The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-30 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Duke of Norfolk intends to erect, at hi 4 own
cost, a Roman Catholic mission church, for the Brightside
district, Sheffield.

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Four hundred and twelve teachers permanently left
the strvice of the Irish National Board of Education during
the year 1873, most of them entering other occupations One
hundred and tlfty-nine of these teachers had been trained in
Dublin at the public expense. The number of scholars in the
board's schools was 17,000 more than in the previous year, the
total being 373,371.

From the statistics of mortality in Indian cities
given in the return of the Registrar-General, it appeals that
in Calcutta 243 deaths were returned in the week ending 11th
April, equal to an annual death rate of 28 per 1,000 ; cholera
caused to deaths, against 40 and 58 in the two previous
weeks. In Bombay the deaths registered during the week
ending 20th April were 311, and the rate was 25 per 1,000.
In Madras the 273 deaths in the week ending 10th April
showed a rate of 36 per 1,000 ; RS deaths tram small-pox
were reported, against 66 and 35 in the two preeeding weeks.
An order has been received at Portsmouth Dock-
yard directing steps to he taken to enter 200 additional men,
for the purpose of proceediog more rapidly with the In-
flexible than was Originally intended The sum to be added
to the wages vote of this yard for this purpose is £13,500.
On Sunday afternoon the funeral of the Comte
d'Alton Shee took place at the Mont Farness() Cemetery in
Paris. 11. Gandietta delivered a speech over the grave, in
which he said that justice had never been done to the de-
ceased. By birth is member ot the aristocracy, lie rallied
when very young to the cause of the people, and became a
Democrat. The people did not, however, give him the cordial
reception to which he had a right. They held alod from
him, and failed to appreciate the noble, honest man to whom
they should have opened their ranks. The Count perceived
that the great enemy of democracy was the old theocratic
spirit which, IL Gambetta said, still pervaded their insti-
tutions, and, in spite of all their revolutions, still wielded
the principal powers in tbe State. The lesson to be drawn
from his career was that they must shake off the spirit at ex-
clusion. They should show that the Republic could open
her arms to all who loyally came to her, more especially to
the enlightened sons of the aristocracy who sincerely ems
braced their mut

A fine statute of Sir James Outraru was unveiled
at Calcutta on Friday last, by Lord Napier of Magdala, in
the presence of the Viceroy, Lord Northbrook
Monday (the 25th) being the '2Bth .nniversary of the
birth of the Princess Christian, it was obseried with all the
honours due to members of the Boys! family.

A teleoltm, istan Route states that the Pope is
strartug from tr, and in a state of great prostration.
INith the so ten of the Maharajah of Cashmere an
esitsiiment is totiotrieti by substituting silk for pashin itt
the Mau atacture otshawls

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'Dile Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the Man-
chehttv Unity consists, according to the report prebented
to their annual moveable nonionic, on Monday, of tal.nal
members. The members initiated during 1673 numbered
36,070, making a net increase to the membership of 11,667.
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On Sunday turning her Majesty the Queen attended
divine serviej, in the Castle at Balue;ral. when the Rev. Mr.
Campbell, of Crathie, preached. The Royal pews in Crathie
Church were empty.
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A paper by Captain Tyler on safety and efficiency
In the working o! railways has been read at a meeting of
the Society id Arts. It stated that two-thirds of the casual-
ties on railways arose front defects at facing points.
An Act of Parliaulent has just reneived the Royal
assent as to the cattle disease in Ireland. Money collected
to carry out the Act when not required had bent returned
and may now be obtained. The assessment is not to exceed
one halfpenny in the pound on rateable property in that
Union.
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War, it is stated by the Chiaa Mail, has been de.
dared by Japan against the island of Formosa Four ships
and I,raii) soldiens are at suet to be despatched to the
,sisland
I A Lisbon telegram says there is ag eastow of oil
and wine, and the crops are better than the) have been for
twenty years. The vine disease is disappearing and it the
present promises are fulfilled the yield will be remarkably
large.
A dense fog prevailed at Dover on Sunday night,
and was so dense that several vessels ran aground.

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Disease has shown itself among the grouse in the
districts of Deeside. On the Forest °lame moors a good
many birds have been found dead, and several nests have
been seen containing only three or four eggs, which is an un-
healthy sign. In the lower grounds the birds have paired
Welt, and as many as ten eggs have been found in some
nests.

The following appeared in Tuesday's London Gazelle:
"Tine Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
tribal. and Ireland, to bear date the 24th inst., granting
unto her Majesty's third lion, his Royal Highness triune
Arthur William Patrick Albert, K.G., K.T.. K. P., and the
heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, the dignities of
Earl of Sussex and Duke of Connaught and of Strat hem."

From April lot to the 23rd instant, the total receipts
into the Exchequer :amounted to £10.120.032, us compared
itla 0.606,021 in the car esponding period of last year. The
expenditure has been t11,932' 95.2. (to Saturday last the
balance in the Bank of England was lather over four minions
sterling.

In the week ending on Saturday last 2,262 births
and 1.326 deaths were registered in London, the fanner
having been 43, and the latter 111, below the average num-
bers Twenty-six persons died front measles, 17 from SCal let
fever, 12 from diphtheria, 41 from whooping-coughs, 21 from
different forum of fever, 21 from diarrlaea, and not one
front amall-pox ; thus to the seven principal diseases of the
zymotie class 138 deaths were referred, against 148 and 153
in the two preceding weeks.
Tire most recent Act of the Session just issued, was
to alter the shooting season for grouse and other game birds
in Ireland By the Act 37 George 111, cap. 21, the shooting
season for moor game and grouse was to begin un the 20th of
August, and it is now altered to the Lilt of August.

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The anticipated end ,if the strike of miners in Clack-
manuan has not taken place, noise of the men having dr-
ained to submit to any redu,tion whatever. A great open-
air meeting is to be held at Kinross on Monday next, Mr.
Macdonald, M. I'., presiding. At Alloa, on Monday, coals
were reduced Is. per tun, and are now selling at Os. per tan.
The Russian Wueld states, in reference to the
harvest prospects in Russia, that hi the Black Sea provinces
they are rather favourable, and in the goverments of Kiew
and Padolia very favourable. hi the government of s.eira
they cause Uneasiness, and in the district ,4 Morsdiansk the
crops are injured by bad weather, In the g,vernment if
Nijni-Novgorod the harvest ptmuises to lie exceedingly good.
In the Baltic provinces tile agriculturists are disappointed
by the continuance ut the cold weather.
The romantically situated bridge of lialgownie,
on the River Don. near Aberdeen, noted in Byron's songs,
was on Tuesday night the scene of a sad accident. George
Cocker, a baker, while walking i•n the footpath at the top of
the cliffs above the bridge, stumbled and fell over a preci-
pitous bank a distance of between two and three hundred
feet. Be was quite dead when found, his body being fear-
fully mangled.
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The Aorncel sic Nice states that Prince Napoleon
thinks of presenting hmself as a candidate for the seat in
the Chamber lately left vacant in the department of the
Alpe, Maritimes.
A Tim, telegram from Calcutta nays that two
hundred and nineteen thousand persons are employed on
Relief Works is Bustee and tiortiekpore. sir J. Strachey
has ordered a stoppage before the rains. The necessitous are
to be sent to workhouses, and the able-bodied to the ordinary
public works, lie declares the emergency to be unlike a
aiverc famine in Bengal.

The .2Vem York -IVorbt of the 14th inst. says:—
Eighteen years ago Daniel C. Weinder, of Farmingdale, N.J.,
then only six years old, was bitten in the left arm by a rabid
dog lie suffered a great deal of pain at the time, but it
gradually passed away and WBB almost forgotten. A few
days since, whilst attempting to wash Ids face, he was seized
with the s3mptoms of hydropholtia. In spite of all the medi-
cal attention that could be given him his condition grew
wise and worse, and after forty-two hours' intense suffering
h, died.

adviees show that in the ten days ending with
the 20th of Itlay, 39 ships passed through the Suez Canal
The transit rot:mine of the Canal Company amounted in the
same period to £30,000 in round figures.

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A farmer in Siegelse, Denmark, has ploughed up in
his field a beautifully-preserved gold cup, of Byzantine
workmanship. According to Berlingske, this remnant of
the days when the Vikings spoiled Micklegarth will be
secured for the Oldnordisk Museum in Copenhagen.
The number of passengers from Dover to Calais in
the year ending the 31st of October, 1973, is stated at
90,029, awl from Calais to Dover, 100,205 ; from Dover to
Ostend, 20,491 and from Ordenti to Dover, 20 990. The
Passenger traffic butsv.on Folkestone 411111 lloulagne about
two-thirds of that between Dover and Calais.

The Bra medary arrived at Portsmouth on Monday
morning. She brought a number of officers, both from Cape
Coast Castle and Siam Leone. One of her passengers is a
Frenchman, AL 3ounard, for four years a captive of King
Kolfee at Coomasaie.

A number of Northamptonshire teachers availed
themselves of the opportunity of Mr. Ward Hunt's presence
at a bazaar In Wellingborough on Monday to wait upon him
with reference to the Revised Code. The right how gentle-
man undertook to bring their representations before his
colleagues.

At-a
mass meeting of ironstone miners held at Rose-
dale on Monday the men resolutely refused to accede to the
proposed reeluctiou of 1d per cent. They held that any offer
of compromise should cows from the flusters. A proposi-
tion was made to act independently of Cleveland, and it was
resolved to send a deputation to London to Mr. Morrison.
Most of the single men have left the vale, and several who
are married aso. There seems to be no immediate prospect
of a settlement.

Mr. Bryce Allan, one of the principal partners in
the Allan line of Canadian mail steamers, died suddenly on
Sunday mornime, at his residence at Stonyeroft, near Liver-
pool, from the bursting of a blood-vessel in the heart. lie
was a member of the Presbyterian body, and was widely
known and respected in connection with various relhdons
and philanthropic movements. Mr. Allan was in his sixty-
second year.

In the " Strangene Book' at the Liverpool Exchange
News-room, the other day, was inscribed the nallie of "
Oason Ansah Cooniassic." The gentlemen I:1 lioestion is
nephew to Qannina, the Cornier king of Ashantee, and
predecessor of K ing Notice Calcalli, of whom Prince Assail
in uncle. The prince, who is married to a native Christian,
and was at Cape Coast Castle when the late war broke out,
but had to remove to Sierra Leone In fear for his life, has, it
is stated, colic to England to endeavour to get compensation
from the Government for the destruction of his property,
lie was British envoy at Coomassie for oonnothne, and suf-
fered captivity there in consequence.

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hi the rth ult., ac' riating to the New York Iftrald,
the first Anicrioau pi_iimace was to start for Lourdes and
the Eternal city. The pilgrims wear badges which are de-
scribed as being about two inches square, the lady of white
flannel, upon which is worlird in scarlet the sacred heart anti
cross. The beads of the pilgrims take out to the Pope, as an
offering of devotion, the sum of 3,000 dots. The name of
each donor is inscribed in an Omni of 600 pages, bound in
white vellum, and bearing the Pontifical coat of arms, winch
is to be presented to the Pope with the money offering.
Upwards of 1,000 (lois. has been collected for the banner of
(nor Lady of Lourdes, which is to be deposited in the Basilica
of 'Amides.
In London, on Tuesday night, one of the spectators
at the Adelphi Theatre complained of faintness, and went
to tine saloon for refreshment. In a few nnnutes he reeled
and fell to the floor. Medical assistance was obtained, but
It was found that he had tiled from disease of the heart.
The body was at first placed in an ante-room, and subse-
quently conveyed to the dead house adjoining the church of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The deceased was identified as
Mr. ileorre Atkinson, a native of Middlesbrough.

The German Emperor a fewdays ago, at Wiesbaden,
received Herr Rollin., the German explorer, who has just re-
turned from the Lybian desert. It was by the Emperor's
special command that the well-known traveller repaired to
the palace and gave His Majesty an interesting account of his
latest travels. The Emperor, as a further ,istinct ion, desired
Herr RobHs to dine that day at the Imperial table.

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A telegram has been received by the Admiralty,
announcing the loss of H.M.S. Niobe on Miquelon, South
coast of Newfoundland. The crew were saved. The .Niobe
was a 4-gun sloop of 1,083 tons and 300-home power.

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Commendation and acknowledgments are being
conveyed, through the official channels, to all wino have been
c,mcerned in the welcome of the Emperor Alexander to Eng-
land A divisional order, at the command of the Duke of
Cali:bridge, has been issued to the troops who toe], part in
the Aldrrshot review, expressing the Emperor's gratification.
The lair:. Mayor of London has received, through the Lord
Chamberlain, her Majesty's gracious approbation and th
Mayor of Windsor has been thanked for the Emperor through
Lord Torrington.

The questions as to burning the dead is being much
tallied of in Germany. Switzerland, awl Italy. It is stated
that at Vienna the city architect has obtained permission to
construct a'sto ove in the principal cemetery, nod a rich old
lady has given 30,000 florins for the construction of others,
One which has been erected at Dresden cost 2,500 florins. At
Breslau, in Silesia, at Nuremberg, and at Berlin, meetings
have been held in favour of cremation.

On the visit of Queen Victoria to Berlin, which is
expected next August. there nih. the Berlin journal:, nate,
be great festivi aes, preparations for which are being already
ma ss by the court. It is further stated that during the visit
of her Majesty the eldest sou of the Crown. !Thee—Prince
Frederick William— who was hum on the 25th of January,
1559, will be confirmed.

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So much wanton destruction has been done to the
inn wink of the Thames Embankment that the magistrate
at Bow-street has determined to impose the utmost punish-
ment on any offender brought before him. The superin-
tendent stated on Tuesday that OA would not cover the tuts-
chief done by boys Within the past week only.
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In response to the challenge issued by the sergeants
of the 84th Regiment, in garrison at Jersey, a rifle shooting
match took place on Tuesday afternoon MI Gorey-common,
between ten sergeants of the Jersey militia and ten sergeants
of the line, in the presence of a large number of 'spectators.
The distances were 200, 400, and 600 yards. The line ser-
geants proved successful, scoring 359 points, against 319 by
the militia.

A correspondent of the Liverpool Albion suggests
that those who desire to give their animals as much liberty
as is compatible with the safety of the public, should allow
their dugs an inch in space within which to open their months
and protrude their tongues for breathing and lapping water.
This would contribute greatly to the dogs' health and com-
fort, without the least danger, as no dog will attempt to bite
unless it can open its mouth wide enough to grip the object.
Thestmpso often seen extending from the nose between the
eye. to the neck collar 'soften a grievous annoyance hy working
over and into the eyes, without being of the least use to
secure the muzzle.

Whit Monday will be remembered for one of the
heaviest stories which has visited London for many years.
In the early rimming the ton shone out brilliantly, with
every prospect of a line day. noon after nine o'clock the
atmosphere thickened and licennie sultry. At eleven o'clock
It became so dark as to necessitate the lighting of shops
with gas. An hour after rain began to fall heavily, and at
(Me o'clock the storm was at its height. The lightning was
exceedingly v viii, and the thunder rolled heavily immedi-
ately over the centre of London. About twenty minutes
past one o'clock the most irrilliant flash of forked lightning
occurred. The streets were deluged with rain, awl what
must have been the scene in those open places without
shelter where thousands of people aasembled for their holi-
day stay be readily imagined.

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M. Schott, chief partner in a celebrated Musical
Library at Mayenee, has just died at IfUan. leaving 800,000
ttorius for the establishment of a soloal for music.
On Saturday an official document was issued. showing
that there are 17 clergymen now in the commission of the
Peace in Ireland.

An embaa,y from the King of Burmah, the "Lord
of the 1% lot, Elephant," has arrived In Paris. It consists of
fifteen persons
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges (as
Conscience Money ") receipt of a Post-office order for .0
from '• B. D." for unclaimed Income-t.t.
On Saturday evening a gentleman named Hargraves
was found deaa in a public bath in Sheffield He was a
merchant and manufacturer, and was,whiely known for his
many acts of benevolence. _

The Czar slept on a camp bedstead which he brought
with him. A magnificent bedstead prepared for bins in
Windsor Castle had to be removed. —Court Journal.
Lisa is said to have a scarcity of ladies. They are
at a great premium. The hint is worth attention—Covet
Journal.

A lucrative bouquet was recently thrown to a
poptilar artist at Ms ; the flowers were held together by a
twisted hand al baukautes.

Frani the report of the Veterinary Department of
the Privy Council for the year IS7 3 just issued, it seems that
the total number of In ..,.41,.ds imported Into Groat
nritain during the frnt yo:Ir nrnod that of 1572 by
upwards of 200.0.'0, (her; .t.ing all increase of more than
95.000 in 11,e eatth , near!) In the ,heep, and a falling
off of upwards of 15,000 in the swine.
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Sunday, the 24th, being the 55th anniversary of the
birth of her Majesty the Queen, the bells of St. George's
Chapel and St. John's Chuivh, Windsor, rang merrily in
honour of the occasion. The birthday occurring on Sunday,
the usual salutes at Windsor and at Virginia Water were
reserved till Monday. The Queen was born on May 24, UN.
From a return 'ust issued it is shown that in the
year ended the 3'.lh of September last the quantities of
foreign hops imported into the United Kingdom amounted
135,141 cwt. In the game period 6,450 cwt, of foreimi hope
alit 41,1Gi at. of British hops were exported.
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A tax collector in Virginia, who was shot while
levying on a cow, employed the lust moments of his life in
preparing a handbill offering a reward of MO doh. for the
arrest of the murderer !

A manufactory of dynamite exploded a few daya
back at Amnia. on Lake Maggiore, spreading terror through
out the district as far as liclinzona awl breaking a large
number of windows for a distance of three miles. Fortunately,
the accident happened on aple day, when none of the work-
men were on the premises.

The increase in the ex4s,rtation of telegraphic wire
and apparatus vas remarkable in the last four months corn
pared with the preceding year. The sums were respectively
4429,643 and

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The usually imposing gathering id 20,000 Sunday-
school children and some 50,000 or 60,000 spectators, in Nor
11k-pork, Sheffield, was unfortunately prevented from taking
place on Monday by a drizzling rain. Other large gatherings
took place, however, at Wesleyan College Church, and the
various dispels, Au. Whitsuntide hymns being sung. Whit-
Monday in Sheffield is a thorough holiday.
A fatal event occurred on Monday about noon at
East Mailing. A number if men in the employ of Mr.
Charles Arkeoll. wholesale grocer. 3laidstone, were playing
at cricket with the East Malting Club when the storm came
on. Two spectators—William James. 50 peat-sot age, who
had been for a long time in Mr. Arkeolts service, and a boy
named Hale, from the neighbouring village - took shelter
micro neighbouring tree and were killed by lightning. The
tree had been struck by lightning, and the bark was stripped
off Ira considerable distance down the trunk.

The umbrella taken at Coomassie was received from
Windsor Castle on Monday at the South Kensington Museum,
and is now exhibited there by the command of Her Majesty.
An Act of Parliament, which received the Royal
assent last Thursday, has just been printed to authorize an
advance out of the Co solidated Fund to the public Loan
Commissioners to enable them to make advances to School
Boards in pursuance of the Elementary Education Act, 1873.
The Imam": is empowered to issue A:1,300,000 for the pur-
pose mentioned, but not after March :31, 1877.
The late Mr. William Ewing, of Glasgow, has left
his fine collection of Bibles and his general library, including
his set of black-letter ballads, to the University of Glasgow,
together with the sum of 411,000 for the foundation of three
Tutorial Fellowships of £BO each. To Anderson's University
Mr.,Zwing has left his musical library, and another sum of
k. 3,000.

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" Madame Georges Sandia said to lie preparing for
the press a memoir of the young and unfortunate lout
XVII., chiefly drawn from the personal recollections of her
grandmother, Ilde. Aurora Lupin de Francueil, grand-
daughter of King Augustus 11. of Poland, and nearly related
to Kings Charlea X. and Louis XVIII. The memoir is to
contain also historical documents and traditions, carefully
preserved in the fondly of the great French novelist "
At/ono-ma.

There are 181 eases in the Divorce Court for next
term, being an increase on Easter term, when the number
was 168. Of that number 109 are before the Court itself unl
defended, and 22 defended, besides 18 special and XX common
jury causes. -

The apprehensions entertained a few weeks ago that
the rush of American travellers to the old country would this
year be less than usual seem to have been groundless During
the three months of last year. which make up what is called
..he season,- no less than no= cabin passengers sailed from
New York for this country and Europe.

At the last meeting of the Stockton Board of
Guardians the chairman of the ,Middlesbrough relief com-
mittee said that one of the applicants for out-relief was
a woman 103 years old, being the first instance of a cen-
tenarian receiving relief since the formation 01 the unlon.
On Saturday Vice-Chancellor Bacon had before film
a suit—the Earl of Derby v. the Earl of Sefton—the object of
which was the settlement of a scheme for the disposal oith
unappropriated surplus of the Lancashire Cotton Famine
Relief Fund. The amount is £130,000, and it was proposed
that the money should be applied to the establishment or
maintenance in the cotton district of convalescent hospitals
for working men and working women. His Honour referred
the matter to chambers in order that a scheme might be pre-
pared. -

Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the
NeeYork Herald, has, it reported walked nine miles and
seven furlongs in one hour forty-six minutes and fifty-five
seconds, beating his opponent, with whom a wager of three
thousand dollars had been made, by six minutes and fifty-
five seconds.

The Army and Wary Gazelle records another serious
disaster to none of flee Majesty's ships, It seems that a
few days since the flying Squadron, under the command of
Rear Admiral Randolph, C. R , was making for the well-
known and thoroughly surveyed Bay of Palermo, when the
flag-ship, the Nal-cis.oe and the Entlyraion struck heavily.
The damage sustained by the latter has net yet been ascer-
tained, but the former knocked away some 27 feet of her
false keel, and two large holes were made in her outer skin.
The ships had arrived at Cagliari, 'and it now rests with the
Admiralty whether they shall go OD to Malta to be docked
or make an attempt to reach England.
" It is worthy llf nit° that, at the recent Landseer
sale, whilst the np,st insignificant sketches fetched enormous
prices, a magnificent Velasquez, the property siting second
artist, and one of the gems of last year's exhibition of Old
Masters, was allowed to go for Ifti guineas ! It became the
property of a gentleman in Manchester, and has consequently
gone where good pictures go. "—Court Journal."

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It is sahl that the Emperor of Russia has intimated
Ids wish that he shall not be called Czar. a title which in
Russia is considered obsolete.

American papers state that the steamship Ci mug lan,
from Liverpool arrived at Father Point oil the 6th of May
with 75 cabin passengers and 216 in the steerage Captain
Wylie had to report that on the Ist of Slay he encountered
the steamship Linda, from Liverpool, on fire, and took oil
the crew in longitude 43 deg. west
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Eighty of as leading citizens and commercial firma
of Ind Strasburg have signed a petition to the Imperial Chan-
cellor, Prince hisinarek, in favour of hastening the works
for the extension of the city. The petition terminates by
expressing a conviction that if full advantage is taken of
Strasburg's political and geographical position, it may
again become what it has utterly been-- an important com-
mercial city, and an emporium for the whole of South Ger.
many.

Galignani states that the Duchess de Neyrac has
just died from the effects of an accident. About three
weeks ago she was knocked down in Paris by -the pole of a
carriage, the horses of which had run away. She was taken
to her residence, and the medical men did not think the in.
juries wind' she had received were of a fatal character, and
even recommended her to go to her chateau of genousses, in
Poitou. She did so ; but sank gradually, and has just ex-
pired. She was a nnmiber of one ot the oldest families in
that province, and had only been married four or five
months.

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"During the recent struggle between farmers and
labourers, the friends of the latter have been very warm in
their recommendation to them to emigrate to America ; hut
have time so apparently upon the basis of very deficient in-
formation. A correspondent, usually well informed, writes
that unless emigrants have friends there whffi can give them
a helping hand, they will be wise to stay away. Employ-
ment is scarce, many men In large cities are idle, and com-
plaints of pinching times and hard struggles are frequent
from the farming districts. At present, labourers of all
kinds can do much better in England than in America. The
writer says this with a full knowledge of the facts, and with
a d. sire, by a frank statenient of the truth, to warn intend
ing einimunts of the risks they run by seeking thu New
World during the psesent depression."—Court Journal.
An ingenious device for turning an honest penny is
reported by the Edinburgh Courant by which buyers and
sellers are equally benefited. The buyers get for sixpence
twenty-four sheets of letter paper, on the outside sheet of
each of wtteli is an embossed penny stamp. The seller is
benefitted in this way : he fills the two inside pages wills
sixty advertisements for which he charges one guinea each,
leaving the first page for private correspondehce, and the
last page, to which the stamp is affixed, for the address. As
the stamp will carry an ounce weight, another sheet of plain
paper may be enclosed together with the sheet which Is
stamped. The originator of this plan guarantees to the ad-
vertiser a circulation of 5,000 collies, so that it is easy to see
how the scheme m ill pay. For the advertisements he re-
ceives £63, for which lie pays 5,000 stamps at Id. each—
k.2o 16s. Bel.—lesa received for copies (sold twenty-four for
bd.), £5 41. 24. ; total, £l5 Its. fid. ; leaving the difference.
£47 7s. 6d., to cover the cost of paper and printing a sheet
of advertisements 5,000 times. The inventor has, it hi
stated, taken out a copyright, which entitles him to a year's
monopoly. —Pan Mali Gazette.