The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-02-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

OTOV. An explanation of the frequent Cabinet councils in Downing street has been volunteered. It appears thot the Cabinet is divided as to the expediency of sending troops to Canada. Some of her Majesty's Ministers seem to think the colony in danger of a Yankee hivasion ; but Mr. Gladstone has streiluously oppoted such a course. "Which would compromise the equilibrium of his budget." It is reported that time Dowager-Queen of Hawli is expected to visit this country, at the invitation of Queen Victoria. Polioni, the Italian who was charged with murder. Ing, under peculiarly cowardly circumstances, an Englishman, with whom he had quarrelled in a public-house on Saffron Hill, London, was tried on Friday and condemned to death, Baron Martin observing, in passing sentence, that he never knew a conviction which proceeded upon clearer testimony. The feeling in favour of the abolition of capital punishment grows rapidly in Italy. The committee appointed to report on the legislative unification of the couutry has recommended the abolition of the scaffold. Clue of the most prominent professors of Berlin University, renowned for his philological lore, has gone mad, on a strange delusion that lie has been robbed by a French hatter, at whose house he lodges, of a certain valuable 31.0 S ,of which Napoleon has availed himself for the forthconveg " Life of Cicala." lie awaits the issue of that work to begin a lawsuit against the French Kai. peror. M. Agudio, of Parks, proposes to cleanse the streets with a pneumatic ntschine. Its hes Invented a mud-cart, consisting of a close Iron box, from which the air is pumped by a small engine on the top. Some machinery behind, as the cart moves on, sweeps or rakes the mud together, which Is, of course, sucked up by a tube dipping into It, and brought from the upper part of the cart box. The Canadian Parliament have determined ontaking measures to stop the abuse of &salute by Southern refugees, and Judge Course], who released the St. Albau's raiders, has been suspended by the Government, Mr. Toot, coming home late one night from a meeting, was met at the door by his wife. "Pretty time of night Mr. Toot, for you to come home—pretty time, three o'clock In the morning; you, the father of a family I" "Tisn't three —it's only one; I heard it strike: committee always sits till one o'clock." "Mr. Toot, you're drunk. It's three in the morning." "I say, Mrs. Toot, it's one. I heard It strike one as teams round the corner, two or three times." The Court Journal says -"A busy, but hushed and mysterious rumour, has been going the round of the London clubs, relating to a quarrel between two brothers of noble lineage, one of whiten Ins moment of passionate excitement, is said to have staobed the other seriously. Happily, we can state that the names whispered are in no way Implicated in the affair, and that no English peerage will have to bear the disgrace of • quarrel, as the injury was the menet • pure accident, by plating the Chinese knife-trick,"— tThhee bertoothry eisrsdiennigeudesbuy nt hia se TN° onnoiti y• Pt to so rt , sowmhiechumstaete:onthe aoft them being in NaPlik