The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-13 00:00:00

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'mat FO la; 3N, AND COLONIAL.

THE ROMANCE OF ADVERTISING—The following
are from The Times:—
Canada to C. A —Thanks, many thanks for that very kind
letter of Thursday, the 2Slh."
" Willie, Willie, Willie. In great trouble."
" Who's Willie ?—insert proper name and address."
" engineer has escaped from the Maories, saving
nothing hut his scalp. Mutual enemies should make mutual
friends. nu wanted."

-II It. E.—My dear boy, communicate with your father,
at Messrs. Grindlay and Co.'s, 55, Parliament-street."
'• Richard Hubbard.—lnformation is required as to
Richull Hubbard, who, in 1027, was described it a chair.
maker. at High-row, Knightslitidge, and who has not 1.41
heard of for shod twenty years. lie would, if living, lot, now
shut iot years of age. Any person supplying evilly!. id his
death, or his ikt.ent 11.1.11. e. if living. woal lie Mina). re-
wariest by bits-vs veonluigamlco., solicitors, 0, Tokenhouse-
yard, £.C.--25111 May, 1060."
" A 8.-1 have suspicions ; but how can I art without
hearing from you? Remember the disgrace you bring upon
me. lit am right ym will understamithis ;if wrong, it does
not matter."

•• June 4tl,—To E —Fainire attsnds every eff.,rt to
connect the January Insertion." I Mid no record. If seen,
did hint Ti comise I entreat an address, in h4noranee of all
how can 1 act as you wish I Let me not plead in vain. As
ever. yours, —"

lAI LUG ENT JURYMEN. Sir W. Earle in
the course of his evidence on juries. was asked whether
it would be advisable to give juries desks and v citing
paper on which they might take notes. The learned
gentleman made no direct reply to this inquiry, but
sail that "the most intelligent and best juries %with
whom he had been brought in contact patiently listened
in silence to all the evidence and all the speeches, and
then found a verdict for the plaintiff or the defendant."
A talkative juror is fortunately rarely met with,
but Sir W. Earle evidently thought that the tempta-
tion to cross-examine would prove irresistible if once
juries got into a habit of taking copious notes.
"EVERY Duo HAS !us DAY."— Several of the
Paris papers have given as the "event of the day"
the death of the Emperor's favourite dog Nero—a
catastrophe which occurred "almost suddenly." Nen,
was a .s.markaley tSiie lcuglisr. setter. . I VAT dark
brown colour, without a single spot of white. He Wa3
born at Strasbourg in 1861, and when a line pulpy was
presented to the Emperor by his Chamberlain NI.
Boulack. The sculptor l'arpeaux's chisel has im-
mortalised Nero in a group, in which the Prince Im-
perial is represented patting him on the head. The
dog lived entirely in the Emperor's apartments in the
Inileries, and was never suffered to go out with any
one but his master. The Emperor was in the habit of
feeding him himself. 'The Empress does not like dogs,
but the Prince Imperial took G. Nero, and it will be
remembered that Nero had the honour of routing up,
in the CompiZegne preserves, the first pheasants that the
Prince ever shot at.
As IrNIA:CICY ENGIN E.—A most singular and
fatal accident occurred on the Brecon and Merthyr
Railway, on Saturday evening last. As one of tire
luggage trains was proceeding in the direction of
I nom the driver fancied he saw something wrong
with his engine, and stretched himself as far as he
omit on one side to get a view of its movements, when
just at that moment his head came in contact with a
telegraph-post, killing him on the spot. On Monday
I this particular engine was again the conspicuous actor
in another tragedy. A new engine-driver had it in
charge, and was going at the usual speed towards
Talybout, when, from some cause or other, the engine
ran wil•I, and passing through Talybout at a tre-
mendous speed ran some distance, and then over-
turned itself down the embankment, pulling the
carriages after it a heap of wreck and ruin. ihe jx.or
engine driver was found under his engine much injured,
but it is thought not fatally. For a long distance the
railway was covered with luggage, and so cut up that
the passengers by subsequent trains had to get out and
walk some distance. Had the Brecon and Merthyr
train been coming up in the direction of Talybout at
the time, there is no doubt but there would have been
I a frightful accident.
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THE DRINK AGAIN !—A melancholy circnm-
stance has occurred at'the island of Jersey, involving
the death of three soldiers of the Royal Artillery,
stationed at Elizabeth Castle. It appears that one
day last week George Sidworthy, James Willett, and
Charles Wood, gunners, left the castle in a boat
belonging to the canteen keeper, intending to have an
excursion on the water. They crossed St. Aubin's
Bay, and landed at the town of St. Aubin, where they
remained till the evening, drinking freely. About six
o'clock they left for the purpose of returning to
Elizabeth Castle. They were then all very drunk.
Nothing more was seen or heard of them or the boat
, till the latter was picked up la' e in the evening,
floating bottom upwards in the bay. About eleven
o'clock next morning the body of one of the three
missing men was picked up on Ncirtrumt manor, where
it hail been washed ashore. Though the face was
greatly disfigured from its having been eaten by
crabs, the body was recognised as that of Charles
Wood.
HANGING TIIE WRONG MAN! An American
paper incidentally mentions an instance in which
Lynch law has miscarried in the State of lowa. A
vigilance committee took upon itself to hang one Mr.
Roberts, a supposed horse thief, between Jonesville
and Waverlev. It subsequently turned out that the
horses alleged to have been stolen bad not been stolen
at all, lent hail only been "borrowed by two tipsy
men, who had ridden them as far as Cedar Falls, and
had then turned them loose. Warrants have been
. taken out against the perpetrators of this murder, one
I if whom is said to be the sob-sheriff of the country ;
but a wealthy and influential party has declare,' itself
in favour of Lynch law afid its anhnin•istrators, on the
constitutional principle that authority must be sup-
ported, even at the cost of the life of an innocent man.
AN INDIAN'S SPEECIL—The following speech
was made by an Indian chief, at a "big talk" held
recently on the plains :
We want more ammunition, therefore we have sent for
you we want no white man north of the Ore.waggon coal;
the fire-waggon road shall not branch out ; one arrow
straight road ; no forks; one good post trader at Laramie ;
no more ; red man wants no more presents but powder
situ
lead ; blankets no more meal commissions and agents all
the AMC as Wankel+ ; you go home; all white men go home;
red man owns the last; who will care for mother nowt
RUMOURS or WAR—The war rumonis are
again reviving inn the Continent. The Paris corre-
spondent of the Norl is very explicit As to the time
when hostilitisw may be expected to commence. This
will not be before the new French loan and the close
of the season. In short, we may hope to enjoy about
two months more of peace. The views of the French
I loves nment, he declares, are precisely defined on this
point, and the .Ministers, in their private conversations,
are agreed on the eventuality I if a proximate war.
Forei;at political personages and competent military
men regard the armaments anti preparations of France
, as indicating war. Prince Napoleon's recent move•
ments seem to have put all these rumours once more
into circulation ; but there can be little doubt that their
existence is mainly due to the fact of Marshal Niel's
' being at the head of the army.
' Toe RELIGION OF PRISONERS. From the
return which was recently issued of the county and
borough prisoners of different denominations, we find
prisoners clawsed under the head of no less than twenty-
seven different sects. The prooort 1011 of members of
the Church of England is aocut 75 per ent. of thk:
whole number, and the following SeetS 311, represented
by the remaining ‘..1 per cent. •.—Weelevan, Baptist,
Primitive Methodist, Independent, 'F'yeal!yteri an,
Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Mormon, 'Unitarian, Cal.

—vi—ni—st, Jew, Methodist, Free Church, Bilge Christian.
Nonconformist, Quaker, Plymouth Brethren, Ranters,
Peculiar I 'eople, General Baptist, Reformer, Methodist,
Greeks, Welsh Baptist, Mahomunalan, Countess of
Hunting& al, Calvamistie Methodist Some have never
entered a place of worship, some have no fixed idea of
religion, and some are described as having no religion
whatever.

SHE:HEWN° THE S raJts. —k gentleman of the
Temple, London, received his laundress's bill, made
Out in the style of spelling and handwriiing peculiar
to that class ; but there was .ate item of ls. OA which
ijelled even his practised comprehension. It was for
"skewering the stars." After wondering for some
time how such a wink could ever have been per-
formed, and still more why it should have been exe-

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...HtetiTpartielthrly at his eXpelltiV, the dehtor bent for
Mrs. Pearlash, when the reudiug turned out to be for
"scouring the stairs."
LIGHT PORTE.:a W. RH AND lIKATT PAT.—

Mr. Lataaichere I.tated in the Howe of Colniaqa4 that

aqweial 1111Agiolui had cost £15,000, griinied for
the purpotie of carrying the Garter to foreign Sovereigns.
What w, alb I they say id this at, Washington? Perhaps
that anyhtidy was fit enough to carry a garter to a
Sovereign who was tit to carry interiors to a plantigrade
of the ursine family,-

THE WAY TUBULE THE WAVP S. —The thanks
of the British notion are due to the Adniiralty for
having provided it with Naval Defences, described by
the Tiniss as '' a fleet of ironclad broadsides, which can
only fire their guns in such exceptional weather as can-
not fairly be anticipated for a naval action." It may
be said that these Men-of-War, like Knickerbocker'
Dutch Emigrant Ship, are likely to be particularly
great in a clam. But perhaps that is too much to say;
sind all that can be safely asserted is. that the British
Navy will be unable to fight in rough water—Punch.

TB B. PCIF OBL gi7F. ! —Anaccount ofs, fashion-
able wedding, occupying half a column in the Moran,,
Posl, ends with the following sentence ,--

" The lockets wont by the bridesmaids, seven in number,
were 18-carat gold, machine made, w ith the initials,
and • V. H.' in red, white, and blue enamel in ielief on one
side, and on the reverse able a k ' it. enamel, ayoulndieal
405 Wales, and were manuf,ctured by Mr. -, of baste
street, Itlank-strect." If this sort .d thing go on, we
(Pall WWI (Jaz, t,e) shall presently read such parag,aphs as
the following Denbt J. heard., accompanied by as
gentleman in plain aithe... kit town ye,terday by the

eat Northerti Railway. The member Cu. At bloite v:-or; a
tams.ive Albert chain and Balmoral .t lois, supplied by Nle*sra
Flummery ,uhl Puff. the emineht jewellers and goblmitlai, of
. . . . . .

TimmoileAtou-street or that `'.Nlr. Disrael ill 1.6111. Z to
mpport the ~,,, tion ekt the 11. kn. member for ittttulrallalil
looked remarkably well hl hi new suit manufactilred lytir.
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All.gust9.a sole lAvelijor and !!ntel!tre..,.l tik; new

guinea Compound Householder trou,ers, ' und so forth.

- SIXTY YEARS IN A CAum. Tue Philaebiphia
Mc& col Reporter describes the case of a son if a
clergyman who haa just died insane at the age of
eighty-one, having become insane at college at the age
of twenty-one. According to this astounding state-
ment for nearly two years he was not confined. until
his father's life had been repewedly endangered by his
violence when he was restrained with chains for a
couple of years, and then Was placed in a stnaig cage
in the garret of the house, whence he never came forth
while he lived. No clothing could be kept 101 him ;
but in severe weather he wonbl allow himself to be

covered with a blanket, which lasted onlY till his pro-
pensity for destruction became stronger than his fear
of the cold. His cage was not high enough for him to
stand erect, and he remained constantly in a sitting
. . . . . .

I;tlire, leaning lask ?..74.ninst the timber When be slept':
Ills limbs e,tibi imt he straiAtene.l, his hair was
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never trimmed, and for cleanliness he received only
the attention given to a poorly kept animal. In fact,
he had kst all sppearance of a human being, alai had
nearly lost Lis faculty of speech. n. official or legal
investigation of his case. or his class of cases, has ever

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been niade by the Government, but he was left in this
pitiable, but impitied state, in the in it f a highly
enlightened and Christian people, to howl and shriek

anegroan, andsoffer the un'utt..erallle borroni of mental
nimbi. SS fix sixty years.

EL7LOW. M ON MR. GLADSTONE —III speaking
at a meeting called for the purpose of promoting the
election of Mr. Cdadsti or to the Chancellorship of
Edinburgh University, Dr. Guthrie made use of the
following etilogEnn of that gentleman :

I have spent days in the same house with Mr. Gladstone,
:tint I think it is becoming tue, as a Christian minister, on

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publie platform, and torture this piddle west:11110y, and
II it h the reporters hef.,ro me--slittering as Mr. filudAotte and
‘to on certain matters that each think of importance—to
say that I know no 111511 living! of 81ty Church or of ally
denomination. in hose 111111ibl I C..lllki 1110 re
.tpiel, the
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iiteiests I:my cause, Idug confident that he wlaild bring to
those interests all the bitchy and integt ity of a inan of the
Waited Christian principle and the most sterling eon.

srj,;ntiousness.

A R- • RKAIIL RAILWAY TERMINI-S.—Last
week the menthers and associates of the Society of
Engineers made a visit of inspection to the new
terminus of the Midland Railway, at King's-cross,
Loudon. The works are, indeed, well worth seeing,

in their present stage, which is sufficiently advancra
to indicate the character of the design as a whole. A
station 0.10 feet long is already spanned by 14 of the
25 main ribs which are to support ita arched roof, and
which, springing fnan side tin side, cover the enormous
distance of 240 feet. No roof no wide has ever before
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been raised. It is exactly double the span, to half an
inch, of the Agricultural Hall, at Islington. It exceeds
by many feet the measurement of the famed Itiding
School roof at Moscow, which is not nun, but wood.
It is ten yards wider than the neLthbouring terminus
of the Great Northern Railway. The nearest approach
in dimension to the unfinished structure at King's.
cross is the Cannon-street terminus ; but even that
gigantic work sinks into a mere dwarfish size by cont.
istrison. Moreover, the King's-cross edifice can lay
claim to architectural merit, as yet unapproached by
any building in connection with a railway. It istbe first
time, we believe, that Mr. George Gilbert Scott, R.A.,
has brought his accomplished powers to bear on works
of this kiwi ; am'. certainly the Gothic walls enclosing
the new station at the sides and southern cud will be
fitter than anything in the saute category.

HUNT INO 'rue t NOc Ettos. Sir Samuel Baker,
in the Ade Tritufaeirs of Atpsin la, gives a sketch of
a rhinoceros "run to earth",—" The excitement was
intense. We neared the jungle, and the rhinoceros
began to show-signs of flagging, as the dust puffed up
before their nostrils, and with noses close to the ground.,
they snorted as they still galloped on. Oh! for a fresh
horse. 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse'
We were within 200 yards of the jungle, but the horses
were all done. Tetel reeled DA I urged him forward,
1 uilur pushed ahead; we were close to the dense thorns,
aml the rhino:el-us broke into a trot; they were done.
Now, Taller; forrard! forrard! fi.rraril! Taller! away
he went. He was close to he very heels of the beasts,
but his horse oath], do no more than his present pace
Still he gained upon the nearest; he leant forward uith
his sword raised for a bhov ; another moment aml the
jungle would be reached. One effort more, and the
sword flashed in the sunshine as the rearmost rhinoceros
disappeared in the thick screen 44 thorns, with a gash
about a foot long in his hind quarters. Taller Sheriff
shook his bloody sword in triumph above his head, but

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the rhinocerm was gone."
SINGULAR OCCURRI•NCS 15 RrSSIA.—" An in-
cident has occurred at Moscow," says the Independence
Beige, "which may not be without interest to Western
readers. A few days back aM. Nikitine, cited before
a magistrate, anti condemned to pay a fine, so far
forgot himself as to give the judge a blow on the cheek.
He was, of course, immediately arrested, but, accord-
ing to usage, the magistrate thus outraged had to re.
sign. Two days after, at the meeting of the municipal
body (110anta) of Moscow, one of the members rose,
and, referring to the incident, which was the talk if
the whole city, declared that to encourage such acts as
that of M. Isfikitine by accepting the resignation of the
judge was sheer folly. (The magistrates are elected
by the Dolma, and are dependent MI it.) He con-
cluded by proposing an address to the outraged
dignitary, expressing the sentiment of profound
sympathy entertained liv the municipality, and insist-
ing on the withdrawal ol his resignation. The proposi-
tion was unanimously adopted, and the address wm
ilrawn up and signed la- the mayor, Prince
Stcherhatotr, and all the syndics. The answer of the
judge is not yet known.
MILTON'S STRATAGEM—The folltwing amusing
story is, amongst many others, recorded in "The Life
of Milton" :--
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The freedom and asperity of Milton's various attacks on
the character and prerogative of the ex-King rendered him
peculiarly obnoxious when the Restorat on was accom-
plished. Ti, save I • self, therefore, from the fury of the
Court which he had to highly incensed, and the vigilance of
which, from the emissaries employed, it became Si didieult
to elude, he 0011IliVed with his friends in effecting the ("Mir-
ing innocent imposture :—The report of Ids death so in-
iluszrionsly circulated that like credulity of the public
swallowed the bait prepared for them. The coffin, the
mmirners, and other paraphernalia if his funeral were ex-
hibited at his house stub the same formality as if he had
been really dead. An Image of him, as large AB life, was
actually formed, laid out, and put into a leaden coffin, and
the whole ceremony performed in all its parts. It it said
that when the truth was known, and he was found to be
3nee, notwithstanding the most Incontestible evidence that
he had been thus openly interred, the wits about the Court
if King Charles 11. made themselves exceedingly merry with
the strategem by which the poet hail preserved his Ii e. That
lively anil good-natured monarch experienced no little Katie-
far • in finding Mkt, by this ingenious expedient, his reign
had not been tarnished with the blood it a man, already
blind through application, infirmity. and age, and who, under
all his int-fortunes, had written Paradise Lost,
ALPII,sTu'TiCAt. LIST or REASONS. --A man gets
married from ambition, from blindness, from cunning,
from di votion, from eliriety, from folly, from giddi-
ness, from heroism, f roan idiocy, from jauntiness,
from kindness, front love, front malice, from noncha-
lance, from obstinacy, from pigheadedneas, from
quarrelsomeness, front raggedness, from spite, from
toadyism, from utilitarianism, from virtue, from want,
from (unknown quantity) youth, from zanyism. There
is a story of a man who got married because he in-
herited a four-post bedstead, and of a man who got
married because he bought a piece of silk cheap at a
sale, and wanted a wife to give it to.
A 5..1.40 STOM ten —The writer of "Echoes
from the Continent" in the Morning Recall is more
frank than delicate in his notices of the Empress of the
French. He says that when at Rouen her Majesty
said to M. Alma, deputy for Macro : —"I Amnia
much like a drtught of cider." "But, Madame, allow
me to remark respectfully that your Majesty has just
had Caine champagne, and that the mixture might---"
"Is it for my head or my stomach that you fear?"
" Four stomach, Madame." "In that case fear
nothing; mv stomach is an Plaid as that of a sailor."
Upon this the Empress quaffe I of a glass of the local
nectar, the bystanding coartiers raising an admiring
chorus of " Quelle belle digestion )"
BARNI'M itF.DIVIVUS.— Mr. Eiruum is a more
wonderful bird even than the American eagle. He is
phi-nix who sings " e'en in my ashes live tny wonted
tires." Although he ha. 4 loot to,, valuable collections,
he is undaunted by his ill-luck, and annonnces he will
open a third mitten:a on the Ist September. Au a
novel feature, he intends to exhibit the hats worn by
the most distinguished men and the gloves worn liv the
most noted ladies h. the world. "All these," says
1111. B -mum. "u ill be regularly classified, and will in-
clude those of emperors, Itiit.4s, presidents, potentates,
II costoopoliliin rlh•r: of both sexes ; statesmen of
renown, lirlVal MA military heroes, judges, leading
. gounsel, and other legal celebrities; bishops, cardinals,
and the most prominent divines ; poets and authors,
. professors of eminence in science and the arts; in •

word, all the leading men and women of the age." He
eats to the "genemusly.disposed public of Great
Britain to assist bun in his project"
THE ALLEGED MU EDEg BY A MILLER —The
inquest on view of the body of John GLlntin, the
poacher, who was shot by Mr. Keene, the proprietor
of • corn-mill near Leicester, was resumed on Monday
evening last. The Magistrates have committed Keehe
for trial (.11 a charge of wilful murder. At the inquest,
Mr. Walker, the prisoner's partner, swore that the
poachers advanced on nod menaced Keene, who
warned them to eep off; and that on one of them
deceased) rushing forward, he fired, and the man
fell, at least ten yards from the waterside. The jury,
alter being in consultation half an hour, as,ed the
coroner whether they could not be dismissed without
coming to a verdict ( upon which the coroner told them
that he should first lock them up all night. Another
hour and a half elapsed before the jury (fourteen in
number) returned a verdit of "Manslaughter against
the pa isoner Keene." It is sail that the reason for this
conclusion is that deceased fell sonic distance
.from the
water-side, and hence the belief that he had rushed on
the amused.

"No CHILDREN NOW-A-DAYS.—AWN intelli-
gence about a child of only six yearn ohL Her Mamma
says she is growing no fast Is it possible ! ! Are
, these the materials of which the girl of the future
period will be made ?—Punch.
TAKING SYRUP OF SINN4I. TOR lint SHRUB.—
Captain C--, who has been round the world twelve
times, formed the first temperance society in Mada-
gascar. The natives are hard drinkers, and will
imbibe anything which hai alcohol in it. A chief one
day. was Shawn into the cabin just as the captain was
taking a little medicine which was flavoured with
spirits, a pint bottle of which stood on the table.
,'thinking it rum, the chief eagerly asked fiir some,
and would not believe the captain's assertion that it
was medicine. Knowing his man, Captain C.—,
leaving the bottle, went to another part of the cabin.
The temptation was not to be resisted by the chief, and,
seizing the bottle, he drained a pint of the mixture at
one draught. The captain returning, resumed the
conversation. pretending not to notice the chief, who
turned as pale as his tawny complexion would nerinit,
and kept up a rubbing of his abdominal regions. He
twisted and turned in his seat a few moments, and
then, giving a yell, rushed out of the cabin, jumped
overboard, and swain for the shore. When next year
'aptain C-- revisited that harbour, not a drop would
the chief touch. Hi WaA the first and only member
of the first temperance society in Madagascar.
A CCRIOI a EXPERIMENT. - Take a piece of
pasteboard, about five inches square, roll it into a ti be
with one end just large enough to fit round thee
and the other end rather smaller. Hold the tube be.
tween the thumb and finger of the right hand (do not
,rasp it with the whole hand) ; put the large end
close against the right eye, ard with the left hand hold
a lsak a !ainst the side of the tube. he sure and keep
both eyes r pen, and here will appear to be a hole
through the Issik and objects seem as if through the
hole instead of through the tube. The right eye sees
through the tube, and the left eye sees the book, and
the two appearances are so confounded together that
they cannot be separated. The left hand can be held
against the tube instead of a book, and the hole will
seem to be seen through the hand.

A MinActimus E CAPE.—A startling accident
has happened at an isolated colliery in the Dowlais
district, which at first threatened the loss of IN/lives.
The colliers wcrking in the four-feet vein at the Ponty-
wain pit were greatly alarmed by the sudden outburst
of a large stream of water into their cross heading,
and a terrific race for life at once commenced, their
mandrils being left on the spot, and by (lint of the
must frantic exertion of strength the colliers gained
a place of safety. Some idea of the narrow escape
many of the men bad may be gathered from the
fact that for several seconds they were obliged to
struggle through water reaching nearly to the top of
their beads. The clearing the pit of the water will
not only require a great deal of time, but will entail a
heavy loss on the proprietors.
A Naw WAY OF CFI. BEATING THE BATTLE
Warstmoo.---At Apsley House, on the lath of June,
the old Duke of Wellington was wont for many years
to entertain all the survivors of those gentlemen who
once passed a very exciting Sunday with him in the
neighbourhasl of Brussels. The company hail sadly
dwindled down before the host himself I lied ; and with
his death the Waterloo Banquet naturally become a
thing of the past. Nevertheless, it is not without a
certain sense of surprise as well xii .leasure that we
learn the purpose to which the Waterloo ttallery is to
be applied on the approachin anniversary of the
battle. The famous room ii. w 0..., so many tough old
soldiers used to assemble at the table of the Iron Duke
has been granted to a well known clerieal elocutionist,
the excellent purpose of u hose " Reading " is to aid
the Working Men s Clubs. Assuredly the English
have no reason to be ashamed of the Battle of Water-
loo ; but we (Daily ldegmph,) question whether this
novel way of celebrating the lath of June is not infi-
nitely the best that has ever been adopted. It is all
very well to commemorate the bvegone triumphs of
our soldiery ; it is better still to help the working men
of the present day to help themselves. We cordially
wish success to the undertaking.
A FEMALE SENATOR.—A Washington corres-
pnalent thus describes Mrs. Senator Sprague :
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Her costume lains perfect as the lily or the rose. She is a
lilac blossom. Not a particle of jewellery is visible upon
her person. She has copied her Isainet from the pansy or
wood-violet. A single flower, of lilac tinge. large enough for
the "new style," re-ts upon her head, and is fastened to its
place by lilac tulle, so filmy that it must have 'wen stolen
from the mimic mist of the .ning. An exquisite walking
dress •.1 pale lilac silk has trimmings a shade darker, while
lilac gloves conceal a hand that 1117IrIt belong to the queen of
the fairies.
CRUELTY TO CALVES—At Liverpool, on Satur-
day, William Madder, a master butcher, appeared in
answer to three informations lis.sued at the instance of
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals), charging hint with cruelty to three calves.
They wire found in a cart tied down by the neck, and
had evidently been recently bled for the purpose of
whitening the flesh ; the straw upat winch they were
lying was saturated with blood, and each animal had
w4sind in its neck. The defendant said the calves
had been only treated as they had always been treated.
The Magistrate .41 that the sooner the practice was
put a stop to the better, for it was a very cruel one.
The defendant was fined 20s. and costs on each infor-
mation.

orders came to him for the little paper and envelopes
fmm all parts. This at length became such a demand
upon his time that be gut I)obbe and Co., of London,
to make them for him. Such (accordim; to the Star our)
was the beginning of the envelope trade.