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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

A GENEROUS PROPOSITION.

The following appearedin Wteineeday's noes
In the letter of Lard Muncaster, published in The
Times of the 28th of April. I find these words --"Mr.
Lloyd has nothing in the world but his wife and
children." What force! What significance! Honour
to him who spoke them!
I enclose a check for £5O as a mite towards any fund
that ins), be raised for the widows and orphans on
%vie se behalf I appeal most earnestly to my country-
men. 1 rminia, Sir, f sit:lndy yours,
Manchester. N. M. Maidamil.

[We (Tinus) trust the Greek Government will make
a suitable provision for the wiaow and orphans of Mr.
Lloyd, bus we cannot deny our correspondent the op-
portunity of making a suggestion 14 blob does him 150
much honour, and which we trust his countrymen will
not be slow to adopt].
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

CORRESPON DEN CE.

:1C Irish it to be distinctly understood Mot by in
letters in this 180111rux, ?re do ,wt thereby ideal if?, 4010, rt.!
With the °piney.g* of our Correupoudente.

THE HON. MR. LYITELTON, M.P., ANI) THE
INSPECTION OF NITNNERIES.

To the Editor of the" Obserrer."

wonder what your Dissenting readers, who
supported the lion. Mr. Lytlelton with their votes and
interest at the last election, will say to his recent conduct
in Parliament on the Convent question' It ill well
known that they are very earnest in wishing them
brought under Government inspection, and now ut the
crisis, when the one who should have supported their
views, deceives them and votes the other way, it must
indeed be a bitter pill for them to swallow. Perhaps it
will teach them when another election comes to bemire
careful, and elect a Liberal whose Protestantism is of a
Kounder type than the Hon. Mr. Lyttelton's. and one that
is not bound by the ties of relationship to such ritualistic
families as the Lytteltons, Glynnes and Gladstones.
Who tells him when to work or play—
When to come or stay away_
When to say Aye or to say Nay ?
Hi. Uncle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

The following official correspondence respecting the
capture and murder by brigands of the British and
Italian subp-cts, has been published :
__

"MR. ERSKINE TO TOE EARL OF CLARENDON.

" (Received May 1 )
" Athens, April 23, 1870.
" My Lord,—My time has been so completely taken up
this morn'air by the arrangements for landing the remains of
Mann. Herbert and Lloyd, and their funeral, which is to
take place this afternoon, that I can only writ, hurriedly to
your Lordship, and must defer till next post(day to re-
port in more detail all the sad occurrences of the last few
days.
"I may mention, however, that I am in receipt of • con-
siderable number of cyphered telegrams from your Lordship,
almost all of which reached me in a more or less unintelli-
gible condition, and all many hours after the captives had
been killed.
" I shall likewise by next mall answer your Lordship's
questions as to certain discrepancies of dates in my tele-
grams, which I have not even had a single moment's leisure
to go into as yet.
" Mr. Herbert, as I reported/by telegraph, was killed near
Dhiheld on Thursday afternoon, the '2lst inst., and it WAS at
first thought that the second body found vets that of M. de
Boyl, the Italian Secretary, but it was eventually recognized
as that of Mr. Lloyd. The two other gentlemen—viz., Mr.
Tyner and M. de Boyl—appear to have been killed a good
way in the ivterior of the country, in the vicinity of Skims-
tart. Their bodies have not yet arrived, hut the Affroissa,"
which brought round the remains of Meagre. Herbert
and Lloyd this morning, will return for them to Chalets im-
mediately.
"The details of the whole affair are more harrowing than
I can now describe, but I shall attempt hereafter to give your
Lordship an account of the way in which the bodies were
mutilated.

-7'-fieTking called at Her Majesty's Legs. ion yesterday to
express his profound grief at the dreadful fate of them gen-
tlemen, and the ,vhole Diplomatic Body waited upon me for
the same purpose.

" I enclose a translation of the deposition of the brigand
Alleys, taken by the troops In the encounter near DMheel,
which throws some light on the movements and proceedings
of the brigands both before and after the capture. I trans-
mit likewise a translation of a telegram Cu the subject of the
collision from Colonel TbeageWs, General Church's aide-de-
camp, who had been sent to the brigands to endear°ur loin-
duce them to embark on hoard a British in ,u-of-war, or leave
the country by the Turkish frontier unmolested —I have, &T.,
- "E. M. EII.,KINE."
.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

POTATOES.

These markets have been - ; '''' scantily supplied srlth
potatoes The trade has been steady at about prevons quota-
tions. English•Silaws, tHu to laus.: Regents, 12Os. tvi 140 a.
So itch Re,;euta, 1005. to 1305.; and Bodo, 90$. to 1105. per
ton •
FISIT.

}lenient, best ptchled, 30s. to 395. per barrel: trawl had.
docks. Ins. to 235. per barrel; cod, £4 to LG per score; sal
mon, 15. 31. to Is. 64. ; trout, Is. 3d to Is ;
me, keret, Is. to ss. per dozen; smoked hmblocks,
its, to Its, per barrel; lobs 6 is. Is. to Is.; crabs, Is
to is. each ; native oysters, £9 to £10; commons, 15s. to 115 n
per bushel.

TALLOW.
The mark,st has been psi Pt. Y.O .on the spot, 44e. 31.
per enn. Tow:, tol, .w, OA. net cult
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

(Enclosure I)
(rranslatlon).

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL TEIEAGENI9 TO M. ZAIMIS.
" SekiAm/trios, April 9 ,21) 1870, 9 30 p.m.
" The band of the Arvenl.6i hat unfortuuately put into
execution the threatened murder of the 1114a804 etrangira
Utak captive..

" After 2 o'clock p m to-day they passed the river, flying
from °rows. Immediately on learning this, the detachment
under C wish, Apostnlidis and the cavalry hssteued to al op
their flight, but they had great difficulty in crossing the River
Amp°, it being swollen. The brigands, in their hasty retreat,
alas • murdered the it-angers. The soldiers perceiving the
slaughter got infuriated; the attuck was most fiercely made;
six of them have teen found killed, and one has been cap-
tured alive. Among the dead were recognised the two
, brigand chiefs Christ°. and Takos Arvanitel, and the re-
mainder are probably wounded and hidden, becaume tho last
that left were only eight in number The bodies of the mur-
dered cap•ives have been put on board the steamer: that of
the )ouugest has been brought here. "B. THEAC ENIS."
(Enclosure 2
"DEPOSITION OF ONE OF THE DRIGAND GANG.
'To the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice, Athens.
—The brigand Alexios Basile(' Toseini, who was arrested,
has undergone an examination. He states that the band
started from a place about three hours distant from \ldle,
some of the inhabitants of which place furnished them
with food : that during the night they passed by Sims, on
their way to Marathon, where they arrived on the morning
of the day on which the capture took place ; that they on
copied from that morning the bridge on the Marathon road,
and were there when the carriages of the captives were on
their way to Marathon; that the captives were taken in the
afternoon on their return from Marathon; that from this
place they went to two huts near the Notebook where they
passed the night that the day following two men in forts.
tenet dress, having the air of military men, approached the
band, °ravened with them, and departed that he would
recognise them if he saw them, but does not knew who they
were; that from there the brigands went to ()ropes, and
thence, by a concerto I plan, they set out with a view to reach
Agrapha with their captives; that they had come Into con-
tact with the Government troops; and that, according to the
description given he some soldiers, he presumes Christo
Arvanitaki has been killed.
" Thishrigand wi 1 hereafter undergo another examination ;
meanwhile there is information that this man, with some
others, kept guard over the two ill-fated secretaries of Lega-
tion, I and that he himself is their murderer.
"Chalcis, April 10, 1470, 4 o'clock p.m.
"The Nornarch of Ellh,A, nil MICHALOPOVLOS.
"The Procunur du Roi,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

FRANCE.

PARIS, May 6.

A person named Ferrail, said to be seriously
compromised in the plot against the Emperor
was arrested vesterday.
„-. .

. - .
The ()nisi Journal to-day publishes a des-
patch from Algeria, stating that during the night
of the 3rd Met, the troops were successful in
two encounters with hostile tribes, whom Gene-
ral Wiwpffen compelled to accept terms of
peace
. _ _

esterday, a numerously attended private
meeting was held in the Eighth Arrondissement.
A delegate having been sent to M. Thiers, that
gentleman replied that having already pro-
nounced against the plebiscite, he had now re-
solved to maintain an attitude of complete re-
serve, Although he did not agree with the
Government he believed it to be still sufficiently
liberal to deserve support. The meeting unani-
monsly censured this declaration, and resolved
that in future they would withdraw their support
from M. Thiers.

A proclatnation of the committee of the Left
and the Democratic press has been published,
which protests against the exaggerated propor-
tions given to the conspiracy against the Em-
peror's life, and the manner in which it had been
used by the Government. The proclamation
Appeals to the eh utors to vote negatively.

CHINA.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

TIIE STOURBRIDGE OPS'IIB/ IL4 t
CRADLEY HEATH. TIALEsnWEN & fiTSTPTPT 0111)11VT/IT

No. 320

I REGISTERED POE )
( TRANSMISSION ABROAD. f

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PUBLIC NOTICES.

__-
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

CHESTER RACES.

(AN WEl:mammy, MAY lit h, an EXCURSION
1 TR kIN for CH 4:81 88, gill icsic Stourbridlla
st 75 1.1. tr . Rrcttell LA' .• 7 10 Pt Hid 7 14.iisand
oak 7.18. Netherton 723. 1.),. "ey 7 Al. 9,p1a1l 7.85.
Prince's End 738. Datitcy Bank 741. anti ti:.stoo 7.45
a in.; returning the initne evening at 8.110 p.m.,fran
Coal Exchange Yard.
Par full particulars see Hand Bills.
J °BURSON. Geivral Wafter.
Paddington. May. 1870.

CRICKET.

TIVIDALE v. STOURBRIDGE.

THIS MATCH will be PLAYED on the
Ground of the hater et ANFILECOTE, on SIONDAT,
the 9th INsTANT. Play will commence at F.lt vas

-DINNER will be provided on the Ground, by Mr.
Dutton, at 2ss head.
Admission 5(1.

HOWES AND CUSHING'S
GRFAT AMERICAN CILCUS

AND _
I.IEiNT.A_G-ERIM

POSTER STREET, STOURBRIDGE,
SATURDAY, MAY 7TH.

AFTER an absence of seven years in the
United States, this celebrated Equestrian and
Zoological Establishment bas assin returned to this
country bringing many additions of Wild Beasts and
curious and rare Animals, including a Drove of
CAMELS AND DROMEDARIES
For Oriental Spectacles and Processions, which will be
more novel and extrsordinaay than any exhibition ever
before seen in England.
_ .

It will be remembered that in 1857, when this company
first came to England they met with very great success,
and soon after they opened at the Alhambra Palace,
London, were specially patroniaod on the 11th of May,
1858, by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, the late
Prince Consort, and the Royal Family and Court. From
their experience in this country they had good reason to
know what the British public required, and they well
onderstood that if they expected success in England
they must take with them attractions of no ordinary
character—in fact,

SOMETHING THE PEOPLE HAVE
NEVER SEEN!

They. therefore, with confidence of support. announce
that they have brought with them a auperior outfit of
Carriage.. Wardrobe, end general Paraphernalia, at a
coet of £30,000, %high will be seen in the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07

OTTAWA.

MAY 6.

The Premier has announced in the dominion
House of Commons that the boundaries des-
cribed in the Xinitoba (Prince Rupert) Land
Rill bad been changed so as to include Portugal
Prairie, thereby making the population of the
new province of Canada 17,000.

BY BRITISH INDIAN CABLE.

LAHORE, May C.
The Viceroy has announced a farewell dinner
to General MacLeod.

It is announced officially that Major• General
Sir H. M. Dursad has been appointed Licuten-
ant-Oovernor of the Puujaub.