The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-05-28 00:00:00

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Last Saturday afternoon the annual gathering of
bicyclists, that has for some years past been held at
Hampton Court, took place under the most favour-
able conditions, the weather—the one thing needed
to ensure the success of the meeting—being all that
could be desired.
Year by year the number of riders of the " iron-
horse " who have taken part in the meet has steadily
increased, till on Saturday it amounted to the large
number of 2,500. Representatives of about 120
metropolitan and 33 provincial clubs were present,
the number of riders from each varying, considerably
the strongest contingent, however, being that of the
Temple 8.C., 48 of whose members were present;
whilst about 500 riders not owing allegiance to a
club, and known as "unattached," also took part in
the meet.
Shortly after five o'clock, the clubs having previously
formed up in blocks on the various spots on Hampton.
green that had been allotted to them by the officials
who had chapge of the affair, the procession, headed
by the members of the Pickwick Club, the large body
traversed about five miles, and as they rode, two
abreast, presented a particularly effective spectacle.
The course taken by the procession differed but slightly
from that pursued in past years, but instead of sepa-
rating into two files upon reaching the Diana Fountain
in Bushey-park, the riders kept to the left. Emerging
from the Park opposite the "King's Arms," they pro-
ceeded as far as Hampton-wick, and there the pro-
cession was broken up. On the whole the meet was
attended with the greatest success.

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• Her Majesty's interest in the success of the
Volunteer movement will be manifested in a very sub-
- stantial way by the review which the Sovereign will
0,14, bold on the 9th July. A vast number of volunteers
will then have come up for the Wimbledon rifle shoot-
ing, which begins on the following Monday ; and the
fact of the review taking place on a Saturday will
r .0, enable a great multitude of sightseers to be present.
Some years have elapsed since the Queen held a re-
view of the Volunteers ; but inspections of the
regular forces at Aldershot have been frequent; and
the citizen soldiers are pleased to know that their
jturn has now come to pass before the eyes of their
Soir-ereign, The members of the Royal Family have
shown from the first every disposition to encourage
the Volunteer institution of this country. One of the
a„- Princesses invariably distributes the prizes at the
11 1. close of the Wimbledon competition, and the Duke of
' Cambridge has for years held the post of President of
the National Rifle Association.
People in the country who intend to spend a few
days in London would now find the capital at its best.
_ The long-looked-for rain has come at last, giving new
life to the arid wastes of the Parks, and clothing the
suburban gardens in all the beauty of fresh vegetation.
No rural scene could look brighter and greener than
# the open spaces and the outskirts of London just now;
and the singing of the birds in the early morning is as
cheerful and enlivening as though it smote upon the
ear in the midst of some distant peaceful landscape,
far enough away from the great town. For a few
weeks, therefore, the British capital will be well worth
gazing upon, and the engagements of fashion and
society will be at their height. About the middle of
July the gaieties of the London season will begin to
fade, and the trees will have lost the beautiful fresh
verdure which they have now put on. _ • -- -
Parliament, like other people, has been looking for-
ward to the Whitsuntide holidays, which, in point of-
length of day, are the longest of the year. This time
they fall in the month of June, so that it would not
ne possible to have the days much longer than they
will be on this occasion. The legislative recess is to be
a short one—less than a week so far as the House of
Commons is concerned, so that honourable members
must make the most of the allotted time. It is
generally the custom for the Easter and Whitsuntide
recesses to last altogether about three weeks. When
the Easter holiday lasts a fortnight, that at Whit-
suntide is about a week, or perhaps less, and that
is the experience of the present year. Sometimes
they are divided into ten days each; but that is
when the session has begun later, and Easter
falls earlier than was this year the case. It
may be noted that when the representatives of the
people return from their Whitsuntide vacation, there
will be no more leave of absexce until the parliamen-
tary year is brought to an end, whenever that may be.
In 1880 the Prorogation did not take place until
September; and looking at the state of public busi-
ness an earlier date can scarcely be expected now.
The Crystal Palace witnesses many a worthy cele.
bration, but no event more noteworthy has been corn-
' memorated there than the birth of George Stephenson,
/4 p for which preparations have been made on the 9th
of June. The contrast between the world in 1881,
r and that of a century ago, when Stephenson first saw
the light, could scarcely be better illustrated than by
a reflection over the train of thought suggested by the
mention of his name. The extraordinary development
of the railway system, even within the memoirs of those
scarcely yet arrived at middle life, never fails to bring
before the mind the immensity and the grandeur of
. the work which Stephenson began, and which his son
carried on. Robert Stephenson, it will be remembered,
was, during the "battle of the gauges," the advocate
of the " narrow," as against the "broad," as chain.
pioned by Brunel. Each was a giant intellect in his
way, the Menai Bridge of Stephenson and the Saltaeh
Bridge of Brunel testifying to the greatness of their
powers. It was strange that these two men should
have been struck down within five weeks of each other
in the full maturity of their mental strength, and with
the splendour of their renown as yet undimmed.
It seems pretty clear that tile laying of Tramways
• • along country roads is merely a question of time. The
only objection to such an admirable means of opening
up communicatien in backward districts is the use of
steam, with its accompanying noise and smoke. Steam
engines for tramways have however been constructed
in which these objectionable features are obviated by
skilful mechanical contrivances. But it has now
become an interesting question whether steam will be
able to maintain its old supremacy as a motive power.
It has now powerful rivals in electricity and
.com-
,
pressed air. Electricity has already been utilised
}, successfully as a locomotive power, and equally satis-
- factory results have been achieved by the compressed
' air engine. This excellent invention, which is about
to come into practical use on some of the lines of the
North Metropolitan Tramway Company has been put
to the test in the presence of a number of scientific
,gentlemen and others interested in railway and
• tramway traffic. The inventor claims to have
overcome, by novel and ingenious contrivances, the
difficulties that have prevented compreseed air being
used economically as a motive power. The line on
which the trial was made was far from level; but not-
withstanding the steep gradients, three muse were
traversed with ease by the engine and two ordinary
oars in about 25 minutes.

The Daily Telegraph describes the meet of bicyclists in
an article, from which we extract the following :

Ford and Walters clung to a piece of wreck, and held on
until a boat came up. They did not see any of the men fall
into the water, with the exception of those who were rescued.
The marine Summers was on sentry duty on the quarter-
deck when the first explosion took place. The Captain was
in the bath-room. Summers rushed in to warn him, and
both either leapt or were blown through the window into the
sea, breaking the sash and glass. The Captain was badly
cut in five places, but is now recovering; he came on deck
for the first time to-day.
Trout was on the quarter-deck; his head was cut badly,
and he is still confined to his bunk.
Ford, the caulker's mate, was working outside the ship on
a stage abaft the gangway. The force of the first explosion
knocked him off the stage; he had just clambered on to it
again when the second and greater explosion occurred, and
he found himself under water. He had hold of a rope, and,
grasping it unconsciously, was taken down to the bottom
with the ship. When he came to the surface he got hold of
a hammock, and held on until the boats came from shore.
Ford agrees with the others, that the whole of the ship's
company, save those actually saved, were killed at once by
the force of the explosion, for none were seen in the water
except those rescued.
Pengelley and Turner were in the steerage, and Smith in
the after bread-room, when the explosion took place. The
latter was blown up through the hatchway, and his only
injury was a cut foot. He is astonished that none of those
who escaped had their limbs broken.
The officers say that there is really nothing to be told
beyond the brief statement telegraphed. The second explo-
sion was extremely violent, the whole ship being destroyed,
except a small portion of the quarter deck and poop.
One of the survivors says that the first explosion was so
slight that, although the ship seemed to lift a little, and
then move astern, he thought it was a gun that had been
fired, and laughed at the sudden terror of everyone. Almost
immediately afterwards he saw a great tongue of flame leap
up between the funnel and foremast, and found himself in
the water. The ship seemed to break in two, the fore-
part going down at once with a plunge, the after portion
sinking more gradually. He was struck on the head
with something; as the mainmast fell across on to the port
side, and was entangled by the sail and carried down under
water. He got free with great difficulty, and was almost
dead when he came to the surface. Fortunately some
hammocks were floating near, and he clung to one until
picked up by boats. He was for a while ill from the quan-
tify of salt water he had swallowed.
All upon reaching the shore were kindly cared for and
treated at the Consul's, and other houses, where several had
to remain in bed for some time. Those who were able to
get about were supplied with fresh clothes, and went down to
the beach to see if any other survivors or bodies were to be
seen. Of the six bodies which came ashore three only could
be identified, namely, those of chief boatswain's mate Black-
man, Haynes, 0.5., and Nicholls, A.B. All were buried in
the cemetery of Puenta Arenas.
Singularly enough Lieutenant Creagh's dog was picked
up.
So far as I can learn, although the general impression is
that the first explosion was due to the boiler bursting, there
is no distinct evidence whatever as to the fact, that none of
those with whom I spoke saw any discharge of steam rising
between the first and second explosion.
If. as is the theory, the concussion of the boiler explosion
set off some of the detonating stuff in the torpedo boats, it is
curious that there should have been an interval of some
seconds between the two explosions.
It is extraordinary that the whole crew, with the exception
of those picked up, appeared to have been destroy ed at once,
for the survivors saw no others beside themselves in the
water after the explosion.
No doubt further details than these which I have been
able to gather, will be obtained when the Britannia reaches
England, but I do not think that any further light as to the
causes of the explosion will be obtained from the narratives
of the survivors; and if the Doterel is so completely broken
up as is stated, it is questionable wheeher even the divers
will be able to obtain evidence which will explain this ter-
rible disaster.

The bicycle is after all the horse of the poor man,
and by this invention the country has been brought
nearer and near& to the dwellers in town. There was
a special fitness on such a day to open the season, and
the sun certainly smiled on the active young fellows,
who are accustomed to put a girdle round the districts
most favoured by freshness and scenic charm.
Naturally, this great army of athleticism turned its
face in the direction of Surrey. Away they went
by this road and that in detachments and squadrons,
isolated and in pairs, as soon as work was over on
Saturday, to the meetjng point in the neigh-
bourhood of Bushey Pail. The streets seemed to
be alive with bicycles, and everywhere was 'heard
a jingling and a jangling of bells. Away went the
swift and silent army from counting-house and shop,
desk and depot, one column by the King's-road,
Chelsea, the other swiftly heading towards Fulham
and Putney direct by Brornpton. The clouds had all
cleared away, and the breeze freshened as the after-
noon advanced. The bicycles out-raced everything.
Whenever there is anything to see—and that is seldom
enough—there are plenty of people to witness it.
Faces smiled over the suburban walls, the streets were
lined with spectators, everyone seemed to be out and
about when it was rumoured that this great force of
two thousand bicyoles was to career round the statue
of Diana that stands in the circular lake at the
head of the chestnut avenue in Bushey Park,
within a stone's throw of the old red palace at Hamp-
ton Court. Special omnibuses ran down from Lon-
don to the Park at cheap fares; huge chars-a-lanes
—such as the wild excursionists use in modern Paris
—were put on the road ; carriages, flys, and traps of
every possible description met the holiday-makers at
the railway stations and drove off in the direction of
Putney Hill, and the driving clubs did not fail to be
represented by some splendid teams. The bicyclists,
however, gave every one the slip. Away they went,
clearing Putney town, with its old houses festooned
with clustering flowers and rising out of hedges of
double May, away over Wimbledon Common, where
the golden gorse was in asom, into the hollow where
the nightingales sing when the evening conies, heading
along the white haed road to the hill top with its dis-
tant Surrey view, on by roadside inns and baiting
places to Kingston Vale, and so through Norbiton to
Kingston town. But there was no time to lose. The
river on such a day was comparatively deserted, every
one was on the road, and at Hampton Wick the
stream of vehicles divided, half to the Palace end and
half to the Teddington corner of Bushey Park. The
world has surely never seen such a congregation of
bicycles. All were in their Sunday best and wore the
smartest of uniforms. On working days there may be
dusty jackets and travel-stained boots, collarless
necks, and more workmanlike clothes, but not to-day.
It is a wheel past to show that athletes can be neat
and fastidious if they choose; and in truth the fas-
tidiousness expressed in white kid gloves and
bouquets of gardenia and stephanotis might have
astonished the athletes of another age had not
the day's experiment been prolific in many
an example of orderly discipline and distinct
courage. Every combination of colour that fashion,
taste, and ingenuity could invent was expressed in
the badge worn on the arm of each captain of the 141
home and provincial clubs that obeyed the summons
of the marshals of this extraordinary scene. There
were stripes diagonal and horizontal, every kind of
cap, from the semi-military helmet to the yatching
cloth-picked cap; there were caps with gold braid
and silver braid, devices of every sort of metal on
breast or forehead, gloves of dogskin, buckskin, and
kid, with gauntlets and without; there were bicycles
with brakes and pedometers, with every (Judge and
appliance that existing science can suggest : but all
with the regulation lamp swinging to and fro, and
with the everlasting jingle of the bells
A procession of bicycles that moves, comparatively
speaking, at a snail's pace, consisting of one hundred
and forty-one clubs, upwards of sixteen 'hundred
club bicyclists, four hundred unattached maehinsts,
be they bicycle or tricycle, and that takes an hour in
pacsing, is not altogether exhilarating, though it may
be strange. It passed in silence like a ghostly army, the
gentle pressure of the indiarubber tires being scarcely
audible, and the tinkling bells very faint. What
struck the spectator most was the singularly anxious '
and eager expression that each face bore as the
bicyclist wheeled silently along. It was a curious
stusly for a physiognomist, and real/y a remarkable
fact how utterly the sense of pleasure or enjoyment
seemed to have been momentarily postponed. We
have heard of that narrow limit between safety and
danger which consists of "hanging on by the eyelids,"
and here the endeavour to do it was photographed on
each individual face. A desire to keep a strict mecha-
nical order, to obey the rules of dressing and discipline,
to show well in public, and to maintain a certain mili-
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HOUSETOP GARDENING.—IIz. 3. E. B. Hammcnd,
of 12, Baker-street, Poi tman-squaxe, London, writes
to The Times under date, May 16, to say' that he has in
a garden on his housetop a most excellent crop of straw-
berries, which will be ready for gathering in two or
three days. Also his cucumbers and French beans
are most healthy_and bid fair to be a good crop,

THE REVISED VERSION OF THE
NEW TESTAMENT.
Before the new version of the New Testftment was
ready for publication, the orders received for it at the
Oxford warehouse alone were in excess of a million,
and the orders which have arrived since that date are
rapidly bringing the total up to two millions.

The New York correspondent of the Daily News under
date May, 21, says over three hundred thousand copies
of the Revised New Testament have been sold by the
publishers here. Yesterday the views of the leading
clergymen were published in the morning papers.
They show a general readiness to recognise the scholar-
ship displayed in the work, but manifest some hesi-
tation about accepting it, for the present, at least, for
pulpit use.

Writing in the Manchester Examiner (L.) " Verax "
says :—" The alterations they have made average for
the Epistles fifteen for every five verses, or three
alterations on an average for every verse. With the
Gospels the number is fewer, between eight and
nine for every five verses, not, however, much
less than two for each verse. The most important
question, of course, is fidelity to the best au-
thorized reduction of the original text. Everything
must yield to this. We should uphold this rule with
Sophoclea, and we cannot tolerate one less rigid for
St. Paul. The Revisers were bound to exercise their
judgment impartially, even at the expense of v.eher-
able associations, since in the grounds of Christian
belief above everything truth must stand first. Edifica-
tion can only be based upon fact and truth. I feel
grateful to the Revisers. They have abolished chapter
and verse, and thrown the sacred writings into proper
literary form. They have brought the writers nearer
to us, and made the early annals of the Church read-
able. They have done much towards redressing the
wrongs from which the Bible has long suffered, and
presenting it to us at once the divinest and the most
human book within the compass of literature,"

The Company appointed for the revision of the
Authorised Version of the Old Testament finished
their 69th session on Friday afternoon in last week in
the Chapter Library, Westminster. The revision was
continued to the end of the Song of Solomon, and the
Company have now completed all the books of the Old
Testament. The second revision of the historical
books and of the Psalms having been already finished,
the Company have still to revise a ceeond time the
prophetical books and the remaining portions of the
poetical books. The second revision of Isaiah was
carried as far as chapter iii., 11.

Though it is close upon forty-f our years since the
Queen ascended the Throne of these Realms, the
nation happily celebrates to-day no maturer date than
her Majesty's sixty-second birthday. The Ssvereign
whose name ie this morning on every loyal English-
man's lips, and for whose welfare honest wishes will
proceed from every English heart, has therefore not
yet passed the meridan of active life, and we may all
echo the words, "Long to reign over us," with a
reasonable hope that our anticipations will he grati-
fied. There are many obvious and special advantages
attached to a long reign, and, in the present instance,
the most critical malice could assign no drawbacks.
Loyalty, like love, like holiest ambition, like self-
sacrifice, like duty—in a word, like all the higher
and less self-seeking emotions, is a sentiment;
and it is necessarily strengthened by continuous
cultivation. It requires not to be torn up by the
roots too often, not to be too frequently transplanted,
nor asked to flourish in a new and alien soil. That
under favourable conditions it is no exotic to the
human heart, but easily strikes its fibres and pushes
forth shoots in the society of mankind, a huge body
of tradition amply testifies. Nor is it a mere primi-
tive sentiment, a semi-barbarous superstition, that
grows weaker with the development of human reason,
and dwindles in the atmosphere of social progress.
Everything in these days has been challenged, tried,
tested, scrutinised, and if it have failed to bear the
searching analysis of the age, it has fared but
badly. Religion, patriotism; property, domestic
affection have all been flung into the crucible by
some one or other of our philosophers, and
Loyalty has not escaped the general ordeal. It
has emerged, in this Kingdom at least, victorious from
the experiment, and it may be doubted if this senti-
ment was ever more deeply seated in the breasts of
Englishmen than at the present hour. Its assailants
have, indeed, laboured under unusual disadvantages.
The most uncompromising opponents of Royalty have
found it hard not to make an exception in favour of a
Thronesfilled by such a Monarch as Queen Victoria.
Her Majesty, during a reign now approaching the
term of half-a-century, has not only secured the genuine
affection of her subjects, but has disarmed criticism by
the manner in which she has secured it. The one only
fault which the nation ha u lately been disposed to find
is that it does not see enough of a Sovereign of whom it
could never see too much. A certain ameunt of quiet and
seclusion, it is well known, are asnecessary to the health
ae to the happiness of the Queen, and both are too sin-
cerely prized by her people for them to demand the
gratification et their natural wishes at the expense of
either. But we echo only a universal feeling when we
say that a more frequent familiarity with the Royal
Presence would be a source of satisfaction-to all glasses
of the community. In times of social anxiety or
political discord, mop especially, the presence of the
i Sovereign is of re
value. Denied any inter-
vention in the passions of rival Parties, the Queen can
silently remind both rides of their common country
and their common duty, The crown is the symbol a
national unity ; but a symbol loses unsch of its use-
fulness and its purpose, if too much withdrawn Lop
Eight.
It b rarely that a Ruler has the opportunity of
awakening in the hearts of his people the varied senti-
ments with which the long and chequered reign of the
Queen has inspired her subjects. Her 2,lajesty was
first known to them as a, young and ine*perieeced girl,
with no aids to her lofty and difficult mission, save
such as could be contributed by her own good sense,
and the confidence and attachment of the nation
Shortly the interest she aroused was deepened by he
marriage, and by the domestic virtues and the
domestic happiness for which she became renowned.
To the attractions of the loving wife succeeded
the regard and affection awakened by the con-
scientious mother. Finally the heart of the English
people was drawn still closer towards her by the deso-
lation of her hearth, and her early widowhcod. For
nearly twenty years her Majesty. has performed the
duties of her.loity and lonely station, and never once
during this second period, any more than in the
happier season of her life, ha,F.; public opinion had to
complain of an error or an omission in their perform-
ance, or can it be alleged that there is any Royal
road to the duties' of P,oya,lty any more than there is
for the execution of humbler tasks. Nay, in these
days there are peculiar difficulties and special da,isgers
attending its responsibilities. We live in an age
of all-pervading inquisitiveness; and the domestic
lives of the Royal Circle escape prying eyes and
gossiping tongues as little as the homes of genius
or the hearths of besuity. Yet the most intrusive
gaze arfirthe most Indiscreet os tongues have been
baffled by the blamelessness of the English Ciourt, and
by the scrupulous manner in which Constitutional
forms are observed by a Sovereign familiar, through
long experience, with their most intricate obligations.
Thus, the abstract sentiment of loyalty has become
definite vo personal to an exceptionalcextent during
i
the present Reign, and ip s no conventional use of
language to say that the I3Kliday of the Queen
is a sort of family festival in thousands of hOuselolds
in the Kingdom. It is not mere political loyalty, it is
personal love which the Queen commands.

THE POPULATION OF BENGAL—The revised figures
of the Census of Bengal gives the population of the
Lieutenant Governorship as 68,750,000, being an in-
ctease of over 9 per cent. on the previous census.
The Darjeeling district shows the most rapid growth,
having increased from 94,712 in 1872 to 157,038. This
is mainly due to the large extension of the tea culti-
vation. The returns for the province of Assam are
4,815,157, against 4,056,054 at the former census,
being an increase of over 18 per cent.
A FAMOUS CYPRESS TREE.—The famous cypress of
Mistra was accidentally burnt to the ground, on the
13th ult., by a band of gipsies who had encamped under
its shelter and lit a fire to cook their supper. Mistra
is near the site of the ancient Sparta, in the valley of
the Eurotas, and is identical with the Sparta of Vill-
chardosin. The cypress was 3,000 years old, and is
mentioned in the " Latonia " of Pausanias. Its
dimensions were extraordinary. Its height was 169 ft.,
its diameter at the base 9ft. 10in., its circumference
34ft. The diameter of the branches when covered with
leaf was 81ft., and the circumference 2601 t. The
people of Sparta and Mistra are inconsolable, for
besides their affection for the patriarch, it attracted
visitors from all parts of Greece, and was thus a
source of regular profit.
SAVINGS BANKS RETURNS. —According to a return
issued the other day, the total amount of Post Office
savings banks deposits in the United Kingdom on the
31st of December, 1879, was £32,012,134, of which
£29,946,600 was deposited in banks in England and
Wales, £1,417,309 in Ireland, and £572,479 in Scotland.
In both Scotland and Ireland the ordinary business
banks compete for deposits with the Post Office to a
much greater extent than banks in England and
Wales. The deposits in the savings banks of Mid-
dlesex amounted to £6,409,016 in the end of 1879;
Surrey comes next with £2,560,947, and Kent next
with £2,215,784, these totals being due to London
extensions, not to agricultural prosperity. The agri-
cultural or semi-agricultural counties generally show
poorly; Warwickshire, for instance, which is the
centre for great manufacturing industries, showing
deposits of £1,540,627, against only £1,173,410 for
Yorkshire. Lancashire stands fourth on the list, with
£1,692,610 of deposits, and at the bottom of all of
course is Rutland, with £30,954. Oxford as a purely
agricultural county shows very poor results with
£313,704, and Berks, in spite of lleadnag and New-
bury, has only £367,304.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL MEMORIAL—The memorial
to the late Prince Imperial has just been completed
by Mr. J. E. Boehm, the sculptor, and on Monday
morning the statue was conveyed by road from
his studio to Windsor Castle for erection at
St. George's Chapel. The work has been executed
in pure white statuary marble, and consists of an
elaborately sculptured vase, surmounted by a recum-
bent figure of the Prince in an undress artillery uni-
form. The head, uncovered, is supported by cushions
embroidered with the Imperial bee. The hando,
crossed upon the chest, clasp an unsheathed sword,
the empty scabbard and gloves resting on the left side
of the figure, with the spurs on the right, near the
feet, which touch a kelmet. The panels on the sides
of the finely carved sareophagos contain inscriptions
recording the birth and death of the prince. The
memorial will be placed in the centre of the Braye
Chapel. The position was selected by the Queen,
and, in order to make room for the erection of the
memorial, the ancient font which formerly occupied
the roiddle of the pavement has been removed. The
Braye Chapel alto contains Captain Wyatt Edgell's
sword, and a brass in memory of its founder.

TRANSPLANTATION OF BONE.—At the recent meet-
ing of the loyal Society an account was given by Dr.
Mac Ewen of a very remarkable case of interhuman
osseous transplantation, no previous successful in-
stance' being recorded. In 1878 a child of three years
was admitted into Glasgow Infirmary for necrosis of
the right humerus, the shaft of which was already
separated from its head at the epiphyseal junction.
Fifteen months after the necrosed portion had
been removed there had been no bone formation of
any account, and over two-thirds of the shaft
was viating, A first transplant of bone was
then per(ormed.' Ili making the snlcns for the
reception of the graft, reliance had to be placed On
anatomical relations as to correct position as there was
no trace of periosteum or fibrous structure to indi-
cate the former location of the bone. Portions of
human bone were transplanted on three different
occasions, the grafts being obtained frqua iiatient@
affected with anterior tibial curves, from whom
into a
wedges of bone had to be removed for the purpose of
straightening their limbs. These osseous wedges were
each divided-into many picces, which were im-
mediately placed in the suleus In the bOy'a arm-. The
fragments united together as well as adhered to the head
of the humerus above and to thecondyles bebw, ulti-
mately forming a solid rod only half an inch shorter
than the humerus on the opposite or left side.
This transPlawg,tion of bone converted a useless arm
thorolQ4rliYn•t7oseffurl:lnneen.
ts,G4re4at stress wp,s 1?.io
binpnyloaguntrfili s
able to
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to
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planted
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larrivediving aat d are,
growing, t hat t raannds pl
thata n t e ;an
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capable fmnliind; put to n practicalanre the sunsceess
plantation must bt '
he conducted anticeptically,
Tile LABOUR MARKET.—A condition of depression
still characterises many of the principal British indus-
tries, but the London trades, on the whole, are fairly
busy. Building operations in all parts are OR: the
ingease, and the improvements constantly going on
give full eraployla-iit to wnlnen, he
who, with the -pattern makers are occupied in the
work required for the new bridges over the Thames,
are specially busy. The coal trade still keeps good.
The iron industry, if anything, has improved. The
shipbuilding companies in all parts of the country
have an abundance of orders on hand. The hardware
tradeirand the tool raanaacturets at falrly bnsY: In
come districts the agricultural labourers are desirous
of emigrating, their prospects at present in this
country being very dark. At a meeting of the general
council, held in London on Friday in last week, it
was resolved that this was tht only successful remedy
to relieve the present conditioa of affairs. The build-
ing trade in the West of Englaad is showing kig-4-4s of
linore activ,ity, pao there has been a substantial reduc•
flon of ' the larg`e ot unemployed, NyhO have
suffered much distress' during the 'lO eight months.
rve,rp it, ne abatement in the fin-pip demand for coal
from South Wales, and the export shipments of the
last four weeks from Cardiff alone reached the large
total of 475,000 tons. In Leeds the engine woiks
keel) busy, while some of the machine and tool firns
are slack, twenty men in one instance having beer.
discharged. The cloth and felt mills remain fully
employed, and in the leather and currying branches
Overate° -is' being worked. The chemical trade are
alp brisk, as are likewise painters, cabinet-makers,
grainers, paperhangers, decorators, many of whom
are working long hours. In the rivetting and finish-
ing branches of the boot and shoe trades some firms
are very busy. The wholesale clothing branches have
been exceedingly brisk.

THE PRODUCTION OF STEEL AND IRON RAILS.—
From the complete returns obtained by the Secretary
of the American Iron and Steel Association it appears
that the production of rails of all kinds in the
United States in 1880 exhibits a remarkable increase
over previous years, reaching the enormous amount of
nearly one million and a quarter net tons. Of theza
nearly two-thirds were Bessemer steel rails—of which
forty per cent, more were manufactured than in the
previous year. Nearly half the quantity of rails of
all kinds were produced in Pennsylvania, and twenty-
two per cent. in Illinois, in which State, famous for
its lead mines and possessing in its southern portion
abundance of iron-ores, the metal manufactures seem
to be rapidly extending
GARII3ALDI ON THE TUNISIAN TREATY,—A second
letter from General Garibaldi on the Tunisian ques-
tion is published by the Riforma, in which the General
says that the French Treaty with the Bey effaces his
good opinion of the French Republic, which he has
served. The writer reminds France of the sacrifice
made by Italy in giving up Nice, an says that the
conduct of France may compel Italians to remind her
that Nice and Corsica are as much French as he,
Garibaldi, is a Tartar. The letter concludes by de-
claring that Italy should demand the complete inde-
pendence of Tunis.
RAncrre IN VICTORIA. —The Melboure corres-
pondent of the Globe writes :—The rabbits are in-
creasing in some parts of the colony to such an extent
that their numbers would appear wholly incredible to
one who has not seen them as I have. The whole
country appears one moving mass of bunnies. The
odour from them, living and dead, is more than per-
ceptible. They eat up every blade of grass; nay, every
green thing. Dogs will not touch them, or even deign to
give chase to them after a day or two's experience. They
have been attacked in different ways; shot, dug out,
burnt out, birched out, fenced out; all has been
found useless. The injection of carbonic acid into
their holes was found -effective, but costly. Lately
the Government has taken to poisoning them with
phosphorised oats, and they are disappearing from
the districts were this is practised. They are said
to be killed by hundreds of thousands, so there is
hopes that we may yet live to see the day when the
"rabbit pest," as it is called here, will be got
undo.

AGRICULTURE IN QUEENSLAND.--FroM the returns
of the year ending March 31, 1880, it appears that
there were 106,864 acres in cultivation,tof which 3,607
:were in wheat, 1,789 in barley, 48,365 in maize, 4,760
in potatoes, 17,052 in sugar cane, 5,776 in hay, 400 in
vines, 433 in bananas, 219 in oranges, 180 in pine-
apples, and 132 in arrowroot. The maize crop com-
prised 1,511,006 bushels ; potatoes, 14,404 tons;
arrowroot, 258,0001 b. ; barley, 44,160 bushels. The
acreage crushed for sugar was 12,029, and the yield
was 18,982 tons. The wheat that year was not a sue-
pess in all parts, owing to the prey4lenPa or4st. This
season, on the contrary, is reported to be very fine
for grain. The Duke of Manchester praised the ex-
cellent and weighty wheat of the Darling Downs, and
was pleased to notice wheatsheaves gracing the
farmers' banquet given in his honour.
A CONSCIOUS MARTYR.—" Why are you so prose,
Angela.? "—" Oh ! becat;se hate 4elfiah,ness, Aunt
and they 're all Of them so celjts4 I" "What have
they done ?"—" Why, they all want to go on the river,
just when / want to play lawn-tennis!" "Well you
needn't go with them! "—"Of course I needn't; but
how am I to play lawn-tennis all .by myself /"
Punch,

AIN ELECT= PFC.-4 medical gentleman at
Pittsburg, Pa., has applied to cattle the old device
employed by country druggists to keep loungers from
thrusting elbows through their showcases, namely, a
wire fence charged with electricity. ThQlqctricit
to ta4Q the place oi the barbs now used on wire
fences, the aim betng to repel the cattle by a slight
shock, instead of by pricking, with risk of severe
laceration.

On the subject of the revisei version of the New Testa-
ment, a London Vicar writes to The Times
am sure that many both clergy and laity, must
share with me the desire for some enlightenment as
to the grounds of the Bishop of London's statement in
Convocation that we cannot legally use the Revised
Version of the New Testament in Church.
We are legally bound to read the Scriptures in
English, but lam not aware that any particular ver-
sion has evee hcen imposed upon us by authority.
The so-called "Authorized Version " made its way by
its own inherent merits, and gradually
,superseded the
versions previously in use. But the Bishops' Bible and
the Genevan Version undoubtedly held their own for
~cime years. Bishop Andrewes takes his texts from
the Bishops' Bible for ten years after the imtroduction
of the "Authorised Version," and the Genevan Bible
was reprinted in whole or in part 13 times in the first
SIX years after 1611. (Sea Dr. Perowne in Smith's
" Dict. of the Bible" IL, 1677.)
The Bishop of London admits that the Revised
Version must stand or fall by the deliberate verdict of
the people, a verdict which cannot be given in a day
or a year. But I know not how the judgment of the
people is to be formed if the book is to be reserved for
private study and the rhythm or want of rhythm of
its eadenees.nagei: li,...tened to in public.
But a great principle is in74v.ed, The Church of
England has never yet nailed her colonrs to the mast
of any version. She appeals to the Holy Scriptures
as a rule of faith, not to any translation of them.
She reads the Psalms from Cranmer's Revision of
1539, she reads the Epistles and Gospels from the
Revision of 1611, and these readings being incorpo-
rated in the Prayer-book are covered by the Act of
Uniformity and are legally obligatory. But for the
• Lessons no particular version is prescribed, and the
Omreh 110 purely done wisely in not binding itself to
any.
Exerci,sing the discretion vihicia the phurGh legally
accords me, I read the Second 4esSon" 'from the
Revised Version at evening prayer on the daY of 'its
publication.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A LONDON VICAR.
May 19.

There is a quality in Queen Victoria which ought to
go far towards obliterating an ancient tradition.
*fobs the times of Wolsey, as after, the precarious
nature of Fri*eV favoiir had passed into a proverb.
But if there he ono Owercte`pAip.-.1490 ilaac.lied than
another in the Qlmon, it is her *Of* VelitY.W
those who serve her, and her boundless gratitude to
them when their services come to an end. The Proofs
of this gratitude are scattered through the interestin
volumes in which Sir Theodore Martin has narrated
the life of the Prince Consort. The death of
Lord Melbourne—almost the first of her Majesty's
political friends and guides—was lamented by her
as a personal loss ; and his faults were not
e;len'obsekVe4 by young Sovereign in whom he
had duly lat;oured'O in til Pofel-,10 regard for the
prinCiples and practice of the Coustifiitidn. \I./Wu
the Duke of Wellington, full of years and honours,
was carried to his grave, his decease was mourned by
no one so deeply, so tenderly, as by the Queen, in
whose Reign he had not achieved his greatest
honours but which, nevertheless, he has illustrated
by his devotion to his duty and his patriotism, Lan.

_ -
A RESIDENCE 4T WINDaQH FOR THE DUKE or
CoNNaucinT.—The London Correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian says :—" Bagshot House, upon
the domain of Wind;or—a domain which in all el-
tends ovi-.a. 14,000 acres—has been given by the Queen
as a, residence for life to the Duke of Connaught.
But the house was found to be old, out of repair, and
altogether unsuited to the ideas of a modern prince.
The question arose in the councils of the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests whether it should be
altered or pulled down. Prince Arthur decidedli
preferred pulling down. Repair and adaptation to
his wants would have cost, it was estimated, £13,000.
The Prince then made an offer to the Commissioners
of Woods and Fvests that he would build a new
house if they would contribute £18,000; and this has
been agreed to,"

Mr. Fawcett is still busy in reorganising the Post
Office service, and the latest announcement that there
:is to be af Parcel Post is one of very considerable into-
Test. Herr Stephan, the model postmaster, gave Ger-
=any a parcel post some years ago; and its advan-
tages have been obvious to all who have had occasion
to sojourn or to travel in the Teutonic empire. There is
no question of competition with the railway or other
.carrying companies, for all existing means of transit will
,be made use of; so that those at present coning
parcels will really be benefited by the eno, raous
increase of work that is certain to be created. The
difficulties of detail are of course considerable; so it
is not surprising to hear that a beginning cannot be
made until October. Mr. Fawcett's idea is, that
-wherever a post letter on mob, there also a parcel

A NEW VIEW OF TfIZ LAND OUESTION.—EngIish•
man (arguing for the superiority of England) : "But,
my dear Sir, you surely will allow that England is
larger than Scotland.”—Sootchman : "Larger? Not
at all. Why, wo have about twice as much land ill
S,...otland as you have in England. We have had so
much land in Scotland, we've been obliged to make it
up into hills and mountains to .fit.",—.Fun,

DISCOVERY OF COAL IN VicToßrA.—The Correspon•
dent of the Otobe, writing from Melbourne on April
10th, says ;—" One of the best pieces of news that
our colony has had for a very long time is the report
that a valuable seam of coal, over thirty inches thick,
has been pierced by the diamond drill at Kilcunda, on
the south-east shore of Victoria. I believe that this
discovery will put an end to our forced importation
from Newcastle, New South Wales, and to the enor•
mous prices we have to pay for coals in Melbourne;
OLir average during the year is £2 per ton, though, os
course, in a climate like that of Naples--,for such IS
ours—we do not need fires for more than six months
in the year. Wood iQ equally expensive; there Is
plenty of it, but wages at six shillings a day keep al)
the price of everything which a man cannot do for
himselt."
FRANCE AND FREE TRADE. The Daily News
remarks :—" It is, we understand, the view of aa
emiment authority that the approaching conference on
019 Cpmmercial Treaty with France is not likely W
result in an arrangement popular in either countrYi
The present French MiPistrY have more enlightened
views on the matter of Protection than appears bi
some cif their acts. But they dare not go very far in
the direction of Free Trade, and if any agreement be
arrived at it is prpbablo that it will create an outcry
r
France becnuße it compromises with Free Trade, and
will be received with feelings of disappointment 10
G
distinguish'eplto
EnngElacnEdlT.bTecAasusEseiptowsTilAl WE" ST a
milt;sllty .
n bey
able from Protection,"
letter to Mr. Gladstone, asking if either receipt or
postage stamps may now be used for receipts, ths
right hon. gentleman writes " that until Tune 1 s
receipt stamp only can be used, On and after that
date (provided tie Customs and Inland Revenue Bill
ha 4 beep passed) either postage or receipt stamps can
be used.'l
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THE SEXES IN A.MEIHOA.—There are nearly nine
Imndred thousand more men in the United States
than there are women, the census of 1880 showing
total population of 50,152,866, the males numbering
25,520,582, and the females 24,632,284. The State in
which the sexes nye most evenly balanced is Maine,
where the f4ir sex are 777 in excess. It is curious
that in Utah, the land of the polygamists, there are
only 93,240 females to 100,000 males. Of course, ill
the mining States in the Far West the males consider,.
ably outnumbeT the women, and this is the case in
thi7ty States and Territories, the women having the
advantage in only seventeen, though amongst them
are the whole of the Atlantic QoAat States, ungallant
Delaware excepted.

PROVEEEW, UjiONOMY.—The increasing suess of
the zcheine for receiving savings-bank dcposits in
postage stamps, attests the sapience of thb once if not
still popular saying, "Penny-wise and pound-fool.
ish." Another good old saw gone wrong.--Punch.
THE MEMORAZIpiThI MAN.—Ten minutes after the
Flint and Vora Marquette train had pulled out of the
4epc4 yesterday, a young man with a grab-bag in big
hand and cigar in his mouth sauntered in as if he had
half-an-hour to spare. After walking up and down
for about five roinutea he stopped at the ticke!
~,yindow and asked—" Has the Flint train gone yet?
yes j a quarter of an hour ago." "The deuce.
Why, I was to go on that train. woll, you
didn't." " That'u-so, and lam placed in an embar
rassing r..ituation. I was to be married to a girl ug
the road to-night. No other train I suppose?
"No, sir." "And I can't get there ?" " PerlutPfg
YOU could hire a locomotive "Ah perhaps
could. I'll fillish my smoke, and go and pee aboUt
it," After the end of his cigar had been reduced
until the fire had warmed his nose, the young rel+ri
went upstairs and said to the superintendent--
" Could you, ah, for about five or six dollars, Oh
give me a locomotive as far as Flint, ah?" "No.
sir." "Ail* you can't? Well, that's badish. I vall
to have hcen married at six o'clock this evening.
you
might
seven
sevendeon timesllars f
that."ora,,ceu
locomotive."
dn,:dAoli
—'pon honour couldn't, though I'll go down alit'
aftersmokew e dtll
a
and down, arid all at once began hunting his pocke?'
atnimoteh.e"r ciHgaer andutapneerthhae
cigar and paced pa n
e
He shortly pulled out a note-book, and after runni
Par
makeacS if
ti e;
over the leaves, he approached the ticket-seller
said—" I find that I am saved." " How ?" "
it is, just as I wrote it down last fall! ' Mem : TlOl
said party of the first part—which is me—agrees t
e said party of the second part—whicl?
Helen—on the evening of April 4th, 1881, prde''
that blizzards, floods, broken 'midges, railroad deist%
or other acts of Providence permit.' I always IDA.%
a mem. of these things to save misunderstandings..A
missed the train, and that comes under the 116';
railroad delays, eh r' " I think so." "And skg
has no grounds far a breach of promise ?" "Cii
see ;any," 4k Nor I, My conscience tells me that„
ought to offer about nine dollars for a locomoti,,
ve ra
run me up there, and if it is refused I'll go back.,,b
the hotel and take things easy till to-morrow, ri
you married? " " No. ' "Going to be?"
'expect so." "Make a mem. of it, and give Pies,-ot
of latitude for delays. It's not only business,
you've got 'era tight as a wedge. Mem: it right d°,:cr
et
in black and white, and if they talk sassy show ,°„!
the door. Bye-bye, old fellow—see you later.
Detroit Free Preset

A TRAIN STOPBED BY CATIETtinT.LA,P,S,--Tn the neigh-
bohrhood of Wrakina arrxiy of Caterpillars, hun-
dreds of thousands strong, says the Colonies and India,
was marching across the railway line, bound for a new
field of oats, when the train came along. Thousands
of the creeping vermin were crushed by the wheels of
the engine, and suddenly the train car e co a de46 stop.
Pp ioitt4ia it worslound that"tt e Wheels of the
engine had become so greasy that they kept on re-
volving without advancing—they could not grip the
rails. The guard and the engine-driver procured sand
and atrewod it on the rails, and the train made a fresh
start, but it was found that during the stoppage cater-
pillars in thousands had crawled all over the engine,
and all over the carriages inside anci
Di5p..7741,;74cEp pi! TrIE LGCOUGTIVE.—So rapid and
so stioCesSfill has been the growth of the locomotive
engine, that its admirers may well hold that it pro-
rd-ses to be the motor power of the future, as well as
no doibt that immenseacivant.regpe 4ttend 'Cat the
of die present (says the Builder), And thprp
methoei which Laa woug,ht a revolution in our
t
means ettransport. But the locomotive has certain
great disaLvantages with which to contend. The
mode of thue applying power is extremely costly. The
actual resistanle of the engine ranges from 4 wpiuht
equal to that of the rest of the tri;ip ;129%4 a Afth
costly
stthl at
iptirirprtipi 4
o.tn oy weight is not only
y o o e tha
1.40 Q
between
train and
erigipe, but iso in a mPeh higher proportion; as the
friction of the automatic engine is much greater, per ton,
than is that of the propelled train. Allowing equal
figures for atmospheric resistance, the constant for
the friction of the engine is usually piculated
at about double of that for the train. But we
have a more ezact mode of iiscertaining the cost of
locomotive poiker, and that is one as 'to which it is
very remarkable that it has been hitherto so far left
out of sight. On the 81a44-wall railway, a the time
when it was worked hy ropes 'observations were
made as to the power absorbed 'by the loaded and
by the unloaded rope, the difference between the twc
being that due to the weight of the train. This was
the cost of working
only 21 per cent of*the whole. The cost of working
per ton per mile, according to data given by
Robert Stephenson, was 0.1875c1. This is losa than
any railway
nglarid in the
year 1870,, with the oneexceptiOn of the INTanchester,
i;heffield, and Lincolnshire line, in which the cost is
a the minimum, not owing to engineering considera-
tioi, but because the traffic is so much more equal
U
in .oth directions than is the case in any of the great
trulk lines leading to the metropolis. The great
sourie of waste, the return of empty wagmi is thus
AVOiddi

The Census retutns show a remarkable change in
the population of the district of Bedford Park, Chiswick.
Only six years ago it consisted of four families, making up a
total of 30 perthins ; now tho district contains 1,300 inhabit-
ants, or an increase of 800 Or torj,

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