The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREION.

The Pope has Rent be benediction in a letter of con.
dolence to Queen Isabella.

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It is reported that the skull of a mastod.•n, measuring
3feet in length, 2 feet 8 in. in width, and 2 feet across the
nostrils, and weighing 10011,,, liet.s been found in Pike County,
Ohio.

There 13 a happy father in Hampshire county,
Mass., who rejoices in nine hundred pounds of daughters.
Ills seven damsels are fair specimens of the good effects of
mountain an and country living.
When is a candle likely to be enraged? You say
when it is pot out. I should say rather when it's lighted.—
Punch.

The name of Mr. Edwardes Wood will soon become
a terror to all servants of the London and North Western
Railway who do not properly discharge their duties. On
Tuesday he appeared at liolywell to prosecute the signalman
who was responsible for the accident which took place on
the 16th September. The charge which he preferred was
that of wilful negligence, anti the defendant's plea was that
the accident resulted from an error of judgment. This, how-
ever, was not accepted by the magistrates, who passed a sen-
tence of two months' uniinsonment.
Lord Overstone, writing to a contemporary, says
"If my tenants have on any former occasion voted against
Mr. Vernon, it has been their own free act. Awl again, on
the present occasion, whichever way they may vote, for or
against Mr. Vernon, It will be theit free act, so far as I MU
concerned. Ido 'allow my tenants on this and on all similar
occasions to vote as they please."

"Clearly, the world in moving. A few days ago a
treaty of amity was signed at the Italian Legation between
the King of Italy and the Supreme King of Siam. A little
longer, and we shall have the King of the Cannibal Islamis—
es any potentate whose subjects are supposed to dine on
roast missionary—signing a treaty of amity as ith her Britannic
Majesty."—Dally Telegraph.

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During the revieion of the polling-Hate in Kant Kent,
It transpired that for many years there has not been a single
voter in the parish of Leaveland. But it has at length
obtained the honour of a share in the election of members
for the county, the skim of Mr. Thomas Smith for a house
and land there being allowed by the barrister.—A rising
parish, truly!

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"The Jennings' Property.—Mary Ann Pearcey, of
3, Baker's-rents, Itotherhite-street, is the daughter of Mary
Ann Jennings, who married Edward Corson, daughter of
Thomas Jennings, son of James Jennings, who left the
county of Oxford near the year 1789 or 1790. Mary Aim
Jennings was the daughter of the second wife of Thomas
Jennings."—Advertisemont in The Times.

An Arab, named Abd-elKader-ould-el-Hadj-Cadonr
has just been tried at One for the murder of his sister-in-
law. Ile gloried in the crime. The woman led a loose life,
and dishonoured her family. By her death he hail, he
hoped, regained the good opinion of his friends and neigh-
bours; had it to be done over again he would not hesitate.
The military tribunal unhesitatingly sentenced him to five
years' hard labour.

The Matterhorn was ascended on the 3rd September
by an English gentleman, with two guides from Zermatt.
They started from Zermatt at 930 a.m., on the 2nd Septem-
ber, and reached the sleeping quarters at 430 the same
evening. The next morning the hut was left at 430, and the
summit reached at 715. The descent occupied much more
time than the ascent. The hut was reached at 145 p.m.,
and Zermatt the same evening at six o'clock.
On Saturday a man named Rawley, who was
engaged as a drayman in the brewery of Messrs. Combe arid
Delafteld, Soho, London, suddenly disappeared from his
employment. Search was made for him in all directions,
but without success until Tuesday morning, when a watch-
man on going his rounds saw part of an apron on the surface
of the contents of one of the vats. Ile at once called atten-
tion to the circumstance, and the liquor being drawn off the
body of the missing man was found at the bottom of the vat,
literally boiled. Hew he came into the vat—whether by
I accident or otherwise-11u not been ascertained,

The following circular haa been issued by the South-
western Railway Company : Circular to station agents and
an pat ties comenied. fleneml election.—l am instructed hy
the di: ectors to state, that at the general election of memben
Of Parliament it is to be innicnitood that the officers and
servants of thi:i company are to atomise their own discretion
in respect of their votes—Frederick Clarke, Secretary."
We see an incessant advertisement, " ('hurch before
Party." Of course. Quite right. Church in the morning,
Party in the evening. What need of smile Iteration ?
Punch.

Yrt.ident Johmon hm informed Mr. Thornton, the
English Minister at Washington, awl Mr. kteverdy Johnson,

of his intention to 'my a visit to England as soon as Isis terns
of •pliiee expires in Xlarels next.

The Torbuorden Adrerfiser states that a man who
had been ordered leeches fur an injury, hsd them boiled in
his gruel, nod swallowed them.

A singular contract has just been entered into with
the dty of Paris to buy up all the old paving-stones tor the
purpose of shlppbc, them across t he Atlantic, where they are
to be used to pAvy the principal thoroughfares of Buenos
Ayres and Monter eleo

Itewardx of klOO a year for diFitimmished or meri-
torious services have been conferhst on Majord;enerals
Henry Smyth, ('II., late I f the 70th and 6stli Regiments
with which last he served with distinction in the Crimea),
and David Maekiroly, who was lately promoted to his present
rank from the command of the 091 h.

Count Bistuarzk is so far restored to health that he is
expected to resume work on the return of the King of
Prussia from Baden-Baden on the dist instant.

The large Assembly-rooro of the Agricultural-hall,
London, was crowded last Sunday afternoon, on the occasion
of the commencement of a series of special services to the
working classes. Every nook and corner of the hall Was
occupied, a considerable proportion of the audience appear-
ing to consist of hardworking artizaris and their wives. The
Rev. J. Thain Davidson gave the address, which was extem-
pore, and founded upon John v. 40. [hiring its delivery the
utmost order prevailed ; aml at the conclusion of the service,
which lasted little more than all hour, the vast congregation
quietly dispersed. These services are,to he continued through-
out the winter.

A man recently ascended the Column in the Place
Vendome, Paris, for the purpose of committing suicide. As
he was about taking the fatal step, a gentlemen touched Inm
on the shoulder and said—, lily friend, be careful what you
do. There is as tine of tell thousand francs hr leaping front
the top of this monument." the man walked down the
spiral staircase, not having the means to indulge in such u
luxury.

The health of the unfortunate Empress ('harlotte is
stated to have suffered a relapse. She is again entirely para-
lysed by the fear of being poisoned. She flies from every-
body. For whole days she remains sitting in a corner of her
room without motion ; but when anyone approaches her she
has a paroxysm, she runs away eagerly to save herself, and
calls with a bond voice for help. Not only her mental, but
her bodily condition is seriously changed, and gives rise to
grave apprehensions.

In February, MA.. the steamer W. E. Carter ex-
ploded AM the Mississippi River, above Vicksburg, anti sank
near the Arkansas shore, in seventy feet of water. She had
on board a safe Isdonging to the Adams Express Company,
containing 230,000 dollars. A few days ago this safe and its
contents were recovered, after great labour, owing to the
heavy deposit of mud on the wreck.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, writing to Colonel Maude,
says :—" I am not in a condition, much as I approve your
undertaking, to contribute largely to the Free Labour
Journal. tiod grant that the workpeople may be emanci
paled from the tightest thraldom they have ever yet endured.
All the single despots, and all the aristocracies that ever
were, or ever will he, are RS puffs of wind compared with
these tornadoes of trade nub its. But I have small hope. It
was observed lout ago by great practitioners in democracy
Pormlus shit deeipi et decipiatur.' So it will he now. The
masses soda to me to have less I,IIIIMOII sense than they had
a year ago."

Some English fast hoys, have passed a joke off upon
the Boulogne bathing-men and the Boulogne public in
general, in search of gratuities, or, as they say in the
bathing-machines of that place, " Gratifications for those
that drives them into the sea" These worthies have been
informed that the way to acknowledge and obtain a gratuity
from an Englishman is to say, ''Sn glad!" Therefore Zo
Whole resounds looming, noun, and night in Boulogne and
the entire department.

The Prince of Wales, in answer to a ,rearing sugges-
tion, that he should become a mason, has replied that " he
does not purpose, at all events for the present, joining any
masonic lodge, and that be regrets, therefore, he is unable
to accede to the suggestion in question." It is said that the
Prince's reserve upon the subject of masonry is due to the
influence and example of his illustrious father.
The Orerland China Mail, published in Hong Kong
on the 21st August, says—" The eclipse of the Pith was
visible at Hong Kong, but little more than a third of the
sun's disc was obscured, and no marked effect was visible in
regard to the diminution of light.

The Great Eastern, which has been lying idle in the
Mersey for several months past, sailed for Sheerness on
Saturday. She has been chartered by a French company to
lay a cable between France and America, and will leave
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Sheerness early next spring for that purpose. timing the
past few weeks she has taken on board belt etn tow and
5,000 tons of coal, and has been partly ploy isioned. At
Sheerness she will be entirely " gutted," and tilt be fitted
with tanks for the patinae of carrying the cable. She was
under the command of Sir. J. Anderson.
The Jesuits have been long since prollibitol by law in
Spain, but by a tacit undenitanding with the late n'gime
have been permitted to occupy several establishments. ihe
papers are already giving them strong hints that the sooner
they clear out the better.
The Archbishop of York on Friday consecrated a
new church at Scarline, and, at the luncheon which took
plsce subsequently, his grace said they could not shut their
eyes to the tact that the church of England as the church of
the nation was at this moment mine her trial, and be mbled
that the way in which she would curie out of that trial
mould depend not upon their pamphlets and ind tumn their
speeches, but upon the work tiny accomplished in the
alleviation of the great mass of vice and ignorance which they
found amongst them.
"It is confidently reported in military circles at
Chatham that the authorities at the Wart Ithee, in CollllllC-
tioll with those of the Hone Guanis, have deteriniaed on
making a considerable reduction in the army, at the com-
mencement 44 the ensuing year."—The Obaerver precedes
this paragraph by the heading—" The Old Story."
'the Siamese twins have arrived in Paris, with the
object of severing their long connection. The operation will
be performed by the celebrated Mlaton.
The Dail!, News says :—"Notwithstanding the tem-
porary drawback involved in the deficient harvest from
which Spain is suffering, many persons will be disposed to
argue that, considering the new elements of hope now pre-
sented, Spanish Three per Cents. at ci lire mudi better
worth attention than French Three per Cents. at 70."

The Royal Horticultural Society have offered prizes
for exhibitions of useful and noxious fungi.
A conspiracy to depose the Sultan, and to elevate
Murat' Effendi, his presumptive heir, to the throne, is said
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to have been discovered at Comitantinople. Numerous
arrests have been made among the' reformist faction."

Another fatal neglect of the "rule of the road at
sea" took place in the Channel on Friday night, in last week.
It appears that when the Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Soria, nsa off Durstone Point she neared a Cowes pilot boat
Which, instead of giving the steamer a wide berth, tacked its
front of the latter and was literally run down. All on
board believed to be four in number perished. By a sad
coincidence, the pil.•t ia charge of the steamer was uncle of
the captain of the pilot boat.
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The London police have prevented another prize-
fight by arresting one of the intending combatants.
The death is announced of the Duke de Valmy, son
of the celebrated Kellermann, to whom the victory of
Mareogo was in great measure sine, and who distinguished
himself in so many of the great battles of the First Empire.
M. de Valmy was much esteemed by his monerons friends
and acquaintance. lie was as agreeable companion, a loan
of superior intelligence, and an excellent specimen of the
polished and courteous French gentleman.
At Tusenmbia, Al:Llama, on Sept. 21, three negroes
charged with burning a soloed-house, while filled with
scholars were taken out of gaol by a mcb and hanged. 'rise
authorities endeavoured to rescue them, but were over-
powered by the mob. The Alabama Legislature sent a
deputation to Washington to ask that a detachment of
troops be sent to that State, the Legislature say. " to aid in
preserving the peace ; " but the Democrats say that it is for
the purpose of preventing a lair election for Presidential
electors.

Victor Hugo's publishers, Messrs. Lacroix and Co.,
of Paris and Brussels, have just signed a contract with him
to purchase, for the sum of k 12,0.10, the right of public:lo.n
for a limited tents of all historical novel, in four volumes,
entitled, " Par ordre du Rol" ," By Order of the King ,
the scene of which is laid in England, at the close f the
seventeenth century together with a volume of poems en-
titled the "Fill de Malan," and a volume composed of three
dramas, not intended for representation, and entitled the
"Theatre en Liborte." The novel is to make its appearance
In the course of a

Lord Stanley's addrem to the electors of Lynn is by
far the shortest which has been issued by any member of the
Government, if not the briefest put birth by any candidate on
either side. The Foreign Secretary simply tells his consti-
tuents that, relying on their unvaried kindness, lie intends to
offer himself for re-election, promising to take an early op-
portunity of explaining to them publicly his views on the
leading questions of the day.
The reconstruction of the great cupola of the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre at Jermialem, which has been executed
under the auspices of France, Russia, and Turkey is entirely
finished.
A labouring man at Chaussaire, Maine-et-Loire,
France, has just murdered his sister-indaw, because he
thought she had bewitched him.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate
the Very Rev. the Dean of Cork to the are of Peterborough ;
and the Rev. Henry Longuevide Mussel, D. D., Regius Pro-
lessor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford,
and Canon of Christ Church, to the deanery of St. Paul's
A Fifeshire man recently took his child to the
minister to be baptised, who asked him, "Are you prepared
for so important and solemn an occasion ?" " Prepared !"
he echoed with some indignation ; "I hite a tirlot '0 bannocks
bakini, twa hams, an' a gallon o' the best Hieland whusky ;
an' I wad just like to ken what better preparation ye cotibi
expeck Iran a man in my condition i, life"

At Arreton,
,in the Inle
.of Wight, there id a horse

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chestnut tree which is now in full b 10,7111 :at Ballyinacarrett,
Ireland, there is a pear tree covered with blossoms as
luxuriant as if in early summer ; and at liallynahtnch there is
an apple tree covered with a luxuriant crop of blosvoms,
while a considerable quantity of this season's fruit still
remains upon the branches.

Last year 256,752 dogs were registered in Irvland.

An acrobat, now performing in a singing saloon in
Glasgow, announces himself as " equilibrist to the Prince of
Wales."
"A man, eighty-three years old, in Londonderry,
New Hampshire, has not taken any food or nourishment for
fifty-six days. Ile drinks a little cold water, has his senses,
and is able to turn over in bed."— American paper.
A correspondent of the Morning Star suggests that,
failing ell other efforts for getting rid of the brutal and de-
grading punishment of branding in the army, the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should be reonested to
to take the matter in hand.
It is proposed to establish in London a hospital for 1
the treatment of diseases strictly in accordance with the '
principles of temperance and the laws of health. It is held
by the promoters that those practitioners who prescribe
neither alcohol nor poisonous drugs have greater success In
the treatment of diseases in all respects. The committee
have endeavoured to induce the goveroors of the various
hospitals to place one ward apart for a test of the new
system, but the invariable answer has pointed to a lack of
facilities, and an appeal is now made for assistance in estab-
lishinj an independent institution.
"A cool parliamentary candidate has turned up in
the person of Mr. John Loader, who has advertised an
address to the electors of Lambeth. Mr. Loader admits that
be is unknown to the country, and even to the borough, but
he recommends the electors to return him, free of expense
and free of trouble, as the advocate of the disendowment of
all religions. It is duty to his ccuntry that impels Mr.
Loader to ask ties at the electors' hands. Their reward for
thus making themselves the first to pronounce for this greet
principle will be imperishable renown for the constituency to
which they belong."—Murning Star.
A Intinful case was heard at the Mansion-house, in
London, on Tuesday. A jeweller carrying on business in the
City of London, was summoned for having published a defa-
matory libel on his son, a young man 22 years of age. The
libel consisted of a private letter written by the father to the
son, in which the latter was soundly upbraided for the min
conduct 1,1 his past life. It fell into the hands of a third
person, at whose house the son had been sojourning. The
defence was that the communication, ass private letter, was
strictly privileged. The defendant was committed for trial
at the Central Criminal Court, his own recognixances being
taken for biz appearance.

George Hughes, the man charged with the noir.ler
near Chesterfield, hal been committed fur 'trial. when be-
fore the magistrate, he repeatel the excuse which Ike note
for the game when arrested—that he was mink when Ike
emmitted it.

14mtimv, to drive daily in Ow vicinity of
ti al, not witbstani I ion th3t there has only been one fine
day since her Majesty's :mi.! in Scotland.

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"A thrifty conple et 11,1 Oa a Providence clergymen
for pi ',in ,1,1;111.0. the ceremony had the tee
ldm .- riddt, borrdu 0.1 an umbrella, and went out
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II•11.efoie them.' ''--A ineriran I;aper.

A family relent in Rome Rends the following lint of
pro 04 they ordinarily pay tor articles ,d consumption :
Moat, the best quality, 3id. per M. viii otthittaire,.2.ld. per
pint: a tolerably kaul fowl, fa. to bd. ; turkey, le. ad:.;sit

'enormous melon, 72d. : pige(ins, the couple, SI. partritfges,
the brace, .5d.: a large hare, la. 3d. Fish, vegetables, and
the best f flat are very cheap.
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The ex-Queen Maria-Sophia of Naplespaasedthrough
Lyons two days back, on her way from Geneva to Rome. She
is travelling Incognito onder the 11111.11, of countgas &Castro.
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Before leaving for Marseilles her Majesty visite4 the churches
and the magnificent view of the Alps from the top of the tiay
Pavilion. She was accompanied by Count Aquila, who had
arrived from Paris with his family to receive her.

On Sunday afternoon last, Archbishop Mannini;
blessed and opened a II • for Poor Girls in connection with
the FranciNcan Convent, Portobello-road, Bayswater. This
new establishment is intended for the reception of destitute
girls, where they may receive a ;toed training, so as to enable
them to earn their own livelihood as 'domestic servants.
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Ile,ides religions instruelion, many will be taught reading,

writing. anti the elements of arithmetic. The rennund, of
their time wiltlitfpent ih leaniing hoditehbld, htundiy, and
needlework.

The New York papers state that Colonel Foravth,
with fifty men, Wag surrounded by seven hundred Indians,
on an island at the head of the Republican River, and the
greater number of them captured and scalped. Fol. Forsyth
and three other officers were killed. Assistance had been
despatched to the survivors, who were destitute of every-
thing.

At Wakefield, John Stringer, farmer, basket manu-
facturer, and the owner Of considerable freehold property,
WAS charged, along with a labouring man named Joseph
Ilall, with night pinching. It WILY proved that about tea
o'clock en the night td the 11th ult. Mr. Stringer and the
.dlier defendant went into a fold where there were par-
tridges, and were caught trailing It from end to end with a
net thirty yards long. Stringer was sent to prima for three
months; and Ilan, who wan acting as hiS assistant, for six
weeks.

Two American officers have recently committed
suicide at Baltimore. 11. M. Beckley, who had been losing
heavily at faro, poisoned himself with morphine. During the
war deceased was colonel of a Virginia Confederate regi-
ment.—Lieutenant-Colonel Kenyon, of Troy, committed
suicide at a Boston hotel by taking laudanum. After taking
the poison he informed Mr. Pray, the landlerd of the hotel,
and said I repent of the act do all you can to save me."
Physicians were immediately called, awl all the known
remedies were applied, but without avail.

The French police are actively ernpinyed in seizing
the contraband copies of La Lantern., which somehow Or
other manage to get into Paris.

A suite of rows was advertised in a Paris paper as
havirg amongst its attractions a splendid view over a Due
garden adorned with numerous sculptures. on application
at the address given it was found that the garden adorned
with sculptures was—the Cemetery of Mont Paillasse

The town of Stanislau, near Lemberg, in Galicia,
has been almost totally destroyed by fire. The town-hall,
prison, several churches, and some hundreds of houses have
been burnt down.
"I will back a good railway contractor," Bays Capt.
Sherard Osborn, "ti throw up an eai thwork in forty.eight
hours, far more formidable against an enemy's fleet than
anything yet produced at Spithead or Plymouth."
The inquiry respecting the Abergele accident has
entered another phase. The two breaksmen, charged with
manslaughter, surrender.' at the Police-court on Monday,
and the evidence which has been so often given was repeated
in support of the charge—in connection with this subject,
it may he mentioned, as a rumour, that the claims for com-
pensation. arising out of the accident, amount to about
£.30,000—a sum smaller than was originally anticipated.
letters front the convict settlement at Perth. Aus-
tralia, state that the Fenton prisoners were particularly good
and well behaved.

There are seventy-five marriage brokers in Paris, and
two of nein pay an income tan o.f2Vf per year. They

charge five per cent. on the dower of rieh Wives. :ind two per
when the tedium of the husband and wife are about
equally large. An extra charge is made for procuring hus-
bands with aristocratic titles.

A young lady of eighteen has just been fined la,
and had her gun confiscated, for shooting without a license
at Villerieeotterets Aisne,

The dates of the beginning and end of the reign of
Isabella 11. form a singular coincidence. She was proclaimed
Queen on the Nth September, 1533, and was dethroned on
the Nth September, 1565.
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A snit ba.m been commenced in the United States
District Court against Mr. Laird, the builder of the Alabama,
by tire owners 1,1 the Sonora, one of the vessels which she
destroyed. It is claimed that the AWe Ina was lifted out in
violathm 1 law, and that her owners and builders are liable
for &ottani, int,tained at her hands. It is stated that Mr.
Laird has funds In America which are accessible, and that
they have been attached and are hal liable for whatover
he airy be directed to pay. The amount claimed is 119,000
dollars.
When, a!ter the Restoration in France, it WA pro.
posed to vote a milliard billion of francs to the
Deneral Foy exclaimed from the tribune of the Chamber of
Deputies, Do you know that a milliard of ten have not

elallsed tl;'e death of Christ Y.' Although this wan said
nearly half a century 010, the milliard of minutes
• 1,009,00000'. have not yet illnvn by. (In next Christmas Day
there will hove passed but 5r02,0118,000 jodniites. There being

but 1,25,000 minutes ill a year, thirty-four years must elapee
before the milliard is reached, which will bring us tonic year
1902. Taking the average durat' of life, hine-teuths Id the
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persons 110 W living on the earth will not be alive in
The Empress of Eussia has taken up her quarters at
the Villa d'Este, a few miles f Como, on the lake 14 that
name, close to the village of Cernobbis, and which was for-
merly inhabited by Queen Caroline, the wife of George IV.
The Empress has her children with her aml a suite of sixty
person. Everything has risen in price at elllllO ; awl it must
be left to the imagination what prices the ingenunua
dwellers on the lively lake will extort from her Muscovite
Majesty.

A French newspaper remarks that the reception
accorded to the King of Priumia at Frankfort and Hamburg
were widely different; the former pouted at the victor of
Sadowa, as because a city which remembers perfectly well
that it is part of a conquest; Hamburg, on the other hand,
which is burning to be the Liverpool of Germany, and thinks
that his Majesty may assist it in that object, received I'
with acclamation.

The recent convictions of betting turn at Canterbury
have been followed up by the magistrates fining another
London bettingdnan the sum of .CO and costs, or three
months' iliiplisonnient, for plying his avocation In a stand
erected on the ground used for the races at 11,,ver in August.
The defendant dhl not appear.

The All-England Eleven, who are now in America,
have played a somewhat ridiculous match with twenty-two
of emlada ; that ix to say, ridiculous so far as the result 1V1,9
concerned. The twenty-two only made twentywight runs,
and sixteen of the players returned to the pavilion with a
nought affixed to their names. So easy a victory most have
robbed the game of all its interest, but it proves how excellent
has been the training (d the English players.

The funeral of Count Walewski took place in Paria
on naturaay, in the presence o an immense concourse ot
people, and many distinguished representatives of the lead-
ing Europeim nations. A Park paper says that the count
xValewski, will, allowed himself so energetic in a diplomatic
expedition to La Plata, ant who has always displayed re-
markable firmness of character, was very accessible to the
fear of death. Ile took the most minute and particular care
of his health; in fact, lie carried it to an effeminate extent.
If lie suffered from the slightest indisposition heat once took
to his bed, mei the desire of taking care of himself often in-
fluenced his determinations whether to accept or refuse
certain political situations. It is thus that the necessity of
taking regular and severe exercise repeatedly made him de-
cline ministerial (mations.

The Saturday Review thinks it is quite time to give
up petting and spoiling the Italians, and sketches a vivid
picture of the depravity of the Court and people, the neglect
of sanitary laws, the laxity prevailing in the army and navy,
the childish tastes of the populace, and the general slothful-
ness and corruption existing among all classes.
The South London Press reports that an itinerant
Dissenting preacher in South London recently delivered the
following extraordinary piece of advice as to the best means
of avoiding temptation When you see a dog coming down
the street, if yen pick up a stone, and pretend to throw it,
he'll cut and run—he'll understand • stone-ology ;' just the
same, if you see the devil coining down the street, drop on
your knees, and he'll cut and run—he'll understand ' knee-
ology."

The Rev. Burnes Floyer, a clergyman of the Church
of England, and a magistrate for the county of Stafford, has
just been received into the Church of Rome. air. Moyer held
no preferment.
The Rev. Alan Greenwell, vicar of St. James the
Great, in Haydock, puts forth a shrewd defence of the em-
pi, Timid of a pig's head in the recent harvest-home celebra-
tion in his church, about which so much fuss has been made
He says the pig's head" was offered in the kindness and good
intention of the givers heart," and however offensive to the
:esthetic eye, it aught surely take its place uncondemnati
among the rest of the visible creation, in which there is now
nothing common or unclean--Os this the Globe remarks :
o Why the giver's heart and the pig's head should be brought
thus ostentatiously into juxtaposition surpasses our compre-
hension.'

An extract from a private letter from Alexandria,
dated September it, says :—" Muoh illleaSilleSS IS felt ill
Egypt on account of the Nile not having risen to Its usual
height. At present it Is much lower than last year, and re-
quires to rise four feet in order to enable the lands In Upper
Egypt to be Irrigated It is feared that the grain crop ot
next year is lost; if such should be the case, famine sill niost
likely ensue.

"-Punch and Judy," hitherto unknown in America,
have made their appearance at Boston Common. attended by
vast crowds Who would have thought the United Mateo
were so slow.

A German paper says that the Ifungarian gipsies go
on circuit all over Europe as systematically as the bar awl the
bench go on circuit in England. Elsewhere, glpsy bawls
limit their migrations to their own country, but Hungarian
gilies are to he found everywhere. France they visit
regularly, in spite of police awl gendarmes.
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A Liverpool solicitor has adopted and advocated the
establishment of a university of -law which should issue
degrees, the lowest of which should qualify for the attorney
branch of the pr.dession, the next for imictice as a barrister
or a seat on a minor Bench, and tiw third should be indis-
pensable for a superior Judgeship. By this means he pro-
poses to an away with the anomaly that at present th, kwer
branch Of the profession passes a stilt mintination, and the
higher passes practically no examination at all.

„
The ever-watchful guardian of the public health,
the registrar-general, calls attention to the prevalence of
scarlet fever, from which 101 deaths were registered last
week in London. Ile suspects that the cause is to lie found
in the had sanitary state of the houses in the poorer parts of
London, and instances one house, of which the district
registrar says 'that there is no water jail on to the closet,
and the effluvium is very offensive.” This terrible fever is,
indeed, a very severe test of the sanitary condition of houses,
for even in the best and cleanest It is but too liable to spread
and affect every member of a family.

According to the Opinion Nationale, a rnmour is
current in political circles at Florence that the events 4.1
Spain will induce the French Government to mak.
some concessions to Italy. General Alenabrea is said
to have received some communications from Paris on the
suloject.

Against the recent instance of the failure of one
boat's crew there is to be set a long record of brave deeds
during the year. In one case, the lives of twenty-seven per-
sons were saved from an American ship on the vast of
Ireland, and in another eight men were rescued when at
hope for them seemed to be gone. They were oblige.' to
drop into the sea from a sinking vessel, and were picked up
by the lifeboat. Ferty.five men, women, and children were
saved on one day last week from boats which had been sud-
denly caught in a gale. During the present year 345 lives
and eighteen vessels have been saved by the crews of the
Lifeboat Institution. This fact alone proves how well
deserving the society continues to be of pnblic support.
In answer to an inquiry as to Lord Vermin's wishes
with regard to the approaching elections in Cheshire. Derby-
shire, and Staffordshire, his lordship has written the follow-
ing letter t—" I think it well to give you some writtent
expression of my wishes with regard to the contests which
are impending in South Derbyshire, East Staffordshire, and
East Cheshire. Whatever my political opinions may be
should desire that my tenantry and employ.'rs should at all
times feel that the free and independent exercise of the Iran
chise entrusted to them is their right, and that whatever
vote they may give, no prejudice sill be created force against
them. I should also wish that equal facility should be given
to any of the candidatae for courhigthig their canvass."

A MELANCHOLY LEAVE-TAKING!
The following details of the last night spent by the
Spanish Court in Spanish territory have been pub-
lished :
Tho (1‘,„„ ''•' ,j.atm by six mule., drove to
the thaw of the lusar Si att. 0 as usual at rive o'clock on the
5,.th. It was lionlrillg rain yet a crowd awaited the appear-
ance of the Queen. A close earns,. .i. red up at a •
pace, from which the Minister •
de Rowan, stepped out, so all. .
scarcely to be recognised. I ~,, , ant lv
that the Queen's carriages should lie pit ii!. The NI 01.101
arrived with the intelligence of Novaliches' defeat, and of the
triumph of the revolutionists. The Queen w isheil to start
inshuitly fir Madrid, with the Prince of VW AbtLlThkri.
" Too tote" the words so fatally uttered by Emile de
Girardin at the Tuileries when Louis Philippe offered to abdi-
ate, was re-echoed to his cousin, perhaps one might add his
victim, for who can tell, had the Queen not been married by
his intrigues C. an imbecile, for whom she could neither
entertain affect,. or respect, what influence an intelligent
ma liberal-minded husband might have hail on a young
girl of scarcely sixteen ? Yes, it was too la te ,
years ton' late, to retrieve her lost diameter and
bat crown. Flight was the only course for her now
to decide on. She, however, insisted on drawing up
a formal abdication in favour of her son, naming her son.in-
law, Count ifirgenti, Regent It was impossible to persuade
her to start instantly. M Mon, at eleven o'clock at night,
called upon the Emperor at BiarritY., and after a short inter-
view despatched an attaihe to san Sebastian, with the
Emperor's assurance that she would be received in whatever
French town she selected for her residence with royal
honours. At a later hour the Queen, who was up the whole
night, gave orders for the departure t d the Court by the first
train 15,11 Sebastian alone, of all those around her, urged
on her to attempt an CllergetiC resistance. Ile is the son Id
the Infant l'edro, mid uncle of the king At five in the
morning the railway lilhinutoisea were to lie seen opposite the
Cam Matea, for the purpose of conveying the Queen's lug-
gage to the station. lier grief seems to have been terrible at
the last, yet as she issued from the humble residence in which
she has spent the last days of her reign, her countenance
betniyed 110 emotion The royal train, the carriages of which
were covered with white tarpaulins, was in readiness. A
pilot train. conveying twenty-six persons, started a few
niinutes before that of the royal family. At ten o'clock M.
Mon, 11. de Cass? Brissac, and SI. Conneaut were in waiting at
the Ilendaye station to receive the fugitives. At eleven
o'clock the royal train arrived, and the QUINII, on the solid-
tation of the F.mperor's cliamberlain, accepted of the Chateau
tie Pau as her teniperary asylum.

INTERESTING ITENis.
ft is said that on the evening preceding her departure
When the Queen saw herself powerless and friendless, she
wrote a letter to Espartere, the purpose of whieh was as
follows: You have already saved my dynasty—you shall
save it again. As to myself, I ain no longer anything, and
wish for nothing : but here is the Prince of the Asturias,
whom I throw into your arms and confide to your care.
What you have done for me, you shall dO for him." It
appears that the letter was expansive and touching, lint the
little Prince hall to he persuaded to leave the Queen, and the
mother had to make up her mind to separate from the child.
The latter, though too yonog to be conscious of the maiition,
saw that something was going Wrong, threw himself Into
the Qneens arms, and wept bitterly.. Isabella broke down at
once, burst into tears, tore up the letter, and abindmted all
Idea of appealing to Espartero

A Paris correspondent gives the following interest-
ing account of the interview of the Queen of Spain
with the Emperor Napoli..iii at the N6rresse station :
Ilk Majesty arrived at the station in black coat, white
waistcoat, and wearing the order of Charles Ill.; he had to
wait for 501110 time the coming of the royal train, and walked
up and down switching his cane. At last the Queen arrived,
and the interview took place on the gallery of the carriage
In which she travelled, dust then another train going to
Spain left the station, and some emigrants cried Viva
hspana," and groaned. The features ot Isabella assumed a
look of haughty disdain, the Emperor from ned, and Mar-
fort darted a glance of hate and arrogance in the direction of
the hostile manifestation. Father Claret was present in his
violet robes We learnt at Dena:lye that this shameful
manifestation was made by a few Spanish refugees re-enter-
ing their country, who forgot, in presence if a spectacle as
huposing, what they owed to misfortune, aml, above all, to
French hospitality. The Queen and Napole4di conversed for
a quarter of an hour at the N6gresse station; the former
expressed a great desire to remain in that town, Lot it was
represented to her that she would be better and more suit-
ably provided for at Pau. An eye-witness, describing the in-
terview between the Emperor and Empress and the ()Men of
says : " The adieux were short, silent, and melan-
choly. The Emperor was impassible, the Empress could not
conceal her tears, the Prince Imperial seemed lost ill aStolliAl-
went the Queen made futile attempts to smile ; the little
King bustled abollt to conceal his eluiltioll ; the suite had an
air of consternat.on."
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The following is believed to be a correct list of the persona
who have accompanied Queen Isabella into France :—The
King Don Francisco, the Prince of Asturias, the three other
children of the Queen, Den Sebastien, her cousin, aml his
wife and children. The Marchioness de Novalicnes, first holy
of honour; Martinis do Itmicall, Minister of Foreign Affairs ;
M. Martell, Intendant of the Palace ; Count Expeleta,
Governor of the Prince of Asturias ; tin, Duke de Nlonterunia;
Marquis do Villamayor mid M. Sera, Chamberlains to the
Queen ; Generals I;elesta and Ales. Altles-ile.Canip to her
Majesty Lica -Col. 4 'ampoa, Orderly 4 Micer to her Majesty ;
MM. Corral and Alerts°, physicians to the Queen ;
de Valletler and do Gabriel, ladies of honour te the Infanta
Lieitt -Colt ;
Andriani and Loreseclia. Chamberlains to the
Infante Don Sebastion.

Caballero de tholes. Tfie tthops are fai ho,—T—ing-t sh-ifishlon,
and the Regiment of Isabel 11. has taken the name of the
Regiment° de Libertad. Ralf a dozen suppressed nen 3-
papers have to-day reappeared, and the noise made by the
newsboys is really deafening. There are at least thirty or
forty bawling in this square. Englishmen need not be ear
prized at the enterprise or energy manifested in this sudden
, resuscitation of defunct journals. The amount either of
1 paper or type required for the production of a Spanish news.
-e, is of the most limited description. The paper
.-sp, utiv little larger than an opened sheet of
o. •-'l, and seldom exceeds the size of a sheet
nor 1 aper. The paper itself is of the worst pos-
., , e description : the type and printing are even worse.
The annalist of literary intelligence brought to bear upon
their composition is infinitesimally small, but that can
hardly be wondered at when the iron oppressim, which the
trees has for years suffered, is considered. At present, as
4ine of the editors wrote to-day, they can only feel, not
think, and the result certainly proves the writer's words, for
an utter absence of thought is clearly indicated. The ori-
ginal matter of the papers at present consists of semi-inco-
herent exclamations. Every one is receiving glorification.
Viva for the noble people ! Viva for the gallant navy!
. Viva for the brave army ! Viva for our liberators ! Viva
1 ' Prim, Viva Serrano, Viva the citizens 44 Cadiz, Viva the
Spanish Juntas, Viva everybody ! This sort of thing and
appeals to the people to keep order, form the staple of tile
original matter of the newspapers.

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It is asserted that the Pope has sent a teleuraphie dis-
patOi to Queen Isahella offering her hospitality at Rome.
Preparations for her reception have commenced at the Far-
nese Palace, and the steam corvette Concezeone has receiv.l
orders to leave Civita Vecchia in order to be placed at her
Majesty s disposal.
A Pau paper is of opinion that the Queen of Spain will not
long continue to Inhabit that town, and, indeed, it is not un-
likely that she will be asked to move further fnan the In or
tier, and even out if France, if she deal in such sharp docu-
ments as her protest.

Among the people the careless told miscellaneous distribu-
tion of arms has led to many accidents. No less than
75 wounded have been treated in the hospital. Subtle Id
them were injured at the distribotion of arms, souse received
bayonet Vl,llllldS by weapons in the hands of others, and the
rest were injured by their own carelessness.

The Spanish Insurrection lots ended, and the Spanish
Revolution has begun. The signs id the rising, it is now
clear, loot been read aright by queen Isabella and her
Ministers. Front the first there was but little hope for them
:mil that little quickly vanished. The success of the revolt,
indeed, has been decisive in its very eirclllil6tallees. • • • •
The hope id the nation now rests on the wisest and wariest
of those leaders by whom this Revolution has been llCCOiti-
plished. If their plans are well devised, judiciously pro,.
posed, and patriotically supported, the Insurrection may
open a new era if greatness for Spain ill the opposite
event, the last state of that noble country may be even
' worse than the first."—Timeo.

Besides the slaughter at Santander, therC wus heavy loss
at the Puente de Alcolea. A person who was in the action
reports that Serrano lost 000 and Pavia 1,000, between killed
and wounded. The Madrid Emirs has a letter giving a
brief account of the affair. Soon after the action began,
Novaliehes' artillery was directed against the bridge Id Al-
colea and some neighbouring houses, :did the lire was so
heavy and sustained as to in, heard at a very great distance.
Severe fighting continued, it is added, for three and a half
hours; then the insurgents ceased firing, and with the cry
of ' Viva la Ilryna !' Novelettes and his stall charged across
the bridge, thinking the resistance subdued. On a sudden
Serrano's troops, which were in ambush and well covered,
opened such a fire that its ravages, says the letter, must
have Well incalculable. The eye-witness who writes relates
traits of great bravery on belt sides. lie saw Novelettes
fall, wounded In the face, and General Sartorias, ',rather of
the former Minister, hit in the thigh by a piece of shell.
After the fight the troops 011 both sides retired into their
respective cantonments. The Madrid Iberia estimates the
losses in the action lower than the Spaniards in Paris, on the
strength of their private information, believe them to have
been. It says they were about sOf., on Novaliches' see, and
and 470 on that of the Liberals. one battalion of
Casadores hml 101 men and 14 officers killed or wounded.
--General Pavia's walnut seems to have been of a t
ghastly desccription. Letters say that the whole jaw was shot
away. Some of the papers hive got a story , d his having hem
killed by General Caballero the Boas, who, laving recognised
him at a distance, rode towards him atal shot 1 ' . This is
quite untrue, for he was hit by a fragment of 811al "17/114.3.
COlTCSpludent.