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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

THE NATIONAL EMIGRATION AID

SOCIETY.

The following correspondence has been forwarded to
us for insertion :
Downing-street, June 21, 1869.
My Lord Duke,-1 am directed by Earl Granville to state
that his lordship hes given hie best attention to the facts and
arguments alleged in the niemoria which your grace laid be-
fore his: on behalf of the National Emigration Aid Society.
Lord Granville is fully :dive to the advantages of well-con-
sidered and weli-omdticted in.. _Teflon, but he fears that any
project for carrying it on by means of loans to the intending
emigrants will disappoint the expectations of those who set
it on foot, and he is unable to hold out any hopes that her
Majesty's Government will apply to Parliament for the funds
necessary to give effect to ally such project —I am, my lord
,luke, your grace'v most obedient servant, FREDERIC 16O6ERS.
Ms Grace the Duke of Manchester.

16, Northumberland-street, .Tuly 2, 1569.

My ',rd.—With reference to your lordship's letter ad-
dressed to me as president of the National Emigration Aid .
Society, 011 the list ult., I beg, on behalf of the society,
to say that the committee read with much pleasure that your
lordship "Is fully alive to the advantages of well-considered
and well-conducted emigration." In suggesting loans as a
mode by which a system of self-supporting emigration might
be formed, the society specially explain in the 14th section of
the memorial letter that "they do not urge the adoption of
any specific scheme until a full inquiry shall have convinced
the Government of Its feasibility." if, therefore, your lord-
ship does not consider that any project of aid by loans would
be expedient, this society still begs most earnestly to press
upon your lordship that the whole subject of emigration to
Eritish colonies may be taken into your immediate consider-
ation, in order that some well-considered scheme may be
devised by her Majesty's Government in co-operation with
the Colonial Governments without delay. I have the
honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant,
MANCHESTER.
The Right Hon, Earl Granville, E.G.,
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

IVTATOES.

Fair supplies of potatoea are on sale. Old aorta are dull of
sale, at from 50a. to 80a. per ton; and for new produce the
trade is quiet, at our quotations. New Englieh, 7e. te its.
to to Se. per owl.; and Dutch, 4e. to 4a. 3d. per
basket.
WOOL

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Colonial wool has been purchased to a moderate extent,
and prices ruled lirm. Not much business has been
passing ih Ehl/ilB/1 wool, but the trade has been in a healthy
state, 1111 U prices have been maintained. Current prices of
Enslish wool —Fleeces : Southdown hoggets, Is. 2l to Is 311;
half-bred ditto, is. Id. to Is. Sd. ; Kent fleeces, Is. Ad. to
is Ad. ; Southdown ewes and wethen la ld. to is. Id.; Lei-
cester ditto, la 2d. to Is. Sd. Sorts : Clothing, is, Od. to
le. 6d. ; combing, 11d, to la. bd. pea
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

WHAT BECOMES OF THE TAXESP

The following is from a Paper read before the National
Reform Union, at Manchester, by Mr. Stokes—
She revenue of Great Britain is the largest in the
known world, yet, with all our wealth, a smaller pro-
portion of it is spent upon the Government itself than
in other European States, as the following comparison
of revenue appropriations will clearly prove:
Per cent. Per cent. Per cent.
In Prussia, they spend 2600 War Forces 17 on Debt, 57 on the
In Russia, „ 34 o 12 ~54 'State.
In Spain, „ 25 ~ 18 ~57 „
In Portugal, „ 22 „ ~23 51 „
In A ostria, „ 29 „ 27 ~44 „ ,
In France, „ 22 „ 31 ~43 „
In tit, Britain, „ 43 o 46 ~15 „
It follows from this statement that while those six
States spend a large proportion of their national income
upon the Goverunieut, we spend 85 per cent. of :airs
on debt and war. There is truly no similar extrava-
gance in the known world.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

THOMAS BROWN,

In succeeding to the above Business. begs to inform
the Gentry and Petah-. generally, that he can supply m
with

WEDDING CARS, WAGONETTES, CABS, CARS,

PH.ETONS, GIGS, AND OTHER VEHICLES.
For Business or Pleasure Parties, on the Shortest
Notice.

POSTING ESTABLISHMENT,
COVENRY-STREET, STOIIRBIUDGE.

SAMUEL SALT & SON,
HAGLEY-STREET, HALEHOWEN,
AGENTS FOR THE "OBSERVER."

Messrs. Salt and Son deliver the Observer to the fol-
lowing Townships :—Halesowen, Brierley Hill, Quarry
Bank, Cradley Heath, Cradley. Old Hill, Blackheath,
Goraty Hill, Colley Gate, Bartley Green, Quinton, Hun-
nington, Rayburn Oldbury. Careless Green. The Lye,
Clent, Belbroughton, Fairfield, The Lie key, Bro sgro ve,
Itedditch, and the aurroundingdistrict.

ONF.Y.—Any SUM from £5O to £5,000,
ready to be advanced upon approved FREE-
HOLD SECURITY.
_

A Register kept of Securities and amounts to be ad-
vanced, wnich all parties are invited to inspect, free of
charge.
Chancery Suits, Bankruptcy, County Court. and Ma-
gbiierial Cases, attended to with efficiency and panda-

Office 11011ri : From Ten till Five.

MR. W. C. SIALTBY, SOLICITOR,
99, HIGH-STMT. STOURBRIDGE.

IUJONEY to LEND on Real Security and on
_al_ Personal Security with Life Insurance
'other Sums of MONEY WANTED.— Apply to Mr.
Fleckford. Solicitor, Vicar-street, Kidderminster.

WHOLESALE & RETAIL TOBACCO

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

THE QUALTERLY MEETING.

The second and most important assembly of
the current series of ironmasters' quarterly
°maim( for the summer quarter was belil on
Thursday, 14 the 'luau It 11, Birmingham
'There were present representatives of 11111113 f •
London, Liverpool, isud elsewhere, but on the
whom buyers from ii iii mimics were les+ moiler.
mi. Umui usual, mid at no time during the after-
noon was the attendance up to the average. It
may be said, however, that there is a sLght
provement in the tune of the trade; and there is
inure spirit on the part of the buyers than there
was three months back. There was nothing ut
Thursday's proeeedings to warrant any champi
in prices ; consequently the olticimsi rates for fin-
ished iron reniihn us fixed at the preliminary
meeting a fortnight ago, viz., at C. per ton for
bars, and other kinds in proportion.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

CRADLEY HEATH.

TAR tom ART.—We have been informed that the
Committee whothught to have Rib. Act adopted for the
parish of Redilal Hill. and whose efforta proved imam,
umlaut, have just lately reeeived the bill of eons train
the milieitor whom they engaged. It amounts to over
ISO, and will be or bar by Wig tone been raised by sub•
auriptimie ; than uontributing who •foretime were DAM.
bered with the friends of the ivithed for Act. We llAiy
also remark that Creilley Heath having been incorporated
with the borough of Dudley by the late Reform Dill, the
inhabitants of that place have been necessitated to pay
their own rat, This has proved clinotious to the poorer
elan, rind they cast all Ow odium of the lAVAilitil 1.4.11.1
the per.nne who attempted to adopt the Local Act thine
tun ago. 01 mane it le their ignorance which has led
them astray. The rata' they Cr. now obliged to pay
themselves, would here still I be paid if the Local Act
had never been thought of. We hope that this will be
: remembered by our reader. at Cradley Heath, and that
1 the notion, so wrung. will be dispelled.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Pleasure trains are already being organised in Paris
for visi lag Egypt and being pregent at the inauguration of
the Suer Canal.
An ancient privilege of M.P.'s is to be swept away
ruthirs,ly, Thr freedom from arrest enjoed by tter,lotra of
P.ailament sines 1542 is withdrawn by the new liaukrtiptty

BilL
The Chester Degatta will take place on Thursday,
the sth August.
"On Saturday (July 10) the Queen, with the Royal
family at the Castle, and Prince and Princess Christian will I
leave for Osborne, and remain there till the middle of
August. The Queen will then pay a second visit to Balmoral,
and will not return to London before the last week of
October or lint week in November. "—Court Journal.
Earl Fitzwilliain has given a large plot of ground,
situated at Swinton Bridge, near Sheffield, for the site of a
chapel for the l'rimitive Methodists.
At Mallow sessions a respectable farmer, named
Callaghan, was committed for trial for assaulting and attempt.
log to disarm a serjeant of the ffiith Regiment, in a tr.'.
between Cork and Mallow, and for using seditious lan-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

THE DRINK AGAIN!

A boatman on the Trent and Mersey Canal, named
Thomas Vaughan, made a determined attempt to
murder his wife on Saturday morning, at Etruria, near
Hanley. He had been drinking two days at a place
called Longport, about two miles off, and his wife
walked after the boat from that place to Etruria. On
her entering the boat about midnight on Friday her
husband picked up a windlass, or iron key, used to open
locks on the canal, and declaring he would kill her,
struck her on the head with it several times. He
repeated that he would "do " for her; and on her
falling on her knees and begging him to spare her till
morning, he, again swearing he would kill her there
and then, thmst her head into the cabin stove, winch
had no fire fortunately, and said he would have burnt
her to death if there had been fire. He then threw
her on the floor of the cabin, and, getting on the hatch-
way, kicked her violently on the face and neck. She
screamed " Murder ! " and, some one coming along,
she managed to crawl from the boat to the house of the
I canal inspector, who took her to the infirmary.
ller deposition was taken by a magistrate on Satur-
day, as there NVEIN not the least prospect of her recovery.
Her head was a mass of bruises, and presented a most
horrible spectacle— so much so that the magistrate was
obliged to retire during the evidence, and one of the
clerks fainted. The husband, who had been shortly
before apprehended, was present, but was perfectly
callous, even chuckling on seeing his wife, who was
scarcely recognisable. The unhappy woman is 28 years
of age, and married the prisoner at 15. She has two
children, and about three weeks ago his ill-usage caused
premature confinement.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST AN
IRISH NEWSPAPER.

_
A libel action against the Dublin Daily Esprees, arising out
of circumstances connected with the recent murder of the
MulUngar stationmaster, has been tried in the Dublin Court
of Exchequer.
The plaintiff, the Rev. Mr. Gogerty, one of the
Roman Catholic curates of the parish, sets forth in Ms
numinous and plaint that on Laurence Moran, a man
employed by the Midland Railway Company, being
disminsed from their employment, a subscription to
present him with a testimonial was being raised, which
he (Mr. Gogerty) recommended in the chapel on the 6th
December, 1868. On the 4th of March following
Anketell was murdered; and the libel alleged is a let-
tee by the Rev. C. P. Reichel, which the defendant
published. Damages was laid at £l,OOO.
Mr. Gogerty was examined, and deposed that he
had said in the chapel that it was no part of the duty
of a clergyman to interfere between masters and ser-
vants ; bit that a person holding a public situation
ought not to be dismissed without being informed of
the cause, and that, "he thought the person to whom
he alluded was dismissed because he was a Catholic."
Captain Walter Nugent, High Sheriff of West-
meath, corroborated Mr. Grogerty as to the words
us A in the chapeL
Mr. Kelly, manager of the National Bank, gave the

same testimony.
Mr. Macdonogh spoke at length for the defendant,
declaring that both Father Martin and the plaintiff
"concurred and united together" to give their advice
against Mr. Anketell, but "in petty cunning concealed
his name."
The ltev. Dr. Reichel WM examined for the defence,
and mentioned that Mr. Vyse, of the National Bank,
and Mr. Dingan had come to Anketell to disavow
l sympathy with words spoken of him in the chapel.
Mr. Vyse gave a version of Mr. Gogerty's observa-
tions agreeing substantially with those of the plaintiff.
He had said to Anketell that he thought the subject
was not worthy of being introduced into such a
place."
After a great deal of evidence had been taken, the
jury found a verdict for the defendant, exonerating the
Plaintiff from any intention to injure Mr. Anketell,
and stating their belief that his object was charitable.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

THE PRINCE CONSORT'S WINDSOR
ASSOCIATION.

The nineteenth anniversary of this association, insti-
tuted by the late Prince Consort for the purpose of
encouraging habits of industry aniong the labouring
classets, was celebrated on Monday in the Home Park,
at Windsor. Additional interest was imparted to the
proceedings through the presence of the Princess
Christian and the Princes+, Louise, who distributed the
prizes to the successful candidates.
The tents for the accommodation of the members of
the Association were pitched near the east terrace of
the Castle, and a dais, with a crimson and gold canopy
and chairs of state, was erected for the use of the
Princesses while distributing the prizes. Fronting the
dais were two marquees and seats for the use of the
more distinguished visitors, and in an adjoining tent
was a magnificent display of flowers, fruit, tic. Other
tents in the large half of the enclosure contained an
exhibition of vegetables, fruit, and specimens of cottage
handicraft, consisting of models, needlework, &c.
At half-past one o'clock the exhibitors sat down to
dinner, presided over by the Rev. H. J. Ellisod,
Vicar of Windsor. The report of the committee was
then read by Lieutenant-General Seymour, and an
address was delivered by the Rev. D. Monsell, Vicar
of Egham.
About four o'clock their Royal Highnesses the
Princess Christian and Princess Louise, with Prince
Leopold, arrived from the Castle, attended by Colonel
Gordon, and conducted by Lieutenant-General Sey-
mour, the Hon. the Dean of Windsor, Viscount
Kirkaldie, Mr. T. Chamberlain, the Mayor of Windsor
and the members of the committee, took their places
on the dais. After the report had again been read the
prize-holders about 2110 in number, were then called
up, one by one, and the prizes varying from V down.
ward, handed to them by the Princesses, six of the re-
cipients likewise receiving certificates signed by the
Queen. After the distribution or the prizes their Royal
Highnesses inspected the various exhibitions, and after-
wards took tea in a tent provided for the purpose.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

LIABILITY OF TELEGRAPH

COMPANIES.
The Court of Queen's Bench was engaged on Saturday with
the case of " Playt air e. The United Kingdom Telegraph Com-
pany," the question raised being whether a telegraph com-
pany was liable for an error in transmitting a message.
The plaintiff had telegraphed to a firm the price of
a cargo of ice, upon which they ordered it to be sent
to them. It was subsequently discovered that the
price forwarded by the telegraph clerk was wrong, and
the action was brought to recover damages in con-
sequence of the intending buyer refusing to take the
cargo.
Mr. Justice Lush, in delivering judgment, said that
the plaintiff claimed on the ground that the message
of the buyer became his property as soon as it was
delivered to the telegraph company, ard that the
defendants were liable either as a contract made for
him through the purchaser, or for a breach of duty in
not taking due care in transmitting it. The court was
against the plaintiff on the first ground, and conse.
quently the second point did not rise. The buyer was
not the agent of the plaintiff, and therefore the latter
could not recover.
Judgment for the defendant accordingly.

A serious collision took place, on Tuesday morning,.
on the North Eastern Railway near Mahon. A goods train
had culled at the Castle Howard station, and part of it had
been left on the main line while the engine fetched some
trucks out of a siding. At that moment a Doncir ter exam-
Won train, consisting of thirty-six well-tilled carriages, came
round the sharp curve from Kirkham, and ran into the goods
train, causing great confusion among the excursionists, loony
of whom were looking out of the train, and at once spread
the news of the danger. The stoker jumped off the engine,
and some of the passengers jumped out of the train. Ac. t -
siderabie number of them were badly cut and bruised, but
none were killed. One gentleman from Doncaster lost an
eye, and a young lady from the same town was much injured
In the back and face. Those passengers who kept their xests
were not much hurt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

THE LYE.

Tan CO.OPIIRATIVE SOCIIITY.—The thirty-fourth quer.
terly report of this society has just been issued to the
members. Thirteen new members bad be added during
the quarter, and in the same pr-rid till 8 had been con.
tr.buted to the share capitol, thus evidencing an increase
of public confidence in the so,iety's stability and useful.
ness. A slight decrease in the receipt in the grocery de-
portment was not :mini-Mg, considering the condition of
trade, but the receipts in th 3 drapery department hail
equalled those of list quarter. Co-operation had been ap-
plied to the making of nails and the committee were glad
to be able to realize such an amount of profit as would en-
able them t., pay the workman a small bonus on his work.
The commi.tee walla' be able to pay 2s. lid. in the pound
on members' i 5 elitist- cheques, and to give II bonus of
21 per ,Ilt.llll the earnings of the workman. The sales
of grocery, drapery, and nails. amounted to t 1.102.. and
the total receipt of the quarter umountedio El, 5.15, is.
The profits of the quarter amounted to E 155. 53. 111.,
out of which woul.b have to he paid interest on the slim,
capital at 5 per cent., £10,: dividends, £BB. lthr. 8(1. ;
bonus on labour, .tis. 5.. ; balance carried to nest qu.-
ter, £3O. lla. . .

lauumer.—Am inquest was held on Tuesday last, at Mr.
Samuel Newman Rhodes', the Old Rose and Crown Inn,
before It Docker, hay, Coroner, touching the death of
William Taylor who was found hanging in his cellar on
the previous dry. From the evidence adduced it appears
that deeeasmi was a nail maker. and 77 years old. He
was seen opening his ahoy shutters at seven o'clock in the
morning, and at half.paist eight was found in his cellar,
hanging. He lefts cut down, mid found to be dead. The
jury returned a verdict of auicide whilst in a state of
temporary insanity.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

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Stmrbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

BELBROUGHTON.

CHARGE OF PERMITTING DRUNKENNESY.—John Cheadle
landlord of the Swan Inn, WRi charged by Superin-
tendent Freeman with permitting drunkenness in his
Is inse, on the 2nd inst. Police-constable Line said the
defendant kespa the Swan Inn. On the above date he
heard a great noise, about one o'clock. Be went Mtn the
house, and found about twenty 3 ming persona in the
TOOCII. The language used wan very bad. Defendant
denied that min person was drunk, and celled Charlotte
Limes, who taut she kept defernlant'a house, :did bad
111 MM uo slime April, and during that time had never seen
a drunken permu in the house. There %Ili no bad lan-
guage used that slie beard. Elijah Waldron said he woe
nailer and fiddler, and was playing that night. There
were 'general females there, and he (within's) 'gang a song.
Mr. Lane came into the house, slid said there was a great
Caine, and he could hear them half a mile off. There
was not runeh noise. One man (min W. hen], The
13•11.111 cons dared the case proved, and fined Jet :admit
Is and costs.

ASA MILTING Tan Potter—Henry Crisp and David
Wilkshire was charged with agsaultiug Police•cons'able
Lane whilst in the execution of his duty. On the lit
instant lie went to Cheadle's house, who asked him to put
the defendants out. He went to put the defendants out,
when Crisp said he should not go out for ouch a b
as him, and Wilkshire struck him on the back. Crisp
also struck him during the struggle. Fined Zos each and
coeds.

ACCIDENT.-00 Monday morning Samna Gollins,
mechanic in the employ of Y.essrs. Waldron awl Son,
we.. au:et:ll4.lg some steps at the leek of his mnployere'
premises when his font slipped end he was thrown back-
wards. One of his legs lying between two of the
treads " had the leverage .1 Ilia whole weight, and the
strain caused it to creak. The sufferer managed to
crawl away to Motor diNtance where lie was found and
inediately conveyed Lome. Mr. Raymond, ourgeou, WaS
in prompt attendance end the limb set.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

NOTICE.

INNKEEPERS', GROCERS', AND OTHER
BUSINESSES,

ARE SPEEDILY & EFFECTIVELY TRANSFERRED
BY S. INSULL,
AUCTIONEER ANI) VALUER,
HIGH-STREET, BRIERLEY HILL.

No Charge made unless a Site is effected.
No Charge to Purchasers.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

RETIREMENT OF THE REV. T.
BINNEY.

Last Sunday morning there was an impressive ser-
vice in the King's Weigh-house Chapel, London, on the
occasion of its well-known minister, the Rev. T. Fin-
ney, formally laying down the pastoral office, the duties
of which he has discharged during a period of forty
years. A very large congregation assembled, amongst
those present being many from the suburbs, who in
former years were amongst Mr. Binney's hearers. The
sermon, which occupied upwards of an hour in its
delivery, consisted, first, of a review of the last forty
years, in which the preacher touched on events
national and ecclesiastical, which had issued in what
made the England of to-day very different from what it
was at the beginning of the period in question. Mr.
Finney took a comprehensive review of the religi.us
phenomena that have distinguished the last forty_ years.
lie glanced at movements and upheavings on all sides
Iniong the different religious communities —in the
Society of Friends, the Wesleyan body, the Free
Church of Scotland—at contests about Church and
Diligent, Voluntaryism, Anglicanism, Irvingism, Bre-
threnism, Gorham controversies, Colenso controversies,
and the thousand and one questions which had succes-
sively risen up, as new phases of thought have appeared,
or old pretensions had been resuscitated and revived.
Finally the preacher adverted to the changes that had
occurred in his own congregation, and concluded by a
touching allusion to the humble estimate he entertained
of anything he had done.
It may be added that, although, having attained his
three score years and ten, Mr. Binney has deemed it
time to retire from the regular obligations of official
duty, he will retain a nominal and honorary connection
with the Weigh-house Chapel, with which for forty
years his name has been so honourably associated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

THE LAW OF TREASURE TROVE.

At the East Kent Quarter Sessions, Just held, Lord Vito'
waiter presiding, Samuel Mummery and Richard Wallis,
labouring men, surrendered to take their trial on an indict-
ment for secreting three gold bracelets, the property of the
(roan, the same haring been hidden in the earth at Little
Chart, in the said county, iii February, 1869.
It appeared that workmen were engaged in excavat-
ing an estate belonging to Sir Edward Dering, for
drainage purposes, when the bracelets, which were sup-
posed to have belonged to the Ancient Britons, were
dug up. They were of solid gold, and were objects of
much interest; but instead of the finding having been
reported, as is required, to the coroner for the district,
for him to communicate with the Treasury, the prison-
ers had kept and disposed of the property.
Both prisoners pleaded gully, and the Chairman, ad-
dressing them, said the 'present was a kind of case
which did not frequently occur, but it was quite right
and necessary when they did occur that notice should
be taken of them on the part of the Crown, otherwise
such articles, which were of value as well as interesting,
would be made away with with impunity, and a great
loss thereby sustained to the Treasury of the country.
It was important that the public should know what the
law really is in respect to such findings, viz., that all
gold or silver articles, or gold and silver bullion which
had been hidden in the ground, when dug up, belonged
of right to the Crown. In the present instance, taking
into consideration that the prisoners had pleads...l guilty,
and assuming that they were ignorant of the law, and
were now sorry for what they hasl done, the court
would deal leniently with them by simply ordering
them to be bound over in their own recognisances
of £lO each to come up for judgment when called
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

ITHE FOREIGN WHEAT AND FLOUR

TRADES.

Favourable reports are made as to the wheat crop of
the south of France. Cereals present everywhere a
tine appearance in that part of the French empire, and
are beginning to fall before the reapers. The wheat
ears are full, the grain is of good quality, and the yield ,
appears likely to be generally satisfactory. The other '
parts of France have not been equally fortunate, having
all felt the effects of cold and wet. Subjected to these
adverse influences the wheats have come into ear slowly
and in an unequal manner. The yield in the less
favoured districts will, according to all appearances, be
less considerable than it was in 1868, and the harvest
is also expected to be delayed some days. Foreign
wheats have arrived at Marseilles in more considerable
quantities of late, and affairs have regained some im-
portance at that centre. Quotations of wheat and
flour have remained firm at Bordeaux without much
business having been done. Wheats have been held
firmly in Belgium and Holland, and they have also
risen at Cologne and in some parts of Germany. The
advices received from the Danubian provinces and the
shores of the Black Sea are generally satisfactory, good
crops being anticipated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10

ENVILLE.

ASSAVLT CAS/Z.—At the Wordsley Police Court. on
Monday last, before If. St. John Matthews and H. Hall,
E-qrs., Thomas Evans was charged by Sarah Wicket
with assaulting her on the 311th ult. Complainant said
on the above date she gave the defendant a Job to mend
an umbrella. He asked fld for it, and she only agreed to
give him 411. He took the umbrella, and began to take
it to pieeea. She remonstrated with him, and he struck
her on the eye with the platers. Fined 2s tld and coats
in default 14 days.
DI117:ilt AND INC‘PABLE.—At the Petty Sessions held
Stourbridge, yesterday. before B. Littlewood, Esq., Tho'
malt Molineux WWI charged with being drunk and inca-
pable, on the 2n4 inst. Police-conatable Dobson proved
the offence, and said he found the defendant at half-pat
one O'clock in the road, quite drunk. Pleaded guilty.
Fined sc.

CAUTION TO CARTERS.—Edward Dixon was charged
with riding iin the shafts of his wagon, in the pariah of
Kinver. Police.constable Dobson proved the case. De-
fendant, who pleaded guilty. was Order-d to pay costs.
CIIAILOP. OF ILLKOALLY TAKEN° A HARE. Thomas
Miilinens was charged with taking a hare from the Hot.
lies Farm, on the 2nd inst. Thomas Reynolds, keeper,
proved that he saw the defendant go to a hedge and take
is lisre out of a trap, and give it to his wife. Defendant
admitted taking the hare, but said that it was fly-blown,
and useless. Mr. Oakley, head-keeper, said defendant
had been in the place about three months. Had seen
defendant's master, who said he should discharge him
for his misconduct. and did not wish to preaa the case
heavily. Fined 5a and Costa, 17s