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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29

BPOILS OI kIiVOLVTION.

Accu•dlog to the Koppel, a commission of wortine
jewellers recently mumbled at the Ministry of finance, In
Paris, to F samlue and dettrinine the value of a splendid col-
leclou of ”pphlres and peArls which hod been Vund in the
cellars of the Illnialry. We have,. says the Ilappei, had
an opportuidly of examlohig among others two pears of the
ante of a small pigeon's egg, still attached to their thell, and
which, In the Judgment of all, must be worth several ruilllone
of low CO, and the sapphires are clan tbf great value. they
are to to put lip for isle by auction In Frown, and, If S fair
price la nut cifored, they will be sent to ltagland.•

THE CHATEAU DE BIiCON.

The Chateau de liecen, where ench Unions fighting has
lately been taking place, Wit, known, wider the reign of Louis
l'hilippe, as the Villa Orsini, hem the fact that two bears In
pottery decorated the gate-posts at the entrance, and In 1036
11. Thiers, then Mount. of the Ihterlor, passed the lesion
there. The house Is not towards the summit of the highest
range of the nulls which extend from Courb•svole to ensigns.,
but about halt way down the slope, and the occupants can
descend by a terrace and garden to the quay at the northern
end of the G:and...l Ate. At the date above.mentioned the
island formed a pot tins of the domain of Neuilly, where the
king resided, and the mlssister had only to cross the river
to attend the councils held frequently tri that residence. The
property belongs at present to U. Outten null.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29

The j.u7' rvturned the verdict for the defendant.

DEATH OF A TUIOR OF LORD BYRON.
There died at Msntrisee, on Tuesday, the Rev. D
Paterson, minlster of the secotd charge of the parish,
at the advanced age of ninety-three. In Moore'a "Life
of Lord Byron" there appear ex ti ants from a journal
which the poet once began under the title of "My
Dictiowery." In this "Dictionary" Byron, writing
daring his stay in Aberdeen and referring to a new
teacher, says, "He was a very devout, clever little
clergyman, named Rosa, afterwards minister of one of
the kiiks (East, I think). Under him I made astonish-
ing progress, and I recollect to this day his mild
mi.nners and good-natured painstaking. . . . After-
wards I hada very serious, saturnine, but kin! young
man, named Paterson, for a tutor. He was the son of
my shoemaker, but a good scholar, as is common with
the Scotch. He was • rigid Presbyterian also. With
him I began Latin in Ruddiman's grammar, and con-
tinued till I went to the grammar schooL" There
seems little doubt that this was the Paterson who has
died. He was the son of a schoolmaster, and afterwards
assisted Roes in the East Church. He would be about
seventeen years of age when he taught Byron—an age
at which poor Scotch students begin to teach to help
to keep them at college.
The late Dr. Paterson was a most assiduous pariah
minister. The Dundee Aduertaser relates that those
few who are alive aud heard him preach his first ears
moo in Montrose remember that on the occasion a dove
Hew in at one of the windows, and after Hying about in
the spacious churein—perhapa the largest in Scotland—
alighted on the top of the now old-fashioned 'sounding-
board" right above the preacher's head, and there
quietly remained till the conclusion of the service. The
church where the Doctor preached has three galleries,
and some years ago a member of the congregation in
speaking on the occasion of a presentation to the minister
said he never heard the Doctor's solemn voice without
being reminded of those youthful days when he and

niany other schoolboys, with their little hymn-books and
halfpenny candles were in the practice of frequinting
regularly the v.ll church, where they eat up in the
highest gallery with their light before thui, listening
attentively to the doctor's disc.ourse. At these times
they often thought that the sermons were rather too
lovg, fvr they often lasted till the tiny liElic had burned
down, End thus riquirtd to be raj before the parting
hymn.
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The old gentleman has enjayed excalent health.
114 e inducted a marriage carera.my ou the day of the
Royal marria4e, baptiz d a child on Saturday, the Ist
ef this month, and on Suuday, the 2.14, tilled his census
schedule.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29

The Standard and Mail of the 20% ult. as: -

"Mr. Moors aloes no session for the tem of the vessel, but
thos who are well sic...lush:tad with the coast and the fur.
rents athibute it to the position of Agatha. Lighthouse, about
which there has been so much contr worn?. \Thou the con-
struction of a lightlieuss at Aqulhas was decided on, it was
proposed, among other id:notions, that It should be placed
on high Lord, but It was thonsht that It so it would be
Ire lewdly hidden by mists, so it was deemed batter to build
It v here It now stands, laud where the light is Iv in one
position hidden from view by a hummock. This hummock
is h:gher then the lighthome, ard a vessel mond .g from the
eastward, it it gets drown too close on shore by tile current,
the light csnoot le seen at all by those on board, however
ova.' may he the lock.our. To remedy this another light-
house vPI have to be built to the eastward ot the hummock,
Soy at Sous'. Point, or the humus ck will have to be re-
moved. This is the vies of the ciptabas of our mail steamers
and others acquainted with the moist. A manod-war left
liPmon's irav on Sunday to render assistance, it required, to
the wreck"