The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-13 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

CRITISII AND FOREIGN.

The Turkish Government has ordered a number of
mitrailleuses. They are to be made in the United States.
The order is to be executed with all despatch.

A tranelatiou of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood,"
by Sirs. yen Wastrbeene, is being published in the Nether-
lands. Two nund,rs have already appeared.

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The Church Times hears that afresh prosecution has
been commenced against Mr. Mackonochie by the Cimrch
Association.

Count von Moltke ie probably the most able and the
moat anent soldier in the German army. The °Meer' say of
this great strategist, that " Moltke Is silent In seven
Isnmusges."

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Cu Saturday the Mayor of Maucheeter opened a
new people's park, purchased by the Carporstiou for the
benefit of the densely populated portion of the city. The
park has cost about £60,000.

A di.mal modern prophet informs the ptiblic that a
period of ...out forty-two years, during which the slain of the
Lord shall cover the earth in hundreds of millions, will com-
mence on the 10th day of next November.
The loan introduced on the 2nd inst. for the North
German Confederation for £15.000,000 has been folly sUb-
.cribed, and that the first Instalment, due on Wednesday
next, has been paid In anticipation.

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The claim of E lath Maud, Counteisa of Emulous), to
the baronies of liotreaus, Hungerforil, Da Ifoleyns, and
Hastings, was before the House of Lords' Committee for Pri-
vileges, and was adjourned sine die.

A telegram from Calcutta pay, that the Duke of
Argyll's recommendation that an income tax should be •
mymanent instrument of Indian nuance hss been received
with general dissatisfaction.
The Prince and Princeen of Wales and their children
left Marlborough House on Monday evening on a visit to the
Earl 11,1,1 Countess Of KiLWOW, at their seat, Dupplin Cloths,
Perthshire.

A memorial urging on the Gavernment strict xi-
herence to Um policy of non-lnteryentlon has been signed by
nearly 8,00 inhabitant. of Birmingham, and was forwarded
on Monday night to Mr. Gladstone.

A vahtsble public servant has been lost to the
Metropolis by the death of Sir John Thwaltes, who for the
pad fourteen years has filled the office of Chairman to the
Metropol.tan hoard of Works.

A irra of American publishers have resolved to
gmblish a collection of lArd Erskine's speeches in four
volumes. A fearful resolve ! Make it five and terrify the
world.

The purchases on account of the French army of
corn and wine made in Spain are estimated to exceed
£4,000,000 sterling. This haa caused money to be abundant
in Madrid.
Holders of notes of the Norwich Bank have been in-
vited to furnish the number. and amounts of their notes to
Mr. E C. Casley, the official trustee, in order that they may
particlpate in the first dividend of M. 44 in the pound.

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"Eighty-four children have died in Lambeth from
diarrlus I during the last month. id these sixteen were from
that peculiar form of the complaint known as simple
cholera."—South London Press.

Four hundred men from the Plymouth division of
the Royal Marines have been ordered to Japan. They will
sail in the Indian troopship Taman which is now at Devon-
port.

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The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have adopted
a monition calling on the Gavernment to lame an Order In
Council prohibiting the exportation of arms and ammunition
to the belligerents.

The Dublin Evening Mail hag been informed that a
letter from Cardinal Cullen was read In the Roman Catholic
churches on Sunday, commanding that the prayers of the
faithful throughout Ireland should be offered for the success
of the French arms.

At the Manchester assizes on Saturday, before Mr.
Baron Cleashy, Joseph Constantine, aged seventy-three, an
old Waterloo pensioner, was convicted of attempting to cut
his wife's throat with a rasor, and sentenced to eight years'
penal servitude.
A letter from Tralee states that Mr. Walter Hart-
nett received the contents of a gallon of boiling water in the
face ash. entered a house to execute an ejectment at the
suit of Lord Ormathwaite. Ile Is suffering very severely in
consequence.

The Countess Bernsteff has issued a forcible appeal
for money and gifts of any description, on behalf of the
wounded soldiers in the Continental War. The Society for
the Aid of the Sick and Wounded met in London, on Monday,
and resolved to send out six surgeons to the scene of hos-
tilities.

The Post Office announces that mails for Switzer-
land will, during the war, be sent exclusively by way of
France. The rates for letters will be livepence for every
half ounce when prepaid, and t«npence when unpaid. Upon
newspapers, book pat bets, and pockets of patterns, the rates
which have hithem been paid on such as have been for-
warded vla Belgium and Germany will continue to be levied.
A Glasgow paper states that two representatives of
the Board of Trade have visited the various ehipbuilding
yards on the Clyde, with the view of ascertaining whether
any work wee In progress of a compromising character In
connection with the Continental wax.

A Pule house hes just sent an orler to a Berlin
house for a large number of photographs of the German
generale, In cheap copies. The answer returned warn, "We
have no more copies, but will send you the oilglnals." The
answer final was, "Taking, after all, would, we think, be the
cheapest, and save you trouble. Many thanks."

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The committee of the Dissenting Deputies have
passed rest.lutions expressing their earnest hope that the
Government will adhere to the arrangement not to tains a
caroms of the religious profession. of individuals. The com-
mittee are of opinion that the adoption of the Lords' amend-
ment will produce great irritation among the Nonconformiat
bodiea

The other evening a mad dog ran into a corner of
the Court-yard of the Howie of Commons. The poor animal
commenced gnawing at the Iron railings and foaming from
the mouth. Front the other side of the railings three police-
men poured bucket. of water on him, but on what principle
It wise not said. Ultimately, he was dispatched with • blow
of • crowbar.

Two kitcheu-maide in the Roe de Geeselle, Pixie,
one a French woman, the other • native of Berlin, had a
desperste hsttle list week with stewpank The Prussian was
coi.i, nnt it must he recorded that her adversary, in-
stead oi a o .dine the batterie de cuuine, tonic an unfair ad•
vantage of the Prussian by bruising her with a heavy door.
key.

It will be int.resting to intending travellers to
France to know that her liajest)'s Consul at I Jaia has been
Informed by the C wnmissary at Pollee that ovary person
landing in France during the war must be turn.shed with a
passport duly rts,'. and that any person tailing in thLa
Is liable to be sent back to England. The alma rule applies
to persona leaving France.

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The corps of -Royal Marines is to be augmented by
5,000 men which will raise its strength to 10,000, or 1,00
above what it stood at previously to the reductions of the
last two years. The resolution of the Admiralty was arrived
at but week, and the recruiting has since been actively pro-
secuted. As this gallant corps le equally available for ser-
vice afloat or ashore, and hu always distinguished Itself in
both capacities, the step is a most judicious one under pre-
sent circumstances.

Ttie directors of the London and South Western
Railway company in their report rec^comend a dividend of
per cant per annum. Speaking of the loss of the onmpany's
eteamer Normandy vu her way to the Channel inland,, the
directors record their sense of the bravery and devotion of
the late Captain Harvey and of his °Moses and crew." many
of whom," they observe, "by 'ticking to the W-fatad ship,
erlehen In endwayariag SO WO UN UM Of the paseencent"

It is said that a leading and well-knowo evangelical
clergtman hut been left by one of hie congregation a legacy
of £20,000.

Fourteen millions of francs, or infc.),ooo rling. in
specie, which was seized by the French Government in Paris
on Friday, has been restored to its owners.

Postponed until further orders" is the announce.
meet published touching the confer, flee of the Christtsns or
all natione which was to be held in New York in September.
The will of the late Dr. Auzise Turenne desires that
hie body may be diseected and his skeleton cleaned, vticrb
late,!, and hung up in the mule= of the medical school at
Christiana

Iler on Bismarck has been at work daring these
last eght )earl on • kfe of eilxdinal Richelieu And more
roe -,ntly he hoe been at work on the Lives of some half-a minion
of Frenchmen.

M. nochefort's term of imprisonment has now ex-
pired, and be will probably be eel at liberty immediately, and
appear in hie piece u deputy of the Seine when the Legis-
lative Assembly moots.

"A professional gentleman, having £5,000 and a
comfortable Income, would be glad to correspond with an
edu tided lady of some means, with a view to matrimony;
good ref, canoes —Addresa, "J ," tr.—Advertisement In
Mancherter Examiner.

A layman of the diocese of Gloucester, who desires
that his name may not be made known. has placed the sum
of £l,OOO in the hands I d the bishop He wishes the money
to be applie I to meet the eincstional wants of the county,
aud to be administered by the Diocesan Association.

General Sheridan was one of the pamengerr who
arrive! at Liverp,ml by the Cut ard steamer Scot. last Satur-
day. It is untlt rstood that he will follow the movements of
the French army for the purpose of furn!shing a professional
repel to the war department at Washitgton.
The rep,rt of the S-I,t Committee .m the Ahvad-
Diall Expedition was Issued on Monday. They find th t tho
total net eat of this espeditlon, so far as the exact fir2t had
been ascertained by the Treasnry up to the lab of July of the
er‘sent tear nmouoted to El 92i 600 spent by the Home
tllvernment ; £3,578,400 spent in India :Li 30),000 speut Its
Aoyasinia: total, £5,000,000, or £6,310.000 in el'ess of the
first estimate, and £3,500,01.0 in enema of the second.
A contemporary writem thus :—" With cotopreesed
lips and unip-skable emotion we wait to hear the echoea of
the first burst of the tremendous warstorm now gathered bo a
head and about to desolate the fairest portion of the Conti-
nent." 0a this an VI-natured contemporary remarks:—." We
should like his • photo,' for he wid remain • Is time m
attitude before the echoes oblige him."
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The Emperor Napoleon wore but one ring, contain-
ing • valuable amethyst, which Himmel Di Bomber.ls,
after being Impiisoned during tne Reign of Terror, sent to
Its wife Josephine. Queen Hortense wore this ring after
Jose;nnat's death, and the pr-mist Emperor Napoleon has
had lion his hand ever since his mother's death.
The Parisian tradesmen who had the hoc our of sup-
plying articles to the King of Prussia, as stated on their
shop-boards, about as truthful as epitaphs, having cut ac-
rplan.tance with King William, now suletltute the Emperor
of Austria. One has gone in for the Sultan, in the matter of
nib later,: and a skirt-maker has found refuge in President
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A gentleman from Alyth, who was lately enjoying
a haling excursion in Gieushre, fell in nith a countryman,
and asked how the folks in that quarts r were affected by the
war? " Whatna war? "salt the rustic. "O`s, the war be-
tween the French and tho Prussians, to be sure." " I never
heard o'd," says the man; "but I was wonderiii whaiir tiny
were gaunter their guns an' gibbles when I was In Alyth the
ither day." lie referred to the volunteers.
Woolwich was further excited on Monday by sit
announc3ment that a large increase was to he made In all
the departments of the Royal Arsenal, and the square in
front of the main gate was thronged by seven! thousand
applicants for employment, principally labouring men.
Some smiths, wheelwrights, and carpenters were taken on,
and two or three hundred boys and girls set to work In the
cartridge factor.es. but the crowd el the unemployed was not
sensibly diminished.

' The French mail steamer Lafayette which arrived at
llavre, on Monday, from N ow York; had on board the remains
of the late French Envoy at Washington Ills children, who
were dressed In deep mourning were placed On beard the
Lafayette at New York by M. de Is Tour d'Auvergne, the
Second Secretary of Legation at Washington, and were
accompanied to France by C donut Jerome limaparte,
who has come over to Join the French army.
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The Chines% authorities in Formosa, according to
the Shongh:i Cmaier. are causing new trouble by hoisting
on foreign vessels chartered by Chinese paying a mast tax
((bet is, no much for each mast) in addition to the treaty
tonnage dues. Native regrets pay this tax The foreign
vessels on which the impost had been P. st tried being
American, (ho dispute was referee I to the 8 consul at
Amoy. The Viceroy decided that the Impost must be paid,
and the matter has been referred to 1.. king.
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A eon of America has prepof ed to undertake the
war for Prussia at • cheap rate To take Strasbourg, for
example. the Yankee engages with 100,000 or 160,600 Frus.
glans, whom lie will arm and equip, to deliver that town Into
the hands of King William. He only demands for this nerviest
46 franca per man, and 'Hers a considerable discount in the
event of failure. For 45 francs p•r soldier the inventor of
"cheap war" undertakes to put the town to t.illagv; for 60
he promises to pillage and repine; and for 60 franc 4 pillage,
rapine, and incendlari.m. The Yankee winds up by saying,
"Success guaranteed."
The present crisis on the Continent haa had a very
perceptible effect upon the einigrattm to America from
Liverpool, so far as cabin piusengers are concerned, the
number of Germans which formerly comprised by far the
greater portion of the steerage passengers leaving the Mersey
being now very few. Nearly all the steamships sailing from
Liverpool during the next three or four weeks have, it is
stated, had all their cabin accommoduhi,n bespoken ; in
fact, every available berth had been taken beforehand.

It hes been decided at Copenhagen to place two
Danish ships of war at the disposal of the municipality to
take over 200 working men to see the International Exhibi-
tion in London, and the corporation had voted 2,000 ex-
dollars and the Government 500 rixdollars to cover their ex-
penses In England. But now ciunter-ordera have been
given, and the two vessels selected for the service are ordered
to be put out of commiaston.
Dagbtadet (Danish paper) has sent one of Ito
editorial staff to Paris as special correspondent, who certainly
writes moat startling accounts of the enthusiasm of the
French for an alliance with Denmark, and relates ma an un-
doubted fact that the Orleans Princes will enter the Danish
army as soon as wart, declared. He also states that on the
arrival of the Emperor at Meta to take command of the army,
he wore, in addition to the stir of the Legion of Honour, the
insignia of • Danish, a Swedish, and an Austrian order,
which made • great sensation in the French camp

A witnein, who gave evidence the other day, at a
London police-court, In a "smashing" case, said that in the
course of conversation the prisoner mentioned how lie had
been getting his living recently. Ile pulled from his p irked;
a handful of coin', apparently silver, and handed ousi to
a/Wiese, who immediately discovered It to be a false one,
The others were the same The prisoner then acknowledged
that he and other persons had purchased th, had coins at
the rate of 4d apiece, and passed twenty ot thirty a day.
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Mr. Baron Charmsll w&o eng wed at the Suffolk
mattes on Friday and Saturday iti trying a man named Jacob
Ling for the murder of Anna Maria Chentry, at Barsham,
near Beenles. The woman who had bad • child by theprisoner
was seen in his company on the night of the 6th of Jane,
proceeding towards a lonely lane near Boccie.. She was
found dead next morning w lb wounda on her body which
indicated the indiction of extraordinary violence. For the
defence it was urged that the 1•001asr had died from the rap.
tare of a varicose vein. The jury acquitted the prisoner.
Communications have bets made from the War
Office and Admiralty to the London and South-Western
Railway (Devon and Cornwall section) urging the company to
complete at the earliest date the junction of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway between Oakhampton and Milford, as that
small link Is all that Is needed to enable the Government to
send stores from one arsenal to another without break of
gauge The Government are also pressing for an extension of
the line to Portland and Devonport, so Auto send coal dhect
from Wales to the deeL