The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-25 00:00:00

ITTE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER

'rho climate of England differing so much from that of
the Canaries, it has been found exceeding difficult tr..
keep in good health the c whineal imported last year;
it few, however, remained during the winter, aud these
have produced young this summer.
TRUSTEE SAVING BANKS.—These institutions
appear to hold their ground better than miaht be ex-
pected, in spite of the competition of the Post-office
aavingssbanka In 1854 the :accumulated capital of the
trustee banks amounted to 1:33,736,080. In 1861, when
the Postodfice saviugs-baiks oraunteuced operations,
the aerierrinlioted capital of the trustee banks hail risen
to .1.11 541.475. In 1866 it had declined to £36,382, 116;
but in 1867 it rallied to £36 533,243. and in 1868 it fur-
ther advanced to £36,871 778. The trustee banks
generally pay an interest of in the pound to depo-
citers, while the Poatmffice savings-backs only allow
, an interest of 61 in the pound.
INJUDICIOUS PUBLICITY.—The daily papers a
few days ago were copying from Gal ignaui an accoimt
of a paper published in the Bulletin de Theropeutique
by Dr. litensoy, in which the author praises at senic as
a remedy in pulmonary disease, and espe,ially in
htemoptysis. 'I'VE, notice the fact for the purpose of
expreming our regret that so injudicious an act shouht
be committed by the welhiufornied men who conduct
our daily periodical literature. If there is a remedy
the administration of which requires careful watching,
on the part of the medical man, it is arsenic ; and it
is, to our view, very dangerous to lay before the
public—prone as they are to doctor themselves —a
virtual recommendation of the use of what in in many
cases a usefol, but may be also a treacherous, drag.
—British Molical Journal.
HURRIBLB CRIMIC—A horrible crime has just
been committed at Notre-Dame-de Rochefort, in
Fiance. Two brothers named Gervais, one of whom
NYAS blind from his birth, lived together on some family
property which they enjoyed in common, never having
made a division of it. The blind man who was the
elder, being more than fifty years of age, recently
. expressed his intention to marry a young woman, of
twenty, and demanded from his brother a settlement of
their affairs, in order that each might in future employ
his fortune an he pleased. The younger Gervais was
greatly disturbed at the idea of this separation, which
would have eh:m..4nd his entire merle of existence. He
endeavoured to dissuade the other from the watch, but
findiug him detettnined to persevere, he, in a niomont
of despair, shot the intended bridegroom dead with a
gun, and then blew out his own brains.
CONSTJIMPTIVS CoMPOSITORS. The British
Medical Journal says it imqusstionable whether printeis,
for whom an active sanitary crusade was under-
taken several yearn ago, have, as a class, gained much
in health. In the larger newspaper offices efforts have
been made ti improve the sanitary conditions; in many
of the smaller ones, however, and in most of the
" jobbing " offices, little change has taken place. It
attributes the very large amount of consumption among
compositors to the defective arrangetneuts for carrying
from the offices the warm, noxious gases from the gas..
burners, and the inadequate means for getting a gentle,
unintetrupted current of fresh air to pass through the
work-rooina
THE GOLD CaINAGTS CONTROVERSY. —Lord
Overstone has entered the lists in the currency towns.
nient. In opposition to Sir John Lubbock, he Rapt
The gold contained in a sovereign cannot be diminished
without a violation of good faith, and therefore the cost
of coinage must be detrayed either by the State as
heretofore, or by a direct charge upon the owner of
the bullim, who may take it to be coined. If, too,
the amount of g ii in the sovereign be diminished, it
will cease to be a legal tender (except to some very
limited amount) because it will no longer contain the
exact quantity of gold to which the creditor is entitled.
Professor Leone Levi, writing on the same sutiject,
points out (hat in almost all countries a mintage charge
is levied. In France the entire quantity of gold taken
into the mint is coined, but the mint is paid with part
of the coM produced by it. In the United States and
in Prussia the mintage charge is half per cent. The
professor gives his entire adhesion to the proposed
seigniorage, and expects that public opinion will fully
Sanction the contemplated reform.
A S TRIKING ACCOUI‘ T.—A Clockmaker's Bill.
—Punch.
"THE OATH OF FIDFLITY."—A Democratic and
Socialist Committee in Paris has addreased a letter to
M. Louis Blanc, asking him if he is disposed to take
the oath if fidelity to the Emperor Napoleon in the
event of being elected for one of the vacant seats
which will shortly be filled up M. Louis Blanc, in
his reply. says that the same question was put to hint
from various parts of France at the time of the bat
elections, and that he answered then as he answers
now--No. He cannot forget, he says, that in
1848 he was one of those upon whom the liononr
devolved ..f officially carry Mg the flag of the Repiffilic,
and he will not now allow it to pass in his person under
the Caudine forks. After ref e. ring to the repeal of the
Test Act in England, and to the efforts successiully
made to obtain the admission of the Jews to Parlia-
ment., in illustration of the view that the best way to
obtain the abolition .f an oath is to refuse to take it,
he recommends the French people to act upon that
view. Let them elect those, he says, who refuse to take
the oath, not merely although they refuse, but because
they refuge.
A GALLANT RUM:TR.—Last week, after the
heavy gale, an able seaman, belongi n .t to H.M.S. Royal
Adelaide, of the name of Robert D imarel, fell trout
aloft, and, striking the ship's sole, went overboard.
M the time Lieutenant Pyne, seeing the M th's larger
—for he appeared t.. hi incapncitated, mei the tile was
ebbing fast—jumped into the sea, and meant :Otte him.
I he pair fellow's head wae only par i ly above water, and
he must soon have been drowne I haul he not been over-
tik en and caught by Lieutenant Pyne. Ins few sea olatle
dr.Pyne war. followed by Lieutenant G. S. Brown,who
elm, came te the re,ieue, awl they stle
imarel up till a Cutter came aid took them all eafely
on board. On getting Olt board it was found that
Damarera aim had been broken. Tiffs is the third
person whese life Li,ntenant Pyne has I een instru-
mental in waving ; he already wears the msdal of the
11 .pal Humane Society for serviets of a eiwilar gdlitut
cuaracter.

WRI,CIC OF THE "IIA3IILLA
heavy loss on the Underwtiters' and Marine Insurance
COMIISTI4.3 has been repirted in London by the
receipt if a telegram from China (Shanghai), with in-
telligence if the total wreck of the British ship Ha-
stilt,, beheiging to Glaspiw, outward hound
Iron Lo' don for Shanghai, on the Leueenna Rmik,
within 130 miles of her destination, with a cargo edited
at £l5O 01)0. and specie to the amount of Vit t,eo I.
'the Mstch.ll was a first-elasa iren shit, of
nearly 1 000 tone, owned by Mr. Thomas Mitchell of
Glasgow, and was mei innately(' by Captain Brands-
condi°. She sailed from Gravesend on the 511 of April
loot, and she pas-erl on the 15th of July Aujer Point.
The date of her hiss is not mentioned in the tele-
gram only the spot where it occurred. The crew
appeared to have saved themselves by the chic's boats
anil riached the port in safety. There is no &Debt that on
the inteLizence reaching Seatighai the English Consist
with Lloyd's agent took immediate steps to save as
much of the valuaole cargo as poosible, especially the
£541000 in Flail:le, which was stowed in a strong sliest
under the ca tittle's cabin, but should the treasure be-
come known to the hordes of Chinese fishermen who
frequent these islands, the opinion of nantieal men who
are well acquainted with the desperate character of
those min is that it will be all plundered unless a war
vessel is brought into service to drive them off. There
is float 19 to 25 fathoms of water round the rocks where
she struck. The London Salvage Association im-
mediately deapatehed one of their officers to Shanghai
to look after the interest of the Underwriters. All the
epecie is insured, the £50,000 is divided among four
of the leading marine iusurauce companies in the
city, part of the ship and cargo is insured at Lloyd's,
and the remainder among the offices.
AN OI D DuDOE.—A moruin; paper reports that
on lent Saturday night a burglar entered the r ions.id a
man who was to be married next day and rob), d him
if forty dollars. We (San Francisco News-Letter) don't
believe it ; the young man told that story as an excuse
Lir not paying the parson. It is an old dodge ;we have
resulted to it quite frequently ourselves. It is utterly
imposeible to hays forty dollars after procuring a wed-
ding outfit.
Sit soy DOINGS.—MrS. Malaprop, who has read
that the Bishops attending the Pope's great Couucil at
R nine are to receive an allowance, "varying between
6s. 81. and 10s. a day," stye that she now understands
why it is called the Economical"" Council. She is
thankful to think (Mrs. M. is an exemplary member of
the Established Church) that our Buthops are better
paid. —Punch.
OPFRATIC DISPUTE.—A dispute between an
opera singer earl the dire tore of the Opera Cottage.-
has jest been decided before the Paris Trihnual of
Ciimmerce, MM. de Leuven and Ritt a short time
bock engaged M. Nieot at a salary 14 4,000 fr. for the
first year, to be progressively increased fir parts
" anategona to his talent." That of Frederic in
Mignon was recently distributed to him, but he
refused to accept it al not being equal to his position.
The directors consequently brought an action against
the artist, demanding the annulment, if hie emiage-
went, and the payment of a lerfeit or 20 iioOfr. ;
on the other haud, claimed a sum of titififr., being the
amount of his salary for the months of July and
August. The Court decided that the part of Frederic
was relatively inferior, and that the singer was
justified in declining it ; and consequently nonsuited
MM. de Leuven and Ritt, and condemned them to
pay the salary demanded by their adversary, with all
the costs.
M.LANCHOLT HOLIDAY-MAKING.—The follow-
ing dreadful accident has just occured near Milan. A
party of seven persons, including a woman and a child
of eight years, had been making holiday at a place
called Maloni, on the Lantbro, at a short distance from
Milan. They had spent the day in fishing, and alter
dining at a village inn slid indulging rather freely in
the heady, poise 1111 l decoction which pasoes for wine
in Lembardy, made their way 11..meviarda On the
ri ad they were overtaken by a cab, the driver of which
was Inmsed mare than halt seas over. They got into
the vehicle, and proceeded with int any iniehap an far
as the leadl creasing upon the Milan and Pigmies. Roil.
way, just outside the town. A train hail been signalled,
and the bars had been put tip, as usual, on biith sides
id the line. Impatient at the delay, the driver opened
the first bar, and drove recklessly across the line, with-
out giving a thought to the aroma liar, nyon which la
base dashed a utotnent afterwards. The annual reared
became unmanageable, and backeil upon the line.
The rest may be told in a few words. In an instant
She nieht train, at the top of its spiel, was upon them.
Tee cab we, eralshed to atone., and its living freight
scattered in every direction. Four of the party, includ-
ing the woman and her child, have escaped wiih some
severe contusions. The most euriouo part of the affair
Islthat one of the survivors, waa by some means or other,
snatched up by the train and carried for a sineiderable
oistalice hanging by the fret. On recoverieg his senses
he declared that he had no recolkction of what had
occurred.
SALE OF A RAILWAY.—in pursuance of a
Cha .cery decree. obtained by Mr Robert Vvner' who
has never been paid for his land, that portion of the
Btrkehhesi and Hoelakeßailway, which runs through
his property was offered for sale by auction at the
Queens Hotel, Cnester, on Satur lay. One of the
conditions of sale was that the purchaser was to pay
beyond his bid for the land, for everything found upon
it at a valuation made by the auctioneers, Messrs.

t;hurton and Elphick. The solicitor representing the
railway compauy protested against anythinz but the
land beilw rold, hut the an •ti.r.eer sant he w is acting
under the authority of the Court of C,aucery, and pro-
oeeded to put the tom " lots." The first lot, yeas
knocked down to Messrs. Roberts and Potts, Chester,
for E 4,000, the only hid; the lot including the Dock
Cottages S'ation, *North Birkenhead (where the line
commences), .i3Ong land, and the railway 88 far AV
lot two, which inc'ibled the Bidston Station, and a
length beyond this lot. being also knocked clown to Mr.
Roberts for £1..500. No idlers were made for the other
two lets._ It was stated that Mr. IL6erts was acting

for Mr. Vyner.
FATAL 13JAT ACCIDENT. —On Sunday afternoon
a sad anident occurred in Weymouth Bay, by which
three pawns lost their lives. About four o'.dock a
fishing-hint, containing four men, named William
Watch, Samuel Chick, George Watts, and John
Click, left tie shore for the purpose of "shooting."
When the boat had got about half a mile from the
beach, and was in the act of rounding: to return, the
net at. the stern became entangled,. and ore of the
men hi', hie seat to extricate. it. Th. c tinted the boa
to caprice. and a strong north-west a ind drove three of
the men away from the boat before she righted herself,
the fourth. John Chick, however, retaining his hold,
and by this means escaping drowning. Every effort
was made from the shore to save the others, but with-
out effect. Before assistance could arrive George
Watts and Sarnuel Chick had sunk, but Watch was
picked op just as he was sinking, and every endeavour
was made to restore animation, but wi%liout success.
The bodies of the other two men had not been re-
covered.

" PSACE AND " CO,GRESS AT 1.917-
SANNE.— he thinl and fi ii, tii sitting, f the Congress
ci PeaCo and Liberty at Lautanue have been very
animated, and unrch interest hav been displayed by the
public in the debates. The room has always been full,
and a large number of 1-she, have been present.
Among the speakers have been M. Gastineau, of the
Paris bar; M. Jules Ferry, one of the members for
Paris; and M. Edgar Quinet. A short speech in
English WM delivered by I%irs. Rose an Atnei iosn lady,
who depli Ted the evils of war, an.; laid the blame of
war to ignorance and clerical influence. Centralaa-
thou, decentralization, and the necessity of educaiiiin,
' were the principal subjects handled by the epeakers.
At the el--se of tin third sitting the Congress passed a
distinct repolotion which had been drawn up by a com-
mittee. Thii resoluti tttt affiruis that" the sole means
if establishing peace in Europe is to form a federa.
ration of nati xis, under the name of the United
States of Equipe ; it the government of this
union shall be republican and federative—that IS to
say, be based up in the principle of the sovereignty
of the people and respect for the autonomy and
independence of each member of the federation ,•
that the c institution of this government shall be
modified when necessary; that the European Con-
federation shall guarantee complete liberty to each of
the n tus which compose it; and that DO nation shall
be atirii•te I into the federation unless it is in the full
exercise of uoivrre 11 suffrage ; the right of accepting
aria refusing taxes; the right of peace and war; the
right of coticluiliog or ratifying alliance, and treaties
of commerce • and the right oh improving its own con-
stitution." On the 17th there were two sittings of the
Congress, and at one id these the Eastern Question
was discussed. At the other, economical aubjects
were under consideration.

HOIST scum HIS Owe PETARD.—The rmdica,
officer of Pentonville Prison. London, in his report
presented thin year, m-ntions a retnarkaide case which
o:curreil recently within that gaol. Convict "5,211"
was suddenly seized with vomiting of blood, and died
of limmorrhage in a few hours. The psst• mortem ex-
amination showed a counterfeit half-crown lodged in a
pouch in the gullet, which had caused ulc/r ntion and
perfora in of the aorta. The prisoner had been a
"slumber," and in order to escape detection swallowed
this coin 10 or It menffis before his death. The nib.
settee of any difficulty in swallowing food or other
symptom indicative of the presence inf is foreign body
in the gullet in remarkable ; avid the surgeon is not
aware of any other case in whin h a 'smooth body, like
a coin has been found to ulcerate from the gullet di-
rectly into the aorta.
His HARD FATE !—The following story turns
up in the New York Tribune :
Mr. Millais, R. A., the great painter, wrorecently requested
to undertake the isirtrait of Miss Cunliffe brooks, dinighter
of a itch Mancln-Wer moan. Mr Millais re lied that lie
didlit like iimitrait.psintii g and no longer mimed liimseli
ill that brai.ch of art lie eas then asked to mune bis price.
Thinking (it is said; to frighten away the applicant, he fixed
it at two thousand guineas : but, eithor to his great delight
or great disippointinent, we do not pretend to know which.
the picture was Immediately ordered. Poor Mr Millais will
have all the bother 44 doing a piece of once. g •iiial woik,
and only receive the inadequate satisfeciiiin of about
n thousand dollars. Hew all his affectionate brother
artists will piny him!
A Tuounimites lion.—A lad fourteen years
of age, named Fisher, was charged on Friday, at
Ramagate, with shmitiag a boy hauled Henry Fox,
ag,-1 eight. The boy Fox, with two lads of &Keit the
same age, went into a field to catch mice for their cat,.
Fisher, who is a much bigger boy, came up with a
heavy pistol. Having questioned the little laws as to
whether they had caught any mice, and received a
reply in the negative, he loaded his pistil with powder
and small shot, and deliberately winning at two of the
boys; in their turn, threatened to sinoot them. Theybeggedif himttmitt to do so. and he then pits the pistol
beliin I Mtn and, turning his hack t t the boys, fired,
and the shot went in the boy Fox's face. eyes, moat 1,
and chest, seven ly wounding bun. A inner con vic-
tiOa having been prov, d against the boy, he was hell-
teLe..d to twenty-tune days' impnisniumeut.
. A MAN AITACKED BY A SNAKE.—Yesterday
I afternoon, about four ,'clk. a largr black snake—
snlisenmantly measured, and found to be four feet six
juchna long--fell from the roof 184, Fourteenth-street,
tine residene, of A. C. Dusenberry, and struck a Isay
nin the knee who was tending the newspaper stand of
Frank Williamson. The boy got up and duated. Mr.
Butler, who keeps a liquor eatablishment on the cornier
of Fourteenth-street and klichth Avenue, raw the reps
tile fall, and threw a st, me, bat f Libel to Int it. Tine
' intake rose about two feet le rpendicalally, and, with
jaws distended was preparing to attack Mr. Biller,
when a cartman seized a heavy rung and struck it,
causing its death. The reptile, has been placed on
cx-
hrhiilnnn in the st, re. It is believed there are more
, snakes its the usighbourhood.—Nem Turk Sun, Sep-
tember 3.
, FATAL ACCIDENT IN SWITV RLAND.—A Cor-
' resin, relent in Switzerland wri.ea under date of the
Nth :-
1 "yesterday Mr. Chester. a member of the Alpine Chili, lost
his life on the Li skatom which he ascended with two Mildee
froni Ziirniatt. Time guides arrived at the hotel on the It If -I-
beta late iii the event, g, very much out and bruised, and
brought intelligmice of tile aciiident, which happened at Slime
o'clock 1., the Afternoon. SID Chester Wilt Up MOD him a
dog, surd In attempting to save the dog, which ha
on the slope whimn was twins ascemled, Mr Cheiter lost his
footing Slid fell one the slope dragging the twit guides with
him. The di.tance which thi• three slid and fell was air int
1,5,00 feet Mr. Coester died in about five iiiinutep, and the
geides were at mann injioed that It was on ly with tine
greatest nifli silty they wiuld reach the Riffellierg Hotel A
Mr. Fowler yesterday rife tent an ascent of the Brannon], in
the vicinity of the Lyskamro, from the lowthern side—money,
from the Gorier Glacier, an ascent whieS has rarely if ever
been made, althongh the momitain has several times been
ascended 'rote the opposite side"
TO CORRESFONDhNTS.—DuIy received 37d jokes
on "Mrs. Beecher 'S
-toe putting her foot in it.'
Enough for the presents—Punch.
KENILWORTH CASTLE.—A considerable portion
of the ruins of this inner magnificent pile having shown
liars of falling, Earl Clarendon, the owner, is now re-
pairing and strengthening the great hall, Leicester's
Buildinge, and parts of the external walls on either
idele. His lordship in also restoring wane nd the &or-
w ,ye, windows, and fireplaces. In the course of the
repairs excavatinns have been made, and underground
apartments, cello, and p issages revealed which had
beeu hint for centuries. The great hall, 9ift. by 45;t.,
atill retains several nit its Sue gothic windows, and some
of the towers yet rise 70 feet high.
SUICIDE OF A SEpTaeaviAßlAL—An inquest
haw been held at Leamington on the body of William
Heading, an old marl of seventyassven. Deceased was
once a farmer, but had been reduced to poverty, and
was now in receipt of parish relief. Fif teen years ago
he cut his threat, but recovered and was committed to
gaol for three weeks. Since that time he has repeatedly
attempted to destroy himself. Last week he received
a letter from a eon living in London, describing hinrielf
as destitute of clothing, and absolutely starving. The
next night he hanged Inauselt in his bedroom. The
poor old man was respectably connected, and one of
his HODS is a Nonconformist minister and the iniperini•
tendent of a circuit. The juri, found that the decease I
hanged himself. but left the etate of his mind an open
quention.
PnEFARING FOR DEATH —An old man, evi-
dently ol Engligh birth, and considerably intoxicated
(say. an American paper), called at an undertaker's
shop in Omaha a tent' days ago, and mad that he
&aired to purffiase a coffin. What size, Sir?' said
the barying m in, alw sys on the alert for hiplines&
" I waut the thing for mysel "said the Englishman;
" can't you take my rinsasirn I' rne on 'retake& Knee-
ing the condition the man was in, told him to lie down
011 a board while he eh sliced out his cliumusione. The
man then offere,l the undertaker 20 dots., and ri quested
that he would t. kill him easy." He mid lie hsd been
blacksmithing at North Platte, but that whisky had
gut the better of him, and he was tired of life. The
undertaker of course refused his money, and advised
him to find a bed in some hotel rattler than in the
damp ground.

MINOR MORALS IN THE ARIAY.—Major-Creneral
Freeman Murray, commanding the troops in the
Chatham district, hats issued a divisional order to the
forces under his ceintuand in which he censures the
practice recently adopted, not only by many of the
officers, but likewise by uott•commiaaioned officers and
men, of appearing oti parade, and on other occasions
when on tiuty, displaying massive gold watch-guards
and other articles ut jewellery, which be considers to
be highly objecGionable, as well as unofficer and un-
snitherlike. Commanding offi•tera are enjoined to dis-
courage the practice. Major-General Murray likewise
calls attention to the quantity of whisker and
moustache worn by many I,f the officers and men, and
directs that the Queen's regulaiiimis respecting the
same are to he strictly adhered to. Under no circum-
stances are '•imperiate" to be allowed to be worn. The
same order also directs that officers are not to be per.
witted to wear a black silk tie and collar. instead of the
regulation black silk stock, when in uriform.
AOaICOLTILINAL RaTiJaNS. —The agricultural re-
turns of Great liritaiu for the present year have been
made up. From an alistract which is published in an.
ticip ion of the detailed repot twe learn that the laud
under wheat, barley, otata, and potatoes, fur the Itresent
year, shows an increase sin ter each heal as comparett
with that of last year, to the extent if more than 1
per cetit. in wheat, 4 in bat ley, I in nata, and 6
in potatoes. Titere is also an Increase of acreag-
es compared with 1867, excepting in barley, where there
is a decrease of nearlG 3 per cent. In live attkk they
is a decrease—in cattle to the extent of '2 per cent .
sheep upwards of 3 per cent., and pigs as mirth as 1€
per cent. There it au increase, however, as compared
with 1867- in cat,l, 6 per cent., and sheep '2 per cent.
The pigs. on the coutrary, show a falling if as com-
pared with that year to the extent at 34 per cent.
there is a decrease of about 3,000 acres of land under
hope ea compared with the two former years.

Form Lives Lour.—On Sunday week there
died of typhoid f,ver, at Conn-gra, Spain. an eccle.-
iaAtie, NI. r .erto Roe speaker of gr, at uwilt
who reiorese,ted the p•VViliCe if l'olc•Aio at t hor.. •
tire of the Fedi rat eoro pact. Before hiv death hewn.
sewed to receive the onovolation4 of reltion, lolc tot.

way renounce,' his political principlea. Hisobp. i, s
gave OCCIAIi 11 on to a deplorable incident. A frierni f tee
&billet, M. Acevedo, having come forwa .1 at the
cemetery, alter several SPCOOI.I had been male, to say
a few words in eMogy of Ilmo, was iaterrupted In
very harsh language bv a Liar. TW-4 pnweeding gave
rise to a riot a•noutot the assembly, which was very
1111111,1,111(1, and cmupriAed many women and chddren.
A hand to hand scuff', ermed, and in the end the
. .

corwea of throe young girli aud a child of a few mouths

we;n taken U.

A Ilk/Pt FUL FirATURE IN. FRISNCII PROSPF.CTS

—The llorning fr observes that althouga the sky is
darkened over France, it is not with the datkneas of
the 4.trms of previous generations. There is per.
plexity, there is even alarm, but there is not pude.
Seventeen years of universal suffrag • have, at any rat,
done this x 1.1041 : they have eul ,red the basis upo
which all government mast rest. In eipte of aui
offi jai attempts to guide and to control, tie people
have found_ th ir voice ant learnt d the secret it tieir

strength. Whatever may happen in France, the mail
revolutions of a former epoch are now out of date.
Things are not as they were when the electoral body
was composed of two hundred thousand voters, while
the outsiders numbered ten minims on whom no man
c iuld count, and whose wishes and sentiments were
ignored or misinterpreted. There may be—the Stir
thinks there will be—tunny ievolutions in store for

Enrope—nrizhtier. perhaps than arty we have hrthert •
known. Si, •h irevolotione rere the tueetrogs at ita'a awl
Eisenart feebly foreshadow. But they will lei sarial
rather than political—gradual rather than sudden—
the result of changes in opinion rather than of a redis-
tribution of power.
THE CASE OF THE IMPRTSONED NIIN.—It will be
remembered that the lady superior of the convent at
Cracow where Barbara libryk was confined excused
herrelf on the plea that she had acted nuder the in-
structions of the general of her oriler. The Governrneet
hart since (Me read in the Baleen Budget) referred to
this dignitary through its 1i111111...1.er at Rome, :Ina 14
protocol in the Latin language has been forward .d
Vienna in reply. The general of the order positively
declares on oath that he gave no instructions to the
I.nty superior, as state i by her.
NEARLY BURIED ALIVE.—An inhabitant of
Bombay, France, has jort narrowly escaped premature
interminft. He had fallrn in a state of syncope,
brought on by an abuse of alcoholic drinks, and Me
family, believing him to be deal, had laid him out.
ordered a coffin, and summoned his son from Paris.
Some old women of the village came in the next day
to sprinkle the body with holy water, as is the cost.m
when the last preparations for the funeral are berg
made, when a person present, observing that one are
of the supposed ci pse wan hanging down from th lied
-
raised it uu and replaced it above. The touch recall d
the man to conscioneness, and opening his eves he
looked around rat the Lai standerri. to their great wonder.
ment Slid alarm. Some of them, however, recovered

—.—.—.
their self-possession sufficiently tr'eo send for a doctor,
and restoratives having been applied the individual
norn recovered. Singularly enough, his father had
been once very nearly buried alive in a similar manner.
THK ABDICATION OF TFIX ENFERteIt NAINeLI• ON.
—a telegram has been received to the following
effect :—" We have received a comtionnication from
a member of Parliament who is assured by official.
in confidential communication wink the Emperor
of the French, that a formal abdication wiii take
place in a few weoks at latest. The Price lon.
pe.rial will be proclaimed Emperor, with the title
of Napoleon IV., the present Emperor holding
offlor as President of the Council. The Emperor
doems his life precarious." On the above rumour
of the abdication of Napoleon a writer in The Times
remarks :—" I have heat d more than once, a long time
ago, that when the Emperor was indulging—as eviry
, one of us is wont to do—in those dreams a an old age
and a quiet end with which we charm our r ouhled life,
and which are no often dispelled by the hut ried step 01
death, he used to fancy himself voluntarily discharged
of the burden of actual command, aid enjoying quietly
the sight of his reigning and prosper run heir. And as
he is uncommonly bent to give to his own dreaming
about the future a material turn—that is, to im wine
things as he would like them to be, and to rr ;resent
the future to himself as real scenes and actual fours, it
has been said froqueutly that he fostered the idea of
erecting on the height of Moutmar re—that most
beautiful mod shamefully neglected p oint of Par a—a
',alone with I rrge gar lens, a kind of edita napientom
templa serena, and to spend there, writing, rear no -g. and
surveying his win with fathr rly care, not far fromi the
Tuileries in cose of need, but above trouble iu ordinary
drum, the last days of his eventful lite. But when lie
erjoveal such dreams he was not aware of his press t
orittieulties ; Queretaro and S odoiwa had not slletowed
his path, and he had not peen re tumor! yet to °Olt-rate
his Constitution of 1852, and ti strike his flag betore
Parliamentary Government rising unexpectedly from
its grave. In the present circuonstatices everyone feels
that the association of the Prince Imperial to the
(moven:anent would be a more matter of form, and
that the weather is too rough for tender and inex-
perienced heads, but, even as a form it would not be
uselees, and could be tried without inconvenience, if
not with telOin4 effect upon t'oe public mind."
ISHoCKINO ACC 4ONT.—A serious accident has
occurred at the Atlas Works, belonging to Messrs.
John Brown and C (Limit'!) at Shettie'd. Sox men
were dig raeol in casting an immense ingot, when the
vesml., which containrd about seven tons of molten
met ii, was overturned, in consequence of the chain
which ha ancem it giving way. Tne whole of the red
hot steel was cast upon the floor. Toree workmen
were very severely Mr nod. The metal spread all over
the flo•-r of the workshop, which is sitnaotal in tire
Bessemer C department of the manufactory, and
several other workmen, who were some di-tance from
the mr miffing apparatus, hail very narrow escapee.
A II ST ON HIGH II KEti.-We- when speaking
of a feminine drew., we mean to say that II is, his
teen, or is tribe made—say, simply made, or male up,
however elegant tone dress may he. But if a toilette is
pretty, French milliners call it coofeetiook. Tnis word
ougzests the idea of something not only nice ha
savoury. Such a thing is gravy moup—Gallice con-
somme. Couldn't a dress be called a consomme as well
as as• up? The short dr, as with the high heels which
con, rt a pretty foot into the likeness of Mother
Shiptoes the nearest possibloo approach to a cloven
one, might then, in hagtoran'm French, be denominated
Consomme aux Hoofa—PUNCH.
SUPPOSKD RIiCOVeRY OF £l6s,ooo.—Amongst
the vessus lost in the memrorabel cycles that swept
over the Bay of Bengal in 1887 were the steamer
Thunderer and the ship Morandiire. Search was pro.
fenced to be made for these and other missing vessels
among the Sunderbunds, but no traces of them were
discovered, and it was taken for granted than both had
gone down at era. The other days party of fishermen,
driven for shelter into an out of •the-way creek, 8 rule
miles inland, stumbled moon the hull of a ship which
proved to he the Aloraphire, and further on found a
steamer with masts and tunnels still standing, which
answered to the description of the Thonderer. The
tite triter had £165,000 ou boarol, which is doubtless in
her bullion hold. As to the fate of her crew, painful
speculations are, of course, called up, as the place is
infested with tigers.
AN A cct iMPLISHED SCRIBE —The following Bin
gular note (says the Liverpool Albion) Was recently
add, eosed by a candidate for the post of chapel-keeper
to the demon ins i—
" Sir mei Geritlernans of Committee of Eros Phase, Come!, -
ir was here train a r than ynir cue father pohli that
there was want a Capel Curer fir new Brasoitteribie C LTA
in Clarence Street, end I offers myself for pine I was not
he member lett was have it in my mint to offer myself Anil if
was gets Capri I comes a menther uriek sticks I was sit
mared but was have a w.rman who is member in my nand's
ss to marry'er locrtrllss that I will Usp,i the Conn aartal
Claire— Sty prof...inn is lahor and I wis w irk sometimes for
Alto street. Plates let us no as soon as you can Sr
I was like to hay fernish fir in,/ hoed. I was sit urniergmliary
in Hise Place, slid! w. hy 29 ye tre in nip life. I roulette,
Geatlenians, your umble servan—"
A Cass. FOR Posuc SVMPATHY.—The Arch-
deacon of Bangor writes to the Times—
A short and touching appeal from the pen of Captain
Verney, R. N , has appeared in your columns on behalf of
Mrs. Suite, who, by the recent death of her husband, the
Rot Realm Pugh°, a clergyman of exemplary character, has
been left swirl, rue with ten children, eight of them rauging
xi ages from eleven yearn to nine months, and only BSI per
animism seemed fru. sir Many. Iran, from per soma! iwledge
vouch for the case as nine deserving of the sympathy anti sup-
port of those aide an-I willing to assist such c.es of destitu-
tion, and any further contributions for their relief would he
well bon oweil It would, moreover, he a most valuable
boon it suliscribers to the clergy Orphan Institution whir have
not ye, 'numbed their votes woulo korety reserve there for
two of the neys id this bereaved fanny at the next election
of candid des in November, more especially as Ime of them
will ha superannuated afrer that late. It shonld bo a-bled
in suppi et of the forego oing appeal, that the iirpharis ill Whore
behalf It is made are lined decendants from lir. Wariiforil,
the very munificent uenefactor of the Clergy Orphan Corpora-
tion.

THE PRINCE AND THE ACROBAT.—A Paris
paper relates the following inci.l.-nt concerning the
vPot. of the Prince Imperial to the fete of St. Cloud :
Having observed a pmr I,ttle acrobat of shoat tweiva
ye ire Old treated with neglect by the crowd, the Prince
stepped up to him and, puttmg a piece of 20fr in his hand,
eat I softly, "Keep that, hut say nothing about ; " and
then rejoined hi. you .g friends. Oa the return if the
party to the palace the Empress said to the Prince, '' I sup.
pose you have spent a good deal of money?" "I have ex-
pended 27fr," was the reply. That in fact, was the sum which
the Prince had laid out, including the present to the poor
boy.
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A CURIOUS CIRCIINISTANCIt.—In London, laq
week, a young man name I Alfred Wyatt, the son of
the state coachman to the Ai clibishop itf Canterbury,
hung himself in a closet in the palace stables while
lalionueg under mental depression, produced by bia
having been out work fnrllolllo time. Ott Iluisday
he was buried, aud among the persons who raw the
funeral procession puss was a woman named Oliver,
the wife of a °mein/taker who has been for nine years
past confined in a lunatic w-ylutu. Mrs. Glover has
cuing that tin, been engagen as housekeeper to Mr.
Ortdu, of Union-place, Lambeth-road, receiving a
weekly allowance, and having two rooms rent free.
Sne wan in the constant habit of drinking tip i-XGCIOI.
Mr. Orton, who had known her from infancy, fre-
quently remonstrated with her, and had several times
said he would dismies her, when she declared that she
would not go out until she was carried out, and that
she would never go out alive. Soon after the funeral
of Wyatt she hung tersely. At the inquest, the coroner
observed that steing the itinetal of toe young man whit
destroyed hituatl at Lsrutteth Palace had probably an
elf,
mtucLueapo her
the
an
vL,,m,,,i,n;d in cdondritt.itonr„.— y,4Thsj
herself
by hanging whilst in a state of uunsinind mind, pro.
ilueed by habtts di intemperance and distress of wind
r,y reason of h.r husband Ming a lunatic.
'fug rti,neRAPR Aou He .RT sTA.—A novel
telegraphic feat was anstinplished owing the recent
ting of the Americm Science Aissicia i in at Salem,
( qasa.) Dr. Upham, of lidaton, delivered an event g
lecture upon the bunion heart awl its actions, and at
he °dilettantu he exhibited in the Hall at Stlem the
pulsations f several patients and physicians of the City
Hospital in Boston. The Franklin Telegraph Com-
pany gave the use of a wire between the two places;
the heart-beatings were made automatically to send
currents through it, and they were rendered ‘isible to the

audience by a beam of 1110411.1 UM light wi.iQh quivered
upou the wail of the darkened ro .o 'n pe.fert sympathy
with the diitant Firet hrsitil tumis ve.n was
• . .

ont to the apparatus, and the .ight n; .t dxry
times a luntie. l'he ne.otol win a healthy 1,.“- x..,t.
.hle person. and the quiveroge were ninety per minute.
Next. the speoral pitoe that lIS h-nLn per
minute were coining front the hospi,al; and lastly the
beam j-rked at an alt.sretherirreal ilar ra, e ; the forital.
cane the heats chime from& [Janie., aUffe.-hior ,r. or• p- -ens
in nit ' • in the litter. trona one affected with ah orObate
' heart dlsootse. Salem and Boston are haute,. notes
apart. NVP.h a se..re or so of phyltuographS, sod •
few dozen yards if wire, the hospital norgeon of the

hrure may have the puises of all the patatuta heytiug

iu 'di private nom.

CLOTH!D BYii L tW.-A French mayor of a
commune ntti sometinua nay good thing an well udo

a to I.sh one.

Au example oi-tt e

niehed in the cave of one who nearly caused the loas of
the vintage in his commune by oh.tinatelv 1.,,,e-ling
that the grap-o acre gretn and unlit to b. g.thered.
•nd then fore, retuen.g to permit tie villo,m, i.. 1.; itiii r
. . . ..

hem ; sod it .wai ou%ine of the i11.1,i ill .1:11;i11;
under his smihmity on, get-tine th it the ans., oiler
which the fruit sip-seed to him imglkt ar C fr rn

lookihg au 01,111411 the green span al-e he woe that
he took a different view, and one that was in 14,7C0rd-
. .

&11. with the representations of the. yin uter....—Au
instant,' of the former kind is related in rr.erenee to
. . .

the ea.-of a rural constable:
:wInN hsving linuk t;

o,
freely of wine or bran ly, suddenly nos from loq bed,
appan-toly under the ituk.resoon that. Ids R rvileen

• a . .„
A ere required I,outewhere, buckled on bin ohm, and
unarebed op. and down the village. '1:11e coinm.ition

canard by Ida appearance in such a candition was great,
aid a complaint sea. tirade t the wait, that lila crib-
oettinate was walking u and .1 .wit the vniaze in •
naked okedition ; to which that fnucti•marN

"You are no.taken my good people ; he is covered by
Article 75 of the code."

SIGIENG TO BZ WHITE.—One of the Calcutta
papers says that a respectable Baboo hla addressed
the following letter to a chetuist in thst city :

"Dear tilts, beg to know that there Is any suchmedielne
In your shop that cia intake the whole body wide, and is
tinetitrilled never the whole %emit!, and -eta in will kindly
let me kin Lir its price tea nn.lit an psissilila '' This -hewn what
inirtaer poor M d ime It whei tipide in remaining in Bond-
street. Site thak tits ethic tufa lassos are sighing for +hits
skins she toight have mode a fortune in calcutta There LS
tar mere to he extracted from a liengaiee than a Ilirrddsile.
SisortAn DrATH.—An iuquett hems been held
at Islington, London, on the body of Henry Monshire,
aged 67 years. who died under singular circninttsuces.
liarrirt Harnshire, a danelver of the deceased, deposed
that she resided at b 9, Cloudettley.roat. Her father
was a retirel butcher, and Mod been faiUng in hie in.
teliect since February. About two mouths atohe made
use td.expressiona showing that he WELfi about to com-
mit suicide, and a man was then obtained to he with
him. He hail been getting worse ever sine s. He
retired on Thursday in his not ci state, and on
Fri lay morning tier attention wea callel to him, and
she found him teeing deal in the lid. There was
blood on his bawls and on the het. She thought
he had broken a varicose vein in gett;ng out of bed.
He was a very sober man. The man who slept with
him, named Hammy, said eh cement WM always very
quirk They both got ms at haq-past live, end ttpun
retired, and on waking up at half-pest seven he touted
deceased in a pool of blood. Me knew of ceo krliG, but
the recurs except a small pocket knife, st hich WAS in
witness's pocket all safe when lie got tip. Ile could not
account at all tor the way in widen deceased
Dr. Allen stated that he lice! attended deceased, and
recommended his.f nen& to have stone one to 1 ok after
_ . .

hint. He was called to the house on the moruing in
question, and foutel deceased dead, lle did not think
it possible that the wttunti could have been in& ete by
the pocket-knife of Allen, and neither could it have
been emitted by a bursting of the varicone veins on at-
teinptiug to get from the lid. It would have been a
jagged woutid if such hid been the vow, but this W., a
(dean cut by a trharp W,IIIIIII. Toe Coroner's offii•er
went to the deceased's house is order to fiial the
weapon, but to no avail, and, after some conversation,
the coroner adj turned the court for a week in order to
give a forther ttpportunity of pearching for the weapon,
which has di-appeared in a soniewh.t mystenious
manlier. An order was given for the burial.
A HI,T TO WHITr;,d3 or L ve-L..rrKse. —An
old At le of writit g 1 .ve letters in ciple r has been
rived by summer ned tents in vitriol rural parts of
Scotland. An old echooltuseter who taught the art
Arwue fifty yearn X2ll. live down the rule, is ,crihcs the
the and every altet nate wenteece and read what re-
mains, thus :—`• flunk not, I will meet you, on any
terms whatever, at the garden door, you oh, old on no
...count be out, on Sand ay. It is quite wicked, at the
ritigieg of the bell, to waltder about the fl-life, it'- church
goh.g tune, divine service. Ever yours, very
naughtily, JANE."
THE CoONTCSS AND THE CoNCIET.GE —The Civil
Tribunal of the S-inc has jut had to decide a suit be-
tween tenant and landlord arising out of the mis-
conduct of a house-porter. The Countess do B city
held in l. ase an apartment at IL, 8011, everd Nlales-
Lerbent, and which, alter occupying herself for irate
time, she gulf-let, furnished. Ulm family by which it
was in the lA4 inetatme inhabited left at the emu uence-
molt of May of last year, and sheer then the apart-
ment lies remained rllllo.v, the concierge htVing alwads
refused to ehow it to applicants, or di...toiled them fr.tm
taking it. He had ale., upel itpuli litogUtg to the
Countess, SDI a 110) ed her in vat ions Was a. in order to
provoke her to abandon the place. r Mat lady, intolll4C.
11111.11 Ce, Vir.,itglit a,. ac'i is agsilltlt the proprietreoL
%Mote. Pon met, t.O rncover dam 4_,A and ttltrain the
dismiesal of the p niter. The defendant pretended that
the suit was Only a pretext to delay the paymeut of
rent dine, or to evade the liability altogether. The
court, Mien v r, condetune I 14. Im-. Potitnet ti ppy an
indemnity of 5t .Of , fuel to change the conclerge withia
a 'month, in default of wh.ch tee lease would be termi-
nated, end a sum of 3,0001. awarded to the plainrtff as
compeneation. Mdnne. Poumet was aen ord. red to
•
pay the costs.
Verelotte I saraAacg CA.—At San Francisco
a rem iikable file in-mance c lee has juet been heard.
The elaitnaut was the widow of oue Charles Hegel's,
and the defendents were the North American Lite In-
enrance Corn- any. It appeared by the evidence that
Geggns left San Francircg opon the 22114 of Augnet,
1808, in a at ate of ni-ival and bodily prewar, i
proaelting insanity. On the 3rd of S •ptennher follow-
ing, hie remaiue, ina an advaeced state t d detxtum
were toned in the mountains of San Joaepitu i entity.
Toe pokey or inettrance expire I inn th.- 27th of August,
1868 —Plat one week before his ron tiles were tound.
Hots- arose the defence, the company denying that
when fund be had 'teen dead Bevel' days, and upon
that point they went to trial. Fr the plaintiff it was
prove that at the inepeett the opinion we that the der
ceased hed been dead at leaot ten days when found;
and, further, six doctors testified that fps.' the condi-
tion of Geggus when last seen, Angus', 23—he not
having then eater. anyth•ng for toter two tlaias —he
Intact nave died within a period nangiug from tw, lee to
irty-eiget hours thereafter, thue fixing his I math at a
time at leant two di}, prior to tile xpirina 'if the
policy. For the detrnee the company call' ii five
doctors, who were of opinion that the state of tlecom-
position was not Co great as it would have been if
Geggns hail been dead seven days. Tney admitted,
however, that the great rarity of the air lin the moun-
tains. might retard decay. The jury impel that death
took place before the 27th AUVUtit, and therefore gave
a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed,
10 214 dole.
Tisr. BATTLE or JENNER.— Our advice to anxious
Mothers who are 'darned about Vaccination is, Don't
be frightened—thoidzin you 're Cowed. —Purace.
LOOKING AHEAD !—Ainong the fiaitivities at
Calcutta, on the occasi tn of the Duke of Edinburgh's
visit, will be a fancy dress ball at Goverument.houre,
on or about next New Year's Day. The arrangements
are likely to be on a scale of unusual mageiticence. Ng
uniforms will be allowed, except to . ulcers over 55
years of age, and the ball will hes general fancy dress
one, HMI not one confined ti, any particular period.
To, CRITIC aL !—The Revell, a Paris paper, in
en article on the Emperor's health the other evening,
said

The digestive functions of ht • Majesty will grading! de-
teriorate, end will prove unequal to rep.dr the sttength
which is doily diminishing in consequence of the lgidily
maiming endured and the loss of Wood ; and, finally. ie
month in three m ,nilts, in six mon hi at tile mot, the
lamo ;or want 4,f oil wit Alit) ollr, Millen some not oreg-en
complication, for which one ought els nys to he prepared in
the camrse of a chronic disease, pu's it Out suddenly.
France, t. erefore, must he prepsi,d ti hear soon a ths
Profundis sung immediately to be succeeded lay a Ts heists,
11[1105$ indeed !

WRECK or A VESSEL AT SOrTtIPORT.—OR
Sunday merning the people at Southport were en'-
prised a: the disnott-ry of a Isr.4es vessel Ingo no a sand-
haek, a short distance from the shore. Sue proved to
ha the Cedette, a Liverpool bark of 473 eons, owned by
Mewse. Pattersos, Nti olly, and Cu. Captain Andrew
Christian. The CWlNtte was bound (rout Bay Vert.,
New Brunswick, with a cargo of deals. For it.- past
three weeks she had experienced very rough weather,
and on Saturday iii4ht, the captain being unable to
m eke out his proper bearings, and, in act, mistaking
the Southport coast for that I,f Fleetwood, the ve«sel
ran a,J.iiind on feirs Bank. Ft tin the state of the
baroin-ter It was evident that a istoriu isas approaching,
and the captrin and Crew, tea in nunilsr, left the
vessel about ten o'clock and landed on the 5, inthport-
pier. The bark was visited, and the sailors' clothes in
her were secure I. As her keel, however, is knocked
off, and she is fast embedded in the sand, there is no
chance of saving the vessel.
ASSATILTI,O A SERVANT WITH A K,IF/L—At
Ryde, Isle of Wight, Mrs. Johnson. of Btrringtnne
houwe, near Rile, was atanuoned by E se Eluseworth
for hating assaulted b, on Sunday, the 12th inst.
Mr. Voicent, solicitor, Ryde, appeared for the defend-
ant, alto was nit is attend. cc. Comp'ahnnt
that she was engaged by the defeedant asdi,meitit sere
vast, and entered her service, on a month's probations
ese Monday, the 6eh inst. She ouly stayed with her for
a week. On Sunday, the 12th inst, her sorer cline to
see her in the afternoon, but as her mistress
sent word down to sty that she did not allow
visitors in the kitchen, her sister left immediately.
In the evening her mistress came downstairs tiles'
sot in peeling the pntat. es. Complainant bail rhe
was sorry her islst-r hail annoy -I 'ter by coln a!
to
see her, and her mi-tress, withnut rei.lying, seruck her
with the blade of a knife he hal in her mind, col t.ng
her wrist; tic scar the niagistriPe cad I Per was the
musk uf the blow. Mrs. Johnston the, called her ha!
names. She said nothieg to her mistress nee to any
one else, but next m wning took mit a sutumoits afaind
Mrs Johnston, and left her ser. Lee, as she d.d not
think lie lie Was ee.fe. Mr. Vim eat ”id be was is-
atructegi to deny the ainault, and t say the C emplainaut
was yen). nrua-rtanent t i her mistress. He callel the
gardener, Robert Guy, who said that when c.in phanant
Went for her box and wages she to'd him that the al-
leged assault °coined in the dining-reams. In cross-
e: • thina,hni, heacknowledged going to see complainant
to endeavonr to induce le«r to withdraw the senninees,
without stead. fie admitted that hie IniStress Wag
greatly exei,ed when complainant went for her ithes
did Wages os the Tuesday., but said that he did Ire
hear her «wear. The magistrates were lsdh f opt.=
that the case was vrored ; in fart, the assault WWI lint
denied by the defendant's witness, who adinitred rIP
deavouring to compromise the case. They inflicted •
penalty of ill and pats, observing that the complainant
had given her evidence in a very creditable manner.