The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-14 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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The King of Portugal, who is a violoncellist, bas
on! erred the order of Christ upon Sir Julius Benedict, who
has composed a March for his Majesty.
From an official document just issued, it appears
that the value of eggs imported in the month ended the 305 h
of September was £100,695, and in the nine months £988,4421

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Some iilea of the magnitude of the internam involved
In the textile industry odthe rnited King& in war (hays the
.learral of eh e Soe,tv of des) be gathered irons rho fact
that hie number o ycrsons actually emrlo3ed in the nulls,
factories and works. now falls little short of cue

" History will -fait an eternal stigma to that provi-
silnal authority which is still styled theMiuch Government
should it pe t the capital sentence, once more prononnee.l
against Colonel Yowl, late Delegate for War of the Parisian
Commune, to be carried into executiou."—Londou Standard.

—lt is denied, ou the highest authority, that Prince
astiou is engaged to marry tho Prlnee64 Thy. of Denmark
M. Rochefort is writing in prison a history of Na-
poleon

All the hill+ Argyllehire have recently been
evvel ea with sbots.

The so-ealled "Peace Congreas" at I.ammune has
been one of the most quarrelsome gatherings en record.
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A Stood has burst into the workings of the Broati-
field Colliery, near Wigan, and toe nicu are thus thrown out
of employment.

Citizen Jachtrd. who Eddy nut& his °soap, from
Satin', has au, ceto:c..l 11l crossing the French frontier, awl is
now at Beane, Switzerland.

A "roting corresixankat " at Rome declares that
the Pope is entirely In the hands of the Jesuits anl the
it.iniontranes, who never lost sight of hint telt he should
make pew* with the Government, or, in other words, " re-
concile hinviell to the King."

The /term,/ announces tile death of the authoress ,X
the well.known hymns, •Just as 1 on, " Sly God. my
Father, while I stray." She was the sister of Ilia with,. of
" Dom, Apocalyptlea,- mot of the it,v. Henry Elliott, and
was related on the mother's side to 110 Venn family
Count Rend i. now reported to have aild tulS7O,
when he received tia. Duke de Gramnnt's famous th elaration,
"The Entnemr NUIPOIO.II said it) that he could n..d ally
himself to is colve; I shall certainly not this myself to is
fool."

A classification of the Conn.....iist prisoners at Ver-
sailles has been made, from which it appears that there are
191 Its liana, 27 Sulfa, ;J Ituatiana, 42 Germans, 229 Poles,
7 English, 11 Spaniards, 3 Portuguese, and 1 Swede.

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A letter from a fashionable summer resort says a
young man is scarcely considered eligible unless he has lost
Ids hair, this being considered 111 almont indisputaCle evidence
that lie has always moved in the best society.
The fund raised for the relief of the sufferers by the
recent explosion at Stowmarket now annumts to nearly
5:3,400. Nothing has occurred to throw sq further light
upm the circumstances of the explualon.
The A ity,sbury Gazrtle ttates that the German and
Austrian Governments will address a dedisitch to the other
European Governments pointing out a means of putting an
end to the social agitations which are "the greatest danger
to the entire European ..ckke-:'
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Brussels has bee- n threatened with total darkness in
the streets at night in consequence of a strike of the gas-
lighters ; but the Burgomaster, who seemed quite equal to
the emergency, announced publicly that be bad takes stops
for the proper lighting of the city, and a new corps was es.
templ•rired, and on the evening of the strife the lamps were
lighted as usual.

The Duke de Guise, son of the Duke d'Aumale, has
ssys Galigmani , entered the Coll6ge Comloreet t.l complete
his mathematical studies. with the view of entering the
Polytechnic-School. The Prince, who is now 17 years of age,
to destined for a military life.

There wae a " kome Rule" demonstration at
Drogheda on Sunday, at which 20,000 persons are estimated
to have been present. Mr. John Martin, M.P., Mr. P. J.
Smyth, M.P., and Mr. A. 31. Sullivan were amongst the
speakers. A movement is in existence for carrying on the
agitation in London.

At the Finabury Regiatration Court, on Saturday,
the names of about 100 foreigners were expunged from the
fists, 88 the result of insufficient proof of naturalization. No
political contest was involved in the revision, and for once
the object of the rival agents appeared to be to make up a
correct list of persons really entitled to exercise the
franchise.

" An honest fanner of Surrey has written a letter to
a relative in Virginia to say that all this talk In the news-
papers about a sanguinary engagement between the Germans
and the English at Liu-king is a stupid hoax, and that he lives
In the neighbourhood of Dorking. and that nothing of tie
sort has occurred there at all."—Court Journal.

Mr. Jacob Bright presided at a meeting at Man-
chester on Saturday evening and declared himself un-
favourable to the principle of life peerages advocated by
Mr. Fawcett, and that he would prefer is continuan e of
the existing system rather than a change which did not
make the creation of peers dependent upon the suffrages of
the people.

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A work written at Wilhelmshohe lie the Emperor of
the French, on the organisation of the Prussian aunty.
just been publish:4i in Paris. It is coil that the
has recently toren engaged in the composition of a s • :•.
the reorganisation of the French Arniy, and on the rcIII
of grades.

" It will be along. time before France will recover the
moral strength ditch will enable hr to re-estahlisb liberty
and to (mind a in, future m.on the lush; rrspeet for lar,.
From various causes, h., many to enumerate, r,,areet h
laws, human Divine, has 'teen gradually growing weal,
for the last so yvars and moral sense has deelbred."—Corre-
spondent of Tire Times.

'rhe difference, says the Chicago Trilame, between
the Lattimore and the Philadelphia girl is, that the latter Is
always wanting something to eat, and the former something
to love. The Philadelphienne carries lo r 3ooog man to
dinner with her, and sees that he is well forldered. The
Italtimoriemie carries him off for a stroll, and looks into Ids
eyes."

M. Taine, the clever writer 'di .1 manners, ex-
plains in a single pithy sentence in an :n tile in the Paris
Temps his reason for the stability of the English and the
'instability of the French Government. .• They—the English
—he nays, support their Government, u lino. wee-the French
—merely endure ours."

The 1.-4m4on Correspondent of the So,temon sava he
was informed by a gentleman who was in company with NI r.
thight • few an's azo, that the right hon. gentleman has
espresard himself as. feeling his health completely r. abased,
and that he is fully convinced that Ile shall be able with
sa*tto make Ms appearance in the House of Commons hest

The Socialist Democrats in Germany are coming to
the front again. Their leader in the German Parliament,
Herr ;knead, has tarn committed for trial at Leipsic on
the charge of '' attempted high treason." His followers in
Berlin have held a meeting, at which they protested against
the enormous sum which the Reichstag has authorised the
Uerman Emperor to divide out of the war indemnity
amongat the most successful generals and officers.

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A paragraph which has obtained correney, staticg
that the Prince of Wales will visit the Freema,noi ncetilC
at Nom ich, is now said to besincorrect. /Hs Royal Highne,s
who in a member of the lod,;e held at Ki 111.05 Lynn, Is
expected to be present at the ineetit,g of the Provincial
Grand Lodge of Norfolk, which will be held this year at
King's Lynn, at the end of the present month or the begin-
ning of November, but the date will be fixed to suit the con-
venience of the Prince.

At Southampton, the Rev. Robert Caven, Daptia
ministtr, has been it barged with nomcompliance with an
order to hive Ids son nucleated. The dcfendant Bail lie
bad Wen told by • I ~lon physichm that (he recent illnese
of the Queen anise from va,cinalion, and he could not have
his son vaccinated without violating conscientious convic-
tions formed after long and careful stmly. Me was tined £1
and costs, which wt re paid by a friend, why said he had
had a child murdered by vaceinatibn.

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The Americans have 0.111 notions. The idea of
making torpedoes into eldhlren's playthings is among 4 the
most eccentric of these 11100 MB. The result is all explosion
of a toy torpedo, whirls happened in Sontl,dreet, Now York,
on the 12th nit Sevcrid persons were killed on the spot,
many others dreadfully ilijUred, and property to a large
amount destroyed. The play ful maker of the torpedoes has
been arrested.

Mr. Bruce's recent observations upnn the moral charac-
ter of certain portions of Devormort were conshiered at a meet-
ing of the Town Council of that borough, held on Monday.
A resolution was unanimously passed, denying the Moue
Secretary's statements, and requesting the right how gentle-
man to furnish the authority on which he had based asser-
tions so damaging to the town.

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The value of the steam engines exported from the
United Kingdom in August last was 5:243,417, as compared
with L'208,4:16 In August ISM and 5AC9.495 in A ng,t.1,69.
In the eight months ending the Met, of Annual tide ear I
aggregate value of the name description ,Jf exports ISIS
£1.367,490. an compared with £1,409,0.410 the Col responding
period of WO, and £1,124,511 in the corresponding period of
1069.

The Constitution states that the French artist, M.
Courhet, who Is confined in a Fiench prises, is occupying
his time in executing a commission which he has received
from a wealthy thhabitant of St. Petersburg. The picture
which is being painted under such novel eircuinstanc,s will
n.mresent a scene in the history of the Commune, and SUMO
francs are to be paid for it after it is finished.

A fruit-grower in 'Jersey being much annoyed by
depredators obtained a human leg from a hospittl, and
putting it hi a large steel trap in his graptry, began to make
Inquiries in a disturbed and melancholy manner for the
owner of the limb. The neighbours Hacked in to see it; the
cunning man was rated for his cruelty ; reports were Urea-
toted that the " borrid wretch" had filled his gIVILUtiII with
traps, and his fruit was no more stolen.

"What cannot fail to strike, at the present moment,
even the most superficial observer, is the fact that in the
French capital, where, 1 little 1110 re than a year imo, the
unbridled extravagance of female toilettes was a scandal mid
a by-word, simplicity s,lrexais daily on the increase ;
though, of course, the reasons for this are not difficult to
ascertain."—Musfro Mit Sera.

" A man in Virginia tied his stepson to the rails of
the Atlantic, Mississippi, and (Ibis Kiwi, where he left him
while getting a switch in the wood with which to flog the
youngster. Meanwhile a freight train came along, and as
the darer was unable to stop it in time, awl the boy vol
helpless to avert his fate, he was cut to plet-es under the
wheels, and the authorities perhaps may noml be in sem en of
a rope with which to mete out puitice to the stepfather."
A r kepi 7 irnes

In addressing a working-nien's ineeting at Liverpo,d
on Saturday eveoing, Sir J. Lubbock, M. 1., rehdeed at the
progreas which the love for science aa, making in this
country, and regarded it as nne t
of the age. There nog in Lhecug.l
the liceorn,l4l,;, FO 11•11. for ec:
these bodie '11,06.1,1 that their at lit. 1, an ot
-.lon better /Maud the aLudinneut at the objects which each
Had in view.

" Lord Kint.re. Teakin; ,f Banff en a vexwl theme,
' the HOUK, Ot Lords, uses language a Inca shows that all
Peers are not such sluggards or obstructivvs as some of their
detractors would fain make out. lie declared that ttere was a
certain amount if reason in the grumbling, against that
House, and that to maintain its place It most be the custodian
of truly ' progressive ' sentiments, lie thought it ' must set
its house in order, that it may live anti not die."—Doilg
Telegraph.

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lAA week the aggregate mortality in London end
19 other large cities and towns of the I .I:ited
at the rate of 2:: deaths annually to every Loco persons
estimated to be living. In the metropolis 2,1,0 births and
1,213 deaths w, re registered, the foa iler letvitr4 been lo and
the latter sa below the average. Seventy-two persons dio.l
from nall-pox, 25 (son measles, 5> from scarlet fever, 5
(sin, diphtheria, :If; from whooping couph, and s from
diarrlusa. At the Royal 1111,ervatory, Creenwieh, the man
temperature during the week was :;1.9, or 1.4 below the
average of the corresponding week in 50 pakra.
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From April lot to the 7th tuatara, the Exchequer
reetipte amounted to £,5G1,535, no apdnst C1,:52:41:5 last
year, and they were derived from the following sources :
customs, V 0,093.000 : excise, c10,211,00e ; stamps,
Li:N:00,00 ;tnora, Ae4,000: income, i:1,495,000;
.C.,‘212,000 : telegraph service, £.125,00); Cr, dvn
4:149,00 ; miscellaneous, 1:2,016,535. The payments atm-laded
to a:W,, •halattee rerunning.. in the Meg of
DO Ind loft riatnrday hong and in that of
Ireland,

The Puiarii of Trade returya
111 the r,turns lac , ~ • 4 : It: 4a.
C17,04/0,6,11 In ~•pt, Inhrr iast
year, am: £1n,36,725 in the corresponding month of Pet,
The improvement has been in all the nJ in, pal ailn•les, the
fist including alkali, apparel. beer, cli;anical products, Coal,
copper, cotton manut.tures—,ady 3 per eel& --earthen-
Ware, haberdaabery, hardware, Ira,. and atm!, lima: yarn and
mann, artnnw, Jude manufartairt C, niachi,ery. till: yarn and
wenn/actin ea, Lin, se.sd, wontlen yanh. Indlvn
tures—almost 50 pt,- cent.- and "unenunn-ratrd :traielea."
The only instance of falling elf orth notice Is in cotton
yarn, where there in a decrease of 10 pa rent. in value and
15 per rent. in quantity. Aniong the imports the principal
changes area large increase in wheat and most other cereals,
Mai a decrease of nearly 50 per emit. is cotton.

A Working Men's meeting in connection with the
Church Congress at Nottingham eas held on hfonday night
in the Mechanics' Hill, under the presidency of the Mayor.
The Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Manchester were
the principal &peahen. The Archbishop spoke of the tendency
of the working classes towards materialism, but urged that
they could not dispense with Christianity they protested
against being priest-cidden, tilt many of them were slaves to
their own vices, and he quoted the drink statistles in proof
Of this. Working IntO, above all, should cling to religion,
for it was the only cure for their hardships. The Bishoi. of
31mchester referred to the unpopularity of the elerßy am ..o&
a portion of the working chases, and characterized it ch is
groundless prejudice. If they swept away the clergy, the, ,J
would be one bridge the less over those yawning social churns
where the bridges were far too few. At the same tijx.r
would be well If the clergywould always go stout among the
people withont any formal Ntigließß and- Unnetv„.-al j.hrtisc.
ology, but speak as Engliabnien to EggliellineL, atnr LO get
closer to their 'mute.

M. Reuter, the director of the telegraph agency, I
just been made a baron by the Duke of daze-Coburg-Ootha.
A fotsiliaed oyeter LAS 6:011 found in Utah at
kewelly reak.

The -father of John B. Gough, the temperance orati. r,
died tad week in Lotdo t thv ego of H.

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The New Flw Press of i 1 ;;--h; a* hsa been confiscated
tato: sines the third of this month.

It is said that the Italian Government contemplated
ei &Ming the eampamu, and colonising it al, agrieulturnital
from Northern Italy.

New V.. k papersptblih the øhituarie f " Bill
J,,husou.- a .10i that cold' stand upon olia• tout balance
himself en the nozzle of • chatnim

A new seasatioti is: promised the Parisian hortly
S Vent= juggler is announced to swailow a.r,' hot as ord.
The corrospondent who moms this seas he t an it
The Dublin Amnesty A/wind:di m has determined to
prroecnte soule of it e police tiagau,l lush:- Jll, in the
Par::.

7. ' ' 1, 7.7 •• •• .7 urt the
. eurse,
1.1 tu her
.11 :a the Ro„ •• 7, of tlo• 11th
fr. .‘117,1 that on (1,, •Ils there was
a riot in liareilly per, u.:e killelt and thirty
wounded.

The Sieige and Sent have article warning the Co-
vernment of Bonapartist intrigues, and calling for strong
mowing against tin 000sprators.
King Victor Emmanuel has deci,led en taking up
his residence at Rome. slid that his household has received
orders to bumn that city by the Ist November.

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Among the papers found at the Tuileries was a letter
from a well-known dentist. who asked the title of baron, as
sole rennureratiou for a successful operation performed
an el ninent person.

The Royal Engineers have h.st no less than six sub-
altern conkers during the past twelve months by aeeidental
death : nee by drowning, and one, Lieutenant Dunlop, killed
a few day. ago at Balbriggan in a railway accident.

The Maw:hater Guardian is authorised to state that
her Majesty has been pleased to grant to the Dean of Man-
chester a dispensation from cathedral residence forst: months,
In conlideration of his infirm health anti advanced age.
Mr. Chandler, who has devoted a groat deal of time
to the (.0081th:tat!ou of prison reform, has rna a novel sug-
gestion. Ile proposes that a newspaper should be published
for the express use of convicts.
Cholera is working frightful havoc in Russia, owing
to the filthy habits of the people. .!Vearly 6,000 deaths took
place In one week in twelve governments out of twenty-sis.
The shopmen of ltorniiiighasi held a meeting on
ruesday night to form a trade-union for the purpose of
obtaining a reduction in thb hours of work. If negotia-
tions with the employers should prove ineffectual, a strike
will be resorted to.

A " loek-out " commenced last Saturday at Dews-
bury, extending to all classes of operatives employed in the
heavy woollen trade ,d that town and All.trict, in a popula-
tion of bal,ooo person.. The hauds locked out number

A barrister proaecuting a thief recently on circuit,
remarked severely at him that " Opportunity makes tho
thief." •. Not always, sir," replied the Innocent. I found
• big anchor and chain cable on the pavement once in Liver-
pool, and didn't touch it; and there was nobody about,
neither."

125 horses, •purchased by the Govennuent or the
late autumn inameuvres, were disposed of by auction, by
order of the Secretary of State tor War, at Aldridge's, St.
Martin's-lane, London, on Saturday last. The homes which
appeared to be in very good condition, fetched an average
mite et ever 0.0 each.
"Within the last quarter of a century a strange and
romantic flirtation has sprung up between,the Russian Bear
and the AniZrican Eagle. Like the fdlow-travellers in
Canning's tale, they have said to each other, with, oil any
seeming reason, A sudden thought strikee me—let us swear
eternal friendship !* "—Daily Telegraph.
"It is staled, but not as vet on authority, that the
French Dov,liiment have decided to give us notice neat
quay to ta minute the commercial treaty with France in
February following. If SI. Thiers has really determined
this slit', as seems probable enough, he will at least lay tho
to the root of the French physical prosperity. Whether
twill ti id to restore her moral prosperity may be doubted.'
Npretator.
" The future of France is as gloomy politically an
II I. financially. The Chamber notoriously dues not repro-
tolhi obinion. The majority of its awinherc are the
' enemies of Republicanism, but this is the only bond
oi union am,mg them—they are Royalists in the abstract,
hat hanlly any of them have any %cry clear idea what King
they would haw."—Correspoodent of Daily New,
'fir weld is progressing. The arrival in New York
of tha trot band of girsies from Europe is announced as an
event interesting to ettumlogitts. The band consisted of
twenty-one individuals, men, women, and children. They
seemed well supplied with money, and were bound to
Florida, where they intAiNi to remain torsos..,- time, but for
what OW pose enuld not lie asccitaiimi. They had with ilwai
tiva soya 1, hole. a the Tartar breed, two y:,ung colts, and
waty th.;:s. It is suppoimi that they foim *be vauguaski of
a Mat: no,rons pa,ty to 1, 1 s iii the i‘pring.

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At the meeting of the Social St •ience Congre, Mr,
Godwin delta tied an :wl irs.. on sanitary reform, toil Un elt
at much length on the multitude of human lives that wero
sacrificed every year from the neglect of Uie most onlinau7
laws of liealth.—Aue mg the discussions Was one on thw
Of of stolen property, hi which Mr. Attenbortomh
argued that, pawnshops were nut the ouly nor even toe min
rips' receptacles of stolen goods, hut that other tradesmen
ere also used by thieves for that purpose. It was stigv,salcol
that all ahead era ha secood-liatol goods should be liecilliod and
placed under the control of Gov.:nomad.

A crowd,' meeting of the supporters if the Permis-
sive Pruhthitory Liquor Bill was held in the Town
Leeds, on Monday night, when resolutions were passed ap-
proving the principle of the Permissive liii, and pledging
the meeting to use every effort to secure its adoption by par-
liament when early next session it shall hs again haroduevit
by sir Wilfrid Lawson. Amongst the munewus speakers
wire Mr. Jenkins, the late unsuccessful candidate at Truro,
Sim Jos,pliine Eutlcr, Mr. George Thompson, the WOF:ti
known anti-slavery advocate, Mkai is Geys.

At the (,ngre,‘s of the ',nee Association,
on 't ui.ude). Mr. Nrwm:..ojrc,,kvnt..l the Economy awl
Trade Departme 1, delivered a,t , km. in whichhealleiled
I. tle rogee,i made by 7. ..1 ecomdny
during the past kw year, I.c then rel. reed to the th
meld hill on Tralli•s' Unions, and the formation of x piddle
association for procuring a elningc in flue conditions under
wilich land is held as exclusive property. and said that ho
b. here.) s'• •oinon-seme cullt,e tie du away with ikeu
WOO to . . op t.• lAI, etaaponed of rept...datives,
masters und nun, who would an his rate of wages from tilllo
to tinie, neconl: to the fluctuations of the tinuket.

On Tuesday, the eleventh Church Congress wan
opened at Nottingham, when a &TIMM was preaehed
St. Mary's Church by the Bishop of Manchester The in-
augural address was delivered in the Mechanics Hall M the
hishop of London, who, In reviewing the present position of
the thumb of Enaland, compared it with Ita past history_
The right rev. prelate carried his iltqUilieti back MO years%
and after tracing the vicissitudes through which the church
tact lininOl, lie briefly sketched her duties in the present
(lay. in it, wordsworth's opinion she Ellonitt not dual, to
coo artily compromise of the truth, nor allow herself to be
rlitrttileett in the MilltOry &LlU,na of a hollow conciliation.
The Cheryl/ at not noire at. inch from the Divine
pedestal on which Ole stood, but would open her ano. to
clasp all iu her bosom. The subject of education was after-
wards discussed,

lit the educational derartment of the litwial Scianee
(cog vu saturdsy, Mr E baines, t. P., delivered an ad-
dress oil thu education question. speaking of the Education
Act, 'Jr. 1.31111,9 referred to the oliestiod .4 the payment of
fees to denomirational whools, and, having stated the argu-
no ids advanced Olt choice cite cf then, ,ttou, said that in
his judgnnnt the arpuments in favour 44 the payment of fees
ill denominational schools were unanswerable. Having
touched upon a variety of topics connected with education,
Mr. Itainea, concluded by referring to the earnest efforts of
Sir thu Pakington in the cause of national education—
efforts width had been carried out m ith remarkable
strperh•rity ti the prejudices of party wol all lora! influences.
Sir J•alti who afterwards spoke. said that he
trusted the differences referred to by Mr. 1311..11“, In con-
nection with the payment of fees in denominational schools,
[night lie amicably settled.