The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Nottingham School Doant have ilecitlerl to risnit
the fees of poor children attending denominational schools.
A protest was made by the Noueonfomilsts present.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer, under the head of
" conscience money," acknowledges the reed* of the second
halt eta bank- note for .000 from " S. Y. N.'

A telegram has been received by the owneniin
onnwon, 8/11.4111,111g the loss I the fine new clyde clipper
Loehb•ren...n kuge Island, II nbe,ne hay. Captain Crum-
comb.; woo drowned, but the I,there landed In safety.

The Emperor of I lermany has been rraehmsly pleased
to confer the Cross of Merit on Mrs. Henry Templer, for
cervices rendered to the sick and wounded during the late
war.

The folh.wing Mut to the enterprising undertakers
of Loudon is worth their catiableratton —AI, undertaker in
Quebec has a large silver-mounted cont. carried about the
streets DA AD ad vertlsetnent.

A alisundendaniling ii said to have arisen between
PIIISAM and Lraz,i, in c nsequence ,4 a I;eratutu naval ()nicer
mid two cadets baring been arrested :kt Rio, and three men-
et war are to he sent llmm Kiel to the Brazils.

Those objectors who think that the ittiLe of First
Cooiniiir:ioner of Wol ks I night not to he a political one, must
surely forget that its occupant has to take care of Party
walli.—Pu rich.

The Birmingham and Midland Counties annual
Cattle and Poultry ,41... w was opened on Saturday. The ea hi.
bitten was one of the largest ever held in Bingley Hall, there
being 3,26 a entries.

One of the railway rchemes which Parliament will
be asked to sanction next session will he a railway or tramway
up Snowdon—to run from Llanheris up to within LOU or auo
yards of the shed on the Lim,

The Chicago Tribune, writing Rome three weeks ago,
tens es that if only the weather continues favourable "lot
sit wecksjonger, strangers who rome to chicago to see the
ruins will have considerable difficulty to find them."
A correspondent estimate's the relief afforded to
France by England in connection with the late war at
Ct.:0,000, of which ac-thirdl. was through private channels
and the remainder from public or openly recognised source's.

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Baron Itothwhibl hi by far the largeat winner of
stakes in 171. With three of his horses alone he leis won
£22,230, made up as follows: --Hannah, £12,370; Farouitia,
1,5,990 ; Corisande, £3,510.

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It is stated that the Pope has given up all idea of
leaving the Vatican, it having heen represented to his
If all-
ness that his presence in Rome may have the effect of mode-
rating the enforcement of the law on religious corporations.

(In Monday, Mr. R. Le Elie, the new t.resident of the
Oxford University Boat Club, forwarded the challenge to Mr.
I.:oldie, of Cambridge, to row the annual eight-oared lace,
usual, in the spring.

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The %cowl trial of Robert Kelly, charged with
shooting at eenstaldes the night Talbot met hi death, has
been moved by the Attorney. General from the city to the
county Dublin.

The recent Canadian census i,how s that the total
population of the Dominion, exclusive of British Columbia
and Manitoba is 3,454,924. The inhabitants of Ontario num-
ber 1,000,v00 ; those of Quebec, 1,200.0 0 those of New
Brunswick, 255,000 ; and those of Nova Scotia, 307,000.

The railway workmen at Crewe, who bare obtained
the concession of fifty-four hours per week, bay resolved
to commemorate their success by the establishment of a
seholaiship. to he culled The Niue Hours Scholar..htp." A
committee has been appointed to take charge of the project
Count Girgenti has committed suicide, at Lucerne.
Ile was a younger brother of Francis 11. of Naples, and was
born on the 1211. of January, 15411. fle was married on the
14th of May, lens, to the Infanta of Spain, daughter of Queen
Isabella 11.

Some years ago a lady called upon Mr. Spurgeon and
presented him with a large sum of money-420,1AM - to found
an orphanage for Inqs. The institution was established, and
is now in paid working order. Some nays ago th., lady
turned up again, and offered him a large an... with which to
found an orphanage for girls. There can belittle doubt that
Mr. Spurgeon will close with the generms offer.
A terrible accident lute occurred in the harbour of
Alexandria. Seventy-five Algerians, pilgrims to Mecca, were
in a vessel which came into collision with another ship.
The Algerine barque sank immediately, and all on board
were drowned. Seine, it is said, would have been saved, but
for their being over-weighted with gold and other valuables.

The wail intelligence reaches us from Australia of the
massacre of Bishop Patterson and the Rev. Mr. Aitken, at
the island of Santa Cruz. The crime was perpetrated by a
native who was instigated by notices of revenge for the
kidnapping atrocities committed by coolie traders from
Hong- Kong.
According to a telegram from Constantinople, pub-
lished in a tierman paper, the bugbear ,fltuselan designs is
again Maiming the Porte. Montenegro and Servia are now
sahl to be conspiring in the interest of the northern power,
and have received from her a supply of breechloading and
other artillery.

It is said that the Government are prepred to slip-
pot the appointment of Sir it. Collier to the Judicial Com-
mittee in preference to other judg,,, tmt wily from his
eminent fitness for the °Mee. hut uko on the ground that the
well-known rule has been to R.. gard the claims of an Attonier.
General as above those, and as superior to the position, of a
Puisne Judge.

Mr. E M. Richards addressed a public meeting at
Aberystwith on Monday night. In the comae of his arieeell
he urged that the t.oveniment should press forward the
Ballot Bill, fiat that would not sufficiently protect the voter
in Wales. 'A 'lot was required was a Laud 11111, 81111 unless
some one more able was found he should Wing the question
before the House.

The preface to Mr. Mechrs second series of sayings
and doings is a most interesting document. It is to be
Mr. Meelii s last address to his fellow-agrleulturists, and it is
a prophecy of what the future shall be. Ile is now cintent
In leave to time the working out of his theories with a con.
Went hope that that great arbiter will do him justice.
That Mr. Medd has striven to do good for his generation
none cam deny.

The parishioners f St. Michael's, Paddington,
have, through the Rev. G. F. Prescott, M.A., and Mr. William
Vincent, presented to the Nathional Lifeboat institution
V,41.1, to defray the- cost of the )10.1, lifeboat establishment
whib has just born formed at Flanthorough Bead. The
bat, which was launched at its station a few days ago, is
named the •• St. Michaels, Paddington.''

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An action has been brought in the Dail Court to re-
cover compens.dion from the Lmdon General 4 omnibui
Company for hegligence. The company compromised the
claim for 00, hint if the plaintiff had received his injuries
through getting into the vehicle whilst in motion, Mr.
Justice Ilannen stated that he would not have been entitled
to recover damages.

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A hurricane toy whieh the Calabrian coasts were
lately swept has 11,.114. mon.. damage. The railways aml
roads are destreyed in all directions : iron and masonry
bridges were swept away or so damaged as to Iwo practically
useless dams were l•token down, awl all the roads eoveted
ill, earth. This disaster is attributed to a sini ultaneons
surging Id the sea and an unprecedented overflow of the
undain torrents.

The neighbourhood of Geneva is infested with bur-
elsrsof a very dangerous character. Not content with break-
log open and robbing houses in the country around, they
set them on tire. line instance has just occurred at La Tut-
IRre (commune de Bellevue). The robbers fired tour differ-
ent places, by means of the petroleum lamps in the kitchen,
On Tuesday morning Lord G. F. Hamilton, 111. P.,
third son of the Duke of abereorn, was married to Lady
Maul Caroline luseelles, sister of the Earl of liarewomt.
The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell and the lion. and Rev.
James La,oelle, officiated at the ceremony, which took place
at Sevenooks.

The Manchester School Board haw just received a
return showing the amount which bad been paid by its
authority in school feels during six months. There had been
8,000 children 1. the School Board hooks during that time,
and the amount of fees paid Wll2 upwards of 4:723. The
Church of England schools received nearly 400 of that
am ant, and the Roman Catholic schools, 4235.

The King of Sweden has forwarded to Captain A.
C. Hawkins, of Grimsby, commander of the screw steamer
Lreiix, a handsome silver telescope, mounted in morocco,
for saving, in Mardi last, at considerable danger to himself,
the crew of the Swedish ship Patriot. The telescope bears
the following insciiption in Swedish :—" From Carl, King of
Sweden and Norway. to Captain A. C. Hawkins, for a brave
and noble deed, 1871."

At Leicester, a coroners jury has returned a verdict
of Manslaughter against Edmund English, who was there-
upon committed for trial for killing Alfred Orton, aged 24,
on the 21st inst. The two men quarrelled at cards, and
afterwards fought. In the struggle the (text:as:A slipped
and fell Iniekwards. English fell with his knee on Orton's
abdomen, causing such internal injuries that he died in the
infirmary.

The thdilin Fenian,: commemorated the anniversary
of the execution of the Alanehester mart3-n HI $ ttttt lav,
by decking the graves of their deceased friends in I;lame&
Cemetery, singing the De Prqftuadv, awl kneeling on the
tombs with a show of reverence. About aro persons took
part in the demonstration, which would not be worth
noticing except brute grossly exaggerated reports which are
in eh relation respecting it.
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One of those ludicrous ncidents which sometimes
happen at theatres is reparted from Paris. It occured at the
Gymnase, where the "Riche &Armour "was being played.
Towards the end of the ph to Versaville fetelb s a case of
pistols, but on this occasion the bra was tound to be empty,
and the gesticulations of the actor were outdone by the
roar of laughter which this discovery produced from the
audience.

The North Stafforashire Branch of the Amalgamated
Aa.ociation of Miners belt a meeting on Monday in Hanley.
Resolutions were passed .leclaring the hours of labour in
mines to be excessive, and promising co-operation in a general
effort to reduce tne working hours to eight per diem, and
declaring that the present state of the coal and iroll trad 4 in
North Staffordshire warrants a request for a further advance
of nd. a day in all Millea in the district. The branch numbers
4,q)

It has been noted that the name of Jules is a very
favourite one in the aristocratic burgeols arrondissements if
Paris. In perusing,the nature of infants registered at the
moires, the name of Jules is the most popular, doubtless be-
cause of the brilliant careers of Jules Favre, Jules Mason,
Julie. Ferry, Jules 63,7, Jules Janin, and Jules Mottu. In
the P,th and 20th democratic arrondissements this name is
altogether absent, showinsr that the men of the 4th Septem-
ber are not looked.upou with favour by the Communists.

The shooting party which bas been asgembled ut
Elvedon-hall, Thetford, Norfolli, the seat of the Nlaharajah
llhaleep Singh, has comprised his Royal Ilighoe.s the
Dal, of Edinhurgh, the nuke of Mauurhu.trr, the Marquis
of tri.tol, the Earl of Leicester. General huh, kg. 'the
11111. e of tint( l,•a al.. placed his covens at the diipe.o of the
party. some 12,000 head of game are stated to be shot
Rom:ally on the Maharajah's estate, besides th,.lisands of
nthWts. Elvoloa hit hag urusutly been relatilt 1 rut hrt,7k,
with Anetuder of cue dres,h,;,s.

A curate writes to St. ~dard : "We hear so
much woe to the tlise.• nit of Xl:thy that I think we oinent
to inake known whit we hear good of it. Ihe
nip from some Iwo* in any parish, who have relations
livine near sandrimdeon, that the P. hire of Walei i. simply
hr Vent by all who come into contact with Lim on his Nor-
folk -stote ; his affability mid kindness and r• cliv gm.d
nature displayed in his dealing. with his tenant!), tool de-
pendents is such 'as In not otten met with, oven amongst
those whose position is 5101 50 milted ashis is."

" In the teeth "fall but universal deprecati at, en-
treaty, and eras solcmu wanting, the French Government
has executed the death sentence on Ranch We do not ex-
aggerate when we say that all &trope looked on at the
killing of the brave Engineer, suit had looked on at the re-
peated and prolonged endeavours to avert his doom. Nor do
we hesitate to affirm that the cruel and Impolitic act has
placed the present French Government, on its trial at the
bar I,f public opinion throughout the civilised world. 1 hose
whose humanity and wisdom are thus challenged have only
theauselvea to thank for their unenviable position. Ity their
long delays, their vacillation, their torture ad long suspense,
MA worse torture of sudden resolve, Inflicted ow a pris,mer
whose talents and permnal qualities, had wan him sympathy
everywhere, they had drawn the attention of other countries
npon themselves, and had created for their deadly act an
audience larger thanthey sought.---haity Te/avreph.
Last week the aggregate mortality in LrlOon anti 10
other large towns in the Unitol Kingdom' Was at the rate of
30 deaths annually to eery 1,40 lona Ins estimated to be
Hying. In the metrJpolis 2,110 births and 1,663 deaths were
regiltered, the former having been lb u below, and the latter
179 above the average. Sixty-seven revs. iii died from small-
pox, aao front measles, 34 from scarlet fever, 4 from diphtheria,
a; 1 from whoopmg-cough, 44 from different bornps of fever,
and 7 from diarrhrea. The berraße of &Mit* 500 00:115
almost entirely due to the greater fatality from ati. aa..s
the respiratory clears. Induced by the mt.:vsanally SW
temperature which has recently presaded. The fatal coat,
of bronchitis in lomlon, which in :he two previous weeks
had beer; ha) awl 21,7, further rose to 7,0 last week while
those of prammoula, from SI, 105, and 113, rose to 16e. Of
the s, tomtits from bronchitis, 155 were of children under
lave ye; . : age, and 147 of persons aged GO years and up-
wards. The mean temperature during the week wan 34.3, or
set en degrees below the average.

More than fifty New Yorkers are said to have from
50,000 dole. to 150,000 doh, each invested M The horses.
Mr. Charles Reade has in preparation a sew novel,
to appear in London .s,wiety.
It is reps rte,i that Parliament will meet for business
Oil Tuesday, January I:3n.i.
Fnittro says there are already CS Republican
chops liil:natand.
It is said that Isle. Itright has no present intention
of addressilig, as has been reported, his eonstituenta.
Mr. Charles Dickens is reviving the Christmas
numbers of .111 Use ire, /found, which his father ab-
andoned.
A Republican *Mb was opened at llolton on Satur•
day evening. The proceedings are described as haring been
soinewhat disorderly.

Amom,Nt other eommitsioni recently arrived in
Rome, tin re Is no' from DI apitliri, to pray the Government
to consider the than:rueful state of that port.
The Broo 4 A emir iA glad to, bear that it hag been
deri.led bs make a slight increase in the pay of subalterns .1
the army.

The Duke of Edinburgh has given a I lonation of
stiod to the Royal Naval School at NeW-CrOAS, of which histi-
tution he therefore becomes a governor.
An amateur American astronomer says—The light
supposed to he a tioniet's tail, is nothh.g Inure than a streak
of lightning friz up.
M. Louis Kossuth is living in an unpretending dwel-
ling in Torin, where he has resided for the last ten years, in the stricte,t privacy.
DraUghts seems to be a noble game in the estima-
tion of Ainerks, as proposals have been seut to Enclatid tor a
congreas of all the Lest players at dniughts, to be held at
Boston.
The Emperdr of Germany has conferred the twksa of
the Order of Merit on nearly noi ladies, who distinguished
themsel yes by their patriotic zeal in nursing the sick and
wounded during the late war.
The editor of the Noe roek Journal of nowilfreC
received the following note--" Please nod enclosed fire
dollars for the Chicago sufferers front a new born baby, the
mother wishing to mark its entry into this world by this
little act,! charity:.
Boston musical circles are stirred to their depths by
the expected ciouleg of Mrs. Charles; M.ulton, a laity origi-
natty "from these parts," as they say at the West but who
hau until within a year, la-en a leader of fashion in Paris, a
companion of the Empress, and an honoured guest at the
Tuileries.
A New York dentist was recently saved from drown-
ing by a labourer, and frOM the depths of his grateful heart
ezelainted—" Noble, brave, gallant man bow shad I reward
you r Only come to my house, and I will cheerfully pull out
every tooth you have in your head and not charge you six-
pence !"

Another attempt is to be made in London to open
the museums and picture-galleries on Sundays. A member
of Parliament has consented to introduce a bill for that
purpose next session, and a huge petition in its favour is
already being signed.

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Dr. Cohn, of Breslau, has made hiquirieg into the
casts of short-sightedness Or. erring arAll.111( sehool.going
children. The per centage statistics given by the velebratedi
oculist are as follows :—Village schools. 121. ; town schools,
1121.; higher class schools, 44; and et-Ammar schools, an.
The ikforma says that a petition, signed by 9,570
Roman citizens, praying for the sappression 4.4 the order of
the Jesuits, was forwarded the other day to the Italian
Chamber, for presentation at the opening of the session. The
petition and the signatures form a good sized volume.

Several English gentlemen are now in Park seeking
concessions for the proposer submarine unnel between
England and trance. Ti.ere ,ppear to be rival interests in
the field. The Freiedi Government declares it has no time
to attend to this sanject at present.

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The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and
Princess Beatrice, arrived at Windsor Castle last Saturday
morning at nine o'clock from Balmoral. Altlintieli still
weak, and suffering fr. un the effects of her late severe illness,
her Majesty bore the journey well.

M. -niers, accompanied by the Minister of War,
paid a short visit to Rouen. on Saturday, ins, tier to examine
the site of the new military institution which is to be
established there. NI. 'Ehlers was very weR received toy the
people.
The numerous wearers of the multifarious extra-
Governmental stars, crosses, clasps, medals, .tc., distributed
during the late war are officially remintle.l of restrictions of
the law, which reserves front six months' to two years' int•
prisonment for those who parade such frrbinhtie rie without
a certificate from the Grande ehancellerie of France.
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The bAlowing singular epitaph appears in the ceme-
tery at %haw :
•• Bete lies Jean rtrrez, who was a
Good lather, good son, and good linsioand.
Donut confound hiss with his younger loonier ,
Bearing the same name, o ho is a felon
in the galleys at Ceuta."

The /Malts of Saturday: has an article in which,
repl3 ing to some recent remarks in a London paper, it sa3s
that the engin:out:tit 1 the Orleans Princes not to sit in the
National Assembly is essentially of a temporary character.
Their absence cannot, it maintains, he prolonged a ithout
consulting the electors, whose interests and the interests of
the Assembly demand that such absence should cease.
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A doctor lately informed his friends. in a large com-
pany, that he had been eight days in the country. " Yes,"
said one of the party, "it nu been announced in the news-
paper.- "Ah !'' said the doetor, stretching his neck impor-
tantly "pray in what terms I " " Well, as well as I can re-
member, in the follouing 'There were last week seventy-
seven deaths less than the week before''

On Monday afternoon their Royal Highnesses Prince
Albert Victor, Prince George, and Princess Louise, the
children of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, left Sandringham-house, Norfolk, for Windsor
Castle, on a visit to lier Majesty the Queen. Their lid al
Highnesses were accompanied hp the children of Prince nod
Princess Louise of liesse,(Prineras
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At the loot Liverpool .:tssdres a man named Myer*
was sentenced to twelve moths' Impi iiiinment for stabbing
Peter Graple, a young seaman, during • quarrel in the street
where they resided, on the night of the 21st of May. At the
time of the trial the Dian was ipig dangerously ill, and the
judge told the prisoner that if he should die he might be
charged with niiirolcr. The man died on Tuesday last, and
at the lib incst h chi on the body a verdict of " Wilful murder'
was returned against Ybers.

At a meeting of the Provincial I: rand Lodge of
Forfarshi re, held on Monday, the lion 01 Dalhousie presiding,
the following ,solitt ion nas analilne..nsly adopted That
the Provincial Grand I,iihns view w ith profound SOITOW the
wttach of ilines4 under whieh his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, the patron of Scottish Masonry Pi Inlxaming. and
they earnestly pray that the Great Architect of the Univerae
nosy be pleased to assist its online, and restore his Highness
to that health which all loyal sudjecta and good Masons wish
tones him enjoy:.

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The Court of Queen's Renuli has reftved to grant a
rule for a mandamw. calling upon the Treasury to submit
the accounts 1,1 Mr. Leonard Edmunds to the Public Auditor
and Controner-General. The Lord Chief Justice held that
although a public officer lniti a moral right to expect that his
accounts wituld be audited, the Omit 'cull not interfere
to compel the Ireasury t,, do what, morally speaking, they
ought to do, but which they are under 1110 legal obligation
to do."

Mr. George Crocker, timber merchant, carrying on
an extensive business at Cannington, near Bridgewater, wad
killed on the Bristol and Exeter Railway on Monday mon,
ing. Be had taken a ticket for the 7.49 down train at the
Bridgewater station, and on Ike approach of the train. instead
of crossing to the down platform by a bridge erected for the
purpose, he jumped on the line and ran across, but while
endeavouring to climb the platform on the opposite side,
and before he could succeed in mounting it, the engine struck
him, knocked bins down, and he was killed instantaneously,
his body being shockingly mutilated,
Another Paris journal, the Rapp!, has been .ongientled
by the French Government. The reason, as stated by the
Journal (*del, is that the paper, in one of its articles, " in-
sulted the defenders of order and legality during the insur-
rection, messed the conduct of officials who failed in their
duty, and extolled the pretended moderation ..f the insur-
gent mob." The Payne/ is morever charged • ill, having, in
another allele, perverted the facts which led to the con-
demnation of one of the prisoners recently tried by court.
martial, and thus endeavoured to oadte hatred and con
tempt against the administration if justice.