The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

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stricken men rowed with frantic efforts )o the very and the-pasasngen— - rushed trout their mate in °seaters
verge of the precipice, and finally went over kill nation, anal it was then seen how negro" an INKPIPe
clinging to the oars. - Mr. Coot*, the postmaster It Po, eof t had had from being burned to tleath.
the town of Chippewa, on the Cabada side, two miss en the m stopped-they got esit dhadtly, and the
above the Fads , started/rith Frank Leutze, . that thing y saw; the luggete va*ervel in
ferryman, -to cross the riv in a small boat: Us
_lima The statio Slater of Dein*, '.rir.c..Voorl,
the course is to pull about two , miles up the r y 'on spot, and 'tie stud thot4rd,
before attempting to cross, but on this occasion fel:thin:lth (several of the passengerk inn ely
unfortunate men seemed to have imagined that a ast *0 woo* In imam* the .ffarnkg '.frr6tro . roln
heavy wind blowing utteareass would counteract the those behind, and isolate it, which was done. By this
forte of the current, and consequently attempted to time it was clear that the whole of the luggage in the
cross in • direct line. The result warn the same as it van would be destroyed, for although attempts were
ham been on three former occasions when similar made to save a portion of it, the heat was so intense
attempts have been made, and their lives paid the that the carriage could hardly be approached, and the
forfeit of this mistake. The rapids of the Niagara are oirty articles saved consisted of a lady's basket and a
too , awful in their power to be trifled With. It is leather portmanteau, which the guard had paanaged
singular thekLeutzer the ferrydian, who had crossed
tOoleize Sid thoit,'cloven the embankment, and • few
sad re.crowell a himdred times in all kink'. of 'weather, lig t 'maples if voodoo belonging to a oototherrial
shoald have-so sadly tok.judged thia,,,,tirce of the eller In the train.
current, and overaaaituated tb such a degree Ike
FIOUNI, or FACT AND FlGlißgig OF SPRICH.—
strength of the wind. We don't know any Blanchester demonstration no
AN OFFICRING FROM NATAL. --A Natal paper conclusive as the Manchester Getardian's flemonstra.
says tnat`CUlOnel Bissett, administrator (in the-illness tion that the ground on which the opemair League
and abscence • 4 the Lientenant-Governin ) of the
„Meeting was belitin that city, could not possibly have
Government of Natal, is about to sand to her Majegty oontaintirldnore thin 50,000 people, packed as.closa as
a rich and elaborate trophy twitted) of Natal wools, human beings Can be pecked, and that it did not, as a
and presenting sperieuene of every Natal product matter of fact, contain half that number on that,par-
wool, cotton, cereals, metals. The whole is arched tiaular occasion. So between the Star's 130,000 and
over by two noble elephant tusks -presented to the the l'elegraples 40,000, if we split the difference, we
Government by the great Zulu chieftains; the back- shall still be euortoously Above the mark in gauging
ground being filled in with a map of the colony, and the Manchester ameenthlsge by the League's sole
with, photographs of the Asimiaittrafor and the I,egna .tandar,i._number,ystibo,
lative Council, Colonel Ittseett has received an
EXTRAORDINARY 1.088 OP' COLLI RRS. —1 here
intimation that the Queen will accept the 'sift, and it
is supposed that it will be allowed to form a con, has been a remarkable loos of collier sailing vessels in
the North Sea during September, which is usually a,
spicuous feature of the Natal court at Paris next
month a settled weather, and' *hen few casualties ol
year.
. ,;„ „ the kind occur or are expected. More than a dozen Cli
l'osTAom 'TO AFHTRALI A. 'lllO rostinaster. this clan of vessels have been lost within the past
-General has thet issued the following notice : four weeks, and most of them by foundering at sea.
In future, all correspondence forwanled to New Zealand, F.irtunately there him been comparatively little, if
or to any of the !Australian colonies, via Panama. Will be any, loss of life. The collier sailing ships belonging to
chargeable with the same rates of postage as correspondence
the North-eastern ports are now of very inferior,value,
forwarded via :Southampton all 2 Ones, sit , Lefler. not en- and several Of a rather superior clams have been offered
needing t ounce in weight, Oil; shove i ounce. And not ex-
ceeding t ounce, Is : above I ounce, and not exceeding 2 for gale by auction lately, and had to be bought in, am
ounces, Os : above 2 ounces, and not exceeding 11 mimosa, Si; they could not realize the upset price. Three or fo.ir
every additional ounce, ls For each newspaper duly re- of the vessels that have been loot have not been covered
festered at the General Poet Otlioe for transmission abroad, by
inartrango, as the owners could not sail them at. a
12. For • book packet, or pecket of patterns or samples, •
not exceeding 4 ounces in weight, 42 : above 4 ounces, and profit and pay "averages," and they have lost theirall.
not etc...song 8 ounces, 8d ; above 8 ounces, and not exceed. Tim E New FLAG FOR FRI,BI3IA.—A Berlin letter
tug 12 minces, Is , above 12 ounc-s, and not exceeding 1 lb, in the Presse, says
is 4.1: for ~,,, additional 4 ounces, 40. all letters, .Re.,
tor New Zealand, *hien are Mot dlreet.M to he forwarded It Ls asserted that as soon as the Royal manifesto relative
by any particular route, will be sent by the nrat mall des- to the annexed countries shall have appeared, the King will
patched, whether via Sues or via Panama, but letters for take the title of • Klux of Prussia and Westphalia, webs that
the several Australian colonies will no, be for„..ded sri. / Hanover and Caoiel in other times formed part of this latter
Panama, anima specially so dMierted. kingdom. Also. It Is stated, the colour orange will be added
A Erns RAistßi—A -
_ to the two others of the Peekeeleea fled e Ilicla •,111 sons tie-
- '

. very singular rase of
incendiarism was tried on Friday at the, Glasgow
Autumn Cmcnit Court. A man, named Alezapder Cror•
don wan- with - - elevefit

:;,oLLTS whits and Wings.
THE FArdINII fIE 11•DIS.,—The famine shows no
abatement ja Orions, Midnapore, and.Nuddea, &mord-
. .

enis charged no fewer than ...et4 distinct
actiVof lithe-raising." as the :Scotch designete arson.
From the middle of Marehlfil the end of May he seems
to have wandered about at night with the express pur-
pose (1f setting on fire every sort of building, from a
hen-roost to a mill, to which he had easy and Rafe
access; and that without any apparent'motive except
the gratification of a morbid love of destruction. The
most serious case was the burning of the Saticel Grain
Mills, involving • lose of property of the valuh of about
3,0001. He was found guilty op three of thf charges,
and sentenced to twenty-One 'years' penal servitude.
FEMALE DOCCORS.—A young lady in Paris,
having honourably passed two examinations:ln mixed
sciences, has been authorised by the Minister of Public
Instruction to go through a preparatory course of
medicine at Algiers, as her medical attendaace might
be of great service to the Arab population, and through
her the boon of medicallscience might pentitrate the
tent and harem of the Arab, where no male doctor
would ever be admitted. Lately another lady has
paned her examination as midwife, and has obtained
permission to offer herself as • candidate for examina-
tion at Paris for the degree of doctor of.medibine.
PROFESSOR FAWCETT ON PARTNERSHIPS. OF IN-
DreTRT.— On Tuesday night in the Leeds Ton Hall,
the shareholders, workmen, and friends of Henry
Briggs and Company (Limited), colliery owners, met
to celebrate the successful completion of the first
year's working under the partnership of industry
principle. The hall was crowded. Mr. H. Briggs,
the senior partner, presided. The speakers included
Mr. Thomas Hughes, Ml'., and Professor Fawcett,
M.P. Mr. Hughes having spoken on the general
principle of co-operation,
Professor Fawcett said that such partnerships as those of
Messrs. Blimp and trier men was • sure remedy for stet..,
and he felt that the future welfare of England almost
altogether depended on the extension of this scheme to other
branch.., of trade An allusion had been made to the
working classes posaesslng more power In tee constitution,
and he perfectly sympathised with It, and prayed for an ex-
tension of the franchise When they contained more political
power many other people would come forward and claim to
be friends of the working classes, but when they had fought
and won the battle of Reform there wonld be another battle
still to be fought, and some who were now political Radicals
would have to light against economic Tories. If they wanted
a test whether largo employsrs of labour were what they
called themselves, friend. of the working classes, they should
not be utbfled simply with the assertion of such employers
that they were favourably to an extended franchise, but
thould also ask them whether they were prepared to
fol ow the example of Messrs. Briggs. (Hear )
GALLANT CONDl'cr.—The following act of gal-
lantry is reported by the Portsmouth Tuna, and de-
serves, we think, all the publkity that can be given
to it, and something more. On the 22nd of last
August her Majesty's ship Ctmst.nre was in Carlisle
Bay, Barbadoe., And whilst engaged in sending up
topmaste, one of her men fell overboard from the mast.
head, striking in his fall the topsail-yard rigging.
Commander Franklin instantly jumped overboard to
hie assistance, as did • glib-lieutenant and several men,
whose Dam., unfortunately, are not given. When
got on board the man was found to have been so much
injured by his fall that he died shortly afterwards.
Had this feat been performed at Spithead there would
have been nothing very remarkable in it, as, of course,
both Commander Franklin and his followers were good
swimmers ; but Carlisle Bay is notorious for the size
and number of its sharks, wh,ch are always "rowing
guard" round our ships of war, attracted by the offal
thrown overboard from them.
IN A DILEMMA 1. —At the Lambeth police
court, London, • person of ladylike appearance re-
quested the magistrate's advice under the following
circumstances. She said that • gentleman, who had
lodged about seven weeks at her house in 1 tmberwell,
and who represented himself to be the eon of a wine-
grower and brewer in the south of France, had on
leaving town placed in her hands some bills, with in.
struotions that she should take them to the house of a
respectable wine-merchant In Tower-street, who was
agent in England to his father, and who would give her
cash for them, so that she could pay herself the amount
he owed for lodgings and 20/. she had advanced him on
going to the country, and remit him the difference. On
calling upon the gentleman named, the, to her utter
surprise, found that he knew nothing whatever of her
late lodger, or of his wealthy father the wine-grower
and brewer in the south of France.
The Magistrate I am much afraid you have been Imposed
Up. n by your late lodger, and that you will lose your money
Applicant : On, Sir, that Is not the worst part of it. it. has
paid his addresses to and married my daughter, and from
what I have learnt I have much reason to fear he was •
I married 'man before and has another wife living —The
Magistrate : If that Is the case you unitive him into custody
on a charge of bigamy. Did you make any inquiry about
him before your daughter's marriage? Applicant No, Sir.
lie had a unarm ticket for the Crystal Palace, and behaved
I so like • gentleman, that I thought he waa one —Magistrate :
The possession of a season ticket was not so conducive •
proof of rempectabillty as you should have relied on, and I
am sorry to may I cannot afford you any assistance.
The applicant, having thanked the magistrate, left
the court apparently in much trouble.
HAWKERS' LICaNCES.—On Monday (October 1)
the following provisions of the new Inland Revenue
Act came Into operation From and after the 30th
September every licence which shall be granted to a
hawker, pedler, or petty chapman, shall expire on the
30th March next following the grant of such licence,
provided that it shall be lawful to grant a licence to a
hawker, pedler, or petty chepinan after the :10th
September, 1866, for • period not exceeding six
monthe, on payment of one-half only of the amount
payable for a yearly licence, and such half-yearly
licence shall continue in force until the list of March
or the 30th September."
ATTENDANCE OF THE REGISTRAR AT MARRIAGES.
—An objection has now and then been mistakenly
made to the presence of the Marriage Registrar at
weddings in dissenting chapels (remarks the Patriot.)
The Registrar makes an important observation on this
subject. "In registered chapels," he nays, "the
presence of the marriage registrar is indispensable."
This appears to be an excellent arrangement, as it
relieves the minister of a secular duty. The registrar
IS not present at marriages in churches of the
establishment; and this is, In some respects, to be
regretted, as the clergy, who are .very naturally
wrapped in the sacred functions of their office, some.
times do not write the names distinctly, and some-
times omit to mention whether the marriageilel
licence or by banns. "Wrapped in the s
functions of their office" is • charming bit of oaths%
When the subject comae again before parliament, as
it will when the marriage commission reports, a strong
attempt ought to be made to secure perfect similarity in
the practice at church and chapel; and this, statement
by the Registrar-General will furnish the ground fee
such a demand.

.
ing to the latest official returns. Balasore alone had
still its twenty-four thousalid paupers to feed daily in
and around the station, Fooree had increased to five
thousand, Cuttack had its three thousand file hun-
dred, and Midnapore its ten thomiand, while the list
in Nuddea, one° a rich indigo district, had'rieen from
four to twelve thousand. Such is the difficulty in
landing rice on the Orissa coma at this inclement
season that the Tuba! Cain had to run. to Akyab,
throwing overboard 11,50 bags of rice. Nothing could
be more bitter than this—rice in abundance on the
coast, a thousand a week dying in the one station of
Ballasore, and the moat imperfect means of taking the
food to the dying. In Calcutta the public committee
are grappling with the evil with great energy, but
there too mortality must be expected to increase
almost daily. Already it has been found necessary to
establish two additional hospitals, capable of accommo-
dating a thousand patients. Still no voice comes from
the pleasant hills. There is no word of sympathy,
encouragement, or advice from Darjeeling,
DEATH 771R000F1 EXCITENINT.---A few days ago
a passenger on the Great Western Railway, named
Jennings, aged 21 years, died suddenly at the Ihdcot
Junction under the following circumstances
He wee travelling from Birmingham], and when the train.
reached Oxford, • man, who was drunk, entered the com-
partment in which Jennings was mated, and he began swear-
ing and created a disturbance, ultimately breaking one of
the carriage window., but he accused Jennings of the offence
when the train arrived at Diticot Jennings was greatly
upset by this fable charge, and was unable to speak when he
attempted to deny the accusation. The railway authorities
removed him from the carriage and took him into custody,
and the consequence was that he became much excited, and
soon afterwards expired In one of the waiting-rooms at the
station.
An inquest was held on the body when the jury found
that the deceased "Died from inflation of the heart,
brought on by excitement."
THE COST 07 THE ELECTION CONNISSIONB.—The
salaries payable in connexion with each of the elec.
ti, al commissions amount to about 20/. per day.
Shortbanding in connexion with each commission costa
also about IN, per day, and allowance.) to witnesses
and mincxlianeons expenses amount to at least 5/ per
day more. Altogether the coot of each commission
may be set down at about 45/. per day, perhaps 50/.
per day would be nearer the mark. As each com-
passion will probably sit about fifty days, the aggre-
gate cost of each will approach 2,:i00/., mating
10,000/. altogether for the four commissions. —Observer,
AN APPEAL FOR A itCH•ANOKLIC AlD.—Ad-
vices from Rome state that the Holy Father has
ordered a me-amine, or religious service of nine days,
in all the churches of Rotor, to implore the protection
of the Archangel Michael. In the incito sane pub-
lished with that object, the Cardinal Vim,. declares
that from above only can come help, calm, and se-
curity.
Where are the men to be found, says his eminence, gifted
with sufficient resolution and gth to conquer the spirit
of pride, libertinism, avert., falsehood, rapacity, and fraud,
which has invaded, It may be said, all the human nice/ Let
us implore that, in pregence of the calamities which afflict
the Church, and which are Increased every day by the
agency of hell and of the many impious men who are its
deatineJ instruments, the Archangel may come to our aid,
may crush the enemy of God Sild man, and reduce him to
impuissance, thence, and theme.
A SAD CASF. REVIVED. —Some forty years past
we had a cause celdat which caused considerable own..
itation, not only here, but throughout the continent of
Europe (write.' • Paris correspondent). A wealthy
merchant was convicted and aentenced to transporta-
tion for the munier of his son. The youth ems of a
depraved disposition, constantly getting into scrape",
and getting out of them by the most disreputable
shifts. Ile happened to be in his father's apartments
one evening in his country house, and saw him pay
10,000 fr. to • gentleman who had presented him a bill
for that amount. On his way home this gentleman
was attacked and robbed. Though his meanie:lt's face
was blackened, he distinctly recognised him by his
voice. He threw him down the money, and returned
some hours later to the merchant, and told him the sad
tale, that he had been robbed by his son. The father
replied that justice should be done. Accompanied by
his friend, they repaired to the eon's room, and found
him fast asleep in bed; the blackened towels, the
10000 f r, under the pillow, and the pair of ',idols on
the drawers left no doubt of his guilt. The father
restored the money to its owner, anti blew out his
son's brains as he lay sleeping before him. For this
crime he was condemned to ten years' transportation,
the extenuating circumstances having been awanied
after a highly-sensational speech from his counsel.
This unhappy man returned to France, and died this
week.
Ilonsgrigsn AS FOOD IN FRANCE. —lt is
scarcely two months since the sale of this new kind of
food was officially authorized in Paris, and the con-
sumption Is now considerable. The establishments
for the sale of the flesh are under the surveillance of
the Government veterinary inspector. A manufactory
of horseflesh sausages has just been opened in the
Avenue du Clichy. Also we read that • grand hippo-
phagic banquet, to which ladies were invited, took
place lent week. M. Lange, president of the Society
for the Protection of Animals, issued the invitations,
and drew out the bill of fare, of which the following is
a copy :

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CARTA DU BARACIT.
Dotage consomme fi. thetal. L.Orlff :
Flageolets inWrs 01 11414 U 1 chserg.
4e cheval.

BaUo)aofl

Fdat eheval *sure potvrada
Cheval a nature thoulllll, Sdlnde rlottle iriterut
4 I tre de yin par oonvert.
choral a la mock 1100

FRIGHTFUL DICATH OF A HORSEBREAKER.—A
horpebrealter, named Pilgrim, died at his house,
in Nottingham, on Friday, from the effects of a kick
from a horse a few daye previously. The deceased was
breaking in • young horse, and whilst driving it in
girths, he gave it • sharp cot with the whip, when the
animal (which was • spirited one) struck out with its
hind legs' one of its hoofs striking the eye and fore-
head of Pilgrim. The blow was so violent that the
bone wan forced in and a portion of the brain pro-
truded. The poor fellow wan immediately conveyed
home and medical assistance procured but without
avail, an he died on Friday after having endured
intense agony.

AMERICAN CHILDREN.—The registrar of the
city of Boston reports that in the year 1865 the births
In that city were only 1 in 36 of the populat,ton. The
registrar states that while the population of Boston
has been uniformly increasing for many years', the
birth-rate has with equal uniformity been declining,
and bass fallen from 1 in 26 in 1850 to 1 in 3fl in 1865.
The birth rate, he nays, has been declining throughout'
the United States for the last seventy years. In con.
sidering what may be the camas of this unsatisfactory
result, the registrar suggests that it May be thitt im-
migration swells the aggregate of the population with
more proportionate rapidity than marriages arsi Messed;
but he has also to suggest the possible &Sire Of
Americans to avoid the natural moray. of their
families, • desire which, it may be feared, lead, to a
large amount of secret crime. It appears that only
one in four of the children born in Boston in 18115 was
the offspring of parents both of whom were natives of
the United States. The majority of the children born
in Boston in the year were the offspring of parents
both foreign born. In fact, in natural increase, Boston
is not a native American city. A New York paper
represents that the unwillingness of American women
to be the mothers of large families is to be attributed
partly to the unruly nature of American children.
FLOGGING GAROMES.—Thrap pallOll9, pained
Daniel and David Bryaut and William Prendergest
who were convicted at Ur last lleSsioli of the Cei
Criminal Court in Louden tp be flogged prior bounder.
going sentences of impramilinent and penal servitude
for robberies in the streets, accompanied by personal
violence, underwent the Most unpleasant and *OW
portion of their punishment on Saturday in Noergate.
The flogging was 11)111Cted by a cabo'-nine-taiki by
Calcraft. Although they were sentenced to receive
forty stripe; Mr. Gibson, the surgeon ot the
felt himself justified in ordering Calcraft to desist after
the prisoners had reeeived twenty lashes only. '
A TELEGRAPHIC Frar.—The contents of a
lady's thimble would hardly be expected to, con-
etitute a very powerful instrument. They would
scarcely have been thought capable of one of
the most astonishing feats ever performed by
science. The chairman, however, of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company informs us that this little instrn-
ment has actually achieved such a feat. By way of
experiment, the Engineer of the Company joined the
extremities of the two Cables, which now stretch
across the Atlantic, thus forming an immense loop line
of 3,700 miles. Ile then put some acid in a lady's
silver thimble with bits of zinc and copper, and by this
simple agency he succeeded in passing signals through
the whole length In little more than a second of time.

THE LATRar PARISIAN INVENTION ! —The latest
Invention in Paris for robbery is clever, but calculated
to excite melancholy for the depravity of its origin. A
little girl of twelve has been trained by her parents to
ampss purses by what is styled in the slang of
the day the "kiss robbery." Taking Judas for her
model, she deceives by a kiss. The little girl watches
in the street for a lady who iseems likely to have money
about her, and throws herself into the lady's arms,
Raying, "0, my dear aunt" The lady who Is kissed
tells the child she is mistaken, and gently releases
the child from the loving embrace, but finds that in
the brief moment of the kiss she haa loot her purse.
The child then goes to a wine-shop with the money,
and her father and mother are ready to receive her.
The father, mother, and child have just appeared at
the Tribunal of Correctional Police. In the case which
led to the charge it could not be proved that the
parents sent the child to rob in this way, but there
was no doubt that she had stolen a purse from &young
woman whom she accosted in the Place Dauphine, and
the Court sent her to the House of Correction until
she shall attain the age of twenty-one. Reluctantly the
Court set the father and mother at liberty, for COM-
plicity could not be proved, but several similar
robberies were proved against the child.
A RAILWAY TRAIN ON FIRIL —A fire of a vm
serious character, and which might have been attended
with loss of life, broke out in the 4.20 train from
Edinburgh, on Friday night, between Caper p,nd
Dairsie stations, by which the luggage van, containing
a large quantity of valuable passenger luggage, was
burned to the axles. Shortly after leaving Cupar, the
guard discovered fire in his van, and strove to extpf-
guish it with all his might, but as the train flew
onwards the flames increased, and when the train drow
near Dairsie station, it was discovered that it was tin
fire, and was blazing fiercely. The guard, after vainly
attempting to extinguieh the fire and to save the litg-
gage when the train waa in motion, was forced, soon
after the van had begun to burn, to leave it and alio
to the hand-rails and steps outeide, where he continued
until the train drew up at Mande, when the flames built
out with groat fury. The Alarm wee immediately eves,

A few years ago bow towed
would have sounded i It seem
city of the fact has tikken even
When a Cable was that laid •
of the Atlantic it:v anticb

w e

'current
In tr•

of_the

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by the gy of Berl& far
200 t amounted to 290,,
inrialtedteddreet" '
,no elf of her late attack of
filling, d notes snit gold are ,
,
.haired the Pariah's's eervpa
the sea and they are hoping, jediang them
to see even armour-dads anchored in
Visitors are pouring into Vienna, principally
Americans, who are not plow to institute comparisons
bete( et the Militia, collapse of Aubris and the tongaitern
fight made by the Smith
A gigantic work is on the lapis.' It is nothing less
than the drying up of a great part of the Zurder Zee. Tbe
extent of the laud-pritposed Id be reclaimed Is 380,000 three,
and the cost of the work is set down at io,e6o,euot. Of amuse
Itoglish capital and enterprise are to accomplish the work
for the Nachman.
Ninety men employed sa carters and porters on the
Ulster Railway have struck for an increase of wages. The
former have been receiving 125, a week and the latter 10r.
They demand an addition of 2L a week It is expected that
the difference will be amicably adjusted

A sort
of Parts a

accoralog 1
face of the

madness

J repo- ris,
Tuileries.

The American papels state that whales are now very
plentiful on the American cout

The Six Nation Indian. of British North America,
have offered to send goo warriors to the front in Causda to
fightlf need be, for England, as they did In 1812.
An elder brcther of the late Sir A. J. D. Tichborne
till stated to he on his way from Australia to claim the
baronetcy He has been sway from England for Many years
and was supposed to be dead.
A geld ornament, discovered, in excellent preserva-
tion, by a workman employed in drainage works is the parish
of se irullot, Cornwall, shout nye feet from the surfoce, hi
within the last few days been sold for fiiOL
The amount to be invested on account cif the re-
daction of the National Debt during the quarter boding the
3158 of December next is 80,8181
'

•
"Of what avail is it to say there is neither change
gpr tuseartalnty, and yet make no sacrifice to prove it by
endeavouring to put an end to mutual unhappiness? Time
Is fleeting —ll."—Adverisement in London TIM., .
• The honours destined for those gentlemen, who are
mainly identified with the Atlantic Telegraph expedition,
will compiles knighthood. for Mr Canning and Mr. (Slam,
the latter of whom, we regret to say, Is in shed state of
health. The same distinction has nee; offered to and declined
by ceptala Anderson, of the (*','eat Eartern.
The Parisian dandies are beginning to we4r pins in
their cravats with a miniature model of the needle gun.
The Pfalzer Zeiteng says that Bavarian soldier,
on being asked why the army wore cocks' feather in their
caps. rid that, am the Prti.alein• heoo eaten up all, the cooks
NM hens in the country, the Beverlan.troope. wear the
feathers to show that nothing else wail left
Judge Muir, of Kentucky, has refused 4 writ of
habeas corpus ter. black man and his white wild who have
been arrested in that State for amaigimatioa. The parties
were married in Ohio. The case will be carried before the
United titers Court It causes .sonsiderants excitement in
legal circles, as It is likely to he the most complete test of
the efficacy of the Civil Rights Bill which could occur.
A telegram dated New York, September 21, toys :
Hesd•Rentre Stephens is receiving large accessions In men,
money, arms, and emmuniron every day. The arms are
Immediately shipped in mysterious packsges hi Ireland.
Count Bismarck has left „Berlin for his estate in
Pomerania, with the intention of remaining there about
three weeks.

During the past week 46 wrecks have been reported,
making for the present year. total of 10.

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The'Eacavatiune hen been reaumni at Herculaneum.
The workmen nod greater difficulty in digging up the mina
of Herculaneum than those of Pompeii, .aa the trimmer are
covered with • thick coating of lava.

At Ramsgate, a few evenings ago, Mrs. Anstey,
wife of Captain Matey, eras dreadfully burnt by her light
murl u dress taking Are through the accidental falling of a
candle. When the doctor arrived, the clothing was
still • mass of tire, the steel of het criboline being red het.
She was then found to be very much burned, her ozma,
neck, and the lower portion of her body having severely
suffered from the effect, of the flame. in his exertions to
save his wife's life Captain Am tey s hands were severely
burned, as also were those of the lady's maid Mrs. Ansley
now Res In a precarious state. • '
Mr. M. T. Bass, M.P., in a letter to the Seaman
on Reform, uys .—" Unfair and unwise as I regard the
present restricted franchise, I would rather a thormand LIMPS
stick where we are than resort to manhood suffrage to cure
our political complaints."

"My I/EAR WALTER. —We are wretched. Pray re-
turn borne or write We will forgive you, and everything
shall be arranged according to your wlshes."—Firat adver-
tisement in London Tim.* MY DKLR WALTER—Pray
return home, or write. Entire forgiveness awaits you, and
5001. shall be placed at your disposaL"—Second advertise.
meat in Titan

" Miscegenation" statistics are not, perhaps, the
most pleasant reading, but they may be useful to students
of Yank. physiology But some Information given by •
correspondent of a contemporary may be valuable, and
assist them in their general studies It seems that out of
381 "practical cues" of the new doctrine with the di.
agreeable name, In New York city, "355 of them Were of
Mack men to white women, while only six were of white
men to black women."

The following announcement in Tuesday's London
Gazette displays a new phase in the change of name contro-
versy:—"lst Regiment of Life Gnards—Lient Algernon
William Yolk. Greenle has been permitted to take the sur-
name of Nugent, in addition to, and after that of, Gresi
But It does not say by whom this permission has been Oren.

The well.known German painter of battle Peaces,
Frltz.Lallemand, has died of cholera at Vienna. Ile wt.
born at Henan in 1612, and his drat great picture wax that of
the Jubilee Pinner of the Knights of the order of Maria
heresa. Ile also painted several scenes JP the last Sleswick-

olstein war by onler of the Emperor.
The Church Revitw Kaye, that front a recent
analysis of the petition s f rt. the abrlition of the Irish Church
which have been lately presented to Parliament, it appears
that of ten perishes the Romeh Catholic population of the
smatiest of which is 1,200., one parish mr.trlbutes one dena-
ture, four parishes two signatures each, three parish emi-
t, Ibute three signatures each, one parish contributes flee
signatures, and no parish s-ore. Sr much for the bitter
forting which English Liners' politicians would have us
believe is cherish, d by the sericulture! Roman Catholic
population towards the Irish Church."

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The grand jory at the Mildfreer sesaions have made
• rather awkward mistake They ignored • bill against •
your* woman, Wright, who was charged witti theft; i.ut as
the foreman neglected to run his pets through her came sic-
cordlig to the practice at this court, she was put upon her
trial and pleaded guilty after sentence was passed the
mistake was discovered, and the Judge actually had to
liberate the prisoner, although she stood self-convicted of
the offence with which she was charged.
The monthly return iseue.l by the Poor Law Roan]
shows that at the close of July the tinny c- of persons Is
receipt of relief front the rates In England and Wales was
almost Identical with the number to July, 1865, the exact
chapga being only • decrease 01 0.2 per cent. This, however,
would not have been the result lint for a 10 per cent
decrease in the north-westeni division. The return for
London shows an increase of 14 per oent , the number being
aon.ewhat over 90,000 In July, 1065, but 103,000 In July, 1866.

An Austrian chemist has discovered a way of
enclosing electricity In small plass capsules, which will
explode under the Influence of the slightest Rho*. The
cspsule Is end wed in a steel cone. so that If shot from • rifle
it will enter the flosh, at tithe explosion which follows Is
sufficient to kill • man Expertments have been made on
oxen anti horses with perfect oneness, these animals having
fallen down as if struck with lightntng Even the slightest
Injury Inflicted by this means Is said to here caused death.
Dublin city, with a population of 260,001 D, lost only
1 0671 lut year by the dishonesty of domestic servants, while
prostitutes carried off 9,2421., of which sum the pollee
recovered shoot 1.0001. The police tot charge of the pro-
perty of drankards tinting the year to the amount of
13,1971., and returned It all The number of fires in Dublin
last year mu 48, involving a lots of 30 3511

It üsaid that an official of C'incinnatti had hie shirt
otolen during the trip up the river with the PrPaldential
party, lie pulled the garment off on going to bed to pre-
vent Its being rumpled, and when be &eche the next morn.
Mg found to Ma dismay that It had been stolen, lie per-
formed the balance of the trip with his coat buttoned close
up to his chin

A serious accident occurred at the commencement of
the week on the Spanish railway from Valladolid to St.
Sebastian. The train while travelling et • rapid rate ran off
the rails at • spot where the reel made a sharp curve and
the carriages were, from their Impetus, dashed one on the
Other, and some of them broken to pieces. Many of the
peasengers were Injured one account stated to the number
of sixty, but • notice lamed by the company spe,drs of
twelve Two, • man and woman, were killed, the face a
the man being so disfigured that he could not be recognised.
Mr, Bright has received an invitation from the
working men of Duolin to address them at • public meeting
during Ms Intended vielt to that city. In his reply,• ad-
dressed to Mr. John M:Corry, the hon. gentleman states that
his stay In Dublin will be short, and that he cannot now
promise to attend any public meeting: but if tti.y will allow
the matter to eland over till nearer the time, perhaps SOM.
arrangement may be made for the purpose.

AM. Perrot, • Frenchman, has discovered three
terrihly destructive engines—the first, a three-barrelled sir-
gun firing 1,000 bullets per minute, the bullets dropping
from a hopper without Intermission into the gun; the
second is similar, but mounted on wheels; and the third Is
a steam locomotive, discharging 211, weight of projectiles
per second, and capable f killing 172,800 men in 24 hours,
If hot one man waa killed to every hundred shots dis-
charge&

An inquest has been held at Langley on the body
of Esther Dray. aged nlne years,. The deceased was playing
near the fire with her brothers and sisters, when her pina-
fore happening to take fire she was enveloped In • blase in.
moment In her fright the poor child ran down stairs into
the road, and the wind being high at the time her clothes
bur at the more fiercely, and her whole person was so dread.
fully scorched that she only lingered • few hours and died.
Verdict—Accidental Death.
A boy thirteen years old wax charged at Wands.
worth with stealing 51 from his master's desk. It ap-
peared that while in confinement in the cells of the
police-station he had hanged himself, and was nearly dead
when he wu toned. tin recovering he acknowledged his
guilt, which he had previously denied lie was sentenced to
two months hard labour, hie employer having recommended
him to mercy.

The Sunday Gazette dates, upon semi-official Berlin
anthotity, that the King of Greece must either fight the
Sultan or lose Ms crown ; and that, burning to imitate Victor
Emmanuel and King William of Presets, he is about to take
decisive measures, by openly supporting the Cretan Insur-
gents. In case he should do so, the Eastern question, In the
opinion of the Berlin writer, Is at once raised In aline ampli-
tude, and, If no, it Is rightly argued that the Great Powers
interested must take aides, some instantly, others, who may
wish to stand neutral, at a later stage of the coming quarrel
The side which Prussia will take is avowed. She will support
the Greeks and the Roumans against the Sultan, and of coarse
against all who sids with him.

I -Madame Riatori, the French actress, is creating a
great excitement in New York. The day the sale at ticsets
for her performances began in that city, the building in
which the ticket-office was located was crnwded with people,
while • great number anxious for admittance filled up
Broadway and the neighbouring streets Three dollars was
the pries demanded for a seat, but speculators, taking ad-
vantage of the excitement, readily disposed of tickets for
twenty dollars. People willingly pay this price to see an
actress and troupe who pertorm I, a foreign language that
not one tenth of the audience will understand.
As to the queston of Captain Jervis refusing to give
up his sword, • correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette ,
is reminded of a story which was current in India. An I
officer having been placed under arrest was requested to give
up his sword. This he declined to do, expressing regret that
he did not possess one; that he was in the habit of hiring the
necessary article from Ileum. So-and-So, the eminent tailors,
for • small stipend monthly ; that he had no doubt the same
firm would let it to him the applicant) on the same
terms ; and that having got possession of it he trusted he
would find it • more remunerative and less troublesome
harden than It had been to himself.

The officers of the American corvette Ticonderoga
have been feted at Constantinople. Banquets to their
honour have been given by the English Ambassador and
Russian Minister ; and the Capital. Pasha, Mehemet All
Pasha, entertained Commodore Speakman, hi. senior officer.,
and the entire p, reolanel of the American Legation and Con-
sulate at • magnitkent entertainment on board of the flag-
ship Manwluileh. The dinner was a thoroughly European
one, with a profusion of winea of the best French vintages,
which were freely indulged In by all present, the precepts
of the Koran being politely Set snide for the occasion For
the first Um* in the Turkish capital the gentlemen composing
, the American leion and Consulate appeared in plata
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