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feural JUtos. A FRUITFUL VINE."—The Sieele says :— CI Madame Hulbutier, wife of a cutler living near the Bois de Romanville, was confined yesterday of her twenty-ninth child. Eight of these children, four boys and four girls, are the only ones living." A MAGISTRATE SENT TO PRISON.—The Peterborough magistrates have sent their own chairman, Mr. William Bates, to prison in default of his finding bail to answer a charge of libel on a neighbouring clergyman, upon which they have committed him for trial. THE FIRE AT BRUNSWICK.—A Brunswick letter says The dnke has saved nothing whatever from the fire by which his palace has been destroyed not even a hat; he had to purchase one on the follow ing morning, with some body linen and a coat All tbejlothe, «,darticle, for personal by the duke m his apartment were burnt." thSHthe posEt of°rnDn f°.1,IEERMERE—We understand is not to be refilled At th *18coa.nt Combermere, that nine i "e sam9 time we may state each are fhn"0°i Pensions, of £ 100 a year in Chief t SJ ace(*la the hands of the Commander- in-L/hief. Telegraph. t)en JW?L°r.THE WESLEYAN PRESIDENT.—The SUD- aen death of the Rev. William L. Thornton, M. A., the recently-tlected President of the Wesleyan Con- lerence is announced. On Sunday morning he rose 1 <• u usua^ health, and was preparing for the duties of the day, when he was suddenly attacked by illness, and died in the course of an hour. The news soon spread amongst members of the connexion, and in the evening the melancholy fact was referred to from the pulpits of all the metropolitan Wesleyan chapels. EWE ENCLOSED IN SNOW.—Mr. John Bennett, of Trelkeld, has a Herdwickewe which was happed pp with snow," on the 29th of January, and remained till the night of the 23ri February. She is now alive and likely to do well. The ewe had no chance ot getting food, and had only room sufficient to allow of her getting up and lying down again. Probably v 0 es^ shepherd alive will not be able to remem- "witlurat fbodUSta^D'D^ t'iree wee^s an<* ^onr days ■was^t^IJ) ^EICK-1—An impudent revival ofan old trick inow eni^te^ *n London on Friday. A fellow, well bouse0* P°^ce> ca^'e(^ at Sir Hugh Cairns's se stln Eaton-place, and presented a small parcel rail6 canvas> "hich he said had come by the raIlway, and demanded 10s. 9d. as the carriage. f^ay Cairns directed the parcel to be cut open, when it was found to contain a couple of bricks and a piece .()f coke. The fellow was arrested and has been sent to prison. CHURCH DKcn-rjNE.—Tn the Court of Arches on Monday the suit of the Bishop of Norwich against the Rev. Mr. Drury for officiating at Brother gnatiuR's monastery at Norwich came on for hear- ing. Mr. Drury's counsel asserted that the suit was a harsh proceeding on the part of the bishop, but it was shown that Mr. Drury bad presisted in offend- ing after full warning. Dr. Lushington sentenced him to be admonished not to offend again, and to pay costs-which are no trifle in the ecclesiastical courts. RAILWAY CHARGES AT LIVERPOOL.—At a Liverpool town meeting, on Thursday, an indignant protest was voted against the excessive railway charges to and from the port. One of the speakers showed that certain trades were aotually driven from the •Mersey in consequence of the excessive rates of railway carriage, aud it was estimated that Liverpool commerce paid an extra tax of half a million a year. A committee was appointed to work out the remedy, "Part of its labour being to watch the railway bills now before parliament. THE INSURANCE CASE.—The London wharfingers, Messrs. Barry and their workmen, who have been in custody for some weeks, and several times examined, on a charge of attempting to defraud various insur- ance offices, were again brought up before Mr. Alderman Stone on Friday, when several of the wit- nesses were recalled to complete their former testi. mony, and some new evidence was taken. At the close a further remand was asked for, and then for the first time the magistrate entertained the appli- cation to admit them to bail, exacting, however, heavy sureties. The decision gave great satisfaction to the persons present, who filled the justice-room, for the story of hardship to which they were sub- jected in their cells, as detailed the other night in the House of Commons, has excited very general indignation. CaARss OF ABDUCTION.—The charge against James Boucher and Elizabeth Beard, of abducting a girl named Catherine Allen Box, who was onder sixteen years of age, from her parents, who lived at Market-Lavington, was disposed of, before Mr. Justice Crompton, at Devizes, on Thursday. The jury found a verdict of not guilty, on evidence which showed that the girl had, by letters addressed to Boucher, declared her determination not to stay at home, where she was miserable, and her willingness to leave with him. She had arranged her own flight, and met Boueher at the house of Mrs. Beard. They went to London together, where the father of the girl traced them, and reclaimed his daughter. There had not been any impropriety between them, and they were preparing to be married. The girl was the principal witness in the case, and the judge expressed himself as dissatisfied with the evidence she gave, an opinion in which the jury concurred. THE WINTER IN RUSSIA.—The rigour of the present winter in Russia is exceptional, and the public misery which prevails in consequence is aggravated by a financial crisis. The Telegraph of Kiew says on that subject: In the memory of man so severe a winter has not been known. The villages are literally buried in snow, and the frost is becom- ing daily more intense. The celebrated fair, which lasts a fortnight, and the meeting of the landowners of the provinces of Wolhynia, Podolir, and the Ukraine, now taking place, are completely wanting animation—first, because specie is rare, and, next, because long journeys are almost impossible, in' consequence of the state of the roads from deep snow. The themometer ranks 26 deg. below zero Tahrenbeit; for the last sixty years it has not fallen so low. From the scarcity of coin, travellers at the end of each stage are obliged to receive from the •postmasters paper money with his signature, and which is naturally current only in a limited district. BREECH-LOADING CARBINEs.-The Government have now determined to arm the whole of the cavalry with carbines on the breech-loading principle, and have selected the Westley Richards' arm as the arm of the service. Its weight is about 6th., and the barrel, which is rifled on the Whitworth principle, is 20 inches in length, and is sighted up to 800 yards, at which distance it makes most wonderful practice. It has also a hardened projectile, which gives it greatly increased powerof penetration. Two thousand th 80 arms are already in the hands of the troops; are much approved, and 20,000 more are now in lahaAti!- raanufacture at Enfield they will be fin- ♦V,A BJ1S Two thousand infantry muskets on rnJ! are also being manufactured for -D- t*Je inventors, Messrs. Westley lC j Birn»ngham these will be f6.1"*6 Th- 6 gantry this year for an extended lke the carbine> is rifled on the Wlutworth principle, and is sighted up to 1000 -yards, at which distance it gives an average mean -figure of merit under 2ft. THE RECENT JAPANESE EXECUTION.-A correspon- dent writing from lokohama, Dec. 29, 1804 aavs • •"You will, ne doubt, be surprised to'hear that one of the murderers of poor Bird was executed in the ^ollowinsr manner yesterday, in the presence of all the soldiers and a great number of civilians: The day befere yesterday (Dec. 27) he was taken round the town on a pack-horse, under a strong guard, with his crime and his sentence before him, and then he was taken to the execution ground, but as it was then late (five o'clock p.m) and the troops could not wit- ness his execution, the same was objected to, and he was taken back to prison. He was executed, however, on the 28th December, by having his head cut off by a sword. He was brought to the ground in a «congo,' or native chair, from which be alighted and received his last meal-qome I sabi' and a smoke. He then begged not to be blindfolded, and his re- -q,ieat was granted. He requested the officers to give his love to his sweetheart, and walked up to the Pit into which his head was to fall, and knelt down -facing the troops, and there sang a song of the glory of hIs pnnce and master 'Meto,' who is the head Mm fr. v -mns»' chaffed the executioner, and asked all fnr«ion«SUre Ca* c^ean >' then at a roar, cursed .rs* 8a'd all they wanted was Japan— once tAlfAnItrt^Kanu-°^ro^0<* head, which was at •Piked for three days Hew°f Y<*ohama a"d there and confessed to killing^?9 "J"* rausca,ar raan> *ith "inn J *>ird. He was once a man St wnX/i ♦ \Bd Wa8 ^^ced and degraded, »» *o ml Ttl*7 Wbfi f°r\ He certainly met death -nptotLw6 W°rld COuld mee* it except himself »evePr showei^moment singing and chaffingf 8nd often repeated hf fainte8t 81g? of fear or care, and «hanc £ P d he WOuId d0 il if he got the A MISER.—\ Paris letter records a curious case of a large fortune having been amassed by a man in apparently humble circumstances. A commission- aire, or street messenger, who might have been seen at his usual post a few days since, has just died at Paris: but by the exercise of great economy, he succeeded in saving £ 16,000, which sum is invested in Government securities and Railway bonds. A grocer's assistant and two Savoyards are his heirs. The three, on the occasion of inheriting this fortune, resolved to indulge themselves with a dinner, and they repaired to a miserable eating-house, where they spent fivepence-half penny each RAILWAYS TO BE SUPERSEDED.—Mr. W. H. James, C.E., of Warwick, states that he has invented an im- proved mode of transit, whereby passengers may be conveyed 100 miles at the very small charge of Is. each, provided there are a sufficient number of travellers; and for great distances at the rate, if desired, of 100 miles an hour and upwards, when there are no intermediate stoppages, with greater safety and much greater comfort than on the present railways and that this improved system of transit may be brought into general use in less than one- tenth part of the time, and at less than one-tenth of the cost, of the present railway system. THE SCOTCH MINISTER AND HIS FEMALE PARISH- IONERS.—At the quarterly meeting of the Commis- sion of the Free Church General Assembly, held at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, Dr. Candlish called atten- tion to the extraordinary advertisement lately pub- lished by the Free Church minister of Lochend, in the Inverness Courier. The advertisement, it will be remembered, stated that all the young and un- married women of Lochend had assembled in the vestry of the Free Church, to get their characters "adjusted" by Dr. Campbell, in consequence of an imputation arising from the circumstance that the Ldead body of an infant bad been found in Loch Ness, the certificate given being that the medical man had examined a number of young and unmarried women of Lochend, and had no reason to believe that any of them had been recently confined." Dr. Candlish hoped that the local presbytery would lose no time in investigating the case, and should they fail in their duty, he had no doubt the next General As. sembly would take cognisance of the matter. The transaction was one singularly shocking and revolt- ing, and without parallel in the history of the Chris- tian Church. TRIAL FOR CHILD MURDER.—Two women, a mo- ther and her daughter, named respectively Mary Ann Raven, 59, and Sarah Ann Raven, a servant, aged 23, were arraigned at Warwick, on Saturday, on the charge of having murdered the illegitimate child of Emma Raven, sister of the younger prisoner, and another daughter of the elder. Evidence was given by the mother of the dead child, that when her baby was born, the two prisoners were in the room, that they took the infant to a distant part of the chamber, and she heard her mother remark that she did not know what to do with it; her sister then said, "Let's kill it." and threw herself upon the child, lying upon it till it was dead. This woman, when taken into custody, admitted to the policeman that she had crushed the child's head while her mother held it, but she said her fall upon the body was acci- dental. They buried it at the foot of a tree in the garden, whence it was exhumed with all the marks of violence upon it. The elder prisoner charged all upon her daughter, and she declared that her mo- ther instigated the whole crime. The jury found them guilty of concealment of birth, and they were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. KIDNAPPING.—A word of warning to those whom the Unions are persuading to emigrate. A bill is about to be introduced before the United States Assembly, the first clause of which decrees that in case of any default of repayment by the emigrant to the contractor for his passage he shall be liable to the contractor for double the amount, and that the contractors shall have a lien on any and all the man s wages for three years and that on written notice any employer of such man shall be bound to pay over his wages and legal costs of suit to the con- tractors. Secondly, that if the man be enlisted, the States shall pay over the bounty money to the said contractors, Thirdly, that married women and children under age, entering into bargains for pas- sages, shall be similarly liable for three years to the contractors in the United States. It is to this kind ef servitude that the unionist presidents and secre- taries urge the working men of England to commit themselves, and are ready, as we showed by the cor- respondence in our last number, to ship them off by hundreds, as a supposed means of making more room and better wages for themselves-a. supposi. tion which every law of political economy as well as practical experience has shown to be entirely falla- ciouf'Ryland's Circular. THE STAFFORDSHIRE LOCK-OUT.-The great lock- out which has for some time been impending in Staffordshire has at length taken place. The extent of the calamity may be judged from the statement of a Birmingham paper of Monday, which says:- There are 3000 furnaces in South Staffordshire. They were at work on Saturday, but they are cold this morning. 6000 puddlers were employed at them, and for each puddler there was an assistant, and for every puddler and for every assistant there was a labourer. There were coal wheelers, ash wheelers, boat loaders and unloaders, horse drivers, and labourers employed in many other capacities in connection with the ironworks. There were also 3500 millmen. Very soon after the stopping of the ironworks a great number of colliers must be thrown out of work. On the whole, 34,000 or 35,000 per- sons will be thrown out of employment in South Staffordshire alone this week, and £40,000 a week that used to be distributed in wages will no longer circulate amongst the families of the poor. If the lock-oat be persevered in all over the country, in ac- cordance with the compact which the ironmasters have entered into with each other, 70,000 men will be thrown out of employment, and above 200,000 per- sons will be deprived of the means of subsistence. Nearly £100,000 a week that used to be paid in wages will be diverted from the labouring classes of the iron districts of this country, and will circulate in some other channel." FEDERAL KIDNAPPING IN CANADA.—It is stated on the authority of a Montreal journal that there are 1 no less than 36,000 French Canadians alone in the Federal army. One thing is certain, that there are a host of recruiting agents scattered over the pro. vince, a few of whom are now and again brought to 1 iustice. Last week one fellow was sentenced in Montreal to a fine of 160 dollars and six months' imprisonment for enticing a private of the 60th i Regiment to desert. A day or two ago the Quebec I Court of Queen's Bench was occupied with the trial ] of a boarding-house keeper for attempting to enlist a young man as a soldier in the service of the United States. A demurrer was taken, but Mr. Justice Mondelet held that the Imperial statute relating to j foreign enlistments is in force in Canada, having i been passed in the interest of the empire at large. It appears from the evidence in the case that the prisoner offered a young man 400 dollars to go with him to join the Federal army, which the lad, being under the influence of liquor, consented to do. Both persons were traced to the railway terminus at Point Levi, and the young man has not made bis appear. ance in Quebec since. Upon the father of the boy accusing the prisoner of kidnapping his son, he re- marked, "I have not made much out of him, and he stole my coat on the road." Four witnesses testified to the circumstance of seeing the youth and the prisoner together. After the judge bad summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the accused, who was at once taken into custody. MURDER OF A NEPHEW AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS.—A shocking affair has taken place at Hackney. It is stated that for some time past a woman, Elizabeth Carmichael, has been sub. jected to fits of religious fanaticism. She was in consequence very desponding; and as her husband expresses it, often "sulked." On Friday morning the husband got up, and left his wife and her ne. phew, a boy named Henry Joseph Smith, aged ten years, in bed. He went downstairs, lit the fire, and prepared breakfast. He then took his wife and his nephew their breakfast upstairs. Much to his sur- prise he found the door locked. He knocked, but received no answer. He thought, as he stated, that his wife was sulking, and he went to his work, but returned in a few hours to take his wife up her dinner; but upon knocking he still received no an. swer. At tea-time he brought her up her tea, but hIS knocking elicited no sound. At half-past seven o clock in the evening he for the fourth time went to hIS wife's room, and no notice being taken of his knocks he said, « I tell you what it is, 111 have no more of your sulking; if you do not open the door or answer, I shall send for the police and have the door burst in." He then burst open the door with hIS shoulder, and was horrified in discovering the dead body of the nephew lying across the bed, with his bead thrown back, and a fearful gash on his throat. Carmichael then turned to his wife and said, Aunt, aunt, what have you done?" She gave a moan, and pointed to the dead body of the ne- phew. There was a dreadful cut ocrof-s her throat, severing the windpipe. On Saturday afternoon she was partly sensible, but unable to speak. When asked if sbe wished to make any statement, she wrote the werd No." Her death is hourly expected.

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