Cassell's Magazine.
GIVING HIM A WARNING !—A sharp lesson VMS
administered to railway servants in a trial at the
Kildare Aseizes. John Hoey, a guard on the Great
Southern and Western Railway, was convicted of hav-
ing caused the death of a porter named Walsh at New-
bridge, in July last. It was proved that the deceased
went between the carriages to secure the couplings,
and the prisoner, without giving him a proper warning
or seeing that all was right, as it was his duty to do,
bad the train set in motion, and the man was instantly
killed. The jury accompanied their finding with a
strong recommendation, which the Chief Baron corn•
plied with, and sentenced the prisoner to two months'
imprisonment.
RAILWAY COMPENSATION. —An action was
brought on Saturday, at the Liverpool .Assizes, by a
pianoforte tuner, against the North-Western Railway
Company, to recover damages for injuries received,
which incapacitated him from his work. Plaintiff
WWI in receipt of £3OO a year at the time of the acci-
dent, and he was awarded MO. In the course of the
trial, Mr. Justice Brett observed that if sufferers from
railway accidents got annuities equal to their incomes,
the companies could not stand, and that some share of
the consequence of such accidents must be borne by
the traveller.
MOTTO FOR CAPTAIN SHAW'S BRIGADE.—
"Through Fire and Water."--Punch.
VETERANS IN THEIR OLD AGE.— Much dissa-
tisfaction has been expressed at the threatened abolition
of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. and at the refusal
to admit any applicants pending the result of an in-
quiry, There are several old pensioners living in the
vicinity who have been anxiously watching an oppor-
tunity for getting in, and there are now some vacancies.
One was created a few days ago by the death of an
old sergeant, named John Rice, who lived to the ex-
traordinary age of ninety-six years. He was seventy.
five yeare' old when admitted, after fourteen years'
service. He fought at Flushing, Salamanca, the
Pyrenees, Badajoz, where he was one of the forlorn
hope, and at Bayonne. He was wounded lathe head,
and discharged with a ball still lodged in his body.
For some years past be had been bedridden, and it is
stated that he would have long since died if he had not
been admitted. Among the candidates for the vacant
place is a man who is now seventy-eight years of age
and bedridden. He served twenty.five years, and was
Mall the great actions in the Peninsula and at Water-
loo. He has nine clamps as distinctions for his
services.
A MUGMAN'S COMPLA INT.—A not very pre-
possessing specimen of the genus " mugrnan," wriggled
his awkward person into the witness box at Cheater
police-court on Saturday, and, familiarly addressing the
magistrates, said—"l wants a summons for this black
eye (pointing to a very palpable diecolouration near one
of hie orbs) as one of your Cheater men give me."
Magistrate:
ia Were you drunk? Applicant: No; I
port; that's not lonioating.—(Laughter.)

hundreds of pounds' worth of property at the time of trate : Where do you get your port? Applicant: At
their bankruptcy; and a third prisoner was indicted vaults ; twopence'apenny a half-noggin. (More laughs
under Bth sec. 24, 25 Vic., for aiding and abetting. ter.) A magistrate: Did you take your port out of a
They were all found guilty, and Mr. Justice Willes, mug?- (Laughter.) Applicant: You laugh, tut a
in passing sentence, expressed a regret that the man mu'n't have his brains knocked out. (A very
offences had been committed while the Bankruptcy stout female from behind: "No, yer honours; the
Act of 1861 was in force, as it limited his power of same man interfered with him before, and he had to
sentencing the prisoners to a punishment adequate to suck milk through his teeth. Al.! he wants is perteelion,
their guilt. He could, he said, only give them 12 and this is the place.") The summons was granted,
months' imprisonment with hard labour; but were the and the self-satisfied dealer in mugs left, with the stout
new Act in force he could have dealt with them more party referred to, muttering as he went that "There's
in accordance with their deserts, law in the country, and a poor man ought to have it,"
To ms ENVIED !—An " interviewer " on the -(Laughter.)
staff of the Neu, York Herald, who visited Prince FELONS! GOODS.—A Parliamentary paper shows
Pierre Bonaparte during his confinement, says, the amount of felons' property forfeited to the Crown
"While I was present a lady visitor entered, a tall in each county, city, and town in England and Wales
handsome woman, of noble appearance, dressed entirely since 1865, and how much of such property was restored.
in black velvet. She went direct to the Prince, whom The amounts forfeited were, according to the account
she saluted on both cheeks. I regretted not being the of the Solicitor to the Treasury, as follows :- In 1864,
_ _ . . . . .
'the Haute • ss-s • 1865. £5Bll 94. 11d. ; 184 w -

£1,203 13% lid.; 1865, £586 9%.11d. ; 1866, £1,139 7%
31. ; 1867, 41862 3% 11.; 1868, 111,589 6% sd. ; 1669,
£530 14s. 6d.—total, 415,911 158. hi. Aceordiug to the

same account the sumsrestored were the fol!o;i47—:
In 1864, £407 Os. 2d. ; 1865 £440 7s. 6d. ; 1866, 4..865
10s. ; 1867, £604 Is. 5d ; 1868, £l,lll. 12g.; 1869 4:246,
12s. ltd.—total, £3,675 4s.

THE SUPPORTERS OF THE POPE.—The Roman
correspondent of the Augsburg Allycmcine Ziitung says
in a recent letter :
All eyes are now fixed on the Bishops who are united, or
rather not united, but only assembled, in Council. The
majority are in toe same state of mind as the Athenians were
when they received a message from Alexander that he had
becomes god, and desired to be adored es such They then
declared—. If Alexander is determined to be a god, let hint
be one." Three hundred Bishops say—" We ea; the Pope's
bread, we drink his wine, and sleep under his rout: let lion,
therefore, be infallible!' Oae hundred say—. We are only
titular Blehops, without sees or parishes. From whom have
we our titles but from the Pops? Therefore let him be in-
fallible." Others again say "We call ourselves Bishops and
Apostolic Vicars by the grace ef the Pope; we are his
creature.; let him be infallible." Yet others any;' The
Curia has us in its power; we need its help at every torn;
the Pope must he infallible, for he desires to he so." And
thus we have 550 obedient adherents of the dogma. Then
there are the prelates of the type of Manning, et hoc genus
mane, who serve na volunteers ma campaign, the purpose of
which lathe subjection of human souls and the establishment
of the doctrine of infallibility. Many will vote like Sales,
is assert sans phrase, but the volunteers will defend their
opinions by unctuous speeches. They require the doctrthe of
infallibility both for themselves and others. For themselves,
as they will no longer need "to dig," and they have neither
feet nor hands for "digging." They will now be able to re-
ceive their doctrines properly cut and measured by the
Jesuits, and warranted genuine by the Roman old For .
others, as it is a convenient means of silencing every doubt
and ecruple, and repelling every inconvenient demand.
PACIFICATION FOR PATLAND.—It is a mistaks
to suppose that Ireland will ever be satisfied with WY
measure of mere' justice. What Irishmen want is not
justice but generosity. There ought to be an Irish
Rate, levied on all the property in Great Britain, Ira
subsidy to Ireland, paid annually and punctually.
Then Ireland would probably be tranquillised, nod
remain quiet, if the subsidy were to be stopped the
moment the Irish began to be troublesome.—Pooch.
REAL FIRE-EATERS !—The fierce political pas-
sions which have resulted in the Tours trial appear to
be still in full play among certain classes in Paris, and
a recent instance of provocation to bloodshed is re-
ported in Le Figaro of Saturday. A certain M.
Charles Lullier, a naval officer, who has j ust com-
pleted a term of imprisonment for a political offence,
has sent the following letter to M. Paul Cassagnac, of
the Pays :
"It is only one hour since I left prison. My first thought
is of you. Since our first conversation I have passed .ix
times under the fire of a Bonapartist public Ministry. I have
come out safe and sound in respect of honour I defy you-
1, to pass under the fire of a public 31inistry of a Republican,
orleaniet, or Legitimist Government. or, in a word, of an
honest Government whatever, without being damaged;
2, to hold a weapon before me in the presence of four
',mitres a'arrnes, I engaging to allow you to aini at me for six
minutes without attacking you; that time expired, I under-
take to wipe you out (nettoyeM on the spot I will indicate
secretly to my seconds. I only make one condition, that we
shall fight in Belgium.
M. Paul Cassagnac replied that he would not fight
with M. Luther, who had insulted him without the
pretext of a personal grievance or a party motive, and
concluded his letter thus
As for threats, I defy them. The day when my liberty as
a citizen is imperilled another knife and fork may be prepared
In hell, for Victor Noir will have company to supper.
A Nine ABBEY.—A correspondem furnishes
the ChurcA Times with some particulars of the laying
Of the foundation stone of Father Ignatius's new abbey
at Llanthony, in South Wales :
Semis; the wild mountain valley, sway from the noise of
the working world, almost away from human habitation of
any kind, aournd a company of hermit., carrying cross and
lighted taper, while tiey clones of incense from a censer
which one of the monks was swinging rose in the pure
morning air. After the hermits walked the priest who bad
said mass, followed by Father Ignatius. Having arrived at
the foundation for the new abbey, a solemn service was
chanted, and the corner stone solemnly blessed; and while
the stone was being laid, holy psalms were sung.
"Two ARE (NOT ALWAYS) BETTER THAN ONE."
The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte seems to have
been, in the opinion of those engaged, an agreeable
opportunity for saying the neatest things which they
could concoct. One of the charges against the Prince
is that in other days he had au "affair " in Italy, when
he exterminated tither two bandits or one custom-
house officer. Remembering what the officials of the
Italian douane used to be, we wonder that the Presi-
dent did not remark that the distinction was "simply
numerical."—Punch.
THE Pussusri AND THE PORT RR.—Many years
ago—we cannot state the exact time (we are quoting
from the Licerpool Mercury)—there were two school-
fellows, one named William Ewart Gladstone, the
other Luke Hamer. The former quitted school for the
Senate, and became as distinguished in politics as he
had in early life become in letters. Fortune was not
fickle to him, and he is now the Prime Minister of
Great Britain. Luke Hamer's career seems to have
been far more chequered with the ills of life; and the
world would have remained ignorant even of his ex-
istence bad be not recently applied for an appointment
to a public office. The office in question has no con-
nection with the cabinet. It is only that :if porter at
the Ormskirk Workhouse. Poor Luke Hamer, who
now verges on his sixtieth year, has probably had a
hard battle in the world, and things must have gone
ill with him if his story is true, that he went to school
with the present Premier. We have no reason to doubt
it, for it was told to the guardians, who could easily
have tested its truth had they thought it necessary to
do so. Luke Hamer was one of five candidates for the
humble office, and the guardians appointed him to it

°thee,
on Thursday.
SPORT ON THE PACIFIC COAST.—Deer, antelope,
hear, and elk constitute the large game of California.
Deer are found in great abundance, and many hundreds
are killed yearly on Tamalpais. The deep gulches,
woods, and covers of Marine County afford excellent
sport to the deer hunter. Elk do not range nearer
than the Oregon line, but a few are still met on the
banks of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers,
where in former years they were so abundant. The
brown and black bear are also hunted in Marin County
and along various parts of the c cast range. White and
gray geese are found in all the bay counties, on the
lakes and up the rivers, in abundance. Duck are shot
in the same localities, of which the most valued is the
mallard, which remains and breeds in the country.
Then come the redhead sprigtail pigeon, wood duck,
blue and green-winged teal, broadbill, spoonbill, saw-
bill, whistler, butterball, fantail, or Dutchman and
Cadwell's. Quail abound in the surrounding counties.
In the immediate neighbourhood of the city quail are
scarce, being trapped and slaughtered for the market so
earnestly that here they are now almost exterminated.
Rabbits are also found in the quail grounds. The
English or jack snipe are shot in the freshwater
marshes on the San Joaquin and Sacramento rho rs, in
the Amador, Gilroy, and Santa Clara valleys. Of the
bay snipe there is an abundant variety, such as curlew,
willet, white-wings, plover, yellow legs, robin. doe.
witch, ring-neck, and sandpiper. The grouse, one of
the finest game birds, frequents Mendocino, and the
upper counties of the State. Several attempts have
been made to stock the lower counties with these birds,
but with little success. Trout abound in all the rivers
running into the bay, and are taken with both bait and
fly, but principally the former.
THE FINIARS IN A Fix!—The Fenians in New
York are in that delightful state of intestine warfare
which has made up the chief part of their proceedings
in America for the last four years (writes The Toots
correspondent). They are just now calling each other
hard names with renewed vigour, owing to a fresh
quarrel between the Fenian Senate and the President
"General" O'Neill. The conquest of Canada thus gets
farther off, while the very empty condition sf the
Fenian treasury causes a luke-warmness among the
recruits, which is only seen in such organizations when
there is nothing to steal. The latest development has
been a military one. To prepare properly for the con-
quest of Canada the Fenian " Senate " some time ago
hired General Smolenski at 150 dole, a month to write&
manual of arms for the Fenian army. '1 he work was
stereotyped and printed when it was suddenly dis-
covered that the General was not sufficiently familiar
with English to make himself understood es, a by
Fenian. ! The Smolenski manual put the Liberating
army all in a snarl; and the capture of the Dominion
is therefore postponed until it can be translated into a
better understood dialect.
Liz TRICKS OF LONDON.—A correspondent of
a London contemporary writes:—
Some time since, while on my way from my office to the
Moorgatastreet station, passing through Great V, inchester-
street. I saw a woman fall down and upset some six or eight
boxes of common Inciter matches, whereupon she began to
Cry and pick them up. Some gentlemen, who were passing,
took pity on her and gave her several shillings. Yesterday
the same thing occurred in the same street with another
woman, who had a child in her arms. This woman fell most
dexterously; she held the matches In front of her, and all
the boxes opened simultaneously, and their contents were
well scattered. She took great p iins to practice this trick
when there were a great many gentlemen going to their
homes by rail ; the result was they, as in the former case,
took pity on the woman and she collected several shillingslu
a few minutes.
"Tag DRAMA or Airrsum."—The Paris papers
head their account of the trial of Prince Pierre, The
drama of Auteuil." And certainly they have endea-
voured to invest all the details with a highly sensa-
tional dramatic colouring. The Figaro had last week
a woodcut which looked like a broken Braunchawig
sausage at the first inspection; but a closer etudy
discovered that it was a representation of the revolver
of Prince Pierre. Further on. the most minute details
were given—for instance, the length of the pistol, the
number of diots it fires, the length of the cartridge,
the shape of the ball and its weight, the character of
the charge of powder of the cartridge—partly gunpow-
der, partly fulminating powder—the chemical charm-
ter of the latter, the degree of penetration of the ball,
and the correctness with which the pistol shoots. This
fashion of writing will put the most verbose of
English journalist to the blush at his infantine com-
parative ability.
VERY LIKELY 7—Thoughtful London. Thi.f
(reading an artide in the "Daily Telegraph" on a
robbery of k. 10,000 from a Bank by a Clerk). "When
we hear of an unusually clever robbery, the first reflec-
tion is 'What a pity the culprit does not turn his
talents to better account'"—(pauses)—yes—he might
ha' made it £2o,ooo—werry true, Guv'nor—(sods ap-
provingly and resurnes)—"and become an honest man."
! twit's another pair o' shoes. Vot claptrap this
'ere is! Blowed if I don't drop in at Ned Wright's as
seuperzioomerrery.—Punch