The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-07 00:00:00

IFITE STOURTIRTDGE OBSTIMER•

-iilt was

the let of

totsiT! ttbetn

at 1,0005 day, so that by the Ist of April, they will have
about lay 000 of them. (Cheers.)
We now come to powder. Now don't let anybody throw
dust In your eyee about that. ;Laughter 1 It Is true that
for the last few years we have produced Iris powder than
we have consumed, and in nip opinion we taco been right
to this. Powder Is not like wins ! it does not improve by
keeping. We have in store enough for the average con-
sumption of several year. to come, but there are changes
taking place in ammunition and guns which materially affect
the gyration of powder, and this applies especially the
• kind of powder recently introduced for heavy guns. Three
improvements have been mode to powder for beery t. 11411
during the time I have held ottlem Ouly in May last a par-
ticelar kind, called "pebble" powder, was approved, and
we Immedisttly Bet to work to adapt our machinery ler the
ace of pebble powder, and are most desirous of getting all
the best m bele powder we can get at it fair price as rapidly
as possible, and have not gone ou Increasing our store of old
and autigeated powder, and I think you will agree we should
have been bail stewards of your interests if we bad
The measures which are to provide for the defence of the
country and the organization of the army and the reserve
are meraurra which it is the duty of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to propose to Parliameht, and which Parlienuent, to
douet, will wisely determine. It is the intention of the
Government to fuldl that duty to the hest of thur ability,
and if tbet e be any critics who have fo. med an °pluton upon
our proposals before they have heard them, I am sure that
they are hot ae....yeg the citizens of ()shad. The late Lord
Herbert need to complain that we were always vibrating
between parsimony and panic. I venture to say that pant.
mouy sod panic are two things with which we have nothing
to .10. (Cheers 1 J wit economy you have a right to expeut
from those who are the stewards of your Interest.. What
Is hot just economy may fairly be charged with the op-
prole-tura name if parsimony, and as for panic that Is a
word that ought not to he knewn In the vocahniary of
Euglaral. (Cheers.) I shall only pursue the subject further
to ray that your arrangement CSllllOt be made by a blind
adherence to the example of any foreign country, they must
be made with due consideration for your circumstances,
character, and position. A great country like Prussia, with
an extended frontier and a powerful neighbeur may main-
tain a gigantic army; a great country like the United States
of America, holding a high place in the scale of nations,
but separated front Eraope by the broad Atlantic, may
be satiated with an army and navy very small indeed In
comparison with ours. We have a foreign service greater
than that of any country In the world. We have an
Insular position ; we have European relations, and our
arrangements must be considered upon our own basis,
and with a view to what is necessary for the
maintenance of our own interests and one own honour.
(cheers ) Such. I trust, they will he; but when every just
preperetion has been made, tne great resource of this coun-
try will ever be In the knowledge acquired by every foreign
Power how great are our res, dimes, and hew high is tne
sdirit of the power that can command them. Cheers.) Our
history justify us in applying to ourselves the words of Lord
Macaulay
. • .

" The It ;mans In Rome's quarrels sparel neither land nor
gold,
Nor sou. nor wile, nor limb, nor Me, in the brave 'Days of
. .

then oOwere for • party, then all were for the State,
Then the great rmcfl helped the poor, and the poor matt
loved the greet
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(cheers.) And foreign nations know full well that the same
would be the can now with us. We may puisue our
differences of opinion keenly enough at home In time of
peace, but the moineut here ovine a foreign danger or
emergency the voice o- party would be hushed, and we should
he united as a single comb and think of nothing but how to
defeat the foreign foe (Cheers.) I know well that much as
lOU prize a jiist and wise economy, there ban eacritice you
would not cheerfully ennui tnt that you thought neces-
sary to wake these island shores secure against being
dishonoured by the footprints of a foreign invader. (Cheers.)
I ask you to give us credit, as I am sure you will, for being
animated by the tame generous sentiment that animates
yourselves. Believe that we are determined to do our duty
to our Queen and to our country, and above all things, to
bequeath unimpaired to our posterity the glen lout inheri-
tance which we have received from those who have vile be-

lore us ,Loud cheers.)
Mr. V. liareouri also adtreteed the meeting.

He VIM made Governor-General of Porto Rion. He
was recalled from thence. Hestbecame a leader of the
Progressietas in the Chamberbf Deputies. He was
banished to France. He fought under Omar Dacha
against the Russians. He returned to Spain, and
became General of Division when war broke out be-
tween Span and Morocco; commanded a corps
,l'arrnic in one or two battles, and received the
title of Marquis in return for his services. He
led the Spanieh expeditionary corps to Mexico.
He returned from thence to embark on a wild
and adventurous life in his native country; schem-
ing, plotting, suffering imprisonment, until, all
, his conspiracies having failed, he took refuge first in
Portugal, and then in London. During the time that
, Prim lived among us, he was looked upon as a brave
and able soldier, of a restless and conspiring nature,
who had made many political adventures only to had
them fruitless. But success at last crowned his efforts ;
for Prim, arriving in Spain in September, 1868, found
the country ripe for revolution. In a remarkably brief
time a revolution culminated in the flight of Isabella,
and the establishment of Gensral Prim as ti,, IssUes
of a Provisional Government in Madrid, with Serrauo
as its nominal been,
Sillce that period Prim has been practically the ruler
of Spain ; and there were times at which the country
seemed inclined to abandon its notion of electing a
King, and rest satisfied with the existing Administra-
tion. Prim, and Serrano, in midst of great difficulties,
and exposed to the attacks of various sections of politi-
cians, showed themselves capable of keeping the country
in order, even when the revolt of Catalonia and
Andalusia threatened to swamp the Provisional
Government. Prim, indeed, was broadly suspected
of putting forward ineligible or unwilling candidates
for the throne, merely to get the people accus-
tomed to his rule, and then to retain it indefinitely.
Such, however, would seem not to have been his inten-
tion. On the contrary, he had, only a few days
before his death, stated that he meant to offer his re-
signation to King Amadeus, and withdraw entirely
from public affairs. His withdrawal has taken place
In a lamentable manner; and there are few who will not
regret that a man who laboured well and earnestly in
the service of his country should have been cut off
before reaping the honour and gratitude which would
have accompanied his voluntary abdication. Spain
owes much to Marshal Prim, and although it will net
be denied that he aimed at power, yet he wielded that
power for the good of his country ; and amongst those
who have lived and died for Spain, there are but few
who have loved her more or served her better.

the patients In the hoepitel twice a week, and yet neither I
orif as bola 11.51. Wile fin egir eons nor miss a button from
our gifts youdest gifl, who is at the saucy age of 14,
and inclined to have her own way, Insists upon my telling what
a French sailor boy said to her sisters Ho bad fallen from the
mast, ant was laid up in our hospital many weeks. Daring
that time, my daughters of course saw much of him, especially
as his Eiiglish was small, and It would have been dreary
work Wog there alone, without books or conversation.
They read and talked to him in his own tongue, and when be
left there were tears in his eyes as he bade them adieu. lie
. . .

The Feniana of Buffalo are reorganising and pre-
paring for a new movement to tree Ireland.
The crumbling skeletons of ten human beings were
recently discovered in a cave near Glasgow, Kentucky.
Several clad. iren in Edinburgh have narrowly
e•caped poisoning, in consequence of having eaten holly
berries.
The last vile word-cninag, e are Comuonnsensible and
lllllhrdrt —and a respectable New York daily paper lends
them countenance.

said be confei never forget te; love England lor the sake of -
the young Beglish ladies who had taught him to think of The Queen hoe fixed Wednesday. the 29th of March,
better things than he had ever before heard of. He added, as the day on which she proposes to open the Ituyl4 Albert
the "Ladies In France are not lik3 you, they do not come Hall at Kensington.
and visit uses yen to, though the staters are very kind." The neer Intendant 1 the C..tut Theatre, Vienna,
Unfortunately, in the very same paper its which the wHtus hie name Count Wrhus, but how he pronounces Ills
"Fennel, Lsdy" is reckoning up the shortcomings of our another matter.
wive., lea letter from one of your correspondents In France, Professor Eaton hag discovered that this globe will
lamenting the incapacity of the French ladies in the hospl- only support life 00.000,01.10 years yet. Almost a pity he took
tale now full of wounded soldiers. and deploring the absence so much trouble !
of English ladles,hich, who evidently, In his e) es, would very 8,1011
mewl matters, w from his account, sadly need ainends . Fashionable young lady, detaching her hair previous
meld. He speaks of some French ladles" trying to speak to retiring: " What are:an-111mq coons when we have shuffled
familiarly "to the per men, hut" it en teutly went against off this mortal coil !*
the grain ; "and he says they were ff. tided when the IIEIGe, Elizabeth Cope, who was in receipt of parish reliefv
pity for the removal of dust smi Iltter(which painfully affected and lived In Back Beau-street, Liverpool, was dircsvered
ti. e -ntferers) was suggested to them M•beti I read this, and. Ding dea4 upon the floor of her h ninon Friday Lid 195. 1,1.
Imineeiately afirr this, the letter from the "French Lady," was found in the place, though the deceased represented she
and looking around, saw my home the picture of order was In miserable circumstances.
and "prettiness," my comely wife and my Rye f air daughters, "The Bake of Edinburgh will return early in the
atlas neat and to,' king as "nice " as eye c end desire, 1'
year. Some gouip, and tin no more, has got afloat as to
could not refrain from ghtng waY to my Young., eden "." the approachlog marriage of his Royal Highness. Gossip
explained, "Oh, papa, don't let the '' French Lady " think says that the Med° possesses immense wealth and is not of
Blood Itayal, but surpassingly beautiful.—Court Journal,
we are all like those she describe.. Tell her your
in an English home." But bang naturally modest, I sug-
gested that the housewife herself should reply. But, "No,. . The Revenue returns show that the gross receipts
she replied, " they will laugh at us poor women all the during the quarter ending December Slat amounted to
more, and say its a true bill, for 'the ladies do protest too £15.929,182 and for the year to £71,268,955. Compared with
much. " So I, stout land sixty, grey-haired chore lam not thu corresponding periods of the preceding year, there was a
bald, rheumatic where lam not gouty, sit down, prim in net decrease on the (leaner of efin.9oo, but on the twelve
hand, the only Englishman it seems gallant enough and months the net increase was £.553,551.
courageous enough to defend some at least, of our house- The Duo de Persigny, the Marquia de Lavalette
wives from the charges brought against them —Your* and his son, Baron Jerome David, M. Rouher, M. It mville,
obediently, Joilti BOLL, Senior. and boor 6001 the principal French families now residing
Dec. 28. In this country, were on Sunday (New-Year's Day) received
P o.—My wife begs to suggest to the "French Lady," that by her Majesty the Empress of the French, at Chhlehurst.
a little book upon Houaehnid Management in France, con. At the Herts Quarter Sessions, on Monday, before
taming useful recipes, would be gladly welcomed by herself the Marquis of Salisbury, the man Henry 8510e5. who n-
and fellow housekeepers, and that the proceeds of such a coldly escaped from liertford Gaol, by breaking through •
work would make welcome addition to the Fund for the skylight in the top of his celL was indicted for that offence,
Relief of the French Peasauta. and sentenced to seven days' hard labour, the gaol com-
mittee having unalilmowly recommended him to mercy.
'lnc Presbytery of Belfast have had under considera-
tion Mr. Gladstone's letter en the Pope's spiritual indepen-
dence A resolution was adopted unanimously, protesting
against the statement that the Pope'. spiritual independence,
or his dignity, or anything that relates to him, is a matter of
concern to the British Government.
The Solicitors' Journal understands that it is not the
Intention of the Government to proceed with the promised
Bill for the reform of the County Courts next session. A
Bill for the better regulation of pleadings and other proceed-
ings in the superior Courts will, It is said, be brought In
early in the session.
A School Board for Oldham has just been elected
without a contest, Of the thirteen members six have been
chosen by the unsectarbsu party, six by the Church or de-
nominational party, and one by the Roman Catholics. Too
of the members have been put tote represent the wor king-
nlass interest.
Here is a Boston boy's composition on "The
Horse "—"The hone Is the most useful arilmal in the
world ;so Is the cow. tenon had thirteen ducks, ant two
was drakes, and Skunk killed one. I know a boy which
had 7 chickens, tint. His father would not let him rais them
and so he got mad and so he board a Hole In mother's wash
tub. I wish I had • horse—a horse weighs 1,000 pound..
The Russian Government has given orders to con-
struct a number of railway carriages with moveable sties.
These carriage, will have the advantage of fitting the broad
guare ef their own rails as well as the narrow one adopted
In the rest of Europe. In other words, while foreign
troops cannot niter Russia in foreign railway conveyances,
the Russians will be able to enter foreign territory in their
Own.

It is said that Mr. Scudamore has at the Poet-Office
anew telegraphic instrument by which he reckons that he
sends montage. at the rate of sixty words per minute. This
instrument is to be tried at the Houses of Parliament at the
opening of the tendon, in transmitting the summary of the
proceedings in both Rouses to the provincial daily papers.
On the Ist of January an Act, passed in the late
&eaten, to establish a new Divorce amt Matrimonial Court
In Ireland, rendered necessary by the Irish Church Act
came into force. The practice still he analogous to the Court
In London, and the officers of the Probate Court hi Ireland
are to carry out the Act.
he "Queen Augusta" to whom the Kiug of Prussia
reports his various military successes. is fbi his wife, the
present Queen, but his step-mother, the wider, of his father,
Frederick William 11l , to whom she was married morgana-
Malty in the year 10-24 She is the daughter of • Count von
Derrick, and was born In 1800.—Court Journal.
The European war has had a very perceptible effect
on Immigration to the United States, the number of arrivals
thit year at New York down to Dnember ti having been
206 701, as compared with 251,162 for the same period last
year.

During the year which has jut closed 503 lives were
rescued by the lifeboats of the National institution, and
twenty-one vessels were saved from destruction. At the
some time rewards were ranted for saving 271 lives by
fishing and other boats not connected with the organise.
tion.

It is ssid that it is the intention of the Government
to prOVide barrack accommodation in the county of
Anglesey.

man who died recently in New York left two
wlvea tne rtsuit of Which Was an unseemly eLstUrnanes at
the tuner at.

In London, on Monday morning. the Evsgmel;cal
Alliance, according to annual custom, commenced the New
Year with a reek of prayer.
It is said that extensive, orders fr shoe fir ths
French army have been received at Nerthanipton. and that
their execution is rapid y proceeding.

At Wenn go, a place ni the extreins West, is a shanty
ehieh beers the -Here. Where You Get a Meal Like
YLur Mosher Used to Give You.

Mr. Giodatone reached hi a Gist birthday on Thurs.
day In last week (Dec. 28). Mr. Daraell attained his tiStlt
year on Saturday Dec. 30). .

A f'alifornian farmer has chartered a wholo ship to
take his crop of whet to Liverpool this year, thus avoiding
all erLense for storage, tolls, and profits to umiatemen.

_
The paper hot week had a lona account from the
New lurk Timer of an Interview will Queen Animate, t
Prussia. The London Tinter ma that this is entirely fictitious.

A Bolton hairdresser LW been fined fis , with the
option of seven days bard labour, for having shaved several
persons on Suoday, the 25th ultimo. Thu beuch granted •
Cate.

The Conference on the Eastern question has been
put off for a few days, in order to give time to M. leer,
and to Messenger. bringing instructions to some of the
other Plenipotentiaries. to arrive.
London correspondents of German papers express
their uneasiness at the tone of English ophdon One writt r
s the activity lu the British military establishments Hi
greater thni at any time since the Crimean war.
The Observer has reason to believe that Govern-
ment have made arrangements for the immediate produc-
tion of a large number of Henri-Martini breecl2-loadlllg

It is remarked that Napoleon 111, declared war on
• Friday duly 15): that on a Friday ,August 5' the Prus-
sians retook Saarbrucken; and that on a Friday iSeptem-
ber 2) Napoleon handed his sword to the King of Prussia.
At Osborne, on Monday. a Christmwetree was
prepared by her If ejest)ia command for the upper servants
Of the household, and another for the remainder of the ser-
vants. Id the evening her als)eity distributed the gifts ell
each of the trees.

ia stated that • perfect hail of bullets was poured
into the carriage into which Marshal Prim was riding • 11,.ti
he was shot. Theerbidows and door wore destroyed, trim's
wals.coat had twelve t hot hules, and the carriage bore traces
of fifteen.

At Btrlin, on Tuesday, lodgment was delivered in
the case of the barkers who had participated lu the sub-
scription to the Fr, nch Loan. tiers t•itterbook was scu-
t...wed to two years', Herr Kulp to nine months', Meyer and
G,,ar to six and Leslie to three months' huprlsousuent to a
fortress

'11,1.6 is, we I,,,lieve, an old Flu pent iqon which
teaches that it is always an unlucky year which Christmu-
day falls on Sunday. It does so with some irreen,arity. IS
fell on a Sunday in the year 1344 ; it did so is this year 137 d ;
it will not do so again till tr.e year 1381.
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Some idea of the cold of I;gt week is furnished hy the
Registrar-General. The moan temperature at Greenwich
Observatory was 26.7, or 11 7 below the average of the same
week In 50 years. On the night of Christmas Day the ther-
mometer fell to 9 8 deg: ees.
Accwding to the Liverpool emigration returns for
the month of December last It appears that the number of
passenzers who sailed in ships under the Set was 3,733. The
total number of emigrants for the past year was 103,032, being
• decrease of nearly 10,000 upon the year.
A young woman, named Celt, who was to have been
married shortly, was burnt to death in Londe, on Christ-
mas Day monitor, through her clothes becoming Ignited by
a piece of hot coke failing from a Ire before which she was
sitting.
•

It -appears from an official statement as to the pre-
sent traffic by the French Atlantic cable that the messages
forwarded by It average 7,000 words daily being at the rate of
five words a minute for the whole twenty-four hours, a speed
which suffizes to clear off all the mess:qes within the day.
Oa some Aix). nearly 10,000 words have teen transmitted In
the twenty-four hours.
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lAI4 Sunday, in almost every Episcopal Church in
Dublin reference was made from the pulpit to the altered
c:rcumstatices of the Irish Protestant Church, the Act dis-
establishing it having now came Into force It was generally
made matter of congratulation that during the }ear 1070 so
much hail been done, with tolerable success, to reconstruct
It on a new basis. There wee very little political mutter tu
the sermons, and collections were made everywhere in aid of
a Sustentation Fond.
In a "Commercial Review of the Year," the Doily
E prow says that 1070 ham heel], on the whole, In a rner,u-
tae point of view, a favourable one for Ireland. •. While
the high prices for animal food have, it late be regretted,
pressed severely on the 'Forting and poorer classes, the
agricultural interests have been, on the other hand, con-
eiderably benefited by the greater prints obtained on ex-
ported produce, and there is no want of money in the
c Aintry."
The Worcester Quarter Sessions, en the motion of
SlrJohn Pakington, adopted a petition to Parliament, setting
forth that inasmuch as many charges are at present paid oat
of county rates, such as police, lunatic asylums, and militia
stores, which are necessary for the benefit of the community
at large, lola expedient that Peril anent should defray out of
toe Imperial exehequer a much larger porthm of the exper.-
diture for such objects than hiss hitherto been granted.
A boiler of eight.horse power, in the foundry of lkfr.
II 'Owen, Rochdale, exploded on Monday morning, and the
shock was felt over a recline of a quarter of a nate. The
boiler was used for suppling blast, and was flee I beneath
the surface five or six feet The explosion Is supposed to
have been caused by the freezing of the feed pipe. Your or
five men were working in the foundry at the time, bat for-
tunately escaped serious injury.
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On Saturday (the 314) the remains of Mr. 3.
Walter, Jun., who was drowned in Bearwood Lake while
rescuing his brother and cousin under circumstances re-
molly reported, were interred in the family vault in I•er.
wood churchyard. The service, though of au unostentatious
character, attracted groat crowds to witness it. Misfile's
was partially suspended in the town of Wokingham and
villages adjacent thereto out of respect for the memory of
the deceased.
Mr. D,mm fly, Tiegistrar.(l meral for Ireland, Ices
Issued • circular to the clergy of the oisestabilehui
Church, directing them to erase from the marriage registers
the words "Church of Irelaud," and to strutitute the word.
_ . . _ . . . . .

Protestabt Episcopal Church of Ireland. Many of them
have returned [crammer a flat, and not over-polite refusal to
comply with this order, which, they maintain, asks them to
falsify the title accorded to the Church even by the Act of
Parlianmut by which It was diiestabliahed.

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The Indjpendence Edge publishes a list of persons
who have started a crusade against the Continental custom
of exchanging New Year's cards. These social reformers
make the following announcement:—" The undersigned, re-
solved to tronform a foolish custom which has becotue a
positive abuse into a charitabh, subscription, have trans-
mitted a gift to the burgamaster of Brussels for the benefit
of the per, meaning thereby to excuse their friends from
sending them visit ug cards on the occasion of the New Year,
and excusing themselves on their part from sending any."
On Saturday the marriage of Captain Gauseen,
Grenadicr Guards, Loud., was celebrate with Miss Cole
Hamilton, daughter of aloj .r Cole Hamilton, of Tyrone, In
Derr) yore Church, on the estate of the Earl of Erne. The
ceremony was performed by the Lord Fri mete of Ireland, In
the presence of a large and distinguished company, in-
cluding the Earl of Erne, K P., uncle of the bride. Countess
of Erne, Earl and Countess of Enniskillen, Lord Clau le
Hamilton, NI P., Lady Chart. tte Cole, Lady Alice Cole, Lady
Butler, Mica Beresford, Lord and Lady Cole, and Captain the
Hon. Charles Crichton

"The murder of Marshal Prim, just as he had put
the Last touch to a work of hopeful progress and conciliation,
must awaken in all patriotic minds throughout the Penin-
sula feelings of horror and deimay akin to those which
startled the American States when the tidings of the death
of Abraham Lincoln were flashed from extreme North to
farthest South. The Spanish I: mgmaker and the American
President had not, perhaps, many qualities In common ; hut
they were alike to their death—in Its awful and violent
suddenness, and in the blamelessness of character which
should have averted the blow of all save raving madmen or
utterly deprave 1 villains."—Daily Telegraph.