The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-01 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The oldest inhabitant of Warsaw has just died at
the age of 118. His funeral was attended by 235 children,
grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
The Right Hon. Richard Bickerton Pemell, Lord
Lyons, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., D.C.L., British Ambassador to the
French Republic, attained his 63rd year on Monday, having
been born at Lymington, Hants, on April 26, 1817.
They have been trying the cork helmet on the
French troops. But the Minister of War won't have it, as
he says it gives his soldiers a bottled-up appearance.—
Sporting Times.
The polls in the United Kingdom, which began on
the 31st March, were brought to a close on Tuesday, 27th, by
the termination of the election in Orkney and Shetland, when
Mr. Laing (Liberal) was re-elected by a majority of 378 over
Dr. Badenoch, the Conservative candidate.

The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist
April, 1880, when there was a balance of £3,273,428 to April
24, 1880, were £5,886,914, against £6,520,298 in the correspond-
ing period of the preceding financial year, which began with
a balance of £6,915,756. The net expenditure was £7,715,168,
against £8,224,957 to the same date in the previous year,
The Treasury balances on April 24 amounted to £4,003,991,
and at the same date in 1879 to £4,427,768.

The English Congregational Church at Welshpool,
which, with two exceptions, is the oldest English Congrega-
tional Church in Montgomeryshire, has just celebrated its
centenary. The exceptions are the church at Newtown,
formed in 1734, and that at Sarney, established in 1750. The
only English Congregational church in the whole of North
Wales older than these is that at Chester-street, Wrexham,
farmed in 1647.

The crown diamonds of France are not to be entirely
lost to the country as was at first supposed, if the project to
dispose of them should be carried out. The diamonds of
any historical or great artistic value will be preserved intact
In the Galerie d' Apolion of the Louvre ; those stones pre-
senting any particular mineralogical feature would be kept
in the Natural History Museum, while those which are only
remarkable for their monetary value would be sold, and the
proceeds applied^to the purchase of objects for the National
Museums, the funds for which are much restricted.
According to an official statement, the effective
strength of the Swiss Federal Army on the Ist of January,
1880, amounted to 119,947 men, as against 119,748 in the pre-
vious year. The Landwehr at the later date comprised
95,116 men, as against 05,338 in 1879. The numbers required
by the existing law are 105,388 men in the regular army and
97,012 in the Landwehr ; or altogether 212,400. The actual
total at present is 215,063.

A committee has been formed at Marseilles to
establish a "Sailor's Home," similar to those existing at all
the larger ports of England and her colonies. The com-
mittee is anxious to carry out a similar institution for the
30,000 English-speaking sailors annually visiting Marseilles.
Nearly £4OO has been subscribed for this purpose in the south
of France.
The loss occasioned by the great fire at Hull, /1
Canada, is now estimated at from two millions to three
millions of dollars. A grant of 7,000 dollars has been voted
by the Dominion House of Commons for the relief of the
sufferers, and subscriptions are.being opened throughout the
colony. The Piincess Lou* and the Marquis of Lorne have
given 500 dollars. It is statred that the district over which
the fire raged, one mile in length and 400 yards wide, was
entirely occupied by uninsured dwelling-houses. Four
families are known to have perished.
On Saturday evening a fatality occurred at West-
gatetStation, Wakefield, by which a foreman railway porter
lost his life. The deceased was about to cross front
booking office platfornuto the other, on the arrim
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train from Bradford, which knocked him dovrn, cutting
both feet off. He died about ten o'clock.
The Silver Wedding of the Austrian
celebrated on Monday at Vienna. Among other demonstra-
tions was the presentation of an address from 2,800 members
of the Gesang,verein from all parts of the Enipire. They
presented a commemorative picture to the Emperor and
Empress, sang songs and choruses, and entertained at were

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the palace. -
Recent additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens
(Regent's Park), include a brown bear from Asia Minor, pre-
sented by Commaxder Atwell Lake, R.N. ; two common wom-
bats from Tasmania, presented by Dr. J. C. Cox ; two nutmeg ,
finches from India, a chestnut-breasted finch from Queens-
land, presented by Mrs. Hylton Joliffe ; a Himalayan bear
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from .North India, deposited • an Eyra eat from South
America, a short-nosed perameles a Stanley broadtail, from
Australia, two scaly-breasted parrakeets from New South
Wales, a blue-crowned hanging parrakeet from Malacca, two
red-naped fruit pigeons from Celebes, an elate hornbill
from West Africa, two black-necked swans from Antarctic
America, three wheatears, a meadow pipit, European, five
eyed lizards, South Europeans, purchased; a collared fruit
bat, born in the gardens.

A Life of Sir Louis Cavagnari is bking written by a
native biographer, Baboo Kally PrOsonno Dep.
A dog suffering from rabies was seen in one of the
public parks at Sheffield on Sunday, but it was fortunately
destroyed by a policeman before any of the persons in the
park were bitten.
A balloon, which was being filled at the Military
School of Aerostation in Paris the other day, suddenly burst
with a loud report, seriously wounding the officer in charge
and eight soldiers.
The thick coal measure proved at the Hamstead
sinkings, near Walsall, is found to be 24ft. in. thickness, and
is officially described to be "sound, bright, and of a good
quality, with a dip of one in 16 to the south-east."
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The Bodleian Library has acquired a MS. contain-
ing the missing commentary on Proverbs by the famous
Abraham Aben Ezra.

A tesselated pavement and walls coloured with
fresco have been discovered in excavating for a cistern at
Ghieti. A coin of Tiberius which was found indicates that
the building dates from that Emperor's reign.

From a return presented to Parliament by command,
and just issued, it appears that 7,573 miles, out of a total
mileage of 9,509 of double line open on the railways of the
United Kingdom in 1879, were worked on the absolute block
system, or 80 per cent. As compared with the preceding year
this was an increase of, 3 per cent.
During the first two months of the present year the
grain exports from Russia have been 1,099,000 quarters less
than during the corresponding two months of 1879, making a
loss of 37 per cent.
A Bill has been brought into the Belgian Chambers
for the protection of the mineral spring called "Pouhon " at
Spa. The district within which subterranean works might
damage or entirely destroy the original fountain evtends over
about 40 hectares, of which about 14 hectares belong to
private persons. The special object of the Bill is to prevent
the private proprietors from carrying on underground works
of a nature likely to sap or injure the spring.
The Bill for the Exhibition at New York in 1883
has passed the House of Representatives, and has now only
to receive the President's approval.

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Last week's receipts of cotton at all 'United States
ports were 36,000 bales; ditto since Ist September, 4,619,000
bales; shipments to England, 47,000 bales; ditto to Conti-
nent and Channel, 14,000 bales; total ditto since Ist Sep-
tember, 3,090,000 bales; stock at all ports, 669,000 bales.

One of the most important of rent sales of auto-
graphs of European celebrities is announced to take place on
the 10th prox. at Leipsic. The sale will comprise three col-
lections, and the catalogue shows 2,189 lots.

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Before the commencement of the Parliamentary
Session, which cannot be opened for practical business until.
the 20th of May, the Earl of Beaconsfield will, it is said,
address a meeting of the Conservative party, comprising
members of both Houses. The date of the meeting has
not yet been settled, but will probably be about the 19th of
May.
A disastrous conflagration has occurred in the Rou-
manian town of Foksani. Over 300 houses were burnt down
and an equal number of families rendered homeless.
There are hopes, it seems, that Prince Gortschakoff
may yet be restored to health. He is said to be slowly but
steadily improving.

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The death is announced of M. Marie Escudier, a
well-known journalist, and the author, along with his brother
Leon, of several works on music, among them a dictionary
of music and a biography of Rossini. The brothers started
La France Musicale.
A movement is on foot to press for a home postage
of one halfpenny, an ocean penny postage, a sixpenny tele-
graph service, and a universal money order system. A com-
mittee is in course of formation to press these important
questions -in the new Parliament.

The statistics of Professor Nordenskjold and Captain
Palander's reception by the Parisians are remarkable. During
their stay in the French capital they had only twenty-two
hours' sleep per week. This was surely fast living.—Present
at twenty-nine banquets and luncheons, listened to 147
speeches and 378 toasts, and made twenty-four.speeches.
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It is stated that Lord Salisbury has refused to pay
the sum of one hundred and live thousand dollars which the
United States Government demanded as compensation to the
American fishermen for the loss they sustained in the en-
counter with the Newfoundland fishermen in Fortune Bay.

At a meeting of the Royal Botanic Society held in
London last Saturday, Professor St. George Mivart in the
chair, the donations reported included many interesting
specimens of trees, native of Australia, grown in the south of
France, and wood grown near Southampton of trees native of
Japan. These examples, as explained by the secretary
illustrate the fact that plants and trees transplanted from
their own to other climes and situations are often improved
by the transfer, and grow with increased and unnatural
vigour.
It would appear that the electric lighting of the
Metropolitan (Aldersgate-street) Station, London, during the
last seven months has given satisfaction, since the railway
company have determined to adopt it for several other sta-
tions as well.

A.gentleman who has recently died at Everton has,
the Liverwol Post says, left £15,000 to the Roman Catholic Poor
Schools Cominittee. The bequest will be divided among
seven Roman Catholic diocees in England.
The celebrated Wiener 21flinnergesangverein, or
Vienna Glee Club, has arranged to pay its promised visit to
Brussels on the 21st of May, the anniversary of the birthday
of the Princess Stephanie, whom it is the object of the
society's visit to serenade. The club will be represented by
200 voices, distributed as follows :—Forty-six first and sixty-
five second tenors, and fifty-seven first and forty-seven second
basses.

The ship Windsor Castle, 1,074 tons, Captain I
Smith, chartered by Messrs. M'llwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co., '
of London, sailed from Plymouth for Rockhampton, Queens-
land, on Friday in last week, with emigrants. She has on
board 29 married couples, 83 single men, 121 single women
20 boys, 17 girls, and 3 infants—a total of 302 souls, equal to
280 statute adults. There are: English, 108, Scotch,. 29, and
Irish, 165.
A stalactite cave, with prehistoric animal remains,
has been discovered near Mehadia, on the Roumano-
Hungarian frontier.
The company which has been formed to revive the
decayed commerce of Bruges'by help of a ship canal to con-
nect that city with the sea and by establishing a deep hr-
hour at Ileyst is energetically engaged in advancing the ffo-
ject it had started. Among other things it has founded a
special organ, La Belgique 31aritinte, for the purpose of ad-
vocating the measures it has proposed and the objects it has
in view.
Bullfinches in the garden have long been looked
upon as entmies, and Mr. Harrison Weir now kill of the
damage done by a pair of these greedy birds to a ffengage
tree. The hen bird was shot, and in its crop were found
fifty-three bloom-buds, without a trace of any insect. One
year, according to the Live Stock Journal, Mr. Weir let the
bullfinches have full swing in his garden, and consequently
he did not get two bushels of plums from over one hundred
trees. Tits, on the contrary, he finds, kill parasites and leave
the buds alone; but the chaffinches destroy wholesale the
blooms of primroses and polyanthuses.—Graphic.

The Rev. Dr. Wm. Rees, having written to Mr.
Gladstone, pointing out "the political pre-eminence of
Wales in the recent elections," the right hon. gentleman re-
plied as follows :—" I thank you for your kind note, and I
fully share the satisfaction in the thought that Wales has
on this occasion, against our very formidable rivals, won the
primacy of honour."
On Saturday, in the Church Synod Meeting at
' Dublin, it was resolved that Parliament should be asked to
alter the law relating to mixed marriages, by requiring
Catholic, or Dissenting clergymen celebrating such to give
notice to the authorities of the Church of Ireland, as the
latter are obliged to do in similar cases, where either party
Is not a churchgoer.
A painful accident occurred a few days since in the
Bois de Boulogne, Paris. A lady residing at Versailles was
thrown from her horse. Her foot remained in the stirrup, and
the animal started off at a gallop. Every effort to stop it
was made by those who witnessed the scenes but the speed
was too great, and the poor lady was dragged along on
her head. She made one desperate effort...to raise herself,
and had succeeded in getting hold of thesstirrup leather, but
receiving a kick on the head she fell back and probably died
at once. The remains of the unfortunate lady—a viscountess
—were taken to Versailles. •
Captain W. H. Moore, of Cliff Castle, Seaton, died
on Monday at the advanced age of ninety years. The de-
ceased officer was the only surviving son of Mr. John
Hartnoll Moore,,late of the manor of Cadleigh, Devon. He
entered the navy at an early age, served as an officer in the
battle of Trafalgar .in the Caledonia, which vessel brought
home the body of Nelson after his death on the Victory. He
is said to have been the last naval officer who shook hands
with Nelson. Captain Moore retired from service about
twenty years ago, and has since resided at Seaton.
Escorted loy about 200 steamers the Vega, having
on board Professor Nordenskjtild and his companions,
reached Stockholm at half-past ten o'clock on Saturday
night. The city was splendidly illuminated, and the ad-
jacent coasts were lit up for many miles. The party on
landing were received by the municipal authorities, and
Immediately proceeded to the Royal castle, where they were
welcomed by the king. The dignity of baron has since been
conferred on Professor Nordenskjbld, and _captain Palander
and Mr. Oscar Dickson have received patei&ts of nobility.
The Obituary of The Times of Monday, the 26th
Inst., contained the following instances of longevity in the
case of six persons—viz., four ladies and two gentlemen—
whose united ages amounted to 523 yearsogiving an average
of 87 years and two months to each. The oldest had reached
the great age of 05 years. The following were their re-
spective ages-05, 93, 90, 83, and two of 81. The septua-
genarians in the same obituary average 74 years and over
nine months.
A telegram from Nice says that the funeral of Mr.
Luard, midshipman on board Rer Majesty's ship Temeraire,
who was killed by a fall from the yards of that vessel, during
the recent maneeuvres at Villefranche, has been solemnized.
The ceremony was of a very imposing character. The coffin
was placed upon a gun carriage and drawn to the Protestant
cemetery, preceded by a band of music and escorted by all
the officers and crews of the Temeraire and Thunderer and a
detachment of the Royal Marine Artillery.
Electric signals for the fire-engine has been intro-
duced in America. A wire runs along the cotton or india-
rubber part of the hose, and over this passes electricity
generated by one of the engine's fly-wheels. Connected with
the nozzle is a little contsavance by which the man who is
playing water on'the firan tell the engineer, even though
at a considerable distance, to turn the water on, cut it off,
&c., by a signal struck on a gong on the engine.
A physician is stated to have found a somewhat
novel assistant in his efforts to relieve a lady from deafness.
Various remedies had been tried with the view of giving
relief, but had failed, and it occurred to the physician that a
violent shock. might remove the obstruction which caused
the deafness. The lady was accordingly taken into the
Cathedral tower and stood near one of the bells as the
hammer fell upon it. The experiment answered—the force
sot the sound fractured the obstruction within the ear, the
tient at once felt relief, and her hearing was restored to
"Mr. George Grossmith, the well-known public
reader and lecturer, died very suddenly on Saturday night.
lie was presiding at the usual 'house dinner' of the Savage
Club,' Adelphi-terrace, and had just recited an amusing
scene,. called " An Incident in the Life of the late Serjeant
Talfourd," when he was seized with apoplexy. Several
medical gentlemen were soon present, but Mr. Grossmith died
in about three hours. His second son, Mr. Walter Weedon
Grossmith, was present:Sit the time of the attack, and at once
sent to the Opera Comique for his elder brother, Mr. George
Grossmith, jun., who remained with his father to the last,
his part in the Pirates of Penzan,ce being taken by another
member of the company. The late Mr. Grossmith was about
60 years of age."— Obituary of The Times, April 26.
"Germany owes muck of her military superiority
to a willingness to learn the methods and adopt the warlike
weapons of friends, enemies, and neutrals. The attention of
the authorities at Berlin having been drawn to the service-
able qualities of the bamboo lance with which many of our
native troops in India are armed—the same lance, indeed,
commonly used in the sport of pig-sticking—orders have
been given to arm ten squadrons of Uhlans with this ser-
viceable weapon, which is tar superior to the ordinary
lance-pole. Made of the male bamboo, there is not a lighter
or tougher shaft for a spear-head anywhere to be found; it
is more agreeable to handle and truer in its aim than the
polished handle of the African assegai; and may be recom-
mended to the notice of our own War Office fo use at home
as well'as abroad."—Daily Telegraph.
"On the very day the statement was published that
the Duke of Cambridge was laid up with a severe attack of
gout and unable to see any one, his Royal Highness was
driving about town all the morning in an open carriage, and
ix the afternoon was at work for two hours in Pall Mall."—
The World.
At Sittingbourne, on Monday, Archdeacon
Harrison commenced his annual visitation of the deaneries
in the archdeaconry of Maidstone. In his charge he said
pp at sthatssispewlss96 in paOsh
ictertnetlttfteltr;TillEgeal.' "Kdferting to politics, the
Archdeacon remarked that the lines of coming action were
entirely undefined and unknown, since views and opinions
of the most diverse and heterogeneous character were
gathered in one host, some of them entirely consistent with
the maintenance orour Constitution, and with sober sense
' and national liberty, while others were of the wildest kind,
utterly destructive of national order and unity, and in open
war, not only with the doctrine of the Churgh, but with
revealed religion altogether and the sanctities BM purities
of domestic Ufe.

D.ep.ths frpril starvation among the peasantry ar e
reported from various parts ofollussia.
The average price of wheat last week throughout
the United Kingdom was 48s. id. per quarter; the average
price of barley was 325. Bd. per quarter; and the average
price of oats was 245. 11d, per quarter.
The Daily Telegraph says that at Covent-garden,
the other day, a single bunch of asparagus, containing about
150 heads, was sold for £3 2s.
Quadrilles made up of characters from the works of
Burns and Scott are among the novelties of the season.
According to a rough estimate there are now about
20,000 gipsies in the United Kingdom, of whom not more
than 500 can read or write.
The Russian Geographical Society has assigned the
sum of 14,000 roubles yearly, for a term of three years, in
aid of the establishment and maintenance of a meteorological
station at the mouths of the Lena, and of an affiliated station
In New Siberia.

An extraordinary find of Roman coins has just been
made by some boys at Filton, a few miles from Bristol.
While removing a primrose root from a brook, they un-
earthed'a large urn, which vas found to contain thousands of
coins of the Emperors Dorrlitian and Constantine, Many of
them in excellent preservation.
His Italian Majesty's corvette Cristofolo Colombo,
on a voyage round the world, arrived at Spithead on
Sunday and exchanged salutes with the flagship.
The customary visits were made to both the naval and mili-
tary commanders. The vessel is last from Brest, and is ex-
pected to remain about a fortnight.

The National Lifeboat Institution has just for-
warded to the coast two new lifeboats. One is named the
"Oliver Goldsmith," and has been provided from a fund col-
lected for some years past by a collateral descendant of the
poet. It is stationed at Ballycotton, on the coast of Cork.
The other is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. T. Jones Gibb, and is
stationed at Blyth, on the Northumberland coast. Both
boats are furnished with transporting carriages and a full
equipment of stores, and substantial boathouses are provided
for their reception.
The Duchess of Marlborough has written a farewell
letter, previous to her depirture from Ireland, to the dis-
tressed districtsigeferring to the result of her appeal for
funds to England. The letter is published both in English
and Irish. Her Grace expresses a hope that some recollec-
tion of her services may be retained in the memory of those
for whom she has been thinking and working throughout the
winter. The Queen has written to the Duchess of Marl-
borough intimating to her Grace her Majesty's intention of
conferring upon he,r, on her return to England, the Royal
Order of Victoria and Albert.
Diphtheria, according to a telegram published in the
Gobs, is spreading in the Novomoscow district, where hun-
dreds of children have already been attacked by the malady.
A detachment of doctors and nurses has been sent 4c) the
affected villages.
A few days ago, as some labourers were making an
excavation at Iwann, a village on the Is'idau, near the Lake
of Bienne, they came on a magnificent lacustrine canoe in
an excellent state of preservation. The vessel, oak built,
was 30ft. long and 2ft. 6in. wide. Dr. Goss, a local antiquary,
purchased it from the owner of the land were it was found
and superintended its removal to the Museum of Neuveville,
whither it was transported without injury.
The French Goverruneat has awarded a first-class
gold medal to Captain Tonkin, of the Campanile, and second-
class gold medals to four of his crew, for their heroism in
rescuing a sailor of the steamer Valentine, of Dieppe,
wrecked on the 9th of February.

"The bestowal of the Order of Victoria and Albert
on the Duchess of Marlborough is a graceful recognition on
the part of the Sovereign of the great services rendered by her
Grace in relieving the distress which existed in Ireland.
during the late winter. The Victoria and Albert is the deco-
ration which is always worn on State occasions by the Queen
and by the members of the English and German Royal and
Imperial Families. This is, as far as I know, almost the
only instance of so great a distinction being conferred upon
a subject. Certainly none was ever more richly merited."—
The World. _ _

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Owing to the depression in the building trades in
Cardiff meetings of masters and all branches of workmen em-
ployed in these trades have been held, and a general reduc-
tion of wages of a halfpenny per hour accepted. The new
rate will commence on the first of May.
Lord Fithardinge, in presiding at his rent audit
dinner at Berkeley, expressed the hope that the new. Ministry
would take up the question of local gb-Vernment. They must
not expect any immediate relief from the Government, but
he thought they might rely upon having peace abroad, pros-
perity at home, and development of trade, with better
markets for their produce.
A curious incident is reported from Cyprus. A
number of the inhabitants of Nicosia having proceeded late
on Saturday night to the residence of General Biddulph, and
stated that having heard of the change of Ministry in Eng-
land, they wished to express their continued loyalty to the
Queen, and their gratitude for past benefits.
A Governmental Commission has been nominated for
the railway on Vesuvius, which will not permit it to be
opened to the public until it has been examined and proved
Seilor Caster has been received into the Spanish
Academy, and driivered an eloquent address. He extolled
the resistance of Spain to Carthaginian, Roman, Arab,
Norman, and other conquerors, and dwelt on her commercial
and geographical achievements. After touching on the dis-
astrous effects of despotism and the Inquisition, he expressed
his conviction of the permanence of the religious instinct,
spoke of the necessary union of science and liberty, and
wound up with a glowing eulogium on patriotism.

An Edinburgh correspondent of the Observer states
that in anticipation of the necessity for the re-election of
Mr. Gladstone, the Mid-Lothian Liberal Committee have
maintained their organization in effective working order.
This, it is understood, was done at the guggestion of the right
hon. gentleman himself. He has not yet communicated with
the secretary, but everything is in readiness should the Con-
servatives determine again to contest the seat. It is, how-
ever, expected that Lord Dalkeith will adhere to etiquette in
such matters, and not oppose Mr. Gladstone's re-election.
This week the operative weavers of Blackburn are
giving in their notices to cease work work in a fortnight in
consequence of the employers refusing to give them an ad-
vance of 5 per cent. in wages. This action will affect 27,000
hands.

"The German War manceuvres this autumn will
include the massing of some twenty thousand cavalry behind
the Rhineland frontier, with intent to experiment practi-
tically on the rapidity with which the frontier line can be
covered and held in force by this arm, pending the arrival
of infantry, to repel invasion. The test will be exhaustive,
including the marching, feeding, and disposition of the
troops as if under the stimulus of an actual emergency."—
The Work!.
A correspondent of Notes and QUCHCB writes :
"Towers, if high and well built, certainly rock considerably.,l
shall never forget the first time I went up to the top of the
Magdalen tower, Oxford, to sing the Mayknorning hymn,
Te Deum Patrem Colimus.' When the bells were at full
swing, I should think that the top of the tower oscillated
about ten inches each way, perhaps more."
For the first time since the reign of Henry the VIII.
a military mass is now celebrated in the Tower of London for
the benefit of the Roman Catholic -officers and men of the
Guards stationed there
The death is announced of Captain George Old-
mixon, R.N., in his eighty-fourth year. He was son of the
late Sir John Oldmixon' entered the navy in 1808, and in the
Bellona, 74, witnessed Lord Cochrane's destruction of the
French shipping in Basque Roads. In 1809 he was present
at the siege of Flushing.
On Tuesday, while a pleasure party were out boating
on the Tay they found a body floating half a mile east of the
Tay Bridge. On being brought to shore it was found to be
the body of William Robertson, 20, belonging to Abernethy.
This makes the 46th body that has been recovered.
At Japanese dinner-tables may be frequently seen
fish alive in a bowl, and, on enquiry, it is discovered that the
slices served at the repast have been cut from the fish in the
bowl, the skin being neatly sewn after the cutting. This is
done to show that the fish is fresh.
A telegram to The Times says that the life-saving
crew at Point Aux Barques, Michigan, on Thursday night in
last week, during a storm, went to the assistance of a
stranded vessel near Port Huron. Their life-boat was
swamped before reaching the vessel, and eight of the men
were drowned. The captain alone was saved, drifting ashore
with the boat.
It is proposed to hold an Exhibition and Market
of Machinery, Implements, and Material used or sold by
printers, stationers, papermakers, and kindred traders.at the
Agricultural Hall from Jsly sto July 17. A copy of every
newspaper published in the United Tringdom will be exhi-
bited, and any profits resulting will be handed over to the
Printers' Pension, Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corpora-

tion.
A newspaper Correspondent' (says the Standard),
writing from St. Petersburg, describes the feeling of society
there at the acceptance of the Premiership by Mr. Gladstone
as not one of joy merely, but of delirium. The Russians
considers the fall of the Beaconsfield Cabinet as a victory
for the de‘elopment of the Slav idea throughout the Balkan
Peninsula. At the same time the Nord has doubts whether
Mr. Glatistone's policy in Downing-street may not somewhat
differ from the speeches in Midlothian.