The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-06 00:00:00

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The QUEEN'S LETTER READ IN A CHURCH.—
At the New Year's Eve service at St. Martin's-in-the.
Tmfalgar square, London, an unexpected inci-
dent occurred. The vicar, the Rev. W. G. Humphrey,
having read the prayer for the Prince of Wales, said
that, although not officially ordered, he would read the
Queen's letter to the nation. At the conclusion he paused
a short tirne, and the congregation-simultaneously offered
up prayer. The congregation was maade.stly affected by
the several pathetic passages in her Majesty's letter.
The vicar next called attention to that being the last
service of the ancient public Liturgy of the Church of
England as prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
and used since the time of King Edward VI.

RAILWAY REFORM.—At a meeting of railway
directors, which will prolsably be hell in the middle of
next week, it will be resolved, in order to increase the
safety of the public, that no pointsman, guard, or
engine-driver, shall ever be on duty much more than
six-and-forty hours at a stretch ; and that every such
servant shall always,when on duty, be allowed at least
four minutes, no less than three times daily,for the en-
)oyment of his meals. With the like visw of security,
it will also be resolved that porters shall on branch
lines be required to act as perntsmen, signalmen, and
ticket clerks, and that due and timely notice of the
changes in the time-bills shall on no account be fur-
nished to the drivers of courts trains. —Pooch.
AMERICANS AND THE PROPOSED MONUMENT TO
COWPER.—The admirers of the author of "The Task,"
says the New York Post, are late in their expression of
the honour in whichthey hold one of England's gentlest
and purest poets. It is only this year that they have
proposed to erect at his native place, North Bericham-
stead, Hertfordshire a memorial monument. Cowper
died in April, 1800, and nearly three-quarters of a
century have elapsed before the idea of a monument
has been broached. To the American reader of the
present day Cowper is known irk three widely different
lines of poetical authorship. To the bor at school his
"John Gilpin" earlybecomes familiar. rhe inn known
as "the Bell at Edmonton" is still called by that
name, though it is not the same building which ex-
isted in the days of Cowper; and the American tourist
of 1871 may, without much difficulty, travel in the
track of Calvin's imaginary ride. When boyhood is
past, the lover of poetry will find delight in certain
portions of " The Ta4c," and in other of Cowper's
maturer works. Higher than these, however, we
place the hymns he wrote in his later days--few in
number, but unsurpassed in their tender and eloquent
expression of Christian sentiment. The stanzas to be
found in every hymn-book, beginning,
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God Moves in a mysterious way
His WOndeis to perform ;
Ile plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm,
are Cowper's, and they form a hymn which will ever
ring nut grandly in the literature of Christanity.
Another well-known hymn of Cowper's is that be-
ginning,
Hear, uhat Gad the Lord has spoken:
oh, my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken,
Fair abodes I build for you.

A GREAT CRIMINAL iNTERVIEWED.—A French
correspondent, writing in reference to this murder,
says that the coolness of Lemettre during his trial was
throughout 8. marked that he was anxious to observe his
demeanour after his condemnation. The result of an
interview in his cell, which, by special permiseion, he
says,
I obtained with him, may Interest your readers. His
politeness on my entrance ens excessive. In spite of the
chains which bound his hands and feet, he managed by
bending his head to take off his cap and bid me we
In answer to my questions he assured me, he
was as unmoved upon hearing his sentence delivered,
as he was with the remarks of the crowd who followed
him to gaol, with tierce and threatening cries for his
death. Ile had resigned himself also to the irons with
winch it is customary in France to encumber those con-
demned to death, though they were so heavy for him—he Is
• slightly built man—that he had to be half assisted and
half carried from place to place. He was slightly grieved
for his parents' anxiety on his behalf, but being fully
absorbed in his own fate, he said he had very little time to
think of such matters. Still, for their sake, he would
prefer to he executed at St. Omer rather than at Marquise,
where they lived, as the remembrance might be doubly
painful to them. He confessed to the robberies, but per-
sisted in affirming his innocence of the murders. Through-
out the interview, his manner was as Imperturbable as his '
appearance was simple and inoffensive. If the evidence
against him had HE been overwhelming and conclus,
his look and behaviour might well mislead one as to Ws ,

MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—SomO two months ago
a man named Goddard, who had been employed for
some years at Guy's Hospital, but who had re-
cently left that estaLlishment, was missing, and
no clue being discovered, it was feared that
something untoward had happened to him. A
short time after the body II a man was found
in the Thames at Batteries, which was identified by
Mrs. Goddard, without hesitation, as that of her hus-
band. A verdict of "Found drowned" was returned, and
the body was followed to the grave by the wife, who
has, of course, ever since worn widow's weeds. On
Saturday last, however, Goddard returned to his former
home and was ree. ignised by his astonished wife. He
stated that, being unable to get employment, he went
to Erighton, where he had been working ever since.
The body sumiosed to have been his was that of some
one else. Goddard has also been recognised by some of
his former fellow workmen.

IRISH FUNERALS AND WARES.—The Roman
Catholic clergy of the metropolis have announced to
their flocks that they will not attend the funeral of
any person over whose body a wake has been
previously held. At the Camberwell New-road
Catholic Chapel, on Sunday, the Rev. Mr. M'Grath,
in snaking the announcement, said that the practice of
waking bodies was disgraceful. It was terrible to find,
as had been found, sitting in a small room in which a
corpse was laid, as many as forty persons who had
drunk in one night as much as fourteen gallons of beer.
It is also stated that no Catholic clergyman will
accompany any funeral to a cemetry unless the greatest
order be preserved during its progress to and from the
place of buriaL
THE COMMUNIST PRISONERS.--During the past
week a considerable number of persons—estimated at
more than 3,ooo—who have been confined in the depots
at Brest, Belle Isle, and Cherbourg, have been set at
liberty. Nearly the whole were persons who were taken
prisoners on the 3d of April last year. On that day, it
will be remembered, the Commune entertained the
idea of attacking and taking possession of Versailles,
for which purpose four columns of combatants were des-
patched from Paris—one commanded by Flourens,
which was cut to pieces by the fire of Mont Va
leaving many killed and but few prisoners. A second
column, underßergeret, proceeded towards Meudon, but
was attacked upon its march and lost 500 prisoners.
The third and fourth columns, under the command re-
spectively of Duval and Henry, were surrounded upon
the plateau of Chatillon, where more than 5,000 prisoners
were taken by the Government troops. The prisoners
just released consist mainly of those taken at Chatillon,
and amont• theism were 24 Poles, who were brought to
Paris in a special carriage.
M. DE Ptostic.—The Figaro states that "the
Marquis de Ploeuc, Sub-Governor of the Bank of
France and a Deputy for the Seine, has just received
from London a handsome silver cup as a New Year's
present. The bankers of the City of London have
thought fit to offer to 1.1. de Ploeuc this testimony of
their respect for the courage with which he preserved
the Bank of France from pillage during the Commune
and finally from incendiarism. From the 18th of
March to the 25th of May—a period of 68 days—the
Sub Governor defended hour by hour, with the aid of
his brave battalion of emploges, property of the total
value of three milliards which was contained in
the Bank vaults. The destruction of that vast amount
of property would have had a disastrous effect even
upon the London money market. The English once
more give us a lesson. They thank H. de Ploeuc.
We show our gratitude towards him by appointing l‘t
Rouland as Governor."

SHOCKING FATALITY.—An inquest has been
held at Lewes, on the body of William Thompson,
age ,1 21, a corporal in the Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
From the evidence it appeared that thy deceased was
with a young man named Edward Obberd and the
latter's father at a sparrow shooting match at Chains-
ton. Youw, Obberd had a double-barrelled gun under
his arm, ami while he was moving it one of the barrels
exploded, and the charge entered deceased's thigh.
Medical aid was procured, and it was found necessary
to amputate the leg, the poor fellow expiring shortly
after the operation. The Coroner said that the de-
ceased had lost his life through gross carelessness on
the part of Obberd, and the jury, in returning a ver-
dict of "Accidental Death," likewise strongly censured
him. It was stated that Thompson was engaged to be
married to the sister of the young man who caused his
death.

A MINOR CANNON. —The new 35-ton gun, or
700-pounder, is called the Woolwich Infant. Sweet
Innocent! Let us hope that affairs may allow it
long to remain such. Is the Woolwich Infant supposed
to be a boy or a girl? If a boy, it must be admitted
shat there was never yet before such a Son of a Gun.
—Punch.

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UNITED STATES' TOBACCO.—The native leaf
tobacco exported from the United States during the
year ending June 30, 1670, amounted to 21,100.4201 b.,
and during the year ending June 30, 1871, to
10,908,7931 b. The seed leaf grown in the State of
New York, it is asserted, is in great demand for
manufacture, instead of fine Connecticut, which did
not grow in 1870. The demand for Pennsylvania and
Ohio tobacco of the crop of 1670, it is stated, has
materially improved. The yield of the crop of
seed leaf tobacco of 1871, just harvested and cured,
it is estimated, will amount to 160,000 cases, dis-
tributed as follows :- 40,000 cases of Connecticut
river tobacco, 40,000 cases of Ohio, 30.000 cases
of Pennsylvania, 25,000 cases of Wisconsin' 20,000
cases
of New York, and 5,000 cases of Illinois tobacco.
This crop, it is believed, will be the largest ever
grown in this country, the average yield being 60,000
cases. The heavy crop of 1863 amounted to 85,000
cases, and reduced prices one-half. The consumption
of domestic tobacco is placed at 60,000 cases per
annum, and the expoit of 1872 is estimated at 70,000
cases. The stock of tobacco on handatmounts ti about
40,000 cases, and adding this to the 160,000 cases of the
crop of 1871, there will be a total of 200,000 cases.
Subtracting from these figures the 130,000 eases con-
sumed at home and abroad, there will remain a
surplus of 70,000 caties.—Phileatlphist Ledger.
A GENTLEMAN BURGLAR.-- The New lei*
rilliCB of the 19th ult. says :
.• Carroll Sanborn, the renowned 'gentleman burglar,' is
dead. lie breathed his last on Sunday morning in the gaol
at Lawrence, Mass. Early in October Sanborn got a mortal
womid in a fight with a countable named Donovan. The
latter was bent on arresting his man, and succeeded with
this result. It is said that Sanborn made friends of all who
approached hiss while in gaol, and that he gave up freely
all the property lie had stolen. Ile seems altogether to
have been a singular character. In all respects, save his mania
for burglary, lie lived a pure, and even an exemplary life.
lie touched no intoxicating drink and no tobacco. lie was
scrupulously faithful to his wife, and tenderly attached to
his family. Ilia clergyman and physician concur in extolling
his amiable and attractive disposition and gentlemanly
manners. They say that he really did not care to accumu-
late wealth, and hail none but kindly feelings for his fellow-
men. Ills sole fault was his inextinguishable passion for
midnight burglary, a form of colossal kleptomania, which,
strive as he might, he could not control. The unhappy man
escaped the last disgrace of being doomed to the State Prison.
Ile pleaded guilty to the charges against him in the Superior
court ; but he died in the arms of his wife before the bench
hail time to pronounce his sentence."

A LITiLE OMISSION !—A firm of London
Brewers sends the following to the papers:—

. .
" The economy and dispatch which attend the use of the
halfpenny card must b) this time be patent to alt; never-
theless there is one way in which these ends are in our
experience, and doubtless that of others, disappointed—viz.,
by the inadvertent Omission of the writer's name, initials, or
the least semblance of address. A hint on this point would,
we think, be very useful. Witness the enclosed specimen
card, which bears no other writing than "Please solid nMe-
gallon cask of stout on Friday," and the address of yours
faithfully, t. and 11. ESN ER mei SONS, the Brewery, South-
wark.bridgekoad, 8.E., Dec. 59."

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DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.—An extra-
ordinary crime has just been committed at Blanzat
(Puy de-Dome). A small fanner named Brun, had
invited his father-in-law to dinner with himself and
wife. The husband was seen the next day, but neither
of the others, and the bodies of all three have
since been found, lying side by side on a bed in the
house. Brun had murdered the woman and her father
by shooting them with a pistol during the evening, and
the following night had cut his own throat, and then
laid himself down by their side and died. The motive
for this act is not stated.

A SCHOOL NAMED AFTER AN Ai TRESS.— For
the first time, to our knowledge in the history of the
drama (says the Neu, York Tribune of Dec. 20) a
school has been named in honour of an actress. Vhe
Bostonians are justly proud of Charlotte Cushman ;
and having built a school-house upon the identical spot
where, July 23, AD. 1816, the tragic lady was born,
they have ordained that the school there to be kept
shall be called and known as "The Cushman ;School"
—a pretty good advance for a city in which, hardly
more than 70 years ago, it was seriously proposed to
crush out for ever theatrical representations as irre-
ligious. . _

COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.—tipire (who
interests himself with the Moral and Material Condition
of his Peasantro). "Hullo, Woodruff! what an Eye
you 're got! How did you get that?! "—Labserer.
'O, it's nawthin' Particlar, Sir. Last Night—at the
White 'Art, Sir. But—(is extenuation)—Chrishmash
Time, Sir—on'y Once a Year ! "—Punch,
THE FEMALE MEDICAL STUDENTS.-011 Tues-
day, at a meeting of the Edinburgh University Court,
Sir William Stirling Maxwell, rector, presiding, the
following decision was adopted on the appeal heard on
Thursday, the 21st of December last. Having con.
shlered the appeal of Professers Masson, Bennet, and
Caltierwood against the resolution of the &natter of the
11th of November last, representing to the University
Court the propriety of rescinding their resolution, and
regulations in reference to the admission of women to
medical education inthe University, withoutprejudice,
however, to the rights and interest of those ladies who
bad already entered upon a course of study in pursuance
thereof, and without prejudice to the rights of pro-
fessors to give sevarate instruction to ladies in such
classes as the University Court might from time to
time think fit and approve, and having heard the
appellants in rupport of appeal, and Professors Muir-
head, Turner, and Lister against the appeal, find it
expedient at present to rescind the said resolutions
and regulations, and therefore decline to give effect to
the representation of the Sufatirs. The Court must
not be understood as indicating by this deliverance any
opinion as to the claim of women to proceed to gradu-
ation or as to the power of- the University to confer i
on women degrees n the faculty of medicine.

DEATH OF A WATEhLOO HERO—One of the
last of the few survivors of the memorable 18th of
June died in Dorchester on Friday last. John Cox, an
inmate of Napier's Almshouse in that town, served
under ('aptain (afterwards Major) Garland, at the
battle of Waterloo, and from an incident of the day,
humorously related by himself, has been known in
the neighbourhood by the sobriquet of" (:ut and thin
, John." On the battle-field, while retreating, it Rrel3.ll
Cox recognised his captain lying among the wornded,
seriously shot in the heel. At the imminent sick of
his life he ran towards his prostrate officer, and lifting
him on his back, conveyed him away and was thus the
means of saving him from death. In after years this
courageous act was not forgotten by Major Garland,
who until his death contributed liberally to the main-
tenance of the old soldier who had so bravely pre-
served him. By some mischance or oversight, how-
ever, Cox's claim upon the country was neglected,
until about twelve months since he was awarded Is. a
day pension. He had suffered greatly from bronchitis,
and died at the ripe age of 81, retaining all his faculties,
and able to recount the incidents of the campaign, with
quaintly told " recollections " of the Iron Duke and
other June heroes.

RIDDLE FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS:I--Why are
the two letters at the tail the most sensible of all th
Alphabet !—Because they are the Wise Head. —punch.
FROZEN TO DEATH.—A gentleman who ar-
ri%ed in Kansa.% city on the 9th of December informed
the Kansas city Times that the Sunday previous a
terrible affair occurred in Salino county, Nebraska. A
party of emigrants with their families were passing
through the county westward, when, the cold con-
stantly increasing, they concluded to camp and light a
tire. They were on a piece of high prairie several
miles from any house, but three miles from them was
a piece of timber land. After unhitching their teams
the men started for this timber to procure fuel. Not
returning for several hours, the women left their chit.
dren and started to hunt for them. 'This is all that is
known, save that the mat day the bodies of 17 pers.,.
who perished from the intense cold were found-. The
children, who were left in the waggons, were the only
survivors of thiparty.

THE Fluz--PRoo- Nzeso.—The fire-proof
negro is still agitating Maryland. It will be remem-
bered that, as reported some time since, he handled
red-hot iron and melted lead with the utmost impunity,
those metals, if we mistake not, being burned by con.
tact with his flesh. A Maryland, paper, after correct-
ing some of the statements circulated concerning this
man, whose name is Nathan Coker, adds :

" lie can, however, cat red-hot anthracite coals, stir up
red-hid coals ins furnace with his naked Intuits, lick a red-
hot bar of iron milli it is cold, receive moltun lead into his
mouth and keep it there until it cools ; and it has been sail
that he has walked 04 red-hot bars of iron barefoot. 'rids
feat we have never isitnesued ourselves, althothM
have seen him apply a red-hot bar of iron to his bare feet,
and knelt it there until it had lost its redness, hat
tic have noticed that there are times when tire seemed
to affect him, and we have seen him start back from
its touch. We remember a few years ago, while he was
mining lime for the plasterers who were at work finishing a
building for us in this town, he run his hand Into the into
while being slaked, to take out the core, tint he withdrew it
in a twinkling. The lime burned him, and Ile felt its effects
very sensibly. Another time a company of young men hest
Coker rather badly. lie made a wager with them of twenty
dollars that he could sit on aced-hut stove for fifteen minutes.
The stove was heated up till it was all aglow with redness ;
the fire-king took his seat, and actually, it Is said, sat out
ten minutes of the time, last one of the wags, pouring a
little coal-oil on the stove, drove him trom his position in
double quick, and burned hint severely. Ile is a remarkable
negro. and no one yet has lever been able to explain his
dealings with this element."
He would do to make fire-proofs safes of.

"BE SILENT AND WAIT !"—May we be
allowed to hope that the calatnitious experience of the
last two years has thoroughly disgusted Europe with
war and revolution, and that we may hail 1872 as the
harbinger of a period of comparative peace and order,
remarks The Timex, in a leader. It would seem
natural for us to indulge such expectation. Wounds
received in the heat of strife however grave and even
mortal, do not always immediately stun and disable;
but exhaustion sets in with the 'ORS of blood, and re-
covery must needs precede a renewal of the conflict,
However convinced the French might be that they had
been worsted in a quarrel of their own seeking, they
would hardly have been human if they had been able
to smother a cry of "Revenge ;" but they would
hardly be reasonable if they did not also perceive that
what they clamour for is for the present out of the
question. The wisest men among them, and the
patriotic anti pugnacious President of their Republic
first and foremost, bid them "be silent and wait."

SEASONABLE SENTIMENT.—May the COM-
mission of Inquiry into the Meiners get to the bottom of
it!--Punch.

BEER AND CIGARS !—The most curious stories
of great men are not those which are recorded in his-
tory. Floating rumours are sometimes more indicative
of character than the best summary made by the his-
torian. One of these tells us that during the nego-
tiations at Frankfort, when Pouyer Quertier awl Jules
Fevre were invites' todinner by Bismark, the latter was
growing sulky at Jules Fevre's lengthy speeches, and
gave a portentous yawnt always a bad sigh with him.
Just then Pouyer-Quertier whispered to Fevre, "Stop,
I have an argument more effective than all your
rhetoric." Then turning to the Chancellor he said,
innocently, "Does your Excellency object to beer and
cigars?" Biswark's face brightened up on the instant.
'I his was just what he was wanting • and when the
beer and cigars were produced he entered at, once upon
business in a jovial manner, and Pouyer-Quertier suc-
ceeded in his demands.

DEATH OF A REMARKABLE CENTENARIAN.—
On the Nth December there died at Seynumdstown, in
the parish of Kilskyre, Kells, Mr. John Farr°lly, at
the ripe old age of 100 years. He was a most respect-
able and intelligent farmer, who by his great industry
and foresight amassed a considerable property. He
retained his faculties up to his death. He had seven
daughters, all of whom were present when his remains
were consigned to the grave, and through whom he
leaves a posterity of 150 grandchildren, great grand-
children, .tc. It is worthy of note that a brother and
two sisters survive the deceased, the youngest being ST
Fears of age. The eldest, the brother, James Farrell 3%
14 00 years, and is so strong and healthy as to be able
to take an active part in the management of his own
farm. He, too, through his many sons and daughters,
is the ancestor of a numerous offspring.

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WOMEN'S SEFFRAGE.—(FEOIII the Victoria
Mamnine).—The misfortune which some of our readers
have lately apprehended has come. Those differenos
of opinion amongst the promoters of women's suffrage
to which no well-wisher of the movement could pre-
tend to be blind have produced their inevitable result,
and there is a split in the camp. It is discouraging at
first sight to view this state of affairs, because al-
though it is not übsolutely impoesible for two corn-
mittees to co-exist without hostile feelings, all human
experience gong to how that persons having the self-
same object in view do not divide forces to ensure
strength. Each of the two parties which have sprung
up is no doubt quite satisfied as to the absolute neces-
sity there was for this open breach; to its own con-
science each beyond question is justified. The fruit
disagreement comes from the tree dictation; and if
this last quarrel has the effect of putting an end to the
eliqueism which we have aforerime mourned over, we
and all other independent advocates of women's suit.
rage will not view the event with unmixed feelings,
A TRIBTJTE TO THE LORD CHANCELLTTH.—III
addressing his constituents in South Norfolh,
Reid, M. P., the Conservative tenant fatner member,
pail the following tribute to the poreontd character
of the Lord Chancellor:—

"I believe the Lord Chancellor to be a thoroughly good,
conscientious, Christian man. I know that every Sunday in
his life he goes and teirehes in a Sunday School, and has oono
so for many years. That is setting • gaRI example. A 1,4 I
will tell you another thing which does him honour. The in-
cumbent of a neighimuring parish to mine died. Be had
been nonresident all his life, and the curate, who had been
in charge for twenty-three years, was naturally very desirous
of having the living. We got up a memorial, signed by every
householder in the parish, and we sent it up to the Lont
Chancellor. Now, although the Lord Chancellor knew that
the curate's polities were opposed to his ..run, and although
he had a whole host of personal and Political friends ready to
seize the living out of his hands, he was good enough to give
It to the curate."

JUN-minx G OLOSITY. —A Sage said to a School-
boy, home for the holidays, "A contented mind is a
continual feast." "Isit ?" quoth young Hopeful, "
should rather say that a continual feast was a con-
tented mind."—Punch.

ANOTHER KICK FOR FRANCE!—PririCa Bis-
marck will rank very high among the revolutionists of
Ins own time (remarks Thc Times, in a leader). He has
broken the charm of French military ascendancy; lee
seems bent on equally challenging the title of France
to Diplomatic pre-eminence. 'Why should French,"
he asks, 'be the universal language of Diplomacy ?"
And he answers the question practically by sending his
Dotes to M. Remusat written in his own vernacular
German. Prince Bismarck has raised his countrymen to
the full consciousness of their national dignity, and he
sees no reason why they should not in their interna-
tional transactions stand on the same rights which
England and the United States have long since asserted.
According to the good old rule it was for the vanquished
to learn the language of the conqueror. Ancient Rome
based on universal conquest her scheme of a universal
language, and, when she fell, Latin held for a long time
its sway, partly owing to the universal aspirations of
the Church, which had its See in the great City, partly
to the pretensions to universal dominion which Frankish
and German Monarchs founded on their inheritance of
the imperial diadem.

A HINT FOR TIIF: AUSTRALIAN MEAT CON!.
r.tNIES. -The Spertalor remarks :

The Australian Moat Companies seem to no to he playing
an unwise game, which we notice, not for their sake, but for
that of the public. They have got the ball at their foot,
They ran sell their meat at a cost which, allowing fir cook.
lug, lane, and household waste, is barely a third of the cost
of uncooked butcher's meat—id. a pound instead of Ind. a
pound—and if they can only get rid of the impression of
gh to compete for workhouse
overcooking which spells sonic of their specimens, they will
have the limitless market they desire. In Manchest, r they
have seriously affected butchers' price lists and as Englist,-
men like meat and cannot pay It. present price, their
geeorl'itnia7itisd,itoltiakt ei's'"t"o seek for a Webbing to-day •
ultimate victory Is 'mite secure. Under these eircemd4uu,,,,
of dividends in perpetuity. The precise prejudice
ratlhni:tiyihrPeht7to face is that their meat is wholesome, but only
ward enough for paupers and convicts, aud they deliberately
go and give that prejudice a seeming (etiolation. We are
a.harneil of their branis. Yankees would have tender.] for
the supply. for Witrlser l'itatle, the Gbards Men., and the
Travellers, and whether accepted or rejected, have ad-
vertised the tender.

CURIOUS WILL OF AN OLD LiSNDON WORTHY.
—On Monday afternoon a sermon was preached in
the parish church of St. :Magnus the Martyr,
London Bridge, by the Rev. A. J. 111`Caul, M.A., the
rector, in conformity with the will of Mr. henry
Cloker, once a member Of the Grocers' Compsmy. The
will is dated 14173, and contains some singular causes, ono
of which is that the master, the wardenv, and court
of assistants of the Coopers' Company shall attend
divine service and a sermon preached on New Year,,
day in the afternoon for ever. The property conaists
of two small ed.ates, the proceeds of which are divided
amongst the clergymen tuft the officers of the com-
pany, and for other parlsres. One of the most singu-
lar points in the will is that in the event of the Coopers'
Company failing to carry out the vark us bequests
without showing sufficient reason, the property shall
be forfeited to the Grocers' Company. .At the conclu-
sion of the sermon the clerk to the Coopers' Company
read the will, after which the curiously antiquatett
proceeclinga terminated.

THE IRISH CHCRCH AcT. —A Parliamentary
return just issued, state,' that the number of curates
declared permanent under the 15th section of "The
Irish Church Act, 1869," was 921, and the amount of
annuities to which they were decls.red entitled was
£95,894 re. 10d. Of this number 120 were appointed
before the passing of the Act, and were declared
entitled to L 72,632 S. 104. The number appointed
nubsequent to the paming of the Act was 201, and the
amount of annuities to which they were declared
entitled vi'as 1:23,262 10s. The amount of salaries of
123 curates appointed before the passing of the Act,
and chargeable to incumbents, was 1:10,535 Is. 4d.;
and the amount of salaries of 597 curates, also ap-
pointed before the passing of the Act, but not charge-
able to incumbents, was 1:62,097, Os. 6d. The amount
of salaries of 30, appointed subsequent to the naming
of the Act, and chargeable to incumbents, was £21950;
and the amount of annuities to which 171 appointed
subsequent to the passing of the Act, and not charge-
able to incumbent, were declared entitled was
£20,312-10e. The amount of the approximate capital
value of income (if commuted) of thoee not charge*
able was £1,285,000.