The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-11-13 00:00:00

STOT:RBRIDGE OBSERVER

these facts, but extend t., a further branch of the subject—
vie, as t, what prevents Coventry, Macclesfield, and S;pital.
fields taking *larger share of our silk trade than they now
h tvo, and stud the grounds are upon which the members for
ventry and Nlacclestletd bring the distresses of their con-
stituencies before Parliament.
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It is evident that the manufacturers at these places have
many important advantages over the foreigner. They have
the whole of this vast consumption of silk goods and ribands
comparatively at their own doors. The raw material Is, I
presume, about the same price in London as in Lyons, seeing
f hat we export thrown silk. Nor am I aware of any eslential
difficulty with which they have to contend. There are many
circumstances in their favour. Our coal is cheaper, and our
mills and machinery are probably cheaper also.
Wtiere, then, lies the fault? Are we forced to acknowledge
that English skill and industry are not able to cope with
those of trance? Or are there any conditions surrounding
Efiglish skill and industry which place us at • disadvantage
as ummared with foreign Countrte6? I must acknowledge
that I see no other cone i mien. Mit WS, I apprehend. would
not entitle our silk weavers to special protection, at the oat
if all other lloprotroted trades in the country. A more
nrnelcal and conamon-sense canna would he to attack the
e Mies which have hindered the progress of the.s branches of
I ..beerve that the Trades Unionists of London were early
ill she tieLl to hoiti a public nine Mg and pas retoluttoors for
all " inquiry into our commercial policyo" and " the want of
employment consequent upon the importation of foreign
manufactured goods. ' I hope the inquiry may be erended
so as to ascertain whether Trades' Unions have retarded, and
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If auto what extent, the progress of our silk trade. So for as
I can ascei tank, both at Coventry and Macclesfield, there are
Trades' Unions in every important branch of their Industry;
avd many of the primipal of these have their scents and
c•insulting committees .iiistantly watching tool guarding the
hitt] ehta • 1 the workers. The action of these Trades' Unions,
as proved by the replies received to queries mole by the
Trades' Union Commissioners, interferes with trade "by
passing it to other districts, and since the French Treaty
to the Continent." 'the following cases are adduced in
support of the statement that Trades' Unions have this
effect:—
In 1627-8 a seven weeks' strike terminated in a species of
work (Giros de Naples), which then supplied 400 hand loon,
weavers, leaving thedistrict and driving It to Lancashire.
In 1817-0 an article jet cords) employing, on an average
500 loorns left the town trim similar causes. Since that
time the niminfacture of figured broAd silks was attempted,
Ind given up, and driven to kliddleton, Lancashire, from
shinier causes.
In I<o another attenipt was made to stimulate this latter
impoilabt branch of the trade, and negotiations with cer-
tain workmen completed, but were speedily tin-ken, through
the interference of the Trades' Vinous deniauding all unrea-
sonable advance, equal to 00 per cent., and so prohibiting its
continuance.

lu 1861 a fancy velvet trade was carefully cultured, but
shared a like fate with the above-mentioned, and is gone to
Germany.
In 1857-8 the most suicidal result of such combinations is
thus given bye manufacturer
" A class of wos k called figured poplin. was being ex-
tended) made in Macclesfield by SI am:Mater mmufatattrers,
and he, being desirous of some employment for his work-
people, coonsulted the chairman of the Weavers Unibm, who,
In answer to his inquiries, told him that, being a Macclere
tido emt.lo) er, he could not be allowed to make the :odd.,
at the saute price (tor labour) as the Manchester iii tioutac-
turd% ache was bound by the regulations of the trade in his
own u MaccleskekU district, whereus they had non control what-
ever over the Manchester maiinteturers The result was
that the alaccleafield manunacturer's workpetople were
obliged to go to Manchester to fetch it before being allowed
to Welk it at the same price "
In 1.110 the weavers struck work for seven weeks, obliging
all to strike, although in most cases there was no difference
between the masters and the men. This tent to a diminution
of the autumn trade to half of its ordinary proportions.
May not these facts help us to account for much of the de-
pression of trade at Coy. °try and Macclesfield ? In trades
so liable to changes anti fluctuation by the cap: ices of fashion
as are the riband and silk trades we may readily believe
there will be. from time to time, great ingenuity and skill
requidte to cope with the taste and style af our French
'neighbours ; and when a master has, by the beat skill he can
avail himself of, torte col at same new attic or novel eattern,
his next anti greatest dillienlty is to settle the terms with the
Union officials as to the rate of wages he may be reqoired to
pay for the labour ; and I am infernied that this tafticulty
has often prevented the acceptance of orders which might
have led to a successful extension of business. The real
uth appears to be that, thawed of the workman being
encouraged to exercise his own skill :mot hugonuity in aid of
his master to eccomplieh a difficult tank, he is merely a silent
tool in the hands of the Union.
I do not intingli the right of workmen to form Unions to
promote their just interests, lout if the principles upon
which they proceed prove injurious to industry generally the
fact ceenot be too widely known; and, as Parliament is
called upon to legislate during next Session for Trades'
Uttions, it is of the utmost importance for the welfare if all
tour export tra ies that the inquiry should be made as ton how
or they tend tot limit tour powers to meet foreign competi-
tion. There is a danger oof tour falling back into, the told could
system of the times of Elizabeth, when the weave's not Non
wich obtained powers to regulate their wages, Wail so harassed
their employers tient a portion to t Norwich and settled at
Coventry, and others at Macclesfield. t fear that history is
about to repeat Itself.
Unions obtained a rapid impetus by the rapid ex-
tens on of industry awl the se orcity of workpeotole de, eloped
by the extens.on of Fr. e trade, in coesequefico tot whit,
they have outgunned a temporary inlitortallee, which retinue
consideration front our leel-la' ors. Nearly evecy tode Is
under the control of a fraole's I•nion, with the avowed tope,
of int:reliable the wages and protecting the inerrests of tho
workers Now' lilt were p 'Satiric for cvery ttade so to pro-
tect itself as to increase its wages we should lied every thitog
itiereeeed in price, and non one the better tor the champ, •' but
as this ia impoesilde, and the great majority cannot form
Union., it is quite clear that those who thus monopolise a
trade to the exclusion of others, and extort higher wages
thereby, unfelt ly tax the rest of the community for their
own advantage ; and to that extent it forms an unjtist tax
upon their fellow subjects who, have no Union. Further, it
is most oonfair towards t °mg men wishful to earn their liv-
ing by honest weikiez to find themselves exclode I by roles
from entering skilled brand:en-1 t trades, and gives rise to the
two extremes of high paid monopoly wages to a 'Mine o
number, mod a vast number of able-bodled, active young
Men, nlany of them sons of widows anti unprotected parents,
Idling about and rumble to obtain entployment, and too often
filling our prisons. if a skilled engineer's trade is so easily
acquired that lie dare not allow is neighintours tin enter into
competition with host, and cannot rely upon the experience
of his own craf t to prcrect him, I see lie reason why such an
one should ask the assistaece of Perliament.
But it is said they want protection for their funds,—i. e.,
that slider the intone of a betnevoletit limit they may appro-
po ette their it ttttt ey to sedmort a turn-out agailost their eon-
plooers other beneYonlit alielettes are ',roistered by law,
and antimafia audited by Mr Tiold irate; but Trades' Union
lUnds m -y 100 all &wipe, ed any tear by a turn-tnut.
A member tot Parlmemet woe asked at a nmeting of his
constituents if he wooed euppert the To antes' Union Rill. 11,
replied that be would never legislate f r a section et the
community. Toils reply createul great oppodtion against
him, and it was retorted that Traub.' Unions were not a
Section ; they were at le tit six Or eight, hundred thousatal
strong The °modiste replied In) putting the questioe oif
the six or eight Modred thousand were ton Ins protected,
what was he to say to the ten or else.) redlines of other
workers unprotected ?" This answer allayed further opposi-
tion
Ilia, mit ortimately, all exp. rier ha, hitherto been lost
mitt, .n the a ivo "des of Trades' it, their baneful la-
floienuce itO more glaring itostance ti flu. tires times imal ire
a oniCed than the Case of the inon boat lonlidera on the
Thanoes lite masters were harassed with rules regulations,
and strikes, until trade began tin fall off The reion en-
forced 7s. per day, and the trade was driven away. The
Trades' runion was replaced by the Poor Law Union, and the
last we heard of these deluded victims was an application
to the Government to carry them off to Canada at the public
expense.
Mr Samuda, M.P , in his evidence before the Trades'
Union Commissioners, stated that since 1051 every ship-
building firm on the Thames hail either felled or closeol ex-
cept his own, and where he mice employed 1,200 to 2,000
men. he now employed some 200 only. Ile further says:—
" My greatest customers used to be, ten years ago, France.
Russia, Prussia, Egypt, and Turkey. I have had as notch as
£700,000 of orders for these different Governments hi my
yard at one time • but at the present tines France is compet-
ing with me and takung my Prueation aud Egyptian crib-re;"
"and at this mometit no less than .e. 380,000 wonrth of not k is
going on for tee of these very Governruenta who have been
my customers for fifteen years "
An eminent engineer gave evidence also to similar effect,
stating that "his firm fon rnerly supplied locomotives to
France, Gerteatoy, Italy, Austria, Holland, Russia, and Spain,
while now France and Germany and Aust., ia, not nely
snip-
My themselves, but have become competitors with tie
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Russia, Spain, Egypt, and Italy, and even in !idle and Dis-
tend heuself." Another ongineer from a large establishment
gave shunter evidence, ad all attributed therm resnits mainly
to the action of Trades' Unions.
In the above illustratoons the Trades' Unionists have not
only deprived thenoselves of empboyment, but have injured
every branch of induatry dependent on their trade
Mr. domes Stirling, in an admirable pamphlet recently
published on Trutlete Unions, alludes to the Brickmakers'
Union at Mancl.ster, who claim, tl as their special monopoly
the sole right to make bricks, and fixed as their bonintary a
circle of four miles rollnd Manchester. And to many years
the building trade and people of Manchester submitted to
their imposition. Sir Stirling say 3 :
' It is intolerable that a diatrict of England should be
abandoned like Wigan the other day to the club law of in-
furiated colliers, or that the cemmunity of Manchester should
be condemned to use annually seventy-two millions et bad
anti dear bricketo MI the ;lockets of a junto of semi-barbarous
brigkrnakers."
I May add that Manchester submitted to more degradation
than this at the haunts of the bricklayers, and never com-
plained. If, therefore, Statichester approves Trades' Unions,
who allow the stonemasons to stand out so long from their
em' nopoly of the stone work at the town-hall, when be a vote
of the 'Dien Coati-led the terms might be conceoleil ? The
principle is the same ; it is only a question of degree whether
they shall receive Os or 105. per day. It all comes out of
the pockets of the ratepayers, met if these men have a right
to the rnonopody, why withhoold their demand.
Few towns have suffered newts Mau Preston from the
effecte oof Trades' Unions end strikes. Not less than three-
tmerters of a million sterling have bees lost In unavailing
conteution, and what is the present condition of the trade
of that town?
Puelie illeethiga are being held, awl memorial, to Govern-
ment adopted, condemning the imposition of duties by
foreign nationis upon our menufactures, and demanding
" Reciprocity "by way of retali•dion. 'f hese meetiungs take
no account of the heavy duties levied at home by Trades'
Unions, far heavier than any foreign tariff., except the
American. SVecutiiLOt have a hammer or nail for domestic
use but it has paid Its Tenths' Union trilnite, and every
hamper of toots tee joiner purchases has paid its twenty or
thirty per cent duty, say lOs nor Tile,, to the Sheffield Utnion.
And for what purpose the broretheati revelations fully expire,.
The national industry is so shackled and clogged by Trades'
Undone anti their hintieriec rules, that we need not be sur-
prised that a free comitry inke Cell:turn can (etch pig-in n
front Scotland and cotton from England, and return cast-iron
and calico hack to London anti Manchester, anti undersell
our British Trades' Unionists in their own markets,
In concludieg this letter I would warn the " Reciprocity "
advocates that the French Treaty may be more easily sus-
pended than they are aware of. The scardty of cotton
during the lad dm years has had a similar effect upon the
Fn nett co ntton trade to that which it has hail upon our own;
and the French manufacturers attribute their misfortunes
to the treaty, and not unnaturally, as the dates of the
scarcity of cotton and the treaty so nearly correspoed. But
Ent/hood cannot afford to lose a customer who takes 23 mil-
hotis a year of our goods ; nor can our merchants be deprived
of tnat amount of business which the imports of 33 millions
a year gives to them, without both feeling the hojurions
effects of it. In truth, the two countries are now tied to
their mutual advantage in a bond of 50 millions a year to
keep the peace towards each other; and it is as much to the
advantage of the one as the ether to keep it up, and, if not
disturbed, our intercourse will undoubtedly increase.

certain passages, referring to The O'Donoghue contained
In Mr. Moore's speech at the Navan meeting, and
Major Lynch having drawn his attention to the ex-
pressions in The ()'Donoghue's letter to the Amnesty
Association, which Mr. Moore believed were in-
tended to apply to him, and to which that speech
was a reply, Mr. Smyth assured Major Lynch that
The ODonoghue's letter to the Amnesty Association
was not intended to apply to Mr. Moore personally.
Major Lynch, on the part of Mr. Moore, had no hesi-
tation in declaring that if Mr. Moore at the Navan
meeting used words calculated to impute dishonourable
motives to The O'Donogline in the discharge of his
public duty, he did not consider him justified in makiax;
j such an imputation, and at fir his allusion to Else
ODonoglouis Irish distinction, Mr. Moore disclaimed
any intention of casting a sneer upon the ancient
family of The O'Donoghue. (Signed) P Ct. LYNCH, P.
J. SMYTH. Burlington Hotel, London, Nov. 5, 1869.

Imay.

of his son, who, in spite of all the cramming he haa
to undergo, is still of childish habits even for his
years. One of these the other night gave great
enurement to the circle gathered round the table
in the drawing-room, where Her Majesty's chair,
by the way, is always drawn out to the place she
usually occupies, and is always left vacant according
to the ancient etiquette observed at Versailles in the
days of Louis Quatorze. "Let us all declare who or
what we should best liketo be," said the Emperor. And
hence arose the most amusing and curious revelations.
Joe officer of the Court, high in office, famed in his
day for his conquests and his good looks, owned
frankly that be markt never travel by railway without
a feeling of envy towards the signalman, who stands
with one arm extended and the other sekimbo. "In
the name of goodness, why?" was the general excla-
mation. "11-cause he is the only man observed by
the 1 aides as the train flies past. His face and figure
hittift attract their notice, and the chances are all in
favour of their being remembered for a long time
after." The
.fataitg .4 the old beau created nimh
merriment. Then a lady was as'sed in her turn Logics
Iter preference. "IL I were tot ray self I would like
to be the one who loves we !" was the reply, with the
most bewitching glance of her soft blue eyes in the
right direction, no doubt. This answer was much
applauded by the gentlemen, while the ladies thought
it bold and hazardous. His Majesty's turn came last,
and the answer came vividly and spontaneously: "I
should like to be toy own grandson, to see what will
happen two generations hence." Thus does the evening
pass a,

There le a probability that another episcopal mitre
will soon fall to the disposal of Ur. Gladstone. Ms generally
understood that the Bishop of St. Asaph, who is in his 80th
year, has sent in his resignation. The ri,:ht rev, prelate wea
von sevrated to the see of Sodor aud Menlo 1841. and translated
o St. A,aph in 1846 The Bishop is patron of 113 Bs lugs, and
the annual value of the see is £4,300.
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Paris posseeses 4,730 cafes, in addition to 64 cafes-
concerts. They givo employment to from nigh, to ten
thousand persons, and the business done by them amounts
to £4,n00,000 annually.
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The Observer understanda that the Council of the
National Education Union have decided that a deputation
shall wait on the Right lion. G. J. Gcsehen, the President of
the Poor Law Board, to protest against any extension of the
child-farming system, which is reported to have been intro-
duced at Warwick, such system tending, in the Council's
opinion, to counter-act the great exertions now being made
o improve the system of general national education.
It is scarcely a twelvemonth since the Lead of the
Parts Rothschild house was laid in Pere la Chaise. The pre-
sent baron talus state of health that causes some anxiety
to his friends. He is subjected to a regimen as simple as
that which the Czar Nicholas or his father pursued, lie is
threatened with loss mght, the result at comtitutional
weakness, and has h n recotunieulfed to try the effecto id a
voyage to the United States. When a lad about niters he
prei arcil a1.,0 to cress the Atlantic ; he got only as far as
Liverpool, however.
The Swiss journals relate that a lynx has been
spreading terror in the mountains of Flume in the Prisons
In two nights it killed 30 sheep the poor animal . wet c found
with no other wound than a large hole In the reek, throitzh
which the voracious beast had sueked their Inland. The
flarks are now guarded every night by armed nien, and a
reward is offered to any one that shall kill the n.arauder.
How the animal got loose is not known.
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The Persian Government has lately applied to our
Foreigmoffice for British officers to assist in the organization
and training of the Persian army, and this regnest has bees
compiled with.
It is rumoured in Oxford that the Marquis of Bute
Is negotiating with the Clarendon Hotel (better known as
the Star Inn) for the purpose of building on this very eligible
site, a handsome and commodious Roman Catholic Cathedral
the present chapel not being sufficiently large to scat the
large congregations that weekly attend.
A telegram from Singapore, dated Nov. 6, reports
the total loss in the China Sea of the ship Devonpart, bound
to Shanghai from London. A telegram from Madeira states
that the steamer Cambrian, which had arrived there, reports
the loss of the following vessels oil the Cape of Good Hope,
during the gales of September :—lhe Antershant, hound from
Masse m to Queenstown, the Duke if Bacaleach, the .Irgali,
the Kw;land, thu h'ingal, the Faraes, the Flash, and the
Sarah Black.
A despatch from Gallo, dated 27th October, says:
'A severe earthquake has taken place at ; every
building was shaker:, aml several walls thrown down. Many
accidents occurred at 3lanllla, and in the neighbouring pro-
vinces."
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The doubt which existed as to whether the Sultan
would not, after all go to the opening of the Suez canal
seems to be at an end, for it is now said that his Majesty has
finally declined to go, notwithstanding the persuasions of
the Emperor of Austria.
There was an earthquake shock about five o'clock
am on October 20, which was felt all over New Englmil,
and in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It was not severe
era ngh to do any damage, but it frightened the people,
especially in the British Provinces, where the most percep-
tible shock occurred.
It transpired the other day in a London police-court,
that butter sold as "real Dorset "aid "real Cambridge" was
composed of Dutch butter mixed with fat and marrow.
An improvement in the manufacture of horse collars
has just been devised by a Philadelplda mechanic. The
collar, being stuffed with elastic cork, is light in weight, and
adapts itself to the shape of the animal as readily as if it
was moulded. It Is highly elastic, does not chafe or gall the
neck, and, the cork being a nomconeuctor, injury from the
heat is prevented.
The parents of Elizabeth Wright, who was killed in
the Into railway collision near Nottlugham, have received
rather unexpectedly £BO from the Midland Company as com-
pensation suatalued in the loss of their daughter.
It is satisfactory to learn from the long reports
which appeared in the London morning papers of the Queen's
visit to London on Saturday that no serious accident
occurred anywhere, although the streets were so densely
crowded. of course, here and there persons were more than
inconveniently squeezed, but there seems good reason to
believe that no bones were broken, and that noose was badly
hurt. Great crowds assembled on Sunday to see both the
new bridge and the viaduct, and a good deal of disappoint-
ment seems to have been felt at their not being open to the
public.
There is published in New York a journal which
calls itself The American Gentlimares Newepaper. It is not
for us (Poll Mall Gazette) to discourage any advance in the
direction of gentlernanliness, but we may be allowed to re-
mark that such advance. In the present case, is gentle in-
deed. This is the sort of theatrical criticism approved, we
Inter, by the gentleman of America. "AIMS Lucille Western
goes through the process of shining like blazes and repenting
like furs every evening at Nibbis Garden. ' East Lyuue 'is
the medium of these hysterical operations."
At Sir on Monday, an engine-tenter who re-
fused to have his child vaccinated, and said he would rather
go to prison than comply with the law, was comniiited for
fourteen days in default of paying a fine of 205. and cAsts.
The Duke of Devonshire has made a very liberal
offer to the people of Buxton. If the people of that town
will form a public company to carry out a number of re-
quired huprovements, with a capital of £lO,OOO, he will take
half the shares, and give in addition eight or nine acres of
laud at a nominal rent of 55. per annum. A committee has
been appointed to canvass the town and take other steps.
It Ufa stnted at a meeting held on Friday that the land
offered by the duke was worth 1:9,000 ; this, with the £5,000
of capital he offers to provide, making his grace's contribution
to the scheme £14,000.
Some idea of the enormous sums raised by the Cor-
poration of London tor City improvements may be gathered
from the fact that within a few years nearly £4,000,00e ster-
ling has been expended in this way. The new Meat and
Poultry Market has cost £1,000,000; the purchase of South-
wark • bridge, £265,000 ; rebuilding Blackfriars - bridge,
£250,000; and the Holborn Valley Viaduct nod approaches,
£2,100.000.
The entire hal-ince° crop of the United States for
10601 s estimated at. 075.000 hogsheada, of which three•fourths
will be C 01151111104 In Europe. Cincinnati, Loubsville, anti
R.ochni ald arc ilar tobecco marts, and the bulk if
the el op i= grown ie ydel is,Kentucky, allo4l alhaouri. To-
bacco cunt, at be, Or-grill) leterterta ith by the war,
but it is now resumiug its 110:11al cone Ati• •ii.
On Monday, at eight o'cicck, the 11,1 born Viaduct
was opened to the public for both foot passengers and car-
riage traffic. The fine roadway had not been thrown open
many minutes when cabs, carts, and waggons, poured across
It from either end.
The Homeward Mail understands that at the last
meeting of the Cowie' at the India-office the expenditure of
£lO,OOO was sanctioned to cover the cost of presents to be be-
stowed by the Duke of Edinburgh nu the native iTinc,is of
India. Om half of this sum will be expended in this country
eiel one half in India. A large numlicr of costly articles,
destined for presentation by hen Royal Highness, were taken
to the Ind iwoftice for approval hint week.
"Father Hyacinthe ate a beefsteak last Friday.
The C ettolies are much incensed." "Father Hyacinthe ate
a broiled beefsteak on Friday because, as he claims, he had a
right to do so." These are tee scraps of "news" just laid
before the public. Father Hyacinthe has now seen in opera-
tion for the first time a "free press." We hope he likes it.
—leg York limes, Oct. 28.
The funeral of the Marquis of Westminster took
place on Mond ty, at Eccleston. The ceremony was as pri-
vate as possible. The principal tenants, the Mayor of
Chester, the members of the City Council, and the leading
cit zens were amongst the mourners in the church at
K 7cleston, close to Eaton Hall. Buainese in Chester wan
eutirely suspended.
The King of Prussia has lately remizved the noto-
rious nmrderer Wittmann, who was sentenced to death, and
commuted his punishment to imprisonment a nth hard labaur
for life. As this crhninal hail been proved guilty of making
away with his four wives, cue after another, and leis two
children, from purely avaricious motives, it is supposed (the
North German Correspondent says) that this act of clemency
Is a sign that no mire capital sentences will lie carried out in
Prussia, and that the puutilinient of death will shortly be
abolished by law.
About a thousand members of the Manchester Con-
servative Working lien's Association marched in procession
inst Sunday to St. Ann's Church, where, at their request, a spe-
cial sermon was preached try the Rev. J. Bardsley on the late
Earl of Derby.
The castor bean, from which the oil is made, is be-
coming an important industry in Perry county, California.
One prominent dealer received at his warehouse 1,000 bushels ,
iu one day, paying a dollars 10 cents, per bushel. It yields I
more bushels in the acre than wheat.
The Duke of Hamilton in said to have refused an cffer
of £115,000 for the island of Arran.
A Utah despatch in the New York papers states
that a passenger train which ran off the track at Evanston
was run into by the secend section of the train, and four of
the Mormons with which the cars were filled were killed,
and others injured.
The Counters Percy was safely delivered of twins,
both girls, at Alnwick Castle, on Sunday mornieg. Ruth
mother and children are doing welt.
A telegram from Paris says that 'MM. Ulysses
Parent, Lombard Lefrancals, arid Jules Allis were summoned
on Tuesday before the authorities, charged w lib having cai.
tinned a meeting alter the same had been declared dissolved
by the Commissary of Police present. Mal. Lefrancais and
Allis did not attend to the summons. M. Ulysses Parent stated
that he should not attempt any defence of an act which he
regarded as legal. M. Lombard protected against the charge.
The court, inconformity with the advice of the Imperial Pro-
curator, al. Cazeau, condemned each of the accused to a
fortnight's Imprisonment, and a fine of 300 francs.
he ex-Queen of Spain is unhappy in her Parisian
palace. Not only are the high officers in the household
leaving, but the " plush " also. Senor Jeames cannot live
in exile, and has decided to take the air on the Prieto of
Aleded.
His Majesty the King of Portugal has awarded a
silver medal and a diploma to Ceptain John tiesketh, master
of the British vessel Britiah (Mem, of Marrow, Lancashire,
for having on the lath June, Pea saved two of the crew of
lire Portuguese itshirng smack Born Jane, off Cape St.
Vincent.
It is mentioned in the Broad Arrow that the Secre-
tary-atewar will at once address himself to the task of cut-
ting down the military expenditure, and mentions, though of
course only as current rumour, that the reduction 01 the
army to the extent of 15,000 men is one of the points reserved
for his careful consideration. The Army and Nary Gazette,
with the remark that nothing definite has been decided upon,
says it is not improbable that the reek of ensign may disap-
pear from the army list after the passing of the next esti-
mates.
M. Eugene Forcade, whose death on Saturday last
was announced on Monday, though a comparatively young
man he was only forty-ninc, may fairly be called one of the
oldest journalists in Europe. lie established tnt Marseilles, his
native town, one of the best known of French provincial
newspapers, the Semaphore, when he was not more than
seventeen yeara of age, and continued te edit it for three
years from 1e37 to 1,40, attending at the same time to his
duties as clerk in a bank. this reputation had preceded him
to Paris, and he was at once invited to join the crops of the
Keene des DeIIX Monde. His connection with that journal
only terminateel about a ear since, when his mental powers
broke down under the weight of work which he imposed
upon them.
A proof of the hatred which the Parisians entertain
towards foreigners is furnished lay their daily manner of
speaking. For them a usurer, is a Arab; a man that
cheats at cards, a Greek ; a paid applauder at
• theatre, is a Roman; a vagabcnd, is a 1:oho/titan a
drunk:lid, is a Pole ; au ignorant, heitestronsr fellow, is what
Voltaire called a Welcff ; a susplcious person, issu American;
sii impolre, rude person, is a Savoyard ; a creditor, is an
Englishman; Oman whose phymbrenny leaves much to be
desired, is a Chinese ; and a licentious man, is a Turk.
"The Puke of Cambridge has Leered an order to the
effect that soldiers who have been so fortunate an to save
Ills shall be perndtted to wear the decoratious they have so
seminal en the right breast. The Navy will be disappointed
If Mr. Childers does not follow the example which the
Field al anted commateling.in-Chief has set Idm."—Army
and Nary Gan it,.
The issue of the menials for the campaign in Abys-
sinia has been consideralay delayed by the death of the I de
blaster of the Mint, and by the becessity of having the name
of each individual offteer or soldier engraved inn the nexial
to he given to him. Many of them have, however, How been
distrinuted, and the remainder will soon be delivered.
The Lord Mayor's Show on Tuesday presented no
unusual features to the denizens of London. The state car-
riage, which has been thoroughly retiovated, looked remark=
Oily well. Although there were several heavy bliowers
during the Molining, 110 rain fol during his lordship's pro-
ee.llloll to snit from Westrniester: The grand banquet in the
Guildhall in the evomblp, wan vt.temled by most of C•e -
lore, ILII.I lay her el sjersa Jude n The principal apt I
%ere the PA ini . Med Lo., dliv h,nnic'isancelhnnr, the ChaucAlor
of the Extheguer, the Home Secretary, Lord de Grey and
Ripon, and the Lord Mayor.