The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Why will the Paris;ans, when the oleo:, Us over, be
the most Intelligent people In the world P—Because all the
Awes in Parte will bsvd been eaten.—Punch.

From Pekin a telegram has been received at the
Foreign office, in which Mr. Wade states that he doe. a 4
aspect that a military force will be anywhere necessary in
China.
The [art cf the city of Oxford having this year
elected a Roman Catholic to the office of Meyer, is an
event said to be unprecedented in its annals since the Refor-
mation.

The London e Treapondent of the Riming/vim
Gazgre say tis rumoured that Ntr. Prlght, who was always
opposed to !OMe of the clauses of the Paris treaty, will resign
his seat in the Cabloet, in case this country should to to war
Oil the Eastern que3tion.

•
The Queen did not partake of the Communion in
the whit church, erathle, on Sunday, the 13.11 lust ,U has
been erroneously stated la several newspapers Iles Majesty
was present at the Impressive service merely as a spectator,
a custom which Is frequently observed In the churches Of
cotland

A woman coming out of a pawnbroker's shop in
Drury.lime, London, saw a parcel lying in a dark part of the
passage, which she opened, and found that it contained the
body of a female child. A postmortem examnation showed
tint the child had lived, and that It had been strang'ed. The
Jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some
arson or persons unknown "

Monday, the not, being the 311th anniversary of the
hitt Iday of her it yd Highness Victoria Adelaide Mary
Lnalsa, Princess Royal of gland and Crown Prineess of
Prussia, the event WAS marked at Windsor by the ringing of
bells from the towers of the Chapel Royal of St George and
the parish church of St. John. The customary raMtes were
also fired in the Long Walk, at Virginia Water, and at Fort
ltelvidere.

A Treasury Minute hai recently been received by
the Board of Customs, abolishina the Deptrtment of the
Inepecter.G anent' of Imports and Export.. There are about
sixty or more officiate in this department, and as a matter of
course they will be either drafted to other departments, or
compelled to retire on superannuation allowance.

A correspondent at Bt. John's, Newfoundland, in-
form, the Neer York Tincs that a mine containing large
qumtltles of sliver has been discovered near Tilt Cove, New-
foundland ; that several specimens of gold have been also
found near the name place ; and that a mining party started
from St. J.ehu's last mouth for the scene of the discovery.

General Prim has addresmd a letter to King Victor
Emmanuel, explaining that the situ Mon of 'Rain in Spain
Is of • reassuring character. The great majority of the
Spanish people approve the candidacy of the Duke d'Aosta,
and the army and ii -et have greeted it with great enthu-
siasm—The Xing replied to General Prim, congratulating
him on the effort+ made by the Regency towards the consoli-
dation and liberal development of Spain.
"Lord Russell renders, at all events, good service by
urging the necessity of getting our resources to some extent
in hand, if we aro to speak with due weight In the councils
of Europe. The genius of Force seems at this moment
dominant In Europe, and though the vo!Ce of reason is heard,
the attention It commands is in no small degree propor-
tioned to the material power there may be behind it —Leader
In Times on 'Lord Russell's Letter."

The New York Timis reports tte opening, at the
Ordnance Bureau at Washington, of a sale of arms and
ammunition. There were no bids for sabres and plants, and
horse and infantry equipments, nor were there any t•firrs for
the lin batteries of field artillery, complete with ammunition.
Several gentlemen f resent said the 1, reign demand had for
the present been satisfied, France having received about
Vfl 000 arms from former sale..

We have at the present moment in the United
Kingdom, and available for foreign service, a force, exclud-
ing officers,of tootle., than 59,000 infantry and 11,500 cavalry.
We have 3,300 Engineers, beildes 2,590 Army Service Corps,
not to mention an Efficient Army Hospital Corp.. By •
curious coincidence, the number of Infantry In India and
the COMAE/ exactly tallies with the number, 00,100, at pre-
sent quartered in these islands. We have &leo 14,000 artil-
lerymen, with 193 field pm., and in additirn a I,ot Moon-
siderable reserve of the lame pattern which are being rapidly
fitted for field service.

Count de Castellung°, Grand Equerry to the King
of Italy, hes taken tip his residence at the Quirinal, and Is
having It put In order for his Sovereign. The King was to
have arrived at Rome on the last day of this month, but
the event is again postponed. The municipality has voted
3,000,0001. to give him a suitable receptio, and the city
will be Illuminated on a new plan, which is expected to
produce a dan ing effect,. We hear, however, there are
great difficulties In the way of the expected visit, ariao,
not only from the hostile attitude of the FlAy Father, int
from the refusal tithe maj vrity of the Corps D,plom al ique
at Florence to accompany Ws Majesty to the Eternal City.
A curiously romantic incident has ardien out of the
relatiot which the Duke of Argyll Is soon to hold wlth the
Ilya Family, and the anxiety of an irivhwoman to ebtain
the clement.), cf the Crown In favour of the Fenian prisoner.
ihe woman wrote to his Grace, reminding him of what his
I ancestor "did for Jeannie tans in the ' Heart of Mid-
i Lothian '" She appeals to The Maccalummore with cr.
siderable eloquence Sihelp her in the release f her brothers,
and signs herself " Flnola." The Duke, it appears, lost no
I time to testing " Pinola," in three lines, that the busk eu to
which she referred did not belong to his department, and
I that she should make her application to the Irish Executive;
so poor Finale's sentimental enterprise failed, and Mike lea
postees, those who read the Irishman will doubtless hear
more about It

It is 'totted tiiat tbo pnbli,ans of Donbigh bo
agreed to camelhair houses on &today.

Ths Arehbishop of Canterbury will spend the wiLte
In Way.

At Great Marlow. Buck?, one day last nit elc, a pair
of noun, marlins (llirondo urine) nerd On...red flying
about la an apparently weak condition, In the II ghxtrett.
A boy of fourteen, while examining a loaded pietol
at Accrington, was killed by the aocidental xplosiou of the
weapon.

Tbe young ladies of ROD lout, New York, are said
to be organising • Society tor the Eucuuragiansent ot leuag
Ilea Desiring to Marry."

A Bilttnicre pay bag awar.l.l a Ltuband 275
dollars damas agarnat a Ldividual who Slued Wawiin's
baud.

Au Edinburgh lady, the other eveting found on her
dooreep a booku; c nitaining • child, three sovereigns, and •
gold watch.
Dr. Jacoby has lost hie seat in the l'ruaiian
Igilia-
fltont through his opposition to the annex ak ion of Aluce and
Lorraine.

The etatanont of the Jo 801 l that the Duke of
Norfolk was about to marry one of the Orleans princearea I.
authoratively contradicted.

Tito Hon. E. Stanley, brother of Lord Stanley of
Alderlcy, after spending two month. In Japan, is now at
altaughat. He expecte to be back In England by the en 4 of
January nen.

For Home time must eleetriciana have been trying to
discover • way to send two mensages at the mune those along
• single wire. We understand that the problem haa been
solved by Mr. C. F. l'arley. who has devised a method by
which tour currents at once can be delivered by a stogie
wire.

The Irish "National" papers of the put week re-
joice greatly over the prospector • WA- with Russia, in wbich
England will be, as they think and hop. humiliate I. hie will
doubly answer their wiahes it will punish England for not
takiug the part of France against Ituisia, and it will lead
to "Irish independence."

Mrs. Greig, a candidate for the London school board,
has undertaken to define the difference bAiveen religion and
theology. She says she Is "In favour of lastructlng children
In religion, which teaches people to love one another hut
she Ii not Willing to Introduce into school theology, which
has taught men to hate each other."

The Mayor of Cork has iuritsd all the mayors cf
Ireland to jdn him in waiting on the Lord-Lieutemuit to seek
the release of the political prisoners. The / rnh Times has
tha beet reason for stating that the Government have now
under consideration the advisability of liberating most, Ii
not all, of the political prisoners still retained in prison.
Cardinal Antonelli ia about to despatch a circular
to the European Cabinets on the subject of the seisure of the
QuirtnaL This document states that the palace was built
by Gregory, X Ell. from money contributed by the whole
Catholic world; and therefore can on no pretest be claimed
al State property, a preianaion which has never been ad-
vanced betore.

In the lAmencan newspapers Dickens's " Life of
Oar Saviour" wee announced as in the pron. Expectation
has, however, been cut short by a communicition Irons Rag-
land that " it wee the author', most positive and absolute
injunction that the manuscript should never be published
and therefore it will never be seen by any one outside his
home circle."

The case of The O'llonoghne was before one of the
registrars in the Lon,lon Court of B kruptcy on Orstn,isy.
The debts are IA ted to be about £20,000, against property
held as security valued at £4OO, and other mete represent-
ing Ll 240. An arrangement with the creditors will in all
probability be curried out.

The Cape mail steamer which arrived at Plymouth
last Saturday brought diamond. valued at £40,000. At the
diamond fields the yield continued to be very favourable.
The population hod risen toll, 01,0. A magnificent diamond.
weighing SS 1.16 carat., the largest yet found there, hat been
discovered by Mr. Wheeler, who was offered font on the
spot k 22,0)0, but he wanted £30,000, and he Ls on the way
to E island with it.

The Hampshire Telegraph states that the claim to the
earldom of Sarewsbury and lalbot is about to be revived by
a gentleman formerly connected with one of the Portsmouth
banks, a hose suit was heard before the Lord ChanceDonofrio
few years ago. Fresh evidence, it ts said, he. recently been
obtained.
On Monday the labourers of every class in Limerick
struck work, including those employed in stores, 111•1211i1.-
torles, docks, and quay. They had given no notice. About
12 o'clock about 1 WO of them paraded the streets from
beeping, without insignia of any hind. There was no di..
turbance, but to keep the peace the police occupied cartoon
parts of the town, and the military were placed under arms
in the barracks. The labourers claim 15s. a week and six
months engagement. These demands the employers, it is
said, will not agree to.

The coot of war is truly frightfuL llodtrn wars
have all been very destructive. It hu been calculated that
the Crimean war cost £310,000,000 the American c.vil war
£l,30.000,000; the Italian war .E6O 000,000 ; the P:ussia-
Austrian war £60,000,000; besides the lon of life, which Is
given for all theee wars together u not less than 1700.00)
men, Including than slain on the battle-field and those who
died through wounds and disease. No wonder Republicanism
galas ground.

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The Bishop of London. writing to a correspondent,
says :—As au Inhabitant t flham, I should be very glad to
nee such an ttort made t, urgantse charitable relief and re-
press mondietty In this distill, as has been attempt., with
considerable success in many parts of the metropolis. NVaste
of money and benevolent zeal Is the lea it evil, /whop% of
indiscriminate and unsystematic almsgiving. It fostem
mendicity, pauperise. often without really benefiting, and
gives to sturdy importunity • most unfair advantage over
patient and uncomplaining distress."

The Iberiu lately puhliehed an article healed "The
Duke of Amite is a Spaniard," tracing Ms descent. In the
twenty-second degree, t 'James I. the Conqueror). of Aragon.
It appear. from this that the royal house. of Italy and Spain
are connected, not only through the Princess Catherine of
Austria (daughter of Philip 11.), who married Charles Em-
manuel, Duke of Savoy, bat through that Duke himself.
whose sixth lineal ancestor, Aruadeo VII., married In 1576
the Baroness of Berri, grand-daughter of John 11 of France,
and s, descended from Philip 111. of France, and Isabella,
daughter of the above-mentioned James I. of Aragon, whom
Philip 11l married In 12.61.

A suit arising out of the will of the Rev. Mr. liuelin,
who was murdered by Walter Miller to Chelsea in May but,
came before Vice-Chancellor Maass on Saturday. Mr.
fluelln, in his will, left a legacy to his hounkeeper, Ann
Elm, who was also murdered by Miller, and cue of the
quotient in the case is whether she survived her master.
and so became entitled to those benefits which are now
claimed by her legal personal repreaentagvec If is could
be proved that Mrs 1.1.,5s died before her master the legacy
would lame. tier remenentatives not only claim the benedts
given to her under the will, but also • considerable sum of
money alleged to have been deposited with the teatater for
gall custody, for which she Is alleged to have received some
written acknowledgment from him. The Vice-Chancellor
ordered au Inquiry in Chambtra at to whether Ann Boas did
or did not survive the testator.

Last week the aggregate mortality in London end 19
other large towns of the United kingdom was in the ratio of
27 deaths cur flatly to every 1,0.0 of the preleut estimated
populstlon. The rate veried from IS in Portsmouth to 39 iii
Liverpool. In the metropolis 2,178 births sod 1 039 deaths
registered, the former having been 49 below, and the latter
4 above the average. Z,nootfc diseases caused 439 deaths,
including 45 from small-pox, 36 from measles, 162 from scarlet
fever, 10 from diphtheria. 13 from croup, 28 from whooping
cough, 12 from typhus, 22 from enteric or typhoid) fever, 13
from simple continued fever, 21 from erysipelas, and It from
dianhcea bletpone deaths resulted from violence, and five
fatal accident. caused by hones or vehicles in the streets
wore returned. The mean temperature during the week was
876, or five degrees below the. ge of the same week in
60 years. lii. ham 128 days since the weekly health returns
from Perlin, and 03 days since those from Faris, were dis-
continued on account of the war. From New York, how-
ever, a return has been received for Ike week ending October
29, when the animal rate of mortality In that city was leper
1,800.