The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-05 00:00:00

OUR GLORIOUS ATTITUDE.
The 71F1t111.rnn Trial
.now.Btallibl Over

Until a far November day ;
(Wr friend', aer,ss the Straits nt Wirer
. _ .

No doubt admire or Law's delay.
That Eltham ease displays what wonders

. •
Our vigilant Police can do
110 ow Guilt escapes not through their blunders:
llow Innocence they neer pursue.
The fruits of this productive Session
All people are enough to stun.
retl :Mloo oilm,y9 Say, with apt expression,
" A fat lot Parliament has done !"
Not yet forbidden strong potations,
We stand, with Freedom's Hag unfurled,
The envy 14 surrounding nations,
And admiration of the world. —Po nch.

The NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE

FETE at the CRYSTAL PALACE.

The annual fke of the National Temperance League
At the I 'rystal Palace MI Tuesday, taxed the resources
of that vast building to their utmost, and all but broke
down those of the principal termini of the railways
leading to Sydenham. When it is considered that in ad-
dition to the friends ,:f temperance in London, and in
its immediate vicinity, thousands were travelling from
the early Ilawn asid even .hiring the night by excursion
trains to take part in the fae, it will be readily conceived
how great nmst have 1.4,11 the I we,,,:ure on the "evasion.
From Manchester, Liverpool, York, Leeds, Bull,
Kendal, Walsall, Northampton, Welshpool, Shrew,"
Ness port, Swains-a. Weymouth, Penzance, in
fact from Noah, Smith, Part and West, excursion
trains poured their thousands into the building,. At
London Bridge terminus the crush was so great -that
the people had to be admitted by batches penned off in
iron cages from the general crowd.
The Crystal Pabwe itself palace anti grounds --
presented a most animated Keene. There were 201
Bawls of Hope repre wilted in the choirs. There were
considerable contingents of soldier:, from Woolwich
and other localities; there were thousands of boys awl
g iris- -the latter dressed, for the most part, in white and
blue, and offering in themselves a spectacle well worth
seeing. At one o'clock a meeting AIM held in the
central transept, Rear-Admiral Sir \V. King-Hall
presiding. at which several speeches in favour of
the temperance cause were made. The Band of
Hope procession in the grounds is one of the most
attractive features of this fete when the weather
is fine, and it could not well have been more propitious
than it was on Tuesday. The Bands of Hope were un-
usually MlllierellS MI this IFeeftSloll. At 2.30 there
was a concert voiisss in the central transept by
the United Kingdom Bawl of Hope Unimi, and at
6.30 a similar concert took place. These concerts pro-
duced a most powerful effect, and MAIM of the airs
were most loudly applauded. The palace was no full
in some points that it was not easy to move freely.
The other attraction.. comisted of a "Proi.c.,sion of
. Adult Temperance er,;anLations." "a balloon as-
cent,- "a grand display of the fountains," and " open
air raeetic‘.6 on the terrace." More than 60,000 per-
sons were present, and all seemed to have enjoyed the
day in the most fro, gni hiliriou., nn-inner posdble.

An attendant at Uount Vernon, not long 6in,,
email a lie. tiz-lotaking „so4ng lady weepinn most bitterly and
audibly, with hcr handkerchief at her ey:.s. Ile stepped
to kr and bAld, Arb ou in ny trouble, Miss ' sir, • he
mobited. "I maw you weeiiing, my dear and beautiful lady."
"Ab "maid ebe, "moat good-natured bachelor, how can OM
help weeping at the grave of the father of ems country t"
"MI, indeed, my dear young miss (with a ;4,0.1 40%17 ?)"
said he,. the tenth's over yonder this is the neleitise."
They were, shortly afterwards, married. This is a three
volume novel in mall of American We.