The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

The Berlin Barsenzotung calla the Emperor Napo-
on • " worn and wasted autocrat."

The Lord Chancellor's rectory of Wellesbourne,
War Wit k.hire, has become varaut by the death of the Key.
Lard C Laul,L It is worth about 3_5,r0 0 year.

Xl 11l V.. 3, avi ry glmimy one On 'Change at Liver-
pool—i,ir. ho fewer than three txtenalve failures were an-
nounced in the cotton market, the liabillttea Of one house
being estimated at ,Eli'o,ooo.

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M. Pre vamt-Paradolleavep no fortune. The Lafayette
ie to bring back his body and his two orphan children. By a
singular coincidence this was the very ship which took him
to America.

'lt is an ill wind that blows nobody any good," am]
the war which is now about to commence promisee to nista-
rially totertere with the foreign hop trade, to the advantage,
we may anticipate, of the English planter.
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"We learn that clergymen can buy MS. sermons for
sixpence each ! The dealer from whom the Information was
ontained said that he lately purchased seren hundred sermons
tor two pounds !"—Court Journal.

J(eh Billings writes that " Philosophers ant agree
that the milk!, pet into the kokernut and the hole!. neatly
plugged up; but who the feller is who duz it, the phihoo..
phera are truest enough for a wonder, to admit thty can't
tell.

While :fames Priest, butler to the Bishop of Dur•
bare, at Auckland Castle, was out rabbit sh"oting, on sato,
day morning, he fell, and the contents of the gun entered
his leg Ile was removed to the Durham C..unty Hospital,
where he died iu the coarse of an hone from in of blood.

At Dorset Assizes, before Mr. Justice Willett, Thos.
Clifie, a convict at Portland, WU sentenced to death for the
wilful murder of a warder named Bly by strati,z hint on the
logs nib a shovel on the 2'th of April, from the results of
which blow he died on the 15th of June.

Addretsts have been sent by the French Peace
S,c.ety to the Emperor Napoleon 1,1 the King of Prussia,
appealing to them as Christiana and in the name of religion,
to refrain from war. An address in favour of mace has also
been drawn up by the same society, aid inserted in several
of the French journals.

A communication has been received at the War De-
partment from the Admiralty, in which their Lordships have
requested the proper authorities to see that, without loss of
time, all reserves ot ordnance, etc , which might be required
for the Mediterranean Fleet should be despatched to Malta.
It. Belfast, on Sunday, Mr. Butt, Q. 0., wan mat by a
large assemblage of the Nationalist parry, who escorted him
to the Royal Hotel, from the WIIIdOW of which he delivered a
speech expressing Ms belief that the recognition of Ireland'.
nationality was not far distant—a statement loudly cheered
by the assemblage Mr. Butt was asked to make some &Ma-
slen to the FrancmPrussiau war, but declined to do so. There

The John Bull says :—" The Blue Book of the
Ritual Commission will be found lull of protests by various
commiesioners against different alterations recommended by
a majority of the Commissioners on the Rubrics, which,
taken altogether, are probably improvements, but only a
few, we imagine, will be tabulated In an Act of Parliament.
Unless the prohibition of wafer bread be an exception, hardly
anything, it ii said, will touch the so called Ritualists.

The Statute Low Revision Bill now before Parlia-
meet repeals 255 Acts, which have e,eased to be In force, or
on the commencement of the Acts of the present Session
relating to the National Debt, and to forgery, will cease to be
in force. In some instances, chiefly those of older statutes
passed when an Act often related to several subjects, the
repeal Is only of a specified part of an Act.

The United States Government Agricultural
Bureau Report for July, just issued, estimates the wheat
crop at 210 000,000 bushels, a decrease of 48,00,1,00 bushels
coo pared with that of last year. The Indian corn crop
promises better than last year, and will be one of the bast
ever raised, the cotton crops is estimated at 3,500,000
bales, while, l the season should prove like that of 1060, It
may reach 4,000,000.

A meeting of the committee of working men,
which was appointed last week to get up en agitation against
the war, was held on Mohday eighth. London, and was ad-
dressed by Mr. Licraft, Mr. Wirer, Mr. Ltemer, and others.
The speakers condemned both France and Prussia impar-
tially. It was reported that several large organizations of
working men had given In their adhesion to the anti-war
movement. The time and place ol the proposed public de-
monstration were not tired.

An inquest hoe been held at Manchester on the body
of Mr. Unship, of Sale, stock and share broker, formerly •
member of the Stock-Exchange, Manchester, who shot him-
self in the forehead while travelling in • train on the Man-
chester, South Jun Mon, and Altrincham Railway between
Sale and Stretford atations on the previous day. Pecuniary
difficulties had preyed heavily on the mind of the deceased,
and the jury returned a verdict to the effect that Le shot
himself in a Slot temporary insanity.
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From the Report on the Railways in India, which
just been issued, we learn that the list of casualties for the
past sear is a heavy one. Two accidents alone occasioned
the death of 30 passengers, and injury to 43 more. The
number of passengers carried in leo9 is put down at
16,513 037. Out of these 31, or 1.87 per million lost their
lives from can.es beyond their control, aid 4.78 per million
were in like manner injured. Besides these, 17 were killed
and 13 Bjured through their own fault or want of caution.
Some serious cases of arson came before Mr. Justice
wines at the Dorset Muir,. on Saturday. Thiee tramps,
William Davis, Benjamin Stock, and Lewis Fuller, were
charged with setting are to two ricks of hay at Shillingstone,
ore of which was worth £136. Both ricks were burnt down.
It was shown that Stock and Fuller, from the want of bread,
as they said, had ignited the ricks, and then induced Davis
to remain in their company. Stock was sentenced to six
years' penal servitude, aol Fuller to ten years' penal servi-
tude. Davis was discharged. In another case several acres
of gorse and part of a plantation had been destroyed.

A curious story reaches the Standard from New
York in regard to M. Provost ParadoPs death. It is to the
effect that on M. Pandora arrival at Washington, Mr. Fish,
an old and Intimate friend vi the French envoy, said to him,
" As minister of France I welcome you ; as a man and .friend
I forbid you to enter my door" Mr Fish, it should be un-
derstood, was the person who introduced M. Paradol to de-
liver the lectures by which he achieved so great a reputation
n the United States some two or three years ago. Abe came
for this cool reception is alleged to have been the fancied
defection of M. Paradol from his old principles; and it is
stated that it thoroughly paralysed and crushed the unfor•
tunate gentleman.

Utatr the heading "Another Revert from Rome,"
the Rock says:—" Oa Sunday morning, July 17, tire wife of
an incumbent of a parish in the neighbourhood of Oxford,
having made a public declaration renouncing the Church of
Rome, and declaring her adherence to the Church of Mg-
land as a Church where the pure Word of God is preached
arid the sacraments be administered according to Christ's
ordinance, was received back into the Church and partook
of the Holy Communion with several of the parishioners,
who seemed overj,yed at the event. When the matter
became generally known the bells were set ringing for a long
time."

Mr. Fowler, M.P., wan in the chair at a meeting
held on Tuesday night in the Ilanover-square
London, the object of which was to raise £l.lOlO to prose-
cute people who break the Sunday Trading Act of Charles
it. Remarking that in Rsman Catholic countries the
Sabbath is not kept, Mr. Fowler went on to ear that
Prussia, though Protestant, Is even worse than Roman
Catholic countries, and he had no doubt that the calamity
of war had come upon her as a punishment. Admiral Mel-
bourne concurred in the views of the chairman that the two
continental nations now at war were being punished for
their sins, of which Sabbath desecration was a prominent
one, and that our turn would come next if we did not take
warning by their example. Mr. Baxter, the solicitor,
seconded the Motion, and he maintained that the magistrates
ought to carry out the law to its end—that Is, the Act of
Crawls& IL, which lie declared was In full force.