The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29 00:00:00

'illisttilantous 4nttlitgente,

FOREIIN, AND COLONlidc

Baavo, Bisno ! —N—si better thing has been
aaid.than one by the Bishop of Peterborough on the
Church Millinery question :
Sortie that such an Army as has to fight The Kum;
should be quarreling over its uniforms !"
He who gives name to the borough could hardly have
spoken more apostolically.—Puneh,
EMIGRATION TO OANADA.—The Rev. J. A Cree
Writes to the Daily Telegraph :
Permit me, through the columns of your wide spread
I ,nrnal, to make as earnest appeal on behalf of some tile.
Ilea," [ambles desirous of er3erating to Canada. Work
has been k 0 very scarce here for the last twelve months that
many relpectable people have la en gradually elt,king loto
extreme want, and, as there 14110 prospect of Insprevoment,
emigration seems the only remedy. We have already
asaisted several to go me, sod they have ail done so well
that there is every etc auragement to send more to the same
place. Haying such a large proportion of por in this
parish mutt be our plea for appealing to the public. Perhaps
some of the numerous slimmer 'falters who have enjoyed
the heretic, of Marlow will help us in thin good work. Con-
tributions will be thankfully received by Miss A. Fowler.
Great Marion, or by me —I remain, Sir, your obedient
servant, J. A. Oaks, Vicar. Great Marlow, April 12.
A CANINE DRUNKARD.—The New York Times
has the following :—" The dog has always been re.
girded as a very respectable animal, and though some
reckless maligners of the canine race have used his
name as an opprobrious epithet applicable to the worst
specimens of humanity, his habits have on the whole
been good, and his reputation for temperance and
sobriety has hitherto been without a stain. There ie
said to be, however, at Memphis, Tenn.. a deg who Is
in the daily habit of getting " bras' ly drunk "on ale,
a circumstance so rare that the newspapers of the city
are making special note of it. It will be a long time
before the human race will reach that high d gree of
purity that a single eerie of habitual druekennew will
excite special comment."
LORD DALHOUSIE ON THE GAME LAWP.—On
Saturday evening the Earl of Deffionsie was enter.
tamed to dinner, in the Pulde Hall, Arbroath, by the
tenantry on the Panmore estates, on the occasion of
the anniversary of his lordship's birthday. Mr. Collier,
Panlathy, occupied the choir. Lord D elhousie, in the
curie of his sps ech in reply to the toast of his health, re-
ferring to the Game Laws, said,-1 here is another etch-
j.et on which I wish to say a few words, and I face it
b Ad 4—the sat ject of game. Now, gentlemer, , I am not
sehamed to say that from my youth upwards. and as
strongly in my age as in my youth, although not havin;•
the same capacity to undergo the fatigues of it, I am
a thorough epertsman. I have been broushe up in
the idea that the sports of the field tend to a uneon
between a landlord and his tenants, and that they
also tend to keep the landlord resident upon his estate
and to take an interest in what is go'ntr on there. Now,
getalemen, 1 wide to say, with reference to all that is
going on now before the public with regard to the
Game Laws, that so far as thaw laws may be modified
some to Cake that which, from beieg a small item in
the country, has become a crest nuisance—viz the
rab'et—out of the game list, I should be o Merit to
submit to that change. My tenants in this quarter
will do me justice when I sey that they are at Iffierty
to use all the means in their power to exterminate those
animals except in those parts where they can I e re.
drained, and where, I am happy to say, I am able to
meet with them every year and aid in their destruction.
DR. DOLLINGER AND TUE POP/6.—A cormpon
dent at Munich says that Hefele, the Iliehop of Got-
terib arg, has published a pastoral, which ie evieently
written under constraint, in whizh he tries to point our
a middle course and aseerte that the queetion is not
settled. Strossmsyer's organ warmly defends 1) anger,
says that Catholics must range themselves under hie
banner, and concludes by saying that the Catholic
Church has the choice between resurrection from a
horrible indifferentism and entire decay.
A SILLY BKOUSiaT.—Since the horse was inves-
ted with the consular dignity by Caligula, it is probable
that no honours have been paid to that noble quad.
raped of im substantial a kind as have been provided by
the will of an eccentric citieen of New Jersey who
lately departed this life. The will bequeathed the bulk
of his property, valued at £BO,OOO steeling, in trust for
the benefit of six aged horses. A tract of about eighty
acres is to be cultivated as their pasture ground and
source of supplies, and an ostler of experience and
gentleness is to be employed to take care of them upon
a salary of £250 a year. Besides the new-mown hey
and farinaceous corn raised upon the farm, the horses
are to be pampered with the best feed from the photon
and the sum of 1:60 a year for each horse is set apart
for this purpose. And to two executors the will gives
£2,000 each upon condition that they shall ete the
wishes of the testator fully carried out. It is finally
ordered that at the expiration of ten years, when in
the course of nature the horses will have paid nature'e
debt, the vroperty shall be sold and tue proceeds
divided among some distant relatives.
A Boy SCALDED To DEATH.—The death of
John Goodier, seven yews of age, • boarder at the
Mottram-in-Longendale Grammar School, occurred on
Monday, under diatreesing and peculiar circumstances.
The deceased was put into a bath by Oliver Whittle, a
fellow.pupil, sixteen years of age, but the water was
so hot that the little fellow's skin peeled off ae soon es
he was taken one, lie was placed under the care of a ,
local surgeon, but he succumbed, and died in great
agony. I lie parents made in Manchester.
WRECKS AND CASUALTIS.P. —A return prepared ,
by the Board of Trade states that 16,1102 wrecks,
casualties, and collisions have been reported to the
11 card as having occurred on or near the masts of the
l'oi:ed Kingdom in the ten years 1861.70; 11,076
involving partial lore, and 5,826 involving total loss.
The animal average has been 1,690. The number of
lives lost in these casualties has been 8,105, averaging
810 a year. 4,431 lives in peril by these casualties
were saved by lifeboats, and :1,624 by rocket and mortar
apparatn4, lures, &c. The Board report also 02 casual-
ties to British steamships abroad, attended with loss of
life, in the four years 1867.70—namely, 24 founderinga,
23 stranding% 7 collisions, and 8 other casualties.
Tnere were 3,234 persons on homai these 62 eteaniera—
namely, 710 passengers and 2,524 crew. 1 720 lives
were lost —1,092 by fouederioge, 41:1 by strandings, 79
by collisions, and 215 by other casualties.
CITURCHING THE JUDGES.—Tne ceremony of
" churching the judges" at St. Paul's Cathedral—an
old custom at the commencement of Easter Term—took
place on Sunday afternoon. Several of the judges
went in state to the cathedral, where they were received
by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and revered other
niembere of the Corporation in their official robe in
Canon Lieleion preached from the pulpit under the
dome from the 4th and sth verses of the sth chapter of
the First Epistle General of John :—" Whatsoever is
born of God overeometh the world," &e. Treating the
expression "the world" as meaning corrupt human
life, the preacher said it was so hoatde to every good
and noble purpose that it was compulsory on •
Christian to endeavour, sae Lis first dewy, to overcome
it. It had feriae larked whetuer the world could be
overcome by uerelly a scrupulous o'redience to the law
of the land, hut that, he thought, was not peebiule.
Human law was not inferior to moral truth and juotics,
seeing that it was only an extract of morality fl Led to
control soc'ety, to Mieck crime, and to prevent the
exeroiee of lawless passion% Oiredlenco to huaian law
was in itself a step in the direction of overcoming the
world. That law was, however' merely a rule of out.
ward conduct, but it failed to entorce inward rectitude,
and it left the root of evil untouched. It mglit lead
us to the point of our freedom without compromising
its own power, brat really to overcome the world it wee
necessary to have faith and true devotion. It is esti-
mated that about 9,000 persona atten led the s.rvice.
A Lintz SUOGESTION.—There is a beverage,
not certainly in much request at the tables of the high
and haughty, known as Spruce Beer. It will only be
a proper er,mpliment to the author of the new
Licensing Bill, to call the improved liquor we are to
have when that measure becomes law—Brace Beer.—
Punch.

A COMPARISON !—At the meeting Of the In-
stitution of Civil Entineere iii London, the other
evening, the Chancellor of the Exchequer drew the
following comparigon :
My own education, and I had the happiness of receiving It
at 006 01 our public schools and Uoiversities, was dlracted
mainly to learning something of the literature and the lan-
gnage of a people who have long Since passed away—poople
who knew very little of nature, very little of the world in
which they lived, very Little, Indeal, of anything except the
squabbles and quarrels in which thsy engaged with one
another, and which they carried on upon a scale the moot
minas , A laugh ) When I think of the celeb,ated battle
of Marathon and all our school boy enthusiasm abut the
192 persons who perished on that occasion on the site of the
victorious a laugh) and compare it with the grand drama
which has been enacted in another part of Europe within the
last reVon cr eight months, 1 callOot help feeling how small
were the matters to which our eally attention was directed.
Why, a good colliery accident, under the auspices of those
profeulonal gentlemen whom I see around me, would throw
one of these great event. of Indent times completely Into
the elude.

A RILURA To IBA CIIOIIOH tiP
On Sunday morning the Rev. J. 14. Capes,
Balliol Co lege, Geford, who seetdel ft, in the Chs'N, I
of England during what is celled "the I word ling,
soot,' nearly thirty years aeo, and joined the I, Conammicia, renewed hie connection with the Craft, i
of England in St James Chapel, Loudon, of which% g I
vceheredbilin. seurl'trice awflhflohlWie
Rev. Stopforl Brcoke, M.A., one of her hes.,th., • Chaplelns, is mitister. Mr. Gladstone, Lord . and many other members of the Legislature, 1,,,,g;
present. Mr. Brooke said the ordinary totekt:,
.1)1 tat
iynegr s t alihdea,otthare,ir
Oxforj hood, went away, while Mr. Brooke read tp,
Aute-Cummurtion Service, there being no celebratiot
After the Nicene Creed Mr. Capes, habited in •15144 gown, was conducted along the side aiele to the plipt and delivered a very clever essay, rather than • Benue
on love fer God, from the word., "Whom not herig, seen, we love." l'here hal been an evident t xeatag. Coe that Air. Capes waa ale.ut to give Home caplet, tion of the motives which had induced him to rehire,.
the Chum!: of England, but not • word in his c.unse had reference, to the distinctive doctrines of al,
Church in which his early youth was loosed, and
which he has returned, or to that of which he has be,
until a few weeks past amender. He announced his
on four Smutty afternoons, commeeciog on 'Sunda; next, the 30th Mat., he will deliver lectures in tre
Jamm's Chapel, on the blysteriots Presence of Chrid
in His Church.
l'ameseu.s Roe 111 eon Easy—Toe Patirire
Commune desired "a Synallegmatic A'cneaty.' I,mg words are deer to low pe,pt.e. This long word nerd
not bother anebody. If Mr. and Mr.. Naggleta
ghoul I ever quarrel again ( which is impoesible), and ea making peace Mr. N. should promise her strip a, Brussels, and Mrs. N. should promise him to give at
friendship with Mrs. (anybody he dialikee), tlat
arrangmeut would bt Synallagmatic ; that is, it mei*
imply recipr 'cal obligations. How charming is it,
struction given in a Silvered pill !—Punch.
MATRIDIONIAL ALVERTISKYRIIT&— (From tit
Manchater Examiner) ;
" A young gentleman, with £Ver per annum, wishes t)
meet with a pretty, accomplished young lady lithe vier •
matilmony."—Addrew, it:c —"A gentleman (2 ), of l.
dependent means, whites to correepond with • younir lady,
with a (r6w to matrimony; liiconEdetice.'—Address, to---
.(Tke advertiser, a young man, wishes to carrespmit anti I
young lady, or • ens, inteele,ent, and amiable olipovitins •
—Address, 4C.—"A gentleman 0:0), leaving Itegland execute a foreign Government ctiltract, ;Tidies to corn
spoilt with a young lady with • slew to matrimony;
me
be well sditcated aid good looking; enclose real Wilma
with carte (which will be erMangeO or retu• nett ; one whit moderate Income preferred; gentleinen's present eatery,
£l,OOO per annum."—Address, dcz.
TIIK SOIRTIIING WANTED !—A Paris journal
whi h has be. n publiehiug as a feuilleion a logedar
novel, began to fear that in cousequeece of the
prevalent excitement the public would lose all intent
suit. 'The author was sent for and the editor said to
him, "Your novel is well written, and our eubscriben
are interested; but —" "But what?" asked the
author.—" But," continued the tdit,r, "Your novel,
which treats of the First Revolution, has a defect."—
"W,ll, what does it want? "—" A Prussian, 5j5,-
"A Prue inn ?''—" Yee, a Prussian. You must, at all
coLtrive to smuggle into its Prusidan monster
fellow who is ready to swallow all France like&
raw oyster. This will take, my dear sir, and I depead
on you to accomplish it." The author aosented.
Tux Housa or Cosncors.—The list of Bale
before the House, made up to the 21th cf April, shows
that 113 public bills have been laid before it-51
Government bills, and 62 hills brought in by private
memlers. The 11 bills which have already lestome
law are al Government bills, if we count as each the
Provisionrl Orders Bill, brought in by Mr. Dodges
Eight of the bills of private ',embers have already
diseposered three were withdrawn, and five were
rejected by the Ilona°.

If ustthlrr ham% Comeinxamo. " None
ought ts aspire to be wicer than the lans.—Penct,
TOE CaNeue.—The census returns continue to
be published, and in some cases curious results are die
closed. For instance, Bath conaiota of 21 parishes:
in ten of them there has been an increase of 2,674, Ina
in the other eleven there has been a decrease of 41t.
Chippenhaen ehows a decrease of 189, the poptdaton
neing now 1,2.7, The population if Dudley (Woo
ceetershirc) has decreased 1,210 during the decade,
owing, it is said, to excessive local taxation. It is am
43 766. The population of Crewe (Cheshire) has in.
creased from 8,000 in 1861, to 18,209 at the pretest
time. Middlenberough, which is the chief town of the
cleveland iron district, has increased from 18,992 to
43,647. The shipbuilding town of Jarrow, on tha
Ine, has increased from 6,395 to 24,217
fnlobEr ORDERP.—On the Jot of May next,
at,! thenceforward, the present oca'e of charges on the
Meow of inland money orders wid be discontinued, sad
the following sale will conne into Operation :—For
sum under 10a, Id. commission ; of 10a. and under it,
2].; of in and under LI, 3!.; of 1:2 and under El,
41.; of I:3 and under £4, sd. ; of £4 and tinder .65,
64.; of £5 and under £6, 7d.; of 4.6 and under £7,
81. • of £7 and under ES, 9].; of kS and under LI,
of £9 and under £lO, 11d. ; of £lO, Is. The
ab met scale does not apply to orders issued on the
colonies and fc reign countries, the present charges on
which will remain unaltered. They are as follows:
For orders payable in Belgium and Switzerland, not
exceeding £l, 31; exceeding £2 and not exceeding £l,
61; cxceechng £5 and not exceeding £7, ; exceeding
£7 and not exceeding £lO, Is. For orders payable in
North Germany, or at Alexandria, Cairo, Conntanti.
nople, Gibraltar, Malta, or Suez, not es needing £2,91;
ex..ceding £2 and not exceeding £5, is. Ced. ; exceeding
£5 and not exceeding £7, 2+. 3d.; exceeding £7 and
not exceeding £lO, 3.e. For orders payable at all other
placed ahrcal with which money order business is
trentacted, not exceeding £2, exceeding £2 and
not exceeding £5, 2s. • + xceeding £5 and not exceeding
£7, 3'.; exceeding ri and not exceeding £lO, 4+.
Tc E TAX ON R &AL PROPERTY.—From an ex.
nruination of the report of Mr. Goeclien and other
statiaiice, the Chamber of Agriculture Journal deduces
the following cmcluslone
The public +mrdeta upon income derived from real yew
Dort, are £0 001,iiI0 of direct Imperial tixes, plus £16,2230.1
Of PC ii tares. plus £3 121,457 of Indirect taxes, makings
-404 of £27,340,407 Ilia public Min.:vile upon Wooer
under cc °dole, 8, C. D. and of E of the Income tax ire
6.10,`88,6e0. plus £2 363,100 of local taxes, plus £0.063 247,
analog a total of .1720,5.5 207, Hence, owners of real pro.
petty under eche. ule A with an Income of £143,873000
paid In the year 10689 £27,94e,41.7 of multi( n, which Is It
per cent., or 3r. 011. in the pound, while poetasters of pro.
peaty and profits under the other schedults of the limns
tax, paid £20,615 20701 Lex dion, which Is enly 70 per cent.,
or ls CI I in the pined! We may congratulate Mr. Goachea
upon having enabled us to show from his own data, t.,gethie
with statistics which cannot err very greatly from the truth,
that knows arising from real property is not lightly, but
enorm oily overtaxed an compared with other taxable hi.

THE REAS-.11 WR7 The Common Law re.
comizes no right of poseesaion in wild animals,"
(remarks The Tinges) 'and, since Game falls under this
head, no person could protect his own pheasants or
deer if they were not male the subject of spetisl
enactment Simply to abolish Bitch enactments,
therefore, would have the effect of placing pheasants
in the same position as sparrows; wed, when we have
said that, we have probably said enough to expose
the absurdity of the proposal. A pheasant IC. as was
1 Rail last year, 'very like a barn-door fowl,' and
chi, fly differs ID being a peculiarly valuahle bird. It
I. bred and fed with at least as much care, and is, in
fact, maintained in the excellence it has now reached
by means of great attention and expense. If it would
he abeurd to exempt barn-door fowls from the protec-
tion of the Common Law, it would be still more absurd
to exempt pheasants, without any qualification, from
the protection of the Game Laws. Game, in facts Ii
simply a particular kind of produce; it has always had
a real value, AR much as corn or timher, and of late
years it has become, under certain cuadltions, one of
the most valuable products of the land. It is good to
shoot, and good to eat ; and there is a great demand
for it in both capacities. What reason is there why
this particular kind of produce should be prohibited as
a source of profit? The introduction of free trade has
put out of court all pleas, even if otherwise valid,
resting on the supposed disadvantage of cultivating
this kind of produce instead of corn or other food, So
long as game is profitable, the pr-lit will serve to re-
place from other countries all the corn the birds may
displace."
INTELLIGENCE FOR INNS OF COGRT.—A chance
is anticipated in legal costume. The Law Times be-
lieves " that the time is not far off when silk gowns
and coifs will disappear, and all advocates stand on an
equal footing." Then no one of them will wish that
he was in any other one's shoes; moreover, Mod° and
Istahil's Own will wear a civil as well as a ueilitary
uniform.--Punch.

MR. LOWE:B " MARIC."—Jltat DOW there is 8
pause in invention and enterprise, and we all seem to
be biding our time (remark, The Timcs in a leader).
The Chancellor of the Eschequer breaks the dulness
with a flash of speculative finance. The eupriat ie that
the suprise conies from this quarter. It is impossible
not to ask why finance is the selected ground for ex-
plosions, earthquakes, and transformation scenes. Mr.
Lowe has brought to the subject tbe traditions and
instincts of his former office. He thinks it his hn-irses
to instruct"" the taxpayer, an-I even those who have
not hitherto been taxpayers—to revive financial studies
to convert resignation into inquiry, and exemption into
mistrust. It is well we should he roused from fal e
security, atd that a universal ullip should be given to
slainbsring intelligence. The schoolmaster shows him-
self ; Lucifer matches are to teach L din, the become
Tax decimals, the Suee,snon Duty vulgar fraction,,
and the Probate awl Legacy Duties are to learn some-
thing from one another. lids is not quite the conlo3oll
view of finance. Taxatien is ueuttly regarded as a
dire nee,: sity, to be made, if possible, a. uniform as
the atmospheric presoure, to be ir.ried as little as
moitat change will allow, end to be subjected
to the severe role of moral and economic laws.
As hnoiau nature is apt to revolt against it, so
it has to be invested with the highest and gravest
character human wisdom can impart. Perhaps,
we were all settling into an ignorant patience of taxa-
tion. Certainly both this* who pay and those who do
not would have been equally conlent this year either
with no change at all or with some change that could
Plead only the necessity of the case. But Mr. Lowe
wished to leave his mark on the Session, and actually
create finance, instead of governing it. The occasion
forbad the simply beneficial exercise of creative pow or.
There were no blessings to be scattered, no front of
plenty to be set flowing or gates of mercy to Le opened,
BO Mr. Lowe has to reveal himself in tie'. lees pleasant
charactzr. The multitude, it is ej, worships the
benefactor, and still more the destroyer. As this
Padget stand., Mr. Lowe will be remeibbeeed by
everybody who has to pay Incomeetsx, by everybody
who succeeds to the estate and obliglitionii of his parent
or his brother, And by evi rybedy who ROM a fire or
cuikee a ciar. Ile el o take] CIO (Iplrtunity to
avow that he wni did like to make himself felt still more
widely, and to aboo. b in one uci'orin ti.cal sway all the
petty exemptions. For the prevent we must take the
will forth, deed, but a million carte aid horses are
marked for future requisition. The ingenuity and
researeh of which Mr. Lowe has given ouch signal
proofs point to fresh and fresh regions of financial en.
terpriee ; we should be sorry to have to Bay what items
he may next singe out from the long liet of known
necessities. No doubt the selection will be original,
not to say characteristic, but each novel expedient
mutt suggest, with increasing torce, the question
whether thinis indeed the right fashion of finance.