The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-07 00:00:00

thing most he rained, became everything lies -became
ownerleci Nobody hot in tt d, war a right to his life, tor
the first bullet may at the root monient blow it out of
no roof his a right to stand on a hoco; no India-idea has
any moral right of ownership to ally article, which some-
body else may at the first opportunity deprive htm of be.
cause he thinks it more necessary for himself. Yonder still
stands a house—d cottage, the widows of whicn are yet
entire. An hour later a taw bottles or legs of chairs ifo
crashing through the panes, Or a shell cdmes and ruins the
whole building. Yonder is • carriage, an equipage, which
perhaps belong to so intendant To-morrow morolog it Is
mutiloted, for the soldiers wanted the teat tier to make boots
of. there In a chateau iptrilen stands a marnie statue on
Its pediotal, a Venus eillipYll.., which the soldiers I.ut of
gallantry hove hitherto spared A grenode suddenly flies
over from the re.ris forts and knocks oft tbu very part of
which anc Isco proud. The nutpoat soldiers have tried to
restore it with lime, tut the artistic hand is winding
which might renew the contours of the master, tool
the marble statue looks mournfully over its shoulder
at the mutilation. Thes everything cninhines to d..strny
everything The eye gradually longs again for the culture
which cdostruots, the thonghte turn gradually to a )earning
for peace and order, but where are they to be foundt Tee
rah. roost go on."

_
Mitt. alludine. to the folios of history which have
been written with blood, the sea of tears which has
been shed, the destrector. of the laborious products of
human genius and industry, the sorrow at home fer the
inurificea which victory nas entailed, and the pro.
longation of the war into the winter, Flcir Wachem
batmen adds :
When at lest the Chrismas boxes arrived in France it was
decidedly melancholy, awl is tear came into many a stern
w..rrinee eye, when lie thought of his home Yet it cannot
be helped, 10. It is the warrim's lot. Winter has reached
its turning point, the sun will come again, and turbans
Bud us still in France, for the contest must be fought out
once frail."

in apparently goodlaealth on Friday.— His Lordship
was Lord of the Minor of Merttm, and it may be in.
teresting to ri call the fact that this manor was given
ieritiie
by William the Compieror to Ralph Baynard, and was
carried in mairiage by the hearers of Mr. Fulke
Ea} nard t
mt, Sir William d o Sir Thomas
Grey, vi..s born at Merton
de Grey, in 1337. His de-
in 1719. After having been in succession Solicitor-
General, Attorney-Cleo,ral, 5n4 Lord Chief Justice
of the Court of Common Pless, he •701 crest,'
Baron Walsingtiam in Octolia,, 1780. The
nobleman who died on Saturday waa the fib
Lord Welsingham. He succeeded to the title
in 1839. He was e incated at Don and Sr. John's College, Cancbridge, and in early life was called to the
bar. ',is Lordship married, in 1842, Augusta Louisa,
eldest daughter of Sir Robert Frankland Rtmiell. By
this lady, who died in 1899, he had one eon, the present
Lord. The deceased nobleman married asain in 1897
the Hon. Emily Elizabeth Julia 9 hailusson, eldest
daughter of the Pseud Baron liendiesharu, by whom
he has left seven other children, the yourigeet only Rift
yearn If. His Lordship via. patron of three livings,
viz., Merton and Stumm), Niadoik, and Copeteck,
Suffolk. The deceased nobleir an 44 succeeded in bin
title sod landed eatates by the Hon. T. de Grey, XI%
for West Norfolk, and a vacancy has consequeLtly been
created in the representation of that constituency.
AN ACCIDNAT.-- During the frost theThermorne*
ter fell three times last week. Assistance was fortima.
holy at hand on eachoccatiom—PunCh.
AN ASTRONOMICAL FOARCAST ! A writer
egning himaeh "Anael" professes to be able to pre.
duct, by an astronomical figure, that a terrible calamity
will overtake the Prwadians round P- '8 and " _ . .