The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-11 00:00:00

TRUE AND FALSE PROTESTANTISM.

On Sunday evening the leetnres of the Sunday
Leamo- Society were resumed at St. Goorge's-hall, Lang -
ham-place, London. The first of the merieA Arm delivered
by Mr. W. G. Clark, M.A., late Public Orator at Cam-
bridge University, and its subject was True and False
Protestantimma. -

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He commenced by saying that "Protestantism was
dead or dying" were the words used to him in Rome
by a gentleman of great learning and of great sincerity
of character. He had been a Protestant clergyman,
and had become a Roman Catholic. Religion hail been
the chief thought of his life, and for its sake he made
sacrifices of position and prospects. On the other side
he declared that "Rome was alive and living." He,
the speaker desired on that occasion to inquire how far
these statements were true. What was meant
by Protestantism If it meant merely- the variety
of sects which went by the Caine of Protestantisna.
then there might be truth in what had been sail but
if it meant the spirit and love of truth, out of which
Protestantism sprang, then Protestantism was not only
as strong anti powerful as ever, but it would glow with
years as long as the love of truth and freeklmu prevaile.l '
in the breast of man. There were Protestants in fact,
before there were Protestants in name. The first
popular revolt against the tyranny of Rome was that
of the Albigenses in Lanpadoc, which was ft Mowed by"
the opposition of Wield!, of Huss, and Jellitne if
Prague. 'These early attempts at reform were put
down by violence and cruelty, and scarcely any man
dined to show himself of independent thought. The
world hail advanced greatly from the time of the
Counc 1 of Constance to the period ..f the Reformation,
and if Luther had not been the child of his age
he would not have been its leader. He took up tke

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cause of Protestantism end demanded a rehearing a
against the Court of Rome. Belied no authority, sad
he reimirirl no authority, for what he waa about to do,
for it was founded in truth, but his work was probably
the same as that of Wiclitf. It Is not hobo ouppoeed,
indeed, that LufVr was free from intolerance. Ile
brought with him from Use Church of Rome a great
deal of intolerance. He could net bear Zwingle
and he hated (Ecelatuleulius as moderate. With
all his love of freedom, his doctrine and programme
contained the germ sif weakness. It contained the
spirit if dogmatism. The idea id a religious organisr-
tutu he was unable to conceive apart from a
dogmatic system. The Church of Rome endea-
voured to suppress its enemies by extreme violenoe.
It slew thirty thousand in the Cevennes in two years ;
it returned thanks for the massacre of St. Bartholo-
mew, and issued an cirder for the destruction of the
population of Belgium— such were some of the means
employed by that Church for the sumireosion of
heresy. Nor did the Protestanhi object to persecute.
William of Orange, one of the few good meu 4,f his
age, said the time would come when the clerical
tyranny of Protestants would be as heavy as that of
liolsian Catholies. His prophecy was fulfilled sooner
than he expected. But I 'hristianity LICVer had a fair
trial. It wait 1144 the spirit of religion that perverted
man, but the spirit of dogmatism, and that tilled the
pages id history with a siekening tale of torture,
murder, and massacre. Heresy was regarded as amend
and mpiritual leproNy, more IV IXIOUS than any plague.
perseeutii si was then the logical result of iloginatism, an i
was fostered by the self-intereist of the priesthood.
The great work which Luther had &tie w.kubl
but the-dogmatic intolerance which he had intertwined
with it would go to pieces, because it AVM plallted on a
false bask It might be well for a Church like that of
Home to issue decreer of infallibility in these days that
shocked reason and common sense, last it would be
wholly illogical in 'Protestantism to persecute for dif-
ferences of religious creed, and therefore its principle
should be a Cllurch that would unite all who were
truthful and good. Ile hoped the day was not far
distant when ouch a dream might be realised.

Psl I•St C11:1 11CO us latrittgente,
HOME, FOREIGN, ANI, COLCNIAL,
ENCKE'S CoMET.—Mr. George M. Seabroke,
Temple Observatory, Rugby, wider date Nev. 5,
writes to The 7'ious
It may, perhaps, be intereating to those of your readers
who possess telescopes of moderate aperture to learn that
Eneke's comet is uyw within their reach. It has been can
mined here this evening with an aia aperture, and %tad very
plainly seen. It has somewhat the shape id a fan, and there
is a marked condensation on the eastern aide, being the
leading portion of the comet. It would probably now be
well with a inueli smaller aperture than that mentionwl
above, and, as It is approaching us, email telescopes will pro-
bably soon show it."
GALLANT CONDUCT.-011 Sunday, the 29th
ult., as Mrs. Wane, wife of an Etias master,
Was walking by the•aiele of a river with two of her
children, one of them, a little boy, accidentally fell in.
The screams of the mother attracted to the spot Arthur
Bingham Crablie, an Eton boy, who happily chanced
to be near, lie unhesitatingly plunge,' into the
water, and aiezing hold of the little fellow by the hair
of his head, swain with him to shore, and restored
Ii i iii uninjured to his mother.
EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—Tho returns
of the Emigration Commissioners made up for the
heat month are as follow:4 :—Under Government Stiller-
- Thirty ships to the United States, with 1,561
cabin and 10,2,5 steerage passengers, of whom 5,074 were
English, 233 Scotch, 1,9E5 Irish, and :1,671 foreigners,
nothing a total to the United States of 11,S16; live
ships to Canada, with 206 cabin and 1,213 steerage
passengers, id whom 1,162 were English and 257
foreignersonaking a total to Canada of 1,411). Not
nailer the Act. —Five ships to the United States, with
773 passengers; one sidii to Canada, with 29 pass.
mengers ; two shills to % ietoria, with 125 piumengers ;
two ships to the East Indies, with 15 pat:sewers ; two
ships to the West Relies', with II passengers; one ship
to China, with 30 passengers ; two ships to Africa with
32 passengers ; and five chips to South America, with
196 passengers - making a total of 1,232. Under the
Act, 13,263; not, 1.232. Total for October, Is7l,
14,197; ditto, for October, 11470, 13,695 ; increase on
the month, 602. Increase on the ten months of 1071
over the cornwponding period of Is7o, 2,159,
A PRISONER'S LEAP.—On Monday, a man
named Warren, confined in the Candiriilg,e Gaol,
managed to elude the warders, and succeedisl in
climbing a shaft that is in course of erection for the
purpose of ventilating the cells, &a. Ile had a plank
with him, which he placed across from the top of the
shaft to the outside wall of the prison, facing Fenner's
emit, where the 'University athletic sports were in
course of celebration. The littention of a number of
the undergraduates and others was Soon attriteteti by
the unusual sight of a man in the vrison dress on the
wall, and the spectators Were as... dashes! and horriliw,
at 'wring him deliberately jump id to the gronlit'
below, a depth of thit ty feet. It was, of c uir,e,
posed that he tool killed himself; bt.t, notwithstani
the great fall, Inc Was little injured. His chance •it
escaping, however, woo entirely destroyed, as he was
at once captured and taken back to the prison.
M. RueUER'S OFFIcIAL Doi •InSIENTIS.—The
Journal dr lleniee gives, upon the authority (if a 13erl in
correspondent, the following awsiutit of the manner in
which the doctuuents recently published in the Berlin
Reich. A at-eigt r, in reply to M. Benedetti's pamphlet,
came into tile pus,e,sion of the Prussian Govern-
ment :---
" At a country house belonging to M. Rouher some serrants
were falsify engaged in 1111111114 f; a great quantity of paper,
when tile sudden arrival if our troops caused them to take
tliaald, banyan:, their work incomplete. SoLle eivihaos
who accullipal.lcd the army wine cliri.am enough to examine
the tapers which were scattered about the pla..e, and taey
rotund that the documents belonged for the most part to the
French Ministry bm Foreign Attain, and sneer:illy related to
the Franco-Italian War against Austria. Among these
papers was ala,, huind the draught of the treaty f.r the ces-
sion of Lombardy and Venetia coneeted by the Empelor
Nspnionimi ialmsof. rhe attention a-af the civil ail:Moist rata an
atio-t,e,f to the army basing been wiled to these papers,
further searches were made and a secret Vabillet waa dis-
covered containing eollllilute tlll,lolllatie archives which pes.
tuned a special interest as 'elating to events precedimq the
war ad 1170. Among these documents were tilos, which have
been wholly sr in part published by the
We are informed that the other papers found in the secret
cabinet sec.( great importance, and include flinty documentn
the publication of which would be vetg dis4;rotable to many
German diplomatists."
PROSPF.CT PL.SCE.—Why,liiesa man, with
a Situation in his eye, look like a first? BeeallSe he
is gazing at Vacancy.--Panic/i.
THE PF.RILS OF TIIE DEEP.—A telegram in-
forms us that a great disaster has befallen the Ame-
rican whaling fleet. Thirty-nine vessels last summer
passed through Retiring's Straits into the Aim-tic Ocean,
following the whales. Their 111NINAS Was good, but the
ice became troublesome, and in September ice floes
drifted from the north-west, pushing the vessels on to
shoals, enabinF four, and hemming in 29 others. The
captains on September 13 resolved to abandon the
vessels which were hemmed in, to save the crews.
Twelve hundred men, half Kanakas and half Ameri-
cans, took refuge on hoard six vessels, arriving lit
Honolulu two weeks ago. In all, 33 vessels have been
crushed or abandimed. The loon is estimated at
1.500,000 dole. There is great excitement in whaliug
circles.
A NEW SOCIETY IN PARTS--At a Meeting
held the other day at the Academy of Moral anihroli-
tical Sciences in Paris, M. Jules Simon in the chair, a
member presented the statutes of a new society called
"La Vigilante," a Union of the friends of progress
by means of order and work. The association pro-
poses to combat socialist doctrines, and flattens itself
that it will be able to stop their development by the
inatitution of popular conferences the creatien of
journals, and the diffusion of good books at low prices.
Odilon Barrot and other gentlemen of note support
the inovement, and appear confident of itis success in
spite of previous faibires. M. Dippolyte in an
excellent speech, declared that the association should
commence hy reforming the ideas of the bourgeoisie,
which are in the highest degree pernicioos, before at-
tacking those of the working classes, which are not
dangerous in themselves. The speaker remarked that I
the war with Prussia had taught them the necessity of I
introilueing geography and modern lanmiages into
their schools, and he thought that the 'Communist I
insurrection should show the utility of introducing '
political economy a.s a branch of education.
OFFICIAL TRIUMPH. The Peninsular and ,
Oriental steamer, R n agoon, has been lost on a nark I
All hands saved. The Admiralty was I,f course,
illuminated iin the night of the arrival the news.
It proved, triumphantly, that itr is in the nature id
ships to be lost, and that the Admiralty, in making a
practire of losing them, is but conforniing to natural ,
lawn.— Punch.
Elalior DEPANLOUP ON EIWCATIoN. ---- M.
thipanloup, the Bishop of Orleans, has
letter to the Impartial du Loirol, 111'iii the subject ,if
gratuitous and compulsory education. The bishop says
lie is CS anxious as anybody ran Inc that every young
Frenchman and Frenchwoman should know how to
read and write. Experience in France has, however,
shown, lie declares, that wherever a school has given
gratuitous iustduetion it has been leas assiduously at-
tended. File selosila would moreover, destriiy most of
the r,-Bu selk,H•l6, which could not maintain the com-
petition. I hildreu would then be waupellisi to follow a
system of education which, if " we may judge," says
the " from the efforts recently made i,, I'aris
daring the 'immune, and elsewhere now, might las
come an immense religioua and social ilancer," la
e,,nehision, M. Ihniaillonli refers I'm the belief that the
Prmosians conquered in the late war because they knew
how to remit and expresses the opinion that another
reason WAS bee:LINO they also knew how to I INT,
THE lIVRIZICANE IN NOVA SeoTlA.—The N.e
co/i/ has the followinii account from Halifax of
the hurricane on the 12th October
At 1, pin. the ss Ind came with sudden gusts Irma the
soutieem,t, with rain., the tide rapidly Um sea in the
harbour increasing 111 ViOltll,, anti tile waVes eolithg in
higher awl higher. The eubniulting lo,isnt way reached at
6 pan , when the wind and tide were the highest. In the
next ten minutes the damage was date. Large vessols broke
from their moorings at the wharves, drifting in upon the
smaller craft, which w-ere completely demoralised. some
ships, better secured than others, dragged with them parts
44 wharves. Every sitar? was submerged and the base-
ments of the waterside houses were flooded. The title
flowed ever many streets near the water. The steamer
Chas. at Dominion whar2, broke from her =wrings anti
went clear thrmgh tire wharves on the north. Two thousand
harrels of hid, on two wharves were sent adrift by her alai
nearly all were lost. The railroad track from the city to
Itedh,rd station, a distance nit ten miles, is damaged to the
extent of 15.090 dole, asa that 11s trains rolild reach the eity.
'Me traffic In the city on Thursday night was suspended, as
bricks, dates, shutters, anti tree to were whirling about
the streets and wharves. Dartmouth, opposite the city, was
an I lest I, re were an vessels ashore in this harbour
alone, including the I.ark rosily, from Philadelphia, Imund
for Europe, with part of her ear,g, gels. anti strewn on time
shore. The schooner W. H. Barfield. frau New York, was
alismasted and had her hull ktove. The bark Northoonbrio
from 1:till River, with a cargo of phosphate, was
The other vessels were newtly r.shing crafts. Three men
were 441.11.1 off the Devil's Wand in the barimur, while
setting nets, sn hich are the tardy cancan ire fa. life wafer awe,
Mined, althotmh Haste were leanly miraculous eseaiass The
shores of Halifax harbour on Friday morning powented tln
onnraraneu w reek and Mimi never seen before The
Mharves were shattered and almined. Some vessels were high
anal dry and others w 0.14. tli,111:1414.41, /11l having marks to
show from the it,,.,,. quantities of timber and wreck stuff
Boated about the harbour. It in helieved the damage will
reach 2(10,000 dolt

NAME AFTEE NATIME.—The 11101 TOW of All
Souls, aliens the first of November, alias the legal New
Year's Day, he known in the Profession as envois,'
a/abuse/lin. Considering the low's delay, bhouldn't it
be re-christened "Pro mutiny C--Pt'm
A SCENIC AT CHICAOO.—An occasional corm.
apoudent of the New Twi; Tribune, a holy who was in
Chicago timing. the fire, thus alc,oribeK one of the
scenes she witnessed :--

What a sight the ' Lake Drive' was. Innigine a lovely
sweep of clear, lright sand, three miles long, with beautiful
lake Mielligan for its oceandaader. huagine iu, usual gay
patt,'esaoitf burly and gotyly-dressed %omen, illeago's
best mai lorightes,t, with their children, in every variety if
pretty tel tasteful vehicles, trine a magnificent four horse
barmiche to the little Imsket-elmise in which Chicago has
espei'ially delighted. I do not beLleve a serener seen, of
Innocent pleasuie liws iver keen se-in than our drive
mi sunny d.y., suit now bt.,.1, ,on this ithietst of blue
Mondays Milt look, if this Willd will let you, at the
same water, the same sand. Down at the foot of
Miperior-street, been seen unhappy families oy hun-
dreds, who, deluded loy the ilea of water, had rushed to the
edge of the treacherous flood only to find themselvt s be-
tween two deaths, and driven by the cruel pursuing Mune
and smoke into the pitiless water, liege delicate to' (huts
held babies of weeks, days, and even hours oid, alternately
choking with smoke and &oohed with water. Here was is
young husband who, finding it impossible otherwise to save
his bride, covered her up with sand, except her bead, Mid
then mu between her and the water, soaking his pockethaind
km chief to lay over her mouth. One infant, whoee parents
were an ))))) g the wealthicet people in Chicago, lay It
feeble mother's arms from Monday at dawn till Tuesday
afternoin without food, and then was rescued, and, strange
to say, still lives."

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CREDULITY IN INDIA.—The DcUi i Gtoulte, of
Oct. 2, records the following
A woman murdered her hu:band the other day in the
suburbs of Agra. She was arrested, and we suppose, eon.
denmed. The rumour spread through the city and station
that the authorities, viewing the mole with extraordinary
abhorrence, and resolved upon a stmal example. TheY liad
dettrmined that the criminal should be torn and devoured
by foxhounds upon the parade-ground. A crowd of natives
actually assembled in gala attire to witness the tiunasha, aud
returned disappointed.

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" TABLE-RAITING."—After a Public Dinner.—
Punch.

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ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND THE SCHOOL
BoAnii.- -Archbishop Manning made an appeal on
Sunday morning, at Islington, London, for the Roman
Catholic Schools connected with that mission. Having
preached on the :subject of "AU Saints," and referred to
some local school arrangements, the Archbishop spoke
of the recent debate at the London School Board, some
members of which seemed, he said, to wish to interfere
with freedom of conscience : --
"There is (continued the preacher) Christian education n
Great Britain and Ireland, although there is not unity in
religion. Now, for the first time in the ;amid age, an at-
tempt is Made by sonic to act unjustly In this matter. I cull
upon you to be manful and Inflexible. England has a
right to Anglican, Scotland to tresbyterian, and Ireland
to Catholic education. He who would form Anglican
education on Ireland dies much to disturb public rela
bans. We have heard a good deal about the payment
of foes out of rates. A man might as well object
to pay light or water-rate because hid nest neighbour
Is a Dissenter. I delay that the money is in suppot
of religious teaching. We are entitled to a proportionate
share of rates for mr secular tem:long, and we were work-
ing in the cause long before those who are 110 W so noisy
began to chatter. To reading, writing, and arithmetic we
are entitled, no we add religious teaching at our own ex-
pense, so that the rates will not he spent on figwort* ri"!
ligious education. If any Catholic child be forced Into
secular schools, I shall cause the question to be tiled at law
without any expense to the poor. Lao not lit penal lasso he
revised, 60 as to renew the iron age of persecution."
AMERICAN "Cmas."—The Census of 1870
gives to. account of 410 incorporated cities in the
Unites( States. They are especially abundant in the
Western States, tissel-sized villages, which in the
East would remain villages, without ambitious striv-
ings after incorporate privileges, are dignified in the
Writ by the higher title, and their inhabitants incite
the ex peuse of Mayors and " Boards," apparently with
the utmost alacrity. Thus, Illinois has 43 cities,
Indiana has 27, and lowa ; but there are five in
Illinois with less than 2,000 inhabitants each, eight in
Indiana which fall short of 3,000, and in lowa only 11
out of 26 which rise above 5,600. Ohio boasts of 32
cities—but only 10 of these exceed 10,000 each. Vi
cousin has 16, of which only Milwaukee, Fond du Lac,
and Oshkosh count populations larger than those of
flourishing towns. Passing to the Southern States, we
find fewer cities and still smaller proportions of inha-
bitants. The oldest city is St. Augustine, Florida,
but its population in 1170 was only I,7l7—three cen-
turies of life having faded to give it vitality. Georgia
has eight calico, Savannah and Atlanta being the
largest. Louisiana bas four, one with a population of
1,173 ; Virginia and Mississippi, seven cities each. A
marked contrast to these statistics is all liy the
returns from the Eastern States, where cities are cities
Massachn-etts, for exaniple, having 15, only four of
which fall below 20,000, while nine (including Boston)
munl,cr over 25,000 each, Connecticut has six cities,
with only one 11U1111,01111:: lees than 10,000 inhabitants.
'II,,- State- if New York is rich in cities, generally of
gel &nom. lone. 'rhe total number is 21, awl,
omitting New York and Brooklyn, there are 12 which
have more than 15,000 inhabitants each, and only two
with Ices than 10,00. But there me in this State and
in New England countless villages of from 1,500 to
2,000 inhabitants which in the newer West would at
once rise to the dignities of cities, and be governed by
a municipality instead of served by selectmen or towu
trustees._

A HEIZOINF..—An appeal is made to the
benevolent on behalf of a p,or old woman, nearly
eighty years of age, who ii reduce., to a state of ex-
treme poverty When a little girl, she was On leant
the Morlhor h, in which her father was captain of
the unahltup, when the tessel was commanded by luau
l'ollingwrssl. One day his lordship gave chase to a
French ship armed to the teeth awl full of nuns,
which, after a hard battle, struck her Hag t , the
Ifarlhoroufrh. During the tight the surgeon set her to
pick tow to use as charpi for the woundA hue wns called
Ul/011 to dress. After the fight Lord tollingw,s• wcat
into the cockpit to see his wounded men, an-I said to
the surgeon with a sigh of relief "Thank I el, that's
over." " What," cried the little maid, jumping up
from her corner, "have we brat? " don't knot'
about the we my little girl," said the great ieanian,
but the French 111kVe given in :" "And I do
know about wE," said the surgeon, "for she stuck to
her place and did her share, like the rest of us :"
Fanny Arnold afterwards married a sailor named
Pugh, and had several boys, who all entered either
army or navy, and the last died about nine years air,-
at lievouport, leaving her alone and destitute. The
Rev. J. W. l'lutterbuck, vicar of St. Philip's, Gran
ville-sivare, or Mr. Hain Friswell, 74, Great Russell-
street, Illoomidium London, will thankfully receive
any contributions towards smoothing the latest foot-
steps in life of the aged heroine.

LOOKING AHEAD !—One of the principal
cabinet-makers of Paris has received a singular com-
mand from Ills Majesty King Kazanli, of Merin, a
state on the western coast if Africa. An envoy extra-
ordinary, a negro, has brought instructions to make a
coffin for the king. It is to be three metres in length,
and a metre and a half in height, blue in colour,
polished and varnished, and the nails are to he of gold.
It is to rest on four feet of massive silver. The interior
will he lined with red velvet, and a magnificent cushion
will be placed for the bead to repose on. Six windows
will be made in the lid, and wiwl,wm also to be placed
in the sides. The maker has aLso received orders to
place insides the coffin six bottles of old cognac, two
pipes, and a chessboard and chessmen. These objects
are destined to accompany Itis Majesty on his voyage
to the other world.

PAUPERISM. —The monthly return issued by
the Poor Law Board shows that the number of paupers
in reeeipt of relief from the rates in England at the
end of July last was 21 per cent, less than at the cor-
responding period of 1670. The improvement was
general throughout the country, but the ratio would
have been very small had it not been for the large
decrease of 61 per cent, in the number relieved in the
metropolis, and 76 per cent. in the north-western
division, consisting of Laneashire and Cheshire. The
metropolis shows nearly 120,000 paupers the north-
western division less than Sti,ooo, although l the popu-
lation of the metropolis is less than tlmt of the north.
western division of England. The nundier if paupers
in England and Wales at the end of July last is re-
turned at 9041,023; but these monthly returns do not
include lunatic paupers in asylums or vagrants, two
classes together constituting rather more than 3 per
cent. of the total paupeiisni.
FOREST Fis En.—lt is a remarkable coincidence
(remarks the IVra. York -Mom) that the two greatest
fires of fin- century should have occorred at the same
time and in the same neighlsouthood. The greater pro-
minence of Chicago made us for a fime ignore the
losses in Michigan and Wisconsin, lint the papers are
now tilled with long lists of the dead amh inpassi, whole
comnamities having been obliterated. It is a frequent
thing for the forests to be on fire in the autumn ; halved,
so summon is it, a farmer always explains any undue
haziness in the atineph-ire by the assertion that "the
woods are on fire." Some philosophers think the tree-
less condition of the prairies of the It and tel the
gicat natural mem tows ci South Amerka is ow ing to
this, and not to any inherent lef, tin the soil. One
curious fact connected with this 1s that the vegetation
which springs up the season after is always different
from its predevemor. Where pines wave oak will fol-
low, and where spruce was maples conic up, and do so
in such myriads that imagination is its-sled to tell
where they came from. This will be the case un-
doubtedly next year in Michigan. The Belgian Comul
has called a meeting of I,:s countrymen to take mea-
sures for relief for those communiVes of Belgians
which were settled in the region of the great fire, and
we presume his exam( de will be followed by the Duteh
('on-oil. The Hollanders had several large and very
flourishing villages in that neighbourhood ; to, much to
was this the case that in one place it was much more
easy to be understood in Dutch than in English. Two
newspapers were printed in this language in WIC of the
villages which were consumed.

A FR ENCIi PROTESTANT ON TH.: C.DSIMUN F.—
The flee. Athanane Coquerel, km., recently eAN't• It
lecture in New York on the " Siege of Paris by the
Commune." In the course of his address he said -
I hear persons talk of the Commune as thougli they were
madmen, but I think I can explain to you tlx can.e of all
that rapine, Incendiariam, and hhodshed which happened
there. What means 'the I 7ounninte:' The it, all • Com-
Mane nitanY, in French, a township, and tine °Mends who
govern it. When the cry Of 'La Commune was heard nh
the lips of people, what tiny mexat x:ts that they wanted a
council elected by the people. We had it town council in-
flicted mon Os by the Emperor. List we did not Wald it. It
is true that Government was tuning very well for the work.
ing-class in carrying on improvements, building splendid
All•I laying out elegant Arvida awl wad, blit still
there were many thines In, A hich they which
they would gladly have clone itWay with hod they had the
power. They lived away out from the centre of Paris,
when, the, works were g,ing on, and were obliged to
walk In and out to and from the outskiits every day, or
pay three cents to ride on an omnibus. If they hat had
a municipal council of their own, they would have ohjected
to lids. These improvements were In iitelle 111,116 C good, but
their real niesnianc was to prevent the PlitiSiatill from rising
in roadlion. Ix Inn it was said in the .V.seninly that the
lasiple objected to these things, baron Ilansmann said they
a one nit caridans—they were only nomadic people. When
he said this, he thought he had said it 'cry smart thing, and
that there was nothing more to be said. ktut be did not un.
de,-stasel the IlleAhing of the objection, What they wanted
was a Town Council, to which they hail A perfect right. This
who the Commune they asked (Inc. They thought if they
had that it was all they would ever need. There are many
who think thdt when awhile population is fail of the wish
tor a certain thing, II that thing lan attained, all their
troubles are to be ended. I remember hearing • person
s.), that If th,-ylm had the Commune the Prunoiannn would
have fled away. GI course this is not tine, but it shows the
strength et their desires as represented by the Commune,"

" BAITOO " ON NOSE-CUTTIN G.—The follow.
ing curious letter has been addressed to an Indian
PaPer

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" Respectable Sir,—l beg to inform that one woman of the
Mahratta persuasion lost her nose by severa..o by a sharp
cutting instrument at the hands of her husband. Having
sur ... .. the condign punishment in accordance with rounit
Cuatont sh. had 0•. nose left, but she, the wou.iya is now
having a lit t• nose cut it of her head and fixed on the ,dtl
situat by mean! Of stickhr,-;.plaster, by the Medical CHI
Surgeons. If this new custom w 111 eventuate then what use
to cut of noses, and old custom of the peoples is frustrated.
Not in the Pt rial Conte to cut ons nest ncses, and contra', to
tbe feelings of loyal subjects, thereto'., Mr. Editor, we must
have 2 public ifleeting to petition saer,,,.. tiovernment, mid
. will be thanktol for particulars I •to make our appeal.--4.
I rrinaln your humble awl obliged eerviurt,— Ralik/00SL Low
MantAy."
EIrUcATION AT MAllesTo*P.. Thu l Sated
Board for the telell Ntable..one have resolved to put
hae Opee3thal the rehlielleeey chaise. Of the Education
Act, :ma to pay the selosd fees for children whose
parents prefer to send them 1,, denominational schools)
and on Friday List, in arpointing an inspeaor, gm*
Mut implicit tikes:twit to, as a last resource, pimento
those parents who refused to coniply with the law.
The returns recently forwarded to the Education lie.
partutent show that aceonumelation is provided in the
town for 5,492 children, while there are only 4,303
children of " educational age," but of thin number 9.10
are not in attendance at school.

TURKISH J UsTlCE.—Much excitement, the
Leoent Humid rue, has been caused in official circlet;
in Constantinople by the new,, that Emit; Bev, late
first secretary to the Sultan; Huesein Avni Pasha,
late Minister of War ; amt Husni Pasha, late Minister
had been sth Idenly arrested and .1.414.1 off
in penal exile to a fortress in Cyprus. An Aida'
investigation showed, it seems, that they had been
guilty of great abuses while in office, and accordingly a
special Council of Ministers was summoned by the
Sultan, and at this Council their punishment was
deuided on. Lunn hey and Husni Pasha were at oneo
sent off to Cyprus, but litessein Avni Pasha was at.
lowed, on atecount of ill health, to remain awhile longer
in Constantin. Pie. The Lento Herold declares that
no such wholesome act of courage and high justice has
been perf..rmea 1, any Turkish Minister within its
fifteen years' expeiience of the country, and that the
effect cannot but be most salutary, not only in the
capital, but throughout every province of the Empire.
METUENDA CoitOLLA DI: AcONIs. Young
people never talk slangnow, and we are glad of it. We
talked a little in our youth, and getting hold of money
was called collaring the dragons." You don't know
why Look at the new sovereigns, on which is revived
the image which dictated this bit of antiquated smart-
ness. The alswe famous Latin moW, was translated
by Dr. Maginn, Pl 4 contribut, r. "I fear I
shan't collar the dragons." After which information
you may go away.—Po nek,

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A RPMAkKABLE MAN !—Some One was talk-
ing to Thackeray of a certain gentleman's strange ad-
diction to beer. " It's a '-Teat sahl he, "that
he ti es not keep a cheekrein on himself, for be is a
marvellous fellow otherwise -I mean for talent. I
hardly know his equaL" " retorted Thackeray,
"he is a remarkable man. Take him for half -and-
half, we neer shall look upon his like again."- -(From
Jutara Young's .burnol.)
A COMPANION !—M. Johe Lemoinne in tho
DThettx, writes very straigly against the propoKall of the
Sign-ash llovennnent to impose a tax of la per cent, on
the interest of its debt. It use! to be said that Austria
would astonish the world by her ingratitude, but it
never could have been expected that Spain would
astonish the a odd by her insolvency. " With the
extreme facility which she Ilisplays„"adds M. Lemoinne,
"to laugh at all contracts, she is about to 'kill the
goose with the golden eggs.'" France, after every-
thing that has happened to her, has taken good care
not to tax the funds ; she bee respected credit -the
goose with the golden eggs. Awl Spain, whhil
deliberating whether she should prosecute the Inter•
national, makes use of its doctrine., and puts in
pract cc the system of collective property.

HEATING BY STEA M. —AlllOllg the many 1111.
provements in cities which the enforced re-building of
Chicago has suggested (says the New York Times) is
that of heatingthe entire town with steam, in a manner
very similar to that by which it was formerly lighted—
by means of pipes miming underground from some cen-
tral reservoir to each h use, thus doing away for ever
with the annoyance caused by bad coal, damp wood,
kinullings, &u. It may be doubted whether the time
is ripe for so extensive an improvement ; but when we
re:nen:Ler that steam may be forced through these
pipes to an immense distance, and with a very s!hMt
diminution of heat, and at the rate of seven miks per
minute, it does hideout scum no if the day could not be
far distant when a practical application shall be made
of what has long been theoretically adinitted.
A HINT TO INTEtPiyul MOTHERS. TllO
Cocrt Jouract says :--

thrre are three Lilies In the world—and only three—who
hear the sacred dOOdle of Pia, and who are god &tightens ot
llolins as lion IX.—Maria lie. lusri,,frortugal
Maria Liiaiso his, grand.nieve of who has
revently taken the veil ; and ilNell-k114.1111 111/1!.11:88, W 11,0,0
noun we are not at liberty to mention here.

THE ExsurlNG ONE !—The following is an
episode of the Prussian twomatien of Oben. An t'filter
of Uhlans waited on the mayor, and informed him that
a pair of boots had been stolen from his quarters :
" somelxsly has stolen a (air if my boots." " Perhaps
the thief wane of your own soldiers.- "My soldiers
never steal You insist replace Clint., or give nit the
value in money, fifteen thalers." 'lle mayor tendered
fifty-six francs, but failed to satisfy the :ern tall officer,
who remarked, "That is Ind all. My boots have been
repaired tu ice. I sled] require six tinders nowe, as the
repairs cost me that, and fifteen thalers is only the
inn, of tie- ls,ds when new."
CIIICAtto I Nsi'Vocces.—The financial article
in the /1-, is York Tim..., of the 20th of October states :--
" The affairs of the tire insurance offices grow more acidotic
as the actual divhhat of losses at Chicago become manifest,
and three or fur New Voili and Brooklyn companica. nor
supposed bankropt on the first reports, will have hi wind up
either under State receivership or the Federal Bankruptcy
Court. At the saute time we see no reason to change tho
,timate of about 30,04/4,040 dols, total losges to the New
York, New England, and Luglish companies,"
BURNT AT CHICAOO.—The greatest loss MO.
Coined by the Chicago Histerical Society was the
original draught of the Emantipation Proclamation
wiiCen in Mr. Lincoln's own handwriting, with an ac-
companying letter, as he presents,' it to the Sanitary
Fair Commission for the benefit of the toddlers, anti
which was purchased for the sum of 10,000 duo.
Besides there was Mr. Vo
lk'sbust of Mr. Lincoln,
taken from life, as also the torn battle flags of the
Chicago batteries, the eagle that stool on the flagstaff
of Fort Sumter, Mr. Lincoln's walking-stick, .John
Brown's pike, and many other valuable relics that can
never be replaced. That the building was fire-proof
few il..uhteil Itch ,re the conflagratit,ll. The fonntlatit on
was f solid stone, rising nit. above the side walk; (al
this reposed a massive structure of bricks, four thick.
while the rafters were of cast-iron and the floors of
stone. One great misfortune, however, existed, the
roof was is gravel or pitch roof, while the ornaments
around the building were of wind. This led to the de-
struction of the building and its contents.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY AT M ASCII ESTER.—Tho
prize, won at the Manchester centre in the Oxford
Local Examinations were di :tributed last week to the
successful students, by Professor Huxley. In the
course of his address the Professor adverted to the great
changes which have taken place in our own (lay in the
Universities, and the further reforms which are
shadowed forth in Mr. Gladstone's recent letter to tlet
two Vice-Chancellors. Ile (the ProfessoOpt tinted out,
in justice too the University of Oxford, that the reforms
which had been effected then in have not been alto.
g,ether due to external pressure, and that the Premier
may look forward with confidence to influential co-
operation from within the University in his attempt
to give a wider usefulness to its great revenues. Ile
Professor remarked that nowhere in the world was
there a better school, so far as it went, for the teaching
of all the great branches of physical science than was
at the present time to be found within the University
of Oxford. It was a fact that within the last ten or
fifteen years that nobleinstitution had devoted 1100,000
to the endowment of physical science teachers. The
Manchester Grammar School came in for an emphatic
word of praise from the Professor for the manner in
which it is a.fhording scientitie instruction.
TILE Wisc.:lN/41N FlRES.—Governor Fairchild,
of Wlseonsin, issued, on the 13th of lett isr, an ap-
peal to the peorle of his State for nitl ti the sufferers
by the tires. The Governor says :
" The burnt district compriaes the counties of Octinto,
Brown, Dour, and Kewaunee, and parts of Manitowoc and
tintagamie. The gicat hiss of life am I properly has resulted
from the whirlwind of Me a hie!. swept iv. r the country,
making tla.rosols :not iv, nuts of escape Intl...able aith
Whin timber HMI burnt breh.na. The previous long drought
had pmpared everything for the thane,. The htss of life lois
been very great. The la it estimates wets emir, /y
in-
oiltsgugts, alel teen it is feared that it is notch gleatm
that, dos.., - pr.•... it. it is K,,. 'si llett at hast
1,0f.0 pen oos have been either burnt. di. arit ire Mel, .1.
Of these d..at! 1:0,1 Mere tre at Fesliti,o and adjacent
places, and the others in Door, Kewaunee, and Brown
counties. Men are noir pehotratamt hot alnoet inaevessilde
region for the msttiliossul ilfording mei I fear that
their reports will increase this estimate. Fn-in the most re-
liable sources Of information I learn that not less than 3,000
flea, women, and children have been rendered entirely
destitute. Scores of men, women, and little children now
lie Witless, burnt and maimed. In temporary hospital,,
eared for hg more fortunate neighbours. These suffering
people must be supplied with food, bedding, clothing, feed
for their cattle. and the me:dis for providing shelter dlealal
the n hare Peatiaiell DMA Ile Made for months is the
future. There are lelletell Hula% salt, and cured meats. rot
cooked ; blankets, hochling, stoves, bahal bay, building
mate, Isle, tights, farming implements and tools, boots, sh.
and clothing for men, women, and children, log chains,
axes ith handles, nails, glass and house trimmings, Mel,
indeed, everything needed by a farming community who. Las
lest everything. li,dats have been established at 6men
Bay, under the nair.agement of a committee of public-
spirited and enerntic men, who have the confidence of all,
for Mt:receiving amides' atehing of sop/plies."

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THE CURE Fon CANS 'ER.— Soule mouthsago the
papers mentioned the dise,very of it piant which was
said to be a specific for cancer. The statement was
that an Indian woman of Ecuador, seeing her husband
suffering fearfully fr an this thri ible iliseasc. gave him
some of the voisollolln ?La eIIeoIUMII,BI in ordir to
put Lim out of his misery, and that instead of killing
it cured bins. The story got about, and the surgeons
of Ecuador determined to try the plant with their
patients. They were so satiqicil with the results,
that they pubished an account of the cures, which soon
found its way into the United State, A chest of
the new remedy was Pent to Was• Mgt.], by the
American Minister at thannier, and Dr. this,
professor of pathology at Washington. proceeded to
make experiments. It,. bas published the results
in the New York and Poston medical journals.
He ion•:: -Iced I, ruef nt with but faint hope
• f ,fe ces.fi,', lot at the smile tinie with
the full let rgnj,.atiunmake a fair tied. He chose
cases for which even the knife (drool no hope of cure,
and be found that they yielded to the exhibition of the
Indian drug. Otie of his patients was the mother of
Vice-President Colfax, arid her case turned out success-
fully. Dr. Bliiss declares that cot ;al ttttt gyu sea ps'cific,
not only for cancer, but also for scrofula and tubercus
'f he remedy is given either in the form of a de•
eoction of the bark, or as a watery extract, and Dr.
Bliss and another surgeon, Dr. Keen, having imported
several t. n' .4 the precious !dant, have opened a labo
mtom- in New York, where the preparations can be
obtained. C, u rango rbsembles casca,relia, and
below, to tic duo of oromatic bitten.