The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

fhe Princess Marie Czarturpika has just entered th•
Carmelite convent at Cracow. _ _

Up to noon of the 3.1 of December the number of
Iti.nops *no had arrived in Rome to attend the (Ecumenical
Council was 4CO.

The Paris Mint in about to strike new gold coins of
the value of £1 each, to be styled " internationals."

The King of Sweden d Norway has conferred on
Sir John Hovering a Knight Comniandership of the Order of
the Polar Star.

The Empress of the French has returned to Pane
from her journey to the East. Her Majesty is reported to
be in excellent health.

The, Graphic states that Mr. Peabody has Mt
£lO,OOO to the manager of a London theatre.
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In succession to E trl Grosvenor, now Marquis of
Westminster, the Lion. Norman Grosvenor was elected last
Saturday for Chester without opposition. The hon. gen finnan,
who is the third son of Lord Koury, promised a general sup-
port to the present Government.
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The other day a drunken collier jumped out of •
railway carriage on the North British Railway, mar St.
Powell's, but escaped with a few cuts and contusions.
The nroun Is around the bronze statne of the late
Prince Consort, near Balmoral Castle, are to undergo exten-
sive improvements. by the enlargement of the knoll, upon
whicu stands the construction representing a rugged moun-
tain crag or cairn, to a proportionate dimension, after which
the grounds are to be protected with a strong and massive
iron railing. These improvements were the last that her
Majesty gave particular directions to have carried out before
leaving Bahnorai after the autumn sojourn.
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The judgment of the Court of Inquiry into the loon
of the China clipper Syir.teift, eft Dungeness, was delivered
at the Greenwich Pollee Court on lueiday At the time of
the arch the vessel was irs compulsory pilotage waters,
and as it hail not been proved that the pilot in charge was
incompetent to perform his duties, the master's certificate
was returned. At the sarne time the latter was censured for
allowing a certain degree of laxity to prevail amongst hi,
crew.
M. Guizot has written a letter to a member of the
French Chamber, in which he states that notwithstanding all
the events which have occurred during the last one and-
twenty years, or rather on a,-count of those events, he Is
more than ever convinced that the parliamentary system
can alone ensure in France an effective alliance of order
with liberty. M. Guisot believes that the Corps Legislatif
has everything in its own hands, and that if it forms an
honest and persevering majority of Liberal-Conservatives,
with sonic good debaters amongst them, that majority will
meet with no Insurmountable resistance from the Govern-
ment, and will obtain solid and durable support from the
country.
'the widowed young Marchioness of Hastings is
about to give proof of her quality as an artist. A book,
called 'Fairy Fancies," will be illustrated from drawings by
this lady.
The Economist is of opinion that it is to Lord Derby
the Conservative party will be compelled to look with a re-
gard which will, our contemporary believes, become in-
creasingly confident —The John Bull has a rumour that the
Duke of Marlborough will succeed to the leadership of the
Conservative party in the House of Lords.
An order was Wined on Monday by the Postmaster.
General, in which It I. intimated that the privilege nvw
granted to commissioned officers of the army, navy, and
royal marines, as well as superintending or tirst-class army
school-masters serving abroad, of sending abroad and re-
ceiving their letters at the reduced British postage of ed,
per half ounce, where the postage of ordinary letters is
higher than CI, shall be withdrawn after theist of January.
lie privileges of non-commissioned officers, soldiers, and
seamen will remain undisturbed.
As an old man, named Chick, aged seventy, was re.
turning from a visit to his brother, near Halbert., Devon,
the other evening, he fell and broke his leg. The road was
but little frequented, and the poor old man lay there all
night and until after three o'clock on the following after-
noon, when he was found in a most deplorable condition.
Rain had fallen in heavy showers during the greater part of
the time he was on the road. The poor fellow now lies in a
very precarious state.
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An inquest was opened on Tuesday in the town of
Monaghan on the body of a man found floating in the river
with wounds upon it. lie is supposed to have been
murdered through party feeling. The deceased was a
Roman Catholic. Five men-Frotestante-are iu custody.
The inquest was adjourned.
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The Irish Bishopa (the John Bull is authorisea to
state) are unanimous in their resolution to maintain the
position which they have, after careful deliberation,
assumed ; and they will take no part in any future conven-
tion until their p,sition as a separate order, always voting
separately, is iecognised. Whether or not the bishops may
not deliberate orcluarily with the others, is a matter still
undecided.
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Mr. L. M'Craig, a farmer at Islay, found a black-
cock completely transfixed through the entire length of his
body on the handle of a plough on his farm. It Is supposed
to have impaled itself in its flight.
About twelve o'clock last Saturday night, James
Maclebh, a private soldier, and a bandsman of the 72nd
Highlanders, stationed at Limerick, who was on furlough in
Glasgow, dabbed Patrick Lynch, a labourer, with whom he
had quarrelled, twice in the groin with a dirk, severing the
femoral artery. Lynch ran about ton yards after having been
stabbed, and then fell, bleeding profusely. The police went
to his assistance. but he died before reaching the police-
station, whither he was being taken. Macleish, who was
drunk at the time of the fatal &Iseult, has been arrested.
Lynch was thirty-five years of age, and was unmarried.