The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-21 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLCMIAIh

THE APPEALS Or TRH CONDEMNED COMMU-
NISTS. - The Court of Cassation, at its last sitting, re-
jected the appeal made by Fern, Lullier, Urbain,
Regere, Venlure, and Forest against the judgment of
the Third Council of War, by which the two first were
condemned to death, l'rbain to hard labour for life,
and Regere,Verdure and Ferrat to deportation in a forti-
fied place. The court also rejected the appeals of the
women Retitle, Suctens, Marchais Papavoine, and
liocquin against the judgment of the Fourth Council
of War, condemning the three former to death, Papa.
mine to deportation in a fortified place, and Bocquin
to ten years confinement. The appeal ,d Roux, sen-
tenced to death by the Council of war at Marseilles,
has equally been rejected.
A CANDIDATE FOR A SPHOOL BOARD CLERK-
SHIP. -The Stafford School Boanl lately received the
following among other applications for the office of
clerk :

Septr 203, lsl. Ski see in the Stafford paper a adver-
tizement for a clerk to the school looanl I should be willing
to Take the Sittuaet" at :0) a year iam Not a Member of
the Legal porfission i should Le abet to o :foe all NI y thee the
Dutys of the office i foul take to it at iflee if I WAS bile-ti
I have had a Good Eadueation this hi my too Ilandwriting
i ham :105 years of age and I can have a I:.0000l Far:odder i
have been employed on the Railway but I have left loas I
think i am Abel to take a Better Sittiation And I think the
Ohio would Suit Me very well plese let me no if i shall have
too clone to station] or wheather this will be Sultischlant By
Doing to yo will oblidge Sir Your most Obedient Moment.
J— J—"

SUPPOSED INCOME OF THE EX-EMPEROP. NAP()
LEON.-- The Fig.trogivesfrom the Chroi• i vetr de brine-
foci, the following lletailg of the fortune of the ex-Em-
peror. Ills 'Majesty is suppe.ed to have not more than
125,000 f. is year. The Empr.ss, on her side,. went
lately ti SlAtin I,lSen Acme property, which, with sonic
jewelry, might raise the revenue to-100MM. per annum.
It haebeen fund necessary to make A further reduction
in the attic hints, which consisted .425 persons. The
Emperor and the Empress keep neither carriage nor
horses of their own, but hire them for excursions.
Napoleon had renounced the idea of remaining at
Chiselhurst, for which lie was to pay a rent of £1,200
a year; but, having beard that the proprietor could
get more for it, and bring unwilling to incur an ob-
ligation, be is looking out for a villa in or near London.
An early as last winter the Empress was obliged to die
pose .4 sonic .4 her most valuable bracelets.

CUSTOMERS FOR Corium Goons.—Among the
British and Irish manufactures exported in the first
nine months .if 1871 have been r,570 million yards of
cottm piece goods, of the value of upwards of 40
millions sterling. These goods have gone all over the
world. To British limia more 041.0;5 million yards
were shipped ; to the Straits iSettlements, nearly 56
mliii. no;to Ceylon, nearly 21 millimo; to China and
Hongkong, 3:41 millions ; to Egypt, :drove 211 millions ;
to Turkey, mere than 153 millions. In America, 107
toillion vards to the United States, 37 millions to
British N.,rth America, ill millions to the United
States of Columbia (New Granada), 130 milli MA to
Brazil, 27 millions b. the Argentine Confederation, 18
millions to Uruguay, millions to 28 millions
to Peru, 28 millions to iMerico, 55 hin,ms to the
foreign West Indies, and 29 millions to the British
West Indies. The shipments to Japan have beim 32
millions, to Australia 22 millions, and to Africa nearly
31 million yards. In Eumi,e, 19 millions to Germany,
51; millions to Italy, 1111 millions to Prince, 43 millions
Portugal, 22 mullions to Holland ; to Java, 28
millions.

Tll E FATE OF AN INDIFFERENT MANUsCRIPT.—
The following on (tit has cropped up relative to the
now famous Erekmann-Chatrian tales. It is rarely
that joint authorship has succeeded so well as it has in
this case. Erekmann, the philosopher, given to much
dreaming and reverie over his pipe and bottle if beer,
and Chatrian, the soldierly man ,d action, make up
together 3 perfect man. Their Iwiwer of working
together is equalled by their wonderful conscientious-
ness. They will never publish a work which they
think morally or artistically incorrect. Two years ago
they had written a tale f, a- the Joorool des Liihole, and
for which they were to receive a Loge payment. Its
subject was, Ti" Irorkio!elio,” iv-to to 1570.
Before sending the story to its deetinatian, they read
it through together. The pansnl was ensatisfactsiry.
They considered it is or, and thouga they might touch
it up, they felt that it would never be what they
wished. Suddenly t lhatrian said, " This is a failure.
We have worked hard, but we have deceived our-
selves. This book represents a large smn of money,
but when we bare received it we shall not be much
richer, and we shall have published a poor book. As
we are both in a laid humour to-day, you shall go
to Alsace toanorrow, and dream and take the air
there. I shall remain here; but before you go we will
burn our MS., lest we should be tempted to use it"
"Quite right," said Erekmann, "we will burn it"
Accordingly on the morrow they met, and silently tore
up the MS. leaf by leaf, threw It into the fire, and saw
the hard work (.f six months disappear in smoke and
flames. To how many modern authors might it not
be appropriately said, "Go and do likewise, nay,
even before re-reading your manuscript"
TRULY FRENoII !—Leone Lacroix, of Rouen,
has been exemplifying a phase of the tender passion in
rather a remarkable manner. A butcher's wife,
going peaceably to buy her provisions, was met
by Lacroix, who had been already a year in prison for
threatening to kill her if she persisted in rejecting his
suit. After a burst of violent words Lacroix shot her
in the face with a revolver, the ball traversing her
cheek and escaping by her month, and on her rushing
into a shop he followed her with two shots more. Then
finding himself pursued by a crowd, Lacroix dis-
charged the remaining two balls into his own heath and
throat, but still surviving, took flight and rushed along
the Quai du Havre. Ile is, we are informed by the
French papers, "of Herculean size" (probably five
feet seven, or thereabouts), and therefore "proper to
inspire terror " into a Frenah crowd; and nobody
daring to seize him, the man took out a knife, cut the
arteries of both his arms, and then leaped into the
Seine. All these modes of finishing his life and his
love, however, were cruelly foiled. M. Leone Lacroix
has been fished up again, taken by the police to the
Hotel Dieu, his wounds dressed by the surgeon, and he
may probably live to stand his trial for loving, decidedly
neither "wisely" nor "too well."
A DMIRALTY ROLLING STOCK.—SoIne of nut-
Tronclads, especially the Lord Worths, are said to
have rolled exceedingly during the late cruise of the
combined FillU3,llollB. Mr. Giischen, the other day,
said that the British Navy was meant to be used; but
men-of war that roll worse than porpoises will, for
fighting purposes, be of no use in a heavy sea. It is a
pity they cannot be utilised on land, in the high roasts,
where sharp flints and bits of granite, injuring horses'
feet and damagingearriages, cry out to be crushed with
steam rollers. - Pooch.

A MARTYR TO PATRIOTIKM.—A small fanner
residing in the hamlet of Villebeau ltiliineiet-Oise), has,
in a tit of mental abberration, leprived himself of
sight, that he might no longer ha a witness of the oc-
cupation of his country by the Prussians, who had
burned down all his property in hispresence, a member
of his family perishing in the flames, lie bail often
threatened that he would tear out his eyes, and every-
thing that could be thought dangerous was kept out of
his way. Ile, however, got hold of a book which
described the Chinese method of blinding offenders of
high position by placing a small portion of quick lime
over the eyes and tying it down with a wet bandage-
He procured some lime, applied it in this manner, and
destroyed his sight.
TREATMENT OF RHEUMATISM.—The treatment
of rheumatism varies, according as the rheumatism
affects the muscles or the joints, and relatively to the
age of the patient, and the general state of health. We
can only indicate a few general principles and remedies,
and indeed the most of these will suggist themselves to
those who have read our account of the causes of rheu-
matism. People of a rheumatic constitution may
greatly save themselves by care in regard to a few
particulars. First, the avoidancs of exposure to coil,
and especially to cold and wet together ; flannel and
other kinds of warm el thing being obviously proper.
Their food, while it should be nourishing should be
simple. Beer and irter, as a rule, should be as idled
- they are rheumatic drinks. When the patient can
command a change of climate, one that is mill, uni-
form, and, above all, dry, will be the last. For rheu-
matic pains in the muscles, as of the back or tuck, the
opium liniment I d the Pharmacopeia may be rubbed
in locally. Often one if the best remedies is to cover
the affected part with a piece of flannel, and rub it
over with a hid iron every night before going to bed.—
From " 01,,,411's Ilouxchold Goide."

A DaNcING DER —The Lerma Times de-
scribes the binial of the Sheikh of the flnniiig Der-
vishes, who died at the Tek:l. Pura :—" llht body was
carried by the dervishes to the nu.: ine at Tophaneh,
where prayer was said, and NIL: by anther route to
Tekd, where it was interred in the cemetery belong-
ing to the order. The deceased's person was familiar
not only to residents bit to n:yriads of tourists, n::t
single one of whom is likely to have omitted, in doing
the ` lions of Constantinople, to pay a visit to the
1 lancing 1 fervishes. He is reputed to have attainol the
fabulous age of 10$ yean:, and there is attached to him a
still more extraordinary interest —namely, that he was
born in the grave, just after the interment of his mother,
from which circumstance he derived his lialne of Coodrd-
olonalt, or 'Chill of Earth.' Ile himself firmly be-
lieved in tins story, which we have on his own autho-
rity. We have also heard it narrated, though not by
himself, that, like his mother, he was prematurely
buried. This is said to have happened some 30 years
ago. Mussulman coffins and als.: graves are, however,
adapted for such accidents. The former are very
flimsy and roomy, and the latter shallow and lightly
covered in, until a long time after the buriaL The
late Sheikh, though very infirm in lssly, possessed all
his faculties unclouded to the last, and his memory,
which MU remarkably tenacious, never failed him.
The nfiice, being an hereditary ow, devolves upon his
Hon, Atta Bey, who is a man of middle age."

MATRIMONIAL CHANCES !—From
chafer fromiivr

"A gentleman with means wishes to correspond with a
respectable young lady, with a view to matrimony• money
obJect."—Aildress, A —" A gentleman id position :mil
means, 44: years cf ago. &sir. to correspond w ith a lady,
holding a similar position, with • view to inatrlmony."--
Address, Ac.—'' Middle-aged gentleman, with an income of
over S:000 per amulet, wishes to correspond with a lady of
means, or young w iilow,tM to 30, with a view tit niatrimoity.''
Address, atC., enclosing mirte.--" iliglily-respectatile lady
(32) a idles to correspond with a gentleman, with view to
matrimony; she is tall, and of a handsome ladylike appear-
ance; thoroughly domesticated, with ready cash."—Address,
witli carte, in confidence.—" A w idower, ..or2. in re-
speetahle business, abuts to correspond with a lady or
WiliOW, not over 35, with softie meaua. with, a view to inatri-
moily.--Arldress, fte., in strie t confidence, enclosing carte,
wli fell will be exchanged or honourably returned.

THE FUTURE GERMAN NAVY. A Berlin
letter says
Wheh all the works of omstruetion and repairs shall he
finished tic 4.5.11na1i navy Will i,mprise—seven jr, clads,
with a total of 77 gnus and 4,hlat horse-power ; ',crew stamen
- 1.• e 083,1 ot tie, line, 5 e.rv,tte., 7 .1.,/,;,td, bat,
gunisiats, one Le ansport altogether :Ns galls, Sailing
trandaz brig, 3 othyr brigs, 3 frigat.,, and a ship
used as a barrack, with 167 cannons in all 02 guns."

ANOTHER IMPERIAL APPEAL.--Thefollowing
letter, addressed by the Empress Engenie to the Em-
peror of Austria &Lout the end of September, 1870, is
published in L'Ordre of Saturday :
. . . . .

"Sire,- --The Government which haa seized upon power in
Paris has applied directly to Count Bismarck to obtain the
signature of a Treaty of Peace. M. 'fliers has been charged
to intercede with the neutral Powers and to seek their media-
tion between the belligerents. I do not enquire what are
the chances if deliverance which my country may hope for
from the Army of the Rhine, which is fighting so heroically
under the walls of Metz, and (rein the courage of the defen-
ders of Paris. I cannot form a personal opinion upon those
points. But France, afflicted by the disasters she has expe-
rienced, wishes to prevent further bloodshed and desires
peace. Have not the neutral Powers a fluty to fulfil, to
protect the interests of the future, by rendering
possible through their friendly intervention an equitable
treaty of peace? Misfortunes have befallen and crushed us,
Sire. The Emperor, a prisoner, can at the present moment
do nothing for his country. Myself removed from France by
ciremiustano,s foreign to may wishes, I am the spectator of a
conflict which breaks my heart, and I cannot remain silent
amid so much sorrow and rids. I know that in addressing
myself to your Majesty you will understand that my sole
anxiety is France, and it is for it alone that my cruelly tried
heart now appeals. I entertain the hope that your Majesty
will exert your influence to preserve my country from humi-
liating exactions, and to procure for it a peace which will re-
spect the integrity of its territory."

M. P. kr YER ERTIKR. Mrs. Malaprop
thinks that the French Chancellor of the Exchequer
has a neat capital lianie for a tax.collector. The ex-
cellent old lady calls Win Mounseer Pay Yer Quarter.
- -Punch.

INDIAN COAL.—CoaI has been discovered in
the Nizam's territory; the seam lies in the bed of a
tributary of the Godavery. The coal is reported to
crop out and lie very near the surface and on the bank
of the river in large mamma or Maps; where the
tehsildar had caused the bed of the river to be dug a
stratum of coal was found as near as one yard below
the surface, occupying a space of ten yards. A vein
of coal has also been traced extending along the bank
of the stream to a distance of a quarter of a mile.
The discoverer has received a reward of 2,000 napees
atal promotion for his enterprise and success in dc
vii. the natural resources of the Nizam's territory.
The decline in the traffic of the East Indian Railway,
which has been noticed for several weeks, still con-
tinues, and has even proceeded in a more rapid ratio.
The exports of English coal to India increased in the
first eight months of this year to 330,487 tons, against
214,493 tons in the corresponding period of Isll, and
210,424 tons in the corresponding period of 1969; the
value of these exports was £198,851, £124,492, and
£121,363 respectively.
NEXT TO CORISANDE.—SO Cardinal YOdi
came in seconol for the Cesarewitch. Pretty well for a
Pretender.— Pasch. _ _

LumaiN IN DANGER !—The Courkr Diplomatiqvc, published in Paris contains a letter from a
London correspondent, which gives the following pic-
ture of the danger threatening Great Britain from the
spreini of socialistic doctrines. The writer says :
The whole of this vast empire is permeated by secret
societies The Internationale here holds its meetings almost
publicly. It is mid that the greater number of the dispos-
sessed Princes of India, a good number of officers belonging
to tlie Army and Navy,. as well as Members of Parliament
and even Ministers are affiliated to it The Govern-
ment Is aware if the infernal plan by which, at a given mo-
ment, the public buildings of London are to be exposed to
the fate which betel se many in Paris. Boats are already
waiting on the Thames to receive the treasures of the Bank
of England -an easy prey, say the conspiratoi a -as soon as
the main artery if the Strand shall have been burnt and the
public buildings—the barracks especially shall have been
blown up, awls three years ago the Clerkenwell Prison
Careless by nature, and too much engaged with business to
think of the morrow, madled by a long established liberty
and a fabulous prosperity, having for many generations for-
gotten the scourge of war, foreign or civil, we allow our-
selves to drift on without taking heed of the signs of the
times.'

GALLANTRY REWARDED.—The Liverpool Ship-
wreck and Humane Society have awarded to Captain
Williams, master of the ship Sam (Aar., their gold
medal and a vote of thanks on vellum for the great
humanity displayed by him in staying by the disabled
and sinking ship Knight Errant, on the 2254 of Jane,
in a gale off Cape Horn. The mate of the Sew (Yearns,
Mr. Wright, and live of the crew, had made three trips
to the sinking vessel, and brought off 24 of the crew,
but on the fourth trip the boat capsized, and Mr.
Wright and a seaman named William Dawson, to-
gether with the captain and four of the crew of the
Kni'dlt Errant, were drowned. The society has made
a donation of 120 to the widow of Mr. Wright, and
also a five-years' annuity of 4:10. The crew of the
boat have also been rewarded for their gallantry.

AN OLD FRIEND.-- The Chicago Tribune of
September 2A, ays

" While Greeley was at Des Moines, lr.Jli. Grinnell
picked up the philosopher's old white overcoat, and said :
•We are going to stop your wearing this. We want you to
wear a coat made of lowa wool, from the loom of our Daven-
port Shields." I guess not,' sail Mr. Greeley, 'the Old coat
ban lasted me twenty years, and turn pretty lure it will last
es long as, or longer than, I shall.'"

CARRIED AWAY.—An amusing incident, says
the Callan and Lima Ga:ette, took place at the Callao
Theatre during the last representation .1 the tragedy
entitled Adrienne Leenurreur. In the last act, where
the poisoning takes place, and several actors call for
medical assistance, a pens is in the body of the pit rose
in a state of great excitement, and cried out in a sten-
storian voice, " Oil ! Oil! Give Adrienne oil!!" The
tragedy was brought to a close amid loud laughter, as
may be imagined.
THE RECENT ELECTIONS IN FRANCE.—The
Journal °yield has published the following:—" Certain
newspapers, especially those representing the party of
agitation, are endeavouring to misrepresent the result
of the recent elections. The exact truth is as follows :
—out of 2,860 elections about 1,850 are known, and are
divided thus--the so-called Bonapartist party has re-
turned 91 candidates ; the Legitimist muster 191 ; the
Radicals, '2Ol ; the Moderate Republicans, 494: and
the Liberal-Conservatives, who frankly accept the
Republic, 867. This gives a total of 1,361 members
for the General Council who support the present Go-
vernment, if all the Radicals and legitimists agreed to
vote against it. But experience has proved that Radi-
cals Legitimists, and Moderates vote for the Govern-
merit on every decisive occasion. This would give
from 1,100 to 1,600 votes against 200." The Journal
()Skirl concludes these remarks by saying :

This is the strict truth, notwithstanding the statements
of those who wish to have it believed that their respective
parties are strong, and who think that to say an is to be so.
They, however, deceive themselves. Every fresh experience
proves to them that the country understands to whom it
owes its misfortunes and from whom it refuses again to ex-
perience similar misfortunes."

ALL FOR MONEY.—Jack Dayman and his wife
have just started on their wedding tour. The lady's
chief attraction is her income. In this case, Jack's
friends call the usual period of seculsion the money-
moon. Punch.

NEWCASTLE PROFESSORS AND LADY STCDENTS.
—lt will be remembered that a College of Physical
Science has just been opened at Newcastle, and that
it is to rank as one of the Faculties of the University
of Durham. The Neweastle Journal gives an account
of the fourth and concluding inaugural address, de-
livered on Friday last by Mr. Friere-Marreeo, Pro-
fessor of Chemistry. There was a large attendance.
The Professor, in the course of an interesting lecture
illustrated by experiments, gave a definition of
chemistry, after which be referred to the means by
which it should be studied. Ile said he wanted
the students to do real honest work, and to keep
the examination which was to follow as much out of
their heads as possible, and to remember their work
only for the work's own sake. Ile concluded by stat-
ing that, on behalf of himself and Professor Herschel,
they were prepared to receive lady students on exactly
the same footing as other students. If the ladies came
as real students to do work, then they saw no earthly
reason why they should not be admitted on the same
footing as other students. There might be some
difficulty in the matter. For lecture work he could not
see that there need be any difficulty, and they would
treat their lady students better than the University of
, Edinburgh treated theirs; and they would take care
that the scholarships or prizes that they might carry
off were not kept from them.
CIVILIZATION IN JAPAN.—The famous mariner
who, wrecked on an unknown shore, WU impelled on
seeing a gallows to thank God that he was in a
Christian land seems to have bound a successor in a
philanthropic American who, from motives of hu-
manity, has instructed the people of Yokohama in the
Christian art of hanging. That many of the institu-
thins which the humane pow seek to abolish were
originaliy established by the humane to siqs,rsele
severer ones -slavery, for example, being the substi-
tute for the slaughter of captives—is an oil theory.
But it has rarely hag.) a more curious illustration than
in the case to which we refer, in which a correspondent
of the Nov York Tribune, who, like the paper be
represents in Japan, has always 01.15001 capital
punishment, was moved by his 'horror of Japanese
executions and hardkari to erect a gallows and induce
the Yokohatnese to adopt it. It is to be hoped he will
be an exception to the fate which superstition assigns
to inventors of such things. --Pall Mall Gazette.
SALE OF IMPERIAL EFFECTS IN PARIS.—A
large quantity of the porcelain and glass of the ex-
Emperor was soul by auction last week, in the riding
sehool of the Louvre. All the articles soil have the
Imperial Crown and the letter N. inscribed upon them.
Many of the lots (says a correspondent) were knocked
down to ladies, who bought a little if the Emperor's
crockery out of curiosity. Some of the things are
pretty, without being curiosities of art manufacture ;
some are plain and very substantiat The prices fetched
seemed to me generally bow. I saw lot. containing 50
pieces of glass—decanters and various fortes of glasses
--knocked down for 30f. Siivres china soup plates,
not certainly of the first choice, but still handsome,
and offering plenty of crown and N. for the money,
were knockeol down in lots of half-dozen:4 at from :inf.
to MC I heard difference.' of opinion expressed as to
whether this was more or less than their intrinsic
value. But a purchaser, pleased and astonished per•
haps to find himself or herself a successful competitor,
soon found that the article, though possibly valuable,
was not scarce, for the auctioneer's man whisperedthat
another half-dozen might be had at the mine price
without the formality of knocking down. In some
cases the offer was closed with. The Imperial pots,
pans, anol saucepans (Isaterie It raisin. ) are to come
to the baninaT next week, and there must be a good
many of them, as four days' sale is contemplated."

AN INDIAN REMEDY FOR &RR El/Ea.—A COY.
respondent of the Delhi ig.r.,erfc asks
" Did MU ever try the aso of common sager in the esstip
riephailt eyes win-u tiny
aNrl.,lllll:aniiit::l,aallwlaysApt:?,gearr.hzaato,i
very bad eyen in tile loot weather. The ,Issetoramslied lotion
and taunts- Inn slid no good; be I made him bathe thee
with sugar find water, and he was cured in a few day."
MoN EY NOT EVERYTHING !—The Bishop of
ui
aubj.•et of education. Ilia Lordship recalled the text.
dthi",t'a,..:l:,4l:l:'re:l':‘:•:::.:l.rsed'r4,:tchi:::ehtarilleel'"lith;:i.:l::lrliiii'rPa":::lin..l:l:la.;gn'led 1 and the at
vr:ff'r;;;:if lea.;ll7gy ai r
" /Honey is the principal thing ; there-
fore get money." The man who had prospered and
Igrown rich was reckoned the wine man. alai were,
however, beginning to see that the security of the isry
I wealth which they mought, the safety°, our inatitutious, an I the peace of the world depended on the people
being taught the value of %visions. Hence a cry
been raised for kristian education, and he hopc,l the
country would stazel firm in this principle, aret that a dread of alienation from the life of Ood through iguars
am, would deter men from submitting to any rade ex,
periment in the direction of what was called secular
education.
Too BAD ! 4 certain contributor to a periodi.
cal wax remarkable for the obscurity of his style, and
the coutte.sitors, in eettin^ up his as-tides, constantly
made mistakes, Recently he came to the office in a
boiling passion ; a phrase of his had been dreadfully
handled. " You distort me here !" cried he, "you
mutilate me." " l'ray be calm; the error elan be ex-
plained and rectified." But - was it another error of
the press, or was it done on puriker?-- next day
appears-1, in the most conspiceblus part of the journaL
these terrible words: "An error of the press yestet•
day hating rendered a passage by Mr. —intelligible, we now give it as it really was in the manuscript.'
Exert-110N 01, THE MURDERER OF AN INDIAN
JUDGE.—The Indian Public Opinion writes : --
Bishen Singh, the murderer of 3loonshee Jaishee Rum.
was executed yesterday morning fiepteniher 11 . at the
central gaol, Lahore. The gallows was erected in the gaol-
garden, and with the exception of the presence of • number
of Eat pean residents and otticials, the execution was private.
Mallen Singh, since his condemnation, maintained a Ittia demeanour to the last. Almost his only reference to the
taunter .luring Ids imprisonment is as to the effect that such
should be done to all unjust judges. Ile xas an educated
Kooks and used to read the gessitA in the city to a few of
that sect, lie being able to read and write tairmuthi and
II indee. Ile toot his qranth to prison with lam. and it is
noteworthy that he bequeathed it to his chief, Ram Singh. to whom It is to be sent. At theplace of execution showed
some repugnance at being touched by the executioner, a
man of the oichler caste. When he approached to adjust
the noose, he niade a inevement silt Whining te den himself.
on the bolt being drawn, death niust have ensued almost
homediately. Ity a special order his oily was it delimits' to his relatives, but burned within the, gaol precincts llis
arches, however, were delivered to his sons. who, under a
polieeguard, took them to the Ravee to ssuurnlt them to the
river, accorsling to the forms of their religion.
A NEW LIGHT. —lt has been stated in the
Meclisllins'AfmaLiee that a French chemist has
discovered a light as superior togas no gas was superior
to its predecessor, oil. An oppatunity will soon be
afforded of beholding this beautiful, elear, and healthy
light., as the officials of the Crystal Palace Company
have laid pipes, placed gasameters in position, and in
the course of a few days will illamittate their crystal
tountaini and rare %s,lrka of art with the new Oxy-
hydric light ; and in order that the public may have
ocular demonstration . if its vast superiority over gas,
the lights will alternate, and then the dull yellow
haze of the flickering gas lamp will hessfine doubly
so in the steady, bright light, emanating from the
other, which is uulintenne that it caused the flanteof gasin
cast a 'shadow itself on the wall it is intended to Uhl..
urinate. This new light can be obtained at a much
lower rate than gas; and it is not only brilliant and
clear, but healthy. Above the issue aperture in the
ordinary gas lamp, when lighted, therein a dark space,
surrounded by tile flame, with sparkling atoms float-
ing upwards, many of which escape nueousumed, and
pollute the surrounding air, much to the injury of eyes
and lungs, while others that enter the flame in passing
through it are only partially consumed, and in the
shape of smoke or dust escape into the surrounding
atmosphere, to the detriment of pictures, ceilings, or
gilt frames, &c, Nothing of all Ode occurs with the
new lights_

THE PROPRIETORS OF LAND IN ENGLAND._
Mr. Newt:l:arcli, in the course of hi A residential address
at the Social Science Congress, sai.

" Mr. Mill has mentioned 30,000 as representing about tha
number id persons owning the cultivated surface of England.
This figure is a curium; instance of the careless reading of
the censas tables. Insteml of any midi ligere as ao.oo rj,
presenting the Mind', of persons who are directly interested
in the ownership of lands, hoists, mines, and minergle in
England, I believe that twenty or thirty times 30,v0t) nouhl
be within the truth."

Or? OF HIS ELEMENT.—The President of the
latest Spanish Ministry is " a general in the nave:
As there seems to be an idea that he is hardly sts;ng
enough for the place, he has probably, by this time,
found himself " at sea" again.—Pitark.

A JAPANESE BOCDOI'R.—An American paper
states that a lady of the Hon. James Brooks' party in
Japan looked into a Japanese boudoir, and this is her
inventory :—" Little or no furniture, no chairs, no
bedstead—nothing but mate to sleep on. A toilet box
WI. on the floor near the wall, about the only article of
furniture in the room. In this box there were five
drawers and two lacquer basins on top. In the top
drawer of this box there was a metallic mirror, like
our handglasses. In the second drawer the lady kept
her powder, paint, wax, brush, t,s,thpowder, and
brush. Two little drawers came next; in one the had
her false hair, and in the other fancy pins, gilt
paper, and other • fixins ' for her hair. In the lower
drawer was her pillow, which is placed under the neck
when sleeping on the mats, in as to prevent the hair
from being rumpled. It is made of wood and covered
with paper on the top. The powder looks like starch,
and when they use it they mix a little water with it,
and rub in like paste, and they have two brushes that
they use to rub it off with. The paint looks green and
turns red when put on the lips and cheeks."

AN UGLYIcK.—A Paris paper says that
a photographer in that city has been arrested upon a
charge of a somewhat unusual character. A gentle-
man purchasing a number of photographs purporting to
be likenesses of some of the female 'ommunists now in
custody was surprised to find among them the portrait
of his own mother in-law. Having discovered the name
of the photographer, the gentleman, accompanied by
two police agents, called upon him, and extracted front
him an avowal that he had availed himself of the
negatives of some of his former clients least remarkable
for personal attractions in order to form a collection of
portraits representing the inmates of the Versailles
prisons and the Brest hulks, thecae of which hadbeen
extremely large.
WEIGHTY ADVICIE ON WEDLOCK.—SOMO look
for a rosy complexion, and some for a smiling face,
while others seek wealth and wisdom, beauty, fashion
and grace; but I want a kind companion, hearty,
healthy, strong, who'd always be gay and cheerful, and
full of laughter and sow,. She'll never be fond of shop-
ping, because she's too rat to roam ; and instead of out
promenading, will alwaya be found at home. My
advice to all (,Id fellows after trying to get what I
wanted is and good advice should be weighty never
think of marrying a woman less than one hundred and
eighty.

HEROIC ELEMENTS.—M. Benedetti remarks,
in a despatch, "There is something of Frederick the
Great in each Prussian." We cannot quite say, in like
manner, "There is something of the Great Duke of
Wellington in every Ebglishman." It may, however,
be hoped that the Englishmen, of whom so nnwt may
be truly said, are a good many, anti ninny enough to
he 00 many for the Bradlaughs, and the °agent, and
the Fenians.—Pusek

DEATH OF A PRACTISED TIGER HUNTER.—
The Times of India of the 19th of Sept. says :

A gloom has been thrown over the con:munit4y of It derma
by the melancholy death, on the 12th instant, of captain
Doig, 2nil Regiment Infantry Hyderabad Contingent, from
the effects of wounds received front a tiger On Friday, tlis
tith instant. .111 the Monday previous he succeeded in killing
S tine male tiger about six miles from cantonment, and at
the same time found there was another at the same place.
ttn Friday loot, about mid-day, news of its having killed a
bullock that morning was brought hint, and lie at once
rode out i. ino spot unaccompanie.l except by his Own
shikarees, lie soon (mind, and had rather a long shot,
and was under the Impression lie had hit the beast in
the head ; but it was the opinion of himself awl those
with hint, that the tiger had got off and left the
place. Ile at once commenced to organize another beat
in a different past of the jungle, and whilst Mew thin
was suddenly and without warning if ally kind sprung apt"
and very severely bitten by the infuriated beast. he sudden
and unexpected was it. that for Captain Doig, although an
experienced mid cautious sportsman, said he succor even saw
the beast until be was in the ground and being bitten, tires
lie expressed it, 'calmly eaten.' After the accident lie rode
back to canboneinent, but he never recovered from the severe
shock, anti lingered only until Tuesday morning., alien he
tont tly passed away, remaining sensible almost to the last,
Thus has been lost to us a gallant soldier, and one of the
keenest and best sportsmen in the country. lb esins buried
at Bolarum on Wednesday, and followed to the grave lq a
large coneourse. The officers of the 2 24th sent their hand ;
and the while of the men of his corps turned out to pay a
last token of respect to one they had ever looked up to and
admired."

N E WLY -BUILT HOUSES. —A vast deal ,f
lii-
besith, to say nothing worse, resalts from the ocru-
potion of newly built houses. In the suburban di.,
tricts of London, and f many of our large towns,
small houses by the tleee-and are planted on the
ground, often on heaps of unwholesome deposits Tz
there to fill up hollows whence brick earth or sand
may have been removed, are finished with pairielem
rapidity, and, all reeking as they are, receive a family
idtcn before the workmen have left. The danger in-
, lved ‘V:Li4 reco;znised long ago. An ancient foreign
proverb says, as to the new In, use, "The first year f.,r
my enemy, the second for my friend, and the third for
myself." The speculative builder id to-day too often
cares for neither friend nor enemy. The houses, like
certain historic razors, are made to sell. To turn a
penny is his sole object, and the buyer must look out
for himself. Alas ! fir such a state of feeling. It un-
fortunately prevails in modern society to a much
greater extent than is consistent with the right con-
dition of public health, giving that word An full means
ing.

- -
-SPECIAL SUNHAT SERVIcEs FOR THE PEOPLE.—
The series of services for the autumnal and winter
months commenced in London on Sunday afternoon,
at St. James's hall, and brought together an unusually
large congregation. The Rev. Newman Hall, with
whom the idea originated, stated that the services had
hitherto been very successful, and durin; the quarters
of last year the numbers attending each Sunday after-
noon had steadily incivase.l. The services, as hitherto,,
would be unsectarian, aml he was happy to ameinwe
that many eminent clergymen of the Established
Church, and equally distinguished ministers other
denominations, had kindly offered their aid at the
evening services, which it was intended to hold in that
building. The seats are all free, and be had no doubt
that, it being pre-eminently a people's service, free
from all sectarianism, it would evoke popular sympathy
and support The rev, gentleman then preached an
able sermon from the words, "Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity," suggested to him by the frequent display
of this legend m Paris during its recent unhappy
troubles. In a cogent and telling &grouse, he showed
that the apirations of the human heart after this
much-coveted liberty and its attendant boons could
alone be realised in the Gospel, :did without it and its
Die inc origin there was neither liberty, equality, nor
brotherhood. Mr. Hall atinou-wed that his subject for
next Sunday would be "A Salibath in the Pyrenees.",