The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-03-20 00:00:00

MEAT FOR THE MILLION!

A London contemporary says, that the great
prolilem, how to bring the surplus animal food of
thinly populated countries to the mouths of our
starving masses, serum e to be gradually approaching its
solution, both in a scientific and mercantile sense.
Another step wan taken in the right direction last
week. Mr. Tallerman, on the part of the Australian
Meat Agency, has entered into a mutually advantage-
ons arrangement with the directors of the Aerated
Bread Company for the sale by the latter of Australian
meat by retail, on a liberal commission. The mercan-
tile value was previously tested at a shop opened for
the purpose in Norton Folgate, in Shoreditch, London,
where the tinned meat was purchased to a fair extent,
and the cured rolls of beef and mutton eagerly bought
up by the poor of that crowded locality at sd. per
pound for mutton and fid. for beef.
As the bread company has over eight retail shops,
mostly situated in similar localities, it is likely to do a
large business in this new article.
At the Norton Folgate shop about a ton and a half
per week was worked off, and as the fresh consign-
ments are far superior to those which preceded them,
being cured with a large percentage of sugar, it may
reasorialily he expected that at least one-third of the
quantity above named will be sold at each shop.
It is said that the arrangements for opening the
trade will be completed in about three weeks, and it is
probable that this valuable acquisition to the table of
the working man, will not long be confined to London
only.

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The British Mailed Journal says that the Ad-
miralty have resolved to invite tenders for 200,000 lbs.
of Athitralian preserved beef, which can be supplied at
a much lower cost than that preserved at Deptford,
which has been in use since the Crimean failure of
private contractors.

THIS °KIWI{ OF TH6 MoD6RN NoV6L.-1110
modern English novel, which is in everybody's hands
nowadays,. which gives employment to crowds of
workpeople, almost qualifying itself to rank among •
the great industries of the day; which keeps paper-
mills going, and printin g.machines, and has its own
, army if dependants and retainers, as if it were cotton
or capital,—the English novel, we say, arose, not with
any gush, as from a fountain, hut in a certain serene
pellucid pool. where • group of pretty smiling eighteen-
century faces, with elaborate heads," and powder
and patches, were wont to mirror themselves in the
middle of George I I.'s reign • while Pope was singing
his melodious couplets, and Chesterfield writing his
wonderful letters, and Anson fighting with the winds
and seas, and Prince Charlie planning the '45. From
all the confused events of which this world was full—
bewildering destruction of the old, still more bewilder-
ing formation of the new—the spectatorturns aside into
the quaintest homely quiet, the most domestic, least
emotional, of all household scenes; and there finds
Ssmuel Richardson, a good printer, & comfortable,
affectionate, fatherly tradesman, kind to everybody
about him, and very much applauded by his admiring
friends, but with no special marks of genius that any
one can see. —Blaekwood's Magarine for March.

A SENSUBLZ SENTENCE. —At the Maidstone
Assizes on Friday a boy named Bannister, about ten
years old, was convicted of wilftilly setting tire to a
stack of straw, which communicated to and burnt
d .wn all the property on a small farm occupied by a
poor woman, who, however, appeared to feel snore for
the wretched little urchin than for her own bee, and
begged hard that he might not be severely punished.
Mr. Baron Bramwell, in passing sentence upon the boy,
addressed him thus :—Do you know that you could for
this be sent to penal servitude for life? However
(after a pause), I don't intend to pees is long sentence
upon you, but to give
,you a punishment which I hope
may do you more good—that you he kept in prison for
three weeks, and that you be whipped and have twenty
strokes with the birch rod.
LEGAL CH.t.acm.—A Contemporary stated
that—
"The trial of the great Nun Case cost about two hundred
and lifty pounds a day.
A Cockney friend adds, that was about a Nun-dred
every two hours.— Punch.
BURGUNDY SNAILS. Burgundy is not only
celebrated for its generous wine, but for the snails
which live in the vineyards, and which are captured
and fattened for the Parisian market. A peasant of
the country in question has just retired from the snail
business after having amassed a large fortune by getting
schoolboys to gather snails at the rate of half a franc
the hundred, and in this manner he got over 150.000 f. a
year. The snails, after being kept a short while in a
cellar, were forwarded to Paris, sold to the merchants
at a halfpenny a piece, and to the consumers at double
that price.
A VELOCIPEDE RACE. —The velocipede club of
('arpentraz—that diminutive town near Petriirch's
Vaucluse which rivals Landerneau, in Brittany, as
the type of provincial simplicity—is going to have
a wonderful fete on Easter Monday, March 29.
Amateurs from Lyons, Marseilles, Montpellier,
Toulouse, Castres, Carcassone, Grenoble, Valence,
Nismes and various other southern towns are entered
to compete for prizes. There will be children's races,
and one boy, only eight years old is reported to be BO
expert with his velocipede as likely to beat not only
other babies, but the best men in the field.
TRIAL FOR A iinrcviox.—A business agent,
named Plouviez, has just been tried at the Court of
Assizes of the Seine, on a charge of abducting two
young girls, VIM and Felicia Poirson, both minors,
from their parents. An old woman named Millet,
aged 81, was also indicted as an accomplice. The man
had some time back been employed by M. Poireon,
and learning that the daughters of the latter would
one day possess a considerable fortune, had made an
oiler of marriage for the elder, which was rejected by
I the parents, in consequence of his embarrassed position,
he having been twice bankrupt, and of his laxity of
morals, as he was at the time living with a young
I woman. As Mdme. Poirson sometimes confi led her
daughters to the woman Millet to take them out for a
walk, the latter was able to arrange interviews with
Plouviez, who at length induced them both to leave their
I parents, under the pretence of placing them in a con-
' vent until a consent to the marriage could be thtained.
His object W 21.9, however, to compromise Altllle.
Zdlie
in such a manner as to render a marriage necessary.
For that purpose he took the sisters first to different
hotels, and then to his home, and endeavoured to
seduce the elder. When traced they were found with
him after being absent from their parents for about
three weeks. Plouviez was condemned to two years'
imprisonment, and the woman Millet to one year.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The Judge of the County
Court sittings at Uttoxeter, has been called upon to
decide a curious point relating to railway travelling.
I The North Staffordshire Railway company brought an
action against a person named Wibberley to recover
9d., being the difference in the fare on defendant's
having travelled from Derby to Norbury on the
plaintiff's line, he having taken a ticket to Ashbourn,
which is five miles beyond the first-named station.
Mr. Tennant, for the company, explained that,
although the sum sued for was small, the question
involved was a very important one to the company.
The route from Derby to Ashbourn by railway was
circuitous, and in order to compete with the more direct
conveyances by road the compmy ran trains between
Derby and Aslibourn at aIN duced special rat, 'rhe
defendant, taking a ticket Irian Derby to Ashbourn,
had paid a smaller sum than he would have been
required to pay for the lesser distance by rail from
Derby to Norbury. It was contended that the defend-
ant had acted from a desire to pay less than the proper
fare. Defendant maintained that his getting off at
Norbury would be no fraud upon the company, but a
loss of a few pence to himself. His Honour gave
judgment for the plaiutiffs, remarking that railway
companies' regulations must be enforced especially
when, as in this case, they were mutually advantageous
to the company and the customer.
A MYSTERY TO BE UNRAVELLED —The Paris
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes:—
Mysterious affairs and horrors usually take place in
September, when the newspapers are dull, and Men at Bor-
deaux or Marseilles ; but ticilay, I have a horror close at
home. A private gentleman, residing in the Quarter
Rochectionart, received the other day a letter containing
full details of the murder of SS old woman in the Rue des
Martyrs, which took place in 1850, and which was supposed
to have teen committed in order to obtain possession of
large sums of money in notes The receiver of the letter was
told that the writer had convincing proofs that the former
was guilty of the murder ; and that, to avoid expicure, he
must deposit au 0001. at nines place. Instead of doing this,
the gentleman went to the police. A little packet was made
and left at the place appointed. Two women were taken
in the act of withdrawing it, and the police SOW believe that
they have got the clue to • murder which has puzzled them
for years.
A NEWSPAPER HEADINO.—" President Grant's
first check." What did he do with it? How delight-
ful to receive your salary so immediately after taking
office ! It must have been paid in advance. If so, here
is an American institution which all who hold Govern-
ment appointments in this country, from the Premier
to the postman, would rejoice to see introduced
amongst us. —Nur contributor is in error: the "check"
received by the President was of another sort alto-
gether.), —Plineh.
A LEARNED PEASANT.—Not long ago a Russian
peasant entered the house of a publisher of St. Peters-
burg, and asked him for employment. The publisher
thought he wanted a place to do manual labour. To
his great surprise. however, he learned that the peaeant,
on the contrary, deeired employment as translator from
the English, French, Geroon, Spanish. and Italian.
He said his name was Lan Pronto, and he lived in the
district of Jantylari, where he owned a hut and a smal
piece of ground. All the above-mentioned languages
he had learned filen grammars and dictionaries. An
examination showed that he was able to translate the
most diffictilt passages in a very pure and fluent style.
The publisher engaged hiss, immediately to translate
an English philosophical work. The most curious
feature almut this learned peasant is that he works all
day in the held, and devotes only his leisure hours in
the evening to literary employment.
THE REMAI us OF WILLIAM PENN.—It is proposed
in Philadelphia (says a Chicago paper) to bring the
zennaleest William Penn from England to Pennsyl-
vania, and to erect a splendid mouument over them.
They were buried in a leaden coffin, and their trans-
portation to America will not be difficult. There
would be a peculiar propriety in doing this, as the
chief fame of Penn rests on his founding the colony
that bears his name—now the second State in the
Union—and the just government he instituted and ad-
ministered therein,
ENCOUNTER WITII A BEAR. —We ( Madras
Times) learn from Berhampore that Captain T.
Beckley, RE., now on special duty in that district,
has had a narrow escape for his life. He was levelling
for a line of canal which he proposes to lead from Rue-
sulcontlah to Gopalpoor via Asks, and in passing a
small hill, through dense jungle in the Kemedy estate
near Degoopebdee, he was set upon by a huge bear and
thrown beiward upon his face; the bear then cause
upon him, tearing off his clothes, and only for the ad-
mirable presence of mind displayed by the captain,
there was no escape from death. He managed to ex-
tricate himself from the bear and place the animal in
such a position on the edge of a rock, that it could not
secure its hotel again on the captain, who threw the
beast clean over, and the brute fell some ten feet below
with a terrible crash. Captain Beckley, though some-
what severely wounded in the hip, and otherwise
slightly braised, is, we are glad to be assured, safe, and
doing well.
THE QUEEN'S LEVY.—Taxes.—Punch..
A NEGRO TRAGEDY. —At Three Rivers,
Michigan, on the 20th February, a negro, named
Robert Loving, murdered his wife, who was in service
with a Mr. Jacobs. The murderer went to the gate
entering fthm the street in front of the house, and re-
quested a young daughter of Mr. Jacobs to tell his
wife he wished to see her. She came out into the door
yard within a few feet of the gate, and a few words
passed between them, when he (Lioving) rushed at her
' with a knife, and inflicted eight different wounds, stab-
I hing her in the lunge, and one thrust, reaching the
heart, caused instant death.
CLetacs or Agatha:. —When it became known
last summer that a fiernet of Dragoons had tern
suddenly promoted to be clerk of assize, with a salary
of £l,OOO per annum, there was no small outcry both
lin Parliament and in the Press—(remarks the Pall
, Mall Gazette). To quiet the public a committee was
accordingly appointed to inquire into the duties and
pay of clerks of SISSiZe and their subordinates. The
subject is surely not so intricate that the report should
require upwards of nine monthe'gestation ; but, never-
theless, either the committee has not yet concluded its
labours, or its report has been deliberately harked.
of aasize was onvee:reErlB£2o,ooo,ooo; this. ywearillit
Last year the total amount of the votes taken for clerks
nwillo indefropnenwdehantt
we hear,
member inquire whether any steps are likely to be
taken to re vise this costly item in the administration of
justice? It would be as well if at the same time it could
be stated what are the precise duties of the clerks of
&seize, clerks of arraigns, clerks of indictments, asso-
ciates, deputy clerks of assize, circuit bailiffs, &c., and
whether it would not be possible to amalgamate seine
of these offices.

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AR AMERICAN RATIVAL Sconce—At Roches-
ter, in the 'United States, there have recently been
some remarkable revival services, of which the Rev.
Mr. Hammond was the conductor. At one iservice the
church WM packed. He concluded a moat stirring
appeal by requesting those to rise who wished for
prayers, and who felt the spirit of God striveig within
them. Three-fourths of the audience rose to their feet.
"Come to Jesus!" in the meantime was sung, mid in
the intervals between the verses he exclaimed, 'How
many will vise? Nearly all are seeking the Sailor.
Sing 'Don't deny him.' I'm glad to see so many up.
Some mire are risitig. Yonder two grey-hs;oled men
are getting up. The work of Cerist is going on in
your hearts." The scene of strange excitement and ex-
hortation continued till late in the night.
BOTH SIDER or an QUEBTION.-011 Tuesday
Mr. Gladstone received two deputations—One from
the Lord's Day Sleet Association, against the opening
of museums and picture galleries on Sundays; and
the other, which immediately followed it, pray-
ing him to use his influence to have such insti-
tutions opened. Mr. Gladstone told both deputa-
tions that there could be no doubt that the re-
ligious observance of the Sabbath was the great
aud principal stay of religion in this country, and that
the social and physical necessities of the people re-
quired an absence from all labour on that day. The
Government as such had not yet entered upon a con-
sideration of the question as the subject was one leas
for the Government than the public but they were pre-
pared, so far as it depended upon them, to offer all
reasonable facilities on week day evenings for the
opening of national institutions to which the working
classes and the general population might resort.
AGRICULTURAL MACHINES.—Farm labourers.—
Punch.
READING A NOVEL IN COURT.—In the Supreme
Court of the United Slates recently, a suit as to the
infringement of copyright was heard, during which it
was thought desirable to read parts of the novel
"Griffith Gaunt," and Mr. George Vandenhoff, the
I elocutionist was engaged to do the reading. Mr. Van-
denhoff, who at first seemed to be reading against time
at a velocipede rate, became interested himself, as he
rapidly turned over page after page, and his interest
was communicated to the jurors, whose faces, intently
fixed upon him, and expressing the different emotions
excited by the story, reminded the spectators of one of
Hogarth's famous pictures. It must have been a relief
to the jurors to enjoy 80 unusual an entertainment as
that given by Mr. Yandenhoff.
SIR S. H. WATISRLOW'S anemic —The Select
Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to
try the validity of the return of Sir S. H. Waterloo
for Dumfriesshire met on Monday. It was stated that
on the 16th October last Sir S. Waterlow made a verbal
agreement to retire from the firm of Waterloo and
Sons, who had a contract with the Government, as
from the 29th September preceding. He was elected
for Dumfriesshire on the 21st November, and signed
the formal deed of dissolution of partnership five days
afterwards. The question for the Committee was
whether, with Sir S. Waterlow's capital still remain-
ing in the firm, the failure to sign the formal deed
of dissolution until after the election vitiated the re-
turn. They unanimouely reported to the House in the
affirmative.
A NEW YORK OUTRAGIL—On the 24th of
February a young man named Krepps entered the
store of Messrs. Menne Brothers, Fulton-street, New
York, and asked to see Miss King, a young lady em-
ployed in the establishment. She stepped up to him
and asked his business. Without replying, he took
her by the shoulder with one hand and drew from his
pocket a four-barrelled pistoL She attempted to seize
it, but he fired at the same time, and the hall grazed
her hand, and passed close by her head. Miss King
screamed, and Mr. Menne seized Krepps and wrenched
the pistol from him. Krepps, it appeared, was a dis-
carded lover. It appeared he intended to kill Miss
King, and then himself, as a paper was found upon
him stating what should be done with his body.
"OLD Iloss."—The well-known little black
horse, named Prince, of Mr. Thompson, which will be
remembered by the visitors to the White Mountains,
died a few days since, aged thirty-nine years (says a
Boston paper). He was one of the best driving and
thorough-broken of horses, and retained all his good
qualities up to the time of his death. Only two days
before the event he was taken out of the stable, and
he moved around as gaily as a seven-year-old. Not a
person who did not know him could guess within
fifteen years of his age. The funeral ceremonies
occurred two days after his death ; he was drawn to
his grave by six white horses, and followed by forty of
his stable companions led by the grooms. lie was
buried at the very foot of Mount Washington, and
next spring a marble monument will mark his final
resting-place.
CROWNER'B Qchsr Law.—An inquest, the cir-
cumstance of which are very singular, was held at
Greenmore, near Penistone, on Saturday. The de-
ceased, a man named Beever, was riding on the shafts
of a waggon, and driving it on the highway; the
wheels of the cart came in contact with some large
stones on the road, and the man was jerked from his
seat and fell under them, and was killed. It appears
that the stones were placed on the road by a man
named Taylor, under the direction of the road sur-
veyers, to prevent the road from being worn out. The
jury, in the first instance, found that the man's death
nail been caused as stated, and recommended the eur-
veyors to mercy. The emener said that he could not
accept such a recommendation, but the jury must find
whether the deceased came by his death through not
using die caution, or whether through the conduct of
the surveyors. The foreman of the jury y ramified to
decide this point at once, but the coroner told him he
most consult his colleagues, and the jury, having re-
tired again, brought in a verdict of "Accidental death,
caused by the carelessness of the deceased." A juror
afterwards remarked that they would have brought in
a verdict of manslaughter, but that they feared it
might get the man Taylor into trouble.

A oigar, seven feet long, and weighing thirty pounds,
has been made at New haven It is of leaf tobacco, and is
• about a foot in circumferance. It is proposed to present it
to General Grant.
An exwherill of Brown county, Minnesota, Intel'," l
committed suicide by taking strychnine, and, the St Paul
Press says, "died hilariously singing a song, and inviting his
friends to a tin:well drink."
Four bodies, more or less decomposed, and in a
,tat, rendering identification cut ,:f the question, were
w.lieti ashore on the Cornish coast during the past week.
The Weekly Reerstre contradicts the Morning Post
respecting Monsignor Talbot being out of his mind. The
right rev, prelate, it says, has been ailing from a complaint
purely physical, and which has troubled him for some time.
At a Paris call concert-room it is written Up :
"Lea dames sent priees de ue paa flume dons la salle."
Here is a life's romance in a few words —"PD: CE.
—Papa has arrived. Knows 'all.' I refused your name.
Fearful scene. Proposed. Accepted. Should we ever meet,
• Rennuiber,' utter strangers. Don't write, unsafe. Pity
and forget rue. Farewell for ever.—Greenwich."—Advertise-
mid in The Times
The schooner Frances and Ants, of Swansea,
Roberts muster, with a cargo of artificial manure for Dublin,
foundered near the Lizard on Saturday. The crew took to
the boat, and thus reached the shore.
The Political Otilices Pensions Bill has been pub-
lished. It was prepared and introduced by Mr. Dodson, Mr.
, Gladstone, and the chancellor of the Exchequer. Its pur-
pose is to alter and amend the Acts enabling her Maiesty to
grant pensions to persons having held certain high civil
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othces.
Prince Schonberg, a wealthy Prussian noble has
just heat] received into the Roman Catholic Church at noble,
by Cardinal Buonaparte.
NVe are requested to contradict the statement which
we copied from the Bark that the Rev. E. Husband bad
joined the Chuch of Rome. There to no truth, we are in-
formed, in the report.
A fashionable journal announcea that a Ladies'
Club is on the eve of formation. The entrance fee is to be
ten guineas, and the annual subscription tine.
After an effective eight day's blockade, says the
Northern Ensign, by a snowstorm of greater severity than
we have had for year., WO for many years in March, a rapid
thaw, which set in on Friday the 12th, has once more
effected a clearance, and the roads are again traversible
throughout the county.
On Monday night the Norwegian ship More Castle,
laden with ice from Christiana for Waterford, struck upoo
the Galloper Sands and became a total wreck. The watch
below were in bed, and had only just Vine to save themselves
by a•rambling into the boat. The captain and part of the
crew were in one boat, and were picked up by a brig belong-
ing to Myth. Niue of the crew were in another boat, and it
is hoped they have escaped.
Captain Harding, of the American ship Dante!
Draper has had £lOO damages awarded agiinst him by the
Calcutta Small C....3e Court for brutal outrages cenimitted by
him on the stewardesa of that ship.
A paper on the agricultural statistics of the United
Kingdom was read by Mr. Calrd last night, before the
Statistical Society in London. lie estimated that the yield
of the harvest of ISM over that of lts67 was equal to one.
third of the total consumption of the country. He further
expressed his belief that at the present scale of importation
there was no doubt of abundant supplies at even lower rates
than those which now ruled. Prices had already fallen fully
one-third, or almost exactly in proportion with the difference
in the yield of the harvests.
Baron Anselm Rothschild, of Vienna, has given
400,000 f. (416,000, for the purpose of establishing a Jews'
hospital in that city.
The Protestants of Ireland are holding numerous
meetings in Dublin and In variom parts of the country to
protest against the Cladstontati spoliation of the Church.
They say that it virtually repeals the Union, and according
to a correspondent, a new party of Protestant repeaters has
spruog Up.
George Pybus, who had been convicted at the
February sessions of the Central Criminal Court in' London
of a robbery with violence, anti sentencedto ten years' penal
servitude and 25 strokes of the cat," on Friday last re-
ceived the latter part of his sentence from Calcraft, the
hangman, in toe preaence of the sheriffs, the governor, and
the surgeon.
A lady who advertised the other day in a London
morning newspaper, for a housemaid, states that the first
letter she opened was to the following effect:—" Mrs. C. D.
presents her compliments to A 8., and will thank her, when
she has obtained a suitable servant, to forward the other
letters to the enclosed address, live. C. D. being in want of
a serrent."
Cardinal Cullen refused to sanction, either directly
or indirectly, the proposal for a collection on St. Patrick's
Day, at the doors of the Dublin chapels, in aid of the released
Fenians. He charaeterises the movement as a mere strata-
gem to obtain from the country a mark of approbation of
FeULUASIU.
Advertising ingenuity has left little room for novelty,
hut a merchant in Newark, New York State, has challenged
attention uy leaving his space in the paper he advertised its
entirely blank, with the following note in line print, at the
bottom:—" This space wag sold to A. and K Brennan, but as
their business is sufficiently brisk already they decline louse
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At one of the London police courts, three respect-
able young men, sons of a professor of music, were sum-
moned under the Poor Law Act by the Camberwell guardians
for having refused to maintain their father, who had beeolue
chargeable to the parish. The father was 57 years of age,
and bad been reduced to poverty through intemperate habits.
The magistrate held that the man was net incapacitated
through old ace from supporting himself, and as he did not
recognise the justice of compelling three industrious young
men to contribute towards the main, canoe of a drunken
parent, the summons must be discussed,
A proposal has been started to hold a county
meeting, probably at York, to promote a memorial to the
late Sir Charles elingsby, which should also mark the scene of
the late calamity on the Ure, near Newby Ferry.
Some one has volunteered to bring us home Cleo-
patra's needle for £1,500 We are fond of reiics, but this
does seem rather an expensive way of taking up the threw'
of history.— Tomahawk.
On Monday morning a private, named R.,bert Fatiie,
belonging to the 42nd Highlanders, committed suicide while
on guard at liolyrood Palace, by shooting himself through
the head with his rifle. ltis said that a hive disappointment
was the cause of the saieide. 'llle deceased was twenty-five
years of age, and had been in the regiment seven years.
Sir John Lawrence arr o
ived in London on Mn,laTy
evening. Ile was met at Charing Cross Station by a number
of friends, most of them, as a matter of course, being ''oll
Indians." It is understood that Sir John's protracted and
valuable Indian services will shortly be rewarded with a
peerage.
The operative plasterers in Sheffield, a body of about
one hundred men, are vow on strike to enforce a demand for
a retraction of hours. Their demand is for an alteration of
I. the pretent arrangement, which is from six am. to past
five on Monday, and from six to one on Saturday—so as t
make the hour for beginning work seven o'clock every
morning.
Mr. T. Whitworth has been elected without oppo-
ali ion for Drogheda, in place of his father, who was lately
unseated on the ground that undue iufluence had been used
to secure his return.
On Monday night the House of Lords had an un-
usually long sitting of nearly five hours. A committee was
appointed to meet a committee of the House of Commons to
consider arrangements for facilitating the dempatch of busi-
ness in Parliament.
A serious explosion took place on Monday at a
fog signal and le reussion cap manufactory at Birmingham.
Five young woolen who were standing near, were badly in-
jured Ills stated that no less than six explosions have oc-
curred at the same establishment within the Mat five years.
"Desirable Offer.—A gentleman, 27, of good family
connection, having commenced business, wishes to become
acquainted with a Protestant Lady who IN well educated,
amiable, and possessed of means: send Carte"— Advertise-
ment in the Manchester Ksansiter.
Lord Napier of Magdala hoe returned to Bombay
from 'detour of inspection of the military stations in the
Southern SI ahratta country. At Poona he presented new
colours to the 24th N. I.
An extraordinary high tide will occur at nil the ports
along the coast of the Atlantic on the 27th hist , the moon
being then at the full. The excess above the oritibary level
will inc 3ft. Oin , and, should strong westerly winds prevail,
may be even much higher.
Four men were drowned on Monday at the Island
of Lewis while limiting up a log of timber that had been
washed ashore. They were struck by a sea anti carried
away. Two of the Wines have been reoovered.
A remarkable incident occurred the other day in an
ornnibus which runs from the Place de la Bourse in Paris, to
l'asay—a young woman gave birth to a female child during
the journey. The conductor was in the greatest difficulty to
Line whether lie should rung in the advent of a new pas-
senger, orti this one travelled gratis.
A parliamentary return relative to Queen Anne's
Bounty has been printed and published. It appears that the
gross sum received by the governors of the bounty during the
year 101217 was P-341,910 165. 5d., and the disbursements
amounted to .e. 3.30 020 2s. 7d., thus leaving a balance of
£11,895 las. 10d. to be carried forward.
A correspondent of an Amerisan paper recently said
that "an Indian chief, named Tecumush, nas been killed by
a ball (roar his General Taylor's! pistol ; but, being a man of
moderate abilities, he retired into private life, anti his
straitened circumstances Qouipelled him to accept the office
ef clerk of a County Court."— What can it mean ?
The grand jury of the county Kerry have adopted
a petition to Parliament in favour of the purchase of the
Irish railways by the State. Sir Rowland Blettuerhassett,
who brought the subject forward, stated that he did not be-
lieve Mr. tiladstoue was averse to carrying out the suggested
reform.
The Globe believes that the Government has received
friendly notice from that of the United States that another
expedition of Feeians is planning in America, and that, as •
necessary result, the Habeas Corpus suspension Act will have
to be renewed.
lurreen.—Hymenophyllon.--W. G, earnestly
requests his old pupil to conumulicate with him, or to
retro II at once Nis ft Muds are in a state of great anxiety,
which can only be reli-ved by his return. There are letters
for you at the pent-office, Birmingham. Wherever you are,
send for them; they will be forwarded to you pre-paid."—
advertisement in London times.
The Army and Nary Gazette says that the intention
on the part of the Government to bring in a bill with a view
of purchasing the commissions of naval officers, has created
quite a ferment throughout the profession as letters from
all parts of the United Kingdom are being despatched to
agenta and others in London, for the purpose of awertaining
the probable value which may be laid upou the different
commissions by those whose duty it will he to transact the
bushiess.
A great Protestant demonstration took place in the
Metropolitan Ilan, Dublin, on Monday night, in condem-
nation of Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church Bill. The meeting,
over which Sir Edward Grogan presided, was characterised
by repeated rounds of " ICentieh Fire," and the most no-sur-
render reprobation of Mr. Gladstone's policy.
At a meeting of mencitgra of the Spanish Cortes, a
resolution was adopted that the present shall he the last con-
scription In Spain, and that henceforth the army shall be
formed by voluntary enlistment This year 25,000 men
are to be voted to complete the contingent. The members
present at the meeting were the majority of the Chamber.
Mr. Anderwm, the governor of Warwick Gaol, has
received a letter from the Home Secretary, to the edeet that
the sentence of the prisoner, Michael Atkins, who was con-
demned to death at the Warwick Aasizes, for the murder of
his wife at Baddesley Freed% would he respited mad her
Majesty's pleasure was further km ion. It is understood that
the respite is granted on the ground that the explosion of
the gun, which caused the death of his wife. was accidental.
Since his sentence the prisoner has been most intent', to
the ministrations of the chaplaiu, and on the fact of the
respite being communicated to him on Sunday he was quite
overcome.
The first day's sale of Rossinia snuff -Igoces (in Paris)
by no means created the excitement amongst amateurs of
curiosities that was anticipated. Two amongst these royal
gifts alone west for higher than £4. There was a nag of
splendid diamonds which fetched 140 guineas, and 'moth,
set with • table diamond, which went for £l2q. A gentle-
man bid for a watch which subsequently proved to his of
copper 1 on the contrary, a pistol of Louis XV., sold for
being adorned bps metal of which our saucepans are made,
proved to he mounted In gold.
The following is the latest marrriage ceremony as
suggested for manages cis conornanee, and is related by the
Paris correspondent of the Dady 'telegraph. Priest to bride-
.- man, gotta, 00: "bin you marry t...s S.M. under any tie
lusemi?" "Na." " Are you bald? " Yea." "Any t .eth ?"
.• No." "Do you wear flannel ? " " Yes." "You believe in
rheumatism, and have faith in gout ?" "Yes." "You are
utterly hired and incapable of being amused ?" "Yea."
" You care for nobody but yourself ?" "Certainly not."
"Not for your bride?" •• Naturally not." " Very good;
then you two are united in the Wale Of the law. Make her
happy, as she will oases.

The Settlerlaud gold-ticideetall attract fortune-hunter..
The earnings of the up re successful searetiers appear to
average from four to eight shillings a day.
The snow-storms throughout Canada still (Mare). 2)
impede railway traffic despite the exertioes of large gangs of
lyleeirers on the iniow-drilta.
The " Countess of Derwentwater's" trial is expecto.l
to come off in London in a few weeks tier "ladyship" seat
present in Loudon, anti appears in the lobby in a ner‘t
grotesque attire, seeking the aid of mirther I. )L. P's.
I he Saturday Review insists that if electoral purity
Is to he attained at all or if any considerable approximetins
to Ills to be realised. the end is um ts, be gained by setting
the Judges to adnunister the existing law the law itself
must be altered. and the subject is imp rtant enough to
justify the Cabinet in moving the appointment of a commivee
' to inquire into the best mode of coudueting Parliamentary
and municipal elections.
The John Bull says that there have been several
I meetings of Conservative members aa to the endowdd
' Schools hill ; and it has been thought best cat to meet It well
• direct negative on the second readtug, hut, If 1....Amb1e, to
get it referred to a Select Committee. The John Bull adds—
" Churchmen should rouse themselves to oppose this bill,
which describes the Established Church as a denomination'
The New York papers state that Lieutenant
Spencer Huntley, commanding the British gunboat Cheri:),
has been drowned at Nassau by the upsetting of a boat In
the surf.
Tneaday's Landon Ga:ette containu an intimation
that the Court would go into mourning for the late Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein, second cousin of the (linen on the 171.11;
and would g. out of mourning on the 24th mat.
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A covers Is. Lancashire, was held in Prestiel on Saturday, at
which it was resolved that the wages gilds on in dispute, at
Prmton, should be referred to arbitrate:is, live of whom
should be employers, and five representing he empinyed. It
was also suggested that a '• disinterested person" should I.
agreed upon as umpire before any melee e was takes In
the event of this resolution beitig rejected hy the employers.
the delegates recommended that " theoperatives corm out on
strike and light as long as they are able."
A Chicago newspaper contains an account of the pro-
duction of a new play, and says the audience "sat spell- •
bound. Not a soul quitted the theatre There were "lily
fur persons present. One was deaf, and the other three
were Weep."
Since the arrival of Imbella 11. at Paris, she dm
received no less than 1,153 letters front individuals wiehitia
her to provide funds for the foundation of a poltical journal,
which would become the organ hi favour of her melons-
Mon
On Monday, Mr. William Britcliffe, furniture
hr. her, Accrington, whilst attempting to get into a train
whilst in motion, at the Accrington station, made a slip, and
was thrown beneath the carriages. Teo of the carriages
mused over his body before the train could be stopped, and
he died immediately. He was about 37 years of age, and
leaves a widow and six children.
A Florentine gentleman, some time ago gave a good
reply to an irascible Diem' who had just called him out upon
some triunpery quarrel and offered him choice of weapons.
" I accept," he said, "satires at fifty I aces, and no head-ents
or thrusts at Rey vital part" His would-be antagontet buret
out laughing, the two shook hands and there the matter
ended.
The Pall Mall Gazette suggests that the reform of
gente man's unit, a might he very properly exteuded ta
trees, s for her Mejestya drawing rooms, mid asks Is
It absolutely necessary that on these occasions ladies should
brave the rigours of our climate in what are techeically
called •' low bodies?" Sobiethlne also might be said on the
score of decency, tied the Pall Mall, with covert irony, in•
sinuates that perhaps a temperate re.l,onstrau re on this bead
from the managers of the London theatres, aildressed to the
Lord Chamberlain, might hasten a reform of present regula-
tions.
Judgment was given on Monday by the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council in the Indian appeal case of
Neelkisto Deb Burniono v. Beerchmider Thakoor. which Was
recently argued befdre their lordehips. The appellant
claimed the Raj of fippereh on the Hills, with the vast es-
tates amounting to between £60,000 and A:70,000. The res-
pondent was the elder brother, and claimed to be the Rajah.
The late Rajah had made the younger brother his successor
The appeal was dismissed with costs.
It is stated that Calcraft hair been engaged by the
authorities at Durham to carry out the dread sentence of
the law on the two unhappy men, laden for the murder of
a man named Ward at sumlerland, and M'Couville, for the
murier of his wife, both of whom are now lying under see-
tence of death in Durhani gaol. Astern had, it seems, hem,
It in sail, applied to, but he refused the engagement, in
consequence of some intimidation arising out of the hot
execution at Durham, on which occasiou it will be remem-
bered the rope broke.
The last New York advices state that letters re-
ceived there front Buenos Ayres from a prisoner in the hand,
of Lopez, the Paraellayall chief, at the tune of his downf ad.
fully confirm all the previous reports as to his acts. The
writer persotaPy witnessed the executions of the bro her awl
otherin-law of Lopez, the eishop of Paraguay, the Porta.
game seinen', the mother and wife vi Calorie' Martinez sea
the priest 14,erardo. He also saw the two sisters and the re-
maining hem her of Lopez shut up in carts and driven away.
and adds that, according to report, they, too, have all been
executed
The text of a bill to prevent the adulteration of seed-,
has been issued. It enacts that the " killing " of seeds by any
procaine of steaming. scalding, kiln drying, baking, fem..
gating, or other artificial means of any Mad, or the dyeing ef
these by any process of coleuring, as well as the selling r
mixing of seeds so killed or dyed, shall be deenieil offene,
and in case of conviction the offender is to be liable to t
penalty f r each offence of not more than e. 50 and cos•
rite Act is intended to come into operation on the tat f
October next.
A London betting man was summoned before the
(Theme Ports magistrates, at Margate, last week, for keepii..:
a betting stand at the Margate races in September last.
did not appear, but it was clearly proved that lie did keel, .
betting stand, and that he touted for bets, lie was flied
£5O and costs, and, in case of a distress failing, sentencea
three months' imprisonment. Proceedings were take,
azainst a manlier of other profeesional netting men, but it
turned out they had all given false addresses.
As M. Marais, Councillor of Prefecture in the Air,,
was returning • few days ago hark to Bourg on horseba.
the animal Mak fright at a velocipede which was at
started 017 at a gallop, throwing its rider with violet,. s
Sigrale was taken up senseless, and died on the follow 0$
evening of congestion of the bran,.
A writer in Harper's Magazine for the preselit
°meth attempts a calculation of the nember of lives lost nit
the United States coast and In Americas vessels by slap-
wrecks G. heat the rate of about 30 persons per week,
about 1,500 a year.
At Whitminster a labourer has been committed I r
tri .1 on the fallow ing charge lie had been mop).* •
with a lad to week at plough, and in his team had a qtre•
blind mare, which from some cause became restive. 1! o
prieinier led the tail of the plough and heat the hor
cruelly over the head with a spade and ash stick. He Doe
kicked it savagely, and finished by catching hold of i•
tongue with both hands and Marble at 11 50 savagely Mee it
tore through the middle. and live inches of it was left tilll4
hands The bench coinmitted the prisoner for trial."
There is good reason to believe that in British Is, Ii a
no fewer than 111,000 human beings perish annually fro a
snake-bites alone, besides the multitudes who are killed I,!
tigers, bean, hyenas, panthers, and other wild animals.
John Dolan, the Sunderland munierer, and Jolla
M'Conville, who has been seutenced to death for a merit,'
committed at Dariington, are said to exhibit signs of repee
ante. and to be very attentive to the ministrations of the
Itemise Catholic chaplain of the gaol. At the morning roe.
vice at St Cuthbert s Catholic Chapel, Durham, oat So
day, in offering up prayer. for the dead, Canon Gobseit
called for the prayers of the congregation on behalf of the
two convicts lying under sentenoe of death in Durham-gaol.
He said they had confessed their guilt, and were truly peui-
tent They were, he added, prepared to die, and admitted
the justice of their sentence.
A farmer's wife, tin a farm near Chicago spoke
sharply to one of the laliourers, who thereupon procure.: a
pistol, shot the farmer dead, thrmiened to shoot his wife,
and then went off very conveniently into an epileptic ta.
The jury acquitted him of the charge of murder on the
ground of hominy. Strange enough the murderer was pri-
nodneed sane enough immediately after the perpetration of
the murder.
A stranger went to dine, at M6ry-sur-Oise (France).
a few days ago. " You've come to a charming spot," said
the landlord, "though I say it who should not say it. Mery
is charming ; the beet of everything, and so cheap!" "But,"
interrupted the visitor, "you seem so •• Monsieur is
quite right, we are dull ; but we are in great spirits We
are to have a burialigrouud next to us, and then see how gay
we shell be
The New York papers of the 4th instant contain the
farewell address issued by Mr. Andrew Johmon upon leaving
office. It is a long document, occupying more than tea
columns and a half in the New rot* 2ributie, and COnande • f
a defence of the policy pursued by the ex. Prmident during
his tenure of office, and an attack upon that pnreti d by C..-
gra.. In calmly reviewing the events of his adreinistretein
Mr. Johnsen says he sees oothing to regret, and he derives
e pride aim gratification" front the (anoint''.n that he ho
never durirg his long public life been influenced by a deo,
for gain, has never defrauded anyone, and never accepted a
bribe.
Mr. Justice Fitzgerald has sentenced to two months'
imprison nieut with hard labour, awl one month respectively.
two men foetid guilty of having been of an armed party ef
seventy persons she visited a voter of the county Sligo, at
night, previous to the lees election, and putties a paper hit.,
his hand, directing him to swear "to vote for Dad and his
country." On his refusing they fired a shot and broke his
windows. The mob, when overtaken by the pollee, fired
upon the constabulary, who succeeded in making three
arrests. A man named Leonard has been sentenced at tbe
same assizes to twelve months' imprisonment for using a
knife in an election scuffle, and wounding sperms seriously.
Victor Hugo is becoming convinced that he will
never see Paris, as he has expressed his opinion that after his
death the Emperor will be on the tluaine. The exile Rale
that old age is coming upon him, and that he has entered
upon the evening of his life.
A hawk, while in hot pursuit of a small bird at Pare
Brecket, Camborne, oh, eaturday, darted through the give
of too greenhouse, scattering it tully twenty feet. The hawk
was killed on the spot.
On Monday, as a porter named Egan was standing
near a eignal-bez at the eetrance of Preetimeitation Tunnel,
an empty engine came up, knocked him down, and est Wm
completely in two.
An extraordinary occurrence has occurred at Pelvic,
county westmeath. A few days ago it was stated that the
body of • man who flied recently, and who had been refused
the rites of his own the Roman Catholic) Church bee..so
he declined to compel his children lobe brought up in that
faith, had been reueoved from the grave in which it had been
Interred, and conveyed no one knew whither, but It was
suspected to the neighbouring lake. This surmise has
proved correct. The body has since been recovered from
the lake, and conveped to the churchyard of a neighbouring
parish
An inquest was held on Saturday, at Broadstaira en
the body of James Smoothy, a builder, of Ramagee.
Deceaseil had been for some time In a desponding state,
and hail before attempted /illicit°. On Friday he was
°bemired walking to and fro on the cliff at Broadstairs, and
genie hours after he was found quite dead at its foot, the
distance from the summit being sixty feet No oi.e saw him
go over ; and the people at Brondstairs, who noticed him in
the cliff, knew nothing of his antecedents, and therefore did
not interfere with him
A number of eminent delegates of Nonconformi-t
bodies, and other geotlenom wane with the Liberation
Society, breakfasted together ou Tuesday mortal* at thc
Cannon-street Hotel, in. London. air Charles Reed, MP,
who was in the chair, expressed his belief that the !Cancan.
formlat boDes could give their hearty support to the Irish
Church mauler.; amid Mr. H. Richard, M P., Mr. Duncan
liftLaren, Me. Cram-Ewiug, and Sir John Gray spoke on the
same question —the University Tests Bill and the Endowed
Schools Bill were discussed by other speakers, who were of
opinicrn that a still Inure radical measure than the first was
seeded, and that the second would bear improving.
A breach of promise case has been tried at the
Limerick mixes. The plaintiff was Miss Kate Studderl,
daughter of a deputy lientewant of the county, and the de
fendant, Mr. Rsibert newton, a gentleman of cansiderable
property. It appeared that the plaintiff and defendant had
been engaged for • conaiderable period, but about the time
they were to have been married, the deferelaid, who wes
stated to be a recluse and peculiar in hie habits, broke off
the engagement, alleging ill-health. The jury awarded
£2,500 damages and tid. costs.
I The other day, in the Dublin Court of Bankruptcy,
when a vietner sad grocer, t.nlnnllol Curran, mine up for final
examination, the solicitor acting far the assignees drew the
attention of Judge Harrison to the cause allele,' by the
bankrupt for his failure. Toe juilge said it was a most extra-
ordinary reason- "depression of trade caused by the sup-
pression of the Iranian conspiracy." lie weainclined to hold
that a statement of that sort was a contempt of court. It
was explaiiied that what the hankropt meant was that "he
lost kis Made by the suipemeoh of the riabeas Corpus Ask'