The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-07 00:00:00

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highest sacerdotal theory that could he reconciled with A brisk compeution is at present being carried on
allegiance to the Anglican communion was publicly on I wtseen the rival steamship etanp-Mes trading between
prominently evinced in tl, la,t Illtior,re whi,..:l he
sr.. tat ried inn, et ~ • , • In 0 i oria At A fare of 6d. each—viz.,
L'aeri of .•.t D,acil OS. sod for arse aal days past passengers
delivered a year or ts o ago to his clergy. It sill be 3d. t 1 Dundalk and 3d. bac I lig.lll.
remembered that the delivery of that Charge caused Thee. hze already been a reduction of fares on the
very great dimatisfsction and a Ptr011,..! ro-0,0.,•, . ~
I ~ :: . : : , : emigrants are nos ..onveyed the entire
among the clergy of his diose. ce cf, I tn. f., . ,a ' N Sin Francisco for fifty dollars.
The tat& "tabor. took so scave part in the pro- TI , .yee, yo v,k r, ..... 'loon. CO. Is n 0 Mtn • sum that It
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needinge of the IT ::: Hous of Convocation, and e,tt not tall to enormously Wens., .'c. omigration traffic.
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Omer
occasionally spoke also in the Rouse of Lords ; but
be was not mach of a politician, nor a eer, effective
speaker. Though a learned theolorian at.il a reat
reader, he wrote hut little; and we xcept a volume
or two of Family Prayers and sonic periodical Charges
and occasional sermons—among whi.th we should
mention that preached by him in the eti apt 1 f Mei, on
College, Oxford, on the six hundredth antiver,ary
the " Incorporation of the Seholares de Abet° . "--it'
meet important work is a Letter on Cathedral Reform,
which he addressed to members of the Church in his
diocese a year or two after his consecration.

strong,
would •

The Times of /Pella rn sito,oo
Joe 0 telegram was published hi the Bomb papers, which
had eon, through hem New York in tweniy.four hours.
By way of a smood to his rapidity, it 1111.)r1 that telegrams
Irons Europe are sometimes I retailed several days by the
regular mall.
Olt the arrival of one of the trains at Binninghana
from Coventry on Monday niuht, the guard was found to to
itt-ang from hit carriage. ills dead body was found on the
roils at Tile Bill, near Coventry. and It was evident that be
had been killed by a train passing over Thu, though by what
means he came out of his van is auk nown.
It is nvinolinced. that, with the exception of two or
tlirce dots ..t the Camp of Chalons, the Emperor Napoleon
will not leave Paris this season. The Empress's voyage, lilt
take place, will be under the care of General Fleury. It Is
also stated that Prince Nitsioletin will speak in the discussion
lathe Senate front a vet, .1.1 voiced point of view.
It is sail that anew velocipede is being patented in
Paris, which it to throw all others into the shade. It Restive
wheels, and the motive power is communicated to It by more
weight of the rhiers
An ingenious Dine exhibits at New York the Vital'
meter. • machine for "measuring life" It is a nervous sort
of electro- galvanic thing, which tar,, sensitive that when in the
lands of the apparently dead the slightest sign of vitality
sets off the Titalmeter In alarm.
Philadelphia is to have a bigger musical jubilee
than Boston has had. It is proposed to tudebrate the centennial
anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of indepen-
dence, on the 4th of July, 1876, by a gigantic musical festival,
In a building specially erected in Fairmount-park, capable of
accommodating 100,000 spectators and 12,000 performers.
A circular has been issued, signed by Lient-Colone
Scott. it E., calling attention to the fact that the first of •
series of annual international exhibitions will be opened SS
South Kensington, London, On May 1, 1871. These will be
held in permanent buildings abs;jit to he erected adjoining
the Horticultural hardens, and are he carried out under
the auspices of the Commissioners for tilit; Exhibition of 1851.
A Kansas City despatch says that a portion of the
bridge building over the Maras des Cygnes On th•
Gulf Railroad, fell in, killing four men and seriously liniltring
another.
The system of imposing fines for drunkenness recently
introduced into the military service on the recommendation
of the Courts-Martial Commission has
.up to the present
time, been attended with the most satisfactory results, the
experience of the working of the system at Chatham, one of
ths 'argot of the military stations, having fully demonstrated
its advantages as compared with the former method of treat-
ing the crime of drunkenness,.
A Yankee in Par* who was listening to the boasts
of some Euglieh and French artists about the wonderful,
genius of their respective countrymen, at last "broke eaK:
and said, "0 pilaw! yeou git soot t. Why, there's BUS
Devine, of our village, who can paint • piece of cork en
'zactly like marble that the minute you throw It into the
water it will sink to the bottom Jae' like a stone."
The summer drawing of the Russian Government
• lottery took place at St. Petersburg on the 13th ult. The
fortunate winner of the £28,000 prize on this occeaion is •
' subordinate clerk in one of the banking establishments Mite
I capital, who became possessed almost aocidentally of the
• successful ticket.
The Pope is about to imitate the citizens of London
in erecting a statue to Mr. Peabody. During Mr. Peabody's
visit to Rome he left with his Holiness £20,000 for P7WPoSIe
of charity.
The engineers of France and of England have pro-
nounced against the scheme of a tunnel under the Straits of
Dover. They agree that it is feasible, but the cost for the
I twenty-five miles would be not leu than £10,000,000, and WI
they are byno means sanguine that so much money could be
I had, they consider the undertaking out of the question.
; In the first quarter of the year 1869 381,476 dog
licene.es were issued by the Post Office in Great Britain,
340,613 in England and Wales, and 40,863 in Scotland.
Of late the theory has been advanced that earth-
quakes are caused by the influence of the sun and moon on
the internal waves of the earth. A Mr. Rudolf Falb has
lately written in defence of this hypothesis, and in order to
give a clear proof of its correctness he prophesies that the
next earthquakes will occur in equitorial countries on the
7th of August, the 6th of September. and the 4th of October
It is stated in the Italian papers that great progress
is making with the Mont Cents Tunnel, the works beteg
actively carried on night and day, and that there is every
probability the line will be opened in the course of next year.
To celebrate this event It has now been definitively decided
that a Universal Exhibition shall be held at Turin lathe
spring of 1872.
Another ascent of Mont Blanc by the Bosse-du-
Dromadaire, a route of considerable difficulty and danger,
has lust been effected by the Count and Countess de Boner,
of Paris. It is said that the lady in question is the second
Frenchwoman, and the lint Parisian, that has ever been up
Mont Blanc ; also, that she is the only female excursionist
that has passed over the liosae-du..Dromadaire.
The necessity for a change in military tactics, owing
to the introduction of breech-loaders, has for some limo
occupied the attention of French officers and a French
military paper actually advocates the formation of a corps of
, stalwart men, armed with shotproofs shields, who
a move in front and protect infantry when advancing
An American paper says :—" In our next communi-
cation from Boston about the POSOO Jubilee, published in
yesterday's edition, the following words should have occur-
red 'Mozart's Twelfth Mass.' One of our compositor.,
evidently not a musical man, set it up in this way : 'Mozart's
luellth Massachusetts,' and it so appeared in the paper.
An experiment is being made in Brussels which will
be regarded with much curiosity in England at a moment
wben the change in our telegraph system is about to take
place. lines have been put up in various parts of the town
for the re,eid ion of telegraph letters, which are duly stamped
and collected at frequent intervals, taken to the station and
telegraphed off.
We are at length to have a statue of Oliver Crom-
well. At a meeting of the Manchest4: Genetal Porpoise
Committee of the city council last week, a letter was read
from Mr. Noble, the eminent sculptor, stating that some
time ago he received • commie, ion to execute a large statue
of Cromwell, the condition boing that the Corporation of
Manchester should find a suitable site for it—inside the new
Town-hall being preferred. The Town Clerk was authorised
lot assure Mr. Noble that the council would gladly finds site
for the statue in the Town-hall.
The Cute of Cracow announces the sudden ifeaf i.f
the confessor of the Carmelite nunnery, the principal wit-
ness in the affair of Barbara Uhrk. by whom indirectly the
barbarous imprisonment of the non was revealed. 'this
man, who is called Father Lewkowicz, lately visited o•
parish priest of Trzebinia, in a state of it.t isic.itiii• .
betrayed the secret The priest, who is a very worthy .F 1 is,
made it immediately known to a 0,11,751 •• •, •
cow, and the latter wrote the anonym... •
st,er of Justice. The excitement of the people is suil so
great that the authorities have found it necessary to protect
all the convents of the town by giving each of them a mili-
tary gutr.l. Toe lady superior has been arrested. as well as
her predecessor, who was living in another convent.
A government agent attended at the Patois de
Justice, Paris, a few days since to receive numbers of the
Lanterne and other condemned publications. Id the former
there were about 160,000 copies, filling 42 sacks. Formerly
articles of this description were pounded in • large iron
mortar, hut at present the proceeding is much mire simple.
The agent takes the whole to a paper factory where, under
his inspection, they are thrown into a cauldron of boiling
water and reduced to pulp, then passed under a wheel
cylinder, whence the matter issues in the form of cardboard.
M. Despond, syndic of bankrupts at Havre, was re-
cently suspended from his functions by the Tribunal of Com-
merce for some alleged irregularities, and one of his clients
had brought an action to recover damages. On the day pre-
ceding that on which Judgment was to be given M. Despond
blew out his braies with a pistol
Ladies who attempt. to improve their complexion by
the use of poudre de rt.: must be careful. A letter from
Baden-Baden narrates nn amusing incident which recently
happened to an American lady at the waters. Though en-
dowed by nature with a lovely complexion, she thought it
necessary to enhance her charms by a free application of
poudre de riz, and, having incautiously leant over one of the
hot well., the gas, by some chemical process, turned the
bismuth used in the powder black, the contrast with her rosy
cheeks making her look, as • Frenchman remarked, like la
Dieser du rouge of noir.
A Fenian demonstration was expected last Sunday,
at Glasnevin Cemetery, but did not occur. The cemetery
committee having refused to allow a memorial cross to be
erected, with a Fenian inscrirtion, to the memory of Step-
hen O'Donoghoe, a law clerk, who was shot by the police at
Tallaght during the last rising, the national sympathisers
were very Indignant, and it was intimated to the authorities
that an attempt would be made to put up the monument in
spite of the committee. A force of fifty constables was ista-
tioued in the burial ground on Saturday to prevent any
outrage, and on Sunday the force was loci-eased to 300 men,
, but, perhaps owing to the effective precautions which were
lion', taken, the threatened Fenian expedition was abandoned.