The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BEITIBR AND FOREIGN.
It is said that upwards of a million copies of t
penny edition of lb. Pilgrsnes Program have been Bold try
the Book iociety.
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The Portemonth Town Council have resolved to
present a conarstniatory address t the Duke ot Edinburgh,
who is • captain In the navy, on his approaching marriage.
The declared vslue of eggs imported in the last seven
mouton was ti 617,792; In toe Name period In the preceding
year, £1,17E483.
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A letter has been received from the Lord-Lieutenant,
In reply to a memcsial praying for a reprieve for the man
Walsh, under sent,nce of death for the murder of his wife,
at Castlabar, stating that the law mast take its course.

The wages ot porters sad postmm in Dublin have
been raised, but a 4rilte Is considered imminent, it being
stated that the authorit is intend to dismiss the leaders
in the recent agitation.

Al! cereals are advancing in price in the French de-
partmental corn mutat, the Yield- of grain on threshing oak
being less satisfactory than wee expected
A French countess seized a philosopher atthe supper
taMe and, sinking tier voice to a whisper, said, "While they
are cutting up the fowls and Ire have got five minutes to
spare, do tell me the history of the world, for 1 want to know
It CO much."

The South Staffordebire iron trade, although some
what steadier than last reported, Is lo a languid state. A
large number of blast turbines remain Idle, and the mills and
forges eat role are running barely hall time. It Is estimated
that the 94 bleat furnaces now blowing In the district yield
a weekly area of 9,540 tons of cog iron.

The Executive Committee of the National Agricul-
tural Labourers' Colon have ordeiel proceedings to be taken
against several farmers for assaults on unionism.
The Dublin scavengers have struck for the second
time sor an Increase of wagealr previous demand was
partially granted.
It appears from an official return that the revenue
of the Suer Canal Company in July amounted to £63,040.
The last ten days brougut £24,320.

The London correspondent of the Wettern Morning
New says :—"There as. rumours that a splendid mansion
which Is now being built at Kensington, near Mr. Thackersee
rd house, and facing Kensington Gardens, Is intended by-
and-bye to be the passe of the Duke of Edinburgh and his
bride,

A Congregational Minister, the Rev, George Onions,
Ina obi... Med at the Leeds Assizes CYO, damagm mutual the
Lancashire and Yorkehire Railway Company, for an accident
caused to his wire through the sudden starting of a trail be-
fore she could leave the carriage.

A curious notice ham been issued by the National
Rifle A iodation, to the e&ct that between .200 and MOO
01 the money which was Woo at Wimbledon la EDI unolahned.
Some substantial prizes are on the Hot—one of 1,50 in the
Alexandra competition, and soother of RSO in the cation
Snug

During the military evolutions on Dartmoor on
Tuesday afternoon a Cosgrove.' tradesman had ascended on
honeback on. 01 the higher ton near the Merriplt Camp,
In order to get a Mew of the Isaitu. Hla horse stumbled on
a loose rock and fell, and they rolled oyoo. and over down tha
mountain elde When picked tip the rider, Mr. Jrffr-t,
was vit, dead, but the bone did n0t..... to have suaidoed
Din et Injury.

For the -season of the year a very fair salmon fishing
was last week male in the Tweed, the produce of grilse Aug
trout haring Improved, especially in the river. The high
winds which hare prevailed nod the wet weather have corn•
blued to increase the number of doh caught. On Saturday
salmon, grilse, and trout were each willing at lid. per lb,

A correspondent of the Prase ham been able to have
a fen minutes conversation with Marshal Bernina. He found
the manhal calm but greatly aged, and anyone can 11114 that
the Minns moths have profoundly affected the organization
of the prisoner He seemed, however, full of confidence as
to the WWI of the triaL

Not long since one of the light-fingered gentry,
dressed in letter-carrier's uniform, picks d the lock oh. Post-
aloe pillar boa in London, opened the door and carried off
the letters The thing was done at fire o'clock In the after-
noon. The act shows what • bold rascal is the nineteenth
century thief It also shows what a perfect mience modern
stealing has become.

The Shoeburyness artillery competition closed on
Saturday wit the ILBIIII distribution of prises. The cere-
mony was preceded by a march past, end wound up with
some speech.maktng on the part of Colonel Harcourt and
Sir John A lye. In • final camp order the captain command-
ant expressed his unqualified satisfaction with the steady
and soldier-like bearing of the ranks.

Tbree hundred doe s labourers at Dublin struck work
on Friday, to tne serious impediment of business. Attempts
were made to supply their places by paupers from the unions,
bat their numbers were Inad.quate, and, when they found
the nature of the work required of them, they refused to re-
main. The wages of the laiouren are 185, a week, and some
'sera ago they demanded 215., which the Board refused.

0Z,(1 t-• A g rain from Exeter to North Devon got off
the line on Tuesday while passing along the bridge over the
Ere, and the engine rolled over on Ite aide into the river
taking with it the tender and two vans.

The late Biahop of Winchester on the 6th of Janoary
last wrote the following remarkable passage :—" I have • tar
more sustaned sense than formerly of the eearearia of the
end. Otherwise I cannot say that I feel mach older."
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" Gladstone's table, it is said, whe littered every
whams all over with letters from all eorls of people in
every part of England Imploring hlm to fill the See of Win-
chester with this or that man, or not to 1111 It with so-and-so.
Of osurse most of these letters were disposed of by his
secretary; but men of rank and position, I) D's by the
dozen, think themselves entitled to offer their advice and
suer etio:u."--Court JournoL

I;ne Daily News says that, according to reports from
all pert. of Eotland, we are Lujoimg the advantage of .e of
the finest harvest season, ever known. The superior quality
of the corn ie happily placed beyond doubt, but the mina
conflicting reports prevail al to the quantity. Last year the
authorities estimated the yield of wheat at eta bushels under
the average of thirty bullish per acre. Thia year they
hesitate to sty more than that the crop will be under the
average, an that we may conclude that it will be in all re-
spects much better than in 1072.

The Registrar-Generals return of the area of ground
under tan in Ireland has been tuned, It exhibits an in.
crease of 7,343 acre, on the total area under nal In 1873,
compared with 1812. In the province of Uistor alone the
incrome la 8,780 urea. In all tne other three provinces the
cultivation ball fallen Off. Of tole entire number (1,482) of
scotching mUm In 1872, 1,375 were 1.12 Uhler, 36 in Leinater,
39 in If ouster, and 22 in Connaught.
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Sir Joeeph Whitworth hail offered prizes of the value
of 4100, to bo awarded by the Society cf Arta, for the best
ess.ys on the " Advantages that would be likely to arise II
railway companies and limited compsnies generally were
each to establish • saving. bank for the working classes in
their employ.

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According to advice. from Bruuels, the Catholics of Ant-
weep have published • manifesto announcing their intention
to take no part in the fetes which the Llbtral municipality
tea decided to give next cunday on the oce Won of the King
and Queen •aiting the city. this conduct on the pus of
the cicricals is denounced by the Litieral prose as revolu-
tionary.

A rural American paper Pays that the inhabitants
[lithe district have DO thermom :ter in their town, Co the
weather gets as cold as It likes Another Journal. 01 western
New York, lately reported the glass 30 degs. below nothing;
and It would have gone much lower, only It wasn's long
enough."

The herring fiehing on the Berwickshire and
Northumberland c.at is toeing prosecuted with Mir /11.1CANSC
but the high winds of last week deterred many crews from
going to sea The takes at Berwick have been as high as
thirty cram per ho.t, and several boata have had quantitiee
ranging from ten to twtnty crank

The name of Wilberforce —having been before the
public a good deal of ,late, it may be intereeting to state that
the Royal George, an old yacht in Portsmouth harbour, is
fitted with a bust of the great slave emancipator as • figure-
head, and forming part of the ornamental work are two
negroes, one on each aide, making altogether an elaborate
piece of work. Ge.dige IV thought no much of Wllberforce's
cm that he caused this peculiar figure-bead to be fitted
to his yacht.

With some difficulty the passengers emil mew of the
mew clipper ship Dunmaii, belonging to the White fitsr Line,
were saved from drownthg on Saturday evening. the vessel
having been totally wrecked on the Mersey Bu. The vessel,
which IMO on her first voyage, was drawing about 19 feet
water when she grounded

The London correspondent of the Manchester Gear.
dim understands that the Duchess of Inverness has be-
queathed much of the property left by her husband, the Duke
of Sussex, to various memners of the Royal Family, and that
the principal legatees will be the 'Princess of Wales, the
Princess Alas; Adelaide, end the. Duke of Cambridge.
Among many other thing, it was said that the Shah
of Persia, having been induced to taste the German porter-
beer during his visit to Berlin, at once ordered a dozen
bottles to be forwarded to an uncle in Teheran, whom he
suspected of growlog too popular during his absence, adding,
as he pocketed the receipt given him at the parcel delivery
office, "if he can stand that I have nothing more to say, and
must bow to the will of Allah !

During the lest few days several gangs of hayrest
labourers have experienced much Inconvenience by being
stung by • foreign species of gnat while working in the har-
vest fields. These insects fly In swarms, and it was .5 first
surmised they were mosquitoes, but an old sailor has de-
clared them not of the moscbetto tribe, and they are supposed
too be foreign gnats from out of some ship lying off Gravesend.
Harvest bugs are common, and have to be endured by
reapers and others in the cornfields, but these foreign
Invaders are a source of fresh trouble.
A report reaches us (Pall Mall Gaulle) that it is
Mr. Cardwell's intention to place upon retired full pay all
field officers over sixty years of age who have not been
specially recommended to be retained on the active Iltta.
Deutenant-Colonel Brown, 93rd Foot, who was gar Aged
out in Fridays tiazette, is the first of the (maws thus
affected, and the names of several others Will, we are in-
formed, shortly appear.

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Au inquest ha been held at Lkerpxil, upon the
body of • woman aged 35 years, • widow. It wsa stated
that at her husband's death ahe received £5OO Insurance,
and that in • period of 22 months she had 'pent £35) of
that stun. She drank very heavily, and when • medical
gentlemen was called in he said that ah• waa drinking her
sensva away. She died on Saturday A verdict of I:cameo
Drinking WU returned.

An inquest has been held in Catodenstown on the
body of Ovary Ryan, aged 32. It appeared that the deceaged
had been editor of a French newspaper The journal being
suppressed by the authorities, he came over to England ci d
endeavoured t gain a livelihood by translating manuscript.
tie underwent great privations, and finally was taken to St.
Pancras Workhouse in an al:Lost exhausted state. Though
promptly attended to, he gradually sent and died. The
post morton examination showed that death had been Occa-
sioned by exhaustion and Consumption. Verdlet accord-
ingly;

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The accounts of the harvest in France show that the
yield Is decidedly mediocre. In the North the yield is below
what was expected, not only as regards quantity. but also
quality. In the Southern Departments the wheat In very
high in price on accJunt of its acarcity and lie good quality.
The stock on hand is becoming scarcer. and the cultivators
are hardly bringing anything to the market. The millers are
obliged to have recourse to foreign wheat and will .000
lure dtlficulties in working their mills, consequent upon the
low state of the water, should the prerent dry weather con-
ttnue. No decline in prices appears to be poolble, and a
fresh rise Is expected.

A few day; -Bin- he,— at Walton-on•the-Nsze, a coast-
guardsman was upset in • small boat, some Illy yard. from
the shore, and being unable to swim he sank. A young
gentleman named Hardwick, preparing for the examination
for commissions lathe army, jumped into; boot and palled
out to the poor fellow, who by tout time had sunk. Mr.
Hardwick dived repeatedly. and for upwerds of an hour con.
tinned his efforts in the water, searching for the body, hut
without MUCCr•Ii. The tide soon after cast the body upon the
beach. The following dsy Mr. Her iwick got up some swim.
ming matches, the result of which was to enable him to
hand over Ale to the poor widow.
A correspondent of The Timee states that a second
accident befell the train to wrocu the terrible accident at
Wigan watered on the 2nd inst. After the train had beau
got together and cleared of Its we eked carriages, It bro.
ceeded on Its say with such of its passenger. at were
unhurt Near Coatbridge it came to a midden Standstill. lbe
pmseneerr, with their beeves retread, strung to a tension
almost too great to bear, enind themselves on the main HMI
In a helpless condi lon. The swaine had broken down. A
man was sent back • mile on an unersillog attempt to atop
the limited mail. There waa 'me enough motive power In
the engine to enable it to back the train tote • siding which
provideatially was at hand. This had Scarcely been sworn-
p Ph:d when the "limited" dashed put, leaving the par.
gangers with • vivid sense of a Plabt of horrors they will
never forget. The Caledonian Company (the writer adds)
have evidently not adopted the 'dock system. The lint ac-
oldest that happeced to this train msy or may not hove bash
prnvent.'.le, hot the oecord would have been • deli bit,ale
end whoo,•ale m .s. .cre, for which an; COmparly refusing So
adopt the block system might to be held reeponatble.

The ma of £5,000 bee been sent to the 01104
Missionary Society ss .• thank-offering for sparing INN,
A perfectly white robin, Turd. ifitratormsk
recently casiglrt at Rocky Nook, Plymouth,Man.
The Shah is to be invited to visitneW
sat Persian residents as Constantinople are
wend large fetes there in hamar of their Setereiga,t4 011
The inorensed consumption of foreign potatoes ja
marksble. In the last eeven month. the valets was I,,TATta
against £353,005 in the same period last year.
President Grant, a correspondent says, Is
muted at Vienna by • plias of leather made by hisjtt
be war a tanner, and before he " tanned. hi.
opponent..
After the (Ste of the Police Orphanage in the ombi
pniii so few days ego a policeman waa attacked and staska,
In nee or six pluses by • man unknown. The sulfererhisa
dangerous condition.
It is worthy of remark that the Royal bora*, I
Oreenwleh ima not returned • Oomervativs to
since 1852, when Mr. Peter Roll was Muted as therillift"
of Mx. Montagu Chambers.
The ceremony of consecrating two Old Cadh.ii.
Whops—Dr. Itsakel sad Prefamor itetakssm—was paimio
on Monday by the Bishop of Deventer. It was Weedy h.
• large number of Dutch and foreign olerp4., mit
characterised by great impressiveness.
Kelley the en-champion, has been beaten ok
Tyne by his young rival Swell In the great A ease*
m.t of the distance it was a level race, and estrum* ...-
citing. Harm% however had kept slightly In front as 4-;
the finish he pulled away from his antagonist by awls h.;
lengths.
The stonemasons of Staleybridge have corns to a
temporary arrangement with their employs's, the begh
which is • reduction of their working time to hi* hem
week, and an advance of wages to BBL
The operative spinners of Blackburn haw rosaised
to meet the masters and demand no advance of wages. Th.
drawers end the loomers have decided upon • like omen le maim
An official Inquiry at Paris has resulted in tho
covery that up to Saturday no owe of cholera had omens'
Owe.
Air..gunyr Bearrachlizzas
ei
regiment The building emulated of ya storeys, f44.‘. •
wing of four !modes on each side. LUG. could he'eeas
save it, and the mein building was completely 4•444,.,.
u°C.CoAdaelgrfiedrethehbynoeakwde'arlac°l2ntsbyn7reltalaoturiittliS,ylthuint twesqe.l4.
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Smoking in greatly on the inoretwe, as appear' fam
an official paper Jut Limed. In the last seven naiike
declared value of unmanufactured tobacco Maportes
064,901 against £2123,688 in the corresponding sew 0
the previous year.
A subscription has been started in Norfolk fig th
widows and orphan. of the two poor fellows who wires*,
pitted In • well adjoining the Prince of Wake. MI6 ,
Dersingham. His Royal Highness has subscribed HRteems '
suchfund.
The total receipts into the exchequer from the la
o' April to the OM of August were AMMM,SM as spy
£25.020,288 In the corresponding period tam
minted to £3O, 774,040, and the balance, um
fliur onfl'lngland and Bank of Ireland amount to At Ktai.
In reply to a letter from M. Victor Hogo urn
him not to send Henri Rochefort to New Caledonia ousamat
of his literary merits, the Due de Broglie said the latellesimi
power of Rochefort increased his responsibility, sag its
Whereto and deluded prams would have more rigbt is be
pardoned.

The St. Bantabas " baldeoehfoo " quokka eel
mega before the Oondstorg Court on If oaday, when oh*.
Lions to the ornament, a.. Romtsh symbol, were admixed
on Iwhall of • large number of pertehtoesea The ergeoleme
stand over for • week.
M.. Death), a young painter of prhie, aged tweet,.
eight, has met with his death in Paris, nod..
circumstance'. He was suffering from toothach=,..4
Imprudently administered chloroform to himself lo a..,
dose.

The anniversary of the relief of Londonderry es
celebrated with more then usual enthusiasm m Tardy
The procession was the largest ever enabled, but gete
order prevailed.

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On Tuesday Archdeacon Kaye presided at tin
sixteenth annual meeting of the Poor Clergy Relief Corpora
lion, when it was reported that the amount eistriblatel
during the year was £e,oBB—an Mamas of fully MOP as It.
benefactions of Me prerloue years.

An excursion of managers and other" interested is
gas work. took place on Tuesday from London to Chichestet,
to examine thy work• htted up there f the manulactsr..l
water gas. Toe city is regmarly lighted with a mitten d
water gas and coal gm, and tile working of the new piing
is spoken of In the taghest

A lamentable steamboat disaster bee occurred is
America. The Watousett took tlre on the Potomac,
engines awed Immediately became unworkable, lad k
would seem, from the Imperfect details as yet received, QM
• large number of the passengers were burnt to dank at
drowned. It Is stated that forty are known to hos
perished.

On Monday afternoon Captain Ltuneelot F.
Pritchard. master of the Canard steamer Andes (Irtileh wad
bound to the Mediterranean), accidently fell irom the bridge
while the vessel was proceeding down the Clumnel, sad wis
killed on thedspot.

A circular from the War Office promulgates a new
series of regulations for the auxiliary forcer. Dui=
subjects to which attention la turned Cr. the use of
gymomiume by militiamen and volunteers. the exam:dailies
Of an." county rifle astoclatlowl, ant the retirement el
men unfit for service.

The official inquiry into the railway accident at
Wl,•a was resumed on Tuesday. William Stampero tiss
chief engineer of the lean. stated that they wen not y..
nlng at more than forty miles an hoar when the accident
happened ; but Wigan was • dangerous station to paw
ihrou,h, and they always lo died back after they reed
"through that station t 0... If that tsad all the traia.' The
Inquiry was adjourned_

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The Queen's County Rifles and the North Cork
Militia, two of the regiments stationed at the Carr* for
the purpose of taking part In the autumn mamma. owl
between whom an 111-feeling is stated to have prevailed, mar
to blows on Monday evening, and drew their bayou's.
Three other regimette were marched to Via scene by tits
Brigade Major, and by their ElleAnl the uumbatenta won
separated.

An inquest has been held at the Middlesex Hospital
respecting the death of William Webb. aged 30, • printer. It
appeared that befog unable to open his door, the demand
climbed up some ecaffolding to front of the house and tried
to through a wiudow 3015. from the ground. le • hie
=harem he was seen to fall into the anent. Be died from the
off ect of the thi arlea he eustained.
Bishop Reinkins, the newly-consecrated Old Catholic
Bishop or Germany, has leaned a putoral in which ha nye
be holds that the episcopal office [ambles no epoecial merle
loges upon the few who are chmen to Ell it, and that
bishop should teach obedience to the secular ohm
as • religious duty, and if he does int Ls • Maher to We
poet.
During the week ending last Saturday, 5,180 birth'
3.83 i deaths were registered in London and 20 Mom imp
cities and towns of the United li Ingdom. The mined M
creme of population was 1,842. The mortality was st the
rate of 27 deaths aunuelly to every 1,000 persons alliasted
to be living. The highest rate wee in Manchester, Mick on
35 to the 1,000; flood the lowest was Norwich, which me only
lg. In Loudon the rate was 17. in L mitten 2,174 births end
1,711 deaths wore registered, the births being 68, and the
death. 3, below the average to the corresponding week of the
last ten years. The deaths lac uded 28 from meaelea Wren
scarlet fever, 470 from diarrhoea, which is more by Mg this
the corrected average number In the corresponding we of
the last ten years. There wee not one death from mall
ffrm
The insurgents of Carthagena, perceiving, it IS
said, their cause to he lost, have last male a gaff sad
desperate eff yrt. butteries, with • column 2,000 stroM,
made up of soldiers, volunteers, and sailor., and having let
Krupp gang, left Murcia in two trains' with the Id.. Of
taking Mad. id through the aid of symoathising partisan
within the city. Oa reaching Chinchilla, he was met by
1,000 meo sent by the Government to arrest Me pr,
Being sharply &Matted. the insurgenta were thrown Into
disorder. Contreras, with part of his men, regained tin
train : but the line had been cut, and the Gavernesed
troops hoped to capture him and hie flying cympenlose.
40 of the insurgents were captured. Mihail wa• on Monday
Closely blockaded by the Carlisle, who bad cut off all smear
of provialona seed water.
The monthly return relating to pauperism in Eng-
land and Wide. shows that at the end of May the number of
paupers in receipt of relief from the rates was 721,001,
being 66,118. or 6 6 percent. leas than at the corresponding
period of 1872 but the number to both years does set ta-
dude lunatic peppers In asylums nor vagranta, together me
atituting about 23 per cent. of the total pauperism. The
decrease shown in May last was greatest in the 110/ttift di-
vision. cemprislog Barham, Nsrehumberismi, Combo:lad,
and Wo.tmorelend, in which coal is king In that division
the Improvement amounted to 131 per cent It eas 84 per
cent in the eastern counitee, 7 5 per cent. in the meth
western division, 74 per tent. In the south•midlead, 71 per
cent. In Yorkshire, and 3 4 per cent in the motropolia

"We are informed that the dispute, between the
operative engineers and their employers hi this dittrict haw
induced the latter to give notice of their intentios to mil
to • general lock-cut Tee dem= lint the men bnra close
resemblance to those which have brought about the cruse'
which =fortunately still continues sa Sheffield Ia Niemen
branch of trade. We are Sold that at the ni.l log of the em
ployers there was • unanimous agreement that the demands
of the men were =reasonable. Me meg seek totally to ee.
elude piece work from all the shop in the distrid."—lfinv
cheater Guardian.

A woman living in a town in the Canton of Zurich
recently resorted so a curious mode of revenge. lies cat, oi
which she was exceptionally fond, bad for some rears Of
other been kilted by an official. Oho accordingly procured
several mousetraps and caught some Any mice, winch Me
Immediately enclosed in an appropriate box, mid ..et to the
offending penon He, suspeallog nothing, opened the Pod'
ago, and ens horrlded to see • swarm or-mice swing out ol
the box and ran an over the place. At the bottom of the box
he found • note continuing ths following words :—" Ym
have killed my cat, I have then! ors it. honour to send 10°
my mica"

Dr. Toner. of Washington, &thiamine the establish
mini o 'fr.. path sad Oamping•grounda, or sealiarinas
for the sick and debilitated cauldron of the poor of crowded
cities during the summer monthe.' "finch parks," SW DC.
Toner, "should be free to all who have tick or debilitated
children, and persona white there ehould he permitted to
live in tent. or c Amigos, and la such style as then .i.ssof
tastes Justify, so long ae they do not violate the leered
health or incommode their nedgabohn—the male purpose ol
the institution being to secure by a healthy num residence
the rest ration to health and the preservation of the fives of
the chiiilren t the poor, suffering from, or threatened by,
diseeetis Incident to, end aggravated by, the exceesive host ol
summer 1.11 cities.' The plan sawn. worthy of •prlen. coo-
.leloritttron

The Orlsanierl Journal de Paris declares that the
recent meeting batween the Comte de Chambord and the
Comte de Paris eighth. a complete reconcillathm of the two
branches of the family and a rebonciatlon by the (Meanie&
princes of any cnmpetttive elates to the throne of France at
agatnzt the Comte de ChambJrd.

On Saturday afternoon a man named Jonathan
Ansley, employed as • packer at the goods station of the
Great Weetern Railway, wee, from some an...loaded coma
injured while • train was being shunted. A large band
, of timber was knocked off a waggon, smashiog the msna
head, and the injuries were so severe that he bad to he
removed to the infirmary, where little hopes are entertained
of We recovery.
Our adult readers will readily remember Punch's
cartoon* of the German fleet—bedded labberly looking ma
smoking long pipes, or trying to lied their ma len, or rut.
firing from stomachic insubordination. The Germane, who
were the only ones to see the joke, used to be annoyed it it,
but now they can afford to Mlle at amok attempt+ to make
them appear ridiculous, Man they have • commercial ifterlpe
ee4,013d to non. In efficiency, and • war navy which It is not
worth any body. While to ridicule. The German Non VA
show. a wonderful increase in the maritime power of the
nation, and it may noon reckon Iteell n. second.rate.
The mill of the late Lord Westbury has been pro red
under £Boo,oto personalty. He Mares the moot lord the
Rim of £2,000 per animal select to the control of his wite
and donee.. The bulk of the peoperty is not to be realised
for a term of flea years, sr hefldtnponitio Is made of IL The
will, which we. made about sin years am, was dares by the
noble end learned hada own heads, sad, greet Lawyer *web
hewn., he omitted, It le stand, to appoint execatork
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Mr. James Baird, of Auchmedden, a member of
a Scotch firm of Ira More, has paid over to ab 47 of fru-
fofk to be called "The Baird Trust " the sum of 4tOOA
be &Pried for rollitiont Purposes in commotion with tee
Churn of Sentient,. Mr. Baird says his grand order' 10 010
midst in providing the means of mertlog, 00 .1 least .1 121
possible geomottins, the mitigation of spirituel destitution
moon the pop-11 sfron ot Scotland through dr orte for small"(
the godly upbringing of the young, the establishing of parochisi
PiAtOrni et rt. a d the etimoistlur of 'violaters .1 all
mt. ncles of the Cottrell of Scotian I to sastalued devotedness
In the work of carrying the Gospel to the homes mid bases
of fill."