The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

A HELL SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTHQUAKE.
—A Panama di-patch says much damage has been
doze in the vicinity of Quito, in the province of Imbse
bury, and in many other places, by earthquakes. On
the 2nd of December several chocks were felt, and on the
12th continued chocks were felt from noon till morning
of next day, when a chock i f extraordinary violence or-
marred. "The inhabitente," caye the Panama Mail,
"were terrified, and niched from their dwellinec, fell
on their knees, and implored for mercy. During
the latter part of the day thirteen dictinct shocks
were felt in Jipijaps, each one being accompanied
by a violent wind storm. On the 13th December
another terrific shock was experienced. Several times
since many shocks have taken place, but none created
great alarm until the 2nd March, when there wee one
of nnusual severity at about midday; hut the most
terrifying one of all took place on the 3rd, when be-
tween Pedernale and Cabo Pacado the earth was Peen
to open and emit s hillock of atones from thirty to
forty feet high. Behind or near the spot where this
occurred stood an earth hill about sixty feet high,
which suddenly and entirely disappeared. Around the
base of the hillock is a circular pond of Fish water, and
for a long dietance enrrounding that the earth which
b.-f-rn was hard and solid has become soft and spongy.
The inhabitants of the locality have become positively
tetror-stricken, and no inducement will take them
within a very long distance of the spot."
ANOTHER POLAR EXPEDITION.—A great polar
Expedition is being prepared in Sweden, for the years
1071 and 1872, under the direction of Professor Nor-
denskjold, the celebrated scientific leader of the
Swedish expedition of 1868. Parry's attempt to reach
the Pole by pushing on to the north of Spitzbergen is
to be repeated, and it is propeeed to winter on one of
the Seven Wands, Professor Nordenskiold intends to
proceed to Greenland thin !rummer to purchame dogs
for the aLociata and prawn nom rammary ilgemMjon.

A JOICZ tie Colmar"' !—A Philadelphian editor
has just perpetrated, quite unintentionally, a joke,
almost as good as that wicked one of Sheridan's, who,
when found drunk in the street, hiccupped that he was
Wilberforce. During the debate in the Weise of Re-
presentatives on the Anti-Polygamyll, Mr. Hooper,
the delegate from Utah, and a Mormon, of course,
warmly defended and eulogised polygamy, citing the
example of the Patiarchs. The editor of one of
the Philadelphian papers,- knowing of only one
Hooper in the home, saddled this speech on the
Hon. S. Hooper, • decorous and respectable Boston
merchatt, a representative ~f puritanical Maestachu-
aetts, and a pattern if strait-laced propriety in life and
opinions. After reading the honourable Samuel a
long homily, the editor wound up by attributing his
backsliding to a visit paid by him to Salt Lake last
autumn. Mr. Hooper, anxious to vindicate himself
from such a charge, brought the matter before the
House; but so ludicrous did the idea seem to members
of his giving. utterance to such sentiments as those im-
puted to him, that it quite upset their gravity. When
Mr. Hooper proceeded to read the article peal upon
peal of laughter greeted each sentence, until even his
own sense of propriety gave way, and he joined in the
general hilarity.

THE PA.RIB NEWSPAPERE.—A short time ago
there were as many as 420 newspapers and reviews
published in Paris. A new journal, entitled Le Petit
Palms de Juid,ce, was started for the sole purpose of
giving a full report of the trial at Tours, and ceased to
appesr after that celebrated proceeding. Of the most
violent democratic papers, the chief are the Morsel-
loise, Rappel, Cloche, and Rival. The Journal de
Paris is not RO advanced, and of the same clips are the
Parlament, Soir, Siale, which latter is not nearly FO
violent asit was in the days of absolute personal govern
ment. The Libeete is a Liberal paper, but favourable
on the whole to the present government. The Temps
and the Moniteur are both independent, but the
latter, like the Gaulois, is somewhat inclined to the
Opposition. The Figaro, the most universally read
paper in Paris, professes to be entirely independent,
but has a slight bias in favour of the present Govern-
ment. The Constitutions/et and the Petrie are
thoroughly Ministerial journals, as are also the
Etendard and the People Francais. The Public im
Rouheriat, and the Gazette de Prance Legitimist. The
Paris Journal and the Debuts are independent and
scarcely political; the latter, however, being supposed
to hold Orleanist views. The Monde, the tlsrical
organ, is also rather Orleasmit in its opinions, and the
Droit and the Gazette des Tribune= are purely legal
journsh.

AMIABLE MUBICIANB.—An Indian newspaper
in reporting the sudden death of the gaoler of Darjeel-
ing, kayo a suspicion arose of hie baying come by his
death by foul means, on the ground that, as he was a
very tall man, the Booteabs had probably had poieon
administered to him in order to rifle his grave of his
splendidly lengthy thigh bones. It appears that
parties of Bootealis occasionally prowl into Darjeeling '
on dark nights, and desecrate the burial grounds there,
in search of human thigh bones of good length, which
they eepecially prize and make trumpets of ! In the
present ClUle, however, a post mortern examination
showed that the gaoler died of unsuspected abscess of
the liver.

BLOWING HOT AND COLD !—A Paris paper re-
marks :

"The Debes has, during the last two days, presented a
curious spectacle, as in one column en article appears ap-
proving highly of the plehlacite, and In another a long argn-
ment against it. M. Saint Marc Oirardin lathe champion of
the former opinion, and M Prevost-Paradol of the latter.
This 4, iversity of views testifies certainly to the perfect inde-
pendence of the writers on that journal; but, then, bow
greatly does such a circumstance lessen the value of that
print as an orals of public opinion? flow can the Dehats
hope to in flnence the mind of its readers, when it blows hot
in one part and cold in another on the same subject I"
Galignani.

AN INTERCHANGE OF GIFTS.—Le Ganiois says
that Marshal Prim has recently made • present to the
Emperor Napoleon of 20,000 cigars with gilt ends and
ornamented with the Imperial N., also gilt on each
cigar. which is estimated to he worth lif. In return
the Emperor has sent to the Spiunsh Marshal a pair
of vases of S.\ arc's manufacture.

AN INTERESTING FACT.—" A recent perusal
of Sir Charles Lyell's Principle., of Geology," says •
correspondent "remind, me of an incident which oc-
curred about ten years ago. I was then shooting in the
north of England, and my gamekeeper having drawn
my attention to some wild ducks which had settled in a
epinney, or @haw. as they are called in that country, I
succeeded in making • right and left out of the five
that rose on our approach. I gent them to London se
a present, and from the crop of one an acorn was taken,
which my friend planted in the garden. The result is
that a thriving young oak promisee to become a grand
old tree, and a monument of time to future genera-
tions."

A FATAL FIRE.—On Monday morning a fatal
fire occurred at Norton Lindsay, a village about five
miles from Warwick, by which two elderly ladies,
named Mrs. and Miss Horton, loot their lives. Mrs.
Horten occupied a farm, and resided at the farmhouse
with Miss Horton, who was her sister-in-law. • daugh-
ter, and a female servant. About four o'clock on
Monday morning Miss Horten was aroused by a smell
of tire, and she and the servant, who slept with her,
managed to escape by jumping from the bedroom
window, • distance of 14ft. or lsft. Mrs. Horten was
also aroused, and was seen to go to her bedroom win-
dow, hut, it is supposed, from age and infirmity, she
was afraid or unable to leap from it to the ground.
The fire was extinguished by the villagers before the
fire engines arrived from Warwick, but the lower
portion, of the premises were completely gutted. The
deceased were found in their bedroom, and, from the
fact of their being partially dressed. it is presumed
that they were both aware of the fire having broken
out. Death, in both cases, had been caused by sub..
cation, as the bodies were uninjured by fire.
LIFE AND DEATH IN PARIB.—A Paris DOlTCB-
pondeot writes

Suicide would seem to be growing into the proportions of
an epidemic as small.pos is on the decline. Sin persons, two
of them female.. put an end to their lives on Saturday last—
leer by the good old plan of shutting doors. windows, sod
chimney., and kindling a brazier of charcoal, and others by
the summary process of the rope. While these people are In
such a hurry to shorten their days • gentleman who is en-
joying the hospitality of the governor of the Itoquette
prison en attendant the guillotine, is anxious to lengthen
his. and petition. 3i. Jules I`lll3ollo to hasten the discussion
of his proposition for the abolition of the death penalty.
Short of Tropmann there scarcely could be a criminal less en-
titled to s 3 mostly than the petitioner In question—the
drunken Belgian footman who cot off the head of his mis-
tress. Madame Lombard, with • carving tuffs, 10 the presence
of her paralysed husband, some wed,s ago, and tried to
do the same by the cook and • woman who had come to her
assistmce.

GRANT OF FRISCHDRNCIL—Her Majesty has
been pleased to grant to the children of the late Hon.
and Very Rev. Edward Rice, D.D Dean of Glocester
(whoee eldest surviving son, Francis William, now
Baron Dynevor, succeeded to the title in October last),
the same rank and precedence which they would have
enjoyed if their late father had succeeded to the
barony. The children who survive are .---Henry Rice,
clerk, rector of Great Riasington ; Mr. John Talbot
Rice, Oddington-honse ; Charlotte, wife of Alexander
Cameron, clerk; Maria, widow of Edward Minkel., of
Boughton- hall, Flint. and of Rhys•villa, Weymouth,
and late Canon of Glocester and Bristol ;and Lucy
Horatia, wife of William Sweet Escott, rector of Carl-
ton, Bedford.
AN ABSENT MAN.—Father Gratry has been
lately named Director of the French Academy for the
coming half-year. Several academicians did not view
his appointment without some apprehension, knowing
him to be since the death if hi. Ampere, the most
absent man in France. One day in going to the Sor-
bonne, where he was giving lectures on theology, he
fancied that he had forgotten his watch, and than
drew it out of his fob to see if he had time to fetch it,
whch, in fact, he went to do.

AUSTRALIA?: DIAMONDS.—The work of mining
for diamonds is going on quietly but steadily in the
Mtidgee district. It is stated that the Australian Dia-
mond Mines Company have forwarded to England
984 atones in all. Other parties besides the two Mel-
bourne companies are said to be doing well. Scott and
party, just before the Christmas liolydaya, washed 12
loads, and obtained 110 diamonds, weighing 3idert.,
equal to 26 carats; nine of them weighed one "meat
each. They state their earnings to have been £32 a
week. The statement of the correspondent t f a
Sydney journal as to the products f the Mudgee gold
and diamond mines having been called in question by a
local newspaper, a meeting was held on the 20th of
December at Two.mile Flat, at which resolutions
were pawed confirming the statement made by the
correspondent, and appointing a committee to collect
statistics. It was not long before a list was suede op
of 36 persons, who certified to having found diamonds,
in all about 2,000, of which some 600 were Fold In New
South Wales and 1,200 forwarded to Melbourne.
Besides this, there are many diamonds in the hands of
Chinese and others of which no accurate account could
be obtained. It is stated that several diamonds have
been found near Dubbo, an inland town, in another
part of New South Wales.

A THREATENED STRIKE IN PARIE.—" For
some days past," says the Gonloie, "certain placards
have been posted in the suburbs cf Paris urging the
workmen to refuse payment of rent and to adopt •
general strike for the 10th of April. We are not dis-
posed to attach much importance to these incitements,
but the authorities do not bold the same opinion, and
we are in a position to state that the police have
adopted measures of precaution. One placard runs
thus :

Respell is very ill, Flourens Is in exile, our Deputy Roche-
fort Is in prison. Why in secret? Let us obey the directions
which have been posted on the walls of the Fauboum. Let
all France commence a strike, for we have nn deputies. The
Left is well pad to say nothing. That is clear as daylight.
Up, people, and drive away these leeches.
~„ . . .

The authorities have not thought it necestetry to con-
fine troops in barraiks ; but the peace officers have
been .mired to remain at their posts from the 10th to
the 15th of April. l'he manufacturers are not well
satisfied as to the disposition of some of their work-
men, and fear a desertion, induced by the pressure of
a few leaders."

CRILDRIN IN ARMS, PARIS, IB3o.—The very
children fought. A boy of fourteen seized the bridle of
the horse ridden by the Marquis de Chabauves, com-
mander of lancers. The home, tossing up his head,
lifted the urchin from the ground. In that position
the young bulldog blew out the officer's brains. Some
of the Polytechnique students, mere lads id ten or
twelve, crept under the muskets of the soldiers, and
then fired their pistols into the men'e bodies. One
Spartan boy of less than ten returned from a charge
with two streaming bayonet wounds in hie thighs, and
still refused to cease firing. At the attack on the
Tuilleriee, a Polvtechnique student called through the
railings to an officer, and told him to surrender on pain
of extermination, "for liberty and foroe were now in
the hands of the people." The officer refused to obey
and, moreover, presented his pistol, which, however,
missed fire. The lad coolly thrust in his hand, seized
the officer by the throat, and putting the point of hi.
sword near it, said, "Your life is in my power. I
could cut your throat, butt will not shed blood." The
officer, touched by this generosity, tore the deooration
from his own breast, and presenting it, said, "Brave
young man! No man can be mom worthy than you
to reoeive tide ; take it from my hanrl. Your name r.
" Popil et tit* Polyteohnique School," replied the

young hero, and immediately rejoined his companions.
In one of the skirmishes with the Royal Guard.o ioece
of artillery had been left in an open !pace SA p. by
musketry fire. A Polytechnique lad ran up to the
piece and clasped it with both hands, cryiuv. " It is
ours I will keep it. I will die rather that, surrender
it" His comrades behind shouted, "Vu will be
killed. Come back." But the boy held thc cannon
through all the fire, until the cit,zens reached the piece
and saved him. M. Giovanni di Aceto. an Italian
youth, only seventeen, shot an officer if V, Royal
Guard, who was about to run through the b .dy an en-
sergeant of the 17th Light Infantry. This la', at the
head of thirty citizers, fought gallantly at the Hotel
de Ville, the Porte St Martin, the Rue St Honore,
and the Tuilleriee.—Dickenis "Alt the Year Round."

MURDIR OF • MAN AND W Ire.—A double
murder is reported by the New York papers. On the
night of the 20th March, the charred remains o a man
named Lunger and his wife, residing at Ulysses,
Tompkins County, were found in the ruins of their
house which had been burned down. The skull of the
man exhibited a fracture, and it was discovered that
his daughter and aman named Ferguson were missing.
The girl was traced to an hotel in Pot. y Hollow,
Schuyler County, where the man had lift or. She
said that Ferguson came to the house on the Sunday
night, and murdered her father and ruother with an
axe whilst they were in bed. He then set tire to the
hotve, and compelled the girl to go with him. Lore
for the girl and the opposition of the par etc is said to
have been the cause of the crime. Fergesor as been
arrested in Pennsylvania, and is now awaitieg his
triaL
CONTRACT PILORINAORB.—The two parties
of tourists teavelline through Palestine ender the ar-
rangement of Mr Cook, irclude sixty ladies and gin.
tlemen of England and America, tweny if whom are
ladies. The two divisions move generally a few hours
apart, hut at chief reeting.places they encamp near to
each other, and the arrangements always brihe them
together on Sends/pa Their first Sabbath wan op.
pointed to be spent at Jaffa, but, owing to the delay
of the steamer at Port Said, they only arrived there 1m
Monday morning, the 28th of February, and on the
same day they commenced their journey toward'
Jerusalem, where, after visiting the Head :ies, the
Jordan, and Jericho, they spent their tiro. Sunday.
Thenoe they travelled through Judea, Samaria, and
Gildee to Nazareth. The health of the tem-stops has
been generally good. They found the country in a
sad state from the results of drought, the want of
water, and the greatly enhanced prices ot ft od ; hut
twentyifi or hours of copious rain had wnieght •
wonderful change in the general wipeout of vegetation
and in the spirits of the Arab population. It was
feared that a military escort might be needed to pros
tect the tourists from Moslem fanaticism, which attri-
buted their distress to the visite of "Frank-'," a term
which includes ell classes of Christians; :Jut there is no
interruption to the course of the parties, who conduct
religious services in the camps with perfect fr. edi
In these services the Rev. Newman HAI, of Surrey
Chapel; the Rev. Arthur Hall, of Edmonton; the
Rev. John Puleford, of Edinburgh, and two American
ministers take friendly part. After visiting the north
of Palestine and the Lebanon, the programme movides
for trips to Cyprus, Rhodes, Smyrna, Ephesus, Con-
stantinople, Athens, and other places in Greece, re-
turning by Italy and Switzerland, the tour to be com-
pleted by the Ist of May.

THe LAZY NlGGER.—Somebody writes to the
Chicago Tribune from Vickbburg. Mow., that when he
arrived in the State he was poeitively waured by
almost every (white) body that "the nigger wouldn't
work." Proceeding to the verification of th,s aeserq, n
by personal observation, he was somewhat .rprieed to
find that "the nigger wee the only person who did
work "—that all the stories about hi." indolence and
shiftlessness" must be taken with several ponnds of
allowance that he is advancing under dliculties
which would totally diecourege a great many whites,
such as the rent charge of 10 dola or 15 dole. per acre
for his land; and that, with about half the fair pia•
which ie usually considered necesaary, he i. •
up money.

A SleouLAß TRIAL—The euit in Paris
"Toulat v. Prince Raymond de Broglie" has been again.
adjourned. M. Teulat claims 100,000 fr. datln.l,,, for
having been shut up in • lunatic asylum by the
Prince, who for that purpose obtained a medicAl cer-
titicate, and an order from the Prefect of Police. hie
signature being necessary in Paris. The defence in,
that M. Teulat, who was tutor to the children of
Prince Auguste de Broglie, fell in love with the
Princees, one day presumed to kiss her, and wi. n the
Prince died persecuted her in various waja
Raymond, finding remonstrance melees, concluded that
the man was mad, and to ehelter his aiecer-13.1•5e pro-
cured his incarceration. M. Tel:list's! counsel expinintd
that his client had never exhibited any other maduets
than that of love; his only folly was hie adoration of the
Princes.. He accused the Primp° of an el ire of
power, and Dr. Laseegne of having lent himself to a
conspiracy. Maitre Dupont, in term'nating the
plaintiff's case, said that the 'Jesuits were mixed tip in
the affair. The counsel f..r the defence. Maitre
Nicolet, laid before the court an account of how the
Prince's, now dead, bad been persecuted by the plain-
tiff ; she had been unable to go out in her earrings
without being followed by him, and had up to the last
moment been pestered with paesionate letters of
immoderate length ; she bad been haunted by M
Toilet, who had passed whole nights under her win-
dow, and bad dogged her stem, when she walked out.
It was under these circcinetances that the Prime,
regarding M. Teulat as insane, had obtained bit
carceration.

A MAN POISONED BY MISTAKE.—A fi va days
ago a case of sudden death occurred in Edinburch
which should have the effect of cautioning heads of
families as to whom they send for medicines, and pot-
ting chemists on their guard as to whe m they supply
those of a dangerous character. A boy had been sent
for " paragon:: " by his father, (a braasfounder) to it
chemist's in the city, but he seems, before reaching the
shop, to have forgotten the name ..f the medicine, and
asked for something which puzzled the shopnian.
Several liquids were named to Meted, sod one of these
was bisulphate of carbon— a solution often asked for
by int ssengers from shoemakers, who lIPP it forpatchirg
boots. The lad stated that that was what he wanted,
and the ehnpinan furnished Lim with it, carefully
labelling the phiaL in the mual way, and puttinit on
it the word 'poison." When the phial was taken
home, it would appear that the lab.' was not carefully
examined, and that the man was supplied with the
liquid which the lad brought. The result was that
the unfortunate man died in a few hours after taking
the poison.

A FEARFUL SCRIM !—ln London, last Satur-
day evening, a man rather respectably dressed, and
apparently about sixty years of age, entered one it
the recesses on Waterloo Bridge, and having ascended
the stone seat, crossed the balustrade, and got upon
the outside arapet which extends the whole length of
the bridge. The man appears to have repented of
his suicidal intenticn just bi fore be let to hie hold I.f
the parapet, as he screamed loudly for help, and
attracted the attention of many people, who cxiuld pot,
however, offer him aid in sufficient time. He fell
within a minute or two of lie crossing the balustrade,
and having struck against the buttresses of the bridge,
he was killed instantaneously.

AN EDITOR " COWEIDFI ."—At about two p.m.
yesterday (says the New York Tribune of March 16.)
while Mr. George Wilkes, editor and proprietor of
Wilkes' Spoil of the Times, was walking leisurely down
Broadway, near Pearl-street, be was hailed by Major
William W. Leland, formerly of the St. Julian HoteL
The major approached Mr. Wilke and asked him why
an uncomplimentaty allusion had been made to him
(the maj.ir) in the Spirit of the Times of the 12th inst.
It is not known positively what reply was madeby Mr.
Wilkes, but it is supposed that he did not make a
satisfactory explanation, for the major, without more
ado, raised his cane sad bmucht it down with terrific
force upon the head of Mr. Wilke, In a moment a
large crowd collected, and Mr. Wilkes his face bloody
from the wound, ran into the dry goods establishment
next to the corner of Pearl-street, Major Leland
pursued him and repeated the castigation in the store,
breaking the cane over his victim's head, but an officer
of the Broadway squad had by this time arrived, and
took the major into custody. Mr. Wilkes refused to
make any charge against his assailant, and the latter
wast released. The following are the ser,rds to which
Major Leland took exception. TiteL,°Ccur in an
editorial in Mr. Wilkes'. paper on thel2th instant :
Major wiiiiam Leland is a notorious swindler and
scoundrel, whose infamy is common as the sir. lie would
not be believed on oath by any jury in New York; •nd
adding beastly COWS/MOO and brutishness to his dishonesty,
is dl-countenanced even by his own brothers for his frequent
cruel beathigs and kicking. of a wife, who, Is addition to
being adorned by every womanly virtue, has borne him
several children.

GRINDING OLD FOLKS YOUNG AGAIN.—At
late grand notectueradine entertainment, cloning the
neasoa at Sandusky (Ohio) one of the most an:lolling
features of the allow wan a mill for grinding old folks
young, which was all as life-like as any peformance
could be. Fifteen or twenty men dressed in the
garb of crooning grandmothers, were picked up and
thrown bead first into a hopper. The crank turned
with a steady motion, grind, grind, until they all dis-
appeared—a pair of heels in the air being the last
thing visible until • young lady bounced out at a nide
opening in the mill, and ran out into the hall.

ONLY A RIiVOLYER. The following incident iS
said to have occurred in a Utica rernierent :
A man recently entered the place and ordered a very
elaborate dinner. He lingered long at the table, and finally
wound up with a bottle of wine. Then, lighting up a . Ica,
he had ordered, he leisurely sauntered up to the coin.ter,
and said to the proprietor, ' Very flue dinners, iandi,,ri ;
Just charge It to me; I haven't got a cent." " Cot I don't
know you," said the proprietor, indignantly. "(if course
you don't. If you had, you wouldn't have let me have tl
dinner." "Pay me for the dinner, Ivry " "And I say I can't."
"I'll are about that," said the proprietor, who 'matched
a revolver out of a drawer, leaped over the counter, and
oollared the man, exclaiming, ati he pointed it at his head,
"Now see if you'll get away • ith that dinner without paying
for it, you scoundrel." "What is that you bold in your
hand 7" said the impecurt as customer, drawhg tack.
"That, sir, is • revolver, Mr." "Oh, that', • revolver, I. it
I don't care • fig for a revolver; I thought it was a stomach
pump'"

A NICE QUESTION TO HE DECIDED.—A very
curious case has coma up in the courts of New York,
in which the matter in dispute was whether or not cer-
tain partite stood to each other in the relation of I.us-
band and wife. Singularly ehough, it was the woman
who maintained that she had never been married to i lie
man, had never lived with him SP his wife, an.] that
his claim to be her lord and master was frauculeht,
The action was for slander, and the nlanderous words
on which it was instituted by the woman were, "
is either my wife or iny mistress," spoken by the man.
Mr. Bonnell, the defendant, swore that he was mar-
ried to Miss Moore in 0 .tober, 1864, is St. Pail's
Methodist Episcopal Church, by the Ray. Dr.
'Clintrak. The register of the church corroborated
this testimony. A deposition of the officiating clergy.
man, who died two weeks ago, was read by plainttff's
counsel, to the effect that be had married lionnell, but
that he had only a vague recollection of the features
of his bride, and could not be certain whether the
plaintiff was the person or not. A great deal of con-
flicting evidence was submitted to the Puy, who were
so bewildered by it that they were wholly unable to
agree upon a verdict, and so no decision was arrived at,
and Miss Moore and Mr. Bonnell are left free to up-
" their respective theories of their relations to seat
other.