The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-06 00:00:00

STORM IN CHURCH TIME.

The sovereign Prince of Lichstentein has decided on
di-bandieg his army. In the old Genaanie Confederation he
was bound to keep tie4ether a body of en men ite a centingent,
Which was a heavy charge on his treasury. At present he
Is determined to be freed from it, audio he disarms.
At the anniversary meeting otthe American Geo-
vaphical Sedety, held in IC, w. beck May 14, the President,
Don. Charlie/ P Daley, exhibited, aiming vations antique
maps beltating to the society., a maplef Africa tali cents. tea
ago, which, it is decfared, shows that the Dutch and Porta- l
geese hydrographet s of that period bad a knowledge of the
Lake Ament Nyanza. and other points, which have been claimed I
as re,ent discoveries.
Four countries are about to send out Arctic ex-
peditien, •
A telegram informs us that the widow of King
.Their lore died of consumption, in the British
.traltlll on the
15th of May.
It is reported that Mr. Williattt Lloyd Garrison will
wine a hist.). Of the anti-slavery movement.
. One of the features of the celebration of the mini-
! versary if AltleriCall independence at ltostm is to be a sub.
marine w alk dig nmtch by divers.
A cvelone, with a range of half a mile, passed
through Tennessee, May 6, hitParpitig awl/ jousts, trees,
and fences for a distance of ten Allies.
During Mr. Dickens' visit to America, the Appletons
of New York. issued 5,00, copies of his "American -Notes,"
P.M ,0 of "Oliver Twist," 20,0,0 each of •• David Coppertield "
and Dombey and Son"
The profits of the Tinva for the last year reached the
large sum if £loo,ooo—so it is call.
The Auckland Islands, where the ship General Grant
was lost, have been discovered to be twenty-five milea from
their position on the chart.
The King of Siam has published a list of the Royal
family of Slam. It appears that lie has had eighty-one
children, of whom sixty-six are now living.
The House of Commons has received a promise, on
behalf of Mr. A. Stevens, that the Wellington monument
for St. Paul's, which has been for so many years in the hands
of the sculptor, should be " approaching completion m the
course of the year leke."
On Monday some full grown ears of wheat, taken
from the fields at Linton and Lon Cr ttcttlu.gtati, near Liver-
pool, were exhibited on 'Change at Liverpool.
A curious lawsuit was to have conie before the
Paris tribunals, but has been cut short by the death of one of
the parties concerned. The Countess Fortet is de Tolwa had
applied for a judicial separation from her hUrioinlii. The
Count, who was renownid in the scientific wmed, married
the young Nidlle. Inure de Witint and forthwith began to
legislate on her mode of dress, übj,cting to the length of her
trains, her style of head-dress, site, To this the young holy
naturally objected very strongly, hence the suit. !loath has
decided the route in her favour, as the Count has just de-
parted this life.

Illinois paper, have accounts of great devastation,
with loss of life, occasioned by a jecent storm. In
Chicago darkness fell upon the city with each mys-
terious swiftness as to cause indescribable awe ; and the
mist and startling chilliness led the people to infer that
a tornado was whirling over the city. In other parts
of the State it descended and proved very destructive.
At Shanghai service was proceeding in the Second
Advent Ch :rch, a new beilding conajileted last autumn.
The Rev. G. W. Hurd ascended the pulpit, and his
discourse was not inter, tilted until it was nearly
through, when the evidence of the coining disaster
began to be apparent First it was perfectly still, and
then a noise was heard in the distance as of the roar-
ing of a mighty cataract. The w indows began to shake,
and some one called out from his seat, " Mr. Hurd, a
bat storm is coming up." The minister answered,
" Never mind the storm ; there is a day coming when
there will be a storm compared with which this will be
nothing, I will be through soon." Just then the hail
and wind commenced breaking in the window lights,
and in almost an instant the windows of the church,
sash and all, were torn out. The only two persons
who succeeded in getting out were George Vern und
Harrison Wiscr, who were instantly killed. The
building reeled like a drunken Man, but none could get
but. Wives clung to their husbands, children to their
parents, brothers and sisters to each other, atuldespair
was depicted upon every countenance. Suddenly the
crash came, and with a deafening sound, mingled with
the shrieks of the pent-up people, timbers, scantling
and all, came down with a sudden crash upon the
devoted heads of the congregation—men, women, and
children. Sonic had skulls broken, others arms, others
received internal injuries from which they can never
recover. Nearly all were more or less injured.

fo:PITOME OF INE'%V.,i.

141T157 ANi)

Capital punishment haa just been abolished in the
kingdom of Saxony.

At Vorsailles, the ladies of the bighent rank, corn.
plying with the wishes of Pius IX., now wear a long veil,
hanging down to their waist, whenever they resort to the
Church of St. Louis, or to that of Notre Dame.

The Sultan, in receiving a deputation from the
Christian communities, on Sunday, declared that lie wished
that every one in lila dominions might be able to rise even to
the rank id Grand Vizir, without distinction of creed.

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'Monday was the first shilling day at the Leeds
Exhibition, There were 3.413 athaissions—namely, by season
tickets, 623; by payment of Is. each, 2,7,8.

The news of the winner of the Derby is always
telegraphed to India, where there are bets amounting to
thousands of pounds depending upon it.

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Mr. A. M. Sullivan, proprietor of the Dublin
Ntufw, who was sentenced to sin months' imprison-
ment for publishing seditious libels on the Government, was
liberated on bail on Monday afternoon.
There is 1 Jew to 7 inhabitants in Poland; to 33 in
Australia ; to 42 in Russia to 52 in Holland; to 61 In
Turkey; to 105 in Germany; to 333 in Belgium ; to 412 in
Italy; to 446 In England ; to 463 in Franco; to 595 in
Switzerland; and to 664 in Scandinavia.

An inquest has been held at Bampton, Westmore-
land, spin the hotly of a little boy, age.d eight years, who
was killed in a somewhat remarkable manner Ile ran near
the railway lit order to see a goods train pass, when, there
being a very high wind at the time, he was blown across the
path of the train anti killed.

A Paris periodical called Le Pil"ri, wbich is printed
In red ink, contains this advertisement W anted, tor a
literary journal, a puldbher and manaeer who can read and
write, lie will be paid double fur the time he passes in
Prison"

Mr. Watkin, the chairman of the South-Eastern
Railway Company, gave an admirable example of the
value of the old English saying that "Time is money." He
remarked ghat the Amalgamation Bill has "been fought
over in the Commons' Committee for twenty-eight days, at
a cost, it is said, to promoters and opponents ota guineas a
minute."

"Matrimony.— Clergyman's Widow, 37, income
£00; Orphan, 22, £5OO ; Merchant's Daughter, 25, £l,OOO
Lady, 80, income a:140. Cartes exchanged and interviews
arranged. Fee On. td."—Adyertisement in Manchester Ex-
aminer.

An order from the chief of police prohibits the ex-
posure in the shop windows, or the sale in Rome, of photo-
graphs of the oewly-married Royal couple, Prince numbert
cmi Princess Margherita of savoy

It was stated at the last meeting of the Liverpool
select vestry that the increase of inmates of the workhouse
was 605 as compared with the last year, or an increase of
LOCO during the lust two years. During the past seven years
the guardians had paid £.36,742 for buildings, and a new
woatinupe, which it was proposed to build, would cost
Liflo 00 but if filings went on as they did at present, they
would require another house by the time it was finished.

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The &At for the Clanipionship of the prize-ring,
with £2OO a si le, hetwPen Go,i ant Allen, is, It is said, fixed
to come off on the Ist September, iu what is called the
"London

Tiie Chamber of Peers in Portmotl is about for the
first time to constitute itself into a High Court of Justice for
the trial of Count de Peniche, peer of the realm, auto-el of
having conspired atrainst the state. The prosecution was
authorised by 22 votes to "3: and a further decisions wa: come
to. by 17 to Id, that the Inactions Id peer with which the
count is invested should be suspended during the tidal.

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In an old gallery which had fallen in some years back
at the French coal inine if Sint U site, at • mitte.di-les-
mines. have !ocoil found the ladies of six men buried there
in the mph. sin of tire-damp on the 22nd December, Is5S.
The corpses were fon, d to be comp'etely dried up, but in a
remarkable Mate ,of preservation, the features being so little
changed that each of the deceased was easily recognisiAl by
his surviving relatives. The remains have been interred in
the cemetery with every demonstration of respect.

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The giving of nicknames has always been common
among the vulg or of all annul 'its, bUt it seems likely to he-
roine fashitamble in Fralice, and among ladies too ! At the
present moment there is one immensely grand lady, who
nears among her intimates the nickname of "the Lily," and
another that of " Yellow Slippers ! ' but, whilst some of the
designations adopted are pretty or harmless, others are
almost insulting. Of one, for example, the nearest transla•
lion is "Dirty Face !" and another is " Piggy !"
An old woman was charged before the tribunal at
Berlin with causing the death of several young children by
the process of starvation known in England as loaby-farming.
" Wietch," said the president, "what have you to say to
this horrible charge t" onsieur le President," was the
reply," I made them angels."
The nature of sun-spots has puzzled observers since
the time of Galileo. and all sorts if strange conjectures have
been started from time to time to account for them. The
latest theory on the subject is that of Mr Lockyer, who holds
that they are due to alnorption. The spectroscopic evidence
has been reviewed toy Mr Huggins, who at a recent meeting
If the Royal Society entirely endorsed Mr. Lockyer's con-
clusions.
O'Neill, president of the American Fenians, has
issued an address to the centres, in which lie urges them to
renewed exertions. Part of this extraordinary document is
devoted to an apology for the last Fenian enterprise in
Canada, for the failure of which O'Neill holds the United
States alone responsible. Ile is now making a tour of the
States, addressing Fenian State conventions in the largest
, The Royal Ilorticultural Society's great fete of the
season opened on Tuesday morning at the mainds, South
Kensington. The show of fioweis was extremely magnificent,
and great taste has been exercised its their arrangement.
Masses of azaleas, rlealodendrons, and pelargoniums of the
choicest variety of hue are grouped together in dazzling
array. The ferns with the delicately cut foliage, and the
orchids. with their grotesque anti fanciful flowers and
brilliant heath., were exhibited in the utmost perfection of
development. The grounds were thronged. Two military
bands were in attendance.
The 111,nitror gives the following as the dinner of the
ordinary French welting-mail ,—ltalf a pound of bread, a
litre of broth, two ounces and a third of boiled beef, and
about a pennyworto. of vegetables, the total cost being
seventy-five centime,-71d. The disproportion of meat to
broth, and indeed to everything else in the bill of fare, is
rather striking. By goilig tit the Prince Imperi lu soup
kitchen, it appears the French workman can obtain his din-
ner for little more than half the above-stained sum, without
Site kitchen losing money. There are twenty of these kit-
chens in Paris for the supply of cooked food at cost price.
Mr. John Morley, a gentleman who ha.s become
distinguished within the last half-dozen years as a politician
,and a man of letters, intends to propon himself for tne repre-
sentation of Blackburn, where he is known also by local
connection.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, on Tuesday, laid the
foundatna. 'tone of a new church at Ilnurnemouth, which is
to be erected with the avowed object of countenicting the
Ritualist practic,,s which are carried out at the parish church
of st. Peter's in that town, one of the finest churches in
England. The Evangelicals of the town, and those who
oceanonary visit it, have subscribed a considerable sum of
money to ACC4implish their object.
A medical club for "young sawboneses" has jUst
been established in London.
As a proof, of the abnurd ideas about English young
ladies which are current in France, we may mention that one
Parisian paper, Le Petit .I.lermel, gravely assures its readers
that the reason why the "Girls .of the Period" in England are
so masculine and fast, is because " the daughters of our lords
and baronets are educated at 1V intkor, where gme of the
se,eants of the Queen's army drills them regularly."
A French actress, more celebrated for her beauty
and her frankness than for her intelligence and her virtue,
u-as in the habit of attributing her inconsistency to her load
luck. " The moment I become really attached to anybody,"
she used to say, lam certain to be introduced to somebody
else whom I like better."
A woman, named Amu Graham, died at Kilminchy,
Kilkenny, last wee -, in her 102nd year. Her husband, who
survives her, is in hie 96th year.
The Went Italian mail-nteamer brings the following
strange paragraph ,—" News had reached St. Vincent that
the passengers by the It itish sloop Seger rine, supposed to
have foundered toff the Grenadines 501110 months ago, were
alive on the Spanish coast, but enslaved."
Canon Girdlestone still stands bravely- by the
labonners ; he advised those he addressed at Hilberton, itt
East Devon,' en Monday last, to go on striking for higher
wages. and lie tots sill be their friend. Tito fanners are
dreadfully angry with the Cation. and have caused hint

sorti id annoyance. Ile has interested himself a Rissl deal
in sending labobrers from one comity to another. The Canon
advises his proteges to form a "union for remonstrance"
with their employers.

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"K to 13. —How thankful I WOR to See you looking
..hen you passed here. I implore awl entreat you to

write me here, when and where you will Inert,.l have some-

thing of the 'mutest impoitance I wish to tell you. I have
kept my word, and will do on. Did you see The Times of

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Jalinari ?"—A dvertisement in.Loodon'Tinirs.
The Indipe"delicel9e believes there is no example
of such excessive and long continued heat In the month of
May as that which they have just Itad.
"The reporter of the Liberf affirms that, in passing
along the streets on the way to the Cathedral, the Emperor
looked ' sad and weary.' Ile leant on his cane, crouched in
his carriage, and rarely removed his bat. This Empress, how-
ever, adds the reporter, 'smiled and saluted, as if b excuse the
morose air of the Emperor.' If his Nlajcsty ha I known that the
prdiiT had jast.bc.fore taken by the collar three miscreants
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oho had formed the project of "murdering Min, it )7i not
stirprising that his looks sole not gay.--U. eke Parin Cort e-
e.pondent.
A contemporary publishes an analysis of the strange
conclomeration of nationalities composing the Pope's Guard
of Zouaves. It immbers 4,593 niembers, amongst whom there
are 1,910 Dutch, 1,001 French, (bit Belgians, 157 Romans and
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other Pontifical subjects, 135 Canadians, 101 Irish, t,7
Prussians, ru English, 32 Spaniards, 22 Germans, 19 Swiss,
14 Americans, 14 Neapolitans, 12 Modenese, 12 Poles, 10
Scotch, 6 Tuscans, If Portuguese, 3 Maltese. 2 Russians, and
a South Sea Islander, an Indian, an African, a Peruvian, a
Mexican, and a I..'ircassian.
A photographer of Berlin, wishing to add to his
stock a likeness .d Julia Ebergehyi, the poisoner, requested
a friend ill Vie!)mms to procure one for him. lii, friend,
unable to get what lie wanted. sent him instead the carte de
rook of the beautiful Princess Pur,tenburg, whirls the
photographer copied, and sold in thousands as the likeness
of the criminal. The Princess has brought an action against
the photographer.
"Management.--Are you aatisfied now? Surely,
you will at least write to him, and thank him for the great
sacrifice he has made for you. Do you resneniber what you
promised to he, if only that condition 'WM fulfilled a It has
been fulfilled. lib. surely will keep your part of the en-
gagement. Ile will be ruined if you do not, Try and realize
what he bias gone through."—AdvertLement in lundon
Twee.

The Emperor itivi Erupresi of Russia will go this
year to the waters 1,1 Kissengen, and will there have an in-
terview with tim King of Bavaria. It is asserted that King
Louis It. 14 about to he affianced to the Grand Duchess Maria
Alexandrina, daughter of the Emperor and Empress of
Russia.

Subscriptions are being raised in France for the in-
stitution in Algeria of mixed agricultural schools, in which
the children 14 the destitute Arahs will be taught the methods
of European agriculture together with European children ;
the schools to he under the entire management of the laity.
1 he Empress Charlotte (says the Nord) will soon
take up her residence in Brussels. Some clays ago the
handsome prop,ty of the deceased Countess de laluing, the
Ducal, was acquired in the name of the princess. tin the
land which borders on the Boulevard du Regent, there is
going to be built for 110.11 sumptuous dwelling, surrounded
with pleasant grounds.
The Arenir Notional says that public opinion in
Austria rendered uneasy by the hostility which Archduke
Albert dollars on every opportunity towards the reforms
initiated by the Brunt ministry. This he does with a freedoms
of language that renders his position significant

Much regret has been caused by the announcement
of the death, in Abyssinia, of Lieutenant Morgan, of the
Royal Engineers. Lieutenant Morgan rendered important
service to the expedition as chief of the signallers, awl in
other respects greatly assisted the force in overcoming the
difficulties encountered during it. arduous march. The
fever, which terminated in his death, is supposed to have
been brought on by the malaria from dead animals hi
Maintain, where lie remained during the whole night after
the capture. lie was buried in tire valley of the Takarse
River, in ground which belongs MOe of the oldest churches
in Abyssinia, and a stile, with his name and a cross on it,
was placed over the spot.
Ti the incren.se in the valise of horseflesh in Franco
met, no doubt, be attributed the issue of a recent circular
from the War Office in Paris, giving stringent instructions
on the subject of orioting to account the sinus received for
the CrIECASSI of slaughtered cavalry horses. The amounts
thus realised are to Le placed to the shoeing and harness
fund, one of the numerous regimental funds or masses"
which exist in the French army. Another clause of the
circular directs that equal care is to be taken n f money
received for the .1 ',areal,o of dean a,rinrsls. A Joint of dead
troop-horse would certainly be a formidable piece de reeie-
tone,

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A Greek paper states that a 3,entt Cretan lady has
just arrived in Athens dressed in masculine attire, ;Odell
she assumed for the purpote of preserving her incognito
whilit heroically fighting against the Turks in Crete he
has been photographed in her military costume and equip-
ment.

The Emperor of Austria has ,igeed the " G,•ditss
.13111 s authorizing civil marriage, se r elar education, enel
pin-
soil and has thus defeated the 1,. st hot e tbe
of the 01.1 alp
It has been calculated that 20,000 bottles of petroleum
champagne were sold for the Derby.
The British 2lfelical •Thiffll4l says the w, onds received
by our s, idlers at the taking of Itagdala solo-to Dainty I ,
, the extremities. Some were Ilesh-eutuuti niereiy others
injuries to, or fractures of, hone.
I Near Cologne, in the circle of Sieg, a tremendous
hailstorm• accompanied by a waterspout, a few days back
I
, devastated the territories of about twenty villages. Tile
I a ind, which was extremely violent, tore up I aks of more
than a hundred years old, and blew down several dwellinz.
houses.
The London correspondent of the Leeds Itterory
I slates that Mr. Disraeli did ever) thing in his power, and ob.
taineil the co-operation of the Duke of Cambridge, to inth,e,
the Queen to postpone her trip to the Iniuhltunls, but without
effect.
The Prince of Wales has written several letters ex-
pressive of his satisfaction at the reception he met with in
In the twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth's reign,
a blacksmith, of lond in, named Mark Scallot. mxcle •
lock of iron, steel, and brass. of eleven pieces, and a pipe-
key, all of which weighed only one grain.
"1 think I have seen you before, sir. Are you not
Owen Smith '• Oh yes, tin owin' smith. and °win' Jones
and °win' Brown, and °win' everybody."
It seems to be becoming the custom in St.
Petersburg and Moscow to load the favourite opera singers
sri h the most costly presents. Mettle. Dairee Arnit on the
occasion oilier last appearance, received, among miter
an enonuous rose, above which was placed a magniticent
butterfly composed of rubies, diamonds, and turquoises, of the
value of £3OO, flowers made in old Sevres ch na, a crimson
diluter service, bracelets, and several ornamental oxtails.
It is said that there are seven thousand defaulters
on tho poor rates in Lambeth as A first instalment of usi
troubles to arise from the abolition of compounding.
" It is said that one of his (Brougham's) admirers
in the Bradford Cloth Hall gave him a lade of plaid trowser-
big •• :Coo'," in 1525, and that he continued to the day of
his death to have his nether garments cut from the in-
exhaustible store. I have seen Lord Brougham in eve sing
dress, and in the customary black continuations butt never
met him by daylight without the inevitable checks.—" Lord
Brougham," it. on.plo Bor.
The annual moveable committee of the Manchester
rutty of Dild Fellows opened its meeting at theltenh.to, sit
Tuesday. In his address the Grand Master of the Unity, Mr.
Walker, of the Durloun district, said thm e had been an in-
crease to the past year of 12,200 members. llw suia paid
for the relief of the sick members in the year 1,67 e ,cceded
£OOO,OOO, while £68,000 was paid in funeral benefits. The
society paid in various benefits upwards of £300,000. IL.
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revenue. exceeded £117000,. and it 1180 thus adderi iu one
year upwards of £200,000 to its accumulated capital, which
now amounted to more than £2.400,000.
The winner of the Abercorn Cup at the Curragh
It Contest, Mr. John 11'Dowell, of Waterfoid, revelled
it from the Lord Lieutenant, who was present on the third
and closing day of the match. His Excellency spoke of it
as the "blue ribbon of Irish rifle shooting for the year." The
scoring on Friday, a Dublin journal states, counted 1,106,
"a number only once attained in the gent contest at
Wimbledon." It is curious, the same reporter adds, that
"the highest individual scord-was 149, ego the highest In-
dividual score ever gained at Wimbledon, and then by an
Irish competitor.
We are very sorry to have to report the bursting
of Major Pallia-es 9-inch bore 12-ton compound can under
pr' f at the butts at Wool. Wit, at the second count of
810111. shot and 561 b charge. The time and money so un-
aeltishly expended by the major 01/ these costly experiments
raises a natural sympathy both with his successes and ro-
verses.
"We, hear that another marriage is about to be
celebrated in Naples I oils cell a lady who has travelled th.
world over and a gentleman, a widower, and father-in-law of
one of England's future dukes.”—Court Journal.
The mania for murdering little girls does not seem
to have quite died out. A shoemaker, thirtymight yews of
age, has been taken into custody for attenipting to murders
little girl at Chichester. The ruffian—or madman—intlimed
a frightful gash 11l the poor child'a throat, but fortunately
assistance mine before he succeeded ill murdering his slot.m
outright.
" Coarse language, unfeeling and precipitate action,
are only the outward Mrin and expressinn of a deep, inward
sense of degradation. tall ament is ill-tempered and ill-
mannered because it knows that it is in a false position. Ono
member would not call his friends a rabble, nor would another
salute his allies as yelping hotuida, unless the acne of
humiliation was on either side very keen mid piercing. Them
are lite inward sores rankling in the breasts of the Parlia-
mentary leaders, and it is not to be wondered at that the
camp follow.s exhibit more than the usual tongue and
license of the sutler's booth."—Sata Mae Review.
A London merchant and importer of foreign goods
has been tiled e 2,0, for sending a large quantity of boxes of
French wax lucifer matches, which were very inliantinable,
by railway without giving any information RS to their lIIItUre.
As the parcels wotud have been sent by a passenger tram
with the luggage, if they had ignited on the journey, the
conseqUencya would undoubtedly have been vet y seriou..
In an action for seduction tried las', wce.f. before
Mr. Justice flannel., a builder at Canterbury, named Terry,
obtained a verdict for ELM against a military officer, limied
Hutchinson. Application aas Illado Oil Monday. lay Mr. M.
chamliers, Q.C., that a nonsuit should be entered or that
there should be a new trial on the ground that the damages
were excessive. Mr. Justice Bennett, in reserving leave to
move, express, d a hope that lie had heard the last of the
case, and the full court refused the application.
Theson *what singular occurrence of a large town being
lighted with oil occurred at Cambridge. The circumstances
leading to this dull state of things were that a new gas an-
pany being started, the littprovenient Commissioners m.anted
it a Hu ee years' contract to light tile public streets. An
attempt was subsequently made to buy off this threatened
competition, anal the new company suspended its over:dimla
bar nearly a month, and at the last moment the old company
became inexorable. It being imp,sible to get the works
ready by the 12th June. the period of the contract to com-
mence, oil lamps have been resorted to for the present.
A singular attempt to murder was made at Scar-
borough last Satiaday. A landlord had been plagued with
S tenant wh coold not may his rent regularly, and he admoted
the plan of shimting him as all equivalent. The tenant, un-
fortunately, Was seriously- hit, and lie now lies in a precarious
condition. The landlord afterwards attempted to commit
suicide, but was prevented by his servant. He is In custody.
A Yorkshirernan's provincial sharpness in looking
after the main chance is not in every ease facilitated by on
unproved system of arithinetie. Much amusement was
eau-ell in the Halifax county court, the other day, by the
reply of a tradesman ott being asked if he kept any books.
ill tell you, Mr. Stansfleld, how it is," was the reply. "We
keep books in aht neighbourhoohl under tleold act—s cipher
stands for a sovereign-, a cross stands for tell shilling ; a
hale rahand titall.l6 for ; and a strooak for a pettily."
On Monday afterTmon a grand volunteer review
took place at Cimbrulge, ill the presence of several
thousands of spectators. The reviewing officer Was Colonel
Elliott, and the localdy closes for the movements a
large comnn in, known as Hidsuminer C,,lanlnlcn The
University corps book part, mid several battalions from
neighbouring counties were in attendance, bringing up the
actual strength of tile men under arms to about 1.209. The

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day was beautifully line for the occasion, and the militaty
evolutions for the most part creditably got through. Several
of the corps marched past in splendid style The review
commenced at two o'clock, and lasted about three hours.

Her Majesty has been pleased to fix upon Saturday,
the Nth inst., for a revicw of volunters in Windsor fork,
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and an utfici;ii notification was issued yesterday' remindiiTii
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commanders of the corps that applicalforis to be present lima
be rent on or before the Ali iott. mere will. no doubt, be

an extremely large muster of volunteers from all parts of
England.
Alaccabe made a goml hit the other night, at the
Egyptian Ball. Having dressed himself up as a ranged
street minstrel, he was performing his part admirably,
when a gentlensm entered, and advanced to one of tire front
seats. s;accalre Appeared to be terribly disconcerted, and
tried to avoid the gentleman. As the latter sat down,
Maccabe said, "(iii. I beg your pardon ; I thought you were
the Marynis Townshentl." The audience laughed and cheered
enthusiastically at this "inliabte hit"

"A lady of title drove up to Newgate in her own
carriage and witnessed from a neighlanuing house the execu-
tion of Barrett, the Fenian. She had the propriety to faint 121
the man was cast off. This is on a par with the other lwly
of title English who last autumn made a bet of a fiver that
she would stalk throne!. a Crick fair in a kilt. She won her
bet and universal admiration."—Ccurt Jouriwd.

The Rev. Dr. Littledale, who attacked the religious
reformers of the 16th century, has publicly leferred to the
late Viscount Palmerston as "that frivolous old heathen."
The pearl fishery grounds recently discovered at
We tern Australia extend along the coast for 1,000 miles.
Upwards of sixty tons of pearl oysters were fished up in De-
cember last, and sold for £lOO per ton.
The Mornivy P.es correspondent at Paris is of
opinion that the influence of the Church of Rome at the
French Court is by no means so large as is generally repre-
sented.
The magistrates of Exeter has had before them a
serious ease of stabbing. At midnight on Saturday two men
Si ere quarrelling in a dark passage. One of them was heard
to say that he would stab the first man who interfered.
Presently a man liaised tilanville, who had not heard the
threat, went inM the passage to ascertain the cause if the
row, when one of the disputants ferociously attacked him,
and stabbed Inin in the head, arms, and hands in so fearful
a manlier that his life is in danger. A man was arrested on
suspicion, but discharged by the magistrates fur want of
'efficient evidence.

—ot evidence.
A society- has been formed at Genera under the
title of the Cosmopolitan Protectorate League for Women
and Children.
During the thunderstorm on Friday, Christ Church,
Coalville, Leicestershire, was struck by lightning. The

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pinnacles wee much injured, the north destroye , many
slates were torn up, awl in two places near the toner the
roof of the church was ripped open, besides other daniage.
The incumbent providentially had opened the door of the
church hut a few moments previously. fearing 80150 disaster,
and thus, no doubt afforded retuly exit for most if the electric
fluid On entering the sacred edifice after the accident it
was full of sulphurous gas.
A master slater of Stafford, named Wade, was killed
at the I'rewe railway station on Monday. "I he deceased and
his wife had beim to Liverpool by excursion train, and were
returning home. Deceased had been drinking freely, and
when the train reached Crewe he per-fated in leaving the
carriage whilst it seas In motion. lie slipped from the step
and fell between the carriage and the platform, and received
such injuries as caused instant death.
"B
—My whole arrangements are centred in your
comfort and safety. My darling wife, moloulding faith is

our future liappineas can alone give us patience and hope.
For ever yours."—Ativertisement in London now,
The birth of the new Prince has given inimene•
satisfaction in Russia. A salvo of 131 guns announced the
event. There would have been but thirty-one rounds if
the child had been "only a girl."
The midnight meeting movement in London con-
tinues its important work by holding meetings in the most
frequented districts of the metropolis. Two have been held
recently, at both of which upwards of sixty poor girls were
present, and were kindly addressed. These meetings have
been productive of much good, in leading many to lease
their ttegraded CAlll.Be of life and seek the as.istance of the
institution. Many girls who have attended the meetings
apply eontinually at the office, and are placed in Homes, for
which payment is made by the society.
On Saturday Mr. Sharplea, the landlord of the
" Bull," erawsliaw Booth, near Rawtenstall, was driving the
curate of the village who in in delicate health out for an
airing, when the hos, took fright and ran away. After
going at a furious rate for a distance of some two miles, it
came in contact with a cart winch lay overturned by t e
roadside. Mr. Sharpies was thrown on his head on the cart,
and killed almost instauti. The clergyman escaped st ith

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I a severe shaking. iiile of the shafts fd the phaeton inn cots.
In most of the London Clubs, Derby lotteries are pletely through the horse, which fell dead.
omaniscd. We Pall Mall Ibelieee the Derby lottery at I
Observatory that, at the date of the. 2.1.1, Ve,ll‘ ie. bmluever
Protessor Palmieri, of Naiden, Sends w.;rd from bin
- white's " is the most velnanle each member who ins ribes '
his name pay iag :M. But at the Jockey Club in Part%
things are done in ft grander scale. Each ticket for the
, and was won by MIL de ceased for Dm e days throw mg out q aim t t lisp I
Derby lottery at the l'aris Jockey Club costs eAkt. The first
Ornix and St. Sauveur, who had taken a ticket between black sand, which has covered the country sad renclied to
prier 11111,Mlit,d this year to s: ; :foe, i Redna. The lava was mon, abundant toward. 1.1. e north-
, north-east. The detonations were loud and frequent.
them.
1 An under-agent named Hanrotty, on a property in
on Friiliiy at illa,gow, the illCilielliti of which are ...what demand rent from the tenants for Log land, fifteen armed
A shocking. case of attelluPttul murder took place ' the county of Monaghan, having induced the landlord to
curious. A man named Houston , who about six weeks ago men broke into bit houi.e the other Meld, and illfollDed 111111
attempted self-desti uctina rose about six o'clock, and
wife asleep. and cut her [bloat. The wound was not that if he did not refrain from further interference between
shi or( ly afterwards retlirned to the bed where hft e had I, Id 4 the tenants and the landlord tile m e coequ w
ences would lie
"yore Unpleasant" to him. A bailiff n the PreltertY Was
inKtantly fatal. and a neighbour hearing a cry of distress also threatened by the same party.
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found the poor woman sitting up in bed with the 1)1..1 The American (Negro) Colonisatii in Society - which
pouring from a wound in her throat into a Iniiiill, which her was formed IT Jobli Randolph, Richard Lee. Henry Clay,
husband, after w.iuntling her, coolly placed I efore her for the and Daniel Webster, in 1,17, at a hotel in 51 ashington—st ;II
purpose. Out being taken into custody the wretched man retains its activity. During the past twelve months it
expressed regret that he had not cut her head off. It is be- reports having sent out to Liberia 1,800 negroea. Rixty
lieved that his mind Is deranged. Mrs. Ilouston lies in the thousand dollars were expended for education, and MOO*
Infirmary in a dangerous condition. I dollars added to tne funds et the society.

The crowd standing outside Tattersalra on Monday
afeentoon, watched. each great bookmaker or turf-
patron alight from his cab or broug,hain and disappear
through the door of the Subscription-rooms with a
wistful and all2aotll, but, in the end, gratified air. Just
as after a severe battle the survivors congratulate each
other en being still alive, so, now that the stormy
Derby week Is over, its eambatants look round to
see who are, anal who are not, in the list of
killed and wounded. The assemblage round T.t.
tersall's was of the lower middle class of the turf.
Small liat•keepers, whose fate depended upon their
mire important brethren being true - minnows whose
very life hung on the tritons not being too severely
hit sit tithe' publicans, trade-sawn, and artisans,
together with an ex-pugilist air two, made up the
throng. A former cLampion stood with his back to
the all-important door, and gaily joked with a semi-
circle of admirers; a well-known east-end list-keeper
laid down the law to his disciples as to the hazards of
the settling ; and constant and hurried colloquies were
held between those going to the rooms and yard
anal those compelled to remain outside. lt is on
weord that the fortunate mortals who have won
their way into exclusive anal exalted society,
have occasionally had recreants in their ranks who
condemned the fashionable salt of the earth as dull.
Becky Sharpe, with a baronet for a brother-in-law
and an earl's daughter for a friend, felt the hollowness
of human grandeur, and thought she was happier with
the Bohemian artists in Soho ; and Thackeray himself
declared he had met people who, haying stood face to
face with the great and good George IV., said that, too,
was vanity. If the sporting outsiders at Knightsbridge
had any fanciful or high-flown estimate of the scene be-
yond the magic portals ; or if any readers imagine settling
day at Tatterealre to be anything but a staid, formal,
and business-like event they would have been
strangely surprised at the proceedings of yesterday. It
was a good settling. " Parting," as a spirting eorre•
spondent wittily writea, was a "sweet sorrow," indulged
in to the extent of more than half a million of money.
But neither elation ism regret, nor excitement nor ern".
tion, found visible sign. Well dreaded men began to
flock into the great room about three, and continued
to flock in so rapidly that by four the place was
crowded and impassable. With balance-sheet or
betting-book in hand, and pockets, and in some cams;
breasts, stuffed with gold and notes, the various
Members walked round the room satisfying and en-
forcing claims. The gait and bearing most in vogue
at Tattersall's savoura of the prowl. The head bent a
little forward, eyes roving from right to left, face at
once prealecupied and watchful, awl an entire atti-
tude expressive of anxiety to recognise debtors, are
perhaps natural characteristics when thousands are
being paid away without legal acknowledgment or
formal receipt. 'rwo men meet, nod, grunt out 'one-
forty-five," or other amount, and pay awl pocket
respectively withoet any memorandum passing save
A pencil tick on the slip of paper carried lay each.
These are the peripatetic settlers. But at each end of
the handsome lofty went stand circular desks round
which the men of larger transactions were paying and
receiving during the entire afternoon. A few if the
betting giants sat at lower tables near, with piles of
gold and fat bundles of bank notes before them, like
money changers ; and the rapidity with which these
were melted down, and the complete unanimity
between debtor and creditor were very remarkable.
• large and well-conducted bank, the Royal Exchange,
or other place where "merchants moist do congre-
gate," a morning conyersazione at which the hum of
talk is supplemented by the chink of gold—were all
brought to mindatTattersalre. Thesettling was grave,
orderly ; and to those not pecuniary interested a little
dull. Such scraps of talk as 'l.is,kingout for two men
one owing me alai and another Von. and should be
easier if I saw 'em ;" " only won £1,300 on the week,
all told ;" " I owe you aonie money or else yen owe me
some money, which is it?" were eonstantly floating in
the air ; but, "change me a hundred," or words to
a similar effect are a better sample if the general talk.
The Subscription room is luxuriously appointed.
Tesselated pavement; stuffed leather fixed seats run-
ning round the walls as at club smoking-rooms, and
nothing to impede locomotion save the few tables
we have instanced ; attained glass windows and de-
ca arations, the rich effect of which is chastened by good
taste, ma eup its interior. Lard George Bentinck is
reported to have said 'all men are equal OR the turf
and under it ;" and tit visit Tattersall's is to realise the
truthof the axiom. Members of both hollS12%; the highest
rank in the peerage, and some of the lowest rungs in the
social ladder ; comfortable, prosperous respectability
iv: 1 coarseness and irritability fined down by the
i arbing interest of the hour ; the educated and the
uneducated, the vulgar anal the refines' ; plebians who
loialseal like pante and peers who might he plebians ;
were all crowded together. and all transacting grave
business in a grave way. It was singular among the
mass of pea aide to whom betting is either a profession,
or the principal amusement in life, to note faces
familiar elsewhere, but who seem out of place at
Tattersall's. A civic functionary whose garb of office
is familiar at the ceremonials if the year; a sober pro-
fessional roan, whose face recalls consultations anal
heavy fees; a busy merchant whose name is "good"
for heavy amounts in the City', might lie seen in
rapid succession—betting-book fin hand—going through !
the ordinary forms of the place. The printed :
lists of the peen and other members whaa
elect to pay through agents, and of those
agents' names, were being consulted throughout the
settling ; but a cheerful resignation to and superiority
over the rubs of fortune were the marked features of
the day. " Thase who can't pay won't come,"
replied one gentleman philosophically to a friend's
congratulation en the highly satisfactory character of
the settling ; and his remark had cogency and force.
But the security and ease displayed by hundreds of
people drawn from all ranks ad sa witty, anal between
whom there is no tie but racing—a security, moreover,
extending to obligations resting on honour shine, were
AS significant's- suggestive as the ornate beauty of the
chamber in which their transactions took place. The
latter forcibly- suggests An architect with at taste for
dancing. It seems built for a la-room, and but that
it is guarded lay the sternest anal least impreasionable
of elderly janitors, its cool flooring, laity height,
spacious area, handsome proportions, awning-covered
yard, and special fitness, would suit set stir London
ladies on the 'jsi e‘re for a Tattersall's bail.

The file in curious ore. r.r parte Clancy, has been
before the Court of Queen's Bench
A watch had been stolen, and a recognisance had
been entered into by some one in the name of the
applicant, for the appearance of his wife as a witness
for the prosecution at the Quarter Sessions of Chester.
She did not appear, the recognisance was returned as
estreated by the clerk of the peace, and a warrant is-
sued, on which, in default of payment, tte applicant
was arrested and put into prison. He wanted to get
out, turd sued for a habeas corpus for his release. Be-
fore a recent act, the remedy was in the Court of
Exchequer, and a recent act (of the 2`2nd of Victoria)
altering the nosle of procedure, enalded the clerk of the
I peace to return the recognisances direct to the sheriff,
without previously going to the Exchequer. And
there is a general writ issued to take the bodies of all
persons wear names are on the recce,misances annexed.
There were affidavits with a view to show that the
man Was not to Name for tire non-appearance of his
wife, and further, that he never executed the recog-
nisance. Mr. Macintyre appeared for the applicant ;
Mr. Horatio Lloyd was on the other side. The Court,
after considerable diAeussion, said the old remedy was
recaurse to the Exehequer, and the only remedy now
was appeal to the quarter-sessions. The process was
intended to go against this man, and it was the process
which was said to be wrong. Then it was the process
which should be set right, and far that the applicant
must go to the court which " estreated " the rec.-qui-
sluice. Suppose an execution issued on a judgment or
warrant of attorney forged, the application must be to
get rid of the sea, rant of attorney or the indgment—the
writ could 10d be treated as wrong. Neither was the
wrong person taken. The right person was taken, for
he was the man named and intended in the writ or in
the recognisance referred to in the writ. The applicant
must go to the sessions, and they would do notice, for
there Was an appeal.—Application dismissed.