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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

Considerable excitement was caused at Dover on
Tuesday afternoon by the report that one of the
Ostend mail packets had been run into in the Channel
by the screw steamer Newbattle, of Leith, by which
vessel the intelligence first reached Dover. The
Belgian mail packet Louise Marie (Captain Tettelin)
left Dover in the morning with passengers and
mails for Ostend, and nothing further was
heard of her until the afternoon, when the New-
battle—a vessel of about 100 tons burden, put
into Dover Harbour with a hole in her atarboard
bow, and reported having been in collision with
the Louise Marie mail packet. The New-
battle was outward bound with a general
cargo from Hamburg, and according to the state-
ments of her crew the collision occurred in a fog about
half way between Dover and the Belgian coast. The
vessels had a very narrow escape, the damage to
each one of them being at the bows. The bows of
the mail packet were twisted round completely, the
hole in the Newbattle's bows being nearly two feet
square. Although the damage to the mail packet was
considerable, she was able to proceed on her voyage
to Ostend. One large piece of iron plating which the
Newbattle ripped off the bows of the mail packet was
very curiously found on the deck of the Newbattle
afterwards.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

NATIONAL POULTRY AND PIGEON
SHOW.

The 16th annual national four days' poultry and
pigeofi show opened at the Crystal Palace on Monday.
The number of entries, 5646—just 200 more than
those of last year—is the largest known at these shows.
Fourteen hundred prizes, inclusive of 140 silver cups,
made up a total of awards amounting in the aggregate
to £lBOO, which the judges were occupied in distri-
buting from half-past seven a.m. to half-past three
p.m. on the first day. Although the poultry classes
were larger than ever, the number of pigeons showed
a decrease, but the absence of quantity was more
than atoned for by the quality of the birds, which, like
those in the poultry classes, were of more than average
excellence. In poultry the Dorkings and Cochins
were fully up to the average, the pullets in the former
class and the white cocks in the latter breed being
especially fine. The gpanish, Houdans, and Ham-
burghs were a grand lot, a. 3 were the Langshans, and
the Polish breeds with their stately crests. The
Leghorns and the dark Brahmas were inferior to those
seen in former years, but the game birds and bantams
were more beautiful in shape, colour, and chief
characteristics than ever. In the pigeon classes the
Pouters, Carriers, Homing Antwerps, and Jacobins
were perhaps the best of an especially excellent lot of
birds, whilst the Oriental frilled varieties, with their
numerous shales of plumage, were quite a special
feature of the show. _

--Die— principal aWards were as follow: The 20
guineas Challenge Cup for the best Langshan cock or
cockerel was carried off by Mr. S. Millard, and the
20 guineas Challenge Cup for the best hen or pullet
of the same breed fell to the lot of Captain H. Terry.
The 25 guineas Challenge Cup for the best-formed
bantam cock or cockerel went to Mr. W. Forrester
Addle, and the 25 guineas Challenge Cup for the best
bantam hen or pullet was awarded to Mr. T. P.
Lyon. Amongst the other principal cup and prize
winners are Miss N. Waterer. Mr. B. Smith, Mr. J.
Cranston, Mr. W. W. Ruttledge, Mr. S. P. Hill, Mr.
G. H. Procter, Mrs. J. Turner, Miss E. Rouse, Mr.
J. Maughan, Mr. L. C. R. Norris Elye, Mr. R. But-
terfield, Mr. W. F. Potter, Mr. J. Powell, Mr. S.
Harmer, Mr. P. Shaw, Mr. J. P. W. Marks, Miss M.
L. Clayton, Mr. J. Ainsworth, Messrs. G. and J.
Duckworth, and Mr. E. Ratcliff.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

SALES BY AUCTION

PUBLIC NOTICES.


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Supplied on the Improved Hire System to any amount
Arrangements can be made to Furnish Houses and
Apartments with every requ'site on this advantageous
system direct from the Manufacturers, thereby saving
immediate outlay, the Goods becoming the Hirer's Pro-
perty after payment of the stipulated instalments, which
are made to suit convenience of Hirer, and will be
found very convenient to those with limited income.
A Gentleman will call and give farther particulars upon
applieation.—THE BIRMINGHAM FURNISHING
COMPANY. WE 01. A. BALE MANUFACTURING
HOUSIG FURNISBhRS.

21, 23, 25, 27, 29, & 81,
COLMOBE .ROW,

AN INSPECTION INVITED
ALL GOODS DP LIVERED FREE.
NO GUARANTEE REQUIRED.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

TUE INCOME TAX BILL.

The Income Tax Bill was brought up from the
Commons and read a first time, and their lordships
rose at five minutes past six o'clock.

WJESTIONS.

In the Housz or COMMONS Mr. Gladstone assured
Baron H. de Worms that the ctatetnent reported to
have been made by M. tie Freycinet in the French
Senate, that England intended to propose a second con-
ference on Egyptian affairs, was not correct. In reply
to Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the right hon. gentleman said
a draft bill had been prepared to enable the Australa-
sian colonies to establish a small federal council for the
purpose of dealing with certain questions of common
interest, but in the opinion of her Majesty's Govern-
ment it required amendment in certain respects ar.d
the more convenient course, therefore, would be to
have the amendments settled in concert with the
colonies before the bill was] introduced into Parlia-
ment.
- e,-,RE DEAD BODY OF
OFFICE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

GAMBLING THROUGH THE POST.

The relations of the Postmaster-General to
gambling transactions of various kinds are now a
fertile subject of moralists and lawyers. Only a shcrt
time ago we heard a good deal about the iniquity of
sending postal telegrams respecting betting trans-
actions on tile turf, and were assured that the Post
Office authorities either are, or ought to be, liable to
an action at law for transmitting such messages. The
Law Jonrnal hail now unearthed another subject of
complaint of a somewhat analogous kind. It suggests
that the Postmaster may possibly be liable to
punishment, under the provisions of an Act passed
in the reign of William IV., designed "to prevent the
advertising of foreign or other illegal lotteries." It
will be observed that the statute, with a
charming frankness, includes all foreign lotteries
under the broad category of illegality. It
then goes on to subject to a fine of ..E5O all
persons who publish, or cause to be published, any
notice of such unlawful affairs. And the legal paper
asks whether delivering the advertisements and pros-
pectuses to Englishmen in the guise of letters is not
a sufficient *publication to be included in the Act. Its
opinion evidently is that this is so; and the writer
goes so far as to suggest that the Postmaster is ans-
werable, even thZugh the obnoxious advertisement is
enclosed, and concealed, in a letter. It would be
rather unfair, besides being manifestly impossible, to
go this length. But the circulars of several of the
foreign lotteries are sent out in such flimsy wrappers,
and bear so evidently upon them the mark of their
real character, that it might be as well in their case,
if it can be done, to put the old Act in force.—MB
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

A BOULEVARD FOR TBE EAST-END OF LONDON.

Earl Cowper called attention to the desirability, in
the interest of the inhabitants of the East-end, of con-
erting into a public boulevard the main drainage
-mbankment passing through the districts of Stratford,
laislow, and East Ham; but Earl Granville pointed out
that the matter was one the decision of which rested
with the Metropolitan Board of Works, with whom he
I.romised to communicate on the subject.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

KR. BLANE ON HIS DEFEAT:

Mr. Elaine has been serenaded at Augusta, Maine,
and in rettirning thanks said the chief result of the
Presidential election would be to transfer political
power to the South. This was a great national mis-
fortune, because it placed the Republic under the rule
of the minority. The negroes of the South having
been disfranchised by the fraud or violence of the
white man, the latter had absorbed the political rights
of the negroes, and so enjoyed double the political
power possessed by the white citizens of the Northern
States. He anticipated that, in the next generation,
a badge of inferiority would mark the Northern white
man, as odiously as ever the Norman noble stamped
the bign of subjection upon the Saxon churl. Further-
more, he expected that the negroes of the South
would henceforth be compelled to work for the pit-
tance of slaves, say thirty-five cents. a day. This
would drive them northwards, where a degradinz
competition with the labour of white men would
ensue. Thus the entire question of the manhood of
America was involved in the result of the late election
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
amounted to 12,487 head. In the corresponding period
last year we received 8937; in 1882, 21,626• in 1831, 11,184 ;
in-. 1880, W 99 ; in 1879, 15,219; in 1878, 9965 ; and in 1877,
13,514 head. At Liverpool were received 81 beasts from
Baltimore, 455 beasts and 276 sheep from Boston, arid 264
beasts and 1393 sheep from Montreal and at Southamp-
ton 11 beasts from Jersey and Guernsey, and 60 besets from
Oporto. The cattle trade has been very dull, and prices
have not been maintained without difficulty. Fair supplies
were offering. About an average number of beasts came
from our own grazing district.. The market was very
dull. and pries remained about the same as last
week. The best Scots and crosses realised 5s 8d to 5s 101
per 81b. There was a moderate supply of foreign beasts on
offer, which changed bands slowly at former currencies.
As regards sheep, supplies were fairly extensive. A drag-
ging trade was experien^ed throughout, and prices were
weak. The best Downs and half-breds realised, Os Od to
6s 6d per 81b. Calves and pigs sold at late prices.
Quotations: Coarse and inferior beasts, 48 to 48 6d;
second quality ditto, 48 6d to ss' prime large oxen, 5s 6d
to 5s 8d; ditto Scots, &c., 5s 8d to 53 10d- coarse and in-
ferior sheep, is to 5s 6d ; second quality ditto, is 6d to
6s ; prime coarse woolled ditto, 6s ed to 6s 4d prime
Southdown ditto, 6s 4d to 6s 6d; lirge coarse •:alves,
5s 4d to 58 8d; prime small ditto, 5s 8d to 6s ; lare, bogs,
38 6d to 4s neat small porkers, 4e to 48 6d per 81b. link
the off .1. 'Total supply: Beasts, 3720; sheep and lamb.,
858; calves, 340- pigs, 40; ranch cows, 30. Foreign:
Beasts, 160- sheep and lambs, 630; calves, 10. From the
midland and home counties we received 2430 beasts; from
Nor'olk, Suffolk, and Essex, 100; from Ireland, 900; and
from Scotland, 130 beasts.
METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.

The supply, although not heavy, is in exces3 of demand.
Trade contint s very bad, and there is no improve-
ment in prices. For plain and inferior quality there
is scarcely any inquiry, even at lowest quotations. The
prices were as follows: Inferior beef, 2s El to Sc 4d;
middling ditto, Is 4d to Is Bd' prime large ditto, 4s Od to
4s ed; prime small ditto, 4s 81 to ss; veal, Sc to 5s 4d;
inferior mutton, 2s 8d to Is 4d ; middling ditto, 38 4d to
is 8d; prime ditto, 45 Od to is Od ; large pork, 2s 8d
to 3s 4d; small ditto, Ss 8d to 4s 4d per 81b. by the
carcase.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

6ATtiItDAY NOV, 29, 1884

!ALL MONTS RAMIRTED4

AMBITION'S LADDER.
By the Anther of " ..ttherstone Grange,' '.4 If. for
a Love," 4c.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

FRENCH AGRICULTURISTS AND
PROTECTION.

The Paris Agricultural Congress has passed reso-
lutions in favour of import duties of Mr. per quintal
on wheat, 9fr. on flour, 60fr. per head on oxen, 7fr.
on sheep and pigs, 20fr. per 100 kilos on fresh meat,
15fr. on salted ditto, ofr. per head on horses, 35fr.
on foals, and similar duties on other descriptions of
corn and cattle. Thus, while the Paris Municipality
wants bread to be made artificially cheap, the large
landowners and farmers want it to be made arti-
ficially dear. The chief speaker at Friday's
meeting was M. Pouyer-Quertier, the veteran Pro-
tectionist, who seceded from the Bonapartists on
account of the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty.
He assured the meeting that English farmers, though
having to pay only a quarter of the taxes of French
ones, were ruined, and that the rural population was
crowding into the towns, where, with Cheap bread,
cheap clothes, and almost constant short time, they
were perishing of hunger. Such, he said, were some
of the results of free trade in England, and unless
important duties equivaleht to the inland taxation
were imposed. France would have the same fate.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

THE INCOME TAX BILL.

On the crder for going into Committee on the Income
Tax Pill, Mr. Hubbard moved, that in view of the con-
duo. d and aggravated imposition of the income tax
pres,ing with especial severity upon land and industry
the adjustment of the tax and its equitable aeministra-
ticn should be no longer delayed.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer pointed out that
the question had already been fully debated and decided
ay the House during the present year. Admitting that
the income tax was full of anomalies, he held that if it
was to be retained as part of the permanent system of
rho country it must be taken with all its anomalies.
The reform which Mr. Hubbard proposed was simply a
eform .11 the interest of traders, and would throw a
:arger burthen upon the land and upon farmers.
The bill then passed through committee, and the
House adjourned at ten minutes to four o'clock.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

THE GLADSTONE MEMORIAL.

A numerously attended meeting of the subscribers
to the statues of Mr. Gladstone recently placed in the
London City Liberal Club was held on Monday at the
club-house in Walbrook to consider proposals for
dealing with the balance in band. Mr. )3ertrain
Wodehouse Currie occupied the chair. The hon.
secretary, Mr. Frank L. H. Collins, stated that the
subscriptions amounted to £1375 12s. 6d., and the
interest on deposit was £24 6s. 4d., making a total of
£1399 18s. 10d. After paying £lOOO to the sculptor
and incidental expenses forprinting and for presenting
a photograph for the statue to each subscriber, there
remained a balance of 200 guineas in hand. The chair-
man e::plained that a great many proposals had been
made to them as to applying the surplus of the Glad-
stone Statue Fund, and he proposed to enumerate
them and leave the subscribers to decide which one
commended itself to them. The first proposal was
that the balance should be applied in founding a
scholarship in honour of Mr. Gladstone. There was,
however, an objection to that, as it would necessitate
a further appeal, which he was sure would not he
agreeable to Mr. Gladstone. The next proposal was
that they should further remunerate the sculptor of
the statue. Another proposal was to place the statue
in the centre arch of the vestibule of the club, and to
apply the surplus fund in making that change. That
would be a legitimatc, way of spending the balance
remaining, as it would be in the direction of
beautifying the. statue. A further proposal was
that the sum remaining should be banded over
to Mrs. Gladstone's Home. And the last pro-
posal was that one of the bookcases in the library
should be called the Gladstone Library, and the sum
should be employed in purchasing works which had
reference more especially to Mr. Gladstone's career,
including all his own works. He then invited the
subscribers to express their views on the subject. On
the;. motion Of. Mr. W. C. Anderson, the following
resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Hyde Clarke,
was agreed to almost unanimously: "That the balance
remaining to the credit of the fund be placed at the
disposal of the library committee, and be expended
on works illustrating as far as possible the opinions
and career of Mr. Gladstone." Votes of thanks Were
then accorded the honorary oflkials.

The Russian Government has resolved not to con-
tinue the fortifications of Askabad, which are now less
important, but to hasten those of Mery and Sarakhs.
The Roumanian Sanitary Board have resolved to
prevent the Oriental express running through from
Paris from crossing the Roumanian frontier. In
future passengers must join the ordinary train at
Verciorova, after medical examination and disinfec-
tion.

It is stated that the borough of Rotherham,
together with the district which is dependent upon its
water supply, is threatened with a water famine. For
some time the water has been restricted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

MEMORY& SUCCESS

WHAT contributes greatly to success?
A good memory.
WHAT always causes failure in life?
A bad memory.
WHAT is indispensible to every Lady and Gentleman,
Student, Chemist, Physician, Merchant, Lawyer,
Manufacturer, Farmer, dm.?
A good memory.
WTHAT can every one obtain from PROFESSOR
LOISETTE ? A good memory —the Physiological
Art of never forgetting—wholly unlike Mnemonics. Any
book whatever ?watered in one reading.

LOST MEMORIES RESTORED.
Prospectuses post free, giving opinions of Mr. RICHARD
A. PROCTOR, DR. ANDREW WILSON, Clergymen and
others who have studied the system.
Great inducements to correspondence Classes in "Never-
forgetting" and for Cure of " Mind-Wandering" in all parts
ofthe world.—Private Lessons—Day and Evening Classes—
Lectures in Families of the Nobility and Gentry.
Professor LONETTE, 7, NaM °MAD fiTILDNT, LONDON.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

THE IRON TRADE.

Wolverhampton, Wednesday.
There was a moderate attendance of irontnasters
and. merchants on 'Change this afternoon, tut
bu,..iness if anytbinw was quieter than a week ago.
Orders are reported to be cumin.: in slowly, and in
many cases !h. prices offered are so unretnunera-
ttre that manufacturers decline to accept them. In
the Bilston district several mills are running short
time through this cause. For angles and tees the
demand is fairly well maintained, and hops an in-
quired for at a good rate, but little business is bei-
done in tube strip. There is still a gocd run on
tin plates and sheets, the demand for the latter for
galvanising purposes being of a satisfactory
character. Makers of girders for bridge and other
work are well empl ,yed, and there is a prospect of
this branch of industry being kept well going for
s•aus time. Marked bars are quoted at £7 10s.,
with l2e. 6d. extra for Earl Dudley s brands, while
medium qaality b irs rule from .26 ss. to £6 10i.,
and common kinds £5 17s. 61. to £6 23. 61, There
is a b tter demand for local pig iron of medium
quality, inquiries being made for favourable parcel:,
though q sotation: remain without improvement.
For best pigs there is a fair inquiry. In the coal
tr.de the greatest demand is for house qualities.

BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.
The condition of the local iron trade remains
stationary, and there is less buoyancy and fluctua-
tion in prices than for months past. Smelters have
reduced tipir output to within a very small margin
of their actual consumptive demand, two furnaces
haying just been blown out in the Tipton and
Ilatherton districts, and they decline to accept long
forward contracts in the expectation that prices
will advance. Unlike the North of England pro-
ducers, who accept contracts for pigs for six and
twelve months to comri, Staffordshire houses decline
to book orde.s, (except in isolated instances, for
deliver) beyond therend of the year. As the pricno
obi.ained are mostly umemunerative the wisdom i.l
thutr policy is harjly to be questioned, though
buyers are thoreby precluded from speculating.
L0..:al pig is steadily maintained in value, bct shows
no alteration on late quotations; and there is no
change in lle:bysbire and other qualities sold on
the Birmingham Exchange. Finished iron firms are
receivini specifications with more freedom on old
contracts which expire at the end of the year, but
there is a general slackening in respect of new
ord.-rs. Gird r and tank platt-s keep in goo I re-
quest, and 31 4!et. ii:anufactiirers, 1)01 Ii plain and
galvanised, are well sol forward, but at very low
prices for the former. Commou bars are being dis-
posed of in fair lots at prices ranging from .25 108.
to ..e6, the tie .ium jrice being ..t5 15s. Second-
ClasS Irom ..e6 to £6 10,. Marked bars
&Di firm, but there is only restrioted cleraszcl.

_flcil
is still a goed tagonis'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

LYE.

LIBERAL MEETING.—A meeting was held in the
Lye Temperance Hall, on Monday night, in Con-
n ,ction with the Liberal Association, to hear an
address from Alderman Pov+ ell Williams, of
Birmingham, on "The Peers and the Franchise."
There was a large attendance. Mr. G. K. Harrison
presided, and in his opening remarks congratulatel
the meeting on the solution of the difficulty which
hal arisen with the peers on the franchise question
and which seemed likely to he of so serious a
nature.—Mr. J. Shepherd also addressed the meet-
ing, and was followed by Mr. Powell Williams,
who said when he was asked to come there to speak
they were in the midst of a most serious, political
crisis, but now the time had come for him to ad-
dress them there was no crisis. The result which
they looked for could not be otherwise than bene-
ficial to the Liberal party, though he dare say that
some of his Radical friends fat a little disappointed
that the fight for which they were preparing them-
elves with the House of Lords had not come on.
He regarded the settlement of the question as
another lease of life to that House ; but there would
be other occasions whe an is-ue with the Lords
would arise, and no doubt the question of dis-
establi-hment was a matter of which would do so.
As to the franchise, nothing but good could result
to the Liberal party from its extension; and from
all they could learn about redistribution, it appeared
that it would be dealt with on a broad and liberal
basis. No matter how the new voters might vote,
what every true Liberal wished was that they
should have the fullest liberty in the exercise of
the franchise, and that the fullest effect might be
given to their votes by a satisfactory redistribution
of seats The proceedings closed with a vote of
thanks to Alderman Williams and to the chairman.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

GAME AND POULTRY.

Partridges, is 641 to 2s 3d' pheasants, 2s 3d to 4s 6d ;
plovers, 8d to 9d; golden ditto, 1041 to is id; wild ducks,
2s ed to 3s • widgeon, ls 9d to 2s ; pintail, is 6d to is 10d;
teal, ls 441 to is 3d; wood pigeon, 6d to 1041; Bordeaux
ditto, Is 2d to Is 541' hares 3s 6d to 4s ed ; white ditto,
is 9d to 2s Pd; rabbits, is 441 to 2s ; conies, 9d to is ld;
geese, 5s to 7s 6d ; and fowls, 2s to is each.
FISH. -
Good supply of fish, with trade quiet. Prices: Soles,
is to is 441 per lb ; slips, sa to lid perlb. ; lemon soles 6d per
lb; turbot, 6d to 9d per lb; brill, 6d per lb ; cod, 441 to 6d per
lb; plaice, 3d to 441 per lb; hake, 441 per lb; coalfish, 2d per
lb; sturgeon, at per lb; eels, 10d to Is 241 per lb ; conger eel,
4(.1 per lb; heel haddock, 3d to 441 per lb •; skate, 4d to 641
per lb; sprats lid to 2d per lb; fresh herrings, 6d per
dozen; whith 28 to 45 per dozen; Anglo-Portuguese
oysters, 1041 to 's per dozen; Dutch ditto, 2s per dozen;
native ditto, is ,o 2s 6d; red mullet, 1041 to ls 64 each; John
Dory, Gd to vo ed. each; lobsters, is to 3s each' crabs, 6d.
to 2s Gd each dried haddooks, 241 to is each; sbrimps, 241
to 3d per 1i; winkles, 2d per pint; whelks, id per pint;
mussels, B'd ?o is per gallon; smelts, is to 24 Sd per bas-
ket; Digby cbekS, 441 to 6d per bundle.
POTATOES.

- --
There was a moderate supply of potatoes on offer. The
trade was dull at the annexed rates: Kent regents, 70s to
80s; Essex Shaws, 60s t< 60s; champions, roOs to 60s;
Magnum Bonums, 60s to 70s; Vietorias 70s to 80$ ntr:
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHI-
BITION OF 1886.

The Gazette has published the text of the Roy al
Commission, bearing the date of the 10th inst., touch-
ing the exhibition of the products, manufactures, and
arts of the Colonial and Indian Dominion, which is to
be held in London in the year 1886. The names of
the numerous commissioners, who are headed by the
Prince of Wales (as President of the exhibition), the
Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Connaught, and the
Duke of Cambridge, are duly gazetted, the commis-
sioners being instructed to tender advice upon the
best mode by which the colonial and Indian products
of industry, agriculture, and the fine arts may be
procured and sent to the exhibition. It is further
deemed expedient for the commissioners to obtain the
assistance and advice of native princes and chiefs of
Hindostan, and for this special purpose the rulers of
the provincial provinces of India have been added to
the commission. The commission is to continue in
force until the close of the exhibition, and the com-
missioners are in the customary manner required
from time to time to report their proceedings. Sir
Philip Cunliffe-Owen is appointed as secretary to the
commission.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

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ENGLAND AND HER INDIAN EMPIRE.

Under the auspices of the East India Association,
a meeting of officers and gentlemen interested in the
affairs of the British Empire in the East was held on
Monday at Exeter Hall (General Sir George Balfour,
K.C.8., M.P., presiding), for the purpose of consider-
ing "the mutual advantages of the connection between
England and her Indian Empire." The principal
address was delivered by General Sir Orfeur
Cavenagh, K.C.5.1., chairman of the council of the
association, and consisted mainly of an elaborate
analysis and refutation of the statements recently
advanced by various pessimist writers regarding the
value of India to England. He avowed his pleasure
at being able in the presence of men of wide
experience and long service, and under the auspices
of an association formed with the object of advo-
cating equally the removal of real grievances and
the introduction of salutary reforms, to show
the important advantages that mutually accrue from
the connection of the two countries, in the hope that
all subjects of her Majesty might recognise the neces-
sity of maintaining the supremacy of the British rule,
which to the one race brings an increase of national
power and prosperity, and to the other the blessings of
personal liberty and public peace. In conclusion
General Cavenagh urged that there was a task for the
English people greater than any they had yet under-
taken in relation to India—the fitting of the people
there for self-government, and teaching them to under-
stand and fully appreciate the blessings of political
liberty; though he trusted that long ere that question
was ripe it would be universally recognised that the
interest of the two peoples are so interwoven as to be
identical and inseparable. In the discussion which
followed, there was a general agreement with the
views of the opener.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

THE INFANTS BILL.

In the HOUSE OF LORDS, Nov. 24, on the motion of
Lord Fitzgerald, the Infants Bill, which proposes to
amend the law relating to the custody and guardianship
of infants by enabling the mother to act as guardian of
her children during her husband's lifetime with the
qanction of a court of law was read a second time, and,
at the instance of Lord Bramwell and the Lord Chan-
cellor, was referred to a Select Committee.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-29

FORTUNE TELLING EXTRAORDINARY.

At the County Petty Sessions at Wolverhampton,
on Monday, a woman named Ellen Aston was charged
for the third time with telling fortunes. A young
married woman, named Beckett, wife of an hotel
keeper, admitted that she went to the prisoner to have
her fortune told, and prisoner, after looking in a glass
globe, told her her husband, who was double her age,
would die at the end of the year, and then she would
be married again to a young husband, would bate
seven children, and then happy days would begin.
She also told her that her husband kept bags of
money locked up in a separate room, and she would
eventually have some of it. She also informed her
that the room in which Beckett kept the money-bags
had been locked up five years, and there appeared to
be a number of dead Children in it. The police stated
that the prisoner was an inveterate offender, and on
the occasion of her last conviction a young woman
had committed suicide in consequence of what pri-
soner told her. In the present instance the result of
Mrs. Beckett's visit led to a serious quarrel between
her and her husband. The prisoner was sentenced to
three months' hard labour.