The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-10-14 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

LIKENESSES OF FEMALE COMMIT:I INT.—There has been a great demand in Paris for likenesoes of the female Communists—the petroleuses as they were called, though their throwing petroleum was never proved. A gentleman who had purchased a number of these photographs was surprised to find among them the portrait of his own mother-in-tare. Acoom.. mined by a couple of police offlaere, he interviewed" the photographer, and 13I' racted from him an avowal that he had availed himself of the negatives of some of his former olients least remarkable for personal attractions, in order to form a collection of portraite representing the inmates of the Versailles prisons and the Brest hulks.  Too Df.vom Itunomts.—The woman Petheridge, who last week murdered her teo children at Yernsoombe, on being overtaken allowed hmeelf to be quietly taken into custody, stating that the intended to drown herself when the left the house. She said that she had strangled them with the etring of her night.drees. She appeared quite indifferent at the dreadful occurrence, and remarked, "They are dead; they are better off; they are gone to heaven." The general opinion is that the woman le of unsound mind. She had a severe fit a short time einee, which affected her speech a great deal. She was on Saturday committed for trial.  -- --ATTEMPTED SUICIDE .—The wife of Thomas Broosihall, sword • mounter, Queen's-road, Aston, died suddenly in the etreet, and was conveyed to her home, in the neighbourhood. The husband of desassed, on being made acquainted with the occurrenee, went home in an excited state, and on easing his wife, "If she Co dead I will do thin," and at once nut his throat with a pooket knife, The would-be suicide wee taken to the General Hospital, and is progressing favourably.  • Ten FLYING SQUADRON IN 1110 FIRTH Or Fearri.—Mach to the surprise and disappointment of many (says the Scotsman), the Ave detaebed chips of the Flying Squadron took • eudden departure from Qneemferry on Saturday. It was understood that the shipo were to remain in the Firth till Friday bent, and no doubt thin arrangement would have been carried out had not the Admiralty ordered them by telegraph to proceed to sea at once. So one:Peeled warn their departure that a number of their eailore and marines have been left behind. The police bare received orders to arrest them. Two men belonging to the gunboat and cotter in Granton were arrested no Saturday night, and had great difficulty in convincing the police that they were bona-fide leave men. The ahips, an they lay in line in St. Margaret's Hope, according to the arniority of the were--Nareinens, Inoonetant, Immortalite, Cadmus, and Volage, but, owing to the narrow @pale for working them, they eonld not leave in thin order. Thu admiral's chip, however, Seat weighed anchor, and wee followed by the Volage and Inconstant. The meals proceeded in close line down the Firth, and no the day was fine, with a bright eon shining on the Fifeehire coast, and • fresh westerly breeze blow. Of, they Presented a magnifiaeut view to the =memoe ePenatore who watched their motions from the south side of the Firth.