The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-24 00:00:00

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HGLIE, FOREIGN, AND C3LONIAL-

TAN MISSION ON Tsiancr.—The amount of sub-
script,ons received up to Monday inclusive was
062,737, a sum very creditable to public liberality,
but by no means in excess of the daily needs of the
Society. Au interesting episode of the proceedings of
the Soc;ety took place on Saturday evening last, at
the Charing-cross station of the South Eastern
Hallway. Eight nurses took their departure thence
for the seat of war, including seven Sisters of
Mercy from the All Saints Home, St. Margaret.
street. They were accompanied to the station by
the lady superior sod the Rev. F. Porter, and were
acompanird to their carriage by Lady Comm and the
Hon. Mrs. Arrnytage. The personal luggage of each
lady would have bat:tidied even Sir Cozies James
Napier; it consisted only of such a small bag as could
be cxiried lathe band. Every attention was shown to
them by the officials, especially by the station master,
and the company, with its usual liberality, provided
them with free passes for their journey. All expenses
of these pilgrimsof charity are defrayed by the Society,
whose red cross was displayed coubpicuously on their
little haversacks. It is expected that the service of
these ladies will be most valuable, seeing that they are
all experts who have been carefully trained as nurses
in the University Ilospitab

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FATAL DUEL.—A Savannah paper gives an ac-
count of a duel recently fought between Captain
Aiken and Mr. Cohen, two gentlemen of that city.
The two principals, with their seconds and surgeons,
and " accompanied by a few friends," proceeded to a
plantation five la.§ from Savannah; twelve paces
were measured, and the parties took their places with
old-style duelling pistols, smoothbore, and a three.
fourths ounce ball. Four shots were fired, after each
of which propositions were made and questions aeltecl
as to whether the parties were satisfied, to which the
answer was "No." At the fifth shot Mr. Cohen fired
immediately at the wozd, his antagonist pulling the
trigger immediately after, and, as the event proved,
fatally ending the quarrel. Mr. Cohen died in a few
hours. Before his death Captain Aiken, the chal-
lenger, delivered himself up to a justice, and was held
to bail in 5,000 dole.
How KING WILLIAM TAKES IT.—Victor Hugo
is in Paris! !11 lie has comeback arm.in.arm with the
Revolution! ! ! 1! Le Boi s'amilBG—Puneh.

LADY CA:missal:B.—A good story is told of a
New York lawyer, who was bothered by the impor-
tunities of two un-get-rid-a-ble lady canvassers for a-
new work. Finally, in order to get rid of them, he
said, "Ladies, the pertnership of which I am a member
Ims lately been so imprudent as to issue a new work of
their own, which, in consequence of the enormous
expense attending its illustrations. embellishments,
&c., has completely crippled us." "Then, perhaps,"
replied the angelie canvasser, "we could procure you
some subscribers. What do you call your work ? "
" Well, we have not yet determined as yet; but I
guess I'll let my wife have her own way, and call it
after me—Charles I f enry."

PAnts PREM—The following notice
apprars in Galignan is; Massager of last Fridays
date :—" We announce with der p regret to our sub.
ecribers that, in conaquenee of the present intenup•
lion of several of the French Railways and the
impending cecsation of communications with the
provinces, we are likely to be compelled to suspend,
almost immediately the publication of the Messenger
until the siege of Paris shall have terminated. The
paper will, however, continue to he forwarded to the
last poesibie moment. We shad, of course, take fully
into account such periods of subscription P 4 have not
expired, and allow for the sauce when the journal re-
appears." . _

CkliiMPAGNE.—Chalons, Epernay, and Rheims,
like Nancy, are now in the nosserrion of the German
forces, and have to supply King William's armies with
all they require. We have not hea.el that any wane
ton depredations have been committed by the enemy,
but the burden upon the towns is heavy; and all
around stands a magnificent crop of grapes with
scarcely any hands to get the fruit into the vats. The
maims of Epernay and Chalons. M. Auban Mout and
M. Perrier, like the moire of Nancy, recommended
that no defence should be made, so that tho enemy
might be induced to spare the towne from pillage, but
the majority was furious at the conduct of those gen-
tlemen, whom they damtinced no traitors. Paris, too,
has taken up the question, and declares that no
Frenchman who has a spark of patriotism in his bosom
would touch a bottle of Mo, t or Perrier— of which by
the wry, the Parisiai s consume but little at any time.
A note to the following client has been signed by a
large number of Paris restaurateurs, end is WU being
carried round for more names : The undersigned,
considering the diagreceful conduct of the moires of
Chalons and Fp. rray, declare that ire future not a
single bottle of champagne of the Louses of M& t. of
F,,ernay, or Perrier, of Chaleno, that! ever be sold in
their establislinients."- -Wine Trade Ike km.

Foor AND MOUTH DISEASE.— Tili3 complaint
has broken out oa atout 65 more farms in the Yeovil
district. Mr. Saperintendent Smith has reported to
the magistrates several casts in which animals have
been attacked a second time. The disease continues to
spread in the neighbourhood of Laugport ; the stock of
Mr. Barnard, of Tidsbury, is suffering severely. It has
also made its appearance on several farms at Mucheb
Bey. Three fresh ewes have also occurred in the
Dorthester division. -

OLD SAW Rk-SF.T.—" Does your mother know
you're cut ?" would bave wore force if set thus—
' Does your mother.in•law know you're out r—A
Wm-mt.—Punch.

THE POST OFFICE Acr.—ln the new Post Office
Act, undtr which the wafers!) on newspapers will be
one haipennv from the anih mat, there is a provision
enabling the rostmaeter General, with the approval of
the Treasury, to make renulations to prevent the Beni-
ing of letters, newspapers, &0., having thereon, or on
the covers, any words, marks, Cr designs of any inde-
cent, hbellour, or grossly offeLsive hsracttr.

lONATIUEL—The inonastety founded
by the Rev. Mr. Lyne (Father le,tatius) is now in
course of erection. and the exterior walls are already
raised mass, feet in height. It is situated in a most
remote spot at the top of the secluded vale of Ewilas,
among spurs of the Brecknockabbe "Black Moun-
tains," called the Batterell Hills, at a place called
Capeby-fin- -the "Chapel of the Boundary" of three
counties, Breoon, Hereford, and Monmouth. There
is a snosli church at this place, and • road to it by
way of the ruins of Llanthony Abbey. The site of
the new monastery is four miles from Llanthony
Abbey by a bad road, which stops at C.spell—tio.
The materials for the building—atone—are supplied
on the spot.
ACCIDENT co A BALLET DiECER.—An accident
occurred on Monday night by which a dancer was
severely burnt, at the Alexandra Music•hall, in Peter.
street, Manche,ter. A new ballet had just been per-
formed for the first time, and a set scene towards its
close wan being completed by raising Mist; Lucelle,
the leading danseuse, into view in the centre of the
tableau, when the support on which she stood slightly
lurched, and she fell forward upon a row of gaa jets,
by which her muslin dress was at once ignited, and she
was severely burnt. She was conveyed home in a cab.

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EUROPEAN POLICiI QtIESTIO::.—Tho French
want oracc ; but into what sureties will they cater to
beep it ?—Punek.
THI: CURE FOR SNAKE Birr.s.—ProfesFor Rai-
ford seems to Lava discovered in ammonia injection a
toTerably certain cure for the poison of enake-bites.
During the list year and a half twenty eases have been
treated in Australia by Dr. Halord or other practi-
tioners. Recovery followed in s :amber, and in thirteen
of these the medical attendants declare that their pa-
tients were in a dyirg condition, and to the best of their
belief would noon have succumbed but for the employ.
meat of Dr. Halford's remedial system. The method
aiopted is to inject into a superfical vein about thirty
minims of the hquor ammonia. B. P. specific gravity
959. Several physicians who have had opportunities
of observation assert that the recovery from collapse
is so rapid as to seem alrnoat magical. It has been
said that there are no snakes in Australia as venomous
no the cobra and rattle-snake of India, and that the
eystem is powerless against the bites of the latter; but
it may be that professor Hallord's method has not had
a fair trial in India.

DI Br OF THE UNITED STATES.—The N, w York
Timis says :—" It is stat,d that an flidal document is
soon to be issued showing the course of our national
debt through all its fluctuations, from the time the first
of-ligation was incurred to the present, and it is signi.
ficantly added that it will be shown that this pub-
lic burden has invariably increased during Democratic
Administrations. This adds to the long list of stubborn
facts arrayed against the specious words of the Demo.
cratic oreaus and oracles which are continually arraign.
jog Republican Administrations for lo.olirg the nation
with debt, and promising that if their party bad the
direction of national affairs immediate relief would
foliow."

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CONTRABAND OF WAIL—The following sayer
tisement in the New York Journal of Commerce will
show that other countries have brtechloaders for sale
besides reir own Schuyler, Hartley, and Graham,
agents, 19, Maiden-lane, New York. - We have ready
for immediate shipment 10000 Remington breech-
loaders, 10,000 Sharp's breechloaders, 3,000 Spencer
carbines, 2,000 Spencer rifles, 10,000 Springfield rifler,
5,000 Enfield ntlee, and 20,000 muszleloadere (various).
Ammunition to out, made by the 'Union Metallic Car-
tridge Co."
A RELIC OF ASITIQUITT.—On Thursday in last
week a County Court, as established by the Act of
Edward 111., was held before Mr. ITuder-Sherlff Bur-
chell, at the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-square, London,
and must be held Every four weske until the Fame is
abolished by another Act of Parliament. At these
Courts proclamations of outlawry were monthly made,
but since the new Act to abolish imprisonment for
debt was passed not a single case ham been
rcentioned, and yet the ancient ceremony most begone
throe Th. The officer of the Court (Mr. Mountain), in
the name of the Sheriffs, called upon all persons
having anything to do at the County Court to "draw
nigh and give their attendance." No appearance was
made, and at the end of the other proceedings all per-
sona were to depart and give their attendance on that
, day four weeks. The Court was opened and cloeed by
the officer eayiug "God cave the Queen." This cere-
mony must be repeated every month until relief is
given by the Legislature.
A Suami Fur, Imrosmum !—According to the
Nov York Herald, • charitable gentleman has lately
been inapt:teed upon ia the most shameful manner in
Boston, United States. Meeting a woman in one of
he streets in ereat distress he inquired the minim of her
gri. f, and was iotoriesd that her husband was dead
and she had no money to bury him. The gentleman,
expreeving doubte as to the truth of her story, was in-
vited by the woman to come to her house and see the
remains of the deceased, which he accordingly did.
and found her husband lying in a coffin ready for bnriaL
Ashamed of the doubte he had prei Mealy entertained,
he removed his gloves and rave her money sufficient
for the funeral. On leaving Ole house he found he had
left his gloves behind him ; he therefore returned to
claim them, and was both I.,rieved and diaguated to
find the dead man rioting up in his coffin counting the
money received by the woman. The gentleman took
his glov,s, and metely remarking that the deceased
need not trouble himself to count the money, for it
wag an right, left the house a sadder and a wiser man.

NATIVES OF rARIS.— SO we have lived to see
LOWS Napoleon an ex-limperc:r ¶ The Parisians have
been smashing his busts and pictures. They break '
their idoL Is not the same proceeding wont to be I
adopted under analogous circamstances by certain in-
habitants of the West Coast of Africa t—P,,nch.

SOMLTHING IN A NAME. —Baron Moltke, a
Danish nobltman, recently attached to the Danish
Embae.sy at Peale, was assaulted at Grow, ille last week
when about to embark for Jersey, His name hang
become knt-wn to the populace, they immediately con.
clod,' that he we.; a Prussian, and it woo szserted
that he was a relative of the gthcral of that name. He
was surroundtd and seriouely threatened, and but for
the interference of the authorities would have hoth ill-
treated. Foiled in this attempt, the mob endeavoured
to prevent the shipment of the BlTOletl horses, sisin
number, and it was only after some considtrable
trouble that the eMearkation was effected.

A B/RHOP'S CELtIlt.-At a sale by auction of
household furniture, etc., at Worcester, on Saturday,
a selection of antique carved oak furniture was brought
under the hammer, including a Enely carved and well.
preserved arm.chair, which has been in the possession
of John Hough, Bishop of Oxford, 1690; the Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry, 1699; and the Bishop of
Worcester, 1717; several inscriptions upon the chair
proving its antiquity and the fact that the above.
ineuti,med Church dignitaries have reclined in it; yet
the highest bid for this ancient and unique relic was
only a few shillings, about the price, in fact of a emu-
mon Windsor chair. The same auctioneers, only a
few weeks ago, sold for £5 an almost undecipherable
letter of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.
What infereres is deducible from these two facts?

THE UI,CLIANG7ABLE. —M. Blanqui, "the
Younger," as be used to be called, who hag spent a
great part of his life in prison, or in exile, or on the
barricades, has appeared in Paris, and started a new
paper, called La Patric en Danger. The following ex-
tract shows thathe has not in the least changed :7

'A ail,nt angels between two dilfsrent currents Is felt to
exist. Which will prevail—the enthusiasm of the MUNI or
the guile of the few Also, we are possibly on the eve of
witnessing a most sinister denouement to (hi, et,rt at ar tago-
Mem. The resistance against the enemy is hut skln.deep ;
submission to the enemy lurks beneath on assumsd appear-
ance of defiance." Uts friend Barton, who died few weeks
ago at tho hague, left 3e,0001. to the poor of Amsterdam.
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AN OfITHOOIIAPHICAL ERROR.-It ii remarked
that Ciarism has a second time failed in France.
This is a truth to speak, bat a mistake to write. it
is not Coisariste which has come to grief in France, but
Seinrism. finch.
Ton SIAMESE Twigs—The fact that one of
the Siamese twins has recently suffered from a paralytic
seizore gives svarninq of the event which will in all
probability seem some day, by which the living Erg
will be left attached to his dead brother Chang (nays
the Lancet). It has been theoretically held that death
would probably occur in the brothers eimultaneouely ;
but there is no real foundation for this, and the fact
that Eng's health has been unaffected by the paralyPed
condition of his brother goes far to show that they enjoy
distinct vitalities. Separation might, no doubt-, be
readily and safely effected should one brother pre.
decease the other.

AN EXTRILORDINART AItRIVAL—A Southamp-
ton screw steamer, the Foca, arrived at Dell-quay,
the port of Chicheskr, ou Friday in last week, convey-
ing twelve nuns, a priest, and one other gentleman.
She had sailed from Cherbourg that morning, and it
Win given out that the nuns were ref ugeee from a re.
ligious house at Valognes. They brought with tLem
a large number of MOO, some evidently containing
pictures, others probably (from their great weight)
statuary. One of thPse latter contained rice, which
may have tn‘en need for packing marble atatues in.
Altogethr the cases filled ten large vane. It is an en-
tirely unprecedented thing for any vessels except
cohere, and cocasionally a eteam tug, to enter Chiches-
ter harbour. A corresp.indent writing on the subject
ea; s that it is hie opinion that the cases contained
some of the meet valuable of the works of art in the
Louvre.

A TIMFLY Quiresron.—A correspondent of the
Daily Novi pertinently inquires :7
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flow is it that nothing 15 no-tv sold about what France eves
going to du at Berlin ? and how is is tors!otten tied France
was going without any real reason to take the Rhine Pro-
vinces from Peas-is, and that England was then never ap-
pealed (nor asked to intervene in any way whatever sup-
posing the result of the war had been different, and as
France fully expeoted, would France have allowed Englond
to IntetPre between her and erussia ? It not, what more
right bas England to interfere between Prussia awl France,
simply because Francs is not successful, and has foiled in her
°bites of taking territory from Prussia?
Off it MILITARY UNDERSTANDING.—We neutr.da
ought to lesm some lessons from the War, even in
such matters an equipment of our soldiers. Criticism
specially has been directed to their foot-gear' which
is declared to be immensely inferior to the French.
The easy-fitting shoe and gaiter of their infantry weigh
half as much as the thick; clumsy, galling boots we
give our troops. Soldiers very quickly letun where
the shoo pinches when they are on a march; and a had
boot very speedily deprives them if the p weer to put
their best leg foremost. Troops may readily be crip-
pled by the galling of their foot-gear, and a military
movement may be brought in thin way to a lame con-
clusion. The Eritish soldier ought to have the very
beet of boots, in order to enable him to walk well into
an enemy; and for this substantial 'won we desire
with all our heart and nole to see the Britiele Army
put own a better footing.—Punch.
IX TEE INTERESTS OP PEACE !—The Interna-
tional Areociation of Women has issued the followirg
protest against the war, with a request that it may be
generally signed
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The ionn-ds of the war now being waged between two
nominally Christian bating have awakened us more fully to
the terrible opposition there Is btrreen the deliberate
desttuctlen of Lumen life and the rpirlt and teaching of
Christianity. Waite rendering allhonour to the noble sit orts
now befog made for the relief of the wounde 1, we women of
England desire also to all the still nobler work, and to
farther the still nobler object—the extraction of war—and
we earnertly and repmtfully offer to them in power, who are
responsible for the continuance of the yresent war, our
petition, urged to the name of God, and on behalf of our
Moots so France and Germany, for the cessation of this
'gerbil struggle, and for the carrying out at the earliest pm-
Orbs moment the great project which will contribute
largely to assuage the wounds of humanity—a general dig.
armament."

THE FALLS OF NIAGARA SIMPASSkD.—News
was received in Plymouth last week, of the discovery
by the colonial government geologists, Mears. Saw-
kina and Brown, of magnificent waterfalls—far ex-
ceaing those of Niagara—which exist in Demerar.,
British Guiana. They are on the upper part of the
Pam) River, three days' journey from the colonial
penal settloment, and within 100 miles of the capital
of the colony. Although on near, comparatively, to
European settlements, they hava hitherto remaMed
unknown to civilised men, and are but rarely visited
by the Indians, who have not appreciated their mar-
vellous character. The falls consist.of two leaps, one
being a perpendicular fall of NO feet, and the aecond
over 50 feet. The volume of water measured in the
dry season is 28 feet in depth, and nearly 100 yards
broad. The government of the colony have under-
taken to open up the neighbourhood and give twill.
ties to vieitors. The Niagara Falls are 160 fed high.

A telegram in a contemporary, to the effect thy
Russia was preparing for war, and protesting against toe
possible dismemberment of France, needs to be mentioned
only to be dismissed as equally unfounded and absurd.
A telegram from New York informs us that Mlle.
bilwon's first concert in the United States, given on Monday
evening last, proved a great success. The receipts amounted
to 4,800 dot... whiob. at the present price of gold, is
equivalent to about £9OO.
The fatalist belief of the Emperor Napoleon, whigh
seemed so far from fulfilment that it WAS c.ousidered to 111 ir
the value of the doctrine of fatalism—that he should die ba
London after all, is referred to now as among the probabi'4.
ties that have a fair chance of Doing realised.
"A work on pigs is to be produced by an eminent
breeder of the Berkshire sort. Doubtless very useful ; and
it is said that there is a great want of such • book. If a title
for the book should slew be wanted, we would suggest ' Nasty ,
bat so nice " —Court Journal.
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A new helmet, made of cork, to be worn by offices
of the Royal Artillery in India, has been manufactured at
Woolwich. It so white and surmounted by a brass spike t^ a
filches In length, something similar to those warn by the
Prussian Artillery.
A letter from Rome says that the news of the sur-
render of Sedan and the captivity of the Emperor seemed
to paralyse the Pope, and he sat perfectly motionless for i.
Instant, when he rablea his hands and eyes to heaven Ix
pra)sr. :I he rest of the day he did not utter a word.
At the meeting of the British Association at Liver.
pad, air. Winwoed Read° read a paper descriptive of hie
travels in the mfrn of the upper waters of the Niger, and
expressed hle conviction tend a bona fide discovery of the
h 'ger source would not be witnessed by the present genet a.
Sion. .

Another shocking occurrence has taken place at
Greenwich. A man livirg in a wretched apartment in the
town was having his supper, when, enraged at the condo it
of one of his children, ha threw a knife at him. It missod
the boy, but struck his mother, who died In the course of a
couple of hours.
Sergeant Michael Prendergast, Royal Horse Arta.
lery, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Hamar°
Secety for saving a lad, named Crisfield, living at Dozier,
Kent, from drowning. Sergeant Prendergast, who was is
full uniform at the time, plunged into the Medway and
brought the lad, who had sunk in 20 feet of water, safely to
land.
A very large force of men is now engaged in hasten,
lug the completion of the Sultan, 12, an armour-plated
lying in the Medway, off Chatham Dockyard. But theistic
she left dock some five months since, and every exertion has
been made to push forward the work, some montks must
dame before she can be completed.
The Irish national presv comment upon the latest
phase of the R-man enaction' but the views expressed are og
r.o means nnanimoue. While the Nation takes a very gloom r
view of affairs, the Iriohniati is not at all despondent. The
Roman clergy, it says, will of course be disestablished, hut If
diseetsbllehment there does no more harm than In Ireland it
will not be greatly deplored by Irishmen.
At the meeting of the General Purposes Committes
on Monday, it was resolved that the British Assoctatio t
should meet at Eilinbnrgh next year, and at Brighton ia
1b72. Sir. Wm. Thompson a Scotch saves. of mite, Who WAS
knighted for his services in furthering the success of the
' laying the Atlantic cable of left, WAS elected president fit
the next year.
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A fearful accident occurred on Tuesday at Belmont -
crtecent, Glasgow. One of a range of houses, four storli s
high, which are iu course of erection, gave way ea the work-
men were ascending the scaffold, sad eleven men were
burled in the ruing. Five or six were killed and the othel a
are not expected to recover. The accident is attributed to
insufficient strength in the building.

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It was stated at the last meeting of the Home
Cattle Defence Association, that the Privy Council are about
to make compulsory the slaughter of German sheep at thelf
several places-of debarcation on and after Saturday nes.,
with a view to prevent the introduction or spread of plague.
The association are desirous of having this order made
applicable to all foreign sheep.
The engine of the mail train which met with so
fearful an accident neer Tamworth last week has been
removed from the river Into which it was thrown, havln.:
sustained comparatively little damage. Ills satisfactory
etate that, on the stream being carefully searched, no more
bodies hsve been discovered, altholuiti it was supposed one
or two persons who travelled in the ill-fated train were
miseing
"It is curious that the idea has never struck any
prior Government that it might have armorial bearings for
the general cocci the ministerial staff. and it has been left to
the ideality and ingenuity of Mr. Lowe to originate its
notion. The shield is to beta imitation of a cheeae plate, to
the centre of which is engraved • large flint atone, with the
motto underneath, Skin it.' "—Court Journal.
The agricultural returns for 1870, issued by the
Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, show that, s
compared with Met year, there has been a decrease in the
number of acres of wheat under cultivation in G rest Brash.
of 195,226 acres, or 5.3 per cent. ; in barley on there:sae et
5.2 per cent. In live stock the lucreme in cattle was 1 e
per cent.; and in sheep, a decrease of 4.0 per cant.
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By a ,ma i but sufficient majority of two votes, tha
Lill for abolishing capital punishment In Holland has passe t
the I.pper Chamber. The Lower Mouse had previously sanc-
tioned the measure; so that—the Royal assent being takes
for granted—we may consider the death penalty finally coi.-
demised, so far as the Kingdom of the Netherlands is con-
cerned. The remit is another illustration of the rapidi'
with which opinion. hostile to a long-establiahed and stir
widely-maintained practice have spread in the minor Euro-
pean States.
The number of persons at present engaged in Oh
service of the National Society for the aid of the sick an, I
wounded lathe war, is 110; of these, 62 are surgeons, an ;
10 ladies, who are acting as nurses. Tim payments in casts
at home amount to £20,e00, and the foreign credits help s
acted upon abroad amount to £3O 000. Upwards of 1,10
bales and cases of material of various kinds, or an average
three tons daily, have been already deapatched to the bogo•
Udell. France and Germany.
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A flu mill at Dandee wee burnt to the ground
Sunday. The destruction of property was immense Tll,l
loss is estimated at £40,000; but a terrible catastrophe w. .I
loss of human life elm occurred. The firemen were m-
iming in a narrow lane at the back of the building to play, I
the burning 010. S. when the wall suddenly fell, and boric
from twenty to tbirt) persona. Water had to be poured o
the heated claais before arsistanoe could be rendered, and
when that was done the captain and sergeant of the fin,
brigade and two labourers were found dead, and tweet/
others seriously Injured.
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Another serious shipping disaster ham occurreel fee
the North Sea during the late severe weather. A brief di,
pa, oh, received from Fredrikshaven, states that ono of tint
seamen belonging to the Rduen, of London, had arrived pi
that place in a most destaute candition. "restates that the
vessel was bound from Sunderland to Cronstadt, and ttma
when to the North Sea she encountered fearful weather an
became very leaky. After several attempts had been made
to clearthe ship of the water It was decided to abandon het,
as she was sinking very fast. This seaman believes that Os
is the only survivor of the crew of the Raven.

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The Regietrar-General's return ahem, that licarlet
lever last week caused 269 deaths in sevonteen English cities
and towns, • number slightly under that of the previous
week, but its exceptional prevalence Is confined mainly Ia
London, Liverpool, and liristuL —Zymotic diseases calm •I
72 deaths, while from cholera and choleraic diarrheca only
three deaths were registered. The aggregate mortality I. r
the week was 22 deaths to every thousand of the populatioi,.
In London 1,9511 birth. were registered, while the deaths
were 1,197, the smallest number recorded during the last
three mouths.

It has now been ascertained that the Scotch gent! -
man who perished in the recent catastrophe on Mont inIIIJC
was the Rev. George MeCorkindale, minister of the part'
church of Gonrock, on the Cyde. The deceased had bet u
in the habit hi spending his annual holiday almost always in
forelgo tract!, and chiefly in walking tours among the mom,
t tine. Some years ago he accompanied his friend and neigh-
bour, the Rev. Mr. Sandie, oir a visit to Palestine when th 3
gentleman was collecting miter Ws for his book on Horeb
and Jenualeto,' and two years ago, along with the mhaletee
of dm Free Church at Gotirock, he spent his autumn vacation
among the Alps. Mr. hlceork tidal° was an able preacher,
and was highly etteemiti by his parishioners as well as by VI
numerous summer vhitore to the wstering.plase in which he
ministered.