The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OIJ NEWS,

BRITISH AN.) FOREIGN.

The Swipe paper e report that the hotel on the
Fan !Urn h. been .10.troyed by lightning. It is not steel
whether any pereon was Injured.
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There ems but little chance of any diminution in
In our export of costs to Germany, whik h has risen from
1,493 373 tons In 1987 to 2398,911 tons in 1811.

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The French Government has ordered the prefects to
answer the following questions with respect to every Sliming
lodge In France now many metubtri him the lodge !
2. Who are they? 3. Which ore their days of meeting? 4.
Haa the lodge • legal authorigition ? _ _

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The dispute between the Seth miners and their
ernyloiars aypears to have been virtually settled, the con-
cessions offered by the mnsto-rs being considered ly the
delegates of the men satofaccory.

Quartermaster Speakman, whose servicee in connec-
tion alth the ssv.ng of life a-. sr e wreck of the Atlantic have
eon few, ntly mentioped, wzsit In ri.tur.lay presented with
a purr., opt -long £-3 1 y tto intl.. ItootO f Ashtoc-under-
Lyne, his native town.
The Wesleysne prop, ie. to raise a qnarter of a
million sterling to pronto further scJoaanociation for the
worshippers of the sect
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The CaVian understands that the committee of the
Howe of Commons, appointed to investigate the grievances
of the Civil Service writers, has upon all points virtually de-
cided ag lust the Government. It expresses the opinion
that the require- ants of the public service neceisitate the
restoration of a progressive rate of payment, fin s the Go-
vernment guilty of not having given the requisite notice
prior to terminating the engagements with the old writers,
and considers that the latter have suffered loss and have been
harshly and unfairly treaSetL

An American paper mentions that in every cir oil
the connecticat River Railroad there ir vvhiiiited a piucrd
which iv changed on leaving every [dation, recording th,i
mimeoi the next station and Stating whether it connect.
with any or what other lint. It must be • very convenient
precUce, if it does not cause delay.

Mr. Bayle Bernard, a special student of Irish poets
and poetry, has (remarks the 4ihnanm, just completed U.
Life of gamuel Lova," on which he has been working for
the last two years.

Previous to his departure for Switzerland M. niers
gave • farewell dinner in Paris on Moudsy, at which the
principal members of the Repubillau party were preteut.
M. Thitre exprn end the npinlon that the fusion would not
succeed, and that the Republicans need not trouble them.
selves about it.

From the lot of April to the 2nd of August the
total receipts Into the Exchequer aniouutorl to £23,141 833,
azaltust £23 7,1,202 la tie corresptmling period of last )e.r.
The tot., issues to matt immeuts were £3.1,156,170, agaiest
£27,309,108.

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An internation3l pigeon ghooting conteAt commenced
hut Saturday at V aro Dean Farm, • romantic-looking spot
Oil an enohience about ono mile and a half from hvgliten.
there were fPty.one c.dupetitors fur the principal prize, a
cup, which was won by Mr. Aubrey Patton.

The Pruasian veteran, General von Afoltke, who is
as bald as a billiard ball, N much autio)nd by applicatious
from 'fauton ladies for locks of his hair.

It im much to be witAhed that somobAy would try to
make ridicMooli the nrezeut practice of h.terpellatlng 311n-
liters upon trifles. The /louse is rapidly taking the place of
the " Notices to Correspondents."

It appears that from the return of the Registrar.
General, for the quarter ending June 30th, that the natural
Increase of the population of the United Klnedom during
that period was 114625. The birth. Lumbered 277,405, and
the deaths 164,780.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges, as
" conscience money," the receipt of 00th halves of a .Cl,OOO
note, sent anonymously fort nooses-tax.

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The Amnesty Aseociation have notified to members
of Parliament that they intend to make the release of the
Fenian prisoners a test question at the general election,
Two Home Rule meetings were held in Dublin on Saturday
when resoiutionv in favour of the movement" were Adopted.

Archbishop Lerlochowski, the refractory primate of
Posen, has been summoned by the Prussian Government to
appear before a criminal court for Infraction if the new
ecclesiastical laws.

A little boy born very far north entreated him mother
to tell Mot some stories about bad boys, awl upon her es-
prering astonlehment, said he " wanted to lied out how they
got out of scrapes."

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Letter from the Cape say that some natives at the
diamond fields have subscribed and sent down £lOO towards
Canon Lightfoot's sulaalon schools In Cape town.
Another great fire hal occurred in America. This
time the scene of the calamity is in the Ear West—at Port-
land, in Oregon. Three hundred and sixtrals buildings were
burnt to the ground, and the loss Is estimated at a million
and a half of dollars.

About 104 scree of land have been purchased on the
Queensvate.road, near Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire,
by the We: Department, for the site of the brigade depot to
sub-district No. 5,

Advice from America say that cholera is making
friAtial ravages to some of the western cities of the United
States. In Chicago there had been 14'.1 deaths In one week.

Some net viefi in excavating for the P, sting Drainaro
%%forks, when is few feet below the surface Comb upon tire
skeletons, In s perfect state of preservation. A medical
gentleman saw there, and expressed his oploion that one was
the skeleton of • WOW/M. It Is supposed they were centem-
poraneeus with the Comnoonwealth. They were reburie I.
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The French pane., we are glad to see, begin to be-
spatter "the duel" with ridicule. °se of them says that at
the next of. etion only pro I eased duellists need apply, and
then must bring certificates of regular attendance at the
fencing rooms uurlng the last tan years.

On Monday morning the troops at Dartmoor
paraded on Rlngrnore Down and went through a sham
tigot, lour cavalry regiments, 19 battalions, and 36 guns
comprising altogether about 8,400 men, being engaged.

Aclejees from Berlin report a commercial crisis,
caused by over-apecniation, as having taken place at Posen.
Four great banking firma have failed, and it is atattd that
one banker has committed suicide, whilst another has been
sent to • lunatic Wm. Over 100 persons will, it is en.
'meted, be financially ruined, and worse results are feared.

A sad accident has occurred at Sandhurst, Aus-
tralia. in the mine of the G 'Wen Fleece Company. Mr.
Patrick Hugo AI Hugh, a surveyor of the Admiralty depart-
ment, had gone to are some of the principal gold mines, and
among t them he visited that of the Golden Fleece Company.
He fell down a ehait, and was Instantaneously killed.

Eliza Hewlett, who drowned one of her children at
Reddish Lost mouth, and at the same time attempted to
drown another child and herself, was tried at Manchestt r on
Monday on the charge of murder. She was acquitted on the
ground of insanity, and ordered to be detained during her
Meets pLasure.
May 15th.—On account of the dangerous illness of
my father, it is impnislble for me to leave hies Write arid
tell me where I may write to you —J. T. P —Come home
at once, or say where loan see yin. I can put everything
square, and with S. A. Letters addressed home reach me
Sale end private Yours, in deepest anxiety and pale.—W.
—Aovertistunints in Monday's limes

Accounts have been recelvd from Cape Coast Castle
which remove all ausiety respecting a proper supply of
water. Plentiful rains had fallen, act a sufficient quantity
Lad been secured. The health of the troops was alao ceemed
satisfactory. There had be u one fatal case of dysentery
among the marines, but th dreaded coast fever nod not
made its appearance.
The Springfield Republican (autt•Butler) says General
Butler 11. liner a re.ormer Her a sure, steady, radical man
any way. lie Is beaten about by every wind and tide of Im-
pulse, ambition, and passion. lie Is a disorganiser,
boomerang, a baggage smasher in politics and government.
It is • law of his members; he can's help himself —he was
made such."

It ie satisfactory to find that foot and month disease
among the cattle in Kent teat length extinct. On the 19 11
of July, 13 cattle and 128 sheep acre retorted as diseased,
bet during the falowmg week there wore no fresh attacks
among the former, and the thirteen cues mentioned were
auccessfully treated.

Prns+ian military organs describe the siege operations
at Grandeanx, uhdertaken to dvatroy Belnut fierily the forti-
fication of that place, doomed ft dismantlement, as highly
Instructive. About 1,500 tons of gunpowder have been alreauy
expentitd. lu the prerent we It or the next gun-cotton is to
bu ut.t, in order that its ethcacy may to compared with that
of gunpowdcr.

A meeting of journeymen bakers was held on
Monday in Hyde park, Linden, at which resolutions were
passed protesting against the baking trade being included in
the Smoke Nuisance Act. By one of the resolutions • menace
was held out that If relief were not sfforded to them tney
would coteitilt with their employers with a view of ceasing
to bake bread after a certain day.
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The Laccaehire and Yorkshire Railway Company
were the deftuoitts In an adion that was tried at Mau.
,hesttr easloes On Niunday The plaintiff, Thomas Tat or, a
hatter and clothier, riming on business in Heywood, sued
the aefeudautt for compensation for personal ii juries alleged
to have bee,, sustained by his wife In a collision near Koch-
note. She is now sulfeettur from Incurable paralysis. The
Jury awarded the plaintiff £650.

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A fatal gun accident loss occurred at Chazford,
Devon. The nutters of Lord Portsmouth and the Rev. G
Halite., the Rector 04 Chagford, were going to It iVo a day's
ralmit shooting, and had placed their guus on a table to make
some preliminary arrangements baore starting, when a man
began to meddle with tie trigger of one of them, 810 the
gun went oft, the charge entered the body of a Mr. Baker
emitting near, and he died In halt an hoar.
Lord Cairns has issued a notice to the effect that no
claim shall, alter the :dual of August, 1873, be received in
the arbitration against toe Albert Lhe Assurance Company,
and that out of the balance of the assets of the Albert
Life Assurance Company there shall, as loon as may be
alter that date, be paid a had dividend on the claims
then etabllthed against that company. Any person falling
to bring in his clahn on or bet iro the date mentioned is
absolutely excluded from all participation in the assets of
that company.

A correspondent of the Record at Vienna writes that
situ ugh during the Exhibition time the seivices of other
churches than those recognived by the State have been
allowed, In one instance at least a policeman was stationed
at the door to see that the Viennese did not attend. There
is no difficulty in selling Bibles, religious books, and tracts,
but they must not be given away. Au EngliAman, with
more zeal than dhcretion, employed a man to (WO:buts
tracts. The cons( queues was, he was taken up by the police,
impri,oned slaty hours, and cautioned not to break the
law again.

The obituary of The Times of Monday contained
some remarkable Illustration, of pro:onged existence in four
ladles and V.ree gentlemen, whore ueited ages amounted to
014 years, giving an average of b 7 )ears and more than
elaht, modtho to ear t. The eldest was, as usual, a member
of the fair s-x, who had reached the great age of 96, the
ymngest of the same sex being 80. Of the gentlemen the
oldest ',el 83 and the youngett 81 years of age. Tne fit-
lumbar were the respective e..ea—eia • SI, Si, eS, 84, 92, 94,
and 96 years The same obituary con.ained the maths of
six ladles and gentenuen at ages varying from 70 to a
year.

Mr. Dodson. M.D. was present on Saturday at the
opening of Ws Devonshire Club at i.astouurne. There being
• number of Mal., present ne expressed a hope that, having
seen the club, tiny would encourage their binomials, :one,
brothers awl friends to come or, at least, would not prevent
them. He did not feel at all cure that the ladies w.,u1,1 be
satisfied with only coming occasimmlly or with simply send.
log their huvandi, eons, brothers, end Mends. lie was not
sure that in these go a-head days they would not belong to
it themselves (loud applause).

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The Joureal de Parie states that on Saturday an
Instalment of 30 millions of francs on the third quarter of toe
filth Lutillard of indemnity Was dispatched from Paris to
Germany, and that the remaluln, portion of the third
quarter will be for warded on the bib. The total slim due to
Prumels, fs, t. °ref ore, 20 millions, which wil be paid on or
before the I:Ln of Stptorobor.

The Home Role meetings which have taken phce
In the North of Ireland (says the Duoile c trrespon teat of
the Fall Malt Gazette, are no, the spwitaneous expression of
local teeing, hut are promoted from Dublin. The most
important has been held at Shercock, in the county of caysn,
where the resolutious adopted rather t tut he shape ttf
exttortations to return tatant farmers than Home Rulers to
the next Parliament. These meetings being collected by the
patading of brass bards throughout thg country, a fear has
sprung up that collisions may occur between the Orangemen,
whg are almost to • Man anti Home Rulers, and the new
agltators.

Dr. Harold Browne, Bishop of Ely, is to be trans-
late d to the ace of Winenester, vacated by the death of the
lamented Bishop Wilberforce. D:. Browne woe bore at
Lebury In 1811, aud nos educated at Eton and Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, where he onduat•d bA. to 1832 He
was ordained in 1838, was appointed Nutriabur Profeaor of
lbarlni yin 1351, Cannon of Exeter in 1857, and conercrated
13:shop of lily In 1881 He has been a volumlnotie waiter on
tha °logical micas, hut his best known work i 'ALI Bei..
slam of the 'Dirty NI. Article,

The Dutch correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazale
writes : the 1211111111 for pilgrimages has etacked the Roman
Catholic zealots of this c .untry. thousauds of prrsons
went to Bridle to lied relief frou ths water of Ma old well,
which Is said to possess a sal ernatural power to care in-
curable diseases. This MOnth a ...ter pilgrimage is an
noun..si to " ihk ino,t %radon/ cAapel at 'thorn," a sulisre
is the neighbourhood of Ituremonde, which is built like the
Santa Cain at I,retto.

The National Zitung impede flat the trials at
Wl.liarushaven with the new Hertz torpedo, In pretence of
Gebetal cnn WoeCh, Von Gl,rman Minister of Marine, have
given most sat's' ector) results, the t .peloes disposing of the
objects attackhd in the most summary manner. The German
navy is now it' 11011110.051011 of a most po serial and destructive
weapon, sehbh sill not only effectually protect the coasts of
the empire, but will ego etiatile the government to employ
all Its resources in building ships for aggressive purposes.
The CIAO I Express says :—" That the grant of
£25,000 Is au excessive one Do one can pretend to assert. tt
prince of the blo,d B pal with £25,000 per anhum Is not
nearly so well off as a private gentlernsu with a Lid,: of that
sum. He mud eaturally act ass prince, live as a mince, send
speed nsa prince, mini we all know Gist int, princely stile
requires a princely Income, and that the sum asked 1r is
within rattier than wlthout the jnnnesiinnL ty of niamiathing
it. foe amount of the Wile's dowry, In tine CUM of an
English prince, can hardly be expected to be taken tato
ace use, when the al.oitance at that prince Is to be deter-
mined."

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The Court of Assizes of Paris haa just tried a
band of eiyht young aril and two emales on numerous
charges of robbery with ',Wien.. All the licensed had
been previously e .uvicted, one if the man having been
already eight time. in prison for theft, and twice 'or ...etc
S one of the pre.ent charge. were for how °breaking, others
for night attacks on iwiated individuals or on men decoyed
into u afrequewed places by the women. The Court sen-
tenced seven of the male prisoners to hard labour—three for
life, two for 15, and two for lo years : the eighth and one of
the females to 10 years Izeprtionmeut ; the Ohm woman WY
acquitted.

Already forty-five notires of motion have been given
la the House oft 'rumens fro the next !session of Parliament
The Swiss Times has news from Pontresina, in the
Crimea teat an Englishman has beau lost In the Valley of
Homy. Geldei had been sent In searrh of him; but up to
fls. 30th ultimo no Inform (ion had been received retPonthtli
hint.

" We understand that the Board of Inland Revalue
have leaned me:rut:does to the officals to prepare lists of all
perils licensed to keep dogs, and to attach the same to
church doors or other suitable places. We presume that the
object- of publishin these llsta It to enable neighbours to
take a Ideally Intel est In each other's affairs, .pecially
regards their mutual ,bligatlon to pay what may be properly
due by them."—Court Journal.

The Vienna Exhibition has been in great danger of
being destrojed by Me. About midnight on Friday the
Aluoce pemant dwelling was discovered to be on are, and It
was ly by the energy and pr mptitude of the tire brigade
that the flame. were prevented from seizing on the AgricuT
turd l Anyone adjoining. The peasant dwelling, however, was
totally destroyed.
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The receipte at the recent Wimbledon meeting were
several hundred pounds lass than the average of part Jean,
but the reserve fund is sufficient to meet the dedeit.

Eugeneßoman, well-knownto frequenters of Brighton
as a street troubadour, has been driven, by distress to com-
mit suicide. Holding one of his four children by the hand,
he inflmted a terrible gash on hie own throat with • table-
knit e which he had Just sharpened, end he died immediately.
A verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
In a competition of carrier pigeons just decided in
Belgium, thirty-eight baskets, containing 1,011 birds, were
sent to Marseilles and opened there. None reached home
the same day, and the first to arrive was one belonging to
H. de Streycken, alderman, of Lierre, In the province of
Antwerp. Later 10th. day others came in at Brussels and at
Nlnore.

r The strike of colliers at Burnley is extending, and
there nee= every probability that the straggle will he peo.
traded and severe. The men are to receive immediate
assistance from the funds of the association, and the coup
mitten have resolved to resist the employers to the ntmost
their power. On Saturday ten mills mete stopped for want
of fuel.
Despatches received in Madrid, on Monday, from
Valencia state that the Republican troops are advancing
into the heart of the letter city. Acconling to Bayonne
&nylons, the Insurgents at Valencia pose= sixteen battalions
of militia, they have erected barricales mounted with guns,
and they continually receive fresh supplies of ammunition.
They are said also to have taken measures to inundate the
environs of the city. At Seville the lt,pu oilcan General has
been congratulated by the BriPsh. Ruselan, and German
Consuls upon the conduct of his troops on entering the city,
stud thence° for the protection afforded by him to foreigners.
There was lately sold by auction by the manager
of a Parte theatre the following meteorological parapher-
nalia, amp'y sufficient to set the clerk of the weather up In
Linemen—viz., a dozen and half black bAr ered donde In
goon conuition, a limn-new rainbow, an en rulent snowstorm,
couirsting of flakes of flee paper, and two o.aer enointorme
of inferior quality, three bottles of lightning powder, •
setting sun of great value, anew moon, and also • perfectly
new thunder. There were, besides, • sea con•lstlng of
twelve b., wawa, the tenth of which Le rather bigger then the
rest end a little damaged, an elephant, a crocodile, three
dragons, and seven phials of alcohol suitable for apparitions
and for producing blue flame.,

Land and Water announces the safe arrival in New
ivoso.i of the last cargo of salmon eggs despatched from
London. Mr. Henry Howard, of the Wallacetown trout
ponds at Southland writes :—'You will be glad to hear that
trout ere progmeing famously. Lest year Ilatok 27,000 ova
from ISO fish detained here. Many of these fish now weigh
over five and els pounds each. We have also • few see-trout
which should spawn this year, but they grow but slowly, no
doubt missing their trip to the sea."
In regard to the carelessnets and reckleameas In
pasting letters, the Postuseater.General remarks that the
Imedieseness with which risks are sometimes run in astound-
ing; but of at the cases that have come before him, ono of
the most surprising relates to what is generally regarded as
an exemplar caution of prudence, Viz. S a Scotch bank, from
which an unregistered letter was lately sent, containing
an uncrossed cheque for £.600, IMO ste,len and quickly cashed.
An attempt is to be made (says the Athenceum) to
renve that most Interesting game of cards, Ombra it in
famous la our seventeenth and eighteenth century literature,
and Is declared to be. much better game than Bkztque. A
well.kuowu spaniel scholar is preparmg a abort treatise on
the gone, mid next season la, our contemporary is told, to
witness anew cause of excitement and interest among card-
pla)ers.

The Poet Laureate, it is well-known (says a London
correspondent), has more than once refused the offer of the
highest distinction which the Crown can confer upon titm•an.
merit. Like Dickens he esteems the appreciation of thermut-
lug public the best reward of authorship; and if any court
recognition has given him pleasure, it was that which gave
him the satisfaction of "wearing the laurel greener for the
brow of him who uttered nothing base." Mr. Tennyson,
however, on a renewed offer of her Majesty's desire to
signalise his services to literature, has consented to accept •
baronetcy for his son, to be conferred same time hence.

The Morning Post states that a lady wee prevented
from attending the Goodwood meeting in consequent* of a
robbery, her dress, of approved fashion, having been pur-
loined by au artful thief. It appears Itu.t a plausible young
woman, aged about 25, who etates that rho Is employed In a
West-end dressmaker's establishment, ha recently called
upon several ladies In London, and obtained from them met:
dresses to alter under • false pretence. The lady mentioned
lost anew dress as the result of • trick of this nature.

Advicea from R state that a fine marble status
has lately been found in that city, during some esoavatione
which were beine carried out for the construction of • branch
condtut for the Felice waters. It Is that of a woman, Claudia
Judi., holding the attributes of Fortune, a cornucopia and
• ship'. he m. The inscription dlscorsred, not very far off,
seems to indlcste that it represented the Image of a Roman
matron who had enriched her family, the members of which,
out of gratitute, had thus endeavoured to irerpetuste bee
memory.

The Court of Appeal of Rouen has given judgMetit
in a question relative to sending anonymous postsl cards. A
young man of Dieppe named Vernier was sentenced to pay •
tine of live francs and ace francs damages for addressigk by
that mests to a married woman an assignation, written In
terms Injurious to her reputation. Ihe charge was then
clearly proved, but the Tribunal of Dieppe, in passing
sentence, Laid down the prinmpla that the sending of such •
n halve through the post did not constitute tire offence of
defamation, on there was no publication, the card remeining
toe whole time in Vie possession of the Poet-Oftice or its
agents. Vernier was in COOS, quence only punished for a
verbal insult. The ['comment of Os Republic appealed
agsin•t the decision, but the judges of the higher court have
now confirmed it.

The Birmingham News states that an &emaciation,
which has for its ol,j• ct the t.domotion of religi ,us teaching
coat duutary bests, is in course of formation in Birmingham.
The association wib induce Churchmen and lbssentere alike,
and will h..se all Evangell,al" tone—that is the teaching
which the association will promote will be thum general
doctrines scceptable to Chnrclmen, Independents, Baptiste,
Wesleyan', and all the evangelical bodies. Most at the
prominent ministers in the town are concerned iii H. The
idea is to arrange or inch religious teaching as has been
named being given at the Board Schools alter school Uwe.
A determiurd act of suicide occurred on the after-
noon of Saturday last, on the Great Eastern Railway, user
Haverhill, when a ',meg man, named David Bushnell, a
weaver by trade, walked on the line.placed himself directly
in fronted an advat,c ng train, and wan knocked down and
cal to pieces. the young man, who was not 20 years of age,
...living with a widowed mother, and lad been engaged to
a young woman. It is stated that the mother disapproved of
her Kea choice, and that in consequence the young woman
broke off the migagenient. which preyed so much on the de-
cetimeo that his mind became completely unhinged,

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Devoyon, the marine-store dealer' who, it will be
remer,ered, was arrested for having in his possession a
piece of the castings from the VencOme Column, has been
tried before the Pail, Tribunal of Cofrectimat Police. The
defendant pretended that the bronze had been left with him
bps friend, since deceased. One witness, however, show•l
that Devoy m Lad formerly shown to him a fragment, but
not that now produced, and had acknowledged that he had
taken it from the Pl,ce Vendame, where he was on guard on
the day on whtch the mohement Was thrown down. The
Court sentenced the man to a year's imprhonment.
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Mr, Horatio Ross, in retiring from !hie posit-ten as
captain of the Scottish Eight, has addreued a letter to the
long range rifle slots of Scotland, in which he adlecates the
formation of a club. in this he remark,—" My advice Ls
that tne club should confine their I.ours to trying to Increase
the nuin,lers and improve the shooting of ocotch small-hors
shots, and that the captain should not be interfered with In
taking such steps on he thinks most likely to Mums his
bringing the right best shots in our country to the tiring
point at Wimbudon." In the original this " advice" la
italicised,
The National Training School for Music, to be este-
blithe 1 0 c.” nection with the Royal Aioert Hail and the
Sod i• ty of Arts Is, it apprars, to be open to persons of all
cleaves of soclety by competitive examination. Three
hundred scholars, ips are to be founded affording free main.
tenance, as well at gratuitous Instruction, fcr the poseersore.
he fee for eeucatiou without maintenance Is to be aeon.
£35; .d the boarding is to be carried on Independently of
the school.

During the week erding met Saturday, 5,304 birtba
and 3,558 deaths an re registered in Loudon and twenty other
large Mtles and towns of the 1-nited K ugdoni Ties named
lucre die ot population was 1,740. The mott tilty Irons all
cautes in these towns was at the rate of 26 oaths annually
to every 1 000 persons etttruated to be thing. In the metro
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poll. 2.99 oirths and 1,fa.8 cab, were regittereti, the former
beim 36 lona, and the latter 295 below, the averaga One
person died from small pox, 2.8 from measlts, eight from
IC II int fever, three from diphtheria, 41 from whooplog.eoUgh,
2-2 from &Hermit, forms of lever, and 376 from dlarrOsett ;
time to the seven principal diseases of the zyrnotlc class 478
deaths were referred, against unmoor' Increasiug from 129 to
458 In the six pre:tee/tog weeks. The fatal cases of diarrnma
showed a further increase td 70 upen Vie numl.rs returned
to recent weeks, and exceeded by 30 the corrected &range
number In the corrmpt tiding week of the last tellies's.