The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Prince Murat is to espouse shortly the daughter of
the Duchess of Alb, uelero of the Empress EuOnie.

Some Georgia ladies propose to play the piano for
the championship, at the State fair.

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Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 'hut , has been elected
Lord Rector of Edinburgh University by a majority of te2
votes over Sir !Wendell Palmer.

According, to a letter which has been received trona
Mr. Bruce, a bill for Regulating the local Government of
London is not to to included amongst the Ministerial mea-
sures of nest session.

The fourth London Poultry and Pigeon exhibition,
opened on Tuesday, at the Crystal Palace, and WM of an un-
usually large extent, comprising all manner awl variety of
domestic fowl.

A letter from Nenfckite', in Switzerlima, states that
M. Ileslay, es-utember of the Commune, is seriously ill,
Mabel, 1,110 of his former colleagues, is ',sibling it, the same
town, where he cams his liviihood as a basket-maker.

Letters from Malta say that Tsabella, ex-9neen of
Spain, is about to take up her residence in that island for
the wittier, and that One of the principal hotels has been
taken for theaccommodation gd her Majesty and suite.

After January 14 the 5,000 workmen employed in
the London and North Western In live department at
Crewe will participate in the advantages of the nine hours'
movement, in accurtlanee with a recent resolution of the
directors.

Seventeen bishops and 83 clergymen of the Protes-
tant Epism pal thumb in the United States form a league of
mutual life insurances Last year 200 new members were
admitted, and there were six deaths.

The 11huiter of the Rolls, in congratulating the new
Solicitor-Gomm' upon his appointment, has reminded Mr.
Jessel that he is the fourth gentleman practising in the Rolls
Court who has been made a law officer of the Crown during
Ids lordship's tenure of other.

It is stated by the Paris Constitutionnel that the
Pope is about to issue a protest in which he will declare
that he is the sole King of Koine, and refuses to have rela-
tions with the foreign ministers accredited to the Court of
Italy.
111iss Dimock, a young American lady, 24 years of
age, has just been admitted to the dignity of Imetor In
Medicine, surgery and Accouchement, at Zurich, in conse-
quence of brilliant examinations anti a public dissertation
Which attracted a numerous auditory.

The Emperor of Russia arrived at Odessa on the
3rd inst. Ilia Majesty visited the cathedral and the young
ladies' institute. After having dined with the governor.
general, the Emperor left by the train on his journey towards
St. I:eterslourg. _ _

--.l'he North American and United States Gazette of
Philadelphia completed the one hundredth year of its exist-
ence, and the eight y seventh of its continuous daily publica-
tion, on the 30th ult. It is the oldest daily newspaper on the
American continent.

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The export of coal from the United Kingdom con-
tinues to exceed a million and a quarter tone per month. In
October tile quantity was 1,ar2,271 tons 207,351 tone were
shipped to Germany, 100,962 bon to France, trd,lo3 tons to
01,1134 tons to India, 75,522 tons to Denmark, 73,085
tons to Russia, 53,791 tons to liolland, 52,911 tons to Brazil.

A great trade intim demonstration took place at
Bolton, on Saturday. Several thousand persons employed in
the coal, iron, cotton, building, and other trades, marched
through the town, and subsequently passed re3oluti. RIB
Against the coercion clauses in tne Trades Acts, and calling
upon Government for theirrepeaL
A curious coincidence is noticeable in connection
with the census refunis from Ilornsea, Yorkshire, and
Borns., Middlesex. In ista, the population of both places
ism exactly alike—namely, 11,092 and according to the last
Census there is a difference of two persons only, the idimistrs
being respectively, 19,393 and 19,395.

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The following conversation took place at the eeme-
ivy of Slontmertre on All Souls' Day :--Lady in Black :
"flow much is this crown r La Marchand° : Five francs"
Lady in Black : " Good gracious ! If I were to give francs
for a crown my husband would rise from Ids grave to re•
match me, lie was so economical- the poor dear ! "
Sub-inspector Kelly, who has just retired from the
Royal Irish Constabulary, was fired at in his own house,
Limerick, late on Saturday night. The shot was need iota
Iris parlour, and the Millet lodged in the wall, having plias.]
within a few inches of his head. Mr. Kelly resides in One of
the no jot frequented streets of Limerick.

The late rains in Italy have caused KO great a rise in
the Tiber that considerable uneasiness is felt at Rome.
Within three days the river went up twenty feet. The
Municipality Inui taken every possible precaution, and
advised the bakers ill the less exposed quarters to take mea-
sures to increase their ordinary production, so us to be able
to supply fugitives, at Id auy flock there.

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Great rejoicings took place on the Fife estates in
Aberdeen, Rant!, and Moray shires on Friday OM Saturday,
in honour lif the coming If age of Viscount Maeduff, only
sou of the Earl of Fife. bird Macduff attained his majority
a year ago, but on account of the recent death Of liii
mother, the celebration was delayed till hia twenty-second
birthday.
In addition to the baronet/7 to be conferred on Pro-
fessor Christison, orders have been given for the grant of •
similar honour to Mr. T. Graham Briggs, who is, we believe,
the largest resideot proprietor in liarbadoes. Mr. Briggs's
father was an eminent agriculturist, who performed an im-
portant and useful part in the working of property and the
treatment of the lationret in the great period of transition
which filmed the abolition of slavery.

A meeting of the general .council of the Committee
for Promoting the Medical Education of Women was held
in Edlinlonah on Nlnlay, at which a report, stating the
present position of the movement and appealing for fumes,
was adopted. Tine executive committee were also enjoined
to watch nver the means by which the ladles who have
already begun their studies may be enabled to complete them,
and to consider what steps should be taken in regard to the
recent resolution of the Senatus Academicus.

The number of animals imported into (ireat Britain
during I idoter, and coming under the Art, was as fol-
lows :—Front Hamburg to Hull, two sheep, with scab ; Ivan
Marian to Plymouth, la cattle, with foot mid mouth
disease; from Rotterdam to ilrimsby, one sheep, with scab;
front Rotterdam to liarwieh, four sheep ith foot mill
mouth disease. They were all slaughtered at the place of
landing.

On Friday last nearly 2,000 of the tradesmen and
professional men of Bath assembled at the Guildhall in that
city for the purpose f discussing the miesti ~,, of nun-barges
alleged to have been made on the income-tax returns. The
following resolution was unanimously passed :—" That this
meeting protests against the systematic surcharge of the
income-tax upon the professional sad trading classes of this
city, and indignantly repudiates the imputation on their
honour and veracity ahown Isy the total disregard of the
returns which they have fairly and conscientiously made."
Accouling to the Treasury returns the Exchequer
receipts from April 1 to Saturday last amounted to
£38,401,010, as against £37,334,623 last year. Customs pro-
duced £12,051,000; Excise, £12,930,000 ; stamps, £5,b07,000;
taxes, £410,000; income-tax, £1,723,000; Post-office,
£5,342,000; Telegraph Service, £475,000 : Crown lands,
Emma miscellaneous, £2,751.910. Payments in the same
period were made to the amount of £44406,170, as compared
with £41,947,542, and there remained in the Bank of England
ou Saturday £1,922,045, and in that of Ireland £402,056.

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Mr. George Vandenboff, whose death hail been re-
ported by the American papers, writes as follows to the Nrw
York World :—" I perceive by the newspapers generally that
am dent and have been buried in New York with Masonic
honors. I never, as a rule, contradict anything that the
newspapers say of me ; but in this ease It will not he con-
sider.] presumptuous or egotisthal to say that I am not
aware of such a thing having happen.] to me, alai that I am
813 well as can be elpeeted under the circumstances."

A contemporary says the amusing discovery has
been made that M. Emile 011ivier's famous phrase, profesaing
to embark upon the war of 1870 with a w light heart," was
after all, a piracy. On June 20, lotit, 111 the eve id the war
with Austria, King Victor Emmanuel wrote to Naploeon
III.:—" Italy has an army of 250,000 men, .41 a reserve of
WOW To-morrow I shall put myself at the head of my
soldiers. My heart is aver est kjer. The very
words of 011ivier.
Record is made in the Parliamentary Buff Book f 4
1671, which has Just been published, of the number of divi-
sions attended by members of Parliament during the past
session. The highest figure on the list stands opposite the
name or Mr. George Anderson, the Junior member for Glas-
gow. who was present "when the bell rang' 2(12 times, and
only eight times an absentee. The lowest, tighten-it times, is
OWlled by the Marquis of borne ; but the noble lord might
plead in his defence the Scriptural comae that having
married a wife he could not come."

The Revisers of the New Testament Company met
in London on Tuesday, at the Jerusalem rhamber, for their
14th section. Seventeen members were present, ri2. :—The
Bishop of Glocester and Bristol, who presided ; the Bishop
of St. Andrews, the Beans of Westmineter and Rochester,
Archdeacons flicker:tali and Lee, the Master of the Temple,
Canons Bialosley. Ligligoot, and Westrott ; Professors Eadie,
Milligan. Moulton, and Newth, Prebendary liumphry, Mr.
Sleet, and Sir. Scrivener. The company eat for seven bourn,
and concluded the latter half of the 14th chapter of St. Mark
and the early part of the lath.
A lettei in the Journal du Harre states that thy
Minister of Public Works In France luu taken into .am-
alteration the plan for providing better accommodation for
the passenger truffle between Lover an,! Calais, by means of
large steamers capable of carrying on their decks two rail-
way trains of fifteen carriages each. It is proposed that
these steamers should be 420 feet long suol 46 feet wide, and
that a port in which they might enter at any hour of the
tide should be constructed a little to the east of ('slake
This pert or dock is to be connected with the shore by an
iron bridge. The journey from Calais to Lover would be
perk,' wed, It is estimated, in an hour and ten minutes.