The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

LORD DERBY.

The Earl of Derby, fourteenth of the line, after a
severe illness of a fortnight's duration, expired at
Knowsley-ball, on Saturday morning, October 23, at
seven o'clock, in the presence of his family. The pri-
mary cause of his death was a severe attack of the
gout, with which he has long been afflicted, and when
the symptoms were at length subdued, more than a
week ago, he was left in such a complete state of pro.
stration that his medical attendants soon gave up any
hope of his recovery. Still, the decline of his vital
powers was very slow, and when at last the final mo-
ments arrived, his death was singularly calm and
tranquil—so much so that those who stood by
his bedside could not positively tell at what
moment the spirit took its flight. Although the
decease of the noble Earl had been long expected,
his death was still felt as a keen blow, not only by his
own family, but by the entire household, who, from
the highest official to thehumblest stable-boy, felt that
they had lost a friend. In the course of the morning,
telegrams were sent to her Majesty the Queen, the
Princeof Wales, and others, announcing the gad event.
'1 he news of the noble earl's decease was received at an
early hour in Liverpool, and, though expected, cast
quite a gloom over the town. The flags at the
Town-hall, and upon most of the public buildings, were
placed half mast; the church bells were rang, and
other tributes of respect were paid to the memory of a
nobleman who has been intimately connected with the
town.
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The funeral, in compliance with the express wish of
the decemed Earl, will be strictly private.
Lord Stanley addressed the following letter to the
Earl of Sefton, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county
Knowsley, October 24, 1869.

" DEAR SEFTON,—Your kind note of yesterday has given
Lady Derby and myself as much pleasure as anything can
under the melancholy circumstances in which we are plactil
We are deeply grateful for It. With reference to your
expression of a wish to join ill paying the last mark of
respect to my lamented father. I need hardly say that there
is no person whom on every ground we should more readily
invite to take part in that duty were anything in the
nature of a public funeral contemplated. Such, however,
is not the cue. Sly father ill Ills lifetime repeatedly
expressed a wish that the observaneu attending his decease
should be of is strictly private character, and a written direc-
tion from him to that effect is at present in my hands. Under
these circumstances the members of his family feel that com-
pliance with his wishes is the truest mark of respect to his
memory ; and though it gives us pain to think that many of
his moat attached friends will be deprived of the opportunity
of expressing their sense of the lourthey have sustained, we
yet consider that we have no option except to obey strictly
the injunctions which he has left. We propose, therefore,
that the funeral should be attended only by a few of his
nearest relatives: and we feel sure that those (I fear they are
many) to whom this decision will cause seine natural dis-
appointment will understand and sympathise with the
motives by which we have been guided. Believe me, dear
Sefton, most sincerly yours. SMILEY."
"The Earl of Sefton."

On Saturday, when his lordship's death was an-
nounced, all the Derby tenants in Preston either par-
tially closed their shops, etc., or drew the blinds of
their houses. The flag of the town-hall was also raised
half-mast high; and the passing bell at the Parish
Church rang out at intervals its painful requiem. All
through the northern part of Lancashire, where his
lordship had property, the deepest regret at his death
is felt. He was an excellent landlord, and his liber-
ality will long be remembered.

,
- .
held he was always looked upon as the very soul of
honour; and whenever he occupied the proud position
of First Minister of the Crown that very fact gave to
the ministry a strength which it would not otherwise
have had. Tens of thousands who read his memior
ie ay differ from his political opinions, but all will regret
his loss. But he dies at a ripe old age, loved,
honoured, and lamented by a people who, after all,
think more of personal qualities than of party distinc.
f From The Times.)
Lions.
Very few people, I should say, unless they
sense "ito
iiiesewtol'id soabrietlitastflfee:d Derby
orrafsohi3 twhe highest
Very
are Fenians, or sympathisers with the Fenian pri- wonderful man, and ho was bormnio4comm'and. ylleaswas the
t
tioist versatile pohtician of our time. As a debater he was
soners from any other cause, will be disposed to
object to the course that Mr. Gladstone declares
.L.. 1 lily
twentylie beet dalesarnsmagreo ttlirelaatemii`dct,i Aberdeen,for
any
adwvheorlfuyii
the Government have decided upon. The Prime heard the old oratorical giants, coupled Lord Derby with
Minister says that for Ministers to advise the release ilol r. cited aft:mu:
.iotit the twoooomb. ?etas tciaiteLsyhaemh,ea
ienv
.I,•ielisetneerliLde
of the Fenian prisoners would be contrary to the duty years will long survive ; while in more recent years, and
of the Government as guardians of the public security wail his voice grew thin and husky, a speech of his in the
,nannetdery
ostampediiie
and peace; that there is no proof that these men have hi°nlis`ase iltaeLisier'sT or OurtsMarnsa.marvit Ivelalsollsnofteiant
abandoned their nefarious designs; that Fenianiem is own language alone that he excelled. His translations from
not extinct ; and that were any public mischief to re- R foreignreavnedn iftaitchAticia'n' geuggesewtoged deservele
n e
splendid
l to be reeemp,eame-.
suit from the release of the prisoners, the advisers of With a strong English character, too, his acquaint-
the Crown would be responsible for it. And in arriving annuctleitweltneh
nfeoreelelfatp:ednitiincskws remarkable—even minute,
usenhh.eo roil ,
n Derby'skee, e tenni; ue e, iii Let
at this decision the .Government is supported by the among foreign statesmen as timeme
eoutary at large. Fenianisna is scotched, but not in the last Tory Government Lord Stanley was enabled to
a edneckt our
whoforeign :e :egret, nparewmlithe
prominent as
more than ftieen,o radnin,az
killed, and we cannot afford to trifle with it. Nothing ss,s,
that has yet been said at the amnesty meetings, as far not less prominent as a sportsman, and it has often been
as I have read the accounts of the proceedings, affords sy,aled,,,,fenrottrfualothpohlotniseethf;ateboatf ;,75 would
winhlv et i,e esteemedy than It
any ground for the release of the prisoners, and nothing to see his party win on the most important Division. If
further proof of his many-sideduess were needed, there is
that was said or done at the amnesty demonstration on
y idehilecoe of it
oothoe
ylnit.tlegvmol.%.7l,of Co'otlivtoersr
catilirseonn
anthii.
Sunday in London, after the Government decision was
known, will induce the public generally to regret the in the further facts that he began life as an ardent Whig.
that he passed into a Tory, and that he ended his political
action which the Government decided to take. career by using all his power to pass a Radical measure of
We have all heard a good deal about the rights of if 'fahorlidasmoeoltr,iteewfoonlia.h In tieit Lilytheeifse undertakings he
women, and have all beard too of Amazonian regb- a strong fighting thstineT.arand did not cmonutc)l:Leartetewliral
insists, but no advocote of the rights of women, either odds he had to contend against. its undertook to
in this country or any other civilised country, has ever adeeemnieinni:ternlth: C;moymeeminmeeentinonflirttand onnetlere;saniTvec.ilel
advocated, I believe, the idea of women becoming delight in tie Iliad, which he translated, was as Much
soldiers. To be soldiers, or police-women, or anything cause of Inhewtilliiteiftkbeatteitltetlewtipesei;reeildenanidtinassdfor
devotion
of that sort, is a right to which they do not aspire ; to the Turf was but one more token of his love of contest.
they would rather leave fighting and peace-preserving These fighting qindifies, conjoiued to much brilliancy of
C aeneneenrii:ierneeneo,s,vfune il lineage,
powerful
pandy,g:aetn estates,loug feeowniwTcateo,rlieeil
. to us of the masculine gender. But the Princess th
Royal of England some time ago became the Colonel attended his leadership, and though, notwithstanding his
honorary colonel of course—of the Prussian Re- Volta. eslenseMees lsaVerhree
keptel,e respect
Stan followers owwnesr en generallyn,t
et at
between a site-
-theg
iment of Dragoons, and during some manmuvres of him and his chief rival, Lord Palmerston—both of then, emi-
nently regiment the Princess Victoria actually appeared
stoneosoograi mteon . Every firm alherent of Lord l'almer-
riwnills;,;oered;nrshnapslae familiar d
II ot Cou-
ntthe Tories
the head of the troops. And so the soldiers have versation withshls efhliaet,
given her a splendid sabre on which is engraved "The could make no such boast of the privileges they enjoyed in
dragoons of the Princess Royal to their Colonel." , riADertly's coepanY. In spite of these defects he won the
tii e ty, e admiration, and even the affection of no meau
Rather a strange present for a gentle princess ! following, through the manliness iif his character, which
, helped to conceal recklessness of policy and want of political
Still another agrarian murder in Ireland. A land- ; foresight.
lord named O'Brien, living near Dlohill, county Leit. 7No family in the British Empire can show a more flourish-
! itnentle,nLaelfig:filleetnreye tiiir
ikthpaetekonfpeEdnwermil
nGetoftlorellyfm.
rim, has been found brutally murdered, the face and
head being frightfully mangled, and a wound behind , his family Is a very old one, though, indeed, the houses
the ear, showing that he had been shot. And is this ,
nerheop,ae:rieunwdatltorg
irecnreevlearideeinmetltitelindkayttnol
itnh&etfoireiror
to be another added to the long list of murders, the ' of his ancestry there is an' unwonted number of str'Utitf'dyye-
ffiarked men. The Earls of Derby were physically of the best
perpetrators whereof are never discovered? This is
one of the saddest features of therm crimes. We hear ' healthy,re lin
still': r long4t7e—d. Mentally,
firm 'f fibre,
et
leuyilwoet e'sr:ing.v.iflari:
of a landlord being shot; we hear of the constabulary 1 high-mettled, lovers of the tray, generous, chivalrous,
7ifetyheeirangkinnseetinincartskware raernf
nip. s
se f
eearching through the district, to endeavour to discover 'irsisd'es taming'b theicri
the murderer; day after day passes away, without the often original sometimes peculiar, and affecting to stand fast
by Ne!Ne'e have observed that,
criminal being discovered; and then some fresh
agrarian outrage is reported, destined in all probability pointed it out as a curious escoinCileneeceee that ieotiriehT; !
to make the public go through the 'lame stages of hope the old titles in the family was that of Lord Strange.
But
rood
modern
oe namesease. of
iSttraiengke tese notpttioenbeefitztireernstwooda In the
and disappointment. This sort of thing never happens
in England or Scotland (comparisons may be odious, truer epithet. The poets have not failed, indeed, to discover
that tm
e thereto
t re
hboumt one word 7,,arnalei; the English which
but this comparison is most naturally suggested).
When a murder takes place in Great Britain, the Barons and Knights of Stanley, trteacemtlLYst`raerablooffbteifiyr
whole community, as it were, constitute themselves 1:1110.:cgirt
hloi2oorn d
ft.h e Conquest, and one of the striking points in
ttteayt,daleempopestdintrrairaebly senekk,nineg
woriehneirewases
es
detectives, and, instead of shielding the murderer (im. as their briydes, at
mediate relatives of course excepted), every one is first Aldithley or Audley ;on two several occasions took the
Canon family
of thilsyir
eS;azsazlievyes n:i.,/iidyarAn,i.reisitteilltilledtwitSh the
ready to aid the officers of justice. But in Ireland,
painful ms it may be to say no, it is well known that family of Smith. What renders the point mostgirnetaereeratfgoins
that
wkerinnilheof the vigour of the race may be attributed to the
the murderer is sheltered and hidden; and the cats-
peerage
,tyr,efifnesilast6ienleeede,eitlwenill
logne of murders, where the crime has not been traced be feund in theee f e
to the criminal, is a long and sad list, descent the marriages were very mixed, and no great care
was taken to preserve the purity of the blood`
There has been for some time a rather formidable The Earldom of Derby, though one of the oldest In the
strike in Paris among the lifaendraper' assistants, who Peerage, has not yet belonged to the House of Stanley for
f,o.go,7nzetioifio
complain. and I think justly, that twelve hours a day etfuiltis
joisrea fact which may quell one's genes-
and five or six on Sunday, impose too much work upon tocracy the antiquity of ';'aillyrealjhefff":;/`lteh3P'ntlit,`,..!2;s.
them. The early closing movements here began more Lontzeetahewri,itThe younger branch of a great family may be
and a
new
inneityhen,enlydeyer
nsetpillalt). ealonigeseetkoeeth
we
i!?ioer
noners ;
than twenty years ago among the linendrapera' assist-
ancient house would regard as adding but little to itsmaant's, but it has been a long time reaching their
edig-
nity,f
outeimLnierady litrlgn'seetitle is not four centuries old, his
brethren of the French capitaL And there seems traced ancke filfirnetleouel,thaat
remarkablenumber of
but little hope of their succeeding. The places of the years They are really,
recalcitrant assistants are being filled up by others lance% aneedeeiweel worthy of more ample notice than they
from the provinces, while young women are also being than we ma noset
affotrlietowtglitvertoofthefm.amu family history
Zir)
largely employed. Young men, by the way, have often r, In passing, that the first Earl of Derby is famous
been taunted for serving in our English shops, wasting
reigntorfele of henry
e-
fori.;hthat there is another in the
their physical strength upon threads and ribbons, but hospitality; that one in the reTrit or Elizabeth almsositriail'echlys
neniarleaneilnfiges a place among noble authors; and that yet
the reason is simple enough—the lady cuetoutere do fnathcomhart7osahr,,e.isssitioilfliabegttear knorewrin„;whnis
not like to be served by their own sex. In France, wife, who defen'teil his
employments for women are much more general, and There Is celebrated Earl of Derby, who made a noise
inoet tdheewilaswtkocewnate
ti;ewiloonweasnntphaenreTnaneilfa(te,rloef
the Freneh are open to a taunt of a more serious cha, the Earl
Fox, who founded the great races of the Derby and the ~cfli.'s,
racter—that in the lower ranks women are employed
to
be and who chose for his second wife the actress Miss
in such heavy labours that they ought certainly larren. Ile lived so late into the present century
performed by the men, that when his grandson made his appearance in Par-
tin
not by
, any it nd
title for afterwards,seoreeetimee,yente he was known,
That the common beggars of our streets, the pro.
fessional mendicants who live by the ill-bestowed heir, but as plain Mr. Stanley. Ae 'eon of ° tntins noble
wmailtl!;nteheeroeuegnh whom the is one of Derby in Its connexion
charity of the tender-hearted, are a social evil that
netme,olitieszllneeevgeetlje world, was
thirteenth EX of the name,
ought to be abolished is pretty generally admitted,
but hitherto all attempts in this direction have the IV of his days constant to the Whigs, 'and was heal '
collocrLf.orof
living animals
naitituyaolv,h.iltory. Ilia zoological
more or less failed. An asseziation is now,
however, being formed which, if the public will he was President of the Lionrcan and 7.oolasogrciarlatfoecTeatliuees '•
witc!intetraenci3rds ofinhisl7sr
he
wioerakhmay still be consulted
but support it, will do a large amount of good, eeeonns,ilediteneheeterntelf,
The plan of giving tickets, instead of. money, the Rev. Geoffrey Herlihy, and his eldeal
lath
of
NDierby, now deceased, was born
has been successfully tried in the neighbourhood at Knowsley on the
hwinnetir
nfioell;_iiignytayeear. Lord Derby, therefore,
of Blackheath, and the system is to be adopted at the at his death,
e He is one of the many distinguished men who have been
West End of the metropolis, where mendicity most
flourishes. Members and friends of the ascmciation,
to
gohntanyt:tht:
sf forget whatan lzhoewr esw to
i,,d,ue.tgiitti,,,ti,E,cto‘itlit,nd at ChriStchnreh, I )xford. lint in speak-
his granihnother—hwai..se when asked for money, will give tickets which at cer-
tain offices will bring money if the applicant is de- was
was
droto his grandfather only two years before his him-
tam
of it, or otherwise relieve him by clothes, or for tinmneif•iaeonrde
of
high
cobome(iy.A,syttlitssaol;srri:a litioshdemsfethaseLvaerf,y clever actress
she bestowed. great care on the elocution food, or employment. It is a remarkable fact that a anl:...nLoorn. 1
for De Derby
silverys ekie,re wann re
large proportion of tickets thus given at Blackheath negieecrlimarket-de for his
breath throe. gll ado `o
intricatethe I: vwoiltuh-
were never presented. The recipients, of course, could whtch he meh'ged his
s:rti flees that seemed to be interminable. By
not bear inquiry. Now, if in all our large towns eit'seoc;nf liasswootar;fuogl!yit
,fleeorleeroN
,to
ymlieke those
this system were adopted on a large scale the laws long sentcliCe
avainst mendicity might be rigidly enfereed. At seuiences so long and devious in their c'oerse gilita'`i
thlisteningekpeettnotitehnertilleliti
eclieiorlw)binliiioniniteerieteical hearers were often
present it seems cruel to do no, and this is just whY i t the beginning would
'lever find a verb at the end , but they were always die.
the trade of begging is no profitable.
it.ai.ootioite,b for. the sentg7ee, however long and however in-
The Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act h tat last. But it was due to Miss
as Farrel; that Ipie beltehe.t:t.o I,set.,rfection and made so much of
hitherto been all but inoperative in the metropolis the voles that avme
on account of the owners of property that ought to can never be Forgotten byethos',','7,llwciinigice, it,
hoard It. note
be pulled clown, in accordance with the provisions ~f perfection, however, came afterwards. ` 'As a yoolrill'he might
ilsexeceeleifn reitegirone, bust, he was chiefly remarkable for los
the law, bring allowed to escape, through the apathy hli
aril inaction of the vesfries. The Alarylebone vestry for his scholarship. esfilessecsaereseerfal ch'ihriller Chuireer weass 'itl'tisd
have at last put the Act into force, had
will
make !line vished, though he left the University without taking a
eaefotentielt
hat, ee.
greatMeehy Irendcleelbsio it islilitlcijltntoevurnge.rstand, as he
it subservient to the benefit of the working classes
of any kind. Among other 'sets to be ment7onl by pulling down some houses that are totally unfit
for human habitation. It is a thousand pities that honour,ortn "m"
be stated that he won the Chancellor's prize
verse, the subject being Syraems
wholesome legislation should be frustrated in the At the age of twenty-one' when he offered himself ass
way this Ae e t has been, but a beginning having once candidate for the borough of Stock bn dre ge, there we few
young men so gifted, so accomplished, or so full of spirit as
been inede, there is hope for the future. Mr. Stanley; and the Whigs, who were then In very low
'171,c Crest Eiutern steamship, whose earlier hiepstratte, regarded him with more than common itifereat. The
stemy
was a mere catalogue of (hamsters, has of late been put House
y war
(7me,kooenasoughhattgothout the conutry and in the
House of Lords and in the list wasof tv;lTYiew:74lklo inn= succeed 'he
to a. noble use, in aiding the movement for binding the
matons of the earth together, by means of eel-quartile twohiitc.h is, this party•—which had some rea4on to despond, and
teleeraphie cablea She is, now on her way with the cited tgeidgriezmt"'imo;e7. tihteesseb'e.,!” bseZilefiimsessbley!..tee,s-
rtaghseefelly brilliant eldest son protocol by the tit'ritre'n
cable which is to conueet Suez with Bombay, and this 7."
nh0„,,,0d,,re4 utar.s..th This is an exaggeration, but
there canoriea
work will engage the monster steamer for three or four abilities, and as to the brillianecre'oef'fhtioonparlocZiara.
.etttrh
which
his
months; and after this she is booked for the laying , f
ear ar two later Ime of his
the cable between ramen,th and Malta. If 'trintriemndh"gria regarded him.
They
complained
of
hi"'
se
''''"ht
will take Lb. tro,dde to look. at tt saY one, relarivesuc'onlopl,ineiml ttneatt.heAw
o nuiliororin (011- askealwexes swhootiinef—shooting,
marine telegraphic schemes that have cter..ally ahooting ; hut, then,
recently been mastered a tubjeat with groat rapidity, said held ullilyta7taellyn