The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-19 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

THE 1111'111.11IST FATTIL—TIie King of Bunnah
has informe,l Mao t 1 idler, through his l'rime
31inister, the Pakhan Itlangyee, that lie is printing a
complete edit (al of the " Be Wei f Ilools " (the
Trigiffakke Ifoly Scripture, (.9 the Ilitildbists),
in l'ali, the:sacred language of Ilruldhisni, with a vi.:w
to having h afterward.: translate:l into 81111111-se aol
EllgliSh, .A 0 no to spread the knowledge of the
Buddhist religiou both in Europe and America, and
that thy English people may les•onie acquainted with
the prineiplue of the Pauldfiist faith, and thus c-ano•
this kingdom to keffillt• famous in the world'slii,tory."
A 'mall eompendinin ..1 the tivuldhist religion, forming
part of the Tripintko, has lat. ly been translated from
Pali into English by Pix.fes,or Max Muller,
hoehosior's BoroPffr,, translate,l from Burnie, by
I ::11 I T. 11.4k:rs, with an intr..ll(i•tion eontaining
/: ' Bhoiee(oiso(0, or " Path of Virtue," trans
• •I II Pali by te. Max Muller : Isoolon, Tritbner
. • i (
Tun i'rEstm:NT or Time CIIrNI.IT. AT Ili PI
,11 tin .' Mai, 1113,if ltij,nn was welcomed
I I.:: 111 reply to an address,
rI ~•:. - I iloa by: the Goi ern-
1..1 .I.:i t :1 1., 1:111.alae eqopentlillity tO
' ,• it ritatin4 winos], 1)9 A pa:(t misuielerstatuting
t . :mire .0..1 th, 'idiottiters. Ile
' • • ' I . .." Inogli he saw at
I'• • ' le•cause the Com
. I • , I. :ii. Weinent,-not of a singh..
' :• • liii,loolorkAuulingi. I luring
• ' • in Ainin•ien., al+l...itgli be was
• ' • ' th on
• Iv Ott:
• I \ MA by the
' • ( 'vii and the Government of the
I .ST.I TUE BRITISH AI:311%
, • ' S:710:11' a fatal
Near
• ! died Odney

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THE MEETING IN PIPENIX P.ARK. . ,
, • . •• :.., , ould not
united commitbs• of dc', ••• • , :,• I'' ". ' -: • • • • • . , .
Defence Association, tia Lon i a I%d p.i. • i - - . . . . . -. . oho, 'present
and the Law! and I,alsnir IA .o. oo•. too T., • . • , o ', o. ' , . • - • . Tin. drags Were
the conduct of the Irish Exeo•oitio ! with , ! ' ' :. . : .4 P.M after an int-
, • ... an a.m., seloen
rts .44 meeting in I hiblin, was held in I • . • ' • f I
London, tinder the presidenc.y of Air. t I • . ! ; . . .. ! . ~ ...
when all ont 5,000 pen-sons, one-fourth ot . n. •
; ' P.. ;P. o '-, . , .....-, the 10)11 of July,
I rbhmen, were preo.ent., . : ,
• • . . • • ! . *. ' lo•.o. to o.t. day fol this
l'lte chailionta i •if,,ro 1,1 t!,•• ii. - t'.l'. • , •' ', .z• I• • - • ~,5 ILL ,I• day the
which had 1.. , • , ,• I . o ! i
"I'l'll ~ ln.“‘--'--ll'-h- l'',l'li'. '',' ' ei'' ' I ' . I. ' .. eate-e h• :.• :1•:.•.1111 inl'..lon.alo.
for the humane and constitutio.n I ! ; !.4,! . , • r returns i I daily IT the War
lug I,u the rcleare If certain or. • ; -t! . -
_...0l ..-!... o iee slam- the ... ot range of tempera-
now in prison f"i• political 'Si'..l I . ! • t ~i tike ,xt...m..ive territt Pt y ...1 the United States. At
met to gliseurs the print-,o .1 ..I , o • 'oo. • o 1I : o . no. oon thel:ith of.lnly the thermometer marked
protect and maintain a puldio p I.!, lob ll'- ad.,. II , . , : .:• 1 I harleston, Irl at St. Istnis, SI at Corinne,
better mould the ii,oventintitit be made acquainted wit It 1-, ~ , ,t clay 610 at Buffalo, New York, anti only 61
the feelings of the people than by having those tech!, .o 1. ~, ~ ~ M„ine.
openly stated at public meetings ? It was
tpellly aw i silt
better
.o . .
lo I I sr: or THE KNIFE.—A society is being
Mee "l •IsclisS a grievance th monsi.n.•
in seer et top Ottani a removal of that giieVallee. .11111 :1 . • '.• •• 1:a l'wein for the purpose td liisernira„'illg
the Irish pe•ple Si ere not all•oved ti. meet in 'midi.. 1. . ..o.the knife, which is now so constantly re-
there NM is•thing left for them but recret as.speiatios.. .. I tri in street brawls and 4•titer quarrel.. Ilesides
It was not long since that the right of the men of 1.. !.I awaits, such as lectures, meetings, dramatic re-
London to meta ill Ilyde-park had lawn threatened, tI ' •,t:ttions, books, &c., the society will employ
!tut the firmness and determination of the working nest le. • 31 ii agent+, sue-h as medals iii gold, silver, antl
: ..!... the 111arquis Ees oii yillouna9na, is president,
Ia d n iabitailwil that ri:.,tht, is- isthe s•nhl not he .• '" ; :.. gifts isf nealey hi the savings bald:, &e. A
broi tilde to meet there that evetiing to a5..1.1 th .! '
commit! . . . .
Irish brethren tot maintain their rights. 'Ehe men of all. topany of the leading citizens of Eurin are on the
London were th•termined to maintain the right of i ce M hen 100 Mend Ivry have been id otained
pid 'lie meeting both for themselves and their lash : there will he a general meeting.
brethren at all risks and hazards, awl Woe be to that A Trls-PoTor.sts !—ln the General ASSeMbly,
Government who dared to talaper With that right •lit !big a discussion as t•• the letter training of students,
mtdcw whatsoever pretext. He concluded by int;
.1:. I tong.las Maclagan said the Assembly won't' know
pressing upon the meeting the great imps-tate, el t
, i.' lieee-,IIV *there 55115Inn'more str n ingecy if they
a cordial Union between the pe••ples of I:injait•l tao t ••••111•I -.....0 .111.• of the papers handed in by the medical
ireilllOL
students in tie. prelitninal y examination they are re-
l'he meeting hating been ruldresse.l by Mr. Charles quits-41,. pas, in literatur and mathematics.
e aathematics. A
Wade, Mr. ilennesgy, Mr. Davis, Mr thlwary, and (plc.:thou, Inc instance, was put as t••• the meaning of
others, resolutions were passed con•lemning the con- the word "Ilyisttle•ais. One vandidate answered that
duct if the lush Executive in the matter, it was '• a machine for raising seater." Another said
it was " s•tinething that happened to is man after
TILE IZOYAL visa TO DI'III.IX AND THE ilmtth.-
MD EXIX I'AIIK 1:101', TRIUMPH OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPII.—A
At the meeting of the Dublin town council on full report of the proceedings at the Scott banquet in
3lontlay, the i,o.rd Mayor stated that it " was the E,liiilturgh on Wellnesilay evening in last week Was
wish anol command of the Prince of Wales that he published in the first evening lslitiOllS Or the American
should express to the citizens of Dultlin the great newspapers (ilifference in time between Edinburgh and
satisfaetion that he and hits sister an,' brother felt :a New i ,wk, use In•urs). 'lle American reporter sent
their visit to Dublin." Their I:oval Ilighne,t•s fell, ,even ille,sage,, de:milting, besides the banquet, the
that they " hatl lwen Inost loyally and kin•lly re- : lan exhil•ition, the prtteession, au,' the sights and
ceived." The Prince id Wales, lie (the Lord May•at) ' scenes in the Edinburgh streets, all of which, by the
might state, WaS not dispose,' to think the unfortunate American newspaper syston, were published simulta-
occurrence that Int•I hal yelled on the eve of his retVirn neously in New york, New I Inleans. Havana, :11ini-
to England in any way intended as a dentonstrution I trial, San Frain-Ist-a, and all over the the NN-eStern
against the IbTal family. A resollitiod was subse- j World, to the numberof 230 daily papers.
quently adopted, calling for a "full, searching, anol
A lineKT PEDEMTIt/AN.—Aniong the favour-
impartial in•ptiry into the l'ark. alfair," " without .
it I l•ani•aiii• S. I I ( 4114 Igor Is ill 5..1-Vs it e, 1 fl-
t • ' .••fLb . I. • E rE .t :I.(-- • tl • A I • prejnalicing ale faetai iliVolVed."
h•siefti,) is (ale 1:110K-11 its " WiLson and Co., 3larong."
Very lately Mr. Wils.tn sold this valuable claim to a
In the 1 /Odin polieepcourt on Monday, fonr Inen proprietary company, and within a month of the vur-
were Itixalght lip on remantl. eharged with assaulting chase two hirge dividends have been declared. Hie
the ponee in thi• park. 'fluty were committed for history of this claim read-, lik,• a bit of romance. A
ti bd. A pplieations we, then ma,le for s111111•1011ses Weary and footsore trav,-Iler ealle•I one coining at a
anain,t the is bits. 1..,- a w•• 111311 Wil•• WaS knorliel ti•• 11-11
, hll litaVern. He aske,l for a 1001, lint, as he had no
I ,ii the pathway :,t a ,:istance from the meeting, :Mil
ready 'nowt., lie was hispitably ri•ferred to airier
IT a mon xt le, bel ',en :druid.: with a Inbtitn when lodgings in the Nell at the bin k of the inn. 'flat
walking qui,. tly, a, ht. anci_cd, with his wife, not beingl ifight he maole his lit try camp, are' de•siain., sir it
aware •tf any its etteg. Mr. 1). lb Stillivan, Iwitther in. the ite weine. came upon irelications Whieh leil on to
"f
Mr. A.
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S""i''''.
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".'".."''' ''" "I.Pli"I f'''. : the discovery ';of a v:dttaltle reef . This „lan %vas Wil.
a SIIIIIIIIOIIS against •Itipt.riiitentlent lion,. All tin.,
applications were granted, the magi-drat.. intintaling son. \ Vitliin a short time, from the prialuce of his
elaim he Is Right out the inhospitable Landlord, anti
his general willingness to give summonses on such „fee,. ~,,,,idiq hiA mining property pritfitably, Mr.
Ca 115• Wilson lies thsixteetl of a isprtion of his interest the !

...., 4. 11144 11181114
property representing in the market at current prices,
A VERY INTERESTING CASE. about £20,000.
At the Croydon A..sizes bot week, the cause of - De Waal ASsAULTS ON FOREIGN WOREMEN.—OiI Moll-
y. the Bank if England- was heard, Mel was an action liy a day a wan was committed M prison for two Months for
noawysilanger at Rotterdam avaiag the Bask or Enviand to asmailting a Norwegian employed at line of the engi-
o cover ti:e. allii.llllt of t ban
..!,;,,d 1,11 k How, re,,.iy,-,i by 'leering Winks in ' Newcastle. 'll,, proseent.e. al la
being. a 11Ortion of the note. Moto. tone a clerk of
Ikkrnett and lioare's in 1674. scver:d.d id:: f,mw,,,antryi...., h.n. tali.,n tlw play*
of the men on strike, and all have been subjected to
The plaintiff for twenty-five years has can ied on
many annoyances. A joiner was sent to prison for six
bo.ine,:e as n 11000T-changer at Rotterdam, awl, ac- months, awl ttnother fia• weeks, for assaulting
ellriling to his nee, sot, he receivol the notes isle ill I telgians who have been brought over to Neweostle
questii /II Ink the fith id Mardi last foal' 3111311 named since the tribe all ii the johwrs begim. 'noir Live
I )rowu, whom he iliil not know, awl to Avhona he paid also been so-scented as " blacklegs," awl subjeded to
the full amount in sterliog mo T ney. hn e otes were
stolen on the iith of February, 1670, mu the wecas: continual Insu4s.
~f the riblx-ry of £lO,OOO in notes from a bank clerk. DESER VING MENTION !—At the British Auto-
Notices of the robbery were at once issued, awl one, elation meeting at Edinburgh last week, the follow-
it was stated, apponsid in a Dutch paper il th,. ing curious claim was put in by Mr. Young for the
111th 14 February laAt year. This, how,,, ti,„ part chemical industry plays in the affairs of Um
plaintiff swore he had not, seen until after he had world .-- Mr. Young said,
.1p regard to chemical
taken the notes, thong's be admitted that he took in the industries, it occurred ta him that chemical mann-
paper, and read such piwts if it as eimeerned his bosi. factory.% had been kept in the dark. (Hear, hear.)
net, and occasii malty, lint In ,t regularly, . ither Inas 11fit. The engineer built a line bridge, or made a railway, .
IL leaS lulmiLtol that the plaintiff 1,1114 entitled M re and everybody saw it; but the chemist worked in a
cover, unless when he took the notes he knew that corner-- perhaps in a dark corneralaughter---to the
they were stolen, and this seas the issne to lie tried. greater part of the nation. What he dealt with could ,
The evidence was this r -The notice of the colliery neither be seen nor smelt- -(great laughter) —and his I
stated the number of the notes, and copies were sent to effect on the world was very rand' neglected. The
the Consols almeol, and amoug others to the Consul I effect of practical chemistry was far more important
at Eidimslam, who, it was proved, ` cut out notices of than most people ever for a moment supposed. He
it to the various money-changers, and among others to did not think they could look at anything in the room
Mr. De Waal, the plaintiff, who, however, denied re. which practical chemistry haul not had something to
Mein..' it. The notes now in question were two for do with. (Hear, hear.) The swell who walked
£1,001.1. and one for COO, and one for 000, and the Princete-street—(laughter)—was a great living sped-
plaintiff admitted that he had never had such a large men of the work of a manufacturing chemist. (Cireat
transaction in Btitish notes before. He admitted that laughter. How much chemistry, for example, was
he did not know the person who brought him the applied to produce the very fine tie? (Laughter.)
notes. How much to make the gum that stiffened it? (Re-
The eviderice of the plaintiff on this vital part of the newed laughter.) How much skill had been applied
case wax as follows, lie said,— to the fine linen which thv same swell dildayed ?
i believe it was an Englishman who brought the notes. lie (laughter) and then let them think of Ins nice coat—
spoke English perfectly. lie called upon me about four (laughter)— of Ins fine cane, the line everything which
o clock in the afternoon ; 110 body was present in in office at he wore--all were mom or icon beholden to the manu-
the time. the asked me whether 1 had rmatiau thalers. I faeturing chemist. (Renewed laughter and applause.)

A REASONABLE GRIEVANCE. —Wales fee-is-
ArtVed. England has its Garter, lreland its
, and Scotland its Thistle, but Wales k
out ally mpresentative Order of Knighthood. This is
a want winch should at once be supplied. There csn
be no difficulty about it, :Old a Prince is still lat.
The oily puzzle will be as to the title—whether it
should be the most Illustrious Order of the Leek, cr
the most exalted Order of the Welsh Rabbit.—Paach.
A SAMPLE AND AN EXAMPLE. —The Phila-
delphia Pod states that ludependenee HAL in that
city, hax just been undercming repair, and that the
Rev. Mr. Hartley, one Ilf ("IMAMS, ic taken the
mmortimity 14 forwarding to President Thiem one of
the original bricks of the building, "an unpretending
brick, properly attested, recently removed from above
tin steps where the Declaration, of American leolepen.
deuce was publicly proclaimed, July I, 1776." Mr.
Hartley, in an accompanying letter, explains that he
makes the pro el,t with the 1::1111,1 prayer that the
lo.fiJator., of beautiful Franco may Itune ft. to it
such an inspiration as shall lead thou to erect a Re-
public, wlume dignity, justice, and purity shall be the
admiration of our age, and winch Fhail prOVe a 1111),Iel
~then notions in securing the rights and liberties j
their people.

DRINKINO Foryrams ix LONDON. —The Mar-
tini of V.-edinin,ter makes an appeal on behalf of the
Drinking Fountain and tattle rough Association, of
hid, he is the pn-sident. A circular &sued by the F....dation:Ames how wide and benetieieut had. heed
Ito workin. In nue day 4,142 hoivc,, it wasi found,
drank at four tnsighs ; and within the same short time
:.t,ooopersons are known to have drunk at one fountain.
In hot weather like the present it is computed that
300,000 persons Artily avail themolves of the water
supplitt to them. The association has erected, keeps
iu repair, and supplies with water IUO troughs and ill
fountains. It is supports:a odidy by voluntary ;Alb
as - and the supply of water to a, singh•trough sometimes costs kW Mahe year, it will be seen that
the funds remlircd for its operations by the association are considerable.
Lat Ear SINE op HY DR( /PHOBIA. —The length of time after the late, of with+ a person bitten by a dog
supposed to 1., maul eau 1,. comidetc I safe fr, to the
attacl,:, of drophobia Itonct er bet% settlA be the
ir,tl Prof,''lll "ith tut
yth ing like recid. M. I have been recinded where the attack has followed the
bite at an interval of six months, and even mom; but
they were oot very well authenticated, and the general
opin the p0d.... dd. has leen that an ininitinitv lll
tu-0, at 11-I,,st till e 11144101,, toiAtt be accepted as
inflideut to wanant a belief ii. the s.afety of the patient.
A fatal case, however, mid. h has Is oetitly occurred in
Ft do ~ity ',11,e Hospital, aftkr 511 interval of
four mouths from the site, mutt he taken as establishim( nowt. extend.' is•riod incuba-
tion ; and the only ek Hence agailllit it is the fact that the niedh-arwitncss at the nameg attempted to prove so clearly that it WM really a Cal:e of
phobia, that it may reasonaldy be argued that his judgment was carried au-ay he his enthusiasm.
Hitherto, we believe, no physied evidence of blood poi.tning has ever been obtained ill hydr.phobia,
either in the lower animals or in man • and if Mr,
Meredith is coirect in stating that in this particular
Case there were the usual sigiscd that c.aulition of ti,„
blood, the case, if really one of rabies, inu,t be con-
eider.' as exceptional at all events, until the general
existence of such a condition in that disease is ad.
ndtted. No doubt it mill lead to some discussion in
the medical societies and journals, and until this has
taken plat* we should whise our reader, to withhold
their judgment upon it—Field,
NEW COCKNEY SAINT.-211111. Malaprop de-
clares that if she lives to be a hundred-. and all her
family detain a venerated age -she will certainly
have a Saint Tnery. —Pasch.
A HINDOO LADY ON "HENIAN DEING,"—
The emancipation if woman (remarks Alba'a
Mail) appears to have found a new apostle in a high-
caste lady of Madias, who has 1,4,11 lecturing her
countrymen and women in Telugu on " Human
Being," whatever that may be supposed to mean.
The meeting, we are t, 11, was attended by a good
many Hindoo gentlemen and Pundits. her
English models, the Madras lady forebore from
asserting the superiority of women to trier. The
men, she acknowledged, had the best of it in
point of learning, although she tooted a number
of female pundits who at various times hail been
renowned alike for their learning, their "masculine
bravery," and their devotion to the tine arts. Some
If them had even delivered lectureA and taught nmrals
to their husbands. Of course, Mrs. Sliver Ilumgamba
Gaol strengthened her refer-me to the "wonderful
literary works of various fenial•• Pundits hi the north
and south of India by an appeal to the recent march
iA intellect al110116• her strong-minded sistersin Europe
and America. In view of their achievements and of
the great things already done by the Female Improve-
ment Society in I 'alcutta, she claimed the right to lec-
ture in aid of woman's advancement in Madras also.
She prondsed a ctoirse of lectures.

- -
For AN I) MOUTH EA,E.— On Monday,
at the Cheshire Quarter Se,ions at linutsford. ir
Harry Afainwaring, in his ehariN to the [Told jury,
said he was sorry to inform tlwrn first ti w foot msl
mouth disease had increased in the county dining the
hot weather si ithgreat rapidity. At the July S,:sion
there were only eight animals under treatnient in the
county. There were now 552 Mail' treatment.
I'leurodinennionia seeme.l to be at a standstill, and
there were at present only ten cases under treatment.
Captain Smith, the chief constable I 4 the county,
submitted to the court, a return under the Contagious
Diseases Acts, from which it appeared that from the
23n1 of August, 1869, to the sth of August, 1871, there
were attacked with foot awl mouth disease in Cheshire
31,689 animals. Of that number 17 were killed for
market, 30 for burial, 433 died, 30,637 recovered, and
582 remained under treatment.

THE PRINCESS LOUISE AND THE DIST (ARGYLL-
SHIRE) HIGHLANDERS. —lt will probably be remem-
bered that the Olst Regiment was elected to be the
guard of honour on the occasion of the marriage of the
Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorne. The selec-
tion was most appropriate, inavmuch as the regiment
was raised in the year 1793 by the grandfather of the
Marquis. Amongst the numerous presents made to
bride not the least appreciated were those of the
officers and non-commissioned of the Argyllshire regi-
ment. The soldiers of the regiment, not to be out-
done by their superiors, have also determined to offer
a gift for the acceptance of the Princess, and in a few
days a deputation of their lady will make the presen•
tation. The gift is a biscuit-basket in the shape of
a drum, and of pure silver except being mounted On
Scotch oak. It is supported by four silver pillars or
pedestals. The lid is in the form of a drum's head, a
silver cord I.si the top forming a handle. Its front dis-
plays all the honours of the Olst Regiment, viz., Roleia,
l'imiera, Corinna, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nice, Orthes,
Toulouse, and Peninsula. It bears the full wing in-
scription " Presenbsl to her Royal Highness the
Princes. Louise 111 her marriage with the Marquis
Line, March l‘th,
A THREATENING LETTER.—TIie Paris Liherti'
pabliAa, the following letter, which has been ad-
dressed to the editor. The letter is written in print
characters, awl was forwarded through the post :
. .

200,000 citizens of Paris, 4,000,000 citizens of Europe are
active members of the / &erne, ~,,,, I" tlti are required,
under penalty of death, to disconti ~,, e your attacks upon the
ineinliers of the I 'l,lllllllllle. The Senjeog de rine. the Ganle4
eh- Pori,: and their families :ire all comic/ma, to death within
a year iv the Sin !ovine I inincil of the ASSI art' Ilk. I
all the olOcer6 the leathering regiments. The capitalists
are coielenined. We have 11111ohers. We have strength.
Dh,ililine is hiring organ:hied. Old society meat perish : it
will poish. Not a hair shall hill from tle. heaths at anvil
the members of the rotillnolle, Or prelore fOe
Mass:tore. laoleOnatioOale, the iiiistrebs of Europe."

POOR SOULS 44 At- GRAnso."—C'ratitty to the
Feminine feelings.—The Geifte of the Ladies' Callen%
—Punch.

CAPTURE UP A LARUE SEAL 1.2 C TIIE TAY.
One day last week, while the fides-men were engaged
with their salmon nets on the Mvinetield fishings,
about five miles west e.f Dundee, whirl' are leased by
Mr. .Tames Leutfout, they felt something unusually
heavy in the net, and one of them exclaimed ‘vith
great joy that they had surely caught a 70Ib. salmon.
The catch, however, in•oved to lit a tu.,"e beautiful
The animal male 2.411 e gallant iittempts to free
himself, but the fishermen were by 110 means willing
that such a splendid prize should be allowed easily to
escape them, and large erowilsof people gathered in the
au,. of the (A cuiug to gct u glimpse at it.
Cr EN EP AL I:CA(11mi oN's llcpogr.—(,lelwral
MacMahon's report on the optrations in and round
Paris gives mis the list of and wounded, t. silt,
f.,il officers and 791 men slain, and 139 i.iticers and 6,021
men wounded in one month and a half, during which
the Marshal says that his army put down the most 1.
lniolahle insurrection that France has ever seen. The
Marshal dress not attempt to estimate the lo,ete: of the
imurgents further than loy saying that they experienced
enormous losses. We (Ar»ipawl 21'a 1..11 (s:1 170 I »•lieve
that tho, inebalin4 the men who were ,Itta
warily executed, amount to 1:000 UMW.
BOOKS. WIT 111 EN •. —We may want a
Minister of Klueatien, and !mire School Boards, and
School Teachers, and School Peuee' and School Pupilis,
bat we certainly 110 not lack School Books, for a
Classified l'atake.ttle" has just been issued, which
contains "nearly 10,000 lutational Wiorks !" There
is a rcpiat that DerMajesty'slnspectorsof Schools have
been canel upon to make themselves masters of the
entire contents of this Library of rseful Knowledge,
and that, in consequence, the majority of them have
sent in their resi_mations. -
11., • ; A BEAR.—Early on the
, • • : inst., (says the Smixs Tiatc.,) a
year, 1.1.1, WA., engaged in
• l. known as " the Monte di
!' • wit. II a bear ,taltenlv
tie lint .t,tf his
, . • : : .otempted to hit e
•., ; yII ovs tin the head
; . ' tao.l upon him, afel he
;V. to inn the hill,
•• happily, IP,-
• gmtual upon him
rapidly, sitil the Lel, sit tilt in anticipation, felt Ids
deadly hug, when he remembered that there was a
wu row ravine, dome 300 feet deep, clown I,y, which he
th.aight Ile could leap, while he hoped that the liear
would not notice it, and rushing after him would fall to
the bottom. Dalf will with excitement and dread,
for the bear was now within a few feet cif him, the
brave boy at length re:tithed the edge of the ravine,
which was upwards of six feet wide, and animated by
despair, math: the fearful leap, and succeeded in land-
ing in safety in the other side. The bear, however,
never saw the danger, and rushing on blindly in pur-
suit, fell to the bottom, where, bruised and 'bleeding
and unable to rise, the shepherd lad found him aml,
having no weapon with him, succeeded in killing the
animal by dashing out his brains with heavy st, an,

TERRIBLE VOLCANIC ERUPTION.—The Times
of fa,lq,ftys that a Batavia paper gives particulars
the dreadful calamity which occurred a few months
ago at Tagulanilang island, ine of the liangir Dcoup.
It appeals; that, on the :Ird of larch last, an outburst
tisok place from the volvano linwang, on that island,
which was accompanied by a arasmake ; the sea there-
upon rose to a great height, and a gigantic wave about
foirty Dutch yards high suddenly rushed on the island,
sweeping away before it human beings, cattle, houses,
mel everything else. 416 (another account says MI)
persons perished, amongst whom was the Rajah of the
island, and only three houses were left standing.
Almost all the siirrivnys itk.a to the I,ush, Where they
still weie nee. 71, .4 the auad
were lying 'about. making the sir foul friqii want of
hands to bury them. On the I ltl d March the
volcano cast out tlanieii and lava, which destroyed most
of the cultivated Lust. The wretchedness and distress
;if the surviving population is said to lie great, and the
need Of Mt. pluming. The smmsmoir hi:Mils lie to tho
north of Merahria

THE - Tussuad's
Wax-W

BRITIBII AND IRD:11 PtiRTA. —At the close of
year 1,70 there Were on the register f the port of Lou.
don 2,911 ve.ssels of (in the aggregate) 1,(!)68,1117 tons,
294,1:6 tolla being steam tonnage; at Liverpool, 2,611
vesods 44 1,437,373 tons, 20,g07 tons being steam ton-
nage : at Sunderland, 532 vessels of 231,75"., tons, 33,237
tons Leing steain tonnage ; At Neweastle-upou-Tyne
316 vessers of 151.573 tons, 14,251 tons beinz steam toe,
cage; at North Shields 647 vessels of 163,1.29 ton,
13.3 ; 1 ii- lug steam Goon,g. e• at South Shields 273
toe, 1,107 tie,being Hteani ;
of 131,02 s 6.115, t 03,699 tons lAing
• at Bristol 312 vessels of 7.8.5).1 tons,
;.; • • ! • • . .:earn tonnage; at SWAnWa 229 vessel).
. tom; being steam tonnage ;
. - of 62.111 tons, 2,300 tons being
!-teatil t • !. . 111101Ig Seottir4l Inata, take.
the h.,. !. o W!,••• the register of (;IftagoW it
the Cl. •:!1•:44' ; 425,262 tons, 147,111. tons
I,eiug ci ton% , , wink 373 vessels of 119,373
tine. 2. ;7:; tons n G.nnage ; at Aberdeen 2411
vessels of 1014914 tie, tilts being team tonnage;
at Leith Ell vessel:, 1 :6,723 tong,. 31,351 tons being
Aealll tonnage; at Dundee I,`,S vessel( if :1.2,267 tone
8,774 tons being strain tonnage. At the same dat;
there Were on the register Dublin 5.28 vessols of
1:11,17.8 tons, 15,772 tong being steam tonnage ; and at
Belfast 47•9 vesseL: of 62,337 6.us, 2,136 tiblaSlwing Bteant
tonnage.

INAPFRoPRIATE REWA4:I) OF
Ought an advocato of the policy Of Non-luterference
in every difficulty t ic rewftnled with a MoHO -
Puffcff.

THE WOODS OF NEW ZEALAND--A letter frenia
Wellington says: New Zealand has at-: great and aa
valuable a variety of timber as any country in the
world, nothing can be more beautiful for furniture. for
door panelling, and for other ornamental work than
the rimu, or red pine, which groWg to a ~y.eat size, awl
presents an infinite variety in its grain. The matai, or
black pine, take, a beautiful polish, but is snore Inittle
and heavy than the other. The totara, another so-
called !sine (for they are none of them conifer.,_), is
' everlasting in the gmond unfit, and ii ea,ilv worked
both green and dry, and is :limo very light. The rats,
that wonderful vegetable phenomenon finaniag itself
out of numberless vines, which tir-t retire th‘ir
pint front some full-grown tree, then enchkse it in a
deadly embrace and gradually expel the remains
of them foster parent as their own growing delnaiek
for space require to be satisfied, then finally unit tug
themselves form a solid Les* with all the charae,
teristirs of hark sap and heatt, roots, trunk, mid
branch, such as belong to other trek, of less excep•
usual origin —this rata, which is proved to be the
toughest wood grown in the Australasian colonies, and
whirls is largely ustal by the millwright aud engineer
for the teeth o•f multiplying gear, is being oonsuined
by the hundred of tons weekly in Wellington tireplaesa
alone. Resides all these forest kings are many smaller
fry, which would be highly apptvelateti, if known, for
turning woods or for inlaying: Thule is the koltar,
Use Inanuka, the black tetoki, the merit.
and other woods invaluable for the lathe, and
there is the makia besides— a wool sshutl,, when
thoroughly dry, would turn or break the edge of the
best axe ever produced in Sheffield. When it is learnt
that all these woods, in ahno,t endles,piantities, are
growing nowhere more than 150 utile haat, an avail-
able port, and in the ilignediate prositnity if the pro-
jected railway lines, the que-tion naturally arisen
whether 110 one will be forthcoming with suffieient
energy, capital, and enterprise to prove that it will
ray Inttcr to utilise this timber than to bum it on ho
ground,

MARRILA4:E WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
---A despatch of the Earl of Kimberley, announcing
the Queen's assent to the Act legalizing marriage with
a deceased wife's sister in South Australia., has been
publithed in the Adehdde papers. It says :

_
" Her Majesty's Government have given this hill their
careful consideration. and looking to the fact that a 1.111
nearly similar to this has passed the txdonlal Legislature five
times, and that this particular bill was passe.' by both
Moises almost without opposition, and with other circum-
stances indicating a strong feeling in its favour, they ore of
opinion that it would not to right to resist further the wishes
of the colony so clearly and repeatedly expressed. I have
therefore felt it my ditty to advise her Majesty to assent to
the bill, and I enclose an inter of her Majesty in Council
giving effect to my recommendation."

TUE LAST OF A GREAT NAME.—Among re-
cent deaths in Germany there is announced that of A
man whose character ant career supply a oath us com-
mentary on the iirinciple of" hereditary genius- -the
eldest omit Wilhelm von Humboldt. lie hail in coin-
num with his father and uncle both name and wealth,
but besides these absolutely nothing. He was all his
long life—and a long life of 75 years it was-- what is
called in Cennany a " sonderling." which in his case
meant rather more than our "queer fish." Among
the various feats whereby he laid claim to distinction
among his contenusiraries must be reckoned his sprout-
ing LIS last twenty years or so exclusively in bed,
although endowed with the most vigorous health, and
not even being able to impair it by this long-drawn-
,,lit freak. As to the not 4.1 his career (remarks the
Pall :Mill (.'ao-1,), all that can be said of this small
scion of a great house is that he was proprietor of the
estate 4,f Ottmachan, in Silesia, a very tine and large
property, which had been given to his father as a
reward 'for his services to the Prussian State. Also,
that his death occurred in Berlin, and that he was
buried at Regal, the sepulchre of his great namesake,

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814:N 01 THE TimKs.—As a sign of this
times we can state that the Royal Nava Temperance
Society consist at preeent of nearly 1,000 officrrA awl
men. Itear-Admind Sir W. K. Hall is the president,
and about a month ,diace the secretary reported that.
a1111,41g4 its inembeni were —on board the
100 men ; 32 men ; litre +Noy, 51 men ;
.N.ArthoodAerla ud, 43 men; Worrbir, 20 men ; Waxgoar,
45mcii ; Dido, 21 men ; Oroarx, 30 men ; Heetor, 50
men ; Duke of 11',11 idytoa, 311 men ; Eserlleid, 40 men ;
Voyal Marines, 50 nice ; lival Marine Artillery, 100
men ; and An, 41 min. There are ninny others in
small ship,. where there are font three to nine or 1,401
men in um-h.—Amoy Ira Ira ow firtzette.

_
AN " ALtnama ' Brocar.—The Treaty of
wa,hiagton will soon have browht the Abrhowee
Claims to a satisfactory settlement. At most, the
amount of the possible awaid of tlamagei against this
country will hardly exceed that of the t:ennan indem-
nity, which is a niece flea-bite to France. The Ameri-
can indemnity will not even prove a ilea-bite to the
British nation, as of course none of the people except
those who are liable to Income-tax will be bitten with
it at all. -Punch.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT IN RAILHAY-MAKINO.
—ln railway matters a feat of quick and comprehensive
, labour has recently been performed which deserves
mention. The Ohio and Mississippi Railway, witieh
runs from Cineinatti to St. Louis, having passed under
' new auspices, it became necessary to change the image
from tift. width to Rt. Pin. The fine is about 300
long 5101, in order not to interfere with: the traffic, a
Sunday was selected as the day to make the change.
All the available force of the line was set to work,
beginning at daybreak • the rails on the entire length
were taken up and replaced on the narrower guage,
and at eleven mm. all the working parties Lail com-
pleted their labour, and the new line was in running
order. This remarkable work, extending over 300
miles of line, was performed in about seven hours.
VICTOR lit-no TO THE AMER WANS. M.
Victor Hugo, having been elected a member of the
New York Liberal Club, telegraphs his thanks thus :
Viandon, Crand Duchy of Luxemburg. July 6, 1571.--
Dear fellow-eitizens of the Universal Itepublic,—l thank
you, I thank your honourable eolleagans and fellowduein-
N,r, awl hog yin toexpress to them my hearty thanks and
6,eptance of membership. I received with pleasure your
kind awl friendly communication. Let ut, tonitiplr the ties
betwtvm the two hemispheres ! Let us all lane the saute
worship-progress- and the same country—the light.—
VICToIt HUGO..

ANOTHER OF THE "GLORIES OF WAR r'•—
Among_ the various scientific hisses thu late war it,
entailed upon Frtume mist be reckoned that of the
; only Lutheran Faculty hitherto existini;
in the country, viz, that of Strasburg. The Covent-
; meat now intend to remedy this evil by combining the
" Reformed Faculty," Lithorts) existing at Montauban,
and this Lutheran Faculty late of Strasburg, and
creating a mixed " .I"aculty for leoth in Paris,
Regartling the Maslical Faculty •,f Strasburg, little
11;ts 1,4,11 diolll, }AM.:1,116 the solution of the ,en,tion
as to whether Isytais or Nancy is to Is. it, future desti-
nation. It is still Politics (COI. Sait'llet, Rem:,
Nancy hi suppsFetl to offer more atlvantagetl "na-
tionally," if its proximity to Abate mayso b stylest
Lyons, which has all the stiffs:es:est of the law., (4
science, will probably have to resign her clainn. There
is no doubt about M. lidera' leanings towards the
former place, and all emmtocargunersis will remain
unheard as long as the decision rentains in his hands.
A SmAnT SWINDLER.—AII Riltlfleiollif swindle
Was perpetrated at Grandson, in Met Canton of Vaud,
on the Nth silt, (says this ArbriSB TiM(S.) A person
presented himself at sac telegraph office, and for-
warded a telecega to 3 married at 'Menne,
askintz Ir.r.; to send him 300 francs. A reply was almost
immediately received, authorising the payment of the
money, ant it ivsts the affair if a very few minutes for
the stmts.r to obtain the money, with which he at
oboe left. The individual, wits appears to be well
known, had offered the day Itehwe at Bienne some
goods for side, he stated, were at Con.
vies 'llse merchant to whom he bad sold them,
lat. for the last-mentioned place, and it was during
his absence that the swindler telegraphed to ths
purchaser's wife In the name of the latter, requesting
her to will the necessary funk for the payment of Gm
g 00,14. We need hardly say that on this reaching Cons
cise the purchaser found no goods answering the de.
scription itt those he hal contracted to buy,
and, fear.
lug seine fraud, he returned immediately to Grandson,
where he learned the pleasant news that he heel not
only lost hi, hays munify, but had born robbed of 300
francs in the bargain. lie at once gave Inhumation to
the police, who are now actively engaged in looking
for the thief. but to the present time they have not
succeeded iu laying their banal upon

UTILISING THE SCHOOL BOARD—At the Man-
sion-house Police-court, in London, on Monday, chLt
children, between the ages of fifteen and nine years,
who had been arrested by the police on charges
either of wandering without visible means of subsis-
tence and proper guardianship, or of sleeping under
tarpaulins in the approaches to the boat-pier at Lon.
don-bridge, were brought before Alderman Sir Robert
Carden to be dealt with. Four of them—two boys
and two girls—were sent to certified industrial schocils
until they attained respectively, the age of lii; one girl
above 11. years of age was handed over the custody of
her father on his promise to obtain a situation for her;
and the others were remanded to the Union for a
week, to be properly clothed and fed, pending inquiries
into their cases. Admission into the schools had been
obtained by the School Board for such of the children
as were within age.