The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

ARITISH AND FOREIGN

Mr. Tennyson will contribute a new Arthurian poem
of considerable lenath, entitled " The Last Tounnuneut," to
the C.ilco,poracq L'erieir for December.

A Cnioe newsioaper statea that the discoveries at the
fliallloll,i Held, ore .1 the increase, awl estimates their
value at not Iris that, t 5,000 a day, or 13,:k0m0 a year.

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M. Gembetta j about to be married. M. Victor
item has addressed to the ex-dictator a letter congratulating'
him .1 the al mroaching happy event, which he characterizes
as the union ifsl comet with a !lower.

" Near Theresapolin died lately a seventy yearn
widow, 131 years old, leaving four sons, all over 80 years of
age. Three days before death she walked five miles, and she
was able b sew without speetaeles."—A ,gio. Brazilian Times.
The German for a tram-ear is " Pferdstranneneinen-
hahnwseen." It looks formidable, but so would the English
equivalent If written in one word, in the Uerutan style, thus
llorseroadmilwaycaniage."

A Paris olitor entnplains of tow a Ilonapartist Com-
pany that bought the newspaper he was employed on has
treated him. The directors gave him forty-eight houra to
becomes.. Imperialist, but tailing to be converted, be was
dismissed.

Mr. Hollona, who has been stasisting London work-
men to mimite from the metropolis, w here they had no
work, to Lancashire, where there Is plenty, says he limb; the
large majority conic back again, prefeuing to live on out-
door relief to earning their own livelihood.

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"The
' palatial attacks • at Allahabad, which cost
more time, 4:200,00. have been Ilefinitely pronounced en
unsafe that the Nub Regiment were ordered to vacate
them at once. The 111.31 are now under eauvaa.--Tionesof
Indio, Oct. It_ . .

In one of the French courts this week a witness was
hurriedly cited to appear before the tribunal. The avocat
observed : I. I may remark to the court that it way have
entire confidence In the deposition of this witness, because
he hal not had time to consult an avocet r•

Immense sums of gold bare within the last fort-
night been brought over from Boulogne to Folkestone, and
sent on to London. Upwards of a million and a quarter/ma
arrived in a week—V.l2o,ooo in one day, ball of it for Rotha-

Between Saturday night and Monday morning a
trade outrage was committed at a grinding-wheel in Under-
md, near the residence ,d Sir J..ho Brown, Sheffield.
Two tahle•bla.le grinders, named Arthur Moor-wood and
Charles Beamnont, on nroe,eding to their work, found that
thr,e of their hands had been removed. Aloorwood had been
provionsly ratirened.
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The Naph, paper, Roma. tills, 115 a claimant is
wanted for the groat./ tri.r in the lottery drawing En the
Pmatito Nationale. 1,11,1 illll..tred thonband francs
lately going liogging, being the sum won by the he,hirr of
the fortunate share, but as )a he lu,,a not put in a eIFII,II for
Übe prize. The winner of a smaller semi fifty thousand—
too, says the 1:4•Ina, is also not forthcoming. The ninlibers
are 1,121,a3and

The trade and navigation returns were issued on
Tuesday. The total imports for last month were valued at
tA1.,14.7.11. agahist t2.5.;;72,02; in I tetober last year ; and for
the nine months of thisyear, E 272.704.42.2. against c• 239,570,574
In 1,70. The exports were valued at t 19.:047,573. aa compared
with t 17.5.50,799 ; and for the nine mouths, t 150,530,205, as
against t 100,2,4,990 last year.
'There are now three comets visible With a telescope
in the heavens; Eileke's, which perforate its revolutions
mond the tom in three years and a few months; Tuttle's,
Pest seen tit 1790 by 11,1 chain, and re-discovered in -1,54,
whleh takes betwoen thirteen and fourteen years to hi-sit Me
its orbit ; 211,1 Telllperg comet, discovered At MaYWiiied
11.,' 14th of mew loot

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For the convenience of hitorl to the London In-
ternational Exhibition of PO. and in order to facilitatethe
knowledge of new alerts selected for their excellence the
Royal coinnikaioners have decided that exhibitors of Priti-h
inaidifacturea shill have supplementary mace in one et the
:annexes. The exhlbitena will not he charged a rental for
atich space.
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Tloc 'Pinot g, referring to Mr. Bruce's speech at
Merthyr, points out that he falls back again and again on
his good intention, and continnee to misapprehend the
nature of the complaint against him. No one ever doubted
the goodness of Mr. Bruce'. heart. It hat has occasioned
disappointment Is a lack of energy in putting his intentions
into effect and translating kind feelings into action.
It is stated that the use to which the Government
intends to put Ureenwich Hospital, and to which Mr. Glad-
stone referred In Ids speech the other day, is Wilma decided. '
The Government is disposed to fav, air the project of a naval
niireraity. and arrangements will probably be made for
utilising at least a portion of Greenwich Hospital for this
purpose.
Indian Advil:l'H inform us that Mr. 'Moodie, an able
young barrister, and officiating second Judge of the small
Cause ('art, Calcutta, has died at Barniclipore, with all the
symptoms id hydrophobia. lie hail been bitten slightly by
a dog some months previously, but had thought no more
about It till symptoms of the dread disease appeared. The
occurrence, has Oalliled a very painful feeling in Calcutta,
where Mr. ili4.odie NVVIIIIIICh esteemed.
A Paris minis:pendent of a Lund.in contemporary
writes Your lady readers will be Interested in learning
that the Aigoos is doonied. This last invention of the
capillary art. besides being very, considered in
°mend circles to smack 1., flinch 41 the Lnipire and its
luxury. It is stated that the ladies honoured by the in vita-
to the Prel;blent's peoin!ex appears In their natural hair
"lily”„,e,. ~, , mime the reformation ed the hod French
Republic. Fidel ly ludic, arc not 111111.11 pleated, but the
,y4ounyrzen,oteme
jundum th.etelizty drawn %itch a single hair just
hy...

The ratepayers of Plymouth have resolved to adopt
the Free Librarses Act, end have voluntarily subscribed 011 a
thousand pounds.
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A gratdving diminution in the number of animals
elected wall the foot and mouth disease is this week re-
ported from Dorset.
On Monday the tramways between Edinburzh aml
Leith were opened for passenger traine. Ten cars were put
on the line, and the ntunber of passengers conveyed was
about 12,u0e. _ _

A correspondent writes from Brass River :—"Small.
pox. which has committed such nivages in England of late,
has now made its appearance on the West ('sat of Africa, and
the pc, ple in some two are dying off like rotten sheet,-
The may on "The Moral, Social, and Economical
of the use of Tobacco," for which is prize of tao
Was "V Wr W. C. Trenlyan, will shortly bepuldishect
tto
fahrenbeit, and relieves the
hb. ye
111).1:r:bs. 11)wi ar,t, schoeavte.,red (tIo af
from
~h2mdltejgarL,
spasm• and muscular contrac-
tion" ebyLintslit'ai.:nnaTleularb.minnier fir.; huolfi:oirpn 111Po:4er-is... .the,t,l-1-'7itierh
Is called •• l'aris-hruk." It is of velvet,
Ii wers.m. fentiors, and having en it a Collii...:rSbk 'Mount

of scarlet, to imitate names.
It would appear that the Marquis of Lorne, Int:klel
helna the author of a book of travels, is also a writer of Vera..
At one of the Penny headings at Inveraiy, his lordship gave
Ms. translations from Schiller, and also some original pleCei
from his own pen.
The other day a £3 Bank of England n9tewao Poste,li
simply fitted in three, the lut.lrves written on the outside
fold, with a halfpenny postage-stamp on the right-hand
corner, hut unsealed in any way. The address was to • port
in Anglesey.

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From April 14 to November 4th, the Ezeherinin"
receipts annmated to a;37,bb2,1.15, au increase of neatly
t 1 200,000 o'er the corresponding period of last year. The
expenditure has been .C. 13.646 att. The balance in the Bank
of England on Saturday last WM ; and in thu ha&
of Ireland, £340,556. _ _ _ _

A you.ng man having, the other Sunday, put
crown piece into •• the plate" in an Edinburgh church by
mistake. instead of a penny, asked to have it back, but wits
refused. In once hi for ever. "Awed, once!,' grunted ho.
"lii gut c 2,14 for it in Heaven." " Na. na.- said halm,
the doorkeeper, "yell get credit only for the penny ye
meant to gin"

A well attended meeting of the skilled workmen
employed at the various sawmills to shenield was held on
Tuesday night to take steps for secunng a reduction of their
hours if labour. A resolution asking the employers to con-
cede to them the 64 [lOllll4 system no carried by a largo
majority over nu amendment Mang the hours at sai.
A Conference on the measure prepared by the Na-
tional Association for Promoting Amendment hi the haws
relating to the Liquor Traffic. and proposed to be laid before
Parliament next session, will be held at the rooms of tho
Sot ial "elenee Association, on the 21st and 22nd of the pre-
sent month, at which several members of Parliament and
other eminent parsons love signified their intention of bring
present.

It is remarked h; Berlin that the Emperer William
ha, discarded the Russian horses and equipage usually
attached to his carriage Magian uniforms are also much
More rare in the antechambers of the Emperor nut Prince
Bismarck. The Berlinees deduce from these little facts that
coolia:63 has arisen between, the Russian Emperor and
" chat an uncle'

'assell's new Reda: latblication, '' The World
Of Wit anti Humour," has now in.:de its aPia'aratire, and
contains a fond of amusement to tat kr" In ."." ii Sot at
S time, and SO Ilsed trill promote itig,stion, enliven the
spirits, and save the cost g•f tire mart lhrc times over UI
keeping tile doctor *may. We have Irish
humour, Yankee slang, Negl o drolleries, the ~tylngs Of
Erskine. slicridan, Sydney smith, and that wonderful ;yoma...
Mrs. oyscr.
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The Count de Chambord will 'never eleoerf Ong
Whin; Flag," or the idea that he i., the king of France MY
"Right Divine." Ifis Highness Is just now resldhig all
Cannes, and a Paris correspondent states that on a retro*
occasion some of M. Thiene friends baling suggested to hint
that, mall the Orleans Princes had called upon M. Thiers. ho
too might like to live ap interview with the President of the
Republic, he replied "1 do not see why I should have any
objection to receive 11. Titters."

Mr. Karl Mind, discuss:llg thelabours of the London
&hoot Board in the Ne Ile Fe,' declares In favour of
obligntoiT and gratuitous education. lie consideralt a tuty
of the State, and believes that the State will profit by it :
the gratuitous system being, in the long ruu, the 1128.1 ex-
pensive one. Better, he says, establish free 4choolhousos,
than be compelled to establish houses of correction for those
who have become criminals through educatioVal neglect.
S,IIIIO Swiss cantons and the United States of Amellea may,
In this respect, according to the German writer, serve as an
example worthy of imitation.

The holy of a woman, named Betty Hopkins, living
In humble circumstance. at Oxford, has loeen discovered in
a field about half a into to the westward of the dry, on the
Bulky-road. fler heal was cut half oft, the jagged wound
commencing just under the right ear alai proceeding in a
slanting duvet' acnna the throat. A piece of the davit
was cut off. The front of deixased's dress was saturated
with Wood A bag of matches and as. Oil. was In deceased's
POSSOSIAOII. Ito that the presumption is that, if murder haa
been committed, rubbery was not the motive.
A rule nisi has been granted in the Conti of Queered
Bench, on the applicatlen of the Bev. 3. W. Maitland, so
hollers by purchase of Use ,'rown rights, against the verderere
of Waltham met Epping Forest. calling upon them to show
casino why they should ind be restrained from taking further
proceedings in respect to the presentments lately made at
the Verdereue Courts relative to certain enclosures. It was
stated incidentally that the last sweinmotv court wan held
lii 104 S, and that although the f rest laws were obsolete, the
COlllig were not. The pioceedings lii the full court are
looked forward to with interest, as likely to have an im-
portant bearing 011 the question uf enclosure.

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The ini,ters in aline,t es ery branch 1 trade in the
counties of Durham and Nio ihumberland have conceded
Dube hours as the day's work. All the large engine factories
on the Tyne and Wear have done so. tieveral of the Omen
extensive iron shipbuilding yards have followed. The
mechanics at the principal collieries have also had tholes
terms granted to them, and the men employed at paper.
hulls, carpet factories, and other largo establishments will
commence to work, most of them on the 54 hours a week
syttem on the tat of December. on theist it danuary, 1872.
the at hours week's work will be the rule for skilled work-
men In the north-caatern counties.

Last week the aggregate mortalily in Lothlou and 19
other large towns of the United Kingdom was at the rate of
21 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to ho
living. In the metropolis 2,143 births AO 1,400 Ilvathil Were
rogistered, the fanner having been 115, awl the latter 101
below the average. Sixty-one persons died from smalUpox,
42 from measles, 38 from scarlet-fever, 4 from diphtheria, 51
from whooping-cough, 47 friar different forms if lever, and
19 from diarrlnea. The deaths referred in London to bron-
chitis, pneumonia, and phtlibis further rose from 315, 347,
and 420, to .437 last week ; these, however. only exceeded tho
corrected average weekly number by 14. lite mean tempera-
ture at Greenwich was 47.3, or 0.9 above the average of tho
same week in 10 years.

In the suit instituted by Mr. William Peels against
the directors of Overend, Gurney, and I. (Limited), with
the view of recovering the amount he had lost by the pur-
chase of 2,000 shares cf the company at a high premium, the
•Master of the Rolls gave poigment on Monday. ills lordship
llnn a distinction between the case of an original
bolder and a subsegent transferee, and gave it as his epiüi in
that Mr. Peek not having taken any steps to test the accuracy
if the statements inane in floating the company, during the
period which elapsed between the formation and the stop-
pare, he was not entitled to reeever. The bill WAS therefore
dismissed, but without costs, the defendants having, In Lord
Romillys opinion, been guilty of improper conduct and gross
emmealinent of material and impintaut facts. After this
judgment the case will no doubt be at °nee carried to the
lords Justices of Appeal, and from them. whatever their
derision, to the House of Lerds.