The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-26 00:00:00

imprisonment was twenty-three days. Several of the
condemned papers were altogether suppressed. The
Electeur abstains from all comment in publishin,r, the
list, but mentions that five fresh prosecutions have yet
to take place.
ELECTION PETITIONS.—Ort Monday there were
were only " five " election petitions for counties on the
files of the Common Pleas, and not more than ten are
expected. The present number of petitions is sixty-
four. When the fist is complete, the three appointed
judges—Mr. Justice Blackburn, Mr. Justice Willes,
and Mr. Baron Martin—will '' go circuit" to try the
petitions and the proceedings under the new Act will
be assimilated to common law. On Monday, Mr.
Justice Wiles decided the cases before him on Satur-
day. and reported. In several he ordered "particulars"
to be delivered of the several charges. In the Hull
ease he held that the petitioners could not be sureties,
and ordered the 4000 deposit to be made in five days.
In caste where there were two members petitioned
against, one deposit of £l,OOO to be sufficient. In the
Bodmin case the petition was sustained, As the money
was paid into court. His lordship heard a number of
other applications under the Parliamentary Election
Act.
SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING.—Dr. Caffe, in
the Journal des Connaissaitees MOderriles, describes a
case of poisoning by nitro-benzine, which occurred a
short time ago at Stuttgard. A vigorous young man
of twenty-four, who was engaged in emptying a cask
of artificial oil of bitter almonds by means of a syphon,
thereby unconsciously introduced some nitro-benzine
into his system. He did not discover it at once, but
continued to work for two hours longer, when he was
seized with headache, vertigo, and stuttering; his face
assumed a bluish tint, and he fell down in a fit.
Vomits were administered without success, and he
died on the following day. IT ism dissection the whole
body emitted a strong smell of bitter almonds ;
ecchymosis was remarked on the stomach and other
organs; the liver was extremely yellow, and the milt
large, friable, and red. The most remarkable circum-
stance in this case is, that the poison remained so
long inactive.

A FAMILY FEUD AND RECONTLIATION.—The
Gazette de Cagliari gives a curious account of the ex-
tinction of a.fetid in the island of Sardinia, the Made
of which strongly resemble those of the reconciliation
iif the two Corsican families described in Alexander
Dumas' romance of "Lea Freres Corses." In the pre-
sent instance the file took place in the village of Agma,
where two hostile bodies, who, for more than two
yews, had been persecuting and murdering each other,
had agreed to forget their animosities and join hands
in ftiendship. The two hostile families entered the
church simultaneously, amidst the ringing of bells and
acclamations of the people, anti ranged themselves on
opposite sides, namely, the Chilgoui, the Vasa, the
Malu, the Maleja, and the Luzzu, more than sixty in
number, along one wall of the building; and the
Muzzedu and the Caste fifty-four in number, on the
other. The curse M. Seche then pronounced a die-
coulee on mutual forgiveness, which produced a deep
sensation, and the hostile parties, moved even to tears,
threw themselves into each other's arms, promising a
permanent reconciliation After leaving the church
the two families separated to take a frugal repast, and
then met again at the house of the cure, who received
them in the presence of the authorities and confirmed
the friendly compact with a suitable exhortation.
GONE TO HEAVSN.—The following incident oc-
curred in Charleston, South Carolina :—A little girl
had lost her brother, and on going to school the next
day, a little playmate noticed her grief, and asked her
the cause. This was soon told, with the addition that
little Willie had gone to heaven, and she could not see
him. Her little friend asked her if she was certain he
was gone to heaven, and was assured that there could
be no doubt of that, for mamma said so. "Then."
was the instant rejoinder, "I know where heaven is,
for I saw where they put him, and I know the way."
The little mourner bad iseen the place too, and not
knowing the way she started with her guide as soon 88
the infant school was dismissed. It was late at night,
and the earth was wet with those angel tears—the
dewdrops, when the two friends were found crying at
the grave, because as the sister said, "they had come
to the door of heaven, and Willie would not let them
in, nor eve, answer."—L'cliew's Drawer in Harper's
New Monthly Magazine.
A FORT ON FIRE. —The New York Herald re-
ports a conflagration of a most unusual and disastrous
character, involving no less an event that the des-
truction of a United States fort just within the entrance
of the harbour, the fortification in question being none
other than the celebrated and renowned Fort Lafayette,
around which cluster ,0 many incidents of historic
note, pregnant with the memories of the numerous
disloyal men of prominence of our nation who were
confined within its strung walls during the late rebellion.
The conflagration found origin in the following man-
ner : It appears that about ten minutes before one
o'clock in the afternoon fire was discovered from the
side of an old and unused chimney on the land side of
the fort, whose one of the labourers of the engineers'
department, named Joseph Minew, contrary to the
orders of his superior, lighted a fire beneath a shed
covering the casemate on that side for the purpose of
warming his dinner. The fire had gained considerable
headway before it was discovered.
AN UNFORTUNATE ROMEO !—There is a pause
just now in the number of "dreadful murders' and
"shocking suicides" in Paris, writes a correspondent.
However, the following may act as a "warning voice."
A young student, aged eighteen, lived with his
widowed mother in an attic in the Boulevard
Malesherbes ; in a neighbouring attic lived a pretty
milliner, which cruel irony calls a "Bird of Paradise,"
Jr. in the elevation of their dwelling-places, Rued
seventeen. The two lovers connected their windows
by a thread, and so exchanged notes." One evening at
dusk, the poor student undertook the perilous task of
walking along the roof to visit Juliet. A few steps
taken, and Romeo was picked up in the street a life-
less mass of mangled flesh.
TIIE SEBASTOPOL BELL AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—
The magnificent bell captured at the siege of Sebas-
topol, and presented to her Majesty the Queen, on EPITOME OF NEWS
her arrival at Windsor, was placed upon the north 1
terrace of the Castle, where there is also one of the BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
largest guns taken in that memorably seige. It has —
been hung in the Round Tower, just over the steps Two garrotters were sentenced at the Leeds se:sizes
which give access to the apartments in the centre of to in:prise:anent with hard labour and twenty-five lashes.
the great tower, near the cannon which sweeps the one of them, upon hearing his sentence, said .nsing very foul
sole entrance to the ancient "donjon keep," in which language "Say 14 years, and if I come back 111 kill you. I
King John of France and King David of Scotland were hope you'll get the cat is hell.
prisoners in the reign of Edward III.; and where Victor Hugo has written the following letter to
M. Alfred Sines, who had asked if the great writer was
Charles I. was confined by the Parliament, when
W indsgir Castle was under the governorship of Colonel lillYsi.gotigiave, eft ou
to start a paper •—" A false report, my dear
Venn, in 1648. The weight of the bell is 17 cwt. 1 qr. operate with any French know', 1 lcdgel n yself never to I.
politica; Paper Until American, ei°l--,
211 b. The bell, which has a rich and sonorous tone, at least, English liberty prevails in France. The word
bears, in the Russian language, the inscription, " Emperor" excludes me, as the fact "Empire" exiles me.
"Sevastopol—Nicholas Sanctus," and a record of its A cordial shake-hand. VIcTOR 111.,19."
weight in lewd& A grampus 20 feet long by 10 feet girth has been
CAPTURE OF A " WILD MAN."—An extraor- captured at Gleen Strand, sear Wexford.
dinary character has been captured in a lonely shed at A communication from M. de Leesepa, in reference
Egerton, Kent, in the person of Frederick Nitasch, a to the passage of the French Government schooner, the
Belgian moldier, who for some Months has been wander- Lerrette, through the Suez Penal, from one sea to the other,
lag about the Weald of Kent, clothed in rags, and living statesthat six vessels belonging to the Egyptian fleet are also
on roots
, berries, and Pal Hie appearance when ay- itOUt nii:kotpe. tuhe4ntrfaupsfiateff2l47rde4r4 afits 4241118,,r117
prehended was grotesque in the extreme. The artic e The light flotilla, which the Viceroy is about to send to the Red
which did duty for a coat consisted of patches sea will complete the experiment, arid in six months ships of
of old rags quilted over and over again, in many from 2,05,0 to 3,000 tons will triumphantly traverse the
places to the thickness of an inch. His nether isthmus, either sailing or by steam.
clothing was of the same description, anti these An outrage of a character unusualon an English line
were his &ile attire. He was barefooted, and car. of railway was perpetrated on the London and North Wes-
red a quantity of stinking fewls' legs, 81,111 e putrid tern mine, at II late hour on Friday night As a train was
flesh, and pieces of fish in a pair of worn gimes, which Irving Edgbaston for Birmingham, a man suddenly leaped
Litpohttlti,o. Igo oaup:yeed., bzothte.aga%l;ltrtrgea Juttnetittyemof
he had under his arm. One good habit he retained,
for a piece of soap was found upon him when appre- porary blindness thus occasioned eeixed a box containing
hended. He was sentenced by the Ashford magistrates stout £7O, and made his escape. Amen who has been four-
to ten days' imprisonment, but was too ill to be re- teen years in the employment of the company, and who Is
moved. The Belgian Consul at Dover bait been cow- Prr mined to have known that the box contained the day's
municated with, and the poor fellow will be received rzeeipts at tine
in Ma possession.ne of the stations, mss custody; and a sum of
27 has been
by that gentleman and sent on to Ostend as soon as he
can be removed. A young plumber, named Buck, met his death in a,
TERRIFIC STORM.-011 Saturday morning the horrthle manner at Plymouth, the other day. lie was en.
gaged for the time at the Cattedown Vitriol Works, and by
town of Towyn, on the Welsh coast, was visited by a some misadventure he fell into the pan of boiling liquid.
tremendous storm of bail, accompanied by vivid flashes The poor fellow lingered for some time iu the greatest
of lightning and heavy peals of thunder—a very un- agony.
usual thing at this time of the year. It commenced The following remarkable advertisement appeared
about half-past eleven, and lasted ten minutes. About in The Times on Friday •—" Judas Isearist.—*:so win be
two miles from the town, on a farm called 13raichyrhiw, paid for Information Leading to Apprehension, hut no cure
seven sheep were killed by the electric fluid, and a no Pay. Communicate with —."
woman who was crossing the same field was blind for The Italian Court of Accounts has rejected a
a considerable time. The hailstones were as large as demand made by Rear-Admiral Count Persano, who was
condemned to the loss o f m s grade o,
marbles. Hail it not been calm at the time a quantity for faults committed at the ba n the 15th April 1a67
ttle of Lissa.
of glass must have been broken. It ie a curious incident that the first President of
CoLLIEEE EXPLOSION NEAR WlGAN.—Another the Board of Trade was Richard cromwen, the last is Mr.
colliery explosion took place in the neighbourhood of Bright. Mr. Wm. Molesworth used to say that Mr. Bright
Wigan, on Monday, at the Norley Colliery. About was the Cromwell of the 10th century.
nine o'clock a party of nien descended the downcast The recent proving of a will brings with it a mourn
shaft, conveying with thema emy, which it was in- Sul reminiscence. The personalty WAR Sworn under £32,1.000.
tended should work in the tunneL Mr. J. Peet, ono The will was that of Sir Nicholas (Thinner/. Sir Nicholas
of the managers of the colliery, left the cage at the Chinnery had bequeathed the whole of his property to his
five•feet mouthing ; and just as the other two men, who ?laughter and only child, who perished with hirn in the
occupied the cage, and pony reached the tunnel, an fre'llifilerracillwil UreTtliodt77l;:tioNaTrifi'nlesTedd itti:r‘clat titht 11 ter
explosion occurred, the effects of which were quickly property, the same should be divided among certain religious
visible on the pit bank by a cloud of soot ascending the societiei
upmust, and the customary indications in the down. Another inteniational exhibition is preparing, and
caste The ventilation was quickly restored, and Mr. this tine col..gne mitt, be the place selected. The year 1870
Thompson, the manager, and others descended the pit, has been fixed already, and the Prussian Goveniment is said
but learnedlittle of the effects of the accident. At a to have taken the necessary preliminary steps. The Crown
later time it was suppoeed that the gas waa fired at the Prince, it is supposed, win be the patronprotector.'
Capitalists and industrials are already busy securing funds
extremity of the workings, where a number of men and looking out for a proper site.
were cutting across a step. The number of deaths was
not ascertained, but it was thought six had perished. " 'lle Queen has now fifteen grandchildren alive
and the number is likely, as we hear, to be shortly increased
Five others were severely burned, sine fatally it e 0,0., eeereei.
was feared. Only two bodies were brought to the
Weetore the American pedestrian. who was to have
surface. walked 5,000 miles in PO have, has abandoned the task after
THE RETORT COURTEOUS.—An excellent say- accomplishing 300 miles of the journey.
ing of a noble Lord who bee been
rounr f
ecently returned to
Parliament has been going the ds o the club. The Ital'an paper,' state that the completion of the
Mont cenisi Tunnel is to be celebrated by a great Intern,
While addreesing a public meeting on the day of polling Lionel Exhibition at Turin. Government will ask the Far.
some eine in the crowd called out, "Does your mother liament to vote 3,000,000 francs towards the expenses.
know you are out ?" a piece of .
Tio which his Lordship replied, " Yes, she does ; an slang now going out d
A ong the passengers who arrived in Liverpool in
the msteareer lowa, from New York, on Saturday, were the
your mother will know lamin at four o'clock." This celebrated Siamese twins, it is said, en route for Paris, where
is as good as the remark made by another youthful they are to undergo the operation of being severed. They
military and successful candidate, who was taunted were accompanied by several of their relationa and friends.
with the remark that "He had not gone through the Mr. Gladstone, in his reply to the address of the
goose-stop.' " Yes ; " said he, " I have gone through women of Lancashire, says ,--." It has so often been my lot
it, and I wish my opponent would do the same, for to feel that any efforts I had endeavoured to make for the
then it would make him upright." public good met with afar more than just appreciation. that
CARTE OF A LUNATIC DINNER.—Odd fish, in- my 4 w'iridjeirnelly*Paear airilla'r'wtha'%nwowtdenlieUt'nkti
eluding pike and sword fish. Broth of a boy, mock. the present Instance. This need not, however, re-
tail, and P soup. H bone and cold shoulder. ('hops vent my returning my grateful thanks to ymirself and
and changes. Ducks and drakes, and March hares. to all who have signed the address, lior my adding the ease-
Boiled owls, gammon, and Shanklin Chine. Larks, rsfifnee that their kind all gennexons ldfau.a%=:it,..,-,,...a
..combs, and fan' game 'Magh ie. piebald, and mast- sf.'‘ni,:l adt4es.z4d
usiuLtaft n 4 i
h 'present Gov"mnment in connectiou
cap pudding. Hot codling, gooseberry and April fool, alike with political and social objects."
puffs and flummery. Sweets of office. Vegetable
ivory and evergreens. Brawn and muscle, Green- f The Examiner says that the first Ministerial fruits
wich mile and Peckham Rye bread. Sauce of the Nile. o4f,eho,uhseahnomleditufffirlaeg%s4h4o4flittint, zserT,enahiescia vu
Nti,szra-
Cakes and ale. Pippins and cheese. Dessert -Fruits single artless has been returned to Parliament, or a single
of the Election, meddlers, olive branches, apples from demegegue ; and, on the first opportunity, a Government
the Dead Sea, cherry ripe, oranges and lemons, (die- has been formed as easentially Conservative in its elements
plums, regular jam and game preserves. Win's from as any that have gone before it in recent years
the wood and spirite from the deep. The whele to The Drogheda inquest has cloned. The jury re-
conclude with 'l., sober-water, and weeds in the gar- turned a verdict of manslaughter again 4 one of the two
dew—Punch Alnianack. soldiers of the oth Regiment, which one they could not
A STALACTITE ('AVE. A stalactite cave has determine,,,
mpe ial ukfuse just ssued at St. Peteriburg,
been discovered in the rocks near the Clifton :Anthill
allßen
of the Bristol Port and Pier Railway. The cave has easn therßussian army who have no prospect of pro-
mctio ii
unlimitedto trhu.r,br)tigi rank
.of l
tofficeris
,mpapny , lefdthue,yadtelsiiereoilli, eoethtoafintial
this
been explored to the distance of some 20 or 30 yards,
under the superintendence of Mr. Wilkinson, the measure is to limit the number et Polish itlicers, the large
manager of the line, and many lwantiful stalactites proportion of Poles in the Russian army having of late caused
have been discleesid, some of them extending from the soine alarm among the military authoritien.
roof to the earth beneath, and which from their size The Times states on authority that there is no truth
have for the present prevented the further passage of in the rumours as to the unsatisfaamy state 01 the Malloy
the explorers. Some bones of animals and birds have of Lincoln's health.
also been found among the soil, ineludieg part if a Mr. J. S. Mill, writing from Avignon, to one of
skull which would seem tei be that of a hyena. The his frimids in town, assures hint that in the event of a
cave is apparently of considerable length and depth. vacaory in Westminster resulting from the petition against
THE LASH AT CH AT H AM.—DUriDg the last ';',lL sievidll. ';:'niltitwhashenho't‘t ZS) 'saiyssh,'slrionnracioffyeprehrsii7alipli:e.-ir
few days some of the most violent of the convicts Hen- ference that (exchanged a more agreeable, arid I hope not
tenced to penal servitude at the Chatham convict less usefui, mode of serving nip opinions. for the position
establishment have been guilty of riotous and of a Member of Parliament, and the return to my former
mutinous behaviour. After an Investigation, Midi- n ",,cliPati'm,s,f is so tttn lia.rre,Teatt,,,:ultiutt rginirdn.
tuted by the director of convict prifl,,llß, three !A the it '...,e
o:t'a such an Obligtion exists in the present case."
most prominent of the rioters, men IA most &spend,
character, were ordered to receive three dorm lathes Sir Vs atkin William Wynn, in thanking the electors
, rhament Plii.i ‘• it ii 8 pi.itille
each in addition to other piltll,lllllloll. The corp 'real LoroViiotrituf,:iti tV 4i,
mt. ishinent was at once carried 011 t within the Walls T
of the prison, and its; severity was proved by the cries cfniii.n; ufsary.fainyii; afsheaslf4,liari,irbefeefirn4.tiitei))mini‘syt
Igtdotidtif=s;:n4neaf
of the men, which were heard outside the walls sif the le ~,,,If to a peerage. Times and circumstances have 'in-
n ear' dem„by my father to an earldom,
prison by the other convicts, who were engaged at dergone great changes, but °nettling has seer changed the
their work. All the convicts concerned in acts of hesri felt gratitude of the house of Wynnstay to the electors
A newspeper at ene penny is about to be etarted
irrifieboitradlifnactliaoinin, owl. ihanyasinsgauLtsv on the eo•farfclheenirs,
smell. ' of Denbigh."
called St. Coagpio. It Is to be the organ of the hoot and shoe
tenors remitted. trade.
THE " REC•IIID " AND THE LATE NI R. DRUM-
StolvD. The Record, in a, notice of the approaching The number tif girhs ent7edwfor4ol.l-e
241
as 1 !T
Tubnr iod g ea
ni :11 a6Ol
celebratiim of the warn •ge of Lied Perry, eldest sou E.:,..Zr.i'lMlTiouns,ut'slid,_l,!wt
.is 2 en'terld' last year. The nigher pee•
of the Duke aud Duchess of Northumberland. to Lady muting themselves for examination in the London centre
Edell CampbelL eldest daughter of the Duke and lies increased front 62 to 136. The girls were examined at
Bum 'livid of Argyll, pays the following miconscione sixteen centres—Karibum•, Birmingham, BriAton, Bristol,
testimony to the erratig brilliancy of the late Mr. canibridge, cal ~,,, es, Derby; Huddersfield, feeds. bunion,
_ Marichester , Norwich,
tßeadinnesg,
.Slietheld,
centres W aketleld. avid
I oft, six of the towns ieing . The pro portio n
lieury Drummond, and Lord Percis supposed inheri
Lance of his eccentric humour. Our c• atm le ee my
, of senior gide to junior was two to three, while the {minor-
nays, " Lord Percy 18 maternally, the grandson of the tion of senior boys tat junior was less than three to sixteen,
late Henry Drummond, tnd it in announced that and thisdhparity seems to be permanent.
there will be a grind display of rockets at eight p.m. We have the authority of a magistrate that game,
on St. Martha's Hill." although so high as to 8181,8 a never seeet•snielling police.
THE Pattss IN FRANCE.—The Electcur, a French court unendurable, is still fit for human foist—lndeed, is to
journal, gives a list ~f the press prosecutions which lftii!sighefeelelll Ilaki:I"; tat'res tiltro‘l'Lt'asa liheeirifeeed, ialtwasant
have taken place in France since the enactment of the e listable could not prove that the i its had sold, or offered
new law of the 11th of last May, and the amount of any of the hares for sale, he was discharged. The six hares
the fins inflicted in each instance. The number of brought into melt 4iiillEeti 6UViI a stro,g • gamey " odour,
prosecutions has been 64. awl the fines amount in all that one of the 'unction present requested they might be re-
to 121,057 f. (334,878) La Lantern( stands out most moved at once. The magistrate said that although a hare
conspicuously in the list. On the 14th of August its Tagil
,I,R4ihit th wor
rtrzthrt otl to :LI: itte ilerelotnswitalreceulyt
editor was sentenced to fourteen months' imprisonment would not be found affected by it. "Never," continued he
n send a hare from the table because it may be high."
afinf
tit
efinn e
indoln,t4oofi.., 4.;
lan.it aznaienn
ton.thde
12:20StIolfo.ffinAeuguat.
Some
Si
mtly share wa. cut, and the gas hod evaporated, It would
of the fines were am lOW as 50f. The shortest term of be found that the flesh was good to eat

THE FOUNDERING OF THE SHIP BORDERER.—
The ship Borderer, from Penang, bound to England
with a full cargo, was wrecked off Struys Point on the
27th of October. and almost immediately after striking
foundered in deep water. The crew sounded the
pumps immediately after, and found that she was
filling fast ; the sails were then let run down and the
boats got out. The first one, the starboard lifeboat,
unfortunately capsized while being launched. The
port lifeboat was then got out without any damage,
into which the second officer and ten of the crew got,
and passed astern. The third boat, a large cutter, into
which the captain, first officer, and the remaining por-
tion of the crew went, was next got out, but was
slightly stove. By this time the fore end of the ship
was under water, and while the boat was being shoved
off from the quarter she disappeared—the royal masts
breaking off after the hull was out of sight. Not
more than 15 minutes could have elapsed from the
time the vessel had struck until she totally dis-
appeared. The following are the names of the missing
men :--- -John Often, chief officer; John Hinde, second
officer ; .T. Sullivan, boatswain; ("diaries Richardson,
John Jones, Vincent Mannet, James Phillips, John
Patterson, John Vinneca, George Harrison, Henry
Howard, Andrew Mason, carpenter.
SETTING FIRE TO A WORKHOUSE.—At the
Maidstone Aasi' zes on Saturday, a tramp named
Clark was charged with setting fire to the Mailing
workhouse. Prisoner had collected sonic wool in the
tramp ward and set fire to it, bringing with it the
clothes of another tramp named Brown. His conduct
, at the time and in the court was such as to lead to a
suspicion of his sanity, and after the jury had found
him guilty, and he had been sentenced to seven years'
• penal servitude, his lordship said he would cause an
inquiry to be made into his state of mind.

told,

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The Frontier Index newspaper, we are ts...
staidly moves its office westward, keeping about sixty
beyond the end of the Union Pacitic Railroad.
Schneider is going to Egypt ! Not fewer
than 7,000 fellahs are engaged in building a theatre On the
Esbekich, opposite to Shepherd's hotel, at Vain,. The
temple will soon be reared, and :Mille. Schneider will then
sally forth to resume cleopatra's sceptre. she is to receive
£2,000 for fifteen representations, a subvention of £O,O 0
and carte-blonche for the engagement of a troupe.
The latest fashionable three-volume novel bears the
laconic title of Mad
The woman Gabriel, one of the principal aocused in
the late case of husband-poi...big at alar.illas, and who
was condemned to hard labour for life, has just died in the
hospital at Mx.
Count Chorinski, who was sitne time back con.
deumed to impriemement for tile in Germany, with his
mistress and accomplice, the Baroneas d'Ebergenyi, far
peiraininr h s wife. has gone raving mad, and has to be con-
fined with a straight jacket.
A woman was apprehended at Salford the other day
on a change of stealing eixteen ruts.
Near Castle Pollard, in Ireland, the other night, a
man named Cunningham went out to steal potatme.
Its
filled his sack, but in returning, when resting it on a paling,
the sack slipped off, and the cord getting round his throat
strangled him.
The following notice appears in the votes and pro-
ceedings of the House of Commons .—" Sir If. Bulwer.—
To move a resolution in favour Of ndUpting vote by ballot
for the future election of Members of Parliament."
Nearly every newspaper of any eminence has been
obliged to reduce its price. The lordly Tones came down
to threepence when the paper duty was abolished, aml
rumour says it is to be further reduced to twopence
Life was the last to effect the operation, and now the
Weekly Dispatch is atmounced to be reduced to twopence at
the beginning of the new year.
The testimonial proposed to be presented to General
Peel on his retirement from political life now amouuts to
about 000. The testimonial is expected to he presented to
the gallant general at a public dinner a Huntingdon, but the
date has not yet been fixed.
:Monsieur Joseph Perier, regent of the bank of
France, the only surviving brother of Casimir Verner, died on
the night of Friday. aged eighty, from the consequences of
an operation, which lie bore 55 ith extraordinary fortitude.
Some time ago he knocked himself against a ladder at the
door of his house in the Rue Rived, and badly bruised one of
his legs. . The wound took such an unfavourable torn that
amputation woe judged necessary, and uow this much re-
spected gentleman haa died prematurely, though at a great
age.
At a public-honse in London, the other day, a man
was drinking twee when his minions, in joke. poured n
little ammonia into it, lie was taken lii, and died ma few
hours.
One of the Prime Minixter's cone, Mr. S. E. Glad-
stone, of christ Church, oxford, has been ordained by the
Bishop of Winchester. Ile will be licensed to the curacy of
the church of St. Nlary-the-Less, Lambeth.
At the North Wilts election a voter was applied to
several times for his vote. This, however, he resolutely
refused to give, " For," said he, "directly after I voted last
time, the bread lose! and I made up my mind from that
thee that I'd never vote any more.
A. man named Vann WM convkted at the Worces,
tershire sessions of assaulting two police-officers. and sen-
tenced to eighteen neintha imprisonment. It has since been
satisfactorily proved that he was seven miles from the place
where the assault was committed at the time of its commis-
sion, and he Inta been granted a free p
An alarming mdlision between a passenger anal a
goods train took place on the Midland Railway between
Mansfield and Nottingham on Saturday evening, when up-
wards of forty persons were reported to have been injured.
'The journals of I ientia annnnunce the arrival of Verdi,
the composer, in that city, to spend the winter.
During the past week eighty-three wrecks have been
reported making for the present year a total of 3,352.
The Right Rev. the Archbishop of Canterbury has
been elected President of the Corporation of the Sons of the
Clergy, in the room of his right rev. predecessor in the archi-
episcopal see. Those who know the business capabilities and
the largeness of heart that distinguish Archbishim Tait, will
agree that the governors did well in appointing him to pre-
side over a charity for the relief of poor Widows and children,
of dregs men.
It is related of a Parisian portrait painter that, hav-
ing recently painted the portrait of a lady, a critic, who bad
just dropped in to see what can going on in the studio. ex-
claimed, •• It is very nicely painted ; but why did you take
such au ugly model I" •• It is my neither," calmly replied
the artist " Oh, pardon, a thousand times !" cried the
critic in the greatest confusion, ; "you ere right--I ought to
have perceived it. She resembles you completely."
Why is a bald head like Paradise? Because it is a
bright and shining place, where there Is no more partiag
and more dyeing, and, adds Lord Derby "Thank Jove ! no
more Whigs !'
The Good Wishes of the Season (specimen).- -Christ •
seas is the season of good wishes. Old Mr. Battles at dinner
said to a man who had helped Idol to his liking, "Sir, rimy
you live to see your contemporaries grandsuns have the
gout.—Puneh'e 41,00.4.
It is stated to have been arranged between the C•
missinners ,of Inland Revenue and the Post-office that next
year the collection of the dog tax in England and Scotland
will be partly undertaken by the Post-other. Under the new
arrangement the tax will be received and licenses issued
at any money order office.
A young girl, only sixteen, named Esther Bourn.,
living at Englefield Green, threw herself into the Thames
near the Bells of Oustley, at Old Windsor, about a month
ago, In consequence of having leen advised to break off an
acquaintance with a young nian to whom she one attached.
The body was only found last week. The jury found a
verdict of temporary insanity.
On Friday evening, as the Oldham luggage train was
tieing tonight into the Rochdale Railway Station the
pointsman discovered the body of a nian underneath one of
the oantat Ills on the rails cut in two, and presenting a shock-
ing sight. It was f dto be the body of Charles Howarth.
a gardener. who resided near the station. Howarth
evidently must have been crossing the line ni a very
dangerous place, imtead of gohng to the etatiou by the
public road.
An extraordinary incident is reported in connection
with the journey of the Irish mail from London on Saturday .
When near Mostyn, North Wales, a passenger was seen to
stretch forth his hand and fire a pistol at the moment that
an nip-train from Holyhead was passing, and it is believed
that the shot was aimed at the driver and the stoker.
1, Mr. D. D. Rome, the spiritualist, has taken to
I giving readings.
"The topic of conversation is still the late elopement
of a young heiress in her teens with a gallant Ensign. Tine
flight was interrupted, and the marriage will take place ni
the usual orthodox manner, the kind-hearted parent follow-
ing the example of the forgiving fathers in all domestic
dramas, and blessing his children.—Court Journal.
In the late Presidential election lowa gave 1tri,384
votes for negro suffrage and SLIP/ against it. this clothes
shout 500 darkies with the panopoly of the elective fran-
chise.
The United &Trier Gazelle comments on the seriona
falling off in the Royal Marine service. but supposes it is
anticipatory of the gloom which is baneful; over the whole
corps. The Timer protests astabst the reduction in the
strength of the most useful anl hardworking arui of the
service.
At the Liverpool Assizes, on Friday, a collier's
widow recovered LIAM damages for herself, and £7,0 each for
her two children, for the loss of her husband, who was
killed by the negligence of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company, In not fencing off a part of their line
near Chorley, whereby he and a horse belonging to his
father-in-law were killed.
A luggage train on the Egyptian railway, was
destroyed by fire the other day, and the passengers by the
Gverland mail arrived at Malta with nothing but what they
stood in. Two fine elephant. and • young one were
destroyed,
The question so important to publicans, whether
money due for beer supplied on credit can be recovered,
came before the county court judge at Reading the other
day, hi an action in which • beerhouse-keeper, who had pro-
vided lodging and partial hoard, for a labourer, aa is common
in that part of the country, and hail sued him for the amount
of his score. The Paige held that the well-known Act ap-
plied to all sales of beer in hotels, inns, or beerhowses,
whether to inmates or not, if the beer was consumed on the
premises, and that no action could be brought for the re-
covery of the money.
A petition has been decided on against the return of
sir Edmund Lemon and the lion. F. Walpole, the Conserva-
tives sitting members for North Norfolk.
l'he local authorities are taking legal proceedings
against the parish priest of Corno Giovine, near Lodi, who.
in explaining the Gospel to his congregation, said that "nil
who purchased the ecclesiaatical property sold by the
government would be excommunicated."
A Vermont editor writes obituary notices of delim
quest subtexibers, and in this way brings them to book.
Intelligence has been received at St. Petersburg
from Till is, that an attempt has been made to assassinate
Mr. Taylor, the British consul at Brzerown. No cause is
assigned for this act, nor any details given
Sprats have been so very plentiful on the liarwich
coast that the farmers have been manuring the laud with
them.
The New York papers of the 10th publish President
.lobnson's message, and condemn it in very severe
terms. Alluding to the refusal of the Senate to hear it read,
the Tribune says that " Congrees never expressed mere
truly the spirit of the !MUM than when it trampled con•
teruptuously upon this miserable message, and left it to be
eweptup with the dust, and dirt, and waste paper of the

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A large number of people have }wen convicted and
fined at Shrewsbury for using hail language in the streets.
One woman was proved to have cursed and sworn without
cessation for two hours and a-half !
The John 801 l is glad to lean' that, mainly owing
to the great exertions of Commander Pim, there will be held
early next year. under the auspices of the City Carlton Club,
a great cormervative banquet, to which Her Majesty's late
Ministers will he asked; and a gvest ball, of which the
Duchess of Abercorn and other Indies have consented to be
patronesses. Upwards of 4,000 are expected to dine, and the
tickets are already at a premium.
The La toot haB satisfaction in stating that its repre-
sentations of the conditil.ll of the aoldier's "look-Up" at the
Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth, lois produced a more
powerful effect than the many official reports which had
been previously. made. The engineers have prepared piano
for great improvements, and they are already in the handa
of the authorities at the War office for official aanction.
At the Guildford l'etty Sessions on Saturday,
Frederick Booth, a stocking-maker, was charged with as-
saulting Mr In ',argue at Galalming on the day of the
polling for the West Surrey Election. The Bench thought
the charge hatl been proved, and the chairman said that
under the peculiar circumstances the case could hardly lie
called one of coninton assault : the magistratei had then,
fore determined to avail themselv, a of the full power con-
ferred upon them by Aet of l'arliament, and instead of
giv Ilg the defendant the option of a flue, which might he
paid for him by other parties. he would Inc sent so the Wands-
worth Home of Correction for a mouth's imprisonment and
hard labour.
Sir Culling Eardlev. Bart., who in January lint was
sentenced to a term of imprisoement for hipatny, has been
released, through the influence of the late Government.
For some tunic past his state of health was such that the
medical authorities of the House of Detention ordered his
removal to the infirmary.
Mr. Mill has written a letter, in which, whibt
me
joking at tine success of Liberal principles, he regrets the
failure of the effort Po return worslng-class candidates, and
unties the working men to ire's th, ir claims to direct re-
preseNtstior.
Except for file strange perversity which too often
chafing, rises .leti•l3l Tho 7 lines would be dism,,,l to
til,credit the report that the estimates are to Ile out di ,ivn by
a large retinction in the force of Rotel Marines. Our con-
temporary thinks it impossible to imagine a more fatal rids
take. If we .11 afford, as may pethaps be the .Be, to
dispense with 10,000 men, let th. 10,000 go, but the last who
should go are certainly the marines.
The }lon. Auberon Herbert, D.C.L., is taking a
tour in the West of England on behalf of tine Workmen's
Inteniational Exhiltition, to be held in london next year.
At Plymouth OD Friday evening he addressed a large public
nteeting. Both political parties in the country were, he
sahl. jot ll ill g heartily in the movement. Her Majesty's late
Ailing..e load given assistantnn ilk the moat cordial and
friendly manner.
An extraordinary accident occurred to a home last
week at Canterbury. The cart in which the horse was har-
nessed was used for the conveyance of pigs, and one that was
in the vehicle made its escape. leaping from the cart on to
the Imrse's back. The h,rse, being startled at this, atilMbled
broke its neck, and died instantaneously.