The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-23 00:00:00

LRITISII AND FOREIGN.

The "Tin Trumpet" is now acknowledged, by the
permission of the family to be the work of Horace Smith,
author of the "Rejected Addresses,"
An American paper anticipates infinite trouble in
the future in seating Brigham Young's estate The old
fellow is very rich, hut then when he dies each of his
twenty-five widows will expect her third.
At Axminster a lad, taking aim in sport at his sister
and infant brother with a gun which was I ailed, though he
dad not know it, ktlled the child and wounded the girl in the
face.
A Liverpool tailor, who makes a great show in his
shop windows, has hit upon the ingenious hlea of displaying
the illustrated pages of Punch, Fain, Judy, Ax ,amongst his
"garments," in order to attract crowds at gazers, statue of
whom
.mrty become purchasers of "nubby" coats and

;.• "trousers.
Late advices from Cuba allege that the American
Volunteers, who have hitherto been acting with the ii.sur-
gents, are anxious to get away They report that the
promises and representations made to them before leaving
New York have proved false, and that they are compelled to
take the front and brave all the dangers of every engage-
ment.
The State of Arkansas' which for almost a third of a
century has laboured, like Mississippi, Florida, and Michi-
gan. under the stigma of virtual repudiation, is about to
meet its obligations.
The death is announced of the sculptor Pierre
Hebert, author of the well-known group of the "Child and
the Tortoise.
The New York Herald and Baltimore Sun assert
that the house of Rothschild has offered to advance to the
Government of the United States the sum necessary to dis-
charge the public debt at the rate of 4 per cent. interest,
[General Grant has denied the truth of this report.]
The Ballinasloe town commissioners have refused to
entertain a motion for the discussion if ihe la' it question
on the ground that "it does not c due within their jurisdic-
tion." The Earl if Clancarty was the leading opponent of the
motion, slid urged that the Goverou slit should not be
dictated to with reference to the mode of settling the ques-
tion.
The monument to Leigh Hunt, the essayist and poet,
which has been erected by subscription in Rensal-green,
Cemetery, was uncovered on Tuesday in the presence of a
goodly number of literary friends and admirers of the de-
ceased, an appropriate address being delivered by Lord
Houghton. The monument, which is iu the form of a marble
bust, bears the following inscripti, James Leigh Hunt,
Indio October 19, 1784, died Aug. 28, 1859. 'Write me as one
that loses his fellow men.'"
A Jerusalem letter reports the expected early arrival
of the Duchess d'Aosta, in the funilnient of a vow made by
her Royal Highness during her recent illness. She will, it is
said, being with her a magnificent offering to the Church of
the Holy sepulchre which she then promised to the Virgin,
and which consists of an emerald of great value, that has for
several centuries farmed an heirloom in the family of the
Pont delta Cisterna.
The stand taken by a number of the Clergymen in
the diocese of Exeter respecting the appointment of Dr.
Temple to the vacant see has led to the question, " What
will be done if the chapter should refuse to elect?" the
question in answered by the Pall Mail Gazette. The case, it
appears, is provided for by Pith lien. VIII. cap. 20. if
the chapter decline to acknowledge the appointment, the
crown has power to appoint by lettters patent, and this
course will be adopted should the necessity arise.
The Great Eastern is expected to leave the Medway
with the electric cable for the line betiveen Bombay and the
Suez on Saturday next. Every effort is being made by the
commaniler, Captain Halpin, to complete the work of
stowing the rest of the cable and taking in coals and stores,
In order that the ship niay leave at the appointed time.
The great vessel has been newly tainted and put into trim.
Snow fell on some of the Grampian Hills on Thurs-
day morning in last week.
The illicit di,tillation of whisky is making great pro-
gress in the Southern States of Ainerien. In Olin week in
Virginia thirteen illegal whisky mills have been seized by the
United States collector. A whisky manufacturer in Georgia
has killed a deputy collector.
The Scarborough town council are making arrange
ments to give a "loyal and fitting reception "to the Prince
of Wales on his expected visit to the town next month. A
committee has been appointed to carry out the decorating
and illuminating of parts of the town, and a subscription
list has been opened.
On Monday night Sir John Cray M.P., delivered at
Mandiester au address tone of a number arranged by the
Not/usual Reform Union) on the Irish land question. lie did
not recommend that the land question should be dealt with
in the French revolutionary manner, or in accordance with
slr. Mill's plan, which would convert all the tenants into
tenants of the Government, and compel the Government
sometimes to stand behind bailiffs or rent collectors. Re
proposed that it should simply be declared that every tenant
In occupation of a farm should he declared by law to have
an occupancy' right from which he should not be disturbed
except with his own consent, or for non-payment of recta
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