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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10

DEATH OF MADAME LOUISE MICHEL.

The death of Madame Louise Michel, after a long
and painful illness, and her funeral would, under
ordinary circumstances, be devoid of any political
interest in France; but, at the present moment, when
the Anarchist Party is unusually active, and when
the condition of her daughter, the well-known Louise
Michel of the Commune, and the heroine of the
march on the Elysee two years ago, is inspiring Con-
servatives as well as Radicals with a sentiment of
pity, the event becomes one of real importance. The
Anarchists and Advanced Radicals have long been
clamouring for Louise Michel's release from Cler-
mont, where she has been kept a prisoner, and they
were greatly exasperated at the fact that she
was not, as was expected, granted a free pardon
on the occasion of the new year. The anger of the
Revolutionists would, however, probably holPs
calmed down, if it had not on Saturday been
converted into a longing for vengeance, by the
announcement that the Revolutionist heroine had lost
her reason. She had been permitted by the autho-
rities to go, accompanied by the police, to the bedside
of her dying mother, and M. Rochefort had had an
interview with her. In his journal, the Intransigeant,
he gave an account of his conversation with her. He
wrote: "Louise Michel will not be pardoned, because
she could not appear amidst her friends without their
perceiving the terrible ravages that two years' im-
prisonment have wrought on her impressionable
nature.' M. Rochefort affirms that Louise Michel's
mind is no longer sound, aid that she is suffering
from hallucinations. He relates that when ho went
to see her at her mother's house, she led him to the
window, threw it wide open, and pointing to the Bou-
levard below, which was almost deserted at the time,
said, "Look at those armed men whe are coming to
fetch me—to take me back to prison? Do you
know who sent that police van which stands
continually at my door !" M. Rochefort did
not know how to reply. There were no armed men,
and there was no police van. He was soon relieved
from his embarrassment by Louise Michel, who con-
tinued : "All night long I hear people crying out in
the streets the announcement in the journals of my
being sent back to prison." She is constantly under
the influence of the hallucination that she is being
persecuted. Rumours to this effect have been current
for some time past, but the certainty that Louise
Michel's mind has been deranged by her imprison-
ment has had such an effect on the temper of the
Radicals, Socialists, and Revolutionists of every shade,
that M. Clemenceau is said to have declared to M.
GrOvy, that if Louise Michel was not pardoned at
once, the Government might expect a riot.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10

THE COUNTESS AND HER CATS.

On Tuesday at the Kensington Petty Sessions,
before Mr. W. Bird and other magistrates, the Coun-
tess De La Torre, of 38, Pembroke-square, Kensington,
was summoned by Mr. G. C. Harding, clerk of the
Vestry, for disobeying an order of the justices to
'remove her numerous cats and dogs, which she kept
in her dwelling-house. Mr. Harding thought it was
necessary to state the case, as the countess had been
before the Bench on several occasions. The countess,
he said, had persistently set the order of the Bench
at defiance. She had at the present time as
many as twenty - one cats and dogs in her
house. The fine of £7 which the magistrates impoted
on the countess had not been paid, under these cir-
cumstances he was compelled to ask for a distress war-
rant. The countess said the cats had been removed
from the house. She had only seven cats, one dog, and
three puppies. Mr. Richard Massey Sayer, of the Nevr
Athenamm Club, Pall-mall, was called, and said he
was the owner of 36, Pembroke-square, which was
next door to the house occupied by the defendant.
His tenant left six months ago, and he had been
unable to let his house in consequent of the great
annoyance caused by the large number of cats and
dogs which were kept on the adjoining premises. The
countess had placed on the walls of her house
placards of the Roy-al Society with reference to
cruelty to animals. Large crowds of disorderly boys
were in the habit of congregating outside the house
and reading the placards, causing great annoyance.
She had been requested to remove the placards,
but had persistently refused. The countess said she
had complained with tears in her eyes of the
vestry's persecution, which was intolerable and
beyond reason. In answer to a magistrate, Mr.
Harding said it did not require an expert to prove
that 21 cats kept in a house were a nuisance. The
countess called two witnesses, who stated that only
seven cats were kept, and no nuisance arose from
them. Mr. Wightman, the inspector of nuisances,
proved having visited the house of the countess on
the 11th of December last and finding 21 animals,
including two dead cats and five dogs. The countess:
lam not responsible for cats found in the yard. I
cannot prevent cats entering my garden. The Bench
granted a distress warrant, to be suspended for seven
days to give the countess an opportunity of paying
the fine. The countess said she would pay the money.
The chairman said it was to be hoped that the
countess would find out the impropriety of not carry-
ing out the law. He imposed a nominal penalty of
10s. for disobeying the order of the bench. The
countess then retired.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10

PERSONAL STATISTICS.

The oldest member of her Majesty's Privy
Council is the Right Hon. Viscount Eversley,
aged 90; the youngest 11.R.H. the Duke
of Connaught, aged 34. The oldest duke
is the Duke of Cleveland, aged 81; the youngest
H.R.H. the Duke V. Albany, an infant. The oldest
marquis is the very rev. the Marquis of Donegall,
aged 85; the youngest, the Marquis Camden (a
minor), aged 12. The oldest earl is the Earl of Buck-
inghamshire (who is the oldest peer in the realm),
aged 91' the youngest is the Earl of Cot-
tenham (a minor), aged 10. The oldest vis-
count is Lord Eversley, aged 90; the
youngest, Viscount, Southwell (a minor), an
Irish peer, aged 12. The oldest baron is Lord
Brougham and Vain, aged 89; the youngest, Lord
Ampthill (a minor), aged 15. The oldest member of
the House of Commons is Alderman Sir Robert
Walter Carden, M.P. for the borough of Barnstaple,
aged 83; the youngest, Mr. Matthew Joseph Kenny,
M.P. for the borough of Ennis, in Ireland, aged 23;
the oldest judge in England is Vice-Chancellor the
Hon. Sir James Bacon, aged 86; the youngest, the
Hon. Sir Archibald Levin Smith, of the Queen's
Bench Division, aged 48. The oldest judge in
Ireland is the Hon. John Fitzhenry Townsend.
LL.D., of the Court of Admiralty, aged 73;
the youngest, the Right Hon. Andrew Marsnall
Porter, Master of the Rolls, aged 48. The oldest of
the Scotch Lords of Session is the Hon. Sir George.
Deas (Lord Deas) aged 81; the youngest the Hon.
Alexander Smith Kinnear (Lord Kinnear), aged 51.
The oldest prelate of the Church of England is the
Right Rev. Richard Durnford, D.D., Bishop of
Chichester, aged 82; the youngest, the Right Rev.
Ernest Roland Wilberfore, D.D., Bishop of New-
castle-on-Tyne, aged 45. The oldest pfelate of the
Irish Episcopal Church is the Most Rev. Marcus
Gervase Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh, aged 83;
the Youngest, the Right Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg,
Bishop of Cork, aged 50. The oldest prelate of the
Scotch Episcopal Church is the Right Rev. Robert
Eden, Bishop of Moray and Ross (Primus of Scot-
land), aged 80; the youngest, the Right Rev. James
Robert A. Chinnery-Haldane, Bishop of Argyll and
the Isles, aged 44. The oldest baronet is Sir Moses
Montefiore, aged 100; the youngest, Sir Stewkley F.
Draycott Shuckburgh (a minor), aged 4. The oldest
knight is Sir George Rose Sartorius, G.C.8., admiral
of the Fleet, aged 94; the youngest, Sir Walter
Eugene De Souza, of Calcutta, aged 38.—W7zo's Who
in 1885.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10

THE BADDELEY TWELFTH CAKE.

On Tuesday, just before the stroke of midnight a
large company assembled at Drury-lane Theatre,
London, to partake of the refection which has by a
gradual process of development, grown out of the
"Twelfth Cake, with wine and punch, which the
ladies and gentlemen of Drury-lane are requested to
partake of every Twelfth Night in the Great Green
Room.' This was the original proposition of Robert
Baddeley, the actor, as announced by his will dated
1794, and in which he bequeaths, for the purpose of
satisfying the demands of the guests, "One hundred
pounds Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities."
Last year, in recording the recurrence of this interest-
ing festival, the papers remarked upon the "ghostly
satisfaction" with which the spirit of old Baddeley
might have regarded the extraordinary enlargement
of the feast which his benevolent disposition provided.
To judge from Tuesday night's gathering the satisfaction
must have been largely increased, and as years go on
if the celebration is kept up in the same spirit as that
which actuates the present management, it stands no
chance of being diminished. It is no light undertaking
after the presentation of such a stupendous work as
the Drury Lane pantomime, to remove the scenery
and stage appliances for the purpose of furnishing
forth a huge banquet to which the number of invited
guests receives every year a sensible addition, but the
resources at the command of Mr. Augustus Harris
were quite equal to this fresh demand. The stage was
laid with long tables and the cake occupied the
place of honour before the footlights. Amongst
the guests were Lord Alfred Paget., the Com-
mon Serjeant (Sir W. T. Charley, Q.C.), Mr. Ingram,
Sir J. B. Monckton, the Hon. R. Carrington, ALP.,
Mr. Justin McCarthy, M.P., Mr. J. H. McCarthy,
M.P., Mr. Alderman Savory, Mr. Alderman
de Keyser, and many others. Among the mem-
bers of the dramatic and musical profession
were Mr. H. Standing, Mr. Walter Clifford, Mr.
Lionel Brough, Miss Lingard, Miss A. Atherton, Mr.
Willie Edouin, Mr. David James, Mr. James Fer-
nandez, M. Marius, Mr. H. Pettitt, Mr. D. Cox,
Mr. C. Wyndham, and Mr. Corney Grain. The cake
was cut according to established fashion by Mr.
Fernandez.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10

DUDLEY.

THE INSTITUTE COMVERSAZIONE.—The annu .1
conversazioae was held at the Dudley Institu:e on
Wednesday night. There was a large aftendane .
The programme included an attractive concert, ia
which Mr. and Miss Ffrench Davis and Miss Surgey
took part ; performances by Hall and Underwood's
baud ; numerous interesting exhibits, and dancinz
The Public Hall was tastefully decorated fo r the
occasion. The floor was covered with diaper, tha
walls were adorned with mirrors, hangings, and
ornaments, provided hy Mr. Charles Hall ; and at
one end of tho hall there was a fine assortment of
shrubs, foliage plants, and flowers supp'ied by th
Seeretar.y %tr. Woodbou3,9, and prettdv arlange i
mound a temporary fountain. The library, museum
class room, nod mining museum contained numerous
objec:s of interest. The billiard room was open and
also a card room, and refreshments were provide i
in the readiug room by Messrs Rutland and So:.
and Mr. J. Powell, of Wolverhampton 3tret.
Messrs.W. H. Booth and Stephen Cole auted as 111.
Thnenjoyment of the company was promoted
in every possible way, and the conversaz tone :vas
considered highly successful.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-10

RAILWAY COMPANIES' RATES.

On Monday the Railway Commissioners delivered
judgment in a case in which Messrs. Hall and Co., of
Croydon, sought to have the Brighton Company's
charges for terminal and other services either reduced
or disallowed altogether. The case occupied six days
in the hearing, and is one of a series which will throw
a good deal of light upon the contest between the
traders and the railway companies in the proposed
revision of rates next session. Mr. Littler, Q.C., and
Mr. W. A. Hunter appeared for the applicants, and
Mr. Saunders, Q.C., Mr. M‘Rae, and Mr. Macdonnell
appeared for the company. Mr. Littler contended
that the railway company were not entitled to charge
for "checking, clerkage, watching, and labelling "
beyond the rate for conveyance, nor for the use of
sheets, shunting, or haulage. As to other charges
which the company were entitled to make, he called
witnesses to prove that the same work of loading and
unloading, &c., could be done at a much lower rate.
On the other hand, Mr. Saunders contended for the
railway company that there were special services
rendered to the applicants, who had private sidings;
and, as to other charges, they were within their Par-
liamentary powers, and were similar to the charges 011
other railways; and he called Mr. Knight, Mr. Grier-
son, Mr. Oakley, Mr. S. Lock Mason, and other well-
known railway officials in support of his case. Sir
Frederick Peel, in delivering judgment, said that con-
veyance included station expenses, whether for work
or services rendered, unless they were specially ex-
cepted, and were not expenses for which the maximum
rate could be exceeded. It was not disputed that the
company should charge something for loading and
covering in addition to the mileaga rate; but in s?ine
instances these charges were excessive, and a r uction
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

WORK AND WAGES.

THE STRIKE IN TILE CHAIN TRADE.—At a meet-
ing of ehainmakers, held on Wednesda.y, in the
Methodist New Connexion Schools, Cradley Heath,
it was stated that Messrs. J. Coley and eons had
consented to concede the 43 list, and it w:ls decided
for the workmen employed by Messrs. Coley to re-
sume work. Work has now been resumed at about
a dozen factories. It was unanimlusly resolved to
continue the strike at the factories where the em-
ployers refuse to pay the 4s list of prices. It is ex-
pected that the remainder of the employers will
shortly concede the 4s list and so terminate the
strike.

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Traffic receipts for the week ending 24th October
1885,.15S 19s 7d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, lBB5.

of that committee, he thanked the committee for
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17'00 in the thousand, as against 92, or 46-901 in.•
the thousand I.r the corresponding period laAt !
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of slecial interest, were also adopted.

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ROWLEY REGIS.

SCHOOL BOARD.—Mr. G. Green presided at the
monthly meeting of this Board held on Monday
A. letter was read from the Local Government
Board, giving the reasona of Mr. Floyd, the district
auditor, for making a surcharge of £5 upon the
Chairman in respect cf the increase of salary of Mr.
11. G. Walker, tue treasurer. The auditor pointed
out that the increased salary was only to be paid so
long aeliablitice of the Board in respect of deficien-
es at the bank existed, and in consideration of
thi,, and of the time that had elapsed since the
sala;.y was increased, the department did not refuse
to r mit the surellalge and relieve the Boar] of
their liability under the auditor's certificate.—The
Clerk presented a statenaciat of the exp,ndituie for
, the half-year ending 29th September last. The
r. c ipts. with balance in hand, amounted to
..t11,135 Os 11d, and the expenditure .26,535 183 20,
leaving bal. =no: in hand of £4,597 Ils 81. The
outstanding liabilities of the Board for loam were
£28,929 73. ,

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

BEN ALDER and ESPADA

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receive it, all safe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

DISASTROUS LANDSLIP.

A terrible accident, caused by a landslip, has just,
writes a Paris correspondent, taken place near Peri-
gueux. Seven miles from this place are the Chance-
lade quarries, which furnish very valuable building
materials. On Sundayafternoon the hill which over-
hangs the quarry fell in in several places with a ter-
rific noise. Ten houses occupied by three families of
labourers were buried under the hill, their inmates—
a number of women and children—being crushed
amid the ruins. It Wring Sunday, only a few quarry-
men, about seven or eight, were at work, and these,
with their horses, waggons, and cranes, were all
involved in the general destruction. The quarry
on week days employe d about 500 workmen. Soldiers
and country people on learning the nature of the
catastrophe which had so suddenly occurred hastened
to the place with shovels, and worked vigorously
amid the fatal mounds which the landslip had raised
in all directions, and whence the cries of the smother-
ing victims feebly proceeded from time to time. 'A
woman and child were taken out in one place just
alive. The corpse of another woman came imme-
diately afterwards to light. A man and woman, with
their child, were walking near the quarry at the time
of the landslip. The tie, adults were crushed to death
by an avalanche of falling rocks and stones, but the
child, strange to say, was saved by having been
lifted off its feet and blown several yards away by
the outrushing air. It is uninjured. The fissures
created by the landslip are highly dangerous, and
recto slips are feared. Several hundred men are out
of work owing to the destruction of the quarries. A
woman, whose cries were heard by the excavators for
several hours, was taken out alive at an early
hour on Monday morning. She was in a state of
great terror, but has received no serious injuries. Her
child was killed by her side. Four other workmen
are believed to be dead. Subscriptions have been
raised for the families of the victims, whoa funerals
wok place on Monday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

SPORTING NOTES.
(By our Sporting Corre,ponde,:t.)

_
The reswt of the last big A.intunn handicap would
TO) doubt t.-e gratifyin4 to our friends over the watef
and now te 1,el•f: Franco, by takin.,-; both Vie Cesare-
witch s,-;d Cambridgeshire Stakes will Plaisanterie.
have act,i,,ve..l unnr,cedented honours, likewise ae
the s'.'inß taken a ship load (it money back
with them. Howemer we may grumble we never
begru fge hoi.our to whom hollow is tine; therefore
we wish the trench success with their plucky
venture. Next wtek thele will be racing all over
the country at Brighton, Shrewsbury, aud Lincoln,
when for the Brighton Stakes I shall expect to see
FAREWELL or MADCAP
run well. For tile Cr, a. Shrop,iiire Handicap
DUKE OF hICH ND and EAST. EMPEROR
are both now in good form ; whilst for the Shrews-
bury Cup
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

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KIDDERMINSTER.

TOWN COUNCIL.— The Mayor, Alderman W.
Gleen, presided at the monthly meeting of the Town
Council on Wednesday. Mr. Tomkinson moved
that a clause in the minutes recommending that
the fine on Mr Tovey for resigning the office of
alderman shook' be remitted be not adopted.—Mr.
W. M. Roden seconded Mr. Tomkinson's proposal,
which was lost upon a division by a large majority,
only the proposer and seconder being in favour of
it.—The next matter was the appointment of an
alderman to fill the seat made vacant by the retir,
meat of Mr. Tovey.—Mr. W. H, Anderson was
elected by a majority of eleven to two.-31r. G. W.
Grosvenor, in moving the adoption of tile report of
the Drainage and Waterworks Committee, said the
sewerage and waterworks were progressing most
satisfactorily. As that was the last occasion upon
which he might have to address them as chairmen
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

TIALE:!,:OWEN,

IMPORTANT TO MINEBS.—At the Police Court on
Tuesday, before Messrs. Edward Gem, J. Garratt,
T. D. Thomas. and E. B. Phillips (magistrates),
George Collins, miner, was summoned by th.-3
Whitley Colliery Company for neglect of work.
Mr. Forrest, manager, stated that the defend-
ant caused the company great inconvenience
through leaving his work without notice. Whilst
being desirous of havintheir rules complied with,
the company did not wish to unduly press the case.
The Bench ordered defendant to pay the costs, 6s.
THEATRICAL LICENSE.—At the Fame Court, the
justices granted a license for the performance of
of stage plays at the Drill Hall.
APPOINTMENT OF MAGISTRATES' CLERK. MP 1
Samuel Goodman, solicitor, who has for stveras
, years officiated as Deputy dagistrates' Clerk, hae
I beet' appointed by the juttices as their citric for the
Petty bessional Division of Hales° wen, in the plan
of Mr. A. G. Hayes, resigned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

A FLOATING CHURCH IN THE NORTH

SEA.

I have said little of the services on board the Mis-
sion vessels. These are bright, animated, and inter-
esting. Sunday is one long day of privilege for the
men—when there is a Mission vessel in the fleet. All
day long, from seven a.m. until sundown, there are
prayer meetings of some kind going on. At 11
a.m. and three p.m. a regular service is held: praise
and prayer, the reading and expounding_of S,crjßtatrit
d thee.EeVNEF—iinrgstitie Weatfier° be verybs.d—
not a day passes without some meeting, while the
chaplain or lay missionary (or, in their absence, the
skipper) visits the smacks whose crews have been re-
luctant to attend. In every way the Mission vessel
carries on thorough evangelistic service; it becomes,
in fact, to the men of the fleet, churcL, mission-room,
temperance-hall, library, and dispensary; it meets
their needs in every possible way; it is to them an
assurance of sympathy from those who profit by their
toil; and, above all, it is to them a messenger of good
tidings, a harbinger of peaoe.—The Quiver.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

WELSH SCHOOLS,

Probably very few persons, who have no personal
interest in the subject, are aware of the extent of the
difficulty attaching to elementary education in Wales,
even if they have some general knowledge of its
nature. Some unquestionable facts have been dis-
cusE,ed by the executive body of the National Union
of elementary teachers which present these difficulties
in a sufficiently striking form. There are in the
wettern parts of Wales about a million of Welsh-
speaking people whose children, on coming to school,
have to spend their first years in learning English,
and the proportion of these persons to the popula-
tion so far from diminishing, as would seem natural,
is very remarkably increasing. The complaint of the
Welsh elementary teacher, therefore, is that he is
required by the education authorities to arrive
at the same results as are demanded from
English-speaking children, with an infinitely,
greater amount of labour. Mr. Mundella ex-
pressed himself perfectly satisfied with things as
they are, on the ground that, by hook or by crook,
these results were adequately retained. But processes
also have to be considered. Let a number of English-
speaking children be required to pass their standard
examination in French, and the purely mechanical
nature of a moderately successful process can be
readily imagined. We may deplore the unfcrtunate
facts; but Mr. Mundella, while in office, assuredly set
a yet more deplorable example in declining, for
system's sake, to face them. The conclusion drawn
by the teachers generally, who Lave appointed a com-
mittee for obtaining 'precise statistics, appears to be
there should be a special code for Wales ; and the
existence of large districts where, out of a hundred
children, rarely, if ever, one is admitted who knows a
word of English, certainly gives force to the sugges-
tion. Nor is it as if the difficulty were likely to
vanish in a generation or two, but the contrary.
Evidently the question is one that demands an
official instead of a voluntary investigation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

HOW WE BECAME POSSESSED OP
CAPE COLONY.

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The Cape Colony was at first acquired by England
in a very easy way, having been made a present to
her in 1795 by the Prince of Orange, then a refugee
in London. Like many another present, however,
this one proved not a little expensive to the reci-
pients, which is not very surprising, since it consisted
of a territory more than three times as large as our
own country, the white inhabitants of which were by
no means inclined to be handed over to new masters.
Lady Anne Barnard, whose husband was secretary to
the first Governor, Lord Maeartney, in 1797, sari
that when King George's new subjects, "well-fed,
rosy-checked citizens, with powdered hair and black
suits," came to Cape Castle to take the oath of alle-
giance, followed by the Boers and settlers from the
country, "they shook hands with each other, but they
shook their heads too, in a manner that'said-7-` There,
is no help for it; we must swear, for they are the
strongest." And, in fact, these people proved so tur,l,
bulent, that it was thought better, at the Treaty of
Amiens, in 1803, to restore the colony to Holland,
But very soon afterwards the EuropOti war broke
out again, and our rulers, thinking it a pity to lose a
valuable possession, made it their own by fprce of
arms in 1806; and at the peace of 1815 the territory
was formally ceded to England.—From "Little Folks I
' 4.fazazir,e,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

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THE CRISIS IN THE EAST.
ADVANCE OF THE SERVIANS.

According to a telegram which reached Paris on
Saturday night, the Servian troops have advanced and
entered Bulgarian territory at Klissura, will a view,
it was supposed, of marching on Sofia. A correspon-
dent, telegraphing from Pirot, says that two diNisions
have crossed the frontier at Tsaribrod, and are ad-
vancing towards the Bulgarian camp. According,
however, to a telegram which was despatched from
Sofia last night, the Servians have only occupied a
Custom House in the neighbourhood of Trn.
The Emperor of Austria, in opening the Delega-
tions on Saturday, referred to the Roumelian crisis
as an unexpected violation of legal order which con-
jured up serious dangers for the tranquillity and
welfare of the peoples of those regions. The mainte-
nance of peace, he added, would be the first care of
his Government.
All the Powers except England and France have
now accepted the invitation to a Conference at Con-
stantinople. Turkish military preparations continue,
and the prevailing opinion at Philippopolis is that the
decision of the Conference will not be favourable to
Eastern Roumelia. In that case, the telegram adds,
war will be inevitable.
Troops continue to arrive at Salonica, where six
transports have arrived within a few days. Their
orderly conduct, as well as the order preserved by the
five thousand recruits who have recently assembled in
the town, has created a very favourable impression
upon the European population.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

lIMERLEY HILL.

COMMITTED TO THE SEsSIONS.—At the Police
Court, on Mon:'ay, before H. O. Firmstone and H.
Smith, Esqs., James Batt (2.5), ironworker, Brierley
was charged with indecently assaulting a
little girl, on the 10th February, 1883, and wa,
committed to the sessions for trial. It is alleged
that prisoner went to the house where the girl re.
sided, and committed the assault whilst the girl's
parents were absent, lie afterwards absconded.
ALLEGED FRAUDULENT BAIL E,;.—John Stringer,
landlord of the Unicorn Inn, Round Oak, was
charged with fraudulently converting to his own
use a piano, the property of George 1'; ederick
Green, Dudley, of wh'ch defendant was at that
time the bailee. Mr. Hooper (Dudley) prosecuted
and defendant was committed to take his trial at
the next Sesions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

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THE TIVIDALE DROWNING CASE.

An inquest was held on Tuesday, before Mr. T.
Hooper (coroner), at the Blue Ball Inn, Tivi.
dale, respecting the death of Susannah Clark, alias
Jewkes (44), of Stafford-street Dudley, hak wer.—
P.C. Smith stated that on Saturday !night he saw
deceased standing on the Furnace Bridge in the
Dudley-road. She walked away in the direction of
Dudley. Witness noticed that deceased was under
the influence of drink. Half an hour afterwards a
woman came to him and said a woman had been
(ound in a pool of water near the roadside. He
went to the place and found deceased lying in the
water, which is only two feet deep, with her face
downwards. She was quite dead. The pool was
close to the road, and there was no protection ex-
capt some posts.—Mary Ann Martin said on Sat-
urday night she saw deceased, who was drunk,
staggering about the footpaths near the pool where
the body was found. Shortly afterwards she saw
deceased fall off the footpath into the water.
\V itnes raised an alarm and assistance was obtained
and the body pulled out, but life was extinct. rirte
jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," and
equested the Coroner to write to the Rowley
Local Board asking them to provide a proper fence
at the place wherf the accident happened.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

s U. SCOTT'S BILIOUS aLd LIVER PILLS
1.) are wrapped in a square green package.
Prepared only by W. LAMBERT,I73. Stymour-piac
London. W., i Duo, Is lid gild 259 d and bold
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

DUDLEY.

FACTORY ACT CASES.—At the Police Court OD
Wednesday before Alderman Bagott and Mr. T.
Reynolds (Magistrates), Edwin Davies, manufac-
turer, Minories, was charged at the instance of Mr
Hoare (Inspector of Factories) with failing to
enter in his book the name of a young person in
his employ, and also with employing a lad more
than seven days without having a doctor's certifi-
cate. The cases were proved, and defendant was
fined les and costs for each offence. Charles
Parish, chaiumaker, Windmill End, was fined lea,
and costs, for employing his eon full time, the lad
not being over school age.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN INDIA.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF ELY.

Dr. Woodford, Bishop of Ely, expired at the
palace at seven o'clock on Saturday morning. He
passed away quietly, and did not appear to suffer at
the close. The deceased Prelate, the Right Rev.
James Russell Woodford, D.D., was born at Henley-
on-Thames, in 1820, and after a preliminary training
at Merchant Taylors' School, was sent to Pembroke
College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in 1842,
obtaining honours as a Senior Optima in the Mathe-
matical Tripos, and as a second-class man in the
Classical Tripos. He was ordained deacon in 1843,
and priest in 1845. Mr. Woodford held the in-
cumbency of the new district church of St. Mares
Easton, between Stapleton and Bristol, from 1847
to 1885, when he was presented by Bishop Monk
to the vicarage of Eempsford, Gloucestershire; this
living he held down to 1868, when he was chosen as
successor to Dr. Atlay on the elevation of the -latter
to the See of Hereford. -He was also for some years
Examining Chaplain to the late Bishop Wilberforce,
who, in 1867, bestowed on him an honorary canonry
in Christ Church, Oxford; and he was appointed
Select Preacher before the University of Cambridge
in 1864, 1867, and 1873. He was nominated to the
Bishopric of Ely when Dr. Harold Browne was
translated to Winchester; and was consecrated in
Westminster Abbey, December 14, 1873. Dr. Wood-
ford was the author of several volumes of " Ser
mons,' "Lectures," Szc., including "Sermons
Preached before the University of Cambridge,"
"Lectures on the Creed," "Lectures on the Church,
Past and Present," and he was the editor of the third
series of "Tracts for the Christian Seasons." The
Dean and Chapter of Ely have placed a vault in the
cathedral at the disposal of the friends of the late
bishop, and it is hoped that the Home Secretary will
give the necessary permission for his burial therein.
The Rev. H. J. Dickson, preaching in the
Cathedral on Sunday morning, said : "It is not
for me, a stranger in this place and in these precincts,
to intermeddle with a brief which must be to most
not merely a public but a personal one; but this I
may say, that your heavy loss, so fresh and so unlooked
for, is one which the whole Church joins with you in
deploring, because that she too in these anxious hours
has lost one of her tried and trusted leaders, one who
in this question of which I am to speak this morning had
shown himself to be a living prelate not the least
prescient and vigilant and outspoken of our bishops.
I at least cannot forget that when we started this
National Church Sunday Movement eleven years
ago it was Bishop Woodford of Ely who, by preach-
ing for us from this place, first gave episcopal sanction
to it, and who, two years afterwards, at a meeting in
London, supported a proposition Of his brother of
Peterborough to secure a -larger co-operation of the
clergy in it,"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

THE EDUCATION ACT.

A short time ago a parishioner paid a visit during
school hours to the Church of England Elementary
School at Wymington, near Higham Ferrers, and
after examining the time-table, remarked to the
mistress that the half hour devoted to religious in-
struction was so much time wasted. The school
managers were ignorant of the visit until it had
taken place, when they were informed of it at the
visitor's request. The clerical correspondent of the
school thereupon, as a test case, addressed a letter
to the Education Department, inquiring " whether
any person, not being a manager, has legal power
to visit a school at pleasure, and find fault with the
school arrangements; and if so, who and to what
extent." A reply has just been received from the
Education Department stating "that no unauthorised
person has any right to enter school premises without
the permission of the managers.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

PUBLIC NOTICES

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-31

BROMSGROVE.

INQUEST.—Mr. 11. Docker held an inquest on
Tuesday, at the Bromsgrove Coffee Tavern, on the
body of a man unknown, who died at that establish-
ment from the effects of laudanum on Sunday
morning last. The evidence of Mr. Charles Fenton
shored that he came to the tavern on Thursday
last, had some tea, and engaged a bed. He had no
itt:lgage. The next morning he had breakfast and
left, but returned in the afternoon, and acted
similarly that day and Saturday to what he had
done on Thursday. Thu evenings he passed in the
tavern, reading the paper. On retiriag on Satu-
day night he made some observations about his
meals next day. He did not rise on Sunday morn-
ing, and at noon the minager went to call him,
and found him in bed, groaning and very ill. Dr.
Swan and the police were fetched, and the stomach
pump was used. He left nothing behind him to
identify him. .or. Swan had no doubt death was
caused by poisoning with laudanum. The jury re-
tinned a verdict "That decased committed suicide
while l labouring undar temporary insanity."
Deceased is described by tlios who saw him as be-
ing evidently suffering from depression of spirits.
Ile was apparently well educated and of genteel
appearance Only one halfpenny was found in his
pockets, with a steel chain and some other trifling
articles. His clothing was fairly good, and he had
an umbrella, but with no Lame or mark on it. Tie
body, unless speedily claimed, will be buried by
cue Poor-law authorities.