The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-06-20 00:00:00

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HONE FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

AN UNFORTUNATE FAMILY. —To the record of
the death by burning of the two daughters of the Rev.
W. Sergison, of Slaugharm while on a visit to their
uncle at Netherseale Hall a short time since, and
later on the decease of that gentleman from ebeeffeets
of burns me:it-eel while endeavouring to save their
lives, there now remains to add the sudden desth of
the father of the young ladies, the Rev. Prebendary
himself. He bad sustained a severe shock in conse-
quence of the death of his two girls and his brother in-
law, Mr. Rolsirtioin. and on Sunday evening the
muscular pont - of the heart decreased rapidly, aid he
died early on Monday. IL is feared that the health
trn.c- son will give way under her gre.it
lit e. and Miss Robertson continue in a most
.... Rate at Neatheasesle

MUTINY AMONGST Axi ETU CAN ST I: DENTS. —A
strange mutiny has broken out among the students of
Bowdoin College at Bruiumick, in afaine. Part of
the .tiogr routine is a military drill, to which the
students object, and, the Faculty declining to dis-
continue it, the whole of the freshmen and sophomen
classes, with three exceptions, have mutinied and been
sent bone. The junior class, if the rules are enforced
against them compelling a military drill, contemplate
a- similar mutiny, so that Bowdoin will be almost
deserted. The juvenile Americans generally like to
play soldier so much that the public are at a loss to
understand this sudden outbreak against it. Among
the other New England Colleges there seems to be a
I determination to support the Faculty of Bowdon in
their enhavement of discipline, the President of Dart-
mouth College having announced that none of the
Bowdoin mutineers will be taken into that inst:tution.

INDIAN SELF-SACRIFICE. —Sixweeks ago, says
the San Francisco Bu!lain, seven male Indians and a
young Indian womsn started to cross Clear Lake, 'lsar
the noracrn end, in a small boat, which was capsized
three miles from land. They righted it, but as the
lake wis4 rough they could not bail it out, and while
full of water it would not support more than one
person. The men put the girl in, and held on the
edges of the boat, supporting themselves by swimming
till exhausted and chilled through by the cold water,
and then ilromiing off and sinking one by one. They
showed no thought of disputing the young woman s
exclusive right to the boat. She was saved by their
self sacrifice.

THE PRGTE(7ED YOUNG WOMAN A story
from Portland, Maine, seems to show that a young
woman of personal attractions may not be altogether
without protection, even when taking a long walk ins,
lonely part of the country late in the evening (says the
.qandard). A young woman, carrying a large bundle
lately missed the last ferry-boat, and determined,
nothing daunted, to take a long walk round by Port-
land Bridge. Of course, she net the inevitable young
man, and ,d course, he saluted her and asked perini4-
/AIM to escort her home. Her reply may be commended
to all young women in similiar circumstances.
"Sir," sail she, " I would not advise you to come near
me, unless you have had the small-pox. Jam allowed
out only in the evening, and am carrying a bundle of
soiled linen from a patient." The young man had
not time to be polite. Ile merely ejaculated, " Oh,
Lord ! " and, according to the local newspaper,
nothing more was seen id him save and except Ins coat
tails rapidly vanishing from bight in the gluon* of the
evening, and apparently moving in the direction of
Portland Bridge.

HOPE FOR -ITALY.—The Italian Correspondent
of The Tines writes :
In the North of Italy it is hardly as much on bread as on
silk that the people live, and the whole of Lombardy revels
this year in a perfect glut and surfeit of its beloved worms.
A huge crop of this year's silk will be added to the store of
last year's silk yet unsold. Prices must fall, of course ;
hurt the Italians do not despair, for they trust that plenty
will enable thou to undersell their rivals of Japan and
China, and if they cannot earn their livelihood by spin-
ning they will compete with the French as weaver. There
in thing more pleasing than to see the spirit if
iielastry and enterprise which is waking up thn mahout the
e. notry. Politicians may blunder, financiers may be Out hi
litir reckoning, but work is brisk in Italy, and the very
literature of the e try is assuming an almost exclusively
it ilitarian and speculative character. The country is flooded
with books and pamphlets al economical subjects. Journals
devoted to practical agricultural and cominerchil pursuits
arc springing up in all district centres, and with thou Clubs
mei Associations bony with the spread of useful technical
kie,wiedge. A gOlAi deal of trash and twaddle is the remit ;
Ilia oucasiencully, also, rospectable labour with a plausible
purpose and a satisfactory result

AN Am ERICAN OPINION.— An American jour-
nal has devoted sonic attention to what it styles
" England's Military Dilemma." It dismisses the
su4testion that she should cease to be a military
power, and declares that "she is a pugnacious old
lady, and has defects of temper that unfit her for the
peaceful r6le." After criticising various schemes, the
New York writer decides that England's true policy
must be one of alliances. He ealculates that during
the Franco-German war the tide of German success
would have been turned had 20,000 English infantry
joined the French ranks. "(Inc must not lose eight,'
he exclaims, "in such a problem of the splendid
quality of the British troops, and this would give a
morale to their allies worth even more than their num-
bers." When we remember the gigantic surrenders of
the French armies, 80,000 linen being made prisoners
at Sedan, and 150,000 at Metz, it is a high comphiiuent
to British soldiers to say that 20,000 of them would
have changed Hie character of affairs (says the Court
Journal). The American writer says that 20,000
Englishmen would have gone through the German
lines around Paris any time in January, 1871.
SORCERY IN MEXICO. —Mexico sends out
more horrible stories 14 superstition than any other
land. The latest is to the effect that a witch-burning
mania has appeared in the province of Sinaloa.
Several persons have already been burned for
" sorcery," and the local authorities complacently
report that they are preparing to exe ,ute all that are
accused of the novel crime. As a Christian missionary
was very lately killed by the priest-ridden provincials
,d Sinaloa, these executions for witchcraft seem quite
in keeping with the darkness if the region.—New York
Trilatue.

A NEW DISEASE IN INDIA.—It appears front
the Titmice Gazette that a new disease had broken
out in that district It is called by the natives
" water drinking disease," and owes its origin, it In
,”15it,1, to the bad water in the black cotton soil
portion,: of Tinnivelly. The disease runs through f sir
stages the apoplectic, the febrile, the drinking, and
Ilysunteric. Dr. Rickard has published a treatment
for the disease in the Tinnivelly 6'azate.

A COMPARISON.—Mr. John 8111118 recently
gave evidence before the Royal Commission on
Shipping. Re stated that his firm (the Cunard
Company) employ 6,000 men "all told ;" that they
shipped and discharged throughout last year 42,000
sailors; and that their fleet consists of 40 steamers, of
90,000 tons and 15,000-horse power. According to the
St4tisisnu's rear Book the German Imperial Navy
consisted last year of 41 steamers, of 37,000 tons and
8,600-horse power, manned by 3,500 men and boys.

ON A FOOTINIL—AImost every ewtsiderable
town has a market for corn ; therefore, it is hut fit that
Bedford Market-place should have its Bunyan.—
Punch.

THE WEATHER. The poet who sang of the
seasons would have found it difficult to fonts ins con-
ceptions from such a year as 1874, so far as the months
have already run their course (says the Standard).
The merry month of May has been dismally cold, and
now in the midst of June we are puzzled to realise the
fact that Midsummer is near at hand. A mild
winter has been followed by a cold spring, and the
sun which now shines upon us is neutralised by
northern blasts if unseasonable rigour. Nights of frost
still bewilder the gardener, and somebody has had a
glimpse of the aurora borealis. Despite the chill, there
is little or no rain, thus perpetuating that extra-
ordinary deficiency in the rainfall which began to
show itself last December. After a winter almost
destitute of snow, and with very little ice, we are
now suffering from that peculiar visitation, a cold
drought. As for the April showers, the last fort-
night of that month was practically without any
rain whatever. May, also, was wonderfully dry,
except that it managed to rain profusely on Whit-
Monday. According to Mr. Glaisher's register, there
had not been no wet a day for seven weeks. We
have had, on the whole, very little rain since.

A Goon DCA:WPM—The operation of the
Adulteration Act in New York has given a great im-
petus to the consumption of milk in that city. Accor
ding to the S.-lento:lie Amerioro, many restaurants have
been established where the refreshments supplied ars
confined to a few simple articles of farinaceous food,
and to bowls milk and cream sold at moderate
prices. The idea is said to have originated five
year,, gin, with the proprietor of a small baker's
shop in a humble locality, who had a monopoly of
this kind of business for some time and found it
very profitable. Other persons attracted by the
rumours of his gains, opened larger establishments,
which have culminated in full-blown restaurants.
The more popular of these are said to he largely
patronized by all class. ii. As lunch as 1,200 quarts
on a cool olay, and half as much more on a hit one, is
the quantity of milk said to be consumed in a single
establishment, by an average of 2,500 persons. Since
the penalties imposed by the adulteration Act in Lou.
don and the vigilance of our milk analysts have
rendered it possible to obtain pure and wholesome milk
in the metropolis, it might be worth while to try an
experiment of a similar kind. Milk, with the addition
01 aerated water and ice, forms a delicious and whole-
some beverage in hot weather; and a most nutricions
one in cooler weather, without the ice or aerated water.
We see, with pleasure, that some shops in London are
bashing steps in the direction indicated, by selling milk
and Apollinaris water by the glass at a low price.
London Medical Record.

EmI,ESIASTICAL GARDESIINO.—The Bishop of
Oxford has been vigorously contending that Episcopal
powers should not be hampered by the Shaftesbury
Clause, which, SR his Lordship puts it, is to turn the
whole Bench into a set of "mere machines." Surely,
where ill weeds are growing at such a pace in the
Church, nothing could he wiser than immediate resort
to a "Lawn Mower."--P um*.

COMMUNISM AMONG THE MORMONS—The new
movement towards communism among the n.rnmus
may proveuf importance (says the New Ymi•
Hitherto the interference of the Monnoa Church with
the po,session f propsrtv has been principally coa.
lined to the system of tithing and the regulations under
which new accessions acre accepted. It is generally
known that upon their first entry into the Church
the majority of members made over their property to
it, afterwards receiving, back certain amounts. But what
they subsequently acquired, except tithes, has hitherto
been their own. The new system is intended to turn
their entire incomes into the revenues of the Church,
and to provide thence simply for their support. It
scarcely seems possible that any considerable number
of people would be willingto submit Wench an arrange
ment ; but, according to our correspondent, the system
has been entered upon largely throughout the territory
except in Salt Lake City. It is evident that such a
plan, successfully carried out, must add immensely to
the power with which the Church controls its followers.
—New York Tel/one.

A LETTER FROM PORGATOEY.—A nth er amos
jug story, says Colonel Stuart, in his just published
"Reminiscences of a Soldier," was told mr some time
ago by an hi lady, who had an ancient servant that
had lived with her for many years, named Ann Brady.
One day Ann came in to her mistress in the parlour
crying and rearing, "Now, ain't I the unfortunate
woman; och, what will Ido at all, at all?" " What's
the niatt-r, Ann?" said her mistress. " Orb, ma'am,"
replied Ann, the postman 's outside, and he's got a
letter for me from purgatory, and I know it's from my
null mother, who's been there this tin years, and it's
1111 about me not paying for the tua-ses I said I would.
Ochone ! Mit I am the miserahle woman." On her ,
mistress going out she found the postman in a fit of
laughter, with a letter directed to "Ann Brady" from
the "Deal Letter Office." Nothing could induce her
to t' 'orb it, the " Dead " to her meaning purgat•
and nothing else ; LII I her mistress was obliged to op n
the letter fot her, and find it was one Ann hal
written to a nephew in Clare, but who had gone to j
America, and consequently the letter had been re- I
turned.

SELF-ItE,PECT.—Cook (to &ant ;rho
has en oarr a new Place). "Well, 'Liza, will it
suit :* "—Eliza. "Not if I knows it : Why, when I
got there, blest if there wasn't the two Young Ladies
of the 'Ouse both a-usin' of one Piano at the same
Time! 'Well,' thinks I, this his acomite down in the
World !' So I thought I was best say Good Mornin' ! "
—Punch.

THE CONDITION Or TRADE.—The Economist
observeB

- -
"Our export trade generally is in a much less unsatisfac-
tory Condition than would appear at Bret sight (ruin the mere
totals of the values. To a large extent the decline is appa-
rent only, antl 13 a pure gain; and even where there ix a
deeltue in quantity as well as of value, or a decline in the
value of an article stitch is exclusively a home product, we
have the satisfaction of knowing, first, that the decline of
quantity is very moderate, being usually less than an aug-
mentation which occurred 'playoff, art next. that the entire
conditions of trade are becoming more healthy, for it is not
di viral le that in the long run even home products should It
kept up at artificially high prices, so as to check and disturb
the isiurse of trade. Business is. in fail, getting back into a
normal condition at comparatively little present cost, and
this is no unsatisfactory result after the great inflation of
IS7I-2 "

GOOD WINE ONE PENNY A BOTTLE.—MOI-
- during the last session passed a law imposing an
enormous tax on every one retailing alcoholic drinks
of any kind, with not much effect. For, what with
the wine-growers having neither cellars nor barrels,
and inuchasers, in consequence of the new law, being
diministied in number, wine had to be sold at a
ruinously low price. The publicans were able to pur-
chase good wine at the rate of a penny a bottle, and to
retail it at a low price.

Sr. JAMES AND Sr. Gitzs.—A correspondent
("Lypiatt") writes to The Times:—
. . .

,Sir,-•• An Aggrieved Pweller-by " makes a just complaint
to you of tire state of Kensington Gardens, on account of
urchins and roughs but what is to lie said if the state of
St. Banes'. Park? idi not " dwell byt" but have to pass
through it from Westminster Hall Lin my way home, MO I
always see the enclosed patches of grass given up to ragged
and dirty children, who play all sorts of games and strew the
ground with pieces of paper, old shoes, and the like, and in
many places you see tramps, often too scantily clothed,
lying, about IllidOr the shade aria the open parts, looking as
if drunk or dead. The whole place presents the appearance
of a dirty caricature iris battle fleld, and this within pistol
shot of Buckingham Palace !

MATRIMONIAL CHANCES !—(From the Man-
chester Examiner.)—" A widower, in business, wishes
to correspond, in strict confidence, with a lady,
middle aged, with a view to matrimony.—Address,"
&c.—" A gentleman, 37, fair, with 1:370 In-
come, wants an accomplished wife similarly situated.
—Address, enclosing carte, which will be honourably
returned, and stating age, real name, and address,"
&c. —" A widow lady, age 22, svid to correspond
with a gentleman, not more than 42 years of age' with
a view to matrimony; letters to initials only, or Porte
Rentante, will not be replied to, but the strictest con-
fidence may be relied upm, and will be expected.—
Address," &c.
SANITARY AND EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION.—
An exhibition of sanitary and educational appliances,
similar to that at Leeds in 1071 and at Norwich last
year, will be held at Glasgow from the 30th of Septem-
ber to October 10, in connexion with the Social Science
Congress to be held there at that time. The Exhibition
is specially designed to bring under the notice of the
public generally, and particularly those who are inte
rested in social, sanitary, and educational questions
in a collective form, the latent scientific appliances for
improving the public health and promoting edocation.
The articles will be divided into the following classes :--
1. Warming, ventilation, and lighting ; 2. Domentie
appliances and economic apparatus; 3. Sanitary archi-
tecture and appliances ; 4. Sanitary engineering and
disinfectants; 5. School furniture and educational ap-
paratus.

THE LAST NEW IDEA.— The advocates of
cremation must Is& to their laurels, which appear
likely to be wrested from them by a German savant,
Dr. von Steinbeis (says the Pall Mall Gazette). His
proposed method of disposing of the lushes of the dead
provides against injury to the living, while it offers no
violence to the feelings which shrinks from destroying
the corpse of a beloved friend or relation. Decom-
position is, of course, an innocuous pro,ess provides!
its results cannot infect the air. Dr. von Steinbeis
therefore proposes to cover the body with Roman ox
Portland cement, which hardens into a solid mass and
renders the escape IA noxious gases impossible. Ac-
cording to this plan the corpse would be placed in a
sareophagu.s of already hardened cement, the cavity
in which it reposed would be tilled up with the same
material, and both would harden together into a thick
slab of a substance resembling stone. Thus the de-
ceased buried in this manner would rest within instead
of under his tombstone, anti grave and monument be
comprised in the same lib, of imitation granite.
AMERICAN ADVERTISING.—"A man shot him-
himself at five and a quarter o'clock at Jack Smith's
the gunner, of Beak-street, New Orleans. Of course
he did it effectually, for he chose a Van Blowem's
patent revolver. and they go true to the bull's eye and
through a ten-inch deal." Here is another :--" Bis-
marck Caine pretty near dying this time. He has been
sick and near unto death, but he is now rapidly fast
recuperating. His system got into a low morbid con-
dition, the result of overwork. The muscle and fibre
of which he is made—tough 149 it is—was enervated by
long continued exertions By a happy inspiration
his physician conceived the idea of ordering Cutter's
whisky-. Its effects have been marvellous. It is sold
in San Francisco IT the agent, A. Hotaling."— Sin
Francisco News.
RAIN AT THE ANTWODES.—The earth, on GIIT
part ef it, is dry and parched, but the Australian mail
brings accounts of plenty if rain on the other side.
At Melbourne as much as 10131 inches hail fallen this
year up to the middle of April, the average for the
period being only 640 inches. Five inches of rain fell
in a I wtuight in March. People on their way to the
sICIV Palmer diggings in Queensland were shut in be-
tween swollen rivers, unable either to proceed or
return. They killed their horses for food, and were in
danger of starvation. When the first steamer made
its way up, a number of miners thus delayed at Cook-
town got on board, unshipped the staging, cut off emu.
milkman with the shore, and "rushed the steamer
for a free passage." Constables were procures!, but it
was only after a long struggle that the ringleaders
were arrested and order was restored.

COAL IN AUSTRALIA.—The Melbourne corres-
pondent of The Times writes:—

An enterprise which may be of the highest value to the
country has not yet attracted the attention it deserve&
Although our own geologhts and latterly the Coal Viewer of
the New South Wales Government have pronounced de-
cidedly against the existence of payable coal in Victoria,
cargoes of coal from a Victorian mine have been sold in the
Melbourne market at good prices. and the coal is said to be
of eitiellent quality, and preferable in some respects to that
from the Antipodean Newcastle. It comes from the Kileundu
mine on the eastern shore of Westernport Bay, about 00
miles from Melbourne, belonging to a company in which
Messrs. Latham anti Watson, two Sandhurst gold miners, are
the principal shareholders. Having already won a large
fortune underground, they hazarded a portion of it in push-
ing into the earth again in a view pursuit, undeterred by the
warnings of science, auth launched their undertaking in the
face of many difficulties. A tramway and Jetty have been
4-instructed by which the coal is delivered into vessels of
large tonnage. The mine is well open and abundant coal la
in sight.

Baron Rothschild is now building a splendid mansion
in the Avenue de Madge'', Champs Elysees, Pads, which is
to cost six millions of [relics. It will be the most sumptuous
residence in Paris.
The number of wrecks reported during the past week
is 31, making for the present year tekl
A positive denial is given to the statement of a
Berlin paper, according to which the Khedive of Egypt was
strengthening the armaments on an extensive scale.
The .110niteur Beige announces that the date of the
marriage of the eldest daughter of the King and Queen of
the Belgians has not yet been definitely fixed.
In London, on Saturday afternoon, a lady. attirea
in • black silk dress, committed suicide by jumping from
the Surrey side et Bluth bin Bridge.
A child ten years old, Benedetto Palmieri, of
Naples, lately gave a piano concert at the Hotel Of the
Italian Legation at Pent, and obtained extraorlivary succem I
Great excitement was caused at Banisley on Satur-
day when it became known that the owners of the New
!Bieber Hall Colliery had given notice that they would
accept the ten per emit, agreed to by the Miners' Council :
but lit 20 dins they sheet(' snake another reduction of tent
per cent., making twenty itt all.
The Spenersehe Zeitung, with an eye to possible con-
tingencies, has, with grim facetiousmes. inserted in its
• feuilleton a specimen of the crematiop announcement&
which in Germany doctors generally, and its this country Sir
Henry Thompson especially, no d alit anticipate will be of
ordinary occurrence among the coming race. The sample •
announcement is as follows:—" To-morrow, at three pm,
I shall burn my motherdn-law.—August Feuerhase."
A parliamentary bill which bears the names of Mr.
George Clive and Sir Charles Forster purposes to nuke the
offence of personating any person, "or the heir, executor,
or tultniiiistrator, wife, widow, next of kin, or relation of any
• person," with intent fraudulently to obtain possession of
: land or other property, felony, punishable with penal servi-
tude for life or any perbel flit less titan five years, or with
immisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or
without hard labour.
On Saturday a horticultural show at the People's
Gardens, Willesden. was honoured by the presence of the
'fat-gun of Lorne and the Princess lonise, and a flambe,' of
other distinguished visitors. The Marquis congratulated the
club on the success of the exhibition, held in their own
grounds. The chairman, in addressing her Royal Highness,
said, hi the name of the chairman and the members of the
club, he wished to thank her for her visit that day. It was
ginerally supposed that the club was composed only of
working men, but that was a mistake. The object of that
club was to break down class difference, annul place every man
upon the saute footing, and her Royal Highness's visit that
day was the crowning p-Ant of their efforts.
The Mansion Hulse Fund for the relief of the dis-
tress caused by the famine in Bengal amounts to £117,000, of
which £lOO.OOO has already been transmitted to Delia. On
Monday the Lord Mayor received a letter from the Hon.
VI rnon 11. Sehaleh, the President of the Central Relief Com-
mittee at Calcutta, in which he referred to the action which
had been taken by that body with respect to the disposal of
the fund, and expressed a hope that the course pursued
would lie as satisfactory to the subscribers its England as he
was assured it would be to those who hail contril outed bathe
Famine Fund in India.
According to the statistics of emigration supplied
by the officials at Liverpool, 17,293 persons sailed from that
port for various places, principally the United States, during
the past month. Up to the present time there is a decrease
of 45,421 in the number of emigrants as contpared with the
five months of 1873.
Sir Charles Reed, the Chainnan of the School Board
for London, announced at the weekly meeting of that Wily,
that a letter hail been addressed to hint by a lady, whose
saute he mentioned. stating that she was prepared tnn hand
over to the Board the sum of 100 guineas, to be devoted to
the offering of prizes for eseays or manuals on cookery and
hotoehold ivork suitable for the use of Board teaching.
The letter was referred to the School Management Com-
mittee.
Alluding to the fact that three steamers have been
fatally weakened by additioiet to their length, a clerical
paper says:—" Many line sernmns hove been ruined the same
Our female cousins across the Atlantic have just
supplied their latest •• requirement." They have started an
"Escort Corp." Its object is donde : the male members
pledge themselves to act on" walking-sticks" to the female
membets —to take them to and from places of amusement,
to. The committee, we are told, is composed of a number
of responsible ladies of mature years, who reject every young
stain whose character will not bear the proverbial " strictest
investigation."—Pietorial World.
A Paris correspondent relates that the wife of a
baker, at Pansy, after four years marriage, was confined of a
girl the joy of the mother was complete, ind unfortunately
physical weakness set in, and she was unable to suckle her
child. This preyed upon her mind ; she became delirious,
and during her husband's absence site strangled the infant in
its cradle with a pocket handkerchief, and then committed
suicide by hanging herself to the window with a bed -sheet.
On the husband retuning( into a fit at the sight of the
: two corpses, and his life is despaired of.
The arguments in the Mar peerage claim, which
, have occupied the 'liaise if Lords, sitting as a Committee of
Privileges, for several days, were brought to 8 close on
Tuesdry, 81141 the further consideration of the ease was ad•
Penned sine die.
A melancholy accident occurred in London on Tues-
day evening. As the visitors were leaving Lord's trinket
Ground, a spirited hone, ridden by a gentleman mimed
Nestilelit took frith& and. running away, threw its rider .-n
his head, killing him on the spot.
A Military Commission 11118 been instituted at Berlin
to elaberate new cavalry drill regulations in accordance
with the present system 4 firearms. and to discuss the
formation of the different kinda of cavalry in future wars.
The two cavalry brigades of eaelt army corps are to be
united in a division. as is already the case in the army mono
of the (lean's. The regiments of the army corps cavalry are
to be separated from those of the division cavalry, in ac-
cordance with the organization introduced lately for the
field artillery.
Two drawings of Miss Thompson, the painter if the
" Roll Call in the Crimea," now at the Royal Academy, will
be exhibited at the Dudley Gallery with the other works in
'• Black and White." The more important of the two is " A
Cavalry Charge at Aldershot," which Is touch praised by
those who have seen it.
The body of a new.is wn child was found a day or
two since in n travelling hag in one of the waiting rimms at the
Addisoteroad etation. Kensington, London. Dr. Diplock
has held an Mope st, and the jury, on the niediral evidence,
found a verdict of wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown.

The American newspapers announce the appointment
of a member of the S((eitety of Friends (Mr. M. W. Painter as
" moral instructor in the Northern State Prison of Indiana
at Michigan City. This °thee, we suppose, corresponds to
that of chaplain in English gaols.
The annual sale of the Royal yearlings took place
on Saturday at Ilampton Paddocks. There were twenty-five
lots or the catalogue. three of which were not put up. and
two besides were sent back unsold, leaving twenty as tho
windier 4lisposed of. These made 3,455 guineas, or ai aver-
age of nearly 173 guineas, which was very much under last
year's average, when twenty-three lots realized 5,060 guineas,
or an average of 220 guineas. The highest price was 1.000
guineas, which Captain Mitchell gave for the brother to
Julius.
As the barque Ricer Cloth', outward bound, was
entering the Downs on Monday morning, a boy while loosing
a sail, fell from the masthead, and, fracturing his skull, died
instahtly. The lad hall been shipped from the Goliath train-
ing ship, at the London flocks, and had been only a few
hours at sea.
In Philadelphia there is a man with a beard four feet
three inches long. Ue is mighty proud of it.
This year's Derby was worth £5,350, and the Oaks
45,400.
Owing to the depressed state of the linen trade in
lifeshire, a proposition has been made to reduce the wages
of the operatives in preference to working fewer hours
per day. The demand fir household and steam coal is ex-
ceedingly limited, and it is feared that the present prices
cannot be maintained long. At one colliery a stock Id 150,000
tons has been accumulated.
There has been a Ministerial crisis in Copenhagen,
caused by the resignation the Finance Minister, whose
colleagues have also intimated their intention of retiring.
The decision id the King has not yet been made known.

The domease in the number of emigrants to
America this year continues to a marked degree. The total
falling off since January, thus far, from the figures of the
corresponding time last year, is 20,000.
"There are few sights that surprise a foreigner
more than witnessing the assemblage if some four-and-
twenty well-apponded " drags " in Hyde-park. To select,
say, twelve of the best, the value of the hors, a nil carriages
would amount to lc,800; add twelve niore, the horses hen,

orritOl to £10,800; agou
less valuable, and the sum would be £9.104 ; Wile of the
whole —as the late Joseph Hume was wont to say in the
House of Contmons--4.241.400."—C00d Atonal.
A return to the Houne of Lords obtained by Earl
Nelson, has been Issued, showed Vane number of peti-
tions received in favour of the Public Worship Regulation
ltill was 211, with 2,392 Riau:dares, of which 295 were clerical,
and 2.097 lay signature. Against the hill 025 petitions,
with 21,09 signatures, 2,010 clerical, and 15,369 lay Bignar,
tures.
In London. last Friday a musical performance was
given at Grosvenor House by the pupils of the Royal Normal
._. _ .

'College aria -A.C-i-deMy—r.d-Slusie for the Blind, hy the periwig-
sion id the Duke of Westminster. President of the College.
The performers, who were totally blind, did then selves and
their principal great credit.
A memorial from the council of the Social Science

Association has been presented to the President of the final
Government Board praying for the periodical publication of
an analyses of the air and water of large towns having a high
110.4 of population, for the purpose of detecting disease
ant suggesting what may he needfnl for the protection of
piddle health and the prevention of the spremt of contagious
diseases.
Prince Trottbetzkoi, fatherinlaw of Prince Orloff,
the Russian Ambassador In Paris, has just died at the age of
07. lie was neat charitable, and tile Paris papers speak
highly of his philanthropic labours on bejtalf of the suffertra
during the late war.
The railway fares in Germany will be increased Xi
per rent, on the tat of August.
In London, on Saturday afternoon, a shocking acci-
dent occurred at the King's cross Stall's to Sarah Adams,
aged twenty-one, a dressmaker. A Ludgate-hill train was
moving out of the station, and the deceased, though warned
by the guard to keep back, tried to enter a carriage She
fell between-The platform and the train, and her head was
nearly severed front her body

The French Academy hag fixed that its poetry prize
for 1675 shall be given for the best composition on Livings-
tone.
Sir Chance F. the eminent engineer, died at
Blackheath on ounday list. at the age ,if sixty.four. The
firm of which he was the laud built the Exhibition if IS5t,
and in c,onlection with this event Sr Charles, in conjuncti.m
with Sir W. Cubitt and Sir Joseph hut .11, received the hon-
our of knighthood He was the inventor of Fox's Safe'y
Switch, and contributed largely to the improvement of CI,
permanent way and fittings of railways and of ironwork eon-
stroction generally.