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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

THE SUPPRESSION OF VAGRANCY:

On Saturday afternoon a conference of the Chairmen
and Vice-Chairmen of the several Boards of Guardians
in Warwickshire was held in the Union, Warwick, to
coneider the best mean' of dealing with the question of
vagrancy. Lord Leigh, Sir Itol-ert Hamilton, and
other influential county gentlemen, took part in the
proceedsugs.

In the course of the conference allusion WS9 made to
• system of treatment adopted by the Birmingham
Board of Guardians, which has resulted in a most ex-
traordinary decrease of vagrancy in that town. The
subject had been brought under the notice of the Poor
Law Beard, who bad requested full information as to
the details of the system, and official reports were now
bring furnished to that body at intervals, setting forth
the decrease now continually going on. The plincipal
',Ants in the Birmingham treatment are—efficient
police superv'sion in the tramp wards, and • dis-
continuance of the system of relieving the same tramp
over and over again. When a used has visited the
treinp ward such a number of times as feasts to the
belief that he is a re:!ular tramp be is refused admis-
sion to the house.

The members attending the conference were struck
with the success of the Iv rminglom system, an] ex-
pressed themselves gratified that the facts were being
laid before the Po, r Law Boud. The result of the
conference was the adoption of a memorial to the Poor
Law Board, calling attention to the necessity which
exists for new legislation on the s ibjeci of vagrancy,
and expresdng a hope that a general measure will be
passed securing uniformity of treatment in all Unions.
The memorialists also prayed for a dietinction to be
made betwe,u the treatment preecribeil for the honest
wayrarer and the confirmed tramp, and also that chil-
dren found wandering about alone may be dealt with
under the Industrial Schools Act,
The Dorset Mendicity Society, established for the
relief of Vagrants by means of bread tickets, is work-
ing most sunoessf idly. as will be seen from the follow-
ing extract from the Chief Constable's report presented
at the Court of Quarter Sessions :

With regard to vagrancy, I am glad to be able to State
that during the putt year there has been a great reduction in
the number of vagrants rellevei in th • ditterent Unions
throughout the conntv, the returns of admission. being-
-1860. 11,248; 1870, 4,l67—decrease during the pact 12 mouths,
3,141. the number of persons apprehended for vagrancy
has also considerably diminiahed, the quarterly returns of
crime now laid before the Court showing a decrease of 42
permute taken Into custody for offences under the Vagrant
Act. it is hoped that these facts may boo.,naidered so a
satiefactory trodt that the measures which have boon
adopted in thie county to check this great evil have thus far
had a beneficial effect, more especially as vagrancy still con-
tinues to increase in other counties."

Demt was the first county to adopt the system
which has thus worked so successfully.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

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MR. CARLYLE ON THE WAR.

The Daily Noat publishes: the following letter
addressed by Mr. Carlyle to a Gorman soldit r, who
had sent to Chelsea a book of which he is the author :-
5, Chet ne-row, Chelsea, Dec 07, 1870.
Sir.--Three nights ago there came to me from Dresden a
beautiful little blue book, " Die tansendjiihrige Kicks to
which—especishy as coupled with your kind in-
scription on the cover of it, bearing date" eor Paris "—I
red with very great Interest. It is in itself truly • beautiful
little book, put together with a great deal of art, and be-
tokening in the writer a delicate, affectionate, poetic,
and sifted human brother, well skilled in literary
composidon—not to speak of still higher things No-
where have I seen a more ingenious arrangement of
whatever was height and human in an antiquarian study
into &really living and artistic form than Mani Evass and its
" Thousand Years' Oak That a tool capable of such work
should now date to me from " Le Vert 0 dant," and the
heart of a great and terrible Worbtevent, supremely tone.
Creel and yet supremely terrible, upon which all Europa Is
waiting with abated breath, Is another circumstance which
adds Immensely to the interest of the kind gift for me ; and
I my well keep the little book in caret ill preservation as a
memorial to me of what will he memorable to all the world
lor another "thousand years." I whiled much to convey
some hint of my feeling to you, as at once S writer of such a
piece, and the work. r and fighter in such a world and I try
to contrive some way of eolng so. Ales fly wishes can do
little for you or your valiant commies, nobly fronting the
storms of war and of winter; but It this ever reach you,
let It he an assurance that I do in my heart praise
you (and might even 112 a Sort, if I were a Garr. an
and rill young, envy you,, and that no man, in CI,-
many or out of if, more deeply applauds the heroic,
invincible bearing of your comrades and you, or more
entirely wishes and augurs &glorious remit to it at the a:-
pointed hour. My faith Is that a good genius does guide
you, that Heaven itself approves what you are doing, that In
the end victory is sure to pots. Accept an old man's
blessing ; contilitie to quit yourselves like tuen, and In that
case expect that a gold issue is be)ood the reach of Fortune
and her inconstancies. Ond be with you, dear dr, with you
and your brave brethren in arms —Yours sincerely,
T. CARLYLE.

•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

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THE PANTOMIMES.

ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 14th, and MONDAY.
obJIVAIT 30th, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave
Worcester (Shrub HOB at 130 pm., Droitmeh 245,
Kidderminster 3.5, and Stourbridge 3.25 p.m., for
BIRMINGHAM; returning the same day at 11.55 p.m.
For Fares and full particulars see Hand Bills.
J. GRIERSON, General Mugger.
Paddington, January, 1871.

STOURBRIDGE A SSOIATE D INSTITUTE.
_
M' ANTHONY TROLLOPE
WILL

DILIVI I
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

WATCHING THE BOMBARDMENT !

A letter in the Cologne Gaz, tte re intrks that officers have
been sent to Versailles by a number of the neutral Powers
for the purpose of watching the bombardment of Paris.
Austria, Italy, and Belgium are not represented, but there
ate eight or teo Russian officers of various grades, and several
English officers. Nine Japanese officers have also been sent
by the Emperor of Japan, in order to gain an insight into
military matters, and have been well received. Some of
them are of very high rank. They were in civil dress, and
recently passed throush Nancy on their return from Ver-
sailles Their companion and iuterpreter was a retired
English rfficer. They appeared very Intelligent, warmly
pretreat the Prussian heavy guns, and thought no fortress
could long resist them. The letter adds that enormous
masses of ammunition are daily forwarded fr m Prussia, by
rail to Lanny, and thence in artillery waggons Up to the be.
stagers' lines before Paris.

A LETTER PROM PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte has addresPed from Rochefort
(Belgium) the following letter to the Indepenannee IHge :
.• You announce a pubic Mon giving, as you Pay, the total of
what the Bonapartes have cost the Empire. It would be
Curious to find out what the Emptre has cost to most of the
Bouspartes. Are you ignomnt that by the same decree
attaching certain properties of the Orleans princes Napoleon
111 has remounted every claim on the tart of his family?
When this douVe edged instrument come to light we ex-
claimed, By what right? tilt we were answered, Quia
nominee leo It Is trite that at the tame time the Emperor
granted to az an allowance, hut besides being far below the
vdue of what L aleX VIII confiscated from us limas monthly,
revocable, ephemeral, as I.te events have i.roved. However,
our titles were good, even according to the July monarchy.
To cite only the delegations of the Treasury, of whizh our
brothers Louis and Ante re and I are bearers, they are gua-
ranteed by the Sta'e forest', and amount to 2,1 64000 francs
without the interest since 18'4, and they represent apart of
toe civil list due t the Great man In 1813. Idl not enter
into more &tails, olvervit g that, if I were not provoked, I
shod,' not .peak of money at a moment when every good
cat aca is pr..occupled only with the misfortunes of Fiasco.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

LORD DERBY ON OUR N kTIONAL
DEFENCI S.

O FDAtuvlsy evenina Lady Derby distributed the
annual priz-e to the Volunteers of the Pftston Ar
til.ery Coro., in tte Guildhall of ['ream. There
was a great and n:v.st rental audience.
After the Irzcg had been given out, Lord Derby,
who was received wlthi cheerg, after expresgiog the
pleasure felt by Lady Derby and himk elf in beivg pre.
sent, aid:—p . . .

"All poptdor movtments In *free country haves tendency
to pa's tbrom h v. stone stages, in ro one of which do they
rem lye exectly a sten t measure of prlice. First, they are
pooh p abed;: then, alien they are taken tip en, hrodartio it' y
by a boree nninbtr or people, agreat deal more is expect, doi
them lb min Vie natitre of fhb ge can be realized. Lastly,
these espeeatiors bjligin a contain measure disappointed,
there is a reaction of feel mr, and the real good they have
done, and are dolor, is scarcely rated at Its tree value.
( Appl Ana) Now, the Volunteer movement has not boon
al.o,ether exempt from the operations of that geutral law
It has not had, indeed, much neglect to cort.plain of, or
much opposition to encounter. When it hit exactly the
poplarr feeling of the [content—and its 'tweets was
greater and more rapid than any one could have foremen—
even the most reatonable and too crate criticlam of the
Volunteer organization was resented as unpatriotic. (User,
hear.) We can remember whim an cilia, of high rank in
the regular army was denounced in the most violent terms
for expressing, in rather imprudently plain huoguage,
doubts as to the efficiency of the Volunteer free. And now
lam airs' I the cold fit has succeeded to the It fit. lear,
hear.) There inn tendency ratter to prek boleti then to
oppose it; and instead of admirie.g the zeal sod public
epirit wloch ler.ds 11.0.000 nstn to give up to unpaid
national duty a great part of that leisure of which many
of them have not too much, public opinion is quick and
ready to note and to enlarge upon those deficiencies,
the existe, co of whkh, to BUM extent, is not to be
denied, hut which are more or lees inseparable from
the constitution of A Volunteer force. (Applause ) Well,
the moral I draw from that is,—Don't set too much value ou
the casual criticism of the moment (hear, hear), whether it
chance to be I.o:outside or un'avonrable. No man and no
Institution that is much before the public ever receives strict
justice it,metintes tiity get a good deal more than their
dire, sometimes a good deal lien (Limit) And we can only
strike an average and look at the matter from the point of
vice of that lawyer who, taking a re'rondect of his profer
+lonal lint,l said to have consoled Ida conscleoce by the re.
tlecti,ll that if he had, on the one hand, lost a good many
verdicts which he ought to have got, be had. on the other
hand, got a good many which he ought to have lost. (Ala.
plan. ) Well, we are going to have a very military Session.
I won't say a warlike one, because I believe the outcry
for war Is coolined to in exceedingly small section of
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

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menacing any other Power. How we shall
strengthen our army will of course be a subject
for consideration, and on this point some re-
marks of Earl Derby's are worthy of ample con-
sideration. " I would just ask." he says.
"whether it has occurred to anybody that a
a scheme of the following kind might work:—
Assess every district in the sountry—take it by
parishes, if you please -calling on each, accord-
ing to its means, to contribute so many men to
the Militia or Volunteers; or, in default of mak-
ing up the number, to pay a certain sum in
money for each flhlilt deficieot. In that way you
avoid the hardship of driving any individual into
the ranks, while you put upon every local com-
munity a strong pressure to encourage recruiting
for the defensive services of the country. Prob-
ably, any man willing to serve would have a
purse made up for him by his neighbours" The
noble lord puts forward this suggestion very
modestly, but it is, nevertheless, valuable. We
do not like the idea of " taking it by parishes,"
for the parochial system is a petty, peddling sys-
tem after all ; but if every county were assessed
in this way, according to its population and its
wealth- the two things ought certainly to be
considered—the plan would, we believe, be
found to be equitable and efficient. It would be
in accordance both with our representative sys-
tem and our principle of local self-government,
while it would not at all injuriously affect the
purely voluntary character of our volunteer
force, which, if it did not possess this character,
would become a misnomer and an anomaly.
We are indebted to Lord Derby for placing
before the country, at a time when we are in
danger of running into extreme views, his own
opinions on a great question which is specially
liable to be distorted so as to create an unrea-
sonable panic. The subject will be fully dis-
cussed at an early period of the approaching
session, and Lord Derby's calm and moderate
views will not be without their beneficial influ-
ence.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

LONGER THERE THAN THEY EXPECTED!

Hen Wickede writes to the Cologne Gazette :—" Any one
with the German whiles Ia Frai.ce at the beginning of Sep-
tember, when we were mid, the int,xiesting leffnence of
the victory of Sedan, who had predietesl hint we should have
to stay In France into the eikulng Jardiary, and even then
have a tolerably remote presto ct of quitting it as perfectly
victorious, a °Mel have been laughed at and decried ass gloomy
pes.drnist or incompetent ju 'tie of military matters. I well
remember how stoutly my ...pinion was cembated by usmilly
well-informed cabers, whet., relying on ray long and in.
Ornate knowledge of the French people and army, I stated in
the miodle of September that the Freech could confroat on
with at least 20 ,0013 men, and, if they liked, protract a IA:
fensive war till late into the autumn And now, in January,
mare then 40 WO Freuelimen, exclivilve of the Paris army,
ere opposed to its, the war goes on raging, colts the
greatest sacrifices on both sides, and, milivoi the capitu-
lation of Parts not, iii. to be hoped, very distant, tff,crs
• charge of opinion and bieaks down the obstinacy of the
people, our Voope may have to resign themselves to a sprieg
earrmalgo. As to the poser of resistanee if Paris, all of u.,
without exception, were ralictily mistaken. What ewer,.
of curious pleasure-set kern, almost ail, often on a inoro pro-
ton', decorated with the Gemva lltelge, poured toto the
neuntry last S. ptemner, when it was so pleasant to travel in
France, almost milversally with the secret Idea of witnessing
ths triumphal march of our ai.rny into prod Paris! All
these pleasure. seeking birds of passage, who were then mute
troublesome t, the tro3ps, have been dispersed like chaff try
the snowstorm which rages over the barrel, ground. White
armlets with the red cruse are now seldom aeon on French
railways, and whoever wean them deserves every respect,
tor nothing ioat a teal feeling of my and dedre to alleviate
the sufferings of their fellows ties them to places where
anything but p ensure in to he found."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

CRADLEY HEATH.

PANORAMIC VIEWS.—On Monday evening about COO
teachers and scholars belonging to schools in connection
with the Sunday School Union, were present at a pano.
ramie entertainment given in the Five Ways School.
The views were descriptive of the Arctic Explorations,
and were highly admired.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday a man named Joseph
Jones, employed at the Corngreaves Iron Works, met
with an accident which caused his immediate death. Ile
was pinching a cinder off a waggon, when his crowbar
!lipped, and he fell headlong on the rails. The falling
of the cinder had raised one side id the waggon in the
air, and in descending it fell upon the back of the head
of the deceased, the wheal cutting his head from ear to
ear. Medical aid was aummoned, but deceased expired
in a few moments.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

THE FEELING IN FRANCE.

A Correspondent of The Times, rho has pet travelled
from Havre to Le Mans and back, and hits had opportunities
of mixing with a considerable number of French people of
the middle classes, and of hearing their sentiments about the
war, says :—" I found among them almost absolutennanimity.
There Is to be no peace until the last German has been ex-
pelled from French territory; and no sacrifice of money or of
hte lots be weighed In We balance against the object W be
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

BLACKHEATH.

SHOCKING DEATIL—An inquest was held at Mr. Hack•
ett'a, the George and Dragon Inn, before Mr. Hooper.
Coroner, on Monday, on the body of Job kliacock, aged
22 It appears that deceased has been engaged at the
lawn Colliery, and whilst he was at work there on the
23rd, he was so badly bruised that he died from the in-
juries received on the sth inst. Mr. Matins, surgeon, at
tended deceased. The jury returned a verdict of "Ace,
dental death." Mr. Baker, Inspector of Mines, was
pr,ent during the inquiry.
MAN DROWNED.—A man about 19 years of age was
fund dead in the canal at Windmill End, at 9 a.m., on
the Bth inst. The body was removed by the police to th:.,
Bull's Fields Inn.

A CHILD SCALDED. —OD Friday, the 6th inst, a little
child, two years of age, named Maria Siviter, was scalded
by knocking a teapot down about sin o'clock, and died
from the injuries at one o'clock on the Bth inst.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

GOING OVER TO THE ENE3IT.

The Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph narrate. the
following incident :—"The other day a Feenun clatain of in-
fantry, accompanied by a few men, delivered himself up to a
patrol outside a village that forme part of the north-eastern
(Royal iaron) position, and was conducted to the General'.
quarters, whero he was received kindly, and made aa com-
fortable as circumsta,ces would permit. Rendered confi-
dential and cheery by good treatment, be made the following
proposition: that Ws parole sheuld be taken to return to
captivity within two boars after he should be reconducted to
the cutpasts. that he should be permitted to return to the
Feench lines unmoleeted, and subsequently to re-approach
the German lines with impunity. In return for these con-
cession., he promised to Ming in a whole company of his
regiment as prisoner., and to reassume captivity on his own
account After a little hesitation, the General consented to
make the experiment; the 'act being that one prisoner more
or leas made no material difference whatsoever to the German
authorities, whi,st the voluntary surrender of a whole com-
pany would constitute an interesting episode in the story of
the siege The captain wait therefore put on parole, and set
free by the officer commanding the-foremi at outpost, having
been warned that if he failed to keep his word, and were
aflervarls captured in action, he would be tried by drum-
head court-martial and shot. however, within the two
tailors he had etipulated for he returned, followed by a full
company of smart-looking men, who gave up their arms with
the greatest cheerf uhiess, and were promptly, after having
refreshed th^mselves with solids and liquids galore, seat oft
by train to the Fatherland. I forbear mentioning the
French captain's Lame, for Marlow rations Doec not an in-
cident like this herald the 'beginning of the emit "
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

- - --
A MUCH-ABUSED MAN.

Their ex-monarch and idol the French who defame,
Still allow him one very respectable name;
F .r a Man, at leait, lots Napoleon they own,
Man of Strasburg, for instance, and Man of Boalogne.
By his bitterest foes he'd described as a Man,
Al the Man of Dicember, the Man of Sedan.
F4r mi-fortune, perhaps, more than fault they 'ye maligned

him.
Al the song say', we " Speak of a man se we find him."
—Punch
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

A SKETCH OF SPIRITUALISM.

A crowded and f whionable audience weombleil in the
Beethoven-rounds, Harley-street, London, on hioodey
evening, t hear Mr. Coleman deliver a lecture on
Spiritualiein.
_ _

The lecture, which occupied about two hours in the
delivery. gave a sketch of the progress of the creed
during the last few years, first in America, and subs,
quently in this country. Incident, were narrated
showing the wonders th et had been achieved, and the
disstinguiehecl converts that had been made through the
agency of the "mediums." Mr. Howitt was claimed
as an early believer, a, also Lord Dunravem the late
Dr. Elliot-on, and Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, author of
"
A letter from Professor De Morgan was read, detail.
ing some remarkable spiritualistic results that ha I
been produced by Mrs. Da Morgan, which the pro-
fessor could not account for or explain, but which he
' reinsert to attribute to supernatural agency. A very
interesting episode. in the leidure wit, the Mot •ry oft! e
conversion of a Dr. Robertson, but at the close of the
le Awe Dr. Robertson himself stood up and em-
phatically denied that he had ever attributed the
spiritualistic experiments he had witnessed to spiritual
agency. The lecturer also quoted Mrs. Trollope,
Hiram Powers, the sculptor, and several other in.
dividuala more or less dotiuguivhed, a, believers in
spiritualism, and, generally, contended that "mediums"
were able to call to eel th the spirits of the departed,
and to compel them to knock tables about, to write
long messages on marked sheets of paper in an in-
credibly short time, to play the ace's-dim., at d to snake
presents of flowers and French plums to the visitors at
a séance.
__ .

Mr. C. Vaidey detaihd Pune extraordinary personal
experiescfs, and a Dr. Welch started the theory that
spiritualistic phecomena could he produced with living
permas as well as with the dead.
The since terminated with a unanimious vcte of
thanks to Mr. Coleman.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

PROCEEDINGS OF THE LAND COURTS
IN IRELAND.

The pro-eedings of the Irish Land entirts are
watched with great iuterest in different parts of the
country and some decisions have already ben pro-
neunced which reveal the character of the new law
with pra bical effect. They are calculated to dispel
some delusions, and to convince the tenants that they,
at least, have no reason to he dissatisfied with the
niemure.
The first case disposed of was by Mr. Robinson, Q.C.,
the Chairman of Cavan, A teuapt {Nho had teen oaly
four years in Occupatlon was served with notice of
ejee ment and claimed cempersation for disturbance
u'on th • seven :}ear' scale. It was in vain objected
that he had been only four years a tenant. The Chair
mall had no hesitation in deeding that he was entitled
t, the full amount of his claim, and gave a decree for
it, didu :ting a year's rent which he owed. The resu t
is that the man may bee id to have lived on the farm
rent free, and at the end of four years goes away with
a bonus of two years' rent in bis pokey. Disturbance
of occepancy muht be a profitable speculation for an
enterprising small farmer. If his right were not bound
by special contract a series of ejectinents would make
his fortune.
Another case which Las attracted attention has been
decided at the Antrim seSSiOns. The tenant wan the
widow of the late Dr. Moore, a dispensing physician,
who held a small farm which he took in 1852, under
Me George Macartney, of Lissamore Castle, at a rent
of £26. He had no lease, but, relying upon the tenant
custom of Ulster as sufficient aecurity, he built a house
and made general improvements. In November last his
widow was served with an ejectment process, and put
in a two.! old clam for £7OO compensation under the
" custom" and the third and fourth causes of the
Act. Mr. Butt, Q.C., who appeared for the defend.
ant, required her counsel to elect, before the case was
gone into, whether he avoid proceed under the
custom or the disturbance clauses. The claimant's
counsel contended that he was not bound to do so
until the close of the case, bat the Chairman ruled
aaainst him, and he elected to go under the clauses for
disturbance. The items of the claim wers thus made
out: Five years' rent, £130; nermanent bt'llings and
repairs of dwelling-house, offices, a;c., £0; fencep,
£6; reclamation, £25; tillage, &c., £7OO.
The amount for repaire was disputed, awl was nut

clearly sustained. Itproved that the landlord con.
tribum I 1:100 towards the expense. A decree was given
for £5.50 and one year's rent, making altogether £r,76,
or as the Freeman remarks, within kl of 141 years'
purchaee of the rental. The defendant failed to prove
his plea that the plaintiff had not improve I the farm,
ant hod also to pay the costs of the procee
Those who repremnted that the Laud Act would
extirpate the small farmers must admit that the pro-
cess wdl be a very costly one to carry out.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

BELBROUGHTON.

TRESPASS.—At the Petty Sessions, yesterday, at Stour-
bridge, before Major Fletcher, the Hon. C. G. Lyttelton,
and C. P. Noel, Esq., Jlhn Walters was charged with
trespassing on land at Belbroughton, in search of game,
belonging to the Earl of Shaftesbury, on the 29th ult.—
Mr. Homer defended.—Henry Johnson said he is em-
ployed as woodman under the Earl of Shaftesbury. On
the above date he heard a gun fired off in a wood called
" Boggle Wood." He went there and found the defend•
ant, who had a gun in his haild. He asked the defendant
for his certificate for carrying a gun. Defendant said it
was at home. There is game preserved there. Saw the
defendant coming out of the wood into the drive.—Mr.
Homer addressed the Bench for the defence, and con-
tended that where the defendant was is. public road. and
has been so for a long time. It is true that defsndant
had not got his license with him, but he bad taken it out,
and produced it to the Bench.—John Banner was called,
, and said be had known the road in question for many
years. It always was a footroad. Fined 20s and costs;
in default one month.

&lumen Plogoss.—lieury Green was charged with
having killed two pigeons, the property of Joseph Pardoe,
value 10a, on the 6th inst. at Belbroughton. Complain-
ant said he heard a gun fired, and saw one of his pigeons
drop. The other flew some distance, and then dropped.
They were ou defendant's father's house when they were
shot. Defendant said he only shot one pigeon. Fined
Is, is valor, and coats.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE
LEAGUE.

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On Monday evening • special public meeting was held In
Exeter flail, Lendon, for the promotion Al the total abet!.
name cause, on which occasion the great hall was well
filled. Mt Diliwyn Sims, who occupied the chair, opened
the proceedings by observing that—
The longer he lived and the more be reflected, the
more he felt convinced that the great principle which
they advocated lay at the basis of any real Improve-
mclit of the people. He felt encouramd by the spread
of the cause in the country to come forward to take the
k..air on that occation, and he vat gratified by the
eight he now before him to see that it Wita spread.
log sew, in the metropolis. The total abstinence
came was one which no one need be ashamed of,
seeing the great evi's which the use of intoxicating
Jig rim had produced. He thought the sale of intoxie
eating liquerdin railway Mations ought to be given up,
and he was inclined to attribute some of the acciden's
which bad Occurred on railways to the facility with
which the men pre.ciire drink at the various stations.
He did not believe in the utility of stimulants even at
medicine, and congra'clateal the society on the fact
that a medical j iurnat had been established to advocate
that view. He bail been a teetotaller himself for 30
yew?, and though he could not boast of being a robust
man, he felt sure he lost nothing in health by being a
total abstainer,

The Rev. Mr. Stubby, the Rev. Mr. Yeames, Mr.
W. Pamiders, Mr. Sinithies, Mr. G. Campbell, and
others delivered powerful and eloquent addrergro, in
the course of which it was stated that t here were 600,1,00
drunkards in the country, that 60.000 pirenns perished
annuity, from the effects id drinks, am! that 20 sorer.
eigns laid on every page of the Bible would not repre-
sent the money laid out every year on intoxicating
liquor.% Drink was the sonrce of ignorance, yoverty,
vice, crime, and of incalculable merry—not only to
the drunkards theanselvia, but to thi ir wives and
children ; and, in inch cirounirt.inces, was It not the
boundon duty of every Christian man and woman to
use ev, rypossible me ins to abate the evil, and the best
way of accomplishing that was to resist in the begin-
ning, and to prevent the enemy from obtaining any
a'l,nt'ance.

.....
Durn- the intervals of the addressts choir of WO
Band uf Hope children sang several temperance mel,
des. One to the am of the "Marseillaise " was
vehemently cheered.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

THE GERMANS AND THE EOST.OFFICES.

A German official at Sot-eons has accidentally d smeared
a eccret poet, by which denpatches, letters, and neeepapers
have been regularly transmitted from Tours and Bsnieanz
to the north of France. Happening to enter the kitchen of
ft teeny gable keeper, named Ballet, whose Lou-.e hod been
rPutsgett by the German voila' authorities, he noticed live
peck eges, and on o,,ening them found a large number of
deepatches, newspapers, and balloon letters. Ballet alleged
that he had I eceived the packages from an ItAptown tra-
veller. At Strael.nrg, seven persons formally connected
with the French Post Office, one of them the putt mietrees of
Molshetm, h ore been tried by court- martial on the charge of
Continuing to exercise their functions after the Gannon
authorities tad taken postal matters into th4r own hands.
The postmistress was center ced to a year's Imprisonmrnt
and a tine of 209 thalers, another of the accused to a nionth's
impr leer ment and a fine 01 50 thalers, end two letter-carriere
to an mont:ne impriaonment and a fills of 50 thaers, the
other three being acquitted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

WOOL.

The wool market hen been detohi of activity. The atm.
dance of money, however, t. ads to exercise a salutary effect
upon prices, and the value of all quslities rules ilrm The
demand is principally for chmce lustre sorts. Current
of English wool :—Fleeces Southdown mreta, ls. Ore::
Is. id ; half.bred ditto, Is. 3d. to la ed. ; Kent fleeces,
Is 2d. to li. 3d.; Southdown ewes and wethera Is. to
Is. Oid. ; Leicester ditto, la. Id. to Is. lid. Sort.: Clothing.
to 11.414. ; combing, lid, to Is. 3d, pa lb.

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111884
Herring., pickled, 30.. to 32. ; ditto, red, 10. to 141. per
barrel, bloater., to. to ; kipper., 4. to be. per boa;
tnrtiots, S. 60. to 13..; brill, 3s. to 6s. each ; plaice, 10s. to
165. ; trawl haddock., 10s. to 16e. per basket; soles, Is. 81.
to Is. per pair; cod, £3 15. to 10. per score ;
12. to 18.. per basket; sprat., 8.. to 8.. 61. per
busbel ; eels. 1.. to 1.. 20. per lb. •. smoked haddock., large,
3/s. 10 40. ; ditto, 18.. to 26. per barrel ; lobster., 12. to 25..;
crabs, 10s. to In.. per dozen; native olden, 101. ; commons.
16. to 330. per Mahal.
1101'6. . _ .

A fair °witness hss been —cra—n;acted at steady currencies.
Choice qualities have realised full quotations, with a healthy
Inquiry Other descriptions have sold quietly. Mid and
East Kent, SU. to IOU.; Weald of Kent, 135. to 75..; Sussex,
301. to 714 Farnham end country, 765. to 126.,; old 20s. to
605. per cwt.
POTATOES.

Only moderate supplies of potato.. are on sale at thou
markets. There has been a fair Inquiry, at full gnolattons
—English Regatta, OK to 90e. ; 80014171 esnta, *ft SO Ns.;
and PAL to ns. Pt We
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

"MOHICAN" ACTS OF WAR!

Viscount Jaubert, son of one at Louis Phi hype's Ministers,
has just died from .illesed Prussitm ill.:reat moth B,.me
limo ago his chafe., Walt. tee's, kilometres of to Mans,
Was it, waded, .ad he, asv ell NI the commune, f which
was the mayor, suffered largely from requisitions debate-
fluently lie was informed that the cur 6 us a netc,hbouring
village woe threatened with .leath because he was unal.f.e to
tr•difee the act,. of Initl.y r,nufred from him. Mr. Jaubef
left lais dinner-table and hastened to the village is the hope
of miring the cite thi his arrival he was made a prisoner
and not allowed to write to his wife to tell her where he urn.
During these three days he was seven times brought out and
told he was going to lie shot, and on e ch n 0.31011 he was
knocked about by soldiers with the butts of th• ir ntinkets.
Ike Viscountess Joel,. rt, ity c .urageqns a..fl incessant ex-
ertions, succeeded In prO:urlug ills relate, lint he wan no
ranch Injured by brutal troement that he Ilitit shortly atLer
he got holly, Those are " Mohican" ac a of war, the constant
retonitkin of wsdch cannot fail to shock the COOIOIOIICO of
MiUMthid."—Doily News' Corrempoadeet.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

SUMMONING THE SIEULKERS.

"The Government of National Defence," writes the
Bordeaux c, rrespoie lent at the Dolly Trl,graph, " is about
to tunes decree which will rejoice Vie hearts of all title and
hot eat men throughout Elrope, and will bring heavy punish-
ment upon a class ol men who are the most c intenipt.b e
among human lenge. It appears that a very considerable
number of ' fast ' young men, petits c,lcea, swells' of the
Boulevards, frequenters f racecourses, sad the like, have
escaped from Paris and elsewhere, or rather did escape
shortly after Sedan, and are taking their dead ease in LOT,
don, Brussels, Madrid, Vicuna, and other towns, lose to
avoid the obligation of serving in the National Guards or the
Mobiles. All these skulkers are ordered to report themselves
before the let of February ; and should they fail to do so
they are to be declared outlaws, and all their property is to
be confiscated, and applied to the fund for the relief of
widows and orphans made by the war. No excuse whatever
will be received, and any man too ill to return to Prance
muht have the fact certified by a committee of the French
Embassy or consul at the town In which he resides. No
palitVal tendencies, nor no former political employment
whatever, will tie taken as an excuse. Those who desire to
reach France will be granted safe.conducts from the French
Embassies where they reside ; so they will have nothing to
fear. The Frenchmen who will thus be obliged to return and
shoulder a musket for the dote.° of their country will In-
clude all under sixty years of age. The married men, or
widowers with children, will have to join the Garde
Nationale Selentaire ; unmarried men, or widowers without
children, will be enrolled in the Mobile Garde."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

GOOD SOLDIERS FROM THE RANKS OF ART!

The Paris cm resp..mlant of Art writes Pow cdoses of
society have been more prom,sient in the defence of the city
than the artists, and they have suffered severely for their
devotion. Three known painters and one sculptor particu-
larly distinguished themselves at the affair of Malmalsom
M. euvellier, sculptor, was killed on the field ; M. Lemon
was severely wounded in both legs, and made prisoner ;
Tissot was wounded ; arid al. V inert had a narrow escape.
his clothes being riddled with bullets, but fortunately he only
received a slight wound on the knee ; M. Vasuier, archit. ct,
severely wounded In the chest; M. Blab e, engineer, a ball
in the foot; all there belonged to the lirailleurs of the Seine,
who behaved splendidly. Another artist, NI. Jacquet, under
a heavy fire from Vie enemy, made the most courageous
endeavours to t.rMg his friend Leroux cli the field, but was
compelled to retreat ; M. Jacquet escaped unhurt. A Inllnher
of very young men have been enrolled as auxiliaries of the
artillery and engineer corps ; lathe former, five or six students
of the Ecole des Beaux Arts have be en named stth-llentenants.
NI Baudry, director of the school at Rome, came home
expressly to join his colleagues on the ramparts; Henri Iteg.
nault, whose "Salome" had such success last year, is a
Franc Tireur ; MM. Voillemok March ii, E. Guido, F. Bea-
' son, Girand, fa`her and son, so d flues, the admirable pastel
painter, asi a I troopers. Meissonier, and one of his
school, Del 111., are In l'aris, the latter In the Mobile;
at the hou, of the master himself, at Pointy, there
are 75 Prusdai s, and 25 horses In the staUles. The house
Is a fArtect museum but a letter front the person in
charge of it says that everybody is most carefully protected
by the Germans themselves, who have an Immense admira-
tion for Meissonier. It is said that a painter among the
soldiers has Installed himself in the atelier, Is painting the
interior, and has constituted himself custodian of the col-
lections Irt the house. M. liellbah, the clever thaw=
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

ibkL,

CHIEF CONSTABLE OF WORCESTER.

SHIRE.

Among the numerous candidates for the office
of Chief Constable of Worcestershire,to succeed
Mr. Harris, who has resigned, is mentioned
Captain Edward Roberts, of the Fourth Regi-
ment of Infantry, son of the late Mr. Charles
Roberts, of the Field House, Clent, and formerly
solicitor in this town. Captain Roberta is an
officer who went with the Abyssinian expedition,
and one who has done good service for his coun-
try. He was the only officer wounded at the
storming of Magdala, where lie lost an ann.
Captain Roberts obtained no reward for his bra-
very, no
.promotion, and no compensation for
the loss he has sustained, excepting the poor
recompence of a Paymaster-ship in the Fifty-
first Regiment. In the hope of improving his
position, he is now a candidate for the office of
Chief Constable. Captain Roberts is a Worces-
tershire man, and we hope his countrymen will
rally round him and give him that support which
will secure for him the appointment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

"MONSIEUR WON FRERE.I

" The world were compelled to treat Napoleon I. virtually
after the fashion of a tr:mendous Convict. Ile was tray.
a,st rted fur life ' with all the hnotirs."there were a great
many rannch Tories lei England who held that ' hooey '
ought to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, at the very least.
The lines of Napoleon 11l have fallen in pleasanter µlaces.
His imperial t)le anal title have not been contumelionely
Genial to him. Ile, the maker of so many Marshals. has riot
been addreesed by the Inanition name of 'General'
Inmaparte fie way see his wife and non whin he please'
No orderly officer ii•sh,t, on VerilyinV Ilh the coulee of every
twent)-f or hours the fact that he has ret rim away. Nd
sentinel challenges kilos If he oversteps by a fey roods the
limits of exercise, assigned to him. No fanatical sieve to
military routine inferiors him In lengthy ift epstehes that his
suite eat toe emelt bread ; that cape wine must be sub-
stituted for the sherry served out to his domestics Slid that
My 1.-.rds are of opinion that his consumption of gravy beef
and C. 414.1 I.li Is excessive. Ile may receive letters With. tit
their having been read by a foreign commandant; he may
seud I -41•grAMs •' ho may welcome his friends. The hest of
cooks Dial, try hia Moab ,• choice wines, the gi't of his nip-
tors Queen, etock hie cellars ; a ottani of honour parse-lea in
front if his windows; eta he is still ‘ne • Moriceur mn
frOre' of the Sovereign who has smitten him hip and thigh,
and has made of the famous Empire of France a rei t
Instead of a c,rment, and burning instead of beau y."—Leattler
hi Lindy rtl, graph.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

CHEST OF DRAWERS, 10 0

CHEST OF DRAWERS, 11 0

CHEST OF DRAWERS, 13 0

CHEST Ok DRAWERS, 16 0
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CHEST OF DRAWERS,

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WINDSOR CHAIRS, 18 6 balf doz.

WINDSOR CHAIRS, 15 0 „

WINDSOR CHAIRS, 17 0

WINDSOR CHAIRS, 18 0 „

WINDSOR CHAIRS, 19 0

WINDSOR CHAIRS, 20 0 „

WINDSOR CHAIRS, 23 0 „

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itiNg Heim MAHOGANY CHAIRS, good patterns,

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T IM MIN S ' S,
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ilr The Basisees to be Dispoeed of from the 25th
March next, (1871).
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-14

HALESOWEN.

THE. CHARGE Or SHEEP STEALING. —At the Petty
Sessions held on Tuesday, before E. Moore and F. W.
U. Burrs, Emirs , John Cooper wan brought up on remand
charged with stealing sheep, the property of Mr. Goole-
port. Prisoner was bound over in £2O to appear when
called upon.
ASSAULT Cum.—Henry Price and Thomas Gee were
charged by William Sankey with assaulting him on the
281 h nit. Complainant said that on the above date h.;
had been having some ale at the Cork and Magpie. The
two defendants were there, am! as he was leaving they
knocked him down, and commenced to kick and beat him
about the head face, and back. John Ray was called.
and said that Gee offered to fight Sankey. He after saw
the complainant, who was cut on the forehead and month.
The defence was that Sankey fought with a man named
James, and that was how be got hurt. The police gave
defendanta a very bad character, and defendants were
fined 2s ed each and coats; in default 14 days.
111 ASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT—Lucy Green, residing
at Boggs Farm, was summoned by John Tipping for on.
lawfully dismissing him without giving a month's notice,
and he claimed £3, as compensations—Mr. Hayes dc.
fended.—Coinplainant said be agreed wich the defendant
in August hut, as her manager. His wages were to be
£l5 per year; u shilling a day when he did n.it live in the
house, and a shilling per day for his work; and he
claimed £3 in lieu of a month's notice.—For the defence,
Mr. Hayes said that defendant engaged complainant by
the week, and paid him by the weea, and he was to go to
live in the house—Lucy Green was called, and said that
she gave couiplainant notice to leave because he did not
attend to his work ; and that the notice was given. on
Monday week. Did not agree to give a mouth's notice.
—William Gibbs vas called, and said he heard Mrs.
Green give the complainant a week's notice, because he
had neglected his work. The Bench ordered defendant
to ply fis and costa.
FURIOUS DRIVING.—William Futrill, horse fetter, was
eummened by Superintendent Overend for furious driv.
tug, on the 26th nit. Police.coustable Knowles proved