The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-30 00:00:00

HE STOURI3RIDGE OBSERVER.

living in the lodgings of MAXIMO Ivanof, where Helena
Dimtrief, a native of Veliki-Louky, ueed to come occavionally.
Darla Tourhtne was the mistress of Maairue I,nof.

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Alexandra Ardeief, surnamed the Tail Sachs, and Alexandra
Semenof, surnamed the Little Sachs, were living uport pros-
titution. Maxime I vanot provided everythn.g for them, and
in exchange they gave to him the pr iduce of their shameful
calling. The other persons were following no regular occupa-
tion. Nlaxime Ivaucif on several occasions expressed a wish
to poison and then rib some of the men who were visiting
his place with prostitutes. Moreover, he made experiments
on cats and dogs by poisoning them with dissolutions of
nitrate of silver and cyanide of potassium.
On the 7th of Noveniber Maximo Ivaind, Darla Tourbine,
Alexandra Artielet, and Alexandra Semenot, went to the
Eldorado, where they met with M. de Zolin, who was ac-
quainted with Maximo Ivanof, whose place he frequented.
On account of Alexandra :lanai:if, Maxims Ivanof told
M. de Z Mn that he had at his places young virgin, Helena
Dimtriet, and offered to give her to him for 30 roubles. M.
de Z ihi, accepted the proposal. Then all of them went to
Maximo ; firstly, Maxima ivanot, to let the people
know who remained at his place how mattera stood, anti also
to ileh us; then Alexandra Ard6ief and de Z, the ; lastly,
Darla Tourbine and Alexandra Sernenot. M. de Zohn was
Dearly tipsy. At Maxims Ivanot'a all, including Helena
Dlintriet, sat down in the drawing-room round a table, and
drank brandy and wine. which Anthony Gratchef had honght
with the money M. do Z ihu had given to Alexandra Ard6iet,
slexandra i.eraitof, who was drunk, left soil went tosleep in
the kitchen Maximo Ivauof tried to inebriate Helens
Dimtrief. She was shut in a bed-room with De Z Mn, net
would not consent to his wishes, and es,nred to the
kitchen, where she went to sleep at Alexandra Sernenof e side
When the party was drinking Maxims ivanot went several
times to the kimhem and said to Alexand, leaflet, Anthony
Gratchef, and John Fedor"( that D.• Zohn ought to be
poisoned; then he veiled Alexandra Ard Clef, and ordered her
to ascertain if De Zdin had any money with Idm. A few
minutes after that woman entered the drawing room, and
said that St. de Zohn had no money, and that be could not
pay Helena Dinitrief. De Zohn asserted the contrary, pro-
posed a bet, arid took out his nioney from his picket. lie
reevoned 50 roubles; as to the remainder he had with hint
he did not reckon it, and he went into a bed-room with
Alexandra Arilkief and wont to hot At that moment
Alsxandra Arde et took the money NI. de Zohn had in its
trousera, left the bed-room, arid nave It to Slaxime Inane!.
St. ic Z .hm upon perceiving that Alexandra Amen( had not
returned, prepared te leave the house. Then Maxiine tranof
proposed to Alexander Ivumf, Anthony Gratchet, and John
Fedorof to murder M. de Zohn ; bet Darla Tourhine answered
that it was enough, having robbed him of his money. Mean-
time M. de Zobn left the place. However, he came again a I
few minutes afterwards, on finding that he had been robbed,
and requested Math., Ivanof to return it to him willingly,
rnsnacieg hire that in case of refusal he would fetch the
police and make scandal. Maxims lvanot answered that the
nymey was all safe—that it was a lark, and invited him to ,
drink as a token of reconciliation.

M. de Zohn, who was drunk, sat on the divan without
taking off his fur coat. Mistime Ivanof ran to the kitchen, •
said that it was not any longer possible to allow M. tie Zohn
to go out, and with Alexandra Aril 6 era assistance he poured
bito a copper mug some cyanide of po,&511i11111 dissolved in a
glass bottle. Alexandra Ardetef presented that mug to M.
de Zohn and told him to drink out of it but be refused
baying there was poison in it. Then Alexandra Ardeief took
a draught from her own mug, and said, " What a farce;
Poison do you say? Look howl drill myself." Then she
tiered to M. Z inn the mug containing the poison He
had not drunk a gnlp when he fell on the divan, murmuring
• 3laMme ivanot, you have poisoned me!"
Then Maxima Ivanot ran again to the kit. Men, and said,- -
It is aimed: my children, you can come" Alexandra
lvanot, Anthony Crotchet, and John Fednrof entered the
drawing-room Molinie Ivanof poured p lion into a small
wine mass, and introduced a small dose if it into M. de
Zohn's mouth, which Alexandra Ar..Siet held open forcible.
Then Maxima !woof ordered John Fedorof to pass round M.
de Z In's neck a leather ktrap prepared for the occasion, and
pull it with all his strength. M de Zohn sank on the carpet
hut tried toget up, meantime looking most strangely at all
his murderer& Maximo teapot said to him, "Sleep refresh
yourself, sir." At the very momeut Alexander I vsnof threw
a woollen plaid upon his head, and John Federot, who had
brought an iron from the kitchen, began to beat M de Zdin's
head and che, t with IL During Oat two Gratchef was
pulling the leather thong round M. de Z din's neck with all
his might. and Meehan tvanot was In diling his feet and pre-
scribed to the ethern what they were ta do. Meal time,
Alexandra Aro6lef played on the piano and sung, in order to
dead. M. de Z din's cries, should he be able t• do so. Dario
Tourbine was at thedrawhig-rooni door, and took no part in
the murder. She fainted, and the., tried to run away, but
she was prevented from leaving. Alexandra Seini.Mof and
lielena Dinitriel were asleep.
After the assassins had made sure that M. de Zohn was
dead, they stripped him .d washed out the marks of blood:
then they carried the corpse into the bed-room and shut
it in.

The next day Maxime I vanof and Alexander Nano( sold the
garments if N. de Z. ho at the Apraxlin and Alexander
markets—a fur coat, a fur cap, a coat, a pair of trousers, a
gold watch, a pair of eye glasses, a pair of shoes, is pair
of goloshes, a silver cigar.case, a gold chain, a pin, ,be.
Afterwards they bought a large portmanteau of yellow
leather, in which M. de 2 din', corpse was placed by Anthony
Gratchef and John Fedorof, in Alexandra ArtiCiers presence.
The corpse was dressed in a shirt, a waistcoat, a pair of
drawers, and a black neckerchief. The leathern thong was
still tied round the neck. The empty places in the port-
manteau were tilled up with rig. and hemp ; it was tied up
with a rope, on which they edited many 'eats of red wax.
The produce of the sale of NI de Z din's eff.a.d. was dividi
by Maxima lvanof among the accomplices of the crime, whi
received 10 roubles 30 copecks each : hilt by order of NI axiine
Ivanof, every one gave back four roubles to John Fedora!,
who was to bring the corpse to Moscow, there to get rid of It
In any way. In the evening the portmanteau containing the
corpse was hr lught in a cab to the station of the Nicholas
Railway. John Velcro! accompanied the portmanteau, and
he was followed by Maxime Ivanof and Alexander Ivanot It
was forwarded under the assumed name of Kongo& As soon
as Maxime Ivatiof came back home he burnt the receipt of
the railway. The Caine evening Maximo I vanof went to the
Eldorado as usual, with a lot of women.
Therefore, to recite the act of accusation, Maxima Ivanof,
26 tears if age, is accused of herb tr, with the assistance of
accomplices, whose acts he directed, comnAted, on the 7th
of November tat, a voluntary hombide on the person of the
superanumeed C art Councillor De Zohn, in order to rob him
of his money and effects ; Alexandra Ardeief, Pi years of age;
Alexander Ivanof, 20years ;J. Its Fedora 21 yearn; Gratchet,
16 years, are accused of being acComplicen if that murder
Darla Tourhine, 19 years, Is accused of having concealed that
crime, which she wuniused without participating in to,

to the support of their Christian brethren, because
they were ensag.,l in a Christian work. Tho Act was
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not intended for any purposes of punishment or rep.;
lation, but in it working they had been enabled to
produce a great and beneficial change for the class of
women for whom they had had a great deal of false
sympathy expressed, but whom, he believed, gentlemen
did not understand at all. Ile had been asked
whether he was prepared to extend the Act to the
civil population? At that moment he was not prepared.
But he believed before long it would be received by
the public generally as a necessity, and when public
opinion was ripe for it he would be prepared to go on
with it.

In London, on Monday evenino., a public meeting
was held in the Berners Hall, Islington to protest
against the Contagious Diseases Acts. The meeting
was addressed by Su. G. Grey, Mr. John Chap-
man, and others, and the following resolution was
adopted :
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" That this meeting desires to protest against the Con-
tagious Diseases Acts on the ground that they give a legal
sanction to immorality, increase the vice which they are
designed to suppress, and expose innocent women to shame-
ful perils and that this meeting further expre,ses its earnest
hope that Mr. William howler's bill for the repeal of these
acts wiU spe.uhly pa's into law."
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A petition to parliament againat the seta and in
favoor of the bill for their repeal, to be introduced by
Mr. Fowler, was aleo adopted.

that was a fair description, with certain allowances
pnderstood by sporting men. In answer to Mr.
Fallon the witness added that in saying that the
" Doctor's" sides were fairly ripped up with the spur,
that was a mere sporting phrase; it did not mean that
the horse's bowels were protruding ; the phrase was a
figurative one, and would be so understood by sporting
men. He did not use the word 'severity" in its
ordinary acceptation, but as indicating merely the
severity of the finish; such figurative expressions were
common amongst sporting men, as when it was said
that the horse "had been to the Devil," which no one
would understand in its literal sense; he had used, he
believed, somewhat similar expressions in describing
the finish of other races. He did not think that
Holman touched his horse till after the last hurdle;
Holman then became bard upon him.
Henry Jordan, of Liverpool, cabman, said that the
'Doctor" was more severely punished than any horse
he had ever seen on a racecourse.

W. Martin. police superintendent, deposed to having
seen a horse, which he afterwards learned to have been
the "Doctor," whipped and spurred at the finish of the
race; be saw a large quantity of coagulated blood upon
its side. . .

Somf; other witnesses gave similar evidence.
Mr. Fallon, for the defence, repudiated the idea of
any undue cruelty, and called several witnesses, who
stated that there were no signs of the whip having been
uted on the horse. 'fhey saw the horse a few hours
after the race, when there were no spur marks, nor did
the horse exhil.it any appearance of " which
was most unnnial. .

At the concluuon of thie evidence the magistrates re-
tired, and on their return the Chairman said they were
of opinion that the case must be dismissed ; arid on
the application of Mr. Fallon, they ordered that £2O
should be paid by the• prosecutors towards the def ens
dant's expenses.
The announcement of the verdict was received with
loud applame by a number of sporting men in court.

EPITOME OF SEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

During Easter week 48,043 persons visited South
Keusliigtuu Museum.
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During the past week 43 wrecks have been reported
making for the present year 642.
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It is stated in Dublin that at a meeting of the Privy
C4uncil, held on Monday, It was reeolved to place portions
of eight countlee under the Peace Preservation Act.

It is stated that the Duchy of Conawall haa dispoaed
of Be fishery rights In the river Tamar to the Duke of Bed-
ford for 42,000.

The Ltv'ant Herald announces the death of Bishop
Kingsley, of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
buttes. lie died suddenly while travelling.
The Worcester magistrates have fined a man ss. with
Its costs, for being drunk while riding a bicycle, and being
Incapable of managing the same.

The eixteentl; anniversary of the Emperor of
Austria's marriage has been celebrated Ey a pardon for all
persons who have offended against the preawlaws.
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TWO serious fires have jive; occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of Mulhausen. One, at Barnhaupt-le-Ilaut, burned
for two day., and destroyed fifteen cottages.
Prayers for the repose of the coal of the late Mr.
Gorge Henry Moore, NP., were offered on Sunday in the
majority of the Roman Catholic churches of the metropolis.
A Belfast paper s lya that the cowing, of flax in the
north of Ireland Is considerably less this sear than in former
years.
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NI °May, the 25th, was the anniversary of the birth
of the Princess Alice, who was born on the 25th of April,
1843. She was plangent on the lit of July, 1862, to fl. H.
Prince Louis of Bets&

It is said that one of the Bishcp of Lincoln's
daughters has zone throuch a course of training to fit herself
as a Loran td the sick poor, and is now engaged in one of the
London hospitals.

A Mr. 11- imenay, a Scltebmart residing in Nenagb,
where he retails boots and shoes imp-rteo front Glasgow,
has received a threatening letter warning him not to conttnue
to starve the Nenagh shoemakers.
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At the adjourned meeting of the governors of
Christ's Hospital (the London Blue Coat "school), on Tues-
day, the motion that the removal of the hospital into the
country, was inexpedient, was carried by 71 votes against 57.
The Germans have invented a paper dinner napkin,
npou which popular songs or piano music is printed. It Is a
pretty Idea after dinner to take a soup-soiled article to
spread on the piano.
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When the Emperor of the French heard of the death
of the Duchesaile Berri, he said :—it I only get as many
as six millions of cotes I will permit all the Royal exiles to
return to France."

The Greek massacre has been the subject of an inter-
change of telegrams between the protecting Powers, who
have agreed to address au energetic identical note to tic
Cabinet at Athens.

During the recess, the House of Commons has lost
three of its members. Mr G. H. Moore has been removed
by death, Mr. Munster has been unseated, end Mr. II sun iker-
M aj or called to the Upper House in consequence of the death
of his father, the late Lord Henniker
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Early in May, a great public demonstration of the
working clas=es of the metropolis is to take place, in sup-
port of the National Education League amendments to the
Government Eincatiou BIM The principles of compulsory
attendance and unsectarian teaching are to be insisted upon.
A deputation, comprising about fifty of the directors
and managers of the principal railways north of the Thames,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
Downing-street, on Monday, upon the subject of the passen-
ger's duty on railways.

The Pope has conferrer' on the Marquis of Bute the
Grand Cross of Gregory XVI. lie will receive an audience
to return thanks when be comes back from a yachting
cruise In the Mediterranean. The marquis has sent the
Pope an Easter offering of 10,000 fr.

Before the ink of the fifteenth amendment proclama•
tion was dry, General Grant received a note from a member
of the press asking for the pen with which he signed it. It
was sent immediately, and before he left the ante-room he
was offered budofiars for it.

There is no truth whatever in the report recently
published in several newspapers to the effect that the Queen
and the Princess of \Vales were last week placed in danger of
meeting with an accident from the circumstance of a waggon
being run away with on the road near °abort..

In the French papers the Plebiscitum is the one sub-
ject of discussion, all other topics being completely forced
into the background by it. The Temps says that the general
impression Is in the highest degree unfavourable, nothing
being heard on all sides but disapprobation and bitter
criticism of this act of personal power.
A census of Tasmania was taken on the 7th of Feb-
ruary. Among the matters to be ascertained was the religion
of every adult, and the religion in which its, intended that
children shall be brought up. Some denomination was to he
mentioned in each case, except where it should be expressly
stated that a person Wongs to no denomination.

The smallpox epidemic continues unabated in Paris,
and last week soused 13: deaths, as compared with 102 and
118 In the two precaling weeks. According to the Gazette
Medicate de Paris the disease prevails extensively in the
suburban villages of Cherille, Sevres, and Loreto's, inhabited
principally by the washerwomen of Parts.

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A paper, recently read before the Berlin Academy,
confirms the observation that strychnine, when administered
during the profound torpor induced by chloral, counteracts
the poisonous effects of that substance and causes the
animals to revive without inducing any spasmodic move-
ment.

The death a announced of the Hon. and Rev. Arthur
Savile, brother to the Earl of Mexturough, after a few hours
illness, on Saturday last lie married in 1652 the Hon. Lucy
Georgian& Neville, youngest daughter of the fourth Lord
Braybrooke, by whom he leaves a humerous family.

The text of a circular of Lord Granville'n has been
published, in which he al.ks the governors of her Majesty's
colonies tor information respecting the opportunities open to
emigrants in their respective territories, and the class of
labour most required. . _

On Tuesday, a skiff was upset in Shetland while
being rowed to the North Isles steamer. Three men who
were on bard were thrown into the sea. Two of them im-
mediately sank and were drowned. The other was recovered
in an exhausted condition. One of those drowned was Mr.
Morrison, agent for Messrs. 'Mackie, publishers, of Glasgow.
His body has not been recovered. That of the other man was
got soon got after the accident.
The derision upon the petition against the return
of Mr. Bernal Osborne for Waterford has been given by
Baron Hughes. His lordship mid ma fire out of the eight
charges Lad been withdrawn, and that ho did not believe the
witnesses called to prove bribery and undue influence. On
the whole, he declined against the petitioners, and saddled
them with costs. Mr. Osborne therefore keeps his seat.

A corrompondent of a Dublin paper states that John
Lyddy, a native of the County Clam, who has recently re-
turned from Australia, and is apparently respectable, has
been committed to Ennis Gaol on a warrant charging him
wilt avowing himself a stanch and resolute Fenian, ad de-
claring that he had come home to aid his country, and had
brought plenty of arms and ammunition with him.
On Sunday, petitions against Mr. Newdegate'e
motion were signed at the chapel doors in Limerick. When
the clergy, however, in referring to the matter, proceeded
further to "use complimentary language to the lh itish
Parliament," and to praise the "desire of the Govern-
ment to do justice to the country," open expressions of dis-
sent were heard, and several young men rose and left the
chapel.

The Duke de Crillon, aged eighty-eight, ex-Peer of
Prance. General of Brigade, Knight of the Order of St. Louis,
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, and the last represen-
tative of one of the noblest families in France, is just dead.
He leaves four daughters, the Duchess Boaz° di forgo, the
Duchess de Caratuan, the Marquise de Chaualellles, and the
countess de Uvis-Ilirepolx.

The government of the United States has ordered
tests to be applied to all drugs which are Imported and
pass through the Castom House. lids step has become
indisprnsablein consequence of the monstrous frauds corn.
milted in the drug market. A similar process established
at our ports, not only in respect to drugs, but tea and most
other articles of general consumption, would be esteemed
a great boon by the public.
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An act of desperate violence bas been committed in
the house of Baron Gros, Pant Two of the servants, the
named Loret, and a footman, Gaillard, were
continually quarrelling, and on the day in question, after a
violent altercation, the former, who was its a state of intoxi-
cation, suddenly plunged a knife into the bowels of the other.
Tile criminal suffered himself to be arrested without resist-
ance, whilst the wounded man was taken to au hospital,
where he has since died

At a meeting of the "Queen's Institute" for the
Education and Emplognent of Women, held in Dublin last
Friday, a resolution was carried, declaring 'that the talent
and enterprise shown by Irishwomen as students of the
Queen's Institute deserved encouragement, and that the best
means of promoting their interest as art labourers would be
to establish In the county a public museum of art product.
on the plan of South Kensington.
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An ingenious American mechanic, by name Truf tom
has just finished °Dent the most wonderful miniature models
ever seen. It is that of • steamboat, and the whole of the
metal out of which It is made weighs exactly as much as
a half duller! The cylinder is the sixteenth part of an inert
in diameter, and in the same proportion is the whole of the
liliputian fabric; the boiler can just hold eight drops of
water, the half of which quantity suffices to keep the machine
many minutes in motion, so perfect is every minute detail.
The Memorial Diplomatique contain. the following
alarming paragraphs—" We regret to learn that Queen
Isabella, seeing her resources diminish daily, h.,s teen forced
to effect retrenchments in her already modest mode of
living, and that if her son is not restored to the throne of
Spain, her Jlejesty will before long be in so precarious a
position that the Emperor and Empress of the French will
be under the necessity of allowing her a pension."
On Tuesday, ax a man named Dement, was getting
some gravel from a pit near the camp, at Colchester, he came
upon a human hotly only six inches below the surface Ott
Investigation it was found to be that of a lad Darned John
Harding, aged fourteen years, the son of a small greengrocer
residing in Colchester. The deceased had been assert from
home since Thuredav, but was seen to enter the camp on
Monday eveniest. The hody was examined by a surgeon,
and there are circumstances which lead to the belief that a
cruel murder has been perpetrmed.
A new and special journal, called the Plebiscite, Will
appear ID Paris. This journal will be organ of the Central
' Committee, and will support the affirmative vote. its us st
will be nominal—one seas—but it is intended to distribute
large numbers in the provinces gratuitously, and its eels-
truce will terminate with the ..Ilielsiscitary period," or the
interval during which free discussion of the subject of the
approaching vote will be permit tesL
Le Petit Journal states that the Prefect of Police in
Paris is in the abit of givillg rewards, as an encouragement,
to the coachmen of hired carriages as well as to the
coachmen aim conductors of omnibuses who have In the
curreut year Oren proof of the greatest integrity in bringing
beck property lef t in their carriages owirg to fergetfulness.
Since 1869 the number of articles thus left amounts to 27,159,
ar9l a lintel the names of those rewarded by the Prefect is
published. They received rewards varying from 100 to 200
races.

According to the Photographic Naos, the oft-reiterated
statlmeot that the eye 01 Sdead animal has impressed upon
ten image f the Isst object seen in life has been the subj,ct
of serious IliVectig4tlolllll Germ any. Americans have gone
so far as to Slate that tv ee3e of a murdered man h been
found in whirls a portrct of the murderer was tlittinltly
t, vahle. In the 111,,,atigation In, question he eyes of thirty

ditinnent 1111ilAtki6, :al of :loch had. been. kflied-.1.7th a vle.4

to tuteegneut exambietnin, were carefully inspected, but in
no • use ...bs there ury evidence discovered to warrant the
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statemeht referred to.
Luit teem, in a trial for iojnrieli received by falling
out of a carriage on the Midland Railway, a Mire War-
burton was awarded tsto daniAges. The Midland Railway
C ,mpany on Satun.ay moved fir a new trial on the ground
of excessive damagee. The counsel for the company stated
that the young woman was in receipt of £l4 • year, whereas
the sum given by the jury wouni prduce an annuity of
£25 The Court refused the application, and the Lord
Chief Justice said that in CM. 14 that description some-
thing beyond the pecuniary loss inuht always be Liken into
account.

Sir J. Kerslake hag applied tithe Court of Queen's
Bench for a rule calling on the Attorney-General to show
cause against a new trial of Dr. Kinglake, who had been
convicted at the Somersetahlre Assizes of bribing the electors
at Bridgwater. The application was made on the ground
that the evidence of Mr. Lovtnend, who had peso t..ken part
in the offence of which Dr. Kinal Ike was convicted, should
not have been allowed to go to the jury. A long discussion
took place on the point of law, but ultimately the court re-
fused to grant the rule. On the question whether Dr. King.
lake should be held liable for sous committei after his de-
parture from the town on the day of the Bridgwater
election, the matter was remitted to the judge who presided
,at the triaL The latter point can have no
.eftect,kowever,
tu disturbing the verdict.

King Victor Emmanuel has had an attack of fever,
ace ,mpanled by scariathus, but he ia now recovering.
The expenditure of the health committee of th
Liverpool Corporation was £b4,000 less in 104 than in 186 x.
The halfpenny postage-stamp on newspapers and
book packets will come into operation on the lst oi October
next. _ . .

The Queen has granted the Dean of Winchester
dispeneation from all attendances at the Cathedral, on at.
Count of his advanced age.
In Canada the apprehensions of the Fenian raid ap-
pear to i.e subsiding. A number of the regiments which had
been called out are being disbanded.
It was Lord Denbigh, and not Lord Derby, who by
drinking the health of the Prince of the Asturias at Rome in
• somewhat ostentatious manner, offended the Spanish
newspapers.
A telegram from Calcutta states that a shocking
earthquake was experienced at Dacca, on Friday the :hind.
It was of a violent character, but no lives are reported
lost. _

The newest style for dressing the hair is called "The
Cleopatra" The hair is brushed high off the forehead and
braided low in the neck, surmounted by a large imitation
snake, which Is coiled around the head.—New York Sun.

A sad accident in reported from Bombay. A pic-
nic party, which included several officers, was returning
home in an omnibus, when the vehicle upset against the
parapet of a deep well. Three ladies were killed on the
spot, and all the othe persons were injured.
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Daring the week ending April 16, the nnml-er of
messages forwarded front postal telegraph stations in the
United Kingdom was 157,007, or a decrease of 11,755 on the
figures of tee previous week. This was slue to the small
amount of business transacted on Good Friday and the fol-
lowing day. . . .

Ate luncheon given at Auckland to his Excellency
the Governor on board her Majesty's ship Liverpool, the
plate cheat of her Majesty's ship Plitrhe. was accidentally
droPoed over hu• after considerable trouble was recovered
by means of diving.
There is a well-known custom in England by virtue
of which the birth of triplets is acknowledged by a Royal
gift to the mother. They manage these matters differently
at bonny. A correspondent saw a woman "drummed out of
She town for having twins
An important discovery is said to have been made
at Jerusalem. It is an old stone, bearing the figure of a god
sitting on a throne with priests on both sides, and a
Hunvsrit,sh I- .u,-intion, two lines in length, which had been
brought from Yemen.
During the seven days following the announcement
of Mr. Lowe's arrangements for the new financial year, no
less than £200,000 was received at the London Custom House
as duty on tea. This large amount was collected on 45,000
entries.
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lathe Divorce Court, OD Tuesday, the Solicitor.
General applied that the decree made In the case of" Vivian
Vivian and Waterbed "should be made absolute. He stated
that no notice had been given to oppose his application. Lord
Peczance postponed his final decision.
By Atlantic Cable welearnthat the birthday of Lord
Byron was celebrated by a banquet in New York, on the
2."..ai inst., and that a large number of persons, including
stveral clergymen, were present. Strong allusions to Mrs.
Stowe were made by some of the speakers.
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It is stated that Mr. Charles Edwards. of Dolseran,
having offered to place his residence, near Degolly, at the
disposal of the Queen, if her Majesty should decide to visit
North Wales during the summer, sir Thomas Biddulph hag
written to Mr. Edwards, thanking him for his offer, has
stating Mat the visit has not yet been decided upon.
Upwards of 5,000 emigrants sailed from Liverpool
during the seven days ending Friday last inclusive. The
destination of the great majority of them was New York,
about 1,600 sailing for Boston and Quebec. Of those who
belonged to the British Isles, by far the largest proportion
were English, the Irish being next, and the Scotch being
comparatively few.

The death is announced of the Hon. Mrs. Isabella
Sophia Whately, slater of Lord Chancellor Pepys, Brit Earl
of Cottenham, and aunt of the present and late peen. The
deceased Noy was the daughter of Sir William Weller
Peon, Bart., Master in Chancery, and was born in 1786.
She married in 1813 the Rev. Thomas Whately, rector of
Chetwynd, Shropshire, who died May 10,1868.
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John Crow, who was sentenced to five years' penal
servitude for the murder of his wife at Gateshead, and the
petition on whose behalf, presented by Sir William Butt,
failed, died on Saturday in Durham Gaol. He had been un-
well, and expired shortly after hearing of the failure of the
petition.
A farmer named Rhidge wan killed in the County
Kildare on Saturday. Be was crossing his own fields when a
large stone was thrown which struck him on the temple. A
man named Hoiey was arrested on suspicion, and the co-
r.mer's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against him.
This murder is believed not to have arisen from any
agrarian difficulty.
A conference of schoolmasters, convened by the Bir-
mingham Educational Union, assembled on Saturday, the
Earl of Harrowby presiding. The meeting came to three
conclusions—that there was practically no religious diffi-
culty, that the schoolmaster was the proper teacher of re-
ligious truth in the school, and that a time-table conscience
clause was impracticable.

The rules and regulations for the Queen's Prize and
the St. George's Challenge Vase has been named by the Na-
tional Ride Associ Mon. The annual prize meeting will
commence on Monday, July 11.00 Wimbledon Common, and
will be continued until the evening of July 22. The usual
presentation of prizes and the review will take place On the
following day.
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Dr. Tyler Smith, tinder whose care Lady Mordannt
has been since the late trial, writes to say that the following
paragraph in the Lancet is erroneous, but in what respect he
does not state:—" L idy Mordauut continues in much the
same health she live had for many months, her mental con-
dition being neither perceptibly aggravated nor perceptibly
relieved."

At the Liverpool police-conrt on Monday, Price
Eiwarda, a harotr. was charged with cutting the throat of
l'rivate M'Convllle, of the 4th Dragoon Guards. Edwards
was visiting the barracks on Saturday, and offered to shave
Nl'Conville. and while doing so inflicted a serious gash on
the soldier's throat. The barber took to flight, but was
arrested by the sentry. lie plea led tha: he had committed
the act for a "lark." Lie was remanded.
Mr. Joshua Fielden, M.P., and his two brothers,
have addressed a lettsr to the Todmorden Board of Guardians
offering to hand over to trustees of their own choice. £3,000,
for the erection of cottage hospitals for the use of the poor
and Infirm, and not as t:sts of destitution. Amongst other
things, they state that they feel satisfied if a workhouse be
erected as proposed, the poor.rates bill be increased in
amount, and the result will be more paupers, more vagrants,
more crime, and more policemen.
A disgraceful outrage wag perpetrated at Abington,
county Limerick, on Sunday night. A number of men
entered through a window into a Protestant church which
is being built there, .d demolished evers thing in the way
of ornament in the building. A magnificently carved pulpit,
which one erected at considerable cost, has been almost
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e-eilire-ly-717n;ii-shea,-;14-th-e7reater nation of the aloe-
work, particularly that comprising the chancel, has been
more or less mutilated.
By the mere touch of the " Ineecticide-Vicat," (a
French invention, in the form of a powder,) any Insect on
man, animal, plants, tissues, fury, provisicn, , is imme-
diately killed. It is used and recommended by the French
authorities, in consequence of the favourable reports from
the Medical and Scientific Academies, the Council for Health
and Salubrity, the Army, the Imperial Navy, the Imperial
Society of Agriculture, Natural History, Ac, Ac., &A. Ills
now getting into general use in England.
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The strike of the Glasgow joiners has virtually come
to an end, all the men being at work on their cwn terms of
nine hours a day mad payment at the rate of Old. an hour.
Same of the masters yet hold out, but those who have sub-
mitted are no far behold with their work that they could em-
ploy more hands than are obtainable. A strike of the Scotch
miners is in prospect to the event of the masters not conced-
ing an advance of is. a day in wages and the eight hours
system of labour on the lath of May next. The movement
has had its origin in Lanarkshire, but it seems likely to become
general.

The Rev. W. Molloy, Roman Catholic priest at
Hanley, denounced lenianism from the pulpit on Sunday
morning; and after warning his hearers of the consequences
of complicity to the mcvement. declared his determination to
spare no pains to root out the lenianism he had diacovered to
be existing in the town, even if It cost him Ms life. It is said
that there are a goad number of Fenians among the Irish
population of the Potteries, and the courage, influence, and
energy of the rev. gentleman give hope that tus crusade will
not be unsuccesful.

Lowestoft has put in a claim to one of the seats
which will be rendered vacant, through the disfranchisement
of Beverley and Bridgwater. Lowestoft is one of theforty-
three places in England which, at the last census, had no
direct representation in Parliament, although each of these
towns contained more than 10,000 inhabitants. Eleven of
them were, however, provided for in the Reform Act of 1067 ;
while four others—Barnsley, Luton, St. Helens, and Torquay
—were struck out of the schedule of enfranchisement when
the House of Commons decided to give an additional member
each to Birmingham, Lewis, Liverpool, and Manchester. At
present the county of Suffolk is represented by eight mem-
bers—sin of whom are eollservittives, and two are Metals,
while a seat for the Eastern Division is vacant.