The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-11-27 00:00:00

tilE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

Letters by the hundred were daily received by Mr.
Peabody of late years. They were first looked over
by a secretary, and only a fev ever reached the eyes
of the great banker. Ile reci,ved one of :tel foolscap
, pages from a eleaayed nghishfentleman who solicited
a loan of a few themsandpotuals to establish the claims
of his family to an estate. Mr. Peabody wrote in
reply subdantially this:—" That you should have
wren leech a letter would mrprimt your friends; that
I should have revel it wool!, fide ed, surprise mine."
Chief Justice Shaw paid Mr. Peabody the compli-
ment of rem erking that a bue.ne,a document written
by him WAS One of the cleareta and most comprehen-
sive papers that had evier been presented to our Su-
preme Court.
By temperament, religious training, early education,
political 800, and bnsiness entmexiona Mr. Peabody
was Conservative. The last time Mr. Peabody spoke
in public was at the National Peace Jubilee in Boston.
It was a titticg place and oicnan for one whose bug
and useful life had done so mode for peace and con-
cord. Several years ago Mr. Peabody selected his
grave in the beanifol cemetery near his native place,
called Harmony Grove, where tae remains of many of
, his kindred are buried.

The ilfedieni Times says it I. generally understood
that Mr. Peabody'a health had been giving way for
many months. A journey to the mineral waters of
Virginia faded to do good. Oa hi.' redutn ho seemed
much pro.trated, awl exhibited a little gout mu one
hortd. The gout &Battle-arts!, bat with no general re-
lief ; appetite we list; no fool could he t dren but
milk ; and thin thrre was a gradual strike of the vital
tog us ; the rniod became, clouded, the breathing el w;
tilt at last ttefll int, a sleep--tratquil as an intant'a—
from which he never woke.

The sai,ing of her Mdssty's ship Monarch from
Portsmouth for the Unite 1 States, with the remains of
the late distinguished philanthropist on board, has
been deferred, by orders from the Admiralty, from the
27th inst. until a day yet to he fixed upon, according
to circumstances, between the 20d and oth proximo.
This change in the date of sailing has been made to
enable the United States ships of war which have been
erd-red to accompany the Monarch across the Atlan-
tic to start with her at the commencement of the
voyage from Spithead. Captain Cotumerell's apart-
ment on the aftermost part of the ship's main deck, in
which will be deposited the case containing the coffin
, and remains of the lite Mr. Peabody duling the voyage
' between Spithead and the Unite,' States, has been
inch sed and properly draped. The Manure?, herself
has been placed in full Laval mourning, everything
projecting above her upper sleeks, turrets, funnel,
hurrieane deck. lower ...As, ant 1,0 npelts, yards,
aml blocks aloft, he., being painted a French grey. A
rihand of the same colour has also been painted round
the outer sides of the bulwarks.

the give, a piece of lee mind sometimes, and some-
time all if it. (Laighter.) Wherever you place
woman, Sir, she iv an atnameat to that plan, which
she eccupies, and a teesure to the weld. (Here the
speaker wise.. lookiig round upon his auditors
inquiriagly.) Tho appLuse ought to cone in et this
roi.t. (Great laughtsr.l Look at Cleopaira, look at
Desdemons, look at Forence Nightingale, look at
Luerezla Bort ie. (Voles. 'No, no.") ( l'he speaker
p mass as if in doubt.) Veil, suppose you let Luerezia
elide. (Laughter.) Loot at Mother Eve- (cries of
"Oh, eh !" abol laughter-you need not hick ether mai
as you want to-(pauseirefiectingly)-but Eve way an
ornament. Sir, particulagy before the fashion changed.
(Renewed laughter.) I repeat, Sir, look at the illus-
trious Widow Machree, look at Lucy Stone, look at
Elizabeth Stanton, look at Francis George Francis
Train-(great laughter)-and, Sir, I say it with a
bowed head and deepest veneiation, look at the mother
of Washington-she draiteed up' a boy that could
not lie. Could not lie ! it alight have been different
it he had belonged to a Newspaper Correspondei ts' Club
(Groans, hisses, cries of Put him out,' and laughter.)
I repeat, Sir, that in whatever position you place a
woman she iv an ornenientto y yciety, and a tressure to
the world. As a sweetheartsie has few equals and no
superiors. (Laughter.) As a courin, the is cone
yenient ;a. a wealthy grandmother with an incurable
distemper, she is unspeakably precious. What would
the people of the earth lie without woman? They
would he scarce. Sir, pea feetly scarce. (Renewed
laughter) Then let us cheibil lier, let us protect her,
let us give her our i.upport, eur encouragement, our
sympathy, ourselves if we get a chance. ( I .amilster. )
But jesting aside, Mr. President, woman is loveatyle,
Viol of heart, gra. ious, beautiful, worthy of all
respect, of all deference. Nit any here will refuse to
drink her health right cordially, in this goblet of wine,
for each and every one of us has known, loved, and
honoured the best of them all -his own mother."
(Great .)

appleuxe.

THE DUKE OF GENOA AND THE
SPANISH GOVERNMENT.
(From The Mires, Tuesehy, November 23rd)
The Statement we published in our impriesi• n of
Saturday concerning the positive and irrevocable
refusal of the Duke of Genes and of his family to ac-
cept the Crown of Spain if it were offered to the young
Prince, has been impugned by some of the Madrid
inisterial journals, and especially by the impure/at,
which asserted, among other things, that the Marques
Rapallo, the young Prince's stepfather, WAN at this
moment "many leagues from London," We subjoin
the Marquis's letter, to set the I mparcial and its
Madrid contemporaries at rest on this point,• and
assure them that we Were also correctly informed
with respect to all other matters connected with this
subject.
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in the form of discs from pulp. If a disc of the cotton
about four inches in diameter and one inch thick be
placed on a massive stone and lighted by a piece of
paper it will merely burn away with a bright yellow
flame • if ignited, however, by a small detonating fuse,
it will explode with such violent., as to shatter the
stone to atoms. Half a dozen such discs fired by de-
tonation would completely cut down a stockade of
four trees, each a foot thick, So, again, the Chassepot
rifle uses a bullet of 380 grains weight, and when tired
with a charge of 85 grains of French powder gives to it
an initial velocity of 1,360 ft. • the Martini-Henry,
under the same ci-cuaustances, but with English pow-
der, gives a velocity of 1,500 ft. The merits, too, of
held guns are various ; the most rapid shooting on re.
cord is that if the 12-pounder Itreett-loading Arm.
strong gun, which, during the Armstrong and Whit-
worth competition, was fired 50 times in 6 min. 59 secs. ;
while the fastest shooting combined with accuracy was
made by the special committee on Indian field
argils ry with their 9-pounder gun, when 50 rounds
were tired in 16 min., 25 of them passing through a
9-foot target at 1,000 yards. lit this rats of filing, a
battery of six guns could burst shells on the head of a
Au= at the rate of about ten • minute.

IMPROMPTU, BY DR. PUSBY.
tin reading in Lowman's adoer,isement the tile of a re-
print "On the Functions of I, worn synoti,'' by the
Right Mom W. E, Gladstone, ALP ,
"On the Functions of Laymen in Synchl,"—
Let Gladstenn leave that to the cloth.
In Syreels and Studios laymen
Suould be the same thing—dummies both.
—Punch.