The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-18 00:00:00

rrrE STOMIIIRTDGE OBSERVER-

Them up to save trouble to herdihg, they 411 died inetore lie
sot to tiny anyemhe. Ile at:Le:sod the plunder-nil .4 my
goods ant got a almm of lb- nr, and I have given him beads
.11 chain at to buy provisions f. 4. Initn.,elf In the any
hack to Z nriz,ber. lie I, is done nothiug here. Ho neither
went near the goods here nor tried to prevent their hells
stolen in the way. I suppose that pay for tour months in
coming, other four of rot, end tour In wring heck would be
ample, but heave this to your decision. I could not employ
him tenant fry mail hark. nor cm I nay anything to him, for
he st once goea to the Ujtjans and gives his own version of
all he Mara 11,, I. untruthful and lithe ed, and
waded band It the mail to any one ash° wished to destroy
It. The people here are Ilk,, the Kites tra,:ers, haters at
the English. The,. Z trail oar men whom I me* between this
and Ny aaF a were gencemen and ratted with holed.. Here,
as in the haunts if the Kilwa honlea slaving is a series of
forays, and they dread exposure by my letters. No one will
take charge to them. I have, kot Thaol lan `Medlin to take a
mail privately for transtnii,d or to Unyanyeurhe. It con-
talus a cheque on Ritchie. S:tuart, mid Co., of Bombay,
2,4,01 read some 1.1.4 letters written during my slow re-
covery. I fear it may never reach you A party Neli cent to
'lie cost two months ago one men volunteered to take a
letter secretly, nut his master warned them all not to do so,
because I might write something he did not like. de wont
out with the [laxly and ears orders to the be Mutsu to de-
stroy any letter tor might tie' ect Olk the way Thus, though!
am good friends outwardly with them all. I can get Do
assistance in procuring carriers. and as you will see if
the read comes to hand I went to Z mothlt for fifteen good
boatmen to act as carriers if required, eighty pieces of men--
trano, forty ditto of kinitra, twelve feteliniAn of the het •
called Jamsain, shoes, Jot., and I have written to Sey d
to, of Ids guards to see to the tafety of the
goodaere tato Thant bin Suellim's hands, or into those of
Mohammed idu Sahib. As to the work to be done by me,
tile oniv to convect the suture. which I have discovered
trout 500 1, 7..0 mites south of Speka and Baker's with their
Nile. 'I he volume of water which flows north from latitude
120 tout) into lor,e. I snap ct that I have been working et
the kUllteeS it tire Canso, en well as thole of the Nile. I
hove to go down the eastern line of drainao to
B deer's turning point. Tanganyika, Nylge, Chowamhe
Bak. rat, are tale water, and the head of it is 70) miles
south of thin. The western and central line' of drab. age
converge into an unvisited lake weld or south-west of Ibis.
The (min ay of thi., whether to Cargo or Nile. I have to
ascertain. The p-ople f this, calk d Mammon, are cannibals,
if Arabs speak to lily. I may have to go there mat, and down
Tanganyika, if I come out uneaten, and find my new squad
fr.on Z natio.. I e area, tly hope you width, what you coo to
help me with the gam s awl men; £4OO to he rent by Mr.
Young must sorely have come to you through Flout-if end
Co —I am, Ac, DAVID LIVINGSTONE
A long box pald for to Nilji was left at Unyauyeurbe, and
so with other boson.

At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, on
Monday evenim, Sir Iti.derick Murchison, speaking
of the above letter from Dr. Livingstone' said he hoped
that brfoie long they would be rejoiced in welcoming
him home, but at the same time they mast be prt pared
t r the possible, but not probable, contingency that
the waters of the Lake Tanganyika should be found
not to 11w northwards into the Lake Albert Nayat Z
Ina to be dtfli cted to the west. In that ease, if
Livingstone blioul,l be adequately supplied with car-
riers and provisions, Sir It iderick has no doubt he
will I ihow these waters awl thus being led on, per-
haps to the Congo, Lis friends may once more be sub-
jected to a long and anxious period of suspense.

that aI the fru ts were devoured. Bina.* these wrtifiaall
lasts, wh h ha, e bien planed about in great numbers,
have NO4I inbsbitasi by the titmice, th. rs has be. n
great itnpr,vetneut, an I the crops gathered in have
been abimilailt. The titmouse, it is stated, in one of
the most active destroyers of insects to be found

a-tu-orTg birds,
SINGULAR SCPNE IN MONTGOIDRYSFIIRE.—
At an barns.; held at Llanlitynmair, Montgomery-
shire, on Friday, on the body of a man named James
Jones, who bad committed suicide, a verdict of fdo de se
was retuned, notwithstanding the evidence of the
ifielical attendant of the deceased, who stated that be
had attended Jones for six week.. He said Jots.r
was suffering from a slight attack b fever, brought on
by cold ; and he also laboured under appends, widen
would tend to produce nielaneho'y and lowness of
spirit., and in this, witness had no doubt, the unhappy
' deed had its engin. Much to the surprise of a crowded
drat t, however, the coroner, and the neighbourhood,
the jewelry resulted in a verdict of fdo de re. The
remake of the unfortunate man were consequently
interred the same night, at nine o'clock in the grave-
yard of the pariah church at Idanbrynmair. The scene
was an extraordinary one, the body being followed by
upwards of 300 miners, all of whom bore lighted
torches. The rem .ins were committed to the earth
without any religious ceremony being performed. This
extraordinary finding of a Welsh jury has given rise
to much comment and disapprobati n.
HKlttt's A NABS. Something is said about
some more Knighthood.. It won't do. Tilers is nei
room for at more knighta till after the 21st Dec:metier,
when the Days begin to Get Out—Pooch.
WOi.KII4N'S EMIt.W.ATION 5.,C11.TY.--A cociety
has been formed under the name of "the Workmen's
Emigration Society for the cons lidatiou of the lintbeh
Eruplre," whose objects axe annouuced to be -To raise
funds to assist these who are sdll above pauperiem to
emigrate to the most desirable colonies ; to urge upon
the Imperial and Colonial Governmetts the duty of
wed tug lioerally iat the work, and app vtioning funds
which may be si given ; to collect accurate informaton
oo t the class of persons who are really required in the
coloniea, so that those who wish to emigrate may be
gent to the most suitable places ; to select emigrant
iellipa suitable for their purposes, and as far as practic-
able, to provide every requisite for those who go, at
the lowest possible charge.; and to publish constant
information from the colonies, as to the prices of
commodities, the scale of wages, and other useful facts
for the guidance of emigrants. Mr. George Path. r is
the secretary of the society, and among the vice.
prealdents are Sir George Gray. K.C.11, Sir J. U.
Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Mr. W. T. H, Torrens. HP,
Mr. G. need, M.P., Mr. Alderman Luek, M.P., Mr.
E. T. Gourley, M.P.. Sir Francis Laced, blear W.
Rogers, M.A., Mr. Edmond Beale., M. A., Rev. Dr.
lingh Allen. Mr. Daniel Pratt, Mr. George Odger,
and Mr. E. Dresser Rogers. _ _

ONLY TOO TRUE !—The Lord Mayor of London,
at a dinner to which he had been invited last week by
the Fishmongers, maid he bad watched the action of
the unpaid magistracy with a disposition to find fault,
but he could met. The duties of the maeietracy were
honestly and faithfully discharged. The Lord Mayor,
he belie reit, was a target to he shot at I.IV every man,
woman, and child in the country who had a grievance.
They could have no idea of the number of letters that I
were rec. bred at the Mansion Hone° every day, or of
the accumulation of misery which they set forth.
There never wan a time, he thought, when the honest
working pep's—not the traditig mendicants, but the
handicraftsmen—were werse off than they were now.
At the Matignon House they had organized a scheme
of emigration, but he feared that emigration took from
them the baclesene of England. What, then, were
they to do! When men and women were starving,
emigration was the only expedient they could resort to.
He had bet n P.nxiously luiking for a elite for the pre-
sent deplorable state of things, and he believed it was
to be foiled in the fact that England had erased to he
the great emporium for manufacturers which it was in
firmer days. We must now set about in earnest to
educate I:ur workmen in the principles cf art, and then
we should be aide to compete with all comers.
F dat. CH ECHOIS.—In this happy isle ( Britaiu)
the Address is always called an "Echo" of the
Sp. ech from tic Throne. The word seems hardly
applicable in France. Blow, breezes, blow, net the
very wilt echoes flying. Litten : Throne. I will give
you Mayors from the Municipal Councils. Echo.
No ertat army --no eentraldsation—no official inter-
ference with electors—no arbitrary arrests—free preen
—trial by joy—changes in the constitution—some-
thing like a revolution.—Punch.
A PLETHORA OF DIAMONDS.—The following is
an extractfron a letter addressed by the Austrian
consul at Port Elizabeth to Professor Hocbstetter, of
Vienna
The diamonds which have been discovered here are
extraorribary size and tinny; the territory is which they
are found is upward. of 1,600 flutes in extent. Every p..st
brings heel of the discovery of diamonds in various places,
but they are most tiOundant at Lit:Along, near the frowier
of the Orange River Free State. Hitherto, they have licent
found wily on the surface. They vary iii weight from half a
carat to 150 carats. One found on my property was of the
first water, iii shape like au octahedron, and weighed 301
carats: another, of 48 carats, was arid in London fir £4,000.
The stone ler falling 150 carats 1.0 broken, antis piece of 231
carats is now in my possession. Herr Manch, who has goon
up the Vaal River is said to have discovered a ditill3,7lld
mine, which ii6o contains granates, topazes, and oilier
precious stories .

A CHANGE IN TOE PROFESSIONS.—The first in-
stance of anon-commissioned officer of the British army
having matriculated at one of the nniversities has jest
occurred, S. rot-ant J. Sweden, of the Roval Engineors,
having Irene ded from the Sohool of 111ffitsry Engi-
ne. fn.r, Charhare, to Tt nary College, Dublin, where
he has graduated, a special order from the War
Depyriment authorising Mtn to retain his iresent rank
in the corps. S, rgeant Sneden at the rectnt competi-
tive exanitnation at Chatham succeeded irt obtaining
the Royal Albert echolarship, which entitles him to
00 per annum for three ye ere, and ttrition at Trinity
College, Duo in, in Wawa to which he was also
awarded the gold medal. An order from the Horse
Guards &recta that Sergeant Sint& n during the time
he is pmsecuting his studies at Trinity College is to
continue to receive the regimentel and departmental
pay of his rank. Sergeant Standen is entirely self-
taught.
FoUNDLING HOSPITAL IN NEW YORIC.—SOnIe
Sisters of Charity, honing to lessen the number
of infanticides in New York, opened in that city in
October a house for the reception of foundlings. A
crib it, placed in the vestibule every night, and in
November 29 infants had been brought to the house,
many of them left at the door within three hours a
tht ir birth, cud generally with scarcely any clothing
on them. In every instance except one a slip of paper
was left in the crib with the child styling its name, or
at least some name and the date of its birth, with a
view to future identificatien, if desired. It is mime-
setited that but for the existence of this hospital it is
probable that all Cr nearly all these infants would
have been among the number reported by the police be
"found dead." Want of sufficient funds makes it ne-
cessary to refuse to accept infants who are evidently
above three weeks old.

THE CROWN JEWELS OF SPAlN.—According to
a repilrt if a committee appointed by the Spanish
flutes at one tine the crown jewels were valued at
£1,040,000. Of these Joseph Bonaparte carried off to
tire amount of £220 000. Ferdinand VII. declared
in his will, dated 1830, that he hail left an inventory of
the crown jewels. After his death no such inventory
could be found. Half of the Crown jewels had dis-
appeared, and the cases which had contained them
were discovered some years alter in the cellar of the
palace. The testamentary executors of the late king
wrote to Queen Christina, asking her what bad become
of the jewels. She replied that they had all been
stolen by the French, except what King Ferdinand
had bought himself, or received from Ms three former
wives. 5,411 there remained crown jewels to the value
of £240,000, and these, according to the Minister of
Finance, were in the possession of Queen Isabella, at
San Sebastian, before she crossed the French frontier,
and had never been sent back to Spain. The Ite-
puhlicaa deputies in the Cortes contend that, if the
robbery of the jewels be proved, the extradition of the
guilty parties should and must be demanded.
AMERICAH INVENTIONEL—It is rewrLed that of
the many applications filed in the American Patent
Office about 14,000 will probably be granted during
the year. liiinue ot the inventions mentioned in
If rper's Wedly are curious: an application of the
" Lord's Prayer," repeated in a loud voice, to cure
stammering ; a weight to be attached to a cow's tail
to present her switching it while being milked ; a
"horse-refresher "—a bit perforated with holes, and
connected with a reservoir in the vehicle by a flexible
tube, so that the driver can water the animal without
stopping. A lady has patented a hair-crimping pin,
which may be also used as paper-cutter, skirt sup-
porter, child's pin, bouquet-holder, shawl fastener, or
book-mark. A philanthropist has applied for protec-
tion to a "snorers' friend," a luxurious contrivance to
Ire attached to church pew-backs. so that in certain
familiar exigencies the possessor of a " snorer's" friend
may sleep in peace and comfort.
COMMEF.CIAL CIRCONLOCIJTION.—The enormous
waste of labour in the public service is strikingly illus.
tra-ed by a paper in the Produce Markel., Review on the
se-organisation of the Customs' Department. If an
English shipper intends to export, for instance, a
small quantity of g.sals to Australia, his clerks—
numbers of whom are employedj and trained in this
work alone—are obliged to fill up no less than 38 forms
printed at the public expense, before the goods can be
put on board ship. "It will hardly be credited," we
are told, 'toot the collective length of the papers re-
quired for a tingle shipment, however small, is 29 feet
9i inches, and their breadth 28 feet 2 inches. Every
particular respecting the shipment is repeated in this
masa of costly documents some d zen if times. The
waste of na-ional money in these useless forms, and
in the immense number of Custom-house clerks em-
ployed in issuing and checking them, is not more
startling then the expenditure of our intrchants on
Has useless labour of filling them up.
A SINGULAR WITNESS.—We have heard of the
production of odd evidence in court, like that of the
nooler's will mentioned by Mr. Dickens, which was
chalked on the sta'de door (says the New York
Trbune). We remember a large door iiroduced in a
New Er-gland court 89 a hook of original entry, but a
811,1Cella issued to bring in a lion is a real novelty.
Tins actually occurred in the Superior Court at
Cincinnati the other day, in the case of replevin for a
lioness and her cubs. It was argued that the progeny
had been appraised at too high a figure, and the court
ordered a view. S one of the cubs was brought in
with his negro keeper, and demeaned himself with a
mildness and meeknee s which should have been edify-
ing to the lawyers. The judge looked at the lion, and,
like the first Daniel, was not afraid, but decided that
the young beast had undoubtedly been over-valued.
EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE If A CHILD.—At
Blackburn, en Saturday, a boy 10 years of age, named
Waring, has been charged with wilfully and
mali,knsly injuring a child under four years of age,
named Smith, by placing his hare body on the fire.
On the previous Monday Smith and Waring and two
other children were playing in the house of a neighbour
named Rawelitle, when Smith began to s:ng the elec-
tion song, "Ilornhy for ever." Waring said if he
sung it again he wi,uld put him on the fire. Smith, not
to be intimidated, replied that he would "box'
Waring, and again sang the song,' whereupon Waring
lifted him upon a chair, turned up his clothing and
seated him on the hot top bar of the fire-grate, whEre

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lie held Lim for wane time. Smith, of course, !creamed
loodly, arid Waring then lifted Lim on to the fender
nd preesed the backs of his thighs against the bars of
the fire grate. Daring three proceedings a hot cooler
had fallen on tee the earth, sairi Waring, with &cruelty
that is perfectly revoltinz, finally seated the poor child
upon it, and held hitt. in that position for several
seconds. Toe other children bad tried to get out of
Cr liaise, but in vain, ass Waring had locked the
door. The child's screams brought I,M mother to the
or, which wee then unlocked by Waring. who ran
119 as fast as he could. The poor child's thighs and
tilt:llo4er part of his peraou were much burned, large
patches in several places being denuded of skin. Dr.
Grime was call, din to attend the int! e sufferer, and
Waring was taken into custody. As Dr. Grime could
not &Vend the court, and as South was not out
dancer, the chief constable applied for a remand for a
week, which was granted, the magiatrate remarking,
"It's a brutal case, and no mistake."
VALUE td, SHOOTING PROVE. Tr.—The right of
shooting over the commune of Lubin, Luxembourz,
for a term of 12 years has just been conceded to M.
Waromptie, meinb.y f the DelgOsn Ch ember of
De,euties, for the Wm of 4,610 f. a year. Tiireeupiarters
of on hour afterwards a telegram arrived, offering, in
the name of aneeier spotsman, an annual rent of
5,6e0f. ; bat—too late. Thia property—one or the bet
in tht c inutry fir stsge and wild b.rars—has seen msuy
roof i ins in the value of its game. Ist 1829 it was
let for (wi fiorins to I. Champion, a notary at
Bee-
to.tne, in 1857 ftr 160 f. a year, and the lease urew tenni.

nating w.a 3300 r.
TnE R MATERIAL WANTED.—" irkl( re is
Corn in E' ,pt' is a common phra,e. Nlanchester and
Liverpool would have no objection to exchange it fer
"There it cotton in Egypt."—Pauh.
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hcDIA UatiNtßS-----ft SeeMS to be the fashb n
atuongeit many travellers to extol the brevity of savage
racss (says a celebrate-1 author) ;to paint glowing
S f young Hellen squaws, and aloe et to rave
abort Hottentot Venuses„ I have seen some fine races
of Ind mile, and men, as wrll as women, of perfect
symmetry ; but beauty I consi ler quite nut of ths
question. The faces of all I met, who had passt
their childhood, were completely devoid of any single
expression which could call forth other feelings than
those of curiosity or dis4ust, until I encountered

the Opitas of Sonora.
DEA'ITI FROM SMALL-Pox—An insluekt has
latia held by Dr. Hardwicke, deputy-coroner for cen-
tral Middlesex, on the body of daisies Harris Warren,
aged fourteen months, who died from small-pox, the
parents of the deceased having neglected to get the
child vaccinated as directed by law, notwithstanding
they had previously lost a child from the same fearful
disease. Ellzabeth Warren said she was mother II the
deceased. She had had three children, but only one
was now living. The deceased caught the swill-pox
owing to a woman moving into witness's house w ith
six children who had that disease. They hail come
from two or three doors lower down, but witness did
not know that the children wens ill, nor that one of
them WAS brought wrapped up in a best The deceased
Was ill eleven days, and WAS medically attended. He
(deceased) had not been vaccinated, because he suffered
from his teeth. She did not have her children vacci-
nated till they were fifteen months old. Dr. James
Dennison deposed to attending the deceased, who was
suffering under confluent small-pox, ben g the most
virulent form. He had not been vaccinated. He
found a child had been brought into the Louse barely
convalescent from small-pox. The disease wan modi-
fied through the child having been vaccinated. He
WAR treat id at the Holloway Dispeneary as no out-
patient. There were five other children, who were re-
covering, more or less, from the disease. 'Phey had
all been vaccinated. The cause of the death of de-
ceased was smallpox. A verdict of "Ddath from
small pox, accelerated by neglect of vaceination," WAS
returned.
HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COM-
PANT.—At the Manchester assizes on Saturday, Mr.
Milne' a Congregational minister, brought an action
against the London and North Western Railway Com-
pany for damages. In October, 1867, a collision took
iilace at the Copley-hill Station, near Leeds, in which
the plaintiff was injured. He felt the effects more or
less until November, 1868, when paralysis ensued. He
was in consequence obliged to resign the charge of his
congregation, as well as a salary of £3OO a year paid to
him as a deputation from the British and Foreign
Bible Society. The contention of the company was
that there was not such a continuity of symptoms from
the time of the accident to the attack of paralysie as
to lead to the inference that the one was attributable
to the other. The jury, however, gave the plaintiff
, 2,000 damages.
A MODEL HESBAND.—A Paris Correipondost

save
The Empress meets with an agreeable surprise on return-
ing to the Tuileries. tier apartments there, which were
fieshly furnished ia IS6I, have beee during her absence
completely fitted up anew. Although the Emperor has not
made up his mind to let ministers relieve hiss of the weighty
cares of Government, he fauna time to direct the eiliters,
painters, cabinet makers, bonze casters, and upholsterers
engaved in the work. tile coadjetrice was Meilen', Caretlet,
tee: Duvet, the favourite lady of honour of the Empress 10
accomplish worthily her task, tinimne. Caret:e had a carte
blanche on the gardens belonging to Gm City of Paris and
Count de Nieweekerke, enablitig her to nil the j adinieres
with the fair' .st flowers and adorn the walls with those
syletadid productions if the ancient musters which in the
gee I providence of the I) rent d-Genial of Fine Art were
ell iwed for several years to lie, (mg itton lo the garrets of the
Louvre, among nrcs,esu I tlii pro ure-frames. The granite
surprise is a bust of the Eloprese, executed by the Prince Im-
perial derive her absence. ii. Cam,ieaux, I hear, is the
sculpt .1. wile teaches Hit Imperial Wellness how to model.
and I am also told predicts that his pupil will accomplish
spent tharge if he applies himself to his art.
L'ai eNT 111aTeou.- On s3ar-day night,
Inys the 0-lasgAo Citiva, about eleven minutes tetet
x o'c'ock, a fiery meteor, of unusual size and bole
limey, WWI obo-rved over this city. It appear, d from
behind a bank of clouds to the nortlneaat. and travelled
horizontally in a southern direction. Ween first seen
it was iii appearance about the siz , of is large minket-
ball, and was of a pale blue colour, with a stream of
white light in its wake. It lostad about four seconds,
when it blezol up to twice its original size, omitting a
train of red soarks, and then disappeared, apparently
nelf.consumed.
Tits CoNvICT M.P.—Since the election of
O'Donovan Bosse for Tipperary, a number of letters
have been addressed to him at the Chatham Convict
Prison from Ireland, and eleewhere, with the letters
" M.P. " after his name. Under the prison regula-
tions, however, no convict he permitted to write or
receive letters from any person except at intervals of
several mouths—unless in very particular instances—
and then only if they have borne a good character
eince the last period of their writing or receiving
letters. Every letter addressed to a convict is alert
read, either by the governor, chaplain, or some other
official, before the convict has it handed to Lint, and in
the case of O'Donovan RoAta, the prison regulations
have not been departed from. It would seem that
Roesa was soon in possession of the information that
he had been elected. although no official communication
was made to him on the subject. The whole of the
Fenian convicts now undergoing their sentences of
penal servitude at Chatham are kept, as much as
prosible, during the hours of labour, from the other
convicts, and excepting in certain instances, are
always n mployed within the prison walls, and met on
the dockysrd extension works. The principal work
performed by O'Donovan Rosso is that of darning the
convict's stockitogn, in which he is stated to be an
expert hand. Like all the other convicts, the Fenian
prisoners have to attend school for so many hours
AN OPINION ON EsoLAND.—M. Louis Blanc's
first contribution to the Ranpd is entitled, " England
the Accomplice of the Empire." Posterity, M.
Louis Blanc thinks, will have some difficulty in
believing that in the middle of the nineteenth century
a Bonapartist party existed in this country. He re-
proaches England for being the first among European
nations to throw the mantle of its alliance over the
horrors of the coup detest, and to take L tuis Napoleon
by the hand, and introduce him into the circle oil
crowned heads. Tile Emperor Napoleon, he says,
quotiog Mr. Kinglake, entered upon the Crimean war
in order to give himself a social position in the world,
and it was free England which aided him to accomplish
his object. That war, 111. Louis Blanc maintains,
was as disastrous to us as it was advantageous to "our
an ziod ally." Nay more, slime the establishment of
the Empire we have been incessantly increasing our
&moments, fortifying our coasts, and inventing fresh
engines of destruction, knowing that it depended only
upon the caprice of one man to plunge the world in
flames. This is the Nemesis, according to IL Louis
Blanc, which has overtaken us for supporting a
despot.
SHOCKING TRAGEDY.— An extraordinary tragedy
has just taken place in Paris on the Boulevard St.
Germain. A Mdme. B--, a widow lady in easy
circumstances, resided with her daughter, aged twenty,
in her own house opposite the Theatre de Cluny; she
had for some time past shown signs of mental derange-
nient and frequently complained that she heard strange
noises about her head, and imagined that she was fol-
lowed by soldiers or police spies. The your g woman
appears also to have been of very narrow intelligonce,
and completely under the influence of her mother.
One evening last week, the eldt r lady resolved to com-
mit suicide, and induced her daughter to consent to die
with her; they first wrote letters announcing their de-
termination, which were afterwards found on the table,
with the will of the soother; they next lighted a nan
of charcoal, but, as death did not come quickly
enough, they drank some eau de Javelle (a bleaching
fluid used by washerwomen), and in which they dis-
solved some phosphorus scraped from Inciter matches.
Even this poison did not produce any immediate re-
sult, and the mother they took a curtain-rope and
strangled her daughter intending to put an end to her
own life afterwards. St e ighted more charcoal, but
without success, and at leogth went down [dohs and
told the house puter'e wife to knee up for a moment.
On the latter woman ghostly after going into the room
she found Mae. B-- crouching on the ground over
the body of the daughter. The police were then sent
for, and the mother, on being queetioned, replied with-
out emotion, giving every detail of this horrible drama,
but without assigning any motive for the attempted
suicide. She is detained in coot,, y until a medical
examination as to her sanity shall be made.
VOMITED FORTH.—Broadhead has left Liver-
pool for the United States in the Elea. Let us be
thankful for the eruption that carr es off such very
foul humours as these bred in the Broad Ilead of Shef-
field Thumps, and let us hope that On Broadhead has
not left even the narrowest tail behind him—Punch.
FRENCH WlT. The French papers report the
death of a fine old officer. who saved his life when in
peril from a Lyons mob by his ready wit. General
Baillancourt was suddenly surrounded by a bowling
mob, who demanded the head of Minister Guizot.
"Do you suppose that I have Guizot's head in my
pocket," replied the general, whose answer tickled the
people, who let him go just as they unstrung Abb6 Maury
who was being suspended to a lamp-post for saying,
"My friends, do you think that you will see me bolter
up therer —Of course, a joke is not always palatable.
When the Prince Imperial laughed the other day at
the name of Rochefort, the "Reds" made &Minter
allusions to the fate of the son of Louis XVI.. ill-
treated to the death by one Simon, a shoemaker.
And M. Rochefort, when the other day he was
laughed at for having introduced a kind of Bedlam bill
to reform everything, stood on better ground when
he retorted that the Emperor himself had set the ta I

example of laughing at a Biputy, when, at the opening
of the Session, lie had received the name of Rochefort
with a laugh. taken up, of course, and exaggerated by
a flattering audience. "Ifl am ridiculous," said M.
Rochefort, "I shall never equal in that way the
gentleman who walked on the siwils at Boulogne with
an eagle On Lie shoulder, and a bit of fat in his hat."
This sharp retort was not quite undeserved, but M.
Ilisihrfort firgete that, when speaking of those times,
lie jA doing what we cdl in French e, finer Ufa, pOrte
mien*. Nobody contests—not Louis Nalideon him-
self—that he was wring and rather absurd at that
time.

Wrentiqo ntri WELL.—We are told that the •
employment of O'Donovan IC *PA (" M.P.") in the
prison at Chatham is to claim hi, fellow convicts'
at ckinge. Let us hope, Mime an comes out, that Le
will have learned to mend his own wa3a—Pune4.

IN A NAME l-A. gossipiog COM-
ppondent, who professes to have received hie Motu's;
tion from the State of Maine, writes—" Mrs. Lisc,,M,
widow of the ex• President, is to be married—to whom,
you ask? Why, to a Count Schuridenbutztu, Grand
Chumbeilain. Is there really such a Goa:A It is

-....--
crediVe that any American w, man—ore, too, that
had wit enough to crtch a I.u4b,,,d—sLould ewe tx.
claim, "My dear Sohn, I lebbattep." B. fore he yot
to the laet syllable the fun of the thibg hid eer-
. . • .

ta'nly strike her, and she wocid langh ii the mate*
face. No! the DeWli Walittl CuLfitilltitiOn."

AN EccNlklC M AF.CHIU - The dowager
MarchionEks of Queerh-bury.
.who hos a erfal for tho

Ft•lii.ill convicts, las sent LO to the r Ivor f the
Nation towards
.the expowes of the caudi•lsturo ot Mr.
. . _

Martin, and £.O to Mrs. Laby for torlq ad fl kuuel
. .

for the 'wives an 1 children of the 'online:a. She thiukii7-
. It will be a blessing for Ireland, indeed, if Mr. Martin he
returned and It women are CO el to tie work, bow glady
w,nld I work night anti day to insure his return, were I n iw
in Ireland ! Oh, atit everyone who loves Ireland may go to
. . .

work mud vote iar John 3taitirt, the true Ider.d I lieVana,
and organise tor I Let a glorious si,lt ,ry The only astonish-
. . . .
tor 110 SO

s
ment is
.tistt he has not long moos ler eydell

weti qualiti,d to sp.ak the tninit of Irel mei as thit sentia-tel
patriot I May o.al bless !Mu! It do, 'tole.% semi a Ito ill
of pleasure, a, the /V Wien asps, through the heart that
this telt c. ion shoal be made worthy of the cmit.try awl the
time. Excuse au from one who has perhaps no right to
erdress an opitil.M, but Wim loves Irolant too Well to be
thent at such a moment. May God blots the DAD who rotes
for John Martin !"

Till Strl HE/MA/4D GOLIDFIRLDS.—The int'unless
Courier says :
Another month has closed on the Kildonan &gram and a
good many of the I iggers have left, leaving only • a inure
handful on the,g d. roun The number of litayaea hutted for the
. . . . .

month to this date only amounts to live. W hich is by far the
smallest lane at the enimencement of ally mouth yet. A
few of those that Iwt last week would have continued at the
hosjoes., as the returns for the last month w. re solliteently
encouraging—the avenige 'hidings being from 85. tots, a day
—but the snowstorm has faint covered u,i the workines, and
the diggers are at present snowed out Thee remual;ut on
the gr..und will, as coon as the snow clears cif, takeout licen-
ces—the fee being redeced try SI. a thy as the sh,hth
advances. The glory of the Kildonan diggings is fast depart-
ing, and if each advancing mouth continues to show • re-
duced list of diggers, gni,' washing will emu die nut, and
bectime a thing .4 the past, at least so far as the irstem of
teeming is concerned.
NOT WELL VP IN DRRIVATIONS.— Mrs. Mala-
prop is astonished to thick that ladies could ever have
suppored th,y woubt be allowed to be present at the
'peeing of the Council at Rome, else having always
been told it was to be an (Ecumenical Council.—Yench.
STARTLING IF TRui:.—The semi-official North
German Correspondent esserts that Vrnies bail been
ceded to Fran. e ttem,re a idiot was filed in 1066, and
that on the 12th of June of that year, one day after
the letter of the Emperor Napoleon to the Minister
Drouyn de Lhuys, a convention was concluded between
'he Cabineta ot Vienna and Pens, ace:riding to which
France, after the overthrow of Prussia, was to be in-
demnified by c, mpensatione, or, in other words, by this
left bank of the Rhine. It was that convention, con.
dimes the writer, which forced King William into a
war absolutely necessary to save Lis kingdom from die-
membereuent.
AlTellPi TO MURDER A PRISON GOVERNOR.—
A Oaring attempt was made to murder the Governor
id Woking Convict Prison, Captain Bramby. On
Sunday afterutmn, as the convicts were filing out of
chapel, after divine service, one of the prisoners,
stated to have been once a prizt•dighter, rushed upon
the Governor, who was watelirg the prisoners leave
the chapel, and stabbed him twice in the breast and
once in the loin. The intrurnent need by the aseailant
was a round piece of old iron which had been filed to
a point, Fut was rather blunt. A warder, as quickly
as possible' sprang uj on the fellow, end be was at
once at curcel and lodged in a safe place. As soon ae
medical aseistance could be obtained, the Governor's
wounds were attended to. They arc not regarded as
dangerous.
RAPID STFAIHNO.—The Inman steamer City
of Brussels, Captain Kennedy, anived in the Mersey
on Mummy morning, after a splendid run front New
York. She discharged her pilot at 930 p.m. an the
4th inst. and anchored in the Mersey at 445 am. on the
13th. Allowing for difference in time and detention
at Queenstown, the passage occupied the unprece-
dentedly short Forbid of seven days, 23 houra, 25 ml.
flutes. Oa the 9th, with a south-weet wind, she
steatned till nautical milts, aud on the following day
she logged 365 miles.
liatiw,tr ACCIDENTS IN PREESlA.—According
to official statistics 858 accidents occurred oe Praesian
railways in 1867. _ae trsiu ran off the rails 206 times,
there were 68 collisions, 432 time.; the cart beget, or en-
gine were injured. time p-iso.s travelling ou the train
were killed, and 21 in other waye, while 68 were more
or lees seilomly injured. Toe eau-es of Ihe accidents
were as folio arose trolls the stale of the attains-
pl ere (.row, fo,r, wind, &a), 25 from accidental obsta-
cles on the line, tour trout o .rtarlys intentionally placed
there. 11 from the eardeser eels of officials, 60 Irom the
mistakes of engine-drivers. slid 41 from the bad state of
the line. Tee rnet were the results of faults in the
locomotives, eatiiagee, Ite., or of undiscovered causes.
A Lelelll.l. 0 RAILWAY ACCIDEa T.— The traic oa
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway,
leaving Retford at half-past one o'clock on Monday,
conveying a number of gentlemen to the litigg coins.
ing meeting, had a ruiracultas escape. To a long
mineral train were attached the guard's van and three
carriages. Descending a short gradient at a rapid
pace, the train had just cleared the Northorpe station
when 13 of the heavily -laden coal waggons were preen
nitated into the stream below. The engine, tender,
end a couple of the trucks broke away from the falling
mass, kept the line, cleating the bridge iu safety, and,
in the most providential manner, the coupling t habit;
if the guard's break gave way, and, banging almost in
mid-air, as it were, stopped the three carriages from
falling into the abyrs belcw. When the confusion had
somewhat subsided it was discovered that no lives were
lost nor bones broken, although every one was meteor
less bruised, contust d, and shaken. After a beg delay
most of the pasemsgers were conveyed to Brigg, the
engine being attached t i the uninjured carriages,
while several gentlemen reached their destination by
road.

FAMILY " Children.—Punsh.
DUELLING AMONLET GERMAN STUDYNTS. -A
letter in the Nene Matinee Zeitung, from a fellow
-
student of Count Bismarck's; MI at Bonn, gives an sc.
count of the duel in which the latter nearly lost his
life. He says that the duel was one of those codeste
which are common in German universities, and that it
was eimply a passage of arms without any hostile in
tention. The students of the university had divided
themsel, es into parties. and the first challenge of the
session was sent on the 17th of November, to the two
wins of Count Bismarck and a Herr Von Woldeck as
representatives of the Prussian etudents. The fight
took place in a village about three miles from Boun.
On the one side were the Bismarcks and Woldeck, on
the other three stadents of the opposite party. The
first bait took place between Count Heri,ert and his
adversary. The former received a cut on the skull,
another on the forehead, a third on the left upper lip;
anl a fourth on the cheek ; the latter, too, was wounded
in five pl ces, though not severely. Just attbis moment
the university beadles came up, and the students dis-
pensed leaving behind the young count, whose wounds
were dressed in the open air, anti it is supposed that
this was the cause of their not having healed properly.
Count Herbert has been ill ever since, but hia
did not assume a dangerous form until a few days ago.
The student with whom he fought, a young an named
Nieberding, is new quite recovered.
MeloisclioLY AcciDIENT.—An inquest has been
held at the "Windsor Castle Tavern," Victoria-park,
London, ti uching the death of John Simpson, aged 25.
Maria Fuller, said that fir eonee time past she had
been keeping company with the deceased. He was
A waiter, and Was in the habit of calling upon her
every Sunday evening for the purpose of walking old
with her. Last Sunday evening after taking a walk
with him he returned its her house, said while he was
standing on the top of the staircase, he said,'God
bye, Gol bless you! If nothing happens I shall see you
next Smithey." He then slipped and fell backwards
down the at arcase. Witness and her mother ran
down the stairs at ter him and found him lying dead at
the bottom i fit. The back of his head had struck
against the wainscoating, aid his head was pressed in
against his chest. She lifted him up in her &rule, and
her mother sent for a doctor, who pionounced him
dead. The Coroner said that the case was a very
melancholy one, and the jury returned a verdict of
'Accidental death."
CLOSE OF TUE SMITIIFIeLD CLUB CATTLE
Snow—Before the di ors tinaliy shut out the public,
close upon 120,000 visitors had passed the turnstile and
paid for admission, thus realising the fact that thie
annual exhibition has not oily not lost any of its
popularity in former years, but, on the contrar', that
since the year of the cattle plague it has been eot.
tinually increasing. Last year the number paying for
admission was in the aggregate 110.1:00. This yt ar the
five data have been represented by the flowing
numbers :—Monday, five shilling day, 705; TneedaYs
23 197; Wednesday, 18789; Thnreday, 31,879; and
Friday, up to eight o'clock, 13 974 had mooed the
turnstiles, and as the MOIWN -takers were on ;ffity for
another hour, the estimate of another thousand viola
brieg the day's figures up to 15000, giving a grese
total of 117,059 mittirs to the shin.
A MIRACLIt IN KItWTRICKY.—A gtratip story
(says the Ltzington Statesman) is current among the
coloured people, and in exciting es me of them quite trio
much for their happiness. It is as follows
time ago (not long, however) a child died, rued its
body was duly coffined and taken to the burying.
ground. Thera it was deposited alongside of th!s,
newly opened grave. After the "service at the grave
a negro man took hold of the ci ffin to baud it down
into the grave, but, to his astonishment, he could not
move it. He called to his assistance another stout
fellow, and the two tried but failed to budge the
coffin. Two more came to their help, and the bar had
no more power over it than they would neer a MOW]-
, fain of granite. The coffin clung tight to the ground
as if glued. This astonishing turn of affairs called fo
an explanation, and it was determined to open the
coffin and see what was inside of it. It was dove, and
behold the child was found to be alive. Farther
examination develo:eed the fact that there WSW Printed
• upon the bolts mof its feet these wore : 3,Thare haf,r,
• been no preacher in Heaven for eleven hundre 1 years.
The Learners say that the Lord did not intend to let
that child le buried alive, and so took this method of
preventing it. It is thought that some designing scanlP
, has been playing upon the credulity of these peuPle fog
I sicister purpossee.