The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-03 00:00:00

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day.
The PEfilieWales has.presentf.d portrsits of him-
self and her Royal flighnees the Princess of Wales to the
cfficers of the Serapis.
The Earl of Dafferin Gavernor-General of the
Dominion of Canada is gazeeted a Knight Grand Cross cf At.
eltehael etand-St George, and Cpleuel A. E. Anson, Lieu,.
telltale Geveruor of the 'lsland 'Of .Penang, is gaz.tted to
corepatuonship of the same Order.
Mr. Goulding, the Conseriative candidate; has been
retui - :4, having polled 1,297 votes, as compared
'. leery and Bil for Mr. Lane, the two Home
. .
ae British Medical Journal state& that the King of
the Beigians.haa ptomoteee Sir Henry Thompson to the rank
of Commander' of- the °Mai of Leopold, of which he pre-
viously held the rani; pf..K.eight. .. ,
- . The Standard is informed that orders have been re-
'ceived at the Victualling-yard, Deptford, for a large supply
.of naval stores to be prepared for transmission to Malta at
an early date.
eolonel Sandford hae telegraphed from Philadelphia
that, at a meeting of more than three hundred comtnissioners
and judges on Wednesday eventng (24th), here Majesty's
health on her birthday was received with great enthusiasm.
, Her Majesty's ship Barrcccouta, which lost some
seamen and marines In u skirmish with the natives at Samoa,
having met the flagship of the Commodore at Auckland, that
officer, after inquiring into the matter, has notified to the
Adult, ally his intention of proceeding to Samoa to obtain
further information. •
A number of young grayling have been safely
brought from the borders of Wales. and lodged in the Brighton
Aquarium. They were caught in the river Tame, and their
acelimatizition will be anxiously watched by naturalists.
They have been placed in the stream in the fernery,
A Government inquiry into our post•office money-
order system is now being carried on, and it is to be hoped
that it will result in reform. The rates ought to be simplified
and on the whole should be lowered.
A Thanksgiving Service for the return of the Prince
of Wales was held at Si. Paul's Cathedral on Saturday after-
noon, when instead of a sermon Handel's Dettingen TeDeuns
was performed before a very numerous congregation.
One of our German correspondents writes :—" Four
groups of marble figures have been placed in the Belle-
Alliance-square at Berlin. They represent the four Powell
—England, Helland, Prussia, and Hanover—whose troops
gained the battle of Waterloo. England IR represented by a
warrior whose left foot leans against the British lion."
There has been a very remarkable meeting of work.
lag men at Rome. Among the resolutions passed was one
demanding that the working classes should be paid in
accordance with their efficiency, a principle in direct opposi-
tion to the one advocated by the trade unionists of England.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times, as "Conscience Money," the receipt of £5 Bs. Etclo
Bank-note and stamps, from "H. R,," for legacy duty; a £lO
note from "Y Z ," and £2 in stamps with the first half of a
£lO note, from "S. S. S ," for Income-tax
A. collection of 15 Cremona violins, the property o'f
a gentleman, has been sold by auction at Messrs. Fosters
Gallery in Pall-mall, London, realizing £1,682. Two by
Antonius Stradivarius sold for £240 guineas each, and si
Joseph Guarnerius, after a most lengthened competition, wae
sold for £630.
The April returns of the foreign trade of New York
shnw a falling off in both imports and exports as compared
with last e ear. Toe velue of merchandise imports for the
month was bet 23,700 000 dolt as compared with
28,60),000 dols. in April. 1875, and 40,500,000 dela. in the
corresponding month of 1874.
In the House of Commons, on Monday evening, In
answer to Sir E Watkiu, Sir 0 Adderley said that it had
.been reported to the Board of Trade that between the 22141
of September, 1,175, and the 18th of Hay, 1876, 13 vessels, of .
a tounsge of 5,523 tons, were stranded on the coast of Dunge-
rieste; five of these vessels (2,269 tons) became total wrecks.
Seven of the 13 (three of, the five total wrecks) were foreign
-.eseeia. :• • • - ' .
Lord Sandon's Education' Bill has been unanimously
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condemned at a meeting of the United Nonconformist CO ~
mittees at Crewe, as tending to multiply and perpetuete
denominational schools. The resolutions adopted declare
that in order to'secure the rights and liberties of Dissentere
it is necessary that there should be a school board in ever/. :
district, with a school under its management accessible to all
the inhabitants of the district.
Dr. D. G. F.' Macdonald writes that the plague of
mice on the Scottish border has been exceedingly disastrouil
to the pastoral farmers .of Teviotdale: On many holdings
nearly half the grass has been. nibbled, an tin some placee
not a vestege of living herbegeee to be seem The mice swain
in such vast numbers that some superstitious people believe
they are a special judgment.
, The cavalry barracks at Lyons were struck II
lightning during a thunder-atom on Thursday morning in
last week. Three soldiers were hurt, one of them so seriouslY
as to require his removal to the hospital. He was in bed at
the time, and the m .ttress was set on fire. Four horses in
the stables were killed, although at a distance from eitell
other.
On her Majeety's recent vieit to the London Hospital
she spoke to a boy, eieht years of age, who had his leg broken,
by havirg been run over. Alter he left the hospital the chile
wrote of his own accord, and without his father's or mother
'e
knowledge, a letter to the Queen, bought a stamp, and posted
It. The letter bore no other address than the words "Lade
Queen Victoria." The letter was delivered to the Queen, and
her Majeety, finding on inquiry that the writing of the letter
was tee b ye own act, sent him a gift of £3 through the De/'
T. J. Rowed].
The Manchester Ouardian anuounces the death of
Sir Thomas henry Farmor-liesketh, Bart. The deceased
baronet, who resided at Fermor Lodge, Southport, was in tne
thirtieth year of his age. The cause of death was effueion
on the brain. Sir Thomas took the title and estates on lb°
death of his father about three years ago, and these are now
taken by Captain I'. G. Fermorlfesketh, who for some Ora°
has been abroad.
At Edinburgh on Monday the Established Chureb
Assemtily had before them overtures with regard to the At
mission of ministers of other Churches as licentiates of tne
Church of Scotland. It was resolved, on a division, OP
ministers of the Presbyterian Churches should be 61461)12
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but that ministers of the Church of England and Colon $
Presbyterians should not be admitted, the ilea being We
the qualifleations of the latter were not sufficiently warrantee
by their theological training.
The weather during the last few days has, sari
Magnet, been favourable for agriculture. Vegetation has ete
cowed a marked stimulus, and whilst affairs are still Wife;
ward a great deal of lost ground has been recovered. If ne
weather shoutd now become settled and warm a decided an,
permanent improvement could not fell to result. The hoPeee
of farmers for a fair hay crop has again been raised. Wilea”
generally, looks well, although, in some cases, discoloured.
and the prospect as regards the other crops is about flee
average.
After a trial about the warranty of bullocks, whl_igeb
immec.iately folowed a trial about some lambs (both in
occupying two chees), Mr. Serjeant Shoe proposed to tate ,
case relating to the quality of turnip seed on the followil
day, instead of immediately going.on with it. Mr. Justies
Wales replied, "Certainly not, brother shoe. I have 10l),
, the jury for two,deys on lamb and beef, and I am not gow°
to bring them, here for another day to keep them on tar
nips', - - • ' •
At a Apecial meeting of the north Staffordshire CO'
and Iron Masters' Aseociation, held at Hanley last Fridaloo
was resolved that notice should be given on Monday tondo%
throughout the district to terminate all contracts for
and Prices at the end of 14 days. A general opinion was e'r
pressed that the circumstances of the case required a 15 fie,
cent. reduction, and that, in the event of the men beiele, to
willing to accept such a reduction, recourse should be Wee
arbiteation. t
When the widow of Rubin'' the celebrated Wu°,
singer died about two years ago, it was announced that see.
had left her property—or, at all events, the bulk of ite-to e
town called Romano, in Lombardy, her husband's Weil;
, place. By a letter lately received in that neigebourhooehee
seems that in all probability her money will be applied to tier
foundation of an Orphan Asylum for Boys, a Home "to
_Musical Artistes, and a college to consist of eight tepar%.
classes of students, The Signora Rubini, as might neve
pected died extremely rich, doubtless her property eruh
carefully utilized.
Mr. Laing, M.P., was a witness before the Sel!,c4C
Committee a pointed by the House of Commons to flegweee
into the operation of the Railway PessengeriDuty. Ile 'foci
of opinion that upon just and equitable grounds the tax sboe,e,
be abolished altogether lithe revenue could afford it. on,re.
J, Samuda gave evidence In reference to the North Statreeee
shire Railway. He expressed a strong conviction that e"o,
imposition of the duty retarded the development of raillo,
and that it pressed most unequally upon different cOMPe
the
"Lost, stolen, or strayed, a boa constrictor;
restorer will be handsomely rewarded" if he survives. eeelett
Is the tenour of a notice jest issued by M Groffroy o,ece,
llileire, the director of the Paris Museum of Natural tileetee
the missing serpent had been sent from Belgium, adVerno
to the Paris Jardin des Plautes. and properly labelled, "oepe
care, this side up." Either because that side was not 'elle
Up or because the railway officials were unpolite, or for so ,
other reason, the serpent got out of the train at Lille, thotere
it had a ticket fer Paris. It is supposed to be still in
neighbourhood of the refreshment room at the Lille rail Wee
M. de Reverdy, an intelligent Frenchman, who V;
pears to have had very practical notions coneerniug 0
social reform of his couutry, inserted a clause in hie feta ,
by which a prize of 1,5001. was to be awarded every os, ,
years to the family in Paris which, being the most nurnero se
has received the best education. The competition has el/
been opened ley the city of Paris, and those who wish to t."',..
part in the contest are requested to communicate at one;
with Velar respective Mairies. The committee of exatoileto
has been instructed to proceed with extreme delicace eeept ,
discretion, and to keep all information given by the differ' .
competitors strictly secret.
The correspondent of the Daily News at Alexanagg
says that various unfavourable rumours are clrculat
to
reseecting the fate of the Egyptian army in Abyssieta. AD'eee
15,000 of the men have returned, but the same number To.
unaccounted for. All sorts of means are adopted, Ills inee,e
to prevent the truth being told. On arriving at Sue% ,leeeo
soldiers ale conveyed to Cairo by train at night, and oreia
have been issued in the towns and villages prohibit,
incoming for the dead. ht°l/
Mr. Coxwal, the aeronaut, and Mr. F. J A' 0
made an aecent an Monday trom Lewes, with the belle°o%
" Jem," the property of Mr. Ashton. Two pilot ball°
went etraieht away in the direction of Tunbride Wells, ele';,o
start was wade at 6.20 in a most favourable state of ""ei
atmosphere ; and when the balloon rose, amid the ctieereteee
the spectators, it took the direction intended. Snortly eitee
It met with a northerly current and was ,carried tOwards
eos
sea, when it was deemeioadvisable to descend.' *Toe deseetee
was made, satiefacterdy, shortly before Bevels, two me-
... .
from Seaford. .
A short Parliamentary paper recently issued sh°l
that in September last the Poor Law Guardians of Witheee,
Union resolved, by ten votes to eight, to pay £2 53. 6d-,;'et
voluntary ehurch-rate, for the parish of Witham, in telote
of the Uuion-house. The auditor disallowed the PaYll'ioer
but the Local Government Board have reversed his &eta;
pointing out that such a payment, "If the Guardians teo*to,
fit" to make it, is lawful under the 7th section of the
pulsory Church Rates Abolition Act of 18. 8. 0
A constituent of Mr. Gladstone's in the borele
of Greenwich, having applied to the right hon. geo°oo
man for a ticket ofea admission to the Mouse of Cern:eft"
on the occasion of a debate in which the applicant', eel
interested, received the following: " Sir —I rep et that -Lend
unable to have your name placed on the Speaker's list, Pei
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that my order for to-morrow has been given aireadlep
should ineeed be oblged to any one who would Inn., for
known that the applic +thins to me from the constitueneeoo4
admis-ion to the House of Commons are aloorether begeeet
my limited powers to meet.—Your very faithful and op°
W. E Gladstone."
The funeral of Mr. Henry Kingsley took place wag:ijoi
day at Cuckfield, ha Stosex. There was a large attendan,loolg
'friends and acquaintancee or the deceased The interinen , toe
place shortly ater neon. The 'Nueva cortege was wet flei feie
rates lar the Revs T. A eleberly, II Honing worth, 11;e0e ee
Renew y, acceuip lined by 14 surpliced (heir boys Ad 10 1116
mourners, wearing sprigs of lily of the vality, j one, oe elie
proceseien, and the burial service was coiijointiy reseeeee fOl7
three rev. gentlemen. Tne plate on the ceffin bore eoee toe
lowing in, cription, "Henry Kingsley, entered into Teeef:reeees
vigil of the Aeceusiori 1876, aged 46 years It I. P. fee:seed,
those present were ells. Henry Kingsley, widow of eteoveflopi
Dr. Kingsley, Mrs. Geo. Kingsley, Misses B. and A-Jere.
faeces of the deceased, Ur. ETersley, and Ur, I. Eireo''''

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