The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-20 00:00:00

&le (stotttirri4ge 045eraer.

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1876.

THE WELCOME HOME.

The 4vVu " Eastward Hu!"
and •, " haVeLely been repro•
nucel iii rcit tuthalls ago the fieir-
Appar,:iit ku Cruwo turned Lod
ttiWitttit, WLoite
-,LiutoeS itro Liao,
auti UIA LU UUe, wursuip Lu
Musleni mosque awl Pagan titivate. j
oee, ,„„ gta.vd uealkier4,wil to.;
tweeu the :..;eVel'elll titii Lei adviber,, tot LltLc
were pusiiihepiL ttciilng L. in Lht,
place Luau& le inllu;4lCt we o be uousiLlureti,
stai zuauy /111 .t.fi.er °Lily Uzev,
wee' sojourn ill Luc Aiinu oxutlitl4Z 4it,l
. had beeL.l r.:1.1,1'.1 1...111eCu I it,.
broken in liz:attAi. TI wy lit
Ciiu...aLe of a 'Lropicgi cuulltry aC Upoo
w.x, hay, oi.u:cliS:ullled 1.0 it is reuhak-
able. The ~titilight which eterodliy
the ski t 111,' tl.l works opou the ph) kica.
pl.,,perties of the W.:111AI J LI hit 111
or that a speca's of weatu,aloi) 15
eugeadcred, which eau only be subkon ti bY
le ~ing the bright soLshitie aud coming back
Lu Li,e ,11:cre the pa .1r...1,11, W.. 6 OWL!. I.Lii3
ILL.) betio p, düial to Litt Who kut.,W enythLug
of tue WCU.jiur 111 tau iiriitsit ioiands, where fur
wow kis in bIICCU,SIUIi there are °hen glu,m,y
skied and chilly ad W. 111.18. indeutt
tile. clutiretiSing nature of the weather is often
suiti co as to retard tut: recovery of a hiCk person
,i,Lh, 11.,,ti011 of. Lite
W. .4 1 u UL.Lt Uuu,ia,' Ch. il LW' ‘C.l*.
lOW rit), of *airtight alter a: tuLig"Lbpeil of giooln

are of more service than the prescription of the
yo,e4 experienced physician. But so fierce is
t Indiao son and so ourelieved and persistent
i s Ll:re that, so far from its operating
I) upon those who have passed their
th,, nie, it works in the very
mid it equently inflicts serion,4 :f
n p,rruanent constitutional injury. Fortu-
nately the Prince of Wales has escaped a danger
which has followed many Europeans. Of course,
from first to last he has had the best medical
attendance, but all the professional advice in the
world would not have availed if his constitution
hqd not been sufficiently strong to stand the
Indian climate.

There was another danger present to the i
minds of many who heard that the Prince of
Wales was going to India, and that was by no
means a remote one. Although British rule has ;
heid away in India now for upwards of a century,
there is still a great deal of religious bigotry
and fanaticism in what is called the gorgeous
East. Vast numbers amongst those two hun-
dred and forty millions of natives, particularly
in the unenlightened classes, look upon the
European as an oppressor of whom it is an
honour to be rid, even by assassieation. A little
more than years 4 ago no I as a personage than
tae Viceroy himself, the Earl of Mayo, Ml a
victim to this hatred of what is looked upon
as a fortin and alien yoke. Then again there
was the fate of Chief Justice Norman, who was
slain upon the steps of the Court House at
Calcutta by one of the natives. The poor
intellectual development of these people does
not enable them to look at assassination in the
same light as that in which it is regarded in
civilized !ands. We speak of it as a crime
which deseries the severest punishment known
to human justice, for instead of meeting an
enemy in a fair and open field, and giving him a
chance of defending himself against an expected
attack, the assassin stabs the object of his
hatred in the back, and comes upon him like a
thief in the night, taking him at every possible
disadvantage, and allowing him no opportunity
of striking a blow in defence of his life. There
is no crime so detested in this country as that
of assassination ; but the untutored Hindoo,
who looks upon the white sahibs ac his natural
enemies, would glory in a crime which we brand
with infamy, and regard as being of the most
dastardly character. The more exalted in rank
the personage whew he slew, the greater the
glory to himself, gnd the greater the hero
amongst his fellow-fanatics. It was a grand
thing to despatch a Viceroy ; but it would have
been an infinitely greater honour on the part of
a swarthy murderer to have slain a Prince of
the blood-royal. Fortunately, the precautions
which were taken to guard the person of the
Heir-Apparent in his long tour proved success-
ful. He entered and left city after city in the
most perfect safety—not that the populations
are generally disaffected, but there were un-
doubtedly some places in which a fanatical
Mussulu3an or Hindoo would not have hesitated
for a moment to strike down the Prince of
Wales if he had had the chance of doing so.
Happily, there has not even been an attempt of
anything of this kind to mar the pleasure of the
journey.
'Die perils of the climate, the possible dangcr
from the freak of a monomaniac, and that arisiug
from the chase of will and savages animals.
have all been safely surmounted, and after
wandering over many thousand miles by sea and
land, a successful tour through our Indian
Empire was appropriately closed by a wa:ra re-
ception in the mother country. The pomp, the
grandeur, and the luxury of the East may have
been wanting both in Portsmouth and in Lon-
don on the Prince's arrival, but of the heartiness
of the welcome there can be no doubt. A
journey undertaken, not without anxiety, has
gone off well in every sense of the word ; and
there are others besides the Prince's imme-
diate relatives who are glad to see him back
again ; ready to take part in those public en-
gagements in which he plays so skilful and
prominent a part.

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERIIABITON, WEDNESDAY.

The market is not devoid of all indications of
a reluctance to speculate. Consumers of sheets
were present, who were not disinclined to believe
that it would answer their purpose to close with
certain offers made to them by men who produce
a fair quality of singles. Acting upon the
view, they gave out orders, in part to sati-f)
immediate requirements not yet expressed by
their customers. It is easy to understand that
the figures which determine those transactions
are considerably below the £ll. which is the
orthodox quotation for the sheets of first class
houses. Still, the makers are men who do not
quote the lowest, even as on account of the
better quality of their product they need not ;
nor are they men who will accept orders merely
to keep their mills going. They make a fair
quality, they work at a profit, and are not needy
men. It cannot, however, be said that confi-
dence in the future was more than exceptional
amongst buyers. Upon the whole, there was
very little, if any. more done this week than
last.

A fair quantity of pigs continue to reach South
Staffordshire from other districts. Cleve'anti
pigs are not more largely represented than they
were a weelc ago, since users find tha; South York-
shire and Derbyshire with North Staffordshire
pigs can be bought at about 2s. per ten under
the Cleveland iron, reckoning the difference in
weight, cost end carriage. Soule oisposition
was shown to-day by certain vendors of Cleve-
land pigs to reduce these differences, but con-
sumers did not very hearti•y respond, and
cannot be reported that, much business in Cleve-
land iron was done. The hest South Stafford-
shire and the best hematite firms were string in
their quotations, on the basis of £4 53. per ton.
long weight, delivered. The best pigs of the
'fame Company, Biiston, cannot be had at
under £4. 7s. 6d. • nor the inferior at less than
£3. ss. One of the furnaces of this company
which has been employed making the latter
class has recently been put out • bat it can be
readily put on again as soon as the state of the •
market warrants such resumption.
At the pits and the ironworks, there isnow an
abundance of labour. In each case instances
are constantly arising in which operatives are
sadly in want of work. Many colliers and iron- ,
workers, with their families, are just now suffer-
ing great privation. Happily for them, summer,
and not winter, is approaching, and they may
be able to secure some out of door employment
in connection with agriculture. To this they
are now looking, for the prospects at the mines,
at the furnaces, and at the mills and forges are
discouraging. Colliery owners expressed this
afternoon a hope that it might turn that the
unionist miners in Warwickshire have accepted
the offer of the employers made at Nuneaton on
Tuesday to Mr. Halliday and another union
official. The hope was inspired in great part by
the fact that the terms of the offer emer„„,l air
addition, thoueh very slight, to the working
time. The Warwickshire coalrunsters have
dealt very tenderly with this delicate question,
inasmuch Us they ask the pikernen to work only
tin additional twenty minutes per day. It is,
however, an addition which is proposed, and b .!-
eattse addi!ion it is gratifying. Still it fl tist
for(rottenl huli tilt requirement that the
men sitourd work lo,:ger 11 'ors i 4 :Iceompuuiod
'he dechratiOn ./1 ii OVOI) of 3.1. per Chty iii
'A g
mines Drainage SAcin was much dial-
-01.45 COlirr-OWM'rr3
who ar.:! pr ',rooting a petition for the exonipti.ei
nf the 13.1s:oo iii triet front the opera-
' ,n th.• Ac!. in i's relation to the
Ii nderground, wink. of the Commission, an-
hat they already poisessed more than
tee roquisite eeijeti:y of sigeatures to secure
ow object 4 svhih tivty were aiming. but that
r'keY should not present tie nelidrion till they
11,11. F.cured a murli great( r Their
s a,rialoht was that they ext.. writ to he aid," to
Vie utiliesion to iheir movement of Dl-owners
t
a.:s: used at £15,000. 'rhe 1051 it was
is £2l, 0). Otlit:r
coltiery-owners
,xpei.,4si:(l strong wish th,it, might not come
that the Oita of tue Act wit 1)u no 0.-
I.

Ii i
tte lord iron trule i. in a Foniewhat
. .
tima. 1,11,d negionieg it
t• e qi.er. tlitTe id Ail' groat glalurs,, an I
important works are either in very par ial
ouc.ration or standing for orders. Plateniukers,
in particular, are very badly off. One or two of
e leading houses have secured good speciflea-
tio7.s iuc the reddctions in prices annou!leed
I II ago, h.q. he pate brfrich generally is
iY S a 4 .icv 111.sw
beaer Liemand,ancl ill some canes merchants
commence restocking„balieving that prices have