The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-29 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREI^,N AND COLONIAL.

MURDER AND SUICIDE BY A SOLDIER.—A mur-
der and suicide have just been committed at Cham-
bery (Savoie). An artillery soldier, namsd aiUy, of
the garrison of Grenoble, had been sentenced for soma
breach of discipline to a fortnight's imprisonment, but
managed to escape, and meeting with a girl with
whom he had been on intimate terms, he placed &pistol
to her breast and fired. The ball passed through her
body, and she fell dead. The murderer then took to
flight, and reaching a lonely spot, he reloaded the pistol
and shot himself through the heart, death being
instantaneous.

A TIMELY REPRIETE.—The Leipeic journals
contain accounts of an extraordinary reprieve of a
condemned criminal at the very moment of execution.
A tailor named Kunacher had been sentenced to death
for murder, and on the morning of the 18th was
brought on the scaffold and attached to the plank of
the guillotine. Suddenly a cry of "Stay ! stay !" was
heard, and a messeairer appeared bearing in his hands
a telegram from the King of Saxony ordering s respite.
The despatch had been forwarded only three-quarters
of an hour before from Berlin, where his Majesty was
staying, and without the haste employed by the
bearer would probably not have arrived in time. The
man had min from the telegraph office scrim the park to
the prison, and being delayed by the crowds of persons
amembed around he raised the cry, which waarepeated
from mouth to mouth until it reached the scaffold,
when a pause was made to enable the nayssenger to
reach the spot. The official who directed the pro.
ceedings then took the telegram from the man's hands,
and read aloud :—Poetpone the execution until further
orders. More ample details by post--JOHN, King."
DEAT H STOPPING A PEusitoutius.—A charge of
larceny should have been preferred against John
Martin, an old man, all.l Clara Martin, a young girl
of nineteen, who claimed to be man and wife' before
the magistrates at Kirby MieJraide last week, but the
prosecutor dropped down dead. The prisoners, how-
ever were taken to Helmsley, and there brought up on
//Dottier ettarge, gaud 0,, OaLut day ...kr. 10.
trial. When arrested at Melton the man was wearing
fourshirts, and the woman fis a chemises and a shirt,
all stolen, mostly from Ness, North Riding.
FROM THE PLOUGH TO THE Wilts.—The death
of Car final Crouvet, Archbishop of Rheims, took
pl ice on Saturday in the Archiepiscopal Palace. The
deceased, born in Mrd, warn the son of a farmer, and
worked in the field before he entered a clerical college
for his education. He was afterwards known as a man
of extensive learning, and became Bishop of Perigueux
in 1835. 110 was promoted to the Archhiahopric of
Rheims in 1,10, iin the death of M.rr. de Laril. He
was created cardinal in 1850. The sirtvile career of the
deceased primate furnishes a remarkable example of
what can be effected by a strong will supported by fair
ability.

A SWF.F.P'S ELOPYMEIPT.—On Tuesday morning
last a deal of excitement was rife among the residents
of a rather inferior locality, called Long Acre-row,
Bingham, by the fact of a young chimney-sireep; about
twenty-one years of age, having eloped with a gushing
matron of forty-five, twice widowed, and with eight
living childreu. It appeared that the mother of the
youth, being aware. SA4 ehe alleges, of the designs of
the widow, did all in her power to discourage the con-
nection. pointing oat to him the consequences of his
infatuation, and latterly kept a strict Purvey over
hie movements. and especially did she guard Ms Sun-
day clothes. All this was to no purpose, however, for
very early on the morning above stated the young
fellow contrived to elude his mother's vigilance, and,
securing his Sunday anit, silently left his borne. The
happy couple got clear off to Nottingham, where, by
a pre-arranged plan, they were married at the regis-
trar's office.

SMOK ING IN a Mirts.—John Turnbull, a pitnidn,
was brought before the Tynemouth county magistrates
on Monday, charged with smoking in the workings of
Barkworth Coal Pit about a month ago. Smoking had
been prohibited in the pit, and in the section of the
mine wrought with safety-lamps a pitman, named
Thomas Cole, smelt the reek of tobacco, and turning
round to the prisoner, he said, "You are not smoking
there?" The prisoner replied that he waa just taking
two or three draws. Cole then knocked the pipe out
of theprisoner's mouth and stamped on it. The Bench,
after hearing the evidence, considered the case proved,
and they expressed their determination of making a
severe example of the prisoner by committing him for
six weeks to Morpeth GaoL with hard labour.—At the
Sunderland Police Court, Thomas Burn, a young man
17 years of age, was charged with having taken a pipe
down Ryhope Pit, though it was forbidden. The pipe
had been taken out of his jacket pocket. lie was
sentenced to 14 days in Durham Gaol, with hard
labour.

SCANDAL PROM THE PACIEIC.—The Honolulu
correspondent of the N'elc York Herat,' sneaks of a tiff
between Queen Emma and her husband. "Hi,
Majesty had left for Hawaii, for cause beet known to
himself, and rumours were prevalent that all salutes
and receptions by the military had been prohibited by
him before his departure. Various storiee are told
regarllol the conduct of him Majesty. One i., that
her Majesty and party had been negligent in the
matter of correspondence, having failed to notify him
personally of their arrival in San Francisco and of their
expected movements. Another, not quite as creditable,
is to the effect that a certain woman, of coarse, who
holds a remarkable influence over him, had told him
that, should he be on this island when the Queen
arrived, he would surely sicken and die. I give the
stories for what they are worth."
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WHO OCORT TO WEAR IT ? —The honorary sur-
geon in the Ituh Surrey CADA attention to a point of
great importance to volunteer officere. Having proved
himself the best shot in the battalion, he was publicly
presented with the badge, and wore it last year. Ile
afterwards learned that a sergeant in the name bat-
talion, whose score was next in merit, had also
been wearing the badge, having been instructed
to di so by the adjutant, on the ground that
otlkers are not entitled to wear such decorations.
This year the writer again beat the sergeant, and in
order to test his right to wear the badge, Colonel
Erskine wan appealed to. His reply was, that badges
for good shooting were net to he worn by cazers.
Taken in any way, the order is an absurd one. If
based upon the army regulations it is absurd, because
officers in the regular army do not shoot; but if
volunteer ottisere do not render themselves efficient
with the rifle, the corps loses the benefit of the
Government grant. Shooting is the piece do reairtunce
of the *hula business, and it s volunteer, whether Le
be an uttl:er or a private, wins a badge, he surely
ought to be allowed tll wear it.

JUSTIFIABLE SUICIDE! —IS suicide ever justi-
fiable? A Pittsburgh paper state.; that a melancholy
cane of self-murder occurred on Sunday, near Time-
ville, Pennsylvania. The following schedule of
mhdortunes wan found in the victim's left boot :
I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My
father visited our house very often, felllll love with my step-
daughter and married her. So my father became my son-In-
law, and my stepdaughter my mother, teem's, she was my
father's wife. Sometime afterwards my wife had a son—he
we my miler'. brother-In-law and my once, f 'rho was the
brother of my step-mother, My father's wile—so, my
stepdaughter, had ale, a son he was, of course, nip
brother, and in the meantime my grandchild, for he was
the son of my danahter My wife Wog my grandmother,
because she was my mother's mother. I ivis my wife's hus-
band and grandchild at the same time And as the bmhand
of a person', grandmother is Gls grandfather. I was my own
grandfather.

THE BATTLE OF SADOWA.--The following inci-
dent is reported both in the Italia and Liberte aa
having taken place immediately preceding the battle
of Sadows : After the severe conflict which preceded
the battle of Sadows General Benedek telegraphed to
the Emperor Franck, Joseph that be feared he army

would not be able to stand the shock of the Prto
and advised a retreat towards the Danube. He

that, during the manoolvering the Austrian army
might obtain some successes which would raise their
morale and give them spirit for the decisive conflict.
The Emperor, havine read the despatch, sent for
General Hess and gave him the telegram to read.
General Hew approved of the plan and gave strategic
reasons in support of his opinion. When he left, the
Emperor turned to one of his aides-de-camp and said,
"I believe old Hess is becoming childish. He then
dictated the following despatch, 'You must fight and
conquer."

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THE MOLE AND THE FAR316118.--.-II appear:,
from recent observation, that the mole is one of the
most useful animals in existence. The voracity of this
little creature is extraordinary. It must eat inces-
santly, or it dies; hence it must work and burrow
without respite, in order to find the insects and larvw
on which it This also explains the incredible
rapidity with which the mole will pierce underground
galleries in every possible direction, and in this way
the number of 110XiOLIS creatures it destroys is abso-
lutely incalculable. To the gardener and agriculturist
the mole is consequently a most valuable auxiliary.
INCIDENT IN A PAN'S BALL ROOM.—The Paris
correspondent of the Star says that the following inci-
dent is going the round of all the official sauna, and
has created some scandal

A few evenings Bince, at Madame de W—'s first official
reception, the Prussian ambassador, 31. le Comte de GoIt;
happening to meet one of the marshals, said to him, " Well,
marshal, I congratulate you on following our example.' to
which the old soldier replied, In • tone of evident irritation,
"France need not follow anyone'. example, and still less hat
of • power she has so often defeated. We could easily, with our
rusty old muskets, conquer Prussia with her neeille-guns "
The comte, somewhat amazed, said, "Well, marshal, yotir
language to not very diplomatic.' "I don't care," retorted
the fiery old marshal. "Ws the language of a soldier." The
repartees were becoming so angry that • personage of con-
siderable importance thought it out right ti interfere, which
he did but just In time to prevent in pleasant cones.
qnence•

Ai AFFMCTINO ROMANCF. - How fearfully
domestic happiness hat suffered by the late war even
in Berlin is proved by daily instances. Thus (says a
correepondent) I have just learned that • very wealthy
family had to send their only son to the army just
when he wads on the point of marrying, and soon
afterwards they received the intelligence of his
having been killed by a hostile bullet. The marriage,
of course, could not take place, but the deeply
afflicted parents have, not to be quite lonely in their
old age, resolved noon adopting as their own child the
not less deeply afflicted bride, a penniless girl whom
at first they would not even acknowledge as their
daughter-in-law.

TALES OF Mr LANDLORD.—That I do not keep
his house in proper repair. That the painting is not
such as it should be. That the chimneys were as good
chimneys am any. in Christendom, and were never
known to smoke before. That the drainage could not
possibly be better—in fact, he never, in all his expe-
rience, knew drains to be in such sweet odour—the
fault must lie with the cook. That if the doors will
not close to, some undue violence must have been used.
That the win lows were perfectly tight and sound
when first I took possession. That he cannot help
the water coming through the roof, which he knows
well enough was in the very best repair at the time
I went in—so much no, that he would defy the most
searching microscopic eye to have picked a hole in it.
Tnis SIDE lip.—We saw Jake nailing up a
box, the other day, containing some articles which he
intended sending by express. From the nature of the
contents we knew it was essential that the box should
not be inverted on the passage. So we ventured the
suggestion to Jake to place the inuch•abused "This
side up !" &c., conspicuously upon the cover. A few
days after we saw Jake. " Heard from your goods,
Jalce? Did they get there safely? " "Every one
broke !'' replied Jake, sullenly. "Lost the hull. Hang
the Express Company !" "Did you put on Thin side
up,' am we told you r " " Yea, I did; an' fur fear
they shouldn't use it on the kiver. I put it on the bot-
tom tow, confound 'em ! "—"Editoe's Drawer," in
Harper's Nets Monthly Magazine.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN WIIIITESIBRRO.—SITICS
the accession of the present King of Wurtemberg no
sentence of death bas been carried out in the country.
In consegnence people generally believed that capital
punishment was abolished, at least de facto. A year
ago the Chamber of Deputies asked the Government
to do away with the penalty, but the application re-
ceived a negative answer. A few days since a tri-
bunal pronounced a sentence of death, and the public
was not a little astonished to hear that the condenana-
tion was confirmed. This news produced such a sen.
nation in the country that the official journal haa been
o'oliged to intervene. That organ now declares that
the Government does not believe itself able to pro.
nounce the absolute abolition of capital punishment,
as had been asked by the Chamber. "As to the
questi.m of a reduction of the number of the cases in
which that penalty could be applied, that is a point
which will naturally arise when the Government will
soon be occupied with a revision of the penal code."

A PICTURE OF BACIIELORS BY AN OLD MAID.
Bachelors are loveless, spiritless, cold, unpatriotic
dastards and churls. The bachelors accept all the
pleasures of good society when they can, and support
none cf its expenses. They dine out, and do not give
dinners in return ; they feast at weddings, christenings,
pic-nics, but you never see the inside of their apart-
ments. They shabbily plead the unaccommodating
spirit of the landlady. They chat on the increase of
crime and the national expenditure; but they are
neither taxpayers, subscribers to the national school,
donors to the distress fund, nor teachers in the Sun-
day school ;.they are unfit fw vestry-men. or any
office requiring Judicial or admintstrative capacity;
mud OA to voting, the manhood suffrage could not
possibly enfranchise them; for, until educated by the
friendly and sagacious teaching of women, they can-
not have risen to the state of manhood, nor know
whether they are Whigs or Tories.

SHOOTING A NEGRO.—A trtgic incident has
occurred at Lexington, Va. One of General Lee's
pupils shot and killed a respectable black man of that
town. On his examination he stated that the negro
had "insulted him." This statement was corroborated
by spectators of the occurretrw. The learned Dog.
berry who heard the case made the following points us
his decision :—That the laws of Virginia have always
recognieed the difference between the white man and
the black; that a white man may protect himself from
negro insults; that, though the deed was clearly
proved, it was the result of the insult, and he should
discharge the defendant from custody.

A TERRIBLE SITUATION! —A boy named
Thomas Watt, aged fifteen, employed on board the
briii jvrvhire bus, was sent ashore by his father (who
comuiands the vessel) in a small boat, to procure a
pilot at Tralee, and when about a quarter of a mile
from the vessel he tell overboard. His cries attracted
the father's attention; and an elder brother of the boy
who was also in the vessel, at once plunged into the
water and swam to the spot where his brother was
struggling. The boat had drifted away, and the gal-
lant fellow had therefore no means of assisting his
drowning brother. He, however, struggled menially
to brisg him to the vessel's side ; but the father saw
from the deck that, unless the attempt was relict.
quish“l, both sons 111114 t inevitably perish, and he
therefore called to his eldest son to let the younger
go, which he reluctantly did, and the boy sank to rise
no more, and his brother reached the vessel in a very
exhausted state, having had a very narrow escape.
The body was recovered at low water and interred at
Tralee.

PRINTERS MISTAKES !—There Wag once a
letter written by a London correspondent to a New
York paper, in which t„he writer, mentioning a then.
frequent correspondent of The Times, spoke of him an
"the journalistic Omninm." Theee words the
American printers reproduced as "the pamalistic
Rusium,•' and readers on this side of the Atlantic
naturally wondered what was meant. A scarcely less
ludicrous misprint appears in Mr. Hughes' letter just
sent over from America. wherein Lord Sydney
Godolphin Osborne is (evidently) spoken of by Mr.
Hughes se "the S. G. 0. of The nines." In the New
Irk Tribune the words appear as "the 590 of The
Tones.'" And this reminds us that when the cell,.
brated No. 90 tract was the eubject of fierce discussion,
the compoeitor of s London printing-office styled it
" The tract No go !
CLERICAL VESTMENTS. --The Yen. Archdeacon
Allen, a leading member of the clergy in Shropshire,
has given notice of his intention to move the following
resolution on the re-assembling of Convocation
That their I.,rdships the bishops be dutifully requested to
flit, in a humble petition to the Qneen supplicating Her
Allspety to take Into her Repel conelderstion whether It may
not be edvieshle that authority be given to the following
directions

In our parish churchee and chapels 'with the excep-
tion of the church of St Ilary-the-Vergin, in Oxford, and
St. Mary-the-Great, in Canibri Igo, no other ministering
vestm,nts be lawful for the priests end deacons officiating
than the surplice, the hood, the black stole or scarf, and the
Neer. can ; and that if any dispute arise as to the ferm or
o& lour or material of these vestments it shall be lswful for
the churchwardens of Vie parish In which snob disputed
vestment is used to submit in writing the disputed matters
to the bishop of the diocess, whose written judenient
thereon, subject to an appeal to the Archbishop, he binding."

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A PRZACEIIth'S RICVf If GE ! On one oczasion
Loreuzi, llow, while preaching, took the liberty of
denouncing a rich man in the community. recently
deceswed. The result woe an arrest, a trial for elauder
and imprieonmeut in the county jail. After Lorenz.,
got out of bin" limbo," he announced that, in wit, of
thin (in his opinion) unjust puninhment, he ehould
preach at a given time • merman about " another rich
man." The populace were greatly excited, and •
crowded audience greeted his appearance. With great
solemnity he opened the Bible, and read, " And there
WM another rich man, who died and went to
then sh,ppeil short and iwerned to be euddenly impreseed
" Brethren, I shall not mention the place this rich
man went to, for fear be has some relativee in this
congregation who will sue me for defamation of
character." The effect on the assembled multitude
was irresistible, and he made the iMpression permanent
by taking another test, an.l never alluding to the
eutileet again.

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Tint RoTAL Bißos, OF Bev—Mr. Copslnn&
mayor of Windsor, had the honour of empplylng the
Royal baron of beef this year for the R'tyal Cnristruas
dinner at Osborne. It was cut from a line African or,
fed by Mr. Tait, at the Model Farm, Windeor. The
noble joint weigh,' :t0()Ibs. It wan roasted n the
Royal kitchen at Windsor Caatle, and forwarded to
Osborne to be placed on the side table, with a woodcock
pie and boar's head, in her Majesty's diningiroom on
Christmaa•day.

MURDER IN FRANCE.—A wounin named
Dubois, aged forty six, and her daughter by a first
marnage, Laura Telher, aged twenty four, both ,
residing at Weimer' (Pas- leiCalaisi have just been
tried at Arras for the murder of Z-lie Dubois, aged
ten, also daughter of the fleet-named prisoner. The
woman Dubois supported herself by mendicity, and
resided with her two olaughtere in a cottaße which
the younger had Mherited, with a sum of lltSf. The
mother and Laura Tellier had a bad reputation in the
neighbourhood, and the former wan prospected of
having already murdered one of her grandchildren
and of haring been an accomplice in an attempt on
the life of her second husband. The woman Dubois
kaad imee than once attempted to obtain possession of
the pr Telly belonging to 7,lir ; and, a neighbour
having once casually mentioned to the elder daughter

that she would have to leave the cottage when her
younger sister was of age, Laura Tether replied,
'She will be done for long before then !" On the
19th June last, Zelin wee found, murdered by strangu-
lation, in a wood The two prisoners were arrested
Oil suspicion, and the younger soon after declared
that her mother had done the deed. The latter on
the present trial denied the charge, but the evidence
havixg proved clearly the guilt of both the amused,
an affirmative verdict was returned, with the admis-
sion of extenuating eircnonitances, and they were
each sentenced to hard labour for life.

How TO LIGHT A D•ItY Rows.—lf, in • very
narrow street or lane, we look out of • window with
the eye in the same plane as the outer face of the wall
in which the window is placed. we shall see the whole
of the sky by which the apartment can be illuminated.
If we now withdraw the eye inwards we shall
gradually lose sight of the sky till it wholly disappears,
which may take place when the eye is only six or eight
inches from its first position. In such a case the apart-
ment is illuminated only by the light reflected from
the opposite wall or the sides of the stones which form
the window; because if the glees of the window is six
or eight inches within the wall., as it generally is, not a
ray of light can fall upon it. If we now remove our
window and substitute another in which all the panes
of glass are roughly ground on the outside, and flush
with the outer wall, the light from the whole of the
visible sky, and from the remotest parts of the opposite
wall, will be introduced into the apartment, reflected
from the butumerable fame or facets which the rough
grinding of the glass has produced. The whole window
will appear as if thesky were beyond it, and from every
point of this luminous surface light will radiate into all
parts of the room.
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" TAXING IT EASY."—A wheelwright at Alai,'
(Seine-Inferienre), says the Vigie de Dieppe, returning
home two evenings back somewhat fatigued, asked
his wife to make him a cup of coffee, and on her re-
fusal he amended to his bedroom and hanged himself.
The wife wondering what he was doing so long alone,
went upstairs and seeing his position, cut him down.
Ile escaped with only a severe bruise on the head
made by falling, and next morning rammed his work
as usual.

To Bic on NOT To Bs !--The shareholders of
the Crystal Palace Company were some hours last
Friday in rather noisy conclave respecting the oft-
discuasecl and still vexed question of opening the
Palace to the public on Sundays. It will be remem-
bered that at the last meeting of the proprietors a
motion was brought forward against, and an amend-
ment in favour of, opening the Palace on Sunday after-
noons. The amendment was moved by Mr. Baxter
Langley, and seconded by Mr. Billings, and was car-
ried by a large majority of the shareholders present
In compliance with a notice given by Mr. Girne,
as soon as the ordinary yearly business was disposed of
last Friday, a special meeting was held for the purpose
of taking into consideration a motion by that gentle-
man, to the effect that Mr. Baxter Langley's resolution
in favour of the opening on Sundays, should be re-
scinded. Mr. Girdlestone's proposition met with little
favour from the meeting. It was negatived by a
towering majority. But the decision was not looked
upon as final by either side, as both threatened to
persevere till one or other is definitively triumphant.
SPLRNDID Mottiricarica !—The "British Medi-
cal Journal " says :
Some further gifts to hospitals have been made by &benevo-
lent rind munificent gentleman who la understood to have
set aside 25,0001 for Me benefit of the London hospital.
We are informed that the circumstances leading to this
munificent appropriation are these .—The gentleman in ques-
tion ie • member of the legal profamion, and eucceeded re-
cently In recovering a stun of 150,0001. for a pensioner of the
metropolitan police. He made it a condition that. In case
of success, his client should set apart 25,0001. for his poor re-
lations, and that he should place in his hands 25,0001. for dis-
tribution to hospitals. Both conditions, we understand,
are being realised and, remembering how often fortunes
thus suddenly acquired have Men squandered in such a
manner •ss to prove a cone rather than a blessing:there' Is • .
very great reason to admire the prudence and the nobility of
the proviso.
A BAILIFF OUTWITTED.—A few days ago, near
the town of Montgomery, a bailiff wan in possession
of a cottage. As may be supposed, his presence was
most obnoxious to the other occupants, and they
determined to employ • ruse to get rid of him.
Accordingly, one stormy night, the bailiff waa treated
with the rehearsal of two very delightful ghost stories,
and, to move his superstitious feelings still further, he
was told that "Tom the Pavior ' a notoriously bad
character of times past, and "Screechy Sall," a half-
witted creature who, it was said, had hung herself on
a tree in the garden of the cottage, on stormy and
wild nights used to disturb the peace of that place.
The bailiff was too wily to digest the " soft.sawrier,"
but presently he heard distinctly an unearthly shriek in
the back, so, thinking he was hoaxed, in his shirt
sleeves and minus his hat, he ran out into the garden,
vowing dire vengeance upon the cause of the dis-
turbance. No sooner had he crossed the threshold
than the door was locked on him. Fearless still,
though isolated, the courageous limb of the law stood
his ground in the pitiless rain and blast. Soon a
muttered growl assailed his ears from somewhere close
by, but the matter-of-fact gentleman heeded not, but
in bravado bellowed out, " Don't think you can come •
I over me like that!" He was then leaning against a
tree, when suddenly, as if from the very heart of the
trunk, a screech of the most dismal and piercing des-
cription came forth. The now thoroughly scared man
could stand it no longer. eo' without another moment's
delay, he took to his heels, and rushed into a dingle
near at hand. Nothing more was seen of him till next
morning, but during his absence his distraint had be-
come null and void, for it appears that the "goods and
chattels" had disappeared; no doubt they were sur-
reptitiously removed elsewhere after "old Sall" had
played her pranks so effectually.
WHAT MAY BR THE FCTURE Or FRANCK ?—The
celebrated Parieian preacher, Pere Hyacinthe, ter-
minated his last sermon at Notre Dame, LB Paris, a.
follows :
Bat what might happen—but shall not—le that France -
may descend from her rai.k in the West Alt ! if we only
to those great Carignan cJmitrim—to that Germany
whch fart, oo the eve of battle, and which carries the New
Testament in the shako of her soldiers—to that Rai/hula
which orders national rrayer in her days of humiliation, and
which respects the Aibhgth to the glory of her industry and
her civilization—to that sinerLs which proclaims after each
crisis that faith ill Goo is the condition of her salvation nod
her grestness--tf, I my, we only send to these countrim the
cahoot an abject scepticism, and SO Immorality more abject
Mill, what will be, great Gad ' the future of France !
let us Invoke no more Illerty and democracy. 'The direct
and legitimate heir of all scepticism and of all corruption
I. not liberty—it is servitude.

How TO SETTLE IT ! —Welsh Juries have been
credited with some exceedingly stupid thinge, an! it
is asserted that judges have come to regard Welsh
obtnaenesa an incurable, so that when we till! twelve
Welshmen. doing anything at all smart it is worth -
recording. Required to decide between Colonel
Bilinlph and some road trustees as to the compen-
sation to be paid for some land, a NVelsla jury came
to a dead-lock, some assessing it an low as 751., and
others arguing that 450/. was not too much, they
would have remained in this happy dilemmê for
goodness knows how long, but for a happy thought
of the foreman, who suggested that each should
put down on a slip of paper the amount he
considered a justification of the claim, and when
they had done to he would add up the twelve stwas, •
and the division of the total by twelve should be the
amount awarded. This proposal wan heralded by de-
light. every one would be represented in the decision.
the idea was carried out, and Colonel Biddnlph was
awarded 165/.

A FRENCH AMAZON. -The "Journal du
Loiret," in noticing the decease of the Baronet= Blast
de Marcognet, widow of General Marcognet, gives an
account of her life which is truly remarkable, both
from its eventful nature, and for the courage displayed
by the lady. She was the daughter of • captain Le
Mormier, who fell mortally wounded in one of the
battles of the First Empire, and, in dying, besought
his intimate friend and comrade, Marcognet, then his
superior officer, to take charge of his daughter. He
accepted the trust, and gave the young lady a first.
rate education. When she attained her twentieth
year he sent for her, and from that time she shared
the fatigues and the dangers of her protector until the
disbanding of the army of the Loire. The better to
perform this labour of love, she assumed the dress of
an side.de-camp, which was infect not unsuited to her
active nature and her determined expression of coun-
tenance, for she was bery and intrepid, and singularly
cool and calm in the presence of danger. At the
battle of Waterloo she hastily jumped into a waggon
of the general's where her mother happened to be;
ithe saved her by presenting one of the pistols she
carried at the officer of the ordnance, and threatening,
to blow out his brains if he persisted in his traitorous
intention of leading them to the enemy under the pre.
text of a false order of the general. About the year
I.'s,i3 Millie. Julie le Mormier became the wife of
the Baron de Marcognet, whom she survived some
years,
THE MARKETS.

MARK-LAN?,, MONDAY.
The Old Corn Exchange was closed today ; but the New
Fr.:banes was open, contrary to expectati.m. The supply of
Eaultsh wheat was in the extreme, and'as very few
mlllere were in attendance the trmienctions were so trifling
that prices were Moons nominal. lii foreign wheat scarcely
• transaction took place. Harley war very doll, and to here
I. weed sales lower rates must have hese sistienitted to Malt,
Ode Beans, Pees, and Flour were very doll, at. nominal out-
modes..
METKOPOUTAN CATTLE NIAREET, MONDAY.
There war a very scautyehow of foreign stock here to-day;
nevertheless thw derowitedfdPilt was henry:on Idea. terms:
The arrivals of beasts fresh Sp front our owe gearing dis-
tricts were very limited, whilst those from Ireland and
S.l„ttend were trifling. Very few buyers were In attendance,
ae.l the demand fur ad breeds of feasts was heavy, ate 4,.'
clime lo the quotations c ~rmsred with Monday last of folly
2,1 air, The top Nr. was 5s ad per Sin, and the general
onslity of the enpply wee rood. There were shoot MO
105 S ;Stub, and GO frith beasts in the market. We
eve,e very moderately sapplled With sheep, which met a slow
sale, eletriiwer 14. n lose mlney. The heat D ,:ens sad bor.
be, ,Ls wee disposed of at H. Al per Oh. C tient.were. in
skrtsepuiysad 4sth Awn.. i.e." "Iris.
from Mk te 5 per on. pies—the 5n0t:47,4 och
was Very Ifullfea—it rtt,le silk 'loin; the% ilfr Waters,
were almost nominal.
4" TOTATOER.
We .
frf
!Y..% no,
tint.t h tg oof
fp Interest to notice
mtoe.b.:
blngthis to lthirt m.
tramhn eleeir..
munch of Christmas, been very quiet, at late rote. The
import Into Litton last week consisted of 4,1 sacks 147
tone from Dunkirk, 52 tons from Doh net, 14 bogs 6 toles 5
hat keys from ft itterdam. Ils tons from It mien, also fl bags lros
Antwerp. Yorkshire Regents, YOr. to Ills. ;Umsbsne, limit,
to 15es : rocks, bOs. to lok. Scotch Regent" his. to lgys,
per ton