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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

A/fR. JAMES BOSTON HEYS, Professor
IEI of Music, High-street, Cradley Heath.
NB.—All kinds of Musical lustrumetts tuned
repaired.
New Music at Half-price.
TIAN•FORTER FOR SATE OR I=
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

THE QUEEN'S BUILDING SOCIETY
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Head Offices :-44, Waterloo street, Birmingham.
AT, ONEY promptly advanced on approved
111. Freehold and Leasehold hecuritles.
Five pa cent. interest allowed:on Deposits, with Bonus
additions.
Prospectus and further information can be obtained
from

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SOLICITOR:—
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

BREACH OF PROMISE CASES.

On Monday, in the Court of Record for the
Hurdred of tialford, two actions were tried in which
the defendants had failed to pay dama;es awarded in
breach of promise cases. The first WAS brought by
Martsa Gittens against William Jackson. of Bury, for
kW 17s. 21. damages and coats, which had been
asvamed her in the Court of Record in February last.
No appearance was made for the defendant. From
the statement td the pttintin att They and her own
evidence, it op-reared that the defendant, after the
close of the case is February, said he would pay the
damages (£5O) but not the costa ; and, subsequently,
he attempted to settle the question by making her a
fresh offer of marriage., He was, it was contended,
perfectly able to pay the debt. He had also been
guilty of contempt in getting possession of the sum
mons when the man weht to serve it upon him, and
tearing it in pieces. . _

The Judge said the debt must be paid, or the defen-
dant imprisoned for one month. He appeared to have
set every one at defiance, and could have paid since the
judgment if he had chosen to do so.

Another ewe of the same kind--"Duerdm and wife
v. Bamford"— was afterwards tried. The sum chimed
was £43 lie. In 1867 a verdict was given asainst the
(lib-infant in a breach of promise vise for £l2, and the
diffmence was wade up in costs incurred then and
since. After the verdict, judgment was signed and
execution issued, and the defendant not having any
effects was summoned under the Small Debts Act. An
on der was made, but the money was not paid, and the
defendant was couimitted to prison for 4,4 ilays; he
served that period, and afterwards was committed for
14 days, but that sentence did not appear to have been
acted upon. The defendant, who was manager of a
gr, c,fil shop in Heywoo 1, pleaded inability to piy,
but ultimately agreed to an order against him for 10.3.
a month.

The Judge accordingly made an order to that effect,
with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

LATEST NEWS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS)

FOREIGN NEWS

NEW YORK.

APRIL 7th.
Gold closed, 112 L Highest quotation, 112,1 ;
Lowest, 1117,.
Sterling Exchange on London, 1081.

5-20 BMWs (1882), 1101 . 5.20. Bonlls (1885),
110. 5-20 Bonds (1867), 109; . 10-40, 106 i.
Illinois, 139. Erie, 25.
Cetton, M- Upland, 23i.
Petroleum, standard white, 261.
Flour extra state, 4-50, 500. Corn, old mixed,
1-9.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 7th.

The new Dacia loan will he issued on arrival
of the General Bond Low London; probably
next week. The issue price will be about 75,
and the net cost to the contractor 66; not 70,
as previously stated. 3,1100,000 will he taken by
the tine, the remainder to be optional.

CALCUTTA, April 7th, Evening.

In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Council
the Income Tax Bill was passed on the ground
of absolute necessity, but not without consider-
able opposition. The Council! also passed the
bill raising the limit of investments on the part
ot the currency department in Government offi-
ces. The Budget is being severely criticised,
and the press unanimously condemn it.
BOMRAY. April Sth, Morning.

Telegrams from Ceylon, state that the Duke
of Edinburgh has met with a most cordial wel-
come in the Island.

The suspension of General Gordon continues
to create some excitement.
ft is believed to have arisen from a most tri-
vial cause.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

QUARRY BANK.

SERIOUS EXPLOSION OF Gus—St ten o'clock, p.M., on
Wednesday last, an explosion of gua took place on the
premises of Mrs. Emma Easthope. residing in High.
street. From what we can learn, it appears teat the gas.
fitters had been at work in an upstairs room, and during
the day left one of ille pipes unsecured, thus causing the
gas to escape. Airs. Easthope went up into the room
with a lighted candle to find out where the gas escaped,
when the light caused the explosion to take place, blow.
a pact of the roof oil, the front of the building protrud-
ing. and Mrs. Easthope Was considerably burnt. 'file
extent of the damage exceeds £5O.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

A VISION.

The following letter appears In the New Fork Herald—
Noticing your article on the clairvoyants In Sunday's
Herald I concluded to give you my Ideal on that mining
steamer, which. I assert, must have hen burnt at sea. My
grounds for the above are these—

- On Friday night, the 25th of February, I ha I a lady
friend from the country sleeping with me, and had
been talking a great deal on different subjects, espe-
cially on the marriage question and other philosophical
suljecta quite foreign to any vision; but, conditions
were, as we say, right, and much harmony existed
between us. AU at once the whole side of the house
seemed to roll away, and I saw a bright light and
heard a voice say in a spent whisper, "Look at the
fire !" I looked, when I saw the light and flame; saw
a steamer burning, people struggling in the flames and
in the water. I, much terrified, saw that it was a
vision; I tried to speak to my companion and
the voice said "Nay, look further !" Again I
looked and it seemed nearer. I saw the stack
pipe fall, masts and all but the hull disappear,
and on the charred mass I read "City of"—the rest
was burnt off, and while I looked the black MIS sunk
in the boiling sea. Here is the description of the In-
cation :---I saw a narrow pass; on the right a high
rocky precipice or headland ; directly across from it is
a low point Of land or coast; behind the point the
vessel burnt not in the pass. I have no recollection
more but of feeling dreadtully frightened, and every-
thing was as cool to me as if I witnessed it. I called
to the lady by my side, saying what I saw, and she
asked one, "Is there no one saved?" I said, "Yes; •
man named Seymour for one; but for God's sake, let
me rise.' I did so, and saw it was two o'clock
at night. I railed a gentleman in the next room, who
replied that I had been seeing the CO of Glasgow, that
was burnt some time ago. I can prove this vision of
mine by three witnesses, and I was told that the land
I described was the Irish coast; but I do not know.
I believe it the missing steamer, and no news will come
from her. Manama C. N. 8.- Please cio not make
fun if me, for I believe what I saw was • vision of the
fact, but do not know whether it was at this moment
or not,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

SPUTTERINGS FROM "JUDY'S" PEN.

Will Is a carpenter like a barber t—Because he can't get
along withnur
A C/I:TAIN EDWARD CONNOR, WhOliVO. at Derry, ha careful
and frugal man, and for that reason is called E. Connor,
Miser

—IN SEASON —A boy asked his father what the apple-trees
would nemr next sess.on) th jare.!it replied—Boys

A SOCIALIST remarked', "That the d4ireat shipin the whole
world was ni,-ridship. Whereup.m a young man arose Iron
amongst thee .ngregation, and slated that he knew another,
a dearer ship still, and that was Coort.fsip 'N B —Lie had
once been defendant in a claim for breach of promise of
marriaze. _ . .

-16-k;Jki—A YOUNG LAIT.—Why are ref tailors like liege-
tablesi—Becmse they arPperAnuer
The best Mother, I r Botht tiarls—S/rp-Mothere.
"AND THE MORES THE PITT —Donkeys have more woos
than most people—though, by the way, they have their
'gee-no!" too.
washerwoman wants to know how her nephew can
be on the home, if he is OD the seas
_ . .

FRErISELY.— When I. a man not a man ?—When he's wbed.
A FACT from the provinces —A duck ran out of a ail.
loge doctor's shop the other day, crying 'Quack ! quack !
quack ! "
LEAsrs of the field—Drunken reapers.
ill EKE are some volunteers who only rifle pockets.
It AM F:H01.73 MEN —Auctioneers.
THE man wise hadn't got an idea, went to *ea and picked
Up an-ntion.
ME man whose lips quivered, said it was a very harrowin'
ease.

Is it a fact that A statue diminishes in site when exposed
to a shower of rainy—Yes, it instantly hecomis a statue wet.
FRod TIIE COTTuN DISTRICTS —When a mill owner drinks
the health ot his work.peoplu, why does he order • fire to be
lighted ?--That he may toast his hands.
WHy does my bath, these cold mornings, differ widely
from the Lake of General—Because the latter has Its
Chinon, but I take my bath with the chill off; don't you
see
. . .

--- •
N these days of patent self acting contrivances, what sort
of dress may we expect shortly to see "getting itself up?"
—Wcy, a lowmdrers. to be sure.
WHO c onniand, the iusurgents in Ireland I—Lieu-Tenant
Right. And the Queen's troops I—K ept-iu Rand.—Judy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

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the week as possible.
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PUii NOTICES.
V. MA R.

SCHOOL OF . STOURBRIDGE.

rpHE LADIES' CLANS meti.s 011 TUESDAYS
and THURSDAYS. Ten to Twelve. FeLo :O, 6d •
Queater.

- The EVENING CLASS on MONDAYS, WA DNRIDATS.
and FRIDAYS. Seven to Nine. Fees: 6.. Quarter.
The Quarter consists of 10 weeks from tune of entry.
There is provided for the use of STudems a good col.
lection of Casts and Examples, with Paintings in Oil and
Water Colour, by celebrated Artists, which are period'.
rally exchanged for others in the possession of the
Scimice and Art Department,
By Order of the Committee.
April, 1870.

e, • 4,
4 • :at R.

SCHOOL OF ART, STOURBRIDGE.
AMEETING of the COMMITTEE and
other Friends of the Institution, will be held on
WEDNEBILSY, the 13th Amu., 1870, at Three p.m., le
consider a proposal to appoint a Committee to take dope
to raise iioo, to secure the Building, and thus render
the School a permanent Institution.
The Chair will be taken by H. J. W. H. FOLEY, ESQ.
WILLIAM H. RING, Hon. See.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

OLD HILL.

WOBBLING.-At the Police Court, on Wednesday last,
before F. W. G. Barra and N. Bingley, Esqrs., Edward
Payne was charged by Supei intendent Mills with selling
ale without a license. Mr. Stokes appeared for defend-
ant. Sergeant l'owner applied for a warrant for the
apprehension of Noah Allport, the informant.—David
Lewis was summoned for a similar offence, to be proved
by the same witness. Both cases were adjourned until
Allport is apprehended.

flat:a ArND Itiovous.—Daniel Round Was charged with
being drunk and riotous, on the 3rd instant, at Cradley
Heath. Police-constable Craddock proved the ease, and
defendant was tined Is and costa; in default seven days'
imprisonment.
BASTARDY.—BeIIjaMiII Tibbetts was summoned by
Maria Woodward to show cause why he should not sup-
port her illegitimate child, of whom she alleged he was
the father. The case was adjourned for a witness for the
defendant to appear.
laallEST.—An inquest was held on Thursday last, at
the Vine Inn, Rowley, before E. Hooper, Esq.. Coroner,
on the body of William Bailey. three years of age, who
met with his death on the previous Friday. It appears
deceased was playing with some other children, when he
fell into alt of boiling hot water. After hearing the
evidence, the jury returned a verdict of Accidental
death."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

THE RESIGNATION OF MR. BRIGHT.

The Globe says :

The rnmours respecting Ministerial changes
are beginning to take definite shape. We believe
that the Speaker is soon to retire, and that he
will be succeeded by Mr. Cardwell, Lord North-
brook becoming Minister of War, Mr. Ayrtom it
is said, will succeed Mr. Bright at the Board of
Trade after Easter. We have also strong reason
to suspect that Lord Hatherley's retirement in
favour of Sir Ronndell Palmer is now resolved
upon."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

A YANKEE SWINDLE.

The following singular attempt to Impire on the eredtdity
of Abel lean antiquarians is Ina rated in a New York paper:—
On the 113th October last, on the farm of William
Newell, Cardiff, near Buffslo, the solid, heavy figure
of a bur° snail. over ten feet high, wall discovered, and
a careful examination by scientific men led to the belief
by some that it wait a petrified giant of a pre-historic
period, and all cmaidered it to be of great antiquity.
General Leavenworth said of it
"It has t`-e marks of the ages stamped upon every limb
and feature in a manner which no art can imitate."

Profewors Woolworth and Hall decide in favour of
its antiquity. Professor Ward, of Rochester Univer-
sity, WAS bewildered by the spectacle it presented, and
suggested that "all one's feelings persuaded to accept
it as a real human being, once instinct with life and
activity, now a noble corpse." Professor Olmattd
said :

"Al a work of art the Cardiff statue Is. perhaps, a better
emb kitmtnt of the intellectual and physical power of a rock-
hurling Titan than any Italy possesses'

. -
Rev. M. Calt'arop said that in the ancient world
only the Greek School of Art was capable of such a
perfect repr,•duction of the human form. Dr. Boynton
did not think the statue was 300 years old, but did
think it was the work of the early Jesuit Fathers of
this country, who are known to have frequented the
Onondaga valley from 220 to 250 years ago. Subs,
cuitnt to the time when our scientific esvans had ex-
haneed themselves on the subject came suggestive
hints of fraud and humbuii.Subsequently a Mr. H. B.
Morton made a full c mlession. He had devised the
idea for making a fortune by exhibiting the petrified
giant, and had had the statue carved out of an immense
block of gypsum cut from a qurrry in lowa, and carried
to the premises of Burkhard, a marble mason at
Chicago. Morton says :

"We hone up q•iilts and carpets inside so u to deaden
the sound and keep spectators from looking in upon us. A
man named Saley, one of the hest sculptors to the country.
and who drinks like a sack, was employed to carve the giant.
We were nearly two months at it, part of the time nights on
the rough of it The giant is ten feet four and a half Inches
long, thirty three inches across the shoulders, about twenty-
two inches deep and weighs '2,990 pounds. The various
marks upon it t I Indictee the action of water and time were
chiselled out, and it took SO dollars' worth of acid. and ink
to give it its present colour. After the work taint me we
had a box made into which it fitted. It was then taken to
Newars farm, he being lathe conspiracy, and buried, to
await the discovery which so completely deceived the scien-
tific world of America."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

THE SEA SERPENT AGAIN!

Of all the disagreeab!e sea serpents that have ap-
peared to ancient or modern mariners not one can com-
pare for general repulsiveness with that which on the
1211 inst. was seen by Captain Slocum and the crew
ot the schooner Salerlia, on her voyage from Jame),
Hayti, with a cargo of copper, to New York (remarks
the Pall Mall Gentle). According to the account
given in the New York Ihr4d, on toe morning of that
day the captain raw what he thought wan a wreck, on
the starboard beam, abut five miles distant, bearing
E.N.E. On nearing the object it was discovered to
be an enormous fish, larger than a ship. At 7.30 a.m.
the schooner hove-to with the monster 20ft. distant on
her starboard quarter. It is described as b.ing 100 ft.
in length, its body measuring 40 and its tail 601 t. The
most curious feature about it was an immense body of
hard gristly matter, 12ft. in height, 40ft. in width,
with the name length, entirely void within forming a
large bladder-shaped badoou, which, filled with air,
buoyed the serpent on the water. This oval buoy had
regular ridges, running from the apex or head (for this
tladder preceded the body of the fish) to where it
joined the main body. These ridges extend fore and aft
at intervals of four inches, with a regular height of
two inches, and gave to the surface the appearance of
the network of a balloon. The bladder portion was
elastic, and yielded to the movements of the sea; it
was two inches thick, but of a hard, dense impene-
trable charac'er, and would resist knife or bullet. On
each site of this floating dome were two heavy paddles,
each five feet long, by which the monster made pro-
geese. The fish proper, widch was but an appendage
tailed on to this blown-up bladder, consisted of a heavy
tiehy sob.tar ce, with ' town sides; a- d about ten feet
from the dome weretwo eyes,oneoueithersideof alarge

1 burn. Fromthispointtbefishtaperedontoatorkedtaii,of
a material as heavy and hard as iron. Captain Slocum
declares that the tail would weigh 100 lb. to the cubic
foot, and the forks of the tuil stood horizontally in the
water, but submtrged 41t., the rest of the monster
"sitting lightly on the ocean wave." He feared to fire
at her or disturb her in any way. 99 one movement on
her part would have sunk the Saladin. He believes
that she haa some intcrnal engine by which she fills
her balloon with air and discharges it at pleasure, then
sinking ontof sight. Her touch is poison, and her
contact dangerous. How this latter point was dis-
covered is not stated; but quite enough is told to prove
that a most dangerous mounter has been seen for the
brat, and everybody must hope for, the last time.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

EXTRACTS FROM "PUNCH."

A "RETIRING ADDOEBB."—A Shy Manner.
WILL COME SOME DAT. —The huatimte fell at the
Brigtl nomination. The fall of the huetiugs altogether
would he no great loon.
" HORSE LATITEDES."—Thooe allowed, in the way
of lying, to Mirne.nellerr.

A BENEVOLENT THOUGHT.—Mm Malaprop, under-
standing that women VALI act as Conunisehmers of
H-were, says the knows a great many poor seamstresses
who wonid be very glad if ladies could give them work
at better wages than they are now earning.
WHAT 'S IN A NAME ?-4` The net result of the year's
balainnahret is, that the income of the twelve months
exceeds the expenditure by something like eight mil-
lions."—" Times" at fick on the Armlets of the Year.
Herein Finance's irony is shown—
Lowe's surplus Is the highest ever known!

THB MOTLEY AND THE ERSHNE.—If judicial pro-
ceedings in El gland were as commonly charactensed
by impertinences, altercations, violations of the rules of
evidence by counsel, and expressions of partiality or
passion on the part of the judge, as tory are in France,
how very often we should be guilty of contempt of
court!
WHAT 10 ATOM—This is the season for athletic
sports, an amusement not without it,. expense. To
Alember s of the Universities and others we would r fee
one caution—use every effort to outnin each other,
but do not attempt to outrun the constable. We hear
of a novelty this year—a match between Walking
Dictionaries.

CURIOUS NONCOINCIDENCE.
The First of April pused away,
And disappointed many a hope;
The Connell didn't, on that day.
Infallibly define the Pope.

INDISCRIMINATE HUMANITY. —S, the Saciety far the
Prevention of Cruelty to animals has pounced upon
the Islington litill.fighters, summoned them t etire a
il agistrate, had them fined, and stopped their enter.
tainments. From Islington to Wi roiholt &Tubbs is
not far, and it ic much to be feared by the tame
pigeon shooting nobility and gentry that the officers of
an impartial Association, vigilant to protect poor
animals from cruelty, will as soon as possible be like-
wise down upon the Gun flub,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

THE MARKIaa

Af A RIC•LANE.-31ONDAY
Owing to the finer weather less tininesss was apparent in
the provincial markets held on Saturday. Wheat sold slowly,
but prices were maintained. Spring corn continued steady.
Froth up at Ma, it-lane this morning the receipts of wheat
from Essex and Kent have been only moderate. There has
been a thin attendance of millers, and the trade hisa ruled
quiet, at about previous quotations. The show of foreign
wheat ha. been tolerably good. In all descriptions mike
have progressed slowly on former terms. Moderate supplies
barley have been on offer. The demand bat not been active,
Mr prices hsve rule I firm. Malt basillen quiet, at late curren-
cies. Vale supplies of oata have been on offer Very little
laziness has been doing, but prices have been supported.
Brans have besn quiet, and the transaction. in peas have been
restricted Nevertheless, 1.5 regards prices, the market has
been tolerably firm. F. our has been quint, at last Monday's
prices Linseed and rapeseed have been (Met. Agricultural
seem a have been dealt In to a moderate extent. Maize has
been rather easier.

MARK-LANE.-WEDNESDAY.

•
Owing to the finer weather and to the resumption of the
grain shipments from the Baltic ports, the grain trade has
been qmet to day. As regards Dig ash wheat, the supplies
have been ni ly moderate, but have been quite equal to the
demand. Very ilt le business has been (bang, at alvmt the
rates current on Monday. The show of foreign wheat has
been good; sales have progressed slowly, at late quotation.
With moderate supplies, the barley trade has been quiet, at
previous quotations. Malt has sold slowly, on former terms.
The market has been well supplied with oats, the demand
has been inactive, at dro,ping prices.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE 31 ARKET.—MoNnAY.

There were rather larger slipplies of English-fed beasts and
Sheep on sale h re to-day, but the number of foreign stock
was short. Toe general character of the market was
good, the Norfolk-fed tweet., of which an unusually
good supply come to hand, being in excellent condition.
the foreLii st.ck was of somewhat Inferior quality, and
Consisted chiefly f (MAI and German beasts With regard
to the heel trace. there was not much ant rnation in the demand,
and the trade did not vary materially from Monday last. Prime
animals were wanted, and consmsnde.i Ps. per Sin. ; but all in-
ferior and foreign stack tended downwards lii value. Good
shorthorn Least. were obtaiimb;e at 45 81. to 45. 10d. per
Bh. With sheep the mat hot was well supplied, the larger
proportion being shorn T,-ade was Sc ir4ely so active
on Monday last, sis.ecidly for sheep in the wool, hut prime
clipped sheep were wadi sagest In value S tido WI/ wet hers
were obtainable at 41. 10.1. to be shorn, .d at 5s 84 to be.
lot, clipped. Lambe changed bands slowly at our quo tations.
A steady demand was experienced for prime small eaves.
Pigs were unaltered in val..
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

LONDON CORN MARKET (CLOSE).

APRIL Bth.

There has been an extremely moderate tone
in Mark Lane to-day, and prices, except for
maize, have been supported with difficulty.
English wheat extremely dull at Monday's re-
duction. Foreign can be purchased for less
money. Flour :—Town unaltered; country, no
cheaper ; low Americans, a trifle easier. Barley
—malting, rather weaker; fine grinding, a trifle
dearer. Wheat (British) 670 ; barley ditto 940.
Wheat (Foreign) 3360, barley 1860, oats 11840,
maize 3150, flour §2O sacks.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET THIS DAY.

APRIL Bth.

Rather mote wheat offering.. Dry qualities in
moderate demand, at about last week's rates.
Barley. oats, and beaus without alteration.

SHIPPING NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, April Bth.
The Indian troop ship Crocodile, Captain Wat-
I SOU, arrived this morning with troops, military
;I, 11,1;11,try, et, ,
gus are
re ` invalids and time e m xpired men, fro Alexau.
4.,.L p• •
pared to dluatrate any special ease. dna.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

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K•yleas. Chnlch. Lockets.
Chrenogrsph. ki all and Shop. Necklaces.

Mr. BF.SSON, who holds the appointment to H.R.H.
the Prince of Wales, has just published two Pamphlets,
enriched and embellished with Illustrations—one upon
Watch and Clock Making, and the other upon Artistic
Gold Jewellery. These are sent post free for 24 each.
Persons living in the country or 'shroud can select the
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

CAUGHT AT LAST

At the Central Criminal Court, In London, John Ashton,
shoemaker, and William Godlrey, describe I as a Waterman.
have been indicted for conspiring tozether to obtain money
by a Mae pretence from L.,rd George Hamilton, NI P.—Mr.
Straight conducted the prosecution. The priseners defended
themselves.

The trial excited much interest and occulonally some
amusement. Several members of Parliament were prevent,
who had been summoned as witnesses, saws. also Lord Claim
John Hamilton, M.P., brother of the prosecutor. Through
the courtesy of the Sheriffs they were accommodated with
seats on the bench.

Lord George Hamilton, who wax called air a witneqs,
said he remembered the prisoner Ashton calling upon
him on the Bth of March. Some time in 1869 he had
seen the prisoner Godfrey, who on that occasion en-
gaged him in a conversation on the subject of regattas,
which ended in witness giving him a guinea towards
a regatta which Godfrey sail was to take place in that
year at Tottenham. When the prisoner Ashton called
year
him on the Bth of March he first sent in to him by his
servant some subscription lists, and waited for an answer.
The prisoner wwi called in, and, in reply to witness, said
the regatta at Tottenham was an annual one; that
he knew one of the committee, and was authorised to
collect subscriptions for it; and that it would be held
when sufficient money had been callected. Witness
asked him if he lived at Tottenham, and he replied in
the negative. Bring asked why he in particular was
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

THE EMIGRATION QUESTION.

Sir George Grey preaMed on Monday evening at the
monthly meeting of the Victoria Discussion Society,
at the Architectural Gallery, Conouit-street, Loudon.
the rmbject of emigration was introduced by Mr. E.
Jenkins in an able paper, in which he advocated State
emigration.
In the discussion which followed, Miss Emily Faith-
full said, although we might differ respecting toe duty
of the S ate with regard to emigration, we must all al.
ruit that emigration itself WM a matter in which the
interests of women were very deeply involved, Mr.
Greg and other able writers had prericribrel emigration,
and emigration alone, ae the panacea for the stiff rings
endured by what they were pleased to term "redun-
dant women. Tnis had always seemed to her little
short of transportation in a benevolent disguise, hut
while thinking that remunerative ocenpations ought to
be thrown open to women at home, she VIM quite ready
to advocate heartily any plan which would moist
the emigration of those who preferred to seek in dis-
tant lands the livelihood they could not obtain in their
own. The excess of male emigration renderer lit urges.
nary if possible to restore the balance. C. lonial corre
spoudents had frequently advised her to ask ladies to
Iron how to make butter, fatten ponitry, and rear
calves, assuring her that if female emigrants under-
stood country life they would find no lack of employ.
went. Many women who, to her kcowleelge, were
starving here, had relatives in the c slonies, unable to
forward passage-money, but willing to receive them
into their homes, where their labour would be made
available. If it were true that the State was respon.
bible for the education and condition of its citizena, she
thought that proper funds and escortought to be forth-
coming for those who were ready to take their share in
the exigencies of colonial life.
The discussion was coati/toed by several ladies and
gentlemen, including Mr. Whalley, M. I'.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

KINVER.

CHARGE or DRUNKENNESS.—At the Petty Sessions
held at Brierley Hill, on Monday last, before J. Ho!croft
and 1.. Freer, Emirs., John Minchin and Henry Brown
were charged with being drunk on the night of the 27th
ult. Police-constable Hatcock proved that be went to
the George and Dragon, about eleven o'clock at night.
Saw the two defendants, who were both drunk. Minchin
made use of a filthy expression, and asked him what he
wanted there. Witness told him to go home. Brown
denied that, he was drunk, and Minchin pleaded guilty.
Brown was discharged. 151 inchiu fined Ss.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—WiIIiaM Morris WAS charged by
James Bishop with assaulting him on the 25th ult. Mr.
Perry appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Addison
defended.—Complainant deposed: I am a cutter down
at the Hyde Works, and defendant is a puddler and works
under Roden. On the above date I was wheeling billets,
when the defendant cause for one to roll into a staff. I
refused to let him have it, when defendant iipeet the wag-
gon. He then tried to upset tl.e barrow. I then caught
hold of hini by the arm. Defendant said, "Love me."
I did loose him, and was in the act of stooping, when
the defendant struck me a severe blow on the left arm.
with an iron hook, and injured me no much that I was
unable to work for three days, and had to go to Mr.
Holyoake' eurgem. Crosa-exaninced I did not take
hold of the defendant's ear, and strike him with the other
hand.—Samuel Lee, under.roller, said he did not see the
beginning, but saw the defendant strike the complainant
with an iron hook, whilst the latter was is a stooping
position. He had beth his hands to the hook. It was
a severe blow.—Richard Fletcher, puddler, said : On the
above date I saw Bishop and Morris. Bishop pulled the
hook out of the tapping box, and threw it away. The
next thing I heard said was by Morris, who said, "Loose
me." Bishop did loose him' and while complainant was
stooping, defendant struck him with au iron hook twice.
—Mr. Addison addressed the Bench for the defence, and
contended that:the first beginning of the affair was by
complainant laying hold of ore of defendant's ears with
one hand, and striking him with the other, and knocked
him down ; and contended that complainant had net
been injured, and that defendant only struck in self.de-
fence,—William Roden, puddler, said the first he saw was
the complainant upset the tapping box, and he caught
hold of a hoop belonging to the defendant, and threw it
away. Defendant said," What's your game ?" Bishop
said, "That's my game," and caught hold of the defend-
ant by the ear, and struck him. He again caught hold
of him, when defendant said," Loose me." Complain-
ant did loose him, and defendant caught hold of the
tapping hook, and struck complainant.—Edward Blake.
way gave similar evidence to the last witness.—The Bench
considered the case proved to their satisfection, and fined
defendant ss, ordered him to pay the surgeon's bill 108),
and all costs, 17s.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

NOT IMPROBABLE.

" maladies are getting quite the upper hand on the violin."
—Musical Standard.

As the ladies, some in this country and some in
America, are voting at elections, practhing as doctors,
acting as Magistrates, nerving an jurywomen, presid,ng
and speaking at public reeetioic,, and doing various
other things hitherto thoughtlessly Dupree-el to he the
proper atd peculiar work of that poor overrated
creature man, there can be no doubt that they ate
getting the sniper hand, and mean in future to play
nothing but brat fiddle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

BRIERLEY HILL.

BOARD OF HEALTH ELECTION.—The following gentle
men have been nominated as fit and proper persons to
serve on the Board of Health during the next three
yearn:—Edwin Cook, ironmonger; W. Hawkins, atm-
tioneer ; U. Skidmore. innkeeper; Thos. Greenfield,
innkeeper; W. S. Shepley, grocer: E. J. Pearson, lire.
brick manufacturer; E. drove, manager; G. E. Weaver,
grocer; B. Browning, confectioner; T. Fereday, herba-
list ; J. Fletcher, butcher; J. Scrivens, manager : .T.
Wright, furniture dealer; J. Westwood. build,•r ; J.
Warr, grocer: .1. Shakespeare, bootmaker ; B. Brown.
grocer; J. Steward, chemist; and W. Skelding, inn.
keeper. The election will be for six members.

LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING. An ordinary
monthly meeting of this Board was held on Monday, at
the offices, High•street ; Mr. E. Cook in the chair. The
Finance Committee repnrted, among other things, that
£152 6s 10d had been collected during the ninth, 1/124
£lB9 8s lid of the rate hail to be collected; and recom-
mended that cheques for £9l should be granted on per-
manent works. The report was adoptol.—A letter was

Those Ladies who have not yet need the Glottisld
Starch. are respectfully solicited to give it a trial. and
carefully follow out the directions printed on every pack-
age. It is rather more difficult In make than other
Starches, hut when this is overcome, they will say like
the Queen's Laundress, that it is the finest Starch they
ever used. When you ask for the Glen*id, sec that yea
get U.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE of a MURDERER.

The Gat., tte de Mons relates that the keepers of the
prism, of aitat place end the brigade..! gendarme, were
thrown into commotion, a few nights since, by finding
that the murderer, Dessous-le-M•tustier, lately sen-
tenced to death. had disappeared IrOM his cell thrtmA
the window. He by some means coutrived to get rid
of the strait-waistcoat iskica he wore, aid then, tem,
log into strips the canvas ,f which it was compote d,
he made a sort of rope, which he tied to one of the
bars of the window and let hitnself down. Previously
he bad to wrench out, by an immense exertion of
strength, the other iron defencie. Researches were
made in all directions, and at litet the fugitive, who
had not been able to get over the walls of the prison,
was f,uud concealed in one of the vans, intending
doubtless to se ze on some opportunity of alan aiding
the first time the carriage might be used. He was of
courts reinstalled in his cil!, but under better guard.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

AUSTRIA

VIENNA, April 7th.
Reichseath rejected a motion for passing to
the order of the day over Baron Schwerling's
resolution in favour of the continuance of a
strong central power.
The House also rejected a motion for discus-
sing the question in it secret sitting.
The resolution of Baron Sehwerling was finally
adopted by is large majority.

FRANCE.

PARIS, April Bth.

The official journal of this morning, publishes
the names of the committee charged with the
deliberation and subsequent proposition of mea-
sures for facilitation the participation of French
exhibitors in the International Exhibition in
London, 1871.

PARIS, April Bth, 3-30 p.m.

The Bourse opened Hat, hut closed firmer.
Filial quotation, llentes 63-87, or about tha same
as yesterday.

MADRID, April 7th.

The Duke de Montpensier has been judicially
examined relative to the late duel with Don
Enrique de Bourbon. The Duke admitted the
fact, and prosecution will now follow in the reg.
ular eourse. He has been placed under arrest
at his own residence. It is expected that iuter-
pellation on this subject will be made in the
Cortes, on Saturday.
The city of Barcelona and provinces of Cata-
lonia generally, are tranquil, the disturbance
being confined to the small villages in the neigh•
bourhood of Barcelona.

Tranquillity prevails in all the other parts of
the kingdom, and the drawing for the conscrip-
tion is at an end.

It is authoritatively stated that there is not
the slightest truth in the roport which appeared
in the (Ilobe, yesterda), to the effect that the
speaker is about to retire, and to be succeeded
by Mr. Cardwell.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

KINGSWINFORD.

FELoNTOCMY REeEiviNo STOLEN COAL.— At the
Staffordshire Soodons, on Monday last. before Mr. It. A.
Kettle, Assistant-Chairman, Margaret Williams on bail),
wax indicted for receiving, on the 19th Mardi last, at
Kingswinford, fifty-six punts weight of coal, the pro-
perty of Lord Ward, knowing it to have been stolen.
Prisoners daughter had been seen by a pollen-constable
to take the coal from a wharf and convey it home. Her
defence teas that she liii sent her child with money to
fetch hulf•a.hundred weight of coal. and she knew no.
thing of her daughter's misdeeds until the policeman
came about the matter. hound guilty and sentenced to
one mouth's imprisonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS

A Western paper thinks with Shakespeare that there
may be virtue in our "If but not in our tariff.
Mr. Dr. Walker has been notified that when she
appears in the streets or New Orleans it must be without
trousers. Shocking !

American epitaph on a locomotive :—Collisions four
or be,, she lore; the signals were In vabi grown old and
rusted, her boiler busted, and smashed th excursion train.
An American paper puts smatter which it wishes to
en'oree in the following neat simile You might as well
attempt to shampoo an elephant with a thimbleful of soap-
suds as to attempt to do Moline., and Ignore advertising

A young huh- in California broke her neck while
resisting the attempt of a young man to kiss her. Young
ladies should be very careful not to resist such attempta ; it
Is extremely dangerous.

_
A young and pretty lady in New Orleans has an-
dertnken a novel missionary work, which is likely to expose
her to criticism, though she is evidently In earnest. She is
visiting the concert saloons In that city for the purpose of
reforming the habiluis of those es'anliahments. tier method
IN to sings few hymns at each place, accompanying herself
on the piano.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

PHCENIX FIRE OFFICE.

ITR. GEORGE PERRY, SOLICITOR,
Agent for Stourbridge, begs to remind the Pub.
lie that the ptia:Nix. was for many yen's the only Fire
Office that kept a FIRE ENGINE in the town, and Le
inform them that it still keeps one there.
For the keys of the Engine House, apply at the Talbot
Hotel, or to Win. Jones, Blacksmith, boville•street, the
enginee: ; and for Terms of Insurance, apply to the
Agent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

MISPLACED INDIGNATION.

"Indlplans " wlites to The Times:—

I HO3 the father of a professed nun, the happy occu-
pant of a convent in this city; and, in writing to
express my utter r-pugnence to any other inspection
of convents than that held periodical y by the Catholic
hishope of their respective dioceses, speak, I am sure,
the sentiment, of every relative of every other rcliyieuse
in Eogland.
These helplees ladies—most of them the guardians of
our teeming poor- have confeasedly withdrawn them-
Pelves from the world, as others have done for near
2 000 years. and others will (if it lake) for centuries
after M r Newdegato i forgotten. Their firesides are,
or should he, as inviolate as the traditional " cantle " of
every Englishmen. As one myself I blush to think of
our invailieg them.

Even lay Catholics in this hustling outside world
feel incapable of understanding the vocation and ways
of then- good recluses, much more of supervising and
controlling their dwellings ; or, as one of your contem-
poraries Math it, their "sanitary arrangements." We
are content with seeing when we visit them their
peaceful merry faces. so rare outside the convent walls.
then, does Mr. Newdezate suppme that any
periodi,al inspection would satisfy a promiscums Par-
liamentary Commiseion (even were it to include every•
Catholic mender of our English constituencies !), or
mud in ought but the cruel breakinz up of all our
"religious louses, and the forced withdrawal of their
inmates in this land of civil and religious liberty?
We lay politicians can suppress our English con-
vents and monasteries if, as we are grimly reminded,
they are illegal. We cannot periodically inspect them,
it ie impossible.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

A VAST IMMIGRATION SCHEME.

The St. Paul Press announces that ex-Sscretary
MCAPoch, Senator Carl Schurz, and ex-Gov.:num
Mamball, of Mir:remits, keys been selected, and will
he invited by the Northern Pacific Railreal Compary
to go to Europe ou a missiiin to organise and stimulate
emigration to the lire of the road and the settlement
of its lands, on a plan niore comprehensive and ex-
tended than any heretofore devised, The cowl Soy
own every alternate asction in the belt 40 miles wide,
from the head of Lake Superior to the Partific Ocean.
equivalent to a strip f twerty miles wide.
in all Letween thirty and forty million acres of land
—a territory greater in extent than all New
England, and capable of sustaining five or Six
millions of people. They have already arrarged with
German capitalists for all means nrceseary to the con-
structionof the road with the largest force they can sum
ploy. They rr ip. se to ~tier to every immigrant in
Europe abundant employment in building the road for
the first year or two atter his arrival. Whether they
assist him in his passage is not stated. When he has
finished hr. work for the company he in to have a farm
of 40. 80, or NO acres, with a neat frame dwelling
Itr use ready ereuted thereon, and a lot of ressonab:e
size fenced in, all at the expenee of the company.
the terms of ray merit are no long, aid on no low
interest, that they cannot prove a burden to the
poorest. It in expected that the surplmi wages received
for constructie g the road wil 'stock the farm and
provide the tondo, so that every person employed in
the construction of the road may, as soon as it is
finished, go to rait.ing the crops, which it will
bring to market. The company will manufacture
the houses, by thethousand exalt ly alike, like the parts
of a Springfield rifle or Elgin watch, so that each piece of
any one structure will tit into the corresponding piece
of any other. They expect. in this manner, to secure
an abundant and immediate supply of cheap labour,
and to immediately enhance the value of their lands
by the rapid settling up of the line of their road. The
Feesent is a peculiarly favourable time for inaugurating
such an enterprise, in view of the distressed condition
of the lie-ouriug class in England and other parts of
Northern Europe, and the universal desire of the
European working classes to get to America by all
means withintheir reach. The unasnisted immigration
of the past year is about 50,000 in txCllbs of the year
before, as indicated by the arrivals in New York.
Everything promises an immigration during the pee-
soot year exceeding anything ever before known in our
I •
history.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

THE LYE.

POPULAR ESTERTAINMENT.—The last Popular Enter•
tainment of the Season was given in the Lye Institution,
on Monday evening last. The chair was occupied by the
Rev. R. I. Yorke. There was a good attendance. The
programme, which was a well.selected one. was as fol-
lows :—Piano solo—Miss Beach ; song—" I've always a
welcome for thee," Miss A. M. Troman ; reading—" Bob
Sawyer's Tea Party," Mr. Crammer ; song—" Beautiful
Isle of the Sea," Mr. B. Pearson; duet—" What are the
Wild Waves saying." Miss A. M. Troman and Mr. Cart.
wright; piano duet; reading—Mr. Crannter ; song—
'The Vacant Chair," Miss Troman ; song—Mr. Cart-
wright ; reading—Mr. W. Fiddian, jun. ; song—" The
Fisherman's Daughter," Miss Cartwright; comic song—
Mr. W. Harris.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

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Toss LADIES who have not yet used the GLENYiELD
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ever used. When you auk for the Oknitelol, net that you
set it.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-09

THE IRON TRADE.

The Birmingham weekly meeting of the iron
trade on Thursday, was quite as active as could
have been expected, so close upon quarter-day.
There is a moderately good business being done
in some descriptions of merchant iron, and gen-
erally speaking prices are firmly adhered to.
There is no change to notice in pig iron.