The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

EDITION AND FOREIGN.

On Wednesday The Times and the Daily Telegraph
published a summary of despatches received from Mr.
Stanley, who was sent wit by he New York Herald on a
search expedition for Dr. Livingstone. From the letters It
appears that the renowned English traveller is alive and
well, and that after many years of arduous toil in the centre
of Africa, he has discovered that the river Charnbesi is the
smut cc of the Nile, and that great river is 2,600 miles long.
The -Public Health Bill has been reprinted with the
amendments made in Committee.
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Intense neat prevails throughout the United States.
Fifty deaths from sunstroke occurred in New York on Mon-
day last.
There was a meeting of colliery owners in the Forest
of Dean on Tuesday, and it is stated that a willingness was
expressed to concede the 10 per cent, advance claimed by
the men.
Granston Park, Yorkshire, with its mansion and
park, covering an area within a ring fence of nearly 2,009
acres, haa been sell. After a keen competition, it ens
knocked down to Mr. John Fielden, of Dobroyd Castle,
Todmorden, for £205,00.
According, to the London correspondent of the Leeds
Mercury, Mr. Baxter has contemplated a reform which lie
calculates will effect a saving of £lO,OOO to the imperial tax-
payer. lie proposes to abolish the Edinburgh General Post
Office and to transfer the Scotch central authority to London.
A great robbery of bank-notes was committed on
Monday in the streets of Antwerp. One hundred and eighty-
live notes of 1,0001. each were stolen from a clerk by slits,, of
nadelle height, who is described as having no beard, and
wearing coat and trousers of gray colour.
A large number of engineers, shipowners, coal-
owners, and others assembled at Newcastle on ruesday, to
, witn sal the " inauguratim " of the edifice erected to the
, memory of Nicholas Wood, at a cost of £20,00, a statue of
I whom, in marble, was unveiled.
The grand jury of the county of Leitrim have passed
a resolution expressing indignation and regret at the conduct
of a portion of the press, and expressing ..pproval of Judge
Keogh's bold and effectual exposure of organized intimida-
tion. They hope the Executive Government, without say
further delay, s ill take the necessary steps to vindicate the
dignity and independence of the bench.
On Wednesday a return was published, showing that
on the 20th November, 1871, the amount of depositors ba-
lances in the various savings banks of Great Britain and Ire-
land was 4:1,403,704 Ws. 4d., whilst the accounts transferred
to Post office savings banks amounted to £1,886,106 Ils. Id.
The compensation to oilicers under the provisions of the act
amounted to £,8,257 Oa. del.
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At Vienna an old pickpocket (13 convictions) was
sentenced to six years hard labour. 'I he exploit was spit-
ting into a waiters ear at an hotel where he was dining, pre-
tending to apologise by wiping the astonished waiter with a
most irreproachable cambric, and rifling his pockets of the
day's receipts, about £O.
The Bishop of Gloucester presented to Convocation
on Tuesday a photograph of an ancient manuscript" copy
of the Athanasian Creed with which he had been favoured
through the kindness of the Master of the Rolls, Lord
Romilly. The manuscript was stolen from the British
Museum, and found its way to the public library at Utrecht.
One of the best palmographers of the day Pelieved the
manuscript was to be traced to the period between the
years A.D. 800 and 700. It Contained the four damnat,ory
clauses.
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"Kangaroo—Any portion of the Leopard or the
boar would do, or of the pig, but Wistain from the
Leopard's heart and the parts next it, for the candle will not
be out then. The Lion is too savage to be tamed. Don't
forget the baboon's biscuits—Ad vertisement in The Times.
The Bill declaring it unlawful to demand a fee for
the celebration of the Sacrament of Baptism, or for the
registry thereof, has passed the Mune 1.1 Lords, but with
this addition to it—vie , that the bill shall not apply to the
present holder of any office who may at the present time be
legally entitled to demand such fees.
Sixty young officers have been dismissed from the
Prussian army. They had obtained their commissions duripg
the war for bravery In the field, and without having passed
the ordinary examinations. They are now cashiered for not
having succeeded since in acquiring the necessary qualitl.
cations for passing.
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A German correspondent writes :—The King of
Bavaria was near being drowned a few days ago Ile was out
boating alone on the Kochelsee, one of the Upper Bavarian
lakes, when his boat upset. Fortunately he was able to grasp
at a post, and thus keep himself afloat until some peasants,
who had witnessed the accident from the shore, could come
to his help.
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The convict Francois, governor of La Bette
prison, now under sentence of death as an accomplice in the
nmrder of the Archbishop of Paris and other hostages, was
married in Versailles prison. The object of the ceremony
was to legitimatise a child by retrospection, which French
aw, like Scotch law, allows.
Sir W. Stephenson, chairman of the Board of In-
land Revenue has acted upon the suggestion of the Chan-
cellor of he Exchequer with regard to the regulation of
Working Men's Club.. In future, should clubs selling
exciseable !Num deposit a copy of their rules with the
Board, and adhere to them if approved by that body, those
Institutions will he quite secure from prosecution.
The Chamber of Agriculture Journai says that the
sheep salesman, Mr. John atm:Wield, declared at the last
meeting of the committee of the non. Cattle Association, his
carefully-considered opinion that foot-and-mouth disease has
destroyed In six months more meat than the importation of
live animals has supplied during three whole years.
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A good girt joel veNenteen preßented the following
definition of the word "cat non" to h, r examiners for the
degree of Mrs. of Mil Some girls that I know of often
carrion in church when they ought to be quiet ;" but she
was pureed to answer the following query Which gives
a girl most pleasure—to hoar herself praised, or to hear
another girl run down?" No decision was finally arrived
It'

Familiar an the London police magistrates might be
expected to be with the "vulgar tongue," one was fairly
puzzled the other day by a witness who saw a man stial son e
bread and butter from a coffee stall, an.: addressed him with
the words, "Cheese that, supper." ion being replextml to
translate it into Eneli.h he explained that " cheese it"
meant "leave it alone" and "nipper was an expressive
synonym for a "sharp chap."
Children's sympathies are quick. A achool•boarsi
individual showed OM of the chileren of his locality a picture
of Daub.l In the den of lions and said it was a terrible sight
to behold. At this the ehlld sniggered, or, more poetically
expret,sed, wept this,
being told that she need not cry, for
the pr.phet wit' not devoured, it turned out that she was
distressed for fear that one little lists in the corner would
not get au)thing to eat, Daniel evidently being too small to
go round.
A celebrated doctor—celebrated almost as much for
his love of V4.li living as for his professioi.al skill—called
upon a certain eccentric nobleman, whom he found sitting
alone eta wry nice dinner. After some time, the doctor,
receiving no invitation to partake of it. said. " My dear
lord, if I were in y..ur lordship's place, I should say, .pgae,
doctor, sat am it. dug.' " " A thousand pardons for the
omission.' replied his lordship, "pray, then, my dear doctor,
do as I am doing—go home and eat your own dinner."
It is expectel that his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales will lay the first stone of the Norfolk County School
buildings in the course of the autumn. A site comprising
thirty-eight acres with a river frontage of half a mile has
been obtained, near the Elmham station• of the Great
Eastern Railway. The buildings, which are to be erected
from designs by Mr. Giles, will furnish accommmlation for
2130 boarders. Thy cost of the buildings is estimated at
and the school Is expecteti to be brought into operation by
Midsummer 1673, or thereabouts.
Archdeacon Denison has preachel a singularly cha-
racteristic sermon at St. Alban's, Holborn. The occasion
was the service in aid of the Association for Promoting the
Unity of Christendom, and the Archdeacon spoke strongly of
the days of Establishment being numbered; of the unim-
portant character of the Bennett decision, as the Court I.:
Appeal was not qualified to t...uch Church matters and of
the deficiency of leaders smug the Bishops of the Church,
as evidenced by the way in which they had treated the ques-
tion of the Athanagan Creed in Convocation.

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The Revenue Returns for the quarter, as well as for
the year ending the 30th of June have been issued. During
the past three months the national lucerne has amounted to
£18393,507, a net increase of rather more than a million and
a half over the receipts in the corresponding period of last
year. The revenue tor the year has seen £70,266,030, and this
was a net increase of £5,793,020 over that of the twelve months
ending June 30th, 1871 The chief cause of this augmentation
was the income tax which yielded more by £3,494,000.
A dinner was given in Paris the other night by the
Republican Club of the ,eine to the three new Radical mem-
bers of the French Assembly who were returned at the recent
elections. The principal speech was delivaed by DI. Louis
Blanc, who maintained that the only true Conservativeajust
now were the Republicans. The reason was that the Re-
public had nothing to overthrow , whereas no monarchy
could be established without a revolution. The Republic
was the only Government compatible with the free exercise
of the sovereign rights of the people. Those rights being
now recognised, Republicans had no need to he aggressive.
In conclusion, M. Louis Blanc ho' e testimony to the services
I rendered to the country by M. Tillers.
Some time ago a Committee of the Society of Arts
was appointed to consider how for the existing means of
crossing the Channel could be improved. They have just
presented their report, in which they express an opinion that
although no large measure of improvement can be effected in
the Channel passage unless with vessels of much greater size,
much niight be done in the present mode of conducting the
traffic. Several suggestions are made for the alleviation of
the miseries under winch paaseniters at present Butter, and
amongst these are a higher order of accommodathn and
ventilation, more commodimdi cabin fittings, and the better
regulation of the fish. fruit, and vegetable traffic. New boats,
about 50 feet longer than the existing vessels, are also
desirable.
La-t week the mortality from all causes in London
and twenty other large towns of the United Kingdom was at
the rate of 20 deaths annoally to every 1,000 persons esti-
mated to be living In this metropolis 2,147 births and
1,070 deaths were registered, the former having been 94
and the latter 345, below the average. 8o low a death.
rate has not prevailed in London since the beginning of 165.
Forty-three persons died from small-pox, 33 from measles,
11 from scarlet fever, 41 from from whooping-cough, 20
from different forms of fever (of which 2 were certified as
typhus, 14 as enteric or typhoid, and 4 as simple continued
(ever), 67 from diarrbcei, and not one from diphtheria.
Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 292 deaths.
Some interesting atatistics respecting the mortality
during the siege of Paris have just been published by Dr. 11.
Sneer. The population at the beginning numbered about
two million souls (1,900,000); 300 000 persons had left Paris ,
after the 4th Septemker; these were replaced by 190.000
regular troops and 180,000 refugees from the surromiding
distrists. M. (Mears calculations extend from the 4th of
Septeniher to the 18th of March ; that is, over twenty-night
wet ks. The mortality attained miximuin rate during the
twenty-second wrvk, in the middle of January, on the eve of
the armistice. The first week had 981 deaths ; the sixth,
1,610; the twelfth, 1 927 ; the eidlitrvidli, 34.50 the twenty,
second. 4 671 ; the twenty-berth. 4,1 ; the twenty-eighth,
2.576. The normal rate of mortality at ordinary times durug
this part of the year Is from 880 to 975 weekly.
At the Westtninster Police-court, the magistrate
was asked to decide a case under the Act by which the pro-
perty of convicted felons, Mate. of being forfeited to the
Crown, may be realised by persons properly appointed forthe
benefit of the family. A man who had attempted to murder
his wile was sentenced to penal servitude for five years, and
. the wife made application to dispose of hie brininess for £4
AO as to pay off a bill of sale of £24, and do something for
herself and family. Some guarantee was required by the
. intending purchaser as to her power to sell, and the magis-
trate complied with her mined, appointing her brother ad-
' mintstrator to the convict's estate.
In London, on Monday, a meeting was held M St.
' .lioneb's Hall to protest against the Government Licensing
Bill, or rather the clause which fixes the hour of closing at
• twelve Instead"( ore. Mr. Buckstone, the comedian, pro-
posed • resolution to the effect that the hours now allowed
by law In not require any change. "Why," said he, "should
1 people when they come out of the theatres flod taverns,
- publics, everywhere, and not a drop to 'inch?' Why should
f the licensed victuallers he continually harassed and police'd
f They were good citisens, as proved by their philanthroM.
, their schools, and their excellent asylum, and why shoo,:
- they be treated as scum of the earth?" There was a strong
opposition, but the motion was carded.

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There are op wards of amp children of ons.doo A garden-party waa given by the Prince and Prin
Ciese of M, Lies, at Chiswick ou hies +to afternoon.
pauper parents in London. 1
It is announced that Germane has finally decided Two men were drowned on
Saturday night by tile
upeettirg of a fishieg-boat off the Wexford coast.
not to establish an embassy at the Ptipal Court.
The Irish Bann played 011 Monday, at the Beaton
The oldest artesian well in Ear, pe is at I.illers, in
the Pas de Colds, and from Its month water has flowed an
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews hare arrived in
interruptedly for seven hundred and forty-six years.
London after their tour round the world.
Jubilee, and wars warmly received.
The Grocers. vs a bill is about to be introduced n
throughout the cis..atry. in Westminster Abbey in aid of the Society for the Prepaga-
the Home ,if Cod mons, to establish Tribunals of Commerce On Tuesday evening there was a grand choral festival
tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
The Bethnal-green Musenni wits last week visite
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the
by • 0.8.93 persons. Daring the some time the number ~
visitors to the South Kensington Museum NILS lb 975, receipt of the nest half of 4100 note from " Y. Z., and of 42
in stamps from " G. IL L.," for Income-tax.
There wer not lees than fifteen fires between six
o'clock on e Saturday morning and six o'clock on Monday The London watchmakers and jewellers intend
mniing in the metn.politan district. agitating for an advance of wages and the nine hours move- •
The deositors in the Liverpool savings laa no meek
nu p,lO, an
mber 41 5d the amount to re their cdit ur the nk
batik iw According to a Madrid telegram, the Carlist move.
upwards of £1,075.000. ment . now so completely at an end that no bond of more
than twenty-five men is anywhere to be met wiOl.
The Burmese Ambassaders, accompanied hy their
A fatal explosion took place on Monday at
interpreter, visited the House of Commons on Monday, and a cart-
remaitied about an hour. ridge manufactory at Witten, near liinninghain. The
' manager was killed , and several other pers us were iejured.
As many as 64 Acts of Parliament received the Royal
nabst is again one the principals. al. Ordinaire, a Radical
' and 77 local statutes have been passed in the Session
Deputy, fought with M. Cavalier, a writer in the Pattie,
, Assent on Thursday last. l'p to the present time 25 public Another duel is announced from Faris, and a jollrs
1 Considerable difference of opinion prevails in the the former being wounded in the chest by a sword-thrust.
French Assembly as to the productiveness of the tax on raw
material. M. Thiers coritende that his favourite impost will
In the French Assembly ,in Saturday th bill un
yield forty-two millions of francs. On the other side it is posing a tax of three per cent On stocks and shares was passed
contended that it will only produce five millious, after sonic discussion. The tax applies to foreign as wells.
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The Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Durham Coke French securities.
Association have advanced ordinary coal Is. Oil per ton, and
Extremes, remarked a lady of a prudish and
engine coal is. 3.1. The Sheffield rolling-mid proprietors moodish turn to her smart and wildish mime, " !should
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have advanced prices 25 per cent. Advances of from 6to le always be avoided, miss.' " Yes, aunt, especially those of
per cent, have also taken place in silver plate. wasps and bees," was the stinging rejoinder.
At no previous time has London been so crammed Sir Roundel' Pahner, the counsel for the British
with Americans as at present. All the steamers from New Government before the Arbitrators under the Washington
York come loafed with passengers, and on every Saturday Treaty, was In his usual place in the House of Commons at
no lens than seven steam-ships tease that port Meted for the early part of the sitting on Monday.
Liverpool, Southampton, Glasgow, and Havre, an filled to Forty thousand Russians are making proposals to
their utmost capacity with visitors to the Old World. the Canadian and American authorities I' migrate en 'imam
On Friday in last week, a youth named Thompson, from the settlements they now occupy to the United State.
while out with a fishing boat in the Solway Frith, stepped or Canada. 'they are auximui to place themselves beyond the
out of the vessel on to a sandbank to facilitate the casting reach of military serrice.
or drawing of the net, when he was suddenly swallowed up The Cross of the Legion of Honour has just been
iv a quicksand His disappearance was so complete and so conferred on .Elisa de Beaumont. Countess de Blanchery.
rapid that his companions were unable to aid lion, and the This young lady fought with amusket like a commie leather
body has not been recovered, at the combat of Patay near Orleans, after having seen her
It is said to he Mr. Goschen's intention, upon the husband, an officer of Mobiles, killed at her side at the corm
removal of the establishment for the higher class education mencement of the action.
of naval officers from the present Naval College at Ports. Great meetings of agricultural labourers have been
mouth to Greenwich, to rent, cc Die naval cadets arid the held throughout Fifeshire, at which the proposed rules of
e4ucational staff from the Britannia harbour training ship the Union, which lit, be designated the Fife and K 'Dross
to the College thee vacated by the superior officers. Labourers' Association, were submitted and approved. The
asaociation sets firth as its objects Increased wages, fort,
The Morning Post has reason to believe that, regard nightly payments, and shorter hour.
being had to the late period of the session and the pressure
of more urgent business, including the Public Health Bill At the annual meeting of the Society for the Sup.
and the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, it is not the in- pression of Vice, which was held on Monday, attention was
tention of the Government to proceed with the Masters and drawn to the unremitting exertions of this organisation to
Servants (Wages) Bill, check the sale of improper literature, and hopes were ex-
Advice was asked of the Master of the Rolls by the
trustees under a settlement, whether they would be Matt- vince p
th y
e most sceptical of the gravity and extent of the evil
ressed that the result of the ear's transactions would
suppressed
tied in advancing a sum of money to Frederick Ward t, a lieu- to be
Green marriage came before the Probate Court. It was
which the eettlerneut referred; such suns having been left
alleged that a woman was married at Gretna Green to a man
tenant in the army, one of the children id the marriage to A curious case, involving the validity of a Gretna
specially for the purchase of promotion, and purchase being
1104 V abolished Lord Hominy oitild not advise the trustees tianaml her, and afterwards married another man named
to [SCUM°. fa the rem met, under the ciretimstances named,
.
Vilson. At herd eath Ker claimed her estate ; but the jury,
without leaving the box, deetded for V, ilsou, ansl ordered
but gave leave N
of appeal to the MrdaJuatices. letters of administration to pass to him.
On Saturday the new Customs and Inland Revenue
Au London correapondent supplies some intelligent
11 res relative to the enormous nature of the metropelis,
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Send. are exempted from duty under the 32 and 3311 ict., it laas calculated thd 726 tons of food mud he supplied
daily, even at half a poem' for each. 203,000 gaff e s if
cap 14. The duty ot 44. in the pound under the Income Tax
wstrymust be swallowed, if each Londoner took half a' ' '
4 sioo 000 must be annual' eut on milk. "But whatpmt
Deer? ' Aye h ' h " h . oh
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,tat s t e curse of London, is say.. but
allowed. what's the curse of Scotland 1 Of course, the reply will he
' the thistle, if you sit on it. That is one end, or rather side,
of the argument, but surely Scotch whisky won't compete for
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grants for maintenance of patients, and salaries and wages, the prize for morality against London beer.
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According to this return, the expetelittnie on lands and bed&
General RiviCre, who is conducting the preliminary
ings previous to the year 1563 amountel to 4118,039 19s. 3d.
examination into the conduct of Marshal itazaine, has stele
rhe amount expended on land and buildings, drams, roads,
gated a portion of this task to M. Deschange, member for the
fences, &c., and subsequent alterations and repairs from the
Department of the aleurthe mid Moselle. The latter, it Is
lot April, 18.33, to the present year was -70,575 Os. ltd.
said, h. succeeded in discovering the wood ranger who dc'
The amount of timber Land in British Columbia is livered to Marshal Itazaine, on the 23rd of August. :Marshal
estimated to cover about 100,0e0 sqeare miles. In Alaska, Mae-Matron's despatch, in which he informed Marshal
it is said that 150,000 square miles are occupied with wand, Bauble of his hut ended march. Marshal Bazaine has through.
and in Washington Territory, Oregon, and California, about out maintained that he never received that despatch. The
105,000 square mile. Fires occasionally make sad havoc, wood ranger will be summoned as a witness for the prove.
hut with such a space devoted to timber, little apprehension notion, and great importance attaches to his evidence.
need be entertained respecting scarcity of wood. Two colliers working at a colliery near \Vakefield,
On Saturday afternoon, Mr. A. J. Mundella, M.P.' are likely to lose their lives through their own criminal fool-
&deeded a conference of teachereof Hellamshire and district, hardiness. They work in the same bank, and at what is
the Mayor of Sheffield presiding. Mr. alundella spoke at termed "bread eating time " a few days ago one said to
great length in favour of compulsory education, and of the the other, "linen jou ever seen the devil I if not, I'll show
position of the teachers being Improved by the scholastic you him" Thereupon he took te-veral pounds of powder
profession being made an open career, lie also compared from a canister mixed it up In his hands into what is called
the continental schools with those of England, to the die, a devil, affixed it to the lace of the coal above the canister
advantage of the latter, and ignited It. Some of the sparks fell into the canister, the
An inquest has been held at Margate, on the body cf pea der in which instantly expioded, and so severely burnt
Mr George Leask, aged 21, who lost his life by falling from the two rues that one lies on a hopeless condition and the
the cliff The deceased was a visitor from Loudon, and Ind other hi a highly dangerous state.
gone to Margate to spend the day. Shortly after eleven 1 News from the Persian Gulf states that the hopes of
o'clock on Thursday night he went with a friend on to the . a good harvest have been realised, and that corn is now sell.
Fort, opposite the Clifton:Ville Hotel. They were walking lag at a comparatively low rate. From the interior, however,
along the path with other company when the deceased got no improvement is reported. The people at Teheran aid
over the protection fence on the cliff, say lag, " Ilmre is Ispaban are still suffering severely from famine. The come-
plenty of grass here" Ile suddenly fell over the clef, and spondent of a Bombay paper, writing from Bushire, says
111... gs have again been killed amil eaten. A correspondent
was killed. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned. that the misery of the pair is most intense, and that hemnn
os ishe Levant Tones makes a similar statement.
A newspaper correspondent at Moscow gives us an
account of the final celebration there of the bieentenary of
Peter the Great on the 23rd ult. The day was kept as a The Gazette of the 18th ult., contains the retirement
popular holiday, and various sports and pastimes were pro of 25 officers of militia, to balance which only six gentlemen
tided for the amusement of the people. His majesty the have entered the force, making a clear loss of 19 onteers.
Emperor, who wu present, was received with notch en- The Gazette of the 3rd of May contained the retirement of
Outs-sm. The totes had been postponed in onier that they no less than 47 officers, to balance which eight gentlemen ea-
might take place during his stay at Moscow, The Imperial lured the service, making a nett loss of 39 officers. Thus in
party left the same evening for St. Petersburg. two Gazettes the militia has mustained the astounding IoSS of
A beautifolly painted harpsichord, made by " Pascal 72 officers by retirement atone, 14 gentlemen, however, have
Timid., it l'aris, 1774," has been lent for exhibition at South entered the service at filename time, thua leaving a total loss
Kensington Museum by the Viscount Powerscourt. at the of 54 officer&
suggestion of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, A petite-fl praying for a remission or a commutation
when he recently visited Ireland. The Inside and outside of ' of the sentence of penal servitude tor life passed on William
the case are covered with oil paintings of landscapes Ac , of a I Roupell, formerly If P., for Lambeth, for forgery, has been
finish and delicacy equal to those of many of the old Dutch i very numerously signed by the inhabitants of the New.
of Frupell is situate, and will be presented to parliament
pictures. I cut, hi which locality much of the property of the father
od;ir
bug, t, lie
in various
_Manyi of the old constituents
An act of parliament has just been printed to remove 1
doutts as to the ammintment of persons to couduet inquiries i
i names to e petition. Roupell has been incarcerated niue
by the Board of Trade. It is now provided that wherever in t p ILn parts of L sni set have attached their
any not of parliament ills directed that an Inquiry should be
made by the Board of Trade, the some is to lie conducted by • "u"'
any person duly authorised to do so by the President of the It appears from the Bombay Gazette that the heat
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Board by writing, or under the hand of one otthe secretaries, continues to be exceptionaliy great in India. At Allababad
On Saturday (St. Peter's Day), the Rev. Richard
Rawl., (*La., Vicar of Tamworth, was consecrat 40 in Lien- officer, four men, and 12 children , mong the 16th Lancers.
field Cathedral to the newly-couetituted see of Trinidad. In and around Poona, in the Deccan, the wells are dried up
The novelty of such a ceremonial 111 a provincial cathedral the cattle are dying and people are . h,. rkful if they can
drew to ether several thousand people. The Bishopof Lich- obtain a Vic of water by no greater trouble than that of
fiebi. actine under the commission of the Archbiahop of Can- walking in number of miles tor it. The Cymbal, (kWh, says
terbery, was the consecrating prelate. that prospects would be very gloomy were not the monsoon
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A shocking and fatal accident occurred on Monday at hand.
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on the Midland Railway. Between 7 and 8 o'saiick a wiinian I. tour ,d blushes are appealing to the public for support
Eaton station. Her attention bang fixed on a train which states that they are willing to leave London fly had the
had just paesed, she did not perceive the appriam,th M the 7 5 means and could hear of a chance to get work. May I inform
train from Nottingham to Sheffield, which knocked her down, Mr. Halloran nod the public generally, though you col umns,
and instiintly killed her. that any number of labourers would find 'immediate and i's'
The small township of Le Mans is threatened with a rounenstive employment were they taco down into any of
series of ruinous lawsuits. When the Red Prince approached the Iron districts, such, for Instance, as Middlesborough.
Le Mans a number of merchants applied to the town authori- Labourers are getting from 35. 6d. to 4s. per day, and so soon
ties for permission to take their stores, to a considerable as they can handle miners' tools they can eani 6s. per slay in
amount, from the railway I•ontling-hourse, but were not the mines.
allowed to do so. All these goods were taken by Prince The Brighton Daily News says :—" The prison
Iredtrick Charles. One merchant has already obtained a authorities . Lewes have at lad received the Secretary of
verdict for £9,000 against the town, and his example will, it S ate's warrant for the removal of Christiana Edmunds to an
is feared, be imitated by many others. asylum. The warrant is dated the 27th of June, and was re-
" There is for the moment much curiosity in France ceived from the Homeriffice on Saturday, °Merles that the
with respect to parties at Versailles, and pe pie speak of a prisoner be removed to the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic
political crisis. M. micro, who for a year and a half has Asylum, Berke, where she will le taken most probably to-day
concentrated in himself all authority and influence is to lie (SI onday). When completed. the usual sirder will be made
set aside, and another Chief of the Executive Power ap- upon the parish to which she belongs for payment of expenses
pointed in his place. This successor is already designated . attending such removal."
it ii, Marshal Mac-Mahon, who either by his exploits or his
misfortunes has attracted the sympathy of the discontented
Mapirity—for there is at length a Majority, and its existence
is oue to whet is called the Right Centre. This section,
which may be eesterally identified with the principles of
Constitutional FL-laity and has a predilection for the Grim.
l'rinces, is supposed to have made common cause wits, the
devoted partisans of French Legitimacy."—Leader in 7'he
Times.
A captain of French Mobiles has been tried by
cond.martial at Versailles for deserting tsi the enemy in 1870.
The accused plea-led, by aay If justification, that he had
taken the oath of allegiance to the Emperor Napoleon, that
when the Emperor fell he considered he was Ile longer bound
to serve, and therefore placed himself and his wife under
the protection of the Germans and went to Wiesbaden. He
was so convinced he had acted legally that he returned to
Paris lad June and had no idea tnat proceedings would be
taken against him. The court, however, sentenced him to
death.