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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH
FRANCE.

A meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects
was held last week in London, when two papers were
read advocating the establishment of • line of train-
ships between Dover and Calais. One was by Ad-
miral Belcher, who gave an elaborate explanation of
his theory by frequent references to diagrams. The
ve,sels which he would build would be of a light
draught, and so constructed that there would be no
rolling, and as. conaequence no sea-sickness.
Mr. Scott Russell, who read the second paper, ex-
plained that the train on arriving at Dover would on
two lines at once pass on to the deck of his steamer,
which would be 400 feet in length and 40 feet in beam,
and that when the vessel arrived in Calais it would
Imes on to the French railways, and so on to Paris.
Should there be any da-rence between the level of
the deck an I that of the pier, the difficulty would be
got rid of by the use of an inclined plane. It might be
asked what was the use of this, but the answer was a
ready one. It was not to save the passengers the
trouble of getting out of the train into tlae steamer, and
from the steamer again into the train, hut it was to
lave the cost, the trouble, and the dainave which at-
tended the frequent transhipment of merchandise.
Under this system goods might be put into a waggon
at Marsbester or Birmingham, and remain undisturbed
until it reached its deatination in Vienna or Paris. A
vowel which he had built to fu til those objects had
been for years plying on Lake C .nstance. The result
to passengers would be that the railway companies
could establish American trains with sleeping apart-
ments, and would thus enable the paasengars to reach
their &aril-lethal without the fatigue and trouble at-
tendant upon journeyamarlertaken at the present time.
The benefits to be derived from this system would not
be exclusively confined to passengers. but would be evi-
denced in an immense caving with regard to goods.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

HALESOWEN.

Cnincoe OF STFALING A TURKEY. —At tile Public
Unice, inn Wednesday. before K. Moore, Esq., Joseph
Webster and 'fnunias Neale, both of liirminglinin-street,
Hailers, were charged with stealing a turkey, the property
of Mr. John Potter, of the Goodreet Farm. Hunnington.
It appeared tint on Sunday internoou last, one of Mr.
Potter's sone found the turkey concealed in a hedge, with
its head cut off. Police-constable Knowles was sent for,
and the turkey was, by his advice, placed hack again in
the hedge, and a watch kept over the place. Shortly
after nine o'clock p.m., the two prisoners came up to the
headge, and Neide stooped down and picked up the tar.
key, and gave it to Webster. Police-constable Knowles
then gave chase, and after a short struggle, with the as-
sistance of Mr. Putter, secured IA ebster. Neale made
his escape, but on Tuesuay morning he surrendered.
They were both committed for trial at the &salmis.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

SOMETHING THE MATTER WITH
THE SUN!

The following letter has been sent for publication by
the Rev. Frederick Howlett, of East Tisted Rectory,
Alton, Hants :

The Interest of the public having seemingly been consider-
ably awakened in regard to the present unusually disturbed
condition of the solar surface, I venture to again trouble you
with some few further observations

.—...-. —...-..--.
Another enormous spot of very irregular form, but, up to
this date, of one continuous surfaoe, 54 000 miles in mean
length and 30,000 miles in mean breadth, Is traversing the
sun's northern hemisphere, and pouesees a superficial area
of abont I 620,000.100 square miles.
'— • '

. .
In addition to Om great single spot there is a group of two
fair-sized spots in the northern hemisphere, besides sir other
groups in the southern hemisphere, mostly of a very scattered
and irreetilsr description
The total area of the whole of these spots cannot be esti-
mated at less than 3.000,010,000 square miles. I have never,
during a period of twenty years, seen so great a distarbance.
The great northern spot will pass off the disk shout the
14th Inst., and previously to that date may very probably re-
olve itself Into a group of spots, as It shows symptoms of
breaking up.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE SECRETARY.

The Saturday Review, whilst pal leg • deserved tribute to
the memory of the late General Grey, gives an interesting
.ketch of the Important duties constantly devolving on the
Queen, who, it may be added, not only performs her State
nadirs intelligently and conscientiously, but always haii a
helping hand ready to assist tho needy, and a sympathialng
heart tor the stil,cted and disconaolate :
A servant of the Crown holding a place of very con-
siderable importance, the functionn of which he dis-
charged with great success. has just passed away, and
yet the Englieh public knew literally nothing of him or
of his office. General Grey was not only the son of a
Prime Minister and the heir presumptive to an Earl-
dom, but he was a man of masculine mind, of great
readiness and sense, and of highly independent charac-
ter. Nevertheless he was contented to be the Queen's
Private Secretary, and he found ample cope for bin
energiem and satisfaction for his ambition in hie em-
ployment.

r-Ist,TtilTn.c, perhaps, could illustrate more forcibly the
real working of some of the chief institutions of the
country than the satisfaction which such a man found
in holding the retire assigned to him. The l'rivate
Secretary of the Queen has to lead a very labord us
life, for the simple reason that the life of the Sovereign
he serves is necessarily very laborious. He has the
reward of doing really good work, and of doing it
under the eyes of a person who can appreciate whathe
does. He has also the reward of exercising an im-
portant but very indirect influence over the course of
public affairs. But it is a great mistake to suppose
that the Queen's Private Secretary has power in the
shape of Punmanding patronage, or of influencing the
mind of the Sovereign on questions where the head of
the Ministry is brought into direct contact with
the Queen. What amount of idffience he has will
indeed depend, not only on the man himself, but on
the accidental circumstances in which he may find
himself. The Queen has an enormous amount of daily
businese to go through. In her early day., she had Lord
Melbourne to advise her in tile conduct of this business;
and then for many years she had the happiness of being
aided by the supreme good sense and the untiring in-
'dastry of Prince Albert. When thrre is attached to a
Qieen s person who has this !special claim to guide
her or a recognised habit of guiding her the Private
Secretary acts miler the guidance or a person who is
really • private secretary of a higher kind. But in
later years the Queen has done her vent business un-
aided. and General Grey has had to shape the form in
which her wishes were expressed; and necessarily
this became a very important task, for the expression
of thought is always in roma degree a limitation of the
thought itself. The Private Secretary loon forgets all
party feeling, for the Sovereign is of no party; and he
soon gets to concentrate his whole mina on carrying
out the yams and datoadiag tha position of his minima
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

WORDSLEY.

DISCHARGING FIREARHs.—At the Police Court, on
Monday last, before P. Evers and H. Hall, Emirs.. Joseph
Bordawey and Stephen Wood were charged with dis-
charging firearms within 50 yards of the high road, on
the 28th ult, at Quarry Bank. A man named Cartwright
said he had been summoned to attend as a witness, and
did not know anything about it. He was digging in his
garden when he heard the reports of two guns or pistols,
but did not see who fired them. Police-conetahlo Lavin
said from a communication he received he went to a
place at Quarry Bank, and saw a large number of people
assembled. They were shouting and making a great
noise, pigeon flying. Saw defendant (Wood) come round
a corner and discharge a pistol. Did not see the other
defendant fire, but from a statement made by the last
witness, summoned him. Bordaway was discharged, and
Wood fined Si and costs; in default seven days.
Dant:lL—John Webb was charged with being .
and ordered to pay the costa—John Porter was charged
with a similar offence, and ordered to pay costs.—John
Cadwallander was charged with being drunk and riotous,
at Wombourne, and ordered to pay costs.
OBSTRUCTING TM; FooTrATlL—Joseph Skidmore was
charged with obstructing the footpath, by standing on
it. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was ordered to pay
costs.

drunk,

DAMAOING A PEAR TREE.—At the Wordsley Police
Court, on Monday last, before F. Evers anu H. Hall,
Emirs., Henry Haynton (9), and Charles Lloyd (10). were
charged with damaging a fruit tree belonging to Tames
Edwards. at Kinver, on the 3rd inst. Complainant said
on the above date he was going through his orchard,
whoi he saw the two defendants jump up to a tree, and
break the branch down The damsgedone ami,tinted to
3d. Have constantly had the trees damaged liy boys.
Defendants said a boy had broken down the branch.
They were fined 21 64; in default seven days. Allowed
seven days to pay the money in.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

CHARLES CLARE,

HoUSEPAINTER,DECORATOR,

OLDSHINFORD AND NTOURBRIDGE.

Estimates given fur General Repairs.

JOHN CLARKE,

BOOKSELLER AND NEWSAGENT,

HIGH-STREET, KINI-ER.

Agent for the OBSERVER.

CA cLaD.3
MISSES M. AND E. FOWLER,

DRESS & MANTLE MAKERS.

92, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

WHOLESALE & RETAIL TOBACCO

WAREHOUSE,

FIVE WAYS, CRADLE'Y HEATH.
T. HOMER, PROPRLITOIL
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

SUICIDE IN A PRIVATE LUNATIC
ASYLUM.

An inquest has becn held at Peckham, London, respecting
the death of Mrs. Catherine Ccnnor, aged forty-tight years,
who committed auicide by throwing herself out of • window
at the Peckham House Lunatic Asylum.

%ills Cooper said that she had been nurse attendant
at Dr. Armstrong's Lunatic Asylum, Peckham House,
for the last two months, and during that time she had
known the deceased as a patient. On Sunday after-
noon she took the deceased her dinner, and after she
bad eaten it the witness left the room in order to dine
with the other norms. A few minutes afterwards she
heard a noise, as if some heavy body had fallen, and
on going into the yard she found the deceased lying on
the flagstones, insensible, and bleeding from a wound
on the forehead. _

IT. answer to questions put by the coroner and the
jury, the witness said that when she left the ward she
locked the door. She noticed the window of another
room open, and she believed the deceased must have
foiced it open, as it was secured by nv-ans of screws.
The height 1 the window from the ground was about
fourteen feet. The witness bad no special instructions
to look after the deceased, as it was believed that she
was not of a suicidal turn of mind.

Mr, Fuller, an assietant medical officer at the asy-
lum, said that when he wee called to the deceased he
found her bleeding from a small scalp wound on the
head. Several ribs on the right side were fractured,
and she was suffering from concussion of the brain.
She died on Tuesday from the injuries received.

Mr. Hearn, brother of the deceased, said he did not
think it right that his sister should have been left alone
in s room. She had before attempted to commit suicide
when a patient at St. Bartholomew's HovitaL He
thought the window was not securely fastened.

Dr. Fuller said the window swung on a pivot, and
wonloi only open a few inches for ventilation. The
m inia under which the woman laboured would give
her sufficient power to force the window open. If it
had been known that ehe was of a suicidal turn of
mind she would have been watched night and day.
_

The jury found " That the deceased committed sui-
cide by throwing herself out of a window while in a
state of unsound mind."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

THE MARKL

MARIC-.LANE.-NONDAY.

From Essex and Kent the recelpTili7rl;it.l7S,e'lle'e7:7l;ily
moderate, but the quality has been good. There has be.,
limited attendance, and the demand for both red and white
produce has been inactive, at ebout late rates. With forego
wheat the market has been fairly supplied. Next to nothing
has been doing in any description, on former terms.
The supply of barley he. been moderate. For all
qualities the inqiiiry has been limited, at the quotations of
last week. Malt hu sold slowly, at the prices of last week.
Oats have been in fair supply and limited vetoed, on former
terms. Beans have been quiet, and the demand for peas line
been restricted. Flour he. been depressed, at etationary
prices.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARK ET.—MONDAY.

The tendency of the cattle trade to-day has been decidedly
adverse to graziers. The receipts have been on a nrwe
liberal scale, and to this circumstance, In conjunction with
the prevalent heaviness in the dead meat market, and the
warm weather, must he attributed the depression. As re-
gards besot., fair supply has been on sale, and the quality
kenerally has been utislactory. For all qualities the ildolan.l
has ruled heavy, at 24. per B,b less money. The best tic on and
crosses have sold at 4. 84. to 45. 104. per 81b. There hat been
• decided Increase in the receipts of sheep. In all
breeds sales have progress,' slowly. at • dentine 0! 21. to
44. per 81b. the few prime Downs lu the wool have rel.'sed
W. 6d. For shorn sheep the quotation has been 41. 6 t to
4s. Bd. per till. Lambs have been in limited rquest, at front
78, 6,1. to be. per 81b. For calves the Inquiry has been
restricted, and pigs have been purchased cautiously.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

WILL OF THE LATE EARL OF DERBY.

The will of the Right Hon. Edward Geoffrey, Earl
of Derby, K.G , P.C., late of Knoweley Hall, Lan-
caster. and St. James'actquare, London. wail proved in
her M .jesty's Court of Probate, on the 2nd instant, by
his eldest son, the Right Hon. Edward Henry, the
present earl, the sole executor. The personalty was
sworn under £250,000. The will is dated February
21, 1865; and there are three codicils, dated May, 1868,
March and September, 1869. His lordship died
October 23 following, at the age of seventy, having
held the title since 1851. The will is of considerable
length, extending to 79 folios. Hi, lordship has be-
queathed to his countess, Emma Caroline, daughter of
the first Lord Skelmersdale an immediate legacy of
£3,000 and an annuity of £3,009, in addition to a like
annuity under settlement, and closes the bequest to her
ladyship in the words— ," To whom, under God's Priv i.
dence. I have been indebted for more than 39 years
(then in 1865) of much domestic happiness and uninter-
rupted harmony." He also leaves to her ladyship all
his plate, with the exception of his racing cups and
racing plate, and a selection of his books from his
library, together with furniture. He devices to his
eldest son and meccemter the manor of Knowsley. with
the estates at Hayton, Eccleaton, and Bickerstaff, and
all other his estates in the counties of Lancaster,
Chester, Westmoreland, York, and Middlesex, and to
his issue male ; and leaves to his trustees, the Hon.
Charles James Fox Stanley, bin brother, and the Right
Hon. Edward. Lord Skelmeretiale, in trust, all his
racing cups and racing plate, to be held and pass as
heirlooms with the title of earldom. To his second
sou, the Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley, he leaves his
estates in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary, and
elsewhere in Ireland, with the option of taking, within
six months, the sum of £125 000 in lieu thereof. His
lordship hes made provision for his daughter, Lady
Emma Charlotte Stanley. He leaves to Colonel the
Honourable Edward Bootle Wilbraham (Scots Fusilier
Guarde) and Lord Skalmersdale each a legacy of £l,OOO.
Legacies are left to his cousins, nephews, and their chil-
dren ; and legaciee and annuities to servants. To his
stud-groom, Timothy Forshaw, he leaves an annuity of
£6O, when he may cease to be employed as stud-groom
to his successor. To his valet, Joseph Blake, he leaves
an annuity of £5O and all his wardrobe, with the ex-
ception of his robes of state and the Order of the
Garter. The testator app,inte his eon, the present
Earl, residuary legatee.— Illustrated London News.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

MR. J. S. MILL AND THE EDUCA-
TION BILL.

The following letter appeared in the Spectator of last
Saturday :

Having full belief in your not intending to Mill
represent, though (if you will allow me to say so) not
equal confidence in the caref ulnas. and accuracy of al
your representations, I do not doubt that you will
permit me to correct a serious misetatement which
pervades the whole of your last Ssturday's comments
on the education meeting at St. Jatnee's Hall. The
writer affirms again and again, with sundry unoom•
plementary remark. on the inconsistenciee and other
'nationalities therein implied, that in my epeech
at that meeting I advocated and sakedAlov the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

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TERRIFIC STORM AT NEW YORK.

There was a heavy equinoctial gale at New York on
the 26th ult., which caused great destruction of pro-
perty and the sacrifice of numerous lives. The storm
had full sweep in the bay and the East River,
and the tide influenced by the easterly wind, rose to
'an unueual height. In the afternoon the large, un-
finished fivsstorey brick buildirg, No. 627, West
Forty-sixth street, fell with a terrible crash. The
side and rear walla were complete. The front wall
was only carried up to the second storey. The side
wall n the west side toppled over on a one-storey
brick building, occupied by Benjamin Donelly, his
wife, and four children, who were buried in the ruins.
All, with the exception of a boy named Charles,
were found in a gap near the front door. Apparently
they had been seated around the stove in the front
room, and hearing the crash, had started ti escape,
but had only reached the front door when they were
struck by the falling mass. Charles aged seven, was
sitting astride a hobbyhorse when the crash came, and
when found by the searchers was lying beside it. Both
legs were broken, and he was otherwise shockingly
bruised and cut. His life was only saved by seine
beams failing across • portion of the walls of Donelly's
residence, and forming a sort of shield.
Much damage was done in both the eastern and
western districts of Brooklyn. Ellen Creed, age 19,
while returning from church to her home, was knocked
down by a gust of wind, and her head coming in con-
tact with a stoop a fracture of the skull was caused,
and she soon died. A three-storey frame house on
Bushwiek-avenue, near Moore-street, was wrested
timber from timber. A three storey brick house, corner
of Richards and Partition-streets lost its roof. Trees
were uprooted and fences blown down in every part
of the city, and a great amount of damage done by the
tearing of awnings and breaking of skylights. At
Baltimore twenty buildings, some of them in course of
erection, were blown down or partially demolished,
and several houses were unroofed in different sections
of the city.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

OTTAWA.

APRIL 14th.
The reported departure of the 16th regiment
for the frontier, and the anticipation that the
Habeas Corpus Act would be suspended, are
unfounded or premature. An extensive .move-
moot of local troops continues.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

According to the Orfofd Chromele, in a lecture on "Eng-
lish Universities," delivered at Philadelphia, Mr. Goldwin
Smith sald, in reference to the residence of the Prince of
Wales as •student at Oxford

I see scandal is again busy with the name of the
Prince of Wale*. Evil reports about him fill our
rransatlantic telegrams and our newspapers at this
moment. I lived, even when I was in England, for
from the Court, and I cannot may how much of this
scandal is true or how much is false ; I can only say
that it is all loathsome. But this I know, that
some false reports have been circulated and
eagerly believed; and, moreover, that no clan of
people is more likely to swallow and propagate
scandal about royal personages than those who, when
brought into contact with Foy alty, or when they expect
any advantage from it,, power, are most servile in their
adulation. The conduct of the Prince of Wales as a
student at Oxford was in every respect unexceptionable.
Yet even at that time there were rumours that he was
leading a vicious life. I was once anxiously interrogated
as to their truth by a person of eminence, who had
heard them on what be believed very good autho-
rity. I ventured to express my conviction that they
were utterly untrue; and subsequent inquiry perfectly
satisfied me that n y conviction was well founded.
There are some who avow their conviction that here-
ditary institutions have played their allotted part in
the development of humanity, and that they are now
ceasing to be necessary or useful to mankind; and who
wish to see them speedily withdrawn from the scene,
because while they linger on they prevent us from
turning our attention to the defects and liabilities of
the elective principle, which, in its turn, requires regu-
lation, lest in the place of the tyranny of kings, which
is now fast becoming a shadow, and is quite one in this
new world, should arise a tyranny of the sovereign
people. But the most irrational and ignoble course of
all is to keep Royalty alive and at the head of the
nation, and at the same time to exult in degrading it,
and the nation with it, by scandal and abuse.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 18.
Nnbar Pasha left to-night, on board the Maar,
for Marseilles.

SHIPPING NEWS.

IRELAND.
QUEENSTOWN, April 15.
The Pennsylconia, from New York, arrived
off here at five this morning.

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GENERAL NEWS.

Pows Aiisociatiun Teleyrains.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT STIRLING

RAILWAY STATION.

APRIL 16.

A railway emplor'e named MacPherson, while
jumping off a ballast train at Stirling Railway
Station, this morning, was knocked down by a
train, aud killed. He leaves a wife and three
children. He was a discharged soldier, and had
earned Crimean, China, and Indian medals.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.

ArraL 14th.

Thin attendance of buyers. Trade quiet at
late rates. Barley, Oats, ard Beanswitbout al-
teration.

THE CONVENT QUESTION.

It is announced that an effort will be made to settle
the vexed question of inquiry into the religious houses
of Great Britain, and that a compromise will he sugges-
ted by which a Royal Comunssiou may be substituted
for a select committee of tee House of Commons, and
the terms of the reference to be modified no 118 to em.
brace merely the question of the trusts under which the
property of convents and monastic institutions is admin-
istered.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

WOOL

The attendance at the puhlic sales of colonial wool con-
tinues good. For all description. biddinge have been ani-
mated, and the value of both Cape and Austrehen pr duos
1,.. ruled very firm. English wool has changed hoods
quietly, but at full prices. Current prices of Eui2.11.1.
wool :—Flecces : South Down boggeta, le. Osd. to Is. Id ;
halhbred ditto, Is. 31- tot. 4d. Kent fleeces, la. 3d to la.
td.: South Down ewes cud wethers, le. to Is. Id..;Li ices-
ter ditto, la. Yid. to IL WI. Soria : Clothing, ls, to IL 4d.
combing, 11d. lolL 84d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

PEARMAN AND GOULD,
CORSER AND WALKEtt,
Solicitors to the said Executors.

Re THOMAS MORRIS, Deceased.

DURSUANT to an Act of Parliament 22nd
_L and 23rd Victoria, chapter 35. "An Act
to further ar..end the Law of Iruperty and to relieve
frustees," Notice is Hereby Diven, that all Creditors
and Claimants against the Estate of 1 110111A8 MORRIS,
late of Fishet-stieet, in the Itorough of Dudley, in the
County of Worcester, Porter, a Paehelor, deceased, who
died on the 27th day of I ebrunry, 1870, intestate, and of
whose Estate Letters of Administration were granted by
the Principal ltegi.try of Ifer Majesty's Court of Probate
on the 26th day 4 4 March, 1870. to Elizabeth Cooke. the
wife of Thomas Cooke, of the parish of Oldswinford, in
the said county of Worcester, Provision Dealer, the
lawful Aunt and one of the next of kin of the said de.
ceased, are hereby required to send in the particulars of
their Claims and Demands on or before the Ist day of
June next to me. the undersigued Solicitor to the said
Admit. st:atrix, at my Office, Number 4, Market-street,
Stourbridge, in the said county of Worcester. And
Notice is Hereby kindlier Given, that after the said lot
day of June next, the said Eima Cooke, av such Admin.
.stratrix as aforesaid. will procemi to distribute the
Assets of the said Estste amongst the parties entitled
tnereto, having regard to the Claims of which the said
Administratrix way then air noUce. Anii the said
AdminiAratrix will not be habit or answerable for the
Assets or tiny part thereof so distributed. to Pity person
or persons of whose claim the said Administratrix shall
, not then have had notice.

Dated this 11th day of April, 1870.
CHARLIB WILLIAM COLLIS,
btourbriage.
Worcestershire,
Solicitor to the said Administrant.

THE ILLUSTRATED Ni IDLAND

NEWS.

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CHILDREN'S PICTORIAL PUZZLE
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BOOKS,

PRESENT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

AN IMMENSE VARIETY AT
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

CRA.DLEY HEATH.

ANNUAL SEILVONIL—Oo Sunday last two sermons were
preached on behalf of the New Connexion Sunday
Schools, Five Waya, by the Lev. T. Mills. of Hanley.
Largo congregations were preaent, and the preacher, who
le lamed for his serinonmeting powers, gave them every
eatistaction. l'iecev were reciied and hymns sung by the
children, in • v4ry pleasing manner, and the choir ren-
dered an anthem or Imo in good eareest. The collections
bineiunted to X 35, NVllie fact shows bow the Sabbath
sciiool as Five Way+, is liked and appreciated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

THE BUDGET.

In another column N\"J !!.iVI' ;I fill abstract of a
spe-celt whicii, iii.ss ,•, •-• the most im-
portant of the s. • i •, m eh of the
Chancellor of the ix c ! • : •' _!ives us
an z,curate account 01 ;los, ~,ition of
the entry, but de.ii jk tile taxation of the
coming year, a matter which deeply affects us ,
all. The Budget which Mr. Lowe brought for- •
ward on Monday night does not fulfil the exag-
gerated expectations of the public ; but, on the
whole, it must he admitted to he a most favour-
able and eneourdziog statement. The reverie,
-
for the year 1569-70, after -everal reductions
had been decided CU, was estimated at
.03,515,000. Tbo actu ii receipts Lave exceeded
this amount by .tr,819,000. For the year Is7o-1
Mr. Lowe has, very hapyily, a surplus of no less
than £4,207,000 to deal with, and we think that,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

FRANCE.

PARIS, April 15.

M. Scgris has been appointed Minister of
Finance, vice M. Butfit.
M. 011ivier is appointed Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and of the Interior.
M. Richard has been appointed to act provi-
sionally as Minister of Public Instruction.
Last night a meeting of deputies, writers for
the democratic press, Lud others, was held at
31. Cremieux's house. Resolutions were adop-
ted recommending the legislative body as to the
: better course to pass a negative vote in reference
to the proposed plebiscitum, without, however,
restraining members, either from abstaniing
from voting, or from returning blank voting
papers.
A committee of seven journalists was appoin-
ted to draw up the manifesto of the Left party.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

A LADY ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.

Mr. Wasbrough, the coroner for Bristol, held an in-
quest on Saturday, on the body of Mrs. Goyder, a resi-
dent of Clifton, whose death wee °deadened by an
overdose of Batley.* solution of opium. The deceased,
who was forty-hoe yearn of age, was the wife of Mr.
Goyder, surveyor-general for South Australia, and for
the past two years she hail been staying at Clifton
with her family for the benefit of her health. The com-
plaint she was suffering from caused great weakness
and sleeplessness, and she was recommended by •
medical gentlenian to take a few drops of Batley's
sedaiive. She adopted his advice, and A couple of
doses were administered to her by her sister, and from
them she derived great benefit. On Thursday morn-
ing, after passing a sleepless night, she took an over-
dose of the mixture, and although every effort was
made to restore her, she succumbed to the effects of
the poison on Friday. The evidence entirely negatived
the idea of suicide; and the jury returned a verdict of
" Died from an overdoes of Batley's solution of opium
taken by misadventure."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

D.DIA.

BOMBAY, April 15.
Sir Seymour Fitzgerald has returned from a
shooting expedition near Rhandeass.
Lord Napier has left for Pexhawr, to join the
Viceroy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

PRINCE NAPOLEON onthe PLEBISCITUM
The Francaig reproduces the following opinion recently
expressed by Prince Napoleon (Jerome) on the subject of
the appeal to the people upon which the Emperor's Govern-
ment seem now Irrevocably deermiued

• , .
I do not approve the P/ebtseditm • it only bears the
semblance of Democracy. It is the legis'ative power
directly exercised by the people. This power seems
to site, noires it be in very rare cases, an illusory
power. If the Emperor has a right to make a direct
appeal to the people, that right should be eel tom
11,1-. l—perhaps, never; for • Mb/sedum is a f beet
anchor ; it is the last stage before a revolution. What
an error it would be to ask of a Plibiscitum the appro-
val of a modification in the Constitution I If the
people answers 'Yes,' it is a delusion ; if it says 'No,'
it is a revolution. .

I adroit that the people may, under exoeptional
circninstaucee, be consulted with respect to a person,
with respect to a definite question of peace and war,
with respect to the cession of a province in the event
of a disastrous war; but even in such cases it is
necessary that he who answers should know and
understand the purport of the question. It is neces-
sary that the question should be clear and simple.
How many such questions have occurred to us in our
public life? Let the Plaiscitunt therefore, be reserved
as a right of the Sovereign, but on condition that he
should have recourse to it as little as possible. To
consult directly the people is a kind of coup ditat, and
it supposes a dissent between the Emperor and the
representatives of the people. Were it otherwise, the
Emperor would find it more natural to go hand in
hand with the representatives themselves.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

DIED.

On the 19th inst. stiet l m oust,. Joseph Edward,
cm of Edward Brettle. Bower Lllll, Quarry Bank.
Oa the 4th Met, at the lirllier, Rowley Regis, aged 78,
Samuel Lewis, Esq,
On the Out inst, aged 69, Sarah Adams, of King St.,
Cradley Heath.
On the sth must. Honor, the wife of Joseph Williams,
iron dealer, Reddall Hill.
On the 10th that, aged 48. Arthur, eldest son of John
Blakeway, of Mearee, Chaddesley Corbett.

CURIES 07 COLDS AND COUGHS RV DR. Locoest's
PCLNONIC WAFERS.—Mr. Giles, Army Schoolmaster.
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years been afflicted with a weak chest, which renders me
liable to colds and coughs, I wish to add my testimony
to the efficacy ot Dr. Locock's Wafers, which I have
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

SPUTTERINGS FROM JUDY'S PEN.

A FAIR pugilist need not be a striking beauty.
Tne stage coach of the present day—The stage manager of
a theatre where there are plenty of pretty amateurs.
CIGARS for ladies—Widows' weed..
IT is said that the spring-time make* the skylark soar—
This must be painful to the poor skylark.
WHAT is the difference between the duties of your valet
and your nureel--One brushes your hat and the other hushes
your brat.
A PERFF,CT cue.er—COOK, the champion billiard-player.
The best baud to accompany • lady vocalist. —A hus-
band.
A MURDEROUS ruffian lately despatched an anonymous
letter—it is a dead letter now, not having reached Its
goal.
MR. DICKENS appears inclined not to draw upon STONB
PR.I for his Illustrations. Perhaps he likes a new face.
Jury and nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand
of the British public prefer the old " PHIL"
A DeleE to a large-sised melancholy man—Strike one of
your own 111010.
RED as her hone is she—Yes, but then she ought to have
paid more money for them, and she would have got fast
colours.
MoDERN builders can hardly be compared to creepers,
although they certainly do run up houses Just a little.
TIME, in the long run, is too many for any leader, how-
ever great ; but, fore long while some leaden beat time.
A CURIOUS FACT--On the Hammersmith Road, next door
to • burial.ground, there Is • large dyeing yard. This ought
to be looked to
SUePOSE • chef Sr cuisine were burnt to death, and you
were to call his remains the Hashes of the Orate, vernal
it be funny I—There's no knowing, but MY doesn't think
so.
A CM( gentleman, the other day, put his head on one side
when in • thoughtful mood, and Ma not alnee been able to
lay his hand on it.
IF a dull Joke happened to be the cause of • quarrel,
could it not nevertheless, be called • silty-schism?
WHY Is • novelist. unnatunl phenomenon P—Beeanse his
tale comes out of his head.
A MOTTO for magistrate. dealing with young beginners—
"A switch in time liana nine
How to bring up a bill-sticker's apprentice—Teach him
application.
QUERy —Who was It put himself in a hole ; HARMS
Marrs. nra certain comic author 1-4sk Ow Nan in Ow
Moon.—JUDY.

Mr. Swinburne's new volume of [poems will be
entitled Songs be fore Sienrion.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

IMPORTANT NOTICE ! ! !

LONG LOOKED FOR, COME AT LAST.

Just Published.

S. Salts Lecture on the Evils of Intemperance
Unmasked, and a Peep into a Gin-shop, among

the Drunkards.

Twenty Pages of Close Printed Letterpress
royal octavo size, Price 6d.
Also an account of the late Diagram/NI Outrage at
Cradley. Price lid.
To be had at all Booksellers, and at S: SA
Town-crier and Bill-poster, Bagley Sire
Halesowen.

NOTICE.

INNKEEPERS', GROCERS', AND (MILE
BUSINESSES,

ARE SPEEDILY EFFSCIIVELY TRANSFERLYI
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No Charge made nElems a Sale is effected.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

QUARRY BANK.

SCHOOL SERMONE..—The Klllllll\l sermons on behalf of
the Sabbath School were preached in the IN esleyau
Chapel, Mount Pieti.ant, on :windily last, by the her. W.
F. Clark. of ftedloid. Mr. Clark was in tee Stourbridge
Circuit some years ago. and thc respect he then gained
Wad sliseis by Use iaige congieg.ition, ssich ilsied the
chapil. Ike rime huger than last yi
On Monday a hag, number of friends partook oi tea in
tile chapel ; after which a public meeting was field. Mr.
E. Wove occupied the chat/. Ihe meeting was add rowed
by the Revs. W. F. Claik, f. tireeniund, J. Jones, and
W. lioeuck, uml Messrs. Dunn, Leimett, and Loyus. A
very pleasant evening was spent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

LATEST NEWS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEIRAAIS.

(REUTERS TELEGRAMS)

FOREIGN NEWS

NEW YORK.

-
APRIL 14th.
Gold closed, 113„. Highest quotation, 1131;
Lowest, 112.
Sterling Exchange on London, 108:1.
5-20 Bonds (18821, 112 k. 5-20 Bonds 1.885),
111 k. 5-24) Bonds (1897), 1104. 10-40, 1001.
Illinois, 139. Erie, 25.
Cotton, 111- Upland, 23.
Petroleum, standard white, 29.
Flour extra state, 4-50, 500. Corn, old mixed,
1-9.
The America and India arrived out to-day.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

DIPERIATA PARLIAMENT.

ID the House of Commons, April 11, several private hills
Were read • third trine, and several others were read a
second time. _

Mr. eieorge Gregory mated the First ecormisslonerot Worts
when he expected that the plan and design tor the new
Courts of Justice would he completed.
Mr. Ayrton stated that oonstlerable progress had been
Mule In the plans, hut he was not yet able to 11l a day when
they would be completed.

Mr Wino asked ihe home Secretary whether he proposed
to introduce a bill ..n the subject of Trades' llalous dialog
the
.present sesslor.?

Mr. Bro'o nprd to be ebb) to Introduce e bill on the sub-
ject shortly alter Master.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

PAUPERISM AND SELF-HELP.

In London, on Monday night, at a meeting of the
National Association for the Promotion of Social
Science, Mr. Hastings in the chair, Mr. C. Lsruport
read a paper upon " Pauperism and Self-help." After
giving a historical sketch of the pauperism of the
country horn a remote period down to the present
time, Mr. Lamport submitted the synopsis of a
scheme to establish a National Friendly Society in
connexion with and by means of the existing Poor
Law system. The primary object of the society
would be to diminish pauperism by instituting a
counterpoise in self-help. The secondary objects would
be to raise the working Dialfs self-respect, to render the
efforts of the poor to become independent, more sus-
tained and efficient, to remove the public distaste for
a system of relief identified with Poor LIMA, parishes,
paupers, and poor-houses, and to promote sympathy
and moral support for a national provision for sick-
ness and unavoidable want. Mr. Lamport proposed
ti divide recipients of relief into four distinct classes,
viz. :

Class A, composed of persons verging towards criminality,
including able-bodied menchcants and vagrants. The source
of relief for this clan should be • subsistence rate, nnw
levied as a poor-rate ; the relief ordered by police magistrates
and admistered under police supervision ; and • bare sub-
sistence should be glean in return for a certain amount of
labour under police or prison arrangement..
Clem B, composed of persons verging towards pauperism,
Including able-bodied but unsteady workmen, lsbourers not in
regular employment, reduced tradesmen, and clerks, all
pei sons unwilling or unable to join the "National Friendly
Society," and widows of the above. For this class the source
of relief should be alio a subsistence rate—the relief to be
ordered by Boards of Guardians ae now formed, and to eon-
sit only of indoor relief in return for labour.
Maas C, imposed of person desirous to be proekleitt and
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

CRADLEY.

Sellout. SERMONS.—TWO sermons were preached on
Suuday last, by J. Church, Esq ,of Loudon, in the Fri-
untave Methodist Chapel. Pieces were recited by the
aid hymn. butig. Over £l2 was eolltcted for
the Sabbath School.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

V. G. HINDS,
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Children's Teeth Regulated.

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N.B.—Patients attended at their own residences, if
required.

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Respectfully solicits the patronage and support of his
numerous friends, and the Pahlie generally.
Charges strictly MyrliTate.

TUNER,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

SECOND SEASON.

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All Prizes not claimed before July Ist, lei°, will be
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pURSUANT to the Act of Parliament of
Rind and 23rd Victoria, cap. 35, iutituled "An Let
to farther amend the Law of Property and to relieve
Trustees," Notice is Hereby Given, that all Persons
having any Claims or Demands against the Estate of
BENJAMIN RICHARDS, late of Stourbridee, in the
county of Worcester, Saddler and Harness Maker, de-
ceased (who died on the 3rd day of January, 1070, and
whose Will was proved in the Worcester 1' istrict
Registry of her Majesty's Court of Probate, on the Ist
day of April, 1070, by James Wood Aston, Williams
liven Richards, arid Edwin Richards, the Executors
therein-named), are hereby required to send particulars
of their Claims on or before the 25th day of May next, to
the said William Riven Richards, of Stourbridge afore-
said, or to one of the undersigned, as the respective
Solicitors to the said Executors. And Notice is also
Hereby Given, that at the expiration of the lasts
mentioned day the said Executors will proceed to digs
tribute the Assets of the said Testator amoog the parties
entitled thereto, having regard only to toe Caisus and
Demands of which they shall then have bad notice, and
the said Executors will not be liable for the Assets so
distributed to any person of whose Claim they shall not
then have had notice. And all Debtors to the said Estate
are required to pay the amount of their respective Debts
forthwith to the said William Riven Rich., is. Or to one
of the undersigned, on behalf of the said Executors.
Dated this oth day of April, 1070.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

CHOOSING A WIFE.

They have a singular custom at the Foundling Hospital of
the Annunstata, Nagle., on the 25th March (Lady Dar, or
the Fest& dell'Annunziata. The building is thrown open to
the public, and any young man who wishes can provide him-
self with a wife, In case he can prove to the satisfaction of
the governors of the institution that he is able to maintain her.
The business of the day is, we hear, managed pretty much
OA follows :

All the girls who have arrived at a marriageable age
are drawn up in line in one of the large rooms, where
the cavalier. are all 'wed to enter. A regular inspec-
tion then commences from left to right, front and rear.
Same prefer dark beauties, of course, and others
blondes, and each is allowed to suit his own particular
taste or fancy. When smitten the swain drops his
pocket-handkerchief in front of the lady of his choice,
and if his suit is accepted she picks it up and
they walk off arm-in-arm to signify their in-
tention to the authorities, and make the neces-
sary preliminaries previous to their marriage. The
bride receives a small sum of money by way
of dowry, and a few necessaries which comprise her
trousseau, a few sheets and a blanket or two. These mar-
riageA, contrary to what would be naturally supposed,
generally turn out happily, as a man must have greatly
felt the want of woman's soothing influence to enable
him to muster up courage to undergo such an ordeal
previously to entering the happy state. This is what
might he almost called marriage at sight, or marriage
a la col silos.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-16

THE GAME LAWS.

Grantley F. Berkeley," writing from Alderney
Manor, Poole, to a London contemporary, say. :
There has Just been forwarded to ine "A Bill for the
Abolition of the Game Laws; " presented, I suppoae, by •
conclave of April "philosophers," the only lively %Meg about
It being the name of "Mr. Jacob Bright." In this 'did docu-
ment there occur. the following passage—" Whereat such
ezmuire quantity of the said wild animals," viz , wooit
cock, snipe, quail, handrail, code.," Ac., "have greatly con-
tributed to the demoralisation of the people by •Horduig
continual temptation to breaches of the law.' lb. statutes
protecting these creatures are to be abollahed.
It so happoso—ood L.sy If in Os hooil% of Woo pigloso•

phers of April notoriety—that all those creatures on whom
they seek to lay this heavy charge have of late Immensely
decreased, from the woodcock to the deer, so that even
there is no truth in their allegation. It is similarly untrue
that 'the large preserve of game tempts to crime." The
" temptation " to offend the law exists where there I-ni
large peserve of game, hilt where there happens to be a few
heads of game indigenous to the land, unprotected by soy
keepers and loft to the depredator. without • chance of de-
tection. I speak from personal knowledge and long ex-
perts.° as, a magistrate and country gentleman, and not
from vague theory, anti certainly not from any clap-trap
desire to gain popular favour with "the masses."
If it is wrong to let property be seen—for game Is pro-
perty tow—than I wonld recommend " ales-rs Taylor,
bright, White, and Co." to run a tilt against thesilveremiths,
Jewellers, watchmakers, butchers, and bakers for the display
In their shop-windows in all our large cities and towns: for
"Such excessive quantity "as they so temptingly expose to
the eyes of thieves, and among them poor starving wretches,
with but the thinnest glass between their mouths and a
largo sausage must be much more " demoralleing to the
people" than snipes and woodcocks that have wings.
A looker-on at these bright vagaries, as I am now, I cannot
belp laughing to see that the wise " Liberals," as they call
themselves, in one session pass a law for the preservation of
"gulls," which are not food for the people, though a" bird"
perhaps " ‘,l a feather," with their protectors, and on the
next seek to break down and abolibh • protective enactment
which gives to the masses an Immensity of food and vest
employment, and keeps the nobleman and the esquire upon
their eitates, to the great benetlt of the surrounding poor,
and the extreme contrast to the absenteehma which has been
one of the banes of Ireland, . . . . .

If this conclave .d legislators really desire to be consistent,
let them wear no watches ; for, if they do, according to their
tenets, that Is a temptation to snatch at the watch-gusri.