The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

tint gTOITRBRIDGr OBSERVER.

the 'Mariner Is a deserter from the Royal Engineers, and on
Saturday he was seatched by Sergeant Chown and Criattille
Chamberlain, who stopped him in Tottenham-court mad.
They asked him his name. He gave a false name and false
address They then took him into custody on suspicion of
being a deserter from the Royal Engineers He tripped
Sergeant Chown up by placing stick between his Sees, mid
kicking tarn upon the heel, and then took to flight After
rWniiing for some distance in the direction of Bedford-
square, pursued by the officers, he stopped, turned and fac-
ing his pursuers discharged one shot from a revolver at
Sergeant Chown. Alter running some further distance he .
tuned again, and disc anted a second shot at the other otil-
; oer, Chamberlain. Again continuing his flight he was stopped
by an accidental passenger, anti seized by the constable, who
tripped him tip While he was on the ground, still strug-
gling, be again attempted to shoot the constable. It was in
Cod's providence that the shot was not effective. there
appears to have been spin In the Vend (joining the parts of
the implement', which projected, and stopped the bullet.
Items stuck between the chamber and the barrel, and was
not di,charged through use barrel, though the powder had
exploded. Had the ball passed the barrel Chainlierlain
would inevitably have been shot, for, as it was, his face was
blackened by the powder, and his liar and beard singed by
the fire. After lie was overpowered the prisoner was asked
by a passenger. Did you mean that shot for mei" and he
replied, "No, I meant it for him,' pointing ti Chamberlain.
I shall call the two °them, who, I think, acted With great
bravery and determination in pursuing a man who fired
repeated shots at them with a revolver, and I hope th it
when persons disposell to snob nutrage4 see that constables
are not deterred from the (coxless execution of their duty,
it will put estop to such dastardly practices.

ordered to be hung, an at was rn t e carrying out of
this mimic sentence of the law that the accident
occurred. Having tied one end of a cord round his
waist, his companions threw the other over a shaft,
and then hoisted him up into mid-air. But a moment
elapsed, however, before the executioners were startled
by the breaking f the hemp at which they were tog-
ging, and the poor culprit came to grief by.), fall to the
--ild sustained is

folom hone" when the placss was earned; battle of -
Bslamanca, capture of Madrid and the Retiro. Served
also the campaign in Holland in 1814, was present in
the attack on Merxeni, and storming of Berghnopzoom,
where he saved a colour of the 44th regiment, and was
in the campaign of 1811 severely wounded in the ankle
at Quatre Bras. Captain Grier had the war medal
with three clasps, and the Waterloo medaL He was
, placul on half-pay in March, 1817, as lieutenant, and
was appointed a captain of invalids in September last.
Captain Grier had for many years resided at Auchgrea,
county Longford, and was highly respected.

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A ROYAL VISITOR To INDIA.—His Serene
highness Prince Frederick .4 Schlenwic-Itolsteiri has

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been travelling through the Mysore territories, visiting
all places of archieological interest, and is IIOW on his
way to the ceded districts. The natives seem greatly
surprised that a prince, the cousin of our Queen, should
be travelling about with only "four servants and a
galloway." A Hindu correspondent of the Bangalore
Herald says his highness's " very limited establish•
went, consisting of four servants and a galloway, dis-
appointed the expeetathuis of some, but I pass over in
silent contempt the impressions on vulgar mindsdhat
eiPeCied to find useless pump and show." It is
gener.divi bßieved that 'his highness's three journeys
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to this part of India have been taken with view to
collect materials for a work on Indian arebieologv, hut
we have beard it s at, d that his highness has deuied
that such is his object.
MOCK FENlthi FUNERAL IN PHILADELPHIA.—
The New York .iTribune of Jan. 9 says that on the
precedin4 day tlte Frnians made a handsome turn-out
in honour of tiv memories of Allen, Larkin, and
Gould, executed for killing a policeman at Manchester,
England. The Fenian circles turned out very strongly,
1 and at their head was an armed cavalcade of about a
thousand. Delegations on foot followed, with bands
of music playing solethn dirges and dead matches.
The Irish flag was draped in mourning, and nearly all
in the procesaion wore green badges trimmed with
crape. The military were dressed in green coats, and
actedas a guard of honour around the hearses, three
in number, containing the coffins of the three martyrs
- Allen, Larkin, and Gould—whose names were placed
in large letters on the sides of the hearses. The scene
was quite impressive, from the solemn music and the
slow and tuewsured marching oi the mourners. A
large number of carriages brought up the rear of the
procession. A regular Irish " jaunting-car" made its
appearance in line, and created much notice.
STRANGE SUICIDE.—Quite a gloom was cast
over the town of Beverley late on Friday night by the
discovery of the body of a young lady named Hobson,
the second daughter of a chemist of that name, in the
canal a mile below the town. Miss Hobson, a young
lady under twenty years of age, attended a ball in
honour of a friend's marriage on Tuesday night, and
was also at a friend's house on Wednesday evening,
and appeared in the best of spirits. On Thursday
night she was missed from home, and telegrams during
the night and next day failed to elicit any clue as to
the whereabouts of the missing lady. Twenty-four
hours afterwards her body was found in the canal as
stated. She appears to have premeditated suicide,
but the cause of the fatal act is a mystery.

HOW TO GET AN ELASTIC REVENUE AGAIN.—
Tax India-rubber.—Punch.
Too REMEDY FOR FENIANISM !Abbe Cam-
balot has discovered a ready means if getting rid of
Fenianism, and thus reveals it to M. Louis Veuillot
Tim Queen afit the Parliament of England, in having re-
course, like Charleinacne, to the inspirations of the Holy I
Sp rit mates the abhe would find as in'allibl., means of
destroying Fenianibm, and of preserving tha empire of the
was and the possession of India. This mems would be to
surplieate Pius IX. to e .1110 over :Ind sing h;gh mass In
Sr. Paul's, of London, and to prochnin there, according to
the Evangel, the definitive abolition IA the bastard work of
Henry VIII. to restore on th, ruins of Anglicanism the
Pontifical authority, that supreme authority, even the in-
fallible authority ot St. Peters successor.
STAGE REPARTEE.—The Era Alinattack,
,de-
voted to musical and dramatic matters, contains the
following stage repartee, gathered by Mr. Boucicault
in Mobile, Alabama :—" Some years ago, when
Macready was perfornting in that city, he was unfor-
tunate enough to offend one of the actors, a native
American, of pure Western type. This person, who
was cast for the part of Claudette, in 'Hamlet,' re-
solved to pay off the star for stony supposed offences.
So, in the last scene, as Hamlet stabbed the usurper,
that monarch reeled forward, and after a most spas-
modic finish he stretched himself out precisely in the
place Hamlet required for his own death. Macready,
much annoyed, whispered feebly, Die further up the
stage, sir ! ' The monarch lay insensible. Upon which,
ins still louder voice. Hamlet growled, Die further
up the stage, sir !' Hereupon Claudius, sitting up,
observed, 'I bleeve I'm lying here, and I'll die where
I please.' "

WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN FRANCE.—A
railway guard on the Marseilles Railway, named
Dentrat, and residing at Orange, France, has just
murdered his wife by shooting her during a parox‘ cm
of jealousy, after which he committed suicide. The
neighbours had heard a detonation in their apartment
about eleven in the evening, and two others about
half-an-hour later, but as the in-an frequently returned
home intoxicated and created a disturbance by quarrel-
ling with his wife, they paid no attention. On the
following morning, however, a little girl aged between
six and seven, the daughter of the deceased, who had
been lying awake in bed during the crime of the
previous night, got up and related to some persons
living in the same house how her father hail some
home, and after quarrelling with her mother had shot
the latter, and then, after walking up and down the
room for some time, had killed himself. The child had
slept till the morning, with the two corpses lying on
the ground by her bedside. A little boy fifteen months
old was sleep:ng in the same room.
TEE OAKS COLLIERY EXPLOSION
of clearing the ill-fated colliery is progressing some-
what slowly. The explorers last week brought out
two horses and a donkey, but no bodies have been
found. There are more than 300 bodies still entombed
in the mine, and an application has been made to the
Barnsley Burial Board to have them interred, when
recovered, in the Barnsley Cemetery, and as to the
terms they may be interred on. The colliery is in the
parish of Ardsley, a village about two miles from
Barnsley, but the interments cannot be made in that
churchyard, as it is too small to allow of such a great
number of bodies being laid there. Several times
during the explorations this week the men have had
to retreat to the mouth of the pit in consequence of
the gas becoming too strong for them; and one man
was overpowered, but was rescued by his comrades.

—The work

DEPRIVED OF THE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE.—
The Lord Chancellor has deprived Mr. Daniel O'Sulli-
van, county of Cork, of the commission of the peace.
The grounds of this measure may be inferred from the
following letter, addressed to the editor of the Dublin
Evening Mail:—

7, Sidney-place, Cork, Jan. 9, 1868. Sir,—l notice in your
columns that you call for the dismissal from their commis-
sions of the magistrates who subscribed to the funds for the
patriotic Irishmen who upheld the honour of their country
on the scaffold at Manchester. As one of the magistrates to
whom you refer, I shall only say that it is a sad reflection for
Catholic Ireland that she is compelled to bend to the dicta-
tion of that party whose opinions you represent arid which
has withheld from her her rights and liberties for the past
200 years.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, DANIEL
O'SULLIVAN, J F., County of Cork.
RECRUITS FOR THE POPE'S ARMY.—There has
been some little commotion at Worcester occasioned
by a public statement to the effect that two youths,
who had been apprenticed from the workhouse to a
baker in that city, had been converted to Romanism
and persuaded to enlist in the Pope's army. It turns
, out that the statement is not altogether true, though
not without fouration—that only one of the two
,workhouset apprentices lad been converted antl had
joined the Pope's army, but that two other youths, not
under the control of the guardians, had joined in the
same expedition. At a meeting of the Worcester
guardians Father Waterworth attended, and denied
that he had persuaded the young men to go to Rome,
although he admitted that when they had expressed to
him the determination, he had given them Et a-piece, 1
and wished them "God aimed !'' lie believed they '
had been induced to enlist by reading the bishop's
pastoral and the account, in the Tablet and Register, of
Major Gordon's proceedings.
A GERMAN VIEW OF IRELAND.—he cologne
Gazdte thus concludes an article on the press prosecu-
tion in Dublin :
Happy country! where there has been only one press trial
for many years, arid that only in a place jii which, if l'russia
had ruled, a state of siege would have been declared long
ago, and all Journals preaching insurrection would have been
suppressed. We need hardly say th it confiscations by the
police of newspapers awl leaks are as much unknown in the
United Kingdom as wolves and hears, and it is indeed evident
to the meanest understanding that real freedom of the press,
or anything that bears the most distant likeness to that
noble boon, can nowhere exist shie by side with the me
restricted right of confiscation. When shall we learn the
truth in this matter front the country of hereditary Political
wisdom?
THE OFFICER AND VIE ACTRESS.—At Posen,
a Captain Withofs, in the Prussian service, and gar-
risoned in that town, hail fallen passionately in love
with a young actress named Walmore, who by her ex-
cellent conduct has gained general esteem, and who
resided in the same house as himself. His advances
not having been favourably received, he threatened to
kill her and commit suicide afterwards. The young
woman in terror wrote to the colonel of the captain's
regiment to beg for protection. A few days back the
officer, having received a letter from his superior offi-
cer, penetrated into Mdlle. Walmore's room, and
pointing a revolver at her, fired. She put cut her
hands to protect her body, and the ball broke her fore-
arm. The officer then went back to his apartment
and blew out his own brains.
A MODEL CLERGTMAN.—The following singu-
lar advertisement appeared recently in the London
Times :

The clergyman for whom this paragraph is written is
of the Established Church, twenty years in orders, a Cam-
bridge man, with the highest testimonials from the bishop
in whose diocese he has laboured ; in one parish a memorial
was sent to the bishop to beg Ida tor Irldp to make such ar-
rangements as would enable him to remain their pastor;
in another a silver jug was presented to him. Ile is a fine
reader and preacher, musical and married; of no extreme
views. lie loves order and neatness in his church, but is no
ritualist his sermons are shot and practical. Ilia friends
insert this advertisement with the hope that some kind
patron may see it and rmyp,ithlse with him, and In due time
offer hint a living. Ilia name has been placed on the Lord
t hancellor's hat by one of the Privy Conceit, who has known
ban all his life. lie is now in charge of two parishes with
a stipend or CS° per annum, and tne rector an absentee.—
Address the lion. and Rev.—Wogaton, Nottingham. •
NOT A PLEASANT BEGINNING !—On Satur-
day, the police authorities at Liverpool received in-
formation from Cardiff that a man named Joseph
Peaks' and a young woman named Jeannette Levy had
absconded from that town, having stolen some gold
watches, a quantity of jewellery. and a considerable
911 M if money. The young lady's parents, of the
Jewish persuasion, keep a jewellery and outfitting
estehlishment at Cardiff, and Mr. Peake, a seafaring
man, had for some time courted Miss Jeannette, though
his attention did not meet with the approbation of her
parents on account of his being a Christian. The
affianced pair disappeared 011 Saturday morning,
taking away some of the old man's property. He in-
sisted upon a telegram being sent to Liverpool, be-
lieving they had gone thither. They arrived at Lime.
street station at nine o'clock that night, where they
found a detective in attendance to receive them. The
missing property, £6O in money, and a marriage mt.

&ate, showing they were made man and wife at one
of the churches in Cardiff on Satuniay, were found in
their possession. They were locked up at once, spent
Sunday in Bridewell, and were escorted to Cardiff on
Monday morning.

ANOTHER COMMUNICATION FROM COLONEL
KELLY !—The Irishman of Saturday contain' the fol-
lowing :
Another letter from Colonel Kelly has "found its way into
our letter-lmg" We are not aware, of course, a bother it be
really written by Colonel Kelly or that it is a plant"
of sonic enterprising member of the 0 division intended to
entrap us Into the publication of • "seditious libel." The
letter is short, and, as far as our judgment goes, quite free
from "sedition." It is dated from Cork, and is merely an
announcement that the writer may be ordered to America
on business shortly, and that, in the event of his going, he
apologizes fir violating the promise he had made some time
ago, not to leave the British dominions until his 'work had
been accomplished." He also gives notice to his deeply-
respected friends the detectives that his absence will be hut
of briet duration, and that he will give tens notice of the
time of his return
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WoRKERS AWING BUST.-1.11 reporting OR the
preventible diseases of the industrial classes, the
British ilothral Journal calls attention to the condi-
tion of certain workers among metallic anti mineral
dust. The amount of consumption and tither lung
diseases, caused by the inhalation of irritating par-
ticles, is excessive among.en4ineers, machinists, and
stonecutters. Of the nagnleltinging tiVthq.Araalga-
mated Society of Engineers the larger proportion of
deaths are due to diffekesit4varieties of preventible
lung diseases. Au ample .flehl is open to persons of
some mechanical ingenuity and philanthropy in per-
fecting the necessary contrivances for protecting the
air passages from the particles which, by their irri-
tating action, give rise to these diseases.
A FOREIGN VIEW OF THE QUEEN'S BOOK.—
Le Nord says:—
" The Diary of the Queen of England --a touching record
, of sorrows and souvenirs written in memory of Prince
: Albert and lif the domestic happiness of the Queen, has
been just published in London. Nothing is at once more
honourable arid more sad than this uncoloured history
of a life absorbed by conjugal affection and undivided family
solicitude. It is the record of a woman not of a Qmwti
The Queen is inexhaustible in her admiration of the Prince
Consort, and when she quotes the words or the acts of this
royal model we are quite surprised to find them of the
ordinary andeommon type. The fact is-they were transfigured
by the Queen's love. A tone of extreme simplicity mid
naturalness pervad“ these familiar utterances. The Queen's
children are everywhere calls-i by the thiamine abbreviation
of their names—the Prince of Wales "Sertie " Prince Alfred
Mlle." occasionally a charitable visit, a walk resulting
In some kind act, lights up the record of this lite of private
affection and of real religion.
TIIE TRAGEDY AT MCNICIL—Count Cliorinski, •
who was arrested at Munich in consequence of the
violent death of his wife, has just confessed that his
mistress, the Baroness Eberyhenvi, was the per-
petrator of the crime. The latter, however, who is in
prison at Vienna, had continually denied all parti-
cipation 11l the murder, but on the declaration of her
paramour having been shown to her, she confessed her
guilt. The judicial inquiry is still continuing, and the
husband and his mistress will shortly be brought to
trial at Munich and Vienna respectively. They will
not be confronted, as the Bavarian tribunal will not
allow Count Chonnski ter be removed to Viennts and
the Austrian authorities refuse the extradition of the
Baroness Eberyhenvi.

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IThe Roman Catholics of Warrington met in ...
numbers on Sunday, wider the presidency of Father Hai..
and passed resolutions expressive of their loyalty to the
Crown and condemnatory of Fenianism
1 Mr. Tennyson is about to issue a " Standard "
edition of his works in I tar library volumes. This edition
will he carefully corrected by the poet, and will coutaiti some
notable additions to his published writings.
Three thousand acres of grapes are cultivated in
. two counties of Ohio and the islands of Lake krie, and these
bast year yielded 200 000 gallons of wine.
Five thousand copies of the Queen's book, it itl said,
--id to a week.

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One Frenchman out of each 556 weans the Legion
of lionour—and that is what is termed being distinguished.
An expert swimmer, named James Williams, about
twenty years of age, was drowned while bathing under the
Hoe, at Plymouth, ,ra Sunday morning It is believed that
he was seized with cramp.
Robert h. l'ringle, nf Georgia, recently committed
snicide on account of the humiliation of being defeated by a
negro as candidate for the ottloe of sergeant-at-arms to the
Reconstruction Convention of that State.
Five thousand persons were invited by the Prefect
and Madame Hausmann to the Rotel de Ville ball, in
Paris, last week. Fortunately for the dancers 2.000 inrites
had severe colds, and se only 3,000 were present at the
brilliant scene.
We (Pall Mall Gazette) are requested to state that
no authority whatever has been given for the announcement
made by a contemporary that the Queen would visit Sand-
ringham in April. It is ,mly so far correct that her Majesty
has for the lad four years been desirous of paying a visit to
the Prince of \Vales at Sandringham, but no time has ever
been or is now tined upon for it.
The chassepnt, according to latest information, is
being turned out at the rate of 20.000 a ninth. All the
soldiers of Paris have belt armed with the ehassepot.
The Bishop of Londou has taken alarm at Dr.
Gray's proposal to consecrate a new bishop for Natal, and
has addressed to hint a letter of earnest remonstrance on the.
subject.
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An American paper states that in Windham county,
Connecticut, the keeper of the gaol goes frown house to house
with a gang of prisoners the refractory trammelled with •
ball and chain', and jobs of wood-sewing for the people are
attended to.
The storm which raged on Friday night and during
Saturday forenoon has been productive of considerable
damage to property in Ireland, and it is to be feared that
late? reports will show no small amount of loss of life at
sea.
.fhe other day, at Blackburn, a mechanic, named
Thomas Garland, sold his wife to another man, named
Lomax, for the sum of 30s , all parties being agreeable
to the bargain. Mrs. Harland has been transferred to her
new husband. Harland has since announced that he will
sot la answerable far any debts his Into wife may contract.
The proprietors of mime of the great ladies' shops
in London have been thinking of establishing refreshment
departments in their monster establishments, where their
lady customers could have humheon, or take a cup of tea,
or sit down for a few minutes, with no charge except for
what they chose to eat or drink.
A negro preacher was lately permitted to address
the convicts in the Illinois State Prison. Many of the
audience cried, " Put the nigger out !" and would not hear
him.
The execution took place on Thursday, at Chartres,
of the soldier Breckler, of the 25th of the line, condemned
to death by the Assist ('oust of the Eure-et-Loir, for the
twofold murder of an innkeeper and a rural postman.
The strike of ironworkers in North Staffordshire
has terminated in the concession of the men. At a meeting
of puddlers on Monday the men resolved to accept the e-
duction, and it is believed that the men engaged in other
branches of the trade will conic to the same resolution.
• American papers state that the band of the British-war
vessel Chanticleer, on its arrival at Honolulu from Topite,
struck up "Dixie" alongside the American ship Lackateautaa,
I whose band responded with "Wearing of the Green."
The Scotsman reports that Mr. Charles Kean's ill-
ness has reached a - Lige at which no hope of recovery can
be entertained. For sonic days Mr. Kean has been in a
state of extreme prostration, from which there is scarcely
any expectation of his being able to rally.
The widow of General Mirarnon has, with her chit-
. dren, taken up her residence at Vienna. She is to receive
a pension from the Austrian Government. .
Lord Ranelagh takes a very desponding view of the
state of the Volunteer force. Ile calls it a "sham."
" 1.41,000 or 200,000 men in battalion, without administra-
tive staffs for its command or supply of any sort, is," he re-
mark., "a mere crowd of coated playthings."
There are thirtyithree applicants for the office of
Chief -constable of thWounty of Lancaster.
• No less than 462.708 persons went to and fro be-
tween France and England in 1867, 202,183 by Calais, 152,931
by Boulogne, 80,204 by Dieppe, and 19,300 by Havre. Only
19,707 crossed between England and Belgium, Mil Ostend.
A great loss has occurred to the country, as we
gather from the following announcement;—" Logreuia, the
Tharunaturgicaloteryhomo, begs to announce, in consequence
of the immense success attending his Entertainments of
Ambidexterous Preetidlgitation and Gift Enterprise in
America, Hostile will not be in England thin Beason."
It has been mentioned that the young Duke de
Domes, on leaving the regiment of Papal Zoutived, presented ,
two batteries of rifled cannon to the Kamm army Accord-
ii.g to the Journal odes V Wee et doe Campaanes, the Pope, in
expressing Ms thanks, asked in what manner he could se- •
knowledge the gilt. "By allowing me," replied the Duke,
"to add twelve other gnus, ii those are not sufficient."
A great event ie reported from Rostock, in Mecklen-
burg. In consequence of the promulgation of the Federal
law on the freedom of residence, the first Jewish citizen
was admitted last week to take up his residence in that
town.
The following Circular, Ns. 3 L, has been issued by
the Admiralty s—" It Model; come to the knowledge of my
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the use of a
'gag' has been aometimes resorted to on board her Majesty's
slope, their lordships desire that thin practice may be die-
coutinued, and that men who are noisy or otherwise vim
lent should be confined in a cell.-11ENne C.. LENNoX.'
" It is almost an unparalleled thing, in the history of
Faglish polities, that a statesman lathe position of Mr. Glad. -
stone should be regarded by his party rather as a heavy gun
to be dragged in their rear, than as an adviser who can be
relied upon to show them the way."—Saturdey Iteeheto.
The celebrated correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
reports a frightful reaction in the financial position of the
Parisian hotel-keepers. Their apartments are IIOW all empty,
their tables-dlaite desolate; anti many establishment., sup-
posed to have been positively Californian in their gold-pro-
ducing powers during the existenue of the Great Exhibition,
are on the verge of bankruptcy.
A number id Japanese are finding their way over to
England for educational purposes. In the term of London
University College School, which opened on Tuesday last,
shout a dozen Japanese boys entered. They have been in
England only nine mouths, mid yet they not only speak our
language well, but, meandering the time they have been here,
show an astonishing acquaintance with Eurepeau history
and geography.
On Saturday morning a labourer, named John Cross,
residing at Rowley Regis, was attacked by a cow belonging
to his employer, Mr. Best. The infuriated animal, from
some cause not at present known, knocked the unfortunate
man down, and inflicted mush mjaries upon his head that he
died in a very short time.
When Lord Clarendon was at Florence he had, as
may naturally be supposed, an audience of the King, and
during his passage through Rome another of the Pope.
On leaving the Royal Palace at Florence, as the interview
had been a long one, and it had grown dark, his majesty
struck a match, and, lighting a solitary candle, accompanied
the ambassador to the door, saying as he did so, "Va a
cominciare dame Pecouornia.—(" Take a lesson in economy
from me.")
The famous spectacular play of the Black Crook,
which has had such great success at the Winter Garden
Theatre, New York, was performed for the last time on
January 4. It has been run to a constant succession of
crowded houses for the last fourteen months, and during
that period, from 475 performances, the management re-
ceived 7C0,000 dole., upon which they paid 15,000 dols tax
to the Government. Another spectacle, called the Whits
Fawn, into succeed it January 13.
The explosion of fire-damp in the coal mines of New
Iserlohn, in Westphalia, appears to have been much more
serious than was at first stated. The mon her is men at
work at the moment was 210, of whom 199 werekilled, and
the remainder more or less severely injured. About 150
bodies have been already recovered.
An inquest has been held in Liverpool on the body
of the infant son of a labourer. It transpired that the
parents had been married four years, and had had three
children, each one of which had been the subject of an in-
quest. The first was scalded to death by a hot cup of tea'
the second was suffocated in bed; and now the third had
also been scalded by pulling over a cup of hot tea. In the
two first cages the juries hail returned verdicts of " Acei-
dental deaths," but in this instance the jury returned simply
an open verdict of "Scalded," the coroner °immuring upon
the great carelessness shown by the parents.
The Sible says that when the officers of the Guarda
Nubile of the Pope went lately to offer their homage to Pius
IX., his Holiness mid )—" I thank you, gentlemen, for the
fidelity and zeal which you have testified towards me during
recent events, with the exception of one amorig you who in
that time of trial remained away from us in person and in
mind." The only member of the Guarda Nobile who Wel
absent during recent events, and who hail passed the months
of October awl November at Florence, was the Marquis
Baurbon del alonte. This nobleman, inimediately after the
audience, forwarded to the Pope his commission as °nicer
a•nl his epaulettes.

A charter filT a new kiinl of insurance company has
been obtained from the New tirk Legislature. It is to he •
" llonnevathic Mutual Life Insurance Company," and its
peculiarity is that the lives of those who adopt the homoeo-
pathic treatment of diseases are to be insured at "judiciously
reduced rates" In coniparisen with those who adhere to the
allopathic system. The capital stock is to he 240,000 dole,
and subscribers are guaranteed 7 per ceni annually it, gold.
The old school of medicine will probably get up a rival
concern.
'rho jury empannelled to ascertain the canes of the
death ot the child of Ruth Baimister, sant to have treen
scalded to death by an idiot nurse, named D i awber, n the
infant ward of the Wigan workhouse, have returned the fob
lowing verdict That the deceased died In consequence of
being negligently and carelessly scalded whilst being nursed
by Catherine Dawlier: that the jury think that the nursing
in the infant ward is very deficient and most unsatisfactory,
and the food unsuitable ; and, in their opinion, there ought
to be smile responsible person in charge of the ward."
,1 The Rey. B. Speke, of Dawish, brother of the late
Captain speke, the African explorer, has disappeared very
mysteriously. Ile left Ilminster station for London on
Wednesday the Bth, for the purpose of officiating at the
wedding of a friend. As he never put in an appearance
there, the telegraph was called into requisition, and
eventually the London detectives were set to work. Silvers
tisements in the London papers, offering £lOO reward, hare
elicited no response. Mr. Speke is about thirty-five years of
age, of athletic build, and well acquainted with London. lie
had seine £2O in his possession
A letter from Calcutta rays:--" The Christman
holidays are at hand, and Calcutta was never no gay. A
really respectable Itadan opera and ballet company delight
the °direoe in a pretty little theatre ill Lindsay-street. The
Viceroy has patronised Lewis'. Theatre on the plain, where
an Australian company act farces well and murder Shake-
speare. A band of ' negro ' minstrels entertain the coloured
part of the Christian residents. Balls and drawing-rooms
alternate at Government house, and the Lieutenant-
Governor's, and the flue new Sailors' Home is about to be
opened with a ball."
" The Celts of Scotland cannot be charred with any
lack of pride in thi ir native mountains. 'We have some-
thing to be proud of,' exclaimed the chief speaker at a
Gaelic festival held in the Iciirth the other day 'indeed,'
he continued, • I don't know what the world cull do with-
out the Highlauds and Highlanders. Where would those
Englishmen who crow ao loudly about the roast beef of Dlii
England get the beef if there were not fertile glens an I green
pasture in the Highlands to feed the cattle on? where would.
those grouse and other game come from were there no
Highland hills and Highland Militia 1 Two or three years
ago snout X 30,050 was paid for the right of shooting &Meld
the Caledonian Canal, for one year, and the shooting of
Perthshire realised at the same time £20,000: "—Pali
Gazette.

Michael Serridge, the policeman charged with
Fenianisrn at Birmingham, has been again brought up before
the mayor awl Mr. Kynnersley. Mr. Kynitersley said the
prisoner was charged with rising most improper and ex-
ceedingly violeat language as far back as the 30th of Septem-
ber last in reference to '.bat took place at Manchester two
days before. The Watch Committee had decided to dilis
charge the man from the police force; and, taking into con-
sideration the fact that he hail lieee greatly irritated, end
that he really did not, as he had since state.l, mean what he
sail, they did not propose to take any further notice of the
case. The prisoner hail borne a good character during the
whole of the seventeen years he hail heen connected with
the police force, and they were quite willing to believe that
he had spoken under exciting circumstances ; he would.
therefore, be discharged_