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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02

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IFIAS GRF:AT PLEASFRE PUBLISHING THE FOLLOWING

TESTIMONIALS.

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Frnm Mr. Butterworth, Organist, Dobernas, near
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02

TFIE

PRO-FENIAN DEMONSTR ATIONS.
The sympathisers with, or friends of thn Fen-
ian prisoners appear to delight in Sunday dem-
onstrations. There WIIR, for instance, a monster
Fenian demonstration last Sunday in the city of
Cork. The Mayor of this city, it will he remem-
hered, gave it an unenviable notoriety for disloy-
altv, hut, truth to say. it required not the ex.
travegant utterances of this gentleman to canoe
Cork to he regarded as remarkable for its hitter
enmity to the Sasseneeh, its hatred to English
laws and customs, and its support to the Fenian
ennspiraey. Of ennrse, the whole etty must not
be set down as disloyal, and we would fain hope
that the pro.Fenlan party are but a small min-
ority in the town, But the monster meeting last
Sundae is at least sufilefently disennreging to
aneh a hope. Vast twelies of Minions and Venial'
svinpatbisees pile idea the city in the emirs° of
iin "Prf'd isv, slid the City Park was crowded.
's large preportion of these wove dratted in the
sYmholical green there were thirteen brigades
marching shout in military array, as many bands
of mesh+, filla morn gym twien as many banners.
The speeel ti on this and the following day were
just whet might hove been expected, and the at.
titude which the Lord -Lientenant assumed was
dignified as became his position. The question
which people now seem, for the most part, to be
asking themselves is whether the country is to
be overawed by and, demonstrations as these, by
the London Sunday gatherings, and the threat
of snore to come ; whether Ministers are to he
frightened into a course of which they do not
seriously approve? There may be found in
these pro-Fenian speeches, perhaps, sufficient
argument to lend Ministers to examine them in
connection with the evidence against some of
the convicted, and to see whether t he law officers
of the Crown should he requested to revise these
CflEieg ; lint this is the utmost amoent o; re-con-
sideration that these sueeehes iinggest to our
non-legal minds. But We have read nothing to
suggest the faintest propriety in granting the
immediate and unconditional release which the
pro-Fenian agitators ask for. We can see no
ground for it all, either in regard to individual
wrong or public policy. We believe that the
Fenian prisoners had a fair and honest trial,
that they were rightly convicted of very grave
offences, and that they are now only suffering the
legitimate penalty of their wrong-doing. If the
Government see fit in any ease to instinct the
law officers to revise any special case, well and
good ; lint the Ministry will show themselves
culpably weak if they entertain the thought of
immediate and unconditional release at the mere
bidding of a crowd of agitators. It would lint
be anether step to have monster demonstrations
in favour of the release of all convicts what-
ever.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02

CRADLEY HEATH.

&MOAN' SCFIOOL UNION TN.\ MEETING.—On Monday,
the 20th ultisno. a tea meeting was held at the New Con.
nexion Schoolroom, Five Ways. those present being the
Sunday School Teachers from the various Dissenting
Schools of the district. About 270 of them eat down to
an excellent tea after which addresses were delivered.
N. Ilingley, Esq , J.P., occupied the chair, and Ink*
addressed the meeting. Mr. Cl. Yardley, hon. see. to the
Union. then reed the Report, from which it appeased
that there were 11 schools in connection with the Union,
having 270 teachers and nearly 3,000 seholers. They
had, BB yet, been very successful, and judging from the
p-esent, a happy future was in store. 3. A. Cooper,
Esq., of Birmingham, who attended an a deputation, then
gave a invite] address which was full of sound jadgm. nt
and practical advice. lie ad,ertsid to the good kindred
societies and unions were accornpliAling in different
parts of the country, and gave an Interacting account of
the working of them in P.irmingliam. He urged ppm
the teachers the importance of feeling a deep interest in
their work, and of making due preparation for the
labours of each succeeding Babiistii. if possible, he
urged upon them to meat together, and so mutually aid
each other in preparing their lessons. He spoke in the
11;g'iost terms of the good attending the Union, and ex.
e sod Vie pleasure he felt in being amongst them.
A nerwards the Revs. Ci. Cosine and M. Morgan, Baptist
Ministers, and Messrs. J. Lewis and J. Southall, ad-
dressed the meeting. The audience were delighted with
the addresses. ant departed home, feeling they had spent
a very happy and enjoyable evening.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02

MYER! MAN RAS HIS MISSION!

A. the astronomers tell us that it is probable there are In
the universe Innumerable Bohr systems besides ours, to each
of which myriads of utterly unknown and unseen stars belong,
so it is certain that every man, however o' scare, however far
removed from the general recognith n, Is one of the group of
men imps, sailiM for good and impressible for s vil, and that
Is in the eat, real nature a things that he cannot
really improve himself without in some degree Im-
proving other men. And observe, this is especially the
ease when he has improved himself in the teeth of ad-
verse circumstance., tti in a maturity succeeding to a
neglected or an ill-taught youth, In the few daily hours
remaining to him after ten or twelve hours' labour, in
the few pauses and intervals of a life of toll ; for then
hts fellows awl companions have assurance that he can have
known no layout lug ct minions, and that they can do what
he has done, in wresting some enlightenment and self-respect
from what Lord Lytton dimly call. "those twin gaolers of the
daring heart, low birth and Iron fortune." As you have
proved these truths in your own experience or In your own
observation, and an it nay be safely smutted that there can
he very few persons In Birmingham, of all places under
heaven, who would contest the position that the more culti-
vated the emptoyed the better tor emplm er, and the more
cultivated the employer the better for the employed; there-
fore iny references to what yell do not want to know
.hall bore e.t.a mid determine.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02

rHE EARL OF CLARENDON ON THE

IRISH LAND QUESTION.

An agricultural meeting was held at Watford, on
Monday night, at which the Earl of Clarendon was
present, and made some important remarks on various
questions. On the subject of the Irish land tenure he
sold he would not undertake to tell them what the
Government would do, but he could tell them what
they would not do—they would not adopt the wild and
subversive techems of which they had heard so much
from the Irish agitators of late. Exceptional legislation
there might heto meet the wants, the wishes, and the
customs of the Irish tenantry, but the o.,ject of the
Government would be to do justice to all and injustice to
no one. On the question of foreign utfairs he said his
position made him acquainted with the councils of
foreign countries, and he had lately been abroad where
he had seen most of the eminent men that now guided
the councils of Europe. And on the strength of this, he
could assure the meeting that at no time since the close
I the German war was there a fairer prospect of
Europe continuing to enjoy the blessings of peace.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02

"THE WALLS OF DEAIW"

The Rev. Alfred Gay, Vicar of Whetstone, has sent
the following hitter to The Tim cc for publication :
Archdeacon lltterton, in his letter to you, giving in-
formation of the death of Mr. Henry Chester by a fall on the
Lick Annie Alp, states Mr. Chester's age to have been 69.
Will you allow me to state that he was only 55 years old
when he met with his untimely end?
On behalf of wide circle of his friends and fellow-parish-
ioners I venture to write and express the deep regret which
is entertained at his premature death. As a man of talent
and public spirit, and as a large-hearted Christian, hie
loss will be severely felt. Ile was w most liberal
supporter of every good work in Eolith London.
Raving been In charge of the parish of St. Mary, Newing-
ton, for the last seven years, I was well acquainted with
Mr. Chester, who was solicitor and vestry clerk to the parbh,
and I can t, stify to his great worth. I never asked his
aesistance in cases of either public or private charity without
meeting with a liberal response. Before leaving home for
his annual excursion hi Switzerland he made arrangements

for increasing his annual donations to the various charities
Ile was much respected by all the members of the vestry,
ad was reg trded as a stoat aisle and pulls:bus adviser.
Being possessed of considerable landed and personal pro-
perty he did not accept the full Income attached to the olitce
of vestry clerk.
I earnestly trust that the loss of two such valuable lives
as those of the Bev. Mr Elliott and Mr. Chester may induce
Alpine travellers to exercise the most rigid precautions to
ascending those walls of death.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

THE FENIAN PRISONERS.

A lIIIIPB meeting of twenty thousand persons
was held on Sunday at Dundalk in favour of
the release of the Fenian prisoner.. Mr. Philip
Callan, M.P., presided, And made an energetic speech.
Resolutions were passed demanding the unconditional
release of the prisoners. The tone of the meeting wee
respectful and conciliatory to the government. Toe
FI e, maxis Journal supports the movement in favour of
an amnesty for the Irish political prisoners, but con.
tends that, in order to its success, it will be necessary
to "dispense with the abusive, the recriminatory, and
the threatening." It suggests a "respectful and fins.
remonstrance, or memorial to the Premier," and feels
convinced that a becoming appeal to the head of the
Government 'would not be unproductive, and that to
the 'message of peace' which the minister has already
despatched to us he will add an act of grace which will
operate most powerfully in conciliating all ranks in
Ireland, and give to the Gladstone Administration a
charter to the title of a truly 'paternal Government."

ANOTHER MEETING IN LONDON,
On Monday night a public meeting, convened by the
International Democratic Association, was held on
Clerkenwell-green, London, "preliminary to a great
demonstration in Trafalgar-square on Monday evening
next, in eupport of the movement for the release of the
Fenian prisoners." Mr. Edginton took the chair at
eight o'clock, at which time there were about 500
persons present, which number was increased by about
300 more as the proceedings went on. The meeting
was addressed by several speakers, and the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted :-
1. 'That this meeting Is of opinion that all professions of
conciliation towards Ireland are shams while Irish patriots
are kept in British dungeon...
2. " That • demonstration be held in Trafalgar-square next
Monday evening at seven o'clock, to urge upon the Govern-
ment the necessity of liberating the political prisoners im-
mediately and unconditionally."
S. "That this meeting pleuges itself to support the Inter-
national Democratic Association to the utmost of Its ability
to carrying out the meeting on Monday next."
It wax announced during the proceedings that the
Working Men's League and the Holborn Branch of the
old Reform League would co-operate in the Trafalgar.
square meeting, and that that meeting would be fol-
lowed by another in Hyde-park.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

THE ELASTICITY OF YOUNG LADIES.

Is tight lacing injurious to health? Quite the re-
verse. That is to say, for women.
Man, we know—we anatomists and physiologists—is
fearfully and wonderfully made. Woman is made still
more wonderfully and more fearfully.
She is made more fearfully for her parents, at least,
and for her husband. Wninen, ml stly, are always
ailing ; that is owing to delicate constitution. This is
fearful for those who love them, and on whom it
entail, doctors bills. But female ailments are never
caused by tight-lacing, only by over-exertion and other
varieties of selfwacritice.
Wi,men are more wonderfully made than men. Lady
Mama says, comparatively of men and a-woman
That which hath made them truck bath made me hold;
Whet hath imenched them hath given me the."
That which is man's meat is woman'd poison, and
vice-co:A Tight lacing would make any man un-
comfortable. Women declare that it is nice. No
doubt, if an ordinary man were to wear stays which
drew in his waist to sixteen inches, his respiration
would be impeded. Perhaps it would wain cease.
M... 11 breathe partly by means of pectoral muscles,
which expand the ribs. 'right stays would prevent
their action. A 60:it-laced man, indeed, could only
breathe by his diaphragm, and that squeezed and
jammed together with the super and subjacent viscera.
A woman breathes independently of pectoral muscles,
diaphragm, and all those things.
Even if a man, laced like a young lady, could exist
for a short time, he would be never well. His ribs,
by the constriction of hie waist, would be forced into
his liver, and indent it with deep grooves. His stomach
and is dependencies would be displaced and coin-
pressed. The bile would he apt not to get into lii
duodtnum, and his solar plexus of nerves would be
squashed. He would be afflicted with indigestion: he
would grow peevish, fretful, melancholy, be always
moaning and sighing, and taking sal volatile, and would
pass much of his time in lounging on a sofa.
The plastic nature of women's organisation, in sub-
stance resembling caontchouc, enables her to lace al-
Most as tight as she pleased with impunity the deli-
cate health which many women enjoy, and whereiy
they afford so much enjoyment to their friends and re-
lations, arising from those other causes above-men-
tioned.
To lace quite as tight ae perhaps some women would
like, to be cute, ie not in their power. If you were to
take a woman, put a strap or a girdle round her neck,
and pull it in sever:d inches, you would seriously in-
convenience her, and we know, indeed, from the cave
ot Maria Manning and a few others, that a certain
constriction of the female this at is even fatal. What
is true of the jugular veins, the carotid arteries, the
larynx and trachea, is doubtless not altogether untrue
of the thoracic and abdominal vessels, nerves and
viscera. But lacing has evidently no consequences
. which prevent women from wearing stays as tight SA
I they think pretty—Pa)ic.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

NEWS DONE BRIEFLY.

American newspapers have their own peculiar method of
preientlne the news of the day to their readers. The follow-
ing amusing specimen of the st)le is tsken from the San
Franci,co News Letter, the proprietor and editor of which
is an Etiglishroan :
"FoneicN.—lmportant and decisive rumours from
Cuba.
Empress of France will take a three month's jaunt
through Turkey and Egypt. It in not known what
she will wear.
British Government won't receive American Fenian
Consuls. There's no use sending any more.
Another lot of treasure-seeking maniacs will go to '
Cocos Island.
The usual earthquake in Saab America. Tidal
wave accompaniunene.
Annexation talk among Nova Scotian& All talk.
Gladstone hoe gone to the seashore to recuperate.
Spanish Carlists to be shot when captured.
The heavy dews prevent military operations in Cuba.
Gen. Prim in Paris. He will offer the Crown of
Spain to King Louis of PortugaL A remote ancestor of
his once offered to give away all the kingdoms of the
world, but the offer was declined, on the ground, we
believe, that the generous donor did not own them.
"The diepute between the Sultan and the Viceroy
of Egypt excites no anxiety in Vienna." Nor in
Alai•ka.
Rebellion in ilnagnay is ended. The captured
rebels will be ended shortly.
Jeff. Davis is at Glasgow.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

FRENCH COPPERS.

A London shopkeeper sends the following letter for
publication :
Can you find space to call attention to the fast increasing
number .4 F..encli ten centime pieces that are circulating as
perc-, which ths y elioely resemble in Fite unit C In-
deed, to MlllllOll are they that many tradesmen, to save
trouble, take and pass theta, and urge tho.e who refuse them
to do the same. It treels little argument to show the danger
of this: the metal is not worth a farthing; It lathe Queen's
stamp that gives the value to it, and If foreign c iris become
current private mints will soon issue emme: token.. The
remedy teems to be an I.llolotitlaiVe statement, especially to
uneducated people, that they are not only not legal coin, but
not even "as good " as they often say, and also that some
way should he found for withdrawing those now in
thin. Let the French Consul or the !Matey anogers offer to
take them at eight or Dille for sixpenc,. at enough disc t
to pay the carriage back to France, and their people will see
thi ir real value and get rid of them without the loss of the
whole penny, or the dishonesty of passing them oil as what
they are not.

On the same subject, 'Messrs. Parkes, of Dean
Street, Soho, London, writes:—
- -

As a further representation of" A shopkeeper's" account
of the circulation of French 10 centime pieces in London. we
have just counted up LS worth of c .pprr, and picked from
it over 60 of this French coin. This is no common occurence ;
in fact it is greatly on the increase, as two or three years
built we might have tat-n 20 or 30 a week, but now we
average 80 or 90 a week. We have no difficulty at all in
renaming them, but supp see it is from the glutton of
our shop, in the heart of Soho, which one m.ght say
contains almost as many French inhabitants as English.
Ilence the facility of renaming them. Surely some measure
should be taken to prevent the further circulation of this
coin, for if our French inhabitants migrate some day, it
Iwould, perhaps. leave the neighbourhood with a large stock
of this coin difficult to lie got rid of.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

IMPORTANT NOTICE 1 I I

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LONG LOOKED roil, COME AT LAST.

Just Pubfaell.

S. Salts Lecture on the Evils of Intemperance
Unmasked, and a Peep hit° a Gin-shop ,:smong
the Drunkards.

Twenty Pages of Close Printed Letterpress
royal octavo size, Price Gd.
Alio an account of the late Disgraceful Outrage at
Crsdley. Price 6d.
To be bad at all Booksellers, and at S: SALT,
Town-crier and Bill-poster, Hagley Street,
Hulesowen.

STOrRIIHIDOE.

Ladies will find • select Stock of LACE In 4 FANCY
GOODS, suitable for EVellillg Wear, at
L. LASKEY'S,
89 , HIGH STREET.
(Near the Hagley•road),
STOUBBBIDOE•

fIARTES DE VISITE 6a. EACH, of the
Various CHURCHES in the Neighbourhood.
T" fIARTOONS OF RAFEAILLkJ
7 LABOR PICTDREB IN OIL, For tbs.,
Only Four Sets left.
—.—
ARCHER CLARKE,
HTOI,IIIIIDSII.

A Lige Stock of
PFIOTOGRAITIC ALBUMS,
FROM 6V. TO fl.

RICHARD HICRLING,
AUCTIONEER, VALUER, PINLIC ACCOUNTANT
HOUSE, ESTATE, AND GENERAL AGENT.

or VALUATIONS FOR ALL PURPOSES.

Clent, near Stourladdye Cradley Heath, and No.
1, Market Place, Blackheath, nillf ley Beyis.

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N.B.—Agent to the United Kingdom Temperance and
Provident Institute.

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PUBLIC NOTICE.

B. RAYBOULD
BEGS to announce to the Inhabitants of
kltourbridge and surrounding Neighbourli.md,
that be bas taken to the
VAUXHALL INN. 170`,.TER-STREET.
lately 0,111)1 e.I Mr .1 Ir. r• ; and trust. Ly
Ler Ai:idea of the ei L.: :t,btl, to nerit•dl,.re
z-upport.
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WORDEILEY.

Poneßergs—At the Petty Sessions, on Monday lad,
before F. Evers and H. Hall, Esqrs., • number of per.
inns were summoned for nompayment of poolwrates for
the hamlet of Amblecote, arid in most eases were ordered
to be paid in 14 days.
LANDLORD awn TENANT —Thomas Yardley was 1111111.
monad for unlawfully rooting up and carmine sway one
gooseberry tree, the property of Sarah Fellows. on the
27th ultimo. at Ambleeote. Mr. Perry defeaded.—Com•
plainant side' defendant had been a tenant of his, for
shout seven yews. The rent woe Be per week for the
house sod warden. Gaye him notice to quit in March.
Cromeeamined : It was one of Lord Dudley's cotteges.
Agreed to take the rent at 1`,..*4 per month. He paid very
Irregularly. The house got into a bad state, and I went
to the Estate °Mee to get it tepaieed. Did not tell him
s (defendant) that they would repair it for £lO. Defend•
ant gave me • notice to quit on the 11th of August. Ile
has given me some keys this morning. The house was
repaired in three mouths. Defendant kept the garden
cultivated whilst the house wee being rapaired. Do not
know that defendant is a merket gardener. By the
Broils lie went out on Good Fri 'ay, and ban not lived
there since, but bas taken the fruit trues out. Ha. not
paid nay rent since he left the house.—A witness wee
celled by complainant, who said the was teneet of the
house 10 question from the 26th u:t. She saw the de.
fendsnt there, who asked her what she wan going to give
him for the trees. Fle pulled some sprouts up. and a
gooseberry and currant tree, and said bin time was not
up until the following Monday. They were wing trees.
—Mr. Perry, in defence, said his client bad not been
given any legal notice to quit, and contended that de-
fendant had a right to take the trees, no they w .re his
own property ; end called John Woodhall, who Reid that
he lived at Amblecete, end knew the house the defendant
lived in under complainant. Have bought trees of the
defendant, end know that he has been in the habit of
selling fruit trees.—The Bench considered that defend-
ant thonght he was doing right in taking the fruit trees.
and diemissed the cone; but said that complainant could
hove his remedy in respect to the rent in the County
Court.
Desedotwo a CHU-D.—Sarah Ann Harris was charged
with deserting her child, and ellowing it to bee° no
chargeable to the Union. William Keightley, Superin-
tendent of Labour at the Union, said the defendent went
into the Union on the 23.1 nit, and went out on the 27th
ult. keying her child thi re. She weut back on the' lid
lust. On promising not to 6iftll4l again, defendant was
dismiseed.
A REFRACTORY PAUPNR.—JaSie4 Oarbett, a tramp, was
ehaged with deetroying the elothee belonging to the
Union. on the 10th inst. Williem Keightley proved the
lease, and defendant, who pleaded guilty, was committed
for one month's hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE EXHIBITION

AT IVOLVERH.4MPTON.

THE FINEST PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION YET

MILD IN ENGLAND.

REVISED RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS

Alms In September.

EVERY MONDAY sod SATURDAY, Visitors ems
Book from any Station, ape by Tbird-cleas Trains. apt*
Your o'clock. at very low return boos, which ladle& sia.
mission to the Stbilitioa.
• DRAPE SHOW will be bail In the Dooms& eit
FRIDAY, FATUSDAY, and WunDAY,I3I6/TILMBRI fib, 25tkts
and 27th,
woIicESTERSHIRE BAND is EogagoL
Admission as usual.
Y. TALBOT, Secretary.

STOURBRIDOE IMPROVEMENT ACT,
1686.

CHANNELLING & LEVELLING CECIL-STREET.

rrifflo. StourbrichT,o - Improvement Commis.
L. alone,. having ordered the above Streetto be kohl
from Obvtruetion, Channelled,and Levelled aimordin
the Alth section of Special Ist, Perilous WILLING TO
DO IRE WORK may vend in TENDERS forth. Malay
add dto the nedereicued, on or before Timmer, thaw
6th of 06 tome INSTAvy.
Pertieulare of the Work required may be Manua at
nay Unice.
JOHN TAYLOR.
Clerk to the Commiacionere,
Se, fligh.itraet, Stoarbridga.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

G LEN FIELD
,STARCH.

Is the only kind tired in
Her Majet)'a Laundry.
THOSE LADIES rbo Lave rot yet used the 01.S.NeiALD
STAltert, are ec,.p• dolly solicited to rive it a trDil.
ord
carstsliy t 011.% out the directions pirted vi. t very
HOMER. News Atient, Crndley Heath,
package. It is rather more tiitlicult to make than °Orli hers to Worm the Public that he is able
Starches, but ‘ll,ti this is over, it. tiny will say It DI thew with the LONDON DAILY Nh.WS
1 the Queen's Leuudreis, that it is the finest Minch they l'ArEltS.
ever used. Sr ORDER AT ONCE.

PUBLIC NOTICE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

FRENCH STUPIDITY!

An almost incredible example of the state of semi-
idiocy into which ignorance and distrust of law may
plunge people is reported from Paris. The other night
a gentleman hying in the Faubourg-Poissonniere com-
mitted suicide by stabbing himself with a dagger. His
wife, heating him fall, jumped out of bed, and on dis-
covering what had happened called aloud for help. A
servant appeared, but when he saw the dagger planted
in the body he refused to remove it or try to stanch
the blood ; he fled terror-stricken and aroused the con-
cierge. The lattar took fright too, and declared that
the body must not be touched until the arrival of the
police ; otherwise they would all be accused of murder
together. 'The unfortunate wife meanwhile had
fainted. After a time two sergente-de-ville arrived,
and, it is here that the epittotle becomes tragically
grotesque. The two functionaries, without stooping
ti see whether there W.lB any remnant of life in the
aensehiss body, declared that not a finger must be laid
upon it, hut that it, must remain exactly where it lay,
aaith the dagger in it, until the commisaaire arrived.
At length this representative of authority made his
appearance, juet one hour and a half after the catas-
trophe; so that even had the unhappy man '
been still alive when his wife first called for
help, which in not at all improbable, he had
had time to die fifty times over in the interval.
This occurrence calls to mind the conduct of that
French apprentice who, finding his master suspended
by the neck and struggling violently, rushed off to
fetch a policeman, but left his master hanging. When
asked why be hail not cut down the body, he answered,
weeping that if his master had died after being cut
thweit he—the apprentice—would have had to prove
that he had net killed hits. This is a very general
belief among Frenchmen, and supplies a significant
commentary on judicial institutions on the other side
of the ChanneL
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.

An inquest has been held at the North Staffordshire
Infirmary, Hanley, on the body of Alfred Boughey,
man fifty years of age, upon whom, on Saturday an
attempt was made to perform an important operation.
The medical gentlemen present were Dr. Ross, house
physician to the institution, and Mr. Folker, of Han-
ley, Mr. Alcock, of Buralent, and Dr. Walsh, of New.
castle, members of the honorary staff. Dr. Ross ad-
ministered from fifteen to twenty drops of chloroform
on a piece of lint, and the patient had inhaled the all lieg•
thetic three or four minutes, whilst Dr. Wahl held his
pulee. At the end of that time the pulse suddenly stop-
-I.d, and the man ceased to live. Ammonia, galvanism,
, and other means were resorted to for an hour, with a view
to restore animation, but all to no purpose. The deceased
had been previoully examined in the ward, and, in the
opinion of the medical men present, was a tit subject for
the administration of chloroform; but a post-mortem
examination disclosed the presence of pus or matter on
the enrf me of the brain, and also a slight enlargement
of the heart, with thinness of the walls and fatty
degeneracy, all tending to reduce the nervous power
of the system, and predispose to death on the
lation of chloroform.
Dr. Ross and Mr. Folker were examined at the
inquest, and deposed that every possible precaution
was taken to prevent accidents.
The coroner (Mr. Booth) said this was only the
second case of the kind which had occurred at that in-
firmary since the introduction of chlor, dorm.
The Jury at once returned a verdict in accordance
with the evidence, and entirely exo,eratel the medical
I men from blame. The number of operations per-
formed every year at the infirmary is about UM.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

HOPS.

Picking Is gradually becoming more general. The late
spell et tine weather flu Improved the tipp saraice of the
grounds, but the hops will doubtless suffer from t h.s prevail-
jug high winds. A moderate quantity or new produce his
been tirwarded to market, hut the demand im% 11,t,, lenvy,
I,nt from a be, to £5 per cwt. For old sorts lb .re has been
very little inquiiy, and prices are nomiti il. The import
into Loudon last week consisted of 40 baits from Antwerp,
28 from Ilamburgh, 34 from B.otterdam, 4 from $ 'and
SW bales from New Yolk.
TALLOW.
The market Is steady Y.C. on the spot, Os. 31,,
Town tallow, 445. thl. uett cash.

Uhent,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

LAST EXCURSION OF THE SEASON TO
11.40 LEY, WORCESTAR, AND IfALVERX.

I-IN MONDAY, September 20th, the LAST
1.5 EXCURSION of the SEASON for BAGLEY.
WOBCKISTER, and MALY k.:IIN, will leave Birmingham'
(Snow Hill) at 9 40 a.m., Suietbwirk Junction 9 60, Old.
bury 9.56. Rowley 102. Creaky 10.10. Stourbridge 10.20.
Hanley 10.26, and Kidderminster 10.40 a.m. ; returning
the same Evening.
For Fares mid full particulars see Band Bills.
J. 0111ERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, Sept. 15, 1869.

FIRE ENGINE.
PHCENIX FIRE OFFICE.

Affß. GEORGE PERaY, SOLICITOR,
1 Agent for Stourbridge, begs to inform the public
that the PHCENIX FIRE OFFICE keeps a powerful
FINE ENGINE at STOUSIBRID6E.
For the keys apply at the Tslhot Hotel, or to Mr.
Jones, Blacksmith, Enville-street.
Information as to the terms of Insurance can
b. boA
on Application to the Agent, at No. Ili, High-stmt.
Stourbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.
To-day the tone of the market has been quiet,
but steady. The trade is reported very little al-
tered upon its condition last week. The balance
of change, however, is in favour of improvement
in the quantity of iron in demand, but not in re-
spect of prices obtained. This remark applies
equally to the finished and to the pig-iron de-
partments of the trade. Here and there memo-
rials for a rise of wages have been presented;
but the masters generally attach only little im-
portance to the movement which has been be-
gun.

The reports as to the state of the Iron Trade
of this District are, all things considered, qnite
, could he expected ; there is a partial
lul, iu the inquiries on foreign account, and for
some reason or other the shipping firms do not
seem disposed to give out fresh orders at pre-
sent, and home consumers buy only sparingly;
still there is, in the ordinary way, such a large
quantity of iron used that there is a continuous
demand, tleoigli It may be moderate, that the
Works aro Lopt going now much as they have
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

READY MONEY AT SHORT NOTICE.

RESPECT A BLE PERSONS in all position*
can have BEADY MONEY atones from a strictly
private and most reliable channel, in a perfectly honour-
able manner, in sums from 50 to £750, at 6 per cent.
per annum; from one to seven years. on their own note
of hand alone, without the usual heavy loan °Mee fees.
(no unfair profit beans( sought). By a long tried and
roost effective system needless delays are avoided,
Bondsmen, Bill of *ale. or References not wanted, lad
strictest conidenee °decreed. All applicstions nowt
stele real and fall name, address, position, soca wanted.
how long for, bow returnsble. Any persons requiring
Immediate Monetary Aid, no matter for what purpose.
may apply with certainty of prompt notice and have the
advance within four days of opyroral.—Addrelis Mr. A.
W. Hunter, 9, Wellington-square, Loudon, W.C. Enclose
stump.

STAFFORDSHIRE
W
REOISTRATION.

VOTERS on the REGISTER of the WEST DI VI.
SION of the COUNTY of STAFFORD, end CLAIII•
ANTS to VOTE who receive, either trout the Ovcreeera
or others, NOTICES of OBJECTION, ere requeeted to
rOwtouoieete with

Mr. EDWARD FERNIE,
Stafford.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

BROOM.

HARVEST HOSIE.—The Broom " Harvest Home' MS9
held on the 14th inst. There .51 aervice at the church
at ohe o'clock, after which the men all marched to the
Rectory and partook of dinner under it ,pacioua tent
erected in the Rectory Park. After dinner each mar,
wilt supplied with a pipe and half in ounce of tobacco.
Later in the afternoon the women and children were re-
galed with tea, plain cake, A:c. There were plenty of
amusements in the ehape of football. Aunt sally, &c.;
and a good deal of merriment was created by the racing
for prizes. Every no appeared to thotough'iy enjoy
, themselves, the only drawback being that there was no
! mule to enliven the proimediogs, but we have no doubt
this will be remedied another )ear. AniougAt those pry.
cent we noticed the Rev. J. G. Bourne, -- Leveia, E,q r
and party, James Morton, Earl., and party, W. Hickman,
11:6(lo and priY. IL !Innis, Esq. mud party, It. Lucas,
Esg,, and Miss Dudley, The affair Wits brooght to a
conelasion by the iisnal aporehes, and the otagiq ut the
Natioual Anthem.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

Friday evening raw Lady Palmerston reduced to a
very low state of weakness, and on the following
morning she breathed her lag.
Lady niluaerston waa the daughter of the first Vis-
count Melbourne. She was horn in 1787, and becarce
heir to her brother, the hot Viscount Melbourne, in
1813. She was married twice : her first marriage war
with the fifth Earl Cowper. Her marriage with the
late Lord Palmerston took place in 1839, just thirty
yearn ago. Lady Palmerstou'r death placer the Cowper,
the lb Ara, the Shafterbury, the Donegal, and other
families in mourning.

In noticing her death, the Daily News remarks
The death of Lady Palmerston removes from English
society, and we msy say from English politics, one who
played to her time a leading part in both. She bad no in.
considerable share in the popularity and influence of her dis-
tinguirhed husband. Lady Palmerston was not, it is true, a
female diplomatist like the Printers Pori, di Borgo; still less
was she a Madame Recamier or. Madame Buddhist. No one
mild ever speak of Cambridge House in the terms in which
Lord Macauley has immortalised Holland House. The Mt. of
science, of art, of letters, and of statesmanship were not to
be found there. Lady Palmerston was, however, an adept in
the social side of politics; and was in the truest sense her
husband'. helpmate. In a perfectly virtuous state of
society, a card for dinner, a civil speech and • smile, would
be without political influence. But we have not yet attained
, to this blissful condition : and a grumbling manufacturer,
or a slighted country squire, whom the most elaborate
explanation of Sir Wiliiam Harter or Mr. Brand would
fail to appease, was often won over by the
feminine grace and tact of the Prime Minister's
wife. Lady Palmerston did not forget the names of people
whom it was important to conciliate, slight their wives, or
ignore their daughters. She made the harmless arts of
social management subserre political ends; and did so less
by wile than by the tact of a graceful and kindly nature.
Her death will excite regret in a circle far wider than that
the member, of which It immadiately licreaves. It will not
Lu coblinet to her own clam. The poor, whose almoner she
was, will have reason to deplore it. The recipients other
I.cm:role.° alone knew its extent, for her benevolence
shrank from the light.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

A SINGULAR SUICIDE.

An inquest has been held at the Middlesex Hospital
by Dr. Link,eter, on the holy of Anne Weston. aged
thiay•six, whiew death resulted from wounds inflicted
by herself upon her throat.
A cousin of the deceased, named John Southg de, de-
posed that she was living so la ly's-maid at Epsom,
anti had written to Min asking him to come on Sunday
and gee her, and to take her away from her place.
The letter was not received till Mond3y, and on going
down to see her on Tuesday he found that in the mean-
time she had attempted to commit suicide. Ile had
seen her since she bail been in the hospital, and on one
occasion she wrote upon a slate the following :
I have had presentunents for a long time that all our
family were corning to something ltad, and some heavy
trial was awaiting us I have been either very low, son not
able to work or think of anything, and at other times my
brain has been sonxeited that I lines sail anything that came
into my head, whether true or false. I fear 6.1 has given
me over to Satan, arid he has tempted me to do this rash set,
which lam now very grieved alt, at I hope the Lord will
pardon me, awl enable me to suffer anything on earth rather
than let me die in my sin, and, although I cermet yet pray, I
know Ile will do what is best in Ills sight.
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The uncle of deceased, witness said, had committed
suicide, and she had sometimes been strange in her
manner. She complained also to him that her letters
were stopped, but this, he thought, was a delusion on
her part. Lydia Wright a c iok in the same house, de-
posed to the change that had come over deceased, who,
she thought, was out of her senses at times. Mrs.
Smith, the mistress, sent for two doctors immediately,
and all that was pi ssible was done. No letters of de-
ceased, who was very religious, hal ever been stopped.
She W4S brought to the hospital under the advice of a
medical gentleman connected with the iustitutisu. The
evidence of the Louse surgeon and of the ward nurses
having teen taken, the jury, after a short deliberation.
returned a verdict of "temporary insanity."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISII AND FOREIGN.

From a return presented to the New Zealand Par- I
liament It appears that during the year ending June, 1869, ,
160 rebels were killed.
Another murder in Tipperary is reported, which,
though not strictly of an - agrarian" nature, betokens a .
degree of lawlessness happily not very widespread. An old
man named Magrath was cruelly beaten to death on Sunday
evening, in consequence of some dU ute about a right of
way.
The Birmingham Post of Wednesday, says that the
natters' strike, atter lasting twelve weeks and enforcing
about 20:00 people to idleness during tnat time, is now
happily concluded. On Monday the strike was virtually at
an end, but there was some little difficulty respecting the
" spike " branch of the trade, which required adjuetment,
but by the kind offices of Mr. Ball and Mr. Homes this has
been settled, and op the time this appears the majority of
the nailers will have taken out iron upon the terms of the
1864 list.
If a general war were to break out immediately in
Europe, the Ease= armies would almost certainly be
defeated in every battle, unless led by some great military
genius. The one necessity for modern war, the breech-
loading rifle, is only to be found lathe hands of • very small
number of the infantry.
At Milford, New Hampshire on the let inst.. Mr.
Moses Ordway, in leaping from a window of the new freight
depot, t• n feet from the ground, wee, caught by the throat on
a book at the end of a suspended chain, which penetrated
• to the root of his tongue. He saved his life by grasping the
' chain with his hands, but was obliged to remain in that
t singular but painted position until released. Ike inlurivi re-
, eetrog wen *olio&
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

THE NAILERS' STRIKE.
TERMINATION OF THE DISPUTE IN
THE HORSE-NAIL TRADE.

On Monday afternoon a meeting of horse-nail
niuker was held at the Rose and Crown, Redd..l
Hill, for the purpose of lippointing delegates to
wait upon Mr. LOWI9, of Withymoor, to men
tam n wiletbe/ , !,a it bad been reported, he was
willing to vi,• t':e game advance as the rest of
the tiadc, and Alai for the transaction of other