The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-02-06 00:00:00

rift STOITTIBRIDGE OBSERVEIL

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—Douglas got his right leg and right arm
scalded. The other occupants of the pew escaped with
a few slight scratches. The occurrence occasioned
great alarm and commotion among the people. The
steam issued from the broken pipes with great force,
and rushing towards the upper end of the church,
burst through the window behind the pulpit.
The minister, (the Rev. Mr. Boyd) whose exhortations
were brought to so startling and abrupt a termination,
shared in the consternation which prevailed, and
availing himself of his proximity to the broken
window, made his escape from the destruction which
seemed imminent. The damage done to the church is
very considerable.
DEATH FROM Crlimcmici.—An inquest has been
held in Liverpool, on the body of Ann APKeown,
eight months old. On Friday the deceased was left
for a moment or two on the floor by her mother, and
on taking her up she found that she was foaming at
the mouth and apparently choking. She was taken to
the dispensary, where her throat was operated upon,
but she died about midnight. A post-mortern examina-
tion of the body showed that some bones in the child's
throat had caused suffocation. The jury returned a
verdict to that effect.
EMIGRATION STATISTICS.—The emigration from
the port of Liverpool during January was 3,2'23 per-
sons, of whom 2,412 sailed in 16 ships, under the .Act,
to the United States. Of these, 1,221 were English,
157 Scotch, 357 Irish, and 667 foreigners. Of the
"short" ships, 14 were to the United States with 635
passengers, two to Victoria with 49, two to the West
Indies with 9, four to South America with 70, three to
Africa with 32, and one to China with 20. The total
emigration of the month was 239 less than in the cor-
, responding month of last year.
A CONVICTION UNDER TUE VACCINATION ACT.
—On Monday charges were made before the Scar-
borough magistrates against Dr. Cooke and the Rev.
R. H. Parr, vicar of St. Martin's, Scarborough. It
was proved that Dr. Cooke's child had not been vac-
cinated within the period of three months from its
birth, as prescribed by the Act, but it was contended
that Dr. Cooke had a "reasonable excuse" in the un-
fit state of the child's health. This reasonable excuse,
however, should have been certified by the public
vaccinator or some other medical practitioner. The
bench considered the case proved, and imposed the
penalty of 108. and costs. An appeal is to be made
to a superior court.—The Rev. R. H. Parr appeared
in his own defence. He showed that his child -had not
been in a fit state, from delicate health, to be, vacci-
nated, for some time after the prescribed period; that
it was subsequently vaccinated, but unsuccessfully;
and that, through its delicate condition since then, the
operation had not been repeated. He said he had no
intention to evade the Act, and he held that his
"reasonable excuse" was the condition of the child.
This was certified by Mr. Teale, surgeon, but as the
certificate was not procured until after the information
was made against Mr. Parr, the bench ruled that he
had not complied with the Act, and that his conviction
must follow, and he was mulcted in the penalty of ss.
and costs. Notice of appeal WM also given in this

case.
A YOUNG SOLDIER.—Queen Victoria's eldest
grandson, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the
other day entered upon his eleventh year—an event at
which, of course, no loyal subject of Victoria L or of
William I. can be otherwise than most glad. At the
same time, his little Highness entered upon something
elee—even the duties and emoluments of a lieutenancy
in the Lot Regiment of Guards, which it is an old
family custom to confer on the boy Princes of Prussia.
When we think what manner of men were the guards
of the great Frederick—those huge stupid giants whom
he bribed and filched from all parts of Europe—it is
impossible to avoid a smile at the notion of the tiny
ten-year-old Highness standing in front of his men, and
putting them through the manual exercise.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday morning Mr.
Robert Walsham., of Haigh, near Barnsley, corn miller,
died from the effects of injuries received on the pre-
vious night. Deceased had visited Wakefield-market
ton Friday, and returned in the evening by the 6.20
train. On the train arriving at Haigh station the
unfortunate man was found lying on the rails with
both legs and one arm severed from his body. He was
conveyed home as quickly as possible, apparently
dying, and expired on Saturday morning last. It is
supposed that the deceased had got out of the carriage
on the wrong side, as he was found on the off side of
the line, and had been knocked down by the pilot
engine in going round the train. Deceased is fifty
years of age, and leaves a widow and eight children.
A CURIOUS CEREMONY.— On the 3rd of August,
1794,MarylVragg, relict of a London merchant, resident
in Beckenham, Kent, departed this life, leaving behind
her a bequest to the poor of the parish, who were
annually to receive bread, flour, and coals, on the 28th
of January, on which day also a dinner was to be pro-
vided for the vicar, wardens, and tradesmen out of
money devised for that purpose. These benefits were
dependent on her coffin, which is deposited in a vault
under the church, being yearly dusted on the day in
question. Should this interesting operation be omitted
on any occasion the bequest passes to the adjoining
parish of Bromley. Thursday, in last week, being the
28th of January,
F.
sexton, in the presence of the
vicar, the Rev. F. Chalmers, the wardens, Messrs.
Purvis and Goodheart, and a large number of
spectators, descended into the vault and dusted the
coffin, which is of peculiar construction, the lid not
being flat, but ridged like a church roof. It is made
of cedar wood, strongly bolted together. The gifts
were then distributed to the poor, and in the evening
the vicar, wardens, and tradesmen dined at the
"George Hotel."
A LUCKY POACHER.—A few dnys ago a very
successful poacher in this district (Strathdeaid went
to the hill with his gun and his sagacious collie-dog
(says the Inverness Courier). It was early in the
morning, used having come to the base of a small
eminence, round which was a narrow path, the man
took up his position. The dog, knowing the duty he
had to perform, immediately started round the shoulder
of the hillock, and in a few minutes the sportsman
was gratified to see a large flock of mountain hares
running precipitately along the footpath. On coming
within proper distance, the poacher fired his first shot,
and laid low four hares; the second brought down two
more, and wounded a third, which the trained coolie
soon tracked out, thus bagging seven hares with two
shots. As an instance of the abundance of hares in
this Strath. we may mention that the same sure hand
a short time previously, bagged six couple in a iew
hours, and had he been able to carry more, be might
have killeddouble the number.
RATHER PRACTICAL IN HIS GRIEVANCES.
A story of tarring and feathering which, though not
very creditable to the social customs of the district, has
a humorous side to it, is told in a Melbourne letter.
A respectable man named Black went, accompanied
by a surveyor, to a mining claim, known as that of the
New North Chines Company, respecting the proprie-
torship of which there is some dispute. While in the
act of pegging off a portion of the ground, he was seized
by a number of ruffians in the employ of the company,
stripped, bound hand and foot, smeared all over with
hot pitch or tar, and then, in the absence of feathers,
coated with fragments of wool straw, or whatever
rubbish came tohand. One would have supposed that
the first step taken by Mr. Black would have been to
rid himself of this uncomfortable suit of clothes. But
no. Mr. Black was a methodical, far-seeing man. He
went direct to a photographer, and secured indubitable
evidence of the brutal treatment he had received, in
the shape of a photograph of himself. His next act
was to commence legal proceeding against the com-
pany, laying his damages at no less than £2,000. Mr.
Black is evidently a business man. The New North
Clunes Company cannot afford to quarrel with such a
man. They should make him a director.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.—The London Gazette
states that the Lords Commissioners (iof her Majesty's
Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the
Reduction of the National Debt that there was no
surplus of actual revenue over the actual expenditure
of the United Kingdons of Great Britain and Ireland
for the year ended the 30th September, 1868, the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice that no sum will be applied
by them on account of the Sinking Fund under the
provisions ef the Act 29 and 30 Vict., cap. 39, sec. 16,
during the quarter ending March 31, 1869.
CHARGE OF ATTEMPT! NO TO BRIBE LORD FE RMOY.
—Mr. Downing, of Ashfield, in the county of Cork,
has been committed for trial at the assizes for having
enclosed £2OO to Lord Fermoy, the lord-lieutenant, to
induce him to place Downing on the commission of the
peace. Lord Fermoy stated that he had recommended
the defendant for the coveted honour some time ago,
but the Lord Chancellor had declined to make the
appointment—The following is the letter :-
14th December, 1861. (strictly private and confidential'.
My Lord,—Now that the new Lord Chancellor is appointed
1 presume that you have, in accordance with your kind
promise, sent forward my name. Your lordship has had a
great deal of trouble on my account, and I must endeavour,
as I before intimated, to mark at once my sense of your
kindness. You hold, my lord, a high public position, which
entails much expense, and I beg ass friend your accept-
ance of the enclosed others will follow to-morrow). This is
but an instalment of what I owe, for I feel under a debt of
gratitude to your lordship, which my friends and myself
will not forget, and which we hope 110011 to have an oppor-
tunity of repaying in a tangible way.
Lord Fermoy replied that he had received the letter
"with surprise and extreme disgust." Mr. Downing
subsequently apologised. and threw the blame upor.
his "inexperience." The Bench required Mr.
Downing to enter into his own recognisance of £290,
and to find two sureties of £5O each.
NAVAL RETRENCIIMENT.—Mr. Childer's scheme
for reducing expenditure in the great department over
which he presides is. it is stated, prepared, and only
requires a few alterations to render it complete, and tit
to present to Parliament. Among some of the impor-
tant changes which the First Lord has resolved upon
will be the abolition of the office of admirals and cap-
tains-superintendents at the different dockyards, and
already, we are informed, intimation has been con-
veyed to these gentlemen that their services will not
be required after the 31st of March. The Army and
Nary Gazelle also gives currency to a statement that
all unimportant foreign commands will be abolished
by Mr. Childers, and that in future he will substitute
flying squadrons under rear-admirals. The United
Service Gazette also says :
Hatters are really becoming serious, and Mr. Childers
seems to be as much in earnest as the player who, as Mr.
Dickens describes, went so entirely into his part that in
playing Othello he blacked himself all over ! The Admiralty
in visiting Chatham Dockyard had no guard of honour, and
went to the yard in oaks! Our correspondent though we
am constrained to confess that on this one occasion, to
speak clearly, we do not believe him) says that all eve went
In one cab, and that-a lively discussion with the driver on
the subject of an extra sixpence took place at the dockyard
gates.
PAYING DEARLY FOR " HONOUR !" The
returns of election expenses incurred by various candi-
dates supply the material for some curious comparisons.
I It coats a great deal to contest a county, as everybody
I knows, but the honour of representing a small con-
stituency is one which must be valued highly if we
judge from the price often paid for it. Baron Roths-
child 's expenses at Hythe were £2,130 Bs. 7d.—within
about £6OO of the total costs incurred by Beret Lionel
in contesting London. The total number of electors
on the new register at Hythe is 2,275, and 1,268 voted
for Baron M. Rothschild. It cost about El. 12s. 6cl
to record each vote. At Dover less than 3,000 electors
voted, and the candidates between them spent
172,520 lla 11d. Mr. Abrahams had thirty-five vote*

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tdiniinehAisifra Avoubrr,nbains i.
and they him 1 saves- ~. do not possese sufficient claim tint tention on
cp("trobably229336
of 10.pinio-n. ' their own merits, and add that in future such steps will
that he paid)too dear for his whistle. It cost Viscount rather retard then advance the interests of those who
Barrington £lB5 15e, lid, to be returned for Eye, so act.
although there was no conthst--the members for South To BE REVIVED (SINCE THE ALARbf ABOUT
Essex got clear for £l.BO each. Captain Sherard POISONOUS WASHES).-The Rightful Hair. -Punch.
Osborn spent more than twice as much as his success-
ful opponent at Liverpool. i
OFFICIAL DELAY.-The 21,- ete York Times gives
Mr. Gladstone and Sir.
t
' Some five or six years ago Captain Creighton, of a British
South-west Lancashire.
Grenfell were out of pocket £11,500 by the election in , he following specimen of Red Tape in America :-
\ '
Some
rescued, with great gallantry, a large number of
LIVERIED REPUBLICANS. - The postmen 01. ' United States' troops from death on board the shipwrecked
New York have get into uniform at last, and a very vessel SRI/ Francisco, on which they had been embarked.
good uniform it seems to be. That public opinion C:net-Las Lotdeintinyilesismte.eagl,;t lit aitkizlgilirtiaeli,ietsosfishiosr
has undergone some change during the laet few years
'eight years to accompllah this little feat. How fortunate it
is plainly shown by the matter of course acquiescence is that in this country there is no such thing as redtape, but
in such things as uniforming policemen and postmen, everything is done promptly-at just the right time and in
and in permitting even servants in livery to pass just the right way. Whether Captain Creighton still lives,
through the streets without being mobbed. Twenty and is sufficiently in possession of his memory to recollect
years ago this would have we cannot say
been impossible. What will the service for whieh he is to he rewarded so munificently,
twenty years more bring? A QUAKER'S RIGHT TO WEAR HIS HAT-On
Friday Mr. Joseph Smith, a member of the Society of
Loss
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wind
whichHONORED P
iporenzilsedl N
on THE
Saturday
GALE.
Friends, made his appearance in the Police-court,
forenoon, while a lady was leaving the National Bank,
Liverpool, and stood for some time with his head
in Andrew-square, Edinburgh, where she had been
covered. One of the magistrates desired him to re-
drawing £5OO in notes for various amounts, a sudden
move his hat, but Mr. Smith declined to attend to the
and violent gust of wind caught her, forced open a
reticule whic she carried containing the notes, and request. Raying he had worn his hat without
hinter-
scattered them in all directions. Notes to the value of
forein the B. in sham Police Court. The magis-
t t directed the oftiters of the court to remove him if
about £3OO were found and returned to her by the
r
persons who picked them up. but notes for about £lOO h.'s' did not uncover immediately. The dispute was
ultimately settled by Mr. Smith consenting to allow a
were supposed to have been blown over the housetops
policeman to take off his het, and by his remaining un-
and have not been recovered. A
LUCKY INDIVIDUAL-For several months covered during the time he stopped in court.
CHIGNONS DOOMED !-The Sport, a Parisjourn al,
past a rumour has been circulating at Oxford that a
announces that the great ladies of the French capital
tradesman of that city had become the possessor of a
have determined to abolish chignons. "The character
large and valuable estate as the result of certain
of the head-dress," it says "is to undergo an important
Chancery proceedings. The report has turned out to
reform ; the command has gone forth that false hair
be perfectly, true, the fortunate individual being Mr.
and wigs must be repudiated." And not only no, but
W. H. Walter, of the High-street, who has unex- ladies are always to appear as if they dressed their
peetedly become the owner of landed and other pro-
own hair, for, "when the work of a professional
perty valued at £BO,OOO. Some twenty years ago a
is manifest on their heads, prestige ceases. In the
sister of Mr. Walter was engaged to be married to a
gentleman named Dancer, the owner of large pro- day-time the hair is to be simply plaited, and confined
rty residing at Harrow-on-the- in a net-in other words, instead of assumine a
peHilL The wedding-
pyramidal form, it is to have a tendency to fall like
day was fixed, and all the preparations were made,
that of Niobe. In the evening it will only be necessary
when Mr. Dancer was seize with an illness; which
to put on
.the head a crew,n, or a wreath of roses, or
terminated fatally on the very day that had been
ivad y, or of some creepini, plant." The Sport adds
pointed for the marriage. Before his death he h :-
"All
made a will bequeathing the whole of his landed
metal articles. Henceforth false hair at best can only
estates to his intended bride. A Chancery suit was
be tolerated as a detail, as a modest auxiliary-it can
immediately instituted by the friends of the deceased
with a view to set aside the will, and while this
llonel.:!Fer be the principal or the only ornament of the
wan
pending the lady in question Was married to another n'
gentleman; although ;several children were born they Tunx ABOUT.-The Gazette de Lausanne says
all died in infancy, and the lady herself died about in the villages of Meisterschwanden and Fahewangen
two years ago, when her legal claim to the property (Aargau), has just been celebrated, in accordance with
was yet undecided. After a long course of litigation ancient custom, the "Fetes des Femmes," the women
Mr. Walter has succeeded in obtaining a decree of the taking the place of the melt for the one day. The girls
Court of Chancery, establishing his claim as heir-at- conduct the youths to the festive board and invite
law, and lad week he took possession of the property, them to dance, paying likewise all expenses. In one
one estate being situate in the neighbourhood of klar- word, during the fete the weaker sex have completely
row, and another in the county of Northampton. the upper hand.
KEEPING HOUSE RIGHT ROYALLY !-To have POPULAR PROGRESS. - The following. passage
a sure idea of what a French house of the old noblesse in Le Pollees " Fashions for February" is signiti.
can be, a visit to such a place as Dainpierre (the Due cant :-
de Luynes') or Rochecotte (the Marquis de "The fanchon bonnet is disappearing gradually; the ilia-
('astellane's), or La Guadiniere, would suffice. At the dem is gaining favour month by month."
latter residence M. de la Rochefouesuld, its proprietor, This fact evidences the growing sovereignty of the
exercises almost Royal hospitality during six months of people. The diadem is getting to be vielrn by all the
every year. The woods are nine leagues in extent, and world-and his wife. -Punch.
here, in autumn, when the master of the house and his
visitors ride or drive out, or hunt, one hundred and , SAGACITY AND KINDNESS OF RATS. -It has
twenty horses leave the stables, and a garde a reeled • uften been noted that rats are very clever in the plane
of more than fifty men in uniform assemble round the they try to secure plunder, and it also deserves men.
company for the departure and return. A private tion that they are frequently found to exercise great
orchestra of thirty musicians iii always in attendance kindness towards those of their number who may
indoors, and in such houses as these every detail is in have sustained some injury. The following story
keeping. fram the Caithness Courier illustrates the second of
these traits more than the first :-" While Alexander
PUGILISTIC LAWYERS.-The amenities of the Gunn, cattle dealer, Braehour, was lately passing the
American bar are not always of the highest kind. The Mill of Dale, his attention was directed to a large rat
defending attorney in a murder case at Nashville coming out of its hole, which, after eurveying the
understood the Attorney-General of Tennessee to place, retreated with the greatest caution and silence.
say that he lied, whereupon he struck him at the back /t returned soon afterwards, leading by the ear an-
of the head. A hand-to-hand-fight ensued, and the other, which it left close by the hole. A third rat
parties were finally separated. The Attorney-General joined this kind conductor, and the two then searched
then explained that his learned friend had inisunder" I about and picked up small scraps of grain ; these they
stood him, and that he had intended no insult what, !
t carried to the second rat, which appeared to be blind,
ever. The Judge smiled serenely, related an anecdote and which remained on the spot where they had left
appropriate to the occasion, and trusted that the little it, nibbling such fare as was brought to it. They
incident would be forgotten. seemed then to relax in their exertions, and only re-
SUGGESTIVE DISCOTBRY.-We have a wonderful mained for a short time; after which one of the rats
account in the Indian journals of the contents of the seized a small stick about five inches in length, which
stomach of a crocodile which was captured near Agra. he inserted in the blind one's mouth, and in this way
The following is a true and correct list of the various conducted it to the water, of which they all partook,
articles or extraneous substances which were found, and afterwards led its companion back to its hole."
and which had no business there :-About a dozen is. . ~.., r RIENDLY LEAD" INTERRUPTED.-On the
large bunches, pellets ef hair (probably human), tifi
person of the chairman of a "Friendly Lead," held in
rounded pebbles averaging in size from nearly three
inches to one inch in diameter, one large ankle bangle one of the worst " slums "of London, to assist a "pal"
ring of mixed metal, 24 fragments, of various sizes, of who had got into trouble was found ama containing
:
vitreous armlet rings, five bronze finger rings, one small this touching snatch of poesy -
s
silver neckcharm, a small defaced silver coin, with a Days like years are sure
toss pa,
Let's hope to have another glass,
metal loop for suspension attached to it, one gold bead And sing a song, and do our part,
about one-third of an inch square, one largish bead of To give our mites with all our heart.
black stone veined with white, and 30 small red neck- The worthy chairman was also arrested whilst
lace beads. All these things (barring the stones) it is presiding at the "Friendly Lead," to the great disgust
taken for granted must have been the ornaments of of the elite of the "fancy" who had assembled hi great
some woman (if not more than one) who had been de- numbers.
voured by this monster. The skeleton of the crocodile
was being prepared as a specimen for the Redden A CAT ON THE PUMISES.-An attorney's bill
Museum, Agra. 'submitted for taxation in the Bristol District Bank-
ruptcy Court the other day, contained the following
A GOOD REASONER.-A Teetotaller's arguments novel item :-" Attending messenger who informed
are pretty sure to be sound, for he is certain to make me that a cat was locked up on the bankrupt's
use of nothing which will not hold water. -Punch. premises ,• attending same, and releasing cat, 6s. Bd."
A TWYING TIME.-First Swell. Seedy, what's At first this unique charge was taxed off by the
the matter Y-Second Ditto. Matter ! why, my good registrar, but on the explanation that the stock on the
fwend, if I hadn't got a d-devil of a censtitution, I premises was a valuable one, and might suffer eon-
should never have come back alive. I've been stay- siderable damage if the cat were allowed to reruain in
tog with an old welative in the countwy, and d-dash undisputed possession, the item was restored.
me if I haven't beenin bed before twelve evewy blessed SUFROCATRO INT A TURKISH BATH.-Two Turks,
night for a whole week ! -Judy. domestics in the employ of Prince Muetapha Fazyl,
THE FUTURE OF THE litTuALisTs.-The fol- were suffocated a few days ago in the bath which has
lowing concluding paragraph is contained in a circular just been erected in his highness's konak at Stamt soul.
just issued by the Rev. J. Going, incumbent of St. The bath had been heated for the first time, and the
Paul's Walworth, to his congregation, inviting their deceased went into it about two o'clock in the morning.
aid to clear off the existing liabilities on account of It seems that they fell asleep; one, a young man,
church expenses and the schools :- never awoke,. the servants succeeded in rousing the
At this time, when Catholics are attacked ..n all sides by other, but the poison of the fumes had taken too
their enemies, they need the vigorous help and co-operation strong hold of him, and he died in the course of a few
of their friends We have nothing to fear as long as we are hour..
firm aid faithful to each other and to the Chureh ; and that
God helping us we will always be. We will not make a THE MISFORTUNES OF A TIBETAN EXPLORER.-
schism on the one hand, or secede to Rome on the other, as The Indian newspapers announce that Sir. Cooper, the
our enemies invite us to do-they care not which; but will Tibetan explorer, has been compelled to give up his
live for, and, if need be, die for that branch of the Catholic bold undertaking of penetrating into India from
't jhi Church into which Our Lord called us at our baptism ; and
In which, torso many yea
Cna ust when he had almost accomplished
years, Ile has fed us with finsßouy Chi I .
When last heard of by the China papers he was lying
and Blood.
OUT OF nett ELEMENT.-The last place which sick at the house of the Roman Catholic bishop at
Tatsian-100. Before Mr. ('sop or was able to retrace
you would expect a woman to like is-a Still-roorn.- - his steps so far, he underwent shocking privations, the
Punch. Buddhist priests and officials having prohibited the
THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.-Notieing the report natives from supplying him with food. They aleo seem
representing the Marquis of Bute having joined the to have aggravated their inhumanity by robbery. Mr.
Romieh church, the Daily News says "It was true. It Cooper had penetrated to a point near Tab, which
wasn't. It could not, must not, should not be true. Captain Sladen almost reached from Burmah about
But it was, for all that. The marquis-the marquis, the same time. He will return to Hankow and
with three hundred thousand a year-had become a Shanghai. The next attempt must be made from
Roman Catholic? A bomb shell as big as the dome India.
of St. Peter's itself could not have caused greater con- AN EXPLANATION FROM PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
sternation. There was wailing in Mayfair, and -The United States Senate having requested Presi-
Belsrravia would not be comforted. The beautiful 'dent Johnson to inform it by what authority his pro-
' Coronach ' of Scott, familiar to all young ladies, was climation of amnesty was issued on the 25th December
in the mouths of each of them ; and it was pitiable to last, he has stated in reply that it was issued in virtue
hear the melancholy refrain, ' Like the bubble on the of the power vested in him by the coestituti al. That
fountain, he is gone-and for ever.' But the despair constitution, he says, is understood to be, and is re-
of the young is often somewhat hasty. Luckily, how- carded by the Executive, as the supreme law of the
ever, it is about as transitory. So when the veterans rand. The second section of Article 2 provides that
of the domestic camp began to hint that after all hope the President shall have power to grant reprieves and
need not yet be abandoned, that though a Roman pardon for offencee against the United States, except
Catholic in the abstract is rather a terrible thing, a i. cues of impeachment. President Johnson adds
Roman Catholic husband in the concrete, and pant- that his amnesty proclamatioo is "in strict accordance
cularly one who is a Marquis, and has £300,000 a-rar, 1 with the judicial expositions of the authority thus
is per caps a proper object for the exercises of a little ' conferred on the Executive," and he sent papers to the
Christian toleration, the young ladies began to take I Senate to show that it is in conformity, with preen-
consolation, and try to see the matter in a different dente established by Washington, and followed by
light." Adams, Madison, Lincoln, and the "present Execu-
SUICIDE AT ST. HELEN'S.-On Friday a young tive."
man named Lyttle shot himself dead in the avenue DEATH OF AN OPIITM EATER.-An inquest has
leading from Eccleston-halL A young woman named been held at St. George's Workhouse, London, on the
Elizabeth Nevitt was proceeding up the avenue just body of Elizabeth Ann Busby, the widow of a tailor,
before the rash act was committed, and she saw him and who had for some years past assistedin the ser-
standing on a small path that winds among the trees. vents' hall at Lord Sefton's, Sir John Pakington's,
He was very close to her, and as she passed he looked and other members of the aristocracy. The deceased
into lier face with an expression she was unable to had been in the habit of taking opium for yearn, and
define, and which rather alarmed her' so she quickened when cautioned about it by her stepson she said she
her steps, having only had time to observe that he was could not help it if it killed her, and further said that
leaning against a tree and holding something very like the dectore had cautioned her about taking it. She
a gun. She hail not gone more than fifty yards when was, according to her statement, unable to sleep. In
she heard a loud report, and turning suddenly round, her pocket a tin box was found with opium in it, and
she saw him fall on the grass. He was in the employ the following letter
of Menem Bishop fora couple of years, and was highly
This is a memorandum of what I wish shoull be known
respected by them. He was a native of Enniskillen, to my friends, as I much fear a sudden death from the feel-
and was first engaged as a glass sorter. In thin imsi- mg I have long had, ever 811100 the accident to me in July
tion his demeanour and intelligence were observed and last to my breast, as there is a continual pain there, and I
he was made a warehouseman. Some days since it suffer more than either of them know, and I wish my friend
was intimated to him that as it became necessary to to know at St. John's Wood, and also my dear Mrs. Creswell,
dispense with one of the warehousemen he could go Great Marlow, Bucks. Dear Tom, if I should be taken off
back to his old post, which he declined, preferring to sudden, you would be most liken to come to my home' and
I hope you will write to Eninia White, and let her take any-
leave. On Thursday evening he was speaking to one thing idle likes for her trouble. and she will find enough to
of the glassmakers, and he then appeared to be ia low pay her; and I have also paid for may funeral at the club.
spirits, but up to the time he shot himself no one If you will send to Mr-. Gordon, Regent-street, Westminster
for a moment suspected he had any such inter,- and tell her I wish to lie as near Allen as I can ,he says £5
tion. will pay all expenses at the Brompton Cemetery.-
ELIZABEM ANN BUSHY.
A BLUNDER-MM.-Kissing the Wrong Girl.- The medical evidence showed that death resulted
Punch. from aneurism-which pain opium would relieve-and
A REVIVALIST lines-The new style of hymn
so the jury decided,
introchiced by the "Revivalists," and written not
OF COURSK IT is !-After all their' vapouring
merely for this generation but for this year, says the
Western Morning News, really surprises us by the about progress, Her islaiesty's Ministers have shown
us that their idea concerning it is-sestMnery!-Judy.
descent ahich it makes into irreverence, not to say
blasphemy. The most recent specimen of this kind of THE WORKING POOR OF EUROPE. - Mr.
literature is from the pen of Mr. Wm. Weaver "the Blanchard Jerrold, whose labours among the working
converted clown." Here is the first verse :- poor of London and Paris have long been known and
I've given my heart to Jesus, acknowledged, has just started on an important tour of
And mean to keep it so inquiry into the continental systems of poor relief, and
If the devil wants to have it all, into the constitution, efficacy, and actual condition of
11l tell him-. Not for Joe." , the public and private charities of the great cities of
And so through other five verses, "Not for Joe' Europe. Mr. Jerrold travels under the most die-
is the refrain. The last is, perhaps the most extra- tinguished auspices, and much valuable information is
ordinary :- naturally expected from a mission he is so well quali-
Lord give me strength to fight, fled to fulfil.
And battle every foe ;
If tempted to forsake my God, BRAVERY OF A SEAMAN.-A report from Wey-
To cry °in-" Not for Joe." mouth states that the Amalia, North German brig,
R VrY AWKWARD ! - When Stephenson was from Havre for St. Thomas (ballast), came on shore on
asked what would be the result if a cow were to stray the Penile Beach, Portland, at noon on Tuesday.
upon a railway, he replied that it would be " verra Eight .4 her crew were hauled on shore by the rocket
awkward for the coo," but the eminent engineer never apparatus, the other two having jumped overboard in
dreamt of such a contingency as an elephant getting the hope of getting up the beach, but were swept
on the track. An accident of this kind has, however, seaward and drowned. The man to whom the eight
recently occurred in India. One if a batch of seventy men were mostly indebted for their lives was a Port- i
elephants that were being driven from Calcutta to land fisherman named Thomas Flann. At the time
Dinapore strayed upon a line of railway, and was run the ship struck, the waves ran very high-often, in.
into by a'goods train. Of couree it Was " verra awk- deed, going higher than the yards. Flann had a' rope
ward" for the elephant, but it was also disastrous to tied about his waist, and, the other end being held by
the train. The engine was thrown on its broadside, men on shore, he threw himself upon a retiring wave,
clear of the rails, several coal trucks were smashed, and with great vigour swam out and succeeded in lay-
three of them being thrown over a bridge into a stream ing hold of a cable which bung from the ship's bows.
and the engine-driver was rather seriously injured. He climbed on board, and found the men in the most
In America owing to the insecurity of the fences, the excited state, but persuaded them that if they only
railway engines are furnished in front with clearers, followed his directions they would all be saved. He
called ' cow-catchers ;" in India, it would seem, they was aided by other fishermen, who, following his ex-
need to adopt "elephant-catchers." ample, swam out with ropes. When the last man had
MERIT VERSUS INTEREsT.-The Lords of the got safely to shore, Flann gave a hearty cheer, and
Admiralty have, in view of the alterations and re- returned to land himself,
duetione they are about to make in the various offices TIMODE'S LiBRARY.-According tothe Spectator,
under their control, very propel ly isened is circular, a treasure of prieelese value has been found among the
warning officers and others from exerting parliamentary stores of the India House. Oriental scholars all over
and other influential interest in order to secure advance, the world will feel their blood quicken at the news
moot and promotion, and desiring that all applications that the library of Timour, collected in the course of
shall be sent through a professional superior. Their his conquests, has been discovered. "Among other
lordships state that they consider such a line of conduct treasures are documents of extraordinary value con-
to whiah they have referred to imply that the oases tio mooted with the biography of Rohm:aid."

A LEPROUS HUSBAND.—A curious matrimonial
case recently came before the Bombay High Court.
A leprous husband prayed for the restituth al of con-
jugal rights, which his wife had den ed him through '
fear of being affected with the disease, and thereby
endangering her own life. The Moonsiff of Surat,
before whom the ease came first, threw out the plaint.
The Jul, 14 the di-trict reversed the decision, because
it had been 'made on the extra-judicial ground that it
would be cruelty to compel the woman to live with her
husband. The High Court, however, thought the
Moonsiff's view of the case correct, since where there
is cruelty the court ought not to interfere, and the
district judge's decree was reversed. This decision is
of some importance in the Bombay Presidency, where
one in every hundred of the population is a leper,
and where the disease is said to be steadily on the
increase.
PRINCE KUDDER ON A PILGRIMAGE. Prince
Sooleiman Kudder, cousin to the ex• King of Oude, who
for his alleged complicity in the murder of the child
of his maid servant gained a notoriety which cost him
his seat in the Governor General's Durbar, has left
Lucknow on a pilgrimage to the shrine of his Holy
Saints in Arabia. Before leaving, however, he tea
the precaution of settling a dispute with his wife by
fixing 300 rupees as her monthly allowance. On reach-
ing Bombay he sent instructions to his chief eunuch to
curtail his establishment, and thus reduce the expendi-
, ture. It is reported that from Arabia the Prince pro-
. ceeds to England to shake hands with his Grace the
• Duke of Argyll, and obtain restoration to his fc,rmer
honours and privileges.

Dr. Ilehnbold, the well-known patent-medie,
millionaire, is creating quite a sensation In New York lb
his new equipace—a landau, drawn by four high-spirited
steeds, with g.dihmounted harness.
" We noticed last year that a lubricating sad s
salad on had been extracted from cockchafers. We now read
that another chemist obtains N beautiful golden yellow
colouring matter train them—Mechanics Nagavrae.
It has been noticed in select Parisian circles this
winter that It has become decidedly unfashionable to use

powder.
In Tennesee, on Christmas Eve, a large eagle
swooped down on a child, and flow off with it. A servant
woman rushed after it, and encountered a sportsman, who
also gave chase, and when the eagle alight ,I. fired a shot
which scared it away, leaving the child on the ground un.

hurt.
A correspondent of a French paper announces that
the King of -Prussia is about to embrace Ronni•i catholicism
end that he will be crowned Emperor of Gammy by Pope
Pius IX.
Indian advices say that retribution has overtaken
Beer Hadjee, one of the murderers of Captain Douglas and
other Europeans at Delhi in 1857. On the 20111 December,
nearly twelve years after the murders, Meer fladjee was
hanged in front of the Lahore Gate, Delhi, facing the apart-
ments wherein he butchered his victims.
New York has a "bootblack co-operative society,"
by which, for two dollars a month, every one can have his
hoots polished every morning at his house, and as often
during the day as he may choose to call at " licadootartem."
The diacussions which have taken place on the wan-
ton destruction of sea-birds have led to the is a motion of an
influential society for their protection.
M. Ban6B, a Paris stockbroker, Mum himself, in
Isequence of having received intelligence that his confl-
ial clerk, now in custody, had miaappropriated funds to
:extent of £120,000.
Considerable excitement has prevailed in Bolivia in
consequence of the new and extensive gold inines discovered
at Santa Rosa, near Om Brazilian frontier, which are re-
ported as being exceedingly productive
It is generally understood that her Majesty will The celebrated Madame Rachel's shop has been
open the coming session of parliament in person. "closed for reparation." A waggish boy scratched on the
According to the Epoca of Madrid, it has been shutters, " Beware of the paint.
decided that a directory shall be established in Spain as the The following is a translation of an advertisement
definitive form of government after opening the Cortes, be- in the second column of The Tunes.—" One lipu utp gppuit,
cause if the latter decided in favour of a monarchy, con- uijt trinf ; one got two fools this time;, yuyoll tuare fuan
siderable time would elapse before the choice could be suotulher .you are another'.
finally settled. A French correspondent that knows London better
The Pope has sent a letter and his blessing to the than Londoners, says —"An: aayltun for cats has been est*,
editors of the Paris Union, congratulating them upon the fished in a sentare near Regent's Park. It ins small house of
ardour with which they combat "the spirit of iniquity "and two stories, with a large garden attached, where the nuttier-
defend the cause of the church, ens cats have their sports and pastimes. The asylum is
Prince Leopold was confirmed on Saturday at conducted by a matron, an assistant, and a cook."
Whippingham Church by the Archbishop of Canterbury. " All Sorrento was out this morning to witness the
edifying sight of two little girls, the one ab, e o
It is reported that an attack en the cathedral system about 11, abjure the Protestant faith. Thout 10 th ther
e bishop who
will probably be made in the House of Commons by a dile preached on the occasion alluded to it as a proof of the
tinguished member of the Liberal party. troth of the Roman Catholic religion. The church wits now
"W. B. is entreated to communicate at once with suffering persecution, but, as always happeeed, it became
his anxious wife, as the suspense is killing her—lt. S. B. stronger in Heaven is proportion to its ratikerings on earth.
Advertisement in Daily Telegraph. (it that they had had a proof that morning. The Young
Mrs. Charles Barnard, wife of the Rev. Charles ladies, Miss 'fuller and Miss Kelsey, are both irish."—Tionn.'
leo mien,
Barnard, who, under the p m seudooye of " Claribel,"hunt- C''""- ' .
, quireil so much popularity by her songs and ballads, died on The mercnants of Mincing-lane, Loudon, have (net
, Saturday, at Dover, of typhoid fever, after an illness of three presented to the National Lifeboat Institution the nautili-
,: Weeks cent sum of £l,OOO, to defray the cost of a new lifeboat for
1 The Ciril Serfiee Gazette understands that the Board paLsrspentrtsunsiety,
;Natthtlititinn,daoTl,tdassmisetrtairum natirhiaiirgit,..ii?,
, oilnland Revenue have obtained from the Treasury authority
Ito increase and present allowance to supervisors for ho few daye ago a contributMn of L 703 to the institution to pay
for the large lifelmat at Southw old, Suffolk.
keep, hire, etc , LIS per aumun, so that it will in no case
I exceed e. 45 per 'annum, and the present allowance to ride On Monday Sir Henry Oxenden, of Sibertswould,
officers £lO per annum, so that it will in no case exceed £3O was out shooting in a cover near Broome Park, nods game-
' per annum keeper named West attended him. West was beating the
A movement is on foot in Portsmouth to prevent wood when a bird rose jolt beyond him. Sir Henry fired,
awl unfortunately hit both the bird aml the man. The
funerals on Sundays. The employas of the undertakers and
coach proprietors have already drawn up a memorial ow the bird died on the instant, the man lived until early next
subject, and at a meeting of the principals, it was resolved inciting.
that they should also memorialise the various burial boards, A "National Education League" is being firmed in
soliciting their co-operation in the movement. Birmingham. The object of the association is "the estab-
' A banker's clerk, named Murray, has been shot at lishinent of a system which shall secure the education of
and wounded in the left leg in Blessingtolestreet, Dublin, every child in England and Wales"
The police are unable to account for the outrage or to find its A Man named 'Wiltshire has been arrested at St.
author. George, Gloucestershire, on a charge of outraging slid mar.
The subscription for the testimonial proposed to be daring a widow named Harriet Nurse. the 550111a11 wee
presented to General Peel by his old fluntingdoushire friends about thirty-seven years of age, and addicted to drink. ahe
now exceeds £l,OOO The day for the presentation of the was in liquor on Saturday night, and went home drunk.
testimonial has not yet been fixed. She was found next rimming dead nears hay mow. .
A great and unaccountable mortality has for the last The Jews of Brussels held a funeral service for the
1 few days been prevalent among the salmon lathe Tweed and late Prince Royal on Sunday last, which was attended by all
, Ettriek. In the pools and eddies dead salmon, of from 10Ib. the Jews of the city. The synagogue wah OralicO in
to Sun, weight, are to be seen at every turn of the rivers. mourning. There were suitable musical services, and the
chief ralthi, AL Astruc, offered up a prayer that divine
Mr. Childers has recommended Commodore Sir eo solation might be granted to the Rule and Queen under
Leopold Heath, K.C.8.,_ to her Majesty the Queen for the ::jr.ffit,,,io„ - -
post of Naval Aide-de-Camp, rendered vacant by the pro-
America, the land of prodigies in about to supply
motion of Captain Shadwell to the rank 61 Rear -Admiral,
us with the Infant Gynniast, aged tit:co and shalt years'
and her Majesty hag been graciously pleased to confirm the
recommendation. Sir Leopold was the senior naval officer An excuse was made for an acrobat, employed at
during the late Abyssinian expedition some of the music halls, who was summoned at a London
In the Court of Common Pleas a surgeon sued iselice-office, for assaulting an officer that his education had
the Great Northern Railway company for compensation for been neglected. The magistrate said a man mightr : hail
years of age The lad was crossing the Grayiann-road,
injuries sustaiued by his son, a boy between six and seven a bad education and yet have
gocoodsenee,.o; f
cleverest men he had ever known could n
d ett. ;aid nor
London, when he was knocked down by a railway van, driven write. He remanded the defendant.
by one of the servants of the company. lie was severely Monsignor Capel (whose name, distorted as Bishop
hurt, and amongst other injuries, one of his hands was so Kepple . had been mentioned as the authority for the state-
crushed, that amputation of two lingers was necessary. The timid that the Marquis of Bute was about to be admitted to
jury gave the father £l,OOO. the Romish priesthood, writes fri en Pau—" Will you do sae
The Duke of Coburg has abolished the ballet in his
theatres. tahneyfraelpraourtr toot stahyetkihantdl,hever heard of, much less originated,
A velocipede club is about to be established in Liver- The Horse Guards have raised the standard for re'
pool crude for infantry regiments to 5 ft. 8 in.
It is stated that 30,000 cattle have perished near A meeting of distressed clerks Was convened in
Delhi for want of fodder. Liverpool on Monday, at which measures were taken, under
The controverses in the columns of The Times re-
garding the advisal day of ceding Gibraltar to the Spaniards rein joust
ec 00-fop thee r at iio
,of
Providentt h eu Clatstalsoßieeltiey!
for
retiV
raill„, thef of
has terminated, as far as argument goes, in the total disc.om- the existing distress,
fiture of Admiral Grey and other advocates of such amen' The action for libel brought by Mr. Leonard
sure. Ethnunds against Mr. Greenwood, the solicitor to the
Two of the highest tides known since the tremendous Treasury, which was to have come on for trial in the Court
storms of the year 1634, occurred at Portsmouth on Friday of Common Pleas, will not now be tried, all tile questions in
morning and afternoon in last week dispute between Mr. Edwards and the Crown having been
A grand-neice of the naturalist Bsiffon, Mdme. referred to arbitration.
Nadautt de Buffon, has just died at montbard at the age of At a meeting of the Chadwick Charity trusteees et
eighty-eight. Bolton, on Saturday it e as intimated that Dr. Chadwict. of
A Southern paper wants "a Stop put to the foolish Southport, and formerly or Bolton, hail munificently plsevd
habit of shooting one another prevalent in the South:" at their disposal a further sum of .C 5,000 in addition to the
,tl7 000 previously given, midriffs; in all 22,000. The money
Postagmetamps perhwated with initials of persons will' be devoted to the erectiou of artisans' model slvellings
using them are recommended as an effectual preventive of and an orphan asylum.
fraudulent removal of stamps. A singular suicide ia reported from Brussels. A
A Horse Guards general order just issnecl states that young woman, slightly deranged, poisoned herself by eating
inst owes having occurred where commanding officers have the Menspleerus ou a large number of !eater matchee.
postponed recommending soldiers qualified to receive good-
conduct medals, in order to obtain for them a large gratuity It appears from the Oude Administration Report
in sui aequent years : ills now directed that the instructions that Miring the past year 1,127 persona died from the effects
contained in the "Omen's Regulations awl Orders for the of snake bites in that province, and from tile Central ins'
Army "must be strictly adhered to with a view to all the vinces Administration Report, that 1,874 deaths hail ,ra-
medals and gratuities for each year being appropriated. curred in them from the same cause during the tide, pre-
ceding years.
The Emperor Napoleon has just signed a decree
I,,,ifilhi=zietilintositchc
ee inattnicoe,iliztetrl.mo
ft ctr i itstabriadothoatthheeir
able institutions by a person named Hullos, of Boulogne, said as to the probable length of the visit.
:?..foEr: a°lumil 'ft bee. r'c'hr PriretuTnefraont.di tile East. NofotNititVtis4
and consisting of houses of the value of 43,000 and Fah° in At Liverpool, Christopher Hughes, a fireman, AVM
money. brought before the magistrates, charged with havirg se-
In London, a middle-aged woman, named Francis, verely injured his wife by biting off her nose. It appeared
while in a state of intoxication, fell off the platform at the that the prisoner and the injured woman were quarredifig
..ritletr.
wiilitviii:
Londombridge railway-station on Sunday evening Met as ain the house where the woman lived, when the prismier
train was coming up A ticket-inepecter caught hold of her seized her by the hair of her head and nit off the lower part
and polled her out of the way of the train, or she would of her nose. lie was remanded, as the woman was not able
probably have been killed. She was brought up at the to attend in court.
Southwark police-court the following morning and fined fa. Much gloom has been caused throughout under'
Letters from Russia draw a gloomy picture of the graduate circles in Oxford by the almost sudden deaths of
slitiation in Lithuania. The population is eat,' to be perish Messrs. John Moore, commoner, of Bragenose, and John
ing of cold and hunger, the mortality in the government of Morgan, commoner, of Jesus College. Mr. Moore was out
Kowno reaching from 05010 700 daily. A murrain is also with his rifle corps on Friday, when he took a chill and was
apprehended attended by Drs. Gray and Acland, lett no danger was appre-
In a cave at Rock Island, Illinois the statue of hended until Sunday, when he became suddenly worse, and
,an Indian maiden has been discovered. It a solidcopper expired in the evening. Mr. Morgan was attended by Mr.
pedestal, seven feet high, and obelisk of solid braes. Other Hitchings, surgeon, and had been ailing some time
Indian curiosities have been lately discovered in the same The little difficulty which had arisen between Brother
vicinity. Ignatius and a Miss Robinson, respecting the possession of
" Economy is an excellent thing, but those who love it the new chapel in the rear of his-:'menastety, at Norwich,
should take care that they always stop short at the line which has been satisfactorily settled. Miss Robinson is to be al-
borders on niggardliness. We fear that in our present rage lowed to preach, and Brother Ignatius has publicly stated
for retrenchment we are in some cases approaching danger- that he sees "the image of Jesus very clearly reflected in her
ously near to that nue, and run some risk of neutralising face and spirit." The services of the police had been at one
penny wisdom by pound foolishness."—Daily Telegraph, time invoked by Brother Ignatius to clear the chapel.
The Registrar-General, in his weekly returns from Miss Johnston, an old lady, who died at Montrose
roodon, this makes use of a new word-- two persons have last week, has left about £2,000 in property, about Vile of
died from alcoholism." which go in legacies to relatives One of them, who has t.,
take care of the cat and dog, received LBO in addition, as
The statement made by some of the morning. papers compensation for the trouble.
that it is settled that the Eastern volunteer review ts not to
be held at Portsmouth this year is premature, as the sub William Thomas Gill, a beenseller of Ovendon, near
committe have not yet made their report to the general Halifax, was 011 Saturday fined £lO and costs by the Halifax
committee of commanding officers bench for permitting cock-fighting in his house, and resisting
"A young child was on the 10th instant lost in the the I'lle'
bush at Talbragar, near Denison Town, and was not din. A strange accident has just occurred at Riom,
covered until after about thirty hours' search. When the France. An elderly woman went to bed leaving a brazier
little fellow won asked where he had slept on the night he alight. While she was asleep some coala fell on the floor
was out, he answered—' With the stars. "—Sydney Herald. and burnt it to such an extent that the deceased fell through
If England has her difficulties with the aborigines into the cellar. where she was found almost completely car-
bonised
of New Zealana, France has hers with the wild tribes of • At the Spanish Protestant services in Madrid last
Algeria, for the Paris papers report what appears to be a
aerioue native rising. Ills stated that eumerous bands of Sunday hundreds of persons were unable to obtain. 1.111115511111
the tribes that have never given in their submission to the owing to the want of room. The owner of the house ill
. which worship is held has received an anonymous later
French are advancing towards Tell. They occupy Taggrim,
and the communications with the Geryville and Leghouat threatening him with assassinatiou.—ln the afternoon there
are cut off. Columns of troops are being organised to march I was a manifestation in Madrid in favour of religious liberty.
against the rebels, and General Deligny, who is on leave o Perfect order prevailed General Prim and senor Ortiz
absence, has beep summoned to his post The France adds addressed the people, and mid that freedom of worship was
to this statement that, th inks to the measures taken it is I an accomplished fact, but added that the Provisiotial Gi.veni-
expected the disturbances will speedily be repressed. went preferred leaving to the Cortes to deci,le the question
An English gentle of separation between Church and State.
" man named Blair has just been
converted here to the Roman Catlmlis, faith," no writes the The Prince Royal of Belgium expired in the room
ROlll/01 correspondent to the Pall Mall Gazette.—" This gas- in which his grandfather, Leopold 1., drew his last breath.
Heinen is Colonel Blair, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, A Mdme. Sairete-Caroline, a Sister of Mercy engaged
year ago, he says, he thought Catholics were idolaters, and in the floapital of Dieppe, has just lost her life by a sail
now he wonders how he ever could have been a Protestant' accident, having contracted a mortal disease from the virus
—Tablet remelting on a disaecting knife of Dr. de Broutalles, which
The Liverpool coroner has held an inquest on the she was cleaning after it had been employed in an operation.
body of a stonemason, named Roberts, who was well known A girl named Elizabeth fleetly, twelve years of
in the neighbourhood of Manchester. On "Fuesilay in loot age, has drowned herself at Manchester. bier father had
week he cope d from lace, near Wigan, with a married found fault with her, and immediately after she told her
woman, avid the two went to Liverpool. On Thursday the mother that she would drown herself. The mother does not
woman expressed a wish to return to bib usband, and in appear to have regarded tins in a more serious light than
the evening of that day Edwards went into a public-Mmee
seen is foolish threat, but the girl was in earnest She was
and suddenly cut his throat with a razor, death being a boy named irax to go to a reservoir in the neigbour-
almost instaetaneous. The jury returned a verdict of hood and deliberately throw herself in.
" Temporary imanity." The Rev. C. Parnell, of St James; the Less, Liver-
A newspaper is published on board the steamer pool, hail intimated to his congregation that, in obedience to
Richmond, one of the huge passenger palaces which Phi the ruling of the Privy Councit he will discontinue the use
between Louisville and New Orleane It is called the of altar lights. At the same time lie considers that juitg-
Ric hutond Head- Light. It has two compositors and one ment win have a great effeet in advancing Ritualism
editor, and is published six times during each trip, or about throughout the country
three timee a week. It is intended to be a t aithfid expositor - - '
of river life, affording racy entertaimnent for the paseengers, "Nlay I venture to allude to the euppression of por-
es well as an advertising medium for hotel proprietors and poises and bottleraosee in England 5 The plan adopted on
merchauts. the Mediterranean, where porpoises or
,fcroni, as the natives
The much-boasted excursion traffic from London to call them. abound, is simple and inexpensive enough. En-
Brighton at 35., only produced the Company last year £13,000, gage a priest, row hint out to sea, and there let him muse
whilst the gross receipts of the company for the year the
fish. I have known it done often, and seen it done
amounted to £1,300,000, so that the excursion traffic formed several times, hut I certainly cannot guarantee the results
but a small proportion of it, and hardly worth attention. Whether Mr. Bright or his correspondent will be disposed to
try the experiinent is perhaps noire than doubtful : at all
' An extraordinary outrage was committed a short events it would require no Parliamentary grant.''—Tioses'
distance from Carlisle, on Saturday night. A farmer waren Correspond .N ent at apleic
his way home from the city, when he was shot in the shoulder .. s eat from II atn from starvation" has for the second time
by an unseen assailant from behind. On turning quickly '
round, another shot waa fired, and the contents were lodged within a week, been the verdict of a London jury. The
in the farmer's chest, near the right shoulder. The wounded deceased, a young woman only one-and-tweoty years of
man was able to reach a house, which wan fortunately close age, was a match-box maker, lint had been out gd work for
at hand, and it is believed that he will recover. 'No cble to a long time. In her destitution she applied in vain for food
at the honse of her sister Homeless friendless, and starving
the perpetrator of the outrage has been found she was found by a policeman crouched on her sister's door-
At Bradford, Mr. Forster, M.P., has been declared step, and was taken to the workhouse. There she stated she
not guilty, either by himself or by his agents, of corrupt hail hot tasted food for three days, and had not slept in a
practices, and Mr. baron Martin will therefore certify to the bed for five weeks. This occurred on Monday sight. She
Speaker that the right hon. gentleman was duly elected, died on the following day. Nothing is needed to point the
The costs will follow the dechion, and will, therefore, be moral of this sad story.
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paid by the petitioners in the interest of Mr Ripley.
The season for emigration from Liverpool for the hoAuste,Lai
antipodes has opened successfully. On Saturday last the with getting up racing sweepe telling tickets, arid giving
splendid new ship RiCharif Thorm sailed from Liverpool for prizes, the whole forming a lottery contrary to law, and
Melbourne ; and on Wednesday the well-known sMani clipper thereby subjecting themsclvra to penalties of i.. 500 The
Great Brdain, left the Mereey for Melbourne with no magistrates held that a prima facie case was established, but
less than 080 passengers and a large and valuable cargo. adjourned the case for a month to see whether the deft'',
Mr. Trafford, the stipendiary magistrate at Man- dents would put a stop to the systeut, •
chester, has had before him four tradesmen who were Later reports from the seat of war in South America
accused of fabricating the voting papers of two electors do trat leave much roosn for doubt that moo geave eieseter
deceased at the recant election for the Gorton Local Beard of has befallen the brave Lopez. The Monte Xidean trivires
Health. Ile sentenced them to fourteen days imprisoninent, state that in two frightful engagements the alike had taken
hilt as flrst-class misdemeanants. The advantages of this Villeta and Cumbarlty, allot up the remnant of the Perm
character, Mr. Traftord explained to the prisoners, wonld be roan army in angostura, sad compelled Lopez to take to
that they would be permitted to wear their OWII clothing, flight at the head eta small body of five hundred cavalry.
receive at stated periods visite from their frienus, would not Somber., where he bed taken refuge, was to he at once at'
hr required to do any of the general routine work of the tacked by Caxias, and Angostura was being vigorously be-
prison, and might receive newspapers furnished by their eieged
friends. Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, the publisher of the
A meeting of members of the Society for Promoting National Reformer, has been prosecuted by the Inland
Christian Knowledge, was held on Tuesday afternoon in St. Revenue Commissioners for having beglected to register Lis
James'. Hall, London, under the presidency of the Arch- paper, and to enter into recognizancea as security egainst
bishop of Canterbury. 01 the standing committee seven the publication of libel. The Attorney-Gemral, who ap-
members retire by rotation, hut six offered themselves for peered for the Crown, stated that the defendant had been
re-election, and a seventh retiring member not standing, requested to compiy with the provisions of the law in both
the committee recommended one in Ms place. It was respects, bet he had declined to do so. Sir. Bradlaugh con-
understood that the Ritualistic party would attempt to tended that the Reform, was not a newliflitrer within the
place some of their body on the committee, and rive gee 'le- meaning of the Act, for the moment the duties chargeable
men were nominated in opposition. On the votes being on newspapers were swept away, as they were by a sub-
taken the hovest of the anti- Ritualistic seven was 123 above sequent Act, the statutory definition ot a newepaptr yes
the : •. -t. of the other five. The six old mendters, there- ilk, swept away The Judge gave the defendant leave to
tot reelected, together with the one propmed by the bring the question bewre the full court. Penalties entotmt-
standing committee Mg to £l4O were inflicted.

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