The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-04-02 00:00:00

EPITOME NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

At a Land League meeting held at Brooklyn on
Sunday, a resolution was adopted asking Congress to call
the attention of the Government to the case of Mr. Boyton,
one of the persons arrested under the provisions of the
Coercion Act.

The marriage of the Crown Prince of Sweden with
Princess Victoria of Baden will, it is stated, take place
about the end of September at Stockholm. .

The Thames Angling Preservation Society have
netted the large lake in the pleasure-grounds at Kew
Gardens, for the purpose of increasing the stock of fish in
the Thames for the benefit of Thames anglers, and succeeded
In getting about a ton weight of jack, bream, tench, roach,
perch, and dace. The two largest fish weighed respectively
201 b. and 181 b.
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Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Austria left
Dover on Monday On her return journey to Vienna, and on
passing through London from Combermere Abbey paid a
visit to the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

"How many curates do our lady readers think there
are belonging to the Church of England? Exactly 5,275
Of these about 1,000 are in enjoyment of incomes of £lOO or
less per annum. There are only three with more than £3OO,
while four receive only £lO, twenty-four £2O, sixteen £3O,
thirty-two £4O, a hundred and one £5O, sixty-two £6O, fifty-
one £7O, a hundred and eleven £BO, and thirty-four £oo."
The Cuckoo.

Mr. Borlase has given notice of his intention after
Easter to move "That in the opinion of this House the time
has now arrived when, for all purposes of local administra-
tion, the courts of quarter sessions, as at present appointed
and constituted in England, should be replaced by represen-
tative bodies elected by the ratepayers."

"I trust that Sir Evelyn Wood will receive some
recognition of his services. lie has done more than win a
battle. Considering the influences that must have been
hostile to any peaceful solution of the Transvaal War, he has
shown great civic courage in putting an end to the needless
effusion of blood.—Truth.

In London last week the fatal cases of small-pox
were forty-nine, a slight increase. The number of patients
In the hospitals declined from 853 to 820, the fresh cases
having fallen off from 265 to 147.
The Times, commenting upon the step taken at
Bucharest on Saturday, when Roumania was declared to be
a kingdom, says that by this act Roumania has insisted upon
affirming before the face of the world its ability to stand by
Itself. That it can defend its liberty, and that its sword
carries its weight in the scale of war, has been abundantly
demonstrated. It remains for it to show that it can cultivate
the arts of peace as well as arms.

It has been decided to hold a demonstration in New-
castle-on-Tyne on the 9th of June in commemoration of the
centenary of George Stephenson. It is proposed to observe
the day as a public holiday, and to request the inhabitants
to decorate the houses. In the evening there will be a
public banquet, at which a subscription will be initiated for
the erection of a building for the callege of physical science,
to be called the Stephenson College, of the University of
Durham.

In London, on Saturday, Mr. Carter held an in-
quiry at St. Thomas's Hospital, relative to the death of
George Levett, aged 23, a Jockey, who expired in the hos-
pital on the 23rd from the ettects of injuries sustained by a
fall from a horse at the Sandown•park Races. In the Cardinal
Hurdle Handicap the deceased was riding Boreas, which ran
against a post and rail and stumbled. Levett, in conse-
quence, fell and fractured his right leg. The jury returned
ti verdict of accidental death.

One of those medallion tablets which the Society of
Arts places on the houses of dead great "'nen and women
will he put up on the house where Carlyle lived in Chelsea.
The style of slab will be the same as that to be seen in King-
street, St. James's, on the house where Napoleon 111. lived
when he was an exile in London.

The following memorial has just been placed over
the tomb, in the catacombs in Kensal-green Cemetery, of
the late Lord Chief Justice of England. The memorial
tablet is of white marble, with a black marble border, and
of oblong shape, with the inscription—" In memory of the
Right Honourable Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn,
Baronet, G.C.8., Lord Chief Justice of England, died No-
vember 20th, 1880,"- carved in black letters, and ornamental
work above..

The following cable message has been received at
the London office of the New York Herald from the Herald
weather bureau, New York :—" A large disturbance is
crossing, likely to develop dangerous energy, and arrive on
the British and Norwegian, affecting the French coasts,
between the 27th and 29th, preceded and attended by east
backing to north-west gales; snow or sleet. Atlantic very
stormy."
On Tuesday the Married Women's (Scotland) Pro-
perty Bill left committee in order to be reported. t cis
noteworthy that in its present condition the rights it grants
to married women fall considerably short of those ac-
corded by the Bill whi4h has been introduced for England;
that it limits the control of married women over their own
property; and allows of their property being taken by
creditors in common with that of their husbands.

"Before the murder of the Czar ceases to be a nine
days' wonder, I may call attention to the circumstance that
he was the second sovereign who was slain in open day in
a street of his own capital. Tho other was Henry IV. of
France, first of the line of Bourbon, who perished by the
knife of RavaillatiAn a narrow street of the Paris which he
had declared valait Lien Ittze messe.' Three attempts had
been made on his life previously."— The Cuckoo.

In London last week 2,640 births and 1,516 deaths
were registered, the births having been 14, and the deaths
as many as 256 below the average numbers in the correspond-
ing week of the last ten years. The annual death-rate, which
had been equal to 23, 224, and 20 5 per 1,000 in the three
preceding weeks, rose again to 21•3.

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"The- very considerable minority which supported
Mr. Harcourt's resolution on Monday for the partial relief
of county rates from the maintenance of main roads has no
.reason for discontent at its defeat. A primary obj.ct of the
debate was to vent the abiding dissatisfaction of the occu-
piers of land at the heavy charges cast upon them. In this
aim they have been fully gratified. But they have in addi-
tion been enabled to extort from the House at large an
avowal that they have ground for the particular grievance
they allege, and that at some time or other it will have to be
remedied."—Leader in The Times.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Rail-
way, held in Glasgow, the chairman, adverting to the
Pennylee accident, for which £48,000 had been laid aside,
said there was no stronger illustration of the hardships of
the present law of compensation, because the largest fare
paid by a passenger in that ill-fated train was fifteenpence,
some only paying sixpence.

Under the head of "Conscience Money," the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer acknowledges, in The Times, the
eceipt of the first halves of two £5O-notes from "Mistake."
The Archbishop of Canterbury has recently, in
Lambeth Palace, admitted five ladies as deaconesses (raised
at the Deaeoness Home, Maidstone) for work in his diocese.
A freshet on the Platte River, seventy-five miles
west of Omaha, has destroyed a mile and a half of the Union
Pacific Railroad track, besides causing other damage and
flooding the country for miles round.
Herren Fritzsche and Vierck, the German Socialists,
at a reception at St. Louis deprecated the assassination of
rulers.

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The People's Entertainment 'Society (now in its
third season) gave a concert on Saturday night at the
Lammas Hall, Battersea, at which two songs were capi-
tally rendered by a choral society formed from the artizans
and labourers who have been in the habit of frequenting
these entertainments. The concerts are confined to men
only, and to secure the attendance solely of those for
whom they are intended tickets are distributed during the
week.

A Reuter's telegram from New York says that five
hundred rent-payers, including many Socialists and Com-
munists, held a meeting at Brooklyn on Sunday, at which
they protested against the increase of rents, and resolved to
organise an Anti-rent League, the members of which would
agree to "Boycott" any landlords raising the rents of their
tenants

In a letter, addressed to Mr. Fox, a member of the
Dublin Mansion House Relief Fund, the Catholic Bishop of
It whoa states that he has endeavoured to impress upon Mr.
Chi!deis and other English statesmen who have visited Ireland
in order to study the wfults of the country, that the English
Gavermeent could easily provide for the reclamation of waste
lands :—" I believe (he adds) they could by this means scatter
the people abroad from the overcrowded districts, obviate the
necessity of emigration, and do all this for less than an ex-
tensive scheme of Government emigration would cost."

The Prime Minister and a select party dined with
the Poet Laureate on Saturday at his residence, in Upper
Belgrave-street.
The infant daughter of her Royal Highness the
Princess Frederica and of Baron von Pawel Rammingen,
whose condition had given rise to grave anxiety for some
days, died on Sunday evening, at 8.45. The child was pri-
vately baptised on Friday evening by the Rev. Mr. Wode-
house, Chaplain to the Hampton Court Palace, and received
the names of " Victoria Georgina Beatrice Maude Anne.'

At the Hall of Science, Old-street, London, on
Sunday morning, Mr. C. Bradlaugh, M.P., announced that,
notwithstanding rumours to the contrary, he was deter-
mined to proceed with his motion for an inquiry into the
subject of perpetual pensions, which had already received
so many promises of support from influential members of
Parliament that he was really astonished at its success. tip
to Tuesday night upwards of 1,000 petitions had been pre-
sented in its favour, representing an aggregate of 264,753
signatures from all parts of the country.

Lieutenant Karl Weyprecht, who had gained much
distinction as the Commander of the Austrian Expedition to
the North Pole in 1873, when he discovered "Francis Joseph
Land," and other territories, died on Tuesday morning at
Michelstadt, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The malady to
which he succumbed was chronic pulmonary catarrh. Lieu-
tenant Weyprecht, who contracted this disease while explor-
ing the Polar regions had only attained his forty-second
ear.

On Tuesday two inquests were held at Rossett, near
Chester, on the bodies of Ann Davies, of Rossett-green, and
James butler, her son, residing at Chester. The mother
was accustomed to attend Chester market, and on Saturday
evening she fell asleep in the carrier's cart on the road
home, and when the other occupants of the vehicle endea-
voured to awake her at the Nag's Read at Lavister, they
were shocked to find her dead. A report of the occurrence
was sent to her son, a cabinet maker at Chester, and he went
out to Rossett on Sunday. After making arrangements for
the funeral of his mother, he went to the station to catch
the 9.,0 train home, and fell dead at the station gates. The
jury returned verdicts of death from natural causes in both
cases.

In reply to the Vicar of Christ Church, War-
minster, toe Bishop of Salisbury says : " I most cordially
approve of your desire, and still more of your proposal to
substitute for pew rents in Christ Church. a certain fixed
augmentation of the benefice. I only wish it were possible
to extend the proposal to every parish in the diocese
afflicted by the evil consequences of pew rents."
Count Giovanni Battista Pecci, the eldest remaining
of the Pope's brothers died at carpineto on Sunday after-
noon. He was born on the 26th of October, 1802.

We are informed that a few days ago a surgical
operation, hitherto unpracticed in England, was success-
fully accomplished. It consisted of the injection of a
quantity of fresh cow's milk into the veins of a woman
whose life was despaired of, in consequence of extreme
exhaustion from loss of blood.—Court Journal.

In connection with the proposal to make one stamp
do duty both for postages and receipts, the Colonies and
India points out that the idea is by no means a new one, for
in the West Indian Colonies and elsewhere the custom has
long prevailed. It suggests also that Government might
with advantage withdraw the issue of separate stamps for
telegrams.
Speaking: at a meeting at Leicester the other even-
ing, Mr. A. Pell, M.P., declared his opinion that if England
hoped to make Ireland happy by land legislation she would
be disappointed. It was useless to expect that such legisla-
tion could make Ireland happy, so long as the country was
so greatly over-populated, and the people had to subsist on
such a miserable root as tile potato.

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The Daily Telegraph says that there is reason to
believe that the duties upon gold and silver plate (Customs
and Excise) will be totally abolished by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer on Monday, and that a drawback will be pro-
vided on silver plate upon which the duty has been paid
during the last five years. It is not expected that any
drawback will be allowed upon wedding-rings,

The German Government has become so alarmed at
the extent cf emigration. that a series of measures will be
devised to cuntrol this efflux of the population.
The returns of the expenses of the Lord-Advocate
and Mr. Jenkins at the recent election contest in Edinburgh
have now been lodged with the Sheriff's Clerk of Midlothian.
The Lord-Advocate's expenses amount to £l,lBl, and those of
Mr. Jenkins are upwards of £9OO.
While some men were engaged at the Ouseburn
Engine Works, Newcastle, on Tuesday afternoon, in lifting a
large marine boiler from the quay to a craft lying alongside
the crane broke, and fourteen men were injured. Seven had
to be removed to the infirmary.

" One of the results of the Austrian Empress's visit
to Combermere Hall for hunting purposes is, I am told, a
decided improvement in the methods of mounting horses by
ladies in that country. In4ead of acrobatically skipping
or awkwardly struggling into the saddle, they now per-
form the operation in a graceful, semi-military manner."
—The Cuckoo.

A bla,ckfaced sheep which had been buried among
snow for nine weeks at Little Haddo, Aberdeenshire, was
rescued alive, but much emaciated, on the 14th inst.
Under careful nursing it is gradually recovering strength.

England ought to be well supplied with ostrich
feathers, for the Cape steamzrs have :ought over large con-
signments this winter. The last time th a Grantully Castle
came she brought sixteen cases of fine feathers, of the esti-
mated value 0f.,C3,559.

Oranges are more than usually plentiful this year.
Train loads of this delicious fruit arrive daily in Paris from
Nice, Spain, and Italy. Such crops have not been known
for many years past.
A bust and tablet to the memory of George Cruik-
shank will, in a few days, be placed over the spot where his
remains are deposited in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral.
The marble bears the following inscription :—" In memory
of his genius and his art. his matchless industry, and worthy
work, for all his fellow-men ; this monument is humbly
placed within this sacred fane by her who loved him best,
his widowed wife."

The death is announced, at the age of sixty
five, of M. Oscar de Lafayette, life Senator and Presi-
dent of the Council-General of Seine-et-Marne. M. de
Lafayette was a grandson of the famous general of that
name, and had his life been spared, he would in all proba-
bility have assisted, in company with his brother, M.
Edmond de Lafayette, Senator for the Haute Loire, at the
festivalthat is to take place on Oct. 29, to celebrate the
centenary of the surrender of Yorktown to the American
troops, in the military operations preceding which their
ancestor distinguished himself.

The Duke Castellucia, a Sicilian, has bought the
famous Dummit orange grove in East Florida, which con-
tains 3,500 tr, es in bearing, on its 450 acres, and last year
produced 4,000 boxes of fruit. The Duke intends to winter
in Jaksonville ; he will take with him a number of skilled
labourers from the orange groves in Sicily.

In Cyprus immense number of locusts have appeared
in several districts which escaped their ravages last year,
and serious damage is threatened by this visitation_
Rigorous measures have been adopted to destroy them.
It is to be noted that in the division in the Candahar
debate out of the 241 Conservatives actually sitting In the
Rouse of Commons, only four members were unaccounted
for. The rest either voted, paired, were ill, or gave valid
reasons for being absent.—Daily Telegraph.

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Forty candidates, inclu&ng five ladies, have been
nominated for the eighteen sees on the St. Pancras Board
of Guardians. The Dowager Marchioness of Lothian is one
of the lady candidates nominated.

Up to the present time the Citizen states, twenty-
one patients, paying at the average rate of Ss. per day, have
beep admitted into the two wards of St. Thomas's Hospital,
London, appropriated to this class of patients, under the
recent scheme. The number that can be accommodated is
about forty. The success, so far, appears to have led the
Governors to anticipate that the venture will be financially
beneficial to the hospital.

It is feared that the recent severe frosts have de-
stroyed the entire crop of peach buds in Ontario. Some
people take a more hopeful view of the case, and consider
that but little serious damage has been sustained. Some
twenty years ago Southern Ontario was visited with a simila
misfortune.

Another shock of earthquake has been felt at Casa-
micciola in Ischia. It occurred on Sunday morning, while
the inhabitants were assembled in the parish church. The
worshippers fled in terror, and in the confused flight some
hurts were inflicted. No property was damaged, and the
shock sems to have been comparatively slight. These fre-
quent renewals of the shock, however, must be very de-
pressing for the unfortunate people of the island.

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We have reason to believe (says the Daily News of
Monday) that the Ultery dispute between this country and
the 'United States is on a fair way -towards settlement. The
fact being admitted that the Ameritan fishermen are entitled
to compensation for the injuries inflicted on their-vessels and
tackle, alternative courses weKe •proposed by our Govern-
ment. One was the payment of lump sum • the other, the
ref etrence of the 'question to arbitration, -the .two Govern-
ments nominating each one person, and these nominees
themselves appointing a third. A difficulty at one time arose
from the excessive claims put forward by the 'United States
Government. lint the latest telegrams received from Mr.
Secretary Blaine point to the willingness of the Cabinet at
Washington to accept one or other of the plans suggested by
our Government.

The additions to the Zoological Society's Garden's,
Regent's park, London, during the past•week include a white-
fronted capuchin from South America, presented by C. Drake
Sewell ; a ring-tailed coati from South America, presented by
Mrs. Fuller; a common badger, British, presented by Mr.
Rocke ; a black-winged peafowl from Cochin China, presented
by Mr. J. Marshal ; a rough-eyed cayman from South
America, presented by Mr. Arthur C. Ponsonby ; a rattle-
snake from Brazil, presented by Mr. C. A. Craven • a jararaca
front Brazil, presented by Dr. A. Stradling, C. M.Z.S. ; a
Macacque monkey from India, deposited; a goral antelope,
two bar-headed geese from India, purchased ; a Javan
chevrotaiu from Java, a red bird of paradise, a twelve-wired
bird of paradise, a manueode on approval.

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. It has been stated by a semi-official Berlin evening
paper that on Sunday the Crown Princess received by post
an anonymous letter declaring that her illustrious husband.
the Crown Prince, would fall a. victim to a sentence of the
Nihilists at the funeral of the murdered Czar. Sunday befog
the second anniversary of the death of her third son, Prince
Waldemar, her Highness, accompanied by her children, with
Princess Christian and Princess William, went out to
Potsdam to attend Divine service in the Friedenskirche,
where the deceased Prince is buried, and returned in the
, evening to hear, of course, that the anonymous and discom-
posing prophesy had been falsified. _ _

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The Philadelphia Correspondent of The Times
telegraphs that the Earl of Caithness, who arrived at New
York recently, with the intention of making an extended
American tour, became in on board the steamer upon his
arrival, and was taken to the Fifth Avenue Hotel suffering
from general prostration. He died at the hotel onlonday .
night. Cord Berriedale, his son, and Lady Fanny ,
his daughter, were with him. The Earl of Caithness (Sir
James-Sinclair), and Lord Berriedale in the Peerage of Scot-
land, Baron Barrogill, of Barrogill Ca.tle, in. the county of
Caithness, in the Peerage of the United Ktngdom, and .a
baronet of Nova Scotia, Lord-Lieutenant .and-Vice-Admiral
of Caithness, was the elder of the two sons of the thirteenth
Earl of Caithness by his marriage with Frances Harriett'
youngest daughter and co-heir o•f the late Very Rev.
William Leigh, Dean of Hereford He. was born in 1821.
Lord Caithness was well known in the ecientitic world. He.
invented a steam carriage for travelling on macadamized
roads, a gravitating compass so remarkable for its steadiness
that it has been used on many ships in preference to others
and a tape loom by which a weaver might stop one of the
shuttles without interfering with the action of the whole

A Bill to Amend the Agricultural Holdings Act,
1875; a Bill to regulate the Removal of Poor Persons ; a Bill
to appoint additional Commissioners for executing the Acts
for granting a Land Tax and other Rates and Taxes; and a
Bill to provide for the better application and management
of the Parochial Charities of the city of London, were
-issued on Wednesday.
Mr. Gladstone was on Tuesday night unanimously
elected President of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institu-
tion in the place of the late Ur. Carlyle.
A movement is on foot to raise a memorial to ',Sir
George Colley,

A very painful sensation was caused in Cambridge
on Sunday morning among the resident members of the
University, by the announcement of the death of theßev.
William Henry Bateson, P.D., Master of St. John's College,
which occurred after a short illness at St. John's College
Lodge, from an attack of bronchitis.
The coronation of the new Czar, Alexander 111.,
will, it is sated, take place in the course of next month, and
all the Ambassadors and Ministers of Russia abroad have
been commanded to attend the ceremony. •
Strawberries have put in an appearance in Covent
Garden, but at the Aomewhat pr.:lib:tory price Ld twelve
shillings a basket—Court Jounial.
A daily paper without any name is now being pub-
lished at Cincinnati, in the United States.
The latest suggestion that comes to us about the
cen,us is that the lirttisdi householder inay be asked by the
enumerator his opinion on the withdrawal from candaLar.
Globe. _

- Saturday last was the sixty-second birthday of tie
Duke of Cambridge, who was bin on .ILacli hi. 1819.
People are reckoning largely on the influence of the
Czar's wife, as she is a woman of rare intelligence and vigour
of mind, with a capacity of power equal to that of the
Empress Catherine, and with the ambition to exercise all
the power she possesses.
Mr. Frederick Seymour Allen, of Woodfield,
adjutant of the 15th Regiment, nephew of Lord Ports-
mouth, whilst riding in the Lawrenny Red Coat Steeple-
chase on Tuesday, was thrown from his horse and received
severe internal injuries, besides dislocating his shoulder.
Mr. Allen was removed to La.wreLny Castle, the residence
of Mr. L. Phillips.
Dr. Sparks, the Leeds borough organist, who was
announced to give an organ recital in the Victoria Hall on
Tuesday afternoon, and play a selection of Russian music
appropos of the late Czar's death, received an anonymous
letter warning him that if he ,did "evil would come to him."
In consequence great police precautions were taken, but
the performance passed off without anything unusual
occurring.
An enormous carp, weighing 35 kilogrammes, or
about 78 lbs., was caught the other day by a fisherman at
Biscarosse, near Paris.
A petition from the British medical men in Rome
in favour of vivisection has been presented to the House of
Commons by Mr. J. C. Campbell.
Telegrams from New York state that both the
wheat and cotton crops in the United States promise to be
exceptionally large this year.
It has been decided by the Council of King's College
to give their official recognition to the lectures for ladies
which have been independently conducted by members of
the staff for the last four years at Kensington.

The number of immigrants who arrived in the
United States during February last amounted to 15,075, in-
cluding 5,292 from Germany, 2,476 from England and Scot-
land, 896 from Ireland, and 2,379 from Canada.

The total valu3 of breadstuffs exported from the
United States during the month of February amounted to
14,01)0,000 dols.

In some remarkable statistics -oathe population of
Paris just published by the well known French statistician
Dr. Bertillon, attention is drawn to the very large propor-
tion of Parisian widowers who marry again. In 1879 out of
every 1,000 widowers sixty-two and a fraction married
again, twenty-one of the bereaved ones seeking solace for
their soriows in union with widows. Now out of every
1,000 bachelors only fifty-seven and a fraction marry, and of
these only 3 1-10th marry widows.
The pistol received by the Home Secretary on
Wednesday in last week, has been examined at the Labora-
tory, Woolwich, and was found to be loaded with partially
charred paper.
Mdme. Lebrun, the widow of the poet and Academi-
cian, has recently died at the great age of 89. The little town
of Provins, Seine-et-Marne, hitherto known chiefly for its
rose gardens, ,benefits largely under her will. She has be-
queathed to it the library of her husband, containing about
6,000 volumes, together with a modest endowment for the
library and the librarian, and a few works of art.
Sir Henry Bessemer has, it is announced, almost
completed the construction, at his house at Denmark-hill, of -
a telescope at which he has been working for nearly two _
years. The instrument will be of such power that Sir Henry
expects to be able, by means of it, to read a newspaper placed -
against the side of the Crystal Palace, three miles and a half
distant.

With what, and where, ought you to set the Thames
on fire ?—With a lighter, at Hampton Wick.—Judy.
Prince Bismarck's birthday, on April 1, has hitLert3
never been forgotten by the peasants of Jever, in the I.,ucny
of Oldenburg, who annually sent him 100 plovers' eggs.
Recent changes in taxation, however, have somewhat an-
noyed the Prince's provincial admirers, who, instead of their
usual presents, have forwarded some rough doggerel ierses
notifying that the "hen lapwing no longer lays eggs, sh..: is
afraid of a tax."

On Saturday morning a fire was found to be raging •
under the Punitive Methodist Chapel, at Darlaston, under
somewhat singular circumstances. Under the foundatt:in of
the chapel is a seam of coal nine feet thick, and; h.; coal. ••
became ignited by the heat from the apparatus us- a for
warming the chapel. The damage done to the building is
very great, and it was with difficulty tlrat the dames w_r _
tinguished.
Admiral Patey, C.M.G., has recently diA a;
Newton St. Loe, near Bath, where he had residiA sonic
years. The deceased admiral had seen nmell service. lie
was present at the bombardment of Acre, and was specially • ~;:f
appohn ed to organise the great rush of emigrants from
,
Liverpool to the newly discovered gold fields in Australia .
In 1867.
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Late-comers at theatres and other public resorts,
who sadly annoy more punctual peOple, should go to Mei-
nengen to be cured of their bail habits at the Court Theatre.
There all the doors are closed at the beginning of the per- -
manes, and no one is allowed to enter until the end of the
act.
" Chandoo-Dandoo " is the euphonious title of
cricket in the Marathi laognage, and the ikine itself is be-
coming highly popular amongst Ilindoo youths.

A monumental brass has been sent out to India
recording the date and cause of death of Sir Louis Caragnari. •
The valuable collection of birds belonging to the late fall
Mr. John Gould lias.been offered to the British Museum for •
£3,000. This collection includes some magnificent spec nuns
of humming birds, mounted in glass. cases, with a quantity
•
of similar specimens in skin as well as numbers of other
groups of birds.

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Some interesting Chinese' musical instruments have
been presented to France by the Chinese Ambassador. The
greatest curiosyy is a/lira. a kind of four stringedlyre, on
which mandarins fully are allowed to play. The Emperor is
an excellent Elva performer,-and never loses an oppqrtunity
of shoving off his skill.

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The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liver-
pool last week, from the United States and Canada, show a
large decrease when contrasted with the preceding week.
The totals were 902 cattle, 504 sheep, 6,493 quarters of beef,
1,202 carcases of mutton, and 952 hoes.
Since the meeting of the new Parliament the appli-
catioli torn "strangers" of all degrees for admission to the
galleries of the House of Commons has been unprecedented.
In anticipation of the speeches of Mr. Gladstone on the
Budget and the Irish Land Bill, the applications have
reached such inconvenient proportions that.we are asked by
the Speaker to state that the whole of the available accom-
mcdation on these two nights has already been appropriated.
—Daily News.

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An order appears in the London Gazette of the 25th .
that Agnes Mary Manners Tollemache and Agatha Manners •
Tollernache, spinsters, the sisters of William John Manners,
now Earl of Dysart, shall henceforth have, hold, and enjoy .2 t
the same title, place, pre-eminence, and precedence as if
their late father had succeeded to the title and dignity of
Earl of Dysart. 4100
Last week's receipts Of cotton at all United States
ports have been 93,000 bales, and since Ist September :;••;-,t
4,993,220 bales. Shipments to Great Britain, 63,000 bales ; • "
and to the Continent and Channel, 44,000 bales; total "I'w
since Ist September, 3,31.0,4.00 bales. Stock at all ports, tiry
836,000 bales.
The semi-official Hungarian paper Hon gives the
following summary results of the late Census in the '
countries subject to the Crown of St. Stephen :"—Hungary
and Transylvania, 13,697,999; Fiume and its district, 21,363;
Croatia and Sclavonia, 3,191,845; the Military Frontier, r
697,516; total 15,608,723; total population in 1870, 15,417,3-27; 4
increase, 191,396; being at the rate of only 1-24 per cent. for :; 1 ,
the whole period of ten years. •
At a meeting of about two hundred students and
members of the Council of Edinburgh University a Com-
mittee was appointed to take steps for raising a Memorial 11" ‘. •
to the late Thomas Carlyle, who was for some time Rector 4111„;
of the University. It was agreed that the Memorialshould
take the form of a Lectureship, the subject to be afterwards • • .•• _•'
considered. xl4,
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