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Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 353, 1 February 1871, Page 7

--;"■■ Butter at Cambiridge is sold by the yard. Scarlatina is alarmingly prevalent in London. During ihe late portie the ramparts of Mont Valerien wswrcrowded with ladies. Imitation: butterflies are much in fashion for hair and bonnet ornaments. The Crown Prince of Denmark has become a freemason. More than L 35.000 has been collected for the completion of St. Paul's Cathedral. The, copyright of the popular song "Home, Sweet Home," haa been sold in London, for the large sun* of L 443 10s. As miich as LBO is readily given tor a passage from Paris in one of the Nadar baloons. A new twopenny edition of w Robinson Crusoe " for children has been brought out in Holland. The uniform of the Ffancs-Tireurs is black, and they carry a black flag, with a white skull and cross-bones emblazoned on it. In a paper in ' St. Jacnes' Magazine ' this month, on " Bohemian London," the name" of a certain Scotch tune is spelt " Loch Harbour no more." Before tbe fall of Metz, salt was selling at 4s 2d per lb; beef was 7s 10rt per lb; eggs, -10d each ; coffee, 10s per lb j and horses 8s a piece. f When Napoleon was sitting at a window inditing his letter of surrender to the Kiag of Prussia, a shell struck the wall opposite, and burst only a tew teet from his chair. ; An ornamental fountain, to cost from LI SOO to L9OOO, is to be erected in Kelvingrove, near Glasgow, to- commemorate the services of the late Lord Provost-Stew-art, in securing the introduction of the Loch Katrine water into the/oity:. 4 J" The Glasgow Town Council are to take steps for obtaining from Parliament borrowing powers to the extent of L 40,000, with a view to the establishment of a dead meat market and a permanent fish market. Dr dimming thinks that "the fall of Mpbz, the siege of Strasbourg, the present position of Paris, the appearance of the sun, and the recent, auroras, betoken the approach of the millennium. Lord Courtenay, son of the Earl of Devon, is bankrupt. His LoHsbip owes to. unsecured creditors, L 215,292 ; to those holding security, L 502,363 ; there are no figures on the other side of the .account. A miner lost his life in the Oaks pit, Barnsley, on Friday. A few months ago he married a widow, whose first husband also lost his life in the same pit in the great explosion which occurred lour years ago, and the remains of both husbands are still in rhe pit. In Metz there are from 200 to 800 railway lusr°-a°-e vans fitted up as quarters for the sick and wounded soldiers. The carriages have bean ran off the rails, and placed in rows, forming streets. " A Silent Member " has taken the trouble to reckon up Mr Gladstone's speeches, last session. The Premier was on his legs 178 times, and his speeches occupy aboiit eighty columns of the 'Times;' if placed in single column, ir would be a sheet reaching to. the top of the Monument. Miss Phoebe Cozzans, one of rhe shrewdest and prettiest of the woman suffrage advocates, undertakes to demonstrate that man's sphere, biblically laid down, is to do houpework, and especially to " wash the dishes," by this Scviptuial allusion (see 'Kings, 21c, 31v.)— "1 will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish ; wiping it and turning it upside down." — 'Liverpool [Post.' It was stated at a railway meeting hflld inLondm the other dav, that the ex,-Era-nfiror had accepted plans preparpd by Mr Fell, the well-known railway engineer, for the construction of a railway in rear of the French army on its road to Berlin. The line was to be. made at the rate of four or five miles a day. What will be the position of the Marquis of Lome? Will it be a " hisfh position" or a.cpmparativply subordinate one ? and by what title will the Princess be known? Will her Royal Highness be satisfied with her husband's name and rank? or will the Marquisare of Lome be exchanged for a dukedom ? If so, wh-»t sort of a dukedom -will it be? Will the Duke of Lome be simnly a dukp, having no precedence over other- dukes, or will some intermediate style and title be devised between that of " His Royal Highness and tuat of v His Grace," so as to j give to the husband of (he Piincess Louisa i semi -demi royal position which is accorded to the 'popular Prince of Tuck, the husband iof Princess Mary of Cambridge ? In short we want to know, will the royal bride descend to the rank of her husband.? or will (the .present gap in their relative social* position be maintained ? Will thebridegroom be incorporated in the Royal family, or tbe bride with that of Argyll ? Will the Marquis or Duke of Lome be received as one of his wife's family, or will he still, on stated day?, be allowed lo have (in the language of the ' Court Circular') " the honor of dining with the Queen aad Royal Family," which, being interpreted, means with bis mother-in-law and bride ? These are- some knotty points in tb.6 silken chain, which we seek to unravel.

I The most fashionable novelty in ladies' bonnets is styled the " Maid of Lome." \ 'V\ Photographs of tha Marquis of liprna t are in enormous demand in London. The sArchbishop5 Archbishop of Paris has given permission to, use horse flesh on fast days. ' The old custom! of placing drunkards in in the stocks for six hours has been revived i in some parts of Devonshire. • John 801 l * hears that a marriage is in contemplation between one of the oldest Roman Catholic peers in England and one 1 of the Orleans Princesses. The other day a coachman residing with. ■ a gentleman near Keswick> received a telegram announcing that his uncle had died, leaving* him a mansion and grounds, and a fortune* of L 40.000. 1 A statement is current that an eminent London publisher has offered LIO,OOO for the exclusive right, for ten years, of pub- . lishirig tUe revised version of the Bible now in progress. Some of the London ... papers note the fact that, on his seventieth birthday,. Calcraft was "in the morning- at Sonthwark putHnp a woman to death, and in the evening at his house weeping over the corpse of his wifei" A correspondent writes to say that a school -near Dundee,; was dismissed the other evening in consequence of one of the boys showing symptoms of hydrophobia. It seems the boy. haji been, bitten by a mad dog, which has sinie been, shot.. The unfqrtunate circumstance created' a, painful sensation in- the school.— 'Dundee Advertiser.' On& of the heaviest bank robberie* for many years in America, was perpetrated, on the night of October 25, at Graf con > ; Massachusetts.. **The First National Bank" was entered by five men, who gauged and bound the watchman, dug through a wall into the fire-p'-oof safe, and carried off valuables estimated at over L 60.000. The Princess Louise, with the express consent of Her Majesty the Queen, has accepted the dedication of Mr Robert Buchanan's work on the Highlands, and the book will appear immediately, under the title of " Hebrides,, and the ' Land of home" — 'Athenaeum. 1 There is a possibility of more hanging in Soutbwark. The diit9Ctive police have received information of the existence of three baby-farming establishments in Peckham, and very shortly the owners of those establishments will be arrested arrd 1 brought before the magistrates.-*-' Soath London Press.* The Empress Eugenic arrived at Wilhelmshoha accompanied by the C^unt Chry, having travelled incognita as the Countess As the Oount had formerly re- , sided in the Castle, and is besides related to the fimpeior, no notice was tiikpn when,th« lady styling herself as the Countess Clary drove with him into the courtyard of the castle. . Tbe Crown Prince of Prussia, after a combat before Paris, reviewed his victorious Bavarians, one of whom eyed him with 1 a broad smile. "What is up, comrade?" asked the Prince. " Why, is it not jolly," was thp »;ood-hurnored reply, " to see Your Royal i Highness just as bespattered with 1 dirt as'w.e are !" ' A tap on the shoulder was all the rebnke he got. Intelligence of the change in the Government of France reached the island of Martinique on the 21st of September. An outbreak occurred at San Pierre between the supporters of Napoleon and those of the Republic. When the news reached the country, the negroes, fearing re-en-slavement, revolted. Twenty estates were fired. A corps was organised, and, proceeding 1 ro the scene of the disturbance, wounded 20 riorers. Over 100 were captured, and afterwards shot. Messrs Hand vside and Henderson have received a telegram from their agents at . Londonderry, stating that two fishermen at Innistraliuil have discovered the whereabouts of the steamer Cambria, but decline to give further information until they have been pecuniarily "rewarded. Messrs Henderson's agents, from certain remarks made 'by the fishermen, believe that' the wreck is 1 lying- lying in the neighborhood of the 1 Tor Rocks.— 1 Glasgow Herald.' The London correspondent of the l Birmingham Post ' says the designed absence of the Duke of Argyll from tbe Cabinet Council on Wednesday letft his colleagues at liberty to discuss the question arising out of the approaching marriajreof his son. wijli the Princess Louise. . The Cabinet ' have determined to propose to Parliament 1 that L6OOO a year shall ba settled upon the Princess, together with, .a; duwer of ' L30,000i A suitable, settlement will be made upon. the bride-groom by the Duke of Argyll. The Marquis will be raised to a dukedom; with a seat- in the Upper ' House. It is said'to be Her '" Miij.es t."y'» intention to. issue a Royal ordinance^ giving I Prince Christian- and, the iVJarqujs of Ljorne, after his elevation to a dukedom, precedence after the Royal dukes. A correspondent of the ' Pall Mall Gazette ' writes : — I witnessed last night the 1 display of the Aurora Borealis from the top of one of the Cotswold. Hills. What interested me more, however, than the Aurora Boraalis, was the view taken of it by the inhabitants, of a little village through which I passed. They were oil standing outride their houses gazing at the heavens. " There is. France for you," said o«e of them to me as I approached him. I requested an explanation, and found that not. only he, but aIL his neighbors attributed the blood-red li/bt in the sky to the burning of Paris, " Gad, how it blazes," T heard a' man remark. " They're * gettin' it hunrier now," said another; and so on through all the village. At a garden gate of nearly the last houso I observed a respectable-looking man with a telescope, with which he was, rolling the sky . "It is rum," he said to me, " and very sublimely, bucthed d asses, I can't make 'em believe it is only the southern cross*?' I rather think he was. the schoolmaster of the parish.*

An old man and his wife, living: ne«r Bath, while intoxicated, drank paraffin for beer. They became insensible,, and the man was found dead next morning. His,wile cannot recover. Smallpoi has not been bo fatal in London since the early part of 1868 as during the last three weeks ; in fact, so large a number as 40 fatal cases has not been recdrdftd in any week since 1867. The blood from, the slaughter-houses which fprmerly^rair into th& sewers of Paris, is now oarefoliy collected artd used in thfr preparation of black puddings, which are i» great esteem. In a single- day 8000 kilogrammes in weight of these puddings have been sold. The Germans are preparing to celebrate their anticipated final viotbry over the French;; and with this view large orders ha«re been woeived in Birmingham froro. Berlin for gas piping for a general illumination on the- Moi Paris and. the consequent expected treaty of peace-. Waster ordinary: circumstances^thfrßerliners could . make all they Want ift this way. for themselves ; but many of their workmen are m the army, and "hands." being, short they Iwve to send to England for the* means of rejoicinpr.—' Birmingham-Post.*' Parallel with the marriage of PHncess^ Louise with a subject;; is- the question of recognising the marriage of -the- Duke of Cambridge. A correspondent Has already;-suo-gflsted thati after the precedent ahout tola set in, the case of the^ approaching Royal marriage,, there can be noreasoaable objection to. urge against the retrospfictivfi acknowledgment of this union.. 'Echo.' . y Macmahon victorious* w»« almost made a. god of by the French people,; who couldspeak no words too good ofihiin? Macmahoa. in adversity is reveviled on all lside?,.save by the array he led, and accused? of, treachery and cowardice. That the marshal was no coward,. his previous acts are sufficient to show, and- his one act at Woertfi would stamp him as. a hero,- were there no* 3olferino. Magenta, or Algeria to. point- tp.< This is what an. American correspondent-- 1a man who has regarded the French ;with* no kindly eye— writes!—" At Vv^perth, infront of thosa battalionswhich had escaped massacre and the shame- of surrender en, inasss, rose Macmahon,/ holding his sword by the blade, brandishing it. like- a club,, and riding a large black ehargec covered wi'h foam-^-the third he- had' mounted. His uniform wa* torn to rags, hi&scarf had been carried away, as also a portioai of his shirr, exposing his breast. The man, w,as | superb. He forced his great black chrager, i into a circle of fire he had just broken. The Ohasflurs oame back, and loosened, rein. He passed and re-passed: several times through the enemy's lines, which they ooutinually broke. The officers, took the big blacfc charger- by the bridle, the soldiers crying,. 'Vive-; Macmahon !' and the Marshal, standing, up: ln. his stirraps, took in at aglance the field.: of battle, lit a cigar, and organised, his famous retreat. At seven o'clock we were- in a ; capital position, and Macmahon, returned to the front along a field, where the Prussian army, quite exhausted, was unable to. pursue its march. This man, w.ho from, da'vn had been in the saddle,. and had' been* fighting for thirteen hours, and- who had: seen all his staff fall, lit another cigar, dis.mounted, and passed three hours in» help? "" ing the hospical men to tend' the wounded:. The ' Union de la Sarthe " publishes thefollowing incredible statement received from a person, whose veracity -.it guarantees: — "On. tlie- afternoon of. the; 10th or 11th. of October, at half-past three, the King ofr Prussia, accompanied by Count Bismarck: and- General von Moltke, left Versailles to. inspect the works at the Ohateau.de Beaurregard* Three carriages, escorted* by lancers, were conveying these passengers,, and with them three or four of those un.nameable German Princes who. crowd'Versailles. In the hollow ■" of BougwalL all except two' persons alighted from the. carriages. About sixty Fraiics-Tireurs in > ambush in" the. words of La Celle, St Cloud,, very nerrly reaped a rich harvest. They, fired without hesitating/ ai r moment a fawThey fired 1 into; three carriages.. The first, which was the- king's, was quiteempty, and was piercod; through, andl through by bullets. In the second t \herestill remained; a German Prince, either of the house of HohenzoUern or Nassau,.who> was struck by a bullet anddted^the following day, and whose body was sent to the other side of ' the c ßhine in a. leaden coffin. Another Gprman PHnce in. the : third; carriage; was shot throngrh ~ the leg, and' has since had it amputated.. The aiithor of these lines,; as well as many of :the inhabitani^s. at Versailles,, saw. h|oi: ,get out of the- carriage dragging behind him his leg, blißfiding and bandaged, and. saw' hiih carried into his quarters- oa a mattress,; - thinks to orderly offijaera. The three principal personages wetfeiuif scatjted,. and as chances would, ha vA-itj not a gun tat'] been : ppihtedv at; them> but so great wastne terror of the; King that his horses on; their return, seemed; to be run- - ning awny. The Lancers leaning forward, and covered with foam fqUo wed; them, but,it was, only at a distanycei. as they couldnot keep up. It 'was a regular rout.. The* ezciremeiit resulted in the King! beijiff seized with a fit of giddiness^ from: which, he riscovered. under the 6ar6 of his phyaiCi&us. ■ ■.; : :•■■/• ..■ : ■■ :- -.."■...-■'...■. - i ; M Von Bismark |s; furiousf. to see the hand .of the young Princess Louise, 22tyears old, d-.iu^hter of Queen :Vlc*.oria, hsc^pe^a Grerman ; PvinceurLdar- the protoa--,tipn-pf ; the Chancellor of the Northern, iGonfederation. Ihe young Princess wilL simply marry the eldest son of the Duke . qfiArgylh(stc), the Marquis de Lhorne (sic), a Seoichittan. The Euglish theaiselves are rather annoyed to see such aribesi'lli&Mti) not because of tfflfa fortune of this young'Mnrquis; but because oftfie blood rvhieh runs in kis veins- • The^English are very aristocratic,; andj. this \ Seotek: .. blood is "not ; noble: enough.—' TJnioii; liiLbsrafje' (^Tours paper), - %