The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-04 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

-BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

For whatever else it may be celebrated, the yea'
Vin will be remembered u the year o, floods.

A New York firm has thiA year imported 15,000,000
tpon,quill toothpicks.

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The King of the Sandwich Islands died at eleven
010 kon Christmas Day Ms successor has not yet been
dosignsted.
It was resolved, at the Sessions hell at Warwlir, to
appoint a public analyst for the courtly, the question of salary
and other details being left for conaideralon by &committee.
It is said that the pen and pocket knife cutlers o
Sheffield are about to strike for an advance of 10 per cult.,
nrsksng a total rise of 25 per cent. In Leven montha

A reporter describiog the dressea at a fashionable
assembly In Boston, remarks "The largest part of the dresses
were literally on the floor."

A Mr. Dixon offers to remove Cleopatra' Needle
from Elul t, and to ert et It on the Thames Embankment,
tn. £15,000.
TLe trial of Marshal Baza,ne is nearly certain to
come on at the beglut log nt February. It writ take place in
the Ecole Milltaire at 'art,.

At Newea,tle-under-Lyme a man ban been fined
half a crown and the costs for kissing a young woman under
the mistletoe against her wilL

A curious rale took place the other day in Paris of
400 pairs of antlers, the /Melia opines of the finest lams slain
In the Imperial hunts.
Sixteen bodies, found drowned in different pane of
the %lee, were brought to the Morgue In Paris last Sunday.
The deaths have been caused, no doubt, by the inundations.
Seven person a are supposed to have perished at a
Ore In Centre-street, New 1 on. One body oily has been
recovered.

On one of the west side avenues in New Itt rk there
I. an establishment where Beau Brut:ninels can hire a clean
thin, white tie and gloves, and • dress atilt at is moderate
051 per bight

Cidais is teing busiegril by visit mg—principally Eng-
lish— who are t t rac ted to the town by the projected es.
cursiou of li. Thiers. The Preeideura object in going thither
is to witness certain artillery experiments.

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After nearly fifteen years' quietude the inmates of
the A gapemone at Apazton, near liridbwater. formerly known
as " Pliocene'," have commenced a Bartel of revival meet-
ings.

The French Government will pay 200 million franca
toGermeny on the 15th of January next on account of the
war indemnity, and the lame amount on the 15th of each
successive month, until Slay.

The Surrey magistrates have resolved to bring the
Pubic Prosecutors Bill under the notice of the Home Secre-
tary, with a view of pointing out that the advantage to be
derived from the measure Is by no mean. commensurate with
the heavy expenditure which it would entail.

On Monday morning, a woman named Rebecca
Saunders, about 21 years of age, died from the effect of
severe burns sustained on Saturday last, through her clothes
taking fire, at her lodgings, at No. 3, Carries-street, Blooms-
bury, London.

The city of Warsaw proposes on the 19th of Febuary
to eelebrate the 400th abniversary of the birth of Nicholas
Copernicus, whose statue is erected in one of its squares
La Voir remarks that Copernicus was a Teheck, and not a
Pole, aud that he was descended from a noble Bohemian
of the

family which settled in Cracow at the

14th century.

The wife of John Donnelly, weaver, Blackburn, has
elven birth to triplet., Ali thschthllren itromiales , they are
healthy, and along cth their mother are doing very well.
The mother's occupation to that of blower Ins card-room.

There is no truth in the statement that any fetes
Rye to be held in Paris duriog the vocation, the President of
the Republic having declared that there ought not to be any
official flte until the national territory bas been completely
evacuated.

At the Hunts quarter Sessions, on Monday, it wan
agreed to increase the pay of the chief constables £.20 per
annum ; superintem'ents, £l5 per annum; inspectors, LIU
per annum. Sergeants and constables are fa receive an in.
crease of It 6d. per week.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to present,
through the Duchess of Roxburehe, a copy of " Leaves from
the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, ' with her Majeety's
autograph, to Mr. Macrae Moir, as an acknowledgment of
his services in connection with the Scottish Corporation.

Dr. Holland thinks that no genuine Chrittian wonld
wear patent leather boots and dove-coloured pants But
suppos • that the genuine Chriatiau was burned out and his
friend Jones offered him those articles of clothing, wouldn't
he take them, eh

At the Liverpool rvdice-court on Monday, a woman
was sentenced, tinder the Prevention of Primes Act, to fix
months' imprisonment for hernia neglected In report hersel,
at stated periods to the police, she being under the super.
vision of the police for ten years.

An appeal to the working men of England on bash
of the gas-stokers sentenced to twelve menthe Imprison
meat by Mr. Justice Brett has been issind. Aid is sought
for the effort now being made to mitigate their punishment,
and for the rel!ef of the sufferings of the men's families.

The following is a genuine dialogue which occurred
recently In one of the puhllo schools of London .—Teacher
to Scholar " What gentler is mouse?' Scholar: "Femi-
nine.' Teacher: "Please glee the masculine gender."
Scholar 'Rat,."

Mr. John Fowler hen been appointea consulting-
engineer of.the Great Northern Ittilway Company in suceet.
sloe to the late Mr Joseph C4hltt, who held the same ap
Imitator.' stihel-que, tly to his father, the late Sir William
C n itt, who was the ilrat consulting engineer of the Great
Northern line.

A few days ago an old man, aged ninety-nine years,
ten months, and twelve ela)s, appeared as a witness before
the civil tribunal of Alain, Canton Vaud. He gave his evi-
dence in the most lucid manner possible, and affixed his
signature to the depcsitious without the use of spectacles
Swim rimer.

The Spectator, in some remarks on the Day, of Inter
cession, say.:—' We should much like to see the experiment
tried of emission whneetwents were unpaid, and either lived on
their means as several successful mliii narits have done, or
earned their own living as the earlier Baptist missionaries
did."

Saturday (the 28th ult.) being "the Innocenta' Day"
there was • special service for• hildren at Westminster
Abbey, and Dean st.Dimy Tresshed an interesting sermon,
suitable to the tender years ot his audience, on the boyhood of
the Saviour.

The attack of pneumonia, from which the Duke of
Marlborough has been suneriag far the last few dam has
taken a satisfactory comae, and the medical advisers of his
grace have been enabled to announce that he was moth
better.

Portemonth WWI again the healthiest large town in
Britein last week, the mortality being only 17 per 1,(0). In
the other towns the numbers were London, 19: Bristol
21 Salford, 22 ; Leeds, 24 ; Bradford and Birmingham, 25.
N Twich and Sheffield, 25: Leicester and Nottingham, 27 :
Alai chaster, 31; Oldham, 15. In London the births were
1,933, and the deaths 1,532.
It is stated thst the question of the pnrchsee of the
Irish railemr, fly the Government will be brought in every
short time before the Kerry Tumors' Club, with a view to
their taking action in referent.) to it. The Irish Dailv
telegraph says that some of the ablest memheet of the club
are In faveur of the purchase, and trusts that their opinion
will he unanimouely adopted.

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The Sultan of Zanzibar. replying recently to an
addres. on the quoi.tion of slavery, in reported to have
said :—Thirty-three years ago I was forbidden by my father,
SaletSaid, to export slaves to tiniest the ilave. now carrie,l
thither are stolen by the Arabs and by tribes eho come from
the Persian Gulf. twill make strong effort. in future to atop
and prevent the kidnapping of these slaves. I will make
every off ort."

" A determined suicide, we learn, wan committed at
Mhow on the 25th ultimo. Lieutenant Ger.°lse Baker
Power, of the Royal Artillery, on the night of that day
threw himself into a well and was drowned. The unfortu-
nate young gentleman hail, the prevl, it. day, atterntled to
shoot htmself. Bail news from Enc!and Is said to be the
cause of Ms committing suicide —Madras A thanamm, Dec. 7.
Mr. G. Selater-Booth. M.P., chairman of the Hants
Visiting Justices' Committee, reported at the Southampton
Qoarter Sessions, that Australian meat had been usel in the
prison for the last six months, and with perfect einem.
There had been no complaint, and the saving to the county
was calculated at £eB las. for the half-year.
In closing the inquiry on the three men who were
killed by an explosion at (f ours. Goddard's Colliery at Fen-
ton, evidence was given that, though the men went down
the pit with their lamps locked, they were I, the habit of
smoking and working with naked lights. The jury returned
a verdict of accidental death, itrongly recommending better
ventilation, which the Government Inspector had stated was
insufficient.

Another of those violent crimes which have marked
In a peculiarly painful way the closing days of the year has
occurred at Cardiff. One of the borough police, named
Parry, said to be a very respectable man, was stabbed to the
heart by a pork butcher (sail to be insane), who was drink-
ing at the bar of an hotel, and who, immediately after the
murder, made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to com-
mit suicide. The crime was entirely unprovoked.

Taking the pa,it quarter, the deaths in London have
been fewer by 4,656 ilan in the corresponding period of
1871 this Is equivalent te a reduction of 22 per cent in the
mortality. People of different ages were differently affected:
thus If life be divided Into three stages, those of the middle
slags Age 20 to 60) were relieved only to the extent of IN
per cent. : persons of GO and upwArds, 21 per cent and
children and young persons under toe ago of 20 were favoured
still further, as the deaths were fewer by 27 per cent, than
In the previous year.

It will interest the public to know that Lord Coch-
rane (of the and Life Outirds), eldest son of the present Earl
of Dundonald, sailed from Liverpool on fieturday last for
Chili to be preset, by Invl'ation, at, or take p,rt in, the un-
refill= of the stetue of his renowned gent Mather, the tam us
seaman whose ti mains now lie interred In Westminster
Abbey. How much Admiral Lord Dundonald did to secure
for Chill her inlepen ience is well known to CI, and how In
1819 (to use his own word.), " when nearly ruined by law
expenses, fines, deprivation of pay, 4e.: I accepted from the
Governmert an Invitations to .td In ftt Wear el In-
dependence, ard reproved, with Lady G. amens and our
fatuity, to South America."

A peaceful contest is on the eye of taking place
between a section ct English wink,. n and a section of
French woe.vaga, the result at which will be looked for
by artisan. with Nome degree of interest. The boot and shoe
makers of [onion have challenged the boot and shoe makers
of Faris as to which can tutu out the best quality if work in
the shortest posible time The challenge Is for ilen and
the decision will rest with a committee composed of English-
men and Frenchmen for that purpose. The challenge was
given by the leading workmen of the bootmakers of Eng-
land through St. Crispin, their organ, and was accepted by
the Monitenr de its Cordoneeria, the mouthpiece of the
Friona workmen.

A etatue of the naturalist Linnmus is to be unveiled
at ,tockholm on the 10th of January, the centenary of his
death.

The Anny and Navy Gazdte says it 18 able to eon-
I redid the report that it is intended to mate a reduction in
the garrison of Gibraltar.
A New York psper MCP that the eparrowe ha-
ver d into that city from England have grown several
sh.ides lighter in colour since their ..rrival.
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There was a collection in the chnrches of La
liechdleon Christmu Day on behalf of the persons rescued
from the mall steamer Germany. The collection yiehimi
about 1.0001.

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The French Minister of Finance has, it is said, a
scheme for the introduction of luternstioral postage cards.
Cards st two sous for Faris and three sous for the depart-
ments will come into use for French inland postage with the
new year.
At Berwick quarter sessions, on Friday, the Re.
corder, was presented with a pair of white gloves in token of
maiden comics. This is the fifth time out'of sin sessions
at which he ha. presided that he has been pi...seated with
white gloves.
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Margaret Hanlon, the anpleatall keeper, eer,tenced
to death at the Liverpool &Asiaoa for the murder of a boy by
stabbing bin with a klaiie, hall been reprieved by order of
the Secretary of State.
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"Damages for the plaintiff £100," was the i•sne of
the t, La which has occupied the Dublin Courts for several
dare; the proprietor and editor of the Belfast Northern
Whig being sued by Mr. Stamm., into steward to the Mar-
quis of Hertford, for certain criticisms on his conduct of
the estate., which Wtl4l defended as founded on the simple
truth.

The f. is given as the exact composition of
the Prussian llouse at Lominons s—National Liberal, 110 ;

Conservative, 89 ; Centre, 68 Progressista, 49 ; New Con-
servAive (fiptforrnerl), 41 ; Free Conservative, 39; Poles, 19 :
Indeper dent, IT ; Liberal Centre, 11; seats vacant, 12;
total, 432.

The Canadian Government, being left to its own
resources, has ordered of Sir William Armstrong • nnmber
of 9 pounder field guns of fowl. precisely similar to those
whleh have recently been manufactured at the Royal Gun
Fec,ories, Woolwich, and supplied to the Royal Artillery.
The Canadian guns are being constructed at the Hilda fac-
tory, and are to be finished spei dtly.

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Several turnpike acts were repealed on New Year's
Day. By the act Highway Boards may voluntarily repair
turnpike oad. M the cost of the district fund. For the pur-
pose of facilitating the abolition of tolls on turnpike roads,
the Highway Board may pay off the debts, and may borrow
money.

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The German Government, which appears resolved
not to be brow-beaten by the Vatican, has given warning to
the newspapers in Posen and Koenigsberg, that t/ they pub-
lish the utterancea of the Pope against tiermany in his recent
allocution to the Cardinals they will be immediately stized.
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An kmerican journal gives this as a specimen of the
"coming obitner) "—" Died, In the 35th )ear of him age,
John Smith, htuiband of the lion. Jane Smith, at her resi-
der coin Franklin, at sin o'clock. Mr. Smith was • meek and
quiet husband, reloved for the graces of a cultivated nature
ti est.-lied in the ditmestie virtue: as a cook, he was sur-
passed by few; as a nurse, he was equalled by none."

A complacent Highland landlord, at breakfast the
oth,r morning, planted his thumbs in his vest arm holes,
leaned significantly back In his chair, and said, Gentle-
men, where do you think that beefsteak came fr m?"
"From near the horns," will the queer reply of a London
p.a. It is singular that he has not pat any conundrums to
his triad. since

The action at the inatance of the Lord Provost of
Glasgow against the North Britidt Daily Mail for charging
him with corruptly making use of his position as a trustee
under the city of Glasgow Improvement Trust" was con-
shim ed in I.dlnburgh on Saturday night. The Jury found for
the pursuer, assessing the damages at 1.575. The pursuer he
the issue asked for £2,000.

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On Saturday. a representative meeting of railway
servadts in the employment of the Lancashire and Vol kshire
Railway Compamy wee held at Liverpool, when is wee re-
solvr d to solicit the aapistance of the directors to "Walsh a
sum ranhuatiou fund for all classes of the servants of the
mpany ; anal a district committee was appointed to sct In
coujunction watt the central committee at Blackburn, where
the movement originated.

Mr. T. S. Livingstone, son of the distinguished
traveller, has offered to lend a number of African curiosities,
brought home from his father by Mr. &whey, for public
display at the Foundry Boys Missionary and Industrial
Exhibition, Glasgow. They compr,se chiefly swords, spear-
heads, anklets and leghts of • liabisa.chiet, brass knives,
together with the heads of two spears which "missed Dr.
Livingstone'. head by leas than An inch."
Forty-five prisontri are to be tried at the Durham
session. Mr. Wharton, M.P., in Vdressiog the grsnd jury,
said the extent of crime In the county was lamentable. IL
was not, however, caused an much by Durham men as by
those who were brought to the district by the general pros-
perity of Its trade. Collieries, Ironworks, and other im-
portant concerns are sprineng up with .ushroomilke
rapidity, and the present high wages have attracted hither
the scum of the earth.

A newspaper correspondent at \Vie-ha/len says, that
owing to the approaching close of the gambling eatahlish.
meat there, which has now been in eidatence for a century,
the rooms have been so thronged that the directors have
found it necessary for the last week or two to admit visitors by
ticket. owly. The proftta during the year have been no enor-
mous that the ehareholders will receive a dividend at the
rate of P 7 per cent. on their capital. The correspondent
thinks that Wiesbaden, so far from suffering by the change,
will probably improve in many reaped..

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A man named Crawford bas melded with his family
for tome time in and mar Southampton. He had been In
India, and had a sunstroke there, which at time. affected
his brain. Some time since he was tried at Winchester for
attempting to kill his child, but owing to the favourable
es-hence of his cite he was acquitted. On Saturday his wife
applied to the magistrates for protection. He ußband,
ahe said, carried a pistol, and had attempted to shoot her.
A warrant was Issued for his apprehension, and just as it
was about to lie executed, he put the pistol in his mouth,
and blew out his brains.

On Sunday morning the Pr:nce and Prineve of
Wales. the Duke of Edinburgh. the Royal chtliren, the Duke
of St. Athena, General Sir William Knollys, Major Grey the
Lion. Eliot Yorke, and the other members of the household,
attended Divine Service at Sandringham Church. Prayer
was read by the Rev. W. Lake Onslow, and the sermon
preached by the Rev. C. F. Terror, rector of Stisted, and
chaplain to the Queen.

.. petition is being got up by the ladiea of. Glasgow,
Joking Mr. Gladstone to revive the old law of tho reign of
Queen Margaret of Scotland In those days the Parliament
missed an Act that any maiden lady, of hieh or low degree,
should have the liberty to choose for a hushami the man on
whom she met her fancy. If any nian refused to marry her
he wan heavily fined, according to the value of his world!,
possessions. The only ground of exemption WU previous
betrothal

Cardinal Cullen in his interview with a deputation
of National teachers on Saturday, told them that the prin-
cipal objection of the hierarchy to the new agreement was
that it made the Board the court of final arbitration between
the managers and the teachers. There was no act of parlia-
ment, he said, makiug a payment of the result-fees contin-
gent on the signing of the agreement. There would be, he
Informed them, a meeting of Catholic bishops on the t!lst of
January, at which their claims would be considered as
favourably as possible.

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At the Devon quarter seseione, held at Exeter, Sir
Maisey Lopes, Si.P , complained of the disallowance by
the Home Office of prosecution expenses. It was elicited
that the Home Office altogether refused to allow any en-
oeuses for the prosecution of night poachers The tithing
Justices of prisons reported in favour of the retention of the
treadmill, and their recommendation was adopted. The
chief constable reported that the Licensing Act mu working
satisfactorily, but at the same time the convictions for
drunkenness had increased, the offences, however, being
committed before eleven o'clock at night.

Mr. Edwin Forre,t, the well-known tngedian, died
suddenly on the 111th of December, at his rmioecce in Phila-
delphia. Mr. Forrest's s, milts repaired to his room before
ten o'clock, as it was lster than his usual hour for coming
otown. They found him lying on the bed, apparently suffer-
ing from apoplexy. Mr. Forrest had been exercising with
dam ebells, and had evitiently nearly completed
having adjusted his neck-tie, when overpowered Ile died
it. about half an hour after being dhcovereti. lie leaves no
Immediate relatives, his only sister having died several years
since.

The Revenue returns for the quarter, as well as for
the year ending Decumher 31st, were betted on Tuesday
evening The income during the past three months has
been £17,481,362, a net increase cf £627,265 upon that of
the conespouriang period In 1871. The years receipts
have amounted to £77 688,920, and this is 113ec by nearly
five millions and a half than the revenue of the pree sting
year. Custom, have produced more by £515,000, excite by
£2,088,000, stamps by £228,n00, taxes ,y £2l 000, property
tax by £2 914,0 0, post-office by £120,000, and telegraph ser-
vice by £290,900. Crown lauds have fallen oft by £lO,OOO,
and miscellaneous ircome by £O9OOOO.

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During the week ending Saturday lad, 4,773 births
and 13,318 deaths were registered in London and twenty other
hrge cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The mor-
tality from all causes in these town. was at the rate of
deaths annually to every 1 000 persons estimated to bellying.
In the metropolis 1923. births ut 11,232 deaths were reels-
tend, the former having been IS, and the latter 470 below
the average 'fen 'Timone died from small.por, 9 from
meash s, 18 from scarlet fever, six front I. iptheria, 37 from
whooping cough, 22 from different forms of fever, and 16
from Matrixes : thus to the seven principal diseases of Us
ymntic class 118 deaths were referred, against 115 and 19
in the two preceding weeks.

The Odessa Messenger relateg that the authorities of
that town are on the track of a painful judicial error corn.
mitte.l eleven years ago. At that date a murder was perpe-
Vated on the person of afelme. Dondovovitch, wife of a
general, and suspicion fell on toe lover nf the victim's maid-
servant, a man toonel Kissel6viteh. This person was tried
by a court-martial, cond.innea to be shot, sad afterwards
exected It now appears th st the real murderer of the
lady has been recently discovered, and has confessed Ids
crime in I urnishing proofs of the truth of his statement

Assaults upon the police were on Monaav-vieited
with some severe punishments, at the hands of the metro-
politan magistrates. At Guildhall, for this offence, two
men were sentenced to four months' imprisonment, with
hard labour, ard two women each to 21 days. At Clerken-
well. in a bits hellions case, a penalty of 40s. was It aided.
At Marylehone, an offender of this description was fined LA.
At the shames Police-court, a labourer, who had sever, ly
wounded a constable, was sent to prison tsr two mouths
with bard labour.

It wt,uld appear that the disclosures of the Due de
Orant.iiit respecting the desire of Atutria to assist France In
the war r gated Prussia, are causing lilt little excitement in
Prussia itself. The North German Gatette says that the
'calmness of the Pruistan press Is explained by the prevailing
confidence in the present friendly feeling of Austria and
Hungary. it- moreover, ex preemies tie opinion that Count
Pewit was justified in opposing Germany, if he considered
that the interests of Austra required him to adopt that course.
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From the later accounts which have come to hand
of the wreck of the mail steamer Germany it appears that
inimediately after the ship struck the ma dashed over her
and carried away all her boats exc. pt one. The crew and
pawn:rens were thus obliged to take to the rigging. Accord-
kg to the Cone-mar-dc la Rochelle, the sufferings they under.
went daring the night were most terrible. At half-past
eight o'clock the mainmast f.-IL Half an hour afterwards
the mizenmast also fell, earning with It seven persons who
bail taken refuge in the rigging. The wave. contii.ued to
dash over the ship, and one of them washed away a woman
and her four children. An infant seven months old &el in
Its mother's arms during the night. It was not until day
broke that assistance came.
We learn from the Bombay paper, that Lord North-
brook, on his Journey eaatward, has everywhere been
received with much enthusiasm, The Bombay Gazette says
that the assemblages of native chiefs and the ml nary and
festal displays have exceeded in brilliancy anything known
to the present generation of Central India. The Friend of
India thinks that it would be difficult to over-estimate the
excellent political effect produced throughout Western and
Central India by his Excellency's tour The Times of India
ea), that the happy fortuns appear, to be granted td Lord
Nurthbrook of crooning that edifice, the founda-
tions of which wsre relaid broad and deep by Lords Canning
and Stanley, and the oonstru lion of which was being fitly
cArried forward hy Lord Mayo.

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The Times ha n information that famine fever (the
relapsing leer' of t,..chnical writer. (hsa reappeared in
the metropods. S vocal cake, have lately occurred in more
than one locality of south Emden. These cue score in
famine, suffering from great destitution, and tie popular
name of the fever appears to have been with reap, et lather.,
nahappily, • too accurate name. The attacks have been
limited as Otto) two or three families, hilt nil the member.
el these len4Yesi young and oil, have suffered from it. Tie
present appearance if famine fever is most ire lull Y. s,.lineation of the outbreak of 1868. In that year, after having
wholly disappeared for thirteen peon, the disk aae again
showed Itself In this kingdom. In 18419 numerous cases
occurred in the metropolis, and in the following year cam
were not uncommon. The disease persisted until the
summer of 1,171, when it seemed to die out in London. Else-
where In the country, however, toe disease has continued to
show itself from time to time to the present period arid
there is ground for believing that it was introduced into
South London, at the clogs of September or beginning of
October, by hop-pickere retuning from Kent.

In ancient thins, at this reaßon, the Servants hecato.
Masters. In modern times, the servezits are our Nlastthist
all seasons.—Plineh.

The Manion-bouse Fund for the relief of the inns.
datod Italian districts now amounts to about L6,0(0. It his
),ecu decid, d to ionic another appeal for subscrlptiom,
At the Stafford,hire Quarter Seasions on Morday.
Major Elwell, after crating ome remarks on one of dui
c unty asylums, was attacked by a fit, And in ten tui..idat
was dead.

The Army and Nary Gazette soya :—About one
hunorrd and thirty-five I 'We jackets are about to lease
England for Auitralla, in oreer to man the tenders destined
to put down slave dealing and kids apping In tht eolith
Seas."

Her Majesty the Queen went to church at Whip.
pineham last Sunday morning. There were elso present as
I) vine Service the Prince and Princess Christian, Princess
Beatrice, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold. The Rev,
George Prothero officiated.

At en immense meeeng of ironworkers held at
Wedoes‘ntry, on Mondsy, the priulple was laid down that
the wAges of the no et Sr the next six months t uz.ht to)
hued upon the selling price of Iron during the put Fitz
months. A resolution erebed)leg this was canted.

"Willie.—Annie forgives you ; she knows all. Pray
return at once."—"Gamm%—Fhlm Zitstrurne yhk BTe3e
Wor ghn Tworkmbli 51,70 2EC k'n m Is7s REIN—Ehoa
8,1,7n-I'llkt-siara 91 rkt—Pialee &train r Ithuk zokr Ma.
—ZErA."—Atlverciamahts in Daily Telegraph.

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In the case of Sarah Hooper Martin, upon whom
an inquest was lately concluded at New Hampton, the
Home Secretary has caused it to be Intimated to the coroner
that as the Jury did not return a verdict of wilt ul murder, he
is unahlu to offer a reward for such evidence as would
elucidate the manner (.1 deceased a death.

Special servicss were held in it any places of worship
In London on Tuesday night in connection with the custom
of watching out the last hours of the ell year. In soros
eases the arrival of the Lew sear was ushered in by merry
peals from the church bells.
The death is announced at Paris of the Vis,ount de
Peyronnet, the am of the Minister of Justice of Louis
XVIII. and Charles X., the colleague of Prince Polignac,
whose prison at Ham he shared M. de Peyronnet was the
father of Lady Arthur Russell. Lord and Lady Arthur
Russell hays left tows for Paris.
A further portion of the sea-wall at Dawlish which
protects the line of the loath Devon Railway from the
way..• of the English Channel was cn Tuesday washed away.
Ab ut three years ago a breach of this kind cost the Cone-
patty £4,000, and the 'twin In which the Royal Charter went
down, in October, 1e,50, involved an expenditure of £3,400
through • similar cause.

A lady of witty Ab( rleen who take same interest
In the condition of the sick and aged poor of that locality,
the other dea regur shed her oung servant girl to go and
see how old Mrs. id" as the poor old woman Weston-
Coed to bed. The Highland legato. recently engaged, and of
course Lew to the badness, went, an,l on her return paid—
"P ease, ma'am, old lira, soya she does Lit exactly
know, but shessure ahe'a between seventy and a ighty."

An inquest has been held at Brighton on the body of
Miss Bone clii. aged 54 who committed suicide ou Satur-
day, in Brill's Baths. The deceased lady got into a warm
bath, and then cut her throat with a table-knife which she
had brought from h'ime. She was a person of good position,
but hail been reduce) by rtycraos to the necessity of keeping
a school; and since the death of a younger siatrr, which
occurred some time back, had been subJerl to melancholia.

A memoriai tablet lias just been placed in West.
mlester Cathedral to Miss Mitten, the authore.a. The tel.
toeing is the inscription on the tablet Jane Austen.
known to many by 11, r writing., en eared to her family by
the many charms of her character, and ennobled by Christian
f dth and t isty, was born a• Steventon, in Hants, 111, cember le,
1775 ; 6111 i buried in this cathedral July 24 1017. 'She
openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law
of kindness.' Prot. xxxi., 26."

The death is announced from Paris of Dr. Fax
Archim6de rouchet, a naturalist, who acquired great die-
Unction by Ms writings at d researches on the subject of
spentaneons generation. He was above 72 sears of age,
having been hen on the 26th of August, 1800, at Rouen,
win re his father carried on business as a merchant, and he
would blin-elf hare been brought tip to a commercial
pursuits had be not as an early age display ed a remarkable
&Otani° for scientific studies.
At Nite there is a Russian who made many millions
of rouble. by rbilway speculations. He rf fuses now to go
into society, and receives at his house none but the persons
whom he knew In the happy old days when he had not • gott.
To them he makes little presents of a thousand or two thou-
sand roubles, as d to on. He Is an uneducated man, but
pat.' nately fond of music, and his one pleasure is to main.
Cain an orchestra. He eneages by the year the best musicians
he can obtain; in the migming they take up their position
at one end ot • aalon in his villa, he sits down in his arm chair
at the other end, and lb y play to him ali day. Thig is
luxury to him—what in it to the musicians?

On Monday morning the dead body of a respectably
dressed man was picked up in the River 1 hames, off Chart.
tom and has since been identified as that of Mr. Oakley,
aged 48, of 22, Albion-street, Kiug*s-cc, as, London, clerk to
Mr. Braithwaite, barrister. The deceased hod bean missing
since Monday, December 2, when he left his wife and family
in kin usual health and spirits, and his friends ware at a loss
to account 'or his dirappear awe, there are marks violence
upon the face, and the nose is broken, but it is possible the
injuries may have beau caused since death by craft in the
river or otherwi•e.

In giving evidence before the Surrogate's Court at
Westchester as to Mr. H 'race Greeley, state of mind in the
by. immedintely preceding h's death, a foreman printerst
the office of the 2 rieune stated that the behaviour of his
principal left no doubt of his insanity—the chief of his de.
lesions being that he was personally ruined, that he had
ruined the proprietary of the jonrnal, his own individual es.
ta.e, end ever) body with whom be had been connected. The
will which brooght the case into Court was executed on the
49th Nevember, shortly before Mr. Greele!'s death, when,
Sire if the witnesses affirmed, the testator was in possession
of his clear finses. _ _

Tice Swiss Times says it is announced that within a
few days a butcher's shop will be opened in Geneva for the
sale of horseflesh. The Department f Ju.tice and Police
have token every precaution to ensure nothing but the bed
and heal blest meat being offered to the public. The
slaughtering of the animals w.ll take place flour the mu,
velilariee of a veterinary eurge.ol appointed by the Depart-
ment, and only such as bear his mark will be allowed to be
sad There %ill he two prices-00 c. per lb. for the choice
pieces, and 40c, for the rest.

On Fi iday night, about ten o'clock, a young man
named Tender, who had been spending the evening with his
sweetheart, a girl in service at Ealing, accompanied her
home. While in her master's kitchen a quarrel took place
between them, when Titmice seized a poker and beat her
Ault the he4cluntil she appeared to be dead. He then ran
home, took posseacion of his brother's rat,!., and mut his
throat In a frightful manner, after which he ran out into the
etreef, He was found dead ; but some hopes are entertained
Hut with good care the girl might reeover. On tionday, an
Inquest was opened on the body of Trinder, when evidence
Iva, given as to the presumable causes and the cbtermined
character of the suicide, and the inquiry was adjourned to
admit of the injured 1•0014'. attendarbe, if she should
recover.

The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular Oar
to Captain Reimers, of the German galhot Memo., of Vega-
sack, for his humane services to the mutter sod crew of the
steam-ship Malta of London, on the 16th November last
The Malls was on a voyage from Cronstadt to London, and
when in latitude ht 17 N. ton titude 5 it, woe found to have
been so disabled by the heavy gales that her crew, 21 in WI
were oblige d to abandon her in the only '-oat left service.
able. Fr, m this they were arterwards picked up by Captain
R.lmers, who kept them on board his ve.stil 21 days, al.
though his stock of proviaions was very low They were sub-
sequently transferred to the steam-ship penham, of Leith,
which landed them at Gamburgh.
Numerous applicatbms for help were received at
Leamington on Monday, by the inecutivo of the National
Labourers' Unkn from places in Berkahlro, Backs, Dorset,
Essex, llerefordahire, Oxfordshire., and Soft. tk, where lock.
nuts of labourers exist. The farmers were represented as
commencing the threatened retaliation, and it was stated
that in Essex and Suffolk they have formed or anisatlone
for that purpose. The committee voted £lOO to assist the
men locked out to emigrate to other district..
"Socially our retrospect is not slim:ether cheerful.
The light of the leng vista is flecked with more than one
sombre shadow. The stars themselves in their courses hers
fought against us. Rain and hail, storm and tempest, have
he el our portion. Something—physician. are not sure
what—ha. been wrong with the sun and the floodgates of
heaven have been opened until the timid have feared a re-
currence of the days of Xisuthrus."—Daily I elegrapt.
Mr. Bellerocbe, the honorary secretary of the
Bela tan Bern volent Society, calls attention to the distress
camel by the intindatiet• at Ghent, where the toots have
been most disastrous. lie sale—" Our Belgian then s will
see principally, in any coLtribution, large or mall, the good
feeling of friendship end esteem which it tat' be hoped wig
ever prevail bstaeen the two nations." Subscriptions may
be sent to Mr. Belk roche, 10, London-street, E.C.