The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

rar STOURPRIDGE oTISETIVEIN

curiosity, and not the fun of the thing. The little 1 and other manufacturers now extensively se this
paper has, however, struggled on and not only main- recent invention, and to the householder its,%lue is
tinned its position, but has actually got a printing I apparent. The popularity and rapidlysextendi. ause ~ f
office of its own, where from 12,000 to 15,000 copies this cement, commercially and scientifically, show,m).
are struck aff every day. Any one passing the little , fact, how a great business may be made out 01
a I
shop near the Place de Is Monnaie, where it makes its 1 parently simple materials.
daily appearance about two o'clock, will be struck WHAT THE It EPEAL OF THE. CORN Laves HAVE
by the sight of the crowd eagerly awaiting to be served
with this literary production. Later in the afternoon ) DoNE.-Tlue other day (saia Mr. John Bright, at
1 Birmingham, the other evening.) a man wrote to me
it is hawked about everywhere, and swells may still
from a borough in my neighbourhood, stating that he
be seen in the caresthrowlng a franc to the vendor and I had been canvassing a working man who asked him
I
asking for fifty copies, " just to keep up the fun." It
generally contains something new, at times rather
i what good the repeal of the corn laws had been to the
working via-sees, and asked me to give him in as few
spicy, but never very virulent, its salt and pepper words ea I could an answer to his fellow workman.
being juet enough to give the article a flavour of laly answer was this, that since the repeal of the corn
seasoning without making it nauseous. laws about twenty years ago there had come into this
THE NEWLY-ENFRANCHISED !-ThefollOwing iS a country more than I:500,000,000 worth of common
capital story if a newly-enfranchised elector, who for arteles of food which the corn laws were intended to
the first time WM being canvassed for his vote :- keep out-(cheers)- .that all the rich people and the
The iudividual in question is employed eta labourer in a well-off pa pie in the country had enough to eat before
large estalklishment, aml had been seized boll of by an official the repeal of the corn laws, and have eaten no more
in the same work, who is understood to have Men " retained' since, except at their numbers have increased ; but a
by the committee tit one of the candidates for the Kilmer- million of well-off people in 1868 do not eat a bit more
nock lturghs. For some time Ike 'te patiently to a
oTfhetnia.7 thin ti till% tltict:ykdni,d,wtwentyaix Years al-(0.
recant ot the holiouralkle candidate's meris. At length, Who has eaten the
however, the canvasser, thinking he had matte an impression.
paused for a reply. " Och, sure," says the voter. " an' I £5410,000,000 worfh of corn and flour and all the other
Meta know moan* about the man yer spakise of, but ye may things which have come in, and which the corn laws
put me down for 84.1." were intended to prohibit and did prohibit. Of course
The poor man thought it was a subscription that was the repeal of the corn laws found me-, the very
being raised for some fellow-workman mother who had poorest place in the poorest alley in the poorest towns
keen injured.
FORBIDDING THE BANNS.-The somewhat tin- although I can't
in England,
la,,eanntihietrT—lti;lpo,a,ifit,th,e,frefmtlizt othhe.rwise would
neual occurrence of forbidding the banns thok place in tell you how much Pt; 00 000,000 wort is any more
than I can tell you how far it is to the sun, still 1 can
Greyfriars' Church. Dumfries, on the forenoon of Sum
day week. Mr. VASS, precentor, had proclaimed in
• 1 f manyei th6Y
tell you. this, that it comprises a quantity equal to
the customary manner the intended marriage of a
young man, named M-Geachie, a labourer, to a girl o eharsa,
bhesnrirseslitsploifedcoirnv ituh,,thirsepceoaulnt(ryi,
the
corn
the
laws. I said that the £5OO 000,000 worth had been a.
the name of Laurie, when a female, named Agnes
aid by the exported products of the labour it tile
M•Donald, rose from a seat in the gallery and said,
"1 object to that proclamation." and immediately
ppm le of this kingdom, and that therefore it was rint
thereafter left the church. The kirk-eession has hail during the last twenty years, on the average, the
the matter before them, and, after hearing both :I'ra,
tie
and fur labour has been greater than it was
parties, found that there was no legal itnpediment to wre.
• • •
the marriage, and an extract of the proclamation of MR. DISRAELI AT CHURCH.-An amusing Inca
banns Was accordingly issued to the man. The girl dent occurred in connection with the Premier's recent
M•Donahl, it seems, alleges that he promised her visit to Balmoral in attendance on Her alajesty. In
marriage, but this, arGeachie denies. the Scotch Church the collection is still made with the
HYMN BOOKS. -Archdeacon Wordsworth having "ladle," a system which is perhaps opposed to volun-
tary contributaten.„ and gthea rather a practical turn to
incumbent might introduce i
written to the Bishop of Oxford to inquire whether an
1 t.benevolence. Mr. Disraeli, unaware of this, and
into his church any hymn
botik he choose, the following is the reply :- ming wrapt lip in meditations on the connection be-
tweeu Church and state, appeared to have nothing
Dear Dr. Wordsworth, i did not feel able to answer so
wherewith to support the Establishment. This beina
by
Important a questi 111 l as pairs without fortifying
So in
my opinion
that of nw thanceitor, Sir It. Phillimore ) fortified, duce db y one of the ladies ed the Court who sat
I mkut say that he is of opinion I that a private clergyman next him, she very readily offered him a Coin. The
has no right to adopt at MS own ariatrium a Blew set of ' great man now understood what was required of him,
hymns for use in a church; and ....' that it is within the
power of tile lkishop to authorise the use of
.a se of tom., and, refusing the coin, began fumbling in all his
pm i eta for his Iffirse, which he at last found, and from
either in his diocese or in any separate parish of it. I am, i
dut, S. OXoN. 1 t extracted a donation. By this time, however, the
: ladle was on its way clown the seat again ; but with
A GREAT DIATINCTION.-An article in one of, i that ingeniousness for which Mr. Disraeli is re-
the Reviews is headed, "On Ancient Cave Men.'
,
i markable, he handed the money to his neighbour, who
Which id the nations of antiquity could boast of its
,
, in turn, handed it on, in the hope of reaching the re-
Adullamites ?-Pulich. I treating money box. Aleng one seat it went, up
AS IT SHOULD Mt !-The tenantry on the I another, down the next, but without success; and the
estates of the Earl of Erne, in the counties of Fere i last holder, seeing the hopelessness of the pursuit, re-
managh, Donegal, and Sligo, have taaen the tipper- ' turned it to him who gave it. Back it came slowly
tunity afforded by the creation of hislordship a Knight ' :thing its way, until it reached the Premier, who up to
of St. Patrick, to make a public demonstration if this time hail removed immovable, and unconscious of
their attachment towards him as a resident land- its fate, whale all eyes in the congregation seemed
lord, who labours with intelligent zeal and generous .i watching the scene. When it was handed to him, he
kindness to promote their social and moral inipreve- , looked at the coin for a moment, gave one of his
rnent. On Saturday, the well-kept and showy little ' peculiar smiles, coolly put it back into his purse, and
town of Lisnaskea presented one of those inter. ' pocketed the money.
esting pictures of Irish life now happily often wit- THE 'CURIOUS CASE OF ASSAULTING A BRIDE.-
nesso 1, in which the " lord of the sod " appears : On Monday, at the Rochdale Police Court, William
in the midst of a contented and grateful people, , Manock, of Whitworth, was charged on remand with
receiving and returning the warmest expressions
of goodwilL A large concourse of the local
unlawfully wiainding his wife and sister, on Wednes-
-1 day night last, with a bar of iron. Mr. Whitehead
tenantry assembled, and deputations came from
the adjoining counties to present congratulatory ad- t appeared for the defence, and, in answer to a question
t from the magistrates, said that the prisoner's wife and
dresses. The town looked unusally animated and ,
cheerful, the principal buildings being adorned with . sister now were unwilling to prosecute. The circum-
stances were these :-
flags and evergreens. Lord Erne fully appreciated 1
. on Wednesday last las client had the good fortune, or ill
the spirit which animated the people, and acknowl-dgeo : fortune, to be married. During the day he knocked about
their congratulatione in befitting terms. They referred , the country, and Mutinied more beer than he was accustomed
to the fact that his dealings with them had always . to, and when he got home at night a little tlisagreeme.ent arose,
been regnlated in accordance with the motto, "Live and he struck Ids wilne„,awndttletri.,, Zlikeeti,lZ4,lrwl he
would nreet-
and let live ;" and he in return applied significantly the a '.
motto of the Order of SL Patrick-t" Quits separatist pr'r iste'Cluteitlnira."‘4itehead hoped that the majesty of the
. laW woull not Interfere with his client returnitm to the
NOBLE SPORTSMEN.-The Emperor Napoleon, . arms oflthis newly nulasiTiiies.L,Vaf:.e;Mf4,thattitik= chair'
attended by the Prince of Mtiscow, Marshal Niel, the FI
Marquis de Lavalette, General Fleury, General wife and sister refusekl to prosecuffe, whereon the chairnian
an It
e.tleillgia:;rM"te house. In answer to a question, hoth
Waubert de Genlis, and the Duke de la Foue, started
at nine o'clock last Friday from St. Cloud to shoot i end
I remarked that they knew the effect of compulsory evidence,
dischkkrged the prisoner.
over the
tepreeervees beyond Frontainville, wherekill thed y 1
WoatEN MID CHILDREN EMPLOYED IN AGRl-
breakfaed in th open air. His Majesty e
thirteen hares, fifty-seven rabbits, 143 cock pheasants, , CULTURE -The Hon. E. B. Portman has just con-
ten red partridges, nineteen grey and four silver i cludeil a-prefindeary inquiry at Exeter, held
women and held on behalf
pheasants, amid one roe. The Duke de Is Foue and
',f Government, into the extent to winch
111 1 -il in agriculture. A large num-
c ti i ren are elm, oje .
General ,b, Geniis were the worse shots of the party,
and the Prince of Moscow the best, always excepting ber of landlords and e. men gave evidence and nearly
p Yel° a strong oli'ecttor: to arlia-
the Etnperor, who it must be admitted shoots under amilend thnereftererentg in th matter, and also to cona
peculiar advantages, eight keepers hieing in constant eiTucation. Earl Fortescue, President of the
attendance, with as many guns, which are handed to 1.71"77
him ready loaded the instant he has fired. County Chamber of Agriculture, spoke at sonic length
, . on the k mestion of education, and the sanitary arrange'
BATTIER AWKWARD I-The Nets York I) or!'! ments of Devon, as compared with the manufactiming
has a dread vision of the things that are to be under districts. He thought that in these respects Devon
the Republican party :- was much in advance of the latter. He held that no
When the President gives a state dinner, how can he child should be sent out permanently to work before
avoid inviting negro senators and representatives elk.; with ten years if age. He suggested that the schotilmasters
Lb eir colleagues? If there he a negro senator and a white should give certificates, and that farmers should g,ive
senator from the same Stkute, lum, can be a•l< one and slight
the other? ifs negro cabinet officer find his fkumily excluded the prelerence of employment to those holding certi-
from social recognition lky the families of his colleagues, he I ficates. Such a system, he conceived, would greatly
may have no means of directly resenting the insult, but the k encourage education. Nothing could be more unite-
affront will rankle in his breast, and cause Idol to use his I Hirable than compulsory education. He thought that
influence with his race to slaughter every public man whose ' the working if women in agriculture was greatly
family has refused him recognition. diminishing. A number of resautions were proposed
A STRANGE EPITAPIL-Eccentric epitaphs have objestieg to legislation in the matter,
always had their attractions to a certain class of
BENEATH ONE'S NOTICE.-AdVerti.SentelltS on
people but we question if even Old Mortality, during
his indefatigable and protracted labours, fell in with a the Pavement. -Punch.
tombetene bearing a more extraordinary inscription THE POLICY OF Low FARES.-The writer of an
than that to be seen upon a recently-erected tablet in article on "The Great Railway Monopoly," in the
a graveyard in County Down, not ten miles from October number of the Quarterly Review, observes :-
Belfast. The following is a copy of the inscription :- , "Where railway companies have had the courage and
This lithe grave of —, wife of --, who died on board ' the wisdom to adopt the policy of low fares, it has in
the Scotia May 24th 1060 aged 54. She died the death of . variably proved successful, especially where there are
the Christian Confessing the Son of Ood. Accept o Ellen I large populations to be accommodated. But many of
the last honeurs I can pay thee. When living thlouplaced wert I them have adopted it only in a haldhearteil, per
much beloved by me When dead did I leave t ill I
thee by the side
functory way, and been too prone to fall back on the
of thy father. I David love do this. I I
will Ellen if prayer and gold can do It: for whom can make I stupid anti indelent policy of raising fares by while-
an ocean grave. Farewell my loved wife though you have sale, in the belie of thereby increasing dividends,
not left me you have only first stepped into the lovely land though the more usual result has been only the increase
of donut Christ where we shall liiki each other good morning of irritation and discontent amongst their customers.
and sing together with my
th. di tl a mother and thy mothe r whom Ifi kin rect have found it as hard to believe that a line
tisove ith all thy great Mart and mind, that . .
song we shall never weary to sing. can pay pater by cnarga g moaerate tares, as the
defender's of the old letter-carrying system did in the
THE COMMENCEMENT OF SPIRITUALISM-The
n success of the penny-post. Yet proofs of the wisaten
author of a article entitled " Spiritualism vertu., of the low fare policy have never been wanting. Year
Positis ism " writes :- by year the railway returns published by the Board of
Like all important discoveries, Spirltualisrn had S very Toule show that it is not the high-priced but the cheap
thsmall
m Ike d g
ginning. As the steam-engin
kettl e was
as th prin
first suggested to
l traffic that increases mint raiiidly and n capable of
e inkl of Watt by the boin M a e ; e cipe ,y. far the La ..
rgest development; fur while. the higher
of the electric telegraph flashed on Galvani whilst looking at o
the involuntary mkkvements of a frog; so Spiritualism had its limed class remains nearly a fixed quantity, that of
origin in tahledurning and taps,-" inexplicable dumb show the lower class is almost unlimited, and thereto nothing
anti noise." For many years, towards the commencement of , that will induce the multitude to travel but low
Of e present century, a mysterious "tick-tick" was heard at I far,
intervals in many Tram-atlantie habitations, to the great
I kewilderment of the inmates. In or alskut the year of grace A HINT TO UNPOPULAR CANDIDATES.-" Far
and Comtism 1040, it occurred to a Miss Fox, of Hydes• Western Lawgivers and Preachers," in Al? The Year
ville, New York, to question these ticks-" interrogate pheno- yto„mi ~,.,y, :.._
mesa," as you would say. "What is that?" she asked one
In the wilder parts of the settlements members of legis
night. "Tick, tick," was the answer. "Doe, that mean
' Yes'?" " Tick, tick" "What is .No '?" " Tick" "Are ttfire have often been elected. not so much for their talent,s,
you a spirit?" "Tick, tick" "Not a mere accidental ler being " good hands at poker,' or "great on a spree,
SOWS?" "Tick." "Will you strike when I point to letters I`.."arip . .7osa, of these p. the honourable gentleman from
on getting up to speak in the Carlifornian"
of the alphabet ?" "Tick, tick." This was the first fkOnt m
legislature., anti essaying several tunes without much effect,
dawn of the new philosophy-a dawn which is now fiat
ts " k "
broadening into the full effulgence of noon. , The) we-f:meted with shout of bit out. oh git out.
mistook their MSS. however, for, as one of his sup-
A NEW STEAM ENGINE.-The Mining Joanna porters remarked before his election, " Ile :mit much on the
gives a description of an ingenious steam-engine which sneak, but jist get him mad time, anti he'll give
D'eenitrifi,te"
has been invented by Mr. Benjamin Franklin, of 'ol,ii(t ynl3infyetiltolitehr,G" rolu-etnal.,,Veoi,l,lTicattilitenag
.;
Gott;
Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. The engine is extremely
.. let ye, but my speech is already begun, and the next man
simple-piston, crank, steam-chest, Ste. being dis. who shouts 'Mt out' in the house will bring to lkis ears the
pensed with. It depends entirely on centrifugal force; ominous click of small arms. What is it the gentlemen wish,
friction is almost entirely overcome, and it will produce and what wmuld they have? Is my life so dear, or my peace
1,500 revolutions per minute with one-fourth the steam s‘o
itsweet,.atflga ietnn;ue aVrtegiiiiiricla,s7.l
service? No, ex Ise„teif iiiik‘x,„-
usually required, although the same amount of horse- n'
) n'ot whgat course others wou ke, but as bd. me, IwM finish
power is developed. The centrifugal steam-engine my speech or there'll be a halti senator found round these
condenses almost all its steam, whilst from its sim- premises in about fifteen seconds by the clock." He was
plicity it can be constructed at one-fourth the ordinary allowed to finish at his leisure.
cost, and is not liable to get out of order. HEARING AGAIN THOSE FAMILIAR SOUNDS.
A SINGULAR PRAYER MEETING.-At th -An event, both horrible and ludicrous, is reported to
Evangelical Union prayer meeting, held in Exeter- have occurred recently m Norfolk, Virginia A certain
hall, last week, the Rev. Dr. Fry said that amongst individual having died, his friends and acquaintances
the letters which had been received in reference to the repaired to his house to pay their last tribute of respect
special objects of prayer was one from a youno' man by following him to his grave. The procession was
who described himself as an undergraduate of the formed ; but before moving hospitalities were extended
University of Cambridge, who was tortured with in the shape of a goool stiff brandy julep to each, so as
doubts on the subject of religion. He was anxious the better to enable them to undergo the fatigue of a
that hie faith ghould be confirmed, and that he might long march to the new burying-ground. While the
be enabled to evince that faith boldly before his fellow pall-bearers, who were standing by the hearse, were
students in the university. The five or Hix prayers slowly sipping their juleps, and now and again giving
which followed all bore upon the state of this unhappy the goblets a slight shake to settle the ice in them, a
young man. In the prayers the forthconting elections noise was heard in the coffin, which turned some faces
were not forgotten, and one person asked the prayers whiter than they had been for years before. The
of the meeting for an individual, on the ground that undertaker at length summoned courage to unscrew
his landlord hail siezed his goods for rent. the coffin lid, when the supposed corpse sat up and
A CANDIDATE'S OPINIONS.-In the Far West, re)lisLatteleie rhisjulep Having quenched his thirst.
gra't he had 'been in a sort of trance, and
as else-where, are are legislators who are not too knew all that was going on around him, but was
much in earneet. I recntnmena (says a wriMr in tinaltle to armse lamself until the familiar jMale id
All the Year Bound,) ta Rome of our present candidates theice and the delicious smell of the brandy and mint
for Britith suffrages the followino noble close to a Far in the goblets infused new life into his system, and he
Western election address -"Gentlemen,": said the was ableto break the trance.
candidate, after haying given his sentiments on the '''
"constitootion," the "Monroe doctrine," and such MR. BRIGHT ON THE CHEAP PREES.-Mr,
like topics, "gentlemen," and he put his hand on the Bright addressed a crowded meeting of the electors on
region of his heart, "these are my sentiments- the Monday evening in the Town Hall, Birmingham. In
sentiments, gentlemen, of a honest man-ay, a honest the course of his speech, in speaking, of the Press he
politician, but, gentlemen and fellow.citizens, ef they said :-
don't suit you, they ken be altered I"
BY OUR ASTROLOGER.-The Planet favourable There is ~ne other thing that existed then (hut a few years
eget that is worth your remembering 1110 W-1 mean the system
to Ritualieta-Vesta. -Punch, of taxation upoku the Press. I consider that we have done
scarcely ye re
m der thing in m
pap my lifetime than Um aboliti.
DEATH OF Mn. FREDERIC DICKENS. -On of the taxes 'on the newser ess. My f riend, my tild
Sunday morning the sod closed over the dust of friend, now the member for Ashton, Mr. Milner thlkson-he
Frederic Willinin Dickens, latest surviving brother of ei I all the men in Parliament kleserves the honour and credit
;Lk.= =n‘ffhat::ga'4
Mr. Charles Dickens. Mr. Frederic Dickens--who :Indthei esagteh:wt Ittichl'a:,l7„„ly,,l:
b. resided in 1 harlingti in during the feet twelve ermine or speaking of. Why, at that time, in fuldithm to' a
months -had for three weeks befiire his death imifemd heavy duty upon paper, the stamp upon every newspaper
w'rnterg.l,utiT;rgin„;
negivm
IV learti
,see,m,e,ny
tti,
it„hgathw,ezatk
ritifiwi„.7!
Iron anal scess in the lung. On Sunday and Monday
last he was considerably better, and no danger was
feared. About half-past three o'clock on Tuesday rid a ditty to the State of not less than is. Oh. These taxes
morning, however, he became seriously ill, and died gettik=o;,l,l,yreian,,,lhLr,k,,,,n
thole(
rte,,enofAae ;(I,they, were
i
shortly after four o'clock. The geniality-it was sonic-- eventually they came to the enornutus sum I haveThi you.
thing more to thorn who could see below. the surface- There was a very heavy duty on paper, and
hee foto-pence a sheet
of Mr. Dickentia nature, and hi ready fund of humour on every st h u efrire could he minted, and a 05. GI. on
and anecdote, will not readily be forgotten by those every eve advertisement before it could he printed in tint sheet.
who knew him best, and liked him best. The result was, that a newspaper in those days was only very
small and very poor, and it was sold at sevenpence. Very
A USEFUL INVENTION.-CORgl, ale, the new
of CvW F.set I;
,ei rt in Tfre,rryttheewpewcorpelree,a,%l:haicnud 1.,,h.,„at
opprektgdiossahstlhoj
titaxnees, ot,,u newspapsrs, WAS abolished by the
tßrra,utshpearNe,n(tpCeermatci•vnet,
cthheemipsru
jo:luofctsiotneekofp,l%.,rt,lesis:araKpisiTy,
Act lee
growing into use as an article of commerce and Fele!. true interests of the tnat•tinchf3lrlawilhillteirtlyw.ilis,reallgeadriuleptiontt
tific application. The adhesiveness and tenacity of legislate.
NEED IT BE so T-A country vicar writes to a
this cement are truly extraordinary. Glass, leather,
cianh:hmteosernupicti:aiillrnaarYtsvt
wood, stone, ivory, bone, minerals, or objects of
natural histary, can be pieced or joined by it and so
fstteartihte:tuurri
emdo. thietr :7.1: v. itnhge,i,nbay
tenacious ia it that it will resist a strain of 224 Ilis. or On the 10th of August a private of the -th Regiment died
therkl::;olll.,silai
more. Heat or cold, fire or water, are successfully re-
rm
sisted by it ; and, so far as its durability has been redrordshire village. No intimation of his death reaches
tested, the cement is perfect. For piecing glass or
crystal its uses are admirable, because its transparency ret urned to the bereaved%=
rirroe‘kilgthwLiiteteti:eacadi a letter
renders the junction imperceptible, and its adheteive- office. .abiy Ihe permitted to remark that had my ptrer-
ness, in fact, makes the broken glass or crystal as gold parishioner been a convict or a lunatic pauper his survi4
as new. With Hums Patent Leather Line, it is used parents would not have been kept it. ignorance of lull
for winaow cords, the splice of the cord being joined by or death? Were it necessary, I could hear testimony to the
the cement, and thus an endl se s, smooth, and perfectly ; t 1 kr
warmth of those affections which are thus violated. Put I
regular band is produced. Dentiete use it for fastening ,if(l)in"aenTalre
tthetti,lltistrious person who commands the army
artificial teeth on their pegs. Billiard players may found Muong the roeorte n 1.171;."'e ll 'sfto
fineelnitol stkinchotitrt ly is
use it for fastening on the tips of their cues. Calico nearest relative the death of a private " is a relicrof
vitt
printer' have found it to assist them in their process, ti, times when postal communication was Imperfect, and when
alid it has been employed to fasten flowers, wreaths, or Immix were costly and few. It admits SOW of . easy remedy.
ornaments on bonnets or dresses. To lapidaries it is ; r;ivseaarnran in the army carries a book containing the n lune of
invaluable. Toy, fishing-tackle, archery, gun-stock, shoul:lll.t.erneltalit,veel,el:tiLtaotohurich to ask that information

CANNING'S GRAVE,—Westminster Abbey was
visited last week by an Indian prince, dressed in his
native costume, with his prime minister and attendants,
who came for the purpose of strewing Lord Canning's
grave with flowers. The servants bearing the trays
containing the flowers, held aloft in Eastern fashion,
were very picturesque. After expressing his deep love
of Lord Cannind and his grateful remembrance of his
rule in India, the prince knelt and himself strewed
with flowers the stone slab which covers the remains of
Lord Canning, and also of his father, George Canning.
Dean Stanley pointed out the spot where the monu-
ment is to be erected. After bending in prayer, the
prince bent down and kissed the stone, followed in the
reverent act by his retainers.
RELIOIOCS LIBERTY IN SPAIN.—The Diario of
Barcelona states that the Junta of that city recently
received from the Swiss Consul there and from various
of his countrymen a in; moral requesting to he allowed
to build a church for the free rxersise of their Pro-
testant worship. The answer returned was that the
memorialists could, from the present time, practise
whatever faith they pleased, and erect any edifice they
might decide in; that, in virtue of the establishment
of religious liberty, the applicants required no authori-
sation whatever, provided they observml the letter of
the municipal ordinances respecting the construction
of edifices In general.
IMPORTANT ANNoUNCEMENT.—Mr. Beales has
recognised the Spanish Revolution, which is very
much gratified. Ile is, however, less satisfied with
Vesuvius, and means to call the attention of the Re-
form League to the conduct of that mountain, and
possibly to propose a vote of censure on the eruption.
—Punch.
MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.—The Birming-
ham Post, at the termination of its report of Mr.
Bright's speech, says :
Mr. Bright spoke for more than an hour, and during
that time there was no interruption, save that which arose
from struggles arising from the continuous influx of persons
to tile densely-packed floor. The more than usual earnest-
ness and rapidity of speech with which he commenced his
discourse led to the inevitanle discomfiture of Ms voice,
whidt, under the strain it was thus subjected to, betrayed
its inherent weakness ham before the close of his address.
11110 and hearty as the Bright looked last night, the change
which the last few months have affected in his appearance
was strikingly evident to all. Time has marked has long
years of service with an unsparing hand ; and his hair.
which when he last stood in the ToWn Hall was of an iron'
gray. has now turned to silver. Mr. Bright is now whitened
with age.
KILLING MADE RISY. A ghastly scientific
discovery is reported from Turin, where Professor Cass
turani, the celebrated oculist, has, it would appear,
found away of killing monists, by forcing air into their
eyes, within the space of a few seconds, and, it is
thought, almost without causing them any pain.
Experiments were made at the Royal Veterinary
School, and it is sail that they have fully proved the
truth of the professor's invention. Within the space
of a few minutes four rabbits, three dogs, and a goat
were killed in this manner. The most remarkable
thing about this "killing made easy " is the fact that
it leaves absolutely no outward trace, and it can be as
easily applied to men as to animals ; if no, it is to be
hoped that the method is not easy of mqdication.
MATRIMONIAL CHANCES.—(From the Manchester
E.coniincr):—
" A Widow, IS, good looking and clever but no means',
would be glad to meet with a Oentleman of steady habits;
would not object to a widower with a family"
A Young Gentleman, German, 24 , comiderthandsome,
of p.oil family, with smile fortune, desires to Many on
amiable and accomplished Lady of means.—Address in con-
fidence, with carte."
WHAT WILL SHE DO WITH IT I—There are two
conflicting accounts of the fate of a set of table
ornaments which were ordered early in the year
by Queen Isabella, from a firm of silversmiths in
Popineourt. One is, that they were sent to Spain
while her Majesty was at St. Sebastian, and got lost ;
and the other, that the exiled Sovereign, with her
characteristic good faith, on being reminder' at Pau of
her order, sent word to the alarmed Paris tradesmen
who had not foreseen the coming storm, that she
would allow them to suffer no loss, and was ready to
take the goods and pay for them. The price stipulated
is nearly (our millions of francs. The service is in
nickle silver, highly chased. It consists of a great
central candelabra, with four lesser ones. At the base
of the principal one are seated the four Seasons; and (it
might be imagined they were placed there in irony) a
troop of little Loves. Bunches of grapes and the
f oliage of the vine festoon gracefully along the branches,
and a pair of billing doves deseendiug to a lotna flower
font' the culminating 'mint. Venus tantalising Cupid
with a cluster of berries adorns the pediments of (me
pair, on each one of which a solitary dove is perched
in a mournful : ttltude. The children of the Seasons
(whoever they may be) decorate the second pair.

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After his extraordinary exertions during the pist
fortnight Mr. W. E. tilailstone intends taking a short thne i
for rest before the immediate business 01 the election corn- ,
memos. i
The foundation stone of a new town-ball for Man-
chester was lrld on Monday. The Manchester Concur sayi ,
that when completed the building will lie inie of the most
magnificent of its class iti Europe. After the proceedings id
the morning had been brought to a close, the mayor invited
a distinguished company to luncheon at the town hall, where
several speeches were delivered.
The Monitear of Monday says : "Desirous of giving
a fresh proof of sympathy and giatituile to France and the
Emperor, the Holy Father has announced that he will visit
eivita Vecchia on Monday, the 26th of October. and bestow
his benediction upon the French troops, and examine the
town anti works recently executed.
The Earl of Stamford has decided to sell the whole
of his racing stud, retaining only the brood mares, which
are very valuable.
A report has been circulated at Washington, but be-
lieved to be .il ilflllt foundation, that a company, formed of
negroes, have sworn to assassinate Mr..lohnson.
:On Saturday night a quarrel took plate between a '
' mm. mulled James LeightmL szed eiehty, and his solidi,-
' law, John Wiliau and the latter delil.eratcly stud Ms tatter-
in-law, oil tile charge entered the 1011-es site. though
- happily wit proving fatal. The WOUllkieli twin was conveyed
f to the workhouse, and Winall .11.8 taken into custody by the

police.
Ann incident which raight have produced consterna-
tion threughont Europe oceurred diming the last shooting
party at st. I iermains. A servant of the Due de Celluloid-
laforee, whilst loading his master's gun, tired accidentally
and wounded the duke, who wits standing next to the EMperOr
Napeleon. The shots lodged tnt the arm and side of the
duke, without, however, producing any serious conse-
quences, and he waa able to jiiiu the party at dinner by
nem e y weaning lOs arm ea a sling.
The Roman journals deny the statement that the
rope is fitting up a palace for the reception of the Queen of
Slnain. "The report," they say, "is a stuphl inventian, a
calamity devised arid propagated by human malice," The
liberal journals take notice of this denial, and ask whether
the Pipe is ashamed to afford all asylum to her On Whalll he
bestowed a dinlenna lost year.
The most wire method of preserving eggs, the
British Med;cal Journal states, Is that used on a large scale
in Paris. The eggs are trimmed, in win- baskets each holding
a &rem into caldrons of boiling water, durieg about a minute.
A thin layer id the egg coagulates on the nonce surface if the
shell, and prevents tine intiltratiou of air, which is speedily
fatal to the freshness of the egg.
It is said that the journey of the Prince and Princess
of Watts abroad has now been definitely decided on, and that
they will leave England about the middle of November, to
proceed to Paris, Germany and Deli Mark, and afterwards to
Greece, Asia Minor, and up the Nile as far as the second
cataract. In this latter portion of the journey, Sir Samuel
Baker will be their guide.
The Russian Minister of the Interior has addressed
a circular to the governors of all the provinces of the
ralSidan empire, asking their advice as to the best means of
checking the progress of drunkenness among the people.
Another scurvy laden ship arrived in the Thames
on Sunday last, and three of the crew were at once conveyed
to the Dreadnought hospital ship. This vessel left England
at the end of last year, und was not therefore provided with
certified lime or lent, n juice, inn accordance with the pro-
visions of the Duke of Riehmonibe Act.
In New York a maiden lady has left all her pro-
perty for the purpose of building a church, on condition that
her body and tomes shall be made into mortar in which to
lay the corner stone.—ln thine she will become an old brick.
Revolutionary catechisms now abonnd in Spain,
The following Is an, estract from one of them.—" Who are
the enemies of Spain ?—ilsabella of Bourlmn, brierdes Bravo,
and baiter Claret. What evil have they done to the country?
—The first has robbed it of its liberties ; the second of its
money ; and the third of its conscience, covering with the
cloak of religion the turpitude of the two others."
At the laying of the foundation stone of a
" woodard " school at Ineusbam, Staff, wilshire, the ether day,
Mr. Beresford Hone said that irn the time to come the history
of the world e ould say that Woodanl did a great and amid
deed whein he came foirwarit and showed what the true spirit
of the Church ..1 Englaud was, and that the true power of the
Church ii England was among the middle class, lie said,
come weal, come woe, the Clenrch of talented would nuke
herself felt as she had never made herself felt before, and
whether prosperity or worldly adversity was before her, she
hail a great future before her.
The number of paupers in England and Wales,
except lunatic paupers in asylums and vagrants in receipt of
relief, on the last day of the fifth week of July, ISGS, was
1113 eint, or 311,C64 more than at the correspondiug period of
the previous year.
The New York Turf, Fidel, and Farm reports a re-
markable game of American billiards at Chiemr,ii hi larva
Dion and M'Devitt, for 1,000 dollars and the champion's cue,
Lion, who wont with ridiculous ease, making a break of 1,400.
Such ',Myna was Dever heard of before, taking all the dr-
cumstauters into considerath says our contemner:), y.—thre
of the circumAances we take into consideration is that the
report is au American one.
The Archbishop of Armagh is now making his
triymtud visitation ; and, inn dealing with the Irish church
question, his grace espreased his opinion that it was ire-
possible to secure efficiency at a less SUM thAll £sso,nits), the
net revenues if the church, as stated in the commission. Be
denied that it was an overgrowtt establishment, aid main.
Mined that no abuse now existed which was chargeable to
the conduct of its ministers. In any legislation which may
follow the report of the commission, Mi grace hoped that
there would be no reduction in the number of the bishops.
It is said that Marion, the favourite of the Queen
of Spain is an Italian, but the Italians do not appear to be
very proud of him. Ile is a mark for the witticisms of the
satirists wino write in the small journals of Florence. When
some of the jests upon him were repeated before Victor
Emmanuel, he remarked, " That gallant has donne us good
service in getting Queen Isabelle dethroned. The Pope unsay
cume lam, but, riaurain Intat though he be, he is ant excel-
lent subject of ours."
The Countess of Dersventwater, who has heen en-
COIIII.I On the road leading to Ifilston Castle for several
tel,, has at length been summoned by the real authorities
fir sit obstruction) of the highway. 'file " countess" meets
with much sympathy in Tynedale, and a meeting has beets
held at Corbridge to support her claims to the Derwentwater
estates.

It is minfiaently owortel to the effect that the British
and American aanns arising out of the late rebellion are to
be referred to an intcrnath mai commission, composed of an
equal number of Englishmen sad Americans, and the project
has been submitted to the approval of the Americam Govern-
ment It is also said that Lord Stanley is willing to aecept
the athitiation of the Emperor of liteisia RS to the question
of interimtional law involved in the sailing of the Alabama

from Liverpool.
Penny readings are becoming ridiculous in London.
At one of these readings, where there had been more singing
than reading, it had been intended that the clergyman sl 1111 l
give the benediction, but he bad been so annoyed by the
let ity of the audiebee that he had left the room before the
close of the proceedings. Some gentleman [beret. e proposed
singing the doxology as a conclusion, but the antheme actually
4,jceted, .dte alit' gent " barbel called out. 'lots have
'manly Dolld !" This utterly idiotic song was sung in chorus.
The Jardin des Vitiates, Paris, lias just received a
number of rare animals and bird,--namely, a camel and four
kangaroos. a Senegal stork, a cassowary, is serpent-eater or
secretary bird, a purple heron, two N atiitlttlt cranes
jr
demoiselles, mid two black-headed swans. •
It is commonly supposed that General Fremont lost
his election out Vest by dividing his luta dawn the middle.
The Honourable Samuel NI. has often assured me that 4m his
Orat candidature for °nice in t irecoil territory, certain of
the hisser curt'' voted aids' him 'cause of his puffin' on aim"
in respect of his wearing it a hite shirt, or, as they irreverently
styled it, a " ladled rag.—id be 1" ear Bound.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvirm appears to have
subsided for the present. The flow of lava has ceased, and
the crater now only emits, from time to time, a small cloud
of white smoke.
'Mr. Bright, at the request of a gentleman in Bir-
mMghsm. has written to contradict the report that he and
Mr. Dilayn bad a formal interview with Cardinal Cullen :not
Monsignor Woodlock to arrange in what way the spoils of
the Irish Church could be appropriated by the Roman
Catholics. " 1 have not written publicly," Mr. Bright says,
"to contradict the paragraph to which you refer. I have
thought that a lie no absurd might be left to its fate. There
is surely no person alto eon believe it on whom ally argument,
or statement, or contradiction of mine could have any in-
fluence'
M. Victor Hugo has arranged to deliver to his
pnblishers, Messrs. Lacroix and Verboeckhoven, in the
beginning of November, the MS. of a new navel, entitled
"thy order if the 11 mg. The work is to comprise four
volotous, £2,000 being paid breach.
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The illustrated edition of the Queen's journal of
" Our Life in the Highlands " Is to he published next nionth,
the illustrations twin, selected from her Majesty's private
collection, a few jae-sintiles of ketches by the Queen herself
being introduced.
On Tuesday Lord Napier, of Magdala, paid a visit to
Portsmouth, Where he was presented with an address by the
mayor on the part of the town council His Lordship, in the
course of a brief reply, paid high tribute to the services if
her Majesty's land and sea forces in the Abyssinian expedi-
tion Lord Napier, who was welcomed to the borough in the
most cordial manner, was entertained at a banquet in the
evening.
Matthew Keenan, a "Fenton" soldier of the 90th
Light Infantry, has been sentenced to 672 days' imprison-
ment at K urrachee, for using "traitorous language respect-
ing the Queen."
A cheap book, designed for the people, "The Secret
Memoirs of Queen Isabel," has met with a prodigious sale at
Madrid, anti is one of the most humiliating pictures ever held
up to public execration.
"Dr. Archibald Cameron, executed in 1753, for re-
lieving the W‘.unded in the Rebellion of I74s.—Any who may
be interested in the pr•posed RestoraC 4 the Monument
erected by her Majesty's permi4sion in 1846, are invited to
COM) 1111 l dcate with the Rev. Henry White. Chaplain of the
Chapel Royal, Savoy, Strand, London."—" Lost, in an °min-
ims, in Cheapside, on Thunalay. a Purse, containing some
silver, two return tickets fir Kingston, and a manning
brooch. If the finder will take the brooch to 30, \Vest Smith-
field, he may receive One Pound Reward."—Adveitisernents
Its The Times.
The following is reported in the Ga ',lois. Two gen-
tlemen were speaking in one of the streets in Madrid of the
departure of the Jesuit fathers. " Have you observed," Bahl
one, 'that they never chanted the mass? It appears that
such was the rule of the • rder." "I am not surprised," re-
plied the other. "Birds of prey do not sing. '
At Astley's Theatre, London, on Fliday night,
the band struck because their wages were not paid. The
actors played •• Peculiar People" awl "Oliver Twist," with-
out music.
"Clergyman's Widow, 37, income 280 • Orphan, 22,
£500; Merchant's Daughter, 25, £1,000; ady, 30, income
goo."—Advertisement in Manchester Examiner.
It is said in Paris that General de Guyon has been
sent to Pau with* polite message, requesting Queen Isabella
to shift her quarters. The France in contradicting the re-
port, states that " it cannot be true," for the reason that
" Frame has ever granted herhospit.dity to all whowere driven
from their country by civil war ;" that "the French Govern-
ment cami, d but regard Queen Isahella as thin victim of a
great polit 4 al .lisastcr ;" and that "it is impossible that it can
entertain the design of interfering with the 'liberty of her
exile."

An American btu+ invente3 an advertiaina. bell to he
attached Pi hoards, walls, fences, and so forth, to attract
attention to the advertisements pasted thereon. It is
operated lay a coiled spring with clockwork gearing, arid
when wound up anal set running will sound at intervals of a
few seconds continuously for a week if desired.

"I appeal to every man who knows the condition of
the country if it is not the fact that In a majority of cases
the rate of wages has been a .vanced from 20 up 1. 50 per
cent. There Is not an agricultural labourer, and he is the
poorest pall lab Hirer in the country, whose wages have not
been increased, whose comforts have not been made more
secure, he the rho!ition of the law which was supposed to
give ample pewee ion to the agricultural interest."—Mr.
Bright at Bironhogkam.

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A tremendous fire occurred at Penryn on Saturday,
the scene of the conflagration being the strawyard of Messrs.
Meade, at Peace. Thousands of tons of straw, intended for
the manufacture of paper, and the produce of sixty acres of
oats in straw, were enveloped in the flames, the magnitude
of the tire setting all effmts to sulolne it at defiance. The
wind blew strongly from the south-east. It is stated that
the damage will exceed L5,1)00, hut that the property is I
either partly or wholly insured. 1
A shocking accident occurred the other evening at
the Lea Bridge station on the Great Eastern Railway. A
young porter, named Barber. only recently appointed, got on
the step of one of the carriages to speak to Ids sister, who
was travelling down the line. When the train moved off the
young man continued in conversation with his relative for
some little time. Ile then jumped off the step on to the
platform, but missed his footing, and fell under the train on
to the metals. The carriages basset over Isis chest, cutting
him nearly in two, and frightfully mutilating him. Ue was,
of course, killed on the spot.