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The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-06-29 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

CALL AT MR. DISRAELff3.—It MIS Sunday at noon, and away I went to Grosvenor Gate. A tall Hebrew in livery came to the door, with a silver , waiter in his hand. "This is Mr. Disraeli's, I I believe P" I said. " Yes ; but Mr. Disraeli is not at home," was the answer, in ceremonious style. "Then, when will he be at home ?" I asked, "as I wish to present this note of introduction to him from Mr. Duncombe." "Mr. Duncombe, the member of Parliament?" asked the Ml,ll in livery. And when I answered "Yes," he presented the waiter, and said, "Yen has better give me the note; Mrs. Disraeli is at home." I gave him the note; and he closed the door, I waiting in the hall. He soon returned, saying, "Mr. Disraeli will see you. Yon understand it was my business to say Not at home.' You will excuse me F" "Why don't you bring the gentleman up?" cried a light, silvery voice from above. The servant led me up the staircase; and, at the top, Mrs. Disraeli very gracefully bowed, and withdrew; and the servant took me into what was evidently the literary man's "study "—a small room at the top of the house. One sees paragraphs very often, now, in the papers about the expressionless and jaded llook of the Conservative leader's face, as he sits in the House of Commons. Yet, as I first looked upon that face twenty-six years ago, I thought it one of great intellectual beauty. The eyes seemed living lights; and the intelligent yet kindly way in which Mr. Disraeli inquired about the torn of my imprison. ment, and treatment in the prison, convinced me that I was in the presence of a very shrewd as well as highly cultivated and refined man. "I wish I had seen you before I finished my last novel," said he; "my heroine, Sybil, is a Chartist." I gave into his hands the MS. of the First Book of my "Purgatory of Suicides." "I shall be happy to read it," he said; "but what do you wish me to do ?" "To write to Mr. Moson," said I, "and recommend him to publish it—if you think it right to do so, when you have looked it over." But Mr. Moxon is not my publisher," said he; "sad I offered him a poem of my own, some years ago, but he declined to take it. Why do you wish me to write to Mr. Meson so particularly ?" " Because he published poetry of his " Ah, post-like!" said the future Prime Minister of England—" you think he must sympathise with you, because he is a poet. Yoa forget that he is a tradesman too, and that poetry does not sell now-a-days. Well, write to Mr. Meson, when I have looked at your manuscript." He then directed me to call on a certain day in the week following, when he promised a note should be ready for Mr. Moson.—" The Life of Thomas Cooper." Written try Himaejf.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-10-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

LOVE'S'S QUARREL AND ITS RESULTS.— Mr. W. G. Paynehas concluded an inquiry respecting the death of Emma Goldbourue, a milliner, living in Webber. street, Blackfriars - road, London. The evidence showed that the deceased had been keeping company with a Frenchman named Paul Beaudet. The latter quarrelled with her in consequence of havirg discovered a love-letter addressed to her by the captain of a ship. She became very low-spirited after this, and about three weeks ago she took leave of her mother, brothers, and sisters, and left the house in tears. She then went to the house of her lover, and told him that she had taken white precipitate in mistake, thinking that it was magnesia. She Was very sick, and he allowed her to stay at his house all night, and in the morning took her home to her friends. She was subsequently taken to Guy's Hospital, where she remained for a fortnight before she died. A postmortem examination showed that death had resulted from poiaon. After hearing further evidence the coroner summed up, commenting ' upon the numerous suicides Gnat had been committed by young women of late. He believed that many of the people who jumped off bridges, do., did not really intend to kill themselves, but believed they would be rescued, and that public subscriptione would be got up for them. The jury returned a verdict of "Feb de se," and the coroner issued his warrant soordinal], THE UNITED STATES MINISTER, General &Mewl, has been or is on a visit to Sir Charles Adderley at his seat in Warwickshire, and paid an exploring visit to Pirmiugham. AT A MEET NO of the TOM" Council of Hamilton, it has been unanimously agreed to present Mr. H. M. Stanley, the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone, with the freedom of the burgh, on the occasion of his visit to Hamilton in November. A
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-10-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

LEGAL AND MEDICAL.—The folio —leg retort .110 made by Dr. X., in his crowsexamination by fferkant Y. :—Sergeant Y. "A doctor ought to be able to give an opinion without making a mistake !"--Dr. X.: They are as capable as lawyers !"---Segeant Y. 'A doctor's mistakes are buried six feet under the ground—a lawyer's are not !"—Dr. X. "Ent they are sometimes hung as many feet above the ground I" " Now, Johnny," said a venerable lady to bee sixyear-old nephew, who was persietently denying an offence of which she accused him, "1 know you are not telling me the troth; I see it in your eye." Pulling down the lower lid of the organ that bad no nearly betrayed his want of veracity, John exultingly replied, "You can't tell anything about it, aunt ;that eye always was a little streaked I" ESSAY ON THE Cow.—The jokers are not All dead yet. A Hampshire wag put the following advertisement in a weekly paper : "Who wants to buy a new miloh cow, that is every way kind, only five years 'old, and gives fifteen quarts of milk to a milking ? Jack lingers—The next week Mr. Rogers received not leaa than fifty applications through the paper for the cow, which were answered thus : "If I hear of any such cow I will let you know immediately. Yours truly, J. Rogers." UNPLEARANTNEAS On FEEEZlN.l.—Biggles., a queer genius, had made frequent promisee to kin friends that be would put an end to himself. One  stinging cold night he vowed he would go out and freeze to death. About eleven p.m. he returned shivering and snapping his fingers. "Why don't you freeze ?" asked a loving relative. "By Jove I" said the pseudo suicide," when! freeze I mean is take a warmer night than this for ,t A GENTLE Hisr.—A sportsman who during ths shooting season, had gone to nese a week with * friend it; the country, On the strength of a general invitation, soon found, by a gentle hint, that he would have done better to wait for a special one. "I saw some beautiful scenery," wan the visitor's first remark, "an I come to-day by the upper road?' "You will see still finer," was the reply, "an yea go bock to-morrow by the lower one Ceaszc, in Germany, has a street echo It played a political part during the troubles of 1850, whin thle Ministry of Hassenpfiug, Baninbach, and Havasu, wan so odious to the people. In that greet the wits I were won't to divert themselves by calling out the cameo of the Ministers, and receiving ;back the teat syllable from the echo—" Haesenpflugr--• " ugh "Eaumbseh "—"sob"! "Haynau r —" !" all delivered with an emphasis that gave particular gusto to the derision. am:SHERIDAN agreed with Walker that the pronunciation of wind should be wynd, but insisted, contrary to Walker, that gold should be goolel. Sheridan tells us that Swift need to jeer those who pronounced wind with a short (, by saying, "I have a great mined to finn'd why you pronounce it winn'd." An illiberal critic retorted this upon Sheridan by saying, "If I may be Bo boold, I should be glad to be mold why you pronounce it goold." A
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-10-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE SUICIDE MANIA.  At the Hammersmith Police-mitt-, -Lo—ndoii, Sarah Preedy, a respectably - dressed young woman, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a quantity of laudanum. A letter, whioh was found in her bedroom, contained the following passage -  " or nights I have tossed over in my bed, and could get no rest, so I think it beet to end my miserable life, for I cannot be happy without Dawson. My love for him is no very strong. I love him better than myself. We have walked out together far two year!, and now he coolly tells me he is about to marry some one else. It is too much for me. How can I live, knowing ho has married some one else, after what has pained between an' My heart is broken."  Da-m—s—on turned out to be a constable,who, in answer to the magistrate, said ho had given up the prisoner in consequence of seeing her in company of other men. It was ti ahe was engaged to be married to another young comae. Mr. Bridge said it was evident that the conduct of the constable had influenced the prisoner in attempting to destroy herself. He had no power to compel the constable to marry her, and as she had got into bad company it would be kindness on his part to send her to prison. He ordered her to find two sureties to keep the peace for six months.  The seventh case of attempted suicide that has been heard at Bow - street Police • court within a fortnight was before the magistrate on Tuesday. A witness saw William Grayson throw his hat into the road in St. Andrew's. street, and put himself under the wheels of a hansom cab which was passing slowly by. The wheel passed over his back. He was picked up insensible. When he recovered he said he was tired of his life. Mr. Vaughan (to the prisoner) : What could have brought you to such a state of mind ? The prisoner : I have been desponding. In fact, lam afraid to die. Mr. Vaughan: You seem, however, to have made some effort to take away your life. What is your occupation? Prisoner: I am a lithographic artist. Mr. Vaughan said it was perfectly painful to And that a man should seek to put himself suddenly out of the world in such a manner. He must be remanded to the House of Detention for a week.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-10-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE OF MR. JUSTICE WILLF.S. The report that Sir James Shaw Willes, the Senior Butane Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, had shot himself on Wedneaday morning has unhappily proved too true. It appears that since the conclusion of the Summer Northern Circuit, at the end of Augnst, on which Mr. Justice Wines was a judge—a duty of no email labour—be has been unwell, suffering from nervous depression, but he had not in the last few days exhibited any special indisposition. On Monday and Tuesday he took exercise in the grounds of his house, and on the latter day rowed himself in a boat on a lake which is in the demesne. During the night of Tues. 1 day he was very restless. He rose at seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, went into his dressing-room, sad partially dreaded himself. At a quarter-paet seven the gardener, who was in the garden, heard the report of a firearm ; and at the same time Mr. Barnes, for 32 yeara the Judge's confidential clerk, heard first the sound of a shot, and then a shrill scream. He instantly ran into his master's room, and found him lying on the floor with a revolver at his knee. He attempted to raise him, but Sir J. Wines died at once, a ball having passed through his heart. The circumstance of Mr. Justice Wines having a revolver in his possession may well be accounted for by the fact that his house at Otterepool, between two and three miles from Watford, stands in a very lonely spot, , remote from any other habitation, and is approached through lanes overshadowed by the foliage of large trees.  The deceased was the son of a physician of Cork, was born in 1814, and was consequently fifty-eight years of age. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took honours, and graduated BA.' in 1836, and LL.D. 10 1860. He was called to the bar 1 by the Inner Temple in 1840, went the home circuit, and had a large biudnesa as a leading junior. In 1849 ' he edited, with Sir H. S. Keating, the well-known legal work, "Smith's Leading Caere." In 1850 he was appointed a Commissioner of common law procedure, and assisted in drawing the Common Law Procedure Acts of 1852, 1854, and 1860, founded on the report of the Commissioners. In 1855, when a vacancy occurred among the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, ho was raised to the bench, and received the honour of knighthood. He was sworn of the Privy Council November 3, 1871. In 1856 he was married to Helen, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Jennings. I His loss will be much felt in the legal profession, in all branehes of which his lordship was held in much esteem.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-09-28 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

FRENCH SUICIDES. The Echo says An analysis of the returns of French enicides in 1870, in the Jftweal Offioiel, ought to help us very con' siderably to form some sound guesses at the real philosophy of seltmarder. We have been want to talk of the depressing effects of fogs and misty weather on the human mind as absurdly an Mr. Disraeli speaks of the "melancholy ocean" as the key to the woes of Leland. Actually, it appears that out of 4,157 suicides, 1,384 were committed in spring and 1,129 in summer, while only 668 crammed in the dreary months of autumn, and 976 in winter—i.e., just half ea many people were too tired of life to endure it in September, October, and November as in February, Marsh, and April. Can we not here see the proof that, after all, human nature is far more keenly affected by the aocial than the meteorie atmosphere, and that it is the months in which social life is most vivid, and subject to greater disuppointmente, not those in which physical life is on the ebb, which test it constantly to the uttermost 1 701 suicides out of the list were oommitted from motives of love or jealousy, 812 from family troubles, and 383 from misery and reverse of fortune. It is startling to read that 515 were mused by " physical sufferings "—a reason for suicide which (with the exception of the curious case mentioned by Pliny of his friend, who killed himself to ours the gout) has always been supposed to be fictitiously assigned to the set. Not less touching is it to read that 18 of the suitidea were children under 16 years of age, and that the woes of women did not drive more than 19 per cent. of the entire number of saicideS in Prance and Algeria to self.destraction.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-01-13 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TWE WFTIPER OF THE MORGUE.  There died in Paris, says the Globe, just in time to I have his name included in the obituary of 1871, a somewhat remarkable person. His name was Charles Francois Ferte, and his business in life was to reoeive the bodies of persona whom crime, accident, or suicide led to the Morgue. Ferte, by reason of his taste in waistcoats, popularly known as " l'Hemme Rouge," is described as a man who, under a somewhat rough demeanour, hid a kind heart. Many stories of his eats of humanity are current, but it suffices to know that he has left behind him a child which the double suicide of its parents had left unprovided for, and whom "l'Homme Rouge" took home with him, oared for, and had properly educated. But he has left behind him something more interesting still. Day by day, during the 26 years of his service at the Morgue, Ferte %BS composing a book, to which he has given the singular title Registre de Macabre. The book, which extends to many volumes is nothing more nor less than the register of the names and addressee—when known, otherwise of the descriptions—of the bodies received by him, which reach a total of 20,000. Forte appears to have spent his leisure hours in making inquiries into the antecedents of the more interesting of his charges, and the reaults are given in voluminous notes appended to the register of death. It is not stated whether the book is for sale, but if it be we need not point out its value to a youthful novelist about to commence business. In the record of 20,000 violent denthe annotated by the late keeper of the Morgue there , would surely be found material for a complete parlour , library of sensational novels.  TITE recordership of Scarborough has been conferred upon Mr. T. P. E. Thompson, of the Northern Circuit, son of the late General Perronet Thompson._
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-11-16 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDER TRIAL IN FRANOE. A trial has just taken place before the Court of Anises of the ioiret, the details of which aro worthy of occupying a conapicuous place amongst the records of those causes ciNbres which are co familiar to readers of peculiarly French horrors. The tragedy which formed the subject of investigation took place in May last, at a small farm called Herbage, near Mareau.aux.Pre the victim was a yoong woman of 28, and her murderers were her own parents. The atrocious circumstances under which the crime WOW I committed are amply indicated in the following brief extract from the ode d'arctulation which refers to the discovery of the body of Fliash'eth Durand in s I field close to hot own home:—  "This unfortunate young woman (it says), abandoned by her father, ill-treated by her step-mother, compelled to beg food during the greater portion of her existence was the victim of a crime unprecedented in Its cruelty. Her stomach had been ripped up by a blunt instrument, and the intestines, when the body was found, protruded through a gaping wound; the mouth was filled with earth and gravel; the face, the neck, the breast, and shoulder., were covered with wounds; and the murderers, finding that they had not euemeded in dfapatching their victim speedily enough strangled her, after having hacked her about in the most brutal and revolting manner. Under her feet (which were tied together) a grave had been dug, into which the body was thrown after the crime had been perpetrated." The step.mother, realising the enormity of the crime, and fearful of the fate which awaited her on its disclosure, oommitted suicide by hanging herself on the night of the 24th of May. The police, distinguishing some connection between this suicide and the sudden disappearance of Elisabeth Durand, at ones arrested the father of the victim, and, on gimetiming the youthful eon and daughter, , who witnessed the crime, were informed , as to the whereabouts of the body, which was discovered on the 31st. The evidence given before the court by the brother (a mere stripling) of the victim was such es, the report of the proceedings tells us, made the flesh of the audience creep. The principal author of the crime, however—namely, the father—although found guilty without estenuating circumstances, escaped the capital sentence, and was condemned to penal servitude for life.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-01-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN GLASGOW.— A very painful occurrence took place on Tuseday forenoon in East-end of Glasgow. About nine o'clock a woman, 28 years of age, named Mary Crawford, or Deuchar, wife of Alex. Deuchar, a designer, told her stepdaughter, a girl a 10 years of age, named Grace, that she meant to take the three children out for a walk, and desired that Grace should accompany them for the purpose of carrying the youngest child. The I children were prepared for the outing, and the little family party, five in all, set out from their home. It was made up of Mrs. Deuchar, 28 years of ago; Grace, ten yours; Harriet, three and a half years; Alexander two years; and May, three months. They proceeded in the direction of the river, and at length reached the banks of the Clyde, near the Cranston-hill Old Waterworks, where Mrs. Deuchar took the youngest from Grace, and told her to leave them, at the same time requesting her to return in a short time. The girl obeyed, and went back to the Clyde near the old waterworks. After some little time the first object which caught her eye was the body of one of her sisters floating down the river. Naturally enough, her first impulse was to raise an alarm, when three men who were in the neighbourhood succeeded in rescuing the bodies of the children, but life war found to be extinct. As to the fate of the mother, there can scarcely be any doubt that after drowning the children she committed suicide. Her footprints are quite discernible on the sand going towards the brink of the river, but the closest scrutiny has failed to discover any returning footmarks.. It is alleged that Mrs. Deuchar and her husband have not lived on the best of term% for some time past, and that they had a quarrel the previous night.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-03-09 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE JEWS AND THE THANKSGIVING (2.:REmoNY.—The Jew;sh Chronicle irtates that nu invitation to attend the ceremony at St. Paul's was sent to the R3V. Dr. Adler, but that he felt it his duty to decline ; the reason being that In:, as a "Cohen." might not be present under ar. wllich covered the graves of the dead. Mrs. Adler. however, was present. The Rev. Dr. Artom, ,:.nf of the Spanish mid Portuguese Jews, also re ed au invitation, and he attended.  • SILVER, ELECTRO PLATE, dm., TO CLEAN AND POLK lit E. Oalc6's Non-Moretbrial Silnersmith's S!,av is guaranteed be free from mercury or any other injurious ingredien, too often used in the manufacture of plate powder. T.ibleta 6d. each. Sold everywhere by grocers, ironmoutri,.. ' wealmakers, chemists, nilmen,ke. Wholesale, Oakey id -tins, Wellington Enter., awl lllucd, Lend Mills, Blackf rs,e colne  MELANCHOLY hz, been held at the Whit., Lion Tavern, High-street, Shadwell, respecting the death of Mr. Thomas Taylor, aged 43, late of Norfolk-street, Strand, who wan drowned in the London Docks on Thursday. Mary Taylor said the deceased was her husband, and owned considerable property in England and New South Vales. They had lately been staying in England, but had taken their berths for New South Wales in the Aberdeen steamship, Ann Guthrie, which was to Emil on Friday morning. On Thursday aftornoun they went aboard, and about ten o'clock at night the deceased said he would take a stroll nnud the quay of the dock. Shortly afterwards she he.t...1 that he was drowned. She did not think that he summated suicide. James Peter Matthews, a sergeant of the dock police, said that on Thursday sight he heard that some one had fallen into the wat, Th• • drags were procured, and in the course of cc hour the body was recovered. Two letters of credit on the New South Wales Bank for £725 and .f. 260 some money, and a gold watch were found on the body. He believed his death was the result of an accident. He most have made a false sr-, end have fallen from the quay into the water. T:ie coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.