The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF INEW,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The long pending appeal of Mr. Voyeey from the
Chanoerr Court of York hat been specially appointed to be
heard by the Judicial Committee on thelOth November.

A Bombay telegram, dated the sth init., states that,
according to advice. received from China, a rumour was
abroad to the effect that Prince Hung had been ameasinated.
"A tradesman, in buainera of long 'tending, Ii
wishful to meet with a female, thoroughly domesticated,
with meane."—Advertaement in Manchester Examiner.
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One of the sufferers by a lata railway accident wan
rushing wildly about, when some one asked him U he woe
hurt. No," he said, " bat I can't and my umbrella."
At a wedding last week, the vicar, at the conjunc•
tlou of the hands of the bride and bridegroom, .lowly wound
the end of hls stole round them asasymbol."—Court Journal.

" We read in a new religioue. work the following
greeting instead of good morning :—' Do I speak to •
Christian thin morning.' "—Court Journal.
The Crown Prince's of Prussia ham keen visiting the
hospitals of the sick and wounded In Wiesbaden and ha
neighbourhood.
At the laying of the foundation stone of a new
church in Omagh, the Duke of Abercorn exhorted Irish
eplacopslians to draw closer the bonds of cordiality and
goodwill among Protestants of all denominations in Ireland.

The Westmineter Gazette says • protest against the
Invasion of Rome ham been drawn up, and la In the comae of
Bignature by the lay Catholics of England, with the Duke of
Norfolk.; their head.

The sittings of the New Testament Committee for
the Revision of the English Bible were resumed on Monday.
It is understood that satisfactory progress la being made with
the wort In hand.

The lovers of champagne will be glad to learn that
the vintage of that region has been placed by the Grand
Duke of 14mklenburg under the special protection of the
military authoritlec

Running the Prunian blockade of Paris hie tempted
Yankee speculators, and it is said that ons incliviclug ham
succeeded in getting into Paris by some means some VlO,OOO
worth of very needed supplies, and has DOI by any means
done as yet.

The word dichaince, and which means a clispoeseeeion
or forfeiture, has played sad havoc with the prase, who have
variously printedit, "Du Chance," "defence," ' defiance,'
etc_

The bag of postal cards despatched by magnesium
balloon at the Crystal Palace firework display, on Thursday
in last week, was picked up at Acrise Farm, near Folkestone,
and the cardu posted at Hythe, reaching their destination by
first delivery on Saturday.

At the Midlothian -Registration Court the general
question of the right to vote of factors, overseers, game-
keepers, gatekeepers, dm., wee tried on objections lodged by
the liberals to the servants of the Duke of Buocleach. The
sheriff found that such persons were not entitled to vote

A dvicee from the Cape of Good Hope informs us
that another large quantity of gems had been found; and
the Natal Mercury of the 20th August says —" Every week's
post brings fresh news of diamond finds on the Vaal itiver,
and a continuous addition to the diggings."
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The Union LiUrale of Tours contains a letter signed
by C. M. an ALMS= lady, who says she Is ready to Under-
take the command of 50,000 Amazons. The Initials of two
aldes-denamp and a secretary are also appended, and the
letter says they can handle a thaasepot, and their motto will
be, " Never retreat.'

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The subecnptione at Brietol to the national fund for
the relief of the sick and wounded of the French and German
armies amounted to rather more than £3,000 and at Bath
nearly £2,000 have been contributed towards the same
object. In both cities large quantities of material have also
been collected and forwarded to head-quarters in London.
An important decizion was given in the Kest Surrey
Registration Court on Saturday, by which clergymen in
receipt of the pew rents of their respective churches, the
property being freehold, were entitled toe vote. It is un-
derstood that this decision will affect a great many more
votes, both in Nast and kild Surrey.
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It is officially ascertained that 400 houses were burnt
down at Strasburg; 1,700 civilians were killed or wounded;
8,000 people are roofless. The damage ls estimated at
180,000,000 fr. The sufferers have been officially requested to
state the amount of their loeaea. Subseeptlons have bees
opened for their relief. The King of Bavaria gave 1,000
thalers ; the Berns Council, 20,000 thalers.

On and after the lit of November, the French
postage stamp bearing the Emperor's head, with which all
Englishmen travelling abroad have been familiar for so
many years, will no longer be accepted at the post offices
In any part of France. From that date there will be new
stamps, on which will be a figure of the Republic, with
the old legend, "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, en-
graved beneath.

The Good Templar!, an American institution have
spread their organhation to Landon. By means oelodges
and private understandings they Intend to spread an abhor-
rence of intoricathig drinks breadceet, and to enable Maio-
tellers to know each other wherever they meet. One lodge
has already been established in London, and it wee p
that another should be formed la the vicinity el Drur=d
The diamond excitement at the Cape has been in-
creased by the discovery of a diamond of 291 carats by a Mr.
Innes. But the Aiwa! Observer has a report which throws
the Innate' diamond, "magnificent gem" though it be, Into
the shade, for It was heard that Captain Edwards has die-
coverea a diamond of 160 carets, valued at £lOO,OOO. The
arrivals at the fields are put down at 1,000 a week.

The Chislehurst correspondent cf the Maidstone
Journal writes :—The Empress with • few attendants takas
daily wslite in the village sad on the common. Sightseers
are not .0 plentiful as wan expected, if we except Sundays,
when her lisjesty attends the beautiful little ROl9llll Calao
Chapel at eleven o'clock. 111, however, pleasant to see the
great respect shown te her by all c.lasses. The Prince Imperial
generally accompanies the Empress, attended by his tutor
and guardian.

King Victor Emmanuel, in receiving the rioWag
deputation which conveyed to him the reettlt of the PI&
biscite, said that Italy owed Dote little to fortune, but a pea
deal to the evident justice of her cause. Italians were now
roasters of their own destinies, and, after being dispersed for
so many centuries, were united in the city which was the rapt-
tailor the world. Ills Majesty said in conclusion, that as King
and Catholic, he had proclaimed Italian unity, and remained
firmly resolved to guarantee the liberty of the Church, and
the independence offthe Sovereign Pontiff.

Of all the wild stories to which this dreadful warhas
given rise, that representing England as eager to pommies her-
self of Egypt is surely the most preposterous. Yet it has ob-
tained credence in that land of mystery. Native function-
aries have been perturbed. French settlers who find their
account in the preponderance of their own countrymen
among the European population, together with the cloud og
foreign speculators who have settled on the Viewers domi-
nions like locusts, have taken up the cry, until It has been
actually believed that the humiliation of Yranc. would case
Great Britain to covet Egypt no her own.
Lad week the deaths registered in London and nine-
teen other large cities and towns of the United Kingdom
were 3,111, being at the rate of 22 to every thousand of the
population. In London the deaths were 1,279, or 74 below
the estimated average. The births were 2,18& Z/MOtic
diseases were fatal 10 414 eases. Of thee. 27 were from small-
pox, 11 from measles, 192 from scarlet fever, 9 from diphtheria,
11 from croup, 16 from whooping cough, 12 from typhus, 23
from typhoid fever,l9 from simple fever, andllfromdlazybccL

The fair of Ballinadoe proved a good average one.
There was a rise in the price of cattle—about £1 a bead mare
than was expected. There were a good many Mullah pur-
chasers. Heifers sold up to £24; the average price was about
£l6. A very large amount of money changed hands, saw
ninny on the day of the hone fair. The indications of UN
continued prosperity of the farming claws were numeroun
The sheep sold numbered 71,242, and only 1,100 were driven
off unsold. Of oxen 12,112 were sold, and 484 home, may
of • very auperlor descrlptiott changed bands,