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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

THE KING OF SWEDEN ON CAPITAL

PUNISHMENT.

The Copenhagen correspondent of the Pall Mall
Gazette, writing on the 25th inst., says :—About three
months ago considerable agitation was produced in
Sweden and Norway on account of the supposed in-
tention of the King practically to abolish capital
punishment, by refusing to sign the death warrants.
Two murderers having lately petitioned the King to
commute their sentences, the King, in a late Cabinet
Council, declined to grant the petition, and at his
Majesty's demand, the following declaration was in-
serted in the protocol of the Council
I consider these murders to have been perpetrated under
such aggravated circumstances, that if I were to execute my
Royal prerogative and grant a remission of the capital
sentence, I should in reality do nothing less than practically
abolish the capital punishment which the existing laws of
the kingdoms demand. Notwithstanding my adverse personal
conviction with regard to the justification and propriety of
capital punishment, I am deeply convinced that in the exe-
cution of my Royal prerogative I should not abolish a law
which ought only to be altered by the King and the repre-
sentatives of the nation together, and with deep regret I find
myself thus obliged to refuse a remission of the sentence of
death passed by the majority of the judges in the supreme
court."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

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Vicarage, Nottingham.

AUGUST 1874.

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--
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. _
•.* Vice-Chancellor Sir C. Hail granted a prpetna
=junction, with costs, against F. Mason, Chemist
Rotheram, for using the word " Pectorine."
Agent tor Stouraidge: Mr. J. H. Bland, High Street.

AS A MEMENTO there is nothing so
valuable as a GOOD PORTRAIT. It is the
lino:kph of Art over Tin, Distance, aril the Grave.
And what Portrait so exact as the PHOTOGRAPH ?

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1 TOURBRIDGE
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

LOCAL LAW CASE.

In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division
on the 20th inst., the suits of Collis v. Collis, and
Collis v. Collis, were before the Master of the Rolls
Mr. Claitty (instructed by Messrs. Whateley, Mil.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

DUDLEY AND WALSALL.

pTANOFORTES and HARMONIUMS may
be had on the NEW SYSTEM of HIRING, for Two er
Three Years; after which, and without any further pay.
tnent, to become the property of the hirer. Alllnstru-
Inflats had on this system, •r otherwise, will be
Itschanged any time within six month, for any other , if
not approved of, and returned carriage free. And fin.
t her,after a trial of three years. any Pianoforte or Her.
monium would be taken back. at it- original cost, cad
thrt, ',lmlay returned, deducting the usual e barge for
hire; thu offering greater advantage' than Ike London
Or lit.mingli.m Ileusea.—Apply REDERICK IJREEN
Music Iti,rehouse. 260, Castle-street, Dudky, and 259,
. -dtafford-street, Walsall.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

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NEW GUINEA.

Letters received in Sydney from Signor d'Albertis,
the Italian naturalist, who has been for some time resi-
dent on Yule Island, on the coast of New Guinea, give
further accounts of the belt of coast land, 20. to 25
miles in width, of which be is able to speak, and so
much of the land beyond this limit as was visible
from the summit of a hill about 1,200 feet high (says
The Times) From this eminence he saw a large extent
of plains, ;n lented with lagoons, with the River
Amama (the Hilda of the Basilisk) flowing downward
from a northerly direction to its junction with the
Nicura which discharges its waters into the sea. Ap-
parendy, this stream is deep enough to be navigable far
into the interior, but, like all the known rivers of New
Guinea, its channel is so obstructed by fallen timber
as to impede the passage of anything but canoes
capable of porterage, and it would be unsafe for a party
of Europeans to attempt to ascend the Amama in

these. He speaks of the climate (of the coast) as rood
and the heat moderate. He ascended the Nicura
River for a distance of 18 or 20 miles, and found it
fringed with mangroves for the first ten miles. after
which thee gave place to splendid thieketsof the Nips
palm, while the eucatyptus and the grass tree fl iurish
at s,mne distance from the stream. He crossed the
Amama several times, and describes it as flowing
through a large and fertile valley, apparently unin-
habited, and well adapted for pastoral purposes. No-
where did he find the natives possessing any knowled9e
of gold, silver, or any other metal. He is of opinion
that they would gladly welcAne strangers to settle
among them provided they could be made to ungerstand
that the persons and. the property of the races in posses-
sion must be scrupulously respected. He confirms what
has been said by Mr. Wallace and other travellers as
regards the island being peopled by two races, the one
mentally and physically superior to the other; the
Invaders having driven the indigenous tribes into the
interior. The earlier inhabitants of New Guinea
have darker skins than their conquerors, are shorter in
stature, and their countenances are more prognathous
than those of the coast tribes. The latter live under a
kind nf feudal system, and their chiefs are lords of the
soil within the boundaries of what may be called their
several counties. • They are supported by the labour of
their serfs, who are described as very industrious in
cultivating the land, in hunting and fishing—much of
the rougher kind of drudgery devolving on the women.
The western side of new Guinea appears to be chiefly
inhabited by the indigenous Papuans, and the eastern
by a superior race.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

KINVER.

DisEesEn MEAT.—On Tuesday week two carcases of
mutton were seized on the premises of Mr. John Bury,
butcher, of High-street, Kinver, being unfit for human
food, by Mr. John Lowery, sanitary officer for Seisdou
Union, and Mr. Spackman, medical officer of health.
rhe mutton was taken to It. L. Freer, Esq„ who ex•
a milled and pronounced it unfit for human food and
ordered it to be destroyed.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—At the Police Court, at
Brier.ey Hill, on Monday, before Messrs. H. O. Firm-
stone and H. smith, Samuel Lewis was charged with
being drunk and disorderly, in High-street, Klnver.
l'olice-Sereent Stevenson proved the case and said that
defendant was a farmer reading at Compton, and was very
drunk and nisordelly. Fined lOs and costs; in default
14 days.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

-
EXECUTION AT MORPETH,

On Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, George Hunter,
a pitman, twenty-three years of age, residing at Burra-
don with his parents, was executed within the North-
• umberland County Gaol at Morpeth. The crime for
which he suffered was the shooting of another pitman,
named Wocd, at Dinnington on the 19th December
last. They bad been with other companions amusing
themselves with guns during the clay. On conning out
of a public-house about duak Wodd bsegan tci throW
snowballs at Hunter, who thereupon threatened to
shoot him, and immediately did it. The jury
re commended him to mercy, but the authori-
ties did not interfere. Having breakfasted in
his cell, the condemned man was taken to the gaol
chapel, where the Hon. and Rev. T. R. Grey, rector
of Morpeth, acting for the prison ordinary, who was
unwell, read prayers to him. He declined to receive
the Communion. At ten minutes before eight he was
taken into the pinioning-room and banded over to the
under-sheriff of the county, who consigned him to Mar- 1
wood, the executioner. In eight minutes the proces-
sion moved towards the scaffold, led by Mar wood,
followed by the convict, on either side of whom walked
a prison officer. Twenty steps brought the unhappy
man to the scaffold, where Marwood did his work with
dexterity, and just as the prison clock began to strike
eight the bolt was drawn, and almost immediately
Hunter ceased to live.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

ASK FOR

POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED.

Sold by all chemists and medicine vendors throughout
the world at is lid • 2s 3d; and farad size lie per bottle.—•
Proarieton, TH016.8 POWELL. • Road. UM"'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

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LHOLLOWAYS OINTMENT]

Bronehitis, Diphtheria, Coughs, Col at. th
Derangements of the Throat and Chest.
In any of the above diseases, immediate nd perruanen
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buck, and in all stages of influenza, settled coughs, and
wheezing at the chest, the same treatment may be fol-
lowed with efficiency and safety.

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Ulcers.

By rubbing this Ointment perseveringly upon and
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becomes less intolerable, the matter thickens, and a
cure is soon effected. In all long standing eases Hullo-
Way's Pills should also be taken, as they greatly assist in
expelling all depraved humours from the body.
Skin Diseases of all kinds.

In this class of complaints, no matter the age, the se
the place, or under what name the disease may be classo
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rubbed upon the part affected, while Holloway's Pills
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Gout, Rheumatism, anilGlandular Swellings.
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tit
1F THERE ARR ANY Tim),Es who !21.ye n. 4 yet used
GLENPIP.LD STARCH. they are respectfoily solkiteil to
give it a wiali nud carefully follow (int tfic directions
printed n every pickage, and if this is iione, they will
say, like the Queen's Launiiresp. it is the finest Starch
they ever used. When you a.sk for GLENFIRLD STARou,
see that you get it, as inferior kinds axe often substituted
or the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of spur
one imitations.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

ALL RESPONSIBLE

JEWELLERS AND WATCHMAKERS
IN THE

KINGDOM.

MONEY to be lent in Town or Country, to
Gentlemen, Farmers, Tradesmen, or others, fror
Fifty Pounds and upwards, upon personal security. In-
tere-st five per cent. per annum, from one to seven years.
No eommi,-sion or charge' made. Also sums from One
liousand Pounds on Mortgage, at three and a half per
cent , on freehold or leasehold property, for any term net
exeeedinc, twenty-one )ears —Applv to Mr. Baur!
11nwARD7Civil Engineer and Surveyor, late Girdlebtoae
I:,,relay, 11 huston•square, Loudon.

from
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

The Standard, again alluding to the above phenomenon,

says
The "shower of mutton" in Kentucky, to which we
alluded last week, need no longer alarm the supersti-
tious. There is no direful portent attached to it; it is
no more supernatural than a spring tide, an ectre of
the sun, or an eruption of Vesuvius. Lucki y for
science, a resident in the vicinity gathered up some of
the substance and sent it to Professor J. Lawrence
Smith, at Louisville, and this gentleman has pronounced
what appeared to be " mutton " nothing more than the
dried spawn of reptiles—in all probability the spawn of
frogs—which had been carried up from their places of
deposit by whirlwinds, and ultimately dropped in the
region where the "miraculous fall" occurred. Pro-
fessor Smith properly adds that this is no isolated in-
stance of the kind, that he has noticed a number in his
reading, but that the only date he can at present re-
call of a similar " shower " is that of one which
occurred in Ireland in 1675. Perhaps it may be
serviceable to the general reader to supplement Pro-
fessor Smith's explanation of this latest prodigy by a
few more elucidations .of the marvellous. Since the be-
ginning of the Christian era there are at least 53 re-
corded instances of "showers of blood," as they are still
described in popular language and there are no less than
twenty-one on record within the present century in
Europe alone, the.last two being in 1869 and 1870,
both of which were in Italy. There was a time, not
very long ago, when these were regarded as omens of
impending calamities; but recently the reddish
coloured matter has been carefully examined and
analysed, and found in some instances to be dust of
sand, clay, mica, and other earthy material, and in
others to have been the larvw and excrement
of butterflies, caterpillars, and other insects.
Some of the reddish dust in these "showers of
blood" in Europe has been traced to South
America, the desert of Sahara, and to other places,
from which it was brought by violent winds borne
along by the currents of the upper atmosphere, and
ultimately dropped in rain showers, which of course
became coloured by the presence of the dust. In
addition to these so-called blood-showers, others are on
record, such as showers of milk, which was rain
tinted by chalk or lime dust, lifted by the wind;
showers of sulphur, which was sometimes real sulphur
from volcanoes, and sometimes the pollen of plants
and trees; but there is not one of them which cannot
be accounted for in a natural manner.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

A WONDERFUL OCCURRENCE.

A phenomenon of a very unusual kind—in fact, a
phenomenon that could not well have happened any-
where else—is reported to us from the United States
(says the Stand,ced). Bath Country, near Mudlick
Springs, in Kentucky, is the scene of the wonderful
occurrence; two hours after the sun had reached his
zenith on the 9th of this month is the time. A few
floating masses of vapour were visible in the heavens
over Mr. Crouch's farm. Suddenly there appeared a
light cloud, which seemed descending upon the earth.
It hung overhead a few brief moments, and then
flakes of something white fell softly. The fall con-
tinued ten minutes. Men and women then went out
and examined the flakes, and discovered them to be
flesh, resembling mutton. When picked up they
quivered. A space 200 by 100 yards in extent was
covered, and a number of trees and fences were also
full of the strange substance. Drores of chickens
and hogs swarmed around the place and ate the flesh
with great gusto. The inhabitants for miles around
came for several days after and collected specimens.
When the flakes fell they were from the size of a pea
to that of a human finger, an eighth of an inch in
thickness, and the colour of flesh. They have since
assumed a dull red and white hue, and are somewhat
withered. A butcher ate one flake, and pronounced it
very palatable, but was unable to say what kind of an
animal the flesh came from. We are told that hun-
dreds of persons are ready to take their affidavits as to
the truth of the entire matter; but we are surprised
that the inhabitants of the locality at first approached
the flesh with superstitious awe. We have beard of
showers of frogs, which ought to be acceptable in
France ; but if we are to have miracles of the kind in
England, and meat holds its present high price, a
shower of ready-cooked mutton would not be at all
objectionable to many poor families who hardly taste
meat from one year's end to year's end.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

THE STOIJRBBIDGE EXTENSION
RAILWAY.

.The station accommodation on this line—or
rather the want of it—has frequently been made
the subject of complaint by correspondents of the
Post; and we are glad to be in aposition toinform
them, as a piece of welcome news, that these com-
plaints are producing the desired effect. A cores-
pondent at Dudley sends us the following letter,
which he has just received from Mr. Grierson, the
general manager of the Great Western Railway.
We have much satisfaction in having assisted in
promoting; such desirable reform, and we are sure
that the directors will receive the thanks of all
concerned for having at last taken the matter in
hand:—

[Cory.]
"Great Western Railway, General Manager's
Office, Paddington Station.
"Dear Sir,—The secretary handed me your
letter 16th instant, enclosing- cuttings from the
Birmingham Daily Post, with reference to shelter
accommodation at stations on the Stourbridge
Extension line, and in reply, I beg to say that this
question is now 'under the consideration of thp
directors of this company, and at their meeting
last week they gave instructions to the engineers
to proceed immediately with the construction of a
new station at Smethwiek Junction, and it is the
intention of the directors to build new stations on
this line in the order of their importance. You
are probably aware that the stations were in the
same condition as now when the line was acquired
by this company, and you will understand that
calls for new works, and alterations are so consid-
erable, that the directors are compelled, in the in-
terests of the railway and the persons using the
same, to give priority to those works which affect
the safety of the line and to enable the business
on it to be conducted over those which, however
desirable they may be, are strictly speaking, more
works of convenience than of absolute necessity,—
I am, yours respectfully, J. GRlERSON."—Birming-
ham Daily Post.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

P, • ,
URSUANT to an Act . of Parliament made
_IL end passed in the 22nd and 23rd years of the
Reign of her present Majesty, intitulPd •• A,. :s•. ku
Further Amend the Law of Property and to fteileve
Trustees." . NOTICE IS 'HEREBY Give, v ma, all
Creditors .and Persons having idly CLAIMS or Dg...
A:JANDA upon or agaiast the Ramie of the REinND
Q,EIA.RLES, HRY CRAUFI,IIID,. Clerk in Holy
Otaers; Itector of Olds win ford, lo tt Conuty
.of W.
tester, Deceased-(who died dii tn!ttli day 'of F,braary,
1876 i-and• whose Witt wi4h Font were proved hy
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they shall po t MAIB! 44e,v0 441
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- Kidderminster.

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^ FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."-
'see Deuteronomy, chap. ail, verse 23.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

FRESH MEAT FROM AUSTRALIA.

The Standard of Tuesday sass :—" Our Australian
brethren are evidently in terrible earnest to solve the
problem of supplying England with fresh meat, and
the recent successes of America in this direction act
rather as a stimulant to further efforts than as a dis-
heartener. The Farmer to-day gives us some par-
ticulars of the latest and most elaborate endeavours,
which have met with a temporary and unfortunate
check. It appears that if success should ever be at-
Aaliled, we shall owe it in a great measure to the
efffirtst- of a Mr. Mort, who has lavished time and
tretisUre in perfecting a process of preservation by
fieieritg.- By September last he had perfected his
machinery; and let it be understood that he had
•ispetit soAnnoh money on this that the venture of
500 tons of meat for England must come from others.
• holders of stock cattle were not backward, and
the subscription of £20,000 was rapidly progressing,
when operations were unfortunately stopped by fire,
which destroyed a considerable part of the premises,
'though, happily, not those parts in which the preserv-
ing processes were carried on. These consist of two
principal 'rooms, one for cooling and one for freezing.
Of 'these the walls are so thick, and such bad con-
'drtctors •Of heat, that the temperature within is
ht# little affected by that without. Each of
these' 'apartments holds, when closely packed,
about- three thousand tons of meat, that in the
cooling 'room being intended for home consumption,
and merely kept till it is wanted, while the freezing
room is for meat for exportation, and in that is the
hope of supplying England with carcases of Australian
jipef, mutton, and pork. Both rooms have been
severely tested by the fire, but have sufferei surpris-
ingly little harm. In the freezing room the temperature
had' been raised only five degrees, viz., from 22 de
trees to 27 degrees, being still five degrees lower than
the temperature of melting ice. Meat treated by this
process has been eaten after an interval of eleven
months and has been found absolutely fresh. We sin-
cerely wish success to so much pluck and perseverance,
even for its own sake."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

BRIERLEY HILL.

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DAUNT( AIM INCAPABLE —At the Police Court, on
Monday, before Messrs. H. 0. Firrustone and H. Smith. 1
Francis Garbett, of Cradiey heath, was charged with 1
being drunk and incapabie on the 26th ult.—Police-con-
stable Sties proved the case and defendant was tined ss.
including costs.
DrsonnEßLY.—William Dovey and Joseph Firmstone,
were charged with being disorderly and refusing to quit
the Grand Turk luu, liinqswirif.,rd.—The landlady said
that Dovey was dis.irderly and refused to quit. Firui-
stone left whec told. The summons against Fitmstone
was dismissed, and D vey was tined 5s and costa.—
Th antis Jones was charged with being drunk and dis-
orderly, on the 21st ult.—Pulice•constable Gales pr ~v d
the case and said defendant wa very drunk in the high.
street. Ordered to pay the costs 8a —Michael (4111.18
was charged with being drunk at Kingswinford, on the
26th ult.—Poliee-cont.tablo Payno proved the case.
Pleaded guilty. Fined 2s 61 and costa.
COAL STEALING.—Saratt Garbett was charged with
stealing a quantity of coal, on the 27:h February, tiro
property of Earl Dudley —Samuel Robinson said that he
saw. the defendant throw coal off a truck and carry it
away.—James Smith corroborated and said he saw the
defendant take three baskets fall away. Defendant
pleaded not guilty and was sent to Stafford for one
month's hard labour.
ASSAULT CASlL—Henry Talbot was charged with
assaulting Charles Skidmore, on the 15th ult —Defend-
ant pleaded guilty The evidence was that they were
' playing marbles together when defendant caught hold of
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

PROFITABLE POULTRY.

The following is an extract from an instructive article on
Poultry in "Farm and Garden" in the Pictorial Workl

The way of the world is generally the right way,
therefore as Brahmas, Cochins, Dorkings, Hamburghs,
and Houdans are the most popular, it may be under- '
stood that they take the lead for usefulness. Where
the range is restricted and flyers would be objection-
able, the Choice mucrt lay between Cochina and
Brahmas. To keep poultry at home by cutting the
wings is simply to lay oneself out for vexation—there
is but one reasonable course of action in a case where
flyers are objectionable, and it is to keep birds that
have no desire to fly. Apart, however, from this
question of flying, there can be no doubt about the
superiority of the coloured Dorkings, especially on a
warm dry soil, for they produce an abundance of eggs,
set well, and make a first-rate appearance on the table.
But if such active birds as Dorkings are objection-
able, Brahmas will be the beet substitute; they lay
well, set well, and make good chickens, but are
certainly inferior to Dorkings as table-birds. Now
these two most useful of all breeds produce the best
Cross that has yet been peen, and therefore if two breeds
are kept in any yard, there cannot be a better selection
for the purpose than Dorkings and Brahmas. More-
over, there is not the least risk incurred as to the future
purity of the two brceds, provided the business is con-
ducted with suitable precautions. We will buppose a
case, and work it out in a few words. We begin with
two yards. Into one of these we turn a Dorking cock
with, let us say, six Dorking and six 13rahma hens.
Toe wfdte eggs obtained from this yard will produce
pure Dorkings, and the coloured eggs crossbred birds
for the table. Into the other yard we turn a Brahma
cock with say, six Dorking and six Brahma hens. The
coloured eggs from this yard will produce p are Brahmas,
and the white eggs cross-bred birds for the table. All
things considered, such a mode of procedure would
prove more profitable than any other, putting (pc st iot.
of fancy aside, and looking to results in eggs and meat
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

MOUNT VESUVIUS.

The Naples correspondent of the Daily News, writing
on the 24th, says :—The violent perturbation of last
Saturday and Sunday has subsided, and, though a
quantity of smoke is still issuing from the crater, the
aspect of Vesuvius is less menacing. Few things are
more difficult then to forecast with any accuracy the
precise period at which an eruption in the proper sense
—that is, an outflow of lava from the old crater, or
from some new fissure in the sides of the mountain—
may be expected to take place. The last great erup-
tion—that of the 26th of April, 1872—came as a sur-
prise even upon the most competent and vigilant ob-
servers, nor was it preceded by anything like the
amount of apparent disturbance which has been
,visible in the mountain for the last two months.
,Within a certain limited range of time the warn-
ings supplied by the seismograph may strictly be
depended upon, but it has not yet been brought
to a point at which it can foretell remoter con-
tingencies. We have lately had a return of winter
here. Snow fell in Naples on the nights of Monday
and Tuesday (the 20th and 21st), and the thermometer
went down to 33 deg. Fahrenheit. Even now the sum-
mits of the higher mountains above Castellamare and.;
Sorrento are whiter than they have been at any time,
during the winter, and the top of Monte St. Angelo,
the loftiest point of the range, about the same eleva- -
Hon as Ben Nevis, is deeply covered. Snow also lay
thickly on the cone of Vesuvius, with the exception of
a black rim round the edge of the crater; and the con-
trast between the dark ruddy-tinted smoke and the white
surface of the mountain side was curious enough. The
son, however, has now great power, and in a day or so,
all trace of this untimely visitation will have disap-
peared.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

OBSERVE

precedent her Majesty is setting. Does she wish even one of
her titles to be elective? Her title has been confirmed, or,
let us say, in strict history, even made by Parliament, but
the Parliamentary origin of her throne has been forgotten,
and the respect paid to it springs from no statute and no
interpretation. Her people, as a body, look back to no
time when her title begets; they call her only by a name
which, as they thinli, Fcripture has authorised; and they not
only (to not believe, but they would not understand, the
assertion that there are theories of legitimacy under which
Victoria wmild not be, ' by the grace of God,' but only by
the will of "Parliamelit, Queen. So well have history, and
opinion, and etiquette worked together for her dignity,
that it is at this moment almost impossible to explain to
foreigners in any short form of words that her throne stands
above election, and yet is not based, and does not claim to
be -based-, upon the principle of Divieo right. Is it for her
good, as head of a dynasty, as the mother of a line of Kings
which might last as long as the lines she represents, to accept
at the hands of an accidental majority a dlgnity which has no
tQOt.iii.ttie past, which visibly springs at best from the right
,of the sword, which is Palpably granted to her, and has not
been inherited by her? What Parliament has made, Perlis-
'pent can unmake. • Is she willing to-accept $ dignity which,
if Parliament' ever recalled it, her descendents' must admit
Ito be fairly within the right of Parliament to eaucelr

The Saturday Review writeg

• _
, ." A thunderclap is nothing if it is expected. The true artist
anakes the Mr calm ; he creates an atmosphere of weary and
monotonous stillness, and then he brings out his thunder.
Suddenly turning from his children and his calendars, Mr.
tElisraeli soared into the highest region of politics. The great
kevelation was made. We had been imagining that the
tiew title was to be adopted to please the Queen, or to
lease the people of Ind/a, or to bring uniformity
to Indian administration, or to mark the cbarac-
er of our government of India as something which
nglishmen would not dream of for themselver.
o ; these were but the small outskirts of talk,
he parade of reasons with which great men must cloak a
great purpose The true meaning of the new title is that
it is a defence against Russia. How true it is that the arts
of government are far simpler 'than the foolish world ima-
gines! We have only to say 'Empress,' and Russia is check-
mated and India happy. This is indeed pleasant, and it adds
to our pleasure to think that the device is of almost uni-
versal application."

,
in connectia
ship's offic,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

only.

When the Prine,e of Wales visited Jummoo, the
Mahartqah retailed 118 oonvicte.

MUD VOLCANOES.

The Aus alien Welttheilen, describing the mud
volcanoes in tbe Crimea, says that they are situated
n .id way be tween the village of Bulganak and the town of
Yenikale, and consist of hilloeks which are of a colour
between yellow and grey. Upon the sides of Vve
hillocks are to be seen numerous furrows down which
the mud has made its way into the plain, and the ap-
proaches to these volcanoes are rather dangerous. as
there is a risk of being engulfed in the slime. The
largest of these valcanoes has a crater perfectly round,
and about forty feet in diameter. At the ,-ides of this
crater the mud is very thick, wile in tie centre it is
quite clear and very liquid. Bubbles of gas, at the
rate of fifty a minute at certain times, are dia
charged from it, and a 3 they burst they emit
a s ,und like the crack of a rifle. There are also some
mud volcanoes in the neighbourhood of Staru-Turkan,
and though most of them are small, some are in a con-
stant state of ebullition. It often happens that oxen
and camels which have found their way-to the edge of
the craters have been drawn into them, and the
Tartars who inhabit that district state that the erup-
tions are dependent upon the state of the sea, increas-
ing in frequency and violence as the sea gets rougher,
and subsiding as it goes down. Near this group of
volcanoes are others which have been extinct for many
years, and which are covered with a thick growth of
:vegetation. The chemical components are in all cases
identical—sulphur, naphtha, and phosphoric acid being
the main elements.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

THE STATE OF TRADE.

The Daily News, in an article on the state of trade,
says that the country as a whole is often doing
very well when many merchants and manufacturers ,
complain the loudest; and as raw materials and
articles of general consumption me now cheap and the
rates for money are also low, it is quite certain that
much profit must be made by some people. If the
former rate of production is only maintained in many
trades—and in many it steadily increases with the
growth of population—then the circumstance of greater
working expewes being reduced gives a greater divi-
dend to the capitalist and to his workmen, .which divi-
dend can also be more advantageously spent than when
articles of general consumption were high in price. And
it has been quite evident from the accounts of the lead-
ing railway companies for the year 1875 that on the
whole this "doing well '"is not a mere hypothesis
at the present time. Although with a comparatively
small increase of traffic, especially in the second
half of the year, railway dividends in 1875, as compared
with the former year, were generally maintained and
exceeded, an increaEo I amount being at the same time
paid to the debenture and preference holders. In the
few cases of a decrease of the rate of dividend, the
amount divided was not for the most part diminished
but the reduction of the rate was due to the participa-
tion of new capital in the division. One cause also
why the rate of dividend was leas in most cases
than it would otherwise have been was an increase of
the wages expenses in working the lines, which
rather confirms, however, what we have said as to the
country generally doing well. What goes in wages is
as important for our present purpose as what goes in
profit. Too much importance should not be attached
therefore, to many of the complaints now uttered.
The complaints themselves are not unjust, but their
exact scope and meaning should not be misappre-
hended, or the depression confounded with such a con-
traction of trade as has been witnessed in many pre-
vious periods when many industries were for months
at a standstill, when armies of workmen were out of
employment, when the revenue fell off seriously, and
when pauperism increased to an alarming extent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

A LETTER FROM THE CONDEMNED

CELL.

Tbe following is the copy of a letter written by Thomas
Fordred, who was found guilty at the recent assizes for the
murder of Mary Ann Bridger, near Margate. It is addressed
from Maidstone County Gaol, and, after referring to a letter
he sent last week, he says :

"My dearest sister and friends, —I got your letter.
I was glad to hear from you all. You sent a letter to
the governor of the gaol to know if I would like to see
you. I shall be glad to see any one, and my dear
sister, if I did not see you I could not die happy.
You may think I had a dislike to you; no, God for-
bid; I was always fond of you. Now when any of
you come to see me, come firm, do not cry and
make a set out, because it will upset me very
much. I am quite cheerful and happy, so do not
make me unhappy. You ought all to be th,ankful to
think God gives me time to repent. I believe God
will let me die happy. You know we must all die.
There is many a good Christian gone before me. When
I went before the judge he told me I was guilty of
wilful murder, but I have a greater judge to stand be-
fore than him and he will say that I am not guilty of
wilful murder, but I believe I was the cause of her
death by falling about with her; but not wilfully, God
forbid. It was the last of my thoughts. My dear
sister, my poor brother, and my poor wife that is gone
before me, I hope that we shall all meet in Heaven.
Tell my poor mother to make her peace with God, and
I hope I shall sure meet her in a better world.
We all know it is a bad end to come to; bat you may
depend there is many a poor man gone to Heaven that
has lost his life in a prison. No matter where we die
God has the same love for us all. Now, my friends,
supposing I had died in the crime at a moment's-notice,
not time to ask God to have mercy on my soul, that
would have been worse than this. You would then
said, 'Poor fellow; he is gone,' and that would be all
about it; but would you ask yourself a question
about my poor soul? Now, when I am dead, never
mind what they do to my body; let that go. It is our
poor souls that is the main point. My dear friends I
am as well in health as ever I was; but what about my
poor mother? She is very old, and it will upset her so.
Now I shall be very glad to see any one that likes to
come to see me; I shall be happy to see my dear sister
again, and may God bless us all. I am so glad that
you are going to take care of my poor dear Jenny.
May God bless all your family, and I hope we shall
meet some day in a better world. When you come to
see me be firm, and thank God my dear motht r will
know well the last of me. God ever bless you all."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

HA.GLEY.

STOCK SALE.-It the ordinary weekly sale on Monday
there was a fair supply of stock not to be surpassed in
qu dity. There was an average attendance of first-class
buyers and full market rates were realised. Beef made
from 8d to 9d per lb. Mutton 10d to Is. Fat cattle
made as high as £29 12s 6d. A lot of superior tegs
belonging to Mr. John Bach, of High Habberley, made
an average of over 775. a head.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

THE RECENT TEMPEST AND THE
FALLS OF NIAGARA.

The New York Herald states that the tempest which
raged in the neighbourhood of Buffalo and Toronto on
the 10th and 11th of March effeoted a most remark-
able change in the appearance of the Falls of Niagara.
For two days the falls presented a most retnarkable
sight. The large rocks at the font of the fall upon the
American side, which are generally covered wirh water
to the depth of fifteen or twenty feet, were laid bare,
and Glasabrook, a guide whose name will be familiar to
most of those who have visited Niagara during the last
thirty years (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette), asserted
that he could have walked from the entrance to the
"Shadow of the Rock" to the "Cave of the Winds,"
opposite to• the American falls. Between Goat
Island and Prospect Park, below the suspension bridge,
where the current generally runs at the rate of twenty
miles an hour, the water was blown back towards the
falls with such force by the wind that the stream
might have been crossed on horseback. But the great
Horse-shoe Fall, on the Canada aide, was the most
affected by the storm, for it lost more than two-thirds
of its immense volume of water, and was reduced to
the preportions of a mill stream. Above Table Rock
and as far as Street's Island the stream was for more
than four hundred feet almost dry, and several people
crossed from the American .to the Canadian shore
without wetting their feet.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01

MELANCHOLY CASE OF SUICIDE.
INQUEST ON THE BODY.

On Wednesday morning, as George Lee, driver
of the buss, to and from Stourbridge to the Rail-
way Station, was driving pass Kettle Pool, he saw
something floating on the top of the water, on
going to see what was the matter found it was the
body of a woman. He got assistance and pulled the
body out of the water, and sent for the police, and
it was soon discovered that it was Mrs. Summers
widow of the late Samuel Summers formerly house
Surgeon at the dispensary. The body wiLs brought
down in a trap by Superintendent Freeman and.
conveyed to a shed at the Horse and Groom Inn.
Mr. A. Freer was sent for, but life was extinct
The sad event has cast a gloom among her friends.
The inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at
the house of George Dark, the Horse and Groom
Inn, before Miller Corbett Esq., Deputy Coroner.
The first witness called was.
Elizabeth Mary Heming, who said she knew the
deceased who was widow of Samuel Summers, for-
merly a surgeon at Stourbridge, and was 36 years
old. She resided at 13 Catherwell Terrace. Had
often seen the deceased who appeared greatly de-
pressed. She askedi;her what was the matte.
Decease only laughed and said nothing.
Frederick Rude Summers, son of deceased, said
that he had noticed that his mother had been de-
pressed. He last saw her alive a little after ten
o'clock, in the house. He went to bed and left her
up. Next morning she was not in the house. His
sister dressed herself, and went out to make en-
quiries, but did not find her. Deceased complained
during the last fortnight of having head ache.
George Lee, buss driver, at the Talbot Hotel,
said on Wednesday morning last, at three minutes
to eight o'clock was driving past Kettle Pool,
when be saw something in the water, got down and
examined it, having got it out of the water, found
it was the decease. She was quite dead. He gave
information to the police.
Alfred Freer, surgeon, said on Wednesday morn-
ing he was called to seen the deceased, found,her
quite dead and had bee dead some hours. He had
since examined the body. There were no marks
of violence on the body, but a slight scratch on
the nose. A person complaining of head ache,
for a fortnight would have a tendency to drive
them to temproary insanty. She had at times had
nervous attacks.
The Coroner said from the evidence, it was
quite clear that deceased took away her own life
while in a fit of temporary insanity. There were no
marks of violence found on the body, and it was
' quite clear she had drowned herself. Verdict
"Temporary insanity."