The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Thirty-seven British and foreign wrecks were re-
ported during the past week, making a total of 297 for the
present year, or a decrease of 221 as compared with the cor-
responding week of 1877.

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The Spectator learns from a private letter that the
telephone has been adopted by the Chinese, the telegraph
being useless, as they have no alphabet. Five hundred
miles have already been spoken over in China.

"Longfellow said the other day to a friend that it
would cost him fully a third of his income in postage-
stamps and photographers' bills if he were to satisfy all
requests for his autograph and likeness."—Mayfair.

A return as to penny banks established in the schools
of the London School Board for the year ending 31st Decem-
ber last shows that banks were established hi connection
with forty schools; that the number of depositors was
9,611 and that the deposits in the course of the year
amounted to £3,007 is. 10d., the amount of withdrawals
being £2,527 18s. 4d.
The death of the Archduke Francis Charles, father
of the Emperor Francis Joseph, has (says the Eastern
Budget) pi oduced a feeling of universal and genuine sorrow
in Austria-Hungary. The deceased was esteemed and be-
loved among all classes; and the attachment which existed
between him and his son was such as is rarely found even in
the most domesticated families.

Mr. Clare Read, M.P., and other gentlemen, at a
meeting of the Norfolk local authority on Saturday, to con-
sider the Contagions Diseases (Animals) Bill, resolved to
recommend the Privy Council to empower local authorities
to make compensation on three-fourths of the loss instead of
three-fourths of the value of animals affected with pleuro-
pneumonia to remove animals from infected herds for pur-
poses of food and shelter, and to reduce the period of isola-
tion in oot and mouth disease to fourteen days'.

A Lloyd's telegram from Spezzia, dated the 11th of
March, reports the arrival there on that day of the Neut.
water (steamer) from Elsvrick Ordnance Works, Newcastle,
in thirteen days. The steamer has on beard two 100-ton
guns for one of the ironclads of the Italian Royal Navy.

Baboo K. C. Sen, the leader of the Brahmo Somaj,
is about to marry his daughter, a girl of 13, to the 3-oung
Maharaja of Cooch Behar, a lad of 16, who does not belong to
his community, and who will probably indulge in a plurality
of wives hereafter. The sect are religiously opposed to early
marriages, and a strong protest has been urged by the lead-
ing members of the Baboo's followers, which is not unlikely
to result in the disintegration of the sect. —Times of India.

Count Beust's bill for telegrams during the past
week must have been a. heavy one, if ri may judge by the five
pages of cipher which he wired to Count Andrazsy on Friday
alone.—The World.

During the past month no cattle or pigs imrorted
into England were found to be infected with contagious
disease ; but 324 sheep suffering front sheep scab were
landefl in London—three with foot-and•month disease at
Grlmalty and five at Hartlepool. These animals canto from
Antwerp, Bremen, and Hamburg, and were all slaughtered
under instructions from the Privy Council on landing, as
were also 11,667 sheep, healthy animals, brought over iu the
same vessels.

Describing a ball, a St. Louis paper says :—" Look-
ing down on the kaleidoscopic panorama, the coup dl
which presented itself to the it of the Post reporter was
indescribably distingue, and marked by that certain jene
eats quoi which has stamped the coterie as the creme de la
crJrne of the ,'taut ton. The supper was edat.

A French paper states that the first two plates for
an ironclad of the Italian navy have just been sent off from
the Creuzot works: One of them weighs 23,000 kilos.
(2 2 lbs. each), and the other 31,000 kilos. A special train of
eight waggons, built on purpose, had to be prepared for
sending the plates to their destination; and the cost of pro-
tecting a vessel with them is estimated at 5,000,000 f.
According to recent experiments at Spezzia these plates can-
not be pierced even by cannon of the largest calibre.

"Advice to persons about to offer themselves as
candidates at the next general election and who are delaying
their preparations: Dou t."—lffayfair.

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It has been decided that that portion of the
£6,000,000 recently granted by Parliament which has been
drawn by the War Office shall be wholly expended in the
purchase and manufacture of warlike stores.

The second of the Turkish ironclads purchased by
the British government a few weeks slued is being com-
pleted as rapidly as possible at the yard of Messrs. bamuda
Brothers, at Cubitt Town.

Mr. S. Morley, M.P., addressed ka meeting at
Nottingham on Tuesday in adVoc icy of the claims of the
recently-established Caveudish College at Cambridge, which,
he explained, it was intended to make self-supporting. Mr.
Morley said everything taught by the ordinary colleges of
Cambridge and Oxford would be secured by the new college,
of the complete success of wiiieh he had no doubt. What
the country required was a higher and better education,
and parents must not be content midi taking their sons
away from school at the age of 15 or lit Higher intellectual
culture must be aimed at

Lord Somerset vi,ited Talgaith, near Brecon, on
Tuesday, accompanie,l by a veterinary surgeon, and pur-
chased between thirty and forty horse; for Goy,rnment
purlOse3. The horses were selected from a large number
which had been brought to the fair to be disposed of.

In the south of France the long drought, which has
dried up the wells and springs, ordinarily abunhaut in the
worst EC3SOIIS, is much felt by agriculturists.

The quantity of bops imported into the United
Kingdom for the year ending the 30th November, 1877, was
103 618 cwt.,. of which 12.304 cwt. came from. Germany,
2,204 from Holland, 22 077 from Belgium, 981 from France,
65,475 from the United States, and the remainder from
Russia, Sweden, Australia, British North America, Chili,
and Peru. The quantity of British hops exported from the
United Kingdom in the same period, was 20,431 cwt., and
the quantity of foreign hops 11,463 cwt.
"During the Peace demonstration in Hyde Park
last Sundays diversion of the enemy's flank was effected by
the timely arrival of a fire-engine, which did not stop to play
on the mob, but dashed past with a company of loot for a
more festive scene. In its mad career one of the horses got
its leg over the traces, and great was the joy thereat. The
men were equal to the ocea,ion, and with the assistance of
ally be-fezzed gentlemen continued their onward course.
Meanwhile the wounded from the scene of action at
Grosvenor Gate were being carried slowly along to St.
George's Hospital I would reconruend that in future the
fire-engines should stop and play upon the mob, and that the
fiehVanitniiance might he called inwrelitisitton.witifarivan-
tlgi, on future demonstrations in favour of Peace.---114e
World.

The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has forwarded a dona-
tion of £5O to the Dogs' Home in support of the additional
expenses rendered necessary by the influx of dogs from
police-stations, under the recent order of the Commissioner
of the Metropolitan Police.

The Sheffield butchers held a meeting on Monday
to consider the Duke of Richmond's Bill relative to the im-
portation of live cattle, and decided unanimously to oppose
the measure. A letter was read from Mr. Mundella, in
which the hon. member expressed the opinion that the
country gentry were so strongly in favour of the Bid that
he was not sanguine any opposition against it would
succeed.

There has been a good thal of discussion in military
circles whether, In the event of war with Russia, it would
be advisable to employ a native Indian force, recruited
from the warlike races of the country. Lord Napier is re-
ported to have engaged to raise a force of 150,000 men if
required.

The free admission of the working classes to the
Paris Exhibition on certain dAys a the week is under con
sideration. The Minister of War has announced that while
it is cpen his subordinates in the administration receiving
less than £lOO a year will have a temporary increase of sallry
of 10 per ci nt. •

Notwithstanding the uncertainty prevailing in
Austria en the question of mobilisation, military prepara-
tions are being pushed forward with great alacrity. We
understand that no less than 400,000 men would be ready
for action in the shortest possible time if required.— Vanity
Fair.

In a letter which was read at the Tabernacle on
Sunday, dated Menton°, March 6, Mr. Spurgeon writes that
he is restored hi body and mind, and hopes soon 'to rejoin
his congregation, "sanguine that for many a day lie will be
able to labour among them without a break down similar to
that which laid him aside."

"One of the attractions of the forthcoming Paris
Exhibition will be a Chinese Pavilion, the materials for the
exe,ction of which have been specially manufactured in China,
and are to be put together by native workmen, brought to
Europe for the purpose. This will be the first purely Chinese
building ever put up in Europe. Both China and Japan are
expected to exhibit largely, and their productions, it is said,
will rather astonish the enlightened Europeans who visit
Paris to inspect the Exhibition."—Whitehall Review.

Herr Heinsch, the Socialistic agitator, was solemnly
buried at Berlin on Saturday. Some 10,000 persons, among
them 500 women, followed the coffin to the cemetery. Though
orderly and quiet, the funeral amounts to a highly signifi-
cant demonstration of Socialistic sentiment.—Berlin Corres-
pondent of The Times.

A Volunteer writes :—'With regard to the vexed
question as to how the Government cm best assist the
volunteers, ailow me to suggest that they should make an
immediate grant of £1 per man, and increase the capitation
grant to £2, and then make it compulsory that every man
have a greatcoat and the valise equipment, which is now all
they require to render them fit for active service."

By command of the Queen, a Levee was held on
Monday afternoon at St. James's Palace by his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales on behalf of her Majesty. Pre-
sentations to his Royal Highness at this Court art', by the
Queen's pleasure, considered as equivalent to presentations
to her Majesty. About 290 presentations were made.

There were 2,691 births and 1,580 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births exceeded by 100, whereas the deaths were 104
below the average numbers in the corresponding week of
the last ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes,
which in the three previous weeks had been equal to 25'1,
256, and 23•0 per 1,000, further declined last week to 231.
The 1,580 deaths included 46 from measles, 35 from scarlet
fever, 7 from diphtheria, 102 from whooping-cough, 38 from
different forms of fever, and 7 from diarrhcca.

The German pictures to be sent to the Exhibition
will number about 200 and will include some from the
Emperor's collections.

Father Hyacinthe, it is understood, has obtained
permission to deliver some lectures in Paris during the
Exhibition.

A meeting of the coalowners of South Yorkshire and
North Derbyshire was held at Sheffield on Monday, when it
was resolved that a reduction of 7i per cent. be enforced in
the wages of the men. The masters contend that the fall in
the Drice of coal justifies a reduction of 12i per cent., but
they leave the other 5 per cent, for further consideration.
Should the full reduction he enforced, the men will be in a
worse position by 2i per cent. than they were in 1871.
The four new churches at Barrow-in-Furness, built
at a cost of £24,000 by several noblemen and gentlemen
interested in the town and district, have been endowed to
the extent of £2,000 each. St. John's Church is already
opened, and in the course of a few weeks St. Matthews, St.
Marks, and Si Luke's will be ready for opening.

"One is constantly hearing of new sects. A gaol-
chaplain the other day asked a prisoner what religion he
was, and he answered, 'A Pro,ligal, air!' "—The World.

There is many a slip 'twixt cup and lip. General
John Sutter, the original discoverer of gold in California,
instead,of becoming rich by his good fortune, lost his land to
the American Government on a flaw in his Mexican title,
before he could get any one to dig the gold for him, and has
for thirteen years past been trying to get some compensation
for it from the Government. Ile is now in Washington on
that mission.

Attention is drawn by the Registrar-General to the
fact that the deaths from small-pox in London, Which had
been 39 and 54 in the two preceding weeks, declined again to
34 last week, of which 22 occurred in the metropolitan asylum
hospitals, 2 in the Highgate hospital, and 10 in private dwell-
ing houses. Of the 34 fatal cases 7 were certified as vacci-
nated, and 20 as unvaccinated.
It is calculated that if Parliament had been dis-
solved over the Eastern Question the Conservatives would
have returned to power with a majority of nearly 150 at
their backs. But we are assured that Lord Beaconsfield has
all along'set his face against an appeal to the country,
though the votes of electors would have been as three to
one in favour of his policy. The Premier appreciated the
danger which would have resulte 4 from a general election
at such a moment.— Whitehall Review.

The Mark. Lane Express observes that during the
week spring sowing has been going on vigorously, and a
large breadth of land in the United Kingdom has been
planted. Autumn sown wheat has a healthy appearance.
The pastures indicate an early and abundant hay crop.
The Duke of Cambridge presided on Saturday at the
anniversary dinner of the Orphan Working School, and in
proposing the toast of "The Army, Navy, and the Auxiliary
Forces," condemned the spirit of depreciation which in these
days was constantly indulged in with reference to our land
forces. Having pointed out some of the advantages of our
new military s) stem, he referred to the readiness of militia
regiments to do anything required of them by those in
authority at critical junctures, and concluded by very
warmly complimenting the Volunteers for the patriotic
spirit shown in offering themselves for active service
abroad.

The Cologne Gazette says that the suspension of the
productive prosperity of Russia by the Turkish struggle has
induced a strong peace feeling in the population, and that
such a feeling also exists in the army.
According to some statistics published by the
Econolniste Francais, the total length of railways in the
world at the end of 1876 was 184,002 miles, of which Europe
possessed 89,430 miles ; America, 83,420 miles ; Asia, 7,689
miles • Australia, 1,924 miles ; and Africa, 1,519 miles. The
United States had 74,195 miles ; Germany, 17,181 miles ;
Great Britain, 16,794 miles ; France, 13,492 miles •, Russia,
11,555 rniies ; Austria. 10,852 miles ' • Italy, 4,815 miles ; and
Turkey, 960 miles. The railway system -in India was 6,527
miles in length ; while Canada had 4200, miles ; the Argen-
tine Republic, 993 miles ; Peru, 970 miles ; Egypt, 975 miles;
and Brazil, 536 miles.

Prinoe Bismarck, relates the Strasburg Gazette, was
once asked by Count Enzenburg, formerly Hessian Envoy at
Paris, to write something in his album. The page on which
he had to write containcd the autographs of Guizot and
niers. The former had written—" I have learnt in my
long life two rales of prudence. The first is to forgive much;
the second is never to forget." Under this Thiers had said,
—" A little forgetting would not detract from the sincerity
of the forgiveness." Prince Bismarck added, "As for me, I
have learnt to forget much and to ask to be forgiven much."

The marriage of Lord Roseberry with Miss Hannah
de Rothschild will take place on the 20th of March. The
Premier has consented, on the bride's personal rcquest, to
give her away. The ceremony will be performed both before
the registrar and according to the rites of the Church of
England. Lord Rosebery, in addition to the family dia-
monds, presented his .future wife a few days ago with a
parure consisting of a Countess's coronet, a necklace of
three rows of single stones, earrings, and two bracelets—
one set in three hoops attached by a heart in diamonds.
The whole is magnificent, and some of the stones for bril-
liancy and water are quite unique.—Vanity Fair.

The total sum required for the Civil Service in the
coming year is £14,816,475, against £14,C03,231 last year;
and fer the Revenue Departments, Packet and Telegraph
Service, £7,991,500 is required, as compared with £8,045,981
twelve months ago, making a total of £22,810,975 for 1878 79,
against £22,049,212 in 1877, or a net increase of £791,763.

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An inquest has been held at the Abbey Mills,
Reading. on the body of George Herbert, eldest son of Mr.
t. It. Butler, auctioneer, whose death was caused by suffoca-
tion under singulag circumstances. It appeared from the
evidence that deceased was playing at "hide and seek " in
the upper loft of the mills with William Henry Goundry, sou
of one of the proprietors of the mill. It was deceased's turn
to hide, and on going to seek for him his companion found
him in one of the large corn bins that was feeding the
machine. He was being rapidly carried down the shoot
when Master Goundry found him, and had almOst dis-
appeared from view. Assistance was soon at hand, and
deceased was taken out at the bottom of the shoot quite
dead.—A verdict that deceased was accidentally suffocated
was returned

"Although the Channel squadron has been detained
at Malta until further orders, there is no intention of mak-
ing any withdrawals from the strength of the fleet in Eastern
waters at present ; and with the view to adding to the
number of ships in the Mediterranean we are informed that
instructions have been received at Malta to detain home-
ward bound ships. The Flying Fish, under orders for
Spithead to pay off after serving a commission in the East
Indies, has thus been detained, all former instructions as to
paying off having been suspended."—Standard. •
A new lifeboat, to replace the one destroyed in the
gale last November, was presented to the town of Margate
on Saturday by Mr. Gray, of Birchington Ball. The sailors,
however, refused to have anything to do with the ceremony
connected with its reception, as they wanted a surfboat and
not a lifeboat. It was with very great difficulty that it was
launched, and then the tide had receded so far that it could
not be floated.

The Daily News of Tuesday says :—" We are
requested by Renter's Telegram Company to correct an
erroneous announcement made in their Brisbane telegram
of the 2nd instant, published in our impression of the 6th
Instant, stating that 'Lady Kennedy had given birth to
twins, the eldest being a sou.' The company explain that
the message they received contained the words 'Governor
of Queensland, twins first son.' Being, however, subse-
quently informed that Sir Arthur Kennedy was unmarried,
and that there must be some mistake, a telegraphic repeti-
tion was at once demanded. It has been received to-day
(11th instant), and shows that thetwords really telegraphed
by Reuters agent were Governor Queensland turns first
sod,' alluding to the Maryborough-Gympic Railway in course
of construction. The words in italics were nuiplated by the
telegraph in transmission from Australia, and reachisig the
company in the form mentioned above, gave rise to the
sake."
On Monday afternoon Professor Bell' and Colonel
Reyno7ds received the Prince Imperial, the Duchess of West-
minster, and others at the rooms of the Electric Telephone
Company. The experiments, which were exceedingly inter-
esting, lasted two hours. The last feat accomplished by
Bells telephone is the saving of a diver's life. According
to a report made to the Admiralty by Captain Arthur, of her
Majesty's ship Version, a diver engaged in receiving some
bahast suddenly fainted, and called out, " Pull me up." He
did not signal with his rope, but was heard through the
telephone attached to his helmet, and was at once brought
to the surface. The mm has recovered, and thanks the
telephone f• .1* his restoration.
On Tuesday evening the Duke of Sutherland gave a
complimentary banquet to Baker Paella on his return from
the rack nt seat of war in the East at Stafford House, St.
James's, London. The following noblemen and gentlemen
accepted the duke's is.-eitations to meet Baker Paella at
dinner :—llls Excellency Muslims Pacha (the Turkish
Ambassador), Field-Marshal Lord Strathnairn, G.C.B. Lord
Houghton, Lord Eslington, General Sir Alexander HoAford,
GCB., General Sir Charles Eilice, K.C.8., Major-General Sir
Henry Green, K.C.5.1., and .C.B , General Foster, C.B.
, General S. Brownrigg, Major-General Hon. James Macdonald,'
Major-General Marshall, Colonel Wellesley, Sir Samuel
Baker, Colonel J. Baker, Major Hon. H. L. Wood' Major
Russell, Major T. Cockburn, Mr. W. H. Russell, and the
Marquis of Stafford.

The Select Committee of the House of Commons
nppointed to consider the Manchester Corporation Water
Bill for obtaining a supply of water from Thirlmere, met
again on Tuesday. The clriver of the Keswick coach, a large
landed proprietor at that town, and the landlord of the
" Lodore " Hotel, gave evidence in favour of the Manchester
Water 811. They thought the scheme wuuld tend to open
the (Astrid for tourists, and to save the neighbourhood from
floods, while it would not diminish, but rather add, to the
i.ictureEquchess of the lake and its surroundings. Professor
Rose said the water of Thirlmere was superior to that of
LVatrine, and was not equallcd hy any; water he knew.
iite Bahl the VrOject was really to restbre the lake to one
of its ortOri kves.

All earthly joys must fade, and even little Tom Thumb, they say, is growing baldheaded.—Neto York Com-
mercial.

The young Turks at Besika Bay are the most borrib;e
beggars on the-face of the earth. Directly an Englishman is
seen ashore the cry is, " Bacshisli, Johnny, bacshUh! Turk,
he no g•ftod : Greek. he no good; Ituss, he no—good."—
" The Tatler," in Pictorial World.

Sunday (10h) being the 15th anniversary of the
marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the bells of
Windsor rang merrily in honour of the occasion.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times (as "Consc.ence Motpy the receipt of £33 in
i,auk-notcs for Income-tax front "R.

A telegram from AnAralia says that numerous
deaths from sunstroke, chiefly aniobg children, have occured
through the intense heat.

A curious experiment was tried, recently, with the
telephone. Seventeen persons joined hands in a room, the
first and last each holding an end of the wires. A conver-
sation then took place through the bodies of the seventeen
gentlemen.

The Birnzingliani Post says that the Religious Educa,
tiou Society, which undertakes to give religions instruction
in the board schools of Birmingham, is now, by the aid of
voluntary teachers, giving religious instruction to between
6,000 and 7,000 children in the board schools; and it could
unnertake snore work if larger means, as regards both
teachers and funds, were placed at its disppsal.
For more than an hour on Monday Torpoint, an
environ of Devonport, was in a state of alarm, all business
and traffic being stopped, owing to the furious antics of a
mad bull. DeS3ing all restraint, the powerful animal dashed
about, breaking windows and upsetting vehicles, and
tossed four persons, who had to be taken to the hospital
in cabs. Eventually the animal was driven to the beach,
and there slsot. The beast was a valuable one, and was
winner of a first prize at a cattle show last week.

Captain Soames, of the Royal Artillery, Sheerness,
is l3inm in a precarious condition, owing to injuries he re-
ceived'by being thrown from his horse, lie was exercising
the animal in the Well Marsh, Sheerness, and had just
cieared a ft nee, when the horse suddenly swerved and threw
him upon a heap of stones. The fall produced concussion >1
the brain.

A singular phenomenon has just been witnessed in
France at the village of La Clappe, about three miles from
Draguignan (Var). A plot of ground planted with vines and
olive trees slowly sank in and disappeared, leaving a gulf of
a funnel shaped form about 129 feet in diameter at thp sur-
face and forty feet at the bottom. At the depth of 100 feet
may be seen a sheet of water, in which the earth, estimated
at a quantity of 16,000 cubic yards, has been swallowedu?
"It is sad to have to record the death of Colonel
E. Y. Carthew, who recently resigned his command of the
Valletta division of Royal Artillery at Malta, and who, on
Ids way home was making a short stay at Rome, in which
city he succumbed to the effects of blood poisoning. The
gross sanitary condition of Rome, Naples, and indeed all
Italian towns, is a disgrace to the government of any
country with the slightest pretensions to civilisation."—
Whitehall Review.

A woman aged 100 has just died at Adelboden in the
Swiss Canton of Aargau. She retained all her faculties to
the last.

Intrenching. tools, upon which a goodly proportion
of the Vote of Credit has been spent, are arriving in waggon
loads at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, consisting princi-
pally of spades, picks, and crPwbars. Some of the reserve
storehouses which have been used for other purposes have
been cleared of their contents to make room for the recep-
tion of these tools.

The Earl of Raseberry is to be the next President of
the Sunday Society, the object of which is to obtain the open-
iDg of museums on Sundays. Ile will be formally elected on
the retirement of Dean Stanley at the annual meeting of
members on the 29th of March, and will deliver his address
as President at the public annual meeting on Saturday
May S. _ _ _

The Germans are making large additions to their
war navy. Niue small vessels are to be commenced on
April Ist, and will be used principally as training-ships,
&c., and three large ironclads and the splendid new Imperial
yacht, the Hohenzollern, early in May.— Whitehall lievieza '

A deputation from several temperance societies has
waited upon the Home Secretary, and asked the Govern-
ment to pass a suspensory measure with regard to grocers'
licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors. Declining to
pledge himself in any way, Mr. Cross said that the inten-
tions of the Ministry would be explained to the House of
Commons,

A Constantinople telegram says that a bread tax has
been established in different towns of Turkey.
The York Herald understands that the council of
the Ironworkers' Association, owing to the strong feeling
evinced by the workmen against the large reduction of 10 to
17 per cent, proposed in their wages, have held a meeting
and decided to give notice to the co-operative and building
societies in which they have money invested to pay over the
same by the end of the present month. The object in
calling in the funds is to provide for emergencies in case the
non-union men should object to accept the reduction and
lay off work if a greater reduction should take place than is
the rule In other districts. The council also instructed the
union general secretary to apply to the Russian Ambassador
and the colonial authorities to ask if they required men to
develop the iron trade in their countries, in which Case good
steady men would be sent.

The Berlin Correspondent of The Times writes :
"Under the Frankfort Treaty the German troops left in
Fiance after the war of 1870 and 1871 were maintained at
the expense of the defeated party. Of the sums exacted for
this purpose, about £1,300,000 were saved, thanks to the
gradual reduction of the troops and the economy practised
by Field-Marshal von Manteuirel, the then Commander-in-
Chief. A portion of this sum was subsequently spent in
forming a preserved provision manufactory at Mayenee and
erecting military buildings at Berlin and other cities. The
greater part of the money is still in the hands of the War
Office, and in accordance with a Bill just introduced, is to
be employed in assisting needy sergeants, officers, and
officers' families. In the German Parliament Field-Marshal
von Moltke and General von Kaialeke, the Minister of War,
defended the Bill, the former praising Field-Marshal von
Manteuffel for saving so large a sum, and hoping that the
money economized by a general would be allowed to go to
the use of the Army The Bill was then referred to a special
committee"