The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-26 00:00:00

rIFIE FITOURBRIDGE OBSERVEh,.

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-iffierable—iiitilic-some of woni:"-althJiigh-but slightly I severely on the head with the handle of a whip.
wounded, were perfectly stupefied. Erom these e't blazing i bee,tall liaily pursued the aunnal, and when he
ruins men and wonien, Itruised, lowa, end horribly midi-
, came nti to it a regular fight ensued. The policeman
Was dreadfully scratched in the face, received some
lated, weru to be seen endeavouring to escape, but 'Mitten_
only by instinct, for their countenances expressed the con,
plete stupor which had overtaken them. One poor woman severe bites in the right arm, and dropped his sword
received ten wounds, two in her head; het thighs were slit in the end. Another policeman came up at this
through in two places, the thigh hone of one leg being moment and renewed the fight. He was more success-
smashed. Another, whose clothes were burnt off, was seen ful He ran his sword-through the animal, but the
frightfully disfigured, her face entirely burnt, and one eye e .
at was by this time pretty well exhaust:Nl. The
hanging oat of its socket. She walked along, followe I by others
equally mutilated. The subject of astonishment to the persons who were bitten received medical aid, and the
persons who first arrived was how these poor creatures could wounded doook were killed and buried.
walk. The sympathy was immeuse—everyone took off their THE
rel RIGHT SOOT !---'l'he following anecdote is
outward garments to cover these wretched victims, and t : -
neighbours instantly offered their housts as a first place tef ated of the Empress of Austria --
refuge. The artillerymen quartered in the adjoining bar; At a recent visit to the industrial exhibition at Hietring,
racks set to work at once to clear away the smoking ruin near Vienna, her Majesty evinced a great interest in the
and endeavour to find the dead and the dying. Anna, legs, tobacco department. After having c irefully inspected the
and heads were found. An officer, in the love of dragging la rtous sorts of leaves anti the manufacture of cigars. her
out a soldier who appeared yet alive, took hold id his arin ; siaiesty suddenly stopped, anti, addressing Herr Orutsch,
the anti came off in his hand, the shoulder having been 1111t4 .i.i• " fi'. Yon knim what would interest 111.1 most to see? t
away from the imily. Pools od blood, calcined limbs, spent i should like to become acquainted with the manufacture of
Itolls, met the eye at every step. Orders were issued that ;11,,,-i,',f.i.,',thchecig.i,r,s.i,rnzl. N.V.ja
~,tl,k,,e. lizvt.esottlyhal..anrgeoitu;letwi
with
110 one was to enter the court till the artillerymen bad ilone
their work, lint the distracted relatives insisted on bring One examined carefully the leaves, and attentively w,,tched
the making of a (Igor 'of them. After thi, was finished, the
allowed to search tor the remains of ['tote a IV 1 hati perished,
anti the result was terrilde. Mn anecdote is related of a Empress, in thanking her attendants, said, '• Now, gtutle-
Chasseur who was seen taking the burning logs of wood in men I will tell pill 01) 1 t.. 'lc such a great interest in the
In, hands to search for the body of a young pm sou to ml irginians—t le Emperor a ways smokes this sort.
THE PRI.SS LAW IN F i:ANCE. —The Monitou• of
he was betrothed, A mother, whose time daughters woe
employed in the factory, pushed aSitill the sentinels, who Cll- 1 • ...1 ,
, , Eat, cost untay pnblishes A Very curious document,
headet.l '..',E,xecuti.on of Art. 26 of the law of the 26th cif
deavoured to keep her back, and with a strength vi hicii is
described as superhuman, found her way into the yard, there
to le that her three children were calcined. one of the May, i.s i 9. It Is the jmlonent twonottneml by the
artillery...C.l employed within the factory, and who was cot-rec.:tonal it-lion:al of I.ille 111.11 five Belgian
lab knoiled down by the concussion, has been deaf OW s.-Bere .dtvieted of selling, distributing, I Ir. causing to
since the explosion. be distributed, in France Immoral and seditious books,
of which a hot is given that fills a column and a half
of the very smallest print in the Moniteur, and includes,
besides the titles of the bunko, the first and last four
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words of each work. The five offenders one of whom
is a woman, were condemned to lines and various terms
,4 imprisonment. It is not stated that they were
condemned by default, so we must conclude they are
n the bawls of the French authorities.
TED, ARAN DON MENT OF Tilt BA RqUE " LOGAN."
—The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the
barque Loy(”1, Captain Gibson, terminated on Monday.
The Lily, sailed from Liverpool to Shanghai on the
10th of August last, and in consequence of the vessel
sprinifflig a leak she was abandoned on the 18th, the
captain being unable to reach the part of the vessel
where the leak was supposed to exist. In consequence
of the vessel being seen afloat some hours after she
had been abandoned, the Board of Trade Iberried an
inquiry necessary. Mr. Raffles, stipendiary, delivered
judgment. He said that the court had given every
consideration to the evidence adduced, and had conic
to the conclusion that the vessel was making water
when she left port, but rod to such an extent as to
cause any alarm to the captain. As to the leak which
caused the abandonment of the ship, the court was in
ignorance as to the exact part of the ship where the
timbers laol given way. It was to be regretted, how.
ever, that the owner should have permitted his vessel
to have gone to tea, without a supply of spare spars
but in all other respects the ship was properly found
in stores, and the court believed that, with the repairs
done to the .c,.oilan, ghe was capable of going on so long
. . . .

a voyage. The court returned Capin "Gibson
certificate.
A DASTARDLY ATTKiIPT To MIIRDeR.—A work-
ing shoemaker, named Trolliet, of &Tardier (Rhone),
has just been tried at Lyons for attempting to murder
Fleurine Guichard, a young woman to whom he
had paid his addresses. An engagement to marry had
been made, but it was recently broken off by the
parents of the female ; among other reasons because
TroMet was lame. He then obtained an interview
with her and discharged a pistol at her, but she pushed
aside his hand and escaped unhurt. The man was at
once arrested, and in his pocket was found a letter
purporting to be a declaration that they had both
agreed to commit suicide because their union had been
I revented. Flenrine had, however, never hail any such
intention, and her signature had been forged by the
accused. He was now condemned to five years' hard
labour.

LOOMING IN THE DISTANCE--An American
paper, the Raoul Table, states that the coasts of New
Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, New Jersey, and
a portion of the eastern Atlantic shore are gradually
uprising, while those of the Bay of Fundy and Green-
land are slowly sinking. It is said that if this should
continue for ten centuries the map of the Aniericln
continent would in 2900 present an entirely different
appearance. The Hudson's Bay and Jersey shore
would become fruitful valleys, with countless inland
seas. Where now the banks of Newfoundland lie.
there would then lie peninsulas connected with the
mainland, as the banks of St. George are at present.
The passage friar Ireland to America then would take
but four days.
THE WALLS OF STAMBOUL—The demolition of
the old walls of Stambinil is said to have been decided
upon, their military value having long since passed,
and their pesence being, it is considered, a check on
the development of the city outside the triangle, one
shle of which they enclose. It will be time enough,
however (says the Levant Herald), to make serious use
of this argument for the destruction id these most
interesting remains of old Constantinople when the
half-ilesert wastes within them have been filled up with
buildings and populations. Still, if they are to be
removed, it is to be hoped that the value of the malericl
it ill Is' spent 011 other intranmral improvements such
as streets, sewerage, Anil similar redilic works of first
necessity for the niirth side if the Horn. Care should
also be taken to preserve the inscriptions and °diae
fragments of archreological value which abound from
the Seven Towers to Eyoub.
GAmBLISG Ni.w Y.11.E. —There is in New
York an association for the prevention (if gambling.
The society employs detectives to visit the gambling
saloons, and procure evidence for the suppression of
these establishments. It is the business of these agents
also to ascertain the names and occupations if those
who frequent the gambling roonis, and a list of the
per ins thus detected is sent periodically to the sub-
seribers to the society, that they may know who are
tire persons wasting their money, or perhaps the
Ithilley of their employers, in gambling. Many large
hinnies if business subscribe. In the month of August
the so isty's agents detected among the gamblers 68
clerks id mercantile houses, and in the previous six
months reported 623 eases. It is stated that there are
in New York and Brooklyn 1,017 policy and lottery
offices, and 163 faro banks, and that their net annual
gains are not less than 36,000,000 dok
NARROW ESCAPE OF TEN PERSONS.—An alarm-
ing accident occurred recently near Sligo. It appears
Mr. Patrick Feeney, a Sligo shopkeeper, his wife and
child, and seven other lcroons went out for a sail in a
yacht at the li, coca Point. After some time the wind
lulled, and the yscht got becalmed, in consequence of
which it was found impossible to get her out of the
way of the steamer Ruse, which was coming in from
Glasgow. 'rhe steamer split her in two, and the ten
persons in her were immediately immersed in the
water. Fortunately, the crew of a herring boat saw
their danger, and were just in time to pick the whole
of them up.
EXTRAORDINARY COURTING ADVENTURE—At
tie Nottingham Shire Hall, George Bradley has been
charged i ith entering the dwelling-house of Mr.
('roper, with intent to commit a felony. The prose-
cutor is a farmer, and has in his employ as a domestic
servant a young woman named Harriet Parr, with
Vh"ni prisoner was deeply in love. During the pre-
vious Tuesday night, the inmates of the house were
greatly alarmed at hearing a lumbering noise in the
chimney. Two of them got up. and after instituting
a vigilant search, discovered the primmer, who had
conic down the chimney, lying with his face on the
garret floor. Ho was without his coat, and was partly
covered with soot. The constable of the parish was
called to apprehend him, and in answer to the charge,
Ire said he had got on the top of the house (which is
above three stories high) for the purpose of throwing
" his Polly " some numey down the chimney, when
he tumbled down himself. Prisoner before the bench
denied entering the house to commit a felony. Ile
said he only wanted to see his Polly, who had borne
hini a child. The bench said they should have to make
further inquiries, and remanded tlic prisoner for a
week.

NIGGER MELomr.--- In New Orleana there are
a few strong clubs of Democratic negroes ; these fre-
quently march through the streets carrying torches
and banners, and singing indigenous campaign songs.
From one of these chansons we take the following
verse :

What tho' de acks of Congress
Proclaims de rights oh man,
Don't all II e cal peld oaggers
Steal everyting dry can?
One smart chap he made mono,
(lb ills poor darky coon,
An' non, eats bread :did honey
In Victor's fine salon.

THE CARRIAGE OF PETROLEUM. —The London
and North Western Railway have issued a notice to
the effect that they "will not carry in any of their
boats trading between the ports of Holyhead and
Dul din any petroleum, Rangoon oil, Burundi 1,11, any
product of them, or any oil of petroleum, peat, or
other bituminous substance, or any gunpowder, Retina-
fortis, oil of vitriol, or any other goods which in the
judgment of the company are of a dangerous elm-
racter." Persons who may attempt to evade this
regulation by sending dangerous consignments covertly,
are threatened with prosecution under the 3:l9th
section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1804, which
imposes a penalty of MO for every such offence. It
will be noticed that no reference is made to the car-
riage of peroleum, or other dangerous goods, by rail.
but the cliising of the mail packets to this traffic will
in sonic measure have the effect of stopping such con-
signments by the Chester and Holyhead Railway,
which from its proximity to numerous chemical works
has hitherto done a considerable business in this line.
There is, however, nothing in the new regulation
which would prevent a manufacturer, having a large
consignment, from despatching his goods to Holyhead
by the ordinary luggage trains, and thence to Ireland
by means of a small vessel of his own chartering.
COSTROL OF Ratx.---If Nature warns man to
touch the forests with a sparing band, she no less in-
dicates that he shall put his utmost energy tido
breaking tip the it, 41 of the prairies, and when p. issible
plant trees remarks a New York paper. The quantity
of ram in Western Nebraska and Kansas is reported
to have doubled since the early settlement lof Raise
regions, and the reason doubtless is to be found both
in the planting of trees and the opening up of the soil
so as to absorb more moisture. _Moreover, brooks, or
s." branches," as they call them out there, are starting
up in gullies and gulches hitherto dry. Colorado and
cidifornia, states generally utterly dry for eight
summer month, have this year begun to have heavy
rams, The same causts are probably at work all over
the "dry-season " portions of our country. On the
other hand, Ohio and Northern New York are echo-
ing the emnplaints of the French Agricultural Report,
that the felling of forests is the ruin of riven. 1 hese
natural laws seem plain enough. Man should learn to
follow them.

THY. FAMILY too L- The Friend of Lolia
recwetl to learn that "a gentleman of no much sterling
worth as the Hon. Prco.uuno Cootriar Tagore slmuld
have stained the close of his long career by an act of
superstition that nowt have the worst effects upon his
fellow-countrymen. He has bequeathed estates for
the Kervice 4.1 the family idol, yielding an annual in-
come of 16,000r5. That a man who has distinguished
himself by a depth 14 attainment rarely to be net
withtunoug natives, and who has associated freely with

Europeans, should have been .ho far misled, will be the
subj.-et of regret to all Indian reformers and of gra-
tulation to that noisy portion of the community who
find it to their pr fit to flatter the superstitious feelings
of their countrymen. In his munifimmt donations to his
Sanscrit ch dirge and to charitable institutions, and his
encour cement of Oriental literature alone, we recog-
nise the work of Pros”min Coomar Tagore. His son,
who is a well-known Christian and banister, has bee.,
disinherited in favour of an 'orthodox' nephew, and
will, we understand, defend his rights in the courts."

LADIES IN PARLIAMENT. GordOn, in hiS
" Antiquities of Parliament," says, "The ladies of
birth and quality sat in council with the Saxon witast"
" The Abbess Hilda" (says Bede) " presided in an
ecclesiastical synod." In Wiglifred's great council at
Becconcelil, A.D. 691. the abbesses sat and deliberated;
awl five of them signed degrees Id that council along
with the king, Lido Ts. aid noliles. King Edgar's
dial ter to the Aid iey of Crowland, A.D. 961, was with
the 1,1111,01 t 14 the willies :old abbesses who signed the
charter. In Henry the Third's and Edward the First's
time four abbesses were summoned to parliament,
namely, of Shaftesbury, lurking, St. Mary if West-
minster, and Id Wilton. ln the :kith of Edward 111.
Were summoned by tent to parliament, to al ipear there
by their proxies, namely, Mary, Countess if Norfolk ;
A lienor, Countess if Onnond ; Anna I fispenser
Philippa, Countess of March ; Johanna Fitzwater ;
Agnetta, Countcss if Pembroke; Mary de St. Paul ;
Mary de Ihssi ; Matilda, Countess of Oxford ;
Catherine, Countess of Athol. These ladies were
called ad egllagniant tnortalum by their proxies, a pri-
vilege peculiar to the peerage to appear and act by
proxy.—From " Thingx ogt generally knows," by John
F.S. A., p. 186, 1857.
BRIGHAM )(Gl', G AND HIS WIVES.—The pro-
phet having hist a'' quantity" of wives from a malady
known Di cattle herdsmen as pleuriopneumonia, has
just " annexed' five ladies newly arrived from
England. Among, the marriage notices in a news-
paper the other day, which, perhaps, may interest
some 14 our readers in Berks county, England, was
" Brigham Young—Several Others.— At Salt Lake
City, 16th inst., Brigham Young and Mrs. J. It.
Martin, Miss Emily P. Martin, Miss L. N. 'Fender-
gyast, Mrs. R. 111. Jenckinsan, and Miss Susan P.
Cleveland, all of Berks county, England."

FAHAT RE OF THE HERRING FISHING. —The
herring fishing in the Moray Firth has been a total
failure, caused mainly by the unseasonable weather
which prevailed during the greater part of the fishing
(says the Nairn Tekgraph.) The Nairn boats have,
with scarcely an exception, been most unsuccessful,
and there are few have been able to clear their
way, the majority being involved, more or less, deeply
in Zlebt. Some of them have to add to the expense of
an unproductive fishing the loss of nets uninsured,
and the results of this fishing, as well as of the spring
fishing on the west coast, has had a very disastrous
effect on the population of the fishing town. The
most urgent claim upon them was the wages of the
hired men from the West Islands, but this the great
number were unable to meet. A few of the High-
landers theatened to take the law into their own hands,
but more pacifie council prevailed, and ultimately they
met the fishermen lin conciliatory terms, agreeing to
take as much of their wages as could be given, and
accepting promissory notes for the balance, payable in
three or hair months. Some of them accepted as little
as in part payment, but the majority of them got
from .1:5 to IA One or two of the more provident
fishermen, however, were able to pay the wages of the
sues in full.

WHERE TO GO FOR YOUR HOLIDAY.—/d/dierg.
—Punch.

HAYDOCK OFFERINGS.--The Daily News pub-
lishes the following:—
The pig's heal offered at the late Haydock harvest festival
was sold, and the money paid for it and other offerings was
given to a church hunt —I ant, AC., ALAN GREENWF LL
N'icar of St. James, in Haydock. Haydock, St. Helens, Sept.
19.

A NEW EMPEUOR OF ABYSSINIA. —The follow-
ing is an extract from a letter written by Mr. Blanford,
the well-known geologist to the Abyssinian expedition.
Mr. Blanfml has been engaged since the return of the
British army in the Ameba Valley, and returned from
Massowa to Aden on the 4th of the present month, the
date of the letter from which we quote. He writes :--

I can also you some Abyssinian news. Goliani has had
lihnself crowned Emperor at Gondar. Kassai, Of Tigr6, is
011 friendly terms with Unbent, and has written a very
friendly letter to Mr. Mtumingli, our consul at Massowa.
We brought with as letters from Kaisai to Lord Napier, and
If in time I suppose they will go to England by to-day's
mail.

A PAINFUL CASE.—A little girl, about fifteen
years old, named Elizabeth Stec, was sitting by the
fire in her father's house at titainton, near Penrith, on
Friday, nursing a youi ger child, when her cousin, a
boy of about the same age, took down a double.
barrelled gun that was hanging upon a beam in the
kitchen within easy reach. As he was levelling it at
the girl it went off unexpectedly and shot her. The
gun fell fripm his bands as soon as he saw the mischief
lie had thine, and he ran I nit and gave the alarm.
Assistance was procured, and the girl was found lying
on the floor, with the 3hild, unhurt, clasped in her arms.
She had been shot in the head, and died in two w
three hours. An inquest was held on the body on
Saturday. and the jury returned a verdict to the effect
that the deceased had met with her death by misad-
venture.

SHOOTING A PARTNNR.—On Tuesday morning,
Mr. Slater, of the firm of Slater, Brunt, and Co.,
Borussia Steel Works, Sheffield, was shot by his part-
ner, Mr Brunt, in the office, where a dispute would
seem to have arisen between them. Mr. Brunt tired
a pistol loaded with shot at Mr. Slater, at three or
four yards' distance. The pistol was aimed obliquely
or the effect must have Le-n fatal. As it was, most
of the shots entered tie wall behind Mr. Slater. but
he was badly wounded Ii the hand, cheek, and fore-
head. Immediately after tiring Mr. Brunt gave him-
self up to the police. For some time past he has been
suffering from cerebral and nervous excitement,
arising, it is said, from over application to hairless.
A short time ago he made an attempt on his life ; up
to this time he was a preacher among the Methodists.
He is stated to he a man of very temperate habits—in-
deed, a teetotaller.

AD IMPERATOIit M.—What the French Govern-
ment ought to do with La Lanterne? Make light of
it—Pane/i.

PRESF.NTS FOR AN AFRICAN PRINCE. —The
I,resents which the King of Prussia is sending to the
Sultan of Boron (('entral Africa) consist of a throne in
roam dilered velvet, a repeater, a dozen other watches
of the ordinary kind in gold and silver, six needle guns,
twelve revolvers, six burnous worked with gold threas I,
six plain ones several dozens of fezz caps, coral neck-
laces, and perfumes. Bis African Majesty had mani-
fested a desire to receive a carriage, but the difficulty
of forwarding it was too great. It would have had to
be taken in pieces, and transported on the backs of
camels across the whole of the Sahara, and as there
are no coachbuilders at Burnu, men would have had
to be sent from Europe to reconstruct the disjointed
vehicle. Besides, this Monarch already employs in a
very curious fashion a cakehe which Queen Victoria
gave hits. On solemn occasions his Majesty has the
equipage drawn by the grandees of his Court, he him-
self marching on foot by the side.
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THE LAST MAN.—A strange story is related
respecting the great earthquake of 1747. It is said
that all the inhabitants of 'ail:to except one man lost.
their lives during this earthquake. This man was
standing on the fort which overlooked the harbour,
when he saw the sea retire to a great distance, and
thvn come sweeping hack like a vast mountain of
water. A cry of " Nliserere arose from all parts
of the town, "and then in a moment all was silent,"
—where the town had once flourished there was a wide
expanse of sea, lint the same great wave which
destroyed the toam swept towards him a sin 1 boat,
into which he leaped, and so ecsaped.

DEATH OF AN OLD VETERAN.—On Friday
(says the Northern Whig) an old soldier named
Coarane, and his wife, were buried in one grave in
Shankhill churchyard. Cochrane was born in 1788, and
joined the army in 1807 as a gunner in the Royal
Artillery, and was discharged in 181$ on a pension of a
shilling a Ilay. He was in thirteen general engage-
ments, including Talavera. Vittoria, ,'•alanlanea, St.
Sebastian, Badajoz, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Ciudad
Rodrigo, and Waterloo. Ile was also in several minor
engagements. During his career he was wounded in
the abdomen, and in the right hand, right arm, both
legs, and head. He was employed of late in "blowing"
the organ in the Ulster Hall, at which he was engaged
till within two months of his death. Cochrane's wife,
nearly as old as he, died within twelve hours of his
decease, and, as we have said, they were interred on
Friday in one grave in Shankhill. There were only
four persons at the funeral.
Finn AT SEA !—lntelligence has been received
! announcing the total destruction by fire of the Liver-
I pool and East India trader Mahn Lukshmi, on the
I voyage from Bombay to the Mersey. The arm 'since-
nnoit of the loss of the vessel having conic by telegram
' is necessarily brief, but the following are all the facts
! which at present can be learned of the disaster. The
: Mo/or Lokskna, under command of Captain Stewart,
! sailed from Bombay for Liverpool on the 23rd of June
last, with a large and valuable cargo, amongst which
I were 5,E88 bales of cotton, and a large quantity of
seeds and other East India produce. All appears to
; ha, gone on well until between the 211th and the 20th
July, when the vessel was observed to be on fire, and
all attempts to suppress it were ineffectual. A porthm
of this' crew were picked moand taken back to Bombay,
and the remainder were taken off the burning vessel by
passing slops.
SHOCKING BOAT ACCIDENT.—A boat accident
occurred on Saturday, at a pool on the grounds of Mr.
Haeluck, Handsworth, near Birmingham, by which
Sydney Herbert Hasluck, aged fourteen; and Thomas
Jenkins, al, twenty-three, gardener, both lost their
lives whilst gallantly endeavouring to save the lives
of others. Shortly ls•fore the occmrence, the nurse
iii I or children entered a boat on the Irina, for the
purpose of fishing. The boat Wes about twenty yards
from the side, and at a deep part of the pool, when a
daughter of Mr. Hasluck's, aged ten, in charging her
seat, overbalanced and fell into the water. Her
brother, Sidney Herbert Haduck, at once jumped
into the water ti rescue her, and as both were
struggling in the water the piercing screams of the
other occupants of the boat brought the gardener
(Jenkinson) to the spot. Observing the critical posi-
tion of the children, he at once went to their assist-
ance, but as he approached, the boy clung desperately
to him, and both sank. Mr. Bons, the farm bailiff
arrived at this juncture, and he succeeded in rescuing
Miss Hasluck, receiving some aid in his efforts from
Mr. Haeluck's coachman. Although much exhausted,
in a short time both were completely restored. We
regret to say that the boy and the gardener were both
drowned. Dr. Shaw was in attendance when the
bodies of the unfortunate deceased were recovered;
but his services were, of course, of no avaiL It is
almost unnecessary to add that the unfortunate
affair caused great distress in Mr. Hasluck's
and much excitement in the neighbourhood.

ROBBERY or JFIWO LLERY7—Thontas Spriggs,
a coloured footman in the employ of Lord Milton, wax
apprehended at Rotherham on Saturday, on the
charge of stealing, a large quantity of jewellery at
WentwortU House, the seat of Lord Fitzwilliam. In
the prisoner's box were found a number of massive
gold pins, valuable rings, gold and silver chains, studs,

brooches, lockets, and other trinkets. Tbst er
also found in his possession six os seven nugl;ets
cold, one of considerable size, all of which are said to
have been collected by Lord Milton during a tour in
America. But the most valuable articles found in
the box were a magnificent gobl locket, set with pearls
and diamonds, and a beautiful br(s(ch also set with
diamonds. It was the sudden disappearance of the
former about a week ago that led to the ultimate dis-
covery of the thief. The prisoner is only about
eighteen years of age.
STRANGE FREAK.—Oonsidentble excitement was
caused near the Custom House gate, Cork, on Satur-
day, by the strange conduct of a drunken coal porter.
Ile staggered out of a neighbouring public-house, and,
with the utmost coolness, threw himself into the river,
heavily clothed as he was, singing out a very indis-
tinguishable ditty. The lookers-on were alarmed for
his safety, and one was divesting himself of his (otter
clothing to attempt his rescue, but the fell( av seemed
to be quite at home in the water, and his exclamations
denoted the intense luxury which he deemed its cooling
influence. He then made for a small boat which was
approaching, and attempted deliberately to upset it,
so that he had to be beaten back severely with an oar
by its occupant:: before. he desisted. A minute or so
elapsed (luring this curious scene, when a cry of
police '' was raised. The swimmer was soberised in
an instant by the prospect of a lodging at his country's
expense. With the agility (4 a rat he climbed over
the bulwarks of a ship lying near, ran &TOM the de,k,
and descending by the gangway, disappeared in a
second round the corner of Lapp's-quay, to the no small
astonishment of the spectators.—Cork Herald.