The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF ENV

BRITISH AND FOREI.N.

Six ladies have already contributed £5O each
towards Mr. John Stuart Mlll's election expenses no candi-
date for Westminster.

A Parisian paper announces as an extraordinary
and ntino,st„unprecsdented circumstance that a shower of

At a recent examination of a bankrupt, it was
observed that he kept a great number of banking accounts.
"I see," said the learned judge, "that you have had six
or seven hankers ; what could you want no many fort"
"To overdraw them, to be sure," was the frank and candid
reply.

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Bankruptcies at Paris have been extraordinarily
numerous of late; on Thursday not fewer than eighteen
were declared.

The Scots Fusilier Guards are about to discard their
pipers. and for the future to content themselves with the
less exciting music of their regimental band.
"In Cincinatti a young bride stole 1,000 dole, from
her husband's pocket while he was sleeping MY a drunk "
Alta Ca ifornian.

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The Spectator is of opinion that it would hardly have
been possible for any satirist in any age to have composed
a censure more delicately elaborate, more artistically cruel,
more briefly murderous, than the one in which Mr.
Kingslake displays the grand fault in the nature of Lord
Cardigan.

Tueaday, the 21st duly, is the day fixed for the in-
auguration of the Palmerston memorials at gomsey.

A Bolton fish-dealer has been fined 10s. and costs
for exposing for sale fourteen quarts of unwholesome prawns
He was liable to a tine of £2O for each prawn.

Baron de Rothschild, of Frankfort, has determined
to remove his banking establishment front that city to
Berlin.

A girl eleven years old has been arrested at Mar-
seilles charged with poisoning her mother, by dissolving
some lucifer-matches in asses' milk. On being asked what
motive she had had for the commission of so terrible a
crime, the prisoner exclaimed, "Dame. si maman ne m'avait
pas priv6e de dessert je no l'aurais pas.empoisonnke "
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In order to convey to the public some idea of the
power of the battery that was engaged at Shoeburyness In
proving the resisting power of the various shields, The Ttlllls
says that if its five guns were fired simultaneously they would
deliver about 16 cwt. of shot, propelled by 200 lb of powder,
striking the target with a mechanical force sufficient to
throw nearly a ton weight over the top of the highest moun-
tain in the world.

Count Monster has proposed to the Parliament of
North Germany the following:—" Every member that shall
have been absent during ten consecutive sittings shall he
summoned by the President to take his place within a given
time, and if he does not comply with that order, he shall be
considered to have vacated his seat, and a new election shall
be proceeded with." The proposition was supported by
deputies of all parties.

At a Sunday-aehool lately, a bright little fellow was
asked " What is conscience ?" "An inward monitor," was
the reply. "And what is a monitor t" " Oh, one of the
Iron-clods."

It haa been discovered that there is an old Scotch
statute enacting that no person shall win more than a
hundred merks" at play or horse-racing within twenty-
four hours; that is, not more than a... 5 Ils. 21d. Otherwise,
the simples is to be forfeited to the peer of the parish.
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An outrage with firearms is reported from Tralee.
Two men appeared near midnight at the house of Mr.
Thomas O'Connell, of Thilee, a nephew of the late "Liberator,"
Daniel O'Connell, and threatened to shoot a servant-maid if
she gave an al.dm or attempted to in pede their entrance.
A revolver discharged by one of the men, It would seem by
accident, alarmed Mr. O'Connell, who came to the door; but
his visitors hotantly ran away on the pistol going oft The
hall-do:a was found perforated with shot.

In London, on Tuesday, a single horse van, heavily
laden with bales of wool, having slipped the wheel skid on
the Borough incline at London Bridge, the horse lost all
power over its lead, and was forced violently down the hill,
across the footway, through the shop front of Messrs.
Findlater, Mackie, and Todd's wine and spirit stores, where
the startled dots had only just time to escape the destruc-
tion occasioned by the unexpected intruder, whose antics
before he could be removed added considerably to the damage
done in the first instance by the accident.
The Irish Government have determined to release
Mr. Pigott, of the It i Aman The Goxprnor of Richmond
Bridewell has received authority from the Lord Justices
acting in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant' to release him
from custody on his perfecting the recognizanees required
by his sentence This concession amounts to a commutation
of punishment by one-half. Mr. Pigott was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment, anal has spent exactly six
Is, the Bridewell.

Letters from Melbourne state that the association
formed at that town for exporting meat to Europe has
'after many experiments come to the conclusion that it can
best he conveyed "spiced' Measures are being taken to
send large quantities of •• spiced mutton '' to England.
A daring jewel robbery was investigated by the Mary-
lehotte magistrate on Saturday. The bed-room of Mrs Fresh-
field, wife of Mr Freshneld, of the bank of England, residing
hr Stussex-square Hyde-park, London, was found, CM Saturday
afternoon week to have been feloniously entered, and the
jewel cases broken , pen and valuables abstracted to the
amount ,d gt,itoo. Tire butler and an alleged confederate
were taken into custody.

The library of the once famous John C. Calhoun, of
South uarolina was recently sold to pay a debt f a few hun-
dred dollars, which his impoverished widow and daughter
had no other moans of paying. The proceeds of the aide of
one of the choicest private collection .1 looks in the S.odh
were pitiful indeed. whoh) shelves of books being to bed
down for from four to six collars the shelf. Other pprs.mal
property had thee to b• mold S. matialy the demi of the
methters.

At Liverpool, recently, 890 square yards of land in
Church-street sold for £32,760, or nearly £lOO,OOO per acre
The Dublin Protestant Defence Association have
forwarded to Mr. Disraeli • copy of a vote of thanks for his
•• most earned and satisfactory assurances that the Pro-
testant Church and Protestant Institutions of Ireland will
have the cordial and determined support of her Majwity's
Government."
Anther strike is threatened in some of the Lanca-
shire colliery districts. All the colliery proprietors in the
district of Little Halton are reducing the wages of the men
in their employment.
The Austrian Society for the Relief of Soldiers
wounded in time of war has appointed the Queen of
Prussia an honorary member, and her Majesty has accepted
the nomination.
During last year over half a million of money—
rs4o,oB4—was transmitted to Ireland s rout America by
emigrants to their friends—X2o2,9l4 of the awn being in the ,
form of prepaid passage orders.
The crown and state dresses of King Theodore,
which were brought from Abyssinia by Colonel slilward, have
been temporarily deposited at the India Mice.
A number of distinguishes! persons went down by
special train on Tuesday to see the experiments going on at
S%oeburyness. Among them were the Duke of Cambridge
and all the French princes at present in this country.
A curious catalogue has appeared in Paris, by Gus-
tave Brunet, of books, manuscripts, and engravings, which
have fetched at public auction motk than Leo° francs £4O ;
and of pictures which have fetched more than 50,000 francs
£2,000:.
Lord Amberley has intimates! to the electors of
Nottingham that it Is not his intention to offer himself age
candidate for the representation of the borough. . He is
unwilling to risk dividing the Liberal interest, which tvas
nearly
e.wTheteeldiNalpiartpegnuinisg
of
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nth:
tliasngst wohnehneah,o hilyad leontashet
Grand Prize of Paris, has left with the Paris Jockey Club
10,004.-7,500 for the poor of Paris, and 2,500 for the
English church at Chantilly.
In the Cherson Government there are periodical race
meetings in which the notables of the Ukraine take great
interest. At a recent meetings at Elliabethgrad the first
prize was won by the parish priest, whose horse was
admirably ridden by his sacristan.
The Bishop of Winchester is now nearly con- '
valescent In all the churches in his extensive diocese last
Sunday his Lordship offered up thanks to Almighty God for
"mercies recently vouchsafed to him."
A telegram has been received from Shanghai,
announcing that the Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Itenares stranded on the 2301 ult, on one of the islands if the
Fisherman's Group. The mails, passengers, and crew were
saved, but it was feared that the ship and cargo would
become a total loss.
Cyanide of potassium, much used by photographers,
is an exceedingly dangerous poison ; and they will be glad to
bear that the painful ulcers and other bad symptoms which
It produces may be effectually prevented by rubbing the
hands, when soiled with it, with a mixture lof proto-salphate
of iron, reduced to a very fine powder, and linseed oil.
" Matrimonial Office. —Many Lady Clients, with
and without means ; privacy fee is. &I.—Address, &c.
Advertisement in Manchester Ezantiner.
An instructor in a school for young ladies in
Berlin, has been discharged because tie gave as a subject
for essays, " Sentiments and Feelings at the sight of an
Officer of Cavalry."
The Marquis of Westminster has just given £1,090
towanls the building of the new wing of bt. George's
Hospital, in London.
A coin of the Roman Emperor Paulius Lueinius
Gallienus has been found in Winchester recently. It was in
good preservation.
1,200 tons of new potatoes from the Channel
Islands and France were imported into Southampton last
week.
The other day the Queen visited the celebrated
stook-breeding farm of Mr. ICCombie at •fillyfour, Aberdeen-
shire, and inspected the splendid herds of black Aberdeen-
shire polled cattle.
"To plunge a young lady six fathoms deep in
happiness, give her two canary birds, a halfidozen moon-
beams, fifteen yards of silk, an ice-cream, several rosebuds,
a squeeze of the hand, and a promise rd a new Immiet. If
she won't melt, it will be because she can't.' —American
Paper.
Mr. Allan publicly contradicts a statement made at
a recent pro-Irish Church meeting, that Mr. Gladstone Is in
the habit of ' taking counsel" with him ou ecclesiastical
matters. Mr. Miall says he has only once coinimmicated
with Mr. Gladstone on any subject whatever since 1865.
Dr. .Mouret, chief surgeon of the sth Regiment of
the line, has just committed suicide at Dole. France, first
by stabbing himself mortally, and then jumping into the
river Doubs.
A daring robbery has been committed at the "Lord
Warden Hotel," Dover—a dressing-case which was left in one
of the bed-rooms being forced open, and jewellery to the
value of £5OO carried off
The Journal des Cunnai.gsanees llledicales states that
on the Ist of January, 1868, Europe could boast of 102,061
miles of railways; and that, for all the five parts of the
world, the grand total is 162,500 miles This length would
be sufficient to encircle our globe twice round the equator,
and as many times round a meridian provided with the
necessary complement of polar and tropical parallels and
it has taken less than fifty peon to form this immense iron
girdle, the end of which the next generation is not likely to
, see.
An eye-witnesa gives the followinv account of Prince
Napoleon's visit to the Arsenal of ienna When he
arrived at the butts, the colonel in command ordered two
men to shoot with the Weial musket at the tartlet, 300 paces
distant The two flies fired forty-three balls ifl one minute
without missing once. The Prince, and the other officers of
suite, were extremely surprised at this ieselt. Ile had
asked whether the Austrian breech-lombrs eould fire seven
times 'minute, and he saw himself that they did three tones
as nnich.

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The following curious experiment has been made by
Dr Claude Barnard :—lf oxygenised blor be injected Into
the arteries of the neck immediately tier decapitation,
warmth and sensibility retail the eye et, animated, and
displays such strong perception, that a hand shaken before
It will cause it to wink and look sidewa
The Obserrer calculates the gains and losses of the
two great political parties at the next election, and esti-
mates that the Liberals will have acl . r gain td 25 votes,
making 50 votes in a division. The estimate only takes into
consideration the newly-created constituencies and those
which have been wholly or partly disfranchised, and does
not take into account the effect of the reduction of the fran-
chise, from which the Liberals expect, in the old constituen-
cies, a large addition to their power.
A Birmingham correspondent, in his report on the
state if the hardware trade for the past week, remarks that
the damaging effect of foreign competition is likely to give a
great impetus to the educallional movement in that town
and district. It is getting to be known, he says, that, in
sonic branches, machines, invented and made in England,
produce better goods in the hands of educated workmen on
the continent than can be obtained in workshops in this
Country.
Leipzic produces 8,000 or 10,000 books per annum.
In 1867, 9,855 works were published. The statistics of the
trade shows that books on philosophy are less in demand
than they used to be, but school books are more so.
Treatises on medicine, chemistry, amid natural sciences are
increasing; jurisprudence the same ; less so theology.
Languages are more and more in request, as also are history,
biography, and memoirs. Novels and light literature are
comparatively neglected.
When General Grant was asked whether he could
receive two committees in one day, sent by two different
conventions, to inform hint of his nomination to the Presi-
dency, he said that his speeches were not so exhaustive that
he could not make two of them on the sante sly.
At the Public Office, Birmingham, a woman, named
Harriett Curtis. has been committed for trial at the assizes
for having mutilated her husband in the most shocking
manlier while he was in bed. Jealousy led to the
perpetration of the atrocious outrage.
The long streamer worn by ladies, known to the
French modistes by the expressive name of a NOM-I/104
jeumie booimi, having become coninion and insignificant, a
new fashion has been devised of a cushion or hump worn
prominently about eight inches below the waist. its position
being indicated on the outside of the dress behind by a large
bow of ribbon
Mr. Mark Cragg, aged twenty, son of the inspector
of the Rochdale police-force, spent Saturday night with some
friends, and when returning home about midnight, down
Pitt-street, he was tired at by a person who was concealed in
, some gardens at the side of the road. The bullet passed
through his cap within an inch of the top of his head, but he
escaped injury. The would-be assassin escaped.
There are two specimens of mocking birds in
England. They are to 13e seen in the aviary at the Crystal
Palace, near the Crystal Fountain. They are in full song,
and warble the notes of the thrush, blackbird, nightingale,
dm., mock the railway whistle, the sawing of wood, itc., and
whistle some English songs.
Mr. Train hi overflowing with eloquence. Here is a
drop of it:—" Rather than be recreant to the line I have
marked tot, or succumb to the persecutions with which I
have been assailed, I would scuttle the shop, and sink with
it into fathomless.% depths, with the last remnant of the green
, flag flying over me salt becomes engulphed in the waters of
I oblivion"

An inquest has been held in London, relative to the
death of Jane Eliza Stevanton, aged five years, who died
from sunstroke. The post-mortem examination showed that
the brain was inflamed, and that death arose from that
Immediate cause. Playing in the street without a covering
to the head had exposed her to the action of the sun's rays,
and the inflammation of the brain had been set up in that
way. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
In San Francisco the servant girls are said to
receive such high wages that many of them invest their
savings in real estate, and are the owners of valuable town
lots.
The following are the sums received by the
different Sovereigns of Europe :--Alexander 11. of hues's,
£1700000; Abdul Ariz of Tuikey. £1,320,000 ; Napoleon
lit. 14 France, £1,040,000; Francis Joseph of Austria,
£800,009; William of Prussia, £600,050; Victor Emmanuel
of Italy, £4530,000 ; Queen Victoria, £040,000 ; Isabella of
Spain, £300,000; and Leopold of Belgium, £120,000. The
President of the United States, £5,000.
The Liberal journals in the north of Ireland
evidently fear the dreaded month of July will not pass over
quietly. The Northern Whig complains that the f lunge:nen
In the neighbourhood of coleraine have begun to march
about in the evenings, playing fifes and drums. In one
Instance, a" lodge" carried an orange and purple flag.
The l3ritinh Medical Journal states that two tin-
publisheo deaths have occurred quite recently in London
from the administration of chloroform--one, while it was
being administered for the purpose of extracting teeth, to a
lady of rank in apparently good health, and who bad taken
It with impunity on a previous occasion. In the other case,
It Was administered for a secondary operation on the eye.
In neither instance has an inquest been held, and the
Coroners were in each case satisfied that chloroform had
been administered properly and with due care and judgment,
and that the deaths arose from pure misadventure.
Letters from Berlin contain details concerning the
state of Count de Bismarck's health. The Federal Chancellor
had been busily occupied throughout the whole morning of
the 29th :day. when he was obliged to suspend his receptions
from an inflammation of the membrane of the heart. At
present he is better, and the King has visited him at his
residence.

A letter from Rome, in the Corriere delle Marrhe,
says Count Pagliacci, of Viterbo, was recently con-
demned, by the Tribunal of the Sacra Consults, to be shot,
for having commanded last autumn one of the insurrec-
tionary hands. The Pope, at the urgent instance of the
French Embassy, has commuted the sentence to one of
forced labour for life."
Mr. Hewlett, Off Oer of Health for Bombay, has
neat in a report for 1867 which vegetarians will not like Of
the 816,562 inhabitants of Bombay, 61,994 belong to the non-
flesh-eating castes; and while the general mortality amounts
to 1 89 per cent, the mortality among them aniounts to 2 05
per cent., and this although they belong to the higher orders
of society.

"Any stout, healthy young fellow, who has no
desire to amass nomey—who has no objection to continual
watchfulness and occasional hard work—who does not Par
exposure to all torts of weather—aho eat • he content with
mutton, mate. and hard biscuits every day all the year round;
and, lastly, wits has no particular love for the society of
either man or woman. might he very happy as a shepherd in
Buenos Ayres, and will have no difficulty in linding employ-
ment."—Randoot Skotthoo of Buenos Ayres.
A hairdresser is the fortunate winner of the great
prise ..1 £6,0,0 in the lottery for the Enfants Pouvrem
Much amusement was caused in the Corps Legislatif by the
appearance if the lucky nian in a state of high excitement.
Ile would come to see his deputy, who, when at home, he
had been in the habit of shaving, and insisted upon the
~,, .0 is member going off with him in order to obtain
payinei.t of the money forthwith As the elections are
at hand, of eourso the deputy rent, amid the laughter of kla
eolleagnee,

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A fearfully destructive catastrophe has pat occurred
at Stockholm. A nitro-glycerine mauitfactory eriaoded, kill-
ing fifteen persons, and destroying I great amount of sur-
rounding property.
Lady Napier and her family are in London, awaiting
the arival of sir Robert Napier. who is expected home with-
in the next fortnight. Sir Robert Intends to stay in England
but a few weeks, to Bettie various questions of expenditure
with the India Office, after which he will return to Bombay.
A niece of Horace Greeley is making a sensation in
continental musical circles. She played before Liszt, and he
embraced her—which was complimentary to the young lady
and pleasant for the maestro !
, A lawyer's client being shown into an office, was
' pressed to take a teat and uncover his head, hut stoutlk de-
clined, urging as his reason, that he desired to" keep expelese
down as much as possble
The Viceroy of Egypt has decided that his seconi'.
son, w-ho is about fifteen years of age, and is destined for the
military profesilon, shall finish his education in England.
A roller turner, named Ralph Greenhalgh, was about
deseending by a hoist at the mill of Messrs. Hargrave.,
Bolton, on Saturday last, and he accidently seized hold of
the ascending rope, and was dgagged to the top of the mill,
and then fell a depth of about slaty feet, tie was dread-
fully injured and died almost inonediately.
The Prince and Princes. Louis of Hesse (Princess
Alice! landed at Woolwich Amenal pier at eleven o'clock on
Monday morning. The services of a salute party and
guard of honour were declined by their Royal Highnesses.
'The following is a bona fide dialogue heard in Hyde'
park a few afternoons since :—Scene—The Ladies' Mile.
First speaker a gentleman on foot • : How is your papal'
Second speaker .a not very young lady, with spectakies, on •
spirited horse : 'Better, thanks: lie was down at tne I louse
last night, and intenuptel old Gladstone twice; he does so
hate old Gladstone.' This was said loud enough for all
Rotten-row to hear. The ' Row ' will SOO, miconie as personal
as the House of Commons—Comet Aurora.
The French state that the English always no dad
about the pima donn., and relate the following
anecdote :—" In Ina, Mesdames Catalini and Taste gave a
concert at Cambridge. The hall was crammed in ever,
ftart• ao much so that the fair artiges only °Manful
admission by getting through a window, and being pawed
over the heads of the audience to the stage. This Was done
without accident save a disarrangement of the dress and the
lasa..ot a shoe. As the shoe was a very large one neither of

the fair arti4des claimed it f"
A wealthy widow in Pittsburg fell in love with the
coachman who drove her to her husband's grave, and finally
imirried him, lie unfortunately had a wife living, was
arrested for bigamy, and implored his second to furnish
bail. She chucked him playfully under the chin, and bade
him go to gaol like a man. That's the latest gomip in Pitt.
burg.
An interesting archaeological discovery has been
made in a railway cutting at Pont-de-Pierre, in France. At
three feet below the surface of the ground a group of
thirteen skeletons was found in a narrow space, and won-
derfully preserved. They seem to be the bones of full-grown,
men who had tiled in battle. tine evidently had been deca-
pitated. A coin, very much defaced. but still seen to bear
the effigy of the Emperor Gordian, was also picked up among
these remains, which leads to the conclusion that 170 e years
have elapsed since they were interred.
A Japanese nobleman, whose reported riches put
the descriptions of wealth in the Thousand and One Nights
into the shade, is daily expected in Marseilles, in &steamboat
built expressly for himself. lie conies to France to seek 3
French wife, who must be poor, virtuous, and not younger
than eighteen. Widows, if charming, are not excluded.
This distinguished foreigner belongs to young Japan, and has
assisted in settling the recent separation beta cell Church
and State in his own country, which leaves GladstA ne's
efforts far behind. Young ladies are expected to "lacier
The trial of Mr. Edgeley, upon the charge of
conspirisg to defraud the Leeds Banking Company of a
large sum of money, more than £lOO,OOO, was brought to a
close on Saturday. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and
Mr. Baron Pigott, in passing sentence, said that the estreme
penalty under the form which the indictment had taken—
namely, that of " misdemeanor "—was two years' imprison-
ment. The learned judge fully concurred with the ventiet
of the jury ; but it appeared to his judicial mind that the
penalty wax slightly too much. He, therefore, am/tensed
the prisoner to imprisonment with hard labour [Or one year
and nine months!
The London pawnbrokers complain that their
interests stiffer severely fnan the frequent changes ill female
fashions, and that a hen articles of clothing pledged with
them are not redeemed at the end of twelve months, tnin
changes of fashion greatly deteriorate the value of such
articles. The Association of Pawnbrokers have therefore
prepared a bill to he introduced into Parliament in the next
session, authorising the sale of all articles of clothing not
redeemed at the end of six months, instead of twelve. It
appears that large quantities of clothing are pledged by
persons without .y intention of redeeming them, solely on
account of the frequent changes of fashion.
A round robin was recently presented to the master
of a great school complaining of the sourness of the beer sup-
plied to the boys. The master sententiously replied. "My
dear boys, all men and all things are imperfect You, too,
have your faults, and you ought to occupy yourselves with
correcting them instead of undertaking to reform my cellar
When you have corrected the acidity of your .1,11 tempera
it will be high time for you to complain of the sourness of
I my beer."
The late Sir William Abdv, Bart., lmqueathed a
legacy to all his godchildren. As the eccentric Baronet was
eighty-nine years of age when lie died, it is probable that he
stood sponsor to a great many children. All godfathers
ought to take an example from this.
A lady named Food has lost her life at the West-
land-row terminus of the Dublin and KingttoWn Railway,
through the falling of a heavy plaster cornice Over a seat
which persons occupy when waiting for trains Several
others were more or less injured one gentleman seriously ;
but all were able to proceed home, except Mrs. Gold. 1,110
was struck on the head by the falling mass, and wile died a
few hours afterwards.
A novel dispute has occurred among the members of
the South Yorkshire Miners' Association. During the recent
' negotiation with the employers, which ended in a reduction
of 5 per cent. in wages, the manager and secretary strongly
recommended the acceptance of the reduction, on the ground
that in the present state of trade the proposal of the masters
was reasonable. Now that the question has been settled,
those who resisted the reduction have quarrelled with
their Officers, and the manager and secretary have re-
signed.
A return has been issued of the amount of fees paid
to each assiatant boundary commissioner, and the number of
days for which each such commissioner was paid. Tile
total amount paid to thirty-seven assistant commissioner*
was £7,469 14s. Nineteen commissioners received three
guineas and eighteen five guineas per day The highest
amount received by any one commissioner for lifty-ninis
days' work was £309 100. ,
Dockyard economy is doubtless a good thing. for the
nation in general, but In the meantime a very-Wail thing for
the town of Portsmouth in particular. Not fewectnan I,see
men have been discharged from the docIQ arda there since
March last, and a further discharge of a hundred more will
be made this week. The out districts ot the borough, where
1 the workmen principally resided, are almost deserted, and
' trade is in a very depressed state. The labour formerly
done by the regular dockyard hands now devolves. In a
great measure, on the seamen and mariale, who are as Much
, disappointed at getting the work as the dischargedipen at
losing it.
Mr. Lawrence, United States Minister to Costa
Rica, has been deprived of his office for fighting a duel near
'Vi aallington with Baron Rosserow, of the Russian Legation
in the same city. At the same time Mr. Seward has cc-
quested the Russian Minister to call the attention of his
Government to the matter. "in order that Baron von
Kosserow and Count lothum may in a proper manner lie
made sensible of its displeasure."
"Typhus fever," says a Naples correspondent, "still
continues its ravages, but it canimt be said to be very severe.
About ten to fifteen deaths daily may be ascribed to this
cause. To me the only wonder is that, considering the
unimaginable filth of the greater part of the town, it is not
ten times w•irse. This is certainly a wonderful climate. as
all the efforts of the inhabitants to render it pestiferous are
of no small effect. The usual death rate of this town, with
a population certainly exceeding half a million, is forty-five
per ibex. What would it be if ordinary sanitary rules were
attended to,"
In compliance with many urgent instances from
those in high quarters who are privileged to make saggestions
in such matters, her Majesty has signified her intention of
giving another ball at Buckingham Palace on her return
rom Scotland.
The French have finally nationalised the English
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won!" shocking." They write and pronounce it. choquin,
and receive it thus for the exact signification attached to it
in the English language.
The Pall Mall Gaulle believes it may state con-
fidently that the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices
Bill will be proceeded with. A number a Liberal members
see preparing to wait as a deputation on Mr. Disraeli to urge
his proceeding with it, and to promise their co-operation,
and the Prime Minister is understood to be willing to aceede
to the request.
A Naples letter says that Vesuvius still continues
every now and then to show fitful signs of life, throwing
out ashes, flame, and lava, but only for a few hours at a
time. The crop throughout the country promise exceedingly
well; local damage has been suffered here and there from
hailstorms and grasshoppers, but in general much finer
crops of all kinds are expected than have been seen these
five years. This is a thing of immense moment for this
conntry, whose resources are almost wholly agricultural.
The price of bread is already rapidly going down.
The London Reline hopes the Liberal side will strain
a point here and there for the purpose of returning to Par.
Bement a few more men in whom brain., culture, and
fine sympathies are more conspicuous than what is called
Ntatesmati•hip. They are almost always useful, if for their
"irrespective criticism" only. The majority of the mem-
bers of the House of Commons may be described as
mediocrities without statesmanship. As a rule, they are
sadly deficient in "imagination." This want men of letters
would supply.
The .New York Revolution, the American organ of
woman's rights, notes the fact that the Congregation'
Church of Harlem, Rev. S. Bourne pastor, on the report of
the committee amminted a year ago, have recently no
amereled the standing rule of that church, that wemen are
: now eligible as officers. The vote was unexpeetedlv large.
It required a two-thirds vote, but it was four to one. The
women of that congregation may now be pastor, deacons,
-mil trustees, as well as devoted members.
Some changes are about to be made in the uniform
of the infantry of the line. The present undress call sill be
replaced by a Glengarry, with the regimental dist nctio in on
the left side—s change. the Army and A' aryOaretfr ventures
, to think, of questionable taste. The shell jacket D to be
: abolished, a Karkee tunic, made after the fashion of a Nor-
folk jacket, being substituted. The number of buttons on
this and the ordinary tunic will be reduced by ten—viz„ four
on the skirts, and three on each arm, from which the present
, slashing is aLso to be siped away.
The Sheffield saw grinders, or some of their number,
mess determined to keep up their unenviable notoriety.
Two members of the fraternity—father and son—were. on
Friday, bound over to keep the peace for having assaulted
and threatened three non-unionists wt• were endeic °erne{
to obtain employment One of the complainants was witness
: during the Commissioners' enquiry.
From a return issued on Saturday morning, it
appears that the militia establishment of the United king-
dom and Ireland in the year /867 was composed of 4,6,6
officers, 5.027 non-commissioned officers, and 124,622
privates. No less than 1,347 officers, 340 non-commissioned
officers. and 26,202 men are required to complete the
establishment in Great Britain, leaving Ireland out of the
calculation
A Naples paper has the following —"The Sovereign
rules the people. The Pope gives his blessing to both The
soldier serves all three. The taxpayer maintains all four
The lawyer robs the whole five. The physician kills them all
six. The surgeon cuts up all seven. The poor friar lives
on the shoulders of all eight. The priest prays for all nine
Death disposes of all ten. The sexton buries all eleven,
and, finally, the cart:i covers all twelve in uremia meculorum
—Amen.

"A correspondent asserts that he last week saw a
coroneted carriage stopping outside Coutte's. A gorgeous
fmdnien stood at the carriage door. There passed him,
walking very rapidly, a gentleman—the brother of an Earl
and ex-Secretary of State. Baying, en passatat, recognised the
footman, he suddenly turned back, shook hands with him,
asked kindly after his belongings, and then paused on at five
miles an hour, leaving Jennies toWewhat asibmished, and
touching his hat Tl& grentlenian has joined the Bright arid
tlill party, aml is anxious abut hie neat end the future.
The age of democracy is travelling on with rapid strides".—
Court Journal.
The Berlin journals give the following anecdote, as a
testimony of the anal-dilly and love of discipline which
characterise the Kin, ~f l'russia Rim Majesty, wandng
In the garden of Italieltherg, spoke to a young gardener, and
asked some information ma to some new walks The latter
proceeded b• ow iloanc I,is Vtr,esti , time
became uneasy, all, looking Inesuently at ii itch, at
length inked his Majesty to excuse him, as he ought to be on
guard at Potsdam at such an hour. The K log finding that
to go there on foot was not possible in the time, ordered a
cardsge. as, ' -ompaideil the young tone, reeonune,ling
the °freer 'y to be indul,nt should a few Waste II
have bow le.t."