The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-12 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

EPITOME OF NEWS,

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The Prince of \Vales is to emit Hull nett month,
having consented to be present at the opening t,f the be.
West Dock at that port.
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The Spanish Miniater of Finance has stated that the
ex-Queen owed 36,000,00 u reale to the Treasury.
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Of a person who died lately.at Bethany, Conneeti.
cot the oldtuary Boys—" lie was as honest a man as ever
lived, and had Merl! no hat fur orty years."

" Killarney.—l love you. You are good. I urn un-
happy, and wish to see you. Write—June fith."—Adverture-
ment in The Times.
It is statal that the Bishop of Winchester is about
to resign tie rue which he has occupied with so much
benefit to the Courch soil honour to himself for a period of
forty-two years.
A Fenian lecture Willi delivered its the Cork
Athenston, on Monday, by a person I.anted O'Connor. The
-0..11 save cos so -,g In the lidiltlire stand-
ing, and some cetectives in the hall acre threatened.

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The &Ilan ha + olifeired the ti, le td. Pwla mm Sir S.
B kor es a pro°, of the inten eat he tab.& io the success f Sir
&motel's Africa. expedition.

When the mernha roof the Natianal Union assembled
tn present to I,rit Derhy their addrisa In regard to the Irish
Church Ihll, the) mete jotted by Str Monde Gladstone Mr.
W. E Gladst.a.e's cli. r brother, who, on the part of the
Scel ti,h C intim/Vista, presented to Lord Derby a potl.
thin for the rajection of t 0 tat
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The atory is current that a noble lord ha.s been
wroogfully placed poese•-sion • I his estate., through a mire
take of hia maternal grandfather,
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The Queen, motor mg to present arrangements, will
leave Balmoral for Windsor on tie ihth (Jr 17th inst.
It has been decided in the United States that sewing
machines shall he exempt from levy and salepu execution or
distress for rent.

ti..me young otters, which were taken on the Wylye,
near Warmins.er, are now being reared in the Zoological
Gardens at inland, and to all appearance aucce.fully, by
means of the bottle.

A tradesman of Zurich publishes the following silver.
tisement in a journal of that town t i put an sad
to my life, uhich is a hurtle.. to me, and being detrrnimed to
die as stion as possible, I shall sell nay goods at such low
rates as have never been heard of.

A N,w Vtk paper ease that nearly all the brilliant
e-mplrxions Been among the femalea of New York are the
',nit of arsenic eating Since the introduction id the
.111onde fashion" arsenic eating has become almost a
mania. _ .

A young man of good family has just blown his
brains odi, at Pails. Ile left ilshiod him a paper on which he
Imo written—" My blood be on the head of those who sc., need
ale into a dissipated and psi post less existence."

"The history of the bluefish is quite remarkable.
To 1764 they disappeared front New England waters, and
were not seen for sixty years. When thry returned—at liras
to the waters south id Cape Cod, afterwards, in 18,7, to
Nlassachip•etts Bay—they were few in moaner and disap-
peared sail the first cold. Now they are quite nvulinlYted,
comparatively hardy, and remain later in the reason."—

A rrielrican paper.
Jinies Gil-is. lake valet to C ilonel Teesdale, equerry
to the Prince of Wale., and his win Mary Gillis, have been
tried for ate ding jewellery a 4 other property to the value
of £lOO from Colonel Teesdale's hon.e, of which they hail
lieen lel in char e while the Colonel was abroad in atten.
dime.. on tic Prince of Wales Th.y were both Mood guilty,
aini seats, cod to two years' hard labour.
A i atramentary return phone that the number of
Walnut ettier..ti in county tiourte in England and Wales during
to. year 1868 wag, i ckittling the City of I. sdoi, Cou•t,
990 300 0. these 978 916 related to SIMI, tint est:L.o,dt* £2 t;
11 357 to emus anion att and not excaseding fit); and 3t. ity
sere, meta, to turns above 650. The total 10111/11ilf for which
ilsinta *ere enterelf was £2 640525 ; and £22 375 was psi
as feta tot the varit us proceetim ain the CA y courts. One
total number ttf twin aide snits or proceedings in them, courts
was 693, mitt the anions; • I the mini ct matter in dispute ur
otheraise (as far as kutwn) watt £9O 664.
Madame Miramon, wife of the unfortunate Mexii•an
a-nerd who was shot along with Maximilian, has paid a
visit to Isabella II , who cordidty env ritettl lier.
The Bornbr,y anzette mention 4 thtst cholera has re•
appeared in her Majesty's 59th Ite2iment at Allahabant, Sal
that it entities agtll al deal t-f anxiety.
The Madras Ade nresm owe it has still to complain
of want of rain, everi those ill and Mont the city being
up Fm 1114:15 miles 11.1011ir the railway there is ..t.. single

green tlon, toe re en, nothow but long rea hes of fiat haw e. I
earth valued in some places by a 6111111/ot dried-up-looking
trees, towards Salem, where there has been rain.

At a town in Nliii. Jul -c X - put himself fur-
wald as the candidate for the drunkards

Dr John I, Ithrop Motley the- New Amorican Minh.
tee, is a tall. handnone, gentlenashhk, person, beemingalkoul
years of age, straight, well-bade, and active-
looktng
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At a rPstanrant in the Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Eiris, a placard has been aftixe!i to the window informing an
piddle that excellent ra way be had fir sevent)-five
centomei, and flume. for !ore franc. A wag haa wrilt!
undeine.tn, • Important notice! The doctor and reenlist
ale next door _

FearA are entertained ha- the safety of the ship
Bombay, which sailed from the • 13de for ikmibay on the 12th
00l Navemlier last She was spoken 4 few dale alter sailing,
4141 has tea Sill, )4.44 herr or, 11, ugh vmaiela w hr.), Bailed
twa mouths later have at rivell."— Ti ones of I ndia, May 15.

Tie wiaow isf the late r'aptain Spars, im-roLer for
the county Iti Renfrew, has give • birth to a son and heir
iiites est attest.ea to this annotinceinesit bons
the fact Mit, hail Mrs Speirs pr ved childless, the wife of
colonel Alexander. of Itellochisdle, would have sm.:ceded to
the extensive estates of Elderalle.

Prieee Chrintian rtturoed to Frogmore, on Tuesd.y,
Irmo Balmoral

John Ryan, a f inner to Kilermninon, near Nenagb,
wag ft ad at slid wounded by his stepson, named Burke, on
Motolas eveninz. It in alleged that B.lrke felt aggrieved at
Ityan at:uniting the term by his marriage.
The convent Case, " Saurin v. Star, Kennedy, and
others,' coine before the chief clerk at V cc., hancellor
Al:Jinn's chambers on Wednesday, 011 an applicatitoi on tile
p.irt of the plaintiff fir the pro uc ion and inspection of
documents. The application w. that th- documents he pro-
duced at [bill, but the defendants resisted their pro .notion
i hat plate on the groinisi that the documents etre in Lon-
don, and a rule was pending toes tr.l it the coi JJJJJ 011 law
action. The chief clerk sant lie had supposed the conceit
was the place where the docuiriente were deposited. As the
papers were in London he would niche as. order for their Imo
duct., in WM 111, alit if this ceie objected to, application
nitglit be made to the Vice-Chancellor.

The S•opphn, of Lisrriss.l, ran on a sunken ro,k at
Saltee Island,., on the Wemord Coot, 00 Friday night in a
fog. The crew were iaked. She had a valuable cargo of
cotton on hoard. It is hoped she will he got off.

At a sale of sporting doga in Lond ~,, last eek, a
leash of pointeis, lead by Mr Gal th QC. sold f.d.
guinrsa lurd Lichneld al,o sold Ova braces of pointers,
which realis,d from 25 to 50 guineas a brace.

On Fiilay, AA a gent ettract named Dewar was
driving to Wm Cr, near the Bells rot Oaseley, at out Whnistrr,
he [net two jowl -n on VcloCip. 41. the horse, tieing
frightened at them, trattert sliirp brund, and fell tub, a In eh.
tun& g tine Irr, t, over Tire gentreman tell ou his head, and
was very mu h bruised.

The eini,ration from the Mersey during the peat
week has heen of the most erensive charicter, and, as has
been the case for several weeks paid, he mij dify of the emi-
grants were from the German states, Sw“len, mat Norwa).
The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, at a meeting
on Saturday, adopted a resolution (by Of to 11, calling upon
the Legi-latire to remove hares anti rabbits from the appli-
cation of the game laws.

The Austrian Ambassador at Pane h£4l, 80 the
rumour nine at Berlin, posdively assured the Freirh
Government that Austria will take no definite step in regard
to the neutralis,dion of the Suez Casual without previous
agreement with France.

On Monday the wife of the Czarewitch gave birth to
a boy.

The following cord .us advertisement appeared in
Mondo's Record :—'• The fri•nde of any • vangelical clergy.
man, having two thousand guineas at c,nunand, can obtain
a position of eminence f..r him. Address --."

There are to be election COMMiNiOIIe issued for in-
quiries into corrupt practices at Bridgwater, Norwich
H verity, Sligo, and Cashel. The House of Lords, on Tuesday
night, agreed to Join in the addree.ses of the Commons pray-
log for the commissions, hut upon the lepre-entdidos of
Lord Cairns, the Lord Chancellor agreed to forego his re-
quest for an inquiry respecting

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Mdtuo. Valona, of LVOIIB, a widow, &fled 62, has juat
had a gold medal awarded her by the So 'ifig il'Encouragt-
nc•nt an Bien, for I,iving taken charge of aid ,d,uzbt up. in
1.43, when she a ar lit-reelf it. Indigence, a li•tlo girl, 1.111111-
looed by her part-its. !his last in 11.0 M Mime. Victoria
Lafontaine, aged 29, and a Socittaure of the Ttatre Frahcais,

On Monday afternoon two boys, named King and
Eldon, went to bathe in a stream at Ihorney Inroads. W. at
iniA}ton, known as Godfrcy's Waters which is at lea.t twdee
feet deep in state parts. King vend 'swim, but the Whitr
boy could not After they ha I bathed some time, Eldon
slipped an i Rot out it his oepth. King maple a bold attempt
to rescue hiss, but tieing dragged down by the drowning boy,
both were drowned.

A sher's North German Correspondent says Count
Bismarck has an far recovered his beach as to be able in
favourable weather to walk in his park. supported by • stiA
An inquest has been held, in Dublin, on the body of a
merchant, %Ir. Gunnies., and a verdiot returned that he had
died from a dose of postai given him by mivtake in • medical
estalinsbnient if the city. Ile was ordered a tonic, and
cyanide of potassium was given instead, producing almost
instant death.
On :Monday, the sudden death of Sarah Roberts,
widow of a seaman, was reported at the Liverpool Borough
Coroner's Court. The deceased aas 103 years of age.
The captain of the steamer Moselle, from Havre for
London, reverie having seen a most remarkable mirage at
three p.m. on the 6th mist. "rhe steamer was at the time
abut fifteen miles off Beachy Bead, and the phenomenon
was diittncily seen for about two hours and a halt. Al the
ships in sight were r fleeted, and Beach), Bead appeared
several thousand feet lii,h.

On Mouthy, Vice-Chancellor James gave judgment
for the pialiitttt in the case. of Topham o. the Duke glf p..rt-
land," in which the queld it 011 at fem was whether L oty Top-
barn, the sister tf the Doke of Pottlaml, was entitled to •
moiety of S:40,000, which her father, the late duke, lett to be
dly dad betaemt her ladyship and Lady Harriet Cavendish
Bentinck, his other daughter.
A deputation from the National Union of Conserva-
tive associations write,' on Lord Derby with an a dress,
urging the Peers to rtject the Church bill. Lord Derby, in
reply, referred to the repots of the late meetit got Peers as
n mote or lees accurate," said that he to ik a,t in is BS an
individtml Peer, not as one wishing to Inntietice the course
of others, expreeseil his opinien that it would he better to
reject the bill than to amend it, and his helit f that it would
be rejected. 1:11 dship added th,t the •i,p1.014 of the
einatitutional tuisociations would be of value to the House of
Peers
The Standard on Wednesday, said—" We have to
express our regret that our space will not allow us to publish
one tithe od the correspondence forwarded to use., the ques-
tion of toe Irish Church. Certainly, if he multitude of letters
pout Mg in from all parts of tie United Kingdom, and all
C 111411 es of the community, in support o, the native If the irni-
joriry of the Conservative Petra, is any indcx to the ketone
of the country, the Peers have succeeded in eliciting an ex-
pression of sentiment which may well make even so self con-
fident *politician as Mr. Gladstone 'pause before it ix too
late."

Counts Herbert and Wilhelm von Bismark, sons of
the Prussian Premier, are at pre.ent on a visit to Scotland.
They arrived in Edinburgh on Frirray mormirg last, mid, ac-
companied by Mr. B. do, the Piru.sian
.ViceiCookul, they
visited some of the places of Interest in the city, as also
Roan! CaAle and chapel. They dined at the Consulate the
same evening, and were afterwards entertained in Edinburgh
Castle ny colonel NCLeort arid the other r Maim of the 42,4
Highlanders. On Saturday they led Edinburgh for the High-
lands. A report that the Counts have lomit to this coautry
f..r the purpose of sturl)ing at Oxford is said to be without
found Amu. Ills expeited that they will shortly return to
London, arid thrcCc proceed to Pam on, their any to Victim.
The Journal Offluiel of France contains a repor
nine columns lii eth,th, on civil and rromm, rend pat,f,,,, in
France, from which it appears that 1.5,164 suds were laid
la-fore the 23 lo.p,ral court, during last year, whilst the
370 civil tribunate had 124,752 case. inscribed on their rolls
and hardly any arrears remarried river Though divorce rlries
riot flourish iu the Connie,, still there were 2,8 r 9 demands fr
jurtic•al separation, 2,181 separations were decreed, 2fr4 ap-
pilot rejected, and in the remairong cases a reiro,,.
rib:kilos bring effected. (Inc 11. [nand for rieparstion n-os
act all) lustre after the silver wed log had neer, pasnerl, and
merit) -two by emiples who het proved fermi for y to filly
-, en a Togetla-r, whilst only twenty ants were orrioght for
divorce during the firat twelve mouths of =wand We.