The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Hospital Collections in Sheffield, on Sattirday
last amounted to £746.
A statue of Beethoven is to be unveiled at Vienna
on.the Ist of May.
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A telegram from Adelaide says that the crops are
in excellent condition, and it is estimated that the surplus
of wheat available for export this year will amount to 860,000
tons.

There were 34 British and foreign wrecks reported
during the past week, making a total for the year of 440, or a
decrease of 133 as compared with the corresponding period of
last year. The approximate value of property lost was
£620,000, including British £450,000

By a collision whieh occurred on Friday night on
last week on the Moscow and Brest Railway, 50 miles from
Moscow, between two goods trains, three men were killed
and five injured. Three locomotives were considerably
damaged, and ten waggons destroyed.
An energetic English bicyclist has made the tour of
the Lake of Geneva in thirteen hours, the distance- being
some 100 miles. -
Gerteral., Grant arrived 'At Vicksburg on Monday.
In a speech expressing pleasure a the cordiality of his re-
ception by the inhabitants, the general said that he knew
nothing could ever again array blue against grey, and pre-
dicted for the United States general prosperity and an united
people.
"The rumours which have been prevalent that Lord
Beaconsfield is in a state of great depression, and that his
health has suffered in consequence of the recent elections,
are quite unfounded. I am happy to sayhhat his lordship
was never in better health, and when the present crisis is
over will doubtless thoroughly relish a complete repose
among the sylvian groves of Hughenden."—The Wend.

Mr. Hugh Mason, M.P., and -Mr. J. R. Coult-
hard, the arbitrators in the matter of the '<avers' wages in
the Ashton-under-Lyne district,, have given the award in
favour of the operatives. The advance which they give is 2i-
per sent., making with the advance previously granted by
the employers 5 per cent., which was the amount for which
the operatives struck work. _

An exciting scene was witnessed off Devonport on
Tuesday. Thomas Davy, of her Majesty's ship Indus, fell
overboard from a boat alongside the ship, !the tide minting.
strongly at till time. Alarm was hinnediately given and
Thomas Adan't jumped overboard to save him. The tide
had carried Davy too far for Adams to reach him, and a life-
buoy also missed him, The drowning man was a good
swimmer, and a boat being qujeklglaunched, itovas hoped he
would be saved, but just before it was abreast of Davy
he sank, and neither gaappling hooks nor divers could
recover his body. ,
A Cabul telegram stab:A that a Durbar was held on
Tuesday, at which the intentions of the Government were
formally declared by Sir F. Roberts and Mr. Lepel Griffin to
the assembled Birders and chiefs, as they had previously ex-
plainedthem privately. These are that the army will with-
draw whenever the chiefs can agree upon a ruler whose rule
is likely to be stable and friendly to England. The only
absentees were Mahomed Jan and the ex-Governor of
Jellalabad. The demeanour of all present was respectful
and friendly, and the way has been paved for a favourable
solution of the question.
Wednesday (14th) being the twenty-third anniversary
Of the birth of the Princess Beatrice, the occasion was ob-
served at Windsor with the customary rejoicings. The bells
St. George's Chapel and the parish church pealed merrily, and
Royal salutes were fired from the Long Walk and Virginia
Water.
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The Liverpool joiners have resolved to resume work
on the masters' terms of 7d. per hour, pending the decision of
the arbitrator. ,

In ploughing up a barley field belonging to the re-
nowned lager beer brewer, Dreher of Vienna, a large earthen
vase was brought to light, which, on being broken open, was
found to contain 12,000 Roman copper-coins, with dates 307-
361 „A.D., and supposed to have been the war treasure of .a
Roman cohort commander under the reign of Constantine 11.

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. The Queen has intimated her intention to confer the
dignity of a peer of the United Kingdom upon Viscount
Barrington by the title. of Baron Shute of Beckett, county
Berks, andihis issue male, with remainder, in default of isuch
Issue male, to his brother, the Hon. Percy Barrington and
his heirs male.

The receipts on account of . revenue from the Ist,
April, 1880, when there was a balance of £3,273,428, to April
10, 1880, were £2,714,724, against £3,655,399 in the corre-
sponding period of the preceding financial year, which began
with a balance of £6,915,756. The net expenditure was
£5,937,328, against £6,519,541 to the same date in the pre-
vious year. The Treasury balances on April 10 amounted to
£2,609,841, and at the same date in 1879 to £3,528,085'
The Vienna Wehr Zeitung finds in thereSult of the
general election in England a cause for congratulatg Austria
upon the failure of the exertions made a short time ago p
of the
a party in the country to reduce the war strength
Austrian army from 800,000 to 600,000 men. Russia, the
Vienna paper continues, has persistently striven to render the
Treaty of Berlin a worthless document; but she has been
prevented from carrying out her design mainly by the firm.
ness displayed by 'England and Austria. Now, however, a
party his come into power in the fortl
ier country which is
likely to act in emore yielding and friendly spirit towards
Russia; and therefove it is fortunate that Austria possesses,
thanks to the energ.f of her.Governincnt, a numerous, i4ll.
Mall Gazette.
equipped, organized, and trained army.-P°

The recent creations have brought the number. of
barristers holding the rank of her Majesty's Counsel to 200.
Law Times.

The Corporation of Cork have conferred the freedom
of that city upon Mr. Parnell "in consideration of his dis-
tinguished services to Ireland during the recent distressed
condition of the country." -

Remains of lake dwellings have been discovered in a
peat bog near Milan, and in a street in Milan excairations for
a house hafe brought to light what are Mieved to be vestiges
of the old Roman theatre.
The Japanese edition of the Book of Cvninon
Prayer is said to be nearly completed. It is being prepared
under the supervisou of a mixed committee of English and
American missionary societies.

The parish church of Huntshill, near Bridgwater
which wasidestroyed by fire a year ago, has been rebuilt at a
cost of £5,000, and was opened last week by the Bishop of
Bath and Wells, who stated that nearly all the costs of the
new church had been raised by4Subscriptions.
The 14th centenary of the birth of St. Benedict has
recently been commemorated with great solemnity at the
Benedictine Priory of St. Gregory the Great at Downside,
near Bath.

During last week New York sent 4,610-dols. and
Savannah 1,000 als. to the Irish DuiLi League, and the latter
place 2,500 dols. to the Dublin Mansitm-house Fund.
" Kitchen Gardens" have been introduced in New
York and Boston—cookery schools where children are
taught domestic duties, such housework as washing up
dishes and making beds beingvarried- on to the accompani-
ment of lively ditties sung by the little workers.
The Morning Post states that the Queen has given
to. Mrs. Hepworth Dixon a grant of £lOO a year from her
Majesty's Civil List, in consideration of her late husband's
services to literature.

Some interesting experiments with steam omnibuses i
have been recently made n the Champs Elysees, Paris. The
carriage is like an ordinary omnibus with an Imperial ; the
engine is at the back, and the conductor stands on a plat-
form in front. The vehicle carries forty passengers. The
steam-engine is of forty nominal horse-power. The experi-
ments were pronounced by competent authorities to be very
satisfactory.
The Journal de Geneve calls the attention of its
readers to an important free library, in the Piazza Maria
Formiosa at Venice. This library which is open to Italians
and foreigners alike was established by the Duke di Querini
at a cost of 2,500,000 f., while a sum of 60,000 f annually has
been set apart by the same nobleman /or the purchase of
new publications.

In London last week 2,956 births and 1,532 deaths
were registered. Allowing for increase of population, the
births exceeded by 356, while the deaths were 246 below, the
averagerumbers in the corresponding week of the last ten
years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which in the
three preceding weeks had been equal to 20-9, 21-4, and 241,
declined again to 21-8. During the thirteen weeks ended 3rd
instant, the Metropolitan death-rate averaged 27-3 per 1,000.
The deaths included 13 front small-pox, 26 from measles, 49
from scarlet fever, 11 from' diphtheria, 85 from w_booping-
cough, 15 from different forms of fever, and 10 frbm
diarrhcca.

A "Church without Sermons" has been established
in New York for the benefit of those who desire to join in
the services of the Episcopal Church without being obliged
to listen to a lengthy discourse from a too often uninterest-
ing preacher.

The Irdische Mercuur of this month calls attention
to the use which might be made in Europe of the white coral
abounding on the shores of tlie West Indian islands. In the
Bermudas, says the Dutch-Indian journal, numerous houses
are to be seen built of coral material, which is both solid and
porous, even the quality of coral called "brain-stone," which
alone is unventilating, might be utilised for doorsteps or sca
dykes.

The GermaFederal Council have adopted a resolu-
tion declaring receipts for Post-office orders and remittances
liable to a stamp duty, thus reversing the previous vote
which led to the resignation of Prince Bismarck.

• The income of the Missions to Seamen Society
amounted last year to £15,237 7s. 6d., being £1,159 over that
of the previous year. The society has chaplains and readers
who minister to the shipping in forty-six seaports at home
and abroad. They enrolled 3,764 seamen last year in the
Missions to Seamen Brandi of the Church of ngland Tem-
perance Society.
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"Mr. William Huntley, a pupil of George Stephen-
son, has just died at the age of 82. In 1823 he entered the
employment of Messrs. George Stephenson and Co., of New-
castle, remaining with the firm for ten years. While working;
with the distinguished engineer he -erected the first locomo-
tive engine that drew a passenger train, under Stephenson's
personal superintendence, and Huntley had the honour of
working it alternately with him on the memorable 27th of
September, 1825—the first day that a train passed over the
Stockton and Darlington Railway. Mr. Huntl4 subsequently
removed to Dundee. In the year 1853 he patented a valve
tegulator, by which a greater amount of work was obtained
out of an engine with a diminished quantity of fuel. He
afterwards advocated the introduction of a continous grip
brake system, to enable drivers to pull up their engines
within the length of their train."—Times' Obituary.

Professor Silvestria, of the Catania Observatory,
reports the fall on the night of thb 29th of MarCh of a shower
91 meteoric dust, mingled with milt resides the usual
characteristics of colour, chemical composition, and the
mixture of mineral and organic particles and minute infu•
soria, there was a considerable proportion of iron, either in
a purely metallic state or in metallic particles, coated with
oxide. This phenomenon was first observed in the Indian
Ocean, south of Java, in 1859, and has been corroborated by
Professor Nordenskjold's Arctic observations.

"Prominent among the causes which have led to
the late Liberal majorities has been the desire for change
sake existing among the new voters Who have been added to
the constituencies since the last General Election; in confir-
mation of this it is curious to obsetire that in many of the
smaller boroughs the defeated candidates pgjled almost the
same numbers which gave them their sea Min 1874."—The
World.

Wednesday's Daily Telegraph says :—" Preparations
were made yesterday by members of tile Ministry to valate
their respective official rsidencies, in view, as it is mffer-
stood, of the intention of the Prime Minister to tender his
resignation to her Majesty immediately after her return to
Windsor Castle from Baden-Baden."

The Paris Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
says :—" One of the few survivors of the Grand Army,
Ge,neral Marcel, has just died, at the age of 89 years, Ile
was in the Army during all the campaigns of the First Em-
pire, and was wounded at the siege of Tarragona, where lie
was decorated for bravery. He took part in the siege of
Algiers as a major, was promoted in 1833 to the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel, and obtained the coloneley of the 15th Regi-
ment shortly afterwards, On the outbreak of the Crimean
War, General Marcel was placed in command of the camp at
Satonay. The deceased Was a Grand Meer of the Legion
of Honour, and Knight of the Order of St. Louis.'

The postage stamps of the world, issued since their
first introduction, are estimated at some 0,000. The different
kinds bear the heads of five Emperors, eighteen Kings, tle
Queens, one Gmnd—Duke, six Princes, one Princess, Imo a
number of Presidents, while some bear coats of arms and
other emblems, such as the papal keys, &;. There is au ad.
mirable collection of stamps in the Berlir. .'ost Office Museum,
which last July contained 4,499 specimens-2,462 belonging to
Europe, 441 to .Asia, 251 to Africa, 201 to Australia, and 1,143
to America,

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On the 30th ult. Professor Konstantin Hansen, one
of the veterans of the Danish school of historical and genre
painters, died at,Copenhag,en at the age of 76. He was born
in Rome in 1804, his father, Hans Hansen, living there as a
portrait painter at that time. Konstantin at first studied
architecture under Professor nesch, but soon evinced a de-
cided inclination for painting. He obtained two silver
medals from the Academy, and then resided in Rome from
1835 to 1844, where he occupied a prominent position in the
group of artists who gathered round.Therwaldsen.
At the last meeting of the members of the London
and Middlesex Archteological Sooiety, Mr. George Lambert,
F.S.A , read a paper on "Smithfield," in which he gave a
picturesque description^of this histbrio site, so familiar to
Londoners, tracing its history from the earliest period down
to*t_ he present, showing it as the scene of jousting and tour-
natnents in the time of Richard 11., as the spot frequently
fixed upon in mediveval times as the scene of the ordeal or
trial by battle, and later on as the place where, in the reign
of Mary or,Xlizabeth, Protestants and Roman Catholics alike
were brouglit to the martyrs' stake. Mr. Lambert also gave
an amusing description of the doings at Bartholomew' er,
Baruemy ' Fair, and finally traced the history of the
locality down to the period when it became the principal
cattle-market of London.
The correspondent of The Times says that during a
concert in the Circo de Rivas, Madrid, on the sth inst. , a
madman with an axe in his hand, forced his way through
the adjoining gardens and into the theatre. He killed, with
four blows on the head, a doorkeeper who resisted his entry
on the stage, mounted thereon, barricaded himself with
tables and chairs, and, brandishing his axe, dared anybody to
approach him. The police drew their swords, but he
wounded two of them who went within his reach, and defied
the soldiers who were sent for. Eventually the officer, fear-
ing he would make• an onslaught on the audience, ordered
one of his men to shoot him. He fell dead.

The dearth of news in the Arctic regions w"reet
inge-
niously evaded by the occupants of the Vega n I,es_.
8 6 y 8 were
voyage.; —files of several papas for the r „ . 4.
taken on board, and every day g- newspaper
necl;ew at last grew
giving the news of two years ago, while the yea
-as brought out
that they
so interested in the somewhat stalcf Itt In
had been fresh from
seized as eagerly on each journal as,si
journey will appear simultanelo
d will be published imme-
the press.-,-Professor NordenskjUldneynarlnratEivnegliosfh,thsewVedefsah's,
French, German, and Italian, ai
• he country great dis-
appointment prevails at
On many waters the season opened
qils at the comparatively poor results of
have been
yie l d
et:.
the spring sahnon fishing.
districts i n t
fish this spring to both nets woutlhdaht
satisfactorily., iiinf thertenwraesdesvearnyd promisene
ce
0 the majority of rivers, indeed, the catch
• ptionally good. In very
.few. instances, however, has this
been the case. n
of salmon so far is much below that of previous years, and
great anxiety is felt. Unfortunately, ,n some districts the
em i
i
all capture s attributed to an absolute scarcity of fish, and
not,
as is so often the case, to the prevalence of unfavourable
conditions of weather and water, which retards the puma Qf
fish up stream, and interferes with the continuous and,prSfit-
able working of the various implements used in gathering in
the salmon harvest.
The Princess of Wales left Copenhagen on MondaY.
During the stay of Ker Royal Highness in the Danish capital
she attended a Court ball at Christiansberg in honour of the
King's birthday. The King, in a general's uniform with the
,
broad blue riband of the Elephant, conducted his eldest
daughter, who, in a dress of white satin with pen& body
and blue trimmings, looked the very personification of glr2
and elegance ; the Princess wore a splendid coronetthejirn'g'
monds withnecklace and broochesrto correspond, '-I-'' 'himself
this visit, short though it be, has been, as his Mai
k equally
expressed it, the most precious birthday gift that could have
been offered to him. The Queen of Denmar ,
resplendent withildiamonds, and looking reins
conducted by
ful evenkat her graceful daughter's side, -1:).1.1. rm. Both his
the Croft Prince, dressed in a GeneraVs us no
arkably youth-
took part in the
Royal Highness and the Princess of
dancing, and occasionally even the
Wished dancer, took part in a waltz
The engine of the train ost in the Tay Bridge
Jung, who is an aceom,
rt. The body of James
placed on the beach near Te7P-°
~ by the ill-fated train, was
disaster was liftedsfrom the becl oil the river on Saturday, and
Peebles, one of the passenge!, hear Newport. The deceased
found on thelheach on Stintl Y
na
gEocer's apprentice. Another
Was aged sixteen, and was,
~ was also found on Sunday, near
body, that of a youngnlaling net. The body has not yet
Leuchars, in a sallitont is
4 believed to be that of another
been identified, b1.4,,..-
passenger.
finds of Roman antiquities Lave been
Important
weeks past in the neighbourhood of Treves
made for some
ndent of T4e Times). Among the objects
(says the Corre nO
:- large number of iron utensils and hole-
obtained are 7,vds, with a bronze has-relief representing a
ments and
ne
isw rowned by a figure of Victory. More impor-
the c
warrior be-=,
' liscovery of relics of a Roman glass-blowing
the Hoclunark, near Cordel, in the Eipel. Exca-
factorY 0..
Aave been made on the part of the provincial
brought to
vations
en , nd a large number of fragments of glass objects
mils- In
n have nee . light, among others some multi-
ieces of glass, showing that many,colourecl,gl4ss
tent still is
.4 were not exclusively brought from Italy, but were
also of home manufacture, .
The number of letters and newspapers transmitted
veoesiosil ed P
through the Japanese Post-office in the year ending June 30,
1879, was 55,775,206, being an increase of 8,582,920, or 18 per
cent., on that of the preceding year. The statistics of the
departraent were as follows :—Ordinary letters, 27,763,243;
registered letters, 928,597; post cards, 13,510,238 ; news-
papers, 11,203,339; books and samples, 560,812; letters over-
weight, 141,485; dead letters, 9,539; ditto owners found,
1,093 ; letters pilfered, 211; letters lost, 18'S; destroyed by
fire or shipwreck of mail, 128; foreign letters, 170,669; foreign
newspapers, 100,304. During the year tkete were established
135 new post-offices, 653 offices for the sale of stamps, and
187 street letter-boxes. The number of post-offices now in
the empire is 3,927; of places where stamps are sold, 1,910;
. and letter-boxes, 1,433. The expenses of the depart-
inent 'during the liOr WettYl)2,f3324BQo,•,yen (L,pif eeptaL
4s. 2(1.), and the revenue, 94,935,701, derived 'dirrollows ;
Sale of stamps and post cards, 78,497,91%; post-office enve-
lopes, 13,6774226 ; post-office boxes, 239,273; transport of
mails between Shanghai and' Yokohama, 210,043; post-offiCe
orders, 2,254,080; saviffgs banks, 140,185; sundries, 16,914.

The marriage of Princess Frederica. of Hanover will!
it is expected, be solemnized in Her Majesty's private chapel
at Windsor Castle the presence of the Queen and Royfil
Family.

Reports from the wine districts of France agree ill
stating that the recent rains which hare succeeded the dry
weather have had a most beneficial effect on the young
vines.

A telegram from St. Petersburg, dated April 9,
says that the Neva at Schluesselburg is now free from Ice for
a distance of two versts. The ice on the Duena, near Riga
Poet, commenced moving on Thursday. Five steamers from
Baltischport arrived at Deval on Thursday, after passing
through a canal partially blocked with ice.

Among the passengers by the Whites Star steamship
Adriatic, which arrived at Liverpool on Monday, from New
York, was M. de Lesseps, who left for London in the after-

noon.
The vicarages of , Great and Little Chesterford,
Essex, are vacant by the death, on Saturday last, ot the
Rev. Lord Charles Ameltus Hervey. The deceased clergy-

-in:lii•;;;;;i*he-iiiiiio-n of the first Marquis of Bristol, and i-s;as
born in August, 1808. He took his MA. degree at Trinity
College, Cambridge, in 1836, and was presented by his father
to the two livings above-named in 1839.
Bronislaus von Dombuwski, whose name is well
known in connection with The Polish movements five-and-
thirty years ago, died on his estate of Winnagora; in Prussian
Posen, on the 2nd inst. He was son of the celebrated com-
mander of the Polish Legion of Napoleon 1., and was the last
male representative of his line.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer
upon Mr. Best, the organist of St. George's Hall, Liverpool,
a pensibn of 100 a year from her Majesty's Civil List in re
cognition of his services to music.

Count Szechenyi, a Hungarian traveller' who has
accomplished the journey from Pekin to Bhkno.has arrived
at Calcutta. He has visited countries not explored by any
previous European traveller.

The American Bureau of Statistics reports that
21,658 immigrants arrived at New York last month, against
5,905 in March, 1879. The number of immigrants during the
first quarter of the present year was 35,825.

TheitQueen has been graciously pleased to confer an
earldom on Lord Lytton, her Majesty's Viceroy of India, by
the style and title of Earl of Lytton in the county of Derby,
and Viscount Knebworth of Knebworth in the county of

Hertford.

Owing to the increase in the population of the Swiss
Republic it is expected that the number of Bund representa-
tives will be increased next year by ten. The Swiss census
will not be taken before December next, but, meanwhile,
preparations are being made at Berne to enlarge the Band-
halle:

Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry James Clarke,
of the 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders), has died at
Allahabad from illness contracted at Cabul. He served With
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the 53rd Regiment in the Indian campaign of 1857-59. Ws
services were mentioned in the official despatches and he re-
ceived the medal and clasp.

A history of Afghanistan down to the present date
is being written by our prisoner, the Afghan General, Daoud
.. —.— ...

Saah, Wo says the -Times-of India.
Dr. Schliema,nn has at last finished his excavations
at Troy, and reports that remnants of several cities are
clearly discernible beneath the remains of the Troy immor-
talised in the "Iliad."
The Hustings Court at Richmond Virginia, has
for the first time summoned negroes on its juries. This is in
accordance with recent decisions of the United States Su-
preme Court, though it Is very distasteful to the people of
Virginia. Negroes must hereafter be summoned the same
as whites on Southern juries.

The Crown grincess of Germany left Rome on
Tuesday morning fUt Naples. King Humbert was at the
station to see her off, and Queen Margherita sent a bouquet
of lilies of the valley, camellias, And violets.
The latest publication of the Netherlands Statistical
'Society shows that the entire population of the Netherlands
proyinces at the close of the year 1878 had been estimated at
3,924,792. Of these, more than 1,400,000 belonged to the •
provinces of North and South Holland alone. Since the
year 1829 the population of the Northern Netherlands has ,
increased by more than 1,300,000. It stands now at 5*995
per geographical mile.

A lunatic was arrested at the palace„pf the Emperor
William, 'linter den Linden, Berlin, on the 7th inst. He
called in the morning and asked to have a private interview
with the Emperor. He stated that he desired to make a
personal apology to the Sovereign for certaiß expressions he
had once used. The unfortunate man was taken by the
police to a maison de sante. His malady was not of a
character likely to lead him to be dangerous to others.

The Indian Association of Calcutta, in deputing Mr.
Lalmohun Ghose to visit England for the purpose of helping
in the return to the new House of Commons of thembers
interested in the cause of India and in the redress of Indian
grievances, instructed himespecially to express the sympathy
of the ass 3ciation with Mr. Fawcett, ALP., "who has so long'
so strenuously, and with such disinterested zeal, advocated
the best interests of the people of India."

A large number of gentlemen interested in mining
operations visited the Carberry coal pit, near Musselburgh,
last week, on the invitation of Lord Elphinstone, with the
view of witnessing an experiment for communication from
the interior of the pit to the surface by mews of the tele-
phone. After an explanation by Mr. Charlerin Woolaston,
the company descended the shaft, and were entertained at
hmeheon, provided by Lord Elphinstone. In the course of
the luncheon several airs were played by a band at the out-
side end of the telephone, and the music was distinctly
heard in the colliery.

The London wheat market was dull on Monday
and prices were from Is. to is. 6d. per:quarter cheaper.

_
The Portuguese Consul in Shanghae has informed
his Government that four more ports of the Celestial Empire
have bean thrown open to the commercial world, and that
the Chinese authorities had informed him that on February
3, 1880, fiscal ports would be established at the mouth
of 'Qua-Chem, at the mouth of Puugo in Chingsham, in
Tutien-Mian, and like Wise in Slangshan.
The first prize list for the Vimbledon meeting naB
boon issued, It contains many changes from last year. The
competitions are on a more popular basis, but the prizes are
reduced in value, and the Martini rifle is. to be more exten-
sively used than formerly.

Ex-Marshal Bazainte is living quietly in a side street
of Madrid, busying himself with the education of his three
children. He is stated to have lost much ot his interest in
military pursuits, and spends most of his day in an armchair
writing his recollections, while his wife and the nephew who
aided M. Bazaine's escape from Ste. Marguerite enliven the
'family circle, Ile still hopes ultimaterY to return to France, '
and his few visitors encourage him in the idea.—Graphic.
"It is with deep regret that we announce the death
of Mr, David. Law, which occurred in Edinburgh on FridaY
night from paralysis. Born in 1845, he was educated 3
Edinburgh University, and in early life became the editar
a Bombay newspaper. His .constitution, never very strong,
was visibly impaired by the Indian climate, and about seven
years ago he resigned his post. Before returning to England
he visited many countries of Europe, deriving from foreign
travel all the advantages which it usually confers upon men
of quick anAntelligent observation. ,In 1875 he was called
to the Bar at the Middle Temple, but did not forsake journal- •
ism. From the beginning of 1878 until the end of 1879 hQ
was on the editorial staff of The Times. His health subse,
quently gave way, and the rest of his life, with brief intervals,
was a period of acute suffering. By those who had the prive"
marrit-brellacirag— att.ainwents, generouS
inflis labours he will be
remember
of
ienbebm iging atas
aassmocainoefd
f hin
sympathies, and most genial manners.' —27ndle Obituary
April 13
• The Mark-lane Express, of Monday night, says that
six weeks of thoroughly seasonable weather have made 3 i
wonderful improvement. in the aspect of the eountry, Al,
though the thinness of the wheat plant has been made the
subject of remark in several localities, rural advices con-
tinue, on the whole, favourable AS to its present appearance.
The frequent showers 31 the past week have somewhat de-
layed the termination of "spring sowing, but the acreage yet
unsown is comparatively small.

The returns of emigration just issued by the Liver-
pool Emigration Office show that with the revival of trade
an enormous increase of emigration has taken- place. The
total number of emigrants who sailed from the Mersey in
March was 13,363, against 5,954 in March, 1879; while for the
quarter ending last month the total was 23,704, against
10,327 in the same period last year. The large majority of
the emigrans go to the United States, the number last
month being 12,167, The steamers leaving Liverpool for
America have the whole of their passenger accommodation
occupied.

Alderman Cotton, M.P., speakiz' vat aLondon dinner
on Tuesday evening, remarked that the side of the Rouse 011
which the Liberals had been sitting for the last six years vos
not the most comfortable place, The sun shone most un-
comfortably into the eyes, but sitters were in the shade. He
had seen the Liberals sitting in Opposition for six years dis-
consolate, miserable, -unhappy, and without hope, and Ile
was quite sure that those long years of adversity had taugl4
them such a lesson that in their prosperity they would OS
attempt to interfere with any one of the interests of the City 04
London, but that they would go on chastened and mOderated
in their views, their only interest being to go steadily on
until they were turned out in tile interests of the kingdom.
Professor Prosdocisrni, of the Este Museturt, wh°
discovered a pre-historic cemetery on the slope of the hills
overlooking that town, has unearthed in the same vicinity 82
tombs, 44 of them violated apparently during the Roman
period,.the rest nntottched, with all their pottery and bronzes.
The urns are of three periods some coloured black, with
linear ornamentation, others adorned with ckeles and wavY
lines; others with alternative bands of red aM black. Sola
of the accessory vases might serve as elegant mq4els fav
modern potters. The bronze ornaments ari? also very !lite-
resting, and a bronze chest bears three clesigus, comprlsing
In all 17 warriors and " priest, seven animals (horses, oxen,
stags, birds, and a dogTseveral plants, and a kind of chariot
With a man seated in it. The professor considers these the
finest pre-historic remains in Italy.

-
A decently • dressed workman came to a photo'''.
grapher's recently to have taken the portrait of hrs wife- ,
While the operator was arranging the camera the husband .
thought fit to give some advice to the companion of his life,'
concerning her pose. " Think of something serious,".h°
said
• "or else you Will laugh and spoil it. Remember that
,
your father is in prison, and try to imagine what would lOW i
become of you if I had not taken pity upon yet;
An International Exhibition of Laiiis, nets, tackle, :
and all other matter pertaizisig to fisheries will be held ie ,
spong of ne.x.t year in the fishing village of Scheveningen. :
It is intended to celebrate the Liberal vietory ill
Birmingham by a meeting in the Town Hall, on the ey.f4Vtli
of the 19th inst. This will be the first timektheStripizig/144': ,
Post believes, that the Liberal workers 11l Ifigilingbare balcy '
been brought together hi one Width.' Their Amber wiLl
be about 3,000.
The strike in the Liverpool building trade is prac'
Wally over, the plumbers, plasterers, and bricklayers having
resumed work on Monday. The joiners are negotiating fc't s
the terms resolved upon on Saturday night, and the masool
have not yet agreed upon a basis-of arbitration.
The death is announced at the age,of si4tbseven of '
Mr. Robert Fortune, an eminellt botAll!st and Chlnekte Or:
yeller. Mr. Fortune waa 10242 appointed by the Horticol. I
tnral Society of London te he coector of plants in Northern -
Ohina, and between that year and 1850 be made several ael-;
Venturous journeys-in China, and obtained much valuable in- -
formation respecting the tea plants. His " Three Yeare'l
Wanderings in China," published in 1847, attracted nut Chi
attention at the time, and, he subsequently published yfori
entitled" Two Visits to, the Tea Countries of ChiTta,"
"Residence among the Chinese Inland, on the ()ow, and a
Sea." In 1857 he was employed by the 'United Statea' Paten ,
Office to collect in China the seeds of the tea' shrul3s an/
other plants, and in this work he was engaged -far two yeerlw,
Mr. Fortune was a frequent pqntributor to the Wthenixtilll.
The recent additions to the Zoological societfg
Qardeng include a MaOacpie monkey froM Illdia, presented DY '
Mr. a Kirby i a Prince Albert's curitssow from Columbia]
presented by Mr, 11. B. Whitmarsh ; a West African lbve wo
from West Africa, presented by Mr. J. W. Gillespie ; a lengl
eared owl, captured in the Red Sea, presented by Dr, williail
Anderson ; a greater black-backed gull, European, preseUte9-
by Mr. E. Thornhill ; a slow-worm, British, presented by gr• '
Leslie Jeyes ; two dingo dogs, two rod kangaroos, two vulpir..l3
phalangers, two man's qasYures, a alie.ft-headeil plialanger,
two emus from Australia, tlyo. 'cetemon wombats tram Tat
mania, a weeper capuchin from Brasil, a horned tragopao
from the Mouth-eat IlimalaYas, deposilted ,* a feline doure-
conli from South Brazil, a roolc my, a white spotted rail, an
Orinoco goose, a lirazilhiu teal from Brazil, purchased.
The sixteenth annual report of ,the Bishop °,f
London's Fund states that the prevalence of agricultural alk,.r,
commercial distress (hiring the last year has had all
favourable effect on the income of the futid, which ow
amounted to £20,004, being less by nearly 41,000 than that 1
1878. The report adds that unless the revenue Of the AM!_
can be raised to nearly donhle its present amount a larnwn!.
able delay must occur in providing those Christian oral_
nances which can never be susnended 1:1
Without serious "
judiee to the religious habits of the community,
bil
ilt
he attentionßerlin Chomrrbeesepnon paiddenita
toeflythtoe DthaeielyiloHnnetaviriytiscreti
0,1 0
Ini°migrants from Germany todEnglsnd and America. VI:
ci e ,
ls,aiional Zeitung publishes a leading article on this subiec„,,
also stating that from the 41h to the 11th of April
persons left the harbour of Bremen- It appears that tnq
,•.enfigrants °owe 4=11.411.3)a* of Germany, and a groa!
number of skilled workmen are to be found amongst thee!,
This decided increase in emigration has evidently 80000;
to do with the new Army Bill, and entails a very serjous°lol,
upon the country, which the military authorities either "
not care or wish to acknowledge,