The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

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Ouse more we are in comparatively smooth water
after the storm of the general election. Antagonistic
politicians are still reckoning up their gains and losses
and it is not very remarkable that they cannot exactly
agree. It is beyond dispute however, that the Liberals
have gained considerably am compared with the former
House of Commons, though not so much perhaps as
might have been anticipated corvidering the sweeping
character of the Reform Act. The very fact of a
large Liberal majority existing, has been in itself
enough perhaps to account for the existence of a rumour
to the effect that Ministers would resign on the eve of
Parliament assembling, but there appears to be no
truth whatever in the report. The probability is that
Parliament will meet as usual, and that the Address in
reply to the (ueen's Speech will be allowed to go un-
challenged by formal arnenslrnent, but that a vote of
want of confidence will be moved, and that on the
ismer lif this vote Ministers will stand or falL The
address, by the way, it is rumoured, will be moved by
Mr. Aritheton Smith, member for South-West Lanca-
shire, and seconded by Mr. W. H. Smith, member for
Westminster. If these g,entlemen be choien we can well
understand that their having severally defeated Mr.
Gladstone and Mr. Mill, will have much to do with it.
There is at present no little uncertainty about these
and other political movements.
Now that the elections are all over, the retrospect is, '
to some extent, a painful one. Never perhaps in the
memory, at least, of young men, bite political feeling 1
rnn higher than during the recent elections. There
have heen riots, of a more or less serious character, in
many places, and some of them so dreadful, that it
becomes a question whether Parliament ought not to
devise *cone mode of lessening the chances ,f such
rioting for the future. 1)o we not, it may be asked,
have more excitement during the elections than is
necessary, this excitement bring caused by useless
forms which are not adapted to the present state of
society? For instance, where is the use of the nomina-
tion and show of hands? The customs originated in
times when elections were thus determined, but in the
present day the show f bands has lost its importance.
Thie it may be that in unopposed elections the show of
bands even mow determines the election, and in such
casee this ceremony might be retained, though even in
those cases it might easily be avoided; but seeing that
the show iif hand, is in many cases a complete farce,
and that it frequently is just the occasion when there
in most rioting, it is a question deserving consideration
whether provision could not be made for entirely
abolishing the nomination, and deciding pposed elec-
tions by polling as at present, and unopposed elections
in some lova •xciting way than the present ceremony
at the hustings.

Bev:arid gentlemen have received the honour of
baronet:len or knighthood; several others have been
promoted to the rank 4:f Queen's Counsel ; an Irish
pear has been raised to the peerage of the United
Kingdom ; and there are rumours of several peerages
to come; but nothing excites so much interest as Mrs.
Disraeli receiving a peerage by the title of Viscountess
Beaconsfield. The Times says too much when it says
that the news "will interest the public, and will cer-
tainly displease nobody.* The comments of several
other journals du not bear out this remark, and the
wcaeion ham been seized upon as convenient for a good
deal of smart writing for and against the creation.
But of more importance than this will be the creation
of several new peers, if present rumours are fulfilled.
It is said that Mr. Disraeli intends to make a number
of new peers (though, of course, "the Queen is the
fountain of honour," and no Premier has the power of
4..reating peerages, having simply the power to recom-
mend) ; and the rumour runs also that should Mr.
Gladstone succeed to power he has a similar step in
view. Each statesman would, of course, have political
views to serve in the creation of peerages. The whale
subject bids fair to be one that will excite a good deal
of public attention, and it is one in which the House of
Lords cannot but be intensely interested, as they can-
not but feel that the recent Reform Act has consider-
ably increased the power of the people.
The trade of the country is incidentally proved to
he in a sound state by the trade and navigation returns
for nine months ending with October, which have just
been published, but I think the prevailing tone, never-
theirs, is a eomewhat dissatisfied one. .The most
perhaps, however, that can be said, is that business is
dull, and it is not everybody that says even that much
and many departmests of trade have considerably
revived.

Two Cisil List pensions have jolt been granted
whieh, in themselves, cannot be found fault with, but
which, looking at them in comparison to pensions not
granted, are open to some objection. Mrs. S. C. Hall
and Mr. Finlay Neilson, a parliamentary reporter,
have each been granted a pension of £lOO. Now the
lady cannot want the money, while there are many
hardworking literary labourers who have done their
country good service, to whom it would lie a great
boon. It is new, too, to find a parliamentary reporter
rewarded with a pension out of the small sum, about
11,000 a year, set apart for the reward of literary
genius in distress, and why Mr. Neilson should thus
be honoured, when older labourers in the same field
are passed by, is a little bit of a mystery.
Much has been said and written of the frequency of
robberies and assaults in our large towns, and especially
in London, where the "rough" population is not only
in itself larger than in any other town, but proportion-
ably larger; but, in spite of warnings, police notices,
and the boasted activity and intelligence of the police,
es of robbery and assault du not diminish. It
would seen that mere imprisonment has not sufficient
terrors to deter the scoundrels from these disgraceful
outrages; but there in one thing which, in all pro
liability, would deter them, and that is the cato'-nine.
tails. Two young men were recently flogged in
Newgate, each receiving forty stripes, and, although it
is sald they did not utter a single cry, it is most pro-
bable that this awful punishment will in each ease
deter the sufferer from ever again committing a
garotte rubbery, which was the crime for which they
suffered flogging, and are still "doing" their five
years' penal servitude. Now, why cannot the " cat "
Is. administered in all cases od street robbery, burglary,
assaults on women and children, Its.? This would
probably (lo more to deter thieves and brutes
(though we do dishonour to the brute creation by using
the word( than any other punishment that could be
devised. Although in the cases alluded to, the men, it
is said, did not utter a single cry, we know that there
iis nothing which men Inure naturally shrink from than
the infliction of physical pain. Parliament would (lo
well to direct its attention to this matter, for though
there may be some exaggeration in the reports we
oessionally hear of street outrages, it is undoubtedly
true that, considering our high state of civilisation and
the presumed efficiency of our police systems, these
outrages are disgracefully numerous.

Sir Richard Mayne and Scotland Yard at length have
had mercy on the .1. g. The order that all dogs should
be monied has at last been withdrawn. Hall Sir
Richard gone on much longer in the same way as
hitherto, he would, ere long, have had to weep that
there 0..111 no more dogs to conquer. He has been
undoubtedly very hard upon the dogs of all kinds -
") •o)w and mongrel, whelp and hound, and cur .)f
I. w degree ;" but, on the whole, perhaps his vigour has
been beneficial—not to the dogs, but to the bipeds. I
presume the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs is still
In existence ; but there cannot have been many aeldi-
tione of late. and even lost and starving doge (about
3,000 martyrs having suffered) must be at a premium.
Will Sir Richard be equally merciful as to hoops ?
It is common enough ti see advertisements from per-
& els who will take a very moderate salary; from young
ladies who will " give six months," and so fie; but I
do not remember ever to have previously seen such an
offer al this "A Frenchman, with a knowledge of
business, six months in London, wishes a situation.
NO salary required. Good references and security."
The first thought perhaps will be --he will have plenty
of answers. I doubt it. In this commercial age of
mirs nothing is offered for nothing, and what costs
nothing is considered worth about 801 much. There
are perhaps peeuliar circutustancea in this ease, but it
is not easy to understand it from what appears on the
surface. Frenchmen in London, however, arc rather
unfortunate if they come here witil no recommenda-
tions, no money, and no friends, as many of them do.
Genoa." somehow or other manage to get on where
Frenchmen fail. The number of German merchants,
clerks, tradesmen, artisans, waiters, kc. in London is
a caution.

How Isng id it More a communication between
passenger and guard on railway. was first suggested?
Many years at all events, but it is still a desideratum.
It would seem, however, that in April next we may
hate a uniform system of communication adopted.
Sense experiments have been made on severe lines of
railway during the last year ,sr so, and very resently it
has been decided that there shall be a conference of
railway managers to determine the best system to he
adopted. So there is yet hope,
lieu are a few items of literary and musical gossip,
for twine of which that chattering and übiquitous
myth, M. On, must be answerable. On dit then that
Mr. Dickens is to gi, e up the editorship of "All the
Year Round,- and that his suemssor in the editorial
°hair will be his eldest ; that Mx. Gladstone's
"Chapter of Autobiography" is selling largely; that

The Queen has, on the recommendation a the Pre-
mier. granted a pension of s:100 per annum to Mrs. S. C.
in comideratiou of her long and useful Ilterary
services.
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The Cologne Gazelle states, n the authority of a
letter from Berlin, that the crown Prince and Princess of
Prussia will prolong their stay in England tiE after the be-
ginning of the new year.

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The Queen, on the recommendation of the Prime
Minister, has granted a pension of s:100 a year to Mr. John
Finlay Neilson, in consideration of his diligent services as a
parliamentary reporter.

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t.eneral Prim, in reply to a letter from an English
Jew, states that the Jews in Spain will have full liberty to
raise their own temples and adore Clod according to their be-
lief.

The _Birmingham Post, alluding to the nunour of
Mr. Bright's intention of joining the Liberal Ministry, says :
We can state that no person—and certainly Ho newspaper
—has any authority whatever to speak of Mr. Bright's in-
tentions in this matter."

The German journals announce that the French
gun-facturies, even theme of Lite State, having concluded the
fabrication of the Chasaepots, are working actively on the
improved system of weapons adopted by Austria, and that
the manufacturers are to furnish the Emperor Francis
Joseph's government with 600,000 muskets by the Ist of

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The Sheffield Independent again records a ease of
rattening in the WON-grinding trade. The Imola of three
men who had a dispute in the union have been cut into
short lengths. Six months ago they worn hidden but an
that did n. 4 compel the recusants to clime to terms with the
union, the severer step of destroying the bands has been re-
sorted to.

" l'omkins, December the 2nd. Come eavily."--
" Puffer —Been out of town last few flays. Jicd returned.
Writ give particulars required lu day or two."—Advertise-
Tents in The Tim..
General Grant recently expressed to an army friend
his utter contempt of the stateonen who are urging their
own merits us officeholder. on him. Ile said that he would
make up his Cabinet after he Mel receive I a certificate of
elections, and then no one would know whom he had decided
upon until their n dues got Into print. " no we planning
a campaign until you have a war,". said he.
There is much talk in l'arisian fashionable circles o
a revival of crinoline.

A Florence journal comment in bitter terms on two
recent political executions at ROM. The sovereign wino
claims to be the earthly representative of Divine mercy Is
now the only one who ptudshes political offences with death.

General Grant„ it is said, has given directions to his
aides-de-camp to ~pen all his letters, and directly they see
the word" office" in any of them to throw that letter into
the fire: .tar," says the General, "son:. of the applicants
might really be deserving persons, and I should be sorry to
be pi eposses.ed against them by receiving from diem appli-
cations of that kind"
It is asserted that the Emperor of the French is in-
disposed ; be is unable to rble, drags his legs after hint, and,
during his presence at the theatre with the Prime and Pdn-
cess of Wales, he sat with his head bent forward tin his chest
the whole time, seemingly perfectly inattentive to everything
that was going on.

The nephew and namesake if Thaddeus Stevens,
the American politician, to whom the hulk .4 that leader's
property was left, conditionally upon his abstaining from
spirits and tobacco, or in default to an asylum for the
orphans of soldiers, announces that he has not the heart to
keep the orphans from the enjoyment of it.
Dr. Buchanan, medical officer of health for St.
Giles's district, in consequence of the great increase of fever
in London, has urged upon the local board of works the
necessity of establishing a public disinfecting chamber, for
the purpose of purifying infected clothing, bedding, ttc , pwr-
silent to the Sanitary Act. 1046, see. 13; so loss preliminary
step the board have invited the local boards of adjo'ning
parishes to join with them in providing such an establish-
ment. This is a measure which the medical officers of the
metr.ipolis have long urged upon their respective Boards, but
without success.

In a letter to a Birmingham questioner, Mr. Glad-
stone writes :—" Not only my 13%11 declarations upon every
occasion but the resolution unanimously passed by the House
of Commons, binds me in honour, as I ani bound in purpose
mid conviction, to propose that the Roginin Doom and
Maynooth grant should be wound up, and should cease with
the Church Establishment. Can words go further 1"
"A laughable incident occurred here, a few nights
ago at a ball at which the elite only were present. Among
others Mete Kingi, one of the Maori representatives, a
savage who can't speak English, and who, to make himself
bearable, should use unlimited quantities of Eon de Cologne,
was present. lie ' invest' stout, scarcely speaking, but at
last, seeing a lady with very tine arms, which were bare a
little above the elbow, he went up to her, and pointing to
her arm, said .Kaipai, kaipai, fat,'
,good, spil fat, at the
same time smacking his hits longingly.,m '—.Nris Zealand
pagsa
Her Majesty the Queen and the royal family,
attended by their suite, will, it is understood, leave Windsor
Castle for Oskorne about the 15th el December. It is Pro-
bable that their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and
Princess of Prussia will accompany her Majesty to Osborne,
the Queen intending to spend Christmas in the Isle of Wight,
and to reside there tilt about the middle 1,1 February of next
year. tier Majesty has, it is said, recovered from her
maiL-
position.

The late Dr. Elonifiehl hail a quarrel with an Essex
rector—paper war and an forth between the parties. Th
rector called at London House, awl the interview was not of
a very calm description. The ill-hop, ill the heat of the de
hate, kept eddying his chair nearer to that of the Essex
rector, who at last said, •' L rd, if you collie airy nearer
DI kick your shins."
"The Flying Dutchman of English polities is re-
ported in view. It is just the sort of weather for the appa-
rition. While everything is driving along with bare rooks,
''Convocation" suddenly appears, a quaint ship, 4,if ancient
hand, with every stitch of canvas set, flyingjil,, sky-
scrapers, and all, labouring not the least, and hardly bend-
ing to the blast that would send the masts of any other
known ship in an instant over the side. Nlen of flesh and
blood are careful how they deal with so questionable a
form."—Time,

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says
that it seems to he the verdict of society. French and En-
glish, and, indeed, of every one who chanced to see the
Princess of Wales, that never before ass so "Imams a
holy" seen in Paris. 1,1 avoid giving trouble, and to aive
please; e to ev,ryliody, seemed to lie the self.imposcd task of
their Royal Ilighnesses—a task which they admirably ac-
complished. . .

The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle are in Paris,
for the sake of the health of their eldest son, who, some
time ago, broke his leg, the bones of which have never
properly knit. The Limon', NClaton, who, as a senator, de-
clines general practice, has consented to operate In this
case.

Prince Thomas Albert Victor, Duke of Genoa, is
about to become a scholar at the greatest and most illus-
trious of English public schools—Eton. Closely connected
with Royalty, as the nephew of Victor Emmanuel and the
brother-in law of Prince Humbert, he joins the college
which, for many a long year past, has been the training
Owe of the English aristocracy. That Eton should be
selected for the boy Duke is a strong testimony to the
esteem in which our Engilsh public school Ida is held
abroad.

Front January 1 to Norrmber 11, 146.3, 194,057 im-
migrants arrived at New 1 ork, aA Colllpared with 220,474 ar-
rivals during the same period of Ior,7—a decrease of 20,417.

The majority by which Ulysses Grant has been
choven President of the United States Is the largest ever
known, embracing more than two-thirds of the whole 1111111-
her of electors.

"Mr. Purchas's name having prove(' a perfect mine
of wit to the Cootie Papers, he intends, so we believe, to
reserve all rights of translation."—Toniahairk.

The arrangements for the pnrehase.d the telegraphs
by the Government are being actively carried on, and a
Commission appointed by the Accountant ;corral has
nearly concluded the inquiry into what the net profits ,d
the companies really are.

" Nominatiene mud be aboliehed. That ie mettled.
Nomination rhymes to cominination, which is at niuch more
appropriate name for the scene of abuse and violence which
I constitutes the first stare .4 a British election "—Tomahawk.

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Mr. Goblwin Smith writes to warn Englishmen who
have IFe.-n thinking of going out to the new American •' un-
coldly,- in which Mr. Smith is a professor, that the buildings
are not yet complete. Englishmen will therefore, do well to
stay at home for the present.

The lawyers returned to the new Parliament number
exactly a hundred, although only about a third are
practising barristers. The list includes the names of twenty
two Queen's Counsel, and another will he added when either
Mr Monereiff or Mr. Gordon is returned for Glasgow and
Aberdeen UniversitieS.

"To G. W. (Chester).—All you wish for can be
arranged without absolute estrangement. Let us at least
know your address, and you will 11,1 t be pressed to return
against your will. J. unwell, and your advice is
wanted. What have A. and the others done to lye niade an
miserabler—Advettisement in The 'limn,

The dreas of woman in no respect ditninishea in point
of extravagance. A lady was married ii. Paris the other
day the veil of whose wedding dress alone cost .0,000.
In November, IB4iT, Lady Elizabeth Beresford wan
getting out of a railway carriage at carlisle, when the train
moved on, and the fell on to the platform, with the guard on
the top of her. On her return from Edinburgh to London
she became ill, and yet suffers from the shock an action
for damages against the 11.11111111 and North-Western Railway
Company has been tried before the Court of Queen's Bench,
when a compromise was entered into, the plaintiff receiving
£1,250.

We have to record the decease of General 11. Pigot,
which took place on Sunday at his residence, Chievely, near
Newbury, where he had lived in quietude with his family
for sonic years. The late officer, who was colonel of the 4th
Dragoon Guards, was hi his ninety-fifth year, mid the
oldest general in the British army. Ile entered the service
is. 1753.

" A poor friendless negro, nanusl .Tohn WCaul, has
been convicted of horse stealing in Virginia, and sentenced
to be hung on Friday the lath of December next."—New Yea
Reports from the Atlantic state that large numbers
of icebergs are floating about. The barque Scout, from the
\Vest coast of smith America, On her way to Liverpool,
passed upwards of two hundred, settle of them 000 ft. high
aml of great length.
According to a report published by the Council of
State of Ticino, the Hospice of Saint-Oothard, the most
frequented in Switzerland, received and entertained e,574
travellers during the year ending the lit of Octoher, 15570. it
gave medical attention to 47 persons partly ill und partly
frozen; 21,791 rations of bread ; and many articles of
clothing, especially shoes and stocks, were distributed. The
total expenditure was 9,057 f.
Queen Isabella, in flying into France from her
ungrateful country, took the precaution of taking wills her a
large stock of "barbaric pearls and gold." Among the
barbaric pearls, it appears, is sole of prodigious size and of
Immense value—DeLeon Spanish crowns. lier Majesty, it is
said, contemplated at one moment snaking the French
Empress a present, of the jewel, which is stated to bear the
name of " The ;" but on second thong/Its she
determined on keeping it. She is wise the day CIII perhaps
come in which she will be hi sore need of the money the sale
of it will realise.
A mayor in one of the Departments of France, was
lately reprimanded IPy a suls-pr4fet for not sending in the
mortuary rem-, The mayor answered as follows Mr.
FrOet, I didn't send you the list of the dead because nobody
has died here for the last quarter; if anybody dies during
the present quarter I'll you let know three or font. doge
beforehand."
The following Imperial /am met is in circulation
a circle at Compiernse, a few everengs halt, the onver-
station turned on the Cnasseputs, the irresistible effects of
which were explained by a general. The Empress Eugenie
observed; We also require Chassepots in order to preserve
our ascendancy and Influence, and they are: beauty and
grace at twenty ; cleverness and wit at thirty ; and kindness
of heart at forty.' The Emperor, who had gradually ao-
proached, answered vrth a sndle You did not wait for the
full age to possess the entire arsenal."
Mr. Henry Labouchere has written a long letter to
the Issues, giving his explanation of the causes of the Liberal
defeat in \ fisidlesex. The purport of the explanation is that
if Lord Enfield had been oiliied by Mr. Lale,uchere, Lord G.
Hamilton would not now have been in the House .1 com-
mons. "I will only say, as regards myself," says the de-
finite, candidate, "that! shell go to my grave under the im-
pression that I have played the part of the lamb in tire fable
of the wolf at the stream, and that 1 have Fact-diced self to
Party."

One of the members of Lord Amberley's Election
Committee explains, with a sort of admi, log regret, that his
Lordship's failure in South Devon 1, attributable solely to
his force of character." Ile persisted in standing upon his
principles—and would stand upon nothing else. He refused
to canvaas a single elector, never would condescend to
notice one of the innumerable calumnies that were circulated
concerning him, and treated with silent contempt one
specially damaging placard, headed "Is Lord Amberley a
Christian?' That was how Lord Amberlay lost the South
Devoe electlea.

Paul de Keck, in a certain class a very popular
author, is aeriously ill. Ile hates doctors, and is pr-scribii
for himself, having commenced by applying with his own
hands some twenty leeches to a tumour.

The daughter of a Paris jeweller was recently robbed,
In tke street, of some articles of jewellery. Tin thief took
the jewels to the father's shop, and was, of course, instantly
detected.
The Australian sheep owners have introduced a plan
for washing their sheep ill hot water, lunch to the improve-
ment ‘.l the wool and much to the comfort of the sheep we
should think,.
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The fashion of ladies' hats being adorned with
feathers he led to the destruction, during the past few
months, of no less than a hundred and seven thomand sea-
lords, ,•n a strip of coast eighteen miles long, near I- lain-
borough Head, where theiil animals nn.t do congiegate
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Count Itismarek, who only a short time since was
shoi.t the best 11M-ed OMO lii Germahy, Appll:ll44 recently to
have become the popular id-4, of Nertk Cirmany, at east
A hi bgraphy of the statement., illustrated lq some of their
best shads, has ruts quickly through several editions.
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A caw has been heardin the Court if Exchequer, in-
volving a claim for £4,200 UpOli the Loud,. and Lancashire
Insurance Company, in respect of the premi,es and stock-in-
trade of a public-house, in London, destroy. d by tire in De-
. cember, Istos. Sir. Baron Martin,after heal nig theevidence,
, Ileseribed the claim 89 011 e of the grosses: f rauds ever at-
tempted to be perpetsated Islam a public company. The
jury found for the insurance company on all the lenses.
Last week, Lord Iluntingfield entertained a distin-
guished party of noblemen and gentlemen at Ileveninghani.
hall, Suffolk. jueltilino his Royal IlirhO-' Ih 1,111, of Cam-
bridge, Colonel Macdonald. Led do Lisle 1.,1 !belles'. Lord
colville, Lord Li MlCSiblrOligh, ,71,11. Mr finehes,
and the 11011..1. Vanneck. In four days, tf. head if game
were bagged, of which 2,357 were brought iman ou the second
A letter has been received from Captain George W.
Walsh, of the troopship Crood,b% report!no the collision
between that ship and the British barque //fryer. The
Marque sank ci. quickly alter she was struck that it was im-
possible to save more than eight out of her crew of twelve
men.
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Mr. Charles Piraillangh writes in the Notional Rt-
forw,—" one (Introit if England cler_y man in Northamp-
ton voted for our return, soil it may In satisfaction to the
clergyman who voted for 114 to know, if lid. should meet his
eye, that a second clergyman of the elnu 01 of England, re-
siding lie us Northampton, tidied with a donation if .13 the
, fund raised to aid our election."

The ill-luck of the Great Eastern Rtilwat. Company
appears to have transferred itself to the canaidatures for
Parliament of its directoro and officers. Sir E. Watkin, its
most influential director, has Met his Feet for stoeknort.
Another director, Mr. Makin, who stood in the Conservative
interest for Kidderminster, has also lava defeated. A third
director. Mr. Voung, hes been thrown out as a Liberal in
l'ambridgeshire. Mr. Baxter, its solicit... has failed as a
Conservative candidate for hull. tilt lb.' Miler hand, Major
Jervis, who was voted out of the direction by a general
meeting a few months ago, has been successful at Harwich
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In many American towns ludicrous election bets are
now being paid. 'lle losers are module saw w•Aal and do
other menial things, while sone.times rl,e loser wheels the
whaler through the streets lu a turbo',preceded hy a band
of music and followed by a gaping el ow d. In New York
one bet wai paid by the loser wheeling a negro through the
streets, and thus practically testdying his regard for the
African race.
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A supplement to the Wrymnath Telegram contains
an official copy it the mimes awl addre,ses of the whole id
the voters at the recent election for Wilmouth. and how
each voted, and from this list it appears that of the requisi.
tinplate who invited Mr. Powell, Q.v., to stand for the
borough. and who assured Idin of their hearty support, as
mai yse so voted against the candidate in whose favour they
had pledged themselves.
The Paris Patric hints that foreigners born in France
will very shortly be called in to draw in the istaisctiption, for
the semionicial paper remarks that they escape military
service in their OWII country, and in the iminion of the
French authorities, a mall should serve somewhere.
At the close of iStii the stock of locomotives owned
by the 12 leading British rails ay companies was as fol-
lows :.—.l.liledonian, 515 ; i;reat Ea,tern, 250 reat.
Northern, 460 direst Western, 642 Lancashire and York-
shire, 455; London and North-Western, 1,443 London and
South-Western, 259; London, Brighton mid South Coast, 252;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoonshire, 2114 Nlidland, 023
North-Eastem, 551 ; and South-Eastern, 243. The 12 com-
panies than owned between them 0.595 locomotives. the
first cost of which, at an average of £2,500 per engine was
£16,407,500.
A telegram from Florence says that the widow of
Rossini has assented to the transfer iif her late husbanits
remains ti Italy, but that it is uncertain whether they will
lie deposited in Florence or Pesaro.
Adviceefn.m Prague state that a Revere snow-storm
• has taken place in Bohemia, and that considerable damage
has been done. In the forest of the Prince of Lichtenstein
more than nine thousand I owe trees were much damatast
within a comparatively limited area.
At Liverpool, James Keanni, a boy only eleven
years of age, has bees charged with stealing money and
threatening to murder his soother. That morning she
wanted Min to go to school, and this so enraged him that
he seized a knife, made a stab at her, and threatened to have

her life. Ile was remanded.
The Birmingham Dog, Show a) pea ra to have firmly
estalilbdied itself, and to have netsinie all annual event. It
openedoi Tuesday with a more numerous list ,1 entries than
on any previous occsislon—lisiniely. Snit against (tit last year.
Many of the animals are described as remarkable for their
beauty, according to their distinctive characteristics. The
variety of breeds exhibited is greater than might have been
supposet there being no fewer than 30; tO that every kind
of slog may be said to have his day at this exhibition.

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It is hardly necessary, observes the Jot. Bull, to
say that the Consemtiren will offer no opposition to the re-
election of the lute Speaker of the House of Commons.

The scullem. race on the Thames hetsteen Kelly and
Sadler on ruenlay afternoon was lecided in favour of the
be men The contest appears te have been a else I or. some
times one and then the other getting ahead at various point,.
As they went utter Hammersmith Bridge, however, Kelly
got a length ahead, and gradually increased it until, at the
wooing post, he curried otf the palm of victory by three
lengths.

An inquest on the body of William Wright, who
was killed by, railway collision at 7,odtbenden .luneth,n,
near Manchester, on the 26 h of October, was brought to a
conchnion on Monoay. It will he remembered that :L
paSttenger tflht. rali tilt,, a luggage train which win
in spite of there heing danger ai_nala ixldbited all down tie
line t.. Stockport. The jury returned a verdict of man-
slaughter against the engine driver.

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Mount Etna in now comparatively calm, awl
Vesuvius is omite opiet. The eruption ceased at the latter
mountain almost as 804,11 RR It began at the former.

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The Crown Prince of Prussia on Tuesday reviewed
the tind Battalion of Coldstream Guards in Windsor none'

Park.
A more favourable report uf the Prince Royal of
Belgium's health was published on Tuesday. It Is thoupbt
that the patient may completely reeovtr if removed to a
Milder climate. and his remoral will tate place as soon as In
becomes a little stronger.

A despatch received in Liverpool from Stockholm
states that tm the night of the 17th inst., a large Prushian
Sello4lller was Mir. lehore 101 the coast of 1:ollt/and, and
becante a total creek, all on board perishing. Large Portions
of the cargo haul beeu washed ashote.

The Birmingham Cattle and Poultry Exhibition
.•pened on Monday. There was a large inerease in the entries
rattle, and it IA sail that the quality of the animals shows
a marked superiurii y over previous years The sheep classes
were very fairly fined, and there was the usual uisplay of
poultry, in 2,747 pens.

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Sir Bernard Burke has just been made a Coin'
pinion of the Order of the Bath.
A terrible disaster occurred in New York harbour
lin November 14, causing the Ileatli of two persons and the
severe injury of at least 20. It was CRUSOIi by a colliabm
between two ferry boats.
"A popular actress with golden hair, tall, and fine
figure, marries, say the poships, the eldest son of a Itarot.et
We shod It. No doubt the wild gl dly thus terminate her
name and theatrical career." - Coo, f Jwirnal.

The first and last sentences of a notice in R London
daily, of an oratorio at Exeter Hall, are a trifle self-con-
tradictm y, as may is! seen :—First sentence The one ii ill g
concert of the thirty-seventh season ou Friday last was
honoured by tile 'presence of Ro3alty." Last sentence :
" Music ran never be honoured by the presence of Royalty."

There have been some disturbances at liamlbinnino,
a suburb of Bologna. A dispute arose as to the spoilt:ati. qi
of a new tax of 14, francs on the killing of pigs. The mili-
tary appeared fm the scene, tired upon the crowd which had
collected, killed two persons, Mid wounded many others. A
very painful impression is said to have been produced in
Florence by this incident.

The Dublin Nulion of Saturday says : —"Historic
Lancashire having ljsmisse,l frolll its representation, at the
hidding of a characterless firehrainl nearly all those men
who did it credit in past parliaments, replacing them by
nameless numskulls, should henceforth be {moo n aa Murphy-

The following anecdote of the late Baron Rothschild
is an instance of his disregard for the aristocracy. One day
while busily engaged writing, a nobleman was ushered into
his study, to whom he Is.vred and c•nitinued his occupation,
simply saying, .• Pray lie seated. take a chair ;" but the
visitorindignantly replied, '' You have evidently not heard
my name :I am Count ." "Ok !in that case," said the
Baron, 'tube two chairs."

Some time ago a company called the Manasins
Remus was firma,! in Paris, Ii: wing the ambition to minister
to society's shopping wants. When you made a purchase
you rec.•ived a N herein the company undertook to
reimburse you in ninety- ' , yea, the amount of your
purchase fur which you had paid cabli dUWII. After a short
time the affair " burst."

"Those who think with Mr. Glatlatone that the
justification of the Church of England is, not its general use-
fulness and convenience, lot its preaching 'the truth,"
may find mutter for suggestive meditation in the difficulty
which has heen found at Oxford in choosing Select Preachers
for next year. The Proctors proposed the Archhhhop of
Canterbury Dr. Tait , the of Westminster Dr. Stanley,.
and the Dean of Christchurch Lir. Liddell), all of whom
were rejecte I by the remaining anemic-rs of the nominating
hoard for fear of the consequences of their preaching OU the
undergraduate mind."—Pall MattG

The whole of the statues are now placed in their
respective niches in the ornamental arcade facing the
Smaker's residence in New Palace-yard These statues are
placed in the following ,rder—viz . Alfred the t;reat, William
the Conqueror, Henry the secol.d, bier John, Hebry the
Eighth, and William the Thhd ,Prince of Orange The two
last were only placed on their pedestals ,m Tuesday. These
six statues have all been sculptured by foreign artists. The
old gas lamps have now teen all removed from New Palace-
yard. and ornamental gilt ones in unison with those gm the
outside have been placed 111 their steed. In St. Stephen's
Hall the marble St men have been thoroughly cleaned, hut
Slime in Weaminster have only undergone a superficial
dusting.

In the recent railway accident in Bohemia thirty
,ldiers were kill, .1. The train to whmh they were
was stopped by snow, and no, into by a goe. s trdn. The
shock w:,s on great that the smite wer, imp,lted together
with such f..ros as to complet-ly amputste the legs nt son,
of the a d.tiers. Ti, add to the horror, the erst van of the
g 00,114 train contained a barrel ot petroleum, which liquid,
being s,attered ovor the victims, ;gored, and burned the
pa,engers in a frightful manner.

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The following mivertisenient appears in a Briatol
paper :—..Notice.—lt the Liberal intinild:d.d. who cowardly
threw the Id nudes long, lhmugh Mr. Mike e
committee-nom window, at No. 33, Wim-street, MI the
morning of the Bristol eleeVen, when the organised band
passed through Wine-street, throshie sit,da s mid sroashi,c
windows, on their way to Princes-street, led' kindly apply
enrol, s nhakell, as above, he shall have the same returned
to him."

A case of idander on a clergyman, which occupied
the COllrE of Queen's Bench tat a, was brought to a clo•e
on Saturday afternoon. The plaintiff, Mr. Satilmy, was the
clergyman of the parish of Stoney Stratford, and the declara-
tion contained counts for calumnious reports circulated by
the defentia, t, • man named 1: right, one of His pal 'sit:otters.
The puma justined some of the alleged slander:, arid pito&
not guilty as to others. Tee trill became. therefore, ar t
iii-
ventinaijon into the truth of the Intlecrnt charges which the
defendant had made against the phi till, and the details of
which are tel tit fir publicatien. the jury returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiti, damages a. 50.

As is usual when any Parisian celebrity disappears,
anecdotes attriltulAd to him begin to rain upon the reading
public. Here is one of the it,, hschild series ttone one was
Imatting of los noltitity. " IV. not ..1 my title of heron that
I am proud," said he, 'that dates only from ISC2, my nohlity
is ,'der than that which reaches to the crusa.les; it goes tip
to the Deluge ; hut here is a little man," he continued,
pointing to M. Albeit Cohn, and who Jost then entered the
room, "herein a little man n ore noh.e than the Kier f
Prance. He in • deseendatt of Aaron the prophet" The
"titus man" in question was the oonlidant ot the Boron's
tnnuserobbi kind idiom.