The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-10-26 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

ONE FOR HlM.—Rustic Dame (who has never before
seen a bicycle, to Cockney bicyclist, who has dis-
mounted for the purpose of asking the way). We
don't want nowt groinding to-day, mester.—Judy.
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AT STRASBURG.—The process
of levelling the ground for a Central Railway Ter-
minus at Strasburg has led to the discovery of very
many stone coffins, evidently dating from the Roman
period, a discovery which confirms the belief long en-
tertained that this place was the site of a Roman
burial-ground. Canon Straub, the President of the
local Historial Society, who takes a great interest in
all such matters, has obtained from the military autho-
rities the assistance of several pioneers, and is making
much deeper excavations at the new Central Station
in the hope of laying bare the whole plan of the Roman
cemetery and of discovering some objects of special
interest to antiquaries.
A FANCIFUL DELUSION They have a curious
custom in Cabul in selling a horse. A man wanting
to dispose of one is desirous that the horse should not
be aware of his wish to part with him, the fear being
that if the beast knew that his master wished to get
rid of him that he would take it to heart and lose
flesh, and consequently decrease in value. From this
strange idea the sale of a horse is carried on in silence,
so that the animal may not hear. The two men put
their hands under their kummurbands, and the price
in rupeees is indicated by repeated pressure on the
fingers, but not a word is uttered during the bargain.
This fanciful delusion seems to ascribe considerable
sagacity to the horse

WHAT YOU SHOULD NOT DO WITH YOUR GUN. —A
Yankee sporting paper gives some sound advice on
this topic in phraseology truly characteristic of our
Transatlantic cousins. It says :—" Don't you point
your gun at yourself. Don't point your gun at any
one else. Don't carry your gun so that it's range
includes all your hunting companions. Don't try to
find out whether your gun is loaded or not by shut-
ting one eye and looking down the barrel with the
other. Don't use your gun for a walking-stick. Don't
climb over a fence and pull your gun through muzzle
foremost. Don't throw your gun into a boat so that
the trigger will catch in the seat and the charge be de-
posited in your stomach. Don't use your gun for a
Fledge-hammer. Don't carry your gun full-cocked.
Don't carry your gun with the hammer down. Don't
be a fool. Don't you forget it 1"

A DISAGREEABLE PARTY.—Cheerful Passenger (who
had made several unsuccessful attempts at Conversa-
tion with his opposit, Neighbour).—" What noble
Institutions" (they were passing Colney Hatch
Asylum)—" are these, Sir, that draw a line—interpose
a barrier, as it were—between—you and me, for
instance—and these unfortunate people—" Taciturn
Passenger (grumpily).—" That may be your opinion,
Sir. I beg you'll speak for yourself, and not for
me ! " [He got out at the station, where some friends
met him, to the great relief of No. I.] —Punch.

THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. - This
Institution has just sent new lifeboats to Gourdon, on
the coast of Kincardineshire; and to Dartmouth,
Devon. They are both very fine, powerful, self-
righting lifeboats, each being 33ft. long and rowing 10
oars. The cost of the Gourdon boat has been defrayed
from a legacy left to the institution by Mr. George
Irlam ; while that for Dortmouth- has been presented
to it by Mrs. Hargreaves in memory of her daughter,
the late Miss Maud Hargreaves, after whom the life-
boat is named. The National Lifeboat Institution has
now 269 lifeboats under its charge; 39 are on the
coast of Scotland, and 36 on the coasts of Devon and
Cornwall. The expense of a lifeboat station, in-
cluding cost of boat, equipment, and boathouse, is
£l,OOO and £7O a year is needed to keep it efficient and
to pay the crews for saving life and for quarterly
exercise.

THE COMMERCE OF ENGLAND.—WorId remarks :
"Astonishment ha % sometimes been expressed at the
rapid recovery of France from the disastrous effects of
the German War ; but it is evident from the following
passage, extracted from Samuel Rogers's Recollections,
that Edmund Burke would have been prepared for
what has occurred :--` England,' he said, 'is at all
times a moon shone upon by France. France contains
all within herself. She has natural advantages; she
can rise soon after severe blows. England is an artificial
country ; take away her commerce, what has she ?' "
HINT FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD.—Employ married
women if you wish to get dictation done properly.
Fun.

SAD FATALITY Two DAYS AFTER MARRLAGE.-Dr.
Hardwick° has held an inquest at the Islington
Coroner's Court, London, as to the death of Mr. John
Schmidt, aged 21, a German, and a furrier. The de-
ceased had only been married on the Monday morn-
ing, and on Wednesday forenoon his wife left him in
the front drawing-room sitting on the window•sill,
with his legs inside, engaged in picking off the dead
leaves from some flowers and shrubs which grew along
the narrow balcony outside. Whilst thus engaged he
was seen by a man on the opposite side of the road to
apparently lose his balance. Although he endeavoured
to recover himself by his legs he was unable to do so,
and he was precipitated backward into the area be-
neath, falling on his head on the stones. He was
picked up in an insensible state, and only survived
half an hour.—A solicitor, who attended to watch the
case for the family, stated that deceased was in
affluent circumstances, and there was no reason to
suppose that the occurrence was any other than a pure
accident.—The jury took this view of the case, and
returned a verdict of Accidentally killed by a fall
from a window,

THE ELECTRIC LlGHT.—Alluding to the introduc-
tion of the electric light, the Warehousemen and
Drapers' Journal recalls the fact that street lighting
by gas is little more than half A century old, and that
the first row of gas lamps erected in the metropolis
was placed in the front of Carlton House, then the
town residence of the Prince Regent, and stood where
the Duke of York's column now stands, at the bot-
tom of Waterloo-place. On the evening when the
lamps were first lighted large crowds of people assem-
bled from all parts of London to witness the ex-
periment, which was by no means so successful as
might have been desired. First one light would
" 1,)ob " out and then another, to be quickly re-
lighted, and after awhile to go out again. The crowd,
meantime, enjoyed the amusement, and criticised
freely, the general opinion being that gas lighting
might, and probably would, answer for indoor
illumination, but for street lighting it would never
do. Nowadays, people crowd to see the illumination
by the electric light, and, reversing the order of
criticism, declare that it may do for outdoor illumina-
tion, but cannot possibly be employed for household
purposes. Time will show.
NAMES FOR GEOGRAPHY.—The Natal Mercury
states that on the visit of General Thesiger and staff
to St. John's river to hoist the British flag on the
31st of August. the party went some considerable
distance up theriver, and passing between two high pre-
cipices (St. John's Gates), it was decided to give them
the names ef Mount Thesiger and Mount Sullivan,
the former being on the south and the other on the
north side. This was the first occasion on which a
steamer (the Somtsen) crossed the bar and went inside
St. John's river. The scenery is described as very
beautiful, and the country exceedingly fertile. Both
poultry and game are paid to be abundant. Commodore
Sullivan. of Her Majesty's ship Active, had hired the
steamer Somtsen as a tender.
TREASURE TROVE.—In London, the other day, in
digging the foundations for a new shaft at the rear of
premises in the occupation of Messrs. Morgan and Co.,
in Long-acre, some workmen came upon a chest contain-
ing a large number of gold and silver coins of the
reign of Henry VIII. in a high state of preservation.
Besides a quantity of miscellaneous articles, the box
contained about twenty pieces of church plate and
ornaments. Among these were a massive chalice, a
ciborium, and a monstrance, all set with precious
stones; a finely-carved crozier head, a lapis lazuli
crucifix, a pectoral cross and chain attached, some
small vessels, and what appears to have been the
mitre of an abbot or a bishop. At the foot of the
chalice a cross with a nimbus is engraved, and in a
scroll the Latin inscription, "Ad. majorem Dei
gloriam."

A ljazirm. HINT.—It is maintained that the in
ferior quality of certain kinds of wheat and rye
flour if frequently due to the action of sunlight on the
flour; even when in bags or barrels the gluten ez-
periencea a change similar to that occasioned by
heating in the mill. The tendency thus imparted
to it to become lumpy, mid to form dough without
toughness, is similar to that of flour when it is too
fresh, or made from grain ground too early, or
when adulterated with cheaper barley meal. Such
flour can be improved by keeping for some weeks.
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A COMPREHENSIVE PRONOUN.—Hairdresser (affably)
" It's 'ard upon hus, Sir, to be in Town at this time o
the Year."—The Colonel: " Ah, I suppose yeti would
like to take your Family down to the Sea-side ?"--
Hairdresser : "I have no Family, Sir, I meant it
was 'ard upon Me and You ! "—Punch.
THE OLDEST WROUGHT IRON.—The oldest speci-
mens of wrought iron known to ethnologists are
believed to be certain sickles found by, Belzoni under
the base of the Sphinx at Carnac, in Thebes. Another
fragment found by Captain Wise in the Great
Pyramid, and the piece of a saw dug up by Layard at
Nimroud, all of which are now in the British Museum,
prove that iron and the art of forging were known
much earlier than has been supposed, and that the
secret of manipulation appears to have been held very
closely for many years before it came into general use.
The oldest specimens of steel is believed to have been
a Damascus blade presented by King Porno to Alex.
ander the Great.

THE PHONOGRAPH,—A COINCIDENCE.—The Globe
publishes the following :—" Sir,—Perusing a book
written by the late Sydney Whiting, entitled
Helionde ; or, Adventures in the Sun,' I have come
across a paragraph which, if it does not savour of
actual prophecy, is a very good imitation of it. The
paragraph in question runs as follows (page 158) :
Abltedon here informed me that authors had so occasion
to employ manual labour in their publications, /or they had
eialy to repeat their ideas aloud, and the vibrations in the
air, differing according to the words used, set in motion *
very deiicate machinery which stamped indelibly the iall-
guaze expressed. Copies could afterwards be taken in snl
number.'
I submit it to the attention of your readers for what
it is worth, and may add that the edition in which
the passage occurs was printed in 1855.—Yours
truly, EDWARD OXENFORD.
AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN.—The follow'
ing are the average prices of British corn for the week
ending Oct. 19, as received from the inspectors and
officers of Excise :—Wheat, 395. 3d.; barley, 40s. 4d. ;
oats, 223. 2d. per imperial qr. Corresponding week
last year :—Wheat, 525. 9d. ; barley, 423. 6d. ; oats,
235. Sc].
MORE VENEER.—Someone has been writing to the
papers to complain of the growing tendency of people
to wear imitation jewellery rather than the genuine
article. Perhaps this is only one of the marks of the
degeneracy of the age, for it must be noted that even
the great vessels of war, which constitute England'e
first line of defence, are only "plated."—Judy.
THE SIMPLE HABITS OF MONSIGNOR DITPAYLOUT.
—The World remarks :—" Monsignor Dupanloup died
in the house of the family whose early friendshiß
opened to him the means of acquiring the culture°
classical knowledge which, despite M. About, he pol•
sessed. Virgil and Horace were as familiar to him at
sixteen as the breviary in his priestly days. Even to
the day of his death it was his custom to read some of
his favourite Latin writers daily. He read the pagan!,
after he had read his breviary. He had just read /31°
'office' for the day when he felt a sensation of Buffo*
cation, became speechless, and beckoned to his chaP•
lain and his old friend Count du Brys, in whose arra°
he died. When he was last attacked by. illness 110,
ordered that no funeral oration should be delivered
his funeral or on the occasion of his death. Long be-,
fore, he had his own tomb constructed, and wrote ID'
own epitaph. He had a horror of the panegyrics of his
friends.—For so elegant and courtly-looking- a person'
age, Monsignor Dapanloup led a very abstemious life'
He never slept in his gorgeous bedchamber, in the_t
way imitating Pio Nono—the whole furniture of bib
apartment being an iron bedstead, a table, and tw°
chairs. His room had not even a fireplace. In tb„.°
Versailles Chamber his neatness of attire was remsr°'
able—yet he spent little on clathes—but he made theo3
last. And although the income of his diocese We
large, he died poor. His money was spent in his lei'
ter years in relieving the families in his dioceoe
orphaned by the Franco-Prussian war, and in the ft
novation of the churches. In that way he indulged °I.

undoubted taste for the luxurious.
"MARLED MEN."—Tattooed sailors.—Judy.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION PRIZES.—Some idea esl,,
already be formed of the share assigned to differelo
nations in the Exhibition awards (says the corresPewn,;
dent of The Times). Out of 130 grand prizes,
gold medals, 6,400 silver medals, 10,000 bronze medal's,'
and 10,000 honourable mentions, England takes ;4''
grand prizes, 231 gold, 341 silver, 459 bronze medal's'
and 349 honourable mentions; while the Colonfes6l
carry off three grand prizes, 59 gold, 199 silver, 28,1
bronze medals, and 318 honourablementiolas. Engle's"
also takes 21 and her Colonies 13 diplomas of honour.
The United States according to the Ameril
Register, carry off grand prizes, 10; diplomatl,
honour, 30; gold medals, 135: silver medals, '2O"
bronze medals, 220; and honourable mention's'
156.
MODERN GALLANTRY.—" Let's see! Which shim. a
do?—call on the Grogram Browns, or look over ol
Turtle's Stables? Say the Stables—it's fine Weather'
and the Ladies will keep ! "—Punch.
Of
PAUPERISM.—The monthly return of the numheri,
paupers in England (minus about 3 per cent.
lunatic paupers in asylums, &c., not included) sho,,
that at the end of August the southern part of
kingdom, including London, had 5,961 fewer paq.7l;
than at the corresponding period of last year; vsw:a
the northern part of the kingdom (with Wales) showy"'
an increase of 15,091 paupers. But an examination.
the return shows also that the south, with a populatle;
of 9,959,215 at the last census had 316,284 pauper°
the end of August, 1878, or 31.7 per cent, of the Pels"
lation ; while the north, with 12,747,087 populati,l;
had only 339,852 paupers, or 2'66 per cent, of w
population.
A BUSY MAN !—Mr. Spurgeon is a man of el
mous energy (remarks the Court Journal). He ke •
up "the biggest preaching-shop in England."
manages some of the finest orphanages in the OP'.
kingdoms. He edits a magazine. He has a collt,
for Baptist pastors. Re is always preaching or lee%
big somewhere for charity or his denomination. 1:
finds time for the gout and for visits to the contine%;
and though he will not go to America he has been OEO
tributing to one of the American magazines, vibi„j
proprietors gave him £2OO for a set of "religions
moral" papers especially intended for AmeriFP;
readers. The Yankees think that if he can spare t 1133:,,,,
to write for them so he ought to spare
to visit them and to lecture for tht.m. But thogp
busy men have more time than idle ones, and h,
Spurgeon is ' a very busy man he yet pleads that "
cannot spate time to cross the American ferry.
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Two SIDES OF THE QUESTION.—Parson:
cline of croquet, Miss Evey, is regretable on We:,
grounds, both social and domestic, and I know of 4
pastime worthy to take its place in our esteem duri",/
the hours of idleness and relaxation."—Plo.oo
"How on earth, Ella, can you still play this slot
game? Why, even at Simla, we dropped croquet
tennis ages ago."—Fun.
DRESS IN BURMAH.—Dress in Burmah is direct?,
by law (says the Graphic). Every article of costutTo
or ornament is strictly regulated, and if any of Ad
lower orders usurp the insignia of a higher class, no
may be immediately slain by the first person the
meets them on the road. Indeed, Mendoon-M6s'
King of Burmah, who has recently died, ruled „to
subjects with an iron hand. His officers of State Ofeil
entirely dependent on his caprices, and when thel..:4/1
into disgrace were exhibited on the side of the high4Veit
under the burning sun, with a heavy weight 00,7 is
stomachs, while those in favour were not pato,
money, but by a grant of land, or of public lee"-,,tir
Spies and detectives were honourable Court inn
tions, and the Lord of the White Elephant devoei
certain time daily to receiving the reports of his ssevt.eo,
emissaries. Mendoon-men was literary in his Oleo
had keen commercial instincts, and heartily hate'bigh
British, holding, on the other hand, Italians fal ths
favour. He was much under the dominion of,r
Buddhist priests, and had greatly increased the 73;a1-
tion for their benefit, while he had covered BqsJ
with new pagodas, and at the time of his cleat% ,11
engaged in building an immense edifice, to whic
his subjects had been forced to contribute.
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A "FITTING " QUESTION.—One often hears of 71311
being "fitted to a tea," but never to a dinner.
because the latter so often "disagrees" with hi'.
Judy.
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INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS.—The Great v. io-
Railway Company of France deserve much crebtl3os
the experiments they are making with a view
increased safety of passengers. They have Ts° 1/14
operation a system by which the signalman e!„.
station can stop the trains which are leaving viaarti.,
proaching, without the control of the engineer or
of the train. A stationary signalman can put O
.°T
the brakes, and bring the train to a stand.. tOI
apparently difficult operation is performed 0104
simplest manner. At certain intervals metal P., 01
are laid down between the rails. At the pleasn.W.
the signalman these plates are charged with eleetrtbase
A metal brush depending from the engine sweePsAlci °
plates. The contact causes a bolt to be drawn, 10'
brake is instantly applied to every wheel of the %At*
Electricity is also used to test the correctness of Pf,bich
When a train has to be turned from the line oa I_:bych
it is running, great danger arises if the points wo ia•
change its course are not quite closed. BY
genious arrangement it is provided that a 5ig11,300.1
moving the lever which acts upon the points. ttl
an electric current, which causes a bell to ring Or
the points which ho is turning are quite c105e..0
bell will not stop ringing until the point toilek°
rail which it is to act, and thus the safety of the°
is secured. I.a tl
THE RUSSIAN MARCH.—To whose music
Russian Army return to the Tchataldja Liile.
and-back's.—Punch.
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TREES IN SUBURBAN THOROUGHFARES.---At 10"
ing of the Hornsey Local Board of Health meaoll
Monday, the Clerk stated that some monthe toot
gentleman, whose name was not mentioned, artn°oi tr;
his intention of giving the sum of £lOO to escistobv:,,
metropolitan parishes to be expended in the P 013eis
and planting of plane trees in the principal the b
fares. The same gentleman had now, thretlgaoll,
representative, expressed his willingness to 1111,,la!,4
the sum of £lOO to the Board for the purpose 0'
ing Highgate with trees, although it was not coinitofi
within the metropolitan di,trict. A motion sveci
posed and seconded, that the offer be :w001:4.5,0'41j:
thanks, and that it be referred to the Genehgr., ~,
poses Committee to carry out the proposal. tios
t_larke opposed the motion on the ground and e"
planting of trees was injurious to the roads,
tailed a considerable amount of unnecessary %pis' a
The chairman (Colonel Stedall) expressed
that trees in the main thoroughfares proPehj ortt_- d
judiciously planted would be both useful Otianv:
mental. Their gratitude was due to the genoilL
who had made them the offer, and who, it
stood, had been induced to make an exces
favour of of Highgate because he had once reside oil
The motion was ultimately carried,
one dissentient. there beisg

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LORD LAWRENCE ON ENGLAND'S
AFGHAN POLICY.

Lord Lawrence, in a long letter to The Times (on Tues
day), expresses the opinion that it is not for the honour of
England that we should go to war with the Afghans because
they will not receive our Mission, and that such a war
would be impolitic and unjust. He is certain that by
advancing into Afghanistan we shall have greatly
weakened our position, which, he thinks, requires the
strengthening of our present frontier rather than the ex-
tending of it further.—The following is an extract from
Lord Lawrenoe's letter :
. . . If, however, we advance into Afghanistan, we
shall in the first instance break up the government
which exists there, and which it will be impossible for
us to replace—a government which, with all its faults,
Is not unsuited to the people and with which they are
generally content. We 61111 then be holding the
country with the inhabitants sullen and discontented,
and the chiefs eager to throw off the yoke and ready to
Join any invader who can hold out to them hopes of
success.
I do not for one moment look with indifference on
the state of things in Central Asia, and still less in
Aighanistan. On the contrary, I do so with great
anxiety, and this I have alwayri done. But I feel
pretty confident that we shall not improve our posi-
tion by going to war with the Afghans. I am cer-
tain that we shall find, when it is, perhaps, too late,
that by advancing into Afghanistan we shall have
greatly weakened our position, more especially as I
anticipate it would involve our remaining there.
One writer quietly contemplates the occupation of
Cabul, Ghazni' Kandahar, and Herat. Another,
not content with this, advocates a further advance,
so as to hold the whole country from the Pamir
steppes on the north to the Helmand on the south. A
third would urge us in due course of time to cross the
Oxus and drive the Russians out of Central Asia, and
has in his own opinion strong reasons for such move-
manta Sir J. Stephen is apparently content with the
occupation of the defiles leading up to Cabul from
India. Few, however, of the advocates of an advance
would limit their desires to that extent; and, to say
the truth, it seems to me that the occupation of the
passes would probably require an advance into the
valleys beyond.
Time will not admit of my going into the question
of the position of Russia in Central Asia. Ido not
myself think that that position ought to lead them to
advance much further. Russia has already probably
as good a boundary in the line of the Oxus as she
ought to desire. Ido not think she will strengthen
her tenure of the country she now occupies by a further
advance. Should she extend her occupation to
Afghanistan, she will most probably turn the Afghans
against her for the same reason that our occupation
of that country would turn them against tiv.
I do not believe that the object of Russia in her '
present relations with Sheer All is purely commercial;
doubtless in contracting the alliance with Turkey, in
occupying Cyprus, and in telling the whole world that
we were ready to bar the way of Russia on the Arme-
nian border, we did a good deal to aggravate the Rus-
sians. They are now paying us off for this policy by
Irritating us in Afghanistan indeed, we have heard
as much in some of the Continental papers. But the
point is, whether by holding our own frontier, or by
advancing into Afghanistan and breaking to pieces the
Afghan Government, we shall improve or weaken our
position. I hold to the latter view.
It is said that in cases where the honour of England
and the safety of great interests belonging to it are
concerned neither the expenditure of the blood of our
countrymen nor, still less that of large sums of money
must be considered. I admit there are such circum-
stances, but not in the present case. I hold, there-
fore, that it is not for the honour of England that we
should go to war with the Afghans because they will
not receive our Mission, and that such a war would
be impolitic and unjust.
I have said little on the cost of such a war. We
have been told that England will certainly pay a con-
siderable portion of it; but there seems no certainty
on this point. Judging from the past it seems more
than probable that England will not pay such
a portion of the charges as the policy of India
renders it desirable that she should do. Moreover,
though she might be willing to pay a portion of
the extra charges of a campaign, she would pro-
bably demur to making good an adequate share of
the cost of the occupation of Afghanistan; and to
howl ong this may extend no man can foresee. But,
whatever may be decided on the question of division
of expense between the two countries, I should de-
plore, under present circumstances, the expenditure
of any large sum on such a war. India is unable to
bear the cost, and England is by no means in the
condition to meet it.. . .

THE SEVENTY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY
OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. •
Monday (the 21st) being Trafalgar-day, the old
wooden three-decker, the Victory, flagship of Nelson at
the memorable battle of Trafalgar, had her mastheads,
mizzen peak, ensign staff, and yard-arms decorated with
bunches of laurel, whilst the plate on the upper deck
marking the spot where the hero fell was encircled
with a wreath of the same evergreen, and a bed of
laurels indicated the place in the cockpit where he
died. The Victory lies in Portsmouth Harbour, doing
service as receiving ship to the Duke of Wellington,
flagship of the Commander-in-Chief. By a happy
arrangement the annual meeting of the Royal Seamen
and Marines' Orphan School and Female Orphan
Home at Portsmouth is held on Trafalgar-day. The
gathering on Monday was under the presidency of
Admiral Fanshawe, C. 8., commanding in chief, who
dwelt upon the national claims of the institution, in
which 120 girls are now being wholly maintained and
educated and 60 boys are being educated.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rose Sartorius,
1C.C.8., Admirals Robert Patton, W. W. Percival
Johnson, and Spencer Smyth, Commanders Francis
Harris and William Vicary, and Lieut.-Colonel
James loynmore, R.M., are now the only veteran
offioers alive who were present at the Battle of Tra-
falgar. Admiral of the Fleet Sir G. R. Sartorius, who
is now in his 89th year, entered the navy in June, 1801,
and fought as midshipman on board the Tonnant ; Ad-
miral Patton, now in his 88th year, and who entered
the navy February 1, 1809, was midshipman
in the Bellerophon ; Admiral Percival Johnson,
who entered the navy July 2, 1803, was mid-
shipman of the Victory; Admiral Smyth, who entered
the navy in March, 1803, was midshipman in the
Defiance; Commander Vicary, now in his Nth year,
who entered the navy February 6, 1805, was first-class
volunteer in the Achilles; Commander Harris was
first-class volunteer in the Temeraire ; and Lieut.-
Colonel Fynmore was midshipman of the Africa.

- The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday, in noticing the anniver-
sary, remarks
"Yesterday was the seventy-third anniversary of the
grandest naval fight the world has ever seen. At day-
break, on the 21st of October, 1805, Nelson having
under his command twenty-seven sail of the line and
five frigates, came in sight of the combined French
and Spanish fleet, off Cape Trafalgar. The enemy
was much more numerous, and the British admiral
might have waited their attack; but history tells
how, with a signal which inspired every English-
man present to heroic acts of bravery, he
bore down upon his opponents. and gained a
victory the effects of which are felt even to
this very hour. The navy which on that day
achieved such a deoi of valour, has, in these later
times, no degenerate successor: and it is pleasant to
remember, at a moment like the present, how vast an
effect the ironclads of England, which have succeeded
o the heritage of Nelson wooden walls, have lately
exercised upon the politics of Europe. Not long
since, if report speak truly, General Ignatieff, from
his house at San Stefano, made great mirth at the
English men-of-war as they lay in the Bay of Prinkipo.
The Treaty enforced by the Grand Duke Nicholas
had just been signed by the Turks, and the
Ottoman Empire, with its capital, seemed to lie
at the feet of the conqueror. There was, indeed,
cause for pleasantry in the Russian camp, in
counting up the few ironclads lying off the
coast which were .at first thought by Muscovite
soldiers and statesmen to be of little moment.
But as the days passed away this ridicule gradually
subsided, since the Russians learned that Constan-
tinople and the mach-coveted Bosphorus might cer-
tainly be defended against all their attacks by the
sailors who manned those plain-looking ships. It was,
in fact, to the British fleet that Turksy eventually
owed her deliverance from the bondage of the Mus-
covite forces, and Europe was spared a spectacle of
unparalleled Injustice. Thus it must be a matter for
proud congratulation to the four or five veteran ofEcers
who once fought at Trafalgar and still remain amongst
us, that the peace which we now celebrate is in a large
measure the work of the same service which many
years ago off the Spanish coast humbled the pride
of England's enemies and gained for itself undying
renown."

• THE RELATIONS OF CHURCH AND
STATE.
The Bishop of Peterborough, in the second portion
of his charge delivered at Kettering, last Saturday,
showed that, during the ten years of his episcopate
£400,000 had been voluntarily raised for Church and
educational purposes. He deprecated the wild gesti-
culations for liberty on the part of some who over-
looked what the Church had done and the reforms
which, at her request, the State had enabled her to
carry out. The Bishop did not deny that further
readjustments of the relations of Church and State
were called for by the altered circumstances of the
time; but these, he believed, would be granted if
sought in a calm and temperate spirit. He advocated
the general adoption of special services for children
and a reform of the Diaconate, to which he would
have young men at twenty one years of age, so that
during the three years before they took full orders
they might thoroughly learn their work and have
time for study.