The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

The Panama Star announces the death of Queen
Emma of the Sandwich Island..

Father Hyacinthe has been staying some days with
Professor Jowett at Oxford.

Smallpox is rapidly on the increase in the metro-
pone

Luther's city of Worms has conferred its honorary
citizenship on Counts Bismarck and Moltke.

On the apprehensions of war with Russia which have
been lately excited In this country, the price of lead rose
from .ClB to £23 per ton. The price has again declined.
Her Majesty the Queen left Windsor on Wednesday
morning, on a visit to the Empress Elton!. at Chiselhurit.
The special trate proceeded Ina Waterloo and the South.
Eastern line, to Chiselhurst, where the Own arrived at
neon.

According to information received in Liverpool, the
Ilonnione, Commander W. Johnston. has been lost near
Pernambuco while on a voyage from Glasgow to Montevldo,
the crew being fortunately saved The vessel was owned by
Messrs. Richardson and Co., of Glasgow.

The Crown Princess of Prussia has declined to re-
ceive a memorial signed by IS,OOO Englishwomen in favour
of peace, but In her letter stating her refusal, her Royal
Highness expresses admiration of " the noble sentiment" of
the Englishwomen in question.

The proprietor of a London hotel was bustling about
the other morning, with twenty things to do, when some one
uked him why he &OWL c‘ll up his waiter.—" I shan't call
him as long as I can help it," replied he, "for when he is in
bed I know where he is, but after he's up I don't know where
to find him."

From the details of a cage heard before the county
magistrate. at Lancaster, on Saturday, It appears that horse-
flesh occasionally Cods Its way into the London market as
"sausage meat." Under this description the carcases of six
superannuated horses had Lately been despatched to the
Metropolis.

It is said that Mr. Richard Wallace, the testa-
mentary heir of the late Marquis of Hertford, haa given
away £20,000 in Parte alone, within a period of little more
than two months, to necesaltous Englishmen and the In-
habitants generally, and continues to subzeribe most munifi-
cently to various erjects raised to Mitigate the sufferings of
the poor in that city.
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The bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society
was presented to the Rev. E. W. CauMeld on Friday at the
Town Mall, Neaten-miner-Mare, for his heroism in saving a
drowning lad from a deep Wiltshire canal last August, In
spite of the rev. gentleman's age and delicate health. Colonel
Rawlins presided, and the presentation was made by Miss
Alice II Le Geyt, who four years sine, received the medal of
the Lifeboat Society for her gallant rescue of two boys at
Lyme Regis, under circumstances of great danger.

A man was charged before a London police magic.
irate the other day with having been guilty of felony and
embezzlement 30 years ago. The felony wu represented by
7s. Cii. ; the embezzlement by £lO, and the defendant had
endeavoured to make some amends by sending the prose-
cutor, his former employer, Da. worth of postage stamps.
The Magistrate pat it to the latter whether, after the lapse of
so many years, be Intended to proceed against the man, and
the prosecutor replied that he was determined to put the law
In force. Pending further inquiry, the defendant was
released on his own recognizance,.

Her Majesty will shortly pay visit to the Empress
Engenie, who it seems does not intend to leave Chislehurst
for Cunt just at present. The London Standard, in noticing
the announcement, says :—This is very gratifying news, arm
will be hailed with cordial satisfaction by the great majority
of Englishmen. We have all felt the deepest sympathy with
the Empress, but there is only one personage in the realm
who Is properly qualified to express it. Even the Prince of
Ni ales could not convey quite PO MUCiI by visiting the Em-
press as can be conveyed by a visit from the Queen herself,
Thomas Dowling, steward of Messrs. Perry, mill-
owners, hallinagore, Westmeath, was shot on Friday night,
when returning home, and when within a short distance of
the police barrack The ball entered a vital part and death
resulted immediately. The only cause assigned La that the
deceased succeeded • person who wu dismissed by Messrs.
Perry. The police were engaged at the time in searching 14r
persons who fired at the police at Kilbeggan on Thursday
licit. —A gamekeeper in the service of Lady Margaret Char-
ter's, of Cahlr, in the county of Tipperary, was al,o found
murdered on Saturday morning, about three miles from his
place of residence.

Last week the aggregate mortality in London and
10 other large towns of the United Kingdom was in the
ratio of 29 deaths annually to every 1,000 of the present esti-
mated population. The rate varied from 16 In Wolverhamp-
ton to 4010 Norwich. In the metropolis 2.139 births and
1.651 deaths were registered, the former having been 61
below, and the latter 11 above the average. Zymotic diseases
caused 353 deaths, including 41 from email-pox, 21 from
measles, 122 from scarlet fever, 5 from diptheria. 11l from
croup, 20 from whooping-cough, 6 from typhus, 28 from
enteric (or typhoid) fever, 10 from simple continued fever,
14 from erysipelas, and IS from diarrhea. Seventy-two
deaths resulted from violence of these 67 were accidental,
including 36 by fractures, 9 by burns or scalds, 4 by drown.
ing, and 15 by suffocation. Eleven fatal accidents caused by
horses or vehicles lathe street were returned. At the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich, the mean temperature during the
week was 46 8, or 1 5 above the average of the game week in
50 years.

on Tuesday, 1)e. Itardwicke held an inquest in the
Holloway.road, Lnidon, respecting the death of • cab
driver named Penney. On Toursday evening in last week,
Penney went into the backyard of a public-house in Islington
and told John Riddle, the assistant, that • vein in his leg
was bleeding Riddle, not knowing how to deal with the
matter, took Penny to the pump and pumped water over
the leg antil the man had lost between two and three pints
of blood. The blood continuing to flow, • dotter was sent
for, who found the man sinking fast. He was removed to
his own home, and died shortly afterwards fromillosa of
blood. Dr. II ardwicke said that nothing was easier than to
stop the bleeding of a varicose vein, any little pres-
sure wotdd answer the purpoie, pressing a finger it it,
or apiece of tape or string tied round the leg would also
do It. ;This unfortunate man had lost his life through
sheer ignorance, and he trusted that the public would be
made acquainted with such simple remedies. The jury
returned a verdict in accordance with the medical eel-
dowel;

Theodore Tilton, the great apostle of moral ideas and
death-bed marrtsstes, says the next vice-president of the
United Ststes must be a negro! What next

The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is advertised for
rent. This Is a Mee opening for an enterprising business
man.

A boy named Leetch has been killed at Elgin in the
game of football. Another boy ran manna him with great
force.
Only !wren persons have declined the Engliah mie•
sloe, as ambassador from the United States, time La. way
not appoint • lady
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Odtrich farming appeare to he remunerative. The
feathers cd ten months growth on thirty ostriches, lately sold
In Cape Town, realised an average of £lO 51. per bird.
The Etoile Beige of Brussels announces that M
Granter de Chassagnac I. about to pulglais In that city a
Bonapartist newspaper o be called L'Echo de Sa Patna.

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The office of City Chamberlain in New York is said
to be worth 130,000 dollen a year, 40,000 dollars of which he
gets for the trouble of drawing oue cheque.

The etipendiary magistrate of Sheffield, Mr. Davie-
has announced his intention to puidth severely all pas n
brokers who take pledges from children.

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D'Aurellee de Paladinee has written a letter to the
Moniteur dn Puy-de dorm to cry that be la 65, and not, as
reported, 67 years old.—{ Hon like a Frenchman !1 _

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"A nugget weighing nearly 7.51L3. was recently dis-
covered at the Berlin gold fields In this colon7."—M4Sourna
Argue.

A Sheffiel4 paper atatea that William Braarlheael
visited the local theatre the other nisch:, to witness the per-
formance of "Pet I, unfelt in tits Place," • play which Is
wholly founded on the doings of trades unionists.

The Galveston (Texas) News, having obtained a
corrected list of the passengers lost by the foundering of the
Vanove , transforms the Mr. Jenkins, "hi.!'," Into Mr. P.
M. Jenkins, of Galveston, who was returning from • voyage
to England in pursuit of health.
The Birmingham fat stock and poultry exhibition
was opened for judgment last Saturday (the 26th). The total
number of entries wan 3 130, as compared with 2.813 lost
year. A sum of £3,100 is olfcred in priz_s. In the dog show
there were SOS eutries.

alien Mattie Batharn. who shot her reducer, a young
man named M 'Nash, inn boarding house at Wheelb,g, West
Virginia, some mouths ago, because he refused to marry her,
has been tried for murder and acquitted.
The sword bayonet issued with the Dfartini-Henry
Rifle for experiment is, says the ('oiled Seer Tee Gazette, on
venally condemned ea being /111101 WO bossy, and as requir-
ing a very powerful soldier to use it with any effect against
lighter weapons.
Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., speaking on Saturday
night at the anniversary of one of the Manchester raved
schools, expressed his firm belief that England would avoid
being led into war, and as a means to that end recommended
all friends of peace to embody their views on the sutject In
• memorial to the Prime Minister.

"We hear that the demands Bent into the Educa-
tion Department for building grants for elementary schools
are beyond all expectation, and that It is likely there seill lot
a very strong pull at the Exchequer for blade—some may
themrum.

Professor Huxley, in a recent lecture on phyiim
graphy, said he calculated that it would take about a mil-
lion years at the present rate, to complete the denudation of
the Thames basin. It had taken a million and a half of years
to reduce the basin of the little river Wendie 170 feet, and It
would be five million years before Great Britain would be re..
duced to the level of the sea.
A i era in New York have, If report says truly, for.
warded circulars to persons in England offering to supply
counterfeit sovereigns of aluminium so cleverly made as to
defy detection, and at about one tenth of the price of real
sovereigns. The sovereigns are "minted with the express
design of circulating in Great Britain."
An American contemporary thus Kilns rip American
satisfaction at the forthcoming union of the Price,. Louise
with the Marquis of Lorne :—" If the Queen of England'.
daughter marries the Marquis of Lorne, she will have an
American brother-In-low, Lora Walter Campbell, who is
doing basin.' in New York."

A Calcutta trade circular coutaina a pagsage which
has an unplvaaant interest for us and all Europeans who
have commercial or other relations with China. iii. this
:
Saltpetre would have followed the downward course of the
London market but for a demand which has set in for ship-
manta to China." As the Bombay Gazette remarks, " salt-
petre means gunpowder."

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In case of war breaking out between England and
Russia, the Moniteur declares France the only nation capable
of afforatne an efficient support to the former Power by
means of its powerful fleet, which would suffice, it says,
when once the country shall be freed from the invader, to
check, in conjunction with its old Crimean ally, the audacious
ambition of the Czar.

The last occasion on which a Princess of England
married one of her father's subjects was when Mary, the
daughter of Henry VII , and the girl-widow of Louis XII of
France, modes runaway match of It with handsome Charles
Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. The erring couple were, however,
speedily forgiven by the bride's brother. then on the throne:
and at a grand tournament held to celebrate this reconcilia-
tion, the Duke appeared with his charger's houslngs halt
cloth of gold and half cloth of frieze.

The Board of Trade returns were issued on Tuealay.
The value of the imports for September was £21,034,152 u
compared with i 223,135,033 in tne corresponding mouth last
year. For the nine month, ended 20th September the im-
ports were £182,400,543 as against £171,721,097 last year. The
exports in October Increased more than a million sterling in
value, being £17.500,799 ; and for the ten mouths they
amounted to £160,108,500, as compared with £169,162,432.
last year.

Tuesday, the 29th ult.. being the 40th anniversary
of the Polish War of Independence of 1530.31 against Russia,
In accordance with custom a funeral mole was celebrated at
the Polish Chapel, Gower-street, London, by the Ituv. L.
Podolski, for the repose of the souls of those who fell In that
and the subsequent national struggles, which was at-
tended by the refugees resident by London. It was observed
that the number of those who took an active part in that
memorable war is fait diminishing.

At the time of Louis XVIII.'s triumphal progress
throughout France, one of the Prefects was proud to inform
lib Majesty that there was no longer in his Department •
single lielleuist,' or, as he explained, a partisan of the Pri-
soner of St. Helena. Many of M. Gambetta*s newly-appointed
functionaries may equally be ready to bear witness that the
Captive of Wdhelmshohe has not left one single friend
behind him in all France; that nothing reandosof the six or
seven millions of votes upon which Louis Napoleon stood
front December, 1848, to June, 1870."—Leader In The Times.
The following ia the correct list of the bridesmaids
chosen for the marriage of the Princess Louise: Lady Con-
stance Seymour, daughter of the Marquis of Hertford ; Lady
Edzabeth Campbell, daughter of the Duke of Argyll; Lady
Florence Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Bichanond Lady
Mary Butler, daughter of the Marchioness of Ormond.;
Lady Alice Fitzgerald, daughter of the Marquis of Kildare;
Lady Grace Gordon, daughter of the Dos ager Marchioness of
lluntly; Lady Florence Montagu, daughter of the Earl of
Sandwich; and Lady Agatha Hassell, daughter of Earl
Russell.

Miss Burdett Coutt3 wrote a letter, a few days ac,
in lumen. Co a request that she would allow herself to be put
in nomination for the Tower Hamlets, at the Metropolitan
School Board. This was publishet by a contemporary on the
day of the London elections. Declining the offer, Miss
Coutts gives two reasons for her refusal : that her occupa.
thin and residence lie too far from the centre of action for
her services to be of much avail ; and that she has a strong
objection to seeing ladies seated at the Educational Board.
They would, she thinks, embarrass dlsoission ; end, at first
especially, their presence would be useless, inasmuch as the
questions to be settled would be principally those of admini-
stration, In which they have no experience. Bolding this
opinion. it Was of course Impossible for her to accept the
post, although she is willing to see sub-committees of ladies
appointed by the boards, with the sanction of the Privy
Council, In connection with girls' schools exclusively, but
only to give suggestions ; they would thus be relieved from
the turmoil of as election—of which Miss Burdett Coutta
tells us she herself saw only too much ill her father's life—
and at the same time might exercise the legitimate feminine
Influence.