The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-22 00:00:00

enTE STOIiRBRIDGE OBSERVER.

Otf o'd that Mr. Hopkins wasnot the person. If the bebop
had written or sold so, he WWI nude • wrong IM•raidon.
0 'mmll.ll Mr If metes met him, Mired his het end ex-
foliated a dial, to Free. In the church a statue if 8- James.
Ho did not recollect the trail words of his answer, hut he
th" our. Mr. 'lonians! might have applied to him
shout a coal club and be coul • not 1.11 what his answer was.
He did not recollect sayle g ' • will have nothit.g to .av to you,
fI. >on ere no gentleman" The comatint to the Bishop at
Ottord was of s`milar conduct by Mr. Hopkinsto that lust
• e.cqhed. This had been going on for wens yesrs. The
Malmo replied that he had sent wirmqa's complaint to Mr.
lipids.. Witness toted the Hawn what remedy be had,
It his speaking to Mr. Hopkins should he of no avail, Mud
El. Lordship elated the course would he to summon him
before the magistrates!. Witness bad spok• n to Mr.
Hopkins, son., who said he had done all he could to per.
suede his son to behave hTtter.
0 o gentleman said he had been annoyed by the defer.
dent's conduct in church hut two ethers who were ex-
amined denied that there had been any hot ermi cnnditet. Mr.
Hawkins, solicitor, Orford, said he did 11 d believe that Mr.
Hopkins was convulsed with laughter Ma impression was
that Mr Hopkins had been remarkably quint for him, as he
was rather an excitable tel or.

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matter or tybeenFlonger. Thy pinned the tinbroi.
°intim of winitioMpsevem yearn, but the Vicmoltancellor
decider! that /inch custom to he valid must he bleed
urion some contract, 14nd a. there war 110 such contract,
the partnership rxisting hetweinx The Times and Even-
ing Mail must he diseol red, and the paper gold. The
decision, though inmitahle on the facts, will to received
wih regrtt in India and many of the colonies, where
it ham been the hnbit of Englishmen to "take Tke
Times" through this edition, and no Pave half the price,
more than half the postage, and escape the bore of the
advertisement sheets.

TRIAL OF ALLYOZD Fetni.ns.—At the Liver-
pool tinier., before Mr. Justice Smith, four your g
men have been indicted for having, on the 21et of
Seritember, feloniously received and kept forty-nine
rifles. the property of the government. It appeared
that the riflen had been lamed to come of the volunteer
corps—viz , 28th and 46th Middleeex and also of the
2 ird Surrey, and had been traced to the prisoners. It
was proved that the prisoners had been seem moving
the canes in a cart, and on their apprehension one of
them said he would have taken the cases to (Resole
if I e had hail an opportunity, and would not hake come
to Liverpool. A great deal of evidence was adduced,
but his lordship was of opinion that the evidence did
not bear out tee alleirationn of the indictment and tee
jury, afttr retiring for twenty minutes, returned a
verdict of Noe Guilty in each cane.
ALAI, IN Jane,. v.— The island of Jersey was
het week greatly excited by current reporte apropos
of Head-Centre Stephen, whom arrival on Monday by
steamer /rein St. Ma,,, his capture, and imprisonment
in Fort %trent were (orison., time thoroughly credited.
Americsn go'd to a considerable am tint wan changed
at some of the bank. on Saturday, and thin ex cited
no email degree of rinspiciort. Detective railere are in
the island, and the military officer, on the qui rive. It
is thought not unlikely that Stephens may attempt to
make his way to Hovland by S. Mohr and Jersey, as
being least likely to create eunpicion. The while of
the island Militia have received notice to be prepared
for a-nembling at a tromentes notice, the nummone to
be three guns fired from Fort Reverie. The excites
merit was in no way subdued on WerineedaY by the
discovery that telegraphic communication with the
island was intercepted. The line crosses from Plicouet
Pay, on the north tide of the island, to Piron, on the
French coast, and rumour is briny aecribing the cessa-
tion of communication to Fenian agency by the
breaking of the cable by a vessrl employed to drag
Se-flint it.

Lady Tanned, who °croon d • lest in nanghourne church
on atinday near Mr Hopkins, deposed that ins !saw nothing
In his Gondar, calculated so annoy or disturb any ono He
whiapered to her. Mr. Finch la preaching • very good ser-
mon. hot iii n.O hi. own.' It-never saw him convulsed
h langnier, or Nur, f -Ca 10 Ms hand.

Th.- asintrrte. rvtjr,d and *ft., an absence of about
• (platter of an hour returned into court. The chair-
man said they had given thi. Case a Very anxious eon-
.ideration, because it 1.1.• a charge bruight againrt a
hen, her magistrate. altd f course it might be inferred
by some people that they would exercise too flinch
partiality, or, on the other hand, they might he blame-
able for going b, en exce.s. They were of o, inion that
Mr. Finch was res.,. ra,Vy "vexed and troubled and
disquiet.' " by Mr. Hopkins's conduct in church;
'hey etiould ti,orefore convict defendant of the charge,
and adjuige him to p.y a pelnaly of 204., with 20,
coats. rho aolicitor to Mr. Hopkins gave notice of
mai. eal avainst the deem on. The ease excited a great
,e .1 of interest from the positi in which the parties
occur), in tne county.

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On Saturday a singular case of what may be called
"brawling in church" was tried at the Lambeth Police
(444urt, in London, before the sitting magi •trate. The
Rev 0. Mitchell. incumbent of All Saints, Newington.
butts, being continually disturbed in the performance
of the service by the ill-behaviour of a number of
children belonging to • "ladies' school" in the neigh.
bourhood, directed their removal from a pew near the
reading desk to another in a aide aisle. 041 the next
siteday. afi.er the .... ice had lama, a servant 44 the
schoolmistress came into church with a note, requesting
the removal of the children to their old position, and
atteinwed to remove them, which created a disturb-
ance. Later in the service the schim,mistress and her
nephew came into church, and a similar scene fol-
lowed. The magistrate said "that such conduct was
disgraceful at any time, particularly during Divine
service; and it being proved that the defendant, her
nephew, and servant, had laid hold of the arni of the
he& lit, to pull him away, the magistrate held that they
had been guilty of an assault. He then sentenced
them to pay fines of Ws., and 5045. respectively, with
initoisonruent in default of payment. A counter
charge against the beadle for assault was dismissed.
The collator for the defendants gat notice of appeal.

A MKRICSN AMMENKNTS - The "New York
Herald" describes • disgusting "sporting event,"
which was recently witnessed at Philadelphia. Here
is the reporter's account of the aft tie :

The rat-catcher then J awned Into the pit and knelt Co one
knee In the middle of It A confederate stool outside, he'd-
log • Won watch, and all at once gave the signal to begin.
Then came • horribis 'meanie. Quick its lightnine, the
mcii p'uogel it, hand Into the ml.s of rate a is d ',al by
tle week and car.ied it to hi. mouth—then • squeak and •
Cr. net.. end the lifeless caves e who tossed 5.1,.5 with a
I,oken neck. A. PO, nas the rats 'nunl what •a. swine de.
ant lb .t th rota, no 0,41 V. CT th-m, th. y • tante, the
emn rilm,ing op on his thigh*, tu• he was ho onidlt to irt
then, get Maier ie tent bib ha. d. Mies, aid W.A.' as If
It. was a magician, nulling • C 'want Interim of dead rata
froni his nt-dith e cal-ti as i ht. taken to WI it,
the bottom of tie pit woo ..vered with de d hodie.. Otis or
two terrified survivors were eau the atd killed, and then,
•md areramationa ci ddlght ten, the alldlenEe, t,4i man
junit el op GP him lip, which ha I been bitten once or twice,
pul4 d he re. hair, from net.r.n hie twth, and washed
away the taste wi h • pl.ss of honor.
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f'llsnisT FOR Perks:A.—Captain Noelke, of
the Prussian three•maated schooner Vimple, recently
from the Solon group, situated between Borneo and
the Philippines, 6164 brought from the Solon Sultan
• communication in the share of a large
document enveloped in silk. What this epistle
imrporte we, of course, are not prepared to atate ;
hot it in snoreeed to convey a proposition to
King William I. to assu, e the power, of royalty over
the Sultan's domains inasmuch as the Soloonese are
tired of the control at present exercised by the
Spaniard. over them. The ,locument in question into
be tranrmitted to Berlin. Captam Noelke has in his
pmsession several large pearls f more or lers value
from the said islands, the batiks in the vicinity of
which are well known to contain numbers of those
precious productions.

THAD!: UNIoN OCTRAGPS.—Mr. Robinson,
briekmaker of Sheffield, Nemirow he reinsert to be dic-
tated to by the Brickmakerte Union, has been subjected
to gro.s outrage., and has to have the winchwe of hie
home protected by wire netting. Recently a ginger.
beer bottle, filled with gunpowder, was flung at his
window, another was thrown into his beiroiim, his
horse was stabbed to death in a field. and his cow had
its bowels cut 01.11. An attempt was made to destroy
hie havetack. On Saturday night week, his nephew,
Mr. George Ro.einson, of Rotherham, who is a partner
',Ali the Sheffield gentleman, v,rts fired at as he was
returning borne with his wife and child, but managed
to escape uuiujured.
Mr. JI-STICR Lieu AND GAROTTIMS —ln
opening the businese of the winter &noire at Leeds Mr.
Justice Lush said there were sir cages of rotehery with
violence on the highway. That was a crime which he
warn sorry to Nay he had recently found on the increase
in these northern counties. It was a crime which was
calculated to excite terror and alarm among peactal.le
and seelledispowed pereons. Persons disposed to that
bird of crime eteuld met he too often or too emphatically
dealt with, wtth a view tee its reprerision, and the inflic-
tion of corivoral irunirlrtiteint in a. I.lition to th e ot her P.. vertt
punishment which alone nmil lately was assigned by
the law to that, &nee. It was right that such people
should know that the extra kind tef puniehment which
the law authorised would be put in force •,ptinet them,
in order to put down • crime so detrimental to the
peace and security of society.

RUA ORD NA RV TA k S OP SPR 'T9 —Upwards of
one fmg.ieed tons of thiP delicious ti.h, moat of them OF
large Piz- and fatness, have been caught in Bridiant
bay during the past fortnight ; al out twenty tons
were Pent last Iteek by raii to London. Ste.,
whilst waggon load and cart load. supplied the neigh.
lamming inland towns and village, wr h many a good
meal to the poorer dawns at a che•ii rate. Several
boats caught from fifty to seventy Miehels a day, which
realised from lit 6.1. to 3.. per bushel. Many families
have salted them by the bushel for the winter,
whilet it is amusing to see the walls of cottage kite
slums festooned with ;silvery fish, hung nu strings to
dry.

ITALY FM AT Lan !--On Saturday King
Victor Emmanuel opened in person the Italian Par-
liament. In him epeech on the occasion his Majesty
coneratulated the country on h-oing attained it. Inde-
pendence, and on being henceforth ire from all foreign
Imitation. The French Government. he said, faith'
MI to the obligation. which it contracted by the Sep-
tember Convention, hod withdra en its troops from
Ruin-; and on its side the Itailan Government, obser-
vant of it, engaienienta, had respected and will rewect
the Pontifical territory. " Attached to the religion
of our ancestors,' esid his Majesty, " which is also
that of the great majority of Im lane, I neverthelese
respect the principle of liberty which breathe.t through
our matitutione, and which broadly and sincerely
applied, will remove the cause* 4.f tie old differences
between Church and State. This disjeuition on our
'Art by reassuring Catholic conaciencee, will accom-
plish, t hope, the wiahea which I form that the
Aoyer•-iyu Pontiff may rem AM independent at Rome."
The King then adverted to the n.easures whi..h would
be laid bet... the Chamber, for the orgatdeation of
the army and the adjmoment of the revenue and ex-
penditure., and concluded by 'minting out that Italy,
being now restored to herself, h-r responsibility had
become equal to the power the had acquired, and that
they were therefore called on to show that they could
golo-rr. themselves with the Yigettr required by the
social oondo ion of the kingdom and the liberality
demanded by their institutions.

A MISSING COUNTIMS.—A French paper states
that two months since the Countess if Rchontherre
left En hien, where she had passed the Primmer, and
went to make various excursion. in Upper Italy before
reaching Maple.. She set out one inorning with some
friehde for a walk in the monniairie and when shout
half-way eke was beset by such eorrov;ful preseutimenta
that she took out her diamond ear-ring.. which Ph«
SII4IIVP wore, and gave them to one of her companions
to take mire if, saying elle was afraid of encountering
robbere. A few steps further on, she isepsrated &little
from the party, and from that moment it wilA found
imposeible to discover the smallest trace of what had
become of her.

AN ADVDNTURZ WITH Coge.ctra. —A boat, with
ten convicte. WIN sent from Tonlon to Saint Maudrier
a few days ego. Taking advantage of a favourable
wind, they turned the craft from its enure., and ran
right bef ore the breere lathe direct i, of the Hyeres. The
alarm wan at once given, and detachmente of gendarmes
were ment both by land and water to intercept them.
The boat was driven agronnd at Gien, and eight of
he convicts were secured; the other two, more
desperate and determined than the inhere eecaped into
the woods. They hail seized the arms of the hoit'a
captain, and taken thy clothe. from the helmsman.
ftv midnight they were tracked and surreinded ; one,
after wounding a gendarme, wan killed by • piatol shot,
d the other surrendered.

TFt OoNvICT.D Fgti (ANS. The principal
groullds of the motion for a new trial of the Fcnians
c at Toronto appear to he three—
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That the Court was not duly constituted under the pro-
vincial Act of laat Soufon ; that the prisoners were he
;Acted nnder • statute We'stint, to citizens of foreign S -area,
, and that (as they silent) there was no evidence that they
' were such; that they insist that there We, no evidence of
thoor Intension to levy wnr against Lae Q leen, 5n4 that a Tut
I evidence nem« 'mon them hi sorprlm alio con d 1,. answered
141 a new trial ; this the Jo 'go misdirected the jury when •
he told them that the lew east upon the prisoner the May of
preventing a mew, of the I eves or at ref trim( .ben he found
they were ;robot to he violated. Oh behalf of the priest it
I, need that toe judge Misdirected the Joey in telling them
that if the prisoner name to minister the comolatems of
religion to persons enrage i In at uulawful cape ilti•ot he
committed an Wanes newer the statute.
A NOLCt AffIATANT TA 'LOP.— The! Militttry
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tribunal of the canton of Borne I as been impeded pi to
decide ins singular caw. M. Mori, tailor. re; [meet o
nerve in the not nal guard fr. m the unitive th
j iiued the,AnaPisimists, he had become convinced that
V o early arms *fa contrary to the injonctions of the
Holy Scripi Fees Before the snooty," he said to the
comt, "I 'Amalfi allow my head to be rut off without
defentiirg myself, and Lam right; for if it be God who
sends the locuota to 1112hiNh the impiety of the free-
masons of Paris ty eating up the harveat of the
Algerian colonies, then, if the tailor Uteri should
happen to be killed, it most certainly holly the Will
and l'lrll,Pit perniiipion of the Doty.' The trittlpal
at once declared hie reamoing irretn able; hut. being
guided by puroy human inspiratione, it apprehended
ihat the theories of AU Mani, should they spread,
might produce great difficulties in the recruiting, itd
the tailor wan in consegnence condemned to hanieh-
merit from the canton as long as he should rtfm.e to
Wife.

THY ARTifIT AND TAZ CITY COUNGIL,-.- There
was a very cootie scene in the Council of the City of
London last week. It seems -that
tsirtrait painter, thought the presentation of the
fie-doni of the City to the Plinee of Wales a grand
opor,unite for tne disolay of hie art. and painted •
he e pienr, 10 feet by 115. cobtaitliog 582 limes and
482 portraits, moat of them oitnmon councilmen in
uniform. HS asked 0001. for this Work, and PONVOS
to have telt that, as the oestuitiloien sat to him, they
war,luotaa7 WWI to pay. Tim City Laud's Com.

niTAii-ee Wanda so tee, and Mr. C. Reed went the
length of declaring that the civic csretnony repreeented ;
"one id the greatest events of recent times," a remark •
in which other councilmen cordially concurred. 'Vhe
etiijority, however. were a little ashamed if the job,
and declined to vote public money for their own glori-
fication' Mr. Elliott in particular proposine to pur-
chase the picture by • eubeiription of 101. from
every body nainted in it. A motion to pay the artist
500/. was also rejected, and poor Mr. Melville oiscovers
too late that it is possible to reckon too strongly on the
vanity of a common councilman. The Speetcttor
suggests a plan to Mr. Melville to get hie money.
Let him make every portrait as like and as ugly ss he
can, and then threaten to present it to the Royal
Exchange!
Resale. ARUM:I.—The "Posen Journal" says
that Russia is secretly arming to a considerable extent
—the fact is undeniable. An incredible activity pre.
vaile in her arsenal'; she is converting the 1.1,1 infantry
muakets into needle rifles, null filling up the regiments;
in short., she is putting hero-If in • condition ti be
prepared for any event next spring. The superior
officers believe they will be called upon to enter on a
emnpakn at that period. However, it is only stating
the truth to say that up to the prreent no change has
been ma is in the cantonment., of the Rmetian army,
and teat ho militaly force has not been Meteoroid in
the kingdoin of Poland. The Austrian fiontier is as
bare iit Russian troops as in ordinary limes. A con-
eiderable number of young men, natives of Galicia,
who had taken part in the loot Polish insurrection,
have just passed thr sigh Warsaw. They had been
sent to Siberia, lint the Russian Government, at the
instance of the Cabinet of V .enna, has lately set them
at liberty, and they are returning to their borrow.
Scarcely half of these young men, it is perceived with
regret, have come back ; the others found their death
in Siberia, as much from the j iurney and the climate
as from the painful labour to which they were nub-
jecterl.
RATHER PREMATURN !—The telegraphic infor-
mation that a revolt in Ireland hail actually com-
menced fell like a bombshell among the Fenivels
(says the New York Tones). Early in the morning
the flaming bulletins of some of the " enterprising "
j .urnsls of New York attracted considerable crowds,
the members of which discuved the truth or falsity of
the news and the extent of the reported mallet-A with
their acenstomed vivacity. It is known that C. O. I R.
Stephen., left the city YOUIe weeks since for Leland
by an intricate and ingenious route unknown to
Enelieh detectives, and it is also known that just before
starting he most solemnly exhorted his followers, at a
meeting hell at him bead-quarters, to trust to the next
month for eigne of stirring action. TJ one in his con-
fidence he said that, this revolution—for he declared it
would be nothing short of it—could not be crushed out
in lees than three years. These remarks, and the Com
ffience of a large number in the integrity of Jsmee
Stephens, tend to give our Irish citizens a vivid inte-
rest in the news just received. As for the Roberts'
party, it is alleged that its leaders are planning another
movement on Canaria—one which they feel certain
will end successfully now that a diversion in their
favour is made in Ireland. The. repelled pr. j -et,
however meets no favour at the hands of the followers
of Jame,. Stephens.
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PARIS To AMERICA.—It is very generally
understood that the American mail contract with the
Cunard Company will not be renewed. For this
rewion, among others, the passage money by the
Omani mail steamers has been advanced to 31/, for
chief cabin, and to 23/. for second cabin, by the New
York steamers ; and by the Halifax and Boston Olio.,
to 25/. for chief cabin, and W.. for second cabin. By
the extra steamers, the wove money to New York
has been advanced to 151., 17/., and 21 guineas, accord-
ing to the accommocl.tion in the state rooms, all
having the same privileges in the saloon. The
Inman Company hese also raised their paswige money.
A NICK CHRISTMAS PRESENT OF GAME! —A
London Merchant writes to the papers to say that—

On reaching my rare this morning I was gratified ro find
▪ ata.d•rlzed hamper eel featly lull of gem., as Vella d by
the protrost nit sonlry tall fey hers of p'-eseants, legs of
tare., ttc. The addreesdleke, did not to nl•h the name of
the bind donor, so I led my servant to unirack it and see
It there was a letter inside. Hls reply wee, "Ire seen
alien y, sir, and ll'.. do !' and to It ma, V r on raising the
straw at the lop two large stones represented the contents.,
the feathers and less being artlsticady at' ach d to the Dulcet.
The hsroper was delivered on Saturday evening. the Octet
In ltd psy." Two hal,crowns were handed to
the sham railway p-ran, who Immeo.a.ely altelaidle I,"
threetttng the li. change, and thi• reel tel the to,rvant's ens-
Veto.. A policeman whi mu path fag mercy re Marked,
"Oh, another of them sham."

A SAD LIFE AN D DEATH !—A jury at
Cambridge Heath, London, whlch had been cum-
moiled to inquire into the death of a surgeon named
Vale, found that he hell from exceasive drinktior. He
bad an annuity id 401.. and atone time since be had
4001. left him, which his friend. inveeted in how.- pro-
perty that brought him in another 401. lie imme-
diately gave up practice and took to tirinking to a
not alarming extent, the result bring that be was
found deed a few day. ego fern effusion on the brain.
The dece ised was the Mr. Vale who wait tried a few
pars ago, with hip wife, at the Old Bailey tin charges
of procuring abortion, when they were both fortunate
enough to be acquitted. Mrs. Vale uied twelve
mouths tap) Wider cirmunatanoes only too similar to
the.n under which her huatiaud died legit Fr day, and
an inquest was held mein her. Mr. Vaie was very
respectably connected. anti MU the son of a clergyman.

subject the happiness of the conjugal state from the
natural point of view, and be spoke both with tenth.
tenderness, and nagacity of woman, pointed out the
importance and Revalue. of her task in the world,
the iofluence winch it was here to excretes on
men, in the fanny, n her children, and on morals
and manners everywhere. He concluded, however,
this eulogyon matriage by a vigor.nis panegyric on
virginity and the blesbetinese of celibacy in the priest-
hood.

A ScOOEHTION.—The "Pall Mall Gazette" has
the following observations on the gallant men who
have perilled their lives in ths endeavour to rescue
the victims of the explosion at the Oaks colliery :
Her Majesty the Q.E.O has telegraphed to Barnsley to
express tee sympathy for the .ufferers by the tremendoun
and repeated explorions which have taken place there, and
to signify her inlenrion .1 contributing a subteription of
2001 on behalf of the widows and orphan. of the men who
have p rished in the pit Would It not be weli that .me
npresenrative of the Fountain of Honour ahnuid be its
stoned at the pins month to reward w th cedes., of honour
the valiant I,lmw. who after each successive explosion
stand forward to peril their lives by deeoenning Into the
flop furnace to the faint hope of saving the lives of other.?
It is impossible that danger can present iscf in a more
appalling form than that n biota is so readily met by these
men, end met too with no hope of claim:von or reward,
hut simp y from *newton and pity for the °Nana wok.
men who they hope may be still alive amidst the bulldog
ruins below.
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The Pall Nall Gazette then gives, an an example, one
or two of the coses which we have recorded.
A SENAIOR RECOVERING DAMAGES. —MT.
Falconer, a member if the Donne of Aieiembly at
Dominica. recently introduced Yanke. manners into
the proceedingi of that an not body. On being called
to order he refinied obedience, and Raid that the
Speaker was "a divgrace to the !naive," and made nee
of other derogatory expreivione. Upon thin he was
removed by force, and imprisoned three dors in the
e.immiin gaol. On his release he brought an action
in the colonial Court of Common Plea., and obtained
heavy damages. The Speaker appealed from the de-
cieion of that Court to the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council at home. which rave judgment on the
cave on Saturday, deciding that the iiiinve of Aiieembly
had no power to commit its membern for contempt,
and., that the decirion of the local Court must be
•ffirmed. The offended dignity of the outraged senator
sell therefore recewe the solatium of 7701., the amount
at which. the Dominican Court of Common Pleas am-
seined his donainge..

THE FIT STRAW BONNET IN AMERICA .—The
Boston Advertiser, in the course of • long description
of the Union Straw Works at Foxborongh, Mass.,
says :—" The find braider of straw in this country,
anti, indeed, the first manufactnrer of straw bonnets,
was Miss Betsey Metcalf. of Pros idence, R. 1., now
Mrs. Betsey Baker, o' Dedham, Mass. The story of
her first attempt is thus told by • clever writer in
" Harper's Magazine :"

In 1784, Min Bet., Metcalf saw an Imported Dnustahle
bonnet In a Providence store, and strs'ghtsysy wished one
llto it Taking som• oat stublne from the field where ler
father's Lb Arens had been reaping she split the straws
w her thumb-nail end made her nest attempt. at plait-
inn After see, cal failures she succ-ednd in Imitating the
timid of the atlmired bonnet in the shop and made herself
ne. The' the ingeniou. girl, only twelve 3,sers of age. Sc
quired the honour of being the first American manufacturer
of Straw bonne•s Man, persons urged her to get • patent
on her process of bra•dins: but being then, as now, quite
tenacious of her repntarion as • Chrls,lan, said her Dame
should never g, to congrtss. A he-simile of Mrs. Baler's
first bonnet is preserved in the rooms nf the Rbode Island
el icier; for the It couragement of Domestic Industry.

SHORT WRIGHT—The Mayor of Southampton
bits just published in a widely circulated handbili the
results of a curious experiment, undertaken with a
view to test the honesty of the shopkeepers. A quartern
loaf was purchased on one day from each of eighty.
eight bakers' shops in the town; accl the following
reeu ts were obtained. Thirty•twit of the loaves were
of full weight—indeed, four of them gave lnz. and ..ne
of them 2z. overweight. On the other hand, 56 of the
loaves were under weight, 14 to the extent of from 1
to liox; 20. 2.. z.; 4, 2ijor..; 6, lioz ;5, 340 z.; 1,3/. ;
4 it.. To this 'casement the Mayor adds an extract
from the Act of Parliament in regard to false weights
and tnessures ; hut perhaps he would have done
better to publish the names and addresses of the
delinquents.
AMERICAN RAILWAYII4.—THR well-known statis-
tician, Hon. S. R. Ruggles, mail., some remarkable
statements in him speech, at the Cyrus Field banquet,
Speaking of American railroads, be said they cost a
larger rum than had ever been expended in any one
ceninry on the means of transportation. We have
36.000 miles id' railway, which have cost 1,380,000,000
fitlik In Europe there are 30 000, which cost the
enoinv ins sum if 3 500 000 000,1,1., The construction
of railways in an old, closelyisettled country is, of
course, more expensive thou in a new, while Euro
lean roads are more solidly and permanently built.
But the saving in the transportation of fro,ght, and
passengers amounts in each h-mi.phere to 500000(00
dols per annum. Mr. Ruggles estimates the ti-le.
graphic lines in the country at 90 000 mile, in length.
and in Eorope at 60,000. So that Ole New World
decidedly leads the Old in its facilities of communi-
cation.

A RItFORIf TIILT WAS
the girl of seventeen who was tl .gged in a
public school at Cambridge, Mastachusents, bat the
conmilation of seeing a reform wrought through her
miff-ring in the achoolt of her diatrict The local ex-
citement having been much increased by the recent
acquittal by a joy of the teacher who administered
the punislifnens. the scatter has been fully and warmly
dismayed to a CIIII,IOI lately held at Cambridge to
homtnate a new aehool eomeatttee. In the cluteuseion
'la magnate* of Harvard Hiliversity tools part. Pro.
feiopr Aca.iz was particularly indignant in his denun-
ciation of the art, arid of corporal punishment gene-
rally. lie had, he said, beim a teach.* forty y•ars• and
had rpver struck a blow. Professor Witehhaern. of the
Law SC, 00, FIIP at least mire that girls should not he
whipped. Dr. We men was also against lligging and
m-n Mined Oa it had been abolished in all the Prus-
sian schools. At the end of the debate the caucus re.
clod that "corporal punishment should he abolished
in each and every school in the city," and nominated
anew school committee favourable so that rule. It it
a rather remarkable proof of the very primitive con-
diti.in of the American mind in many resoectn, that
in the States this question should need dikcussion.

A BITCH OF BROTJ fl.— A Ifirtng the Mira dis-
posed of by Mr. Juatice -.with on Fi iday, at the Liver-
pool seethes, were two atrocious outrage. on women,
mul we are awry to noti e (say. the Lirerpool C-urier)
that in dealtog meth the worst of them the joitge
accepted drunkenness as an extenuating eircomstanca
In this neon a yonng boatman, names! Wilkinson, was
convicted of applying • reiehot poker tear abandoned
W.Mon on board a twee during a drunken revel, awl
Was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. the joitge
rewathilig that she penal servitude would has twen
for a periial little lees than life if be hat I hiitight the
prisoner knew what he w. doing. In the other case
an elderly man, who had ti-lit an old woinati'e face
over the tire until it was severely burnt, was sent to
gaol for twelve months. There were Woo two cwiee of
outrage on children, in each of which the prisoners
were sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
Nor AFRAID OF Tng PaCaillAttfl!—ci singular
Incident occurred the other day at ComPieone. Whilst
the company were waiting in a saloon for the Emneror
Napoleon, Count G•tl•e, the Prwei•n Ambassador,
went up to Marshal Rondos, Ministered War, with •
Mirk, and saki, "Well, Marshal I And so Ton are
boldly occupied with its still, are you ?" " With you
—the Pruwians I ' " Yes • your re•orwanisat,on of the I It is expected that 400,000 Chassepot rifles will be
army is, you know, directp;davainst us!" "Non —,55 at the disposal if the French Government by the 15th of
nous nous —" Rut no. Give the marshal's precise Id"
Wilma e, still les. translat4 it, we cannot. It was too • Mr. N. P. Wilda has had a paralytic stroke, and
energetic; but a mild version edit was: "Ni; we are lies f• • very ethic° cannitien• Hs I. MY-eight Yews
oocupied with the army for comely. and net for yon. of age.
WS don't care for you, and can mash you at any time !" The Scientific Congress met at Aix-la-Chapelle on
Hies Ilth, under the prethiehey of M. Egger, of Paris. M de
Such language, which by the way was rather loudly
uttered, for the blarshal was out of temper, created, ttr,s,.llll7Xe.led paper wO2: th7:l4 tth°,
soleZr..Vg
as may be op tpi wed, a ltt •le excitement. At the same
The B it' h •tt 5 tllo moment the Bowes. entered with the Emperor, and t
the hay ort I.7setcr7r.eonetli':'l3th' ofTttinY In trZ"fil in
her Msjesty asked, " whet was the matter? -oh ! nrope.., ....._i 01 war which has touoht.ti upon the Russian
your Majesty!" answered the Marshal, "here's the Coast Of the Pacific.
Prussian Ambassador thinks that we are afraid of the Advice. from Japan announce that the civil war is
Prmaiana, and I have been telling him that we are •"„e„d.d.
not ! '
A N •ttinghamshire miller, in a respectable ponition,
BRASS BANDS AND PREACHERS.—The " Salat has been convicted of selling flour adulterated with alum,
Public," of Lyons, give.; an account of • curious trial, and fined 15/ for the effeuce.
A senior. named Jacob. and her man of buoiness, Mr. C•tmmissioner West, of the Leeds Bankruptcy
named 13;tnnichon, living in the parish of Gulches Coml, has leillPiid.
(Loire), bad been for a long time peat on very bad At the recent sale of the horses of the King of
terms with the care, awl soiled tipi.n every op. Hanover M. de Rothschild bought the horse of the Crown
p ottunity of giving him annoyance. On the 29th of Prince.
July last, they brought • baud of eix musicians pro- Upwards of 150,000 persons paid for admission to the
sided with a big drum and brass instruments, and Smithfield Cattle Show.
placed them close to the church door, so that the noise Admiral Tegethoff. the conqneror in the fight off
made might effectually dieturb the celebration of mom Dna between the Austrians and Italians, is now In Lowton.
and the preaching of the ecclesiastic. In consequence The Hotel de Louvre and the Grand Hotel in Paris
a inronecution was commenced against them before the havarletermineri to raise their pricesetwing the Exhtbition 50
Correctitnal Tribnnal of Itianne, which condemned Per cant, and to Insist on people dining or paying for their
them to Six dare imprisonment and 501. five. Against dinner.
that judoutent they lodged an appeal on the ground The death is announced of Lady Isabella Blackford,
that the act agatnat disturbing divine worahip spoke a daughter of the third Duke of Grafton. .oth. ad t• •nest age
of eighty. She was born en the 17th of November, 17,6, and
of brawling and noise in churches, and could not there.
f as artito, to rr ore ap m, as ply to the what they had done was out twe m
tt of ()i In A ugust
theme, isle olBlE.f Wight Mr., vrhßao diington Pope-Black.ed on the 14 h of
side. That itigeniotte piece of argument, however, may' Big,
had no weight with the court, which increarted the lm.r.i'l'he horly of a lady, interred 35 years ago, at Elk
prisonment to • month, leaving the fine as before. Rue, Crewf.ord c unty. Penmylvanta, on being exhumed,
DISSTAL Hai:fleet AgoNo THE ARABS The wee discovered to he covered from head to foot with log
hair,
sine
Arab, are envied by mere civili.d people for the ire:-
coarse
which had crown on as to protrude through the
"—ew Yrk b
proachahle whiten... of their teeth (remarks the Artfish i 51""a ,se conic N o Tri
There wan • fearful collision off Liverpool on Friday
Medreal journal). How is it attained? Dr. Qoantun
has no good tteal to say on the subjeet. lathe first place ii;r,','„:ZreTo„thcroe',!..,;"::„; ,r,n",,:e'reior, loti:dot,hol
they live upon morrow/mu and coffee prepared without it iii feared s- north ot them w*el•U loat." One malt died on
milk or stwar —a diet devoid of the acids which occur hoard the Queen from the injuries lia smelt:led during the
in European dietaries. They rinse the mouths always colliston.
g The will of the late Thom. Phinn, Q C., has been
at each of their four or five daily ablution*, Merin
the water slowly between the teeth. They never proved by his executors. It hears rate August 1. Wig The
take their food and drink at more than "very moder. personatity has been sworn under !tore/
ate heat." This protecth the enom,-I the conservative On Saturday a woman Daniell Davis was indicted at
envelope of the teeth. Ti, increase the whiteness of the Taunton Aselses for nerjury, in Angus% last PM prisoner
the teeth, of which they are proud, they chew since a deposed on oath at Chard that • man named Porter had
week a piece of an indigenous root, called rcmdte. acted Morten ly towards her Witheoses were called who
When partly softened, they withdraw it, and rub the proved that Porter had not done no, and Porter hiumell
illitlated phial yeti othe,:
onnh:pif.bi.o.:l,df
ntihras,..l.2l,-floculloadrsgeueltiasu alu,:tdt
teeth first with this and then with S, hite woollen eouff.
To what sobriety and modesty of diet the emulation of sZteircdediatol"t'sreirr:
the teeth of these savages should lead us! 'l'he example set by a creditor of the Potteries,
NRW ClitstinS OF TIIK CITY OF L.NDON.—A re- Shrewshury And North Wale. CoMoany, has been followed
lii the rese of two other welsh railway companies, the sheriff
brief. '.
Q Y
port has been presented to the Court of Com-
! mon C until on a census of the City, from
v•,!..ttyichanidt
lappearedti utnhinatbetrh. being bra la possession of property belonging to the Wrex-
ham Mao and ConnelCa sa Company,and of the Caus-
ed
in CI
No leas seventy one South London tradenmen
and commercial protolation mused in the City dad
amounted to 170 133 ; the total day population re• having in ti=spor* '''''' ''' I.rtnnuiTio:tt Lereihnial,snclliel,tawned"rZ
siding in the City to 283,620 ; and the number of aun• The ht•ek not compsitho 17 heoneed slettpellers Ind
persons reaorting to the City daily, in sixteen hours, beer retailers, 10
were chthdlera 19 totters 11 butcher', &coal and
not included in the above, being customer., clients, and potatoe dealers, 9 grooers and cheesemongers, 1 bate and
others, to 509,611. The persons frequenting the Cit beef shop keeper, and 1 fishmonger. The fines Inflicted
daily in twelve hours, from 6 am. to 6 p.m., were 7 ai""ted to 191111. ad
they we,;:
649 613; in sxteen hours, from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m his stated in court circler; that Prince Christian has
is 679 744 and in twenty hours they ' The r, pu aloe
bride of being morothe empr
Pkess. In
of Ms at:
Ito, entions to
In 986.
h • yet shown himself after motel/tire Ile has t a quite
hie ynottifni than any er ie. the al home
Tot Eiregcrti or THE LATE!: We% The melon. "•ere"me certain Pt*l'd''''" In 'h. frnElY circle of
which
choly enneennences of the liste war are 4111 perceptible tie Is a mend), r, but the Frincele Is sold to be very hepPY.
at
ill a thousand ways. Large numbers of families have A girl, aged twelve, attempted to drown herself
Jolt those to whom they had to look for eupport. Thou- perruls aion to go to the anneeoraUon of a church. .
sands of others have to a • niggle maths, toil for retrieving
it Invallelese in
their distracted forto others new; while a great many othe are Peckhem Rt., the o. her d•y. twee.. Ste had been refused
It is announced that the Hotel le
tho
uss
of
the
injured by other calamities which have retiulted fit • E;i:i., will rot„ef,itZelgno.mntlh "'""irenrink d for
su"" th"
the war. Who does not know the chi ogee lirought arenexcia=d to ;hitt Yomes timing the eahP.lttos. I, is
against officers of the vanquouhed ermine?. tit wadi but koown that a very swore deputation from • lemons New
recently that • telegram from Darmstadt reported, jerk regiment Intends to ono. over In arms and unifor.n.
another tragical occurrence, of which those charges , "The statement which has been going the round of
iny ylt R
have been the canoe. A general had shot . himself to, Ik. papers to the effect that the areicle, on the Indian
martial.
escaiie from the necessity of appearing before a court- mn• In the current num,er of the Ectineur e,im Is
,
• by the Dolts of Arttle, i• • mutate. W. are not at Marty
to stale the nettle of the writer bn, we ore a 1, to hay Mal.
A GRACEFIIL PREACHER.— The 'celebrated It is not the D ille of argyle "—Publieher's Circular.
l'
Parisian preacher, Pere Hyacintheb is at preload The new volume of Tsmp'e Bay to commence with
giving a course of lectures at icae (AMC 11;. is
described as a finalooking n„,ftston*i
racinn•itong other thing., • sew stria
the author of '• Uncle Silos."
Lovell,' and soother from
of age, handsome features, an aquiline nose, Rome-
wit. full and aenanal hoe, and a well-squared chin, The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon 'Adrenal hir. conorega-
tion on choosy last, upon the clenacierice cot the Protestant
He prevents an imposing appearance in the loth,* .
Inltfred tu She Autumn of his 0, der—a drew of coarse • ..bi.usrcustirg test i
,gs
,t, hit:
witozrsilstelua, a''i tsfeesstii,xotrAso=
fittuds
bin own woollen, and hood arid capote of while, naked the pan of Mr. Le Two, man, of about forty years 4 sthtoei; en; Ytl7e's'atilritoe'r
it.. people oh England were so snunitly Prcre•tent that they
feet and sandals, a closely shaven heal, with the ex- weuid never bear to have incenso mud& e ono, their
Ception of the ellort fringe of dark hair, which just SOPS., tsr the millinery of ,tot Chorch of Rome 0 antairg
Mope short at the temp es. Contrary, scone would before their eyt as but Hoy 11,tel home it There had been
say. to discipline, be indulges in the use of a handker. no advance, hut not so. advance in truth ; sod while error
chief of fine white batiste but his immures are full of was spreading over the land, and men were perithing doly,
,
ease and dignity, his voice is winorous and rather
r ;In.r4 na‘rint" t't
Till Zo"sein'athlttr taner"otelarrci sits Ts.. f °idol! g
suirmst, and hie eloquence certainly considerable. -a wothoatea, and annodna an. advocates ot granalleor son...
hia woad lactase the Pere Hyacinths salested tut bin Www way.