The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-29 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAI.

OUR IIITTYRE Son-ix-Law !—ln Her Majesty's
Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, occurs • passage
which receives an accession of interest from the im-
pending marriage of the Princess Louise. It occurs
in the description of the royal visit to Inverary. "Our
reception," writes her Majesty, "was in the true
Highland fashion The pipers walked before
the carriage, and the Highlanders on either side, as
we approached the house. Outside stood the Marquis
of Lorne, just two years old, • dear, white, fat, fair
little fellow, with reddish hair, but very delicate fea-
tures, like both his father and mother; he Is such a
malty, independent little child, He had a black
velvet dress and jacket, with 'sporran,' scarf, and
Highland bonnet."
JAANNZ DARC.—" The Ark of France will yet
float to its Ararat," writes • French Gusher. We
hope so. But to judge by the rout at Orleans, the
Ark has no Joaa.—Puarh.
ARCHBISUOP MANNINO ON FaANCIL—At the
Fiench Roman Catholic Church, in Leicesteroquare,
London, called "Notre Dame de France," there was
solemn observance on Sunday of the feast of "Note.
Dime des Victoires." The Church (which is the
building in which Burford's Panorama was shown for
so many years) was specially decorated for the feast,
and the altars, of which there aro four, were richly
adorned with beautiful flowers. Archbishop Mar
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enories, it was thin year a day I
of teari to many, and it wee his wish to speak • few
words of consolation. He spoke of the debt due to
France for the many most important services that
country bad rendered to religion. Great as her
warriors had been in many ages, her greatest heroes
were her bishops and clergy. In her present mow
into the political causes of which he would not enter)
be felt • deep sympathy for her enfters, to which ha
hoped Providence would give a speedy end. Ths
present weakness of France wee • cause of weakness
to the Church, which had received two blows lately,
one in the far east and one in Rome. If France were
strong now, thosse who bad struck those blows would
be punished. He confidently trusted that France
would be restored to the position by which, for more
than a thousand years, she had been able to render
such signal benefits to the Church.
A PLZAILIFT MAP !—The New York World
publishes what It terms the "Murder Map of New
York City." Those place• where marder bat been
perpetrated within the last ten years are indicated by
dagger, and pistols. Seventy. eight of these dark /pots
mar the map, and ragwort histories of mime which
make the blood run cold. The World gives brief
sketches of these crimes, among which are those of the
miadee of Mr. Nathan, accounts of which are still
fresh In the minds of our readers; of Mr. Rogers, Dr.
Burdell and Mary Rogers, otherwise known as the
Beautiful Cigar Girl of New York, whose tragic fate
Edgar A. Poe used ea the groundwork for hie dory,
" Mary Roast."

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Taa ROW. MAaaucts —Subjoined are the termi
of the first official notice, as it appeared in Toesday
night's London Gazette, of the approaching Royal
marriage :

" At tie Court at Balmoral, the 24th day of October, 1870.
present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her
Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare her con-
sent to a contract of matrimony between her Royal Highness
the Princees Louise Caroline Alberta and John George
Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell (oommonly
galled the Marquis of Lorne,, which consent her Majesty haa
also caused to be signified under the Great Seal."

GALLANT RESCUE.- —On Monday, as one of the
boys of the Formidabla, training ship, stationed off
Portishead, was walking along the boom leading loth°
I ship, he missed his footing and fell overboard. Coin.
mender Poulden saw the boy fall and without a mo-
ment'. hesitation jumped overboard and swam to-
wards him, catching the little fellow under the arms
and turning him round in the water, at the same time
doing his best to keep himself and the boy from sink-
ing. It was blowing very hard at the time, and both
were being rapidly carried away down Channel. For-
tunately Inspector Dyer and some of the Formidable:
boys were in one of the ship's boats not far off, and
they instantly pulled out, but not before the gallant
"ommander and the boy had drifted upwards of 200
wds from the ship. As the boat neared them Dyer
ew out the longboat hook, which was grasped by
ti Commander, and by its aid both he and the boy
me dragged into the boat in a very exhausted state,
scene was watched from the pier-head with pain.
interest, exchanged for joy when the safety of Corn.
l'eulden and the boy whom he rescued from a
Aery grave was s. 'le known.
Wrro IUAuI RI h I,ol—The Germans have
all the houses of On ans except one. The French
middle-c lase wish for that house lrleans. Is peace
Own .

A Y RAE or TRAGEDIZIS ! —We eifil box no
more .1 be U fated Ccivif:ric. The solitary trtlY.,,or,
who sr.., I.,ekod up clinging to her cutter, I'M told
what he su, we, sod more than that will never now be
known, and tal,' r 0 .me must go down
upon that melanchol wr.olescile disast.ss which
comprises the London, the Rom: Charter, and latest
and moat mournful of all, the e'optais. Tf year has
been so full of "battle, murder, and sudden death,"
anguish and bile of life are made so fariiliar to all
thoughts by. the terrible war raging on the Continent,
that, in point of mere numbers, the loss of the 180
souls who perished with the Cambria may appear like
the result of an orrUnary skirmish. But it is not really
si (remarks a London contemporary). The familiarity
of battle•news cannot make such a sea-tragedy seem
less awfuL It is se grievous as ever to think of this
ahip, with all it. crew and passengers, just arrived
across the Atlantic, just sighting the shores of Britain,
and then, by • bad look-out, • fatality, or thick
weather, betrayed into the wrong course, and broken
up
athittitlieltzrdet,n,ittaitpon the rocks of Donegal.
h its horrors, is not quite so
appalling as, the picture which the imagination raises
of the midnight tempest—the horrible crashing of the
steamer, the despairing rush to the boats, and their
hopeless engulfment in the cold and bitter brine.
A SAD CAB7.--At the Southwark police-court,
the other day, a very respectable-looking young
woman, thirty years of age was placed at the bar,
charged with being found deititute in the public street,
creating a disturbance, and refusing to leave the step
of a house where she had placed hereelf. It appeared
from the evidence of • police-constable that between
eleven and twelve o'clock at night hiS attention was
called to the prisoner sitting on the steps of a door in
Blackman-street, screaming. He walked up to her
and asked her what she wanted, when she said she had
been ejected from the house, and she would net go
away. He was compelled to take her to the station-
house, where she gave the following account of herself
to Inspector Fox, who took her statement down in 1
writing :
I am a native of Weymouth, where my Mends reside.
About twelve months ago an Insurance agent courted me,
and decoyed me from my home under the promise of mar-
riage. We lived in London as man and wife. My family are
highly respectable, and in independent circumstances The
man who seduced me obtained large sums of money from me,
and when I preload him to marry me I found he had •
wife, and he turned me out Ma wile died two months
ago, and on the night In question I went to him house to
know what his intentions were towards me, when he called
• °mutable to eject me. Ido not wish to injure him. All
I want is te die on the door-step. If you let me go! @hall
go back and lay there till I die. I went to • chemist In the
evening, and had be supplied me with what I wanted I
should have been dead by this time, and all my sorrows
forgotten.

The magistrate directed the constable to take the
prisoner to the office of the Rescue Society. and are
what could be done for her.

TRULY Irish Ambulance Corps ill a
rather happy name for a squad of auxiliaries. It is
quite pat.—Poach.
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•
Tan FIILBT °ann.—The first case heard under
the New Land Act has been heard before Mr. Rolle.-
ton Spanner, QC., the chairman of the county Tip-
perary, at the Quarter Sessions of ClonmeL An eject,
moot was brought by the Irish Land Company to
recover possession of a farm in the occupation of • man
named M'Grath, who had bought its goodwill for £4O
from • tenant, but was never recognised by the plain-
tiffs. Notwithstanding this fact, he claimed compel,
cation for disturbance. The chairman decided that in
cows quence of the subletting the defendant had no
claim or focus stanch. The agent of the property, how-
ever, consented to allow him seven years' compensa-
tion, deducting, of course, a year's rent which was in
arrear. It was explained to him that it was entirely
owing to the liberality of the company that he received
any compensation.
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"AR; WE SO GREAT."— Germany, with seven
hundred thousand soldiers and a quarter of a hundred
of victories to count, locks up one poor Dr. Jacoby for
daring to object to an annexation of territory. Either
the doctor must bean extraordinarily and stupendously
great man—or somebody else in a much smaller man
than is supposed. Why, England has a miniature
army, and DO recent victories to talk of, and yet she
has not locked up one man out of ever so many hun-
dreds who [net the other day and declared themselves
'The British Republicans." She only laughed, and
hoped that when they had done spouting they would
go back to their work, and take their wages to their
wives, and not to the public-hotuie. —Punch.