The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

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NOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

A Noe CJIIATIL—Under the above heading,
in the &a adard, C. B. (writing from Shtphertl's Bush)
gives the following :

Ity the death of tie Rev. Mr. Russell, 'Ate rector of Rep-
pertoo, I think that I stn the oldest ordained clergyman in
the diocesn of London I was ordained by the bishop of Ely
on the 25th of Septetnber, ISIS, 50 years since, and during
that lota period is curate only. I was horn in and was
Captain ol E.aon on the day of the joihilee for George the
Third, was a fellow of toy college, a principal one in Cam-
bridge, and resigned my fellowship by marriage before I Lai
any preferment from my college after having been the
licensed curate of a parish for 27 years my rector died, the
living being given to his sou, a minor canon. I Stud my family
wore compelled to leave, with the usual notice, but with the
pray el sand tears of my parishioners, and the kind and hand-
some tribute of a n Moline tea 131011111 from my good b:shop.
I came to this place, afflicted with total deafness, utterly
unalde to undertake any duty for my subsistence, awl with
the gifts it two small pensions from private sources, smount-
hog to 90 a year—A very small remuneration forte long a
period, and nought from the Church, whose servant I had
need so long a hard...working—losing within the nine years of
my residence here a beloved wife of 52 years of marriage
life, and throe children.
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OnLY BY.GIENING ! —ln most of the Roman
Catholic churches in London last Sunday there were
special devetions, including prayer. for the protection
of the Po' pe and with hut few exceptions remarks
were made by the preachers on the recent events in
Rome. Tn the Cathedral church at Kensington Arch-
bishop Manning preached a long sermon on this sub-
ject, taking his text from the passage in Sciipture re-
ferring to Pilate washing his bands—a parallel, of
course, being drawn between that personage and the
King of Italy. The Item an question, so far from
being at an end, DA &AMe suppose it is, sail the Arch-
bishop, is only beginning. He warned statesmen that
the revolutionary fesligg was spreading, and that
public order won universally threatened by that of
which England approved.
DREADFUL TIMER FOR GATERICELPERS !—The
Correspondent of 7144 Times writes
. .

Crown Peirice is going ow r with one or two officers In
a c mriare to St GOrMlill to see if goarters can be found there
for the King awl the Groars Houptvuosber. Others of his
Royal Highness's Staff are about to have a Masse tattle woods
of the 121.:ateati of Versailles and dtspose of the rest of the
game. A week before the Prussians came there was a grand
tt baltee' to which many sportsmen came from Paris, and
it is said more than 4 000 bead of game, wetly pheas ants,
were klllad. The poor birds used to Hock about the Trianons
in multitudes, and feed like chickens on raisins, Ac , given
to them by the children lo their walks. There were many
ton and hares killed also, as that when the limed.
Quarters had their first daVs sport only four " Thermals.
--ail good heads anti fat on the ribs and haunches
—about f ley harm, and a few pheasants fell to the guns.
The thocks must be too mach for the ryetem of any well-
regniati d ki,pers• miods It's bad enough to have ue choose
opan at hit and yet to see people shooting in all direeth ns.
Bitt the show resersYs of the I itherlal (rests—to have men
it strange garbs and tongues without any permissions
Ileeneet, or leaves whatever, shooting all over the place at
discretion, that Is a trial beyond endurance. It lea hard
time for authorities if ail kinds. There are, first, the
u vilans to dead wth 0 :at, the uncerta.nly that they have
any rights founded on the receipt of misty ft their own
official existence, at d. finally, the trouble of perceiving that,
whether they are in their rights or not, no one mind.. It
was awful last Sunday to see the men and tips of Versailles
tithing ell over tits pack: but I am bound to say the carp
eerued to despite their acts.

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ITEMS Ft OM FRENCII IMPERIAL BUDOETS.—The
report of Mr. L S. Sackville West, her Majesty's
Secretary to the French Einbassy, datel February 1,
1870, and publisted on Saturday by authority of the I
Foreigmollize, contains some curious facts, which let
considerable light upon Imperial policy ai illustrated
by the Imperial budgets, of which Mr. West gives a
au:nulary from 1853 down to the present year. The
baptism of the Prince Imperial is "an extra national
work," costing £l9 860, while the costs of the approval
and execution of the will of Napoleon L amounts to
£310,515. The Expenses incurred on account of the
secret police have since 1853 attained the sum of
£1,260,000, and the civil list reaches £1,000,000. It is
also worth) vf notice that the excess of expenditure
vver revenue hat reached a yearly average of
£lO 000,000, and that the balance has been entirely
made up by loans. For all this expenditure there
now remsive but little to which to point, except Cher.
burg., a beautified Paris, and a fleet almost equal to our
own.
LICENCES AND CLANDESTINE MAIEt!AOFS.— On
the recent marriage at Llandudno a correspondent of a
London contemporary, ELEning himself "One who has
Marriageable Daughters," writes :
The Llandudno elopement and clandestine marriage, de-
scribed in your paper reminds me of a conviction lhave long
entertained that these licences are a public evil. Of this
pvticular case I know nothing, except that the young lady
was mnrried by licence, without the knowledge of her re,a-
Mous bring in the same village. If the bridegroom had been
a footman It would have he•n all the same. Such cases as
this lest have often occurred, to the Irretrievable Injury of
the lv tate Wed girl and the ruin of her faraily's peace. What
good is there In marriage licences to set dl against these
possible nvsfortunes ? 11 banns are right for one class why
not for soother? If such cia•s legislation is to continue,
why not insist on ono publication, at all events, Instead of
three? Msrrying without any publiclty involves Interests
which we ought, I think, to hold sacred.
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NOT A NEW IDEA.— The age of halfpenny
postage stamps and of postal cards has fairly opened.
Thick or thin, heavy or light, any journal up to six
ounce. may henceforward be transmitted under the
halfpenny stamp; and a card bearing the same stamp
may be inscribed with a brief message and sent by
post. These 11) Mg cards will be like postal electric
messages, and will prove a great boon, we believe, to
busy people. Advertisers, however, will make vast
use of them; and it may become necessary for persons
whose place of residence in inscribed in "Red Books,"
to append to their addressee, as a deprecatory notice,
" No cords." But, in truth, the idea is rest new ; the
Germane make admirable use of it upon their battle-
fields and bivouacs, when the Field Postman rides
round with a bundle of earls, and collects fasten-
taneously written notes from the wounded or reposing
polrdsre, which are sent elf by thousands with the
letters. The s} stem will answer admirably for
business massages and brief communications ; love-
letters and miasives of that kind will, as heretofore,
, take shelter under the judicious envelope and secretive
sealing-wax.
Eno or Eeriar.—Rernarking on the present
I position of England in relation to Europe, the Times
very justly says
In our own case Empire has yielded to fuslm, and all the
various metals of which society Is here c wuposed are now in
the furnace.
Let us be thankful, however, that England Is not too
hot to hold more than certain persons, and consider
that, if Empire has here ended in fusion, it might, as
it has elsewhere, have had a worse end. Ina neighbour-
ing nation Empire has ended in contrusion.—Pesch.
A SENTIM,V.eTAT. PkOre,es ! —lt appears from a
statement in the ltioavel; isle de Rouen that the Garden
Mobiles at Orleans are to sentimental as they are
brave (remarks tte Pall Mall Gau(t:). Every day the
statue of Joen of Are in that csty is surrounded by a
crowd of them, who take advantage of any interval in

their military exercises to make themselves acquainted
with the events represented by the bas-reliefs which
adorn the pedestal. They have covered the base of the
statue with garlands of unmortellee, and have inscribed
Upon it this touching "invocation "—" Jennne dA cc,
saurec encore to Fran,:e." How different is the con.
I duct of these young men to that of our owe. If a
monster fleet appeared in the Channel no garlands
would be deposited at the foot of Nelson's Column, in
Trafedgar-equare, no invocations to that hero would be
scratched upon Lauebeer's boos. Yet how often
*wenn; occur in this country having reference U. matters
in which many of those to whom we have erected
statues took a deep interest! In all the discuss', us
relating to the efficacy or non-efficacy of vaccination
not one of the advocates of the system deposited an
immorielle u tho tami of the statue of 'Tenure, which
ei ands by the side of a pond in Kensington I :ardente.
When the question if the sale and purchbee of army
commissions was the subject of inquiry stew immor-
Wits might without much trouble and with propriety
have been deposited at the end of Waterloo-place, be-
neath the Duke of York's Column. But we are not a
sentimental people.
EXTRAOHDINAhY DIECHALOR: OP WATZR FROM
THE EARTH.—A singular phenomenon his just been
observed above the wood and near the summit of Corry-
choarachan 8011. A part of the mountain that used
to be hard, and abounding with heavy boulders of stone,
has been torn open, an if by some terrific explosion
canard bye suhterraneous power. There is little doubt
it has been caused by an . norwons quantity of water
being force I from the mount:in sith great violence.
Immense lumps of earth, weighing several tone, have
been torn from the mountain, and carried IMMO hun-
dred feet downware's. There are also large boulders of
stone thrown OM, and carried about in all directions.
A large oak tree has been uprooted, and carried a long
way downhill. A stream of water continues to flow
from what looks like a orator. This btrange outburst
of water is said to have been clewed by a large body
accumulating in a cavity in the mountain, and that
owing to the late heavy rains the water bad swollen
to such an extent as to cause this rupture in the
earth.

A RIDDLE O,T TIIE RJAD.—Of what British
niject doe,. an Hotel Bill most commonly remind you?
Of an Inn-do—Punch.

A LE CKY SPECULLTION.—A respectable-look-
lug fanner, some years since, intruded himolf into the
part n. r's room of a divcouut broker's office in London.
urging them to make him an advance ui on a hundred
share or more of a mining company which had been
ensiled in his neighbourh a.d. It was not in their line,
and they declined, notwitlistandil g his persistence. As
the farmer was leaving, the junior partner met him,
and to him alio be urged his suit. 'rhe young partner
took the would-be client aside, atol,af ter healing all the
par iculars, obtained the consent of his partner to make
the advance as a private speculation, the shares being
fully paid up. In due time the loan matured, but the
farmer's crops had not mended, and he was forced to
forfeit his shares, the holder making a further cash pay-
ment to him. That mine was the far-famed Devon
Come In, whose shares, though having only if. paid,
reached the unrivalled price of nearly, if not quite,
1,000/. The holder of each share of It, has received, in
dividends alone, up to May last, no leas than 1,1451.
The "junior partner" settle] down in the neighbour-
hood of his great prize, entered Parliament, and died
but a short time since possessed of great wealth.

A POINT OF Erinuavra.—The Bishop of Cal-
cutta recently visited Burmah, and the Indian papers
describe the difficulties which prevented a proposed in-
terview between the bishop and the King of Burmab.
His maj-sty insisted on the bishop squatting croes-
legged before him, • small carpet being the only con-
cession he would make. De. Milman asked to be
allowed to stand, hut the king was firen ; he could not
allow any man either to stand before humor to occupy
a seat not lower than his, his majesty invariably re-
clining on a very low couch on these OCCIOIOIIB. The
bishop was likewise firm ; he declined to buffer the
indignity of sitting cross-legged on a bit of carpet; and,
as the chief Buddhist prieat is allowed a seat on a level
with the king's he urged that similar courtesy might
be shown to one of corresponding rank. The result
was that the bishop left Mandalay without having met
the king, although both were very desirous that an in-
terview should take place.
NEW READING. —A veteran French statesman
, has lately been very energetic in visitiog foreign
, Courts, Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, might now
with propriety run, Thins, hoop Thiers.—PUNCH.
DEATH OP THE DOHS Or NILES/Li:l.—We learn
from Rheims the hews of the death of the reigning
Duke of Nassau' at the age of 53. His death was
I occasioned by a stray shot from a Franc-tireur, which
I struck him while seated in his carriage, killing also one
of the aides-de-camp by his side. He survived the
wound only about 24 hours. The name of the Duke
was Adolphus William Anguatus Charles Frederick,
and according to the Almanac!" de el, Ma he was the
Irepresent ative of the elder line (styled De Walram)of the
House of Nassau, a cadet bear chof which holds the so
reignty of Holland. He was born on the 24th of July,
' 1817, the eldest son, by his first marriage, of thelate Duke
William George Augustus Henry, whom he succee led
in,August, 1839. tie is described by the same autho-
rity as Count Palatine of the Rhine, a General of
Prussian Cavalry, and Commander of the sth Regi-
meut of Westphalian Lancers. The Duke was twice
married; firstly, on this 31$ of January, 1844, to
Elizabeth blichailovna, daughter of the late Grand
Duke Michael of Russia, who died in the January of
the following year; sad, secondly, in April, 1851, to
the Duchess Adelaide Mary, daughter of the late
Frederick, Prince of Avhalt, by whom he had three
children—viz., Prince William Alexander, Hereditary
Prince, horn on the 22ad of April. 1852 Prince
Francis Joseph William, born on the 30th of January,
1859 ; and the Princess Hilda Caarlotte Wilbehuma,
born on the sffi of November, 1864.