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MISCELLANEOUS. » CRUSHED TO DEATH.—A fearful accident lately occurred at Harestane Bleachfield. A man named David Nicoll was employed washing yarn and putting it into a squeezing machine. His wife was at the other side of the machine lifting the yarn and placing it on a barrow, to be taken away to the bleaching- green. While so employed the woman's dress was caught by the driving machinery, and she was at onoedragged into a narrow space between an upright shaft and large wheel, having only time to cry to her husband," Oh, Davie, come an' shift the squeezers before she was crushed in such a frightful manner that death followed almost instantaneously. AN OUTRAGEOUS EXCEPTION."—The Boston 'fIr(JjVeller., describing a scene not in the bills," says :—" At the close of the Rev. Mr. Fulton's tlectureon Monday evening at the Music-hall, the (Rev. Gilbert Haven introduced him to several ladies who were upon the platform, among others to Mrs. -Julia Ward Howe. That lady refused to shake hands with him, -and said, "YOU profess to be a Christian < minister, sir, and you have reviled woman.' Better ,do that, madam,' replied he, 'than to revile Jesus 'Christ.' I never reviled Jesus Christ,' she said. '-You have done your best to do it,' said he. Sir,' she responded, 'you have played the part of a dramatist and buffoon.' 'Madame,' said he, 'your birth, your education, and your position in Society should have made a; lady of you.' She replied, Do .you mean to say, sir, that I am not a lady ?' 'I mean to say, madam, said he, that you act like an outrageous exception.' At this point Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell took up the conversa- 'tion, and Mrs. Howe withdrew." liÓUT NOON ONE DAY the inmates of the manse of Barvas, and several field-labourers who were employed in a neighbouring park, were as- tonished to witness the extraordinary spectacle of a copious shower of large masses of sea foam suddenly falling from the atmosphere. In the course of two minutes a large, surface of ground embracing hundreds of acres—became thickly dotted with this strange deposit. It is conjectured that the foam, having been wafted up by its force into the higher regions of the air, had been kept suspended there by wind currents, until the lull caused its unexpected descent. AT A SPECIAL MEETING of the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital the Prince of Wales pre- sided. The charges which had been made against the management of the institution were replied to at length in a statement read by Mr. Foster White, the treasurer, and occupied two hours in delivery. The absence of an opening address at the beginning of the present term, the sum expended upon the in-patients, the quality of the diet, the accommodation of the out- patients, the number of the medical'staff, the mortality amongst the nurses, together with other matters which had been made the subjects of adverse comment, were severally dealt with by Mr. White in a manner which elicited expressions of satisfaction, as well from the Prince of Wales as from the meeting. It was resolved that some of the questions in dispute should be re- ferred to the House Committee, to inquire into and report upon at a special court, and a vote of confi- dence in the treasurer having been passed, an expres- ,sion of thanks was heartily accorded to his Royal Highness for presiding over the gathering. SHARP PRACTICE.—John MI.Nally and John Graham, porters, and James Potts, of the Liverpool borough police, have been summoned for getting off one of the Woodside ferry steamers otherwise than by the, gangway. A boatman, named Edward Cullen, proved the offence. The witness stated that knowing the police-officer required to go on duty, he was about to lower-the gangway that he might go on shore in a -legal manner. Inspector Rigby said the hands on the boat knew he was on board, and ought to have given him intimation when they were about to draw up the .gangway. Mr. Preston thought, although these regu- lations were wholesome and necessary for the public safety, still there were occasions when they might be .,safely set aside, and this was one of them. The de- fendants were discharged. DURING A SPEECH of one of the Porto Rico deputies to the Spanish Cortes two cases of laxity on the part of the island judges in respect of cruelties to the slaves were alluded to. One lady (?) killed a Slave by hot irons for merely drinking a glass of milk. She was merely sentenced to "seclusion," from which she speedily escaped to the United States, where she lives. Another slave-owner got off with 500 dollars for severely injuring a child five yeats old by encasing its legs in iron stocks so rusty that the lock could not be,ppened save by cutting, and this simply because he thought him bewitched, and had caused the death of some others of the slaves on the same estate. A CUNNING DODGE.—On Monday Margaret J Ann Kelly and Ann Lewis were charged at Belfast with stealing several articles .from a shop. The rob- beries were traced to the prisoners by a cunning dodge of their own, by which they rendered another woman, ngmo Jaiie Spencer, liable to the charge. One night frecently tho prisoners carried some clothes to her, which they said they wanted hashing, but as from the results of accident she could not Clean them, the large bundle was thrown iknder the bed, and when it was in a day or so drawn out and examined, the web of winsey and the pair of boots were found, but no dirty clothes. Seeing her -dangerous position, Spencer instantly sent for an ,officer; when Police-constable Barraclough appeared and took possession of the articles, getting at the same time some account of the parties who had left them, and subsequently the oWners were found and the prisoners apprehended. AT THE DOMINATION FOR TIPPER ART, the Rev. l'4,r: 'Ry¡in, in proposing Crean (who afterwards retited), said the landlords were frightened out of their jackesbusepeople had given up the old system of taking revenge, and were acting on a new patent, and most successful principle, which he was not binding himself to, because as a priest he was a man of peace; but now the tenant would not trust father, brother, or mother with the secret of, what he intended to do, but went out, took his revolver, and tumbled I I his landlord. This assertion was received with loud cries of Bravo 1" and prolonged cheers. -E,cho. SENSATIONAL!—IN the Times we have the following glimpses of romance "Madge.-Why did you not return home on Saturday night ? My wild bird, if I am the cause, believe me I will never trouble you again. Your sister is much worse, and I am in an agony of fear. Yours till death.—Write to the A——or Hugh, Lady N >> If you could ,understand how you have overwhelmed me with intense joy J How can I express in this little space my gratitude for your generous confidence ? It will never be forgotten, for it will be an ever fresh re- membrance, treasured in my heart. The reminder jou so gently expressed was needless; toy ajms are too high, as you well know, to be disturbed by inferior influences. I have long chosen you to aid me; and every plan, every thought, and every feeling hasdor years been subordinate to the ultimate accomplish, ment of this determined desire. Please look for another. communication shortly." AT THE BRADFORD BOROUGH COURT the other ,day, before the Mayor, Mr. William Cooper, woollen cloth manufacturer, of Guisely, near Leeds, was -charged with having, with a guilty knowledge, forged and uttered a bill of exchange for dE98 10s. 6d. In tthe early pari of August last the prisoner paid to Mr. Solomon Brear, of the firm of R. and S. Brear, -warp agents of Bradford, a bill of exchange at three "mouths for Ig.9 s 10s. 6d. on a firm with whom he was mot connected. The bill was afterwards paid by Messrs. Brear into the Bradford District Bank, and ,when payment became due on the 10th inst. the bill 'Wafj returned to the bank dishonoured. The prisoner ^a$committed for trial for forgery at the winter ,assizes at, Leeds, an application to offer bail being refused. THERE OXE IMPRESSION which the amval of the Brazilian m Iail never fails to produce it is that of the enormous number of the family connections of the amler of Paraguay. The fact is brought out by the never-failing announceinent that Lopez has put one or two or more of his blood relations to death. We should be sorry to say how many members of his family have died in this way, but the number must be large. It is now stated that during the month ,Ccivered by the last mail, his mother and his brother Venacio have been executed by his orders, on the ground that they were found'ill a conspiracy against .him. The character of the man for humanity never stood 'rery high, and it appears that the misfortunes which for a time gained him a certain amount of sympathy in this country, acting upon a ferocious nature, have made of him another Theodore in character, as he mAy become in fate.—Daily Neves, REMARKABLE ACCIDL, NT.-AN inquest has been held at Reading, before the coroner, on the body of Martha Goodall, wife of Richard Goodall, who resides at Beading. Fanny Barnes, a girl aged 13, stated that she went early to the water-tap, in order to obtain some water for breakfast. When she, arrived at the place, deceased was in the act of filling a vessel with water, when suddenly she disappeared, and at the same time the large sink-stone underneath sthe tap, and the ground surrounding it. On looking down, she-saw the deceased at the bottom of an un- used well, at the mouth of which the tap had been erected, quite dead. THE NOVEMBER SESSIONS of the Central Crimi- :nal Court were opened on Monday. Robert Cook, a solicitor and money-lender, whose case had been 'postponed from the October sitting of the court, was now found guilty of having obtained by fraud a sum of X200 on a policy of assurance, and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. JosephBentleypleaded guilty to publishing a libel upon the European Assur- ance Company, and having, through his counsel, admitted that there was no justification for the state- ments to which exception had been taken, was merely required to enter into a recognisance of tSQo to appear for judgment when called upon. FATAL AmuSFMYNT.-An inquest has been held at Leeds on the body of Charles Bevers, a boy eleven years of age. Deceased went, accompanied by his brother, two years his senior, to the mill of Messrs. Hamer and Grey, woollen printers, Head- ingley, where he was employed. There was no one at work, but a large water wheel was turning at the rate of about six revolutions a minute, Connected with this, but on the opposite side of the wall, was a cog wheel, about eight feet in diameter, half of which was visible in the room in which the boys happened to be. The younger of the brothers commenced m amujg* g himself by catching hold of a broken portion of the cog wheel as it entered the floor of the room oa one side, and, remaining on it as it slowly revolved until it reached the opposite side, when he sprang off. This feat he performed in safety two or three times, but in his last attempt he failed, was caught by the wheel, and had his left side dreadfully lacerated for a space of 15 inches. He was rescued as speedily as possible, and removed to the infirmary,where he died the same night. The jury returned a verdict of Ac- cidentally killed." LAST WEEK the rate of mortality in London was 28 per 1,000, or one below the rate which pre- vailed in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The mortality from scarlet fever, which somewhat declined during the week in London, showed an increase in several other places, and especially in Sheffield. In the metropolis 2,182 births and 1,689 deaths were registered, the latter having exceeded by 264 the estimated number. Although relapsing fever has been prevalent for some time past, only ten fatal cases have during the present year been recorded. The mean temperature during the week was 41.1, or 3.3 below the average. A SAD CASE.—A few days ago, at the Borougfe- court, Bolton, a pretty, showily-dressed young woman, named Annie Hendrey, who stated that she came from Manchester, was brought up on a charge of creating a breach of the peace on Monday night. The Mayor (to defendant): Have you any questions to ask the officer ? Miss Hendrey (weepingly): It was my seducer, sir; it was at his house. He has deserted me, and will do nothing for me. I was trying to get him to do something for me. Mr. Beech: Have you any question to ask the officer ? He says you were breaking the peace. Miss Hendrey I might well break his peace, when he has broken mine. He gave me a ring, and promised to marry me; and then he seduced me. The ex-Mayer: Do yon know anything of her before P Mr. Beech: No* sir. The ex-Mayor: Have you any friends in Bolton ? Miss Hendroy: No; I think he should be my friend, but he has not proved so. Mr. Orton: Has she been living here any time ? Miss Hendrey He took me from my situation to marry me, and now he's left me. Mr. Beech: She is complaining of the conduct of the individual at whose house she com- mitted the breach of the peace. The Mayor, after a brief consultation with the other magistrates: If you promise not to repeat such conduct in future we will discharge you. Do you make that promise ? Miss Hendrey: On condition that he makes a settlement on me. The Mayor: We will discharge you. A BUTCHER SENT TO PRISON.—At the City Police-court a butcher, named Wild, has been charged with depositing in his shop in Rochdale-road a quantity of beef totally unfit for human food. The superintendent of the city markets stated his belief that the animal had been affected with chronic diarrhoea, the flesh was in a very bad state, as the presiding magistrate himself could testify, his worship, having examined it and signed the order for it to be destroyed. Inspector Atkinson proved the case. The defendant said he did not bring it to his shop for oak, but to throw into the, "bone tub." Mr. Headlam said he could not believe such a story. He had seen the stuff. It was very bad, and, believing it was brought to the defendant's shop to be sold as food, he should' send him to prison for a month without the option of paying any fine. AUSTRALIAN ALLIGATORS.—From the Norman RiTer there comes a tragic tale. In that river the alligators are so numerous and daring that they, will net leave the steamers' path until they are actually disturbed by the motion of the floats. As the steamer Pioneer was on its voyage, a Kanaka belonging to the vessel was standing on the margin of the river unfastening a rope, when he was charged by one of these terrible saurians. The people on board who saw the danger cried out to alarm the man but before he could make his escape the alligator seized him by the thigh. The unfortunate man threw his arm round some mangroves, and so held on until assistance came from the steamer. Six men quickly seized him, and then there was a horrible trial of strength between human muscles and the jaws of the alligator. The captain struck the brute a blow on the head with an axe that forced him to let go his hold, and the victim was dragged away. The alligator, however, made another charge up the bank, but was repelled with difficulty by repeated blows of the axe. The pool Kanaka's leg was taken off below the knee. Medical assistance was near at hand, but the excessive loss of blood rendered recovery hopeless. The man died within 15 minutes after he had reached the dootor'a dispensary. MONEY WANTED.—" Secretary wanted is a frequent heading of a Times advertisement; and if you read through an advertisement of this class, it geeally pars that there is also money wanted. This is quite intelligible in reference to the suppositi- tious secretariats of companies in embryo; but sometimes the affair is not quite so clear. Take this for instance: "Private secretary to a gentle- man required. A man of education, good character about 30, and having £ 300 at command. Retired officer preferred. Salary X230 and expenses." What in the world can a gentleman, who pays his secretary five pounds a week, want with his secretary's three hundred pounds? And then, why does he want a retired officer P Retired officers, as we know, are in demand as directors; the man of war is seldom a man of business; a major-general or viae-admiral, with a country address in Kent or Sussex, looks well I Upon paper. The public naturally trust, saah men while they, having often found their fiercest enemies loyal, are unsuspicious of disloyalty from those 0 Ull style themselves their firmest friends. One more in. Why is 30 the desired age ? Do officers of (good character often retire at so early a point life ? DEALERS KT HAIR-WASH. —A remarkable action has been before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Pigott and Cleasby, in the Court of Ex- chequer George and wife v. Skivington—against a f a*v<* druggist, for selling a hair-wash which injured the female plaintiff's hair, and which now oame before the court upon a demurrer to a declara- toon, which stated that the defendant sold, to her a certain compound, made of ingredients known only to himself, which he represented to be fit and proper to be used as a hair-wash, and that he so carelessly, unskilfully, and negligently conducted himself in and about the making of such compound, that she suffered personal injury musing the same. The Lord Chief Baron 9 baying stated that the court would amend the decla- ration by striking out the words and wife so that the husband should appear to be the purohaser of the compound, said he thought that judgment should be givlon, for the plaintiffs. There was clearly imposed on the defendant to use ordinary and reasonable care and-skill in compounding the article, aad it was sifted in$ie declaration, that he so and negligently compounded it that personal injury re- salted to the female plaintiff. The action, therefore, was -ludgment for tha d < THE Manchester Guardian says that a couple of boys are just now wanted by the at Walsall, on the cnarge of being concerned in the theft some weeks ago of nearly XI,000 (in gold, notes, and drafts) from the premises of Messrs. Duynan, Lewis, and Lewis, solicitors of that town. Their names are Samuel Thompson, aged 16, lately in Messrs. Duynan's employ, and Thomas Simpson, aged 17, one of his associates. Thompson continued to attend to his duties without exciting suspicion until Saturday last. He has since been absent from home, and he and the other have been traced to London, where they had engaged berths in a vessel about to sail to Australia. This latter fact came to the knowledge of Simpson's father before it was known to the police, and he made inquiries at the shipping office, which alarmed the lads and caused them to abscond, whither ib is not known. THE FLORENCE Nazione says it is reported that a commission which has been appointed to examine the penal code of Italy has recommended that the punishment of death shall still be main- tained. It is not, however, to be inflicted unless the jury are unanimous in their verdict; and executions are no longer to take place in public. As an oppo- nent on principle of capital punishment under any circumstances, the Nazione receives this news with much dissatisfaction. The Naziou thinks that if the suggested change in the law is carried out it will defeat itself, and lead to the abolition of the death penalty altogether. SQUARING" A CHARGE. Mr. Neate, a butcher, Chelsea, was lately summoned by the police at Westminster for furious driving. Anstiss, the constable, with some brother officers, was in Chelsea, crossing Simmonds-street, when the defendant came along at the rate of ten miles an hour, and struck Anstiss and nearly knocked him down. In reply, the defendant said he was not going at ten miles an hour, for one of the other constables when asked said two miles an hour. Mr. Selfe: He was ironical; I never saw a butcher's cart go two miles an hour. A person in the body of the court said the horse could only go six miles an hour. The interrupter was ejected by the officers. Defendant said he was sorry it happened; he would give the constable a leg of mutton for his Sunday's dinner. Mr. Selfe: That's a fair offer; what do you say, Anstiss ? Anstiss made no objection, and the summons was withdrawn; defendant to give the constable a 101b. leg of mutton for Sunday's dinner. THE P ANTIN TRAGEDY.-The Chamber of In- dictment of the Imperial Court of Paris has, in ac- cordance with the advice of the Advocate-General, M. Merveilleux-Duvignaux, made an order for a sup- plementary inquiry into the Troppmann affair. This has been caused by the disclosures made by the prisoner subsequently to the close of the examination by the examining magistrate. It would seem, how- ever, that Troppmann's disclosures are mere false- hoods to gain time. Three days back, M. Claude, chief of the secret police of Paris, presented himself to the law officers of the Crown at Colmar, a.nd applied for assistance to institute a search in a particular locality in Alsace, designated by the prisoner. The object was to proceed to a particular spot near Hirstein, and there, close to a tree marked down on a rough pen-and-ink map of the place, drawn by the murderer, find a dead body buried at a very small distance from the surface of the ground. At a fixed hour several judges and agents attended, and the search began, but nothing whatever was discovered. The next day other researches were made, but all without result. The inference naturally is that SSoppmann's confessions were more falsehoods. MORE LEAMINGTON SCANDALS. Scandals, like wonders, will never cease-at least so far as Leamington is concerned. The air is, thick with them. The two most recent cases would be amusing, if they were not criminal. In one case an orna- ment of the force," as he is very properly termed for his soldier-like bearing, is bereaved of his "better half;" in the other, the daughter of another Lea- mington official is the delinquent. In case No. 1, the lady, as is the wont of Leamington ladies, was "fond of dancing," and necessarily of malel as her class would term it, "gentlemen's society." Although her lord had had some words with her, he gave her his wages last week, and while he was "on duty," she "moved off," and on the faithful watchman returning to his domicile his faithless spouse was, as policemen say," found missing." She had taken with her all the ready money she could find, and also had emptied her not too capacious wardrobe. Her destination was be. lieved to be Birmingham. The second case is that in which a man in the not very elevated position of a oar-driver returns unexpectedly to his home, and finding an interloper, administers to the said culprit a punishment which he will not readily forget, and which, from its severe nature, must have left him a dderalld a wiser man." A BED FOR ROYALTY.—Not the least attractive feature in the just closed South Staffordshire Exhibi- tion was a quaint oak bedstead, which had occupied the spare hours of some 18 years of the life of George Pugh, an ironworks pattern maker, of Wolverhamp. ton. The maker valued his bedstead at XISO, and Bir. Cole, C.B., has purchased it for Royalty. Mean- while. it has been forwarded to South Kensington. The posts are oarved with the twisted reed, and have their bases enriched with gargoyles, with terminals of flowers and fruit. The foot-board, divided into three arched panels, with figure in central one, and supported by columns, is surmounted by the figure of an eagle. The head is composed of a ground mould- ing of echinus, with two arches above, of recessed panels, with cupids in relief, the spandrils bearing chorubs. The shoulder rail is supported by carya- tides. The centre panel is designed to show the portcullis entwined with the Tudor rose, and date and initials. The canopy, which is supported by lions couchant, is panelled, with pendant rose post in centre, the whole surmounted by an overhanging cornice, decorated with the acanthus in ogee moulding. THE EDMUNDS SCANDAB.-Asthis case before the arbitrators, which has occupied the public at. tention so long, is now concluded, with the exception of the award, it may be mentioned that the fallowing are the claims of Mr. Leonard Edmunds against the Crown, viz. Overpayments to the Exchequer on the sums of 12s. 10d.; the cost of the parchments and engrossments, < £ 2,830 7s. 10d.; claim on the general account for overpayments to the Exchequer and Suitors' Fee Fund, .£299 Is. lOcL; ditto on Suitors' Fee Fund Account, £ 130 17s. 2d.; ditto an "im- pressed" moneys, XC 8s. 3d.; ditto, one per cent. discount on stamps on the aggregate sum of < £ 675,941—< £ 6,759; ditto 1 per cent, discount allow- ance, by way of treasurer's salary, on the aggregate sum of £ 795,261—. £ 11,928; ditto, proportion of salary impounded by the Treasury, .£83 6a 8d. In respect of the action for libel, Edmunds v. Green- iwood," referred to the Court of Arbitration (sub- ;stituting the Crown as defendant), £ 10,000. And further payment of the costs inourred by him in his defence, from the year 1865 to the date of the rule ¡of, court appointing the arbitration, £ 4,000. There two claims put forth without any definite sum, viz., "Restoration of the offices from which," he alleges, he has been forcibly ejeoted by the Government on totally false accusations and pre- tenoea;" or, if that should be found impracticable, he claims, in the alternative, full pay in respect of both offices from the date of expulsion." "Also the further costs and charges to be incurred by me in the jfinnrf: nf A..h; H A QUESTION OP PRECEDENCE. — Although London has recently been making a boast of being the first city in the world-a boast which Mr. Glad- stone endorsed at the Lord Mayor's dinner --we question very much if it even deserves the title of the first city in England; Liverpool is not so big, perhaps, but it is certainly beforehand with the inetropolis in the introduction of useful improvement. Hansom cabs, convenient omnibuses, cheap dinners, trad tramways, were all common in Liverpool before they existed in town; and now Liverpool has taken the initiative in instituting penny railway fares for working men. It seems that a new line has just been opened to Boodle, West Derby, Walton, and other suburbs of Liverpool, and it has been decided to have penny trains to enable the poor population (which has been chased away from the centre of the town by Recent improvement), to live in healthy quarters, ye^ within easy reach of their work. fear that in the. "first city in the world philanthropy, at all evants,. is at. a discount. The inhabitants of Liverpool! are prj«erbially busy paople-, yet they find tim$i>o»look $0ber their poorer neighbour^ interests. Sta, London .fhe working man. is left ehtarsify to his, own devices, | io we ought not? to be sur if lie TniRr iehayea- himseLrf—TomakiWjJIi,
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OMINOUS. The modern Egyptians are fond believers in omens, and we may depend upon it that the grounding of H.M.S. Prince Consort and Royal Oak on a. mud bank off Port Said has been taken to mean- something serious. If, moreover, tkey could know that the names of these ships are typical, the first of English Royalty, the second of all the qualities- which, have made the Englishman seem an iron giant in. the eyes of fellaheen, some would take the grounding to mean that England intends an invasion of Egypt. Others will receive the news as significant of the failure of the canal, and some, perhaps, of the defeat of England by France, and the waning of our power in the East. The. event of to-day has no little political significance for England, and certainly it is to be regretted that this country alone of the Great Powers is represented by an official of no particular distinction. We must have played seoond fiddle at the opening cere- mony, but this precedence conceded, to the lady who represents the country of M. da Lesseps need not have wounded the pride of a more distinguished repre- sentative than Mr. Eiliott,-Echo.
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01 H" LONDON BY A HINDOO. The following extract from a letter, written by a young Hindoo to his father, is published in the Hindoo Prakash. It is dated Bays water, September 10, 1869 The weather is Very variable. To-day we have had a very fine shower of rain. It is neither very hot nor very cold. It is very delightful. There are many persons in this country who seldom, if ever, taste the best of drinks-cold pure water. They almost always allay their thirst by draughts of a bitter fluid called beer. We do not, however, suffer in the least, although we drink water. There is one peculiarity in the markets. We seldom see any one higgling or driving a bargain with many a previous dispute about the price of the article, and wasting time and words for simply settling the value. The price is told by the seller once for all, and in large trans- actions certain discount is allowed, but there is not the slightest necessity nor use in disputing the price. This is a great thing, and saves much trouble and vexation. Another peculiarity is, that there are parcel delivery companies, who convey parcels to different parts of London. So when one buys any number of things, he has simply to pay the price and take a receipt or bill for the same, and ask the shopkeeper to send the goods to such and such a place addressed to so and so. In the evening he invariably gets all his things carefully packed up, and always without any mistake or mishap."
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HOSPITAL EXPENDITURE. The admirable address delivered before the Statis- tical Society on Tuesday, by Mr. Newmarch, its President-a discourse abounding in the results of accurate and wide observation, and full of stimulating thought-contains among its minor suggestions one recommendation relating to endowed charities, which is especially appropriate at the present time. "Periodical returns," remarks Mr. Newmarch, should be furnished by hospitals in the metropolis and large towns, of such a nature as will admit of a comparison of the efficiency and cost of the relief afforded in each; and also similar returns should be rendered by charitable trusts and endowments. Upon both these points there can scarcely be room for two opinions. The amount of income from corpo- rate estates and investments and from public subscriptions, legacies, and gifts accruing to hospitals in this country is perfectly enormous and the only effectual check on the just &nd skilful expenditure of these funds is to be found in a well-devised scheme of comparative returns appearing at frequent intervals. We should then be able to discover where cost was highest and efficiency least. No undue revelations are needed or desired. But the public have the clearest right to be satisfied that the money they set aside for the relief of sickness and misfortune is put to the best possible uses, and in the most economical manner. Precisely the same observations apply in principle to all charitable trusts. These trusts are the creature of the law, and the law in this regard can only be vindicated so far as it secures the best services."
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DIABOLICAL MALICE. At the Southern Police-oourt, Glasgow, the other morning, John Burns, a local Steeple Jack," was charged with malicious mischief. It appeared from the evidence that Ralph Hall is at present in the city following the same profession as Burns, and con- sequently between the two no good-will exists. On Wednesday prisoner went to the Port-Eglinton Spinning Mills, where his rival was employed repairing a stalk 160ft. high, and informed the manager that he wished to see Hall. Permission having been granted, Hall descended from the ohimney; and on the pretence of giving him some information regarding a prospective job, Burns induced him to adjourn to an adjacent public-house. There the pair were supplied with two half-glasses of whisky each. After drinking the liquor, Hall felt unwell, and a third supply was obtained and consumed. Immediately thereafter Hall became very unconscious, the inference being that the whisky had been drugged. Burns then left the public- bouse and returned to the works, where he stated that Hall had sent him to adjust some of the ropes, with which the staging necessary for the repair of the stalk was suspended. An uncle of the prisoner, who is in the employ of Hall, told him the ropes were all right, but be persisted in ascending the chimney, and was ultimately allowed to proceed. He got to the top in the usual manner, and while there he was observed to shift a chain which crossed the vent of the shaft, so that the hempen rope supporting the stage should be fully exposed to the least heat from the furnace underneath. Burns then descended by a slaok rope, and walked away. A short time afterwards the ropes gave way, and two 561b. weights, which were used to balance the stage, fell from the stalk on to the roof of a shed, with such force that one of the weights bounded to the other side of the street. Burns was standing at the oorner of Victoria-street when this occurred, and merely laughed. The magistrate said there could be no doubt that serious injury had been intended to Hall. Under the circumstances, however, he could not impose a higher penalty than a fine of £ 5, with the alternative of thirty days' imprisonment.
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WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart., late of Charlton House, Blackheath Bouverie square, Folkestone; and Searles, U ckfield, Sussex, was proved in London on the 3rd inst., and the personalty sworn under £ 12,000. He has bequeathed to his brother, Sir John M. Wilson, a legacy of < £ 1,000 to his sister Julia, X3,000 and a like legacy of X3,000 to each of his three nieces, the daughters of his said brother, Sir John M. Wilson, Bart. The will of Sir Charles George Young, Knt., D.C.L., F.S.A., Garter Principal King of Arms, has just been proved in the principal registry of her Majesty's Court of Probate. The personalty was sworn under .269,000. He bequeaths to his wife an annuity of XI,000, an immediate legacy of X400, and a power of appointment by a will or deed over £ 1,000 also his plate, jewellery, garter, mantles, chain, collars, and sceptre, and his official robes and uniform. There are legacies to his friends. He appoints his brother Henry and his nephew Francis residuary legatees. There are reversionary legacies payable after the decease of Lady Young, from the money invested to secure the annuity to her, by which his brother Henry and nephew Francis will each receive X5,000 and legacies are left in like manner to other relatives. The will bears the signature, "-Chas. Geo. Young, Garter."
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THB BODY OF BENJAMIN TAYLOR, 71 years of age, who lived on his means, at Honley, was recently found in the river Colne, Colne-road. It seemed that the deoeased, according to custom, came to Hudders- field, and deposited some money in ons- of the banks. Afterwards he partook of too much, liquor, and by some means got into the water. TIGS CHANCELLOR MAIINS. took occasion lately to condemn an expensive piece of litigation, in a, suit which had occupied hia. court nearly six days. The suit was instituted by the- patentee of an iln proved, plsm for the "skidding" of wheels, and on both, sides a mass of evidence -was produced, 1101 affi- davits having been filed,, ead; 20 witnesses Ged. Yet it appeared that the value of the easing to the defendant could be only £ 3; oar JE3 a ysar- until the- expiration of tha; patent,, in January. l £ 73. His Honour granted,the plaintiff a perpr^i&L initmciicffl, audi o=demn%d., in co*- 1 u_
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AMERIOAN ITEMS. -+-- AT Schuylkill Haveny Penn., a few days ago, a family, consisting of a husband, wife, and two children, were burned to death while asleep in the signal tower of the Mine Hill Railroad. The struc- ture was of wood, and took fire in the lower part, and in such a way as to effectually cut off from escape its occupants. AT Framingham, Mass..r a few nights since, an un- known man attempted to murder three persons reaid- ing in one house. He called them in turn, but succeeded only in shooting through the cheek a gentleman named Cole,, a pysiciaii. AN old Irishwoman walked into the office of the | City Bank of Manchester, N.H., a few days ago, and presented for redemption 200 dols. of its promises to pay. They were accepted. The bank has been closed for four years. MRS. BEYANT, of Freedom, 0.rmade a suit of grave-clothes for herself fifty years ago, and only had a chance to use them on the 2nd inst. THERE are residing in Braintree, Vt., a couple who have lived together in the same hu use, as husband and wife, 69 years. The husband is 91, and the wife 87. MRS. EVA LANCASTER, of Navasota, Texas, runs the Navasota Ranger and a millinery shop. MORE than five thousand persona have emigrated to Dakota Territory this summer. The present population is 20,000, and 47,000 acres of land have lately been taken up under the Homestead and Pre- emption laws by actual settlers. THE Soldiers' Monument at Duxbury, Mass., is finished and set up. On its face it has the names of thirty-three of the citizens who died in battle daring the rebellion. A FINE picture is on exhibition in Boston, called by the artist "Triumviri Americani." Its canvas is filled with heads of Washington, Lincoln, and Grant. THERE are thirteen hundred convicts in the Illinois State Prison. A STRANGE STORY.—We should be sorry to cast ridicule upon those advocates of "woman's rights" who restrict their demands within bounds which all the world is disposed to respect. Let women have an equal chance with men in all callings or professions —let inequalities of the laws be redressed. But some of the female regenerators of society go to work in a very strange way if they really wish to exalt their sex. A correspondent of an evening contemporary met a missionary of this kind the other night. She had taken possession of his sleeping berth. He re- monstrated with her, but she merely replied that she was not afraid to sleep in his room. Of course, she never asked a question about his feelings in the matter. Presently the gentleman thought to frighten his unwelcome visitor. He began to throw off his clothes. The strong-minded one very naturally de- spised the artifice. She was "not afraid of a man, no matter in what guise he presented himself. The owner of the state-room laid himself down to sleep the lovely woman did the same, having first "made herself ready." We confess that this is a truly alarming narrative. Woman is asserting her rights at a rate which promises to make some of us ex- tremely uncomfortable. Where is it all to stop ? The invader of the sleeping car, we are told, bears a name which is perpetually appearing in the papers." She only carries her precepts into practice, poor thing. But really it is getting to be a very serious business for the inferior creature called man.—New York Times. DR. M. A. O'BRENNAN, in retiring from the Chicago Independent, iesued "a card," in which he says :—" The duties of editor, financial and general manager, correspondent for all purposes—agents, subscribers, correspondence, &a.of sub-editor, proof- reader, and other office business, were too many and onerous for any one man. I had, moreover, to look to the subscribers' books. The discharge of those duties impaired my health, and would finally under- mine it. Moreover, the revenue of the Independent did not afford for myself, for the discharge of all the said duties, one dollar from the day I started it." Therefore he retired, and took to the practice of his profession as a barrister." WHEN the new Union Hotel of Leland Brothers, at Saratoga, is completed it will be the largest hotel in the world. It will have a frontage of 1,050 feet, five storeys high. It will be built of brick, and the build- ing will be divided into nine compartments, almost fire-proof. It is to be finished and furnished, ready for the reception of guests, by the 1st day of June next. A VERY severe gale has swept over Buffalo, causing, it is feared, much damage on Lake Erie. A MUEDSKSK named Pike, who is to be hanged at Concord, N.H., has made the singular request that a quartette of young ladies of that city, who have fre- quently sung for him since his conviction, shall re- main in his cell when he has passed out, and sing while the final preparations for his execution are being made. He also asks that no one related to his viotim shall be a witness of his death. A SAN FRANCISCO despatch states that Dr. Frank Hamilton, of New York, has oommitted suicide at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in that city. THBBE men have been arrested at Lawrence, Mass., on the charge of attempting to poison the trotting horse Frenehman, and were held to bail in the sum of 5,000 dols. each. THE office of the Dorchester Insurance Company, at Neponset, Massachusetts, was lately entered by burglars, and from 20,000 dols. to 30,000 dols. taken from the safe, which was broken open. ONE-FOURTH of the tobacco crop of Barren county, Kentucky, is thought to have been destroyed by the late frost. EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON gave a banquet tothe members of the Tennessee Legislature the other evening at Nashville. Governor Senter, Senator Fowler, and other distinguished guests were present. THE Government corral, located at Fort Harker, Kansas, has been struck by lightning, and the building partially destroyed. Sixty mules were killed. A YQUXQ lady, while going to her wedding in Rundout on Sunday, was thrown from the carriage and broke her leg. It was proposed to take her to a physician and have the limb set, but she refused, saying she was going to be married first. And, as usual, she had her way. THE editor of the Utah Reporter, Corinne, Utah Territory, has been beaten almost to death at Brigham City, it is, surmised on account of articles in his paper against polygamy. A CONNECTICUT inventor has patented a head-rest attachment for church pews, intended to support the head of the worshipper, when so inclined. The con- trivance can be detached at pleasure. But surely it will not succeed. The spectacle of shelf after shelf going up, and sleepy head after head going down in the middle of choice passages in the discourse might well appal the stoutest heart and freeze the most eloquent tongue. A YOUNG lady at Troy, while engaged in conver- sation with a gentleman a few days since, spoke of having resided at St. Louia. Was St. Louis your native place?" inquired] the gentleman. "Well, yes-part of the time," responded the lady. THE Macon Journal is informed by H. Glaze that he recently found at Fayette a young man by the name of Fields, 17 years old, and entirely ignorant of letters or figures, who could, inside of three minutes, solve any problem given. The number of flax seed necessary to reach to the sun, allowing six grains of flax seed to one grain of wheat, and 13 grains of wheat to the inch. Answer, 469,497,600,000,000, given in two minutes. What would 3,000 dols. amount to in 10 years, compounding interest at 10 per cent. ? This example he worked in three minutes, absolutely correct, although he had to carry a score of decimal fractions. He is very ignorant on all other matters, never learned his letters, and does not know one figure from another. THE friends of Permissive Prohibitory Bills should take note of what hais happened in Massachusetts. At the recent election there was alongside the fight be. tween the Republicans and Democrats for the governorship a desperate struggle between the license men and the prohibitionists for the control cf the Legislature. In the last Legislature the prohibi- bitionists had a large majority, and paased a prohibi. tory law, from which, however, they exempted cider, ) the farmer's drink, par excellence. This law was not :1 imposed in a single town-that is, in one of the j places in which drunkenness and its resulting crime are most rife so that the town population was aJlowed to drink its favourite liquors, and the farmers were allowed to drink theirs; but the prohi- bitionists rubbed their hands over the act with as i much glee as if the millennium were at last come. The public, however, was thoroughly disgusted, and 175 license me% have now been returned to the Legisla- l ture to 75: prohibitionists, and the prohibitory law will L bs. this yeac. J. TOM THUMB is disconsolate in California. He has found a fellow four inches shorter than himself. THE American custom of the daily newspapers of sending reporters to hold interviews with men of note will soon be developed into a science. Already these are-two daily papers, each of which, keeps a man for little elae than the "interviewing business and i! is-but just to say that these gentlemen do their weris: very well. How the great men live, IDH-e, think, and act, is set down with commendable exactness; and by- and-by it may be expected that we shall know what they intend to think five or ten years hence. In the case- of political men this would be especially valu- able, and to none more so than to the interviewed individuals. When we are able to predict the course of politics, as the astronomers predict eclipses and the coming of comets, science will have done a good work, and there will be plenty of employment for the new race of scribes. TROMAS N. BERRY, a prominent lawyer of Balti- more, has committed suicide by shooting himself at his residence in that city. THE Cuban ship-of-war Hornet "is data in ed at Wilmington, N.C., until her case isnaecided by the proper authorities. She is lying under the guns of the United States gunboat Frolic. ABOUT 50. per oent. of the emigrants to the United States go to the country, and of these about three- fourths go to the Western States, so that, in propor- tion to its size and population, New York derives less benefit from immigration than the West. The healthy, industrious, and wealthy imriHgrant generally goes west or south, while the worthless one is said to remain behind. v
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\.ù Una HE COULD NOT HELP IT. 6 An elderly man, of doleful appearance, was lately charged before Mr. Flowers with being drank aiid incapable. The prisoner was brought up the other day before Sir Thomas Henry for the same offence, and ds- charged at half-past four o'clock. It appeared that the prisoner had been to fetch a pair of boots, which. he had left to be mended, and which he had in his hand when taken into custody. He, however, got drunk before getting home with them. After he was acquitted he again proceeded homewards, but got drunk before reaching Ids destination. He told the constable in the gaoler's room that his excuse for getting drunk was that his boots would stick to the pavement." On being placed at the bar, Redstall the gaoler, said: What is your name ? The Prisoner (half crying) Mr. John Anderson (laughter).. I The evidence was then given. The Prisoner (in a low tone) I never harmed any- one in my life. I could not help getting drunk, aa I am a Scotchman. Mr. Flowers (to Redstall): Has he explained all about it to you ? The Gaoler Yes, your worship. He said he could not help it, as he was a Scotchman (much laughter), Mr. Flowers fined him 5s., or seven days. (
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THE RECORD OF HONESTY. Sir Curtis Lampson, at whose house, in EatGn- square, Mr. Peabody died, is an American fur merchant, almost as successful in. business as Mr. Peabody himself. His foremost commercial virtue is reliability. His reputation for fair dealing is worth more to his house in money value than his colossal fortune. The following tale is told of Sir C. Lampson and Mr Peabody: There was an American railroad they had recommended, and it purchased, in consequence, its iron on credit. It turned out to be a swindle. Of course the ironmasters felt badly, and so did Messrs. Peabody and Lampson; but all parties knew what a commer- cial recommendation meant-" we believe the thing to be good "-and there the matter was supposed to have ended. After every effort to recover payment from America had failed, Mr. Lampson went to Mr. Pea- body and said, Peabody, we must pay for that iron." "How so?" replied the latter. "We surely never guaranteed those bonds; we only recommended them. You thought them safe, and so did I. We certainly cannot be held responsible for them?" "No, not legally, I know," answered Mr. Lampson. "Nor morally either," rejoined Mr. Peabody. Perhaps not," continued Mr. Lampson. You are a just man, and so am I. I didn't come to argue the matter. Those men ought to be paid, and by heaven they shall be." The ironmasters were paid, and the bonds eventually redeemed.
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THE "COUNTESS OFDERWENTWATER." Wednesday was the day appointed to receive the Greenwich Hospital rents at Hayden-bridge. While Mr. Grey, of Dileton, the receiver of the estates, was being paid the rents in his private office at the Anchor Inn, the Countess of Derwentwater marohed into the room at the head of a number of her retainers." She was richly apparelled, and wore a massive gold chain round her neck, and had a sword suspended by her side. On entering the room she said, Mr. Grey, I come to forbid you receiving any rents from my tenants. The notice has appeared, and is now legal, and I forbid you now to reoeive the rents." She was thereupon ordered out of the room by Mr. Grey. While the countess was preparing to draw the sword, it was seized by the scabbard by one of Mr. Grey's attendants, and another grasped it by the handle and broke it in two. It was a weapon of the rapier description, and two-edged at the point. Only a few of the tenants had arrived at the time, but they immediately attacked the countess's party, who did not number more than half-a-dozen, and they were rather unceremoniously ejected from the inn. In the meantime great numbers of the populace had assembled outside. The majority of the tenants arrived by the twelve o'clock train, and the remainder of the business was dona without any further annoyance from the countess's party, although she occupied one of the rooms of the inn during the whole of the day. The polioe were telegraphed for fro m Hexham, and arrived after the disturbances wera over. <
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AT LIVERPOOL, Thomas Eccleston has been charged with having thrown a woman, named Jane Thompson, from a bed-room window, and inflicted serious injuries upon her. The parties lived in a court in Chisenhall-street, and the other even- ing, while drunk in their bedroom, they had a furious quarrel, which ended in the prisoner throwing tho woman through the window. CURRAN being at a party at the seat of an Irish nobleman, one of the company, who was a physician strolled out before dinner into the churchyard. Dinner being served up, and the doctor not returning, some of the company were expressing their surprise where he had gone to. "Oh," says Curran, "he has just stepped out to pay a visit to some of his old patients." A MUTE INGLORIOUS MILTON is a form of genius that must be becoming more rare than it was in the time of Gray. A Scotoh paper offered prizes varying from R2 10s. down to a book, for the best pc 3m, the best tale, and the best letter written by a boy or girl: and it received in response 420 of the first, 156 ol the second, and 57 of the third. These effusions were protected from the inquisitive tendency of the Post- master-General and his subordinates by methods ol security in which great ingenuity in the use of ruraJ resources was displayed, the fastenings earn loved including sealing-wax, common bees-wax, resin, weavers dressing, glue, gum, tape (red, white, and blue), oords of all sizes, from common twine to carl ropes, and brass wire." AD-VF,ILTISING ExTR,&oILDII,,A.Uy.-The following is a good advertisement: A TOUCHING DITTY. A little babe stood weeping at the gate, So crook d with pain she could not whimper straight: Her lanky limbs were bent beneath her weight, And scarce her strength was able to inflate A pair of lungs so very delicate They'd not have served for common fishing bait. The sun looked through her ribs as through a grate Or vacuous, interstitial crockery crate. For fell Dyspepsia in her stomach reigned, And vile Marasmus marked her for his own The food she ate could never be retained And so she shrivelled into skin and bone. She was indeed a complete human wreck, and it made one swear to look upon her. But finally she got the gate open, and, making a bee-line for H-and B called for A- C-- straight. The effect was simpiy miraculous. A few weeks of that diet straightened her out, and she is now an ornament to society, a good mother, and a dutiful daughter-in- law.