The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-04-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FRENCH "BECKY SHARP."  Mondays issue of the bidependrorre Beige givet prominence to a lengthy letter from Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., urging the reduction of the postage between Great Britain and Belgium from Zid. wie penny. The Indisendauce strongly endorses Ilr. Heaton's views, and it is believed that tin Belgian Government will approach the British Post Office authorities in order that the Belgian and British delegates to the forthcoming postal congress may jointly propose to the members of the Postal Union to consent to an agreement between th J. Page, twantries on this subject, grand stook  A remarkable adventuress named Delphine aeyler, whose notoriety is of long date, and who aractised her arts with varying success in Paris, London, and other European capitals, has, tele. Traphs the Paris correspondent of the Daily Taleiraph, been condemned at Pau to six months' imsrisotunent, the sentence being afterwards increased o two years by order of the Paris Court. This new Becky Sharp was born of respectable parents at 'iantes in 1829, and received a good education in a .ionvent at Algiers. After two years or so of wedded life in the African Colony she became imaatient of domestic ties and went off to Paris with a clever young fellow who afterwards rose tc Je a noted statesman. In 1883 the Geyler was wandering about Prance as a Countess. She lived m great style, but mine to grief at Lyons, where she had her first experience of the dock and this orison, having been condemned to one year's im• srisonrnent for obtaining goods under false pre. 'ences. On her liberation she passed through various cities, from time to time acting as a roverness, music-teacher, or done if. compaynie, in which last capacity she is said to have been employed for a while in London. A few years ago she ,ame to Paris, when she obtained a considerable sum of money from the vicar of a Metropolitan larish. whose church she promised to get het husband to restore. The said spouse was represented to the estimable ecclesiastic as a wealthy En4lisli lord. Delphine Geyler was arrested lately it Lourdes, where she was engaged in perpetrating frauds on several pious and opulent pilgrims to that ..elebrated shri ni•.  I There are few worse records than that of the Senapati, or Commander-in-Chief of Manipur of whom Indian telegrams have recently said so much. His name is Tikendrajit Singh, and he is a stepbrother of the overthrown Maharajah. Flis popular name, "Koireng," means the Wanderer. A Calcutta contemporary, the i.:ay/is/onan, says: Four years ago Koireng was found guilty of an atrocious murder, and was exiled to Lake Loktak for a year by Colonel Johnstone. More recently he wreaked his vengeance upon two villagers for a fancied offence by placing them on a median and lighting a fire below them. For half roasting these poor wretches Koireng was only fined 50 rupees. I The May number of "Harper's" (the last to be published by Messrs. Sampson Low) will contain a paper on *The Warwickshire Avon"—the first to which Mr. A. T. Quiller Couch has signed his name in full with illustrations by Mr. Alfred Parsons; and another illustrated article, on "The English Ancestry of Washington," by Mr. Moncure D. Conway.  Ball Street, for Travelling Cloaks a of novelties