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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3024, 24 October 1878, Page 2

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i A robbery is reported to have been committed at Windsor Castle./ Daring the absence of the Queen and Court in Scotland workmen hare at usual been engaged in various repairs within the palace. Trustworthy meohanics are always 'chosen for this employment, and infractions of the law are consequently rare. Within the last few days; however, a number of articles oaring disappeared from the apartment of One of the footmen in the part of the castle occupied by the Boyal household, an artisan named Hicks has been arrested by the Palace police upon the charge of stealing a quantity of wearing apparel and attempting'^, break into one of the lobbies. -, , f .. : A terrible death.from phosphorus it reported, A young man left Paris a few days back to ▼"•it his friends at Lyons, and, as soon as he got into the, carriage, he lit a match by scratching it' with his thumb nail, and a piece of tbe incandescent phosphorus penetrated: wider'-the nail and made a slight burn, ■ to which he paid no attention. But, after an hour, the pain beer me Tery great, the thumb swelled, then the hand, and nest the forearm. He was obliged to alight at the first station and send for a medical man, who declared that instant amputation of the arm was necessary* . The patient ' insisted on postponing the operation- for a few hours until the arriral of his father, for whom hehad telegraphed. But; before the latter could reach the spot, it was jfoo late; the poisonous matter had gained the arm, then the shoulder, and any operation was henceforth impossible. .The young man died twenty-seven hours after the barn in horrible suffering. / At a graduation ceremonial in medicine in connection with the Edinburgh Unirersity on Aug. 1, the degree of LL.D, was conferred on William Macdonald, rector-elect of Dunedin High: School, Otago, New Zealand. The Agent-General for South? Australia has consented to receive subscriptions to the fund now being ■ raised;in behalf of the memorial to the late Mr John .. Howard Clark, formerly' editor of the Adelaide Register, whose detth.in that prorince occurred a short time since. The Claimant, whose health has been suffering from his close oqnfinement at the Pprtsea ' Convict Prison: and. his unceasing application to his sewing machine, is now employed upon light labour at the extension works in oonneo* tion with Portsmouth Dockyard. At first he was made useful in brick making, but the extreme publicity of the Work attracted more visitors than were conve* nient, and he has since been told off to a somewhat remote part of the yard near the Inflexible dock, where he i» employed in preparing the stacks of offal timber for the periodical dockyard sales. He handles a saw with considerable dexterity. He is much thinner than at the time of the l trial, and the convict garb has well-nigh deprived him of all individuality. Obitttabt of the Mouth. — fiesr* Admiral Dirom; T. Ball, J.P. for Notts; Lady Georgina Seymour; Queen Ohristian of Spain; Madame Van de Weyer; the Hon. T. J. Wyan; Mr G Payne; Lord Lauderdale, G.C.8.; Sir J. vVilHams, Bart.; the Hon. Miss Eleanor' Ponsonby Fane; the Hon. W. P. Bodney; G. Buddie, J.P. and D.L. for Gloucester; Major - General Simpson, C.8.; Lady Egerton, of Tatton/