The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

When will the British innkeeper learn a little dis-
cretion in his charges ? "A Traveller" gives the foll,wing
extracts from his bill at an hotel at the head of Loch
Lomond :—A pint of sherry, as. 6d. ; a glass of toddy, Is ;
slice of lemon, Gd. ; soda and brandy, Is. 3d, ; eggs, ad.
each.

Two young ladies, Miss Eyre and Miss Whyte, have
been drowned in the river of the Mitcheistown demesne,
county Cork. They were bathing, and got out of their depth.
Miss Eyre, having first rescued her sister, was lost while en-
deavouring to reach Miss t% byte.

A Vermont paper says that during the recent hot
weather in that State there were eighty-three cases of sun-
stroke, twenty-nine of which were fatal. This number is
considered remarkable for Vermont. Among those who died
were two little girls, who were found dead in the field. In
some of the northern towns the thermometer ranged from
105 degrees to lob degrees, am! one instance is reported at
109 degrees.

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The practice of slowly bleeding calves to death in
order to whiten the flesh wan incidentally referred loon
Tuesday at Guildhall, in a prosecution instituted by the
Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. The presi-
ding magistrate denounced the custom as a most cruel one,
and recommended it to the notice of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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At the Leeds assizes, an action for libel has been
tried, brought by Mr. Graham, chief constable of Bradford,
against Mr. Myers, a leading manufacturer, who charged
the chief constable with ;being drunk on the occasion of a
lire which took place in Bradford. The jury I 'after two
hours' deliberation brought in a verdict for the plaintiff with
40s. damages. They added that the plaintiff, although
somewhat under the influence of liquor, was not drunk, and
quite competent to discharge his duties.

A project has been net on foot by a speculative
Milanese, who, after a long residence in Africa, has settled
down at Florence, to form a company. " limited." of course,
for the reclamation an I cultivatmn of the Desert of Sahara.
which, he ,serts, can easily be done by digging artesian

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wells in the sand
Two assize sermons, preached at Winchester by the
Rev. Mr Young, the lather of the celebrated author of
" sight Thoughts," have been presented to the public
library at Wineb" and an Abyssinian scroll ,4 prayer,
found in .7e : , has been presented to the Winchester
Museum.
The Liverpool coroner has held an inquest on the
body of a lad seven years old, whose parents occupy a
respectable position. In a cupboard in his bedroom the
father kept a bottle of brandy. The old got possession of
It, and drank so much that he was found insensible, and died

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shortly afterwards.
When is an author most likely to be sick of his own
writing I—When he's regularly in the eleing.—Puneh.
A statue to Joan of Are is to be inaucurated at
Melun on the 15th inst., in commemoration of the relief of that
town by the Maid of Orleans, when it was besieged by the

Eiiguslifl 1450.
Mr. Richard Pigott, proprietor of the Irishman
newspaper, was released from prison on Saturday, having
served half the period for which he was sentenced.
The Spectator thinks it has become possible for
Great Britain to have a middle-class niinistry--a cabinet in
which the majority of members holding substantive office
shall be men with no claim but their own ability and the
confidence of the nation.
A new levy has been ordered in the kingdom of
Poland. The recruits are to be si per 1,000 of the whole
population, which is hi per 1,000 more than the proportion
taken in Russia.
The Prince Royal of Belgium appears to be in a
critical state of health, and as no bulletins have been issued,
the lad'pendauce Beige calls for authentic information on
the subject.
The Mechanics' Maataine says it is to be hoped that
the Liverpool line of street tramways will be at work soon,
and prove so successful as to lead to the general introduction
of the system, and the improvement of omnibus accommoda-
tion, so urgently needed in London.
At the Wesleyan Conference, on Friday, the
statistics of the present state of the connection in this
country were published. It appears that the total number
of members is 3425330, being an increase upon last year of
5,310.
A massacre of French soldiers took place at Hach-
gia, in Cochin China, M June last. Twenty-live Men, for
an outpost, were surprised by a thousand Anamite
robbers, and all, with one exception, slain. The French
have avenged the massacre.
Dr. Richter reports the Russian cattle to be suffer-
ing from a very wide-spread disease of the spleen. This
disease is quite distinct from that known as the cattle
plague. Great numbers of horses have perished of it, and in
some instances it has attacked men with fatal effect.
A certain portion of the new members of the United
States Congress are called, in derision, "Carpet-baggers" a
terra signifying that they are men who emigrated from the
North to the South since the war for the purpose of obtaining
office, carrying all their personal effects with them in a
carpet bag.
At the stuntner Alcazar, in the Champs Elysees,
Paris, sacred to popular melodies and "big drinks," the
owners net £4OO as evening. Who would not like to be a
proprietor of such a tinging salmoi I
The Daily News rebukes Mr. Bright for absenting
himself from his duties at Westminster mid occupying
himself fishing in Ireland. The Daily News asks if he was
afraid that there would be no salmon left at the close of the
At Daylesford, Victoria, a Chinese, named Al.
Chang, was recently convicted of manslaughter and sentenced
to three months' imprisonment. Some amusement was
caused by the evidence of a Chinese witness, as interpreted
by Ah Mang. The witness said he was a relative of
deceased, and when asked to define what the nature of the
relationship was, answered, "from generation to genera-
tion." He also said the dead luau first began to be a relative
of his about 200 years ago.
The penny stamp on receipts, draughts, itc., pro-
duced, in the financial year 1067.6.5, no less than £500,964,
increase of £17,822 over the product of the preceding year.
The discount and allowances exceeded £24,000, and reduced
the net produce to A:562,547.
The commission appointed by the Italian Govern-
ment to inquire into the means of putting an end to the
traffic in Italian children exported by speculators from
various provinces of the kingdom, for the purpose of begging
abroad, has terminated its labours. The report will form the
basis of a bill to be laid before the Chtunber of Deputies
by the ministers, conformably to the desire expressed by that
assembly.
Mr. Spurgeon, the other day (says the Guardian),
was scolding certain of his followers who declined to inter-
fere in politics, on the ground that they were "not of this
world." Shin, he argued, was mere metaphor : "You
might as well, he said, "being sheep of the Lord, decline
to eat a mutton chop on the plea that it would be

Cannibalism.
Colliery explosions have, of late years especially,
been so rite is this country, that we have conic to look upon
them almost in the light of an English institution. We do
not, however, posers a monopoly of these disastrous events,
as unhappily our neighbours the Belgians have just learned
to their cost. The other day, a pit at Jemappes experienced
one of these terrible visitations, which was accompanied by
the instantaneous death of nearly fifty of the workmen, and
the serious injury of many others. Three hundred men were
employed in the pit at the time.
A widow named De Leuw, of Berne, in Switzer-
land, has just celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of
her birthday, The corporation gd tanners, to which her
husband had belonged, presented her on this occasion with
a silver fruit dish, with a commemorative inscription, and
the direction of the Botanical Garden sent her a magnificent
bouquet.
The Zonave Jacob, now liberated from military
service, has established himself at Passy, where crowds of
• lame, sick, and paralytic persons continue to besiege his
door. His niece sells photographs of him at if. each, which
seems to be principal source of Ins livelihood. No cure has
yet been mentioned as having been effected.
The Cork Reporter notices, under the heading of
"Strange and unprecedented importation," that 150 head of
horned cattle have returned to Cork from Bristol, being
altogether unsaleable in the English market," the scarcity
of fodder and green crops having depressed the value of
store cattle.
A wealthy German, residing in London, who is also
a great admirer of Millie. Schneider, invited the actress to a
private party a few days ago, and the lady, with a couple of
assistants, gave a scene or two from the" Grande Dnchesse,"
and sang some of her famous songs. For this little entertain-
ment the host requested her acceptance of a cheque for £5OO.
Not bad that, for a coupla of hours!
Parents neglecting their children are now liable to
six months' hopria ascent, and a husband not maintaining
his wife can tics be sent to prison by two justices. The
demand for a poor-rate may he made on the premises,
although the parties do not reside on the premises, Sr in the
parish.
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An anecdote is related in the Fiench papers of the
last words of the celebrated Bohemian Guichardel. On his
deathbed he continually cried out Abe! Abe! The sister of
mercy naturally thought he required "absolution." and went
to seek for a holy father, but it turned out that the require-
ment of the dying man waz absinthe.
The following inscription is to lie seen on the bottles
of a wine merchant living in the Boulevard des Fines du
Calvaire in Paris All purchasers of a bottle of wine are
entitled to receive a box of matches !" This is the newest
pursuit of customers under difficulties.
The Murphy rioters at Ashton have been taught by
Mr. Justice liannen, that although there is no Party Pro-
cessions Act for England, religious fanaticism may not with
impunity provoke breaches of the peace. At the Manchester
assizes oii Saturday, tle whole of the prisoners, with three
exceptions, were sentenced to four months' implisonment,
the three less culpable delinquents escaping with two
months

The inquest on the man killed by a recent boiler
explosion at Hanley elicited facts which showed that the
boiler had been repaired by incompetent persons, and that
the deceased, who was the fireman, was irossly ignorant of
the nature of the terrific natural forces with which he had
to do. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death but
it is greatly to be feared that many firemen, awl indeed
persons who call themselves engineers, know but little of
the nature of steam or the laws which govern its generation
and action.
The Pope went on the first of this month to the
Church of the Capuchins, on the Quirinal, in order to obtain
the celebrated indulgence Mars quotiex of St. Francis of
Assisi, called the indulgence of the "Fortiuncula."
It seems that the late colliery accident at Jemmapes,
In Belgium, was even more disastrous than at first announced.
The Organe de Mons now states that as many as fifty-four
dead bodies have been recovered. Fears of an explosion are
said to have been entertained among the men for some time,
and to have been one of the causes of a strike which recently
occurred.

Two eases of throwing a wife from a bed-room win-
dow, have been investigated in London. In the first the
woman was killed me the spot, and the husband is in custody
on a charge of wilful murder; in the second the injuries
have not proved fatal, and the prisoner has been sem for
trial to be indicted for an attempted murder.
On Tuesday a violent thunderstorm visited Not-
tingham and its neighbourhood, more rain having fallen
than for months previously. Wheat has been much wasted
throughout the Midland district, in consequence of its ex-
tremely dry state, which has caused the grain to fall to the
ground when the waggons have been loading.
The Court of Cassation at Paris h s just decided
that when the husband and wife cannot agree upon the
choice of a godmother for their child, the tribunals may
order that the selection made by the father shall be acted
on even in cases in which separation is mena et tl•oro shall
have been pronounced eV the inetance of the mother, and
that the latter, charged by the judgment of separation with
the custody of the child, may have proposed as female
sponsor her own mother, the only surviving grandparent of
the infant.
A party of tourists have juqt broken fresh gmund ill
a region hitherto unvisited by wandering Englishmen and
Alpine climb( rs. The Caucasian Alps are the scene of the
adventure, three gentlemen, named Freshfield, Moore, and
Tucker, having ascended the Kasbek Mountain, %Mete rises
to a height of 16,500 feet, considerably above the level of the
highest of the Swiss range, and beside which the Monarch"
of European mountains itself is dwarfed. The party
bivouacked on the night of the 12th of July at a spot 11,200
; feet above the sea level, started next morning at three, and
, attained the greatest summit at midday. They returned in
, safety by the northern slope the day after.
Soldiers of the provincial garrisons in France are in
, many places now assisting in getting in the harvest. Ac-
cording to the regulations, they must not receive less than
one franc per day with food: the farmers must also provide
them with working clothes, so that the uniform may not be
injured ; the travelling expenses are also at the charge of
the hirer. To obtain the assistance of soldiers, an applica-
tion, supported by the Prefect, has to be submitted to the
general commanding the district.
From a paragraph in the fourteenth annual report
of the Postmaster-General, it appears that the Duke of
Montrose has received many applications for a reduction of
the postage on local letters. Ile does not, however, view
favourably any proposition tendingto disturb that uniformity
of rate for distance, which is the principle of the existing
postal system. The lowering of the rate for carrying printed
matter by post in the United Kingdom his grace deems snore
worthy of consideration, and adds that lee leas already made
a change in this direction in the case of printed matter sent
abroad

The British Medical Journal says an epidemic of
scarlet fever is prevailing at Guildford, which was last year
the scene of an epidemic of typhoid fever. The present
epidemic, however, appears to be much more diffused, the
number of cases being estimated at 300, and the deaths 15;
whereas, in last year's epidemic, the cases were about 250 or
200, and the deaths were only Sort, It appears that Guild-
ford, notwithstanding last year's warning, is still in a very
had sanitary state. The river is described to be no better
than a sewer, and a curse, instead of a blessing, to the
dwellers on its banks. The water supply, which was so
defective, is again complained of, and the drainage is stated
to he disgraceful.
According to the overseers' lists, the number of
voters in the borough of Liverpool has been increased from
19,900 to 37,750. In the south-western division the old list
showed 10,000 voters. There are 0,500 new occupiers, and
about 5,000 claims. The new constituency will, therefore,
probably be over 20,000. In Birkenhead the register is only
Increased from 4,600 to about 5,000, as owing to stagnation of
trade the population of the borough has decreased much of
late. The lodgers will, of course, somewhat swell these
numbers.
At the Manchester assizes, on Monday, a claim NMI
made against the hundred of Salford by one of the Roman
Catholic priests at Ashton, for damage done to St Mary's
f'hurch end the priest's house during the late riots. The
Judge Mr. Justice Batmen ruled that, according to the
statute under which this action was brought the hundred
was not liable unless the rioters intended to pull the building
down entirely. If that was not their intention, it was
nothing more than doing mischief, as a boy might do by
throwing a stone. The jury upon this ruling, gave a word
for the defendants.

The Bishop of Oxford Is asked the archdeacons af
•ace e to take steps to request the general use through
:Mir dioceses of the "Prayer for Rain."
The estimated postage derived from the valentines
passing through London is as £9,345 in 1866 and £11,242 in
1,07. Valentines having postage charged upon them to do,
amount of nearly £2OO in each year were refused by the
persons to whom they were addressed.
A farmer, residing near Almondbury, has for some
time past been sadly afflicted wilts sickness to himself and
faintly. During the past twelve months he has lost two
grown-up sons from consumption. He himself is now laid on
a sick bed, and, being unable to reap his crop of wheat and
oats, his neighlsnirs, to the number of twenty-live, assembled
tile other day, and with a hearty good will cut the whole of
the crops, and prepared then. for loading, without changing
anything for their trouble.
Several patents have been recently taken out in
Australia for the preservation of Australian meat for ex-
portation, and various establishments of tins kind have corn.
mewed operations, and are reported to be rapidly extending
their business with the mother counti y and with Ilainburg
where meat is said to be nearly as dear as It is ha England.

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The cattle disease has just broken out with great
violence in the districts of Heyde Krug and Go(dap in
Prussia, on the Polish frontier. Some persons who had
eaten meat of animals infected hecanie seriously ill, and
have been sent to a lazzaretto for treatment.

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In the year 1007 the amount of the money orders
issued in the Trilled Kingdom for payment in the colonies
was £74,621, and issued in the colonies for payment in tie
United Kingdom, £490,227. The increase over the previent
year was £20,820 in the former case, and £51,951 in the
latter.
Colonel Wonky, who was imprisoned in the Capitol.
by order of General Butler, for refusing to answer the in-
terrogatories of the latter in reference to the Impeachment
investigation, ha-s sued Butler for false imprisonment and
for seizure of his private telegrams, laying damages at
10,000 doh. The suit is brought in Baltimore.
A Paris correspondent says :—"People are becoming
as anxious about the state of foreign relations as they were a
few mouths sgo, but it is difficult to discriminate hetwecu
what is true and what is false in the rumours floating
about."
By an act of Parliament just printed any member of
partnership guilty of converting to his own use the pro-
perty of the copartnership is to be liable to he tried as if he
was not a member of the partnership.
Mr. Howard Glover is getting up in America ths
monster concerts which brought him into notoriety in
Europe.
A correspondent suggests the simple expedient uf
ploughing ups few furrows in advance of the direction taken
by the flames. lie has seen the progress of many a fire on
hvath lanai thus brought infallibly to a stand, and with
probably less expense and trouble than attempting to beat it
out.
A shepherd named Bragg, fifty years of age, war,
engaged on Pitt-farm, near Barnstaple, on Friday, when he
was observed to fall suddenly on his face. the was picked
up dead. A surgeon said there was no doubt death was
caused by sunstroke.
Lady Leith, of Westhall, has deducted 10 per cent.
from the rent if grass parka let by her this season, in con-
sequence of the drought.
On Saturday in last week two more bodies were
recovered front the Oaks Colliery, both of which woe
identified. They were found in the vicinity of Jones's
" jinny," anal were recognised as Joseph Roebuck, aged 54,
and his son Matthew Roebuck, aged about Pr. The bodiea.
considering they had been in the place so tang, were i„
very good state of preservation. They both had trousers and
shoes on, and it is evident they were overtaken by the blast
whilst at work.
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On Friday last an old man named Short VMS engaged
near PetemMarland, Devonshire, in clearing furze, and had
set lire to some to hasten his work. The smoke ovet powered
him and rendered him senseless, and while in this state the
flames reached him and he was burnt to death ; all the clothes
were burnt olf the body.

Mies Lily Maxwell and 1.100 other women house-
holders in the township of Chorlton-upon Meillock have
sent in claims to be placed on the list of voters for the city
of Manchester.

At Marchington (Staffordshire) eleven ladies have
seat in claims to be placed on the list of voters for the
county.
A curious incident took place at the Sorbonne in
Paris the other day, where M. -Dung, with the Prince Im-
perial at his side, wao delivering prizes. on the son of
General Cavnignac being called to be crowned for a Greek
version, he refused to leave his place, and was loudly
applauded by his brother students.
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A correspondent of The TiMCB at Chamouni reporta
a fatal accident to a young lady named Stevens, at the Met
de Glace. The unfortunate young lady was with her friends,
and happening to touch soniething with her alpenetoea,
large stone became detached, and falling upon he hut
killed her instantly.
The Chateau Eafitte estate, which was put lOW
sale on the 20011 of Tune last at the upset price of Elh,
and bought in, was again offered at public sale in Paris on
the sth inst, at the reduced price of £120,000, and sold, after
spirited competition, for £165,600.
A few nights back, at an advanced hour, thirty-nine
young vagrants, varying from thirteen to twenty years of age,
were found by the police sleepiog under the trees in the
Place du Chatelet, Paris. Being without asylum, they were
placed at the disposal of the police.
There has been an immense deal of newspaper con
respottlence lately, in reference to the increase in fares by
the South-Eastern and Brighton Railway Companies ; and it
is proposed, as a last resource, to bring the directors to their
senses by a "strike." On Saturday, a handbill was exten-
sively circulated throughout the metropolis, commencing,
"Strike, railway travellers, strike ! against the attempt of
railway directors to tax us to pay for the follies, or worse
than follies, of themselves or their predecessors."
In the Straits Times of the 4th of July, which has
reached this country by the last mail front China, it is re-
ported that the British screw gunboat, A Igerine, has attacked
a fleet of Chinese merchant vessels with round shot and
grape, and slaughtered immense numbers of innocent persons
in mistake. The junks are said to have been sailing armed,
“Ild in company, to secure protection against the very pirate
cruisers for which the British gunboat mistook them.
A M. Maxime du Camp has made a calculation, in
which he says that in 1865 no less than 687,424,759 halfpenny
cigars were smoked in France.
At Hull, on Friday evening, a youth, named Eccles,
eighteen years of age, was bathing in the Victoria Dock
timber pond, and diving with his younger brother on his
hack, when he was seized with cramp, and called out for
help. The little lad on his back, seeing his brother's danger,
Partly released his hold, 1111 d caught hold of a deal plank,
but his brother sank before assistance could arrive.
Matrimony.—A gentleman (39), of unexception-
able character, who purposes immediately settling in
America, is wishful to meet with a lady, with or without
means, who also desires to settle there.—Addresa, in strictest
confidence, enclosing carte, and stating age, if spinster or
widow, ch (=stances, and fullest paniculare."—AdGrtise-
mod in Manchester paper.
One penny a glass was charged for water drawn by
the Abyssinian tube well shown at the Leicester Cattle
Show, and in this way upwards of .6.20 was added to the
funds of the Leicester Infirmary. Two agricultural
labourers who had purchased a pennyworth of the not very
pleasant pure water justified the outlay by the consideratiou
that they had really been drinking water drawn by the
identical tube before them from the springs in Abyssinia !
The Court of Appeal at Brussels has just pronounced
a judgment of considerable interest. It has decided that the
death of the husband during the progress of a trial again 4
his wife for adultery puts an end to the suit both as respects
the woman and her paramour, and that the public prosecutor
has nothing more to do in the matter. In France, the latest
opinion given by the Court of Caseation was that that the
public prosecutor had a right to continue the suit in tucks
Case.

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Authentic accounts have reached us from Queens.
land to the effect that the newly-discovered goldfields at
Gympie Creek, the Canning Downs, and several other places
are yielding abundantly. Many persons are said to
.be
making rapid fortunes, and thousands of persons are securing
high wages with the usual splendid chances which make
golddigging so exciting to the imagination. Some very nee
specimens of silver ore have also been found near Reek,
hampton, a populous town in Queensland, lying comdderahl/
north of the capital, Brisbane.
The newest thing in the last batch of American
papers is the statement of a plan invented by a Mr. Waylies,
of New Orleans, for propelling street cars by compressed air.
At a central station reservoirs are charged with the air, and
two of these are placed in thereof of each vehicle, containing
a supply sufficient for a journey of eight or nine miles. The
cars can be pulled up, we are told, more quickly than when
drawl) by horses. The New Orleans Picayune already con-
gratulates itself on the fact that the cab horses now employed
in the great American cities will soon be available for the use
of the farmers.
A telegram received in London states that the eat&
which Sir Charles Bright, Ml'., was engaged in laying
between Florida and Cuba has been lost, and that the
attempt to recover the cable of last year, which had broken,
was also unsuccessful, it is stated that the cable ran out
when some miles short of Cuba, The end was buoyed, but in
the course of the night it was carried away by the current,
and all attempts to find it have since failed. There was, se
are informed, no pilot on board.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good (remarks the
Pall Mall Gazette). Messrs. Cocks and Co., New Burlington-
street, London, advertise the following melody the price
of which they say is 35., but of which, oddly enough, they
offer to supply any quantity, post free, for nineteen postage
stamps per copy Our dear old Church of England, new
national song. Dedicated, by express permission, to the
Right lion. Benjamin Disraeli. Words by J. E Carpenter.
Music by J. L. Hatton."
The Islington Gazette (London) reports that at •
recent petty sessions at Islington, seventy-three persons 8( ere
fined for having in their possession false weights ad.
measures. The tines varied in amount from 55. to £3 55.,
and reached a total of £54 Its, exclusive of costa. Of the
, persons fined there were—licensed victuallers and beershop
' keepers, 30; grocers, 5; butchers, 4; confectioners, 4 ;
marine store dealers, 4: dairymen, 3; chandler's shop
keepers, 3 bakers, 3: tobacconists, 2; oilmen, 2; cheese.
mongers, 2 ; coal dealer, 1; plumber, I ; fishmonger, 1;
greengrocer, 1; and cat's meat dealer, I.
On Sunday a young woman named Elizabeth Meade,
sevepteen years of age, went into a neighbour's house at
Appledore, Devon, and while stooping to give a child some
toys her dress came in contact with, the tire, said she ass
soon envelope lin flames. She ran screaming out of the
house, and a pan of water was throw it over her, but the
poor girl, whose body ivas frightfully burnt, only lived a few
hours.
Harriett Figg, the wife of a "gardener employed at
Patcham, a few days since fastened a cord to the tOp of a
bedpost, then put her bead through the noose, while kneeling
on the bed ; and while in that poaition opened a large vein
In her arm with a razor. Having done so, she shut the razor
up, laid it on the ledge, and becoming weak from loss of
blood, fainted, fell forward, and was strangled by the cord.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived on
Monday at Middlesborough, hen lie was received by the
Archbishop of York, the mayor and corporation, anti by a
vast concourse of people, who enthusiastically greeted their
Royal visitor. The object of the Prince's visit was to preside
at the festivities consequent upon the opening of the Albert
Park, which has been so generously presented to the loupi-
cipality by Mr. Bolekow, a local benefactor. His Royal
Highness was the guest of that gentleman during his stay in.
that great centre of the iron trade.
Marie Fleutot, the servant, whom our read,,en will
perhaps remember was sentenced to penal servittuie for life,
for murder and arson at Varenne Saint, Maur, has a little
girl, two years old, to whom, ft is said, netwOlistamiiin all
her crimes and vices, she was a very an,A mother. When
eondenined to perpetual imprisonment she expressed to her
advocate the greatest anxiety about the future of this child;
anti, he, wonderful to relate, has got the infant adopted by
the chairmaker's wife, Matinee Emingard, who came to
Paris on purpose to steal a child under circumstances
which our readers will also doubtless recollect, and who wail
indulgently acquittedby a Seine jury on July 7.
Mr. Haussman, the now famous Prefect of the Seine,
whose proceedings in connection with street improvemeets
in l'aris have added a new yob to the French language, has
teen within a hair': breadth of being the victim "of atl
assaesin. A worgman called at the Hotel tie ;111e, and
asking to see the Prefect, on lion inlomed that M.
liaussman had guile to his comitry seat at 'Boulogne, Inc at
once started thither. teliepicioli Ilitvlng, however, been
excited by his depinsuour, he was followed in time, and
arrested at the shateau with a dagger in his hand, lie con-
feseed Hier It was his intention to stab the Prefect, but
I ref sued to state his reasons, and it is charitably supposed the
mania mad.
There were (says the Northern Whig) some circuit,.
stances in connection with Lord Downshlre's death s,liicla
are worth noting. Ile died on his 56th birthday, having
been born on the 6th of August, 1812, and died on the 6th
day of August, lota. His father, the third marquis, was also
56 when lie died. Ills grandfather, the second marquis,
died at 52. On Thursday morning last, the joy -bells of
Hillsborough were rung in the morning to celebrate his
birthday, and In the evening the sante bells tolled to an-
nounce Ida death.—lt is now stated that the cause of the
death of the Marquis was heart disease, and not diarrhoea, as
at first announced.

LORD NAPIER ON HIS POLICY IN
ABYSSINIA.

On Saturday afternoon, Lord Napier of Magdala, in
accordance with an engagement of long standing, paid
a visit to Welshpool, where he met with a most enthu-
siastic reception. His lordship arrived in the town at
three o'clock. and proceeded, in company with the
Earl of Powis to the noble earl's residence near
Welshpool.
At six o'clock a banquet was held in a tent erected
behind the "Royal Oak Hotel," to which about 200
guests sat down. The chair was occupied by the
Mayor, Mr. 'l'. D. Harrison, who had on his right and
left Lord Napier, the Earl of Pawls, Captain Scott,
Mr. Tracy. M.P., Captain Crewe Read, KR.,
General Scott, General the Hon. Furey Herbert,
M.P., Mr. R. Jasper More, ALB., Captain Wingfield,
Commodore Jenkins, C. 8., and Captain R. D.
Harrison.

The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been dis-
posed of, the Chairman proposed the toast of the
evening—" The Health of Lord Napier "—which was
received with loud cheers, _ . .

The toad was drank standing, and enthusiastic
cheers were renewed on Lord Napier'a rig to
respond.
His lordship said he thanked them very sincerely
for the kind way in which they had received the
toast so flatteringly proposed by the chairman. The
object he had in view was to release the British
subjects, and the manner in which he intended to effect
that object he communicated to no one except hie
military and political secretaries. His purpose was to
receive no proposals for parley from Theodore, to meet
all communications from him with a simple demand for
the possession of the prisoners, and to advance upon
lons whether he released the prisoners or not. He de-
termined to have no communication with the king, but
to take the prisoners and then advance upon him and
take himself, for he considered that the honour of
England required that the cruel man should be forced
from his place. (Cheers.) No one was authorised by
him (the noble speaker) to depart from that resolution
in the slightest degree. They had read the history
of the war, and knew how the army advanced and
stormed Magdala. The result of that advance was
the complete demoralisation of Theodore's army.
Theodore's own courage failed him. He believed that
the king's nerves were so shattered by debauchery and
drink that there were periods when he was depressed
by paroxysms of despair, and others when he was elated
by paroxysms of excitement. In one of his paroxysms
of despair he arrived at the conclusion that his soldiers
could net withstand the British army. So he sent
hack all the prisoners for whom he (Lord Napier) was
responsible. It had been said in some quarters that
Theodore had been deceived, and he was very glad to
have that public opportunity of saying that no one
as ever authorised by him to deceive Theodore, or to
lead him to believe he would accept one jot less than
he had demanded. (Cheers.) The first person Theo-
dore sent to hint was Lieutenant Prideaux. Theodore
and, "Yesterday I thought myself the stong,est man
in the world. To-day I know there is a stronger than
I. I want peace." He sent back word to the king,
saying, "Surrender to the Queen of England. Return
all the prisoners, and you and your family shall be
honourably treated." His object was to give the king
no grounds for expecting less than he had always
demanded. Lieut. Pritleax returned to Theodore with
the letter containing the message. The perusal of it
made Theodore excessively angry, and he sent it back
with one of his men. Upon receiving this he felt the
full difficulty of the situation, but he also felt that the
honour of England must be considered before all
(cheers)— and he sent Lieutenant Prideaux back again
to say that no terms would be accepted but those first
demanded. On his way Lieutenant Prideaux met the
greater number of the prisoners, who during hi
absence had been released. He returned with them,
and during the night all the prisoners for whom
his lordship was officially responsible were in his
camp. Now, he thought it might be accepted as a
mathematical fact that he sent Lieutenant Prideaux
back to almost certain death, and he must say, to the
credit of the young man, that he behaved most
gallantly, and, though he felt his fate to be imminent,
he did not by a word demur to the sentence pronounced.
If he sent Lieutenant Prideaux back to suffer death
at the hands of the tyrant, because of the uncompro-
mising message that he bore, was it likely that he would
parley with Theodore when he had obtained the object
which he had ,tone to Abyssinia to effect? (" No, no,"
and cheers.) Ile thought the question answered itself.
(Cheers.) Whatever Theodore might have conceived in
his own mind, he (the noble speaker) thought a British
general could not, in the situation in which he was
placed, authorise any departure from the original terms
put forth. After the descent upon Magdala, and
during the time that Theodore's army took to surrender
their weapons, there was an interval of three hours. If
during any part of these three hours Theodore had hung
out the simplest bit of rag as a token of his sub-
mission, he would have been recomm(ffided to mercy.
But his (the noble speaker's) belief was that Theodore
never could believe that the conquerors would show
mercy, for he had never shown it himself. When the
Abyssinian soldiers found that upon their surrender
they were not to be slaughtered they could hardly
believe it to be true, and exclaimed, "This must be
the government of angels!" Theodore could not believe
in mercy after conquest, so he died by his own hand.
Something had been said about the sufferings of the
people who had left Magdala. The fortress was not an
.Abyssinian fortress; it had belonged originally to the
Mahommedan Gallas, and had it been left in their hands
it wpuld have been a weapon of defence against
Christian Abyssinia. He offered it to the only chief
whom he thought capable of holding it, and that chief
said he could not hold it. Therefore, he did all he
could to render it harmless—he destroyed the fortress,
and blew up the guns. (Cheers.) There were about
30,000 persons of all classes in the place, whom the
people of the country had no reason to love, and many
reason to hate, and they would have had no safety in
Magdala. In order to protect them in their exodus he
pieced guards upon all sides of the valley through
which they had to pass. They were permitted to take
all that belonged to them; and he was afraid they
were not particular on this point, but took a great deal
that did not belong to them. (Laughter). In fact,
everything was done for them that could be done under
the circumstances. It was possible that some might
have suffered from robbers along the route; but as far
as he could see there was no great suffering amongst
them, and he believed they were very glad to get out
of Theodore's hands. Amongst the crowd was an old
woman afflicted with leprosy, who could not get down
the hill, and a soldier of the 33rd, perceiving her con-
dition, lifted her on his shoulders, and carried her down
the lull. (Loud cheers.) He (the noble lord) had himself
noticed an old woman in this way, forsaken by her
friends, and on drawing the attention of an Indian
soldier to her, he took care of her, put her on a mule,
and brought her into the British camp. When any I
fell sick and had to be left behind, they were put in
the churches, under care of the priests, and everything
that possibly could be done to alleviate their sufferings
,es done, for it had been his desire that in that !
Ararge country the British army should maintain the !
chara-Cter of Christian soldiers. (Cheers.) With regard
to the queen of Theodore, it had been mentioned in a
recent publication that she had been insulted by the
soldiers. He could only say that, immediately after
the storming party entered Magdala, the queen was
brought to him, and he gave her into the charge of
Mr. Rassam, who took her to his own tent; and if
any insult WA offered to her, he (the noble speaker)
did not know of it, and he did not believe it. (Cheers.
From first to last every respectful attention was paid
to the queen. His own surgeon visited her three or
four times a day. She was supplied with clothes, and
all other necessaries. His own servants attended
upon her to the last, and she was followed to the grave
with all the honours that military men could confer.
(Cheers.)
" The County Members," "The Chairman," and ,
other toasts followed, and the meeting separated at a
late hour.