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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

LUDICROUS RESULT OF A DUEL

There lives at Rome a charming and amiable young
man who is as yet innocent and beardless. fte be-
longs to no journal, but is greatly attracted by the
lite of a journalist, and is as hasty and impetuous as
an old sal'rour. In the heat of a political discmeion
be quarrelled with one of his best friends. Some other
hotheaded persons who were present envenomed the
dispute, till at last the words "We will tight ! "were
pronounced. Seconds were chosen on the spot, and
the adversaries separated thirsting for each other's
blood. The seconds, upon considering the matter coolly,
found that one of them was really too young, and
decided upon turning the matter into a joke, with
the connivance of the elder of the two belligerents,
and at the expense of the violent young hero. A
duel with pistols was accordingly fixed in due form for
six in the morning; the conditions were a distance of
twenty paces between the combatants, who were
to fire at each other till one was wounded; the place,
the Esplanade, near Port Sahara; the expenses for
the carriages, doctors, pistols, &c., to be paid by the
aggressor. The young man accepted the conditions, and
paid 100 lire beforehand. They all reached the appointed
spot at the same hour with two supposed doctors.
The hero of the anecdote proved that his heart
was as affectionate as it was brave; he wept only
when thinking of his mither and his sister, and had
named the night in writing letters of adieu to those he
loved best, giving them to his seconds to be delivered
in case of his death. The pistols were, to all ap-
pearances, loaded, the steps measured, the two
adversaries placed opposite each other; the signal
"Fire !" was given, two shots were heard, and one of
the duellists (he was in the secret) fell, apparently
mortally wounded, to the earth. The other, on seeing
him fall, turned deadly pale, and uttering an exclama-
tion of horror and despair, fainted in the arms of lus
friends, who carried him to the carriage and to the
hotel, where he found the breakfast laid and his
slaughtered enemy awaiting him with open arms.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

HALEBOWEN.

A meeting of the Licensed Victuallers and others com•
prising the Committee for conducting the Statute Fair
and Ox Roasting, was held on Tuesday evening, at the
house of Mr. Henry Hall, the Star and Garter Inn. The
Collector reported the amount collected, and stated that
the agitation among the teetotallers, instead of doing
them any harm, had gained them more friends--gentle•
men of influence and tradesmen—to subscribe to the
funds, and the book now contained a great many more
names of subscribers than heretofore—Mr. Grove said
although they had great opposition to contend with this
year, the Fair had been well attended by visitors and ser-
vants for hire, who were soon engaged at good wages.
They could all bear witness to the quiet and peaceable
character of those attending the fair, and every publican
and tradesman was satisfied they had had a good fair;
and although compelled to close so early not one case of
infringement of the Act of Parliament could be brought
against them.—Mestirs. Wade, Cooper, Reach, Hodgetts,
Withers, aml others addressed the meeting.—After paying
all expenses, which were very heavy, owing to the high
price of meat, bricks, and coal, the Committee had a
very favourable balance to hand over to the treasurer.—
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Andrews for supply.
Mg such a flue beast for the spit.—A vote of thanks to
Mr. Wade for his services aa chairman for the last 18
years, to Mr. Charles Cooper for his services as collector,
and to Mr. David Slater for his services as honorary sec.
retary to the Committee, closed the proceedings.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

" VOR the BLOOD is the LIPS."
1: See Deuteronomy, chap. :a., verse 29.

CLARKE'S
WORLD FAMED 111.00 D MIXTURE
-L-IOR CLEANSING and CLEARING the BLOOD
1! from ALL IMPURITIES, whether arising from
youthful indiseration or any other cause, cannot be too
highly recommended. It
Cures Old Sores
Cures Ulcerated Sores in the Neck
Cures Ulcerated Sore Legs
Cures Blackheads, or Pimples on Face
Cures Scurvy Sores
Cures Cancerous Ulcers
Cures Blood and Skin Diseases
Cures Glaedular Swellings
Clears the Blood from all Impure
Matter, from whatever cause arising.
As this mixture is pleasant to the taste, and warranted
free from mercury—which all pale and most medicines
sold for the above diseases contain—the Proprietor soli.
cite sufferers to give it a trial to test its value.
Thantsands of Tostimonials from all parts.
Sold in Bottles 2s 9d each, and in Cues, containing 6
Bottles, Ils each, sufficient to effect • permanent cure in
long-standing eaves, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine
Vendors; or sent to any address on receipt of 27 or 132
stamps, by

F. J. CLARKE, Camas; HI•H-STRIST, LINCOLN.
Wholesale Agents:—
Beaky ea Som. Leaden, and aa OW Whoksaii Maws.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

116.

TEN IRON TRAM

No improvement can be reported in the condi-
tion of the South Staffordshire iron trade. With
the exception of a few of the leading houses, which
are engaged upon old orders, the mills and forges
throughout the district are making little more than
half-time, and in many cases the makers do not
see their way to keep up even this moderate am-
ount of activity much beyond the end of the cur-
rent month. The orders distributed since Quar-
ter-day have been too few and small to produce
any appreciable effect, and for the moment the de-
mand seems to be exhausted. Good spefications
are known to be in the market, both on home and
foreign accout, but buyers are holding back in the
belief that prices will yet be lower, and it is diffi-
cult to say how long their abstinence may con-
tinue. There is, at all events, no sign of yeilding
on the part of first-class makers, who declare as a
body that it would answer their purpose better to
close their works than to make any further con-
cession, while wages, fuel, and ironstone remain
at their present high standard. This, however, is
the course being adopted in several cases by
the makers of pig-iron, who have already blown
out importantant furnaces in different parts of the
district rather than submit to the unremunerative
prices necessary to secure a market for their pro-
duce. Pig-iron, therefore, continues firm at £7 5s
for first-class native hot-blast, and XS for cold-
blast. Among second-class makers, both in the
pig and finished iron departments, prices are irre-
gular, and by any one acquainted with the local
circumstances of the trade, business can be done
at from 4s to 10s per ton under the prices ruling
on Quarter-day for iron of the same class, or from
£2 to £3 108 per ton under the standard quotation
based on bars at:£l 4. This:weakness, though due
mainly to the slackness of trade, may be referred
in part to underselling by some of the principal
local merchants or middle men, who, having laid
in large stocks, are anxious to realise before the
end of the year. For local manufacturing pur-
poses there is a moderate demand still for bars,
rod iron, sheets, and foundry pig; but the foreign
trade, in the :absence of any demanyl from the
United States, is almost at a stand-still. Coal
continues firm, owing to the diminished out-put
and the large uncompleted orders still on hand
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

3ELBROUGHTON.

l'aoesutv Ssut.—A small cottage at The Brook was
put p
Itotrw.st buyniaautelyioat knocked
the Tdalowbont Inn, on Louuesgday
of Stourbridge, for £lO5.
CRICIKYT CLCll.—The members of this club celebrated
the close of the present season by &dinner at the Queen'•
Head Inn, on Monday evening last. A match was an.
pounced, bat the weather would not permit of its being
played. About thirty sat down to an excellent repast,
Mr. George Bate occupying the chair, and Mr. A. W.
Best the vice-chair. After the removal of the cloth, the
usual loyal and patriotic toasts were given, and likewise
" The Lady Patrons and Patrons of the Club," "The
Host and Hostess" (responded to by Mr. Farmer)," The
Visitors," "The health of Mr. George Bate," &c. Tee
event of the evening was the presentation of • bat to Mr.
Edwin Bayliss for the highest average number of rune
made in the matches of this season. The finances of the
club are in a healthy position. Some very good singing
contributed to the evening's entertainment, which did
not terminate until near the closing hour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

MADEMOISELLE SILVESTRE

HAS the honour to inform her Pupils, the
Gentry, Salo°le, and Inhabitants of Stoarbridgo
and llagluy-utreet, her CLASSES will RE-ASSEMBLX
at the UNION HALL, on SAIUUDAY ANTZLIWoN, Ocrosaa
12th, at Three o'clook.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

CRADLEY.

SERIOOS Citation OF ASSAULT.—At the Petty Sessions
at Stourbridge, yesterday, before Major Fletcher and B.
Littlewood, Esq., Lucy Jones was charged with assaulting
Edwin Oliver, road contractor. Mr. Homer appeared to
support the charge. From the evidence of complainant
it appeared that he went to look at ease building where
he was having some repairs done. The defendant come
to him with a pike hammer in her hand, and struck at
his head. Rewarded off the blow, which struck him on
the ribs, cutting through his coat and waistcoat, and no
doubt the consequences would have been very serious had
not the pike struck against a pocket-book he had in his
pocket at the time. Defendant did not appear, and a
warrant was issuedlfor her apprehension.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

HYDROPHOBIA.

In connection with Dr. Stone's letter, the following
has also been sent to The Times
In The Tines of yosterdey there Is a letter by W. Domett
Stone, If D, Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons, in
which he states that " there is no cure for hydrophobia.'

Many years ago, when Lord Frederick iitstharence was
Commander-in-Chief of Bombay and the 10th Hussars stationed
In Kirkee, I hail a conversation with Lord Frederick respect-
ing a remedy for byiropholda which Dr. Alexander Gibson,
Superintendent of Government Botanical Gardens, had
discovered in the possession of a Mahomisian family in
Khandeish, and which had been a secret in the family
for more than a couple of centuries Dr. Gibson told
me that he had frequently used the medicine In cases of
hydrophobia, and had never known It t fail as a cure.
Shortly after this conversation I had a letter from Lord
Frederick, repeating me to write to Dr. Gibson for some
of the medicine, as six or seven men of the 10th Hussars
had been bitten by a mad dog that morning. I wrdte to
Dr. Gibson, and in a few days received from him a packet
containing something like tea-leaves, with a paper uf
instructions. I gave the medicine and paper to Lord
Frederick.

The leaves were infused in the manner of tea and given
to the sufferers, who recovered with the exception of one
man, who, doubting the efficacy of the medicine, ref used to
take it. That man died of hydrophobia Thin case, I have
no doubt, is well known in the 10th Hussars at the present
time. —I am, (to., P. K. M. Skis:skit, Major-General.
neaillenley-on.Thames, Oct. 19.

The returns recently issued by the Registrar-
General chow that in England and Wales there were
thirty-two deaths from hydrophobia in the year
1870--viz., 25 male; and 7 females. All these deaths
occurred in the North-10 in Lancashire, Sin the West
Riding of Yorkshire, 4 in Durham, and none in coun-
ties lying south of the Trent. In 1869 there were 18
deaths from hydrophobia in England-3 in London,
the other 15 again in the North— viz., 7in the West
Riding, 5 in Lancashire, I in Durham, 1 in Cheshire.
Hydrophobia comes and goes in periods. Thirty years
ago it seems to have had a Beason of prevalence;
for in the five years 1833.42 there were 73 deaths
in England and Wales from this disease, averaging
nearly 15 a year, the range being from 7to 24. The
causes of death for the next f air years were not ab-
stracted, but there seems to have been a period of few
deaths from hydrophobia, as there were but 5 in 1847
and 7in 1848. In the seven years 1849.55 the deaths
rose to 111, averaging 16 a year, the range being from
11 to 25. In the next eight years-1856 63—the deaths
from hydrophobia fell to 26, averaging only 3 a year,
and ranging from I to 5. In the next seven years-
186470—this disease peevailed again, and the deaths
were 134, averaging 19 a year, allti ranging from 7 in
1868 to 32 in 1570. In the year 1870 the deaths from
hydrophobia in England were at the rate of 62 in a
million deaths Iron all causes.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

A,:-.. .454
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Painless Dentistry and Artificial Teeth, it strictly
moderate charges.
A singe Tooth to a complete set sopplisd—warranted
for maatication and articulation. _ .

--.----- ----....-.
Regular atteudauce at KIDDERMINSTER. Neat
visit, Orr. 294. at

MISS YATES'

FANCY REPOSITORY, 8, HIGH-STREET.
AT R. d" IABRIEL, the Old Established
111 k_fi LONDON DENTIST,
Begs to intimate that at the urgent request of numerous
inhabitants, patients, and friends, he has been induced
to visit Kidderminster every ALTERNATE TUESDAY,
and may be consulted personally (free of charge) upon
his recent improvements in the construction of Artificial
Teeth and Game, whereby the weight, bulk, and cost of
the case or frame, has been much reduced, to the great
convenience and advantage of the wearer. Teeth are by
this new method exquisitely fitted, without extracting
stumps, or Cu, painful operation.
Mr. LIABHIEL'B practice (one of the oldest in
England) was established in 1815.

Particularly notice,
NEXT vzsur TO KIDDERMINSTER,
Oct. 9th, at Miss Yates Fancy Ikpository, 8,
High-street.

Constant and personal attendance daily from nine till
sin at
11, BENNETTS HILL, 11
(Next to the Bank of England)

BIRMINGHAM.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.

The anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar was
celebrated in London, on Monday evening, by the
members of the Naval Club, at Willie's Rooms, King-
street, St. James's. A numerous party assembled,
Admiral Sir George R. Sartorious, K.C.8., Admiral
of the United Kingdom, presiding. Among the officers
present were Admiral John Appleby, Admiral Stanley,
Vice• Admiral Sir W. H. Hall, K.C.8.,
Admiral Sir E. Pellew Halstead, Vice-Admiral E.
Layton, Vice-Admiral C. F. Robinson, Vice-Admiral
G. Giffard, Rear-Admiral Sir W. R. Mends, C. 8.,
and Rear-Admiral Charles Edmunds.
. .

The following are the names of the still surviving
officers who were engaged in the battle :—Admiral of
the Fleet Sir George Ross Sartorius, K.C.8., was mid-
shipman in the Tonnant ; Admiral G. W. 11. D'Aeth
was mate in the Bellerophon, Admiral the Earl of
Egmont was midshipman in the Orion, Admiral W.
Walpole was midshipman in the Gdossits, Admiral Sir
George A. Westphal was mate in the Victory, Admiral
Robert Patten wars midshipman in the lkllerophon , Ad-
miral John Lysons, was midshipman in the Victory,
Admiral Robert C. M'Crea was midshipman in the
The-if/sure, Vice-Admiral Joseph Gape was midshipman
in the Ajax, Captain NV. Carleton was midshipman in
the Colossus, Captain Gilbert Kennicott was midship-
man in the Royal Scxereign, Captain H. Parker was
mhlshipman in the Bella*, Captain Spencer Smyth
was midshipman in the Defiance, Commander .T. H.
Sanders was mate of the liwif lsore, Commander
Alexander Galaway was midshipman in the Thuniltrer,
Commander F. Harris was midshipman of the Tone-
mire, Commander Charles Wolrige was midshipman
in the Minotaur, Commander Sir T. W. Holburne was
midshipman in the Orion, Commander John Adamson
was midshipman in the Britannia, Commander W.
Vicary was midshipman in the Achille, Lieutenant-
Colonel J. Fynmore, Royal Marines, was midshipman
in the Africa, First Lieutenant T. J. W. Tane, Royal
Marines, held the same rank in the Leviathan, Deputy
I Inspector General of Hospitals Peter Sather was sur-
geon in the Swiftsare.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday; Mr. Granger in the chair. There
were also present:—Messrs. Brooks, Rolliuson,
Pearsall, Homes,: Wood, B. Homer, Raybould,
Paskin, Fiddian, Fereday, Baker, Rhodes, Bit-
Haskew, Griffin, and Guest. The
minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed. Admitted into the house during the
week, 23; discharged, 12; remaining, 371. Cor-
responding week last year, 407. Out-door relief
Kingswinford district, .t 24 17s Od ; Stourbridge
district, £l7 As 6d ; Halesowen district, £l9
18840 ; relief of non-resident paupers, 4s 6d;
total, £62 Oa 100, against £75 Os 9d last year.
A precept for Staffordshire County Rate was
received, amounting to £547 8s 11d.

WINE LICENSES.—At the Police Court, yes-
terday, before Major Fletcher, Messrs. B. Little.
wood and It. L. Ereer, licenses to sell British
wine were granted to Messrs. J. dt C. Shearman,
High-street, and John Davies, Market-street.
SPOPLIFTING.—Jane Cartwright, the elder,
and Jane Cartwright, the younger;were charged
with feloniously stealing a quantity of cotton
and wooollen skirting, on the '22nd inst, the pro-
perty of Samuel William Giles, draper, of Bri-
erloy Hill. Mr. Addison defended. James Mor-
ris, shopman to prosecutor, said that the pro-
perty produced belonged to his master, and was
worth 14s 62. He last saw it about 7 o'clock
on Tuesday night. and missed it the next morn-
ing. Lucy Ann Barnsley, servant at the Star
Hotel, said that on Tuesday evening she saw a
woman coming from the direction of prosecu-
tor's shop. She had a large bundle under her
shawl. It looked red, and she was walking very
fast. The prisoner is the woman. Edwin
Moody, pawnbroker, said that on Wednesday
last he received some skirting in pledge from
the younger prisoner. She had occassionally
pledged piece-lengths, and sometimes old things.
Ruth Pearson, assistant to Mr. Sproat, said that
on Wednesday last she received in pledge some
of the skirting produced. It was about four
yards, and was pledged in the name of Phcebe
Cartwright. P.C. Doobar proved receiving a
portion of the skirting from the last witness,
and afterwards charged the prisoner with ideal-
ing it. The elder prisoner said she bought it
oil a packluan, and gave him 16s for It, and de-
nied being at Mr. Giles's shop. P.C. Goodfel-
low said he accompanied last witness to to pri-
soner's house, and found a portion of the skirt-
ing in a box upstairs. The shopman was re-
called, and said he had rueasur,2 the skirting
and it was 35+ yards. Dis wuud not be half the
value. Mr. Addison asked the Bench if they
considered there was any case against the
younger prisoner. Major Fletcher said, iso
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

'• To the Endowed Schools' Commission.

" My Lords and Gentlemen,—With respect to the
Draft Scheme for the management of the Endowed School
at
.Kinver, measures were taken for ascertaining the
wishes of the parishioners on the subject, and at a public
parish meeting held September the 9th, 1872, the follow-
nig resolutions were unanimously passed:
• let. The benefits which the Grammar School confers
on the parish should not in any respect be diminished.'
• 2nd. Under the new scheme care should be taken to
provide instruction as efficient as has hitherto been given
in the school for boys who will not finish their education
at the age of 15.'

• 3r4-lt should be the object of any new scheme of
management for the Grammar School to supplement the
education given at the elementary schools in the parish.'
• 4th. The Committee be appointed to consider care-
fully the Draft Scheme, to report any alterations which
they may deem fit, and to take such steps as will be re-
quired to uphold the just rights of the inhabitants of
Kuaver, consisting of W. N. Archer, Z. Belcher, T. Bid.
ton, W. H. Bolton, C. W. Collis, J. Hodgson. I'. Holy-
osue, G. Lee, J. Morgan, W. Packer, and W. Yeomans,'
In accordance with these resolutions the gentlemen
named have carefully considered the scheme, and have
made ouch alterations in it as in their judgment would
meet the wishea of the parishioners with as little devia-
tion as possible from its present plan of wording. They
desire that the school may be made as useful as possible
to the parish, and be uniform with other endowed schools
for which the Council had formed schemes of manage-
ment. At a public parish meeting held on the 21st Oc-
tober, 1872, the whole of the alterations were unani-
mously approved, and I was directed on behalf of the
parish of Kinver to submit for consideration, and, we
trust, approval, the suggested alterations noted in the
copy of the scheme sent herewith; and I also enclose a
summary of the reasons which have led to these sugges-
tions.

"I beg to remain, my Lord and Gentlemen,
b` Your obedient cervant,
'JOHN HODGSON,
," Chairman of the two Parish Meetings."

It was resolved, on the motion of Mr. T. Boniton, se.
couded by Mr. A. Birch, that the Vicar be requested to
send the letter, and the alterations and paper of reasons
for them to the Endowed Schools' Commissioners.
. . . .

....
Mr. Belcher proposed that the Endowed Schools Com-
missioners be requested to send down an Assistant Com-
missioner to investigate the validity of the objections to
the scheme.

Mr. Yeomans seconded the motion, which wu carried
by a majority of the meeting.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceed-
ings.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

COLONEL TOMLINE AND MR. LOWE.
Colonel Tomline, M P., has leaned the following ad-
dress, in the form of a handbill, to the honseholdera of
Great Grimsby

" Gentlemew —I have won the first round. Mr. Lowe ha
written to the Marylebone Board of Guardians expressiug his
regret that there anould be a great dearth of silver,
and that every effort is being made at the Mint to
coin silver. He has also ordered twenty million shilling.
of a private thin at hirmingham. You will recollect that
he denied the scarcity of silver coin; that he said he did
not want any himself, refined information, and answered
questions in the House of Commons inaccurately. I re-
mind you of this because I have foullit this round single-
handed, and I want your help for two more rounds. My
next point Is this The silver coin is debased 91 per cent.
This inmost unfair to working men. Fr all foreign pro-
duce—tea, coffee, tobacco—they pay 91 per cent, more
than they ought to pay, because the foreign owner of
merchandise will only accept our silver coin according
to the quantity of silver in it, careless of the name we
call it. If silver coin were as honest as gold coin, for a
shilling the purchaser would receive 91 per cent. niers
tea, coffee, and other foreign produce. Help me to
obtain an undebased shilling, and insist on under-
standing why it is denied to you. The credit of fhe
nation Is involved in the present system. I hsve just in-
vested ten pounds in the National Debt, in the Three per
Cents. My half-yearly dividend will be three debased
shillings. This is repudiation as had as any proceedings of
Mexico or Pennsylvania. The debt was incurred with DI per
cent, more silver in the shilling, and lithe Committee of the
Stock Exchange were impartial, quotations of English
Government Securities would not be permitted. lithe same
law were applied to large as to small dividends and 91 per
per cent, were deducted from the twenty-six millions of the
annual interest of the National Debt, £2,405,00) would flow
into the Exchequer, and twopeuce would be taken off the In-.
come-tax."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

The COMPLETION of the TELEGRAPH
to AUSTRALIA.

The Mayor of Adelaide sent the following telegram
to the Lord Mayor of London :

" 4DELAIDS, Oct. 91, 9 12 a in.
" The Mayor of Adelaide clngratulates the Bight lion.
the Lord Mayor of London on the opening of telegraphic
communication between Australia and Great Britain, and
trusts the communication so auspiciously begun may still
further cement those feelings of loyalty and attachment to
her Majesty's throne and person which characterize the
whole of the Australian Provinces of the British Empire.
God save the Queen."

To the above the Lord Mayor replied in the follow-
ing terms :
The Lord Mayor of London is murh gratified by the re-
ception of the telegram irons the Mayor of Adelaide, and
fully reciprocates the very kind expressions in his most agree-
able communication."

Viscount Monck addressed the following telegram to
the Governor of South Australia
As chairman of the British Australian Telegraph Com-
pany, I congratulate you and the Colonies of Australia on
the completion of our great work. The spirit and determi-
nation of South Australia have nobly combined with the
enterprise of the mother country in triumphing over all our
difficulties."

Referring to this, annther triumph in the cause of humanity
and progress, the Daily Xeir writes :

Another grand peaceful triumph of science and
civilization was finally accomplished on Monday.
England and Australia were joined hand in hand by
the Telegraphic Cable, and Mr. Francis S. Dutton, the
Agent-General of South Australia in London, received
a communication to that effect from Adelaide, dated an
hour afternoon. Almost simultaneously a message from
the Mayor of Adelaide was received by the Lord Mayor
of London, expressing those loyal and friendly feel-
ings which happily bind the colonies to the mother
country. The result of placing the Government and
people of England in immediate and instant contact
with those great and growing communities, cannot fail
to be most advantageous to the interests both of
the mother country and of her children at the An-
tipodes. Every year the commercial relations be-
tween England and Australia are becoming more
important, and the Australian interests which
have their central representation in "the City," are
attracting more and more the capital awl enter-
prise of our money market. The completion of this
telegraphic line will he a boon to many families and
households, separated, but not divided, by the circuit
of the globe; and the Cable will do more than colonial
societies or conferences to preserve unbroken the chain
of natural affection and hereditary sympathy which
should unite the scatt2red, but not sundered, branches
of the great family that strikes its roots in English
earth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

MORMON IMMIGRANTS.

The steamship Minnesota brought 600 recruits, single
men and Angle women ; Engheh from the mining
districts, Welsh from the mountains, and Germans
from the Rhine Valley (writes, the New York Herald.)
Each nationality was in charge of the apostle who had
preached especially in either country, and the three
leaders in the conversion of souls will conduct the
neophytes to the promised land. In appearance they
are a seedy, ignorant lot. The men have evidently
been chosen with a view to the development of the
mining resources of Utahor for the defence of the place,
and the women to become the helpmeets of the men,
and mothers of future generations of Mormons. The
men are mostly large, powerful fellows, with brawn)
bodies and coarse. unintelligent features, just the men
to embrace the faith of the Latter-day Sainte, and
maintain it against all opposition, whether it came in
the shape of rew.oning or physical force. The women
are nearly all under 25, and had evidently been selected
by some aged saint who had an eye for souls in fresh,
young bodies. There was a noticeable lack of the gaunt,
elderly females who are supposed to form the staple
for conversion. That considerable foresight had been
displayed in the gathering of the 200 men and 300
young women is evidenced in the fact that during the
voyage no sickness occurred, though of course, the
ship's officers contributed to this happy result. The
men did not care to speak of the faith they had em-
braced, and when a coy maiden was asked if she knew
that ohs was liable to be the consort of a man with a
dozen other wives she maintained her modesty in the
diplomatic reply :—" It's na prapper ta ax me, an I
shall na tell ye." She was a blushing girl of 21, and there
being some anxiety to know how these young females
reconciled purity with polygamy, the question was
pressed :—"You would surely rather be the one wife
of a man in your own country ? " "I'm me am n mil-
trees, and it's nobody'a beesness." The reply was dis-
couragingly independent, and, moreover, as the Moe-
mut girl moved away, a knot of her brawny country-
men had gathered with lowering looks, and prudence
counselled silence. It was evident that they had all
been cautioned against intruders before the arrival in
New York, in order that they might not be made
ashamed of their new-found faith or disenchanted with
their promised land. They all seemed to know that
there was something awkward in the condition they
were about to bring upon themselves, and were disin-
clined to speak of it.