The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL..

leap year. The calendar of the present century con- i
tame 24 leap years, *Math may ips arranged in seven
classes :—February has five Sundays In 1824, 18.52, ;
1880 • live Mondays in 1008. 1836, 1864, 1812; 'five
Tues:lays in 1820, 1818, 1876 ; five Wednesdays in
1504, 1832, 1860, 1888; Ave Thursdays in 1816, 1844,
1872; five Fridays in 1828, 1856, 1884; five Saturdays
in 1812, 1840, 1888, 1806.
A PRISoNER TEANING ?RE KEY ON lIIS
GAOLEIL—A laughable incident has occurred in Poole
gaol. On Monday morning, while Mr. Whitehill,
the governor, was visiting the prisoners, he had Occa-
sion to go to the further end of the cell of a man
named Allen, incarcevated for housebreaking, when
the prisoner, seizing the opportunity, sprang forward
and succeeded in reaching the right shle of the door
before his captor, on whom he at once turned the key.
Allen lost no time in endeavouring to run away, but
had not proceeded many yards along a dark passage
ere he found himself in the unwelcome embrace of a
policeman. The result Id his escapade is that the
visiting justices have ordered ldra a bread and water
diet for seven days.
WADES AND No WADES.—Mesars. Pontifex
and Wood, of Farringdon Works, Shoe Lane, London,
write as follows to a London contemporary
It may interest the costributors to the fund for the relief
of the distress in the Mut of Loudon to learn that 30 car-
penters employed temporarily by no at our works at Mal-
wall, upon the agreed wages of se. 6(1, per day, to which we
offered to add an additional la on Saturdays as an Induce-
ment to them not to require a half-holiday on that day, but
to work till four o'clock in common with our regular hands,
have this day struck work. They gave us no previous notice
of their intention, but simply Intimated that they will not
resume work unless they are paid Bd. per hour and have the
Saturday half-holiday. Some of these men were unable to
Come to work until we hail advanced them money to enable
them to get their tools oat of pawn.
RECoVERING 1118 SCALP !—The Montteur re-
lates a curious case of an Englishman, who, after being
hit by a bullet, knocked down, and then stabbed by
an Indian in Missouri, near Omaha, was scalped and
left for dead on the ground. The Red Indian, in
galloping away, lost his trophy; the Englishman, ,
recovering the use of hie senses, got hold of his scalp '
again, and is still alive. The operation of scalping is
so painful that it is acarcely possible for a man to
survive it. Nevertheless, when this is the case, the
wound heals rapidly; but the head is horrible to are,
and the patient must make up his mind to wear a wig
for the rest of his days.
! SEVERAL INDUCEMENTS.—The prospectus of
; the Credit Fonder of America, of which Mr. George
; Train is president, offers inducements to investors
• which are rather beyond the scope of ordinary com-
mercial speculation, but which may perhaps have their
attractions for some of that gentleman's Irish admirers.
'rue advantage of holding a share in this great enter-
; prise are summed up as follows :--
; First, -It is worth nftw dollars to a young man to be moo-
' ciated with such a powarid company Secontl,—lty buying
in Cohimbus, you purchese the ;reference right to be in-
terested is, the next town mapped out by the Credit Fancier :
as we dig through the mountains, that town may Le a
gehl mine. Third,—Owning 5,600 feet of land 1,700 miles oft
lip rail extends one's geographical knowledge, and suggests
that 'Massachusetts, south Carolina, and Virginia do not
, compose the entire American Republic,
A RUSSIAN non, FETE.—The St. Petersburg
, journals contain accounts of a brilliant night fete given
• on the Neva by the Skating Club of that city on the

MURDER OF AN OFFICER.—A determined
murder has been committed in the barracks of Ant.
werp, the victim being Captain Werlehoff, and the
assassin Sergeant Fleron, both belonging to the depAt
of the sth Regiment of the Line. Fleron, who acted
as writing clerk, was alone in his office when the cap.
tam entered. Shortly afterwards the sentinel and
some soldiers outside heard the latter uttering cries for
assistance, but as the door was bolted they had to
break it open. Captain Werlehoff lay stretched on
his back, allot through the head, and the murderer,
WI, was sitting opposite, not content with giving him
the first wound, had driven his bayonet into the
victim's breast with such force that it pierced him
through and through and remained sticking in the
the r. The cause of the murder is unknown, and the
prisoner remains obstinately si'ent.

FORTUNE TELLING !-At St. Augustine's Petty
Sessions, on Saturday, a woman who gave the name of
Emily Collins was charged with obtaining 17s. 6d. by
false pretences from Sarah Ann Johnson. The evidence
showed that this was one of the ordinary cases of
fortune telling. The accused went to the residence of
Dr. Smith, where the prosecutrix lives as servant, in
the capacity of hawker, and induced her to have her
fortune told. Collins obtained Ss. from the girl for
this purpose, and gave her a piece of orange peel, with
the injunction that if she slept upon it she would have
the object of her desire gratified—viz., pofTeseion of
the affections of a certain young man living in the
neighbourhood. The accused returned on the follow-
ing day, made another draw of cash amounting to
93.6(1., and decamped. Information of the affair was
given to the police, and Collins was apprehended with
10s. ffd. of the money in her possession. She was sent
to prison for a month.

14th. The large space seserved for the recresiion was
enclosed with masts hearing torches and united by
festoons of coloured lamps. A pavilion for the
Emperor had been ereeted facing the entrance, and on
each side was a platform for military bands, which
played alternately throughout the evening. Five jets
of electric light illuminated the scene and caused
pyramids of ice placed at each end to sparkle like
diamonds. His Majesty arrived at about eleven and
was received with a display of fireworks, while the
music played the national hymn. The pyramids of
ice were at the same moment lit up with coloured lire,
and rockets were discharged in the air. The buffet
was well supplied with refreshments and stimulants,
which were by no means unnecessary, as the ther-
mometer marked 15 deg. Resumer (nearly 2 deg. below
zero Fahr.).
WIFE MURDER BY A STREET SING ER. —A
street singer named ("allot was tried a few days ago by
the Court of Assizes of Paris for the murder of his
wife. The accused, a nine-legged man, was of a violent
and drunken character, and was accustomed to ill-use
. _ _

UNFORTUNATE EMPEROR !—lt appears that the
misfortunes of the Emperor Maximilian were not
destined to terminate at Queretaro. The Figaro (a
Paris paper) asserts that he was put into a coffin that
was too small, and that the Emperor of Austria had
ordered a magnificent wreath of imtnortelles from a
celebrated house in Paris, which he intended to have
laid himself on his brother's coffin. The wreath,

properly packed, and duly despatched by the Eastern
Railroad, not only never reached its destination, but
is nowhere to be found, whereupon a trial is to ensue,
the E inperor refusing to pay for a cuuromic whioh never
arrived at Vienna.
A CHANCE FOR MR TRIEVES.—"The muni-
cipality of the city of Paris," says the Prene, " has
just determined, for emulous of economy, to have every
other gas lamp in the streets of the capital extinguished
after midnight. The measure is to come into operation
next month. The Baring is incontestable, but the
police, when informed of the intention, have made
some just observations as to the difficulties 'which
the arrangements will introduce into their surveil-
lance.

TIIE LAST STATE BALL.The laSt State ball

took place last night (says the Parisi correspondent of
the Morning Start writing on Feb. 20). To give an
idea of the crowd 1.4 simply impossible, but the ball-
room was kept the whole evening clear for dancing, to
the great rejoicing of those addicted to Terpsichorean

pu-rilits, arid mita, to the disgust of the re'st of the
guests, who evidently considered themselves aggrieved
because they could not inconvenience their younger
brethren as has hitherto been allowed. However, last
night the chamberlains and vice-chamberlains, and
other deputies in mnlberry coats and much gold
embroidery, were inexorable. ller Majesty's dress
was of tulle, shot with gold, the tipper part of the cor-
sage fastened with a band of emeralds and diamonds.

A crescent and aigrette of the same stones formed her

coiffurg, which was pronounced the most becoming
worn this season by the Empress. Princess Metter-
nich's dress was picturesque and peculiar, evidently
suggested by Nattier's portraits of the Court beauties
of Louis XV.'s time—the skirt of lace over white

satin, the upper dress a tunic of green satin, furred
with sable, the sable crossing the skirt and bodice,
where it appeared to be fastened by a magnificent
emerald and diamond clasp. Several English unb
forms were remarked.

WILLS AND SUCCESSIONS.—A Parliamentary
return shows that in the financial year 184111-67 duty
was paid in the United Kingdom on 42,173 probates of
wills, letters of administration, and testamentary in-
ventories. The number of deaths in the year may be
taken as approaching 700,000, but more than half
would probable be deaths of minors. It would appear,
then, that about one in sight of the adults dying must
have left personal property worth at toast £loo—the
point at which the duty commences; and as the tax pro-
duced 121,731,868, the duty would average snore than
1:11 for each case. But this is the "gross sum pro-
duced," and must probably be understood as paid on
an estimate of the property before deducting for debts.
A stricter test is supplied by the legacy duty paid.
Legacy and succession duty wan paid in the year on
property amounting to £100,277,124, legacy duty on
£74,383,693, and ancoession duty on £31,833,431.
Legacy duty is not paid on property bequeathed by
husband to wife, or the converse; but still the amount
of property paying legacy duty in the year exceeded
an average of 1:100 for every death, reckoning the
deaths of men, women, and children.
TIIE BIRMINGHAM. MURDER:-011 Friday, at

the Public-office, Birmingham, before Mr. Kyniiersly
(stipendiary) and other magistrates, Thomas Beesley,
alias Marlow ; Joseph Beesley, William Beesley,
Louis Bee,
,alias Grayson ; and Elizabeth Bee were

again bron'ght up on r;inanil charged with being con

ce-rned in the mu'rder of Miss Mary

nn the

21gt of January. AR before Mr.

4fiera,of tl;e.

s
land Circuit, prosecuted. 'Further evidence, incul-
pating the prisoners, having been adduced, William
Beesley, Thomas Beesley, and Louis Bee were com-
mitted for trial at the Assizes on the charge of mur-
der; all the prisoners were committed on the charge of
feloniously breaking into the house of the deceased and
stealing money.
THE CHEAPENING MANIA !—The following is
from the Court Jouroal

A correspondent says the other day Laity--- was seen
buying a saddle of mutton at a co-operative store, and tak-
ing it away with her in her carriage. How true this may be
we know not, but this week we ourselves saw, in King-street,
Covent garden, a titled lady, with her daughters in the car-
riage, cheapening a pair of very tuipleious.looking fowls
Irons a dirty street hawker, who aloud on the steps leaning
into the carriage, while powdered John was attentive by the
side. If a dinner-party had liven given in two or three days
after we should have known the exact fate of the birds—and
the eaters. The cheapening mania insist have its day.
ALMOST INCREDIBLE !—An inquest has been
held by Dr. Lankester on the body of an infant found
in the canal in the Ilt gent's Park, London. The
doctor who examined the body said that it was very
much burnt. Round the neck a piece of cord had been
tied tl4otil. The right arm had been chopped off at
the elbow : the left arm at the shoulder. The limps
and all the internal organs were thoroughly cooked, as
if the child had been put in an oven and baked. The
jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against
some person or persons unknown. A boy who picket!
up the body anti who sax really the cause of the in-
quiry being held, said that when he pulled the parcel
in which it was contained out of the water he called to
a man who came and looked at the child, and said,
"Oh, that's nothing, jam may as well throw it back.
I pulled one out a few weeks ago and got nothing for
it." The boy declined to take this advice, and gave
the parcel to a policeman.
Lotto H. SEYMOUR'S WILL.—In London, on
Saturday, a number of solicitors connected with the
London charities attended before Mr. Marshall, the
Chief Clerk at the Rolls Chambers, to make claims
to share in the large bequest of Lord Henry Seymour
to the London charities. Out of 172 claims by
hospital and other institutions only thirty-one were
admitted by the Master if the Rolls under the term
" hospice" mentioned in the will. The tv•spiCa had
appealed to the Lords Justices, and their Loidehips
held that all places where patients were admitted to
reside would come within the denomination " ho.
pice." The ease was sent back to the Rolls for the
certificate to be varied, and the first sitting took ,
place on the present occasion. Some cases were re. I

THE SINGELARTTY TIC THE CALENDAR.-It has
been remarked that in 1868 there are fire Saturdays in
Febraary. ry a rough guess, as it would tieem, it has
been . dded that this ban not taken place for a score of
years. Exactly IN years, amounting to a solar cycle,
have elapsed since the same thing occurred. Poring
that penod each day of the week has enjoyed the
honour of appearing five times in February in its own

served for further consideration. Mr. Greatorea
appeared for the charities admitted in the first sche-
dule. The Chief Clerk gave directions on the matter
to facilitate the distribution. There would be no ap-
peal to the House of Loris.
THE END OF THE OLD FLEET PRISON.—OII
Friday, by instructions of the directors of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, the materials
of several bowies and other property at the corner of
Ludgate-hill and li'arringdon-street, in London, in-
cluding the boundary wall of the old Fleet prison, were
disposed of by auction, in order to carry out the long-
contemplated improvements in that locality, and in a
few days not a vestige will remain if that celebrated
place of incarceration for unfortunate debtors. The
prison was burnt in the great fire of 11166 ; built anew,
awd again destroyed in the riots of 1780 ; rebuilt, and
finally polled down in' April, 1844, when the site was
purchased by the Corporation of the city of London
tor t"29,000. •
MAKING ALL USEFUL ! A German vine-
grower in California certainly nnist have the credit of
discovering a new method of ridding a vineyard of
various evils infesting it, and at the same time enrich-
ing the soiL He writes to a local paper, with regard
to the hares that visit his vines :-
1 poison with strychnine, and In the morning, when I end
the dead harts. I bury theni under the vines for manure.
And the next night the coyotes conies anti digs up the hares
and eats them, and they get poisoned and die, and I buries
them under some other vines. And the next night the
skunks come and dig up the cayotes and eoto them, and they
get poisoned and die, and I buries thorn all, to manure the
grape vines.
A RIDDLE.—An old man having three sons,
made his will thus: One-half to eldest, one-third to
sscond, one-ninth to youngest son ( /„ 1-9.) He died
rossessed of nothing but seventeen tine healthy camels.
The sons failed to manage the division in the terms of
the will ; they went, therefore, to the Cadi, who
promised to settle the matter. After consideration, he
propounded a scheme of distribution which snore than
satisfied each claimant, and disposed of the whole
estate. What did he do?
AN UNFRIENDLY DIAGNOSIS.—Cinon Girdle-
stone in a recent sermon in Bristol Cathedral said :
Ritualist customs and priests are nothing more nor less
than the external symptoms of a deep-seated disease. You
may call it typhus lever, smallpox, chicken-pox, or what you
like. What would you say of a medical man who merely
tried to get rid of an eruption on the surface when he knew
that the disease was within I If he were a skilful man he
would go to the root of the disease which prods ied these
eruptions So with Ritualism—we must not he content till
we get rid of the disease. Ido not believe that much will
cute nut of the Ritual Commission it is exceedingly mild.
The Legislature must deal with the matter to a substantial
manner.
Tug POOR POSTMAN !—A correspondent sends
the following :—lf the writers of letters knew the
trouble that they give these worthy labourers they
would be more careful in addressing their correspond-
ents. The following is a verbatim copy of an address
on a letter sent through the Leeds IDA-office last
week ;.—" Mary liaison, Crompton." After passing,
into the hoods of several letterearriers, and none of
them being able to give is clue to the place intended by
the writer, a wide-awake clerk wrote on it "Try Arm-
ley," which was accordingly done, when it turned out
to be for "Miss Maria lbberson, Crompton-street,
Arniley."
THIRTY SHOTS IN A MINUTE.—"A new rifle.

.e,
superior to any of those recently invented," says the
New Press of Vienna, " was submitted to the ranperor
Francis Joseph on his arrival at PestlL The inventor
is a Hungarian—M. Men4ite de Roo& This weapon,
a breech-loader, is said to be of very simple construc-
tion. It is charged by two motions, so that 30 shots
can be fired in r, minute. The envelope of the car-
touche costs only 1k kreuzers (4 centime,) instead of 8,
the price of those recently adopted for the Austrian
army."
LEGAL PATRONAGE.—The legal patronage of
Lord Derby's third Government is represented by the
following nomisationsi—hi England -three times to
the office of Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery,
and once to the post of Cnief Justice of the Common
Pleas, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Vice-Chan-
cellor, Puisue judgeship in the Queen's Bench, and
Judge of the Admiralty Court. In Ireland—Twice
to the office of Lord Chancellor, three times to that
of Lord Justice of Appeal, and once to that of
Master of the Rolls, of Chief Justice, of Vice-Chan-

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the woman in a brutal manner, besides spending in cellor, and of Judges in the Queen's Hench, Coromon
drink all her earnings. On the evening of the let of Pleas, and Bankruptcy Court. In Scotland—Once to
January, on returning home, she remarked to a the post of Lord Justice-General, and once to that of
neighbour that she had (any earned one franc durin', Lord Justice-Clerk. The offices of Queen's Advocate
the day, and was afraid her husband would beat her', and of Attorney and Solicitor-General for England
She was not mistaken, as, during a great part of the and Ireland and of Lord-Advocate and Solicitor'
night the persons who dept in the adjoining rooms General for Scotland have been filled and refilled
could hear the man repeatedly strike her with his twenty times. Thirteen of Lord Derby's Parlia-
crutch, and throwing her out of bed 011 the floor. Such mentary supporters have been rewarded with seats on
scenes being, however, habitual, no attention was the Bench, and there is a chance of The 14th now
paid to the quarrel. On the following morning the taking the vacant place in the Court of Queen's Bench.
man called in one of the neighbours, and showed him The fortunate thuteen are Sir W. Duval, Sir Hugh
the woman lying on the bed in a dying state, and she CAirna, Sir F. Kelly, Sir It. Malins, Sir John non,
expired shortly after. A medical examination proved Sir C. Selwyn, and Messrs. Chatterton, George,
that the immediate cause of death was strangulation, Miller, Morris, Patton, M alsh, and Whiteside. 'the
the body also being covered with bruises. The man only instances in which professional standing has been
was sentenaed to fifteen years' hard labour. recognised as being superior to party fidelity were in
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the 'eases of Sir -Ifoberi PhillimOre and Sir. Travers
TWIISB.
A SINGULAR DUEL !—A singular duel took
place at the Bois de Vincennes a few days ago. A
young lady had two lovers, both equally eligible. She
inclined to Charles if Henry could be got out of the
way. The gentlemen quarrelled; a duel was ar-
ranged. Chucks fired his pistol, and so did Henry-
. . . _ .

the first in his life. Charier; fell; motionless. Henry
seeing the terrible consequences of his fire, awl a prey
to the fee,lings akin to a murderer, fled to Brussels.
finally had he leit the field= when Charles rose up,
laughing heartily. The seconds, aware of the state of
affairs,charged the pistols with a piece of old linen.
Charles hurried to his Juliet, related the story, and,
the other dear charmer being away, the young holy
bestowed her hand upon her deliverer, and they were
united on Saturday last.
A SELF-SACRIFICF. !—On Wednesday in last
week died Agnes Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Jones,
of Fahan, near Londonderry, aged 34, lady superin-
tendent of the Nightingale nurses and probationers at
the Liverpool Workhouse HespitaL She died at the
. , . .

hospital from typhus fever, I.;rought on by her exer-
tions
.and anxiety
.in nursing the sick. She was

remarkable for her ability and self.sacrificing Ciiristian
"Cr I' SHORT !"—A great deal of gossip has
been occasioned in a village hear Bristol,. inconsequencer

keeping their iisible.faltien in enlijection,' while the

effeet on the oratorical powers of he preacher was
magical - in fact it proved to be "quite a settler," for
he immediately gave out the Doxology, and the
meeting was brought to a speedy termination.
HAM.

log of a boudoir, executed by Mr. Thirion, a Great
Prize of Rome, has just given rise to a suit before the
Civil Tribunal. The artist claimed a balance of £4O
on a e,nrn of £l2O, whim he maintained was the pi ice
agreed on for the work. The countess of Paiva, on
the contrary, affirmed that the contract was for £BO.
which sum has already been paid. The court, in the
absence iif any document to show the terms of the
engagement, nominated M. Perignon, an artist. an ex-
pert, to examine the work and report to the Tribunal,
which would then fix the amount of the remuneration.
A MELANCITOLT WAtuilmo !—The London
seotxman says that the sanguine promises of plenty
of work and high wages in America held out to mem-
bers of the Scottish Ininmoulders' Society a few
months ago have nit been realized. Three members
of the union who went is, the United States last
November in the hope of finding plenty of work have
sent home A melancholy warning to their comrades,
in which they state that therhave been ten weeks in
Pennsylvania, and "base .not yet found an hour's
work." They complain in very revere terms of the
officers of both Scottish and English societies " for
withholding information relating to trade in America."
"The members at home," they say, "have been con-
tinually kept in the dark. All kinds of work are
equally scarce; we see nothing but starvation before
no, and hundreds of our fellow.moulders who have
come here, as we did, are in a like, or even worse,
condition." The president of ao lronmoulders' 'Union
in Philadelphia corroborates the statement of the
unfortunate Scottish emigrants. "Tinily three-
fourths of the entire labouring population of the
States are now out of work," he bays, "said there
seems to bo no prospect of better."
A DESCENDANT OF THE MIANS OF G LENCJE !
—Ott Monday, at the High Court of justiciary at
Edinburgh, Anthony M'lntyre was charged with oh.
taming money Irian two ladies in Edinburgh on false
pp:knees, alleging that he was an Irish clergyman,
and that he was collecting money for his church. At
the close of the evidence the prisoner made a long
speech. In his defence he stated, amid the laughter
of the audience, that he was descendent from the
Wham of Glencoe; that he had been esteemed a very
pious child; that his conversion was like that of Saul
of Tarsus; that lie was at one time connected with
the Moravian Church ; and he concluded by asking
the court to say to him, as Christ said on one occaFiiti :
" Go in peace and sin no More." The jury, however,
returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sen-
tenced to seven years' penal servitude, there being
three previous convictions recorded against hint. -
A GAMBLING OFFER.—A communication front
Geneva says:—
Now that the term tor closing the gambling-saloons ,at
Wiesbaden and Homburg has been fixed by the Prussian
government, the proprietois of those estalitishments are
looking out for new quarters In which to pursue their lucra-
tive profession. It is said that they have already, with that
object, made a brilliant oiler to the municipality of Geneva
They propose, ii. return for the privilege of building a gam.
bling-house in Geneva, to pay the whole of the municipal
nicht, complete thitiuniptruction of the quay on the late, and
mate a large street In the lower part of the town The
administrative Council has not on yet given a reply to this
offer, but there is no doubt that it will lie declined.
A BRUTAL ACT.—At Bolton, on Monday,
Richard Barrow was charged with wilfully scalding his
wife and two children. he prisoner is a boatman,
and the occurrence took place at Blackrod, near Wigan.
,bin of the ' -t late a Sato-

lstarrow entered the cabin of the boat late on Satur-
day evening in a state of intoxication, his wife and
children being then in bed. Ilk wife reproached him
with his conduct, on which he deliberately took a
kettle off the fire, And poured its boiling contents
upon them. The wife was badly scalded on one
side of her face and arms. The youngest child, a baby
only twelve months old, lies in a very dangerous con-
dition, and as its life is depairet of, the magistrate re-
manded the prisoner for a few days, to await the result
of the injuries.
SINGULAR CONDITIONS IN A WILL—The fol-
lowing is an extract from the will of Stephen Girard,
the founder of the Girard College, Philadelphia :
There are, however, some restrictions which I consider it
my duty to prescribe, and to be, amongst others, conditions
on which my bequest for said college is made and to be en-
joyed 2. I enjoin and require that no eccle-
siastic, missionary: or minister, of any sect whatever, shall
ever holder exercise any station or duty whatever in the
said college. Nor shall any such person ever be admitted
for any purpose, or as a visitor, within the premises appro.
petaled to the purposes of the said college, Is making this

restriction I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any
Beet or person whatever; but, as there is such a diversity of
opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of
the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest,
free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and
sectarian controversy are so apt to produce. My desire is
that all the instructors n 4 teachers in the college shall take
pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest
principles of morality, PO that, on their entrance into active
life, they may Mom inclination and habit evince benevolence
towards their fellow-creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety,
anti industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets
as their natural reason may enable them to prefer.
AFTER A FRESCII DEBATE.—Though the Eng-
lish House of Commons presents occasionally an ex-
citing scene during debate, the orators can scarcely be
said to work themselves up to that pitch of fervour
which distinguishes some mentbers of the French Corps
iregiala tif. These gentlemen get no hot and excited
. . •

that, on finishing their speeches, they rush off to wash
and change in the dressing-rooms. The following
good anecdote apropos of this is told of M. Rouher
fh:e day last week he had been snaking a tons and en-
haustiag speech, and at its close he vivid oif to Ids private
,alressibg ruem, sad found that his enlet had left "no
change for " he then tried the dressing-reoins of the
other ininiders, but all " blank," till he come to the
••Interier,. where he found clothes for the exterior, for:-

getting that they ;;ere those of little It. Pinsid, who, though
a giant in debate, is very "limited" in ths flesh. M.
linard's turn clime to speak, and, lupin got into a fearful
state of pi' rshlration lihnself, he, too, needed i " change,"
snit went off to suck it. Imagine his horror on discovering
that M. Rouher, who in something of a giant; had just forged
ilgunel waistcoat and torn his sh:rt in two ! Report
doeg not say how they finally arranged matters.
A FATAL MISTAKE !—The inquest on the
body of the young man who threw himself from the
Crystal Palace tower the other night (reported in the
papers last week) was held before Mr. Carter, the
coroner for East Surrey, on Friday. The name of
the deceased was Edward Thomas Lea. He was only
seventeen years of age. The circumstances which led
to the suicide were very distressing. The deceased
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youth was a. draper's as'sistant,. and had been fer

some time out of LI situation. At length he got one,
and entered upon his duties, but on inquiry being
made of the person whom he named for reference, a
former employer, hereceived such a had character that
he was told he could not remain.. ThAureighed upon

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of an amusing episode that occurred in a place of his mind, and there was no doubt led him to dcstroy
worship in the neighbourhood the other Sunday himself. Upon inquiry being made it was found that
evening. It appears that the minister of the chapel there hail been two young men in the employ of the
was holding forth to a respectable congregation, and person who gave the character named Lea, and it was
being rather long in his sermon some of his hearers of the other, and not of the deceased, that he intended
began to get impatient, when, to the great surprise of to speak. There was no doubt that the latter had
all present, an elderly matron sitting in the body of
borne an irreproachable character. The jury found
the chapel called out in a clear, shrill voice, "Cut it ,
I
that he was temporarily insane. On the part of the
short, Mr.--; it only wants five minutes to eight." 1 Crystal Palace authorities it was stated that no per-
Great difficulty was experienced by those prerpt in I ill be allowed to - -aid the' - till a rail-
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ly prevent

son woui
• had b

to ascen4
whi

le tower
effeetnall2

ing been erecteu ...den woulu
persons throwing themselves down.
AN UNLUCKY PAUSE !—Most readers must
have observed this phenomenon among the thousand
and one vagaries of talk, that it will sometimes cease

in one moment and without the slightest warning, •
very tempest of voices dropping suddenly, and a dead
silence snpervening ; and this sometimes at the very
moment when sonic unhappy person is in the act of
delivering himself of a phrase or sentiment which is

not in tie least calculated for publicity. As an in-
stance of this the writer (in Cornhil 1 Magazine) may
mention that he was once present when a sudden
',awe of this kind took place without warning, just
when a certain young man was in the act of informing
the lady who was seated beside him that the expres-
sion of her countenance indicated a strong musical
capacity. "And yet there is music in your face," he
WAS saying just at the moment when the accompani-
ment of voices ceased. The words were littered by
the young gentleman in a lowl key, in order that
they might be audible to his partner above the gene-
ral din, and were consequently heard by everybody
present, to the extreme confusion of the speaker and
-of the lady to whom the sentence was addressed.
GAMBLING IN PARIS.—One of tho topics of
the day is the heavy „gambling which takes place
nightly at a certain fashionable ecrrte' or club, fre-
quented by the )runesse clon'e (rays the Paris corres-
pondent of the Standard). Well may these ingenuous
youths be golden, for no baser metal could possibly
enable them to pay their debts of honour. The
average gain and losses in one night, the 'Vain Janice
tells us, are never less than £20,000 sterling. No
money i!..p.lacedon the tables, but each player signs
. .

an I 0 Cfor 100, 200, or 1,000 Innis, in e'xcli'ange -for
which he receives counters, the value of each varying
from 100 f. to 10,000 f., and he may renew his supply
(ot course giving his bond) as often as he pleases during
the evening. The game over, the transaction is settled
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in hard ciah at th 7.3

',eclat 'office of the cercle,

which a cAshier preside's. Evtry.pia:

eria oblig'ed
.to

cash his I 0 1.7'.3 within a forti4id. The fa;Ourite
grime is baccarat —whist is votol slow. For a wonder
dice are not popular. Of course there are a few very
large fortunes in France, but as a rule men with a
couple of thousand a year are not very numerous even
among the frequenters of these fashionable hells. The
puzzle to the public is how in the world this sort of
thing can go on year after year without some gigantic
smash.

ALONG-LIVED FAMILY. Eighty-one years
ago, when the United States began to frame their Con-
stitution, and the first convict colonists left England
for New South Walis, three Penzance boys and a girl
followed their father to his grave. All are yet alive
and well, and may be seen in our streets (says the
Cornish Ttlegraphl. Susan Uren is 95; James, 89;
Henry, 86; and John, 84. For fifty years Susan was
in the tin refinery, and Henry in the lanyard of Messrs.
T. Bolitho & Sons. The mother and father of these
four died comparatively young, but their grandmother
lived to be 111, and reaped at the age of 101. The
family of John Llren, the youngssi of this vigorous
quaternity, consisted of seven boys and two girls—the
eldest GO, the youngest 40—all living and in good
health. Two sons' William and Joseph, fought
throughout thetecent American struggle—Joseph for
the South and William for the North, endured many
hardships, but gave up soldiering with unimpaired
energy, and one is now engaged in saving life, instead
of destroying it, for he is at rk on the Wolf Rock
Lighthouse. Toe family ar tol and spare. We need
not point out the changes its older members have wit-
nessed in European, English, and loeal history since
the French Revidution, the days of Pitt, For, and
Burke, and the time when Wesley stirred the ball-
civilized tinners of Cornwall.
AN EXCITING CITAINE.!--It is not often we read
of a chase after burglars over housetops, yet an ex-
citing run of this kind took I lac, at Bristol early last
Saturday morning, and though the thiepes showed all
the educing of the fox, they wtslretaie 1., tit last. A
smart policedionstable learning that s i ti. ,P 1 were
on the roof of. the premises r f Messrs( ayne and
Thonipson, dealers in Birmingham goods,.protieedid,
with another officer, to follow, first stationing -Pm,
fellow-non.tal&s below. He e -0 I tho- two burglars
crouching in the shade of a chimney stack, but getting
at them was another matter, for they had eight or ten
yards' start. They took different directions, and after
a breakneck scamper over the roofs of about a dozen
houses, and a drop of a dozen feet, cne of the thieves
forced an entrance into a warehouse, where he was
captured. How to dispose of his prisoner was the

s.a.,s,Aoh &relit* tMi~O

nest consideration for the policeman. He could not
take him out by the ordinary entrance to the ware-
house, for the premists were locked up, and he did
not think it prudent to retrace his steps over the
house-tops. The oflioer was a man of expedient.
He sent for the fire escape, and, putting his man in
the bag. they both glided to the ground. The other
thief was captured in an adjoining house. The thieves
had taken about £25 in money and three watches.

ACTbet For. LIBEL—An action for libel, in
which Mr. George Potter, of the Beehive, was the
plaintiff, and Mr. Pollard, of the Herrn Guardian, the
defendant, was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench on
Fl May. An article in the Herbs Guardian made Mr.
Potter responsible for the misery new prevailing at
the East End of London. Mr. Potter denied that he
had in any way interested himself in the wage disputes
of that district. Mr. Ballantine, for the defence, urged
that the article was but a fair criticism in a mealier of
public interest, and the jury returned a verdict for the
defendant.

11AS AMERICA A QUARREL WITII ENGLAND
—The New York Tribune of February?, in an editorial
article entitled "Have we a quarrel with England "
answers that question in the negative. It says, " Eng-
land's recognition of belligerent rights' is mere moon-
shine." It says further, we have as yet seen no evidence
of wanton interference with peaceable Americans. The
arrest of Mr. Train was invited and sought. Train
is a mere adventurer, who lives on a Cheap Jack reputa-
tion, and his arrcst is money in his pocket. He wouldn't
have missed it for a good deal of money. We would
have done the same thing,during the rebellion. If any
Englishman had ladeled in New York as Train did
at l'ork—an envoy to the rebels, and their loud-
mouthed friend—he would have been in Fort Lafayette
in two hours."
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DISTURBED AT SUPPER !—The other night the
Paris police made a descent on the abandoned quar-
ries of La Vißette, and arrested ten vagrants just as
they were feasting on a monster harlequin, or stew,
composed of fragments of victuals of all kinds. Each
had brought his quota of fish, poultry, meat, vegetables,
&c., all of which had been cooked together in an im-
mense earthen pot, around which they were all
squatting down. They appeared to feel keenly the
aggravation of their, misfortune in being interrupted
just at the commencement of their repast, mid the
more so that a request for the police to wait a little
until they had finished could not be acceded to.
During the two preceding nights fifty-five other indi-
viduals, without homes or any avowable means of
-existence, were also remohd-to violin from the same
'haunt.

REWARDING TH6 BRAVE—The United. States
Consul' at Liverpool has been instructed by his Govern-
ment to pay to john Williams, is pilot at Duffryn, and
James M'eartney, one of the crew ot the Liverpool
steam-tug /Weenie, the toun f 100 dohs, each, as are-
ward for their noble conduct on the occasion of the
wreck of the American ship F. J. Southard, near
Duff ryn, on the sth of becember last, when at great
peril to themselves they managed to get the end of a
line ashore and establish communication with the
vessel, and thus were mainly instrumental in saving
the lives of the crew.

202 P IT E 0 NEWS.

ii:i7T'Tl-7. 1:-i.) YL:11';..:1-,'::•• N.

It has been proposed in the Missouri legWature to
line and imprison parents who neglect to send their children
to school tour months in the year.
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Among the recent arrivals at Rome is that of the
benevolent Mr. Peabody, who has taken up his residence
with his talented countryman, Mr. Storey, the celebrated
sculptor. Sir Charles Locock la in (tome, and the Duke of
Northumberland and his family were expected from Nice
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The Countess de Stollberg, Lady Superior of the
Hospice of Relhanic, at Berlin, has just died of typhus
lever, caught while visiting the provinces suffering from
famine and epidemic disease.
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Two bank troubles are reported from America.
The assistant cashier of the American Each:sage Bank, in
New York, has decamped with 60,000 dole of its funds.
The Gayoso Savings-bank, at Memphis, Tennessee has
failed, causing great excitement among the humbler :Asses,
who wore its depositors.
On February 11 the effects of the late Sir Frederick
Bruce were sold by auction in Washington. A large crowd
was in attendance, and the articles brought fair -prices.
Many persons purchased articles 10 souvenirs of Sir
Frederick's stay in Washington, aid it is understood that a
ebitsiderable portion of the most asinine furniture was
bought for Mr. Thornton.

It is stated that the Mont Cents Summit Railway is
expected to be opened for regular tragic on the let of May
next.

The proposition for an International Copyright re-
ported by the Library Committeee of the American Congress
will, it is believed, easily pass through both Houses.

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Public prayers are being offered up in Catalonia to
solicit talc.

According. to the average of recent wills an eminent
London phrocian ought to die worth £`..9,f,00. When a
member of the profession has netted this figure he may
understand that his time is up, according to Cocker.

A spechti conunis _ lion, with Lord Halifax no its
chairman, is to be appointed to inquire into the question of
the assimilation of monetary systems.

The Paris journalo announce the death, in the
CharentonLunatn, Asylum. of M Charles Merlon, also lead
attamcd a certain reputatien as an engraver. Ile of late
years laboured under the hallucination of being Jesus Christ
in outody of the Fharisees. He allowed himself to die of
starvation

In an ancient Saxon law it Lo enacted : "Albeit as
often as leap yeare dothe occure, the woman holdeth pre
rluative over the mantle In matter of courtship, hire, and
matrimonne ; so that when the ladle proposeth it shall not
be lawful for inenne to say her floe, but shall receive her pro-
posall in all good courtisie."

The Queen haa made Dr. Jenner a baronet.
Owing to the improvement in business, several of
the works in Dundee are already put on full time. and more
are to be put on at once. This applies chiefly to jute
spinning.
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A clergyman having been recently appointed to
some parochial office, the guardians wrote to him to know
what were his religious opinions—whether he inclined to
High Church or Low church, rho reverend gentleman
wrote, ihg reply, that he was just a little elevated

_
A return just issued relative to the consumption of
sugar in breweries shows that in London 24.597,552 lbs. were
consumed in the year ending September 30, 1867 14,719,712
lbs. in the English provinces ; 351,456 lbs. in Stmtland ; and
1,465,290 lbs. in Ireland.

Dnring a severe storm that prevailed in Newfound-
land for three days lately, it is reported that thirty people
have perished from the odd and in the mow. Mr. Mackay,
the superintendent of the Newfoundland Telegraph line,
nearly perished.

Th.e-Wolrcrinc, Captain T. Cochran, the vessel on
board abkh Mr. Gordon was taken prisoner, and afterwards
hung, and which subsequently went to the scene of the
earthquake at Tortola and rescued eighty ladies, has arrived
at Wool. ich Dockyard, where she is the ob!ect of consider-
able interest.

The Empress Charlotte has addressed to the Pope a
touching letter, Imploring his prayers for the soul of her un-
fortunate husband. The letter, which has a deep border of
black, is written in very good Italian, and creates the im-
pretsion that the Empress is no longer suffering from mental
alienation, or at least that she hue lucid moments.

A young girl of 19, named Eugenie Mancha], the
daughter of an innkeeper at La lioehele 'Haute Saone', has
Just been murdered by her lover Jules Inspot, a carpenter,
24 years of age. Ile shot the young woman with a gull as
she was standing at her father's door. The charge struck
her in the breast and she fell dead instantly. The cause of
the crime is not stated

An Admiralty order has been received at Wredwich
by Colonel Slither, commandant of the Woolwich division of
Royal Marines, for a return of all nien marked with the
letter " 0." or bearing an indifferent character, it is sup-
poet for the purpose of making a considerable reduction in
the division. All recruiting portion are also to Ire recalled,
and no recruits are to be received until further orders.

The ll.foseow journals announce the death in that
city, from inflammation of the lungs, of the Czarina of
Georgia, Anna Pauloweia, wife of the Caesarea itch fikropfr,
daughter-in-law of the last Czar of Georgia, George XIII
born Countess of Kontaissol. The deceased was well known
for her great erudition and benevolence. She was acquainted
with all the remarkable personages of the Nth century; was
aipleasing writer, and so excellent a composer that Meyer.
beer, in speaking id her songs, said—. I !Moab) like to have
produced them." She hail resided for some yearn before
her death In Moscow, where she was much esteemed.
Our obituary (observes the Wrstcrn Tious) records
the death of Mr. T. P. Turner, a musician of local eminence,
aml owes! the heira-at.law of the great painter. The easy
chair of his old age was comfortably cushioned by the por-
tion of the artist's estate which came to him out of the con-
testation of the will.

Two ladies were walking in the Champs ElysJes in
Paris the other day, when an old man approached them, and
solicited them to buy a penny bouquet of Puma violets.
One of the ladies took the offered bouquet, and requested her
companion to hand the man a napoleon. The flower.
merchant " stood petrified at such princely payment, and
followed the ladies up to the gates of the Tuileries, where
the guards, presenting arms, revealed his purchaser to be the
Empress Eugenie

"Great activity has lately prevailed in the gun fac-
tory at Tophaneh, particularly in the making of gun ear-
ria,ges and ammunition wagons, in which a large number of
workmen arc employed. The models used were recently
sent out from Woolwich arsenaL The limbic has also
invited tenders from gunsmiths and engineers for the con.
version of rifles into breech-loaders."—Le sant Herald.

A labourer, named Egerton employed at the Crewe
Steel Wurke, has met with his death under the most
horrible circumstances. Deceased and a fireman were
cleaning out the inside of a boiler, when some one suddenly
turned the steam upon them. The fireman escaped almost
unhurt, but F,gerton was so badly scalded that his hair, per.
time of his Ilcsh, and even his finger nails came aft The
steam tap is opened by a wheel, which can only be moved
by using a lever, and the evidence at the Inquest put it
beyond a doubt that it must have been opened Intentionally
A conference, on the subject of national education,
was held at the Glasgow City Hall, last Friday evening, the
Lord Provost presiding. The whole of the resolutions,
which affirmed the urgency of the national need of a liberal
and c niprehensive measure of education, at once compul-
sory and strictly unseutarlan, were carried ; though the one
bearing upon the "conscience clause" gained but a narrow
majority.

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Some anxiety has prevailed in commercial circles
this week with reference to the safety of the screw steamer
Somerselshire, from Melbourne for Lorries, which has now
been at sea eighty-live days, with 430,00 in gold. At
Voyd's on Monday twenty guineas premium were paid to
effect fresh insurances. The Somers, ed.'s is a new steamer,
anti the present is her first voyage home from Australia.

Mr. G. F. Train toppled over completely en
Saturday at Dublin. Au afterno tj"lectire" wag announcad,
but when Le came to deliver it he found an audience only
about 160 people in a room which holds 4,000. The per-
formance was abandoned altogether. An even or, lecture
for "Ireland's working men," who were admitt,..l et a re-
duced price, was then resorted to, but the vxpectation of a
crowd was not fulfilled. lie declared his intention to visit
Sligo and lecture for the benefit of Judge Keogh during the
trial of Nagle.

An orator in a recent speech satirised the present
facility with which marriages are made, and divorces ob-
tained, is a happy strain. He thinks the marriage service
should read that :—Clergyman Wit you take this stone
mansion, this carriage and pair, these diamonds, Zr thy
wedded husband 1 Yea—Will 3 oil the this unpaid mil-
liner's bill, this high chignon of ioreign hair, there affected
accomplishments, and feeble constitution for thy wedded
wife? Yea—Then what man hail joined together let the
next best man run away with, so that the tint Divorce Cuuit
ma) tear them asunder.

It seems net unlikely that the rxm rises of the
reeenhoivation at Manchester will come bob re a legal tri-
linual Mr. Alderman Brinell', it will I, reioembered, was
the Comervaiive canolikte who oppesed Mr. Bright He,
however, refused to subscribe more than 4.100 towards the
expenses, the remainder Winer, be provided by his friends.
the election cot £4,0”0, hut £3,oo4ionly has beers received
by the treasurer, and the creditors are begim trig to be
clamorous for payment. On Monday they held a meeting,
and resolved to take proceedings for the recovery of the sums
due to them.