The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-09 00:00:00

A SCOTCIJ BAILIE IN PARIS.

. •
,1 dinua mind much about the road, except 'that the
wine was sour, line the 'givers rather cntber ; but I was
wakened chit of a sound nap by the baWling•of a child,
they ca'ed the condUctor,on the top of the diligence, by
which I understood that we were coming near the great ,
city of Paris. Now, as I had been, informed that we
•
would be Stoppeu at the gates for examination of the
luggage and sic-like, the French folkbeing sic inveterate
smugglers and rogues that a son would cheat hie
father, I theilght it right to gather myself up; '"for,"
thinks I, "ae linen is scarce •ia' these parts, Wha kens
but they may take a fancy to my sDirts.?''
..13ut
came the ports, no a soul- was there, not
even a policeman. map Atm 'standing wide open, the
guardhouse, was clean deserted; and for aught I could
see, the great city.of Paris might have 'been as empty
as•Edinbyrgh in the hinder end of August, when the
grass grows. thick in the squares, and the only living •
things ye eripounter, are a *can niffering a bawbee for
grossarts wi' an old woman at a stall. But for a' that,
it was evident that something by ordinar was ga'en on
inside; for cannon began to .bag, no as our folk fire,
regular,
;and . precisely, on the • King's birthday, but
clap after clap, as: if the guns had been double-
barrelled,. and whiles I thought I could hear
a kind of roar, maist terrible and . gruesome,
like the backdraught of a mighty sea. The
French folk that were wi' me in the' diligence began to
cock their lugs, and to look queer and rheard• them
I jabbering to ane .anither in a quick, raised, jerky kind
o' way : but what it was they said I eouldna understand,
for I hae nae knowledge of their parley woos. Weel—
on gaed the, coach, the,sound of the cannon aye 'growing
louder and louder, and very soon it was min3led,withia
brattling that I kent to be the discharge of musketry ;
and I said to mysel', though ' I eariu7t assert tli'at- I
was altogether without. misgivings,. " Na.e, dotiVf fit'
will be a military review, and the folk that,
.-shlstildz hie
lookit.after the gate will hae gave in to see the
ploy !" But, my certie !if ,Wasna lan afore, I fand
out my error; for nae sooner did we turn a corner, than
the diligence, was beset by two or three hundred black-
a-vised scoundrels, maist o' them in blue' shirts aboon
their otherclaes; and in a jiffy they had cut the traces,
ta'en away the horses, and signed to us prisSengers to
come out. The Frenchnien that were inside spanged
like bullocks out of a pail o' het water, but dell a bit
would I badge without my pockinanty. Then !they
tried to pu' me out,' neck and heels ; but I made I
fecht wi' my umbrella, sand gaed a chield a paik I
below the ribs that doubled him up like a carpenter's I
rule. Sae theY just let me sit where I was
drawing the 'diligence broodside to the street; and in
twa minutes time they had jammed it wi' carts and
barrels .filled wi' paving stanes, and many other kinds o'
lumber, sac
.that a cat could hardly hae eruppen out;
and an unco terror came over me, , for I thought they
were going to bury me alive. But that was a vain
imagination; for presently I hears a loud skelloch
ameng the blackguards.that were scrambling on the top,
and down they slid like spiders; and then I saW, what
in the perturburation of my mind I hadna observed at
first;' that' ilka one them had a gun,. and a gay
wheal '-o' 'them baygonets stuck. inte the muzzle.
Now, if there is ae thing I detest mair than auither,
it is the sight,of a gun, for I have been a peaceful man
Via' my days, and never handled powther since I was a
laddie at school, and burnt my fingers with a pluff ; sae,
you may weel imagine 'What was my state o' mind when
the vagabenes began to take aini• as it were through the
windows n' the. diligence, and .me sitting inside : I
looked up the• street to see if there was any chance Of
escape in that direction, for I felt as if I could have tied
for refuge to the utterintist parts of the earth ; but what
-think 3.=e I saw there ? ,Naething less than a hail regi-
ment o' Seldiers chargiag down upon me ! I had just
time to clap down on•thefloar, and was beginning to say
a bit o' a prayer, When pash gaed ae Millet 'Clean
through the woodwork, and then a perfect volley ;
and 'I , land that I . was' in the very centre, of what
they called a barricade, that the soldiers and the
mob were fighting, and that I lay between their
shots: How king that lasted I canna say, for I clean
.lost my judgment and my senses. • I hae, a •kind o',
indistine recollection that I howled like a pointer
dog tied up in a strange stable, and tried to cover
myself up wi' the straw that was lying in the bottom
o' the. coach, • but, I ken neething meir., and when I
came to mysel' the. firing :was done, and maist feek.
o' the 'mob had disappeared. The telt me aftW
wards that the soldiers • had. been defeated at that
barricade, and sure enough there 'was a halide o' them,
pair chields ! lying dead and bloody in the street, but
I caredna which had , the better, sac that I could make
' 'my escape out of that accursed coach.. Sae, finding
that the tiring was over, I lifted up my head, and gave
is halloo that might be heard the hail leugth'of the,Tron-
gate of Glasgow. Presently it N‘,•iis':atisivered ; 4nd'after
muckle wark, two ill-looking rogues, with kniveSip their
belts', whom I jaloused to he butchers, got die door open,
and harled me out. Thankful I was to beniten for that
blessed deliverance; and no a little glad, moreover, to
find my pockneanty, though there' were nae less, Iran
three holes in it. 1. may tell ye that, afterwards,
7when
my
I came hame, I found a bullet sticking in sue o
folded shirts just at the place where my breast would
have been if' I had it on, whichl could not regard a.•
oth4 than a special providence.-,--"Sorman Sinclair,"
in Blacl,leaact.y Mr. yazi3c.

CAPTAIN HABRIsON.— It is proposed to erect R
column or landmark on St. Bees' Read, Cumberland,
to the memory of the. late Captain Harrison.
SET.—What WI t a
AN OLD ANTTTRESIS Naw _LT.— . Lord. John
Russell was doinc, in 1831. Sitting by the cradle•Of
Reform.—What ord John Russell is doing in 1880.
Following its (small) bicr.—Punch,

Zodiac

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ECCLESIASTICAL IXTELLIGENCE.

li'll'grith' cliu'reli,.of Lancaster is about to he
re-Seated, Op/
.;s* to' nnid nore- and te.tttr' 'isgolmrno
dation, and at the, :,•;re time to .more fully develop Its
beautiful, architecture, The ittal. east is estimated at
£3,000. Sufficient funds are already iti Itaid.' to:, Warraait
tt coinimencement 'of the tr6rl:. of restoration.• ' -• .
llitte lan been heard in the Cettrt of Arches the
fhet St. e' of a trial in Ithich the st,etetary to the Bishop
Of' Winchester' irtocCutes. the fez. D.. 1. Heath, X.A.,
`rector ot' Brading, 1,46 of riglisf, in rez-pect of sermons,
Plublislidd'. py hiM, Whicli the Disliop
.pirdges 'contrary
to the artW.i.s and doetrineS .of the church: , ttr. R.
l'i, i 1 i more ?app Enna tit mi., fl'eatli, and 'opposed the
" articles" on ae,eotint of their"..laratnss... Dr. Lushing-
ton, the 'dean of the • court, said the artlCl'es must be
,admitted in. an aniended form, for which purpose he
would Teter them backito the learned eounsll who drew
them; The The doctrines impugned are , said •to have
,te4;rence to the. 'dot/el.mit '
...
• ! -(a Sunday last there was an ordtuation at.the Chester
Cathedral, on Which occasion en eloepiettt and impressive
sermon Was delivered by are Lord Bis.bop, from Pro-
verbs xxiii, .2d—" My son, give Ate thine heart."
Amon'; the gentlemen ordained deareatt% were Cornelius
Copner WambeY, 8,A., Magdalen-hall, Oxford, licensed
to Upholland; • John Th hvent,:A, Caine, Cambridge,
licensed to Capenhurst ; 'Will/air Rosoet,But.ess, 8.A.,,
Caius, Cambridge, licensed to. St. James's, *est Detby;
Arthur: Wright,. 8.A., Caius, Cambridge, licensed to
St. George's, Sutton; William Richard Cripps, ,8.A.,
Christ's, Cambridge, licensed to Little 'St. John's,
Chester;- Charles Gape; P.A., Corpus Christi, Cambridge,
licensed to Christ ChutChurch';Wuteiloo ; John Pritnatt
Marla; LL.R., Trinity Hall, Camirrhiges licensed. to St.
Paul's, Trantnete 7 William James idelvi/i0; AA.,. St.
Peter's, Cambridge,. licensed'to St: Anne's;, ,Staniev ;
Joseph 'William Collins, VA., Truit..y, Dtiblin;.licensed .
td Moittain.; John .Itathbone Cowdroy, 8.A.,
Trinity, •
Dublin, /ittneed icr St: Saviour's, Orton ; Robert Love,
8.A., Trinity, Dublin, litersed to St. haul's, Seacombe :
William. Marsden, 8.A., Trinity, h'iitylin, licensed to St:
Catherine's, Tranmore ; Joseph Millen 0 A'prr, B:_,L,
Trinity, Dublin, • licensed to 'St. Thomas's; Liverpool
William Banter • Williams, 8.A.; ~Trinity, .
Dublin,'
I licensed to 'Witten': ThoMaS Thornton 8.A.1 Bishop
IHatfield- Hall, Durham, lioensodtto,Golbourne ; -James.
'Wynn, St. Bees','.
..)!'4nsed to 'All, 'Saints', Liverpool ' •
John Hixen, Arrowsmith, 8.A., University, -D i h • '
from tram,by
letters din4s.so .fy, the Lor4 ,Bishop of Lichfield ;
Thomas,. James.- 3iteorren, 13.4, queen's UnirersitY,
Ireland, by letterS "dimissoty from the Lord Bishop of
Lichfield. Ordained priests :—Chas. Augustus Leve-
son; 8.A., University, Durham, licensed to St. Anne's,
Aighnrth ; Daniel Bell Rankin, St. Aldan's, Birkenhead;
John Howard Vandrey, St. Aidatee, Birkenhead.: Ito ! t

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25M000i. Sm
f9eaftisteith, of Ds rury7-lane; paid Mr. 121021e7, last year
.£,
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A 'Worti•rii Strecessoit.—The late Sir Robert Peel
*as the. first to throw open the British ports, and Glad-
stone is abont; fa open for us the French clarets.
—Punch .
THE RE.ln " CaLtitat_COUTROVEILSY." —Whether the
reetrietions which haraggthdThitith Shi-powner carrying coakinto France, and the ditferetiflal duties in favour
of French shipping, slaitill not be abolished.—Pifneh.
Wereen.Y- \VlT.—When the iwitlers call Lord Pal-
merston an." injudicious bottle-holder;''l the stub:, they
lay on the first syllable makes us feelinelined to slightly
vary the orthography, and lidy'hisilordship has been, in
the matter of the treaty, quite an Inn-judicious one. Punch:
THE WEAT ir p.n.—Dutchman : "Good Merver,Parriek,
. how you - tits ?"-- -4...41..m—”a1l : 7t-Gt:iod - morning till ye,
Mike ; think ye well, get any fain- ilie :day
.?" - Dutch-
inan : " I guess net ; ye never had much rainin a ferry
try time." Irishman : " Faith, and ye're' right there,
Mike; and thin, Whenever it gets in the w o' rainin',
the deuce a bit o' dhry wither 'Will we getay ; as long as
the wit spell howids." , - .
A clergyman in Salem, N.J.,. ,says the Standard,
recently announced from his pulpit that upon the next
Sabbath evening he would preach a sermon to " Moral
men." Upon this oecasion the house was crowded in
every
,part, and a large proportion of the congregation
'Was made up of those who had not "darkened a church
door" for years! „ ' '
It -ikitated lhat:tiany scars ago one-of the Southern
aStatest :regarding .the clock-peddling traffic within her
limits as a greateril, etaeted a tax so enormous on awry
clock that should tireitafteL be sold within her lialits;.as
..0 4.Pouut 7toColV;i4f4i pliillibitiollz . -Yankee ingenuity,
liOwes;er:was equal to the emergency, qudthei4-actment '
was evaded by reasing the cla6k; fiir ninety-nine years.
The Oxfoi;dCralendar, for 1860, shows a considerable
increase in the number of students, member's of convo-
cation; and members on th.boelc. • The Matriculations
have advanced from 399 in, 1'8'590,0:419 in 1860. The
bachelors of arts have risen (roar 277:t0 300 ; and.tbe
_regent masters from. -234 to 258: 'die Members' of Con-
vocation are now 3,828 agAiifst '3,6.50 in::.1851, an advance
'Of-nearly 5 per cent ; and, the members on the books are
'6.0^7 against 6,194 in 1859. •
THE VALUE 01' ' 'MURDERERS E'IDENCE. --The
ntintler of the aged couple named T.aly, for which Josset
was cQndcnined to death-a- few days since by- the Court
1 of Assizes okthe Aisne, has•giren rise to a singular law-
suit. It appears that M. and
.Madame Lily . had. each
' triadoa, will leaving their 'Property to the survivor. The •
heirs of each, party,. have accordingly appealed to the
tribitiag to 'decide which Of the two deceased 'was
i murdered last, as all the property goes to the heirs of
I that one.' The murderer aeserts that he killed the wife
1 first,.buCtlie admissibility ofihis evidence iaquestionable.
Dr,s' 'emu-re . ENCOUNTER. WITII ]4111101411.15, —On,
Thursday morniug, about ,two o'clock,,iiMr. Benjamin,
Guy, a charter-master in Messrs. Sparrow's coalfield,
I and residing. at Portobello. Wolverhafripton, was
awakened by a man entering his bedroom, bear-
' 'ng a light, and carrying in his other hand a small
crowbar. Mr. Guy at once sprang out of bed and
I collared the intruder. A terrible, struggle ensued
in the dark
baring been extinguished).
- (the light
Mr. Guy defending' with . his fists against
the burglar, who, on • his, part, wielded his ' crow-
bar most unmercifully. ' Atter this unequal combat had
continued for about a qUirter of an hour, tho burglar
doing his utmost to escape, a second robber came to
his assistance. Fortunately by. this time .the noise
of the•istruggle in the house, and the cries of Mr.
Guy's wife and song attracted, the attention of
Police-constable Sheldon, who came up in ' time to
turn the' scale in favour of Nr...Gur
~ , .who w
rapidly becoming exhausted, and to assist in securing
the first burglar, who, on being . searched at the
station,/ was found to have in his possession a large
assortment of skeleton keys, and other honsebreaking
iiistruments, and also a quantity of gunpowder and per- I
cus,sion. caps., His . accomplice has' escaped for the
present, but the police are on his track. Mr. Guy has
sustained very severe injuries ahout the bead and face,
and a drep cut in the arm, which is believed to have
been made -with a •knife. -Thu captured burgliii- 'gal'
brought up at the Bilston Police-con
~ ela on Wednesday.
He gave his natnial4 Sainu'el Jones, stating that he lived
at Wolverhampton. Ile was remanded' till Monday
next. , • .
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,4axtittg;-,' *ttettiOntre.

MANCHESTER 'BETTING. •
Little doin:::.
2,000
,Gutyl•A‘ : 4to 1 agst Bucennecr, taken ; .5 to I aglst
.
Lupullus,
P.F.nsv,:f D to 1-agst Buccaneer, taken ;,,33 to 1 ab.l.st Cr amend,
taken:, • .
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CITY SystrunAN :30to 1 agst Hotheward Bound, taken;
33 to 1 agst Celt by Andover, takell freely.
Cur.yrtia.,Cyr : .40 to 1 agst Ihe , taker, Herne ta freely.
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SHREWSBURY RACES.—YEsttuDAY.
LONOSER TiAT.L TAKE.
,Clittlmi,lfie r 2
CLEyELAICTIj I.4NP,IGAP.

Joskin

Four ran.
, ACTON 131.11iNEL.
Little 1,1 Chantres ...........
CUPORATION PLATE.
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Ifpur ran. , ,
Tourriamentivatked over.
HURDLE.

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