The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-21 00:00:00

glisullancous lOntrilionte,
HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

tratiiin.
Addresses were delivered by Mr. S. Plimsoll, M.P.
for Sheffield, and others. Several resolutions, pledging
the meeting to support those locked out, and also re-
gretting that the masters would not settle the differ-
ences between them, were carried by the meeting.
At about one o'clock a non-unionist was descried
coming from his employ', and was immediately chased
by a number of the union men. Volleys of stones
were thrown after him, but he succeeded in reaching
his home, and barred the door behind him. Adjoining
his house were three others, and the unionists at once
made an attack upon them. The first was occupied by
a small shopkeeper. The (icor of the house was
smashed in, also the windows, and, in fact, almost
every piece of household furniture in the dwelling.
The clock upon the wall was kicked to bits, and the
floor of the house covered with large pieces of stone
and bricks. The occupants managed to escape with
but a few injuries. A chest of drawers was broken
open and the money taken, and a hag of flour dragged
out of doors and distributed over the ground.
The second house in the row was inhabited by a
" knob-stick" notoriety, named Daniel Ensor. This
man had just returned from his work, and he at once
barred the door and closed the shutters of his house.
He then prudently retired into the cellar with his
family. A volley of stones thrown at the premises
intimated that the attack had begun, and the next in-
stant the door was kicked almost to match-wood. A
scene of destruction then ensued, the furniture of the
house being broken and the pictures dragged from the
walls. A handsome chest of drawers was broken
into and kir taken out of it. It then became known
that Ensor was in the cellar, so he made a rush up-
stairs. He snatched a red-hot poker from the fire and
a miner's pick, and with there he ,truck at his
assailants. He speedily cleared a road for himself and
his family, and beat a hasty retreat to the adji 'Ming pit.
He was much bruised and cut with the missiles which
were thrown at him.
One large atone, weighing about 81b., was thrown
through the window of an upper storey, and so firmly
embedded in the wall that it was unable to be with-
drawn. A lodger in the house had to jump from all
upstairs window, and run the gauntlet through a
shower of brickbats. The whole row of houses looked
as though a volley from a number of field-pieces had
been directed against them. At about four o'clock a
force of police arrived, and the rioters dispersed.
V.
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REMARKABLE TRIAL FOR MURDER
IN FRANCE.
The Assize Court of aix is now occupied with the trial of
a charge of murder of p,cu tar atrocity, which appears to
have excited as niu:ll interest as the trial of a priest for
poisoning, which has just been di-posed of by the same
tribunal A woman named Bonnefoy is accused of having,
in June last, killed her husband and two chi.dren with a
revolver, and attempted the life of her sister with the same
weapon The motive supposed to have actuated her is
jealousy of her sister, and the facts, as recorded in the acte
d'aceuratton, are as follow :
The accused woman, Bonnefoy, and her husband,
kept a restaurant at Marseilles, frequented chiefly by
shipwrights of the port, and the sister, named Annette,
resided with them. For some time past qu •reels have
occasionally arisen between the sisters, owing to the
conduct of a man named Borelly, who appears to
have been on equally intimate terms with each. The
husband, who for a long time had taken little notice of
the misconduct of his wife and sister-in law, was at
length excited to take action, and on the 21st June,
loaded a sixdsarrellett revolver, and went to the yard
where Borelly was at work, and threatened te shoot
him, but was easily disarmed by a bystaoder, who I
secured the pistol. In the evening the wife came to
reclaim the weapon, which was readily given up to her.
The possession of the pistol seems to have suggested
to her the terrible design which she afterwards carried
out, and although her sister had been ordered by her
husband to leave the house, she retained her for the
night, with a view apparently f completing her yen.
geance. The supper was partaken of in silence, after
which the three children were put to bed in an upper
room, Annette occupying one adjoining it.
' About six o'clock next morning Annette came down
stairs, but was met by her sitter, who was waiting for
her, and who discharged one barrel of the revolver
point blank at her, and then rushed upstairs to the
room where the children were, and discharged one ball
at the youngest son, Joseph, and another at the second
son, Marius, the eldest, Jean Baptiste, vainly atteutpt-
ing to defend them. The husband, hearing the reports,
came downstairs, but was met by his wife, who dis-
charged another bullet at him, and then, as if deeming
her work of destruction complete, fired a fifth into
her own breast, and threw herself on the bed where
her children lay dying. Annette, although wounded,
endeavoured to raise an alarm, but the keys of the
• house had been concealed by the murderess. She sum
cerded, however, in opening a window, and assistance
being at hand, the husband and the two children were
conveyed to the hospital, where they died in the course
of the day. Annette, however, who had received a
wound in the side, recovered, and the wretched woman
herself likewise survived her injuries. She afterwards
confessed her guilt, avowing that she intended to kill
her two youngest children, in order that she might
" take them with her," and likewise tier sister. It
would seem that she did not originally intend to kill
her husband had he not stood in the way, and she
spared the eldest son because the father was more at-
tached to him than to the other two.
Among various notes which were found in the house
was one addressed to the husband, informing him in
the ordinary form of the death of his wife and his two
abildres.

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ring as a token of that sincerity, for your etEaged
tiller
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( Laughter) To m
Tour answer to this is ipatiently. exp cte.o.r
suhsequently the defendant addressed her as " his 0w11;111 a
dans," and signed himself, "peril very, very own and e
" c.a"ceeul pio rie ye(
r
Monate, LArtiENclt." a little ore- •Tas TERRORS or s Cohsourriox. The
In that epistle, he asked her to accept Military Council of Revision at Gardanne (Bouchee-
du. Rhone) recently discovered a singular fraud to
escape service in the army. Four conscripts sac-
wear cent,God's
Awmooarnyte
time
you be
b prized
sl.
afterwardsav
reeryi
v much,etrtiyud ~
"af
,:nnyda,w;
,ears
tt ,
,h 0
•'- tiewively presented themselves for the medical visit,
confined to his house with a cold, and acknowledgedin
all apparently blind of one eye, the pupil of which
one of his letters having taken a mixture which
f thaied
as w enormously dilated. Three of the young me
plaintiff had sent him. The learned counsel was a rn
were exempted, but on the fourth appearing
he had not taken [sufficient to make him thoroughly
the coincidence seemed so remarkable that the
well. In the next letter the defendant wrote as f ol-
members of the ciiuncil questioned him closely,
and becoming embarrassed he at last acknow.
lows :
e,'::=o,l7,,shtilith
what better, and as it aPP I had a ledged that the apparent infirmity had been produced
by rubbing the eye that morning with a pomade of
should go out for a time or not. However, we could net agree i, belladonna. The three other conscripts were called
and having acknowledged that they had had
eel's- lieusvkhet7e:l-
- the subject, sob:it:Fe' Iddee td:ie: di
a7t:o;ua 7,Ulp: ulu'gre:itit::::—' " heads, ' 1 bock,
went to the garden. " tails," I walked up theudgrovtr. recourse to the same means, were all declared good for
" Heads" won, no I walked to the garden and rou by
' the service. A singular fact was that there hail been
station. I was tearfully done up when I got back."
bmyedniff earnednt that the
plaintiff's father, partly on account of his taking too
who appear to make a trade of such frauds. All the
The detendant, it appears, had taken offence at the nopoercaotniocenrst
had
ii tpheerf,y,romuendg
he house. It was alleged Parties have since been prosecuted, and the young men
P. g
hinativcilingbebeerenatnp:ltolyutoonf act count of his (defendant's)
sister, whom he was in the habit of calling it mi.. ment, the operator to one year of the same punislinuent,
that he had also taken some dislike to the plaintiff's have been now each sentenced to one month's imprison.
th
ths' each.
greatly influenced the defendant in breaking off the me won
Fidgetts." It was stated that these two causes had and some persons who had acted as intermediaries to
marriage. At one period of the courtship, however, PHOToORAPHIC IDENTIFICATION.—Atout four
the breach between the defendant and the plaintiff's weeks since the dead body of an unknown man was
father bad been tenaporarily healed, for lie wrote on one found on the beach at New Brighton and before it was
occasion to his then laily•love, "Peter has turned over buried a photawraph was taken and circulated by the
afresh leaf." As a proof of the anxiety with which the ,
5,010ce. Os Friday a person called at the policeeitfice,
defendant guarded the int eresta of the plaintiff, a letter Hanley, Staffordshire, to give information that Elijah
which he wrote to her contemplating leaving Liver. Sutton, of that town, had not been heard of since he
pool on a visit to her home was read by the learned went away, a month ago, for the benefit of his health.
counacd, from which we take the following sentence : The Her:cant in charge, rernemberiog the carte pro-
" i have not seen them next door. I told Lane to put a loon! it, and the person depicted thereon was at once
hot bottle in your hod but I think Peters was going to have
identified as the miasing man,
it down under his bed "
This, said the learned counsel, showed how fearful A Man Dot, PANIC—The inhabitants of Ever'
he was lest his sweetheart should sleep in a damp bek, ton, were on Friday alarmed by the appearance of a
Subsequently the defendant's ardour cooled, and he large dog, of the Newfoundland and mastiff breed,
drooped from those high sentimental and romantic pas- wildly running ale rut the streets, and attacking
sages, and loving and endearing passages,. to a more several persons with whom it came in contact, and
prosaic and matter of fact style of addressing hislady. bit one very severely, who immediately went to a
love. He had not visited her while in Liverpool, and chemist and had his wounds cauterized. It also made
as he had not called to see her, after a week had elapsed an attack upon two ether persons—a youug woman and
after her return to Lancaster, she wrote to him, a youth—whom it seized in the lower part of the leg,
saying that tie did not know how very much hurt and in the case of the latter the flesh was torn from the
she telt at his conduct in not coming to see her. limb to a consideralde extent. In addition, it also
She was quite sure it was not in his heart to act attacked several other dogs which came in its was,d and
thus without Rome cause or other ; and as she was for upwards of an hour the neighbourhood was in a state
ignorant of what it could be, she tasked him as a of much excitement, during which the dog was pursued
man of honour and a gentleman to tell her, for she by several person', with weapons, with the object of
could not bear to go on from day to day as she was, destroying it, anti after being chased for some time, it
She added, "You must in some measure know what at length made its way rapidly out of the town, where
it was finally destroyed in a garden, but by a process
arid twohboehtar: actaeudseian
itheistounloavc;
in which much cruelty was resorted to. Instead of
achoiwmu no, mtiasabnl.
mere
owfrea:ylii
huaagns.da rlbe y'e
an
hear.
,has
signed herself procuring a gun, with which the poor animal might
"Ever your affectionate Jane." No reply was sent to have been shot, its pursuers half killed it by bruising
this letter ; and the plaintiff's father, having taken the it with stones and scale weights, taken from a female
matter into his own hands, consulted an attorney, who retailer of fish who happened to be in the neighbour.
subsequently issued a writ. ho' id at the time, and aftsrwards it was stuck with a
The plaintiff, a plain-looking, welbdressed woman, pike borrowed from a neighbouring dairy.
was then called into the witness box, and told her
story, which substantially corroborated the facts 'above THE MURDER AT PENDLETON.—The mystery
related. She added that while living with her father surrounding the murder at Pendleton has been in'
she received I:10 per annum for acting as his assistant • creased by the discovery that the body found in the
but when the ntatch was broken off she WM compelled. canal is not that of the young woman. Kate Mac.
to leave her native ;own on account of the gowip. douald, by whosee relatives it was clamed last week. It
She was now employed in a Liverpool shop, in which turns out that Mae loirold since her disappearance has
situation she got £2l a year. On account of disap- been living at Rochdale, where she was di,covereil by
',ointment and anxiety her health had suffered a good Inspector Jones, and brought on Sunday evening to
deal. On being cross-examined, she stated she was not Salford TowridtalL The girl appears to have heard of
aware of the defendaut having at times to be propped the rumours of her death, but states that she kept out
up in bed. She had never seen him under such cir- of the way because she dint not wish her relatives to
cunistances. know where she was. Next morning her parents blew.
Defendant's couroel, Mr. Pope, Q.C., admitted the titled her at Salford Town hall, and aohnitted that they
breach of promise, bit addressed the court in mitigation had b-en mistaken in claiming the dead body as that of
of the damagee, remarking that though aspiring to be their daughter. No doubt exists that a murder, ac'
the wife of the Lancaster postmaster, she would have corupanied by circunottances of peculiar atrocity, has
had to become his muse. been committed, but who the victim in remains a
The defendant was not called, though he Was in mystery. The Ineiy has been buried, but the clothe.,
court. found upon it remain at the Town-hall as a means of
Tne jury awarded the plaintiff £2OO damages. identification.
..—.....--....—.—. A HUM A N DEFICIT.—In an article with the
LORD PORTSMOUTH ON THE above title, the Wanderer ,d Vienna makes the fol-
lowing remarks:—" In every 10,000 inhabitants. 353
WOREING CLASSES. deaths occur in Austria and 'Hungary, 253 hi France,
On Monday last alarge party of excursionists, num- 290 in Prussia. 259 in Holland, 220 in Great Britain
hering between 1.304 and 1,400, connected with the awl Ireland, 222 in Belgium, and 361 in Spain. Truly
. Working-Men'a Club and Institute Union, Strand, it is a sad preeminence to stand next to Spain in the
' lortid•in, availed themselves of the kind invitation of rate of mortality. But what is our position with respect
' Lord and Lady Portimouth to pay a visit to their de- to elementary education? For every 10.000 inhabit-
. lightful neat Hursamorne-park, near Whitchurch, ants the number of scholars at the elementary sahools
Hampshire, special train', running from the Waterloo is in Austria and Hungary, 831 ; in France, 1,100; in
St ttion for their conteyance. Pruwia, 1,520 ; in Holland, 1,'200; in Great Britain and
On arriving at the park a variety of rural games Ireland, 1,100 ; in Belgium, 1,140; in Spaia, 700.
and dancing were isdulged in. After the tea, which Hence we find the two
countries where the rate of inure.
was served by the lades of the house and the domestics, tality is highest are by aso iking analogy those in which
' a number of prizes, consisting of works of standard the proportion of scholars is lowest. But a sceptic
' authors, were distribated by his lordship to the victors may say perhaps the high rate of mortality arises
' in the variowt games. trim immoderate production, and is caused in act by
At the conclusion, I,rd Portsmouth addressed stew words too large a number of births. Hubner shows that for
,to his numerous visitors, assuring them that their visit every 10,000 inhabitants there are 40:3 births in Austria
that day had been a source of the greatest pleasure both and Hungary, 269 in France, 401 in Prussia, 351 in
to
the the Countess and himself, for he haln h
d " spent one of Holland, 349 in Great Britain and Ireland, 30 B 0 in el-
pleasantest days he had ever seen te course of .
glom, and 400 in Spain. If we consider the increase
' his lite." II e telt ratistiet that proof had bees given,
'if proof were wanted, that the working-men of this of the population by the excess of births over deaths,
, country could useable in large numbers peaceably aaid we find that it averages for every 10,000 inhaoitants
50 in Austria and Hungary, 31 in France, 114 in
tranquidy to enjoy themselves in a bemoaning way, and
they hurl refuted the statements of those who asserted Prusda 92 in Holland, 129 iu Great Britain and Ire-
that they were unwerthy of the privilege, recently besto
tw im aed 1 nil 78 iti Belgnnd 39 in Spain. From this we
upon them, of the elective franchise ; and he believed hey " ~ ~ sa .s -
would use that political nowsr for tine that e benefit of the nation see at t ranee alone among the countries with largely
at large They were all Englishmen—men of the eatne race, visited schoo's stand below Austria in the rate of in•
actilated by the same feelings, and those feelings found ex- crease, but that all the others which surpass her on
pression lit the breasts of the highest aud lowest iu showing the one point do so on the other also. We, with our
1..) arty to the Throne of this great country. sKarse population and our rich natural resources, have
His lordship ccneluded by pro/swing three hearty cheers t eref ewe, as we have shown, for every 10 000 itdiabi-
I for the Queea and
Mr Ro
George Howelly :secretary of the Reform Le.qguel al family, which having been given,
tants an increase of 64 less than Prussia, 79 less than
1 . pro-
posed a vote of thank.; to lord and Lady Portsmouth for the England. 42 less than Holland, and 28 less than Bel.
kind way in which the working-men of London had been re- glum. Ties is an important loss both in material and
' ceived and entertained Ile referred to the great Interest intellectual respects, a physical deficit which arises
' his Lordship had shown in the question of teramt-right in from our spending too much—that is, from on! high
Ireland, and said that while the British House of Commons
were afraid, or appeand afraid, to deal with it, his Lord- rate of mortality."
ship had solved the aroblem—had cut the Gordian knot, ALL THE DIFFERENCE l.—A ludicrous mistake
and had personally given tenant right in the sister ,
country. The result had been that in that portion of nappened tin the Paris Bourse last week, which caused
Ireland they heerd nothing of as-assinations or attempted great laughter among the majority of the speculators,
assassinations, hut a good feeling had sprung up between though it is feared there Was a minority to a horn it was
landlords and tenants and if all were to do as his Loidship no jr ;ke ! A hanker received a telegram from Vienna,
had done they would hear no more of irritation in that stating that "11e Kaiser hail spoken of the urter in-
country, hut peace, god will, and harmony would prevail p,a,sibility of Austria and Prussia ever being friends.
On the question of Illitimml education Lot d Portanmath bad hehning ditticultiee in the
done mach by the fr. e expression of his opiniilll9, Alld he had and of the existerice of overw
also established schools 011 such a basis that all parties could I way of uniting the interest', of the two countries ; he
avail tnemaelvea of the advantages all orded. If such meet- urged the necessity of a emfederation of the South,
ings as the present were more I retment it would he better, and the carrying out of the Treaty ef Prague to the
for all felt rare common desire to promote the general prop letter." It may be imagined the effect which this
perity anti happiness of the nation startling announcement continued to effect, till sotne
conded th
Mr. Guile (4A:rotary
eeks, of the Iron founders Trade soder) se.
man, wiser than his felWw speculantrs, remembered
e vote of M stating that he Mot lmen reque-ted
on the part of the lion. Auberon Herbert to say how much that it was a Herr Kaiser, not the Emperor, who had
that gentleman regretted being absent on that oecasinn, lie made this speech.
had been prevented attending by an escident which confined
him to his residence at Brighton He was requested further to A RAILWAY AND CHURCH RATFB.—In the half'
state that if any lady among the excursionists would corn- yearly report of the Bristol and Exeter Railway re.
municate with the hoe gentleman he would fm•ward a Me, ference is made to the position of the company under
tograph of the halls' a memorial of their visit to Hampshire, the provisions of the Compulsory Church Rates Abo.
1 and he concluded by stating that he believed there were lition Act. Previously to the passing of that measure
marnalpileinelatigbe::..iTtywillordwattinVortth,me
of rx
that
the directors uniformly declined to contribute to the
! day. voluntary assessments which were in existence in
lii, Lordship, in acknowledging the vote, remarked that many of the parishes through which their line passed,
allusion had been made to his political principles. Ile cer. and paid only such rates as were "made and leviable
tainly held the principles referred to; and what mail, alter legally on the parish at large." Now that the payment
all, the true source of power in a natton 1 It was the pope. of Church rates is a matter of individual option rather
by their
lar writ ;
conduct that they we and it was for the people of this country to allow „
prj. than of legal obi,,,ation, the directors hold that the
re worthy et the great
sieges which they were anxious to possess Any one who Same considerations apply to the present rates as to
had witnessed their conduct that day must have been ini- the previous voluntary assessments. 1 hey, however,
pressed with the thought that these clubs hail produced leave the shareholders to decide whether such rates
their OWL They had developed the character of shall in future be paid.
the workman ; ath facy of the statements made
against lum dur nd eall
ing the reemit debates on the Reform Bill A HOCRBON PRINCE.—The following appeared
had been clearly shown It was said, 'if you extend the fran- in the Daily Noses of Wednesday :
chise you will adinit those who are unfit to receive it, and in Ilaving read the letter stated to have been written by to
whom trust cannot be reposed." But what had been the Conde de Cliamlmrd to Don Carlos, given in your columns of
actual result of that extension? The conduct of the working the 12th inst., I have to atate—whatever may he the opinion
classes at the last election had proved an extraordinary fee.— of the self-styled Henri V., "Comte de Caamborel," as eon-
namely, Vat they were the very section of electors that could sidering himself iming the representative of the eldest
not be bought, and they gave a calm verdict to the appeal branch of the once puissant Ilona. of Irombon—ehould cir-
which was made to them. They mid, "We are iti favour of cunistamms arise to reotore the legitimate branch to the
progress, and Cause only who are In favour of progress shall throne of France, he will flud that the elder branch exists in
represent rie in Parliament." The noble earl adthal a few the family now, bearing the name of Mevea. of which fast
words expressive of thanks and wishing "hearty success to possibly he is cognisant—the eon of Louis XVI. and alatie
the popular movement." Antionette, whoni the Revolutionary Government of France
Votell o thanks to the committee, proposed by Mr. Hodgson of 1795 gave out died in the Tower of the temple—was her's
Pratt and seconded by Mr. John Preedy, together with a p Mica) ruse. He had Wiring antione Simon's tens me if
short addresa of congratulation from the youthful Lord °glee been liberated from 'ho Temple, and sabsequently lived
14 mington, brought these interesting proceedings to a close. in Englmd till the year 1859 under the alsove pseudonym;
Two trains brought the party and conveyed them the particulars establishing the identity of the We reputed
cfolattitmid‘r
back safely to London, not the slightest accident Mr. Augustus Moves as beiug the son of Louis XVI will he
occurring to mar the proceedingslt'le'dr,k'irll'lVlViYeatua:edmis;hiit c‘rifdLovmuLtiXl/17al'am've
of the day.
--------. Az., Winos NIEVES Londoe, August Id.
PuOR FELLOW I—Tee dead body of a man has
been found fetlfully mutilated on the Midland Rail-
way. at Whittington. near Worcester. The body was
identified as that of a respectably connected young
man named Fletcher, who was last seen alive at a pub-
lic-house at Birmingham, on Tuesday evening. After
calling for a glass of beer, he was supplied with a sheet
of notepaper, and wrote a note, of which the following
is a copy, to a friend, at klolsover :
•' the J. Carter, you have behaved well to me, wile, and
family all. I shall soon he ins gravel helped to make &short
time ago, little thinking I must be the first to enter therein.
God bless you and keep you for ever and for ever. Oh, my
poor father, Wm. Fletcher. 0, my poor mother, Ann Fletcher.
0, my poor brother, Edward Bergh Fletcher. God bless them
all for ever and ever."
The jury found that the deceased had committed
suicide during temporary insanity.
NARROW ESCAPE OF A DlVER.—Thomas Brown,
a professional diver belonging to Plymouth, has been
taken to the Devon and Cornwall Hospital in a shock-
ing condition, produced while following his occupation
off the coast of 1.400 e. Brown was engaged under
water endeavouring to recover some gear belonging to
a trawler, Vdante, and when he signalled to be raised
it was found there was some defect in one of the pipes
of the apparatus. Owing to this mishap. and the
depth of water, he could not be raised quick enough,
so that when he reached the surface be was quite in-
sensible, his eyes protruding, and his tongue swollen.
He at once received medical attendance, and soon re
covered consci 111 l sness, but for some time suffered from
a Pugh of blond to the neck and head, which were con.
siderably swollen and black. No doubts, however,
are entertained of his ultimate recovery.
NITA r-GLI CERINE.— One of the last Acts of Par-
liament, rendered necessary by the recent fearful
accident, was passed to prohibit, for a limited period,
the importation and to rest, ict and regulate the carnage
of nitro-glycerine. Save as mentioned, no person, after
the passing of the Act. is to bring into any port or har-
bour of the United Kingdom, or ship or unship on,
from, or near the coasts of any part of the United
Kingdom, any nitro-glycerine. By acting in contra-
vention to the provisions the party is to be guilty of a
misdemeanour, and liable to be imprisoned, with or
without hard labour, for one year, and all nitro-alycer.
inc brought into any port is to be forfeited New
regulations are to be made as to the manufacture, sale,
and carriage of nitro-glycerine, and notice of nitro-gly.
cerine is to be given, and search permitted for the
article.
THE" ALABAMA" QUEBTlON.—Professor Goldwiu
Smith delivered a lecture mm England and Slavery at
Cleveland, in the United States, On the lint uln, in
the course of which he referred to the suliject of the
Afaborna. He denied that she was an English chip, or
that the English nation and Government connived at
her escape. and said Inc did not feel sure that the legs
position of England in the matter was no untenable as
it was generally assnmed to be. The vessel, however,
ought not to have escaped, and if he had any voice in
the question he would, without discusaion, and, if
passible, without an arbitrator, pay the whole of the
olhims.

PLAYINO AT GIif•TLP MAN Fabtabbti !—The
most expensive luxury indulved in by city people, says
the New York Commercial, is playing "gentlemen
I armers " Never before were st wally rural homes
,or sale as during this spring and summer. rhe paperes
have been filled with "derirable country seaus" for
sale. It is a lit-le remarkable how short a stay some
folks make "under the greenwood trees." Not one in
a hundred of the beautiful retreats on the Hudson re-
mains in the hands of the ori.Pnal owners, and most of
them have been sold half.a.dozen times. Only a
family with an income of 40,000 or 50,000 dollars can
keep a house in the country.
A CARR OF HYDROPHOBIA IN FRANCF.—The
following paragraph is going the rounds of the French

Inn 6UNNAKEK AND THE KISH Ur ITALT.,
Mr. A. Somerville, of the firm of Braemiliu. Saber-
vide, and Co., gurimakers, Birmingham, has Ii en
i'mated by the King of Italy a chevalier sit the i rd r of
St. Maurice and St. Lazarus. Mr. Somerville's firm
are the patentees of the Albini-Brivenellin rifle aoopted
by the Italian and Belgian government., and Mr.
Somerville, who is now in Italy, has lately effected an
improvement in revolvers, adapted for use of cavalry
ri giments Some Italian officers, it is said, pointed out
to him that the revolver is comparatively usel, pi to
cavalry, because mounted soldiers cannot erwily take
aim. To meet this objection Mr. Somerville caused
the ball to be cut into four, six, or more pieces . f equal
size, and these being fitted together were rointrialuced
into the cacti lige in the same manner at a single bul-
let. This experiment, we learn, proved very success-
ful, the charge when fired scattering like grape shot,
and the revolver being thus altered into a mitrailleur.
DANGEROUS MISCHIEF.—TWO boys, aged four-
teen and eleven years respectively, have been corn.
mitted for trial by the Buckinghamshire magistrates
at Linelade for having maliciously turned a railway
' truck out of a siding at Linda& station. On, of the
, porters on the London and NA•th-Western Ilailway
, on Sunday morning left the truck safe and was retorm
I lug home when he heard a crash, and then perceived s
I carriage truck on the lffinstaVe line, which is .n a
, descent, proceeding at vonsiderable speed. The track
Ismashed tour gates in its course, and WM also Midi
considerably damaged.
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on the 3rd instant, one Jean Lomhard, eighteen years of
age, a farm labourer at Champforguiel, near Chalons. W.
attacked by hydrophobia, and attempted to bite several
persons, and succeeded in biting a dog. H e then went home
to his friends at S issenay. Information was given to the
police On their arrival they found Lombard at the door of
his father's house. lie was foaming at the mouth, and in-
spired such terror that no one dared go near him. The pre-
sence of the police having reassured the father and a few
neighbours, they coaxed him into a room, locked it, and care-
fully barred all the issues. Lontbard, however, made no
attempt to escape, but asked for some white wine, which
was let down to him through the roof. Oue of his friends
having offered to go end attend him, he replied, " Ton had
better not. I shall bite 30n." He died at three o'clock in the
morning, after a night of torture. Feeling he was dying, he
requested the curs to be sent to him 1111 care came, and
administered the consolations of religion through a hole in
the wincow. Lombard hail been bitten six mouths ago, but
had nether' the wound cauterized."
Foo titio oF CIIINEvE ROYALTT.—Through one
of Iteuter'e wires we are informed that—
The Chinese authorities at Pekin have officially intimated
to sir Rutherford Alcoa that the Duke of Edinburgh cannot
lie received by the royal family of China on a footing of
i quality.
This shows some abatement of Chinese self-esteem.
The Royal Family of China mean, of course, that they
are prep sred to receive the Queen ,f England's son on
a footing of superiority, a considerably higher footing
than their own. Accordingly it has doubtless been
"intimated," if not plainly announced. to them in
return, that they are at liberty to kiss his Royal High-
ness's foot, and will obtain assuredly therefrom, the
footing which they are entitled to.— Punch.
NOTHING New.—There really is nothing new
under the sun (remarks the Athenieunt.) The paddle-
wheel for boats is seen on the Assyrian slabs, and in
more than one old European fresco. The bicycle
seems to have been known in China more than two
centuries ago, and the velocipede was probably seen
even before that in Europe. Among the amient
painted glass in and about the once noble church at
Steke Pogis may be seen the representation of a young
'1 fellow who is astride the mute but active horse he is
working his way al ng with the air of a rider who has
introdeced a novelty, and is being looked at by admir.
mg spectators. It is one of the most carious
illuotra
Hens of ancient times in the painted glass windows of
this interesting church.
THE TELkGRAPIIB. It is rumoured that when
Government has taken over the administration of the
telegraphs, the repaint, maintenance, and construction
of telegraphic lines will not be intrusted to any com-
mercial company. The Government it is 551 d, will
employ for this purpose non.commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Eugineers. 'Buus, not only will the
work be more cheaply performed than by civilian
lam our, but a valuable corps of efficient constructors of
telegraphs will be formed, which will he of the utmost
service in any future campaign, to lay and maintaiti
those field telegraphs which must in future he essential
concomitants of every combatant force in active service.
A BoY Lirrsu BY A KITE.—Tne Vicksburg
Timed is responsible for the billowing :
A young lad at Lake Station, Mew. hat a very large and
beautiful kite presented to him, about six feet by four in
size, which he attempted to reise just as the wind was in-
creasing and a storm was threatening The wind drew the
kite so heavily as to drag the boy along also To prevent
losing the favourite he wound the cord arum i his body. At
last the mist bore kite arid boy aleng in the rapid air cur-
rents The boy seemed to lie about 100 feet above the earth
and the kite five tunes; trod distance. At last the young
kite-flyer caught in the top of a tree, and was suspended
seventy-five feet above the ground A flood of rails came on,
sleekening the line, abating Inc wind and all owi• g the little
sufferer to be rescued lie was found to be unconscious, and
so bruised and marred as to he scarcely recognised, but was
restored the same eveuing, and is now doing well.
LOWE .I,,KEs.—The Conservatives appear to be
stunned. They raise little or so outcry against Mr.
Lowe's proposal to 1. wee the Standard. Ttt be sure
your gold is not your paper. But the CLancellor of
the Exchequer propottes bringing down the Sovereign.
It is, however, true that he contemplates doing this
without prejudice to the Crown.—Punch.
FuIoHTFUL ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —A fright-
ful scene occurred at St. George'e-hall, Liverp ell, on
Saturday morning. Just before the arrival of Mr.
Justice Hayes and Mr. Justice Hannon, who were to
preside at the Liverpool Assizes, a middle-aged, well'
dressed man went up the steps at the south end of the
hall, and pulling a razor out of his p cket. and after
uttering some words which were unintelligible tel those
who were close to him, cut his throat almost from ear
to ear. The jugular vein, however, was not touched,
but the wind-ripe was completely severed • and the
&SCOTS at the Royal Infirmary, where the unfortunate
man lies at present, give very little hopes of hie re-
covery. When the attempt at suicide took place there
were a large number of barristers and gentlemen pre.
sent, together with a crowd of people, eager to see the
arrival of the judges.
A THEATRICAL INCIDENT.—A ridiculous story
comes across the Atlantic, concerning Mr. Charles
Wade's dramatisation of Tennyson's poem, "Dora."
At the pert, aumance of " Dora" the other night in a
Western city, when Mary Morrison made her exit to
bring her little Wilic of four years, she was shocked
to find a lubberlv boy of at least fourteen, and as he
was the only Willie at hand, on he most go, though he
WAR well nigh as big as his mother. The Farmer Allen
of the play being equal to the emergency, instead of
inquiring " How old are you, my little mars?' en-
deavoured to remedy the matter by saying, "how old
are you, my strapping boy ? ' But he failed ; fm' the
boy. who was inetruct d to Pay from "four to five,"
said it in such a coarse, sepulchral tone as to drive the
good-natured grandfather to exclaim, "Forty-live!
You leok it my boy, you look it."
A NoVEL EXI"DtENT ! —A story is told in a
Puns paper of a new method for recovering one's
debts. The other day a crowd gathered in the vicinity
of the Odeon round a girl with a wooden leg, whom n
gentleman at an adjoining window was apsastrophizing
with leutl cries and gesticulation. It turned out that
the girl was a washerwoman wh i had gone to the gen-
tleman to ask for payment of her bill, and finding that
the money was riot forthcoming, the had seized her
custornefe wooden leg, which was lying in a corner,
and had walked off declaring that she would not return
it till she was paid.
DIVORCE IN CINCINNATI.—At the commence-
ment of the last statistical year there were 70 cases of
divorce pending iu Cincinnati. During the year there
were added 151 more cases, making a grand to.al of
221 cases. Of these 102 cases were decided, while 119
remain yetto he determined. Of this large number
only 54 were brought by huthands, while 167 were
brought by wives. Of these 23 decrees were granted
to the husbands and 70 to the wives, and three re-
fused to the husbands and six to the wives. Of the
charges on which these were brought. 48 were for
adultery, 85 for absence and gross neglect of duty,
47 for cruelty, 29 for drunkenness, 6 for fraud, and 6
were brouglit on miscellaneous, charges. On the
ground of adultery 28 were brought be husbands and
1, 28 by wives; on the ground of absence and neglect,
1 19 were brought by husbands and 66 by wives; on the
ground of cruelty, 2 were brought by husbands and 45
I by wives; on the ground of drunkenness, 7by husbands
and 22 by wives; on the ground of fraud, 4 by hus-
bands and 2 by wives, and on miscellaneous grounds,
2 by husbands and 4 by wives.
WAGNER AT Home !- A new specimen of the
numerous eccentricities; of Retard Wagner, the in-
ventor of "the music of the future," is given in a book
lately publithed by Herr Mendes, under the title of
"Wagner at home." There is • room in Wagner's
house, says the author, with a gorgeously decorated
ceiling and tapestry of leath•r embroidered with gold.
on the walls are portraits of Goethe, Schiller, and
Beethoven. The two poets are placed facing each
other, but opposite Beethoven there is nothing bust a
looking claes. On turning to Wagner for an explana-
tion, the musician placed Memel' in front of the glass,
in which his face wag reflected, thus supplying the
deficiency. It is added that this is the only kind of
portrait of himself that Wagner allows to be kept in
his house.
Lotto LIFE TO HIM! Mr. Gladstcne, who has
been unwell, is now staying at Walruer Castle. We
sincerely hope he will soon be a Deal better,—Punclz.
EXTKAOKDINARY GiNTEsTS OF A lb/KBE'S
STOMACH.—A Clydesdale mare, worth about £4O, VMS
brought to the Kelifield Chemical Works, Glasgow,
the other day, which on coming home from putting in
hay bad walked straight into a pool in the farm-) ard
court. In stooping down to (blink the weight of the
cart forced her head first into the water, an 1 before
she could be relieved was drowned. Attention having
been called to the contents of her stomach by one of
the men, there was takenfrom it the following articles,
viz.:-
Sic horse nails, broken; 8 round nails, from 1 to 2 inches
long to single flooring naffs, 24 I}-inch nails, 97 broken nails,
various sixes, 35 11. inch nails, 11 I inch zinc nails, 55 to 1-
inch tack nails, 16 shoe tackets, 3 i.late nails, 4 screw nails;
the total number of nails was thus 269. There were also
four common pins 1-f inch long each; one blue bead, one
brass button, one pearl button. live metal buttomi marked
V. St., 25 small pieces galvanised wire, Wee copper nail
heads, four small m.tal washers, one hook (of ho its and
eyes:, one hair pin, one-half of a neeille, one small piece of
lead seven pieces or zinc—iss all 55 mulct; s; or, including
the 269, 324 articles weighing Ilh In addition there were
found gravel and sand weighing Abs.
MARRIAGES IN FKANCE.—In the year 1867,
26.5 030 marriages were celebrated is France, of which
'7,730 were contracted in Paris. The Marriage. in
's were :
...... 14 451
• • • 965
1,6. 9
705

Between bachelors and spinsters .
Between bachelors 81141 81414i818
Beiweeit widowers and spinsters .
Between widowers and widows ...

Total

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QUEENSLAND GOLDYIELDS.—The Rockhampton
Bu(lain announces that "'mother great goldfield 111
the north has been proclaimed. The testimony et the
Government geologist, Mr. llaintree, which is given
with a freeimiu from exaggeration marking his other
reports, leaves no room to doubt the existence of an
extensive goldfield iin the Gilbert raog,es. A resh
from this other goldfield.' has already set in." The
Maryborough Chronicle speculatee upon the prolmale
consequences of another Gympie half-way between the
Pac fic and the Carpentaria Gulf, and observes that
there is "no reason for concluding that the autiferons
deposits in that direction are confined to the particulae
complexue of gullies and ranges now being worked.
The ascertained existence of the precious metal on the
Upper Cloncurry, far away to the south-west, soil on
the same axis of elevation, as well as in the great is-
land of New Guinea, to the northward, points to the
probability of the whole southern and eastern water-
shed of the Gulf eventually turning out auriferons in
places. The great peninsula of Cape York Mae as yet
been only superficially examined, and until its ...rid°.
logical structure is more accurately known it is im-
possible for anybody to fix defirii.ely the northern
limit of our gold-bearing rocks. The most powerful
stimulue to exploration—gold—is new supplied, and
population, the must perfect agency for effecting it,
will not be slow to follow. It seems as though we
were iin the eve of one of those great and sudden de-
velopment', necessitating camprehensive political
changes, which have been no common since the era of
the first gold discoveries in California."
BODY OF A CHILD FOUND IN A RAILWAY PARCEL.
—On Friday last the body of a child was ihaeivereil in
the perceLottice at the Waverley station of the Nerth
British Railway. It appears that about a fertnight
ago a small wicker basket arrived per rail from Bristol,
addressed " 51r. Watean, Edinburgh, Scotlaud—to be
called for." No one appearing to claim the parcel, it
was opened by one of the railway officials, in accord-
ance with their usual practice, with the view of obtain-
ing souse clne to the owner. On the discovery twine
made, the police antherites were informed of the cu-
cunietence, and immediately took posse seion of the
body. A post-mortem examiriatii in was made on Satur-
day. It was found that the body was that of a
fully-developed female child ; that it hail been lean
alive, and lived probably for about an hi me ' • and that
death had been caused by fracture of the skull, which
was very severely crnehed. The body had been cares
fay wrapped in linen towels, and subsequently pa -Iced
into the basket in a large piece of white calico. There
was no name on the towels or anything that could lead
to the detection of the unnatural mother. Tn, rail-
way officials at Bristel hail been written to before the
parcel was opened, but it 'seems that they do not take the
name', of the senders of parcels, a praetice followed by
met railway companies. The &dke.ne was written in
' a fine Italian hand, and the basket and wrappings were
' of stiperior quality. The Bristol police authorities
have been cemmunicated with, and will no doubt ins
t vestigate the case.
Ai FRAY Wall POACHERS.—A, murderouti
affray with poachers occurred at an early hoar on
Sunday morning, on Lord Willoughby de liroke's
estate, at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, between a
gang id four limn MA three of his lardship's keepers
mimed Creed, George Halileine, and Thorne. Alt/use.
Abinit one o'clock in the morning the keepere homed a
net, 70 or SO yards long, set in Pool- field Spinney.
They began to take up the net, and while doing so were
suddenly attacked by four men. The whole of the
keepers were assailed with stones, which, being the
oolite limestone common in the district, inflicted
severe pushes. Although all more or less injured by
the stones hurled at them, the keepers rushee upon
their assailants and a sharp cenflict ensued, which is
stated to have lasted for nearly half an hour. The
poachers freely ll* d the bludeeons with which they
were armed, and, having succeeded in overpewering
the keepers, managed to effect their escape. Ti.
keepers are all severely cut about their heads with
blows from bludgeons. Thomas Alilione'e ear was bit-
ten through by Higgin'e one of the gang, anti Creed
also received a savage bite on the hand. Two caps were
found on the ground after the affray was over, which
led to the apprehension of two men, named dames
Riggine and Isaac Harris, at Leamington. A third
man, who was with them when the arrest was Made.
escaped by dragging milice-coustable Torre-nee ant . the
river Learn, where he freed himself from the officer's
grasp, and escaped by swimming to the opposite side
of the river.
No CEIARGE FOR STANPING.—This fmniliar
heading of an advertisement might be adapted by the
Mint to announce the maxim whi di, in the coinage of
sovereigns, it has established as a golden rule.—Parielt.
A 'USEFUL MAN G oNE —By the death of Mon-
sieur Moreau Chardon, Paris has last a benefactor.
The deceased gentleman aas the founder of the origi-
nal omnioue ciimpany, and for tnirtv-tive years con-
ducted it with such still and energy that when in 1554,
the concern passed iuto the hands of Governmeet be
was appointed general manager. Ile continued in that
position till his death. The scale on which erunihni
traffic is carried on in Paris may be judged from the
fact that duriog the year 1868 the number of persons
carried in these vehicles amounted to 120.000,000 or
nearly 65 times the entire pi ipulation of Paris ; while
i during the same period the number of passengers c in-
Yeyed by the French railways was only 115,000,000.
The average fare being four and a-half SOW) km 5055
in the interior and three on the impariele). the gross re-
ceipts must have amounted to about 27,000,010 franca
or £1,080,000.
To A BENIGHTED CORRESPONDENT.—" Miry
Emily" (photograph and specimen of hair inclosed) is
wrong in her supposition that a Knight Bachelor is
necessarily an unmarried man—Pant/i.
A CURIOUS LATTER.—The Gaulois publishes,
kpropos of the recent marriage of Prince Pierre
Buonaparte with the daughter of a braesefeunder, a
curious letter from Prince Lumen Buonaparte, his
father, on being directed by Napoleon L to 4 voree his
wife. The letter is addressed to Milo e. Letitia
Buonaparte, and is dated 29th of May, 1810. Lucien
says that he married "becauee he hid a right to dose,
and before he to whose elevation he chiefly contributed
became emperor." " It is ridiculous and improper," he
proceeds, "fir a stet-man, a minister, and an minheas
eador to he treated like a streeaboy • both my second
arid my first wife have deserved by their virtues nuts
have their misfortunes cast in their teeth. Jerome
might have been required to divorce his wife, for he
was a minor when he married. The Emperor might
also, no long ache west:4l,ll.SP, make a sacrifice for his
peeple by dissolving his mai nage ; but I have seven
children and an excellent wite, and therefore have no
, reason to do anything of the kind."
TrIE ORGAN IN PKESBYTERIAN CHURCIPS.--
The organ question is trouldieg the Prissbyteriews of
Canada (says the L ,ndon Scotsman) The B.BBiol ed
Knee Courch in Montreal was cited before the Synod
of Hamilton for insubordinatien in using an organ at
the instigation of the Presbytery. The commegation
in effect inainteined that the question was an open one.
The matter had been laid on the table of the Synod in
lea and no orders anent it had been given to the
Preely. ten. ; and subecriptii ins had been obtaine I tie
wards the building of the church on the faith that the
organ would be used. Six churches habitually nee
organs, bin the Knee Church was the only one ilerat
with. The Synod temporised. The resolution which
was ultimately carried ignored any pronouncement on
the organ qnestion, and dealt merely with the question
of order. It ran as follawe : " Receive the reterenee,
approve the conduct of the Presbytery ; and, while un-
willing to impute intended coetemecy, regret that the
(seinen of Knox Church, Montreal, should have taken a
maiden having Some appearance of a disregard of the
Synod's authority ; declare, in case of misunderstanding
on this point, that the decision leaves the arnetitunional
law salt existed before the late diecuesions • and that the
Presbytery was warranted in expecting of al se.sions
and congregations conformity to the existing order,
until it ehaulil be modified or altered in due course."
Mild as this is. it is strong in rump aria in with an
amendment which, on a vote, ran it very clor.e. This
, amendment was :—" That the Synod sustain the re-
ference, and declare that. inasmuch Ai the (law. ranee
of the Synod was somewhat indefinite no ceneure tor
what is past be pronounced upon the 'kirk session of
Knox Church. Further, inasmuch as the general eula
ject of instrumental music is to come up before the
next meeting, it is not neceesary that any special il
y ictiocs be given to the session of that church.
S rlie ens: CAIMP-FoLLoWSRS. —S. veral of the
home papers (says the Cericatia Eng/Wm-se) comelsia
that the expensee of the Abyssiei in Bipedal-in me
donbled be the necessity of furnishing an army in
modern times with sir many scientific accompauenente
but the meta extraordinary follower of an arms that we
hive yet heard of has accempanied the Repeal treips
to Semarcatal. This is a Savoyard with a barrel on: at
and a monkey. Is it for the purpose of keeping up the
spirits of the troops, or of striking terror into the
enemy that he has been permitted to join the camiefel-
lowers ?
A BRAVE Max !—Dr. Cumming has alre id),
made it known that he means to attend the PoPr.,
Council, at least if he can get a safe conduct, for it
seems, from a letter he has a.idressed to the Tana,
that his presence at Rome depends in some measure
upon his being assured that he will not b- dealt
with as John HU'S wan. How the doctor wrote to
Archbishop Manning, and how the Archbishop sent
him a courteous reply and a copy of one of his his -ks,
has been some time a matter of history, but it was not
' known until Tueeday that Dr. Cumming had a-dimwit
the Pope himself "in the amustonied ecilesiosticsl
LAM and form" (the letter is set out in The Tan.O.
The holy Fetiier has not yet replied, but in case his
reply is of a favourable cheracter Dr. Cumming does
not doubt that he will get it ititime to be at Rome
for the opening of the I 'ouneil. "I am persuadiel;' la
adds, "that, if y oil send, AA you no doubt will, a
reporter to the eucceneive umetirige of the Council, be
will not be able to report any language used by mi-. or
the others- inconsistent with the cerurteey we owe or the
respect we feel to the Sovereign Pontiff and the
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A NONREPRESENTATIVE Mete.— Waiter. No
Ministerial Whitebait Dinner! That's your friend
Gladstone. And he calls his self Member for Green.
wich !—Punch.

THE DICATH OF AN ILLUSTRIOUS POLE.—The
Russian papers announce the death in Siberia of John
Gorbaczevski, the last of the "decabrists," or members
of the cocspiracy formed against the Emperor
Nicholas in December, 1825. Gorbaczeveki was one of
the most active leaders of this conspiracy, and he was
sentenced to death in 1826, but Nicholas commuted
the ventrnce to hard labour an Siberia for life. In 1840
he was relieved from the more severe part of his wimeh-
meet, and settled in Petrovsk, where he soon became
universally popular am, ng the exiles, ',Mee norTerirme
witht frequently enabled to alleviate through the in-
fluence he had gained with the governor and other
~fficials. In 1856 the " dvcabrists" were permitted to
return to their homes, but thirbaczevski had made no
many friends in Siberia that he preferred to remain.
The principal papers of St. Petersburg and nloscow all
speak with great admiration of Ina abilities and
character.

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