The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-28 00:00:00

EPITOME or NEWS,

RRITISH AND FOREIGN

The Prince of Wales ha received the Order of the
Southern Cross from the Emperor ot Snutl.

The Edinburgh Abstainers' r'nion, whieli has been
in existence for nine years, was tliss dyed "II l'ridity night.

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The Cottrt Theatre at Darmstadt has been dcstroymi
by tire. . . _

The foot and month disease has made it appearance
amongst some One scotch oxen ups the Voyal Wm at
Ilandsor.

The profit of Constable of the Tower f London, it
reported, will he liestow.4l on Fiehl.Marslial his Royal !Hei-
neon *3w Unto of Canibridg.
It ia stated that a strong effort kly to be tnatle
to ilitto,llwt the onzanization of the International Society into
Ireland.

Prim, Napoleon arrive,l at Ajaccio, in C'oraiea, on
Saturday evening, lint tin ,lennoodration tt place in hi

A'thongh the Queen's health has greatly inmunved
of late. her Majesty is still unable to join the family circle
at meals, or to take walking exercise.

After his extraordinary experience with the gentler
sex, it is no wonder, says a iinston paper, that Brigham
Voting should not fear what man can it, unto him.
It is said that the Mordannt Divorce ease will lie
tried over again, Mid that the former witnesses have been
subpomed.
In June the number of births in Paris was 2,9135,
whereas the average of the last few years for the same month
was 4,0173- -difference, Lint,.

Last week's mortality in Paris was 709, including
four cases of entail-pox, 29 of typhoid fever, poll one of
cholera.

It is stated in a Versailleis telegram that the French
Government is aleint to issue a large amount of silver
money, in order to relieve the monetary crisis at present
prevaiiing in ir'rance.

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The Recorder of Brist...l (Mr. Montagu Bere, Q.C.),
to sentencing a prisoner to police supervision, on Monday, re-
marked that after tho 911.1 of November next police super-
vision would be no trifling matter.

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Recent accounts give an encouraging account of the
state of Mr. John Bright's health. It is not, however, eon.
Mitered led able that Mr. Bright will address his constituents
this winter.

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A Gmfil of ',affirm ie prnpnmed to 1 formed to pro.
mote modesty of dress, to to away with extravagance, and
substitute the neatness and sobriety suitable to Christian
women.

Oetalla are to hand of the flooda at Tiendmin. The
Chinese regard them as the punishment for the massacre.
Sonic 3.uot people have been drowned, and the misery tw-
ain to he tauset will he fearful.

Upwards of 100,004) hadjeesl, or pilgrims, bare viaited
Mecca this year. owing to proper sanitary precalttions having
been taken at the port of debarkation, there haw been no
epidemic break not nmongct them.

Intelligence hre+ reached New York of groat excite
meat prevailing ut Winnepeg in consequence of a repotted
discovery of gold near Lake Whepandowan. A great number
of people were I.n their way to the spot.

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A general order Inas been ifiened by the French
Mluis tvr 11 War reminding the oltkra in the army that they
are not ellowol to publiall pamphlet-.r to writ.: to the
newspapers, and that by doing so they render themselves
liable to arrest, and even to dismissal from the service.

A meeting of delegates from twenty-three towns in
Lancashire was held at Blackburn on Saturday, when the
threatened lock-out was Billy discussed. The delegates de-
clared by resolution that the claims of the hands were just,
and that the threat of the masters to lock up the mina
becmixe of a limmte at one establishment was uncalled for.
The 111011 locked out are to be .• supported tO the utmost?'

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Mono,la Mortara, the father of the young Jew whose
conversion to Roman Catholicism attracted so much atten-
tion a few yesir.: moo, la now ling tried in Horence, charged
with the murder of his servant It aprillast, by throwing her
out of a third storey window. The defentai set up is that
the girl threw herself out. The rose la exciting great interest
in Florence.

The amount of atatutl duty reetivol in the Cetomon
Law Courts in the financial year ending the 31st of March
was, gr .ss, ae1,43 Ils. 01., and net, 1:•91,21,S les 33. The
duty at legacies and successions hi the year ended the 31st
of March last was. in gross, V 1,1163,372 Inc 24., and net,
£2,1411,047 tln 74. The net sons produced by taxes on armorial
lienrhuni in the year ended the 31st ,of March was
Lai.= 75. 24.

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It has lieen nail that an Irishman hi at peace only
when he is in a quarrel • a i,c..tellinan at Lorne ordy wheal
he is alirosit . and au Er;illiniunati is contented only alien
finding fault with something or somebody ; it is now added
that a captious, husy. blustering, Impetuous American in
compound of the throe is at the height of felicity only when
he is in all these tumultuous conditions at the aline tline.
"What are you in reality? Ily what title are you
empowered to ticW exclaim. It nn enraged iliplomotiat at
Versailles the other day, when Tillers. as its.' ii (noel to
answer ali important question under pretence of being coin.
pelted t • rowult his Ministry. .• Well, some peiple call inn
Preside:A of the Republic, others Representative of the
Nation ; bur, in sidles truth, I feel myself nothing more
than the ii.silignee of a liationai "
'lle sewage it rigation wiok,m which have just la en
completed at Leamington at a coat of £110.51 were formally
opened on Monday. The Earl of Warwick has contracted to
pay taw a year towards the expenses of pumping, arid to
dispose of the sewage fir a term of thirty years. Ills lord-
, ship's irrigation farm is to lie I.Oen acres in extent, and will
' then be one of the most gigantic attempts yet made to utilise
sewage.
The ctnious custom *Mal existed many years ago
of leaving money to be invested fir the purpose of preach-
ing sermons upon certain days Is passing into desuetude
1 here are, hros es er, thousands of .1111011 n itnitsially preached
In museume of the bequest. of men who died long ago, ant
some of them are somewhat remarkable in their inigin.
for example, what Is known as " the Lien Sermon " was last
week preached in one f the churches in loniton, to ei.on.
mcmorate the providential deliverance of Sir John Gayer,
quondam citizen of London, from a lion On the coast of
Africa, more than ?on years since The test, mdly enough,
was from the Epistle of Timotay, was delivered out of
the mouth of the boo."

A new story by Mrs. Stowe, My Wife and I, is to
be published simultaneously in England AO America.
The hearing of the Tichborne trial will recommence
on the 7th of November.
Although Saratoga in thinning Jut, there is said yet
to remain one lady from New York with 100 silt dresses.

The Army a•ai Nary Ga:die hew, that officers have
sent in their papers by hundreds and hundreds."

The children of the Prince and Princess of Waitu
have been suffering from n beeping-cough.

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The idea has beenagainmooted for building lumen's
steamers tor the rapid traffic between England and France,
minus sea-sickness.

A gathering of the he of several engineering arms
was held at Lincoln on Monday. at yhich it was resolved to
adopt the nine hours' system.

A man named Curtis, who cut hie throat on the
21st of september, at spited ant wovered after being re-
ceived Into the Royal Windsor Infirmary, WIN found drowned
In the Thames, near Surly Hall, on Sunday.

The total earnings of all the railways in India during
the first half year of len amounted to ,e3,276.1:13, again.
£3.472,4.t2 during the corresponding half of last year—•
deficiency of nearly a 200,000.

Two jays before hi* death, an application wail made
to the late Chief Justice Nonaanto Mc a day for hearing the
appeal in the eaae of Ameer Khan and the other Wahabea
prisouere.

A widow wa.s tarred and feathered in Illinois for
playing crequet hefore the funeral she should have aaltod
until the rest of the mourners had returned, so that they
could have joined in the game.

The two principal firms of engineers and machinists
in Carlisle have intimated to their workmen that they will
adopt the nine hours' system on and after the tat ohlanuary
next.
Au American Mormon elder on a visit to this country
expressed his opinion publicly lately that, in the present daA
and unenlightened age. Mormon, niceuht scarcely Lope to
add 11.11114 to the order of Its so!ots in ilia country.

A Madrid correspondent wtates that the Empress
Eugenie lives in the strictest retirement with her mother.
the Countess of Moutkio, and seeks to avoid the ovations
which would otherwise be showered on her.
From an official document just printed it appears
that in the year ended the Slat of' March last the duty on
stamps In the Probate Court amounted to as much as
114.

The French receipts for the transmission of lettens
during the mouth of September, compared with the receipts
of the month of August, show an increase of about 23 per
cent. in favour of the month of September. The month of
October exhibits a still more favourable result.

" 4111•••• iR llikera ••
bi arktn, the j • being Mexican, and having the lame
sound as in Juarez ant Juanita Will all stnphd. inveterat•
punsters please take in otle.e, and cease to afflict the publie."—
Boston Poet.

A San Fransiseo despatch says the Aleutian islandera
killedsooo fur soils this season, but, being linable to sell
more thau halt the skins, threw the remainder into the sea.
The skins thrown away. it properly cured, would in width
Z. 00.000 dollars.

It is announced in well informed circles in Puri.
that the Cabinet .d Berlin is trying hard to got up an offensive
and defensive /111i3llee with Italy. An active interchange ot
notes Is going on between Rome and tiertin Prince Bientarel.
endeavours to Olen' Viet, Ennuumel that. Mi rder to We
trieve some of her M.:t military prodiue, Prance will sooner
or later plea a quarrel witb Italy.

The conference of the miners of Scotland, aitting at
Glaagow, have agreed to commence KU aliit•tion for short,
time in the hours of lal for the regulation of wages by
the sale price of coals In the market, and for an immediate
advance of tid. per day in an Scotch mine,

The Jmienal (Wield states that 89 judgments were
prom 'lanced by Mr I wools of War In thy live days ending
o.n tit. 2 to ,d ktolorr. During the same pm jot,2tl orders
of release harc twee made, bringing up the total number of
discharges to 9,144.

Mr. Lowe haii been waited upon by a deputation of
diatingubbed iaz fa,turing firm, relative to lull erowns.
The manufacturer, hope they will not be withdrawn, as they
are most convenient money to pay met, with, and, indepen-
dent of that, it is found there lea social questinn worth ci m•
shilling, for ill pa}hig a NMI a t,O-slllllillg piece and a sic
meet the manufaetureis tind that sixpence somehow repre-
sents a tell 11111 l iey useful tor Ow public-house only.
Australian, papers announce that the use of kanganai
rsts has at length been discovered, and happily in time. to
prevent their complete extirpation. It is said that they are
so fond of the root of the thistle that they a ill burrow he-
neath the plant Mid thoroughly eradicate it. In future
farmers will take the animal let their protection and re
gard him as one of their most valuable allies.

According, to the Treasury returns, £34,843,891 wax
paid lute the Exchequer between April Ist and ,letober 21st.
This was £1,1:4,735 in excess of the revenue in the corres-
ponding period of last year. The expenditure has been
£12,011,670. In the Bank of England the balance on Satur-
day last was 4.631,703, and in the Bank of Ireland, 4212,655.
The first of a eerie, of conferences between the Bighop
of Ely and his rlergy was opened on Tuesday at Cambridge.
The right rev, prelate. in Ids opening address, spoke of the
general expectation that great nod important political
.hinges were pending ; and, in allusion to the agitation for
the disestahlishment of the Church, he predicted that, if it
succeeded, the power which Wollid sweep it away must in.
evitably destroy all other institutions.

It is announced by a Paris paper that the Empress
Eugenie will leave Spain this week, in order to return to
England. According to illtelligener received by the Jou raid
do ParL,, the Emperor Napole in has been suffering from
rheumatism since his arrival at Chiselliurst, and also from a
tendency to somnolence. The tuindiesi men are afraid that
the English climate will not suit Min, and Dr. Comicial hag
advised him to pasa the winter at et. hebastian. The
Emperor is, however, unwilling to leave England.
The death is recorded of Mr. Nicholas Valentine
Maher, of Tertulla, a former well-known member for the
comity of Tipperafig. The deceased gentleman was a magis-
trate for the county of Tipperary, which he represented in
Parliament from Pitt down to the dissolution of lopS, when
he retired. 11l Parliament he was an ardent Repealer and
supporter of the " Liberator," Daniel I IC,,tiuurlt; ant In
DMA.. Cnonpanion, he is said to have declared that "
would struggle for the right of Ireland to a native Parlia-
ment as Imm as he hail voice, or pen, it pulsation."

Last week the aggregate mortality in London and 19
othir large towns of the rutted Kingdom w-as at the into of
24 deaths anninilly to every 1,000 persons living. In tie
metropolis 2,000 births and 1,291 deaths were registered. Um
former teeing been Mt and the latter 145. below the Ilserago.
Fifty-three persons died from sinall.pox, 34 from measles, 40
from semlet fever, U from diphtheria, 23 from whooping.
cough, 3`. from different formiod fee., and 40 from diarrlara.
The fatal easeg of small pox, whmming-eough, fever, and
iliarrlnea were less numeroue than in recent weekt, while
than. of scarlatina showed an inert zee, and 13Seteal,1 ttle
sunder returned in any week slime the middle of July last
A paragraph in a New York journal annonneen
portentio. f.ririi9 In the affair:, of the Fenian brotherhomd.
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v 4 4•44 u...
411444414,4111 R 052441 lota resigned his iiiii•gum as tom id is
mysterious and formidable body styling itself "The Directory
of the Irish l'onfedmation :" and he has tilso seceded from
the •• Allied Council of the Irish Utedederist. and the
Fenian linitherinsul." it seeing that itossa has determined
to "run ' fir the of registrar of the dip of New York
—41j4044 1.. whitil a very ((title 8111fley in attached. 440a1e
easiness, it is said, has been treated in the minds of Rosso's
quondam friends in Ireland, and hints are dropped ahoult
the influence of "British gold,"
A short time since forty six members of the French
Assembly sent an address to the Pope, assuring him of their
hilt, fin the doctrine of infallibility, and of their devotion to
hits as the head of tile I Minh. In Ina reply, whiati isolatea
• 1ct,11..t. 5, Pins fl non it is aviutis that he cannot frerly
and efficaciously 1.1111 bin 111414.14 !!!! lie enjoys 14 acres 'is
liberty, apart front the authority of every 4 4ther rower. 'Me
address he regards as a proof 44 the piety alld ladepelidetiCe
of those who hove signed It, and it tills Mlle with the hope
that the majority of their colleagues, touched bps desire
for the solid and teal welfare of the Church and the country.,
ill share their convictions and assist in the good work.