The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30 00:00:00

EPITOME 01' 'NEWS.
BRITISH AND FEIGN.

One day recently a youth named Gunn, aged nine-
teen, was searching -the cliffs at Knock'nylon. for seatowhi
eggs, when he fell over a precipice nearly .no lest high. The
body was found nest day.
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The refrain of the popular "Not for Joseph" turns
Nearly- ro.ono Mackerel were caught oif the back of ' out to be, with very slight variation, a Ito: ml trona
the Isle of Wight last weec. Clapison, the Fcench words non bred i being freely rendered
An Australian paper states that one effect of the by the leis refined refrain "Not for Joe !"
outrage on the Duke of Edinburgh is the rapid increase of • The Sew Free Press of N'ienna circulates It rumour
Oringe lodges in the Australian colonies. ' to the effect that a declaration of ;ieace is befog prepared by
Wheat in full car was seen in the neighbourhood of ' lillulstst for the signature of the Enropean Boners. The de-
claration aid ex less the a ii.ll of the l'imm A for peace, and
Southampton last week.
their belie( in the possibility of its maintenance.
Thef Al:a-gockey
Cllib; of
uI lastings has resi,med his member- • .
In San S. tos, Pala°, Brazil, two Americans hu
ship o the Jb.
murdered :or English engine-driver, named William Bell.
The list of causes to be heard ill the 'Divorce Court ,
rhe "1 adi,. .I Antrinh'' to the nuinher a 1.000,
during the present ti:rm has 174 entries, of which forty are ~
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re I i f t V-
-11:1N e petitioned the Queen against tle su 111, .M 0 TUC I
01 Ile heard with juries.
ligion and the imperilling of Protestantism in Ireland.
The isvulation of Queensland is now OVer 100,000. ,
It s-,0. oniy :w/o on the 7th April, 1661. The popathoe of dicatiot!‘..4 41,1 e. Frencjv i'eaceo.S%-sicty„.,_ entitled
• I t uiporary vs ACC, SCON: tlidt 11111111, tIR I. l 1010 ll ell
the prOViIICO of Otago, New Zealand, is 45,460.
: years 1,743,4:11 soldiers acre killed in battle, or died from
The drain of emigration from lreland to America disease arihing from a ar.
continues ineliminislied. One of the clerical agents advertises the fact that
It is stated that the wife of is ritualistic clergyman at his private list for May contains the unprecedented miniber
Brhtol has jint seceded to the Church of Rome. of one hundred Church liviugs for sale at prices from £35) to
Itrigliam Young, the 'Mormon, advocates the culture £.27,",
and increase of fish chickens, and children. rive thoustuld Illt Friday, the 22nd inst. Lady Gooch, thesrife of Sir
adult ladies are wanted for the Salt Lake. is the Meereelt 0,01101 Gooch, chairman of the Great Western Railway, of
notice, per advertisement, to spinsters. None old and ugly. (lower, near Windsor, stied at the family seat.
lion ever, need apply. The stidement is espedally addres,ed .
rho f.dlowing anelamdadv informathm and moral
to the lads, m Great Britain. are convc)cil ill an ad vertiscintlit %illicit am eared in l'he
The I:11,11,1W Of the French has for, £4O as a 11101.% tile other day .--'•Diura..—Eockey tomb and l'i es
ilon,th, to the 1 icensed Aictuallers' A,-yliiiii in the 01,1 COM, a failure. Your money all lost. So, an, sorry."
li cut Road. London. _ The Spectator denominates Balmoral as "that Ultima

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The Prince of Wales has Otnified his 1% ish to stand
spoonsor to the infant sou of the Rev. 11. 31. Bireh, rector of
Pretoih, his former tutor. _

New York, three women have formed a partner-
ship :IS desigmrs ant engravos cal wood, wad advertise for
busine,s.
The farmers of !Minnesota are sowing a larger
area of land to wheat this year, than ever before
We (A1,01,111'0,1 elwre,,m,ro) have acconnts from
Ilokti a on the S. e,t. Oast of New Zealand of an infamous
moo: funeral in the British colony in lion ur of the three
Irish murderers, Allen, Lar..in, and O'Brien, who were
executed at Manchester.
Two conviets at work at Dartmoor escaped in a fog,
which came on at they were at work the other day They
were pursued cud reeaptur,d.
The Down t News, of Salt Lake City, is alarmed lest
Paris fashions should be introduced among the Mormon
women, and is startled at the possibility of a Mormon saint
being compelled to linty fashionable clothing for a dozen
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ThulC' "
In the island of Stron.cay. Scotland, a few daTs nn,
ft Man named Macpherson was cavrying a Ile:Ny I,,na on WS

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The Sultan of Turkey has just ordered to be many- I
factored it Paris a silver fable, the price of which will not '
he less than three minions of francs may well require
SO tinny loans).
Mr. Disraeli has declined to defend Mr. Eyre. He
is going to watch the trial carefully, and if he secs flt here-
shot nay propane a (~ant to reimburse the Ex-Governor's
expenses.
The American publishers, Messrs. Appleton, it is
said, offered sir. Dicketos 20,000 dollars for a novel shout the
c,,se of 'Our 3lutual Friend ;" but the offer was declined, as
Dickens does not intend writ in another long story. This is
tile largest offer ever made ley an American publishing firm
to an author.
The Pei% W. Pulling, rector of Eastnor, in the
diocese of Hereford, writes that during the late Bishop
Hampden's episem ate of twenty-one years, he hail the dis-
posal of twenty-nine livings. Of these he gave nineteen to
curates of the diocese.
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hack, supported by a rope round his aest. Ile stopped to
rest in a stable, resting his load on the 'Danger, when hr
some means it slipped. the rope shot up round his Lech, and
he was strangled before assistance reached him.
A young Dian named M'Nee, a jeweller, at Stirling,
shot himself with as Enfield rifle, in a paroxysm of grief at
the death of his mother.
Mr. Train's stay in England was short. Ile has
returned to Ireland, and is now reported as staying at :st.
Anne's Hill, Manley. a water-mire esiaidislunent, w here ho
formerly ',yenned after a tom of •• teaming."
All Germany is lamenting at this moment the retire-
ment from the stage of Emil Derrient, perhaps the greatest
actor of our time.
Japanese antipathy to 'Use foreigner" seems all but
insuperable, and not to be explained an ay by anything short
of foreign force. The port of Jeddo, wh eh was to have
been opened to 1. reign commerce lung ago, is still closed

Official documents show that as many as ON.— in-
fants, foundlings, slid orphans are now as,lsted in France.
However, in 1410, the first year of the treaty of commerce,
the number was over 01,000.

alnp,st as bmously as ever. -
A petition presented ti the House of Lords praying
that the Protestant character of Trinity College, Dublin,.
may be maintained intact, bears the signatures of 444
graduates and 3,000 non-graduates of the university.
An Abyssinian correspondent of the Pan Mall Gazette
says A spare, lithe, sinewy carcass, slightly grizzled,
five feet eight inches, and about fifty yenta of age, a mind
mouth, and COllllllllll had:, is all we are to know of a line, but
savage spirit, who has cost the British nation dear, but ribs
was sinned against.'"
The death is announced of General Husson, an old
French °nicer of the days of the Find Napoleon. The Pro-
vincial Government of 14S, put the General en r,
but in January, 1552, Napoleon 111, made him a Senator, and
he remained in the Senate mill his death. Born in 17sa,
General Ilusami had attained, at the period of his decease,
the ripe age of eighty-two years.
The Rioord prints an account of a meeting of the
- society— whose principal object at

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For a great Paris wedding, everything conies from
Imition. Ornaments, carriages, jewels, hew', coats, conic
over from London tradeqineo ; and to be fashionable in
Paris you must be ala London from top to toe.
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Scotiish RefiNnnation
present appears to be to educate and send forth upon the
newspaper world 200 Protestant youths well skilled in the
mystery of shoithand writing, for the express purpose of
' "•' •kehil of the Jesuit newspaper

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The Emperor of the French, it is said, knew of the
taking of Magdala twenty-four hours before her Majesty's
Government did so. If so. he might have been 8.1111 enough
to have paid the expense of a rd.-grail, 10 England. She
Timei would have made his Majesty a handsome return for
his courtesy.
A young woman in New Zealand has given herself
up to the poEce 81111 confessed to having usurdered her
lover, William Janice Thous., a travelling engineer. at Port
Leven, parish of Breagne, in Vornwan, In March, 1867.
On Saturday, as the Scotch express train was within
half is mile of t'swortli Station, on the North-Eastern line,
an old W11111:111, seine.! Maria Hind, who happened to be
walking on the line, was knocked down and killed.
Yankee captain win caught in the jaws of a
whssle. Ind was finally resumed, badly noun des!. On being
asl el clint Ise tlinstnlit settle in that situation, Inc said,
thought he wouhl make stbeut fitly hairels !" (of oil .
Some individuals who have been on a visit to Rome
state that the Pope is a fair singer and good violoncello
player.
The correspondent of the New York Herold with the
Abysdninu exleslition, telegraphs to his journal that Gob-
btu°, the friendly chief, who aided the Queen's army in its ;
march throssgh Tigre. will be duly crowned king of Abyssinia,
thus introducing a new tlynasty.
Letters received at Malta from Smynia to the 17th
~ rep.sist that on the inn eons, day, Mr. Vsuslessur so, and
Mr stein-us, ail enginesv, hsol Ise. kidnapped Isy a band of
thirty tat:muds. A ransom of xii,onts is demanded for these
eesstlemen. under a threat int sending in their heads. The
family of 11r. Vanlenness proposes to send 2:1,500 on the
IStis.
The Roman Catholic Chapel at Oldham was
attacked by a mob on 'Monday, and the windows were
smashed. According Inn a correspondent of tine Melne•heser
Fro inter, tin- outrage in /Is commuted as a retaliation for
an s,ssannitlsy an Irishman ujmn a policeman.
A young lady with blue gaiters, blue dress, blue
sscque, Moe Lice collar, blue hat, blue feather, blue parasol,
• Man; fan, blue slit glisten, blue stockings, blue eyes, and tur-
, nisnsise bracelet. nee Isnots, ant essrrings, attracted attention
st shsy or two anoint, nine,,! the New l'ors ferry boats.
! 'Phe following dialogue is stated to have taken place
! between a visiting magistrate at one of the London gaols and
! a invent's; off, user hosting out his three months - Bow-
, old o'' -n'.— Pls :cc. sir, inn thirteen How often hove you
Ii e • in :;.:5013.--Plaase. sir, eight tans s. 11,sve you ever 'suer
iss il,snlisse gaol ?-1.1.s se, sir, once. Hate you ever been in
1 We.ssissi.s,ner g onll,—Please, sir. once. lhor often have you
In.sen here ;—.llcase, sir, six times. Why do you come here
I soothe,, 3—Plessses, sir, Iwo, 11t Weitminster the tunskeys
knocks pas aloosit with their keys. Bow do you contrive to
get sent hero h—Please, sir. I anus prigs in Holborn now."
The French papers do not look upon the eating of
Fr:nehmen ny the Arabs 118 very awful, and have given
t In show, including the inaseesnt Mg, that crime is at
a low rate of per-eas stage in Africa. Man-eating is certainly
the safest crime fs sr the French occupants, as it will take
some title- to got tint ough sn lint, awl according to the South
Sea recsasnls I sf the Anthropoisliagi. Frenchmen are very tough
sitel inelinne -little foss& and the Arabs may therefore soon get
tired and tint out their mistake.
The death of 1,,,n1 Ilningliant at the agelof more than
801 years. recalls the fact that longevity FeelllB to ruts in the
family. The late Prer's gramlts.ther died at the age of 93,
and his mother at 8..; and his great-great-ssant died 111 the
year 1759, :Lt the mat age of 106. Tills latter lady, theta fore,
with whom probably lie bad often talked. was born two
yesirs before the death .if Charles 11., and at the thne of her
decease Lord Brougham must hate been a boy of eleven
yens old
An imptest was held at the University College
Hospital, in London, on Win. Francis Lambie, re.ed forty-one,
an artist. For some time past he had been under inedical
advice, and has lmen in a very- excitable state of mind. The
other day he received a letter from a lady whose portrait lie
was paitstisse, which anunsytal and excited him very much.
On tlw following monsi»g Ise rose between six ansl seven,
Mal Wag ,cen by a neighlssur to get on the in rapet outside
his tool-m.. 111 which vs-as at the ban of the house, and
deliberately lenp if, Ile died of the injuries he had sus-
tained. Verslict. ••Suinside while suffering front a IR of
temporary insanity."
Ganie of all kind abounds in Japan, and the nobility
are keen sportsmen. Breech-loading fow ling-pieces have
limg been in possessinnn of most if the dainsinss. and they prs
trot their forests with great strictness. The daindos, it
treatesi with conistesi and civility-. often grant a day's shoot-
ing to a stranger over their forests. The value nit the boon
llmp he estimated foot, the fact that sine of the officers in
one of her Slajesty's ships in Japan recently hilted lii olle day
upwards of eighty head of deer, besides pheasants, parttidge,
snipe, and wild duck, mi greater numbers than could be got,
Ins•bably, anywhere else in the world.
The Obscrrer devotes a special column to a recapitu-
lation of the suicides of each successive week. Last week,
according to our contemporary, a boy, an officer, a jealous
husband. a soldier, a pantaloon, and a snrgeon, respectively
named Webb, butler, notes, sheppard, Barnes, and Batten,
died hy their own acts. In each instance the coroner's in-
quest retnymml a verdict of "Suicide whilst labouring under
temporary insanity."
The celebrated vineyard of Chateau Lafitt,e, which
produces the finest claret in the world, is in the market.
The upset price is alnout i:4,000 the hectare two and a half
acres —total 4,.550,000f. la 1518 Al. Rosalie lAsmaire bought
it for ism issillonn. and in 152.1 Mr. Scott, an English gentle-
man, and present owner, paid a like suni for it.
"Cardinal d'Andrea, the most lilicral member of the
88Crell college, !lied last inert iii Rome. Si dill rount
Critelli, the Mistrials Ambassador, who was pressing the
Pope to modify the Austrian concordat. IkAlt 'bed stublealy,
and instinct 'pulmonary asploxia."Bise Italians conkquently
believe that both were poisoned 11..0rd, of the Society of
Jtssos —rather a nu-lines-al notion, one would think. In-
dividual lives are hardly important enough for the Society to
play that game 1111 W. 1181 re eapeehttly with ambassadors, who
:ire but delegates, after all.--Spsetom,
The Pope recently performed the ceremony of blessing
the Ilei. la' MOOS if w hite wax. made by the
cisz. monks of Santa cruse, from the Ivan of the gaster
,f certain churches ill 11,111 e. Tlll3 ceremony of
them takes place only once in seven years, :sod in
its, . s s, s st the Pontificate. When blessed they are sine
; N many IllirBBlllollB Virtues.
s.a.sl that 'luring the present season smolts,
young sainein. have been caught In Lake Windermere and
the streams adj•oniug in considerable numbers.
The Iron, John A. Logan, Comilianderin-Chief of
the army of the I sided slats a Reisisblic. Ims issued a general
order ainnouncisig that the Id Slay- is mined incline day
sm which the grates if their commies, who fell during the
war, shoold be strewn el it 11 1108 815. Ile says that it is his
wish to 81818,111,1te hun, 01,ierVilllee, With the 11.11.8 tllllt it
Will he 'lllt up
war remains. trominijear to w
year inhale a survivor of the

counteracting "the machidation the Jest... ~ewspope,
reporters in tile galleries of the Houses of Lords and
Commons!'
It in luck 2, that gold can be had for picking it up in
etl front hioh on

Australia. . letter receive . iromlhohnu-,
extract is published in ike limits, says that upw id. of
L 320.000 was spent Sty the bovernment, public bodies, and
private persons, on the fetes given in honour 4 the Duke of
Edinburgh's visit. The Whole the crew of the G•pla,e,r,
about Mal were supplied with fresh meat, poultry, milk,
fruit, and vegetal Sex for the six weeks she wit- in the Austra-
litus waters, and a toll of ice was sent en board every morning
Por their use.
About 4,000 summonses were issued by the Chelsea
magistrates last week, under the stew Reform Act, tor the
payment by compound householders of their rates, amount-
ing in moi4 eases to as much as Li for the half .year hr a
small house. The dtfauhers appeated in Friday, at the
workhouse, and were in a state if oval tribulation at the
new impost, and most of them beam unatile to pay the
amount charged to them were allowed a fortnighrs pace.
Near lawn 10,000 Collll,olllllt householders are in the saute
position.
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Further researches lately made in the Loch of Arisaig
show that the lake was the site id many •• lake dwellings,
! tine dwelling was in very deep water, and about 250 yards
froni the nearest point it land. The structure on which the
dwelling 1,4,41 Vel fonimi if trunks of trees, some of
1 which are very huge. Onc is twenty -e!ght (f..et lung arid live
. ft .1 in circumference.
The Landau I:rrirr says we are living in is state of
chronie eri,is. No sooner loose difficulty sm.
mounted, than airliner rises before lee. Tire Mini-try here
hardly recovered (I,lllolle iruhinitiatiur'whore linty arc :Lileti
' 111.1 to sillier another. Evely week increases the Id caeli
between the Legislature and the Executive, and contributes
its quota to the degrad 10411.
The sales of Church property in Sicily are readily
, effected on excellent tennis. The contenti proceeding is
, peculiar. The sales are by auction, and when the lots have
: been once knocked down they are again lint up, after an
interval of some days, to see it airy one will bid terrier coii.
more than wit; glove all the former Oeellqiien This inerease
obtained, as it beelliS almost invariably to have been hitherto
in Sietly, Oleic another pause, and then, for the third
time. the sante lots are let up, this time it jib an advance or
otte-sixtli on the second price given. 'lire lots are generally
sniall, and as the payment is arranged by easy instalments—
orre-t, indict]r telly being paid down nut the moment if
purchase—their acquisition 125 rendered possible to persons
• of very limited means.
Bell's Life records the death, at Brighton, of Mr.
: Ford, better know In tin racing dicks a quarter of a centiiry
Iwo a, •• I nicer in id," vil.iiie niahtle as financier and
" mairager "to noldonren end gent]. men •• " has
, since devolved upon the shoulders of Mr. Padwick. Mr.
Fool, mho in person lame a strong resemblance to the late
• sir Janie, Graham, hintself owned and ran many horses, and
won the oaks with Poison, ridden by Frank Butler. 'kW',
Ife describes Mr Ford as hating been '• a shrewd Mae of
business, all agrcable companion, and a kinde.dmarted man
flew many f•upposed bon to lie.''
The her, T. W. Mossman. Rector of Weed Tor-
rington, Lincolnshire, has establiAol in his parish a '• con-
gregation if the Venerable Bede, to observe tl:e holy rule of
St. Benedict," and has issued the following ProloseL—
" 1 tvant help very, very mudi, to asaist a poor student and
candidate fsr laity orders in paiving through (Oxford. To
shoW how very strongly I feel alsut nits I wilt promise that
if any l• atholie hitnois, will help me in this matter I will
make out a list f their lrnruirel, and that or bong as I live, anti
Ca long as the congregation of the Venerable Bede rentains Inn
existence, there shall he an offering of the holy Eucharist
weekly spectral) for their heneld, whether they he living or
departed.'

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The American papers speak of the discovery of is
whisky Of ring near Nudaway, in Missouri. Ihe liquid flows
frau bete yen too echo, and look, like highly-coloured
brandy, but it tastes and smells like pure wbishy, and has
the same intoxicating effect. Ihe local paper in which es
find an account of the discovery says, that '• ',vend lawyers,
physicians, and newspaper men were preparing to go out
yesterday morning bi test the discovery, hut the a pect of
rain deterred them "—that is to say, they did not xisb to
mix water with their whisky.
Last week an Irishman, named Garraghty, who for
a number of years resided in Bangor, died, and left three
widews to mourn his end ! The com•se of Johna life does
hit scent to have riot very smoothly. The deceased oas
lue y in nne particular, though unfortunate in his affect bele
—he was never tried for bigamy !
An English officer with the Abyssinian expedition,
in a letter, dated alagdala, Are ii lo says :—" We are new On
or way and all are delightell to get out of the Cod-
forpaken country. l'or the last three days we have tasted no
drink at any time hut muddy water—no nun, no milk. Our
feed hae been preserved vegetable,, tough beef, and
Abyssinian black bread, which is the most awiul compound
of straw, gravel, hair, ungrounii meat, and beietliness of all
sorts that you can imagine. The very thought if English
bread and cheese and Leer makes one uearly mad."
On Monday, the Princess Helena completed her
212.4111 d. ivue,i,iirs.
cat t,iotrie,t silt Ito- 211 t t,t Jl,4n
10.21, hte, 211", dish
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Eight,. Mince Fiederich Aneustus of Settles. ig•
llolstein-Sintilerbourg. belle of many' of the principal
churches in London and Windsor rang during the day in
honour of the event.
At the Brablwood (Australia) sessions recently, the
foreman of the jury gave in a vetilict of -guilty," wbellas
uo4.juilty " had been decided upon. None of the any
rectified the error, and the prisoner was sentenced. fortu-
nately, only to a light term of imprisonment.
A ease of some importance to volunteers bas been
decided in the City of London Court Ai:nulls for liquidated
damages were brengffit ecainet several privates of the end
City of London Carlo for breatei of agreement to serve three
yearn in the corps, and to attend a sufficient number of drills
its each year to enable their commanding officer t.l draw the
Government allowance payable for such attendance. They
, were all ordered to pay the money forthwith.
A Russian journal, the Nadzida (the Week), has re-
ceived a first teaming for " constantly misrepresee ling the
ecine mile and social relations of the empire," and for drawing
, •• hostile comparisons between the working classes and those
possessed id property."
A conference is about to a.ssemble at Berne of
delegates from various Eurepean countries, to coneider the
bed means of .lefeating the warlike tendenciee evinced by
some of the ?neer% and to determine upon the feasibility of
hohlinc, in the autumn, an international congress on a
larger scale than has yet been attempted.
The drain of emigration from Ireland is still um
checked. Three steamers called at Queenstown on Wednes-
day-. and took away nearly 1.000 passeugers, leaving numbers,
still behind, fer whom they had not aeconunodati
The A emu, earned oil 170, the Ile.atrare 400, and the
Mienescra 370.
The American papers inform ns that two more pr.
Was hare been arrested at Montreal, charged with to iee
concerned iii the plot for the aesassination of sir. D'Ar.y
Melee. A report that Juarez had fled from Mexico is
officially denied. It is added that the revolution at the
capital hail been put down.
Lord Lyons gave a grand dinner last Saturday, in
Paris, at the Embassy, in honour of the Queen's birthday.
('seers wele laid for forty. A comeependent a tys A
feature in the ambaneador's llinner, excellent from first to
last. was sine real eleglish turtle, the taste of which •dd
British resideets here have almost forgotten."
A statement has been going the round of the Tweet.,
in VariOUS forms. on the Continent as well as at home, mei
with more or lees semblance of authority, to the effect that
the English Governimeut has been making strong representa-
tions in favour of a pacific declaration from the several
tamers, and has even suggested a general disarmament.
An American paper proudly soya, in the list of for
niture liebeiging to the Cat. State Senate Committee and
Clerks' mamas, as given by the
.Sergeanhat-Anns, there are
twenty-nine sillitllollß to sixtyaene chairs. It is hoped that
this still effecteally silence the cavffinge of British touri•ts,
who represent A mere:aim as Incise widicted to filthy habits.
According to the Bureau Veritax of Paris the num-
ber or vessels reported as totally lost daring the month of
Ainil was 292, iecluding 93 English. 27 American, 19 French,
15 German, S Norwegian, 0 Dutch, and 3:1 111H0113
other taws. The number of total losses dining the Mat late
months of the present
.3 ear was 883, which, an C 011111111.0.1 with
the correspuding Jo-rich f 1007, ehows a diminution of fI.A
in the lig of such disasters.
A linissele telegram states that the elections which
have just taken lite, have remltel in the provire
mostly in favour of the clerical candidates, mid at -nreeeehi
in favour of the Liberals.
Lord Overstone considering that the procetannes
&gaited Ex-Ilovcletor Fare ••
I ave reached a point which he is
entitled to 1..0k fir the p,.t by and support of the public,"
has contributed £219 to Ine defence fund, through sir
Roderick Murchison, in discharge of a public duty which,"
he doubts not, "will lie wide:), recogniaed and cheerfully
fulfilled."
The late Lord Brougham, in a playful mood one day,
wrote the following epitaph 011 himself
"Here, reader, turn your weeping eyes,
My fate a mond teaches ;
The hole in which my Imily lies
Weald slit centain one-half my speeches."
The Prince of Wales has cause.' a letter to be
written to the lets-ester Town Council to bay that lie will
not be able to attend the agricultural show in July.
On 'Monday morning the marrive of Lai,

Cornelia Ilentikta Maria ihurchill, eldest slaughter to the
Duke anal Duchess of Slorlie,nninigh, with sir Ivor Lorin.
Guest, Bart., 44 Dom lain Castle, Glamorgatishire, w,ts
solemnised at St. James's Church, in London. The cere-
mony was performed in all impressive seamier by the
Bishop f Oxford, assisted by the Rev. J..E. elope, Si. A.
A grand i 'pm r hen by the bu eof Marllicroro.. Cl
his re,,ideme, St. James'astpiare. In the afterioadi the
happy p dr left town to spend their honeymoon at Blenheim-
Palace
The Paris Figaro states that eonanunicatione have
at length been opened between the French and Italcos
(loco ninents with a view to rid Paris of little Italian nine
rant musicians. Arrangements have been made to send the
children back to thcir own country.
A young than, who received but 1,800 francs a year
salary, recently wrote from Finis to Into unsophisticated
inanity parent for as,istance. and sent his pludograph. The
father replied indiv.nantly, Rascal of a son, you cannot be
as poor ro you stated, for in your photograph y 4 n are stir.
roUlided by vast-,, rich curtains, statues, and cascades in
perspective. Not a sou from 3our affectionate father." Not
to be die.
A man named Sannien hat: just been convicted at
Greimble of deserting to the Russians during the Crimean
war, and sentenced tO death.
A military critic in Monday's Tiwrs draws an un-
favourable l.kotch of the emount of uniformity exhibited
by the militia regiments now in coup :Lt Aldershot. Ile
wiitet one corps marches with pioneers in front,
furnished with their proper iniplenim is, acein ding to • Oder;
another has no to- Is, and FO ought as well have no lawmen'
at all; while the practice of a third wan thus expressed ),y
the sergeant-major ! yea, sir, we have pioneers, lint
there such a hawkward, Imply set of men that we didn't
brine them out.' Many such irs,tances of want ot 6)011.111
might be enumerated. I lit Ole above may suffice to show the
need oh atiention to Orgallkali011."
A curious ease has juet been decided in the Supreme
Court of New York. The widow 41 a murdet ed WWI brought
a suit for the sum of 5,00 dols. damages the largest amount
she could chains under the statute aLailiat the defendant,
whose wrongful acts are alleged to have tesulted in her hus-
band's let cane. The mortal difficulty grew out. of a difference
respecting the interpretation of the terms of lease, and the
defenitaid, instead 4,f taking his ease to court, St ught to
Obtain Isis rights by force. Lis the nael,,e WM41(11012 wpon his
unlawful proceedings, one of Its worknsen discharged a pistol
with fatal effect at the husband of the plaintiff, and the nal)
Whm it,. 41 11wpi-tol was produced by the widow as the chief
dimes in support of her clams. Upon Ida testimony the
jury declared im her favour a the full extent of the law.