The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-04-18 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

THE LATEST PHASE OF " SERVANTGA LISM."— " Our servants" has again become a topic in the newspapers and periodicals, and the aphorism as to where our meat is got and where the chef matriculates continues to be disagreeably true. I may add a personal contribution to the current gossip on servantgalism. A few weeks ago, about half•past seven in the evening, I was standing with a friend at the door of a West-end club, glancing towards the area, when we saw a large bundle of something in red and white, which presently resolved itself into two ladies, in muslin dresses and opera cloaks. They came up the steps, and the commissionaire hailed a-cab for them, while the hall porter bowed a salute to them as they drove oft I had the curiosity to ask the hall porter who the ladies were, and his reply we', Please, sir, one is bin hour kitchen the other young pusson is one of the 'ousemaide. They're going to a ball hif you please, sir, given to us by the survants at the " naming another club. I don't think this can be beaten by any farce of the "high life below stairs" order.—London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury. LOST PRoPERTY.—Every day we see advertisements for lost propet ty, some showing eccentricity on the part of the losers. Ladies leave bags full of jewels in hansom cabs, though why they carry these articles about so lAisely does not appear. I Puppies and Angora cats are continually going astray, as also canary birds, parrots, and dormice; while pocket-books "of no use to any one but the owner" seem to lead a nomad existence. But these are small losses compared to that which has ' lately befallen a young Ritualist, whose "Sin Book" has been mislaid or stolen. In this awful volume he had written down a great many venial, and four or five mortal sins (he is uncertain as to the number), but that is of small moment. From his love of sweets it is presumed that one of the direst sentences runs thus—" I ate too many pancakes on Shrove Tuesday," but we are not informed whether he considers this a venial or mortal sin. " I wasted too much time in dressing for vespers" may, perhaps, be another. A young lady is &apposed to have found the "Sin Book." This, the latest vagary of Ritualism, is, however absurd it may seem, a. positive fact. We can ccaroely imagine a more unwholesome employment for a lad than keeping a" Sin Book."—Echo.  SUPPC/SED Domma Sinciriz.—.on Saturday afternoon Mr. Humphreys, the coroner for Middlesex, held an inquiry at the Mile End Workhouse, Bancroft road, into the circumstances attending the deaths of a man and woman unknown, both aged about 24 years, whose bodies were discovered in the Regent's Canal, under circumstances which gave rise to a suspicion that they had agreed to commit suicide.—Henry Tilley. a bargeman, stated that a few days since he discovered the body of a man floating on the water near the gas works, which he succeeded in recovering and handed over to the police.—Police-constable Blake deposed that the deceased had the appearan,e of being highly respectable. He was fully dressed, except his coat. He should take him to be 24 years of ar. No papers were found to lead to his identification. Police-constable William Lloyd said that while on duty upon the Regent's Canal Bridge, Mile End, he heard faint screams from a woman crying out "Save me." He at once proceeded to the towing path, but only to see a woman sink for the last time. He ealled the lock-keeper, who at once used the drags, but the body was not recovered until three o'clock in the afternoon. William Horton, lock-keeper, said that he ree vered the body near Gardner's lock. Deceased was fully and respectably dressed, and appeared to be abut 24 years of.age. The body of the man was recovered only a few yards from that of the woman. A verdict of found drowned was recorded.