The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-25 00:00:00

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THE CONFESSION OF MURDER IN AUSTRALIA.
—The Mclb9urne Argots of Jar. 2, says:—

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George Dyer, the man who about twelve months age con-
fe,sed to the Loudon pollee that he had murdered a man
named JAllie' Wilson at the Loddon rush, Lathe Cutleniaine
dl trict, in 1857, arrived in Melbourne, by the York,hif e, a
couple of week. ago, in charge of sergeant Holmes, of the
Brighton police, Victoric, who was sent home to bring him
out. The evidence collected by the Victorian detectives In to
the effect that Dyer during He wandering, on the gold-tolde,
fell in with James Wilson, who towards the end of 1157 ac-
companied him to Green Gory, at the Loddon rush, Castle-
Maine. Here, retarding to hu own statement to the London
pclice, the prisoner aid Wilson had a quarrel as to some
gold, and a light took place between them, which ended in a
murder, the prisoner killing Wilson with a pickaxe. Lie con-
cealed the body in a dry waterh, 1-, and disappeared, and the
body was not dire ivered till January, in 1858, when nu In-
quest was held on the remains. andac open verdict returned.
iho prleoner surrendering him-elf to the London police,
inquiries wore mode from the Victorian police, which re
soiled in the discovery that the statement of toyer was cor-
rect, so far as the finuieg of Wilson's body was concerned.
The prisoner was then remanded to Australia, but prier to
the voyaoe out he retracted hie anlession, saying that he
knew nothing about the murder. Dyer has been sent from
Melbourne to Castlemaine, where he will be pros, ceded.

TBE Nave EeTIMATFS.—The Navy Estimates
issued on Wednesday morning, show a net inc; ease
over laid year of £385 826. Toe total amount of the
estimates is £9,756,316, and the net am ,wit, after
deducting estimated extra receipts and repayments, in
£9,289356. Tne items of incrmse are :—Wa.res to
seamen and marines, 205 ; victuals awl clothing,
£69,315 ; Admiralty Office, £1,131 ; dockyarcht and
naval yards at home awl abroad, £89,066; medical
establishments at home and abroad, £176, naval
stores, £5B 875 ; steam machinery and ships but t by
contract, £285 513; new works, buildings, machirery,
and repairs. £19,162 ; and civil pensions and &row-
atetP, 225,103. The items in which a decrease. has
taken place are :—Coasteumil servire, Royal Naval
Coast volunteers, and lt,,yal Naval lteserve, £9,123;
scientific branch, £1,691 ; victualing vares at 1- inne
aid abroad, £933; marine diviszotst £101; medicines
and medical stereo, £5,559 ; martial law Rod law
charger, £073; mamillaneout services, £9,174; half-
pay, rererved half-p sy, and retired pay to ofii iers af
the Pat y and Rayal zuarines, £72862; awl military
pensions and allowances, £l,BBl.
GAATiFYING ADVERTIBEMENT.—The Theatre of
War is Closed for the present. A Peace is in prepara-
tion which we hope will have on nnprecelented cur.—
Punch.

Tan Sun 017TDONX.—On Thureclay night in
last week at 9.8 p.m., a London establishment received
a message which had been sent rid Teheran. f tom
Kurrachee, India, on Friday morning at 12.43 a.m.
The message was therefore received in London the day
befe.re it was tent from Inere. The time actually
occupied by the meseage in traosmiseion WAS fifty
minutes ; the sun would require f3ur hours and twenty-
tix minutes to do the same oistacee, and at the mei sage
was sent to soon after n.i fright the extraordinary
effect is produced of its arriving the ores 10‘13 evening.

Now BANKtliti CREQUF.—An ingerious mode
of preventing the fraudulent alteration of cheques ard
other similar documents has been invented. cars the
Scicntilic &view, by Mr. J. B. Newton, If Isiewport,
U.S. The Blip of parer upon which the blank cheque,
r other form of mercantile undez taking or order for
the paymeat of money, is print-d is fumbled with •
talole of digits arranged in v. rtical chimp, and for eon.
%solemn c'e.cribed by perpendicular and horiz Anal
liner forming rquares. Over the top of cacti column is
marked the denominat:on which the column is desig-
nated to represent, commencing with units and ending
with 10,000, or any higher denomination. If tie
chi quo or other money security is filled up with a sum
under ten p,undr, the figure in the column of units
c.vreoponding with the number of pounds is to be
punched out, and the cheque is to be torn from the
book and put into circulation with only that tingle
column attached. If the cheque be filled with any
sum under one hundred pounds, as for example, with
the sum of Di% the number six in the column of tcnr,
and the number nine in the column of units, are to it,
punched out, and the cheque isrued with only the two
columns representing tens and units attached.

A DIFFICULTY. —The authoft.its of the Cam-
bridge University are undecided as to where the
statue of the late Pr:nee Consort, who was Chancellor
of the University, shall be placed. The University
having accepted this work of art, it is bound to find
a slice for it. The Fitzwilliam Museum and the
Senate-house have both betn proposed and both re-
jected. As the itote is mule of marble it must be
placed under cover, and to provide for this nece rary
protection it has been suggested to erect a temple over
the statue in the middle of the lawn in front of the
library, but this pr ipt sil is objected to on the grcund
that such cons. maim would be ugly and out of
harmony with the surrounding buildirgs. Mr, Clark,
of Trinity College, in a letter which he has published,
states that, as the memory of the late Prince Consort
is connected with natural science in general, tha statue
might be most appropriately placed in s me portion of
the building whith the University propcs es to erect for
physical research through the munificence of the present
Chancel:or.

ESSENCE or NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.- GY6 Ey.—

TO& FIISHIRG TRADE OF B01:11.0ONE.—SOIDe
statistica, just furniehed, relative to the fisheriee at
Boulogne, the most important fishing port in France,
show their growing importance, as well as the severe
shock the trade has this year sustained from the war, by
which the fishermen were draughted off to the service
of the State, and the most productive markets in the
interior, and especially Paris, were for months cut off.
Thenumber of fisheinten in the maritime district of
lloul. guy increased from 3101; in 1860 to 3,697 on the
let cf Jimuary, 1870. In the same period the number
of fist jog boats increased from 138 to 219. The neney
vela° of the fish, fresh and salt. landed at Boulogne
was 4 658,916 f. (£lB6 356) in 1860. In 1869 it had in-
creased to 6 811.254. (8'272,450), but in 1870 it sac
only 4,7053501. (8:118,222).

BARNlHit'd Nw SHOW.—The New York Times
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Mr. liarnum's wonderful menagerie will soon let forth on
its curer of triumph. It will comprise Lot only a circus but
menagrrie, and not only a menagerie but a museum, not
ci.ly these but troops of jugglers, gmnaatl, and other
experts of distinction, en that nothing ever seen in a
peripatetic character will have begun to enlist it. Mr.
ii 4/1311111 is taking hts time for preparation; but the public
ne the better, and not the worse for that. We are told
that his agents in France and Germany are engaged in col.
lecilmaan immense number of curiosities from the various
b alio fields to add to the splendour and variety of his
travelling museum. A march.), in which the Emperor
Napoleon drove to Sedan, is said to lent the number.

LEGAL Quzsrv,x.—What are the " Bench, rs
of cur Inns of Court-- Persons so called frau, their
persistevt wiherence to le gal forms.—Puiccn.

PROVIbIONING PARIB.—DIWII 0 MOLday !Vol-
big the total amount of provisions brought into Paris
was as follows :-15 264 oxen, 16,589 sherp, 1,890 cows,
4,285 pigs, 21,730.848 kilos, of corn, 40 128 eO4
of flour, 9,969,798 kilos. of bievult, 2,513,062 kilos. of
preserved meat, 1.001,910 lolts. of oil cake, 314.024
kilos. of salt, 3.054,199 kilos. of various kinds of wilted
nteata, 6,453,548 kilos. of bacon, 163,407 of fresh fish.
2,607,906 of salt fish, 4 200 litres of alcohol, 227 395
litres of wine and beer, 872,174 kilos. of butter, 629 054
kilos, of cheese, 175,314 litres of oil, 8 512 229 ki est of
ve{:etables, 420 499 kilos. of fruit, 2 156,9..13 kilo,'. of
forage, and 3,258,146 kilos. of various provisions. Of
furl she arrivals have tern: 18,680,382 kilos. of co...is,
and 2,295,870 of offer combustibles.

NnwsPartit. S al tSTIO4. —From the Noespoper
Pnss Diree“ry for 1871 we extract the following on
the present positim of ths Newspaper Press Ttere
are now pulli.lied in the United Kingdom 1,450 news-
papers, dirtributed as follows :—England—London,
261 ; provinces. 851-1112; Walis, 53 ' • Scollstal.
131; Ireland, 138; British Isles, 16. Of fleas ther
are 88 daily pnpers published in England, 1 in Waist!,
11 in Scotland, 19 in Ireland, and 1 in the Charnel
Bits. On reference to the edition of the Directory for
1851 we find the following interesting facts- viz.' rhat
in that year there were published in the United Kinj-
i'om, 563 journals; of these 18 pat era were isrued
daily- viz., 13 in England, 2 in Scotland, and 3 in
Ireland; but in 1871 there are now establinbed and
circulated 1,450 papers, uf which no less than 120 ore
issued daily, showing that the Preen cf he country
has very greatly extended during the last 20 yew, and
more especially so in daily papershrthe cialy imuen
standing 120 against 18 in 1851. • The magazines now
in course of publication, including the Quarte: ly
Reviews, number 638, of which 236 are of a decidedly
religious character, repressntiog the Church of Eng
land, Wealeyans, Methodiats, Baptista. Independents,
and other Christian oommunitieo.

IsT4 PJLISON I. TO HIS FOLLOWERS. —The advice
given by Napoleon I. to hie followerebefore his departure
for Ell aft worthy of note at the present time. Cana-
court tells tie that while yet M Fontainebleau, seeing
each day "solitude increasing around Lim," he mid to
Some of hiv faithful adMrecti :—" Serve the F,ourlions
faithfully; no e,ther comae remake to yen, and if thee.
at wisely France umL r their rule may b- happy and
resp..dvel. . . . They lie 3 Frames m they l4t her, and
may acoedt her ancient limits without oempromiaing
their own digni y; and though geographically
dlininished 'lie sti'l be as morally great as before;
great by ter courage, r orto, ar4 her intellectual,
Mfluenc- over the reit of the wor'd. Even though her
ter.itorial ixtent he dithitisheti Ler gkry is not. . . .
Serve France under the princes who at this moment
bring back fortune, so fckle in times of revolution.
Serve France mder them as you have served her under
me. 110 cot make the Lek too difficult fir them. . . •
Leave me, but give um a place in your memory."
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TBE IL:v. Ma. Yin/MT.—The lev.Chanlpo
Voyst y, Vicar of Ilealaugh, near Tads:aster, York..
shire, upon whom the sentence of deprivation La, jut
been pronounced by the Judicial Committee of her
Majesty's Privy Council, on account of betenical
opinions advanced in his work. The Sling awl tke
Stone, was Lain about the year 1828, and was edncatetl
at St. Edmond Hal, Oxford, where be took Inn
Bachrd r'a decree in 1851. Ile aat admitted into holr
orders in MA having been ordained detwon in that
year by the Arelibisbop of York, and admitted to the
priesthood in the following year. From 1852 to 1859'
he held the curacy of Ifeasle, in Yorkshire, after which
be held for a short time the 'stipendiary curacy of
Craig:win, Jaiziatce. In 1881. he was appointed curate
of Great Yarmouth, but in the some year he was tI
(erred to that of St. Merles. Whited:lapel. In 1863,
having bill for a few months the curacy of St. Mark's,
Victoria Mg k., Lon& la, be was nominated curate of
litalaugh and WWI a:pointed vicar of that pariah in
the ye ar following.
A Camon.—The man who can't resist "knit
a tbimhleful " of brandy will sametimer find the thims
ble h, lda enough to sew him up.—Putich.
AMERICAN ADVEILTISING !—lt has long been
known that in spirited advertidemente the Americana
are a for g way in advelost of the old world. but it.
must he confeeted that tin se testate stortooncementa:
do not always bear quite the meaning intended. The
following hi from the Ncto York Tribune
"Agent, /motel for Ci.id to Illitory. A grunt theme and
the grandest book of modern tient All History aualyred
front a new standpoint God riles among the nations. An
open Bible In eve. y land. No Oh, book Ibe it Approved
by /oar 1,0 Diviner, and all the leadleg pspers. The best
terms to agents ever before elven."

THIEP,S Tlig FIRST.-11i019elf a great author,
Mr. Punch is delighted at the acaession of a brother
author to the Throne of France. The mere title in a
form but whether the new Sovereign is to be the
Pres:denr, Vao.Consul, or Empsror, Mr. Punch re-
opectfully salutes Mut, and hastens to recognise the
Dynasty. His Majesty has wait, d long for the Cron n
--but 'the world is to h'm who knows how to wait
and to work. The new Sovereign's health in a bottle—
aye, of llordeaut.7 Punch.

WALCICS AND CAAIIALTIES.-I.ccoliiing to an
analysis by Mr. Jeula of the wrecks and casualties re-
p.
rted at Lloyd's during the first half of the year WO,
compared with those for the same period of the previous
four years, it appears that they were considerably
below the averane in the first four months, and mucks
above the average in May and June, that casualties to
steam rs were greatly in excesa of the as crags in easels
111(112 h exceht January, and that the instances of
col felon were greatly in excess of the average as re-
gards steamers and below it as regards sailing vessels,
hut that fewer lives wert reported as lost, the oimiam
tire bell 7, Jl persona—s qual to liSl yer cent, on the
average total.

A STIMULUS TO TUE TAX-PAT-AlM—The utility
of the Peace Pr( earvasion Act line been recently
shown in some special instances in Ire'and. Catherine,
Murphy, wife of Captain Lidwelea bailiff, who was,
umelered three months ags, has served uatice of an
application to the grand jury at the a pproachiug 16891Z,11
Of Nensgh fs.r compensation for herselt and fourctildren.
It will be reaisted by the ratepayers. A similar appli-
cation will, it is expect. d, be made on behaif of the
family of the b Mitf, who was shot while lying
in his bed at Foxier-I, in the county of Mayo. In the
latter case A corousea jury found a verdict of "Acci-
dental death," but the Government have disregarded
it, and sffered a reward for the apprehension of tho
murderer. The ivy cf a tine on the locality to pro-
vide fur the families of those who fall tredve the assuss-
'heir hand, it in thought will be a keen stimulus to the
tax-payers to easiest in bringing to justice the perpetra-
tors of crime.

ATo L INLLOA D AIiD IL It aDICAL TSNANT.
—The late Sr Tatton Sykis was OLC3 mentioning
hit dislike to toe of his tenants who was ' conceited
and a Itadictl." A great COUR rvative a7.ent who was
meg= nt thoogLt ho had a fine field for action, and Bail
Sir Tatton really might not t) have inch a tenant.
Sir Tattor, however, replied, ''l cannot give him
notice to quit, because he can grow better turn* than
I can, and I can smell Lis genie a mile off. I don't
like to meet him became I am afraid he will give me
notice that he shall leave, because Tin a Tory."

110.11'ITALIIL- A story is told in Washington
of a well.knowo senator, who is notorious for taking
two exact:ills in succession before breakfast. One
morning, whole the stnator was practising at the
"Metropolitan Bar," a friend put to him the perti-
flint question, "Senator, why do you take two cock-
tails as a custom? Won ore tone you?" The sena-
tor dr6l7 liniself up: "I will tal 3on why I take two
cocktails. When I hare taken one it make me feel
Ike soother man. Will, you ve I'm bound by
c mmon courttsy to trot thst man, to I take a
second."

A C/I/NOF FOR THE W0i.87.-- La France says
—" The Pruesians have no tight to march through
Park The Pew-glans have not Wren Paris—it a.
Famine." Let us he ps, if La France is right, that
F. mine niay n't ireist on marching into the city,
bet.-ad of the Prussians. She is too near thdrEates to
be pleasant, alr:ady. —Punch.
M. REYD ON Tug DOTY or MINIS/TU.—Mr.
E. J. Eeed attended the dinner of the Manchester
Arsocialion of employers, foremen and draughtmion
connected with the engineering trades, which was held
on Saturday evening. He spoke at considerable length
re sprctir p his cnnnerir n with the Admiralty, and said
that, "Ludt r a political sy‘bm which had, as or.e of
its rincipal lean rea, tie }davit gin r thee of men who
were entirely ignorant of prideasional dune?, it became
am mewhat el iouequest on, when professional rill-hale
were driven the length of threatening resignation
whether it was not the duty of the Minister to 'hod
his proud head '—to one a phrase which had given
great offence in certain rinartera lately—rather than
that the pie fee sional man should suddenly withdraw
his servicA from Lae Cr,wn and c 'entry."