The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-04-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Duchess of Marlborough, it is reported, will
send sixteen Irish families, with Complete farming outfits,
to Manitoba this spring.
It is stated that owing to the late distress 15,000
acres of land have been put out of cultivaation in Bedford-
shire.

The streets of Cairo are to have their nartres inscribed
in Arabic and French and the houses numbered. It will be
the first Mnssulman town with such indications.

Theatricals in Candahar are evidently pursued
under difficulties. Thus the Candahar News states that
owing to the heavy rains the root of the theatre has fallen
in, and another performance is consequently impossible.
An important legacy has fallen to the Library of
the City of Paris. M. Berger has bequeathed a thousand
volumes, comprising prints and engravings of the ancient
masters.
.SirWilliain jenner, M.D., K. C. B. , was on Monday
elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
He is, it is stated, the first President of the College of
Physicians who has received a license to practise from all
, the English medical corporations—viz., the College of
Physicians, the College of Surgeons, and the Society of
Apothecaries. He is also the first graduate of the University
of London who has been elected President of the College
of 'Physicians.•
Mendlek, the King of Shoo., has (says an Alexandria
telegram) sent presents to the Khedive, accompanied
.by a
letter, in which the Abyssinian potentate declares great
friendship and sympathy for the Egyptian ruler, and ex-
presses a desire to draw closer and closer the good relations
between Egypt and Abyssinia.
In the litigation between the Post Office and the
Edison Telephone Company, the Attorney-General on Monday
applied to two judges of the High Court to vary the decree
restraining the company from continuing the business they
'hadlieen carrying on. The litigation had now come to an
end. When once the °lain of the Crown to the Monopoly
was admitted, they would be ready, in the interests of the
public, to grant licenses, so that there might be no impedi-
ment in the way of the active carrying on of the telephonic
communication. The application was granted.

The steamer Nebo, from Rio de Janeiro, has arrived.
at New York, and reports that on the Bth inst., in Ist. 33
deg., long. 73 deg., she supplied with provisions the barque
Tiger, 77 days out from Liverpool for -Baltimore. The crew
had sustained life for several days on strips of leather soaked
in lamp oil, until the oil gave out, and then fed on the cap:
talus dog.

The United States census has been taken, and the
results are now before the world. These show that the
aggregate population is 50,152,866, of whom 43,475,506 are
native born end 6,677,360 foreign born, while of the total
43,404,876 are whites, 6,577„151 coloured, 105,717 Asiatics,
and 65,1E2 Indians who are living in a state of what, ;Dr the
want of ti better term, may be called civilisation.
A New York telegram says :—Visible supply of
wheat, 21,800,000 bushels; ditto Indian corn, 14,300,000'
bushels. Export clearances of wheat for Europe during the
past week, 1,990,000 hushels • expqt clearances of Indian
corn for the past week, 2,350,000 bushels.
• "War or peace between Greece and Turkey? Every-
thing to-day points to war. The people and the Ministry are
equally eager, and the king stands alone in understanding
properly the grave perils of the outlook. His Majesty is said
to feel anxious lest the obstinate kimportunity of Greece
should have injured her in the sympathies of
,Europe."—The
Cuckoo.

The total number of public Bills originated in the
1.10u5e of Oonunons in .the course of the cum's% Session is
131. Of these 37 were introduced by the Government and 94
are to be credited to the industry of private, or what are
termed "independent," memblirs. Eleven Government Bills,
including the Protection of Person and Property and the
Irish Arms Bill, have received the 'Royal assent—the former
on the 2nd and the latter on the 21st of March; but u 0
measure introduced by a private member has yet become the
law of the land. '

Mademoiseille Skrorzef, a young Russian lady, has
just passed her examination at the Fasulty of Medicine, in
'
The Legislature of Tennessee has adopted a resolu-
tion in favour of protecting from the penalties of the
Coercion Act all American citizens in Ireland who have
committed no crime.
The great Hebrew festival of Passover commences
this year at sundown on Thursday, 14th inst., being the 15!
day of the month Nisan, A.at 5641. Vie' festival will con-
tinue until sunset of the 21st of Nisan.
Suclr%and so great is the desire to I belong to the
Carlton Club, that it appears from a calculation recently
made that a candidate whose name is put down now will
have4no chance of coming up for election f9r thirty years.—.
Vanity Fair..
The Scotch papers are already giving the results of
the census in the small towns and villages. Grancown has
increased in the ten years from 1,322 to 1,374, and Lossie-
mouth has a present population of 3,960, an increase of 677'
during the decennial period.
Constantinople advices bring details respecting the
plague in Mesopotamia. The efforts of the Turkish autho-
rities and of the German sanitary inspectors have kept.it
from spreading. The plague is of a terrible character. It
has broken out along the western bank of the Euphrates.
It-is limited to two towns. The one where it origianted had
• 1,200 inhabitants, of whom 350 have died. In the other
with 14,000 inhabitants, 157 died in one week.
The,City Press says that Monday, the 25th inst. has
been fixed for taking the day Census in the City of London.
A valuable orchid was sold recently in London. The
plant was a Cypripediunt!Stonei, variety Flatytcenium, just
coming into flower, and brought 140 guineas.
The Marquis de Tseng, Chinese Ambassador to
France and England, has been raised by his Sovereign to the
dignity of Mandarin of the third class with the coral
button. It is a rank equivalent to that of Duke, and is
meant to mark the Emperor's approval of the successful
conclusion of the negotiations with ,Russia regarding the
Kuldja territory.
A violent shock of earthquake was felt at two
o'clock on the morning of the 10th inst. throughout the
centre of California. No serious damage was done.
. Messrs. Moody and Sankey propose visiting England
In September next. They will spend October in Glasgow,
and afterwards proceed to a campaign in Ireland.
Captain Rushbrook, 2-18th Regiment, was attacked
by a panther at Khandalla, about 100 miles from Bombay,
about three weeks since. A fearful struggle took place,
when a sergeant came to the rescue and shot the brute.—
The Cuckoo.
Postcards with reply prepaid have been introduced
in Paris. They cost ed. for any part of France, or 3d. for
foreign countries.
A Correspondent writes to the Homeward Mail from
'Cyprus that only one 'more rain .15 necessary to make the
harvest the most remarkable one that has been known in the
Island for the last twenty years.
The pilot cutter No. 4, while cruising off Poole on
the 4th of April picked up a stray torpedo and took it to
Poole.
The first rough results of the census of Assam proper
in the siz.districts of the Bralunaputra Valley give the popu-
lation at 2,207,000, which is an increase of 290,000, or 15 per
cent. °lithe last census.
A telegram from Queensland says that great impetus
has been given to gold mining by the discovery of rich
yields at Gympic.
With a view to assisting the progress which is being
made in female education in India, the Lieutenant-Governor
of Bengal has apairoved of the establishment of two special
scholarships at the Calcutta University, to be awarded
annually to female candidates. The scholarships are to be
tenable for two years, on condition that the holders pursue
their studies in some institution approved by the Directoref
Public Instruction. •
, The Cologne Gazette says that a colossal statue of the
Norwegian poet Herik Wergeland, who was born in 1808 and
died in 1845, has been erected at Christiania, on the
Eidswoldsplatz, opposite the Storthing. It is to be unveiled
An the 17th of May—the date on which, in 1814, the first
Nowegian Storthing, at Eidswold, accepted the national
constitution.
The Berlin Correspondent of the Daily Hews has
received a letter frpm St. Petersburg stating that the Russian
Socialists have islmed a manifesto in favour of a national
rhpresentation on the basis of tudverial suffrage, with free-
dom of speech, of the press, of conscience, and of election.
If this programme be adopted, the executive committee
will, it is announced, dissolve itself, and no resort *ill be
be had to violent measures against any form of government
thus sanctioned.
The Emperor William has made the Emperor of
Russia honorary colonel of the Kaiser Alexander Regiment,
which was created in honour of his late father. Prince
Suworoff has received the highest Prussian order—that of
the Black Eagle with the Diamond Star. These special
favours are (a Berlin telegram says) regarded as a proof of
Germany's friendly intentions towards Russia.
At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society
on Monday night, Sir Henry Rawjinson, who presided, an-
nounced the result of the Royal awards. A gold medal was.
awarded to Major Serpa Pinto for his remarkable journey
across Africa, from Benguela to Natal, during which he ex-
plored nearly 500 miles of new country. A gold medal was
also awarded to Mr. Benjamin Leigh Smith, for having, in
a steamer built and fitted at his own expense for the pur-
pose of Arctic exploration, made important discoveries
along the coast of Frans-Josef Land, and for his previous
geographical work during three former expeditions, also
equipped by himself, along the north-east land of Spitz-
bergen.
The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liver-
pool-last week, from the linited States and Canada, were of
live stock a large decrease, and of fresh meat an increase,
on the arrivals of the preceding week. The total importa-
tion was 451 cattle, 724 sheep, 10,646 quarters of beef, 3,328
carcases of mutton, and 495 hogs, against a total of 1,004
cattle, 486 sheep, 7,046 quarters of beef, 1,514 carcases of
mutton, and 342 hogs on the peevious week.
The Edinburgh Daily Review understands that pre-
parations are being made at Holyrood for the accommodation
of the Queen or some members of the Royal family during
the coming autumn. If Edinburgh should be favoured with
a visit from royalty, in all probability a review of the entire
volunteer force of Scotland will be held in the Queen,a
Park.
In the presence of 15,000 spectators the final tie in
the contest for the Yorkshire Football Challenge Opp took
place ret.Leeds last Saturday. After two hours' play, Dews-
bury were-hailed the winners' Wane goal to three "dead
'balls "and one "touch-down."
A pertinent remark is made in a. letter addressed
to a provincial paper on Mr. Gladstone's proposal to ad-
vance money for the creation of peasant proprietors in Ireland.
The best landed securities in England can only command an
advance of two-thirds of the purchase-money; while Mr.
Gladstone proposes in Ireland to advance three-fourths.—
Globe.
Her Majesey the Queen has addressed a letter to
Lieutenant Colonel Degacher, Commanding the 2pd Batta-
lion 24th Regiment, thanking hilts and his officers and men
for the honour they have done her in entrusting to her keep-
ing the remains of the regimental colours Saved after the
disaster at Isandhlwana.
An Indian Maharajah has recently pulled down the
greater part of his palace, because .a vulture happened to
sit on it.
I hear from Ottawa most excellent accounts of the
MaFouis of Lorne, who is winning the hearts of Canadians
by his courtesy and consideration. At first the Governor-
General did not quite seem to understand those among
whom his let was cast, but there has been a marked improve-
ment latterly, and it is said that when the Marquis leaves the
shores of Canada for good he will be almost as much re-
gretted as Lord Dufferin was before him.—Whitehall
Review. .
It may be well to remember just now that the Irish
Land Bill for 1870 was read for, the second time on the
7th March, passed the Comluons on the 30th May, but it
was not until the Ist August that it received the Royal
Assent.
At Burton-on-Trent last Saturday the Bishop of
Lichfield consecrated a new Church, which has been erected
at the expense of Mr. M. T. Bass, M.P. The building has
cost about X-7,500, and will accommodate 600 persona. In
addition to the church Sunday-schools are being built at a
cost of £2,000, and Mr. Bass has elven a further sum of
£3,500 as an endowment to provide curates. It is only seven
years ago since the Church of St. Paul's in Burton was erected
by Mr. Bass at a cost of £40,000. An institution which is
to cost £20,000 or £30,000 isnow being erected at his expense.
Admiral William Cheselden Browne whose death is
Announced as having taken place in the Isle of Wight, was a
deicendant of an ancient Leicestershire family, some of the
members of which were high sheriffs of the county in the reign
of Henry VII. He was born in 1805, entered the navy in
1816 on board the _Minden, and as midshipman of that vessel
was present at the battle of Algiers. In 1819 he joined the
Carron, in which vessel he was wrecked in the Bay of Bengal
in July, 1820. While holding a lieutenant's commission he
was actively engaged in the Pelican, at the destruction of a
Greek piratical schooner near Zante, and was temporary
commandant of his vessel at the reduction of the town of
Carabusa.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, during the past week include a two-
spotted paradoxure from West Africa presented by Mr. A.
Wentworth Forbes ; a golden sparroW'froni Abyssinia, pre-
sented by Mr. J. Abrahams; a chukar partridge, a grey
francolin from India, presented by M. J. M. Cornelx,
C. M.% s. ; two Indian antelopes from India, deposited; tan
4-Ethiopian wart hogs from South-East Africa, a dusky
parrot from Guiana, three Ceylonese, hanging parakeets from
Ceylon, a fellow troupail from Buenos Ayres, purchased; a
fork-tailed jungle-fowl from Java, on approval; two four-
horned antelopes, a Burrhel wild sheep from India, a Javan
adjutant from Java, a rock-hopper penguin from the bralk-
land Islands, received in exchange.
Lord Beaconsfield's sufferings are probably greater
than most people imagine. Asthma and chest affections
'generally exercise a depressing influence upon a patient,
which can oniy be fully appreciated by those who have
, closely observed such affections or who have themselves
suffered from them; and it says a great deal for Lord
I Beaconsfield's strength of character that he should bear up
' with the fortitude and serenity of mind he displays.—Court
Journal.
Among tokens of the vitality of the International
Exhibition at Melbourne is the appearance of a paper called
The Exhibition Visitors' Programme," extending to eight
pages and published daily. The "Programme," which coin-
prises much information concerning the Exhibition and the
sights and amusements of Melbourne and its neighbour-
hood, had reached on the 2nd of March its 129th number. '
The official register of dentists fop 1881, just pub-
lished under the direction of the Council of Medical Educa-
tion, comprises the name of 5,263 practitioners distributed
over the United Kingdom.
At a meeting of the Sunderland Liberal Five Hun-
dred on Monday night, it was resolved to invite Sir Henry
Havelock-Allan to a banquet, in testimonyoo2uftsesttih:enem for his
services .as member for the borough during
'lliettebeaumq.ausetawppilolinbteedheltdo n
carry t 'and
arrange-
ments.
sub-committee
• The polling for St. Ives, to fill the 'vacancy in the
representation caused by the death of Sir Charles Reed, took
place on Monday, when Mr. Ross, the Conservative candi-
date, was returned by a majority of 102 votes.
There was a decided improvement in the Tweed
Salmon fishery at Berwick at *e beginning of last week,
but since then there has been a decrease. Most of the fish
are now gotmear the mouth of the riv.er. It is remarkable
on
eing 1t the
past seven
that that they are generally of light weight; scarcely any
large fish have beefs got this season. Prices on Saturday
were—Salmon, 2s. Id.; trout, 2s. per lb.
Mr. Hanbury, eldest son of Mr. George Hanbury,
of 21, Portman square, London, and grandson of Mr. Han`airy,
• of Truman, Hanbury, and Co. , died on Thursday evening in last
week from being thrown from his horse. The unfortunate
gentleman, who was about accompanying his father and
sister for a ride in Hyde Park about noon on Thursday, had
scarcely mounted his horse when he bolted across Portman-
square, and Mr. Hanbury was thrown on his head' on the
pavement on the south side of the square. He was within a
few weeks of attaining his 23rd year.—An inquest has been
held, when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidenta
death," expressing sympathy with Mr. Hanbury on his loss.
Mr. Browning tells the Literary World of Boston
how he wrote his striking ballad,
"How they brought the
good news from Ghent." " There is no sort of historical
foundation for the poem," he says. "I wrote it under the
bulwark of a vessel, off the African coast, after I had been
at sea long eriou'i to appreciate even
horse the
'York'
' fancy of a gallop
on the back of a certafn good the, in
my
stable at home. It was written in pencil on the fly-leaf of
Bartolio's Simboti, I remember.
"According to rep6rts from abroad, the attitude of
the English Government in regard to the Tunisian frontier
. question is as follows: It regards with disfavour any action of
France which might tend permanently to distuati sholtojuk
quo in North Africa, andwould use all reasonable and police-
rul means to prevent that Power from annexing Tunis or
asserting a protectorate over it. The British Ministry re-
coguises, ills said, the suzerainty of Turkey over Tunisian
territory, and denies that an outbreak of the lawless tribes
abutting upon French Algerian territory ought to be con-
strued into a hostile act on the part of the Bey."—Thesday's
Daily Telegraph.

The strike on the Chicago Street Railway has
terminated, the demands of the employes having been
granted.
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-- The Leeds Mercury says that the Rev. Dr. Worley
Punshon, the eminent Wesleyan minister, is seriously

•A portrait of her Majesty has been placed in the
mess-room of the Royal Artillery permanent barraAts at
Aldershot. The picture is a copy of the one by Angell,
which is in the Queen's private dining-room at Windspr
Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Connaught honoured the °Merl s of the Royal Artillery with
their presence at dinner on the occasion.

'The copper doors of the chancel of the church of
the Abbey of Milne, which was destroyed in 1794, have
lately been found In an old marble quarry in the Hainaut.
The frames are the work of Quentin Sintsys and his pupil
Daloze. The panels belong to a much older period.
Trade is reviving. Even trade in jewellefy is
reviving. • Birnithgham is at the present moment turning
out bracelets at the rate of 10,000 a week.
"Afternoon teas" are still in high favour among
theleaders of Parisian high-life. The high-born ladies are
at home from three to six, and offer to their visitors the
charm of their conversation, a cup of tea and a biscuit, and
sometimes a little music.

A branch of the Irish Land League has been formed
in Brisbane, Queensland.

Forty-four Hampshire Down sheep, exported to the
ljnArd States by Mr. Parsons Fowler, were recently sold
Pefflisylvania at an average of £6 ss.

Literary pirates fare badly in China. Any person
printing and selling the works of an author without his
permission is liable to a hundred blows of the baniboo and
transportation for three years. If the'offender has stopped
short at printing, and has not begun to sell, the penaltyi3
fifty blows, together with the forfeiture of the matedials
from which it is intended to print.
The death of Prince Pierre Napoleon is announced.'
He was the third bon of Lucien Bonaparte, and was born in
September, 1815. His career was a very varied and eventful
one. During the last fifeeen months of his life he had been
a severe sufferer from gout, and was confined to his room.
News has reached London by telegraph of the ftcci-
deatal death, in New South Wales, of Mr. Cebil Charles
Balfour, second son of the late Mr. James Maitland Balfour,
of Whittinghame,. N. 8., and Lady Blanche Balfour. He was
killed on the 3rd mat. by a fall from hi horse. The deceased
gentleman, who was in his thirty-first year, was brother of
Mr. A. J. Balfour, M.P. for Hertford, and of Lady Rayleigh,
and nephew of the Marquis of Salisbury, and Mr. Beresford-
Hope, M.P.—Obituary of The Times; April 11th.

The Spectator is in want of a "homely English
word to express kindly feeling for animals." So it has coined
one which deserves to be as widely known as possible; it is
Philozooisni.

The Land Law (Ireland) Bill is divided into seven
parts, and contains 60 clauses. The Bill occupies 27 pages,
and bears the names of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Forster, Mr.
Itrizlit, and the Attorney General and Solicitor General for
Ireland.
It is curious to note how a flaming new silk hand-
kerchief will struggle up from the deepest breast pocket
into the light of day, and linger there, while a soiled cotton
one lurks at the bottom. making only now and then a hasty
sally into the open air. —Sporting Times.

"As the family of a very orthodox divine were
gravely discussing why the baby was so naughty, a boy. of
twelve, who had, just commenced to study the steam-engine
as well as catechism, asked, 'Papa, as we all inherit the sin
of Adam, and the baby is such a little fellow, isn't there a
greateripressure of sin to the square inch in the baby than in
any of the rest of us I"—"Editor's Drawer," in Harper's
New Monthly Magazine.
The4miniature,ocean of milk in consumption during
every twenty-four hours in the -United States approaches,
if it does .aot exceed, 200,000,000 gallons. It is calculated
that this is a quantity approximately sufficient to SU the
Grand Junction Canal half way from London to Birming-
ham, with something to spare for locks and evaporation.
The Irish World announces that sixty-seven new
branches of the Irish Land League were- organized in Ame-
rica last week, making a total of 1,229.
The Saturday Review regards the proposals of the
present year's Budget as none the worse for their moderation
and simplicity.

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Mr. Malcolm, coroner, heti an inquest at Hunslet,
Leeds, on the death of Thomas Lazenby, aged 32, gasfltter,
who had died from hydrophobia. Deceased, whilst trying to
extract a needle which had entered the mouth of a young
black-and-tan terrier, was bitten on the hand by the dog,
which was his own property. Melancholia soon shcwed
itself, for the deceased felt convinced that he was suffering
from hydrophobia. Great excitement followed in the second
stage, and prior to his death he had to be strapped down in
bep,.
The Paris correspondent of The Standard says that
a romantic double suicide was committed in Paris on tilie
Bois de Boulogne on Friday in last week. A young lady and
gentleman took a cab, and, after dining at a restaurant,
resumed their drive. The cabman had got into the middle
of the wood, and, hearing no sign of life in the vehicle, he
descended from his seat, and, on opening the door, he found
both occupants dead. They had poisonedthemselve3.

A number of Belgian ladies of rank have purchased
a costly missal of the Burgundian period for presentation to
the Princess Stephanie on her marriage. The volume'con-
tains many rare miniatures, while its binding sparkles with
precious stones. .

The revised version of the New Testament is not
only the joint property of the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge, but the editions of the version issued by the two
University Presses are identical in every respect except' in
regard to the word " Oxford " or " Cambridge" on the
title-pages. The type, form, binding, and price are the same.
" Consolation " parties during Lent have been intro-
duced into New York fashionable circles. Tea and a little •
serious music are the amusements offered.

Application was made by the Arbroath School
Board to the Registrar-Geneaal for leave to inspe census
books to ascertain the ages of children for educational pur-
poses. The Registrar-General, in reply, regrets that he is
unable to comply with the request, as the Secretary of
State directs that "the books are not to be examined or
copied by any unauthorised person for any purpose what-
ever."

The quarterly return of emigration from Liverpool
shows a slight increase compared with the same period of
last year, the number being upwards of 24,000, of,whom over
11000 left in March for the United States. About half of
tie emigrants were Germans.

The --Queen is expected to reside for about a month
in the Isle of Wight, and on leaving Osborne sill probably
return to Windsor f(r a short stay before quitting the south
for her spring trip to tialmoraL

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Arrangements are being made by the authorities. in
Dublin for carrying into effect the provisions of the Arms.
Act, and a circular has been issued to the constabulary,
signed by the Inspector-General, containing instructions as
to-the manner in which arms are to be demanded and sur-
rendered, and the means by which those from whom arms
are taken are to receive compensation. The constabulary
will further be supplied with a series of registers, in which
they will have to enter the arms surrendered, and.the stations
at which the surrenders are made.

The demands on the services of the constabulary in
parts of the West of Ireland for the preservation of peace in
disturbed districts, I am informed (says the Dublin Corre-
spondent of the Datly News) have seriously interfered with
the collection of the Census papers. It need hardly be
pointed out that this may militate considerably against the
accuracy of the returns, inasmuch as it has occurred in those
districts where, in order to insure accuracy, it was most
essential that the forms should be collected without delay.

A representative council of the Church of England
is now, according to the National Church, in course of
formation, and will ere long be completed. Each Diocese
will elect three members, three clerical and three lay, and
the Coundl will time consist of 180 members, whose first
business Will be to 'determine the duties which it is to dill-
charge.

A Japanese audience, it is said, when they wish to
express disapproval of a badzpla3, do not hiss or hoot Or
make any hideous or incoli'venient noise; they merely also
and turn their backs to the stage, upon which the curtain
immediately descends.

A most enthusiastic reception was accorded to
President Brand on his return from Natal, his arrival being
made the occasion for great public rejoicings. A triumphal
arch was erected on the route leading to his residence.
Replying to addresses presented to him by the Dutch and
English inhabitants, Mr. Brand expressed his firm conviction
chat the peace ooncluded between the British Government
and the Transvaal Boers would be the means of uniting all
the nations of South Africa in the bonds of peace andlfriend-
ship.

The new combined postage and receipt stamp is
to be issued almost at once. Amalgamation is the order cit
the day as much in the Departments under the Treasury as
In our railroads. Excise and Customs are to a great extent
to become one ;, at least, in all essential particulars; and
mow Stamps, which is a branch of the service, is to amal-
gamate with the Post Office. The size of the new stamp
will be somewhat larger than the present stamp, and it will
have on it the legend, "for postage and receipt, 'thus mark-
ing out that it is a double debt to pay.

An inquest has been held at Wavertree, near Liver-
pool, on the bodies of Joseph Winstanley, 36, and John
Ward, 31, who had been killed by the upsetting of an engine
on the Gridiron cutting of the London and North-Western
Railway at Wavertree. The men were on an engine which
was pushing a tipping-wagon to the edge of an embankment.
When near the tip the wagon somehow left the line and
turned over. The engine mounted the fallen wagon and
rolled over the embankment to a depth st about 30ft. The
deceased were found under the engine dead. Both were
married men, one leaving four, and the other five children.
The jury returned a. verdict of "Accidental death," there
being no evidence to show how the wagon left the line.--4t
third man had a Darrow escape, jumping off the engine Alt
in time.