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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-14

Lord RUSSELL and Lord SHAFTESBURY

on the EDUCATION QUESTION.
In London, on Monday, Earl Russell presided at the
annual meeting of the British and Foreign School
Society, and spoke at some 1-ngth on the Education
question. He deprecated the use of catechisms and
formularies in schools, hut sp, ke in favour of religious
teaching founded upon the Bible. Respecting Mr.
Forater's bill his lordship avid that the three tests
which he should personally apply to it would be —that
there should be a convenient diattibotion of achoOl die.
tries on the plan he had adopted in tie Act for the
registration of births, deattoi, and marriages; ;hat no
tax should be levied without the consent of the people's
local or Imperial representatives ' • and that the teach-
ing imparted should be thoroughly misectarian. If it
did not comply with these conditions, he should enter
his solemn protest against its becoming law. His lord-
ship added, however, that he had full confidence in the
Government and Mr. Forster, and did not believe that
they would be parties to any measure of education
that would in it. working violate the consciences of
the people. He had just left a country in which the
question at issue was the infallibility of the Pope; and
ne had not come home to vote the infallibility of any
Erglish Minister. The effect of perpetuating denomi-
national education in England would be that it would
be necessary to extend it to Ireland, and the result
would be that 24,000 Protestant children scattered
throughout the country would either be driven into the
Roman Catholic Church or out of the schools. It
should also be remembered that there was a new party
in the Church, which was trying to assimilate the
Church of England to the Church of Rome, and, so to
speak, to sink the ship by boring holes in the bottom.
It behoved all true Protestants— whether Broad Church,
Low Church, or Dissenters—to take care that this great
Protestant country should maintain inviolate its Pro-
testant Bible, its Protestant institutions, opinions, and
eel..

ri Sh tesbur y, in presiding st - annual meeting
of the nagged School Union at 'Exeter Hail, on
Monday evening, spoke of Mr. Forster'. Education

bill as one of the noblest measures that had ever been
brought forward—and he trusted all the friends of
education would give their energetic support to that
good and true man. Not only were there opponents
to the bill, but men who, while not unwilling to estab-
lish national schools, were yet demanding to have the
word of God excluded from them by Act of Parliament.
This was an abomination, and the friends of ragged
schools must reject the proposal with all their vigour,
and must declare with an unfaltering voice that they
would have the little, and that Chat binrserl ho'lc
should be the grout '!work of tbla tPystein for educating
the childrun of that mighty empire. The bill in Parlia-
ment wohld not deserve a moment's consideration
unless the schools had the Bible for their basis.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-14

A USEFUL HINT.

Annexed is a practical suugestion (which The Times
notices in their Money Article), which might facilitate
the operations of the Post Office, and also prevent
delays and 'mistakes in correspondence
Birmingham wool Warehouses,
New Canal-street, May 9.
"Sir,—To these days of correspondence it would be a great
boon to the postman and a great advantage to the public
if
every one had envelopes with his name and address printed
thereon, so that when writing a letter requiring an answer he
should enclose one of his own printed addressed envelopes.
" This printed addressed envelope would then form a good
reminder to his correspondent, would save his correspondent
time and trouble, and would prevent mistakes in addresses,
which mistakes sometimes cause great trouble, annoyance
and delay. It would also expedite the postman in sorting
and delivering.
" A great many trading firms have envelopes printed with
the addresses of their principal correspondents. though they
have no envelopes printed with their own addresses. My
suggestion, If carried out, would be a great convenience in
many ways to all parties.
" Yours truly,

CEO NoSSITER."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-14

DEATH OF A LADY BY ACCIDENTAL

POISONING.

On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Weedon, coroner, held an bi-
nned at the Rearling-room, Shaw, near Newbury, on the
body of Frances Everett, aged 47 year., wife of the Rev.
G. F. Everett, vicar of Shaw, whose death occurred on the
precis= day under the dhtressing circumstances given
below.
The evidence taken showed that deceased was a lady
of a cheerful temperament, and generally enjoyed good
health. For the past fortnight or three weeks, how-
ever, she had suffered intensely from toothache, and
had used mustard poultices and other remedies for
alleviating the pain. She retired to her bedroom at
the usual hour on Thursday night, and at about two
o'clock in the morning she rushed up stairs, aid called
Elizabeth Clayton, the cook, exclaiming, "Get up, I
have taken some laudanum in mistake, instead of sal
volatile." She then returned to her room, and the
cook sent for Dr. Palmer who had attended de-
ceased and her family for upwards of twenty years.
Dr. Palmer was in prompt attendance, and found
I her in an insensible condition. He examined
the apartments, and found on a small table a basin
containing a decayed tooth and some blood, from I
which it appeared that Mrs. Everett had extracted it
herself after retiring to her room. On another table
was a bottle marked " poison " and "laudanum." It
was empty, but apparently bad contained about 2 drs.
There was also another bottle that had contained
, chloroform, and u third labelled sal volatile. There
' was in addition to these a tumbler with a sponge which
smelt strongly f audanum. On a chair by the bedeide
was some medicated wool, which was wet and smelt of
laudanum. Deceased frequently took sal volatile while
suffering from toothache, and she bad spoken of adopt-
ing the advice of a friend, by using laudanum on wool
outwardly to lessen the pain. Dr. Palmer' with the
assistance of Dr. Binny, of Newbury, used the stomach-
pump, and other remedies, and for a short time the
patient rallied; but she afterwards bccanie convulsed,
and expired 1--ween 10 and 11 o'clock on Friday morn-
ing. Dr. Palmer said 2 dracbmas of laudanum were
not sufficient to produce a fetal result; but if, as he
supposed was the case, Mrs. Everett inadvertently
mixed laudanum with the chloroform, and took it
instead of sal volatile, it would be quite enough to
cause death.
_ . _

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death