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

I-TOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

PLEASANT NEWS FOR THE NEIGHBOURS.—A
few days ago a man named Turner escaped from the
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. The prisoner
had been confined in that establishment since hectic-

quittal of the murder of his wife on the ground of
insanity, and it appears that while engaged with admit-
cart outside the building he contrived to divert the at-
tention of the attendant, and got off. An active search
has been instituted, and a personal description of the
fugitive posted at the chief public places in the neigh-
bourhood, but up to the time lif writing he had not
been recaptured. He is said to be a very powerful
man, about6ft. 2in. in height, and it is supposed that he
has taken shelter in the woods.

DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN LEG AND FOOT.—
On Sunday afternoon? Dr. Paul, of 26, Burton.
crescent London, had his attention called to a human
leg and foot, which had been found by a boy named
Lewis in the yard of the house, No. 25, Cromer-street.
The 14 handed it to a police-constable, who took it to
the station-house, and Dr. Paul, the divisional surgeon,
was sent for to give his opinion upon it. When 1)r.
Paul arrived at the station-house, he found a numerous
crowd assembled, and great excitement prevailed as to
the discovery that had been made. An examination
by the medical gentleman was made, and it was found
to be part of a human leg and foot which had been
amputated evidently by some one well skilled in the
art of surgery. The belief of Dr. Paul was, that after the
amputation, the severed member had been thrown away
as an act of piactical joking, and if this was done by a
member of the medical profession, it was most dis-
graceful to him, and to the common feelings of
humanity.

A WORD FROM AN OLD WOMAN. MM.
Grundy's Grandmother " writes to us to say that she
entirely disapproves of giving vails to servant. Why,
(henry me! the hussies nowadays all carry parasols, Ho
dreadfully afraid are they of spoiling their com-
plexion ! And as for letting them wear Tails, why,
lawks ! they'd next be wanting drags to take 'em to the
Darby ! --Punch.
MR. MURPHY AT BLACKBURN. 011 Monday
night, Mr. Murphy addressed a crowded and enthusi-
astic meeting of his Blackburn friends at his old head-
quarters, the music-hall of the Royal-park-gardens.
In the course of a characteristic address, he called John
Bright John " Dark," because of his alliance with
popery on the Irish Church question. He (Mr.
Murphy) was also a Radical (laughter), but his Radi-
calism was to oppose the Confessional and Popery
" neck and crop.' (Cheers and laughter.) He was
going to bring his tent to Blackburn, for Blackburn
was the first place he came to in Lancashire, and he
was not going to Five it up. Ile would have his tent
erected here during the election, no that he could
"stand firm and steadfast on the side of truth." He
asked his hearers to band themselves together to raise
funds for his election fir Manchester; it would cost
£l,OOO, and he expected to get 4:1,000 from the pts pie
of Blackburn. He was &tenanted to go to the poll,
he was not the man to flinch, and if he once got in
Parliament he would "say such things as had never
been heard there before; he would snake Mr. Glad-
stone and John Bright tremb!e and shake in their
shoes." (Great cheering.) He would not support
" the red-herring men, but the mutton-chop men."
(Loud cheers.)

A HINT TO ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTEP.S.—A New
and not unimportant reform is about Lobe introduced in
German schools, viz.,. the abolition of all afternoon
classes. It was principally during the past summer
months that the experiment was almost forced upon
the authorities. The results are UR all sides reported
to have been more than brilliaht. The forenoon
classes are, we believe, somewhat, lint nit much, longer
i
than formerly, but it s said that the pupils show an
eagerness and a vigour in those short morning hours
which has never been known before, and their pro-
gress is quite in keeping with their keen and energetic
assiduity. The most curious point about the matter
seems to be the fully authenticated fact that, the
schools having hitherto closed only experimentally
earlier or later according to the wishes of the respective
head masters, the progress shown by the various
schools stands in an inverse ratio to the duration of the
classes, or, in other words, the less hours beyond the
four or five of the morning in school, the more did the
; boys get on with their work.—Pall Ca:clee,
Mn. BRIGHT'S ORATORICAL BEGINS IN GS. —The
Pall Mall Ga:ette says :
. . . .

-
line constantly hears talk of Mr. Bright's oratorical genius, I
hut few expessions seems to its to be no little fitting or ade-
quate, unless we adopt the illegimate account of genius as no
more than a supreme capacity for taking pains. A visitor to
the parish church of Rochdale not long ago asked the verger
or sexton whether John Bright ever came there. "Nay,"
the sexton said, " he never comes now, but I can recollect th'
time when he Ivor but a lad, and he used to come then and
mak' spreches again' church rates. I've seen hint speaking
from one o' th' grave-stones; he could'ut speak much, and
he med to r•md his speeches from paper." Whether this be
a calumny, bred of the sexton's professional zeal, we cannot
tell, but there is nothing in Mr. Bright's most masterly
orations which would make us unprepared for this bumble
initiation. They all betoken an orator who has been made,
and was not born. This is no disparagement to the result.
Mr. Mill calls Wordsworth a made poet and Shelley a born
poet, and this is not at all inconsistent with ranking some
of Wordsworth's pieces higher than anything which came
Irons the yomger muse.
ZADKIEL THE SAME AS EVER !—Zaclkiel is
right as usual. His Voice of the Stars—October 184)8,
announces that :
Queen Isabella, of Spain, will have Mars on the place of the
Moon at her birthday, which excites her to strange acts of
violence, and 'fear that bloodshed is again seen in that hap-
less land. The position of Mars on the birthday of that
Queen is in square to the Sun, very evil for the peace of her
realm.

• On the :10th of September Queen Isabella, of Spain,
was deposed, and left St. Sebastian for Pau. She com-
mitted acts of violence in October as punctually as
Theodore fell in August. Before October she had
ceased to be Queen of Spain. What then? Of course
she only anticipated her fate, predicted clearly by
Zadkiel.—Punch.

OLD PURITAN BOOKS.—A very interesting col-
lection of old Puritan books has just been deposited
with the Boston (Massachusetta) Public Library. It
belonged originally to the Rev. Thomas Prince, who
was ordained pastor of the Old South church in that
city in 1718, and by him left at his death (1758) to the
society, who put the books into their steeple during
the revolutionary war. A small memoir, just printed
in Boston, shows the collection to consist of 1,519 books
and manuscripts. Among the titles of the books there
are some additiona to those whose nuaintriess has
already been referred to as characteristic of the early
Puritans, botn in England and America;
"Riddles Unriddled ; or, Christian Paradoxes broke
open, smelling like a Sweet Spice taken out of Boxes ; "
" A Choice Drop of Honey from the Rock, Christ ;"
"The Case of Satan's Fiery Darts in Blasphemous
Suggestions and Hellish Annoyances" "Early Piety
Encouraged--a discourse iiccarioned by the death of a
young woman of Malden of the throat distemper."
DIVORCES.—The judicial statistics of England
show that in the year 1867 224 petitions for dissolution
of marriage were presented to the Divorce Court—a
number rather above the average of the ten years during
which that court has been open. The petitions for a judi-
cial separation were 70 in number, and that aLso is above
the average. But the causes tried in 1867—viz., 159
were fewer than the average, and so was the number
of decrees made. Since the establishment of the
Divorce Court, in 1858, and down to the end of 1867,
it had pronounced 1,279 decrees for dissolution of
marriage--namely, 24 in 1858, 117 in 1859. 103 in 1860,
196 in 1861, 123 in 1862, 134 in 1863, 168 in 1864, 179
in 1965,116 in 1866, 119 in 1867. In the same period
the Court pronounced 213 decrees for judicial sepa-
ration of man and wife. The average of the last
nine years has been 139 marriages dissolved in a year,
and 21 judicial separations decreed. The number of
marriages in England in the nine years has averaged
about 175,000 a year.
DEATH OF AN AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE.—The
New York paper; report the death of an American
millionaire, Mr. Edwin Stevens, of Hoboken, who was
buried on the 16th ult. He died in his seventy-fourth
year. But for his own expressed wish to the contrary,
the great popularity which his benevolence had ac-
quired for him would have prompted a turn-out of all
the societies of New York. As it was, the procession
was confined to a few deputations, the Hoboken and
Ferry Benevolent Association and the mechanics con.
stantly employed in repairs upon his 250 houses in
Hoboken and upon other duties on his landed estate,
which stretches along the river from the ferry to ,
Weehawkemhill, is distance of a mile and a half, and
extends back half a mile on an average. The immense
property he leaves is variously estimated at from
twenty to forty million dollars. It is rumoured that it
is not to be divided until his youngest child, born last
May, comes of age, and that the bulk of it will be
inherited by one of the sons.
LATTER-DAY SAINTS IN LONDON.—The half-
yearly conference of the London districts of the
Mormons was held last Sunday at the Store-street
Hall, Bedford-square. The proceedings consisted of a
series of meetings throughout the day, when some
twenty elders related the progress of their labours in
their several spheres. It was stated the district com-
prised nine branches, with 1,013 members, inclusive of
priests and deacons; there being 91 elders, 45 prierits,
and 28 deacons. Of the members, 10 had been excom-
municated, two died, 188 emigrated, and 78 baptised.
The financial statement showed the total receipts were
£l'79, which had been devoted for emigration, and £32
to support the elders.
EASILY ALARMED.—SOIne excessively Ultra.
Liberal folks have been frightened because Mr.
Disraeli has been staying with the Queen at Balmoral.
Why should he not visit his Sovereign? He is
notoriously a delightful conversationalist—almost as
brilliant as Mr. Punch. But he has left, and Dr.
Watson
r. left at th
ce same time, so that the Queen is out
of dange —Punh.

PoCCMENTARY EVIDENCE.—By an Act passed I
in the late Session the law relating to documentary
evidence was amended, and the provisions of the Act
are to be deemed to be in addition to the powers of
proving docoment, given by existing statutes at com-
mon law. Prima facie evidence if a proclamation,
order, or regulation may be given in all courts of law
by the production of the Gazette containing the same.
o proof is to be required of the handwriting, or
official proof of the person certifying to the truth of
any extract produced. The Act may be enforced in
the colonies. For forging any document or instru-
ment imprisonment id penal servitude may be in.
fficted. Any order or regulation by the following Go-
vernment offices may be produced under the new Act :
--The Commissionas of the Treasury, the Secretaries
of State, the Committee of Privy Council for trade,
and the Poor Law Board. The names of the certifying
officers of the several Government departments are set
forth in the statute.

SHE COULD NOT TELL HER OWN FORTUNE !
One of those startling cases of ignorance and supersti-
tion which occur every now and then, notwithstanding
all our schools, institutes, libraries, readings, and
lectures, came to light on Saturday at the Worship-
street Police-court, n London
• • - • • •

A "witch "—not one of the old hags described in ancient
tales as riding through the air on broomsticks, but a girl of
twenty, was brought up charged with fortune-telling. Several
instances were brought forward in which money or goods
had been obtained truss young girls on the pretext of telling
their fortune on the cards; but the most remarkable was
that of a young man, who, "loving and not being loved in
return," paid shilling after shilling, and at last gave a gold
ring, to the "wise woman," who undertook to make "the
girls heart turn and love him." At last, finding no results
from her charms and spells, he demandmi his ring and mow
back with no better success.

The " witch " was committed for trial on two charges
of obtaining money on false pretences.
A HEARTRENDING ACCIDENT.—TIIe following is
reported from Lausanne
:
M. Derivaz, formerly mayor, and his son, left Vevey In a
small boat to rotors by the Lake of St. Cangolph. A squall
upset the skiff at three in the afternoon, shortly after they
started, but they were able to hold on by the boat, ill this
way lather and son were carried at the hazard of the waves.
They hoped to reach shore, but a violent south wind drove
them into tin, middle of the lake, where they were tossed
about during the remainder of the day ma all the night.
The disaster becoming known a boat was put out for rescue,
but was unsuccessful, and ran great risk itself perishing,
but it placed a lantern on the shore as a guiding light. It
was perceived by the two men, who then conceived some
hops; they were exhausted and immersed in the water, and
were dying of cold. Towards midnight the father, who
could hold on no longer, bid adieu to his son, kissed him,
and died ; imagine, says the narrator, the position of the
young man, clinging to the boat u ith one hand, aml bearing
up Ms father's corpse hi the other. This continued until
daybreak. Between four and five in the morning he found
the boat &Ming to the Vaudois shore, and his cries of dim
tress at once brought aid.

A LION AT LARGE !—Considerable excitement
and alarm was caused on Friday. at Nottingham, by
the escape of a lion from Mr. Whittington's mena-
gerie, which is exhibiting in the Sneinton New Market
during the "goose" fair holidays. It appears that
early in the afternoon Metani, the African lion hunter,
was parading a fuldgrown Punta lion, which is con-
sidered harmless, on the stage outside the establish-
ment, when the animal caught sight of a dog held by a
lad in the crowd. Breaking away from Metani, the
lion sprang off the stage on to the dog, and killed it
almost instantly. The people lied in. all directions,
and the lion, seeing another dog a short distance off,
rushed at it and despatched it as quickly as it had done
the first. Metani here succeeded in securing the
animal, which was led back to the menagerie with the
dead dog in its mouth. Some difficulty was experienced
in oliening the lion's jaws to get the ffirg away. Strange
to say, the lad who held the dog first killed escaped
unhurt, nor did any other ;arson receive injury.
A I)INAPPOINTMENT.—Lombard-street, from one
till two o'clock, or later, on Friday last, Was again
subjected to the nuisance of an idle crowd, who waited
with a patience worthy of a better cause, for the
appearence of Father Ignatius. That amiable but
eccentric clergyman happened at the particular Hereto
be rusticating on the southern coast; but, long after the
termination of a short service, hundreds of persons
with nothing better to do stood gaping at the closed
doors, in the firm and unaltered conviction that the
church was full of people, with the Rev. Joseph
Leyeester Lyne in their midst, afraid to come forth.
A goodly show of police acted as a chuck upon any
disposition to raise a disturbance, aril after a time the
crowd began to dwindle away.
How TO PREVENT A CONSPIRACY FROM LEAK-
iNG WT.—Let the plot thicken.—Pein ch.
A ROYAL CSIRISTENINO.—Last Saturday after-
noon the infant son of the Prince and Princess Mary
Adelaide of Teck was baidized at Kensington Palace,
in the presence of a distinguished company, including
the Duchess of Cand ridge, her Imperial Highness the
Duchess and Duke Philip of Wurtemberg, the Duke
of Cambridge, the Grsurd Draffiess of Meeldenburgh
Strelitz, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek-
lenburgh Strelitz, the Duchem of Inverness, Count
and Countess Gleichen, Lady Marian Alford, Lady
Georgina Grey, Ike. The sponsors on the occasion
were : his Majesty the King of Wurtemberg, Alex-
ander Duke f Wurtemberg,, Duke Philip of
Wucrtcoc-
berg. the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge,
Prince Louis of Hesse, her Majesty the Queen, the
Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the
Duchess of Inverness. The ceremony Was performed
by the Rev. William Harrison, rector of Great Birch,
Essex, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Bullock, of Kensing-
ton Palace Chapel. The Prince was baptized in the
names of Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward
George Philip Louis Laaislans. After the ceremony
the Prince and Princess entertained the royal party in
the council-room.
MUNIFICENT DEQUESTS.—The late Miss Cathe-
rine Wright, of 32, Brownlow-street, Liverpool, has
bequeathed the sum of £c,250 to the Liverpool charities,
£5OO to the British and Foreign Bible Society, and
£5OO to the Church Missionary Society. In addition
to these, she has left £lO,OOO for the establishment of
a fund to be called the "Wright Institution," to be
managed by a committee of local gentlemen, "the
object of which shall be to grant pensions to aged and
distressed members of the upper and middle classes of
society, understanding thereby distressed gentry, mer-
chants, tutors, governesses, and persons who have been
engaged in professional pursuits or in the higher de-
partments of trade, but who have been unable, from
unavoidable misfortune, to make adequate provision
for their declining years."
EmIIEZZLEMENT 13Y A TRAVELLER.—At Liver-
pool, James Palmer, a respectably connected young
man, was charged with embezzling £3OO and £4OO
belonging to Messrs. Moore, distillers and wine and
spirit merchants, in that town. He was an apprentice
in the service of the firm, and had recently been zip-
pointed traveller, at a salary of £l2O a year, and unli-
mited expenses. He absconded and Was apprehended
on Saturday last in North Wales, where he was en-
joying himself with a "bit of shooting" on the hills.
! On being charged with the embezzlement, he coolly said,
" I clout know what the amount is; its so large." He
was remanded.

DRUNKEN NURSES.—A lady correspondent
sends us ( Weekly Record) the following account of the
dangers to which her children were subjected at the
hands of a monthly nurse, while in a semi-intoxi-
cated condition. The woman had just poured out and
was going to administer internally a spoonful of lotioe
to an infant, but the quick eye of the mother detected
the mistake in time. The same woman applied spirits
of wine instead of rose-water to the child's eyes,
causing great pain. Numerous accidents and narrow
escapes might be related as having been caused by the
ignorance and stupidity of nurses, and we welcome a
movement lately started, which has in view the em-
ployment of educated women as superintendents in
the nursery, instead of the ignorant and too-often
unprincipled attendants who take charge of children,
and so ill-perform such a responsible duty.
_ . .

READ ON, MR. DEAN.—We applaud the in-
genuity of the Dean of Cork in selecting for the text of
his sermon in behalf of the Irish Church, the verse
about a certain crew beckoning to their partners in the
other ship to come and help them. But may we be
allowed to remember that their distress arose from
having a vast quantity of fishes, of which they would
make no use, and which threatened to sink them, and
that "the other ship " got into distress by helping.
Some texts are double-edged.—Posch.

A SAVAGE WOMAN.—At Liverpool 011 Satur-
day, Rose Ann Barns was charged with inflicting
grievous bodily m har upon another woman named
Catherine O'Brien, The evidence showed that the
prisoner and her husband quarrelled, when the cons-
plainent interfered, and the prisoner then seized
O'Brien by the hair of the head and bit off nearly the
whole of her right ear. The medical man who attended
the injured woman produced one piece of her ear in a
bottle of spirits, stating that a second piece bitten off
by her assailant could not be found. The prisoner was
remanded. She denied having committed the offence.
ROAST DONKEY !—Everybody who has eaten
roast donkey has pronounced it excellent (says a writer
in Macmillan's Magazine for October). In flavour it
is sail to resemble turkey, though the colour is consider-
ably darker. The accomplished gourmet is aware what
animal it is that contributes most largely to the com-
position of the best sausages in the world— the Lyons
sausages. The animal in question is a very clean
feeder, cheap, hardy, and subsists easily at little cost,
and it seems within possibility that donkeys may be
reared on the poorest commons not only as beasts of
burden for the use of the poor, but as a luxurious
addition to the banquets of the rich; and since France,
Austria, Russia, Belgium, Denmark, and other
countries have taken to hippophagy, the donkey may
be expected, at an early period, to make a successful
invasion of the United Kingdom in a new character.
POETRY AND PROSE.—Frederick and Amy
were watching the effect of the setting sun upon the
spire of Shanklin Church. "How beautiful," was
the fair girl's remaxk, "to see it tipped with gold !"
"Yes, darling," said Frederick, "like a gamekeeper."
—Punch.
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN !--It appears
that the art of puffing was thoroughly understood half-
a-century ago. The following is a copy of a handbill
then extensively circulated, and just fished up from
among forgotten things:—
We, the Public of Toulouse,

Invite all people to arrest Madame Maim Daryal when
passing through any towns of the kingdom, and not to release
tier unless she gives several representations. She will be
known by her—
Beautiful Figure,
Rich Hair,
Intellectual Countenance,
Black Eyes,
Delicious Mouth,
Poetic Visage,
And Pale Face.
A PRECIOUS HauL.—.+,,tiring the late gale, as
one of the Filey fishing yawls, at sea, was endeavour-
ing to haul in the nets (which had nearly been
accomplished), one of the crew slipped from near the
bulwark, and fell into the sea. The captain, thinking
that the poor fellow, in going down, might possibly
have got entangled in the few remaining nets, called to
the men to quickly haul them in, when to their
surprise he rose up, having come in contact with the
net rope, which he had tenaciously grasped. Fortu-
nately at that moment a heavy sea rose, and carried
him within reach of the ves.eel, when he was caught
hold of and drawn on board.

A YEAR'S WILLs.—In the year 1867, in which
471,102 persons died in England and Wales, (probablY
half of them minors, and about half the others women),"
37,497 probates of wills or grants of letters of adminis-
tration were issued, 14,623 in London, and 22,Ki4 iii
the English and Welsh provincial re.gistries. 'rhe
nundier is, of course, ever increasing. The increase in
1867 over 1866 was only 281, but 1867 was a year of
lower mortality than 1866. The personal property of
these 37,497 deceased persons was sworn under
692,3(112,570—viz., 654,111,971 in the eases disposed of
in the London Comt of Probate, or registry, and
£38,190,595 in the cases in the country registries. In
the year 1866 the property happened to be rather
larger, reaching £93,184,794. The sums under which
the property was swJrn in 1867 were equal to £196 for
every death in the year, reckoning the deaths of men,
women, and children
SINGULAR CONDUCT OF A CLEROYMAN.—The
conduct of the Rev. W. C. Templer, the rector of
Burton Bradistock, on the OCCOAIion of the visit of the
Bishop of Salisbury to his parish, on Friday last, for
the purpose of administering the rite of confirma6
has formed the subject of much comment in that part
id Dorset. Some time ago Mr. Templer, it will perhaps
be remembered, publicly protested against the doctrines
enunciated in the charge of the Bishop of Salisbury, in
the course of its delivery in St. Mary's Church,
Bridport ; and ever since that periodhe has strenuously
opposed his lordship's views. On Friday the Bishop
arrived in the parish, and was doubtless surprised to
find that the clergyman was absent —that, in fact, the
only representative of the parish present to receive him
was Mr. Legg, the parish churchwarden. His lordship
proceeded to the schoolroom, and in dreary silence pro-
ceeded to robe himself in the canonicals of his office;
but, strange to say, not a single person in the parish
was presented for confirmation. A large number of
candidates had been j repared, as usual, by the rector
but in consequence of his absence they were unable to
,be confirmed. Mr. Templer publicly stated in the
pulpit on the previous Sunday evening, that he would
not suffer his own children to be confirmed by the
Bishop of Salisbury, and he could not understand how
any Protestant parent could do so. He, however,
expressed himself willing to give a certificate to any
one desiring to be confirmed. It is said that many
wished to obtain that certificate, but the rector's intem
tional absence rendered this impossible.
CONFECTIONERY Is CoErreME.— One of the dresses
described in Le Fetid of this month has a "body
of chocolate foulard with maroon sleeves." A dress
with a body of chocolate must be a sweet thing. It
is one which may well be conceived to be what the
French milliners call eonfectionne.—Puneh.
WHAT IT ENDS IN.—You have been staying at
a friends house for a few days. You are on the point
of going away, and find the servants all on the tiptoe
of expectation. You must be deeply gratified by the
great interest they take in you personally, extending
as it does to the tips of your lingers. —Punch.

A PROVERB ON TEST.—If all proverbs were
true, the civil war in Spain would affortlgrounds for
the hope of Icing paid to Spanish bondholders. But
it does not always happen that, when rogues fall out,
honest men come by their own.— Punch. '
THE KING OF THE BELGIANS AND HIS SICK
SON.—The following touching story is told of the poor
child who now lies hovering between life and death at
Brussels :

King Leopold has been no affected by the frightful suffer-
ings his son has endured, that at times he has been unable to
remain in the boy's rosin. A small door has been made be-
hind the Prince's bed—by this the King constantly enters,
unperceived by the little sufferer, to ascertain his state.
The child knows the peculiar sound of the bolt being with-
drawn, and that his father is the only person who eaters his
room thus, in hearing it lie hnnirdiately pretends to sleep.
The King calls him in a low voice, lie makes no reply.
ho father, knowing the importance of sleep to him, goes
back to his apartments more tranquil. The child opens his
eyes, and says to his tutor, to whom lie is devotedly attached,
and who never quits hhu, "The King win be satisfied now."
—lt is a little strange that all the world should know of this
loving stratagem except him whoin it is intended to deceive.

" CONFESSEDLY " A MISTAKE.—The One Wine
Company may do in England, but clearly will not do
in Spain. The Queen has on given herself up to
Claret, that she haa no Port left, and has been
obliged to ask the Emperor for a little Hermitage.—
Pooch.

AN ITALIAN llamaNn.—The Italian papers are
full f the biography of Gaggino, the brigand of the
Romagna, who, with his associates, the two brothers
It:iris:4M, have for some time past been the terror of I
the Romagna. Gaggino is a nickname, which means
in liontagnol patois, the "little fair man." The bandit
has no name .4 his own, lie is the natural Hal if a
Ravenna girl and of one of the Pope's Swiss guards.
Ile was a-cry gentle and good up to the age of twenty-
two, which he attained in 1804, when he underwent
two or three terms of iniprisi inment for offences com-
mitted in the exercise of his occupation as faerhino' or
porter. In prison lie made the acquaintance of the
two Ilarisani, one grown up and the other quite young,
the fm-titer, it is said, lame, the other handsome and
active. They entered into a compact against their
isms, and so began their depredations. A
telegimn says that Gaggino has been killed, after a
desperate resistance.
ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER AT BLACKBURN.—
On Monday, at the Blackburn police-court, a working
man named George Compton was brought up on
remand, charged with attempting to shoot his wife,
the case having been previously adjourned for the
opinion of a medical man as to prisoner's sanity. Last
Saturday morning the prisoner loaded two pistols with
slut, and afterwards got hold nf his wife by the throat,
saying he had a deed to do and nothing should prevent
him from doing it. A struggle ensued, in the course of
, which his daughter took one of the pistols out of his
pocket, and a neighbour the other, and prisoner was
secured. The motive appeared to be jealousy. Pri-
soner had only recently returned from America. The
medical evidence was to the effect that prisoner was
quite coherent in his conversation. Prisoner was
bound over to keep the peace, himself in £3OO, and
two sureties in I:50 each, or in default six months'
imprisonment.
RESCUE OF THIRTEEN MEN AT SEA.—The screw '
steamer Caledonia, Captain Macdonald, which arrived
at Glasgow on Saturday, rcports having picked up on
the 25th of September, in lat. 47 39 N., long. 50 16 IV.,
the crew of the bark Vasco de Gums, of Hull, bound
from Quebec for Sunderland. It appears that early on
the morning of the 25th, the look-out on board the
Caledonia descried a small boat making signals some
distance ahead. On a nearer approach it was found
that the boat contained Captain Harrison and seven
of the crew of the Vasco de Gains, which had been
abandoned five days previously. Captain Harrison
stated that that same morning they had parted with
the second boat, containing the first mate and five of
the crew, who had gone in pursuit of a sail. Captain
Macdonall at once altered his course, and during the
day succeeded in picking up the other boat with its six
occupants. Both boats were very leaky : one of them
was without a rudder, and the oars had to do duty as
masts. The supply of fresh water was almost gone,
and the only food of the poor fellows ecnsisted of a few
broken biscuits steeped in salt water.

DEATH FROM DEDROPHORIA.—OR Saturday an
inquest was held, at Ovenden, on the body of Elkanah
Turner, aged sixty-three years, joiner, who died on the
previous day from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a
dog six weeks ago. Mr. Macaulay, of Queensbury, stated
that on the Tuesday before the deceased expired he
was called in to him, and attended bins until his death.
Recalled in Dr. Alexander, of halifax, as be had seen
some cases of hydrophobia. The patient could take
solids and eat them, but his saliva was so viscid that
he could scarcely get them down. He had every
sympton of hydrophobia. The deceased had great
self-control, and wished to be shut up quiet. The jury
returned a verdict of—Death from Hydrophobia.