The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

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good voice and a fair kiuui ledge of music can obtain s, open by putting the handle of the mallet in. Whflo no se, rin 1 ,le - ' -thatl -
temporary engagement of some sort The two Operas lerelud the. mi. I believed Mrs Nunn had come upstairs loci nohied ti',.'W b
also are very successful, aml the preparatimm for tin r nt;',",l:otrilarZtwr,:'!:,Tr,'.-Wir began' to 4,, ttl_coine
Handel Festival are going nil en lavishly awl 00 we weitlil stop her. s We' had noigple.-'7ealli.
swimmingly that altogether we may almost boast that hold of her, and she ran doe.. - • • -
instead of not being a musical nation, as used to be the OTI tiw tinia.a,-- •
I taunt, we arc a muaical people par excellence.
'

..... mot
murder. 1 laid
held hr. and et,

stopped
. sanding. My brother asked me if I
got the mallet. I said "No, it is upstairs in
the bedroom." Me ran upstairs and fetched it. I held her
She tried to scream. My MAMer bought the mallet, and
struck her on the head. It. dill me and Mrs. Nunn fell two or
three tiniest. I said to nip brother 'Strike her agatist While
the bell was ringing she lay senseless, making a moaning
noise. We lefther, nod went downstairs for mir-boets, s
we had left In the cellar. We then went upstairs, got net of
Ns. window, alai cliii down a pipe on to something like a
dust-bin ; then over a wall Into a clout Iris lisist to !kV -
lan. I took the pistol to frighten her if ,Ite sas ii 1.41
Intending Is hurt her My brother MO a pist. das 0511. lie
either h.st It or threw it away I walked lime to the c,dfec-
house s itland u NIT, on Saturday morning se went for 11.
clothes Mink and brushed our clothes ti get the Moot elf

Some further evidence was taken, and the priinners
were remanded.

On toeing put into the ',vision van tho younger Isiy
erieit, but the oothor appeared to be quite initifkrvut as
bi what was done with him.

Bittanitolls .14. 11 id ligellat
ISGVE, TUFT; N, AND Main.

A ItIYSTEPX.—A disappearance, nlich is as
unwh involved in nivetery 04 any width has ever
evoked the vigilance ill detectives or the curionity of
the public, has recently occurred in the neighbourki oil
of Dorking. On Monday, tie tlUth of April, ft 14/V
11311104 Thomas Stedman, aged fourteen, in the
employ if Mi.N. Map', of Pixhanislane, as a page.
Otter receiving his wages and a present of lon., left bin
mistress's house, for tile purpose of depoiiiting the 10s.
in the pont office savings bank in Oinking. Ile
a,..;ved m Dorking in due course, and deporiited the
meney at the tent office, and at two lieloek ill the
It Limoon he 11,11.4 04.;ai1l Keel, near Mr. Mayo's house,
going towards it; bUt from that 110.0110 A to this all
traces hare been lost, awl no one has set even 01441
hill.. It was sun ii is . that he might possibly lune
been liitd's nesting near the river Mole and have fallen
in. The river has been thoroughly dragged, bin 40)
discovery wan made. The Dorkim police have MeV
advertised for him, but up to Sunday without avail.
The. Loy was very i.ssid, sedate, cheerful, and i•lie-
dient, and a great favourite with his employer.
SELP-CONTEMPTUoUS EXPUERRIONS.—A Gentle-
manilas put an advertisement in The 77 MU, announcing
that, in aciairdance with a expressed in a Will, he
ban assumed the none of Pugh in addition to Jun sur-
name, i. 11.1 I,f his Christian names being Pugh already.
By thus adding Pugh to Pugh, he may almost by said
to Imre, pugh-pugheil i i iii self.• • l'onA
NO HOPE tOlt TIIEM !—The Doily Noes
remarks :

The proceedings of the house of Commons on Monday
night, and still e the extraordinary state .4 relations
het.. een the House if Commons and the Administration
which they teveal, mast be held to de hie peremptorily the
fate of a her of measures %Melt have hitherto been ro-
tated annum theagenda of the Koslow We shall hear no more
of the Coven 111 l cot Education 13111, the Bankruptcy the
Blab UM Tenure Bill, tow probably of tho Itribety Bill.
What may become .1 the Nliolotry lii r011901111.11C0 of the
unprecedented posit' they have taken up, the prerogatives
they have asserted, and the opposition which they have made
a duty, no one con predict. But disqualified so they are for
conducting the 1111/1111C158 of the House, without even the
power to prezeribe subjects hir its consideration, they cannot
hope to bring any lenslutive 111.1MIte to SatigfiCto ory
and must for the rent of the session confine themselves to
those bills which are absolutely necessary in order to an
linen.... appeal to the country."

- -
EXUTINO SCENE AT A FIRE —On Monday
morning, shortly after midnight, a fire, well nigh at-
tended with a terrible loss of life, broke out in the
premises belonging to Alr. Craske, an eating-house
keeper and pastry-cook, High-street, Islington, Lon-
don. The discovery was made by a police-constable,
who at once set about arousing the inmates. Upon
their jumping out of bed they found the staircase and
lower
.part of the premises in flarnes, and the flooring
of thew bedrooms KO hot as nearly to pull the skin from
their feet In a few rn tea fire escapes were raised
in front of the burning premises, and some eight or
nine iiemons were brought down in safety. Just as the
last was being brought down the flames shot out of one
of the windows and set about six feet of the canvas
bagging in flames. The excitement amongst the by-
standers may readily be imagined.
A SCENE OF Hoßiton !—At a recent meeting of
the Edinburgh Association for the ImprNement of
the Condition of the Poor, the Rev. Dr. Hanna gave
the following account of what he called "seene of
horror' which lately occurred in Edinburgh :

A father dies, leaving three grown-up sous. By member-
ship In two ft ienilly societies they became entitled to receive
gle, which was spent in drink heir.. the burial. The sorts
then took their father's clothes, pawned ti in. unit amid
what they got for them in drink. lie mother having re.
monstrated, she was t, rid that if she did not hold her tongue
they would do with her as they had di,n,2 whit the dead •toni
they did It. They took oil her clothes, and pawned them,
and sent her to Lot. Next came the pawning of the hirrii-
tore, which they disputed about ; and, in order to settle the
dispute, what did these men der They dragged the dead
holy from the relllo, bet it up against the with, haviny pre-
viously agreed that, when it was shaken. If the head ha in
title way throne was to gain, and if it fell that way the other
would Is, the hairier !

A Loviot OF MONEY.—" Colltelllpt of money,"
said an Irbh Al. P., " the hon. member professeito
play the philie,Ther. I can assnre you, Mi. Speaker,
that if there is any one office that glitters in the eyes of
the lion meml sir, it is that of purse-bearer. A pension
to him is a compentlimn of :ill the cardinal virtues.
All his statesmanship is comprehended in the itrt of
taxing, and for gssl, hater and best in the Neale of
human nature, he invariably reads isnce, shillings,
awl pounds. I verily believe," exclaimed the orator,
rising to the height oihi,, conception, "that if the hon.
gentleman were an undertaker, it would be the delight
lif his heart to lice all mankind seized wif h a COOlllOll
mortality, that he might have the benefit of the
general burial, cold provide scarfs and hatbands for the
survivors."

•• • '
RAINE'S MARRIAGE PORTION. —On Friday
morning, in accordance with the will of Mr. Henry
Raine, ft brewer in the parish of St. (dmrge-imthe-
East, Whitechapel, London, who, in the year 1710,
erected certain schools in Gravel-lane, St. George's,
fie- the clothing and education of a number 44 poor
children of both sexes, and the distribution annually
aniongst the deserving girls brought up in the le:load
Mei might afterwards prove deserving a matrimze 111 es.
tin ,4 £lOO, was carried into effect 'by the trustees.
Upon the last occasion one of the young women who
drew the prize watt named Charlotte Louisa Knight,
and, being entitled to be married on inlay 1/11,111i1W,
the ceremony took place at the parish church of St.
George, ( 'ann,m.street-road, I,4and to. After the
termination of the proceedings the whole of the party
returned to the school house to partake of refreshment.
RUSSIAN ARMANIENTS.—According to the 1e-
r0',..4 Ru-se Russia it showing her anxiety for the
rvation 44 peace by her activity in making
preparation.; for war. In its issue of April 24, we find
the following :--" We have before us the report of the
work done in the arsenal of St. Peterslaugh for the
year 1807. The activity displayed is fourfold more
than in preceding years. In the conme of 18/17 the
arsenal has cast :210 4111. cannon of the new pattern,
and about 100 of tin 91b. rallies. cannon. It has more-
over converted 100 old guns of 121 b. each into rifle
breechloaders for the defence of fortressee This
extraordinary activity ha:, not prevented the improve.
meat and construction of brass guns of large calibre.
Besides the artillery arsenal at St. Petersburg}, there
exists a foundry at Bransk, in which workmen have
been employed night and day dming 11407."

AMUSING THE HOUSE !—The London correspon-
dent of the Liverpont AMina

On Tuesday night Toril Royston kept a small Rouse In a
roar of laughter for nearly half an hour. The Prime Minister
and all his colleagues if the Cabinet were at their dinner ;
lint Mr. Gladstone wad present, and thoroughly enjoyed the
affair. Lord Royston is is pimillar man. Ile is a very hand-
some fellow; and, no regards clothes, hat, awl boots, input
the greatest swells of the day. lie is just the gentleman for
the household appiiintment which he Oils so admirably ; but he
must let polltiodspeakingalone. ABll.llonttor,he is a voy lively
and amusing representative of his noble father, the Karl of
Ilarillicke. There Is a frankness about but which, in tho
House of Commons, is delightfully refreshing. In fact, he is
so truthful, that the wind° of his speech on Tuesday evening
was a comic satire upon the position taken up by the Govern-
ment of which he lan member. On rising, he placed hid hat
in a prominent position on the floor, and threw a snow-white
cambric handkerchief front his pocket. With this tie fanned
the air while addressing the Mouse. lie told them be had
not the least doubt that the Government would be beaten in
this Irish Chinch matter.

"HAIL COLUMISTA !" - " Whar," asked a re-
nowned stump orator, who was trying for the office of
constable, " whar, my enlightened friends of the GUth
Militia District, was Andrew Jackson in the battle of
New Orleans? Wur he thar? By gum, he win.? He
wur a riding up and down upon a bobtail Arabian, a
i wavin' of a crooked saber, and up to his armpits n
blood and mud, and a givin' the British thunder; the
genius of hievonntry a holdin' of her mgis over he's
head, cotton bales pavareeripg in front to protect bini
from danger, and the American e.a in ffle, with the sta
and stripes in its beak, a warm aloft in the blue
empyrean, singing 'Hail Columbia !'"

WORK FOR Bom.—The following story was
told by Dr. William Arnet, at a soirt'e in the Rev. Sir
11. W. Monerieffe Church in Edinburgh the other
evening:—

Rev. Macleod and Dr. Watson were in the West Highlands
together on a tour ere leaving for India. While crossing a
loch in a boat, in company with a number of other /ass-
sewers, a Morin came on. Onion? the passengers was heard
to say, " that the tea ministers Mould begin an' pray, or
we'll a' be &mined." " Na, 1.1." said the boatmen, "the
little sue can pray it he likes, but the big one maun talc' an
oar"

" SCOTCH PRCHENCE.—When the late Mr. Telford,
the engineer (says Mr. Smiles), made his last visit to
hi native valley of Eskdale, where he had in early
life worked tut a mason, be called opon his former
friends to recount with them the incidents of their
youth. He was declares! to be the same " ranty "
fellow as ever, and though he hit risen greatly in the
world, he was "not a bit set up." He found one of
his al fellow-workmen, Frank. Beattie, become the
principal innkeiier of the place. "What have you
made of your molt and chisels?" asked Telford.
"Oh," replied Beattie, "they are all dimpereed—
Perhapa hoe. "1 have taken better care of mine,"
said Telfook I have them all locked up in a room
at Shrews y, as well as my old working clothes and
leather apron& you know one can never tell what may
happen."
NOT THE. RIGHT WORD !—What could have
induced a man of Mr. Fronde's character ant standing
to make imch au unfortunate lietle oration at the
Royal Academy I limier on Saturday evening? (asks
the Daily Telegraph. ) He spoke of the Queen's " con-
descending " to publish a book. Have we gone back
to the olden times, when flattery of the grossest kin!
did "so delight Eliza and our .James"? A courtier of
that day, doebtlesa, might have laid that it would have
been " comb...m/1,4"n '' in -Flizabeth to have written
even plays latch as thome that Shakespeare wrote; but
we hardly expected to Nee the old inflated style re-
lived, Anil that by an eminent man of letters. If her
Majesty, in imitation of Mrs. Somerville, studied
natronemy, ought we to tiay that "the Queen haw eon
-
descended to discover a planet ;" or, in pursuit of I
another art, "the Queen has graciously- deigned to
desi•,,,n and execute a noble painting"! Surely Mr.
:Fronde, in a calmer hour, will fully assent to the

_ ,ery higli-est—wrldly rank is en.
, artudie or literary work ; and we are quite
certain that the Royal authoress herself would be the
last person in England to speak of the publication of
her truthful and unaffected Diary as an act of -"con-
descension."

_
A STEP IN THE MOUT DIRECTION !—Notice
has bocn lotted that the soldiers at present serving in
the French army as having been drawn in their oven
Account, and who sinee they entered the army have
bedotue eldest cons of M icli.w4 or supports of families,
are 'to He immediatt4y sent AO their bunion These
.men will receive unlimited leave of absence ; but that
circumstance discs not mean complete liberation, as
thoy will still be included in the ctfective of their
regiments, and the names of soldiers absent on furlough
or any other ground than that of the six months' usual
leave mud still appear in the monthly returns. The
number of men in this position amounts to about 3,000,
and, in addition, 8,600 at present en eunge remain so-
-5,600 belonging to the class of 11163, and 3,000 con-
cluding their term of service in 186$. This makes a
total of 12,200, who will vimain with their families,
unless unfonwen events arid*.
EXCEROING THEIR EXPECTATIONS !—A sad ac-
eidvnt oc.iurred a few days back at Vincennes during
the target exercise of the soldiers forming part of the
camp of St. Maur. A spectator placed at the Hue
of distance fixed by the authorities as quite bey 1 the
range td the fire was struck by a Cluutsepot bullet,
which pasisid through his hand awl then entered his
groin. new firearms, it thus appeal's, have such
a force of projection as to exceed the calculations of
the military officers best acquainted with ti. subject.
The wounded Man was a resident of St. :\l stir, and
had boot re-curtly inarrital. After surgieal assistance
had been rendered he was removed to his ith
every precaution.

government of Victoria, and with the circumstances
which led to and are consequent upon bin recall
therefrom, that it would be at variance with that spirit
of justice in which the liouse of commons 6 llMlA-
tonied to act to arrive at a decNion upon the motion of
which notice has been given without much more full
and accurate information upon his conduct.
TIIE EARNINGS A PENNY FERRY.—At the
last meeting of the Birkenhead eommissinnera it Was
stated that during the year ending. the 24th tilt. 1,14 e
receipt tat the V% t todside ferry ass tuuted to 238,1410,
showing an increase of £770 in Pennies, and £lOO in
the receipts fronicontract passengers, as compared with
the previous year. Mr. Aspinall stated that the rate-
had every reason to be satisfied with the working
of the ferries during the year. for although the rd % enue
had increased, the expenditure showed a decrease as
compared with 1867. It was decided to transfer
Ito the improvement rate aCCOUIIt

TilE LATE TfIoNIAS DARCY' AFGEN.—A Cana-
dian paper Hays ill voaking of this unfortunate geittlo-
man

JTSTICE TO ANNE JUSTICE.—The followiug is
from the Doily Telegraph :---

The doctor,' have observed that the cranium was very
almost transparent. A thin, !silly envelops id the indication
supedor mind ; and the thinner it is, the stronger in the
talent. Such were the heads of Sir Li H. Lithintalue and of
the Hon. A. N. Morin. The brain of Mr. Malec weighed he
ounces. The mean weight of man is St, tuniceet That of the
great Irish orator. O'Connell, weighed 4 ounces. That of the
bed high Chancellor of Englund was .S3t ounces. Depotren's
brain weighed fis 1•1111Cla ; and covier's (01 tame.. In Mr.
Mann, the liver and lung. wore sound. There a as, however,
a large deposit of fat around the hem t. The !dividend. were
of opinion that tho deceased might !KM' !kilni Inaug, a rather
siirprising circumstance, when his former habitv and
checkered life are taken il,to cololderation.

FICHALM TRAITZEI,N. 3Lt,llle. Azella, who
recently fell during on, if her daring flighta, and who
was then pushed 00 one bile by Another equally daring
"female gymnast," is now advertising that she is
is-oily to accept ov;ageniente. She will not he long
without offers, the only question being on s hut terms
she will risk her life. Three other WOllll.ll are thus
nightly perilling life and limb iu London. One of
them, who performs a " terrific flight on to the lofty
trapiize, or leap of 12i) feet through mid-air," is not
only greeted every night with " thunders of applause,"
but she performs the frightfully dangerous feat at
three music-halts every evening at nine, ten, and
eleven. " Madame Senyah" (hv name living Ihaynes,
but spelling it liaekwards giVe3 it is foreign lisik) is
sorely to he pitied, end is, are those who rush to wit-
it-es such sensational performances. With the music
at these ao-ealled noism-halls may at any midnent he
mingled the sinnel id weans, the cry of pain, and the
shriek of horror and ahem.

A paragraph appeared in your paper if wednesilay and
thursday but on the Authority of the Nike to the Etfeet
that with regard to the disturb:mix !in pulteuey street that
Arnie Justice sho owed herself out of a Window in pulteuey
street and shouted, Fenian victory Now Sir as the Brother of
Anne Justice and Being present all the day She Naturally no
At weakly woman after 5 months inearverati 111 l wanted sortie
rest as She felt quite ill and She did not (title hear her trait
or Ullyhody Ehlea %%lotion that day ik how the police Caine to
know that it was Anne JOstice I MO at a IoSS to understand
therefore the whole of the police Information is Simply a
fallacy. I leniain Sir your obedient servant J. i.YoNS.
iii) thom-ct it Haymarket May 5 ISSS

EFFIXT or SOUND ON ANIMAT.S.—A corres-
pondent of the AthriWaal 8:1ya :
have observed on the part of ilog3 some noteworthy 11,-
6W...t0 of the elfect of sounds. A tunispit bait, Waring a
deservedly high reputation for ferocity, and capable of
being held in cheat by no %Mee but my own, happen-
ing to be with nic at the house of a friend, expressed
intense delight in hearing the notes of a violin. "tilting in
the (entre of the room, wilt, head elevated, anxious to eateh
every sound, Hilly" gave forth at certain intervals a respon-
sive chorus, ascending the scale In positive accord with the
air my friend was playing.

INCIDENT IN A It,,MAIT PRISON.—An unfor-
tunate incident has just occurred in the prison of St.
Michael at Rome. In the centre of the building id
a court yard from which light and air are received in
each cell through iron gratings. A sentinel was placed
in th.• midst of this open space to prevent the prim mere
from talking to each other through the bars. Some
days back a number of the convicts refused to obey
the injunctions of the soldier and insulted him. The
man rang for the officer of the guard, who sent round
the gaolers to the cells to warn the prisoners not to
place themselves at the gratings, and gave to the sea-
Owls °niers that if any persisted in showing himself,
to first threaten to fire, and if that was of no avail, to
carry out his menace. The ~there, hiovever, continued
to openly defy the soldier, end one of them, named
Mazzariggi, made himself conspicuous among the rest
by the insults which ha addresaed, not only to the
sentry, but to the authorities. The soldier, at last,
lowered his musket as if preparing to use it, and as the
man did not withdraw, but continued his abuse, fired,
and mortally wounded the convict.

COMPLIMENTS FROM AUTHORB.—An amusing
volume might be made of the letters which Victor
Lamartine, awl other celebrated Frenchmen,
, literary, political, and heroic, have written in reply to
comphments addrersed to them—letters in which they
strive to out-compliment the compliment-maker.. In
newspaper of rec., tt date an epistle of Victor Hugo
to a lwly who is Writing a frail/don, will give an idea
of the extravagant language employed in these
effusions -" Mulame, are the daughter of a
puet, and the is iie of a poet, daughter of a king, and
wife of a king u yeti ace a queen yourself, and muwe
than a queen --a Muse. Your aurora smiles on the
darkness of ley night. Thanks, Madame ; and I kiss
year feet !"
TAKING REFUGE BEHIND THE LAW !—MiNB
SustslotT, a young woman who recently obtained a
doctor's diploma at Zurich, for sunxery and midwifery,
has just paased an examination at St. Petersburg, with
the intention If practising in Russia. According to
the lats, in order to have the right of so don,. a
doctor Will has taken his degree at,any foreign unker-
sity 15 co impelled to submit to an examination before
the medical board at the Minis C-re de l'lnterieur. It
was befu Ire this council that 'Ai iss Sonslud was exa-
mined rico VOre illlphysiolog y , therapeutics, midwifery,
and surgery, besides writing a satisfactory essay on
the ladylike subject of the lymphatic glands. As
there is no instance if a wotnan taking the degree Id
DM. in Russia, the board takes refuge behind the.
law which uunthourises foreign doctors to practice in the
country, on condition that they abide by certain rep!.
lotions, and accordingly propmeti to grant this privi-
lege to Miss Sonsloli, lout the authorisation lank be
previously ugunctioned and confirmed by the Emperor.
A DE .Vlll Kraroom—Au extra"rdinary affair
is reported from Bridgwater. A few mornings ago a
farmer named haul mid a fish hawker named
Driscoll were found lying on the road fast in each
aller's clutches, the former dead, and the latter
insensible. Driscoll, oil becoming conscious, alleged
that he knew nothing if the plight he was in beyond a
reoollection that some one hail struck him with a whip
or stick, and that he and the other had then fought.
The deceased hail both eyes dreadfully blackened, a
cut on the back of the head, and various other injuries.
It appears that about midnight he drove from Bridg-
water with a horse and trap, whieh at a very early
hour in the morning arrived at 'anningb n without a
driver, the step of the vehicle being broken I.lf.
Driscoll was coining from the °liplike direction to
Bridgwater, pushing a small handcart, winch was
found on the road, having also sustained sine damage.
Driscoll was taken into custody.

A PHASE or LoNDoN LIFE —The other day
the Manmis Townshend unearthed a case id real
distress. Finding two little children begging ha hail
them taken up, made hamiries LtS to their parentage,
and discovered that their neither was the wife of a
soldier in the Grenadier I uards, who, having married
givithout the permission if his officers, had not obtained
the usual extra lay. The wife, at, industrious and
most respectable hail to keep the children and
herself in hid. a day, which she earned by making
soldiers' clothes, The children had taken to begging int
their Own account, and not at her suggest: . They
Well 4 discharged, and the Manmis promised to see m hat
could be done fr them.

TI I E FAMILY CIRCLE. rxborongit, who
eloped with him aife, alwaym speaks of the golden
synilsil ns hich he then placed Oh her left luind as a
runaway ring.- -Punch.
. Tug BEIIOn RA OF CON STA NTI NOPLE- —The
Lentil Herald saye that a few ilays ago a beggar
caught a tartar in Box-stri'et, Galata, and the incident
promises to lead to some abatement I.f the local men-
itieant nttimanee, which Mei now attained propertdonn
hardly equalled anywhere in Europe out of Naplen.
On the day inn imestion the 51ininter of Beliee WaS
quietly walking throngh Galata, attended by in mingle
servant, when a 'stalwart raisieidlion, mistaking him
for a benevolent private Effendi, approached and
whiningly craved alms. The Naha told his servant to
seize the fellow and take hint to the nearest guard-
house to be searched. Thin was done, when a mum if
70 liras wan found upon him, sewed up in his ragged
toot. 'The Minister then ordered a genend 111ZZi3
WlllUllgtit the beggar'', which resulted in the arrest of
some scores. On examination 11114 we than half of them
were found Aron', and tit for work. Theme were for
the moment sentlii the Zaptieh, and have since been
dispatched to their native distlicts, the foreignern
amongst them being also shipped off to their reepective
Intones, fuel the whole forbidden to return to Constanti-
nople under pain of indefinite imprimennent.
A Pinworm SAYAOO--In an article entitled
"The Abyssinian Expedition," in the eurrent number
of Macmilliat's Magazine, by Clements It. Markham,
Geographer to the Pxpeilition, an interview in recorded
between the Commander-in-Chief and the Like Mank-
VillBllllma, a nobleman sent by Kama, who arrived ac-
companied by Mr. Muminger and Nlajor Grant. The
Abyseittian grandee, bringing with hhn a number of
nor/amt.* and long hiwnii, which made a mint diabolical
noise, WAS received in timber by Sir Robert Napier,
witnessed some evolutions of the Seinde Horne and 3rd
Cavalry, finished twelve bottles of runt in two mittinge,
and set out on him return to Adowa after completing
hie morning's toilette by sticking two huge pats Ini
butter on his head. The British soldier turned the
chief'u somewhat strange name into "Liquor-my-
gismo."

SIONS (IF THE TIMES Is FIIANCF..—Writ in on
Friday evening the Paris eorresrs intent of The Times
says—Some if truest friends of the Empire look on
the present state of affairs, internal and external, with
feelings of great anxiety and misgivinga as to the future.
It is to be hi imsl their apprehensions are exaggerated,
but it is undeniable that they exist, and that there is
some foundation for them. At home they tell you
that there is nothing but confusion ; that the advisers of
the Crown are at i ipen or secret war with each other;
that the NI iniater of Finance, the Minister of the In-
terior, the Minister of Marine, and thi, M inister of War
are banded together against the ever-increasing
preponderance of the Minister of State; and that the
Minister of State, relying on the Ministers of Commerce
and if Justice, and upheld by the Empress, is doing
his utmost to filing back M. do Lavalette to the
Cabinet.

MORE MURDER WEAroNs.—The Journal des
Connaissancrs Medicates describes a collide of slaughter
engines, which are suggested as the right things to use
in future warfare. One is the " Mitraillense," and it
is described as something resembling a huge coffee mill
in shape, into the funnel of which the cartridges are
thrown by shovelfuls. A soldier turns the handle, and
the movement keeps up a supply of bullets to each a
eight barrels, and causes a hammer to rise and fall
rapidly on the percussion caps, the whole resulting in
a discharge of from fifty to fifty-five shots per minute,
to a point-blank distance of 1,700 yards. It is to be
served out to the battalions of ehasseurs, each section
of which is to have one. The other contrivance is the
" Fondroyant." It is a species of musket which dis-
chows two buffets per second from a reservoir for
cartridges. As each shot passes out of the barrel it
acts upon a lever, which draws a fresh cartridge from
the reservoir, and places it in the breech.

DEATH OF Loan FORBES.—We have to record
the death of the Premier Baron of Scotland, in his
70th year. Th.' deceased peer had been long ailing in
health, hut him death was the result of a cold of only a
few days' duration. lie was a very munificent sup-
pia ter of the Episcopal Ilion+ in Scotland, and may
be sail to have been almost the founder, I 4 St. Ninian s
I 'admiral at Perth. Ile was ala, one of the youngest
officers if not the very youngest officer, on the field of
Waterloo, having joined his regiment, the I !ohlstrelun
Guards, only a few weeks previous Ink the lmttle. lie
was twice married, and is SIICC, ki in the title awl
estates by his eldest surviving son, I lorace Courtenay,
Master of ilorbes, who was born in ND.

A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE! A number of
children, living in the neighbourhood of Blackburn,
narrowly escaped serious injury, or even death, the
other evening. They had atrayed on to the Midland
Railway, and while amusing themselves jumping over
the metals, a pilot engine from Rotherham came up.
They all succeeded in getting safely off the line—one
rolling into a ditch —except a little fellow one year and
ten mouths old, named William Smith. He fell across
the metals, and the engine passed over both his feet.
Both feet were amputated, and the unfortunate little
fellow was likely to do well.
THE GENIUS OP THE AGE—A Paris corres-
pondent writes :
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MARMED AND NOT Mattis Eir.—A Bill is pass-
ing through Parliament to remedy, as far as may he, in
a particular instance, a blunder that ought no longer
to be pessible. A quarter of a century ago a chapel .d
ease Wait built awl consecrated in a hamlet in the I errish
of Sapperton, Gboucestetnhire, and marriages have been
solennuzed in this chapel apparently Si is matter Of
CoOtrne. It balls out that in supposing he could legally
demnize marriages because the chapel Was consecrated
the clergyman was, to use the language of the Dill,
" tinder an erroneous impression." Parliament does
from time to time in these eases, as they come to light,
the only thing it can do after the event —viz., pass a
Bill like this now befeee it tleelaring all the marriages
valid ; but it is to be hoped that the forthcoming re.
tort of the Marriage Law rommissi. in will propose
measures for ;lifting an end to this scandal, and enable
men and women to know for certain whether, when
they go through the usual cerenundal at a church, they
are really married, or whither they are liable to find
years afterwards, that the clergyman was " under
an erroneous impression" when he solemnly prunouswerl
them married.

A WOMAN CONDucrimo HER OWN CASE.—
To the I)ivorce Court last week, a Mrs. Anderson pre-
sented a petition for dissolution of marriage on the
ground oilier husband's cruelty and adultery. There
was no defence. The marriage took place in 18.51, and
the husband carried en the business •Of A chemist and
druggist in London. The only feature worthy of
notice was the conduct by Mrs. Anderson of her ‘Avn
case. Standing in front of the Queen's !ourniers table
she briefly, but clearly, stated the objects of her pcti.
thin, called her witnesses (in whose examination she
was materially assisted by the Court) in due order,
gave her own evidence in a collected manner in sop.
is.rt of the charge of cruelty, and obtained a decree
nisi with costs. Mrs. Anderson is the first lady %vbs,
has conducted a suit to a successful issue before this
Court.

AN ADVENTURE AT SRA.—Captain Bramble,
while asleep in the cabin of his vessel in Hooper's
Straits, was locked in by the crew, six negroes, who
got the vessel under weigh. This awoke the captain,
who, alarmed at finding himself a prisoner in his cabin,
managed to make a hole through the door, where he
got a glimpse of the man at the wheel and shot him.
Making a great effort he burst the door open, and
meeting two Africans killed them both as well as two
others who rushed to their assistance, the sixth only
saved himself by rushing below and bowing his life.
Bramble ran the vessel into Holand's island and gave
himself and the surviving nis,To up to the antis ,rities.
AN ATTORNEY'S CLEVERNESS.—A curious CitSo
has been tried in the Bail Court before Mr. Justice
Mellor and a common jury. A fruit grower at Battersea
named Fletcher had sold to a costermonger named
Sheppard, for £2O, a certain quantity of fruit. The
bargain proving a bad one for Sheppard, he refused to
pity the money, and the plaintiffs solicitor, in order to
remove the case out of the county court, exult.. mud de it
to I...tried in a superior court, astep which would enable
him to send the defendant to prison in the event of his
having no goods, sued him, not for £2O, but for
£2O Ox. 3d. ; the additional threepence being alleged
to be interest on the debt of el°. The defence was,
that the transfer of the case from the county court to
the Bail Court was vexatious, and for the sole purpose
of putting the defendant to unnecessary expense. The
Jury, however, returned a verdict for the full amount
claimed, thus giving the plaintiff the benefit of his
attorney's ingenious contrivance.
WHERE RAGS COME FROM.—Most Of the
imported linen rags come from Germany and Italy,
the former moderately clean, and the latter very dirty.
Irish rags are dirtier than English, and town rags than
those from the nointry. Some of the foreign rags
from Italy, Spain, Russia, and Egypt are in such a
filthy state as to lessen their value considerably in the
market.

- At last we have our spring weather ; consequently the Bois
On Sunday last was crowded ash had not seen It this year by
the vast world oh PAria notabilities. Carriages of every
species and every size, from the four-In-hand drag to the tiny
panic). ,1 caladc ; equestrians splendidly mounted, flatters
from the boulevards, eandins from the club, beauties of
the great world, celebrities of the other world, all congre-
gated there Princess Metternich was ansongst the
rider.; with her Madame de Pourtaies, whose bat de, robes
court,e of the night bets ve—or rather if that morning, as the
cotillon was danced at live—was the theme of all gossip ;
Madame ele Pairs, in it splendid new tons-out Mr. Wilkinson
and his four-in-hand ; Ludy Mary craven, NI. Islfenbach, M.
tittstave Dorts—the latter, I could not help remarking,
received shore bows 0.1111 wreathed smiles," as lie drove
round the lake in his eO.ll, than rimy an ambassador or
Russian prince, lie is young and remarkably iossl-lookinc,
his eye penetrating, yet full of child-like good tumour ; his
frank, pleasant expressfiro, the utter absence of all pretension
in his masiner and hearing, have assure of the English gentle-
nun than of the habitte: of French salon, I was with a
friend of Illice, a mannifigricr, and one well-known in the
crest world of art-literature. As he raised Isis hat to Dore,
said" What think you of Pore?" "That he is the genius
of the age. Some writers, especially journalists, choose to
attack hits, owing to the rapidity with which he is supposed
to sketch, draw, and paint. They are wrong. There is not
idretch, or drawing, era picture on which his brain has not
workers' for nsonths, ansl even years, before he has taken up
his pencil, chalk, sir brush, ti give outward expression to his
thought. Indeed, many of his works are the result of a long
snatured Idea, dating from the tissue when he was at college.
Pore is Indefatigable. Ile works at night and in the early
morn's] z, well knowing that in the afternoon he will be
pla,zucri by the visits, or rather visitations, of Isis friends.

A PERVERT—The following is from the
;Vally liegiater :
A young English peer, whose father in 181.1 became a Pro-
teetant, was on the 2Srd of last month received into the
Catholic Church, and thus, after the apustacy of one genera-
tion, a well-known old Catholic family returns to the true
faith. The present peer was only three years old when his
father became a Protestant, and was consequently educated
in that denomination, lie was confirmed on the 2.Sth by
Cardinal de Iteisach. There is a great deal to be thankful
for in this conversion, which is beyond all doubt the fruit of
many prayers.

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FRESH MEAT FROM AUSTRALIA.—GreAt in-
terest is, we (British Medical Journal) learn, being
taken now in Sydney in a prOCCBB for preserving fresh
meat known as Afort's freezing prsK.Viiti, the cold being
obtained by the lignefaction of ammonia. A public
meeting has subscribed £3,000 towards sending to Eng-
land a Khipload of 260 tons of fresh meat, which may
be expected to arrive in this autumn, which is to con-
sist of choice meat and to be sold fresh and sound in
these markets at about hl. a pound: We heartily hope
the venture may succeed. Meat preserved for doyen
months by this refrigerating process is. said to have
been perfectly fresh when eaten two orthree slays after
being thawed. The conunittee expect to have a hhil,-
kad ready in July.

A FATAL CoNrflArr.—A man named Leers,
22 year+ of age, has just been arrested on the charge of
having murdered a young glazier named Maretti: aged
IS, st Evegnee, in Belgium, near Liege. The prisoner
has made a foil confemmion. He states that he agreed
to carry on his back the other's stock of glass for the
sum of two sone out of every franc received, winch
arrangement, however, was afterwards changed to the
payment of a breakfast of coffee with bread and butter.
Moretti continually evaded the fulfilment of tho con-
lition ; having Heated themselves by the roadside, the
decemed was counting his money, when Leer tried to
wrest it from him ; the other resisted and fought with
.i4Lkeistnies. loserillsiklikapjobs.posseeima et She
impTemekr-struck -dm deceased NO violently on the
head as to render hini insensible. The murderer dim
took to flight. Circumstances, however, caused
suspicion to fall upon him, and he ITEMS taken into
cwitody.

THE CASE F GOVERNOR DARLINO.—Sir Chas.
Darting, late thwernor of the colony of Victoria, has
pr • arritaltto l'arliament a petition expressing his desire
th t his whole coadaet M the administration of the
government of VietOria, and all his proceedings in re-
spect t • the proposed grant of *X ta
bAm PAPTIM he-fill PetPfi tr., the hire*
thm. Ile submits that the whole questioa of the grant,
the -ury principles upon
which it proceeds, and the
motives in which it originated, are so intimately con-
I *acted with his conduct in the adminifstrativn o 4 the

ad the i

EPITOME OF NEWS.,

DRITISEI AND FOREDIti.

A connnunicathal from o,le,sa states that the
Emperor of lit, -ta ha sent tire laluahle horses to the
Sultan a; a 1,1,,et.t. _

Prince Arthur, third *At of the Queen, attainA his
ei,liteenth birth's). ot Fri.lay, the i 4 of May.
Our COM let estal.li,hmenta in the e ;lonic. keep in
durance 270 s convicts, at an annual cost of £ib,S9l.

It Ixaalx. vat uggestL' that tho Royal family theathl
have wore regal inestige than heretofore: and that guards of
honour should escort the juniour tuentlrers of the hon.:hold.

Five years' penal servitutie is the sentence which has
hern prllll minced by Ow Recorder of Wigan on the three
turnouts who wtre charged with attacking the house of a
knobstick "on the 2001 ult. tile severity of the punisul.
ment excited much astontelunent among the friends of the
awcused.

A stamp has just been issued by the Canadian
authoritiea a hich till prove quite an acquisition to stamp
collector. It consists of a heautifully.cxecuted portrait of
the Queen in stick. 'I; attire, and acorilig the familiar Mary
smart cap.
Thirtv-one per.lns have been fined at Manchester
for keeping doge a ithout the accessary licence. 'rite amount
of the line varied from 308. to 40s in tact case.
_

It has 'wen determined to erect a church in 'London
for the deaf :mil dumb. The site is Intemlad, if possible. to
be ill the It estern Central district. no the trialsit the
scheme deem a church in that part more convenient tor
tilos, to he specially benefited limn inn, iii South London.
At Lamy, a hamlet close t, Lyons, the inhabitants
II do surprked to see one i 4 their neighbours. named
Claustrei, a farmer, promenading the street covered vi ith
bioo,l, and at Lim; that to, hail just tilled his wife for '• the
greater glory of clod Ile added tint he won test out earth
for •• the salvation of sinners." It was fossil that lie hail
indeed murdered the poor woman.
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The Austrian nemord4e, after a careful numbering
of the soldiers maintained by various European States, hiss
sine to the conclusion that Aushia is hi a very Ili-tem-de-4
state, and that It vi ill he neeessaiy tor her to increase her
army to 1,053,i5ai moo to preserve peace !
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Tim eolliene Alike at St. Helens Ins terminated.
The Moll, who appear to have boon reduced to great straits
by the conted, have agreed to t.ork at 15 redact
provided that, in cameo a horn mid getting is attended with
special difficulties, consideration haaill he given to the
. . . .

a.vatsa...
The other .14y an old gontionan, Nevonty-eight
s'e3rs of age, a lien in Ilasingltall alrant, I.ondou, trod on a
lady's train mid was tnnown down. lie inketured hie WO,
and lid shortly dtornnriln.
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'lle Seal Fisheritui alurirw the past season are maid 41,
have been a great failure. 1110 entire catch does not ereeeill
tio,ooo seals, Igaill at previous tcerasg,tot train 2151,000 to
3oU,00(1.
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Mr. JUDI., I 'atie, a male,' but a English
extraction, luau just dad, leaving a 1111111011 of fn. to the
peer 1 dud bowl,. Ile Wax it Protestant, but had
beu,ane a moniker uf the now suet if Nofidairev, and desimi
by his m la lie buried mithuut funeral kite.,

M a fariner'N wife in Connecticut, mays : -
" I blew. I've gut the foulereut•heurttst buyslu the WI.IIII
Can't tun one of to futelt u toil of water but Is hut he'll
burst out a mile."
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"I% hat Is the nee of you gentlemen p.ing to c.ollego?"
Said a fanner, in (..aiversati.al with one of the KSSidit:lllt 00111-
luimionors engaged in the recent Sehools Inquiry ; .• my Roll
Walter all RR rite a better heed than you " And the e.on-
iiiismitnier confer:4m the fart to he Rd,

The Religious Tract Society isened 40,991,70 tracts
yinlY ill the Foitod Ki.il,,W. Since It Imlnatiox
the number belted by the Society amounts to the euonuons
thfure of 1,1.35 millions.
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The Globe Flate that it is the intention of Lotil and
Lady Casthrosm to invite tho Prince and Prineks
Wele to spend a few days at Killarney, in the month of
September, and that probably their Royal Ilialmesaes will
accept this invitation.

During the examination of Mears. Merriek and
Cot by the cotamel of tit, Pre:Mont of the tutted Statei,
Merrick saki, " The Prealtlent Kent for me at about live
o'clock in the aftentoon—" 'Ship !" atop !" cried Mr.
Butler, " I object to anything tho Prettitlent linty have sahl
at live o clock in the afternoon ; meaning that Mr. Joluatent
ass Intoxicated at the time.

A halfpenny postage for circulars and newspapera
has been suggested, and the argument per figures shows that
It ought to pay the tiovennuent handsomely.

The "champion " two wmitlim-legged walker ofruni
to walk • quarter of • mile In three minutes !

The (irdinary punishment f. a. I smelling in Japan is
decapitation. The consequence is abundance of goon le
A French paper Hays that England is at the present
moment making every effort to cited, a recomiliat in be-
tween Persia and Turkey. On the litlwr hand, Russia is en-
deavouring to embroil them more mid snore, and there is
evoy reason Mr believing that war has become Inevitable be-
tween the Persians avid the Teri.. .

l'he New South Wales papers announce the death
in that colony, in January last, of John sham, Strange, the
last id the convicts concerned in the celebrated into Street
conspiracy.

A new public park, thirty acres in extent, was
opened at Southport, on Friday The land for the park was
pr,enteil several years ago by the rector.
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From the Amer iran A thertanny, a Ntiv York
journal, devoted to the progressive and festhetic sciences,"
we learn that Prof. Agassio has been writing to the public
'ANTS to Iciest against his name beiinT quoted as (OW of
the weatio•r-prophet. " Meteopdogy," says the great
naturalist, 'is not yet sufficiently advanced to Justify such
attempts."

The following bwid paragraph ham been the round of
the French papers :—"Sothern, the English actor, whose
photograph papered our streets towards the end if the Ex-
hibition, and who performed in the Salle Ventadour, hag gone
MI( if his istud. ills livillsioll, it weens, is that he tuna eleven
1111011, and he is constantly counting them. There is no
hope of saving him." POOr Mr. SOtherll

A letter front Home says lastly Herbert has re-
covered Irmo the severe attack of Roman fever which for
• weeks so pmstrated her that int Easter Sunday her life
was despaired if. Although still very weak, her ladyship is up
and convalescent. The illness is attributed to Lady Herbert's
too assiduous attendance at the bedside of a friend who suc-
cumbed tin the same malady."
Tin. latest tnnaieal sensation in New York State is a
young woman of Batavia, who plays two airs with her right.
hand, one with her left, and sings a fourth simnltaneously.
There appears to he no doubt that Barrett.), sentence
will be carried into effect. The day fixed fir his execution is
Tuesday, the 12th instant. Ile is of the R 1111 l am Catholic
religion, and is constantly vMted by the Rev. Mr. Hussey,
the priest attached to Moorfields Chem{ His friends reside
It, Ireland. _ _

The Pope, it iteenut, wisheit to he on the hest of tertim
with the futon. K lag of Italy if be kg Hot with the present,
for he him made Prince HIIIIIIIOII a hanibione present, Itlaivh
consisits of a splendidly wrought gold statuette rept ebenting
the "Mad delta Conoezione." To the Princess he has
sent an elegantly hound prayerdoisik, the cover of a Welt is
richly ornamented a ith gold, and se4 w!tli pre.i.:liins atone,

e - A runaway couple were married at _ ,retna -green.
The smith dein:11111,11 live guineas for his SerVieeS. •. lioW is
this ?.. said the bridegroom : - the gentleman pen last
lllSSried assumil me that he only gave pill a guinea." .• True,"
saint the smith, ''lint he ties an Irishman. I have married
tam Ida time.. Ile is in good eustunnor, but you I may never
tilte again."

Mr. C. IT. Spurgeon will he presented with £1,200
as a token if affection, and thu memorial stones of two more
houses for ministers' orphans—to the creel ion of which lie has
devoted the gift—all! be laid on the Stockwell Orphanage
gro iiiii Non Whit Monday. Three weeks after the nod stone*
of two more houses will he laid—tans subscribed for by
Sabbath-school Chillll,ll, the other by the sindents of the
Pastor's eollego—and a fete In 11011011 r if Mr. Spurgeon's
birthday I.oth June, he held on the SW.

A correspoutient of the Engligh Independent at
Hobart 'rows, speaking of Prince Alfred's v kit to Tasmania,
says he entered into the various arrangements that wore
made to do him honour and to gratify the curiosity of lin-
Tile several relish.. de atbms senti,d ad
dresses of congratulation and \VIACOM, to Which lie returned
written replied. lie laid the f of a new
cathedral which it is proposed to reel in liolittrt Town for
the Episcopalian., and having travelled to the north of the
iSIRIIII he re 'ed the first bird of the but railway to be
strneted in Tasmania

The following anecdote is related by a lady win i had
lately the honour of a eonvernation with the Emperor of
the French, who it is well known is not a great talker, and
rarely expresses his feelings OA any subject. His lisje,ty in
reported to hare said —I was not born with warlike pro-
pensities • it was a feeling of duty w stein prompted me to
command' the troops in Italy,"
Prince Alfred ing A composer NO at knot a Melbourne
journal says. Ile MIS composed a waltz which lies at bid
'Royal Highness's appointed publishers, Messrs. Anderson
AIM Still, Itlid Which an Australian critic says is very melodious
and of easy performance. The waltz Is naturally haring a
groat sale is the colony.

A Annexe incident ie related from the department of
harenteinftrieure, In France,--nainely, that bands of
peaaants have in certain villages, notably those of 4'oreout
and ehevanccaux, Insisted tunnilt tamely on the removal from
churches and church windows of the My (ftrar de fi/a), the
emblem] of tins old 11l Bourbon ll nattily and of old France.

The Duke of Namau, who WWI deprived of hia
Dukedom by Prussia two year. ago, but was allowed to
retain Ids palace of isiberich, has, it Is said, determined to
sell that property, being disgusted at the conduct of the
Prussian soldiers towards him. The Itothschilds iire believed
to have bought the greenhouses for £1.5,000. The castle will
probably ho sold to a Russian Prince.

•
Sir William Knonye, in consequence of the number
of addresses of loyalty sent from Ireland to the Prince of
Wales, has hew obliged to return the game reply to twenty
of them at once. lit this document he stater that the
confldome reposed in him by the Irish people is cordially
reciprocated by his royal highness, and that the remembrance
of the reception which wasven to the Prince and Princeas
of Wales will ever be grateftfl to them."

A Paris correspondent says he has just overin-ard
prayer at Notre Dame In Paris, Oh, beloved Saint .I.fteph,"
murmured • l'olly little grisette, on her knees before a
taper she hail just lighted in lila honour, grant me a good
husband, plenty of Ir.iiiing to do, shirt collars without starch,
and charcoal without smoke; and to my dear old aunt an
easy death. All these blessings as speedily az may !"

The shortest will extant is possibly that of Lord
Wensleydale, which was proved on the Bth ultimo. It runs
than—' Thin is the last will of me, James, Lord Wensley-
dale. I give all my property, real and personal, and all I
have In the world, and all that I have power to dispose of,
to my beloved wife Cecilia, her heirs and executors, abso-
lutely. This 25th day f November, AI, IS63.—WlNsLar-
baLit." The estate was sworn under s:120,000.

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The Globe says that the Abyssinian campaign ahoull
have been a complete success, that It should have reached its
crisis even earlier than the Government ventured to calculate,
that the captives should have bees rescued, and their liarbarie
captor have met hisdeath, with suchmnall injury to the British
forces, Is a sad vesatkm to those who begrudge Mr. Disraeli
any accident of good fortune !

In a street in Detroit, recently, the wife of a me-
chanic dint, and the body was placed In the corns), and
everything 1110.110 ready fur interment. Fortunately signs of
breathing were detected. The corpse was left in the COffill
several days, and upon the fifth day after the supply-ed
death, signs ,d life were so numerous that the body was re-
moved to a twit, where it gradually became warmer, and
finally its previous deadly expression forsook it altogether.
The ensuing day the woman opened her eyes, spoke on the
third, and she is now in a fair way of recovery
. .

" A large nugget, heavy enough to remind us of old
times, was Lately found at Randhurnt. A German, named
Jacob, who had been working by himself what they call
' halting ' 4,11 the diggings in Spitter's tmlly, Whipstick,
for many a weary day, handy ' earning his tucker,' was luckily
enough alma a fortnight atm, while fossieking about 'in
some old and partially-worked ground, to strike hi. pick
against what, Whell uncovered, proved to lie a glittering mass
of gold, weighing 275 minces, and worth about £l,OOO."—
Melbourne Argus.

The Prince of Wales is the bsinder 6f the new
Athletic Club to be established on the premises of the late
laitish lastltutlon, Pall Mall, London, which have been
secured for tltboMi. The club lam oonsist of three hundred
awl fifty menihers, specially invited by the Itritice each to
contribute Lien, to the foundation fund, with
entrance, and .C 25 annual subscription. There is to Inc
smoking ad libitum, and an American bowling suluoil.
A faction fight, of an even more ilelilnerate charac-
ter than those common in former times, itai taken place at
barryeastle races, near At'done. The Gaffeyn and the Hunts
quarrelled six months ea., over a " matchmaking," and the
combat has only now come off. In the evening, after the
races, the two parthia retired to a lonely part of the course,
where the ringleader of each having called over the 111111.4
of his nien, a fierce tight with sticks 6rgan In a quarter of
an hour the number of the " wounded " was considerable
'Ultimately the conatabulary appeared upon the scene, and
charged the struggling bodies, and dispersed them, waking
sums arrests.