The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-06-23 00:00:00

THE IRISH LACE EXHIBITION.

The Lord Mayor of London has issued an addressa in
which, inviting public attention to the forthcoming
Exhibition and Loan Collection of Irish Lace, to be
held in the Mansion House, he says :

"The object of the exhibition is, I believe, one
which will commend itself to the sympathy and sup-
port of all classes—viz,, the revival of a meritorious,
but much neglected, Irish industry, and the giving em-
ployment to the many hundreds of workers in it in the
sister country. It is not in any sense a commercial
speculation, for any profit that may arise from it will
be devoted to the encouragement of the industry. The
movement has the patronage of her Most Gracious
Majesty the Queen and the nincesses of the Royal
house, besides a large number of ladies who are anxious
that ILL3h lace should again rorne into fashion, and it
Liis the praetkal support of all the leaiing manufa3-
turers and traders in lace in London, Dublin, and the
provincDs. Their Royal Highnesses th, Pii,cess of
Wales and Princess Christian have len:, squie beau-
tiful specimeLs of lace for the occasion, The ext,ibi.
lion will be opened by their Ro3 at Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught on the 25th inst., at
four o'clock, and it will be open daily for the next
fortnight front ten a.m. to tight p.m.

Tlw number of immigrants who arrived in Ainerioa
during tne month of May was 99,601,

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The fishermen of St. Mary's Abbey, Limerick, have
sent an enormous sturgeon, over ten feet long, as a
present to Mr. Parnell, by whom it was offered to the
Fisheries Exhibition.

All the representatives of Foreign Powers who at-
tended the recent Coronation festivities in Moscow
have received medals and tokens in gold, silver, and
bronze, struck as memorials of the coronation.

Lord Wolseley arrived in London on Monday from
Moscow and St. Petersburg, and resumed hie-duties
at the War Office.

The Duke of Connaught will leave England in the
autumn for India to assume the command of the Meerut
division.

Mr. Justice Grove, while reaching some books in his
library on Sunday, fell from the stair on which he was
standing and broke his arm,

A Zurich firm has received from the Roumanian
Government an order for the construction of all
underwater boat. The boat will carry with it a suffi-
cient supply of air for a twelve hours' trip and be
lighted by electricity.
The traffic in the Suez Canal shows a marked in-
crease in the last year, the receipts having reached
the sum of £2,121,835.

The Archbishop of Canterbury was present on
Saturday at the annual Speech Day at Wellington
College, and in response to a public welcome from
the head master assured all present that his days when
headmaster there were among his most pleasant recol-
lections.

The Dake and Duchess of Albany paid a visit to
the National Orphan Home, Ham-common, on Satur-
day, when the Duchess distributed Lady Peek's prizes
to the inmates.

A Vienna telegram states that 100,000 Mahomedans
have emigrated this year from Bulgaria and Eastern
Roumelia, to avoid the military conscription.
On Monday a farmer, seventy years of age, was
gored to death at Draycott, North Staffordshire, by a
bull. He was fetching some water when the bull
rushed at him and wounded him so terribly that he
died almost immediately.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught visited the
Military College at Cowley, near Oxford, on Saturday,
sad the Duchess delivered the prizes. The Duke ad-
dressed the students; and at a substantial luncheon
spoke of the importance of such a training as that
college afforded for boys who intended to join the
army.

A violent explosion took place on Tuesday motning
at the tar distillery of Mr. Ellison, Walsden, near
Rochdale, wrecking a great portion of the works, but
the night men, however, happily escaped. A still was
blown to a great height, the boiling tar being thrown
about in all directions.

A banner has just been hung in Windsor Castle, by
the Duke of Wellington's agent, the duke's Strath.
fieldsaye estate being held by virtue of this ceremony
being performed annually on the anniversary of the
battle of Waterloo.

A parliamentary return issued last Saturday shows
that the number of applications under the Arrears
Act up to the ena of May was 86,455, comprising
135,997 holdings ; the estimated amount of money in-
volved in these applications being £810,353 lie. 9d.
In London, on Sunday morning, the Duke of Cam-
bridge inspected the Corps of Commissionaires, who
now, it appears, are 1,291 in number. An old pen-
sioner, 98 years of age, was present who had been in
the Peninsular, and at Quatre Bras and Waterloo.

Last Saturday a fire broke out at the large sawing and
planing mills of Nil., Alfred Oswald, at PaMon, Sunder-
land. The mills were burnt to the ground, and the
greater part of the valtrAble timber they contained was
also destroyed. The damage is estimated at about
210,000.

The value of imports into Queensland during 1882
has been estimated by an official return at £5,168,628,
and of exports at £3,259,217. The wool exports
amount to the value of £1,329,000, and gold to
R 829,655.

The Ru4Bian papers say that several ancient gold
articles, resembling in general character those found
by Dr. Schlieman at Mycenss, have been discovered
on the northern bank of the Amu Darya, the ac
thug, about two days' journey from Kudos.

Additional details of the effects of the ecent de-
structive tornadoes have been received from Illinois.
In Williamson county twenty lives were lost. At
Chilicothe, Missouri, serious damage was done. Mr.
Dennis Wolf's house was destroyed, and his family
were carried 500 feet through the air. Mr. Wolfe was
killed, and his wife's skull was fractured.

Between March, 1857 and April last—that is to say,
in exactly twenty-six years-10,144,926 ounces of gold
have been exported from New Zealand, the value being
no less than £39,747,940, or very nearly £40,000,000
sterling. Made into sovereigns, and placed in a pile
one on the top of the other, this gold would form a
column 3i miles high.

An imposing demonstration was made in Rome on
Sunday night before the Quirinal Palace, in honour of
Queen Maria Pia of Portugal. Her Majesty and her
two sons, together with her brother, King Humbert,
and Queen Margherita, appeared on the balcony
several times.

There were 2,477 births and 1,279 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing for increase of popu-
lation, the births were 70, and the deaths 126 below
tbe average numbers in the corresponding weeks of the
last ten years. The annual rate of mortality from all
causes, which had been equal to 185 per 1,000 in each
of the two preceding weeks declined to 16.9.

The return issued on Wednesday shows that on the
last day of the let week of June 50,384 in-door, and
35,907 out-door paupers were relieved in the Metro-
polis, making a total of 86,291, as compared with
87,222 in the corresponding week of last year; 87,125
in 1881, and 85,063 in 1880. The number of vagrants
relieved on the same day was 483.
Martegna's noble tempera painting en grisaille, on
canvas, "Samson and Delilah," has been secured for
the National Gallery. The price paid was £2,362,
The work formed part of the Sunderland Collection in
the possession of the Duke of Marlborough.

A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on June 15 was 20,600,000 bushels, as against
20,300,030 bushels tha previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn, 14,600,000 bushels, as against 13,800,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
770,000 bushels; the export clearances of Indian corn
for Europe during last week amounted to 1,240,000
bushels.

An official at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in
Paris has Just been stricken down by a violent attack
of yellow fever. It has been discovered that the
disease was contracted by opening dispatches from
Brazil, where the fever is now raging.

Sir Saul Samuel, K.C.M.Q., Agent-General for
New South Wales, has been informed by telegram
of the arrival in Sydney of the ship Samuel Plimsoll,
which sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in April
last.

Lord R. Churchill has written to Colonel Sowler,
Chairman of the Election Committee of the Man-
chester Conservative Association, saying that he is re-
luctantly compelled to abandon the hope of being one
of the candidates for the representation of that city.

Saturday (16th) being the anniversary of the Battle
of Quatre Bras (which was fought in 1815, when the
English gained a victory over the French), the usual
custom of decking the colours with laurels was observed
in those regiments of the Guards which took part in
the memorable engagement.
French imports, during the first five months of this
year, increased to some 21,000,0001., and exports
diminished by some 19,000,000 f. as compared with last
year. The imports of manufactures fell off by more
than 16,000,0001., while those of food increased by
more than 31,000,000 f. The exports of manufactures,
like the imports, ',how a diminution, having decreased
by over 27,000,0001.

Lord Wemyss will early next month propose a re-
soltition in the House of Lords declaring that,
" having regard to the defective state of our military
organization, and to the great importance of the
militia force, it is essential that the militia be re•
cruited up to its established strength ; and that the
militia reserve should, as intended by its originator,
the late General Peel, be borne in excess of the militia
establishment."

In London, the other day, a large company assem•
bled at the mart, Tokenhouse•yard, where Horace
Walpole's favourite residence, Strawberry Hill, on the
banks of the Thames, was offered for sale by order of
Lord earlingford. The competition commenced with
an offer of £lO,OOO, and did not go beyond £25,000,
which sum, the auctioneer remarked, was not the value
of the land alone. The reserve price was not reached,
and the property was withdrawn.

Although the same number of steamers arrived at
Liverpool last week with live stock on board as in the
preceding week from the United States and Canada,
the arrivals showed a decrease in both cattle and
sheep. The supply of fresh beef landed last week was
the smallest during any single week since the begin-
ning of the year. The total arrivals amounted to
1,663 cattle, 81 sheep, 1,902 quarters o. beef, and GOO
carcases of mutton.

Although the introduction of tramways in Germany
is of a recent date forty-four towns of the empire have
already comtructed tramway lines, which they work
themselves, or of which they have have conceded the
exploitation. The largest net of tramway lines-124
miles—is at Berlin. The number of travellers con-
veyed in 1882 has risen to 65,218,792.
Many members of Parliament and other visitors to
the House of Commons during last week had an
opportunity of tasting a supply of splendid ripe
peaches grown in the open air during the month of
May upon the estate of Mr. John H. Parnell, in the
State of Alabama. They were recently brought over
from America to Mr. C. S. Parnell, M.P., whose
brother is one of the most successful peach-growers in
the United States, having about 1,,100 acres almost
entirely devoted to that fruit.
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On Sunday morning a fire broke out at the Canton
Steam Flour Mills, near Cardiff, belonging to Messrs.
Loughor and Son, one of the largest steam flour mills
in the principality. The fire began in a room used for
cleaning wheat, hut soon burned downwards, and
extended to the new mills, which had been recently
fitted with machinery for grinding corn on the
Hungarian process. Both mills were entirely de.
stroyEd, and the damage is estimated at £lO,OOO to
£l2OOO.
The Clothmakera' Company (London) have very
significantly presented to King's Cyllege a testing
machine capable of exerting a tensile strain of 50,000
lbs. on the square inch. But it is—to those who would
think this a good opportunity to look out for cloth
which has borne the strain, so as to have a good tough
suit—rather disappointing to find that the machine
"completes the apparatus of the metallurgical and
engineering schools and workshops."— Warehousemen
an Draws' Trade Journal.

The American exports of domestic breadstuffs during
May amounted to 11,6751000 dols.

litional su)ns Were recei'vd uj)ito Saturday at
the Mansion House in London, in aid of the Metropo•
litan Hospital ziunday Fund. The subscriptions now
amount to £23,000.

The death Juts just occurred at Darlington of John
Barnett, the first railway porter ever employed in
passeri;er trafac; :Barnett aucoinPantdd the old No.l
engine on its tfial tip with George. Stephenson.

Mr. Fol,ter says that "Eidtyn,can leave the
world better than he finds it."(. True .;
but in some
cases only by leaving it.—Punch. -

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The number of visitors to the lutornational Fisheries
Exhibition, last Saturday, was' 18,494 ; making a
total for last week of 81,551. Thai-total number from
the opening of the Exhibitiou haft lieen 446,096.

At Twickenham on Tuesday tha highest individual
score made in a first•class cricket, match this season
wes made by Mr. A. G. G. Asher, 'solo scored 182 for
Oxford University, playing against the Orleans Club.
In London on Tuesday even4nE, the anniversary
dinner of the Printers' Pension, ~ Almshouse, and
Orphan Asylum Corporation wag .hqld at Willies-
rooms, under the presidency of the Dqlre of Albany.
Subscriptions were announced to the ampunt of £1,200.

A shocking accident has occurred onl-the Midland
Railway at Great Bowden. A number of children
were at a level crossing, when they watched a train
pass and ran on to the line. An express, coming
the opp,site direction, dashed into the group, killing
one on the spot, while five others almost miraculously
escaped.

Toronto papers recently received in London report
the arrival in Canada of a considerable number of
Irish emigrants, sent out under the auspices of Mr.
Tuke's committee, The people declare themselves
well satisfied with the treatment they have received,
and with the prospects before them,

At, the International Velocipede meeting at Bor-
deaux the bicycle race of 25,000 miStses was won by
Wood, an Englishman, who completed the course in
one hour. The tricycle race of 6,000 metres was also
won by an Englishman named Garrard.

Two flour mills and an oil factory were destroyed on
Saturday in a fearful conflagration in Breslau. Several
persons were killed and many others injured, and an
immense amount of property destroyed.

An inspector of the Canadian Mounted Police is
said to have realised £60,000 by selling out his share
in a gold mine recently discovered at Medicine Hut,
t the North-West Territories.

The number of otters killed, according to official
statements jiist iesued, in the province of Hanover
during the first three months of this year number 177,
rai,ing the total of killed during the five months
from the commencement of November last year to the
end of March, to 259. For each of the captured
otters the Government ha 9 paid a premium of six
marks.

Tho number of candidates who presen:ed themselves
for examination in the various branches of technology
at the City and Guilds of London Institute on the
evening of May 30 was 2,397 as compared with 1,972
in the year 1882, showing an increase of 425.

The Canada, screw corvette, Captain F. G. Durrant,
left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday for the North
American Station. Prince George of Wales is serving
as a midshipman on board.
The trestlework railroad bridge now being con.
structed across Lake Ponchartrain will, when com-
pleted; he twenty•one miles in length, and will be the
longest bridge of the kind in the United States. More
than 15,000,000 feet of lumber, outside of the piles, will
be used in its construction.

The American Treasury reports a large increase in
fresh beef exports, particularly to England. The May
exports amounted to 9,352,0001 b., against 2,725,0001 b,
in the previous May. Thus far this year the exports
amounted to 63 879,000 b., against 36,253,0001 b. in the
previous year. Pork exports are about the same as last
year.

An attempt has just been made to cross the Mediter-
ranean in a balloon from Marseilles by an areronant
named Jovis, who was accompanied by Mdlle. Clair,
an actress, and M. Bordigni, a merchant. The
balloon, which was named the Semaphore, was picked
up at sea an hour after starting.

The Lords of the Admiralty have Oven a grant of
£5O towards a new national school which is to be
erected at Chatham; and a further grant of £25
toward-3 a new mission church which is also to be
erected at Chatham.

The gleen ha 3 6,:hribed £5O, and the Prioce of
I,Vlce 25 guineas to the fund now being raised by the
Scittidi Meteorological Society for the establishment
of a tnLteorologicA observatory on the top of Ben
Nevis.

A fire broke out on Monday night at the Strasburg
Telegraph Officcs, and totally destroyed the telephone
establishment, which numbers 100 subscribers, but
the valuable telegraphic apparatus in other parts of
the building was saved.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 21,000 bales; since Ist September, 5,852,000
bales. Week's expoits to Great Britain, 34,000 bales;
_week's exports to the Continent, 6,000 bales. Total
since Ist September, 4,453,000 bales. Stock at all
ports, 441,000 bales.
Of the seven corps of volunteers inspected in the
metropditan district on Saturday, whose total strength
was a little over 4,200, the largest muster was made
by the 10th Middlesex Rifles, who had 805 of all ranks
on parade in Regent's Park. The Bth Middlesex,
the next in order of strength, had about 770 in Hyde
Park.

A Reuter's telegram, dated St. Petersburg, Jane
16, says :—" Intelligence received here from Astrakhan
announces that the passenger steamer Kasan caught
fire yesterday evening on the Volga, near the village
of Petropaulovski. The vessel was run ashore and all
the passengers made good their escape. The Kasen
and her cargo were completely destroyed and the maihi
were also lost."

The Postmaster. General has presented to the Ger.
man Imperial " Postmuseum " a number of interesting
objects connected with the English postal system,
including an elegant model of the Liverpool-London
Royal mail train.
On Monday two labourers employed in the erection
of the new Art Gallery at Birmingham, were engaged
ill moving a stack, when an adjoining stack fell upon
them and so severely crushed them that they both died
a few minutes after.

From all districts in Yorkshire very promising re.
ports have been received as to the hatching of the
grouse, an 3 it in more than probable that there will
be an average number of birds on the 12th. Here
and there some grand specimens may be seen afoot,
and up to the present time there has been an absence
of disease.

According to an account showing the quantities of
certain kinds of agricultural produce imported into
the United Kingdom in the week ended June 16, the
number of living animals imported was as follows :
Oxen, bulls, cows, and calves, 8,827; sheep and
lambs, 23,369; swine, 931.
Sixteen British and foreign actual shipwrecks were
reported last wetk against 12 at the corresponding
period of last year, making a total of 952 for the
present year. the increase against last year being 219.
Nine vessels were British owned, and six were
steamers, four being British steamers, wibh a tonnage
of 3,026 tons. Only three lives were lost, against 40 at
the corresponding period of last year.

Saturday was the anniversary of the battle of
Dettingen, wl.ich was fought in Bavaria on June 16,
1743, between the British, Hanoverian, and Hessian
army (52,000), commanded by King George 11. of
England, and the Earl of Stair, and the French army
numbering 60,000 men. The Duc de Grammont with
his French cavalry charged the British Foot with
great fury, but was received with such intrepidity
that he was obliged to give way and repass the Marne,
losing 3,000 men,
A Paris telegram says that M. Henri Gervex and
M. Carrier Belleuse have just entered into a contract
to complete within two years what will be one of the
strangest panoramas ever yet exhibited to the public.
It is to represent incidents in the lives of all the cele•
brated men of the age, and will not cost less than half
a million of francs.

In London Sir John Humphreys has held an inquest
at Bethnal-green on the body of James Harris, aged
nineteen, a shoemaker. It appeared that the deceased
was running a race, when he suddenly stopped and
fell to the ground. He was carried home, and on the
doctor's arrival pronounced to be den/. Sudden
failure of the heart's action was the cause of death,
and a verdict was returned accordingly.
The team anpointtd to represent America at the
forthcoming Wimbledon Meeting left New York on
Tuesday on board the Alaska. A large party, in-
cluding General Grant, were at the landing-atage to
wish them farewell.

The number of failures in England and Wale.
gsztti., d during the week ending Saturday, June 16,
was 234. The number in the corresponding week of
last year was 225. showing an increase of nine, being a
net decrease in 1883, to date, of 80.

The Queen has been pleased to express to the Duke
of Devonshire, the Chancellor of Cambridge Univer-
sity, that she highly approves of the decision of the
subseribfq, to the Memorial to the late Prince Consort
to devote the surplus in hand (g 1,800 to the founda-
tion of a Prize or Scholarship, to bear the Prince Con-
sort's name, for the promotion of historical studies,

A portrait of 1)r. Trench, Archbishop of Dublin,
painted by Sir Thomas Jones, was on Saturday pre-
sented to *his Grace at the Palace, Stephe9lB-green, by
a detritation representing a number of friends in the
unite,' dioceaPs of Dublin, Glendalough, and Kildare,
who had adopted this mode of expressing their Bense
of the Archbishop's high Qualities.
The will of the Duca di Ripalda, the owner of the
celebrated Farnesina Palace in Rome has just been
opened. He leaves a fortune estimated at five millione
e o
of francs. After sundry legacies to his servants and
the poor of Madrid and Rome, he n
daughter his residulry legatee, T
the ex• King of Naples a large picture e by Duke k
Raphaelset itlleaveste s a
and
a picture by Titaan now in the Farnesina, and to the
ex-King and Ex-Queen fifty thousand francs each.

A few days ago a violent storm passed over the
military station of Roorkee, in the Indian North-
Western Provinces. Sixteen of the twenty-one
barracks were unroofed, and the rest were more or lees
severely damaged. The 2nd Battalion Dorset Reir
ment which clamped the barracks, was obliged to go
under canvas.

The additions to the Zoologien' Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, during last week included an
ourang-outang from Sumatra, presented by Mr. J. 31.
Vermont ; two Duyker Boks from South Africa, pew
seated by Mr. H. H. Trevor; a Philippine paradexurs
from the Philippine Islands, presente.l by Mr. A.
Burgess; a king parrakeet from A ustn.lia, presented
by Mrs. Lewin; a lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo front
Moluccas presented by J. Snowdon Henry, F.Z.8.;
two Viperine snakes; a dark green snake from North
Africa, presented by Mr. J. C. J. Church; two aye.
ayes from Madagascar; a carpet snake from Australia,
received on approval; a hybrid Luhdorf's deer and ten
Australian wild ducks, bred in the gardene,