The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

5A:114{.1.),&;, OUT. 17, 1868. .

Professor -iz, in • -• it Senator Conklin
and ether distis,, shod g • c Njdoris, t' c !non
talus ,d Colorado Lich. sit Ifl U,
tumid the region utmost as mon .1
view, as Brazil, nisi espscielly that
now evidences of the entire reraili tstiio irveu acp,thd
fields of ice according to the otoivi theory.

'flte editor I d & Madritl ',mar, called Ow P. •
bar., ja,t I ot ll'ooly 1%)- the revola.
Ow old rtgiine he had be,al sehteneed to 102
moot. .

' A patent bas been tnben old for improvonents
in ladies' muffs.' Ladies mulls are fast youno moo, 59-
surely, and the patent is, therefore, much needed?—Court
Journal.

" Comit do Scehaeh, eon Of the Saxon minister at
the F much Court. is the hero of a little story. A seller of
statuary approached him, and offered his merchandise The
Count Neigh( a bust of the crown Prince of PTILSSia for a
:haler mol then dashed it to piecesagainst the wall. As the
Count de Seehach is an officer it, the Landwher, it is expected
that the incident will not he allowed to pass unnoticed:—
Court •1n0,,,at
A lady of fortune, at Fentenaraounatoin, France,
recently committed suicide because she had a boil ou her nose,
and was afraid of being disfigured.
The other day a hunchback Rented himself at the
gambling-tables at Batten, AS there is a superstition
amongst gamblers that touching a hunchback brings luck,
everyomly touched the deformed on the back. The persons
lost. Great laughter was occasioned by the supposed hunch-
•k ridng, and. withdrawing his hat from under Ids cloak,
the &tenuity at once disappeared.
" Palnter's Pole.-6.11.-- I emidore you to have
emonassion moo me, and take notice of toy letters. Please
do..—Your heart-broken Maggie."—Advertisemeut in London
Time,
One of those great philanthropic gatherings* which
do so tench honour to the merchant princes of the City Of
- e uesay ae theSl:Lesion HOUSO, Meter

In expectation of an acquittal, of which elie was eon-
:.k.ot to tn last, Madame Rachel hail he shop newly
:u: uislied up between the two trials, and made as gay aa
It and cildi.:g anti im ti curtains could make it. Tnere
" Arabian Perfunicr to the Courts of Europe" over the
r But the shutters aro tm now, all exeept at one port
3 glass dour, where the mob peeps eagerly in to catch a
-i. id the dimile . mysterious interior through. the

null; i 4 i•reat impontan., in connee-
lii:mall-W1...A Lancashire
s • ...is ~. • ”iiner is n.aile by the Liberal
agents in that ilivi-ion. It is said that the revision just
elossd id the voter.' lists has resulted in a Liberal gain of
nearly a thousand voters:.
At Ilford, Captain Walker, of the Franees Hilyard,
has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment for assault-
ing John Hanson, the stew:nil, on the high sear The cap-
tain, who was a tall, stalwart fellow, splaared perfectly as-
tounded at his sentence.
Eleven Mormon missionaries, from Salt Lake City,
presented themselves at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on
Saturday in last week, for permission to view tile depart-
ments, hut were told that they were not British subject!, and
must apply to the Secretary of State for a 51501111 order. The
object of their visit to this country is to obtain converts to
the NI ormon -faith, and to convey them to Utah.
A nentleinan namtd Kelly was tined tilts. and costs,
by the Ilford 10 gistratec for getting out of a train whilst
in motion, at the Stratford Station. The servants of the
Great Eastern Railway maintained that the defendant was
seen to step from a carriage whilst the train was moving
into the station. and to fall on his back 011 the Ostrom.
:dr. Kelly asserted that lie did not attempt to leave the car-
riage until the train had stopped, and as he was getting out
the engine tuade another move forward. A female was also
thrown down. The chairman said that, after the evidence
of the Company's servants, he was Is mud to convict.
It is feared that the public have not yet heard the
last of the Eachel4torrodlllle scandal. It has been stated
that civil proceedings will be taken to obtain the restitution
~,,, nev oil' -' frOla the prosecutrix, and in that ease

some mdstance Pt the sula by the recent appalling
a s I ieen exclu led from giving her version of the transac-
i iirthieeike tler:
sin South America after a number h
Ti_
tif
~
ill.. pri-ideni y iif the Istal Mayor. Its object was to atfont
ympat Mit?, ,i,iilles a committee for the reception of suls Doi •
t"htetini'l's'!ic"rW:llillinl:e."e"xltiMi'l'e“tilas'TWitiniss. Hitherto the
rs'etil Mom was termed, and "a message of comforting re- The Emparor of Ai:stria him just sent to the Pope,
esiifialee and firolopt relief" isionsol to lie sent tin the home- non mark of natal dere eduess, II 1110g11111,0111 11011.1111111dssal,
less ant mated by this fearful calamity. Toe amount of 011 wsieh the Ise t workmen of Vienna hail been eflgaged fir
suli,criptlials .iiiiiiiinieeil in the room Wits £5,500. several yesrs met. The cover is onminente 1 with pinions
exidosien at a firework mannfactery at Barnsley has been Letters from Na is reviving in
Naples say that trade i
concludi nt. Tire verdict of the jury was Sontew hat remark- Hely. A Correspondent of the 11, ai rii Pot writes :-
able They say the accident arose from the car lessness of a pas-as a few days at Sera ; not a brigana within forty miles
'the influent in the twelve persons killed by the stones set hi gold.
girl unmet cooper, tote of the victims, and they " come- to be had for love or money, but instead forty manidactories.
Cooper as to all the parties dead, except herself." • a Itch this year has made vast moneys In corn, sulphur, wine,
quently return a verdict of inmslaualaer against Maria with 10,000 workmen. all working full time to supply Sicily,
Captain oswahl Carr, R. A., fourth son of .r.I . M. Minh Carr, ' . ' al N a des improving Lista
there on a gigan tic se e. 1
of liedgeley, has been killed in action at New Zealand. Mr.
Intelligence has reached Alnwifik. by telegram that
mes has made arrangements with a
dc. Tend too is going ahead ; they are builditig factories
Captain Senn
Ralph Mar, whin inn county gentleman very highly esteemed Baltimore Jinn for the publication of his narrative of his
in Northumberland, has wilt all the information that is yet craises in the Se inter anti A labama. The volume will eon
-
known of the death id his boll ill 3 letter to the local meta. lain about 750 peg., turtt a ill be illustrated with pictures of
On Monday a man employed at Rome printworks at American slaps destroyed by him.
Accrington, met unit a sail death. The deceased wats a
Malty and contradictory have been the reports iu
joiner, and aas engaged in measuriegm w slice heels, prior to circulatton as to the fortutie left list Count Walewski. The
boxing them off. A part of his jacket caught in the wheels,
billowing statement is correct -"rite late count has left a
and, in endeavouring to extricate himself, his arm was caught small house in the Avenue Montaigne, louilt by himself, a
arid Pam off. Ile was removed home but died shortly after- villa at St. Germain, and a chalet at Evian, on the Lake of
wards. Geneva. These are his sole posaessione, and their value ha.
The Corriere di Sardegna giv
G s some account of been estimated at about £OOO sterling a year The property
aribaldi. lie is always calm, kind, and affectlonete. Ile of slits, in the I.:miles. is not to he reel,iiiii.l. inasmuch moll i.
said recently ton visitor, "I do not suffer so much, but I feel is unitreeluctive, and the count only accepted it ou ...alit' n
to rectum the
made many voyages', a plunk is at (me tit. wanting, at land.
I am growing old. I am a weather ',retell bull, which has of toting supplied with the nece.ary means
another a nail-always something: bid an earne,t will 1 The proprieter of a restaurant in Patio is having a
supplies all denciences ; and when the country may need of , , ~ ...,, . ,
camber laiSlsuillseii announcing that 1111011 a certaie day
the last timber of the old barque I shall willingly make the lie will have an ox roasted whole ; the price of admission
sacrillee." will he five francs, with the privilege if eating without
A highly-esteemed ne rehalit at Biarritz, whose restriction. Music by the band of tho Hippodrome.
name according te end.., the papers abstain f rom
mentioning, has just thu oned himself to put an end to his i litiklie iiiilliSll is 1/111.11iSlled ill the twenty-fifth vom volume nil Ids
sufferings fruit i neuralgia C
. A curious letter of Napoleon I. to the FJIIIIIII4IS
I iii re,,liolliPili,. It is as follows t-'' Madame et Aare slam,
his appearanes at his church lad Sunday in time to perform i have received the Arch-Clumeellor whilst in hed. My desire
The parish priest of Lens, in Belgium, did not make I I leive received a letter by a Melt you inform me that you
mass. His clerk went Pi his house to fetch himh and found iis that sou do mot receive anyone, whoever they may be
him hanging front in nail in his own bedroem. whilst in le (I. Thais ouly allowed to those who ham paseed
tire ;0 e N1..0113 of flastingsa extensive estates in Leicestershire, 1 Th n e personality of the late Admiral Dundaa has
Lady Edith Hastings has purchased the reversion to their thirtieth year.
Derbyshire, and Yorkshire, including Donnington Park, 1
I been swern under a-a-entre.
The body of a well-dressed man was found floating " Many of our refuters," says the Leader, "will re-
in the sea at Spithead on Monday. The facts that the pockets , weeder Miss Riviare, who, 'Dore than thirty yews age, was
of the lead man had been riled, and that a large stone was I the leading soprano of that day. she subsequently married
tiel to one of his legs, lead to the conclusion that he had been , sir henry Bishop, the comp osee, from Who'll she parted and
murdered. I went to A111121.i1,1. This lady, after travelling all over the
data (i.e Celestial Etnirite. has married again,
' Rel is now nt Australia et vit .g concorts. nue, et, are han
PY
Mr. Howell t 'ohb, of Georgia, is dead. He was idle "'rid` in'h! `` . i i T• ...
1 of the lutist mdlinching (+.4lloPiolla of the Dentoct•atic pat ty ; •
' 't
:I t ' ' s fine, and to btok as attractive as
i Lately . began again to take the lead in the reactioll Which Is repot ~ o sum a. y .
; before the war, and a hitter Secessionist throughout it. .
' has taken place in Georgia agrinst the Republican ride. I ever."
t i he. r ins dealt tenderly with her person and VOlre. She
The expulsion of Ute coloured members from the Legislature A Paris paper ways that the Einttersr Napoleon has
of the atate was mainly due, it silts said, to his intinence. i been takine daily walking exercise for several hours, and
Theugh politically dangerous, Mr. Cobb was thcially liked by i that he only suffers occasiotudly fettle his rheumatism.
all parties ; he possessed in
nem w h distiuguish d the h perfectiest of the le h lding lie
on thst polish (of man-
From the Ist of .Tanuary to the middle of September
itce set:o e,
and won them so much sympathy with foreigners. ~ „ . .
I United States
A- col respondent at Constantinople, writiftg on the
2.1 inst , says i-" The Sultan h. been very ill with Longfellow, the Amen an poet, is at
present
a visi-
"o WO nisi esthete oi petroleum an. exported from the
moplexy for some days. No le, titan ten medical inen have tor to the Lakes of le. illarney.
been ill attendance. This orb ,it li:s Majesty is reported At one (if the London polic.e-eourts a elerg.yntan,
to ho better. The custom hoe in to conceal the illness of the i who igAVC the name of Henry I inward, and said he WWI not
Sovereign, and not, no elseelocre, Pi Issue bulletins of the "on duty" at present, was tined Ss. for being drunk awl
state of his health when ill." incapable. lie was nimble to pay the 11110 and hail to go to
Mr. James Cairfl estimates that the yielal of wheat prison.
in lbes nearly etitials that tof 1.4. Ile anficipate. that WO 'rho family of Audubon, the late eminent naturalist,
Ishall pay fifteen millions less ftr fo oreign wheat than last year. are said to he living in meat poverty in Charlesten. It is
'rids sum svill, however, be it least counterbalanced by the prommeol to republielt his works for the benefit of Ids Chit-
deficit in barley, oats, and hay. then.
Mr. Disraeli's address has not been well received in General Butler is very unpopular in Massachusetts,
Ireland, where it is called a " war-whoop," "a shriek eon, and an effort is being made to prevent hie re-nomination to
, winded of malignity, of defiance, and of despair." , Congress. The soh, iguet of " Spoous " its tutiversally attecheil
caw aign is.the sending of the healaitieit him frim all parts
The Omniblls COMpally 14 ratis have notified their
conductore that in future money bearing the effigy iie is
overwhelm,
lIV will Itot be 'accepted by them. This money is now
I Pannier's name in America. :eta one of the bunieurs of the
presents of spoons of horn, tin, brass, bone, wood, pewter,
I generally refused in Parts. iron, everything but silver. They poem In upon him by every
His Royal Higliness Prince Christian has been maiL by messenger, and by express.
elected by acslantatiom a member of the 3 ockey I.
A Parisian speculator sent a large member of carrier
The Gatt/ois (Potts pap n
paper) remarks on a crieus pigeons to lash., to replace the telegraph, when all corn-
coincilleme. Adelina l'atti (Marquise de Caux) has taken an oMnication with Spain was interrupted. .
apartment. 154. Champs Elys6ee, exactly above that occupied
by Victoria Balfe, (laughter of the composer of the " Bohemian re rumenrthatKin
G orge of Hano r n
- .
m
Girl," dm. and herself a brilliant at-tress, who, by her roar. the next Session of the British Parliament, will take his seat
The is a g eve, i
riage witb sir John (is:auntie], nart., became English in the Lords as a Prince of the Blood Royal.
Ambassadress to St. Petersburg., and by her subsequent The Neapolitan journals mention a singular attetnpt
marriage to the Due denims, the wife of a spani-h grandee. at murder. A religious service was being performed in the
The news from China anil 3 :wan shows bow stron' church of La Carita, when M. Maraiod, architect, was shot
is the feeling against Christianity that still exists in these front the outside through a window
.over the altar, line
on die gates of the town f. ortadding the exercise of the taken to the hospital.
countries. Al Vookohama an Imperial decree has been posted murderer has not been discovered, lhe wounded man was
Christian religion t and at Wmliang, in china, such serious At the funeral of a rich Jew in Vienna, a young
outrages ale said to have been perpetrated on the man insulted In Jewess, who, having related the occurrence
missionaries as to call for the interfereece of our Govern- on her return home to her brother, the latter seined a
mint . proinard and webt and killed the aggressor. Ile has been
A correspondent of The Times states that on arrested.
inspecting has silver the other by he found spurious spoons Marshal Serrano- is & tel mime formerly--was once
and forks with Ids crest on them, substituted for silver ones
the special favourite Of the royal lady whese throne he has
which had, no doubt, been stole.. overturned. Ass soldier, a subject, a favourite, mei a nay
Dr. lb-renal', the well-known analytical chemist, intimate Mend, he must have astonished Isabella by his
died on Monday night, at his residence, Ohl Market-street, perady, his disloyalty, end his ingratittels.
Misted lie was a man of Melt eh:liniments, and, like his It created some indonisliment that the first Louse in
father, the late ?dr. W. her( tpah, was ciilebrated for Ids Madrid over which waved the republie.llllll: W. that of the
analytical skill. Tile dem:vett was .16 years of age, Unit the Comituss Alentijo, the mother of the 1"1.11111111 Einprem ; but a
eauie of death was jallllllioo. semi-official journal announces that the Countess was not at
The twenty-ninth autumnal conferenei• of the Cone home.
gregational Colon of 'England and Wales has been helot at An analysis of the list of candidates for seats in
Leeds this week. The owning mn sero was preached by th oart.:le :
, ntent shows that the army is represented menerously.
Rev. Thomas Binney. There are live eentoral mincers offerine themselves, thirty-six
The N( TO York Thum states that another Indian colonels and lidadeutteolonels, thirty-three majors, aud
light is wettable on the plait.. eix bemired Indians bad forty-three captains ;reilitsuy and naval); four admirals also
crossed the Nellie, near Monument, Kansti, and it seas conic forward.
thought they mere soreparine to make an attack on all the A few minutes liefore twelve o'clock on Friday night
stations along the route. The eitizees were armed, and the in last week, a singular phenomenon VMS witnessed by per-
tr.tpe ready for any 12111C111011C).. HMS who happened to be out of doors. A meteor tilted a
The fruits of a divided duty have been bitter to momentary blue light all over Paris, like that of electricity.
some Englishmen in the Orange Free State, some of whom A few minutes afterwards a Mud report was distinctly heard,
have bees sentenced to a year's imprisonment for refusing, resembling the discharge of a lends The luminous globe
under instractions from Sir n. Wistehouse, to serve against fell near beiville, a suburb of Paris, traversing a direction
the Basutos. If they haul, done so, and had happened to from south to north.
have been taken by the .utos, and handed over to our
mounted police, their fate would probably have been The Leeds Mercury mentions an odd incident in the
worse. ceremony of the induction of the new viear 111 Leeds last
week. After the pr.ession hail marched slowly round the
Mr. Morton, (on behalf of Lord Durham), has church and the keys hail been given him, the vicar went tate
written a letter in answer to one which he had received the church alone, closing the door behind him. In a SOCAIIIII
Intimating that wine of his lordshipas depetulants were or two he found Ii s wity to Um Imll ntpe, an d gave aonto
sulijected to pressure as to the exercise of their votes. Mr. loud tolls. There is a legend that the years durieg which a
Morton states distinctly tltat everybody in lord Durham's vicar remelt. in Leeds are numbered by the tolls Ili. giVes as
employ is at libetty to vote as he pleases., anal that if ally he rings himself iti. "If that Ime so," says our contemporary,
man will come forward lilld say that he is afraid, he Mr. "time inhabitants may be assured that the Rev. Canon
Mortom will give such Matsui:Hens as shall put him per- Woodford will labour amongst them for many a long day to
featly at ease. come."
A court-martial wan held on board the Boyd The Paris correspondent of the independance (10ee
1 A daaid, gnardship, in Ilaintillee, at Ivrea...ft, 0.. steturahly, not third: that Queen Isabella will retire to Koine, inasmuch
I, for the trial of Captain Charles Stark, &Nal,. 1,, serving en as the concentration of the Iteurbette within the States of the
I board the Defence, .a. a charge of having leen libliellt from Church inight displease the Frenth Geyer meet. aboreover,
t his ship on the lath (1 August I.t. without kave. int-meter cardinal Antonelli is exMemely opposed to h.
. pleaded guilty to the charge, and In mitigation said he was
I attacked with diarrhoea whilst tun there, and was unable to A letter, mnelt longer and much less icy than is usual
go on board his ship that night. On the following morning en such occasions, sent to the Lori Provost of Ghmgew by
'he took a boat to go off to his ship, but it was so rough at command of the Prince of Wales, expresses the gratification
the time that be seas unable to reach her, and his vessel and pleasure given to the Prince.sn and himself by MR recent
shortly afterwards Sailed Without him. Ile had been in the visit to the city of St. Mimeo. Their Roysa highnesses oder
service for fourteen years. The Court adjudged the prisoner a substantial pried of their satisfaction in the shape or a
to ho dismissed his ship, and to forfeit twelve moutha' cheque for £lOO, to be applied to the buildiug fund of the
seniority as a captain in the Royal Marines, Glasgow University.
Diddle, at the Theatre Royal is said to have caused more speAciii,odliiitrayaerdofizirenthreairtheietsstawli,llresimireeitit Lif.oerdienr linlaSriwa,,l,iir,
The farewell appearance of Mdlle. Tietjens in The rope recites daily, when celebrating IllatM, fa
Park, belongin to a gentleman, naed Austin, seals
enthusiasm than any initialler event within living recollectiou.
lAsl,lo(st.ralri,ajzstnewg
ofr%wlyitar,s, go, Is,: l recently, in one year.
Upwards of two hundred portents paid high prices for
13noinedtyrie71 tt,l,l,eu liaise.the.ot
places bell the scenes, M demair a finding nem in the
let hose failed to increase in numbers. The pheasants multi-
htr pdrreevdeter tVied. el er'it AT frt'rotni tslit'lni 1111
plied very slightl). owittg Pt a:seta estate,f
e:h:hp..a,rtriloligke,s,.
the horses from her carriage. On the return journey even fide
wise, did not do etaill, they do ted, appear to like the native
grasses. 'the rabbits are not only very numerous but very
eseort was of no avail : the coach was stormed, the coachman
lothis seat, suet the constablee were overpowered, after a
•• tremendoua encounter," in which stavee were freely used. lame
The exi.itement was so great that a fear begun to gain ground s e'
that the revolt against authoority bad a political significence A angaroog have inereasel to such an extent in the
tdioi tile
g ,:dotlii i.noyd, :tele:
• ' southeast of South Au-ti.ali•t as to become a serious injury
and telegrams were sent off in hot haste to the various - ' ' " •
barracks, though they were afterwards countermanded.
At Canterbury, a Maly-like person, who appeared in is,ft'r‘th'eoauletortih:in'les7PA. kl..ll:egairn(ces7eaguotft
the kau„setroo has arisen from the destruction of the native
court attired in deep maiming, and is said to be highly eon- lias been projected for tlie purpore 44 extirpating the knot-
fleeted, was brought up in the custody of the p; glee charged rem, lin to endeavour to make their skins a marketable rem.
with stealing a child's jacket at Herne Bay. The evidence modity so that it tsay be pr linable to hunt the animals
showed that the prisoner entered the hoe. of a person down and thus keep hear ass 1w within boatels.
it arley whilet the worst for drink, and stole a chilies
jacket, which, she afterwards disposed of at a shop in llerne On Monday night Mr. Gladstone athlreßsed a great
Bay. The magistrates ordered the accused to undergo twenty- meeting of South-West Lancastliire eloc,ors at Warrington.
one days' imprisournent in the gaol at Maidstoue. His speech cohsieted of a lengthy raiew of the present
A
I sintation, m ith special referenc. to the positimi of
young lady, aged IS, isf St. Sevre, near Rouen, affairs 111 the country fur with* Mr. Gladstone le with Mr.
. ,
has just been shot in the neck itt sport by ber brother, a child (Ordinal, a candidate.
six years old, with a gun which hatibeen carelessly kf t a ithin
his reach. Death from lockjaw ensued. Arrangements are being made in the camp at
Aldershot to provide lectures and other anmaements for the
Ammican adviees inform us that John Savage, one troops (luring the coming winter. Dramatic represehtations
of the New York Fenian heitot centres, intends to sail for are the most jaular, and when military subjects are ch...
Europe about the middle of October, landing at Havre. for illustration they mhey are invariably placed npeu the stage In
" Paris fashions for October. Every lady now wears a highly creditable mantels
a waterproof cloak."-Court Joulnal. A story is tidd in the Far West of a " Hoosier" so
A correspondent of the Daily News puts the Spanish remarkably ugly that his beiehlooure disliked the Right of
difficulty thus t-" The revolution smmessful ; what nest? him, but who yet persisted in Imaging al.tit pnlolic placea.
Restoration of Isabella? spent ferbiole. Duchess of Mont- Gun °toe tteeeelmi, when notate one was glaring mem lam, the
pensier? France forbids. I'm illne of Asturias? Decency " ibo.il,r" 'sad, " well. I k-ffet hell. beifig MOT, 'Ali I I?"
forbids. count de Montennilin? !fishery forbids. Duke of " No," was the loll)', ''lent you eau stay at home.'
Edinburgh? England forbids. A Republic? Napoleen fo or- Messrs. Bazley, .Tsecob Bright, and Ernest Jones nn
bids." The solution suegested by the writer is the establish- Saturday o,lllllg attended the first of a seties of meetings
mutt M a united Iberian kingdom, under a Constitutional with the traM . littiists of Manchester. After tut cant:tea-
Portuguese Sovereign. tion of the views of the three emendates on the " labour
The death is announced of Brother Robert Trip- quest:en," the lion. geontienten received a unanimous voteof
hook, of the ciiarterhouse, London, well known sixty years thanks awl *promise of support from the meeting.
ago as a flourishing London le mkseller. tie Was an intimate A short tithe ago, a hilmurer on a farm in Essex shot
friend of Sir Walter Scott, and found mins:deal employ molt `
a avec bird. liproved to be an Eavidian vitlture This is
in collecting materialspirates, Ifie emo. ess a the second instance only of the bird West seen in England.
favouriM lace of reeort for Tlyron, Shelley, Celeridge, Laub, -
and otherp literary celebrities. thin Juan, nominal le-al ef the earlist brawl' of the
Spanish
MIS ourbons, has aletkated Lis rights to the throne of
r. Hartwell has issued an a(blress to the electors of si am, in fa sour of I ' i ' I co 1 M l."
113 SOII /011 , (at Os, -tint t i . 011
Stoke, in which he thus summarizes his " platform : "-nest. im.
dential and registereol manhood snlTrage, the ballot, the tits-
estahlithment of the Irish Church and the disemlowntent of
all renames sects in Ireland, the legal recognition) of trade
miens and protection of their funds, the protection of
boards of arbitration in trade districts, national secu'ar edu-
cation, retrenchment Pt the hational expenditure, Ulla a
radical reform in the poor law. Mr. Hartwell says in seek-
ing to get into Parliament he is actuated by no feeling oof
persontal ambition, but simply by a desire to be In a better
pesitMn to advocate nteasures for the advancement of his
fellow working men, in which he Inns taken an interest fur
thirty years.
A curious matrimonial rumour is in circulation, to
wit-that the Provisional Government in Madrid wish some
English prince to marry a daughterOf the Duke and Duchess
of Montpensier, and sit on the throne,
Mr. Holilen, a candidate fir the eastern division of
the West Riding of Yorkshire, told a large meeting of the
electors of Leeds about his earlier years. " I began life," lie
said, "as an operative. I was swrker loft cotton. mill, anti
when I lard worked fourteen hours a day, I spent two in the
evening school. I educated myself by that means until I was
able to continue may education by assisting in the education
of others, and I sometimes remember with Intense emotion
entering, upon a stage coach, this town of Leeds, unknown,
and a perfect stranger, at twenty years ,of age, in realer to be
the mathematical master in otte of the Mat schools then In
Yorkshire, and almost one of the first in linghttul.

Mr. Charles We:than, hitt -fly known as pedestrian
reporter in e011110,•ties with II Ito I. if., though better kmiwn
to the general public as a that-class pedestrian—his feat of
walking 21 miles in three hours standing unrivalled—died at
his London residense the other rlay.
Artimg the recent acts if parliament, was One ein
cotton statistics. Full information is to be collected and
published in the iroportti and exports of the cotton trade.
On Monday night thete was an excessively noiRV
meting in Leicester. The Rev: I:rewin Grant, of shethelk
was announced to deliver a lentUre no the IriSh Church in
opposition to Mr. Gladstone's propositions. Mr. Alm! rt
Pell. the Conservative candidate, was in the chair, hut
could not get a hearing. 'Me lecturer proceeded in dun!!)'
show, lart even that was stopped. by the uproar. Another
chairman was appointed, but Mr. Pell refused to vacate the
seat he occupied. A resolution was passed unanimondy
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favmir of Mr. Gladstone and the disendowment and discs-
tablishment of the irish Church. The meeting closed amid
great disorder, the OS iicing shut off to hasten the end.
rA.
ilsihytroiciek,infgeatahcecridine:rtahaageinLderpoonol,tl.line
stamjairniias;:s of
young Wflhlian, trained Teresa Haden, was engaged in a room
In which was .s.one machinery worked by steam power, alien
she was caught by the strap attached to a rapidly-turning
wheel, dragged isa amongst the inachinery, and half torn tO