The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-12 00:00:00

Histrliantons
HONE, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

FATAL FAMILY lARP.: A murder has
'Cell committed in the streets 4 Florence in open
•)• a young man, 3 lodelier. a:ed seventeen. It kits
named Mazzoni. The latter appears
• • have trent.:d his wife very kindly, ;111.1 on her
lie haa ilcltlCed another 'dater of the former to
,:it with Link Ile did not use her any Letter than
awl :titer a few dove she was fug...4 to le A't,
• to Service in an hotel. ;Thortly afterwards
taineol an interview sith her, and endear, sired It,
st her to retnrn, and on the oiuttg woman refusing,
' -.truck her several times ; she then ran away,
- 1,1 by him, mat to. .k refuge in a shop kept by her
' 11110 Cf these went out to inert 31azzoni, and
•• ti •.-t quarrel, stabbed him iii, nuts', The
• •• t. tnnn-:!iatttly arrested. 'nit: Florence
,r , ~.;IVe his name.
S Litt K is IN TUE UN ITED STATES.—A New York
correspondent says :--

The strike of the miners in the Pennsylvania coil regions
finns pearly emled. most of the strikers having rot limed to
their work under the old too-hour systetur. at an advance of
10 per emit. on their W:IgCS. 'line supply of coal sent tin
market front the mines la.t week was nearly nn to the
average of previlais seahons. ei4ht-hotm strike of the
bricklayers in New York continues, the strikers being sup-
ported by Niels laid op in anticipation of the ntovernent.
tinny /ire also sustained by the sympathies of the labouring
'lieu of other cintssrt, mho consider the success ..r defeat lif
the I aickl nyers . t heir 0.11, and are anximply await log the
result. 'rite bas to strikers in wages during live weeks is
estimated at 3,,0,U0U

Tim Iti OF T/11.1 NUJ/. —The preparatory
wiirk fir twinging the waters of the Nile into the canals
has just taken place with the usual rejoicing.. The
ceremony was preshleil over by Cherif Paella. Several
ministers awl high fune!ii tiaties front Alexandria were
present. as well as an immense concourse II specta-
tors. There were unit short time lack fears of all ill.
sufficiency of water for agricultural purposes ; lint
tinnier &lath, have I-Cull 111.41g/tell by telegrams from
Assonar.i. the river having risen higher than at the
same period last year. There is eialseilllVlitlY tenrti-
tude 4.f. :in abundant nrigation. ant the great wi irks
executed for strengthening the dykes have removed all
danger of a rupture.
TOTAL W'PiCK OF THE -Intelli-
gence has hint received in Liverpool of the total wreck
of the East India trailer Bruncesix, otf the island of
Aiwension, on the 12th ultimo, by which cargo to the
extent of upvvards of 1:120,000 was lost. The Mymensis
left Bond any f n Liverpisil on the 21.1 th 3lay, with a
large and ra!nalole car,.., consisting 14 r, Ist bales of
cotton, and a quantity n if mvrabolams, eiiir yarn. scents,
Lice. The muses leading to the wreck are, up to the
present time. unkniiwn ; but it is impposed that the ship
hzul approached Ascension for the purpose of pro-
curing wati r, and that she hail drifted ashore and
become a ti•tal wre.k. No lives are reported to be
lost.

THE DI ET OF ROYALTY. A Paris paper pub
lialii a sonic amusing particulars concerning the eccen-
tricities and appetites id kings and princes. It assures
to that Nals.lo at 111. eats frugally and drinks little,
while, on the other hand, he smokes much ; while
Alexander 11. eats well, drinks well, loves game,
Champagne,B and Burgundy. Ills Prussian Majesty is
empecially ..,1,71 to '• rer," Markobrunner.,
benfrair mulch, into well of mutton and beef, biscuits
and sweets, is simple and gay in his humour at table ;
whereas hia cousin if Austria is dull and thoughtful,
I' firs gam- and niut ton, Bordeaux, and the national
wines of Hungary. The King of Italy, very fond of
hunting and shooting, has a decided preference for
game, white meat, mid the wines ,f the Cot, 41.0 r,
but, thOUgh he limits the wild Isar, never oda pork.
Isabella of Si oin car. a principally for veal and lamb,
and is national in preferring tit-- wines .4 her country ;
is the Sultan, us lit lives in rice, sweeta, and triental
fruits, but drinks Burgundy by way of contrast.
HEuititsiNG EARLY.— A remarkable case of for-
gery was investigate-I at the 31, nsion-h,mse in Ism
ilon on Saturday. The Indigent Mimi Society :Islet'''.
thud 6.1. a bey, and a lad named Wright, fourteen
veara id age, pr-rectal himself, and was engagoL
NV it hin three days he by..tol the names if two tlielliberri
4-f the house ommiittee to a cheque for Olt: on Messrs.
Williams and Deacon's bank. This was cashed, chiefly
in n.des, tlin.ugh the agency of a confederate oim year
younger tic, n himself. Wright exchanged the Dotes
.-r-gold at tie Il:ink of England, endorsing them with
the teilto [ Is b•ro r insist, it whose name he had
s ,1 I-r t 1,12. A remand was
• • ,f the cage against both

A To.,i. • . ,Izty or two since a
gtilti, , .ti ti in;trry phe of the
liii • . Jwine.d).
The • • :iii the eelliog, atiti
the e,lHit jenrney be rail.
lit l,ride,zroffin tajlti in
the after!: • •J to intent tu
liwe. In r heerinz.
t.ikeh I.). the be!ore
_Lakt Ashen

,
the purcon feel arrive, I MO the twain it. ,w 1 tip to b..
made idle, the hi man asked for the
bridegroollll,lred tO the bride, who saili•
right—she hail the The jireacher :t.
c.iuldn't or it. t.he 1101 put it in her trunk t4P carry
with thou preof Iher legol status, lisle was a
mesa the minister iieuldn't proceed without the license
in hand. A frantic ru-11 was made for the residence of
the clerk, aid i a duplicate license obtained, and,
cutting the ceremony short, it was completed in time
for them ti follow the trunk and the original license.

THE BABE IN 1-; WOOD.—A party of gentle-
noo. wee" out shoGtio.; a few days ago in a winni near
tlires, in the neighl snwhood of Rouen, when one if
the dogs suddenly came to a set and attracted his
master's notice. Vpon examination, the object which
had drawn the animal's attention was found to be a
little girl, only a few hours' old, which had been
andone,l quite naked and left to die itt cold or hunger.
The persons ',resent immediately held a consultation
and decided on j, dully adopting the poor infant. They
commenced procumlins by giving her the name of
Ilubertine, in honour of the saint ~f sporting.
ANOTHER. FATAL BOAT A trim!, T.-- A Greenock
correspondent writes : •''Another of those lout acci-
dents which have lmen so painfully frequent in the
river this seamm occurred here on Saturday, IT which
George W bite, labourer, Bearhope-street, lost his life.
In the forenoon a lug sand:oat, named the An ale, 1,-.
lunging to Mr. Bowman, proceeded from this port with
the intention of going to the I:ourock 'Regatta. There
was mu I mar,i FninciA Gregdwy, -I, Dalrymple street ;
I I enry II sily,s, Dalrymple-street ; Andrew Al'irthur,
Longwell-el, cc - all u eamen ; anti William Barclay,
j, quer. Vennel, and Ueorge White, lab, timer, Bear-
hop,strot. When the Israt reached opposite to the
hatter, , about half-past eleven o'clock, she was caught
in a *mall, and there hieing little ballast on board she
upset, throwing the rive men into the water. The four
brat-named swam till rescued by gentlemen who went
off in boats to their ns,istance ; 'Cut White, not being
able to coin,, sank anti was drowned. He was twenty-
four yearr, if age. ;Ind nnmarried. The Issly of the
unfortonafo S oung. wan was recovered by trawlers
el beside the sot, Imat, and conveyed to his
friends."

Pitt,T s' MisTAKtS.—" I (10 not know,"
say: tlit. ehr,livler, is the Taupe, "a more in,rlitlions
oml a icke4l ICVII tlian the difthlc-coquille (mkpriat).
It is he who in the printing-house slips the wrong.
letter into the compositor's fingers, unit makes Mai
commit the most sometimes the Ifloct imle-
eoroos blunders. Not satisfied with that, be glides
thningh the door ajar, or, if needs be, through the
keyhole into the correcting room, and, at the right
moment, a inStiwtween the prisif and the cor-
rector's ilk s, and the ,lidignrial word parISCA. he
N. ver, I thieve, did that horrible fliOde-
rovrfie 1.1,3, milder pranks than yesterday in a scien-
tific pariciraph in the ea pa. Four times, speaking of
an itstromimical pI..IIOIIIVW in, the writer of the article
used the wiinl nntation ; four times did the demon
change ' tint it ion ' lot,, ' natation.' His malice was not
yet ratisned. One phrase el tie,! thus: ''lingo
changes ought to have the more intensity, serail-ding
as the solid crust shall be supposed thinner.' Do you
what t idle imagined? Of the solid
• • • liSnin a celestial crust,' and if 6 smiposed.
~!pported.' Since these awful transforma-
tE• s• He laaual nothing of our scientific contri-
I • • • . • rn, t nut yet drowned himself, and
•' • n ,]issuade hi,, from the fatal de-
tc. n •• • • rmy part I should perfectly

A AIFAI 7‘.1 I Sit K E.—A woman nattie.l Santh
I 47, lately ilnnloyed in picking for Mr.
Mel ••elly. I.f I 'rundale, went to her employer a
few .1•0 a agil a.1a,1 for some laudanum, alleging
that a ~• u:,n•e•l to in.. it aa a liniment, she ring •
Mr 1,11. e. Mr.
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•• ,•alnioine.l t,•• its dangerous
•%rho was in the habit nf takill.4.
• t, fully :Ippreeiate tik•
fat 11 is ...tin of ,Int• 1.1°14;610A as a sob.
stit toe 1.. r her In., p an.d she swalloNve.l it, as
One . I,ti,nl lo her 41 ~,Inter :Ifter,ar.l., int total ist i
(Ifl,'na, t.• what it r, U was. film, tliately in
innistake help was ..lit iii. 1
for tine tu,f..rtnlll3te oman, IntL xlintwithstaai,ti...!
ir"rt s.o.e her. she rapidly sank, ,Llsi
tine .11154. of a few. is inns.

TIE: LATE Tu. DDErs STEuENB.—The A /Uwe
Er sic, .locilfri, a tholicall paper, is its obituary
notice ;,f Mr. Stevens, nays:—
Air. stevehs te, a striking illustration of his own them y
of personal I i;ht and in mutual indeptiolence. Ile that not
often attend public worship. Having separated a handsome
mulatto woman troni her husband, he deemed it his duty to
provide for her; and their relations were such as to almost
exclude him from other female society—a fact which never
seemed to give him the slightest concern. He was an in-
veterate ga me.der cia somll scale, and almost invariably. aft
a I toy's his ii ac lonise. would drop in at a favourite
casino, and win or lose lily dollars, that being the average
tt it if his betting.

SCENE IN A NI.AV TOPIC THEATRE. --During
no performance if Paul Play at the nromlway
Theatre, New- York, OR August 25, six sheriffs' ifficciß
(.111110 n the stage after the see id not to arrest
Mr. Harkin. fife of the actors, against win.th
warrant of arrest hail been granted in the morning bo
Judge Barnard, at the suit of Mr. Lloyd, the lessee

of the theatre. Mr. Harkins escaped out of the
theatre through the orchestra. It does; not appear
that any violent resistance was offered to the officers
of the law ; but before the curtain rose for the third
act, several shots were hvard. Two persons fell—
Stephen Wilson, an old nightnian, and a boy named
Chamberlain. The boy was reported to be in a dying
state, and Wilson was dangerously wounded. The
play went on as if nothing had occurred, Mr. Little
performing the part that Harkins was to have
played.
A Br' HANavu.—An inquest bat been held at
Longton. Staffordshire, concerning the death of a boy
named Thomas W. an orphan, aged fourteen years,
mem ctaldy connected. The deceased was a sharp,
intelligent lad, and had for some time been engaged at
the office of Mr. Rohinson, solicitor, as writing clerk.
On Saturday morning he was missed from the office
where he was employed, and in the afternoon was
found dearl, hao,,, Iny a rope to a beast in an I alt.
house in the rear of Mr. Robinson's premises. Nothing
to satisfactorily accoi.nt for this extraordinary occur-
enrollee was laid I srf,e the coroner ; but it was stated
the youth had been probably experimenting, be having
been reading trashy books on the subject of
hanging, and ;divots of bh Ming-paper }wing found
'red
eed atty! his ..k. 'lii.'jury rettinted an open
verdict of "Found hanged."
FYARFUL DEATH OF AN ENGINEMAN.—A most
fearful and fatal ac..ident befel Joseph Clarke, an
engimman in the employ of Minsem. Pow, at tin.
factory, North Shields, on Saturday. Clark h., •
the eng,ine Oil, when Inv some accident he got oda,
in the machinery. His ciies attracted the attention I
the other workmen, and the engine now stopped ; hut
he was so fast jammed in amongst the machinery that
it was fully balf an hour before he could be got out.
The unfortunate Mall was dreadfully crushed over
the chest, and only lived a short time after he was
rescued.

A NOT UNCOMMON C..,MPlAlNT.—Antongst the
applicants who came before the Mile-end Board ,of
Guardians was a young man who had already made
application and declined to do any work on the score
of illness. lie came, fortified with the doctor's w-rtifi-
rate, tun thought that be was now "in' for something
good, The certificate, however, on being read, rat
thus :—"I do hereby declare that I have seen the
pauper ---, age twenty-three, casual, who is suffering
fr.. 111 laziness, which will produce ilermalient
The pauper is well aide to work. hated this 27th of
Antona, 1/468. It, It, Lyell, medical officer." Much
to his discomfiture, le ntalade iuioyinaure received an
order for the stoneyard.
TERRIBLIC DEATH OF THREZ CIIILDREN.—At a
cottage near Llangefin, Anglesey, a most melaneholy
accident has occurred, three children, aged respectively
eight, five, and three, having been sullocate.l. Thu
father and mother, who were going to chattel, about
seven p.m. one day last week, first put their three
children to bed in the saine room To make them
secure the mother b 'eked the door. On their return they
found smoke issuing front the walls. 'rho father burst
a window which had no opening, and was horrified to
fiwl that the three children had been suffocated. In
all probability the children had lit some matches, and
ignited seine wheat stalk that was in the room.
THE WRITINGS OF NAPOI.t.ON 111. PROHIBITED
IN FRANCE.- M. Henri Rochefort has adopted a sin-
gular expedient for casting ridicule upon the Fretieli
wernment, llc pre] oared a munioer lof the La n ter ne,
compiseil exclusively from the first line to the last of
extracts front the political works of Napoleon llt.
'llls-se extracts, however, appeared so objectionable
that of the many printers to whom the collection was
oubmitted, not Ime dared to print it. M. Henri
Rochefort is thus enalded to say that the works even
of Napoleon 111, comet be published in France.
An OUTCAST.—BatIOVanoWieII, the lather of four
of the assassins of Prince Michael, being expelled from
all the COllllllllllt aof ServiN went into Hungary. In
this last-named country twenty-six tovrias refused hint
shelter, and ill FOllle bwalith, lie WWI linable to lure
cure food, although offering to limy for it. NOW,
himself an object f horror to every one in his own
country and in Hungary, he has requested passports
for Roumania.

THE COST OF WAR.—In a Peace Society fly-
sheet it is said, since the peace of Isls, Great Britain
has spent on her military and naval establisluvents,
and the interest of the national debt (for Twist wars),
the enormous sum of 2.597 millions of pounds sterling.
In the present year. 18138, the cost of the army and
navy is more than 281 nullious; the interest of the
national debt is more than 261 millions ; and the
outlay for fortifications t 530,000) ; making a total ex-
potoliture, for one year only, of 551 millions. This is
at the rate of £152573 per day, or 0.356 per hour, or
exactly 100 guineas per minute, day and night,
throughout the year, on account 14 war expenditure.
The remaining 15 milli ins of the nation's animal ex-
penditure (about 70 millions) suffices for the civil
government and all other expenses, so that 91,1. out of
every Is., or his, out 14 every anis of taxation is ap-
propriated to war expenditure. Mark this electors.
l'he remaining 21d. in the Is. suffices for all the liberal
expenses of civil government.
Mn. Disiuma's BArrismat. REoismn.-- -La,t
week a correspondent of "A Churchman's Family
Newspaper" expressed 3 doubt whether the Premier
had veer leen baptised. The following authentic
document sets such pious doubts at rest, and which
We publish for the satisfaction of all whom it
concerns: --

Parish of St. Anarew, lthorn, in the thy of London, awl
In the County of 2lalUenex —Extract arm the I:register
Hoist so.—Raptised, July :11, I•1;,lien
jamin, sail to In. about twdye years old, son •I Isaae and
Maria Disraeli, ter...n.onY lorr
1.100,1 Iv S. Tlii,).l.lchy. No. 1;1:3 —The above is a trite
extra..t front the registsr-bool. of baptising kept in the paliAll
registry. Witness lily hand nibs sth (lay of September, In
the year IS.'S, A. J. Lecturer.

NTY W.P,,K I N SToLg.—An example of
the reel:lets way in which objeti ions are nia.le to the
retenti• ai of the I. snots If occupiers upon the parlia-
mentary lists ..f ••'.• • in sone•constitmincies it a tf.irded
at Blackburn, • • 3.1.2 objections have been taken
by the Liberal its. and 2.897 objrctions by the
Conservative -. making together the enormous
tomb • l• •.f 6.019 • '• upon a list of 8,880 voters.
• ' i• hardly Ics.: voluminous.
Alt, • " • - • _ -c is to prefirred. of which
~•f the Liberals, 1.3.2.5 to the
Torn,. i g• nentr.d claims.
United, the lictl,f ions and claims just issued
cover more lives tie, original list of voters pre-
pared by the overseers. The cost to the borough of
this mass of printing, very much of which is quite
unnecessary, will I, very considerable.

AN EFFECT OF THE ABERGELti ACCIDENT.—
The Bagion Mott/tow publishes all order issueil by the
Minister •if Public Works prohibiting the carriage
by trains stopping at intermediate stations of packages
containing inflammable matters ; all such goods must
henceforth be conveyed direct from point to vint.
The object of this on ler is to prevent as much as pi issible
danger to the passeegers, and has been most pro-
bably suggested by the late dreadful accident in
England.
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A RANKING LEMMA.—Mr. Kirkland,
cheese dealer at Was Any, presented a cheque for £126
at the Clydesdale Ilalik, and the cheque was cashed
by one of the tellers, Mr. MM illan, In the co arse of
the aftel noon, while the tiller was balancing his rash.
he discovered that be was deficient £1,134, and on
examining his cheques he caine to the helief that he hail
Pail to the person silo, hail presented the cheque for
£126, ii t that sum, but £3,260 —the cipher in the
shilling column being iii close proximity to the figure
6, and therel iy leading to the committal of the mistake.
Mr. M'Millan immediately proceeded to the residence
of Mr. Kirkland, and told him that lie was short of
£1,13-1 ; that he must have made a mistake and tail
him £1,260 instead if £126. Mr. hirkland denied
that he had received a farthing more than he was
entitled to, and stated that the money he got con-
sisted of a £lOO note, a £2O note, and six El notes.
On the lsidy of the cheque the words " one hundred
and twenty-six " are plainly written. The notes of
which the teller is deficient are principally eleven
flutes fir 4:100 each.

SEEING THE HEART AND LUNGS OF A LIVING
man named Jack Stead, who had been shot
by an Indian, was brought recently to the hospital in
San Fr:incise., Inein :considered almost incurable, and
it was there en u:indent hest to cot the man open and
take it In ink inside of him. Ile was placed under the
habituate of ehlinrofi rub and an incision of Nix Or seven
incites in length made through his left side, through the
cavity is mt;diting the heart and lungs. Looking
through the incision, when it was held open, the heart
could be plainly seen. The lungs could also be dis-
tinctly seen, and the left nine was found to be collapsed,
flat and dead Ate was only breathing by the aid of the
right hung. Otie of his ribs was found to be shattered,
abil a section smile three inches in length was cut out
of it, leaving tie ends smooth. Several pieces of
splintered Isom were taken out inf his chest, :mil water
or some other ff ink! was then inoured into the cavity of
his chest, agitated therein, and afterwards turned out
when the incision was sewed up. The man was kept
about half an hour under the influence of chloroform.
It was lent ,uopo-eil he could recover.
A CALL To Nonix PATRIOT. !--An ad-
dress to "all Irish nationalists" has been issued
by the Fenian Congress which recently met at
New V, k. "We call upon you," say the delegates,
"aa Irishmen and friends of Irish freedom, in the
of our representatives, and of those noble patriots
held in bondage through disunion, in the name of our
oppressed country mid of those glorious martyrs of
Manchester, tin unite in a just and holy cause against
a common enemv. 'I he Irish people in America ask
In r union—the oppressed peetnle of Ireland demand it,
and a voice from the prisin, the blicd.stained scaffold,
and the tomb cries for it."

RATHER LI KEWARM. —The pulpit crusade re-
eatumended by the hidlop of Liauhat agahist the
movement fir the iliwstablislanent of the Irish I 'hurch
luo4 upon the whole toot uith an apathetic response;
null the Lev. John W. Burgon, of Oriel College, Ox-
ford, comes forward with all earnest, almost angry
supplemental amwal ou the subject. "I address my-
self," says Mr. Bairgon, "to as many Aft (1) are of
maid al that the, realms are threatened with the eon,
mission nf 3 great national sin, and (2) are resolved to
clear tbeinselv, sw. II as to protect those over whim
tLehllv . ~.t 111th set them, front all complicity ill
t 4 lI tie c. .1; sure that it must infallibly pniviske
the awl, of Heaven, and bring down upon the natii.n
its man tremendous punishment." In this style he
proceeds with his chos,itication until he reaches No. 7,
which include, thee who hold with himself that "the
altar and the throne are indissolubly linked, and must
inevitahly stand or fall together." Mr. Burgon then
suggests that 'from every pulpit in the land a note
of warning should be promptly and distinctly sounded;
a warning note of present danger and of impending
calamity."

A MtsTA Kif.—The Northeners carry their re-
volverA at their backs in the centre of the waistband.
A very nervous Engiblanan received this piece of
advice from an American. "Waal, stranger, if you
get into an argument witli any crittur, an' you see his
hand stealing gently round the hip.eorner behind Ids
back, be certain sure he means mischief ; only don't
you wait to s. e ; y,ol at with your six.shoottr, for its
a trifling (plestioll AN to who gets first shot. Now,
don't you stand on no ceremony with that air
auglunenUdive cuss, but ft bun with a pea-bullet

there and then, as if he war a de-vourin reptile." The
Englishman thanked his friend, and was always
dodging about with his revolver, first in one pocket,
then in another, and keeping his eye intently upon any
stranger with whom he happened to converse. One
day he !net a cadaverous-looking Northemer who (but
he didn't know this) was suffering severely from a
lumbago. They conversed about the weather, and be-.
came rather warm on the subject of rain. Suddenly
the Innilia,,o man felt a twinge in the small of his back,
and with a view to explaining the effect of a change of
weather upon him he commenced slowly slipping his
hand round behind him to the part affected. "Wan!,
stranger," says he, " wincing with pain, and his arm
Jadually disappearing, " I guess I've got a— —' The
Emilishunin didn't wait for the conelnsi• 41, but whipped
lint his Colt and shot him dead.—" Table Talk," is
Once a Week.

BRAIN WORK.—This excessive tension at which
the mental faculties are kept for ten or eleven months
of the year (says the Orlithllloll.o ifflgnZill() in the
vortex of city life, by the never-eniling ciimpetition and
strogide for pre-eminence in social and professional
status, to which all who live by their wits or their
talents are now subjected, produces a wear and tear of
1.14' and of mind, the ultimate result and acme of
which is premature old age. Its maths are easily
discerned by the attentive observer. Yon may read
in in the mire worn countenance, in the hair pre-
' •• ,irely grey, in the lank and stooping figure, in the
• oid and feeble gait ; and the physician also de-
it in he habitual dyspepsia, in the disordered
••lotion. and in the degenerated anti worn out
C. The failing memory, the inability ti fie the
• • it ion long upon any subject, and the iritscil he or
• -; oiling temper, mark the equal decadence of the
mental pari p.m with that of the physicadpowers.

MR. BRIGUT ON THE RATEPAYING CLAUSE
A correspondent (says the Birnangham Post) who
wrote to Mr. Bright with reference to the personal
payment of rates, sends us the following extract from
the hon. gentleman's reply : . .

The retention of the payment of rates as a test was the
net of the Tory government we were all 01,110Sed tin it It
was not in Mr. Gladstone's bill t 1864, and he was most
strongly opposed to it last year, ar,d denounced it on many
ocea,ions.

STATISTICS CF CO-OPERATIVE Soci kales.—Solllo
curio's and interesting information is supplied by the
returns made as reptired by law to the Regbtrar of
Friendly Societies, in reference to the magnitude and
progress if the various co-operative associations
throughout the kingiDm. From these returns
appear.; that re-operative stores flourish most in ban-
cashier and Yorkshire. The goods wei e sold at such
establishments in those two counties in 11417 to an
ammmt exceeding £4,250,000. In Durham the sales
of the year were to the amount if £904.492; in
Northumberland. 2207,765 ; Cumberland. £91,14,5 ;
Cheshire, £173943; Staffordshire, £42,177 ; Derby-
shire, 1:401,710 ; Monmouthsh ire, £9 4918 ; Glamor-
ganshire, £24,733; Dloueestershire, 271.599 ;
£28.055 ; Nottinghamshire, £15.795 :
tershire, £20,251 : Nis thamptonshire, £llO.Bll
Middlesex, £140,647; Surrey, £60,109 ; Kent, below
220,000.—1 n Warwiekshire only £0,200 toil not
£l,OOO in Devon, Dorset, or Salop,
EXPENSIVF. TURNITURE.—Seats in the New
House.—Punch.
Ci.OMWELCS LOVE OF Musio.—The Protector
himself proved most strongly his own musical ten-
deneies. He engaged John Ilingston, a musician of
good esteem, to teach his daughters, and assigned hit
it pension of £lOO a year, which, at the different value
of money, was then worth three times its present
alit amt. Ile frequented musical parties at Hingston's
}some, at one or more if whieh Sir Roger l'Estrange
assisted upon the bass viol, who, in contssinence of his
participation in these performances, was nicknamed
"Ohl N.ars Fiddler" lir his Royalist friends. Sir
Roger, lie it observed, who subsequently established,
if nit originated, publie journalism in England, was
greatly prejmliced after the Restoration by this cogno-
men awl tle• ItS. wisdom that induced it. To return
to I 'riimwell : he was, on one °cc:whin, so much ;leased
with the singing of a certain James Quin, that, for
the sake of this, he restored hint to an Oxford
scholar,hip of which the commissioners bad depriled
him till ace amt of his adherence to the Royal cause.
Curs till Magazine.

Tin IRISH (tUECH.—Mr. Gladstone has caused
the following letter to lie sent to a pfrson who had
asked him what be proposed to do with the revenues
of the Irish Church :
Mr. lilailstone ilesires to acknowledge the favour of your
letter of the 2Mil, and in reply to the question therein eon-
tenet to state that he has many flows publicly stated that
In his opinion the iliiposithic property of the Irislt church
stroll tot, when it is disestablisheil, be employed in the en-
dowment id any other Chureh. Mr Gladstone fears that
those few who are unaware of this are perhaps not very
willing to lie informed.

A ll,nsr: Veterinary

VELCCIPMES VERSUS R A ILWAYS.- Several .en-
thrum n (says the &will Lonthot Newel have recently
determined on meeting the present railway difficulty
by trying the experiment if journeying fr ui the out-
lying listrietto the outskirts tl town by the ttid of
velocipedes, after the fashion recently adopted in the
neighlsowhood cf I'aris. One expert traveler I
1.1, wed the possibilitv of outstripping the steam horse
by gliding along at the rate f 15 miles per hour.

FATAL GUN ACCIDFNT,—An inquest has hem
held at the "Durham (lx,- Newcastle, upon the body of
Richard Lockey, aged 44 years, a journeyman tailor.
On Friday week the deceased went out to shoot
sparrows. When passing Lambert's Leap, on his way
back, he stumbled over something, and his gun (a
walkingstiek gun) was discharged. His left lez was
burnt, and the ,hot entered tile It sin., procerdia4 as
far as the Sill mid,. Ile walked about two yards from
the scene of the accident ano,), fell exhausted. He was
there found by a 11r. Hardy, and removed in his own
lame. Deceased was afterwanis removed to the New-
castle Infirmary, at which plave he died )A1 Saturday
morning of lockjaw. he jury returned a verdict to
the effect that he died from Isck jaw, the result of the
injuries he reeeivol.
To THE HoILSE GIITAITI9.—What Forts are the
best for soldiers ? Ordinary ( en-forts. Peach.
CArTritr: OF A LOCUST. As Mr. Eliiott,
gardener, Queensbury, near Halifax, was pursuing his
occupation in the course of last week, he heard some-
thing flying near him, which he imagined to boa bird,
but which proved to be a fine locust, and which lie
captured. Its body was fully two inches long, and its
wings, when closed, extended half an inch beyond that
measurement. Three or four years ago several locusts
were caught in this neighbouilmod, but none of them
were half so large as the one just secured.

A HEROINE !—A sorrowful ease of death by
drowning occurred at Keithhall, near Aberdeen, last
week. A little girl, named Mary Ritchie, only 20
months oil, was playing near her grandfather's house,
at Woodland, with some other children, when she
accidentally stmnbled into a draw-well, which had,
unfortnnate!y, lean left uneovered. The well was
nearly 15 feet in depth, and contained between three
and four feet of water. The children at once gave the
Mann when the accident happened, and the girl's
grandmother ran i 111 l nediately to the place, and
jumped into the well on seeing the poor little creature
floating in the water. Some time elapsed, however,
Mos:assistance multl be obtainml to get the courageous
wi man and the poor child Isuit of their dangerous
position ; and when they were brought up from the
well it was found thst the girl was dead. Dr. Paterson,
if Inverorie, who happened to be in the neighlsuir-
hood, applied the usual restoratives within 15 minutes
after the child was taken from the water, but they
proved unavailing..
WAGES AT 11..311i AND ABROAD.—The follow-
ing letter is from a man sent out to America by one of
the iron-trade unions, and gives but a sorry account of
the workisg men's condition in the Republic
_ _

Pittsburg, Feb. 2.7 th, Pain —Dear wife, find family, and
frimuls,—l write the,e few lines to you, hoping to Iluil you
all well, an it leaves the at present very well. We have Incest
greatly deceived lay coining to America, for they have been
on strike in this country for six weeks, alai when they are at
work there are two men for every situation. The working
mien of old England are gulled by emigration. Far los. per
ton in England is better than nine dollars here. Dear wife,
make this As public Ins you can, and let the men of old
England know we have heen ',gilled IT lug out here. Take
letter to Pradley [the secretary if the Union] and let him
make it piddle among the men. My kind liner to VAllr
affectionate husband, TttoW AS STANTON.

Ext i.DISA HT TI DE. —A singtilar tidal phetio-
men.n occurred on the 15th of August, if San Pedro,
Southern California. A series of waves commenced
flowing upon the oast, causing the tide to rise 43 or 1:4
feet above the high-water mark, which was followed
by the falling of the tide an opml distance blow the
usual low-water mark. The rise and fall occurred
regularly every half hour for several hours, causing
coosiderable alarm among the inhabitants along the
coast in that vicinity. The pheromenon is attributed
to time submarine disturbance.

GAMBLERS AT BADEN-BADEY. —At the present
moment there are three very laid female gamblers at
Haden. One is the Russian Princess who plays
several hours every dsy at maw et nob', and sometimes
makes what in our money would be many hundreds,
and at others goes empty away. She wins calmly
enough, lint when link is against her looks anxious.
The sect imid is the wife •if an Italian ex-minister, who
is well-known both as an authoress and politician. She
patronises roulette, and at every turn of the wheel her
Di. hey passes MI the Iseird. She IS A paid gambler--
smirking when she wins, aml smirking when she loses.
She dresses as splendidly as any id the daunts sf Paris.
The other night she excited a flutter among the ladies
assembled in the so/iiiis of the " Conversation " by ap-
pearing in a robe flaming red with an exaggerated
train which draggtal its slow length along the floor.
But the greatest if the feminine playera is the
Lentils Leblanc. When she is at the riiiifat et noir
table a larger crowd than usual is collected, to witness
her operst tie, The stake she generally risks is 1000
francs (h 2411 which is the maximum allowed. Her
chance is eliaundrig a few days back she won £4,000
in rine eitting ; genie it.ys later she lost about 4:2,000,
an :I was then reduced to the, for her, indignity of
playing for paltry sums---E2O or thereabouts.

A PERILOUS LY.AP —An extraordinary ex-
pedient to escape from the heals of the police was re-
torted to by a servant girl at Leicester on Saturday.
It appears that the girl, whose name is Ann Crisp,
entered the service of Mrs. Smythe, of Leicester,
aloud- two months ago, and time that time Mrs,
Smythe has missed various articles of wearing apparel
and other property St me time since Mrs. Smythe
accused the girl of stealing the articles, and she con-
fessed to having stolen -them, but, on promising to
behave better in future, she was alb 'wed to remain in
her situation. On Friday lag, however. Mrs. Smythe
rnissed a ladv's gold chain and a valuable parasoL
Suspecting that the girl had stolen them she coin.
municated with the police, and on Saturday morning
detective Sergeant Langdale went to the house to in-
stitute inquiries. Me rang the bell, and the girl
opened the door. She pia mined to tell her mistress
who wanted her, and went upstairs. Very shortly
I after, as the officer and Mrs. Smythe sat talking in the
front room, they heard something fall on the pavement
ontsble, and on looking out saw the girl Crisp lying
in the causeway. The foolish girl on seeing the officer
come into the house bad gone up to her liedroom, in
the third story, and had jumped from the window into
street, leaping over a small grass plot and some iron
railings, which she only just missed. Langdale at

once went to her assistance, and a cab having been
procured, she was removed insensible to the infirmary,
where she now lies dangerously ill.
.

MPS. MOONLY WANTED.—The other night, on
the occasion of Mr. Spurgeon preaching on behalf of
the funds of the Albany-road Chapel, in London, a
yming woman, apparently a servant, was observed
ghrliirg along one of the aisles of the chapel, and peer-
ing at the occupants of the various pews as she passed
on. The congregation were startled at this interruption.
some conjecturing that the woman must be derange l.
Heedless of the consternaC the was creating, the
young IVOIII3II still persevered in trying to satisly her-
self as to the object of Ler Visit. The bewilderment
became more intense, and tinting that all eves were
directe I to the woman, Mr. Spurgeon stopped Ins
tile-
curse, and lectured his hearers on the impropriety of
allow-Me their attention to be drawn to the woman in-
stead .d to him, and good naturedly inquind the ob-
ject if the intrusion. Nothing daunted. the woman
sail she 'wanted Mrs. Mooney." M... Spurgeon then
announced from the pulpit that such a perSaill was
wanted- an announcement which appeared to gratify
the fair intruder.

A GEoboolsT " Sof.o."—A n eminent geologist
pail a visit to the Stretton Hills a short time since for
the purpose of procuring specimens. Slowly wending
his way from Stretton, he rapidly accumulated in his
hag specimens of stones which so much delight the
geological heart. On arriving at Bishop's Ca.stle he
had got together a load almost sufficient to break the
back of a d ;nkey. The day being exceedingly hot, he
determined to leave them in charge of some trusty
person to take them next morning to the station. This
he accordingly did, anti the sweet native youth to
whom he entrusted his valuable specimens promised
to take care of them. Next morning, accordingly,
laden with the bag, he set out for the station. The
weather was fearfully hot, and the bag correspondingly
heavy. After resting several times, it occurred to the
lad to see what was in the bag to cause it to be so
heavy. Finding, it to be nothing lint stones, he
thought the geobigist wastnerelvplaying atria( with him.
Why should he carry stones four miles to the station
when there heaps of stones within four yards of it?
He would be even with the gentleman. He would
empty nut the stones where he stood, and carry the
empty bag nearlyto the railway station, and then refill
it with stones. This luminous idea he instantly car-
ried out. The delight of the geologist on inspecting
his treasure when he arrived at home may be better
imagined than described.
A PORTRAIT Or NAPOLEON. —The following
very amusing portrait of the Emperor Napoleon was
drawn and signed by Emile de Uirardin in a recent
number of Ltherte

The Emperor possesses to a high degree two great quail-
ties—,^oolllltvs and kindness. 11 1111 tie cot I wen endowed
with these, we, the day after the 2int of December, 1851,
.111.1 have had despotism and a despot, in.tead of which
S.• hive I only had tyranny without a demplt. . NI ,booly
Hen :mini:lied with better intentions than his Majesty.
. Pert' upright tendeecies • a, erg feels or deeply
, luatjolus of the penide, mid this explains the
has ever existed between the latter and
- • !• ~nj which has overcome many trials under
11.1 have succumbed any miter prince. Had the
1.. • - •,.reign lived in tle•se times when nicknames were
1.1 narchs he would have been called NaPOl(..OO IC
111 7! U, onj,e." How, then, can we explain, adds M de
that the Emperor deserves nothing but wakes,
1,o• Empire is only worthy of our critics? The reason
is that lie, tif his owe accord, wishes to conceive everything
and 10 execute everything.

NI/ING EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS BY RAILWAY.
- At the Manchester police-court, Frederick Hill,
match dealer, has been charged by the London and
North Western Railway Cianpany with Laving, on
the 15th 4,1 August, delitered to the company a
quantity of hydro-carbon gas matches, without mark-
ing their nature on the outside of the packages, or
giving wait, thereof to the servants of the company.
The information w.is preferied under the Railway
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. The Act sets forth
that if any person shall send by a railway any aqua-
fortis, oil if vitriol, gunpowder. lucifer matches, or
any other g.oda which, in the juili,inent of the com-
pany, NV,re of a dangerous nature, without distinctly
marking their nature on the outside, or giving notice
in writing b the Servants if the companv, he renders
himself liable to a penalty if £2O, which cannot be
mitigated. The golds in imesti, ii were in transit from
Manchester ti Stockport, when if the boxes Wis
broken, so that the caitents were exposed. The de-
fendant, who did not deny the charge, wa.s convicted
in the full penalty of 1:20.
. . .

AkRIAI:NAVI'OATION.—A Russinian journaliht
says lie eon put U 8 in the way of learning to fly. M.
.1. Livtvitak, allussinjan editor i 111, small repute among
his countrymen, in a letter to the Li ne6cry Morn, main-
tains I hat he has solved the lir.i dem of navigating the
air. The motive force employed lv liii is steam ; the
rate of a eel ittain ible with his 1113,1tin,ry he estimates
at eighty mile.; an burr! Patents havitig been granted
him in Eng!and, Austria, and Hungary, he pronhws
soon to disclose his invention. whielt, if We are to
believe hint, has already passed throuzll the ordeal ef
trial.

NOTHING VENTURE, NoTMING lIAVE!"—One
well acquainted with the facts if the ease ( says the
(eart Journal,) gives a somewhat curious amount of
the way in which "a man from the ranks" fought his
way into Parliament at the last electio o. Ile began
life as a poor man, bet rapidly rose in the world. Not
many years ago, ..hen he took up his abode in the
town where he now livei, he naively inquired of a
fa shield what politico: he should take up what were
the fashion, in short. He was 5 eery ambitious man,
and was frequently made a butt oof by the townsmen.
Ozi one occasion he was rev ommenoled by aoluiz to o stanol
for the county. It WILY considered a capital joke that
he took the matter aa m.rif ox, and the toown was jun ii
titter. When the el, ctioon came on he issued his
address, and, to the astonishment oof every one, one of
the old memilers withdrew, and he was returned with-
out oppmition.
Tfth FIRST ENGLISH PRIMA DONNA. —ln
lti. at Putland House, in Aldersgate-street (London),
Sir Williom llavenant gave the first performance of an
linglisk opera. This was five years prior to the patent
of the Academie ROOO al de Musique, which licensed the
first performance of French. operas, anol twenty-two
years before the production of Thiers Adam and Era,
la kit was the first opera, publicly performeol in
Germany. The work is called The Sic9e of lawles,
and the book of -the words is extant, but not an, the
music, Avhich was the composition of several masters.
It is equaly remarkable. sitoceomite an. intl.xtant, that
the chreactoT of bathe in this opera was a staineol by
Mrs. Henry Cohnan, who was the first f male that
ever performed in public in this country. We owe,
then, to. Puritan times the perpetuation of our ololest
national melodies, and the origination if our glee, our
opera, and our pleasurable privilege of hearing female
smgers.—Curoli ill Magazine.

AMERICAN " VARIETIEs." —The following are
selected from an American column of "Varieties
Dead dog nuisance is not yet abated.
The gavel. Conic, a white parasol.
Rothschild wants to buy Joao:dem.
Prince All, el is going to write a book. •
The Archbishop of Paris has consumption.
Wilkie Conlin. thinks of going to Australia.
Garibaldi reflisei 11, ore American visitors.
Tights are the lateg things in ladiok' bathing dresses.
Itisratli wears an alpaca coat and yellow pantaloons
The Lorei grille Journal 11.1.411 come white blackberries.
Desiccated oysters dried in the sun are sold in San Fran-

Rosa Ronbeur still longs to visit America, and paint buf-
faloc,

tol)pers "Last of the Mohicans" has been made into an
°P.P.F3 . •. . • .

The t;overinn,,id of China lias prohibited the wearing of
C114:11.416.
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_...„ ...
I;radford. the American artist, has gone to Newfoundland
after let he, v.,.

limey Williams has got the beet library of any actor in
the country.
Beecher says he would rather o without pickles than
without pictures.