The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-20 00:00:00

was a prophecy relating to the destruction of Jerusalem
by the Roman armies. Charlemagne added the second
head to the eagle for his arms, to denote that the
empires of Rome and Germany were united in him.
France, like Rtvsia, Germany, and Austria, adopts
the eagle as its ensign, so that the bit-CI can scarcely be
said to be the distiuctive embodiment of the strength
of any particular nationality. Tne "British lion"
stands out unique in that respect. It may be adaed
that the lion and unicorn, the former English, and the
latter Scottish, became the supporters of the -Royal
arms on the acceEsion of James I. in 1603.
Amongst the thousands who daily pass along Cheap-
side, and note the name " Breapitreet "on the corner
of ajit.tle t4eroughfaS runuingiaouthriltrd front-thtat
crowded street, there are comparatively few who have
any idea of the origin of the term. This little tho•
roughf are, then, was once.. the London market or
bread, for until 1302 the metropolitan bakers were ntt
allowed to sell any in their own shops. The tall ware-
houses of to-day occupy the site of what was then an

_open mart where people of the capital daily assem—
bled to make their necessary purchases. But bread
is an institution, the making of which can be traced
back to the earliest times. It was known in the

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a very intelligent man, and apparently endowed with great
firmness and determination. The log—in which the entire
history of the affair is narrated—has been kept in a neat
aria rt Ruler way. Each day's reckoning is kept with the
same care, and both the writing and tir.ures are very well
exe cured. Carrick's account of the mutiny substantially
are s with that of Thiene, bet tbe former tells the airy
with more minutene- s of detail. He says be believes that
before they sailed from Antifogasta the Greeks had planned
the mutiny. From the erste their manner was defiant and
insolent The ciWaivi was more indieeent to them than
he was to the other .nre-ribers of 'The crew; he seemed
to be afraid of them. On 'he morniug of the 4th of
January the captain came out of the ,eabin in his shirt
es. He was speaking quietly to "Big George,"
g him how to pass the seasous round the rigging,
when he jumped cff the rail and plunged the knife
into him. Every one of them seemed to have a station' in
the ship, so as to prevent assistance being given. Giuseppe
had prestiously asked Carpel; if Inatknew any navigation,
and he told him that he dl.lie ini)epened to known little
about navigation, but not quite enough to take the ship where
he wanted. They sighted land at Cape Ban Antonio, near the
11.iver Plate. It was here that the Maltese left the vessa,
Gaspar stating thathe wanted-to get to Buenos Ayres, as his
wits, and family lived near it eta plkct calleddloko. Previoils
to the Malteie going ashore there were disputes between
them and the Greeks about the spoil. The Maltese seemed
to have grown more friendly to the Englishmen. They
sighted Falkland Islands after the Maltese left. They dis
pensed with Carrick's-services-as a navigator alwaye-unte
they found themselves astray. Nicholas made Carrick in.
struct him in the English navigation booka and when he
was able to master them the Greeks changed in their
manner towards them and
_tried, to provol irreL
Carrick felcterYTtpprehensive and cautioned :ris to
be on their guard. He did not go to sleep, knowing
that their object was to kill them one by one while they
were asleep in order not to excilteethe atermiortedepicion of
thereat. Every night the Greeks aearchedllseirl bunks for
weapons. Carrick was at the wheel from ten to twelve on the
night- of the 11th, and he saw Christo running forward to-
wards the carpenter's room. Carrick beckoned to the boy
Macdonuell to go forward also. •• He was relieved at twelve
o'clock, and bean(' his " chipa " resolved to make as fight for
their lives. 'lle toek the adze. The 'carpentkr armed him-
self with the hatchet, the handle of which he cut short in
order to bete it handy for tee. Ferguson took a soldering
bolt, and at two o'cicck, when "Big George" was on deck,
ney rushed forward, and the carpenter getting behind him,
nearly opened his head with the hatchet. They then went ,
below and had a severe struggle Mere with Nicholas and
Christo, killing the former, and making the latter prisoner.
"A curious incident," continued Jarrick, "occurred on that
night, While 'Big George' was walking the poop a bird about
the site of dote, 'pitched on his head. He attempted to
catch the bird, but the bird tied and disappeared. We thought
that was a bid omen for us, instead of that, it was the other
evay;" In-reply 'tea question as tot why' he, did not put into
Ricyas he was 'shorthanded and only a: few. days' sail from
it, he-explained that in consequence of the expense and
delayewhieh would attend, his putting in there, he thought,
for the interest of his owners and also for the prosecution of
the prisoner, it was better to•ceme to England. He added
there was. plenty of food on Board, and he expected to
receive assistance from. passing ships. He passed several
ships, but only spoke two, one being a Frenchman, who was
unable so give him any men. The statement in the log and
the account given by the carpenter and the apprentices
fully bear out the above narrative. One of them states
that after the murder the Greeks kissed the innocent por-
tion of the crew as a token of friendship and that they did
not intend to molest them.

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Mr. Mercer, sub-Inspector of Police, and a body of con-
stabulary, weut on board the Caswel on S.iturday and took
charge of the prboner Christ() sainuo, who was sitting on the,
wain hatch, handcuffed and guarded by 319.rines The pri-
soner was brought 1:13,f ore Mr. Starkie, It. L, who remanded
him until Monday.

Christi) 'Sambo, was. brougiliLiotrisliG -riaiLltes
at Queenstown on Monday. he hearing was, how-
ever, adjourned for a week, in order th9.t time 'nay be
given for the preparation of the evidence.

THE PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES
AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
(From Monday's Daily News.)
On Sunday afternoon the Prince and Princess of
Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and
the Duke of Connaught, attended the afternoon service
in Westminster Abbey. No public announcement of
the intended visit had been made, but a large crowd
assembled, attracted probably by the fact that Dean
Stanley was to preach. The first intimation of the
presence of their Royal Highnessee spread through the
congregation on the organ playing the National
Anthem. Then the congregation stood up, and saw
the Prince of Wales accompanying the Princess up the
choir, closely followed by the Dukes of Edinburgh and
Connaught. Their Royal Highnesses occupied seats
on the south side of the choir, immediately below the
clergy. The Dean who wore the Ribbon of
the Garter, chcse for his text the first verse of
Psalm cxxii. The Psalm, he said, was one of
the songs in which the Israelites, after their exile, ex-
premed their joy at finding themselves once more
within prospect of home. They had been sojourners
in a mighty empire entirelyiunlike their own. Their
ideas of history and religion had become enlarged; in
some respects they were a lesser nation, in some
respects much greater. For they had received a new
and mighty impulse, which ended in nothing less than
the greatest event in the world's history, the advent of
Christianity. The two feelings of the human heart
consecrated by the Psalms to the return of the Israel-
ites were the value of home, and the value of new and
wide experience. Surely there was not one single
man in the congregation in whom the value of home
was not one of his nearest and dearest thoughts, or
who did not in some measure respond to the appeal in
which the poet asked—in words almost too familiar to
be quoted—
Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself bath said,
Tbis is my own, my native land;
Whose heart bath ue'er within him burned
As home his footsteps he bath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
There had not been a generation of men for the last
three thousand years, and there would not be a gene-
ration of men to the end of time, who would not read
with sympathy and delight the story on which the
greatest master of ancient poetry spent all his heart,
where he pictured the return of Ulysses, his wife,
counting the weary days and nights in the hills of
Ithaca, the dog leaping up in his master's face and
dying of joy, the aged servants recognisieg their long-
lost chief as he trod once more his father's threshold.
To every man worthy of the name the thoughts of
mother, and wife, and children, and brothers and sis-
ters are amongst thn most inspiring, the most purify-
ing, the most elevating, of all the motives which God
has given us to steady our steps, to guMn our c
sciences, and to nerve us for duty through "all the
changes and chances of this mortal life." • Hsi,.
thrice happy, was he or she who kept the sanc-
tuary—home—holy, pure, and undefiled ; false to-
country and false to the true intsereets and tile
only progress of human kind wasllinier.4lzWeelire under-
mined it. Not charity only, but all the virtues of which
charity was the bond began and ended at home. Was
there any Englishman or Englishwoman so dead to the
greatness of our country, so hard to the instincts of
humanity, as not to desire with all their hearts that the
household thus blest by Providence in its outward
deliverances from sickness and sorrow and danger
should be also in all those things which alone could;
make a home truly happy and a family truly noble
and truly royal? A fresh responsibility had been laid
neon the nation by the recent visit raid to India, It
was not for nothing that to many of them there might
have been of late called up visions of numberless,
swarming populations of their Indian cities. It was
not for nothing that they had tracked on the map or in
reality the scenes of the splendid, if at time s harsh, and-
valiant deeds by which India wai.s won for us, or of the
heroic courage and endurance by which, in the time of
the mutiny, it waspreserved to us. It was notfor nothing
that they might have read or heard of the monstrocities
of idolatrous worship or the debasement of unchecked
superstition, or, on the other hand, of the marvels of
the sacred river, or the snow clad heights, the highest
of earthly heights, or the luxuriance of the loveliest of
tropical forests, and the grandeur of the monuments
which Christendom has never surpassed and rarely
equalled. All these things bad been unrolled before
them for their good, and for the good of others More
countless multitudes, those fairy cities, would hence-
forth become close spectators of our action, the near
recipients of our beneficence • every crying need for
spiritual help, every just complaint, every high aspira-
tion from those distant shores ought thenceforth to find
more ready access to their hearts; every act of grace
or courtesy which they had shown, or might show, to-
wards those subject races; every firmer grasp on the
eternal principle, justice and charity, that they could
exhibit towards them would henceforth strike with a
double force on those who were drawn to the
by the bonds of personal regard or personal know-
ledge. Every deed of good or ill, that they
should perform anywhere was henceforth enacted
not only in "the fierce white light that beats
upon the throne," but in the presence of the
gazing "eyes and listening ears of peoples, of itharireds,
and of natiens which no man could number." "I was
glad when they said unto me, we will go up into the
house of the Lord." Once before he had preacbed
within those walls on that text. It was on the Sunday
following the day when the whole of this vast city and-
nation was stirred up as one man to go to the great
metropolitan Cathedral to return thanks for the re-
covery of their beloved Prince from a terrible struggle
of life and death, which for weeks people had followed
with trembling eagerness and anxiety. In the five
yenrs that had since passed much had taken place in
opportunities, mercies, visitations, and now had come
another moment, less exciting, perhaps, less solemn
than that festival, yet still it reminded them of that
other time. Here also there had been an escape from
perils which, if unseen, were badly less imminent;
here also there was thanksgiving, which, from the Queen
downwards, they all shared; here again they were as-
sembled in a venerable church, which, if less august
than the great Cathedral of St. Paul's, was yet to many,
to most of them, even inure closely endeared. On
that occasion he asked them to commemorate the
general feeling of thankfulness by contributing to the
restoration of the great metropolitan Cathedral. On
this occasion it happened that the time fell in with the
contributions yearly made to the yet more pressing
and constant need of strengthening the hands of the
chief pastor of the metropolis in his efforts for the
good ot the neglected masses of this city; and he could
not imagine a more fitting moment for such a thank-
offering. The voice of the living and the voice of the
dead all combined to tell them that the genuine thank'
offering for mercies such as they had received, had but
one adequate expression, and that was in a humble
desire tor goodness, increase of wisdom, increase
of firmness, increase of contempt for what is
vile and base, increased determivation to fight man-
fully in the faith of Christ crucified, and under
his victorious banner against sin, the world, and the
devil. Let us said the Dean, in conclusion join
once more, and for the last time, in the words of
the prayer offered every Sunday in this place, that the
journey of the heir of this yearn, now by the good pro-
vidence of God, safely accomplished, may tend to his
own best happiness, and the happiness of those nearest
and dearest to him; to the welfare, physical, moral,
and spiritual of the people of our Indian Empire, and
of those of our own legal commonwealth, to the glory
of Almighty God—the holy, the just, the merciful,
and the pure. May the eternal Lord, who has blessed
his going out, bless yet more abundantly his coming in,
from this time forth for evermore.
At the appointed place in the prayers that followed,
the Dean said: I am desired by the,Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales to announce thatiehey desire to return
their most hearty and humblesthanks to Almighty
God for the safe return of his Royal Highness fionft%
India.
A collection was made at the doors on behalf of the
-Bishop of London's Fund.

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