The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-21 00:00:00

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At-Court, a dpliwinggoom, twalevier, and drawing.
raja, and courts ansifird for, hre 'lone something
togiirds making aristinqatic London snore lively than
5."5 hawiekn its wont of late years. 'lle drawn:ll4oroom,
N.S.-fs; whin*her Majesty held last week, has been the first
she hal held since the death of the Prince Consort, in
1861, and the fact is sufficiently suggestive to allude
te. It would appear to indicate that there is after all
• prospect of her Majesty once again taking her place
at the head of Court festivities and rejoicing*, but 4
not easy to refer to any other facts whichgpivestrenith,
to this hope. It is, however, gratifying tin 1* ,le to
add that both the Queen and the Princess of Wales,
who were the observed of all observers, looked well at
„ the last drawing-rooin, which was a very brilliant
affair. There was a very large attendance of foreign
ambassadors and English nobility ; 72 ladies were pre-
tented, and upwards of 100 others, who had the privilege
of the merle, availed themselves of it. The Queen,
it is said, will pay a visit to Cambridge during the
season, to inaugurate a statue of the Prince
Consort, which has been subscribed for by members of
the Senate. The rumour, considering the alleged purpose
I of the visit, is likely enough tub. true, and I only
express the general feeling in adding that it could be
wished that her Majesty would mix more among
her loyal and faithful subjects, independently of chi,
cumetancts connected with the memory of one whom
the nation loved, and whose loss it deeply regrets. It
' is is said, too, that her Majesty intends to patronise a
fête which is to be held when the spring has more
advanoed, in favour of the Female School of Art,
but I have nowhere seen it stated that she intends to be
present ; and her personally presiding at the drawing-
room is as yet the only encouraging fact for those who
0 hope for the abandonment of that seclusion which has
so long been kept up by our good Queen.
The Government now at the head of affairs is
notoriously in a minority, and it is not so strong in
debating power as its well-withers might desire, but
there is no indication at present of the Opposition
making an effort to turn them out. The
success of the Scotch Reform Bill, notwithstanding a
few alterations in committee, is pretty well assured,
for it is not likely that the House of Lords will undo
,0 the work of the House of Commons ; and there is every
probability also that Government will carry their cor-
responding bill for Ireland. The general policy of
Ministers towards Ireland has met, and will meet with
serious opposition from their traditional opponents ;
but it is not thought probable that this opposition will,
under any circumttances, lead to a change of Ministry.
But, as the French say, Qui circa veers. Meanwhile
it is consolatory to think that one irritating subject—
exciting, both religiously and politically—is in a fair
way I d settlement. Mr. Gladstone's Compulsory
Church Rates Abolition Bill, which passed through
the Commons by such a majority, that the Lords are
scarcely likely to throw it out, only effeots a com-
promise, it is true, but it is such a compromise that, if
the bill become law, will multiply agitation on the
subject. Speaking only my individual opinion, I hope
the Lords will not, as many advise and hope will be
the case, refer the bill to a select committee, but will
pass the measure as it stands; so that those who con.
scientiously object to church-rates, will no longer be
compelled to pay them.
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The supplementary civil service estimates, which I
have just been issued, are very instructive, and not I
particularly cheering. It is not pleasant to find that,
in addition to the large sum already voted, £1.1,000
will he required for the expenses of the Fenian prose.
cutions at Manchester and elsewhere. We shall never
know what Fenianism has cost this country and Ire-
land, directly and indirectly, but it must be enormous;
and yet Fenianism, during its three years, at least, of
active organisation, has never effected one triumph;
it has done not one thing to boast of; and now it is
not one whit nearer the accomplishment of its insane
objects than when it first burst out. We have to pay
a good many extra thousands also for the increased
coat of maintaining prisoners in county gaols. This
suggests the thought whether it would not be well to
make punishment shorter and sharper in certain cases.
Instead of twelve months' imprisonment, for instant,
what do you say, reader, to three months and a sound
flogging. Perhaps it would have a more deterrent
effect, and certainly it would be far less costly. The
extra money required for reformatories and industrial
schools will be well laid out. If we had more of these
institutions we should have less need of prisons.
The Post-office savings' banks are progressing most
satisfactorily and are aiding the increased tendency of
the working classes to put by money for a rainy day.
No less than ten of the ordinary savings' banks have
been absorbed by the Post-office institutions since last
November, and the more rapidly the process of absorp-
tion goes on the better. A savings' bank only opened
a couple of hours, or three or four hours a week (some
of them are, or were, only opened once a fortnight) is
not at all adapted to the wants of the working
community. The Post-office savings' banks are all
that could be desired in this respect, but there is one
thing which retards their success. That well-known
Poet-office missive coming to a man's house whenever
he puts by any money acts as a tell-tale, and tells
every one in the house that "he is saving money." In
many cases this acts as a deterrent. With the old
savings banks he could put by money and no one was
any the wiser, but now he proclaims the fact as it were
on the housetops. If any mode of remedying this
little defect in a good (system could be arrived at, poet-
office savings' banks would be used to a cousiderably
greater extent even than they now are.
The Mayor of Dover is ably advocating a Whit
Monday review in that town. Without enumerating
his arguments I may add that they are forcible, and
likely to lead to the result proposed, if volunteer officers
and others will examine them. By the way, why
should we not have two great volunteer reviews every
year? Or, if there into be but one, why not have this
one on Whit Monday? Easter Monday is too early,
the weather twice out of three times being unfavour.
able!

I read that there is "a proposal to give to the Prince
Imperial the titular appellation of Napoleon 1V.," to
familiarize the French people with the name prepara-
tory to its owner coming to the throne, but to this
I am inclined, like Goldsmith's Mr. Borchelt, to cry
" Fudge !" The idea is as unprecedented as it is
absurd. Whoever heard of father and son thus being
titled during the lifetime of both! "Titular appella-
tion" is only a fine name for title, and how would this
title be conferred Supposing this were done, what
an absurdity would be the result. It would be absurd
enough to give the Prince of Wales the "titular
appellation" of Edward VII., which will be his title
if he ever come to the throne of England, but even
this would not be so ridiculous as having a Napoleon
the Third and Fourth at the same time. Far more
probable was another rumour about the Napoleon
family—that Monsigneur Lucien Bonaparte, grand-
son of Lucien, who was brother of the first Napoleon,
was to be made Cardinal, which really has taken place.
This sedate studious man is only thirty-eight years of
age, and he would be a very young Cardinal. On dig
that he is aiming at the triple mitre of the Pope.
"Sceptre and crown must tumble down," and the
Pope's mitre must in due course fall—to a aucciessor.
If that successor is Lucien Bonaparte, it cannot but
add to the fame which clings to the renowned name of
Bonaparte, or rather Buonaparte, a name which has
certainly occupied a buonaparte of the pages of history.
By the way, the Lucien Buonaparte just mentioned
must not be confounded with that of Prince Lucien
Bonaparte, as he is commonly called. Prince Louis
Lucien Bonaparte is the second son of Lucien, brother
of Napoleon I. He was born in Worcestershire in
1813. After the revolution of 1848, he entered France,
and took some share in politics. He was made a
senator in 1852, with the title of Prince, and three
years afterwards he was made an officer of the Legion
of Honour; but since that time be has resided
in England, and taken no part in the politics
of France. He now lives in London, and devotes his
time to the study of languages and dialects. He has
the finest private collection of linguistic and dialetical
works in the world. Some thousands of volumes, for
inatance, are entirely in Welsh, whilst every known
book relating to our county dialects may be found in
his library. His collection of Issiks on the slang and
cant idioms of the various countries is most extra-
ordinary; and a fact which will astonish most people
is that his repertory of bixiks amt pamphlets having
reference to London slang and cant alone number
more than two hundred ! A curious passion this.
Everything, they say, has its uses; but most readers
will be of opinion that there must be many of these
productions which it would have been well to have
collected only to destroy.

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The dispute between the Metropolitan Board of
Works and the Itletropolitan District Railway having
been happily arranged by arbitration, so far as the
Thames Embankment is concerned, another portion
of the embankment (that at Whitefriare) is to be
undertaken "with all convenient dispatch ; " which
means no doubt that several years will be spent
over it. That part of this gigantic undertaking which
stretches from Westminster Bridge to the Temple is
nearly finished, and presents a noble appearance ; but
it will scarcely be believed that it will be some three
years from this time before the roadway is made fit
for the public, although the very object of the
embankment was to relieve the traffic of one of
London's main arteries. That which would effect
this great object mere than anything else would be the

erection of three more bridges—below London Bridge, strange memorials of slerical history still subsist, has
between Southwark and Blackfriars, and between moved public opinion, and the Castiglia petition has
Blackfriars and Waterloo. Reverting to the embank been formally referred to tlge minister. Letters state
. Oat there jie reason to suppose that th, Treasury will
west, pferhaps it As partly owing to. the cleating -tacuuce I ing the sum in question.
away of the masa* of odorous xlitud alciag the banks 1z• cam E THEATRICALS.—The Rangoon Times
of the ThaineS that London' pas found to NI more qives a deseXiption of Burmese theatrical'. The theatre
healthy in 186 i than it has been any year since 1860. sista of ',,:s lang elevate] :gaze, with foot lights in
iront, and a pnrtain of red or white cloth spread out
A/tether cause is the partial purification of the riser and
ht: the back; - The real plarformere stand behind the
the maiskdrainage system; and a' third„cause Is the
, - curtain, and are Invisible to the athlience. They in-
reffieval of a large number of rookeries for new streets, troduce on the stage through an aperture a series; of
Bic., resulting in the building of improved house,, wooden or bamboo figures, painted and dressed up to
Unhappily the latter reform has only been carried out resemble kings, queens, princes, nobles, courtiers ; all
to a small extent, but we shall go on better if Mr. manner of birds, from the royal peacock down to. the
little humnuna bird : all sorts of .beasts 88 lions,
M'Culla.gh Torren's bill for improving the dwellinws of
tiger, natinkeyt, dogs, cats, apes sakes, and elephants;
the labouring classes peas both Houses, asid it hga I
lleen ' hes of. various skinde, 'an d Olen 'alitferent, - fanciful
read a second time iss the Vallee o&Comnions. ...: urea tadoiik likla senate, or ;spirits, tragons, c.entsfars,
.o mg apteet and. Hying elegehantigf and evety Una-
' • • '.- --7-7---,- la I AL pliable Mir* whiCh is suppod to figure or perform a
illisallintens , ntrllltpu, part inthe great theatre of the invisible world.
... FEMALE EUCCATION IN INDIA.—If female
ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL I education in England receives our hearty support, has
not the same cause in India an equal claim on ye
Here is a circular from Miss Car :enter on the sub-
ject: "At a recent visit to Bristol, Judge Manockjee
Cursetjee stated that a site having been granted by
government for building a large hall for the promotion
of female education, he had undertaken to raise 50,000
rupees, or £3,000 for this purpose. The hall would be
called the 'Albert Hall,' and would be adapted for a
girls' school, called the 'Alexandra Institution,' and
for the entablishment of a female normal training
school. He proposes to bold a grand bazaar in Bom-
bay, at the end of March or early in April, and states
that the work of English ladies, contributed for the
purpose, will, be much valued. Any articles usually
sent to an 'English bazaar will be acceptable ,• also
h ooka, drawings, chromo-lithographs, and photo-
graphs."
AN ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING FIELD.—
The death of General Mildmay Fame, Colonel of the
54th Regiment, from an accident in the hunting field,
is announced. While hunting on Thursday, in last
week, in the neighbourhood of Fulbeck Hall, his seat
in Lincolnehire, his horse fell, throwing him on his
forehead, and, after being raised, the General was found
dead, his neck having been broken. The late General
was the fifth son of the lion. Henry Pane, second son of
the eighth Earl of Westuaoreland. He was born in Sept.,
1794, and was unmarried. He entered the army
in his sixteenth year as ensign. and served in the
Peninsula from December, 1812, to March, 1814, and
also the campaign of 1815, including the battles of
' Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at the former of which he
was severely wounded. In August, 1855, he was ap-
pointed colonel of the 96th Foot, from which he was
removed December 20, 1860, to the colonelcy of the
54th Regiment, which becomes vacant by his death.
THE MINERS' STEIEE.—On Monday a nu-
merous meeting of miners was held on Hunslet-mo.,r.
Leeds, to consider the proposed reduction iu the wages of
the men of the Adwalton, Gildersome, Birstal, Morley,
Ossett, and Dewsbury districts. There were several
thousands present, and a good deal lif indignation was
expressed that the employers should have stated that
the men had had four advances, equal to 25 per cent.,
since November, 1865. This was denied; and it
was said that though the men in 1861 got an advance
of 10 per cent., twelve months afterwards they had it
taken off, and a "strike" turning out a failure they
lost other 20 per cent. also. Colliers now, it was said,
were just about in the same position as in 1861, and if
the 10 per cent, reduction now pending in the Drigh-
lington district be carried out the men receiving
ss. lAd, per day will only receive 4s. 6d. A resolution
was passed to support the lodges now on "strike," but
the question as to whether there should be a turn out
in the Drighlington district was referred to a delegate
meeting. That meeting immediately proceeded to
business, and it was understood that the result would
be an offer on the part of the men to accept a reduction
of 5 per cent.
SOMETHING LIKE A BILL OF FARE !—The

A FonovisraAw. Galignani, a Paris
paper, has the following :
A marriage, which forms the happy denouement of a do-
mestic drama, has Just taken place at Monaca. A young
man, named Duranii. was some time back arrested for at-
tempting to murder Madeleine Carbone, a young woman to
whom he was engaged, and on whom he had in a moment of
Jealousy, Inflicted three wounds with a knife. Ile was tried
for the crime, but Madeleine, who had not been seriously in-
jured, implored with tears the indulgence of the judges, and
he escaped with a sentence of only fur months' imprison-
ment. The young WOII.II hail not only forgiven her assailant,
but had never ceased to love him. She was not satisfied
with the mild condemnation passed on hini through her
intercession, but she appealed directly to the Prince for a
remission of the punishment, and the Sovereign touched
with her constancy, granted a free pardon. The marriage
took place immediately after.
DAMAGES FOR A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011
Saturday, at the Stafford Assizes, an action was
brought by Mr. Buxton, bleacher, Fazeley, against
the North Eastern Railway Company, for damages on
account of injuries sustained by an accident on de-
fendants' Ilne. The plaintiff, who is sixty-two years
of age, claimed damages for business losses, ikc. The
i accident occurred on August 23, and arose from some
I stray bullocks being rim into by a train in which the
plaintiff was riding. Evidence as to the effects of the
accident upon his health having been given the jury
awarded him IMO. Mr. Buxton had recovered com-
pensation in 1863 for a similar occurrence.
SHOCKING PARRICIDE.—A man named Grosse-
merit, twenty-six years of age. and his mother, sixty-
two years of age, have just been tried at the Aube
Court of Assizes, for the murder of the father of the
former and the husband of the latter. The old man
had made over his property to his son, thereby reducing
himself to the condition of an incumbrance, and
frequently experiencing the ill-treatment of the pri-
soners. In November deceased was found murdered
in a wood, and an investigation showed that his son
had driven the prongs of a pitchfork into his head and
then attempted to burn the body. The charge of com-
plicity was not pressed against the female prisoner,
but the son was found guilty and sentenced to hard
labour for life.
EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE.— A corres-
pondent writes to the Manchester Guardian
The rumour is. I believe, perfectly well founded that a
munificent friend to popular improvement has offered to
give a sum of £lOO,OOO to be devoted to the purpose of pro-
moting technical education. For the present the donor re-
fuses to have any announcement made of his name ; but he
has taken counsel of some of the persons best qualified
to advise him as to the most useful mode of allocating
his splendid gift among the communities that are, by their
numbers and their activity, most likely to torn it to good sc.
count. Owen's College, It is probable, will come in for its
share; a portion will be, I am told, set apart for nirming-
ham, and another for Glasgow. If I am not misinformed,
this new benefactor of the industry mot invention of the
working classes contemplates rather the endowment of
scholarships and exhibitions than sinking his money in stone

and mortal..
following is a copy of the bill of fare for a banquet
SHOCKING STREET ACCIDENT.—On Saturday given
to the poor of Melbourne on the arrival of Prince
an inquest was held at the London Hospital, relative Alfred in that city—
to the death of a boy, named James Murphy, aged four _
years. The deceased was the son of a working man ._ol;iee ballock roasted whole; 1 baron of beef,,2424rolaUmnbcr
Scat. sant g beef, 12 sheep 11).) legs mutton
living at Mile-end, and on the pmvions Tuesday after- ."'2
2 fa s 'o°4:3r:wt. Pork, 56 lbs. bacon, 14 hairs, 59 ox tongues,
noon he was sent out to play in the street. Shortly i
preserved meat, 204 lbs. German sausage, 7,600158. potatoes,
after he was seen crushed in between the spokes of a ! 600 dinner loaves,
1 bag and 1 cwt. of rice, 1 diszen tins
van wheel, and as the wheel revolved he was fright- 1 sardines. 2 bags oysters, 1 cwt Murray cod, 9 dozen pickle:.
'l3 ilrrhti‘etx:rit7,PP6ozlet les'oart°
fully jammed between it and the body of the van. The : sauces. MI rep us 'g'r gr'd" n t 'te 1
passers by called out to the driver of the van to stop, :
: Ipast!ry,P; box raisins, 4 bags sugar, 1 jar, and 3 dozen jams,
which he did instantly. Great difficulty was expe. SO lbs. fresh butter, cheese, 2 hall-chests tea, 50111 coffee,
rienced in extricating the poor boy, the spokes of the ! 900 gallons colonial wine, 4 cases colonial wine, 4 cases
wheel had to he cut, and the operation Mated a quarter champagne, 6 cases claret, 2 cases port, 20 hogsheads ale,
of an hour. He was taken apparently dead to the I 54 dozen stout, 2
milk, do 3
lollies,
zen Bavarian be cordials, 3,432 bum,
, 11 case fruits. 3 hogsheads ginger beer, 19 gallons raspberry
! 1,050 quarts casks biscuits, 1 tin ditto. 3 tim
London Hospital, where he expired in the coarse of a
few minutes. It was supposed that he got on to the y'""'"r ; ~_____, 6
gallons ginger
wino
back of the van to have a ride, and falling off met
with his death. The jury returned A verdict of THE ARROWS OF ABYSSINIAN WARRIORS.—
Accidental Death. A gentleman named Leach. of Alexandria, has
Tilefor-
HORRORS OF FAMINE !—Heartrending , war d e d t nniteline.llf latrarenuwm.
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some spec'
accounts continue to be received of the famine in :
Algeria. The following appalling story is told by the ' They are above three feet long. The sticks are made
, of vine branches and other tough woods. The heads
Echo if Oran : ' are of lion. Some of the heads are of the ordinary
No historical famine has presented to the saddened eyes ot
pe—others are shaped like a flattened fiah's
humanity no horrible a spectacle as that which is at this lance Oa
moment to be observed among the Arabs. Two days ago a head, and are barbed. One of the heads is an ugly
naH ve woman, in the neighbourhood of Misserghin, killed her . weapon consisting of a sharp iron spike about six
daughter twelve years of age, and gave the flesh to her other . inches long with a twisted serrated edge. Some of the
children and partook of it herself ! The legal authorities, heads are inserted into the sticks; others are fastened
hearing of the circumstance, at once proceeded to the spot ; , very securely with a cord made of the skin of some
, and on entering the hut occupied by these cannibals, learned .
the heart. liver, and the i i .nter.or portions of the animal, which is twisted round the stick
.when wet,
I th
re eat the
en, became they w oidd not keep. The m,ither , Mr. Leach writ s word that the Abyssinian spear is
csgro'ccweepted in wilting the flesh, cut up into pieces, exactly 1 five feet eix inches long, and as a formidable-looking
as is done with pork. Weapon.
The Invalids Busse gives the following picture of the
x, lERCE ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.-011 Mon-
frightful situation of Finland, where the population ms
day, three men were taken before the magistrates at
is desolated by famine : : Wolverhampton charged with intending to murder a
"Every day " writes the clergyman of the parish, "more policeman of that borough named Isimasney. The
than fifty peasants present themselves at my house com-
pletely exhausted by hunger, imploring bread for them- accused are named Richard Stephens. James l'itt, and
selves and their families, who for some time have been d
liyirig John Nixon, all of whom lead a kind of nomadic life
on moss, hay, and the bark of the fir. This (rightfi famine alternating between the making of lesoms and poach-
is far from being local, as the whole of this province is setter. tog. Late on Saturday night they assailed the officer
tag under it. The last resources are eebaamed, and the with cries of " Your a --- Fenian !" Later in the
population has no other alternative than to eat hay and
straw or die of starvation.' evening they attacked him with stones, one of which
weighed :upwards of 21h., and was tied in a handker.
A PHONETIC ENTHUSIAST.—At Sheffield, 011 chief as a sling. The officer was found lying insensible,
Monday, James May, a bone button manufacturer, of surrounded with a large quantity of blood, which had
Pentlhill, appeared to answer four summonses taken flowed chiefly from a severe wound on the temple, and
out against him by the Chief Constable. The offence by his side the large stone and handkerchief as she.
with which he was charged was a breach of the 64th scribed. The weapon seems to have been hurled
section of the Town Improvement Clauses Act, by againet the poor man's head with so much force as to
painting the names of several streets in the phonetic have broken the stone in two. There was blood upon
system of spelling. The defendant had the names of the handkerchief and the stone. The surgeon to the
several streets painted in the phonetic system on pieces police said that Lomaaney was lying in a very dan-
of black board, and five or six of them which had been genius state, and the symptoms were becoming more
taken down by order of the Chief Constable were pro- dangerous rapidly. In addition to the injuries to the
(limed in court. The Mayor inflicted a fine of 10a. and head one of his ribs was fractured.
4s. coats in each of the four cases.
EXTRAORDINARY THEFT.—A singular robbery
HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM. —At the has been committed at BiLsten. The son of a timber
drawing-room on Friday, in last week, the Queen wore merchant there, 15 years of age, recently obtained
A black moire antique olress with train trimmed with access to his father's iron safe, where there was de-
crape and jet, and a diaolem of opals and diamonds posited about £BOO, and from time to time he has taken,
over a long white crape lime veil. Her Majesty also the father believes, between £4OO and Eroo. This
wore a necklace and brooch of opals and diamonds, the money has found its way into the hands of other
Riband and Star of the Order of the Garter, and the youths, and some of it to a man named John Hughes,
Orders of Victoria and Albert and Louise of Prussia. who keeps a huckster's shop in Hall-street. From the
The Princess of Wales wore a petticoat of white silk, time when he purloined the first sum the lad seems to
1 with bouffants of tulle veiled in silver and fastened have been in the power of his companions, of whom
! with knots of black and gold edged with silver fringe; he alleges that he went in terror, for they threatened
a tunique Marie Antoinette, and corsage of white poult to kill him if he did not bring more. In the possession
she sole trimmed with silver and volant of tine Brussels of six of his companions about £l5O has been found.
lace ; a train of black poult de soie edged with gold and One, a boy of 15, held £69 10a ; and another, aged 16,
silver fringe; head-dress—diamonds, feathers, and had £47. Excepting the son of the owner of the
veil; ornaments—pearls and diamonds, the Victoria money, all have been arrested. The youths have been
and Albert Order, the Order of catherjae of Prussia, liberated on bail, but Hughes has been remanded to
and the Danish Order. Princess Christian wore a Stafford gaoL They will all be again brought up in a
train of white moire antique trimmed with Honiton lace, few days.
a petticoat of white silk trimmed with tulle and Honiton
HEALTH OF THE POPE. r h 0 Pal if
lace and bunches of white roses; head-dress— diadem
and feathers; ornaments—necklace and stomacher oif Gazette's correspondent at Rome, writing on the 9th
diamonds ; orders—Victoriaand Albert, and Portuguese. Mutant, says :
Princess Louise wore a train of white satin, with petti- Great anxiety is felt respecting the health of the Pope.
coat of tulle over silk, handsomely trimmeol with Tfitiid!ltywFather, has 1117::
ohuri&ezetris:onef i‘lvehp,i,cl)
illetaai
roulies of satin and mugs; headdress—velvet bands "
not eutferedl4unZ gars. YLast Friday he had a very bad
ornamented with diamonds, feathers, and veil ; urns- seizure, exciting quite a panic at the Vatican. Dr. Vials
ments—diaMonds, Victoria Order and Order of St. Pre-S was instantly sent for and arrived In hot haste. Ws
Isabel. remedies overcame the attack, when he remonstrated with
AN AMUSING INCIDENT.—The Court Journal tinhite
cileorley.f.'antle,r
aonndh:(salf i=
tiuttivillfisgettoldtlenTae,.scaeni;l, astuteerilda-
tells the following little story : course would endanger his life. The Pope took the reproof
Baron Rothschild, a few days ago, took the Idea to visit In good part, and yesterday absented himself from the service
the important works at present being executed in the neigh- In the Satins Chapel.
bourhood of the Luxembourg. Leaving his carriage, be
A STRANGE PROPOSAL.—A schoolmaster in
traversed the gardens on foot, and soon arrived at the back
of the Pantheon, a district full of old curiosity shops. The some village in the south of France has memorialized
Baron being an amateur in such things, he discovered on a the Senate to induce the Emperor to take the little
parcel of books a barometer, finely sculptured, but with the Prince Imperial into partnership BA Emperor, and
gilding worn off. He asked the price, anti was told "ten bestow on him the title of Napoleon IV. The
francs." " That is not dear," replied the Baron, who after-
wards declare he had lately paid as many guineas for a petitioner remarked that time, or the inexorable laws
worse object of art. "It is worth forty francs. Bring it to (if human nature, brings about vacancim of the throne
my home, Rue tette, to-morrow, and I will pay you." (des successions an Wine) which expose peoples and
.. But I don't know you," replied the shopwonian. "Well, I dynasties to perils which history has had but too often
am M. Rothschild." The woman had never heard of him, to record ;it is, therefore, a matter of prudence to
and an acquaintance of hers having passed, the Baron asked prevent such perils by effecting an association—a
him," Did lie not know M. Rothschild?" " Yes, certainly ;
continuity of the supreme power—without awaiting
all the world does also." " Well," continued the Ba,
" this woman will na give me credit for fo Hy francs." ron
It the period , always unpknown, of them critical nmments.
was ultimately agreed that the Baron might take away the Public order and the blessings of monarchial institu-
instrument, the neighbour giving security to the shopwoman, thins would be equally promoted by this combination.
and calling next day on the fsaron for payment. The sect, The Senate thought that this petition was not
city was duly discharged, and rewarded with ASA unconstitutional, but that the Emperor alone could
TRADES' UNION ARGUMENTS.—A moulder from decide on the merit of the suggestion, and therefore
dismissed the prayer of the loyal schoolmaster by the
the south of Scotland, who had been out of work for
six months, on union principles, recently gave notice order of the day. •
that he "would no longer starve hie family," but would FAITH IN A "WISE WOMAN'S" POWERS.—At
seek employment on the master's terms. He engaged the Lincoln Apisizes on Friday, Sarah Ann Digby was
with an Aberdeen tradesman the other day. In the indicted for feloniously administering poison to Mary
evening he was found by a union picket, and offered Ann Smith, her mistress, with intent to murder. Mrs.
drink and money to retrace his steps and break his en- Smith had missed a£s note and had threatenet to
gngoment : And when they founol that he would not do discover the thief by an application to a supernatural
as they desired, be was knocked down by a blow on detective, viz., "the wise woman of Peterborough."
the face, cut severely across the nose, his front teeth Prisoner seenm to have had the most entire faith in the
loosened, and kicked severely on the arms and side. powers of the wise woman, and, it was alleged, with a
THE FORTUNE OF A FORTUNE TELLER.—At view to preventing her mistress from going to Peter-
Leeds Elizabeth Furneits has been charged with cheat- borough, administered arsenic to her in broth, bread
ing Mary Hardy of 10s. 61, and wearing apparel and milk, and tea. The £.5 note, too, was returned
valmd at £5. It appeared that the prisoner had through the post. The jury found the prisoner
visited the house where the prosecutrix was employed Guilty, and she was sentenced to ten years penal
as a servant, and undertook to tell her her fortune. servitude.
Hardy asked her to procure for her a young husband. NEW LIFEBOATS.—Two fine new lifeboats have
The prisoner, of course, agreed; but, before she could just been sent by the National Lifeboat Institution to
rule the planets, it was necessary that they should be the coast. One of them is stationed at Ross Links,
propitiated by the payment to her of a halfsovereign holy Island, where Grace Darling immortalized her
and a quantity of clothing. These were given to her • name by her heroic services to the crew of the For.
but some time after, as the prosecutrix found she had farshire steamer which was wrecked off that place
received no benefit, and did not receive back her pro- in 1838. The Ross Links boat, which is 32 feet long,
perty as she had expected, she gave information to the is named the Bombay, and lathe gift to the institution
police, and the prisoner was apprehended. The of Mr. and Mrs. Frith, of London. The second boat
magistrate committed her for three months to the has been sent to Stonehaven, on the east coast of Scot.
House of Correction. land, and is named the St. George. This boat was
TIIE EXPENSES OF AN AUTO-DA-FE. A presented to the society by Mrs. George Burgess,
singular petition has been presented to the Italian sister-in-law of Captain Burgess, secretary of the
Chamber of Deputies. On April 6, 1724, only a cen- 'United Service Institution.
Wry and a half ago, an Augustin monk, Romualdo, ENGLISH THIEVES IN FRANCE.—Thirteen Men
and a Benedictine nun, named Gertrude, were burnt and women, all English, seven of the former and six of
to death in the square of San Eromeo, the largest in the latter, have been brought up at the Tribunal of
Palermo, in presence of a most brilliant assemblage of Correctional Police in Paris, on a charge of forming
functionaries, clergy, inquisitors, etc., with the arch- part tot a band of pickpockets said to have been
bishop of the place at their head. The crime of them organized and brought over by a Woman named
unt,rtunate persona was heresy. As to the terrible Wilkinson, well-known to the London police. Several
tribunal which ordered, after a captivity of twenty of the accused had been watched by French detectives
years, this execution, it was the same holy office. At at the railway stations and other frequented places,
present, M. Caetiglia, belonging to the family of and one man named Murray, when arrested after
looter Gertrude, asks the Chamber to support him in attempting to abstract a roll of bank-notes from a
obtaining from the Minister of Finance a discharge lady's muff, threw his cloak over the policeman's head
from the payment oil an annual sum, clainaoi by the and ran MI, knocking down a man who attempted to
authorities for the expenses of the judicial murder to arrest him. He was, however, followed and recap.
which their ancestress fella victim. The mere fact of tured. Five of the prisoners were acquitted in con-
sequence of their complicity not being sunieiently
the event having taken place in Sicily, where so many

proved. The woman Wilkinson was sentenced to two
yea.' imprisonment and the others to thirteen months
of the flame punishment, with the, exception of one
man, who got off-16th six inenths. The condemned
were likewise place 6, for two years after the expiration
of their punislinient undet,the surveitlante of the
police.
.SISGULAR Breanrs.r.=-A wealthy man has re-
eently died in Paris, leaving all his wealth to his
nephew, th on condition at ha would have the di--
i -
ceased interred at one o'clock in the morning, an
arrangedient contrary tie the city regulations for
funerals; hence the matter has been brought before
the courts. It is not long since a very weliknown
character di,d, enjoining by will to be interred, if he
died during the summer, at six o'clockln the morning,
and 4 if4in winter,: He died sljiring winter, and
o 0 livitatsow winWisteslto h" intimate friers"
to n
attend thefuerli. /nip twerfty-aine canie, all of
Whom signed' na es in W"n;niater.- right days
afterwards, these twenty-nine faithful till death, re-
ceived a letter to call on the deceased's lawyer. They
did no, and each received, according to the will, £320
if a lady, and £lOO if a gentleman. The testator fur-
ther directed that the names of those who received his
bequests should be published in the journals, to punish
those who would not put themselves out of their way
to rise so early in the morning to attend his funeral

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