The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

What would be the results f an actual collision between
such formidable Powers as England and the United States?
The transfer to other countries of the maritime trade of
both; financial and commercial ruin on both aide.; bank-
ruptcy in trade, and famine among artisans and labourers ;
mutilation, agony, and death to thousands; sorrow and be-
reavement to millions—and all to what results?
. . .

To end where we began. To end either with an abso-
lutely "drawn game," or with some small triumph of national
vanity on one side and some humiliation on the other; but
with nothing that would really compensate the lou of a
single Alp or the sacrifice of a single life.
Could either country be held by the armies of the other?
The notion Is absurd.

Could either country, if conquered (which probably
neither ever would be), bear, in addition to its present bur.
dens, and is addition to the cost of conducting such • war,
the charge of indemnifying its suc?essful antagonist? And,
If not, in the name of common sense, to what practical re-
sult could a war possibly lead?
;

Neither the Government nor the people of either country
ignore these plain facts nor these obvious inferences; and
neither can be so given over to fully as to engage in a war of
mutual extermination.
As to Mr. Sumner's speech, it is simply notorious that that
gentleman, in spite of his talent, in spite of his eloquence
;perhaps in consequence of his eloquence). has never been
anything but an impracticable theorist; an extremist whose
councils even his admirers have never decanted of following;
an orator the utterances of whose "splendid madness "were
to be heard, but never obeyed.
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Mr. Gold win Smith writes from lloston, from the abode of
that "mutual admiration society "to which Mr. Sumner be-
longs, and where anything that he might utter would be
quoted and praised in a way to delude a stranger into the
belief that it would be respected in practice. As if prudent,
calculating, God-fearing New En.danders could ever be so
bereft of sense and of conscience as to follow Mr. Sumner's
doctrines to their logical and inevitable consequences.
One word as to the assertion that Mr. Sumner's speech has
an official character, allll represents the views of either the
Govvrament or the Senate.

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This is inferred from the circumstance that the speech
was •• printed by order of the Senate," and that Mr. Sumner
to 'the personal friend of the President."
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The fact that a speech is printed by order of either House
of Congress is generally of no significance. Any member who
desires to "speak to Buncombe "rather than to his imme-
diate auditory has always some colleague at hand to move
that "the speech of the hon. member for Sensationville be
printed ; 'and the order is made, as a matter of course, when
the "honourable member" either belongs to the dominant
party or enjoys any tolerable amount of consideration among
Isle colleagues.
So much for the official printing of Mr. Sumner's speech ;
while, as to his being a personal friend of the President, our
chief magistrate is a man of far too decided views and too
'Armin a will to be led by the nose by any one ; and he has
thus far shown himself much too prudent, too deliberate,
and, above all, too open an enemy of " tall talk" to be
seriously influenced by the wild imaginings of one who is
perhaps the wildest of our habitual speech makers.
It is not necessary for me to comment upon the manifest
absurdity of construing literally Mr. Sumner's demands,
demands the answer to which is to be found is the sheer im-
possibility of compliance with them, an impossibility which
must be as obvious to Americans as to Eno:Amen.
Numbers of my countrymen may, no doubt, be deluded by
the &Nana plausibility of sonfe of Mr. Sumner's pretensions,
into giving them a theoretical approval, and saying. "We
might' claim this from England ;" but they are neither so
impractical nor so visionary as to really expect ever to make
such a claim.
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_ _._.....
President Grant is an eminently practical man we are a
pie-eminently practical people; and having said this, I con-
sider that I have disposed at once of Mr. Sumner's claims
and of Mr. Geldwin Su& h's apprehensions.
Your obedient servant,
It. DE TRACY GOULD, of the United States,
Temple, May S.

discretion as to bringing on the bill against the f elute
Mayor of Cork. lie thought it was most comistent with jus-
tice to Mr. O'Sullivan and the dignity of the House. for hint
to move that all further proceedings on this bill be post-
pcned until such a time as the matter of re-election
was decided. The right hon. gentleman then moved
that the debate be adjourned for four weeks.
Colonel Wilson Patten asked what was to be done about
the clauses disqualifying O'Sollivan from ever serving any
office in the magistracy hereafter. But to this Mr Gladstone
gave no answer except a general reply that the out was brought
in Whist him only as Mayor of Cork, and that as soon as he
bond fide became a private individual it would not be pressed
against him.
Mr. Maguire assured the House that Mr. O'Sullivan had no
design of offering himself for re-election; and Mr. Downing
raised great laughter by adding that, after his conduct here
to-day, he was never likely to be Mayor again.
After remarks from several hon. members, the proceedings
were brought to a close by • practical question from Sir Percy
Burrell.-- Who is to pay the counsel and witnesses" To
this Mr. Gladstone replied, 'The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer," and Sir Percy rejoined, "It is very hard on the
taxpayers."
The further consideration of the bill was then adjourned
for four weeks.

The excitement in Cork appears to have had the
effvet, it is stated, of hastening the voluntary departure
fur America of several of the Fenian prisoners lately released,
Patrick Baru, of Fermoy, and Michael O'llyan, at Roma.
berry, who had been in confinement under a sentence of
roves yes re penal servitude, having sailed from Queenstown
for the United States.

A MEDICAL MAN ACCIDENTALLY PLABONk D.—
An inquest has been held at Bermondsey, in London,
respecting the death of Mr. Canter, aged 35 years, an
assistant to Dr. Downs, White-street, who died from
the effects of prussic acid. The deceased had been
assistant to Mr. Downs for the last 15 years; but
latterly he had not enj• ,yed very good health, and was
unable to sleep. On Thursday afternoon he stated to
one of the young men in the shop that he heel taken
chloroform to make him sleep, and hoped he had nct
taken too muck 3hcrtly after this a fall was heard
in the parlour, and the deceased was found lying upon
the floor on his face. He was quite insensible. and died
in a very short time. Dr. Ddwns, Bermondsey, said
the deceased was his assistant, and he was well ac-
quainted with the properties of medicine. On Thurs-
day he found the deceased lying on the floor insensible.
He died from the effects of prussic acid. Witness was
of opinion that the deceased had taken chloroform to
produce sleep, and that after the chloroform bad been
administered, finding himself sick, he had taken the
prussic acid to allay the sick feeling. He had evidently
taken an overdose. Had no reason to believe that he
intended to commit suicide. The jury returned a ver
dict of 'Death from misadventure."

A SAD OCCURRENCE —An inquest was held in
London, on Tuesday, at King's College Hospital, re-
specting the death of Mr. Thomas Joyce, formerly
connected with the Morning Chronicle, and at the
time of his death editor of the Lernit Herald. Mr.
Joyce, it appeared, arrived in England from Constan-
tinople on Friday last, and on the evening of that day,
white walking along the Strand, he was seen to reel
and fall into the road in a tit. A labouring man
picked him up, got water and bathed his bead;
but a policeman who came up said he did not know
whether the man was in a fit or drunk, and procured a
stretcher and took him to the police-station. He was
afterwards removed to King's College Hospital, where
he died two hours after his admission. The medical
evidence showed that the cause of death was the bun-ta
mg of a bloodvessel in the brain which produced
apoplexy. The coroner said the deceased should have
been taken to a hospital and not to a police-station.
'I he police ought to ascertain whether a person was ill
or drunk before they took him to the station. They
should never assume that because a person was pale
and helpless he was drunk. The jury found a verdict
of death from natural causes.

D I AMON DS FROM THE CAFE.—MefifirS. Davis
and Soper, of Fenehurch-street, London, write :
It has long been rumoured that In the Cape colony dia-
monds could be had for the finding ; hut the actual " finding"
was necessary to change the report into facts. These facts
are now indisputable, tor the first Cipe flamed which has
reached these shores. and the largest but one which has been
found in the colony, is now in our possession. Its weight is
474 carats, and its value is variously estimated. We It tee,
however, no desire by the publication of this fact to raise
the hopes of fortune-hunters, and to induce emigration with
a view to diamond searching.

DEATH OF SIR EDWARD WETFIERALL.—Sir
Edward Wetherall died suddenly of heart disease, on
Tuesday evening, at his residence in the Phcenix Park,
Dublin. He wmplabned of faintness, and a servant
who IVI4B sent to get him a glass of wine found him on
his return, lying on a sofa in a state of exhaustion. He
expired ten minutes afterwards.

THE River. RtFLES.—The current number of
the Proceedings of the Roo& Artillery Institution con-
tains an interesting account of a trial lately at Wool-
wich of the Chassepot rifle in comparison with the
Henry-Martini. As regards accuracy, it appears that
the Chassepot was greatly inferior to the English arm.
The worst target made with the Henry•M irtini at 500
yards was 162 feet, the best with the Chassepot was
238 feet. The best target with the Henry-Martini
showed a still higher degree of accuracy,—viz, 0 93feet.
The trajectory of the Henry-Martini was flatter than
that of the Chassepot—viz.. 8 feet 2 inches against 10
feet. In simplicity of manipulation the English rifle
was superior, and it is far less fatiguing to use. In
tiring for rapidity the Chassepot gave 20 rounds in 1
non. 42sec., the Henri-Martini 20 rounds in 44
sec., or more than twice the rapidity. The
Chassepot ammuniam is lighter than that of the
Henry-Martini rifle, in consequence mainly of the
nullet of the former weighing 380 grains only against
480 grains. The lightness of the Chassepot ammuni•
tion appears to be the only point in its favour; and
against this may be set the following advantages on the
side of the English rifle :—lncreased strength and
satety of ammunition, greater accuracy, longer range,
flatter trajectory, higher penetrative power, greater
safety, strength, and simplicity of construction, in-
creased rapidity of fire.
ABSENCE MAKES THE FINGERS GROW FONDER.
—" Absent but not forgotten." Such is the tender,
touching heading to an advertiement in which a lady
is quoted (by a sentimental but business-like Co.) as
saying that "she has been away for tin ee months"
from what, from whom does the sympathising reader
think? From the home of her childhood, from all
who are nearest and dearest to her?—" from her sew-
ing machine, but is much pleased with its working,
now she has returned" I—Punch.

FATALITY BY LIGIFITNINCI.-011 Monday after-
noon, a severe storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and
rain passed over Bridgnorth and neighbourhood. At
Choi.ley, about seven miles from Bridgnorth, two men
and a boy were at work in a field, and went under an
oak tree for shelter. After being there for a short
period the electric fluid struck the tree, which was
almost shivered to atoms. One of the men, named
William Palmer, a married man; was struck dead.

the other man, whose name is Preece, was also
severely injured, having lost his sight for some time.
His watch, which was in his pocket, was completely
smashed. The boy providentially escaped uninjured.

ARCHDEACON MUSGRAVE ON CHURCH Loots-
LATION.— The Yen. Archdeacon Musgrave commenced
his annual visitation of the archdeacoury of Craven, on
Monday. He spoke of the Act for the compulsory
abolition of church rates as a measure which, under
the specious pretext of a compromise, swept well nigh
everything away without any appreciable compeu-
cation in return. He, however, recommended that
wherever circumstances were favourable the new
law should be brought into full and practical opera-
tion. The aggressive sactrdotalisin of the Ritualists
he designated as the most daring and defiant ssf all the
disturbing elements within the Coos ch. Much as
they might see in the c .mposition of Parliament to
cause them to doubt its fitness to deal with questions
of theological dogma or ritual, it might become
a necessity to invoke its interposition if the
Church were to be saved from internal convulsion and
disruption. It was perhaps too late, he observed, to
repeat to fny advantage the Ominous warning in a
former charge with reference to the then impending
onslaught on the Irish Church, or to analyze the in-
fluences under which public men were confederated in
common sacrilegious revolution and an unhallowed
sacrifice to' the exigencies of political expediency.
Still, all was not list when man had done his worst to
humble the Church, and sever its connection with the
State, and despoil it of half its possessions.
A MAGISTRATE ASSAULTED BY A PRISONER.—
At Worcester. a woman named Ellen Murray, a
prisoner in Worcester prison, was charged with
assaulting a female warder named Maria Pryce. Pri-
soner, in answer to the charge, said : I only just
touched you. I disint hit you hard enough to brush a
fly off you. I only wish Iliad given you something to
have told about. The Chairman told the prisoner she
must be quiet, or it might be worse for her. Prioner
I did strike her, and I'll do it ag sin the next chance I
have, give her something before I come out now.
Chairman: You appear to he a very violent, woman,
with a most ungovernable temper. For the offence of
assaulting Pryce you will go to gaol for two months'
hard labour. Prisoner hereupon seized a large bundle
ot papers, which was lying near her, and threw it with
great violence at the cha rman, striking bin: on his
side, and nearly upsetting him from his seat. She was
then taken hold of by several policemen, and carried
out of court.

WALLINGTON AND BROUGHAM.— One day, when
Lord Brougham had driven to the Holiae of Lords, in
the vehicle of his own invention, which Robilroon the
coachmaker had christened after him, he wan met in
the Roving Room by the Duke of Wellington, who,
alter a low how, accosted him, "I have always hither.
to lived under the impression that your Lordship will
go down to posterity DA the great apostle of education,
the emancipator of the negro, the restorer of abused
charities, the reformer of the law ; hut no—you will
hereafter be known only as the inventor of a carriage."
" And I, my Lord Duke, haya always been under the
delusion that your Grace would be remembered as the
hero of a hundred battles, the liberator of Europe, the
conqueror of Napoleon; but no—your Grace will be
known as the inventor of a pair of boot." " the
boot! I had forgotten them. You have the best of it."

A Peals TRAGEDT.—The following scandal
has occurred in Paris :

The wife of a needy employ', living beyond his means,
anxious to pay her own debts, yielded to the solicitations of
a well-known millionnaire, and bartered away her virtue for
t 20,000. Alter paying her milliners, she had £lB,OOO left,
but dared not tell her husband how she came lay it. She
could not invest the sum without his knowledge, and had no
friend to trust in. For aeveral months she kept hiding the
notes—now in one place, now in another. At length the
str.in proved too much for her inlnd. She acquainted her
husband with what had occurred, and praluced the notes
He killed her on the spot, and cm, hi. own throat. An action
I. instituted by the children's guardian about the division of
the !honey, and thus the hideous details of this affair have
• .
come out.

WELL PROTECTED.—In the account of Prince
Arthur's reception in the Isle of Man (and lovely
Woman), an address presented to him is mentioned as
that of "the Lieutenant Governor, etinncil, Demisters,
and Keys, being the Legislature of this Island." Her
Majesty's Manx subjects mu 4 feel particularly secure
at the present time, for rememberng who their gallant
Governor is, they may be said to be under Loch and
Keys. But how can Keys" join in an address and
legislate? This beats Gold and Silver Sticks in Wait.

UNSAFE SAYES.—A Berlin letter says: "Apro-
pos of dangerous inventions, I may mention one of a
very different character which, togethen with the in-
ventor, has lately fallen into the bands of the police.
It is a machine for opening iron safes. It accomplishes
this undesirable object partly by boring and partly by
filing, and does its work so rapidly and with so little
noise as to render the safety of such receptacles almost
illusory. The inventor displayed the powers of his
machine last week at the Central Police Office, and in
the presence of several official persons, who were far
more astonished than edified by the wonderful results
attained. It only requires one MED EG work it."
COST OF LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES—In
a report recently presented to the Senate of Massa-
chluetta by the daputy State 0 .10LO,', some interesting
information is given with regard to wages and the cost
of living in manufacturing towns. In Westaro
Massachusetts the carders earned 7 dole. 32 c, a week
(or about £1 Is.), and their "board" cost 4 dole. 25 c.
(equivalent to 12.. 9d.) The expenses of cli.thing, or
.of children, are not included in this sum. A family of
four persons, all at work save the mother, are esti-
mated to earn from 60 d. Is. to 92 dole, per month, or I
an average of 76 dole. (.ay £11) ; th, cost ofsrent,
food, fuel, and clothing for the _four would average
56 (lola (193), thus kaving an overplus of 20 dole. smooth,
or 260 dole, a year (£37). Whether any allowance is
made in this estimate for tobacco, spirits, or other
"luxuries," the writer of the report does dot state. In
the district to which he refers 186,451 dollars is deposited
in the savings bank, so that many of the operatives
most find themselves well aka to put *aide a part

their earnings In one of the towns (it is not stated
which) "a family of live persons can be maintained
for from 350 dole. to 400 dole. a year, rent, fuel, food,
and clothing included." In Lowell it tsses 56 dole.
at the present time to buy what 30 dole, would
purchase in 180. Rent had nearly doubled. 'nose
who say that New England experienced none of the
ill effects of the war, except in the debts which it in-
curred, may change their opinion when they hear uf
facts like three.

D.BlO, DtJ'A MENT IN TURKET.—A curious sign
of the times is afforded by the attitude nf the Sultan
titwards the Itlahomeelan Established Church in Tur-
key. He proposes to disendow it ; or, in other words,
to apply to Sta,e purposes the vast lands, estimated at
one million sterling a year. Nothing but the stern
nit;eßsity of satisfying the national creditor could have
steeled the Sultan to such a bold step. The measure
will be of immense benefit to the State indirectly. by
placing in the hands of industrious and enterprising
cultivators an immense area of most valuable land,
which has for generations remained almost altogether
unproductive.

HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS Dux.-Mr.
Officer, the Speaker of the House of Assembly of
Tasmania, has been Knighted. It will be generally
agreed that he is the proper officer to receive this dim
tinction.—Punch.

&.RVEC THEM RIGHT !—The Court Journal re-
cords the following:

Two ladies stopped in a carriage at a jeweller's shop in
London the other day; one of then, got out, and the carriage
stool acres the pathway. Some gentlemen an, iog to crosa
to the other side, desired the coachman to more on a hale
The man was surly, and refined; the gentlemen remon-
strated, but in vain. During the altercation the lady came
to the shop-door and foolishly ordered the coachman not to
stir from his place. On this one of the gentlemen opened the
coach door and with boots and spurs atepped through the
carriage. He was f Bowed by his companion, to the extreme
discomposure tit the lady within as well as the lady without.
To complete the jest, a party of sailors coming up, and relish-
ing the joke, scrambled through the carriage.

WISE IN HIS GENERATION !—There was a man
who lived in Casa County, Georgia, many years ago,
who had once been in the State Lesishaute, and never
neglected the opportunity to emphasize the fact. He
was a perfect infidel as to new discoveries and the new
sciences, being perfectly satisfied that if the world
shi add turn over, all the water would spill out of his
well, and only giving in to steam cars by slow degrees.
But all the vials of his contempt was poured out upon
theldea of a telegraph, and be was wont to say that
nobody need try to come "the green "over him in that
way, for he had been in the L• gislature. Finally, the
state road was built; and one day workmen began to
put up telegraph poets right in front of his house, and
to stretch the wire. His exultant neiglibtors theught
they had him on that occasion, and asked, "Well, old
fellow, what do you think of telegraphs now f" He
was c mered, but died game. Braising himself up an
inch taller, he said—" Gentlemen, when I was in the
Legislature, I gave this subject my very attentive con.
sideration ; and I said then, as I say now, that it may
do for letters and small bundles, but it never will take
a cotton bale, never r
A SIGHT Or TROUBLE.—The site of the New
Law Courts.—Judy.

A REVENGEFUL THOUGHT. —On Saturday, at
the Birmingham police-court, Benjamin Baker, a
young man of respectable appearance, was charged with
attempting to kill Bernard SIT voy, by shooting him
with a pistoL The Cage is singular, and but for the
timely efforts of the police might have had a tragic
result.
It appears that Baker had In the csurse of business become
Indebted in a large amount to WEvoy, the former being a
manufacturing jeweller, anti the latter a metal merchant.
Baker pot into difficulties, and it was rumoured that he M-
tended to absc-ind. M •Evoy, hearing this. took out a warrant,
and had him detained until an agreement was made, by which
Baker's businem was to be handed over to the other. This
was done, but soon after the place was broken into and a
number of tools and goods stolen, suspicion falling on the
late tenant and owner of the business. M•Evoy thieatened
to give Baker into custody on the charge of burglary, and
matters were in that state when the latter seems to have con-
ceived the idea of a terrible revel an on one whom he con-
sidered in some measure the author of his troulbles. Os Fri-
day afternoon the prisoner west to the shop of a gumnaker,
and bought two pistols. While in the shop he dropped a
paper, which re.ealed his intention to shoot li•Evoy on the
first opportunity, and then destroy himself. The pollee were
communicated with, and a watch was set upon him, and he
was arrested on Saturday evening as be was about entering
M'Evoy's shop. In his possession were found two putt .Is,
loaded and capped, and a razor, and by this timely inter-
ference consequences which might have been a the most
serious character were prevented. Baker was brought before
the magistrates a few minutes after his apprehension, and
remanded.

DEMI ET DEML—It used to be said that one
half the world does not know how the other half lives.
As to the French world of fashion there is much doubt
if this saying holds good any longer, and no question
that the upper half well knows, and that by ex-
perience, bow the under half dresses. Please not to
copy any longer.—Punch.
HORRIBLE MCRDI.R OF A YOBBO GIRL. The
Malta Observer, of April 22, says :

one of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in this
country, and which has caused the greatest pain and India-
nation among all classes, was perpetrated a few days suo ,
a field in the vcioity of easel Slw.ta, a villain) anout cix
miles distant from I'..letta. The victim-4 your e.untry.
w,.man, D .rnenica Gal.—bad been ini-sing from her limn, for
two or three days, and on Sward ay last her corpse was found
in a well in a field into which she had been thrown, after
having been barbarously ameulted and murdered, the body
of the poor girl bearing masks of atiociou• violence, and a
knife wound in the alol men. A peanut, who lives in the
vicinityof the field, b.as been arrested by the police on mild-
chin of being concerned in the perpetration of this hoirible
crime.

Br Ortit OWS SCROoLBOY.—" Panes and
penalties "—Paying fur broken windows.—Judy. •
Diestosns.—Diatnonds were first discovered in
Brazil, in 1729, by a Portuguese, Foncesca Lobo, who
was not even aware of the importance of his discovery
until certain Dutch trad-rs, to whom be showed his
pebbles, at once contracted with the Portuguese
government for the monopoly of all the raw diamonds
they might find in Brazil. From this contract they
derived enormous profits. The territory in which this
precious article is found is forty-four wiles in length
by twenty-two in breadth; it is called Term de Flo,
and is surrounded Icy steep mountains which long con-
cealed it from the Eunipeans. Since the mines have
again become the property of the state of Brazil. the
Dutch have not quite lost their monopoly, they being
extremely skilful in the artof cutting t liamonds, and being
possessed of all the requisite machinery for the pur-
pose. The operation causes the stone to lose half its
weight, and is performed by means of wheels which
make 2,500 revolutions per minute. Upwards of
10,000 workmen are engaged at Amsterdam in this
busieess, which annually produces 100,01 o.ooof.
Art ARCFIBISHOP'S CURE FOR HEADACHE.—
The first occasion on which I ever saw Dr. Whately
(observes a correspondent) was under curie me circum-
stances. I accompanied my late friend, Dr. Field to
visit professionally some members of the archbishop's
household at Redesdale, &Worsen. The ground was
covered by two feet of MIOW, and the thermometer was
down almost to zero. Knowing the archbishop's cha-
racter for humanity, I exp', ssed much surprise aftsee-
ing an old labouring i man n his.shirt sleeves, felling a
tree "after hours," in the demesne, wild.- a 'wavy
shower of sleet d^ifted pitilessly on his wrinkled face.
"That labourer," replied Dr. Field. "whim pm think
the victim of prelatical despotism, is no other than the
archbishop curing himself of a headache. When his
grace has been reading and writing more titan ordinary,
and finds any pain or confusion about the cerebral
organisation, he puts both to flight by rushingout with
an axe, and slashing away at some ponderous trunk.
As soon as he finds himself in a profuse perspiration he
gets into bed, wraps himself in Limerick blankets,
falls into a sound slumber, and gets up buoyant"—
Memoirs of Arclihiallop Whately,
I AMUSING RESEMBLANCES OF TWO DIVINES.
Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Salisbury, was a native
of Shtewsbury. he date of his birth is tiecertain,
but it was somewhere in the latter end of the 17th cen-
tury. Bishop Newton records the following amusing
anecdote about this prelate :
There was at that period two Dr. John Thomases whose in
divideality Wta, not easily distinguished. Their resemblances
led to much laughable confu•b el Some one, speakiog of Dr,
Thomas, would beached," winch Dr. [homes its you (clean!"
"Dr. John Thomas." "They are both named -hr." "Well,
then," the interrogator would pursue, "Dr. T.,oinas who ha,
a living lathe city." "They both have livings in the city."
Annoyed, nut still seeing a way out of the difficulty, Dr
Th.. Mag, who in 01111111k111 to the king " "'('try are lota.
chaplains to the king." Still baffled, belt as If to bring the
matter to an issue, "tie Thomas, who Is a very good
preacher." "They are both very ;pod preachers." Deeper
and deeper in confusion, but still there is a ray of hope, and
approaching the disagmable, Dr. Thomas who squints."
Surely there cannot be two squinting divines of the same
same." Yes, they both squint."

. .
And Neiiton adds of these twins, "They both were
afterwards bishops."

ODD COPPk.RB.—Peter's Pence.—Judy.
AN OLD WIFE'S NOTION OF A VELOCIPEDY.—
A matron in Bonnybank watt stunned and stupefied
the other day on seeing a gentleman who had been !mac-
tising with a velocipede, and who was approaching her
dwelling on foot, leading it up the incline. "Preserve
a' living, sirse—come 'eie," she cried to a neighbour.
"Did ye ever see a thing like this." Both looked in-
tently for a while, and the other said —"Toots,
woman, did ye never see a thing like that? just
a man gaun shout vi' a thing for sharpin' razors."
Hearirg this the meron ran to the house to look for
her scissors, ening at the Caine time to her son—"Jiiii
rin not and tell that man to stop, for I want my sheers
sharpit." Jim did as he was commanded, but after
looking a short time. said—" :Wither, that's no a sheer
man ava. I think it's only her Titllololl tryin' to
row twa girds!" But the gentleman, who was now
• stridelegs" over the fleet horse, wan off like an arrow.
" Hech ! AVhaill ye wager," quoth the matron, as he
vanished from view, 'but thst's ane o' the newly-
fashioned whurlygigs the newspapers ca'philoso-
phers ! "
—Dundee Advertiser.

ONE BWODBOUND IN SEARCH OF THZ OTHER !
—Letters appear in the Lublin Exprias advocating the
use of the bloodhound in the pursuit of fugitive mur-
derer'. One correspondent writes :

From long experience alarowl in the breedin and train-
ing of that hound, I can sally say he will bong a substantial
"message of peace "to Ireland more effectual than any that
could be sent from the present occupants of "Plunder
: House," Downing-street. A pure Spanish bloodhound, from
' two to three years of age, should be able to take up • trail in
this climate) any time within sixty hours after the person has
left the spot where the dog is laid on.
of tT Nth
ISENCL MAN GONE HOME !—By the deA
r. Thomas Coventry, Nice has lost an eccentric
but real benefactor. Watering-placts are not motblb
n-markable for the exactness with a hich their clocks
keep time; the railway and post-ofEce are generally in
a permanent state of mutual contradiction, while the
hotels ring the five o'clock bell without the slightest
reference to the position of the sun whenever the cook
has his table-dlote dinner ready. This state of things
had been tong prevalent at Nice, when Mr. Goventr).
being a man of punctual habits, undertook at his own
expense the task of regulating the time. On the roof
of the Hotel Chauvin, where he has just died after a
residence of twenty years, he erectei a mast and Ads.
similar to those opnoaite the Chat ingcross Hotel. and,
.n the ramparts of the 41 caste a cann al the us dei
of the one in the raids Royal; the simultaneous fool!
of the globe and discharge of the gun announcing the
hour of noon. At last "l'ordre regnait h Nice."
When the report t the cannon was heard the town,-
people were wont to exclaim, "Voids Coventry qui j
Auntie l"

WEARING BORROWED PLUMES.— A French lock.
smith has just been fin. d fifty francs for %taring tk,
ribbon of the Leyion d'Hon near without being gaterjed
The man's, defence was that when spring arrivid the
bind mounted to hi, head err as to make him an in..
sponsible agent. Besides, Louis the Sixteenth wit, 6
fellow-craftsman of no mean capacity, and in In,
memory he was of opinion the locksmiths should har,
a representative on the roll of dory. Even putting
fl
this aside, defendant had done the State mime service.
he was not only lockkmith to the Bank of France, anii
thus protected the finances of' his country, but under
Louis Philippe and the Republic he was Stat, lock.
smith, and was promised the coveted de...sin/nen „I
1848 by a statesman now high in office —The jade,
told him to remain a good locksmith, and nit trouble
himself about a piece of red ribbon in the button hole
of his coat; and the better to impreks upon Ithy thst
all is vanity, fined him fifty francs, or some weeks
in
prison.
HINTS TO INTFEDING EIOORAXT& Intending
emigrants to the United States wili do writ to read it,
letter of Mr. Wilson, I the " liepartment of the
Interior," ,iatf.l April Iw2h.
ichHeart,le:fferr,it.bdee
it diffheopereinnt
parts of the country, and especially dwells on the im.
portence of working men forming settlements in com,
panics or bands. The case of the Mormon, proves
how mnch may be done by combined efforts. They
began with 150 membere, and now have a colony of
over 100.000, "with a hundred flourishing town, sad
villages." Mr. Wilson points to southern Idaho,
mirth-eastern Oregon, an I tile eolith-eastern part of
Washington territory, with the souther,, portions of
New Mexico and Arizona, as presenting fine MI& for
all new etnnen. There are ..ther travta of c..untry
where a community of men wiling to work could not
fail to succeed, it is the principle of association in
emigration which we desire specially to commend to
the unemployed in Englend. When neighbours agree
to found a new settlement in a foreign land, the lone.
liness which is so much dreaoed by emigrants is gone.
There is not so much risk of individual failure, for the
community is able to lend support and encouragement
to each other. One society of working men, to which
we lately called attention, has adopted this plan, and
we expect to hear good accounts of it from time to
time. But Canada ought to be preferred to the United
States by every pruiynt man at a time like this

•
OHIENTAL Hot•PiTnLifY.— There is at present
exhibiting at the Crystal Palace arieh service of silver.
gilt plate, which has been purchased by the Maharajah
of Johore. in order to entertain his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh on his arrival in India. Though
each individual article is admirable in design sod
finished in workmanship, the whole taken together
presents a very singular harlequin appearance. It
seems that the hospitable potentate inspected a large
number of suites, accurately designed according to the
distinct style of each, but declining to be tyrannised
over by ally law, whether of art or fashion, selected
each article for its Own individual merits, reganfiesa of
its relation to others with which it nay he associated,
A service selected in such fashion cannot fail to have
an effect which is, to say the least, remarkable. Ono
of the articles is a gigantic salver, about the size of •
capstan-head. which is to serve SA • table for sherbert
and similar Eastern refreshments.

IMPORTANT D.CIBION.—IM the Court of Ex-
chequer Chamber, on Monday, judgment in the now
celebrated case of "Redhead v. the Midland Railway,"
was delivered. The Court unaiiimouoly rejected ties
itictrine recently laid down by some American jorionk
that common carriers are bound to employ " road.
worthy" vehicles in the carriage of passengers. Is
other words, the learned judges were of opinion that
negligence moot he proved against the company in order
to entitle a plaintill to recover; and that where- as in
the case before them—the accident was found to he
due to the latent defect in the machinery employed,
which no human skill or foresight could have dis-
covered, the defendants could not be held liable- The
ease wag tried originally before Mr. Justice Lush at
Durham, when the jury found for the defendarto. It
was then argued in Banco upon the question if mis-
direction ; but the Court refused the rule for a new
trial, Mr. Justice Blackburn being, however, die.
sentiente. Encouraged by this learned judge's opinion the
plaintiff carried the matter up in error, with the result
above stated.

OH, REALLY !—Mr. Bright is extremely fond of
the (.1,1 sayino, especially that one which informs tw
that "Jack 's as good as his master !"—Judy.

RSMARK ABLE CASE Of RESZSCITATION.—An
Allots correspondent writes :
On Tuesday a Norwegian seaman tell Into the wet dock
from the brig Charlotte Mane. Me occurrence was wit-
nessed by the captain of another brig, wile Wird out his
watch and timed the movements. In ten minutes fully the
man was brought to the Curtin*. About a minute and a
half elapsed ere the doctor arrived. Marshall Hall's method
for restoration of apparently drowned persons was applied;
in a short time breathing was et.ablished, pulsation halos ed,
muscular power returned in abou two, and sensibility in
four hours. Tee period of Immersion is spoken to by three
persons, and they all deciare ten minutes to have elapsed ere
he reached the surface.

A GASTRoNOMIC STRAMER.—Mr. Wallace in
his account of "the Malay archipelago," gives the
following sketch of the dietary he enjoyed on a Dutch
steamer : At 6 a.m. cup, of tea and coder. From 7
to 8 a light breakfast 01 tea, eg;.:s, sardines, &e. At
10 Madeira gin and bitters. At 11 breakfast, which
differed only from dinner in the absence of soup. At
3 p.m. more tea and ceffee; at 5 bitters "et cetera
at half-past 6 a good dinner with beer and claret; at
8 more tea and coffee. "Between whiles beer and
soda-water are supplied when called for, so there is no
lack of little gastronomical t reitemeuta to while away
the tedium or a sea voyage." [Mr. Wallace is accurate
in Isis remark that these arrangements "are somewhat
different from those on board English steamers ']
A PERFECT PICTURE.—Here is an advertise-
ment on which the stable mind may ponder, if it
please :

For Sale. A Perfect Lady's Horse. Warranted."
Is it the lady or the 11.Ttle that is warranted as per-
fect? Gallantry and grammar both incline towards
the lady; common sense, however, points rather to
the horse. But the word " !wriest" may be msed
denoting a past tense and meaning something pad,
and, if we thus construe it, gallantry would fothi,l us
to apply it to the lady, and experience would incline
us to apply it to the horse.—Yunek.

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Buii;s'a COTTAGE.— Some alterations have re-
cently been made in Buries Cottage. Ihwneide, by the
Corporation of Shoemakers of Ayr, who are is the toe-
session of the interesting " biggin." The establieh-
ment of the p!ace as an inn has proved a greet MU-
venieuce to the public, but as all visitors do nit care to
avail themselves of such accommodation, it has been
felt deeirable that the cottage ehould not c wholly et).
lintpriated as a. place of public entertainment. With
this view-one of the two apartments has been fitted up
for the exhibition and sale of Mauehline woodwiak
and other objects of interest, and to this purpose it is
to be entirety devoted. The kitchen is slid preserved
in its original state. In the course of the alterations
it was necessary to remove one of the old beams of the
cottage, and from the little sound wood there rtmained
in this the corporation* have succeeded in getting a few
ornamental articles made for distribution as mementoes
of the Mace.

A,Tsupr TO RFSTORT LIFE.—A man MS IT-
cently executed at Philadelphia. After handing thirty
minutes the body was cut down and handed to his
friends, who made great efforts to attempt tesuscitas
thin. Ten uninotes after being cut down bete.. pirced
upon the table in the ampitheatre, the time elapsing
from the execution being Its tysfour minutot Six
ounces of whirky wiere injected into the bowels, and
one gallon of pure oxygen gas was forced into the
lungs, and a powerful g,lvanic battery appliechto the
medulla oblongata and the pit of the stomach. At
the same time the tongue was withdrawn from the
mouth and the bialy turned from side to side, after the
method if Marrhall Hall, for artificial respiration. In
four or five minutes a marked change occurred in the
countenance; the chest gradually expanded, the eves
opened, one arm was drawn up, and, by means of a
stethorcope, contractions and dilations of the heart
were distinctly heard. So evident were the signs of
life that hitt friends exulted over the fact that he
really lived. But at this point reaction commenced,
and after an hour and a naLf the attempt was given
up as hopeless.

RATH r R AWKWARD !—A Paris correspohdent
reLdxs an amus,ng hit tient which occurred at the l'rin
eees Math il de's aouée the other evening, the Ell war
Napoleon being prevent. An actress from the Odt,on
Theatre recited Victor Hugiin Ode to Napoleon L,
which is little else than a long invective against Eng-
land. It so happened that our Ambassador, Lord
Lyons, was right in front of the actress, and it was to
him, in utter ignorance of his name and position, that
she seemed to address the poet's venes. '1 he confudon
of the rest of Vie company may be imagined. That
nothing might he wanting to increase the embarrass-
ment of the Ambassador, the Emperor had to lead off
the applause.

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THE CreEAT CONVENT CAM—The committee,
of which Archbishop Manning, the Duke of Norf.,lk,
the Earl of Denbei,h, Lord l'etre, Lord Stafford, and
Lord Herries are members, which has been organised
to raise funds for the purpose of indemnifying and pro-
tecting the community of the Convent of Mercy in
Hull from the effects of the late trial of " Sauna V.
Starr," have postponed for the present the collection
if subsci iptious, stating, as their reason, that it is im-
possible to arrive at any correct regulate ,4 the anrunt
of loss the community may sustain until the whole
progredmge shall have terminated. The Committee,
however, have, I.y resolcti n. recorded their opinion
that it is the duty of the Catholic holly to indemnfy
the Sisters from any loss that may ultimately fall upon
them ; and the committee intend to resume their duties
whenever the amount of the danumea shall have been
ascertained.

THIS DIEPOTE IN THE BrILDING TRADES—
The Manchtater Exaniinmreports that a representative
meeting of the master builders of the towns where
strikes are now pending was held, on Tuesday afternoon,
at Manchester. It was unanimously resole.,! to stand
I y tie notice given, that Is, •fon payment by the hour
and the Fettlement of dhputes by arbitration. It was
stated tha no overtures have been received from the
masons. The notice to the bricklayers expires on the
Ist of June; and a hope was expresie tat the me ing
that the men in that trade will fall in with the viral
of the masters, and not go on strike, inasmuch as it
was urged that the proposition of the masters in their
case will really advance their wages by 4d, per week.
Last Saturday the Manchester carpenters and joiners
were paid by the hoer, for the tire: time, iii wietiti'an
with Mr. Rupert Kettle's decision at the rteeLt satoi-
t

A NICK RANT TO BE DEC.D:. D.- —A Roman
Catholic clergymen of Belfast has applied to the Dub-
lin Court of Queen'ti Bench, as testamentary guardian,
to have delivtred up to him five children of a man in
humble cireuntatanees, named klarson, their mother
having refused to part with them. Mrs. klarson is •
Proteatant, ant her older children were brought up
such. Their father and Ike had been married without
mony, and he subsequently 'attended
c in .0., hie deathbed he had sent for a R man
tiatiddic cle&tinan, kir Rainihl, C C., MA the M eu-
ineut consigub g the children to Lie care was 'only exe-
cuted. Mr. Maroon, contrary to the representation
of Mr. Hamill, said she was kept out of the room
When it was boo g prepared. The Couresaid the case
should stand over, with liberty to the gcardians to
bring an action, aa tlo vnly
tax I,cating t alnil ie vti
at the will.