The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-25 00:00:00

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HOME. V.,REIGN, AND COLGNIAL.

MATERIAL FOR PAPER WANTED. Several
paper manufacturers of the East of France have
Jointly offered as a prize a medal and the sum of
4,0001., to whomsoever will produce and apply in
Fran.* any economical filamineous matter which, in
the state of paste, may serve for the manufacture of
paper, and which, when mixed with thrue-foorths of
rags, shall make a paper if as fine it quality as if made
of rags alone. Medals will also be given (i.) for the
best processes for discolouring and bleaching rags,
for the best size for paper; (iii.) for an apparatus or
any process which may neutralise the electricity which
develops itself in the paper while It is in the machine,
and which is hurtful to its manufacture ; (iv.) for a
statistical work on the state of the paper manufac-
turing industry in the principal roman. of Europe
and in America.

A WISE PR eca TI cm —Many years ago, (aays the
Court Journal) long before the Crimean war, Lord
Cardigan was going to have the band of his regiment,
the 11th Hussars, with ths cherry-coloured trousers, at
Deene•park, to entertain a large party. The band was to
lodge at farmers' houses near the park. Lord Cardigan
was so afraid that these handsome fellows in uniform
might produce atoo pleasingimpression on the wives and
daughters of his tenants, that he sent his steward round
with the offer of a sum of money to each husband to
pay the expense of Rending the female grown-up mem-
bers of his family to the seaside, or anywhere else, out
of harm's way. .

TRE FATE OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.—WO (Fidel)
extract the following from a private letter, dated the
nth inst. :

My sister has Just reeeived a letter from Dr. Kirk, Consul
at Zanzibar, to eay that letters from Dr. Livingstone have
reached him : that the doctor is quite well, and will shortly
arrive at Cairo: and that he mends a letter from Dr. Living-
stone himself to Mr. --. This letter has not yet waived,
Livingstone's sepoys and !liners all deserted him, and killed
his baggage animals: but he went on alone, and hint got
through the part of the country he wanted to Visit by
himself.

THZ NIARQLTIS OF HCrNTLY AT AN INDIAN
BOAR Huwr.—A correspondent of the Bunff,thire
Journal, writing from Mulhatte Station, East India
Railway, under date Feb. 21, describes a boar hunt
which had taken place recently, in which the Marquis
of Huntly had a narrow escape. The correspondent
says :—" The Marquis of Huntly, in company with
four other distinguished gentlemen, came out to lodia
on a tour of pleasure, and I believe they have enjoyed
the trip exceedingly well. The Marquis of Huntly
was the guest of his Highness the Newel), at Moor.
shedabad Palace. A large party, in company with
these noted gentlemen, went out to Raja Serai, pig.
sticking. Twelve experienced horses being employed,
the company remained for about two days, having
speared thirty boars. The Marquis of Mostly had a
very narrow escape. A tremendous wild boar WAS
speared, and the infuriated animal cut up one of the
horses and seized the Marquis of Huntly by the foot
but without doing him any injury. The marquis
killed two deer in the same neighbourhood."
THE MAY MEETINGS IN LONDON. These
meetings, though commonly known as the "May
meetings," ought, properly speaking, to be called the
anniversaries of the various religious and benevolent
institutions of the United Kingdom, to be held during
the months of April, May, and Tune; for the lirst of
them was held at Exeter-hall on Monday vening, the
20th, and the last of them will not be held until the
28th of June. From the list just published it appears
that during that period thirty-nine sermons, seventy
meetings, three breakfasts, two soirles, one conference,
one conversazione, and one special Communion service
are set down for celebrating the anniversaries. The
bulk of the meetings will be held, as usual, at Exeter.
hall, but several are fixed for the Hanover-square
rooms, Willis's.roonis, St. James's-hall, Freemasons'.
hall, the Loudon Tavern, the Metropolitan Tabernacle,
&c. The meetings of the charity schools of London
will. ace 411ing to lon;•establisheil custom, be held at
Paul's Cathedral .es the 4th of June, and that of
the Society for the Propagath at of the Gospel at the
Mansion-house, the L.ird Mayor in the chair, on
Jane 25.

ROMANCr: IN A WORKHOUSE—The Aylesbury
Board of Guardians have just been dealing with an
extraordinary case. For some time past they have
had in the workhouse a little boy who was born at
Stone, but respecting whose paternity very strange
stories have been told. Sir Charles Fox has written
to the guardians, saying that, having been acquainted
with the child'e late father, he had been endeavouring
to make some arrangement for having him placed
where he would be sure to ho taken care of, and he had
succeeded in obtaining for him a nomination to the
Little Boys' lime; and Sir Charlee offered to disburse
any expense the Aylesbury guardians had been or
might be put to in connection with the caee. It was
incidentally stated amongst the guardians, from further
inquiries, that when the child came of age he would be
entitled to property amounting to several thousands of
pounds. The clerk was directed to ask Sir Charles
Fox for an appointment whither the boy should he
taken. This appointment was duly kept, and the
little fellow has been transferred to his new home. •
MEMORIAL TO SERGEANT BREIT.—A beautiful
stone tablet, in memory of the victim of the Hyde-road
outrage, has just been erected in St. Barnabaa's Church,
Rodney-street, Manchester. It exhibits some excellent
specimens of carving. The inscription is as follows :
Erected by the minister and congregation, In mammy of
Charles Brett, police seminal, of this city, who for many
ye era worshipped In this church, until he fell at his post of
duty, a victim of the violence of sedition, on the nth of
September, 18f7. A faithful man. Though proffered life,
he chose a cruel death rather than betray hi, trust.
Sergeant Brett was a regular attendant at the
church, and had earned the respect and esteem of all
the congregation.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—Con-
siderable consternation has prevailed at Sible Heeling.
ham, Essex, in consequence of the discovery of the
dead body of the Rev. T. Naieh, in a ditch, near
Monks Farm. The deceased gentleman had officiated
for the last three years as curate to the Rev. H. War-
burton, rector of Sible Hedingbam, Essex. He had
been dining at Toppesfield Rectory, and set out to
walk home between seven and eight p.m. He, how-
ever, never reached home alive. Mrs. Naish, alarmed
at his absence, and knowing that he was subject to
fits, caused a search to be instituted, but her husband's
body was not discovered for several hours, when it
was found in a ditch as above stated. There were no
marks of violence upon the deceased, and he is sup-
posed to have died from suffocation on falling into the
ditch whilst in a fit. At an inquest held on Monday,
the jury, after hearing that the deceased was quite
cheerful and rational when he left Toppestield Rectory,
attributed his death to Accidental Causes.
A SILLY lIOAX.—The sudden death of ber
Majesty the Queen was announced with much circum- !
stantiality on Saturday evening, at Bridgewater, and
the rumour obtaining rapid currency excited the
utmost consternation. Telegrams of inquiry were,
however, despatched to London, and it being discovered
that the report was a false one, expressions of relief
and thankfulness were general. The police set to work
to discover the author of the statement, and before
midnight arrested a man about fifty years of ago, who
gave the name of James Smith, a schoolmaster, of
Guernsey, and who admitted having, "for a joke,"
circulated the announcement.

THE VERY LATEST IN VENTlON.—Another in-
vention from America is reported in the French papers,
one which promises to be as useful as the steam man
btos post icho, or artificial babies, for promoting the
comfort and tranquillity of travellers who dislike com-
pany. These infants when wound up utter such
dreadful cries that chance passengers avoid the car-
riage which contains one. They are advertised
thus:—

The Imkt kind with voices very shrill and chant, ranging
over five octaves at will. ten dollars the same, but without
cessation, fifteen dollar. Of the second class, nttering
screams not so tofu, but lamentable and insupportable, five
dollars. Third class, ordinary Intermittent cries, as if from
alarm, ran he carried in the pocket, two and a half dollars
hese infants are warranted for a year, and in elegance and
natural appearance leave nothing to be desired.

HoNvsr WORK.—A correspondent in the Queen
says "that John Leech lever trusted to his own know.
ledge or imagination when he could obtain a model or
an original whence to sketch his pictures. If he had
a work to illustrate, he first read the work to gain a
thorough knowledge of the characters lie was expected
to depict. To give an example, one of the pictures he
had to draw for me was that of a minuet, in which
many of the characters of the work were engaged.
Some illustrators would have glanced at the text and
drawn such a picture from imagination. Not so John
Leech. Having read the book carefully, he went to
the principal ballet master of the day and asked him
to dress and arrange a minuet for him, and this being
done, he sketched the dance from the life, throwing
into it merely the characteristics of each figure as
conveyed in the work, and the result was beyond
criticism, and immensely satisfactory to me. One of
the remarks of hunting men always was how w onder-
Italy all Leech's horses were drawn, and how perfect
all their appointments were, not a strap or a buckle
ever being over out of place; and this was the secret
of it. No person, be he ever so clever an artisit, can
, hope to attain excellence by any less careful, laborious
I method than this; and anyone with artistic taste, by

sheer applies*,
.on and perseverance, rosy well hope for
„Irmo- oen they see what John Leech's earliest

_..gs were.

MACHINERY FOR THE BALLOT.—Mr. Arnold.,
in a letter to The Times, gives an uccount of the
modern Greek ilystem of voting by ballot. The elector,
he says, receives pezfect and complete protection
against intimidation, for the vote is really and truly
secret. The machinery is very simple, resembling that
which is in vogue in our West-eml clubs. A ballot.
lox is provided hic each candidate ; one-half of the
Lox is painted white with the word "Yes." and the
other half is painted black with the ward 'No." As
the clerk pronounces the name of the candidate the
voter passes- his arm up a funnel about a foot long
until his hand feaches the division opening to the two
compartmeutejnto One of which, um.een, he drips his
bullet and votes according to his inclination. In the
box of every candidate there should be found a bullet
for every voter polled, and the watchers of the election
can therefore verify their observation. When the poll
is closed the " ayes " and "noes" are quickly counted
upon wooden frames, with holes sunk like those of a
bagatelle board. The bullets are poured over this
frame, and when all the holes are occupied there is no
doubt about the number so included.

A Worms° Bisuor.—The Bishop of Oxford
on Good Friday ',remind at Cuddesdon in the morn-
ing, and held three Confirmations in Oxford the same
day—the first at St. Mary the Virgin, at three p.m.; at
St. Thomas the Martyr later in the afternoon, and at
the Holywell Penitentiary the Name evening, at seven
p.m. Having already preached at Cuddesdon, besides
having two more Confirmations in prospect for the
same afternoon, it might reasonably have been
expected that his Lordship will excuse himself from
any needless addition to the service,; but with ho
accustomed zeal and energy, seeing the fulness of the
church when the Confirmation service was at an end,
he ascended the pulpit and delivered an earnest and
mod impressive sermon from the text, "Not fhi.l Malt,
bat ..Barabbas. Now liarabbas was a robber." Over
400 persons received the rite of Confirmation at the
three services.

6AMBLING IN PARlS.—Khalil Bey is one or the
deepest players in Paris, and his losses are sonietinies
fabulous (says the Court Journal). He upies the
aPartinehts tenanted by the late Lord Seymour, on
the Coulevard des Italiens. Each morning every
Parisian knows whether his Excellency has lost or won
at his club dnring the night. If the bhutters remain
closed till noon, it is evidence that the noble occupier
has been up all night to recover his loses; if they be
, open, it is an indication that he has won, and having
gone to bed early, has risen early. At his club the
the other evening a gentleman "took a hand" at
baccarat with guinea points, and gained nearly £4,000
by four o'clock in the morning.
A SIIAM SOICIDE.—Much interest has been
lately excited in Vienna as to the fate of a man named
Werner, director of a large brewery in that city. A
few days since the journals announced that he bad
committed suicide. Lu fact, on his table WY found a
letter in which he announced his intention to di so,
and a pool of blood on the flour seemed to indicate
that he had already made an attempt to put an end to
his life. Shortly after a hat and coat were discovered
on the banks of the Danube, and retogniseil as having
belonged to him. He was then supposed to have
drowned himself. The motive was attributed to the
distress he suffered from deafness. However, the body
could not be found, and the authorities consider they
have now reason to believe that he has simply ale
sconded to escape the consequences of numerous false
entries made in his books.

RATE•COLLECTING DEFAULTERS.—A return has
been published of the number of defalcations which
have occurred on the part of the parochial collectos
of taxes in Great Britain within the last 20 years, the
different 8111114 80 lost, and the number of cases in
which the Treasury did and did not compel the
parishes concerned to be re-assessed. The metropolis,
on both sides of the Thames, seems to have been par-
ticularly unfortunate. In the county of Middlesex
there were .37 cases; and in the county of Surrey 29;
a large majority in both counties being within the
metrorolitan district, and in many cases the defalca-
tions were for heavy amounts. The largest defalca-
tions referred to in thsso returns owurred at Liverpool
in 1866, when the amount, as far as could be ascer-
tained, was £15,63.3 17s. 1.1. ; and the total sum re-
covered scarcely exceeded £3141. No re-assessment has
yet been made in this case ; but the subject is under
consideration. We learn from the return that there
has been no loss to the revenue by the defalcations of
collectors of taxes in Scotland within the last twenty
years.

ONE LEITER DIFFERENT.—A new word might
be introduced to express the whole art mid mystery (4
Croquet—Croquetry. The objection, perhaps. to thies
neologism is, that pei plc might confound it with
coquetry, with which reprehensible diversion the game
can, of course, have no possible connection.—Punek.

THE SNUFF-BOX GUN.-It has been recently
preached from the high places of the world that the
best mode of preserving peace is to be prepared for
war. Guided by this principle, the whole valid popu-
lation of certain great states have been made liable to
military service, and the labour and industry of those
who are not actually taken into the ranks of the army
are diverted from the arts of peace to works of war.
Proceeding in this order of ideas, it is pratifying to
find the perfection which has been attained in the
details of the art of war. For instance, the following
satisfactoiy results were obtained from the trial of
a new gun—called the snuff-box musket—at Vin-
cennes:—

A great lumber of planks were ranged in order in an
extensive live. On these boards Norris of soldiers were
drawn of a natural size and ranged in regimental order. A
single line of Chasseurs de Vincennes was arson up at 1.2,10
metres front these pictured enemies, and ordered to tire
during three minutes. It was ascertained that each,painted
soldier was struck by four balls.

No doubt the publication of the results of this experi-
ment, which took place only at the close of last week,
is intended as a contribution to the maintenance of
peace.

RESTRICTING THE LIBERTIES OF THE PRESS.—
A correspondent at St. Petersburg, writing on the sth
inst., says :

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Much consternation has been produced among journalists
here by the news that the press. which has for the last few
years enjoyed a certain amount of liberty, is again to be sub-
mitted to the arbitrary control of the polke. The author of
this measure is Count Schouvabd. stud there se.mis to be every
probability of ito receiving the sanction of the Emperor. The
Cinnt, whime influenee in very stripeg at Court, liu already
done much to restrict the few privileges the press formerly en-
joyed. The press is now torbidden to puhlish, without a
special authority from the fi.iverument, the reports of pro-
vincial and municipal assemblies, sod of military and other
trials : and several newspapers, such no the Morkvilch and
the Vsieinirnyi Tztvi, have been suspended, in the teeth of
the law, without any previous warning.

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THE DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF A CHILD
IN A CAB.—The coroner's inquest has been resumed at
Guy's Hospital, London, respecting the alleged murder
of a male child, whose body was left in a hansom cab
by a lady and gentleman, whn had been driven in the
vehicle from Gracechurch.atreet to South Hackney
Church. It was proved that the child had been mur-
dered by suffocation ; but no evidence had been obtained
as to the identity of the persons who hired the cab.
The jury returned an open verdict

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF' A LADY.—
A matter of a very mysterious nature is now engaging
attention at Lancaster. On Goad Friday, a widow
lady of independent insane, residing in that town,
visited Morecambe, and on returning in the evening
discovered that she had lost her purse and money.
She than set off along the main road to walk to More-
cambe, and was met at eight o'clock'about two miles
from that place. Since that time however, no tidings
have been heard of her, notwithstanding all her friends
have been communicated with, and printed notices
offering a reward, as well as giving a good description
of her, have been circulated. The lady's sudden and
mysterious disappearance has canoed considerable
speculation as to what has become of her. She is
about 50 years of age.
Tag END OF A TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE.—An
inquest has been held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the
body of James Allen, aged between GO and 70 years,
who died sudd .nly in a lodging house. The deceased,
it was stated, was a native of Kilbarchan, in Renfrew-
shire. He was a cotton spinner by trade, and was at
one time a fellow worker and companion of Dr.
Livingston.. He had told a gentleman in Newcastle
that he and the African traveller purchased their first
Latin grammars together. For many years prior to
1800 he was a very successful temperance lecturer, bat
for the last seven or eight years he hail given himself
up to drinking. The jury found that death had been
accelerated by excessive drinking._

INCOME OF THE PRINCE 01, WALES.—It Seems
probable that this idea of a residence in Ireland will
be made the pretext for an increase in the allowance
granted by Parliament to the Prince of Wales (says
the Spectator). We trust this is not the case. Such
a bargain would take away all grace from the con.
cession, and leave on the minds of Irishmen an im-
pression that the heir to the Throne would not reside
among them unless well paid for the sacrifice. Con-
sidering the incomes of the nobles among whom he
must live, the Prince's income is not large, and, despite
the enormous wealth of the sovereign, wealth quite
without precedent in our annals, Parliament might
fairly be asked for another grant. lint there should be
no attempt to connect the demand with this Irish visit,
or with the " loyalty " of any political party whatever.
It ale mid be made fairly and distinctly on the ground
that the splendour of the monarchy must, while it
endures, be fittingly supported,
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TIIE FAMINE IN FIN LAND.—The Ler4A Mercury
gives some particulars from a letter written by Mr.
Thomas Harvey with reference to the terrible famine
that still prevails in Finland. "The inhabitants, in-
cluding farmers possessed of land, have been driven to
have recourse to meal ground from straw to mitigate
their hunger, and they have paid the penalty in painful
bowel complaints, tumours, dropsy, and death. Bread
has also been made of hay, of stems of peas, and of
husks of malt ; but these wretched substitutes have
failed to stay the progress of the famine, and it has
swept before it the inhabitants of whole villages, whose
lifeless and emaciated bodies have alone remained to
memorialise at once their past existence and their
suffering." A subscription from England and from
Ireland, amountirg to near £3,000, has been remitted
to the most distressed districts. It is now proposed to
raise money for a loan to the people of Finland, to
enable them to make such improvements in the soil as
would prevent the recurrence of the famine. Mr.
Wilson Sturge of Birmingham, takes charge of the
contributions for this object.

AUSTRALIAN PEARLS.—EIeven very beautiful
pearls, varying in size from the smallest shot to the
largest pea, have been exhibited in Melbourne. They
were found at the new pearl fishery of Western
Australia, at which place a large fleet of small vessels
are engaged in the trade, and as the pearl shell is very
plentiful, and is worth about £llO per ton in the
London market, it has opened a 'very profitable trade.
The pearls above mentioned were fully equal in colour
to the finest oriental pearls.
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT COlNS.—While work-
men were digging for the site of a new building in
Trongate, Glasgow, a few days ago, they came
upon a number of coins, embedded in the clay a few
inches under the surface. It ia believed that there
were about 100 pieces in all, but they had got dispersed
ant carried off by the men before anything was said of
the inatter. By considerable effort, however, elitity

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of the case haverbeen recovered, and of those nearly
thirty are clearly recoknisable as Elimbethab. All of
them are much worn, hut theimpreseion can, in almost
eve'', instance, be readily made out.. Th-te are six or
eight of King James's Irish pieces. Al! these bear
traces of long circulation, and in some cases the irre-
gularity of the edges would seem to indicate that tin y
had been clipped. The coinage of Charles is as
numerously represented ag that of Elizabeth. Of the
Scotch 40-penny pieces two or three are in very per-
fect condition. Others have been a go. sl deal knocked
about., but the small size and thinness of this coin
seems to have saved it from being sweated." The
whole 4.1 the pieces seem to have been coined-by the
old Prowls,' of hammering. The edges bear no trace of
milling, and the impresiions in seine cases seem to have
been imperrectly made. A shilling of Charles, for
instance, looks as if, being twice struck, its position had
been shifted between the blows.

A MAD 1)03 IN A MILLINERY ESTABLISH-
IIENT.—The other day a terrier dog, under the effects
canine madness, rushed from the High-street,
Hartleisml, into the millinery establishment of Mrs.
Wilson, who employs upwards of a dozen young
women, The dog sprang through the workroom
window, but was unable to drag ita body through the
square, and fell down into the shop again. It rushed
behind the counter, flew upataird, capsizing a large
tlower-stand on the landing, and breaking all the IRAs
and scattering their contents down the staircase. l'he
WOllletl On the premises were in the greatest state of
alarm, and the wildest commotion existed, as the
animal was evidently labouring under the worst form of
111ad11,89. The animal ascended the stairs until it
reached the top of the house. A neighbour, armed
with a gun, went upstairs, and, with a well-directed
aim, blew the brute nearly to pieces before it had hurt
any one.
A "PROTEST AGAINST PoPERY." —At the
Newport Pagnell petty sedsions, Mr. Joe. Redden, an
auctioneer, of that town, was summoned at the
instance of the Burial Board under these singular
circumstances :

A month so, Mr. earr placed a tombstone In the Cemetery
there in memory or his Lite wife This stone, It ,esins, did
not meet the approval of the defoulant, because it happened
to be in the shape of • cross . and he accordingly disfigured
it by pasting upon it a largo sale bill. The defendant, on
being spoken loon the matter, said he had done so "as a
Protest against popery, for he thought all crosses bad a
(tarnish tendency."
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Th. Bench ptrongly animadverted on the defendant's
conduct, and lined him the full iieualty f {.:5 and
Li ie. 6d. cost.s, in default six weeks' impriionwent
with hard labour. The announcement of the sentence
was received with loud cheeri by the general public.

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ANGLING FXAT. —A 11 extraordinary angling
feat WM pet formed by Robert Macalister, gamekeeper
at Armathwaite Castle. While angling for trout
immediately below the Armathweite Bay his fly was
aeized by a salmon, which after a few preliminary rolls
took it into his head to sulk in one of his favourite
lairs. In these circumstances Mucalister was about
to resort to the usual expedient of stirring him up
with a volley of stonoi, when a tine trout rose at one
of his droppers, hooked himself, and that made such
oommotion that his mighty brother of the deep was
quickly aroused from his slumbers. A most exciting
struggle now began. Down the rough bay stream
rushed salmon and trout pellrnell, Macalister holding
on like grim death all the while. Fortunately, in the
pool immediately below, the captives pulled up to take
breath, and after some nice manipulation were both
fairly exhausted and brought to bank. The salmon
proved to be Nibs. weight, and the trout one of the
average-sized Eden trout. Such a feat, performed
with a small rod and trout tackle, is not often recorded
among angling incidents and experiences.

Fawn .rnE ESUINES.—" A heated imagination"
may be defined to be—dreaming the house is on fire.—
Punch.

THE CoNvier Bisnor.—On Monday morning
the convict Richard Bishop, who is now lying in
Maidstone Gaol under sentence of death for the
murder at Forest Gill, had an interview with his
mother, when both were very much affected. Although
a petition has been forwarded on his behalf by his
mother, setting out that she believes the prisoner to be
of unsound mind, and the solicitor engaged in the
ease has also interested himself, very little hopes are
entertained of a respite, and that the sentence of the
law will be carried out on the 30th inst. The con.
&limed man appears to bis better educated than pri-
soners generally are, fie is quiet and subdued in his
demeanour; but he holds that, through his trial taking
place within so short a time after the commission of
the offence, he has been unjustly treated. lie says he
was drunk at the time, and had he an opportunity
of making his defence, ho thauld have proved it. The
murdered man, Alfred Grrtwright, has left a widow
and three young children.

A iOu-DLY- CoMPANY.—TIie following invita-
tion, in the shape of a placard, is now being widely
circulated in Al anchexter :
The Sheffield llalieluJah Band —The above remarkable
band of Christian men have amongst them reformed
drunkards, converted thieves, race-runners, dog-fighters,
gamblers, and prizefighter. who have beet, notorious ring.
leaders in the Devil's service. lint, having been converted to
God, are now lalmuring for the conversion of others These
men, in connection with preachers and leaders of all ii
nations, will conduct special revival services on Sunday,
April 12, 1563, and following Sundays, in the Irwell Dining-
room, LontioAroad, Manchester. Time of sortie every
Sabbath at half-peat ton, half-past two, and sin tielock
Open.air services in connection with tho clove services
Collections after each service to defray expenses. By order
of the committee, John 12nwin, treasurer.

TILE LATE HUNTING SEASON,—Looking back
upon the past fox-hunting season of '67 and '6B,
from the first week in August, (n-marks a writer in
Land and Water) we never remember one more vari-
able as to weather, no three consecutive days in any
week being alike, changing often frotn the extreme of
cold to almost the genial warmth of spring. Christ-
moselay felt like the tat of May, and no doubt would
have produced a rare scent, if hounds bad been per-
mitted to hunt on such a morning. Upon referring,
however, to our diary, in which every (lay has been
noted down with its variatt no of weather, we have
come to the conclusion that, barring frost, which stops
us all, no serious iimmiliment has been presented to
sport, when hounds have been permitted to adhere to
their legitimate mode of doing business in their own
way. Loud outcries, we know, have been raised in
many countries about want of scent—want of sense in
masters or icon would be the more appropriate com-
plaint. Most people have heard the lawyer's course
of condnet in a bad cause. " When you have no case,
abuse the plaintiff." Si, when himtmien and hovinds
are at fault—the former from want lif judgment, and
the latter from lack of nose—the weather is abused
most soundly ; and fortunately for them, this greatly.
insulted defendant has nothing to say in its defence.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—Mr. John Richardson,
coroner for Ibirtomon-Trent, n-ferring to the CRS° et
the disputed identity of a body recently discovered at
Hackney-wick, London, writes
The recent dispute as to the identity eta dead holy Las re-
minded nie of a case which came under icy Omer, stion two
or three yeare ago. I held an inquest .in the body of a man
found drowned in the river Trent, which was adjourned fort
week to afford an opportunity for inquiry into the circum-
stances, and to ascertain the identity of the deceased. In
the interim two respectable ^lell claimed the body as that of
their brother, who had for a Short time been missing from
his home. Their claim wan allowed, and they burled the
body In Burton churchyard as that of their missing brother.
At the adjourned inquest, however, their supposed deceased
brother appeared hi his own proper person In excellent
health and spirits, the parish authorities reimbursing the ex-
penses which his kinsmen had been at In the funeral. Tile
body was never identified.

STEAM GENERATE) TIT (JA9.-011 Tuesday a
party of scientific and other gentlemen witnessed the
working of machinery by the process known as
"Jackson's Patent," at Lyon's-wharf, one of the large
granaries near Queenhithe, London. The principle
is simply the substitution of gas for coal, but in such
a form that great power can be obtained in a small
space, and with such an absence from rink that the
fire insurance offices do not call for additional premium
where it is used. The machinery which illustrated
the working of the process was erected by Middleton,
engineer, of Southwark, and in a space od about Gft.
by sft. thelliower was supplied for raising sacks of
grain from the barges in the river at four different
places at once. The boiler will generate steam from
cold water in twenty minutes after the gas Is lighted,
and when once generated steam can be kept up by one
burner at the most trifling cost. The system requires
no skilled stoker, there is no brickwork, chimney, fire-
bars, nor smoke, and its advantages are so obvious that
it is being applied to many of the warehouses where a
raising force of a few home power is required. In such
cases gas is far more economical than coal, but where
very great power is required ordinary fuel must be
used.

CHARGE OF ComturrioN.—At the meeting of
the Legislative Aesembly of the State of New York,
on the ht inst., Mr. Glenn, a representative from
Wayne county, read the following statement to the
House :

1, E. at. K. Olefin, a member of this House, from my
seat in this House, de charge as follows :-1, I charge that
the report on the Erie Railroad Bill was bought , 2, I charge
that a portion of the vote on this floor, in adopting the said
report, was bought , 3, I charge that members of this Rouse
were engaged in buylt,g their fellow.members ; 4, I charge
that a portion of the vote on the Harlem Milk Bill was
bought 5, I charge that some of the committees of this
House charge for reports 6, I charge corruption, deep, dark,
and damning, on a portion of this House.
After an ercited debate a committee was appointed
to investigate the charges.