The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

7he Pope assisted on Tuesday morning at the cele-
bration of mass In the Sistine Chapel in Borne. In the
evening the usual display of fireworks took place at San
Pietro iii Montorio. The telegram says that "an immense
crowd was assembled, but perfect tranquillity prevailed.'
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The Missisaippi and the Missouri rivers are rapidly
Shifting their beds. The Falls of St. Anthony have gone up
the river at such a pace as to threaten the city of 31Inneopoiis
with a loss of the water fewer for which its factories and
Itself were built; and now the usefulneis of the wlmrves of
St. Louis is menaced.
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Mysterioua cliaappearanees have been singularly
frequent in New York of late, no fewer than 230 cases
having been reported during the last four months. lII' these
SU were adult males, 35 ad lilt females, 33 boys, and 52 girls.
The lost men are reported as generally young and engaged
li, business ; the women were also for the most part young.
Of the brqs the majority were between the ages of fourteen
and nineteen, and the girls between the ages of fourteen and
eighteen. The latter, when found, have in almost every in.
stance been discovered in disreputable houses.
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A tele2rarn was rec.-wed in Southampton on Monday
from C..mthrit nople, stati g that Captam 0 ize, with lifs
pasty of English exeursioni,t+, had ar.i,e I there liter
travellm4 thr.u.,h E:ypt ant the iholy I arid. They were
about to ascend the Danutl• arid pass thro,lgh Viimtrit Sod
Paris WI their wry home They have beau gone two months,
and will arrive in Soutbainnt n in a tortnigtit's time.

In the maw of a pike caught by Mr. E. Cooke, the
ether day, iu the Git,e, a full grown water-rat was feuud.

On Monday dames Burke, aged twenty-four, a
brioduyees labourer, reaiolug in Sepulchre gate, murdered
lie wife in his house. 1 hey hal I eon out drinkin.: n ith
N On ther re urn too y. usuai, Co tonewed qUal Tel-
ling. Burke by it and Ideked Ins nit., till she 1,11 dead.
After the ndirdur Burke ,aid, "She is mA, but! have% done
it, allholotit I ha or 1 sl all viii g for it."

The ina,istratrs of the Stafford Petty SesAional
Div ,hot It see just appo ate I the °verse. ri fr the current
3e r. 1 Wro6t 3, a the ovol,c,”; f sOd
AIM Boyd,ss is one ‘f those for St i4h!o rd.
The LeLislature of the State of Minnesota has
abolished capital punishment, has passed a law that in all
criminal casts the accused may testify, and has submitted to
the people a constitutional amendment abolishing grand
juries.
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Archbishop Manning has paid a short visit to Man-
chi net, anti 011 Tuesilit) hick part in the cerone ny f the
.Penh,e or a taailioriiry church belonging to the JeEults Itt
Oanorihricel.

A police case in Loudon, on SAturday, browlit out
the fad that before the Passover sets to, the Chief Rabbi
vitlts all the prisons, awl makes arreilgenteols for the Jew,sh
prisoners to have Passover cake, tried thh, and oil.

On Wednetrlay, Her Majeety, see.oupenied by the
Princes Arthur and Leopold, KIRI 1.1.111.:s Louise, attended
by General Seymour, Colonel Pousonby, &n , left Windsor
Castle for the Camp at Aldershot, by road. Prince Arthur
was in Artillery uniform and Prince Leopold in Highland
costume. The route was thronged with spectators.

A Roman story, the authenticity of which, how.
ever. Is rot vouched for is to the s ff.et that the P,,pc has re-
quested Dr. Manning to thank Mr Gladstone for his attitude
in reference to the Established Church in Ireland.

It is reported that the Prince and Princess of Wales
will pays second visit to Ireland in Atuttst next, Rll4/ will he
present at the bational cattle show of the Royal Agricultural
Society at Lout lend, cry. Their Royal H igimenesee will then
be the guests of the Lord Lieutenant and the Marchioness of
Abercorn, at Baron Court.

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At the last State concert given at the l'aileries,
Millie. Patti told the Empress that she was engaged to many
the Minima; de Cam, the Orehe,fra bnlieves that she is to
be married in the coming autumn, and not to quit the stage
till 1870.

A serious stabldng case happened at Preston, on
Saturday. A WOMIM seethed a oung man of taking her
buibmil out to drink. upon which there were high words,
and a tight between the two men. In the course of the
melee both the husband and win received several stabs and
It is doubtful if the former will survive the illjttliCS he re-
ceived.

A heavy fall of hail took place in Mantua on the
Bth inst. The streets were completely covered, and for some
hours had all the appearance of winter

The neighbourhood of in the porigh of
Islington, London, has become famous for its hone slaughter-
ing. NI, .1. Hunt the inspector of houses for slough eriog
hones. appointed under the Local Act, reports that during
the past year the animals slaughtered or brought dead to
the slaughter-boosts within his district were Is follows :
horses, alive, 5,341 ; dead, 3,649 ; cows. dead, 225 ; donkeys,
dead, 26—alive, 7; buffalo, I : and mule, I ; total, 9 250.

A Liverpool Roman Catholic paper, the Northern
confirms, on "the heat authority," the statement
that "Colonel" Kelly he, only recently escaped from Man-
chester. The "colonel," we are told, met with a serious
accidert before his departure, and, until his recovery, was
concealed in the house of a gentleman iu that city who
"has no sympathy with Fenianiam."
A London correspondent says :—One of the houses
in London hest known for its " At homes" is Miss Stanley's
the sister of the De la of Westminster. This lady lives with
two friends, and the three ladies differing foto ereto In thee-
logical matters, their receptions afford au opportunity for
the meeting of persons whose inttlis lie widely apart. For
instance, at the same house may be seen at the same time
Dean Stanley, Professor Maurice, Archbishop Maiming, and
perhaps a notable or two among the Low Church party.
La France says the armaments of France threaten
wins but those who attempt the vi Fallon of 'eel, imita
riOts. What are legitimate fghts La France does not
explain.
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The manufacture of cotton has been commenced in
Utah. The Mormon jourmil at Aalt Lake City coated,,n an
advertisement informing the faithful where they can pur-
chase " the justly celt brat.. d Deg.se-et Mill cotton yarn,
manufsctured at Yreakient Young's factory.," for either wheat
or cash.
The United States Legation receives scores of letters
every day from Frenchmen, as,dug be pato]. *Heed as
citires the Unit,l States, in order to t scape to,- opera-
tion of the Army En The uniform al swer given is, tiat
the law if the States require a bona fide residence lathe
territory of the repub.ic before naturalisation can Le
grtuite.i.
Beatrice, the youngest Princess of the royal family,
completed the 11th year of her age on Tuesday, having been
born on the 14th April, 1857.
The result of the Universities Boat Race was known
at New York in less than three-quarters of an hour after the
race was over.

The will of the late Lord Werwleydale haw been
proved personalty sworn under Y 120.040.
A handsome lady in New York, aged twenty-five,
now en 'oys the privilege of a fourth husband, having been
three times divorced shire she was eighteen.
It is estimated that emigrants are going to Wiscon-
sin at the rate of a thousand a week, although the season has
scarcely opened.
It has been resolved to hold a review of the volunteer
regiments belonging to Edinburgh and Ps neighbourhood in
the Queen's Park, on Saturday, the 4th July next.
The opponents f capital pulashrnents will he grati•
fled by a resolution that has just been adopted by the Second
Chamber of the Sown Diet, that for the future the punish-
ment of death shall be abolished in iissonY•
A rumour is current to the effect that on the re-
assembling of Parliament the ['refiner will ask an addition
of ten thonsand pounds to the yearly allowance made by
the country to the Prince of Wales. .

"It seems necessary to inform those who attend at
Coon of a point of etiquette to which thetr attention has
apparently cot been called, namely, that gloves thould not
be worn in presence of the sovereign That Is the precise
rule, hot usually the left glove is worn. The reht-hartil
glove shoold once account be worn by those who are pre-

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Sented."— Court Journal.
The unexpected death of the Marquis of Salisbury,
KG., took plane shortly after six o'clock on Sunday event ng
at Hattleld•house, the ancient family seat in Hertfordshire
The Marquis had only left town on Saturday for Hatfield, in
apparent health. On his valet going into his room on
Sunday morning he found his master evidently lahonring
under very severe Hine, and in col sequence the Marehiones,
of salishury, who her' 0,1.500 Saturday last to Knoll), near
Sevenoake. to virit tie Ea.•l and Countess De Is Warr, WY
sent for Her ladyship arrived at Hatfield about a quarter
of au hour Deters her huabaud expired.

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Two firemen have been 'treated in Jersey City,
charged vrMb anion Reeder Martindale, by whom they
were eolleed to the county gaol, devliFed tbst most of
the receqt fires were the result of roLlry between tire

companier.
The stern newiipspere in America are predicting
,the " itst Indian Salon record,!. as one of the events
of Suet suing summer. This should eseite no surprise.
since the prediction is regularly made every year by the en-
terprising journals 01 the West.
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Breech-loaders, after all, are no novelty. At a
recent meeting of the Royal Archie°logical Institute,
itrigedier-Getieral,Lefroy exhibited a "curious, breech-load
:Inosnitroth-boredlinatelitock haruuubus," which bore on it
the date 1537, and appears to have belonged to 'Henry VIII.
I:7igan, • woman named Holding, drunk,
dr. d a teapot and proke In attempting to regain her
'rhshe fell, her threat anrolug In cnitact with one of the
broken pieces of the pot, which penetrated the jugular vein,
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and—sneilieil in stew moments.

Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen, the leader of Brah-
ml.?, has. bees preaching to large audiences in Bemires

and other places.
One .4 the moat skilful jewellers in Paris has re-
ceived the orders of a sovereign to manufacture a beautiful
bijou, to he an exact imitation of the famous i• Queen's neck-
lace," sash as Alexander Dumas described in ins owlebrated
romance.

An American paper says the Guelphs are a long-
lived race: Georue I. died at 67. George 11. at 77. George
111. at 82, George IV. at 63, and William IV. at 72. If Queen
Victoria lives as long al her grandfather, her reign will not
close before likl. _ .

A Mr. Collins and his wife have made the Overland
journey from Ii shot to Moulmein iii 43 days. The distance
tr“ yelled was ULU miles. Mr. 0 fins says the journey ought
to In accomplished in from fifteen to eighteen days.
The late Dr. Risk, of lbrlserf, being one of the
moderators. dnl not satisfy by his preaching the Cdvinistic
portion of his flock. " Way, sir," said they, "we think you
Mona tell us enongh about renouncing our am righteous-
ness." •• Rencucciug your ain righteousness 1" vociferated
the astonished doctor, "1 never saw any ye had to re-
nounce r•
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Artennus Ward's valet, for whom be provided in his
will, declines to enter college, arid has taken his former
position as bell-boy in a hotel.
Mr. Barnum upon being asked if he had lost his all
by the recent fire at his Museum, replied, "No, I have not
lost my spirit., my appetite, nor the means of gratifying ,t;
in fact, I expect I have got enough left to spoil rny children,
unless, happily, I manage to spend some of it before I have
Mine with it -of which there seems to be a fair prospect"
Ile has resisted all inducements offered for starting a new
museum, being fully resolved from this time to retire from
business.
The following conversation was overheard the other
day In a restaurant in Paris. Two Englishmen, one of whom
is known to love his money, were at dinner. "Let's have a
bottle of 'Gorton !' " said Reckless, who is very poor.
Gorton is deuced dear," said Div.; "let's have some
ordinary ' Burdo !'" So they did; and when it came Dives
tasted it, and said, "Now, I call that good. That's what 1 '
call an honest wine" Yes," replied his (timid, .1 should
, say poor, but honest.'
new disaster has befallen the fever-stricken island
of Mauritius. On the 12th March a violent hurricane swept
over the island, damaging the fall2Ar crops and driving four-
teen ships ashore. The horricane had not cleared the island
of the epidemic, which still continued.
The crime of child murder prevails to such a fright-
ful extent in Liverpool that the attention of Government has
been directed to it, with the view of stringent measures
being taken for its imppression, and the Home Secretary has
authorised the borough coroner to offer rewards for the
detection of the guilty parties.
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The German papers, on, extremely particular upon
911 matters of figures, hasten to correct a most important
mistake," namely, that at Berlin the distance of the race-
course for the race to he run in autumn next will be 750
yav Is, or 251 yards more than originally stated.
Mr. Edmund Denison, of Doncaster, writes to The
Timer noticing the connection between cold weather and
the equinoctial full MOOD. He says—" This is the 30th
year that I have seen snow within the Easter fortnight—that
is, it only once failed since 1837."
The death is announced of lit. Henri Didier, the
French deputy, who became mad during a ispeech he was
delivering in the House of Representatives on the Bill for
the Press. After the speech lie rushed into M. Rouher's
study, attired as a Grand Turk.
The Timer says that the numbers, of all ranks, on the
books f the eanibridge Colleges was, in Inai, no less than
B,4sB,—though in 1835 it was only 6,399. The Orford
numbers are, no doubt, much less than Ceinbridge, but are
they inereasieg in the namelnroportioni It is said that both '
Universities are losing their aristocratic students, who are
replaced by much larger numbers of the middle classes.
"A correspondent writes us from Antalo that the I
advanced force is very healthy. There are large herda of
cattle to he seen on the plains between Senafk and Antalo ;
and at the latter place there is a good market. fleet it
plentiful; water in good quality, hut not too plentiful.
Thenlore is said to hold a pretty strong position in front of
Magda* which is about Mkt), miles south of Antalo."—The
Lancet.
A vote of £15,000 will he again proposed thin session
to cover the deficiency in the weight by wear of silver coin
withdrawn from circulation in the conrse of the year, the
coin being received at the Mint Mite nominal value. There
will also be crate of L51:10 to pay premium at 2 per cent. on
old copper coin sent into the Mint, and the carriage of
I bronze coin remitted in exchange.

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The Preset of Vienna sap;—" The final examination
of Julie Eoergenyl, aCCIPIZit of poisoning the wife of her
lover, has been closed she persists in her system of abso-
lute denial. The &rumen ti have been sent to the president
of the court which is to try her.
A conaidcrable crowd collected on the Quay Lam-
blardie, at Havre, on Friday morning, to witness the
traditional flagellation of Judas, whioh took place on board
a Portuguese schooner, the V igiltulte. The effigy, after
having been soundly whipped, was ducked repeatedly and
then thrown to the idle boys of the place, who soon tore it
to piece
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A young Russian Lady, who last year obtained •
Iliple•ma as doctor in Zurich, has just been atliascet at
Vienna to a medical man from Aargau. The example has
tempted a countrywoman of the latter, and she lanm
pursuing her stool, at the same college in company nith
three young English ladies.
Between forty and fifty gentlemen met at Nock's
lintel, 11,rininghanr, on S ,turday evening, and presented
£lOO and a copy of the Cambridge Shakespeare to Mr. John
one ot the oldest and most valued members of the
newspaper press in Birmingham.
A pauper in the Stapleton Workhouse (Bristol
Union), oat who was in the infirmary suffering front illness,
in the middle of the bight arose nom his bed, procured a
Ilalde knife, sail efts r an Inn ffectual attempt to stab hiniaelf
in the abdomen, cot his throat in a fearful manner. All
the principal arteries were severed, and he expired Ma few
minutes.

Among the recent obituary notkes of an Ohio paper,
was the following ii-•••• Mr. William Jones, of Malta too ns hip,
aged eighty-three, misscd peace,ully away, on Tue•ilay
Irons single blessedeiess to matrimonial hiss, after a short
lint sudden attack by Alice Blossom, a blooming widow of
thirty.tiVe."
Fifty thousand dollars have been stolen from the
Caiial Bank, New Orleans In North &innate, Rhode
Island, burglars entered the house of the cashier of a
riational " bank, bound and gagged the cashier and his
wife, and took away the keys of the bank safe. They did
not succeed in opening the safe; Its y therefore returned
to the Miura of the cashier, and compelled the officer to
accompany them to the bank building and unlock the safe.
They miliected 25,000 dole in hank bilks and ether valuable
papers, and drove coolly away.
The ;Welling Slor, in an account of the debtors'
prisons of London, says, It may shock some people, who
imagine that imprisonment for debt is min.extmt, to learn
that there are at the present moment too men in Whitecross-
street prison who have been respectively incarcerated twenty-
four and seven years, first in the Queen's Bench, Mid now in
Whitecross-street. C. testy court debtors slay still be im-
prisoned for the same debt over am), over again."
In the Canadian Parliament some correspondence
has been laid before the Home regarding the eases of
Millahon and the other Fenian prisoners confined in Cmada.
Among the papers is a letter, dated January 11. to Lord
Mina*, lice, the Duke of Buckingham, in which the latter
says tier Majesty's Government would not be justified in
miTigating the sentences of these prisoners.
The proprietor of the Philaddphia Public Ledwr has
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ereine'd'iiefv premises for that journal, containing 64,012
square feet ,4 space, and lighted by 755 windows To pass
r mini all the above-ground apartments constitutes a journey
of 1,708 yards, or rasher more than a mile.
Eugene Lombard, one of the prisoners sentenced to
seven years' penal servitude, at the special commission at
Cuir. in June last, for participation in the Rallyknockane
off air, has written home to his parents. who reside in Cork.
lie was sent out with sixty-four other Fenian prisoners, and
arrived in Western Australia on the oth of January. tie is
one of a gang of twenty engaged in making roads.
The administration ~f telegraphic lines has issued a
notice that of tile live eninnarine cables winch connect France
and Belgium with England, four have been ruptured by a
tempest [he only one that remains in working order is that
which starts from Dieppe.
Mr. Thorold If, gore, late Professor of Political
Economy, at I oxford, ci, Monday night addressed a meeting,
held under the awe-ices of the National Reform Union, in
Manchester, awl gave an interesting sketch of the questions
which will probably engage the attention of Liberal
statesmen when a Liberal Government comes again into
power.

English literature may consider herself honoured by
a mark of distinction ehith has just been conic: red on the
ex-Librarian of the British Museum. Mr. Panizzi has been
nominated by the sovereivr of his native country to a place
in the It dian Senate. end it is understood Olt he will accept
the anpointment It is known that before ha death Coot
Cavour was desirous of conferring this honour on Mr.
Panizzi, anal two years ago it was again urged on his ac-
ceptance.
The twentieth anniversary of "the advent of
spiritual manifestations" was lately celebrated at New
York. The gh, eta were well represeuted, and did every-
thing except making themselves visible to entertain the
company 'the exercises" closed—not with the benediction
—but with a soiree dansante, which was kept up' till past
two in the morning!
A letter from Kehl macs :--" Some volunteers from
Baden who have returned from Rome state that almost all
their countrymen, as well as the Wurtembergers in the
Papal army, have deserted, notwithstsnding the great danger
in getting away. The Pontifical gendartnes are on the alert
and always pursue them, and one young man, the son of a
rich merchant of Pforzheim, was drowned while swimming
across the Tiber, with the Papal soldiers in pursuit of hiin."
We (Birmingham Gar.l(e) ate pleased to inform one
readers theta mark of Royal farmr has just heel, bestowed
on the Queen's Hospital by tier Majesty the Queen, who has
graciously been pleased to present to the institution a Copy
oilier " Highland Journal," with the followitig iuscrlpti ))))
" Presented to the Qireen's Hospital. Birmingham, by Vic-
toria Reg." (autograph). '• Windsor Castle, March, lade."
In the Chapel of the Tuileries, at noon last Sunday,
took place the Adoration of the Cross, their Majesties and
the Imperial Households being alone present. Mgr. To,
marche, Bishop of Adras, officiated. lo the erelong, at
half-past eight, a serniou was preached and the Miserere
chanted. The Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial,
together with the members of the Court, were below, whilst
Be pen°os who had obtained Invitations to attend were
sea'wl in the galleries.
The manufacturers of Italian Our preparations,
such as niaccoroni, vermicelli, and other cempositians, at
Turin, Genoa. arid Naples, are drawing up a petition to the
parliament i,,f normice against Art. I. of the Grist Bill No
provision is made in it f,a• the double and triple grinding.
required for those articles, so that the impost would have to
be paid two or three times. If Insisted on, that heavy burden
wer.dd quire put an end to that branch of industry.
The Prefecture of Police is in the habit of giving a
gratuity to such cab drivers and °lnhibits Well as have during
the tear given pr,ml of honesiy, ii, the restoration of obe.•ts
. faund in their vehicles. Burma Tel 7 the munher of deposits
made was 20,270. Reward. have keen given to el persrms
21 being In money arid 4; in honourable mentions. One mar,
received 2,101,; a seoond 1501.; and • third loot.
"Justice Ladd yesterday tierl the Gordian knot fora
lass and swain of the Chin,. persuasion. The happy Sam
Yon waa blesieri with the heart and hand of Ang Vote.
When the jruaice asked Sam whether or not he Pas wilting
to take this Yoke for better or tor worst., and ta wear it
through good and through evil report, he unhesitatuoy
answered, 'You bet" The nuptisis being consummated, the
united pair led hilt hOIIOIIS 'All right,' and retired to in-
neuritis their dementia establishment with a feast of chow-
chow and curry."—San Broad-ow° Daily Call.
Indian advices inform us that a boat, containing 200
passengers, was upset lathe river Bias below Chuniha, near
J sallamookheo, in the /Canoe .•artrict. All attempts to
'eve the men limn drowning proved nnsucc, aqui. A peon.
•. • homed Bus, who WAS demeed hy the police
t mat rae mat was uot overmsowded, was drowned.
Not. se igle I•a— slicer was saved, a r d of the seven boatmen
e eagle. ;: —duet the wavesoL the &mailer stream only
wo were rescued.


Mas. Lester, formerly Mrs. Bloemer, is givicg
lectures to the Mormons.
The railroad bridge at Burlington, lowa, now
.mplcte ,• has require,' over 3,000 piles and 1,000,000
t of pile ke bridge 1, 2,237 feet long ; and
7,500 cubb runs of atone have been laid.
Her liajesty's Theatre is to be re-built. 'The Prince
of Wales will lay the drat stove on his return Dow Ireland.
Mr. Charles Lee ia to be the architect, and the coot is to be
£65,000, which Is covered by the insurances.
"The non•deterrent nature of our present punish-
ments is shown by the fact that a prisoner convicted at the
. Surrey Sessions on Wednesday last haa passed seven yearn
.out of the last thirteen in prison, having lien seventeen
times sentenced. Ile is now twenty-live years of age."—
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South LOPlllOtt Press.
George Francis Train continues to furnish letters to
the Arm York World. It is understood that that jourhal
hoe gained largely in circulation since Mr. Train became its
"special correspondent."
A bill is pending before the New York Legislature
prohMiting the marriage ot first coindus under • heavy
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‘ do"
you trade with me ?" said a clese.fisted
tradesman to a friend the other day. The reply was
characteristic: •' You have never asked me, Sr. I have
looked all through the papers for an Invitation In the shape
of an advertisement, and timed none. I never go where .1
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am not invited." '
(((hello was lately performed at Hayti by a company
of negro actors, and the part of (Motto was taken by a black
man, who painted his face white !
"What brought you to prison, my coloured friend ?"
Two constables, Bah." lea : but I mean, had intemper-
ance an? thing to do with it r" Yes, sah dry was bole of 'ern
drunk.'
On Sunday morning, shortly before six o'clock,
about 1,000 persons assembled at Ellerhylane, in Leeds, for
the purpose of witnessing a pita light, bat as they wtre
Interrupted by a force of police they a eitt away to Knoatrop,
whither they were pursued by the pAice and dispersed.
It is proposed to hold a Trades' Union Congri ss at
Manchester some time during the approaching summer.
The sugeestion was made at a recent meeting of the Man-
chester Council of Trades' Unions, and there is reason to be-
lieve that it will lie generally adopted by the various societies
throughout the couutry.
"A good story in told that an officer who managed to
remain at the depiot of his regiment during the whole of the
Crimean war has lately obtained six months' leave of algee,e
to go and visit the graves of his brother officers who 1,1
died during the war."--Court Journal.
The Spectator believes that Mr. Disraeli will Lot
quit office "until taken out by the collar."
Lord Boyne has presented thirty acres of land on
each bank of the river Wear as a public park for
"My boy," said a dintinguished merchant to his son.
who was meditating matrimony, he sure, in making your
selection, to get hold of a piece of goods that will wash."
Legal proceedings have been taken in Toronto.
Canada, to anneal the mayor, on the ground that the elec-
tion at which he was chosen occurred on Ash-Wednesday; a
statute holiday.
American &deices say that Colonel Deasy, who was
reported to have been arrested near Manchester, is at present
liviuie in New York, and has lately been making Fenian ad-
dresses in various parts of the country.
It is said that the South-Eastern and the London,
Chatham, and hover Railways have decided to give up this
summer their cheap Sunday excursion trains to the Kentisk
coast.
During the past week thirty-eight wrecks have been
reported, making for the present year a total of 664.
A conference of Yorkshire Sunday-school teachers,
representing 470 schools and upwards of 100,000 scholars,
luta been held at Sheffield, and papers were read upon ques-
tions affecting the welfare of these institutions.
A critic on the cause of the defeat of the Cambridge
crew, assigns as a reason for it that there is a chance of
bringing up every now and then a highly decomposed cat on
the blade of their oar on the Cam
A letter from Monaco says that a young man well
known in Nice has just won at the gaming-tables 145,0ie
trainee ~.X5,500). lie backed black fourteen times in succession,
and it was faithful to him.
The Put/veto of Milan states that a Milanese
pastrycook, settled at Toulouse, has sent as a present to
Prince Humbert two gigantic patktele-foie-gras, for the
royal table on the occasion of the approaching wedding
feast.
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The strike of the workmen at Geneva has terminated.
The hours of work are reduced to eleven per diem, and the
wages increased 10 per cent.
Captain Mackay, the Fenian lately convicted at
Cork, has been conveyed from Mountjoy Prison to England
to be imprisoned. When leaving Kingstown, In charge of
the warders, he exclaimed, as the boat moved off, 'Good
bye, Old Ireland !"
Another diamond has been found on the north bank
of the Orange River at the Cape, and tested by a lapidary,
who pronounces it to be of the first water, and of the weight
of about two carats and a half.
The congregations in most of the Roman Catholic
churches and chapels in London, on Sunday lest were, at the
request of Archbishop Manning, invited to sign petitions to
the hose of Commons in favour of Mr. Gladstune's hush
Church resolution&
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The statement is contradicted that a considerable
draught of I, enian prisoners is being embarked from this
country for Gibraltar. The ship Matilda Atheling has been
taken up for the transportation of 200 prisoners irom this
country to Gi'wait Sr. but the Government has given special
orders that not a mingle Fenian shall he embarked.
A baptism has been registered in the town of Apt,
France, doubly Royal. The child has been called Napoleon
the First, and it is recorded as being the son of Francis the
First. In the same neighbourhood, hut a few years ago,
a girl was baptised, 3larie-Autoinette-iteinmdes Francais.
The Army and Navy Gazette states that, by a
strange coincidence, the death of Rear Admiral Thomas
Garvey will promote his brother, Captain Henry Harvey, to
flag rank on the retired list.
"Mien Amanda Way is lecturing on temperance in
the Western States. In her Western nay of putting things
she calls C digress 'a den of drunken thieves ' The Indiana-
polis Mirror stye, 'Mies Way is a most estimable lady,
though a trine tall and a little strong-minded.'"—New York
Iterolution.
- A gentleman visiting at a house in the Rue Royal,
Paris, the other evening, raked a Muni at totem-at. Much
to his astonishment lie became a w inner at 00,000 francs
(43,600; in omsi queue,
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The Chateau of St. Pierre des Horts, at Byeres, at
pr sent iplialiited by the Earl of Shut tesbery, is to be put up
for sale by auction, at 420000, on the 10th of next month,
exactly half the sure laid out. on it by its original proprietor.
The Ottoiva Indians in Kansas, mostly Baptiars,
and now redneed to leis than 200, have given more than
20 000 acres of land, worth over 100,0130 dollars, to endow
o,towa University.
It was Anted at the adjourned inquest, on Saturday,
on the body of the murdered child found in a cab in Imidon,
that a vine had been got which was certain to lead to the
tietteti,di and arrest of the lady aud gentleman descrilied by
the canumn. The information referred to was communicated
in an 300,130v-01s letter received by the police.
The death is announced of Baron de Gruben,
Marshal of the Court of Saxe,Colturg Gotha. Me Eecellency
accompanied Prince Albert to E'igland when the Prince was
first presented to the Princess Victoria.
Mr. Hooper is the delegate to Congress from Utah.
Me is a Mormon. liis right to a seat is contested by Mr.
klPGroty, an Dish "Gentile," upon the plea that Hooper is
"a member of the Church of Melchiredec," and has, there-
fore, taken an oath of hostility to the l'ilited Mate,. Hooper,
for answer, says, simply, that M lroty has offered no prod
to sustain the cliarge. The cane Is a very Curious one.
The death of Colonel Coote Buller, third son of Sir
Edweril Manningham Buller, Bart , M P., of Dahill, Hall, is
anuounced. C. toilet Buller was formerly in the Rifle Brigade,
and served with distipction in the C:imean war, being pre-
sent at the battles of Alma and Inkerman, in which latter lie
was severely wounded by a rifle ball. Soon after his return
he was appointed depute-assistant adjutant-general at
Aldershot, the duties of whi.th Mike he performed for some
time. In 1000 Colonel Buller wsn gazetted as lieutenant-
colonel to the tat battalion 44 Staff ordains° Rifle Volunte,s,
and on retiring in 1865 he was appointed honorary colonel to
the hattellon.
The Saturda lariew contends that it is not fair to
say that the Ministry is a ministry oil euffermico. It is a
ministry established with the general fluent of all parties.
And certainly no one gains so much front its existence as its
opponents gain If the present ministry really wished to
save or help the Irish Church, the best thing they could do
would be to resign. The Liberals, if in office, would have
the utmost difficulty in agreeing what to do with the Irish
Church.
At the Surrey sessions, Thomas Sherwood, sixteen,
was sentenced to three mouths' imprisonmeet for stealing a
gold chain and locket from the person of M. Bowes. At
the previous sessions another young man was positively
sworn to by Mrs Bowes as the thief, and it was not until the
prisoner stepped forward in the court and gave himself up
that the young man was released.
The Grand Jury of the United States' Circuit Court
at Richmond has bunt a new indictment for treason
against Jefferson Davis, which covers City pages of manu-
script, and details all his offences since the beginning of the
civil war. The first indictment, which wio about one-teeth
the sire of this, contained so many flaws that the Govern.
ment law officers have always been afraid to attempt Mr.
. Davis's trial; and what must be the consequence of in-
creasing tenfold the liability to error I
• It in stated that the Pope's voice when on Maundy
, Thursday he, after assisting at mass in the Sistine ('halo,
give his blessing to the people, was powerful and distin.t
Fifty thmisand persons are said to have been present, am
• his Boll.re was cheered The Pope subsequently washed
the feet of thirteen poor priests, and served them at dinner.
A letter from Wiesbaden says :—The company to
1 which the gaming tables belong has filially conclwded aeon.vention with the Conaniasioner of Prussia, M. Vohlera.
, Play will continue until the close of 1872. The bank will
' apply y early 200,000 florins (each If The. to redeem its
shares, and the remainder of its profits, up to a million, at
the rate of 200.000 thalers each If. 75e., per annum is to he
assigiied to the towns of Wiesbaden slid Ems as a mineral
water fond. The shareholders will meantime continue to
receive an annual dividend of from twenty-five florins to
thirty &Rms.
A noted sporting authority in London is said to have
bees placed too cm oats difficulty after the University b at
race last week. Two carrier pigeons were taken down' to
Mortlake, each with a slip of payer tied to it ; Oxford, the
winner, being written on one, and Cambridge on the other.
Unfortunately, lathe bustle of the moment after the race,
, as the Oxford pigeon was being taken out of the basket, the
Cambridge bird struggle 1 and managed also to get tree, the
two birds coming swiftly home in company, and driving their
owner to Madan by the contradictory intelligence.
The Spectator is of opinion that the Liberals should
not be too anxious to resume office. We require, it tii,)
men of the people to govern the people and guide the people's
representatives, and there in danger that if the Premier of
the future comes in ton soon, he will himself be the only
man, or the only man save Mr. Bright, who can be an des-
cribed. The power of the caste is still very great in society,
"claims" are site to lie pressed with vehemence. Mr. Glut-
stone does not like hurting old frieiak, and the political
class is still doubtful whether it has or has not carried a
revolution.
A communication from the Abruzzi says :—Six
monks have just been arrested in the convent of the Madonna
del Monti di Pen-to, for having lodged and fed for threa
days is bend of brigands commanded by Fontana. Before
leaving, the civet gave twenty piastreu to the monks, ai
the men also left money to have matures cele.wated. A priest
of Peretre, named Vine... Penno, has also been arrested for
giving asylum to the liaud.t d'Angelo when the latter was
suffeting from a bad fit, arid for h soltig passed him off ss
S pludealer when the carbineers mune to ask questions re-
specting him.
At Mons, in Belgium, the manager produced Nes
bong VillageoiN, and played in the Met* himself. Someho. y
threw a bunch of carrots on the stage, winch fell at his feet
Inc-trot is threatened in consequence, 00,1 the point is, can
anybody throw a bunch of carrots on the stage, thereby to
testify his aPssrovali It is certain that a hunch of carrots
cannot be said to otatruct the play, as the same thing might
be said of a bouquet, a mirk of favour always gratifying to
the arli4e. If it NIB well, hut it bang on her head, it ha*
almost as had an effect as carrots.
L'Ablet Bauer hae pronounced a discourse at the
Madeleine wh.ell hes occ.ionedeome noise. the Abbe stated
that the physical aid intellectual degeneration of France
was to be atti Muted without doubt to the freettbaking id°tin
which are boa so common in France.
"They who have made out the relation of Dick to
Tom from the preninie that Dick's father was Tom's son, may
apply themselves to the solution of the following problem
An abbess found that an old nun was visited suepiciously
often • y a y oulig man, and so she demendedwho the gentle-
men or %nth the nun, 'Avery near relation ; his mother
wan my mother's only child.' MIS stir wer wet the abbess
wirclinalaecp.aimitng, butba.shevbisolasmre. towhythe,,,cfruabimshreatahatOstheon.yor.l4l
Week.