The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JAN. 4, 1868.

engines are now sent in advance of some of the
foreign mail trains in remetittenea of inforniAtion that Mis-
t:Met has been threatened by toe reOlt..

Leprosy ha.-, made it appearance among the Chinese
at snms of the Australian got.' thggings.

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" Conversion in high life" 1.8. the title of an article
iwthe KilkeringJovrite, in which it Ls stated that wthin
the last I. w weeks the Countess rt Tortarlifnt ,n, Lord
Louth. and Lord Granard have etulmiced the C 4tholic fait
f' The !rah aristocracy," in.ys the writer. "are beginning to
blow the lead of the r brethren in England."

The Army awl Nor!, Vazeite *liars that ruerniting
fei good as to enswe a sops ly or y oullg mea to AU the
ranks in on way inferior to any recent levina. •
The debt of In Ha is now estimated at a hundred
millions sterling, or less than two )earl Mounsa. The in-
terest igurl Is 41 per cent.

One 44 thel;test Paris fashions is a "Ladies Nose
Protector —a case Used with fur, to be liaised Co the nasal
appendage.
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Four soldiers fonght a duel at I lorence on the 23rd
of December in the Vin San Vita, outside the Porta an
Predtano. When the municipal guard amved one of the
combatants was dead, with two sword-tliiiWs through the
heint. He was a young man, of 21, named Eeeea. The
others were arrested.

A communic tion from Naples states that the coral
merchants of Torre in Greco, Will'', when the eruption of
M-,IIIIL Vesuvius cammeceed, had removed the greater
portion of their nierehandise, have now begun to Iring it
back, all danger beiog consul, red at an cud.

At Ityde, on Christmas eve, a lady with a dim
went two to the pier to catch the steamboat. lo the dark-
sew she fell over into the water. The crew of the steamer
rescued the lady, but the child was drowsed.

At Bideford, George Nation, thirteen years of age,
was out with some other little bov s shooting lords, and while
pushing a stick dow n the barrel of the gun, a charge of
powder being in it and a cap on the nipp!e, it went off, the
stick passing into his grin RIM coming at nt his shoulder.
He died iti two days alter. An iIIIILICSt was held on Saturday
night, when a verdict of Accidental Death was recorded
Several Id the jury, 1.1111 also the caroler, observed that little
boys such as the deceased ought not to he allowed to carry
guns, which Ins common practice at Bideford.
The Liverpool Gas Company hare announced their
Intention of raising he price of gas from 3. 3.1. to :is 7d.
per 1000 feet, owing, as they state, "to the increased price
of cannel coal."

In the environs of Rosenberg, Bohemia, a large betl
of garnets luta been dlsco.vrol. 'rho precious stonesare of
considerable size, of several shades in colour, and of great
Value.

At inteargh, the driver and stoker of a mixed
train on the North British Railway have been sentenced to
sixty iniprisonmetit each. for having stopped the train
whilst they broached a cask of whisky.

The Secretary of State has offered a reward of 50/.
for the apprehension of Dennis Wirt.- y, who killeil his ails
m
at Liverpool leceotly ot ed to es ,iping the police.
On Monday afternoon their Royal Ilighnesseti the
Prince and Princess of Wales commenced theirannual skit
to the Earl and Countess of Leicester at lfolkham.halL
NoiL4k.

..;i'he Dean of Winchester took part in the service at
Winchester C3thedral on Christmas-day. The dean is ninety-
two years of age.

A-good story i told of the vigilance of the sentries
at °morn, two periolls wars chslinngeil by a sentry, and,
being unable to give the countersign, were marched off to
the auarolniuse. this of them was on a visit to the Queen,
and theother her Majesty's gamekeeper !

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The Irixhinan states that thasseg for the repose of
the souls of the three brave Irialinien who were ex,cuted"
have been celebrated in nearly twenty Roman Catholic
churches in Dublin.

A paper in Camlt's Magazine indicates a stramze
analogy between the age of men and the age of ships. Many
peritsh almost at their birth—during the last eight years no
less than 1,135 newly built ships having heen wrecked in
their first voyages, whilst others, bearing as it were • charmed
life, siiiNine to ninety or a hundred years—there bring our
on Lloyd". ISt that are more than one hundred 3 ears old.

A large boiler at the Wellington Corn Mill, New
Wortley. Leeds, exploded on Morley morning, doing much
dannige to Ihe premises, and scalding the two men in charge
of the engine. Thii took place at six o'clock in the noir g,
when, there were not ninny persons in the neighbourhood,
or greater mascluef might 118,, been done. The two engine-
mil, are g log on favourably. The boiler was made a ',water
eta cent. y aro. but had been recently repaired. Theme-
tenet damage done is estimated at .E. 501.1.

The Manchartfr Examiner says that another Man-
chester lady haa recorded her vote, but this time exercising
municipal, end .P.t a parliamentary right. During the
polling for • candidate to supply the vacancy hi the Oxford
ward of that city, Miss Jessie Goodwin presented herself,
and, her name being muml on the roll of the citizens of Man-
chester, her vote was received.

The Home Secretary, the Lord Chancellor, and the
Commissioners of Police are constantly receiving extra-
ordinary communications from persons labouring under
cerebral diseases. 3 hese "mat letters," as they me called,
are an well known that their •. awful disclosures" only pro-
voke a angle, and they wnm find their way into the fire.
Sometimes, however, a grain of metal information may be
sifted from a bushel of chaff, and in some cases mischief has
been prevented.

A -Madrid letter has the subjoined :--" The col 4
has been so severe at Madrid for the last few days, that a
soldier on guard at the palace was found frosen to death at
the moment when he was &boll to he relieved. Several
other soldiers have already lost their lives in this way, and
the public is astonished hit sentinels are still placed at
points under the walls at the royal residence, where the
Icy wind 44 the Guadarraina is sufficient to kill the most
robust men."

The value of our exports of the produce and manu-
factures ,1 the United Kit giota for the first eleven months
of the past year was Xttii 931,378—showing a reduction
of only 31., per cent, from the total of the corre,ponding
period of lean, which was the largrEt ever al:ahead. Com-
pared with the corresponding eleven months of 18115 an
Increase is exhibited of ll per cent.
The Saturday Review points out that there is a
thtneter lathe language which men hire Mr. Gladat, ine met
. . . .

Mr.' Bright use -;l,cut Ireland. It is dancerons that the
Irish should I. almost justified in their disaffection. made to
think their case quite exceptional, vnd o toll that they
can never be made happy and prosper cis, and never have
simple justice done them, indent nniething new, startling,
and unheard-of is devised for their benefit.

A case of sudden death occurred at Worcester, on
Sunday last, under very melancholy eirctunstacces. Mr.
Brookes, Weller and undertaker, attended morning earette
at the cathedral, inci during the service expire 4 in an
apotilret•c tit. Mr. Bri.okes's death oc.!urring so suddenly,
awl whilst Inc was taking part in divine worship, urea:Led a
very sad feeling throingliout the city.

A Limier num,il Somers, living at Low Down,
situate about four miles from Leamimeton, was found dead
on the reel hetween his reddeboe and Warwiek at halt-past
ten o'clock on Saturday bight. The deceased was returntOg
front Warwick market, and it is sormued that in the dark-
ness he drove into a hollow adjoining the road, ad that
capsized hia trap, ender widen he was found iying quite
dead by it. of Lord Warwick's gamekeepers about two
hours after the accident is supposed to have ocenrre‘L

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An inquest ha% been held at Doncaster on the
hody of Winona Nettleton, aged ten years, the son of Mr.
William Nettleton, brewer. The deceased, it appeared, hod
been in the habit of making himself useful alumn the lirewcry,
and on Saturday was drawling a can full of liquor from a
vat, when he fell into the scalding liquid, lie wan imme-
diately got out, but he died the mine evening fr the in-
juries he had received. The jury returned a verdict that
the deceased was mortally scalded by falling into a brewing
vat, and at the same time recommended the proprietors WI
the brewery not to employ children in such work.

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Letters from Rome inform us teat strong fortifications
are being ralsed on the right hank of the Tiber, while the
defences on the left bank are being reduced, ani thin leads
Imo persons to anticipate a recurrence to the design of the
first Napoleon, who proposed ti leave the Popes only the
Leonine side of the city. Nevertheless, the windows of the
Vatican are being defended by iron bars. and the Pope coo-
theses to increase his army, nearly 2,000 volunteers having
arrived from France f. r the Roman Legion.

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Early on Friday morning the bmly, yet warm, of a
servant girl, named Mary Bagley, twenty.two years of age,
was found head downwards we igod in between some baulks
of timber, near the Round Oak Station, lirierley-hiP, Staf-
fordshire. On the previous evening deceased obtained
leave of absence to go anti ore her sweetheart, and it ap-
p-aced that in returning, behind her time she attempted
to mako a short eut by clunbing over a parapet, fromsshjoh
she jell headlong amongst the timbels.

On Friday, in accordance with a recommendation of
the Gateshead magistrates, a quantity of nitro-glycerine,
reported limn Usiscrth Colliery, was I lestroyed. The
liquor, which was contained in a wicker-voreted canister,
was conve)ed to a field by order of Mr. Coxon, the colliery
viewer, and • lighted patent fuse was placed in the bung.
The spot chosen was away from any human habitation.
When the compound firul, a lieht blue smoke was watt. d
Into the air, followed by a report like the roar of artillery.
The ground whore the explosion took place was torn and
ragged for many yards around, while the top of an adjoining
hedge was neatly clipped.

The other morning a soldier of the Rifle brigade,
recently returned from India, and en his way from Fab
month to London by the night express on the Great Western
Railway. Jumped from the t•ain as it was pausing the
Slough stet . The soldier was shortly afterwards found
hy the porters lying on the line It was obset red that he
had been drinking freely, but on being examined liy a sur-
geon of Slough, he was found to have sustained no injury
beyond a wound of the heel, and he was enabled to proceed
to his tbstination by a train later in the day.

The Bourbonist organ at Naples, 11 Medi(errand),
publishes a cations article advocating the choice of Naples
—•. toe jewel of the Italian crown "--311 the capital of Italy.
It maintains that "the superiority of Naples, with its hlue
sky, its turning Vesuvius, its lively and intelligent popula-
tion, over any other town In the peninsula and Sicily, must
he acknowledged by all." At the same time the Meliterraneo
considers that Naples should have the priority over Rome
"These two towns," it says, 'are two listen: 'tome lithe
historical city, Naples that in which existence is most
pleasant"

An easy and safe method of making money in trade
appears to be offered by the use ofllit weights, scales,
and measures. During the past year 740 South London
shopkeepers have Iwor, convicted of that offence—and have
had to pay in fines £1,070 Itt lil , or rather loss than £1 9n.
per conviction. The general prevalence of the practice and
the Intl:duets of the floes I opened make the epeculation a
good one—especially as :n many districts there is no miner.
v•st bri of any kind exeretee I over the retail dealer., and us in
all dist, icts the supervision exercise,l Is superficial and per-
functory. _ -

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Edmund Pres% a youth, has been charthrl at Man.
cluster with shooting at and wounding a bey named George
Agnew. It appeared that, on Saturday morning them was
pantile ny o ain ny lbe prisoner, who was shooting at
mins with a pistol, tired, the small shot with Which the pitted
wai heeled 10 :giro; inn t i.e',ors I,•e and in the sloe of the pony.
Mr. Mellor, to whom the by bet noted, stated that a namlier
or pellets had been taken out of the In 're leg and the poov's
side, hot neither appeared to he much the worse, ni.d.he
hoped the bench would deal leniently srith the prisoner.
The nagistrates c ique I Prost and gave effect to Mr.
Mellor's wish by fining him 10s. and costs only, with the
alternative of a mouth's imprisonment.

During the recent reetoration of a church in Brigh-
ton, oeolpied by the advanced I:Pm:theta, one of the work-
men emplo) ell, as •en.ling the todpit, ex,lairnewl, "1 pn:dieh
the hands of matrmony between thn Church and the
chureh of fr dne. .• And I." rant another urti.an, turning
towards the fleet pc her. Eel bbl the henna" On that
gruun,e?" Inured he of the pulpit. 'Cos the parties is
tone tr akin,'we the reply.
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The Agricultural Gang Act, which came into opera-
tion on Wiedneadey, prohibit. the emplo)ment of chil-
dren under eight year, of age in agricultural labour, Clef
also enforces a separation of the 6Pllfli In fiti I work. Gang
master, mid gang niistressis are to be licensed, application.
for !teem*. at la each being granted at the discretion lit two
justices of the peace, with right to appeal to the Quarter
Sessions in case of the refusal ot applications Penalties
ale prescribed in case of nowoompliance with the Act.
The Paris journals state that the utmred activity
prrvail, at the present moment in the French dockyai di,
where there are no less then thirty.nine vessels in eoin.e of
conatru,,pon, including four iirmour-plated Ifgwes. the
same i.umber of corvette. and of guard-Aim, Litewise
annoUr.plated and a formidable amour-plated floating
battery. Pesides the fote.going there are a screw frigate.
six screw-corvetles and a screw•transp,r, none of hidt are
mm or plated. The actual seagoing force of the French
navy iow amounts to Si. steamships and 116 Paling vennl..
which, with the thirty-nine in course of construction, gives
a total of 604 ships of war.
Father llallhae informed the editor of the Warrinntnn
Guardian that he intends to claim thWresraril of La. 1,.r
the discovery of the person who removed the plug at the
gasworks, and, that he has already lett in the hand. of •
respectable and well known solicitor the name (tithe mln he
will bring up before the m cgintrates. The man, he says is
not an Irishman, most assuredly mot a Catholic Mather
Hall, with& few days to prepare hia evidence, is confident he
;tax:a that a hoax has he..,perpetrated by the person in

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Mr. Thomas Carl hat been made a justice of the
pea,:e for the county ,4 loomfriee _ . .

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The on flit in Paris is that Lord Lyons is to tw mar.
ried to. French Marchioness, the widow a a well-known
diplomatist

Stephens, the Fenian, is Otfll in Paris, and the fact
Is well known. Ile does Hot at'empt to conceal his residence,
oh cli is a small Miming in tile Boulevard St Michel; two
En.bah pel;ce agents are In l'aris for the apt cal purpose of
watching his movements. They do not lose sight of him
day or night; and this surveillance has now existed for
some time past.
Miss Louhia Starr, the young lady who obtained the
gold medal of the Royal Academy and a scholarship of 1:10
• 'ear, Is the daughter of an American gentleman. She is
the first lily student who ever obtained kuch a distinction.
Every English lover of art will wish her a fair and prow
porous art career, and doubtless we may say, paradoxically,
she will become what she is—a star.

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Loral Lyttelton has gaited for Canterbury, New
ZeaMtid. whet° his lordship is a considerable landholder.
The principal) part of the settlement bears his 831118.

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On Monday an inqueet wee held at Halifax touch.
hg the dkath of a military pensioner. canted Richard
Chrdley, who had been burnt to death. Deceased lived at
ovenden, in a cottage by himself. On Friday morning he
Co. lighting his pipe in bed alien his shirt caught lire, and
the flames extended to his bed. Ina upper portion of his
body was fearndly charred by the nAM., and his hewn.'
nearly burnt et A verdict of Accidental Death waa re-
turned.

In a letter written by Sir George denkinson in re-
ference to farming ..ustonts and COA Cr.ll.lt 6, and !stitch wu
alluded to ate nieetiug of the Gl...ester Chandler .4 Agri-
Lulture, the Nal laronet incidentally mentioned the tact
that he had tin mos at flawkestury whose familli..s had
occupied the same farms for more than titre-, hundred
The Wedgy RegiAlcr, looking round on the flautish-
Ins condinon I f the lti,mau Ca IP die Church In this country,
reminds at that not quite a century has tuissed.since • priest
of that 0, .01111111114.11 was tried at the Old Bailey for the
capital offence of saying mass.
Most of the daily papers contained a miitquotation
in their repot.; of Mr. Bright's tpeech at Rochdale last week.
The hues were quoted thus—

.• SO when dogs meet, re-echoing through the street,.
Roth sympatnetic dogs from their retreat." .
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The first line silould read:-

"So when !Dog's meat' re-echoing throwth the tee."
Mr. Bright Is very part ieular ab tut his po4try, and Ills too
hal to mutilate a smite thus. •
The following treunendoUs bull wise utterekby tint
prisoner Desmond at the ix:A/M.6w at Dow-street ItNi.me-
court in Lotolon last week--I stasonly at'the prOlie.hotise
once, anti that waste a ratite for the benefit of spoor widow
whose husband was on strife" It passed In the court with
out ob. ermtion.

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Voir vtained glass windows intended for Glasgow
Cathedral have gmee to the 134.ttoni t,f the ses in the Vienne,
on the passage from Umlaut to Leith.
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The total number of private hills 'deposited in the
Private Bill °Mee of the House of Commons for the present
'session is 227, being 00 less than last session:

Mr. Woods, the governor of Cardiff pail.,lit re-
signed. Ile is rfgaty-six years of age, and has beta
governor forty years.
.An epidemic of typhoid fever has suddenly broken
out in the village of Terbug, F.seex. Whole families are
attacked with the dhease, which is of great seem+ y. (Jr.
Thorne has been sent down by the Privy. Council. It is
said that the main cause of the outbreak is contamination
of the drinking water.
A veterinary tiirgcon named Clark. Nebo* has been
puzzllng the plielie for some time past by mlvertising for IS
an article which he calls "Clark's kloplemaromi," flu now
come out with " Clark's .Neurasttiepipponskelestera.i."
Tile Duke of Beaufort bears witness that the latter medioine
Is very good for strains, and a livery stable keeper at Chet.
teuham writes to Mr Clark, sling, Please send me
another gallon of that crack-jaw leg-lotion of yours."

At Ghent recently a woman td, and, contrary to
expectation, left no property. tier son. Van Rytt=elneralie,
a violent man, rot it into his head that his relatives had
robbed him. Ile armed himself, and in SUMCSSI”II shot I.mr
of his rela'ives, none of whom are expected to recover.
was Cl letgui tecured, and handed over to the police.

The houses 1.1 the Cabinet Ministers in London, are
watched day anti night by detectives.

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A ballot, resulting from an amendment proposed at
the recent meeting of the Crystal Palace Company, on the
question of ogramonally issuing free ticket. to 11011 share-
holders on Sunday., was taken on Tuesday. The re•ult is
that by a majority 01 31 voters and ls 231 votes, the company
has decided not tot sue such admissions.

The walrus in the Zoological nardens, the last
pet of London sight-seers, riled suddenly on Thursday, the
ult. Ile was observed to he slinply ailing during the
Tuesday and Wednesday preceding his very sudden and un-
expected death on Thursday.

The Saturday Rai( ?e continuea to argue that the art
of governmg has heap lost to us, and that the duty of govern-
ing has fallen into contempt.

-On Friday morning the body of Mr. Trevis, a man
long resident in Sladeley, and verging on eighty year+ ri
age, was found in a dreadfully mutilated state at the bot-
tom of a coal plt It was not known at what time ill this
morning the drec.e4l left hotne. His purse and handker-
chief were found it. the house, and Ins walking stick near to
the pit's mouth.

The lawyers, who are generally supposed to be able
to t rotect themselves toleranly well, hose at last quailed he-
fore the lintub butcher. To resist his unrighteous demands
they have formed themselves into a league. called l'he
Legal Co-operative Supply Association (Limited)," with •
capital of £5.000, to be divided into one thousand shares of
£5 each. It is to be commenced forthwith in London.
A. co-operative store in Newcastle luta been destroyed
by tire, which is believed to have been caused to the act of
an incendiary. Damage was done to the extent of £2,000.
The eland, bred, fatted, RIO exhibited by Lon! Hill
at the Islmeton cattle show, -was not cold. It- weighed.
1,7641 b. : urn had lie.; fed on oats, corn, hay, and linseed
cake. Althou.ili eland venison is add to he eseellent„
hotelier, were shy at speeuLding iii strange Meat, atili .C. 20 .
was the 1-eghest pece bid (sr it, the very moderato reserve
price heing £5O. We toitiim thlt a pair of elands,edvertised
fir sale by the Zoological Society j• 114 s week'* AM.
priced, young and lean, at Vat Lord Lillis beast was Mx
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and a half yea., old.

Oa dit that Napoleon and Eugenie were taking' a
walk in the Champs Elysees the other day, when as Italian
who c meld sight of their Ilajeaties, commenced shouting
° Viva Vitale." • A. pollemnan arr,•sted the •eniitrushistie
owl was shout to take him "If to the C a.
ear)'s, when the Eiuktror interfered, and ordered hrobto he .
set at liberty.
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Another blow to the independence of the Rittuan
Catholic Church hi Russia es reported by telferatii *ATV!'
tereburr. An Imperial eget.' has been issued, directies
that in future the inentnee of the Catholic clergy In the
Western provinces shall be provided by the State, and 110
portion-of them by private individuals.

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The annual distribution of prizea awarded to pupils
in the Leeds School .4 Art took place on Monday night. in
the Mechanics Institution, under the presidency .4 Mr.
Baines M. P. In addressing the audience, the chairman Spoke
upon the ennparitive deficiency of technical edlication. lit
advocated the establishment .4 schods for art and scientific
ininmetion with it view ti their application to manufactures
In the large centres of pornhttleil and tie protidon of
central college in the to tropoh,
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The Rev. nicfarlane, D. D., a TreeLyterian, in
• recently pnblished sermon, write,—" I think I hear
Satan's fiendish chuckle so he geta out of the ba-k door
of the poor man's cottage, on whoa he has prevailed to
:irtthuep;epnisCcoop4Sl palace ro,is book,
peornams Le lgrilill.3;;lt'is7k7c"ltt
at Moles."
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M. Furtado, a partner in the house of Fonld and
CO., and broteer.iii-law to the late M. Achille Fmk', died
on Sunday night in Paris, at the ace of seventy. Ile
belonged to an eminent Jewish family, whose name Is Inti-
mately asmciated well the einem potion of the Jews in
France. Hie father was lbs president of the sanhedri in con-
voked by Napoleon I in 15.7. Oneof M. ',Med.'s daughters,
who shed recently, was married to M. HeMe, banker, in
Hamburg, and her daughter, l'aula Heine, is now the wife of -
the Duke of Elellineen.
The Scarman reports the death of Mr. Mackie,
M. P. for Krkeiellorightshire, which took plane suddenly on
Saturday morning, "(disease of the heart, at his residence of
Ernespie, near Castle Douglas, in aboet his forty with year.
He had sat for the c.nstituency since April, 1857, when he
succeeded his father in the representation, and h• was
classed in politics as a namterate awl sound Lilte--al. Durieg
the Mentes of the present year oil the Reform Bill, Mr.
Mackie, it may be remembered, formed one of the " tea-
room " party, aid gave several votes for Government.
As a specimen of "liberty under the Empire in
soine id the Pturea's record that the Ma. or Of the
town 4,1 Saint Remy, near M irseillea has just guttered that
"no ball, concert. serenade, playing of musical bands, pro-
menade with torches, or any other amusements whatsoever
shall take place without his written permission."
The Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society
have awarded to Captain Perry of the Ousel, and to hie chief
4,111, r each a silver meslal of the first class, as a reward for
their gallant rescue of the captain am' crew of the Freneh
I seas.' Consfones, mider very trying circumstances, in the
Emboli Channel. The society has also awarded goo to each
! of the four men from the Ousel who manned the boat. The
Outset trades between Rotterdam end Liverpool.
Two packets have reached &inland from the West
• Indies some the arrival of the telegram front New York,
stating that fruit distiirbances were apprelmided in Jamaica,
without bringing my corrob motive information got tile sub-
ject. It is presumable, therefore, that the said telegram was
a hoar. and that "the wish wu father to the thou Alt,"
there being a considerable number of people who ate pro-
voked at the continued good behaviour of ex Governor
Eyre's late subjects.
The Church N, ,es, inn leading article on "Feniahism
and its Alhes," says —•• Fenianiam Is hut one of a Verge
family, of which the Devil is the father, the Flesh lite
mother,, and the World the chosen luheritanue— at.is -the..
youngest and most unblushing of the sisterhood, hilt one
strong family likeness runs through the Whole group."
Three very painful. cases of theft of embezzlement
came before the Lord Mayor of 'London on Tuesday. In one,
a confidential clerk tot lira, of i iisuranee brokers for eleven,
year, was charged with einbezelement to a large Amount :in the second, a to-Tying clerk, nearly fifty years of age, was
sent to • bank to cash ft ehe let, feel ale.c.nded • ith the
money ; and In the th rd, a y 'nth of twenty, • clerk is the
Loud •in and Counts Bank. ahstracted si. from a nom paid
In by a deposit r The two latter were committed for trial,
and to arse rernamlet It Is sal to ens. low finch more
common breaches of trust and crimes of that sort are now
than they were formerly.
A frightful famine, reminding one of that which
devaauateit Orissa last year, is at present ravaging Aker s.
The Echo of Oran says Ou the Srd of December Mt the
belie, of ten nwives who of hanger weep foxed. at
Maleara. On the followitg day 14 perished ins like manlier;
and 'iii the 5114. !30( these poor ereatnres were carried lathe
cemetery I,y their co-retigienaries, whin only submitted to
this ditty under blows. The total numher V 11.41740 in
three days was 47."
A fine bull, which had been presented by Sir R.
chinoi as a ClldStiliaii rift to hie tenantry, was being taken
through the streets of Nottingham, when it broke away and
charged the man, named Harriman, who was
healing it,
Though much injured, he Wm I the ring le the bull's nose,
hat such eas its ferocity that it tore he metrile.
alol ',vain rushed at him. The consequences weed.] lin-
doehtedly have been fatal I. Harriman had not sir 1105ort
Clift"ti and his gamekeeper, v. ho were amities in the neigh-
bourhood, come up at the moment, and killed the beast with
their fowlinj-pieces.
Some statistics have jrist been given at a meeting of
the Vilic Chain' er of Agricultme, showieg the destrocri ye
edeets of the cattle plagite. IL was estimated that 4,2a1i,427
head of co.tie had lost by the rhelerpeet, or 1.074.672
111,,fe than we-re ire mrted from the Ist of .I.mary, tot-i.
to
the e.l of last year. Reeeluttons were adopted, eXpre.ing
the let'ief that the I nportation of foreign stock was the
Sri cii 41 cause of the unhealthy *We of English smelt durii.g the last twentydeor years, and recommending that
all foreign animals should be slaughtered at the ports of
deimkation.

An siotizice ‘.l the utc,rtaintv of appeals to junta
et Edinhnio Irs‘t wcek.. In the calm of Mr John
5 II engineer, Kanoburgh, agattrat the North Itrita•li
Italie py r'.onearry, the jury awarded the large camel 421,25.0,
the prence of the pursuer having had his leg fractured
ita colltAion, causing temporary lameness, and consequent
loss t lateineats through haa'.inty to superintend contracts
in Vari•ats parts of LIO, CA.U•Ory. Two 41a), Inter another
Jury, dealing with the can of Mr. Bennett, stir, m Id
Cheltenham, who, like Mr. Romans. claimed 45,000 fronathe
company in POT serevnue of lojnees sostamed on the .me
000a4:011, gave only £-4, with &Se for hotel expenses and
medical attendance. Is this case swath had been set liy
the company on the movornenta of the tda,u, alter the
accident, when he went away for the recovery ..1 his health.
Thee found that he Intt•roved very rspirtly, and wog able to
gi'o.ut riding, driving, and fishtng. end Otherwise eninTing
himself. The Lord Justice Clerk commented severely on the
dogging" process by which the &Minden had karat thews
facia.