The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-03-13 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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Wednesday (March 10) being the sixth anniversary
of the marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales, th., auspicious occasion was duly cele-
ated at Windsor ; the bells of St. George's Chapel, Windsor
Castle, and parish church being rung in honour of the event.
The Earl of Wilton met with a severe accident
while out hunting at Melton on Tuesday morning. It ap-
pears that his horse stumbled and threw him, and afterwards
treading on him, broke two of his ribs and a small bone in
his arm. ills lordship is, however, progressing favourably.
The Bishop of Salisbury's health during the last
few days has continued to improve.
Miss H. Ludlow, of Bristol, has left £20,000 tofcrund
annuities of £34, for the use of persons of her awn sex in
decayed circumstances.
The coroner's jury in the case of John Cooper, who
murdered his wife arid her father some few weeks ago in
Poplar, and whose body was found a few days ago in the
Thames, has returned an open verdict of "Found drowned '
The Tablet states that the expenses of the defendants
in the case of Saurin If Starr will amount to £6,003, and if
they are not successful in their appeal to the judges in bane°
they will also he liable for the costs of the plaintiff. Sub-
scriptions in their aid are requested.
Among the strangers present at the last hall at the
Tuileries, Miss Milner Gibson was one of the most admired.
Bee dress was composed of pale rose.coloured gauze, with
roses looping her skirts, and ruses in her hair.
A number of temperance friends of Mr. George
Cruikshank have presented his great picture, "The Worship
of Bacchus," valued at £3,000, to the nation. It into Lie ex-
hibited in the fiouth Kensington Museum.
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The New York Tribune ham found out a solution of
the Alabama difficulty. it once settled the quarrel between
North and South by proposing to let the South go, but it
wishes that proposal to lie forgotten. New it gives a hint to
Minister Johnson. What we are to do is this—transfer
Canada to the United States, free of all cost, abandon all
jurisdiction over It, and then the American people will " cry
quits" with us. It is a very liberal offer—but it will be
" respectfully though firmly declined."
In consequence of the varimei parties concerned in
the Surrey and Sussex and the London and Brighton railway
lines, not being able to agree to the minutes of the xwaril
submitted to them by the Duke of Richmond on Monday last,
the set, lement of the important dispute is delayed for the
present, in order to afford time to the parties to coin-
promise, if possible. if no agreement is come to between
0011, then his Grace will have to decide the matter
arbitrarily.
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Lamartine has been buried, in accordance with his
last wishes, at St. Point, near Macon, the public funeral
which the Government offered having beers declined by the
family. On the way the hearse was frequently opened to
enable the collie to be seen by the country people, many of
whom kissed it. Contrary to the custom in France, no speech
was made over the grave, the deceased having requested that
cone should be delivered.
A curiosity of meanness has been Elthibitel in San
Francisco. Durimr the settlement of an estate in that city,
on the 24th of January, it was discovered that a brother oi
the deceased had charged the edate four dollars for loss of
time while attending the funeral.
The RUM of £lO,OOO is set down in the Civil Service
Estimates far the trial of election petitions in England, of
which £4,500 is for hire of court-boss, s and reception of
' judges, and £2,500 for travelling expenses. The Irish peti
goes are estimated to cost £2,000
Wives in the suburbs of Cincinnati are jubilant at
the presence of highwaymen. Their husbands do not dro eto
be cat a, ter dark.
The two daughters of Lady Matilda Montgomery
were assaulted a few days ago at nooroday on the stairs r
their residence in the Via della Croce, Rome, by an Rada-
clout robber, who cut a gold chain off the neck of one of
them, and escaped with his booty.
An attempt to murder was made on Tuesday in the
Rue des-Trois Berner, at Popincourt A respectable snail
who resisted in the Rue d'angoideme-dmTemple was seated
outside a cal 0, when an individual suddenly advanced arid
fired at him two shots with a revolver, wounding him dan-
gerously in the region of the heart. The assailant, who
proved to be a working dyer, living in the Rue Prof was ar-
rested ; he is said to have acted under the itilluence of
jealousy.
Before the commencement of the business of the
assizes at Nottingham OH Tuesday, a large body of the
solicitors of that town met at the Judges' lodgings, High-
pavement, and presented to !Gr. Justice Ilayes an address of
congratulation on Isis elevation from the bar to the judicial
bench.
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A woman of Jernrnapea has just been arrested on, a
charge of having caused the death of one of her daughter's
children by thrusting pins into its head.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Pope's ordination is
to be celebrated on the 14Ih April with much solemnity. In
every direction subscriptions have been organised to offer to
his Holiness suitable presents on the occasion. Without
speaking of others, his Holiness is to receive from the Com-
mission of Hospitals at Rome a missal-stand, surinmmted
with a statuette of the Immaculate Conception, crowned
with diamonds and pearls, the value of the whole being
£2,000.
A Bombay paper calls attention to the fact that the
14th Foot is armed with Suiders, but has no Snider am-
munition.

A French newspaper has come to the conclusion
that titre will be war this spring, and gives as its reason
that Marshal Niel will not grant permission for i-flicers and
men to marry before the month of July.
His Majesty King George V. of Hanover bas issued
a fresh protest against the law lately passed by the Prussian
Diet, for the confiscation of the private property of the
Royal Guelphic dynasty. The tenor of this protest is a most
dignified one, and takes no notice of the grace insults uttered
by Count Bismarck. in the course of the dhcussions of the
Diet, against King George and his councillors.
A novelty in the way of velocipedes has just made
Its appearance in the Champs Flysees, Paris: namely, one
with a since wheel. The difficulty of maintaining the
balance is overcome by 'attaching a weight to the nave of the
wheel at each side.
On Monday a man named Frederick Brown, was
assisting in putting down a boiler at Barni by Furnace Col-
liery, near Barnsley. While rininiihr on rollers one of the
rollers got out of its place, and deceased got mister the boiler
to adjoin it, when the chain gave way, and the boiler lowering
a short distance crushed him to death.
According to the Annuario Pontrfico for the present
year, the Sacred College consists of six cardinal bishops,
forty-three cardinal presbyters, alai eight cardinal deacons,
so that there are at present fifteen cardinals' hats vacant.
The oldest of the cardinals. C. Alameda y Brea, is eighty-
eight years of age, and the yommest, Lucian Buonaparte,
forty-one. The number of patriarchs in tile Roman Catholic
Church is twelve, archbishops 139, and bishops 723. Beside*
these there are thirty-six archbishops and 1410 bishops in
partibnotofidelatm, five ecclesiastical missions, twenty-three
, prefectures, and 107 vicariates. Of the embassies at Rome
the largest is that of France, which consists of an ambas-
sador, three secretaries, and nine attaches.
The Fenian, Cant Mackay, did uot arrive at Cork last
Sunday, as wits expected,to the great annoyance of:his friends.
The streets were perambulated all day on Sunday by dis-
orderly mobs, beaded by the I. udest and most untuneful of
bands, playing all sorts of popular airs. At three o'clock
Mrs. Mackay drove to the railway station to meet her
husband. and as he slid not conic, the lady was accepted as
the heroine of the day, and the popular enthusiasm ex-
hausted itself in noisy demonstrations about her carriage.
Nunibers of people remained in the streets till three o'clock
on Monday morning, on the chance that the Fenian leader
might cisme ill by train at that hour.
Rewdotions of the Howe of Commons are somewhat
uncertain in their influence ; but sato at least, which was
passed last May in regard to diplomatic salaries, is destined
not to remain a dead letter. The resolution was AR folhove
" That, in the opinion of this House, all sums required to
defray the expenses of the diplomatic service ought to be
mutually voted by Parliament. and that estimates of all such
sums ought to be submitted is, a form that will admit of
their effectual supervision and control by this House." In
accordance wills this vote, the expenses of the diplomatic
service will appear in the estimates of the present year.
The marriage of the Right Hon. A. H. Layard,
M.P , and Miss Guest took place on Tuesday morning at
' St. George's, Hanover-square, London. the ceremony was
performed by the lion. and Rev. Walter Ponsonby, vicar of
laiutord, Dorset, assisted by the Rev. Cecil Alderson, rector
of tioldenloy, Northampton. The bride was attired in white
satin slid Brussels lace, with a wreath of orango lilossonm
and lace veil, and ornaments of diamond stare, and athniled
by four bridesmaids. Mr. Gregory, M.P., acted as "best
man," and the bride was given away by her brother, Sir J. B.
Guest, Bart.

The Queen attended divine service last Sunday
morntna m the private chapel at % indoor. Dr. Healey
preached the oerm. n. Karl and Countess Granville anti Mr.
Lowe dined with her m.jebty on saturday.

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A man has been sentenced at the Manchester assizes
to nine imouths' imprisonment for a burglary. The defence
was that the man was &lank and thotulit he was going to
bert in his own house. It wan a strange way, however, as the
judge observed, for a drib dien man going tm bed t rummage
under the mattress. This act disturbed the occupier of the
house and his wife, who were
,In bed. The husband first
shouted to his wife, ''MiR6llB, What are you Ilmng ?" and
when he found his mistake called out, "Routers and
thieves." At that the prisoner seems to have run down-
stairs, and he was found in the cellar vrietiont his Tants. lie
had managed to purloin a turkey and a pair of scissors.
The Church News of Wednesday, in an article on
Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church hill, says We it not deny
that the mongrel crew at Mr. Gladstone's back possesses a
considerable amount of brute force, and that bittre force
may very probably triumph. But there can be no doubt that
Mr. Gladstone's bill is more truly revolutionary than any-
thing which has been done since the so-celled Reformation—
if we except the Great Rebellion and the hateful incursion
of Dutch William."
An Irish paper mentions that Mr. A. 'T. Stewart,
selected by President Grant as one of his Cabinet, is a
native of Lisbuni, near Belfast, from whence he emigrated
to America forty years ago in search of fortune. When the
Lisburn hand-loom weavers were thrown out of work some
years ago, during the cotton famine, he sent a cargo of food-
supplies to Ireland for their use. In 1,50,11 Sir. Stewart, who's
a Presbyterian, visited Dublin, and was entertained by that
body. He has since beSn expelled by the Church of which
he was a member in New York for singing hymns, an inno-
vation upon their "psalm-ringing," but this proceeding in-
, creased his popularity in that city.

The French papers attribute a mot to Lamartine,
for which, had he been slit alive, they would scarcely, we
should think, have liked to make him responsible tsonie
one asked the poet whether he was not spending too much
money in advertising his publications. " No," he is reported
to have answered, " advei tisementa ore absolutely nece,sary.
Even Divine worship" in the oriinal, le brat Dien; "needs
advertising. Otherwise what is the meaning of church
bells?

The cwue of Lord Arthur Peiliam Clinton Wee again
before Mr. Commissioner WinsloW .ut Tuesday. At a former
sitting the bankrupt was require" to Ale, in addition to the
usual statements, an acc.m.t shOwing his cadi transactions
during the BM ninth, preceding the date of the adjudication,
but with this order he had nut yet complied. A creditor new
asked that the bankrupt should tile an account of all pro-
perty which hat passed through his hands !AIM: the year
1,307. Mr. Ccininnesioner Wins/ow said the bankrupt must
tile a property account for twelve months, and the further
hearing would stand ad jounced for six weeks.
r. Coope, the etninenk brewer, was, on Monday,
entertained ate consolation banquet in his character of de-
feated candidate fpr the Tower Hamlets. Mr. Coope was
toasted as "Our friend and future member," am( the fact
that so many votes were recorded for that gentleman was
quoted as evidence that "the working men are hi-citing to
see who are their real friends" The working men have been
" beginning," to make this tliscovery any time for the lest
half century, but somehow they never advance beyond the
beginning.

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The Duke iif Wellington has placed Mr. Hepworth A speenhttive gentleman wishes to hire from the
txon's name on the roll of the Middlesex magistrates. I Isthmus of Suez Canal Company the banks at their total
for the purpose of posting bills along the whole route.
A boy in Southbridge, Nlassachussets. is the reel- I
lent of numerous thrashings from his schoolmates, on At a Velocipede School, in Cineinnatti, a lad named
giconut of his unfortunate name—Andrew dohman ile,r,t• Oiler was practising, when the machine pit let SAS
hi, eontrol, and ran against the wooden guard raaad a
Tlinpitl,l:2:,Kyi,lleonnaulte,s,,.,yl
hatchway in the middle of the floor. Tlds gave wav , i
velotal,ede, ruler, and all fell through to the cellar. a'aci ,it
ithTedhe,slafn,drlhoardvinogtaiop,inbuliace-rilu:ruswehaistkeCyltp
ILatistleithaBloelM'ienigi
Messrs. Einaltan's label and trade mark. of four stories. Grier !welted injuries which it watC3 i• !
A.l caisli writer in the 0 ileillnati Ink:wide argues in would prove fatal.
favour of making Sunday the day of rest, in conformity with
Kerman
A party of twenty men, with their faces blacken
atiutietanttyliepohliTedi.siftrn,
the custom of ether religious. Ile declares himself to 'be the
"selected spokesman of &respectable and highly intelligent
party" in Ins Chuck night, and carried tdf a double-barrelled fowling-piece, a
During the last twelve months velocipedes to the pistol, and £lO in cash. A lady who was on • visit in ilO
value of 40,000 have been exported from Paris. house was struck a severe blow in the face by one of Lis
Whiteboys.
The Princess Christian and her child are doing no
well that no snore bulletins will be issued. In reply to a question on Monday in the Spanish
. M.
printer ot, oieros ssa fvour
r. hom, of Dublin, her itlajesty's official
of free trade, but that the Government tit oresentdid Ili .i,
and pubTlish.. r, has sent to the trustees of the Magee college, intetid to introduce it, but merel Yto pronoye 'cert.. refo 1
Lotidonderry, a donation ttf s:100. ttf which sum LSO is to be of the ~,„„„, ,„ by v,,, ofcomrrs, t.t. rt. $
applied to general purposes, and the remaining A2O to be - .
taken as the first iustahneut of au exhibition of 420 s per A new international railway difficulty seems to have
annum payahle for six years, and to he periodically awarded ariten in the East of Europe. The journals it Belgrade are
to the most deserving student in the third year of his under- very angry with the l'orte for resolving to co- ry its projecte I
graduate course in the college. Mr. Blom is a previous Eastern Railway through Bosnia, and thereby isolatii.g
contributor of OM to the Queen's colleges for prises and &Ma.
exhibitions. A great Indian appeal case, that will pi obably occupy
A fatal gun accident took place on Saturday during several days—. Neelriste Dole Barmen.. e ito.ch.„,e,
the pigeon shooting of the Gun Club at Shepherd's-bush Thakoor "—was opened before the Judicial i 'otumittee of the
near Londoli). One of the scouts who surround the growl& l'rivy COUnnii on Monday. It Involves the title to propel ty
to shoot birds escaping from the enclosure, while looking exceeding £00.400 a year, and the success., 1 0 the throne
through the palings to ascertain Whether a pigeon was killed the Raj of Telferali on the Hills. The aim,' ant disputes the
or had escaped, stooped, leaning on his gnu, Which went off right to the possessiou of the property anti ihe title with a
and killed him immediately younger brother.
In a recent article on agrictiltural labour we (Pall A lady in lowa county advertise, herself as Ass
Mall Gavato ) expressed our surprise at a statement made by " attorneyess at law." The A et, no kii.. i' ' ',i SUppo,:es It :t,
a clergyman in the Ninth of England, that it was possible for we shall next have the farmeress petition i, , the Presidem,,a
a labourer to save from £l5O to £390. The clergyman in for a commission for a daughter as an Onit ',Min ill the army.
question has forwarded us a certificate from the guardians of , A telegram from Munich states that King desia
the parish is question, that the into quoted were only fun 11. of Bavaria has been for stone days con. .3‘.1 to lashed 17
labourers, anti has assured us that their will were proved, the violent neuralgic pains in the right leg, it the same lipid in
one under i:300 and the other under £2OO. Ile refers us to which he suffered last year from a severe t.., r 'tie.
his evidence in the appendix to show that this may be done
in his district, where before labourers marry they go out for On Monday John Medealf, joiner, Bradford, is-
some years to farm service, and receive from it to £2O in mulled his father, Robert Mt:dealt in soeh a savage and
wages, besides board and lodging brutal manner that the latter died about uo,in.
On Tuesday the Siamese Twins, accompanied by An Oregon journal prints notices if births under the
two of their daughters and Sirs. Sims, visited the British head of " come; " marriages it styles " Nixed to stay," and
Museum, and were conducted by the officials to view the death it reporta under the head of "Gone.'
various galleries, with which they appeared greatly pleased. It is said that tender mutton chops, with 11b, of
on their retirement they expressed their thanks that a Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, soft toast and eggs, with half
private day had beets chosen for their visit, a pint of sherry after the contest, comprised the breakfast
A fatal fight has occurred at HudikrafielcL Daniel and supper of at least one of the greyhoundatturining at the
Birchwest, a'coachman, while drunk, had a quarrel with recent coursing meeting at Beckhampton.
two flies named Marshall and spencer, and in the taws° of London is threatened just now with nu inundation of
It he either fell or was knocked down, and died from the monstrosities. There are the Siamese twins, the fat lade,
injuries be sustained. The two men are in custody, charged female acrobats, and now they are proinied a young tidy
with having caused his death, who can imitate the cornet ' vide the following adverts-o'
Two young students recently fought a duel at Turin. meet :—" Imitation of the Cornet —A Young Lady, II in,
The cause of dispute was very trifling They fought with imitates the above, w,ntld be happy to cid, into an engage-
pistols at twenty paces. Lots having been drawn, the lad ment with inauagers of music-halls and others
entitled to tire that discharged his weapon, and sent a bullet The Belgian Chamber has passed is Bill by 71 votes
through the other latCs heart. By this tragic event some of against 12, abolishing imprisonment for tlebt. An amend-
the nest families in Pietlinont have been overwhelmed with metit, maintaming the penalty in the CA SO of newspapers
grief. The student who fell is described as a yeung man condemned to damages, was rejected.
whose talents gave promise of a brilliant career.
- - ---- - • - • - • • The New York World inonires " What are we to

do with Mexico?" The New York D'ai..y Tribune suggests,
In reply, that she should "lee let siiverely alone."
An incorrigible wag who lent a minister a horse,
which ran away and threw his clerical rider, thouglit le
should have some credit for his aid ill "spreading " the
gospel.
An American father advertises his four daughters in
the papers with a view to marriage. This isn step in advanced
the custom It, the old country. "'rho daughters," Kayo the
advertiser, "are between the ages of seventeen and two tity-
two."
Under the head of "domestic infilicities," the Tore
Rant Ind Exprexs reports that a couple were married re-
cently in KrUISUB City , Mo. ~ in less than an hour after they
first saw each other.
A New 1 /Rearm lawyer was, the other day, defend.
Inca case against a railroad company for running over am,
maiming a child. Ile gravely told the jury that if they
awarded damages the people of New Orleans wonld eternally
be sending their children lathe street to be run over.
"A Lady, of prepossessing appearance, seeks a Com-
panion suited to her age, 34; is cheerful, dom, situated, in,d
ladylike, with expectations."—" Desirable Offer—A Geld le-
man, 27, of good family counectior, having commenced
business, wishes to become • acquainted with a Protestant
Lady, sho i, well educated, amiable, awl possessed of
means; send carte.—Ativertisem . euts Nauehester Erz-

The Epistle appointed for the service on Sunday,
February 28, was taken from the same chapter which was
read as the second lesoion at the evening eervice,,aed the
Gospel from the second lesson M the morning service. This
will happen only twice again during the pressed century,
namely, in 1875 and 1894. It also vectored in 10e4, aft Cr it
lapse of sixty-eight years, the event previous to the last date
taking place in 1796.
A strange case recently came before the Scotch Covet
of Session. The magistrates of Dunbar were bronght
court by the parish minister to have it declared that they as
representing the burgh, were bound to furnish him " twenty-
two loaves of lo•ead mid six dozen of wine" annually to tbe
name of conununion elements. The defence was that the
magistrates were not bound to furnish any specific quantity,
but only so much as was required, and the court, decided to
their favour.
During the five months of the Police raid against Ph,
wandering curs of London, 12,465 dogs were takee to "Ti: •
Dogs' Home," where a gentle quietus was administer. to
the halt, blind, maimed, and diseased ; and the rest were
either restored to their owners or placed with new. ones.
A Madras paper states that four Europeans in Hi', '.
town—a baker, a railway fireman, and two sailors—ha,
turned Methomedans, and have been entertained at •.i.
elegant repast" by tonne of the wealthy natives. It is sa.
that after the converts have undergone the rite of cireuniv •
sion, they are to be married to Maliomeilan Moth s, and al!'
cloths and white robes are being made for the mania 2.•
procession, which lets be conducted through various part;
of the town.
News reached Exeter on Monday, of the founderhi, v. •
off Scilly, of the A 111147. from Shields. The sch.oner ei
of 'Mahan., picked up the crew, twenty-two in number, otia •
were relieved by the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. '1 . •
Anna was an American vessel, 1,077 tons regisieli, ~•
property of Mr. SC. Blanchard, of Yarmouth, Maio • !
was valued at .e 12,000 and her cargo e1i.L.400. •
On Friday a cow, the property it Mr.
fanner, of South Hetton, introduced into the woo 8.1 •
extraordinary proportions. The "little etratigei
strange animal indeed It has two heads, font' fer.• ti .
two hind legs, and t vo tails.
Judgment was given in the ArciSbiskop's• Cone.
saturday, in the cage of the Rev. air. Seigel
Sedawick's license was revoked by the Pi,hop m-i- .•he •
for alleged Romish practices; mew the aPPeai
Archbishop. In coneequence of a technieel objectii•., s I
was sustained, it seas decided on. extuiday tteot the o--.
could not be brought into the Court Mit the Arc, ado..•.
expiassed a hope that the Bishop of Manchester scout. I, .•..
a further hearing, see his way to restore Mr. Seolgwiek too
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office as minister of at. Alban'!, Manchester.
From Japan we learn that the Mikado has isiv- no
audiences to the French, Dutch, Italian, American, Ni''.
German, and British representatives. Ile is descriliel
languid, worn-out looking boy.
•
About ihree weeks ago, in the parish of Tarbolto,•,
near Ayr, I farmer named James Merry, was a...jolted,
drowned in an open well in the farmyard. A sister of
Merry's, who resided with him, has, ever since het lirotho
death, been in a very desponding state of mind, and oil.
morning last week she rose at a very early hour, veld!, t •
Inmates of the house were in bed, and drowned herself in
same well in which her brother'e dead body was found.
Miss Rye intends going out again from Liverpool
to Canada at the .d of May with another party of leave!
women. Miss. Rye, by her past successes, has proved Ova
the women, once transported to our colonies, can obtaia
mmeoliate and satisfactory employment . .
In London, a commission agent has been convicted
for uushipping 430 Ile of foreign manufactured Limos, with
intent to evade payment of the duty. He was fined £114,.
and ordered to be impt isoned until that sum was paid '
. .
It is reported from Paris that the Emperor NaTiolecu
is contemplating an entire change of Ministers, and iliat 51,
Rouher is to tie shelved by being appointed President of the
Senate. It is also saiol that concurrently with this chauge
ministerial reeponsibility is to be revived. The recent
debates in the Chamber upon the financial affairs of the
City of Paris are alleged to be the cause of these reforms.
A New York telegram states that 4,000 Cluhan
insurgents have been defeated, with heavy loss, near Puerte
Principe.
It is said that Henry Ward Beecher is really very
seriously ill. He seems to have injured himself by over
work. His physician says he motet have rest, arid prescribes
a long stay abroad for the recovery of his health.
The Emperor, on the proposition of the Minister of
War, has pardoned 490 sail ors out of 827 condemnesl to im-.
prisomment for minor offences, and reduced the term of de-
. tent'uts for the remainder,
The Bangor Chrvaaale throws a curious light upon
one of the items in the list of contributions to the Glaiistohe
Testimonial recently published in a contemporary. The
Item was, "Collected by Miss
.Llamoost, of Dison's Hotel,
Can o arvon—ls. ed.," mei the Chronicle explain. that "Diva,,'!
Hotel' is the county gaol.
During the loot few days an institution has been
established at Liverpool for the purpose of maibtaining and
educating the orphan children of seamen. It is specially
designed to take charge of the girls and boys until they our
of a proper age to draught off into the training ships, such
as the Indefatigable. A sum of £4,000 has already been
subscribed
Lord Milton, M. P., has been obliged to withdraw
temporarily from Parliamentary life in conselmerice of a
severe attack of inflainmatlon in the eyes, winch requireol
him to confine himself to a darkened room. Ws burdsidp is
progressing favourably towards recovery.
At St. Ives, Hunts, two lads named Mover and
Stocker, aged respectively nine and twelve years,.wera
brought up chargeol with inaliciomly placieg upon the up
line of rails, a tn.ller, on Sunday. Fortunately one of the
signal-men noble in the direction discovered the young
urchine in the act of" scotching" Me wheels, and on coming
up with the eldest Misoner, asked -him what he bad bec,,
doing, and he said only having a game. The charge was.
withdrawn against the younger boy, and the eldeet corn-
mit ted tonic Huntingdon Assizes.
An attempt made to form a board of arbitration to s'
settle disputes in the Don trade at Darlington bee resulted
in a success. The cool° of rules was submitted on Mendel- •
tot a joint conference of the men end their empleyere, and •
was adopted. There is already a olemand for an iitcreaseeof
wages for tip newly-constituted court to settle. . .
On the 15th of August, 17119, was born one of the
greatest men the world has ever knoosen—Napolerm I. The •
one hundredth anniversary of his birthday will be celebrated
with solemnity in Corsica, and there will, without doubt, he
a fete of unequalled splemlour in Paris, whisk will attrad
thousands to that city.
Mr. Pike, who for thirty-two veetrs has filled the
post of governor of the Bath gaol, expired on Sunday moon-
ing, in the sixty-third year of his life, after a protracted ill..
mess. Prior to the erection of the present building, beheld
a similar nputintment in the old gaol, which is now used /14
the police barracks. The salary for the governor Mel his'
wife, who acts as matron, is 4:200 a year. The office is in the
appointment of the bailiff of the city.
At Ole Worcesiter aonize, nix pereone have 'fiesel
indicted for a riot and an assioult on the Rev. Martin
Amphlett oon the mansion of the last cotttested election lor
the ourough of Evesleite. No evidence was offered by the
prosecution, and a vo roiict of Not Guilty was taken. Tl•ii.
Milne was taken utioler an arrangetneet, sauctiolied by Ms
Lordship, by which the defendants agreed tou pay over anion
o of £5O to Mr. Amphlett to be distribeted hy hint among lecal
i charities, aml apoolexieed to him for the annoyat tee to, which o
i they had subjectial hitu.
A movement wagengieseticcai in Lancashire setec,
, time ago, having for it ii Object the extiectiom of the systeh,
by which the side of beer is at present authorised, that
movement has been widely supported, anti the baliteoo 'if
opinion has been in favour of silaain the magistrates the
' licensing authority for beer-shops as well as for public-
, bout... At the conference of magistrates, oil Monday. mi
•fmnsi decision was come to upon this pant, the inagis-
, trifles present contenting themselves with a resolution
' which affirms that the power of granting licences forth°
tale of intoxicating liquors should be vested in " one
authority." it was further resolved—four gentlemen dis-
o senting—that licenseol houses should close at at, earlier hoar
' than at present, and that the closing hour should be
uniform.
, A trial disclosing great immorality in the town of
• Montoultan, has just taken place before the Court of Assizes
of the Tarn-M.Garonne. The prisoners. eight in numb, a
and all females, were charged with procuring abortion, Pvie
t named Delpech, or the mistress, as she is now called by the
, people, was likewise accused of murdering nine Wants,
I which hat been cootiveyeol to, her either to place out to nurse
o or to itherwise dispose of. These she had drowned in a pail
of water and buried them in a cellar. With one exception,
A all the 'intoner' confessed their guilt.