The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-04 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

M. Thiers has imposed a tax of three francs on
cats. . .

The Cologne Gazette says that the protection of
Belgium has now become a question of honour for Germany.
The Midland Railway Company have been fined £7,
at Sheffield, under the Contagious Diseases (Animals Act,
for having in their possession a horse afflicted with glanders.
The first direct telegram from Manilla to Madrid was
received by s hanker fast week, Miring frarceik-dritari "Zoog-
Kong in tfity.one minutes.
The Court Circular states that her Majesty was
able, on Sunday, to attend Divine service, and to resume
her place in the family circle at dinner for the first time since
her arrival at Balmoral.
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The Bishop of Winchester, speaking at Southampton
on Monday. in aid of a Church school fund, mid the Church
must not complain of recent legislation, the whole intention
of which had been to stimulate religious bodies to the work
of educating the next generation, and they ought do this if
they would only be faithful to their woik.
A clerk in the employ of the Great Esatern Railway.
Company, who had been to Newmarket for a few days, and
had obtained a apecial order to rile back on the engine, was
jerked therefrom, when the train passed over him, mangling
both legs most fearfully, and from the effects of which he
died.
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The Wabash (indiana) onuntry has always been
celebrated for the persistency and ,juality of its fever and
ague. A local physician thus describes the genuine Wabash
article : -" It comes creeping ups fellow's back like a ton of
wild cats ; goes crawling through his joints like iron spikes,
and is followed by a fever which prohibits the patient from
thinking of anything but Greenland's icy mountains. It
hat the 'every-other day ' kind, but gets up with a man at
daylight, and sleeps in the small of his back all night. Ilia
teeth feel about six inches long, his joints wobble like a
loose waggon wheel, and the shakes are so steady that one
can't hold conversation except by putting in dashes."

The strike in the Forest of Dean has been terminated,
and the men have returned to work.
By a majority of one vote, the Plymouth School
Board have adopted a bye-law for the paytueut of fees to de-
nominatlmml schools.
The Paris dentOnotuir have again revived the fashion
pf_carrying short canes, and also green fans eighteen niches

long
Pierre Verum, hearing that a new name was wanted
for the Rue du 4 9,ptembre, proposed to cull it 'The 6treet
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of the nest Revolution.

The date fixed for the Birmiugham Conference,
which is to dismal§ the propriety of reforming the liouse of
Lords, is December 6, natead of November 2S, as originally

proposed.
The 110 r of Worcester hits issued a circular to the
rural deans f tl5 Iliooess expressing a wish that the new
Tsliles of Lessons should be brought into use generally.;
the earliest date which the Act allows—viz., after the bit day

of January, 1872.
The following notice appears in the Journal Officiel of
Monday The Minister of War has indicted a disciplinary
punishment of sift) days imprisonment upon General of
Brigade de Nansouty on account of the letter which ho pro-
cured to be inserted in the newspapers."

A meeting of the Natioisal Temperance League was
held in Exeter hall, London. on Tuesday evening, at which
the principles at the organization were advocated exclusively
by members of the medical profession.
Mr. Cardwell, Secretary for War, has offered the
Sheffield Corporation £7OO as a contribution towards the
exten!lion of the main drainage scheme to the barracks. The

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offer has Veen accepted.
On Sunday a farmer named Connor was fired at and
wounded dreadfully in the foe, at Mooto, co, Westmeath. A
number of men assembled at his door, and one, having called, .
him out, deliberately tired a pistol in his face. The outrage

is considered agrarain.
In the BonapartiAt journal L'Ordre currency is given
to a rumour that upon the meeting of the French Assembly
at Versailles M. Thiers will resign office, on the grouad of his
age and infirmities, and the Puke of Aumals be brought for-
ward as President of the Republic.
In Tuesday's sitting of the German Parliament the
Budget for 1572 was brought forward by the Finance Minister,
who dwelt upon the necessity of a certain amount of the
war fund being placed at the disponi' of the Govern-
ment, as well as the establishment of a special fund for the
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military administration.
An important resolution has been come to by the
Amerieem bishops assembled in Convocation at Baltimore.
They have voted unanimously that the word regenerate "
need in the office of baptism is net so used as to determine
that a meal change in the subject of baptism is wrought in

A. proclamation has been Issued by the Bank of
France, announcing that it has issued 1,000,000 francs of
Papal silver money, which, although not a legal tender, it
will ac,ept it as though it were French money. It further-
more announces that, in order to assist the Government, it

has bought large I ivantilies of bar shyer.
At the "Grand Hotel,- Paris, the other night, &
July, rather excited rushed down to the counting house,"
and asked hurriedly of one of those moll tight-elad boys
who are iu duty in that precinct, " Have you the small-pox
in the house?" aud the boy, who n perfectly understtuida
English," replied, 'No .• but we expect it every !picnic, and
when it arrives I will send it up to the &emir"! of

Madame !"
In Loudon, on Monday afternoon, Professor Huxley
began a course of eight lectures, at the London Institution,
on the elements of the physiology of bodily motion and con-
sciousness. The address van devoted to the phenomena of
motion exhibited by the living body, and the general condi-
tions on which it N dependent.
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From April let to the 2Sth October, the total re-
ceipts into the Exchequer were g5g,221,506, an them., of
more than £1.100,000 upon the returns in the corresponding
period of last year. The eapenditure has amounted to
A:42,981,23W fin Saturday last the balance in the Rank a
England was .061,0 el ; and in that of Irekutd, A:252,057.

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It may not Inc generally known, says the Glebe, that
Mr. Gladstone is a pmlestrian of no mean powers. We are
assured that v hen returning front his recent official resi-
dence at hahnoral Castle he walked the distance from the
Castle to Clove on foot—twenty-six miles—resting for the
night at the village inn, and proceeding to Kirriemuir next
day, still in the pedestrian fashion.
A Royal Warrant was published in Tuesday night's
(A.vette, as a consequence of the issue of the Warrant of
July '2oth, abolishing purchase in the army. It lAys down
regulations for the granting of commissions, specifies the
conditions of regimental prinnotion, defines the tenure a
the higher appointments, and sets forth the rules by whielf
exchanges most be governed, as well as those liv which
otheiTs may be retained as supernumersties.
A correspondent of the Lade Aftreury mmplains of
the introduction of the word "proletariat " as a fashionable
term for the working classes. The confoll of skilled work.
men appear to be very fend of the word—mini it is difficult
to say—as the correspondent points out that the word " pro-
letarian" is defined by Johnson. "wretched, mean, miser-
able." As a Latin wall it literally tumuli, stockdireedinth"
and was applied to that lowest class of citizens, too poor to
Pay taxes or to serve ha the army, who were only couuned as
we count cattle, "by the head."
Decision was giVell on Monday in an action brought
by Mr. sims Reeves against the Edinburgh I %oral Futon.
Mr. Reeves claimed se guineas tor singing at the associa-
tiies's concert in November last. The association dechhed
payment in full b cause of the non.fidelnuent of the engage-
ment, and tetudemil 60 guineas.. 'The Sheriff decided that
Mr. Reeves disability was occasioned by an alleotion of tilt,
throat. arising from cold or other manses not minter his con-
trol, for which he was not responsible. Mr. Reeves having
fulfilled two-thirds of his engagement, his lordship awarded
two-thirds if his fee, 10111 found defendants entitled to•ex-
mouses, excepting those incurred ha their own proof.
With reference to the case of John Veiteh, the latl
charged with obtaining los. from Lady Mary Egerton, tinnier
the pretence that it was to aid the Empress Eugenie, her
ladyship desires to eorrect a false impression left by the
repots published in the newspapers that she was the dupe
of the so-called Madame Louise liArminiville. So far from
this builig it was she who put tile matter into the hands
of the police, and. at the suggestion of the Chief commis-
sioner, sent the order for lot., far the purpose of detection.
tier ladyship asks this statenuent to be maile, not on her owu
account, butt because she considers it important that the
prospect of being held up to observation and ridicule
through an insufficient statement of farts should not be
allowed to deter others from taking a step which, if more
frequently resorted to, might tend to check these attempted
impositions.
A great demonstration in favour of the nine hours
system took place at Nndtingliain on Monday night A haunt
of music, accompanied by hundreds of working men, pro-
ceeded from the market-place to the Meshanics' Hall. where
a meeting was held under the presidency of Mr l'ortmer
Beath, the !null being crowded to excess. A deputation front
Newcastle attenchd. A resolution pledging the meeting to
support 13. movement for the introduction of Jim nine 11011111
system and the remilation of overtime in all the trades in
Nottingham, was unanimously carried, and a 111e11101 lal for
presentat iOll to employers asking for the boon was adopted.
The knoluess of those ouployers who had already conceded
It was gratefully ackmAvledged.
M. Sarney, a well-known journalist, has been pro-
hibited by the French Government from giving a lecture
upon the tragedy of Polpeuere In the GAG: Theatre, Paris.
For the last hum years similar lectures have been delivered in
Mutt place of amusement, and even wider the Imperial
u'nqinnnc DO opposition was offered to them by the Govern-
ment. 31 Stacey during that time has frequently lectured,
and he says that on no occasion has Inc sought to curry
favour with his nonlinnice by making the slightest pnniitleai
alluision. General Lad mirsult, who is Govenor of Tanis, has,
however, prohibited the lecture, eit the ground that it is
Ilreetelary Inn eulllll tile agitatiell of tine public. tinsel.
Sareey, who Ores att accmout of the occurrence in the
Goviois, admits this necessity, not ,loubts whether the course
adopted by the Governmeut is calculated to produce the re-
sult desired.

WIMP