The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-03-12 00:00:00

ERITISII AND FOREIGN,

EPITOME OF NEWS,

The Bank of England loses between £4,000 and
£5,000 • year by light coin.
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Special prayers have been offered up at several re-
llgi“us meetings in London for the Rev. Newman Hall, who
is dangerously a
Th. 111 aneheater Home Trade Aasociatiou have peti-
tioned Mr Lowe, if he has any surplus, to ninsider the claims
of sugar and coffee for further reductions of duty.

l'he supporters of Kickhauo, the rejected candidate
at the late Tipperary election, are making strenuous efforts
to procure evi ience to establish the illegality of Mr. Heron's
return.

There are 927 permanent theatres In Italy. This
country contains more theatres than any other country in
the world, notwithstanding that its population is leaa than
either France, Germany, the United States, or Great
Britain.

At the Ifich Conrt of Justiciary, Edinburgh, Wil-
liam Cunningham, Glasgow, has been found guilty t.l mur-
dering Julia li.Lean, nob whom he cohabited, on the 29th
January, and sentenced to be hanged at Glasgow on the 28th
inst. The jury recommended the culprit to mercy.
A steamer—the Emma—in Fussing Chutte
in the Miss%Alpe!, on Fel,. to, struck a rock, and ups, t
stove in the ladies' cabin. The boat wee set on fire, and as le
gale prevailed at the time, the fl ones speedily obtained a
hold upon the entire vessel. Ten lives at 1,a.4 were 10,,.

Mr. J. W«sley Harper, of the well-known New
York publishing flrm of liarner Broth.", died on the 14t
of February, aged lla This Ira. a ~f t 0 lour brothers woo
established the hon.° bat two living—John and Fletcher
Harper.

An extraordinary telegram wac recently received in
London, by a legal ,zentlein :4 It won as follow.—'' ',end
up the bones, as to morrow le the last day !" By a alight
blunder .1 the clerk, the w. bones " wa, substituted for
bond.," which altogether altered the sense.

Ea-ly on Monday morning, a labourer named
Walton, who occupied two cellar kitchens in one of the low
parts of Newcastle on-Tyne, murdered his wife, dangerously
wounded a lodger, and thenwcommltted suicide. Walton Is
believed to have committed the crime through a feeling of
ealousy.
Dr. Leahy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dromore, has
Issued a Lenten pastoral, in which he denounces Fenianism.
He reminds his flock that Pope Plus IX., on January 12 of
the present year, included the Fenian Society among those
confederacies whose members must live eicommutdcated
from the Church.

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On Monday evening the Mayor of Birmingham pre-
sided over a meeting in the Town-hall of that borough, at
which a resolution was adopted pointing out many defects in
the Government Education Bill, and declaring in favour of
"free, unsectarlan, and compulsory instruction, supported
by local rates, and supplemented by Government grants.
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Lord Penzance has decreed alimony to Mrs. Kelly,
the wife of the Rev. Mr. Kelly, of Liverpool, at the rate of
alGt• year, being half of the reverend gentleman's income.
The fudge stated that this sum was awarded on the ground
that the greater portion of Mr. Kelly's income arose from hie
wife's property, which had been greatly wasted by litigation.
" Jame. Selby Lewin, formerly a London compositor,
has turned out to be the rightful heir-M.llm to the Whaddon-
hall estates be Buckinghamshire. The rents of these estates
have been received by • trustee under the Court of Chancery
since 1772, and the principal and Interest are now nearly
three millions sterling."—Court Journal.
"We understand that Mrs. O'Donovan flows, wife
of the late M.P. for Tipperaiy, will, in a very short time,
visit Cork for the purpose ,d giving readings here. This
talented lady has had a career of singular success in the
United States, and there Is no doubt that her visit to Cork
will be one of singular eclat."—Cork Herald.

Captain Madden has been tried at Manchester
Assizes for assaulting Mr. Clarke at the Queen's Hotel, found
guilty, and sentenced to twelve mouths' imprisonment.
Evidence was adduced to show that the prisoner was labour-
ing under mental delusion, and the Judge said it would be
laid before the Home Secretary.
The salaries paid to the Board of Trade inspectors
and sub.inspectors for 1049 were as follows •—Alkali In-
spectors, £2,300; railway inspectors £3,050; oyster and
mussel fishery inspectors, £500; clndu cables inspector,
£350; registrar of seamen inspector, £505 ; inspector of
corn return., £1,010; surveyors, £7,966—t0ta1, £17,761.
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'The directors of the Brighton Railway Company
are preparing a statement of compensation, more especially
as it may be illustrated by experience of the New Cross ac-
cident. We believe we are not far wrorg in stating that for
every £lOO paid by the company for compensation, nearly
£.BO is absorbed by the lawyers."—Railemy Nom.
William Joyce one of the crew of the ship Neptune,
in a voyage from Liverpool to New York, has taken an action
against Captain Peabody lathe Marine Court, New York, for
the purpose of recovering 3,000 dollars for damages alleged
to have been sustained by him in consequence of the
Ill-
treatment which he received at the hands of the captain and
tils subordinate officers during the voyage.

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A number of persona have been charged before the
Waterford magistrates with having been concerned in the
recent election Mots In that city. Thirteen of the prisoners
were in the first instance sentenced to two months imprison-
ment each, but were afterwards recalled and liberated on
ball. Actions are threatened against the magistrates for
excess of Jurisdiction.

An actrena connected with one of the London
theatres, who fun great favourite with the gallery, was being
complimented in the green-room upon the blackness of her
hair. "Why 'tie dyed,' ehe replied with the amiable frank-
ness of the true artist. " Dyed?" repeated the other speaker:
"why, favourite as you are, you are not yet five-and-twenty."
"No," said the lady "but you know whom the 'gods' love
dye early." . . . . . .

rurlonr has prevailed in Paris that it is in con-
templation, at the instance of MM. Odillon Barrot, Guisot,
and niers, to raise the legal age of voters from 21 to 25.
The Public, of Satarday evening, follows the Constitutionnel
In giving publicity to this report, and heads its announce-
ment." Universal suffrage threatened."
An errand boy who is also employed upon the.
domestic and other duties of a servant, such as cleaning
knives, boots, &e., is a male servant within the meaning of
the act, and chargeable with license accordingly. The same
Is the case with an apprentice or trade servant similarly em-
ployed.
An agrarian outrage is reported from county
Armagh. The house of a respectable farmer, named Rafferty.
was entered by twenty men with firearms. The farmer hid
himself on their approach After a search, and not finding
the man, they broke everything in the house. Some tenants
had been ejected.

The Church Times announces " tbat the Rev.
Edward Husband, who too hastily submitted himself to the
Roman obedience in this country, has been reunited to the
Catholic Church of England, having discovered that the real
is very different from the ideal, as regards that Communion
which he was deluded into joining."
A woman was convicted at the Mollinzar Assizes,
lest Saturday, of writing a threatening letter, and wog sea
toured to five years' penal servitude. Four men, also, who
had been found by the police marching in military order
armed, were convicted and sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment each, with hard labour.

The number of Chinese now on the Pacific coast, in
statistics furnished to the California Legislature, is given ae
80,500. The New York 2'itnes says there is • rumour in San
Francisco, to which the attention of the authorities has been
called, of an organisation in that city to exterminate the
Coolies on or before St. Patrick's-day.
A proposal has been made for extending the postal
telegraph system to the colonies, and by one continuous
cable, 24,000 miles in length, to unite all our colonies with
each other and with the United Kingdom. The scheme has,
it is said, been submitted to Use Government.

News of another sad calamity in the island of Lewis
was received at Wick on Monday morning. On Monday last
the deep-line fishing beats went to sea, with tine weather,
but in the course of the day were overtaken by sudden
squalls. One boat foundered, and the whole crew of five
men were drowned; the boat was washed ashore. Of the
unfortunate crew four were married, and have left widows
with nineteen children.

As an instance ~1 the mistakes Poor Law medical
officers will sometimes make, the Birmingham Gazette states
that a meeting of the Wolverhampton Board of Guardians
on Friday last, an application for relief was made by a man,
who presented a medical certificate that he was suffering
from " debility after confinement" A guardian suggestel
that the man might just have come from gaol.

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Great preparations are to he commenced imme.
diately at Belfast for the reception of their Royal Ughueue.
the Prince and Princess of Wales about Easter. Throughout
the north of Ireland the visit Is looked upon aa an event of
great interest. It is rumoured that their Royal Highnesses
will honour the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely with a
visit to Ely Lodge, on one of the islands of Lough Erne,
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The Bishop of Hereford has conferred the vacant
canonry on the Rev. Dr. Jobb. John Bull says :—"This is •
very graceful act on the part of the bishop, considered with
reference to recent litigation; but, taken per se, no appoint-
ment could be better, Dr. Jebb being a distinguished theo-
logian, an accomplished musician, a staunch Conservative,
and sound Churchman."

In France the treatment of Innatice, or rather of
sane persons assumed to be lunatics, is occupying& good deal
of attention. It will be remembered how eanlly M. Milanit,
when Minister of the interior, procured the incarceration
of a man who had offended him, and who was discovered
to have been in his right senses when M. Billault died.) A
commission has been appointed to investigate the present
system, and some strange disclosures are anticipated.
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On Friday in last week, the Channel squadron con-
sisting of seven vessels, left Lisbon, with instructions to keep
a good look-out for vessel. in distress, and more particularly
for the missing steamer City of Boston. The squadron will
not take any direct course, but will be so scattered about as
to enable the ships to cover a wide epics, and thus place
them in a position to intercept and interrogate any home-
ward hound vessels which may have passed over the course
the City of Boston would be likely to take or has taken.

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The statement that the French Government had de-
manded the admission of a representative to the Roman
Council during its deliberations on the dogma of infallibility
has been repeated In Bologna through what is called • trust-
worthy source. It is also reported that Cardinal Antonelll
has merely acknowledged Count Danes communication, with
the promise that It shall he taken Into consideration. A tele-
gram from Rome in the Mande announces that the Pope has
ordered to be pubiished a new Schema propoidng a definition
of Infallibility.

A meeting was held in the Cooper Institute, New
York, on the 22nd of February, to urge upon the Legislature
the necessity of taking steps to provide an asylum for the sick
and disabled soldiers of America. Addresses were delivered
on the occasion by General Sherman, the Rev. Henry Ward
Reacher, Mr. Horace Greeley, Judge Daly, and others.
A letter was read from the President, expressing his approval
of the object the meeting had In view.

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M. Bazire, one of the contributors to the Marseillaise,
has been brought to trial in Paris for insulting the Emperor.
The accused was returning from a funeral, and, seeing his
Majesty on the terrace of the Tuileries, stopped the cab in
which he was seated, and thrice called out,'Vi,. is
Republique !" In his defence el. Blume said he had given
way to a sudden impulse, and did net mean to offend the
Emperor ; but the court sentenced him to three months' ins•
prisonment and a tine of 1.20.

There are very funny stories going about of the
new working of the Public Works Department, and it is
likely the other public offices will 110011 rise up in rebellion
agaiest the despots who rule over the repairs of fire-irons,
stools, tables, and " public property" generally !says the
Pall Mall Uasette). There is a capital account of a certain
castor which was lost oft an arm chair, and which entailed
requisitions, correspondence, inspections. visits, etc., day
alter day, till a van with two hones and three men came to
take off the armchair in triumph—and the castor came off
tile day after the chair was returned!

Mr. Justice Keating heard a case at Chelmsford on
Saturday, in which a powerful burglar was interrupted In hi,
operations by a policeman, and after two desperate atruggles
the latter was compelled to loose his hold. So severe, how-
ever, were the Injuries which he had Inflicted upon the
burglar that the latter was arrested some hours afterwards
In an exhausted condition. lie was now convicted, and the
constable, whose conduct WWI highly commended by the
jury, was awarded £5.

The imports of gold bullion and specie into the
United Kingdom in 1869, as registered at the Custom-house,
amounted to £13,770,821, and the exports to £8,470,301 :
showing an excess of imports over exports amounting to
£5,300,611. The excess; In 1868 was .64,427,869, and in 1067,
£7,910,00e. The silver imports In 1069 amounted to £8,730,179.
and the exports were £7,921,698, showing an excess of ex-
ports over imports to the amount of £1,191,619. In 1068
there was an excess of silver imports over imports
amounting to £204,7121' and in 1067 to the amount of
£1,583,679.
The Philadelphia Press save:—" Just before leaving
Boston, Prince Arthur sent to Miss Minnie Sherman, daughter
of General Sherman, a chaste and costly gold medallion, hav-
ing his likeness on one side and that of Queen Victoria on
the other. Accompanying the gift was a delicately worded
note, in which the Prince begged that Miss Sherman would
accept the medallion us token of his appreciation of the
generous hospitalities he had experienced at the house of her
father, and as a slight tribute to the beauty of American
women, of which she was so striking an exponent,"

Of the sixty-six United States' senators, forty bix are
lawyers.

At the Bale of the Counter of Derwentwater's
effects a portrait of the Pretender sold for 1.1%000.

The February weather in America ic descril,rd m
having been very severe. In Chicago, four soldiers, stationed
at Fort Abercrombie were frozen to death.

The sin lents of the new University at Glasgow
have succeeded in raising over £l,OOO towards the erection of
a gymnasium.

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Lord John Hay, M.P., ha r 4 been sn,lrlenly called
away front the discharge cot his parliamentary and official
duties by a family affliction.

Salmon fishing in the Dart commenced on Tuesday,
When a very large catch was made, several hundred-weight
belng VA., the greater quantity of which were sent to Lon-
don.

A 1.-tter wag read from the pulpit of Surrey Chapel,
on Sunday, hein the Rev. Newman Hall, dated Alexanana,
February 19, in which Mr. Ilan assured his emigre gati,u
that he was much better.

The Lancet mentions a rumour, and believes it to be
a correct One, " that her Majesty has been pleased to signify
her wish to open the new buildings of the University of
London in person." The time when this event t vase Is
May 1.

The following advertisement amiesrs in CoUgnani
"A }.ling lady is desirous of borrowing from ante mrson of
galas .us disposition the sum of 2,000 t Write to Stile. •
Post Itestante, Paris..

Fifty-three members of Parliament have consented
to add their names to the Parliamentary Conimittkaa id the
Society of Arts for promoting the reduction of the rate of
postage t) ens halfpenny for four 01151006 of printed paper.
At Leicester assizes, Henry 13taelc, farmer, Sheep.
she!, has heen found guilty on a charge of ke, ping a tunes IC
without a license, and sentenced to two mouths' imprison-
ment.

The number of branches of the National-Education
League Is now 113, and others are in process of formation.
The lunds of the League on the last day of February were
upwards of £58,000, of which nearly a 6,000 were subacribed
dining the month.

The Broad Arrow says Great Britain is to be divided
Into nine great military commands, with fourteen districts
within those commands, conterminous with then, and with
the counties, which will make this country one for till mil
tary purposes.

Manchester is to be congratulated on the success of its
first " Charity Sunday." The amount collected on Sunday
week for the cartons hospitals of the city will not be much
short of £5,000. The .me announced is £4,117 and collec-
tions have yet to be made In forty places of worsinp.

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Dr. Lankeeter eetimatee that 3,000 children are
annually smothered in Great Britain by being overlaid ! lie
recommends that mothers should place their irfants In
bassinets instead of beds.

Mr. M'Creery, a wood-turner, of Belfast, who
recently made an Irish spinning-wheel for the Queen, haa
now completed a second one, ordered some little time since
by him Gladstone.

Five soldiers of the 18th Regiment are under erred
at Newry, charged with using seditious language in the pub-
lic streets " Hurrah for the Green" and "God save Ire-
land" were among the expressions used.

"Lady Franklin has arrived from England, on her
way to the North Pacific, in quest of a letter said to exist lu
the hands of a person who will deliver it only to Inn-Belt"—
A nolo Brazilian Timm

Mr. Robert Bald, aged twenty-eight, son of a
gentleman residing In Roxburghshire, and a Scotch youth,
named Tait, have been murdered by guachos In January,
as they were in bed, wileeP, at their estaotio, near Rosario.
L'Histoire says it has been remarked that the
Empress Eugenie this year sometimes appears twice in the
same day in the same dress, which was never the case before
The journal adds that this is an application of the Parliamen-
tary system to the toilette of the Sovereign.

A letter from Sydney speaks, as a thing not at all
out of the way, of a lady " mounted on her white horse with
a scarlet and gold saddle cloth and roses in her horse's
bridle. She looked," it is said, " very charming;" almost
medinsval.

The Queen of the sth of March cmtains the follow-
ing quer) Can any lady recommend any Sunday toys for
very young children—fnurteen months old? Iliad the Noah's
Ark Is not safe, as they break off the limbs from the figures and
put them in their mouths." iii. indeed, a little difficult to
know what theological toys can be recommended to persons
of such tender years that they put all they possess into their
mouths perhaps thirty-nine articles of the nature of nine•
pins might suit.

About 1;2,000 has already been subscribed to the
fund for raising a county of Lancaster memorial to the late
Earl of Derby. The subscribers include men of all shades of
religious and political faiths, who have freely sacrificed their
differences to their desire to do hohour to their distinguished
countryman. The exact form of the memorial has not yet
been decided upon, but we understand that It will be of
a practical and useful character.

The grand jury of county Meath have suggested, as
a remedy for the present condition of Ireland, that the
Habeas Corpus Act should be suspended, that the constabu-
lary should be empowered to search dwellings by night as
well as day, and that the list of persons authorized to carry
arms should be revised. The various police stations in the
county have been reinforced.

" New incidents produce new words. The non-
privileged cabs of London which are admitted to stations
after all the privileged have been hired are known as Blu-
chers. So at ,lleopolis, Allemagooslum city, and other
petroleum centres in America, the producer of the oil
it called the greaser. He who speculates in the same is
the shark. Business may be lively, hut it is only mentioned
as ' booming' An unpromising oil speculation is desathed
as "Riot worth a smell"— A t &la-mum.

Vice-Chancellor Stuart has approved of the corn.
promise mado in the suit instituted for the administration
of the estate of the late Mr. Etches, of Derby, who left a
legacy of £.40,000 Crystal Palace Ordinary Stock, and £lO,OOO
Seven per Cent. Preference shares in the same company for
promoting the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays.
The compromise has resulted in the directors of the com-
pany taking half of the legacy for the purpose mentioned.
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The New York Tribune, commenting on the new
I Ash Laud Bill, says Whether from tenant-right, loans,
courts, non-eviction, and long notices, the more sanguine
class of Irishmen will derive more content than vexation,
we shall not now take time to any; but the English Govern-
ment, not without that characteristic holding back which
we must always expect to see, has evidently framed a mea-
sure the earnest intent of which is to render Ireland tics
most practicable justice."

"The vicar of a fashionable parish formed one of
series of guests at a baser party. Conversation watidered
on the subject of civil marriages. It was maintained that
religion was followed by happiness, and faith by family pros-
perity. The vicar observed that all the marritges he cele-
brated were blessed with happiness. Seeing the incredulous
smile of several, he said he would prove it, and drew from
hi s pocket a letter is which a husband and wife reminded
his reverence that since he blessed their union ten years ago
they have been so happy that they have now their twelfth
child, and under these circumstances beg of himtu ivittolrato
his Wesoing.—Court Journal
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Between Saturday evening and Monday morning,
the shop of Mr. Hamilton, a Jeweller In George-street,
Edinburgh, was entered by thieves, and jewellery valued at
over £3,000 stolen. Entry had been made through a work-
shop in the rear, and several buildings had been ero.sed to
get there. The masonry was dislodged at a window, but
finding this difficult, the thieves had turned to an iron-
sheathed door and broken through It. To get from the work-
shop to the shop they descended to a cellar and mined
through the solid a all Into the shop. They took scarcely
tLything but gold ankles.

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The commercial morality of Manchester waq Mum-
trated in a somewhat remarkable mariner on Saturday. At
the sessionn in that city • clerk pleaded guilty to stealing
£l,OOO, and embezzling two other sums of 4.719 and £l,OOO,
Use property of his employers. The Counsel for the prisoner,
In addressing the Court in mitigation of sentence, told the
bench that the clerks and cashiers of Manchester formed a
clan of so high a character fi r rectitude that there was no
necessity by ivay of example for making the punishment of
the prisoner severe—The Court, acting upon this view of the
matter let him off with twelve menthe' hard labour.
At Sheffield, a provision dealer has been summoned
under • borough by-law for tieing in possession of aoout
of butter which was in a nearly putrid state, the smell being
worse than that of manure. The defendant, who does a
very large business, did not deny that the butter was bad,
but said he generally Bold it to confectioners, who made
fancy bread, Ac ' with it. Ile denied that he retailed it in
the shop, and said he had for seventeen years sold it to con-
fectioners at about 9.1. per lb. It WU Canadian butter, and
he had sometimes about 200 firkins of it on his premises
(nearly 17,000 lb.; The bench commented on the case, and
ultimately ordered the butter to be destroyed, and indicted
• fine of 205., the extreme penalty under the by-law.