The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-30 00:00:00

rin STO,tRBRIDGE OBSERVER.

-body clothed in the official dress in which he had been
shotr with his little military cap, resembling those worn by
French gendarmes, on his head. The body was surrounded
with flowers, and on his breast was a little trained picture,
the subject of which we could not recognise, but as all who
kissed the face first kissed the picture, we took it for a
Madonna, or some other emblem of the Saviour. Hymns
and prayers were chanted, the patriarch read extracts
from the Scriptures, including the scene at the grave of
Laterals, the solemn service commencing, lam the resur-
rection,' die, and a lengthy written paper read by the chap-
lain of the army, which seemed to excite much Interest. Then
followed a closing benediction and address to the relatives
and friend, of the deceased, during which the lights were ex-
tinguished, the distressed widow and several children were
assisted to take their last took upon and to kiss the lifeless
cheeks of the murdered husband and father, and then
friends and comrades rushed forward in like manlier to ex-
press their sympathies, many of them in tears. The cere-
mony ended, a proceseibn was formed, headed by the usual
insignia of the Greek ceremonial, and with the face of the
corpse still bare, it was removed to tne cemetery. The ser-
vice in the cathedral occupied nearly an hour, arid the
procession was nearly halt an hour before it reached the
grave around which a large concourse gathered. There
was no religious ceremony, except a few words from the
priests as the corpse was lowered into the grave, but here
a scene of great interest was witnessed A soldier of tile
dragoons stood by the corpse, and delivered an energetic,
impassioned, and affecting oration, which drew tears from
many of the crowd. As this oration Was in Greek we could
only judge of its power by the attitudes and exureseion of
the speaker, and its effects on those who uuderstood the
words ; but it was evident that the whole soul of the man
gave utterance in into of the fittest touches of Greek ore°, y.
Three rounds of tiring by a group of soldiers simultaneously
with the tilling of the grove closed this affecting loci .ent of
the excitement of the week. As in the cathedral, so at the
grave, the greatest courtesy was shown to the few English
spectators. The soldiers cleared away and beckoned to each
of us to take a position as near as possible to tile corpse, and
the orator made touching allusiona to the English

Urinal arguments against her ; so striking a proof of the
deplorable absence of public security cannot fall to
give fresh rein to all possible calumnies that can be
heaped upon the country. There is extreme indignation
monist the Ministry. It is justly remarked that the in,a-
pacity of the Minister of War for the post he occupies has
long been notorious, and that nothing can excuse his reten-
tion at the head of a department which Is of paramount
importance in the suppression of brigandage. His col-
leagues, aware of his incompetency, did, it Is true, seek to
have him replaced by a more capable officer, but M.
Soutzos has always proved skilful enough to frustrate the
efforts made to remove him from office. M. Avgherinos, also
—whom NI. Zaimis, while himself absent in the suite of the
King had entrusted with the Ministry of the Interior—
comes in for a full share of the public blame. People
naturally ask, how came it that the Home Minister, whose
department it specially concerned, could have been ignorant
of the fact that a band of 28 brigands was prowling about
Attica? It is really iucreciblo that a hand of such • number
should have been able to move about unnoticed at so short a
distance from Athens.

P B.—Lord Muneaster ha arrived at the Hotel trAngle•
terre within the last hour. He was released by the brigands
on promising to send his ransom to them. The other Sour—
Mr Herbert, Count Boyle, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Vyues—ra-
main in their hands.

supporters of the East-end Emigration movement,
including Sir J. C. Lawrence, Bart., M.P.. Mr.
W. Cotbett, Poor Law Inspec.or. Mr. Robert
Wigrani, Mr. Dixon, Canadian Emigration agent,
Mr. White, special emigration commissioner from
Ontario, Mr. A'Court, National Debt-office, Rev.
J. Cohen, Rector of Whitechapel ; Mr. Currie, Rev.
J. F. Kitto, Mr. Blott, Mr. Scrutton, Rev. J. Paton,
Bromley, &c. Several ladies who have taken much
interest in the movement were also present. The emi-
grants seated at the tables presented a happy, comfort-
able, and contented appearance. All were well clad,
and the majority was composed of young married
people and unmarried girls of ages ranging from six-
teen to twenty-tive, who go as members of families
with whom they have been acquainted. The cost of
sendisg the 701 persons amounts to about £3 420, be-
sides £1,142 given tiwards outfits and landing money
by Kelsall's Emigration Charity.
The salient principle of the club being self-help, the
emigrants have themselves provided about £1,600, the
club has contributed about £2OO, and the Poplar Board
of Guardians about £lOO. The balance is paid by the
British and Colonial Emigration Society, of which the
Lord Mayor is president, and towards which the Right
Hon. G. .T. Goactien, M. P.. and his brother have c,,n.
tibotvd £1.006 each. Aid has also been receivtd from
the Manufacturers' Relief Fund.

Last November the members began paling their
delimits every Saturday night at the Poplar Work-
home. and the aggregate amount paid in weekly at
that time was about £6. Recently as much as £2OO
has been received on a Saturday night. The cost of
transit for each emigrant is £6, and each has to find
half that amount. In one case a family numbering 26
persons, including a great grandfather, grandfather,
grandson and his children, is going out.
The trades of the emigrants comprise carpenters,'
blacksmiths, coopers, painters, but the bulk of them
are generally labourers. The selected emigrants were
verglng on pauperism, and 43 of them were in actual
receipt ttf parish relief. Many of them were stated to
be worse off than paupers.
A committee of gentlemen manage the club and de-
fray its expenses. There are quite at many persons as
those who are going still in the club, who are paying
weekly, and anxious to go as soon as they can raise
the sum required to meet the grant of the British and
Colonial Emigration Society. A fortnight since 61
emigrants were sent away by the Club in the Medway,
and now 761 as in the steamer Ganges, of 1,900 tuns.
The Rev. J. Cohen and Mrs. Cohen will accom-
pany the party of emigrants to Quebec, where they
will be received by Mr. Stafford, chief emigration
agent, and thence forwarded to Toronto. This, will be
the largest batch of emigrants which ever left the port
of Lot don for Canada in tale vessel; and, added to
the 312 sent by the East London Family Emigration
Association last week, a total exodus of 1,073 souls
will have taken place from the East.entl within a
period of eight or ten days. On the return o the
Ganges from Quebec the club hopes to be able to send
off another par.y equal in numbers to the present.
When tea was over, a Hymn of Thanksgiving was
sung, and then a meeting was constituted, Sir J. C.
Lawrence M. P.. taking the chair. The chairman ad-
dressed the meeting, and congratulated the emigrants
upon the fact that they were not going to a foreign
land but to a part of the Empire, so that their emigra-
tion was not in a true senseexpatriation. He also con-
gratulated them upon the admirable appearance they
all presented.
Mr. E H. Currie gave the emigrants some whole-
some advice with respect to the conditions and exi-
gencies of their new home, and hoped that in time
they would send back what had been advanced to them,
to enable those they had left behind to follow them to
the New World.

Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and
the emigrants separated in the apparent enjoyment of
a hopeful confident spirit,