The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-03-26 00:00:00

" MONING" TEA.

In London, on Monday, at the Guildhall police.
court, Mr. Under-Sheriff Baylis appeared before
Alderman Stone to conclu,le his application on behalf
of the Commissioners of Sewers for the condemnation
of six chests of " Moning tea," which had been seizad
by Dr. Letheby's order as being unsound, unwhole-
some, and unlit for the food of man.
Dr. Letheby was recalled, and said he hail made a further
analysis of the six samples of the tea in question, and
found that when he had thoroughly exhausted them
by the rei.eated action of boiling water, the proportion
of soluble matter in them amounted to from a little
more than 11 per cent. to 13i per cent. That extracted
from good ordinary common Congou ranged from '23.i to
17i per cent. Again, the lignus or woody matter of the
tea ranged from 73 per cent. to 77 per cent. The woody
matter of the ordinary Congou ranged according to his ex-
periments from sni to 65 per cent. The proportion of the
active principle of tea amounted to a mere trace—a fraction
that was not weighable, whereas in ordinary Congou it would
amount to about two per cent. Those results confirmed the
,pinien that he gave at a previous meeting, viz., that the tea
consisted of exhausted leaves almost entirely, there being a
little good tea mixed with it. lie was of opinion that it was
unsound and unwholesome, tor it was not merely an
exhausted huts decayed tea. Ile thought it would be very
likely to produce derangement of the stomach. lie considered
Ike tett unwholesome, and only because it had been exhausted
but because it had underin me decomposition between the ex-
haustion and the re-drying of the leaves.

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Mr. Waller, who appeared for the owner' of the tea,
here handed Dr. Letheby several samples of other tea,
and asked hiin to examine them.

Dr. Letheby looked at them, and said they looked like tie
tea. That was a Chinese name for it, and lie thought it a
very good English name too. Laughter)( Ile could not
judge of the qualities of the samples by his eyes and nos
alone. Ile should not like to say that this was a much worse
tea than that which bail been seized without making a
chemical analysis. The tea seized might cause nausea and
sickness, and his opinion was formed on the known Met that
decomposing vegetables had that effect. It was the opinion
of I enunin that food would go farther with tea than without
it. the experience of one hmtireil millions of people was
that tea was in some way or other a food, and yet medical
:nen were not able to account for what experience had
proved.
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'-iir7i'inen said he resided In Southwark, and was medical
ollicer of health for that district. Ile had infused portions of
the samples of this tea, and they had not the peculiar aroma
of ordinary Sound tea. Ile found in them some dirty-looking
masses which did not appear to be tea, and were not soluble
in water. The infusion he made produced a very weak lea,
with a sickening smell. Ile said it was unsound, unwholesome,
and unlit for food.

Mr. Stenhouse—, ERA., said that he had been for several
years professor of chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital. 110
had examined the saninlcs If the tea Their odour was a
brownish black, and the infusion had a nauseous odour.
There was scarcely any odour of good tea in them at all. The
result of his examination was that the tea had gone through
some process of putrefaction. It would require 03 lb. of that
tea to yield as much as I lb. of sound Congou.
"'' .

Other witnesses it; the trade having given their
opinion of the tea, the case for the complainant closed.
Mr. Waller then complained that a great deal of pre-
judice had been created in the public mind by the one
side of the investigation having been published, and
the papers commenting upon it. Ile then contended
there was no power for them under the Act of Parlia-
ment to proceed. lie would call Dr. Redwood, who
would prove that there was no deleterious matter in
the tea. It was a common tea he did not deny, but it
wax not a putrid or unwholesome tea.

Mr Redwood said that he was professor of chemistry at
the Pharmaceutical Society. He had studied tea in its corn.
ponent parts And hail examined samples of the six chests in
question. lie agreed with the other doctors as to what its
components parts were. Ile found the tea to yield the same
cmstituents as were found in ordinary black tea. They con-
sisted partly of substances which were soluble in water, and
partly of those which were not. The soluble constituents
were the volatile oil, which gave the peculiar aroma to the
tea; an astringent matter, the theMe, which was gene-
rally considered the most important ingredient, and
gum. Ile found all of them in this tea, but in very
much less proportions than they existed in ordinary
tea. In fact he agreed with Dr. Letheby and Dr. Stenhouse
in the proportions they found in the extracted matters, and
they were the quantities he should expect to get from a
low class of Congon tea, lie had, however, failed to find
ant thing present that would he injurious to health, when
taken as tea was taken. Ile had failed to thul any evidence
of putrefaction or decomposition having taken place in any
part if the tea. He thought if he took the tea himself he
was taking something that would do him no good. Its
qualities were more negative than positive ; that was to say,
there was nothing injurious in it, but there was an absence
of what was good and nourishing.
Alderman Stone said the preponderance of evidence
1151 to the tea being unsound, unwholesome, and unfit
for human food was in favour of the complainant, and
he should make the order for its destruction, but would
restrain its operation until an appeal had been made to
the Court of Queen's Bench and the decision of that
court was known. The parties then left the court.

INTERNATIONAL COETRIGEIT.—Authors of all
nations will be glad to hear that Russia is about to con-
clude an international copyright treaty with Prussia.
After England, no country in Europe publishes so
many magazines and reviews as Russia, and the con-
tents of at least half these periodicals are translated
from the French, the German, but above all, from the
English. Many an English author who still fancie
Russia to be a semdbarbarons country would alter his
opinion if he knew (what roust often be the case) that
he has as many readers in li maim as in England itself.
Hitherto Russia, like America, to which it presents so
many negative points of resemblance, has recognized no
rights on the part of foreign authors; and certainly, in
any literary dealings that might take place between
Russia and the west of Europe under the internationa
copyright Acts, the balance of exchange would be
against Rossia. On the other hand, it is obvious that
I:l,siAn authors must suffer be having to compete in
their magazines and reviews with the great authors o
France, Germany, and England whose works cost the
publishers merely the price of translation.

etlnncou ntcllicncC:

DOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

CONTRADICTED DT DESIRA:.—Our friend Water-
more (the teetotaller) has again been sadly put out by
a report that he WaB seen riding in the Park on a
" groggy " horse.—Panch.
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A MULLER BUbINERS.—A few nights ago the
brother of a Marseille, merchant, being on his way
to Strasburgh, had taken a place in a second-clses
carriage, at Lyons, in company with two other indi-
vidual& Towards two in the morning, just as he was
beginning to fall off to sleep, these men threw themselves
upon hini, and having gagged and bound him, robbed
him of all he had, not even exceptinz a decoration
which he wore. So stupefied was he by the suddenness
and violence of the ass fait that he did not recover his
senses for some hours after, and then the malefattors
had disappeared. _

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A LENIENT PLTNISIIMENT.—At the County
Tipperary Assizes John Stapleton has been indicted
before Judge Morris for the manslaughter of Thomas
C frinors, on the let of November last, It appeared
that both parties were returning from the fair at
Thurles, when a quarrel cc :lured between them, in
which the deceased Jost his life. The jury found the
prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to twelve mouths'
imprisonment. An offer was made, on behalf of the
prisoner to pay 810 to the widow and family of the
dead man, who were in rxtremely indigent dream-
stances; and in consideration of this the learned judge
reduced the term of imprisonment to one month.
1.0,RD MALMESBURY'S STEWARD.—The body of
Mr. Elliott, late steward to the Earl of Malmesbury,
was found on Sunday morning. The deceased was
miesing since Thnreday, the 24th of February, on
which day it will be remembered he left his home at
Christchurch in a wa4;gonette for the purpose of having
an interview with Lord Malmesbury. Ile left the
vehicle in the road, telling the driver to wait for him,
as he wanted to ore a piece of land. He went in the
direction of the river Stour, and the driver saw him no
more. The river was dragged, and a wood known as
Bosley-o pee was searched; but, with the exception
of some f ootmarks, no trace could be discovered. On
Sunday, however, two men who bad been in Mr.
Elliott's employment, were searching the river near
Iford, when they found the body. Upon it were a
watch (which had stopped at twenty-nine minutes past
ten), a sum of money, and several letters and docu-
ments, which, however, threw no light on the circum-
stances attending Mr. Elliott's death. An inquest was
held on Monday, when a number of witnesses were ex-
amined, from whose evidence it appeared conclusive
that the deceased met with no ill-treatment previous to
his death. The only question remaining was whether
be had committed suicide or was drowned accidentally.
After a brief consultation the jury returned a verdict
of "found drowned, but there was no evidence to show
how deceased came into the water."

ALLEGED INHUMANITY AT SEA.—Sixteen of the
Samaria's cabin passengers have made a statement
complaining of the conduct of the captain of one of
the Guion steamers, supposed to be the Manhattan.
They state that on the 12 h, when the Samaria was
completely unmanageable on account of light winds,
they sighted the Manhattan, and tired several guns.
After which they signalled, "Engines disabled—l
wish to communicate," and lowered matutopgallant
sail ; but the Manhattan took no notice beyond stop-
ping the engines and allowing the ship to drive two
lengths farther to leeward. They appeal to Mears.
Guion that the captain's inhumanity in passing a dis-
abled vessel without heeding her signals may be
punished.

IN AN UNFORTUNATE POBITION.—An applica-
tion has been made to Vice-Chancellor James for an
order to wind-up the affairs of the Bradford Naviga-
tion Company, on the ground that the company had
ceased for the last three years to keep its canal sup-
plied with water, and that the brylges over it were in
a state of decay. The company had been restrained
by a Chancery injunction from supplying their canal
with water from Bradford Beck, owing to the polluted
condition of that water, and no other supply could be
obtained, except at great cost. It was contended that
the court had no jurisdiction to grant the application,
as it was a canal company; but this view was nega-
tived, and the Vice-Chancellor taking into considera-
tion that no agreement had taken place between the
parties concerned, granted an crier for the winding-
up of the company.

- SHARP - MES IN PARlS.—Perhaps the latest plan
for robbing hotel keepers is the following, which has
just been put into successful operation at Paris. A
highly respectable-looking individual presented him
self to the proprietor of a hotel in the Montmartre
quarter, and engaged rooms for a Dutch gentleman
who always put up at the hotel when in Paris and was
well known and respected there. He mentioned that
several parcels would probably arrive for the gentleman
before he turned up at the hotel, and requested the
landlord to settle with the porters in the first instance.
The unsuspecting landlord of course undertook to do
so, and within a short time several parcels were
delivered and paid for. But still they came, until the
sum total of porterage rose to a considerable figure.
The landlord began to entertain a suspicion of the pos-
sibility of something being wrong, which was fully con-
firmed on opening one of the parcels, and finding that
it only contained an old pair of trousers without a seat,
and a quantity of rags. He waited patiently for the
arrival of the next messenger, but the thieves (who had
probably been watching the hotel narrowly) were on
heir guard, and did Lot turn up.

A HAPPY ENDING !—One of the American
papers states that at a divorce trial before Judge Sam-
ple, in Muncie, Indiana, recently, the principals in the
suit, in relating how lovingly they used to live together
when first married, became so affected over the recol-
lection of their lost happiness that they began to cry.
The Judge followed suit, the audience joined in, and
handkerchiefs were in general demand. Judge Sample,
when they had all finished crying, suggested to the
husband and wife the propriety of trying to live hap-
pily together once more. After consultation they con.
eluded to try it again, and the caFe was thus ended.
No case has yet occurred in the English Divorce Court
of everybody present being affected into tears ; but it
is a wonder that all parties, the Judge, Bar, and
audience included, are not more frequently affected
unto sickness by the details which it is their privilege
to hear.

UNFORESEEN Itrsuvrs.—A striking illustration
is just now afforded of the close and intimate connec-
tion which exists between legislation and industrial
enterprise. The proposal of the Ritual Commissioners
to make certain amendments in the Liturgy, and the
agitation on the question of the revision of the transla-
tion of the Bible, have thrown some hundreds of per-
sons engaged in the bookbinding trade out of employ-
ment. The binding of Bibles and Prayer Books is a
special branch of the trade. The scale of payment is
exceedingly small—much lower than that given in
other branches of the trade. A " Bible " hand is
looked down upon by the binders generally, and when
out of work can find no other occupation in the trade.
In view of the proposed changes in the Prayer Book
there is now a complete stagnation in the trade; the
booksellers are only anxious to dispose of their stocks
on hand, and will not add to them, and the public
will be content with the old Prayer Books until the
new ones are ready. Memorials are in course of pre-
paration among the operative binders, praying that
some final decision may be come to as soon as possible,
in order to relieve the present state of uncertainty,
and remove the causes of the want of employment and
distress which exists in the bookbinding trade. •

REVOLVER ARGUMENTS !—A strange occurrence
took place on Saturday afternoon near the Palate de
Justice, Paris. A husband and wife who were plead-
ing for a separation a mensa et thorn were to have been
heard by the President, but on meeting at the door of
that magistrate's room they entered into an alterca-
tion, the husband insisting on the woman's return
home, and the other strenuously refusing. In the end
the former drew a revolver from his pocket and fired
two shots at the wife, wounding her in the arm. The
assailant was immediately arrested. The man is a
dealer in curiosities, named Fiat, residing in the Rue
du Faubourg St. Antoine.
THE SCHOOLMASTER VERY MUCH WANTED.—A
correspondent sends us (Birmingham Poet) the fol-
lowing notices, which he copied lost week verbatim
from the doors of a parish church in Warwickshire,
about ten miles from Birmingham :
I.
List of Constbulls List of two men resulting withen the
parish of B gabled and lible to serve as constbulla
made out and agreed to at a matting of the inhabitance
theirof in vestery for that purpose held on the third day of
March one thousand eaght hundard and sevennty
Namley
J— W B— Farmer severed 1.563

W— W F— Farmer
Notice all ohgextona to the foreolne list will he hear 4 hy
the Justice of the Peace at thiar speciall mask.te to be heald
on the 2 day of Aprill at the Touwn Uull at 9 at halff
past 11 clock in the bun cost.
Sine!

J— 11— ll I Overseers of
3 J_ j Parish of 1:
11.

To the Rate payers and Inhabitants of this parish of
11 . Notic is hearby geven that their will be a vestery
Meetting heald In the Skolroom at B— T— on Munnday
March 21st at totter click in the afternoon for nomination of
gardians and to chosen frock overseers and other offesors for
this said paish and other Manes for to nurse for the forth
suen year 1070.

THE Gramm NUISANCE.—Mr. Muntz, of Umber-
slade, near Birmingham, has not rested content with
merely publishing a plan for abating the game nuis-
ance, but has proceeded to test his views in practice.
Mr. Mintz has issued a circular to his tenantry, re-
questing them to meet on an early slay, in order to
choose a properly qualified valuer, who shall assess any
damage that may have been, or may hereafter be, KlS-
tained from the ravages of game. As soon as the
name of the tenants' valuer has been communicated to
Mr. Aluntz, that gentleman will appoint another
valuer to act on his behalf ; and, when the several
accounts of tenants' losses have been agreed upon,
compensation will be paid accordingly.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER.—The Paris Cor-
rectional Tribunal on Friday tried the pickpocket
Polack for stealing a memorandum-book containing £8
from a cornbroker, named Daiily, in a role, on the
23rd of December last. TIA 9 trial had been delayed
until now in consequence of an attempt made by de-
fendant to commit suicide in prison. He had suc-
ceeded in inflicting a deep gash in his throat, but the
wound did not prove mortal. Thiel:pan who is both a thief
and a gambler, has had a most chequered existence;
only four years aeo he won £lO.OOO at Baden, and on a
former occasion £30,000. He has been frequently con-
demned; and once, in jumping from a train after
robbing a passenger, he broke his leg and had to under-
go amputation; the other leg he subsequently injured
in a railway carriage, and, having been arrested, was
sent to an hosia 1, but succeeded in escaping abroad.
lie, however. reatrried to France and committed the
present robbery, and was now condemned to five years'
imprisonment and ten years' surveillance of the police.
THE OBSTINACY OF THE GREEN FEVER.—People
must not wonder that an exacerbation of the Irish
febrile symptoms has followed the administration of
the Church Act sedative, nor should they be surprised
if the Land Bill anodyne should be thrown in without
immediate effect, though the Peace Preservation
astringent may produce a better tone. Rome was not
built in a day, nor will Ireland be, be, ha I cured in an
bunant.—Panek

SOMETHING LIKE A SHAWL !—When the Duke
of Edinburgh wee at Lahore recently, the Maharajah
of Cashmere presented him with a shawl for the Qi. en,
the like of which, according to our Lahore contem-
porary, was never made. Three hundred ahawl-
weavers had worked on it incessantly for three years,
and many of them lost their sight throu;la the fineness
of the work ! Its actual cost in Cashmere would be
about £1,400. The present was at first intended for
the Prince himself, but he refused to accept it, whereat
the Maharajah felt somewhat chagrined. It was an
impromptu "happy thought to give it to him for the
Queen, and when offered in that form the precious
gift was accepted. Some small presents, more as
souvenirs than anything else, were received by his
Royal Highness. —There was of course a ball in honour
of the Duke.

WORTHY OF IMITATION !—The French corres-
pondent of one of the German papers announced that
a new era has dawned upon France. The rigirne is in-
augurated by Madame 011ivier, who ha taken to wear
high evening dresses, and has caused it to be under-
stood that those who frequent her &eon are expegtrd
to follow her example. In spite of a strong opposition
the movement is successful. It would be well if a
similar reform were to be attempted in London, where
the climate renders warm clothingeven more necessary
than at Paris. It is melancholy to reflect how many
young ladies, who are ordered by the doctor to he care-
ful as to catching cold, and whose lungs require pro-
tection, are ordered by thcir chaperons to expose
themselves to draughts, cold winds, and changes of
atmosphere in clothing more scanty than that of a
casual pauper. Few more paidul scenes were ever
witnessed than that otr.reri by ladies attending the
Drawing-room at the Palace the other day, in low
dresses, on a ditterly cold afternoon ; and the wonder
is that so barbarous a system should be allowed to c m-
tinue for one hour. Unfortunately there is nobody to
protect the young from their own mothers (remarks the
Cazetk). They cannot remonstrate against
a practice pursued by their elders and betters,
whose hardened constitutions are less delicate, and who
are not ashamed to set their children an example of
utter indifference to decency, danger, and death.
MATRIMONIAL A DVERTISEMF.I4III.—(From the
Manchester Examiner):—
"Medical gentleman, 24, wishes an amiable young lady,
with means, for his wife—Address 8., Post-office, Kelso."

"A t-adesman is desirous of corresponding with a lady
who is domesticated, with means; strictly private.—Ad-
dress,"
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" A young gentleman, 24, wishes to meet with s young
lady, with a view to matrimony, with same means. Address
W. li, 199, Post-Alt:6, Hey wood."
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" A'youeg gentleman, 2-.5, with fair means, is desirous of
corresponding with a young lady of similar age, with a view
to matrimony must be accomplished and domesticated.
Address, enclosing carte, in exchange," Ac.
" A young widower, aged 27, living on his awn estate,
having an income of several hundred pounds a year, and a lu-
crative business, will be glad to correspond with a young lady
whose age is within a few years of his own, and a somewhat
like income, with a view to marriage; one fond of music and
can play the piano preferred ; this is bon yide, and the
stricteit confidence may be relied upon. Address," Ac.

Ax UNLUCKY TEST.-A Brazilian paper says
that a mulatta, who followed the profession of diamond
finder at (;rao Mogul, discovered a diamond of about
an ounce and three quarters weight. Not being sure
it was a diamond, she sent it off to her husband. Un-
luckily, the messenger talked of it to a diamond
seeker whom he met, and that individual proceeded to
put the gem to the hsnoner test, giving it such a blow
with the back of his pick that the stone flew into a
number ot pieces, the largest of which could not again
be found. The recovered fragments proved to be of a
diamond of the first water.

FUNERAL OF CASEY.—The funeral of Casey,
the Fenian poet, was celebrated last Sunday in Dublin.
Upwards of 10,090 persons went in a procession through
the city by a circuitous route to Glasnevin, the men
marching three and four deep, wearing green sashes,
and the women on cars wearing green ribands. A
green silk flag WAR laid on the coffin. There were no
bands or banners and all was very orderly. At the
gate of the cemetry the coffin was plac d on men's
shoulders and carried. The band of the Catholic
Young Men's Society, meeting it at the same place,
played the "Dead March" in Saul. After interment
the people visited the memorial cross of the Manchester
martyrs. He was known to the revises of the national
press by his soon dc plume of "Leo," and had some
reputation as an Irish patriot poet. He was imprisoned
for 18 months during the last suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act, and the allegation that his death was
accelerated by the imprisonment helped to induce the
demonstration.

AN INTICRESTING RELIC.—A very curious auto-
graph has been discovered by an antiquarian who keet.s
a little shop in Paris. It is written on the fly-leaf of
a manuscript Lime d'Helt,w, which had been in the
posseseion of a shoemaker's family as long as the work-
man, who is now seventy-five yearwold, could remem-
ber, and he believes that his father obtained the book
during the sack of the Hotel Sevigne, in 1793. The
book bears the crown and insignia of the Queens of
France, nearly effaced, and the letters 51 and C inter-
laced in the same manlier an they are cut over the
columns of the Louvre alai the Halle nun hies. There
is no doubt that the book belonged to Queen Catherine
of Medicis, but the autograph in it is the most interest-
ing portion. It is in the handwriting of Henry, Duke
of Guise, and says, simply. All is arranred for the
24th." It is signed, "Le B." This Pignature has
much intrigued the experts, but it is easily explained
as "Le Ballafre," tinder which name Henry of Loraine
was much known by reason of the scar he bore on his
face. His words, no doubt, alluded to the terrible 24th
of August, 1172, the day preceding St. Bartholomew
massacre. Every one of these letters, perhaps, cost a
hundred lives. The book has been sold to a Russian
amateur for 3,500 fm.
OUR EDUCATIONAL OBSTRUCTIVE& —What can
he the difficulty about teaching the Children of the
Mobility the Three It's? The difficulty of agreeing
what to teach under the name of a Fourth R. Each
sect wishes to Moil into the youthful proletarian mind
its own particular crotffiets under the name of Re-
ligion. Let us propose a toast—" The 51inisters of all
Denominations."—Punch.

AMKRICAN GIRLS IN Et)Ml3.—A correspondent
of the New I",,rk licrald writes :
On d,t that half a dozen or so American ladles are engaged
to be married to Roman noblemen—noblemen short of cash.
The ladlea have plenty of cash, and their future husbands
have plenty of poverty. The Roman nobility have a alma,
of finding out who I. rich, and who is not that is surprising.
At present an Anierimm family resides in the house of the
Senator of Rome. a high official ; the Doke of Lante has
another ; the Baron Grivotti has furnished rooms for
another. The Marquis of Guistiniani, who has a chance of
falling heir to the princeship of Bandini, will probably marry
an American. There are plenty of noblemen making love
to American girl% and there will be quite a number of
muriages, providing the ladies have a couple of hundred
weight of the needful or corner lots in eligible situations.
There Is a New Yorker here who was asked how his daughter
was by a friend from home. Ile replied that he did not
know of any daughter but the Marchioness —. The friend
has concluded to ak in future for the health of "my lady, the

IRISH METFOROLOGY.—There surely must be
some constant cantle existing whose agency maintains
the chonic disaffection of Ireland. Perhaps it is some
disturbing element ever present in the atmosphere.
That may possibly be a predominance of CrZone.
Punch.

HENRY WARD BEECHER ON UNCLEAN FACES
Henry Ward Beecher is again writing for the 'wk.
pendent. In his last article he discourses character-
istically as follows
"I wish the poor would speak to me. I cannot remember
all my church, certainly not all my Sunday school. But they
never try without finding lam glad for one. I have the same
form of trouble that you have, Brother ll.—pride. I know
all the inns and outs of that. list! can truly say there is no
person so poor or lowly that it does not give me more pleasure
to have them speak to me than it does them. I never hare
children speak to me on the street that It does not make me
feel good all the day long It is not troublesome to me to be
interested In a clean face. I like the Belt-respectful, decorous
poor, who are my equals, said often my superiors. That is
no troufile. It is these dirty and often lousy things that I
find It difficult to see the Master in. This dirty boy who
halloos after me,
Henry Ward Beecher,
He's the screecher,
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and sometimes puta in a stone by way of punctuation.'
(Laughter.)

NARROW ESCAPIC OF MADAME PATTI.- -Upon
her return joniney from St. Petersburgh, Maidone
Adelina Patti (the Marchioneaa de Caux) was in great
danger of a tragical end. At the Prussian frontier the
Marquis de Caux engaged a special saloon carriage,
fitted with sleeping compartments, for the use of his
party. The Marchioness had retired to rest, when in the
middle of the night she was awoke by a sense of suffoca-
tion, and upon looking into the saloon f the carriage
she found it filled with dense smoke. The stove which
warmed the carriage had become overheated and set
fire to the fl siring. The whole of the party were at
once awoke, and applied their efforts to extinguish the
fire, which had already extended to a sofa in the
saloon. Their situation was most alarming, their
means of checking the fire being but scanty ; the train
was an express, and there was no means of communi-
cating with the guard or the engine driver. Happily
within a few minutes of the discovery the train
slackened speed on entering the station of Bromberg,
when the danger was niade known and assistance was
obtained to extinguish the fire.

AN OLD Nonon REVIVED.—Father Ignatius,
who is about to build a new abbey in the Black Moun-
tains, says, in a letter on that subject :
Instead of the workhouses (tom poor bate them) the peo-
ple have a right to the lands of the Duke of Bedford, for
those lambi were given, freely given, to the monks to use for
Christ and Ilia poor for ever. England is covered with the
wrongs of the poor, wills the ruins of the sacred homes of
piety, charity, hospitality, and mercy. The Duke of Beaufort,
the Duke of Bedford, and countless others are using lands
and farms given to the monks first fertilized and cultivated
by them ; from which they fed the hungry, clothed the
naked, lodged the homeless.

If Father Ignatius is right, the opera house at Covent.
garden ought to be turned into a casual ward at once
(remarks the Pall Mall l;azelle.) The rich who have
just taken their boxes and stalls for the season will
not like this ; no more will the Duke of Bed-
ford ; and we fear it will rather increase the
struggle which is constantly going on in the bosoms of
the St. Pancras guardians. Many of these gentlemen
have doubtless strong Protestant feelings, but at the
same time they could hardly resist the temptation of
the relief to the rates which would be effected by hand-
ing over the paupers to monks. Is it quite impossible
for them to come to some compromise with Father
Ignatins ? Why should they not themselves assume
the monastic habit? With a little instruction from
Father Ignatius, they would doubtless become a re.
spectable body of monks. Their seclusion in the
cloister would not only be a relief to the poor and to
the ratepayers, but also to Mr. Goschen ; and by ex-
ercising a little influence at headquarters, which would
of course be at Rome instead of Whitehall, they could
get each other and everybody else excommunicated in
a more regular way than that which they now practise.

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THIS ROMAN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.—The Pope's
Diplomatic Service is, perhaps, says Mr, Odo Rus- -11,
one of the beet organised in the world, and the archives
of the Vatican give ample proof of the efficiency of
Papal Nuncios and Legates. The Kreat advantage
they enjoy in the pursuit of information in the assist-
ance they derive from the clergy of the countries to
which they are accredited. Bishons only can become
Nuncios. Their salaries vary In in 1:a00 to £2,0;00 a
year, and were charged on the Pope's civil list, but are
now paid out of the collection of "Peter's Pence" in
the countries to which they are accredited. They are

not entitled to pinstons or retiring allowances, but are
generally promoted to higher offices in the Church.
They appoint and pay out of their 133111 i, S their r, rn
siastical accretarics, cuicelliers, and chaplains, subject
to the Pope's approvaL Thoy are allowed house rent
besides; their salaries. Their property qualification is
that of every monsignore—namely, about #:300 a year
(1,500 Bondi). There are no special foreign service
messengers, but missionaries, monks, priests, and post-
office clerks are entrusted with despatch bags. if necei,
eery. The Pope has a Nuncio at Paris, at Vienna, at
Brussels, at the Hague, at Munich, at Madrid. at
Lisbon.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF TEMPERANCE AND MODI,RA-
TION !—The World and the Tribune, both New York
papers, had a fierce passage of arms the other day.
The World said :—" Windust the well-known res-
taurant keeper of this city, who saved the distingtiFherl
philosopher Mr. Greeley (of the Tribune) f tem the furl
of the mob during the July riots, by covering a friendlii
table over that distinguished ind,ridual, was e tught 6
snowdrift • few days ago on Long Island, while at-
tempting to go to his home at Dayville, and would
have perished had not a yourg lady come to his rescue
with a shovel. And so even Windust has his reward."
—To this the 7 ribune replied: "The author of the
above assertion that we have placsd in italies is a liar
—a graceless, shameless, villainous, detestable liar.'
During the evening of the day on which this Fine
printed, Mr. Greelv spoke at a meeting in Philadelphia
in advocacy of " Tonycrance."
A BREACH OF PROXIES CASE.—III the Glas-
gow Small Debt Court,Janet Harris, a young woman,
who had obtained a divorce from a man, named
Robertson to whom she had been married, sued
Archibald Norval for damages for breach of promise
of marriage. His defence was that she was repre-
sented to he a single woman, and not a divorced one.:

Janet Ilarris, (pursuer: ) The defender knew that I had
divorced my husband before the bahjia were proclaimed. I
hat t Id him the second time I weoo to his company. I did
not want to get married till the new year, but he was so
anxious to knock It off that I agreed.—;Laughter Defender:
I never said that I would marry her. She said she would
marry me —Jloars of laughter And she said she wouid
drown herself if I did not marry her--(Reuewed lauglner)
The Sheriff: Who put in the banns? Pursuer : Defender.
Defender: Ay, but she gave me the inoney.—,l;reat
laughter) The Sheriff to defeuder Then you must psy the
£l2 and costs.

"Bearilmous" Drm.—The Liberte relates a
new affair of honour, being a duel with swords in the
wood of Vincennes between two hair-dressers living in
the neighbour-M.l of the Rue de la l'aix, and who
were rivals for the distinction of executing a fashion-
able coiffure. After an encounter which lasted only a
few seconds' one of the combatants received a sight
wound in the arm, when the seconds interposed, and
the principals having gravely bowed, according to the
traditional rules of such affairs, returned home, soothed
in their offended dignity, and ready to exciter go their
weapons for the less deadly use of curling-irons.

MORE THAN COULD BE EXP CTED.— SORle
seem so utterly stupid that one feels relieved even to
hear them say that they have "half a mind."—Punth.

MYSTERY IN A NEW YORK BAOI.IO.—AR
aristocratic resort in Wee. Twenty-seventh-street, kept
by one Georgians Allen, has been the scene of incidents
a little out of the usual programme of events. It
appears that late on Friday night a wealthy Londoners
temporarily stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, pro-
ceeded to the house, which he entered, without wing
through the t mula of an introduction, and there made
himself at home. For some time he chatted pleasantly
with some of the tainted flowers that flourish in
Georgiana's garden, and then retired at two, am., to a
room, alone. The following day, about two Wait*,
when the woman of the house made her usual visits to
the rooms, she found the one occupied by the pu•ron
locked. Procuring the assistance of a locksmith, the
door was opened, and the lodger was found to be quite
dead. Beside his bed lay upon a table a flask emptied
of liquor and a bottle marked laudanum. On his person
were found a gold watch and a little over one dollar in
currency. In his wallet was found a card upon which
was inscribed a London address. Inquiries were then
made, and it was found that he had come from Li nilon
on one of the recently arrived steamers, and he appeared
to be a gentleman of weath and accompliehments.

"OF YOUR CHARITY."—A gentleman writes:

Sir,—Permit the charitable to know the hard and mournful
case of a little family oppressed at once by bereavement,
poverty, and one of the most terrible diamses which afflict
humanity. S. A. Is the daughter of a naval pay master who
died some years since, leaving very little to his wife and
child. That little has long ago gone in the expense of meal cal
attendance for the daughter, who suffers from lupus in the
face—a frightful visitation, which makes it impossible for the
poor creature to take employment, and renders her alt Mae
cast from society. Hopeless, moneyless, and thus mysteri.,,,ely
afflicted, the unhappy ladies live upon the aid of those who
know their bitter fortunes, and they are now endeavouring
to secure sufficient votes to obtain a pension from the loyal
Hospital for Incurables. Proxies for that purpose, or sub-
scriptions, however small, would be gladly received by Mrs.
Nicholson, IS, Portsdown-road, Maida-hill, London,
SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY.—An inquest has
been held at the residence of Chancellor Harington,
at Exeter. on Monday, on the body of Miss Anne
Elizabeth Harington, who was found dead in her bed
on the previous day. Sarah Way, deceased's servant,
Paid her mistreFs was in better health than usual of
late on Saturday evening. On retiring to bed she
usually bolted and locked her bedroom door. Not

,
hearing anything of her mistress at her accustomed
time of getting up on Sunday morning, witness waited
for an hour and then knocked, and receiving no answer
the door was broken open, and it' jai. Hari, Won was
discovered in bed dead. The bed-clothes were not die-
a, ranged. The medical gentleman who saw the body
gave it as his opinion that apoplexy was the cauPe of
death, and the jury returned a verdict to this effi et.
It is stated that Chancellir Harington, who lived with
his sister, went away on Saturday, and as RAB urinal
with him when leaving home, did not let any one but
his sister know where he was going, and on Sunday
every effort was being made to find him, but he could
not be found. Both the Chancellor and his sister were
unmarried.