The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05 00:00:00

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EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr. John Bright's 70th birthday will be celebrated
at Rochdale on the 16th inst., when he will be presented
with a congratulatory address.

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Last week statues of Bellini and Verdi were un-
veiled in the Scala Theatre, Milan.
The agitation for Canadian independence is said to
be increasing, as evidenced by the views expressed by some
of the Ottawa papers.
A large number of coins and other articles have
been washed ashore at Great Yarmouth during the last few
days. They came from vessels wrecked off the coast during
the late gales.
The Registrar-General's report shows that last week
the average rate of mortality in twenty large English towns
averaged 220 per 1,000. In London 2,753 births and 1,588
deaths were registered, and the death-rate was 216 The
deaths included 24 from small-pox, 19 from measles., 65
from scarlet Lever, 25 from diphtheria, 29 from whooping-
cough, 4 from typhus fever, 49 from enteric fever, and 19
from diarrhcea.
The Siamese Embassy arrived at Vienna last Satur-
day morning, and were received by the Emperor on Sunday.
The Ambassador handed to his Majesty a letter of congratu-
lation from his Sovereign on the marriage of the Crown
Prince, together with some wedding presents from the King
of Siam for the bride and bridegroom. The Emperor con-
ferred decorations upon the members of the Embassy, who
will remain at Vienna for the present in order to conclude a
treaty of commerce between Austria and Siam.

All the sufferers from the Blackburn Railway col-
lision admittbd to the Infirmary on the Bth of August have
been discharged from that institution. The last, William
Vedry Lathom, left for his home at Liverpool on Saturday
morning. He had both his legs fractured and his scalp in-
lured, and it was found necessary to amputate one foot.
There were 18 persons admitted on the day of the accident,
and of these 13 have been wholly or partially restored to
healthovhile five have succumbed to the effects of their in-
juries, in addition to two who died immediately after the
collision.

Since 1871 there has been in use for telegraphing,
both in China and Japan, a code drawn up by M. Viguier,
Divisional Inspector, Marine Department, Shanghai. Out
of 44,000 hieroglyphics not more than 7,000 are in constant
use. These were first reduced to 6,893, and each character
represented by a number; the telegraph clerk in trans-
mitting a message therefore telegraphs the number of each
word only.

At Blackburn infirmary on Tuesday afternoon
Edward Riley, a schoolboy, died from injuries received by
being sun over by a steam tramcar. Deceased when going
to school jumped on the outside seat in front of the tram.
and rode some distance. In alighting he fell across one of
the rails, and two wheels ran over his right leg, which was
badly crushed and broken.
In London, on Monday, an inquest was held at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, concerning the death of John
Etteridge, aged 15.- -Mr. Martin said he was at Moorgate-
street Station of the Metropolitan Railway on Friday in last
week, when he saw deceased on the platform. Whilst a
train was coming into the station tile deceased made a spring
at the handle of one of the first class carriage doors, when
his leg slipped down between the footboard of the carriage
and the platform. Efforts were made to rescue him, but in
vain, until the train was brought to a standstill. The wit-
ness stated that that which had been the cause of this lad's
death was a common practice among boys travelling on the
railway, especially the book-stall boys. Another witness
said the deceased would have fallen under the wheels of the
carriage but for his going forward and catching hold of his
clothes. The deceased was twisted over and over by the
carriage before it stopped.—Mr. Fletcher, house surgeon,
said the lad was fearfully injured when brought to the hos-
pital, and died next day from the shock.—Verdict, " Aoci-
dental death."
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On Monday a deputation of the Temperance Com-
mittee of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches waited
on Lord Rosebery and the Lord Advocate in the offices,
Parliament-square, Edinburgh, for the purpose of urging on
their lordships the necessity for introducing into Parliament
a Bili on the Local Option principle. After hearing the
deputation their lordships promised to bring under the
notice of the Government the statements that were laid
before them.

On Tuesday Earl Fitzwilliarn, Lord-Lieutenant of
the West Riding, sent for the whole of his tenants to Went-
Worth-126116e, his Yorkshire residence, and informed them
that the whole of last half-year's rent now due and payable
in a fevrdays would be remitted, none of them being re-
quired to pay any rent for their farms during the past half-
year. 'Phis step, they were informed, had been taken in
consequence of the bad seasons with which they as a body
had during the last three or four years had to contend. It
'is needless to say that the tenantry were highly pleated
With the announcement.
During a stay which Prince Philip and Princess
Louise of Saxe-Coburg have been making at Alt Ens, in
Styria, far ohamois hunting, the Princess met with an
accident which fortunately was not as serious as it was
feared to be. One day while taking a walk accompanied
only by, her dog, her Royal Highness got lost in the
, mountains, and had. to make her way through the brush.-
wood, and over pieces of rack and running streams, to And.
a path. , In doing so her foot slipped, and she fell, cutting
her face, and bruising her armrend on arriving near the
,hunting box, she fainted Way: • One of the huntsmen dis-
cQvered theiPrinces4.aud hastened.to-hr Assistance. Her...
Royal Highness.was•ooMPed to herb,ll for -several days,lo4..'
stlFl preserves a sear on her cheek as a remembrance of her
perllowt excursion,
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SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 1881.

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The owners of the ss. Calliope, which was wrecked The centenary of the abolition of serfdom in 1781 by
off Cape Oorrubeds have issued alist of the names of those the Emperor Joseph 11. is to be celebrated shortly with re
on board, from which it appears that the number of men joicings throughout Austria.
l'Ost with her was 22. Most of the crew belonged to Ply- The Boston Literary World says :—There could be
mouth. no better Garfield wonument than an international copy-
Prince Bismarck, in reply to a telegram of adhesion right treaty ; and wesohope that President Arthur will do his
from certain Leipsic students, says that he is neither sur- part to have it erected.
prised nor discouraged at the result of the Berlin elections. The Poor Law costs England £8,00;000 a year. We
Intelligence by cable • from the United States, re- are, therefore, at twenty years' purchase, £160,0G0,00poor
ceived at Lloyd's, reports that immense icebergs are drifting than the foreign countries which has no such burden t 0 sue-
on the ocean between lat. 47 N., and St. John's. tarn.
The remains of the late Captain Edward Manning, M. Gambatta, who was 44 on Sunday received many
aged 42, who was drowned off the coast of Africa on the congratulatory letters on the occasion of his birthday.
occasion of the Union steamship Tu,eton on the 30th of The destruction of treen on the Duke of Northum-
August last, under circumstances already familiar to the berland's fine estates at Alnwick Was wholesale. It is copm-
public were interred in Highgate Cemetery on Tuesday. The puted that it will take six months to remove the timber.
funeral was conducted in a strictly private and unostenta- blown down by the late hurricane dn the Duke's prdperty in
rims manner. Northurnberland.—The World. ~ ..
A severe storm has qccurred at Naples, doing much
damage. i--- • . - The Speaker, in conjunction with Sir Erskine Mat
, • , „is stated to be occupied in framing, with the Prime minister
Mr. Edmund Turner, of Tavistock, who was one of the new rules for the procedure of the House of Commons,
the speakers at a temperance meeting at the Town-hall on which, it is proposed, shall be suggested from the Treasury
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Tuesday evening, suddenly expired in his chair immediately Bench on the opening of the next Session of Parliament.
after moving the second resolution.
The Bishop of Natal, in a letter dated Durban, German newspapers announce with expressions of -•,. L.
much regret the death of Dresden, at the age of sixty-tour, e y
October 2nd, states that Cetewayo has again asked to be of Julius Pabst, who was for twenty-six years both drd-
permitted to visit England, and that in Natal it was con- matte author and secretary to the Court Theatre in the ee-
sidered highly probable that his request would be acceded Saxon capitol, and who was well known as both an original
to. Sir Hercules Robinson, the bishop adds, is very favour- author and an excellent translator of Shakespeare for the
able to the project. German stage.
,• Tuesday night's London Gazette announces that the The steamship Parthiz took from Liverpool a con-
Qu.een has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint alignment of 70 soles and 35 turbot for the United States
Moneshur Bux Singh, Maharajah of Domraon, to be a Fish Commission to put in American waters. Only,.thW.3
Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of soles and six turbot survived the hardships of the Vosagle .
India. Prince Rudolph of Austria has published an account
A St. Petersburg telegram, dated October 29, says : of his late travels in the East.
—" Ice flowed yesterday into the Neva from the Ladogo
Lake, necessitatine a suspension of the steamboat service. A new life boat for the bar of Dublin was launched
All the canals are frozen over. on Tuesday in the presence of the Lord Mayor, several mem-
bers of the Corporation, and two officials of the Royal Life
The Citizen states that at a meeting of the Jewish at Association. Another new life boat was launched at
Board of Guardians held in London last week, Mr. Lionel L. Rowth.
Cohen, the chairman, handed to the treasurer a parcel con-
taining 98 sovereigns, each in a separate packet, made up by On Tuesday a meeting Was held at Margate to raise
Sir Moses illonteflore himself, which the benevolent Baronet a fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the
had forwarded to be distributed among a similar number of fishermen lost in the late gales. It was reported that six
poor persons on Monday, October 31, his 98th birthday. Ramsgate boats with their crews have not been heard of
Sir Moses has made a like gift to several deserving charities since the 14th ult., while about 100 casualties occurred.
Divine service was performed at Balmoral Castle on During the past fortnight 45 shipwrecked, sailors were res
Sunday by the Rev. W. Tulloch, in the presence of the ceived at Ramsgate.
Queen, the Princess Beatrice, and the Royal Household. The slowness of the progress made in the practical
The Rev. W. Tulloch dined with the Queen. adoption of the telephonic system in England 'may be con-
trasted with the readiness displayed by the German people
con-
" Faith and Trust.—Cannot express how sorry lam in availing themselves of its advantages. It appears that up
my silence has pained you; quite unintentional. Look at to the Ist of the present month 533 houses in Berlin alone
the Bth inst. Be assured there is no cause for uneasiness. were served with telephonic communications. The total
'Give to the winds thy fears; Hope and be undismay'd ; God length of the telephonic wires in Berlin at that date was
hears thy sighs and counts thy tears. God shall lift up thy about 750 miles.
head."—Advertisement in The Times. Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
On Saturday there were two slight showers of sleety ports have been 202,000 bales, and since Ist September, 1881,
snow in London, and throughout the day the cold, aggra- 1,162,000 bales. Exports to Great Britain, 45,000 bales, and
vated by the north-easterly wind, was exceedingly bitter. to the Continent and Channel, 42,000 bales : total since Ist
Towards evening, however, the temperature rose, but at September, 1881, 537,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 646,000
midnight the thermometer exhibited seven degrees of frost, bales.
and, as the cold became more intense during the night. The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat landed at
there was a thin coat of ice on the ornamental water of Liverpool last week from the United States and Canada, as
St. James's Park.
The death is announced of Mr. Henry Fay D was expected, showed a very large increase in comparison
urant, with the preceding week. The totals were 780 cattle, 148
an eminent American lawyer, who founded Wellesley College sheep, 5,881 quarters of beef, 934 carcases of mutton, and
for Women in the State of Massachusetts. This college, 49 hogs.
which is designed for the higher educaffion of women, was
built and equipped at an expenditure of a million of dollars' Telegrams from Melbourne state that the steamer
Balelutha, bound from Melbourne to Sydney, has foundered
and since it was opened, six years ago, has cost its founder during a gale. She had twenty-two persons on board, all of
not less than 50,000 dole. a year. All the professors are
ladies, and the course of study is of the most comprehen- whom perished—The om,ba, bound from Batavia to Mel-
bourne, foundered off Newcastle during a gale.. All on
sive charaeter. The pupils in the college at present num- board are believed to have been lost.
her 432.
The fishing at Kirkwall during last week was very The Elcho Challenge Shield was, on Saturday,
heavy, boats having from 3 cwt. to 18 cwt. at one take, which brought from the offices of the National Rifle Association on
sold from 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. per cwt., and as. 6d. to 3s. gd. per a gun carriage, escorted by guards of honour, and was.com-
score. Most of the fish were sent per rail to English mitted to the care of the Lord Mayor of London, o await the
markets. result of the next competition. Sir Henry Wilmot, V.C.
According to a statement of the Oldham Master 31 P, in asking his Lordahip to take charge of the shield,
Cotton Spinners' Association the town of Oldham now con- pointed out the national Importance of precision in firing.
sumes more than one-fourth of the entire quantity of raw
The Lord Mayor, in accepting the care of the trophy, con-
cotton used in Great Britain, and considerably more than
ratulated the English team on their success, and expressed
one-fifth of the cotton imported. The weight of cotton con-
his satisfaction at the Colonial Volunteers vieing with those
veyed to Oldham and its district is stated to reach nearly of the mother country in accuracy of shooting.
160,000 tons per annum, and the annual amount paid for Mr. J. Howard, M.P., speaking at a Farmers'
freightage and eartage is nearly £lOO,OOO a year. Alliance meeting at Derby, said the question of rent was
During the recent storms the lifeboats belonging to greater to the farmer than that of local rates. From 1856 to
the National lifeboat Institution saved 280 lives, in addition 1875 rents In England advanced no leas than 21 per cent.,and in ecotland by 26 per cent. How much of that advance
to eight vessels, making a total of 883 lives and twenty-six was due to the improvements of the tenants he would leave
vessels saved during the ten months of this year. the audience to decide.
From official statistics recently published it appears A People's Edition of Sir Theodore Martin's "Life
that the total output of coal in Belgium for 1880 was of the Prince Consort" is about to be 'published on such
16,887,017 tons, as against 15,446,512 tons in 1879. Notwith- terms as must ensure to it an enormous sale. It is to be
standing this increase, the imports of coal from England issued in five volumes at sixpence apiece: so that for half-a-
and Germany are stated to have grown considerably. The crown whosoever chooses may obtain one of the most in-
imports were 915,628 tons, although, on the other hand, teresting and permanently valuable works of the time.
there were exported 4,493,145 tons. There fs to be no abridgment of the book: the only difference
An archmological exhibition of objects collected in between the original edition and the people's edition will be
Tunis will shortly be opened in one of the galleries of the that whatever appears in French or German in the former
Louvre at Paris. It will comprise a number of interesting will be translated into English for the latter. It is hardly to
fragments of statues and ancient monuments, together with be supposed that the issue will "pay," no matter how many
various articles of domestic use, including pieces of jewellery, copies are sold; but then the object of publication is not
specimens of glass work, and some superb mosaics. profit—or only profit tO those for whom the edition is printed
The annual collections in the churches and chapels —St. James's Gazette.
of Birmingham on behalf of the medical charities ot the On Saturday King Ferdinand of Portugal, father of
• town were made on Sunday last. The total received was the reigning sovereign of that country, completed his 65th
barely £3,000, as compared with £4,886 last year and £6,414 year, having been born Oct. 29, 1816; and on Monday his
In 1878. son:K tug Louis attained his 43rd year, having been born on
A drama founded upon Lord Beaconsfield's romantic Oct. 31, 1838. King Louis is the eldest surviving son of the
tale of " Alroy" is about to be played in a Berlin theatre. late Queen Donna Maria, the consort of King Ferdinand,
who is
The Postmaster-General has signified to the chair- a member of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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man of the Crystal Palace Company his intention of sending and a cousin of the late Prince Consort of England.
to the forthcoming International Electric Exhibition at the The Standard learns that Lord Lorne, whose depar-
Crystal Palace the whole of the telegraphic and other appa- ture from Canada has been delayed pending the arrival of
ratus shown by the British Government at the Electric I General Sir Patrick M'Dougall at Ottawa from England to
Exhibition in Paris. assume the duties of Administrator of the Government, will
The death is announced of Dr. Bouillaud, the doyen spendme two months in England. It is not yet known whether
Princess Louise will accompany her husband on his
of the physicians of France, at the ripe age of eighty-two, return, as her intended departure lately was objected to by
The deceased was the author of a number of important
works on medicine, and a Commander of the Legion of her medical advisers.
Honour. Be represented his native town, Augouleme, in . The Emperor of Austria, in reply to the addresses
Parliament from 1842 to 1846. of the Austrian and Hungarian Delegations on Saturday,
Lady Brassey has promised a donation of one congratulating him on the marriage of his son, said that
hundred guineas to a fund for establishing a "Seamen's and since the close of the deliberations of the last Delegations
the difficulties in the way of the execution of some points of
General Hospital" at North Shields, on condition of St. John the Berlin Treaty had been overcome, and European peace
Ambulance Association classes being attached. had thereby been once more consolidated.
• At Plymouth, on Saturday morning two lads took a
1 The eighth family centennial jubilee was recently
boat to go out fishing, but, when outside the breakwater, the celebrated by the baronial family von Ow, at Wachendorf
I wind proved so strong that they lost control of their craft,
and were driven past the Eddystone Rock. The lads passed (Wurtemburg), where, according to documentary evidence,
• the night in this peril, but were picked up on Sunday after- their first ancestor settled eight hundred years ago. A
noon, still drifting up Channel before the wind. When found pretty numerous progeny of lineal descendants and agnates,
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they were much exhausted. many of whom came from the neighbouring state of Bavaria,
festively commemorated the rare jubilee at the ancient ~
A petrified girl is being shown at the Milan Ex- “stammaehloss."
hibition. By some mysterious process a Florence medico A shocking accident happened the other morning at I
has reduced the corpse of a girl of eighteen to the semblance a mill in Preston. An overlooker, named Smith, was assist- el
of marble, the body having become perfectly white and
hard. ing to twist reams when he was seized with a fit, and fell
forward down the hoist. three storeys deep, into the boiler-
Village athletic sports in Lower Bavaria are of house. His skull was fractured, and he died directly after-
somewhat novel character. In one village the- young men wards.
vie in the hardness of their respective skulls, banging them The Cape emigration agent in London.las sent out
against doors and walls, and the champion of this peculiar to the colony during October 474 emigrants—men, women,
exercise can break the strongest room door with his head, or and children. Of these 161 are agricultural settlers, 294 are
even a heavy barnyard gate. skilled artisans and domestic servants, and 29 recruits for the
"Mrs. Ramsbotham, on hearing that a distinguished Cape Mounted Riflemen.
eaturalist was going to lecture on the Fauna of the Mr. Yorke, M.P., addressing the Gloucester
eyrenees, observed warmly that she hoped he 'd give it him Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, advised the agricultural
well, as she detests any Fawner, and a foreign Fawner must classes to let the Free Trade agitation alone, or they would
be worse than all."—Punch. render themselves liable to misrepresentation. He did not
A Cleveland miners' demonstration was held at feel bound to further the interests of agriculture as against
Bretton last Saturday, and it was resolved unanimously— others, believing that the interest
,of farmers and of menu-
" That this meeting is of opinion that the action taken by facturers was identical.
the Cleveland ironmasters in reducing he make of pig iron The daily variation in a person's height, according
12e per cent, proves that the supply exceeds the demand, to his occupations, is pointed out by Professor Busch, who
and that the time has arrived when the output of ironstone
has been taking observations amongst the Berlin soldiery.
per man ought to be permanently reduced. We, therefore,
early a date •
Be finds that the elastic substance between the twenty-four
ask the miners of Cleveland to commence on as e
. joints of the spinal column contracts by long standing, and
as possible to work six hours per shift, instead of eight as at lengthens again when at rest, and he cites various cases of
present." • extraordinary difference, the greatest being one of it incluse.
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The excess of the exports of merchandise from the
A meeting of the Oldham manufacturers was held
United States over the imports during the month of Septem- '
• ber amounted to 6,769,250 dots. The imports of gold •
on Monday night, at which a resolution was passed de-
claring that they still adhered to their former resolution
and silver coin and bullion exceeded the exports by 10,200,865 , preferring to have no French Treaty at all rather than one
dols. , based on the terms now proposed by the French Commis-
' The once famous singer in England, Germany, and sionere. The resolution was ordered to be sent to Sir Charles
• Italy, Madame Schonberger Searconi celebrated her 96th 1 Dilke —At the Manchester Chamber of Commerce a discus-
birthday at Darmstadt on the 22nd inst. She commenced sion was introduced in reference to the French Treaty.
her operatic career in 1797. A resolution urging the English Commissioners to agree to
' All the vessels of the Dundee fleet having returned no treaty which did not offer a reasonable prospect of a fair
export trade being done with France was submitted, but,
from the whale-fishing, the result of the year's operations is ' er some discussion, was withdrawn at the suggestion ot
now obtainable. The total value of the seal fishing is the chairman.
£96,ooo—an increase of £43,000 over last year. The figures
for the whaling voyage are £35,000, and for sealing and At a meeting of the Cambridgeshire Tenant
whaling together £130,000, or a total increase over lad year Farmers' Association, Mr. Clark (president) gave an address
of about £16,000. on Tenant Right, and proposed, "That it is necessary for
the success of agriculture in this country that an Act of
A New York telegram says that the visible supply Parliament should be passed giving better security to the
of wheat on October 28 was 20,900,000 bushels; ditto, tenant farmer for the capital he invests in the cultivation of
Indian corn, 28,000,000 bushels. Export clearances of wheat the soil." There was not a tenant farmer, he believed, who
for Europe during the past week, 1,110,000 bushels- export desired a measure like the Irish Land Act, but they did want
clearances of Indian corn for Europe during the past week, something like what had been framed by the Farmers'
1,010,000 bushels. Alliance. There should be compensation given for un-
An American author has written a book to prove exhausted improvements, freedom of cultivation, removal
that Hamlet was a woman who, for State purposes, had of restrictions by the landlord as to what should be con-
been disguised, and brought up as a man. sumed on the holding, half the local taxation paid by the
Transatlantic bridesmaids now carry miniature landlord and the other half by the tenant, the abolition of
parasols of real flowers suspended from the wrist by a white the law of distress and tithes paid by the landlord, leaving
charge in the rent. The motion was adopted
ribbon in the place of the traditional bouquet or basket of him to make his c
unanimously.
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It is reported that Mr. Gordon Bennet, of the
New York Herald, contemplates visiting Dundee shortly,
and that his object is to negotiate for the purchase of one
of the Dundee whalers, which he proposes to despatch in
search of the Jeannette Expedition, and he has also the in-
tention of securing the services of a captain who has had
large experience in the Arctic seas.
The lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, during the storms of October, saved 280 lives' in
addition to eight vessels, giving an aggregate total of 883
lives and 26 vessels, saved during the ten months of last
year.
The Ceylon has left Southampton for her nine
months' trip round the world. She had on board thirty-two
passengers, and would pick up some others at Bordeaux and
Marseilles. These include a few invalids and ten ladies,
married and unmarried.
During the cattle sale which was held at Abingdon,
on Monday, a cow rushed into a clothing and boot shop, up-
setting the boot racks, breaking the hat bexes, and scatter-
ing the contents in all directions. After walking round the
boot department, and breaking the glass in the bitting-room
window, the bea.t, quietly walked out. The proprietress
took refuge in the sitting room immediately the beast
entered the shop, and escaped injury.
Two students of the University of Geneva, M.
Catto, of Mess°, and M. Bella, of Castron, in the Val de
Benio, lefi, their homes three weeks ago with the intention
of passing by the Nufenen Pass into the Valais, on their way
to Geneva, to resume their studies. Since that time nothing
has been heard of them, and it is feared they have perished.
Searchers have been sent out to look for them. They were
last seen near Acqua, at a point where the snow was already
very deep.
Transatlantic post cards are decidedly more elabo-
rate than their European counterparts. Many are gorgeously
illuminated with quaint designs of birds, flowers, and
fishes, but the favourite decoration is the symbol of each
day—the sun for Sunday the moon for Monday, &c., with
the name of the day in Saxon letters.
The bicyclists' memorial to the Select Committee
on Railways estimates thin number of bicycle riders at
10,000 in London alone; and the total number throughout
the country at 100,000. The manufacture of bicycles, we
are further reminded, has become one of the staple trades of
Coventry, and is also largely carried on in London and other
towns, besides which bicycling supports three weekly news-
papers, two monthly magazines, and three annual publica-
tions, all entirely devoted to the bicycle interests.
In Stoke Newington, London, it is said, the Salva-
tion Army have aroused a very bitter spirit of animosity, by
going in large numbers and singing opposite public-houses.
A party of the Army that was thus engaged on Sunday, out.
side the " Shakespeare " public-house, was very severely
assaulted by a number of people. The Salvationists care-
fully abstained from returning the blows they received, but
made the best of their way to their mission hall, which is
In the neighbourhood. They reached there with clothes
torn, caps and hats lost, and some of them with serious
wounds. There was a move to force an entrance to the
hall, but this was prevented by the police.
In London, on Tuesday, an accident of an alarming
character occurred at the Midland Railway Station, St.
Pancras. As two Great Eastern Railway trucks and one brake
were being shunted on one of the sidings they got on the
wrong line, and (twilled with great force into the cellars of
Messrs. Salt and Co., brewers, underneath the station, falling
through the gap left by the lift, which happened at the time
to be at the bottom of the shaft. A man who was on one of
the trucks had a narrow escape; seeing the danger he was in
he jumped off. The accident is attributed to the non-work-
ing of the hand-points, which should have sent the trucks on
to a different line.
The present season has been one of unprecedented
disaster for the hardy fishermen who put out from the port
of Boulogne-stir-11er for the herring fisheries in the North
Sea; dif our coast. The Colonne, a local paper, announces
that six little vessels which set out together six weeks ago
isaye not since been heard ee. end all hope of their return-
big' safe home is abandontel. The missing vessels were
manned by 114 men, who, if they have perished, as seems
only too probable, leave 96 widows and 2in orphiuks.