The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-11-28 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

An influential meeting at Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge, decided to raise a memorial to the late Dr.
Woodford, Bishop of Ely, to take the form of a monu-
ment, to be placed in Ely Cathedral, at an estimated
cost of £1.500.

The •Valentia, a transport which has been engaged
owing to none of the troopships being available, sailed
from Dartmouth on Saturday with drafts of the Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders and the Northamptonshire
Regiment for Hong Kong, numbering nine officers, 650
men, nine women, and 29 children. _ _

—Whilst a boy named Bremen aged fifteen, employed
on a farm a few miles from Salisbury was engaged in
cutting a portion of a rick the rick suddenly overturned
and buried him. The body was extricated, and a
doctor sent for, but life was extinct.
Intelligence reached Skibbereen on Saturday after-
noon that the steamship Iberian, of Messrs. Leyland's
line, had run ashore in Dunmanus Bay. She was bound
from Boston, with a general cargo, and is a sister. ship
of the Illyrian and Bohemian, both of which were
wrecked on the same coast. All hands were saved.

The retunis of fever and smallpox patients in London
presented to the Metropolitan Asylums Board last
week showed that during the fortni, ht 58 fever patients
had been admitted, 4 had died, 57 had been discharged,
and 346 remained under treatm(f t. The figures show
an increase of 7. The smallpox itturns showed that 29
patients had been admitted, 2 had died, 44 had been
discharged, and 81 patients remaining under treatment
—a decrease of 17.

On Saturday the 45th anniversary of the birth of the
Crown Princess of Germany, eldest daughter of her
Majesty the Queen, and Princess Royal of Great Britain
and Ireland, was celebrated at Windsor with the usual
rejoicings. The bells of St. George's Chapel and parish
church pealed joyfully at intervals.
Vice-Chancellor Bacon on Saturday dismissed with
costs an application by Mr. Philip Callan' formerly
MP. for Louth, to have his name removed from the
share list in respect of 100 £lO shares of Whitley
Partners, iron manufacturers; near Leeds.
On Saturday morning the steamers Roman and
Guillermo were in collision off New Brighton during
thick weather. The Guillermo sank, but all on board
were saved. The Guillermo was a Spanish steamer of
2044 tons gross register, and was inward bound, with a
valuable cargo from Havannah.
At the Tallow Petty Sessions, Michael O'Reilly, of
Duragh, has been returned for trial at the Winter
Assizes for having taken forcible possession of a farm
from which he was evicted by Sir Clement NV.lFeley.
The defendant, who seemed indifferent, said he would
take the consequence of his act.
As illustrating the present depressed state of trade,
the Liverpool Clerks' Association, established nearly a
quarter of a century, never had so great a demand
upon its funds as at present.
Mr. Parnell, speaking at Liverpool on Sunday, said
he endorsed every word of the manifesto issued on
Saturday. He referred to the coercive legislation of
which Mr. Gladstone's Government were the authors,
by which neither life nor liberty was safe. He
contended that at the very moment that the late
Ministry was overthrown they were plotting to renew
the worst features of the Crimes Act.

Mr. Munroe, Q.C., Irish Solictor-General, has
accepted an Irish judgeship. Mr. Gibson, Q.C.,
candidate for the 'Walton Division of Liverpool, Las
been appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland.
Lord Salisbury presided at the house dinner of the
St. Stephen's Club on Monday evening. Ha re-
pudiated the interpretation which Mr. Gladstone had
put upon an article of his written a year ago, and said
he looked with triumphant hope to the events of the
next ten days. But his friends must not, on that
account, slacken their exertions. Every art had been
employed to draw away the attention of the electors
from the blunders and misdeeds of the late Government.
In the topics which the Liberal lea3ers had selected
wherewith to beguile the voters, it was inaccurate to
say that the Statute of George 111. about allotments
contained a single word about compulsory purchase.
Mr. Chamberlain had made a mistake in introducing
Disestablishment as an object of the future, and his
colleagues had since been busily occupied in whitling
away his theories. Mr. Gladstone had gone to Scotland
to secure the unity of the Liberal party; but as they
were not agreed upon a set of opinieins, they were not
a party, and an exhortation to unity was an exhorta-
tion to hypocrisy. The convictions of the Conserva-
tives being genuine, they were therefore united.
Mr. Joseph Beaumont, a well-known Chancery
barrister' died suddenly en Sunday night. The
deceased gentleman was called to the bar in 1552, and
was Chief Justice of British Guiana from 1863 to 1868.
when he returned to practice at the Chancery bar.

F. The health of King Alff,„so has been in an
unsatisfactory condition since the middle of September.
Though no immediate danger is apprehended, Spanish
generals and statesmen begin to feel uneasy. A wide-
spread revival of Carlism has been going on for some
months past in Spain.
The editor of the " Politiken," who is a member of
the Folkething, was on Tuesday sentenced to six
months' imprisonment for publishing insulting remarks
concerning the King of Denmark.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29 34 in.; the
highest reading was 30.22 in. at the beginning of the
week, and the lowest 2'D-38 in. on Saturday afternoon.
The mean temperature of air was 38 1, and 3.4 below
the average in the corresponding week of the 20 years
ending 1868. The mean showed a slight excess on
Friday, but was below the average on each of the
other days of the week. Rain fell on two days of the
week, to the Tva•pcga, e muumuu of OOZ of eau wen.
The duration of registered bright sunshine in the week
was 232 hours, against 21-8 hours at Glynde Place,
Levzets.
The Rev. John David Edwards, 151. A., vicar of
Rhosymedre, Ruabon, died suddenly on Tuesday at
Llanddoget Rectory, Denbighshire, in his 80th year.
He was a well-known composer of music.
rA telegram from Queenstown states that the British
ship Cambrian, bound from Liverpool for Coquimbo,
put into that port on Tuesday in charge of the chief
officer, the captain (Tyres) having been washed over-
board and drowned on the 14th Inst., in lat. 48.40, long.
11.30. A violent gale prevailed at the time, and heavy
seas swept the deck of everything moveable. Two sea-
men were dashed against the bulwarks and injured. No
effort could be made to save Captain Tyrer.
Two men, named Louis Keenan and Francis Branni-
gan, who were sentenced at the Castleblayney Petty
Sessions on Tuesday to a month's imprisonment with
hard labour for an aggravated assault, were allowed out
of court in charge of a police officer and suddenly made
their escape.
At daybreak on Tuesday morning County-inspector
Stephens and 200 police constables proceeded to
Faugheen, county Tipperary, and arrested nine men,
the leaders of a riotous mob of peasantry, who stoned
the police and murderously assaulted a bailiff named
MacCaffrey, who was endeavouring to serve writs for
non-payment of rent on the 18th inst. The arrests
weie effected spicily, the constabulary's visit being
unexpected.

The Allan Line steamer Buenos Ayrean, which
arrived at Greenock on Tuesday from Montreal with
pasEengers and a general cargo, has been put into
quarantine owing to small-pox having broken out on
board. The local authorities are taking the accessary
steps to prev2nt the spread of the disease.
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On Tuesday night -a
fatal fire occurred at 41, War-
wick.-street, Bo:ough-road, on the premises tenanted
by Mr. Charles Revell. Some goods in the back room
on the first floor caught fire, and the aunt of the
occupier, who was in the room asleep, was suffocated
before she could be aroused.

The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1885, when there was a balance of £4.993.207, to
Nov. 21, 1885, were £49,623,146, against 1-50;_67,482 in
the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £5.632,569. The
net expenditure was £56,930,376, against £51,866,919
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balance i on Nov. 21 amounted to £2,205,019, and at the
same date in 1884 to £4,365,810.
Mc. Gladstone, speaking at Edinburgh on Tuesday,
observed that the Tories had raised the cry of the
Church in danger in order to lead the mind of the con-
stituencies away from the practical legislation which
the Liberals intended, in the direction of the abolition
of entail, the shifting of the burden of taxation from
labour to property, the imposition of probate duty
'upon landed estates, and other matters which were the
horror of the Tories. Lord Salisbury had this week
changed his tone as to the result of the election. It
was now one of exulting hone, and the reason was that
Mr. Parnell had issued his command to the Irish
voters to support the Tory _ candidates. _ . _
_

During I; sale by aiietion at Leeds some thief
managed to abstract a case of diamonds, worth seven
or eight hundred pounds, and made off with it.
Vice-Chancellor Bacon on Tuesday granted an
injunction restraining Mr. Meehan from publishing the
late Lord Lytton's letters, the present Lord Lytton
having heard that he had been offering the book for
sale to a Leipsic firm.
Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South
'Wales, has received a telegram from Sir Patrick
Jennings, Colonial Secretary, stating that the rumour
of the massacre of the exploring party sent to New
Guinea by the New South Wales Geographical Society
is unfounded.

It is stated in the report of the Regitran-General
that 2682 births and 1557 deaths were registered in
London last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births were 91 and the deaths 175 below the average
numbers in the corresponding weeks of tle last ten
years. The annual death-rate per 1000 from all
causes, which had been 17-518 9, and 19 (sin the two pre-
ceding weeks, further rose last week to 19 9. During
the first seven weeks of the current quarter the
death•rate averaged 18.3, and was 2.1 below the mean
rate in the corresponding periods of the nine years
1876-84. The 1557 deaths included 1 from small-pox,
h 4 from measles, 11 from scarlet fever, 20 from
diphtheria, 42 from whooping-cough, 24 from entnric
fever, 3 from ill‘defined forms of continued fever, 13
from diarrhcea and dysentery, 1 from cholera, and not
one from typhus; thus, 159 deaths were referred to
these diseases, being 83 below the corrected average
weekly number.

Baron St. Oswald, the proprietor of the ironstone
mines at Frodingham, in reply to an address from his
workmen congratulating him on being promoted to the
peerage, said his opinion was that no Parliament would
ever impose a duty on manufactured goods from abroad
unless there was a strong feeling in favour of it among
the working-classes; but he believed the time Would
come when there would be as large an outcry in favour
of it as there had been against. ;
The Prefect of the Ardeche (France) has deprived 70
priests in his department of a quarter's salary for alleged
corruption in the late elections.

The steamship City of Manchester, from Calcutta for
London, with sugar, cotton, and tea, has sunk near
Ushant. The crew and passengers were saved.
At the Old Bailey, on Tuesday, the Recorder sen-
tenced a man named Lane to 15 months' hard labour,
and another man named Reef to nine months, for high-
way robbery with violence in High-street, Bloomsbury.
He also ordered the constable in the case a reward of
0 for the courage he had displayed.
The Havre Town Council has toted the sum of
1000 fr. to M. Pasteur, as a mask of gratitude for his
services, and as a contribution towarla the expellees of
his pLilanthropic investigations.

The Prince and Princess of Wa vrith the Princes
George and Edward and party, left Ashford on Saturday
for London, having been staying during the week with
the Duke of Edinburgh at Eastwell-park, where they
had enjoyed some excellent sport amongst the phea-
sants with which the Duke's preserves abound. The
Royal party, which mustered about a dozen guns, were
out every day, and an enormous number of birds were
brought down during the week, no less than SOO phea-
sants, besides about 600 rabbits being bagged in one
day. On Friday the Prince of Wales shot a fine- red
deer, weighing upwards of 25 stone which happened to
run across one of the drives where the party were
pheasant shooting. The young Princes have become
excellent shots. The Prince of Wales and his two sons,
George and Edward, all happened to be together in one
hot corner, where they brought down between them no
less than 127 pheasant\ Prince George killing 54,
Prince Edward 48, and tho Prince of Wales 25.
On Sunday the new Eiglish church in Berlin was
consecrated by Bishop Titcomb, in the presence of the
German Crown Prince, the Crown Pzincess, and the
members of their family.
According to a Renter's despetch from Sarakhs,
Colonel Gedeanoff has been appointed to ifssist Colonel
Kuhlberg on the Russian Afghan Boundary Com-
mission.

Mr. Gladstone, speaking at Dalkeith on Saturday,
said that the prospects of Liberalism were cheering, as
the Tories only hoped to gain a majority by aid of the
Irish party. The coming Parliament would be called
on to deal with the comprehensive question alma"
government, which meant reform of the liquor law;
an adjustment of taxation more equitable on the side
of labour as against property; and a reform of the land
laws, including the crofter system. With regard to
land, there must be a readjustmert as between pwngrs
and cultivators. There must be free transfer of land,
and facility of registration. Reform of the law of
mortmain was also required. The system of mortmain
should be altogether uprooted. The coming Parlia-
ment had plenty of work beneficial for the whole
nation before it, and that work could only be doiae by
a strong party. For that reason alone he asked the
country to return a strong Liberal majority.
Lord Hartiegton addressed a meeting at Baxenain
on Saturday, remarking that the inconsisteneies and
contradictions of the Conservatives showed the
helplessness of their position. A member of the pre-
sent Cabinet had referred to the disunion in the
Liberal party on foreign affairs. He did not deny that
there were differences of opinion as to the best course
to take; but would there not have been differences
among the Conservatives had they been in 'power?
Diverse opinions existed among the Conservatives.on
the Egyptian question.
The Queen, upon the recommendation of the Seere•
tary for Scotland, has appointed lkfaiOr Mcifirdy,
to be a Prison Commissioner for Scotland, in the niece
of Captain Powell. deceased.

Archbishop Walsh has issued an _election manifesto
at Dublin in furtherance of the cause of some of the
popular candidates in Ireland, and as a guide to the
conduct of the priests. He issues a warning against
voting for the so-called "Loyalist" candidates as in
effect assisting in the return of that Tory party who
have always hindered Poor-law reform, and helping to
perpetuate the proselytising results of the present
system.

-A
young herdsman named Tobin, engag,ed on the
Galtee Estate of Mr. Nathaniel Buckley, hts been
murdered near Mitchelstown, the body being found
buried beneath a heap of stones. Some evictions have
recently taken place on the property, and Tobin some
time since gave evidence in a lawsuit on behalf of the
landlord.

The action brought by Mrs. Weldon to recover
damages from Sir Henry de Bathe for trebpass and
slander was brought to a close at the Queen's Bench
Division on Monday, before the Lord Chief Justice and
a special jury. The defendant pleaded that he had acted
with the best intentions, and consequently the expies-
sions and proceedings complained of were privileged.
After half an hour's consultation the jury found for
the plaintiff, and awarded her £lOOO damages. His
lordship gave judgment for the amount with costs.
The two men Williams and Hill, who were found
guilty of the ilful murder of a woman named Dickson
at Weobley, were executed at Hereford gaol on Mon-
day morning. Berry was the executioner, and death
appeared to be instantaneous.

-At Carlisle on Monday the three men Rudge,Martin,
and Baker were committed for triar for the burgiirj, at
Netherby Hall, the subsequent assaults on the police,
and the murder of Police Byrnes at Plumpton. 4
Alexander Coombes, a porter, was chttrged at, the
Mansion House, London, on Monday, with being
concerned in a robbery of jewellery from the shop of
Messrs. George Jones and Sons, 62, St. Paul's-
churchyard, of the value of £lOOO. The prisoner, whose
duty it was to sleep in the shop, told the police that he
knew nothing of the robbery. He wassremanded for a
week.

On Saturday afternoon as Captain Tylden,. after
following the North Stafford hotinds; was nearing his
residence, Coldwell House, near Stone, ha was thrown
from his horse and kicked in the face by the animal,
fracturing his jaw and otherwise seriously injuring him.
A Reuter's telegram, dated Melbourne, Nrov. 22,
states that the-Melbourne Clab•will in .all probability
not send an eleven to England text
.season, in
consequence of Pr, opinion having been lately ex-
pressed deprecating the inclusion of five members of
the last Australian team. The final decision, however,
has been postponed until Dec. 12.

Between otie and two o'clock on Monday morning a
fire broke out in a house in St. George's-street,
Cheltenham, in which were a woman and three
children. The woman succeeded in attracting attention,
but before the firemen could reach the spot the three
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woman's husband, an undertaker named Wintle, was
absent at the time.

j It was reported to the sitting magistrate at the
Worship-street Police-court, London, by Police-con-
stable 134, N division, that a woman, named Elizabeth
Ebenett, whom he had taken into custody for alleged
drunkenness in the streets on" Saturday morning, had
since died in the Hackney Infirmary. The woman, when
taken to the station, was seen to be suffering evidently
from the effects of exposure and want of food-; and
Inspector Weston ordered her, removal to the infirmary,
upon the recommendation of the police-surgeon. She
died in that institution that (Monday) morning.
Mr. Martin, editor of a Danish provincial newspaper,
has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment and
payment of the costs of the trial, for publishing an
article calling upon the people to take up arms in
order to secure the triumph of their political views.
On Monday the annual visitations of Irish National-
ists were made, in several places in Ireland and Eng-
land, to the cenotaphs of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien,
the Fenians who were hanged at Manchester for the
murder of Sergeant Brett.
In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of
Justice on Monday, Mr. Edgar Banting, an articled
clerk in a solicitor's office, brought an action aainst.
the London Road gar Company for percsonal 'lnjuries
sustained by him through the negligent driving bf one
of the defendants' servants. A verdict was given in
favour of the plaintiff, who was awarded. £75 damages.
At the Board of Trade inquiry at North Sitields,
respecting the damage sustained by the serew steamer
Ida, of Newcastle, by striking on a rock or wreck, off
Libau, the Court suspended the certificate of Captain
Steel for six months. They considered the stranaing
'was due to the captain not having navigated-- the
steamer with proper and seamanlike care. •
Amster Malbis parish church, a fine specimen of the
fourteenth century architecture,' has been re-Opehed,
after extensive restoration. The Lord of -the -Manor
(Lord Wenlock) has been one of the. chief- subsoribers
to the fund.

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The Re—v—. George W. H. Knight-Bruce, of Merton
College, Oxford, who has been in thargeni the district
of St. Andrew's, Bethnal-green, since 1883, has accepted
the Missionary Bishopric of Bloemfontein, Orange
Free State, which has for some time been vacant
owing to the transfer of Dr. Webb to'the Bishopric of
grahamstown.
The Marquis of Ripon has given one hundred
pounds to the Building Fund of the Yornnsfitute, the
foundation stone of Which was laid by, the Prince ^f
Wales.