The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-14 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

The Times advocates the abolition of the bounty syz•
tern on enlistment. .

The Ga:ette contains the nomination of Lord Stair
as Commissioner to the coming General Assembly.
The number f.l ladies at present studying at Zurich
is fourteen. twelve vhDca attend medical and two philo-

soptical lectures.
Lord and Lady Minicaster bale arrived in London,
and are the guests ot 11r. Ilorsman, Lal...l—hreoliti-terrace,
Whitehall.
The Earl of Elinton has purchased the Irish
steeplechaser Scaltheue for the sum of £9OO This horse Was
sec rid in the great race at Boisside last week.
A monk of the order of La Trappe has invented a
new potato-peeling machine, by means of which a man can
easily peel 009 lbs. of potatoes per hour.

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Instruelions have been issued from the Horse-name
that marching past in slow time ls no longer to be practised
by militia regiments, and that the only instruction in slow
time necessary is in recruit drill.
The Chicago Fenian Congress hag issued an address
announcing the removal of the central office to Philadelphia,
protesting. against their treatment in New York, and pro-
mising active military operations.
In an old-fashioned tavern, situate in a narrow lane
near the Strand, Lennon, there is a waiter who bears a very
striking resemblance to the portrait of Shakspeare. The fre-
quenters of the tavern rarely call him by any other name.

The Roman correspondent of the rabid gives de-
iii of an alleged conspiracy to blow up the barrack at
Cimarra, occupied by portions of the Legion of Antibes. llad
it succeeded 300 lives must have been sacrificed.
Last week the elm-Mari for the first time during its
thirty-nine years of existence appeared without an
Tie reason for this unwonted deficiency is that the
9artooo intended had been prohibited by the Minister of the

Interior.
"NA eatisfiecl with 'the anvil chortle (no relation
to the 'Harmonious Blacksmith') our Ametfnan cousins have
introduced 11. triangle as an instrument of percussion in one
of the musical interludes during Divine service.”Mucical
Standard.

The Sporting Gautte announces the death of tbe
celebrated racing sire Stockwell, whose success at the stud
obtained for him the title of 'The Emperor of Stallions?
The cause of death was inflammation of the inner coating of

the Intestines.

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The brigand Spanom, chief of the gang by whom our
countrymen were murdered, must be a soul one. We learn
from a letter of a traveller in Greece that amongst the pack-
ages sent from Athens to the captives and their captors was
a quantity of tobacco. Spares sent it back again, it being
'too poor in quality "for his smoking.
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According to the Vienna papers, the Greek tragedy
has given rise to a very active diplomatic correspondence
between the Cabinets of the three protecting Powers, and is
likely to become an international question. Neither France
nor Russia is, however, said to be in favour of a demonstratlen
against Greece. They think that mere admonition is all that
Is required.
A brother of M. Gustave Flonrens, who had a place
In a Government °ince. has resigned. AL G. Flourens, it is
said, did not know till Filday that he was accused of being
an accomplice of Beaury. and therefore he was not able to
send a contradiction in time to be forwarded to the provinces
before the Plebiscite.
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A pretended missionary has been found mUlty at the
Middlesex Sessions of having stolen a child's money box
rom a house in which he lodged. Previous convictions were
recorded against him, and he was sentenced to seven years'
penal servitude.
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A man who had escaped from a private asylum at
West fnilioy was charged before the Brentwood magistrates
on Saturday with being a wandering lunatic. He protested
his sanity in such a rational manner as to make an impression
up m the justices, who, in delivtring him up to the asylum.
authorities, expressed a hope that he would soon be at
liberty.
On Saturday the court for the Consideration of
Crown cases reversed the conviction of a person named lien-
wood for stealing from Mr. Mayan, the pile tographer, the
negative of a lady of the Court, taken by ummand of her
Majesty, on the express understanding that it was ouly to be
used for printing a certain number of copies, and then given
up to the Queen.
The other day, in one of the legal courts in London,
a legal 'natter was proposed to stand over till tbe let of June,
when some one exclaimed hi horror, " Why that's the Derby!'
Calmly and majestically the response came—. The cour
knows nothing of the Derby Day—but make it the 2nd o
June."

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A contemporary, criticising: a concert, says of one
gentleman yho attempted to sing :—" Absence of voice and
unacquaintance with music are bad enough; Inst when to
those is added a forgetfulness of words, the thing becomes
almost unbearab!e."—Wnst a lively performance it must have
been!
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The unaparing Board of Admiralty have ordered one
of the most noble relics of the Black Sea fleet to be sold.
Admiral Lord Lyons's celebrated flsg ship the Agamemnon,
that the Russian guns of Sebastopol foiled, when at a point-
blank rugs, to sink, is to be "knocked down," and out of the
Nary List, by the more poi erful hammer of a London
auction, I.r.
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M. Victor Hugo in person is cited to appear before
the Tribunal of Correctional Police nest Monday, at
eleven o'clock In the morning precisely, to take his trial for
an article, signed by him, in the Rawl of May 5. It is
hardly likely that the eille of Guernsey will obey the sum-
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At one of the entertainments recently given to the
Duke of Edinburgh in India, an old lady Was present, who
being affected with deafness, carried an ear-trumpet. She
had occasion to summon one of the table-servants, who was
carrying a dish a peas, and put up her trumpet to hear his
reply to her quedion. The unlucky Ehitmugar, misunder-
standing her niches, instantly transferred a bountiful helping
of peas to the open mouth of her acoustic instrument.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has offered
a challenge cup to be competed for by American and British
yachts of 100 tons and upwards, on the conditions usually
adopted in the sailing matches of the Royal Yacht Squadron,
but subject to any modification which may be considered
advisable by the Sailing Committee of the Club.
The Lerant Times of the 3rd inst, says that Mr.
Erskine, onr Minister at Athens, received a telegram from
the Earl of Clarendon, conveying to Mrs. Lloyd the Queen's
condolence and sympathy with her on the murder of her
husband by the brigands. Mrs. Lloyd acknowledged by
telegraph this mark of feeling on the part of ller Majesty.
At a conference of members of Parliament repre-
senting metropolitan boroughs, held on Monday, it was re-
solved that the Government should be nrged to assent to an
elected School Board, to whom should be entrusted the
management of the elementary schools of the metropolitan
districts.
It is the intention of the Society for the Promotion
of Christian Knowledge "to take up a strong position in
publishing works specially adapted to meet the various forms
of modern infidelity, and to establish a staff of lecturers ' to
carry out the object.
"We have authority to contradict in the most posb
tive terms the statement of the GooloM that the French Am-
bassador has demanded a criminal prosecution of M. Gustave
Eloureos and his associates. Nu such application has been
made."---The Times.

A statue of Mr. Gladstone has just been placed in
St. George's Hall, Liverpool, in immediate proximity to that
of the late Earl of Derby. lire work is by Mr. Adams-
Acton, and has cost £l,OOO. A preliminary and private un-
veiling of the statue took place on Saturday. The statue,
which is executed in Carrara marble, Is six feet six inches
high, and the position of the figure, as well as the likeness,
strikingly reproduce the characteristics of the hight hon.
gentleman.
Two young Parisian ladies who are admirers of
women's rights recently left their home. Their distracted
father sought them in every direction. By means of money
and police at length he found them, and overcome with grief,
he appealed to their memories, to their better natures, re-
called his affection, their dead mother's love, and so on. At
the end the young ladies net upon their parent and beat him
within an inch of his life. They have been arrested. SouveNt
femme curie.
:England is the only country in the world at the
present time which publishes weekly and quarterly observa-
tions on an extensive scale In time to be available for imme-
diate administmtive use. Cut the Registrar General hopes
soon to get the co-operation of other countries, and in a few
yours to see in operation amorg several of the principal
nations of the world one well-concerted series of reports of
their marriages, births, deaths, and most controllable diseases.

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M. Jolet Lermina. the writer in the Gaillois who
lately mnuged himself by reading at a public meeting the
draft of a Tlebiscite sentencing the Emperor to imprison-
ment with hard labour for life, has been tried for his plea-
santry, and condemned to too pars imprisonment, anti a
line of 10,000 francs. Ills counsel argued in vain that, the
Plebiscite being an appeal to the sovereign people, the Empire
(for all hot nece,sary executive purpmes, was tuspeuded dur-
ing the Plellseitary period.

In addreeming it meeting of the Church Missionary
Society, at Cambridge, on M outlay, the rishop of Ely attri-
buted the apparent decay of missionary effort to the active
unbelief which eat tea amongst many classes of the popula-
tion The tithe rev, prelate deplored the " stupid. passive
indifference" which was spreadicg amongst the people of our
large towns, nut he believed that a ;better state of things
woid soils prf.vail.
On Satm.l.iy evenimr a married woman, named Jane
Orcgaty, who was lodged in the cells at the Rotherham police-
station on a charge of stealing 411 b of mutton, attempted to
commit suicide by twisting one of her garters round her neck
and pulling hard at each end. Ile, actions, however, were
observed by a constable, and the attempt was frustrated.
She was watehed during the remainder of the night.
The Totara (New Zealand) Chronirie died, after a
brief existence of three weeke. The demise Is announced on
a double-crown sheet with the Chronicle heading. Al) the
letter-press on the tint page is, "Blessed are they who ex-
pect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." The inside
pages are blank. The fourth page, under the head of
" Death," has the following ths evening of the I.sth
instant, after a short but brilliant 5 treer, the Totara
Chronicle, aged three weeks. Let it it. LP. llogititee
papers please copy."
Captain Cutting, late commander of the steamship
Idaho, of the Guion line, committed suicide by .hooting
him-
self through the head, at his 14113 e, Alexandra, Buildings,
Liverpool, on Friday evening, lie fputted that service for
the purpose of becoming the managing director of a metal
trading company, a business of which he appears to have not
Bad the slightest knowledge. In this company he had in-
vested the whole of his saving', and he had also induced a
large number f d his personal friends to become shareholders
The affairs of the company appear not to have gone on satis-
factorily, and this preyed greatly upon his mind. The Jury
returned a verdict to the effect that he destroyed himself
whilst laboartog under temporary mental derangement.

In America an electric engine has been contrived to
work a lock-Stitch inswing maehine.
Mr. Charles Dickens, it i 3 said, was offered £2,000
by an Arnerlean publisher for to, right of publication of
Ethyl ii Drood.
The other day, a London vestryman, in quoting a
passage from one of SL Paul's epistles, spoke of it zus "In the
words of a certain old gentleman who wrote years ago.
It is stated that the Home Secretary hem resolved V>
, publish, at stated intervals, statistics relathig to all traders
, now under legal inspection.
1 The Obserrcr of Sunday announced that Mr. Bright
had retired from the Cabinet, and that Mr. Mundell% had
been appointed President of the hoard of Trade. There Is no
foundation for either of these announcements.
"We have reason to believe that a marriage be
been arranged between 'Lord Derby and the Dowager Mar-
chioness of Salisbury, which will be solemnized in the nouns
of a few weeks."—The Times.
Relapsing fever has so steadily declined in the metro.
pelts that one of the ward' in the temporary hospital at
Hampstead has been entirely closed.
A Toronto telegram states that the persons recently
sent out to Canasta by the emigration societies have all found
ready enrol., mental good wages, and that they are spoken
of highly by the agents.
According to the Paris Public, the Emperor Na-
poleon has received a letter from tier Majesty the Queen,
congratulating him on his escape from the danger with which
was threatened by the receutly discovered conspiracy.
Tha rharioari
publishes a woodcut representing twaetso
int..-rogating the Mayor of the vi'lage as to "What
is s plebiscite
The answer Is, " It is a Latin word which
signifies Ira"
Nearly 250 prlsond itave been left homeless, all the
furniture and stock of their houses arid shops being almost
totally 4csVoyed, by the reMMt lire at Broadelist, Devon-
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A telegram from St. EsterOrlrg announces the
murder in that city, mid In his OW12110111!1, of prince if Area-
stated that a workman formerly th the emvloy of the Prince
has been arrested on euspicion.
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all sides; If you ask the name of a street there, they clOrne
you a shitling for telling you?"
A circular has been addressed to the tenant farmers+
on Lord Leigh's estates, informing them that on omitting
their lserns for any muse whatever, they will be compen-
sated for every nuethausted improvement made M thelm
own expense.
Mrs. Mackay haw returned to Cork after visiting her •
husband, Captain Mackay, in Portland prison. She
reports that he bad so far recovered from a recent attack of
chest disease that he had been removed from the hospital,
and that he waa in good spirits and bore his Imprisonment
with fortitude.
Prophets in modern times take very frequently ex:
tremely dismal views. Nothing can be More sombre, save
the spot on the sun, than this ;---A period of about forty-two
years, durfne which the slain of the Lord in hundreds of
millions shall cover the earth, will commence on the teeth
day of the month et next November.
A meeting in favour of the release of the Fenian pri-
soners, and against the coercion bill, was held in Birmingham.
on Monday night. The speakers—Ml of whom were English-
men—etrongly condemned the government; and the meeting
unanimously paned a resolution demanding a repeal otin
union
A shocking occurrence las occurred in a remote and
desolate part et Kerry. A number of fishermen were dividing
the contents of a cask of petroleum, which they had picked
uo at sea, When the liquid exploded, the home in which the
fishermen were sasembleil was blown to pieces, two lives welt
lost, and many of the survivors were seriously injured.
A correspondent of an Edinburgh paper, having
suggested that it would confer a great been on the public if
there were special omnibuses for "mothers with intent-
children," the Pall Mall Gazette adds another suggestion that
the driver should be a retired monthly nurse, with • strung'
minded elderly female for conductor,
A Salt Lake paper contains this marriage notice
"Married in Salt Lake city, Utah, on the 16th instant, in the
presence of the saints, Eider Brigham Young to Mrs. J. R.
Martin, Miss L. NI. Pendergast, Mrs. R. M. Jenickson, Was
Susie I'. Cleveland, and Miss Emily P. Martin, all of the
county of Berke, England."
The Earl of Burford, the infant son of the Duke and
Duchess of St. Albans, has been christened at St. Jammes
, Palace, Her Majesty standing sponsor in person, and Miele
Burdett C,outts being the other godmother. The ceremony
was most private. The infant Earl is grandson of the late
General Grey, and was born in the house about the time of
Ithe General's death.
. Napoleon's expenses in the Isle of Elba are given for
the first time in the Memoir and Archives, 1809-1815, of the
Teerumleer there, NI. le Baron Peyrusse," published lest year.
The militaU
expenses were 1,446,000 francs ; the civil only
145,,,e0 feee,:e ; those of the Emperor's household, 750,000
francs;
from I,,:ny 1, 1814, to June 3,11,11.
Another rtunim:e about the ill-fated City of Boston
has found its way in,;,-1 circulation. The Cork Constitution
mentions that a large etsetmer answering the description of
the cre cj ilo,ionerd m.,osed to be that vessel, has been
d;„0„ee, locked In the lee es: the coast of Greenland. It is
added that senate have been riimoatched to her assistance.
The small.poz rages with Welk intensity at Munich
that the king has been obliged to MaCdon the annual cele-
bration of the fete of the order of St. fLawee. All the royal
pages had been attacked bg The malady, th,ed the knights as-
pirant were in the same plight.
"The Ballot Bill has been introduce,' into the
lions° of Commons, and it proves to be of the comi
-.mite and
hybrid character which so seldom owes .yheew. It is
said to be founded on the recommendations of the '.elect
Committee, and it is undeniable that a certain relation M.'S'
be discovered between its provisions and their report. Little
more than this can be positively affirmed of it."—The Timer.
The Saturday Review complains that the promoters
of the Women's Disabilities are not honest and plain-
spoken. What they mean is to establish, as far as the lave
goes, the complete equality of the sexes. The franchise pro-
posed to be given to unmarried women with separate estates
and incomes is an absurdity, unless it involves sooner or
later, which it certainly will, the removal of all so-called
social and political distinctions.
A rather interesting and high-sounding matrimonial
advertisement appears in a Vienna paper —I am young,
handsome, well.made, fascinating in manners, sweet disposi-
tion, not unlearned, descending from a noble family; have a
nice little country property near Vienna. I desire a wife.
Send photographs, which meet show :manly, and she muet Ile-
rich aid cultivated, but must not object to my being, as I .are,
a baker."
The last representative of the elder branch of the•
celebrated family of o*Bryen, formerly Kirrge and afterwards
Marquises of Thomond, died on Monday, in the person of the
Bight Hon. Lady Elizabeth Stucley, wife of Sir Emerge StucleY
stucley, Bart., of Hartland Abbey, Devon, formerly M.P. for
Barnstable lier ladyship was the youngest and emir Sur-
viving daughter of William O'Bryen, P., second alwo ode of
Thomond, a title now extinct, and was married Decerrewr 22,
1535. The head of the family now is Sir Lucius O'Brien,. Lord
uchlquin.
The number of telegraphic messages forwarded from,
postal telegraph stations in the kingdom lathe four weekr •
if April was as follows. In the week ending April 9,
160 562 messages were transmitted, showing an Increase of
4,341 im the previous week. In the week ending April 16,
157.8.07 menages were sent, being a decrease in number of
11,735 on the previous week. The falling off Is accounted
for by the small amount of liminess transacted on Good
Friday and the following day. In the weeks ending Aprit.
23 and 30, 170,659 and 172,746 messages were dess,atcher-1
respectively.
Mr. Cardwell's Enlistment Bill has been prMtect.
Twelve years is fixed as the maximum period of enlistment;
to be pained as the Secretary of State may direct, either in
army service, or partly in the army and partly in there
serve; and three jeers as the minimum eervioe in the army.
which qualifies for removal to the reserve. Subject to those
two conditions the Secretary of State can alter the distribu-
tion of service between the army and the reserve from time
to time as he thinks lit. In imminent national danger
soldiers may be detained in, or recalled to service with the
colours. The number of the reserve is fixed at 60,000.
In the House of Commons the other evening, Mr.
Bruce said he hoped the COMIIIIIOIOO of inquiry into the con-
dition aed treatment of the Fenian prisoners would be issued
bathe course of a few days. The inquiry would be chiefly
directed to the complaints made by the prisoners themselves
of their treatment, and for that purpose it had been thought.
expedient to include in the commission two gentlemen who
specially possessed the confidence of the Irish people—one p.
layman, and the other a physician. There weuld also be two
English gentlemen, and the commission worill be presided
over by Lord Devon. The medical member of tin 0011113111111i011
would be Dr. Lyon., and the other members would. be Sir
Charles Broderick, Dr. Greenhow and Mr. De Yew.