The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-04-19 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH FOREIGN.

Some of the so-ealled "strong-minded women" of
the United States have commenced auctioneering.

A " popular and morn!, theatre " ia to ba-etarted in
BerUn.

lowa Is shipping dressed poultry, preserved in ice,
direct to England.
Land has lately been sold in the City of London at
the rate of £32 a foot, or £1,700,000 per acre

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The declared value of guano imported in the last
three months mks £464 979 ; in the corresponding period of
the preceding year, £223,827.

In the last three months the declared value of butter
Imp vtad u £1,460,274 ; In the Like period of 1872,
£1,041,868,

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In the lad three months the declared value of
saddlery and lumens exported was £105,253; In the same
period last year, £78,762.

- It is esici that invitations have been gent to 2,628
ministers to come to London on June 13th, nospital Sunday,
and that favourable replies have been received ; of coarse
they will all want to preach.

The value of paper for printing or writing imported
in the last three mouths was £172,312 , in the lame period
In 1872, £135,341. The largest quantity came from Belgium,
amounting to £121,570.

The International Exhibition was opened on Mon-
day, and WWI visited by more than 10,000 persona during the
day.

Mr. Alderman Lawrence has a notice of motion in
the House of Commons that the present limit of exemption
from Income-tax on incomes under £lOO a year should be ex-
tended to income. under £l5O, and that all Incomes under
£5OO year subject to the tax should be exempted from In
come-tax on £lOO of such income.
On Tuesday morning the five gee stokers who at the
December sessions of the Central Criminal Court were sen-
tenced by Mr. Justice Brett to twelve months' imprisonment
for conspiracy, were released from Maidetore Gaol, the period
of their punishment having been remitted one-third by the
Home Secretary. The liberation of the men wee made the
occasion of a popular demonstration at Maidstone.

Her Majwity's ship Devastation underwent her trhel
on inesday off Portsmouth, and appears to have answered
to the full the sanguine expectations formed of her. In
addition to the great strength and fighting capacity of thts
floating fortification, she has already given satiatactory indi-
cations of stability, and Tuesday's trials afforded most oon-
elusive evidence as to her speed, 134 knots having been
attained at the measured mile.

The mail trein from Plymouth has performed Is
wonderful exploit in collisions. A goods train, which was
proceeding in front of it, having got off the line, It pitched
several waggons clean over a bridge into the river below.
Part of the bridge was knocked away in the crash, but the
mall train kept on the rails, and afterwards continued its
Journey without having sustained much damage. The pas-
senger, were, of course, *overly shaken.

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The Prince of Wales will leave England for Vienna
on Friday the 251 h after the Loves. His Royal Highness will
proceed by Paris and Stuttgardt. An official telegram pays
that the &ILIA section Into. almost complete, and In much
more forward than the tame department was in Pan. in
1867, at the corresponding period A rumour which has
gained some cum ucy, to the effect that the Exhibition
would only open to close again for a few weeks, is autho-
ritatively denied. The Exhibition will open on May-day, to
close only on Octobersel.
The other day, the young Count de Roquefeuille,
nineteen years of age, residing with his aunt the Countess de
Courtin' de Ronk!, In the Rue Saint Gornto no. Saint
Germain, whilst in • state of tomnambullam, eponri the
window of his bedroom on the third floor, and precipitated
himself Into the courtyard. Medical assistance was imme-
diately procured, and, after • close examination, the doctors
declared that, In spite of very severe braises, the young man's
life win not in danger. He had previously been subject to
attacks of sleepwalking, but bad, never shown any symptom
which migtit lead to UM Idea that a serfone seatSeel might
mar.

A German lieutenant ha e been punished foe burning
the noses of his recruits with • cipx while drilling them.
On the Continent performancea of oratorios, Ulna
tested by tableaux rivante to the newest notion.

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The not of the cuckoo and nightingale were heard
In Epping forest on Sunday the 13th.

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A telegram from Melbourne, dated April 12, says
that the South Australian wheat ileslVali Ii sattsfae-
factory ; 180,000 tons are available for export.

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IL was recently summit:ea in the Paris papers that
Menotti Garibaldi had gone to Cpain to tight against the
Carllate. This newel, now contradicted.
A special telegram from Rome announces that the
Pope is better. According to the iranfulki o Itnme, Pins
IX. ts miffering from pain In his left side, anl food of all
kinds produce. names

On view in New York, intended for Count Sclopis,
M. Staempill, d Baron itajnba, for their "dignity, loam
log, ability, and Impartiality," are a silver punch-howl,
pair of wine coolers, and apair of oacdelabra.
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At a meeting held in the Town hall, Leeds, on Satur-
day, a society was formed and an executive committee ap-
pointed to assist Mr. Plimsoll's agitation to get through
Parliament this session, the bill for the protection of seamen.
There is a large increase in the importation Of
cheese. In the first three months of 1872 the value as
declared was £276,672; and in the bet three months,
£441,416.
Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, who has announced his in-
tention of contesting the representation of Northampton at
the next election, has been requested by the Radical associa-
tion of the Tower Hamlets to stand for that constituency.

The Prince of Wale laid the fint atone of the Nor-
folk caunty Schools, at North Eimisam, on Monday, where
his Royal Highness and the Princeu were received with great
reloicinge and an enthusiastic display of loyalty.
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In Maddock's Chancery Practice, there is to be found
the following beautiful specimen of legal perspicuity:
" When • person is bound to do • thing, and he does what
may enable him to do the thing, be is supposed in equity to
do it with the view of doing what he is bound to do."
A boy of fourteen hag been sentenced by a Leede
magistrate to receive twelve lashes for playing at pitch and
toss, the sentence being accompanied with a hope that the
culprit'. memory would be effectively impressed by the
stripes.
Fresh legal proceedings have been commenced in
Russia against the sect of .'lliropzi," who, notwithetaudbrg
all that la done to suppre s them, continue to increase In
numbers. The preeent prosecutions are directed against hi
persons in the Government of lialouga.

The Its ian sculptor, Monteverde, whose statue of
Geniode Franklin recently attnuted great attention at Milan,
has executed a linely-oonceived group of "Dr Edwd.
Jenner vaecinating hie little son from • cow," for the Vienna
Exhibition.

A faehionable woman last autumn havi 2g married
off her ninth end last daughter. meekly folded tif r nand, and
left this tile (of London). "My We work fa done," were her
last words.

M. Coquerel, banker at Saint Germain, ham died,
leaving • t.rtune estimated at six millions of tri 'ci. In his
apartment were found 416,000 !rapes, of which 18 )000 were
in sold, 105,0)0 in silver Oboes of lite francs, and the
re-
mainder In notes.

Last Sunday Father Hyacinthe commencecl at G eneva
• series of religions serviced', to be continued every Sunday
in the Old Library, which hes been placed at hie disposal by
the municipality of the city. It is stated that 850 persons
were present.

The people of Java are suffering terribly rein fa.
mine. The Leitch Government Is accused of not doing any-
thing for the irrigation of the country. The c Jusequence
that • single failure of the rice harvest through drought °awes
• famine.

The last work of Napoleon's, which occupied him
till. few days before his death, was the invention of an
economic stove—of course for the working claws; among
other becidierities II was to have "a door for Introducing
fuel."

Journalism is an uncomfortable profession in Turkey.
The Independent Constantinople editors who offended the
Government of the Sultan by criticisms in their journals,
have been ostracised, and the editors and proprietors of
another Journal for the same offence have been visited with
a similar pimistunent.

Mr. hisintz is to move in Committee on the Bill on
Married Women's Property that "every married woman
shall contribute, in proportion to her Income, • reasonable
amount for the Joint expenditure of the family and the
maintenance and education other children"

"Gulliver's Travels" has just been tranalated into
Gujarati by a late student of the Dekkan College. At Burst
a uew dictionary of the language has been published, contain-
ing 22 0)0 words—a copious number. Gujarati has the ad-
antage of being used by the dining community of the
Parsecs.

The receipts from a dramatic representation given
at the Guerin' Pasta Theatre, in Stamboul, for the benefit
of the Turkish Orphanage, amounted to 41%1750, of which
sum the Grand Vizier ordered 20 per cent. tube awarded as
remuneration to the manager and company of the theatre,
and the rest to be devoted to the funds of the orphanage.

Prince Napoleon has issued a circular to his Corsican
constituents, wherein he declares that outside the Bona-
partist party there exists only two minorities—the one wish-
ing for order without democracy, and the other for do
mocracy without order.

About 300 Bath coach-builders, employed at three
large manufactories, have just given notice to leave work or
strike on account of the refusal of the employers to reduce
the working boors to 64 per week. Both society and non-
society men will turn out.

The Murton Colliery, near Durham, has been
stopped, in consequence of a dispute between the muters
and overmen about reducing the wages of the latter a
shilling per day. Twelve hundred men have pledged them-
selves to remain out till the shilling is restored.
The exhibition of apparatus for saving life at sea,
which bee been orp Weed by the Nort Meet Relief Committee,
wan opened in London on Tuesday, at the London raven.
The Lord Mayor in his address explained the special objects
of the exhibition, and urged the immediate neceesity for.
new code of danger signals.

The number of visitors to the Zoological Gardens in
Loudon, on Monday, was 42,320, and to the Britiah Museum
about 14,000. By four o'clock in the afternoon 10,210 per-
eons had passed Into the Bethnal green Museum, and two
hours earlier the visitors at the National Gallery were be-
tween 6,000 and 7,000. More than 43,000 holiday-keeper.
went to the Crystal Palace.
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Ali the train stopped at Annan the porter, the other
day, throat him head Inside the door, and called out
" Hannah " loud and long. A young lady, probably endowed
with the poetic appellation of Hannah, supposing that he
wag addressing her, and chocked at his famillatity on so
short an acquaintance, frowned like a thunder-cloud, and
retorted, Hold your tongue, do, you impudent fellow."
He withdrew in a reserved and astonished manner.

A dispatch from San Francisco, dated March 28,
mays.:—" Last week the schooner Lark sailed from San Diego
for Pusenedea Among the parengen were sir convicted
murderers to be taken to La P., Lower California The
bodtee of the felons have been found washed ashore and
chained together. Pieces of • wreck have been picked up
near where the bodice were discovered, and it Is inferred that
the vessel was feet with all hands."

The Convent of the Sacte-Caenr at Paris ham been
for come days past completely abandoned, aa an epidemic
fell suddenly on that institution. In less than a week sir
pupils died of uiptherla. and several more were grevionsly
attacked, BO that the decision wuteken lent once send the
young girl, home to their families. The establishment, by
the advice of the medical man, will not be re-opened before
October.

The painter Courbet has just sidreesed a letter to
the Prefect of the Doubs complaining that the tree. sue
being cut down unakilfully and injudiciously in the Islets of
Busy. at °roans, that such a measure causes • serious detri-
ment to the town, sad stlgrnstises the proceeding as a piece
of vandalism. The Journals remark that such an expression
comes strangely from the man who threw down the Vendome
column.

The Princess Alice of Darmstadt is winning golden
opinions from persons of ail classes with whom she comes In
contact during her present slay in Rome. Her attention is
not confined to thou objects of ordinary Interest which en-
gross the time and thought of common tomists—lt extends
to those moral and soolal phases of the national life which
cannot possibly prove indifferent to a daughter of the late
Prince Consort, imbued with • deep reverence for the memory
of her father ass sincere social reformer.
On Monday morning the body of a lady, of indepen-
dent means, named Mahal. Cain Davis, was found on the
sands at Margate For some time put she had been greatly
depressed, and she recently told a friend that she Intended
to throw herself off the jetty. When found her neck was
broken, and it wits ascertained that she had thrown herself
from the cliff nearly opposite the Clifton-villa, Hotel,

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Marriages in high life in Paris have recently warned
the chararter of a religion, and musical fete. Invitatione
upon beaUtifully-printed paper are issued for the re igloos
ceremony. Ladies and gentlemen respond by appearing In
elegant morning dreases, except those favoured individuals
who are to be placed nearest to the altar, awl who are in
evening dress. Some time ago It was the fashion for the
bridegroom to appear in a blue coat, with gilt buttons, white
waletcoat, and grey trousers, but that is all changed, and
now the black suit and white cravat have again coca. into
favour.

An inquest hue been held in Liverpool on the body of
an old man, named Richard Holland, who had died under
curious circumstances. He had been engaged on one of the
dock quays watching some epirits of petroleum ; and having
rubbed some of this oil upon his knees as a preventative of
rheumatism, went close to • fire in • police hut to make
some coffee. His trovsers Ignited, and In • moment he was
eu•eloped in flames. He died shortly alter in great agony.
The police officer had warned him against approaching She
floe after tiring the oil.

A coroner's inquest on the body of Frederick May, a
gunner, belonging to the Vernon, torpedo ship, hm been
held at Portamouth dockyard. The deceased was 37 yeam of
age and married, and evidence was given to show that he had
been very eccentric in his manner of late, especially since
he had come back from tiaalar Hospital, where he 1•164 sent
shortly after Christmas. Deceased was • studious man, and
well versed in chemistry, to which he specially directed his
attention. Mr. D'Oyle, assistant surgeon of the Serapis, on
making a post-mortem examination ef the body, found from
20 to 30 grain. of cyanide of potansium in the atomach. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased bad
committed suicide, but that there was no evidence to show
his state of mind at the time.

During the week ending lad Saturday, 5,142 births
and 1,593 deaths were registered in London and twenty other
large cities and towns ot she United Magi om. The mor-
tality from all causes in these towns MY at the rate of
25 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to be
living. In the metropolis 2,229 births and 1,421 deaths were
registered, the former having been 170, and the latter 245
below the average. Four persons died from small•pox, 16
from measles, six from scarlet fever, four from diphtheria,
74 from whooplnspcough, 25 from different forms of fever,
and 20 from diarrhcea ; thus to the seven principal diseases
of the symotic class 145 deaths were referred, aga Ist id,
181, and 142 in the three preceedlng weeks. Thu mean
temperature at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was 41
degrees, or three below the average.

Mr. Johnson, a Liverpool cotton broker, brought an
action at the suites in that town, against the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company, to recover compensation
for Injuries received on the defendants line in • collision
I. September last the plaintiff ma. travelling from Orroskirk
to Liverpool, and when near the Titnebarn streM Station,
the train came Into collision with • number of empty car-
riages. lie mu thrown forward, and ma. so seriously injured
that he has been nimble to attend to his businasever since, the
pronto of which were £l,OOO a year. One jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—damage. £2,600.
On March 31, at Trenton, New Jersey, the funeral
cf a Catholic priest was being solemnized at St, John's
Catholic Church, the edifice being densely crowded and
some 20 clergymen being present, while • large number of
people stood outaide, unabl• to gain admission. During the
service • loud crack was heard, and, it being supposed the
gallery was falling, a panic ensued, and • rub wan made for
the doom, Many women and children were thrown down
and trampled upon. It was ten minutes before order could
be restored and the crowd proud back, so that the Injured
could be rescued. Eighteen persons, MI women and Orb
were badly injured, some so seriously that 111. feared they
wDI

An interesting work has just ben published at
Leipalc giving an account, by a German student, of the pert
taken by members of the dliferent German universities In
wtheplroetehsowar, onoauf theservithecesr.dperoiLerformanadd bbylogthrrasepholfwthaEommed.l-
of 248 students and 4 professors who fell in notion. The
Univereity of Leiteic suffered the pasted loss, 63 members
In all. The imam of the other univenitles were as follows :
Berlin, 80; Gs6tlngen. 23 ; Munich, It Halls, 19 ; Heidel-
berg and Jena, each 13 , Breslau. 11 , ...min, 9; 1110Ingen, ;
Rostock, 6 , Grialawald, Kiel, KOuigsberg, and Morena's,
each I , Marburg, 4; Giessen, Freiburg and Minster, each
2; Erlangen, 1. Out of the 19 766 Gem= stsdembi =thew
lated In the summer term of 1870, 4,610 OW ls,a third)
went through the esmPsigil, about 3,500 og whoa were In
the rents, and 1,000 attached to the mandesose Oat of
1,505 university prolusion, 15 were nada saw 1163 devoted
tbentsralves to Um oars or the dok and wounded. and 120
'Feted ku Nee nallowd camebyapse* and leen.

The number of applications for adscimion as a.,
in the enentng Tenn Is ntnety-seven, bonds venened
cations,

The ladies of the harem of the liCiag of Siam have
taken to wearies the European eostione. Mai I. said to Ise
one et the revults of the Leg's visit to Windt& loot fear.

An entrees at Denver, CoL, warn lately galled bikes
the curtain and shot in the hip. They have &novel way Yore
of recognising merit.
The value of petroleum imported in tbe set three
months wee £134,09, and in the same period lad year
14000.

In the lest three months the eggs imported Imre
the declared value of £610.787, agehtlif £877,7117 Ii Ok• 'um
period of the preceding year.
Thirty English school boards hare adopted Km
Orawshay's form of petition to the Government In favour Of
a decimal system of coinage.
" X. Y. Z." is informed that no ccoasedings for
psealties will be taken If the amount dna he paid to the
Board, ma intimated by him—(Paragraph In The how).
The number of theatres in Ronda is 112 mostly
wood. This gives only one for every 20ttowns. gone of lite
seats of Government are without Guaira.

Witty Aberdeen has a sho-p-keeper—who recently took
It into hie head to hays a honLy, shut shop, Ana week es
the shutters-.

"All
a esti is pm. Ind Erma la ha/
Were here todnorrow, but were gone oday
A return to the Holies of Commons has been issued,
showing that is the middle of the year 1170 the animated
population In England and Wales was 22,467,366, and En
year's deaths from all causes 616,329.

The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers have
granted fifty guineas to the Pare Literature feelety to
enable them to cantinue their grants of Libraries to Worlds"
men's institutes and other WU talking.
M. Dorian, who was Minister, of Public Works in
France during the siege of Paris, has just died. He wee been
in January, 1814, and had thus only reeently completed his atty.
ninth year. If. Dorian was elected a member of the
Dfigialatif in 1863 as an independent candidate, defeetlng"X
officidi candluate brought forward by the Government. In
1869 he was reelected without opposition.

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From the lit to the 12th instant the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £2300,273, as compared with £9,1191993
In the oorreepondlng period of lAA year. The et
hat been £6,t&l, of which Ave millions and a Mal=
for the Interest of the National Debt. The balmier In lie
Bank of Eogland on Saturday last was PA,sor,eso.

Fatal disturbances are reported from Constantinople,
where some Persians engaged In smaggling tokens mass
Into cotiltion with the police, tee result being several tined
and wounded on both sides. Ultimately the Persians sur-
rendered, after barricading themselves in a building where
they had taken refuge, and were arrested to the number el
seventy.

Ph. arbitrators appohstod to mobile the claims of the
masters and men in the Birmingham building trades gave
their award on Saturday. The men claimed an advance eit
wages from 714. to SO. per boar, and the artdiratoes ham
awardedlan advance of one farthing au hour witch award, It
I. said, 'bas given satisfaction."
According to a Parliamentary return just Monad,
the number of miners and quarrymen who WI Um bolted
Kingdom In passenger ships In the last eleven years was
60,643 The largest number was In ISIS" when MO osd-
and the lowest IMI, when only 1,7110 MN
rittl.
i Kingdom.
A terrible fire haa taken place at Josehlmsthal, de-
stroying 400 houses and causing a loss intimated at • million
and .bat! of florins. Your themand pereons are nouselsaa,
and two thirds of them are very poor. A suosartption MA
been opened, and the Emperor of Angles has given a dna.
lion.

A furious riot, Involving & contest between the people
and the police. took place on Sunday at Drumoondra, near
Dublin. It arose through an attempt at rescue. The pollee
used swords and the mob stones. A poneeman and a tdvillan
were dangerously wounded.

William- Ro-upell, formerly ALP. for Lambeth, is
said to be ill in Portland Convict Prison ; and • °opener's
jury, before whom he was called as a witness, added to
their verdict • recommendation that the Horne Seerot•ry
be asked to take his case into considerstlost with a view
to his release.

The following statement shows the total number of
messages forwarded from postal telegraph stations In the
United Kingdom during the week ended the 24A of Men,
1873, and during the corresponding week of 1872 :—Wee
ended April 6, 1873, 826,638 April 6, 1872, 267,819 —lmmo
in the week of 1873 OD that of 1872. 22,744.
Mr. A. G. Dudley Ward, writing from New York,
says that he never beheld such lavlahness In woman's attire
—street attire—as there is that atty. " I have not Ito Z.
seen a shabbily dressed woman alms my arrival. Kim
the grand totals which are made up of mall item of Ism
sealskin lactate and finest silks, I may say the average met
of a lady's dress here is not less than MO'

General Dncrot has petitioned the Commiaeion of
Inquiry into the ospltulatione, over which Cheney preddee, is
allow hlin the MO of a copy of the report on Sedan, that Is
may oontredlct certain datenients of German writers on that
catastrophe, and It is understood that his wish hae been so.
ceded to. That upon Metz la beim nrposely hole back un-
til the Preildent haa decided foully on the question of the
Bazalne promicution.

A curious case haa come before the Tribunal of the
Balm of one lodger having driven another lodger mad by Ms
conatant pianoforte playing. chiefly et Massie syrephonlek
The irritation which wet caused by the repetition as the
nnisatioe at length took the form of mental aberration. What
are organ-grinders to this?

Tb; following characteristic story of the late Charlet
Dickens is told. An Oxford undergraduate, with the natural
modesty of the race, sent to the editor of House/iota Words,
St the end of the Crimean war, a copy of verses on the rethra
of the Guards, with this note :—"Sir,—Unclandanding that
you insert Rhymes in your Serial, I send you some To
which Dickens answered, 'Sir,—We do not insert Rhyme
without Brisson."

On the eve of the meeting of the Lieensing Courts
In Scotland, • very general movement le helm made lIIMION6
the advocates of temperance to Induce the inieglatrabss be
burghs In restrict the hours sad rodeos the number ot
publlchouses Deputations walled epee the moglstreass 01
Glasgow, Paolo), Greenock, and several other Istria ces
Monday, but none of them snceeeded In enemata( any
promise that a change would be made la the dirsettou
wlahed.

A shocking accident occurred at the Rifle Range of
the Birmingham Volunteers on Saturday afternoon. goose
riflemen were practising at the 200 and 260 yard. ranges.
It being noticed that the marking had ceased without the
usual signal from the marker, the sergeant in charge gave
the command to cease firing, and proceeded to the
to ascerten] the cause He than found that the mark=
been killed. A bullet had entered ju# under the lett eye
and had penned out at the book of the bud, at the time be
the accident the shooting was being concluded strictly
according to regulations, and therefore no blame can of
attached to any one.

From returns just published it appears that in the
county of Dorset only twelve tumour. at present affected with
Foot and Month Diense. Somerset is net so fortimate during
the peat quarter there were 247 out oreaks, 8,186 animals being
&mimeo—vie , 1,938 herds of cattle, 1,086 sheep, and 182 plat
of these 59 cattle, 72 sheep, and 41 pigs died. In Wilts during
the past quarter 150 farms were effected; the deaths of
cattle attacked being Si per cent, of sheep and lambs S per
coot., and of pigs Ut per cent —a higher rate than for the
past two years In Somerset 2,213 sheep suffered from "sheep
scab" during the past quarter.
Largely attended meetings of agricultural labourers
are being held in different parts el neriulitrn and deo la
North Rants, In connection with the Labourers Linielt Mil
delegates from Warwickshire, including the prestasse OIL
Arch), have delivered addressee. Some of She Suuises hem
met the demands of their men, and advanced their temps IL
per week, but many employers will held oat, end ilneeneer
unions are talked of in several pieces. A oeseldsrable am.
her of labourers are availing themselves of Who
for free emigration to the oolonies, and therepirr, gaerAneriallig
expectation that during the coming summer Jansen win
experience a good deal of inconverdenoe in reteresee to
labour.

At Mud Ayr Circuit Court on Friday, Henry Reid,
• strolling piper, was found guilty of the murder of • young
man named M'Cullum, an engineer, belonging to ilimgow, In
September but. M'Callum had been attending the Ayr rues,
and received the fatal injuries in • quarrel whit% arcs. on
the road leading to Cuinroock, at about three miles from the
town of Ayr. The jury recommended the prisoner to the
leniency of the Crown, on the ground that the crime of
which he had been convicted had net been premeditated.
Ile was sentenced to be executed on the 30th Of April.
Early on Sunday morning a fire, resulting in flu,
loss of seven lives, and caused, it Is supposed, thremsh
drunkenness, occurred In lAverpooL Dense voluraes of
smoke were observed about two o'clock booing from • inc..-
story building occupied by eleven persons to a small
thoroughfare called Gay-street. Tinter and creel of hose
sufficiently reduced the ere to enable the pollee °Mean to
effect an entrance, and • man named Rebore was
out Ills clothes, however, had been nearly burnt. cling
body, and some of his limbs were shockingly charred. He
was removed to • hospital, where-he died four bean after-
ward& In an upper room was found • man named Alward&
with his wife and four children. &awards, the father, was
crouching behind the doors. if he had made an ittlempt
escape. The others were all in bed Insensible. One at the
children was taken down a ladder from a window and the
other, by means of the Asir& A eoloured man and him wife
monied. The injured ones were removed in • limpltall,
where they all died In a short time. The Am is summed to
have been caused by the upsetting of a paraffin lamp by
Schorie, who had been drinking to excess.