The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-24 00:00:00

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FA.siIIoNABtE b6AOHING: IN.
• LONDON.

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The Four-in-Hand Club met at twelve o'clock on
Wednesday mbrning at the Pd-wder Magazine, and the
'meet Was attended by eighteen coaches, which filed off
in the following order: —The Duke of Beaufort's coach,,
Liven ty,Lord Arthur Somerset, with the Prince of
Wales on the box seat, and Lady Westmoreland and
Lady &ally Kingscote on the second seab;. Colonel'
Dickson, .Captarn Whitmore, 10 Life Guards, driven'
by Captain Talbot; -sir- Henry MeyserThompson,l
.. Lord Londeelborough, Lord Abingdon, Count Monster,
Lord Craven, Lord Muncaster, Lord Tx edegar,'
Colonel Wombwell, Lerd Carington, Lord Aveland, ,
Lord Foltimore, Air. Anstruther Thompson,' Sir
Henry Tufton, Mr. R. A. -03Wa1d. Thirteen of them
went to lunch at the Alexandra Palace and visit the
horse show, among them being the Duke of Beaufort's
coach, and that of Lord Carmgton, who drove down
the Duke of Connaught. A large crowd had assem-
bled in the Park to witness the start, among those
present being the Princess of Wales.

CARDINAL MANNING on .the-GOVERN-
MENT SYSTEM of, EDUCATION.
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Cardinal Manning presided on Teesdo; night at the
annual meeting of the' Westminster Diocesan' Edit-
dation- Fund, in St. James's Hall, London. He
said he believed that they were now in a-crisis. Some
years ago the denominational schools were the great
• system of English' education, and had been traditional
from the times of their forefathers' Five or six years
ago a system was set up, necessarily, he would admit,
for those who could not agree in religion, and alto-
gether inevitable for those who unhappily had not got
a religious unity left—and it was believed that that
system was to supplement the existing one, and to pro-
vide for those who would not take advantage of the
traditional means of education. But he was sorry to
say that doettinaires and those whom he must
call e,lucational revolutionists had been endeavauring
to invert toe old order, and to cover the face of Eng-
land with a new system, and to make the old tradi-
tional schools, which were voluntary and Christian,
merely supplemental. Whatever system might be
found necessary for those who were cornered in religion,
he hoped that that system might be treated as excep- •
tional, supplemental, and exclusively for them. He
knew nothing more certain than that only Christian
education could rek a Christian people, and education
from which Christianity was excluded, would rear the
people without Christianity, and a people who re-
mained without Christianity would very rapidly be-
come anti-Christian. Therefore, at the present time,
they were at that point between ebb and flow at which
'they' ought with great energy to develop not only the
extent of their voluntary schools, but also their
efficiency to the lAgheFit pitch. .
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A DOUBLE MURDER IN FRANCE;
, At the assizes recently held at Tours a man named
Maria has been found guilty (tvithnut extenuating cir-
cnuastances), and condemned to death, for the murder
-of his wife and' father•in-law. In the Month .of.
• Jinuary Mann called upon the Mayor of his Village
and informed him that his wife had Just died. be
vaayor, emitting to satisfy himself- as to the cause of
death by medical evidence, as he was bound by French ,
law to have done, gave him an order for her
,burial;
whiCli-a-ccordinkly took place. Mann's -behaviour
t has'wife and her sudden death created some talk
among the villagers; but it was nut until. the equally
sudiden death of her father last April, soon after making
a will, by which he left all his property to Mann,
that the police were informed of the suspicions
. entertained. Mann's application to the mayor for the
necessary order for burial resulted in an examination
of his father!in•law's body, which bore several marks
of viOleiice. lltlrin was at-rested, and two villagers
living in an ddjOining house came forward to say that
they had heard a violent altercation between him and his
,fatlitr-in;law on: the night that the latter was sup-
posed fo‘ havti'died. His wife's body was exhumed,
thvgh ial an advanced state of decomposition, it
boke unmistakable 'Signs of violence. Mann stoutly,
denied baying-murdered them, though he had let drop
'so4te remarks which-the public prosecutor attempted
to twist:Vito-.a confes9ion. The other, evidence was,
however, kufficiently strong to warrant a verdict of
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' The atensed, in answer to a question from 'the belich,
said that "he did nothnow in what part of the Cenletery,
Ids Wife Wag betried, as he had not taken the trouble to
attend her funeral." • '' • .

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Therd were 2,474 births and 1,280 deaths registered
- in London larit week, the forffier having been 223 above, and
the latter.4(l b.Plow, the average numbers. Four persons died
from smill-pol, 40 from measles, 28 from scarletlever, 8 from
diphtheriia, 42 from whooping c.ougli, 22 from different forms
of fever, and 10 froin diarreo3a ; thus to tne,seven principal
diseases of the zyinotl6'clais.l6o'dOiths Were referrfkagainst
-197 and 177 In-the two preceding weeks. These it() deaths
• were 16 b'elow the corrected dtetagb number fronithe same
diseases in the corresponding week of the last tell years,. and
. were equal to &datum' rate of Z.'4 per 1,00. .
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