The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-03 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

AN IRISH SHARB.—A large basking shark I
(Seladle Maximus) was lately caught on the west meat Lord Dufferin says, On my voyage out ,
"THAT'S WHAT yVE BEEN TELLINO
beEinMlgL,Yaired
hr ye which had grated harshly on my ear,, • 110
and
dlrfenlainadit,
liver
ninety
eiinupewasriatiwgeontioyn-fisvoeffeoeitl long, on ,
pon li
ithe emigrants to address them, I alluded to this
extracted. This shark is quite devoid of ferocity, Lada he misfortune to have too many children,' and I
v.othat stabollncerustaca. etea,ethandohfastrubeetwLenntihnies,
g whichillar ch
es
actfle: long
sgs of the differences between the old country and their
re atrkedthat perhaps no better idea could be given
strainers and prevent the food (taken in at the mouth new
ling
with the Slater for breathing purposes) from escaping struggling home than by the fact that whereas in England a
t iiiery swat a man could scarcely have too many
and conical. An additional interest is were ping : . .
.heer. through *well-slits. Its teeth ,as might be imagined, ' life by a numerous man
family, aumight be overweighted in the battle of
a in the land to which they
lis op Gunner, Who first described it, believed it to bit ful actompanun Tit of laughter also, when I was,
a e.l to this curious animal front the fact that, lichen. Here i was applauded lustil:i with 1a ,
tho whale that swallowed Jonah.
by a stalwart young emigrant, who cried out, 'Right,
A CENTENARTAN. A Wilmington (North:,
furthest greeted with an approving thump on the back
yin aiv, sir, that's what I've been telling Emily.'
Ciirolina) paner says :—" Yesterday' (September 3/1 .The Canadians have got up the slang phrase "That's
Amy Gregory, a coloured woman, aged 115 years, what I's. b.,. telling Emily," having had the anecdote
died in this city. 'She was from Vfffilin County, in made familiar by going the round of the papers, and
this State, and formerly belonged to Nelson C,
one hears everywhere, "That's what I've been telling
of that county. Some year Sc two ago, before orr
mental faculties became too much impaired by age, •-'
she could give very interesting accounts of many PRISONERS' WORE.— American papers state
episules of the Revolution that occurred in and would that it is reported that there has been a great falling
flab f State
the settlement of Wilmington, particularly that of a off of late in. the market value o thetur o
great British commander riding his horse into his prison convicts at Auburn, New York, and that at the
house at the corner of Third and Market street, recent letting of contracts there was scarcely any cons-
' where it is said prints of the horse's shoes remain petition betweeneentractors and the prices offered were
to this day. She happened to be at that time a ser- lower than at any other time during the last ten years.
i vant in the house where the affair occurred."
1 One shoe contractor, formerly ernployMg 100 convicts,
SONOROUS SAND.—There is a huge drift of i
e has given up his contract and opened business at
sonorous beach-sand at Kenai, one ef the Sandwich Rochester with what is called outside labour. The
Philadelphia Ledger says :—"lt is probable that the
i Islands. Its sounding qualities are moist remarkable.
price paid for convict labour in former years is approach-
-1 At a scientific meeting in San Francisco lately a bottle
ngthat for which thousands of free men are now at work,
of it was exhibited, with a letter from the donor, who
and that is the underlying reason for want of compsti-
resides at Honolulu, and who wrote:—' At the ex-
tion between contractors. The whole business of letting
i treme south end of the drift in question, if you slap out the work of convicts at rates greatly belo w the value of
two handfuls together there is a sound produced like free labour (the only means by which contractors Can
the low hooting of an owl, more or less sharp, accord' free
induced to employ convicts) is one of very doubtful
lag as the motion is quick or slow. Sit down upon the
benefit to the State. The remote and indirect comic
and give one hand a quick circular motion, and
the sound is like the heavy bass of a melodeon. Kneel
uences of prison discipline are frequently of more im-
upon the steep incline, extend the two hands and ilortance to society than the immediate and direct -and
be benefited
it may be that the State of New York will
clasp as much sand as possible, slide rapidly down,
by having its convicts idle away their time rather than
carrying all the sand you can, and the sound accumu-
by employing them in reducing, by unfair competition,
lates as you descend until it is like distant thunder,
the wages tehonest working men. But it is not neves-
In this experiment the sound was sufficient to frighten
sary that they should either lie idle, or that they should
our horses, fastened a short distance from the base of ...e
allowed to work for less wages than their work, if
the drift. But the greatest sound we produced was t
done by free labour, would be worth. There is a middle
by having one native lie upon his belly and another
taking him by the feet and dragging him rapidly down course, which neither exposes the convict to dangerous
idleness, the Stale to unnecessary expense, nor free
the incline, carrying as much sand as possible with
bourers to disastrous and v,holly unfair, because
them. With this experiment the sound was terrific, la
artificial, competition.
! and could have been heard many hundred yards dis-
I taut." The volume of sound, it appears, is In proper-
I tion to the quantity of sand put in motion. The cause
: of the sonorousness has not been explained. Who will
' account for it? However, one thing has been she-
covered—that the sand loses much of its sounding
1 power upon being wet.
i' AMERICAN CATTLE FOR LIVERPOOL--The New
I York Daily Bulletin says that 300 head of beef cattle
' have been purchased in Chicago for shipment to Liver-
pool, rid Montreal, where a steamer has been fitted up
with stalls and other conveniences for the purpose, and
it is said that it is expected to establish a regular trade
between the two cities in.beef cattle. The experiment
(says the Bulletin) was tried from New York last year
without success, and we cannot see how it can be made
a profitable business through the lakes and the St.
Lawrence, unless our experiment was made under un-
usually unfavourably circumstances. Low freights this
year against high last, and water rates from Chicago
instead of rail, may overcome the disadvantages of last
i year's trial from IN ew York. The great obstacle is in
i cost of shipment, and if it can be overcome, this
; may be made a profitable commerce between us and
' Great Britain, provided the cattle are not subject to
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EPITOME OF NEWS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN,
It is stated that the New England cotton manu-
facturers propose to reduce the production of fabrics by one-
third.
In the year ended the 31st of March the amount of
Inhabited House Duty received was £1,253,061 D. 1114.
The postmaster at Madras has, in order to test the
honesty of his subordinates, adopted the plan of forwarding
test letters, parcels, and packets to several people in Madras.
An English firm has been granted a concession for
supplying Potsdam, together with the villages and residences
between that town and Berlin. with water.
At a largely attended meeting of the West ban-
shire miners, held at Wigan on Tuesday afternoon, it was
decided, after much debate, to accept for the present the ten
per cent reduction in wages offered to a deputation of the
men by the masters on the previous day.
Mrs. I larlotte Conte, aged 45, died at Norwich on
Tuesday morning from the effects of injuries sustained at the
late railway collision at Thorpe. This makes the 24th death
arising out of this catastrophe.

seasickness, in which case shrinkage equal to that in
men under the same circumstances would greatly re-
duce their avoirdupois. and consequently the shipper's
profits. Such a new outlet, however, would aggravate
the already serious deficiency in our supply of good
beef cattle.
THORWALDSEN'S Idols.— At Lucerne one of the
most striking beauties is Thorwaldsen's Lion. Before
you some to it you have to pass through a garden.
Nothing can surpaks it for dignity and simplicity. If
you have had the good fortune never to have seen a
photograph of it, so much the better. Hewn out of
the solid rock, it forms a kind of gigantic cameo. It
was the genius yf the great Danish sculptor to be able
to express at once the weakness and the strength of
the dying animal. The paw rests upon the shield, on
which you can trace the fleur-de-lys of the Bourbons,
but the splinters of the broken spear cling in the hide.
He conquers, but he dies. Underneath is a list of
the soldiers and officers whose glory it perpetuates;
but such bad care has been taken of the monitment
that the legend is illegible. From the summit of the
rock a spring flows down which feeds a pool of water,
interposed with admirable results between the spec-
tator and the monument. But the water in the pool
is dirty, and the approaches untidy, and you wonder
that a people who could raise such a monument would
let it fall into such neglect.—Court Journal.
EASTERN SCRIBES.—A correspondent describes
as follows the scribes in a Constantinople bazaar
who write letters, keep accounts, or do anything n
that line for the great mass of the people They
are usually old, grey-haired men, with long robes
and a peculiarly shaped white hat, indicative of their
office. Very grave men they are, and deeply learned,
no doubt, as men should be who are the depositaries
of other men's thoughts, and appointed to give advice
to the young and inexperienced. Each scribe sits
upon a low bench or table, squatting cross-legged,
and smoking his long pipe with the greatest solem-
nity. By his side is a small flat board, which he
uses as a writing desk, and hanging from his girdle
is an ink-horn of some fanciful device, and in his
hand, or stuck behind his ear, is the reed pen."
SHAKESPEARE'S LlNE.—AttelltiOß lately called
to the illAnta mentioned by Shakespeare, has caused
people to argue that he must have been a gardener.
The fact appears to be that the Prince of Playwrights
was the living contradiction to a popular saying---
Shakespeare was Jack of all trades and master of one.

On Tuesday, the Empress of Austria was present at
some steeplechases at Row Farm, near Ventnor, which had
been gut up at her desire The principal race was for a
massive cup, value £l5O, presented by the Empress.
A lady named ItoHinson has met with a terrible
death at Sheffield. She was looking over the edge of a deep
well, when the report of a pistol startled her, and she fell
head foremost into the pit ; the well being fifty feet deep she
was instantaneously killed, and her body, when recovered,
was found to be terribly mutilated.
A St. Petersburg paper says that the tribunal of
Vororitge has permitted a lady advocate to defend a man
accused of theft.
A large majority of coal-masters in West Yorkshire
havingreconsidered their decision to reduce wages 30 percent.
have abstained from giving notice to their men.
On the last day of the late Session a statute was
passed to explain the Vaccination Act of 1071. The rules
under the recited Act are to extend to proceedings and ex-
penses as to the duties of Guardians and their officers in
relation to the institution and conduct of proceedings taken
to enforce the law.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges (as
"Conscience Money ") the receipt of a check for .4:35 from
" R. A. B."
On Monday evening a fatal accident occurred at
Mr. Cook's corn mill, Barnsley. Miss Martha Ann Ciek, aged
17, was passing the machinery in the null, when her dress
was caught by a spindle, and her head dashed against the
, ,wail and elevators. Death was instantaneous. William Cook,
, her brother, attempted to rescue her, and in doing so was
' much Injured.
In Scotland, on account of the productive labour of
convicts, £3,036 Cs. Sil, was realised, and £2,145 2s. 4d. in Ire-
land, in the year ended March 31 last.
A letter fiom Constantinople states that fever is
' raging at Damascus, 14,000 persons, including half the garri-
son, being attacked, and that the rural population of Syria
are being so plundered by In igands that they hardly care to
! raise crops which there is no security for their enjoying.
Archbishop Manning was present on Monday night at
a reunion of the Salford Diocesan Temperance Crusade, and
, delivered an address, in which he dwelt on the evils of in-
temperance, condemned the unwisdom of the Legislature in
fostering the traffic of intoxicating drinks, and called upon
, the working classes to support the Permissive BBL
The screw steamship Lord Bpron, ('aptain Jeffries,
from Oporto, arrived in Southampton dock last Saturday
morning, and landed 200 oxen for that port and London.
'the British Embassy, by a long way the handsomest
and costliest residence in Washington, has been finished, and
will be ready for the occupancy of Sir Edward Thornton on
the Ist of October. Its cost has been about £30,000, and the
furnishing will cost half that sum. It has seventy rooms,
and covers about 10,000 square feet
.of
_ground; It is of
_ .

—Punch.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.-011 Saturday,
a lecture on "Ancient and Modern Bookbinding "was
given to an audience, principally composed of members
of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, by
Mr. Henry T. 'Wood, in the small theatre attached to
the Albert Hall. The lecturer began by giving a short
sketch of the history and progress of the art from its
beginning in thedecorated covers of the Roman writing
tablets, through the elaborate bindings of media-val
manuscripts and early printed books down to the
cheaper and rapidly produced work of our own day.
He then proceeded to discuss the different classes of
modern work, and gave a brief account of the various
materials employed and the methods of treatment
pursued, concluding with some remarks on the appli-
cation of machinery in superseding handiwork in the
case of the commoner bindings. The lecture was illus-
trated by specimens lent by some of the principal ex-
hibitors in the bookbinding class.
Pm:wile:B Wen EXPENSES.—A statement of
the extraordinary expenses connected more or len
directly with the last war, and incurred up to the end
of 1873, has just been presented to the German
Bundesrath. Among the chief items are £240,800 for
mobilization, £1,600,800 for current war expenses,
£36,300 for the Navy, £1,260, for the Post Office,
£2,200 for telegraph management, £112,500 com-
pensation for requisitions, £1,849,000 for interest
and redemption of the War Debt, and £14,160,000
for assisting the needy families cf the Reserve and
Landwehr ; the total chargeable to the North
German Confederation being £4,227,685. 'The items
chargable te the whole of Germany amount to
£48,303,647, and include £905,000 for the extra cost of
the Army of Occupation, £306,000 for garrisoning
Alsace and Lorraine, £1,599,000 for the restoration and
equipment of the fortresses in those Provinces,
£735,000 for compensation for injury to property,
£1,082,000 for the Imperial railways in those Provinces,
£1,603,000 for the redemption of the floating debt,
£478,000 for the strengthening and equipment of Ger-
man fortresses; £7,950,000 voted for the erection of
fortresses £2,800,000 for a fund for invalided soldiers,
and £1,200,000 for the Reichstag buildings.
THE EDELWEISS. —A correspondent of the
Daily News writes :—"Sir,— Seeing in the papers
accounts of several accidents befalling travellers in
quest of Edelweiss,' I write to assure those of your
readers that covet the possession of the plant that it
can be most easily grown in England and requires

pressed brick, laid in black iuortar, and is ti'immed with light
grey sandstone.
A Moan's name is frequently mentioned in the Southern
newspapers with such personal remarks as the following
" He is an undersized German teacher of languages, distin-
guished by his unparalleled cheek and his remarkable un-
familiarity with truth as an abstract principle ; indeed, it
may be said that witn lam truth is stranger than fiction."
The obligatory use of the German language as the
article of instruction in the elementary schools in Alsace
and Lorraine has now been partially extended. The French
do not object to it, and enigmatically enough reason that
the knowledge will be ueeful to the French in times to
come.
The Archbishop of York visited Liverpool on Satur-
day to dedicate the new chapel at the Liverpool Seaman's
Orphan Aaylum. His lordship preached in the chapel, and
also took part in the first public service in the building on
Sunday.
The expenditure in the last financial year for the
Customs and Inland Revenue Departments amounted to
X 2,676,014 10a, IS.
The collector of customs at El l'aso, Texas, in an
official letter to the United States of statistics, dated August
17th, says We have not bade drop of rain In this vicinity
for ass days. Many of the cattle have died of starvation."
Among the last fashionable arrivals in Paris is that
of "General Dot," the rival of Tom Thumb. The gallant
dwarf is of German origin, and his unprofessional name is
Leopold Kahn. He was born in San Francisco, of parents of
giant proportions. The new "general "weighs 181b1. He
s said to have made a fortune in America with Barnum.
A new mineral has been discovered by Senor M.
Barcena at Huitenco, in Mexico. It resembles stibuibe, or
sulphide of antimony, and has been named "Livingstonite,"
in honour of the great traveller.
The benefit of Mdlle. Dejazet, which has just taken
place in Paris, yielded nearly sixty thousand franca. Some
I,f the boxes were sold for I,OOJ francs (E4O). The principal
actors and actresses of Paris took part in the representa
tion.
It is stated that a fresh Austrian Arctic Expedition
is being prepared in Vienna, and into set out next summer.
Its object will be to ascertain whether the newly-discovered
country is a continent or an island.
A large troopship called the Assistance of upwards
of 2,000 tons, and with accommodation for more than 1,000
persons and 130 cavalry horses, was launched at Blackwell
on Saturday, the ceremony of "christening" the vessel being
performed by a daughter of Admiral Mends.
Another torpedo experiment (the fourth) was tried
at Portsmouth on Saturday, 5001 h. of guncotton, immersed
sixty-three feet, being placed fifty feet from the side of the
Oberon. The vessel after the explosion was seen to heel over
perceptibly, but what damage she sustained is not at present
known. The Empress of Austria, in her steam launch was
--nt among the

- - --.-"`" present among the spectators.
no special care. In July, 1873, I was at St. oritz M,
The gold diggings in French Cayenne having proved
in e Engadine,
th and had a small plant given to me
remunerative, the Stadtholder of the Dutch \Vest India
that came, I believe, from the }'ex glacier. It was colonies has sent out an expedition to the 3 tamale River in
quite ten days before I arrived in England, and I the hope of equally favourable results.
carried my plant, with some other Alpine roots, in a An intimation has been received by the Mayor of
small basket, watering them occasionally' but had not Birmingham to the effect that the Prince and Princess of
time to take them out .sf the basket till I reached wales will visit that town at the beginning of next Novem-
home. The leaves of the Edelweiss died down in the her, during their residence at Packington Hall, the seat of
, winter, and I left it in the pot I brought it in, think- the Earl of Atlesford.
'tog the root had died too. But in the spring I planted "The novel by the Princess Alice of Hesse. Life-
it in a flower-border ,• it seedily revived, and has 1.f.(48, will, of t.....t. he Pt, le..tiplg tor r the season.
grown into a large healthy plant ; I picked one perfect
hitherto,,bunaoW German
aretoaohvaaves a api,aturereaofe the upper ten, an
bloom off it, much finer than I had seen before.'' we should style them in Germany: and the princess, so say
SPRING FLOWERS.—This is the season to pre- those who pretend to know, has a witty pen, and can be
pare a feast of flowers in the spring. The cool days sareastic"—Ceurt Journal.
have come, "the saddest of the year," and there is not A curious explanation is given of the assassination of
much growing tiaie left for plants to make themselves Herr Hater, the German Vice-consul in Japan. It is stated
that a high caste Japanese who has b i een nsulted by a
in new quarters to abide the winter well and sower foreigner thinks his honour requires him to murder the first
grandly in the spring. In very many instances, foreigner he meets, and Haber fell a victim to a native who
spring flowering plants are put out too late, and there. had thus seine i out to seek revenge, and who immediately
cult is a poor display and discredit of the system. It gave himself up to the authorities.
is impossible for any plant to flower freely and finely A philosopher says the heal is doubtless the most
until it has stored by free growth a certain amount of important " organ 'we have. A lost leg or an arm Can be
substance. There must be a healthy and somewhat
supplied, but when the head is once off, there is a 1 end of it
prolonged leaf-growth ere the season for flowering .
Art has never succe,sfully supplied a wooden head where the
al article has been carried away. If the original head
arrives. If the cultivator does not humour nature "Igl"
in this matter he will be put out of humour with his was u ooden why can another not be supplied?
A memorial was recently addressed to the Marquis
work at the very moment when it should fill him with
of Salishury, Secretary of state for India by the t'ommittee
delight. Now lathe time to purchase and plant for a
tdiimspelafyor of the Aborigines Protection Society with reference to a
, baends,pgaerneedranlloyw,
',Peeking, statement that the Peruvian Government intended to apply to
and the (treat Britain for permission to introduce Coolie labourers
doing of it will put the garden in order. —Gardener's from India into Peru. The committee opposed this proposal
of
)wweurrskthcaenupwrieslf
Magazine. and pointed out that even in our own colonies the employers
of Coolies required constant supervision, and that ins foreign
THE FIRST AUCTION SALE IN VIRGINIA.— country no supervision at all could be exercised. In reply
The history of Virginia commences with an auction the Marquis of Salisbury states that no proposal on the sub
sale—not, however, in a store, but beneath the green ject had reached the India Office, and that should one be
trees of Jamestown, where probably the most anxious submitted due attention will lie given in Council to the re-
pre
and interested crowd of auction hatituir ever known in sentations made by the society.
the history of the world were gathered. In a letter, Serious dissatisfaction has arisen among the Kidder.
still to be seen, dated London, August 21, 1021, and moister carpet weavers, owing to the recent employment of
directed to a wealthy colonist of that settlement, the women on tapestry looms and to an attempt now anode to in-
writer begins by saying i—" We send a shipment, ono h.
trodtuizetilLecakprinLicewasystenit in tlie tir,eastlwe,,eanmmattetrwliaincll
widow and eleven maids for wives of the people of men. The weavers strongly prm sronateasgainst the cistern, and
and
Virginia. There hath been special care in the choice in a manifesto just issued say it would almost crush them
of them, for there hath not one of them been received out of the trade, and bring wages to almost starvation point.
but upon good commendations. In case they cannot be Should a strike occur, the Weavers' Association has an accu-
presently married, we desire that they may be put with mulated fund of several thousand pounds to fall back upon,
several householders that have wives until they can be The plenteous harvest has been celebrated in Lou lon
provided with husbands." But the writer of this churches as well as in the country, and it was the subject
epistle had little reason to fear that any of the "maidens of special solemnities On Sunday at St, Paul's Cathedral
faire" would he left over. The archives contain eva .
.the pulpit lectern, railings. and choir were decorated
with autumnal fruits, flowers, and grain, and a large cross
dence to prove that these first cargoes of young ladies of evergreens and white and yellow dahlias, pendant from
were put up at auction and sold for 120 pounds of the first chandelier in the choir, was especially remarkablo.
tobacco each, and it was ordered that this debt should There were large congregations in the morning, afternoon
have precedence of all others. The solitary "one and evening
widow " went along with the others, for they could A curious case was imard at the Bury Petty Sessions
not be particular in those days. The good minister of all Monday. Mr Fairbrother, cotton spinner, chairman of
the colony had no doubt a busy time that day. He the Improvement Comniissioners, summoned the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company for a smoke nuisance Ihe
did not mention any fees, nor did the bridegrooms charge was preferred under the Railway Clauses Consollda-
think of tendering any. All was joy and gladness; tion Act, which provides that locomotive steam engines used
no storms ahead, no uneasiness for the future, no ac• on the railway should, if they used coal or similar fuel, be
qinsitive clerk to stand and say "here's the licence, constructed on the principle of consuming, and so as to con-
furk over that dollar." Nothinr, of that sort. From sume their own smoke The Bench dismissed the case, on
some of these couples the first &mills. of Virginia 1 tld, ground that no substantial evidence was adduced to
&re show that the engine was not constructed on the principle I
dosomod.
oi conowning Its own unonn

We learn front New York that the town of
Antigua, in Guatemala, has been destroyed by an earth-
quake.
By the overflowing tf the river Segre, in Spain, tvrc:
hundred houses in the town of "amnia have been destroyed,
lost.
aobtridge tuts hero swept ay, and many lives have been
Mr. Disraeli's visit to Ireland has been postponed,
not for political reasons. but through indisposition, as the
Premier is suffering from attaeks of bronchitis and gout.
The New Ywk Herold records as an instance of "un-
paralleled bravery "the fact of a YOUnft na&n cloPing with •
middle-aged woman and tier ell children.
Jean Luie, the witness who figured so prominently
lathe Tichborne case, was removed on Satnrday &Mg !Mil-
bank to Portland Prison. Ile ie sent in the penal class, not
, having completed his nine months' solitary confinement.
The Milwaukee Scaling lie authority for the eta
meat that the grasshoppers on their way South stopped a
railroad train, and got copies of St Paul papers. When they
reed that only a entail portion of the crops had been dn,
stroyed, they started back to finish up the jab.
The aspirations of President Grant for a third term
of oflice have become so resolute that a new daily jounial,
with a capital of 500.000 dollars, has been started in New
York to advocate his re-election.
The amount received by the Government for void
money-orders was £3,078 17s. Td. in the year ended March 31
last.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh left
London early on Monday morning tor Liverpool, slid on his
arrival there was received by the Mayor and others, and pre-
sented with an address of welcome front the Corporation
After having lunched with the Mayer, the Prince laid the
foundation stone of a new Art Gallery, which is about to be
erected at the expense of the chief magistrates, and at a cost
of £20,000.
On Monday, Princess Mary of Cambridge (Duchess
of Teck) laid the foundation stone of a new church which in
to be built at Nast Twickenham for the accommodation of
1,000 persons, and will cost about £12,000. -A large comPatly
was present at the ceremony, and among others the Patri-
arch of Antioch and the Bishop of Jerusalem.
The West Lancashire colliery proprietors met a de-
putation from their men at Liverpool on Monday, and offered,
instead of reducing wages 15 per cent., in accordance with
Circle notices, to concede a per cent. The notices, however,
will remain in force lithe men refuse to accept the 10 per
cent. reduction.
A correspondent writes from a Swiss town I
was much amused on looking over a visitors' book at the inn
to find that under the heading • Oecirp,ition,' two Genllln
girls had written, • Looking for a husband.' "—Cool Journal.
The award of the late Latour d'Auvergne, "premier
Grenadier de France," has been left by his nephew, lately
deceased. to Garibaldi, and the French military journal ex-
presses a hope that some means may be taken fir preventing
its departure from France, so that it may remain as an heir-
loom in the country.
In Saturday's sitting of the Dutch Chamber the finan-
cial statement for 1875 was brought forward. The deficit is
estimated at about seven millions f florins, which will,
however, be ntet, it is expected, by the surplus froni the
India:: revenue. As • sign of the prosperity of the country,
the Minister of FiIMIIC9 pointed out that the expenses of the
Atchin war had been provided for as itlmut recourse to
extraordinary measures.
The Executive Council of the Labour 'League met
at Poston last Friday, when It was agreed to issue an appeal
to the pubhc for funds to enable them to assist the families
who are preparing to emigrate. The general secretary re-
ported that the fanners in various places had reduced wages
Is., is , and 35. per week ; it was resolved to send special
emigration agents to those localities..
M. Thiers arrived at Turin on Monday. His reply
to an address recently sent to him by the young men
Roumania has now been published. M. Tillers urges theist o
. cherish established liberty, to be united, calm, and studious,
and tells them that they are right to seek for the principles
, of civilization in France. In the last war she was unfortu-
nate : but she is still, he says, one of the bravest, most
generous, and most enlightened nations in the world.
: The Joe,,"! de St. Peterdrourg declares that Russia's,
. only motive in holding aloof from the recognition of
Marshal Serrano's Government was a desire to avoid any
appearance of intervention in the internal affairs of Spain.
. 114 that such course is no way disturbs the agreement
which exists between Austria. Russia, and Germany.
The dispute in the Fife and Clackmanuan coal
, trade has assumed another aspect. The ruiners have, try a
vote front which all who are engaged at other work were
[ excluded, resolved by s majority of ark to resume work at
, the 15 per cent. reduction, on the understanding that the
new contract rules lie in abeyance.
According to the official returna the election in the
Maine aud Loire has resulted in the return of M. stailik, the
, Republican candidate, by a majority of nearly four thousand
votes The numbers given are : 11. MIMIC, 51,515 ; M. Brass,
the septennist candidate, 47,728. The latter had 4,000 votes
l leas than at the last election, while the former had an in-
: crease of 0,000. Much satisfaction is felt in Republican
circles at this result. At the same time it is announced that
the Republican members of the Assembly intend to Institute
an inquiry into the circumstances of the election, with a view
. to quiation the Goveniment respecting the re-establishment
of the system of official candidates.

It is said that William Roupell has succeeded in
obtaining a ticket-of-leave on account of his good conduct.
He will be greatly missed in the infirmary of the prison, for
he has proved himself an excellent nurse, both kind and
patient, and many dying and sick convicts have thanked
him for his careful attention to them. During the past year
upwards of twenty inquests have been held within the prison
walls, and at most of these Roupell has given evidence. For
some time after he arrived on the heights of Portland he
looked ill. but during the present year his health has ap-
peared better, and sinoe he cultivated, by permiasion, his
beard and moustache, he has looked remarkably well, al-
though his dark hair is well streaked with grey. Several
times during the year his mother has visited him. The
exact day of Itoupell's discharge from the prison has been
purposely kept secret to save him from any unnecessary
annoyance,