The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-25 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It was reported at the ganchester city licensing
sessions that during the past year three fully-licensed houses
and thirty-six beerhouses had been either pulled down or
closed. The whole of the licenses were allowed to expire.

What semi-religious ceremony does a cricket match
most resemble ?—A tea(m) meeting.—Funny Folks.

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It is stated that 57 tons of Greek marble have been
delivered in London free of all charges by the Greek Govern-
nieut, for the pedestal of the Byron Monumtnt.
A large and beautiful fountain, which the Leeds
town council intended should be the best in England, was
on Tuesday afternoon thrown open to the public by the
Mayor, in the presence of twelve or -fourteen thousand
people who were addressed by his worship and the mem-
bers of the corporation.
Moonlight steeplechases have been introduced at
Newport, one of the most fashionable Transatlic seaside
resorts, The course and the jumps are indicated by re-
flector lamps, and the riders wear white so as to be easily
discerned by the spectators. Polo on skates is another
favourite amusement.

Mr. Bradlaugh. M.P.' speaking at Nottingham on
Monday night, said that he believed the question of land
law reform would be the great politica question of the im-
mediate future _ _ .

At a recent kangaroo "drive" in Australia, over
eight thousand were killed.
The Builder says the ceilings of carriages on the
Great Northern, Midland, and Lancashire and Yorkshire
railways have been painted with luminous paint, and passen-
ger trains composed of these carriages when passing in the
daytime through long tunnels, have not now to be lighted by
means of oil-lamps, as is usually the case, there being
sufficient light reflected from the lnminous paint.
Special temperance sermons were preached on Sun-
day in most of the dissenting chapels in York, and addresses
delivered in the Sunday schools.

A Times' 'telegram says that in the Consolidated
Imperial Mine shaft, Virginia City,
_Nevada, on Thursday
night in last week, a cage containing ten men was being
raised, when the cable- broke. The cage 'fell 300 ft., and
1,4001 t. of rope piled on it. Nine of the men were killed,
and the one Survivor was badly injured.

The largest amounts of wheat and corn ever received
on the- New York Produce Exchange were announced on
Mondaynamely, 517,606 lAhels of wheat and 808,400
bushels of corn. The aggregate quantity of wheat, corn,
oats; barley, malt, and rye received reaches 1,448,403
bushels, being the largest ever reported on the New York
Exchange.
There were 32 British and foreign wrecks reported
durin.g the past week, making a total of 970 for the present
year, or a decrease of 174, as compared With the corre-
sponding period last year. The approximate value of pro-
perty lost was £710,000, including British £520,000. Thirteen
vessels were lost off the British coasts..

On Tuesday the Duke of Cumberland and Teviot•
dale, K.G , attained his thirty-fifth year, ha'ving been born
at Hanover on Sept. 21, 1845. His Royal Highness is the only
son of the late King George of Hanover,K.G., by his mar-
riage, in 1813, with the Princess Mary Alexandrine Wilhel-
mina, eldest daughter of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg.
He succeeded to the dukedom of Cumberland on the death
of his father, on June 12, 1878, and married, on Dec. 21 of
the same '3 ear, the Princess Thyra of Denmark, fourth
daughter of King Christian IX., and sister of her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

A Queen's messenger arrived at Devonport on Mon-
day, and was conveyed on board the German war Vessel,
Prinz Adalbert, lying in the Sound. The messenger handed
to the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Germany, a youth of
eighteen, who is an officer on board, a present from her
Majesty, accompanied by an autograph letter of congratula-
tion to him on his attaining his majority. The nature of the
Kesent did not transpire.

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The ceremony of
.visiting the tomb of Victor
Emmanuel, and the commemorative tablets to those who
fell at Porta Pla, passed off in perfect order on Monday 20th
in Rome. At the famous breach in the wail where the
Italians entered the city that day ten years since, speeches
were made by the Syndic and Count Cairoli, and were enthu-
siastically received.
One hundred and thirty firms of cabinet makers
have locked out their workmen in Paris, in consequence of
combinations among the latter to proscribe the establish-
ments of certain of the employers. The men • demand
eightpence per hour wages, and refuse to work more than
ten hours daily.

On Saturday, a new lifeboat was launched at
Tramore in the presence of a large assemblage. The boat
has been presented to the Royal .National Lifeboat Institu-
tion by Mr. Henry Trower, of London, and some intimate
friends, in memory of the late Mr. Lawfred Trower, his
father, who was well known in yachting and aquatic circles
In England and on the Irish side of the Channel. Miss E.
M. Trower, sister of the late lamented gentleman, after
whom the boat is named, performed the ceremony of
christening amidst enthusiastic cheers.

The Lord Provost of Aberdeen having written to
Mr. Bright, asking him if, in the event of his being Minister
in attendance on the Queen at Balmoral, he would acceptthe
freedom of the city, Mr. Bright has replied that he does not
expect to go North this year, and that he therefore cannot
accept the honour proposed to be conferred upon him.
"The thirty-third anniversary of the first entrance
of the Mormons into Salt Lake City has been celebrated with
considerable enthusiasm in Utah. According to the Yew
York Herald there was a procession embracing ten brass and
military bands, representing • " sentiments, ideas, agricul-
tural and horticultural products, trades, industries, and
manufactures,', which was an hour in passing, and was wit-
nessed by from ten to twenty thousand. spectators.
Since the time when Lord Palinerston urged the
necessity of coast defences, £7,413,346 has already been
spent: Portsmouth has absorbed no less than £3,067,991, on
work not near completion; and in many cases, where com-
pleted, the forts are showing signs of not being strong
enough to support the heavy guns with which they kave
been mounted.
In the Gloucester Journal nf Monday, Nov. 3, 1783,
which_ was printed by R Raikes, in the Southgate-street,
appears the following paragraph :--" A farmer in Warwick-
shire lately took up a crop of potatoes that were the astonish-
ment of all the neighbourhood ; he had 8,000 bushels from
ten acres and sold them on the spot, as they arose in the
field, for 'e..800. Whis is £BO per acre, and the fee simple of
the land they grew on did not exceed X.,1: per acre."

Beggars in Berlin have become most importunate
and numerous of late, there being much misery among the
poorer classes of the German capital. Over 26,000 mendi-
cants were taken up by the police last year.

"And now, my little dears," said the showman, "I
will show you a past of the great battle of Waterloo." And
he turned on a portrait of the Duke of Wellington.—Sporting
Times.

It is estimated by the Agricultural Department at
Washington that the value of the exports of breadstuffs
from the United states during
.the last eight months was
182,000,000 dols. • -
The obelisk presented by the ex-Khedive of Egypt.
to the United States has been removed from the .steamer ,
Dessong, at Clifton, and placed on pontoons to :ha floated to
the foot of Ninety-Sixth-street, New York.

Playing the piano with the windows left open has
been prohibited in Weimar, any offender against the new
•
rule being fined two shillings.
A singular thing occurred at the Seaham pit when
the explorers went down, the cat usually kept hi the pit
being found alive. The animal was in the explosion of 1871,
and has thus hail two a the proverbial nine lives credited
to its species.

A telegram from Cape Town says :—" Captain Car-
rington, while making a reconnoissance of Lerothodi's vil-
lage in Basutoland with 70 men of the Cape Mounted Rifles,
has been unsuccessfully attacked by 1,200 Basutos. Lieu:
tenant Clark-and two men were killed. The enemy suffered
great loss. Reinforcements are being sent to Captain Car-
rington. Disturbances have broken out in Damaraland."
A dog's board and lodging at American seaside
hotels cost over £2 weekly, the mistresses requiring as great
delicacies .for their canine pets as for their.childrgn.
Texas societyis agitated OVer the question of whether
or not the groom at a wedding should wear his revolver belt
outside or inside his dress-coat.

The St. Petersburg COW says :—England's policy
has undergone a change. Enough of victories and annexa-
tions. The time for pacification has arrived. Let us hold
what we possess, and apply ourselves to the consolidation
and development of the resources of the country.
Every other* man you meet these mornings has a
fishing-rod and all other angling accoutrements, and is
hurriedly walking towards the good fishing places. The sin-
gular thing about it is that you never meet a man coming
from the fishing-gr,und. They always sneak home by some
cross road. And yet the elastic fish story rolls easily from
their tongues the next day.—New Raven Register,
Miss Beckwith's attempt to swim 100 hours in six
days was brought to a most successful conclusion on Satur-
day night at 11.30 at the Westminster Aquarium, and the
ease with which she finished this extraordinary performance
speaks well for the care and attention which has successfully
brought her through the severe ordeal. The proceedings at
the close were very enthusiastic, some 2,000 visitors witness-
ing the finish.

At Low Walker, Neweastle-upon-Tyne, there were
found on Tuesday, in a lime kiln, an iron flog, a tooth, and
some small bones, the remains of a young man, who, a few
days since, accidentally fell into the furnace and was burned
to death.

Several thousand acres of fresh land are likely to be
brought under cultivation by the proposals of the South.
Western Railway Company, who offer to let the land which,
as slopes, cuttings, or waste, runs along their lines. The
direction of this railway being south-west, both sides of the
railway present a fair aspect for cultivation, and farmers
and labourers living adjacent to the stations should be able
profitably to make gardens where there are wildernesses of
weeds.
The North of England Temperance League held its
annual conference at Stockton on Monday. Mr. Arthur
Pease, M.P. who presided, expressed the opinion that the
whole question of licensing, legislation would come up for
revision when Mr. Gladstone redeemed the pledge he gave
on the Local Option resolution, but he hoped that Sunday
closing for Wales would be carried next session. The report
of the executive, which was adopted, deprecated compro-
mise on the English Sunday closing question.
On Monday afternoon a boy 13 years of age was
killed in Dale-street, Liverpool. A laro-e glass crate, over
half a ton in weight, and about 81 t. in 'height, was placed
upright against a wall, and whilst the boy stood with his
,back against the crate it toppled over, and before he could
get out of the way it fell upon him, and caused such
injuries that he died while being conveyed to the Northern
Hospital.

A sad case of sudden death occurred on board the
Royal Mail Company steamship Don; on Friday in last week,
just previous to her departure from Southampton. Mrs.
Parks, wife of Captain G. E. Parks, the Royal Mail Com-
pany's superintendent at Jamaica, who, with her son and
daughter, had embarked in the steamer to proceed to that
island, was seized with a fit, and died almost instantly. The
Don was at her moorings in the river, and the body was con-
veyed to the shore, together with the bereaved children in a
small steamer.
Mr. Dixon Hartland's expenses at the recent by-
election at Evesham amounted to £706. The expenses of Mr.
Lehmann, the successful Liberal, were £766.

Mr. Bradlaugh spoke at Liverpool on land reform
on Saturday night. He advocated the abolition of the laws
of entail and primogenture, and would tax all land, whether
under cultivation or not. He would make the transfer of
land as simple as any other commodity. The people must
make the land question theirs, and if they did so the Peers
would give way, as they always did when the conflict
threatened was serious. He believed a couple of Sessions
would see the end of the present Parliament. Its mission
would be at an end when the franchise was assimilated and a
Bill for the redistribution of seats passed.

The Queen has been graciously pleased.on the recom-
mendation of Sir William Muir, K.C.8., Director-General of
the Army Medical Department, and Lady Superintendent
Mrs. Deebles, to confer the order of St. Katherine on Sister
Elizabeth Wheldon, one of the nurses of the Royal Victoria
Hospital, Netley. The order carries with it a pension of
per annum for a limited period, with an embroidered
badge worn on the left arm. Sister Wheldon, in addition
to long and good service at Netley, was one of the nurses
chosen to accompany Mrs. Deebles to South Africa for work
in the military hospitals during the Zulu war.
Letters from Minnesota, dated September 2, quote
wheat 65c. per bushel—say 225. per quarter—and from Mr.
Dalrymple's experience this season the yield on his big farm
will enable him to forward wheat to our English ports of call
at 325. per quarter, with some fair profit to himself. The
estimate of the white wheat surplus of the Pacific coast this
year promises an export of 5,000,000 quarters. Within this
decade the shipment of 2,000,000 quarters was considered
au extraordinary event.

An inquest, was held at Portraadoc last Saturday
as to the death of Mrs. Gay Thomas, a widow lady living at
Tremadoc. On the Monday . previous she accompanied a
party which went up the mountains near Tremadoc. She
got separated from her friends, and missed her way. .The
mountain was searched two days by a number of men under
the direction of Superintendent Davies, and on Thursday she
was found lying face downwards in some boggy land sur-
rounding a mountain lake. It was evident that she had
succumbed to fatigue and exposure, and a vrdiet to that
effect was returned.

The Right Hon. H. C. Childers, M.P., in acknow-
ledging the very hearty welcome which was offered to him
and his wife and daughter at Ardara, Donegal, said the
Government intended giving the most earnest consideration
to Irish questions, and especially the land question.
He was glad of the opportunity of observing the
country for himself, and should thus be better able to
understand questions which must for some time to come
occupy the attention of Parliament and of the country
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The Prince of Wales, Prince John of Gliicksburg,
and Viscount Dupplin went out deer-stalking on Saturday in
the Royal Forest of Birkhall. Eight fine stags fell to the
rifles of the party, and in the evening a dance by torchlight
was given in front of Abergeldie Castle, at which the
Princess of Wales and the young Princesses were present.
At a meeting of the representatives appointed by
the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Miners' Conference, to con-
sider confederation, and the serious aspect of affairs in
South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire coal districts, it was
resolved to amalgamate the three existing associations, and
to appoint the respective secretaries to the management,
the three to work together for the good of the general
body.
The Women's Silkworm Culture School in Phila-
delphia is promising not only to be a fine success, but fruit-
ful in good results. The wives and daughters of farmers
are expected to be the chief culturists, and it will give them,
the means of earning a little money at small outlay of time
and labour.
A very curious scene occurred some evenings since
at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. A gentleman was so amuse
by the fun of the piece that he laughed until his jaw came
actually out ofjoint. The alarm of his wife at this sudden
check in his cachinations may be easily imagined, but the
medical officer attached to the building soon restored the
laugher's maxillary equilibrium, and the couple returned to
their seats, eager not to lose the end of the play. The
gentleman was seen to smile later on, but with evident
caution, and as though he feared that merely to open
his mouth would place him in the same predicament as
bef ore. —Court Journal.

The Queen of the Belgians is in the habit of driving.
out almost daily, and has recently made several excursions.'
Her Majesty went a few days since on a visit to Niedeggen,
.an ancient castle about ten leagues from Aix. The road is.
one of some difficulty through beautifully wild scenery, and
a violent tempest compelled the Queen to halt longer than
had been intended. On returning towards Aix a fog came
on, and it was found impossible to proceed, so that .ffer
Majesty had to pass the night in a small inn at Zweifall, two
leagues from Stolberg. Here the Zweifall Rifle Club imme-
diately organised a guard of honour, and in the morning
attended the Queen as an escort, but were graciously dis-
missed with thanks after leaving the village, and Her
Majesty reached Aix at eight next morning.
A riot, has occurred between miners at Corning,
Ohio. Five hundred men on strike attacked those who con-
tinued at work, and tired upon the militia who were sum-
moned to quell the disturbance. The militia returned the
fire and dispersed the rioters, several of whom were
wounded.

A notice was posted On Saturday in almost all the
flax-spinning, mills in Belfast and district, that on and after
the 4th October the working hours will be reduced from 561 to
37i per week, or four days instead of six. The-dulLess
which has prevailed for a considerable time in the stole
trade of Ulster has led to this arrangement, which, in all
probability will last for three months, and will affect some
2,000 workers and 400,00 e spindles.

The following are the average prices of British corn
for the week ending Sept. 18, as received from the inspectors
and officers of excise :—Wheat, 395. 11d. ; barley, 335. sd. ;
oats, 20s 7d.• per Imperial qr. Corresponding week last
year :—Wheat, 475. 4d.; barley, 435. 2d. ; oats, 225. 11d.

The German abny manceuvres were finished on
Saturday. They show the efficiency of the army, and have
most favourably impressed the foreign officers who were
present. The Emperor will take part in the cavalry
manceuvres in the Rhine district. Prince William, a son of
the Crown Prince of Germany, has shown himself in the
course of the nianceuvres to be an accomplished company
officer. _ _ _

On Monday, at noon, a female lunatic of Sedge&ld
Asylum, Durham, suet with a terrible death by her own act.
The less refractory inmates, including a Mrs. Curry, were
out walking in charge of a female attendant. In returning
deep quarry, which was protected from
roadwaythe
etne they passed
bya a
high wall. Mrs. Curry lagged behind, and
before any of the party was aware of it, site cleared the wall
into the uany, a depth of 150 ft.
aTheud incidentued l
created great excitement among the other
lunatics, especially after the mangled body was found in th
quarry. Death was instantaneous.
Mr. Fawcett will (the London correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian says) give his consideration mainly
during the recess to the whole question of telegraphic
reform, including the vexed question of sixpenny telegrams
In Lowlon, a more efficient service on Sundays and the
d„-ciopmeut of telephonic communication. Should he find
tirde be will pay a visit in a few.weeks to New York, where
telegraphing„ especially for the purpose of trade and com-
merce, is understood to be more perfect than anywhere else
Or' Saturday the Queen, accompanied by her two
grandchildren, the Princess Irene and Alice of Hesse, Prin-
cess Beatrice, and the Dowager Marchioness of Ely, Lady-in-
Waiting, drove from Balmoral to Braemar, which was reached
shortly after one o'clock. The journey was continued to
Loch Callater, some five miles distant from the village.
After a long walk in the neighbourhood of the loch, the
Royal party Teturned to Balmoral. Several heavy showers
of rain fell during the afternoon, and the weather was very
cold. •

The Cairo Correspondent of The Times says that
last week Khatil Agha, the chief eunuch of the mother of the
ex:Khedive, died at sae; whither he had gone, intending
to embark next day for Jeddah, on his way to a pilgrimage
to the Holy Ilaces. He had but recently returned from
Naples, whither he had gone to see the ex-Khedive.
The epenses incurred at the second election at
Bewdiey in, July have been published. Mr. E. Baldwin,
ALP., was returned at a cost of £262 Os. 4d, the prinbipal
items being £73 is. for agents; £54 Os. returning officer's
charges; 4.42 is, posting and hire of carriages; £25,175..
clerks, messengers, and bill-posters' £2l Bs. printing and
Stationery. all the other amounts are under £2O. Mr. W.
Marcy, the Conservative candidate expended £541 16s. id.,
including £240 Os. agents' charges ; '454 9s. returning officer's
charges; £45 6s. 6d. hotel expenses; £52 13s. printing, ad-
vertising„ &c. ; £72 Ds. Bd. carriage hire: and £4l 15s. 2d.
check clerks, messengers, &c., together with smaller items.
At the general election the candidates' expenses were :
Mr. C. Harrison (L), £515 158. 11d.; Mr. R. E. Webster (C),
£1,351 as. sd. ' 4

Several fine specimens of that rare butterfly known
as the Camberwell Beauty have lately been captured in
Kent and Berkshire.

The surface of the sun is said to be broken by
23 spots, covering an area one-fifth of the sun'
,diameter,
being the largest break seen for the past ten yeart
In London, on Tuesday, the Thames rose to a
height of nearly three feet above Trinity high-water mark,
aiml, overflowed at several points of its southern bank. In
the afternoon a deirse fog settled over the riv6r between
Waterloo Bridge and Woolwich, and the river steamers had
to carry mast-liglitS: _

Dr. -Hoffmann, of Wuribur:g, who has been charged
to report on shortsightedness in schools in Bavaria, has
found that it is on the increase.

The receipts on account of Revenue from the Ist
April, 1880, when there was a balance of £3,273,423, to Sept.
18, 1880, were £34,657,891, against £.33,834,240 in the corres-
ponding period of the preceding financial year, whichbegan
with a balance of £6,915,756. The net expenditure was
£30,488,564, against £38,212,320, to the same date in the
previous year. The Treasury balances on Sept. 18 amounted
to £4,040,428 and at the same date in 1879 to £2,468,088.
The Prefect of Police has issued an ordinance, for
bidding the keeping of certain animals in Paris except by
special permission. Pigs, cows, goats, rabbits, pigeons,
fowls, and other birds, are included in the ban, which is the
result of numerous complaints.

The Board of Trade have awarded a silver Olt
claret jug and two beakers to Captain Antonio D. Oliveira,
of a Portuguese brig, who picked up at sea on April 27 last
part of the crew of the steamer American, which was lost on
a voyage from Southampton to Cape Town.

The Prussian Government are adopting the -South
Kensington principle of sending out from their Central In-
dustrial Museum at Berlin small loan collections into the
provinces. A regular system has lately been organised for
distributing collections all over Prussia, the aim being to
make the objects exhibited as accessible as possible to all
artisans, and thereby to afford thefh greater opportunities
for the cultivation of taste.

The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat last week
from the United States and Canada, were of live stock
smaller, that of fresh meat larger than the preceding week
The totals were as follows :-1,715 cattle, 383 sheep, 492 pigs,
5,331 quarters of beef, 500 carcases of mutton, and 150 dead
pigs.

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The Pravda says that an outbreak of cattle plague
of the most virulent description is announced in the pro-
vince of Volhynia, the principal cattle district of Russia.
In one village alone, 200 head of cattle died in a few days,
and in many parts of the province not a cow remains alive.
Most of the peasants depending upon cattle rearing for their
livelihood; the losses sustained have redueed them to
beggary.
The other day the Emperor of Austria made an
excursion from Czernowitz to Kadantz, where he visited the
stud, the largest in Austria. One thousand four hundred
and forty-nine horses were brought in from all the farms
and pasture grounds. They were of different breeds, chiefly
English and thoroughbred. They included 300 three-year-
old stallions. Returning to Czernowitz, his Majesty was
escorted by 200 farmers on horseback, and attired in gay
colours.

Mr. Joseph Dodds, M.P., speaking at Stockton in
reply to a vote thanking the Parliamentary supporters of
local option, said he went with them in sympathy in efforts
to diminish certainly, and abolish possibly, drunkenness.
He encouraged legislation on the question. He was heartily
glad the Permissive Bill had disappeared from the House of
Commons, for he thought it one of confiscation. In a certain
degree he was in favourof a neighbourhood having power to
veto a new license, but he thought if they had the same
power over old licenses, they should be prepared to grant
compensation when proved due.

The King of the Netherlands opened the States
General on Monday, and in the Speech from the Throne
stated that the trade and industry of the kingdom shewed a
certain improvement. The revenue from taxation was
progressively augmenting, but increased resources were
necessary to effect a financial equilibrium.

As Admiral Hamilton was on Monday evening
driving in his carriage at Queenstown, the horse bolted, and
the gallant admiral was thrown violently to the ground. He
received a cut on the forehead and a severe shock, but his
injuries are not dangerous.

On Monday night the Mayor of Leicester opened a
new board school. The school will accommodate 1,200 chil-
dren, and has cost £12,000. The board now provides accom-
modation for 10,000 children. Two other schools will
shortly be erected.

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
opening of the first railway between Manchester and Liver-
pool, a marble tablet to the memory of George Stephenson
has been placed in the railway station at Turin, the cere-
mony being attended by the municipal authorities, the Eng-
lish Consul, representatives from the different Italian rail-
ways and workmen's societies, and by a great number of
spectators.

French railway companies are showing a praise-
worthy regard for the comfort of their third-class railway
passengers. Since July last a large number of this class of
carriages on the State Railways have been upholstered with
well stuffed seats and backs, and in a short time all the car-
riages of the same class will be so fitted up. This good
example has been followed by various private companies,
including the Orleans and the Paris, Lyons, and Mediter-
ranean Railways.

It is proposed to erect a monument to the memory
of the late Mr. Roebuck in Bushey Churchyard, where he
is interred. A bast, to be placed in the Cutler's Hall,
Sheffield, is also contemplated.
In recognition of the services of the master and
crew of the Portuguese schooner Christine, which some time
since saved the lives of three officers 'of her Majesty s ship
Forward, whose boat capsized with them, the Admiralty has
forwarded a binocular to the master and a money award to
each of the crew.

A Berlin correwondent remarked the other day on
the manner in which the Emperor of Germany had gone
through the fatigues of the military mameuvres. At the
close he seemed to be remarkably fresh and vigorous, and
had announced his intention of setting out at once for the
Rhine Provinces. He has, however, had the misfortune to
contract a slight cold, and, acting on the counsels of his
medical advisers, has postponed his journey and is going
to rest for a time The Emperor's indisposition gives, no
cause for anxiety, and it is expected that after resting for a
few days he will be able to carry out his intention of visit-
ing the Rhine Provinces.

Messrs. Donald Currie and Co. are having built a
large mail steamer at Fanfleld, Glasgow, to be named the
Liawarden cache, after the estate of the Premier. It is
hoped that Mr. Gladstone will name the ship in December.

In Madrid, on Tuesday, more than three hundred
carriages, including those of members of the Cabinet, the
Diplomatic Corps, and the elite of Mad.rid society followed
the funeral of the youthful :Marquis of Malina, the second
son of the Duke Medina Sidonia, who died a few hours after
being thrown, on Saturday, from his horse, in one of the
principal streets of this city. Connected with the best and
oldest families of the peerage the young nobleman was only
eighteen years of age.

The Dundee whaling steamer Active arrived at
Dundee on Tuesday morning with 150 tons of oil and eight
tons of whalebone. The value of the cargo will amount to
about £13,000. Since the last reports the Dundee fleet has
only secured two additional whales, but the catches this
season altogether have been large, and will prove very
profitable to the Dundee fleet.
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A letter from London addressed to the Voltaire,
states that the Empress Eugenie will shortly leave England
to take up her final residence at Arenenburg, where she pos-
sesses a beautiful mansion on the banks of the Lake of Con-
stance. The ex-Empress has not been well since her return
from Zululand, and has recently been compelled to remain
in bed, much affected by severe attacks of fever.

The Daily News publishes the following from their
Berlin Correspondent :—"Since Prince Bismarck has be-
come Minister of Commerce he has paid particular atten-
tion to internal financial and commercial affairs, and it is
even stated that the great Chancellor has been lately occu-
pied in Friedrichsruhe with discussions concerning the im-
provement of the condition of the working man in Germany.
One would almost think that the Prince intends to play off
a game against the Progressists, and try to prove that he is
the working man's true protector."

American papers announce the death, on August
31, 61 the Rev. Dr. William Adams, for many years pastor of
the well-known Presbyterian church in Madison-square, New
York, and one of the•leading clergymen of the Presbyterian
body in the United States. He was a native of Connecticut,
and throughout his life presented many traits of character
which recalled the traditional -New Englander. His father
was a most eminent teacher and philanthropist. He himself
was educated at Yale and Andover, where he was trained
for the ministry. In 1834 he received a call from the Old
Broome-street Presbyterian congregation in New York, and
is 39 years the tie thus formed remained unbroken

In London last week 2,382 births and 1,438 deaths
were registered. Allowing for increase of population the
births were 43 below, whereas the deaths exceeded by 87,
the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last
ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which
had steadily declined in the seven preceding weeks from
249 to 19-8, rose last week to 205. During the past eleven
weeks of the current quarter_ the death-rate in the metro-
polis has averaged 215 per thousand, against 22-7 and 18-4
In the corresponding periods of 1878 and 1879. The 1,438
deaths included 3 from small-pox, 10 from measles, 50 from
scarlet fever, 12 from diphtheria, 17 from whooping-cough,
24 from different forms of fever, and 214 from diarrhrra.