The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

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Has the Inquiry ever suggested itself to your reader, Mr. Common wine, m the wine-growing regions of Cali-
Editor, Where go the enorm us supplies ot—l had almost fonds is cheaper than milk, and more freely used.
said lux Dr. Morrell having resigned hie taps as coadjuto
luxuries—but. however, of butcher's moat, fowl., sal-
-10011 and other floh,
creasing but ever rising in butter,pri eggs,
while bread and milk,
elone constantly In- biehop of the Seth Episcopalians la Edinburgh, the Church
. ce, remain. Tunes is atoga' to hear that among the names of those
cheap? The writer knows many cases where joints have been who are mentioned as likely to sucoed to the vacant diocese
purchas
red by the working man with hesitation from of Edinburgh, is that of the Rev. Provost Caseneva.
unde the fingers of well-to-do customer', who had passed
them try as being too dear. And it is a well ascertained Alexander 11. of Rnesia, in suffering from nervous
fact that the yearly cost of food for many an artisan's table irritability.
exceeds that of similar families many degrees Wither in the The Daily News states that " some interest was ftslt
wcial scale. All Ole may be quite right, hut what becomes a few nights since on observing among the audience at itrory
of the plea of Ism wages ! The truth is. the classes who are Lane, Lord Sydney, the present Lord Chamberlain, without
ever complaining, ever " striking," are well off ; the suffering whose licence, of course, Formosa could not have been per-
poor and the crowds in our gaols and .0011111111118(1 are non- formed..
unionists. "So much the more in favour of our policy,"
say the unionists Not so: for the same might be said of The directors of the Briatol and Exet-r Railway have
thieves avid murderers till the day of reckoning. placed • magnificent saloon carriage on their line.
Whence does It arise that in some places the destitution The Banneise are circulating an old witch's prophecy
of the working drones is really appalling, while in others em- throughout their capital that this year is to be the last of the
ployers are avr rtiaing in vain for workmen and labourera f English sway in Burmah.
M. Engene Godard, the French aeronaut, made an
Emigration is continually put f rward as the retnedy for all
evils, but does this idtett reach the claire to wham It would ascension a few Mass oat Rheims (Marne`, hut, in alight-
be a ht.? The Allied end well paid men emigrate, and lug, his balloon, the CM de-Florence, was caught in a gust
thgeitor brethren take care by Writing ePPreeticethtes. Ole"' of wind, and torn into shreds. Fortunately, the persons in
in "inedible men," by insulting outsiders. and eve OPay- the basket, three hi 1111mber, were able to laud u
hg them to sh•ent themselves, that none of the hungry and
needy shall fli up the vacancies. In short, by this system of The American nhurt.
Nation attributes the non.existence
toots ction our trade is diverted at Its very outset from its of. leading comic journal in the States to the fact of there
natural and remunerative cumnt at the prompung of the helm; so litany funny contributors to various newspapers
selfish and 010er-sighted few who practically sway the great These are described as feeble. but as perhaps capable id
power of the 110100 a, And yet we Mel lien of Mr. Mute te-ing made strong by combining. "Our crusts," says the
~,,ii,ve calibre epeskieg to his constituency in Sheffield—of Natton •• we should 'have to breed,' probably."
all places—the other d..y as follow• : An interesting shipment has just left the Bosphorus
"A few capitalists went down to Liverpool and bought up for the Cape of Good ilepe-Beo Angora goats of the Arrest
half the tut tit], in tie markt t, thereby is at Vilig half the mills race, as a breeding stock for Messrs Wane Brothers, et Lon-
in Larrc tshire, causing thousands of people no be Idle, and don, who have aready introduced some small trial flocks of
stopping the trade of it great vitiate) by raidng the price of these animals Into Cape C.tleny and Algoa Bay, where the ex
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cotton. 'Chat wall not restraint of teed° ;itis as said to be periment has excellently succeeded.
Ihe legal and proper emplyonent if capital. 1301 ifs few The Rhine and Ruhr Gazette, published at Duisburg,
workll.ll combined together to nine the •altri of their announced 011 the 27th August that a firm hi Skeen had
labour, the avowal of euch a combinetion sea, said to be in signed a contract 0 supply 500 wagons per month el the best
resiraint of trade, alai are attt done in pursuance ait sub- iron ore of that distret to ironmasters in England. The ore
lec.ed those men to special punishment." Is to be forwarded by rail to Duisburg, and thence by water
Surely the honourable gm tieman did not consider dull the to Rotterdam The Euglish smelting furnaces will therefore
effect of his approving voice upon " Mary Ann " and the receive from the present time torward a sousiderable con-
rattening system generally. Look into the daily papers and iingent of Prussian iron.
ynn will see ease
fl ato what after case of intimidation and vioiel.ce, and A tritdent thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy rain,
ri e extent three are merely Indications 14 the
fierce in, olerance of a self.conetituted protectionist tribunal, pulsed over Bradford and the district on Sunday night, and
r wed fatal to two - ung p e ple lovers, who were crossing
only recurring to open persecution when other means have
i 'footpath betweensNarsleyoand ,Stanningley. The lifeless
foiled Often we fee even these cases dismissed as inv.-
bodies were found on the footpath about half-Peat ten at
plete through wime tritbrig informality, or with a light fine,
paid at mice try the offender. Have our magistrates night. Their names were Thomas liareaker, cloth weaver,
the fear i..
sey, t l' li •
of utipopnlariry before their eyes, and is It already occur ing ' , • aged twenty.one and Emma Carrick,twenty-two
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that rt. Parliamentary representatives deem it necessary to years ...get
say smooth things to their extended constituencies A telegraphic deapatch from St. Etienne states that
Reverting to the printed pamphlets mentioned at the out- at the pia of nasality, In the concession of itive-de-Cier in
sets, they yilletly assume that if we cldse our ports except eonsequenee of a chain breaking, six miners were precipita-
our 04,1000 i• 01.0 I rpm n theirs, they will at once empty ; this ted down the shaft and all killed.
is leisgilig half the toe, tion They acknowledge .ur open A handbill announces the arrival in Brighton of a
sorts 111001 Malta 011113 tie principal maraet and given its the certain Madam—, who is exhibiting her " Golden Mirror,
torief cyrying trade of the world . but this they past td- hi which Ladies and Gentlemen may behold their future
eet Mon ath nett. lhere only rem this the tear of corm.- itaAners in tile.” It is added, ° Nauvities cast from Is O.
,itinn on onr own ground ; end if England, the mist, eoffn of and upward." And you are urged to "Come at once, do uot
res. tows, energy. and skill, should fear already the eorts daisy.,
ot the tyros of Barons+, or even of America, depend 011 it
there is somethiog at work beneath the surface of matters We (Army and Navy Gazette) have good reason for
which meet Ite paraly zing our efforts and nentralizieg the believing that, during the erMse which Mr. Childers is now
n company with some of the most experienced and
ail vantages of our position. That something taking i
is tradee'
intellgent officers in the service, he wlll find leisure, assisted
UlliOntarn -
by them, to mature such a scheme of retirement as will be
illa not merely tbs extra wasp swe are forced to pay cer- rniniently satisfactory to the navy, and, in consequence, to
Ism bonds, whether they It or 110 i ; that is rela. the country.
+/Ay of small moment. Every workman who tries to en-el
in ine trade finds imniutititt ly that he has to reek, It with a "1n recommending her Majesty to confer the honour
system which denies him the advantages of his skill, takes of knighthood upon Mr now sir william Drake, Str. Glad-
rem him his individuality, and compela him, as part of a stone has graceiully acknowledged eminent and disinter
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louse machine, to move at the same rate iss the slowest of his ester], and even self sacriflcing services rendered during
fellows. It steadfastly discourages him from seeking to many years to the party of which he is the chief."—Daily
Lillieii his labour hv his ingenuity: and its aim notoriously News.
Is to spread the least &menet of labour amorist the greatest On Monday morning the German Gymnastic
moldier or workmen, by inciting each, while demanding the iociety's Five Hundred Yards' Challenge Cup was swam lir
mug' el wages, to break the compact by hiding his skill, in the Serpentine The holder of the cup, F. 310rris, ma-
llow Call such a aystem beurflt a vinanunnty t And how can tem champion iif Eileen& was only opposed by 11 Parker
trade based upon such a system maintain its footing? rise cop, which has to be won three times In succession before
The arbitrary nature of foreign Governments enable. them itec,•m,ng the absolute property of arty competitor, was won
to put down trade aggressions and intimidation without twice in succession by Morris. but '' there is many a slip
effort. It is only in ogland that such a system as I have losixt the cup and the lip," and on this occasion Parker
described can maintain Itself in complete action. Perhaps proved the winner by eight yards. The time 7 min 28 secs.
in America something wmdar mats, but that eountry•i. A Ilindoo debtor, unable to obtain payment from his
enormous size and great natural wealth place her out id creditor, attempted to hang himself in the neighbourhood of
cousperison with ourselves. The time is come for our testis- his creditor's house. Ile was sentenced to two months' im-
itat
qusily with mm
or. to *peak ont decisively and to declare thtit labour, pr MI iment for " criminal iimidation."
s cioerce and capital shall be free. Awl
while allowing working men every liberty to comldne for An epergne and bouquet holder, costing upwards of
any legal purpose whatever the authorities must be em- £loe, which were suhscrihed for by the employ:4 and local
powered to watch jealously and see that the slightest attempt repreeentatives of Mr. Sutton. in acknowledgment of his
at intimidation or even annoyance shall be unerringly and successful struggle with the railway companies upon the
severely punished This, anti .ly thin, will give Ili a chance pecked parcel question, were presented to Mr. and Mrs Set-
to regain I •ur prominence as a commercial people, and I ton on the 23rd ult. The presentation was accompanied by
assert with the fulle-t confidence will render our working an address, tu which it Was stated that but for Sir . Sutton's
classes better tiff and more truly independent than they ever resistance to the uojust demands of the railway companies it
were bet. re would have been In their power to impede trade, which is
now .naterially waisted by the rapid and cheap carriage of
The rowing importance of anvere Bsnkruptcy Act and the
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nets-ashy of great er publicity In the affairs of all companies Small parcels.
of limited liability are too well known to need further The Melbourne papers just received contain accounte
allusion. of the trial MIA C 01100.1,41 of 'limn Levinger. supercargo of
the ship Voting Atot/a/ion, for the manslaughter of three
natives of Pediment, at sea, in October of last year. The pri-
soner, it appeared fr irc the evidence, took part in a quarrel
which occurred on board between the natwes of Peanana
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and Errsmanga, and encouraged some of the latter,
hat obtamed muskets, to tire d•,wn the hold, the result being
the death of three if the Pamela men. For this crime he
was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
A telegram was recsived at Warrinton, on Saturday
mornin,, stating that Mr Taylor. jun., youngest son of Mr.
Joseph Taylor, of Broomflelds, and Mr. Whitlow, voi of the
late Mr Whitlow, of the "Norton Arms," were drowned, by
the capsizing of an open boat, at the Isle of Mau, on Inlay.
Mr. Harrison, Windsor Herald, is to succeed Sir
Charles Young as Garter King;atsArms.
The advocates of an amnesty for the Fenian prisoners
are encouraged to Mope for the succeas of their movement by
a letter from Mr Gladstone received by their secretaries in
Dublin, in which the Premier assures them that "he will
not fail to give his mast earnest attention to the important
question."
From Australia we learn that Mr. Kinealy, one pf
the pardoned Fenisns, had arrived in Melbourne from
Western Australia, and was soon to be followed by some five
or six aati thirty of his late fellow-prisoners. Their presence
in Melbourne will, it is said, be contrary to law, while the
enforcement of the law, which many persons insist on, would
bring the local Grverinnent into direct conflict with the
Royal prerogative.
The Chester magistrates have fined a wardmaster
In the Chester County Lunatic Asylum lot, for a serious
assault upon a lunatic Inmate who was in his charge. It
transptred that the defendant was intoxicated at the time.
How colliery explosions happen was shown hy a case
which was before the Wigan magistrates the other day. Two
men were charged with smoking in the six-feet workings if
the fiery Leigh Pit, at fiat dock—the very aim'. where so twiny
men perished by the explosion In June last. The accused, it
was stated, bad coolly taken ,•ff their lamp tops, and lighted
their pipes, notwithstanding that they were well aware that,
by long so, they were placing their 0,111 lives and the lives
of many others in jeopardy. The case had to be adj.nrned,
In consequence of the flight to foreign parts of the principal
witness its left &note behind 10m saying he dared not give
evidence agamst the two men.
Excursionist (from Salt Lake)—" Give me through
tickets for fifteen persons and thirty-nine children." New
York clerk (from Mass.!—" If it's a school or an asylum we
can make them cheaper to you." Excursionist (Indignantly)—
"Sir I It's my own private family, air !"
"108. —Do not allow what was said in a moment of
great anguish to distress you. I'd give worlds to recall my
words ; atiribtite all to excess of a—r, want of self-confidence
and fear of losing PF, for who alone L C, lives. One thing
only can lessen mi unhappiness ;to hear you are thoroughly
enjoyinie your holidays. Believe, I trust as fully as you trust
your own."—Advertisement is The Times.
The rectory of St. Peter, near Wisheach returned in
the "Clergy List "as being worth E 3.058 a year—and said to
be the richest living in England—is vacant owing to the death
of the Rev. William Gale Townley, who has held it only seven
years Ile was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge where
he took his Rk. degree In MI. tie succeeded his father In
the living in 1162, and the living is now in the gift of Me. R.
G. Townley.
The Doke de Rivas writes to the French papers to
deny a ttstement that he was the owner of the lions who
killed Lucas, avid that he possesses a menagerie of fifty. Ile
never kept a wild beast in Ills life, and desires it to be known
that he Is not related to a namesake who has • circus in
!Madrid.
On a recent trip of one of the Illinois packets—a
light-draught one, as there was only two feet of water ni the
channel—the passengers were startled by the cry of " Man
overboard I" The steamer was stopped, and preparations
were made to gave him, when be WKS heard exclaiming, "Go
ahead with your darned old steamboat! I'll walk behind

The Rev. Wm. Morley Punshon has visited L.
and Cincinnati, and he says that "at Chicago everyl
weals to be going to the sante place at Cincinnati they
as if they esa been there and returned."
Cardinal Cullen has ordered a special three days'
thanksgiving in the Dublin chapels for the "putting 010 r
end to ascendency by the Legislature.
A telegram from Belfast states that the flax
spinners of that town have signed a requisition to put the
necessary number of spindles six hundred theusand) on
two-thirds time. it t. added that there is no doubt th it, un-
less trade improves, the operatives will be on short time for
ten weeks at least.
In Carlisle, on Saturday afternoon, while an elder'
man named John Martin, the owner of a milli-ware stall,
WAS running down a street after two boys who had been
tearing him, one of the boys picked up a stone and threw it
at the old man. The missile struck hint en the head :he fell
down insensible, and when picked up a few minutes often-
want. he was dead. The two boys, who are about twelve
years of age each, are in custody.
The people of Sheffield have had baths provided for
them by the C Tporation, and they were opened to the public
on lue.day. me charges are exceedingly low, the price of a
swimming bath being only ld., and of a war, n bath 2d.
A few days ago the lights of a ship in distress were
semi t if Margate, but before the litelaust had reached the
spot the lights had disappeared. From advices received at
Aberdeen tit, re is too much reason to believe that the vessel
In question was the Annie Longton of that port, and tb7.t on
the night In question she fonnemed on the Goodwin. There
were sixteen hands on board.
In London, a little girl, fine ye-me of age, has been
killed by falling out of a perambu!ator.
The Army and Nary Gazette states that an alteration
is said to be ill contemplation as regards the dress of the
Rifle Brigade sod other rifle regiments—namely. a bearskin
busby with upright green plume, In lien of the light shako
and small ball, and an embroiderel sash either round the
waist or over the shoulder.
The Bishop of Winchester has, it is stated, acted
most generously as to the retiring portion to which he would
he entitled on his forthcoming resignation, and will receive
far less than he might have claimed.
At the adjourned licensing sessions for the borough
of Salford, the magistrates refused to grant certificates to ten
beerhousakeepers, The mayor stated that during the lust
three year. the numbers of persons convicted of th mitten-
news in Salford had more than double I, and that It was the
duty of the magistrates, in reference to the operation of the
new Act, to be strict but not oppressive towards beerhous

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The Empress Eugenie has returned to St. Cloud,
slightly lame. It seems that while stepping into a boat she
sprained her foot, and had to weer a bandage. She also gut-
tered a good deal from sea sat:knees.
The oldest branch of the far-spreading royal family
of the mohenc-ilterns has become extinct by the demise of
Prince Frederick William Constantine of Hohenzollern.
Heckingen. rhe late Prince, who was in his s sty-eighth
year, had no issue by his first wife, the Princess Eugenie of
Lenchtenberg, and his second union with the Countess von
Rothenberg being morganatic, the title is not handed down
to his son by that marriage.
The Earl of Oranard, in a letter to one of the Irish
papers, expresses his conviction that the true solution of the
land question "lies In the passing of an Act which woilid
give the force of law to the custom of Ulster, extend its bene-
ficent provisions to the whole of Ireland, and at the same
time provide for a periodical Government valuation for let-
ting purposes."
The forthcoming meeting of the Social Science Asso-
ciation which is to be held this year at Bristol, is anticipated
with much interest. Sir Stafford Northcote is the !resident
for the year. The department of economy mid trade will be
presided over by Mr. Stephen Cave, M.P., that of education
by the Rev. Canon Kingsley, and that of jurisprudence by
Mr. G. W. flutings. During the sittings of the congress
there will be • conference of ladles, under the presidency of
Miss Mary Carpenter.
Sir Trevor Wheler, Bart., of Wellesbourne, Hastings,
Warwickshire, one of the few remaining Waterloo veterans,
died at Limerick House, Lesmington, on Monday morning.
Sir Trevor was born in 1792, and was therefore seventy-seven
years of sge.
The Rev. Paul Bagley. American minister, left Lon-
don on Tuesday, for the United States, to lay before the
President a correspondence with Mr. Gladstone and others.
Mr. Bagley was the bearer of a petition for the release of the
American leMan prisoners, signed by a number of members
of the two houses of Congress, and by about hirty members
of Parliament.
In Philadebhia, the other day, an insane young
man named Marshall It. Evans shot and killed his father,
Chums, L. Evans, an old mall aged 03, in his own house.
Na 306, South Tenth-street, not far from the scene of the
famous Twitchell murder. The father was about to leave
the house to consult the family physician regarding the son's
cou.ition, and to suggest his removal loan asylum.
The South London Press describes a singular but
gratifying Derby Day custom. On their way to the Downs,
large numbers of sporting men toss money to the children
at Sutton schools, and last Derby Day the money thus given
amounted to *137. Last week the children, to the number of
850. were taken to the Crystal Palace, and treated to a day's
enjoyment out of these Derby offerings.
The Duke of C.imbridge has been laid up with gout
at Homburg.
A congress of schoolmasters assembled in Turin on
the 2nd instant, and was attended by about four hundred
delegates, who came from all part. of Italy. The programme
of subjects to be discussed includes compulsory education;
the means of promoting instruction in the county districts;
public libraries, and female culture. At the first sitting the
president and vice-presidents were elected ; and the con-
gress being thus constituted, was to proceed to the business
set down for it on the following dep. Is connection with
the congress, an Educational Exhibition has been opened.
"Manufacturer, 26, Christian principles, high social
position, wishes to Marry a Lady with means; strictest
honour."—" A Widower, in business and means, wishes to
Correspond with • Lady, from 30 to 45, with a view to a Matri-
monial Alliance, mutt be truly domesticated, and have
means; strictly contidential."—Advertisements in Manchester
Examiner.
The most satisfactory health return made by Hie
large towns of the United Kingdom last week WAS from Bristol,
where the rate of mortality was le per I,eoo per annum.
Liverpool was again in the worst poi Bien, with an annual
rate of 35 per 1,000. The rate for Loudon was 23, and the
average rate for the fourteen towns was 25. The mortality
from scarlet fever continues to Increase.
"It is said that a gentleman who hio received half.
pay Mr over fifty years MO never in 105 life joined his red-
went or worn a uniform ! What a good joke at the nation's
expense !"—Court Journal,
The Times of India mentions that :t plot against the
Arneer Shere Ali has been discovered at Cahill. His nephews,
Sirlar 'mind Khan and two brothers, were the instigators,
and were arrested and sent to British territory, to be kept
under surveillance by the Government of India. Sirdar
Ismail Khan escaped from his Affghian escort; his brothers
will be detained at Lahore.
Money is being subscribed in the county of Galway
for the defence of the prisoner Barrett, who is to be tried at
a special commission for firing at Captain Lambert, A
i• Barrett defence fund" has been started, and a public con-
cert given in Galway by a temperance society in its aid.
Barrett's solicitor, according to a local paper, protests
against this method of raising funds, and recommends thu
prisoner to apply to the Government for the aid of counseL
A " meat shower" recently took place at Lou
Metes, California. Only ablut two hundred square feet
showed traces of it, and old Californians account for it by
saying that it is caused by the Californian vuliures,
having gorged themselves and risen high in the air, eject
what they have eaten from their stomachs, either from sick-
ness or in battle with the eagle.
Often as we have heard of Irish bolls we have not
had previously so prominently brought before us Paddy's
pigs seal COWS as in the following "Erratum," which is copied
Dom a Conk paper Erratum The words printed 'pigs
end Coma in Mr. Parker's letter on the land (mutton, which
appeared in yesterday's issue, should have Otien pros cci
eons."
"A correspondent complains of a 'new nuisance,'
births and deaths being advertised in The Times twice over,
'so that you are always coming against an announcement
you have read yesterday or the day before, to the further
consumption of your time.' "—Court Journal.
A paper suggests, as a solution of the land queition.
an application of the Prussian land reform system to Ireland
and to England—to "give every third acre to the landlord,
and the remaining two to the tenant rent free for ever !"
It is said that the restoration of friendly relations
between the Sultan and his powerful vassal the Viceroy of
Egypt is mainly due to the kindly interposition of England,
France, and Austria, and that the Khedive will shortly visit
Stamboul on the old footing.
A strange suicide recently took place at the Punt
d'Arcole (France A man about 30 years of age suddenly
sprung from a cab which was passing along, and, striding
over the parapet, precipitated himself into the Solve. The
driver, quite unconscious of what had happened, was con-
tinuing his route when the shouts of the spectators stopped
him. The body of the man was carried away by the current.
and all the efforts of the boatmen to recover it proved rms.-.
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Twomey were drowned in the Menai Straits on Tura.
day by the capsizing of a yacht. Another yacht, belonging
to the Mayor of Carnarvon's brother, had a narrow escape
from destruction by the same squall.
We are informed by the Law Times that, owing to
"the schemes of confiscation now openly put forward by in-
fluential persons, not in Ireland only, but In England also, a
plan is preparing for the formation of a 'Property Protection
League."
It is a significant circumstance, as showing the esti-
mate In which the native princes regard the English tenure
In India, that the Maharaj sh of Puttiala tendered £400,000 to
the Government of India on the terms of the recent 4 per
cent. loan. The offer was accepted.
Not long since a premium wan offered by an agricul-
tural society for the best mode of Irrigation, and the latter
woro, by a mistake of the printer, having been changed to
" irritation," a farmer sent hie wile to get the prim.
In London, last Sunday. men were at work all day
in the construction of the railway on the Thames Embank •
meat, and at least two powerful engines were in full opera-
tion during the whole of the twenty-four hours of Sunday
without a moment's cessation. The novelty of Sunday wot k
attracted large numbers of persons to spots from which a
view of the operations could be obtained.
Dugeue, Oregon, has au ordinance for the punish.
went of any person "lying drunk ''roes the sidewalk." A
man was recently arrested for the offence. but was discharged
by the magistrate because the testimony went to show that
he was lying along the sidewalk ins longitudinal direction.
The rules are published in an Irish paper of a society
established in Lowionderry by working men, called the
" Liberal Defence Association," with the object of preventing
all port), displays having a tendency to create animosity
among her Majesty's sithjecta. The members of the associa-
tion ' deem it of the utmost importance" that such a society
should lie called into esistence to arrest the periodical dis-
plays held from time to time in the city ; which they further
describe as a " monstrous system of intolerance."
Mr. Vaughan, recently reported to have been shot
In Mayo, within 800 yards of the place where Mr. Hunter
was merdered on Sunday week, writes to the papers to say
that he was several miles off at the time.
Lochniver House, one of the family seats of the Duke
of Sutherland, situated on the west coast of Sutherland, took
Ore a few days ago, and bsf ore the 11 trees were extinguished
mush nee lotion tire was destroyed, and the building was
seriously injured. No lives were lost The Duke had left
Lochinver Inc ininrobiti shortly before.
A team elderly women named Fringe, residing at
Worminghall, near Oxford, while crowing the Oxford and
Theme itallway, at Wheatley, on Saturday morning last, on
her way to field work. was run over by the 8 S 0 train, and
was, it is supposed, instantaneously killed. The (Myer of
the trait, was not aware of the sad accident until his return
journey, when he was informed of the fact.
A correspondent at Florence, writing on the let.,
says The proposed visit of the Empress Eugenie to Venice
produced no small consternetion in the Royal household
here, there being no place at Venice where her M.ijesty could
be received in a manner befitting her rank When Venetia
was given up by Austria in 18158 all the furniture if the Royal
palace was sent to Vienna, and the building has remained
empty ever since."
It ia now confidently asserted that in addition to
dosing Woolwich and Deptford dockyar,s the Government
has decided on the abolition of Sheerneis RS a 1.1,ak estab-
lishment as soon an the requisite ISTIO.R.,ReIitS connected
with the change can lie carried out. -Filo cli ockyards
and navel establishmi nts it MA will Huts lie n-tained are
those at Chatham, Portsmouth, Dgvonport, and Pcmbroke.
Earl Spencer, in replying to an aodres+ prevented
to him In the town of nods, mot, "the Goyetnm,nt of the
Queen has hut followed the wishes of the tic pie of the
United Kingdom in their endeavours to carry jest and 30111111
measures for the benefit of [inland." " They would con-
tinue," he added, "to consider carefully, and to satisfy to
the best of their ability, the true wants and interests of the
nation—to tee that the law is impartially administered, to
brine under ita protection, and within reach of its assistance
all classes of her Majesty', subjects, the rich and poor alike."
An inquest has be-n held at Dolgelly on the body of
a man which was found by a farmer, on Ceder Idris moun-
tain, in an advanced state of decomposition, jammed in a
hole between two crags. Identification was almost impossi-
ble, but from what was left of the clothe., end a small bundle
found with the body, the remains are believed to be those of
a poor men, a stranger, who was teen beggiog at the farm-
houses in the neighbourhood on the last bidden), fair day,
the filch of August- It is supposed that he fell into the hole
where his body wu found, and was unable to extricate him
self The verdict was "Found dead on Ceder hula moun-
tain; name of Um person unknown."