The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-25 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

EDITISH AND 7( LEP ill.

A girl aged thirteen has died at Leeds from hydro
photas,.
On Saturday tie Lord Mayor of London received
for a.) Fret,ch Italia Food a chuck for £ll6, the proceeds of
a col!ectlon In the Gold-room, New York.

The firpt emeienment of m, rchandiee from Paris
meee the armletice arrived in London on Wednesday Moen-
rg by the Lend, n, Chatham, ant Lever Rene ay. it coosistad
or a number of large cases toga City firm

The Government majority of 182 against Mr.
Fawcett's amendment to the University Teets bill wae thus
made up :—Conservatives, 110 ; Independent Li ernie, iJ;
aloe-holders, 23 ; Llsh Roman esthollc members, IL
From April 1 to Fetruary 18 the total receipte
Into the Exchequer were £O9 8,6,018, sa against £C2161,00
to the cot rt spending period of the previous 12 month.. The
expenthture has amounted to £9,979,957. Ile balance In
the Bank ot Eugland on eaturday last was 0.2‘.4,411.

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We I.arn through the cable that sever.l cf the New
York papers contain the improbable statement that a pro.
posal it.. teen made by the United States for the putchase
of all the Itritlsh North American colonit 8, and that the pro-
potit'oil will constitu:e the prominent feature of the dell
berations of the High Joint Commission.

The Local Legislation (Ireland) Bal has just been
printed. It is prepared and brought 10 by Mr MacMahon,
Mr. Montagu Chem Mrs, and Mr. Matthews. The preamble
sets forth that it is expedient to !actinide legislation in
several matten of a public character in Ireland without the
necessity of applying to Parliarnect or to the Board of Trade
in the first Instance, and to diminish the great expense at-
:ending the present procedure for obtaining parliamentary
powers for such purp0.5......
The Times the other day quoted a etatement Flom •
torelgn agency elating that B...marcit had disclosed to Jules
Payee the fact that Prin. Napoleon had e &red himself to
Prussia not as regent of France under the Prince Imperial,
int as surcease to Nspoleon HI, with the full Imperial
Jower. Prince Napoleon writes to The limes denouncing
he assertions as absolutely false. Since the fall of the
Empire he has lived in deep retirement, and he had a
Wit to thick that his retreat wculd protect him against
calumnies so odious and so ridiculous, to which be gives the
most positive dcalet

New York society is overrun with Counts and
Barons.
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oss.o.s.
ginall-pox is raging in the districts of the Northern
Departiat of France, especially in Lille, where the deans
are fifty a da,l.
The Daily believes that the Ballot Bill will
Fr wide rem security .by Lite/flowing &scrutiny ;th necessary
expenses to be paid by the enlist ftuencles, and public nomi-
nations and declarations of the pon to be abolished.
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A pdituro from the Berlin Punch gives a rather
carious tmight Into public opinion in Gorrneuy. It represents
" Kladdevidetsch" rubbing the noses of Napoleon and Ms
march together.
The greyhound Master DBGrath, by his vieent via
tory at the Waterloo Coursing Meetluir, brings( it is salt to
I. Lurgan ":100.00). A policy of Insurance for ON) was
taken out upon the dog on its departure from Ireland.
It was resolved in Sheffield, on Friday, that the
balan -e of the 0 tks Colliery Explosion rand, atnoitntlng to
xvor EI:(0, should be devoted to the relief of the autferers by
the Rsinahaw Part Colliery exploaion.
A Treasury minute, establishing a new code of
regulations on education, haa been issued. It is a su,vstltute
for the code previously In eVeter.ce &deals g the Puha.
mertacy grout to elementary schools.
When Mica Evans wrote eldam Bede, being then
cult pardally known to fame, ohs sold it unreservedly to the
Blackwood' for some LiAltl, MA such woe Its success that her
publiihers afterwards presented her with • clic quo for £1,500.
Early on Monday morning, .llre. Sivier, landlady
t I an hotel at Ride, and who has been 111 ler some time
(being subject to Cite. jumped out of her bedroom window
into the sea, and wet drowned.

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A Parliamentary paner just issued shiers that in
(ho bet week of last year t less were 99(413 peepers In /Mic-
hel And Wales, being 9,01 more than in the previous
sea Melo denies sits no: Include psuptr lunatics or
vagrants.
Chain repragrAg in Chtrieari a Paris father striving
to wove with his chtld from , n-wer f proj sotiles. " What
are thus things falling arn-ind is asks the child "My
sems anwrrs the father, " it le the final bouquet of the great
fireworks In honour of St. Napoleon."
An English resident in Munich writes tit The Times
contradicting a statement which has been demi ,ten : to the
•ff act that Prince Otto, of B.varia. has beim killed •
Franc tirenr re, Urruile. Prince 0:,to is alive and well IS
hesd.quaiters in Versailles,.
"A Parish Priest," in the Guardian' after *mina-
adverting upon the selection of a day in Lent for the Royal
marriage, sale .hat "When Cie Fatablishninni is gone, then
horil morel ins (for w Mob Lent app 'are to be the only
availalde seas,ct will have to be • lemninod either by jr.
Norman 'l'aeleod or by the registrar."
A handsome snit of Ornbalellt3 has been finished as
• gift from the Scotch servant, and tenantry at B samurai to
the Princess Louise. the gift consists of a m cklet pendent
and mr riser, containini: Shirty-tire tine Scotch pearls,
he,oiti nm etched, and of cave tn., and °Gaut, mounted
in 18 carat gold.
The marriage of her It ,yal nieness the Prinee,s
Louise will be celebrated at Windsor Castle on the gist of
March next Although the ceremony all be performed In
St. George's Chapel, It will be conducted in she some private
manner as that of her ho) at Highness the Prineess Helena in
the private Chapel of the Castle.
Mice Temple, Pieter to the Bishop of Exeter, and the
lady whom nomination for the Nreter School Board was
iaiefy desiarel to be Informal, has been nominated to: the
lenail Board of It, 1 homw, a district adjuluing Exeter.
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A correopondent soya that " rraycontbe Home,"
portion of the property which adjoins the hunting seat of the
Duke u'Aumule in Worcesterstire, is to let. A short tlem
ago it was added to that estate, at great coat, that It Might
MCmne a shooting-bor for the Count de Paris.
It is shown by the last census that 5:1,112 of the in:
haottonts of Brussels speak only French, 121,111 only
Fiennsh, and 96,007 both languages ; 159.205 know how to
read and to write, and the vtry large number of 120,050 are
dlotely ignorant.

The uteri fork forera and small manufacturer',
atruar work on S iturday attar/wen to c ,nieneenee of the
fare, Shraild inaLuiaciurera bailee generally refwed to
concede the advance of wages asked for. The crlke will not
be general, as a few ensployera have acceded le tho werktuen's
demand.
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Mr. John Ifuxtable, a re-pmtable farmer of Swim-
briesie, North Devon, was, the oth,r evenn.g, leading •
double-barrelled gun, when the wev-m accidentally ex-
ploded. The char, entered his head, end Ire died after
lingering for few'hours in great agony. Peceased In
the prime of lie.
Miss Amy S.dwick gave a recital of favourite.
imatic ant lyric t.rceaux in Exeter Ball, Loudon, on
Niondav night for the beneilt of the suffering French. The
rest lugs were supplemented by choruses, sung by the full
choir. TLe entertainment was presided over by the Lord
Mayor.
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The he in the United States for hanging a man is
£2O nud the chtbes of the culprit, and people aho are ready
on all oceallooa to dwell on the light price which Americans
are .uppmed to put upon life would reauliy believe that thio
prlee ouild not fail to ilad an operator. Nevertholon, up
to the 7h imit.o.t there woe no candidate at th a price for
the Execution of ace Jerry rhomas, who waa condemned to
&eon the 17M.

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The Economi3t does not (eel by any means certain
t 0 sattstictory result from the hint CAssmialon appointed
to arrange all metiers In Slaput, between this country and
the Unized States. The appointment of that Commission
sent a wise a- t, and It Is composed cif very Pod ; but
est ryt ,ing will depend upon the acceplance of its report,
and lust acceptanco is by no means certain.
The fell wing singular alverlisement appeared in
the Manchester Examtt.er, Ma other day A young
gention m a manufanli.r, im town, behlt addlete.l to over-
sleeping. whh-li ty meet with a stews man as knocker-up
attend:nes from CZ a in to four p m., except Sunday, When
his services ciii be only revised at four p m."

"At a euildren'e Soiree held in a village in the;
county of Kincardine, a few nights ago, a clergyman, addres-
sing nearly 300 young people, checked th 3 exuberance of
Mittr youth( al *hits, by forbidding them to applaud, telling
them there would be nothing of that Mud and no laughter
in hemren,' and that there mini( astatioua of feeling were
'tug...els:era with religion.' "—Dundee A dvertmer.
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In rep'y to a deputation which urged the importance
of rating G we7ament property, Mr. Goichen stated that the
department over which he presided was prepared to accept
the princ,ple contended for. There was, however, consider-
elle Mill:city in giving it a 'incite I shape : and the Govern•
meet were prevared to bear auggestiois as to the beat means
of .02MA:dm., the annual value of Ell2l property.
Now babh rotea of 20 francs are about to be immed
it France They are of the patt-rn of those of 25 fwe.,
ami blae in colour. Tae words ViDgt francs," are printed
In black, and at two corners are the figures 20 also in black.
The paper is thicker than that need in other French bank
notes, end is Said to be a kind of parchment. The note. for
25 hat cc will be withdrawn from circulation as fart and 10
110:41 ell they are recaved at the Bank of rrance.

A terrible tragedy ir reported at Rock Grove,
Winnebago county, Illinois. A farmer risidlug near that
piece listing sold his farm and received the money, was re-
turning home late at night, when he met a man who de-
manded Ini money. Draw leg Ids revolver, he shot the
robber dead, and moon after had an encounter with two
other men, whom he alio killed. Reaching his house he
found his daughter lying murdered, and his wife lisp!
wounded but not dead. Out of the dead men has been
recognised as a stranger who wished to buy the farm.
The statemvnt that Mr. Bright is likely to return,
In the course of a few weeks, to his Pailiamentary duties Is
tot well founded. Acting on the permission given him by
his constituents, and on the advice of his ptiyeicians, the
right honouranle gentleman will probably make sea attempt
to take part in public affairs during the present see-ion.
Ills health is making ready though necessarily griulual
progress towards complete restoration. Mr. Bright's re-
appearance Li the ilouse of C flinms will most likely he
eceded by a visit Ruda spea.h to his constituents.

"The iegmuity of vagrants is worthy of being exer-
ef.rd for higher ends. Beggars are thoroughly on the alert
in prollting by ciP-rent events and perhaps nothing could be
more succsingui than the latest mode which is assuming the
tam of a tort of profeesmnal epidemic in South Loudon.
The plan 1. 00 run alongside gentlemen, claiming pity and
succour on the grout d of having Just come out of a small-pox
hospitaL The trick succeeds; it is dangerous to have one's
clothes contaminated by a {arson rubbing close, and refusing
to he vent ag ay penniless, and a hastily thrown copper is the
quickest talisman for Chpatching au unpleasant supplicant."
—South Lohdon Press.

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A da.ing (awe from prison which rivals same of
tte old-fachioned Jack Sheppard storlea, was ,ce.fuiy
achieved from the Pentouville Model Parma on Sunday night.
A prisoner named Joseph Surrey (who had been con•lcted
at esmbridge of housebreaking, end sentenced to a lengthened
term of penal servitude), on receiving Ids supper, contrived
In prevent the spring lock on his cell door from fulfilling
its proper function. The gaoler having passed on, Surrey,
clipped out, and, going in an cpposite direction, reached,
ouch:erred, a I idder, cor nected with some new buildings in
he course 14 erection. Placing a plank on the cheraux.o.
flue, he rn-,nc god to drop from the outer wall into the street
ad secure Ms escape

According to Nature, the question of killing deadly
soaker at vvernment expense in India is again under die.
cint:ion. The gtvert.ment Is losing Its su tlects at the rate of
ah.ve a hundred a day, or 40,00 a year p snake bites, hut
It fears losing rupees in the crippled state of It, treasury.
The lest enlorcement of the law woo under Mr Commissioner
rinwden, many years ago' In the Brucorah district, flue of
the smallest weft,. of the Burdwan (Littleton. Deadly
sashes were brought in at the rate of some 1,200 a day, and
although the reale was only from threepence to sixpence
apiece, In about a couple of months £lO,OOO was drawn nut of
the treasury, and the government ordered the snake crusade
to be stopped.
A newspaper correspondent at Bordeaux says that
the ceremony of Investing M. Infers with the executive
power was gate through with great rapidity in the Notional
Assembly. M. Louis Blanc was the only member who spoke
upon the motion, and he merely sold a tow words complain-
ing that the Republic was not more distinctly proclaimed.
In the committees an unsuccessful attempt was made to
suppress the direct mention of It, as prejudicing the ultimate
form of Gavernment In France. The resolution of the com-
mittee to whom the motion respecting Alsace and Lorraine
was preferred, Is looked upon as settling the fate of those
provinces.

At the Cumberland Assizes Jovenh Rowell has been
Indicted for the man,laughter of sin persons who were billed
by a collision on the railway, at Carlisle station, on the 11th
ot loly. It may be remembered that the Scotch mad, from
the south, when passing over a crossing, was cut in two by •
North.,gastern goods engine, when, besides the persons
killed, la enty-four passengers were seriously Injured. It
appeared that the prisoner, in the absence of the driver, took
the engine to replenish the hollers with water, and on his
return, a'though all the signals were against him, came to
thwcrosing at the moment the mail reached it. It was con-
tended for the defence that the accident was the result of a
vicious system rather than a culpable and felonious negli•
genre on the part elide prisoner. Ile was acquitted.

The deaths from tundl-pox in London, which ntim.
owed 218 last w,ek, showed an increase of seven Upcn the
dumb, of the week preceding. The fatal cases showed a
beellue in the east and west districts, while there was a con-
elderable increase in the north. The present epidemic Is
more severe than any during the past 31 )ears, the deaths
Laving averaged 152 in the past nine weeks, while in an
equ.l number of weeks during the previous most severe
1843-1, the weekly average was enly 71 in the
past sewen weeks of the current quarter, of the 1 IS4 death.
from small-pun in 1,-ndon, 837 occurred under 20 years of
age, 2,6 between 20 and 40,6 r between 40 and 60, and only 12
alto year. and upward.

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Last week the aggregate mortality in London and 19
other large towns of the United King& m was In the ratio of
24 deaths annually to every 1,000 of the present estimated
population. In the metropolis 2 303 tArths ILIA 1,625 deaths
were registered, the forimr having been eight below, and the
let or 57 above the average. Z,motic diseases caused 433
deaths, including 218 from small-pos, 11 from measles, 48
from scarlet-fever, 8 from diphtheria, 58 from si Joping-
cough, 35 from fever of which 11 were ceridiod as typhus,
15 as enteric or typhoid, and 9 rie aimple continued fever,
and 14 from diarrheas ; thus to these seven principal diseases
of this clau 392 deaths were referred last week, against 359
and 314 In the two menacing necks. be largest Mere.,
was again shown In ttie deaths f roman, ar-por and whooping-
cough. The fat.hl cases of scarlatina have averaged but te in
the put three weeks, while in the previous Lou weeks the
average had been lot per week.
From the annual report of the Director of the
National Gallery, In London, just printed, it appears that
Ore pictures were bought last year, namely :—A picture by
1./avid Teeters of "An old Wornan peeling a Pear ; " "Saint
Peter Martyr," the portrait of a Dominican monk, by
Giovanni lielilol imported from Milan ; " The Procession to
Calvary," by Boccaccio Boecaccinu, imported from Milan ;
"The Madonna and Infant Christ, the Youthful liaptist, and
Angels,. an unfinished picture, ascribed to Michelangelo ;
ads altar-plece by Giambattista Cline de Conegliano, represent-
ing "The Incredulity of St Thomas." The collections of
the National Gallery at Trafalgar-sqnsre and at South
Kensington have ,assuming that al the visitors to the
museum visit the Picture Gallery) been attended by 1,913,564
persons on the public day a during the year 1370 ; 003,715
at Trafalgar square, hnd 1,014 043 at South Kensington. The
daily average attendance at Trafalgar-square, open to the
public 180 days, was 4,916; In W. 9 the average was 4,911.