The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

ENTOIIIE OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A paper is about to be started in called The

Here is a specimen of a French conundrum : —Why
la a journalist happier than a kingt—Because he chooses his
subjects

The News states that- -"In the last quarter g,f a
century 67a assurance companies have been projected in
England, 344 established, 319 have ceased to exist, 306 have
transferred their businesses, and 50 are now winding up in
Chancery."

A small worm that eats grasshoppers has appeared
In Utah. It is hailed as a special blessing by the saints.
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In the late Semasion 130 public Acta were passed,
against 146 in the preceding Session.

Another "sign of peace" is exhibited at Liege.
An enormous cannon has just been cast, winch is able to
penetrate any armour plate yet invented. It flings a 1,000
pound ball.

The Carlshaven, which sailed from New York to
Bremen, on the 14th of November, has not since been heard
of.

The harvest, which is now almost terminated in
Hungary, in 11,11 I,nly excellent everywhere, but in seventeen
eoinitats it is liner in quality and larger in quantity than
that of last year, which was considered one of the most ex-
traordinary in the annals of agriculture.

"The Huntsville Adroratr, in its home of the 16th,
showed decided improvement. We could not understand it
until our eye fell npon the following paragraph :—.- The
editor was absent from his post Wednesday RII,I Thursday,
which must excuse any seeming omissions is this issue of the
Adrocale."—iluntevale Argue.

At Alton, Staffordshire, the overseers have put the
names of the female ratepayers as claimants of votes on the
church door.

At Cork, a young fanner of unsound mind. named
M. earthy, killed his mother by repeated blows withia hatchet.
He attempted to murder his sister also, but she escaped, tee
hen threw himself bete the sea, hut seas rescued.
The Marquis De Om bi to be made to feel that
he has married an actress. The Figaro says the Emperor
has a ritten to the Marquis that he cannot bear the title of
imperial Chamberlain so lone as his wife remains spun the
stage, but that his salary will be miutiteued..
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Mr. Du eane left England Int Tuesday for Hobart
Town, Tasmania, of which colony he has excepted the
governorship.

The overseers' lists for the borough of Leicester
show that the number of electors has been swelled from
5,300 to more than 15,000, with a host 4,1 claimants who have
yet to urge their cases before the revising barrister.
The extreme heat of the weather continues to affect
mithvotteohly the bedim f r....0d0n. The deaths registered
last week were 1,605, en excess of 82 over the estimated
number, lout 220 fewer than in the previous week. There
were 38 deaths from choleraic diarrhea, and 384 (non
diarrhmo, but of these cases only a small proportion were
adults. In the preceding week the deaths from these
causes were 68 and 442 respectively. The Itenths wt six per-
endue from sunstroke were recorded, as against 11 during the
previous seven days.

The Peabody gun has been adopted as a new arm by
the Swiss Govenanent.

A novel question arose on Monday between a party
of weavers from Keighley, who had visited Morecambe Bay,
near Lancaster, in an excursion train, and the authorities of
the railwas by which they had travelled One of them, John
Skirrow, in attetup ing to leap on to a buoy in the bay from
a boat, was drowned, Allll his co paid°ns tendered the half
of Skirrow's return-ticket in order that his body might be
carried home 1., his friends. The station-master, however,
refused to allow the laidy to travel MI the line save under
the conditions on which corpses are usually conveyed.
A proposal is under the consideration of the Govern-
meld for the appointment of a bishop for the army, instead
of a chaplain-general, as at present. The bishop would
have episcopal powers at all stations to which our soldiers
are liable to he sent where there is now no bishop.
A Parisian lady, Madame X"--, waa informed that
her husband hail Just died In an asylum. "ih !" replied
madame, without emotion, " misfortune. never come singly!
This morning my poor dog Arnie was greatly troubled with
Indigestion 1"

The Bey. Arthur Baker, rector of Addington,
Bucks, who elicited front Mr. Disraeli some time since an ex-
planation of Ms views on Ritualism. is just dead. He died,
the Church News tells us, as a devout Catholic, surrounded
Int his relations and fortified with all the sacraments of the
Church.

Some velocipede amateurs of Marseilles are arranging
a ham fonnwy with this new means .4 locomotion. The
velocipedes are to Ftart front Marseilles for Genoa, by
Corniche. Front Genoa they are to proceed to Turin and
Son, over Mont l'enis, and return to Marseilles by the valley
of the IthOne.

Mr. Pearce, in a letter to the 2lfusiertl Standard, has
a ton mot on thii subject. When a modern maker tells you
that his violins will be as goof as those of the great masters.
when they are as old, he advises the buyer to retort, " Well
then, I'll call again In 150 years."

Our special correspondent in Vienna says that the
great rifle eonte,t there is being vigorously carried 011 by
competitors from every part of Germany. Shooting tickets
to the number of 13.000 have been Issued ; but there is a much
larger gathering of "shooting men' In the city, and it is
anticipated that the number of competitors will ultimately
amount to 3,,,000. The Emperor visited the ground on
Thursday in last week, and fired three shots at the butts.

Mr. Buhl-lan, veterinary surgeon, Jarrow, near
South Shields, died on Friday through an over-dose of
morphia. lie had been in Sunderland on Friday afternoon,
where, it Is said, he had been drinking rather freely, and on
returning home he took a quantity of morplua for the
purpose of procuring sleep flora after became very ill.
The stomach pump use applied, but Mr. Putman died the
same evening. Ile was abut fifty years of age.
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" Russia," says the Inch:perasnre "seems to
be following the example which England haa given in the
Abyssinian expedition. After having vanquished the Emir
of flokhara, and occupied the cities of the Khanat, the
Russian Government has preferred leaving the Sovereign of
that country in possession of his territories, imposing on
him, however, conditions which provide for the security of
the frontier, the freedom of commercial transactions, and
the political preeige of Russia in Central Asia."

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A serious fire broke out at Burslem, on Monday
afternoon, on the premises of Messrs. Boote, earthenware
manufacturers at Burdens. The warehouse and packing-
Were entted. Fortunately the Hanky awl Busalem
engines checked the Ore. An immense quantity of finished
ware was destroyed. The damagc is estimated at between
£2,000 and £3,000. The supposed origin of the fire was a
spark from an adjacent stove.

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The fortnight ending on Saturday, the 18th of July,
will long be remembered in America as a period of excessive
heat and great mortality. Luring that time the midday
temperature of nearly the whole portion of the United
States east of the Rocky Mountains was front 90 deg. to
99 deg. Fahrenheit, and in Canada the heat was nearly or
(mite as oppressive. The hottest days were July 14 and 15,
when thermometers in Bluely place: in New York, Fhiladel-
phia, and Montreal registered from 97 deg. to 99 deg.
: Mr. Fronde, the historian, has become the tenant of
what a correspondent describes as the "romantic house and
sporting mounds" of Dirreen. near Tralee, and Rollie days
nince he entertained all the children of the local national
school at an open-air/de. Flags, with the mottoes, "God
save the Queen," Erin go Bragh," ke., were carried by the
children as they proceeded to Dirreen. After the athletic
sports, Mr. Fronde bet fly addrt seed hIR truing guests, and
presented prizes to the winners in the different competitions.
The 3lisses Encode were present.
Families visiting the seaside are in more senses than
one at the mercy of those who let lodgings. A correspon-
dent of The Timex records an instance of a family being
attacked with scarlet fever through occupying apartments
at a northern sea-side resort where the former occupants had
suffered from the disease. The writer pown out that by the
Sanitary Act of 1,86 awne letting a hotiee or apartments
where persons have suffered from a dangerous or Infectious
disorder, without having such premises being properly disin-
fected and certified by a medical practitioner, is liable to •
penalty not exceeding £.20.

Politeness must not always be sought for among
those who class thernwlves with the "I pper Ten." The
Prince of Wales, with his broi her, the Nike of Edinburgh,
last week attended Goodwood, which in regarded as the most
aristocratic of race meetings. "The unfortunate Duke," we
learn, 'she wished nothing better than to be allowed to
enjoy the beautiful weather and the lacing in Iwaco, Was
dogged and lionised the whole day by a mob of persons who
stared him out of countenance, and crowded close behind his
seat, to all appearance engaged in making remarks npon his
ooks, and listening to what he said."
By the District Church Titles Amendment Act,
which has Jost received the Royal assent, every beneficed
clergyman, not a rector obtains the style and designation of
vicar. The anomalous title of perpetual curate, which has
attached to the incumbencies of district church, and if
the greater part of the appropriate and improixiate rectories,
has erased to exist, and the nominal inferiority implied by
its use has been removed. All beneficed clergy of the Church
of England are now either rectors or vicars.

"General," said Major Jack Downing, 'I aIiN:L,
observe that those people who have a great deal to say about
being ready to shed their last drop of blood are aniazin' par-
ticular about the brat drop."

The Rev. J. Alexander, one of the oldest; Dissent-
ing ministers in England, died on Friday morning at Nor-
wich. Ile had been connected with the Cougrcga:ionalists
for fifty years.

According to some of the American papers, 111 rs.
Lincoln is coning to England to visit the Queen. Whether
she comes as an invited guest is not stated.
Hippophagy does not appear to be making much
prgress at Dijon. of the two horseflesh butchers in that
town, the one in the Rue Bauneller has just been closest, and
the stock sold by auction. A lot sd eighty spiced sausages,
weighing 150 lb., was put up at the small price of ale., and
sold for If.

The Daily News ie informed by Laneaehire eorre•
spondents that the article in the Saturday Itecirla headed
Mr. Gladstone descends into the Gutter," reprinted in a
tom convenient for distribution, is being sent from Loudon
through the Post-office, and disseminated amongst the
electors.

It is announced that the Emperor 4of the French,
" as a mark of his high personal esteem and admiration of
the character and public principles f the late Mr. cdslen,"
bas sent a subscription of £4O to the committee wlm have
erccted the memorial at Camden-town to that illustrious
statesman.

An enterprising perfumer in Paris announces for
sale in the neighbourhood of one of the most frequented
chapels in the city a toilet vinegar called .• The Immaculate
Conception.. lie gives with each bottle a pamphlet on this
dogma.

The bodies of a man and woman, closely tied to-
gether by the waist, have been taken out of the Seine near
Auteuil. The two bad evidently conunited a (lettrmitted
suivide. Nothing was found in their persons to lead to their
identification.

A farmer named Crutchly, living at Smetha iek,
has cotemitted suicide. The deceased was alsout sixty years
tl nee, and a bachelor. Shostly Move he host beets con-
versing with a neighhour 111.011 the State of Isis crops and
stock generally. lie appeared to be in a very depressed
state of mind, and remarked that all his crops were a failure,
and there would Ise nothing for his cattle to eat. Directly
afterwards he deliberately shot himself with a pistol.
A sad accident has just occurred near Heckmond-
wike. A waggonette, containing twelve persons, going
down a steep hill was overturned, the horse having taken
fri,ht, mei the passengers were greatly injured. One of
them to seriously that they could not be removed to their
homes.

On Monday night last a distressing occurrence
happened at Clifton, a few miles from Nottingham. Two
yohths, named Blood and Buttery, aged respectively seven-
teen and fifteen years, were bathing in the river Trent, near
the above-named village, when, one of them getting into the
rapid stream was thrown down, carried away, and drowned.
His companion, much alarmed at his cries of distress, it is
suoposed. lost his presence of mind. and was also hurled
down by the stream and dross tied. The boys are said to be-
long to liuddington

Some children were at play upon the Brighton
beach the other day while the crew of a lugger were einulged
in ballasting, it with beach stones One of the children was
stooping near the boat when it suddenly heeled over owing
to the shifting of the ballast, and the child was caught by
the stern and doubled up under it. She was rescued almost
Immediately, and it was found that some 4,f her ribs were
fractured, and that she had sustained other serious contusions.

Three ehildrea of a gardener named .Tovelet, at
Amphers Pas-de-Calais), have been burnt to death through
playing with Inciter matches, They had been locked up in
a room during the absence of the mother. Two others, a
boy aged four, the cause of the disaster, Mid his sister,
six years old. escaped by the window ; the lies of those
who perished was three years, nineteen months, and rive
weeks.

A master in the French nave, named Le Corre,
residing at Brest, has just nmrdered'his wife by stabbing her
to the heart Wink a knife. The w oman, in consequence of
the menaces of her husband, bad taken refuge in the room
of a neighbour, to which he followed her, and there com-
mitted the crime, lie then returned to his two lodging, 811111
Went to lied as if nothing had happened. lie was arrested
on the following day, and alleged that he had been driven to
the deed by the infidelity of his wife.
The Emperor of Russia has just sanctioned a new
regnlation for prrividing military substitutes, similar to that
which existed in France until the passing of the late Army
Bill. Henceforth, the individuals who wish to lw exempted
from serving, pay a sum of money to the Government, ',lrish
on its side will furnish the men and remunerate them. The
price of exoneration for the year 1.86 n is flied at 4 francs
each. The system is to be tried for a period of five years.

The journals in the South of France report a Hoc
cession of terrific thunderstorms and rainfalls in that part of
the country. The hailstones in sonic places were as large as
Pigeon's eggs. Much damage was done.

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It is claimed as a fact worthy of note that there
have been fewer persons apprehended during the Goodwood
Races this year than for several years past, as the following
statistics will show :—ln 165, 12 ; Is. 1866, 10; In 1867, 21 ;
In 1065, 8.

There have been disastrous floods at Baltimore.
Many lives were lost, and property was destrosed to the
amount of three millione of dollars.

On the niglA of the 31st of July, Margaret fluddey,
a girl about 16 years of age, who was in the service as nurse
of Mr. Crossley, shopkeeper, Rochdale, went out with Mr.
Crossley's child, aged two years, in her arms, for the purpose,
she stated, of purchasing a pair of boots, and she and the
child up to the present time have not returned. Minute
inquiries have been made in various towns and the district,
but all to no purpose.
It is designed to supersede in London the Office of
the lamplighter by a clockwork attached to the taps of the
street lamps, which shall turn them full on at stated times
every night, and shut them nearly off every moniing, the
gas beim; kept constantly burning during the day with a
small blue name, duly prevented against extinction by the
wind.

The Indepenclance Bilge says that the condition of
the Empress of Mexico had undergone little variation since
she set foot on her native soil. Iler physical strength is
perfectly restored : her intelligence, even, is often lucid and
complete but every 110 W and then inexplicable eccen-
tricities show that the state of her mind is far from satis-
factory.
"Another ugly feature of female society calls loudly
for notice and reprobation, Very young girls—girls of ten
anal twelve—are beginning to dress like grown women—to
wear chignons, anti make a display of bust and ankle. The
aping of maturity which these children convey in their looks
and glances is shocking to witness."—Court Journal.
An official estimate m.f time Prussian harvest states
that the crop of wheat and rye is very good in Hesse, good
in Prussia, Saxony, Hanover, and Sleswick-Holstein ; but
mediocre in Branalenburg, Silesia, and Westphalia. (dais
aro o,,corally bad, with the exeeption of Hesse; potatoes
present almost are, Salters, with the exception of Silesia
and Westphalia, a very tine appearance.
"We are informed that the American monitors
Puritan, Ericcon, and Dictator are perfect failures. The
last-named one has, we understand, been offered by our
sharp-witted Transatlantic cousins to the English Govern-
ment, which undoubtedly proves the value placed upon it lay
the naval authorities of the United States."—Ai gay and Navy
Gazette.
A letter fn am Ems rekstes that the King of Prussia,
while walking under the colonnade in thaetown a few days
back, with his aides-decamp, Count de Lehndorff and Count
be Hymnen. perceived in a shop a marble bust of himself,
crowned with a wreath of laurel. Going in, he said to the
dealer—" Take off the poor man's head-dress ; he does not
like to see himself made such a flhOW."
According to the Pananw Star, a French ship
arrived at Santiago from South America, with 40 ewes and
rams, which were purchased at Rambouillet iu France. The
rants mast 1,500 francs each, and the ewes 800 francs each,
The freight amounted to 8,500 francs, besides which the
captain receives a premium of 25 francs for each sheep, and
the shepherd who has charge of the animals has 10 francs a
day during the voyage from France and back, and a premium
on each sheep.

At the Surrey Assizes at Guildford a verdict for
Elie damages has been given against the South-Eastern
Railway Company in an action for assault and malicious
prosecution. The ease for the plaintiff, a Mr. Walker, was
Hint on a Sunday night in June lie returned to London from
Gravesend by the defendants' railway ; an altercation Oc-
curred between some passengers and the railway servants
in which plaintiff interimsed, on which account he was run
down the incline at London Bridge Station snot kicked by a
railway constable. The count for malicious prosecution was
abandoned, and the verdict given was for the assault alone.
On Friday evening, a woman, styling herself the
Female Iffondin," while walking across a rope stretched
eland thirty feet above the grounds of the Royal Music Hail,
Southport, had a very narrow escape. She had crossed the
rope, and was returning, when, owing to a flaw in one of the
pulley blocks, it slipped, and suddenly drool,' some eight or
ten inches. With great presence of mind the performer let
go her balancing pole and caught the rope with her hands
Here she swung in told air, until luckily she managed to
throw one foot over a cord tied to the rope for the purpose
of ,teadying it, and was after some minutes delay rescued
from her perilous position.

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The waiters who perform the service in the great
ball set apart for the festivities of the rille•shooting match at
Vicious. struck the other day in a body, and holding all open
air meeting, resolved that they would immediately cease
14,0 it if their wages were not advanced, as had been promised.
A police inspector endeavoured to calm them, by engaging
that they should each have three &Oils for that day, on
which they conditionally returned to their service.

A recent incident has caused quite a sensation
among the feminine portion of the dramatic world in Paris.
A BUSSfBII Prince had married an actress; but on attempting
to introduce her into fashionable society, he met with
rather obstinate resistance. The lady was received with
isupereilions coolness. The ladies of the green-room are
highly indignant. chat use," they say, " to marry a
Prince if they are not afterwards to be able to take tea with
Duchesses in the noble fauhourg

The Count d'Argy, colonel of the Antibes Legion,
has returned to Rome, suffixing severely from the bite of a
tarantnla spider.

We have mat pleasure in stating that Mr.
Gladstone has elected to stand for the South-Eastern
division of Lancashire. lie will have as his colleague Mr.
Henry If. Grenfell, now M.P. for Stoke. The Tories are
certain to strain every nerve to defeat the Literal leader, lint
the liberals will show themselves able to carry both ,eats."—
Daily Stirs.

The (laza:. 'ld Popolo of Turin gives an account of
a duel between the Marquis latent, director of the Gazette
In tba, city. and M. Annaratone, advocate, manager of the
Journal II Ficeanago. The latter of the combatants was
wounded in the hand, and the surgeon in attendance having
declared that M. Annaratone could not possibly continue
the duel, the seconds pronounced that the encounter was at
end.
It would appear that dmught is not the characteristic
at present of every country in Europe, as all Italy, with the
exception of the South, has been visited by exceedingly
heavy rains, and many f the rivers are swollen. The last ac-
counts from Florence stet- that a great quantity of water has
come down there within the last few days, and that the Arno
has risen considerably.
A letter from Madrid says that the pine forests
'Crown property, we imagine) in the neighbourhood of Soria
have been burning for twenty-four days, and that flfty
millions of trees will be consumed. As a delightful ilhistra-
'mu 'not Cocas de Fspana, it is added that the head forester !
has submitted to the Government plans, which have met with
its approval, for putting out the diaast rolls conflagration, but
that probably before this ingenious officer can carry them into
effect not a tree will be left !

The statue of Leopold L, which has just been
• " w'airated "at Antwerp Is in bronze. The King is repre-
sentedon horseback, with head unroof-red and hat in hand
as if saluting the people. The following inscription in
French and Flemish appeals on two sides of the pedestal
" The Commerce and People of Antwerp to Leopold, First
King of Independent Belgium; voted 1-'56; erected 18.58 " The other two sides bear the words spoken by the King in
1856 when on a visit to Antwerp, and his reply In Mil to
the delegates of the National Congress :—" Human destinies
offer no task more noble and useful than that of being
called to maintain the independence of a nation and to con-
solidate its liberties."
While Spanish bull..fights—in a somewhat modified
form, it is true—are being introduced at Havre and elsewhere
in France, the Spaniards seem to be cultivating a taste for
Japanese conjuring. Professor Risley has taken his Japanese
troop to Spain, and we find it stated that On the ocession of
the Opellillg performance at Madrid no less than five thonsanfl
persons were present, among whom was Queen Isabella,
with a numerous following.
Fatal accidents at rifle ranges are unhappily
becoming more common. About three weeks agc the
accidental discharge of a rifle at the Devonport range
rebutted In the death of two volunteers, and on Monday at
Wormwood bombs a lad was shot dead through a similar
cause Tao youths had been entrusted with the care of a
lm.ded rifle for a short, time. when. as a matter of course,
tlit y Ittgait to play pranks w-ith it, and on unfortunate boy
who nes standing by was killed instantaneously. his head
being blown nearly off. Itoth the careless delinquents, were
taken into custody, and having been brought up at the
liammeranilth Police-court, were remanded.

Mr. Edgar Bowring being pressed by the electors of
Mut, r for his opinion as to Eyre and his persecutors, an-
swered, .• In this hot weather I ant all for Air.°

"A man, sixty-eight years of age, who has been
married four times, has lately presented at the baptismal
font his thirty-first child. Horrid man !*—Court Journal
The overseers' lists for the borough of Manchester
have now been made up sufficiently to become the basis of
an estimate of the new constituency. The number of
electors is raised from 23,73 U last year to about 57,000 ; that
is, they are nearly doubled. Possibly a large deduction will
be made by the reviaion.
In 1818 wheat was brought into market, in the
; south of England, on the 15th of July, and there was no rain
I until the 6th of September. In 1052, corn was cut and
carried on the bth of July, and the rainfall commenced on
the 15th of August. In 1826 the straw of the oats was so
short that it could not be reaped it had in many places to
be pulled up with the roots, yet there was never perhaps
seen a heavier sample.
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Lambs have been selling fur 10s. each, and sheep
for 211 s. each in the South of England, the farmers having no
keep for them.

" Ladies and gentlemen introduced to eligible part.
nen ; strict privacy fee is. A respectable business
titan, in middle life, wants a wife with sate means ; state
istrticulars."—Adoerfisestuuts in Manchester Paper.

The Fenian " Senators " in America apparently
mean mischief. They have been sitting in secret council at
Buffalo, and the doors of their place of meeting were guarded
by armed sentinels.

Mr. Jefferson Davis contemplates making a trip to
Europe as soon as he recovers sufficiently from the effects of
his recent tall.

In London, the last few days have been peculiarly
unfortunate in fires, there having been scarcely a couple of
hours without the outbreak of two or three. During Sunday
and Monday not fewer than sixteen conflagrations were
attended by the °dicers and firemen of the Metropolitan
Brigade.
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A shocking accident took place at Chatham on
Monday, during the progress of what is called "a rehearsal
of siege operations" A. a party of Royal Engineers and
Marines, with fixed bayonets, were crossing a bridge which
had been thrown across a ditch, the wooden structure gaira
way, and precipitated the men into the bottom of the diteh.
Several of them were transfixed with their own bayonets, and
one poor fellow received a fatal stab. Seven or. tight boldlors
were no badly wounded that it was found necessary to
convey them to the military hospital.
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A singular piece of military news reaches us from
Madras. The Commander-in-Chief has Issued an order for-
bidding beards to be worn in the army ! The Madrai
Athenaeum expresses the opinion that there must surely be
matters of far meter weight than this calling for the torn.
mander-in-Chief's attention, and it thinks that the British
soldier in India might well be excused from n undergoing the
tortures of a native barber every twining."
A verdict for £l7O has been obtained at the Cork
assizes by a farmer of the neighbourhood of
named Murphy, against Mr Thomas Smith Dorrien, of the
10th Hussars, who, on twine warned against riding through
a field of %etches on hia return from huntinz, "struck the
plaintiff with his clenched fist, and then with his riding whip
beat him on the head." Defendant had lodged Is. in court
as compensation for the injury, and for the trespass. The
jury, however, took a more serious view of the matter, and
the judge strongly condemned the defendant's language to
the plaintiff, which was stated to have been, "You and your
vetches be —; get out of the way, we will pay you."

There is a glut of the new bronze coinage, which no
advantageously superseded the o d copper money a tow yeat"
ago. As It is not a legal tender except for small payments,
It cannot be c!eared off in large amounts or sent into the
Bank. Messrs. Truman, Banbury, Buxton, the eminent
London brewers, say they have in hand the enormous
amount of £7,000 in bronze money which they would be glad
to reduce.

The hackney carmen of Belfast are on strike, and
their vehicles have been removal from the streets. The
town council required them to place the number of each car
conspicuously on the back, snot in small figures on the shaft,
as at present, awl the carmen refuse to ply until the order is
rescinded. The carmen " make a point" which the N orthtrn
Whig considers to have "some force." They say that they
have a class of customers wlAi like their vehicles to have
"an much as possible the appearance of private con-
veyances.'
No lesa than twelve foreign mail steamers are nine
at Southampton from the United States during the present
month.

A letter from Fusignano, in the Gazetta del Emilia,
states that a wealthy landowner named Angelo sinigagti.,
was captured a few days back by brigands, and not released
until a ransom of 5,000 francs had been paid.
The funeral of an old lady who was buried in Jack.
son, Michigan, United states, a week or two ago, was at.
tended by two id her sons from the House of Correction in
Detroit, and a third from the state prison, all under guard.
A husband we know complains sadly at the price of
" ducks." this wife recently bought three for 226 dollars—.
vie., a " duck " of a dress, a " duck " of a bonnet, and a
" (lack" id a parasol.—Anterican Paper.
On Saturday afternoon the body of a boy about
fifteen years of age, identified as that id Matthew Allen,
of Peasehills, was found in the new level hi the Oaks
Colliery.
The harvest men in Surrey have, during the past
few days, been stung by insects which are said to be
mosquitoes.
According to intelligence from the West Indies,
brought from New York by the Aleppo, the islands of St.
Thomas and St. Domingo are suffering greatly front drought,
and Barbadoes has been visited by a cyclone, which had
caused much damage to the shipping.
The accounts from the hop plantations have been
most encouraging. the heat having induced a rapid growth
of hine. The burr looks very healthy, and thy amount of
lice has not been such aa to cause any set i ins apprehensions.
The continued drought, however, has induced an attack of
red spider, which some smart showers would have remedied.
The first pocket of Ness Kent hops has been sold in the
Borough at £O. so. per cwt.
Alluding to the dreadful accident at Manchester,
the Morning Star recalls the story of a popular divine, now
deceased, who on one occasion when an alarm of fire was
raised in a chapel in which he was preaching arrested the
attention of the fleeing audience by one of the vulgarest of
gestures, and then talked them into good sense while their
safety was Secured.
Oscar Becker, known for his attempt on the life of
the King of Prussia, is reported to have just died in in the
hospital of Alexandria, in Egypt.
Lists of voters for the next registration were affixed
to the doors of churches anti chapels on Saturday, the Ist.
All claims and objections must be made on or before the
25th instant

"A streak of lightning entered a school in Illinois
recently, awl took a pair of boots from a little Loy's feet,
and hurled them at the head of the master, much to the dc•
light of the pupils."—American Paper.
"It is reported that the Tories have £300,000 sub-
scribed towards the coming elections, while the Liberals, as
a body, are without cash or organization."—Court Journal.
A member of the New Jersey (United States) Legis-
lature from Gloucester County has pti dole, worth of Bibles
on hand, which he purchmed for gratuit•us distribution with
money unlawfully vot.d him in the Incidental Bill. In con-
sequence, however, of the manner in on hich the books were
obtained the people of Gloucester County refuse to receive
them.
On Saturday the new Divorce Act was printed
Appeals to the House of Lords must be within one month, and
there Is to be no appeal to the Lords in undefended eases for
dissolution of marriage without leave of the court Where

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there is no appeale parties may marry again after the pro-
nouncing of the decree absolute. The act has a qualified re-
trospective operation.
In Nevada a Mr. Hoag has a cocoonery 50 feet
square and 18 feet high. His nursery and hatching room,
containing 1,000 feet of shelves, are sufficient for making
2,000,000 cocoons. His nursery is heated artificially. He is
now feeding nearly 1,000,000 silkworms, and he hopes soon to
feed 3,000,000.
In the course of the Parliamentary session which
closed on Friday, the House ofi Commons ° divided" leg
times.
Mrs. Keyes scan murdered at Stewartaville, N.J.,
last year, and a few days ago Mr. Keyes had his legs and an
arm cut off by the cars, and ban since, believing he could
never get well, confessed to killing his wife.
There is such a paucity of money in the Portuguese
treasury that King Louis has decided on selling 45,000,000
francs worth of precious stones for the benefit of the nation.
The French and Prussians are evidently having a
game at" brag' with reference to their needle-gene, Chasse-
pots, and cannons A Prussian officer having invented a gun
which fires twice as fast as the Chassepot, a Frenchman has
most obligin•rly invented a gun which fires twice as fast as tins
latest Prussian gun, anti is loaded four loads at a time.
It is said that Garibaldi has written a letter to an
English friend, in which the hollowing sentiment Mears
intend to attack Rome when FrAnce shall be engaged
with Prussia.

The Hon. and Rev Orlando Forester, writing. from
Brethy Park, stales that, being last week in the Vale of
Belvoir, he thee collected from some of the e,14.1 occupiers
interesting particulars of the great drought of 1826. The
drought lasted until Waltham Fair Ilay, the 18th of Septem-
ber. The rains then set in, and the results which ensued
ought to be cheering to those who are looking with ntigietY
upon their parched pastures and their small hayricks. The
springof grass after September IS woo no plentiful that there
wini ample feed for flocks and herds well into 1627, without
any call on the diminished stores.

The New York Trihune begi Mime Rye to send out a
few hundred thousand servant girls to the United States.
The abolition of slavery has, it says, raised the price of all
labenr, and especially of domestic servants.

The Cincihnotti Price Current of the 15th inst. etaten
there can be no doubt that the quantity of wheat gathered
in the l'iuted States this season will exceed that of any
previous )ear by 20 per cent.
The Manchester Examiner says Mr. Gladstone has
thought it worth while to answer another mierepreeentation.
Mr Mainwaring, the Cmtservative andidate for the Denbigh-
shire berm ghs, has several times in the course of his canvass
stated, "a, high ministerial authority," that Mr Gladstone
bitter y repented the course he had been coon ed into taking
regarding the Irish Church. An elector having written to
hint on the suilect, Mr. hats, one replies that there is riot a
particle of foundation for the statement.

The project of enlarging the fortifications of Mayence
has been abandoned by the Prussian goventruent on the
advice of the military engineers. The choice of the fresh
site has fallen upon Frankfort-on-the-Maine.

Pilgrimages to the shrines of Faints are on the in-
crease in France. The Globe correspondent says:—" The latest
pilgrimage of which I find record, in a religious pert, dical
now before me, is to a statue of the Holy Virgin in the prin-
cipal church of St. Omer—a town which, as your readers
know, is not far from Boulogne-sur-Mer. It is recorded that
from the lath to the 21s, July, not fewer than 18,932 persons
paid their devotions to that statue."

The bat of the troops recently serving in A hyviinia,
a detachment of the 25th N.L.1., arrived in Brim' ay on tin,
tat ult, in the transport Queen. They left Zoolla n tie 25t11
June. Prevhms to their departure two parties were sent out
to search all the old deserted buildings, and see that no one
i was lift behind. Zoolla had begun on the morning before to
present a very deserted appearance; and only a few Egyptian
soldiers, who had conic to take charge of the place, and Bonne
camp followers and sailors, were to be seen wandering
about
On Saturday, at the Cambridge aattizes, a youth
named Eugene Stamp, apparently about eighteen years of
age, whose description was omitted in the calendar, but
who, it appeared, was in training for a schoolmaster, and
was at the time of the comniission of the offence a pupil
teacher, was charged with having on the let of 31ay cast a
stone from a bridge over the Great Eastern Railway, near
Linton, at a train passing underneath. The train was passing
Into the station at the rate of about six miles an hour, when
the prisoner threw or dropped a stone large enough to make
an indentation on the lamp iron of one of the carriages.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 14 days'
hard labour.

A short time since a gang of robbers ran of with
a locomotive and an express car, on a railroad in Indiana.
When they attempted to open the car they were fired on by
the guards, and one of them dangerously wounded, the others
running away. Three of them were subsequently captured,
and a fortnight ago, while being conveyed to Seymour, a mob
stopped the Win, overpowered the guard, took out the
robbers, and hung them.

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"Some of our contemporaries seem to be under the
belief that Prince Arthur is destined to serve permanently,
or at least for a considerable time, in the Royal Engineeis.
This has never, in fact, been contemplated. Though choosing
that distinguiahed corps for his first commission, the Prince
is designed, for divers reasons, to tee something of each
chief combatant department of the army. At the end of a
vely short rotate n: ergincer instruction, his royal Lighnesa
will go on to Woolwich, and be for a similar terni attached
to the Royal Artillery. After 'Lis he will perform more
perm.. sit ,crvice vi Oh an ill,:aLtry It iment, and for this
honour it is well understood that the Rifle Brigade hen been
tor some time aelected."—/mperial Aniow.