The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITIBH AND FOREIGN.

It is not generally known that there are 60.484 'lina•
tics in England nod W.i5,•0 that out of terry 39t ,ople
one is mail? This Is nut a cheerful reflection.
An addreee, eigned by two butrired German ar,iatn,
was presented on Sunday to the Pope, thank:ha blue:o r liii
patronage of the 11, e ar a
Lord Sandon is preparing a bill providing a simple
and thaava,nien prop..., whereby laymen May put the law
In force against ritululic clergymen without leaving the in-
itlivive I• be taken by toe bishop At protect each pr.s.ecu-
tion at law costa £5OO on the average, and this falls entirely
on the bishop.
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lathe argument on the Mar peerage claim, which
came again on tiquday before the House nf Lord. sitting as a
Committee or Pririloges, Mr Fleming, Q C., concluded his
speech on bohalf of Lord Kettle The Donn of Faculty wee
adore...lug their lordehipe on the same side when the Court

"The Spanish Federal Republic appears to be in the
conditton a a patient maiming from ibilvmmation of the
brain. The disesae has reached Ito height, and is begin-
ning to show symptoms of subsidence trim exhaustion,
and the doctors are divided between the necessity of keep-
ing up the patient's strength sad the apprehension of
supplying fuel to the fever.

The operative joiners and carpenters of Blackburn
have, at a mass meeting of their trade, resolved upon de-
manigng an advance of wages to the extent of 2s. Si. each
per week.
It in said that it will be proposed to increase the
allowance of the Duke of Edinburgh by £5,000 a year, and to
confer • dowry of £50,000 and an annuity of £6,00 a year on
the Grand Duches• lips is similar to the provision that
was made for the Princess Boyai on her marriage with the
Crown Prince of Pruasta.

Being shown some very fat cattle at the Home
Farms at Windsor, and understanding that they had been
fed upon oil cake, the Shah grew quite animated, and said
to the interpreter, "Ask If ollcoke Ii good for wives.

"At a recent charitable bazaar a lady'a idea created
quite a surprise. It was the sudden presence of a beautifu
Alderney cow, decorated with wreaths and flowers, when it
was announced that syllabub could be had at 6d a glue.
This novOty added considerably to the proceeds of the
bazaar—Court Journal.

There is at present to be seen at Mackay, Cunning-
ham, and Co.'s, 62, Prinres-.t-eet. E iinburgb, a vary large
Cape diamond, value £6,000. The diamond la set to the form
of a bra *let.

At a country pariah echool board, on the °minion of
their lint meeting the cleric was told In answer to his re-
quest for a copying press, to get two boards from the joiner,
put a little gum in the Ink, damp the paper, and sit down on
the top"
The dead bodiee of eighteen Norwegian sailors, who
attempted to winter In Spitsbergen, have b en found by a
German explorins ship which has visited the island.

The Army and Nary Gazette undentand that the
goverum,ht will uot hold out against tile Ttehee of the ofliaers
of the army, aid that It ii likely to kraut the Royal corn.
million on the purchase grlevauces.

An International Corn and Seed Market is to be
held at Vienna on the ste and 6th ef August, under the
management of the B .rd of Directors of the Vienna Corn
Exchange. The prosy ctus states that the period flacil oc-
curs at the time of the year when in AustroAlungary as well
aa In the greater part of Europe In general, the harvest la
Bashi d, and when the meeting of a large number of persons
familiar with the agricultural affairs of toe diffiireut c ituitrles
is LI render it possible or them to become acquainted with
the yield of the harvests he the great producing sod consuming
districts of the world.

A correspondent of The Times sends the following
respecting tve late Bishop of %loch Some three
yeses ago, the Bishop, being on • VI/14 to the present Marquis
of tlertford e.t flolly•lodge, Windsor Park was requested to
deliver an address to the inmates of the Union at old Wind-
sor the Sunday afternoon. S9me of the old men t•elug asked
afterwards how they liked the Bishop, replied, Very well
but he knew too much of us; he turned us inside out. One
would bare thou, ht he had been in a house for • year or two
of his life, surely."

An inquest tee been held in London respecting the
death of Mrs White, aged hi , of Eszl'ecourrieroad, Kensing-
ton. Oa Sun 'ay night the deceased trod upon and ignited a
match wh,ch by some mischance had h-en left on thee or
of her di awing-room Directly afterwards her clothes were
In • blaze. She ran downstairs crying for help, when • Mr.
Jordan extinguished the II omen by wrapping bedclothes round
her. She was conveyed without delay to St George's
Hospital, hut died in a short time. Mr Jordon was most
severely injured in hia attempts to save the deceased The
jury returned a verdict or "Accidental Death," and compli-
mented Mr. Jordan on the courage and decision he had dis-
played.

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The King of Siam haa made a bustle among the
I hie harem by ordering them to wear the European
costume.

The Claimant took part in a p'geonahooting match,
at to Pomona Gard-ns, at Slantneater, on Stturday. He
carried otl the third prize, and was lonAly app'auded by
the spectators, to whum he subsequently dthrered an
address.

M. Philarete Ohioleo, the well•known French writer,
and Profess of the College of France, died at Vienua on
ff orday. The deceased was born on the Bth f/ctober,
1798, and was c nmequently in Ma 7518 year. lie was the
author of many critical works, eeveral of them being upon
Engllsh subjects.

On the 4th of July, being Independence Day, e New
York re.tment Inviteo the veterans of the war of 1812 to a
" colletion. ' Thirty flee answered to the roll call, the ag-
gregate of the ages of thirty-three belog 2,613 years; the
ages of the two others were not stated.

The Prnssian Minister of Education, Dr. Falnk,
has 1111321001.0 a conference of educatt•nal men of note to
meet at Berlin in October neat in order to assist him in
draughting an Education Bill, which Is to be laid before
Parliament next session.
His Royal EDO:mess the Duke of Edinburgh is not
staying at the Castle at Jugenhelm, near Darmatecit, but has
hired a villa In the valise, which is gaily decorated with nags
and festoons of evergreens, and very day Qlealillmesseugers,
couriers, lettere, and presents are pouting into the notedly
quiet little village. The marriage will, it in said, take place
at Si. Petenburgh in March next.

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A sad accident has just taken place in the forest of
Schenano, near Calance, the Girisona. About • fortnight ago
two woodrcutters proceeded there to work ; hut, not return-
ing home at the appointed time, some anxiety was felt and
search was made for them. I heir bodies were finally dia-
coverod hene4th the trunk of • large pine tree, 10 .0 advanced
• state of decompordtion as to indicate that they hal been
dead at least ten or eleven days.

A movement ban been set on foot among the mayors
of England for entertaining the Lord Mayor of London in
the Guildhall at York, as a recognition of his lordship's hos-
pitality and reenerady high character, by which he ban won
the esteem of all classes throughout the kingdom.
A bill introduced by Mr. H. B. Sheridan, and sup-
ported by Mr. Locke and Mr. M'Lagiiii, to regulate the
treatment of prisoners on remand or committed for trial,
proposes to give such pris..nera Increased facilities for the
preparytioU of their defence, and to remove some of their
existing disabilities, thus endeavouring to meet • demand
that WY for some time been raised for reform in this
respect.

It was eonsidered that a high price was given for the
old silver disposed of at the sale of the late Sir John Fugal;
effects at lire.°le. It seems, however, that thou .ho oonaht
knew what they were shout. A mail sliver puff and powder.
box of the reign of Q .eon Elizabeth, which fetched the sp.
Osrenti, high price of £l9 12/11 since been resold f-d. £llO
Crplecton of these thiuge say there are only five or oda in es-
Isteuee.

From April Ist to the 19th instant the Exchequer
recelnts mum:oat,' to 121,609,743, as comp. e4l with
E. 21 212,7EP in the correst. ~,, g Ptelod of last year. Tne
exprnditure has Man a 92,781 Os Sntorchty last the
balance Seth. Bank of Eilgialld. Was £1,00,131.

Mr. Mmidells, M.P., has received a letter from Mr
Gladstone, in whi ii the Premier ackuowled,e, the receipt of
• memorial from the inhabitants of Sheffield, urging the
pas-age of a Snipping Survey HI I dorm( the present s-s-i.a.
Ii e rlatt hon. gentleman, while fully sympaiblaing with toe
object of the memorialists, reminds It, m that much a
measure con I:lscaren ly be passed In the absence of sny report
f om the 11.4•1 Commlsaion of Inq..try. Mr Glad-ions, at
the same time, states that the G ,vernment have a bill before
the H. use el Commons which they hope to carry Into law
relating to the safety of life at sea.

At the As,Aizes bt Worcester, before Mr. Justice
Nns.so, Fano, Coke wee ihdicted for the wilful murder f
her child, Edwin Cooke, at Dudley. The prisooer, who cut
her child's throat, cod afterwards attempted her owu
had r,ceotly takeure drink, and or some time hid been In
o strange state of mind. ills lordabip ordered her to be de-
tained during her Majesty's pleasure, tie jury having found a
verdict of Not Guilty, on the grouid of Insanity.

A Calcutta telegram states that four men were
by the Car of Juggernath In the linogpoo district
The Bengal Government haa declared that the heavy curs in
use are deadly, and saki the Viceroy to approve stopplug
them.

"Persons who kiss their hand in Hyde Park, some-
times grirwittil), more oft..,n awkwardly, and as if they were
going to eat their hand or ejlect a cherry stone out ol their
mouths at the oi lent cf their greeting, may be curious to
hear that kissing the hand was a common aud very old
cuatom of expreasing homage to the g•wis or to an idol. It
was a prevalent mode or performing homage to the gods
among the Greek and Rdmans."—Court Journal.

From Barcelona we learn that igualaia, se was ex-
pected, ham been cdrupelled to yield to the persistent attacks
of the Carlists, after valiantly defending itself for thirty -Mg
hours. tile town was afti-rwarda sacked and burnt. It Is
said that the Carlists suffered heavy tomes. Their forces
consisted of 3,500 infantry, 200 cavalry, and three gluts. The
Carliste have also taken Magni. la consequence of their
successes. • CAmmittee of Politic Safety has teen formed at
firm-lona, and it Is ordered that all citizens between twenty
and forty years of age are to be th,bds to military service.
By the death of Lord Westbury the number of ex-
Chance•lors is now reduced to four, via, Lord St. Leonard.,
Cite imsford, Cairns, and ilatherley The pension of 45,000 to
L.ird St Leonards won granted when the first Derby Ilinlitry
left offi. in December, 1852; that of Lord Chelmsford dates
from June, 1859, and ale, of Curse, in abeyance whilst his
lordship resumed the en...Worn:op, from July, 1838, to
February, 1008; that if Lord Cairns nos grants.. to December,
me, on the reglgostion of Mr. Denten ; and that of Lord
Heine, ley at 11. date of his retirement iu the autumn of
Nat year. Etc naive of the pres it Lord C iancellors of Eng-
land and Ireit d, the otter law lords are Lords Coionieiy,
Pei zmoe, d Romilly, who rave at different times reeigned
the respective posts of Lord Justice General of Scotland,
Judge if the Court of Probate and Divorce, and Master of
the Rolls.

We learn from Bombay that the vimit of the Shah
of Persia to England has excited keen interest throughout
hula. Telegrams of Into movements arrived daily, and ame
published eh over the couotry. Tne Times e India sms
that the ci ocresiou to Baron Reuter had given 11111C.1 satis-
faction, aLd may be of deep political import. "An alliance
I,th Persia, pending the Bubsian ai,v.dice in Central Ants,
in," it adds, 'the mject of all others to be attained after
the alliance with Afghanistan."

A Vienna patent safe-maker bade defiance to all
other safe mekens to open his safe, and got the honour of
the presence of the Emperor during a trial. The safe pro•
prletor nrullcd sercentically at the futile effort. of his rivals,
and then exclainuog— • But, after all, my Mewls, It is a
simple matter," proceeded to show how how it was to be
done, and found he could not open the safe himself.
Orderw of tier Majesty in Council are published in
the Londdn Gazette of the 18th of July sanctioning by-laws
for the compu6ory attendance of chlloren at nchool, made
with the approval of the E location Department loader the
74th section of the Eleosentary E lucntion Act, 1870, by the
Octopi Boards of Brompton, Yorkshire; Wellingborough,
Northamptonshire Lienwilda, cereetsais , and Buffington,
Somata

At the County. Mayo Antra., Walter Walsh, who
wee convtard of the murder of fat wile, wee mentenced by
Mr. Jostle Fl' zgerald to be executed on the 19th of August.
His Lordrhlp bmi out no hope A rmrcy. The :rime was
c mmi.ted when Wahh was in a state of drunkenness. If,,
wile hod borne him five children, and was about to become
the mother of a sixth.

The trial of Freak H. Wa'worth for the murder of
hie ft —s trial in winch Nev. Y..rk has taken greet in-
terest—cloud un the night of the 2.. d of July by the Jury
bringing in • verdict of gully of murder in the second
degree. mid to-more, w )oung Walfeerth ht. be sentenced to
at, rm of men. nment, prob.ably for life (writes the A,,e-
lean cornopondent of fin /Ms.,. ) Tide trial wu con-
ducted promptly, occupying bat eight dam a coarse to
marked contra. t with the usual nlays of New York murder
Else veroict is considered a great triumph for the
defence, baring been mainly steered by the skill of Mules
OVonor is la)ing hwfore the jury testimony shooing the
vileaus of the merdired man. the closing &deli-eta of the
prosecuting attorney was quite favourable to the priaoher,
and the result of the trliti—in sariug the young Inan's life—
satiate. the public, while there Is • siren; belief that after a
abort Imprisonmeut he Will be pardoned.

The annual Ate of the National Temperanoe League
to, It piece on Tuesday at the Cr) 'Mal Palace

Several of tho ex*onnivo iron and ste.l firms of Sha-
n, d intend to putt' sir wort. on half thus, owing to d,fp wity
to oota,ning several chimes of Wortnien and the high prig: of
fuel.

In tho neightymrho44 of Brnwelo alarm luso boon
oceaahn"d bi the naps of four none trim a ro .nwrte.
Toe baa,ta were ev,utnatly cap,nred or killed by .0019 in-
fantry tromp t who were tent lu pursuit
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The Liberte states that the Shah, previously to
Paving rd, IS, gave In. mm or 12 0011. I Russian fivernnble
pita", to be di tiionted amon :at the iHry Lee et the 1'41.1e
Enarbon The tame paper sta.., that no leos than 30 ars*
gong requi.ed to convey the Elheti.' laggais to the rail-
way station.

Mr, George Smith, having concluded his explorer
tient in Assyria, has returned to Eagtmd. The tablets and
other fragments Obcovrred by him have been shipped at
Ablandrrma, and are ex wcted to arrive shortly.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as
" Conscience Money" the receipt of a AS 01010 from " D.C.'
for Income-tar

The Pentium' love of diamonds arises, we learn
from a belief that they are donee that have fallen from
heaven.

At general conferenoe of miners' delegates, held
et Glasgow on Monday, It was agreed to accept the pro-
posal of the masters for the appointment of • committee to
consider the points In dispute between the employer, sad
the men.

It is said that the National Education League have
resolved to pursue, not only in regard to the Greenwich oleo.
tion, but to aU borough elections tor the present, the same
ilue of policy as that recently taken at Bath, viz., to run.
candidate in sympathy with the League against any one
coming forward as a supporter of the ralucational policy of
the present Ministry.

At a iplieral conference of miners' delegates, held at
Glasgow, on Monday. It was weed to accept the croposal ad
the maaters for the appointment of a committee to consider
the points in dispute between the employers and the men..
On Monday night a melancholy and fatal occur-
rence took place In Shields Harbour, whereby are man eras
drowned and two others had a narrow escape for their 11•01.
It appears that three River Tyne Commissioners' divers
named George Brown and Ms brother, together with another
man named Holt. were engaged with • ding-bell in em
&mining some buoy chains on the south side of the harbour,
when by some means the bell suddenly rendre& The renal,
was that Ge wee Brown was drowned, and the two other men
were with (itchy eared In a very exhausted condition.
The body of Weorge Brown was not recovered.

The obituary of The Times of Friday, the 18th met.,
contained tome remarkable illastrations of prolonged exis-
tence in menu ladies whose united asps amounted to dig
years, giving an average of E 9 years and more than three
month. t each. The following were their respective ages—.
:-85, 86, 67, 88 91, 91. and 96 years. The same 0=
',corded th- deaths of live other penons whose ages
fx.m 71 to 79 years.

A new game of battledore and shuttlecock has been
intramced, called Badminton." in honour of that ducal
mansion, In which it was first played It Is an amrising
game, and one that any numbwr ol both sexes may j
On a rainy day In a country boa oft furnishes many an hnnee
amusement a tended with exercise, sod is as excaing ',hap
the tides are 1,11 matehed as a game of polo in at Lille
Bridge Grounds.— Court Journal.

Professor John Wise, a leading aeronaut in America,
intend 8 on the 29.11 of August to make • lel non ascent from
New York ety, which he hopes will result In • successful
balloon voyare to Europe. Al the preparations are hang
made, and, while every one elm is sceptical, the prolate°,
he. no doubt that there is • rapid upper esuierly current of
sir Mat will blow him across the ocean. This enterprise is
ender the auspices of the proprietors of the Neuf York
Graphic newspaper.

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New York papers state that Profesaor La Montane
has met with a dreadful death. He ascended In a paper
baloon hlll.ited with heated air, and at the height of hall •
mile the balloon mcaped from the ear, which overturned,
and the professor fell to the earth. He was somehed to
piece..

Hydrophobia has warned the public of danger'
peculiarly tnrestening at this period ol the year ; and at
Stockton • little girl hu died from the terrible malady, Ia
wow-nuance of being bitten by • rabid dog, the came animal
hay og ter° caused the death of • horse and a mare. A
veto wary surgeon, Ilk iwise injarn, took care to canticles
the wounds, and has not suffered from them.

The largest excursion yet made by the National
Sunday League to Bognor and Arundel was that of Sunday
lass, wh, n the Cr.;,. from London Bridge and Victoria con-
veyed soon 1,4.10 to the ma idde for the morning, and at SO
all who choge—and they w hulk of the paft.—were taken
up to Arundel, where In the Duke of Norfolk's noble park
the band played, and healthy recreation was heartily en-
j.4 ed.

According to earlimt adviceP, the invnirgents at
Carthagetn have seized the Spanish squadron at a oho, in
the port. aud given the command of It too .8 of their leaders.
The eqnadron was compoeed of four Mesta, three of whioh
were ir..nclade and three eteamers. M ,an while a regiment
deepatch”d against Cartnagena has mutanied and jointd the
inourgeote.
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The Counters of Londonn has pnrehatied the imitates
Of the E.ri of S•hreford sod %Perri/qt., , off,rel for We laat
woes, and u mpri.lng the Lordships of Hredon, Wilton, nod
longe, with toe mai:twill right., advowsons, .to The
porch.• money was £1437,000, exclusive of timber covering
scoot 3 O scree, and which her ladyship takes by valuation.
These estates adjoin th se of the late Marquis of Hastings,
at D nington, to which the countess succeeded on his death
In 1008.

Several oases of sunstroke are reported, as the effect
of the rvcent excesslv.. heat ; and from some parts of the
cor %try violent thunderstorms are spoken of m having
he not to cle r the atmosphere. One or too of these ideality)
te pests were tvtal to human Its.; and in particular at
BoAon a party of children were struck and two of them

At the Court at Osborn Honse. Isle of Wight, the
17th day of July. 1873—present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty In C smell—car Malesty in C Await wee this day
pleased to declare her consent to a contract of niatrioiony
beteeen his It sysl Highness Alfred Ernest Albert, Dare of
Edinburgh, Eeri of Kent, EAli of Cuter, Duke of Suony,
Prince of Saxe C hurg to,d Gotha, and her indoerial High-
ness the Grand Duccess Maxie AlexaNdrovns, only daughter
of his Mal, sty the Emperor of All the Russia.. which con-
sent her Mej-sty has also coated to In signified under the
Great 8-al.—atm above notification is puhlished• in lieu of
one wlrch appeared in the London Gazette of the 18th a
July, 1873 1

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A correspondent writee to us (Pall Mall Gast aa
follows —on: English senileman. Mr. de Goaon, has lone
arrived In Cairo, and brings interesting news from ...nye.
slots. In the course of his travels he went to the Court of
the King Johannes at Ambachara, a day's marel. from
Gondar, and fund that the King had just compleTod the
conquest of Abyssinia, havhig reduced to submission the re-
bellions governors of Shoe. Amhara, and Go Ism. Mr. de
Cosson spoke to him on the subject of the slave trade, and
succeeded in obtaining from him a written promise not only
to suppress the trahlc in slaves, but also to emancipate
forthwit all slaves in Abyssinia. This promise is expressed
In a letter written by the King to Lord Granville, which Mr
de Conon brings with him.

In noticing the deaths of the Bishops of Winchester
and Lord Weethury, the Daily News remarks :—'The two
em nent men who now Ile dead were prominent member, of
the House of Lords, and none wit, were present on the even-
ing of the 15th of July, 18e4, will forget Lord Westbury's
pungent attack upon the synodical Judgment pronounced by
Convocation on Essays and Reri,tas, or the trenchant reply
of the Bishop of V. Cocoon r. who twin presided over the
Bee of Oxf ed Lcr I Westbury, tha Lord Chanceller, had de
scribed the the j I,Cgnient as eel-like, oily, and sawn.
MOTO," a sarcasm which was recognised aa applying to the
style of Dr Wilberorce, who had taken • prominent part in
the Convocation debates, The bishop snarly retorted that
the Chsnoellor had indcbred in a strain of ribaldry, in which
be knew that none would compete with him and declared
that when he laid it. had upon his dying pillow, he
should do so in perfect confluence, that he had cone his beet
for the maintenance of train, nor did he fear soy commie
quenoes which the defence of that truth might entail.

Attention is directed by the R-sistrar-General to
the fact toat the fatel:ty from Murton • coutitm. a to la-
crosse rapidly the death. re/erred to this &wage, which In
the three, previous week. had been 22, 8 and 100, farther
roee to 205 last week, which were. however, 49 below the
o rn Med average number for the C wrens .odiug week in
the last too year. Of hose 20 fatal cases le' or 80 per
cent, were of Infant. under one year of age. and 32 others of
children aged from oneto live iota.. The annual delineate
from Mani ce• in the week was rqenl to 31 per thousand in
London. To simple chat, ra aunt cuoleraic dtar n.. ill deaths
were referred, against 3 .11d. 6 in the two previoue weeks, 11
Ming cases of infants and n under dye years.

The Prince of Wales on Monday preeided over
Conference, held at Mariborotigh House, c ,mprising repro-
sentativs• of the principal City c mpanies It wee on.
coned with a view of discus•lng bow the latter might nest
promote technical education, in concert with the Com-
missioner. of the Internattnial Eshlultion. In addition to
his i.o) al II gimes', the speakers Isere the Earl of Cameroon,
the Lord M .yor, A.derman 8 one, and Mr ilenry Cale. A
resolution, cordiall bylaw bluing with the objects for which
the Cooferenoe had ben , and promising the support
and co-operation of the City companies, was carried.

Lord Houghton has accepte the nomination a
President of t,e noels. Science Congress a hich ..111 meet .
N .rwich on the 1-t .1 Octoner mgt. Loyd Bought. n was
Pram lent of the N formatory Section of the Bradford
Congress In 1859. and of the Depaitmeut of Ecrinon.y and
l'rade at the meetn u of the Com.re.• in London in 1862. Mr.
Muria. Galton will he President of tbe Health Department
at the Norwich meeting.
A very good retrospective anecdote shoat the
Shah has found its way into print. Dorn g his stay le Parts
he receives Lot bus than eight thousand letter. ! Fie ad not
read a single one, but hod m pocked up to amuse Montan
with woen he gets hone 0.1- of the nap rsais, pathetically
complains that he was BO chary in his distribution of his order
of knighthood—not knowing the people he had to deal with
—he only gave SIM a thousand decorations.

During the week ending lest Saturday 4,976 births
and 3,142 death. were reetist,.red in London wol t • out) other
large cities and towns of the Uni•ed Kingdom. The natural
e of populltion was 1,E14. The nu rtality from all
nooses in the., towns was at the rate of 22 deaths annually
to every 1 600 persons e,ttensfeo to he living. In the metro-
polis 2,142 biret•an.i 1 391 deaths were registered the f o,m.r
having ben 31 bb 're, no. the latter 269 below, Ike average.
One person died from small pox, at from meanie., II from
scarlet fever, 1 from diphtheria, 64 from whooping c ugh,
21 from different forms ,4 f• ver, and 205 from diarrheas;
thus to the seven principal diseases of the z, mode elms 834
eath• were referred. ageins.. numi,nrs increasing steadily
from 129 to 191 in the four preonding week. The mesa
tempnrisiure at the Km al Observatory, Greenwich, use 6088,
an 291 below the everts° for the corresponding week In 60
years. Nearly an Inch and a quarter et rain fell durthg the
week.

We learn from Bombay that the visit of the Shah
of Persia to England has excited two interest throughout
bribt. Telegrams of his movements arrived deny, slid went
published ail over the country. The i imet of I ndianays that
the concession to Baron Kt liter had git,n much estistactlon,
sod may he of deep political import. An slit mce stilt
Perils, pending the Ros.lsti •CVAIICO In Central Asia,
adds, "the collect o. all others to be attulned after the
alliance with Afghanistan."
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They do small things as well se tall things in
America A Worcester man chasm to have constructed the
smallest steam engine in the world, with a boiler holding
three drop.. The engh.e, boiler, governor, and pump.
stand in a space sevemeixteenths of winch square and five.
eighths of an inch high, and oontsin 148 c Istlnct parts. The
longest screw le one-eightieth of an inch in size and the
smalleet about one.thonsandeth of an inch in sire A large
thing—that • walk nown showman spends 750,000 dollars
annually In advertising.
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The wages dispute between cotton operatives and
tildr employers in the Ashton district has remained In ana.
penile for the last forthiabt, but there is still a prospect that
a strikeor lock-out may be Avoided. The more recent nego.
natious hinge upon the quest bui of the extent of the arse. to
be included by an arbitrator in his comparison of wages In
different Maces. The Operatives taik of asking Mr. Mun-
dell., kI.P., or Mr. Lyulph Stanley to reprwent them, end
confer with Mr. Rupert Kettle, who would probably repro-
lent the masters to the proposed arbitration.

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"alluded " to the subj-ct, and his remarks were little more
than an allusion. It would have been at least graceful for
the Primate to pay some tribute SO a Prelate who had long
been the ornament of the Episcopal Brnch, and men like
Lord fielborne and Loro CSiln • C mid have afforded to do
justice to the gnat lawyer whoas allillties as c,..leagne or aa
rival they riad • upoyed such frequent opportunltfee of appro.
clattniri We hope It willi he long oefore two much men as
Dr. Wilberforce and Lord Westbury are lost to the flour* of
kn,Lotohirdo..:gihnhoihodorwnewriaop):, dur.tohr
oirhtamwoo wrht.l rwhsoaktohreotfhwe fl.toirsehyootooshf ortuwwhil do
...baro..hve
marks-dc for quail,ise far higher than those " genial sad
tooter talents '' which were all the Duke of Richmond Could
commensurate, and on the part of the °eternised the
omission of any referent* to Lord Westhen WIS DOMliatil
unissosid"—Leeder In TM Times.

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