The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-01 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

THE Qui= AT BALMORAL. —The Queen drove
to Bosh Farm on Bvturday, and congratulated Mr.
and Mrs. William Brown on the birthday of Alb-rt
Brown, their eldest soy. On Monday morning the
hills near Balmoral were thickly coated with snow down
to their base. The fell was bevy during the night.
Notwithstanding the coldneee of the weather, the Queen
drove out in the forenoon in an open carriage drawn by
four horses with mounted postilion. and preceded by
an outrider. The drive was extended by the north aide
of the Falls of Quoich, where the Royal party partook
of the lor cheon. After which the Queen and Princem
Beatrice left the carriage and walked in the tor:arida to
a point beyond the Falls. On resuming their seat.
the party proceeded to Mar Budge, and about bur
o'clock passed through Bram= on their way beck to
Balmoral.

SHOCKING SUICIDI IN LONDON. —A shocking
suicide has been committed by a man named Peacock,
residing in Trafalgar-street, Wa'worth, who has been
for some time in • state of semi-lunacy. The house
has been inhabited by him for a non.ber of yearn.
Peacock, who was by trade • eloper, was • member
of a sect called Scuthcotiane. Be, with his family,
formerly occupied premises in Merrow.street, and the
cooperage is said to have been the place where Johanna
Southcote and her followers held their meetings.
Peacock, it appears, had boon in very bed health for •
lon g tune pant and certain delusions had been gradually
taking possession of his brain. Owing to the illness of
Peacock the shop had been shut up for sometime past,
and it is stated that the man had kept to his bed under
the idea that the devil vas seeking him and if he left
It be would fall into his clutches. On Thursday even-
ing his wife prevailed upon him to get up, and as be
was coming downstairs he met an old woman who
resided in the houee. audit is supposed that he imagined
her to be Satan come to seize him. 3 seems that be
knocked her i 0 RD by a blow in the face with hi- fist.
and then ran into a cloeet, where, with a penknife, he
scabbed himself in various parts of the body, and cut
his throat. An alarm was immediately given, and
medical assistance was sent for, but Peacock died on
Friday morning. A verdict of "Temporary insanity"
hive been returned by the jury. As an indication that
l'-ecock's insanity may have been rather more than
upcmevy. it We. given In evidence that the deceased
I t I..trept his hel for some months because he was &trill
"'".•n would carry him away it he got up,

OLD—fiteromn-Tix. RaTrrnaig.—The subject of
the sale of wade paper of Government offices came
before the House of Commons' Committee of last See.
si moon the purchase and sale of materials end atores
for the public Departments. Mr. Greg, the Controller
at tie Stationary Offim, stated that ties incotre—tex re-
turn., when done with, are sold to the beet bidder of
abet five persons, who are in the habrt of purchasing
mid waste; generally to Messrs, Waterlow. It was
suggested that the purchaser could ascertain what
every UAW'S return was, but Mr. Greg replied that he
could not do so, 10-cause the headings of the papers are
cut off at the Sta. ionery Offices before they are soli ;
that is done In every C:fle ; and the papers are, beeides,
reduced to pulp. But it is not the practice to send a
responsible officer to sea them reduced to pulp; it is
not theiseht neceseary. It was once considered whether
that c cld be done or not, and it wai found that it
would be quite impossible un"eres an officer was con-
stantly living at the place. The Government orders
are positive that the papers must be reduored to pulp,
and they are sold at • lower price in consequence of
that.
A SiMPLi REMEDY. —A gentleman recently
purchased • high-spirited horse that had never been
shod. On the smth attempting to shoe him hc re-
eieted all efforts, kicked wide everything, and nearly
crippled himself against the anvil, when he was finally
returned to his stable unahod, In despair his owner
was about consigning him to the plough, when 'gentle-
man, who bad been a traveller, and touched Mexican
soil in hie tour, took • cord, put it into the mouth of
the him like a bit, and tied it tightly on the animal's
heed, passing his left ear under the string, not painfully
tight, but tight enough to keep the ear down and the
cord in ite place. This done, he petted the horse gently
on the side of the head, and commanded him to follow,
and instantly the horse obeyed, perfectly subdued, and
as gentle and obedient as a well-trained dog ; suffering
his feet to be lifted with entire impunity, acting in all
respectc like an old stager. The gentleman states that
this was a means resorted to In Mexico and South
America for subduing wild hones. The plan is as in-
genious as it is simple, and well worth the attention of
those who have unmanageable horses.
MR. GLADSTONI ON BODOOL BOARD XPIN SUL
—Mr. Robertson Gladstone having lately expressed an
opinion "that it was • greet mistake en the Foxtrot 141si
Government and of Parliament to Inflict on inclivid*al
localities the heavy weigit of payment for the opera-
tion of the Education Act," Mr. John Murphy, of
Liverpool, forwarded tkis extract to the Pannier. In
reply Mr. Godley wrote that he was Instructed by Mr.
Gladstone to direct attention to the three points follow-
ing :
A very two charge Is already borne by Die
Exchegger to aid el education In Liverpool, as In other
pieces S. If the Exchequer waned the whole &large In-
curred nailer this head, would not the expensive operations
for eduational porpoms, witch you complain alas colosses.
any, bip much more extensively carried on S. II the school ,
board expellee. We to be i.efrayed from the general Mode, I
what compensation to to be made to the 11,1100 cc 10,000
parishes which have no scheol hoods, but supply from volun-
tary mare« what in Liverpool Is suepeed by a mete r
A Duo Roisascn.—A Detroit raper relates
the following story :—" A boy about ten Yessw of Me,
leading a lively little dog, called steins Central Station
and sated if that was where they shot dogs. Being
answered in the affirmative, he said. Well, please
shoot my poor little Den. - He's An awful good dog,
and he plays with the baby sll day, but father's dead,
and mother 's sick, and I can't mile money to get a
licence.' Then turning to the do the boy stroked him,
saying, ' Poor Dan, bow Billy will cry when I tell him
you are dead Great b* Masi rolled down the boy's
hoe, and in a little time thcaearooud him made up •
purse sufficient to save his dog and • person went with
him after the licence. The toy's Meill fairy eparkled
at his unexpected luck, and speaking to e dog, be
cried out, You're saved let's go right home to
SIIIOIOI AT RIADING.—i lamentable Occur-
rence happened at Reading or Saturday, which crested
quite a sensation in the tcw• Mr. John Chamberlin,
an old inhabitant, and who.or many yearn had filled
the post of poorest/ colleeor to the largest parish in
the town, committed self Animal= by drowning
self in the Thames. Tit deceased was aged 63. He
was highly respected, ed oonsideeed to be about the
least likely person to save committed so rash an act.
It transpired at the aquest held by Mr. Weedon the
min, afternoon the the deceased was seen early in the
.„nieg walkin, toward/ the river in a reckless,
manner, with hi,hat slouched over his eyes. An hour
afterwards he .as picked up by a bargeman floating
down the Therms in an upright posture, with his hat
still on, BL.Brain, a cousin, stated that the deceased
had been cl iwwwed the lust fortnight, and pecaniary
unitt,rs,ree partly the MEM) of the depreesion , though
no not vi much trouble Ively, and had lost a brother,
The pecuniary difficulty would havebeen
ilysurmounted by a less sensitive mind. Mr.
the erk to the Guerdiane, was called at the request of
in jury, and he stated the deceased to be an upright,
honest man, bat lately he had got muddled in his
accortete, and in making up his book for the last half-
year there was found a deficiency of some £126 out of
£4,100, and though there was over £6O due to him as
poundage, the matter seemed to weigh greatly on his
mind. The deceased, who was also a registrar, had
arranged to be present at a marriage that morning.
The verdict of the jury was "Temporary Insanity."
I FUTTING WINGS TO THlll.—David Cox the
oelbrated painter, was very particular about the
quality of the paper he worked on. There was a car-
ton Scotch variety he loved heartily. The paper was
tory thick, and white, with here and there little black
cr brown specks. Li the landscape part these specks
vets of no consequence, but they looked out of place
ii the sky. On one occasion being asked what he did
o get rill of them, he replied, "Oh, I just put whigs
ro them, aud they fly away as birds."
To Twityg o'CLocx Maw.—The New York
Evening Post records the death, at Brooklyn, of a man
well known there by night, who or the last seven years
has stood near the City-hall, within sight of the clock,
every day from eleven o'click until the noon-day bell hed
struck. His daily position was at • particular part of
the railing, against the picket of which he leant, and
looked mournfully at the clock. If spoken to, he
err uld mumble out an answer to the effect that he wee
waiting for somebody. "He'll come by twelve o'clock , I
he said he would." He was gazed at with astonishatut
by the idlers in the street, but his story was only
guessed. It is now told that he was • monomaniac;
that he had saved a sum of money by hard work ,that
the money was borrowed of him with a promise to pay
with intereet, en a certain day, at neon, in front of
the Citylall. But the old man aeeer saw the bor-
rower again. He did odd chorea in the morning, and
earned penniee enough to buy food, and lived in an old
hut. Some one ham drawn his picture for • Brooklyn
cluh, and • reeident of the neighbourhood has tied a
piece of crape upon the railings by which he wad to
stand.

Tnc LATS NOVA SCOTIAN STORKS. A
dispatch from Washington, dated Oct. 11, says:—" A
report of the damage by the storm of August 24, shows
that 1,032 vessels, of which 435 were small fishing
schooners, are known to have been destroyed in the
neighbourhood of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the
Atlantic shores of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and
Newfoundland. In addition to this number, over 90
vessel@ were destroyed by the same storm before reach.
log Nova Scotia. making • total of 1.122 vessels de
stroyed within • few days. There are 223 livers reported
bet, and the most moderate estimate of the numerous
cases in which crews are missing @well this number to
nesrly 500. If to this be added the loss ou land mid in
the earlier history of the cyclone, the grand total will
amount to at least 600 lives. !Ib. records also show
that about 900 buildings were injured or totally de-
stroys&
ALAS! POE VIZ POOR FLEAS.—AII impetuous
fellow who owned • dog that was greatly troubled with
flees, heard that mercurial ointment w uld relieve his
pet from the tormenting insect, and straightway went
to • druggist. "A pound of mercurial ointment
" Yes ; you keep mercurial ointment, don't you ?"
"Of course; but a pound Is • large quantity, What
do you want it for r "I want it to kill the fleas on
my dog." "Sot, my dear sir, • „pound of this cent.
ment will kill all the flews in the world I" "W5ll, he's
got them I" The ointment was applied to the brute—
he was smeared all over with it—from his ears
to his tail. Daring the night the owner of the dg was
awakened by the sound of subdued music in his roost;
he arose, and struck • light to discover whence the
noise came, and found that nearly eight hundred
, thousand fl-as had collected on his dog's nose, where
I there was no ointmens, and were singing, "They have
I driven me from home!" . --

8011 Z OF LAN USIFIL 8 MODELS. —There is at
present in the possession of Mr. Edwin Ward, of 49,
Wigmore-streee, Lond-in, a remarkable trophy of beads
and Aims owned by the late Sir Edwin Landseer.
Toe central object of the group, which is arranged with
considerable skill awl effect, is an old-fashioned high-
backed arm-chair, cushioned with otter-skins, and hav-
ing for arms two cunningly-carved otter-hounds, while
from the top grins down on the spectator the head of
the otter himself. This chair staid, upon a magnifi-
cent tiger-skin, the gift of an old friend twenty•five
yearn ago. Above, and on either side, are strewed
the hesdi and skins of many besets. Conspicuous
among thew stands out the tine trot and strong sharp
horns of one of the famous wild but s of Chillinghem, who
his died only to live again • longer aid far nobler life
on the crave t of his destroyer; while immediately
above, Ili though to offer to the curious eye an
oppertutity for tracing the reputed kinship, lowers the
sulky, shaggy face of the North American bison.
There are, too, several heads of roe and red deer,
and one of the latter might well be the original " Mon-
arch • I the Glen." Down to the left of tee group is a
emall-tized, but singularly perfect "royal," above
which, as if on guard, peers forth from a curtain of
skins of variotes sorts the head of a splendid St. Ber-
nard; at the base are scattered two or three guns, a
tithing-creel, some shot-belts and pouches, and an old
saddle. A word of praise is due to Mr. Ward, not
only for the artistic skill he has displayed in the gene-
ral arrangement of the subjects, but also for the capital
state of preeervatioa into which he has brought them,
molt of them, from age and neglect, having been in hut
a very poor way when they came into his hands. The
whole group is in course of being photographed, and
should mske an effective picture as well as an interest-
ing memorial of • great man.
Ask:ices CUSTOMS.—The people in portions
of Africa have many curious customs and supersti-
tions. Among the former may be mentioned the
fashion of having fat wives. Being introduced to a
great chiefs wile, Spate thug deecribee her :—" I was
'track with the extraordinary dimensions, yet pleas-
ing beauty of the immoderately fat fair one. She
could not use, and Po large were her arms that the
flesh between the j.-ints hung dawn like large, loose
' stuffed puddings. The chief, pointing to his wife,
said, 'This Is the product of our mirapote ; from early
1 youth upward we keep these pota to their mouths, as
it is the fashion at court to have very fat wives.' A
sister-in-lsw of the king was • perfect wonder of hyper-
trophy. She was unable to stand except on all-fours.
Speke unbtuthingly requested permis iOll to measure
her, and found her, • Round the arm twenty-three
inches; round the chest, fitty-two inraes ; round the
weld, sexty inches; height fire feet traht inches.' H.:
asps, 'When I trod to get her height I lied to Minn
her up. This, after infinite exertion, was accomplished,
when she sank down again fainting, for her blood had
rushed into her head. Meanwhile, the daughter had
sat town before us sucking • milk-pot, on which the
lather kept her at work by holding the rod in his hand,
for, an fattening is the first duty of fashionable female
life, it mud be duly eatorced by the rod, if neomary."

THE MAGIC WORD.—Aood dm is told by
• friend of Daniel Drew, whichthe news of his Mum
mils up. Remaining one evening late in the office and
having occasion to use the sale he permitted the
ceehler to go home, remarking that he would dole the
safe and fix the combination on the word "door." But
when the cashier undertook to vn the sate in the
morning he found the lock refund to yield to the magic
"door." He tried and tried again, butwithout eennees,
Finally, happening to remember that Daniel's early
education had been neglected, be attributed hie ill-
luck to poor orthography. He therefore tried the look
upon "doer." Still no semen, and then upon "doer,*
with no Letter fortune. Finally, becoming disgusts&
he proceeded t, the St. Nicholas, routed "Datil" oat
of his choicest morning nap, and as he stuck his night-
cap out of the door this colloquy ensued :—" Mr. Drew,
I ca'nt open the safe on 'doer,' You must have amp
eluded to change word." "Change the word I Nothle
o' the kind, I shut It on door." "Are you rare, sir se
"Sure, air, of course I'm sure 1" "Well, perhaps, ldr,
Drew, 'don't Ppell the word right. How did you spell
it?" " Spoil it ! Any fool oanapell door. D. o-a-r-e, deem
of cOurse, dr." "If you can't ape/I door, sir, you're ore
cashier for me. rack up your duds andgo out of the
' door.' " And shutting the "door" in the cashier's
face, Daniel rammed to his bed in a passion, and the
clerk to his safe. Armed with the openemanie of
"done," however, the safe flew .pen without further
trouble awl when Daniel arrived, mollified by • good
breakfast and his morning prayer, he advised hie
cashier that he might keep his pima, provided he would
Improve his time and "go to amble' stool In the
evenm'."

CIIRIOI7B ETHNOLOGICA.L QUIST.—The
Correspondent with the Ashantee Erpeditkia says
that oa the coast of Sahara "there Is a Tribe cd
Thieves, who live on milk." When did some of them
settle in Ragland l—Porsck. _

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A SPOITISO FagicamaN.—The r.id Ann
rates the following
The heat was Ind, limpinkl in • Iffirgaff blob Mode
not too high tor eel el Immense embhmtee to the
dogs, who hold out .madly, In ogee id Ile made, et
water. Media yeti man more iminereim this lit Nie
morning. end our teller of dories mernligd Ile gemmisiter
mid-day pronthe reel* dearly. We were herill:tri le the
hamlet at which -we had left the centinge.
through the oily telemdbly high plan ed inigu me lig=
with, someildng j ekes to gey fee 6.
clutched the gum= no
gleam showed me • egignild ing
too, who had doubling made Ids Weakling upon lir 11111111111111
of mire which infeeled the eounery, End, tee leey soe
return to the neighbouring wood. had grefernid • ime_to
the open. I took off my bag in ociondimeng Ike MO
tallow, and was watching him making hi. way MIMI SW
,Ito., the white tag at the end of his brash thfrftg In the
sunlight, when, to my utter astonishment and hortars bon
went the musket of the irrepressible Yrenehmtn, and .14win&
fur the first time that day, managed to hold it OW"
rolled poor pug. I shouted, "What clnil roe
do that?" but, heedless of my disgust he threwdiqi
gen and rushed on his fallen toe, yelling "
who killed him? It was union II exemtniete. the Ines IS
our host also considered Its mom praiseworthy mmln. mil
turned the tables on ma by scrpresiing ids mindolignalci
my letting him pan Said I, "111illni. I erenff 1111 egno
shoot my grandmother. An InallehMen ter sinevellted
Inch an atrocity would be cui by the whole emir, *IL'

Con' or CoLLgortor or Rtrortni.—The cost
of collection of the taxes increases. Is tbs &Nadal
year 1865 86 the Inland revenue produced £39,066,924
and the cost of collection was £1,344,642; th the yew
1872 73, the product had increased to £45,645,262, and
the cost of collection to £1,657,805. The Customs pre.
duoed £21,140,117 in 1865.66, and the coat of =Wed=
was £772,297; the produce had fallen to £20,933,851
in 1872-73, but the cost of collection had risen to
2978 834. Bo that the collection of £80,2217,040 in
1865-66 oat only 22,116,939, but the collodion of
£66,579,103 in 187243 cost 22,636,639. The therms.
is leas than 11 per cent, in the amount- collected, but
above 24 per cent. in the cast of collection. If we
were to add the Post Office. we should find in 186546
• total revenue of £64 568 918, and oast of =Used=
£5,162 321; and in 1872-73 E 72,964,412 revenue, Bad
£7,233,228 as cost of collection; but the Post Office is
not properly to be regarded as • Revenue Department.
Houatru Ouraact IN AMMUCA.—A mia
named Slade is under arrest in Kazoos City, thawed
with committing a heinous crime. It =nears tha•
Mn. Slade mysteriously disappeared from her thank
Reedyville some time since, and in answer to inquiries
Blade said that his wife had gone to visit some of his
friends in Kansas City. The sadden disappearance
and • chain of suspicious circumstances soon gave AMII
to comments, and finally • warrant was innted for th•
arrest of Slade. It Is stated that for two or three days
after Mrs. Slade's supposed departure from home, time
neighbours were annoyed every day by • nausea=
swell, which is now supposed to have been canoed by
the burning of human flesh. The smell continued for
two days and a night, and finally became absolutely
unendurable. Investigation has brought out the fad
that Slade murdered his wife and then burned her body
piece.meal, in order to destroy all traces of his crime.
After perpetrating this heinous dime Blade camel
several articles of his wife's wearing =peed for We,
and advertised his house and other pin at vls7
low figures, with the intention, doubtlas, of
from the Os= _ .

IN Tlii PlE6B. On the Ottre of Son Throats.
An Essay hitherto omitted from the works of the late
Thome de Quinsey. —Punch. _ .

A PARIY 07 " SIILICTID lirrirATlON.—vA
magistrate, in his coats/dons, gives the following facia
to the world :—" I had to address the patients of what
ia called an ' aristocratic ' szylum the other day, and a
round dozen of us sat down to a very comfortable
dinner before the lecture. Our party consisted of half
a dosen 'selected' patients, • clergyman, one or two
vioitorg, and the medical staff. I have seldom expo.
rienced a more intellectual party. Politics, retigloa,
and the social topics of the day, were diseased with
eurprising ability by the company generally, and it was
difficult to distingui.h the lunatics from their ann.
lesions at the table. I was so much struck with the
jolly aspect of one of the party with an especially rubi-
cund face, that I nudged the chaplain, and asked him
in confidence what was the old gentleman'. delusion.
My rev. friend replied, in a whisper, •He is not •
patient, but • visitor—my wife's brother I' I made so
more inquiries of that kind, but I wee so improsed
by the intelligence of another gentleman preset that
I concluded he must be • 1.),1 magistrate. He was
absolutely great on legal matters, and I felt certain he
mast be a lawyer, and • very 'cute one too. Prowagy
the conversation turned upon a suicide which had taken
place in the village, a gentleman having shot himself
the day previously. My legal friend described the on.
carrence to me very minutely, and seemed quite
affected by the incident. He thee, with • gravity of
countenance which quite disarmed me, added, • Aad
you know, Mr. G., the most disgraceful part of tbo
business has yet to be told. This gentleman, who
blew his brains out yesterday, bad never takes out
▪ licence !' "

BARI= it Buttaxacmatt.--Full reports
of the long-expected speech delivered in Birmingham
on Wednesday evening were telegraphed to the lading
newspapers of Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasimr,
Edinburgh, Cork. Britain. Dublin Darlio=Ceer-
csotle, Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Liseds,!Liv Man-
chester, London, Bristol, Cardiff, Plymouth, and Mar.
and published in the firm impressions of those papers=
Thursday morning. Besides having verbatim reports
of the speech, many newspapers had long descriodm
reports of the scene in Bingley-hall teLegraphea to
them. The separate reports sent from Birmingham to
various parts of the country contained more this
160,000 words—i.e, more than 80 columns of The
Tines newspaper. One newspaper alone publkhed to
Its first impression nearly 12,000 words received by
telegraph, which is equal to nearly six columns of rie
Times. In making arrangements for the transcend=
of this vast quantity of news, the Poet Office, as a
• matter of crane, was guided merely by the require-
ments of the Press. On no recent occasion has the,
been so great • demand for a full report of a speech
made in public. The best officers In the IMP
ingham Office were retained for the oceseion. A Imp
supplementary force was sent to their assistance. Is
London and all the principal towns like arrangements
for supervision and tor actual work were made; and In
Birmingham an abundant provision of wire and instru-
ment accommodation was organized. On this oecarion
Birmingham communicated direct with no lees than Bi
great towns, which, in their turn, transmitted the
speech to oils, r towns. It is supposed that equally
efficient arrangements will be suede, if required, for
the transmission of Mr. DisraelPs speeches from Olio.
gow when he visits that city in November.

NEVER IDLE !—" When do you find time to
think over your sermon.?" asked • country arch.
deacon of the late Bishop of Winchester. "When I
am shaving," was the answer; and that is the only
time that many men of his habita have for '
The Dean of W.etminster is one of these men.
carries MR in his pocket, thinks in the station, and
jots down hie thoughts in his fresh and picturesque
English at the table of the fiat waiting room he enters.
It is not long ego that he was seen sitting quietly at
at the corner of • table at the Chasing-cross station
writing a sermon for Westminster Anhey on S.
day afternoon or • paper for Good Words. The
Bishop of Ginicester end Bristol acts upon • similar
plan. All his correstondence for the day is cleared
off before breakfast. At the recent Church Congram
an important subject was announced to be intro.
doc-d by an active and able clergyman of this clan,
who is trying to find out how many hgurs • day • man
may keep body and mind at work and yet keep maids
the walls of • lunatic asylum, and • reporter called
upon him at ten o'clock the night before to ask for hi
MS. I should be very happy to oblige you," was the
answer; "but the fact is the paper has yet to be
written. You may have it at seven o'clock to-morrow
morning." More than one man of letters in London
acts upon Dean Stanley's plan, and takes • handful of
copy paper about with him and writes wherever and
whenever he ran. Fancy, and luxuriate in the idea it
not having to do it, ye sound and gentle sleepers, the
case of a literary man who pulled himself together
about • quarter to three in the morning, extinguishing
his cigarette, and saying it wall time for him to go to
work. "lie had premised the printer oopy at nine
o'clock." It was quite a oharacteristic ease.
THE BATTLE OF THE PENCIL—A warm CODE
' troversy has arisen, and public feeling is much exalted
In Guernsey concerning • recent ordinance of the
Royal Court of the island, relative to the future &one
lation of Jersey copper money as a legal tender In the
island. The currency of the two Wanda, Jenny and
Guernsey, present' a considerable difference. In the
former, the coins are pence and halfpence, 13
or 26 halfpennies, beig the equivalent of the =lll4
shilling. In Guernsey the coins are eight "doubles," four
"double.," and one "double "pieces, equal tea paain,.
half teeny. and farthing, ' doubles " being the value ei
the English shilling. In consequence of the premium.
amounting to 4i per cent, on the exchanges. Jersey nip-
pers, large quantities are taken over to Guernsey as a
speculation, and the authorities who make • considars
able profit by supplying the island coinage, fibrilar
"their oc,upation gone" by reason of the great influx
of Jersey moue'', set themselves against the practice,
and paesed an ordii ance resolving that on and after
Nov. 1 next, the Jersey penny shall not be a legal
nyder, except as of the value of mix "doubled.," or •
discount of 25 per cent. The trading and nuipkeepiff
deface are divided in opinion as to the wird.= of this
measure, and whilst one party is announcing that they
will comply with the ordinance, the other announce
their intention of continuing to receive the interdicted
coin at it. urinal value, The Issue Of this angular wet-
test is looked forward to with no small degree of In-
terest, especially among Jersey speouleters.

A