The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF SEWS.

BRITISH AND FORtIGAL

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A monument has been erected to the bite Herr Ott,
who was killed a few months ago by Codnt &denims!: at
lionn. Its ten feet high, and bears the blowing inscrip-
tion .—" D. Eugene Ott lies in this place, which was preparod
for him unexpectedly. He died innocent "
It appears from official stat.stics recently published
that during the second y infer of the peeseut year the
number of legitimate children born In Posh s was 1,601 ; of
5,854 In the same period there were 4,877
marriages, and 11,110 oesths.
A single steamship recently braucht from England
to America orders for three millions of United States 510
bonds.
The Politik of Prague announces that it is Implicated in fowl en actions brought against it from various
various cases My the Government.

A manuscript by Edgar A. Poe has been discovered,
and will goon be pubil•h,-d In New York.

l'he heirs of one of the obi Knickerbocker families -An inquest has been held at Freemantle, near
in New York have begun a salt against the Corporation of Sontbamp. on, on Satnrday, on the hod of an aged maiden
Trinity Church for the recov,-ry of large tracts of real lady name,, Stodart li appeared that deceased wm, • luna:lc,
estate is that city, valued at 60,00,000 dollars. but was a lowed to attend to small household uo.tters. On
There is a great demand for "domestic help" in Thursday morang. she was seized with spasms, aid upon •
Boston, and Irish girls are receiving from three to four doctor being called in, he at once said she was suffering all
dollars per week, besides their board and lodging. It Is the symptoms of poisoning by strychnine. Anti-motes were
proposed to supply the demand with negroes from the offered, but deceased refused them MI, and admitted having
houth taken som• of the contents of a packet of vermin powder.
An Italian hunt-maker of NeW York, who had been She tied in about two hours. A verdict of "sulcuie in an
, uneound state of mind" was returned.
making • bust of Madonna 11,stori was lately killed In a !
quarrel with his empleyar, arising from the host not being . Toe Royal gondola which Venice is preparing for
ready at the time when particulerly wanted. R•stori has the King, is to have • crew of eighteen oarsmen She carries
sent tin, widow of the man PM dollars, and t Lien to act at her pr. iw the Lion of St. lark, hearing the shield of Savoy,
lii a theatrical benefit for her children . and, on the PO p, Venice crowning Italy. The sides are
vered with sculptures and gilding In form she resembles
Mr. George Peabody some time since offered to pay the vessels or .he aecients. At One end rises a canopy In
for the ert otion if at. ingregatienid Cnurch at Georgetown,
alamachu ette, as a memorial to his mother, and was crime., velvet, lined with more, ant embroil, red In mild,
which consannes • reel throne. The hangings rest upon
lately present at its • edictal-in. If, has now offered to gilded pillars, iti..l are embroidered with gold. In had
erect a library building for the town arid stock 14 with books weather the whole can be 010,0,1 by gain doors. In the centre
for the use of all the people. His lint appropriation for of the gondolo rises the Royal ensign.
this Is 12,000 dollars.
The following plan for the preservation of geraniums
A very strious and alarming colli-iion happened in &wive winter wol be found to insecr ve.-y wed : rake the
the Fa kirk Tunnel of the In' nhurgh and Glmqg -w Railway plants to ne preserved out of their pot., trim off the leaves
on Su,,ility morning. by whicri eight men were lujureo, atei outer branches, and th-n take off ail the soil from the
six hullocks killed, and a large quantity of railway plant roots, tie them up in bunches, and hang them rii its up-
, destroyed. wards In a dry, dark cituboard, lift, or cellar, where no
The Ste ndar,l announces that a County Conserva. frost can touch them. In the spring bring there out ~and
live Reglstraton Ase.cistloo, - under the sanction of the having well cle.dised your pots inside and out), re-pot them
leaders of the petty," Is in course of formation in some good compost.
" Wanted, the next of kin of the late Henry Keld, The French farmers arc, according to M. Mene.
who was master of the brig Charier, belonging to the yert villa, threatened witn a new disease of the potato 91.
of S nvapore, end was lost, with all hands, on a voyage Sieueville ••eseribes the atttok noon the vegetable by
from R•ngoon to Singapore In the beginning of the year Myria.o of minute Insects Ile found the fluor of his
1852. Rs was a native of Robin Hood's Bay. near Whlthy, potato room literally covered with a layer of those trisects,
Yorkshire, an i was for many years is the 0.01 with giving It the cmearance of is grayish d.t, and he expresses
Captain Rost. The next of kin will hear of something to the fear that they are but the forerunners of some serious
their ad vant ege ino applying to Guthrie and Co —'Singapore, dieteoo of a new description.
4th Sept, litdd "—Advertisement in London Timm. . A little screw steamer, named the A uguita, has just
According to the usually well- informed London . left Liverpool for Pernambuco. The Auguata is only 44 Ines
corre.p 'relent of a Manchester contemporary, the ii,-,vern, I burthen end proceeds to Pernanibuco under sail fore and
merit have been giveu to understatel thin If no mention le aft rig the screw being stowed away on dick There are
made id Reform hi the Cpteeti's speech next session, there Only two men, • boy, and a dog in charge of the vessel,
will he an amendment moved as le 1859 : and that being so, "Toe old 'Council Tree of the Senecas,' nearly five
it is bel,evei in ~ safe q ratters" that a Franchise Bill, out- centuries old. at Mount Morris, New York, was blown down
bidding Sir r;ledstone's as regards the towns, is more than a few days ago. It measured twenty-three feet In circum-
contemplated by the younger mid more venturts me spirits ference. The solemn councils of the Seneca chiefs wee
of the Tory party. A Rating Suffrage is even spoken of held beneath this tree from time ImmemoriaL"—N err Turk
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The New York World Oates that the deaths in that
city during the present season have exceeded, accoroing to
the health ~fficers' reports, those of the preceding ;mason by
5,000. It Is surmised in various parts of the country that
the true extent of the devastations by the cholera in New
York was n 4 honestly reported.
It is said that the waate-paper of the Government
sells annually for 7.0001.
'I he Pays Nays that the Austrian army will be remr-
ganlzed after the French me let, and that the Austrian in-
fantry will even wear red trousers.
The King of Bavaria," says the Cologne Gasette,
"has just male. prevent to his protege, Mcnard Wagner,
of a walking.stick, the head of which is • swan chiselled in
gold and enriched with brilliants, the whole worth several
thousand ducats."

Paper.
An American paper states that every lady who hu
been at Mount Flo'yoke seminary is expected to write an
annual letter stating whether she is married or single, how
many children she has, and other particulars concerning her
stetus and progress. A young lady of the class of 1861 has
just written to the class secretary that she is not married,
but that she thinks she can see a little cloud that arises out
of the sky of the future like a man's hand.
Her Majesty and Royal family, attended by the
state, are expected to leave Balmeral and return to Windsor
Castle &mut the Srd of November.
Almost as soon as the Atlantic Cable was laid a
captain of a ship who arrived at Ponta an Galls telegraphed
to his owners at New York fie telegraphed to the agents
In London, and they telegraphed to America. but the answer
-es sent direct from New York to Gallo The datance which

A Vienna letter, published by the Monde, says :
" Plaine lias been for some days past In • state of great
popular agitation. This is whet has happened :—The Jesuits,
during the Prussian occupation, purchased a house for the
'lwoso of opening • school, pa lug cash for it out of their
hum.; and now, although under the protection of the
government, they cannot appear in public without being
assaileui. The inhabitants want to have them removed
altogether.'
A veterinary surgeon has been fined 25.5., by the
Tiverpoil magistrates for stopping the prison van on its way
to Ki tilde and Imisting upon the horse being taken
out of the shafts on the ground that li, was disesaed.
The Paris correspondent of the Independanee Berge
says that Dr Langenbi ck, a celebrated Om Mall physician,
has been consulted by the Emi erer Napoleon, and that the
result of an examination instituted by him was not con-
sidered satisfactory. On the other hand his Majesty has
received sensible relit f from a slight operation which he has
undergone at the hands • f Dr Guidon, and it Is ad ed that
this physician will remain at Biarritz until his Majesty's
departure. The celebrated Dr. Rolston basalt° been aent for.
The office of Messrs. Shipton. solicitors, and clerks
to the county magistrates for the Chesterfield divialon, was
robbed during Saturday night of an iron sole and it. con-
tents, amounting to about 801. The safe was fouLd on
Sunday evening near a hay-rick in Pothouse-lane by the
police, where it had been hammered open and it. contents
taken away.
An American paper says that the British government
need never be at • loss for want of information Rio the
deaigns id the Fenian leaders. Scarcely is it necessary for
it to employ spies, so numerous gra the volunteer traitors who
press their services upon it; all that is said, all that la
plotted in the Fenian councils, in spite of the affectation of
secrecy and in spite of oath., is communicated in • short
spsce of tide to the authorities is Lobelm, who are thus
enabled at a moment's notice to lay then hand upon the
unsuspecting victims of the Fenian delusion.
On Saturday morning an old man named Desmond,
residing in Thorpe-street, Birmingham, stabbed a young fal-
low mimed Taylor In the abdomen Both had been drink.
Mg. and DeIMOIM, In a state bordering ou delirium treknou,
Inflicted the wound upon Taylor, who, it la said, had been
cohabiting with his assailant's daughter. The unfortunate
man was taken to the hospital, where he died in a few
hour..
A young married woman preferred a charge of
assault against an Irishman, at the Davenport Guildhall, for
kissing her without permission It appeared that the de-
fendant went to the house of the complainant respecting
some ledgingo, end while the apartments were being shown
him he setred the landlady anti kissed her. The magistrates
sentenced him to 14 days imprisonment for the offence.
The weather in Paris, during the pant week has
been gloomy and cold, so much no that many persons had to
light their firea
Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C.' a leading member of the Irish
her, and formerly member of Parliament, has joined the
Church of Rome and will shortly Maim his reason for doing
so in a pamphlet. It is said that the change le by no mean.
• hasty one, as he has been meditating it for year..
An arrangement has been emt....sed, into between the
Caledonian Railway, the North British Railway, and the
Scottish South-Western Railway, not to promote, tract',
or indirectly, any new schemes during the next session of
Parliament
There are now thirteen steam-packet companies
, running steamers between Caroms and the United state,
Thew, steamers make about 420 round trips every year, and
the gross annual revenue they yield is about lOW millions
Sterling.
As giving an idea of the value of land in Melbourne,
wis may mention that a short time ago Messrs. Buckley and
Nunn, large woollen drapers there, paid seven Inindred and
forty pounds • foot for laud in Bourke-street, on which •
portion of their business premises are erected. For twenty-
seven feet frontage they paid no less • sum than 22,0001. The
and was originally purchased from the Sydney Government
In 1239 for about ten pounds.
A literary announcement from Leipzig runs thus :
"Odr readers will be obliged to us for drawing their atten-
tion I. some Sanscrit works which will shortly appear. We
have not read the books ourselves, but If their contents are as
interesting as their titles, their perusal must be the acme of
delight. The titles are
trastotra," Trtgunattnikakan
yapiuut"gankarchtatschatur
teitschaturdarivratakatim."
Professor de Morgan, it it said, went to hear an
organ piayid by • performer who seemed very desirous to
exhibit one particular stop. "What do you think of that
stop r he was asked. "That depends upon the name of it,"
said he. "Oh ! what oan the name have to do with the
sound? 'That which we call a rose, '&c" "The name has
everything to do with It," says he; "If It be a Lite atop, I
think it very harsh; but if it be a railway-whistle stop,
think it very sweet."

was Limn Nei York to Galls Ice u....
the telegram and the reply travelled was 20,00 miles, and
the cast was 501.
Frankfort-on-the-Main is no longer a Free City. Its
fate was settled at Sadowa, the sentence ha. Mat been
officlelly promulgated, and we must henceforth think of it
as one of the outposts of the Pruseien monarchy.
On Friday night last the Grampian Mountains
were covered with swore.
Mise Rye is preparing to send out to Hawkes Ray,
New Zealand, twenty families and fifty single liris in the
second week of next month. Emigrants accepted by Miss
Rye must pay one pound for bedding, and epees e to repay
the peasage money, 141., within two years after landing.
Wages for ',men at Hawke' Bsy vary from 201. to 401. a
year ; and shepherds obtain from 501 to 701.
A typographical fete will shortly be celebrated at
Milan, in lion or of the memory of Panfilo Csateldi, who
first me 'de,' moveable type. The Invention of Cutalli will
be immortalised by a monument, the work of a Milanese
sculptor, Gioseppe Corti. "We have reason to inhere," adds
an Italian paper, that all the printer' Of all the Italian
cities will be represented at this fentival, which Is to do
homage to one of the glories of Maly."
A. little girl in the employ of the Wolleotville (Com
necticuti Maenfsctnring Company p muss. moat wonderful
arithmetical movers. She comas 2,000 percussion caps, and
puts them In twenty boxes, 100 In each, in one minute, and
makes a mLstake.
Dr. Bryant, of Boston, United States, has purchased
and presented to the Society of Natural Reitory of that city
the La Fresuaye c ilec:lon of birds, cue of the largess and
meet valushie in lump., numbering 8,989 eperimens, all
steiff.d lied mounted ha the best manner.
'rhe season of the year has an influence on the
weight of man Mr Milner weighed the prisoners In Bull
Gaol for five years, and Mond 'hat they regularly increased
en weight from April to November, and decreased from
November to March. The diet was the same all the year
round, as was also the temperature.
Mr. George Hadfield, M.. P., proposes to build See
new Congregational chapels. Sheffield. To this purpose he
devotee 1,2501., or 2001 each. Tide sum he is reedy to Invest
In the Mane. of trustee., and as each chapel shell be built It
will receive he share of the money, namely, 2001, with such
accumuletlon of Interest as may then have &carded Mr
De.lneld makes the further offer that towards each chapel
that may be built during his lifetime he will give the further
sum of 1501
•• Two men in a barber's shop in Baltimore, the
other day, hung up their coats. When the teurorial opera
' Mon was over, the first one donned his nrghbourn coat and
walked away It contained 2 500 wnlcti No. 2 deter-
mined should not go that way, and a policeman was de-
spatched after him Learning the mistake, he became
arisen, alarmed, and hastened hack, for In his own cost
pocket lay h eOO doh. The exchange was mutually satis-
faafry —if ow York Evening Poet.
I 'The present high price of butchers' meat in Mel-
bourne—mtliton, 7d , and beet, ad, and Si. a pound—appa-
rently the result of the late very severe and protramed
drought, seem, to have stimulated some of the Australian
provision merchants towards the providing of new articles of
food for the people Fieh diet has come into much more
general use than was formerly the case, and One original
genius at Geelong has taken to smoking Kangaroo hams,
which are retailed at 15d. a pound and green hams at 3,1.
These hams have been pronounced very good by those who
have tried them.
According to a correspondence from Madrid to the
Thdependance Belo, the report that the Engine Govern-
ment nad oeinanded satisfaction from Spain on accnint of
the capture of the Tornado is asserted to be devoid of foun-
dation. The matter had been submitted to the regular
jurisdiction of the Spanish maritime tribthals or prise
wort., by whom the compensation to the English owners
will have to he determined, and there could be no occulon
for diplomatic Intervention, at any rate not until the judg-
ment of the sourt Is known.
A singular and melancholy affair took place near
Richmond, Missouri, on the 951 h ult., between two little
Vys, aged respectively eleven and thirteen yearn, sons of
intern Flournoy. They ways hunting partridges with their
father's revolver, but became engaged in a quarrel, when
the elder fired two shots with the pistol at the younger,
woundlim him In the forehead and hip. Re then handed the
weapon to his wounded brother and told him to shoot him,
firingøe tbwra.
onshor,ndookieulimm::
hehnnteitnii.thtley.
One of tho.e melancholy and fatal ccidents now so
right hip 11
the
mow= in London occurred In the Blackfriars-road on
Priday eneing last, by which Mr James Lowe, said to be the
did
other w'
one the
adapter of the screw propeller, lost his llfe. The unfor-
tnieste decoseed was standing on the kirb of the footway
.....reaory to crossing the street, when the horses of •
rii;ll, wee waggon, coming at a rapid pace in a direction
opposite to the sash, was looking, caught him by the arm,
..ingbg him Into the roadway under the wheels of the
waggon, which passed over his chest, causing instantaneous
death.

," lipangslalit-avratiZl-
dyapans,' sad 'Allan-

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The e,i.l Roman Journat stated the other day that
more than sixty young men of Roman families who took part
In the late war had been permitted to return to their homes,
befog merely lulled t to the "ordinary police regulations."
It seems from a letter In the Debate that these regulations
consist In the inscription of their names on the list or ens
voted persons irilimitted to a strict surveillance They are
compelled to return to their domiciles at sunset, and ate
Natad learing_44{64 %burg AdAg grma.o4
eto be Mast SWIM •

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It is rumoured that the Hon. Charles Sumner is
shout to he msrr6d to &young, handsome, sad accomplished
widow, the daughter.lislaw of • member of Congress, from
liassachussets.—Wrlting on this, • correspondent ac;.—
There Is s soupeen of romance shout the approaching
marriage of Slostor Sumner with hire Sturgis Hooper
The lady telda up the tight to 100,000 uollara, property
leafigatitgetafarbsr, apse lq•

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The rdiest rhot made at the 'Belgium or v,oc by
ellertian nann Conatance Coles, of Wive, near Nmor HI
email rifle imp beet as directly through the centre of the
inn, ring aa telts passage 1%14 been regulated by a hair of
centpasaew ,
Ml°7 South Kensington museum has rem-htly no.
fi'llred • peek of tdayong cares of singularity. 110-y use
IVA,. In silk, aad were made for the 11..010l in the 17k
century by a maker nettled Pai.ichl, whose uame 1i oil one.
Such aards are not meirloned by Singer, or Why, or any
other authority on the subject
All the political prisoners at Venice have been sat
at liberty.

A monster honeycomb, weighing 12() ihs., was
rectntly d ecnvered tinder the flooring of a house et N, melt.
Letters have been received in Glasgow from Dr.
Livingstone, the distil gulsned African traveller, of due
May 1, ISIIII. The doctor was then in good health. and pro-
secuting his Important mission in Africa successfully.
A Protestant minister, named Mathys, who died
recently at Stan. ~Cnderwal,len), has left an autobiography
1 written iii twenty-seven languages.

Sitteen gage and bind e have recently arrived g
11.vre from N. York fc r the Ring of Italy. Thnc are In-
tended for breeding in the forests of that conwry, where
large geakce I. hecoming PCIrCe; and Victor Eninnaluel, a.
ft InJwil, is puelonately fond of the chem.
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The Qoeen.of Denmark arrived in London ,m Sato.
day. for Maleaty la the guest of the Prince and PriL eon of
Wales, at Marlborough House.
The Empress of Arustria is going with her children
to' SellonUruno oil the ./Bth of oAuber

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The Moniteur du Calvados states that & peasant Who
recently sold his wilo for nye francs has just been arrested,
as well as the pnrchaser, and both lodged In prison *1
Can.

A servant girl at Sheffield, only twelve years of age,
wine had for some ttnee been fnowected of pilfering money,
and Wes detected lu the offence, commkted euicfdo by main,
her throat.

' M. Chambray, a Parisian photographer, has patented
• pew process, which In said to produce likeliness with
wren still greater perfection and truth than any before intro-
duced:
Dr.. Jobert de Lambslle an eminent Paris physician, r
who went out of his mind a few months ago from proles
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stoma jealousy under most extraordinary circumetances, Is
Net dead.
The Austrian Government is about to build two
new ironclad..

. At Weetbourne, in Hants, there is an apple tree in
full bloom for the second time this year. Near the Blechyn-
den station, In Hants, great num.wrs of people go to see a
chestnut tree in flower for the second time.
A misprint in a London paper said that the even
popular Christy's Minstrels hari taken • in g hors 01 is.
James's Hall, in Lonoon, Instead of • long tram.
• J. J. Wright, a Pennsylvania negro, has applied in
Use criminal c art of the district of Columbia for permit-
don to practise sea lawyer In that court.
The vice of gambling is said to be on the increase in
high circles in London.
On did, that the Emperor of the French has just
made rather extensive purchases of consols at London.
1 A countryman who had attended a meeting of the
Anthropological Society was asked by a friend what the
learned gentleman had been saying. .' Well I don't madly
know," he replied; "there are many 'hinge I could not
understand; but there was one thing I [bowl I made mit
they believe that we have come from monkeys, and 1
Maoist as how they were fast getting back again to where
they came from."
It is stated that Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., M.P., has
been specially retained by the Jsmaica Committee in connec-
tion with the prosecutions which that body has decided to
institute against Mr. Eyre and others.
The phrase "working man," as Lori Derby says,
has been much abused. A epelker the other day caused
great laughter by declaring that he had been • working noa
ever since he was • boy.
New Orleans is said to be the only city in' the
Union that has paid a larger income tax this year than
last.

Intelligence has been received that the Lord Bishop
of Calcutta Is lea L He was accident& ly drovrned in the
Ganges The casualty happened while he was In the ac: of
disembarldug from a steamboat.
It is stated that the British army is to be supplied
with • now shako, made of "cork in a framework of MA"
and having "• very military appearance."
'The Northern Daily Exprat says that at the
Gateshead Workhouse the grim Economy has been practised
of using the drad•hoass of the union as • cell for the incar-
ceration of paupers, sad that corpses end rofractories have
been constantly locket up together in it This seems to se
to be to bort-tide to be true; but we shall he glad to se. an
early contradiction at the fact on authority"—Pei Sea
Gazette.

The Buffalo Courier says measures are being taken
by the Canadian merchants to find a market in Great Britain
for their barley.

The journeymen bakers of London held a meeting
on Saturday evening to consider how hest they might in
relieved I corn the exhausting night troth which they now
perform Tee meeting was chiefly remarkede for the speech
of a Mr Wright, a master baker, woo strongly counselled
the men to Ntrik . "Fancy London without bread or forty.
eight hours," said he.
In a dispute betwixt two rival undertakers in Lon.
don, a woman, in givingtvidence before the magistrates, said
she knew one of them, because he bed buried one of her.
children, but that be should never do no again !
Twenty thousand ounces of gold (valued at 400,000
dollare; were cepoeited lately on s aingle day in the crud
mint at San Francisco, being the largest amount ever ye-
reined In cue day
A strange effect of grief (or joy) has; just occurred
In Faris. Three months age ths wife of • conclergo lost boy •
reason in consequence of tne sorrow she felt at the miscon-
duct of her husband. Ile has since cot-mitt-4 such
excesses that they caused his death last week. Woe!) the
news was announced to his widow she suddenly recovered
her reason.

There are fi3 Protestant churches in China, and 95
Protestant missionaries. Protestant missionaries are Ado
nettled at Namesld and Yokohams, In Japan Many of the
rich Japanese are learning I rom these missi outdid the
language of the Western nations.
A pnuematic tube like the one at work in London is
being laid down In Paris for the conveyance of letters and
message. between the Grand Hotel and the Boone.
A remarkable•lookiing person astoniiihed the I,lbituts
of the Italian opera in Paris the other evening Ile had on
a cravat completely covered with diamonds The " tol:by"
gentl nets,.! might be expected, turned out not to be of the,
upper ten, but • keeper of a suite.
An American paper, among a miscellaneous cedes.
lion of paragraph*, under the title " things In lenerel.'
publishes the following:—' A lottery la advertised is
Delaware, for the purpose of drawiug comfortable berths in
• burying ground."
The neweat Yankee notion is an umbrella with a
gutter nand the edge and a spout at one corner
Mre. John T. Henson, niece of Oliver Goldsmith,
died on Friday, the 210 September, at her residence, Wed
Hoboken. New Jersey, in the eighty-first year of her age
Some time ago the old lady wss in very reduced circa.
stances, but public attention was called to her condition in
the columns of the press, and a fond was raised nfilcient
to maintain her in some degree of comfort up to her decode.
The Moll iteur of Saturday nays—" Certain journals
have announced that the Roman Legion formed at Antitte
by the efforts of the French Government, and placed byik
at the dieponition ef the Pope, bore the French tricolour
cockade. This informetion le quite Incorrect The sew
legion, like all the other corps of the Pontifical army, die
played the cockade and the flag of the Holy Father"
An inquest haa been held in London to inquire hits
the death of Dr Thomas flail, lespector general or hospitals,
who died on Wednesday night last at • lodgloc house,
Northumberlani-conrt, Strand. Lei:ince having been given,
after considerable deliberation the following verdict wen
returned We and that the deceased, Thomas Heil, del
from the effects of purging produced by an overdose of
Saville's mixture, kilo c.doeynti lee, and we are of opinion
that the medicine wes taken while the said Thomas HAI ele
in a state of unsoun i mind —The Deputy C Toner: Von
think he took it, oy mistake f—The Foreman: Yes, we think
act—The inquiry theu terminated.
At Surileet, October 3rd, Mr. Jackson, carpenter,
died M his Nth year: he had lived in the parish all his life,
and has left nine children, fifty-fire grandchildren, and
two great grandchildren About she years back he side his
own coffin; the breast-plate he cut out of wood, and he
printed his name on it, leaving space for date and age de
hal never been ill, or taken any medicine until within three
months of his death.
A paper 'called the Sunbeam has just been started
by the convict. in the State Prison at Trenton, NJ. The
Newark Advertiser remarks that it is not generally IMOWS
that inmates of that prison furniehed prone and poetry for
• Certain campaign paper published In New Jersey not may
years ago ; and it thinks it recognises the style of oneki
these contributors in some verses In the Sunbeam. The
editor states that, with but a single exception, his is the
only paper ever issued from a prison cell in any State of the
Union.
"The beginning of the end of the Tory Got-eying-Ant
is visible It is stated that Colonel Taylor has DA sel A
circular to the Conoematiee registration regents the- ushOnt
the kingdom, urging them to pay particular attenti all to the
register for 1846-7, on the gr tund that an appeal Detente
to the country le the sprlng or Slimmer of Lae?, ga far. as
we have had opp irtuiiiiisis of Mitring, the elforts of tits,
agents have nor. hitherto been eery succeditul "—Monde;
Star —The' Globe coutradista the above statement, at: is
authorised to State that Colonel Taylor has issued no circular
dec. July 4, when the regular circular was sent to the cow
sereaity° agents throughout the country,
A nice question wee raised on Monday at the
Steffordebire stealer gemstone. The Stoke-on- Ment Board or
Guardians peid a police rate Anountmg to 1,417/ by •
cheque on the hank of Messrs Harvey Sad S no, of L
Before the cheque was presented, Mr. Harvey, who am
treasurer to the guardians, Went away. and the bane failed.
Tim guardians refused to pay the amount again, on the
ground that the cheque had not been property prettented.
The Court of Qoarter Semitone resolved to oornmence pro
cm-dings against the alienating, no that the question will be
decided in a superior court.
There have lately been several indications of a
termination of the dilonte In the Iron trade in the north
It appears gene evident that the men are getting tired of the.
content, aid it Is likely that, unleas the rid,n leaders con-
sent to the masters' terms, the men will c mmence work of
their own. accord. On Mond ey 1098 men met to the netgb-
bourhood of Middlesborough to consieer the matter, the
glutton of returning to Work wee talked over in an irregsVA
Cashion, hut the meeting ended without any formal rev, shr
lion Immediately afterwards, honorer. • ntiaitier of the
men proceeded to the mills of their employ," so'., woo
to commence work on the terms offered.
M'a character
Atetateme o the
nttre Qufieet!n ot ngmEr7et offensively on the
prland has been published
In at,obscure sayien journel st Leaman.: and roar thruster
has, it is maid, commenced pra,eedings against the editor.
Ooe can readily understand the very natural indignation
which prevented the Hort. Hanle from meting calmly in
;:1 • case ; but on reconalderation we alsonld hope that
amer proceedings will ise taken. The proper way to deal
with such calumnies it to take no notice of them: to make
the mh!ect of • grave Oland complaint is only to inv.st
them with an importance they would never otherwise ac-
quire Besides, a dangerous precedent is thus afforded 10
foreign sovereigns, who will it, only too eager to assail them-
selves of It to check criticism on their political couduct by
investing any comments which may be Made with • personal
application."—PaN Mall Gazatta.
"Mr. More, one of the members for South Shropehire,
hal dated Stan agricultural meeting at Shrewsbury that Mr.
Disraeli 's coulee with regard to the malt tax must be guided
entirely by the amount of support he le likely to receive train
the country party. The right hon. gentleman has complained
that that party did not give him the degree of support which
he had expected when
he proposed the reduction of the Sal
in 1852 ; but Mr. More seems confident `that If he now
brought in • MI propoeing to repeal the tax On malt sod to
put it upon bier, there were • sufficient number of fibers'
members in the House of Commons who would not heeltAW
to vote with him, and, if necessary, against their own peril.
in order to insure the paeans of such • measure.
Mall 6aarlie.
Sir John Manners Sutton seems to have created
Considerable aeneaticln at kielbourn• by his proceediegs st
his Bret levee. It appears that to one Australian coualm
everybody who goes to the levees in evening tired is ettitled
lobe. what We Call in preset,' ed " Wheeler the
evening dress is do rirtieur at Washington, where the
President has to suomit to the same presentations, we do not
know. But hitherto that general handshaking, which salsa
so appalling to tne lag:tali mind, when we read of the
Amerscan custom, has sot been scoltrustited in democratic
Melbourne Now, howeeer, Sir John Sutton has introicad
It, and apparently quite ttowi:iinglp. Inirking It She right
thing, or at any ram toe go 4 humoured thing, he .ticolt
hands with the first eclat, re, atid once miring menu he
°odd not leave off, bat there had to stand for
Nit AMC. MINIM


'Nqwt

SAIVRDAY, °cr. 20, 1066

:XTRAORDINARY SEIZURE of a LARGE
AMOUNT of STOLEN PROPERTY.

On islirrday night the London pnl'oe made a Van' 1111 -
CeStfle n,i sentordittary seizure of property to a Villa
4110111. E under the following eireumatancea

It apieare that a person named Moses Moses, has
carrie.: on business as Marine store and general dealer,
in Blanc Horse-yard, l'ettemat-lane, fur ennie time past
having also a private house in Unwell/me, Hounds-
ditch. This man is at present the holder of a kicked-
of-leave, having been sentence'. ahont twelve years
ego to icurteon yew 14. penal nervitude, for the poge.a.
mon of property at his "stores" in Bell-lane, Spite'.
fields. then traced by Inspectors roulger, Mitchell,
and others, to be the tiri;luce of no less than fourteen
di/erent. robberies. Mose. Moses served ahput sight
years, and since then haa lived and carried on Muskrat
as above stated. A few dada ago he reported at the,
Bighopsgatestation that his Illuarehoume in Black Horse-
ward had been entered with skeleton keys and a very
large quantity of bine pilot arid other cloth atqlen.
Sergeant Moes and other officers of tie t'ity detedtive
force, ibquired into the matter, ad inboking round
the premises where the alleged robbeey bed been
committed, their practieed eyea observed some "Few
Pinions'" goods and upon making Bather search they
discovered a maga of property of all deseriptione, of die
i.iosseseion whereof Mr. Moe. Mosel. 'refused to geve"
any account, and Moss at once Look him into cunt
t3dy. lin making further searches the police found
a large quantity of jewellery, combs, brushel, .gutta
percha, lathed' companions, military gadflies, portmad-
teaus, copper, brass, dtc. In it sack three gold Watches,'
under a heap of old rage, a plated dinner service, of
Itirmingham or Sheffield manufactdre,"w4h hot enter
dishes, soup tureens, vegetable and entree dishes, add
a pair of wine coolers. The (recovery of this vest =mint
of property of course led the officers to search tbe house '
where the prisoner's family resided in 'lravel.han%
Hounelitch, and there the quantity anti value.; of the
things found was really marvellous, therkbeinga great
quantity of cloth, new, in pieces, gold and silver
watches, diamonds set and unset (a great quantity),
chains, earrings, ornamental combs, nuggets of mineral
ore (gold and solver), pieces of Mails-rubber, elephants'
tusks, and other valuable property of a munt
laneous and, indeed, of almost every description. The
whole of the property was taken charge of by the
police, the prisoner having been previoottly conveyed
to the liiahopegate station. In consequence of the
original statement of Mr. Moses Moses that ,lita pre-
mises had been robbed, suspicion fell nook two men,who
were taken into custody, and on Monday were charged'.
at the Mansion-house with the robbery, but acquitted.
Moses Moses was then put forward in its dock, and
charged with having in hui possession in his warehouse,
Black Horse-yard. Aldgate, a large qnentity of
woollen cloth and various other articles—including
jewellery, a plated dinner service, the amount in value
of which has not yet been ascertained—which were
supposed to have bet ,n stolen. Detective-sergeant
Moss, having been sworn, deposed as follows:
After the prisoners, who have jut been discharged, had
been lodged In the poles-station, the prefect prisoner was
sent for, and after be had said he cou'.d not identify them,
I requested that I might accompany him to his warehonse
or shop to examine the premises, in order to ascertain how
an entrance had been effected. He consented, and we went
together to the premise., the door of which was secured by
• Mrsp of iron, fastened by • padlock, and under the strap
there was another lock_ The prisoner unlocked both and I
followed him up a ladder to a loft, my brother officers,
Green and Browne, being with me On reaching the loft,
which was over the ahoy and warehouse, the prisoner
pointed to a hole in the brick wall formtng the !partition to
the adjoining warehouse, which is untenanted He said
that was the way by which he supposed the thieves had got
into the premises. 1 here were in the loft several tons
of rage, sonic packed up in he.'vy packages and others
loose near the aperture in the wall. On clearing away some of
the loose raga, in order to commence • search, the valuable
gold ear-ring I now produce dropped iron them. I ex-
claimed, " Hello, Mr. Mose., what is this!" The prisoner
started back, and replied •• I ,io not know. I never saw it
before in my life" field, " Then we must search on, for
perhaps the thieves who have stoleu, as you say, your cloth,
may have left this and other valuable property in exchange."
The loose rags were further examined, and we founts five
god brooches set ebb variou. valuable Monts, three gold
pin., (oar gold ear-flogs, and two gold locket.. The
pi-Wooer 'are them all found amongst the rags near the hole,
and I said. "Now, Mr Moses, this alters the case altogether,
and I shell charge you with receiving stolen good."
The primmer vociferated, "Good God, Lie Moss, you
surely will ant go to charge me" I answered, I
certainly shall, and you must eorsiger yourself in cus-
tody on Ye charge you must head over your keys
to me and I sell take care of yoar place' We then
commenoed to search the loft thonughly, and we
found • quantity of goods of different kinds which
filled two cabs There was • plated dinner fuervice,
quite rear, Brussels carpets, also sew, and a quantity of
new seddies and harness. On tide I thought it advi-
sable to have the prisoner removed to the police. station,
and as my brother officers were taking him away the
prirooer was seen to COOTO his hauds u der sone sacks, and
under then: we found the gold watch produeed which had
been just pushed under them. lilt • gold 0 watch,
num, ered 10,336, meters, Messrs. Clilaie and Webb, Itynl
Exchange On the we; to the station in •e b the prisoner
essayed to secrete s,me keys, widen were, however, secured
by the officer Green. Alter this I, in comps:. y with Brown
and Whitney, proceeded to the prisoner's residence, Ni
3e. Gravel.lane, Hottrudsditch, and there I opentd his eat
with the we had teken from him, and in it we found ,
ten packets of jewellery, one containing fifteen gold chains
No 2 containing ten gold Albert chains No. A two gold
Geneva •arches and a guard chain: No 4, tine gold guard
chains sod • gold necklet; the next packet contained
nine golu Albert chain.; another eleven sliver studs,
another a gold hunting watch with an Albert chain
Thin was !lumbered 5.123 maker, Higginbotham and
bearing the following inscription :—.• Presented to Albert
Franks i his friend, 3th December, 15.50," on the
back, tither watches and salver jewellery were also
found and now produced In a room epstatrs we
found thirty -eve pieces of • oollen cloth of various cilonrs
and one a superfine qality. We then went back to the
warehous, and, on a further teach, we discovered a large
quantity of India-rubber combs, which have since been
identified a a, olen from Mears Cohen. merchants, of
Threedneeoleetreet. In the lower part of the warehouse we
found twenty-one ivory tusks of large sine and of great
value. troperty found on this last occasion required
the aid of eight cabe to convey it to the police-station where
it now lies I have to ask a remand to continue the search
and complete the examination ot the property already found.

The counsel for the prisoner said he should decline
M present to cross-examine the witness.
Mr. Cohen was next called, and identified the
combs produced as being part of the contents of a case
which had been packed by him, and which had been
stolen from the box in its transit to the London Docks,
for shipment to Australia, on the 27th September last,
by a man who had been committed for trial for the
felony.
. .

De..ctive-aergeant Moss said this was all the evi-
dence he waa at present prepared to offer, and again
applied for a remand.
TM application war granted, and the prisoner war
remaided to Monday next.