The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-10 00:00:00

Et"yromli OF NE NV t•:,...,

RRITISET AND FOREIGN

I t the Aberdeen dog show, the deer-hounde exhi-
rned by the Queen took find and second prices.
The centennial of the throwing of the tea into Boston
Herb cur was celebrated In Hatton on the 16th D:cember by
the "New England Woman's Tea Party."
An adweirable statue of Hercules has been discovereo
at list/Milne. It Is larger than life, and is Intact with the ex-
ception of the feet and left arm, which are broken.
A lady in at the present time "reading in chambers,"
with a conve) aiming counsel In Lincoln's inn, and mean. to
make application to one of the Inns of Court, with a view to
being admitted to the bar.
'A gentleman of position wishes to correepond
with • Lady, with view to matrimony , this being hool Ode,
none but real name and address will be answered."—Arlyer-
tisement in Manchrste, Exarnaler
A slight fall of snow occurred in London early on
11 ,iolay morning, accompanied by a violent north-west
wind.
A French correspondent states that the Biehop of
:Nisei. has received, as a reply to hie recent pastoral, two
visiting cards, one from Iddrne. Hyacinthe de Loyston, and
the other from " Hyacinthe Loyson, curb of Geneva, ' on
which are written the following lines With our Christian
pardon for the gross insults which you have heaped upon

The Delhi Ga:elle says—" We have not heard the
last of the Momunde on our North-West Frontier. They
have only jut been called upon to pay a fine, the price eta
British Oaiftell life (the life of Major Macdonald, killed at
Michnie), and yet they have had the audacity to attempt the
same thing agatn. Captelu 11 S. Anderson, of the 12th 8.C.,
was out shooting Lear F•rt Michnie, and was flied at twice
by some Momunds from beyond the border"
The committee of the Church Missionary Society is
ratting • "Bengal Famine Fuud" to be administered chiefly
by Its mittionartes and agent.. Already the society states
that it has in the orphanages between 900 and 1,000 children
rescued from former famines, for whom help will be
greatly needed, and it is desired to buy up a supply of rice
for these children. Al In 1681, the committee have therefore
determined again to open • special fund, to which contribu-
tions may be sent to the Society'. house In Salisbury-square,
London.
The wife of Alexander Agassiz, son of the late Pro-
f :sear Agent* died on the 23rd ult. of pneumonia brought on
by fatigue in her attendance upon her f Aber-In-law during
his illnese. Mr.. Agassir was the daughteref the late G. R.
Remelt, and granddaughter of the late Robert G. Shaw, of
Botten. Tee American papers say that the war a lady of
remarkable worth and culture, and her genial presence will
be mimed from a wide social and literary circle.
A school board difficulty has arisen at North Shields.
Owing to notice of the triennial election not:having been:gliren
' in time the election cannot be legally proceeded with. The
I Education Department has been asked to reel?), the la' etake
by granting a special order f d• anew election, but the reply
teethed In North Shield. on Tuesday states that the mll6
tete caenot be repaired The remit will be that the existing
members will be entitled to sit three learn longer without
their being subjected to another election.
Dlr. Phillips, of the Roilivan &mite Go cue, who
was deputed by Mr. Biwa, M.P., to make inquirtem at Man-
chester respecting the number of servants killed and inju ed
on the Lancashire, and Yorkshire Railway during 1872, com-
menting on the suggestions that have been made that possl•
bly the majority of emualties to servants Involving injury
only which he discovered were mere scratches or bruises,
states the :thirty-four of them are described by the company
asp roasnent disablements, while the remaining 1,3,53 were
all of a suillidently net as nature to temporarily unfit the
sufferers lot their usual employment according to the evi-
dence of the company's doctor's. He adds that no fewer
then thirty-six Lancashire tied York.hire servants were
killed, twenty permanently disabled, and 671 blared during
the Ere six months of 1813.
The rlirid Censor on Parisian toys has been un-
usually Mile& this year, and fewer joucts time usual beer
upou politicsl topics of the day. This care I, statesmen's
susceptibilities has given rise to some amusing incidents.
One toy-maker had brought out • clockwork Punch-orator,
hick gesticulated in • tribune. The Censor objected to the
humeback, which he said might offend a Deputy, 11
tiquet. 1 his emovea he o' .4 -cte I that the beard made It
tesoo.ble hI. Gembetta the figurers,* shaved and preseoted
for the third Um, bun it was thou found to wear apreetacles,
and might be taken for 11. Thlen. Finally, the meaer lost
patience, rehabilitated II In It. original form, and sent It thts
time by a friend, as "Per,,b, the Came Jack" By Mb title
the eels of the figure was euthortsed.
Just twelve monthe ago there wire pram:Wed to the
Brightoa Aquarium by Mr. Webb, of Ne wsiesd Abbey,
through Mr. Fronk Bucklmd, fiftecu thae trout It In grati-
fying to be able to report that the health of these flsis is
th-roughly satisfactory. They gambol and play about as only
creaturea in robust condition care to do, and they have
grown considerably. So well has their locality agreed with
them that the nateralista have thought they could not do
better than put the beautiful and rare 'p, dome of the gold
tench, lately presented to the Aquarium by Higford burr,
Ely ,of Aldermatton Park, Reading, in the same tank The
two species consort well together, and afford a really beautiful
sight. The tench appear to be already getting tam; and
nem by no menus shy In the presence of visitors.
Dating the we.k ending last Sotqrday 5,922 births,
and 4,084 deaths were registered in London and t eeety other
large calm and towns of the United Kingdom. The natural
Increase of population was 1,842. The mortality from all
cause, to these towns was at the rate ef 28 deaths annually
to every 1,000 femme Beteg. 10th. metropolie 2 592 ninth,
and 1 Slit tenths were registered. Alter making due alien
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shoe for Increase of popelation, the births exceeded by 538,
and the deaths by 14 the average numbers he the corre-
sponding week of the last ten years. This excess both Of
births and deaths le don ntlese, to a considerable exteet due
Co the del.,' In registration caused by the Chris, mas holidays
in the prevb nt week. The deaths lucludeet C from email-
pox, 108 from mamba, 18 mum scarlet fever. 2 Irons Mph-
Um* Oa front whoofilui-oough, 81 from &Herm.* forms of
fever, aed It frees diarthom. Ya.metine two said dais at
the beginning of the week, the temperattwe was cmalderably
aDove the Average

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Nq lese than four executions occurred on Monday
morniog—three at Unshorn, and one at LtrarpooL
Colonel Henry Dan'el, who was formerly In the
Guards, and wss well known in ruing eirries, died on Sunday
last, afkr a long illness.
Viscountess d'Albouet, twenty-three years of age,
hos died in Paris from the effects of • fall on the staircase of
her house about • fortnight nage. Her husband Is Com-
mandant in the Chasseura d'Afriguss statlonod a: 0/an.
There is a remarkable freemaaonry in the French
press : editors may llgtt like Chrislisne, abuse each other,
sod:usage shots and eword•thruste, when dynamite leaders
...Al to convince; but against the Prussian they are found
suouider to shoulder.
A low mane for the repose ("he aoul of t`...e Emperor
Napoleon 111. was eald on Monday m ruing at the Churcn
of Auteuil. The soir says that the oongregation connoted
princi,ally of old soldiers and former luusehold servente.of
the Emperor.
The death is announced at Rome of Count Filipno
AutoneW, brother of the Clltdll.l. 0.11/1:11 antonelll. who
was seventy-four years of age, was • director of the It man
Bank, and spent several bouts every day up to the lad in
attendance at the Bank He is stated to have loft a /MIMI
of about ten million of francs.
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From Naples the report comes that a rambling
note*, aocompanled by much smcke, Is audible from Mount
Vesavlns. Protestor Palmieri, Indeed, announces that a
severe eruplien Is Imminent, although Ilse has not yet been
area in the Interior of the craters. _ _ .

Ritualistic pilizeimates to the Holy Laud is the
latcit high Church seuration. One is proposed to start this
year, and circulars have been sent round giving due informa-
tion upon eve essential points that this act meditates the
acconiNishment of."—Court Journal

The donut le announced, M Evreux, of M. Huet,
honorary prealdeut of the Cxvil TrMutual of that town, and
father.ln-law of M. Jules Jauln. Ile la Bald to have left •
fortune of 150,0(0fr. $ year, Ma Bole heirs being MB daughter
and his wife.

The United States' Congrees prints profusely. The
Howe of Representatives has recently determine] to print
255,000 copies of the Auktural Report of each of the last
two years, 510(00 volumes In alt Each member will be
allowed about 600 copirs The House has also voted each
member 24 copies of the Congressional discord.
A gentleman on entering • Paris restaurant called
for a alum of Madeira, and Inquired casually from the waiter,
a young man from the country, if It wu old. Yes, moo-
hear; it was made this morning
Most Frenchmen, when they commit suicide, like to
do it In a way which will render them celebrated in the
papers A man living at Montmartre invited his friends to
dinner one night hut week, and on arriving there, Instead
el finding their host at the head of the table, ruddy and
joyous, they discovered htm dead, hanging He had taken
the precaution to provide bread, cheese, and air for hh
glllllllio.
rho funeral of Mr. Gilbert Sprague, one of the
Qceen'is Pages of the Bock Stairs, took place at Windsor on
kriday He had been in the service of the Quell and the
Prince Consort for 33 years, previous to which he had been
for ten years in the service of the late King of the Belgians.
By his death her lisjasty has lost a faith' ul and excellent
servant
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Church extension, aided by a society of which the
Bishop of Exeter is the patron, Is making rapid strides in the
" Three Towns" of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehenge.
A feeemouthe' since the bishop laid the foundationetones of
All Saints at Plymouth, and Bt. Matthew a‘itonehotute. On
Saturday he laid the foundation-stone of • third. Bt. Mark's,
at Ford, a new end populous suburb of Davonport. The board
school was lent fer the religious service.
" Marie Antoinette's hair turned white with sorrow
In ODO night, that of the flight to Vergennes, bet a ashion•
able Parisienne, writ log to • friend cansiders inch a calamity
insignificant by thealde of her own. ' I have been far more
unfortunate than those whose hair Is blanched in • single
night," writes the fair lady, 'for the other evening I lost all
mine whilst waltzing.' "—Court Journal.
Intelligence from Natal ie to the effect that opera.
tions are being continsed against the rebel i.flirs. Seven
thousand bead of cattle and one hundred and fifty stand of
arm, had been seised. Large numbers of women and children
belonging to the rebel tribe were being captured and appren-
ticed out • distance from their former homes.
Amongst the passengers who sailed in the Cunare
steamer Bussix, which left Liverpool for New York on
Saturday, were the following survivors of theill-fated steamer
Valle du ilarre :—Mr. Waite, Mr. Cremer, Mrs. Buckley,
Miss Minter and sister, and Mrs. Taylor. The latter lady lost
her husband, who was a passenger, through the disaster.
An application has been made to the Home
Secretary to know If the proper parties to receive the penal-
ties in Meted under the Adalteratfon of Food Act are not the
local authorities who prosecute. The Home Secretary con-
siders that by terms of the Act the penalties should be paid
to the Receiver of the Police, and not to the vestriee or district
boards.
Mr. Gladstone has refused to receive a deputation
from the Woman'. Suffrage Association. Ile hag, In reply to
a memorial presented by them, declared that he cannot
enter Ingo any oral discussion with them upon the subject,
but that be will carefully study any written statement
which they may lay before
New York papers describe the fog in that city on the
nth of December as the most dense that has prevailed there
for years. Business was seriously interrupted. Two Mae
eachusette fishermen, lost in the fog, were six days and nights
In their boat with nothing to eat and nothing to drink, ex
cep* that a little rain on one occasion soaked their clothing
and relieved their Mini a little. When picked up they were
nearly dead from exhauation.
The official correspondence respecting the seizure of
the l'lrginius to I.heen laid before the United States Con.

great, together with a me, sge on the subject from President
Grant,. lieln!tlotains that the
.capture of. the vessel sod the

executlon of CrTw";;Teririlaiil-o-ni Of -i-nier—naiio-n-ai law
and treaty obligations. Spain, by surrendering the l'irginius,
admitted these principle., and the President considers the
ittiement of the q iestton a just one, and calculated to pro•
mote good relations between the two countries.

The only peer who will come of age during the pre
sent year Ls the Earl of Una low, who attains his majority on
the 7511 March, and will then be entitled to take his seat in
the Rouse of L .rds. The other peers who are minors, and
the dates on which they will come of age, are as follow ;-
1875, Lord de Freyne ; 1876, Lord Byron and Lord fluting,;
18;8, Lord itodney and Lord Windsor; 1879, Karl of Cern-
watt : 1881, Earl of llopetoun ; 1884, Viaconnt Clifden ;
185, Lord Kenyon; 1886, Lord Athiumney ; 1888, Lord
Bouthampton ; 1t93, Marquis Camden.

The Railway Commissioner., Sir Frederick Feel,
Mr. Macnamm, and Mr. Price, have given their decision on
on the complaint made by Mr. Goddard, • carrier at Salis-
bury, against the London and South• Western Railway Com-
pany, that they overcharged him for the conveyance 01 goods
and parcels, and that they gave unreasonable and preferential
advantages to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, their own agents.
The case had been for flee days before the court. The Com-
missioners decided in favour of Mr. Goddard on two points,
against him in two others, and on two paints they made no
order. They gave the complainant his costa.
On Monday, Mr. Samuel Rowe, a gentleman resid-
ing near Bareetaple. died • taw hours after being bitten by •
rat. He had been superluteuding the removal of some hay
from a Stack on his premises near Barnstaple, when a rat
ran oat. Ile took hold Of It, when It turned and bit tido,
causing • lever, and lagged wound in the wrist. Modifica-
tion ensued, and a few hours &Ziemer& Mr. Rowe died. Ile
was &rather nervous man, but was otherwise quite healthy.
It sves considered unnecessary So hold an inquest
A Home Rule meeting was held on Monday night
at klanchenter A letter was read from the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Salford declining to attend, but adding that no
one could feel more strongly than he did how unequally
[ Ireland had been dealt with The Blehop of MOM ester
also declined the invitation, and added that he could neither
advocate nor support the movement.
In an article in the Deists upon the prospects of the
new year, If. Leroy Beauties remarks, upon the decrease in
the population of France. IV the Census of 1866 It was
showa that the Empire, as then constituted, possessed
30.007,091 inhabitants. of these 107,238 oelonged to Alsace-
Lorraine, now ceded to Germany. The population of France
within its present limit/ was therefore, in 1860. 36,469,076,
while in 18;2 she number had fallen to 36,102,921, or • tie.
crease of 366,935.
Here are a few eccentricities of advertising culled
from the "agony column" of a recent number of The Times:
The Lord watch between Ile and Thee, eke. Tnough you
can never undo the morrow you have caused me ty cruelty,
which almost make, the past a lie, my heart, my life, my
breath, my whole spirit is with you." Could there exist
more wholetale devotion—heart, breath, life. whole antra!
A little lower down, "James Joiner, meter mariner, an-
nounces he has summed the name of "James Albert
Vleconti Powlett."
The celebrated speech of Sir Boyle Roche—" Mr.
Speaker, I smell a rat; I tee him floating lathe air ; but,
mark me! 1 shall yet nip him in the hod !.'—was evidently
the model upon which • writer In a lat• Kansas paper ea.
marks upon the result of • recent election He says that
"the fall of cdrruptlon has been dispelled, and the wheels of
the state gevernment will no longer tie trammelled by sharks
that have beset the public prosperity like locusts."
A meeting of the engineers on strike IMO held In
London on Saturday evening, at which it was stated that the
subscriptions coming in were I age and encouraging. A re.
solution for the appointment of • deputation to wait upon
the London Trwies Connell was moved; but, after some
discussion, the further consideration of the question DWI
postponed for a week.
An inqueet bite been hell at West Hartlepool, on
Saturday, touching the death of Michael Kelly, aged 16,
who died at the hospital no Friday evening. The deceased,
who worked at the rolling milts, eat down to rest beside a
vat of boiling water, and, sleep overc, suing him, fell Into P.
Two fellow workmen taw the accident, WA rescued him
promptly, lie was a inveyed to the hospital, where he
lingered in great agony until death terminated his suffer-
logs. Ihe jury found a verdict of" Accidental death."
A bill laid before the Prussian House of Deputies
absolutely forbids env functionary regularly paid by the
State becoming a !treater or member of the working com-
mittee of a private company without i tilde' sanction, which
in all cases is to he withheld if the functions referred to are
waded. Grecians receiving mercy chsnce fees can, however,
Inc oily reteive such remenerath n Gout private associations,
Ii their superior deems It not against the good of the State
that they should do no, and vu the understanding that the
permission it revocable. The last close of the Act exempts
functionaries regularly retired on pension from Its opera-
tion.
, On Saturday a trade dm:veneration, in which Revers
1 thousands of operatives took part, was held in Dundee, for
the purpose of demanding the repeal of the Criminal Law
Amendment Act, and the expunging of certain ChMees from
the Conspiracy and Masters and Servants Acts A proces.
I sion was formed which passed through the principal streets
of the town to Magdalen-green, where resolutions were pen.
posed calling upon the Legislature it take steps in the
direction indicated. The pro ceedings were enthusiastic
throughout Mr. YeiMMI, hip, spoke from one of the
platforms, and many effective addresses were delivered.
An open ceropetition for one_eituation of wapro.
fetsional clerk In the solicitor's office cf the General Poe'.
011ie*, London, will be held in Loudon on the 6th ',abeam
neat. In widlion to the general reci'attons t•or open corn•
petitions, the fodowing special reiteration will le. enforced.
—The limits of sge will be 18 and SO, mod no candidate will
be eligibe who is not, or has not within two years been
berthas as a clerk (not articled) In • solicitor's Whew Tile
examination will be handwriting, orthography, arithmetic
(to vulgar and decimal !notions.) auci Inglisii composition,
and a fee 01 100 will he reqeired from each csuildate at-
tending the examinati,n
A Correspondent at Ballo draws attention to the
great increaeo of cr:mes of violence in tnat city. A list of
these crimes, many of them he'll% curd' rs committed Curing
the months of etivember and Dec,mleer, has been published
by the Bourse Gazette, and the Correep dident thinks that no
City In Earepe coo u show such an acceent. None of the
victims are rich, and most of them belong to the poorest
class Thus a workmen was murdered for 20 tenter.; a
widow for a small ens of money which she had abont her
a cigar merchnnt was stabbed for right hundred thalers
and so on. Some of these crimes, too,- were committed in
broad daylight. They are not the work of practised hands,
the Correspondes t rays, but of an Ignorant brutal chaea,
demoralised by war and military life, and driven by misery
to adept murder as a profession ne pollee meanwhile
appear to do nothing to protect the public. Some half
dozen of three mastications have been committed during
the Iset two months, but only he one me has the =Mem
been discovered.
Sir Coulee Dilke lectured on Monday night at
Beanfdrt House, Fulham, on "the representation of "heists
In the Parliament of 190•-71 " The hon, baronet reviewed
the coarse taken by himself arid his code wire in Parliament
during those years, d • truing at some leugth OD the queetion
of the regiesration of voters and CM toe working of the
ballot. Sir Charles, thinks that wine steps should he taken to
prevent the accideotel return of representativesof &minority
of a onn•tit'or cc, either hy a syetem of dont& tlectlor,
n France, or by • plan of alernative voting Alter lopesAtue
: to 11•011 r of shorter Parliaments, dof a system of inter.
national arbitration, Sir Chutes went on to IMMO his de.
I. gtaition of party Government. He said he should like to
see a LAW paailottaas te•teed of so mach peaty. One side
was just as bad its the other is this nu= Hs wesittered
the Liberals did not assert that the bribed Xing
• Itgitaa-Calcally to Invade Cape CA'S at the bud of his
Aahanteos.

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Mr. Robert Browning has • poem In rapid
which may be expected moon.
A Parisian chiropodist snriounoes on his cards that
he has removed o ries from several of the crownod bead.
of Amore." Funny place for corna—Court J 0111.16/.
According to the Prinleri Register, there are now
sabliahed in Great Brltalu and lreland 131 daily newsy: oers,
distributed as follows :—Londoo. 24 , provinces, 2 otige„,d,
13; Ireland, 18 ; Wales, I; Channel islands. 2.
It is stated that it will require about 1:60,0D0 000
ea replenish the French arsenals, rearm the Vrts eni
44:vs, Ac
Late on Saturday night the relatives of the man
Nichols, who lies Ia Ayleeoury Gaol under sentence of death
for the murder of his wife at .11usy ifew week. since, re-
bal red official Intimation that the condemned man had been
reprieved.
French advice. state that orders for wheat have
been received in Algeria from Mareeilles, the North of
France, Belgium, and Italy. These orders are so consider.
able that It Is doubted whether it will be possible to lolly
Satisfy them.
We learn from the Cape of Good Hope that Con..
modore COLIMOIeII. who was el, wounded some time
Ince by the Ashantem, is now so far recovered that he has
been able to imolai • ban m cape Toro aluu in honour
the officers of the Challenger.
Aooounte of the Challenger show that the officers
ars k Led at every port In wuiall the go al ship anchor..
Having been the 110 0$ of Cape Town for &period of /41 weekll,
they have left for the Ant-mock region..
At • public meeting held on Monday at South
Shields, the Mayor (Alderman Glover) preeiding, a subscrip-
tion hat was opened for the relief of the widows and orphans
of the men recently drowned from the steamer leipeso Queen.
• sum of nearly £4OO was at once raised.
The stc-md Cotference cf the Amtegatnated
Labourers' Union commenced at Cardin on Monday. F
ill districts, embracing 10,000 members, were represented
The programme Includes the necessity for labour repreeen
tattoo In Parliament end the appointment of district agents

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The soil of Ashantee to said to he everywhere im-
pregnated with this precious metal (gold and eo,islderable
quantities have been procured from the sand of tho streets
of Coomsasie The mines are undoubtedly rich and very In
perfectly worked; some of them, indeed, through the super
stilioul of the people. are not worked at all.
The Haronesse de Villebon met with an accident
last week, at her 'reddence in the Rue de Vareuues, Paris,
On returning from an evening party she approached the
mantelpiece, when her dregs caught Sr., and in an Mutant
was In flames. Fortunately her maid seised a oounterpme,
and wrapped her mistress in it, and probably saved her We,
but not before she was somewhat burned. Mote. de Ville-
bon's sister-in-law died from a similar cause four or Ave
years ago.
The following eldest eons of peers attain their
majority during the present year :—February 9, Lord Brooke,
son of the Yowl of Warwick Much 3, Vie:want Stopiord,
son of the Earl of Gourtown ; March e Viscount Nevin, son
of the Earl of Abergavenny April 2b, Earl Groevenor, son
of the Marquis of Weetminster% May 14, Hon. Philip Sidney,
sou of Lord de Lille and Dudley ; December 1, Hon. Patrick
George Bellew, son of Lord Bellew.
On Monday night Mrs. Robertson, residing at llnd
clingst)ne, near Rdinbureh, was being driven home by wey
of the road along Queen Park, Eiinburgh, when, at the
point near the rocks called Sampson'. Ribs, the horse and
can went over an embankment about 40 or 60 feet deep.
The horse was killed and the cab broken to plume. Mrs.
Robertson wee uninjured. The cabman, named Wright,
was so much hurt that he died on the way home.
An inquest has been held at Reading respecting the
death of Harry Taylot, • guard employed by the South.
Eastern Railway Company, belonging to Redhill. It appeared
that a few days ago the deceased fell between the platform
and a train in motion at Erleigh Station. He was extricated
and conveyed to the Berkshire Hospital. but shortly after-
wards died. The jury returned • verdict of Accidental
Death.
A diamond-saw Is in operation at the Exhibition of
the American Institute. The machine I. the ordinary re-
ciprocating saw machine; but diamonds form the cutting
Mole, in combination with the steel blade as a guide. The
diamonds are set in "cutter blocks" at intervals along the
blade, and work horizontally.. • true saw in the stone set
beneath. While an ordinary saw cuts on an average lb Mabee
of brown stone in a day, the diamond-saw will do as much
In han-an•hour.
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In London, at the Weetmineter police-court, Thomai
Deane, well dressed, a clerk M the empby of the London.
Obathstu, and Dover Railway, was charged with attempting
to e. inmit suicide by shooting himself. The prisoner went
to his apartments in the afternoon of the Bth ult. Shortly
afterwards the report of a pistol woe heard, and he was
found on the floor severely wounded in the breast. A medi-
cal man found no less than sixteen or seventeen wounds pro-
duced by sparrow shot. The prisoner for some days way in
a critical state, but was now much better. Although the
shot had gone too far to be extracted, the medical man
apprehended no serious consequences. The shot, he said,
won't become " encysted," and nature would In the course
of time produce • membrane round them. The prisoner
would, of course, too subject to pleurisy and pneumonia.
The prisoner had expressed his regret to a clergo nom tor
what he had done, adding that a young lady had rtjected
him. At the earnest request of a gentleman, the pr snow
was given up to his father, to be produced on a future day