The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

The Marquis of Huntly is boring for coal on his
Woodstoue estate, near Peterborough. The operations are
expected to prove successful.

In Rome an ancient wall has just ,been discovered
on the Esquiline, which has been found to consist entirely
of fragments of statues in the condition apparently in which
they left the sculptor's studio:

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The great Whitsuntide 'procession of Church Sunday
Schools in Manchester took place on Monday, and passed off
very successfully. The number of children who assembled
in Albert-square and walked thence to the Cathedral is
estimated at over 17,000.

Musurus Pasha has been summoned to return
immediately to Constantinople to advise with the Porte on
the questions likely to be raised by the British Circular and
the Embassy of .11r. Goschen.—Wedneadays Times.
The communications which have passed between the
European Powers with regard to the English circular pro-
posing united action at Constantinople to bring about a
solution of the Montenegrin, Greek, and Armenian questions
have (the Austrian correspondent of The Times says) .shown
a readiness on the part of all the Powers to take part in such
collective action, and several Cabinets, among them the
Austrian, have already officially notified their adhesion. It
will depend very much upon the Porte what course the
Powers will pursue. With regard to the Montenegrin ques-
tion the case is different, for the Porte having already sent
its answer, the Powers must now come to some decision.
Writing on Monday night, the Paris correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph says :—" The suburban village of
Nanterre, famous in legend for its Rosiere ' and its Porn-
piers, was en fete yesterday, in celebration of the crowning of
the former of these two attractions. The annual ceremony
generally draws crowds of-"people. - This Oar's heroine is:
Mdlle. Voihnal, belonging to a respectable faini'y I the
village. According to custom she was escorted by the Porn-
piers, and accompanied by her predecessor, but a special
honour fell to the lot of this year's Rosiere,' as she pro-
ceeded to the Maine on the arm of M. de Lesseps. The
honour of being crowned Rosiere! is by no means a barren
one; the recipient being entitled to 5002. in cash and a dowry
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Beet 1.9 suffering from the drought in France,
Belgium. and Germany' and unless the weather speedily
changes many fields will have to be resown.
Mount Pilatus, near Lucerne, was ascended for the
first time this season on the sth inst. by two English ladles,
The takes of salmon on the Tay were exceptionally
heavy on Monday. At one station, near Kinfaims,ll6 fish
' were got; and at another 125, all of large size. The river
has not been so low within living memory.

The Liberal candidate for -Preston against Sir John
biker was Mr. George W. Bahr, shipowner, of Liverpool;
but, though he went to the poll and almost succeeded in the
contest, he was unable to take any personal share in the
election owing to absence from England in ill-health. On
Sunday Mr. Bahr died at his residence, Liverpool, in his 58th
year.

Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice "and "Othello,"
which have lately been translated into Bohemian, have
proved so popular that a second edition of the translation
has been brought out. Longfellow's " Hiawatha " and
" Evangeline" have also been rendered into Bohemian.

An inquest has been held at Ramsgate on Steven
Sherlock, a fisherman, who was knocked overboard from a
smack by the jibboom striking him. A verdict of Accidental
death was recorded, with a recommendation that all smacks
should carry life-buoys.

In the new Parliament there are fifty-one members
of the Financial Reform Association, nineteen of whom
have been elected for the first time. The objects of the
association, the head-quarters of which are at Liverpool, are
economical government, just taxation, and perfect freedom
of trade.

We understand that it is not the intention of the
Government to propose during the present Session the re-
newal of the Peace Preservation Act (Ireland). Legislation
with respect to Ireland will probably be confined to mea-
sures of relief—Monday's Times.
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A monument erected to the memory of the soldiers
buried with martial honours in the parish of Canongate
since the year 1692 has been formally handed over to the custody
of Major-General Hope, Commander of the Forces in North
Britain, and the officers of the Edinburgh garrison. The
memorial is of Aberdeen granite, and bears a suitable in-
scription.

The Premier and Mrs. Gladstone attended the even-
ing service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on Sun-
day. Princess Beatrice was present, and the choir was filled
with a large congregation. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone sat in
the stalls of the Knights of the Garter.

On Tuesday, the Bishop of Manchester dis-
tributed, at Southport, the prizes and certificates
awarded in the Southport centre, in connection with the
Cambridge local examinations. The bishop expressed his
doubts as to the wisdom of the extension of the University
system of teaching. He did not dispute that a larger area
had been given for the development of particular talents,
but questioned whether better men were turned out in con-
sequence. Knowledge was no doubt coming at a very rapid
pace, but he was not at all sure that wisdom was increasing
in a corresponding ratio.

The Bank holiday of Monday appears to have been
one of the most successful since the passing of the Act. Not
only in London, but in nearly all the large towns throughout
the country there was an almost complete suspension of
busines, and the fine weather induced vast numbers of people
to avail themselves of the holiday

Literary matinees are now the fashion in Paris,
where visitors assemble from four to six in the afternoon, the
Parisian tells us, to discuss current literature, listen to
readings, and discreetly admire the good, bad, or indifferent
unpublished literary productions offered for the judgment of
the company.

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At Kirkwall (Orkney), one of the fishing boats
last week in taking up its lines, hooked a large cormorant,
the bait being a small saith The bird had swalloweil the
fish as well as the hook.

The managers of the Metropolitan Asylum Board
have estimated the cost of the boys on board the Exmouth
training ship for food and clothes at is. per diem.

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A return just made relating to the extraordinary
development of the coke trade in South Yorkshire shows
that a dozen colliery proprietors have nearly 1,000 ovens at
work, turning out from 4,000 to 5,000 tons of coke per week.
The increase during the past five or six months has been un-
prece-dented. A large number of ovens are in course of
erection.

An artilleryman was killed the other day at a
review on Woolwich Common. ills horse fell, threw him,
and the wheel of a heavy gun passed over him.

A manuscript of the middle of the eight century,
containing a Basque-Navarrese dictionary, has been dis-
covered, according to the Bicista Euskara, by a Jesuit
priest at St. James of Compostella. This would be earlier
by three centuries than the oldest Basque documents
hitherto known.

A return has been issued as to the paupers relieved
on lan. 1 in the present year, showing that the total num-
; her was 844,033, in 649 unions, containing a population,
ac-
cording to the census of 1871, of 22,706,302. This gives a
proportion of 3.7 per cent. of paupers on the population.
Of the paupers relieved 194,831 were in workhouses and
849,387 received out-door relief. As compared with the
number of paupers relieved on Jan. I last year. the return
shoNts an increase of 38,774, being a growth of 4-8 per cent.
The funeral of the late Geraldine Countess Karolyi,
second daughter of his Excellency the Austro-Hungarian
Ambassador and Countess Karolyi, who, after three weeks'
serious illness, succumbed to her malady on Sunday last, '
took place on Tuesday morning at St. Mary's Cemetery,
liensal-green. The usual prayers and other rites of the
Catholic Church preceding burial had been performed at the
Austrian Embassy, Belgrave-square, by the Rev. J. Hoever,
S.J. On arriving at the cemetery, the...body was conveyed to
the chapel, where low mass was said by the Rev. Louis
Toured, of the French Chapel, the remains of the deceased,
which had been embalmed, being afterwards deposited in
the catacombs, the leaden coffin having an external case of
polished mahogany with plain mountings. The remains
are only placed there provisionally, as it is ultimately in-
tended that they should be removed to Count Karolyi's
ancestral burying-place in Hungary. Had the Countess
Geraldine lived till Monday she would have attained her
tenth year. She was an interesting and accomplished child,
of great promise.

Moravia is being visited with heavy rains, 'occa-
sioning uneasiness as to the crops, and in the Tyrol there
has been a heavy fall of snow. At Perpignan and north of
the Pyrdnees there has been a 36 hours rain, and several
rivers have overflown their banks

A case of rare disease, known as " melanopathy " is
now under the care of a physician at Philadelphia. A child
born in October, 1877, and having at birth a fair complexion,
dark eyes and brown hair, became of a very dark complexion,
his air became stiff and jet black, and the colour of his eyes
changed. Under medical treatment this dark colour began
to fade, and the child is now of a chestnut brown colour,
with every prospect of ultimately becoming white. The
rarity of this disease renders the case a matter of much
interest to physicians.

The various Home Rule organizations in London
are taking energetic steps to render the forthcoming public
reception to Mr. Parnell, M.P., a success. It will take place
as soon as possible after Mr. Parnell arrives in London to re-
sume his Parliamentary duties, and will consist of a public
banquet, the presentation of an illuminated address, and a
public meeting in one of the large halls of London.

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The Emperor of Austria, while on his way from
Pesth to Munich, the other day, where he was proceeding to
pay a visit to his daughter, had a narrow escape. The train
passed over a bullock, and was nearly thrown off the line.
There was a terrible jolting, but the Emperor, who was asleep
at the time, did not feel it, and knew nothing of the ocur-
rence until afterwards.

In the celebration of the centenary of Sunday
schools in Halifax a gyeat musical demonstration of ninety-
nine schools was held m the Market-hall on. Tuesday. There
were nearly 30,000 vocalists and instrumentalists, and some
9,000 spectators present. The proceeds are to be divided
among the Sunday schools.
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The ibex from the herd of the King of Italy, which
were turned out some time ago in the Rhcetian Alps, have
disappeared. As they were regularly fed during the winter,
and were seen only about three weeks since, it is supposed
that they have been destroyed by an avalanche.
On Tuesday night the Oldham cotton mills were
closed for a week on account of the Blackburn strike.

The reports which have been recently received from
the majority of the North Riding moors are very favourable
with respect to the prospects of the grouse. The breeding
season has been very good, and should the present dry
weather continue for another few days, or, rather, if heavy
rains and hail do not prevail, there will be an abundant
supply of young birds onthe 12th of August.

A memorial from the inhabitants of Grangemouth
has been forwarded to Lord Zetland, having 1,402 signatures
attached, protesting against his lordship's resolutions to
enforce the prohibitions contained in the title-deeds of the
whole licensed premises in Grangemouth against the sale of
spirituous and malt liquors, from and after May 15 curt.
The memorialists say that while they give his lordship credit
for the best motives in resolving to enforce the said prohibi-
tions, and while they deplore the serious evils arising from
over-indulgence in spirituous and malt liquors, they are of
opinion that the carrying out of the prohibitions in question
would be productive of much loss to the proprietors and
occupiers of the premises referred to, and seriously injurious
to the trade of the town, without any corresponding advant-
age. The memorialists respectfully submit that the notice
as to enforcing the prohibitions should be withdrawn,
of
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individuals.
Earl Granville and Sir Charles Dilke on Tuesday
received at the Foreign Office a highly-influential deputation,
whose object Was to solicit the aid of her Majesty's Govern-
ment in securing protection for the Jews in Morocco. In
reply, Earl Granville promised that particular attention
should be given to the subject by himself and Sir Charles
Dilke, on the conclusion of the Madrid Conference, with a
view to ascertaining the best mode of using the influence
of England for the objects stated by the'deputation.
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Emigration to America from the Clyde continues to
Increase. The Anchor Line steamer leaving on Thursday
In last week had 500 steerage passengers, many of whom
were foreigners, and a large proportion were women and
children. The great emigration has given quite an im-
petus to the steam shipping trade between Glasgow and
America.

Mr. Henry Ashworth has died at Florence. He
worked with Messrs. Cobden and Bright in the anti-corn
law agitation, and published, only recently, a work giving
the history of the agitation, which has been frequently com-
mended by Mr. Bright. He was in the eighty-sixth year of
his age.

The Marquis of Anglesey was warmly welcomed on
Tuesday to that part of the principality from which his title
is derived. His lordship drove from Bangor, and was re-
ceived on the Anglesey side of the Menai Suspension-bridge
by an immense concourse, representative of eight parishes.
The Rev. W. C. Edwards, M.A., rector of Menai-bridge, pre-
sented his lordship with an illuminated address, which re-
ferred to his being a worthy descendant of one of Britain's
most illustrious sons and warriors. The horses being de-
tached from the carriage, it was drawn through the town—
gay with flags and floral arches—to Belvedere, where he is
the guest of Mr. Boding. At night, the column which per-
petuates the memory of the Marquis who fought at Water-
loo, was illuminated, and bonfires blazed from many of the
surrounding heights.
jiis Highness the Nawab of Rarapoor has subscribed
rupees to the fund for improving the water supply
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A miner named James M'Kenzie has recently died
in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary from hydrophobia. A
month ago he was bitten on the hand by a greyhound which
be owned, but the would healed, and was thought little of.
About a week ago AllEenzie became ill, and was removed
te the infirmary, where pronounced symptoms of hydro-
phobia, it is said, exhibited themselves, and the man died in
great agony

The Council Of the Society of Arts have awarded
the Fothergill gold medal, offered for the best means of pro-
tecting ships from loss by fire or by sinking, to Mr. Donald
Currie, M.P., for the improvements he has introduced into
his passenger steamers, having for their object the preven-
tion of loss of life at sea from fire or accident, and ex-
emplified in the ship Grantully Castle, of the Castle Line of
packets.—They further recommend that a Society of Arts
silver medal be awarded to 2411'. .T. W. Wood for his leak-
stopper In answer to the invitation offering the prize, 32
applications were sent in. These were considered by a
committee, which has reported on them and recommended
the above awards.
The Liverpool coroner has held an inquest on
the body of Miriam Cocker Brown, 54, who had been
a stewardess on an Atlantic steamer. On the 17th of April
Ithe deceased, with her daughter, went in a tramway car in
Toxteth-park. On alighting she passed in front of a car,
when the horse seized her right arm with its teeth, and in-
jured her above the elbow. She was medically attended up to
the 13th instant, when she died. The skin was not broken,
but the wound suppurated, and the deceased died from fatty
degeneration of the heart, accelerated by the injury men-
tioned, Such was the effect of the medical evidence, and
the jury returned A verdict in aecordanco therewc,th

In his speech at the opening of the Victorian Par-
liament the Governor referred to the question of the con-
struction of colonial defences, and announced that Com-
missioners had been appointed to report on the subject.
A drawing-room meeting was held on Tuesday after-
noon at the residence of a lady of Clifton, at which Miss
Frances Power Cobbe delivered an address on the present
position of the anti-vivisection movement. It was resolved
to memorialise Parliament to pass a measure prohibiting the
practice of vivisection.
The Gazette of India at last announces the issue of
the Indian Medal of 1854, with clasp, inscribed Perak, to all
troops engaged in the Perak expedition.
The Marajah of Ulwar has subscribed Rs. 5,000 to
the Irish Relief Fund, and the Marajah of Ilutwa Rs. 500
to the Fawcett Election Fund.

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of San Domingo has issued a circular to the
Ministers of England, America, France, Italy, Spain, Holland,
and Denmark, soliciting their co-operation in the erection of
a monument to Christopher Columbus in the city of San
Domingo,
The annual meetings of the principal friendly
societies of the country were commenced on Monday. The
Manchester L'oity of Oddfellows reports an increase in the
year of nearly 2,000 members, and a total membership of
533,520. It has received during the yeat £.731,513, and paid
away nearly half a million of money; and its present capital
,is stated at over four and a half millions. Generally, the re-
turns of the other societies show a substantial progress dur-
ing the past year.
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During a recent visit of the Northampton to King-
ston, Jamaica, Vice Admiral Sir Leopold AT'Clintock was
presented with an address by the Custos, members of the
Municipal Board, magistrates, and citizens, expressing the
high admiration of the distinguished services he has 'ren-
dered to the cause of science, as well as to the glory of the
profession to which he belongs.

A large trophy of Zulu relies from the battle ground
on the Zambula Mountain has just been placed in the
Sergeants' Mess of the Army Service Corps at Woolwich,
having been presented by Conductor Brooks. The trophy
comprises the now familar shields and assegais, garments,
and ornaments, and an immense jawbone foundou the scene
of the fight several months afterwards.

On Monday, near Rochdale Station, a passenger
train rain off the line. The permanent way, the engine, and
some of the carriages were damaged, and the passengers
were much frightened and shaken. The train was brought
to a standstill before further mischief was done. The traffic
was considerably impeded.

An extraordinary occurrence, which was probably
caused by lightning, took place on Monday at the shop of
Mr. Stevenson, druggist, Rochdale. A violent explosion,
preceded by the appearance of a ball of fire coming through a
skylight, blew out the shop as well as the other windows in
the house, doing other damage. Mr. Stevenson was so
alarmed by the occurrence that he suffered severely from the
shock.

The Agent-General of New Zealand has given
orders for a number of torpedo boats, which are to be
despatched to Auckland for the use of a local torpedo corps
which it has been decided to establish for the protection
of the colony.

At Fenerstenwalde, near Berlin, a stroke of light-
ning recently exposed a hidden treasure consisting of gold and
silver bars.—Eleetrician.

The report of the Government Mining Surveyor for
the colony of Victoria has just been issued, showing that for
the quarter ending December 31 the quantity of gold ob-
taineil was 219,4110 z., of which 79,333 was from alluvium and
129,678 from quartz.
An accident of a very serious nature has occurred
to Mr. Harrison, an undergraduate member of Exeter
College, Oxford. He was driving in a pony carriage with a
friend ; the pony took fright at a railway engine and started
off, and Mr. Harrison having thrown himself out of the
carriage, received very severe injuries to the head. His
companion kept his seat, and escaped unhurt.

At Kernevel, in France, the other day: just as a
religious procession was entering the church, the bell hung
in the tower, weighing half a ton, came down vtittb tre-
mendous force, crashing through three floors on its way, and
fell at the feet of the man who headed the procession, bolo:-
ing the banner. A moment later and a fearful catastrophe
would have been the result. As it was, no one was hurt.

The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist
April, 1880, when there was a balance of £3,273,428, to
May 15, 1880, were .C 10,330,439 against £10,728,045 in the
corresponding period of the preceding financial year, which
began with a balance of £6,915,756. The net expenditure
was £11,378,890, against £11,932,937 to the same date in the
previous year. The Treasury balances on May 15 amounted
to £4,901,387, and at the same date in 1879 to £4,801,023.

The death is announced of Monsignor Pie, Bishop
of Poitiers. He had gone to Angouleme for the Whitsuntide
festival, and expired at one o'clock on Tuesday morning.
The previous evening the bishop was in perfect health, and
was present at a banquet given in his honour.

The Cape Town Correspondent of The Times says :
comiexion with the wreck of the American the news of
the loss of Mr. Paterson, M.L.A., has cast a gloom over the
whole colony. He was one of the foremost members of the
Cape Parliament, and embarked in the American specially to
attend the Session for the purpose of supporting the Govern-
' ment in promoting South African confederation, of which he
was an ardent advocate."
Rooks, which only came to Orkney a 3,.ear or two
ago, have now formed a colony in a garden in Broad-street,
where upwards of thirty nests have been built.
Father Nugent, of Liverpool, has arranged with
Bishop Ireland, of St. Paul, who has long been engaged in
establishing colonies in Minnesota, for the immediate recep-
tion of fifty families from the bleak and stony district of
Connemara: Houses have been built for them. Five acres
of land have been broken up, so that at once crops and
garden stuff may be sown to prqvide for the coming season.
Large sums of money have been collected to support them on
their arrival. No fewer than 160 acres of good land, ready
for immediate tillage, will be apportioned to each family.
And all that is wanted is the means to send these fifty
families to New York.

The cost inclined for the unopposed return of the
three members for Oxfordshire amounted in the aggregate
to £254 6s. 10d., being divided as follows :—Colonel North,
£79 us. 2d.; Mr. W. C. Cartwright, £B7 125.; aud Mr. E.
W. Harcourt, 4.87 3s. Bd. The expenses incurred on behalf
of Mr. Joseph Cowen, 31. P., at the recent election for the
borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne were £2,219; and those of Mr.
Ashton Dilke, MP., £2,056. Both sums are above those
spent by the Liberal candidates for the borough at the pre-
vious general election, the amounts then returned 'being for
Mr. Cowen £1,842, and for the late Mr. Headlam

In Antwerp, Diest, Jumet, and Gilly many hun-
dreds of people have lately fallen victims to a small-pox.
epidemic. In the Belgian Senate, M. Crocq, who, by pro-
fession, is a surgeon of eminence, proposes to make vaccina-
tion compulsory, but the Belgian Government has declined
to do more than "supply all persons who require it with
good lymph gratis."

Fashionable summer fans in America are shaped like
the leaf of a lily, and have long tapering handles, similar to
those of the Japanese fly fans. They are made of transparent
crape, or the thinnest silk in pale colours, and ornamented
with some very light device.
An exhibition of articles connected with the watch
and clock trades will be opened at Geneva during the latter
part of May, June, and July. It will be divided into five
groups, devoted respectively to the raw material, the skilled
labour of the workshop, instruments of mensuration and
calculation, motive force and transmission, and tools and
mechanical contrivances. The rewards at the close of the
exhibition will consist of diplomas

An extensive earth-slip is in progress near Romont,
in Fribourg. The mass of moving earth measures 252000
cubic metres, but beyond the destruction of part of a high-
way, and the inconvenience to the owners of the land
affected, no serious results are apprehended.

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It is stated in a French journal that the average
yearly expense of maintenance of roads in France is about
31,000,000 f. for 37,000 kilometres of national roads,
20,000,000 f. for 41,000 kilometres of departmental roads, and
75,00020001. for 260,000 kilometres of parochial roads, without
counting bridges or large rectifications. The breaking of
stones and spreading of them on the roads are now almost a
science.

Amiss meeting of railway emplopis was held at the
Gaiety Music-hall, Liverpool, on Sunday afternoon to consider
the question of a reduction of the hours of labour, and
some other grievances, when resolutions in support of the
object of the meeting were adopted.

According to a telegram in the Manchester Guardian,
the negotiations for the new commercial treaty between
France and England are now regarded as abortive. The
French representative demanded, an abatement of the duties
on French wines, but Mr. Gladstone refused, it is said, to
assent to this, observing that he required £1,600,000 to restore
the equilibrium of the English Budget. It is added that it is
in order to explain this difficulty to 31. de Freycinet that 31.
Leon Say has left London for Paris.
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In India salutes of 31 guns each have been fired
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dition. The walls are very much out of repair, and the
place could not stand for an hour against modern artillery.
An official paper issued during the past few days
states that the amount placed at the disposal of the French
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce for the purpose of
encouraging research and experiments as to the best way of
dealing with the phylloxera amounted in 1879 to 500,000
francs, and this will be increased during the present year by
supplementary grants to 969,750 francs. Of this amount
200,000 francs are devoted to the treatment of diseased vines
In the districts specified by the superior commission, while
250,000 francs will be given to doubling the votes granted by
the various departments and municipal bodies.

The North Metropolitan Tramways Company,
which has just entered upon the eleventh year of its exist-
ence, carried from and to the City on Whit-Monday-the
enormous number of 154,925 passengers. To cope with the
requirements of the day the Company ran 190 cars, employed
2,070 horses, and ran 1,831 double journeys. The receipts
reached £1,421, being the largest amount yet earned by the
Company in one day.

The Mark Lane Express of Monday night says:
—Although the days have been bright and sunny the tem-
perature has remained cold through the week. For farm
work of all descriptions the weather has left nothing to be
desired, and great progress has been made with the planting
of mangolds and potatoes and the cleaning of the turnip
fallows, but the cold winds have retarded vegetation, and
by no means improved the colour of the growing wheat
plant.
A curious calculation is made by the Boston Courier
which says, there have been over 0,000 rubbers of short
whist played by the Boston Whist Club during the past year.
The largest winning scare was 1,062 points in 2,248 rubbers,
and the largest losing score 414 points in 1,166 rubbers. The
greatest number of rubbers played by any one person was
3,880.
Intelligence was received at Berwick-on-Tweed on
Monday night that the dead body of Commander Bruce,
8.. N., captain of the Coastguard at Berwick, and command-
ing the district between Dunbar on the north and Amble on
the south, comprising about 60 miles of coast, had been
found onthe beach at Holy Island, about eight miles south
of Berwick. So far as at present known the deceated left
Berwick on Thursday in last week to visit officially several
places to the south of Berwick, and since Friday he had not
been heard of. He crossed from the mainland to Holy
island in a small boat, and was seen to leave to return, and
It is supposed that in crossing the boat had capsized. Com-
mander Bruce was only recently *pointed to the Berwick
district; and was well-known in connection with the Perak
expedition. He has left a wife and young family.

An inquest has been held in London at the West-
minster Sessions-house as to the death of Benjamin Samuel
Ingham Wallington. Mrs. Humphreys, the labdlady of the
" Wbeatsheaf " Tavern; said the deceased came into the
house on Thursday evening last and ordered some beer. He
drank a•portion of it, and then, taking a bottle from his
pocket, poured about a gill of the contents into the ale. Ile
finished drinking the beer and, passing the empty bottle to
a companion, said, "I have done it now, Harry !' A minute
afterwards he fell senseless to the ground. Dr. Fallon, house
physician at the Westminster Hospital, deposed to ex-
amining the deceased. He was pulseless and there was some
spasmodic twitching in the muscles of the chest. The wit-
ness had a bottle handed to him and found it had contained
prussic aoid. Death was caused by prussic acid poisoning.
The bottle, which would hold sufficient poison to kill more
than a dozen persons, was neither labelled nor marked.
Mrs. Wallington stated that her husband had been very
strange in his manner of late. A brick fell on his head
about three years ago and since then he had never appeared
right in his mind. She could not say where her husband
purchased the poison. The jury returned a verdict, "That
the deceased committed suicide wiltile labouring under tem-
porary insanity.
The Queen, although in residence at Windsor Castle,
having very graciously commanded that the State apart!.
ments should be opened to the public, they were on Whit-
Monday visited by some thousands of Bank Holiday excur-
sionists. Her Majesty being at the Castle, the fine band of
the Grenadier Guards played at the Palace at eleven o'clock,
while the guard was being mounted. At eleven the State
apartments were thrown open, and by one o'clock, itAkesti•
mated, two or three thousand persons had already passed
through those magnificent rooms, the stream of visitors con-
tinuing to flow through the vast rooms till they were closed
at four o'clock. While the majority of the holiday folk were
thus occupied, others ascended to the lofty battlement!. 01
the Round Tower, or Castle-keep. The atznosphere bani
clear, a splendid panoramic view of the country rouno
about thKastle was obtainable.