The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Paris journals announce the death of Mme.
Jules Fevre, at the age of 55, from the rupture of an aneurism.
The Bishop of Peterborough has been presented with
a pastoral staff by some of the laity of his diocese.
General Cary, the well•known American temperance
lecturer, arrived in Dublin on Monday evening.
A flagstaff is to be erected on the field of Bannock-
burn on the 25th inst., and a public demonstration is to be
held on the occasion.

A widow in Nebraaka is under arrest charged with
killing her four children In order that she might be free from
Impediment to a second marriage.
A slip of ground in the south of London woe sold
last week, which, in the course of ninety years, had increased
is value more than a hundredfold.

The marriage of the Earl of Derby and Mary
ilarehionese of Salisbury is fixed for Tuesday, the sth of the
ensuing mouth.

Some leading citizens of New Hampshire, United
States, are organising a society for the relief and aid of those
liberated from penal institutions in that state.

The epidemic of smallpox in Paris continues to de-
cline. The mortality during the week ended the 11th of
June was 165 ; the general mortality decreased from 1,174 to
1,050.
The Rev. Newman Hall, in concurrence with the
desire of the elders of surrey Chspel, has juat declined an
invitation to a church at Chicago, with a salary of 10,000
dollars about £1,600.)

The Meager de Provence says :—The country round
Cogolin is again Infested by swarms of black grasshoppers,
which are devouring the crops, and whose invasion is sittcl-
to I he continued drought which prevails this year."

Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of Liverpool, have
received intelligence that the auxiliary screw steamer
Great Britain had arrived at Melbourne after an extraoriii.
narily rapid passage 01 56 days.

A duel between two Parisian journalists lad week
terminated fatally—for the tip of the nose of one of the fights
lug men. The point in question was taken clean off, and
honour was satisfied.

Two physicians, in consultation at the bedside of a
patient, disputed as to the nature of the disease. At last,
one of them ended the discussion by saving, "Very well, have
it your own way, now but the post mortrm will show that lain
right." The patient was not much encouraged.
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On Montiay night Lord William Lennox gave his
personal " Reminiscences of Wellington," at the Vestry Hall,
Kensington, in aid of the funds of the West London
Hospital, Hammersmith, to a large audience. His Highness
the Nawab Nance of Bengal and suite were present on the
occasion

The Wicklow Peerage case being now finally de-
cided, the Queen has marked her sense of the justice of the
decision by permitting the brothers and sisters of the present
Earl to hold the same title, they would have enjoyed U their
father had survived his brother, the late Earl.

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George Francia Train, who has sworn to liberate
Ireland, has heard of the f'enlan Invasion and has rushed to
the front. We don't mean that he has gone to Canada to
fight. but that he has gone to Chicago to make a speech for
the Fenton came, and has promised to make another—Sew
York Tribune.

The Began News-Lettcr says it is gratifying to find
that there is no diminution in the number of highly•qualifled
candidates for holy orders In the Irish Church, The ordina-
tion held on Sunday by the Bishop of Down, in liolywood
Church, was the largest ever held by hint during his episco-
pate.

At a meeting of the Staffordshire Chamber of Agri-
culture on Saturday, the Government Ethicallcn Bill was
discussed, and a resolution was passed, petitioning Parlia-
ment to maintain those provisions of the bill that give liberty
to religious teaching and supply the existing deficiency with-
out destroying the usefulness of the present system.
The Paris fashions are hawked about the streets by
a female costermonger In a barrow. And very pretty and
tasteful they are, cut out of various gay coloured paper,
trimmed din mode with brilliant contrasts. They are most
attractive, and give the poor an opportunity, for a penny, of
fashioning the dresses of themselves and their little ones on
the newest pattern*.

At the -Middlesex Sessions a very aged woman was
brought up to be dealt with as an incorrigible rogue and
vagabond. It was stated by two officers of the Mendicity
Society that the prisoner had been convicted nearly 100 times
of begging and vagrancy, that these convictions ranged over
about 30 years, and that she was very seldom out of prison
The judge sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for nine months.
The richly•mounted and jewelled human skull, taken
from the summer palace of the Emperor of China, and
exhibited in the Chinese Court of the Great Exhibition of
1002, and which was priced at one thousand guineas, has now
been melted down for the mere value of the metal, and thus
one of the most precious relics of Chinese art and history is
Irretrievably lost. Nothing remains but the upper part of
the naked skull (which has been supposed to be that of
Confucius ) and which was left uncared for at the house of
a Jewish gold dealer in llounsditch.
The other night a curious affair happened at a
Paris theatre. A young man belonging to a very good
family, who has been desperately in love with a fair actress,
entered her box and demanded an explanation of her con-
duct. tier reply was, " Well, Jules, my explanation is that
which you have had by letter—namely, that we part for ever.
Half-fainting he fell back in his chair, but arose again with
a scream which resounded throughout the house. Ile had
sat upon the dagger, which had got out ef its sheath, with
the former of which he intended to kill himself. Blood
flowed, and he was cured.
"A handsome reward will be given to any one
bringing back the dog," so said the bill which "met the eye"
of the London dog-stealer. The dog was brought back. Tears
of joy from the orbs of the spinster, and live shillings placed
In the hands of the dog-fancler. "Do you call that hand.
some. I s'pose you'll call yourself handsome next." The
hall door is slammed, leaving the spinster on one side and
the departed clog-fancier and five shillings on the other. A
warning—handsome Is that handsome does.

"We hear on good authority that there is every
probability of the Marquis of Bute returning to the Anglican
Church. When his secession to Rome was first announced
in these columns, six months before It was avowed, the state-
ment was received with an Indignant denial, and doubtless
the same will be the result now, our information in both
cases Is front the same quarter."—John Bull --(A ectreslacu-
dent of The Times writes to suggest that if the above re-
port should prove true, the fact will show how apt was the
motto adopted by the author of "Lettair "—•• Use °moist
htec talus eat adolesceutults."7
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The rumoured loin of the Dada steamer, with the
West Indian and Panama telegraph cable on board, at
Bermuda telegraphed from the United States to Lloyd's on
the 7th inst. —declared to be a fabricaton—has led the com-
mittee of Lloyd's to send out instructions to Isew York and
Baltimore, in order, if possible, to detect the originator; and
a notice has been posted in the underwriters' room asking
for information fr.dn members as to the extent of insurances
effected on the steamer after the telegram of her loss had
been received, and at whose " order" it was done. This
course hss been sugzested in consequence !A rumours of
large transactions Laving taken place,.

A well-known Paris barber bee petitioned the Prince
imperial to confide to him his shaving wante. Nothing like
being in time, for his Highness is not yet " downy."

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A Madras journal stat-s that Mr. Charles Mathews
Is going to India after the termination of his engagements In
Australis.

The Japanese clergy pause every fifteen minutes in
their discourses, and say tu their congregations, "Let on
have a smoke."

Mr. Butt has published in the Dublin papers a reply
to the Fenian Prisoners Commissioners. He pronounces the
enquiry an unsatisfactory one, and declines to forward a
written statement of the charges against the prison officials.
On Tuesday, Mr. Edwards, a retired tradesman of
Clifton, committed suicide at the Dawlish station of the
South Devon Railway, by throwing himself across the rails
just as a train was passing. His wife was by his side when
he jumped oil the platform. _

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A dispute has occurred at Dundee between the
operative quarrying masons and the quarry masters, as to
the dreselkg of stone in quarries. Upwards of one hundred
men are already on strike, and it is said that all the others
will turn out if their demands are not complied with. It Is
thought that the oint will be yielded.

$. o . •
me young ostriches have been hatched and
reared In the Zoological Gardens at Florence, and an late'
resting account of the it eubation has been published by the
curator, Signor Desmeure. The eggs were the offering of
two females. During the day one female and the male sat
alternately, while at night all three sat upon the eggs at
once.

At Montreal on Saturday, his Royal Highness
Prince Arthur was invested with the insignia of the Order
of St. Michael and St George. The Governor-General per-
formed the ceremony, which is said to have been of a very
imposing character, and was witnessed by a brilliant
assemblage of ladies and gentlemen.

At one of the Liverpool railway stations on Satur-
day night, while several thousand persons were waiting, a
young woman from Rochdale, Sarah Aspinall, accidentally
fell, owing to the crush, under the wheels of a train that was
being backed into a departure siding, and had both her
leg ...shockingly mangled. She died four hours afterwards.

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Tnere has b.,.en a j )ke current in Berlin 6propos of
Wagner's music. The story goes that a /Newfoundland dog
having carried away from a printing-office a page of music of
Tanuhauser," the I uribund music no inoculated the unfor-
unate animal, as to impel him to improve the effects of the
tcore by biting some twenty acquaintances.
The obituary of The Times of Tuesday last contains
some remarkable illustrations of prolonged existence in five
ladies and three gentlemen, all of whom had reached four
score years and upwards, their united ages amounting to 080
years, givingan average of exactly 85 years to each. The eldest
gentleman had reached the great age of 89 years, the two
others of the same sex being 88. of the opposite aex, the
eldest was 88, and the youngest 80 years of age.

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When our unfortunate countrymen were captured on
the plains of Marathon, the Greek Government offered a
reward of 20,000 drachmes for the head of Tako Arvanitakl,
toe chief of the brig...ode. The Minister of the Interior has
already received seven heads, and more are coming in. Each
head is declared to be the ortginal Tako Arvandaki article.
The claimants of the reward have a keen idea of how to make
an honest penny.

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There is a gathering at Washington of prominent
Indian chiefs, preparatory to the " talk " with the Breaident
which, it Is hoped, will result in maintaining peace on We
Western border. Spotted Tall," "Swift Beaver, "Put
Bear," and "Yellow Bair" the latter a blonde) are there.
"Bed Cloud,' the leading chief of the hostile Sioux, Is on his
way, accompanied by " Man.afraid-of.his-llorsea" a re-
dou,table warrior, who has the unfortunate but civilized
failing of getting drunk.
A meeting of wholesale and retail tea dealers has
been held in London to consider the threatened withdraws
by the importin, tea merchants of the one pound draft upt.n
all packages of tea over 281 b., and it was moved—" That the
one pouni draft at present allowed has been accepted by
the trade as an equitable set off against the losses constantly
and Irresistably arising out of newels incident te rediatribu-
tion."

The following singular suicide ban occurred in
Paris :—A jeweller having been absent tram home some days
on a drinking bout, his friends, by way of a joke, dressed up
a dummy, and hanged it up in his workshop. On returning
home, Ins fit of drunken despair, the jeweller determined to
turn the joke into a reality. He cut down the dummy, and
hanged himself in its place. On his bench was found a piece
of paper, with these words written on it You are not mis-
taken; lam dead. du revoir !"

The Rev. John Puckle, incumbent of a Dover pariah,
has been getting up facts for the information of Lord North-
brook respecting the operation of the Contagious Diseases
Acts in that town. Ile states that at least sixty per cent, of
the worst elements of virulent contagion have departed from
the town, and that open indecency and downright assaulting
temptation has disappeared by at least one-half from the
streets.

For about half-an•hour on Monday night there was
considerable excitement in the neighbourhood of the Houses
of Parliament, owing to the wooden buildingused as atempor-
ary office by the Metropolitan Railway taking tire. During
the progress of the fire the traffic from Charing-cross to the
station WAS of course stopped, but it was subsequently con-
tinued as usual. Only the roof of the station was at all
Injured, and that but very slightly. The damage done cannot
Involve any large expense.

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The Parliamentary Committee, which bee been ap-
pointed to inquire Into the subject of compensation for rail-
way accidents, held their first meeting on Monday morning,
Mr. Headlam in the chair. There was a large attendance uf
gentlemen connected with the railway interest. Mr. J.
Blenkinsop, of the North-Western Company, said that juries
had given very exceeeive damages, being led away by their
feelings, which had often been wrought upon by the in-
jured passengers being brought into court and a sensational
scene created.

The diamond known as the "Star of South Africa,'
the consignment of which from the Cape of Good 'lope to
Messrs. Mmenthal and Co. was reported in July last, having
been cut, has proved a matchless stone or most resplendent
quality, of about 186 grains weight. It is understood to
have been sold on behsh of the consignee. by the brokers,
Messrs. 0,113 Brothers, of London and Paris, to a jeweller in
London.

Mr. Stephen Norton, a gentleman aged about 60,
living retired at Great Chart, near Ashford, bent, was going
over the line when he was knocked down at the crossing by
a fast express train I aom London to Rarcsgate ; his head being
severed from his shoulders, one hand cut off, and the right
hand and arm dreadfully lacerated. A verdict of Accidental
Death" was returned.

Referring to the Fenian fiasco, the Kew York Tious
of the 29th ult Baja the feeling amongst the brotherhood on
the previ ms evening was evidently that of profound despon-
dency. Even the most enthusiastic seemed to have come to
the conclusion that all hope of capturing Canada had
vanished, and the efforts of the orators to inspire confidence
were futile Judging by the sentiments then prevailing
amongst the Fenians, our contemporary thinks there is little
probability of another raid ever being made upon Canada,
and that for a long time to come the trade of Feniim agitator
will not be a very profitable employment.

'ln one of Macaulay's earlier Essays an unhappy
work under review is characterized as containing 2000.
pages, occupying 1,500 inches cubic measure, and weighing
60 pounds avoirdupois. The appearance of the Merchant
Shipping Code Bill in its printed form is siith dent to suggest
similar reflections, and to explain very completely the recent
debate upon the measure. The act consists of 235 pages
and 653 clauses, exclueive of a schedule. It is divided into
13 parts, besides a part 'preliminary,' and the mere index
or summary of its contents is 40 plats long.”—The
The death in announced of a gallant Peninaular
veteran, Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller Mott Drake, hart., of
utwell Park, Devon, a lineal descendant of the famous
navigator. Sir Francis Drake. Lie was the third son of John
Trayton Fuller, Esq , of Ashdown House Sussex, his mother
being Anne Eliott, only daughter of Sir Augustus Unit,
huron lleathlield of C ibraltar, and was born February 8,1785.
lie entered the army at an early age, and was at the battle of
Corunna. Ile was engaged in the Walcheren expedition, and
in the Peninsular War from 1609 to 1512.

A correspondent at Oxford writes :—" The state-
ment that the largais of Bute ts not satisfied with the
linmiah Church, and contemplates returning to the Church
of England, receives some kind of confirmation in the fact
that there is a hitch in the completion of the purchase
of the property in t. Giles's, Oxford, intended for a
Catholic cathedral, ttc. The deposit money only has been
paid, and the noble marmite, who, through Mgr. Capel,
was instrumental in the matter, hesitates to carry out the
project."

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The Paris Figaro has hit upon a novel manner of
communicating an indecent epistle to such of its readers
as desire wittingly to peruse it without shocking the modesty
of persons who might have stumbled on it unawares. The
letter is published in invisible ink, and to decipher it one is
recommended to place what appears part of a blank column
between two sheets of blotting-paper and iron it with a hot
Iron. [We commend this plan to our morning contemporaries
ior their police reports, remarks the Pall Mall Gazette.]
"England's best authors" ought to be obliged to
their countryman who was at the trouble and expense re-
cently of advertising as follows in the Nem York Herald :
" Degrees ,LL D., D.D , &e.)—An English gentleman of posi-
tion is desirous of obtaining honorary degrees for some of
England's best authors and distinguished men, whom he
could conscientiously recommend. The presidents of
chartered colleges or universities will oblige by immediately
communicating with —."

A hair merchant lately arrived at a German village,
and exhibited to the inhabitants a paper which he certified
to have been sent from a "Saint. Association " formed for
the purpose of collecting the hair of girls and young women,
and weaving it into a cope for the Pope, to be presented to
him on the day of the proclamation of his infallibility.
Numbers of women were thus deluded, and submitted to be
shorn ; and it was not till the "merchant " had departed
that they fouud the hair was intended not for his Holiness,
but for chignon. and false Waite'
The New York papers generally overwhelm the late
raid on Canada with ridicule. The Tribune calls it the
" invasion of five hundred yards," and advises any future
Fenians to take money enough on the next occasion to pay
their way back when they go to invade Canada, and so avoid
the unpleasantness of remaining starving about the frontier,
as the remnants of the " Grand " army are doing now. The
New York TWOS says that only once during the whole ex-
pedition did .• the Grand Army "show any unanimity of feel-
irg, and that was in their desire to get out of Canada directly
they got Into it.
A sale of stock seized by the Lords of the Admiralty
at Newland, West Farm took place on Saturday The
tenant, Mr. Brewis, had offered the rent to Mr. Gray the
receiver, but only on condition that he would protect him
from any aggression by the Countess of Derwentwater. Mr. ;
Gray refused to give such guarantee, and Mr Brewis den
posited the money in the bank. During the sale the Countess .
drove up, and informed the auctioneer that she expected
the proceeds of the sale. The seizure was for £2lO, one
year's rent, due in May last.
The Board of Trade have awarded a telcecope to
Captain H. A. Thomas fewand, of the barque W. 11. Jrnlrms,
, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in acknowledgment of his human-
ity and kindness to the survivors of the crew of the barque
China, of Carddf, whom he rescued from their waterlogged
vessel, on the 27th of December, Is6B. The China was bound
from Quebec to Cardiff, timber laden, she became waterlogged
on the 13th of December, on which day the master, first mate,
and seven seamen were washed overheard; the remainder of
the crew remained on the wreck till the 27th, when they
were rescued by the I,arque iF. 11. Jenkins, and landed at
Fayal, on the 20th of Jemmy, 1069.
The Court of Assizes of Aix (Bouches-du-Rhone),
has just tried a man named Limperani for the murder of a
priest named Mattel, curC of Carcheta, In Corsica, who was
found with his head nearly severed from his body, his house
having been robbed of 5,000 fr. The accused, and a man
named Cialdivini were arrested and tried at Buda, when
Limperani was condemned to imprisonment for life and the
other was acquitted. A new trial Was ordered at Aix, but
Limper.' only was now indicted. The accused denied all
participation in the crime, but the jury declared him to be
guilty, and the former sentence was confirmed.
The Worcester Jontertal states that a company has
recently been formed for the purpose of testing the existence
of thick coal under the permian rocks at Sandwell, near
Westbromivich, an estate comprising 1,700 acres, the property
of the Earl of Dartmouth. A lease has been granted and
letters received by the promoters from Sir Frederick
Murchison, and other scientific authorities encourage the
hope that the enterprise will succeed Should coal be found
at a workable depth, the present limited boundary of the
South Staffordshire coal.fleid, the resources of which are
sensibly diminishing, will be extended almost indefinitely.
The trial sinking' are to be commenced during the present
month, and the estimated cost is x 20,000.

The poets say that Death, " come he slow, or come
he fast," is sure to come at last, but it tabard to conceive any
circumstances under which his coming can be more terrible
than when we are engaged in taking our pleasure and enjoy-
ing the beauties of nature. But Co it has happened to a party
of excursionists on the river Dee near Chester. Seven
weavers from Ashton under-Lyne embarked for a trip, the
boat went down, and three were drowned. The most singular
part of the transaction is that there was a hole in the boat
the size of an egg when they started. From this the boat
gradually filled, and it is very extraordinary that, finding the
water rising over their shoe, on the boat's floor, they did not
at once land, the width of the river being isconsiderahle.
The deceased are a p•uth and two young women. Toe others
were rescued by a barge and a boat whhis happened to be
near.

550 men, women, and children, assisted by the
British and Colonial Emigration Fluid, left the Thames on
Saturday for Canada.

In St. Peterburgh, a Russian lady. Madame Susloff,
practises as a ptysiefan with great success, and Das obtained
a arge number of female patients.

It is understool that the Ifonae of Reprementativea
at Washington, Vetted States. have appropriated 100,000 dots.
In aid of the Arctic expedition.
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The Americans are in ecstacies. At the last ball at
the Tuileries the Prince Imperial chose lilies Payne for his
partner in a quadrille. The foci has already been telegraphed
to the inimitable New York press.

A diabolical outrage was committed in Dublin either
on Sunday night or early on Monday morning. Several
slaughter-houses were clandestinely entered, and a number
of cows, sheep, and lambs were maliciously killed or
maimed.

The Minister of Finance in Russia has sanctioned
the employment of woman as hook-keepers and clerks in
custom-house offices, and the Eastern Budget says there are
already a great number of female candidates for these posts.
Mr. Alechi is a poet, and a first-class one, as will be
seen by the following beautiful verse on the weather in a
letter dated May the 27th Hope we may have • dripping
June, which is said to bring all things in tune."

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the first
Napoleon, and the son of Jerome Bonaparte by his first wife,
Ml.{ Patterson, of Baltimore, is very ill at Baltimore. Ile is
aged 64. His mother is still living in that city, and le 90
years of age.
Marshal Prim has made a declaration in the Cartels
to the effect that he endeavoured to obtain a monarch for
Spain in four quarters, but faded. Ile avowed himself in
favour of a monarchical federation between Spain and
Portugal.
The Worcestershire Chronicle states that the Lord
Lieutenant of that county has refused to grant commissions
In the Evesham Rifle Corps to two gentlemen who had been
salected by the volunteers, and has written to the captain
no say that" he did not consider their social position would
allow of his appointing them commissioned officers."
"Parties about to furnish" will be glad to learn, on
the authority of the Birmingham commercial reports, that a
general reduction has taken place In the price of carpets.
Brussels carpets are 4d. per yard lower, and in less costly
fabrics the reduction is still greater.

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The stained glees window, purchased from the prior
of Furness Abbey at the dissolution of the monasteries, and
removed to the parish church, Windermere, 335 year. ago,
was removed a few days ago to London. This gem is to be
wholly restored from the drawings of similar windows in the
Bodleian Library, provided funds can be raised for the
purpose.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bright are Mill staying at the St.
George's Hotel, Llandudno, and those who see the right hon.
gentleman in his occasional walks on the promenade are
entitled by observing a great improvement in his appearance.
Mr. Bright receives few or no visitors, for he wishes to avoid
all exciting topics of conversation, and to enjoy as much
repose as possible.
A blind man has been charged at Liverpool with
bigamy. It was stated that in lstS4 he was married to his
first wife, who is still living In Wales. A short time ago he
became an inmate of the Blind Asylum at Liverpool, and
there married his second wife. These facts having come to the
ears of the superintendent of the asylum, he was given into
custody. He was remanded for further evidence.
"Last week the discovery of a worsted glove, (mite
whole and fresh, in the stomach of a good-dud fish caused
at first lotto a sensation. A young man, however, upon
seeing the glove, at once recognised it as belonged to a
friend of his, who had left it one of the boats a few weeks
back It had probably teen tossed overboard. and swallowed
by this hungry cod as a new disti."—Obrid Ttutes.

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Many years ago, and before Lands,r was as re-
nowned as he now is, he was very poor; and it is said that
one day he paid £1 for the body of a dead lion, from which
he made a most successful picture, called A Lion attacked
by a Serpent." He was fortunate enough to find a purchaser
Immediately, and this was the commencement of his fame.
The dead lion turned Landseer into a living lion.
A Frenchman named Chebannot has recently passed
through an eventful wef k :—On Sunday his banns of mar-
riage were published. Oa Monday the betrothal took place.
On Tuesday he was married. On NV ednesday his wife was
confined. On Thursday extreme unction was administered
to her. Oa Friday she died. 4la Saturday she was buried.
Oa Sunday the disconsolate widower offered him hand and
heart to a friend of the defunct.

An affectionate nephew came before a Paris police.
court the other day. lie and his uncle had been out to
dinner, and on returning home the latter took it into his
head to jump into the Seine, where he would have been
drowned but for the arrival of a couple of bargemen. On
search being made for the nephew, he was found quietly
seated on the bridge, waiting, he said, "till his uncle had
finished his bath."

"A meeting of the leading members of the late
Cabinet was held on Saturday, at Mr. llbraell's residence, to
determine on the action to be taken by the Conservative
party with reference to the Education Bill. After a protrac-
ted discussion it was determined to support the Ministerial
scheme, and to oppoee the amendments introduced by Mr.
Vernon Harcourt and the supporters of the League."—
ONercer.

An action was lately commenced before the Civil
Tribunal of Pisa against the es-Duke of Modena, to recover
indemnities of 20,0001. for each of the political prisoners
whom he had arrested in 1829, and retained in prison for two
}ears. His Highness did not appear, and was condemned to
pay the 111.1111 within fiv6 days. As the money was not forth-
coming, the palace and furniture which the duke possesses in
the town were seized in default. Ile has now lodged an
appeal, and the cane will be heard it. a few days.

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A gentleman while waiting for a train the other
morning at the Metropolitan Railway, occupied himself by
walking up and down the platform, but, being short sighted,
he accidentally stepped off the platform just as a tram wail
entering the station, and fell across the rails about twelve
yards in front of the engine. The driver at once put on the
break, and did all In his power to stop the train, but he
could not do so until the !greater portion of it had palmed
over his body indicting injuries which soon proved fetal

Some enthusiastic Democrats at New York, bent on
relegating an election victory one evening last month by the
usual burnbeifering of tar barrels, managed to set fire to the
wooden pavement in East Twenty-four-street, and nearly a
whole block was consumed. A similar incident occurred in
the great Ore hi San Francisco in 1850, when, the streets
being of plank, the inhabitants tonna not only the houses
burning over their heads, but the very ground beneath their
feet.. . . . .

There was another pigeon shooting match at Hur-
lingham Park on Saturday. The principal event of the day
was a handicap of 5 sovs, each, for which 40 gentlemen
entered. This produced some first-rate shooting. In the
first round 16 missed, and at the end of the fifth round three
only were left in—namely, Sir 11. H. Campbell, Mr. J. Jee,
and Mr. Greville Nugent. These had now to shoot elf bird
by bird, and at the second round Sir Ilugh Campbell carried
Off the first prize.

Notes and Qutries states that the "Oh! Bine Posts"
Tavern, Portsmouth, so often mentioned in Marryat's novels,
and possessing historic interest extending so far back as the
time of Benhow and which was totally destroyed by lire in
May), was built in 1613, and had a huge porch at its en-
tro one, removed stew years ago, supported by two columns
painted a bright blue colour, but of late years displayed a
pair of blue pillars of less colossal dimensions. It was a
favourite resort of junior naval officers for the last two cen-
turies.

Messrs. Robert Neill and Sons, builders and con-
tractors, of Manchester, recently received a letter, In which
it was stated that their premises in Strangeways would soon
meet with • " visitation " similar to that which took place
at the timber yard of Mr. E Johnson, in Ati.ata, some weeks
ago. The police were made acquainted with the contents of
the letter, and a strict watch has since been kept over the
premises of Messrs. Neill. On Saturday night the pence,
who had secreted themselves on the premises, arrested three
or four men who were found inside the yard, and another
man was arrested outside the premises.

A little girl, named Ann Bruce, about eleven years
old, was brought before the Belfast magistrates on Saturday
under the following circumstance.. It appeared that four
years ago the child wandered away from her mother, and was
found by an old woman named Margaret Hanna, who took
her home, kept her, and sent her to a day-sehooL It was
when returning home one day that some person who had
formerly know the child identified her and told her mother,
who immediately went and claimed her child. The old
woman was unwilling to part with the child and refused so
give her up. The child was allowed to go away with the old
woman as the mother had not taken the legarsteps to claim
her.

A boy of fifteen has just been tried at the Court of
Assizes of the Eure.et-Loir for attempting to murder the wife
of his master, a miller at Maintenon. Ills brain appears to
have been turned by reading the details of the Traupmann
crime, and he formed a project of murdering his mistress
during the absence of his master and robbing the house.
Armed with a club, a poinard, a revolver, and a rope, he
suddenly entered the room in which Madame Truffaut was
sitting, and commenced an attack on her. In the struggle
the revolver fell to the ground and went off, the chine
wounding the miscreant in the head. He was sentenced to
six years imprisonment.